Browsing named entities in Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 25.. You can also browse the collection for 1628 AD or search for 1628 AD in all documents.

Your search returned 1 result in 1 document section:

Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 25., From Medford oversea (search)
affordshire. Feb. 26, 1922. Dear Mr. Mann, On Christmas Day, 1920, you wrote to the chairman of the Urban District Council of Stone (there is no mayor as the town has never received a charter) asking for information about the hamlet of Meaford near Stone which you thought was the origin of your town name of Medford. Mr. Davis, the chairman, handed on your letter to me. I have made extensive inquiries about the Matthew Craddock who (your brochure says) founded the Colony of Medford in 1628. There were two Matthew Craddocks living at the same time, Members of Parliament. They were first cousins; one was Member of Parliament for Stafford, the other for London. It was the London M. P. who undoubtedly founded the colony in Massachusetts. There is so far no difficulty. But the real difficulty is that no possible connection can be traced between the Craddocks and the seat of Meaford at the time the colony was founded, nor indeed until a hundred years later. I have not seen the