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Horace Greeley, The American Conflict: A History of the Great Rebellion in the United States of America, 1860-65: its Causes, Incidents, and Results: Intended to exhibit especially its moral and political phases with the drift and progress of American opinion respecting human slavery from 1776 to the close of the War for the Union. Volume II. 4 0 Browse Search
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Browsing named entities in HISTORY OF THE TOWN OF MEDFORD, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, FROM ITS FIRST SETTLEMENT, IN 1630, TO THE PRESENT TIME, 1855. (ed. Charles Brooks). You can also browse the collection for Eden or search for Eden in all documents.

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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 13: population. (search)
took up the subject of dress,--female dress, too,--is a proof of their clear ideas and consistent characters. What body of men had ever before dared thus to legislate on such a subject? It is very evident to us, therefore, what kind of dress the Medford ladies had not; and we can conceive the dumb wonder and inexpressible blushing which the appearance of one of our expose celebrities would cause among them at an evening party. It is wonderful how the highest civilization brings us back to Eden! The common every-day dress of our ancestors was very plain, strong, and comfortable; but their Sunday suits were expensive, elaborate, and ornamental. The men, in their Sunday attire, wore broad-brimmed hats, turned up into three corners, with loops at the side, showing full bush-wigs beneath them; long coats, the very opposite of the swallowtails, having large pocket-folds and cuffs, and without collars, the buttons either plated or of pure silver, and of the size of half a dollar; vest
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)
, 1838.  40William Henry, b. 1815; d. Sept. 2, 1823.   note.--In printing these English branches, I have copied from the Life of Sir William Pepperrell, by Usher Parsons, Esq.   Robert Royall, perhaps a brother of Isaac (No. 5), was living with wife Mercy, in Dorchester, July 20, 1741.  1SAMSON, miles, m. Sarah Clough, of Medford, July 9, 1815, who d. Sept. 5, 1824. They had--  1-2Sarah, b. June 1, 1816; m. Philip Putney.  3Miles, b. Oct. 29, 1817; m. 1st, E. Paine; 2d, A. Weston.  4Eden, b. May 25, 1819; m. Mary Ann Tufts.  5Elizabeth C., b. Aug. 7, 1821; m. Albert Hadley, of Eden, Me.   He m., 2d, Charlotte Peirce, April 10, 1825, who d. March 20, 1832; and had--  6Charlotte, b. Aug. 16, 1825.  7Henry, b. Sept. 21, 1829; m. Matilda Headley.  8Mary, b. Sept. 2, 1831; m. Henry Jones.  1SAVEL, Thomas, m. Miriam Royall, Dec. 23, 1773, and had--  1-2Thomas.  3Elizabeth, b. Dec. 20, 1784.  4Miriam, b. Apr. 19, 1787.   Thomas Savel, Jr., m. Mary Francis,