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Historic leaves, volume 2, April, 1903 - January, 1904,
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a family by the name of Pritchard living there, but they did not remain very long. The three remaining houses to be spoken of are clearer to my memory than any of the others. The house occupied by David Sanborn, father of David Sanborn who resides on Prospect street, stands near Union square. Adjoining this is the one then occupied by ‘Grandma’ Bonner, sister of the elder Mrs. Sanborn, and mother of William Bonner, who moved his house up the hill. In the third house, just east of the Prospect Hill schoolhouse, my father, Joseph Clark, lived. These three houses are in possession of the original families, the descendants of two of them (Mrs. Bonner's and my father's) occupying them. Although the years have not passed by without leaving their marks on them, and the lovely, old-fashioned flower gardens belonging to them have long since gone, they wear a natural, old-time look, and stand as landmarks to those who were familiar with Somerville when it was set off from Charlesto
Historic leaves, volume 2, April, 1903 - January, 1904, Israel Putnam and Prospect Hill. (search)
l Putnam and Bunker Hill,’ as the following is entitled ‘Israel Putnam and Prospect Hill.’ John F. Ayer, Esq., President Somerville Historical Society:— Dear Sir: I thank you very much for the copy you sent me of the Somerville Journal, contfe. But for that, the British might in the hour of their triumph have pursued the frightened and flying host, and made Somerville, Cambridge, and other towns their prey; but with such an obstacle in their path, they did not choose to undertake the vrod the soil, and would the beautiful park ever have been laid out, and the memorial tower ever have been built? Would Somerville have been what it justly claims to, be to-day? My letter is already much too long, and yet there are certain other aHill, thus early giving expression to the advanced views of freedom and independence for America are a lasting honor to Somerville, and are full worthy to be remembered in connection with Washington's visit there, when January 1, 1776, the flag of
Historic leaves, volume 2, April, 1903 - January, 1904, Index (search)
ology Committee, Report of22 Neighborhood Sketch, No. 642 Newbury, Mass.40 Newell, John36 New England Bank, Boston43 ‘New England,’ Neal42 ‘New England's Crisis,’ Thompson34 New Haven, Conn.20 New Rochelle, N. Y.12, 13 Nixon, Col.94 Normandy, France10, 12 North, Charles H.45 North Church, Boston38 North Chelmsford, Mass.55 North End School, Boston62 North Weymouth, Mass.4 Norton, John34 Nowell, Alexander60 Nowell, Samuel60 New York City7 New York Independent, The6 Officers Somerville Historical Society24, 48, 72 ‘Old Landmarks of Middlesex’87 Old Middlesex Canal, Historical Sketch of49 Old Mill, The13, 66, 81 Old Pound, The26 Oliver Street, Somerville44 ‘Only A Keepsake’9 Otis Street, Somerville44 Oxford, Mass.12 Paine, William64 Parker, Ebenezer, Schoolmaster, 172565 Parks, Thomas38 Payson, Prudence33 Pearl Street, Somerville44 Pellock's Island18 ‘Pencillings,’ Somerville Journal5, 6 ‘Peninsula, The,’ Charlestown15 Pennsylvania,