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Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 30., The Brooks Estates in Medford from 1660 to 1927. (search)
ditions of the early freeholder. It is too long except for reference. The estate of Caleb Brooks was inventoried at £ 630 s.14, of which the housing and lands were £ 500 and the personal property, £ 130 s.14. It is evident from the detailed items that the house consisted of a parlour, a parlour chamber, hall, hall chamber, kitchen and garret. There was also a barn. This Samuel, born in 1672, was another prominent townsman until his death in 1753. His gravestone, with that of his wife, Hannah, are in the old Medford cemetery. His house, the second of the Brooks houses, stood on the east side of Grove street, nearly opposite the mansion built later on the west side by his great-grandson, Peter Chardon Brooks, remembered by the present generation as the Francis Brooks place. The house of Samuel stood until 1762, when it was burned. His will shows us again the property of a well-to-do farmer. He had two slaves, Bristow and Boston, one left to his wife and the other to his son Sa
Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 30., A New ship, a New colony, and a New church. (search)
bes and a bell for the academy, 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 Gr