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HISTORY OF THE TOWN OF MEDFORD, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, FROM ITS FIRST SETTLEMENT, IN 1630, TO THE PRESENT TIME, 1855. (ed. Charles Brooks), Chapter 7: ecclesiastical history (continued). (search)
tinued but a few months in this relation, leaving the people again destitute of an under-shepherd. Some months now elapsed; when Mr. G. F. Danforth, a graduate of New Hampden, N. H., was called, publicly ordained, and installed as pastor. Rev. Mr. Danforth resigned his pastoral relation after the brief period of little more than a year. A destitution of some months followed, when the people again succeeded in calling a minister to supply the sacred desk; and the Rev. E. K. Fuller, of Somerset, Mass., was invited to fill the sacred office. Rev. Mr. Fuller commenced his labors on the 1st of April, 1849, and continued his work, with much success, until April 1, 1854,--a period of five years. Notwithstanding the too frequent changes in the pastoral relation, it has been the good fortune of this church and society to enjoy its full share of increase and prosperity. Since its organization, two new societies of the Protestant faith have been formed in Medford, and two new churches ha
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Provincial Congresses (search)
They established a post-office at Portsmouth, provided for procuring arms, recommended the establishment of home manufactures, commissioned Brigadier-General Folsom first commander, and provided for the issue of bills of credit. On May 2, 1775, the provincial committee of correspondence of New Jersey directed the chairman to summon a Provincial Congress of deputies to meet in Trenton, on the 23d of that month. Thirteen counties were represented—namely, Bergen, Essex, Middlesex, Morris, Somerset, Sussex, Monmouth, Hunterdon, Burlington, Gloucester, Cumberland, Salem, and Cape May. Hendrick Fisher was chosen president; Johathan D. Sargent secretary; and William Paterson and Frederick Frelinghuysen assistants. The Provincial Assembly had been called (May 15) by Governor Franklin to consider North's conciliatory proposition. They declined to approve it, or to take any decisive step in the matter, except with the consent of the Continental Congress, then in session. They adjourne
William Schouler, A history of Massachusetts in the Civil War: Volume 2, Chapter 4: Bristol County. (search)
ill drill one hour on three several days of each week for three months. The adjoining towns of Somerset and Berkley were invited to join with Dighton in raising a military company. Three thousand doin 1863, $613.55; in 1864, $892.65; in 1866, $586.30. Total amount in four years, $2,552.31. Somerset Incorporated Feb. 20, 1790. Population in 1860, 1,793; in 1865, 1,791. Valuation in 1860, . January 9th, Voted, to raise fifteen hundred dollars to pay bounties to twelve volunteers. Somerset was reported by the selectmen in 1866 as having furnished one hundred and ninety-seven men for .00. Total amount in four years, $7,772.39. We only know in general terms that the ladies of Somerset did a great deal of work for the soldiers during the war. Swanzey Incorporated Oct. 30, 1tmen were also directed to confer with the town authorities of the adjoining towns of Rehoboth, Somerset, Dighton, and Seekonk, in regard to raising a military company for nine months service, of whic
William Schouler, A history of Massachusetts in the Civil War: Volume 2, Index. (search)
R. Randolph 513 Raynham 147 Reading 442 Rehoboth 149 Richmond 98 Rochester 572 Rockport 230 Rowe 282 Rowley 232 Roxbury 515 Royalston 667 Russell 314 Rutland 669 S. Salem 234 Salisbury 239 Sandisfield 99 Sandwich 49 Saugus 241 Savoy 100 Scituate 574 Seekonk 151 Sharon 520 Sheffield 102 Shelburne 283 Sherborn 444 Shirley 446 Shrewsbury 670 Shutesbury 285 Somerville 447 Somerset 154 Southampton 357 Southbridge 675 Southborough 673 South Scituate 576 South Danvers (Peabody) 243 South Hadley 356 South Reading (Wakefield) 450 Southwick 316 Spencer 678 Springfield 318 Sterling 679 Stockbridge 104 Stoneham 452 Stoughton 522 Stow 454 Sturbridge 681 Sudbury 455 Sunderland 286 Sutton 682 Swampscott 245 Swanzey 156 T. Taunton 158 Templeton 684 Tewksbury 457 Tisbury 168
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 2, chapter 30 (search)
r was marked by a sensitiveness, at times a querulousness, which would vindicate for him a place with the irritable race, who want the sterner stuff out of which lawyers are made. He was the son of an eminent attorney in London, and was born in 1741. In 1760 he entered Lincoln's Inn, and in 1764 took chambers there, and began practice in Chancery. His name first became familiar to the public in the seventh year of his call to the bar, when he delivered an elaborate argument in behalf of Somerset, a negro, before the King's Bench, in Hilary Term, 1772, to prove that domestic slavery could not be enforced in England. See Works, Vol. III. p. 502. In 1791 he was employed to draw the Roman Catholic Relief Bill, which passed into a law. In 1794 he argued with deep personal feeling the claim of Mr. Myddleton, in the present case [Myddleton v. Lord Kenyon], to be freed from a harsh trust-deed into which he had been betrayed by inadvertence. Afterwards, he embarked his learning and sym
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 3, Chapter 38: repeal of the Missouri Compromise.—reply to Butler and Mason.—the Republican Party.—address on Granville Sharp.—friendly correspondence.—1853-1854. (search)
n The position and duties of the merchant, illustrated by the life of Granville Sharp. He was received with enthusiasm by the audience which filled Tremont Temple. The Liberator, November 17; Boston Telegraph, November 14. The lecture, though given in a literary course, had, as usual with him, a moral and political aim,—to stimulate peaceable and lawful resistance to the Fugitive Slave Act in imitation of the British philanthropist, whose antislavery labors, notably in the liberation of Somerset, in connection with the opposition he encountered from merchants and lawyers, suggested parallels in the recent slave cases. It is an interesting monograph on Sharp's life and work and the memorable judicial transaction in which he bore the most conspicuous part. Mrs. Seward wrote, November 24, of the lecture, addressing him, as always, Dear Charles Sumner:— The elevated tone of its moral teaching cannot fail to do good, though this result may not be immediately manifest. You wil
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 4, Chapter 49: letters to Europe.—test oath in the senate.—final repeal of the fugitive-slave act.—abolition of the coastwise slave-trade.—Freedmen's Bureau.—equal rights of the colored people as witnesses and passengers.—equal pay of colored troops.—first struggle for suffrage of the colored people.—thirteenth amendment of the constitution.— French spoliation claims.—taxation of national banks.— differences with Fessenden.—Civil service Reform.—Lincoln's re-election.—parting with friends.—1863-1864. (search)
anied by an elaborate argument against the constitutionality, of the fugitiveslave legislation of Congress. Feb. 29, 1864: Works, vol. VIII. pp. 118-175. Sumner took the radical ground in the report that the clause in the Constitution relating to persons held to service or labor did not apply to fugitive slaves. (Ante, p. 392.) Lieber questioned in a letter this peculiar interpretation, and Sumner replied to him at length, March 14 and 17, 1864, maintaining that on the principle of the Somerset case slavery was so odious and contrary to natural right that it could not be legalized or recognized by inference or indirect language. The bill encountered not only Democratic opposition, led by Buckalew, Hendricks, and Reverdy Johnson, but also resistance from a number of Republican senators, led by Sherman and Foster, who sought to save the statute of 1793. Sherman's amendment, excluding this early statute from repeal,—legislation which in his view was constitutional and preserving the
Lucius R. Paige, History of Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1630-1877, with a genealogical register, Genealogical Register (search)
1784, it appears that the children of John and Anna Borland, besides those previously named, were John Lindall: James (of New York); Francis (physician, of Boston); Phebe, wife of George Spooner of Boston; and Jane, wife of Jonathan Simpson of Cambridge. Of these, John Lindall, grad. H. C. 1772, was Lieut.-col. in the British service, and d. in England, 16 Nov. 1825; Francis, grad. H. C. 1774, resided a few years in Boston and Portsmouth, N. H., and was probably the same who died at Somerset, Mass., in 1820, aged 86. John the f. was probably s. of Francis Borland of Boston,— who was b. 28 Dec. 1691, m. Jane, dau. of Hon. Timothy Lindall of Salem, 22 Sept. 1726, and died 16 Sept. 1763,— and grandson of John Borland, one of the principal merchants of Boston, who d. 30 Mar. 1727, aged 68. Bosworth, Jonathan, was here in 1632. In 1635 he owned a house and land on the westerly side of Garden Street, not far from the Botanic Garden. He prob. left early. It would seem that he was
Lucius R. Paige, History of Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1630-1877, with a genealogical register, B. (search)
1784, it appears that the children of John and Anna Borland, besides those previously named, were John Lindall: James (of New York); Francis (physician, of Boston); Phebe, wife of George Spooner of Boston; and Jane, wife of Jonathan Simpson of Cambridge. Of these, John Lindall, grad. H. C. 1772, was Lieut.-col. in the British service, and d. in England, 16 Nov. 1825; Francis, grad. H. C. 1774, resided a few years in Boston and Portsmouth, N. H., and was probably the same who died at Somerset, Mass., in 1820, aged 86. John the f. was probably s. of Francis Borland of Boston,— who was b. 28 Dec. 1691, m. Jane, dau. of Hon. Timothy Lindall of Salem, 22 Sept. 1726, and died 16 Sept. 1763,— and grandson of John Borland, one of the principal merchants of Boston, who d. 30 Mar. 1727, aged 68. Bosworth, Jonathan, was here in 1632. In 1635 he owned a house and land on the westerly side of Garden Street, not far from the Botanic Garden. He prob. left early. It would seem that he was
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Massachusetts in the Army and Navy during the war of 1861-1865, vol. 2, I. List of officers from Massachusetts in United States Navy, 1861 to 1865. (search)
s.Mass.-Captain.Navy Yard, Pensacola.---- Armstrong, William M.,-Mass.Mass.Jan. 23, 1864.Actg. Ensign.IukaEast Gulf.Aug. 17, 1865.Hon. discharged.Actg. Ensign. Arnaud, William S., Credit, Plainfield.-Mass.Mass.Nov. 22, 1862.Actg. Master's Mate.Monongahela; Tioga.West Gulf; East Gulf.Aug. 29. 1866.Hon. discharged.Actg. Master's Mate. Arnold, William, In service prior to 1861.N. Y.Mass.--Gunner.--Mar. 21, 1863.Deceased.Gunner. Arthur, William A.,-Mass.Mass.Mar. 25, 1862.Actg. Master.Somerset; Potomac Flotilla.East Gulf.Mar. 1, 1866.Hon. discharged.Actg. Master. Ashbury, George, Credit. Springfield.-Mass.Mass.Aug. 25, 1861.Actg. Master.Stars and Stripes.East Gulf.Dec. 8, 1865.Hon. discharged.Actg. Master. Aspinwall, John, See enlistment. Credits, Lynn, Hadley.Mass.Mass.Mass.June 9, 1862.Actg. Master's Mate.Commo. Barney.North Atlantic.Jan. 4, 1866.Hon. discharged.Actg. Ensign. July 28, 1864.Actg. Ensign. Aspinwall, J. S. G.,N. Y.Mass.Mass.Nov. 16, 1861.Actg. 2d Asst.
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