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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 98 0 Browse Search
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 6, 10th edition. 24 0 Browse Search
HISTORY OF THE TOWN OF MEDFORD, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, FROM ITS FIRST SETTLEMENT, IN 1630, TO THE PRESENT TIME, 1855. (ed. Charles Brooks) 20 0 Browse Search
Charles A. Nelson , A. M., Waltham, past, present and its industries, with an historical sketch of Watertown from its settlement in 1630 to the incorporation of Waltham, January 15, 1739. 16 0 Browse Search
The writings of John Greenleaf Whittier, Volume 1. (ed. John Greenleaf Whittier) 10 0 Browse Search
Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 1, Colonial and Revolutionary Literature: Early National Literature: Part I (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.) 8 0 Browse Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, A book of American explorers 8 0 Browse Search
Jefferson Davis, The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government 8 0 Browse Search
The Cambridge of eighteen hundred and ninety-six: a picture of the city and its industries fifty years after its incorporation (ed. Arthur Gilman) 8 0 Browse Search
William Schouler, A history of Massachusetts in the Civil War: Volume 2 8 0 Browse Search
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Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 25., Why Medford? (search)
ety, Meeting of July, 1858.] Extract from diary of Rev. Charles Brooks, Medford July 15th, 1858. Today I met with the Mass. Hist. Soc'y and gave an account of the origin of the name of Medford. Perhaps it will not be misplaced, if recorded here. For substance I stated as follows:— After three years search in England I have received some facts from Mr. Somerby, which together with some in my possession, seem to settle the question. Mathew Cradock, first Governor of the Massachusetts Bay in New England, owned several separate parcels of land in Staffordshire, England. On one of these he used to reside for a few weeks in summer. He called it his Manor of Metford. This name seems to have given place to that of Mayford, now used to designate that locality. Of the four ships, which came with Governor Winthrop in 1630, two, the Ambrose and Jewel, were owned by Governor Cradock. His farmers, shipwrights and fishermen came in them, and some of these men doubtless from