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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 74 74 Browse Search
Lucius R. Paige, History of Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1630-1877, with a genealogical register 36 36 Browse Search
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 4, 15th edition. 29 29 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) 25 25 Browse Search
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight) 24 24 Browse Search
Benjamin Cutter, William R. Cutter, History of the town of Arlington, Massachusetts, ormerly the second precinct in Cambridge, or District of Menotomy, afterward the town of West Cambridge. 1635-1879 with a genealogical register of the inhabitants of the precinct. 10 10 Browse Search
The Cambridge of eighteen hundred and ninety-six: a picture of the city and its industries fifty years after its incorporation (ed. Arthur Gilman) 9 9 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.) 6 6 Browse Search
Charles A. Nelson , A. M., Waltham, past, present and its industries, with an historical sketch of Watertown from its settlement in 1630 to the incorporation of Waltham, January 15, 1739. 4 4 Browse Search
Historic leaves, volume 4, April, 1905 - January, 1906 4 4 Browse Search
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Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 7., Some old Medford houses and estates. (search)
ill be seen that the door without doors that leads into the cellar was at the west end of the house; the door that leads into the cellar from the outside at the present day is at the east end of the house. The passageway into the cellar through the north room, the use of which was forbidden to my son Peter, was probably by means of a trapdoor in the floor, a method of reaching the cellar much in use in those days. This westerly outside entrance to the cellar is spoken of as late as the year 1750, when the estate of Mr. Ebenezer Cutter was divided among his heirs. Mr. Cutter at his decease owned the brick house. The west end of the house was set off to his widow, and the easterly end to his eldest son, and it was provided that the eldest son shall have the liberty of putting in casks at the outer cellar door in the widow's part of the house and taking them out as he may have occasion. The dwelling house and twenty acres of land sold by Captain Peter Tufts to Mr. Peter Eades was dee