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Historic leaves, volume 3, April, 1904 - January, 1905, Committees appointed for the school outside the Neck, together with the annual appropriations. (search)
inst the name of Joseph Russell (Walter3, Joseph2, William1), born August 25, 1703, says that he kept school about 1724. As the place is not designated, we may not be justified in including him among Charlestown teachers. He may have taught in Menotomy (West Cambridge), where the family lived. But the fact that the historian thus alludes to him would seem to imply that he taught on this side of the line. If not a pedagogue of Charlestown himself, he became the progenitor of a line of teacherWest Cambridge), where the family lived. But the fact that the historian thus alludes to him would seem to imply that he taught on this side of the line. If not a pedagogue of Charlestown himself, he became the progenitor of a line of teachers through his grandson, Philemon R. Russell, of whom we hope to speak later on. The little cemetery on Phipps street has preserved from oblivion one other name, that of Mistress Rebeckah Anderson, the only one of the worthy dames of that early period whose name has come down to us. The headstone reads:— Here Lyes Buried ye Body of Mrs. Rebeckah Anderson (Late School-Mistress in this Town) who Died March 4th, Anno Dom. 1743-4 in the 49th Year of Her Age. Close by is the grave of her si
Historic leaves, volume 3, April, 1904 - January, 1905, Thomas Brigham the Puritan—an original settler (search)
escape with no bones broken. We have been a long time reaching the Somerville line, but we are almost here. The townsmen of Cambridge divided the common lands to settlers according to their estates. By this rule Thomas Brigham drew more than quadruple the amount of most others. In the last and principal division he, out of 115 assignees, received 180 acres, the thirteenth largest share, while others received only a few acres. He received grants in Brighton, Shawshine (Billerica), West Cambridge, and Charlestown, amounting to hundreds of acres. His first grant in Charlestown was of one acre made in 1645. In 1648 there was laid out to him seventy-two acres on the rocks upon Charlestown line; and later in the same year he bought of William Hamlet ten acres in Fresh Pond Meadow, on the northwest side of the great swamp. Of these he took immediate possession, and built upon the former. By the help of Peter B. Brigham, Esq., who died in 1872, The Rocks have been found and the p
Historic leaves, volume 3, April, 1904 - January, 1905, Index (search)
, Mistress, Rebecca, 18. Andover, Mass., 68. Andros, Governor, 31. Ann Street, Boston, 4. Arbella, The, 29. Arlington, Mass., 15, 38, 56, 74, 87. Ash Street, Boston, 51. Austin Street, Somerville, 3. Baldwin, George Rumford, 3. Baldw3, 7, 10, 15, 16, 31, 38, 55, 69, 87. Medford Side District, 15. Medford-street School, 70. Menotime Bridge, 75. Menotomy (West Cambridge), 18. Meredith, N. H., 37. Merriam, Joseph, 78, 82. Merrimac River, 1, 5, 10, 27. Middlesex BleachWest Cambridge), 18. Meredith, N. H., 37. Merriam, Joseph, 78, 82. Merrimac River, 1, 5, 10, 27. Middlesex Bleachery, 88. Middlesex Canal, 22. Middlesex Canal, Course of, The, 1, 2. 3, 4. Middlesex Canal, Fare on. 5. Middlesex Canal, Historical Sketch of, concluded, 1-11. Middlesex Canal, Locks on, 1, 2. 3. Middlesex Canal. Merchandise Boats on.., 49, 51, 54, 73, 74, 75, 76, 80, 82, 84, 85. Watertown, Original Area of, 74. Webster, Professor John W., 9. West Cambridge, 53. West Indies, 19. West Medford, Mass., 3. Weston, Mass., 74. Weymouth, Mass., 18. Whittemore, —, 69. Wi