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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)
records of its own, it is only necessary to copy the following vote of its inhabitants, Feb. 25, 1683:-- Stephen Willis was chosen to keep the records for the use of the plantation; and, in 1684, it is ordered,-- That the selectmen shall have the Town-book for their use at any of their meetings, as they stand in need of it, provided the town-book be carefully returned to the clerk again. Law processes were not expensive. In 1685, Medford orders the following payments:-- To Mr. Nath. Lyon, for the attachment and serving£068 To entering the petition at Boston to the General Court026 For copy out of the records006 Caleb Brooks, for serving the attachment010 For entering action023 Stephen Willis, for charge at court016 Oct. 19, 1686: S. Willis appointed to record all births and deaths occurring in Medford. As soon as Medford could send a representative to the General Court it did so; and the first was chosen in 1689. The records run thus, on the choice of a rep