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Historic leaves, volume 8, April, 1909 - January, 1910, Memoir. (search)
orical papers. Between February 8 and August 9, 1890, he contributed to the Somerville Journal nine articles on the following subjects: Revolutionary Landmarks; Aborigines; The First National Flag; Paul Revere's Ride and the March to Concord; British Retreat from Concord; Battle of Bunker Hill; Old Roads; Historic Tablets; Historic Somerville; and, following these, The Early History of Ten Hills Farm, Somerville Journal, November 8, 1890, and May 23, 1891; Somerville in War Times, and Early History of Somerville, Somerville Journal, Semi-Centennial Souvenir, March 3, 1892; a brief History of Somerville, in Somerville Past and Present, 1896; The Somerville Historical Society, Myles Standish and the Plymouth Explorers, Governor John Winthrop and His Ten Hills Farm, Somerville in the Revolution, all in Somerville Historical Society Souvenir, November 38- December 3, 1898; Genealogical Pamphlet, Charles Darwin Elliot-Mary Elvira Elliot, 1901; obituaries, Hon. Charles Hicks Saunders and
Historic leaves, volume 8, April, 1909 - January, 1910, Index (search)
Pilgrim Fathers, 62. Department of the Gulf, 65. Department of Massachusetts, G. A. R., 64. Derby, Rebecca, 46. Dickerman, Frank E., 24. Dickermaan, Quincy E., 20, 23, 24. Dickson, Aaron P., 46. Dodge, —, 16. Eames, Margaret, 2. Early History of Somerville, 61. Early History of Ten Hills Farm, The, 61. East Cambridge, Mass., 8. Eastham, Mass., 22. East Stoughton, Mass., 45. Edgell, Captain, Benjamin, 5. Editorials in Somerville Journal by Charles D. Elliot, 61. ElEarly History of Ten Hills Farm, The, 61. East Cambridge, Mass., 8. Eastham, Mass., 22. East Stoughton, Mass., 45. Edgell, Captain, Benjamin, 5. Editorials in Somerville Journal by Charles D. Elliot, 61. Eliot, Abigail, 53. Eliot, Abigaile, 53. Eliot, Benjamin, 53. Eliot, Ebenezer, 53. Eliot, Elizabeth, 53. Eliot, Hannah, 53. Eliot, Jacob, 54. Eliot, Jane, 53. Eliot, Joel, 54. Eliot, John, 53. Eliot, Joseph, 53, 54. Eliot, Joseph, Jr., 53. Eliot, Mercy, 54. Eliot, Nehemiah, 53. Eliot, Nehemiah, Jr., 54. Eliot, Samuel, 53. Eliot, Thomas, 53. Eliot, Thomas, Jr., 53. Elliot, Adelaide Genevieve , 63. Elliot, Alfred Lawrence, 56, 62. Elliot, Caroline, 54. Elliot, Charles E
Historic leaves, volume 1, April, 1902 - January, 1903, The work of Five years (search)
rs will prove of great historical value, and will furnish one of the principal sources from which the future local historian will draw his material. The talks, too, that have been given from time to time have been exceedingly interesting and valuable, and the neighborhood sketches, as bits of local history, will certainly furnish data of permanent worth. 1899: February 16, The Stinted Common (a term applied to a large area of Somerville in the early days), Charles D. Elliot; March 2, Early History of the Tufts House, L. Roger Wentworth; Reminiscences of Domestic Life in the Tufts House, Mrs. Helen E. Heald, Mrs. E. A. Maynard; March 16, Genealogical Records, Frederick W. Parker; A Paper on Genealogy, Charles Carroll Dawson, read by Howard Dawson; March 30, An Evening with Sam Walter Foss; April 13, An Address Commemorative of the Battle of Lexington, Rev. C. A. Staples, Lexington; April 27, Schools of Somerville in the Olden Time, Mary A. Haley; The Teaching of Local History in Ou
George Bancroft, History of the Colonization of the United States, Vol. 1, 17th edition., Chapter 9: (search)
had vanished through fear. Exultation followed; and hundreds of the Pequods spent much of the last night of their lives in revelry, at a time when the sentinels of the English were within hearing of their songs. Two hours be- May 26. fore day, the soldiers of Connecticut put themselves in motion towards the enemy; and, as the light of morning began to dawn, they made their attack on the principal fort, which stood in a strong position at the summit of a hill. Compare E. R. Potter's Early History of Narragalsett, 24. Williams in III. Mass. Hist. Coll. III. 133. The colonists felt that they were fighting for the security of their homes; that, if defeated, the war-whoop would immediately resound near their cottages, and their wives and children be abandoned to the scalping-knife and the tomahawk. They ascend to the attack; a watch-dog bays an alarm at their approach; the Indians awake, rally, and resist, as well as bows and arrows can resist weapons of steel. The superiority of
Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 1., Notes. (search)
be sent to any member of the committee. the Society has in its rooms a fine collection of army relics, the same being a permanent loan from Mr. M. E. Chandler, of Maiden. the Publication Committee regrets that it will not be able to give to the readers of the register the admirable papers read before the Society by Rev. Henry C. DeLong, on the Early Ministers of Medford, and by Rev. C. A. Staples, of Lexington, on the Hancock Clark House, or the interesting address of Mr. Sylvester Baxter, of Malden, on the Metropolitan Park System. the Society would gratefully receive as gifts or loans books or articles of historic interest and value. Memberships in the Society are cordially invited. the Publication Committee makes its appreciative acknowledgments to Hon. Mellen Chamberlain for his paper on The Importance of preserving Early History, written for this number of the register. Joel Goldthwait & Co., Carpets, 169 Washington Street, Boston. Goods delivered in Medford.