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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 2: (search)
e width of the road, and thus allowed fording ways at their sides. It was formerly the custom for those travelling with horses or driving cattle to let their horses and cattle pass through the brook, and drink. The multiplication of wells, in public squares and frequented places, has helped to change the old habits; and now, generally, these watering-places are covered. The bridge at Penny Ferry (Malden) was opened for travel, Sept. 28, 1787; and President Washington rode over it in October, 1789, when he visited Salem. At that time, he came to Medford to see his friend, General Brooks, who lived in the first house west of the meeting-house. Medford opposed the building of the bridge on two grounds: first, that it would encumber navigation ; and, second, that it would divert travel from Medford. March 4, 1802, the town chose a Committee to compel the proprietors of Malden Bridge to build the piers, next the draw, required by their act of incorporation. To show how general a
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Papineau, Louis Joseph 1789-1871 (search)
Papineau, Louis Joseph 1789-1871 Politician; born in Montreal, Canada, in October, 1789; educated at the Seminary of Quebec; admitted to the bar; and entered the Lower Canadian Parliament in 1809, becoming speaker in 1815. He became a leader of the radical, or opposition, party at the beginning of his public life. He opposed the union of the two Canadas, at which the English party aimed, and in 1823 he was sent on a mission to London, to remonstrate against that measure. In 1827 he was again a member of the House, and elected its speaker; and in 1834 he introduced to that body a list of the demands and grievances of the Lower Canadians, known as the Ninety-two resolutions. He supported the resolutions with great ability, and recommended constitutional resistance to the British government and commercial non-intercourse with England. Matters were brought to a crisis in 1837, when the new governor (Lord Gosford) decided to administer the government without the assistance of t
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Washington, George (search)
s to the Supreme Ruler of the Universe in behalf of me. May you, and the people whom you represent, be the happy subjects of the divine benedictions both here and hereafter. To the Synod of the Reformed Dutch Church in North America. October, 1789. I receive with a grateful heart your pious and affectionate address, and with truth declare to you that no circumstance of my life has affected me more sensibly, or produced more pleasing emotions, than the friendly congratulations, and shappiness, and I beseech the Almighty to take you and yours under his special care. To the religious Society called Quakers, at their yearly meeting for Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Delaware, and the Western part of Maryland and Virginia. October, 1789. I receive with pleasure your affectionate address, and thank you for the friendly sentiments and good wishes, which you express for the success of my administration and for my personal happiness. We have reason to rejoice in the prospe
The Cambridge of eighteen hundred and ninety-six: a picture of the city and its industries fifty years after its incorporation (ed. Arthur Gilman), Cambridge Common. (search)
House in Harvard Square, then occupied as his headquarters, to the elm on the Common. The army was drawn up in line under command of General Artemas Ward, who read Washington's commission to the assembled multitude, and made proclamation of the same to the army. Washington then advanced a few paces, made a brief address, drew his sword, and assumed the command, which he held until the treaty of peace was signed, and the independence of the United States acknowledged by England. In October, 1789, Washington, then President of the United States, made his last tour through New England. At Weston, October 23, he was met by a company of horse from Cambridge, and escorted to this Common. On arrival, he was saluted with salvos of artillery under charge of General Brooks, who met him at the head of about one thousand militia. Soon after, he left the Common, and proceeded to Harvard Hall, to meet the officers of the college, who had assembled to receive him. One hundred years ago,
Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 11., Unpublished Manuscripts. (search)
ll would attach to page 283 of his copy of the history, as he himself had done. Mr. Swan came from his home in New York to his brother's obsequies, and on meeting Mr. Hall they talked of their school days long past. Doubtless they exchanged memories pleasant and otherwise that hark back to the days when the oil of birch was freely used. With little regard for usage, he found it in his power, and his memoranda are a valuable contribution to Medford annals. Schoolmasters in Medford. Oct., 1789. [Mr] Prentiss, [schoolhouse] now Mr. Train's house. When Gen'l Washington visited Col. Brooks. About 1790. Nathaniel Thayer. Settled as minister of Lancaster in 1793. Father of John E. Thayer and Brother, Brokers, Boston. After 1790. Luther Stearns of Lunenburg. Afterward physician, then principal of Boys' and Girls' Academy in Medford. Died there in 1820, aged 50. After 1790. Joseph Wyman of Woburn. Mr. Pierce his assistant. Afterward principal of Boys' and Gir
Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 12., One of Medford's historic houses. (search)
t about 1790. Mrs Angier then removed to the upper part of the town and afterward moved into the country. Mr Fitch never lived in the house. He enlarged it to its present dimension and gave the east half to his youngest son Charles (a bachelor) and the West half to his oldest daughter Abigail, Mrs Tarbett (whose husband Hugh Tarbett a Scotchman went off with the Tories in 1776, and she lived and died a quasi widow). Charles rented the east half to General Brooks who lived there in October, 1789 and entertained General Washington there at breakfast when he visited Boston and Salem that year About 1790, Charles sold his half of the house and the land in front down to the Salt marsh, to Mr Andrew Blanchard, who about 1809 sold the land in front to Tim. Bigelow Esqr for $1000, and often scolded himself that he did not ask more, as he was sure Mr Bigelow would have given it. In the spring of 1813 Mr Blanchard sold his half of the house to Capt. Samuel Swan, who bought the west half
Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 15., The Jonathan Watson house. (search)
s, then a bachelor, and the west-tern to his daughter, also an Abigail. She is said to have lived and died a quasi widow, for her Scotch husband, Hugh Tarbett, was a Loyalist, and decamped with the Tories in 1776. Charles Fitch rented his half to General John Brooks (afterwards and for seven years governor), who had taken up the practice of medicine in Medford after the Revolution. It was here that he was living when President Washington visited him while on his New England tour, in October, 1789, coming from Boston early in the morning, and going from Medford to Salem. The Medford schoolhouse was then close by and the school kept by Mr. Prentiss. He ranged his young charges before the house, each holding a quill that the illustrious visitor might know that they were school children. Seventy years afterward the testimony of aged residents—these former school children—was gathered up by one interested, and incidents carefully noted. Of these written, but unpublished, notes
Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 16., Distinguished guests and residents of Medford. (search)
being graduates of Harvard, began their public life as teachers in our town school, and though their residence was only for a brief period, as they became eminent in professional circles, it is pleasant to mark their connection with the history of Medford:— First. Nathaniel Thayer graduated from college at the age of nineteen, and at twenty began the study of divinity with Dr. Osgood, at the same time taking charge of our grammar school. He was teacher in the second schoolhouse from October, 1789, to December, 1790. He was ordained when twenty-four years of age and became pastor of the Unitarian Church in Lancaster, where he was a loved and respected pastor for fifty years. His father had served the church in Hampton, N. H., forty years. Dr. Osgood preached the sermon, taking his text from Acts 20:;27, For I have not shunned to declare unto you all the counsel of God. The good doctor must have had a tender and loving feeling for the youth who had been under his instruction and
The Daily Dispatch: January 15, 1861., [Electronic resource], The National crisis. (search)
nt upon which the people insisted more vehemently than on almost any other, that there should be perfect equality. Dr. Guillotin, impelled no doubt by public opinion, not less than by his own philanthropic zeal, determined to bring this matter before the Assembly on the first convenient opportunity.--One did not immediately occur, however, the populace and the Assembly being taken up, during the first two or three months, with matters of more immediate importance. At last, on the 3d of October, 1789, he brought forward a series of propositions, to the effect that crimes of the same kind shall be punished in the same way — that in all cases of capital punishment the criminal shall be beheaded "by a machine"--that the punishment shall not affect the family of the criminal — that no one shall be allowed to reproach the family or relations of a criminal with his punishment — that the criminal's property shall not be confiscated — and that the bodies shall be delivered to the family, no
The Daily Dispatch: December 29, 1864., [Electronic resource], A Sketch of Savannah. (search)
or. Among the charitable institutions may be mentioned the Orphan Asylum, the Savannah Hospital, the Georgia Infirmary, the Union Society, the Widows' Society, the Savannah Free School, Hibernian and St. Andrew's Societies, and Seamen's Friend Society. A monument has been erected in Johnson Square to the memory of General Greene, and another (a most imposing structure) to the memory of Pulaski, the noble Pole who gallantly fell in an attack on the city, when held by the British, in October, 1789. The city is lighted with gas, and well supplied with water from the Savannah river. Savannah is the centre of a very extensive system of railroads, which contributed vastly to its commercial importance and general prosperity. Thirteen railroads, direct or tributary, converged to Savannah in 1861, and their united length measured one thousand and fifty-five miles. The workshops and depots of the Georgia Central railroad are located at Savannah, and are confessedly the most giga