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Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 8., New Hampshire soldiers in Medford. (search)
en's victory, replied, But we've got the Hill! Of our own purely local history, though it has much to interest the stranger, I shall only tell how the woman of heroic character whose name our chapter proudly bears, helped to dress the wounds and minister to those soldiers who were brought here after the battle to an open field nearby her home; and further let me call your attention to the single monument in this ancient God's Acre, whose inscription gives a brief outline of the life of John Brooks, the Medford boy who was friend of Lafayette and Washington and governor of this Commonwealth. We are justly proud of him for the dignity of his character and his three-fold able service along military, civic and medical lines. You may see his face portrayed in Trumbull's picture of the surrender of Burgoyne in the rotunda of the Capitol at Washington. Colonel Stark in a letter to Matthew Thornton, who was president of a Provincial Convention at Exeter, New Hampshire, addressed a le
Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 8., Captain Isaac Hall. (search)
ambridge. Near what is now Sullivan Square he met two British officers who tried to stop him. He turned and pushed for the Medford road, and got clear of them. He says, I went through Medford over the bridge and up to Menotomy. In Medford I waked the Captain of the Minute Men, and after that, I alarmed almost every house till I got to Lexington. Miss Helen T. Wild in her History of Medford in the Revolution says, Captn Hall and his company marched to Lexington and there joined Captn John Brooks and his Reading company . . . . The combined companies met the British at Merriam's Corner and followed them to Charlestown Ferry, continuing their fire until the last of the troops had embarked. The Medford company was in the 37th Mass. Regiment, commanded by Col. Thos. Gardner. In the account of the Battle of Bunker Hill in his Siege of Boston, Frothingham says, After the British landed, this regiment (Gardner's) was stationed in the road leading to Lechmere's Point, and late in the d
Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 8., The two hundred seventy-fifth anniversary. (search)
odate audiences of children of larger growth, as the interesting programs were presented with great enthusiasm by the pupils. The exhibitions of manual work at the high school building were a revelation to those unacquainted with modern methods of education. Friday afternoon the Massachusetts Sons of the American Revolution dedicated a tablet placed on the Savings Bank building, in honor of Governor John Brooks. It bears the inscription:— on this site stood the house of born 1752 John Brooks died 1825 distinguished citizen, Physician, Patriot Captain and Major 1775-1776 lieutenant Colonel 1776-1783 in the American Revolution Brigadier General 1792-1796 United states Army Major General 1786-1796 Adjutant General 1813-1816 Massachusetts militia Governor of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts 1816-1823 Honorary A. M., M. D., and Ll.D., Overseer Harvard College This tablet placed by the Massachusetts Society Sons of the American Revolution 1905 A water carnival on Mystic Lak