previous next
[127]

Names of the town-clerks.

J. Wade1674.
Stephen Willis1675.
John Bradstreet1701.
Stephen Willis1708.
Thomas Tufts1718.
William Willis1719.
Benjamin Willis1721.
William Willis1726.
Ebenezer Brooks, jun1728.
Benjamin Willis1730.
Thomas Seccomb1745.
Willis Hall1767.
Richard Hall1770.
Benjamin Hall, jun1783.
Andrew Hall1792.
Nathaniel Hall1794.
Samuel Swan1796.
Nathaniel Hall1797.
Luther Stearns1803.
Nathaniel Hall1806.
Abner Bartlett1810.
Jonathan Porter1819.
Abner Bartlett1820.
William Rogers1826.
Abner Bartlett1827.
William D. Fitch1834.
Oliver Blake1836.
Joseph P. Hall1846.

Governor Brooks.

I would close this account of the civil history of Medford with a biographical notice of our most distinguished civilian; and, lest the bias of a life-long veneration, or the pride of near blood relationship, should tempt me to eulogies beyond desert, I have judged it most proper to take the account given by Dr. John Dixwell, of Boston, Vice-President of the Massachusetts Medical Society, who knew him well:--

John Brooks was born in Medford, Massachusetts, in May, 1752. His father, Capt. Caleb Brooks, was a respectable farmer, much esteemed and beloved by his friends and neighbors. His mother was a woman of superior personal charms, and of remarkable talents, for one of her advantages and station in life. She early discovered in her son those faculties which were destined to raise him from the plough to the first station in society, and was solicitous to place him where he might cultivate them to advantage. We are probably much indebted to this excellent woman for the


John Wilson and son. 22 School Street. Boston. 1855.

Tufts University provided support for entering this text.

Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 United States License.

An XML version of this text is available for download, with the additional restriction that you offer Perseus any modifications you make. Perseus provides credit for all accepted changes, storing new additions in a versioning system.

hide Places (automatically extracted)

View a map of the most frequently mentioned places in this document.

Sort places alphabetically, as they appear on the page, by frequency
Click on a place to search for it in this document.
Medford (Massachusetts, United States) (2)
John Brook (Connecticut, United States) (1)

Download Pleiades ancient places geospacial dataset for this text.

hide People (automatically extracted)
hide Dates (automatically extracted)
Sort dates alphabetically, as they appear on the page, by frequency
Click on a date to search for it in this document.
1846 AD (1)
1836 AD (1)
1834 AD (1)
1827 AD (1)
1826 AD (1)
1820 AD (1)
1819 AD (1)
1810 AD (1)
1806 AD (1)
1803 AD (1)
1797 AD (1)
1796 AD (1)
1794 AD (1)
1792 AD (1)
1783 AD (1)
1770 AD (1)
1767 AD (1)
May, 1752 AD (1)
1745 AD (1)
1730 AD (1)
1728 AD (1)
1726 AD (1)
1721 AD (1)
1719 AD (1)
1718 AD (1)
1708 AD (1)
1701 AD (1)
1675 AD (1)
1674 AD (1)
hide Display Preferences
Greek Display:
Arabic Display:
View by Default:
Browse Bar: