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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 2: (search)
it declined. The lands of a town were parcelled out by a committee, chosen by the inhabitants. Seven wise and prudent men were selected for this purpose. The town mainly directed, and then ratified, the work. Sometimes lots decided a case. How many of the first settlers became freemen we shall not know until the lost records of Medford are discovered. We find the following Medford names among the list of freemen between 1630 and 1646. How many were settlers here we know not. Nathaniel Bishop, Thomas Reeves, John Collins, Jonathan Porter, Richard Bishop, Thomas Brooke, John Waite, William Manning, John Hall, Richard Francis, William Blanchard, Henry Simonds, Zachery Fitch, Richard Wade, Richard Bugbe, John Watson, Abraham Newell, Henry Brooke, Gamaliel Wayte, Hezekiah Usher, Thomas Bradbury, Richard Swan, John Howe, Edmund Angier, Thomas Oakes, Hugh Pritchard. If any historian issues a writ of replevin, then we must appeal to lost records, or give up. In the county recor
HISTORY OF THE TOWN OF MEDFORD, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, FROM ITS FIRST SETTLEMENT, IN 1630, TO THE PRESENT TIME, 1855. (ed. Charles Brooks), chapter 18 (search)
 8-9Abigail, b. Oct. 5, 1753; m. Dr. James Putnam, of Danvers, Nov. 12, 1786.  10John, b. Nov. 20, 1755. 8-10John Bishop m. Lydia Holmes, dau. of Nathaniel and Rebecca (Goodwill) Holmes, who d. Mar. 28, 1807, aged 48. Children:--  10-11Lydia, b. 1784; m. N. Parsons; and d. Oct. 4, 1805.  12Rebecca, b. Oct. 2, 1785; d. Oct. 26, 1807.  13John, b. Aug. 7, 1787; d. Sept. 7, 1830.  14Nathaniel, b. 1790.  15Elizabeth, b. Jan. 1, 1791.  16William, b. Mar. 1794; d. Nov. 27, 1812. 10-14Nathaniel Bishop m. Mary S. Farrar; and died Feb. 22, 1850. He had--  14-17John.  18Lydia H. m. Samuel H. Jones, of Phil.  19Mary R.  20Nathaniel, b. 1835; d. 1836.  21Nathaniel.  22Henrietta B.  23Heber.  24Maria Josephine. 14-17John Bishop m. Elinor, dau. of Samuel Sweetser, of Brooklyn, N. Y., who d. Aug. 26, 1852, aged 26. Children:--  17-25Edward Francis, b. 1851; d. 1851.  26Elinor S.   Sarah Bishop m. Benjamin Leathe, Apr. 26, 1738.  1Blanchard, George, m. Sarah----
Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 4., Reminiscences of an earlier Medford. (search)
to see how many of the recipients of the sacred ordinance bore the name of Blanchard; they made up a good percentage of the whole number. I know of but one or two of the stock now living here. By the by, the register I have referred to records the fact that one infant was baptized who was born on the morning of the Sunday on which the rite was administered! Thus they snatched a brand from the burning! The Bishops were also a prominent family in Medford for more than a century. Mr. Nathaniel Bishop died in 1850, and after his death his children took up their residence in other parts of the country. I also have a kindly remembrance of the fine family of the Clisbys, with which I was very intimate in my boyhood. They are all dispersed. Aaron Warner Clisby, my especial friend and playmate, is, or was a few years ago, a clergyman in Alabama. The name of Swan was also well known and honored sixty years ago. No one bears that name here now. Mr. Samuel Swan had a family of seven
Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 22., Medford Association, 1819 (search)
ks Galen James Those with this mark are officers for the present year Thomas Calif Benjamin Pratt Jun Nathan Bryant Benjamin Noves James T Floyd Jr Seth Branford Phillips Rogers Stephen Sprague Andrew Perkins Charles Johnson Jonas Manning Arron Blanchard Isaac Sprague Those with this mark are officers for the present year John Blanchard Francis Kidder Andrew Blanchard Those with this mark are officers for the present year Nathaniel Bishop John P Clisby Those with this mark are officers for the present year D Swan Anthony Hatch Benjamin Floyd Jun Loveman Buel Abijah Kendall Gilbert Blanchard 2d Thomas Cox Jun Asa Sprague A Bartlett Those with this mark are officers for the present year John Howe Those with this mark are officers for the present year Jeduthun Richardson Those with this mark are officers for the present year Jonathan Porter Those with this mark are o