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Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 8., The loyalists of Medford. (search)
ion, exposed to hunger, cold and the loathsome disease small pox. The versatile Burgoyne, leaving for a while his complaints against his brother chiefs, sought to enliven that dreary winter by organizing plays which were performed in Faneuil Hall, the cradle of liberty. One farce The Blockade of Boston, in which Washington was caricatured, was said to be his own production. Washington remarked that it might turn out a tragedy. His words were justified when the British awoke one morning in March to find Dorchester Heights occupied by the enemy and their own position no longer tenable. On the seventeenth of March, 1776, the obnoxious British soldiers left Boston to the triumphant Americans, and with them went more than a thousand loyalists, including men, women, and children. Sabine says, Of members of the Council, commissioners, officers of the customs and other officials, there were one hundred and two; of clergymen, eighteen; of merchants and other persons who resided in Boston
Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 8., The Whitmores of Medford and some of their descendants. (search)
e house which I have spoken of. He had two mortgages on this farm. When he bought the land of Caleb Hubbard there was one on it, held by Edward Collins, and he agreed to pay the latter £ 3 a year and allow him to take such quantities of fire wood and to have such other privileges on said farm as to him belongs under the covenant in a mortgage made and dated March 30, 1675. The aforesaid annual rent to be paid half on or before the last of November, and the other half before the end of March, and that then, the grant and Sale above expressed shall to all intents be utterly void and of no effect, or, otherwise, shall remain in full power for ever and ever. County Records, Vol. 7, Page 30. The other mortgage was to his wife's mother, Mrs. Mary Eliot, who was a widow and evidently resided with them here in Medford. It is dated October 19, 1678. I, John Whitmore, do owe and am indebted to Mary Eliott for £ 100, and for further security do mortgage and bind over my land a
Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 8., The West End schoolhouse. (search)
Whitcher Mann. THE month of April, 1829, was the time when the first West Medford schoolhouse was built—the humble predecessor of the Brooks schoolhouses—of which name there have been three. Frederic Kendall was its builder. In constructing it, he deserved commendation for the despatch with which he performed his work, as did also the committee who had the work in charge and employed him. They were John Angier, Jonathan Brooks, and Noah Johnson, and were authorized by the town in the March meeting of that year. The selectmen were equally prompt in paying Mr. Kendall for his work, as on May 10 they ordered the treasurer so to do. Three hundred and eighty-five dollars paid the bill, and twenty dollars more was received by Mr. Brooks for the land. This was on the southwesterly side of Woburn street, in the corner of the Jonathan Brooks estate, adjoining John Bishop's land, where F. A. Oxnard now resides, and was nearly opposite the Sarah Fuller Home. It was then deemed a centr
Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 8., The two hundred seventy-fifth anniversary. (search)
Isaac Hall of the Medford minute men lived, a bronze tablet upon a boulder of Medford granite. The tablet was unveiled by Vernon Howland Hall, 2d, the youngest male representative of the family of Hall in the city, and bears the following inscription: on this site lived Captain Isaac Hall who commanded the Medford Minute men at Lexington and Bunker Hill Paul Revere stopped here on his Memorable ride to Concord April 18-19, 1775 to Warn Captain Hall that the British soldiers were on the March. placed by the Massachusetts Society Sons of the Revolution June 14, 1905 June 15, the Opera House was the scene of a most inspiring service. An oration was delivered by Rev. Nehemiah Boynton of Brooklyn, N. Y., and Hon. William Everett, a descendant of the Brooks family of Medford, recited an original poem. The Tufts College Choir furnished the vocal music. Mr. David H. Brown, President of the Medford Historical Society, and Hon. M. F. Dwyer, Mayor, spoke appropriate words of welcome,