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Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 30., A New ship, a New colony, and a New church. (search)
besides Bibles and Testaments from the American Bible Society, books and clothing are enumerated. . . . The Vine sailed on Monday afternoon with a fine breeze. And here at last we have found an answer to our query as to whom the pronoun he in the fragmentary letter we quoted from referred. It was Rev. Calvin Holton, the Baptist missionary who sailed in the Vine. The vital records of Gill, Mass., mention his birth thus: Holton. Calvin, son of Nathan and Hannah, b. Mar. 16, 1797. As Gill was incorporated in 1795 and Nathan Holton removed in 1900, there is no other mention of the family. Of his boyhood, education and young life we have as yet found nothing, until the following in the Watchman of December 2, 1825:— At Rev. Dr. Abbott's meetinghouse in Beverly, Mr. Calvin Holton was ordained an evangelist; charge of fellowship by Rev. Mr. Nelson of Lynn. He is destined for the American settlement at Liberia. On March 8, 1826, Captain Grozier of the Vine wrote from Per
Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 30., The Mayflower of the Pilgrims. (search)
The Mayflower of the Pilgrims. [copy.] Found among the papers of the Society's former Secretary, Eliza M. Gill. The ship in which the Pilgrims, who settled at Plymouth, Massachusetts, in 1620, made the passage from Europe to America. Rigged model: Scale 1/2 inch to 1 foot. England, 1620. A wooden, carvel built, keel vessel, with full bluff bow, strongly raking below water line; raking curved stem; large open head; long, round, (nearly log shaped) bottom; tumble — in top side; short run; very large and high square stern; quarter galleries; high forecastle, square on forward end, with open rails on each side; open bulwarks to main and quarter decks; a succession of three quarter decks or poops, the after one being nearly 9 feet above the main deck; two boats stowed on deck; ship rigged with pole masts; without jibs; square spritsail (or water-sail) under bowsprit; two square sails on foremast and mainmast, and lateen sail on mizzenmast. Dimensions of Vessel. Length
Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 30., Editor's comment—the old and New. (search)
he privilege of being at its repetition at the Wellington club house. And now, after his passing on, we are thus preserving his interesting work. We commend its careful reading, and also the Bradbury Ancestry in Vol. IX, Nos. 3 and 4, by Miss Eliza M. Gill, which especially mentions the old house (now standing), the Blanchard-Bradbury-Wellington house, the oldest house in Medford of which we have authentic history. Our views are the result of the work of photographer Thode, procured to illustrate Miss Gill's paper of 1906. We regret that our present makeup forbids the presentation of a more detailed account of Bethany church (Methodist Episcopal), organized forty years ago, and of the Protestant Episcopal Sunday school and mission work in other years. We hope later to do so, respecting the old. As to the new, the closing article and view of St. James' church (Roman Catholic) just completed and opened for Christmas worship, is certainly interesting, timely and up-to-date,