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History of Cambridge, Massachusetts

1630 1877

Volume 1

LUCIUS R. PAIGE

History of Cambridge 1, L. R. Paige

Jazzybee Verlag Jrgen Beck

86450 Altenmnster, Loschberg 9

Deutschland

ISBN: 9783849651091

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CONTENTS:

Preface.

In collecting materials for a History of Cambridge, I examined first its Municipal Records, which are continuous from the beginning, but generally brief, and its Registry of Births and Deaths, which, during the second hundred years after the foundation of the town, is very defective. To supply what was lacking, I consulted such printed authorities as were accessible, together with the manuscript Records and Archives of the Commonwealth, of the judicial courts, and of several counties, cities, towns, churches, and libraries. My thanks are due to all the custodians of such books, and records, and archives, for their uniform courtesy and kindness. I have also obtained many genealogical details from the Church Record of Baptisms and Burials, from Probate Records and Files, from inscriptions on gravestones, and from funeral sermons, and newspapers. After the expenditure of much time and labor, however, I am conscious of many deficiencies.

It will be seen that the Genealogical Register is chiefly confined to the families who dwelt in Cambridge before the year 1700,--the descendants of such as remained here being traced down to a recent period. A very few families are included who became residents at a later date; but these form the exception, not the rule. So also in regard to the History, comparatively few recent events are mentioned. It would be impracticable, in a single volume, to include with our ancient annals everything which those who are now living have witnessed, and to trace the genealogy of all our nearly fifty thousand inhabitants. A line must be drawn somewhere; but whether I have drawn it in the most proper place, there may be various opinions.

Moreover, the reader may be disappointed because he finds so little concerning Harvard College, and the military occupation of Cambridge, at the commencement of the Revolutionary War; but the facts stated on pages 365 (note) and 408 are believed to justify the omission. The almost entire absence of legendary lore may be regretted; but it should be considered, that while it may have been my misfortune, it was not my fault, that I was not born in Cambridge, and that I had no opportunity in the first thirty years of my life to gather the local traditions, which so deeply impress the youthful mind, and which tinge the facts of history with such a brilliant, though often a deceptive light. If lack of vigor and sprightliness be regarded as a serious fault of style, I may plead in extenuation, that although many of my materials were gathered long ago, I was obliged by other engagements, literary as well as secular, to postpone their final arrangement for publication, until impaired health and the infirmities of age became uncomfortably manifest.

Lucius R. Paige

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.

	William Westwood.1	Public Lot.
	James Olmstead.	Edward Goffe.
	William Pantry.	Harvard College.2
	Rev. Thomas Hooker.	Rev. Thomas Shepard.
	John White.3	Richard Champney.4
	John Clark.5	Thomas Beal.6
	William Wadsworth.7	Samuel Shepard.8
	John White.	Thomas Danforth.
	John Hopkins.9	Mark Pierce.
	John White.10	Edward Collins.
	William Goodwin.	Samuel Shepard.
	John Steele.	Robert Bradish.
	William Wadsworth.	Richard Champney.
	Widow Esther Muzzey.	Henry Dunster.11
	Daniel Abbott.	Francis Moore.
	Daniel Abbott.	John Russell.
	Thomas Heate.	Thomas Marrett.
	Christopher Cane.	William Towne.
	Nathaniel Hancock.	Nathaniel Hancock.
	George Steele.	Edward Goffe.12
	Edward Stebbins.	Nathan Aldus.
	Timothy Stanley.	William French.
	Jonas Austin.	Katherine Haddon.
	John Hopkins.	Edmund Angier.
	Thomas Beale.	Thomas Beale.
	Rev. Samuel Stone.	Nathaniel Sparhawk.
	Simon Bradstreet, Esq.	Herbert Pelham, Esq.13
	Abraham Morrill.	Thomas Skidmore.
	Samuel Greenhill.	Turges.
	John Pratt.	Widow Elizabeth Isaac.
	William Spencer.	John Stedman.
	Thomas Spencer.	William Dickson.
	John Haynes, Esq.	Henry Dunster.
	Market Place.14	Market Place.
	James Ensign.	Edward Goffe.15
	Rev. Samuel Stone.16	Nathaniel Sparhawk.17
	Widow Isabel Sackett.	Robert Stedman.
	Matthew Allen.	Thomas Chesholme.
	Meeting-house.	Meeting-house.
	Samuel Dudley.	Robert Sanders.
	William Andrews.	Hezekiah Usher.
	William Lewis.	John Bridge.
	George Stocking.	William Manning.
	Nicholas Olmstead.18	John French.
	Joseph Reading.

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