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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., January 15, 1738. (search)
extending on Trapelo Street about three-eighths of a mile, rises Mackerel Hill, from the sides and summit of which to the south and east fine views may be had of Newton and Brighton, Boston and Roxbury, with the Blue Hills of Milton in the distance, and portions of Needham, Dedham, Natick, Weston, and other towns. On its westernvoted to repair to the Factory school-house, on Elm Street and organize the church, and the communion was administered by Rev. Jonathan Homer of the First Church, Newton. It had its rise in a difference in doctrinal views from those advanced in the First Church [Mr. Ripley's], as well as in a need which had begun to be felt ofers now freely acknowledge the superiority of watches made upon the American system. The area of Waltham is about 9,000 acres. Some 600 acres were annexed from Newton, April 16, 1849, known as Districts 8 and 9, and for several years past called Southside, embracing the territory north of a straight line joining the two points
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., Index. (search)
boiled together, 18, 57 n. 1. Meeting-house Common, 45, 50. Meeting-house, dispute about a new, 53; located near Commodore's Corner, 53; Mr. Gibbs declines to be pastor of, 54: first in Waltham near Nathaniel Livermore's, 55; purchased from Newton, 55. Meeting-house, new, on triangular plot, 75. Meeting-house, first in Watertown, 44, 45; new, built at corner of Mt. Auburn and Grove Sts., 45. Men and means furnished for Revolutionary War, 103-5. Men drafted for the Indian War, 6arding pupils, 123. New England coast, grant of to Earl of War-wick resigned to new Dorchester Co., 10. New Haven, 44, 57. New-Jerusalem Church, 122. New Netherlands on Hudson River, 35. Newspaper, the first punted in America, 62. Newton, 79, 125, 137-8. Newton Chemical Works, 134, 141. Newton street voted, 96; widened, 132. New Town(e), resolve to build at, 17, 19, 20, 32, 36; palisade at, 28; people of very rich, 31; stratened for land, 34; desire to remove, 34; additi
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 2, 17th edition., Colonial history. (search)
ngs; but, understanding the springs of action, and the principles that control affairs, he calmly and noiselessly succeeded in all that he undertook. The New World was full of his praises; Puritans, and Quakers, and the freemen of Rhode Island, Roger Williams's Letters, in Knowles. were alike his eulogists; the Dutch at New York, not less than all New England, had confidence in his integrity; Albany Records, IV. 405, and XVIII. 188, 189. Clarendon MSS. in my possession. and Milton, Newton and Robert Boyle, Mr. Winthrop, my particular acquaintance. R. Boyle's letter, in Mass. Hist. Coll. XVIII. 49. Dedication of vol. XL. of the Transactions of the Royal Society. became his correspondents. If he had faults, they are Chap. XI.} 1661. forgotten. In history he appears by unanimous consent, Thurloe. i. 763; a person of signal worth, as all reports present. from early life, without a blemish; and it is the beautiful testimony of his own Either, that God gave him favor in
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 2, 17th edition., Chapter 16: (search)
31, and Note 2. conversant with men, and books, and governments, with various languages, and the forms of political combinations, as they existed in England and France, in Holland, and the principalities and free cities of Germany, he yet sought the source of wisdom in his own soul. Humane by nature and by suffering; familiar with the royal family; intimate with Sunderland and Sydney; acquainted with Russel, Halifax, Shaftesbury, and Buckingham; as a member of the Royal Society, the peer of Newton and the great scholars of his age,—he valued the promptings of a free mind more than the Chap XVI.} awards of the learned, and reverenced the single-minded sincerity of the Nottingham shepherd more than the authority of colleges and the wisdom of philosophers. And now, being in the meridian of life, but a year older than was Locke, when, twelve years before, he had framed a constitution for Carolina, the Quaker legislator was come to the New World to lay the foundations of states. Would
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 7, 4th edition., The American revolution. (search)
, by the hand of Joseph Warren, invited eight neighboring towns to a conference on the critical state of public affairs. On the twelfth, at noon, Metcalf Bowler, the speaker of the assembly of Rhode Island, came before them with the cheering news, that, in answer to a recent circular letter from the body over which he presided, all the thirteen governments were pledged to union. Punctually, at the hour of three in the afternoon of that day, the committees of Dorchester, Roxbury, Brookline, Newton, Cambridge, Charlestown, Lynn, and Lexington, joined them in Faneuil Hall, the cradle of American liberty, where for ten years the freemen of the town had debated the great question of justifiable resistance. The lowly men who now met there were most of them accustomed to feed their own cattle; to fold their own sheep; to guide their own plough; all trained to public life in the little democracies of their towns; some of them captains in the militia and officers of the church according to t
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 7, 4th edition., Chapter 22: (search)
ble. May not a people, taxed without their Chap. XXII.} 1775. Feb. consent, and their petitions against such taxation rejected, their charters taken away without hearing, and an army let loose upon them without a possibility of obtaining justice, be said to be in justifiable rebellion? But the ministerial measure, which, by keeping the New England fishermen at home provoked discontent and provided recruits for an insurgent army, was carried through all its stages by great majorities. Bishop Newton, in the lords, reasoned that rebellion is the sin of witchcraft, and that one so unnatural as that of New England, could be ascribed to nothing less than diabolical infatuation. The minister of France took the occasion to request the most rigorous and precise orders to all British naval officers not to annoy the commerce of the French colonies. Such orders, answered Rochford, have been given; and we have the greatest desire to live with you on the best understanding and the most perf
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 10, Chapter 2: (search)
suit reaction was fought. While France was rent in pieces by bloody and relentless feuds, Germany enjoyed a half century of prosperous peace, and with its kindred in the Netherlands and Switzerland formed the first nation in the world. Its universities, relieved from monastic traditions, taught not theology alone, but the method of the right use Chap. II.} of reason, and sciences pregnant with modern culture. Kepler, a republican of Weil, the continuator of Copernicus, the forerunner of Newton, revealed the laws of the planetary motions. No part of Europe had so many industrious, opulent, and cultivated free cities, while the empire kept in use the forms and developed the language of constitutional government. The terrible thirty years effort to restore the old superstition crushed the enlightened middle class of Germany, destroyed its Hanseatic confederacy, turned its commerce into other channels, ruined its manufactures, arrested its progress in the arts, dismembered its pub
Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 2., The second Congregational and Mystic churches. (search)
following February. A hall in the neighborhood was soon fitted up as a temporary place of worship, and the pulpit was supplied by neighboring clergymen, and by students from the Theological Seminary at Andover, till October 2, when the seventeen members from the First Church, with nine members of other churches, who had removed lately to Medford, and had brought with them letters of dismission, were organized into a church by an ecclesiastical council, of which Rev. William Greenough, of Newton, was moderator, and Rev. B. B. Wisner, of Boston, was scribe. The church adopted a name which corresponded with that of the society, but June 25, 1857, changed it to the First Trinitarian Congregational Church of Medford. In this narrative, however, it will, for convenience, be referred to simply as the First, or Mother Church. The society retained its corporate name till its disbandment after the union of the First and Mystic Churches in 1874. A Sunday-school was at once organized,
Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 6., chapter 2 (search)
committee was chosen annually, and their first printed report was made in 1847. Notwithstanding the few blots here shown upon its record, Medford in its educational appointments stood in the front row. Its high school, organized for the free co-education of the sexes, and then twelve years old, had but one senior (that in Lowell), and not a baker's dozen of juniors in the entire state. Cambridge organized one in October, 1847, Charlestown one in 1848, and it was then several years before Newton, Somerville, Malden, Woburn, or any other of the neighboring towns provided that luxury for their children. In 1846 the State Board of Education reported Medford as number four among the 322 towns and cities in the Commonwealth in regard to the amount appropriated for each scholar between the ages of four and sixteen. In Brookline it was $7.33, in Nantucket, $5.74, in Watertown, $5.52, and in Medford, $5.48. The three next in order were Chelsea, Charlestown and Boston. According to the c
Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 6., The Baptist Church of Medford. (search)
Abbott of Oshkosh, Wis. Rev. Mr. Abbott brought to his new field the vigor of a fresh enthusiam. Just graduated from Newton Theological Institution, young, ardent, hopeful, kind of heart, and fervent of spirit, he won his way, beloved of all. His ordination and installation took place in the lecture-room of the church, December 19, 1877. The sermon was preached by Rev. Geo. B. Gow, of Millbury, Mr. Abbott's first Baptist pastor; the ordination prayer was by Rev. Dr. Hovey, president of Newton; the right hand of fellowship was given by Rev. S. W. Foljambe, then of Maiden; the charge to the candidate by Rev. (now Dr.) Henry C. Graves, then of Fall River; the charge to the church by Dr. Lorimer, then pastor of Tremont Temple, and prayer by Dr. Sawtelle, then of Chelsea. There was also a hymn, written for the occasion by one of the members of the church. Rev. Mr. Abbott's pastorate, so gracefully begun, continued with great success. The church increased in numbers, and on July 1
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