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Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 20., Historical Society Reaches Majority in its New home. (search)
the earlier days and the memory of those passed on. As announced, the principal speaker of the evening was the Hon. William Cushing Wait, the first President of the Society, his subject being, What We Have Done for Medford in Twenty-one Years. Judge Wait told of the various lines of work and how the efforts of members had resulted in the clearing of some formerly accepted myths, by careful search and authentic record; of the writing of new and more accurate history and publication of the spearance of the Register, for he had tried to do good work on it. Everybody knows he has succeeded. At this juncture Judge Wait wanted the floor again. This accorded him, he wished to add, That the Society's existence and work had set forces in mently come into possession of the Society according to her wish. A letter from the attorneys of her estate was read by Judge Wait, presenting to the Society a bill of 1794 in the handwriting of Paul Revere of One Silver Cann £ 8.3:2 to one——Whitman.