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Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 28.,
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ors avenue. The earliest white men to come here were Captain Myles Standish and eight others from the Pilgrim settlement at Plymouth on September 21, 1621, and it was said they liked here so well that they wished they had been settled here. In 1629 came an exploring party overland from Salem, then but just settled, and found established here a company of men who were in the employ of one Matthew Cradock, a wealthy London merchant. They had erected some log houses for shelter, and were bui common Mystic. I trust you have also seen that those early comers of Cradock's venture antedated the Puritan settlers of Charlestown and Boston by one—perhaps two—years. I know our town seal said Medford— Condita—1630, but Cradock's men came in 1629 or 1628. But with the coming of Governor Winthrop with King Charles' charter, their squatter sovereignty ceased and all were under the authority of the Great and General Court. I really wish the first mention of Medford in the authentic rec