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Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 29., More about the powder house. (search)
e the story, and especially to answer a query we received relative to the name Broadway. The level land between Walnut and Quarry hills was in olden time called Sorrelly plain. At the foot of Quarry hill was the Medford road to Cambridge, now known as Harvard street in Medford (named Cambridge street in 1829), and as Warner street in Somerville, and after crossing Broadway, as College avenue. We have been recently asked if Broadway was always known thus. We reply No. The earliest name we know of is Menotomie's rode, or road to Menotomy, in varieties of spelling. In the record referred to the location of this stone mill was in 1684, seven acres of John Foskett, northwest on a two-pole way, and southwest by Sergeant Thomas Welch. Welch had twenty-one acres northeast of John Foskett and southwest by the highway. A note follows which is pertinent: Minde there is within these bounds of Welch a quarter of A acre left for A Common Quarry. So the name, Quarry hill, is reasonable.
Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 29., The Cradock house, past and future. (search)
or thirteen year's Medfords first representative lo the General Court. At all events, father or son built the new brick house, and Captain Peter was probably the first to dwell in it, somewhere between 1677 and 1680. I like to think that perhaps he took there his first bride, Elizabeth, in 1670, and that there was born in 1676 Anna, the first birth recorded on the extant Medford records. At all events, it must have been standing ready for his high-born second wife, Mary Cotton, who came in 1684 to him with the blood of two New Hampshire governors and a poetess in her veins, for she was granddaughter of Ann Dudley, the poetess. Her father had the splendid name of the Reverend Seaborn Cotton, and belonged undoubtedly to that distinguished family of ministers. The first son by this marriage was named Cotton Tufts, a son who died too soon to suffer jest upon his name. Another child who was to mean much to the later history of Medford was Simon Tufts, graduated at Harvard in 1724, the
Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 29., And who was Peter Tufts? (search)
was to be. His neighbors and associates, the Wades, Willows, Francis, Bradshaw, and Whitmores were scattered along the road that followed the old Indian trail across the plain, across the three brooks and over the hill to the fords and fishing places to parting of the ponds. Not until the coming of these neighbors had there been any semblance of a town government, and unlike any other named place in the colony of the Puritans, no church gathered. In fact, the inhabitants of Meadford had in 1684 seemed to think themselves of some importance, and sent Peter Tufts and neighbor Nathaniel Wade to the great and general court to ascertain their status. And they came back with the memorable reply, and the little four-mile hamlet learned that it had been and is peculiar and have power as other towns as to prudentials. Thereafter they began to really be somebody, and began to have town meetings. Peter Tufts was then thirty-six years old and was prominent thereafter in Medford affairs. T