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Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 9., The Bradburys of Medford and their ancestry. (search)
there was a great deal, and under his cultivation the farm was noted for its great asparagus beds. He was a great distance from the meeting-house and school of the town to which he belonged and separated from them by the river and marshes. So we find him an attendant at the First Parish in Medford, a parishioner of Dr. Osgood, and he owned a pew in the old third meeting-house where later his grandchildren were baptized, with water probably from the silver baptismal basin, the gift of Mr. John Willis. Though he found his church life and a social life among the townspeople here, yet not all his leanings were toward Medford, for his civil relations existed with Malden, and he performed his duties there as a patriotic citizen, serving upon the Committee of Correspondence, or as it was finally called, Correspondence, Inspection, and Safety, 1782-1784. Serving with him for the whole or a portion of this period were Captain William Waite, Captain Jonathan Oakes and James Kettell. T
s old foundations and now stands in Tufts Square, to be remodeled for mercantile and other purposes. It is the old Mystic House, famous for its hospitality in the palmy days of the trotting park. The long rows of stables were removed last year. The track has not yet been disturbed and occasionally one sees a trotter taking his exercise there, but the Park is a thing of the past, and the names of the streets which are being built across it will alone recall the days when Wright, Billings, Willis and Alexander controlled the place and Bonner's horses under the hands of jockeys like Golden, Doble, Trout and others came under the wire amid the plaudits of thousands. The Mystic House occupied the site of the tenement mentioned in early deeds of Ten Hill Farm. Before 1850 the land upon which it stood was the Nathan Adams Farm. From the Selectmen's records. Some of us who groan at the price of fuel in 1906 may take courage and cease to bemoan the good old days of yore, as we rea
Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 9., Proceedings of the 275th Anniversary of the settlement of Medford. (search)
r. Jonas Green's in Malden to house of Simon Tufts. Thompson, PhoebeStoneham, July 22, 1765May 6, 1766In family of Dr. Simon Tufts. Thompson, RichardWilmington, Sept. 6, 1764Apprentice in family of Nathl. Peirce. Thompson, SamuelWoburn, Feb., 1771Apprentice to Ebenezer Hall, Jr. Thrift, HannahMar. Ct., 1758Servant of Benj. Pierce. See Hannah Priest. Tibido, JohnTenant of Col. Royall, 1762. Tottingham, DavidJan. 30, 1791 Townsend, DavidLynn, May 17, 1757Mar. 22, 1758Taken in by Capt. Willis.        Mary (wife)        Mary (daughter) Townsend, JethroAug. 31, 1797 Tucker, AbigailPepperell, Dec. 11, 1765Sept. 1, 1766Servant of Saml. Angier. Tufts, HannahBostonApr. 6, 1759 Dec. Ct., 1759Daughter of James and Phoebe Tufts. Tufts, JonathanDeceased before May 3, 1756. Tenant of Col. Royall. Tufts, PhoebeDec. Ct., 1759 Tufts, Phoebe, Jr.Boston, Oct. 2, 1759Nov. 21, 1759Taken in by Phoebe Tufts. Tufts, Samuel Brothers.Charlestown, Apr. 18, 1763Nov. 30, 1763Tenant