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Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 22., A Romance of old Medford. (search)
stead about 1745 to Phinehas Putnam, the great grandfather of the present occupant. A query arises—was the new home in the old Bay State to which the bridal party came with cows and sheep in Medford or Danvers? The Louisburg expedition was in the spring of 1745. Was the veteran of Louisburg from Danvers or Medford? We are inclined to answer to both queries, Danvers: as he owned property there and was one of the tellers at Danvers March meeting in 1752. He was taxed in Charlestown 1756-65, and taught school without the neck, where he was styled gentleman and from Danvers. He was in 1763 administrator of the estate of his son John, late of Charlestown, and was then called gentleman and of Charlestown. It has been suggested that he joined in Medford, the Danvers minute men who marched from Danvers to Cambridge (i.e. Menotomy or West Cambridge) 16 miles in 4 hours, taking stand in a walled enclosure with a breastwork of shingles, waiting the retreating British. Gen