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HISTORY OF THE TOWN OF MEDFORD, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, FROM ITS FIRST SETTLEMENT, IN 1630, TO THE PRESENT TIME, 1855. (ed. Charles Brooks), Chapter 3: (search)
in 1726, the town chooses a Committee to petition Charlestown on the subject of annexing certain districts. The petitioners ask for some part of Charlestown adjoining to Medford on the north side of Mystic River. May 6th of that year, they chose another Committee to examine the Province Records, and see if Medford has any right to land lying in Charlestown; and, if so, to prosecute the same at the town's expense. To show our fathers' care for public duty, we have the following vote, May 19, 1701: Voted that Sergeant Stephen Willis assist in the Committee, if his brother Thomas Willis should be out of the way. Town-meetings were sometimes held in private houses, though generally at the tavern. The mode of collecting taxes from unwilling debtors was called an outcry for payment. When a person would not pay, the constable was commanded to take his goods and sell them at an outcry for payment, --public auction. Throughout the entire early history of our town, there appears the