An Address
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Excerpt from An Address: In Commemoration of the Ordination and Settlement of Rev. John Hancock This evening we are to turn back the pages of history two hundred years. What are the conditions under which the people of the parish of Cambridge Farms, now Lexington, are living? After a long struggle to retain it, Massachusetts has been deprived of her colonial charter and made a Province of Great Britain. Her governor is no longer elected by the people, but appointed by royal authority. William III., of blessed memory to the Protestant heart, is king and legal meetings here are warned in his majesty´s name. The parish, then considerably larger than the present town of Lexington in territory, contains, as supposed, hardly more than three hundred inhabitants, or from thirty to forty families. In 1698, Boston had a population of seven thousand, as stated by Cotton Mather - not twice as large as Lexington to-day. This village possibly contains half a dozen dwellings. Originally its site was nearly all comprised in one large grant of 600 acres held by the Pelham family, and only recently divided and sold in three equal tracts. Not fifty persons probably are living within the bounds of what is now called "Lexington Centre." Of these are the families of Benj. Muzzey, on the Stetson place; John Munroe, near Belfry Hill; Joseph Estabrook, on the Plumer place, and Jonathan Poulter, in the vicinity of the Baptist Church. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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