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August 22nd (search for this): chapter 27
ening Governor Brooks gave an assembly at his mansion on High street, which afforded the highwayman the opportunity of waylaying the returning guests, who were of the class most likely to be victims of plunder. It was told that after the robber's escape from pursuit up High street, he found refuge in a cave in the woods at West Cambridge (now Arlington). From thence he went to Springfield, where, a week later, he was arrested and brought to the jail at East Cambridge. The Centinel of August 22 said The highwayman taken. Yesterday Michael Martin was examined at Cambridge on charge of being the person who robbed Major Bray on the Medford Turnpike. He was fully committed to take his trial in October next. The file of the Centinel consulted is incomplete, but from another source we learn that he was convicted on October 9. The Centinel, October 20, said, The sentence of Michael Martin, convicted of highway robbery has not been passed upon him. His counsel have moved
September (search for this): chapter 15
1621—tercentenary note—1921. As this Register comes to hand a tercentenary pageant is on at Plymouth. Our Historical Society will note a Medford tercentenary in September next— that of first exploration of our territory by white men, an event of which scant notice has been taken in the past. The March of Miles Standish will be the subject of the evening. Beside the original story, several papers relative thereto will be read, and the doughty warrior will be shown at the head of his valorous army. With all the groundwork of a pageant, we must content ourselves with the above observance, but let it be an interesting o
September 10th (search for this): chapter 21
you expected it to do. And I began to appreciate something of the amount of special skill and patch-work labor necessary to enable you even to ask the question. But our interest in Medford makes it quite worth while to follow out your leads as to the first white men on the site of our city, and how they came to be there. In the first place, none of the chroniclers of the day says directly that Standish was on the expedition anyway. Governor Bradford says they dispatched on September 18, ten men with Squanto for their guide. He names no one else. The author of Mourt's Relation gives no other names. But the latter does speak of the Captaine, and we are well persuaded that no such expedition would have sallied forth during his lifetime without the leadership of that doughty little pepperpot. Furthermore, as the writer of the Relation speaks always of our doings in the expedition, I suppose that we may conclude that Winslow was of the party—of course, assuming that the future go
September 18th (search for this): chapter 21
I suppose you expected it to do. And I began to appreciate something of the amount of special skill and patch-work labor necessary to enable you even to ask the question. But our interest in Medford makes it quite worth while to follow out your leads as to the first white men on the site of our city, and how they came to be there. In the first place, none of the chroniclers of the day says directly that Standish was on the expedition anyway. Governor Bradford says they dispatched on September 18, ten men with Squanto for their guide. He names no one else. The author of Mourt's Relation gives no other names. But the latter does speak of the Captaine, and we are well persuaded that no such expedition would have sallied forth during his lifetime without the leadership of that doughty little pepperpot. Furthermore, as the writer of the Relation speaks always of our doings in the expedition, I suppose that we may conclude that Winslow was of the party—of course, assuming that the
September 21st (search for this): chapter 20
rds (probably in Faneuil Hall), Medford was a little town of fifteen hundred people, but had furnished a governor of the commonwealth for seven years. Now a cosmopolitan city of over forty thousand, with civic pride little in evidence, and an ever increasing tax-rate, it may be that the seeds of death the orator mentioned are ripening to harvest. Medford had a wonderful opportunity to celebrate a tercentenary, for those seeds (of both kinds) were strewn on what is now its soil, on September twenty-first, 1621, by Standish the stalwart and eight of his valorous army, led by Indian guide. Little note has been made of this historic fact in recent years and it has been well-nigh forgotten. But there is the testimony of Bradford, also of the author of Mourt's Relation, both written within a few years of the time, and fortunately preserved. What a pageant might be enacted in the streets of Medford of that march in Armes up in the Countery, and how realistic and educational might be
October (search for this): chapter 16
provided for by a mortgage and the favorable interest rate of four per cent. But prior to this purchase the various expenses had absorbed the proceeds of the historic festival already alluded to, and several efforts of lesser magnitude had been unremunerative. The cash payment was the result, mostly, of donations for that specific purpose, secured mainly through the efforts of President David Henry Brown. The meetings of the Society have been on the third Monday in the months from October to May inclusive, and for several years a Saturday evening course of addresses was added to the regular meetings. At nearly all meetings, other than the annual, addresses have been given and papers read relating to Medford, its history, institutions and people. Many of these have been reproduced in the Society's quarterly publication, the Historical Register. Its issue was begun in 1897 for that express purpose, and its twenty-four volumes represent a labor of love on the part of its edi
October (search for this): chapter 23
Season of 1920-1921. The Historical Society has held its stated meetings on the third Monday evenings of October to May (inclusive). On October 18 Rev. Thomas C. Richards of the Mystic Church, and secretary of the John Brown Association, favored us with an interesting address on John Brown, recounting many events of the years before the Civil War. The attendance was not such as to encourage the committee to invite other speakers to address us, so the remaining have been sustained by our own membership. In November it was fitting that the subject should be The Pilgrims at Provincetown. Mr. Wilson Fiske led off in a talk on the timely subject and was followed by several others, and the meeting was one of much interest. At the December meeting, special consideration, this being the Plymouth Day. Mr. Remele read historic selections, Miss Atherton told the story of Elder Brewster's life in England and Holland, and Mr. Mann read a short paper on the time and causes of the Pilg
October (search for this): chapter 26
ment was dated March 24, served March 25, 1662. County Court was held apr 1, 1662 Norton & Davison vs Gleason, verdict gave plaintiff 3 parts defendant one part In Dec 1662—Gleason brought suit to have the verdict reviewed See County Court Records, Vol. 1, page 270: Jury brought in verdict for Deft.: Confirmation of Judgement in April [This was a verdict with costs. W. H. G.] The Plaintiff—Gleason appealed to ye next Court of Assistants to be held in Boston March Next And in October had a verdict in his favor. See Volume 4, page 427, Records of General Court: Second Session of the General Court, Boston, October 20, 1663. Court Judgement in the Case between Capt Norton for Charlestown and Thos Gleason for Capt Scarlett In the case now depending between Capt Francis Norton and and Mr Nicholas Davison plaintiffs in the behalf of Charlestown aforesaid and Thomas Gleason aforesaid defendant in refference to a certain parcel of land now in the possession of said
October (search for this): chapter 27
It was told that after the robber's escape from pursuit up High street, he found refuge in a cave in the woods at West Cambridge (now Arlington). From thence he went to Springfield, where, a week later, he was arrested and brought to the jail at East Cambridge. The Centinel of August 22 said The highwayman taken. Yesterday Michael Martin was examined at Cambridge on charge of being the person who robbed Major Bray on the Medford Turnpike. He was fully committed to take his trial in October next. The file of the Centinel consulted is incomplete, but from another source we learn that he was convicted on October 9. The Centinel, October 20, said, The sentence of Michael Martin, convicted of highway robbery has not been passed upon him. His counsel have moved an arrest of judgment for misdirection of court matters of law and the court has assigned a future day for hearing arguments on the motion It seems that the future day was not long deferred, for on October 22—
October 9th (search for this): chapter 27
dge (now Arlington). From thence he went to Springfield, where, a week later, he was arrested and brought to the jail at East Cambridge. The Centinel of August 22 said The highwayman taken. Yesterday Michael Martin was examined at Cambridge on charge of being the person who robbed Major Bray on the Medford Turnpike. He was fully committed to take his trial in October next. The file of the Centinel consulted is incomplete, but from another source we learn that he was convicted on October 9. The Centinel, October 20, said, The sentence of Michael Martin, convicted of highway robbery has not been passed upon him. His counsel have moved an arrest of judgment for misdirection of court matters of law and the court has assigned a future day for hearing arguments on the motion It seems that the future day was not long deferred, for on October 22— the Chief-justice after a most dignified and pathetic address to him pronounced the awful sentence of the law. There
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