HISTORY OF THE TOWN OF MEDFORD, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, FROM ITS FIRST SETTLEMENT, IN 1630, TO THE PRESENT TIME, 1855., Chapter 1: , page VII

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Chapter I:
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name and location.--boundaries.--ponds.--Mystic River.--Brooks.--Hills.--climate.--soil and productions.--natural history	1
II.
Medford records.--first settlement.--monuments of early times.--roads.--bridges.--Indians.--Mathew CRADOCK	27
III.
civil history.--expenses.--Medford A town.--causes of prosperity.--Chairmen of the board of Selectmen.--treasurers.--town-Clerks.--Governor Brooks	93
IV.
political history.--votes for Representatives in Congress.--Councillors and Senators.--Representatives.--Justices of the Peace.--Col. Isaac ROYAL	143
V.
military history.--Medford Light Infantry.--Brooks Phalanx.--Lawrence Light guard.--Capt. Thomas Pritchard.--Col. Ebenezer Francis.--Adj. Francis Tufts.--Lieut. John Brooks.--Col. Alexander S. Brooks	181
VI.
ecclesiastical history.--Rev. Aaron Porter.--Rev. Ebenezer Turell.--Rev. David Osgood, D. D.	200
VII.
ecclesiastical history continued.--first parish.--second Congregational Society.--Universalist Society.--Baptist Society.--Methodist Society.--Mystic church.--Grace church	249
VIII.
Education.--Academies.--Institute.--libraries.--lyceum Lectures.--Tufts College.--graduates.--physicians.--lawyers.--public characters.--AUTHORS	278
IX.
public buildings.--meeting-houses.--School-houses.--town Hall.--Alms-houses — engine-houses	325
X.
trade.--manufactures.--brick-making.--ship-building.--Register of vessels.--fisheries.--Medford crackers.--Distillation.--lightering.--Mills.--Middlesex Canal.--prices in Medford	349
XI.
currency.--taxes.--map.--post office.--taverns.--burying-GROUNDS	401
XII.
crimes and Punishments.--slavery.--Pauperism.--tornado.--storms and Freshets.--fires.--pounds.--DISEASES	431
XIII.
population.--manners and customs.--daily and domestic HABITS	451
XIV.
fire-department.--SOCIETIES	471
XV.
Historical items.--LETTER	478

Register of FAMILIES	499

1 (for Alphabetical index of names, see End of the volume.)

John Wilson and son. 22 School Street. Boston. 1855.

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HISTORY OF THE TOWN OF MEDFORD, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, FROM ITS FIRST SETTLEMENT, IN 1630, TO THE PRESENT TIME, 1855.
Charles Brooks, Ed.

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HISTORY OF THE TOWN OF MEDFORD, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, FROM ITS FIRST SETTLEMENT, IN 1630, TO THE PRESENT TIME, 1855.
Charles Brooks, Ed.

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