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HISTORY OF THE TOWN OF MEDFORD, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, FROM ITS FIRST SETTLEMENT, IN 1630, TO THE PRESENT TIME, 1855. (ed. Charles Brooks), Chapter 7: ecclesiastical history (continued). (search)
him, Rev. Levi Pratt was installed pastor, Aug. 19, 1835, who died of fever, in the midst of his labors, much lamented, Aug. 9, 1837. The next pastor was Rev. A. R. Baker, who was ordained April 25, 1838. During his ministry, several precious seasons of revival were enjoyed, the church and congregation increased, and largerhurches of other denominations, in July, 1847, she sent out a strong colony, sixty in number, to form the Mystic church of Medford, now a flourishing society. Mr. Baker, after an efficient and successful ministry of over ten years, was dismissed by the decision of an ecclesiastical council in September, 1848. For several yearm were submitted statistics and other facts, showing the necessity of increased church accommodation for the orthodox Congregationalists. At this conference, Rev. Mr. Baker and a large number of the brethren of the Second Church were present. As the result, it was the unanimous opinion of the clergymen from abroad, and nearly as
HISTORY OF THE TOWN OF MEDFORD, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, FROM ITS FIRST SETTLEMENT, IN 1630, TO THE PRESENT TIME, 1855. (ed. Charles Brooks), Chapter 10: trade. (search)
o thousand tons. The ship Shooting Star was the first clipper built here; and the George Peabody, the first vessel that passed the bridges on Mystic River, after the draws had been widened according to the direction of the Legislature. The Rev. A. R. Baker preached a sermon on ship-building, in 1846, to which is appended a register of vessels built in Medford. He says, I have enrolled them so as to present the year of their construction, their description and name, the yard in which they wey-nine thousand two hundred and seventy dollars. The greatest number constructed in any one yard is one hundred and eighty-five; and, in any single year , thirty. That year was 1845. The tonnage of the vessels built here in that year, says Mr. Baker, was nine thousand seven hundred and twelve tons; and their aggregate, as they left our yards, about half a million of dollars. The shortest space in which a vessel was ever built in the town was twenty-six days. Her name was The Avon, a ship