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Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 15., Some notes from my Scrapbook. (search)
concerning the building of the Samuel Swan house (now the Home of the Aged) may be correct, but the fact remains that a house stood on that location prior to the year 1689. It was the property of Major Jonathan Wade, who died in the year 1689. In the division of his estate it was set off to his daughter Katherine, who married Elizer Wyer—To Katherine Wyer, she hath the house by Marble brook and about 18 acres adjoining, allowing 2 acres for highways. Elizer Wyer and wife Katherine sold, in 1710, house, barn, and sixteen acres of land lying on both sides of the road from Medford to Woburn. This house may have been built by a Mr. Richardson of Woburn; if so he was the builder, not the owner. In the year 1675 Caleb Hubbart sold to John Hall and others five hundred acres of land, part of the Cradock farm. This land was bounded westerly on Thomas Brooks and Timothy Wheeler, easterly on Jonathan Wade, northerly on Charlestown woodlots, and southerly on Mystic river, together with all
Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 23., Editorial Comment. (search)
, also he told mee yt he had received ten pounds for ye same. Taken upon Oath, 23, 4, 1676 Before Thomas Danforth, Assistt. The Cambridge Comon in the above was the common or pasturage land of Cambridge, which then included Lexington in its bounds. Referring to Henry Dunster's deed to Broughton (see register, Vol. XIII, p. 10) we find conveyance of two Rods broad for a highway (from the sd Mills) to go too & fro betwixt the said Mills & Concord way throu all the land of the said Hen. Dunster till it shall come to the publique country highway to Concord, and that Thomas Gleason was one of the witnesses to the same on March 6, 1656. Evidently this was the Wayes mentioned in Prout's deed of 1710 and corresponds to present Winter street in Arlington. As pertinent to these conveyances and the site of the old Broughton mill we refer to our frontispiece and acknowledge the forethought and interest of Mr. Hooper in securing the two views of the mill site just before obliteration.
The Daily Dispatch: October 1, 1861., [Electronic resource], The maritime force of Spain. (search)
wallis, that I wish to lead my readers. A mile or two below Yorktown, on the banks of the York, covering one of the finest bluffs, and extending back a mile from the river, lies the old Temple Farm. It is probably the oldest settled place on the river, as is indicated by a very ancient tomb, dating far back of the settlement of the village, and it was famous in the early part of the last century as the favorite county seat of Sir Alexander Spottswood, the royal Governor of Virginia from 1710 to 1723. The position of this estate is one of the most commanding on the river. From its lofty plateau the view is unbroken down the York to the Chesapeake, while to the west lies the once busy port, now in its quiet decay. The taste of the pioneer, whoever he was, that first broke into the forest here, two hundred years ago, is amply vindicated, as every succeeding generation has admired its noble site and enjoyed its handsome prospects. The fine old mansion, which has adorned this
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