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Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 7., Some old Medford houses and estates. (search)
built of brick, laid up with clay. The location of this house can still be seen. The twelfth day of the twelfth month, 1650, Mr. Wilson sold his farm, consisting of two hundred acres of land, with dwelling house and other buildings, to Mr. Thomas Blanchard of Braintree. After the death of Mr. Blanchard his estate was divided among his sons, and under date of August 27, 1657, Nathaniel Blanchard, son of Thomas, deeded to his brother Samuel Ten acres of upland, known by the name of the flax gMr. Blanchard his estate was divided among his sons, and under date of August 27, 1657, Nathaniel Blanchard, son of Thomas, deeded to his brother Samuel Ten acres of upland, known by the name of the flax grounds, on which the said Samuel is now erecting a dwelling house. This land was bounded westerly by the creek between it and Meadford farm; northeasterly on land of George Blanchard; southerly on land of the said Nathaniel; and northwesterly, partly on a pine swamp, and partly on pasture land of George Blanchard. Here we have the exact date of the erection of the house, now known as the old Wellington farm house, as the above description of the land upon which Mr. Blanchard built his house