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Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 3., Bridges in Medford. (search)
less compelled to by law. Malden also took similar action. The town of Medford appointed a committee to attend the premises from Court to Court, until there should be a final determination and settlement of Mistick bridge. The Court of General Sessions of the Peace answered this defiance of these towns in the following manner, Jan. 20, 1693-4: Whereas there was an order of the General Court, referring the settlement of Mistick bridge, to the County Court of Middlesex, and said Court orderihwith make sufficient repairs of the said defects of said bridge, upon pains and penalty of five pounds fine to their Majesties for their respective defaults of each of said towns, and then to make returns of their doings therein to the next General Sessions of the Peace for Middlesex, and that for the future it shall be left to the determination of the law. Jan. 23, 1693-4. The Selectmen of Medford appear in Court and answer that their part of the bridge is in good repair. This prompt ord
Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 2., The highway or Canal through Labor in Vain point. (search)
be travelled was only a few rods. One particular curve in the river, near the foot of Foster court, by reason of the difficulties of its navigation was called Labor in Vain point. For one hundred and thirty-one years several generations of boatmen labored almost in vain round this point. The first successful attempt at straightening the river, and to remedy this obstruction to navigation, was made in the year 1761, when a number of the inhabitants of Medford petitioned the Court of General Sessions of the Peace for a new highway across a point of salt marsh and flats in Medford called Labor in Vain point. The court appointed a committee to view the premises, and to report upon the necessity and convenience of the proposed highway. The committee reported that a highway at the place above mentioned was both necessary and convenient, and the court thereupon appointed a new committee to lay out the way and to estimate the damage that might accrue to any person or persons in their
Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 7., Some old Medford houses and estates. (search)
-23). This location of the Great Barn agrees with that upon the Ten Hills farm plan, and is, without doubt, the old Cradock barn. Mr. Edward Collins, and also the Wade family, no doubt lived in the old Cradock mansion house. The brick house now standing on the hill back of the Savings Bank building was built by Major Jonathan Wade after he came into possession of his estate under his father's will. In the year 1692-93, Mrs. Elizabeth Wade, widow of Major Wade, petitioned the Court of General Sessions of the Peace for an abatement of the taxes assessed upon the Wade estate by the selectmen of Meadford, claiming that by reason of sickness and also by reason of his (Major Wade's) great charges in building, etc., the personal estate was very much reduced. This would seem to indicate that the great charges were incurred in building the brick house. All of these old buildings were no doubt built of wood. Fine brick buildings such as the Wade and Tufts houses were not built in the earl
Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 8., The taverns of Medford. (search)
trong drinks and other liquors, either in-doors or out, was obliged to obtain from the selectmen of the town in which he resided a recommendation that he was a suitable person to be licensed, and this recommendation presented to the Court of General Sessions of the Peace, was usually favorably acted upon by the court and a license granted, and the person so licensed was required to furnish a bond with sureties for the faithful observance of the law. The form of such license was as follows: A. B.ublic house of entertainment was licensed in Medford prior to the year 1690, although from the testimony of Mr. Dunton, there was an ordinary kept in Medford as early as 1686. In the year 1690 the selectmen of Medford addressed the Court of General Sessions of the Peace as follows: The Selectmen of Meadford finding it necessary that there be a House of Entertainment kept in Meadford, have nominated and appointed Daniel Woodward to keep the same and we do present it to this Honored Court believi
Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 9., The first book of records, Medford, Mass. (search)
arned to be gone, which was filed and entered at the County Court in Cambridge. I cannot state whether William went away or not, but probably he did not. The first list of taxes, or County Rate, as it is called, is under date of February 9, 1684-5, and contains nineteen names, among which are many that were common through later years in our local matters, such as Wade, Hall, Brooks, Willis, Tufts, Francis, Whitmore, Bradshaw and others. On October 19, 1686, the Court of Pleas and General Sessions at Cambridge appointed Stephen Willis to take account of all births and deaths within the Township of Medford. This evidently was the beginning of the census of births of our present time, and the record, which is in the back part of this book of which I am writing, was undoubtedly commenced then. Stephen Willis, who was town clerk, either through personal knowledge or obtaining information from the families, wrote up these records for the previous years, which do not come in chronolo
Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 16., Volume II of Medford records. (search)
of ye Assessment & Charges of Taking and Keeping of the Disstress or Disstresses to be Immediately Restored to ye owner And for want of Goods or Chatles whereon to make Disstress you are to Seize ye Body or Bodys of ye person or persons so Refusing and him or them Commit unto the Common Goale of ye said Counte ther to remaine untill he or they pay and Satisfie ye Several Sumes or Sumes wherat they are Respectively Assessed as aforesaid unless upon Aplication made To the Court of ye Generall Sessions of ye Peace the sume or any part thereof shall be abated— The first record in the book is the warrant issued February 12, 1718, calling the annual March meeting for the election of town officers and the transaction of certain other business, a part of which was to consider what may be done to defend the Town from charge by strangers coming in. This warrant is followed by the record of the meeting, in which is entered the following:— Medford, March ye 3d 1718 To the Selectmen an
Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 17., About the old mill (search)
r 1710 Joseph Prout sold to Jonathan Dunster mill, mill yard, buildings and orchard one acre. Also one and three-fourths acres of meadow land on the north side of the river at the end of the mill dam. Also one and one-half acres of upland on the north side of the river at the end of the old dam. Here we have the first direct reference to the possible existence of two dams across the river. At this time it may be well to quote from the report of a committee appointed by the Court of General Sessions of the Peace to enquire into the convenience of the Highway and whether it is needful, referring to a County road that is needful to be laid out from Menotomy road, so across Menotomy fields, over the Ware, through Medford, to a place called Mr. Convers mills in Woburn. July 8, 1709, the committee report that having visited the road leading from Menotomy to Convers mill in the township of Woburn, both in the Ancient road where Wheeler his mill formerly stood, and also the road leading
Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 23.,
Medford turnpike
Corporation. (search)
aveled be not less than twenty-four feet in width in any place, and when the said road shall be sufficiently made and approved by a committee of the Court of General Sessions of the Peace for the County of Middlesex to be appointed for that purpose, then the said turnpike corporation shall be and hereby is authorized to erect a tuort10 shares, Nos. 49, 50, 51, 52, 53, 54,55, 56, 57, 58. At the meeting held May 5, 1803, Nathaniel Hall was appointed an agent to petition the Court of General Sessions to appoint a committee to lay out and appraise the lands taken for the Medford turnpike road. At a meeting held June 18, 1803, it was voted that the officer voted to adopt, as a seal of the corporation, the letters M. T. inclosed in a heart as a field. September 12, 1803, the committee appointed by the Court of General Sessions of the Peace to lay out the Medford turnpike road, or such part thereof, as with the consent of the proprietors of said turnpike they might think proper, mad
Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 26., History of the Medford High School. (search)
one in the classics by way of qualifying students for college. A good start in Latin was given and that was all. The Greek and the advanced Latin had to be learned in other institutions. But at the date named above a second assistant was appointed and the difficulty was completely remedied. To meet the further demands of increasing numbers and give greater latitude in the election of studies, a third assistant was added in 1881, a fourth in 1888, a fifth in 1890, and a sixth in 1891. Sessions and Vacations. When the schools became annual, they were made superlatively so. In 1846 they had eleven three-hour sessions each week for forty-eight weeks out of the fifty-two, Fast week, Thanksgiving week, and two weeks in huckleberry time being vacation. In 1847, an unusually bold and liberal Committee having been elected, The entire Board of seven men was elected annually till 1857. they resolved to break the precedent either by giving the schools four weeks vacation in summer
Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 29., The Cradock house, past and future. (search)
landmark. It was probably one hundred feet or more in length, with a lean-to. The location of this great barn, as recognized by later deeds, accords exactly with the Ten Hill farm plan of 1637, and was undoubtedly the Cradock barn. The brick house now standing on the hill back of the savings bank was built by Major Jonathan Wade after he came into possession of his estate under his father's will. In the year 1692-93, Mrs. Elizabeth Wade, widow of Major Wade, petitioned the Court of General Sessions of the Peace for an abatement of taxes assessed upon the Wade estate by the selectmen of Meadford, claiming that by reason of sickness and also by reason of his (Major Wade's) great charges in building the personal estate was very much reduced. This would seem to indicate the great charges were incurred in building the brick house. This house and the Peter Tufts house, and probably the part of the old house at the corner of High street and Hastings lane, the Deacon Bradshaw house, ar
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