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Lydia Maria Child, Isaac T. Hopper: a true life 58 0 Browse Search
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 46 0 Browse Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, John Greenleaf Whittier 40 0 Browse Search
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 2, 17th edition. 30 0 Browse Search
Francis Jackson Garrison, William Lloyd Garrison, 1805-1879; the story of his life told by his children: volume 2 18 0 Browse Search
James Parton, Horace Greeley, T. W. Higginson, J. S. C. Abbott, E. M. Hoppin, William Winter, Theodore Tilton, Fanny Fern, Grace Greenwood, Mrs. E. C. Stanton, Women of the age; being natives of the lives and deeds of the most prominent women of the present gentlemen 18 0 Browse Search
The writings of John Greenleaf Whittier, Volume 6. (ed. John Greenleaf Whittier) 16 0 Browse Search
The writings of John Greenleaf Whittier, Volume 5. (ed. John Greenleaf Whittier) 16 0 Browse Search
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 3, 15th edition. 14 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.) 10 0 Browse Search
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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), The beginnings of Cambridge. (search)
th Horton to disturb the peace of Cambridge by crying through the streets that the Lord was coming with fire and sword to judge his people, nor would she desist till she was flogged out of town at the cart's tail. Still worse: there was Benanuel Bowers, gentleman and land-owner (up north, near the Charlestown line), whom no threats could restrain from declaring himself a Baptist, and who for giving a glass of milk to starving Elizabeth Horton was fined £ 5. This bold Benanuel himself turned Quaker, and was for twenty years a thorn in the orthodox flesh of our little town. Over and over again he was fined 20s. for staying away from church, and now and then for entertaining Quakers at his house, £ 4 and costs. In 1677, for refusing to pay his fine, he was thrown into jail and kept there for more than a year. He solaced himself by writing verses, of which the following are a specimen, and sending them by his wife to Thomas Danforth, one of the magistrates:-- It is nigh hard this fi
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)
improve the river bank, 106; its city council opposes the construction of Harvard Bridge, 107; completes the Charlesbank, 107; no provision for girls in its early schools, 189; high school opened for girls in, 192. Boston Massacre, 20.. Boston Porcelain and Glass Company, 30. Boston Port Bill, 22. Boston Tea-party, 22. Bounties for wolves, 9. Bower of Bliss, The, 37. Bowers, Benanuel, declares himself a Baptist, 12; fined and imprisoned for entertaining Quakers, 12; turns Quaker, 12; sends verses to Thomas Danforth, 12; harangues the people in the meeting-house, 13. Bradstreet, Mrs., the ponderous verses of, 2. Bradstreet, Simon, site of his house, 2. Braintree Street, 3, 6; name changed to Harvard, S. Brattle, General, notifies Gage of removal of powder from Charlestown, 23; apologizes to the Cambridge people, 24. Brattle, Rev. William, 236; his salary, 237; donations to, 237. Brattle Street (the Watertown highway), 8, 28; Tory Row on, 28. Bri