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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 31 31 Browse Search
George Bancroft, History of the Colonization of the United States, Vol. 1, 17th edition. 23 23 Browse Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 10. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 12 12 Browse Search
Lucius R. Paige, History of Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1630-1877, with a genealogical register 6 6 Browse Search
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight) 3 3 Browse Search
Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 24. 2 2 Browse Search
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 2, 17th edition. 2 2 Browse Search
Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 1, Colonial and Revolutionary Literature: Early National Literature: Part I (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.) 2 2 Browse Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, A book of American explorers 2 2 Browse Search
Horace Greeley, The American Conflict: A History of the Great Rebellion in the United States of America, 1860-65: its Causes, Incidents, and Results: Intended to exhibit especially its moral and political phases with the drift and progress of American opinion respecting human slavery from 1776 to the close of the War for the Union. Volume I. 1 1 Browse Search
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Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 24., 1621—tercentenary note—1921. (search)
1621—tercentenary note—1921. As this Register comes to hand a tercentenary pageant is on at Plymouth. Our Historical Society will note a Medford tercentenary in September next— that of first exploration of our territory by white men, an event of which scant notice has been taken in the past. The March of Miles Standish will be the subject of the evening. Beside the original story, several papers relative thereto will be read, and the doughty warrior will be shown at the head of his valorous army. With all the groundwork of a pageant, we must content ourselves with the above observance, but let it be an interesting o
Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 24., Another tercentenary note. (search)
n Faneuil Hall), Medford was a little town of fifteen hundred people, but had furnished a governor of the commonwealth for seven years. Now a cosmopolitan city of over forty thousand, with civic pride little in evidence, and an ever increasing tax-rate, it may be that the seeds of death the orator mentioned are ripening to harvest. Medford had a wonderful opportunity to celebrate a tercentenary, for those seeds (of both kinds) were strewn on what is now its soil, on September twenty-first, 1621, by Standish the stalwart and eight of his valorous army, led by Indian guide. Little note has been made of this historic fact in recent years and it has been well-nigh forgotten. But there is the testimony of Bradford, also of the author of Mourt's Relation, both written within a few years of the time, and fortunately preserved. What a pageant might be enacted in the streets of Medford of that march in Armes up in the Countery, and how realistic and educational might be a representati