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Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 2., A business man of long ago. (search)
n Medford before the Land was Purchased they Intended to have made use of. To connect the canal with Medford River, as Mr. Hall calls it, he was the prime mover in building a Branch Canal in 1807. This was mostly used in carrying ship timber to the various shipyards of Medford. It left the main canal at Mystic avenue. Benjamin, Ebenezer, and Dudley Hall Son of Benjamin Hall, Jr. were the directors. In two years (1807 to 1809) $256.98 were received for tolls. Jonathan Warner and John Jaquith were the keepers of the locks. The first dividend was declared in February, 809,—four dollars on a share of one hundred dollars. In 1803 Benjamin Hall, John Brooks, Fitch Hall, Ebenezer Hall, 2d, and Samuel Buell First postmaster of Medford. were the petitioners to the Legislature to form the Medford Turnpike Association. This road was built east of Winter and Ploughed hills and presented a shorter route to Boston than the old road over Winter hill. The road was built and proved
Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 8., The taverns of Medford. (search)
edford house. This house stands upon land purchased in the year 1803 by Mr. Andrew Blanchard of Mr. Ebenezer Hall, 2d. It was part of a tract of land purchased by Colonel Royall of Mr. Jonathan Tufts in the year 1755, and devised by him to his daughter, Herriot Pepperell, and by her sold to Mr. Hall in the year 1800. The house was probably built by Mr. Blanchard in the year 1804. It was opened as a hotel in the year 1805, and was known as the Medford Hotel. Its first landlord was Mr. John Jaquith. He was succeeded by his widow, Mrs. Elizabeth Jaquith, and by Messrs. Seth Mayo, Rufus Frost, Samuel Kendall, Moses Jaquith, A. Proctor, and others. On May 11, 1835, a company of thirty-five gentlemen and one lady formed an association known by name of the Medford Hotel Association, for the purpose of purchasing certain lands and tenements situated in Medford, to be used and occupied as a hotel. The capital stock consisted of one hundred eighty-three shares, par value per share, one
Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 23., Medford Branch canal. (search)
timber and plank construction, reinforced by heavy stone walls. The remains of the latter lock, slowly decaying for sixty years, were removed but a few years ago, when the extension of the parkway was made along the river's edge. That the branch canal was completed and in operation in 1807, is shown by Miss Wild in her excellent memorial of Benjamin Hall See register, Vol. III, p. 88. as follows: In two years (1807 to 1809) $256.98 were received for tolls. Jonathan Warner and John Jaquith were the keepers of the locks. The first dividend was declared in February, 1809—four dollars on a share of one hundred dollars. The Middlesex canal paid none till 1819 How long the branch maintained a separate corporate existence, or that it was merged with the other we may not say, but we know the time came when it shared in the decadence and final abandonment in 1852. From 1819 to 1835 were the palmy days of the canal. Those of the branch began earlier and continued longer