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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)
on, who dwelt, with her large family, on the site of the Old Corner Bookstore in Boston. This brilliant woman won over, at least partly, to her views, John Cotton, the teacher of the Boston church, and Harry Vane, the youthful governor; while John Wilson, the pastor, and ex-Governor Winthrop were opposed to her. Over theological questions of grace and works civil dudgeon grew high, and when the freemen were assembled on the New Town Common, in the apple-blossom season of 1637, to elect their magistrates for the ensuing year, there was some fear of a tumult, until Mr. Wilson climbed into a gnarled and ancient oak-tree and made a sensible speech to the people. Winthrop was elected governor, and the Hutchinsonians were thoroughly defeated. In August, a synod, assembled in the meeting-house, condemned eighty-two opinions as blasphemous, erroneous, or unsafe. In November, the General Court summoned Mrs. Hutchinson to the New Town, and sentenced her to banishment from Massachusetts, wit
The Cambridge of eighteen hundred and ninety-six: a picture of the city and its industries fifty years after its incorporation (ed. Arthur Gilman), Cambridge Common. (search)
being between Governor Harry Vane and Ex-Governor John Winthrop. The day was clear and warm, when, at one o'clock in the afternoon, the freemen of the colony gathered in groups about this tree. Most of the noted men of the colony, including the magistrates and clergy, were among the large number present. Governor Vane, in English fashion, beneath the open sky, announced the purpose of the meeting to be the annual election. Great excitement prevailed, and in the midst of the tumult, Rev. John Wilson, minister of the First Church in Boston, climbed the trunk of the wide-spreading oak, and, clinging to one of its branches, began vehemently to address the meeting, exhorting the freemen to look well to their charter and consider carefully the work of the day, which was the choosing of their magistrates. Governor Vane's party objecting to an immediate election, Winthrop, as deputy-governor, declared that the majority should decide, and put the question himself. A majority was clearly
The Cambridge of eighteen hundred and ninety-six: a picture of the city and its industries fifty years after its incorporation (ed. Arthur Gilman), Financial and manufacturing. (search)
the city and the artistic improvement of the printing art. Mr. John Wilson contributes the following interesting facts in regard to his fy mention the part taken by my father. As a man and an artist John Wilson, Sr., was an Old World product, possessing the liberal tendency andic; and as Elihu Burritt was called the learned blacksmith, so John Wilson, Sr., might truly have been called the learned printer, knowing note established himself in business in Boston, the firm name being John Wilson & Son. Even before his removal to Cambridge, his fame as a skillained a still wider reputation for skilled book-making. In 1879 John Wilson and Charles E. Wentworth became the proprietors, and largely incity of the Press by adding to it the well-known establishment of John Wilson & Son. During these years many remarkable books were producedthe Press was incorporated under the laws of Massachusetts, with John Wilson as president, and Henry White as treasurer. In order to give en
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)
Whitefield, George, preaches on the Common, 13, 48; a friend to the college, 236. Whitefield tree, 48. Willard, Emery, the village strong man, 40. William H. Smart Post 30, 288. Williams, Rev. Mr., 73. Willson, Forceythe, 68. Wilson, John, Sr., 334. Wilson, Rev. John, election speech of, 7, 48. Windmill Hill, 3. Windsor, Conn., founded, 6. Winlock, Professor, 75. Winship, Mrs. Joanna, tomb of, 189. Winthrop, John, 1, 2, 7, 47. Winthrop, Prof. John, 72, 7Wilson, Rev. John, election speech of, 7, 48. Windmill Hill, 3. Windsor, Conn., founded, 6. Winlock, Professor, 75. Winship, Mrs. Joanna, tomb of, 189. Winthrop, John, 1, 2, 7, 47. Winthrop, Prof. John, 72, 73. Winthrop Square, 5. Wires, Inspectors of, and Superintendent of Lamps, 404. Witchcraft, 11, 12. Wollaston, Mount, Thomas Hooker's company settle at, 6, 233. Wolves, bounties for, 9. Worcester becomes a city, 54. Worcester, Joseph E., lexicographer, 68. Worthington Street, 116. Wright, Elizur, description of London parks, 119. Wyman, Prof. Jeffries, 73, 75. Young Men's Christian Association, 242; property exempt from taxation, 320. Young Women's Christian As