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Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 15., Medford's mythical apple. (search)
y years before this entertaining story, claiming Medford as its origination, was written. Governor Brooks had known Colonel Baldwin, and, himself in advanced years, tells his young kinsman Charles about the origin of the Baldwin apple, formerly calse the fruit resembled the Baldwin, he claimed it as the real Woodpecker tree. Tewksbury, Burlington, Somerville, and Baldwin (Maine) have claimed the original tree, but the facts would seem to be finally fixed by the letter of Colonel Baldwin toColonel Baldwin to Governor Bowdoin, February 13, 1784, when he sent him a barrel of a particular species of apple which proceeded from a Tree, that originally grew spontaneously in the woods about fourteen miles north of Boston, and Colonel Baldwin knew the facts. Colonel Baldwin knew the facts. Space forbids citing the various arguments in the famous controversy. They were carefully considered by Rev. Leander Thompson of Woburn, in an able article of twenty-four pages, published thirty years ago in the Winchester Record. We commend a c