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3.75
1 old cart tongue, half a sleigh & harness
13.00
1 iron bar, 1 grindstone
3.00
Old iron
3.00
Saddle, saddle bags & halters, side saddle
4.00
2 plows
13.00
Quarter part of harrow
2.00
Shovel, fork, hoe
2.25
3 hay forks, 2 rakes, hay hook, cart rope
2.50
10 scythes, 1 bush hoe
4.75
1 loom, 2 spinning wheels, 1 reel
6.50
Note for money loaned out at interest
150.00
$8606.88
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Appendices John Bronsdon, 1832 Norfolk Probate 2583
He evidently was a small farmer, not very prosperous, and considerably in debt when he died. He lived in the southerly of the two old houses still standing across Canton Avenue from the Suffolk Resolves House at its new location. There is certainly little in this inventory beyond the bare necessi- ties of a farming existence. He paid a tax that was well below the average of that of some 197 Milton property owners, but there were many non-proper- ty owners who paid a much smaller tax on their personal property only. If we include these, 138 paid more than Bronsdon did, and 119 paid less, but some 60 of these latter owned no real estate. The revised value of the estate is about $ 16,000 based on present values.
Homestead of 22 acres and buildings
$1075.00
Wood lot and pasture, 10 acres
175.00
4 bedsteads, beds, and bedding 37.50
2 feather beds and bedding, trundle bedstead 12.00
Low corded bedstead, 5 sheets
2.75
12 chairs, rocking chair, 2 armchairs 5.40
6 chairs, Pembroke table, 2 tables, work table
5.75
Bureau, light stand, writing desk, chest
8.00
3 chests, meal chest and sieve, 2 bread troughs
3.20
Waiter, glass and crockery ware, tin ware 6.25
2 looking glasses, knives and forks, iron ware 6.20
Pair andirons, fire set, stone ware, table and desk 2.15
Candlesticks, 2 spoons, 3 wash tubs, copper kettle 2.00
Scythes and snaths, 4 forks, 4 rakes, 5 hoes 3.30
Spade and shovel, 2 iron bars, chains, edge tools
5.62
Crosscut saw, beetle and wedges, 25 flour bags, 7 cider barrels 6.25
Lot of old iron, hay hook, carpenter's tools, 2 guns and equipment 13.20
Grindstone, horse sled, pung, horse plow
16.50
Horse traces and harness 8.25
4 horse wagon wheels, poultry wagon, pair chaise wheels 12.00
Horse wagon, pork and tub, soap and tub, unfinished
hay cart 21.10
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Hay cart and 4 wheels, 1 pig, quantity of manure
24.00
10 bushels carrots, 1 bushel turnips, 10 bushels potatoes 5.58
Timber, plank and posts, wood ashes 45.45
Horse, 2 cows, 6 tons English hay
Wearing apparel 158.00
10.00
Library 1.00
Notes due him
50.70
$1722.25
Real estate was found to be overvalued and the total
was later revised to 1331.25
Isaac Tucker, 1838 Norfolk Probate 18,790
Captain Isaac Tucker lived on Tucker Hill in the old house still standing at 1023 Randolph Avenue. I can learn little about him, but it is obvious that he was a very well-to-do farmer. The estate would be equivalent today to about $ 100,000.
There is little unusual in the inventory except for the mysterious "Soak- grees", which may be phonetic spelling for something which I cannot fath- om. The bells on the sleigh strike a cheerful note, and the considerable sum loaned out at interest denotes a start toward a capitalism no longer limited to land and cattle.
Homestead 60 acres & buildings
$3350.00
10 acres woodland
540.00
Meadows & salt meadows 325.00
11/2 acres salt meadows 165.00
15 acres pasture
342.00
21 acres woodland
745.00
7 acres Beach Island lot & 10 acres
325.00
2 feather beds & bedding, best bureau
20.00
Another bureau, light stand, 8 quilts
11.50
6 blankets, cot & other bedstead, pewter ware
10.00
4 chests, 2 looking glasses, stuff in back chamber
5.25
1 bushel beans, tub of butter, "Soak-grees" 6.50
Card table, stuff in garret, cradle & trundle bedstead 8.75
2 fire sets, meal chest, chest with drawers, table 4.25
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6 baskets, 4 flat irons, brass kettle 3.25
2 silver tablespoons, 6 silver tea spoons 9.00
20 lbs lard, 16 lbs tallow, stuff in buttery-cellar 5.60
12 knives & forks, crockery ware in kitchen, hollow ware 3.00
1 yoke of oxen, 1 horse, brown cow & yellow cow 192.00
Old cow, whitefaced cow, ox wagon, ox cart 76.00
Horse wagon & tackling, hay picket, 3 plows 39.00
7 chains, tools in barn, 4 ladders, ox yokes 9.50
Horse tackling (harness), clapboards, stuff and tools in shop 10.75
Sleigh & bells, grindstone, chaise & tackling 17.25
Wheel barrow, vinegar & cask, old iron, sleds 8.25
Barley, corn, 6 meal bags, tools in corn barn 24.35
20 cords wood, chestnut stuff, oak & walnut stuff, clock 71.00 14 chairs, 8 barrels of cider, 6 casks, half barrel of soap 25.50
25 bushels potatoes, 50 lbs beef, 120 lbs pork, barrel of apples 24.50
Stuff in cellar, due on account 36.00
Money out on loan
1419.07
Cash on hand 70.00
Hay, fodder, gun & accouterments 45.00
$7947.27
Nathaniel Tucker, Esq., 1838 Norfolk Probate 18,811
He lived in the house still standing at 11 Hillside Street, built on the site of the Samuel Miller house which burned in 1770. He was a descendant of Robert Tucker in the fifth generation and is an example of what five genera- tions of successful farming could produce. The estate would be equivalent to well over half a million dollars today.
Almost a quarter of this estate was invested in securities, and nearly a half loaned out, presumably on mortgages. Tucker probably farmed some of his land and may have leased part of it, but it is obvious that a very considerable portion of his income came from invested capital which must have produced a return of more than $5.00 a day. In that period of low prices and no in- come taxes this represented affluence. Although the inventory does not
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show it, Tucker at one time was engaged in the business of baking crackers. A very interesting item is the pew in Boston's Old South Church, as well as one in the Unitarian Church in Milton. Since the Old South Church still adhered to the Trinitarian faith of its founders, it would seem that the Squire hoped to assure himself alternate routes to heaven. In 1836 his personal and real estates were appraised for tax purposes at $26,000. At least five citizens were assessed a still higher figure than was Nathaniel, but their wealth came from trade and the law, acquired, however, in all cases but one within the town. Milton's wealth was beginning to become appreciable.
Homestead farm
$ 10,000.00 11,225.00
2983/4 acres land of all sorts
5 shares Taunton & Boston Turnpike 5.00
8 shares Blue Hill Turnpike
800.00
20 shares Fairhaven Bank 1800.00
5 shares Wareham Bank 450.00
20 shares Randolph Bank
1800.00
10 shares State Bank 550.00
20 shares Dorchester & Milton Bank (Blue Hill)
1900.00
54 shares Fairhaven Insurance Co. 5400.00
Hay in barn
286.00
1 yoke oxen
100.00
9 COWS
225.00
2 horses
106.00
2 pigs
24.00
41/2 thousand cedar shingles
12.00
2 one horse wagons
30.00
1 cart
40.00
Posts [?], sleds, etc.
20.00
Plow, casks, lumber, etc., in cider house
30.00
Harrow & roller
2.00
Pine boards
6.00
Carryall & harness
30.00
1 chaise, harness, buffalo robe & whip
75.00
"Lots of trumpery in carriage house"
6.00
1 sleigh
20.00
Tools in tool house
20.00
Lot of old iron & hay cutter
8.00
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Lot of cedar posts
30.00
White oak timber
4.00
Chestnut timber 15.00
Dry & green wood 225.00
93/4 thousand pine shingles 36.00
Lot of hoop poles 5.00
Provisions & stores in house
427.84
Lumber at Canton
21.00
Pew in Old South Church
300.00
1/16 share of whole ship "Chas. Drew"
1830.47
2 sheds
45.00
Pew in old Meeting House
12.00
Furniture
400.00
Book accounts
185.32
Cash on hand
36.72
Money out on loan
15,422. 14
$54,127.49
Miscellaneous Notes on other Inventories
John Dike was a farmer, evidently in a fairly small way when he died in 1692, for he owned only five acres of tilled land and five acres of meadow. He had three cows, four heifers, four swine and eleven pigs, and was grow- ing both wheat and Indian corn at the time of his death. He paid about an average tax, although his estate was relatively small, £108, or about $ 12,000 today. I think that he lived on Brush Hill.
Enoch Badcock, a shipwright, fell from a ship in May of 1695 and was killed. The inventory of his estate shows that he was quite well-to-do and owned two Negro slaves. He did a little subsistence farming on the side as well as building ships and had horses, cows, and swine, in addition to an ox which he could have used in the shipyard. He also had two looking glasses and some books besides the usual housekeeping requirements.
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Dr. Benjamin Stedman was an early, if not the first, doctor in Milton. He lived somewhere in the eastern part of the town and when he died in 1752 his moderate estate of £486 included 33 acres of land, a horse and a cow, but no dwelling house.
The first mention in any Milton inventory of a kitchen stove for cooking ap- pears in 1845, but they were being made in Troy, N. Y., at least as early as 1820.
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APPENDIX NUMBER 2
Milton Houses Built Before 1805 and Still Standing in 1955
This list of old houses is probably not complete and may well contain some errors. It is based upon a study by the late Arthur H. Tucker and further re- fined and expanded by Mrs. Harold B. Garland and Mrs. James B. Ayer.
NO. ORIGINAL OWNER
BUILT
OWNER OR TENANT
ADAMS STREET
67-69 Joseph Fenno
1765 (Barber-shop)
203 Dr. Amos Holbrook
1801 Joseph P. Spang
233 Col. Joseph Gooch
about 1740
Mrs. Ellerton Whitney
278 Samuel Swift
before 1740
Dr. Kenneth Sands
362 Nathan Babcock
before 1753 M. J. Noonan
401 Widow Belcher
before 1776 William B. Crosby
594 Glover-Gardner
about 1785 Miss Olds
631 Launcelot Pierce
about 1750
R. C. Blatchford
BRUSH HILL ROAD
504 Roger Sumner
about 1678 Wm. D. Benjes
676
Robert Tucker
about 1670 H. L. Whitney
(earliest house in Milton)
805 Dana Tucker
before 1798 G. P. Baker
823 James Tucker
1045 Maj. Joseph Bent
1144 John Crehore
1465 Isaac Davenport
about 1794 Mrs. Henry Binney
1493
Davenport farmhouse
before 1798 Joseph Leland
before 1798 Robert H. Gardiner
about 1724 Dr. Henry Beecher
1707 Kennard Wakefield
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CANTON AVENUE
215 Joseph Babcock
before 1798 Mrs. G. N. Hurd
1798 Miss Fairbank
before 1752 W. H. Leary
730 Rev. Nathaniel Robbins
1752 W. N. Sweet
1238 Nath. Davenport
1350 Dr. John Sprague
1370 Suffolk Resolves House Vose-Holbrook
old part built late 1600's
new part built 1765
15 14 Nathaniel Davenport
before 1798 Mrs. John Bartol
1580 Phineas Davenport
1631 William Crehore
1839 William Davenport
part of present house 1720 S. H. Wolcott
HIGHLAND STREET 386 John Gibbons
HILLSIDE STREET
11 Samuel Miller
93 Samuel Tucker
188 French-Bronsdon
part about
1770 Dr. M. Putnam
1636 K. Webster
428 Capen House, moved from Dorchester
HOLMES LANE
36 Elijah Wadsworth
1765 Wm. J. Richards
MORTON ROAD
78 Gov. Robbins-Cabot
1800 Walter D. Brooks
RANDOLPH AVENUE
239 Thomas Hollis
about 1805 Hatherly Foster
1023 Capt. Isaac Tucker
1726 R. Cote
1 100 Nathaniel Tucker
1790 F. E. Firth
ROBBINS STREET
23 Manassah Tucker
1708 Mrs. W. B. Dexter
MYERS LANE
19 William Tucker
1760 Miss Helen Walsh
VOSE'S LANE 34 Gen. Joseph Vose
1761 W. R. Sparrell
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693 Lemuel Gulliver
720 John Gulliver
about 1788 Roger Martin about 1780 Dr. J. B. Ayer
about 1802 Edward Sawyer 1781 William Rust
about 1801 Bent Nursing Home
about 1771 R. Cote
1713 Howard Whiteside
25,000
20,000
POPULATION
15,000
10,000
5,000
$2000
PER CAPITA REAL ESTATE VALUATION
$1500
$ 1000
$500
1840
1860
1880
1900
1920
1940
1960
Curves of Population & Valuation
APPENDIX NUMBER 3
Statistical and Financial Figures
The table on page 246 lists some significant statistical data on the growth of Milton, and the chart presents two curves of population and of real estate valuation per capita. The population curve shows that for twenty years up until 1875 the population of the town remained almost static, but just after the latter year a very decided growth trend appears which continued at a practically constant rate until 1920 when it showed a still further material increase. The per capita valuation curve tells us that during the 1875-1920 period this population growth was accompanied by ever-increasing per cap- ita real estate values. Since 1920, however, the converse has been true and the valuation has reversed its growth trend and gone sideways and some- what backward. If we can measure the relative wealth of a town by its per capita valuation, and I think that such a measurement is not an unfair one, it is evident that, until the market crash of 1929 ushered in a social revolu- tion, Milton was a town of ever-increasing wealth. The last quarter century has shown a reversal, particularly when we realize that today's valuations are in depreciated dollars. Milton is no longer a rich town.
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Real Estate Valuation
Total Town Tax Rate
Town's
Year Population 1838 about 1,800
$5,559
$1,655 1,700
1855
2,656
$1,395,500
30,075
6.00
10,569
1860
2,646
1,852,500
26,300
4.50
16,802
1865
2,770
1,740,800
96,499
10.00
31,966
1870
2,683
2,338,300
88,206
9.00
19,222
1875
2,738
3,150,500
100,582
6.30
0
1880
3,206
3,587,200
100,938
7.30
0
1885
3,555
4,219,050
198,738
6.00
4,995
1890
4,278
5,309,350
305,672
8.00
29,358
1895
5,518
7,621, 100
318,344
7.00
26,500
1900
6,578
9,266,400
11.00
176,500
1905
6,948
10,640, 172
12.80
387,500
19 10
7,877
12,213,460
386,191
11.90
396,000
1915
8,882
14,650,530
398,967
12.50
307,000
1920
9,985
18,754,135
600,650
21.60
361,500
1925
12,779
24,388,725
1,679,842
23.80
746,000
1930
16,200
32,001,850
1,427, 197
26.80
1, 150,000
1935
18,103
34,123,200
1,411,610
27.80
1,318,000
1940
19,714
36,820,985
1,596,473
26.40
1,038,000
1945
21,800
35,310,585
1,658,489
26.80
621,000
1950
22,355
38,969,735
2,630,592
37.40
398,000
1955
24,292
44,874,235
3,706,552
46.00
1,441,000
1850
2,241
7,837
Expenditures per 1000 Funded Debt
NOTE The total expenditures given vary somewhat from time to time in the method by which they were reported, but they are essentially comparable. Previous to 1917 stocks and bonds were taxed as personal property by the Town, therefore the total valuation decreased materially and the tax rate rose considerably in the following year.
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APPENDIX NUMBER 4
Biographical Sketches of Prominent Milton Residents 1634-1929
This section presents a number of very brief notes on certain people who have been of importance in the history of Milton, and on certain Milton citi- zens who have achieved prominence through one cause or another. In a very few exceptional cases persons living after 1929 have been included, but in general this appendix is limited to those who died before 1930.
APTHORP, Harrison Otis 1857-1905
In 1887 he came to Milton Academy and laid the foundations upon which a great school was built.
BADCOCK, Robert -1694
The first of a long line of Milton Babcocks, he was probably here as early as 1648. He is listed as Sergeant in 1670, and the Milton records report his death as that of "Captain Robart Badcock".
BAKER, Edmund J. 1805-1890
Grandson of Daniel Vose through the second marriage of Elizabeth Vose Lillie, he became a surveyor and a most prominent citizen of Dorchester and Milton. While he appears always to have been a citizen of the former town, he was also active in Milton affairs and served on at least two committees ap- pointed by our Town Meeting. A keen historian, he was one of the founders of the Dorchester Antiquarian Society, and wrote part of the history of Dor- chester published by that Society. His sister, Lydia, married the Rev. Ben- jamin Huntoon, the first Unitarian minister in Milton.
BAKER, Dr. James 1739-1825
After trying school teaching, the ministry, medicine and trade, he went into chocolate-making in Milton in 1780. His son Walter (1792-1852) succeeded him in the business which eventually grew into the great chocolate factory of Walter Baker & Co. A second son, Edmund, was the father of Edmund J. Baker.
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BELCHER, Governor Jonathan 1681-1757
A successful merchant and politician, he had a summer home in Milton at today's 401 Adams Street, and had planned an ambitious mansion house which never was built.
BLAKE, William 1620-1703
A prominent early settler in the town, he held various offices in the local government.
BOIES, Captain James 1702-1798
A native of the north of Ireland, he married a daughter of Jeremiah Smith in 1759 and established a paper mill at Mattapan. The Milton records call him "Captain", perhaps from his service in connection with the fascines used on Dorchester Heights.
BOURNE, Nehemiah 1611-1691
Son of a shipwright, it is probable that he built vessels in Dorchester. Owned considerable land in Milton between Adams Street and the river. In about 1644 he served as a Major in a Cromwellian regiment, but in the following year was Sergeant-Major (Commander) of Massachusetts' Suffolk Regiment. He returned to England in 1646 and became an Admiral in the Parliamenta- ry Navy.
BOWDITCH, Ernest W. 1850-1918
A nationally known landscape architect and sanitary engineer, he designed the Milton sewer system and was a Sewer Commissioner for many years.
BRIGGS, Daniel 1754-1825
A shipbuilder of Pembroke, he came here at the close of the Revolution and established a shipyard. See chapter "The River".
BRYANT, Gridley 1789-1867
Engineer and builder, he initiated the building of the Granite Railway, and devised many of the necessary appliances, switches, turntables, etc. He in- vented the movable truck used on the 8-wheel rail car. He later practiced engineering and surveying in this neighborhood.
CHICKATAUBUT -1633
Chief of the remnants of the Neponset Indians. In 1630 he had from 50 to 60 subjects. He was not too friendly to the English at this time, but apparently did not oppose them in any way. Died of smallpox.
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CHURCHILL, Asaph 1765-1841
Left alone at a very early age, he worked his own way through Harvard and completed his studies for the law at which he soon was successful. Was a most prominent citizen of the town, acquiring large tracts of land, which he stocked with cattle, believing this more profitable than cultivation.
CHURCHILL, Joseph Mckean 1821-1886
Son of Asaph Churchill, he was active in State politics, Captain in the Civil War, Overseer of Harvard, and a Judge of the Boston Municipal Court. In the course of 25 years he served as Milton's Moderator 32 times.
COLLECOTT, Richard circa 1603-1686
A fur trader, tailor, soldier and mariner, he was a prominent citizen of Dor- chester and built what was probably the first house in Milton. See General Index.
CRANE, Henry 1621-1709
An iron worker, he lived on Adams Street near the Quincy line. He was in Milton by 1655.
CREHORE, Benjamin 1765-1832
A mechanical genius and jack-of-all-trades from stage machinery and musi- cal instruments to power looms, he had a shop in Milton Village for many years.
CUNNINGHAM, Edward 1823-1889
A partner of Russell and Co., he made a fortune in the China trade, and, re- tiring to Milton in about 1857, built the house now occupied by the Conva- lescent Home. His estate of some 150 acres included most of today's Cun- ningham Park as well as land extending northwest to Pleasant Street. He was shot on his own grounds by a trespasser in 1889 and died the next day. The Trustees under the will of Mary A. Cunningham, his aunt, bought the estate in 1905 and established today's Cunningham Park.
CUNNINGHAM, Mary A. 1814-1904
Daughter of Ralph Bennet Forbes, she married the Rev. Francis Cunning- ham. During the Civil War she was very active in conducting relief measures for the troops and their families. She left practically the whole of her consid- erable fortune to three trustees to be utilized for the benefit of the inhabitants of Milton. The trustees established and ever since have operated Cunning- ham Park with funds made available by her generous bequest.
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DANIELS, William ? - 1678?
Kept an inn on Adams Street on north side about halfway between Dudley Lane and Algerine Corner. The Foye "stately and elegant mansion" was built on the site of the inn in 1728.
FELT, Willard
Built the first cars for the Granite Railway in his stone shop still standing on the north side of the Squantum Street entrance to the Southeast Expressway.
FORBES, John Murray 1770 ?- 1831
Son of the Rev. John Forbes and Dorothy Murray, he lived in Milton as a boy, graduated from Harvard in 1787, and then studied law. Was appointed Consul at Hamburg in 1801, then Chargé d'Affaires at Copenhagen, and fin- ally Minister to Buenos Aires until his death.
FORBES, John M. 1813-1898
It is impossible to do justice to this great and good man in a short paragraph. His life is amply covered in books already published. Most of his many bene- factions were carefully concealed, but the more I have studied Milton his- tory of his period, the more I have appreciated the great good which he did and the many kindnesses which he showed to those in need of help. His ser- vices to the Union during the Civil War were of great value.
FORBES, Ralph Bennet 1773-1824
Born on the Brush Hill farm of his great-uncle, James Smith, he could be called the first real Milton Forbes. He was trained as a merchant and en- gaged in trade in various places. He married Margaret Perkins, sister of Colonel Thomas Handasyd Perkins, and was the father of Robert Bennet Forbes, John Murray Forbes, and Mary A. Cunningham.
FORBES, Robert Bennet 1804-1889
Older brother of John M. Forbes, he and his mother were on a ship captured by the British in 1811. They were held on board the warship for some days and once, when a French ship was being attacked, the seven-year-old boy was shown how to fire a cannon at the Frenchmen. He became a brilliant sea captain and retired from the sea at thirty. In 1847 the "Jamestown" was borrowed from our Navy in order to carry relief supplies to the sufferers from the Irish famine of that year, and Commodore Forbes sailed in com- mand. In his old age he delighted in making model boats for the youth of Milton Hill.
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FORBES, Colonel William H. 1840-1897
Son of John M. Forbes, officer in the Civil War and first president of the an- cestor of the American Telephone & Telegraph Company.
GILE, Rev. Samuel 1780-1836
A native of New Hampshire and a graduate of Dartmouth, Class of 1804, he was ordained at the Milton Church in 1807. It was his misfortune to be the minister at the time of the Unitarian break in 1834. He continued to minis- ter to the Congregational group until his death.
GILL, John ? - 1678
An early settler in Milton, he originally owned most of the top of Milton Hill, bought from the estate of Israel Stoughton. The Neponset Mill was also in- cluded in the purchase.
GLOVER, John ? - 1653
A wealthy resident of Dorchester, he owned considerable land in the vicini- ty of today's Glover School which was operated for him by a resident farmer.
GLOVER, Dr. Samuel K. 1753-1839
Served during the Revolution and came to Milton in 1783. A selectman for twenty-five years and Milton's first postmaster.
GOOCH, Colonel Joseph 1700-1770
He seems to have been a thoroughly unpleasant person. Graduating from Harvard in 1720, he studied law in England and returned to Boston to prac- tice. He quit Boston in spite because of failure to gain favor, and moved to Braintree where he succeeded in ousting Colonel Quincy from command of his regiment and secured the place for himself. He shortly became enraged with Braintree and came to Milton about 1744, where he built the house still standing at 233 Adams Street, later occupied for many years by Edward H. Robbins.
GOURGAS, John Mark 1766- ?
A native of Geneva, he went to London as a young man, remaining there for several years. He heard of and became much interested in Dr. Jenner's work on vaccination for the smallpox. He came to Milton in about 1803, and in the course of a few years' residence here promoted the idea of widespread vaccination. He and Dr. Holbrook probably deserve much of the credit for Milton's action in this direction in 1809.
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GULLIVER, Anthony 1619-1706
Came to Milton in 1646, and gave his name to Gulliver's Creek. He lived on Squantum Street. He acquired a large amount of land on Canton Avenue near the present Pierce School, and Gullivers flourished in that area for many years.
HANNON, John ? - 1779?
An Irishman and a chocolate maker, he arrived in Milton in 1764, and was assisted by James Boies in setting up a manufactory of chocolate in Milton Village. In 1773 he married Elizabeth Gore and left her and the country six years later, possibly drowning on the voyage back to Ireland.
HARLING, Thomas 1745-1801
Is probably the same Harling who had a nail-making shop in the Village near the Town Landing in the 1780's. At a somewhat later period he had a grist and sawmill a little upstream from the MDC skating rink of 1954. Har- land Street took its name, but not its spelling, from him.
HARRIS, Dr. Thaddeus W. 1795-1856
Studied medicine under Milton's Dr. Holbrook and married his daughter. Practiced in Milton about 1820-1831, poor health forced his retirement. He then became librarian at Harvard for a quarter century. Was a distin- guished entomologist.
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