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Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 29., The Cradock house, past and future. (search)
y, in the last quarter of the seventeenth century, the Peter Tufts house, the Jonathan Wade house, called the Garrison house, behind the savings bank, and the Nathaniel Wade house, formerly on Riverside avenue, long since torn down. All were men of wealth. I have tried to find with coarse curiosity the source of their wealth, but can find no trace. It should properly have been in brick yards, or ship building. But if the list of purchases of land made by Peter Tufts alone between 1664 and 1697, as recorded by Mr. Brooks, be authentic, their money must have been made in real estate deals that would completely overshadow the Lawrence and Brooks development put together. In short, our Peter Tufts, in thirty odd years, bought some eight hundred and thirty-five acres, including cow commons, in twenty-seven different transactions, and let go sixty-one and a half. Only his death, in 1700, made a pause in his grasp on the land development idea. And who was Peter Tufts? The original P