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Academy afterwards aged ancient Middlesex annexed appointed April 19 April 28 Assistant Register August became Billerica Board of County Born Boston bounds Cambridge Captain Chairman Charles Charlestown Chelmsford cities are printed Clerk of Courts Colonel Colonial common land Concord County Commissioners court are given Daniel date is given date signifies David Townsend death December Deputy Sheriff descendant died different volumes District Attorney Dracut Dunstable elected Eliot England estab established extinct cities father February February 25 following a date Framingham Francis given in different Gookin Governor Graduated from Harvard Groton honors James January John Winthrop July June Lexington Lieutenant lished Loammi Baldwin Lowell Malden March March 13 Massachusetts Medford Melrose Middlesex County Names of cities Natick Newton November October praying Indians printed in SMALL records under different Register of Deeds Register of Probate Representative Samuel Selectman September served settled Shirley Somerville Stoneham Waltham Watertown Westford William Woburn
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Page 9 - Company for the land from three miles south 'of the Charles River to three miles north of the Merrimac, and westward to the
Page 11 - England, and for the directing, ruling, and disposing of all other matters and things, whereby our said people, inhabitants there, may be so religiously, peaceably, and civilly governed, as their good life and orderly conversation, may win and incite the natives of [the] country to the knowledge and obedience of the only true God and Saviour of mankind, and the Christian faith, which in our royal intention, and the adventurers' free profession, is the principal end of this plantation.
Page 258 - A veteran of the Civil war, having served as a private in Company C, Fiftieth Massachusetts Volunteers.
Page 49 - It is a noble, generous liquor and we should be humbly thankful for it, but, as I remember, water was made before it.
Page 33 - To him who rooted out the greatest of public evils, Idleness and Mendicity, relieved and instructed the poor, and founded many institutions for the education of youth. — Go, Wanderer, and strive to equal him in genius and activity, and us in gratitude.
Page 10 - River, and all lands and hereditaments whatsoever lying within the limits aforesaid, north and south in latitude and breadth, and...
Page 305 - ... 9.) The asterisk (*) following a date signifies that it is Old Style. Many of the doings of the court are given in different volumes of the early records under different dates, usually, however, in the same year. The earliest date is given in these tables. The dates that appear in the column headed "First mentioned in the records of the State...
Page 11 - H their heirs and associates, that part of New England between Merrimack river and Charles river, in the bottom of the Massachusetts Bay ; and three miles to the south of every part of Charles river and of the southernmost part of said bay ; and three miles to the north of every part of said Merrimack river ; and in length within the breadth aforesaid from the Atlantic ocean to the South Sea, &c.
Page 38 - In the former city he was attacked with cholera during a severe epidemic, from the effects of which he never fully recovered. He died April 9, 1849, sincerely lamented, having successfully performed the great work with which he had been intrusted.