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Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 29., The history of the Royall house and its occupants. (search)
st Indies, where he finally married and made a home, amassing great wealth as a planter and merchant. Isaac Royall, Jr., was born in Antigua in 1719, and a sister, Penelope, in 1724. The father realizing that his children could not receive the education in Antigua that he desired, sought for them his native land and placed them in a school in Dorchester. He then looked about the country for a suitable site for a home. The Mystic river and its adjacent lands appealed to his fancy, and in June, 1732, he purchased five hundred acres of the Ten Hills farm land and began the erection of the Royall House —which appears today on the exterior identically the same as it did when completed after five years of faithful labor, neither time nor money being spared to make the house one of beauty and grandeur. The hospitality of the Royall House was known far and wide, and we may be sure that the cellaret would be amply supplied and the hearty old-time greeting dealt out with no niggardl
Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 29., Development of the business section of West Medford. (search)
new dwelling of James Madison Usher, who was born in the old Whitmore-Usher home in 1814. This new house with its stable was shaded by many trees, enlarged in 1871, and was enclosed by a massive front fence. In May, 1870, only one little one-story building stood on the angular lot opposite it. At that time Ellis Pitcher had a grocery in the Mystic Hall building and was postmaster. Up beside the freight track R. K. Carpenter did granite cutting. Pitcher sold out to Sawyer & Parmenter in June, and they to J. E. Ober in December, 1870. This was the extent of business operations then. In the winter of 1870-71 Mr. Usher had the roof of that one-story building (in which the post office had once been) raised up and another story built in, with stairs, outside, to it. In the spring of 1871 Charles W. Macy opened in it a little store, notions, newspapers, etc. Mr. Usher had built a small two-story house at his sand pit up Warren street and into it Edward Shaw moved and began an ex
Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 29., The Cradock house, past and future. (search)
r, if the control still remained in England. One sees already the same spirit which made our Medford men a century later refuse to be ruled by hands across the sea. So the company signed an agreement with the Puritan leaders, Winthrop, Dudley and Saltonstall, by which the latter agreed to transport themselves and families to Massachusetts, provided the charter went with them. By this arrangement Cradock lost his position as governor, but his interest as an investor remained the same. So in June, Winthrop landed in Salem with ten vessels, the Arbella as flagship, but they found Salem unsuitable and pressed on to Charlestown. But there were settlers already there. Our Puritans were exclusive. They went to Boston and found Blackstone,— one man occupying apparently the whole city. Then they scattered and explored. Winthrop sailed up the Mystic six miles and apparently liked it. So he writes later to his wife, My dear wife, we are here in a paradise. This letter, by the way, was da