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The Medford Indian monument
On page 60, Vol.
XXIV, the Register had a Tercentenary Note alluding to the first recorded visit of white men to what became Medford.
They were Captain Myles Standish and eight of the Plymouth pilgrims.
The present writing is of one of the places they visited, upon which in more recent years a monument was erected, which has been desecrated and seems in danger of ultimate destruction.
In 1659, one Thomas Brooks of Concord, with his son-in-law, Timothy Wheeler, purchased of Edward Collins four hundred acres of land, being the western end of the Cradock farm, bordered by Mystic river and ponds.
Thomas Brooks never came to live on his purchase but his sons did, and theirs also in later years, and some do still.
A road from Cambridge to Woburn lay through this tract, and another to the weare or fishing place became in time the continuation of High street. On this four hundred acres there was at least one dwelling, to which one of the sons came