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Lucius R. Paige, History of Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1630-1877, with a genealogical register, Chapter 15: ecclesiastical History. (search)
began to snow about noon and continued snowing till Friday the 22d, so that the snow lies in some parts of the streets about six foot high. A more vivid description is given in a letter from Rev. John Cotton, of Newton (who was present at the funeral) to his father, Rev. Rowland Cotton, of Sandwich, dated Wednesday, Feb. 27, 1716-7, and preserved in the Library of the Massachusetts Historical Society: Hond. Father, I left 3 letters at Savel's ys & ye last week, besides l I put into Ezra Bourns hand last Wednesday night at Cambridge, wc night (as he went to Maiden & there I suppose kept prisoner till now) so I went to Boston, & by reason of ye late great & very deep snow I was detained there till yesterday. I got with difficulty to ye ferry on Friday, but cdnt get over: went back to Mr. Belcher's where I lodgd. Try'd again ye next day. Many of us went over ye ferry—Majr Turner, Price, Lynde, Brattle, Somersby, Holyoke, Sewall, &c., & held a council at Charlstown, & having hear