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Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 29., The history of the Royall house and its occupants. (search)
arm. The record reads: Sept. 6, 1631 granted to Mr Governor 600 acres to be sett forth by metes & bounds, near his home in Mystic to be held by him and his heirs forever. The date of the building of the original portion of the Royall House is uncertain; some writers claim that as a farmhouse it was built in the early days of Winthrop's ownership, probably about 1637. It was a brick house, two and one-half stories in height, with dormer windows on the roof. When occupied by John Usher in 1690, a lean — to was added to give more room. Under the ownership of the Royalls the house assumed its present proportions. When purchased in 1732 by Isaac Royall the work of enlarging was put into the hands of his brother Jacob. The plans were drawn in Antigua from a nobleman's house which Royall much admired and it was his wish to have an exact duplicate. Shipbuilding being the industry of Medford, much skilled labor could be obtained, and by their handiwork and that of clever architect
Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 29., The Cradock house, past and future. (search)
sed upon the Wade estate by the selectmen of Meadford, claiming that by reason of sickness and also by reason of his (Major Wade's) great charges in building the personal estate was very much reduced. This would seem to indicate the great charges were incurred in building the brick house. This house and the Peter Tufts house, and probably the part of the old house at the corner of High street and Hastings lane, the Deacon Bradshaw house, are only houses standing today that were standing in 1690. Medford was practically a private plantation owned by two men, Cradock on the north and Winthrop on the south. By the General Court both had access 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