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Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 29., The Cradock house, past and future. (search)
t grants overlapped and conflicting claims were made. There was the Plymouth plantation, then the Massachusetts Bay colony, and then north of that grant, which extended as you remember, three miles north of the Merrimac, was a grant to Mason and Gorges. The title to the land of the Massachusetts Bay colony, by virtue of its nearness to the Merrimac, might therefore be in doubt. A certain John Oldham, who claimed under the grant of Robert Gorges, was apparently also claiming a portion of this Robert Gorges, was apparently also claiming a portion of this land south of Merrimac. Cradock suggested that his claim might be prevented by causing some to take possession of the chief part of this land, under the doctrine apparently, that, a bird in the hand is worth two in the bush. There is reason to believe, says Mr. Mann, that the farm at Mystic was planted in order to carry out this suggestion. As the General Court never granted any land in Medford to any man except Cradock, all settlers in Medford must have been bound to serve Cradock before le