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Benjamnin F. Butler, Butler's Book: Autobiography and Personal Reminiscences of Major-General Benjamin Butler, Chapter 2: early political action and military training. (search)
ica as seminaries of learning. In 1820 such an institution was founded in Boston, and six years later was removed to Mount Benedict, a twin Ruins of Ursuline Convent, at Charlestown, Mass. From an old-time sketch. hill with Bunker Hill in Charlestown. Mount Benedict was a beautiful eminence, with a varied and most delightful prospect reaching miles on every side, and it was surrounded by a community supposed to be as intelligent and orderly as any people. The pupils of these Ursuline sistittle more than that, had a large circulation among a certain class of people in that vicinity. On the flats below Mount Benedict, and not far from it, there were extensive brickyards where large numbers of men, mainly from the State of New Hampshnty-five miles away, and, in company with other young men, ascended Fort Hill, the highest eminence in Lowell, whence Mount Benedict could be easily seen with a glass, and whence the fire of the convent, between nine and ten o'clock that night, was v
Benjamnin F. Butler, Butler's Book: Autobiography and Personal Reminiscences of Major-General Benjamin Butler, Index. (search)
acts investigated, 850; tribute to, 851; on Butler's staff, 897-899. Casey, Major, Thomas Lincoln, report of, 804. Catinet, episode of, 464-465; 468-469. Catholics, legislation against in New Hampshire, 39; in Massachusetts, 120, 122; Mt. Benedict incident, 112-113. century magazine, Gra<*>t in, 715. Chaffin's farm, 653. Chamberlain, The, at Fort Fisher, 787, 792. Chapman, Lieut. R. T., report of, 789 Chapin, Mr., colleague in Charleston Convention, 138-140; offers railro. Moore, Gov. Thomas O., of Louisiana, 385; letter from Lovell to, 397; letter to Davis, 477; reference to, 430-431. Moore, Peter, the case of, 986-987. Morgan, Senator of New York, 362. Morris, Major, at Fort McHenry, 231-232. Mount Benedict, destruction of Ursuline Convent on, 110-123. Mulford, Colonel, assistant agent for exchange of prisoners, 586, 588, 589, 597, 606, 608, 609. Mumford pulls down flag at New Orleans, 370, 376; arrest, trial, and execution of, 437, 443;
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Massachusetts (search)
States......1826 John Adams dies at Quincy......July 4, 1826 Railroad (the first in the United States) 3 miles long, from the granite quarries of Quincy to Neponset River, commenced......1826 Abbott Academy (for women), Andover, established......1829 Massachusetts obtains from the United States $430,748.26, for services of militia during the War of 1812-14......May 31, 1829 the Liberator (anti-slavery) first published......Jan. 1, 1831 Burning of the St. Ursula Convent at Mount Benedict by a mob on the night of......Aug. 11, 1834 Board of education established and organized......June 29, 1837 Mount Holyoke College (for the education of women), South Hadley, opened......1837 Arrest of George Latimer in Boston as a slave......1842 [Liberated on payment of $400 by citizens of Boston.] College of the Holy Cross founded at Worcester......1843 Completion and dedication of Bunker Hill monument with imposing ceremonies......June 17, 1843 [President Tyler pr
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Olde Cambridge, Chapter 1: old Cambridge (search)
ere he dismissed them to their march toward Bunker Hill. We all knew the spot where Washington took command of the army; and the house (the Craigie House) where he dwelt. We played the battle of Bunker Hill on the grass-grown redoubts built during the siege of Boston. Only one of these is left, the three-gun battery known as. Fort Washington, but there was a finer one on Putnam Avenue, where greenhouses now stand. More elaborate than any were those around the ruins of the convent on Mount Benedict in Somerville; they encircled the hill and could accommodate a regiment of schoolboys. Moreover, there still lingered one or two wounded veterans whom we eyed with reverence, chief of whom was Lowell's Old Joe : Old Joe is gone, who saw hot Percy goad His slow artillery up the Concord road- A tale which grew in wonder, year by year, As, every time he told it, Joe drew near To the main fight, till, faded and grown gray, The original scene to bolder tints gave way: Then Joe had heard
Francis Jackson Garrison, William Lloyd Garrison, 1805-1879; the story of his life told by his children: volume 2, Chapter 3: the Clerical appeal.—1837. (search)
pectable daily, the Advertiser, true to its traditions and its class, Lib. 7.198. justified the authorities in their refusal of Faneuil Hall. So, Attorney-General Austin, excusing the Alton riot by Lib. 7.202. the Boston tea-riot, recalled Peleg Sprague's pointing to that slaveholder, and drew the hot and crushing retort from Wendell Phillips, who followed him,— Sir, when I heard the gentleman lay down principles which Lib. 7.202. place the rioters, incendiaries, and murderers of Mt. Benedict The eminence in Charlestown, Mass., on which the Ursuline Convent had been established. and Alton side by side with Otis and Hancock, with Quincy and Adams, I thought those pictured lips [pointing to the portraits in the hall] would have broken into voice to rebuke the recreant American--the slanderer of the dead. The gentleman said that he should sink into insignificance if he dared to gainsay the principles of these resolutions. Austin declared them the familiar doctrines of our
Historic leaves, volume 3, April, 1904 - January, 1905, Historical Sketch of the old Middlesex canal. (search)
From this point the canal followed the line of the high land around to the short bend in the Mystic river, where Dunning's coal wharf is at present located; then to the south, through nearly the centre of the Broadway park; around the base of Mount Benedict,—now nearly dug away,—across the foot of Austin street, where the gate-house may still be seen; then nearly parallel to Main street, Charlestown, to the Neck, where it passed under Main street, through a lock and into the millpond. Most of eing little short of open sewers. Mr. Eddy's plan consisted in abolishing the levels betwen Billerica and Middlesex Village and Woburn and Charlestown, conducting the water of the canal from Woburn by thirty-inch iron pipes to a reservoir on Mount Benedict in Somerville, thence to be distributed over Boston, and possibly Charlestown and Cambridge. The water from the Concord river was analyzed by Dr. Charles T. Jackson, Professor John W. Webster, of Harvard University, S. L. Dana, of Lowell, an
Historic leaves, volume 3, April, 1904 - January, 1905, Index (search)
ns of 7. Middlesex Canal, Toll on, 4. Middlesex Canal Tow Path, 7. Middlesex Village, 1, 5, 9, 10. Milborne, Captain, Peter, 29. Milk Row, District of, 15, 87, 88. Milk Row Primary School, 70. Milk Row School, 89, 90, 91, 93. Milk Street, Boston, 30. Miller, James, 90. Miller, Richard, 12. Miller, Stephen, 90, 91. Mistick, 31, 32. Mistick River, 29. Mitchell, Luther, 22. 38. Mitchell, —, 79. Mitchell, Nathaniel, 22. Morse. Rev. Abner, 49, 51, 52, 53, 55, 56. Mount Benedict, 3, 9. Mt. Auburn Cemetery, 74. Much Bromley, Essex County, Eng., 73. Mystick Bridge, 19. Mystic Lake, 11. Mystic Pond, 36, 87. Mystic River, 3, 6, 30, 31. Mystic Trotting Park, 3. Mystic Valley Railroad, 11. Nahumkeck (Salem), 29. Nashua & Lowell Railroad, 9. Natascot, 32. Nathan Tufts Park, 20. Nayland, Suffolk County, Eng., 13, 82. Neighborhood Sketch No. 7, 22. Neighborhood Sketch No. 7, Map of, 23. Newell, Eliphalet, 67. Newe Towne, 74, 75. New Y
Historic leaves, volume 4, April, 1905 - January, 1906, Samuel Phipps (search)
e of many forms indicative of the popularity of the fifth apostle. The Phipps were seated in the shires of Gloucester, Worcester, Warwick, and Northampton. They bore arms and were esteemed among the gentry. The immediate family, whence the Phipps of Charlestown derived issue, were of Wiltshire, where various members of the race are on record as sheriffs. Samuel Phipps, town clerk of Charlestown, and his neighbors dwelt within the present limits of Somerville, about 200 years ago, on Mt. Benedict. A portion of his homestead came within that part of the ploughed field which included the location of the Ursuline Convent of 1830. Dead men tell no tales is a well-known proverb; but allow me to deny it and to caution you regarding its acceptance. In my own case, I feel better acquainted with Solomon Phipps, carpenter, Samuel Phipps, the register, and Samuel Phipps, the town clerk, with Thomas Danforth, treasurer of the colony, and Francis Foxcroft, recorder, than I do with any consid
Historic leaves, volume 4, April, 1905 - January, 1906, Index (search)
, 15, 22, 67, 71, 91. 93, 94, 96, 98, 99, 100. Miller, Captain, Joseph, 64, 67, 69, 70, 71, 72. Miller, Richard, 41. Miller's River, 4, 77. Mill Pond, 78. Mill Street, 78. Mira, 23. Mishawum, 4. Mississippi, S. S., 27, 33, 36. Mobile, 53, 59, 61. Mobile Bay, 57, 58. Moody, Josiah, 96. Moody, Samuel, 95, 96. Morse, Rev. Jedediah, D. D., 44, 63, 66. Morse, Samuel, F. B., 66. Morse's School Geography and Atlas, 101. Moses, 44. Mount Vernon (gunboat), 33. Mt. Benedict, 78. Munroe, Henry, 8. Munroe, Nancy T., 8. Murray's English Grammar and Exercises, 101. Murray's English Reader, 71, 101. Murray's Introduction to His English Reader, 101. Mussey, Miss, Letitia Howard, 1. Mystic Avenue, 8. Mystic Ponds, 14, 65. Mystic River, 4, 11, 74, 77. Mystic Valley Club, 2. Nancy, 23. Neighborhood Sketch Number 8, 47. Newburyport, Mass., 88. Newcastle-on-Tyne, 87. New England Association of Colleges and Preparatory Schools, 2. New Eng
Historic leaves, volume 5, April, 1906 - January, 1907, Index (search)
han, 59. Tufts, Nathan, 2nd, 11. Tufts, Oliver, 11. Tufts, Samuel, 10, 55. Tufts, Timothy, 13, 53, 62. Turner, Captain, Larkin, 49. Tweed, Benjamin F., 78, 82, 83. Twombly, James, 92. Twycross, A. G., 71. Tyler, Columbus, 59. Tyler, George W., 49. Tyler, Mrs., Jonas, 86. Underwood, James, 49, 73, 74, 75, 76, 77, 92, 94. Unitarian Parsonage Grounds, 58. Universalist Meeting House, 81. Upper Winter Hill Primary, 95. Upper Winter Hill School, 92. Ursiline Community, The, Mt. Benedict, Charlestown, 24. Vacations, 1840-41, 96. Valentine, Elliot, 67. Valentine, J. W., M. D., 49, 73, 74. Varnum, N, . J., 15. Vinal Avenue, 57. Vinal, Anna P., 53. Vinal, Louise A., 53, 55. Vinal, Quincy A., 90, 91. Vinai, Robert, 11. Vinal, Robert A., 91. Vinson, Cornelius M., 93, 96, 97. Wait, Charles, 74. Wait, David, 12. Walker, Cornelius, 17, 18, 19, 20. Walker, Rev., James, 23, 48. Walker, Mary, 17, 72, 82. Walker, Moses W., 50, 51, 52, 67. Walker's Dictiona
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