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HISTORY OF THE TOWN OF MEDFORD, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, FROM ITS FIRST SETTLEMENT, IN 1630, TO THE PRESENT TIME, 1855. (ed. Charles Brooks), Chapter 1: (search)
ch had a deep substratum of this water-proof material. It may be interesting to see the progress of vegetation in this locality. It is as follows:-- 1646, Aug. 1.The great pears ripe. Aug. 3.The long apples ripe. Aug. 12.Blackstone's apples gathered. Aug. 15.Tankerd apples gathered. Aug. 18.Kreton pippins and long red apples gathered. 1647, July 5.We began to cut the peas in the field. July 14.We began to shear rye. Aug. 2.We mowed barley. Aug.Same week we shear summer wheat. Aug. 7.The great pears gathered. Sept. 15.The russetins gathered, and pearmaines. 1648, May 26.Sown one peck of peas, the moon in the full. Observe how they prove. July 28.Summer apples gathered. 1649, July 20.Apricoks ripe. Oct. 2, 1689.--A tax was to be paid; and the valuations were as follow: Each ox, £ 2. 10s.; each cow, £ 1. 10s.; each horse, £ 2; each swine, 6s.; each acre of tillage land, 5s.; each acre of meadow and English pasture, 5s. The tax on land bounded out in propriety wa
HISTORY OF THE TOWN OF MEDFORD, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, FROM ITS FIRST SETTLEMENT, IN 1630, TO THE PRESENT TIME, 1855. (ed. Charles Brooks), Chapter 15: Historical items. (search)
ny. 1840.--The pillars which sustained the gallery of the third meeting-house (1770) are now in use in West Medford, on the outside of the house of the late Jonathan Brooks. Mr. Turell's Portrait.--In Church Records, vol. III. p. 104, are the following: 1842, July.--The church received, from the hand of Dudley Hall, a bequest of the late Turell Tufts, Esq.,--two pieces of plate for the communion-table; and a portrait of the Rev. Mr. Turell, one of the former pastors of this church. Aug. 7.--At a meeting of the church this day, a letter was read by Dudley Hall, from Samuel Turell Armstrong, requesting the church to transfer to him, during his lifetime, the above-mentioned portrait of Mr. Turell. The church voted unanimously that this request be complied with; and that Dudley Hall, the treasurer, be authorized to deliver the portrait to Mr. Armstrong. It is now in the possession of Mrs. S. T. Armstrong, widow, in Boston. 1854.--In the New England Historical and Genealogi