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Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 8. 1 1 Browse Search
Raphael Semmes, Memoirs of Service Afloat During the War Between the States 1 1 Browse Search
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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Harvard Memorial Biographies, 1837. (search)
ral courage cost him no effort, for he liked to be conspicuous and startling; and his free exercise of this virtue, together with his own taste for variety, kept him constantly in motion among the parishes, so that some one christened him the flying prophet. As a preacher he was eloquent, rather than satisfactory, and was often the object of great enthusiasm among his congregations, especially during the first weeks of his stay. He was settled for periods varying in length, at Haverhill, Kingston, and Groveland, Massachusetts,— at Southington and East Brooklyn, Connecticut,—and at Rochester, New York. Most of the peculiarities which have been described were so very obvious that, however wide might be the discrepancies of judgment among comparative strangers, there could not be much variation in the estimates made of James Richardson by those who knew him well. I cannot refrain from matching my own sketch of him by some extracts from an admirable analysis of his character from th
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Massachusetts in the Army and Navy during the war of 1861-1865, vol. 2, XIV. Massachusetts women in the civil war. (search)
Essex. Fairmount. Fall River. Falmouth. Feltonville. Fitchburg. Florence. Foxborough. Framingham. Georgetown. Gerry. Globe Village. Gloucester. Grafton. Great Barrington. Greenfield. Groton. Groton Centre. Groton Junction. Hadley. Halifax. Hanover. Hardwick. Harvard. Harwichport. Haverhill. Hingham. Hinsdale. Holland. Holmes Holl. Hopkinton. Hubbardston. Ipswich. Jamaica Plain. Joppa Village. Kingston. Lancaster. Lancsville. Lawrence. Leominster. Lexington. Leyden. Lincoln. Lincoln Centre. Littleton. Lowell. Lunenburg. Lynn. Malden. Manchester. Mansfield. Marblehead. Marion. Marlborough. Marshfield. Marston's Mills. Mattapan. Mattapoisett. Medfield. Mendon. Middleborough. Middlefield. Middlesex Village. Middleton. Milford. Millbury. Mill River Village. Milton. Milton Hill. Montague. Myr
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 8, The American revolution. (search)
t from the heart. He was followed by David Wooster of Connecticut, an upright old man of sixty five, frugal of his means, but lavish of his life; by William Heath, of Roxbury, Massachusetts, a patriot farmer, who held high rank in the trainbands and had read books on the military art; vain, honest, and incompetent; by Joseph Spencer of Connecticut, a man past sixty, a most respectable citizen, but, from inexperience, not qualified for councils of war; by John Thomas, a physician of Kingston, Massachusetts, the best general officer of that colony; by John Sullivan, a lawyer of New Hampshire, always ready to act, but not always thoughtful of what he undertook; not free from defects and foibles; tinctured with vanity and eager to be popular; enterprising, spirited, and able. The last was Nathaniel Greene, of Rhode Island, who, after Washington, had no superior in natural resources, unless it were Montgomery. At a farewell supper, the members of congress all rose, as they drank a hea
Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 7., Meeting-house brook and the second Meeting-house. (search)
there halted for orders, as the head of the army was about five miles ahead at Kingston, fighting. Our regiment was detailed to go on picket duty by companies. Tht to our journey's end, and then let him go. During the day we had a battle at Kingston. There were quite a number killed. As near as I can find out there were for none of our regiment in that battle, although two companies were ordered into Kingston Sunday night, to do guard duty. The weather all day Sunday was very fine and arm. The fifteenth, Monday, we marched twenty miles. We marched down toward Kingston about five miles, but left it on our right, so we did not see the place. I understand that some of our soldiers found some things of value in Kingston. One man found one hundred silver dollars, others, watches and silverware. We marched untiight as ever I saw. Friday, the nineteenth, we took up our march and passed Kingston on our left, across the river. We passed a house used as a hospital, and ther
Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 8., Captain Isaac Hall. (search)
of Colonel Royal. Among the persons examined was Captain Isaac Hall, who declared: That the winter before said battle (Lexington) he went to settle accounts with said Royal at his house; and that said Royal showed him his arms and accoutrements (which were in very good order), and told him that he determined to stand for his country, etc. Isaac Hall died November 24, 1789. A sword, said to be the one he carried at Lexington and Bunker Hill, is in the possession of Jas. L. Hall of Kingston, Mass. It was left him by Mrs. Susan M. Fitch, who received it from her grandfather, Ebenr Hall, a brother of Isaac. The tablet is not intended to perpetuate any remarkable military achievements of valor of Captain Isaac Hall, though he performed his part in those heroic contests which gave confidence to the colonists in their resistance to oppression. It is more that Medford desires to honor all the men who helped her to take so important share in the early battles of the war which gave b
Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 16., The good old days. (search)
The good old days. Proposals for carrying the Mails of the V States, on the following post roads, [From the Independent Chronicle, Boston, May 5, 1803.] Will be received at the General Post Office in Washington City until the first day of July next, (1803) inclusive. In Massachusetts, 15. From Portsmouth, N. H., by Exeter, Kingston, Haverhill, Andover, Wilmington, Woburn and Medford to Boston, three times a week. Leave Portsmouth every Monday, Wednesday and Friday, at 3 A. M., and arrive at Boston by 7 P. M. Leave Boston every Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday, at 3 A. M., and arrive in Portsmouth by 7 P. M. A column and a half of the four on the page is devoted to the enumeration of other stage routes, then follows a half column of Notes signed by the Postmaster-General. No. 7 reads thus: No other than a free white person shall be employed to convey the mail. A former resident of Medford says, Stage driving added much to the life of old Medford in those days.
Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 26., Old ships and ship-building days of Medford. (search)
ven days from Boston. In 1848 this ship made the run from Java Head to New York in seventy-six days. Captain Arthur Clark, Clipper Ship Era. Later she was used in the ice carrying trade. Frederick Tudor, after twenty-eight years struggle and experimenting, had built up an ice exporting business. After numerous failures, he had by 1812 built up a small trade with the West Indies. The war wiped him out. After the peace of Ghent he obtained government permission to build ice houses at Kingston and Havana, with a monopoly of the traffic. It began to pay, and between 1817 and 1820 he extended the business to Charleston, Savannah and New Orleans. He extended the business to the Far East later, and the Paul Jones carried the first cargo of ice to China. Tudor first shipped ice from his father's pond in Saugus. Later he had ice houses on several of the large ponds nearby, among them one at Spot Pond. People thought he was mad, and seafaring men thought such a cargo would melt and
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