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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 1,057 5 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 1. (ed. Frank Moore) 114 0 Browse Search
C. Edwards Lester, Life and public services of Charles Sumner: Born Jan. 6, 1811. Died March 11, 1874. 106 2 Browse Search
Benjamnin F. Butler, Butler's Book: Autobiography and Personal Reminiscences of Major-General Benjamin Butler 72 0 Browse Search
John Esten Cooke, Wearing of the Gray: Being Personal Portraits, Scenes, and Adventures of War. 70 0 Browse Search
Fitzhugh Lee, General Lee 67 1 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 2. (ed. Frank Moore) 60 0 Browse Search
Horace Greeley, The American Conflict: A History of the Great Rebellion in the United States of America, 1860-65: its Causes, Incidents, and Results: Intended to exhibit especially its moral and political phases with the drift and progress of American opinion respecting human slavery from 1776 to the close of the War for the Union. Volume I. 58 0 Browse Search
George Meade, The Life and Letters of George Gordon Meade, Major-General United States Army (ed. George Gordon Meade) 56 0 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Poetry and Incidents., Volume 1. (ed. Frank Moore) 54 2 Browse Search
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Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 8., New Hampshire soldiers in Medford. (search)
. This was probably in the Admiral Vernon Tavern, a few rods over the bridge on the east as you go toward Charlestown, the site of which will later be pointed out to you. In this tavern, the Admiral Vernon, Colonel Stark for awhile had his headquarters, and later removed to the elegant and roomy mansion of Colonel Isaac Royall, who precipitately left his fine estate three days before the battle of Lexington. Charles Lee called this mansion Hobgoblin Hall and found it so luxurious that Washington ordered him to remove from it. There are no records telling where these soldiers camped, but tradition has it, to which we loyally hold, that the place of their encampment was in this immediate vicinity. Medford, the peculiar town of the early days of the plantation was at this period but a small town, its inhabitants being not many over nine hundred. The lands, in truly English fashion, as even to still later times, were in large holdings controlled by few, and at this time without
Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 8., Samuel Cushing. (search)
Cushing. Samuel Cushing, a member of this society, and familiar figure in this community for fifty-four years, passed into the great beyond from his home on Pleasant street, May 21, 1904, in his seventy-ninth year. He was a native of Cohasset, and came of stock that is traced back to Puritan origin. He was connected with the heroes of the American Revolution through his great-grandfather, Capt. Job Cushing of Cohasset, who raised a company and marched from Hingham, and was with Washington at Valley Forge during the trying winter of 1777. After serving the usual apprenticeship Mr. Cushing worked in the Navy Yard at Charlestown and in several of the yards on our famous old Ship street, from whence the Medford clipper ships, for Californian trade. were in such great demand. Mr. Cushing was twice married, and by the first union had three sons, two of whom survive him, Hiram C. Cushing of Pasadena, Cal., and Walter F. Cushing, of Medford. If, at times, he was abrupt an
Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 8., Genealogy of the Francis family, 1645-1903. (search)
Greenleaf); m. May 15, 1764; children:— Joseph. Elizabeth (married Tower). Mary (unmarried). John (kept a grocery store on Eliot street, Boston). Thomas Dakin (kept grocery store Pleasant street, Boston,) b. Oct. 6, 1785. Thomas Dakin Francis; m. Martha Everly Wise, in Boston, April 10, 1805 Children:— Joseph; (died in infancy). Martha; b. Dec. 18 (?) 1808; m. Francois Lecompte. Mary Elizabeth; b. April 24, 1810; m. Isaac Groves. Rebecca; b. Feb. 17, 1812; m. Noah Porter. George Washington; b. Feb. (?) 1814; m. Fannie Jones. There may be two sons. Susant Blood; b. Aug. 21, 1817; m. Oliver Wales. Deborah; b. March 10, 1820; m. Lyman Senter. Thomas; b. Feb. 26, 1822; m. Marilla L. G. Shaw (married son living). Ann Sharp; b. March 6, 1824 (unmarried). Daniel Sharp; b. April I, 1826 (twin brother died in infancy); m. Sarah Sampson (no children). Mary Elizabeth Francis; m. Isaac Groves, Nov. 5, 1834; children:— Charles Alfred Groves; b. Aug. 31, 1832; m. Elizabeth L<
Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 8., The loyalists of Medford. (search)
s evacuation by the British was a great blow to them. Through the hard winter of 1775-76 upward of a thousand of them had been shut up in Boston, whither they had fled for protection, exposed to hunger, cold and the loathsome disease small pox. The versatile Burgoyne, leaving for a while his complaints against his brother chiefs, sought to enliven that dreary winter by organizing plays which were performed in Faneuil Hall, the cradle of liberty. One farce The Blockade of Boston, in which Washington was caricatured, was said to be his own production. Washington remarked that it might turn out a tragedy. His words were justified when the British awoke one morning in March to find Dorchester Heights occupied by the enemy and their own position no longer tenable. On the seventeenth of March, 1776, the obnoxious British soldiers left Boston to the triumphant Americans, and with them went more than a thousand loyalists, including men, women, and children. Sabine says, Of members of the