Towns of New England and old England, Ireland and Scotland .. connecting links between cities and towns of New England and those of the same name in England, Ireland and Scotland; containing narratives, descriptions, and many views, some done from old prints; also much matter pertaining to the founders and settlers of New England and to their memorials on both sides of the Atlantic; . Photographed by E. B. Luce HUGUENOT MONUMENT, OXFORD, MASSA-CHUSETTS, erected in 1884 by the Huguenot Memorial Society andunveiled by a descendant of Andre Sigournais, one of themost prominent of the founders of
Towns of New England and old England, Ireland and Scotland .. connecting links between cities and towns of New England and those of the same name in England, Ireland and Scotland; containing narratives, descriptions, and many views, some done from old prints; also much matter pertaining to the founders and settlers of New England and to their memorials on both sides of the Atlantic; . Photographed by E. B. Luce HUGUENOT MONUMENT, OXFORD, MASSA-CHUSETTS, erected in 1884 by the Huguenot Memorial Society andunveiled by a descendant of Andre Sigournais, one of themost prominent of the founders of the town. Althoughthe early settlers were French, they retained the namegiven to this territory by the English OXFORD, MASSACHUSETTS 151 the famous Civil War nurse and organizer of our Red Cross, and here also RichardOkiey, Secretary of State under President Cleveland, was born. Olney, by theway, was the last President of the Huguenot Memorial Society, no successor havingbeen chosen since his death. Judge Sewall, that renowned Pepys of New England, undoubtedly named thetown and he did so because he remembered his rides over the familiar ground inEngland. He also changed the name of the neighboring town of New Roxbury toWoodstock, his reason for doing so being that there is a town of that name nearOxford, England. It is interesting to know that the name of Oxford was originally given by PrinceCharles of England, later King Charles I, to the territory now known as Marshfield,Massachusetts, when he marked Captain John Smiths map of the New Englandcoast made in 1614. There is also an Oxford in Maine and one in Connecticut. The city of Oxford, on that part of the Thames locally called the Isis, ran
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