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Historic leaves, volume 1, April, 1902 - January, 1903, chapter 3 (search)
e town public officers. Somerville, Edmund Tufts, Printer. 1851. Population of the towns in Middlesex According to the Census taken in 1850, by the authority of the Government of the United States. Census of Middlesex County. Towns. Acton,1,605 Ashby,1,218 Ashland,1,304 Bedford,975 Billerica,1,640 Boxborough,396 Brighton,2,356 Burlington,547 Cambridge,15,215 Carlisle,719 Charlestown,17,216 Chelmsford2,098 Concord,2,249 Dracut,3,503 Dunstable,590 Framingham,4,235 Groton,2,515 Holliston,2,428 Hopkinton,2,801 Lexington,1,894 Lincoln,632 Littleton,991 Lowell,33,385 Malden,3,520 Marlborough,2,941 Medford,3,749 Melrose,1,260 Natick,1,744 Newton,5,258 Pepperell,1,754 Reading,3,108 Sherburne,1,043 Shirley,1,158 Somerville,3,540 South Reading2,407 Stoneham,2,085 Stowe,1,455 Sudbury,1,578 Tewksbury,1,042 Townsend,1,947 Tyngsborough,799 Waltham,4,464 Watertown,2,837 Wayland,1,115 West Cambridge,2,202 Westford,1,473 Weston,1,205 Wilmingt
Historic leaves, volume 1, April, 1902 - January, 1903, Ten Hills Farm, with Anecdotes and Reminiscences (search)
Ten Hills Farm, with Anecdotes and Reminiscences by Alida G. Sollers. It will be necessary, in writing a history of Ten Hills Farm, Somerville, Mass., to go back to 1588. On June 12 of that year, there was born in Groton, Suffolk County, Eng., John Winthrop, who, with others, sailed for New England in the bark Arabella. This was in 1630, when he was in his forty-third year. Winthrop had the original charter of Massachusetts Bay-Colony, and was vested with the title of Governor. He landed at Salem June 17, and on June 18 sailed up the Mystic river, stopping at Fort Maverick, Noddle's Island, now East Boston; thence he went to Charlestown, where he built a house. Sometime in 1631, probably in the early spring, Governor Winthrop built a farmhouse on the right bank of the Mystic river, about three miles from the site of the present State House. This he used as a summer residence, Charlestown, and later Boston, being his winter home, in which latter place the Green, the