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Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 15., Some errors in Medford's histories. (search)
ng of much of both histories. In order to correctly understand this article one should have in hand Mr. Brooks' history for reference. These quotations are necessarily brief. On page 1 may be found the following statement:— This author (Josselyn) gives the name of Mistick to land on the north side of the river and reports a thriving population as then gathered between the two brick houses, called forts. Josselyn is here mis-quoted. He does not speak of brick houses, nor were there Josselyn is here mis-quoted. He does not speak of brick houses, nor were there any at that date (1638). It was afterwards the intention of some to unite Mr. Cradock's, Mr. Winthrop's, Mr. Wilson's and Mr. Nowell's lands in one township and call it Mystic. [Page 2.] There is no evidence of this. Medford's bounds would have run to Malden river had not these four hundred acres intervened. The land granted to Mr. Wilson did not include the marsh at the junction of Mystic and Malden rivers. The town of Charlestown owned the marshes and called the place Wilson's