Statistics for occurrence #1 of “Medford” in chapter 13, page 440 of HISTORY OF THE TOWN OF MEDFORD, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, FROM ITS FIRST SETTLEMENT, IN 1630, TO THE PRESENT TIME, 1855.:
...ave-system.
Advocates of the system we have none.
The Rev. John Pierpont and the Rev. Caleb Stetson early became devoted and able lecturers in the field; and, if a fugitive slave should now reach Medford , there would be fifty Nathan Waits to shelter and comfort him.
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