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Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 25., At Medford's old civic Center. (search)
works erected in Boston. This beautiful place was called Poplar Grove. Benjamin Joy sold the estate in 1816 to the Massachusetts General Hospital for the Mc-Lean Asylum for the Insane. The mansion was used as quarters for the officers of the institution, and additions were built each side of the central portion. All traces of the estate and even the hill no longer exist. For an interesting item concerning the Barrel family, and one concerning Medford, our readers are referred to Francis Hill Bigelow's Historic Silver of the Colonies and Its Makers, pp. 302, 303, 363. After this digression, which we trust is pardonable, believing it to be correlative and not irrelevant to this sketch, we are back in Medford in the old Watson house again and find John Usher of our town preceding Barrell, Jr., as a tenant. The old meeting-house had seen under its shadow, living in this house, a Revolutionary soldier who was a friend of Washington, and as a counter-balance, also was a Loyalist