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Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 29., The Cradock house, past and future. (search)
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 dated the twenty-ninth of November. Winthrop was probably an optimist. He says at another time, Here is as good land as I have seen there, though none so bad as there. Here can be no want of anything to those who bring means to raise out of the earth and sea. Winthrop chose for himself the Ten Hills farm and built his own house near the site of the Ford factory of today. He had, however, a farmhouse for his men in Medford, the original start of the Royall house. Imagine Medford at this time. There was the p