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Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 15., Some notes from my Scrapbook. (search)
he west side of Main street near Cradock bridge, on land now part of the boulevard, and was moved to its present location and finished as a dwelling-house about seventy-eight years ago. It may be of interest to add that the homestead lot of Dr. Luther Stearns was just north of and adjoining the old house-lot above mentioned. The Stearns house was removed to a location on the east side of Main street. It stands next south of the house standing in the angle made by Main street and Mystic avenue. The Stearns lot comprised that portion of Emerson street adjoining Main street, and the corner (Whalen) lot adjoining. In Medford square. In excavating for the new block on the north side of the square the foundation of an ancient building was uncovered, situated directly in the rear of the brick building, lately demolished, that stood between the Seccomb and Weymouth buildings. Old residents of Medford will recognize this foundation as the site of a building that stood in the rear of an
Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 15., In the interest of accuracy. (search)
In the interest of accuracy. The writer of the article in the July number of the Register, 1915, on Turell Tufts and His Family Connections, desires the following corrections to be made in the interests of accuracy, and begs her readers to recall that oft-quoted line, To err is human, to forgive divine, as an adjustment of the matter. Page 54. High and Forest streets, instead of Main, etc. Page 55. . . . the late Dudley C. Hall, whose father Dudley Hall named a child of his, who died young, for this distant relative. Page 59. Willis Hall (1733-1812), had a daughter Mary (1772-1853) who married Dr. Luther Stearns, December 20, 1798, and a son George H. who married Sarah Chandler of Brattleboro, Vt. Elizabeth (1801-1862) daughter of George H. Hall and his wife Sarah, married George W. Porter, February 17, 1824. They were the parents, etc.