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Fisher, Leonard, and Betsey Ware, both of Wrentham, 1792.
Fisher, Joel, of Walpole, and Sally Everett, 1818. Forrest, Emanuel, of Newton, and Mary Edwards, of Walpole, 1833. Frizzell, Asa, of Walpole, and Betsey Perry, 1830.
Gardner, Edward, and Mary Jones, 1734.
Gardner, James, and Altemira E. Fiske, 1831.
Gay, Phinehas, of Dover, and Mary Chickering, 1817.
Green, Warrick, and Mary Dego, 1783.
Guild, Nathaniel, and Rebecca Hart, both of Walpole, 1767.
Guy, Martin, and Adeline Bailey, 1834.
Hall, Josiah, and Cally Boyden, both of Walpole, 1779.
Harding, Thomas, and Abigail Twichell, 1754.
Harding, Seth, of Medway, and Mary Learned, 1805. Hartshorn, Fisher, and Zerviah Boyden, both of Walpole, 1779. Haslop, Thomas, and Mary Stimpson, 1820.
Hixon, Isaac, and Elizabeth Harding, both of Medway, 1788. Holbrook, Thomas, and Margaret Bowker, 1668. Holbrook, Samuel, and Maria Perce, 1675.
Holbrook, Luke, of Bellingham, and Mercy Pond, 1751.
Holbrook, Amos, of Bellingham, and Melitiah Hayward, of Medway, 1773. Holbrook, Samuel, and Lois Fisher, both of Wrentham, 1795. Horton, William H., and Mercy J. Flynn, 1837. Howard, Samuel, and Mehitabel Thompson, 1666.
Jones, David W., of Boston, and Mary C. Newell, 1831. Johnson, Julius L., and Betsey Ware, 1844. Johnson, Charles, of Wrentham, and Milla F. Wood, of Franklin, 1828. Kingsbury, Nathaniel, and Lavina Morse, of Sherborn, 1816. Kittredge, Peter, and Susanna Fuder (colored), 1791. Knowlton, Daniel, of Natick, and Hannah Davis, 1839. Lacroix, William, and Jemima Bullard, both of Medway, 1826. Leland, Hopestill, and Abigail Hill, 1678.
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HISTORY OF MEDFIELD.
Leland, Nathan, of Holliston, and Meribah Gay, of Dover, 1803. Linkon, Oliver, of Taunton, and Ruth Hall, of Walpole, 1763. Lovett, James, and Hannah Taylor, 1668.
Lyon, Ebenezer, and Hannah Wood, 1775.
Marsh, John, and Martha Hartshorn, of Dedham, 1719.
Marsh, John, and Lydia Smith, 1744.
Meuls, Samuel, and Mary Twichell, 1684.
Miller, Joseph, and Patty Fisher, 1825.
Mitchell, John, of Philadelphia, and Susanna Cunningham, 1776.
Morse, Timothy, and Mehitable Robbins, 1715.
Morse, Obadiah, of Walpole, and Bethia Ruggles, of Wrentham, 1729.
Morse, Uriah, and Elizabeth Metcalf, 1731.
Morse, Jeremiah, and Experience Ware, 1762.
Morse, Timothy, of Stoughton, and Lydia Fisher, of Wrentham, 1764.
Morse, Jotham, and Abigail Gregory, both of Walpole, 1773.
Morse, Jotham D., and Lydia F. Whiting, 1837.
New, James, and Mary Shuttleworth, 1720.
Parker, Solomon, and Mary Whitney, of Natick, 1792.
Partridge, Job, and Abigail Thompson, 1724.
Pond, Elihu, and Polly Boyd, both of Franklin, 1784.
Pratt, Joseph H., and Eliza H. Morse, IS4S.
Quant, John F., and Mary Worsley, both of Wrentham, 1785.
Randall, John, and Maria Aldridg, 1667.
Sawin, Lewis, and Betsey Wood, 1843.
Sayls, William, of Smithfield, and Phebe Tufts, 1817.
Shuttleworth, Vincent, and Sarah Macany, 1720.
Sparrowhawk, Timothy, of Natick, and Lydia Gay, 1746.
Stone, George, and Betsey Patts, IS16.
Stratton, Frederick, of Boston, and Mary A. Cleveland, 1833. Taylor, Hopestill, and Mary Lovett, 166S.
Taylor, William, and Marie Johnson, 1671.
Thare, Jonathan, and Elizabeth French, of Mendon, 1680.
Titus, Nehemiah, and Anna Barden, both of Wrentham, 1755.
Turner, Elisha, and Esther Woodsworth, both of Walpole, 1759.
Turner, Edward, and Hannah Fisher, both of Walpole, 1763. Twitchell, Benjamin, and Marie White, 1683.
Whiting, Seth, and Susanna Harding, 1811. Whitney, Jonathan, and Susanna Fairbanks, 1701.
Whitney, Jesse, of Framingham, and Rebecca Newell, 1818. Wight, Arnold, of Dover, and Dolly Graves, of Ashburnham, IS27. Williams, Joseph, and Susanna Lawrence, 1710. Wilson, Jered, and Cate Lawrence, of Franklin, 1784.
Woods, John, of Ashburnham, and Rebecca Draper, 1831.
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MISCELLANEOUS BIRTHS, MARRIAGES, AND DEATHIS.
DEATHS.
Andrews, Almira, w. of William, aged 25, 1841.
Antelony, Ann (found dead), 1771. Arculas, Hannah, w. of James, 1795. Ashton, Nancy, 30, 183S.
Bigelow, Isaac, 1777. Bigelow, William, 13, 1834. Bigelow, Solomon, 66, 1841. Blake, Martha, d. of Philip and Sarah, 1779. Boyce, Mary, 1772. Bran, Lucy, 85, 1837.
Brooks, Joseph (Indian), 1760.
Burrill, Elethera, 30, 1839.
Carpenter, John (drowned), 1753.
Corson, Wid. Sibyl, IS12.
Challener, Edward, 1785. Cleaveland, Alma, w. of Addison, 30, 1834.
Colby, Eliza, 29, 1832.
Collar, Elizabeth, d. Phinehas and Hannah, 1736.
Connolly, Elizabeth, w. of John, 1760.
Connolly, William, SI, 1826.
Connolly, Peggy, 95, 1840.
Cook, Nathan, 1747.
Cooper, John (killed by Indians), 1676.
Crosby, Mary, of Billerica, 1721.
Daniels, Mrs., 78, 1842.
Dorr, Lieut. Jonathan, 1776.
Downs, Thomas, of Boston (burned), 1806.
Draper, James, of Dover, 1789. Drown, Rhoda, 100, 1834.
Ellenwood, Olive G., d. of Aaron, IS20. Ellenwood, Charles, 1839. Felt, William, 77, 1843. Felt, Rachel, wid. of William, 87, 1846. Fiske, Nathaniel, 1727. Flagg, Lucy, 60, 1841. Foley, Silence, d. of John and Anna, 17So.
Freeman, Edward, 53, 1827. Garrett, Cornelia, 17, 1848. Gay, Eunice, w. of Ichabod, of Dedham, 183S.
Goudy, John, s. of James and Mary, 1744. Gould, Keziah, 76, 1842. Green, John, 1781.
Green, Warrick (native of Africa), 1815. Green, Newport, 1816.
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HISTORY OF MEDFIELD.
Green, Daniel, 40, 1824. Green, David, 37, 1826. Green, Thankful, d. of Warrick, 49, 1847. Green, Mary, wid. of Warrick, 1849.
Handy, Hannah, 25, 1825.
Harding, Oliver, s. of Elijah and Sarah, 1754.
Harding, Hannah, w. of Elias, 1805.
Harding, Elias, 1820.
Harding, Capt. Nathan M., d. at sea, 24, 1822.
Harding, Timothy, 84, 1849.
Hart, Miss -, 57, 1840.
Helyer, Thomas, of Boston, 1752.
Herring, Hepsibah, w. of Peletiah, 1779.
Herring, Samuel, husb. of Sarah, 1795. Hews, Hannah, w. of Joshua, 1756.
Hill, Mary, 1776.
Holbrook, Nathaniel, s. of Thomas, by fall of a tree, 1677. Holbrook, Henry, s. of Henry and Martha, 1784.
Holbrook, Alice, w. of Partridge, 69, 1842. Horner, Hannah, wid. of John, 1778.
Horton, Bathsheba, 76, 1843. How, John, of Roxbury, 1828. Howson, Asa (drowned), 24, 1827.
Hunt, Margaret, ISoo.
Jackson, Edward (slain by Indians) 1676.
Jackson, James (drowned) 1804.
Jackson, Wid. Sarah, 70, 1831.
Jones, Henry P., 42, 1846. Kingsbury, Samuel, of Walpole (drowned), 1767.
Kingsbury, Jemima, w. of Nathaniel, 1814.
Kingsbury, Nathaniel, s. of Nathaniel, 27, 1831. Kingsbury, Mrs. Lavina, 72, 1833.
Kingsbury, Wid. Lydia, 78, 1835. Kingsbury, Nathaniel, 97, 1846.
Lane, Fanny, 30, IS25. Lane, Wid. Lucy, 68, 1833.
Leland, Eleazar, husb. of Sarah, 1703.
Lemoyne, Wid. Anna, 1749. Lemoyne, John F., 1750. Linkhorn, Wid. Hannah, 1751. Loring, Hannah, w. of Rev. Horatio, 28, 1835. Lyon, Wid. - , 1776. Merrill, Calvin A., s. of Calvin and Sarah, IS47. Miller, Morgiana M., d. of Joseph and Patty, 1848. Mills, Ira, of Needham (by accident), 1808. Monk, Josiah, s. of Daniel, 3, 1837.
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MISCELLANEOUS BIRTHS, MARRIAGES, AND DEATHS.
Morice, Richard, s. of Richard and Jane, 1734.
Morse, Timothy, of Walpole, 1765. . Morse, Betty, d. of John, ISTO. Morse, John, 1814. Morse, Mary A., of Walpole, 22, 1825. Morse, Joseph, of Walpole, 24, 1830. Peppelow, John, husb. of Eve, 1793. Peppelow, Hannah, 74, 1838. Perigo, Hannah, 34, 1832. Pierce, Isaac, 1813. Pond, Catherine, 1778. Quincy, Nancy, d. of Henry and Eunice, 1777. Reinolds, Sarah, w. of Nathaniel, of Boston, 1663. Robbins, Benoni, 1731. Robinson, Diantha, w. of Rev. Charles, 1843.
Robinson, Sally, w. of Rev. Charles, 40, 1849. Sawin, Pharez, husb. of Hannah, 31, 1824. Sawin, Emeline, w. of Lewis, 30, 1841. Scollay, Mercy, 84, 1826. Seabury, Mary A., d. of Elijah and Abigail, 1799. Shuttleworth, Elizabeth, w. of Vincent, 1680.
Shuttleworth, Elizabeth, w. of Vincent, 1694. Shuttleworth, Vincent, Sen., 1719. Shuttleworth, Vincent, 1744. Slocomb, Simon, 73, 1844. Tailor, Jane, 1675. Thompson, Daniel, 1760. Thompson, Lemuel (in the army), 1766. Thompson, Lemuel, 68, 1852. Tillinghast, Betsey, 63, 1834. Tillinghast, Elizabeth S., 1840. Tisdale, Emily, 1836. Twichell, Lois, 1779. Wagner, John, 24, 1841. Ware, Philander, 53, 1841.
Ware, Abigail, wid. of Hezekiah, of Wrentham, 1847. Whiting, Roger (suicide), 1808.
Whitney, Leonard, 32, 1825. Wilder, Eliza H., d. of Silas and Caroline, 1847. Williams, William (slain by Indians), 1676. Wood, Mary, w. of Nicolas, 1662.
Wood, Nicolas, 1669, Wood, Jonathan (slain by Indians), 1676. Woodward, Charles, 59, 1839. Woodward, Mehetibel, w. of Artemas, 1837. Woodward, Artemas, 1839.
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INDEX TO HISTORY.
ACADEMY Hall, afterward Masonic Hall, 210. Academy, Miss M. A. Adams', 223.
Acadians, 142-144, 152. Adams Avenue laid out, 257.
Adams, Henry, mill burned, 88.
Agreement of the settlers of the town, 37, 38.
Allen, Rev. John, grant to, 25.
Allen, Joseph, house fired, 86.
Alleyne, Edward, grant to, 25, 42.
Alleyne's grant purchased by town, 58. Almshouse, 148. Ammunition, town stock of, 111.
Anti-pedobaptists, 139, 157.
Appearance of country in early days, 26, 27.
Appropriations of 1886, 268.
Aqueduct, ancient, 207.
Arms brought to church, 29. Army rations in Revolutionary times, 173. Assessors, first chosen, 105.
BACHELORS' Row, 61. Bank bills of Province Treasury, 124. Baptists, first meetings, 140. to have use of school-house, 156, 158. church organized, 168. first meeting-house, 158, 224. second mecting-house, 236, 262. church centennial, 263. church history, 263. Battle's store, 190. Bay Colony, patent of, 18. Bay Path, the, 19.
Baxter, Rev. Joseph, settled, 105-107. Bell, first in Medfield, 67. frame to hang, 92. belfry built, 141. not to be rung without permis- sion, 169.
recast, 201. Bicentennial of burning of the town, 262. Bills of public credit, 124. Births, first record of, 50. Births, marriages, and deaths 1651- 1875 copied and arranged, 264.
Blackbirds, bounty on, 70.
Black Swamp, list of proprietors, 112. Boggestow, 24.
Boggestow Pond, battle near, 89.
Boiling Spring, 275.
Boot Manufacturing Company, 243.
Boston, Hartford & Erie Railroad, 254. Bottom road laid out, 76.
Boundaries of town's land near centre, 239. Bounds, 60.
Boxing trees for turpentine, etc., 117. Boys' seats in the meeting-house, 129. Brastow's Bridge, 275.
Brick school-house at north end, 202.
Bridge, first, over Charles River, 42. fired by Indians, 86. first, over North Brook, 74. over South Plain Brook, 72. over Stop River toward Wrentham, 63.
Bridges, list of, 275.
Bridge Street Plain, 276.
Brush manufacture, 208, 211.
Bullard, widow, only pauper 1725, 12S.
Bullen, Samuel, petition for aid, 97.
Bunker Hill alarm, 165.
Bunker Hill Monument subscribers, 225 Burned houses, Philip's war, 84. Burning of Curtis & Co.'s boarding- house, 262. Burning the woods, 26, 60-62, 6S. Burnt Swamp, 277. Burying-place laid out, 49.
let for pasture, 71, 106, 132. By-laws of the town, 250, 267.
CANADA soldiers, 1775-76, 165, 16S. Canal, 213. Cannon, signal, 86.
Canocs, forbidden, 67.
Carriage manufacture, 244, 249. Castle Hill, 276.
Castle Hill road laid out, 134. Castle tax, 75. Catechizing the children, 219. Cedar Hill, 276. Cemetery enlarged, 239, 264. Cemetery improved, 241.
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INDEX TO HISTORY.
Census of 1885, 267.
Centre Meadow, 277.
Centre Meadow road laid out, 133.
Centre School, roll of 1820, 222. Charitable contribution, 224, 225. Charity, public, first, 103.
Charles River, 274.
Charles River, named and first de- scribed, 17.
Charles River to be cleared, GS.
Charles River Branch Railroad, 242.
Charles River Railroad, 243, 244.
Chemical fire extinguishers, first, 265.
Cheney Pond, 277.
Chickatabot, 21.
Chickering's road laid out, 132. Church, council, 137. discipline, 194. dissatisfaction in, 136, 137.
land, 71. lot (Frairy's) sold, 217. members of 1697, 108. of 1815, 215, 216. non-resident, 114, 116. organ, 205. records found, 224.
voted first to keep records, 1 33.
Clark's (James) tavern, 231.
Clay-pits reserved for public use, 41. Clay-pit valley, 277.
Cobb's store, 220.
Collector, first, 41.
College subscription, 94.
Colonial life, 28.
Colored folks' seats in meeting-house, 200.
Committee to manage affairs, 36. of correspondence, 163. to report disloyal persons, 163.
Common, corner North and Dale Streets, 129.
Common lands, nine hundred acres laid out, 123.
Common on South Street, 73.
Compulsory support of parish minis- ters, 139, 157, 158.
Continental Army, Medfield soldiers in, 178. Contribution in aid of Boston, 1774, 164.
Cordwainers, 31. Coroner, first, 113. Cottage Street laid out, 252.
County, new, petitions for, 130, 133. division of, 175, 191. tax of 1759, 143. Cross Street laid out, 146.
Curve Street laid out, 139.
DANIEL, Joseph, leave to build mill, 102.
Death of the last of the original set- tlers, 121.
Death penalties in the colony, 32.
Deaths among original settlers, 61, 62. Death's Bridge, 275.
Deaths, first record of, 59.
Dedham, settlement and original ex- tent, 22, 23. surrenders jurisdiction, 46. to receive £ 50, 36. " villadge," 34-
Deer, to be preserved, 133.
Devil's-foot Island, 278.
Dingle Dell, 278.
Division of the town proposed, 118.
Documents, public, 1812, 212.
Door, sash, and blind manufacture, 235.
Drafting for Revolutionary Army, 176. Drake's book, extracts from, SS.
Draper's mill, 218.
Drum, beating the, 69, 99, 100.
Dwight's Bridge, 275.
Dwight's Bridge, first mention, 67.
Dwight's Causey laid out, 67, 63.
Dyer's Neck, 278.
EASTWARD, war with Indians at, 94.
Election Day sports, 195.
Ellis' Bridge, 275.
Elms on Main Street, 189.
Elm Street laid out, 57.
Embargo of ISO8, 208.
"Emperor " and his marshals, 231-233. Engine-house, first, second, 231, 245.
Excelsior Hook and Ladder Com- pany, 264. Exemption from ministerial taxes, IS6. Exemption of Continental soldiers, 166.
FACULTY tax, 195. Fairbanks' tavern, 210.
Families, number of, in 1722, 125.
" Farms," the, 24.
Fast riding, 1672-73, 74, 75.
Female teacher, first, 109.
Fences, regulations about, 60.
Fern Dell, 278.
Fine for not sending Representative, 135.
Fine for travelling without arms, with- out leave, 28 ..
Fire, contributions for sufferers by, 145.
Fire-engine, 229, 245.
Firemen, list of, in 1854, 245.
Fish in Charles River, 135.
Fish-way, 182.
Food of the colonists, 31.
Forests, open, 26. Forts in Indian times, 84.
Fourth of July celebration, first notice, 198.
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HISTORY OF MEDFIELD.
Fourth of July celebration of 1820, 220. Frairy homestead given to town and church, 105, 106.
Frairy's Bridge, 60, 276.
Frairy Street, 156, 229.
Framingham & Mansfield R.R., 258.
Freemasons, Cassia Lodge, 225.
Freemen, 32.
French wars, men drafted 1704-06, 113, 115.
French war, 1722, men raised, 125. 1755, 142, 144, 146. French neutrals (Acadi- ans), 142, 143.
Fulling mills, 114, 127.
Funeral cloth and bier purchased, 1 30.
Funeral of Rev. Joseph Baxter, 136.
GAIR, Rev. Thomas, 168, IS5.
. Garrison houses, 29, 84. Gibbs, Captain, St.
Grand Army of Republic, Post 117, 25S.
Granite Street, 122, 131, 134.
Grant from Dedham, 34, 35.
Grants by the colony, 24, 28.
Grants by towns, 28.
Grant, west of the river, old, 34, 35.
Grant, west of the river, new, 65.
Great blow, 217.
Great Bridge rebuilt, ISt.
Great Brook, 274.
Great field, 276.
Great gun, the, 76, 91.
Great sickness, the, 205.
Goudy, 278.
Goudy road laid out, 12S.
Goudy's mill, 128, 135.
Governor, fixed salary for resisted, 131.
Guide-boards, first, 193.
Guinea, 27S.
Gunpowder, distributed by the colony, 29.
HALL, public, proposed, 249. Hand corn-mills, 30. Harbor Island, 277.
Harvard College, 29, 30, 59, 71.
Harvard College, subscription to, 1675, 76.
Hatter Hill, 276.
Hay-fork manufacture, 236.
Health, board of, first, 245.
Hearse, first, 201.
Hearse-house, first, 204.
Heating meeting-house, first, 226.
Hemp, raised by the Indians, 17, 19. Herd-house Plain, 277.
Herd-walks, 30, 60, 68, 73, 98.
Heretical opinions in the colony, 20. High Street laid out, 131, 141. Highways, first, 42. Ilighway work in early days, 62.
Hinsdale's mill, place of, mentioned, 92. Historical sermon, Sanders', 218.
History of Baptist Church, 263. History of New England, let to read- ers, 218.
Hog's trough, 277.
Holbrook's tavern, 207, 209.
Hook and Ladder Company formed, 263.
Horse reeves, 157.
Horse-shed at meeting-house, first, 109. Horse-thief Detecting Society, 202.
ITouse lots of original proprietors, 43, 47, 48, 57-59.
Houses of the colonists, 30.
Hubbard's book, extracts from, 82, 85, SS. Huckleberry Hill road laid out, 139.
IMMIGRATION, the great, 23. Incorporation of Medfield, 46. Indian titles to be extinguished, 21.
Iron ore, 27S.
Iron ore first mentioned, 65.
JACOBS, Captain, 82, 87.
Jadewalk, 278.
Jadewalk road, 69, 143.
James-the-printer, 86,
Janes & Curtis, firm of, 251.
Johnson, Dr. Return, first physician, 97, 99.
Johnson's tavern, 213, 231.
Josias Wampatuck, his claims, 22, 100, 101. Jurors, list of, first mention, 134.
KILLED at burning of town, list of, 85. King Philip's war, 79-92.
LADDER at the meeting-house, 75. Ladder, every man to have, 67. Lake Woods, 278.
Lancaster burned out, news of, 81.
Lands, desire of colonists for, 20. given to all settlers, 28. how divided, 28. of Chickatabot, 21.
or houses not to be let or sold without permission, 74. " Lattin tongue " to be taught, 144.
Law books distributed, 1660, 66. Leading way to the swamps, 116.
Letter for aid, Feb. 14, 1676, 81.
Letter from the town of Boston and reply, 159, 160. Lexington alarm, the, 165. Library, first, 183. second, 22S. present public, 259, 266.
Line between Sherborn and Medfield, 99.
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INDEX TO HISTORY.
Line between Wheelock's and town land, 151.
Live stock kept in town, 1784, 181.
Localities, table of, 276.
Long Causey, made a town way, 105. Lots drawn for location of land, 58. Lyceum of 1782, 177.
Map of the town, 191, 243. Market women, 197.
Marriage, first recorded, 61.
Marriage, first by a minister, 101.
Masonic Hall purchased by town, 240. Mason, Lowell, rescue from drown- ing, 206.
Massachusetts, native productions, 17. Massachusetts River, 17.
Meadows laid out, 58.
Meadows overflowed, 193.
Medfield, name, how selected, 36.
Medway line, change desired, 120, 1 34. list of founders of, 120. set off, 119.
Meeting-house, first, 59,62,63, 65, 70, 76. of 1706, 114, 115. of 1706 remodelled in 1725, 127. of 1706 repaired, 135, 147. of First Parish remod- elled, 236. persons placed in the, 130.
Meeting-house Pond, 130, 193. Meetings for political study, 196.
Mendon abandoned, 79. Metacom, 79.
Military officer, first, 59.
Mill Brook, 274.
Mill, the first, 49, 50. sold, 56. removed, 65, 66, 69.
Mill near "the Willows," 128.
Mill, new, burned, 101. Mill on Boggestow Brook, SS.
Mills burned by Indians, 84.
Mine Hill, 276. Ministerial fund, 141, 146.
Ministerial taxes, abated, 197.
Ministerial taxes, imprisonment for, 192.
Minute-men, 1774, 164. Monaco, or "one-eyed John," 88.
Morton's description of country, 26. Mount Nebo, 276. Mount Nebo, Indians seen on, 83.
Mount Nebo Street laid out, 258. Murder, first in Medfield, 202.
Musical instruction provided, 203, 220, 224.
NAIL factory, 214. Nantasket, 278.
Narragansett expedition, So. Natick dam, first mentioned, 125. complaint of, 135. subsequent mention, 140, 141, 145, 193, 209, 239. Natick Indian claims Medfield land, 74.
New county, petition for, 131.
New grant, 65.
New meeting-house desired, 1703, 113. Newspapers in Revolutionary times, 170.
New York & Boston Railroad, 253. New York & New England Railroad, 254.
Nine o'clock bell, 190.
Ninth Norfolk Representative Dis- trict, 262.
Non-importation agreement, 157.
Noon Hill, 276.
Noon Hill, Indians seen on, S3.
Noon Hill Street laid out, 67, 134.
Noon Hill woods road laid out, 151.
Noon houses, 124, 131, 132, 134, 137.
Norfolk County incorporated, 191.
North and Farm Streets laid out, 131. North Brook, 274.
North Meadows, 277.
North Plain, 277.
North schools consolidated, 256.
Notice, Indian, on the bridge, 86.
OAKES, Captain, SI, S2, 87. Oak Street laid out, 265. Oath, town officers', 185.
Oldham's journey to River, 19.
Connecticut
Old men not taxed, 123.
Old road discontinued, 259.
Old road from Dingle Dell to Great Bridge, 145. Old road from Philip Street to Ded- ham road, 128.
Old road from the mills to Elm Street, 149.
Old tenor and new tenor bills, 133. Old-time college graduation, 211.
Onion's Post-office, 219. Orchard Street widened, 243.
Ordinary, or public house, Wheelock's, 113. Orthodox Congregationalist chapel built, 260.
Orthodox Congregationalist church and chapel burned, 263.
Orthodox Congregationalist church or- ganized, 227.
Orthodox Congregationalist church re- built, 264.
Orthodox Congregationalist meeting- house built, 230.
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HISTORY OF MEDFIELD.
PAPIER-MACHE goods manufacture, 266.
Parish and town separated, 213, 21 5. Park Street laid out, 265.
Pastor, first, 4S.
Pauperism in 1827, 227.
Paupers, mode of supporting, 203, 219, 231, 234.
Periods, three, in New England his- tory, 110.
Petition for aid granted, 98. for country land, 122.
for the Sturbridge grant, 128.
of the town, after the burn- ing, 91.
of twenty-four persons burned out, 93.
Pews in place of short seats, 132, 137. Philip, King, 79.
Philip, death of, 90.
Philip Street, easterly end laid out, 240.
Philip's wife and child sold into slav- ery, 90.
Philip's war, cost of, to the colony, 90.
Phipps' expedition, Medfield soldiers in, 103.
Physician, first, 97.
Pine Street laid out, 132.
Pine Swamp, 277.
Placing persons in meeting-house, 116, 121.
l'lain Street laid out, 131, 246.
Planting-field, 276.
Planting-field road, 190.
Plastered houses, 30.
Pleasant Street laid out, 242, 265.
Pomham, defeat and death of, S9.
Post-office established, 206.
Post from Boston to Ilartford estab- lished, 75.
Potash works, 147.
Population in 1660, 67.
Population and valuation in 1663, 169. Pound built, 62.
by the meeting-house, 133. referred to, 194. removed to High Street, 254.
Pound Street laid out, 1 32.
Powder house, 148, 155, 160, 249.
Powder magazine in the meeting- house, 129.
Prentiss, Rev. Thomas, called, or- dained, 157.
Property destroyed at burning of the town, 88.
Proprietors of common lands, 121, 122. Prosecution of the town for lack of school, 125. Public house, first mention, 64.
" Putnam Greys," 237.
Pynchon, William, his purchase, 22.
RAILROAD, Boston & Providence, 229. Railroad Street laid out, 139.
straightened 2 57.
Railroad train, first, 253.
Railroad, Woonsocket to Boston, 233.
Rail-tree Neck, road to, 113.
Raising the meeting-house, ISS.
Rattlesnakes, 122.
Rebuilding after Philip's war, 92.
Records from 1649 to 1755 copied, 265. Records from 1860 to 1874 burned, 252. Regulations for division of town
lands, 39.
Religious awakening, 134.
Representative, first, 59.
Representative's instructions, 151, 153, 154, 162, 166, 170, 174.
Representative's pay, 127.
Retrospect, a self-gratulatory, 154.
Revision of State Constitution, 222, 223.
Revolutionary soldiers, list of, 178, 179. Revolutionary spirit of the town, 150. Road between Medfield and Mendon built, 72.
Road from Medfield to Dedham, 123.
Road from South Plain to Stop River, 61.
Roads, old, list of, discontinued in 1856, 248.
Road to Harbor Island, 69.
Rock Meadow, 277.
Rockwood, Benjamin, wounded at the Eastward, 94.
Rocky-lane Street, 126.
Rocky Woods, 276.
Roxbury as shire town, protest against, 212.
SADEY'S tavern, 127.
Safe for town's use, first, 243.
Sagamore John, 21.
Sawin's store, 220.
Saw-mill at Castle Hill, 183.
Saw-mill at Noon Hill, 149.
Saw-mill Brook, 275.
Saw-mill, Ephraim Cheney's, 138.
Saw-mill, to be built, 1673, 75.
School committee, first, 212.
School districts, 142, 144, 186, 199.
School districts abolished, 257.
School, first in Medfield, 62.
at north and south ends, 122. none kept, town presented, 1 20. supported in part by tuition, 100. School fund, 147, 160, 172, 195, 215, 223, 224, 225, 239. School-house, Centre, 67, 71, 144, 210, 252. North, 129, 130, 145, 202, 242.
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INDEX TO HISTORY.
School-house, South, 129, 130, 145, 196, 229, 246, 262.
Schoolmaster, first, 62.
Schoolmaster's recommendation, a, 126.
School Street laid out, 243.
School time divided, 130, 142.
Scouting party from Medfield, 90.
Scaler of leather, 105, 195.
Sealer of weights and measures, first, 62.
Sear Tree Plain, 277.
Seating the meeting-house, 33, 67, 73, 139.
Seat-lids in meeting-house, 188.
Selectmen dine at town's expense, 64. Settlement of Medfield, 34.
Sewall, Judge, extracts from, 101, 107. Sewer, common, 268.
Shad and alewives, 135.
Sheep, first mention, 74.
Sheep, marks recorded, 132.
Sherborn "farms," 24, 64, 65.
Sherborn line, 98.
Shire town, petition, 241.
Shoes for the colonists, 31.
Short Street laid out, 241.
Signals for danger from Indians, 24.
Signers of the agreement, 38.
Slavery in the colony, 32.
Slaves, baptism of their infants, 134. Sleepy Hollow, 278.
Small-pox among Indians, 22.
Small-pox hospital, 167, 170, 190.
Smith, Captain John, description of coast, 17. Soldier's burial, first, in civil war, 254. Soldiers in civil war, list of, 253, 255, 256.
South Plain, 277.
South Plain Brook, 274.
South Plain laid out, 60.
South Street, original location, 49.
Spring Street laid out, 259.
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