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1683 AD (search for this): chapter 5
feet each way from Park street and Riverside avenue. It was probably built about the time that his brother Jonathan's was. The third house was built by Major Jonathan Wade who died in 1689. . . . When first built it was only half its present size. [P. 48.] By reference to the division of Major Wade's estate in Volume 4, page 48, of the Register, it will be seen that one-half of the present house could hardly contain the number of rooms therein spoken of. This house was built between 1683 and 1689. Built by his father, after the model of an English nobleman's house in Antigua. . . [P. 50.] For a description of the Royall house see Register, Vol. 3, p. 133. To have free access to the river, the great highway, they opened private roads for the use of owners of lands, and what were called rangeways for the free use of the public. . . . .[P. 51.] All the roads to the river were laid out by private parties for their own use, and for such other persons as might be gr
May 13th, 1698 AD (search for this): chapter 5
of the owner of the land through which the way passed, upon the general ground that the public right (if it ever existed) had been lost by longcontinued disuse. There were no rangeways in Medford while it retained its original area. Cross and Fulton streets, as far as the Rock gate (and from thence two ways to the wood-lots), were laid out by the town of Charlestown, by an agreement with Mr. Nathaniel Wade, the owner of the land through which these ways passed. This agreement was made May 13, 1698. Pasture hill and Ram Head lanes were laid out by the proprietors of the land through which they passed. Whatever rights the public had (if any) therein, were acquired by longcontinued use. [Register, Vol. 2, p. 53.] There were rangeways on the south side of the river laid out by the town of Charlestown while that town owned the land bordering on the river. [Register, Vol. 2, p. 53, and Vol. 15, P. 46.] The first roads laid out in Medford were Main street, then called the Charlestown r
1689 AD (search for this): chapter 5
street and Riverside avenue. It was probably built about the time that his brother Jonathan's was. The third house was built by Major Jonathan Wade who died in 1689. . . . When first built it was only half its present size. [P. 48.] By reference to the division of Major Wade's estate in Volume 4, page 48, of the Register, it will be seen that one-half of the present house could hardly contain the number of rooms therein spoken of. This house was built between 1683 and 1689. Built by his father, after the model of an English nobleman's house in Antigua. . . [P. 50.] For a description of the Royall house see Register, Vol. 3, p. 133. To first board of selectmen, in 1679 the first highway surveyor, in 1680 the first tithing-man and the first sealer of measures, in 1681-2 the first fence viewers, in 1689 the first representative to the General Court, and in 1693 their first orders and by-laws were approved by the court. Reference has been made to the action of t
November 30th, 1630 AD (search for this): chapter 5
P. 33.] Mr. Cradock's business was in charge of agents both before and after Governor Winthrop came to New England. [Register, Vol. 9, No. 1.] The 28th of September, 1630, Medford was taxed £ 3. for the support of military teachers. Nov. 30, 1630, another tax of £ 3. was levied. [P. 33.] These taxes were levied upon Meadford plantation and were paid by Mr. Cradock or his agents, not by the town, as Mr. Brooks would imply, there being no town government at that time. . . . but nitants of Medford in 1634. . . [P. 121.] At the first meeting of the Court of Assistants holden at Charlestown, August 23, A. D. 1630, It was propounded how the ministers should be maintained, Mr. Wilson & Mr. Phillips only propounded. November 30, 1630, It is ordered, that there shall be £ 60. collected out of the several plantations,. . . for the maintainance of Mr. Wilson and Mr. Phillips, viz.: Boston, Watertown, Charlton, Roxbury, Meadford, Winnett-semett. Here we have the names of
October 20th, 1656 AD (search for this): chapter 5
House five years, sold it, with twelve hundred acres of his land, to Jonathan Wade who lived near the bridge on the south side of the river. [P. 41.] The Jonathan Wade who bought land of Mr. Russell was of Ipswich, and father of Jonathan and Nathaniel Wade of Medford. Neither of the Wades owned land on the south side of the river or lived there. This tract is now the most thickly settled part of Medford. [P. 42.] This should read the most sparsely settled part of Medford. Oct. 20, 1656: James Garrett. . . sells for £ 5. to Edward Collins, forty acres of land. . .butting on Mistick Pond on the west. March 13, 1657: Samuel Adams sold to Ed. Collins 40 acres of land. . . bounded on the south by Meadford Farm. . . Paid £ 10. [P. 42.] Neither of these grantors lived in Medford, and the lots were part of the Charlestown wood-lots, and were included in the land sold to Messrs. Brooks and Wheeler in the year 1660. Collins to Michelson. [P. 42.] This lot was not in
April 17th, 1629 AD (search for this): chapter 5
eing in Medford. It would have been impossible for these explorers to stand on Rock hill and ignore the presence of the Mistick river, which would have been spread out before them, both east and west. He may have first stopped opposite Winthrop's farm, at Ten Hills, and there done something in the fishing business. . . . [P. 88.] This extract conveys a wrong impression, inasmuch as Mr. Brooks was well aware that Mr. Cradock never came to New England. And who, in a letter of April 17, 1629, speaks of the settlement of families here in these terms. . . . [P. 89.] Here is an admittance by Mr. Brooks that Medford was settled in 1629. After his death, a part of his farm in Medford was sold to Mr. Ed. Collins. . . . . [P. 93.] Mr. Collins bought the whole farm. For the ordering of Prudentials,. . . [P. 100.] （Oct. 13, 1684.) It was agreed upon at a general meeting of the inhabitants, by a vote, to petition to the General Court, to grant us power and privilege
1693 AD (search for this): chapter 5
and persons chosen to take charge of their prudential affairs. The first recorded meeting of the inhabitants of the Meadford plantation was held the first Monday in February, 1674, and Mr. Nathaniel Wade was chosen constable for the year ensuing. In 1676 they chose their first board of selectmen, in 1679 the first highway surveyor, in 1680 the first tithing-man and the first sealer of measures, in 1681-2 the first fence viewers, in 1689 the first representative to the General Court, and in 1693 their first orders and by-laws were approved by the court. Reference has been made to the action of the inhabitants of the plantation in voting to petition the General Court to grant power and privileges as other towns for the ordering of prudentials. This action of the said inhabitants proves beyond question that they were aware that they were not organized as were the other towns of the colony. They knew the measures that had been taken to advance the interests of the plantation, and t
July 17th, 1688 AD (search for this): chapter 5
building of a bridge over the river in 1638. [P. 59.] This bridge is shown upon a map made in the year 1637, it was finished by order of the General Court in 1639; it was, no doubt, in use in 1638. The bridge was one hundred and fifty-four feet and five inches long and about ten feet wide at that time. The town of Charlestown brought a suit against Mr. Davison for stopping up Mistick river with a bridge, to the hinderance of boats, and for taxing cattle that go over the bridge. July 17, 1688, the board of selectmen of the town of Charlestown and commissioners from the towns of Medford, Maiden, Woburn and Reading met to consider measures for a division of Mistick bridge among the several towns required by law to mend and maintain it. These commissioners agreed that Medford, Malden, Woburn and Reading should pay to the town of Charlestown, five pounds in good pay, viz.: in corn or the like, for the present amending of the southerly half of Mistick bridge, and that in the futur
February, 1674 AD (search for this): chapter 5
calling these meetings, and the business pertaining to their common interests were, no doubt, transacted by committees. No record was kept of their proceedings. This condition of affairs continued until the increased liabilities of the plantation demanded that an organization resembling a town government should be formed, and persons chosen to take charge of their prudential affairs. The first recorded meeting of the inhabitants of the Meadford plantation was held the first Monday in February, 1674, and Mr. Nathaniel Wade was chosen constable for the year ensuing. In 1676 they chose their first board of selectmen, in 1679 the first highway surveyor, in 1680 the first tithing-man and the first sealer of measures, in 1681-2 the first fence viewers, in 1689 the first representative to the General Court, and in 1693 their first orders and by-laws were approved by the court. Reference has been made to the action of the inhabitants of the plantation in voting to petition the General
March 15th, 1636 AD (search for this): chapter 5
he house. Mr. Brooks says, on page 47, that Outside shutters were in common use in England at the time above mentioned; and so it was common to ornament houses with round or oval openings on each side of the front. Now let us consider the arguments for and against the identity of this house as being the work of Governor Cradock's agents. First, we have Mr. Brooks' arguments as given in his history. And the only other is that obtained from a letter written by Mr. Cradock, dated March 15, 1636-7, in which he says, I think I shall be forced to be a suitor for some land at Shawsheen, the best of mine, as I am informed, near my house, being allotted to Mr. Wilson and Mr. Nowell. . . The only knowledge Mr. Cradock could have obtained as to the location of his land must have come from the crude maps of that period, and he, being three thousand miles distant, might well say that land in a sparsely settled country like that on the banks of the Mistick, was near his house, when it wa
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