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General Chandler House
FormNo. 10-'300 ,0_1" \~8"" _ UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR NATIONAL PARK SERVICE NATIONAL REGISTER OF mSTORIC PLACES INVENTORY -- NOMINA TION FORM SEE INSTRUCTIONS IN HOW TO COMPLETE NATIONAL REGISTER FORMS c : r .-: "TYPE ALL ENTRIES -- COMPLETE APPLICABLE SECTIONS . ....:. '-' .. HISTORIC - General samuel Chandler House AND/OR COMMON same BLOCATION- -STREET & NUMBER 8 Goodwin Road _NOT FOR PUBLICATION CITY. TOWN Lexington CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT _ VICINITY OF Boston 5th STATE Massachusetts CODE 02173 COUNTY . CODE Middlesex 017 IICLASSIFICA TI_ON CATEGORY OWNERSHIP STATUS PRESENT USE 'X _DISTRICT _PUBLIC _OCCUPIED -AGRICULTURE _MUSEUM X-BUllOING(S) ~PRIVATE _UNOCCUPIED _COMMERCIAL _PARK _STRUCTURE _BOTH _WORK IN PROGRESS _EDUCATIONAL X-PRIVATE RESIDENCE _SITE . PUBLIC ACQUISITION ACCESSIBLE _ENTERTAINMENT _RELIGIOUS _OBJECT _IN PROCESS ~YES: RESTRICTED _GOVERNMENT _SCIENTIFIC ~~~Ir~GC9N SIOER_E~ ~ YES: UNRESTRICTED -::-'NDUSTR'AL _TRANSPORTATION .. -: = .:XNO _MILITARY _OTHER: DOWNER :OF PROPERTY , __ ~--l __ . __ •. NAME Robert Po and Charlotte Co outerbridge STREET & NUMBER 8.Goodwin Road CITY. TOWN STATE Lexingto.n Boston Massachusetts _ VICINITY OF 02173 DLOCATION OF LEGAL DESCRIPTION COURTHOUSE. Middlesex County Courthouse REGISTRY OF DEEDS,ETC. STREET & NUMBER 208 Cambridge street CITY. TOWN STATE.._ Cambridge Massachusetts f 0214] , I iiiREPRESENTATION IN EXISTING SURVEYS ! TITlE I Inventory of the Historic Assets of the Commonwealth I DATE " I 1975 _FEDERAL X-sTATE _COUNTY -LOCAL ! - DEPOSITORY FOR j SURVI:Y RI:CORDS MassadmlSQtts Historical Commission CITY. TOWN STAT,£ 294 Washington Street, Boston Mass. 02108 BDESCRIPTION CONDITION CHECK ONE CHECK ONE ~EXCELLENT _DETERIORATED _UNALTERED X_ORIGINAL SITE _ GOOD _RUINS X-ALTERED _MOVED DAT""- _ _FAIR _UNEXPOSED DESCRIBE THE PRESENT AND ORIGINAL (IF KNOWN) PHYSICAL APPEARANCE The General Samuel Chandler House is situated on the summit of Meriam Hill overlooking Lexington Green in Lexington. -
THE LOYALIST MELVINS of CHARLESTOWN, MASSACHUSETTS and NOVA SCOTIA Howard Storm Browne UE Williamsburg, Virginia
THE LOYALIST MELVINS OF CHARLESTOWN, MASSACHUSETTS AND NOVA SCOTIA Howard Storm Browne UE Williamsburg, Virginia e learned in school about the Thirteen Colonies and the successful effort to throw off the tyrannical English yoke. Most of us were not taught that W the British founded fourteen colonies in North America. The fourteenth was Nova Scotia, a colony since 1713, with a garrison and a Governor at Annapolis Royal. The land surrounding the capitol was occupied by Frenchmen, who were there before the land became British as a result of the Treaty of Utrecht that ended Queen Anne’s War, The political climate was not settled until after the Seven Years War, which we call The French & Indian War. The British forcibly depopulated anybody (ie, French) who would not swear allegiance to Britain. In 1749, the official date of founding, a new capitol was established at Halifax. Thirteen transports with 2,576 settlers arrived 26 June 1749. The governor complained, because they were the dregs of London, of little use. The situation was mitigated by the death of more than a thousand of them during a typhus epidemic. Work then turned to gaining peace with the Micmac Indians. When this was accomplished in 1759, the land was ready for settlement. The Lt. Governor offered free land to New Englanders and others. New settlers began coming in by the boatload.. The English-speakers already there corrupted the name of the new German settlers, “Deutsch,” into “Dutch,” as they were already known in the other Colonies. When these were supplemented by eager New Englanders things began to get underway. -
The Descendants of William Hartwell, Concord Settler, 1636, Through Five Generations
The Descendants of William Hartwell, Concord Settler, 1636, Through Five Generations Joy F. Peach The Hartwells of America Association 2007 Copyright © 2007 by Joy F. Peach All rights reserved. The paper used in this book meets the minimum requirements of the American National Standard for Permanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials, Z39.48-1984. Binding materials have been chosen for durability. Printed in the United States of America by Thomson-Shore, Inc., 7300 W. Joy Road, Dexter, Michigan 48130 PUBLISHER’S CATALOGING IN PUBLICATION DATA Peach, Joy F. The Descendants of William Hartwell, Concord Settler, 1636, Through Five Generations / Joy F. Peach. xxx, 596 p., 24 cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN: 978-0-9793318-0-0 1.William Hartwell–Genealogy. 2. Hartwell Family–Genealogy. I. Title. CS71.H37 2007 929.20973 2007922022 Without limiting the rights under copyright reserved above, no part of this book may be reproduced, stored in or introduced into a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means (electronic, mechanical, photo- copying, recording, or otherwise) (beyond that copying permitted by Sections 107 and 108 of the United States Copyright Law, Title 17, United States Code, and except by reviewers for the public press) without the prior written permission of the publisher of this book, The Hartwells of America Association. The scanning, uploading, and distribution of this book via the Internet or via any other means without the prior written permission of the publisher is illegal and punishable by law. Your support of the author’s rights is appreciated. Reproduction Permission The Hartwells of America Association c/o Wayne E. -
Lexington Housing Developments Over Time
1 My job is to give you an overview of Lexington's housing over time, which is no small task in my allotted time. This will not be a compendium of architectural styles in Lexington because that has already been expertly done, using Lexington examples. You will find it in the comprehensive cultural resources survey, about which you will be hearing shortly. I will be focusing on settlement patterns, as the town's housing stock grew from 30 houses in 1682 to the 11,000 today, though I have chosen to discuss the ten developments shown on this slide out of the 58 that I have identified. I will be illustrating the architectural styles associated with these developments and often their design source. In 17th and 18th centuries the vast majority of houses were associated with family farms and so most houses were scattered around Lexington. Historian Mary Fuhrer has documented that, in 1771, there 133 farms. Each farm needed approximately 60 acres to sustain a family.1 Well into the 20th century Lexington still had a farm based economy though the number of farms was rapidly diminishing. The earliest surviving house is the core of the Buckman Tavern, recently dated by Dendrochronology, or tree ring dating, to 1710. An example of what is known as First Period architecture, it had exposed and decorated framing and other features derived from the English post medieval architecture. The house originally looked something like this. Here's part of the frame still exposed in the Buckman 1 Mary Fuhrer, "Farms and Farm Family Life," Graduate School Paper, University of New Hampshire; and scholar-in- residence research at the Lexington Historical Society (2012).