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Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 26., Lieutenant Sprague's long fence. (search)
following the Indian trail, and lighted on an uncouth wilderness, full of timber, and adjoining the farm Mr. Cradock's servants had planted. He became a settler in the peninsula we know as Charlestown the next year with Governor Winthrop's company and was a man of note in the town. Governor Winthrop died in 1647 but his farm was still in possession of the family and a fence was required between it and Charlestown's common land. Through the latter was but one road to Manottomy (present Broadway, Somerville), and through Mr. Winthrop's farm only the Charlestown and Cambridge roads (now Main and Harvard streets in Medford.) The fence Richard Sprague built was probably mainly a stone wall, topped with tree branches or brush secured from the comon, or wooded Walnuttree hill. Thus reinforced, it was a barrier against the reasonable Cattle turned into the stinted comon, without the peninsula. A little corner of the common land extended down the river, but the fence began at Mistick