History of the Town of Medford, Middlesex County, Massachusetts: From Its First Settlement in 1630 to 1855 |
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... MEDFORD LIGHT INFANTRY . MEDFORD VOLUNTEERS IN VARIOUS ORGANIZATIONS DURING THE CIVIL WAR . PRISON AND HOSPITAL EXPERIENCES . HOME WORK OF THE WAR . DEATH RECORD OF MEDFORD SOLDIERS . LAWRENCE Rifles . - - - PAGES 199-212 CHAPTER VIII ...
... MEDFORD LIGHT INFANTRY . MEDFORD VOLUNTEERS IN VARIOUS ORGANIZATIONS DURING THE CIVIL WAR . PRISON AND HOSPITAL EXPERIENCES . HOME WORK OF THE WAR . DEATH RECORD OF MEDFORD SOLDIERS . LAWRENCE Rifles . - - - PAGES 199-212 CHAPTER VIII ...
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From Its First Settlement in 1630 to 1855 Charles Brooks. WEST - MEDFORD CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH . PAGE Facing 276 CATHOLIC CHURCH . 66 279 TRINITY METHODIST - EPISCOPAL CHURCH , WEST MEDFORD , 66 281 CHARLES CUMMINGS 66 291 PUBLIC LIBRARY ...
From Its First Settlement in 1630 to 1855 Charles Brooks. WEST - MEDFORD CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH . PAGE Facing 276 CATHOLIC CHURCH . 66 279 TRINITY METHODIST - EPISCOPAL CHURCH , WEST MEDFORD , 66 281 CHARLES CUMMINGS 66 291 PUBLIC LIBRARY ...
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... Medford " to run the lines anew between Charlestown and Medford , and set up some monuments between the towns . " A joint commit- tee met , and set up twenty - two posts as metes . The town- lines thus indicated are shown upon a map in ...
... Medford " to run the lines anew between Charlestown and Medford , and set up some monuments between the towns . " A joint commit- tee met , and set up twenty - two posts as metes . The town- lines thus indicated are shown upon a map in ...
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... Medford accordingly . Sent down for concurrence . Read and concurred . " - Thus on the 17th of April , 1754 , Medford was enlarged by all its territory now lying on the south side of the river . PONDS AND STREAMS . Medford Pond , known ...
... Medford accordingly . Sent down for concurrence . Read and concurred . " - Thus on the 17th of April , 1754 , Medford was enlarged by all its territory now lying on the south side of the river . PONDS AND STREAMS . Medford Pond , known ...
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... Medford has been , therefore , comparatively small ; the milk - farms being found more profitable . At the begin- ning of this century , the quantity of milk sold in Boston by our Medford farmers was very large , and its price varied ...
... Medford has been , therefore , comparatively small ; the milk - farms being found more profitable . At the begin- ning of this century , the quantity of milk sold in Boston by our Medford farmers was very large , and its price varied ...
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9 months 5th acres appointed April Benjamin Benjamin Hall Benjamin Parker Blanchard Boston Bradshaw bridge build built called Capt Charles Charles Cummings Charlestown church committee Court Cradock Deacon dollars Ebenezer Brooks Edward Edward Brooks England erected fathers Francis Francis Whitmore George George W Henry Hill honor hundred Indians inhabitants of Medford Isaac James John John Bradshaw John Tufts John Whitmore Jonathan Joseph July June June 17 labor land Malden March Massachusetts meeting meeting-house Mistick Mystic River Nathaniel organized Osgood paid parish pastor persons Peter Tufts petition plantation Porter pounds preached purchase records Regiment road selectmen Sept shillings Stearns Stephen Hall Stephen Willis Street taxes Thomas Willis tion town of Medford town voted town-meeting Turell West Medford William Woburn
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Page 374 - There are specimens of this money — in the same year, " for the prevention of washing or clipping," it was ordered " that henceforth all pieces of money coined as aforesaid should have a double ring on either side, with this inscription, MASSACHUSETTS, and a tree in the centre, on the one side ; and NEW ENGLAND, and the year of our Lord, on the other side.
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