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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 33. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Returning Confederate flags. (search)
ctions. Officers who had served with distinction on the side of the South for four years had cheerfully answered the call to arms and participated in the short struggle with old Spain. The names of Fitz Lee and Wheeler had become as familiar to the minds of men as those of Miles and Shafter. Public opinion had been silently moulded by English and Southern writers. The word rebel had been changed in histories and essays for the more euphonious term Confederate. The houses of York and Lancaster in the New World were drifting close together through the logic of events. The time was ripe and the appeal was answered gracefully. The report of the House Committee said in part: Thus it will appear that the administration in 1887 advised the return of these flags to the properly constituted authorities of the States, and that former Secretaries of War had before that time returned 44 of these flags and that most likely all would have been returned but for the fact that the Adju
The writings of John Greenleaf Whittier, Volume 5. (ed. John Greenleaf Whittier), Tales and Sketches (search)
hose who used curious arts after the manner of the Ephesians, they sacrificed the students themselves on the same pile. Hence we hear little of learned and scientific wizards in New England. One remarkable character of this kind seems, however, to have escaped the vigilance of our modern Doctors of the Mosaic Law. Dr. Robert Child came to this country about the year 1644, and took up his residence in the Massachusetts colony. He was a man of wealth, and owned plantations at Nashaway, now Lancaster, and at Saco, in Maine. He was skilful in mineralogy and metallurgy, and seems to have spent a good deal of money in searching for mines. He is well known as the author of the first decided movement for liberty of conscience in Massachusetts, his name standing at the head of the famous petition of 1646 for a modification of the laws in respect to religious worship, and complaining in strong terms of the disfranchisement of persons not members of the Church. A tremendous excitement was p
Benjamin Cutter, William R. Cutter, History of the town of Arlington, Massachusetts, ormerly the second precinct in Cambridge, or District of Menotomy, afterward the town of West Cambridge. 1635-1879 with a genealogical register of the inhabitants of the precinct., chapter 9 (search)
5 Dec. 1754. 2. Jonathan, Jr., had w. Susanna o. c. 4 Sept. 1763, and Susanna, b. 8 Feb., bap. 4 Sept. 1763. See Wyman's Charlestown, 135. 3. John, 3d, of Lancaster, and Mary Brown of Camb. m. 3 Dec. 1767. Prob. s. of John Brooks of Woburn and Hannah (Cutter) Brooks, dau. of Dea. John Cutter—see Cutter Book, 45, and Cutter Oct. 1822. Brown, Daniel and——000, w. of Daniel, adm. to the ch. 22 Feb. 1756. Had Mary, adm. Pct. ch. 11 Oct. 1767—perhaps Mary, who m. John Brooks 3d, of Lancaster, 3 Dec. 1767; a son, d. 22 Jan. 1752, a. 4 yrs.; Lucy, b. 5, bap. 11 Feb. 1753; Elizabeth, b. 25 Feb. bap. 2 Mar. 1755—perhaps Elizabeth, who m. Thomas Cutter, 1rmon, delivered at Worcester, in or about 1826. （5) A Sermon delivered at Lunenburg, Dec. 2, 1827, by David Damon, at the close of his ministry in that town. Lancaster, 1828. Pp. 22. （6) Address delivered at Amesbury, Aug. 2, 1829, previous to the organization of the Salisbury and Amesbury Society for Promoting Temper
Comte de Paris, History of the Civil War in America. Vol. 2. (ed. Henry Coppee , LL.D.), Book II:—the naval war. (search)
r way, they rushed in crowds upon the bluffs overlooking the lists formed by the waters of the great river, where was to be fought the battle upon which their fate depended. A bright sun lighted up this exciting scene. The two flotillas were advancing toward each other. Finding soon that the gun-boats were moving too slowly, Ellet shot ahead of them with his rams; but one of them, the Switzerland, ran aground, broke her rudder, and remained disabled for the rest of the day; another, the Lancaster, being badly commanded, kept aloof from the action. Ellet therefore had only two ships left with which to engage in a close fight, while the gun-boats were discharging their guns as they steamed up. He led the Queen of the West against the General Lovell; and taking advantage of a mistaken manoeuvre on the part of the latter, he struck her and sunk her in the middle of the river. But just as the Federal ram was trying to get free from the wreck of her sinking adversary, she was herself s
Comte de Paris, History of the Civil War in America. Vol. 3. (ed. Henry Coppee , LL.D.), Book II:—--the Mississippi. (search)
eet. The latter was at that time in Deer Creek; but the intrepid General Ellet, who had remained at Young's Point with his rams, soon came on board the Hartford by land, and promised the admiral that two of his vessels, the Switzerland and the Lancaster, commanded by his two brothers, Colonel and Lieutenant-colonel Ellet, would force the Vicksburg passage in order to join him. They were to assist him effectually in intercepting all the communications that the Confederates had established betwestroy, if possible, the Warrenton batteries. The two rams started during the night of the 24th of March, but, their progress having been delayed, it was daylight before they were able to pass Vicksburg. They experienced a terrible fire. The Lancaster, an old ship, almost rotten, was sunk by a cannon-ball which burst her boilers; the Switzerland came to anchor alongside of the Hartford after having received some damages, which were promptly repaired. This affair gave rise to severe remonstr
Charles A. Nelson , A. M., Waltham, past, present and its industries, with an historical sketch of Watertown from its settlement in 1630 to the incorporation of Waltham, January 15, 1739., March 19, 1627-8. (search)
ng young children. The prospect which he had opened was clouded by his premature death. A vessel in which he had embarked for England with some of his converts was never heard of afterwards. Old Mr. Mahew, his worthy father, struck in with his best strength and skill; (Gookin Mass. Hist. Coll. i. 203) and the loss which seemed almost irreparable was not permitted by the aged mourner to be complete and fatal.—Palfrey, II. 340. Others of the town began also a plantation at Nashaway, Lancaster. some 15 miles N. W. from Sudbury, and many of other towns joined them; but they made such slow progress as that in two years they had not three houses built there, and he whom One Mr. Norcross, an university scholar. they had called to be their minister left them for their delays. Among the petitioners for the plantation at Nashaway was Stephen Day, who first introduced printing in New England, having established a printing office at Cambridge, in March, 1638, where the first thing wh
Charles A. Nelson , A. M., Waltham, past, present and its industries, with an historical sketch of Watertown from its settlement in 1630 to the incorporation of Waltham, January 15, 1739., Index. (search)
w made, 136; delicate measurement of, 137. Johnson, Lady, Arbella, death of, 16. Johnson, Mr., death of, 16. Kendall: Jonas B., Josiah S., 79. Kendall's grist-mill, 79, 124. Kimball, Henry, dwelling of, 85. Kimball Tavern, 86-7, 110. King Phillip's War begun, 60-62. King's colors mutilated, 25, 41 n. 4. King's common. 50. Knowles, Rev., John, ordained associate pastor, 46; went to Virginia and returned, 46; returns to England, 48. Laborers, scarcity of, 31. Lancaster, first settlement at, 47 n. 3; attacked by Indians, 60; second attack, 61. Land Bank Co., 94. Land in Great Dividends allotted, 53. Lawrence: Geo. sen., lands of, 70, 79; Jacob, Leonard, 117. Leagues. three up Charles River, 15. Levy by General Court, 100. Levy for palisade at Newtown, 28; resisted by Watertown, 29. Lexington. 100, 107. Library, The Manufacturers', established, 132. Library given to Rumford Institute, 132 Library given to the town, 135. Lieu
George Bancroft, History of the Colonization of the United States, Vol. 1, 17th edition., Colonial History (search)
iddle ages, concentrated upon the Mediterranean Sea, had enriched the Italian republics, and had been chiefly engrossed by their citizens. Maritime enterprise now transferred its seat to the borders of the Atlantic, and became boundless in its range. It set before itself as its great problem the discovery of a pathway by sea to the Indies; and England, which like Spain and Portugal looked out upon the ocean, became a competitor for the unknown world. The wars of the houses of York and Lancaster 1496. had terminated with the intermarriage of the heirs of the two families; the spirit of commercial activity began to be successfully fostered; and the marts of England were frequented by Lombard adventurers. The fisheries of the north had long tempted the merchants of Bristol to an intercourse with Iceland; and had matured the nautical skill that could buffet the worst storms of the Atlantic. Nor is it impossible, that some uncertain traditions respecting the remote discoveries whic
George Bancroft, History of the Colonization of the United States, Vol. 1, 17th edition., Chapter VI (search)
he protector. Hening, i. 496, 497; and 500, 501. When the house unanimously voted the governor's answer unsatisfactory, he expressly revoked the order of dissolution, but still referred the decision of the dispute to Cromwell. The members of the assembly, apprehensive of a limitation of colonial liberty by the Chap VI.} 1658. reference of a political question to England, determined on a solemn assertion of their independent powers. A committee was appointed, of which John Carter, of Lancaster, was the chief; and a complete declaration of popular sovereignty was solemnly made. The governor and council had ordered the dissolution of the assembly; the burgesses now decreed the former election of governor and council to be void. Having thus exercised, not merely the right of election, but the more extraordinary right of removal, they reflected Matthews, who by us, they add, shall be invested with all the just rights and privileges belonging to the governor and captain-general of
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 2, 17th edition., Chapter 12: (search)
ts had ascended as far as the rich meadows of Deerfield and Northfield; but to the west, Berkshire was a wilderness; Westfield was the remotest plantation. Between the towns on Connecticut River and the cluster of towns near Massachusetts Bay, Lancaster and Brookfield were the solitary abodes of Christians in the desert. The government of Massachusetts extended to the Kennebeck, and included more than half the population of New England; the confederacy of the colonies had also Hazard II. 511fore I speak any thing unworthy of myself. Meantime the Indian warriors were not idle. We will fight, said they, these twenty years; you have houses, barns, and corn; we have now nothing to lose; and one town in Massachusetts after another— Lancaster, Medfield, Weymouth, Groton, Marlborough —were laid in ashes. No where was there more distress than at Lancaster. Forty-two persons sought shelter under the roof of Mary Rowlandson; and, after a hot assault, the Indians succeeded in setting
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