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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 15
Chapter 15: Historical items.
July 28, 1629.--Mr. Joseph Bradshaw was present this day, as one of the assistants, at the sitting of the court in London.
1630.--The fleet that brought over Governor Winthrop and the first settlers of Medford was nautically organized.
The history says, Articles of consortship were drawn between the captain and mariners: The Arbella to be the admiral; the Talbot to be the vice-admiral; the Ambrose, the rear-admiral.
The Arbella was named in honor of Mrs. Johnson, the wife of one of the five undertakers in London.
Aug. 23, 1630.--Ordered that no person shall use or take away any boat or canoe without leave from the owner thereof, on pain of fine and imprisonment, at the discretion of the court.
Aug. 23, 1630.--It was ordered that carpenters, joiners, bricklayers, sawyers, thatchers, shall not take above 2s. a day; nor any man shall give more, under pain of 10s. to taker and giver; and that sawers shall not take above 4s. 6d. the hundred for