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Plymouth, Connecticut (Connecticut, United States) (search for this): chapter 2
oking their food..... Secondly, For ray-ment, our cloth hath not been cut short.... Further, the Lord hath been pleased to turn all the wigwams, huts, and hovels the English dwelt in at their first coming into orderly, fair, and well-built houses, well furnished many of them, together with Orchards filled with goodly fruit trees, and gardens with variety of flowers. Johnson's Wonder working Providence, Chap. XXI. In 1643 was formed the Consederation of the four Colonies of Plymouth, Connecticut, New Haven, and Massachusetts, the commissioners of the last three named signing the twelve articles May 19th, and the government of Plymouth ratifying the same August 29th. May 10th, the thirty towns of Massachusetts were distributed in the four Counties of Middlesex, Essex, Norfolk, and Suffolk, each containing a regiment, the chief commander over which had the rank of a Lieutenant, and the second in command was a Sergeant-Major. The Water-Town Band was led by Capt. Jenings Wi
Northfield, Mass. (Massachusetts, United States) (search for this): chapter 2
med John, were among the town officers chosen at the first town meeting in Waltham. who removed from Watertown to Lancaster in 1665, was killed at the same place by Indians. September 1st, the Indians fell upon Deerfield, and the next day upon Northfield. While the Indians were slaying and burning at the latter town, Captain Richard Beers, Captain Richard Beers was an original proprietor, admitted Freeman March 16, 1636-7: Selectman most of the time from 1644 to 1675; Representative thirteeexamine this section of country, and was one of the first white men—perhaps the very first—to be buried in its soil. And it is not unlikely that his grave is very near the spot whence he caught a first look of the site of the town. History of Northfield, p. 50 n. John Chinery, John Chinery, admitted Freeman in April 1690, was probably a resident of Waltham at the time of his death, living upon a farm rented by his father. a member of his company, also from Watertown, was wounded in this fig
New England (United States) (search for this): chapter 2
ncoln,—with a reference also to the earlier New England settlements. The history of these settleth of the Charles. The former grant of the New England coast to the Earl of Warwick and others, sinor and Company of the Massachusetts Bay in New England. But forasmuch as the publick affairs of ts. Capt. John Smith, in his Description of New England, 1616, says he gave the name Massachusetts vantage attends most of the great rivers of New England, throughout the whole country: on the bankssion that Watertown was the first church in New England that distinctly adopted the Congregational sily assumed to have been the dead level of New England gravity in those days. He had been a soldihe old burying-ground, one of the oldest in New England, was ordered to be fenced with a five-foot d the adjacent islands from the Council for New England, in 1635. They settled at Edgarton, and inephen Day, who first introduced printing in New England, having established a printing office at Ca[12 more...]
Concord (Massachusetts, United States) (search for this): chapter 2
, but also Waltham, Weston, and parts of Cambridge, Concord, and Lincoln,—with a reference also to the earlier heir meeting-house. Later, after the settlement of Concord and Dedham, September 3, 1635, upon the north-west the line between them [W.] and Cambridge, so far as Concord bounds give leave, and by the river eight miles int northeast six myles of land square were granted to Concord, and so located in the survey as to overlap the lant Wachusett Hill, in compensation for that taken by Concord, and this was divided between Watertown, Weston, ane Mill, another ordering that ye Highway leading to Concord shalbe 6 rods broad, and a third yt whosoever shallby imposition of hands, the Rev. Mr. Easterbrook of Concord, being the mouth and moderator of the Church in the boast that the next time he would burn Chelmsford, Concord, Watertown, Cambridge, Charlestown, Roxbury, Bostonmight, captured and killed a small relief band from Concord, and afterwards ambushed Captain Wadsworth's compan
Yorkshire (United Kingdom) (search for this): chapter 2
Lt. Governor Dudley thus sums up what transpired in the colony during the first eight and a half months after their arrival, in his Letter to the Countess of Lincoln, written March 28, 1631. At the time of the dispersion of which Dudley speaks, when they were unable by reason of sickness to carry their ordnance and baggage soe farr as three leagues vpp Charles riuer, Sir Richard Saltonstall, Sir Richard Saltonstall was son of Samuel, the son of Gilbert Saltonstall, Esq., of Halifax, Yorkshire. He was the first Associate to the six original patentees mentioned in King Charles's charter to the Massachusetts, of March 4, 1628-9. A worthy Puritan, one of the five undertakers, the first founder of the town and first member of the Congregational Church of Watertown. His uncle Richard was Lord Mayor of London in 1597. Zzz. Rev. George Phillips, and a goodly number of the planters, went up Charles River about four miles to a place well watered and settled a plantation, just below
Mount Feake (Massachusetts, United States) (search for this): chapter 2
y came to another high pointed rock, having a fair aspect on the west fide, which they called Mount Feake, from one Robert Feake, who had married the Governour's daughter-in-law. On the west fide of Mount Feake, they went up a very high rock, from whence they might see all over Neipnett, Whipcutt, the margin reads. and a very high hill due west, about forty miles off, and to the N. W. the highy of Waltham Plain. The knowledge of the location of Adam's Chair has been completely lost. Mount Feake was marked upon a plan of the town made in 1640, only eight years after the name was given, wnd a beautiful cemetery has been laid out upon its western slope. The very high rock west of Mount Feake is now called Boston Rock Hill, and from its eastern side a fine view of Waltham is had. J34, the Court granted him a farm of 500 acres between Stony Brook and Waltham Plain, in which Mount Feake was included, which was long known as the Oldham Farm. After his death the General Court ord
Connecticut (Connecticut, United States) (search for this): chapter 2
May 22, 1639, he was fined £ 5 for going to Connecticut without leave of the Court, he then being a, the Pequots offered us all their right at Connecticut, and to further us what they could, if we wartly to confer about joining in a trade to Connecticut, for beaver and hemp, and to prevent the Dungland had granted the river and country of Connecticut to his own subjects; and therefore desired ng that men from Dorchester had set down at Connecticut near the Plymouth trading house there, inted for commission to deal with our people at Connecticut. Tradition also says that some explorers fy his accounts of the advantages offered at Connecticut, to try their fortunes there—and they took Sele, and Brooke, and others, patentees of Connecticut. He had men, ammunition, and money at his a crew of one man and two little boys, from Connecticut to Long Island, was blown out of his courseunds. Plymouth ordered a levy of forty men. Connecticut raised ninety men at once,—Hartford furnish
Nantasket (Massachusetts, United States) (search for this): chapter 2
ed by two ministers, Revs. John Warham and John Maverick. On the 30th of May, when we came to Nantasket, Now Hull. says Capt. Roger Clap, A young man of twenty-one years, who came out of Plymoey were. On the 6th of July, 1631, a small ship of sixty tons, called the Plough, came into Nantasket with ten passengers from London, having a patent to Sagadahock; afterwards called the Ligonia t so well that his sentence was remitted, and he was restored to the ministry. Oldham went to Nantasket, whence he returned the next Spring and again abused the authorities, whereupon a second senteboard a shallop, and so convayed to Wessaguscus shoare, and staid at Massachusctts, trading at Nantasket. Not long after, being upon a vessel that was wrecked on Cape Cod in a violent storm, he wa country, and from the mouth of Abousett River, 3 miles into the country. We find him again at Nantasket on the arrival of Winthrop's colony, in 1630, and it was for the purpose of anticipating him i
Cowes (United Kingdom) (search for this): chapter 2
1641, after the Revolution in England, when it was no longer necessary to seek here an asylum from oppression, immigration ceased, and the affairs of this settlement wore a most gloomy aspect. Many who had come over became discouraged and returned, perhaps influenced by the fact that their leader, Sir Richard Saltonstall, who had left them ten years before, had not come back to join his fortunes with theirs as he expected to when he returned to the mother country. In the spring of 1642, Cowes and Cattel of that kind (having continued at an excessive price so long as any came over with estates to purchase them) fell of a suddain in one week from £ 22 the Cow to £ 6, £ 7 or £ 8 the Cow at most. Notwithstanding this great depreciation of their property, the same writer goes on to say: There are not many Towns in the Country, but the poorest person in them hath a house and land of his own, and bread of his own growing, if not some cattel: beside, flesh is now no rare food, bee
Norfolk (Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 2
ith Orchards filled with goodly fruit trees, and gardens with variety of flowers. Johnson's Wonder working Providence, Chap. XXI. In 1643 was formed the Consederation of the four Colonies of Plymouth, Connecticut, New Haven, and Massachusetts, the commissioners of the last three named signing the twelve articles May 19th, and the government of Plymouth ratifying the same August 29th. May 10th, the thirty towns of Massachusetts were distributed in the four Counties of Middlesex, Essex, Norfolk, and Suffolk, each containing a regiment, the chief commander over which had the rank of a Lieutenant, and the second in command was a Sergeant-Major. The Water-Town Band was led by Capt. Jenings William Jenison, whose name was sometimes written Jenings (see p. 41 n. 3). He was chosen Ensign to Captain Patrick, August 16, 1631, which office he held until March 9, 1636-7, when he was chosen Captain for Watertown. He and Thomas Mayhew were appointed to bring Mr. Nathaniel Eaton (the firs
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