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The author of an historical work is very prone to display his erudition by presenting as large as possible a list of authorities and materials consulted. I must admit that I was tempted, but I have succeeded in resisting the im- pulse. Many sources, both of printed material and of manuscripts, have been consulted. Dr. Teele's History of Milton was of course by far the most valua- ble single source. He was an ardent antiquarian, and in his time much word- of-mouth material of earlier days was still available. He was assisted in com- piling his history by James M. Robbins and Edmund J. Baker, both then elderly men, whose roots went far back into Milton history, and whose inter- est in the life of the town commenced in their early youth. Dr. Teele's work thus was indispensable, but there exists today material not then available, or in some cases, not utilized by him, and of course much water has flowed by Neponset Mill since 1887. I have used references and footnotes somewhat sparingly, but I believe that all that I have said can be justified. One who questions some of my statements or who wishes to pursue matters farther will find notes and lists of source material upon which this book is based de- posited at the Milton Public Library.
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Academy, 99 Alewives, 15, 63 Algerine Corner, source of name, 18n Anglican Church, 134 Animals, native wild, 14 Apthorp, Harrison Otis, 103, 247 Auditors, 155
Badcock, 31, 86 Ebenezer, 228 Enoch, 87 inventory, 240 George, 86 Robert, 193, 247 William, 87
Bailiff, 142 Baker, Edmund, 247 marries Daniel Vose's daughter, 73 builds a mill, 77 installs tub wheels, 78 Edmund J., writes Dorchester History, 15 makes first Village map, 41 Dr. James, 247 Walter, 247 Bakeries, water cracker, 41 Baptist Church, 138 Baxter, Jesse B., 59 Bear, 14 Belcher, Gov. Jonathan, 248 buys house in Milton, 37 Rev. Joseph builds mill, 34, 68 Belknap, Rev. Jeremy, teaches Milton school, 95 resigns pastorate, 125 Biographical Sketches, 247-263 Blake, William, 193, 248
Blue Hill Observatory, 16, 215 Reservation, 52 Village, 46 Board of Health, 153 Boies, Capt. James, 248 makes paper, 70 builds paper mill, 72-73 at Dorchester Heights in 1776, 203
Bourne, Admiral Nehemiah, 248
Bowditch, Ernest W., 248 Boylston, Dr. Zabdiel, inoculates for smallpox, 211 Bradley, Capt. John, 202 Braintree Church, 120
Bread, corn, 17
Bridge, the first, 19 Hubbard's, 83 Granite Ave., 83 Neponset, 83 Paul's, 83 Village, 83 Briggs, Daniel, 248 establishes shipyard, 88 ordered out of town, 165
Bronsdon, John, inventory, 236-237
Brown, John, visits Milton, 48 Bryant, Gridley, 248 builds Granite Railway, 84-85
Bunker Hill Monument, 84-85 Business census of 1885, 50
Capen, John, builds mill dam, 76 Catholic Church, first parish, 138 Cattle, 20-21 first Jersey, 45 Census, first of 1765, 37
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Chickataubut, chief of Neponsets, 8, 248 Chocolate manufacture, 74 inills sold, 61 Church, Anglican, 134 Baptist, 138
Catholic, 138
early lack of, 121
Episcopal, 139
finances, 129 membership requirement, 116-117 Methodist, 139
service, 118 Unitarian, 134-137 Churchill, Asaph, 42, 249 Joseph McK., 249
Clams as pig feed, 16
Clapp, Ebenezer, a schoolmaster, 92 Ezra, builds a mill, 71
Clarke, Richard, 70
Clayton, H. Helm, 216
Clerk of the Market, 145 of the Writs, 147 Town, 158
Cloud studies, first, 215
Club, Woman's, 55, 58
Collecott, Richard, 249 builds first house, 18 supply officer in Pequot War, 191
Collector of Taxes, 153
Colson, David, 71
Columban Seminary, 265
Commissioners to end small causes, 145
Committee, use in town government, 142, 152-153
School, 100, 109, 144, 155 Warrant, 146, 156-157, 162-163
Concord Fight, Milton's inglorious part, 202 Constables, 142 their duties, 143
Covenant, Church, 123
Cowherds, 21
Crane, Benjamin, 195 Henry, 249 inventory, 228
Creliore, Benjamin, 249 makes artificial leg, 209 makes power loom, 215 Crops in early days, 26 Croud, Mary, one of last of the Indians, 11
Cunningham, Edward, 249 Mary A., 249 establishes trust, 58, 85
Dame school, 94 Daniels, Mrs. William, teaches Indians, 11 William, 250 keeps a tavern, 25
Deer reeves, 153
Deputy to General Court, 148
Diet of early settlers, 17
Dike, John, inventory, 240
Directory, Milton, of 1885, 49
Dorchester Company, 17 initial settlement, 17 boundaries, 17
Church, 114 Meeting House, 120
Dress, Puritan, 113
Drug and dye manufacture, 77
Edwards, Rev. Jonathan, 128
Electricity, introduction of, 54
Eliot, Rev. John, 9, 11
Emerson, Rev. Joseph, 121
Episcopal Church, 139
Everden, Walter, 65
Fairmount district, 45
Fallon, Patrolman William, 176-177
Federalist Party, 131 Felt, Willard, 250 made first railway cars, 209
Fences, 22
Fence Viewers, 142
Fenno, Joseph, partner of Daniel Vose, 34 builds vessels, 87
Field, Wm. L. W., 84
Fields, Indian, 12-13
Fire Department, Town, 184-185
Firemen, 179-187
Firewards, 182 Fish, varieties of, 15-16 Fishways, 78 Fontbonne Academy, 265 Forbes Family, 42 Forbes, Dorothy, 205 Rev. John, 205 John M., 250
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a winter resident, 48 and Milton Academy, 103 gives land for school, 106 John Murray, 85, 250 Ralph Bennet, 85, 250 Robert Bennet, 85, 250 student at Academy, 102 William H., 52, 251 Fowl, wild, 15 Foye, William, 37 Fulling mill, 65 the process, 67 Furnace, introduction of, 98
Gas lighting, introduction of, 54 Gile, Rev. Samuel, 133, 137, 251 Gill, Gen. Jacob, 165 John, 66, 251 Gillespie, Andrew, 73 Glover, John, his Milton farm, 21, 251 Dr. Samuel, first postmaster, 251 Gooch, Col. Joseph, 251 Gourgas, John Mark, 212-213, 251 Granite Railway, 85
Granite trade, 84-85 decline of, 60 Grist mill, first in New England, 64 the grinding operation, 64 Gulliver, Anthony, 252 Samuel, 196 Gunpowder mill, 65 process of manufacture, 66
Hannon, John, chocolate maker, 74, 252 Harling, Thomas, 252 Harris, Dr. Thaddeus W., 252 Haywards, 151
Hazelton, John, 70
Heath hen, 15 Hebard, Samuel C., 175
Highways, 169-173 Hinckley, Thomas H., 252 Hobart, Caleb, 42, 252 Health, Board of, 153 Hog reeves, 145 Holbrook, Dr. Amos, 153, 253 ordered out of town, 165 in vaccination drive, 212-213 Hollingsworth, Mark, 76
Hollis, Thomas, 253 Thomas, Jr., 253 Holman, John, 253 in fur trade with Collecott, 18 Thomas, Town Clerk, 147 a trooper in 1676, 196 Holmes, Dr. C. C., 253
Hooks, wolf, 14 Hospital, 58 Houghton, Ralph, 254 House, location of first, 18
Houses, list of old, 242-243 How, Peggy, 253 Hunt, Rev. Nathan, 138 Sereno D., 107 Huntoon, Rev. Benjamin, 137, 254 Daniel T. V., 10
Hutchinson, Anne, 116 Gov. Thomas, 204-205, 254 builds house in Milton, 36 William, 254
Indian corn, 64 Fields, 12 Indians, 7-12
Massachusetts tribe, 8
Neponset tribe, 8
Plague of 1616-17, 8 Punkapoag family names, 8 Inflation during Revolution, 206-207 Inoculation, 210-211
Jackson, Jonathan, builds house, 36 builds slitting mill, 71 Jeanne d'Arc Academy, 265 Jenner, Dr. Edward, 212 Jersey cattle, first in America, 45
Josiah, Charles, an Indian, 12
Kidder, Nathaniel T., 190
King Philip's War, 9, 10, 27, 193-197
Kinsley, Stephen, 120, 254 Kitchamakin, deeds Milton lands, 12, 254
Kites at Blue Hill, 216-217
Land, allotment of, 19 Landing place, 83-84 first one at Gulliver's Creek, 23 Lesley, Peter, 254
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Liberty Pole, location of, 96 Library, Public, 189-190 Ladies' Circulating, 46 Lighting, gas, 54 electric, 54 Lillie, Capt. John, 255 ordered out of town, 165 Lincoln, Abraham, speaks in Neponset Village, 46 Lion, Preserved, 255 Log cabin, 117n
Mann, Horace, 105 Rev. Samuel, 123 Maps, of Milton, 4 1634, 5
1662, 24 1700, 28
1770, 32
1831, 40
1857, 47
1888, 51
of Milton Village, 1765, 35 1826, 43 of land grants, 20 Martin, Nathan C., 41, 255 Henry, 256 Eleanor P., 256 Mather, Cotton, and smallpox inoculation, 211 Mattapan, place name, 19n mills at, 71-73 Mckean, Rev. Joseph, 130, 132-133, 255 Mckenzie, Andrew, builds snuff mill, 73 McLean, Hugh, 255 builds paper mill, 72-73
John, 73, 255
Meeting House, the first, 23, 120 second, 27 third, 33, 117 assignment of seats, 128
Methodist Church, 137
Mighill, Rev. Thomas, teaches children, 92, 121, 124-125, 256 Militia, 192 Mill, chocolate, 74-75 drug and dye, 77 fulling, 67 grist, 64
"homespun", 80 paper, 69 powder, 65-66
saw, 73 saw, at Dedham, 66 slitting, 72 snuff, 72-73
Miller, Samuel, inventory, 230-232 Rev. Ebenezer, 256 Col. Stephen, 256 Milton, first settlement, 22 boundaries, 26
Milton Academy, 99, 102-103
Milton Hospital, 265
Mingo, an Indian, 10
Minister, position of Colonial, 124 engaged in trade, 126
Ministers' Association, 122
Moderator, 145, 151
Moose, 14 Morison, Rev. John H., 256
Morton, Thomas, 7 describes Milton area, 13-14
his plantation burned, 18
Murray, Dorothy, 205 Elizabeth, 205 Music, church, 118 at parsonage, 30
New State, source of name, 106n Neponset River, economic value, 63
O'Beirne, Rev. Patrick, 138
Observatory, Blue Hill, 52, 215-218 Occupations, census of, in 1885, 49
Overseers of the Poor, 150 Oxenbridge, Rev. John, 65
Paper mill, first New England, 69 the process, 69-70 Parks, Blue Hill Reservation, 52 Cunningham, 58, 85 Parsonage, first, 25 second, 27 Pay of Town officers in 1837, 155 Perkins, Col. Thomas Handasyd, 85 Pierce, Charles S., 82 Edward L., 46, 82, 256 Henry L., 257
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buys paper mill, 76 buys Baker's mill, 81-82 Jesse, 82 Lanslet, first pound keeper, 148 Dr. M. Vassar, 257 Maurice, 176-177
Col. Samuel, catches fish in Neponset, 15 Pigs, yokes and rings, 25
Pilgrims, 7
Pitcher, Andrew, 257
inventory, 222-223 Nathaniel, 148
Police, 175-177
Ponkapoag (place name), 9 last of reservation sold, 10
Poor, the, 165-168
Post Office, 41
Pound Keeper, 144, 148
Preston's chocolate and fulling mill, 75
Prudential Committee, 97, 105
Punkapoag Indians, 10
Quakers, 132n
Radiosonde, 217-218 Railway, Granite, 41 arrives in Village, 45 arrives at East Milton, 49 Village, 85
Randolph, Edmund, 65
Rawson, Edward, 65
Reed, Jason, 257
Rising Sun Tavern, 41
Robbins, Edward H., 101, 130, 257 in smallpox drive, 213
James M., 130, 257 Rev. Nathaniel, 129-130, 258
Rotch, A. Lawrence, 215-216, 258 Benjamin, 45 Joanna, 258 Roxbury, first grist mill, 64 Ruggles, John, 258 Russell, Col. Henry S., 258 James S., 258 Hon. Jonathan, 258
Sacco-Vanzetti, 61 Safford, Nathaniel F., 258 Saint Agatha's Parish, 265
Saint Elizabeth's Parish, 265
Saint Mary of the Hills Parish, 265
Salisbury, William, inventory, 224-225
Salt works, attempted establishment by Town, 206 Sanderson, Isaac, builds paper mill, 78, 259 Sanitation, water supply and sewerage, 52-53 Saugus Iron Works, 71n, 72 Sawmill, Dedham, 66 Milton, 73 Schools, 91-111 moving, 92
Dame, 94
districts, 97
grammar, 98
Prudential committee, 97
schoolbooks, 94
Committee, 144, 155 powers of, 100, 109
Scotch Woods, 34
Sealer of Leather, 148 of Weights and Measures, 145
Selectmen, 142 duties in 1669, 147
Sewall, Samuel, 65 visits fulling mill, 67 attends Thacher funeral, 127 Sewers, Metropolitan, 50, 53
Shellfish, 16
Sherman, Roger, 95
Shipbuilding, 86-88
Slaves, 39, 39n
Slitting mill, 35, 71 the process, 71-72
Smallpox, 9, 153, 210-215
Smith, James, 259 Jeremiah, 70, 259 Rachel, 94 Snow removal, 60
Snuff mill, 72 Social services
Social Service League, 58
Visiting Nurse, 58 Hospital, 58 South Shore Expressway, 265 Spirits, alcoholic, sale forbidden, 25 distilled by minister, 29 given to paupers, 167
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Sprague, Dr., 153 Statistics, Milton, 245-246
Stebbins, Edith E., 259
Stedman, Dr. Benjamin, inventory, 241 Stone, Nathaniel H., 259 Stoughton, Israel, 259 builds bridge, 19 builds grist mill, 63 Stove, introduction of, 97 none in Meeting House in 1810, 119 cooking, 241 Street, cars, 54 lighting, 174
Suffolk Resolves, 200-201
Suffrage, women's, 152
Summer residents, 36, 42
Sumner Dam, 75 Sumner, Roger, 259
Sunday observance, 118-119 sports allowed, 60
Supervisors of Highways, 144 Surveyors of Highways, 148 of Hemp and Flax, 153 Swift, Thomas, 260 in charge of Indians, 9
a corporal, 193
a quartermaster, 195 guardian of Punkapoags, 197 a lieutenant, 198
Tavern, Badcock's, 34 William Daniels', 24 Miller's, 41 Rising Sun, 41
Tax rates, 245-246
Taylor, Rev. John, 127, 260
Teele, Rev. Albert K., 260
Telephone, introduction of, 52
Temperance, 48
Temple Shalom, 265
Tenterhook, 67
Tepee, 9n Thacher, Oxenbridge, 260
Rev. Peter, hires Indians, 9 his diary, 29, 126 distills spirits, 30 plays viola da gamba, 30 teaches writing, 92 builds house, 125
funeral, 127 inventory, 226-227 Rev. Thomas, 125 proprietor of powder mill, 65 smallpox broadside, 210
Thatching (roof), 122
Thayer, Beza, inventory, 233
Tileston, Edmund, 76
Tileston and Hollingsworth, 73
Tithingmen, 148
Tolerance, religious, 114
Tories, list of Milton, 204
Torrey, Rev. Samuel, 121, 125
Town Clerk, 145, 158
Town Collector, 143
Town landings, 83, 84
Town Meeting, 141-164 attendance at, 160 representative form, 161
Town Report, 155
Transportation, auto buses, 55, 60 bicycle, 55
East Milton railroad, 49, 85
electric street cars, 54, 60
horse cars to Boston, 46, 49
private automobiles, 57
railroad in 1880's, 49
M.T.A. rapid transit, 58 stage to Boston, 44 Village Railroad, 45 Traps, steel, animal, 14
Trees, early species, 13 Tucker, Isaac, inventory, 237-238
Capt. Ebenezer, 202 Capt. Jeremiah, 202
Deacon John A., 261
Manasseh, builds mill, 71, 261
Nathaniel, 42 inventory, 238-240
Robert, 29, 261 inventory, 225-226 Timothy, inventory, 234-235
Turkeys, 14 Turnpikes, 171
Unitarian movement, 134-137 Unquity, 8, 9
Vaccination, 212-214
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Valuation, tax rate, etc., 245-246 Vose, Capt. Daniel, 261
starts a store, 34, 84
partner in paper mill, 70 marries Jeremiah Smith's daughter, 73
operates chocolate mill, 75 builds dam, 76 builds vessels, 87 captain of artillery, 202
Col. Josiah, 261
Gen. Joseph, 261
Capt. Oliver, 202
Robert, 261
buys Glover farm, 23 sells land for parsonage, 121
Thomas (1641-1708), 261
Town Clerk and schoolmaster, 92
a corporal, 193
a lieutenant, 195 a captain, 198
Thomas (1707-1760), inventory, 229-230, 261
Wadsworth, Rev. Benjamin, 262 Elijah, 144
Samuel, a sergeant, 193 killed by Indians, 194-195 Ware, Emma Forbes, starts hospital, 58, 262
Harriet, 262 Dr. Jonathan, 78, 262
Warrant, 146
Warrant Committee, 146, 156-157, 162-163
Wars, the, 191-208
Waterhouse, Dr. Benjamin, 212
Water power, 63
Webb & Twombley mill, 77
Webster, Mary P., 262
Whitefield, Rev. George, 129
Whitney, Mrs. A. D. T., 262 Ellerton P., 262 Gen. Moses, 41, 42, 263 owns tannery, 82
Wigglesworth, George, 263
Wigwam, 9n
Willard, Lieut., partner in fur trade, 18 Solomon, 85
Wolcott, Gov. Roger, 263
Wolf pit, 14, 31
Wollaston, 12 annexed to Boston, 18
Wolves, 14
Women's suffrage, 152
Zoning and building restrictions, 59 Zoning by law, 265
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Twelve hundred copies of this book have been printed for the Milton Historical Society by The Stinehour Press, Lunenburg, Vermont. The collotype illustra- tions were printed by The Meriden Gravure Company, Meriden, Connecticut, and the binding was done by the Russell-Rutter Company, New York, New York. The wood engravings have been printed from original blocks cut for A. K. Teele's History of Milton, 1887.
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