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Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 22., An interesting incident. (search)
about Boston. His marriage completed a double knot, as his sister was the wife of Henry S. Barnes, whose sister became Mr. Fuller's wife. When the First Trinitarian was merged with the Mystic Church he became a member of the West Medford Congregational Church, of whose meeting-house he was janitor for some years. During a severe illness his duties were performed by two members of the Parish Committee, who thus saved to his family his salary for several months. (One of the two was Robert A. Rogers, who passed away a few weeks since). I think it was in the summer of 1864, on a beautiful, but quite warm sabbath morning that I first saw Mr. Fuller. He was seated in the centre, fourth pew from the front of the meeting-house of the First Trinitarian Church, in the uniform of a Union soldier. He had obtained a furlough, and had arrived in town just in good time for church. He had either omitted to write about it, or had come more quickly than his letter, so his coming was unexpe
Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 22., On one side of
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bstantial old house, one of the best in the Medford of its time, takes on a new lease of life by its housing of the art preservative. Its first owner was the tavern keeper in the years that preceded and during the Revolution. The old sign with the emblems of royalty and the royal motto Dieu et mon droit, suffered at the hands of the minute-men as they came back from Lexington, and was taken down. That the tavern ceased to be the Royal Oak is shown by a letter, still preserved, written by Rogers, the New Hampshire Ranger in 1775 from Porter's tavern in Medford. Within a few weeks one of his descendants has been here in Medford to see the location and also the Royall house, and to tread over the route taken by her ancestor. After the war, which seems to have left Porter in better circumstances than it did others, as shown by the erection of this house, he engaged in a general merchandise business which included the necessaries of life, West India Goods and Groceries. So did his