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ntral portion. All traces of the estate and even the hill no longer exist. For an interesting item concerning the Barrel family, and one concerning Medford, our readers are referred to Francis Hill Bigelow's Historic Silver of the Colonies and Its Makers, pp. 302, 303, 363. After this digression, which we trust is pardonable, believing it to be correlative and not irrelevant to this sketch, we are back in Medford in the old Watson house again and find John Usher of our town preceding Barrell, Jr., as a tenant. The old meeting-house had seen under its shadow, living in this house, a Revolutionary soldier who was a friend of Washington, and as a counter-balance, also was a Loyalist, who as one, was an enemy of Washington, living here at an earlier date, and now, about 1800, was to be neighbor to another of the latter class. （Regis-Ter, Vol. XV, p. 97). Our incomparable chronicler Caleb Swan. noted that Mr. Green took the whole house and for a while let the west part to the