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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 22 22 Browse Search
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight) 20 20 Browse Search
Strabo, Geography (ed. H.C. Hamilton, Esq., W. Falconer, M.A.) 12 12 Browse Search
M. W. MacCallum, Shakespeare's Roman Plays and their Background 10 10 Browse Search
J. B. Jones, A Rebel War Clerk's Diary 7 7 Browse Search
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Volume 4. 6 6 Browse Search
Appian, The Civil Wars (ed. Horace White) 5 5 Browse Search
Edward Porter Alexander, Military memoirs of a Confederate: a critical narrative 4 4 Browse Search
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith) 3 3 Browse Search
Appian, The Foreign Wars (ed. Horace White) 2 2 Browse Search
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Historic leaves, volume 3, April, 1904 - January, 1905, Thomas Brigham the Puritan—an original settler (search)
ied a village of freemen situated by a bridge. The name is authentically traced back to the period of Henry I., who was born in 1068; and it is said by English Brighams now living that it was borne with honor in Palestine in the time of the Crusades. I fear, however, that we are getting farther away rather than nearer to Thomas Brigham the Puritan. The first and only authentic mention of him found in England is in Camden Hotten's book, entitled Lists of Emigrants from England to America, 1600-1700, compiled from London Admiralty reports. From this we learn that 18 April, 1635, Tho. Briggham embarked from England on the ship Suzan & Ellin, Edward Payne, Master, for New England. In the same year Paige, in his admirable history of Cambridge, reports the arrival at Watertown, the fourth settlement in Massachusetts Bay colony, of our Thomas and thirty-six other males. Of these, some seventeen appear to have come by the Suzan and Ellin. Surely we of the name of Brigham may trace