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Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 25., Why Medford? (search)
ame family. The change from Metford to Medford, Mr. Brooks said, could not be explained. The name was written in different ways in the town records, but, since 1715, was invariably spelt as at present time. [From proceedings of >Massachusetts Historical Society, Meeting of July, 1858.] Extract from diary of Rev. Charles Brr cases, to chance. That chance, or something worse, had much to do in this matter, is proved by the fact that uniformity in spelling the name did not obtain till 1715, eighty-five years after the first settlement! In the early records it was variously spelled and probably according to the different methods of pronouncing the t it was first called Metford by Governor Cradock's men, after Metford in Staffordshire, but suffered orthographical manglings in its Americanization. Why it came to assume its present form I cannot discover. It is spelled in three different ways in the town records up to 1715, after which date it is uniformly written Medford.