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Benjamnin F. Butler, Butler's Book: Autobiography and Personal Reminiscences of Major-General Benjamin Butler 60 0 Browse Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Book and heart: essays on literature and life 41 5 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 11. (ed. Frank Moore) 38 22 Browse Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Short studies of American authors 24 0 Browse Search
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 1. 22 0 Browse Search
Historic leaves, volume 3, April, 1904 - January, 1905 20 0 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. 19 5 Browse Search
Matthew Arnold, Civilization in the United States: First and Last Impressions of America. 17 15 Browse Search
Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 1. 14 0 Browse Search
Edward H. Savage, author of Police Recollections; Or Boston by Daylight and Gas-Light ., Boston events: a brief mention and the date of more than 5,000 events that transpired in Boston from 1630 to 1880, covering a period of 250 years, together with other occurrences of interest, arranged in alphabetical order 12 2 Browse Search
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Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 13., Stage-coach days in Medford. (search)
aily, while four other lines passed through Medford, northward. These last were not all daily stages. From some towns both mail and accommodation stages started; the former generally carried fewer passengers, went faster, and the fare was a little more. Between the Woburn and the Medford stage was a great rivalry as to which could go the faster; the former had four horses, the latter two. In 1832 the Boston and Concord Stage, via Derry, and the Boston and Concord, N. H., Stage, via Lowell, passed through Medford. Our 1805 stage, according to one of the almanacs of that date, arrived in Boston at Patterson's tavern every day (Sundays excepted) at 9 o'clock in the morning, and left said tavern at 12 the same days. In 1814 it set out from the same place every day, except Sunday, at noon. In 1825 it left Boston daily at i P. M. and arrived there at 8 A. M. In 1830 our stage, this time again called a mail stage, (though the name depended upon the almanac consulted,) star
Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 13., An old-time Muster. (search)
live in Medford (for in 1840 there was here no military company), though perhaps this Cornwallis may have roused some, as the next year the Brooks Phalanx was organized. The temperance reformation that was gaining ground was in no way friendly to the dissipation attendant on the old musters, and which were deprecated by many, because of their demoralizing tendencies. Few people of today know what a Cornwallis was, but that was the term usually applied to a mock battle and surrender. Lowell, in Biglow Papers, says:— . . . . Ana a feller could cry quarter Ef he fired away his ramrod arter tu much rum and water, Recollect wut fun we hed, you'n I ana Ezry Hollis, Up there to Waltham plain last fall, a-havina the Cornwallis? His Glossary styles this to be a sort of muster in masquerade, supposed to have had its origin soon after the Revolution, and to commemorate the surrender of Lord Cornwallis. It took the place of the old Guy Fawkes procession. Doubtless the Cornwalli