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Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 24., Henry Putnam of Medford. (search)
70 he purchased twenty-four acres of pasture land of William Bradshaw, the administrator of Jona Bradshaw's estate. This pasture adjoined no road but was bounded east on Jonathan Patten, north on Ebenezer Brooks, Jr., northwest on heirs of Samuel Brooks, Jr., and west by land lately of the Whitmores. The consideration named was £68s16 to reach it, the deed, dated in the tenth year of his majesty's reign, gave him liberty of passing and repassing from the country road [probably Woburn street] tclusion that Putnam's twenty-four-acre pasture lay between the present Sarah Fuller home and the grim old stone lion which lies crouched on the hill slope opposite the Sugar Loaf. So much for his pasture, now for his dwelling. A deed from Samuel Brooks of Exeter, N. H., Gentleman Thomas Brooks of Medford, Gentleman and Edward Brooks of Medford, Clerk (for so the record reads), for a proper and sufficient consideration have remised released and forever quitclaimed. . . unto Henry Putnam
Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 24., Troubles of a Medford churchman. (search)
that there was a difference between the Pilgrims of Plymouth and the Puritans of Boston in their ideas of toleration. The one had been tolerated in Holland, the other would tolerate none dissenting from their views, and early became dominant in New England. How fared it with the Baptists, the Quakers, or those who held to the liturgical worship of the Church of England? In the colony's history what they endured is unpleasant to read. In Medford's history little is written or known. Mr. Brooks made no specific local mention thereof, but Mr. Usher alludes to one case of clash between a Medford churchman and an officer of the law. His story is quoted quite fully by Mr. Hollis, the chronicler of Grace Church (Register, Vol. V, p. 25). Of this case we have never seen any other account in American print, and are left in doubt as to its final outcome. The Medford records (Vol. 2, p. 314, 315, 316) contain a list of one hundred and twelve names, rated (i.e., assessed) the sum of On
Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 24., Local history in a barber's shop. (search)
Local history in a barber's shop. In hell there are no barber's shops. Such is a remark attributed by historian Brooks to the Medford minister of a century ago. We fancy the assertion to be the result of a course of reasoning as to human depravity, rather than of any personal search, by Doctor Osgood. Per contra, it would be of interest had the good doctor made note of the number of such shops then in Medford. As the town's minister for fifty years, he had been something of an autocrat, and was not particularly noted for soft speeches. We wonder a little what would have happened had he been in his prime when Rev. Josiah Bracket came up from Charlestown to preach to some people, not of the standing order, in a building called the college. Considering his sermon against the Malden Baptists, we fear it would have been Let him be anathema, and the house that they shall build come to naught. Meeting in various places for over five years, those people succeeded, in 1828, in erecti
Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 24., The Turnpike highwayman's Fate. (search)
horse, with a portmanteau. When first seen by Mr & Mrs Bray the robber was on foot standing by his horse and observed by them very sharply as they passed. He must have immediately mounted followed the chaise and committed the robbery He offered no insult to Mrs. B. and remarked that he robbed none but gentlemen. The pursuit set on foot by Major B. succeeded so far as recovering the horse, which the robber rode, but the highwayman is not yet taken. It was said that on that evening Governor Brooks gave an assembly at his mansion on High street, which afforded the highwayman the opportunity of waylaying the returning guests, who were of the class most likely to be victims of plunder. It was told that after the robber's escape from pursuit up High street, he found refuge in a cave in the woods at West Cambridge (now Arlington). From thence he went to Springfield, where, a week later, he was arrested and brought to the jail at East Cambridge. The Centinel of August 22 said
Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 24., Then and now. (search)
The town debt mentioned was $2,350. One item of this was paid, by using the recently acquired Secomb Fund, the remaining $1,650 the treasurer advanced and took up the town's note held by the other creditor. As there was due from the collector $285 at the end of the fiscal year, there remained less than $100 to be provided for. The Secomb Fund is intact today, and Medford's finances of that day show up well. Medford, in 1821, polled just two hundred votes, giving her favorite son, Governor Brooks, one hundred and seventy-six. Fourteen amendments by the constitutional convention were carefully considered and all but one ratified by eighty-two voters. Abner Bartlett was unanimously re-elected as representative but begged to decline because of his business and professional avocations. The choice of his successor was a different story. Forty-six votes were cast, requiring twenty-four for choice. Two had one each, Dudley Hall eighteen, and Turell Tufts twenty-six. In 1821 the