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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Henry Walcott Boynton, Reader's History of American Literature, Chapter 3: the Philadelphia period (search)
o Priestley: Tell our dear good friend, Dr. Price, who sometimes had his doubts and despondencies about our firmness, that America is determined and unanimous, --a very few Tories and placemen excepted, who will probably soon export themselves. Britain, at the expense of three million pounds, has killed one hundred and fifty Yankees this campaign — which is twenty thousand pounds a head; and at Bunker's Hill she gained a mile of ground, half of which she lost again by our taking post on Ploughed Hill. During the same time sixty thousand children have been born in America. From these data, his mathematical head will easily calculate the time and expense necessary to kill us all, and conquer our whole territory. The autobiography. There we see the literary touch, but it is still more clearly to be felt in his autobiography; as, for example, in the account of his first entry into Philadelphia:-- .. . I was in my working dress, my best clothes being to come round by sea. I w
Historic leaves, volume 5, April, 1906 - January, 1907, Charlestown schools after 1825 (search)
ce on Monday next. Application for admission to this school may be made to Benjamin Swift, Chester Adams, Henry Jaques, committee. Charlestown, November 15, 1827. June 7, 1828, the private school kept by Nathaniel Magoun opens. Under date of August 9, 1828, appears the notice of a select school to be kept by Moses A. Curtis. Latin and Greek will be taught. But most interesting of these advertisements is the following, under date of February 9, 1828:— The Ursuline Community, Mt. Benedict, Charlestown, Admits-ladies from six to fourteen years of age. The garden has two acres, the whole farm twelve acres. Each pupil is to bring with her her bed and bedding, six towels, six napkins, and her table furniture, consisting of table and tea spoon, knife, fork, and tumbler, all which will be returned at her departure. The uniform of the young ladies consists, on week days of a gray Bombazette dress, and white on Sundays. Three months notice of a removal is requested. No boarde
Historic leaves, volume 6, April, 1907 - January, 1908, Original English inhabitants and early settlers in Somerville. (search)
can hardly be a doubt that a part of what was called the Line-field of Charlestown was between the Stinted Pasture and the Newtown, or Cambridge, town line; from what is now Cambridgeport to Menotomy River, now Alewife Brook; the Line-field extending, also, into what is now the town of Arlington to, Mystic Pond. All these local names are now obsolete except that a part of the original Ten Hills Farms within our limits is still known as such. A century or more ago the Highfield became Ploughed Hill, and over two centuries ago the Highfield-mead became Dirty-marsh; but these names are now extinct, and there seems to be no modern names except for Strawberry Hill for the other localities of the olden time. The Cow Commons, as grazing ground, and also other lands in Somerville, were held largely by the inhabitants of the peninsula of Charlestown. The Commons were a feature of the town, almost from its commencement to 1685, or a little later, but in the next century were unknown. A
Historic leaves, volume 6, April, 1907 - January, 1908, Index (search)
. Philadelphia, Penn., 18. Phillips. 10. Phipps, John, 50. Phipps, Solomon. 50. Pierce, Major, 62. Pierce, Mary, 29, 51. Pierce. Thomas, 29. Pierson, Charles L., 69. Pilgrims. The, 84. Pillsbury, Caleb, 1, 2. Pillsbury. Dr. Ernest D., 3. Pillsbury, Edwin Brooks, 3. Pillsbury. Harry Nelson, 3. Pillsbury, Luther B., 1, 2, 78. Pillsbury, Miss May F., 3. Pillsbury, Nancy (Nelson), 1, 2. Pine Street, 34. Piper's Tavern, 6. Pleasants. Lieutenant-Colonel, 72. Ploughed Hill. 26. Plymouth Colony, 79. Plymouth. Mass., 84. Po. The. 59. Polly's Swamp, 52. Pony Plain. 22. Poolsville, Md., 18, 19. Pope Schoolhouse, 12. Portland, Me., 38. Potomac River, 18, 20 Powder House, 51, 81. Powers. Robert. 58. Prescott Grammar School, 2. Prince of Wales. 37. Prospect Hill, 11. 17, 18, 26, 29, 33, 35, 36, 37, 53, 75, 81. Prospect Hill Grammar School. 9. Prospect Street, 6, 10, 11, 13, 14. 32, 34, 35, 39. Prospect Street Station, 16. Provincial Co
Historic leaves, volume 1, April, 1902 - January, 1903, The old
Medford Turnpike
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Fitch Hall and Samuel Buel and all such persons as are or shall be associated with them and their successors shall be a corporation by the name of The Medford Turnpike Corporation; and shall by that name sue and be sued, and enjoy all the privileges and powers which are by law incident to corporations, for the purpose of laying out and making a turnpike road from the easterly side of the road nearly opposite to Dr. Luther Stearns' house in Medford, and running easterly of Winter hill and Ploughed Hill to the east side of the road opposite to Page's Tavern, near the Neck in Charlestown, and for keeping the same in repair. Provided, that if the said corporation shall neglect to complete the said turnpike road for the space of three years after the passing of this act the same shall be void. Provided, however, that if the said road should be laid out across any grounds, the privileges of which have been heretofore granted to the proprietors of the Middlesex Canal for the purpose of c
Historic leaves, volume 1, April, 1902 - January, 1903, Index (search)
, III.—17. Perry, Elizabeth, II.—23. Petersburg, Va., I.—39; II.—38; IV.—28. Pierce, Abigail, I.—23. Pierce Academy, II.—29. Pierce, Elizabeth (wife of Ebenezer Smith), L—24. Pierce, James, I.—23. Pierce, Mary, wife of Nathaniel Tufts, I.—24. Pierce, Mary, wife of John Stone, I.—24. Pierce, Thomas, II.—29. Pierson, Colonel George H., IV.—24. Pierson, Rev. William H., I.—11, 14. Pierson, Rev. William H., Address by, I.—19. Pillsbury, L. B., I.—13. Ploughed Hill, II.—10. Point of Rocks, I.—36. Pope, General, I.—36. Pope, General, Army of, III.—24. Po River, I.—38. Port Hudson, siege of, IV.—30. Portland, Me., I.—34. Portsmouth, N. H., I.—7. Potomac River, I.—36; IV.—25. Powder House, II.—21, 22, 23; IV.—12; III.—13, 14, 20, 22. Powder House Square, III.—13, 14. Prentice, Beulah, II.—25. Professors' Row, I.—32. Programmes of Meetings, IV.—5. Prosp
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 8, Chapter 44: (search)
would require the greatest secrecy. Washington was all the while more closely investing the town. In the night following the twenty sixth of August, with a fatigue party of a thousand, a guard of twenty four hundred, he took possession of Ploughed Hill. On the next day, Gage began a cannonade, which, for the need of powder, could not be returned. On Monday the twenty eighth, the British were seen drawn up on Bunker Hill, and Washington, notwithstanding his want of ammunition, offered battle by marching five thousand men to Ploughed Hill and Charlestown road. Silence was observed on both sides, till three in the afternoon; when it appeared that the British would not accept the challenge. But three days later, Gage enjoyed the triumph of cutting down the Boston liberty tree; Chap. XLIV.} 1775. Aug. and when marauding expeditions returned with sheep and hogs and cattle, captured from islands and along shore, the bells were rung as for a victory. Washington, on his side, was
Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 23., More about the turnpike (search)
the company from the Shunpikers that made a practice of evading toll by using General Derby's lane across Ten Hills farm to present Broadway. Between this and Ploughed hill (later known as Mt. Benedict) was the dyked marsh and clay land, with numerous brickyards. The site of some of these later became a nuisance, abated by the city of Somerville in the early seventies by the making of its park and widening of Broadway. On the summit of Ploughed hill was, in 1826, erected the convent of St. Ursula, burned by a mob from Boston on the night of August 1, 1834. It is said that the courage of the rioters was largely increased by the arrival of a barrel of ru proceeding, for more than thirty-four years, when the hill began to be reduced to the present grade. As the toll-gate and keeper's house was at the base of Ploughed hill, quite near the southern end, it is evident that the Shunpikers were inward bound. The question is naturally asked, Was the turnpike a paying proposition?