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Massachusetts (Massachusetts, United States) (search for this): chapter 7
esex ss. To all People unto whom these Presents shall come, Oliver Prescott Esq; Judge of the Probate of Wills &c in the County of Middlesex within the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, sendeth Greeting. * * * * I do hereby order and assign unto Benjamin Hall Esq., a son of Andrew Hall late of Medford in the County aforesaid, Esq, dec believed in it as a right, and opposed property qualifications as a surrender of principle. Mr. Hallowell was the author of two books, The Quaker Invasion of Massachusetts, and The Pioneer Quakers, which were a valuable contribution to the early history of Massachusetts. He died January 5, 1904, leaving a wife and four childreMassachusetts. He died January 5, 1904, leaving a wife and four children. His is the record of an honorable, cultivated man, a lover of books, and the friend of his kind at the cost of sacrifice which he ungrudgingly paid. Henry C. Delong. The Medford Historical Society solicits contributions for its scrap book and for the Colonial kitchen which it is fitting up at headquarters.
South Carolina (South Carolina, United States) (search for this): chapter 7
e. He said when I heard a shot coming to lie close to the ground, and I did so, but as soon as it passed, my head was up. Being near the centre of the regiment I could see, and we could hear them. The batteries over the other side of the brook kept up a rapid firing. The two guns in front of us fired every cartridge they had. We did not fire a gun. The third regiment fired, but what at I could not see. The rebels retreated and burned a bridge to stop our following them. They were from South Carolina, the fighting men you know. They meant to play a shrewd game on us. They came out on our right to attract our attention, while others planned to go round and surround us, as all the troops had gone but our brigade, but they missed it. They opened a dam and raised the water in the brook some three feet before we got over it. We stayed there about an hour and waded up to our waists through the brook. The water rose eight feet in half an hour. We halted as soon as we got over for the o
Marble Brook (Massachusetts, United States) (search for this): chapter 7
mong clumps of brake and fern and masses of jewel-weed. The Canada lilies swing their bells along its course. It winds down a narrow dell where its waters once, held at flood, turned the wheel of Captain Marble's mill (formerly it was called Marble brook). A high bank and heap of stones mark the spot, and there the fringed orchid waves its plume. It flows under bridges shaded by willows, through beds of mint; and the monkey-flower in midsummer and the flaming cardinal flower in August love th the capacity of the old house must have been taxed to its utmost. On January 10th and later on, the 24th of January, 1726, in two town-meetings, the whole matter was definitely settled by the town purchasing of Mr. John Albree land adjoining Marble brook (Marrbelle brook in Town Records) for £ 55 for one acre, and deciding to build a new meeting-house thereon. A building committee of eleven men, whose names were important ones in the town's history, were chosen to attend to the matter. Thoma
Middlesex Village (Massachusetts, United States) (search for this): chapter 7
t Boston set off for the same purpose—we apprized @20: —— £ 420: Medford Novr 20, 1769 Your Honrs most humble Servants John Dexter sworn Ebenr Harnden sworn Ebenr Pratt James Kettle Germ Cutter sworn Mr Kettle sworn by Stephen Hall, Esqr Middlesex ss Decr 12, 1769. I accept of Doings of the above named Commissrs in setting off to the widow of Andrew Hall Esqr deceased—her Dower & order the same to be recorded S. Danforth J. Prob. A true Copy of the Original Attest: Wm Kneeland Regr ugust 19, 1746. for reasons mentioned in the following document, received nothing in this division; and Sarah and the heirs of Anna, because these daughters had been given money while their father was alive, received less than the sons. Middlesex ss. To all People unto whom these Presents shall come, Oliver Prescott Esq; Judge of the Probate of Wills &c in the County of Middlesex within the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, sendeth Greeting. * * * * I do hereby order and assign unto Benj
Whitehall (North Carolina, United States) (search for this): chapter 7
t post of honor. The army was about seven miles long, and we in the rear of them—baggage wagons and all. We acted as rear guard until we got to the place called Whitehall. Then we passed the whole and it brought us in front at the battle of Everett's Mills, near Goldsboro. There we saw the sights and saw the rebels cut down likeo'clock, then camped in a cornfield. When we got up the ground was frozen. Not much of any account happened that day. Tuesday, the sixteenth, we marched toward Whitehall. Very soon we heard the guns. We kept on until we nearly reached the battlefield, and then had orders to halt. We saw the ambulance teams with the wounded while passing up the road, and I had one ball pass directly over me. At that place our brigade passed, and we came in at the head of the olumn and marched u toward Whitehall and went into camp about 9 o'clock, in a cornfield, as usual. The ground was frozen, so Page and I went off to see if we could find a shelter, but could not. I
Ilva (Italy) (search for this): chapter 7
59, he married, in Philadelphia, Miss Anna Coffin Davis, granddaughter of Lucretia Mott of wide and noble fame, and took up his residence in Medford, where he lived until his death. He was for a time a director of the National Bank of Commerce, Boston, a trustee of the Medford Savings Bank, and selectman in 1872-73. Descended from Quaker stock, he was an earnest and active anti-slavery man, being one of those who went to Harper's Ferry to procure the body of John Brown and remove it to North Elba, N. Y. He took a prominent part in recruiting colored men for the 54th and 55th regiments. He was treasurer of the Colored School at Calhoun, Ala., and to his interest and endeavor much of its success was due. Two letters to the Boston Herald, March 1 and 26, 1903, afterwards printed by him under the titles, Why the Negro was Enfranchised, and Negro Suffrage Justified, testify to his life-long interest in the colored people. He was a zealous advocate of woman suffrage, frequently appeari
Sherborn (Massachusetts, United States) (search for this): chapter 7
1791Laborer. Killerin, AnnaBoston, Aug. 18, 1761May 14, 1762Age 4 yrs. Anna or Ann. Boarder in family of Jacob Hall. Knowland, Patrick1735 Lampson, Lapson. DavidCambridge, Apr. 1, 1765Feb. 24, 1766In family of Samuel Tufts jr. Lampson, MarthaIpswich, Nov. 19, 1761Single woman in family of William Bradshaw. Lawrence, AnnaLexington, May 15, 1764Mar. 1, 1765In family of Aaron Hall. Servant in family of Hugh Lawrence, LydiaWoburnFloyd, and of Dr. Simon Tufts, 1765. Lealand, AmariahSherborn, April, 1758Nov. 27, 1758Taken in by Col. I. Royall.   Ursula (wife)   Abner Children   Jesse   Ebenezer   Ezra   Sibyl   Elizabeth   Cloe   Abigail   Rhoda Learned, ThomasJan. 30, 1791Clock-maker. Leech, HannahReading, Also given Reading Precinct. Apr. 25, 1759Feb. 25, 1760In house of Simon Tufts. Single woman. Leech, HannahReading, Nov. 29, 1773Single woman in family of Stephen Hall. Lewis, Lewes. JohnChelsea, Apr. 10, 1765Feb. 24, 1766In family of Simon
Warrenton (Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 7
est in the church, as it was called. It was about fifty feet long by thirty wide. There was no finish about it. The pulpit was nearly in the centre, and a partition across it. Back of the pulpit was for the colored people. They had a stand-up seat in front. There were some seats, or benches, just as you choose to call them. It was never painted outside. It had three doors for the white people and one for the colored. It stood in a bend of the road in the woods. The place was called Warrenton, so a prisoner told me whom we had there all day. I think he had not been to church for some time, although he was taken about a mile from there. He said he owned a farm and two slaves. I asked him what denomination worshipped there, and he said he believed it was Missionary. He did n't pretend to know much, but I think he knew more than he cared to have known. We kept him until we got to our journey's end, and then let him go. During the day we had a battle at Kingston. There were qu
Kingston, N. C. (North Carolina, United States) (search for this): chapter 7
marched at 7 o'clock home to Newbern. We arrived there about one-thirty, and the boys were glad to get home. We were short of provisions all the time from Goldsboro. We had coffee enough and we had to make it in our dippers. We had no meat, only what we foraged, and that was very little. I marched three days with only three hard tack a day and coffee. The last day I marched into Newbern with only one cracker. The last three days it should not have been so, for the gunboats met us at Kingston, and they might have brought us enough to eat. But we lived and came in almost as good as new. I don't think there was a man in the regiment who came in better than I did. I feel now as if I could start again and go on another, if they gave me enough to eat. During the march we made a good many halts, and we would set the fences on fire and make coffee. In fact you might say we burnt all the fences on our line of march, and when we camped we took all the fences we could find for camp fire
Goldsboro (North Carolina, United States) (search for this): chapter 7
dshaw. Lowder, WilliamAug. 31, 1797 Lunno, David and wifeDec. Ct. 1759 Expedition to Goldsboro, N. C. by a corporal of Co. F, 5th Massachusetts Infantry. Edited by Emma Wild Goodwin. ar daughter Emma:—I'm going to write you as near as I can the particulars of the expedition to Goldsboro. We started on Thursday morning, December 11 (along the Trent road), about 7 o'clock, and marl. Then we passed the whole and it brought us in front at the battle of Everett's Mills, near Goldsboro. There we saw the sights and saw the rebels cut down like grass before the scythe, by the artone-thirty, and the boys were glad to get home. We were short of provisions all the time from Goldsboro. We had coffee enough and we had to make it in our dippers. We had no meat, only what we for, especially in the night. The whole woods were afire from within fifteen miles of Newbern to Goldsboro. Sometimes we would come out into a plain, and perhaps there would be a tree, one hundred fee
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