History of Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1630-1877, Volume 1 by Lucius R. Paige

Author:Lucius R. Paige [Paige, Lucius R.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Geschichte
Publisher: Jazzybee Verlag
Published: 2018-01-24T23:00:00+00:00

Notes:

1 Mass. Col. Rec., i. 169.

2 Ibid., II. 38.

3 Mass. Prov. Rec., VI. 117.

4 Ibid., VI. 173.

5 Samuel Phipps, Esq., of Charlestown, succeeded Captain Hammond as Register of Deeds, and kept his office and the records in Charlestown up to this time.

6 Mass. Prov. Rec., x. 63.

7 Ibid., p. 68.

8 Ibid., p. 145.

9 Mass. Prov. Rec., x. 147.

10 The volume which was burned contained the Records after October, 1663, up to October 4, 1671.

11 County Court Rec., III. 173.

12 This Court House stood where the Market House was erected more than a century later. Its position is indicated on a pen and ink plan drawn about 1750, and here reproduced by permission of its owner, Henry Wheatland, M. D., of Salem. The Court House (called Town-house on the plan) stood further south than is here represented,—its northerly end being several feet south of the southerly front of the meeting-house.

13 Sessions Records, April 23, 1707.

14 Proprietors' Records.

15 The House of Correction stood on the easterly side of Holyoke Street, about two hundred feet northerly from the present location of Mount Auburn Street. After the erection of a jail, this estate was reconveyed to Stevenson, whose heirs sold it to Jonathan Nutting, March 25, 1695.

16 By the Court Records and Files, it appears that the House of Correction or Bridewell was erected in 1656. Andrew Stevenson was the prison keeper from 1656 to 1672; William Healy, from 1672 to 1682, when he was removed from office; Daniel Cheever, from 1682 until he was succeeded in office by his son Israel Cheever about 1693. In 1691, the prison-keeper presented a petition for relief, which is inserted, as characteristic of that period:—

To the honored Court for the County of Middlesex, holden in Cambridge by adjournment this 11th day of May 1691, the petition of Daniel Cheever, keeper of the Prison in Cambridge humbly sheweth, That your poor petitioner is in great straits and want at present, by reason that his salary hath not been paid him for some considerable time past, and having a considerable family depending on him for maintenance, he is compelled to make his complaint to this honored Court, hoping to find relief, begging some order may be taken speedily for his supply, which otherwise cannot be done without great loss and damage to your petitioner; and he would further inform this Court, that George Newbe, who is under bond to pay a fine imposed on him by this Court, hath a pair of young oxen which he would part with, in order to said payment; which oxen your petitioner desires he may have, and then would put off his old oxen to help supply him with necessaries for his family. Also he further desires to add that Sylvester Hayes hath lain upon him this many months, without any consideration from Charlestown, which your petitioner is not able to bear, therefore desires redress of this honored Court in this particular also. But not further to be troublesome, your petitioner earnestly requests your serious consideration of what is premised, and remains your Honors' most humble servant.

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