e company traded to what are now the Baltic provinces.
Cradock also traded in the Mediterranean and in the Levant.
(State Papers, 1636-7 p. 377.)
Mrs. Rebecca, a daughter of a London merchant, Thomas Jordan, the widow of Matthew Cradock, after a few years of conventional mourning, espoused, before February 12, 1644-5, perhaps for a social position, Richard Glover, gent.
Their wedded life was not a lengthy one; he died before the spring of 1647.
After a suitable period of five years, in 1652, she was wedded to a third husband, Rev. Benjamin Whichcote, D. D., not only a learned and pious man but of a good old Lincolnshire family.
It is said of him It pleased God to bless him, as with a plentiful estate, so with a charitable mind.
He was not only Charitable in his life but in a very bountiful manner at his death, bequeathing in pious and charitable legacies, to value of £ 1000.
We can therefore be satisfied that the wealth of Matthew Cradock was put to good uses.
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our miles along the river.
Second. When the heirs of Mr. Cradock gave a deed, 1652, they mentioned houses, barns, and many other buildings, but did not so specify deed of this house given by any other person.
By the latter we presume prior to 1652 is meant.
The mention of houses, etc., is no proof that the two-story brick houhird. There was no other person who could own it.
True, if the house existed in 1652, but so far no proof that it did is given.
Fourth. It was on Mr. Cradock's lat it.
It would be inevitable if that particular house was surely there prior to 1652, but there is no evidence that it was there then.
The assertion by a writer twouch early structure may have been still standing and sold with barns and land in 1652, as above mentioned.
The careful observer of ancient buildings, their mode of cassume erection of any house in 1634, and ignore possibility of non-existence in 1652, because the deed did not make these existing structures cognizable.
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s now known as Bacon's.
The squa sachem described that boundary as the south end of Mr. Nowell's land.
A witness, in the suit to be mentioned, described the [southern] as the little brook that runneth from Capt. Cook's mill to Mystic pond.
Col. George Cooke had early built a mill a little above the present site of the old Fowle grain mill and was a man of repute.
He returned to England on the breaking out of the Civil War, was made a colonel under Cromwell and was killed in Ireland in 1652.
Administration of his estate in this country was granted to Henry Dunster, first president of Harvard, and Colonel Cooke's older brother Joseph in 1653.
Some three hundred feet or so above the present dam just where a street [Water street] comes down to the west side of the pond [mill pond] are projections reaching out from each side of the pond towards a small island in the center [part of the old dam] and Judge Parmenter pointed this out as the remains of the original dam to Colonel Cook
various local appointments of trust and honor.
Although he had a large estate in Concord, he evidently wished to make further provision for his children.
Accordingly, with his son-in-law, Timothy Wheeler, he invested four hundred and four pounds sterling in these acres in Medford—two-thirds for himself and one-third for Wheeler.
Collins was already a large holder of land at Mystic.
He lived for many years on Governor Cradock's plantation and purchased it from the heirs of the governor in 1652.
It may have been that fact which led him to part with his holdings to the west.
The deed from Collins gives in quaint and formal language the terms of the purchase.
It reads in part as follows:
Edward Collins merch't and Martha his wife. . . do fully clearly & absolutely grant bargain and sell alien enfeoffe and confirm under them ve said Thomas Brooks & Timothy Wheeler one Me ssuage or Tenement situate Lying and being within ye bounds of ye said plantation of Meadford (and lands adja
oys to the place above-mentioned.
We can well spare them; and who knows that it may be the means of making them Englishmen — I mean, rather, Christians.
As for the girls, I suppose you will make provisions of clothes and other accommodations for them." Upon this, Thurloe informs Henry Cromwell that the Council have voted four thousand girls, and as many boys, to go to Jamaica."
Every-Catholic priest found in Ireland was hanged, and five pounds paid to the informer.
"About the year 1652, and 1653," says Colonel Lawrence in his Interests of Ireland, "the plague and famine had so swept away whole counties that a man might travel twenty or thirty miles and not see a living creature, either man, or beast, or bird,--they being all dead, or had quitted those desolated regions.
Our soldiers would tell stories of the places where they saw smoke — it was so rare to see either smoke by day, or fire or candle by night." In this manner did the Irish live and die under Cromwell, sufferi
