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Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 8., New Hampshire soldiers in Medford. (search)
, says, Medford people are all removed. Every seaport seems in motion. The British had ships and floating batteries in the Mystic river, which flows through the centre of our city, and the following from Mr. Nowell's diary, as given by Rev. Charles Brooks in his History of Medford, shows the excitement and perturbation the inhabitants were subject to and serves to explain the reason why many found it preferable to remove from their homes rather than remain under conditions so trying, unsafeall from a vessel after he had come to Medford to procure bandages for the wounded and was returning over Charlestown Neck. He was of Colonel Stark's regiment and was brought here and interred with the honors of war. Our local historian, Rev. Charles Brooks, says, He lies about fifty or sixty rods north of the old burying ground, also that twenty-five of the general's men who had been killed were brought here and buried in the field about fifty or sixty rods north of Gravelly Bridge. The l
Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 8., The Whitmores of Medford and some of their descendants. (search)
ndebted for much that is known about its history. I refer to Mr. William Henry Whitmore of Boston, who assisted the Rev. Charles Brooks in compiling the History of Medford published in 1855. According to this history, the earliest record of the naate transfers of that time, as his name occurs again and again in the early records of deeds in East Cambridge. Rev. Charles Brooks tells us that Edward Collins was the first land speculator in the Massachusetts Colony, but after looking over theaimed all the messuage farm or plantation called Meadford, by them owned. This is the Edward Collins, called by Rev. Charles Brooks the first land speculator in New England. Besides his frequent purchases and sales of land in Medford and its neicking of our fellow citizens those that insisted that they should not be put back on the building. While assisting Mr. Brooks in compiling the History of Medford, it occured to him that no more fitting place could be found for the remains of his
Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 8., The West End schoolhouse. (search)
he March meeting of that year. The selectmen were equally prompt in paying Mr. Kendall for his work, as on May 10 they ordered the treasurer so to do. Three hundred and eighty-five dollars paid the bill, and twenty dollars more was received by Mr. Brooks for the land. This was on the southwesterly side of Woburn street, in the corner of the Jonathan Brooks estate, adjoining John Bishop's land, where F. A. Oxnard now resides, and was nearly opposite the Sarah Fuller Home. It was then deemed a arly labors in the cause of education, when shown the original picture from which our illustration is copied. This, though not made on the spot by our special artist in years agone, was made by a member of the Historical Society (himself a later Brooks school boy), as the result of information and details gathered from old residents and schoolboys of the '40s, by the writer. It has found a place in the library of the Brooks school of today in company with those of its successors. The four a
Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 8., Full of years. (search)
d to realize that they have passed on. Mr. and Mrs. Dudley C. Hall, Mrs. Thomas S. Harlow and her sister, Mrs. Fitch, Miss Helen Porter, Miss Almira Stetson, Mrs. Matilda T. Haskins, Mrs. George F. Lane, Messrs. Elijah B. Smith, Cleopas Johnson, David Osgood Kidder and eighteen others, resident in Medford, have died within the last seven years, all of them born here more than three quarters of a century ago. We recognized the names of Mr. John K. Fuller of Dorchester, Mrs. Caroline R. (Brooks) Hayes of Woburn, Mrs. Hepsa (Hall) Bradlee of Boston, Mr. Oliver Wellington of Winchester, Mr. Andrew D. Blanchard of Melrose, and Mr. Andrew Waitt of Cambridge, who although no longer residents, claim Medford as their birthplace, and have passed beyond four score years. The records of the early part of the last century are imperfect, and it is difficult to recognize married women under their maiden names, but as careful a search as possible has resulted in finding the following twenty-s
Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 8., West Medford in 1870. (search)
lway cut, the most noticeable object was the First Parish Church, with its several storied steeple, one of which contained the original town clock presented by Mr. Brooks, while higher up was the bell cast by Paul Revere. At this time it will lack the ornamental finish given later by the Toughs (college boys), that of a black stfor a time so numerous in Medford. Across High street and extending to the shores of Medford pond, and off across the line into Winchester, lay the estate of Mr. Brooks, then as now a place of beauty. At that time two great black walnut trees reared their stately forms skyward, near the old brick wall built by Pomp, the slave;of the Gorham Brooks estate, Dennis Harrigan, the section master of the railroad. A. B. Morss lived near Woburn street and later printed the Chronicle. Rev. Charles Brooks, the able historian of Medford, Rev. D. A. Wasson, the radical preacher, Abner J. Phipps of the Board of Education, and Jefferson Hascall, D. D., were then