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influence and daring spirit of Mianto- nimo, sachem of the Narragansetts, a general conspiracy was forming among all the Indians, who were to rise at a time appointed, and cut off all the En- glish in the country. So strong was the suspicion of this intended evil, that the Court of Massachusetts or- dered, that all the Indians within their jurisdiction should be disarmed, which they submitted to.
That we have not fixed on too car- ly a period for the first settling of some English people in this place, will appear probable, when we consid- er, that the town of Concord was in- corporated the second day of Septem- ber, 1635 ; and it is not improbable, that within seven years from that time, some English people might fix their residence among the Indians in that part of Littleton, called Nashoba, which is not more than 8 miles from the centre of the town of Concord.
The oldest dwelling-house in this town, was erected as a garrison-house for the defence of the English settlers against their Indian enemies. This ancient and much decayed building, is situated on the south-easterly side of Nashoba Hill. It is in possession of the family of Mr. Samuel Reed, de- ceased, is now inhabited by his widow, and is said to have been standing more than 170 years. History informs us, that in the Maquas war, two men were killed at a farm about Concord, Isaac and Jacob Shepherd by name, about the middle of February, 1676; and a young maid, about 15 years of age, who had been set to watch the enemy, was carried captive, who strangely es- caped away upon a horse the Indians had taken from Lancaster, a little be- fore .* The place from which these captives were taken, was doubtless in that part of Littleton which is now called Nashoba, then Concord Village, which was adjoining to the bounds of Concord, before Acton was taken from it. The hill on which the young maid was placed to watch the enemy, lies about a third of a mile south of Nasho- ba Hill, on the road leading to Boston,
* See Hubbard's History of Indian Wars, p. 153.
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and was called Quagana Hill. Tra- || which the first meeting-house was dition says, that this girl was carried erected. From the then infancy of the town, and other circumstances, it is probable that a considerable time elapsed between the raising and com- pleting that public building. by the savages to Nashawa, now called Lancaster, or to some place in the neighbourhood of it. That in the dead of night she took a saddle from under the head of her Indian keeper, when sunk in sleep, increased by the fumes of ardent spirit-put the saddle on a horse -mounted on him-swam him across Nashawa river-and so escaped the hands of her captors, and arrived safe to her relatives and friends.
On the third of December 1715, on a petition presented to the Legislature, by one Whitcomb and Powers, the inhabitants of this place were incorpo- rated into a town, by the name of Littleton. It was so called after the name of the Hon. George Lyttleton, Esq. Member of the British Parliament, and one of the Commissioners of the Treasury. In return for the honour done to his name, the noble gentleman presented this town with a Church Bell. But on account of an error in spelling the name, caused by substi- tuting the i for the y, which formed the word Littleton, the valuable pres- ent miscarried, and was finally with- held, under the pretence that no such town as Lyttleton, to which the bell was to be presented, could any where be found. It is stated, that the per- son entrusted with this present, made sale of it, and that the same bell is now in the possession and use of the town, in this commonwealth, which purchased it.
The first meeting house in the town was placed on a level and commodious spot of land, which has ever since lain common, on the north-easterly part of the town, and within half a mile of the southern boundary of the town of Westford. This place was probably agreed upon, partly from the eligible situation it afforded for public build- ings, and from the south-easterly part of the town being first settled, and containing such a number of inhabi- tants, as when joined with others, then particularly accommodated, could decide any vote in the corporation. We have no record of the time in
At a public meeting, August 20, 1723, the town voted to accept the meeting-house, on condition that the undertakers should add some further finishings to it. It was improved as a house of public worship about 17 years from the time it was accepted.
The second meeting-house stood nearly on the same ground as does the present. It was built in 1740, and stood about 52 years.
The third and last meeting-house was built in 1793, and, on account of its neatness, accommodations, and public appearance, we may truly say the glory of this latter house far ex- ceeds the glory of both the former.
We are unfortunately left without any history of the first gathering and planting of a church in this place. The first pastor either kept no record of the church under his care, or he neglected to leave it either with his successor, the church, or any of his surviving family. But we may fairly presume, without danger of erring ma- terially, that a regular church existed in this place as early as the stated ministry of the gospel ; for as soon as the people had provided for the regu- lar administration of the word and ordinances by an ordained pastor, there must have been a christian church among them.
The first gospel minister in this town was the Rev. Benjamin Shat- tuck, who was ordained, December 25, 1717. Having continued in the ministry nearly 13 years, he was, by an agreement with the people of his charge, dismissed from his pastoral office in June, 1730.
His successor, Rev. Daniel Rogers, was ordained March 15, 1731-2. He died November, 1782, in the 76th year of his age, and 51st of his minis- istry.
Rev. Edmund Foster was ordained Jan. 17, 1781.
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THE BOSTON NEWS-LETTER,
In this church there have been eighteen deacons, who, as far as known, were elected to office, and officiated in the following order :
Names. Time when elected.
Dr. David Russell, Caleb Taylor, John Wood,
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Jonathan Lawrence, 3
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Abraham Patch, Enoch Dole,
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Oliver Hoar, Josiah Hartwell, Jonathan Patch, Elias Taylor,
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Littleton lies about 28 miles, in a west-north-west direction from Boston In the northerly part of the town, about a mile from its centre, a Post- Office is kept, by which passes the road from Boston to Keene, N. H. The town contains 130 dwelling- houses, about 150 families, and up- wards of nine hundred inhabitants.
BOSTON : SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 1826.
Fire .- On Wednesday last,between nine and ten in the morning, a fire was discovered in store No. 49, Cen- tral Wharf, occupied by Messrs. Sar- gent & Brooks,-owned by Mr. Sam'l Appleton. The fire was first discov- ered in the upper story, which con- tained a quantity of Hemp, and is sup- posed by some to have caught fire in consequence of a defect in the chim- ney, and by others to be caused by spontaneous combustion. The fire had probably been burning a considerable time before an alarm was given. The contents of the store were insured. An estimate of the loss of the owners of the goods is about $10,000. There was no insurance on the building.
HIGH SCHOOL FOR GIRLS.
Official notice has been given by the secretary of the School Commitee, that the High School for Girls, will be opened on Wednesday, the 22d inst. in the second story of the school house in Derne street. Candidates for ad- mission must have been eleven, and not more than fifteen years of age the second Monday of December last. They will be examined in Reading, Writing, English Grammar, Modern Geography and Arithmetic. They are requested to bring specimens of their writing ; but no books will be wanted in the examination.
Scholars are to be admitted into this, as into the Latin and the En- glish High School, but once a year ; the doors will therefore be open to candidates during the remainder of the week .- As it is a public school, all have an equal title to its advantages. To accommodate families that reside at a distance from the school, it will be open but once a day during the winter term, from October to April ; when the hours of instruction will be from 9 A. M. to 2 P. M. During the summer term, from April to October, the hours will be from 8 A. M. to 12, and from 3 to 6 P. M.
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STATE-STREET RESERVOIR.
One of the Reservoirs, authorized by the city, has just been complet- ed in State street. It is made of Brick, 18 feet deep and 18 in diam- eter, with a column in the centre to support the arch thrown over from the sides, sufficiently strong to resist every weight. It was found, on removing the earth, that State street has been rais- ed between two and three feet above its original surface. The location of this Reservoir will long mark the spot where Attucks, Gray, Caldwell, Ma- verick, and Carr, fell on the memora- ble 5th of March, 1770.
A reservoir near Park Street Church and another in front of the stone Church in Hanover Street, of similar dimensions are nearly completed.
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The Chemist .- John R. Cotting, a distinguished chemist of this city, has issued proposals for a weekly publica- tion, exclusively devoted to chemistry, which we sincerely hope will not only meet with encouragement, but the real patronage of our citizens. Mr. Cot- ting is already the author of a valua- ble treatise on chemistry, now a text book in several colleges in this coun- try, and has also gained an extensive reputation as a teacher of natural philos- ophy.
By an advertisement in this day's paper, our readers will be made ac- quainted with a prospectus of a Marine Telegraphic Shipping List, by Mr. J. R. Parker, whose exertions to bene- fit the merchants of Boston have been unwearied. Mr. Parker has laboured a long while for the public, and we therefore feel a desire to have him re- membered in turn. Mr. Josiah B. Clough is associated with Mr. Parker in the undertaking.
AVON PLACE.
Among the many enterprises of our citizens the past year, few, if any, will rank higher in respect to beauty or utility, than that undertaken and so happily prosecuted by Mr. Charles Ewer in Washington street, formerly Newbury street. Twenty three com- modious and central dwelling houses and eight convenient shops now cov- er the ground which one year since was occupied by a few unsightly and inconvenient buildings. In this enter- prise a very large sum of money has been expended in materials and la- bour, and a large amount added to the taxable property of the city. The principal avenue through it has been improved by widening, and ornament- ed with an elegant row of buildings, faced with granite stone ; and this in a part of the city where such altera- tions were needed. Thus is furnished a neighbourhood of shops for the con- venience of retail trade no where sur- passed. To the buildings he has, as we are informed, given the name of " Avon Place." Boston has been much and long indebted to the public
spirit of her sons ; may all those, who wish her well, cherish this spirit, and reward such labours .-- Courier.
HON. ELIHU LYMAN.
We have this week to record the sudden death of a worthy and valuable Senator-the Hon. ELIHU LYMAN, of Enfield. He departed this life at the Exchange Coffee House, in this city, on Saturday last. On Wednesday, the 1st inst. he was able to occupy his place in the Senate, though at the time somewhat afflicted with the prevalent influenza. On Saturday he took his chamber, but as late as Monday, the 6th inst. he visited a friend in a neigh- bouring room, at his lodgings, who was also indisposed -- and it was not until Friday, the 10th, that his case was thought to be dangerous. Seldom has a death caused so painful a sensation in this city ; for he was one of those, rare men, who, from personal appear- ance, courteous demeanour, and re- finement of manner, won to his confi- dence all who came within the circle of his acquaintance.
On Monday, Feb. 13th, at 11 o'clock, the Legislature came together, and af- ter some business the House adjourn- ed to attend the funeral obsequies of their deceased associate.
In the Senate, the Committee ap- pointed on the subject, made the fol- lowing report :
" Whereas it has pleased Almighty God, suddenly to remove by death the Hon. Elihu Lyman, a member of the Senate of the Commonwealth of Mas- sachusetts-
Resolved, That, while the members of the Senate reverently acquiesce in this afflictive dispensation of Provi- dence, they deem it their duty publicly to express and to place upon their records the high sense they entertain of the urbanity, intelligence, and moral worth of their departed associate.
Resolved, That the members of the Senate deeply sympathize with the family and relatives of the deceased under this painful event.
Resolved, That the members of this Board will attend the funeral of the
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THE BOSTON NEWS-LETTER,
Hon. Elihu Lyman at 12 o'clock this day in the Representatives' Hall, and will wear crape on their left arm dur- ing the remainder of the session, in tes- timony of their esteem for their de- ceased friend .- Read and-adopted."
Immediately after the adjournment of the House, the Senate came in, pre- ceded by their President and Chaplain, and took the seats appropriated for them in the Representatives Chamber : and afterwards his Excellency the Governor, the Hon Council, Secretary of the Commonwealth, Adjutant Gen- cral, Treasurer, Mayor and Aldermen of the city, and others, attended. The corpse was removed from the lodgings of the deceased at the Exchange C. H. and received in the Representatives Chamber at precisely 12 o'clock. The Chaplain of the Senate, Rev. Mr. Bar- rett, then addressed the Throne of Grace, in a fervent prayer. After which the procession was formed in the following order :
ORDER OF PROCESSION.
Messrs. Burnell - Messrs. Willard
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Sergeant at Arms of the Senate. President.
Members of the Senate-two deep. Chaplains. Clerks of the Senate. HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR. Council. Secretary of the Commonwealth. Adjutant General and Treasurer. Speaker of the House. Members of the House of Representatives.
Clerk. Judges of the S. J. Court. Solicitor and Attorney Generals. Mayor of the City of Boston. Aldermen of do. Citizens.
When the procession arrived at the Western Avenue,the corpse was trans- ferred to a proper vehicle, and, atten ded by a committee of the Senate, pro- ceeded to the late residence of the de- ceased in Enfield. The procession, in the same order as above, then return- ed to the State House and separated.
Mr. Lyman was a native of Green- field, where he was born in 1782, and was the son of Maj. Lyman, a hero of the revolution. He pursued his col- Jegiate studies at Hanover, N. H. and
received the first degree in the Arts, in 1803. " On leaving College he read law, and entered the profession in his native county, and pursued it with a fair reputation as an intelligent and gentlemanly practitioner. For a term, when quite young to take upon himself its duties, he held the office of High Sheriff of the County of Franklin, and was deservedly popular among all clas- ses of people for the correctness and delicacy he constantly discovered in this responsible situation. He has since been a commissioner on the question of state boundaries, and has likewise been put into those trusts and responsibilities which spring from in- dividual confidence in the integrity and sagacity of the man. It was not, however, from any extraordinary light of mind, nor any imposing perspective of character, nor from offices, or ac- quirements, that he was distinguish- ed from many other men around him, but from that soft serenity of soul, that blended harmony of faculties and virtues which give a charm to every possession and a grace to every ac- tion, that marked Lyman as differing from the mass of men of intellect and activity."
BOSTON NEWSPAPERS. (Continued from p. 82.)
THE NEW-ENGLAND WEEKLY JOURNAL.
This was the fourth paper establish- ed in Boston, and was commenced by Samuel Kneeland in Queen Street, March 20th, 1727, on a half sheet foolscap size. After he had issued the Journal about four months, it appears Timothy Green became interested in the establishment, and took the princi- pal management of it. Green alone was responsible for the correctness of the paper, as appears by the following notice, inserted in the paper Feb. 3, 1729. "The Printer of this paper would have emitted herewith his De- sire, that some errors of the Journal might be laid to his Charge ; he not having then any Person by Him to correct the Press as usual, and being since convinced that they are his own ; such as " fresh passage, Imation, Pi-
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quanry ---- distin'd -- Spectable --- Dec- tors -execated- Vengance -- Destract- ed : with a few other slips which if the Reader pardons, he will oblige The . Printer." Immediately after this no- tice the imprint, " S. Kneeland & T. Green" stands as usual. This may be explained by observing that Knee- land kept a book shop in King street for four or five years after the partner- ship commenced, which occupied most of his attention ; and although the Journal was printed in the name of Kneeland & Green, yet the former was considered as the proprietor, and the latter as the printer, and the prof- its were shared between them.
During the first year of the Journal. several literary gentlemen furnished it with short essays on miscellaneous sub- jects, more, however, of a moral than a political nature, and which, although well written, did not occasion the ex. citement in the public mind which was produced by the writers for the Cou- rant Judge Danforth and the Rev. Mather Byles the elder, it is said, were the principal editors of the Journal, and often corrected the press. Mr. Byles, it is also said, wrote many of the poetical and other essays in that paper.
The Journal was published near fifteen years by the same printers, and without any alteration of the title or the imprint. At the close of the year 1741, this paper was incorporat- ed with the first Boston Gazette, the proprietors having purchased that pa- per.
THE WEEKLY REHEARSAL.
This paper was issued by J. Dra- per, for the author, September 27, 1731, on a half sheet of foolscap, and was established by Jeremy Grid- ley, afterwards attorney general of Massachusetts Bay.
At one period this paper abounded with moral essays, many of which were original. In the course of one year, from the commencement, it be- came a mere public intelligencer. No. 47 was printed by Thomas Fleet, and from that time, its literary charac- ter was lost. In 1733, April 2d, Mr.
Fleet became the sole proprietor. The original price of the paper was twenty shillings, but afterwards redu- ced to sixteen in order to encourage the public to become patrons. " Print- ed at the Heart and Crown, Cornhill, Boston, where advertisements are taken, and also by Mr. N. Belknap, Bookseller, near Clark's wharf at the North End " stands in the imprint.
From all we can gather, Fleet's wit and the peculiarity of his style, con- tributed considerably to maintain the popularity of his different papers. He was never idle, but on the contrary, kept something doing, even if he un- dersold his neighbours.
We find that the Post Masters of Boston, were chiefly concerned in all the first newspapers, and Thomas says that " succeeding ones scemed to claim a right to such publications ;" Fleet, however was an independent, humourous man, who neither feared nor stooped to any one.
After the Rehearsal had been pub- lished about four years, the title was discontinued and that of " THE Bos- TON EVENING-POST" substituted on the Monday evening following. The paper commenced under the new title .August 18th, 1735. It was printed on a half sheet of large foolscap printing paper. Except in the title, the Evening Post did not differ from the Rehearsal. It was the best newspa- per then published in Boston. The selections of entertaining and amusing pieces from London publications, and some of Fleet's own humourous para- graphs gave it animation, and its news was well selected and seasonably pub- lished. Fleet was a wit, and no bigot : he did not appear to be a great friend to itinerant preachers ; and he was not, like the brethren of the type of that day, afraid to attack the highly popular, and greatly distinguished preacher, Whitfield.
A paragraph was published in the Post of March 8, 1741, which was next day taken notice of by the gover- nour and council, who ordered an in- formation to be filed against Fleet, that he might be prosecuted at the
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