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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Atlantic Essays, A charge with Prince Rupert. (search)
s in proportion as the Puritans laid them down; and as the tresses of the Cavaliers waved more luxuriantly, the hair of the Roundheads was more scrupulously shorn. And the same instinctive exaggeration was constantly extending into manners and morals also. Both sides became ostentatious; the one made the most of its dissoluteness, and the other of its decorum. The reproachful names applied derisively to the two parties became fixed distinctions. The word Roundhead was first used early in 1642, though whether it originated with Henrietta Maria or with David Hyde is disputed. And Charles, in his speech before the battle of Edgehill, in October of the same year, mentioned the name Cavalier as one bestowed in a reproachful sense, and one which our enemies have striven to make odious. And all social as well as moral prejudices gradually identified themselves with this party division. As time passed on, all that was high-born in England gravitated more and more to the royal side, w
Cambridge sketches (ed. Estelle M. H. Merrill), Tory row. (search)
in the fact that this house was once occupied by Margaret Fuller. The parlor and the room above are practically unchanged still, the former showing some handsome panelled wainscoting and, about the fireplace, probably the first Italian marble brought to America. The next house in Tory Row was that at the corner of Hawthorn street, known as the old Batchelder or Vassall place. This is one of the oldest houses in Cambridge, as it was mentioned in the early records as being already built in 1642. In 1717 the estate came by inheritance to Jonathan Belcher, afterwards royal governor of the province, and into the possession of the Vassall family in 1736, having been purchased by Colonel John Vassall. Five years later it was sold by him to his brother, Colonel Henry Vassall. It was he, probably, who built the ancient brick wall forming the boundary line of the estate at the corner of Brattle and Ash streets (then known as Windmill Lane), which has been a landmark in Cambridge for so m
Cambridge sketches (ed. Estelle M. H. Merrill), Historic churches and homes of Cambridge. (search)
days; Christo et Ecclesiae was the college motto. In 1638 Newtowne became Cambridge, and the same year the college was called Harvard. Its first leader, Nathaniel Eaton, for maltreating his pupils was dismissed, and for a time Samuel Shepard administered the college affairs. In 1664, however, Henry Dunster became president. He was a member of Shepard Church, as was also Elijah Corlet, master of the Faire Grammar School, on the site of which the Washington Grammar School now stands. In 1642 the first college commencement was held in the First Church. In 1649 a new church was erected on nearly the present site of Dane Hall at Harvard Square. In this same year, before the church was completed, Mr. Shepard died. We have the record of him as the holy, heavenly, sweet-affecting, soul-ravishing preacher. Next to Shepard came Mitchel, almost equally celebrated for piety and eloquence. Cotton Mather and Richard Baxter praise him highly, and President Increase Mather said to his
Lucius R. Paige, History of Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1630-1877, with a genealogical register, Key to the plan of Cambridge in 1635 . (search)
Key to the plan of Cambridge in 1635 . Indicating the owners and occuprants of the several lots, in 1635, and in 1642. All are supposed to have been homesteads, unless otherwise designated. 1William Westwood. Forfeited; afterwards called Watch-house Hill; site of the Meeting-house from 1650 to 1833.Public Lot. 2James Olmstead.Edward Goffe. 3William Pantry.Harvard College. Uncertain whether then occupied by a house or not. 4Rev. Thomas Hooker.Rev. Thomas Shepard. 5John White. Vacant lot.Richard Champney. Vacant lot. 6John Clark. Vacant lot.Thomas Beal. Vacant lot. 7William Wadsworth. Vacant lot.Samuel Shepard. Vacant lot. 8John White.Thomas Danforth. 9John Hopkins. Vacant lot.Mark Pierce. 10John White. Vacant lot.Edward Collins. 11William Goodwin.Samuel Shepard. 12John Steele.Robert Bradish. 13William Wadsworth.Richard Champney. 14Widow Esther Muzzey.Henry Dunster. House, but apparently not a homestead. 15Daniel Abbott.Francis Moo
Lucius R. Paige, History of Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1630-1877, with a genealogical register, Chapter 12: civil History. (search)
stwardly from small lot hill, the first two were owned by Governor Thomas Dudley and his son Samuel Dudley. When Dudley left Cambridge his real estate was purchased by Roger Harlakenden, who died in 1638, and his widow married Herbert Pelham. In 1642, Pelham appears to have owned the above mentioned lots, together with the next two, formerly owned by Richard Goodman and William Westwood; the whole containing 118 acres, After 1719, Mr. Pelham's great lot is generally described as containing ot of Atherton Hough (or Haugh) in Graves his neck, containing 130 acres in 1635, and embracing all the upland in East Cambridge, was enlarged, by the addition of the lots originally assigned to John Talcott, Matthew Allen, and Mrs. Mussey, before 1642, when it was described as containing 267 acres. Subsequently the 63 acre lot of Governor Haynes was added, and when the estate was purchased, Aug. 15, 1706, by Spencer Phips (afterwards Lieut.-governor), it was said to contain 300 acres more or le
Lucius R. Paige, History of Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1630-1877, with a genealogical register, Chapter 15: ecclesiastical History. (search)
ngland in 1635. Their first settlement, says Dr. Holmes, was at Concord, in Massachusetts; whence, a year after, they removed to Saybrook, in Connecticut; and, not long after, to Wethersfield. Their next removal was to Stamford, where Mr. Mitchell, the father, died in 1645, aetat. LV. The classical studies of his son Jonathan were suspended for several years after his arrival in America; but, on the earnest advice of some that had observed his great capacity, they were at length resumed in 1642. In 1645, at the age of twenty-one, he entered Harvard College. Here he became religiously impressed under Mr. Shepard's ministry, which he so highly estimated as afterward to observe, unless it had been four years living in heaven, I know not how I could have more cause to bless God with wonder, than for those four years spent at the university. He was an indefatigable student, and made great acquirements in knowledge and virtue. His extraordinary learning, wisdom, gravity, and piety, oc
Lucius R. Paige, History of Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1630-1877, with a genealogical register, Chapter 18: education. (search)
as elected in 1845. He served the city two years afterwards as teacher of penmanship. The first school-house known to have been erected in Cambridge stood on the westerly side of Holyoke Street, about midway between Harvard and Mount Auburn streets. This lot was used for a school-house until 1769; not many years later, a printing office was erected on nearly if not precisely the same spot, which has thus been devoted almost continuously to the cause of literature. The lot was owned in 1642 by Henry Dunster, President of the College; it contained a quarter of an acre of land, on which there was then a house, which was not his dwelling-house. There are reasons for believing that the faire Grammar Schoole had been established in that house, and that it remained there five or six years. It seems probable that the school-house mentioned in the following agreement was afterwards erected on that lot, and designed for that school:— Articles of agreement between Henry Dunster an
Lucius R. Paige, History of Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1630-1877, with a genealogical register, Chapter 20: Indian History. (search)
ge to make a fence of two sufficient rails in the town line, about half a mile in length, the fence to begin at the outside of George Cooke's land, running out northward to meet Captain Gibbines his fence, to secure the Indian's corn, it is agreed that the town will pay for the making the fence. Again, Nov. 11, 1643, Agreed, that the cow-keepers shall pay six bushels of corn to Squa-Sachem, for the damage done to her corn, upon the Sabbath day, through the neglect of the keepers, in the year 1642. On the 8th of March, 1643-4, the Squa-Sachim with four other Indian rulers, voluntarily put herself under the government and jurisdiction of the Massachusetts, to be governed and protected by them, and promised to be true and faithful to the said government. Mass. Col. Rec., II. 55. She is supposed to have died not long before 1662, when a claim was made for land in which she had reserved a life estate. Brooks' Hist. Medford, p. 74. One of the Indian Chiefs, who united with the
Lucius R. Paige, History of Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1630-1877, with a genealogical register, Chapter 23: civil officers. (search)
1635. Matthew Allen, 1636. George Cooke, 1636, 1642-1645. Speaker in 1645. Clement Chaplin, 1636. Shepard, 1639, 1640, 1644, 1645. Nath. Sparhawk, 1642-1644, 1646, 1647. Edward Goffe, 1646, 1650. Edwaarnabas Lamson, 1636. Edward Winship, 1637, 1638, 1642– 1644, 1646, 1648, 1650, 1651, 1662, 1663, 1673, 1682, 1684. George Cooke, 1638, 1642, 1643. Samuel Shepard, 1638. Joseph Isaac, 1638. Thomas Parish, John Moore,* 1639. Thomas Brigham, 1639, 1640, 1642, 1647. Edmund Angier,* 1640. John Stedman, 1641640. Edward Collins,* 1641. Roger Shaw, 1641, 1642, 1644, 1645. John Russell, 1642, 1643,.1648. E1642, 1643,.1648. Edward Oakes, 1642-1646, 1648, 1649, 1652, 1655, 1657-1664, 166-1668, 1670-1678. Herbert Pelham, 1645. Th1642-1646, 1648, 1649, 1652, 1655, 1657-1664, 166-1668, 1670-1678. Herbert Pelham, 1645. Thomas Beale, 1645, 1647, 1651, 1653. Richard Hildreth, 1645. Thomas Danforth, 1645-1669, 1671. John Co Joseph Isaac, 1638. Probably. Roger Shaw, 1642. Probably. Thomas Danforth, 1645-1668. Joh
Lucius R. Paige, History of Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1630-1877, with a genealogical register, Genealogical Register (search)
l and military affairs. He was Selectman 1638, 1642, 1643; Deputy or Representative, 1636, 1642-164t, and by w. Jane, had Dorcas, b.—Aug. 1638, d. 1642; John,b.—Aug. 1639; Joseph, b. about 1641; ElizDaniel, was in Ipswich 1637, and had Daniel, b. 1642; John; Thomas, b. 1648; James, killed by the In on the road leading to the Fresh Pond. Before 1642 he purchased a house and land on the easterly s Payne), is styled Mr. on our Records 1639. In 1642 he owned house and land at the S. E. corner of ia, b. m. Cohn Johnson, 28 Ap. 1657; Israel, b. 1642, m. Mary Kendall, d. 29 June 1711; Sarah, b.——,righton and Winthrop streets, where she res. in 1642. She was prob. the same person who sheltered ly: (1) Elizabeth, the eldest dau., b. 1641, or 1642, m. Nathaniel Upham, son of Deac. John Upham of Malden, 5 Mar. 1661-2; he was a preacher, but had not been ordained; he survived his marriage butniel Dana, 21 June 1721. Usher, Hezekiah, in 1642 res. at the N. E. corner of Dunster and Winthro[38 more.
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