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Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 23., Medford Saltmarsh Corporation. (search)
Parson Smith's farm.
It was an easy transition from these latter marshes to the consideration of Parson Smith's farm and barn which was close by one of them.
Mr. Hooper located it by his remembrance as near the now disused Cummings schoolhouse and present North street.
Rev. William Smith, the father of Abigail, wife of President John Adams, inherited a part of this farm, and at his mother's death bought a farm in Medford.
Such is his entry in his interleaved almanac, the usual manner of keeping a diary in those days.
Several of those he kept we have examined, and extracts were read in the above connection.
We find in Nast's Sketch of Weymouth that
in August 1634 [it should be 1734] a call was extended to Mr. William Smith of Charlestown to become the minister at a salary of one hundred and sixty pounds and three hundred pounds settlement, the latter to be paid one hundred pounds annually for three years, all in bills of credit.
This invitation was accepted, and on the
Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 23., A rill from the town pump. (search)