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Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 24., Henry Putnam of Medford. (search)
entury and a half ago. For this acre and a half, to be thus bounded by a highway and by land of persons named, it would seem most probable to lie in the valley of Meetinghouse brook, near and on the same side of the road as the present Home for the Aged. At that time there was no Winthrop street. Parson Turell had purchased his house fifty years before, which was between present Rural avenue and Winthrop street. The original portion of the Puffer house (formerly Swan, now the Home) built in 1689, was till 1872 nearer the street and to the brook, which left a sufficient space between for an acre and a half of narrow frontage (as was also Turell's). It seems more probable, however, that it was farther west on the lower ground, which was well situated for a potter's shop and works, mentioned in the mortgage to John Andros. It is a matter of record that there was clay in the land directly opposite, and the high bank now in evidence suggests a probable excavation beside it. A conveyan