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June 7th, 1670 AD (search for this): chapter 1
ur he was quite departed. We found the back side of his head greatly bruised, his nose grizzle, as we think, was broken, so that the said Convars, his head lying as before expressed, we judge his death to be by the water wheel of the Come Mill. In the case of Collins vs. Converse, it seems that Collins charged Converse with detayning a mare and her colt at the Converse farm, which belonged to Collins, and which Converse took from Collins' yard. Josiah Converse's property was attached June 7, 1670 (the next year after his brother's death), as security for Josiah's appearance at the county court, June 24, 1670. The witnesses for Collins were all Medford citizens—John G. Wiggin, Daniel Markham, Joseph Blanchard, and two negro servants or slaves belonging to Collins named Francis and Fortune. Wiggin testified that he perfectly knows her to be the same mare he once bought of Mr. Collins notwithstanding shee is disguised by the clipping of her mane, eares & tayle, yet perfectly knows
June 24th, 1670 AD (search for this): chapter 1
broken, so that the said Convars, his head lying as before expressed, we judge his death to be by the water wheel of the Come Mill. In the case of Collins vs. Converse, it seems that Collins charged Converse with detayning a mare and her colt at the Converse farm, which belonged to Collins, and which Converse took from Collins' yard. Josiah Converse's property was attached June 7, 1670 (the next year after his brother's death), as security for Josiah's appearance at the county court, June 24, 1670. The witnesses for Collins were all Medford citizens—John G. Wiggin, Daniel Markham, Joseph Blanchard, and two negro servants or slaves belonging to Collins named Francis and Fortune. Wiggin testified that he perfectly knows her to be the same mare he once bought of Mr. Collins notwithstanding shee is disguised by the clipping of her mane, eares & tayle, yet perfectly knows her to be the mare aforsaid, which himselfe first bought of Mr. Edward Collins and since sold to Daniel Markham.
December 10th, 1670 AD (search for this): chapter 1
unrewly as colt never broken & shee would rune backwards, fowards, to ye right hand or to ye left and shee is but 4 1/2 years old or under, not like other mares. James Converse and Isaac Brooks testified that shee hath not the least part of a brand on her neare shoulder. Notwithstanding that the mare was not like other mares, the jury decided the mare and colt belonged to Collins, and both were given up to him. But Converse would not admit a permanent defeat, and six months later, December 10, 1670, he brought action against Collins for review of the case. The witnesses in the review were mostly for Converse. They testified that after the court the mare was carryd to Mr. Collins but she came back again, and being fetched away she returned again after harvist. When lett gow at liberti shee might agon away, but would not at any time. Jacob Cole, Samuel Frost, John Carter, Johnathan Wade, Thomas Gleason, Jermiah Sweyn, Samuel Champney and others all testified that the mare and c
June 16th, 1675 AD (search for this): chapter 1
just above the crossing of Arlington and Jerome streets, West Medford, but nothing in the record states the location of the dam. This mill privilege passed away long ago, and no one living remembers anything about it, but if it had been maintained to later times it would have been a valuable water power, as the dam must have flowed a very large reservoir, even if it had not flowed over the Symmes' meadows. The record in this case is as follows: At a County Court held at Charlestown, June 16th, 1675, Mr. Zachariah Symmes, plaintiff appears against Mr. Thomas Broughton and Mr. Edward Collins, defendents, in an action of the case of a nuisance done to his meadow lying at or near to Mystic Ponds, by stopping the flow of the water course by a mill Dammn, whereby his farm is rendered incapable to maintain his cattle in winter and part of the summer. Under attachment, both parties legally and personally appeared in court, the attachment was read and the evidences are all on file with th
Watertown (Massachusetts, United States) (search for this): chapter 1
court. The jury brought in their verdict, finding for the plaintiff with damages, Forty and One Shillings and costs of court, Three pounds, Thirteen Shillings and Eight pence. County Court Records, Vol. 1st, Page 296. The evidences (testimony of the witnesses) in this case are not to be found, but it is plain that Symmes won the suit, and that the costs of court were much larger than the amount of damage, as is liable to be the case today. The record shows that Johnathan Whitney of Watertown, one of the writer's ancestors, was one of the jurors in this case, which has a tendency to make him believe that the verdict was a just one! Another contention which was settled in court in Charlestown, October 6, 1663, was of a little different character from either of the other two already cited. It indicates how closely bound together were the church and the people, and how the former insisted, as much as possible, in doing all the thinking for the people, especially in church and
Mystick River (Massachusetts, United States) (search for this): chapter 1
last established the Symmes farm was included within Medford bounds, but later this part of Medford was set off to Winchester. Previous to 1860 the upper part of present Mystic lake was a meadow, large in extent, and not flowed over as at the present time by the Mystic Water Works dam. It was known as the Symmes' meadow, and the grass was cut for cattle. Previous to the contention now under consideration, it seems that Thomas Broughton and Edward Collins had erected a mill-dam on the Mystic river which was erected so high as to flow the upper part of the river, Mystic lake, and the Symmes' meadow, to the great damage of Symmes, according to the record. The location of the Broughton dam is said to have been just above the crossing of Arlington and Jerome streets, West Medford, but nothing in the record states the location of the dam. This mill privilege passed away long ago, and no one living remembers anything about it, but if it had been maintained to later times it would have b
1905 AD (search for this): chapter 2
llins of the Cradock heirs, and was the first to be erected in the river of Mysticke. How it was constructed we may never know, but those who observed the recent building of the Cradock dam can well realize the extent of this undertaking so long ago. Probably clay from the present site of Arlington street was used, as in the recent dredging of the river, clay at that point, and no other, defied the effort of the steam dredge, but yielded at last to increased power and dynamite. In June of 1905 the writer, in company with the Messrs. Hooper, went over the ground and searched for some trace of the ancient structure, and none too soon. Mr. H. secured photographs of the old mill site and raceway, which by his courtesy we present. Three days later the whole was obliterated by the grading work of the contractors. Retiring from the college, Mr. Dunster had entered somewhat into business life, but had given mortal offence to the ever watchful authorities. So on April 3 he was called
July (search for this): chapter 2
uly 30, and resultant on action of the overseers, he made a final resignation on October 24. On November 4 he asked his just due, an accounting for his services, which the General Court did not see fit to grant, evidently fearing he would take up the profession of law. Six days later he petitioned for liberty to remain in the president's house, which was allowed until the end of the year. In March (the first month of 1655) the court took action against him for his speech of the previous July, and on April 3 arraigned him for the crime (?), sentencing him to be publicly admonished therefor. The query naturally arises, To what place did he remove on March 1st, 1655? Possibly an answer may be found in the following, recorded on page 184 of second book of Middlesex Records:— To all people to whome these prsents shall come, Henry Dunster of Manottimy, within the precincts of Cambridge . . . Clarke, Sendethe Greeting . . . for Divors good reasons & considerations him hereunto m
1865 AD (search for this): chapter 2
was great and the privilege valuable. It was across the Aberjona, just below the Symmes' meadows, that the massive stone aqueduct of the Middlesex canal was built in 1828. There, on February 15, 1855, an ice-jam was formed by a sudden thaw, and these same meadows were soon several feet under water, the railroad bridge at Wedgemere wrecked, and Main street, in Winchester, at the railroad crossing, fourteen inches submerged, and boats rowed thereon. In 1861 the aqueduct was removed, and in 1865 the Symmes' meadows disappeared altogether at the building of the Mystic dam. But during the years the Mystic and Menotomy rivers have been bringing down the detritus, as their wooded slopes have been denuded, while the inflowing tides have in a measure barred the outflow. The smaller stream, doubtless much larger in President Dunster's day, shrunk to narrow width, was doubled on its course at intervals, and robbed of the natural outflow of Fresh pond, became sluggish and unsanitary in th
December (search for this): chapter 2
the following year (1640) its first president, the Rev. Henry Dunster assumed its charge, coming hither from Boston, where he had for a short time lived. A few years later he became the owner of about one-half of the linefeilde, which was conveyed to him by deed of twenty inhabitants of Charlestown. In their deed they style it Wenatomie, alias Menatomie field, and its eastern boundary Menatomie brooke. Seventeen of them made acknowledgment in 1646, and three on 2nd of 10th month (i.e., December), 1654, and all before Increase Nowell, one of the few men then styled Mister. Jno. Fownell, the Charlestown miller, sould thirteen acres, wch I recovued by law from the estate of George Cooke Coronell, for the educacion of his daughter. Robert Long, the tavern-keeper of Charlestown, was the first grantor named. His portion was sixteen acres and a house; none others mentioned houses, only land. According to the plan named this comprised two lots of four acres each and one of eight.
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