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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) 2 2 Browse Search
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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 3: (search)
tion of Governor and Assistants. At a session of the General Court, May 18, 1631, it was thus voted:-- To the end the body of Commons may be preserved of honest and good men, it is likewise ordered and agreed, that for the time to come no man shall be admitted to the freedom of this body politic but such as are members of some of the churches within the limits of the same. A freeman must be orthodox, a member of the church, twenty years old, and worth £ 200. At a later period, March 4, 1645, the General Court ordered that the freeman's oath shall be given to every man of or above the age of sixteen years; the clause for the election of magistrates excepted. All the male inhabitants of Medford complied with this law. To know what oath our fathers took, we subjoin the form, as ordained by the General Court, May 14, 1634:-- Freeman's oath. I,----, being by God's providence an inhabitant and freeman within the jurisdiction of this Commonweal, do freely acknowledge
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)
ut; and thereupon his dog, being at his house near by, came forth, and, seeing something in the water, swam to her; and she caught hold of the dog's tail: so he drew her to the shore, and saved her life. If, at this time, it was flood-tide in Medford, there can be no doubt that marital chivalry was at a very low ebb. We related this hair-breadth escape to a lady of Medford, who instantly exclaimed, I would have thrown my inhuman husband into the river, and then married the human dog! March 4, 1645.--Whereas complaint hath been made to this court, that divers persons within this jurisdiction do usually absent themselves from church meetings upon the Lord's day, power is therefore given to any two assistants to hear and censure, either by fine or imprisonment (at their discretion), all misdemeanors of that kind committed by any inhabitant within this jurisdiction, provided they exceed not the fine of five shillings for one offence. 1645.--Something may be guessed concerning the s