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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 10: trade. (search)
ermined to persevere; and appointed Mr. Samuel Thompson, of Woburn, who began his work, and proceeded from Medford River, at a place near the location of the present lock, and followed up the river to Mystic Pond, through the pond and Symmes's River, to Horn Pond in Woburn, and through said pond to the head thereof. Meeting here bars they could neither let down nor remove, they went back to Richardson's Mill, on Symmes's River, and passed up the valley, through the east part of Woburn, to Wilmington, and found an easy and very regular ascent until they reached Concord River; a distance travelled, as the surveyor says, from Medford Bridge to the Billerica Bridge, about twenty three miles; and the ascent he found to be, from Medford River to the Concord, sixty-eight and one-half feet. 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 est
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)
Mehitable Pool, and had--  108-205Willard, b. Dec. 24, 1780.  206William C., b. 1783.  207Benjamin.  208Elizabeth.  209Mehitable, m. Stephen Dow.  210Hannah, m. T. R. Wright, of Pepperell.  211Frances.   Willard (205) has been Secretary of State in Delaware, 1811-1814; Representative to Congress, 1816-1820; District Judge U. S. Ct., May 6, 1823, to date; besides taking a conspicuous part on State questions. He m.--------, and has one child, b. 1809, who m. Dr. Robert R. Porter, of Wilmington. 46 c.-111 a.Stephen Hall, of Sutton, m. Abigail----, and had--  111 a.-211 a.Abigail, b. Dec. 7, 1770; m. Amos Batchelder.  b.Stephen, b. Mar. 4, 1773.  c.Sarah, b. Aug. 20, 1775; m. Elkanah Otis.  d.Betsey, b. Mar. 4, 1778; m. Capt. D. Stone, of Oxford.  e.Simon, b. Mar. 27, 1780.  f. William, b. Mar. 9, 1783;now living in Sutton, on land inherited from Percival, his great-grandfather.  g.Mary, b. Feb. 22, 1785; m. Eli Servey.  h.Calvin, b. Jan. 23, 1789; is of Sut