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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 1: (search)
bout the year 1680, the landing place now occupied by Mr. J. T. Foster. Feb. 21, 1698.--At this time the river was frozen, as it is in our day. Judge Sewall, under this date, says: I rode over to Charlestown on the ice, then over to Stower's (Chelsea), so to Mr. Wigglesworth. The snow was so deep that I had a hard journey; could go but a foot-pace on Mystic River, the snow was so deep. The absence of epidemics in Medford is to be attributed in part to the presence of our river. At high part, for its supply. After then it grew and within twenty years has been a thick wood again. Recently the whole hill has been denuded, and much of its poetry lost. The earth looks best with its beard. The eminence — which commands a view of Chelsea and Boston Harbor on the east; Boston, Roxbury, and Cambridge, on the south; Brighton, Watertown, and West Cambridge track of woodland on the north — has on its summit a flat rock, called Lover's Rock; on of those register-surfaces where a young
HISTORY OF THE TOWN OF MEDFORD, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, FROM ITS FIRST SETTLEMENT, IN 1630, TO THE PRESENT TIME, 1855. (ed. Charles Brooks), Chapter 12: crimes and Punishments. (search)
4,000. The other report of facts, in their relation to science, fills forty pages of the little pamphlet which was published Oct. 30, 1851. It will not be republished here, but may be found among the papers of the Smithsonian Institute. The tornado commenced about five o'clock, P. M., in Wayland, passed through Waltham and West Cambridge, and entered Medford a few rods south of Wear Bridge. From that point it moved west by south to east by north, and kept this line till it ceased in Chelsea. The report describes the following facts: Direction; centre; form; width; speed; power; directions in which trees and vegetables were thrown; directions in which buildings were thrown; absence of whirl; miscellaneous items; personal injuries and death. The report closes thus:-- I must pay a tribute of respect to the people of Medford who were sufferers by this visitation. One and all have sustained their losses, met their disappointments, and borne their sorrows, with a true Christia
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)
ied among the Brookses will be found in that family record.  1-5SUSANNA m. Mr. Goldthwait, who d. six months after, without children. She m., 2d, John Pratt, of Chelsea, Dec. 6. 1753, and had--   Thomas, b. m. Anne Cheever; has son Thomas.   John, Susan, by first marriage. Children of John and Mary (Tewksbury) Pratt are Johary, George, Eliza, Sarah Tewksbury, Caroline, Eleanor, James, Charlotte Albree, and William Touro. m. Mary Tewksbury.   Elizabeth.   Susanna, m. John Green, of Chelsea.   Joanna, m.----Green, of Chelsea.  8-18Elizabeth Albree m. Peter Hall, Jan. 2, 1817. She d. Jan. 8, 1853. Her children were--   Martha, b. June 4, 1818; m.Chelsea.  8-18Elizabeth Albree m. Peter Hall, Jan. 2, 1817. She d. Jan. 8, 1853. Her children were--   Martha, b. June 4, 1818; m. Alonzo Rust, Mar. 31, 1836.   Charles B., b. Oct. 15, 1820; m. Roxalina Branch, Feb. 10, 1846.   Samuel A., b. May 29, 1823.   Elizabeth, b. Nov. 24, 1825.   Mary Jane, b. Aug. 1, 1828.   Judith, b. Feb. 2, 1831.   Lucy Ann, b. June 22, 1833.   George W., b. Apr. 2, 1838.   Angier, Samuel, m. Ab