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Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 13., The Royall house people of a century ago. (search)
vate boarding house in Park street. Among those living there was an invalid lady, to whom a Mrs. Jarvis of Watertown frequently sent parcels and delicacies by her daughter. The young men there ison of them. (Query. Did the old (third) meeting-house in Medford have double galleries?) Mr. Jarvis plied his trade in Boston, and his daughter persuaded her mother to open a small shop there, for the sale of needles, pins, laces and ribbons. Mrs. Jarvis was not at first sanguine as to this scheme, but Elizabeth urged it strongly, saying she would bring custom; and sure enough she did. Sheeen before the years of Washington's first term as president, and soon after, Mr. Welch and Elizabeth Jarvis were married. Their home in the buildings designed by the noted architect of the State Houd residential part of the town of Boston, a section now entirely devoted to business. While Mr. Jarvis, the wig-maker, was dependent on his own earnings for support, he had a merchant brother, Leon