hide Sorting

You can sort these results in two ways:

By entity
Chronological order for dates, alphabetical order for places and people.
By position (current method)
As the entities appear in the document.

You are currently sorting in ascending order. Sort in descending order.

hide Most Frequent Entities

The entities that appear most frequently in this document are shown below.

Entity Max. Freq Min. Freq
Hannah 1,758 8 Browse Search
Nathaniel Thomas 1,566 2 Browse Search
Harriot Elizabeth 1,274 2 Browse Search
W. Camb 850 0 Browse Search
John Benjamin 808 4 Browse Search
Reana James 656 0 Browse Search
Mary Elizabeth 604 0 Browse Search
Mary Emilia Elizabeth 552 0 Browse Search
Anna 504 2 Browse Search
Ann Elizabeth 500 0 Browse Search
View all entities in this document...

Browsing named entities in a specific section of Lucius R. Paige, History of Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1630-1877, with a genealogical register. Search the whole document.

Found 415 total hits in 143 results.

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 ...
Brookfield, Mass. (Massachusetts, United States) (search for this): chapter 21
n); Magunkaquog (Hopkinton). There were also seven new praying towns, where the Gospel had been favorably received about three years: Manchage (Oxford); Chabanakongkomun (Dudley); Maanexit (north part of Woodstock, at that time included in Massachusetts); Quantisset (southeast part of Woodstock); Wabquissit (southwest part of Woodstock); Packachoog (south part of Worcester); Waeuntug (Uxbridge). There are two other Indian towns; viz., Weshakin Or Nashaway, now Lancaster. and Quabaug, Brookfield. which are coming on to receive the gospel; and reckoning these, there are nine in the Nipmuck country. Coll. Mass. Hist. Soc., i. 189-195. In these fourteen established towns, there were two organized churches, and, as Gookin estimated, about eleven hundred souls yielding obedience to the gospel. Meantime an earnest effort was made to impart scientific as well as religious knowledge to the Indians, in which commendable work Mr. Eliot was a prominent actor. His labors and their res
Marlboro, Mass. (Massachusetts, United States) (search for this): chapter 21
, p. 67. The result of all these labors up to the year 1674 was described by Gookin, in his Historical Collections of the Indians in New England, printed in the first volume of Collections of the Massachusetts Historical Society. Besides Natick, the most important of all, there were six communities in Massachusetts, exclusive of Plymouth, which had long been denominated praying towns; namely, Pakemitt, or Punkapaog (now Stoughton); Hassanamesitt, or Hassanamisco (Grafton); Okommakamesit (Marlborough); Wamesit, or Pawtuckett (Tewksbury); Nashobah (Littleton); Magunkaquog (Hopkinton). There were also seven new praying towns, where the Gospel had been favorably received about three years: Manchage (Oxford); Chabanakongkomun (Dudley); Maanexit (north part of Woodstock, at that time included in Massachusetts); Quantisset (southeast part of Woodstock); Wabquissit (southwest part of Woodstock); Packachoog (south part of Worcester); Waeuntug (Uxbridge). There are two other Indian towns; viz.
Lancaster, Mass. (Massachusetts, United States) (search for this): chapter 21
Pawtuckett (Tewksbury); Nashobah (Littleton); Magunkaquog (Hopkinton). There were also seven new praying towns, where the Gospel had been favorably received about three years: Manchage (Oxford); Chabanakongkomun (Dudley); Maanexit (north part of Woodstock, at that time included in Massachusetts); Quantisset (southeast part of Woodstock); Wabquissit (southwest part of Woodstock); Packachoog (south part of Worcester); Waeuntug (Uxbridge). There are two other Indian towns; viz., Weshakin Or Nashaway, now Lancaster. and Quabaug, Brookfield. which are coming on to receive the gospel; and reckoning these, there are nine in the Nipmuck country. Coll. Mass. Hist. Soc., i. 189-195. In these fourteen established towns, there were two organized churches, and, as Gookin estimated, about eleven hundred souls yielding obedience to the gospel. Meantime an earnest effort was made to impart scientific as well as religious knowledge to the Indians, in which commendable work Mr. Eliot was a
Littleton (Massachusetts, United States) (search for this): chapter 21
was described by Gookin, in his Historical Collections of the Indians in New England, printed in the first volume of Collections of the Massachusetts Historical Society. Besides Natick, the most important of all, there were six communities in Massachusetts, exclusive of Plymouth, which had long been denominated praying towns; namely, Pakemitt, or Punkapaog (now Stoughton); Hassanamesitt, or Hassanamisco (Grafton); Okommakamesit (Marlborough); Wamesit, or Pawtuckett (Tewksbury); Nashobah (Littleton); Magunkaquog (Hopkinton). There were also seven new praying towns, where the Gospel had been favorably received about three years: Manchage (Oxford); Chabanakongkomun (Dudley); Maanexit (north part of Woodstock, at that time included in Massachusetts); Quantisset (southeast part of Woodstock); Wabquissit (southwest part of Woodstock); Packachoog (south part of Worcester); Waeuntug (Uxbridge). There are two other Indian towns; viz., Weshakin Or Nashaway, now Lancaster. and Quabaug, B
John Watson (search for this): chapter 21
fence (that ever I heard of), but was imprisoned merely to still the clamors of the people, who railed much against this poor fellow, and fain would have had him put to death (though they knew not wherefore). But those murmurings were not only against the Indian, but as much against Major Gookin, who granted him the certificate. Coll. Amer. Ant. Soc., II. 481. Again, he says, notwithstanding the council's endeavors in the former orders, and the testimony of these English witnesses John Watson, Sen., and Henry Prentiss, both of Cambridge, who by direction of the Council dwelt with the Natick Indians about twelve weeks, and certified their obedience to God and their faithfulness to the English. on behalf of the Christian Indians, yet the clamors and animosity among the common people increased daily, not only against those Indians, but also against all such English as were judged to be charitable to them, and particularly, many harsh reflections and speeches were uttered against
Grafton (search for this): chapter 21
inted here. Hist. Lect., p. 67. The result of all these labors up to the year 1674 was described by Gookin, in his Historical Collections of the Indians in New England, printed in the first volume of Collections of the Massachusetts Historical Society. Besides Natick, the most important of all, there were six communities in Massachusetts, exclusive of Plymouth, which had long been denominated praying towns; namely, Pakemitt, or Punkapaog (now Stoughton); Hassanamesitt, or Hassanamisco (Grafton); Okommakamesit (Marlborough); Wamesit, or Pawtuckett (Tewksbury); Nashobah (Littleton); Magunkaquog (Hopkinton). There were also seven new praying towns, where the Gospel had been favorably received about three years: Manchage (Oxford); Chabanakongkomun (Dudley); Maanexit (north part of Woodstock, at that time included in Massachusetts); Quantisset (southeast part of Woodstock); Wabquissit (southwest part of Woodstock); Packachoog (south part of Worcester); Waeuntug (Uxbridge). There are t
Thomas Danforth (search for this): chapter 21
at Cambridge in New England, died of a consumption at Charlestown, where he was placed by Mr. Thomas Danforth, who had inspection over him, under the care of a physician in order to his health, where Rev. John Eliot, on his Church Record: 1676. On the 7th day of the 2d month, Capt. Gookins, Mr. Danforth, & Mr. Stoughton wr sent by the Councill to order matters at Long Island for the Indians planhy he drave his trucks soe hard to run over people, and told him he had like to have ran over Mr. Danforth; he answered it was noe matter if Mr. Danforth and Major Gucking were both hanged. Sworn in Mr. Danforth and Major Gucking were both hanged. Sworn in Court. J. Dudley, Assistant. 12. 8. 77. Said Jones is sentenced to be admonished, and not to drive a cart in Boston upon penalty of a severe whipping. J. Dudley, per order. Mass. Arch., VIII. 4. r, and in May, 1677, he was reinstated in his former position as an Assistant. Thenceforth, both he and his associate, Danforth, retained their hold on the public confidence until the close of life.
Christian Indians (search for this): chapter 21
th English salutations, bidding us much welcome; who leading us into the principal wigwam of Waaubon, we found many more Indians, men, women, children, gathered together from all quarters round about, according to appointment, to meet with us, and lDaniel Gookin of Cambridge be regarded as their Moses,—their civil instructor, ruler, judge, and historian. The praying Indians are said to have been early persuaded by Mr. Eliot, Aug. 6, 1651, to adopt the Mosaic form of government, by electing ruhad no more right or title to any lands in the Nipmuk country within [the bounds] of Massachusetts than any other common Indians; and therefore they disclaimed and repudiated all sales or gifts of land pretended to have been made by him. Mass. Arervices rendered by them as soldiers, Gookin says, Notwithstanding those signal and faithful services done by those Christian Indians, and divers others not here related, yet the animosity and rage of the common people increased against them, that t
Andrew Pittimee (search for this): chapter 21
of the Nipmuck country; for idolatry and powowing, to bring them before me. Coll. Mass. Hist. Soc., i. 192. A life-like picture of one of these courts is exhibited in Gookin's certified copy of its session- At a Court held at Naticke among the Indians, Sept. 14, 1681. The testimonies of several aged and principal Indians hereafter named, taken in Court, as followeth: Present, Daniel Gookin senr. Esq., Assistant. Rulers.Interpreters. Waban,Mr. John Eliot, senr., Piamrbow,Andrew Pittimee, Tom Tray,Peter Ephraim, Waban, aged about eighty years, Piambow, aged about eighty years, Nowanit, aged about 81 years, Jethro, aged about 70 years, William, aged 68 years, Anthon ray and Tom Tray, unkells by the father's side unto John Wonlpas deceased, aged 60 years and fifty-eight or thereabout, testified that the said John Woampas was no Sachem, and had no more right or title to any lands in the Nipmuk country within [the bounds] of Massachusetts than any other common Indians;
Jesus Christ (search for this): chapter 21
Constable Black James; giving each of them a charge to be diligent and faithful in their places. Also I exhorted the people to yeild obedience to the gospel of Christ, and to those set in order there. Then published a warran t or order that I had prepared, empowering the constable to suppress drunkenness, sabbath-breaking, esp II. 449, 450. This cruel frame of spirits (for I can give it no gentler denomination) arose, I apprehend, from a double ground; first the malice of Satan against Christ's work among the Indians, and to hinder their progress in religion. ..... A second root of this trouble arose from the perfidious and unfaithful dealing of the wiand encouraged, and instructed, and prayed with them and for them; exhorting them to patience in their sufferings, and confirming the hearts of those disciples of Christ, and exhorting them to continue in the faith, for through many tribulations we must enter into the kingdom of heaven..... In the night, about midnight, the tide s
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 ...