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HISTORY OF THE TOWN OF MEDFORD, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, FROM ITS FIRST SETTLEMENT, IN 1630, TO THE PRESENT TIME, 1855. (ed. Charles Brooks), Chapter 3: (search)
3: Civil history. When the Europeans took possession of North America, by the right of discovery, their entry of lands, countries, and continents was deemed by them as legal ownership for their sovereign. The discoveries of John and Sebastian Cabot, Bartholomew Gosnold, and others, were understood to give to James I., of England, the coasts and country of New England. The king accordingly claimed, in the eighteenth year of his reign, the entire continent between the Atlantic and Pacif it was supposed that our bricks especially could be carried by teams with less cost and breakage. But the friends of the measure outnumbered its opposers, and, on the 7th of February, 1785, we have these two important records: Voted to oppose Mr. Cabot's petition for building a bridge from Leachmere's Point over Charles River; and to petition the General Court that the petition of Thomas Russell, Esq., and others be granted for building a bridge over Charles River where the ferry now is. J
HISTORY OF THE TOWN OF MEDFORD, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, FROM ITS FIRST SETTLEMENT, IN 1630, TO THE PRESENT TIME, 1855. (ed. Charles Brooks), chapter 18 (search)
Feb. 2, 1807; d. Sept. 2, 1833.  70Abigail B., b. Apr. 25, 1808.  71Horatio, b. Sept. 20, 1809; d. 1843.  72Octavius, b. Oct. 27, 1813; d. 1822. 30-46Isaac Brooks m. Mary Austin, and had--  46-73Margaret, m. Wm. Brigham, June 11, 1840.  74Isaac Austin, b. Apr. 13, 1824. 30-47William S. Brooks m. Eleanor Forman, and had--  47-75Ellen Malvina.   William.  76Horace, m. Mary Emerson, and has three children.  77George.  78Mary E., m. Frank Goodhue.  79Francis.  80Lucy Tarbell, m.----Cabot. 38-56Charles Brooks, author of this history, m. Cecilia Williams, June 27, 1827, who d. Mar. 13, 1837, aged 35. He m., 2d, Charlotte Ann Haven Lord, Aug. 1, 1839. Has by first wife--  56-81Elizabeth Albree.   Charles John, d. June 8, 1833, aged 1 year.  82Charles Wolcott, b. Oct. 1, 1833. 46-74Isaac Austin Brooks m. Sarah W. Hill, April 25, 1846, and had--  74-83Frederic Cornwell, b. Feb. 16, 1847.  84Alfred Austin, b. Sept. 1, 1848.  85Mary Isabel b. Apr. 21, 1852.