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Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 22., A Medford garden and the gardener's notes. (search)
t one in peace times ninety years ago and more. This garden was on the estate, on the banks of the Mystic, owned by Timothy Bigelow. Martin Burridge was the gardener, in the employ of the Bigelow family many years. The writer has at hand two nos. The blossoming of the quinces was regularly noted each year without fail. The vegetables from his garden supplied Mr. Bigelow's table; his house was called the seat of hospitality, and he himself was termed a hospitable neighbor. January th d for his employer many fine fruits and vegetables, as the records of the society attest. Sept. 19-21, 1838. From Mrs. T. Bigelow of Medford. Apples— Monstrous Pippin, and beautiful specimens of Red apples from France. Peaches—Some fine specime large, from her greenhouse, (a variety of Citrus or Orange tree). Sept. 28, 1838 (?) Seven years Pumpkin, from Mrs. Timothy Bigelow, Medford. (The above, the growth of last year, and shown at the annual exhibition of 1837.) Weight 46 lbs. in per
Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 22., chapter 28 (search)
enjoying the pleasure of travel by water. Mr. Bigelow left the party at Groton, where he then resey traveled over thirteen hundred miles. Mr. Bigelow kept a journal, noting each day's progress,Tour to Niagara Falls in the Year 1805 by Timothy Bigelow, is in our public library, but the one thf the greenhouse are the old ones used by Timothy Bigelow, the frames only being new, and the brick papers mentioned in previous Registers. Timothy Bigelow died in 1821, his wife in 1852. A son ancut down and sunlight flooded the space. Miss Bigelow died in 1865, and her brother sought a homeThe townspeople were accustomed to speak of Mr. Bigelow as Speaker Bigelow. The house was a two-stSpeaker Bigelow. The house was a two-story, broad wooden structure. A broad walk led from the front door to the street, meeting it in a dtown's first two lawyers, left this record: Mr. Bigelow wished to have credit for wit and brilliantt Mr. Bartlett's mind was more brilliant, and Mr. Bigelow generally came off second best. E. M. G. [1 more...]
Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 22., A Remembrance of the old bakery. (search)
A Remembrance of the old bakery. Martin Burridge's brother-in-law, Henry Withington (the second of the name in this town, and father of the late assessor), enjoyed telling, so the latter informed the writer, that he was once a scullion in Timothy Bigelow's kitchen. Whatever his service or position there, without doubt he had an experience that enabled him, when he entered into the bakery business, to supply his townsmen with superior products. Who does not love to recall that little old shop, than which nothing in story or reality was quainter nor more alluring. Small, low studded, with beamed ceiling, it looked antique in every particular, with the tiny desk on the wall where one stood or perched on a high stool to cast up his accounts. You might enter sometime and find no one to attend to your wants, but a bell on the door as you opened it had given notice of your entering, and very soon someone opened a glass door of a living-room at the west, stepped down two steps,