...re beginning to feel the stress of poverty, and many were clamoring for payment of money loaned to the town. The Selectmen were instructed to procure the men at as low bounty as may be. Moses and William Bucknam enlisted on the day of the meeting; five or six had enlisted in the artillery during the preceding month. In July, 1777, Medford had forty-four men in the army for three years or the war. The s...