THE REV. DR. THADDEUS MASON HARRIS, D.D. - Kouroo

THE REV. DR. THADDEUS MASON HARRIS, D.D.

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THADDEUS MASON HARRIS REV. DR. THADDEUS MASON HARRIS, D.D.

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July 7, Tuesday: Thaddeus Mason Harris was born in Charlestown, Massachusetts. His father William Harris of Charlestown was a Revolutionary patriot who would die during the war, and the family would become destitute. Although he was a descendant in the 6th generation of Thomas Harris of Ottery St. Mary in Devonshire, England, it would be necessary to put him out as a child to earn his keep with a farm family of the township of Stirling, Massachusetts. He would receive some schooling along with that farm family’s children. He would then enter the school of a Dr. Morse, suspected to be Tory in his political affiliations, who would prepare him for college.1

NOBODY COULD GUESS WHAT WOULD HAPPEN NEXT

1768

1. He would relate that at one point during his youth he was trudging along with a staff when he noticed that a gold ring, that apparently had somewhere been lying in the dirt, had seated itself around the tip of his staff. Pulling off the gold ring, he found it was inscribed “GOD SPEED THEE FRIEND.”


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REV. DR. THADDEUS MASON HARRIS, D.D. THADDEUS MASON HARRIS

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Thaddeus Mason Harris matriculated at Harvard College.

LIFE IS LIVED FORWARD BUT UNDERSTOOD BACKWARD?— NO, THAT’S GIVING TOO MUCH TO THE HISTORIAN’S STORIES.

LIFE ISN’T TO BE UNDERSTOOD EITHER FORWARD OR BACKWARD.

1783

NEW “HARVARD MEN”







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For his contribution to calculations needed in the field of marine insurance, Sylvestre François Lacroix was the co-winner of the year’s Grand Prix of the French Académie des Sciences (he would, however, never receive this prize). When the Lycée failed for financial reasons, he again needed to move to the provinces. At the École d’Artillerie in Besançon he would be offering courses in mathematics, physics, and chemistry.

Thaddeus Mason Harris graduated from Harvard College. Although through the influence of friends he was invited to become private secretary to General George Washington, an attack of the small pox would get in the way of his filling this position. For about a year he would make a study of theology while in charge of a classical school in Worcester. For a number of years he would be supplying articles for The Massachusetts magazine, or, Monthly Museum of Knowledge and Rational Entertainment (Boston: Isaiah Thomas and Ebenezer T. Andrews).

THE FUTURE IS MOST READILY PREDICTED IN RETROSPECT

1787










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Thaddeus Mason Harris’s THE TRIUMPHS OF SUPERSTITION: AN ELEGY BY A STUDENT OF HARVARD COLLEGE (Printed at Boston by Isaiah Thomas and Ebenezer T. Andrews...).

THE FUTURE CAN BE EASILY PREDICTED IN RETROSPECT

1790










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Thaddeus Mason Harris got hired as the librarian at Harvard College.

DO I HAVE YOUR ATTENTION? GOOD.

1791










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August 13, Monday: Louis XVI, Marie Antoinette, and little Marie Thérèse Charlotte and Louis-Charles became prisoners in the tower of the Temple (a 12th-Century fortress that had been erected by the Knights Templar in what is now the 3d arrondissement of Paris, no longer in existence). From this point forward the revolutionaries would understand their family name to be Capet. Here “M. Capet” takes the air in his prison:

1792




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Adelaide Amelia Louisa Theresa Caroline was born in Meiningen, the 1st of the daughters of George, Duke of Saxe-Coburg Meiningen.

William Ellis got married with a woman of the Bedborough family who had been born in Reading, England (not much is known about her).

Thaddeus Mason Harris was made a resident member of the Massachusetts Historical Society.

PEOPLE OFWALDEN

WALDEN: As with our colleges, as with a hundred “modernimprovements”; there is an illusion about them; there is notalways a positive advance. The devil goes on exacting compoundinterest to the last for his early share and numerous succeedinginvestments in them. Our inventions are wont to be pretty toys,which distract our attention from serious things. They are butimproved means to an unimproved end, an end which it was alreadybut too easy to arrive at; as railroads lead to Boston or NewYork. We are in great haste to construct a magnetic telegraph fromMaine to Texas; but Maine and Texas, it may be, have nothingimportant to communicate. Either is in such a predicament as theman who was earnest to be introduced to a distinguished deafwoman, but when he was presented, and one end of her ear trumpetwas put into his hand, had nothing to say. As if the main objectwere to talk fast and not to talk sensibly. We are eager to tunnelunder the Atlantic and bring the old world some weeks nearer tothe new; but perchance the first news that will leak through intothe broad, flapping American ear will be that the PrincessAdelaide has the whooping cough.

ADELAIDE

HARRIET MARTINEAU




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THE NATURAL HISTORY OF THE BIBLE, OR, A DESCRIPTION OF ALL THE BEASTS, BIRDS, FISHES, INSECTS, REPTILES, TREES, PLANTS, METALS, PRECIOUS STONES, &C. MENTIONED IN THE SACRED SCRIPTURES. COLLECTED FROM THE BEST AUTHORITIES, AND ALPHABETICALLY ARRANGED. BY THADDEUS MASON HARRIS, D.D. ... (Printed at Boston: By I. Thomas and E.T. Andrews).

Completion of the 12 parts of the Reverend James Douglas’s NENIA BRITANNICA; OR, A SEPULCHRAL HISTORY OF GREAT BRITAIN FROM THE EARLIEST PERIOD TO ITS GENERAL CONVERSION TO CHRISTIANITY, which had been in the works since 1786.

This provided perhaps the initial record of a fossil (a sea urchin) at an archaeological site.

CHANGE IS ETERNITY, STASIS A FIGMENT

October 23, Wednesday: Thaddeus Mason Harris was ordained to minister over the First Church and Unitarian Society in Dorchester.

1793

IN THE SCRIPTURE

NENIA BRITANNICA

THE SCIENCE OF 1793PALEONTOLOGY







The earliest edition of this that I can presently offer you, electronically, is the 1820 one.

There does not seem to be an electronic version available.

http://books.google.com/books?id=fEbOAAAAMAAJ&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=false

http://britisharchaeology.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/collections/douglas.html

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A MASONICK EULOGY, PRONOUNCED AT WORCESTER, MASSACHUSETTS, TWENTYFOURTH OF JUNE, A.L. 5794, ON THE FESTIVAL OF ST. JOHN THE BAPTIST: BEFORE THE OFFICERS AND BRETHREN OF THE MORNING STAR LODGE OF FREE AND ACCEPTED MASONS IN THAT TOWN, JOINED BY THE OFFICERS AND BRETHREN OF TRINITY LODGE FROM LANCASTER BY THE REV. BROTHER THADDEUS M. HARRIS (Printed at Worcester, Massachusetts: By Brother Isaiah Thomas: Sold at his bookstore in Worcester, and by said Thomas and Andrews in Boston, 5794 [1794]).

1794





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January 28, day: The Reverend Thaddeus Mason Harris got married with Mary Dix, daughter of Dr. Elijah Dix and Dorothy Dix.

November 12, Thursday: Thaddeus William Harris was born in Dorchester, Massachusetts, the eldest child of the The Reverend Dr. Thaddeus Mason Harris, D.D., who had for a short time been the Librarian of Harvard College, and Mary Dix Harris. The father was a minister in a Congregationalist church and, in 1820, would be the author of THE NATURAL HISTORY OF THE BIBLE. The son would study medicine, and would practice as a physician at Milton Hill, Massachusetts until 183, when he would become also the Librarian at Harvard. He would be appointed a commissioner in 1837 for a zoological and botanical survey of Massachusetts, and would prepare a catalogue of the insects of that state, enumerating 2,350 species. This, with his other extensive catalogues and his collection of insects, would be purchased by the Boston Society of Natural History.

WHAT I’M WRITING IS TRUE BUT NEVER MINDYOU CAN ALWAYS LIE TO YOURSELF

1795







This would be the family home, "Mt. Ida."


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MASONIC EMBLEMS EXPLAINED: IN A SERMON PREACHED BEFORE THE MEMBERS OF KING SOLOMON’S LODGE OF FREE AND ACCEPTED MASONS IN CHARLESTOWN, JUNE 24, A.L. 5796, BEING THE FESTIVAL OF ST. JOHN THE BAPTIST BY THADDEUS MASON HARRIS... (2d edition. Boston: Printed by William Spotswood for the Subscribers).

January 1, Friday: The Reverend Thaddeus Mason Harris’s THE NEW YEAR’S WISH OF AN AFFECTIONATE MINISTER FOR THE PEOPLE OF HIS CHARGE. PREACHED AT Dorchester, JANUARY 1, 1796 (Boston, 1796).

The 1st executive committee meeting of The Retreat, at York, England, was held. The York Retreat had been founded in 1792 by the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) at the urging of Friend William Tuke. The 1st patients had been admitted in 1796. Tuke, his son John, Thomas Priestman, Timothy White, and John Fothergill served on the executive committee. The Retreat was one of the 1st institutions to provide humane treatment for people with mental illness.2

1796

2. Street, W.R. A CHRONOLOGY OF NOTEWORTHY EVENTS IN AMERICAN PSYCHOLOGY. Washington DC: American Psychological Association, 1994

PSYCHOLOGY





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March 15, Wednesday: A SERMON, PREACHED AT THE ORDINATION OF THE REV. JOHN PIERCE TO THE PASTORAL CARE OF THE CHURCH AND CHRISTIAN SOCIETY IN BROOKLINE, MARCH 15TH. 1797 BY THADDEUS MASON HARRIS, PASTOR OF THE CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH AND SOCIETY IN Dorchester (Boston: Printed by Manning & Loring, May, 1797).

1797





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G.L. Barrett’s advertisements indicated that he was offering to teach not only fencing but also “the Scientific and manly art of BOXING” to the gentlemen of Boston. To join Barrett’s class cost $3, and each eight lessons were to cost an additional $5 (to put such costs in perspective: 100 gallons of corn whiskey would set you back $18, half of that being government tax).

CONSTITUTIONS OF THE ANCIENT AND HONORABLE FRATERNITY OF FREE AND ACCEPTED MASONS, COLLECTED AND DIGESTED FROM THEIR OLD RECORDS, FAITHFUL TRADITIONS, AND LODGE BOOKS: TOGETHER WITH THE HISTORY AND GENERAL REGULATIONS OF THE GRAND LODGE OF MASSACHUSETTS COMPILED BY THE REV. THADDEUS MASON HARRIS... (2d edition, revised and corrected, with large additions. Printed at Worcester, Massachusetts: By Brother Isaiah Thomas, In the Christian era 1798, in the year of light 5798).

May 9, Wednesday: A SERMON PREACHED IN MILTON ON THE MORNING AND AT Dorchester IN THE AFTERNOON OF THE 9TH OF MAY, 1798 BEING THE DAY RECOMMENDED BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES FOR SOLEMN HUMILIATION, FASTING, AND PRAYER THROUGHOUT THE UNION BY THADEUS [SIC] MASON HARRIS... (Boston: Printed by Samuel Etheridge..., 1798).

General Napoléon Bonaparte and his wife arrived in Toulon, where the Egyptian invasion force had been awaiting him.

July 10, Tuesday: Elijah Dix Harris was born, a son of the Reverend Thaddeus Mason Harris and Mary Dix Harris.

In the initial skirmish between French and Egyptian forces, the French repulsed a cavalry attack. Later in the day, the French reached the Nile at Rahmaniya and were so thirsty that they waded into the water.

1798





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The Reverend Abiel Holmes’s THE COUNSEL OF WASHINGTON, RECOMMENDED IN A DISCOURSE.

The Scottish Rite of Freemasons was formed in Charleston, South Carolina. The Reverend Thaddeus Mason Harris’s THE FRATERNAL TRIBUTE OF RESPECT PAID TO THE MASONIC CHARACTER OF GEORGE WASHINGTON (Charlestown: Printed by Samuel Etheridge). Also, his BEAUTIES OF NATURE DELINEATED, OR, PHILOSOPHICAL AND PIOUS CONTEMPLATIONS ON THE WORKS OF NATURE, AND THE SEASONS OF THE YEAR SELECTED FROM STURM’S REFLECTIONS, BY THE REV. THADDEUS M. HARRIS (Charlestown: Printed and sold by Samuel Etheridge). Also, his A DISCOURSE, DELIVERED AT DORCHESTER (Charlestown: Printed by Samuel Etheridge).

1800





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Wilkes Allen graduated from Harvard College, and at the commencement delivered one of the three lengthy poems which he had been composing. He would study divinity with the Reverend Increase Sumner of Shrewsbury, Massachusetts and with the Reverend Thaddeus Mason Harris of Dorchester.

The Reverend Harris’s DISCOURSES, DELIVERED ON PUBLIC OCCASIONS... (Charlestown: Printed by Samuel Etheridge, 5801 [1801]). Also, a 2d edition of his BEAUTIES OF NATURE DELINEATED; OR, PHILOSOPHICAL AND PIOUS CONTEMPLATIONS ON THE WORKS OF NATURE, AND THE SEASONS OF THE YEAR (Charlestown: Printed and Sold by Samuel Etheridge).

1801







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The Reverend Thaddeus Mason Harris’s DISCOURSES IN FAVOR OF FREEMASONRY (Boston). After a severe illness he would undertake a horseback visit to the newly formed state of Ohio. His record of this tour, JOURNAL OF A TOUR INTO THE TERRITORY NORTHWEST OF THE ALLEGHANY MOUNTAINS, would be published in 1805.

December 14, Wednesday: TREASURE OF THE GOSPEL IN EARTHEN VESSELS. A SERMON PREACHED AT THE INSTALLATION OF THE REV. ABIEL ABBOT IN THE FIRST CHURCH AND CHRISTIAN SOCIETY IN BEVERLY, DECEMBER 14TH, 1803. BY THADDEUS MASON HARRIS, MINISTER OF DORCHESTER (Salem: Joshua Cushing, 1804).

December 28, Wednesday: The Reverend Thaddeus Mason Harris delivered an address at the interment of the corpses of three persons found to have drowned in the harbor between Boston and Dorchester, and this would be printed in Boston in the following year.

1803





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The Reverend Thaddeus Mason Harris’s “Chronological and Topographical Account of Dorchester” appeared in the Collections of the Massachusetts Historical Society, Volume IX, pages 147-199.

1804

ACCOUNT OF DORCHESTER




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The Reverend Thaddeus Mason Harris’s THE JOURNAL OF A TOUR INTO THE TERRITORY NORTHWEST OF THE ALLEGHANY MOUNTAINS; MADE IN THE SPRING OF THE YEAR 1803. WITH A GEOGRAPHICAL AND HISTORICAL ACCOUNT OF THE STATE OF OHIO... (Boston: Printed by Manning & Loring, no. 2, Cornhill).

June 3, Monday: A SERMON PREACHED BEFORE THE ANTIENT AND HONOURABLE ARTILLERY COMPANY, IN BOSTON, JUNE 3, 1805, AT THE ANNIVERSARY OF THEIR ELECTION OF OFFICERS BY THADDEUS MASON HARRIS (Boston: Printed by Manning & Loring, 1805).

August 29, Thursday: At the Episcopal Church in Cambridge, the Harvard College commencement listened as the Reverend T.M. Harris delivered a poem on Patronage of Genius.

Abandoning the idea of invading Britain, the Emperor Napoléon ordered his three army corps at Montreuil, St.-Omer, and Bruges to march east.

Friend Stephen Wanton Gould wrote in his journal:

5 day 29 of 8 M 1805 / I am thinking this morning of going to Portsmouth to attend our M Meeting but there is such a weight of discoragement attends my mind that I hardly know what to do.After laboring under much discoragement both from within & without I rode in the Stage to the M Meeting It was a remarkable solemn quiet time Abigail Robinson was concerned in testimony to the comfort of many there.The last meeting held but little time & I dont recollect as I ever felt so small in any meeting that ever I attended I was willing to scruch [scrunch?] behind the back of any boody so as not to be seen, considering my self the very least & hindermost of all the flock present It was not that dry hard lean & barran state with which I am so often tried — So on the whole concluded it was a proffitable meeting & worth spending my time to attend it...

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1805

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June 10, Tuesday: A DISCOURSE, DELIVERED BEFORE THE HUMANE SOCIETY OF THE COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS, JUNE 10, 1806 BY THADDEUS MASON HARRIS... (Boston: Printed by E. Lincoln).


3 day 10 of 6 M / A sweet current of life this morning, but the day does not conclude with that savor which I could wish...

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October 20, Monday: The Reverend Thaddeus Mason Harris’s A SERMON DELIVERED AT THE DEDICATION OF THE SOUTH MEETING HOUSE IN Dorchester, OCTOBER 20, 1806 (Boston: Belcher & Armstrong, 1806).

November 2, Sunday: New Jersey appoints a commission consisting of Lewis Condict, Alexander C. McWhorter, Aaron Ogden, James Parker and William S. Pennington, to settle the state’s border with New York. The dispute would nevertheless remain unsettled at this time.

SERMON PREACHED AT Dorchester ON THE FORENOON OF THE LORD’S DAY, NOVEMBER 2D, 1806 TO THOSE WHO ASSEMBLE IN THE SOUTH MEETING HOUSE IN DORCHESTER. BY THADDEUS MASON HARRIS, MINISTER OF DORCHESTER (Boston: Belcher & Armstrong, 1806).


1 day 2 of 11 M 1806 / In the forenoon a poor roving meeting, in the Afternoon more composed & more life O Williams was concernd in in a short tho’ livly testimony as follows “John preached unto the people the Baptism of repentance & remission of sins, he was declared unto them to be a bright & shining light to teach them the way of the Lord & to make his paths streight, this we must be brought into before we can know the Kingdom of the Son”Took tea at Saml Thurstons in company with Clarke Rodman from there we came home & I took a very affecting leave of my most endeared friend Isaac Austin who expects to leave us tomorrow morning for Easton NYork where his parents now reside. I love him beyond the power of my tongue or pen to describe. May he be preserved from evil, may the Lord be with him & bless him even to the end of his days. — I spent the remainder of the evening at D Rodmans our minds were so affected in parting with Isaac that we found but little to converse upon & set mostly silent. My mind was engaged in in secret fervant prayer for our preservation & that my dear Isaac might witness the protecting arm of divine Power thro’ every allotment in passing along this vale of tears

1806






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The Reverend Thaddeus Mason Harris’s THE MINOR ENCYCLOPEDIA....

1808





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January 25, Wednesday: SERMON PREACHED AT THE ORDINATION OF THE REV. SAMUEL OSGOOD, TO THE PASTORAL CARE OF THE FIRST CHURCH AND SOCIETY IN SPRINGFIELD, JANUARY 25, 1809. BY THADDEUS MASON HARRIS, MINISTER OF Dorchester (Springfield: Thomas Dickman, 1809).


4th day 25th of 1 M / Again nothing Material, the old story over again &c —

1809






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The Reverend Thaddeus Mason Harris’s EARNEST CAUTION AGAINST SUICIDE (Boston: Printed by Joshua Belcher).

1812





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His General Repository journal a failure, Andrews Norton became librarian of Harvard College and continued his study of contemporary German scholarship.

Harvard awarded the Reverend Thaddeus Mason Harris its degree of S.T.D.

February 22, Monday: The Reverend Thaddeus Mason Harris delivered an address before the Washington Benevolent Society in Dorchester that would be printed in Boston by the firm of Joshua Belcher.

March 29, Monday: The Rev. Thaddeus Mason Harris delivered a discourse at Dorchester at the funeral of Moses Everett, Esq. This would soon be printed in Boston by the firm of Joshua Belcher.


2nd day Morng - Arose early, took breakfast with cousin Hazard then rode to the ferry found no boat there & went up to cousin Gardiners sat a little while with them & returned again to the ferry accompanying ’d by cousin Lewis crossed both ferrys comfortably & reached home by 12 OClock finding My dear Wife & little son in good health, & my buisness & concerns as I left them. —

September 24, Friday: André-Ernest-Modeste Grétry died in Montmorency, Seine-et-Oise, at the age of 72.

A DISCOURSE PREACHED BEFORE THE MEMBERS OF THE BOSTON FEMALE ASYLUM, SEPTEMBER 24TH, 1813, AT THEIR THIRTEENTH ANNIVERSARY. BY THADDEUS M. HARRIS, D.D. MINISTER OF THE FIRST CHURCH IN DORCHESTER. [ONE LINE FROM HOSEA] (Boston: Russell, Cutler & Co.).

1813






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October 26, Wednesday: The Reverend Thaddeus Mason Harris, D.D.’s A SERMON PREACHED AT NEW BEDFORD, OCTOBER 26, 1814, AT THE ORDINATION OF REV. EPHRAIM RANDALL (New Bedford: Printed by Benjamin Lindsey).

Pursuant to the decision reached on October 12th, George III, formerly the Elector of Hanover, was in the future be known as the King of Hanover.

1814





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March 22, Wednesday: Neapolitan troops under Joachim Murat occupied Rome.

The church in Sterling, Massachusetts had been gathered on December 19, 1744 under the Reverend John Mellen. In 1779 the Reverend Reuben Holcomb had been ordained to succeed the Reverend Dr. Mellen. On this day the Reverend Lemuel Capen was ordained as successor to the Reverend Dr. Holcomb. The ordination sermon would be printed as a 40-page booklet, by John Eliot in Boston: A SERMON AT THE ORDINATION OF REV. LEMUEL CAPEN: PREACHED AT STERLING, MARCH 22D. 1815. / BY THADDEUS MASON HARRIS, D.D. MINISTER OF THE FIRST CHURCH AND SOCIETY IN DORCHESTER. ...

(Four years later, in 1819, the Reverend Mr. Capen would be dismissed, and the Reverend Peter Osgood, a replacement, would be settled. Mr. Capen would wind up at Brook Farm.)

1815

REV. LEMUEL CAPEN




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The initial meetinghouse had been erected in Dorchester in 1631. It had been a log cabin with a thatched grass roof. This was replaced at some point by a 2d structure on the same site, and then that building was moved in 1670 to Meetinghouse Hill. A 3d meetinghouse was erected during 1678, on another site, with the first meeting taking place there on November 17, 1678. In 1743 this building was replaced on almost the same site. In 1816 a 5th meetinghouse was erected, on that site. This meetinghouse would last for the remainder of the ministry of the Reverend Thaddeus Mason Harris, D.D., and beyond.

In Philadelphia during this year, the organization of the African Methodist Episcopal Church.

August 15, Thursday: PRAY FOR THE JEWS! A SERMON PREACHED AT THE THURSDAY LECTURE IN BOSTON, AUGUST 15, 1816 BY THADDEUS MASON HARRIS (Boston: John Eliot, 1816).


5th day 15th of 8th M / Our meeting was comfortably attended, I believe there were but few of our members who are in a situation to attend who were absent - my feelings were on the low key & so continue thro’ the Afternoon — Father R was concerned in a short restimony. —

1816






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TEXTUARY, OR GUIDE TO PREACHERS IN THE SELECTING OF TEXTS. UPON AN ENTIRELY NEW PLAN. BY THADDEUS MASON HARRIS, D.D., PASTOR OF THE FIRST CHURCH IN DORCHESTER (Boston: Published by Cummings and Hilliard).

June 24, Wednesday: DISCOURSE DELIVERED AT STOUGHTON, BEFORE THE RISING STAR LODGE, AT THE FESTIVAL OF ST. JOHN THE BAPTIST, JUNE 24, A.D. 1818. BY THADDEUS MASON HARRIS, D.D., PAST GRAND CHAPLAIN TO THE GRAND LODGE OF MASSACHUSETTS (Boston: Printed by John Eliot).


4th day 24 of 6 M / James Spencer Gould son of my cousin Job Gould called at my Shop to see me this forenoon —My H set the Afternoon at George Engs - I took tea & set the evening with them. —

1818






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DISCOURSES, DELIVERED ON PUBLIC OCCASIONS, ILLUSTRATING THE PRINCIPLES, DISPLAYING THE TENDENCY, AND VINDICATING THE DESIGN, OF FREE MASONRY. BY THADDEUS MASON HARRIS (Philadelphia: G. Howorth, & M’Carty & Davis, 5819 [sic]).3

December 5, Sunday: Joseph Lane, son of Caleb Lane of Gloucester, drowned at sea.

The Reverend Thaddeus Mason Harris, D.D.’s A SERMON, PREACHED AT DORCHESTER, ON THE LORD’S DAY AFTER THE INTERMENT OF MR. NATHANIEL TOPLIFF, WHO DECEASED 4TH DECEMBER, 1819 (Boston: Printed by S. Phelps, 1820).


1st day 5 of 12 M / In the morning a short testimony from father Rodman & in the Afternoon Silent - both meetings season of some favor to me, for which I desire to be thankful. —

1819

3. This would be republished in London in 1850 and in New York in 1855.






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The Reverend Thaddeus Mason Harris, D.D.’s THE NATURAL HISTORY OF THE BIBLE; OR, A DESCRIPTION OF ALL THE QUADRUPEDS, BIRDS, FISHES, REPTILES, AND INSECTS, TREES, PLANTS, FLOWERS, GUMS, AND PRECIOUS STONES, MENTIONED IN THE SACRED SCRIPTURES. COLLECTED FROM THE BEST AUTHORITIES, AND ALPHABETICALLY ARRANGED. BY THADDEUS MASON HARRIS, D.D. “HE SPAKE OF TREES, FROM THE CEDAR THAT IS IN LEBANON EVEN UNTO THE HYSSOP THAT SPRINGETH OUT OF THE WALL. HE SPAKE ALSO OF BEASTS, AND OF FOWLS, AND OF CREEPING THINGS, AND OF FISHES.” 1 KINGS IV. 33. (Boston: Wells and Lilly—Court-Street).

1820





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Edward Hitchcock, ordained as a pastor, was called by the Congregationalist Church of Conway, Massachusetts.

HYMNS FOR THE LORD’S SUPPER, ORIGINAL AND SELECTED, BY THADDEUS MASON HARRIS, D.D. (2d ed. Boston: Printed by S. Phelps). Also, his A DICTIONARY OF THE NATURAL HISTORY OF THE BIBLE: OR, A DESCRIPTION OF ALL THE QUADRUPEDS, BIRDS, FISHES, REPTILES, AND INSECTS, TREES, PLANTS, FLOWERS, GUMS, AND PRECIOUS STONES, MENTIONED IN THE SACRED SCRIPTURES. COLLECTED FROM THE BEST AUTHORITIES, AND ALPHABETICALLY ARRANGED.

1821





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June 24, Monday: The Reverend Thaddeus Mason Harris, D.D. delivered a discourse at Marblehead that would soon be printed at Cambridge by the firm of Hilliard and Metcalf.

July 15, Monday: Mikhail Ivanovich Glinka graduated from St. Petersburg University Boarding School. At the ceremony he played the Piano Concerto in a minor by Johann Nepomuk Hummel.

A DISCOURSE DELIVERED BEFORE THE AFRICAN SOCIETY IN BOSTON, 15TH OF JULY, 1822, ON THE ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION OF THE ABOLITION OF THE SLAVE TRADE. BY REV. THADDEUS MASON HARRIS, D.D. (Boston: Printed by Phelps and Farnham).4

1822

4. Don’t get confused here: the 15th of July is not the day of that celebration.

INTERNATIONAL SLAVE TRADE




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The Reverend Thaddeus Mason Harris, D.D.’s A TRIBUTE OF RESPECT TO THE MEMORY OF MRS. SARAH BOWDOIN DEARBORN, WIFE OF MAJOR GENERAL HENRY DEARBORN, LATE MINISTER PLENIPOTENTIARY TO THE COURT OF PORTUGAL (Boston: Printed by Munroe and Francis).5

January 25, Wednesday: William Thaddeus Harris was born in Milton, Massachusetts, a son of the Reverend Dr. Thaddeus Mason Harris, D.D. and Mary Dix Harris.

1826

5. In 1822 Henry Dearborn had been appointed by President James Monroe as the US minister to Portugal, and his 3d wife Sarah had been in Portugal with him for two years. She kept a diary which has recently become available; the holograph records details about the diplomatic couple’s dinner companions, indicating the positions held by the men and the social standings of the women. She always took note both of the arrival and of the departure of anyone of any distinction. She described local customs, houses, living arrangements of the legation and of the local gentry, street crime, etc. She made careful note of the domestic situations of her companions: their children, personalities, education, and general accomplishments. She died in 1826.





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William Carpenter’s SCRIPTURE NATURAL HISTORY, based upon the Reverend Dr. Thaddeus Mason Harris, D.D. of Dorchester’s 1821 publication A DICTIONARY OF THE NATURAL HISTORY OF THE BIBLE: OR, A DESCRIPTION OF ALL THE QUADRUPEDS, BIRDS, FISHES, REPTILES, AND INSECTS, TREES, PLANTS, FLOWERS, GUMS, AND PRECIOUS STONES, MENTIONED IN THE SACRED SCRIPTURES. COLLECTED FROM THE BEST AUTHORITIES, AND ALPHABETICALLY ARRANGED.

Benjamin Gilbert Ferris graduated from Union College in Schenectady, and would soon begin the practice of law in the Ithaca, New York offices of David Woodcock.

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Benjamin Gilbert Ferris got married with Elizabeth Cornelia Woodstock, daughter of the lawyer in whose Ithaca, New York office he was practicing.

The Reverend Dr. Thaddeus Mason Harris, D.D.’s MEMORIALS OF THE FIRST CHURCH AT Dorchester.

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William Benjamin Carpenter’s attitudes toward human slavery were altered somewhat during a stay of a few months in the British West Indies (while he would remain averse to that institution, he was becoming more aware of practical difficulties attendant upon its gradual dissolution and more sympathetic with the problems of the British plantation-masters).

The republication in Boston of William Carpenter’s SCRIPTURE NATURAL HISTORY; CONTAINING A DESCRIPTIVE ACCOUNT OF THE QUADRUPEDS, BIRDS, FISHES, INSECTS, REPTILES, SERPENTS, PLANTS, TREES, MINERALS, GEMS, AND PRECIOUS STONES, MENTIONED IN THE BIBLE (Lincoln, Edmands & Co. of Massachusetts; James B. Dow, Printer, 122 Washington-St.).6

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6. This publication was based upon the Reverend Dr. Thaddeus Mason Harris, D.D. of Dorchester’s 1821 volume A DICTIONARY OF THE NATURAL HISTORY OF THE BIBLE: OR, A DESCRIPTION OF ALL THE QUADRUPEDS, BIRDS, FISHES, REPTILES, AND INSECTS, TREES, PLANTS, FLOWERS, GUMS, AND PRECIOUS STONES, MENTIONED IN THE SACRED SCRIPTURES. COLLECTED FROM THE BEST AUTHORITIES, AND ALPHABETICALLY ARRANGED.

The young William Benjamin Carpenter (1813-1885) was not the British reviser of this volume. It was revised, instead, by the William Carpenter who was born in 1797 and would die in 1874, who was a self-educated British spiritualist and a member of the Rosicrucian Society. In its republication in Boston this volume was in addition amended and illustrated by an American educator, the Reverend Gorham Dummer Abbott.





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SEPHORA; A HEBREW TALE, DESCRIPTIVE OF THE COUNTRY OF PALESTINE, AND OF THE MANNERS AND CUSTOMS OF THE ANCIENT ISRAELITES. ABRIDGED AND CORRECTED FROM THE LONDON EDITION, BY REV. THADDEUS MASON HARRIS, D.D. (Worcester: Published by Clarendon Harris. Boston: Russel, Odiorne and Metcalf).

July 16, Thursday: After some 41 years of service, the Unitarian parish of Dorchester over which the Reverend Thaddeus Mason Harris, D.D. was presiding acceded to his request and provided him with a colleague, the Reverend Nathaniel Hall, to assist in these duties.


5th day 16th of 7 M / Our Meeting was rather smaller than usual, but to me it was a very sweet comfortable time —- I suppose the reason of its being smaller than in common times, it is the season of hay & those who have it to make must attend to it. —

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October 23, Sunday: On the 43d anniversary of his ordination in 1793, the Reverend Thaddeus Mason Harris, D.D. resigned as minister over the Unitarian Church and Society in Dorchester, taking leave of his flock with a sermon which would be printed. The new minister in Dorchester was to be the Reverend Nathaniel Hall (previously the Reverend Harris’s assistant).

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Benjamin Gilbert Ferris became the president of the village of Ithaca, New York.

The Reverend Thaddeus Mason Harris, D.D.’s BIOGRAPHICAL MEMORIALS OF JAMES OGLETHORPE, FOUNDER OF THE COLONY OF GEORGIA IN NORTH AMERICA (Boston, Printed for the Author).

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April 3, Sunday: Frederick Douglass spoke in Bolton, Massachusetts.

Thaddeus Mason Harris died in Dorchester (other records assert, in Boston).

On a 258-acre farm in Milford that had previously been named “The Dale,” the Reverend Adin Ballou

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consecrated the Hopedale Community to the principle of Christian non-resistance to evil.

This was the first building used by the Hopedale community, known as “the Jones farm”:

We know that Frederick Douglass visited the Hopedale community during this month, before going on to visit the interracial working community in Florence outside Northampton, so: was or was not Douglass present on April 3rd for this consecration of the community to the principle of Christian non-resistance to evil? (If he did visit there before the 7th, we know that he did not lecture there before the 7th.)

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although at its peak, in 1856, there would be 300 residents of whom 110 would be full members.

April 3: I thank God for sorrow– It is hard to be abused– Is not he kind still –who lets this south windblow– this warm sun shine on me?I have just heard the flicker [Yellow-shafted Flicker Colaptes auratus] among the oaks on the hill side usheringin a new dynasty.– It is the age and youth of time– Why did Nature set this lure for sickly mortals– Eternitycould not begin with more security and momentousness than the spring– The summer’s eternity is reestablishedby this note. All sights and sounds are seen and heard both in time and eternity. And when the eternity of any sight or soundstrikes the eye or ear — they are intoxicated with delight.




I think this is the guy Tolstoy had in mind, in telling Americans that he had great respect for Thoreau. He had to substitute names because none of us would have known who the hell his actual correspondent, the Reverend Adin Ballou, had been.

Whenever and wherever you see this little pencil icon in the pages of this Kouroo Contexture, it is marking an extract from the journal of Henry David Thoreau. OK?


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Dr. Alfred I. Tauber has pointed out that:7

The mystical experience was couched and even defined in thequestion of temporality that informs and guides Thoreau’sdeepest psychological and philosophical efforts. The suspensionof time, the glimpse of eternity, were transforming moments ofaesthetic and spiritual insight, ones he sought in his youth[for instance, here] as well as in his full maturity.

7. Dr. Alfred I. Tauber. HENRY DAVID THOREAU AND THE MORAL AGENCY OF KNOWING. Berkeley and Los Angeles CA; London, England: U of California P, 2001

To explore Thoreau’s “Distant Drummer” metaphor in the greatest detail

April 3, 1842: I thank God for sorrow– It is hard to be abused– Is not he kind still –who lets this south wind blow–this warm sun shine on me?I have just heard the flicker among the oaks on the hill side ushering in a new dynasty.– It is the age and youth of time–Why did Nature set this lure for sickly mortals– Eternity could not begin with more security and momentousness than thespring– The summer’s eternity is reestablished by this note. All sights and sounds are seen and heard both in time and eternity. And when the eternity of any sight or sound strikes theeye or ear — they are intoxicated with delight.





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At this point Benjamin Gilbert Ferris’s service as district attorney for Tompkins County, New York was complete.

William Thaddeus Harris, Junior Sophister in Harvard College, prepared EPITAPHS FROM THE OLD BURYING-GROUND IN CAMBRIDGE. WITH NOTES.

President Josiah Quincy, Sr. and Joseph Story ended their long service to Harvard College. Among their

accomplishments had been the discouragement of Cambridge’s black people from coming into the vicinity of the college campus on the Commencement Day weekends. Folks of that color had proven themselves to be “by no means quiet and orderly.” They had those pushcarts and tried to sell things to the college men on the

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common, etc.

“Bearded agitators” possessed of “democratic principles” were likewise banned from the Cambridge common for the duration of the college festivities.8 Edward Everett, an abstinence man, replaced Quincy as President, and began to experiment with a non-alcoholic style for Harvard events. His efforts to move the fraternity of scholars in this direction would prove markedly unsuccessful:

8. And, we may presume, for similar reasons, for we all know that folks with hair on their faces tend to refuse to be quiet and orderly.

[N]othing that I did caused greater offence, or shookmy influence more in the Corporation.




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William Thaddeus Harris graduated from Harvard College. He would study for the law, but would never practice.

The rules of “rugby” football, which dated to William Webb Ellis’s famous act of 1823, were formalized.

Professor John White Webster had gotten enthused about a mastodon skeleton Mammut americanum that had been found in a New Jersey bog in 1844 and was available on the market for only $3,000, and jumped at the chance to acquire it for the Harvard Museum supposing that the officials of the college would be as enthusiastic as he was about these magnificently preserved bones and supposing that he could easily raise the funds to reimburse him for his grand procurement (but in this year he discovered that he had been quite mistaken, because some of the local folks whose names had been inscribed on the presentation plaques had failed to make good on their promises and had left him holding the bag for the balance of the debt).

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Professor Webster would be undaunted by this residual obligation. He knew he would be able to turn to his richie-rich Boston acquaintance Doctor George Parkman, who although he was personally rather unpleasant was the sole owner of a whole potfull of downtown real estate, for a personal loan to cover the balance.

A new building for the Harvard Medical College was erected upon land belonging to Doctor Parkman down on the flats of the Charles River at the foot of North Grove Street near the Massachusetts Hospital on Allen Street (now Massachusetts General) and near the New Gaol at Foundry Wharf, all of this in the neighborhood of the tollhouse at the Boston approaches to the Cambridge Bridge:

(Don’t go looking for this two-story brick building set on piers at the waterfront near Massachusetts General Hospital. It was long ago torn down.)





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The Reverend William Hubbard’s manuscript HISTORY OF NEW ENGLAND from the discovery to MDCLXXX, which is to say 1680, which had received an inadequate printing by the Massachusetts Historical Society in 1815, in this year obtained courtesy of William Thaddeus Harris a much more adequate presentation, as A GENERAL HISTORY OF NEW ENGLAND, FROM THE DISCOVERY TO MDCLXXX. BY THE REV. WILLIAM HUBBARD, MINISTER OF IPSWICH, MASS. SECOND EDITION, COLLATED WITH THE ORIGINAL MS ... (Boston: Charles C. Little and James Brown). (Beyond this point, the remaining problems of this problematic resource would be those of the author himself — although the original Hubbard holograph no longer exists, an early MS copy of it may be consulted at the Massachusetts Historical Society.)

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In about 1849, Henry Thoreau would copy the following materials into his Indian Notebook #2:

Preface.

Chapter I.

Chapter II. Of the first discovery of the country of New England.

Chapter III. Of the situation, bounds, and rivers of New England.

Chapter IV. Of the temperature of the air and nature of the climate.

Chapter V. Of the fertility of the soil, with the commodities and other advantages of New England.

Chapter VI. Of the disposition of the natives of America, in New England, with the conjectures about their passage hither.

Chapter VII. Of the several nations of the Indians found in New England upon the first discovery thereof; with a touch upon their laws, government, and successions.

Chapter VIII. Of the first planting of New England, or any part thereof, by the English.

Chapter IX. Of the Plantation at Patuxit, or New Plymouth, in the year 1620; with the occasions that led thereunto.

Chapter X. Of the Government, Civil and Military, established in the Colony of New Plymouth.

Chapter XI. Of the Religion, Worship, and Discipline; professed or practised, by those of Plymouth.

Chapter XII. The general affairs of the Colony of New Plymouth, during the first lustre of years, from March 25, 1621, to March 25, 1626.

Chapter XIII. Mr. Weston’s Plantation of Wasagusquasset.

Chapter XIV. The necessities and sufferings of the inhabitants of New Plymouth, during their first lustre of years: their Patent, how and when obtained.

Chapter XV. The Council established at Plymouth, in the County of Devon, for the ordering the affairs of New England, and their proceedings with reference thereto.

When particular fish came on the coast or up the riversthey were there. Sometimes they made all common thatthey caught. The tribe on the coast entertained thetribes from the country & vice versa.

CAMBRIDGE HISTORY OF ENGLISH AND AMERICAN LITERATURE

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Chapter XVI. The addition of more Assistants to the Governor of Plymouth Colony, with some passages most remarkable there, in the years 1624, 1625.

Chapter XVII. Affairs in the Colony of New Plymouth, political and ecclesiastical, during the second lustre of years, viz. from March 26, 1626, to March 26, 1631.

Chapter XVIII. The discovery and first planting of the Massachusetts.

Chapter XIX. Several planters transport themselves into New England; Ministers invited to join with them. The first Plantation in the Massachusetts, called Salem.

Chapter XX. Of the civil polity and form of government of the Massachusetts Company of New England, by Patent; with the sending over their first Agent thither, viz. Mr. J. Endicot, Anno 1628.

Chapter XXI. Of the affairs of religion in the Massachusetts Colony, in New England, during the first lustre of years after the first attempt for the planting thereof; from the year 1625 to the year 1630.

Chapter XXII. Transactions of the Patentees at London after the Patent was obtained; debates about carrying it over; transportation of the Patentees and many others, in the year 1630.

Chapter XXIII. The proceedings of the Patentees at South-Hampton, when they took their leave of England; the solemn manner thereof.

Chapter XXIV. The fleet set forth to sea for New England; their passage, and safe arrival there.

Chapter XXV. The first planting the Massachusetts Bay with towns, after the arrival of the Governor and company that came along with him; and other occurrents that then fell out. 1630, 1631, 1632.

Chapter XXVI. The first Courts kept in the Massachusetts, after the coming over of the Governor. The carrying on of their civil affairs, from the year 1630 to 1636, with the accusations against them before the King and Council.

Chapter XXVII. Various occurrences in New England, from the year 1631 to 1636.

Chapter XXVIII. Ecclesiastical affairs of the Massachusetts, during the first lustre of years after the transferring of the Patent and Government thither; from Anno 1631 to 1636.

Chapter XXIX. Memorable accidents during this lustre of years. The small-pox among the Indians; pestilential fever at Plymouth; with other occurrences worthy to be observed, from the year 1630 to 1636.

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Chapter XXXI. The first planting of those parts of New England, on the east and west side of Pascataqua River, called the Province of Maine and New Hampshire, and the parts adjoining. Attempts for a new settlement of those lands by some of the Grand Council of New England, before they surrendered their Charter into the hands of the King.

Chapter XXXII. The general affairs of the Massachusetts, from the year 1636 to the year 1641.

Chapter XXXIII. Various occurrences in the Massachusetts, from the year 1636 to 1641.

Chapter XXXIV. John Oldham murdered by the Indians of Block Island; how discovered, and the war that followed thereupon with them, and the Pequods, their abettors.

Chapter XXXV. The state of affairs in the Massachusetts, Anno 1636, while Mr. Vane was Governor.

Chapter XXXVI. Troublesome occurences in New England, in the years 1637, 1638. Their Patent undermined by some in England; demanded by the Lords of the Committee for Foreign Plantations; the answer of the Massachusetts.

Chapter XXXVII. Ecclesiastical affairs in the Massachusetts, from the year 1636 to 1641.

Chapter XXXVIII. Disturbance in the Massachusetts Colony, in New England, from the year 1636 to 1641, by Mr. Wheelwright and Mrs. Hutchinson.

Chapter XXXIX. The occasion of spreading erroneous opinions in New England, and much disturbance occasioned thereby in and about Boston, in the years 1636, 1637, etc.

Chapter XL. A Synod called in New England, Anno 1637, at Cambridge. The occasion and success thereof.

Chapter XLI. The first planting of the country about the River of Connecticut. The occasion leading thereunto, and progress thereof, in the years 1635 and 1636, with some occurrences which have since happened there, both in their civil and ecclesiastical affairs.

Chapter XLII. The first planting of New Haven. Some of the most remarkable passages concerning that Colony, as also of Rhode Island, Providence, and the places adjoining, near Narraganset Bay, in the years 1637, 1638.

Chapter XLIII. Ecclesiastical affairs, with other occurrences, at Providence and Rhode Island, to the year 1643. Intercourse between them and the Massachusetts.

Chapter XLIV. Ecclesiastical affairs, with other occurrences, at Pascataqua and the places adjacent. Contests between Mr. Cleeves and Mr. Vines about the bounds of Ligonia.





















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Chapter XLV. The general affairs of New England, from 1641 to 1646.

Chapter XLVI. Various occurrents in New England, from 1641 to 1646.

Chapter XLVII. Troubles occasioned to the Massachusetts inhabitants by one Samuel Gorton, and his company, all of them notorious Familists.

Chapter XLVIII. Ecclesiastical affairs in New England, from the year 1641 to 1646.

Chapter XLIX. Memorable accidents in New England, from 1641 to 1646.

Chapter L. The Colonies of Connecticut and New Haven disturbed by the Dutch at Manhatoes, and the Swedes at Delaware Bay, during this lustre, from 1641 to 1645.

Chapter LI. Conspiracies of the Indians against the English in New England discovered and prevented; from the year 1641 to 1646.

Chapter LII. The Confederation of the United Colonies of New England; the grounds and reasons leading thereunto, with the Articles agreed upon for that end.

Chapter LIII. Ships seized in the harbors of the Massachusetts, by pretended commissions of the Admiralty in England, in the year 1644.

Chapter LIV. Transactions between the Massachusetts and some of the Governors of the French Plantations in Acady, from the year 1641 to 1646.

Chapter LV. The general affairs of New England, from the year 1646 to 1651.

Chapter LVI. Various occurrents in New England, from 1646 to 1651.

Chapter LVII. Memorable accidents in New England, from the year 1646 to 1651.

Chapter LVIII. Ecclesiastical affairs in New England, from the year 1646 to 1651.

Chapter LIX. General affairs of the Massachusetts, in New England, from 1651 to 1656.

Chapter LX. A quarrel between the inhabitants of New Haven and the Dutch at Manhatoes; the Massachusetts not willing to engage therein; from 1651 to 1656.

Chapter LXI. Ecclesiastical affairs in New England, from 1651 to 1656.

Chapter LXII. Special occurrences during this lustre, from 1651 to 1656.

Chapter LXIII. The general affairs of New England, from 1656 to 1661.

Chapter LXIV. Ecclesiastical affairs in New England, from the year 1656 to the year 1661.

Chapter LXV. The Plantation of New England troubled with the Quakers; Laws made against them by the General Court of the Massachusetts, within the space of this lustre, from 1655 to 1660.




























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Chapter LXVI. General affairs of the Massachusetts, from the year 1661 to 1666.

Chapter LXVII. Ecclesiastical affairs in New England, from the year 1661 to 1666.

Chapter LXVIII. The general affairs of New England, from the year 1666 to 1671.

Chapter LXIX. The Province of Maine returns to the government of the Massachusetts; the occasion and manner how it was brought about.

Chapter LXX. Ecclesiastical affairs in the Massachusetts, from the year 1666 to 1671.

Chapter LXXI. General affairs of the Massachusetts, from the year 1671 to 1676.

Chapter LXXII. Ecclesiastical affairs in New England, from the year 1671 to the year 1685.

Chapter LXXIII. Memorable accidents during this lustre of years, from 1671 to 1676.

Chapter LXXIV. A further continuation of the narrative of troubles with the Indians in New England, from April 1677 to June 1680.

Chapter LXXV. Memorable occurrents and sad accidents that happened in New England, from 1666 to 1682.

Chapter LXXVI. The success and progress of the Gospel amongst the Indians in New England.

Chapter LXXVII. A continuation of the History of New Plymouth, from the year 1633, until the year 1678.

Chapter LXXVIII. The country about Hudson’s River, when first discovered and planted; what changes have passed over them, since their first planting to this present time.

[NOTES. THESE NOTES AT THE END OF THE 1848 VOLUME ARE OF PARTICULAR IMPORTANCE.]

(In this year a William Hubbard was beginning an omnibus service along East Avenue, from Rochester, New York that would eventually reach southeast to the village of Pittsford four or five times a day. Eventually 4-horse vehicles would each be able to carry up to twelve passengers. I have no idea whether this 19th-Century Hubbard was a descendant of the Reverend Hubbard of the 17th Century.)

















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William Thaddeus Harris edited the 3d volume of the HISTORICAL AND GENEALOGICAL REGISTER.

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October 19, Friday: William Thaddeus Harris died in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Henry Thoreau made a journal entry that resulted in portions of the following paragraphs from “LIFE WITHOUT PRINCIPLE”:

Men rush to California and Australia as if the true gold wereto be found in that direction; but that is to go to the veryopposite extreme to where it lies. They go prospecting fartherand farther away from the true lead, and are most unfortunatewhen they think themselves most successful. Is not our nativesoil auriferous? Does not a stream from the golden mountainsflow through our native valley? and has not this for more thangeologic ages been bringing down the shining particles andforming the nuggets for us? Yet, strange to tell, if a diggersteal away, prospecting for this true gold, into the unexploredsolitudes around us, there is no danger that any will dog hissteps, and endeavor to supplant him. He may claim and underminethe whole valley even, both the cultivated and the uncultivatedportions, his whole life long in peace, for no one will everdispute his claim. They will not mind his cradles or his toms.He is not confined to a claim twelve feet square, as at Ballarat,but may mine anywhere, and wash the whole wide world in his tom.Howitt says of the man who found the great nugget which weighedtwenty-eight pounds, at the Bendigo diggings in Australia: –“Hesoon began to drink; got a horse and rode all about, generallyat full gallop, and when he met people, called out to inquireif they knew who he was, and then kindly informed them that hewas ‘the bloody wretch that had found the nugget.’ At last herode full speed against a tree, and I think however nearlyknocked his brains out.” I think, however, there was no dangerof that, for he had already knocked his brains out against thenugget. Howitt adds, “He is a hopelessly ruined man.” But he isa type of the class. They are all fast men. Hear some of thenames of the places where they dig: –“Jackass Flat,” –“Sheep’s-Head Gully,” –“Murderer’s Bar,” etc.

Oct. 19. P.M. — To Pine Hill for chestnuts.It is a very pleasant afternoon, quite still and cloudless, with a thick haze concealing the distant hills. Does notthis haze mark the Indian summer?I see Mrs. Riordan and her little boy coming out of the woods with their bundles of fagots on their backs. It issurprising what great bundles of wood an Irishwoman will contrive to carry. I confess that though I could carryone I should hardly think of making such a bundle of them. They are first regularly tied up, and then carried onthe back by a rope, — somewhat like the Indian women and their straps. There is a strange similarity; and thelittle boy carries his bundle proportionally large. The sticks about four feet long. They make haste to deposittheir loads before I sec them, for they do not know how pleasant a sight it is to me. The Irishwoman does the

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squaw’s part in many respects. Riordan also buys the old railroad sleepers at three dollars a hundred, but theyare much decayed and full of sand.Therien tells me, when I ask if lie has seen or heard any large birds lately, that he heard a cock crow thismorning, a wild one, in the woods. It seems a dozen fowls (chickens) were lost out of the cars here a fortnightago. Poland has caught some, and they have one at the shanty, but this cock, at least, is still abroad and can’t becaught. If they could survive the winter, I suppose we should have lead wild liens before now. Sat and talkedwith Therien at the pond, by the railroad. He says that James Baker told the story of the perch leaping into aman’s throat, or uncle (Amos?).The woods about the pond are now a perfect October picture; yet there have been no very bright tints this fall.The young white and the shrub oak leaves were withered before the frosts came, perhaps by the late droughtafter the wet spring.Walking in E.’s path west of the pond, I am struck lay the conspicuous wreaths of waxwork leaves about theyoung trees, to the height of twelve or fifteen feet. These broad and handsome leaves are still freshly green,though drooping or hanging now closely about the vine, but contrast remarkably with the bare and the changedleaves above and around.I hear many crickets by this path and see many warily standing on the qui vive in awkward positions, or runningtheir heads under a chip, or prying into a hole, but I can see none creaking. I see at last a few white pine conesopen on the trees, but almost all appear to have fallen. The chestnuts are scarce and small and apparently havebut just begun to open their burs.That globular head of pale-yellow spheres of seed parachutes along the wood road is the rough hawk-weed. Thesingle heads of savory-leaned aster are of the same color now. When, returning at 5 o’clock, I pass the pond in the road, I see the sun, which is about entering the grosser hazyatmosphere above the western horizon, brilliantly reflected in the pond, — a dazzling sheen, a bright goldenshimmer. His broad sphere extended stretches the whole length of the pond toward me. First, in the extremedistance, I see a few sparkles of the gold on the dark surface; then begins a regular and solid column ofshimmering gold, straight as a rule, but at one place, where a breeze strikes the surface from one side, it isremarkably spread or widened, then recovers its straightness again, thus:

Again it is remarkably curved, say, thus:

then broken into several pieces, then straight and entire again, then spread or blown aside at the point like smokefrom a chimney, thus:

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I measured the depth of the needles under the pitch pines east of the railroad (behind the old shanties), which,as I remember, are about thirty years old. In one place it is three quarters of an inch in all to the soil, in anotherone and a quarter, and in a hollow under a larger pine about four inches. I think the thickness of the needles, oldand new, is not more than one inch there on an average. These pines are only four or five inches thick. See slate-colored snowbirds.

Talking with Bellew this evening about Fourierism and communities, I said that I suspected any enterprise inwhich two were engaged together. “But,” said he, “it is difficult to make a stick stand unless you slant two ormore against it.” “Oh, no,” answered I, “you may split its lower end into three, or drive it single into the ground,which is the best way; but most men, when they start on a new enterprise, not only figuratively, but really, pullup stakes. When the sticks prop one another, none, or only one, stands erect.”He showed me a sketch of Wachusett: Spoke of his life in Paris, etc. I asked him if he had ever visited the Alpsand sketched there. He said he had not. Had he been to the White Mountains? “No,” lie answered, “the highestmountains I have ever seen were the Himalayas, though I was only two years old then.” It seems that he wasborn in that neighborhood.He complains that the Americans have attained to bad luxuries, but have no comforts.Howitt says of the man who found the great nugget which weighed twenty-eight pounds at the Bendigo diggingsin Australia: “He soon began to drink; got a horse, and rode all about, generally at full gallop, and when he metpeople, called out to inquire if they knew who he was, and then kindly informed them that he was ‘the bloodywretch that had found the nugget.’ At last lie rode full speed against a tree, and nearly knocked his brains out.He is a hopelessly ruined man.” In my opinion there was no danger, for he had already knocked his brains outagainst the nugget. But he is a type of the class. They are all fast men. Hear some of the names of the placeswhere they dig: “Jackass Flat,” — “Sheep’s-Head Gully,” — “Sulky Gully,” — “Murderer’s Bar,” etc.





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The Reverend Nathaniel Langdon Frothingham’s MEMOIR OF REV. THADDEUS MASON HARRIS, D.D. (Cambridge: Metcalf and Company, printers to the university).

Benjamin Gilbert Ferris became supervisor of the township of Ithaca, New York.

“MAGISTERIAL HISTORY” IS FANTASIZING: HISTORY IS CHRONOLOGY

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“Stack of the Artist of Kouroo” Project Thaddeus Mason Harris







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COPYRIGHT NOTICE: In addition to the property of others,such as extensive quotations and reproductions ofimages, this “read-only” computer file contains a greatdeal of special work product of Austin Meredith,copyright 2010. Access to these interim materials willeventually be offered for a fee in order to recoup someof the costs of preparation. My hypercontext buttoninvention which, instead of creating a hypertext leapthrough hyperspace —resulting in navigation problems—allows for an utter alteration of the context withinwhich one is experiencing a specific content alreadybeing viewed, is claimed as proprietary to AustinMeredith — and therefore freely available for use byall. Limited permission to copy such files, or anymaterial from such files, must be obtained in advancein writing from the “Stack of the Artist of Kouroo”Project, 833 Berkeley St., Durham NC 27705. Pleasecontact the project at <[email protected]>.

Prepared: November 11, 2014

“It’s all now you see. Yesterday won’t be over untiltomorrow and tomorrow began ten thousand years ago.”

– Remark by character “Garin Stevens”in William Faulkner’s INTRUDER IN THE DUST




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Well, tomorrow is such and such a date and so it began on that date in like 8000BC? Why 8000BC, because it was the beginning of the current interglacial -- or what?

Bearing in mind that this is America, "where everything belongs," the primary intent of such a notice is to prevent some person or corporate entity from misappropriating the materials and sequestering them as property for censorship or for profit.


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ARRGH AUTOMATED RESEARCH REPORT

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This stuff presumably looks to you as if it were generated by ahuman. Such is not the case. Instead, someone has requested thatwe pull it out of the hat of a pirate who has grown out of theshoulder of our pet parrot “Laura” (as above). What thesechronological lists are: they are research reports compiled byARRGH algorithms out of a database of modules which we term theKouroo Contexture (this is data mining). To respond to such arequest for information we merely push a button.





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Commonly, the first output of the algorithm has obviousdeficiencies and we need to go back into the modules stored inthe contexture and do a minor amount of tweaking, and then weneed to punch that button again and recompile the chronology —but there is nothing here that remotely resembles the ordinary“writerly” process you know and love. As the contents of thisoriginating contexture improve, and as the programming improves,and as funding becomes available (to date no funding whateverhas been needed in the creation of this facility, the entireoperation being run out of pocket change) we expect a diminishedneed to do such tweaking and recompiling, and we fully expectto achieve a simulation of a generous and untiring roboticresearch librarian. Onward and upward in this brave new world.

First come first serve. There is no charge.Place requests with <[email protected]>. Arrgh.




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THE REV. DR. THADDEUS MASON HARRIS, D.D. - Kouroo