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Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 14., The legend of cheese Rock. (search)
The legend of cheese Rock. For the Forest Festival, June 7, 1882. In sixteen hundred thirty-one, It was a winter day, When Winthrop, Nowell, Eliot, To northward strolled away. The frozen Mistick flood they crossed, Ere Cradock's mansion stood; O'er swamps and rocky hills they pressed, Through miles of lofty wood. They crossed a lovely ice-bound lake, With islands here and there; ‘spot pond’ they called it, from the rocks That showed their noddles bare. Then up northwestwardly they climbed, A hill well crowned with trees, And hungry there, as well might be, They dined on simple cheese. For, why? the guv'nor's man in haste, And careless how they fed, His basket loaded with the cheese And quite forgot the bread. This fact so simple and so grand, To us they handed down; ‘cheese Rock’ they named that lovely hill, Those men of high renown. Some smaller men cut off the trees And then they named it ‘Bare’; And when the bushes wildly grew The spelled it ‘B-e-a-r.’ But natu
Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 18., Medford's Metes and bounds. (search)
above. Two thousand six hundred and fifty-seven feet in a line swinging eastward from the former, to number twenty-nine in the loam space of the Fellsway, formerly called Creek head, thence is a water route along the thread of Little creek, or Nowell's creek, to number thirty. Here Highland avenue of Malden ends and Middlesex avenue of Medford begins. The boundary line continues through a line stone with witness mark, along Malden river to number thirty-two, an unmarked point at the cornersew monument is inserted in the Boundaries. If we have walked about Medford or gone round about her by boat or air craft, we have travelled about nine miles by land and about six miles by water or air; but this is not an air line, as the thread of Nowell's creek and Mystic river is crooked indeed. We have looked across the boundary into the pleasant homes of our neighboring cities, been close to the temples of religion and halls of learning, crossed the railways with their crowded cars and hurry
Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 15., Some errors in Medford's histories. (search)
was afterwards the intention of some to unite Mr. Cradock's, Mr. Winthrop's, Mr. Wilson's and Mr. Nowell's lands in one township and call it Mystic. [Page 2.] There is no evidence of this. Med between Menotomy river and Medford pond was called the Line field. Creek Head creek was called Nowell's creek. This river is felt to belong to Medford; for we may almost say that it has its beginShawsheen, the best of mine, as I am informed, near my house, being allotted to Mr. Wilson and Mr. Nowell. . . The only knowledge Mr. Cradock could have obtained as to the location of his land must hof land part of Meadford Plantation with Mansion house and other buildings. Bounded easterly on Nowell's farm (and) Blanchard's farm. . . . Southerly with Mistick river. Northerly with Charlestown l were of that part that is furthest from the dwelling house, and adjoining that farm which was Mr. Nowell's, and to Blanchard's as above. Here we have the Mansion house described in the deed of Colli
Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 22., Scraps of paper. (search)
world famous caption. The scrap of paper in that case we reproduce in this issue. The Edward Collins named therein was Medford's first land speculator—who purchased the Cradock farm. It is significant that the dwelling was styled Medeford House. Henry Dunster (first president of Harvard College) also mentioned therein and associated with Collins—owned the land and dwelling on the opposite side of the river (now Arlington） See Register, Vol. XIII., p. 9. and in one of his and Increase Nowell's leases the lessee was to pay £ 3 per year in wheat and barley at 4s per bushel, delivered at Medeford House twice each year; the first payment to be in 1648. The lease was for fifteen years and the property was in Lynn. Mr. Mann said A strange thing about this interesting document is that it should have led to such drastic proceedings, when one considers the fact that the immediate parties were all dead. Joseph Hills had done absolutely nothing for which he deserved arrest,
Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 29., The Cradock house, past and future. (search)
ngs lane, the Deacon Bradshaw house, are only houses standing today that were standing in 1690. Medford was practically a private plantation owned by two men, Cradock on the north and Winthrop on the south. By the General Court both had access to the weirs at Mystic lakes, where vast quantities of smelts and alewives swarmed in season. I can remember myself when the alewives in early spring darted up Meetinghouse brook. By a grant of the Court, also, all the land betwixt the lands of Mr. Nowell & Mr. Wilson on the East, and the partition betwixt Mystic ponds on the west, bounded with the Mystic river on the south and the rocks on the north is granted to Mr. Matthew Cradock merchant to enjoy to him and his heirs forever. In 1636, the indefiniteness of the rocks on the north was changed to read, a mile into the country from the river side in all places. If Cradock owned practically all of Medford north of the river, he was a generous and responsible landlord. Yet he was greatl
Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 30., History of Wellington. (search)
led in Boston, Dorchester, Watertown and Medford. The first record we have of what is now known as Wellington was made at the General Court held in Boston, April 1, 1634, which is as follows;— There is two hundred acres of land ganted to Mr. Nowell, lying and being on the west side of North river, called Three Mile brook (Malden river). There is two hundred acres of land granted to Mr. John Wilson, pastor of the church in Boston, lying next to the land granted to Mr. Nowell, on the souMr. Nowell, on the south, and next to Meadford on the north. The farm of Mathew Cradock joined the Nowell and Wilson farms, and extended as far as the Mystic lakes and one mile inland from the Mystic river. This grant of land was made to Mr. Cradock, March 4, 1634. Governor Winthrop owned the land on the south side of the Mystic, in what is now Somerville, extending from Charlestown Neck to College hill, or Walnut hill as it was then called. He settled there in 1630 and called it Ten Hills Farm. Rev. Mr.
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