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Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 11., Unpublished Manuscripts. (search)
cribed, and his entry is made twenty-five years after the occurrence, in a legible hand, on the old-fashioned blue writing paper, and attached with bits of red wafer to the margin of the leaf. Doubtless the occurrence made a vivid impression upon the youngsters of the neighborhood, as fifty-eight years afterward Mr. Swan's nephew took up the story and added more details, and also an incident his uncle omitted from his account thirty-three years before, as seen below. Bees in a dwelling House. Sometime about 1830, as near as I can recollect, at the time of the battle of the bees mentioned by my uncle Caleb Swan as having occurred between the bees of my uncle Joseph Swan and Mr Samuel Train whose house was next my mother's in Medford, a large swarm of bees came one day and settled on the eaves of the house at the Southwest corner, where they had discovered previously an entrance at the gutter into the attic in a space made between the south wall of the attic and the eaves.
Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 11., An old physician's record. (search)
titioning yr Honrs before the last Session was the Absence of Col Bagley, whose Assistance he very much wanted for informing your Honours of the whole Affair. nothing doubting but that your Honours were ever ready to do him Justice as soon as he should shew the justice of his Cause, thoa at never so great a Distance of Time— He therefore at the last Session at Cambridge presented yr Excelly & Honrs with a Petition (of which the present one contains the Contents) wch petitn passed the lower House & was sent up for Concurrence: but before it was considered by the Council, it was unfortunately consum'd in the late Fire, so that your petnr is under a necessity of preferring another: and humbly prays that yr Excelly & Honours wou'd be pleased to grant him such Allowance for his Medicines & extraordinary Service as in your great Wisdom & Goodness you shall think proper & your petitioner as in Duty bound shall ever pray. Ebenr Marrow. Mass. Archives, LXXX, 476. He was allowed £ 21