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HISTORY OF THE TOWN OF MEDFORD, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, FROM ITS FIRST SETTLEMENT, IN 1630, TO THE PRESENT TIME, 1855. (ed. Charles Brooks), Chapter 2: (search)
that Concord, Sudbury, and Lancaster are at a greater charge in bridges for the public use of the country than some other of their neighbor towns, we conceive it meet that they be abated as followeth: Concord and Lancaster all their rates, whether paid or to be paid, to those two bridges above named, and Sudbury the one-half of their rates to the said bridges, and their abatements to be satisfied to the undertakers of those bridges, or repaid again to such as have paid, as followeth: i.e., Chelmsford, two pounds; Billerica, one pound; Charlestown, ten pounds; Meadford, two pounds; and what these shall fall short of satisfying those above-mentioned abatements, made up out of the county stock, either fines or otherwise, as the Court shall please to determine. Provided always, we think it meet that no stop be made of any the above-said abatement, so as to interfere or obstruct the performing of the present engagement respecting those bridges. Ralfe Mousall.Edward Johnson. Hugh Mas
HISTORY OF THE TOWN OF MEDFORD, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, FROM ITS FIRST SETTLEMENT, IN 1630, TO THE PRESENT TIME, 1855. (ed. Charles Brooks), Chapter 10: trade. (search)
sident. The board of directors being duly organized, the next duty was to commence the necessary surveys of the most eligible route between Medford River and Chelmsford, by the Concord River. Here the committee were met by an almost insurmountable difficulty: the science of civil-engineering was almost unknown to any one in thet. The actual elevation, when afterwards surveyed by a practical engineer, was found to be one hundred and four feet. By the original survey from Billerica to Chelmsford, the surveyor says, The water we estimate in the Merrimac at sixteen and one-half feet above that at Billerica Bridge, and the distance six miles; when, in fact, the water at Billerica Bridge is about twenty-five feet above the Merrimac at Chelmsford. This report shows one of the many difficulties the directors had to contend with for the want of requisite scientific knowledge. On the first (lay of March, the directors passed a vote, appointing Loammi Baldwin, Esq., to repair to Phil
HISTORY OF THE TOWN OF MEDFORD, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, FROM ITS FIRST SETTLEMENT, IN 1630, TO THE PRESENT TIME, 1855. (ed. Charles Brooks), chapter 18 (search)
29.   Elizabeth Bradshaw m. John Muzzy, July 12, 1709.   William Bradshaw m. Elizabeth Lampson, June 5, 1761.   Susanna Bradshaw m. Jonathan Patten, Apr. 14, 1762.   Stephen Bradshaw m. M. Mansfield, Nov. 22, 1763. (Of Alsbury.)   Susanna Bradshaw m. Timothy Newhall, Nov. 1, 1764.   Elizabeth Bradshaw m. Andrew Floyd, of Roxbury, Oct. 31, 1765.   Simon Bradshaw m. Hannah Johnson, July 12, 1770.   Thomas Bradshaw m. Martha Tufts, Nov. 26, 1772.   Patience Bradshaw m. N. Ordway, of Chelmsford, Nov. 22, 1733.   Sarah Bradshaw d. Oct. 22, 1775.  1Bradstreet, John, son of Rev. Simon B., of New London, and grandson of Gov. Bradstreet, b. Nov. 3, 1676; m. Mercy Wade, Oct. 9, 1699, and had--  1-2Dudley, b. Oct. 26, 1701.  3Ann, b. July 7, 1704.  4Lucy, b. May 30, 1706.  5Patience, b. Feb. 13, 1712.  6Mercy, d. Oct. 9, 1712. 1-2DUDLEY Bradstreet, of Boston, probably the son of John, as above, m. Sarah Peirce, of Medford, Aug. 18, 1724.  1Brooks, Thomas