CONTENTS.

CHAPTER I.

General description of the town, its several additions and diminutions

of territory.

CHAPTER II.

The New Town selected as fit for a fortified place. General agreement

to erect houses. Several Assistants fail to do so. Controversy be-

tween Dudley and Winthrop. Earliest inhabitants. Canal. Pali-

sade. Arrival of the Braintree Company. Common Pales. Division

of lands. Highways.

CHAPTER III.

First Constable appointed. Deputies to the first General Court.

Monthly meeting. No houses to be erected without permission, nor

outside of the town. All houses to be covered with slate or boards,

not with thatch, and to "range even." Trees not to be cut down

and left in the highways. Cartway. Windmill-hill. Timber not to

be sold out of the town. First Constable elected. Surveyor of high-

ways. Lots not improved to revert to the town. First Townsmen

or Selectmen. Surveyors of lands.

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CHAPTER IV.

Prosperity of the New Town. Magistrates.

Courts.

Dissatisfaction.

John Pratt. Straitness for want of land. Exploration of other

places. Debates and division in the General Court. The town ac-

cepts enlargement offered by Boston and Watertown. Removal to

Hartford. Supposed personal rivalry. Names of early inhabitants.. 23-33

CHAPTER V.

Herd of swine.

Arrival of Shepard's Company, and some of their names. New Mu-
nicipal Officers. New division of lands. Monthly meetings. Ferry.
Lectures. Cow Common. Goats. Herd of cows.
Weir for taking
alewives. Herd on the south side of the river.
Fowls not permitted to enter gardens. Cartway to the weir. Pound.
Stumps. Neither houses nor lands to be sold or let, without consent
of the Townsmen. Strangers not to be harbored. Grant of land to

the Drummer. Fort Hill. Grant of land at Vine Brook. Swine to

be yoked and ringed. Apple trees and other quickset to be pre-

served from damage by goats. Births, marriages, and burials to be

recorded. Farms granted. Grant of money by the General Court

for a College. Organization of the militia. The College to be at

New Town. Marshal General. The New Town named Cambridge.

Printing-press. Bond of Stephen Daye to Jose Glover..

CHAPTER VI.

Contemplated removal to Weathersfield, Conn. Letter from Winthrop

to Hooker. Letter from Hooker to Shepard. Depreciation in the

value of property. Danger of general bankruptcy. Reasons for re-

moving. Sir Henry Vane. Grant of Shawshine to Cambridge. Re-

moval of John Haynes. Death of Roger Harlakenden. Arrival of

Herbert Pelham. Town Spring. Restrictions on the cutting of trees.

Field-drivers, Commissioners to end small causes, Clerk of the

Market, and Sealer of Leather, first elected. Calves impounded.

Eight-penny ordinary for Townsmen. Penalty for absence from

monthly meetings. Prosecution for trespass in the Great Swamp.

Fence-viewers first elected. Remission of tax on account of sickness.

Chimneys to be swept every month and ladders to be kept ready for

reaching the roofs of houses. Orchard. Wharf. Division of Shaw-

shine lands. Incorporation of Billerica.

CHAPTER VII.

Change of Government in England. Cromwell desires to colonize Ja-

maica, and employs Daniel Gookin as special agent. Letters from

Gookin to Secretary Thurloe. Death of Cromwell. Whalley and

Goffe, two of the late King's judges, visit Cambridge. Fragment of

Goffe's Journal. The General Court appoints a Committee, to re-

port concerning "The due observance of obedience and fidelity unto

the authority of England, and our own just privileges." Report of

Committee. Instructions to the " Messengers" sent to England.

Qualified oath of allegiance offered by Gookin and Danforth. The

Messengers to England return with a letter from the King, promising

to confirm the privileges of the people, but requiring sundry changes.

in their laws, Day of thanksgiving appointed. Reply of the General

Court to the King's letter. Commissioners appointed by the King to

enforce obedience. Cambridge sustains the General Court in their

controversy with the Commissioners. Edward Randolph, the "arch-

enemy of the colony." The Charter abrogated, and Sir Edmund

Andros appointed Governor of New England.

CHAPTER VIII.

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The inhabitants on the south side of the river obtain parochial privi-
leges. Their petition for incorporation as a separate town. Elab-
orate and vigorous protest by the Selectmen of Cambridge. After
long delay, Newton is incorporated, under the administration of
Andros. Ship-building in Cambridge. Unruly dogs. Wolf. Drain-

ing of a pond in the centre of the town. Stone wall between Cam-

bridge and Watertown. Committee to inspect families, and to

prevent improper practices. Encroachment on fishing rights in

Menotomy River. Fish Officers.

CHAPTER IX.

President Dudley assumes the government. Protest of the General

Court. Arrival of Governor Andros. Danforth's description of the

public distress. Arbitrary proceedings of Andros. Titles to land de-

clared invalid. Memorial of John Gibson and George Willis. Pro-

ceedings on petition of Edward Randolph for a grant of land in Cam-

bridge. Death of Major-gen. Gookin. Revolution in England.

Governor Andros deposed and imprisoned with several of his adhe-

rents. The old Magistrates reinstated. A new house of Deputies

elected. The inhabitants of Cambridge request the old Officers to re-

sume the government, and pledge life and fortune for their help and

assistance. Letters of Thomas Danforth to Gov. Hinkley and to In-

crease Mather. Danforth omitted from the Council by Mather, but

reinstated by the General Court; appointed Judge of the Superior

Court, but not of that special Court which tried and condemned the

unfortunate persons suspected of witchcraft. Death of Deputy Gov-

ernor Danforth. Cambridge Deputies.

CHAPTER X.

Petition of the "Farmers" for incorporation. Reply of Cambridge

Selectmen. Parochial privileges granted. Harmony not interrupted.

Incorporation of Lexington. Culler of Bricks. County Treasurers.

Bounty for killing wolves. Salary of Treasurers and Jurors. Mar-

shal General. Road to Connecticut. Governor Shute's visit to

Cambridge. Double voting. Small-pox. Strangers not to be ad-

mitted. Dogs. Gratuity to a proposed physician refused. Col. John

Vassall's honors and disappointments. Throat distemper. Repre-

sentatives to the General Court required to serve gratuitously. Part

of Watertown annexed to Cambridge. Bear shot. Fire-engine.

Bills of Mortality. Funeral customs.

CHAPTER XI.

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American Revolution. Resolves by the General Court. Action of
Cambridge in Town Meeting. Riots in Boston. Cambridge disap-
proves riots, and at first refuses, but afterwards consents, that com-
pensation be made from the public treasury. Representative in-
structed to oppose the election of any person to the Council who
already held office of emolument under the Government; and to have
the people admitted to hear the debates of the House. Duties im-
posed on tea and other articles. Action of the General Court, and its
dissolution. Convention of Delegates. Committees of Correspondence.
Action of the Town, and instruction to Representative. Report con-
cerning grievances. Response to Boston by the Committee of Corre-
spondence. Town meeting; earnest protest against the importation of

tea, as an encroachment upon political rights, and denunciation of

all offenders and their abettors as public enemies. Destruction of

tea in Boston Harbor. Boston Port Bill. Donations to Boston. Coun-

cillors appointed by mandamus. Powder removed from the Magazine.

Concourse of people in Cambridge. Resignation of Judge Dan-

forth, Judge Lee, and Col. Oliver. Sheriff Phips promises that he

will not act officially under the new establishment. Gen. Brattle's

letter and explanation. Provincial Congress. Preparations for re-

sistance by force of arms. Cambridge pledges persons and estates

to maintain a Declaration of Independence. Privations during the

War. New General Court organized. Constitution of 1778 rejected.

Constitutional Convention meets at Cambridge. Constitution adopted.

Shays' Rebellion. Letter from the disaffected, and reply. Consti-

tution of the United States approved. Loyalists or Tories, de-

scribed by Madam Riedesel; their estates confiscated; proposition

to permit their return; Cambridge objects, and instructs its Repre-

sentatives.

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CHAPTER XII.

Land-holders in Cambridgeport and East Cambridge. Royal Make-

peace. Improvements after the construction of West Boston Bridge.

Streets and Dikes. Estate of Leonard Jarvis thrown upon the mar-

ket. Andrew Bordman sells freely, and others sparingly. Daven-

port & Makepeace among the most active operators. Turnpikes.

Cambridge established as a Port of Delivery. Canals. School-houses.

Meeting-house. Andrew Craigie becomes owner of almost the whole

territory now called East Cambridge. Canal (or Craigie's) Bridge.

Lechmere Point Corporation. Court House and Jail. Incorpora-

tion of Brighton and West Cambridge. Embargo. War with Eng-

land. Address by the Town to President Jefferson, and his reply.

Further action of the Town. Public rejoicing at the return of

peace.

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CHAPTER XIII.

Great Bridge, and the various methods adopted for its maintenance.

West Boston Bridge. Canal (or Craigie's) Bridge. Prison Point

Bridge. River Street Bridge. Western Avenue Bridge. Brook-

line Bridge. All the Bridges become free. Public Avenues. Sharp

contest in regard to Mount Auburn and Cambridge Streets. Im-

portant legal principle first established in the trial and decision of this

contest.

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CHAPTER XIV.

Shire-town of Middlesex. Half shires. Records removed to Charles-
town; the General Court orders their return. Removal and return.
of the Registry of Deeds. Court houses. House of Correction and
Jail. Place of Execution, or "Gallows Lot." Negro woman burned
at the stake. Support of the Poor. Almshouses. Ordinaries, or
Taverns; committed to the charge of the most grave and discreet

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men.

Blue Anchor. Samuel Gibson fined for unlawfully entertain-
ing Students. Innholders and Retailers during a century. Petitions
of Edmund Angier and John Stedman. Memorial of President Dun-
ster on behalf of Mrs. Bradish. Prices established. Market Places.
Market house. Burial places. Common; contest concerning its
enclosure. Town House. Athenæum, converted into a City Hall.
Sectional rivalry and jealousy. Petition for a division of the town ;
rejected by the General Court. Unsuccessful attempt to remove dif-
ficulties. Petition for a City Charter. A new petition for division
interposed, which, like another presented nine years later, was un-
successful. City Charter granted and accepted.

CHAPTER XV.

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First Meeting-house. Rev. Thomas Hooker and Rev. Samuel Stone.

First Church organized. Removal to Hartford. Rev. Thomas

Shepard. Another "First Church" organized. Newell's "Church

Gathering." McKenzie's "Historical Lectures." Roger Harlak-

enden. Shepard's reasons for removing to New England. Mrs.

Shepard's admission to the Church, and her death. Confessions of

candidates for Church membership. Contributions and expendi-

tures. Rev. John Phillips. Death of Mr. Shepard. Synods at Cam-

bridge. Second Meeting-house. Rev. Jonathan Mitchell; in many

respects "Matchless." Sibley's "Harvard Graduates." Financial

records. Salary. Seating of the Meeting-house. Reputed heresy of

President Dunster. Death of Mr. Mitchell, and the place of his

burial. Care of the youth. Parsonage erected, and bill of expenses.

Rev. Urian Oakes; expense of his ordination. Almsdeeds of the

Church. Labors, trials, and death of Mr. Oakes. Intense political

and religious excitement. Address by the "Freemen of Cambridge"

to the General Court, against universal toleration. Sermon of Mr.

Oakes on the same subject. Rev. Nathaniel Gookin and Elders Clark

and Stone ordained, with bill of expenses. Quiet ministry and death

of Mr. Gookin. Salary of Pastors at different periods. Church or-

ganized at the Farms. Ordination of Rev. William Brattle; his min-

istry and death. Third Meeting-house. Extraordinary snow-storm.

Election of Rev. Nathaniel Appleton. Parsonage rebuilt. Enlarge-

ment of Meeting-house. Church organized at Menotomy. Fourth

Meeting-house. Rev. George Whitefield. Church organized on the

south side of the river. The prolonged and valuable services of Dr.

Appleton recognized by Harvard College; his death. Installation of

Rev. Timothy Hilliard, and his death, after a short ministry. In-

stallation of Rev. Abiel Holmes. Theological controversy, resulting

in the disruption of the Church. Results of Councils. Shepard Con-

gregational Society organized. Ordination of Rev. Nehemiah Adams

as Colleague Pastor. Dismission and death of Dr. Holmes. Meet-

ing-house. Dismission of Mr. Adams. Rev. John A. Albro, D. D.,

and Rev. Alexander McKenzie. New Meeting-house. Ordination

of Rev. William Newell; his long and peaceful ministry and resig-

nation. Meeting-house. Ordination of Rev. Francis G. Peabody.

Ruling Elders. Deacons.

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