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Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 25., At Medford's old civic Center. (search)
made their home for several years in the east part, the part the former had occupied. The name Barrel immediately attracts our attention, and we wonder why a scion of that well-known family should have made this unpretentious house his dwelling place. The records of the following marriages in a way afford an answer as to why he was drawn thither, and we have elsewhere concluded that Medford in a much earlier time had many attractions to draw here those who were looking for a home. Timothy Fitch, merchant of Nantucket and Boston, and one-time owner of the Watson house, and Abigail Donnahew of Medford were married by the Rev. Ebenezer Turell, August 19, 1746. There were several daughters by this marriage, and Hannah married Joseph Barrel of Boston, November 26, 1771. John Brown Fitch of Boston and Hepziah Hall of Medford were married by Rev. David Osgood, January 27, 1785. In this marriage triangle of the Barrel, Fitch and Hall families we understand why Joseph Barrel, Jr.,
Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 25., At Medford's old civic Center (continued). (search)
house. The story of the house in our day called the Train house has been fully told in the Register. Samuel Train was very fond of telling the story how one day he sat on the sidewalk of the Bigelow property, looked across the street and wished he might own the house he was gazing at. In 1828 his youthful wish was realized when he purchased the estate, and it was the home of the good deacon for forty-six years. The house of Benjamin Hall, Sr., was inherited by his daughter Hepzibah, Mrs. Fitch, who sold it in 1833 to Dr. Daniel Swan for $5,000, House, garden, orchard and a small piece of land in front by the river. The people of that period were careful, if they did not live in a ten-acre lot, to have a good view around them and ample space. This house and one west from it, both now gone, were of the five Hall houses which faced the road to Woburn in the same sociable, neighborly way as three of them do today below Governors avenue. The home of Dr. Swan, the beloved and b