Posts Tagged ‘American Revolution’
Some 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. “ – J. W. W. For some reason, the local history of East Cambridge has been almost completely neglected. It…
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 MoreSamuel Francis Batchelder Papers, 1765-1930
This collection was transferred to Christ Church in 2026. To view this collection in person, contact their archivist. Administrative Information Biographical Sketch Scope and Content Note Series Description and Folder Listing 9 file boxes 3.75 linear feet Processor: Survey conducted by Amy Gray, February 1993 Processed by Brian A. Sullivan, April 2000 Re-processed by Keith…
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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