Statistics for occurrence #1 of “Medford” in chapter 3, page 40 of HISTORY OF THE TOWN OF MEDFORD, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, FROM ITS FIRST SETTLEMENT, IN 1630, TO THE PRESENT TIME, 1855.:
...the General Court. Sept. 3, 1635: It is agreed, that hereafter no dwelling-house shall be built above half a mile from the meeting-house, in any new plantation, without leave from the Court.
Our Medford ancestors kept a jealous eye upon new comers,
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