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Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 7. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 34 (search)
eneral Buford's command had been engaged with the enemy two or three miles to the left for two or more hours; Major Medill, of the Eighth Illinois, had already fallen mortally wounded. Two pieces of Pennington's battery were placed on the brow of the hill to the right of the pike, and the other pieces to the left. A squadron of Fifth Michiganders had previously charged down the pike, driving in the enemy's picket and a battalion which occupied an advanced position. The First Michigan, Colonel Towne, was deployed as skirmishers to the right, and ordered to drive the enemy from a brick house a little in advance and to the right of the artillery. Several unsuccessful attempts were made to obey this order; but before it could be done, the brisk firing of the rear-guard warned the Commanding General that his force occupied a dangerous position. Never was a command in a more critical situation; never before was a man cooler, or did one display more real generalship than General Kilpatr
Historic leaves, volume 2, April, 1903 - January, 1904, Charlestown School in the 17th century. (search)
shining track. Huge workshops, in brick and stone, have risen on every hand, but not enough to meet the demand, and the hundreds of anvils ringing, ever ringing, resound the larger life, the larger hope—and the forearm of the state is strengthened, ever strengthened. Listen to the ringing and the singing of the anvils as the sparks fly upward and the wise smith never tires! The next schoolmaster of whom we have any mention was a Mr. Stow, who, 6: 3 mo. 1651, is to have what is due to ye Towne from ye Ware and the £ 5 which the major (Sedgwick) pays for Pellock's Island the last year 1650, also he is to regr. & take of such persons (as send there children now & then & not constantly) by the Weeke as he and they can agree. This was the Rev. Samuel Stow, a graduate of Harvard College in the class of 1645. He was the son of John and Elizabeth (Biggs) Stow, of Roxbury, and was born about 1622. In 1649, at Chelmsford, he married Hope, daughter of William Fletcher. Of their seven c
Historic leaves, volume 2, April, 1903 - January, 1904, Charlestown School in the 17th century. (search)
h to read, write, & cypher. In consideration whereof he shall be allowed £ 30 per annum from ye Towne & 20 shillings per annum from each schollar taught by him, to be paid by their parents or guardiand of the disciplining of the schoolboys. January 4, 1875. ‘Voted that Lotts forfeited to ye Towne be given to a free schoole in Charlestown forever.’ The same day it was ‘agreed that Lovell's Isthis yeare ensuing, for which he is to have £ 3 for this yeare, one-half money & the other halfe Towne pay, provided he be careful in his office.’ It thus appears that the fathers were tired of doingr in corn at money price. Likewise to allow him 5 pounds per year for house rent, to be payd in Towne pay, which agreement is to continue for one year.’ December 6, 1686. ‘Mr. Samuel Phipps, as he Town Hill school. April 20, 1691. ‘Agreed with Mr. Jno. Emerson to be schoolmaster in this Towne for the education of Youth, viz., in Lattin, writing, ciphering, and perfecting in Engl
Historic leaves, volume 2, April, 1903 - January, 1904, Charlestown Schools in the 18th century. (search)
ettled. He graduated from Harvard in 1702, and died in 1767. A printed genealogy of the Wiswall family may be consulted. If we remember rightly, he taught many years in the North End School, Boston. March 4, 1706. It became the duty of the selectmen to provide a schoolmaster for the town, and on the twenty-sixth they empowered Captain Samuel Heyman, Joseph Whittemore, Mr. Bateman, and Robert Wyer ‘to inquire & treat with Mr. Samuel Burr with reference to his keeping the school in this Towne & to make report at their next meeting.’ It is recorded that Mr. Burr entered upon his duties, at the rate of £ 40 per annum, 24 April, 1706. At the May meeting Captain Heyman and Captain Phipps were empowered to secure workmen for repairing the meetinghouse and the schoolhouse; £ 18 was voted for this object. (At the same meeting Mr. Phipps was voted eleven pounds, four shillings for his services as town representative in 1705.) March 31, 1707. ‘It was agreed with Mr. Burr to keep t
Historic leaves, volume 3, April, 1904 - January, 1905, Gregory Stone and some of his descendants (search)
arlestown had already been settled, and Cambridge, then called Newe Towne, seems to have been designed merely as a fortified place, very smalerville. A grant by the court in March, 1635-6, agreed that Newe Towne bounds shall run eight miles into the country from their meeting-hoe more remote from Boston, leaving Mr. Cotton a clear field in Newe Towne. There were also political rivalries. This was the state of afft have been the establishment of the first church gathering in Newe Towne, destined to become the first parish in Cambridge, now, as then, lof this time, there was moving to and fro between Watertown and Newe Towne, and Gregory Stone was one of those who moved to Newe Towne in 1637Towne in 1637. He bought a house and five acres of land of Roger Harlackenden, Esq. By the boundaries given, this homestead or homestall, must have been ge. In the meantime there was work to do in the laying out of Newe Towne, which, by order of the General Court in 1636, was called Cambridge
Historic leaves, volume 3, April, 1904 - January, 1905, Index (search)
53, 55, 56. Mount Benedict, 3, 9. Mt. Auburn Cemetery, 74. Much Bromley, Essex County, Eng., 73. Mystick Bridge, 19. Mystic Lake, 11. Mystic Pond, 36, 87. Mystic River, 3, 6, 30, 31. Mystic Trotting Park, 3. Mystic Valley Railroad, 11. Nahumkeck (Salem), 29. Nashua & Lowell Railroad, 9. Natascot, 32. Nathan Tufts Park, 20. Nayland, Suffolk County, Eng., 13, 82. Neighborhood Sketch No. 7, 22. Neighborhood Sketch No. 7, Map of, 23. Newell, Eliphalet, 67. Newe Towne, 74, 75. New York, 44. Nichols' Inn, 2. Nichols' Lock, 2. North Market Street, Boston, 4. North Street, Boston, 4. Norton, Rev., Jacob, 18. Nowell, Increase, 28. Nun's Well, 50. Oakman, —, 42. Oakes, Edward, 76, 79. oburne (Woburn), 83. Odin House, The, 38. Olin, John, Jr., 65. Old England, 27. Old Powder House, 47, 87. Old South Church, 30. Old State House, 4. Outline of Study of Somerville History, 60, 61. Oxbow, 2. Oyster Bay, N. H., 37. Paige,
Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 2., The development of the public School of Medford. (search)
720, had kept only about one-half of its first term, but the inhabitants were sufficiently impressed with its importance to call a town meeting for Feb. 22, 1720, to know ye minde of ye Town whether ye will state a place for a school house and also to know whether the Town will build a new scholl house. Att said meeting put to vote whether ye Town will choose a committee of five men to consider of a convenient place for setting of a schoolhouse in said town which may best acomodate ye whole Towne and to make report of ye Doings herein att our generall March meeting next ensuing for ye Towns concurrence, and it was thus ordered, the committee being Capt. Peter Tufts, Deacon John Whitmore, Capt. Ebenezer Brooks, Mr. John Willis, Mr. John Richardson. At this time the old meeting-house was outgrown, and needed repairs as well as enlargement. So again the school-house question was buried under this more weighty one of a meeting-house, and no report of this committee was ever made so far
Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 14., The ancient name Menotomy and the river of that name. (search)
led by the General Court, as The Ware att Misticke, granted to Gov. Winthrop and Mathew Cradocke of London March 4, 1633-4, and Att a Genrall Court holden att Newe Towne, Sept. 3, 1634. There is leave granted to the inhabitants of Newe Towne to builde a weire vpon any place of Winotimies Ryver, within their owne bounds. The busTowne to builde a weire vpon any place of Winotimies Ryver, within their owne bounds. The business was further controlled, when in the General Court, June 6, 1639, It was ordered that all weers shall be set open from the last day of the weeke at noon till the second day in the morning (Saturday noon till Monday morning). The weir granted to Winthrop and Cradock in 1634, was at the outlet of Mystic lake, where High streever was crossed by the Charlestown line, beyond which the weir could not be located according to the grant. The General Court agreed March 3, 1635-36, that Newe Towne bounds shall run eight myles into the country from their meeting house. This grant, among other lands, included a part of the present Arlington; the line betwee
Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 23., Medford's first gristmill (search)
ave removed it. In the register, Vol. XVII, pp. 15 and 42, are articles relative to this matter, in which interest is revived by examination of original documents in the Massachusetts Archives, of which the following is copy: To the Honble Lt. Governer & Council & Representatives in Genl Court Afsembled The Humble petition of the Inhabitants of the Towne of Medford Showeth That Whereas Your Petitioners have hitherunto been necefsitated for want of a Grist mill within the sd Towne to carry their Corne to be ground as far as Charlestowne or Watertowne and sometimes to Boston and Noddles Island, Whereby many times before they can get their meal home, it costs them as much as the Corne was worth. And Whereas there is a very Suitable place upon the River A little above Mistick Bridge where A Mill may be Erected to the Easg of your Petitioners And Advantage And Convenience of places Adjacent And without damage to the Passage of Boats Timber Rafts &c Wherefore yor most hum