...tidal river. Its two bake houses were the predecessors of the Medford cracker. Two householders had shops in their dwellings, and nineteen other shops were named. Perhaps some were the little New England shoe-shops, though these last may have been among the other buildings, value 20 dollars that numbered sixty-six. Parson Osgood, in his somewhat peculiar letter to his sweetheart, tells of some Me...