Concord, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA

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Article genealogybank.com  "At Concord, (Mass.) there is a female, not yet eighteen years old, who is a widow for the second time!" Date: August 10, 1826 Location: Maryland Paper: Baltimore Patriot

17. CONCORD. [Pop. 1,784. Inc 1635.]   The Indian tract called Musketaquid was peacefully purchased of the Indians, and, from this circumstance, called Concord. Concord originally included the towns of Acton, Carlisle, and part of Bedford. The county courts meeting alternately at Concord and Cambridge, these are generally called Half-Shire-Towns. Assabeth and Sudbury rivers unite in this town, and form Concord River, which flows northwardly into the Merrimack. As the British forces and the Royal Governor were stationed at Boston, just before the Revolution, the Provincial Congress, as the Representatives of the people were called, sometimes held its sessions in Concord, and the public military stores and provisions were deposited here. To destroy the stores the British went in boats from Boston to Cambridge, and thence marched through Lexington to Concord, April 19, 1775 ; but their object was in a great measure defeated. A monument is erected on the spot where the first Britons in the war of the Revolution were killed on that memorable day. The first Americans had been killed in Lexington, a few hours before. Distance from Boston, 17 miles. Source: An Elementary Geography for Massachusetts Children by William Bentley Fowle and Asa Fitz, 1845

Burning of R. W. Emerson's Residence at Concord, Mass.   From the Boston Traveller, July 24. "The homestead occupied by Mr. Ralph Waldo Emerson, in Concord, was entirely destroyed by fire this morning, the walls of the first story and the outbuildings only being left standing. Fire was discovered in the roof at about 6½ o'clock by a workman in Mr. Emerson's employ, and an alarm speedily brought the two hand-engines of the town to the spot, too late, however, to be of material service. It is presumed that the attic caught fire yesterday morning from a defective flue, and that the flames had been smouldering[sic] ever since. The furniture of the house, fortunately, was saved, as was also the valuable library which was in Mr. Emerson's possession, except one trunk containing manuscripts. The house was situated near the centre of Concord and was a point of much interest to visitors. It was filled, as might be expected from its owner, with choice articles of vertu, the gifts of friends and the collections of many years, and a library of great value. It was built for the Emerson family by Geo. Coolidge, fifty years ago, and has never changed its ownership. Two stories in height, it was a rambling, home-like structure, and was an object of great interest to all visitors in Concord. Its intrinsic value could not have been less than $5,000, but its worth as an historical relic cannot be estimated in dollars and cents. There is an insurance of $2,500 on the property, in the Middlesex Insurance Company, of Concord." The New York Times, New York, NY 27 July 1872

Concord Massachusetts, 1890 A Gazetteer of the State of Massachusetts, with Numerous Illustrations written by Rev. Elias Nason, M.A.; revised and enlarged by George J. Varney. Boston: B.B. Russell. 1890, 724 pages   Concord, the scene of our first triumph in the conflict that made us a nation, is situated in the central part of Middlesex County, 18 miles northwest of Boston, by the Fitchburg Railroad. The Lowell Division of the Old Colony Railroad, and the Boston and Lowell, also pass through it, each having a station near Concord village, at the centre of the town. Other villages are Westvale, Warnerville and Nine-Acre Corner. Concord is bounded on the north by Carlisle, on the northeast by Bedford, on the southeast by Lincoln, on the southwest by Sudbury, and on the west and northwest by Acton."It is one of the quiet country towns," says Mr. Alcott, "whose charm is incredible to all but those who, by loving it, have found it worthy of love." The land is generally level; yet there are several eminences, as Annursnack, Punkatasset, Fairhaven and other hills, which enhance the beauty of the scenery. Rattlesnake Hill is now the scene of a large industry, the quarrying of the superior granite of which it is chiefly composed. Bateman's Pond in the north, White Pond in the south, and, in the southeast, Walden Pond (made famous by the pen of Thoreau), are all beautiful sheets of water. The Concord River flows leisurely through the town from the south, receiving near the central village the waters of the rapid Assabet. The latter, with affluents, affords some motive power, which is made use of at West Concord by a woollen mill and factories for pails and other goods. Carriages, furniture, leather, clothing, building stone, food preparations, are other of the town manufactures. The area, aside from highways and water surfaces, is 14,872 acres. There are 4,920 acres of forest, consisting of oak, birch, pine, maple, walnut and some chestnut. Along the streets, especially in the central village, are numerous elms and maples, well-grown, and lending an additional charm to the excellent roads, which afford fine drives in several directions. The soil upon the plains is light and sandy, on the hills a gravelly loam. The meadows along the rivers yield large quantities of hay. The farms, which now number 244, are generally well cultivated and productive. The celebrated "Concord grape" originated with E. W. Bull, a successful farmer of this place. The nursery product of the town is proportionately large, also the fruit product. In 1885 the Concord orchards and gardens contained 12,314 fruit trees, and the yield of cranberries was nearly 400 barrels. There were 1,402 milch cows; and the product of the dairies footed up to $102,856. The aggregate farm product was $337,808. The valuation of the town in 1888 was $3,246,117; the tax-rate being $12.40 on $1,000. The population is 3,727; and 760 of these are voters. The schools are graded, and find accommodation in five buildings at convenient centres. Concord village is situated on level land, which gives nearly equal advantages of site to all edifices. The town-house and high school buildings here are creditable, and the public library of about 20, 000 volumes is contained in a very handsome edifice, given to the town by Mr. William Munroe. It is fireproof, and cost $70,000. There is also a fine memorial hall, erected in honor of the 34 heroes from this town who fell in the war of the Rebellion. The Trinitarian Congregationalists, the Unitarians, the Roman Catholics, and the American Episcopal Church have good church edifices in the town. The old court-house and county jail are mementoes of a time when Concord divided the honors of a county capital with Cambridge and Lowell. A public building of magnitude and impressiveness is the State Reformatory; but this is situated near the junction of the Concord and Assabet rivers, some two miles from the central village, The citizens regard the institution as somewhat foreign; having more interesting and admirable objects to occupy their attention, Among these, besides those already mentioned, are the residences of Emerson and the Alcotts — father and daughter, and the "Old Manse," immortalized by Hawthorne, who also made it his residence while in Concord. It is now the summer home of D. Lothrop, the publisher, and his wife, Margery Deane, the authoress, At this village also, for several years, was the famous Concord School of Philosophy. Concord was the first inland town settled in the State. Many of the settlers were men of wealth and intelligence, who willingly endured great sufferings for conscience' sake. Simon Willard, John Jones, Mr. Spencer and others, purchased of Tahatawan and Nimrod, in 1635, a tract of land six miles square, whose centre was near the house of the Rev. Peter Bulkley, in which they were met. During the first year of their residence, most of the settlers lived in huts covered with bark and brushwood, but during the second year many convenient houses were erected. The Indian name for the place was Mustquetequid, meaning "grassy brook." On its incorporation, September 2, 1665, it was called Concord, for the peacable manner in which it had been obtained from the natives. In April, 1676, ten or twelve citizens from this town were killed in Sudbury, while aiding the settlers there against the attack of King Philip's Indians. In 1734, the Provincial Congress held its sessions here; and on the 19th of April, 1775, Gen. Gage sent a detachment of the British. troops, under Major John Pitcairn, to destroy some military stores deposited at the house of Colonel Barrett and others in this town. By the activity of Paul Revere and associates, intelligence of the expedition was received, and an alarm was given by the ringing of the church bell at three o'clock in the morning. About seven o'clock, some eight hundred British soldiers entered the town from Lexington, cut down the liberty pole and destroyed some stores, then proceeded to the North Bridge across the Concord River. Here they were met by the Concord minute-men under Captain Brown, and the Acton company under Captain Isaac Davis. Shots were exchanged across the bridge; three British soldiers were killed, and, on our part, Captain Davis and several others. The regulars then left the bridge and set out for Boston, under a destructive fire from minute-men posted along the way. The damage done to private property in Concord by fire, robbery and destruction was estimated at £274: 16s. 7d.; and Captain Charles Miles, Captain Nathan Barrett, Jonas Brown and Abel Prescott, Jun., of this place, were wounded, Two of the British soldiers killed at the bridge were buried on the spot where they fell; and two rough stones identify the place. The statue of a minute-man near the bridge recalls the spirit of the time. Monument Street, running north from the village, leads, through a canopy of pines and other trees, to the old North Bridge, where on each side of the river, is a stone monument with suitable inscription. Concord is noted for its steady adherence in later times, also, to the great principles of civil and religious liberty, and for having given to the world many men of eminence; as Samuel Willard (1640-1707), a president of Harvard College; Benjamin Prescott (1687-1777), a divine and author; Jonathan Hoar (1708-1781), colonel of a provincial regiment; Eleazer Brooks (1725-1806), a brigadier general; Joseph Lee (1742-1819), first minister of Royalston; Timothy Farrar (1747-1847), appointed chief justice of New Hampshire in 1802; William Emerson (1769-1811), father of Ralph Waldo Emerson; Nathaniel Wright (1787-1824), author of "The Fall of Palmyra," etc.; Ebenezer Merriam (1794-1864), an eminent meteorologist; John Augustus Stone (1801-1834), actor, and author of "Metamora" and other dramas; William Whiting (1813-1873), an eminent lawyer and writer on military affairs; Ebenezer Rockwood Hoar (1816), a distinguished jurist; and William S. Robinson (1817), a greatly esteemed editor.

Ancestors Who Were Born in Concord, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA

 Brown
Rebecca Brown (5 Mar 1683, Concord, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA - 3 Nov 1751, Townsend, Middlesex, Massachusetts)

Thomas Brown (1651, Concord, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA - 4 Apr 1718, Concord, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA)


 Darby
Samuel Darby (8 Sep 1757, Concord, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA - 13 MAR 1839, Dublin, Cheshire, New Hampshire, USA)


 Hassell
Abiah Hassell (13 May 1673, Concord, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA - 8 Dec 1746, Dunstable, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA)


 Helsher
Edna Mabel Helsher (14 Apr 1889, Concord, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA - 1965, )


 Hubbard
Jonathan Hubbard (18 Jun 1683, Concord, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA - 7 APR 1761, Townsend, Middlesex, Massachusetts)

Rebecca Hubbard (11 Feb 1710, Concord, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA - 17 Apr 1774, Dunstable, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA)


 Minot
Elisabeth Minot (29 Jan 1697, Concord, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA - 12 Nov 1764, Lincoln, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA)

James Minot (20 Jan 1726, Concord, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA - 2 Aug 1773, New Haven, New Haven, Connecticut, USA)

James Minot (17 Oct 1694, Concord, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA - 6 Feb 1759, Concord, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA)

John Minot (31 Aug 1717, Concord, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA - 31 Jul 1802, Concord, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA)

Lieut. Ephraim Minot (17 June 1742, Concord, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA - 14 Sep 1794, Concord, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA)

Love Minot (15 Apr 1702, Concord, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA - 25 Oct 1772, Lincoln, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA)

Lydia Minot (12 Mar 1687, Concord, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA - , )

Martha Minot (aft. 1739, Concord, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA - 1820, Durham, Greene, New York)

Martha Minot (30 Apr 1699, Concord, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA - 3 July 1762, Bedford, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA)

Martha Minot (01 Feb 1737, Concord, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA - 18 Jun 1739, Concord, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA)

Mary Minot (16 Nov 1689, Concord, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA - 3 Sept 1760, )

Mercy Minot (15 Apr 1702, Concord, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA - 25 JUL 1793, Sudbury, Middlesex, Massachusetts)

Rebecca Minot (9 Feb 1685, Concord, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA - 23 Jun 1738, Concord, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA)

Rebeckah Minot (15 May 1720, Concord, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA - 8 Oct 1761, )

Samuel Minot (25 Mar 1706, Concord, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA - 17 Mar 1765, Concord, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA)

Timothy Minot (18 Jun 1692, Concord, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA - 30 Nov 1778, Concord, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA)


 Wheeler
Rebecca Wheeler (1666, Concord, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA - 23 Sep 1734, Concord, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA)

Ruth Wheeler (abt. 1652, Concord, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA - 9 Feb 1740, Concord, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA)

Sarah Wheeler (22 June 1640, Concord, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA - 23 May 1662, Concord, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA)

Ancestors Who Died in Concord, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA

 Brooks
Mary Brooks (1610, Elston, Bedfordshire, England - 4 OCT 1693, Concord, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA)


 Brown
Thomas Brown (1651, Concord, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA - 4 Apr 1718, Concord, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA)


 Darby
Betsey Darby (6 Nov 1785, Lincoln, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA - 13 Aug 1805, Concord, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA)


 Hubbard
Jonathan Hubbard (3 Jan 1658, Wethersfield, Hartford, Connecticut, USA - 17 Jul 1728, Concord, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA)


 Jones
Ephraim Jones (1650,   - 23 Jan 1676, Concord, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA)


 Lane
Martha Lane (1 Oct 1694, Billerica, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA - 18 Jan 1733, Concord, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA)


 Merrick
Elizabeth Merrick (14 Feb 1726, Brookfield, Worcester, Massachusetts - 28 Jan 1746, Concord, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA)


 Minot
James Minot (17 Oct 1694, Concord, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA - 6 Feb 1759, Concord, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA)

James Minot (14 SEP 1653, Dorchester, Suffolk, Massachusetts, USA - 20 SEP 1735, Concord, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA)

John Minot (31 Aug 1717, Concord, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA - 31 Jul 1802, Concord, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA)

Lieut. Ephraim Minot (17 June 1742, Concord, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA - 14 Sep 1794, Concord, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA)

Martha Minot (01 Feb 1737, Concord, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA - 18 Jun 1739, Concord, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA)

Rebecca Minot (9 Feb 1685, Concord, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA - 23 Jun 1738, Concord, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA)

Samuel Minot (25 Mar 1706, Concord, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA - 17 Mar 1765, Concord, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA)

Timothy Minot (18 Jun 1692, Concord, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA - 30 Nov 1778, Concord, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA)


 Prescott
Jonathan Prescott (abt. 1646,   - 6 Dec 1721, Concord, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA)


 Rice
Hannah Rice (1658, Sudbury, Middlesex, Massachusetts - 9 Apr 1747, Concord, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA)


 UNKNOWN
Bridget UNKNOWN (abt. 1615, England - 1 Mar 1681, Concord, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA)

Jane UNKNOWN (,  - 12 February 1643, Concord, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA)


 Wheeler
Mary Wheeler (3 Oct 1657,  - 7 Oct. 1660, Concord, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA)

Rebecca Wheeler (1666, Concord, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA - 23 Sep 1734, Concord, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA)

Ruth Wheeler (abt. 1652, Concord, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA - 9 Feb 1740, Concord, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA)

Sarah Wheeler (22 June 1640, Concord, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA - 23 May 1662, Concord, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA)

Thomas Wheeler (abt. 1621, England - 10 Dec 1676, Concord, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA)

Timothy Wheeler (1604, Wharley, Cranfield, Bedfordshire, England - 30 JUL 1687, Concord, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA)

Cemeteries

Old Hill Burying Ground

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 Databases/WebSites

 Concord Births, Marriages and Deaths

 History of the Colonial Inn (Concord, Massachusetts)

 Concord, Massachusetts : births, marriages, and deaths, 1635-1850

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