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Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 14., Some Medford farmers who had milk routes in Boston in the Thirties and forties. (search)
Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 14., A Medford midnight marauder. (search)
A Medford midnight marauder.
In the summer of 1865 Marshall Symmes, Jr., of Winchester, had a field of sweet corn in what was then called the Upper Thompson Lot, the highest land of the Le Bosquet farm, the birthplace of Governor Brooks, at Symmes' Corner, directly adjoining wooded areas which have since become a part of the great Middlesex Fells Reservation.
At frequent intervals, about the time the corn was ripening, a wild hog came from the woods and wrought serious damage.
Mr. SymMr. Symmes and his brother Charles determined to catch the marauder and save what was left of the corn.
They thought the pig was not very large, and that, with the help of a good dog, they could catch him.
One dark night they took a large bull dog and ead of an ordinary pig they had caught a very large, long-legged old hog, the question was how to get him home.
Mr. Marshall Symmes went for help, getting a horse, ropes, a stone boat and men. Before daylight they had the animal in a horse stall,