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Lucius R. Paige, History of Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1630-1877, with a genealogical register, Chapter 9: civil History. (search)
volution in New England, together with the Declaration of the Gentlemen, Merchants, and Inhabitants, of Boston, and the country adjacent, April 18, 1689. He describes the outbreak thus: Upon the eighteenth instant, about eight of the clock in the morning, it was reported at the south end of the town that at the north end they were all in arms; and the like report was at the north end respecting the south end: whereupon Capt. John George Captain of the Frigate Rose, then at anchor in Boston harbor. was immediately seized, and about nine of the clock the drums beat through the town, and an ensign was set up upon the beacon. Then Mr. Bradstreet, Mr. Danforth, Major Richards, Dr. Cooke, and Mr. Addington, &c., were brought to the Council-house by a company of soldiers under the command of Capt. Hill. The mean while, the people in arms did take up and put into goal Justice Bullivant, Justice Foxcraft, Mr. Randolf, Sheriff Sherlock, Capt. Ravenscroft, Capt. White, Farewel, Broadbent,
Lucius R. Paige, History of Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1630-1877, with a genealogical register, Chapter 11: civil History. (search)
Boston by the Committee of Correspondence. Town meeting; earnest protest against the importation of tea, as an encroachment upon political rights, and denunciation of all offenders and their abettors as public enemies. destruction of tea in Boston Harbor. Boston Port Bill. donations to Boston. Councillors appointed by mandamus. Powder removed from the Magazine. concourse of people in Cambridge. resignation of Judge Danforth, Judge Lee, and Col. Oliver. Sheriff Phips promises that he wiith the town of Boston and other towns, in any measures that may be thought proper, to deliver ourselves and posterity from Slavery. Within a month afterwards, the Gordian knot of this controversy was cut, by the destruction of the tea in Boston Harbor, after an earnest and protracted effort to induce the consignees to send it back to Europe. Whether any Cambridge men participated in this final act, or not, it is reasonably certain that they assisted in the preliminary measures. Hutchinso
Lucius R. Paige, History of Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1630-1877, with a genealogical register, Chapter 21: military History. (search)
. On North Avenue, near the easterly end of Spruce Street, three Cambridge men were killed: John Hicks, son of John, and greatgrandson of Zechariah Hicks, was born here, May 23, 1725. He built and resided in the house still standing on the southeasterly corner of Dunster and Winthrop streets. Among the early patriots he was active in resisting the arbitrary measures of the British Government. There is a tradition among his descendants that he assisted in the destruction of the tea in Boston Harbor, Dec. 16, 1773. He is said to have been shot through the heart. Moses Richardson, born probably about 1725, was a carpenter, and resided in the house which still stands at the northeasterly angle of Holmes Place, and which was afterwards the home of Mr. Royal Morse for about three quarters of a century. Like Hicks, he was exempt from military service, on account of his age; but, like him also, he is represented to have been actively engaged in the conflict as a volunteer. His milit