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Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 23.,
Medford turnpike
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an's land seven rods to land of Andrew Kettle, and here the road is laid out four rods wide; thence the same course over said Kettle's land ten rods to land of William Smith, and here the road is laid out four rods wide; thence the same course over said Smith's land twenty-seven rods eight links to a stake and stones by the east siSmith's land twenty-seven rods eight links to a stake and stones by the east side of the road opposite Page's tavern near the neck in Charlestown, and here the road is laid out four rods wide. And all the fore-described lines, butts and bounds are in the middle of the said turnpike road, except where said road comes to northeasterly side of the bank of the Middlesex canal, register, Vol. XIII, p. 97 and ufts, Jr., late of Charlestown, deceased, $1.00; Dr. William Stearns, $910.00; Benjamin Frothingham, Jr., $62.50; Samuel Swan, $105.00; Andrew Kettle, $150.00; William Smith, $635.00; making a total of $7,231.00. January 26, 1804, a committee was chosen to consider the expediency of building a hotel. At a subsequent meeting the
Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 23., Parson Smith's farm. (search)
by his remembrance as near the now disused Cummings schoolhouse and present North street. Rev. William Smith, the father of Abigail, wife of President John Adams, inherited a part of this farm, and ast's Sketch of Weymouth that in August 1634 [it should be 1734] a call was extended to Mr. William Smith of Charlestown to become the minister at a salary of one hundred and sixty pounds and threhat in 1754 Medford acquired considerable of Charlestown territory in two parcels. This Rev. William Smith (who until his ordination was Mister William) was the son of Thomas and Abigail (Fowle) SmSmith. Thomas Smith was styled merchant and had a farm of eighty acres (and house), bounded north by Mystic river, south and southwest by J. Dickson, and east by James Tufts and C. Crosswell. It was e have seen the changes wrought along the river, and are pleasantly surprised. What might Rev. William Smith, prepossessing and conciliatory, a favorite, especially among the young, lively and animat
Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 23., Local changes in Medford. (search)
t occupants. We remember a case where a citizen (now long gone) was boasting of my fine residence and was taken down a little by another's saying, Why, yes, we thought it pretty good when it was father's carpenter-shop down at our place. The present writing is suggested by examination of the United States engineers' plan referred to in a previous article about a gristmill, and on which is clearly shown the Wood mill, over which there was such a stir in ‘68–‘70. The Fuller plan of the Smith estate at West Medford (the tract lying between High street, the railroad and the river), plotted on the same scale, shows a similar inward curve, but not the former's island. A plan (by Hovey), in 1870, of a portion of the above, lying beside the river, shows a somewhat lesser curve with no island, and another street nearer the river. This is set down as Beach street. Facing this street, upon lots extending backward to the Mystic, seven dwelling-houses were erected prior to 1875. One was<