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Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 10., chapter 5 (search)
Cox sold his property on Batterymarch street in 1801 to Edw. Bartlett, Jr. In June, 1788, the selectmen gave Lemuel Cox a license to sell liquors at his shop, near Charles River Bridge, and in 1789 we find Lemuel Cox, millwright, living on Prince street. The census of the next year shows his family consisted of three white males over sixteen years, two white females over sixteen, and four white females under sixteen. Cox severed his connection with the Essex Bridge Corporation in July, 1788. Between that date and June, 1789, he visited Ireland. It was probable his fame as a bridge builder had reached the Emerald Isle, and a desire for a bridge at Londonderry carried him to that town, probably in the spring of 1789, and he estimated the cost of a bridge there at £ 10,000. Receiving encouragement he returned to New England, and from Sheepscott, Maine, shipped a load of oak piles and twenty skilled workmen to complete the project. His connection with the Cabots and others,