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Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 4., High School Department. (search)
es that £ 14, 8 shillings were paid Captain Eben Morrow for Tending the Smoke House from ye 16th of April to the Ninth day of June 1764 both days included @ 6s per day. Another town meeting was held May 24, 1778, Town Records, Volume III., page 239. to see what the town would do concerning an inoculating hospital. Previous to this a hospital of this kind had been situated at Point Shirley for the use of all people in Boston and vicinity. Inoculation had been introduced in Boston in June, 1721, by the Rev. Cotton Mather, who, hearing of the great success it had had in Europe and the Orient, interested himself in it, and thus introduced it in Boston. It met with violent opposition hardly second in bitterness to that of the witchcraft period; but he faced the fury of the mob, and did noble service in its defence in spite of threats of personal violence. Inoculation was beginning to reap success about 1778, so Medford people desired to have a hospital of their own. When the Briti