MEDFORD has paid her toll to
Neptune as often as he has relentlessly demanded, and it has meant the sacrifice of the young and the old, the townsman and the stranger, the great and the humble.
It happens whenever and wherever the spirit of human curiosity, ambition, or adventure sets itself against the strength of the god of the waters.
In the following list, compiled by
Francis A. Wait, the deaths were in the
Mystic river, unless otherwise noted:—
| NAME | TIME | AGE |
| Asyeil, David | Sept. 13, 1846 | 18 |
| Beard, Lewis Found | Apr. 9, 1849 | 38 |
| Blanchard, Samuel | Mar. 27, 1819 | 8 |
| Boffee—s, Thomas | June 4, 1785 | 14 |
| Bradbury, Henry Wymond | Nov. 8, 1810 | 6 |
| Brill, William S. G. | Mar. 3, 1806 | 10 |
| Brooks, Samuel (‘suposs'd to have been lost at Sea’） | 1800 |
| Butterfield, Isaac W. | Apr. 4, 1842 |
| Butters, William H. (‘by a fall from Mast head on board the ship James L. Shepard’）1 | Dec. 3, [1844] |
| Caldwell, Robert | May 16, 80 | 4 |
| Fish, Josiah (canal) | July 19, 1887 | 36 |
| Floyd, Edward H. | June 27, 1827 | 13 |
| Goodwin, Winthrop T. | Mar. 27, 1849 | 6-11-17 |
| Hall, John | Apr. 9, 1813 |
| Hall, John | Nov. 8, 1818 | 55 |
| Hall, Richard (shipwrecked) | Oct. 19, 1798 |
| Hall, Timothy | June 29, 1837 |
| Hardy, John | Feb. 9, 1846 | 39 |
| Hatch, Reuben | Apr. 9, 1770 |
| Hathaway, Edward K. | July 7, 1844 | 5-10 |
Son of A. K. Hathaway, the school teacher, who lived on Ashland street.—F. A. W.
