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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Massachusetts in the Army and Navy during the war of 1861-1865, vol. 1: prelminary narrative, Preliminary narrative. (search)
th Regiment, Col. S. C. Lawrence (a Middlesex County regiment), but temporarily to be assigned to the 3d Regiment (Col. D. W. Wardrop), which was mainly from Plymouth County. Adjutant-General's report, January, 1862, pp. 9, 13. It had ninety-seven members, no other company in the regiment having more than seventy-eight, and one6 Bristol County21192213 Essex County71857928 Franklin County-11 Hampden County-33 Hampshire County-22 Middlesex County57882939 Norfolk County21391412 Plymouth County19333352 Suffolk County27325352 Worcester County24339363 Other States,15657 Residence not given,-3232 Totals,2443,4923,736 When we stop to consider whre Adjutant J. A. Fox, Quartermaster M. M. Hawes, Chaplain A. H. Quint, Capt. H. M. Comey, Capt. G. J. Thompson, Capt. G. A. Thayer. 3d Infantry, belonging to Plymouth and Bristol counties, had 4 commissioned officers to carry its four colors. Lieut.-Col. James Barton outranked the other officers on the ground. 4th Infantry
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Harvard Memorial Biographies, 1841. (search)
often rather discouraging to a younger brother, if it demands from him a career in any degree alien to his temperament. Perhaps it was so with Simmons. He certainly seemed rather to shrink from the path of college ambition than to pursue it; and his academical career, though respectable, was never brilliant. He was the youngest son of William and Lucia (Hammatt) Simmons, and was born January 27, 1821. His mother was a native of Plymouth, Massachusetts; his father was also born in Plymouth County, and was for many years one of the Justices of the Police Court in Boston. Charles was fitted for college partly at the Boston Latin School, and partly by his brother, Rev. George Frederick Simmons. In college I had never much personal acquaintance with him, but vividly remember the implied contrast of his grave manners and fastidious air with the witty sayings and mirthful feats attributed to him by his few intimates. This partial antagonism had indeed a peculiar zest for the whol
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Harvard Memorial Biographies, 1859. (search)
alls of the city, for the possession of which more blood was perhaps shed than for any other historic stronghold. Nathaniel Bradstreet Shurtleff. Captain 12th Mass. Vols. (Infantry), June 26, 1861; killed at Cedar Mountain, Va., August 9, 1862. Nathaniel Bradstreet Shurtleff, Jr. was born in Boston, March 6, 1838. His father, Dr. Nathaniel Bradstreet Shurtleff, was the son of Dr. Benjamin Shurtleff, who for many years was an eminent physician of Boston, but originally from Plymouth County, where his ancestors, as well as those of his wife, Sally (Shaw) Shurtleff, had dwelt since the earliest days of the Colony, having crossed in the first Pilgrim vessels. His mother, Sarah Eliza (Smith) Shurtleff, was the daughter of Hiram Smith, Esq., of Boston. At the age of not quite four and a half years, Nathaniel entered his first school, and in two years was admitted to one of the public grammar schools of the city. His early boyhood was that of a bright and happy child, rogu
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 6, 10th edition., Chapter 48: (search)
of the Colonies, and a war for Independence? The thoughts were the offspring of the time; and were in every patriot's breast. It were as well to ask which tree in the forest is the earliest to feel the genial influence of the reviving year. The first official utterance of revolution did not spring from a Congress of the Colonies, or the future chiefs of the Republic; from the rich who falter, or the learned who weigh and debate. The people of the little interior town of Pembroke in Plymouth county, unpretending husbandmen, full of the glory of their descent from the Pilgrims, concluded a clear statement of their grievances with the prediction, that if the measures so justly complained of were persisted in and enforced by fleets and armies, they must, they will, in a little time issue in the total dissolution of the union between the mother country and Chap. XLVIII.} 1772. Dec. the Colonies. Votes and Resolves of Pembroke, 28 December, 1772, in Journals of C. C. i. 44. Compa
Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 3., chapter 9 (search)
churches, in which Mr. Woodbridge was involved, and finally he withdrew after two hundred acres of land had been granted him in payment for services that had been unrecompensed. This grant was by decree of the court to which he had appealed. The words of the grant are: that this grant is made as a final issue of all strife since it may be hazardous to the peace of the town to enter particularly into the bowels of the case as matters are circumstanced. Next he appears at Bristol in Plymouth County, where he seems to have had a similar experience, and later at Kittery, Me. In 1698 he came to Medford as a candidate on probation. March 28 of this year the inhabitants, at a general town meeting properly adjourned from a meeting regularly called two weeks before, voted that, when legally settled amongst us in the work of the ministry, Mr. Woodbridge should have forty pounds in money, fifteen cords of wood, and strangers' money, for annuity, and he seems to have accepted this proposi
Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 10., chapter 1 (search)
e societies with which he was connected. He was active in the Plymouth County Bible Society, and the year he was abroad the work languishedthe great work must begin by founding a State normal school in Plymouth County. I invited the audience to catechize me as much as they courman and secretary signed, praying for a teachers' seminary in Plymouth County. Hingham Gazette, February 24, 1837. This petition sets forto his general lecturing, Brooks worked for a normal school in Plymouth County. In September, 1838, a convention of the Plymouth County AssoPlymouth County Association for the improvement of schools was held at Hanover to urge the establishment of a normal school in Plymouth County. Mr. Brooks saw thPlymouth County. Mr. Brooks saw the importance of the meeting and of the thoughts brought out, for later he had an abstract of the speeches printed for circulation. To this mrry weight. The demand was that a normal school be located in Plymouth County. One was eventually established at Bridgewater, but instead of
Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 11., Galen James. (search)
, near the Block House Yard on the North River, where his family had carried on ship building for several generations, he inherited the trade of a ship carpenter. He was the son of Major John James and Patience Clapp; he was born September 29, 1790, and baptized June 5, 1791, as Galen Clapp James, in honor of his maternal grandfather. He did not habitually use his middle initial, but it appears in his two marriage intentions filed in Medford. His ancestry includes the pioneers of Plymouth County, Mayflower passengers and sturdy men of Kent, who settled Scituate in 1628. We find among his forebears, the names of Brewster, Turner, Briggs, King, Otis, Brooks, and others prominent in the early life of the colony. From them he inherited a strong devotion to principle and a firm belief in the dignity of labor. He was married in 1817 to Mary Rand Turner, daughter of Hon. Charles Turner, Jr., Member of Congress, and Hannah Jacob, daughter of Col. John Jacob. She was a relative of
The Daily Dispatch: June 21, 1861., [Electronic resource], $20 reward (search)
ensacola Tribune says that watermelons and peaches have appeared in that market. A New Jersey volunteer shot himself through the heart, in Prince George's county, Md., on Monday last. The Confederate flag was raised over the Capitol of Tennessee on the 17th inst. Great enthusiasm prevailed. Prince Alfred had a hearty greeting in Quebec last week. He left for Montreal on the 17th. Crops, trees, windows, and other Yankee valuables, were destroyed by a hail-storm in Plymouth county, Mass., last Sunday. Pain-Killer Perry Davis came near being killed in Rhode Island recently, by a fall from his carriage. A Pennsylvania soldier, in Baltimore, was driven to insanity through fear for his personal safety in the event of a battle. There are now eleven hundred men employed in the Philadelphia Navy-Yard. The Fire Department of Charleston have procured a steam fire engine. The mariners of Charleston are forming a company for coast defence. An arriv
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