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Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 15., Communicated by Miss Eliza M. Gill. (search)
Communicated by Miss Eliza M. Gill. Town meeting, April 4, 1796; Voted that Benjamin Hall, Esqr, Honb John Brooks Esqr, James Wyman Richd Hall & Samuel Swan be a Commte to view and considder the expediency of having a Road from the Market-place to Oak's road so called & make report thereon. Query, Where was Oak's road?
Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 15., The Jonathan Watson house. (search)
Brooks, who took great pride in his garden and was taking the boy about it, the Governor told him with much pleasure of his illustrious visitor, remarking that it was their last interview. The house had a succession of tenants till in 1810 Samuel Swan became its owner and occupant, dying at sea in 1823. His widow Margaret, commonly called Peggy, Swan, continued to reside there and rented a portion of the house until her passing away. Of the occupants during the past fifty years we can sSwan, continued to reside there and rented a portion of the house until her passing away. Of the occupants during the past fifty years we can speak with certainty of but one, the last, Cleopas Johnson, who died there on December 17, 1902. He was a carpenter and builder and a thorough mechanic, as was also his partner and brother, Theophilus. The brothers were familiarly called Cope and Tope by all the old-timers of Medford. Cleopas outlived his brother. When the Unitarian Church was burned he rang the bell in alarm until the rope burned off and fell, useless. The old Watson house has been a near neighbor to three houses of worsh
Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 15., Another Absentee. (search)
Another Absentee. In addition to the Loyalists of Medford, already noticed in earlier issues of the Register, another had his residence here, but after the Revolution was over and peace declared. Francis Green, a graduate of Harvard, 1760, a merchant of Boston, married a lady whose father was mayor of New York previous to the Revolution. He came back to Boston from Halifax, and to Medford about 1798, and two years later occupied the house later belonging to Mr. Samuel Swan (Watson House). He died 21 April, 1809, aged 67. His widow moved to Charlestown, N. H., in 1822, when the Gilchrist family moved there. [Adapted from C. S.]—E. M. G