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Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 30., History of Wellington. (search)
en Malden river on the east and the Cradock farm on the west, for £ 200. Mr. Blanchard died on his farm, so lately purchased, May 21, 1654. At this time the farm was a part of Charlestown and remained so until 1726, when it was annexed to Malden. In 655, after the death of Thomas, the farm was divided between his sons George and Nathaniel. George Blanchard, son of Thomas, had two wives and ten children. He lived on the half of the farm he had inherited from his father, and died there March 18, 1700, aged eighty-four. In the deed of Nathaniel to his brother Samuel, in 1657, he received the house, and it is stated that Samuel was building a house on an acre of ground called The Flax Land, lying lengthwise between the highway and the swamps. This, therefore, must be the old house which every resident of Wellington knows so well. In 1795 it was the only house standing, and was occupied by Captain Wymond Bradbury, a mariner, formerly of Newburyport. The promontory, extending into th