ttal from the charge in November.
But one of Cradock's servants held variant opinion and sought to's entrance into the limelight of history.
Mr. Cradock's farm was a tract of land a mile wide (appt, Medford, from the colony record; second, Mr. Cradock's farm, also from the colony record; third,rch the colony records in vain to find that Mr. Cradock's farm is called Medford; and literally spealready noted the geographical situation of Mr. Cradock's farm, the early Medford.
The seventeencause the good place upon Mistick was to be Mr. Cradock's farm, and they so called it, from MedfordEngland they came from, and which old shire Mr. Cradock had represented in Parliament since 1620, t the town was Metford—after a county seat Governor Cradock in England in Staffordshire called Metforemporary diarist, of
R. Caverswall house Mr Cradock owns it.
And elsewhere in same book is was by men in the employ and interest of Matthew Cradock, merchant of London.
He was the first go[3 more...]
nt address before the Historical Society, entitled The Story of An Ancient Cow-Pasture.
Request was then and there made for its publication.
As the speaker compiled his story largely from the Register's pages, the reader is referred to them, and the present article will concern but the border of the ancient cow-pasture, which is destined to become the scene of busy industry as well as of modern pleasure taking.
As the corner previously described was not in the original Medford (i.e., Mr. Cradock's farm), so was this likewise a part of ancient Charlestown.
That old town, once extensive and once entirely surrounding Medford, is now absorbed by Boston.
Its cow-commons have been well defined by our townsman Hooper in his story of the Stinted Pasture.
Not until 1754 did Medford acquire this corner, and even then not all the Charlestown proprietors became Medfordites.
An examination of the map will show a serrated boundary line extending over and around College hill to a bend in th
precious, as liquid diamonds.
The Indian Sagamores drank of it from time immemorial, till the fearful deluge of fire-water burst upon the red men, and swept their whole race away from the cold fountains. . . . Governor Winthrop on his journey afoot from Boston drank here from the hollow of his hand.
And we may claim a similar genesis for the Medford town pump, in an ancient spring whose existence may have been the deciding factor in the location of the original ferme-house built by Matthew Cradock's servants near the old Indian trail, through what is Medford Square today to the river's fording place.
And it is just as certain that the governor refreshed himself with its cool water after crossing the Mistick on his long tramp to Salem.
But we may not follow Hawthorne's pump rill into the baptismal water placed on the communion table, for alas!
Medford had no meetinghouse then, nor yet for sixty years, and when she did, the clear water of Marrabel's brook was nearer by.
But
was styled governour, and whose name was Matthew Cradock.
We have the evidence of that in the tesemployed.
Now let us return to the letter of Cradock.
Endicott had written a letter to him from Snote of this: the company (through its chief, Cradock) writes of a bark already here built. For CraCradock to have known of it (no cable or wirless or airships in those days) its construction must haven an accomplished fact when Endicott wrote to Cradock in September of 1628.
The question naturally then but at Medford where the Spragues found Cradock's men established?
There was no lack of timbtion of a governor's bark, not Winthrop's but Cradock's, on the north side of the river, and therefre in the limits of Medford, in the light of Cradock's reference takes on new interest.
Especiallone hundred tons the next year, built here by Cradock's men.
What name that earlier governor's bg of the Bay by two years, and its mention by Cradock (still existing in his own hand) points to a [1 more...]
wn the old property of the Hawes Solihull near Warwick.
I have found a curious old sampler worked by this Mary Cradock in 1722, and we have a beautiful portrait of their daughter Mary, painted by one Saunders.
I also find in Erdeswick that Matthew Cradock purchased Carswall or Caverswall Castle from Lord Huntingdon some time previous to 1655, so I think it probable that the Cradocks at Caverswall and the Parkers at Park Hall were near neighbors and friends.
I cannot find any connection witif your information at all tallies with mine, and in the meantime I will look round for more relics.
It is all so very interesting.
Yours sincerely, E. M. Parker Jervis.
Dear Mr. Hughes—
I send you today a Copy of an inscription on a Cradock tomb at Caverswall.
Also a Copy of the Sampler worked by Mary Cradock. Also the Pedigree as I make it out to be. All these things will I think interest your correspondent in America.
But all these things do not explain to me why they called th
first settlement and erected at the instance of Matthew Cradock, Father of our Medford.
A very readable articl its builder and master is highly appropriate.
Matthew Cradock was the father of Medford, and it is time that e facts already in our hands.
The genealogy of Matthew Cradock has been traced back to 1446, and furthest hack William, and William Cradock was the father of Matthew Cradock, Medford's founder and first friend, as the autnother source for our information, finding that our Cradock inherited property and built a new house at Caverswere the name of this town originated.
The deeds of Cradock's wife and daughter relate to lands in Medford, Masing to some authorities, was rebuilt in 1643 by Matthew Cradock— others say by William Cradock.
It is of unpre Massachusetts, M. P. from London, with his cousin Matthew Cradock (a contemporary M. P. for Stafford, the stiand of the present lineal descendant of another Matthew Cradock, owner of Meaford Hall.
It is apparent that th
their flintlocks were within reach, for rumors were rife that action was at hand.
Thus Medford waited for the day that was to follow.
In the late evening of April eighteenth the waning moon cast a phantasy of light and shadow over the sleeping town.
Down from the hills to the north, almost to the river bottom, spread the dark forest, the Charlestown wood lots of earlier years, with Pine hill rising in their midst.
Along the Mystic ran the way to the Weirs.
From the cross roads near Cradock's bridge ran the road to Charlestown, and from the same point, later the market place, led the road to Salem.
Between the two lay the river road.
From the road to the Weirs, at some distance from Mystic pond, ran the road around the woods.
Opposite Rock hill the Woburn road branched off to the towns on the north, reached also by the Stoneham road, leading from the Salem highway, up past the great brickyards, where it was lost in the darkness of the wood lots, disturbed only by the lonely
stablished here a company of men who were in the employ of one Matthew Cradock, a wealthy London merchant.
They had erected some log house vessel for their fishing.
Their work was a business adventure of Cradock's, of which he had several, beside the corporate affairs of the Mas as yet and tell of a park impaled in which cattle were kept till Cradock could stock it with deer.
Such facts are the meagre informationyhew, Davison and lastly Edward Collins, and who, some years after Cradock's death, purchased the whole farm of the heirs.
Now, as I have mon Mystic.
I trust you have also seen that those early comers of Cradock's venture antedated the Puritan settlers of Charlestown and Bostons two—years.
I know our town seal said Medford— Condita—1630, but Cradock's men came in 1629 or 1628.
But with the coming of Governor Winmber 23, 1630, we read that one Austin Bratcher, dying lately at Mr. Cradock's plantation, a jury found that the strokes given by Walter Palm<
very name of his first wife, Damaris.
But Cradock was apparently a shrewd and careful business ernor.
Hence the existence of two governors, Cradock, governor of the company in England, and Endi river, called Mystick River, from the farm Mr. Cradock's servants had planted called Mystick, whicort, and Endicott in return wrote a report to Cradock in a letter from Salem dated September 13, 16e supplies they were to use on the banks.
So Cradock directs
that then you send our barke that, proves that Endicott must have sent word to Cradock in his letter of September, 1628, and that th charter went with them.
By this arrangement Cradock lost his position as governor, but his interea great barn and a dwelling house erected for Cradock's men. These are indicated on early maps and nd the rocks on the north is granted to Mr. Matthew Cradock merchant to enjoy to him and his heirs ng a town government.
But after the death of Cradock, as his holdings began to be sold out in parc[35 more...]
Medford (1855), a book now very rare.
Governor Cradock's House.—The old two-story brick house inquity in New England.
That it was built by Mr. Cradock soon after the arrival of his company of cait stands was given by the General Court to Mr. Cradock.
When the heirs of Mr. Cradock gave a deedMr. Cradock gave a deed of their property, June 2, 1652, they mentioned houses, barns, and many other buildings, but did ne conclusion, therefore, is inevitable that Mr. Cradock built it. There is every reason to believe und; and bricks were made in Salem in 1629. Mr. Cradock made such an outlay in money as showed that clear, that the old fort, so called, was Governor Cradock's house, built in 1634.
It is an invalua
These ovals are twenty inches by sixteen. Mr. Cradock's company was large, and he was very rich, facts or fix the date.
The park impaled by Mr. Cradock probably included this house.
It is undoub
Mr. Brooks assumed and asserted it to be Governor Cradock's House, and presented the above to make [1 more...]
