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Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 29., The old powder house. (search)
nce. Medford had taken alarm and removed its powder elsewhere just before the visit of the British troops, who removed the two hundred and fifty half-barrels it contained to Boston. We cannot say when it was last used for safe storage of powder, but remember that our first sight of it (except from the railway cars) was in summer of 1861 as we walked up from Central street to Camp Cameron, near Cambridge line, where is now Holland street in West Somerville. The large three-story house of Tufts stood on the opposite corner and bore a sign Somerville House, indicating its use as a tavern. A small dwelling and barn were near the powder house, from whose roof the stars and stripes were flying. The old stone quarry was plainly visible. The land southward was entirely vacant and open as far as the Boston & Lowell railway track where was a little flag station called Willow Bridge. The triangular space between the railroad, Menotomy road and present Warner street was partly in Medford
Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 29., The Cradock house, past and future. (search)
ho died too soon to suffer jest upon his name. Another child who was to mean much to the later history of Medford was Simon Tufts, graduated at Harvard in 1724, the first physician of Medford. It was Dr. Simon Tufts who was the warm personal frienDr. Simon Tufts who was the warm personal friend of Isaac Royall and used his powers of persuasion to hold Sir Isaac to the cause of the colonies, and who, after the latter's voyage to England, became agent of his estate, protecting it against the fury of the patriots and endeavoring to gain permission for Royal] to return to his native home. The son of Dr. Tufts, Dr. Simon Tufts the Second, was also one of Medford's trusted physicians. There was, of course, a third Peter Tufts, oldest son of Captain Peter. A short time before his deDr. Simon Tufts the Second, was also one of Medford's trusted physicians. There was, of course, a third Peter Tufts, oldest son of Captain Peter. A short time before his death Captain Peter Tufts conveyed to this oldest son of his forty-five acres of land on the north side of the way to Blanchard's, i.e., Wellington, Also the east half of my brick house, as it is divided by the fore door and stairway, the stairway
Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 29., And who was Peter Tufts? (search)
Lidgett over across the river; of Andros' ousting and the news of the accession of the new sovereigns, William and Mary. The tax-payers then were only about thirty, and Peter Tufts was one very notable among them, one of the men that had to do with the making of the fifty-year-old hamlet into a town called Meadford. The genealogy of Peter Tufts' family is a curious study. What a fatality must have hovered about that old house that six of the first seven children of Peter and Mary Cotton Tufts should, in early infancy, die, and only John (the third) be spared, he whom his townspeople, in 1712, wanted for their minister. Next, in 1700, was Simon, who was Medford's first physician. And Simon had just attained his majority when Captain Peter passed away in 1721. We read that the property his father Peter bequeathed him in Medford consisted of seventeen acres of land, five of which were at Snake-hole. And where was Snake-hole? Was it the wonderful tunnel we were told of when we v