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Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 28., What Mean Ye by these stones? (search)
thus:— These stones of various kinds were a memorial to some of the aboriginal dwellers at this particular spot, erected at the instance of Mr. Francis Brooks, then owner and resident, in 1884. The property had been in the Brooks family since 1656, and in the sale to the real estate trust no provision was made for their preservation as memorials. It is well that owing to the efforts of one of our aldermen the city has taken it over and placed it in care of the park department for the future. Here was the Indian burial place, here was the home of the aboriginal king Nanepashemit, in which being dead he lay buried, which was visited by Miles Standish and eight of the Pilgrims from Plymouth on September 21, 1621, a place they liked so well that they wished they were here settled. Though not erected for that purpose, we can reply to the query, What mean these stones? They mark the first recorded visit of white men to this place, which a few years later came to be called Medfor
Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 28.,
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its foot along the river's edge. A former Medford man in writing of his native town said, referring to the eastern and western parts, Medford was a spectacle town, a bulky red nose stuck up between the glasses. The surface of that nose was dark red gravel but the bones behind it are the darker Medford granite which shows now so plainly up Governors avenue. The earliest white men to come here were Captain Myles Standish and eight others from the Pilgrim settlement at Plymouth on September 21, 1621, and it was said they liked here so well that they wished they had been settled here. In 1629 came an exploring party overland from Salem, then but just settled, and found established here a company of men who were in the employ of one Matthew Cradock, a wealthy London merchant. They had erected some log houses for shelter, and were building a small vessel for their fishing. Their work was a business adventure of Cradock's, of which he had several, beside the corporate affairs of