present year
James Darby
William Ward
Those with this mark are officers for the present year
Benjamin Tufts
Those with this mark are officers for the present year
Richard Hall
Levi Cutler
William Rodgers
Those with this mark are officers for the present year
Samuel Kidder
Nehemiah Wait
Charles L. Hall
Joseph Wyman Jr
Those with this mark are officers for the present year
Thomas Floyd
Amhurst Joselyn
Joseph Gardner
James W. Brooks
Thatcher Magoun
Those with this mark are officers for the present year
Ebenezer Hall Jr
Those with this mark are officers for the present year
George Fuller
Those with this mark are officers for the present year
Darius Wait
Those with this mark are officers for the present year
James T Floyd
Elias Tufts
Timothy Brigden
Timothy Rich
Benjamin Floyd
Caleb Brooks
Patrick Roach
George Cook
John Symmes Jun
Martin Burrage
Gershom Cutter
Those with t
on about the north side of the river, and immediately says, the record concerning it is as follows: The governor built a bark at Mistick which was launched this day and called The Blessing of the Bay.
We do not deny but that there was a tradition current relative to early ship building on the north side of the river.
In fact, we think there may have been, and that Mr. Brooks, who wrote as above in 1855, at the age of sixty, had it from his forbears, who were men of mature age, when Thatcher Magoun established his shipyard on the north side of the Mistick, and when later other ship-builders found the remains of old ways and timbers farther down beside the river.
So Mr. Brooks transfers Winthrop's ship-building from Charlestown to Medford, by saying, the record concerning it is as follows, and quotes: July 4, 1631.
The governor's bark, etc., etc.
Now as we look at it, the governor's bark (the Blessing) was built just where the governor wrote that it was, at Mistick, the Ten Hi
ones can tell nearly the time of their erection.
The central cupolas came in fashion in the early fifties, and to enumerate them would make an extended list.
At about the same time an L-shaped house with a four-story tower at its internal angle was the correct thing as note the Smith residence (the home of the preceptress of the famous Mystic Hall Seminary), the Wood residence near by and the Chapin house on the hill.
Placed upon its eastern front was the elaborately treated tower of Thatcher Magoun.
Along in the nineties builders discovered that a corner bay-window added to the attractiveness of a living room, and very soon carried it up higher.
To solve the question of desirable roof, some went even higher.
Soon the idea elaborated itself into octagonal and circular forms, with steeply pointed roofs terminated with ornamental finials of wood or metal.
When examples of this style became more numerous, a certain newspaper writer held it up to ridicule, in an almost scurrilous a
had decided to send back to the islands, one who came out in the Tama-houre-laune, and also says,
they have cold pains in breast and head, which I think is owing in great measure to the brig being so fully salted; she is damp from one end to the other.
We do not find any reference to the brig Owhyee (former spelling of Hawaii) in the list of Medford-built vessels, and cannot be certain which brig was so fully salted, but we find the names of two brigs built in 1820 in Medford by Thatcher Magoun for Josiah Marshall.
One was the Tama-houre-laune, 162.63 tons, the other the Jones, 163.36 tons, the seventy-seventh and seventy-eighth in the notable list.
A foot-note says:
These brigs were put together: then taken to pieces and sent to the Sandwich Islands on board the Thaddeus commanded by Captain A. Blanchard of Medford. By the very slight difference in their tonnage, it is evident the ordinary-named Jones was a duplicate of the long-named Tama-houre-laune, and even if built
removed to Boston at the death of her husband, 1809, and the Misses Abby and Mary Hall, sisters of Nathaniel Hall, who lived in the Secomb house, rented the east part.
A little later these ladies exchanged their quarters with the Swans, who about this time became owners of the property.
About 1815 the west half was occupied by the wife of Captain Trevet of the revenue service.
She was a daughter of Major Warner of Medford.
A Mr. Warner lived on the Bishop lot where later the first Thatcher Magoun erected the building now the home of the Public Library.
Were these Warners identical?
Two years later Mrs. Green returned to the west half, remaining until 1822, when, with the Gilchrist family, she moved to Charlestown, N. H.
This part then became the home of widowed sisters from Georgia, Mrs. Howard and Mrs. Wallace, who were cousins of Mrs. William R. Gray of Boston.
(Register, Vol.
XXI, p. 28.)
The old meeting-house next had for its neighbor one whose religious tenets w
860ShipMatilda875 tons
1860ShipPunjaub760 tons
1860BarqueMogul500 tons
1861ShipQuisnell1012 tons
1862ShipAgra875 tons
1862ShipTangore916 tons
1863ShipNepaul935 tons
1863ShipCosamundal600 tons
1863ShipEastern Belle1030 tons
1867ShipMistic Belle755 tons
1868ShipDon Quixote1174 tons
1869ShipJ. T. Foster1207 tons
1873ShipPilgrim650 tons
Built by Hayden & Cudworth:—
1855ZZBarqueZephyr40 tons
1855ShipRival
1855ShipElectric Spark1200 tons
1855ShipGoddess280 tons
18ZZZShipThatcher Magoun1200 tons
18ZZZShipGoodspeed280 tons
18ZZZBarqueCaptain Paine512 tons
1866ShipHenry Hastings
Enumerated in the earlier list of five hundred and thirteen was one not named and not sold.
Adding the fifty-five above listed gives a total of five hundred and sixty-eight, or four more than the total given by Usher (page 427). The queries arise, what was the name given the one not sold, built by Captain Foster?
Assuming the Usher totals correct, what the names of those four, and who th
w observations may be of interest.
A century ago people of artistic taste and of wealth thus embellished their grounds.
Prominent in Medford were those of Thatcher Magoun, on High street. A substantial fence nearly five feet high adjoined the sidewalk.
This, unlike the high board fence before the Gray mansion opposite, was of loped away to the river and extended westward to the Tufts estate, and in this portion were several pagodas— or summer houses, as people used to style them.
In Mr. Magoun's life time these grounds were neatly kept (the statuary had its annual grooming), all in contrast to present condition.
It was one of the show-places of Medfoke those already named, are shown in the steel engravings in Brooks' History of Medford (1855). These, with similar marble vases, are mentioned in the letter of Mr. Magoun to the selectmen, as included in his gift, and are shown in the illustration in the Usher publication of 1886.
But where are they today?
On the front lawn o
1840s.
The following is copy of the papers sent us:—
Wanted.
I. A contour sketch of the Tract bounded as below, as nature left it, say, in 1630 to 1635.
editor's note.—By line of Library lot means the easterly boundary of the old Magoun estate, conveyed to the town in 1875 by Thatcher Magoun.
The Children's Library was a later acquirement.
The Crest, evidently the east to west line of the brow of then Pasture hill.
By Governor's lane, the narrow opening between the present SaThatcher Magoun.
The Children's Library was a later acquirement.
The Crest, evidently the east to west line of the brow of then Pasture hill.
By Governor's lane, the narrow opening between the present Savings Bank and Trust Company buildings, not present Governors avenue.
East, by line of Governor's lane.
South, by river.
West, by line of Library lot.
North, by the Crest.
II.
A history of the Medford industry in dark granite and red gravel.
Probably Queries I and II will correlate.
III.
The story of the long-abandoned quarry near the north end of old Governor's lane and not far west of Forest street.
This was doubtless a Medford industry, though perhaps near or o
rs, which we present verbatim, and let any who can (with certainty) fill the blanks.
The north-side houses.
A—Mr. Magoun's place was west of the greatest elevation, so he did not have to excavate, but did a great deal of grading and terracing.
House (Library) built about 18—.
B—the Hebden house was a small two-story, ill-painted, white house, close to Mr. Magoun's east line.
This and all the other eastern houses were crowded to the sidewalk.
It had no back yard.
Very steep rightd both quarries, build (1786) those steps behind the Dudley Hall house of granite from Tyngsboro? (15 Register, p. 65.) Mr. Magoun built his street wall in front of the Library (A. D. 18—) of Medford dark granite. (15 Register, p. 14, says Mr. Brooksany times.
Among those sights which captivated my fancy the most, was the statuary adjoining the front yard of the old Magoun estate, two doors below the ivy-covered Grace Church.
Then, too, I wondered at the awe-inspiring urns whose massive for
lding was inaugurated on a large scale by Thatcher Magoun, in 1804, there were few vessels of any sf twenty-five hundred tons.
So thought Thatcher Magoun, as, strolling one pleasant day to the to were known in every sea on the globe.
Thatcher Magoun was born at Pembroke, Mass., June 17, 177
Brooks. History of Medford.
Following Mr. Magoun the next year Calvin Turner of Pembroke and ns, James Perkins and James Lloyd in 1805 by T. Magoun.
In 1807 Capt. Joseph O'Cain of Boston, cbuilt in 1890 for P. P. Jackson of Boston by T. Magoun.
In 1811, in command of Captain Whittemore,st vessel built in Medford at the yard of Thatcher Magoun.
The ship Ariadne, three hundred and end twenty-five tons, was built in 1806 by Thatcher Magoun for Timothy Williams of Boston.
The brime.
The ship Gulliver, built in 1806 by Thatcher Magoun for Joseph Lee, Jr., of Boston, was one.
ey, also, was built in 809 at the yard of Thatcher Magoun, for Joseph Lee, Jr., of Boston.
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