Posts Tagged ‘American Revolution’
Serjeant Family Letters, 1769-1840: Digital Collection
This collection was featured at our 2019 Open Archives. In 2019, the Massachusetts Society of the Cincinnati generously provided funding to digitize and transcribe the Cambridge Historical Society’s Serjeant Family Letters (formerly titled “The Winwood Serjeant Letters”). The collection is now accessible online (view it here). Winwood Serjeant (c.1730?-1780) was born in England and ordained…
Read MoreSome Aspects of the East Cambridge Story
By John W. Wood, 1956 “This paper gives a totally inadequate account of an appealingly picturesque and colorful neighborhood, the area that might have been a slum and isn’t, the step-child of the University City. “ For some reason, the local history of East Cambridge has been almost completely neglected. It is a little hard…
Read MoreFirst Resident in “A More Goodly Country”
By Michael Kenney, 2013 “This much I can affirm in general, that I never came to a more goodly country in my life,” wrote Thomas Graves shortly after his arrival in the Bay Colony in 1629. He was a planner and, after laying out Charlestown, was rewarded with the grant of some hundred acres of…
Read MoreMercy Scollay Papers, 1775-1824
Administrative Information Biographical Sketch Sources Related Collections Scope and Content Note Library of Congress Subject Headings Series Description and Folder Listing View transcriptions here 1 box .42 linear feet Processor: Joey Grant Date: July 2008 Acquisition: Letters donated April 1929 by Elizabeth Harris. Although the letters do not directly reflect the history of Cambridge they…
Read MoreFort Washington, 1775-1975, and Other Cambridge Fortifications
By Douglas Payne Adams and Charles Sullivan, with an introduction by Charles W. Eliot, 2nd Presented June 1, 1975 Mr. Eliot Of the fortifications which were constructed in Cambridge two hundred years ago, a single battery—Fort Washington —still exists. Lieutenant-Governor Oliver had been forced to resign on September 2, 1774, and by the following spring—after…
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