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Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 9., The Bradburys of Medford and their ancestry. (search)
lled the Bradbury Farm. Jabez Bradbury was uncle to Jonathan and Wymond, and Samuel Greenleaf's wife, who was Anna Bradbury, sister to Jonathan and Wymond. The name of Jabez Bradbury, assessed for personal property, appears on province tax list, 1773, and on province and county lists for 1774. He was long in the service of the Colony and has the record of having been an able and conspicuously brave military officer. He had command of a fort on the Kennebec river, and later, of one at Penobscot, and was engaged in many conflicts with the Indians. He died unmarried January 13, 1781, being within a few days of eighty-eight years. Wilson's Point, or Blanchard's Point, originally belonged to Charlestown, but in 1726 was made over to Malden. In 1817, a strip on the western side, which included the house, was set off to Medford. Here came Wymond Bradbury, a retired sea captain of Newburyport, with his family, to make his home. He was the fourth child of Theophilus and Ann (Woo
The Daily Dispatch: December 1, 1860., [Electronic resource], article 8 (search)
the right of secession is well put, and, if any doubt existed among us upon that point, could not fail to convince every candid mind. The Columbia South Carolinian comments as follows: His remarks on Federal affairs will especially attract attention, and his exposition of the duty and allegiance due to the State Government by every citizen will meet with a hearty response, not only by every South Carolinian, but by every State-rights man, whether he resides on the banks of the Penobscot or the Rio Grande. The ordinance of secession will dissolve the connection of the State with the Federal Government, and the acts of that government will be no more binding upon a citizen of South Carolina than will be an edict of the Czar of Russia; and President Buchanan or Mr. Lincoln will have no more right to oppose the action of the sovereign State of South Carolina than will Napoleon or Alexander, or any other foreign official. Hon. John McQueen was serenaded in Columbia on Tu
The Daily Dispatch: August 23, 1861., [Electronic resource], Death of Major Weightman. (search)
Washington, Aug. 20. --As the only effective means of checking the designs of the enemy on Washington is to have a military force adequate for all possible contingencies, this will soon be supplied. The earnest measures of the Administration to this end have already produced here the most happy effect, and affords reassurance of the safety of the Capital depending on the patriotic responses of the North. The gun-boats building in Maine are to be named the Katebdin, Aroostock, Penobscot, Kennebec and Kineo. These in Massachusetts, Marblehead, Sagamore, Chocara and Huron. Those in Connecticut, Owasco, Kenaulia and Cayuga. These in New York, Madilla, Ottawa, Pemlina, Seneca, Chippewa and Winona. Those in Pennsylvania, Itasca Sciota and Wissahicon. They are building in Delaware, Jahoma, and the one at Baltimore, Pinola. Messrs. Spofford & Tileston, who have two steamers running between New York and Key West and Havana, have proposed to subsist one officer and fifte
The Daily Dispatch: December 24, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
engineer operations in the field, for bridges, trains, and equipage, and for tool and siege trains, for the second haft of the current fiscal year, and all of the fiscal year ending June 30, 1863. They are additional estimates to those heretofore transmitted to Congress: For fortifications on the Northern frontier, including fortifications at Oswego, Niagara, Buffalo, and Detroit$750,000 Fort Montgomery, at outlet of Lake Champlain, New York150,000 Fort Knox, at Narrows of Penobscot river, Maine159,000 Fort on Hog Island Ledge, Portland harbor, Maine150,000 Fort Warren, Boston harbor, Mass75,000 Fort Winthrop and exterior batteries, Boston harbor100,000 Fort at New Bedford Harbor, Mass150,000 Fort Adams, Newport harbor, R. I.50,000 Fort Schuyler, East river, New York25,000 Fort at Willet's Point, opposite Fort Schuyler, New York250,000 Commencement of casemate at battery on Staten Island, New York100,000 New battery at Fort Hamilton, at the Narrows, New York100,
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