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Newtown (New York, United States) (search for this): chapter 4
bly the hall over the store of Thomas Russell & Son, mentioned in town records in 1808. The dedication of the new meeting-house was appointed to be on Wednesday, March 20, 1805, at two P. M. The following memorandum was made on the Precinct Records: March the 20th, 1805, the dedication was made. Nine children were baptized on March 24, 1805—（Fiske). The Baptisms on the first Sabbath in the new Meeting-House of Worship were Amos, son of John Adams; Martha Wyman, daughter of Daniel Reed; Elmira, daughter of Josiah H. Russell; Albert, son of Jonas Cutter; William, son of William Hill, 3d; William Augustus, son of William Whittemore, 3d; Ann Elizabeth, daughter of Samuel Wyman; William, son of Joshua Cutter; Winslow, son of Jonathan Whittemore. Pew-holders in New meeting-house, A. D. 1805. A Record of the Pews in the Meeting-house in Cambridge Second Parish, that were sold agreeable to a former vote of said parish, directing every pew, when paid for, to be recorded in the paris
Yorktown (Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 4
un by the enemy, and in a great measure plundered and destroyed, and now call for our pity and help. But what now particularly calls for our religious praise to God, our helper, is the Capture of Cornwallis, and his whole army of 10,000 men [at Yorktown, Oct. 19, 1781]. Americans are above trampling on those whom God has cast down. This British officer, though dignified by many pompous titles, by his cruelties has degraded himself below a savage, and even the beasts that perish. Before I cl1, 557, &c. Francis—was Colonel Ebenezer Francis, killed at Hubbardton, July 7, 1777; a native of Medford, and well known to Mr. Cooke's parishioners; for sketch, see Brooks's Hist. Medford, 194-6. Scammel—was mortally wounded and taken before Yorktown, and died Oct. 6, 1781. Lee, Memoirs of the War, says, This was the severest blow experienced by the allied army throughout the siege; not an officer in our army surpassed in personal worth and professional ability this experienced soldier. Sc
Canada (Canada) (search for this): chapter 4
en it was read to him in 1848 it was fresh in his memory. The Cambridge men on the muster roll of this company of foot engaged in the army for the reduction of Canada, in the regiment of which Ebenezer Nichols was colonel, were Thomas Adams, captain; John Bathrick, private; Edward Fillebrown, private; Nathaniel Holden, private th and 14th regiments are on their way from the West Indies, and the 35th, 42d, 46th, and 63d, are under orders from hence. Besides these the 7th and 26th are in Canada, the 8th on detachments on the Lakes, and the 16th at Pensacola. There are six or eight hundred marines at Boston besides the regiments. The 4th (King's Own), 6f any people under Heaven, at peace with all the world, and grown wanton, by their successes, in the last War [the French War, 1754-1763, in which the conquest of Canada was accomplished], in which we fought and bled in their armies, and contributed to their victories; but soon were doomed to fall a victim to their unbounded pride
Salem (Massachusetts, United States) (search for this): chapter 4
ll-executed as it was possible to be. Even the people of Salem and Marblehead, above twenty miles off, had intelligence anvisions, &c., without any loss on our side.— Essex Gazette, Salem, and Massachusetts Spy, Worcester. The Salem Gazette, inh anniversary of the battle, with notes, by Daniel P. King (Salem, 1835). Gen. Gideon Foster, who commanded one of the comome members of other Danvers companies may have belonged to Salem or Beverly. The walled enclosure into which many of thein Peirce: We sore regret poor Pierce's death, A stroke to Salem known, Where tears did flow from every brow, When the sad tidings come. Felt, in his Annals of Salem, II. 519, mentions Peirce as killed by the British at the Battle of Lexington, and states that other persons from Salem rode to the place of the engagement. The destruction of property attempted by theng, that about 700 men were close behind, on their way from Salem to join the militia. Had these arrived a few minutes soone
Meeting House (Massachusetts, United States) (search for this): chapter 4
A meeting of the Precinct was held at the hall of Mr. Thomas Russell on Jan. 9, 1805—probably the hall over the store of Thomas Russell & Son, mentioned in town records in 1808. The dedication of the new meeting-house was appointed to be on Wednesday, March 20, 1805, at two P. M. The following memorandum was made on the Precinct Records: March the 20th, 1805, the dedication was made. Nine children were baptized on March 24, 1805—（Fiske). The Baptisms on the first Sabbath in the new Meeting-House of Worship were Amos, son of John Adams; Martha Wyman, daughter of Daniel Reed; Elmira, daughter of Josiah H. Russell; Albert, son of Jonas Cutter; William, son of William Hill, 3d; William Augustus, son of William Whittemore, 3d; Ann Elizabeth, daughter of Samuel Wyman; William, son of Joshua Cutter; Winslow, son of Jonathan Whittemore. Pew-holders in New meeting-house, A. D. 1805. A Record of the Pews in the Meeting-house in Cambridge Second Parish, that were sold agreeable to a <
Hartford (Connecticut, United States) (search for this): chapter 4
d with their families at Cambridge, N. E., in 1634 or 1635, and removing with others settled at Hartford. About the year 1650, they with others removed up Connecticut river, and began new settlementsd thence to Windsor; whereas William Westwood settled first at Cambridge, and removed thence to Hartford, and was at Cambridge three or four years before 1634-5. He further declares Westwood could no in right of said wife became entitled to the whole of Mr. Westwood's estate—left in England—at Hartford—and in Hadley. The estate in England after some time my grandfather sold, but employing a knave, lost it. The estate at Hartford he gave to his son Aaron. That in Hadley to his sons Westwood and Samuel, and to his son Moses his estate from his own father in Northampton. He died 1716, aged 7e had eight children: viz., Sarah, married to Daniel Hovey; Joanna, to Samuel Porter; Aaron, at Hartford; Westwood, Samuel and Moses, all married at Hadley; Elizabeth, married to Ichabod Smith, and Br<
Lisbon, Grafton County, New Hampshire (New Hampshire, United States) (search for this): chapter 4
. B. Russell in an article published in the Boston Transcript enumerates the following earthquakes in Massachusetts. In 1663, two; in 1665, one; in 1727, a dozen shocks in one week, one of them of great violence; in 1728, sixteen in the month of January, and over a dozen during the spring and summer months; in 1729, twenty-seven; 1729 to 1743, fifteen; 1743 to 1770, nineteen. That of November, 1755, was the most violent, being felt in Europe and America, and resulting in the destruction of Lisbon, where 60,000 persons perished. In Boston many chimneys were demolished, and other singular effects were experienced throughout New England. The publications of the time are full of the matter. Another (No. 1328—June 14, 1772) conveys an impression that religion suffered neglect in the towns and parishes of New England at this period, for which the calamity of the time [the presence of British troops in their midst] was esteemed a judgment. Another (No. 1336—Aug. 16, 1772) states, W
Burlington (Massachusetts, United States) (search for this): chapter 4
given below of some incidents relating to these two men is extracted from a letter written by the Rev. John Marrett, pastor of the Second Church in Woburn (now Burlington), to his uncle the Rev. Isaiah Dunster, minister of the North Parish of Harwich (now Brewster), dated at the former place July 28, 1775. Both these clergymen wthis house—（p. 19), i. e. on Lexington Common. The diary of Rev. John Marrett, a native of Cambridge, and pastor of the church in Woburn Second Precinct (now Burlington), describes the first anniversary celebration of the Battle at Lexington, as follows: 1776, April 19. Fair and windy—wind northwest. Rode to Lexington, dinedCooke at Northampton, and Mr. Westwood at Hadley. Sylvester Judd, Esq., the well-known historian of Hadley, in a letter to the late Rev. Samuel Sewall, of Burlington, Mass. (April 6, 1846), says this genealogical account contains some mistakes which show how early and easily tradition runs into error. It may be justly supposed <
Windsor, Conn. (Connecticut, United States) (search for this): chapter 4
memory when at a very advanced age he wrote concerning matters, some of which occurred well nigh a century before he was born. Mr. Judd asserts, from written authentic sources, that Major Cooke settled first in Dorchester and removed thence to Windsor; whereas William Westwood settled first at Cambridge, and removed thence to Hartford, and was at Cambridge three or four years before 1634-5. He further declares Westwood could not have removed to Hadley and Maj. Cooke to Northampton about 1660llusion to any property in England, which must have been sold—and lost, perhaps—before his death. He had no estate in Northampton, and Aaron Cooke, of Hadley, had no estate in Northampton from his own father. His father gave him some estate at Windsor, where he married Sarah Westwood in 1661. Mr. Cooke has arranged the children of his grandfather according to their birth. Sarah married, have supposed, Thomas Hovey, not Daniel. Joanna, who married Samuel Porter, may have had eighteen childre
Louisburg (North Carolina, United States) (search for this): chapter 4
t his feet! * * * We cannot indeed expect to be saved, but in the way of duty, and in a prudent, manly, resolute defence of our rights, dearer to us than our lives dragged along in cruel slavery! Does the courage of any one among us under fresh alarms begin to fail? Recall to remembrance the wonders God hath wrought for our fathers, and in our days. How was the yoke of barbarous oppression suddenly broken under the rule of that despotic monster, Sir Edmund Andros! How have we seen Louisburg, that thorn in our sides, brought to the dust, to the astonishment of the world, by New England troops! How were we the following year delivered, by the Providence of God, from a formidable fleet and army, who perished at the Divine rebuke, and sunk as lead in the mighty waters [the Duke D'Anville's]. How was the detested Stamp Act and other cruel impositions, prevented having their baneful effect, by our spirited and united opposition! Our leading enemies are now the same; and God, with
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