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Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 24., The route of Revere (search)
homas Wakefield Jonathan Teel Aaron Blanchard Richard Cole William Binford Thomas Bradshaw Daniel Tufts Peter Tufts, Jr. Ebenezer Tufts Isaac Cooch Daniel Conery David Hadley Jacob Bedin Richard Paine William Polley Peter Conery Joseph Clefton Samuel Hadley, Jr. Moses Hadley John Callender John Clarke Andrew Bradshaw Thomas Savels Francis Hall Benjamin Savils On their return Madam Brooks (who had watched from her attic wis it) though by age exempt, and having sons in the ranks, he showed his Putnam spunk and went with the rest. He had been for ten years a resident of Medford, his home probably in the valley opposite Medford's first schoolhouse. Gold stars are placed on the service flags and on the memorials of today. Certainly they should be beside the names of these two, William Polley, Henry Putnam, who went out from their homes in Medford on that 19th of April, to their death, on the first Patriots' day.
Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 24., Henry Putnam of Medford. (search)
r, among the Medford minute-men; and another (Henry, Jr.) in the Danvers company that marched through Medford to Lexington. From his home in Medford (wherever it was) the old veteran of Louisburg, then seventy years of age, followed them to take part in the fray, leaving behind the wife Hannah he so romantically acquired forty-eight years before. He was killed at old Menotomy by the retreating British. His son, Henry, Jr., was wounded and brought to Medford. The Medford wounded man, William Polley (also brought home) died, but Henry Putnam, Jr., recovered. But wherever the dwelling house, barn and potter's shop may have been in 1774, no trace of them is to be found today. Neither do we know who owned the other moiety, or half of the property. Putnam was styled in the pasture deed a yeoman of Medford, in the other deeds gentleman. As the potter's shop is not mentioned in the deed to him, which was so carefully drawn as to include the well, and is in his mortgage to Andros, it