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Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 13., Stage-coach days in Medford. (search)
ew is tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside. is taken by many. Let us now turn from the subject of these business enterprises, that added so much to Medford's prosperity and convenience, to the men whose foresight started them, and to whose public spirit Medford citizens are so much indebted. The Wymans were descendants from a family of Saxon derivation, and belonged to the sturdy yeomanry. The New England ancestor settled in Woburn, Mass., and there Joseph Wyman was born, August 15, 1762. He married Ruth Fowle, 1781, and had a family of four sons and two daughters born there, the birth of Joseph junior occurring June 13, 1782. Wymans are found often on our town records, for there were several families of this name living here. The senior Joseph settled in Medford, and as his name is first found on our tax-list 1783, it was probable that he came here with his family a short time before that date. Joseph junior was first taxed in 1803, being then twenty-one years