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Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 15., The old slave wall. (search)
this wall of bricks, when all the rest is of Medford granite? To answer this query, and to preserve a record of this Medford antiquity ere it is forgotten (or removed), the Register presents as its frontispiece; The Old Slave Wall, with this sketch thereof. Samuel Brooks (grandson of that Thomas Brooks of Concord who purchased land of Edward Collins) is said to have lived nearly opposite the Peter C. Brooks house; which locates his home at the site of this wall. His son Samuel, born 1700, inherited the estate, and the dwelling is mentioned as intact in 1855. It was demolished in 1860 and the materials removed. Some of its doors have been in daily use ever since in a house soon afterward built, and are good for many years more of service. This old house, probably erected by the first Samuel, was inherited by Thomas Brooks, the village squire and noted marrying justice. The second Samuel had slaves, as shown by his will, and Thomas had one negro man named Pomp, who seem