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Charles A. Nelson , A. M., Waltham, past, present and its industries, with an historical sketch of Watertown from its settlement in 1630 to the incorporation of Waltham, January 15, 1739., Index. (search)
S. B., pastor of First Parish, 117. Flagg: Allen, John, Michael, 97; William, killed, 60; Thomas, ancestor of all of the name, 60 n. 3. Flash-board on the Bemis dam, right to, sold to Boston Manufacturing Co., 127. Fleet, number of vessels in Winthrop's, 13. Foley, John, tailor, 84. Food of the early settlers, 33. Forbush, Mr., Eli, called to be pastor, declined, 99. Foreigners to purchase a man's right, 40. Forsath, Mr., auctioneer, 131. Foster, M. S. 83. Francis, Dr., Convers, 45. Franklin, Benj., Winthrop's letter to, 77. Freemen, only church members admitted, 30. French preparations against colonists, 15. Freshets sweep away bridges, 128. Fresh Pond, 19, 70 n. 2. Fulling-mill, the first built on Beaver-Brook, 124; at Mill Creek, 124. Funeral expenses, 72, 73, 74. Gale: Abraham, 39; Alpheus, Anna, 93: Jacob, 88; John, 39; Richard, Samuel, 93. Gale, Richard, owns half of Oldham farm, 39. Gallup, John, captures Oldham's pinnace fr
Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 3., chapter 9 (search)
hed before. In the pulpit he certainly attained an eminence that was reached by few of his contemporaries. In the delivery of his sermons he was usually very deliberate; but when he became greatly excited his utterance waxed rapid and earnest, and he came down upon his audience with the overwhelming force of a torrent. To the discourses he committed to memory his stirring and impassioned delivery gave the effect in a great degree of extemporaneous efforts. Under date of 1848, Rev. Convers Francis writes: My early recollections of Dr. Osgood's pulpit services are strong, though of course I could not appreciate them as I did subsequently. But even when I was a child they seemed to me something extraordinary—different from those of any other minister. His prayers were evidently elaborated with devout care; they were always strong and earnest. There were a certain number of them which he so constantly repeated that when I was young I could easily rehearse large portions o
Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 5., Mrs. Jane Turell. (search)
wer. Tuskegee, Hampton, Berea and Calhoun, the colleges devoted to the education of colored students, are indebted to Mrs. Stearns for most liberal yearly contributions of pecuniary aid from the start, nor have her private benefactions been less liberal and judicious. Tufts College and the Boston Homoeopathic Hospital are handsomely remembered in her will, and this Society is the residuary legatee of portraits of historic value— one of them being that of the builder of this house, Convers Francis—and other appropriate gifts. Let us therefore say as Whittier did of her noble husband; may she not also— Hear the blessing, Good and faithful enter in! Henry C. Delong, Walter C. Wright, Calvin H. Clark. Rev. Ebenezer Turell. by Helen T. Wild. Rev. Ebenezer Turell was the son of Samuel and Lydia (Stoddard) Turell. He was born Feb. 15, 1702, and graduated from college in 1721. In 1724, he was ordained and became the pastor of the church in Medford. He married first, Ja<
Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 6., John Pierpont. (search)
e for two generations with no signs of losing it. Among the best known poems are the following: The Exile at St. Helena, The Address of Warren to the American Soldiers, The Pilgrim Fathers. The highest flight of his fancy and his best contribution to our literature is Passing Away. He was also the author of many fine hymns, besides a great number of temperance and anti-slavery poems. Mr. Pierpont was graduated from the Divinity School of Harvard College in 1818 in the class with Convers Francis, John G. Palfrey, Jared Sparks and Geo. Bancroft, all of them men who made a special mark upon their time. In 1819 he was called to be the minister of Hollis Street Church, Boston, succeeding the Rev. Dr. Holley, a man of eminence in his profession. The church was one of the most important in the city, and it seemed as if he were entering upon a new and happier day. He was now thirty-four years old, of superior ability and education and of wide experience of life. Added to his gifts
Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 8., Genealogy of the Francis family, 1645-1903. (search)
pt. 6, 1759; d. in Baltimore. 57James. 58William; lived in Newburyport. 59Convers; b. July 14, 1766; lived in Wayland. 60Ebenezer. 61Simon. 62Nathaniel. 63Stephen. 64Sarah; m. John Bound of Middletown. 65Lydia; m. Job. Wyeth of Cambridge. 11-23RICHARD Francis, by his wife, Hannah Winship, daughter of Samuel of Lexington, whom he m. March 20, 1760, had:— 23-66Richard; b. Dec. 16, 1760. 67Loring; b. June 7, 1762. 68Samuel; b. Aug. 26, 1764. 69Daniel; b. June 25, 1766. 22-59CONVERS Francis; m. Susanna Rand, May 11, 1788, who d. May 7, 1814; children:— James; b. June 12, 1789; lived at Wayland. Susanna; b. Oct. 7, 1790; m. J. K. Frothingham of Charlestown. Mary; b. May 29, 1793; m. Warren Preston; d. Sept. 21, 1847. Convers; b. Nov. 9, 1795, of Harvard College. Lydia; b. Feb. 11, 1802; m. David L. Childs. She was noted as a novelist and an abolitionist. 15-28JOSEPH Francis and Elizabeth Usher, daughter of Hezekiah and Jane (Greenleaf); m. May 15, 1764; children:— <
Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 12., The first Parish in Medford. (search)
of remembrance as indicating the weight of influence on the liberal side of the old Congregational order, as it was then known and spoken of. They are President Kirkland of Harvard College, Dr. Abiel Holmes, of Cambridge, the father of Oliver Wendell Holmes, Dr. Charles Lowell, of Boston, father of James Russell Lowell, and himself a man of note in his day as pastor of the West Church, Rev. Francis Parkman, Rev. James Walker of Charlestown, afterward President of Harvard College, and Rev. Convers Francis, of Watertown, brother of Lydia Maria Child, subsequently a professor in the Divinity School of Harvard College. His first Sunday as a legal minister of the town was July 13, 1823. But the narrow majority of 25 was a clear indication of much dissatisfaction at his choice, like the rote of the sea which foretells a storm. Mr. Bigelow was known to belong to the school of thought in Congregationalism which was called Liberal, and by this time, owing to Channing's outspoken word at Ba
Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 18., The Historical Society's sale and removal. (search)
settled in housekeeping all will be apprised of the fact, and an early meeting be held, to which friends will be invited. Many pleasant memories will be held of our former home, and brief mention of its history and occupants is timely. Convers Francis served an apprenticeship in Medford, learning the art and trade of a baker of Capt. Ebenezer Hall. He became the captain's foreman for some years and was in business two years at Menotomy. At his former master's desire he succeeded him in er was there designed and first made. All work incident thereto was for many years by hand. This bread deserved all the fame it acquired, and as each little loaf, because of its peculiar making, split in halves, it got the name, crackers. Mr. Francis faced his house to the sun, with its front door on Salem street, the rear reached by a path, later called Blanchard's lane, now Ashland street. Further back a brick building contained his ovens. After he retired, Timothy Brigden, whose brea
Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 18., The Withington bakery. (search)
ow demolished, leasing it for five years. He had then a daughter, born April 20, 1829. He transferred his baking operations to the shop and ovens formerly of Convers Francis, which were in the rear of the Francis residence, on a lane that has since become Ashland street. At the expiration of his lease he had so well establishedhe mass adhering at the edge and easily separated or cracked—hence the name, crackers. Mr. Withington did not originate the Medford cracker. That was done by Convers Francis, who in 1797 succeeded his former master, Ebenezer Hall, in business at Medford, and continued therein some twenty years, when he retired. After him there wether bakers in Medford, and the establishing of the business in 1825 by Mr. Withington seems to have been a survival of the fittest. The Medford invention of Mr. Francis seems not to have suffered in any wise, under the Withington manufacture, and its fame became more extended and his product an article of export. A Medford tra
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