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Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 22., Medford on the map. (search)
ap as expressive of publicity or wide-awakeness. Appropriate in its way, for the town or hamlet not shown on some map must be small indeed. Our caption, however, must be taken literally. In the early days of the Medford Historical Society, President Wait prepared and read a valuable paper on Maps of Medford (Register, Vol. I, p. I 19) in which are reproductions, necessarily small, of six maps showing Medford's area as a whole or in part. The latest Medford map thus alluded to was that of 18ve been included in the printed city reports. The latest we notice is that of Engineer Charnock, January I, 1916. This shows the ward and precinct lines, and such streets in Maiden, Somerville and Arlington as cross or are near boundaries. Judge Wait alluded to twenty-two plans of various localities in Medford that were recorded in Middlesex (South) Registry between 1827 and 1855. One of these (August, 1850) in Plan Book 5, p. 8, he styles very interesting. It is called Land of Brooks, at
Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 22., Medford's town farm. (search)
of the moderator and an early teacher in Medford. At the town meeting, July 19, 1738, was discussed The affier of plan of Medford and the land voted to be petitioned for should be left to ye Discretion of the Committe By this it would appear that a map, or plan, of Medford and its distant farm had been contemplated. Had the committeemen's (Willis and Hall) judg meet for the Town's interest that such should have been made, it would have antedated the Ephraim Jones plan noted by Judge Wait (Register, Vol. I, p. 128), the earliest plan of Medford, by sixteen years. But the plan of the distant farm had been made and filed with the province authorities two years before, and perhaps the committee deemed that enough. An interesting entry in the Medford record is this:— We the Subscribers being appointed July 14, 1740 a committee to perfect the lines of the farm granted by the Genl Court 1735 which Lyeth on Pescatequogg River according to the Plan of the Same accordingly we
Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 24., Bogus history. (search)
y regretted to dispel a treasured local illusion, they had to do it. In the above quotation, the Nomad asks a pertinent query, and his somewhat conditional reply is well illustrated by Mr. Brooks' successor, Mr. Usher, in his work of 1886, a practical reprint of the History of 1855. But who were the gentlemen of the Historical Society, the iconoclasts who assailed the bogus history, and established beyond doubt the identity of the house in question? In reply we name three: Hon. William Cushing Wait, in his article on Maps of Medford, Mr. Walter H. Cushing, in The Cradock Farm, both read at Society meetings and published in the Register. Then, Mr. John H. Hooper took up the burden of proof, by a careful search in the Middlesex Registry. The result of his work, read before the Society, preserved on our pages (Vol. VII, pp. 49-64), fixes the erection of the so-called Cradock house as at about 1680 (not 1634) at the instance of Peter Tufts (commonly called Captain Peter), a le
Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 24., Season of 1920-1921. (search)
y the few ill-mannered boys who found their way thither. But in the main the demeanor of the younger element was very commendable. The May meeting marked the completion of the twenty-fifth year of the Society's corporate existence, and in response to the notice sent by mail to each and every member, we had twenty-five present. Letters were read from several, regretting absence, and of congratulation and good will. Brief addresses were made, after the President's welcome, by former Presidents Wait and Eddy, by Dr. Green, president of the Royall House Association, and Miss Wild, former Editor of the Register. Former Presidents Hooper and Mann were present to enjoy the occasion, which was one of real interest. The adjournment was to meet at the call of the President, and a social half-hour, with refreshments, followed. During the year the Society has been represented at meetings of the Bay State League at Boston, Methuen, Concord and Arlington by President Ackerman and Mr. and
Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 29., Medford Historical Society. (search)
Moses W. Mann. Papers and Addresses. Mrs. Ruth D. Coolidge. Charles T. Daly. Miss Lily B. Atherton. Hall Gleason. Edward T. Bigelow. Membership. The Entire Membership. Library. Moses W. Mann. Charles T. Daly. Hon. William Cushing Wait. Historic Sites. Miss Ella L. Burbank. will C. Eddy. Moses W. Mann. Samuel C. L. Haskell. Genealogy. Miss Elizabeth R. Carty. Henry E. Scott. Mrs. John H. Googins. Heraldry. Dr. Charles M. Green. Charles B. D Scott. Mrs. Harriet A. C. Scott. Miss Rhoda C. Slate. Miss Hila Helen Small. Herbert F. Staples. Miss Katharine H. Stone. Miss Abby E. Teel, Saugus. Life MemberLeonard Tufts, Pinehurst, N. C. Frank G. Volpe. Life MemberHon. William Cushing Wait. Harry E. Walker. Miss Mary L. Washburne. F. Irving Weston. Mrs. Cora F. Weston. Miss E. Josephine Wilcox. Miss Helen T. Wild. Dr. Samuel H. Wilkins. J. D. P. Wingate. Mrs. Helen Wingate. William H. Winkley. Life MemberIr
Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 29., The Cradock house, past and future. (search)
of all that I could glean about the old brick house on Riverside avenue (properly Ship street), is headed by the title of Cradock house. And in spite of all we can do or say it is probable that it will be known as the Cradock house for years to come. A lie travels a mile while truth is getting his boots on, runs the old proverb, and the tradition which apparently assumed its first form in the splendid history of Medford by Rev. Charles Brooks is more potent than the infinite accuracy of Judge Wait, Mr. Walter Cushing, so long teacher of history in our Medford schools, John Hooper and Moses Mann. Even the Transcript, up until 1914, published religiously every week in the Strangers' Directory, Cradock house, Medford. Built 1634, the first brick house in the colony, and the oldest house standing in North America. Every brick was imported from England. Named from Matthew Cradock, governor of the Massachusetts Company in New England. It is hard enough for Medford to lose its shipbui
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