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Henry Putnam of Medford.
Where in Medford did Henry Putnam live?
Perhaps the following lines may partially answer this query: After his sale of his farm in Charlestown in 1765 (beyond the upper Mistick pond) Henry Putnam came to Medford and occupied a dwelling.
He was then past the age of sixty years. In 1770 he purchased twenty-four acres of pasture land of William Bradshaw, the administrator of Jona Bradshaw's estate.
This pasture adjoined no road but was bounded east on Jonathan Patten, north on Ebenezer Brooks, Jr., northwest on heirs of Samuel Brooks, Jr., and west by land lately of the Whitmores.
The consideration named was £68s16 to reach it, the deed, dated in the tenth year of his majesty's reign, gave him liberty of passing and repassing from the country road [probably Woburn street] to the premises in the usual way he or they shutting gates and bars.
In the absence of plot or plan it is somewhat of a puzzle to locate this pasture of Henry Putnam's. But a deed of A