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Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 13., Stage-coach days in Medford. (search)
rather damaged by the lapse of time, To fall down at her feet, and to declare The passion that had driven him to despair. For from his lofty station he had seen Stavers, her husband, dressed in bottle green, Drive his new Flying Stage-Coach, four in hand, Down the long lane and out into the land, And knew that he was far upon the way To Ipswich and to Boston on the Bay! In 1767 a line was started from Salem to Boston, in 1772 one from Marblehead, and an advertisement of the line from Newburyport may be seen in the Boston Gazelle, May 10, 1773. With what pleasure these coaches must have been watched as they came bowling along the Salem road, swinging through the market-place over the bridge, stopping at the Royal Oak, Blanchard's or the Admiral Vernon Tavern. Travel was interrupted by the Revolution, and when resumed at its close, gradually increased. The building of Malden and Chelsea bridges over the Mystic, and the joining of Charlestown and Boston by a bridge, gave an
Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 16., Medford parsonage and later occupants. (search)
er man, and very deaf He moved to Jamaica Plain about 1811, and his son sold the house to James Prentiss, Merchant of Boston (Bond & Prentiss, who failed in 1813, for a large amount and paid 4 cents in the dollar) Mr Prentiss lived there one Summer and sold it to Capt. Gilchrist in 1812, who moved in, but after a month or two, Mrs Gilchrist not liking the house, went back to his former house opposite to Mr. Bigelow's, and rented the house to Capt Ebenezer Stocker of Boston (formerly of Newburyport) who lived there one or two years, until his sudden death in Havana, of fever, when his family moved into Boston In 1813 or 1814 Capt Gilchrist sold the house to Mr William Furness, Cashier of the Union Bank, Boston. He died in April, 1836, aged 69, and the house was soon after sold to Mr Jonathan Porter, of rising reputation as a lawyer, until ill health compelled him to relinquish his profession Later Mr. Swan added:— He died 11th June 1859, aged 67. almost wholly confined
Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 16., An old ship-master's experience. (search)
An old ship-master's experience. Captain Jacob H. Holmes, who resided on Cudworth street for several years after his retirement from active sea-faring life and died in 1898, had a memorable experience on his last voyage. He put into the harbor of Valparaiso, South America, with a cargo of nitrate, his vessel being the ship Republic, owned in Boston by Messrs. George C. and Charles Lord. (This ship was built at Newburyport, and registered 1,200 tons.) Valparaiso harbor is peculiar in that it is not safe to make fast to the stone abutments and pier, so that all vessels with cargoes are unloaded into hulks or old vessels anchored some distance out in the harbor. A northwest wind, for which this coast is famous, sprang up, and Captain Holmes' vessel, heavily loaded, was caught between two of the old hulks and his foremast and rigging, and mainmast also, were torn away, and the mizzenmast had to be cut away to save a worse disaster, The captain's wife (now living on Dudley stre
Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 17., Medford steamboat days. (search)
oyage treble the length of those of the Massachusetts and Eagle. She was a still smaller craft, less than a dozen feet wide and fifty or sixty feet long, and of light draught, owing to the physical limitation of her route, the fresh shallow water of the Middlesex canal and the Merrimack river. The former had been in operation but fifteen years, and as yet had paid no dividends, when the steamboat Merrimack first ploughed its placid waters. With a steam service from Boston to Salem and Newburyport, and the Merrimack river navigable to Haverhill, the canal's interests would be endangered, and its enterprising manager set about their defense. A steamboat line on the inland route would open the Merrimack valley direct to Boston, as locks just constructed made navigation possible to New Hampshire's capital. At that time Lowell and Lawrence were not on the map at all. But how do we know this? Some fifteen years since a Medford man, Wm. J. Cheney. (now an octogenarian) said: My
Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 20., Zipporah Sawyer. (search)
From this early life it is easy to see whence Miss Sawyer's domesticity, industry and thriftiness sprang, qualities, alas! from which our new race and complicated ways of living are falling rapidly away. Passing out of girlhood Miss Sawyer devoted herself to teaching. She graduated from the Bridgewater Normal School, where her brother Rufus also received his professional education. She taught at first in the towns neighboring upon Bolton—Boylston, Northboro, Marlboro, as well as in Newburyport. Then, in July, 1857, she came to Medford. Just at this point our enthusiasm for Miss Sawyer and her work is especially aroused, for there are few of our Medford citizens who realize how sincere and widely spreading her interest was, not only in the schools of her town and city, but in every smallest concern of Medford for the past fifty-nine years. It was an interest that did not flag, up to the very day of her death. She taught eighteen years, most of the time as an assistant to he
Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 22., An old-time picnic. (search)
d opinions regarding events and personal experiences. Such a charm, we think, attaches to a letter bearing date of Brookline, July 20, 1817, and written by Miss Fanny Searle The first-named died in Brookline, May 3, 1851, and the latter in Newburyport, June 28, 1877. to her sister, Mrs. Margaret Curzon, The first-named died in Brookline, May 3, 1851, and the latter in Newburyport, June 28, 1877. then at Havana, Cuba. In it is a description of an all-day excursion on the Middlesex canal Newburyport, June 28, 1877. then at Havana, Cuba. In it is a description of an all-day excursion on the Middlesex canal on July 18, 1817. The readers of the Historical Register may be interested in it because of details which occurred in Medford. The picnic party consisted of a large gathering of what was best in the society of the old town of Boston. It was held at the Lake of the Woods, now known as Horn pond, in Woburn. The Indian name was Innitou. There were represented the Winthrops, Quincys, Amorys, Sullivans, Grays, Masons, Tudors, Eliots, Cabots, and others. Daniel Webster and wife were also of t
Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 30., History of Wellington. (search)
d from his father, and died there March 18, 1700, aged eighty-four. In the deed of Nathaniel to his brother Samuel, in 1657, he received the house, and it is stated that Samuel was building a house on an acre of ground called The Flax Land, lying lengthwise between the highway and the swamps. This, therefore, must be the old house which every resident of Wellington knows so well. In 1795 it was the only house standing, and was occupied by Captain Wymond Bradbury, a mariner, formerly of Newburyport. The promontory, extending into the marshes now known as Wellington, was first called Wilson's point, then Blanchard's point. The earlier records all call the place Wilson's or Blanchard's point, Charlestown, then Maiden; and in 1819, part in Malden and part in Medford. One hundred and twenty acres of this farm were annexed to Medford in 1816, which explains the difference. The old house was on the part included in Medford. In 1819 the whole farm, now called one hundred and eighty
The Daily Dispatch: November 24, 1860., [Electronic resource], The secession movement at the South. (search)
outh. Our exchanges contain some further items of interest about the secession movement at the South, which we give: Views of Hon. Caleb Cushing. Hon. Caleb Cushing, of Boston, has accepted an invitation to address the people of Newburyport, Mass., this evening, on the national crisis. In a letter accepting the invitation he says: God forbid that, at such a moment, anything should be done or said by me to add to the intensity of solicitude which already exists in this relathen have the right, happen what may, to stand erect, to hold up our head in the Union, to look our sister States in the face, and if need be, to address fraternal exhortation to the State of South Carolina. I am, very faithfully, C Cushing. Newburyport, Nov. 19, 1860. South Carolina cadets at West Point. The South Carolina cadets at West Point, numbering seven, have held a meeting and resolved, when she withdraws, to "be found fighting under her banner." They add: "Though the
The Daily Dispatch: December 1, 1860., [Electronic resource], The proposed State Convention. (search)
Hon. Caleb Cushing. --Mr. Cushing's speech at Newburyport, Mass., last Monday night, on the "impending crisis," was a most able and eloquent effort. He arraigned the conduct of the Black Republican party in vehement language, rejected their idea of coercion, by profound argument, and pronounced a noble panegyric on a Constitutional Union.
The Daily Dispatch: February 8, 1861., [Electronic resource], A "Peaceful" invasion. (search)
A "Peaceful" invasion. --On Thursday, Mr. Benjamin Dutton, of this city, starts for Virginia with a gang of sixteen carpenters to get out sets of ship-frames, one set for himself, which he will probably put up at the South end, and the other for sale. These are the men we want to send South, men armed with axes to fell the forests, and not men with rifles to shoot Americans.-- Newburyport (Mass.) Herald.
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