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Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 20., A receipt in full. (search)
lasses at one and nine and rum at one and six we are led to wonder wherein lay the profit of the rum manufacture. Mr. Brooks wrote It was never a profitable branch of trade; and till 1830, it ruined many persons who entered it. The load of salt-hay of which Mr. Fulton could not carry out the price, was a product of the lower Medford marshes, which Mr. Symmes, like others of upper Medford, owned. These papers were found in Mr. Fulton's desk. How the account was settled does not appear, but a few years later these Medford men had a settlement, as appears by the following in the handwriting of Mr. Fulton and signed by Mr. Symmes. Received Medford 3d Feby 1790 of John Fullton One pound & four Shillings in full, of all Accounts debts dues or Demands to the above date as Witness my hand £ 1 4— Zechariah Symmes Still English money—and during the first administration of Washington, who visited Medford the previous year, and was doubtless seen by both these old Medford