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Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 1., Notes. (search)
of 80 tons burden-probably not a half dozen of them reached 200 tons. To Governor Winthrop belongs the honor of building the first vessel whose keel was laid in the colony. It was built on the banks of the Mystic, probably not far from the governor's house, at the Ten Hills. It was a bark of 30 tons, built of locust cut on the governor's farm, and was called the Blessing of the Bay. It was launched July 4, 1631. Mr. Brooks finds that it cost 145 pounds, and that the owner said of it, in 1636, I will sell her for 160 pounds. Now hear Mr. Brooks: There was something singularly prophetic that the first vessel built at Mistick should have increased in price after 5 years service. Our day has seen the prophecy fulfilled; as it is no marvel now for a Medford ship to command a higher price after having had a fair trial at sea. Well, I don't know; to me it seems very like the case of a trader who marks up his goods, thinking that thereby he increases the value of his stock. We have
Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 2., A business man of long ago. (search)
id Osgood. This was north of the present Fells parkway. It was bequeathed to the town by Dr. Osgood's daughter. The last years of Mr. Hall's life were saddened by the death of his oldest son, Benjamin. He had always been with his father in business, and in 1801 had become his successor. He married Lucy Tufts, daughter of Dr. Simon Tufts, and took her, a bride, to the Old Garrison House. Property of Jonathan Wade about 1650. Still standing. Some authorities think this dates back to 1636. The young couple lived there nine years, and then removed (1786) to a new house built next to his father's. This mansion is still well preserved, and is a fine example of the architecture of its time. (Dr. Chandler's home.) Simon Tufts, a wealthy merchant in the far East, who was a brother of Mrs. Hall, writing to his brotherin-law, gives a hint of the latter's character. In the eyes of a merchant prince the business carried on by young Hall seemed very small. He writes: You are doin
Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 8., Gustavus Fisher Guild. (search)
s born in Canton, Mass., July 25, 1859, of old colonial stock. He was the son of Horace Guild, Jr., and Mary C. Jones. His greatgrand-father, Major Aaron Guild of South Dedham, participated in the battle of April 19, 1775, leaving his plough and oxen in the furrow and arriving at the scene of action in time to aid in firing upon the British as they retreated. He saw other service in the Indian and Revolutionary Wars. Mr. Guild's descent from John Guild, who came from Scotland to Dedham in 1636, is John1, Samuel2, Nathaiel3, Aaron4, Joel5, Horace6, Horace7. He received his early education in the grammar and high schools of his native town, afterward taking a four years high school course at the Bridgewater Normal School. He was always an eager, earnest student, and he supplemented his normal school training by several courses at the Harvard Summer School, pursuing history, modern languages and physical culture, in all of which branches he was an enthusiast. Mr. Guild began h
Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 9., Matthew Cradock. (search)
as we have shown. This is strengthened by the following affidavit in the Middlesex Court Files. The testimony of Richard Beers, Ben amin Crispe, and Garret Church in 1662 was that Mr. Thomas Mayhew lived at Mystic, alias Meadford, in the year 1636. Nicholas Davison succeeded Mayhew as Cradock's agent. Joseph Hills of Malden, in his affidavit on the same date, stated that about 1638 (not 1633, as Mr. Cushing states) Mr. Davison lived at Meadford house, who shewed me the accommodations oftrade, £ 600 each. The Eastland Company was another of the trading companies in which Cradock was interested. The company traded to what are now the Baltic provinces. Cradock also traded in the Mediterranean and in the Levant. (State Papers, 1636-7 p. 377.) Mrs. Rebecca, a daughter of a London merchant, Thomas Jordan, the widow of Matthew Cradock, after a few years of conventional mourning, espoused, before February 12, 1644-5, perhaps for a social position, Richard Glover, gent. Their
Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 22., Medford not in it. (search)
s elsewhere, prohibits an immediate official and conclusive answer to the inquirer, who supposes the subject in question to be a matter of record here. The problem has been referred to the President of the Historical Society for solution, and who has replied in a way to the various queries. As Medford's earliest records are of 1674, and the earliest deputy or representative, 1685, it is evident that Medford's chances of being historically connected with the famous stray sowe case in Boston, 1636 toa42, are none whatever. Those who may be curious as to this matter are referred to page 271, Vol. 2, Life and Letters of john Winthrop, where is told the story of the great sowe case of Goody Sherman vs. Captain Keayne in 1642. The office of hogreeve in those early days, at least in the case of founder of the Ancients, incurred much responsibility, as it was taken under consideration by the Church and next by the General Court, and the third party that meddled in the strife found Solomon
Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 24., The Indians of the Mystic valley and the litigation over their land. (search)
but as is asserted, setting a precedent which Queen Victoria followed, he became princeconsort but not prince-regnant. In 1636 a deed is recorded granting a tract of land to Jotham Gibbons of Boston as follows: Middlesex Deeds, B. I, P. 174 Thwledge their many kindnesses by this smal gift to their sonne Jotham Gibons Witness my hand the 10th of the 11. month. 1636 The Squa SachemX mark WebicowitsO mark Witness Edmund Quinsey Entered and Recorded 23 (8) 1656 by Thomas Danforavison lived in Meadford house in 1633, and Richard Beers, Benjamin Crisp and Garret Church say that Mayhew lived there in 1636. On the thirteenth of November, 1639, the squa sachem gave another deed to Jotham Gibbons for the same tract of land aambridge and Boston. If so, it is apparently hopelessly lost. From the expression in the first deed to Jotham Gibbons in 1636, which I reserved from Charlestowne and Cambridge it seems there must have been an earlier conveyance, probably in 1635, p
Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 28., Agnes Wyman Lincoln. (search)
Agnes Wyman Lincoln. Born at Medford, July 16, 1856. Died in Boston, December 27, 1921. She was a descendant in the ninth generation of Thomas Lincoln, the Hingham miller of 1636, and, on the maternal side, of Deacon Simon Stone of Watertown of 1635. She was a member of the New England Historic Genealogical Society, from whose Register (Vol. 76, p. lxxxviii) we quote (in part) the following, by permission:— Miss Lincoln was educated at a private school taught by Miss Ellen Wild in Medford and at the Medford High School, where she was graduated in 1871. After leaving school she attended courses of Lowell Institute lectures and schools for the study of special subjects, such as modern languages, and was constantly seeking to enlarge the horizon of her intellectual life. She was interested in such sciences as geology, was fond of outdoor exercise, and went on many of the excursions of the Appalachian Mountain Club. She was corresponding secretary of the Stone Family Associ
Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 29., The Cradock house, past and future. (search)
ccess to the weirs at Mystic lakes, where vast quantities of smelts and alewives swarmed in season. I can remember myself when the alewives in early spring darted up Meetinghouse brook. By a grant of the Court, also, all the land betwixt the lands of Mr. Nowell & Mr. Wilson on the East, and the partition betwixt Mystic ponds on the west, bounded with the Mystic river on the south and the rocks on the north is granted to Mr. Matthew Cradock merchant to enjoy to him and his heirs forever. In 1636, the indefiniteness of the rocks on the north was changed to read, a mile into the country from the river side in all places. If Cradock owned practically all of Medford north of the river, he was a generous and responsible landlord. Yet he was greatly tried by the shortcomings of his agent. He complains pathetically in January, 1637, in a letter to Winthrop:— The greyffe I have beene putt to by the most vyle bad dealings of Thomas Mayhew hath & doeth so much disquiet my mind as I th
Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 30., The Brooks Estates in Medford from 1660 to 1927. (search)
y of May, 1660, from Edward Collins. The land in question lay on both sides of the road to Woburn, now called Grove street but then, or shortly thereafter, known as the road through the woods. Thomas Brooks, it should be said, never settled in Medford. He came over from England about 1630 in the same company with Saltonstall and others. Some of those early adventurers settled here, but Thomas Brooks, it appears from the records, had a lot assigned to him on the main road in Watertown. In 1636 he moved to Concord, where he became a freeman, and lived until his death on May 21, 1667. He was seven years Representative from Concord, and received various local appointments of trust and honor. Although he had a large estate in Concord, he evidently wished to make further provision for his children. Accordingly, with his son-in-law, Timothy Wheeler, he invested four hundred and four pounds sterling in these acres in Medford—two-thirds for himself and one-third for Wheeler. Collins wa
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