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Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 8., The taverns of Medford. (search)
ed until the year 1777. In the year 1778, Mr. Edward Walker took charge of this tavern. He was succeeded by Mr. Benjamin Shaw and others. Mr. James Tufts was licensed as an innholder at the Admiral Vernon in the year 1792, and was its landlord from that year to 1800, both inclusive. At the close of Mr. Tufts' term as landlord, this house became a private dwelling, and so continued until it was destroyed by fire in the year 1850. This house is said to have been the headquarters of Colonel John Stark of the New Hampshire Regiment, in the year 1775, and is supposed to have been the house in which he was chosen colonel of the regiment by a hand vote. (Prior to 1754 this house was in the Town of Charlestown.) The Mystic house. This house is now standing on Main street, and in late years was a part of the Mystic Trotting Park estate. It was built about the year 1847 by Mr. George E. Adams, who at that time owned and improved the Adams farm, and was used until the establishment
Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 8., New Hampshire soldiers in Medford. (search)
round, and later the company adjourned to the Royall House, Stark's headquarters in 1775, where Mayor Charles S. Baxter greetrning before sunrise. From his home to the north came John Stark in the same heroic, picturesque way, leaving his sawmill through back and forth. Over these New Hampshire men John Stark was made colonel by a hand vote (ardent partisans, it isnted out to you. In this tavern, the Admiral Vernon, Colonel Stark for awhile had his headquarters, and later removed to turgoyne in the rotunda of the Capitol at Washington. Colonel Stark in a letter to Matthew Thornton, who was president of aed's losses, at the desire of the latter. This letter of Stark may have been written at the Admiral Vernon Tavern or at thded and was returning over Charlestown Neck. He was of Colonel Stark's regiment and was brought here and interred with the honth dedicated a memorial. Captain Isaac Baldwin, one of Stark's men who fell in the great battle, was spoken of as an off