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Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 29. 4 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) 2 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 18 (search)
, 1683.  10Lydia, d., unm., 1683. 1-2Peter Tufts, of Medford, commonly called Capt. Peter, m., 1st, Aug. 26, 1670, Elizabeth, dau. of Thomas Lynde, who d. July 15, 1684, by whom he had--  2-11Anna, b. Feb. 25, 1676.  12Peter, b. Jan. 27, 1678.  13Mary, b. Jan. 30, 1681; m. John Brodelins.  14Thomas, b. Mar. 31, 1683; d. Dec. 36, 1733.   He m., 2d, Mary Cotton, Dec. 16, 1684, who was dau. of Rev. Seaborn Cotton by his wife Dorothy Bradstreet, dau. of Gov. Simon Bradstreet by his wife Ann Dudley, the poetess. Mercy Cotton was b. Nov. 3, 1666; and d. June 18, 1715. The issue by this marriage was--  15Cotton, b. June 11, 1686; d. July 28, 1686.  16Mary, b. July 4, 1687; d. Mar. 8, 1688.  17John, b. May 5, 1689; minister at Newbury, 1714.  18Samuel, b. Aug. 22, 1691; d. Oct. 20, 1692.  19Dorothy, b. May 5, 1693; d. Sept. 10, 1693.  20Mercy, b. June 20, 1695; d. Aug. 19, 1697.  21Dorothy, b. Mar. 27, 1697; d. Nov. 29, 1697.  22Mercy, b. Oct. 27, 1698; m. John Bradstr
Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 29., The Cradock house, past and future. (search)
go, however, if the control still remained in England. One sees already the same spirit which made our Medford men a century later refuse to be ruled by hands across the sea. So the company signed an agreement with the Puritan leaders, Winthrop, Dudley and Saltonstall, by which the latter agreed to transport themselves and families to Massachusetts, provided the charter went with them. By this arrangement Cradock lost his position as governor, but his interest as an investor remained the same. extant Medford records. At all events, it must have been standing ready for his high-born second wife, Mary Cotton, who came in 1684 to him with the blood of two New Hampshire governors and a poetess in her veins, for she was granddaughter of Ann Dudley, the poetess. Her father had the splendid name of the Reverend Seaborn Cotton, and belonged undoubtedly to that distinguished family of ministers. The first son by this marriage was named Cotton Tufts, a son who died too soon to suffer jest u