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The Cambridge of eighteen hundred and ninety-six: a picture of the city and its industries fifty years after its incorporation (ed. Arthur Gilman), General Index. (search)
Tax rate, 59. Tea, duty on, 21, 22. Tea, destruction of, 22. Third Parish, called Little Cambridge. 9; attempts to establish, 14, 15; opposition, 14, 15; compromises, 15; new petition and counter-petition, 16; the precinct incorporated, 16; a church founded 16; incorporated as the town of Brighton, 16. See Brighton. Thompson, Benjamin (Count Rumford), Toll bridges, 29. Tory Row, 28. Town, body of, 16. Town boys and Wells boys, 38. Town church. See First Parish. Town-house, location, 31. Town, traces of English method of forming, in Cambridge, 4. Travel between Boston and Cambridge, 400. Treadwell, Prof. Daniel, 73. Treasurer, City, 402. Trowbridge, Prof. John, 77. Trustees of Cambridge Public Library, 403. Uniform Rank Garnett Division, K. of P., 292. Union Methodist Episcopal Church, 241. Union Railway Company, incorporated, 396; Gardiner G. Hubbard and his associates, 396;; first meeting of stockholders. 396, 397; officers elec
Lucius R. Paige, History of Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1630-1877, with a genealogical register, Chapter 10: civil History. (search)
some of our Poor. The meeting was then adjourned until Jan. 12, 1712-3, at which time it was Voted, That the Farmers, upon their being dismissed from the town, shall annually pay to our Town Treasurer such a proportion of our part of the charge of the Great Bridge over Charles River in Cambridge as shall fall to them according to their annual proportion with us in the Province Tax. (2) Voted, That the said Farmers shall pay their proportion of twenty-five pounds toward the arrears of our Town House. The aforesaid articles being complied with by the Farmers. Voted (3) That the article that has been proposed, referring to their paying their proportion toward the relief of some of our Poor, (viz. Robert Webber and Richard a negro, and his wife,) be referred to the Committee formerly appointed, (viz. Capt. Oliver, Mr. Remington, and Andrew Bordman,) to debate further upon, who are fully empowered in behalf of the town, either to insist upon the said article or to consent to their be
Lucius R. Paige, History of Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1630-1877, with a genealogical register, Chapter 14: civil History. (search)
retailers during a century. petitions of Edmund Angier and John Stedman. Memorial of President Dunster on behalf of Mrs. Bradish. prices established. Market places. Market house. burial places. Common; contest concerning its enclosure. Town house. Athenaeum, converted into a City Hall. Sectional rivalry and jealousy. petition for a division of the Town; rejected by the General Court. unsuccessful attempt to remove difficulties. petition for a City Charter. a new petition for divisse stood where the Market House was erected more than a century later. Its position is indicated on a pen and ink plan drawn about 1750, and here reproduced by permission of its owner, Henry Wheatland, M. D., of Salem. The Court House (called Town-house on the plan) stood further south than is here represented,—its northerly end being several feet south of the southerly front of the meeting-house. It appears by the Proprietors' Records that at a meeting of the Proprietors of Cambridge, orderly
Edward H. Savage, author of Police Recollections; Or Boston by Daylight and Gas-Light ., Boston events: a brief mention and the date of more than 5,000 events that transpired in Boston from 1630 to 1880, covering a period of 250 years, together with other occurrences of interest, arranged in alphabetical order, Boston events. (search)
the dock, to stop conflagration, Mar. 11, 1701 Town House, First Church, and 100 buildings burned, Oct. 2, 1711 Town House and many valuable records burned, Dec. 19, 1747 Several buildings burned on Marlboro strat the lower end of Milk street, Nov. 14, 1759 Town House, First Church, and 350 buildings burned, Mar. 20,ss and Water streets, Jan. 1, 1816 Kept in old Town-House, entrance, Washington street, 1840 Removed to n by the people, 1636 Dine on meat and wine at Town House, 1654 A Committee chosen to instruct them, 170Winthrop, Feb. 7, 1631 State House. The old Town House occupied, Oct. 25, 1780 An attempt to remove fick Meeting-House, 1717 A vote to place one on Town House, 1717 Dock. The cove near Dock square, 1680 . 9, 1747 Rebuilt of brick and wood, 1748 Town House again burned at the great fire, Mar. 20, 1760 orth and South, March, 1810 East removed, from Town-House to Kilby street, Sept., 1830 East, removed fro
Edward H. Savage, author of Police Recollections; Or Boston by Daylight and Gas-Light ., Boston events: a brief mention and the date of more than 5,000 events that transpired in Boston from 1630 to 1880, covering a period of 250 years, together with other occurrences of interest, arranged in alphabetical order, chapter 4 (search)
m Water street in to Milk street, according to ye name by whch it hath been formerly known, Joylieffs lane. The way leading round ye old Meeting House, Church square. The street Leading from corn hill including ye wayes on each side of ye Town House extending easterly to ye sea, King street. The street leading from Mr Deerings Corner in Cornhill to Houchens Corner at ye uper end of Hanover street, Queen street. The way leading from ye Mansion House of ye Late Simon Lynde, Esqr by CapCornhill to Joylieff's lane; Washington to Devonshire, 1824, Spring lane, 1708 Leverett to Wiltshire; to Poplar, 1806; to Allen, 1825, Spring street, 1733 Cambridge street to Green lane, Staniford street, 1732 From Cornhill, both sides Town House, to Long Wharf; King street, 1708, State street, 1784 Near St. Paul's Church, Common, Tremont street, (St. Paul's row,) 1826 From Beach street to Mill Pond, to Charlestown street, Stillman street, 1807 Court to Howard; Stoddard's alle
Edward H. Savage, author of Police Recollections; Or Boston by Daylight and Gas-Light ., Boston events: a brief mention and the date of more than 5,000 events that transpired in Boston from 1630 to 1880, covering a period of 250 years, together with other occurrences of interest, arranged in alphabetical order, Index. (search)
anksgiving, 152 Theatricals, 152 Theatres, 152-154 Thermometer, 154, 155 Thorn Apple, 155 Three-Card Monte, 155 Thorndike Block, 155 Tile Floor, 155 Times Block, 155 Tobacco Chewers, 155 Tontine Building, 155 Tories, 156 Toronto City Gov't, 156 Torch-light, 156 Torpedo Explosion, 156 Town of Boston, 156 Town Advocates, 156 Town Bull, 156 Town Clerk, 156, 157 Town Crier, 157 Town Clock, 157 Town Dock, 157 Town Drummer, 157 Town House, 157, 158 Town Lines, 158 Town Meetings, 158 Town Pump, 158, 159 Town Tax, 159 Town Treasurers, 159 Trask, Howard 159 Tread Mill, 159 Trees, 159 to 161 Trucks, 161 Truncheon, 161 Tukey, Francis 161 Tunis Embassy, 161 Turnpike, 161 Tithingman, 161 U. United Colonies, 161 Union Stone, 161 Universalism, 161 V. Valuation of Town, 162 Valuation of City, 162 Ventriloquism, 162 Vicksburg Capture, 162 Velocipedes, 162 W. W
Historic leaves, volume 5, April, 1906 - January, 1907, Index (search)
., 14. Temple, Sir, Robert, 89. Temple Street, 89, 90. Ten Hills Farm, 89. Tenney, R. G., 46, 47, 48, 82. Testament, The New, 25, 98. Thayer, Zeba, 12. Thompson, Dr. A. R., 94. Thompson, Benjamin, 48. Thomson, C., 14. Thompson, Charles, 48, 49, 71, 74, 75. Thompson, Mrs., Mary, 17. Thorning, I., 14. Thurston, A., 15. Thurston Street, 88. Tidd, Charles, 19. Titus, Rev., Anson, 53. Titus, D., 15. Torry, , 13. Town Hill, 21, 82. Town Hill School, 51, 70, 71, 73. Town House, 78. Track, Benjamin, 82. Training Field, 22, 23, 81, 82. Training Field School, 51, 70, 71. Tube Works, 57. Tufts, Abby, 97. Tufts, Amos, 67. Tufts, Asa, 10. Tufts, Asa, 2nd, 11. Tufts, Benjamin, 12. Tufts, Bernard, 10. Tufts, Bowan A., 16, 21. Tufts, Charles, 11. Tufts College, 85. Tufts, Daniel, 11. Tufts Homestead, 39. Tufts House, 87, 88. Tufts, Isaac, 10. Tufts, Joel, 11. Tufts, John, 10, 60, 61, 70, 73, 87. Tufts, John, Jr., 12. Tufts, Joseph, 89. Tufts
Benjamin Cutter, William R. Cutter, History of the town of Arlington, Massachusetts, ormerly the second precinct in Cambridge, or District of Menotomy, afterward the town of West Cambridge. 1635-1879 with a genealogical register of the inhabitants of the precinct., chapter 5 (search)
bel R. Proctor, $260; sundry persons, $500; William Hill, 3d, $90; Cornelius Akerman, $10; John P. Daniels, $35; Luke Agur, $100; Andrews Howe, $25; Thomas R. Cushing, $175; Mr. Converse, $40; James Wyman (tenant of Converse), $125; Loton Gasset, $200. Total amount, $23,606. The amount of money distributed, subscribed by citizens of the town, for the sufferers in West Cambridge, was $1,219.60. One person gave $150; seven persons gave $50 each; others $30, and lesser amounts. 1852 Town House built. The committee with full power to select a suitable location and erect thereon a town house, were Jesse Bucknam, Samuel Butterfield, William Hill, 2d, John Schouler and George C. Russell. Busts and other ornaments to decorate the town hall, were presented to the town, in 1863, by Nathan Robbins, J. S. Potter, D. W. Horton, Joshua Dodge, Robert Schouler, Jesse Bucknam, George C. Russell and John Schouler. The well near the town house was bricked up and a pump placed therein in 185
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 4, 15th edition., Chapter 18: (search)
erties in peril. This is the opening scene of American resistance. John Adams to the Abbe Mably. Works v. 492. It began in New England, and made its first battle-ground in a court-room. A lawyer of Boston, with a tongue of flame and the inspiration of a seer, stepped forward to demonstrate that all arbitrary authority was unconstitutional and against the law. In February, 1761, Hutchinson, the new chief justice, and his four associates, sat in the crowded councilchamber of the old Town-House in Boston, to hear arguments on the question, whether the persons employed in enforcing the Acts of Trade should have power to invoke generally the assistance of all the executive officers of the colony. A statute of Charles the Second, argued Jeremiah Gridley for the crown, allows writs of assistance to be issued by the English Court of Exchequer; a colo- chap. XVIII.} 1761. nial law devolves the power of that court on the Colonial Superior Court; and a statute of William the Third e
Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 10., Extracts from Selectmen's Records. (search)
n. Declined serving & Saml Blanchard appointed. Vol. IV, p. 123. Reading Room. Jan. 25, 1836. Leased the Two Rooms on the northeast corner of the Town House to John Angier, Samuel P. Heyward & G. W. Porter for a term not exceeding five years from the first of Jany. 1836—for Fifty Dollars pr year payable quarterly. Vol. IV, p. 22. February 22, 1836. Voted—To allow John Sparrell's bill . . . for stove for reading Room. Vol. IV, p. 23. January 2, 1838. At a special meeting of the Board this evening—Voted to renew the lease of rooms in the Town House to the Association for Mental Improvement. Vol. IV, p. 61. Feb. I, 1841. Voted To Let the N. E. room in Second story of Town House to Wm. Bradbury and Others for one year, at $40.00. February 7, 1842. Voted—To let the N. E. Corner Room on the second floor of the Town House to Wm. Bradbury for the purpose of a Reading Room, for one year from the 8th inst for $39.00 in advance. Vol. IV, p. 146. [To be cont