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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) | 15 | 15 | Browse | Search |
George Bancroft, History of the Colonization of the United States, Vol. 1, 17th edition. | 9 | 9 | Browse | Search |
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight) | 6 | 6 | Browse | Search |
Lucius R. Paige, History of Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1630-1877, with a genealogical register | 4 | 4 | Browse | Search |
HISTORY OF THE TOWN OF MEDFORD, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, FROM ITS FIRST SETTLEMENT, IN 1630, TO THE PRESENT TIME, 1855. (ed. Charles Brooks) | 3 | 3 | Browse | Search |
The Daily Dispatch: September 6, 1861., [Electronic resource] | 1 | 1 | Browse | Search |
Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 18. | 1 | 1 | Browse | Search |
Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 4. | 1 | 1 | Browse | Search |
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, A book of American explorers | 1 | 1 | Browse | Search |
James Parton, The life of Horace Greeley | 1 | 1 | Browse | Search |
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Xenophon, On the Art of Horsemanship (ed. E. C. Marchant, G. W. Bowersock, tr. Constitution of the Athenians.), chapter 1 (search)
HISTORY OF THE TOWN OF MEDFORD, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, FROM ITS FIRST SETTLEMENT, IN 1630, TO THE PRESENT TIME, 1855. (ed. Charles Brooks), Chapter 2 : (search)
HISTORY OF THE TOWN OF MEDFORD, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, FROM ITS FIRST SETTLEMENT, IN 1630, TO THE PRESENT TIME, 1855. (ed. Charles Brooks), chapter 18 (search)
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Argall , Sir Samuel , 1572 -1626 (search)
Baltimore, Lords.
I. George Calvert,
Born about 1580, at Kipling, Yorkshire, Eng.; was graduated at Oxford; travelled on the Continent; became secretary of Robert Cecil; married Anne Minne in 1604; was a clerk of the privy council; was knighted in 1617; became a secretary of state soon afterwards, and in 1620 was granted a pension of $5,000 a year.
When, in 1624, he publicly avowed himself a Roman Catholic, he resigned his office, but King James retained him in the privy council; and a few days before that monarch's death he was created Baron of Baltimore in the Irish peerage.
Calvert had already entered upon a colonizing scheme.
In 1620 he purchased a part of Newfoundland, and was invested with the privileges and honors of a count-palatine.
He called his new domain Avalon, and, after spending about $100,000 in building warehouses there, and a mansion for himself, he went thither in 1627.
He returned to England the following spring.
In the spring of 1629 he went again to
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Blackstone , William , -1675 (search)
Blackstone, William, -1675
Pioneer, supposed to have been graduated at Emmanuel College, Cambridge, in 1617, and to have become a minister in the Church of England.
In 1623 he removed from Plymouth to the peninsula of Shawmut, where Boston now stands, and was living there in 1630, when Governor Winthrop arrived at Charlestown.
On April 1. 1633, he was given a grant of fifty acres. but not liking his Puritan neighbors he sold his estate in 1634.
He then moved to a place a few miles north of Providence.
locating on the river which now bears his name.
He is said to have planted the first orchard in Rhode Island, and also the first one in Massachusetts.
He was the first white settler in Rhode Island, but took no part in the founding of the colony.
The cellar of the house where he lived is still shown, and a little hill near by where he was accustomed to read is known as Study Hill.
He died in Rehoboth Mass., May 26, 1675.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Folger , Peter 1617 -1690 (search)
Folger, Peter 1617-1690
Pioneer; born in England in 1617; emigrated to America with his father in 1635; settled in Martha's Vineyard in 1641; became a Baptist minister and was one of the commissioners to lay out Nantucket, receiving one-half of the land for his services as surveyor and interpreter.
In his poem entitled A Looking-glass of the times; or, the former spirit of New England revived in this generation, he pleaded for liberty of conscience and toleration of all sects, even the Qua1617; emigrated to America with his father in 1635; settled in Martha's Vineyard in 1641; became a Baptist minister and was one of the commissioners to lay out Nantucket, receiving one-half of the land for his services as surveyor and interpreter.
In his poem entitled A Looking-glass of the times; or, the former spirit of New England revived in this generation, he pleaded for liberty of conscience and toleration of all sects, even the Quakers and Anabaptists.
He died in Nantucket, Mass., in 1690.
Mason, John 1610-
Founder of New Hampshire; born in Lynn Regis, Norfolk, England; commanded an expedition to subdue a rebellion in the Hebrides in 1610, and went to Newfoundland as governor in 1616.
He surveyed the island, made a map of it (published in 1626), and wrote a description of it. In 1617 he explored the New England coasts, and obtained from the Council of Plymouth a tract of land there in 1622.
With Fernando Gorges, he procured a patent for another tract (see Maine), and sent a colony there in 1623.
In 1629 he obtained a patent for the domain which he called New Hampshire.
In the same year he acquired, with Gorges, another tract, which embraced the country around Lake Champlain; and in 1631 Mason, Gorges, and others formed a company for trading with the natives of New England and to make settlements there.
In 1633 Mason became a member of the council for New England and its vice-president.
He was also judge of the courts of Hampshire, England, in 1665, and in Oc
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Nicholson , Sir Francis 1687 - (search)
Nicholson, Sir Francis 1687-
Colonial governor; born in England; was lieutenantgovernor of New York under Andros, and acting governor in 1687-89.
In 1694-99 he was governor of Maryland; in 1690-92 and 1699-1705, governor of Virginia.
In 1710 he commanded the forces that captured Port Royal, Nova Scotia.
Then he went to England, taking with him five Iroquois chiefs (who were presented to Queen Anne), to urge another attempt to conquer Canada.
He commanded an unsuccessful expedition to that end the next year.
In 1712-17 he was governor of Nova Scotia, and in 1720 was knighted.
In 1721-25 he was governor of South Carolina, and on his return to England in the latter year he was made lieutenant-general.