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Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 18., Turell Tufts and his family connections. (search)
is told of a slave of Ingraham's son Nathaniel. Several of Duncan's children made their names known in the world in various ways. A daughter married an Episcopal clergyman. Another daughter married an Englishman and her daughter was the mother of Captain Marryat, the English novelist. Another son, Duncan junior, was a merchant in Boston. The Acts and Resolves of the Province of Massachusetts Bay, Vol. V, gives Duncan Ingraham, Jr., as one of the signers of a petition to Governor Hutchinson, May, 1773, in regard to auctioneers selling goods at private sale. Boston records show that he was chosen one of the clerks of the market, March 14, 1774, and also on March 29, 1776, when he was excused. His name is found on the rolls of 1772 of the Boston Cadets, and he was clerk of the company in 1774 and as such inserted notices in several Boston newspapers. The following appeared in the Massachusetts Gazette and the Boston Post-Boy and Advertiser under date of August 22-29, 1774:
Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 24., Henry Putnam of Medford. (search)
ord (wherever it was) the old veteran of Louisburg, then seventy years of age, followed them to take part in the fray, leaving behind the wife Hannah he so romantically acquired forty-eight years before. He was killed at old Menotomy by the retreating British. His son, Henry, Jr., was wounded and brought to Medford. The Medford wounded man, William Polley (also brought home) died, but Henry Putnam, Jr., recovered. But wherever the dwelling house, barn and potter's shop may have been in 1774, no trace of them is to be found today. Neither do we know who owned the other moiety, or half of the property. Putnam was styled in the pasture deed a yeoman of Medford, in the other deeds gentleman. As the potter's shop is not mentioned in the deed to him, which was so carefully drawn as to include the well, and is in his mortgage to Andros, it would seem that it had been added during his tenure of the property, perhaps by the funds obtained by the mortgages above mentioned. In 1789 the
Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 28., Medford and her Minute Men, April 19, 1775. (search)
ct was repealed, a great bonfire on Pasture hill celebrated the passing of that odious measure. In 1773, when the sons of liberty steeped the English tea in the Atlantic, a townsman, John Fulton, wielded a tomahawk in the righteous cause. In 1774, in town meeting assembled, the inhabitants voted, That we will not use any East India tea in our families until the act be repealed. In 1774, too, when the Boston Port Bill brought to a standstill the business of lightering down the Mystic, th1774, too, when the Boston Port Bill brought to a standstill the business of lightering down the Mystic, the town, though trade was at an end and whole families were in calamity and distress, voted not to approve of any bricks being carried to Boston until the committees of neighboring towns shall consent to it. When General Gage began the fortification of Boston Neck, the committee of safety in Medford began to collect ammunition. It was stored in the powder house which still stands just across the Somerville line. Three days before the troops of General Gage seized the ammunition, Thomas Patto
The Daily Dispatch: November 26, 1860., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
hington, and I will at once resign into your hands all the official power you have so generously conferred upon me. The following dispatches from Charleston and Columbus are published: Charleston, Nov. 23.--The Mercury in an editorial this morning ridicules the idea of blockading Charleston, and says a federal blockade would only hasten the consummation of a Southern Confederacy, and would fail to isolate South Carolina from the sister cotton States, as the British embargo failed in 1774 to isolate Massachusetts from her sister colonies. A ticket for the Convention appears in the morning papers, embracing the names which it is generally conceded will be elected from the Charleston district. The ticket is headed by ex-Senator Rhett and Judge McGrath, and is composed partly of old secessionists, partly of former co-operationists, but the present political views of all of them are announced by authority to be expressed in the following propositions: First.--That the C
The Daily Dispatch: April 10, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
thern Confederacy, and the amazing stupidity and selfishness that have characterized the conduct of the Northern, are but complications of the comparative statesmanship of the two sections. From the beginning of the Government the South has supplied the Union with its principles and its statesmen, while the North has occupied itself with schemes for making money out of the Government by means of protective tariffs, fish bounties, war pensions, and land grants. The Articles of Association of 1774 were the result of Southern exertion and appeal; the Declaration of Independence of 1776 was the composition of a Southern patriot; and the Constitution of 1767 was chiefly the handiwork of Southern statesmen. From the organization of the Federal Government down to the present time, all that has tended to the glory and progress of the Union has been the fruit of Southern statesmanship; all that has conduced to the emolument of classes, to the aggrandizement of the few and to the injury of th
The Daily Dispatch: June 6, 1861., [Electronic resource], European News (search)
Dissolution not to bring ruin and anarchy to the South. The most difficult political undertaking ever accomplished was the formation of the Union of 1787, and the most facile one ever essayed has been the formation of the Southern Confederacy. From 1774 to 1787 leading American patriots were engaged in one constant effort to form a more perfect Union of the Colonies and States; and it was the recollection of the embarrassment which they encountered at every step, and the difficulties that sprang up in their path every hour, that inspired them to address so many earnest appeals to their posterity in behalf of the preservation of the Union. The idea that haunted them perpetually was, that the dissolution of the Union which they had succeeded with so much tribulation in forming, if once effected, would leave hopeless distraction and disintegration in its train. They did not pretend that the Union they had ordained was a perfect piece of handiwork, or that it might not be greatly
The Daily Dispatch: June 17, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
you talk of up-holding a Constitution is thus subverted by a fanatical perjuried Sir, you cannot aid him without becoming a participator in his crimes and perjury. But you "will guard the honor of the old flag." Let me tell you that that flag belongs to the South as self as it does to the North; that, in the day of peril and danger, its honor was asserted by Southern prowess, while the parents of the dastards, who now surround you remained supine at home or sought to betray it. When, in 1774 the British Parliament declared the port of Boston closed, Massachusetts prepared to resist, and South Carolina and all the other Southern States made common cause with her; but when independence was purchased — when the Federal Government became one of the family of nations — was Massachusetts always willing to be operate with her sister States? In the war of 1812, not only Massachusetts, but most of the New England States also, with hold their supplies from the General Government, and ga
The Daily Dispatch: December 8, 1860., [Electronic resource], An abolitionist in Nashville. (search)
Patriotic Ladies. The Central Presbyterian remarks that one of the most celebrated Indian battles on record was that fought on the Virginia side of the Ohio river, at Point Pleasant, in 1774, between the confederated tribes led on by their great chieftain Cornstalk, and the troops under the command of Gen. Andrew Lewis. This battle was one which had an important bearing on the revolution, soon to commence, insomuch as it put an end to those Indian hostilities which would otherwise have diverted the attention of Virginia from the encroachments of the English ministry, and left her free to inaugurate measures for resistance. No monument marks the spot where Colonel Chas. Lewis and Colonel Field fell covered with wounds, and where so many brave men lie on the field where they purchased victory with their blood. Plans have indeed been suggested at various times for suitably distinguishing the spot so memorable in our colonial history, but one by one they have been abandoned. Now t
The Daily Dispatch: July 8, 1861., [Electronic resource], The Floyd Brigade, (search)
n full this morning. We have time only to say that in style, in spirit, and in subject matter, it falls far short of the dignity of the occasion and the magnitude of the theme. In its defence of the unconstitutional war that he has inaugurated, its author employs rather the ingenuity of the culprit than the manly tone of the patriot and honest public servant. He has made the remarkable discovery that there was no such thing as a State before the formation of the Union; although as early as 1774 the article of association were framed by delegates voting by colonies; and although the war of the Revolution was carried on by means of levies of men and money called for from, and furnished by, the States severally as States. He confesses to having committed breaches of the laws and Constitution, and endeavors of excuse them on the Dictator's and Tyrant's plea of the necessities of the State. He calls for four hundred thousand men, and characterizes the grave movement which so immense an
The Daily Dispatch: August 30, 1861., [Electronic resource], Western Virginia Geography. (search)
ass the Hawh's Nest, where Generals Floyd and Wise are, on the road from Lewisburg to the Kanawha Salines and to Guyandotte; you cross Cheat Mountain, where Generals Lee and Loring are, on the Staunton and Parkersburg turnpike road. Braddock's army crossed Cheat Mountain and Cheat river, on its march to Pittsburg, then Fort Duquesue. But you cross Sawell's Mountain in going from the Greenbrier White Sulphur Springs to Cincinnati and to Kentucky, on the route pursued by Lewis and his army in 1774, on their way to fight the Indians at Point Pleasant, where Logan was killed. In short, your course from Staunton to the mouth of Gauley, near which Generals Floyd and Wise are operating, is due West; whereas the course from Staunton to Beverly and Cheat Mountain, where Gens. Lee and Loring are operating, is almost due North. From the mouth of Gauley to Beverly, from the Hawk's Nest to Rich Mountain, is a very long distance, more than a hundred miles, the way obstructed by the most stupend
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