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Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 30., The Brooks Estates in Medford from 1660 to 1927. (search)
sent that I am setting forth what is not already known and recorded. In fact, this paper is based in large part upon the work of Shepherd Brooks, now preserved in written form under the title History and Genealogy of the Brooks Family of Medford, Massachusetts, compiled chiefly from the researches of P. C. Brooks, senior, his son, Gorham, and his nephew, William G. Brooks, also from Charles Brooks's History of Medford, by Shepherd Brooks, Boston, 1885. That book forms an invaluable record. ion for his children. Accordingly, with his son-in-law, Timothy Wheeler, he invested four hundred and four pounds sterling in these acres in Medford—two-thirds for himself and one-third for Wheeler. Collins was already a large holder of land at Mystic. He lived for many years on Governor Cradock's plantation and purchased it from the heirs of the governor in 1652. It may have been that fact which led him to part with his holdings to the west. The deed from Collins gives in quaint and forma
Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 30., With company E, 101st Infantry, in the world war. (search)
With company E, 101st Infantry, in the world war. Read before Medford Historical Society May 17, 1926, by William F. Shine. E Company of the old Fifth Regiment Infantry, Lawrence Light Guard, of Medford, Mass., was called out shortly after war was declared by the United States, on April 6, 1917, against Germany—this war caused by that most inhuman act on the high seas, the sinking of the Lusitania by a German submarine. The company was quartered in pyramidal tents on the armory grounds. One company street of about sixteen tents, each tent housing a squad of men, eight in number. My tent was headed by Corporal Frank Hurley, and later by Corporal William Harris, who, sad to relate, was blown to pieces by a large shell which exploded just as Corporal Harris and several other members of the company reached a shell hole. Captain Magee commanded the company. He was one of the finest, most considerate men I have ever served under. He was loved by every man in the company and
Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 30., The Medford Historical Register (search)
The Medford Historical Register Vol. XXX, 1927 Zzz. published by the Medford Historical Society Medford, Mass. Medford J. C. Miller, Jr., printer