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Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 25., At Medford's old civic Center. (search)
ning Medford, our readers are referred to Francis Hill Bigelow's Historic Silver of the Colonies and Its Makers, pp. 302, 303, 363. After this digression, which we trust is pardonable, believing it to be correlative and not irrelevant to this sketch, we are back in Medford in the old Watson house again and find John Usher of our town preceding Barrell, Jr., as a tenant. The old meeting-house had seen under its shadow, living in this house, a Revolutionary soldier who was a friend of Washington, and as a counter-balance, also was a Loyalist, who as one, was an enemy of Washington, living here at an earlier date, and now, about 1800, was to be neighbor to another of the latter class. （Regis-Ter, Vol. XV, p. 97). Our incomparable chronicler Caleb Swan. noted that Mr. Green took the whole house and for a while let the west part to the Wyley family from Georgia. Mrs. Green removed to Boston at the death of her husband, 1809, and the Misses Abby and Mary Hall, sisters of Nathanie
Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 25., Medford Church anniversaries. (search)
on, which like all wars, had its debasing effects, however much patriotism may be commended. The state religion of New England was of the Congregational order of Pilgrim and Puritan. In the reconstruction that followed the Revolution came the rallying of other religious forces and effort in the organization of the Methodist Episcopal Church in 1789 and the Protestant Episcopal in 1794. Both were essentially American and early pledged their allegiance and support to the administration of Washington. Neither were any too gladly welcomed in Massachusetts by the standing order, where the state religion was intrenched behind a tax levy on one's estate and faculty. Such tax levied, it was a case of pay or go to jail. Thus we may see that it took some courage for any dissenters from the established order to worship in any other form a century ago. But during the first forty years of the republic, certain changes in the tenets of the established order had gradually developed, and in