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Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 15., The Jonathan Watson house. (search)
f one continuous slope backward, the rafters being fitted against the older ones. The attics of the older part were roughly plastered between the joists and the mode of construction easily seen. In his turn he gave the eastern half next the meetinghouse to his son Charles, then a bachelor, and the west-tern to his daughter, also an Abigail. She is said to have lived and died a quasi widow, for her Scotch husband, Hugh Tarbett, was a Loyalist, and decamped with the Tories in 1776. Charles Fitch rented his half to General John Brooks (afterwards and for seven years governor), who had taken up the practice of medicine in Medford after the Revolution. It was here that he was living when President Washington visited him while on his New England tour, in October, 1789, coming from Boston early in the morning, and going from Medford to Salem. The Medford schoolhouse was then close by and the school kept by Mr. Prentiss. He ranged his young charges before the house, each holding