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Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 23., Medford Saltmarsh Corporation. (search)
uery naturally arises, was that meeting at the hotel in 1821 the first held by the corporators? If it was, we must conclude that they were slow in their matters to have waited eighteen years before getting down to business. But in view of the above receipt, it would appear that a fence had been erected long enough before as to require repairs, so it is more than probable that they organized at once, and by some neglect or informality had allowed a lapse, and so required the warrant of Squire Bartlett to set the company a-going again. Here our documentary evidence relative to the Saltmarsh Corporation ends. We will add, however, that the long name they styled themselves by in the petition was in the Act reduced to our caption; and the words into a Society have a pen line drawn through them in the original, in the Archives. Possibly this is a clue to the historian's classification. And so, with the purpose of learning more of its purpose, we ask, What do you know about salt hay?