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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 8: Education. (search)
, as I had studied it, I was invited to lecture in each of the New England States. I went to Portsmouth, Concord, Nashua, and Keene, N. H.; to Providence and Newport, R. I.; to Hartford, Conn.; to New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania. I went through our own State, holding conventions at the large central towns. All this time I se Medford, November, 1740, and served his apprenticeship, at the printing-business, with his uncle, Daniel Fowle, of Portsmouth. He began business in 1763, at Newport, R. I., in company with Anne Franklin. He left Newport in March, 1768, and opened a printing-office in Salem in April, and commenced the publication of the Essex GaNewport in March, 1768, and opened a printing-office in Salem in April, and commenced the publication of the Essex Gazette, Aug. 2 of that year. In 1772, he admitted his brother Ebenezer as partner in trade; and the firm was Samuel and Ebenezer Hall. They remained in Salem until May, 1775, when they removed to Cambridge, and printed in Stoughton Hall. Their paper was then called New England chronicle and Salem Gazette. Ebenezer was born in Me
HISTORY OF THE TOWN OF MEDFORD, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, FROM ITS FIRST SETTLEMENT, IN 1630, TO THE PRESENT TIME, 1855. (ed. Charles Brooks), Chapter 15: Historical items. (search)
and the patient grew worse daily. The physicians and surgeons did all they could, and finally assured him that nothing but amputation could save his life. With a Jew's traditionary prejudice against that operation, he firmly answered thus: No! I will never go into heaven with one leg. He left about two hundred thousand dollars; and distributed it, by will, in legacies varying from five to twenty thousand dollars. He gave much in charity. He left a large sum to keep the synagogue in Newport, R. I., in good repair. 1825.--Parties in the Woods. Within the first twenty years of this century, it was customary for select parties of girls and boys, in whortleberry-time, to go into the woods near Pine Hill, or at the Bower, and there frolic in true rustic style. A long extempore table was crowded with eatables, which had been contributed by the several members of the party. Rural dresses and schoolboy manners gave zest to the occasion; while dancing on the grass allowed all to join.
HISTORY OF THE TOWN OF MEDFORD, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, FROM ITS FIRST SETTLEMENT, IN 1630, TO THE PRESENT TIME, 1855. (ed. Charles Brooks), chapter 18 (search)
b. Feb. 22, 1711.  24Rebecca, b. Jan. 28, 1713; m. Z. Poole, of Read., Sept, 18, 1730.  25Samuel, b. Apr. 21, 1715.  26Nathaniel, b. Feb. 20, 1720.  27Simon, b. Mar. 28, 1725.  28Elizabeth, b. May 18, 1729.  28 1/2Samuel Wade m.--------, and had--  28 1/2-29James, b. June, 1750.  30Edward, b. June 7, 1746.   A dau. m. Mr. Dexter.   A dau. m. Mr. Barker.   A dau. m. Mr. Weeden.   ----Wade m.--------, and had--  31John. 28 1/2-29James Wade m. Mary, dau. of Rev. Edward Upham, of Newport, and had by her--  29-32Martha, m. Wm. Brigden, of Windsor, Wis.  33Nancy B., m. John Pickett.  34Mary. m. William Bettis.  35James.  36Samuel.  37Theodore L.  38Charles H.  39Benjamin F.  40Edward. 28 1/2-30Edward Wade m. Rebecca Harnden, June 10, 1770, and had--  30-41Edward, b. Mar. 5, 1780.  42Fitch, unm.  43Henry. unm.  44Rebecca, m. Major John Wade.  45Lucy, m. Stephen Waitt, of Malden.  46Pamelia, m. Daniel Waitt, of Malden.  47Susan, m. 1