King Philip’s War – Indian Wars
A short history of the battles fought during King Philip’s War, including maps of the campaigns and New England Indian tribes.
A short history of the battles fought during King Philip’s War, including maps of the campaigns and New England Indian tribes.
Jeffery Manning & Mary Coit Jan. 2, 1775 William White of Haverhill & Mrs. Polly Chandler Jan. 5, 1775 John Patten & Elizabeth Clough Jan. 5, 1775 Edward Wilkinson & Elizabeth Welch Jan. 6, 1775 William Sharp & Hannah Burk Jan. 6, 1775 Henry Prouse & Nelly Shaw Jan. 7, 1775 James Bennet & Susannah
Herman Wells Greene, formerly a lawyer of considerable note in Hopkinton, was born here, April 11, 1836, son of Herman H. and Ellen Chase (Little) Greene. His only brother died at the age of fourteen years; and his only sister is now the wife of a Mr. Roberts, of Philadelphia, Pa. After receiving his early
For nearly fifty years the name of Whipple has been one of Brockton citizenship, representing a family here of substance and exceptional prominence in the community. Reference is made to the late Ferdinand Whipple and his son, the present Hon. John Jay Whipple, who together and in turn have been among Brockton’s successful business men, the son having figured conspicuously in public affairs, filling most of the offices within the gift of his fellow citizens, among other honors having been four times elected to the mayoralty of the city of Brockton. The Whipple family is one long prominent in the country, the earlier generations having been conspicuous in Rhode Island’s Colonial period, it being a Rhode Island family.
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This Boston – East Bridgewater Chandler family, the head of which was the late Hon. Peleg Whitman Chandler, long one of the leading counselors of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, and one of a family of lawyers, comes of a Massachusetts-Maine branch of the ancient Duxbury family whose progenitor was Edmund Chandler. The branch just alluded to for several generations at New Gloucester and Bangor, Maine, and at Boston in this Commonwealth, has been one of liberal education, college-bred men, men who have adorned the legal profession, and it has allied itself through generations with a number of the ancient and first families of the Old Colony. There follows in chronological order from Edmund Chandler, the first American ancestor of this branch of American Chandlers, and in detail the family history and genealogy.
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Abraham Fernald & Nancy Tracy Jan. 1, 1805 James Thompson & Flora Nichols (blacks) Jan. 1, 1805 James Collings & Catharine Stoddard (blacks) Jan. 1, 1805 Peter Brigham & Dandridge Hunt Jan. 2, 1805 Dani^l Atwood & Elizabeth Sanderson Jan. 3, 1805 Eber Whitemore & Abigail Adams of Chelsea Jan. 18, 1805 Bela Clap &
Stephen Clark say Choak & Lucinda Boyd Jan. 4, 1804 Benjamin Wiggin & Charlotte Fowle Jan. 4, 1804 George Gidion, Junr & Nancy Benjamin Jan. 7, 1804 John Rynier & Susannah Withington Jan. 11, 1804 Jacob Hastings & Sarah H. Weld of Roxbury Jan. 11, -1804 Henry Nolen & Mary Haven of Shrewsbury Jan. 12,
Hon. James Alexander Gibson, a member of the Supreme Court Commission of the State of California, was born August 21, 1852, in the city of Boston, and is a worthy representative of the best mental product of the Athens of America, and an honor to the bar of Southern California. His father, Thomas Gibson, was