...of the estates of absentees named in the two foregoing Acts. The commissioners for the County of Middlesex were James Prescott, Joseph Hosmer and Samuel Thacher, and by them were sold the estate of Joseph Thompson of Medford and certain estate in Medford, the property of one Charles Ward Apthorp of Boston (?). The absentees of Medford were few in number; in fact, two only, Isaac Royall and Joseph Thompson,...