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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[310] and has already been elected a member of the Senate of Massachusetts. May it be long before his name can come under the care of the historian.

A similar wish we may express for Thomas S. Harlow, Esq., who is a permanent and valuable resident in Medford, but attends to his professional business in Boston.

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Public characters.

Medford has furnished its share of public characters, who have done it honor; and they include a governor, lieutenant-governor, councillors, senators, representatives, clergymen, physicians, lawyers, authors, two professors in colleges, a mayor of Boston, and military commanders in the army and navy of the United States. We may be allowed to signalize our ladies, who have been called to public stations. Two have represented the country, as wives of ministers, at the Court of St. James; and another has written and published more perhaps than any other female in the United States.

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Authors.

The following list of printed works contains all that have come to our knowledge. Names in the order of graduation:--

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Rev. Ebenezer Turell.

Essay on Witchcraft	1728
Biographical Notice of Mrs. Jane Colman Turell	1735
A Direction to my People in Relation to the Present Times	1742
Mr. Turell's Dialogue between a Minister and his Neighbor about the Times	1742
Biographical Notice of Rev. Benjamin Colman	1749

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Mrs. Jane Colman Turell.

Her literary productions are noticed elsewhere.

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Rev. David Osgood.

Sermons.

On the Annual and National Thanksgiving	1783
At the Installation of Rev. Peter Thatcher, in Brattle-street Church, Boston	1785
Before the Ancient and Honorable Artillery, in Boston	1788
At Ordination of Rev. N. Thayer, in Lancaster	1793
On the Annual Thanksgiving	1794
On the Day of the National Thanksgiving	1795
On the Death of a Child, killed by a Gun	1797
Before the Annual Convention of the Congregational Ministers of Massachusetts	1798
At the Ordination of Rev. Leonard Woods, at Newbury	1798
The Devil let Loose; or, the Woe occasioned by his wrathful Appearance,--a Sermon on Fast Day	1799
On the Death of General Washington	1799
Dudlean Lecture; Validity of Presbyterian Ordination,--delivered in the Chapel of Harvard College	1802
At the Funeral of Rev. Joseph Roby, at Lynn	1803
The Validity of Baptism by Sprinkling, and the Right of Infants to that Ordinance	1804
On Family Religion	1808
At the Annual Election	1809
At the University in Cambridge	1810
A Solemn Protest against the late Declaration of War	1812
At the Ordination of the Rev. Convers Francis, in Watertown	1819
Volume of Sermons, pp. 469	1824

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