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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 54 16 Browse Search
George Bancroft, History of the Colonization of the United States, Vol. 1, 17th edition. 26 2 Browse Search
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight) 22 2 Browse Search
Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 1, Colonial and Revolutionary Literature: Early National Literature: Part I (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.) 6 2 Browse Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, A book of American explorers 2 2 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 1. (ed. Frank Moore) 1 1 Browse Search
Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 29. 1 1 Browse Search
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Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 29., The Cradock house, past and future. (search)
out the polluted shrine, that I am attempting in this short talk to sum up as simply as I can some of the early traditions of Medford, and especially of the old house which we should know by the name of the Peter Tufts house. It is not my purpose to enter into the learned historical controversy, but the history of Medford must move backward inevitably to Matthew Cradock. Our Matthew was born in the days when Shakspere was still living, and the romance and adventure of Raleigh and Sir Francis Drake spurred the lives of Englishmen to the real attainment of dreams. We today can hardly imagine the effect upon an ambitious lad in London of ships up the Thames from across the enchanted Atlantic discharging their treasures from newly discovered lands. Little is known of the private life of Matthew Cradock, save that he was very wealthy, was an intimate friend of John Winthrop, and one of the prominent London citizens in the reign of James I and Charles I. He was apprenticed, as mos