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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)
Merrimack, where, Aug. 8, 1631, some hostile Indians rifle the wigwam where Mr. Cradock's men kept to catch sturgeons, taking away their nets, biskets, &c. In the records of the General Court, held at Boston, Nov. 7, 1632, we have the following record: Mr. Mathew Cradock is fined £ 4 for his men being absent from training divers times. This was remitted, probably on account of the impossibility in a fisherman of being on. shore at any given period. At a General Court held at Boston, March 4, 1633, the following grant was made: The Wear at Mistick is granted to John Winthrop, Esq., present Governor, and to Mr. Mathew Cradock, of London, to enjoy to them and their heirs for ever. March 3, 1635: In General Court.--Ordered that there shall be £ 55 paid to Mr. Cradock. March 26, 1638: There is a grant of a thousand acres of land granted to Mr. Mathew Cradock, where it may be had without prejudice to any plantation or former grants, in the judgment of the Court. Also there is gr
HISTORY OF THE TOWN OF MEDFORD, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, FROM ITS FIRST SETTLEMENT, IN 1630, TO THE PRESENT TIME, 1855. (ed. Charles Brooks), Chapter 11: currency. (search)
f sixty pounds, to pay the two public preachers, Rev. George Phillips and Rev. John Wilson; and the places and sums were as follow: Boston, twenty pounds; Charlton, ten pounds; Rocksbury, six pounds; Meadford, three pounds; Winnett-semett, one pound. Feb. 3, 1632, the same court levied a tax of sixty pounds, to make a palisade for the defence of Newton, that town having been chosen as the seat of government. To this tax, twelve towns contributed; and Meadford paid three pounds. In March 4, 1633, another levy was made to pay military teachers; and here Meadford again paid three pounds. Thus our town seems to have taken its place with contiguous plantations in bearing its proportion of the public burdens. The levy, in each place, was made by the officers of said plantation or town; and the following order, from the general government, attests to the ideas of right universally existing:-- 1634, May 14: It is further ordered, that, in all rates and public charges, the towns sha