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Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 26., Patriot's day Observance. (search)
was certainly creditable to Medford, as indeed the later ones have been. In more recent years a second rider personating William Dawes has gone over that other route through Brookline and Cambridge which is 8 miles to Boston (see milestone at Harvard Square). The Old North or Christ Church still stands, and at the close of a service on the night of April 1 8, a messenger ascends to the steeple and hangs out two lights. Captain Isaac Hall's house in Medford also still stands, and Mr. Edward Gaffey, its owner and occupant, is glad to open its doors to welcome the personator of Revere. This year he was welcomed in the street by a lineal descendant of the minute-men's captain, Miss Deborah Hall. We are able to present a view of her greeting (by courtesy of the Mercury), thanks to the ever present camera, unknown in that old day and for seventy years later. The hoof beats of his coal-black steed probably rang louder on the modern High street than did those of Deacon Larkin's ma