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Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 25., Mr. Stetson's notes on information wanted. (search)
se building will help us here. We may assume that the street and lots had about reached finality when the houses were built, and conversely that as soon as street and lots were fit, houses would be built here. The excavations abreast of the tan-yard and at and about the Hall houses, etc., carried the crest further back and changed the contour of nature. I hope our gazer on the crest measured and noted how far it was in 1630 from the gravel beach. The record of a county road from Mystic bridge to Woburn (2 Register, p. 56) was probably without validity. Mr. Hooper says it is impossible to tell from the descriptions where this way was located. Even if it was possible, April 7, 1674, to tell in a general way, it ought to be definite in order to condemn land for a public easement. Besides, it does not say how wide the easement was to be. We must conclude that High street owed its existence to our potato cart and its successors, and not to the County of Middlesex. I am satis