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Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 18., The Tufts family residences. (search)
r were built anywhere else at that early date, or for fifty years subsequent thereto. Indeed, such a building would rival the first town house of Boston, built in 1657, twenty-three years later. Having thus assumed, asserted and inevitably concluded, Mr. Brooks adds, The inference is clear,. . . . the old fort, so called, was residents of Medford, and quoting literally from Vol. II, p. 54 of the register— The River road (a part of Riverside avenue) was referred to in a deed dated 1657 as The Common Highway leading from the Mansion House (Wellington) unto Charlestown Commons and Meadford House. In the register article, Wellington was suppliedbe misrepresented the matter by saying— The word Wellington is inserted by Mr. Hooper to show that the old brick house in Wellington was recognized as early as 1657 at least as the Cradock mansion above all others. Today however Mr. Hooper has forsaken the old idea entirely and bows down before the Cushing theory. Possibl