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Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 25. 6 0 Browse Search
HISTORY OF THE TOWN OF MEDFORD, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, FROM ITS FIRST SETTLEMENT, IN 1630, TO THE PRESENT TIME, 1855. (ed. Charles Brooks) 4 0 Browse Search
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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)
ve all, we pray you be careful there be none in our precincts permitted to do any injury (in the least kind) to the heathen people; and, if any offend in that way, let them receive due correction. If any of the savages pretend right of inheritance to all or any part of the lands granted in our patent, we pray you endeavor. to purchase their title, that we may avoid the least scruple of intrusion. We know of only one relative of Mr. Cradock who came to this country, and his name was George Cradock, mentioned by Douglas and Hutchinson as an inhabitant of Boston. We cannot better close the notice of Medford's founder and friend than by giving a copy of his Will, which has never till now been printed:-- Last will and Testament of Mathew Cradock. I, Mathew Cradock, of London, merchant, being in perfect memory and bodily health,--thanks be given to God therefor,--do hereby make and ordain this my last Will and Testament in manner and form following; that is to say,-- I
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)
, Walter, who d. s. p.,) and Mathew, b. 1563, who m. Dorothy Greenway. This Mathew had Mathew, our patron, and Samuel, clerk at Thistleton, co. Rutland. Mathew m., 1st, Damaris, dau. of Richard Winne, by whom he had Damaris, bap. Nov. 1, 1623; and, 2d, Rebecca, dau. of Thomas Jordan, of London, and had-- Mathew, bap. June 3, 1632. Thomas, bap. Feb. 10, 1634. Mary, bap. Nov 27, 1637. It is my belief that these children all d. young, not being mentioned in his will. There was a George Cradock, of Boston, who is said by Huchinson to have been a grandson of the governor. However, as the historian seems to be in error in the same paragraph in confusing the brother and nephew of Mathew, I prefer the authority of the English heralds, who mention no descendants of the governor. Samuel, the brother of Mathew, had Samuel, Mathew, and Zachary; of whom Samuel was rector of North Cadbury, and d. Oct. 7, 1706, aged 86. On the death of his father's cousin, he succeeded to the estate at
Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 25., From Medford oversea (search)
l 1735, a hundred years later. I cannot yet trace any connection at so early a date. Yours sincerely, E. M. Parker Jervis. P. S. I notice that this George Cradock married a Saunders, and our picture here a hundred years later is also painted by a Saunders, which is curious. Feb. 9th. Dear Mr. Hughes. I believe I mund that a family of the name of Short lived at Ashley, also a Cradock lived there in the Commonwealth. Thomas Short of Ashley had a son Edward, who married Miss Cradock, dau. Of———Cradock of Hungersheath. [Hungersheath is a bit of waste land adjacent to Ashley. I think the name has died out of present day maps.] They had a sout recount to you that Sir Thos. Slingsly Bt.marriedDorothy The Rt. Hon. Robt Lord CholmondelyElizabeth Sir John BridgemanMary But! but! to our grief George Cradock is assaulted by death in ye meridian of his age not far off from his Castle of Caverswall (lately built even to beauty) by Matthew Cradock Esqre who was inter<