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Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 11., Ye olde Meting-House of Meadford. (search)
obert Sedgwick, Edward Johnson, and four others through the farm of Zachariah Symmes, the minister of the Charlestown Church, to explore the territory to the north, located as Charlestown Village. The way they took was over the rocky hill, where had dwelt the Indian king Nanepashemit, and their route came to be known as the Oborn rode. At the top of the hill another road divides from this, the way to the Weare. It is appropriately called High street, and the hill is still known as Marm Simonds'. The order of the General Court in 1635 that hereafter no dwelling-house shall be built above half a mile from the meeting-house in any plantation without leave from the court, was of none effect in Meadford. There was no meeting-house to measure from, and Meadford's dwellings were scattered from Charlestown to Menotomy, along a road little better than a cow-path, and whose course through the forest was marked by blazing the trees at intervals on either side. It is the purpose of th