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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) | 25 | 1 | Browse | Search |
Matthew Arnold, Civilization in the United States: First and Last Impressions of America. | 2 | 0 | Browse | Search |
HISTORY OF THE TOWN OF MEDFORD, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, FROM ITS FIRST SETTLEMENT, IN 1630, TO THE PRESENT TIME, 1855. (ed. Charles Brooks) | 2 | 0 | Browse | Search |
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 5. (ed. Frank Moore) | 1 | 1 | Browse | Search |
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 1. (ed. Frank Moore) | 1 | 1 | Browse | Search |
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Massachusetts in the Army and Navy during the war of 1861-1865, vol. 2 | 1 | 1 | Browse | Search |
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 32. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) | 1 | 1 | Browse | Search |
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Cambridge
City, and one of the county seats of Middlesex county. Mass., separated from Boston by the Charles River; was founded in 1631 under the name of Newtown; and is noted as the place where Washington took command of the Continental army on July 2, 1775; as the seat of Harvard University (q. v.); and as the place where the sons of Alvan Clark carry on the manufacture of astronomical instruments which have a world-wide reputation.
In 1900 the city had a total assessed valuation of taxable property of $94,467,930, and the net city and water debt was $6,226,182. The population in 1890 was 70,028; in 1900, 91,886.
The second Synod of Massachusetts met at Cambridge in 1646, and was not dissolved until 1648.
The synod composed and adopted a system of church discipline called The Cambridge platform, and recommended it, together with the Westminster Confession of Faith, to the general court and to the churches.
The latter, in New England, generally complied with the recommen
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Hooker , Thomas 1586 -1647 (search)
Hooker, Thomas 1586-1647
Clergyman; born in Marketfield, Leicestershire, England, in 1586; was a popular Non-conformist preacher in London, but was silenced, when he kept a school, in which John Eliot, the Apostle, was his assistant.
Hooker fled from persecution to Holland in 1630, and arrived at Boston in September, 1633.
He was ordained pastor of the church at Newtown, and in June, 1636, he and his whole congregation began a migration to the valley of the Connecticut, where they founded Hartford.
He was exceedingly influential in all New England.
He died in Hartford, Conn., July 7, 1647.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Hutchinson , Anne 1590 -1642 (search)
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Williams , Ephraim 1715 - (search)
Williams, Ephraim 1715-
Military officer; born in Newtown, Mass., Feb. 24, 1715; was a mariner in early life, and made several voyages to Europe.
From 1740 to 1748 he served against the French, in Canada, as captain of a provincial company.
He joined the New York forces under Gen. William Johnson, in 1755, and, falling in an Indian ambush, was killed near Lake George, Sept. 8, 1755.
Before joining in this expedition he made his will, bequeathing his property to a township west of Fort Massachusetts, on the condition that it should be called Williamstown, the money to be used for the establishment and maintenance of a free school.
The school was opened in 1791, and was incorporated a college in 1793, under the title of Williams College (q. v.).