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Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 10., chapter 11 (search)
the eastern parts, in the district of Maine, amounting to one thousand acres. If the claims recited had not been true, parties interested were still alive, and could have refuted the statements in his petition. The delay in passing the resolve can be readily explained by the necessary absence of the petitioner in Ireland, where he was bridge building. The committee appointed in 1790 reported favorably, and that he should have one thousand acres in township No. 7, bordering on Gouldsborough, Maine. This land, shortly after the grant, was disposed of by him to one of the Amory family of Boston. William Priest was an English musician who came to Boston to play at the Haymarket Theatre in 1796, and kept a journal, which he published in 1802. He mentions being introduced to Cox, the celebrated bridge builder: Cox told him he constructed his bridges of wood and always endeavoured to give as little resistance to the water as possible the supports being numerous but slender w