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Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 30., History of Wellington. (search)
History of Wellington. by Abner H. Barker. Read before the Historical Society, October. 1927, by Joseph C. Smith. IN May, 1630, Gov. John Winthrop and his associates arrived in Salem from England, and not being satisfied, proceeded to find land which suited them better. They came south along the coast and settled in Boston, Dorchester, Watertown and Medford. The first record we have of what is now known as Wellington was made at the General Court held in Boston, April 1, 1634, which is as follows;— There is two hundred acres of land ganted to Mr. Nowell, lying and being on the west side of North river, called Three Mile brook (Malden river). There is two hundred acres of land granted to Mr. John Wilson, pastor of the church in Boston, lying next to the land granted to Mr. Nowell, on the south, and next to Meadford on the north. The farm of Mathew Cradock joined the Nowell and Wilson farms, and extended as far as the Mystic lakes and one mile inland from the Myst