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Robert Webber (search for this): chapter 12
tion of our part of the charge of the Great Bridge over Charles River in Cambridge as shall fall to them according to their annual proportion with us in the Province Tax. (2) Voted, That the said Farmers shall pay their proportion of twenty-five pounds toward the arrears of our Town House. The aforesaid articles being complied with by the Farmers. Voted (3) That the article that has been proposed, referring to their paying their proportion toward the relief of some of our Poor, (viz. Robert Webber and Richard a negro, and his wife,) be referred to the Committee formerly appointed, (viz. Capt. Oliver, Mr. Remington, and Andrew Bordman,) to debate further upon, who are fully empowered in behalf of the town, either to insist upon the said article or to consent to their being dismissed from the town upon the articles aforementioned which they have complied with. In accordance with this agreement, the Farmers were incorporated March 20, 1712-13, by an act of the General Court, which
William Blair Townsend (search for this): chapter 12
eld, which was described as much incumbered with trees fallen, and many rocky swamps, and other obstructions to travellers, drovers, and others, to the hazarding life or limb of both men and horses. Mass. Prov. Rec., VII. 99. Six years earlier, Rev. Benjamin Wadsworth, afterwards President of Harvard College, accompanied the commissioners appointed to treat with the Maquas or Mohawks, at Albany, and travelled over this road to Brookfield, then generally called Quaboag: Capt. Sewal and Major Townsend, being commissioned to treat with the Mockways, set out from Boston about half an hour past twelve, Monday, August 6, 1694. Several gentlemen did accompany them to Watertown, and then returned. At Watertown we met with Lieutenant Hammond and thirty troopers, who were appointed for a guard to Springfield. We came to our first stage at Malberough, about half an hour past eight in the evening. We lodged at Abraham How's, The Wayside inn, celebrated by Longfellow. and thence set forwar
Gov (search for this): chapter 12
Several acres were subsequently added to Cambridge, bounded westerly on Coolidge Avenue, extending to and including the Cambridge Cemetery. Some excitement was occasioned as late as 1754, by the appearance of a bear in the easterly part of Cambridge, long after we might suppose this section of the country to have been rid of wild beasts. The Boston News Letter of September 19, contained this paragraph. On Tuesday last, a Bear, that had wandered down to Cambridge, was discovered on Lieut. Govr. Phips' farm, This farm embraced East Cambridge, and extended westerly nearly to Columbia Street. Five years later, in September, 1759, Dr. Belknap, then a student in Harvard College, made this record: A great many bears killed at Cambridge and the neighboring towns about this time, and several persons killed by them.—Life of Belknap, p. 11. and being closely pursued took to Charles River; whereupon several boats put off from Charlestown, and one from the west part of this town, which
Jonathan Remington (search for this): chapter 12
d be a township by themselves, as appears by their petition bearing date the 6th November, 1712, which has been now read; voted, That Capt. Thomas Oliver, Mr. Jonathan Remington, and Andrew Bordman, be a Committee to treat with the Committee appointed by the Farmers aforesaid; and that the articles to be proposed to the said Commi the relief of some of our Poor, (viz. Robert Webber and Richard a negro, and his wife,) be referred to the Committee formerly appointed, (viz. Capt. Oliver, Mr. Remington, and Andrew Bordman,) to debate further upon, who are fully empowered in behalf of the town, either to insist upon the said article or to consent to their beinc., says that at the funeral of Hon. Andrew Belcher, All the ministers there had scarves and gloves. They say 50 suits of cloaths were made. All first cousins, Remington, Blowers, &c., put into mourning. John Colman, Caswell, &c., all that had been apprentices to him, were also. 90 dozen of gloves were bought, and none of any f
Ebenezer Pemberton (search for this): chapter 12
it was said that it was large, high, curiously hung with green; our dining place was also accommodated with the pleasancy of a murmuring rivulet. This day, some of our company saw a bear; but being near a thick swamp, he escaped our pursuit. Towards night we heard (I think) three guns; but we knew not who shot them. Our whole company come this day to Quaboag, about sundown, not long before nor after. Coll. Mass. Hist. Soc., XXXI. 102. The easterly section of this road is mentioned by Pemberton, under date of Sept. 30, 1783, in his manuscript Chronology, preserved in the library of the Mass. Hist. Society: A gentleman of this State remarks, that soon after the settlement of our Fathers at Boston, the persons appointed to explore the country, and lay out public roads did it as far as the bank by Mrs. Biglow in Weston, and reported that they had done it as far as they believed would ever be necessary, it being about seven miles from the College in Cambridge. It is proper to add
John Ston Sam (search for this): chapter 12
monwealth; that as it hath been the care of the honored fathers of our Commonwealth formerly to take care for the subsistence and well being of this senior Church of Christ in Cambridge, so we still crave the continued care of the honored fathers of the Commonwealth now in being, that they would not destroy the parent for the offspring. We humbly leave our languishing condition to your Honors' most serious consideration; and your supplicants shall pray as in duty bound, etc. William Manning, Samll. Andrewe, Samuel Chamne, in the name of the town of Cambridge. Mass. Arch., XI. 25. The consideration of this petition was further postponed until the next General Court. Both the Council and the House of Representatives manifested a willingness, at their session in October, 1684, to establish a village at the Farms; but they could not agree where the division line should be drawn between the village and the parent town, and nothing was accomplished. Mass. Arch., XII. 27, 28. D
Coll (search for this): chapter 12
ge. This day we dined in the woods. Pleasant descants were made upon the dining room: it was said that it was large, high, curiously hung with green; our dining place was also accommodated with the pleasancy of a murmuring rivulet. This day, some of our company saw a bear; but being near a thick swamp, he escaped our pursuit. Towards night we heard (I think) three guns; but we knew not who shot them. Our whole company come this day to Quaboag, about sundown, not long before nor after. Coll. Mass. Hist. Soc., XXXI. 102. The easterly section of this road is mentioned by Pemberton, under date of Sept. 30, 1783, in his manuscript Chronology, preserved in the library of the Mass. Hist. Society: A gentleman of this State remarks, that soon after the settlement of our Fathers at Boston, the persons appointed to explore the country, and lay out public roads did it as far as the bank by Mrs. Biglow in Weston, and reported that they had done it as far as they believed would ever be nec
Samuel Smith (search for this): chapter 12
pencer Phips Esq., with his Troop of Horse, the Sheriff of Middlesex, and other gentlemen of that County, and by them conducted to Harvard College in Cambridge, where he was received by the President, Fellows, and Students, and entertained in the Hall with a congratulatory Latin Oration, by Mr. Thomas Foxcroft: after which his Excellency was pleased to take a view of the Library, and then proceeded on his journey to Lynn, etc. Col. Edmund Goffe was elected Representative, June 6, 1721. Samuel Smith was charged with putting in two votes in the first voting for Representative, made oath that he put in but one vote for Representative. Also Daniel Gookin being charged with putting in two votes at the second voting for a Representative, made oath that he put in but one vote for a Representative: said oaths were administered in the public meeting per Mr. Justice Leverett. Town Records. In 1721, the small-pox prevailed more extensively and fatally than ever before in Boston and its
N. E. Hist (search for this): chapter 12
whole company come this day to Quaboag, about sundown, not long before nor after. Coll. Mass. Hist. Soc., XXXI. 102. The easterly section of this road is mentioned by Pemberton, under date of Sept. 30, 1783, in his manuscript Chronology, preserved in the library of the Mass. Hist. Society: A gentleman of this State remarks, that soon after the settlement of our Fathers at Boston, the persons nt opposition. Out of 286 persons who were inoculated for the smallpox, but six died. Drake's Hist. Boston, pp. 562, 563. In 1730, the small-pox again prevailed in Cambridge with alarming vioossessed one or more engines. Boston had one before 1679, and seven as early as 1733; Drake's Hist. Boston, 431, 593. and Cambridge would not be likely to remain entirely destitute. Yet the machJohn Cotton of Newton, in a letter dated Nov. 7, 1717, and preserved in the library of the Mass. Hist. Soc., says that at the funeral of Hon. Andrew Belcher, All the ministers there had scarves and g
James Cutler (search for this): chapter 12
God; and that in order thereunto they may be freed from payments to the town of Cambridge, from whom, as their dear and beloved brethren, they no ways desire separation for any other but the forementioned cause alone; declaring it to have been their standing affliction and cause of grief that, by reason of their remoteness, they have not been in a capacity, according to their desires, to enjoy more fellowship and communion with them. And your petitioners shall pray, as in duty bound, &c. James Cutler, Matthew Bridge Senr., David Fiske Senr., Samuel Stone, Senr., Francis Whitmore, John Tedd, Ephraim Winshipe, John Winter, in the behalf of the rest of the families. Mass. Arch., XI. 24. The petitioners presented a strong case. To travel so far, every week, for the purpose of attending public worship would now be regarded as a grievous burden: and the burden was greater two hundred years ago, when travelling was almost exclusively accomplished on horseback or on foot. But the pe
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