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Historic leaves, volume 7, April, 1908 - January, 1909, chapter 11 (search)
E. Brigham in the History of the Brigham Family. In 1648 there was laid out by the town of Cambridge to Thomas1 Brigham 72 acres on ye Rocks on Charlestown line. In view of the important error of Rev. Abner Morse, the first Brigham genealogist, in locating upon this plot the homestead in which Thomas died in 1653, the place has borne a distinction in Brigham family history which is unwarranted by its actual position as a Brigham possession. Morse, mistaking the well-known ledges of Clarendon Hill for ye Cambridge Rocks, declares that the last habitation of Thomas was in Somerville. Having done this, he easily draws a graphic picture of the Brigham Farm as it might have appeared in the last days of its owner; and he even goes so far as to offer the baseless conjecture that Thomas was buried in Medford.f The Cambridge Rocks were, as Morse says, a well-known ancient landmark, but they were not where Morse places them. They begin in Cambridge on the Watertown line, at a point wh
Historic leaves, volume 7, April, 1908 - January, 1909, Index (search)
own End, 32. Charlestown State's Prison, 33. Charlestown Training Field Association, 72. Chase, Alfred B., 67. Chase, Aquila, 21. Chase, Charles Henry, 22. Chase, Daniel E., 21. Chase, Daniel E., Jr., 22. Chase, Hon., Dudley, 24. Chase, Hannah A., 67. Chase, Martha D., 67. Chase, Phidelia Jane, 67. Chase, Salmon P., 22. Chase, Washington Irving, 22. Cheever, Ezekiel, Esq., 63, 65. Cheney, Mary A., 24. Chick, Hannah, 48. Chick, Horace, 48. Chick, Susan Maria, 48. Clarendon Hill, 87. City Point Hospital, 4. Civil War, Events of the, Preceding Siege of Port Hudson, 49, 50. Clark, George S., 47. Clark, Gustavus A., 13. Clark, Jonathan C., 70. Clark, Joseph, 21. Clark, S. Adams, 21. Cogswell, Francis, 37, 38. Colburn, Joshua O., 30. Colby, Lewis, 31. Cole, Ambrose, 43. Cole, Chandler G., 4, 13. Coleman, George W., 74, 75, 70. Coles, Ambrose W., 8, 13. Collett, Herbert, 13. Common's Well, 7. Company B, Roxbury, 10. Company E, Somerville, 4.