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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 1,606 0 Browse Search
Lucius R. Paige, History of Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1630-1877, with a genealogical register 462 0 Browse Search
Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 1, Colonial and Revolutionary Literature: Early National Literature: Part I (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.) 416 0 Browse Search
Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 2 (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.) 286 0 Browse Search
George Bancroft, History of the Colonization of the United States, Vol. 1, 17th edition. 260 0 Browse Search
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 2, 17th edition. 254 0 Browse Search
Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 3 (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.) 242 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) 230 0 Browse Search
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 3, 15th edition. 218 0 Browse Search
Francis Jackson Garrison, William Lloyd Garrison, 1805-1879; the story of his life told by his children: volume 1 166 0 Browse Search
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Historic leaves, volume 3, April, 1904 - January, 1905, Historical Sketch of the old Middlesex canal. (search)
mford Baldwin, son of Loammi Baldwin, to convey a farm road over the canal, and considered by engineers to be one of the most graceful structures of the sort in New England. It is plainly visible as one is journeying along by the Brooks farm in the electric cars. The line of the old canal is where Boston avenue is now situated,of Mystic pond. Instead of a foreground of blurred landscapes, vanishing ghostlike, ere its features could be fairly distinguished, soft bits of characteristic New England scenery, cut clear as cameos, lingered caressingly on his vision. A large amount of lumber was being used during this period by the ship-yards on the Mystic Horn Pond House in Woburn was the most important house on the route of the canal. The proprietor was the famous Robert McGill, and had a reputation throughout New England. It was the summer resort of Boston and the surrounding country, and on a summer's day the business done was enormous, people coming by boat and carriages, and
Historic leaves, volume 3, April, 1904 - January, 1905, Albert Clifford Tufts. (search)
iver to worthy causes. Blessed in his domestic relations, he was singularly happy in his family and home. He was a tender husband and parent, akind and thoughtful brother, and a loyal kinsman. His sterling business qualities and the unusual correctness of his life naturally brought him to positions of trust and responsibility. He was a member of the Boston Chamber of Commerce, and served on its important committees and as one of its board of trustees. He was a director in the Bunker Hill National Bank; a member of the New England HistoricGenea-logical and the Somerville Historical Societies, and of the Merchants' Club of Boston; a director in the Central Club Association of Somerville; and a member of the Standing Committee and an earnest supporter of the First Congregational (Unitarian) Church of Somerville, with which he had always been affiliated. At these various directing boards he was a regular attendant, a conscientious worker, a wise counsellor, and a safe guardian.
Historic leaves, volume 3, April, 1904 - January, 1905, John Winthrop (search)
in Lincolnshire, fell into discourse about New England and the planting of the Gospel there, and anor and Company of the Massachusetts Bay in New England. Its records have been preserved and publicrease Nowell, and others, all now good old New England names, to embark by the 1st of March next .od's protecton), to inhabit and continue in New England; provided, always, that before the last of transferring the government and charter to New England again discussed, and on the next day the qument of the Plantation to be transferred to New England, etc., hold up your hands, etc., when, by e government and patent should be settled in New England. At several other meetings the details of nfederation known as the United Colonies of New England, which was a potent factor in the defense aanifestation of love had never been seen in New England. It was a great marvel, that so much peopland in a house, quickly after his coming to New England, besides the prodigious expense of it in th
Historic leaves, volume 3, April, 1904 - January, 1905, Thomas Brigham the Puritan—an original settler (search)
book, entitled Lists of Emigrants from England to America, 1600-1700, compiled from London Admiralty reports. From this we learn that 18 April, 1635, Tho. Briggham embarked from England on the ship Suzan & Ellin, Edward Payne, Master, for New England. In the same year Paige, in his admirable history of Cambridge, reports the arrival at Watertown, the fourth settlement in Massachusetts Bay colony, of our Thomas and thirty-six other males. Of these, some seventeen appear to have come by tha comely woman somewhat his junior, of whom tradition has brought down a high character. It is declared that she and her sister were so tantalized in England for their non-conformity that they resolved on seeking their freedom and fortunes in New England, whither they arrived unattended by husbands or lovers. Were romantic adventure their quest, they came to, the right place, for they were snapped up like Monday bargains; and, as the sage Morse observes, if the number of worthy husbands whom
Historic leaves, volume 3, April, 1904 - January, 1905, Gregory Stone and some of his descendants (search)
n days before his death he made his will, expressing in clear and definite terms his wishes as to the disposal of his effects. The will has been printed in the New England Historic-Genealogical Register, volume 8, page 69, and is one of the very few papers left by him which the worms and teeth of time have not devoured, and which the foundation of the genealogy of his race. The opening paragraph is worthy of full quotation:— In the name of God-Amen. I, Gregory Stone of Cambridge in New England, being through the Lord's favor of sound judgment and memory, do make and ordeine my last will & Testamt in manner following, viz.: my immortall soul I do freele sum of 11s 9d seems absurdly small, however. Meanwhile the inhabitants of The Farms, finding it difficult to perform their religious duties, which no right New England man thought of shirking, living, as some of them did, ten miles from the meeting-house, petitioned to be set off as a separate precinct. Cambridge was so much
Historic leaves, volume 3, April, 1904 - January, 1905, Index (search)
44, 47, 48, 49, 53, 60, 65, 74, 88, 89, 90. Charlestown. The Schools of, Beyond the Neck, 87-93. Charlestown Schools in the Eighteenth Century, 11-20. Charlestown Schools Within the Peninsula, 43-48, 64-69. Chelmsford, Mass., 1, 7. Chelsea, Mass., 71. City Square, Charlestown, 30. Clarendon Hill, 54, 56. Clark, Joan, 73. Clark, Sarah, 65. Cleveland, Aaron, 14. Clopton, Thomasine, 26. Coggan, John, 26. Coitmore, Martha, 26. Cole, John F., 40. Colonies, United, of New England, 30. Conant's Island, 30. Concord, Mass., 47, 77, 78, 82, 83, 84, 85. Concord Bridge, 38. Concord, N. H., 6. Concord River. 1, 9, 31. Connecticut, 74. Cooper, John, 78, 79, 80. Cooper, Lydia, 73, 78, 80. Cordis, Captain, 67. Corlet, Elijah, 82. Cotton, —, 74. Cotton, Anna (Moses), 21. Cotton, Mary Belle, 21. Cotton, William Wallace, 21. Countess of Lincoln, 27. Cowes, Isle of Wight, 29. Cracbone, Gilbert, 76. Cradock, Governor, 27, 31. Cross Street, Boston, 4.