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the papers by Miss Helen T. Wild, on Medford in the War of the Revolution, and Mrs. Anna D. Hallowell, on the Life and Work of Lydia Maria Child, were most admirable, and readers of the register will enjoy their perusal when published.
the Membership Committee hopes to see a round three hundred names on our list by the end of this Society year.
Help the committee by proposing names for membership in the Society.
the Committee on Historic Sites is doing faithful and conscientious work.
the Committee on Papers and Addresses is arranging for a series of interesting papers the coming fall and winter.
the Committee on Library and Collections respectfully suggests that objects of historical interest and facts of historical value are quite often obtained in unexpected places.
The summer vacation is a capital time for exploring and digging. Remember the Medford Historical Society.
Send a copy of the July register to your friends in the country.
They will enjoy read
Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 3., A valuable gift. (search)
Lydia Maria Child. by Anna D. Hallowell.
few reputations survive the almost universal mortality of a hundred years. Whenever, or wherever, this exception occurs our curiosity is challenged to inquire what elements of character triumphed over the limitations of time, what traits were a part of immortal life.
Almost a century has elapsed since a little girl was born in the village of Medford, on Feb. 1, 1802, and duly christened by Dr. Osgood, minister over the First, and only, Church,—Lydia Maria Francis.
The substantial brick house in which she opened her eyes was built and owned by her father, David Francis, and is now occupied by the Medford Historical Society.
Richard Francis was the first of the name to come to America.
He died in 1686 or 1687, aged eighty-six years, or thereabouts, according to his gravestone in West Cambridge, now Arlington.
The next knowledge of the family is of Mrs. Child's grandfather, Richard Francis, a weaver by trade.
He was an ardent Libert
Lucretia Mott. by Anna D. Hallowell.
[Read before the Medford Historical Society, February 20, 1911, by J. Mott Hallowell, Esq.]
Preface.
All over this broad land of ours one can meet people who claim with pride their Nantucket descent.
The word is an open sesame to the warmest hospitality, an unfailing link between those who had been strangers.
Ah! from Nantucket did you say?
So am I!
Come in, and you are at home.
The writer, although the third generation away from this blessed little island, almost feels that she was born there, so carefully and lovingly have its traditions been held before her. Lucretia Mott, the subject of this paper, though living only for her first eleven years on the island, always claimed to be a Nantucket woman.
And no wonder!
On the third of January, 1793, a little girl was born on the island of Nantucket who was destined to a great work and wide influence in her long life.
On both her father's and mother's side she was descended throu