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HISTORY OF THE TOWN OF MEDFORD, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, FROM ITS FIRST SETTLEMENT, IN 1630, TO THE PRESENT TIME, 1855. (ed. Charles Brooks), Chapter 2: (search)
siness to the Governor (Cradock), and a Committee to be chosen to that purpose to assist him; and whatsoever they shall do therein, that to stand for good. May 28, 1629: In the second general letter, the Court say:-- We have further taken into our consideration the fitness and conveniency, or rather necessity, of making a drm of new comers, if any be admitted without license. That the Company in London had fixed firmly one point, the following extract from their second letter, May 28, 1629, will sufficiently prove: The course we have prescribed of keeping a daily register in each family will be a great help and remembrance to you and to future poone of which he is content the company shall have use of, if need be. In a second letter, from the same source, directed to the same persons, under date of May 28, 1629, we find the following statements:-- The cattle now and formerly sent have been all provided by the Governor, Mr. Cradock, except the three mares that came
HISTORY OF THE TOWN OF MEDFORD, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, FROM ITS FIRST SETTLEMENT, IN 1630, TO THE PRESENT TIME, 1855. (ed. Charles Brooks), Chapter 10: trade. (search)
. It is thus:-- We have sent five weigh of salt in the Whelpe, and ten weigh in the Talbot. If there be scallops to be had to fish withal, and the season of the year fit, pray let the fishermen (of which we send six from Dorchester), together with some of the ship's company, endeavor to take fish; and let it be well saved with the said salt, and packed up in hogsheads; and send it home by the Talbot or Lion's Whelpe. At the same time they send a seine, being a net to fish with. May 28, 1629, they say,-- We send salt, lines, hooks, knives, boots, &c., for the fishermen, desiring our men may be employed in harbor, or upon the Bank. If you send ships to fish on the Bank, and expect them not to return again to the plantation, &c. By this it appears that those vessels which had caught a cargo of fish on the Bank were expected to take them thence to London. Sept. 3, 1635, the General Court chose a committee of six for setting forward and managing a fishing trade. That fi