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HISTORY OF THE TOWN OF MEDFORD, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, FROM ITS FIRST SETTLEMENT, IN 1630, TO THE PRESENT TIME, 1855. (ed. Charles Brooks), Chapter 3: (search)
hn Hall, jun., were chosen Surveyors of highways. Ensign Stephen Francis is chosen Tything-man. John Hall, sen., and Lieutenant Peter Tufts, are chosen Viewers of fences; and Stephen Willis is chosen Town-clerk. Here are but eight gentlemen to fill all the offices, and do all the labor required for one year! It shows us how little there was to be done. It belongs to this history to say, that Medford did not flourish much after Mr. Cradock's patronage and property were withdrawn. In 1702, there seemed to have been small prosperity; for, at that time the people say: We, the town of Medford, being little and small, and unable to carry on public charges in so comfortable a way as is to be desired, &c. This low condition induced the inhabitants to ask grants of money or waste-lands from the government; and also to petition the General Court to annex contiguous portions of Charlestown, Cambridge, and Andover. One of these movements for benefiting the town took place May 10, 1714,
HISTORY OF THE TOWN OF MEDFORD, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, FROM ITS FIRST SETTLEMENT, IN 1630, TO THE PRESENT TIME, 1855. (ed. Charles Brooks), Chapter 11: currency. (search)
ter, began June 8, 1692; and they voted that 10s. a poll, and one-quarter part of the annual income on all real and personal estate in the Province, be assessed. These taxes, assessed upon the Province by the House of Representatives from 1692 to 1702, averaged £ 11,000 per annum. Of this sum, Medford paid, in 1692, £ 32. 18s.; in 1696, £ 42; in 1698, £ 20; in 1702, £ 19. 1s.; while Malden paid, in the same years, £ 121, £ 90, £ 45, and £ 48. Woburn paid £ 181, £ 144, £ 75, and £ 85. Cambridge1702, £ 19. 1s.; while Malden paid, in the same years, £ 121, £ 90, £ 45, and £ 48. Woburn paid £ 181, £ 144, £ 75, and £ 85. Cambridge paid £ 214, £ 189, £ 102, and £ 102. To show a town-tax at this period, and also the names most frequently occurring in the town's records, we here insert a rate made by the selectmen, May 16, 1701, for defraying town-charges; namely, for the deputy, and the laying in of ammunition; and for fetching and carrying Mr. Woodbridge, and the entertaining of him.  £s.d. Maj. Nathaniel Wade164 John Whitmore068 Stephen Hall, jun.075 Eliezer Wier058 John Bradstreet076 Joh
HISTORY OF THE TOWN OF MEDFORD, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, FROM ITS FIRST SETTLEMENT, IN 1630, TO THE PRESENT TIME, 1855. (ed. Charles Brooks), chapter 18 (search)
unders of the church at Medford; was one of the original proprietors of Sutton; was representative to the Provincial Congress; and deacon. He died Dec. 25, 1752. Children:--  14-45Percival, b. Nov. 13, 1698; m. Lydia Bounds; d. s. p.  46Jane, b. May 15, 1700.  a.Mary.  b.Elizabeth.  c.Stephen, b. Apr. 2, 1709.  d.Martha.  47Thomas, b. Aug. 15, 1712.  48 Zaccheus,b. Jan. 11, 1714-15. Susanna,  49  50Grace, b. Oct. 7, 1717.  51Willis, b. Mar. 7, 1719-20. 2-16Jonathan Hall m., 1702, Lydia Cutter, who d. Jan. 1, 1754. He d. Jan. 12, 1754, leaving--  16-52Jonathan.  53Lydia, b. Apr. 27, 1705; m. Jas. Tufts, of Chas., June 27, 1722.  54Gershom, d. Dec. 9, 1718. 2-18Thomas Hall was deacon of the church at Medford; m., 1st, Dec. 22, 1702, Hannah Cutter; 2d, Abigail----, who d. Sept. 8, 1745; 3d, Apr. 16, 1747, Elizabeth Davis. He d. Jan. 25, 1757. His children were, by first wife,--  18-55Thomas, b. Oct 5, 1703.   By second marriage:--  56Edward, b. Apr.