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Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 29., The Cradock house, past and future. (search)
Dick Whittington the romantic appeal would be complete. Also romantic is the very name of his first wife, Damaris. But Cradock was apparently a shrewd and careful business man. He turned now from the east to where westward the star of empire takes its way and invested his money in New England. We may as well confess here, that financially the investment was probably a failure, as far as Medford was concerned, but Medford is forever the debtor of the broadminded, far-sighted merchant. In 1620 James I had granted to the Grand Council for New England all the land between forty and forty-eight degrees north latitude, straight through to the South sea. In 1628 this court granted to the Massachusetts Bay company, consisting of six persons, all the land between a line everywhere three miles south of the Charles river and a line everywhere three miles north of the Merrimac. It is to be hoped that the Charles and the Merrimac in those days ran straight and parallel. Six persons were ra