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Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 30., The Brooks Estates in Medford from 1660 to 1927. (search)
been left by any individual at that time in Boston. With that he always said that he never tried or expected to get more than six per cent on an investment. He abstained as a rule from speculative investments and he never borrowed. What he could not compass by present means was to him interdicted. One feels that the stern Puritan spirit of father and ancestors spoke in this man also. One wonders how, with such conservative principles, he accumulated his fortune. When I came to Boston in 1782, he writes, the country was wretchedly poor. It was the last year of the war; peace was declared in State street in January, 1783, about a month after I came. My father had died the year before, my mother was left with her four children with nothing but the farm of little more than one hundred acres, and on this some debts were due and so remained until I was able to pay them. We had to struggle through as well as we could. No woman could have done better, if so well, as my good mother.
The Daily Dispatch: March 16, 1861., [Electronic resource], Length of days. (search)
ent as this. The great Sheridan — dramatist, orator, wit, and bon-vivant--was pronounced an "impenetrable dunce" at school — his teacher being that insufferable and bearish pedant, Dr. Parr. In 1773 he married; produced "The Rivals" and the opera of "The Duenna" in 1775; "The School for Scandal" in 1777; purchased Garrick's Drury Lane Theatre in 1776; wrote "The Critic" in 1779; entered Parliament 1781; became Under Secretary of State, under the short lived Rockingham Administration, in 1782; moved the Rude charge against Warren Hastings February, 1787; summed up the Begum charge in a five hours speech April, 1789; married his second wife in 1795; Treasurer of the Navy 1806 defeated at Westminster Election 1807; lost his seat in Parliament 1812; died July 7, 1816. These, in small compass, are the leading facts of Sheridan's career — so brilliant when it began, and ending, so sadly; in ruin of health, hope and fortune. It is a career which carries a great moral with it; a mo<
The Daily Dispatch: January 1, 1861., [Electronic resource], Escape of Robinson, the New Orleans burglar. (search)
declared that the crisis now to the country had not come without warning, yet the Republicans had scoffed at and reflected them. Now they saw the truth. South Carolina had become a free and independent State; Mississippi, Florida, and Alabama, would resume their independence next week, and Georgia, Louisiana, Texas, and Arkansas would soon follow. The question now is whether their independence shall be recognized or civil war begun. South Carolina is only repealed in 1860 what she did in 1782. She had the right to do that, because the compact which bound her having been broken one side was broken on all sides. The press Union had been formed on this principle nine States seceding from the old Confederation. He quoted from the debates in the Conventions of '88-89, to show the truth of this, a sustained the position by well considered arguments. He declared that the States have two classes of remedies, one class against power usurped in the name of the Constitution, which was Se
The Daily Dispatch: October 7, 1861., [Electronic resource], Privateering — its history, law, and Usage. (search)
ucts of different places, and thereby rendering the necessaries, conveniences, and comforts of human life more easy to be obtained and more general, shall be allowed to pass free and unmolested; and neither of the contracting powers, shall grant or issue any commission to any private armed vessels, empowering them to take or destroy such trading vessels or interrupt such commerce." This stipulation was not renewed in the treaty of 1797. The treaty of the United States with the Netherlands in 1782, France in 1788, England in 1795. Peru 1799, Prussia 1795, and Spain 1795, contain provisions prohibiting the subjects of either power from taking letters of marque against the other from any power with which it is at war, under the penalty of being treated, if taken, as pirates. But notwithstanding these stipulations, the practice of the Government has always been to employ the services of privateers in the prosecution of its wars; and many of its most brilliant achievements in arms, m
The Daily Dispatch: March 13, 1862., [Electronic resource], One hundred and twenty-five Dollars reward. (search)
ral 1791, died 1831. Ney — Born at Sarre-Louis, France, 10th January, 1769; enlisted very young as a hussar, and rose successively through the various grades, until he was made Captain in 1794, Major in 1795, General on the field of battle 1796, Marshal 1804, shot 7th December, 1815. Oudinot — Born 1767, soldier 1784, Major 1792, General 1799, Marshal 1809. Perignon (Marquis de)--Sub-Lieutenant about 1774, General 1791, Marshal 1805; not very remarkable. Pichegru — Soldier 1782, officer 1789, General 1792, deserter and conspirator, died in prison 1804. Reynier (Count)--Born 1771, Colonel 1792, General 1793, died in Paris 1815; nothing remarkable. Salm-Salm (Prince de)--Major of cavalry in 1802, in Portugal, under Junot. Sebastiani (Count)--Born 1775 in Corsica, Lieutenant, then Captain, Major, Colonel; General about 1794, went through all the campaigns until 1815, Ambassador to Turkey in 1805 and member of the Chamber of Deputies in 1819. Segur (<
The Daily Dispatch: March 26, 1864., [Electronic resource], Death of an Irish Pass. (search)
Death of an Irish Pass. --Francis William Canfield, 2d Earl of Charlemont, died recently at Clontarf, in Ireland, aged 83 years. His father gained great celebrity in the last century as the leader in the Irish volunteer movement in 1779 and 1782, and as one of the most active promoters of Irish legislative independence, and figures largely in the lives of Burke, Fox, Pitt, and Gratten. The late peer was an amiable gentleman, holding rather extreme liberal opinions but always the steady supporter of the Whig . Of late years he has been an object of interest as the "father" of the House of Lords, of which he has been a member since 1806, and the survivor of the old irish Parliament. He was a member of the Irish House of Commons from 1795 1799, when he succeeded to the peerage and in the House of Lords in Dubith till the Union of 1861. He received the ribbon of the order of St. Patrick in 1831.
The Daily Dispatch: January 18, 1865., [Electronic resource], A country life. (search)
and Varro; and now I find among the most eminent British agriculturists and gardeners of the close of the last century a firm grip on life that would have matched the hardihood of Cato. Old Abercrombie, of Preston Pans, as we have already seen, reached the age of eighty. Walpole, though I lay no claim to him as farmer or gardener, yet, thanks to walks and garden-work of Strawberry Hill, lived to the same age. Philip Milles was an octogenarian. Lord Kames was aged thirty-seven at his death (1782). Arthur Young, though struggling with blindness in his later years, had accumulated such stock of vitality by his out-door life as to bridge him well over into the present century: he died in 1820, aged seventy-nine. Parson Trusler, notwithstanding his apothecary-schooling, lived to be eighty. In 1826 died Joseph Cradock of the 'Village Memoirs,' and a devoted horticulturist, aged eighty-five. Three years after, (1820,) Sir Uvedale Prite bade final adieu to his delightful seat of Foxley,
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