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Medford turnpike Corporation.
ON March 2, 1803, the General Court of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, upon the petition of Benjamin Hall, John Brooks, Fitch Hall, Ebenezer Hall, 2d, and Samuel Buel, granted to these petitioners, and all other persons as are or shall be associated with them and their successors, the right to lay out and make a turnpike road from the easterly side of the road nearly opposite to Dr. Luther Stearns' house, and running easterly of Winter hill and Plowed hill
Mt. Benedict or Convent hill. to the east side of the road opposite Page's tavern near the neck in Charlestown.
Dr. Luther Stearns' house stood in part on the location of Emerson street in Medford, and Page's tavern stood in or near Sullivan square, in the Charlestown district of Boston.
The act of incorporation provided, that if the said corporation shall neglect to complete the said turnpike road for the space of three years from the passage of this act, the same shall be void.
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Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 23., More about the turnpike (search)
More about the turnpike
There has recently come into the possession of the Medford Historical Society the record book of the Medford Turnpike Corporation.
Of its two hundred and sixty-eight pages, one hundred and forty-one are occupied with the act of incorporation, passed March 2, 1803, the records of various contracts, and of stockholders' and directors' meetings, closing with that of January 24, 1866.
Its unruled pages are enclosed in stiff board covers, eight by thirteen inches in size.
These were once covered with two layers of leather, shown by fragments remaining and folded over the edges, and fly-leaves securely pasted over them.
On the first of the latter, in the upper left-hand, appears (in pencil), 3 Qr. $1.50.
Following the transcript of the charter is a copy of advertisement in the Centinel, calling the first meeting to be held on April 11, 1803, at the tavern of Hezekiah Blanchard, Jr. Benjamin Hall was its moderator, and Luther Stearns clerk, continuing