OF THE

TOWN OF MEDFORD,

Middlesex County, Massachusetts,

FROM ITS FIRST SETTLEMENT, IN 1630, TO THE PRESENT TIME, 1855.

BY CHARLES BROOKS.

"Pleraque eorum quæ referam parva fortisan et levia memoratu videri, nescius sum."- TACITUS.
"Nescire quid antea quam natus sis acciderit, id est semper esse puerum.”— CICERO,

BOSTON:

PUBLISHED BY JAMES M. USHER,

87, CORNHILL.

1855.