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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 5: (search)
upon the usual training-days, in the exercise of arms, as small guns, half-pikes, bows and arrows, according to the discretion of said officer. 1647: Persons unable to provide arms and equipments for militia duty, on account of poverty, if he be single, and under thirty years of age, shall be put to service, and earn them. Musqueteers, among their articles of equipment, are to have two fathoms of match. Whoever refuses to do duty, when commanded, shall be fined five shillings. May 2, 1649: The General Court issue the following:-- It is ordered that the Selectmen of every town within this jurisdiction shall, before the 24th of June, which shall be in the year 1650, provide for every fifty soldiers in each town a barrel of good powder, one hundred and fifty pounds of musket bullets, and one-quarter of a hundred of match. May 26, 1658: The General Court say:-- In answer to the request of the inhabitants of Meadford, the Court judgeth it meet to grant their desire; i
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)
law: Ordered that no lover shall seek the hand of his chosen one till he has asked permission of her parents. Penalty for the first offence, £ 5; for the second, £ 10; and for the third, imprisonment. According to this, courting, in those days, must have been a very dangerous business. The Cambridge platform adopted 1648; and the church at Malden gathered the same year. Oct. 18, 1648.--The coopers united in a company, and received from the General Court an act of incorporation. May 2, 1649.--The General Court say, Upon the petition of Mistick-side men, they are granted to be a distinct town, and the name thereof to be called Mauldon. 1649.--The Middlesex County Records before this date are lost. 1649.--Horses must be registered in a book kept in each town. In a neighboring town, church troubles ran so high, in 1650, that they were obliged to call in the civil authorities. 1650.--Goodman and goodwife were common appellations. Mr. was applied only to persons of d
HISTORY OF THE TOWN OF MEDFORD, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, FROM ITS FIRST SETTLEMENT, IN 1630, TO THE PRESENT TIME, 1855. (ed. Charles Brooks), chapter 18 (search)
Weber m. Mary Whitmore, Aug. 19, 1725; and d. Oct. 16, 1730, aged 28.   James Weber d. Mar. 19, 1729, aged 64; probably father of Jonathan, James, Benjamin, and Nathan.   Nathan Weber d. Oct. 15, 1739, aged 35.   Mary Weber m. Joseph White, of Lexington, Jan. 1, 1735.  1Whitmore, Francis, b. 1625; m. Isabel, dau. of Richard Parke, of Cambridge, who is believed to have been son of Henry Parke, a merchant of London. By his first wife, who d. Mar. 31, 1665, he had--  1-2Elizabeth, b. May 2, 1649; m. Daniel Markham.  3Francis, b. Oct. 12, 1650; remov. to Middlet., Ct., and left heirs.  4John, b. Oct. 1, 1654.  5Samuel, b. May 1, 1658; remov. to Lexington, Ct., and left heirs.  6Abigail, b. July 3, 1660; m.----Wilcox.  7Sarah, b. Mar. 7, 1662; m. William Locke.   He m., 2d, Margaret Harty, Nov. 10, 1666, who d. Mar. 1, 1686; and had--  8Margaret, b. Sept. 9, 1668; m. Thomas Carter.  9Frances, b. Mar. 3, 1671; m. Jonathan Tompson.  10Thomas, b. 1673; lived in K