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Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 25., At Medford's old civic Center. (search)
in Medford in the old Watson house again and find John Usher of our town preceding Barrell, Jr., as a tenant. The old meeting-house had seen under its shadow, living in this house, a Revolutionary soldier who was a friend of Washington, and as a counter-balance, also was a Loyalist, who as one, was an enemy of Washington, living here at an earlier date, and now, about 1800, was to be neighbor to another of the latter class. （Regis-Ter, Vol. XV, p. 97). Our incomparable chronicler Caleb Swan. noted that Mr. Green took the whole house and for a while let the west part to the Wyley family from Georgia. Mrs. Green removed to Boston at the death of her husband, 1809, and the Misses Abby and Mary Hall, sisters of Nathaniel Hall, who lived in the Secomb house, rented the east part. A little later these ladies exchanged their quarters with the Swans, who about this time became owners of the property. About 1815 the west half was occupied by the wife of Captain Trevet of the reven
Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 25., A Revolutionary Parole. (search)
A Revolutionary Parole. British officers promise to remain in the quarters assigned, within the limits:— Beginning at Swan's shop on Charlestown Neck, the Cambridge road up to the crossway to Fort No. 3, and from Learned's tavern the Cambridge road on to the common to the Menotomy road, up said road to Cooper's tavern, taking in the Menotomy pond, but not to pass the beach on the south, west, or north sides thereof, from Cooper's tavern down to the east end of Benjamin Tuft's house pond, but not to pass the beach on the south, west, or north sides thereof, from Cooper's tavern down to the east end of Benjamin Tuft's house in Medford, and from Medford bridge the Boston road to Swan's shop, the first-mentioned bound. The intermediate roads are within the parole, and the back yards of the respective quarters to the distance of eighty yards from them. Dated December 13, 1777. Original in Boston Public Library. O'Callaghan, Burgoyne's Orderly book, 176. L. M. Hastings.
Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 25., A home-comer's Opinion, 1871. (search)
A home-comer's Opinion, 1871. A former resident of Medford, Caleb Swan, while on a visit to his brother doctor, went to Oak Grove Cemetery. On his return to his home in New York, he attached then, J. W. Mitchell, Mr. Vinal. They might be called a Goth & Vandal Committee. C. S., 1871. Mr. Swan never lost interest in his boyhood's home, and, on publication, purchased five copies of the hies Herbert Swan, recently deceased. In passing along Salem street we cannot but wonder what Caleb Swan would say were he to visit where Each in his narrow cell forever laid The rude forefathersbably grew during less than that time, but doubtless exceeded in size the slower grown oak that Mr. Swan felt it was vandalism to remove. To some residents of today the sight of our ancient burial ught that perhaps the present committee have acted wisely, and refrain from the epithet used by Mr. Swan, and quote again from the immortal elegy— Yet even these bones from insult to protect, Some