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Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 22., William Gray of Salem and Samuel Gray of Medford. (search)
ice of the Supreme Court of the United States. There are several reasons to account for the Grays being here, relationship for one, as Mrs. Gray was the daughter of John Chipman and Elizabeth (Brown) Chipman of Marblehead, the latter's sister, Abigail Brown, being the wife of Rev. Edward Brooks of Medford. At that time our town was a small one, with a population of eleven hundred. There were not many houses on the Woburn road (our present High street) between the market place and Meeting-house brook. Most of them had wide spaces of land around and between them, with an open view across the river. Save for a few buildings close to the market place on the east, there were still fewer houses along the Salem road. Ship building had not begun; there was no local stage; only one long-distance one passed through the place; there was no town house; but one meeting-house, and one schoolhouse. Sea captains and Boston merchants found it a good residential place for the summer. Sev
Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 22., Why Mystic? (search)
rice again alongside Winthrop's farm), and his failure to mention the ponds, makes it improbable. But six miles would take the voyagers by the Ten-hills farm, the ford and to the scarred promontory of Rock hill. From the ford onward, the sylvan scene must have been enchanting, as the Medford Pasture hill with its wooded slopes rose abruptly from the plain beside Gravelly brook, but more gently from the river. Then came the brooks before and beyond Rock Hill, those later to be known as Meeting-house and Whitmore, and then the long encircling reach of the river to the Indian weare and fording place. Surely the Cradock farm was beautiful for situation, four miles along the river and a mile back in all places. Winthrop's farm was in Charlestown (he was not a Medfordite at all), and extended from just below the ford down stream below the slope of Winter hill. There was a lot of marsh land even in the Ten-hills farm. But it was on the lower end of this farm that the Blessing of t
Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 22., Meeting-house brook. (search)
Meeting-house brook. A few years ago we received a request from an elderly man, long absent from, but Medford born, that some one write for the Register the story of the Frenchman's mill. He pa, and again by Mr. Woolley in his story of the brook of Medford, beside which was the Second Meeting-house. His description revived an interest awakened by reading of the Bower in Brooks' History, aad been long deferred, and nine o'clock found him at High street, looking into the waters of Meeting-house brook. So he said, Well, old brook, I've seen you many times before in your straight-jacketoir. This forms a barrier across the valley and cuts off further search for the source of Meeting-house brook, once called Marrabel's or Marble. Its original source was over half a mile farther oed him some views as souvenirs of a pleasant ramble on an equally pleasant midwinter day. Meeting-house is but one of the direct tributaries of the Mystic, and the views facing page 64 were secure