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Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 13., Stage-coach days in Medford. (search)
st to the daily life of the town. The earliest stage line from the North to Boston was from Portsmouth. This was established in April, 1761, and the following notice announced the enterprise to the public. For the encouragement of trade from Portsmouth to Boston a large stage Chair, With two good horses well equipped, will be ready by Monday the 20th. inst. to start out from Mr. Starses, or returning them before they had finished their business. What an event that was in Portsmouth when the Flying Stage-Coach set out on its trip of over fifty miles! what an event, too, when re, and how, perhaps even more so, they looked for its return! The humor of the name struck Portsmouth's witty son, that delightful Bad Boy, for he says the Flying Stage-Coach crept back from Bosto portrait a poet has given us: One hundred years ago, and something more, In Queen Street, Portsmouth, at the tavern door, Neat as a pin, and blooming as a rose, Stood Mistress Stavers in her furb