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Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 30., History of Wellington. (search)
ing was situated on the hillside near the junction of Middlesex avenue and Fellsway. Of the life of these first settlers we have a very meagre record. The land was wooded, and the greater part had to be cleared before much in the way of agriculture was accomplished. The years passed, and in February, 1650-51, we find that Rev. John Wilson, Jr., pastor of the church in Dorchester, sold to Thomas Blanchard, who came from Hampshire, England, in 1639 and lived in Braintree, Mass., from 1646 to 1651, a house and farm of two hundred acres lying on the north side of Mystic river, and between Malden river on the east and the Cradock farm on the west, for £ 200. Mr. Blanchard died on his farm, so lately purchased, May 21, 1654. At this time the farm was a part of Charlestown and remained so until 1726, when it was annexed to Malden. In 655, after the death of Thomas, the farm was divided between his sons George and Nathaniel. George Blanchard, son of Thomas, had two wives and ten children