Oxford, Massachusetts (Hayward)

Gazetteer/Almanac
John Hayward, Gazetteer of the United States of America... (Philadelphia: James L. Gihon, 1854), 510.
Oxford, Ms., Worcester co. This town was granted to Joseph Dudley and others, in 1683, for the accommodation of about 30 French Protestant families, who had escaped from France after the revocation of the edict of Nantz. They settled here about 1686, and built a fort on a hill in the eastern part of the town, now called Mayo's or Fort Hill, where its remains are still visible. The Indian name of the town was Mancharge. The surface is not very hilly ; in its centre is a fine plain, a mile and a half in length, and a mile in width. From this plain the lands gently rise on all sides.
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Moncure Conway (New York Times)

Obituary
“Moncure D. Conway’s Body Cremated,” New York Times, November 19, 1907, p. 9: 5.
Moncure D. Conway’s Body Cremated.
PARIS, Nov. 18.—the body of the Rev. Moncure D. Conway of New York, the distinguished American author who died here suddenly Nov. 15, was cremated at the Père Lachaise Cemetery to-day, in the presence of many friends.  The ashes will probably be sent to the United States later.

Benjamin Robbins Curtis (American National Biography)

Scholarship
Robert C. Morris, "Curtis, Benjamin Robbins," American National Biography Online, February 2000, http://www.anb.org/articles/11/11-00202.html.
One of two dissents in Dred Scott, Curtis's opinion challenged Chief Justice Roger B. Taney and the Court majority by arguing that the black citizens of a state were automatically citizens of the United States and that Congress had complete constitutional authority to regulate slavery in the territories. Curtis rejected the argument that because Scott was a black he could not be a citizen. Claiming five states had recognized free blacks as citizens by 1787, he asserted that under the Articles of Confederation and then the Constitution, U.S. citizenship derived from state citizenship.
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"The Mormons Brought to Terms," New York Herald, July 15, 1858

Notes
Cropped, edited, and prepared for use here by Russell Toris, Dickinson College, June 20, 2008.
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The Mormons Brought to Terms, But Plenty of Work for the Army among the Indians
Source citation
"The Mormons Brought to Terms, But Plenty of Work for the Army among the Indians," New York Herald, July 15, 1858, p. 4.
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"Presidential Candidates," New York Times, July 14, 1858

Comments
This article from a leading Republican newspaper in New York illustrates the perennial nature of American complaints about politics while also providing some insight into the Democratic Party of the 1850s.  While expressing regret over the length of presidential campaigns, the author identifies several possible southern Democratic contenders for the party's 1860 nomination, including Senator Robert Hunter of Virginia, Gov. Henry Wise of Virginia, and Sen. John J. Crittenden of Kentucky.
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Cropped, edited, and prepared for use here by Russell Toris, Dickinson College, June 20, 2008.
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Presidential Candidates
Source citation
"Presidential Candidates," New York Times, July 14, 1858, p. 4.
Source note
Original image has been adjusted here for presentation purposes.

Boston, Massachusetts, History & Government (Hayward)

Gazetteer/Almanac
John Hayward, Gazetteer of the United States of America... (Philadelphia: James L. Gihon, 1854), 287-300.
The first settlement of Boston was in 1630, when John Winthrop, the first governor of Massachusetts, and the company of immigrants with him, having arrived and tarried for a short time at Charlestown, removed their location to the peninsula. There was one solitary inhabitant there at an earlier date, the Rev. William Blackstone, of whom Mather speaks as " a godly Episcopalian," who in 1626 had built a cottage near what is now called Spring Street, in the western part of the city. In 1634, fifty acres of land were set off to Mr.
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Boston, Massachusetts, Finance & Industry (Hayward)

Gazetteer/Almanac
John Hayward, Gazetteer of the United States of America... (Philadelphia: James L. Gihon, 1854), 287-300.
As a commercial port, and also as a place of internal trade, especially since the completion of her great lines of railroad communication, Boston possesses preeminent advantages. Previous to the revolution, and for a long time afterwards, this was the most extensive mart of foreign commerce in the country; and, even to this day, Boston has more than one half of the East India trade carried on from the United States, and of the Russia trade three quarters. She has also an extensive trade with the Mediterranean the West Indies, South America, and every part of the commercial world.
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Boston, Massachusetts, Culture & Education (Hayward)

Gazetteer/Almanac
John Hayward, Gazetteer of the United States of America... (Philadelphia: James L. Gihon, 1854), 287-300.
The literary, charitable, and humane institutions of Boston are numerous and well endowed; and the buildings with which many of them are furnished, are among the handsomest ornaments of the city. The Boston Athenaeum, incorporated in 1807, has a library of about 50,000 volumes, which, in value as well as in size, is hardly surpassed by any other in the country. Its regulations are framed with the design that it shall answer the highest purposes of a public library.
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Boston, Massachusetts, The Common (Hayward)

Gazetteer/Almanac
John Hayward, Gazetteer of the United States… (Philadelphia: James L. Gihon, 1854), 287-300.
The want of ample room upon the peninsula for the growth of the city, especially before the relief afforded by the railroads, led to such a crowded occupancy of the limited area, that the streets are in many parts narrower than would have been preferred, and, with one noble exception,— that of the Common.—very little space has been afforded in the older sections of the city for public squares and pleasure grounds.
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