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Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 29., And who was Peter Tufts? (search)
ailers of vague tradition who have given his name to a substantial old brick dwelling house in our city which for forty years had been otherwise styled. As shown in a genealogy of 1855, there were three of the name (father, son and grandson), other Peters more remotely related, and nearly four hundred of the Tufts surname. The eldest Peter Tufts was an early settler in Malden and came to Medford, purchasing his land of the son and executor of Richard Russell, who had acquired title of Collins, and he of the Cradock heirs. It is well to remember that territorially the Medford of its earliest days was but about four square miles entirely surrounded by Charlestown, entirely north of the river, and Peter Tufts' purchase in the eastern corner. And Peter Tufts (father or son, perhaps both) had a dwelling-house erected. Young Peter, who successively was Ensign, Leftenant and Captain Peter, was twenty-two when he took unto himself a wife, Elizabeth Lynde of Malden, in 1670. As the