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Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 29., The Cradock house, past and future. (search)
is case to a skinners' company in Broad street, London. So it must have been that while Cradock was a mere stripling he saw the skins valuable for their fur which were brought into London from across the seas, and must have peopled that continent of North America with multitudes of wolves, beavers, foxes, and martens, awaiting transformation into pounds sterling. How he acquired his wealth we do not know, but he traded in all the seas. He invested two thousand pounds in Persia and the East Indies, sent ships to the Levantine, the Mediterranean and the Baltic provinces. If one could only identify him with Dick Whittington the romantic appeal would be complete. Also romantic is the very name of his first wife, Damaris. But Cradock was apparently a shrewd and careful business man. He turned now from the east to where westward the star of empire takes its way and invested his money in New England. We may as well confess here, that financially the investment was probably a failur