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y-year-old hamlet into a town called Meadford. The genealogy of Peter Tufts' family is a curious study. What a fatality must have hovered about that old house that six of the first seven children of Peter and Mary Cotton Tufts should, in early infancy, die, and only John (the third) be spared, he whom his townspeople, in 1712, wanted for their minister. Next, in 1700, was Simon, who was Medford's first physician. And Simon had just attained his majority when Captain Peter passed away in 1721. We read that the property his father Peter bequeathed him in Medford consisted of seventeen acres of land, five of which were at Snake-hole. And where was Snake-hole? Was it the wonderful tunnel we were told of when we visited the fine old home of Captain Peter? We don't think so; still, we have a little curiosity as to that locality and how it got the name. We have gathered up the few incidents named with the wish that others more curious may be more successful in their quest of the d