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Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 8., Full of years. (search)
Full of years. by Helen T. Wild, May 26, 1905. AN anniversary like the one we are celebrating this year causes us who are bearing the burden and heat of the day to stop a moment and think of those who are retiring into the shadow, but who are looking on, interested witnesses of our doings. We must remember that during the last twenty years great changes in population have taken place, and these elder ones are unknown to many, although they have the affectionate regard of those who, as little children, knew them in their full vigor. It has interested some of us who have been looking up residents of Medford in years past to search for elderly people, natives of this city. As we have examined the records, tender thoughts have filled our minds as we read the names of those whose faces were familiar to us, and found it hard to realize that they have passed on. Mr. and Mrs. Dudley C. Hall, Mrs. Thomas S. Harlow and her sister, Mrs. Fitch, Miss Helen Porter, Miss Almira Stetson
Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 8., Captain Isaac Hall. (search)
an-of-war Somerset; had mounted Deacon Larkin's horse and started on his ride, intending to pass over Charlestown Neck and over through Cambridge. 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, Frothi