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Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 25., From Medford oversea (search)
ear Stone which you thought was the origin of your town name of Medford. Mr. Davis, the chairman, handed on your letter to me. I have made extensive inquiries about the Matthew Craddock who (your brochure says) founded the Colony of Medford in 1628. There were two Matthew Craddocks living at the same time, Members of Parliament. They were first cousins; one was Member of Parliament for Stafford, the other for London. It was the London M. P. who undoubtedly founded the colony in Massachusetts. There is so far no difficulty. But the real difficulty is that no possible connection can be traced between the Craddocks and the seat of Meaford at the time the colony was founded, nor indeed until a hundred years later. I have not seen the birth of this Matthew Craddock (he died in 1641, just before the beginning of the Civil War) but if he called his colony on the Mistick River Metford I do not think he could have called it after his country seat in Staffordshire for the simple re
Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 25., Medford Church anniversaries. (search)
civic center was the meetinghouse up High street. There the sovereign people gathered in town meeting. James Monroe was President, for the American republic was still young. Dr. John Brooks of Medford had been for several years Governor of Massachusetts, and lived just out of the market place. The public conveyances were the stage coach and the slow-moving canal boat, for the railroad was thirteen years in the future. The sewing machine, the daguerreotype, gas, kerosene lamps and electric ion of the Methodist Episcopal Church in 1789 and the Protestant Episcopal in 1794. Both were essentially American and early pledged their allegiance and support to the administration of Washington. Neither were any too gladly welcomed in Massachusetts by the standing order, where the state religion was intrenched behind a tax levy on one's estate and faculty. Such tax levied, it was a case of pay or go to jail. Thus we may see that it took some courage for any dissenters from the establi
Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 25., Medford broadsides (search)
Medford broadsides In a book of nearly five hundred pages, recently published, is a list of titles of nearly thirty-five hundred broadsides issued in Massachusetts prior to the year 1800, the first being (from the Stephen Daye press set up in Cambridge in 1638) The Freeman's Oath. Three in the list are credited to Medford, two of them in 1771. One is a Poem, Medford, Printed & Sold 1771, and the first two lines are quoted:— one God there is, of wisdom, Glory, Might: One truth there is, to guide our Souls aright. The poem consists of twelve verses of four lines plentifully capitalized and italicized, enumerating Two Testaments, Three Persons in the Trinity, Four Evangelists, Five Senses, Six Days, Seven Lib'ral Arts, Eight Persons in the Ark, Nine Muses, Ten Commandments, Eleven Disciples did with Jesus pray, and closing with twelve there were among our Fathers Old, Twelve Articles our Christian Faith doth hold, Twelve Gates to New Jerusalem there be, Unto which place m
Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 25., Our Centennial number (search)
d matters and those closely related thereto. During that time, Medford has trebled in population and changed in many ways,—some not for the better. Yet there is hope, in a good citizenship and a 100 per cent Americanism. Another thing has trebled—our cost of publication, but not the popular favor to keep pace with it, while the subscription price has been but little advanced. The publication committee has its problem to solve. Very few of the over a hundred historical societies of Massachusetts have such record of publication as has ours. We hope to continue it with success. We mentioned popular favor at first. It is now the winter of our discontent, because in our cosmopolitan growth and the unrest of recent years the preservation of our history and worthy traditions seems to be forgotten. Both our Historical Society and its Register need and will welcome interested workers and willing helpers in place of those now passed on. And in these closing lines the editor, n