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Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 30., The Brooks Estates in Medford from 1660 to 1927. (search)
The Brooks Estates in Medford from 1660 to 1927. By Richard B. Coolidge. [Read before the Medford Historical Society, March 21, 1927. Acknowledgment is due Mrs. Shepherd Brooks, who generously made available her husband's manuscript referred to in the text, and to Mrs. Coolidge who compiled the material.] IT is one of the functions of a historical society to record history as it transpires. Here in Medford it is unfortunate that we have so few records of certain memorable periods of our past. In 1775 there was no historical society existing. Had there been, we might now read in the records of that day at what hour of the morning the Minute Men marched up the road toward Lexington, how far they advanced, and at what point they joined in the attack upon the British Regulars. Again we are unable to determine with certainty the builder of the famous Cradock house, or to demonstrate that Washington came to the Royall house. In later years there are like omissions. To prevent
Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 30., A timely Accession. (search)
ts hundredth year. Its obverse depicts a National Limited train drawn by one of the largest modern passenger locomotives, with the spirit of transportation guiding its flight. The sculptor shows the spirit, not with angelic wings and filmy drapery, but as a rugged human, flying with outstretched right hand reaching over and beyond and pointing the way ahead. The bordering legend is One Hundred Years—Safety, Strength, Speed. The reverse border is Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company, 1827-1927, and in marked contrast shows Peter Cooper's Tom Thumb, the first steam locomotive built in America. The Tom Thumb presents no greater contrast than did the first used on the Boston and Lowell, which made its initial journey to Boston on June 24, 1835. Our frontispiece presents the models of the engine imported from England, a passenger car, a burthen car, construction and hand-car, also a snow-plow. Waterman Brown of Woburn, an earlier employee on the road, made this most instructive ex
Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 30., The Thatcher Magoun house. (search)
d Meetinghouse hill, taken down by Mr. Thatcher Magoun about 1835. Mr. Leathe was a shoemaker and made the shoes of Mrs. Samuel Swan [his mother] when he was quite young; his wife made ladies' stays, or corsets, They were very worthy people and members of the church. Their children were John b. 1742, d. in his father's house Sept. 1815, aged 73; Sally; Richard (a baker in Watertown); and Francis b. 1762, d. Mar. 19, 1840 in Mr. Roach's house, The cellar hole of the Roach house is still (1927) visible, close to High street, near the rectory of Grace Church. age 84. John and Francis were never sent to school, but Francis learned to read and write, and was well read in the history of England and the United States. He liked very much to read the works of Henry Kirk White, was very quick at figures, often doing sums in his head. Now we quote from another page of Mr. Swan:— The visit of General Washington to Colonel Brooks in 1789 was in the forenoon. He came on horseback,
Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 30., History of Wellington. (search)
History of Wellington. by Abner H. Barker. Read before the Historical Society, October. 1927, by Joseph C. Smith. IN May, 1630, Gov. John Winthrop and his associates arrived in Salem from England, and not being satisfied, proceeded to find land which suited them better. They came south along the coast and settled in Boston, Dorchester, Watertown and Medford. The first record we have of what is now known as Wellington was made at the General Court held in Boston, April 1, 1634, which is as follows;— There is two hundred acres of land ganted to Mr. Nowell, lying and being on the west side of North river, called Three Mile brook (Malden river). There is two hundred acres of land granted to Mr. John Wilson, pastor of the church in Boston, lying next to the land granted to Mr. Nowell, on the south, and next to Meadford on the north. The farm of Mathew Cradock joined the Nowell and Wilson farms, and extended as far as the Mystic lakes and one mile inland from the Mysti