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Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 25., The Historian's home coming (search)
e there, however. So the arrangement was made that Mr. and Mrs. Brooks move into the old home, to go no more out. Mr. Alfred Brooks, his brother, made this his headquarters, though he was somewhat of a traveller. Mr. Usher in his brief memoir is silent regarding Mr. Brooks' return to his native home on retiring from active life. For six years prior to 1853 Mr. Brooks' name appears in the Boston Director as of 12 Bedford street, in '53 at 111 Washington street; in '54 and '55 at 21 BromfiMr. Brooks' name appears in the Boston Director as of 12 Bedford street, in '53 at 111 Washington street; in '54 and '55 at 21 Bromfield street, (in the three latter years) house at Medford. After '55 his name does not appear therein, and it seems probable that the addresses of '53–'54–'55 were those of his office there. But whether resident or not, he was certainly present (by l or town histories in New England were but few (only about thirty-five) and these were rarely more than sixty pages. Mr. Brooks' work was of nearly six hundred pages, and doubtless was an incentive to others in the years soon following. He labore
Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 25., As others told it (search)
aders will accept a lunch in view of our inability to give them a dinner, we publish the facts already in our hands. The genealogy of Matthew Cradock has been traced back to 1446, and furthest hack is spelled Caradoc. In 1446 John Cradock married Jane Dorrington. They had a son John, who had a son Richard, who in turn had a son Thomas, who had a son Thomas, who had a son William, and William Cradock was the father of Matthew Cradock, Medford's founder and first friend, as the author of Brooks' History reverently expresses it. Here we depend upon another source for our information, finding that our Cradock inherited property and built a new house at Caverswall, Staffordshire. One or two miles from Stone, Staffordshire, and seven from Caverswall is a hamlet spelled Mayford, Mearford and Formerly Metford Being so near to Metford it is possible that he had an estate there, and that there the name of this town originated. The deeds of Cradock's wife and daughter relate to