... old two-story brick house in East Medford (that because of Mr. Brooks' assumption, unproven statement and inference, has for fifty years been widely heralded as the oldest house in America, built by Mr. Cradock ,) and assign its erection to the first Peter Tufts some fifteen or twenty years before his death in 1700, and first occupied by Captain Peter Tufts, perhaps before the death of his first wife, or his...