Browsing named entities in Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 24.. You can also browse the collection for December 9th or search for December 9th in all documents.

Your search returned 1 result in 1 document section:

Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 24., The Indians of the Mystic valley and the litigation over their land. (search)
rom each side of the pond towards a small island in the center [part of the old dam] and Judge Parmenter pointed this out as the remains of the original dam to Colonel Cooke's mill. The reservation extended back from the pond about five-eighths of a mile well up to the crest of the hill (or further) at the north end and narrowed down to the west side of the road at the south end some twenty rods north of the bridge [over Sucker brook]. In 1658 by indenture dated December 3 but signed December 9 Thomas Gleason leased of Capt. Samuel Scarlett acting for his wife the messuage etc. lying and being within the bounds of Charlestowne—commonly known and called by the name of the Major Gibbons farme for ten years at a rental of eight pounds a year. This lease and attendant litigation is briefly as follows: In 1650 the Squa died, according to the deposition of Richard Church in Scarlett v. Gardiner, and Edward Gibbons took possession of the land in behalf of his son. In 1655, 9th of 5