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Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 17., Medford steamboat days. (search)
with a heavy engine from Philadelphia and had acquired the patent of Samuel Morey's revolving engine. It was one of this type that propelled this third Massachusetts steamboat through Medford at a time before steam service was established in Boston harbor or but one steamboat had ever been seen there. It is also interesting to note that Morey's patent was signed by the first president, George Washington. A model of Morey's first engine is now at the University of Vermont at Burlington. In paid. Thus it appears that the little steamboat Merrimack has the unique distinction of steaming through Medford waters on August 11, 1818, one month and six days before the Eagle, (which was but little larger) made her first appearance in Boston harbor. Through this little old town of barely 1400 people with its ship building industry but a few years in progress, close beside, and never far from, but over and across our tidal river, beside our beautiful lake and through the enchanting wo