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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing)	334	0	Browse	Search
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 3, 15th edition.	42	0	Browse	Search
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 4, 15th edition.	42	0	Browse	Search
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight)	40	0	Browse	Search
Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 3 (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.)	34	0	Browse	Search
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 5, 13th edition.	32	0	Browse	Search
George Bancroft, History of the Colonization of the United States, Vol. 1, 17th edition.	30	0	Browse	Search
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 6, 10th edition.	28	0	Browse	Search
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 7, 4th edition.	26	0	Browse	Search
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Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 29., The Cradock house, past and future. (search)

schools, John Hooper and Moses Mann. Even the Transcript, up until 1914, published religiously every week in the Strangers' Directory, Cradock house, Medford. Built 1634, the first brick house in the colony, and the oldest house standing in North America. Every brick was imported from England. Named from Matthew Cradock, governor of the Massachusetts Company in New England. It is hard enough for Medford to lose its shipbuilding, its rum, and now its only oldest in America possession. Hoto a skinners' company in Broad street, London. So it must have been that while Cradock was a mere stripling he saw the skins valuable for their fur which were brought into London from across the seas, and must have peopled that continent of North America with multitudes of wolves, beavers, foxes, and martens, awaiting transformation into pounds sterling. How he acquired his wealth we do not know, but he traded in all the seas. He invested two thousand pounds in Persia and the East Indies,

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