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Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 11., Ye olde Meting-House of Meadford. (search)
Ye olde Meting-House of Meadford. by Moses W. Mann, West Medford. [Read before the Medford Historical Society, May 5, 1906.] TWO hundred and ten years ago there was erected in the eastern border of that thriving portion of our fair city that is known as West Medford an humble building our fathers called there meting-house. As far as is known not much has been written in the way of narrative about it (at least for a half century), yet its building marked an era in the history of our peculiar (town), that was founded in 1630. It may seem singular, yes, peculiar, that no house for the purpose of public worship was erected in Medford for sixty-five years, when we recall that in other places the church was gathered when the town was planted. Perhaps it was logical to do the planting first and the gathering afterward. Such was the case in 1642 on our northern border in the settlement of Woburn. One of its founders records the fact that it was unnatural for a right N. E. man t
Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 11., Ye olde Meting-House of Meadford. (search)
Ye olde Meting-House of Meadford. by Moses W. Mann, West Medford. [Continued from Vol. II, No. 2.] THE seats in the pews were hinged, and turned up on edge as the people stood during the long prayer. This concluded, they were turned down again, and the result was like a fusillade of musketry all over the house. Mr. Porter's pastorate was all too short, as he died after serving the church and town nine years, and was succeeded by the Rev. Ebenezer Turell in 1724. He, like his predecessor, took unto himself a wife soon after coming to Medford. Still more room was needed for the accommodation of the people, and after much discussion the town built a new and much larger meeting-house just beyond the brook, and on August 21, 1727, worshipped in the subject of our sketch for the last time. The selectmen were directed to sell it, for the best advantage for the town. I find no report of their doings in the matter on the record; but upon the treasurer's book under date of J
Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 11., chapter 12 (search)
course. October 21.—Jamaica. Illustrated. Mr. Rosewell B. Lawrence. November 18.—A Story of Gettysburg. Gen. Luther Stephenson of Hingham. December 16.—The Old State House. Mr. Charles F. Read of Brookline, clerk of the Bostonian Society. January 20.—Jamestown and the Jamestown Colony. Rev. James L. Hill, D. D. of Salem. February 17.—The First Parish in Medford. Rev. Henry C. DeLong. March 16.—Annual Meeting. April 20.—Our first railroad and how it was built. Illustrated. Mr. Moses W. Mann. May 18.—Old-fashioned Medicinal Remedies. Charles S. Ensign, Ll.B. of Newton. Saturday Evening course. December 7.—Some Pictures of the Far East. Illustrated. Dr. Walter G. Chase of Boston. January 4. —Samuel Adams. Mr. Charles G. Chick, President of the Hyde Park Historical Society. February 1. (Postponed to February 1.)—Some Brick-makers of Medford. Mr. George S. Delano. March 7.—A Pupil's Life in Mystic Hall Seminary. Mrs. Jenny P. Brigham of Brookline