Ancient Middlesex with brief biographical sketches of the men who have served the country officially since its settlement (1905) (14777477662)

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Title: Ancient Middlesex with brief biographical sketches of the men who have served the country officially since its settlement
Year: 1905 (1900s)
Authors: Gould, Levi S. (Levi Swanton), b. 1834
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Publisher: (Somerville, Mass.) Somerville Journal Print
Contributing Library: Boston Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Boston Public Library



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ods in the administrationof corporal punishment they justified under the Mosaic law,wherein the way of the transgressor is hard. They endeavoredto pattern their humble lives after the example of Him who diedon Calvary, and the foundations of their law rested upon thedivine message which thundered from Sinai. John OuincyAdams, the sixth President of the United States, once said: Iwould rather have one drop of Puritan blood in my veins than allthe blood that ever flowed in the veins of kings and princes.As time moves on, the sublime work of these pious and un-daunted souls shines forth in ever-increasing lustre, while the ANCIENT MIDDLESEX. 57 name of Puritan/ originally applied to dissenters from the es-tablished church as a term of scornful derision, is eagerly adoptedby such as can trace their lineage back to the early fathers, as theproudest symbol which can emblazon the family escutcheon.Those only deserve to be remembered by posterity who treasureup the history of their ancestors.
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RUINS OF THE VIADUCTOVER SHAWSHEEN RIVER—MIDDLESEX CANAL, 179o It is by the right of ancient settlement that MiddlesexCounty ma5^ if in no other way, lay claim to a date preceding itslegal act of incorporation. At the date of its incorporation, 161-3, Middlesex Countycontained Charlestown, Cambridge, Watertown, Sudbury, Con-cord, Woburn, Medford, and Linn Village, afterwards Reading.Until February 20, 1819, the administration of county affairs wasvested in the Circuit Court of Common Pleas; after that, anduntil Alarch 4, 1826, in the hands of a Chief Justice and two asso-ciates of the Court of Sessions. 58 ANCIENT MIDDLESEX. COMMISSIONERS OF HIGHWAYS, MIDDLE-SEX COUNTY, Under the Act of March -i, 18)36, the Governor appointedfive persons as Commissioners of Highways for the term of fiveyears, viz.: Caleb Butler, of Groton, Chairman; AugustusTower, of Stow; Abner Wheeler, of Framingham; Benjamin F.Varnum, of Dracut (resigned in 1831 to accept the office ofSheriff); David Townsend, of