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HISTORY OF THE TOWN OF MEDFORD, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, FROM ITS FIRST SETTLEMENT, IN 1630, TO THE PRESENT TIME, 1855. (ed. Charles Brooks), Chapter 10: trade. (search)
There is a tradition, probably founded on fact, that small sloops, called lighters, fit for the river navigation, were built in very early times at the landing near Rock Hill, in West Medford. At a later day, one of these was built there by Mr. Rhodes, of Boston, and called the Mayflower, in honor of that vessel of one hundred and eighty tons which came across the Atlantic freighted to the full with religion and liberty, and which landed our Pilgrim Fathers on the Rock of Plymouth. The regi.Builders.Owners.Their Residence.Ton'age. 11803BrigMount Aetna First vessel built in this town after the Revolution. There were some built before the Revolution, as one named Mayflower, for that which brought over the Plymouth Puritans, by Mr. Rhodes, of Boston, on land now owned by Mr. Hastings.T. Magoun'sT. MagounMelzer HolmesBoston187.73 21804ShipMedfordS. Lapham's The present owners' names are given in all cases. This yard was owned first by Messrs. Turner & Briggs, then by Mr. Tur