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Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 29., The history of the Royall house and its occupants. (search)
ur Main street stands one of the finest examples of old Colonial mansions, and we hear with pleasure the recent awakening of local authorities to their duty of withholding the destroying hand and the preservation of the grounds bordering on Main street of this historic and architectural treasure, the Royall House. In relating the history of the Royall House and its occupants it will be well to go back to the early records and find how these lands came into possession of the white men. Drake's History states that Meadford in 1630 was formerly a part of Charlestown, that honored ancestor of all towns of the Mystic Valley. In 1754 Medford was sell of as a separate township from Charlestown. The title of the white man to the home of the Indians rested usually in a royal grant by turf and twig, and in the name of the English king, seldom consulting the aboriginal owner. The territory round and about here had this royal authority, and more:— First, in the grant of James I to
Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 29., The old powder house. (search)
ill is a subject. This clipping proved to be a reprint or copy of Chapter V of Fields and Mansions of Middlesex. （S. A. Drake, 1874.) Referring our readers to the above book we will only quote:— Except that the sides of the edifice are somrses. That writer (unlike the former one) had the grace to append a footnote, thus:— Suggested by the facts given in Drake's Fields and Mansions of Middlesex. As the eviction of the Acadians from Grand Pre was in 1755, and the sale of the oill to the province for a powder house in 1747, there is room for doubt of the legend. But the writer certainly followed Drake's prose in poetic form. Our space forbids its reproduction but we quote its finale:— In tones of thunder, a voice fely adjoins Medford hillside that the city boundary is difficult to find today even by some of Somerville's officials. Drake wrote, the old stone tower had three stages or lofts, with oaken beams of great thickness, and strange that edifice cre