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Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 8., The taverns of Medford. (search)
Eliphaz, 1807. Curtis, Lebeus, 1811. Dexter, George B., 1826, 1827, 1828. Dodge, William, 1769. Doggett, Isaac, 1754. Floyd, Hugh, 1754, 1755, 1759, 1760, 1761, 1762, 1763, 1764, 1765, 1766, 1767, 1770, 1771, 1772. Floyd, Sarah, 1741, 1742, 1743, 1744, 1745, 1746, 1747, 1748. Francis, John, Jr., 1717, 1718, 1719, 1720, 1721, 1726. Francis, Capt. Thomas, 1783, 1784. Frost, Rufus, 1811. Goldthwait, Benjamin, 1760. Goldthwait, Charity, 1761. Hall, John, Jr., 1702, 1703, 1704, 1705, 1706. Hall, John, Sr., 1696, 1700, 1701. Hall, Stephen, 1697, 1698, 1699. Hawkes, Jonathan, 1755, 1756, 1757, 1758. Hills, Ebenezer, Francis, 1714. Lealand, Abner, 1758, 1759. Mayo, Seth, 1812, 1813, 1814, 1815, 1816, 1817, 1818. Mayo, Seth and Rufus Frost, 1810. Mead, Israel, 1759, 1760, 1761, 1762, 1763. Moore, Augustus, 1768. Peirce, Lydia, 1719, 1720, 1721, 1726. Peirce, Nathaniel, 1707, 1708, 1709, 1710, 1711, 1712, 713, 1714, 1715, 1
Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 15., Another Absentee. (search)
Another Absentee. In addition to the Loyalists of Medford, already noticed in earlier issues of the Register, another had his residence here, but after the Revolution was over and peace declared. Francis Green, a graduate of Harvard, 1760, a merchant of Boston, married a lady whose father was mayor of New York previous to the Revolution. He came back to Boston from Halifax, and to Medford about 1798, and two years later occupied the house later belonging to Mr. Samuel Swan (Watson House). He died 21 April, 1809, aged 67. His widow moved to Charlestown, N. H., in 1822, when the Gilchrist family moved there. [Adapted from C. S.]—E. M. G
Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 18., A Medford writer of long ago and a modern Medford School. (search)
had previously procured for him an ensign's commission in the British army, with leave of absence for study at college. The war with France precluded this, and thus the young man, then but fifteen years of age, joined his regiment at Halifax at the close of his freshman year. His leave of absence was not renewed, and his army service, which he seems to have taken up with zeal, took him to Canada and the West Indies. As an especial mark of favor he was permitted to take his A. B. degree in 1760 with his class. In 1766, having become a lieutenant, he sold out his commission and entered into business in Boston. Three years later he married Susanna Green, who bore (by their fathers being brothers, and mothers sisters) the double relationship of cousin to him. There were five children, one of whom (a son) was deaf. But Francis Green, perhaps because of his military experience, was a Loyalist, and as such went away to Halifax on the fleet at the evacuation of Boston in 1776. Afte
Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 26., My Revolutionary ancestors: major Job Cushing, Lieutenant Jerome Lincoln, Walter Foster Cushing (search)
orse would share with his neighbor. He, with his wife on a pillion, would help his neighbors by the old-fashioned way of riding and tying. The first couple would ride half the distance, then dismount and tie the horse to a tree and walk. Meanwhile the second couple soon reached the horse and rested on his back to the meeting-house. It was long before the church of Hingham would allow the precinct of Cohasset to have its own church. But money was collected and a meeting-house was built in 1760. The pulpit was supplied by young men being educated at Harvard College. Many Saturday mornings a young student might be seen starting on horseback for Cohasset. The fees were thirty shillings per day if he couldn't be had under. Nehemiah Hobart was the first minister settled in Cohasset. A few of the congregation could sing a little but Mr. Hobart could preach a great deal, so a long service was carried through. After a noon hour of social intercourse with refreshments, the afternoon
Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 28., Shepherd Brooks. (search)
-1825), was the wellknown Governor of Massachusetts, and Samuel of Medford, who was born 1 September 1672 and died 3 July 1733. This Samuel married Sarah Boylston, daughter of Dr. Thomas Boylston of Brookline and sister of the wife of his brother Ebenezer; and their son Samuel of Medford, who was born 3 September 1700 and died 5 July 1768, was by his wife, Mary Boutwell of Reading, the father of five children, one of whom was Rev. Edward Brooks of Medford, A. B. (Harvard, 1755), A. M. (ib., 1760), who was born 4 November 1743 and died at Medford 6 May 1781. For a few years after his graduation at Harvard Edward Brooks was librarian of Harvard College, and in July 1764 he was settled as pastor at North Yarmouth, Me. Here, however, Mr. Brooks's somewhat liberal theology proved unacceptable to his flock, and in March 1769 he was at his own request dismissed from his pastorate and returned to Medford. He took an active part in the stirring events of 19 April 1775, and in 1777 was appoi
Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 30., The Brooks Estates in Medford from 1660 to 1927. (search)
rs. His son, the second Samuel, took among other things a suit of wearing apparel, bootlashes and silver buckles, and a new house built in 1727. This house, the third of the early Brooks houses, and occupied by the second by the name of Samuel, stood on the east side of Grove street about one hundred and thirty yards north of the house of the elder Samuel nearer the corner. It was built in all probability in 1727 or about the time of his marriage. Between this house and the road, about 1760, Samuel Brooks or his son Thomas, with the help of the negro slave, Pomp, built the brick wall which is still standing. The bricks were made by themselves in their brickyard situated near the Mystic river, a short distance below the present railroad bridge. About fifteen feet from his house Samuel planted the venerable black walnut tree known all these years as a landmark. In his time, too, the land inherited from his father was increased by the purchase of adjoining land, including Rock p
The Daily Dispatch: December 31, 1860., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
The last of the year--1760 and 1860 This is the last day of the year 1860--a year which, we are disposed to think. future ages will reckon among the most memorable of history. In thinking over its agitating events, we are irresistibly carried back a century, and we are are almost started to see how different the world is now from what it was then. It has been said a century is a small period in the life of a nation. Perhaps it may be so. But with nations as with men, there are two ways Eras stand out like islands in that part of the ever-rolling flood of Time which has passed by us forever, and become lost in the ocean Eternity. We stand upon the last sand on the beach of 1860, and look over the gulf that flows between us and 1760. It appears near to us, because we measure not the breadth of the waters, but fix our eyes directly upon the object, not a very distant period. Yet we see a world so strange and so different from that in which we live, that it appears to belong
The Daily Dispatch: March 29, 1864., [Electronic resource], The News yesterday. (search)
me wars, when the cannon of the enemy were heard at the palace of White Hall. But no sooner had James H. been expelled, and his place filled by William of Orange, a man of great enterprise and consummate vigor and conduct, than she instantly resumed her rank among the foremost States of the world. She relapsed again, about 1761-62, when the reins were taken from the bands of the elder Pitt and placed in those of Lord Bute. The change seems to have been more rapid than it had ever been. In 1760 she was triumphant over France in all parts of the world. In America she had conquered Canada, in the West Indies she had taken Havana, and in the East Indies Clive had presented her with an empire as populous as the half of Europe. In 1771 she was bullied by Spain about the Folkland Islands and dared not resent it. A succession of feeble Ministers had totally destroyed her prestige, and she seemed to have sunk to the condition of a second rate power. The writing's of Junius, and other aut
The Daily Dispatch: January 21, 1865., [Electronic resource], Statistics of slavery. (search)
2,132. The first introduction of African slaves was in 1620, by a Dutch vessel which brought twenty from Africa to Virginia. In his work upon the slave trade, Mr. Carey, of Pennsylvania, says "the trade in negro slaves to the American colonies was too small before 1750 to attract attention." The same writer says that the slaves numbered 55,850 in 1714 of which 30,000 were brought from Africa. The importations between 1715 and 1750 are estimated by Mr. Carey at 90,000; between 1751 and 1760, 35,000; between 1761 and 1770, 74,000; between 1771 and 1790, 34,000; between 1790 and 1808, 70,000.--Total, 333,000. The number in the last- mentioned decade is considered by the census to be evidently too small.--Charleston alone, in the first four years of that decade, imported 30,075, which were consigned to 91 British subjects, 88 citizens of Rhode Island, 10 French subjects, and 13 natives of Charleston. Foreigners and New Englanders always conducted the traffic. Making a correc
The Daily Dispatch: March 23, 1865., [Electronic resource], article 6 (search)
nnually made from Great Britain to Africa. " At last, the popular complaints completely prevailed in the passage of an act, under George II., throwing open the trade, and declaring "the slave trade to be very advantageous to Great Britain, and necessary for supplying the plantations and colonies thereunto belonging with a sufficient number of negroes at reasonable rates." In the meantime, the colonies sought in vain, by petition, by remonstrance, by legislation, to diminish the evil. In 1760, an act was passed by South Carolina prohibiting the farther importation of African slaves. The act was not only rejected by the British Crown, but the governor was reprimanded, and a circular was sent to all the governors of all the colonies, warning them against presuming to countenance such legislation. News reaching Great Britain in 1765 that a similar bill had been twice read in the Assembly of Jamaica, instructions were sent to the governor of that colony, in conformity with which
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