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Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 15., The Jonathan Watson house. (search)
dford's old houses has been demolished, preparatory to extensive improvements in the immediate vicinity. Built by Jonathan Watson in 1738, it has, till within the past eleven years, been constantly occupied, and is worthy of more than a cursory nial doorway, and the weather boarding extending to the corner angles without the usual and more modern corner board. Mr. Watson gave the west half of the house to his daughter, Abigail, the widow of Samuel Angier, probably by will, though we haveept a dame's school in her only first-floor room at some time after her husband's death. The eastern portion went to Mr. Watson's son Jonathan, who, with his sister, sold the property and moved to Upper Medford, now known as Symmes' Corner in Winc give place to dwellings of modern type and containing such accessories and conveniences as were little dreamed of when Mr. Watson built it or Doctor Brooks entertained America's first President within its walls. The room that was the doctor's off