hide
Named Entity Searches
hide
Matching Documents
The documents where this entity occurs most often are shown below. Click on a document to open it.
Document | Max. Freq | Min. Freq | ||
---|---|---|---|---|
Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 18. | 22 | 0 | Browse | Search |
Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 15. | 12 | 0 | Browse | Search |
Historic leaves, volume 7, April, 1908 - January, 1909 | 4 | 0 | Browse | Search |
Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 15. | 4 | 0 | Browse | Search |
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 11. (ed. Frank Moore) | 2 | 0 | Browse | Search |
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 17. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) | 2 | 0 | Browse | Search |
View all matching documents... |
Your search returned 46 results in 10 document sections:
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 11. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 206 (search)
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 17. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), The Twelfth Georgia Infantry . (search)
Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 15., An old Medford Advertisement. (search)
An old Medford Advertisement.
A well-worn paper, made from rags, torn, and with frayed edges, about six and one-quarter by seven and one-quarter inches in size, tells a bit of Medford's business history:—
Drugs and medicines
To be Sold at the Sign of St. Luke's Head, in Medford, By
Augustus Hunt
—also—
A general affortment of
West-India goods
—Viz.—
Bohea Tea, Souchong, do. Green, do. West-India Rum, Brandy, Sugars, Cinamon, Cloves, Mace, Nutmegs, Allspice, Pepper, Figs, Tamarinds, Raisins.
The above articles will be fold as cheap as can be bought in Boston, for Cash or Country Produce.
***Every favour gratefully acknowledged.
Reference to the public records shows that Augustus Hunt (residence given as of Boston) married Nabby Tarbot of Medford, December 31, 1795.
Query, When did Mr. Hunt open his store at the Sign of St. Luke's Head?
Recorded as born in Medford is the name Susannah Dexter Blanchard, March 19, 1795.
Across the back o
Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 15., Another Absentee. (search)
Another Absentee.
In addition to the Loyalists of Medford, already noticed in earlier issues of the Register, another had his residence here, but after the Revolution was over and peace declared.
Francis Green, a graduate of Harvard, 1760, a merchant of Boston, married a lady whose father was mayor of New York previous to the Revolution.
He came back to Boston from Halifax, and to Medford about 1798, and two years later occupied the house later belonging to Mr. Samuel Swan (Watson House). He died 21 April, 1809, aged 67.
His widow moved to Charlestown, N. H., in 1822, when the Gilchrist family moved there. [Adapted from C. S.]—E. M. G
Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 18., A Medford writer of long ago and a modern Medford School . (search)
Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 15., A Medford author's residence. (search)
A Medford author's residence.
Referring to Francis Green, a Medford author, we said (page 83, Vol.
Xviii),
As yet we have not learned his dwelling place.
Had we consulted our former pages we should have found the following (page 97, Vol.
Xv),
Francis Green,. . . came to Medford about 1798, and two years later occFrancis Green,. . . came to Medford about 1798, and two years later occupied the house later belonging to Samuel Swan (Watson house.)
We have received the following from the author of the above, which by request we insert,
If the editor will refer to the October issue of the Register, page 97, he will find a statement which disproves [?] the one made on page 83. . . 1915.
We have now lear] the one made on page 83. . . 1915.
We have now learned where was the dwelling-place of Francis Green, and on the authority of Caleb Swan, as noted by our contributor, state it to have been in that house next north the old third meeting-house, which was more recently known as the Watson house, and a few years since demolished.