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think interest your correspondent in America. But all these things do not explain to me why they called their town Metford in or about 1630, when their connection with this place and family did not date till 1735, a hundred years later. I cannot yet trace any connection at so early a date. Yours sincerely, E. M. Parker Jervis. P. S. I notice that this George Cradock married a Saunders, and our picture here a hundred years later is also painted by a Saunders, which is curious. Feb. 9th. Dear Mr. Hughes. I believe I may have solved the difficulty about Medford. I had an idea that we must look for the former owners of this property and I knew that the Jervis' bought it from an old family of the name of Short about the beginning of Charles II reign. Yesterday I went to the William Salt Library to hunt up the Shorts, and after a terrible long hunt we found that a family of the name of Short lived at Ashley, also a Cradock lived there in the Commonwealth. Thomas Short