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HISTORY OF THE TOWN OF MEDFORD, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, FROM ITS FIRST SETTLEMENT, IN 1630, TO THE PRESENT TIME, 1855. (ed. Charles Brooks), 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 3 : (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 11 : currency. (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)
Almanacs, American.
No copy is known to exist of the almanac of 1639.
the first published in America.
calculated for New England by William Pierce, mariner; another, the Boston almanac, by John Foster, 1676.
William Bradford at Philadelphia published an almanac of twenty pages, 1685.
commonly received as the first almanac published in the colonies; a copy from the Brinley library sold in New York, March, 1882, for $555.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Church , Benjamin 1639 -1718 (search)
Church, Benjamin 1639-1718
Military officer; born in Plymouth, Mass., in 1639; was a leader in King Philip's War; commanded the party by whom Philip was slain (August, 1676); and with his own sword cut off the head of the dusky monarch.
While Phipps was operating against Quebec in 1690, Colonel Church was sent on an expedition against the eastern Indians.
He went up the Androscoggin River to the site of Lewiston, Me., where he, for example, put to death a number of men, women, and child1639; was a leader in King Philip's War; commanded the party by whom Philip was slain (August, 1676); and with his own sword cut off the head of the dusky monarch.
While Phipps was operating against Quebec in 1690, Colonel Church was sent on an expedition against the eastern Indians.
He went up the Androscoggin River to the site of Lewiston, Me., where he, for example, put to death a number of men, women, and children whom he had captured.
The Indians retaliated fearfully.
In May, 1704, Governor Dudley sent, from Boston, an expedition to the eastern bounds of New England.
It consisted of 550 soldiers, under Church.
The campaign then undertaken against the French and Indians continued all summer, and Church inflicted much damage to the allies at Penobscot and Passamaquoddy.
He is represented by his contemporaries as distinguished as much for his integrity, justice, and purity as for his military exp
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Clarke , or Clerke , Jeremy (search)
Clarke, or Clerke, Jeremy
One of the settlers of Newport, R. I., in 1639; became constable of the new plantation in 1640, and treasurer in 1647.
He was elected as an assistant to the president in 1648, and when the president-elect, William Coddington, failed to enter upon his office and to answer certain accusations brought against him, Clarke, who was a republican, was chosen by the assembly as president-regent, and served as such till the following May.