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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 10 0 Browse Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Massachusetts in the Army and Navy during the war of 1861-1865, vol. 1, Mass. officers and men who died. 8 0 Browse Search
Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 22. 3 1 Browse Search
Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 2 (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.) 2 2 Browse Search
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Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 22., Medford's town farm. (search)
standard hard money of the time. By careful comparison of the foregoing plat and its bounds and courses with the map of the New Hampshire county of Hillsborough, it is evident that the town farm was within the territory incorporated by Gov. Benning Wentworth on June 16, 1761, as Goffstown, in honor of Col. John Goffe, a resident of the adjoining town of Bedford, and one of the chainmen named in the certificate of Caleb Brooks. The Masonian proprietors had made a grant in 1748 to Rev. Thoma740, and gave to New Hampshire territory fourteen miles further south than she had ever claimed. Piscataquogg meant great deer place. The usual reservation of masts for our royal navy was in the charter of all the scores of towns chartered by Wentworth, and perhaps after province days some of the timber of that region found its way to Medford ship yards. Squog village, within the two miles west of the Merrimack, has been annexed to, and is now a part of, Manchester. In 1812 there was bu