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Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 25., From Medford oversea (search)
lies with mine, and in the meantime I will look round for more relics. It is all so very interesting. Yours sincerely, E. M. Parker Jervis. Dear Mr. Hughes— I send you today a Copy of an inscription on a Cradock tomb at Caverswall. Also a Copy of the Sampler worked by Mary Cradock. Also the Pedigree as I make it out to be. All these things will I think interest your correspondent in America. But all these things do not explain to me why they called their town Metford in or about 1630, when their connection with this place and family did not date till 1735, a hundred years later. I cannot yet trace any connection at so early a date. Yours sincerely, E. M. Parker Jervis. P. S. I notice that this George Cradock married a Saunders, and our picture here a hundred years later is also painted by a Saunders, which is curious. Feb. 9th. Dear Mr. Hughes. I believe I may have solved the difficulty about Medford. I had an idea that we must look for the former owners
Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 25., Why Medford? (search)
ived some facts from Mr. Somerby, which together with some in my possession, seem to settle the question. Mathew Cradock, first Governor of the Massachusetts Bay in New England, owned several separate parcels of land in Staffordshire, England. On one of these he used to reside for a few weeks in summer. He called it his Manor of Metford. This name seems to have given place to that of Mayford, now used to designate that locality. Of the four ships, which came with Governor Winthrop in 1630, two, the Ambrose and Jewel, were owned by Governor Cradock. His farmers, shipwrights and fishermen came in them, and some of these men doubtless from his Manor of Metford. When a name was needed for their new home on the banks of the Mystic, how natural it was to propose that of Metford; thus giving them something of home familiarity in the wilderness, besides being a graceful tribute to the Governor, their employer and friend. That the name thus proposed was adopted, is proved from the
Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 25., The Medford Indian monument (search)
irty-nine inches square and eighteen inches high; the shaft, of dark Medford granite twenty inches square and fifty-eight inches high, set diagonally upon the base, and surmounted with a rough and irregular-shaped block of conglomerate. In the west face of the base is a dressed panel with the words, Site of Indian Burial Place. A similar panel in the east has the dedication, To Sagamore John and those Mystic Indians whose bones lie here. On the north and south (respectively) are the dates 1630 and 1884. Thus did Mr. Francis Brooks, as possessor of the soil wherein was this Indian necropolis, reverently and honorably reinter the remains of those of a vanished race who possessed the land three centuries before. It was a commendable act, noticed at various times in public print, and views of this monument are extant, among them our illustration. The location was on the northern side of the canal's course, and the mansion house alluded to is seen in the background. After the de