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Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 10., Medford Historical Society. (search)
rer. Alfred R. Winter. Recording secretary. Miss Alice E. Curtis. Corresponding secretary. George S. T. Fuller. Librarian and Curator. Miss Agnes W. Lincoln. Custodian of real estate. Moses W. Mann. Standing Committees. Publication. Miss Helen T. Wild, Chairman. George S. T. Fuller. David H. Bris, Chairman. Edward C. Ellis. Mrs. Ellen M. Gill. Charles R. Byram. Mrs. Julia W. Dalrymple. Papers and addresses. Moses W. Mann, Chairman. Miss Agnes W. Lincoln. David H. Brown. Henry E. Scott. Charles H. Morss. Historic Sites. Moses W. Mann, Chairman. Miss Ella L. Burbank. Leonard J. Manning. Frederi. Heraldry. Fred H. C. Woolley, Chairman. John Albree. William A. Thompson Charles B. Dunham. Orrin E. Hodsdon. Library and Collection. Miss Agnes W. Lincoln, Chairman. Wm. Cushing Wait. Miss Mary E. Sargent. Benjamin F. Fenton. Miss Ella A. Leighton. George S. Delano. Miss Eliza M. Gill. B. Frank Bullard
contested, and a suit brought against the executor. Other claims against the estate not allowed were one each of $6,000 by William McKean, tobacconist, on Ship street, and his wife, and John Callender, a lawyer. The executor of the estate, Captain Samuel Swan, was born in Charlestown in 1750. He was a mariner, and neighbor of Lemuel Cox at Mill Village, selling his house in 1803 to the Middlesex Canal proprietors and moving to Medford. He was a soldier of the Revolution under General Lincoln, who appointed him quartermaster-general with rank of major during Shay's Rebellion. He was also a deputy collector of revenue under General Brooks. When Cox's estate was pronounced insolvent, Laomi Baldwin and Asa Peabody were the commissioners appointed, but Baldwin soon resigned to go to Europe. Bought by his daughter, Betsey Dadley, in 1803, after the sale of his mill property to the Middlesex Canal proprietors, Cox had a house on Main street near the Charlestown Bridge, now
Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 10., Some letters of Miss Lucy Osgood. (search)
s that arrested my attention. Mr. Quincy looked like a man who was engaging with his whole soul in a great and solemn undertaking, but who felt himself to be equal to the task, and his deportment seemed to inspire all with confidence. . . . . Gov. Lincoln quite captivated me, I had never seen him before, and had always heard him spoken of by the angry bridge-men as a little whipper-snapper, who owed his election rather to accident than his own merit, but on this occasion he performed his part wwho hailed from Chelsea. I may be very dull and short-sighted, but until I have more real knowledge about military matters I think I shall continue to feel annoyed at the perpetual fault-finding to which all who are trying to help us, from President Lincoln downwards, seem subjected. It seems to me that this whole affair stands but at the beginning, and that none of us can foresee the end. The marvel would be if blunders were not committed. I want to believe that thus far at least, the want