[p. 30] themselves directly opposite him on the north side of the river. . . [P. 39.]
The location above described was the land granted to
the Rev. Mr. Wilson, April 1, 1634, and there is not the slightest evidence that
Mr. Cradock's men built the house referred to, or that there was any house on the land until after the date of
Mr. Wilson's grant.
Mr. Cradock's men were then located in what is now Medford square, where the travelers from
Salem found them in the summer of 1629.
May 25, 1661.—Richard Russell who had occupied the ‘Mansion 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
Medford.
March 13, 1675.
Caleb Hobart sells to Ed. Collins. . . [P. 42.]
This was a mortgage.
Mr. Nicholas Davison. . . who lived near Mr. Wade. . . [P. 42.]
Mr. Davison left
Medford years before
Mr. Wade came here.
