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Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 15., Some notes from my Scrapbook. (search)
es by the way. Vol. 18, page 81. Mr. Swan's quotation of Mr. Wells' statement concerning the building of the Samuel Swan house (now the Home of the Aged) may be correct, but the fact remains that a house stood on that location prior to the year 1689. It was the property of Major Jonathan Wade, who died in the year 1689. In the division of his estate it was set off to his daughter Katherine, who married Elizer Wyer—To Katherine Wyer, she hath the house by Marble brook and about 18 acres adjo1689. In the division of his estate it was set off to his daughter Katherine, who married Elizer Wyer—To Katherine Wyer, she hath the house by Marble brook and about 18 acres adjoining, allowing 2 acres for highways. Elizer Wyer and wife Katherine sold, in 1710, house, barn, and sixteen acres of land lying on both sides of the road from Medford to Woburn. This house may have been built by a Mr. Richardson of Woburn; if so he was the builder, not the owner. In the year 1675 Caleb Hubbart sold to John Hall and others five hundred acres of land, part of the Cradock farm. This land was bounded westerly on Thomas Brooks and Timothy Wheeler, easterly on Jonathan Wade, no
Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 15., Some errors in Medford's histories. (search)
street and Riverside avenue. It was probably built about the time that his brother Jonathan's was. The third house was built by Major Jonathan Wade who died in 1689. . . . When first built it was only half its present size. [P. 48.] By reference to the division of Major Wade's estate in Volume 4, page 48, of the Register, it will be seen that one-half of the present house could hardly contain the number of rooms therein spoken of. This house was built between 1683 and 1689. Built by his father, after the model of an English nobleman's house in Antigua. . . [P. 50.] For a description of the Royall house see Register, Vol. 3, p. 133. To first board of selectmen, in 1679 the first highway surveyor, in 1680 the first tithing-man and the first sealer of measures, in 1681-2 the first fence viewers, in 1689 the first representative to the General Court, and in 1693 their first orders and by-laws were approved by the court. Reference has been made to the action of t