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The John Humphreys House, also known as Sir John Humphreys House, is a historic house museum located in Swampscott, Massachusetts. Although it was long thought to be associated with John Humphrey , an early deputy governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony , it was more likely built about 1700, based on architectural analysis.
John Humphrey (also spelled Humfrey or Humfry, c. 1597 – 1661) was an English Puritan and an early funder of the English colonisation of North America.He was the treasurer of the Dorchester Company, which established an unsuccessful settlement on Massachusetts Bay in the 1620s, and was deputy governor of the Massachusetts Bay Company from 1629 to 1630.
The club was founded on January 29, 1887, with the following intention: The objects shall be to promote an interest in, and a love for whatever will tend to make literature attractive as given in the form of printed and illustrated volumes, to mutually assist in making researches and collections of first and rare editions, and to promote elegance in the production of Odd Volumes.
1832 (2 vols.) Thomas Brown: The Book of Butterflies, Sphinxes and Moths [23] LXXVII 1832 Robert Mudie [24] A Popular Guide to the Observation of Nature: LXXVIII (2 vols.) 1833 Cyrus Redding: A History of Shipwrecks and Disasters at Sea [25] LXXX 1834 Thomas Brown The Book of Butterflies, Sphinxes and Moths, vol. 3 [26]
Four Seas was founded by the young Edmund R. Brown upon his graduation from Harvard College in 1910, [4] and its imprint first appears in 1911. The last book published under the imprint was in 1930, the year the company was absorbed by Bruce Humphries, Inc. [ 4 ] [ 5 ]
Major-General Humphrey Atherton (c. 1607 – September 16, 1661), [1] an early settler of Dorchester, Massachusetts, held the highest military rank in colonial New England. [2] [3] He first appeared in the records of Dorchester on March 18, 1637 and made freeman May 2, 1638. [3] He became a representative in the General Court in 1638 and 1639–41.
Fowler was appointed an assistant professor in 1971 at Northeastern University, promoted to associate professor in 1977, and full professor in 1980.In addition, he served as acting dean of the college of arts and sciences in 1977, vice provost, 1989–1991, and department chair in 1993–1997, before leaving to become the director of the Massachusetts Historical Society.
(1896). Cambridge, MA: University Press. [p. 2.] Alt Title "The Register Book of the Lands and Houses in the "New Towne" and The Town of Cambridge with the Records of the Proprietors of the Common Lands". [Accessed in Local History Room, Watertown Free Public Library, Watertown, MA]. Ipswich in the Massachusetts Bay Colony, 1633-1700. Waters ...