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February 15th (search for this): chapter 27
er volume. At their first meeting in 1819, on January 22, we find: Voted, That the following names be posted up in the houses and shops of all Taverns, Innholders and Retailers within said town as a list of the names of persons reputed common drunkards, common tipplers, spending their time and estate in such houses, to wi<*> [Here follow seven names which in courtesy we omit.] The selectmen were required thus to do. As the annual town meeting was in March, the fiscal year ended on February 15, but a century ago the reports were not printed for distribution. In our search for information we had overlooked the fact that Mr. Brooks in his history had presented the disbursements of 1818 as in contrast with those of 1855, the year of the history's publication. We reproduce the same for comparison with that in the town record from which we have quoted: From Brooks' History,p. 119: Minister's salary and grant of wood500.00 Poor1,225.46 Paid Charlestown for Paupers241.00 Road
April 1st (search for this): chapter 27
low, who had the experience and distinction of eleven terms as speaker of the Massachusetts House of Representatives, was moderator. Dr. Luther Stearns, Thatcher Magoun and Nathan Adams, three of Medford's prominent citizens, were chosen selectmen, Joseph Manning, treasurer, and Reuben Richards, clerk of the market. These names are evidence that it was a notable and efficient board, as also those that follow in the long list of other officers shown. It is recorded that ere adjournment to April 1, the town clerk was directed to put the law in force against persons chosen who do not qualify. Then follow several pages of certificates of qualification. At the April meeting the town fixed the assessors' pay at $2.00 per day, and $1.50 to the constable for warning town meeting. The town clerk was allowed $30 for his services for the year and the overseers of the poor the same amount. A man on the highway was paid $1.25 per day. A man with a team consisting of a cart and a good yoke
March (search for this): chapter 27
ittle town of about twenty square miles of territory and 1400 inhabitants. Probably there was duplication enough to reduce the number to fifty. It may be noticed there was no school board especially named. The annual town meeting was held in March, hence usually styled the March meeting, and adjourned from time to time as the amount of public business required. At that of 1819, Hon. Timothy Bigelow, who had the experience and distinction of eleven terms as speaker of the Massachusetts Hou names of persons reputed common drunkards, common tipplers, spending their time and estate in such houses, to wi<*> [Here follow seven names which in courtesy we omit.] The selectmen were required thus to do. As the annual town meeting was in March, the fiscal year ended on February 15, but a century ago the reports were not printed for distribution. In our search for information we had overlooked the fact that Mr. Brooks in his history had presented the disbursements of 1818 as in contras
April (search for this): chapter 27
d Nathan Adams, three of Medford's prominent citizens, were chosen selectmen, Joseph Manning, treasurer, and Reuben Richards, clerk of the market. These names are evidence that it was a notable and efficient board, as also those that follow in the long list of other officers shown. It is recorded that ere adjournment to April 1, the town clerk was directed to put the law in force against persons chosen who do not qualify. Then follow several pages of certificates of qualification. At the April meeting the town fixed the assessors' pay at $2.00 per day, and $1.50 to the constable for warning town meeting. The town clerk was allowed $30 for his services for the year and the overseers of the poor the same amount. A man on the highway was paid $1.25 per day. A man with a team consisting of a cart and a good yoke of oxen had $2.50 per day, and a day's work was to be ten hours. The town meeting was held in the town's third meeting-house (which was the last to be warmed only by the
February 11th (search for this): chapter 27
P [——]24 weeks to Oct 31 last year $3.00 She was one of the schoolmistresses for poor children. At the same meeting 13 in all men were approved as enginemen, and it was Voted to allow Daniel Symms five dollars in full of his account for 46 ladder dogs. . . . Daniel Wait $25.17 for ladders and painting cases. This was in the days of the Grasshopper, and the fire department wasn't motorized. And who shall say that Medford did not encourage the fine arts? We think it did, for on February 11: Voted to draw on the treasury for one hundred dollars payable to Nathan Adams Jr. Treasurer of Medford Harmonic Social Singing Society, agreeable to vote of the town in [blank] last, and request of said Society. But who shall say the money was ill spent, even though Squire Bartlett forgot to fill in the blank space with the date of the town's action? This other long-name society was probably the choir that sang in the old meetinghouse. No pipe-organ in Medford then. We quote Mr. B
1821 AD (search for this): chapter 27
ce, as he was qualified and approved to sell goods at public vendue and outcry, i.e., an auctioneer. He was constable and warned town-meeting, was also collector of taxes—not elected or appointed, but purchasing the position by bidding the lowest percentage. Samuel Wiatt was in 1819 on Apr 1 recommended as a suitable person to keep tavern in the house lately occupied by Seth Mayo, and on Apr 3 Isaac Blanchard in house lately occupied by his father [Hezekiah Jr] deceased. Medford had in 1821 (See Register, Vol. XIX, p. 80) 152 1/2 houses (probably in 1819 less than 150) and four distilleries. How many of these houses remain today we cannot say with certainty, though we are sure of twenty westward from Medford square. Two of the distilleries remain intact but devoted to other uses. All four, with by far the larger proportion of the dwellings, were east and south of the old market-place. Within our own recollection there has been an occasional demolition, though mainly there ha
1919 AD (search for this): chapter 27
ing plant for $20.00! But how about $200 for Parson Osgood's supply of wood for the same year, deducted from the $500 salary? Even with the high price of coal in 1919, the average householder today would deem it a hardship to pay $200 for a year's fuel, to say nothing of spending two-fifths of his income for warmth. Seth Mayoabstract covering features of the town administration of 1819. We may read between the lines and contrast the Medford of that day and its conditions with those of 1919. One thing will stand out noticeably, the disproportionate burden that Medford was bearing then in the support of its poor—and we may well ask the cause. That illtions. But the item of the relief of the poor had fallen to about one-seventh, and who can say but that the service and relief was as efficient? There is much of interest in the study of the old statistics. It is not our intention here to compare them with those of 1919, but it is pertinent to inquire whither we are tendin
May 3rd (search for this): chapter 27
e.) James Ford surveyed eleven tons and fourteen feet of pine timber at ninepence per ton, and $1.40 paid his fee. Probably this was for the great bridge. Timothy Bigelow seems to have been the town's banker, as the selectmen directed the payment of $99.00 interest on $1,650, loaned by him to the town. As the educational matters were administered by the selectmen we find: To Eliza Wait teacher 26 wks 4.00 including board104.00 Wm. Bradbury boarding Miss Eliza Gray schoolmistress May 3 to Oct. 3. 26 wks52.00 Eliza Gray teaching at the schoolhouse 26 wks52.00 Rhoda Turner, use and improvement of room for a schoolroom 6 mos.25.00 To Jeduthun Richardson the 3 following accts. For the services of his daughters Sally & Harriet keeping school May I to Oct. 30 25 wks 3 1/2d. a 2.00 per wk51.40 use of room for school20.00 for boarding teachers 25 wks 5 1/2d.51.57 —— 122.97 By the above it appears that the town paid the teachers' board for the Sundays before and after
October 30th (search for this): chapter 27
1,650, loaned by him to the town. As the educational matters were administered by the selectmen we find: To Eliza Wait teacher 26 wks 4.00 including board104.00 Wm. Bradbury boarding Miss Eliza Gray schoolmistress May 3 to Oct. 3. 26 wks52.00 Eliza Gray teaching at the schoolhouse 26 wks52.00 Rhoda Turner, use and improvement of room for a schoolroom 6 mos.25.00 To Jeduthun Richardson the 3 following accts. For the services of his daughters Sally & Harriet keeping school May I to Oct. 30 25 wks 3 1/2d. a 2.00 per wk51.40 use of room for school20.00 for boarding teachers 25 wks 5 1/2d.51.57 —— 122.97 By the above it appears that the town paid the teachers' board for the Sundays before and after the summer term, and it was all in the family at Brooks' corner,—and the old house, having taken a new lease of life, is still in evidence. Rhoda Turner's was probably at Mill lane, so called, and all of the above tallies with the action of the town. Here is a breeze fr<
1819 AD (search for this): chapter 27
Medford a century ago—1819. WE are led to this retrospect by reading the names of Medford men who in 1819 formed a longname society. This was the Medford Association for Discountenancing Intempeof interest to know something of the Medford of 1819 and its conditions— physical, educational, sociamount of public business required. At that of 1819, Hon. Timothy Bigelow, who had the experience a sheds much educational light on the Medford of 1819: The town contains 203 families or householhe town voted to raise for current expenses for 1819, the sum of $4,500, basing its action on the exk in another volume. At their first meeting in 1819, on January 22, we find: Voted, That the fog the lowest percentage. Samuel Wiatt was in 1819 on Apr 1 recommended as a suitable person to keously, for civic use. It is of interest that in 1819 Patrick Roach asked for the use of the schoolho therein. In the thirty-five years following 1819 to the writing of the history of Medford ina55,[10 more...]<
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