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Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 22., Medford's town farm. (search)
standard hard money of the time. By careful comparison of the foregoing plat and its bounds and courses with the map of the New Hampshire county of Hillsborough, it is evident that the town farm was within the territory incorporated by Gov. Benning Wentworth on June 16, 1761, as Goffstown, in honor of Col. John Goffe, a resident of the adjoining town of Bedford, and one of the chainmen named in the certificate of Caleb Brooks. The Masonian proprietors had made a grant in 1748 to Rev. Thomas Parker of Dracut, and to others. These last were probably the some Peoples and the Portsmouth gentlemen referred to in Medford records, and by or under them the first settling thought to have been begun in 1742. The decision of the crown as to boundary was in 1740, and gave to New Hampshire territory fourteen miles further south than she had ever claimed. Piscataquogg meant great deer place. The usual reservation of masts for our royal navy was in the charter of all the scores of towns