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HISTORY OF MEDFORD.
1855 : Mr. Benjamin Noyes, son of Benjamin, was born in West Medford, and educated at the public school. He was head engineer in constructing one hundred miles of railroad for the Emperor of the Russias.
March 1, 1874: The following resolutions were offered at town-meeting, and by unanimous vote were passed, and ordered to be spread on the records of the town : -
" Whereas, The sad tidings of the death of Charles Sumner, our Senator in Congress, have just reached us :
" Resolved, That we, the citizens of Medford, in town-meeting as- sembled, are unwilling to forego the privilege of giving expression to the feelings of profound grief which possess our hearts, as we realize the loss which the State and nation have experienced, in the death of a wise and patriotic statesman, a noble and strenuous advocate of the broadest humanitarian principles, and a citizen whose career has given a new brilliancy to the record of illustrious names that have graced our country's history.
" Resolved, That while indulging the natural sorrow that accompa- nies such an event, we recur, with pride and gratitude, to the great service which our departed senator has rendered his country through a long period of national conflict ; to his eloquent appeals to the hearts of his countrymen to remove the great sin of slavery; to his noble championship of the rights of the oppressed, in every land; and to the illustrious example of purity and self-devotion, which his life affords.
" Resolved, That a copy of these resolutions be entered on the records of the town."
1875 : Medford having received invitations from the towns of Concord and Lexington to participate in their centennial anniversary of the opening of the Revolution- ary War, the town at its meeting, March 8, chose Daniel A. Gleason, Charles Russell, and J. H. Norcross as its representatives at Lexington ; and James M. Usher, Elea- zar Boynton, and R. P. Hallowell as its representatives at Concord.
1878: The telephone was introduced here in January, 1878. The first public exhibition of it was given March 23, 1878, at Usher's Hall, West Medford, by P. D. Rich- ards, when several tests were given, in singing, speaking, and cornet-playing, with most gratifying results. The telephone is now used in most of the public buildings, and in many private dwellings of the town.
1880: In rebuilding the Cradock Bridge, some of the timbers which served as the foundation of the original corduroy bridge, built two hundred and forty-one years before, were raised from the bed of the river, and found. to be in sound condition.
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HISTORY OF MEDFORD.
Feb. 22, 1884 : Direct mail between Medford and West Medford was established.
1885 : A singular instance of regularity in business habits, and of daily pedestrianism, is found in a Medford man. Mr. David W. Lothrop, who has lived in his own house, on Purchase Street, since March 1, 1853, has pur- chased season tickets for Boston, on the Boston and Low- ell Railroad, covering the whole time from that date to the present. His residence is a small fraction short of a mile from the depot at West Medford. If it were a full mile, he would have walked, on that road, 626 miles every year, and in the thirty years since he began to go into the city every day he would have travelled 18,780 miles. Deduct- ing the fractional part less than a mile, which in thirty years amounted to 1,556, it leaves as the actual distance he would have walked, if he had gone to the city every working-day, 17,264 miles.
But he failed to make the journey, on an average, once in nine weeks ; and, deducting that, he actually walked to and from the depot, in thirty years, a little more than 16,904 miles, and was at his place of business, in Boston, on 9,030 days during that time.
1885 : William 1 and Hannah Roach are to be classed . among the permanent residents of Medford. William was born in 1809, and his sister in 1810. Their father and mother moved into the house which William and Hannah now occupy, the year that Hannah was born, and lived there until their death. The father passed away in 1821, and the mother in 1827; and the worthy couple have lived there together from that day to this, or nearly sev- enty-six years in all.
Whether either of them ever journeyed beyond Boston, the writer is not informed. They certainly have not man- ifested a roving disposition.
INDIAN BURIAL-PLACE.
Mention has been made, in an early part of this volume, of the discovery of an old Indian burial-place in West Medford, on the land of the late Edward Brooks. In 1882, in grading for a new building near the stone bridge which stands on the same estate, and which once spanned the Middlesex Canal, another burial-place of the Indians
I William Roach died in April, 1886.
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HISTORY OF MEDFORD.
was found, and parts of several skeletons exhumed. They were doubtless the mortal remains of members of that tribe of which the pious Sagamore John was chief, and which, at the time of the settlement of the town, was oc- cupying the lands in this vicinity. Under the direction of Mr. Francis Brooks, these relics of the Mystic Indians were carefully collected and re-buried; and in 1884, with characteristic reverence for the old traditions, he placed a monument on the spot, bearing the date-marks, 1630- 1884, and with an inscription dedicating it to Sagamore John and to the memory of the Indians who lie buried there.
1 THE MIDDLESEX FELLS.I
This name has been given to the rocky and hilly region mostly in Medford and Stoneham, surrounding the beauti- ful lake of nearly three hundred acres which received from Gov. John Winthrop, its discoverer, the name of " Spot Pond." When covered with its primitive forests of pine, hemlock, beech, maple, oak, ash, and chestnut, this tract of some six or seven square miles was in the highest degree picturesque, and, in its present denuded condition, has many features of rare loveliness. Its rocks are of the Laurentian type ; and it was once, quite mani- festly, a centre of volcanic action. The thickly scattered crags left by the outbursts of fire were subsequently much smoothed over by glacial action, and soil enough has been deposited for the growth of trees, but giving very small opportunity for agriculture. Nevertheless, our hardy pro- genitors divided it into farms, and attacked the forests with axes and sawmills. Very little now exists to testify to former habitancy, except wild apple-trees and the ancient stone walls. Human population has, for at least a hun- dred years, been receding from it, in spite of the efforts which have been made to attract the wealthy people of Boston to make their summer residences on the eastern shore of the pond. Mere wood-lots have succeeded to farms. The prevalence of forest fires has prevented the pines, which the high prices of lumber and fuel had tempt- ed their owners to cut down, from re-clothing the hill-tops.
I The reader is referred to an interesting monograph on the Middlesex Fells, by Rosewell B. Lawrence, Esq., of Medford, published by the Appalachian Mountain Club, 1886. It contains a map of the district.
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HISTORY OF MEDFORD.
Thus it has come to pass that a tract of four thousand acres, within twenty minutes ride of Boston, which with a little intelligent care might be clothed with perennial green, and contribute to the knowledge, health, and hap- piness of hundreds of thousands of people, is little better than a waste, on its way to join the arid deserts. The most important desiderata of a dense population are pure air and pure water. These must be seasonably provided for, or we are storing up the seeds of pestilence and death. Forests purify the air ; and, by excluding dense popula- tion from the water-shed of the drinkable supply, they not only secure the requisite quantity, but preserve the purity also.
For some years past, such lovers of nature and thought- ful men as Elizur Wright, Wilson Flagg, and the late John Owen of Cambridge, and such practical philanthropists as Elisha S. Converse of Malden, and many others, have been urging the people to have the whole of this tract, and especially all of it which contributes to the water-supply of the surrounding population, converted into a public domain, or forest park. Their efforts have resulted in the passage by the Legislature of a general forest law, which only needs to be acted on by the people of the Commonwealth generally, to put at least one-fourth of the rugged surface of Massachusetts in a way to contribute many times more to health, pleasure, and profit, than it now does ; it having been demonstrated by experience in Europe, that, by treating a forest scientifically for fifty years, land which is quite unfit for agriculture may be made to yield annu- ally more value per acre than land fit for grain crops, and with less labor. And all the while the prosperity of the forests will enhance that of the grain crops.
Whatever may be done by the State at large in the work of forest culture, it is earnestly to be hoped, that the towns which include this fine natural park may be enabled to preserve it as a public domain. It can hardly be expected that small municipalities will burden them- selves with the whole expense of such an undertaking ; but a park is needed on the northern side of Boston, for the benefit of that portion of its people to whom the pro- jected southern parks are comparatively unavailable ; and the as yet unoccupied tract of the Middlesex Fells is the natural pleasure-ground of this great population. We may hope that some of the wealthy and large-hearted
MAJOR GENERAL JOHN BROOKS.
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HISTORY OF MEDFORD.
men of Boston, who are always within call when a great good is to be done, will see to it, that these picturesque lands, stamped with the impress of all that is most typical of our rugged New-England scenery, are preserved to the dense population which will surround them, to be to them a perpetual source of health and delight.
Only let them not be too much improved by the hand of man. It is enough, if the now hidden beauties of copse and glen be made accessible by winding carriage- roads, and the simplest footpaths. Let the rest be left to the intelligent supervision of the forester ; but more largely still to the tender care of - nature.
GOVERNORS OF MASSACHUSETTS.
For convenience of reference, we have thought it well to introduce into this volume a list of the Governors of Massachusetts.
Until 1631, governors were elected by the Company in England.
From 1631 to 1679, those officers were chosen here by the people, and were as follows : viz., -
I63I. John Winthrop. . 1646. John Winthrop
1634. Thomas Dudley.
1649. John Endicott.
1635. John Haynes.
1650. Thomas Dudley.
1636. Henry Vane. 1651. John Endicott.
1637. John Winthrop. 1654. Richard Bellingham.
1640. Thomas Dudley.
1655. John Endicott.
1641. Richard Bellingham.
1665. Richard Bellingham.
1642. John Winthrop.
1673. John Leverett.
1644. John Endicott. 1679. Simon Bradstreet.
1645. Thomas Dudley.
After the first charter was dissolved in 1684, the gov- ernment was administered for a time by a president.
In 1687 Sir Edmund Andros acted as governor, by au- thority of a royal commission.
In 1689 the people deposed him, and elected Simon Bradstreet president, and afterwards made him governor.
The governors under the second charter, from 1692 to 1774, were appointed by the king, and were as follows : VIZ., ---
1687. Edmund Andros. 1702. Joseph Dudley.
1691. Simon Bradstreet.
1715. William Tailer.
1692. William Phipps.
1716. Samuel Shute.
1694. William Stoughton.
1722. William Dummer.
1699. Earl Bellamont.
1728. William Burnett.
1700. William Stoughton. 1730. Jonathan Belcher.
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HISTORY OF MEDFORD.
1741. William Shirley. 1757. Thomas Pownal.
I749. Spenser Phipps. 1760. Francis Bernard.
I753. William Shirley.
1 769. Thomas Hutchinson.
1756. Spenser Phipps.
1774. Thomas Gage.
In 1780, the present line of State Executives com- menced, and they are as follows : viz., -
1780. John Hancock.
1844. George N. Briggs.
1794. Samuel Adams.
1851. George S. Boutwell.
1797. Increase Sumner.
1853. John H. Clifford.
1800. Caleb Strong.
1854. Emery Washburn.
1807. James Sullivan.
1855. Henry J. Gardner.
1809. Christopher Gore.
1810. Elbridge Gerry.
1812.
Caleb Strong.
¥ 866. Alexander H. Bullock.
1816. John Brooks.
1823. William Eustis.
1872. William B. Washburn.I
1826. Levi Lincoln.
1875. William Gaston.
1834. John Davis.
1876. Alexander H. Rice.
1 836. Edward Everett.
1879. Thomas Talbot.
1840. Marcus Morton.
1880. John D. Long.
1841. John Davis.
1883. Benjamin F. Butler.
1843. Marcus Morton.
1884. George D. Robinson.
-
1858. Nathaniel P. Banks.
1861. John A. Andrew.
1869. William Claflin.
I Chosen United-States senator, May 1, 1874; Lieut .- Gov. Thomas Talbot was acting-Governor for the rest of the year.
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HISTORY OF MEDFORD.
CHAPTER XXIV.
POST-OFFICES.
BY examination of the records of the Post-Office De- partment at Washington, it appears that the first office established in Medford was in September, 1797. The postmasters have been as follows : -
Samuel Buel .
Appointed, September, 1797. 66 July 21, 1813.
William Rogers, jun.
William Rogers
66
Oct. 20, 1818.
Luther Angier
66 May 17, 1828.
Samuel S. Green, jun.
66 April 6, 1839.
Luther Angier
April 8, 1841.
Samuel S. Green
July 19, 1845.
Alexander Gregg .
July 30, 1847.
James T. Floyd, jun.
66 May 30, 1849.
James C. Winneck
66 Aug. 23, 1853.
Alvah N. Cotton .
66
Oct. 21, 1859.
George Hervey
April 22, 1861.
George C. Hervey
66 July 18, 1868.
John H. Eames
March 17, 1870.
Frank T. Spinney
66 March 9, 1886.
Post Office at West Medford. Established Nov. I, 1852.
POSTMASTERS.
James W. Sanford
Appointed, Nov. 1, 1852.
Thaddeus A. Baldwin
Aug. 10, 1853.
Franklin Patch
66 May 4, 1859.
William C. Frederick
Sept. 26, 1866.
E. J. Pitcher
66 May 4, 1869.
Reuben Willey .
66 May 10, 1870.
James P. Richardson
66 Oct. 21, 1881.
College Hill. Established March 6, 1863.
John A. Whitney . Benjamin T. White
Appointed, March 6, 1863.
June 1, 1871.
Hannah A. Pearson
66 Sept. 27, 1881.
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HISTORY OF MEDFORD.
East Medford (now Glenwood). Established Fune 5, 1872.
Artimus D. Bickford
Appointed, June 5, 1872.
John P. Gilman
66 Aug. 30, 1872.
Andrew P. Perry
66
66 Oct. 6, 1873.
John A. Yeaton
Wellington. Established July 11, 1883.
Charles A. Ellsworth
Appointed July 11, 1883.
POPULATION.
It is supposed that Medford, during the first ten years of its settlement, was quite populous ; but the withdrawal of Mr. Cradock's men left it small. Another circumstance which operated unfavorably for the settlement of the town was the large holdings of land. Mr. Cradock's heirs sold lots of a thousand acres to individuals, who kept posses- sion of them; and thus excluded those enterprising and laborious farmers who were the best settlers in those days. Medford could fill up only so fast as these few rich owners consented to sell. This fact explains much of the early history of the settlement. While it secured the best kind of settlers, when they did come, it prevented that general rush which took place in other districts, where land could be had for the asking.
In this Medford was peculiar, and these facts explain why the town went so long without public schools and churches.
Surely, in some respects, Medford had a small beginning ; but Gov. Dudley, speaking on the subject, says, "Small things in the beginning of national and political bodies, are as remarkable as greater bodies full grown."
The following records give the town's population from 1707 to 1885. In 1707 Medford had 46 ratable polls, which number multiplied by 5 gives 230 inhabitants.
In 1736 it had 133 ratable polls, which multiplied as above gives 665 inhabitants.
In 1763 it had 104 houses, 147 families, 161 males and 150 females under sixteen years of age, 207 males and 223 females above sixteen, - total, 741 inhabitants.
In 1776 Medford had
967 inhabitants.
" 1784 66 66
981 66
" 1790
66
1,020 66
1800 66 1,114
LISER
KILBURN -MALLORY .
JONATHAN BROOKS HOMESTEAD.
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HISTORY OF MEDFORD.
In 1810 Medford had
1,443 inhabitants.
66
1820
66
60
1,474
1830
66
66
66
3,749
66
66
1855
66
66
4,603
4,831
1865
66
66
4,839
66
1870
66
66
5,717
66
1875
6,267
66
6
1880
66
66
7,573
1885
66
9,04I
66
66
1840
2,478
66
66
1850
1860
66
66
1,755
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HISTORY OF MEDFORD.
ANNUAL EXPENDITURES OF THE TOWN.
Year.
Alms- house.
Outside Relief.
State Aid.
Highways, Sidewalks, and Trees.
Bridges.
Schools.
Library.
Fire-De- partment.
Military.
1850
1,961 82
*
-
$1,058 21
$63 70
$4,239 05
-
$2,321 38
-
1851
2,402 48
*
-
1,439 79
311 27
10,362 70
-
4,679 05
-
1852
9,182 84
-
1,236 31
92 32
13,075 42
-
3,161 26
-
1853
4,391 42
-
1,603 67
98 57
7,084 46
-
2,413 35
-
1854
3,571 86
-
2,311 02
37 71
7,138 82
-
2,046 05
-
1855
2,425 89
2,105 59
97 77
15,469 03
-
1,726 31
-
1856
2,160 84
5,755 95
136 67
10,564 81
-
1,868 21
-
1857
2,392 29
1858
2,723,24
*
-
3,285 36
101 05
8,525 31
-
2,921 86
-
1860
6,901 86
5,961 28
*
7,606 23
1,747 62
1,086 69
9,401 65
$350 00
2,466 88
$35,291 18
1863
3,073 77
*
12,786 30
4,581 15
3 51
15,114 40
410 00
2,952 OI
18,233 95
1864
4,946 74
*
10,461 97
3,036 21
584 34
12,139 62
380 00
3,35° 54
20,793 47
1865
6,390 75
$
6,821 45
3,307 86
72 26
13,759 55
350 00
4,544 12
206 25
I866
1,249 75
1,607 83 1,171 98
2,745 50
12,033 06
96 02
35,449 12
599 59
2,920 34
2,105 57
1868
2, 108 93
806 91
2,277 50
9,454 38
325 06
27,321 64
400 00
3,432 05
1,839 50
1869
4,953 91
*
2,698 50
16,725 50
650 36
25, 114 82
1,912 83
3,817 97
4,388 30
1870
3,432 45
1,980 50
18,289 80
718 58
24,582 33 29,216 02
2,658 0I
5,551 27
1,771 50
1872
3,638 78
2,003 46
1,406 00
47,421 82
713 75
32,091 63
1,916 49
6,744 47
1,817 70
1873
3,044 03
1,896 25
1,534 00
137,177 II
192 77
39,467 66
1,699 34
14,046 15
178 00
1874
3,780 96
2,397 59
1,560 00
21,695 13
1,408 47
30,348 61
1,450 24
8,456 85
872 03
1875
2,805 43
2,968 00
1,460 00
20,344 99
794 20
29,454 II
7,679 44
7,596 10
1,749 26
1876
2,997 99
3,000 26
1,273 00
8,419 25
835 63
31,561 61
2,232 15
7,818 76
399 50
1877
3,968 88
5,748 97
1,248 00
7,038 94
1,288 67
27,348 71
2,166 88
6,521 66
498 15
1878
2,417 43
5,071 80
1,052 00
7,829 09
I,III 94
32,971 97
2,211 61
7,817 66
384 13
1879
2,287 II
4,045 00
1,120 00
5,372 35
6,384 89
33,977 16
2,236 55
5,559 º3
395 05
1880
2,456 79
4,481 28
1,571 00
8,871 85
10,104 38
33,520 95
2,153 77
20,277 27
449 80
1881
2,469 51
4,946 12
1,410 00
8,724 31
1,779 39
30,025 35
2,112 74
9.546 70
496 75
1882
2,498 03
4,496 66
1,230 00
13,266 62
3,076 20
28,054 43
2,534 II
6,652 07
599 98
1883
2,496 70
5,030 41
1,110 00
11,251 64
1,179 57
34,058 73
2,229 73
7,499 58
541 43
1884+
2,500 00
5,000 00
1,200 00
10,800 00
1,200 00
38,262 00
1,600 00
6,400 00
600 00
-
3,448 67
1,921 93
9,035 55
-
2,680 74
-
1859
3,341 00
$ -
5,600 09
t
8,582 63
-
5,775 66
-
1862
2,091 89
*
2,711 00
6,027 34
215 80
41,715 52
497 50
2,951 70
2,030 51
1867
2,773 66
4,796 17
*
1,385 00
19,555 88
7 16
8,830 65
-
4,334 55
-
-
5,355 02
67 14
14,088 85
3,155 26
-
* Included in almshouse.
t Included in highways.
# Appropriations.
*
1,400 00
4,529 18
1,873 50
1871
5,563 28
1861
$
517
HISTORY OF MEDFORD.
ANNUAL EXPENDITURES OF THE TOWN.
Cemete- ries.
Police.
Street Lamps.
Reduction Town Debt.
Other Expenses.
Net Ex-
Cash on penses for hand, Feb. the year.
Town Debt ex- clusive of water.
Water.
Water Sinking Fund.
-
-
115 32
3,050 00
11,338 89
24,771 39
$623 46 917 56
19,200 00
-
-
$5,075 31 2,072 62
-
192 27
3,000 00
9,198 12
25,211 42 37,028 31
4,946 93 7,909 23 9,838 68
34,100 00
157 03
6,000 00
13,179 68 10,853 15
35,210 52
16,551 17
39,000 00
702 44
7,300 00
12,121 27
43,191 32
14,704 08
36,700 00
1
322 23
-
9,198 14
26,689 39
12,284 94
33,930 00
1
372 34
-
15,468 98
27,328 97
12,861 18
33,880 00
-
10,499 45
31,089 65 35,758 03
12,184 45 11,223 96
33,700 00
28 75
286 03
10,000 00
19,825 60
77,500 09
14,807 69
73,700 00
170 14
465 62
10,000 00
25,201 72
48,818 62 59,568 27
30,042 22
53,700 00
1,589 46
544 79
20,000 00
37,712 77 33,735 28 41,978 07
57,833 70 80,651 96
8,530 40
41,700 00 51,200 00
1,422 51
1,360 76
10,000 00
25,868 33 29, 185 48
97,139 53 71,409 69 85,379 82
20, 114 32 22,460 48 10,641 37 20,748 09 16,924 35 3,268 57
70,800 00 88,800 00 229,100 00 239,500 00 219,500 00
$6,976 34 10,066 58
-
2,348 36
4,746 73
3,180 61
18,000 00 36,000 00
60,026 83
151,072 4I 195,610 88
7,005 19
211,500 00
12,750 00
$
-
2,489 71
4,196 17
2,7II 93
10,000 00
57,061 99
146,688 66 130,812 26
29,969 31 32,806 37 27,619 56 122,732 37 152,743 77 143,362 13
8,850 55
4,810 00
5,000 00 5,000 00
2,552 79
4,791 70
3,012 83
20,000 00
39,575 09 46,888 94 41,617 66
139,410 56 149,091 0I
5,822 91 968 68 6,005 06
191,700 00 181,700 00 182,125 00 172,762 50 146,372 50 137,962 50
10,500 00
5,000 co
1,100 00
6,000 00
4,250 00
10,000 00
44,336 50
-
-
-
6,500 00
5,000 00
-
-
1,910 88
2,725 17
1,357 80
-
-
4,407 54
3,529 95
2,301 49
-
34,726 08
131,995 16
258,279 65
3,040 32
8,800 00
-
26,536 31
4,846 89
4,273 52
20,000 00
51,902 63
3,255 75
4, 189 об
2,871 00
8,000 00
39,875 12
129,479 08
25,538 57
201,500 00
9,400 00 7,560 00
5,000 00
2,026 28
4,181 15
2,729 81
10,000 00
37,447 39 33,244 67
2,260 79
4,146 94
2,582 83
4,120 00
5,000 00
3,504 45
4,997 78
3,382 57
11,000 00
7,500 00
5,000 00
3,038 79
4,947 º3
3,983 06
25,000 00
36,057 86
36,196 OI
-
32,700 00
-
165 87
2,100 00
9,427 32
26,909 82
36,600 00
-
-
354 85
-
12,390 61
24,054 08
33,700 00
5,157 60
928 23
17,000 00
331 30
945 81
15,000 00
15,000 00
-
1,388 62
1,723 70
1,802 34
49,036 44
35,139 06
105,529 51 106,991 96
23,360 66
63,700 00
627 87
576 91
12,800 00
25,198 02
1,458 66 $
$131 48
$1,943 00
$5,571 IO
$14,013 80
$12,450 00
-
6,000 00
2,302 64
4,183 27 2,985 68
10,000 00 10,000 00
46,930 56
2,415 14
4,862 34
2,783 33
34,554 90
54,500 00
39,500 00
69,500 00
381 09
33,830 00
179 47
7,100 00
38, 100 00
126 89
4,500 00
6,380 00
I.
7,300 00
13,200 00 -
2,082 об
518
HISTORY OF MEDFORD.
VALUATION OF REAL AND PERSONAL ESTATE.
Year.
Value of Personal Estate.
Value of Real Estate.
Total Valuation.
Rate.
Popula- tion.
1855
$1,623,940 00
$3,532,320 00
$5,156,260 00
$5 00
4,603
18 56
-
-
-
6 25.
18 57
1,532,800 00
3,603,814 00
5,136,614 00
7 00
18 58
1,479,140 00
3,432,981 00
4,912,121 00
4 70
1859
-
-
4,941,870 00
5 30
1860
1,454,720 00
3,343,400 00
4,798,120 00
6 20
4,831
1861
1,739,670 00
3,443,421 00
5,183,091 00
7 00
1862 .
2,125,369 00
3,370,262 00
5,495,631 00
7 50
1863
2,094,937 00
3,369, 587 00
5,464,524 00
12 60
1864
1,668,695 00
3,452,985 00
5,121,680 00
16 00
1865
1,933,485 00
3,161,521 00
5,095,006 00
14 40
4,839
1866
1,715,449 00
3,301,998 00
5,017,447 00
12 00
1867
1,641,197 00
3,188,950 00
4,830,147 00
19 50
1868
1,797,028 00
3,247,995 00
5,045,023 00
12 30
1869
2,002,080 00
3,440,590 00
5,442,670 00
15 00
1870
2,230,634 00
3,741,870 00
5,972,504 00
13 60
5,717
1871
2,133,889 00
4,217,510 00
6,351,399 00
15 20
1872
2,527,827 00
4,792,265 00
7,320,092 00
13 80
1873
2,208,189 00
5,631,605 00
7,839,794 00
13 92
1874
2,056,015 00
7,730,025 00
9,786,040 00
15 20
1875
1,859,102 00
8,028,415 00
9,887,517 00
17 00
6,627
1876
1,664,718 00
7,072,735 00
8,737,453 00
14 50
1877
1, 561,931 00
6,422,325 00
7,984,256 00
14 50
1878
1,559,865 00
5,719,660 00
7,279,525 00
16 00
1879
1,566,772 00
5,470,435 00
7,027,207 00
14 40
1880
1,763,940 00
5,582,675 00
7,346,615 00
15 00
7,573
188I
1,914,491 00
5,673,785 00
7,588,276 00
15 60
1882
2,097,243 00
5,750,620 00
7,847,863 00
17 60
1883
1,708,479 00
5,882,045 00
7,590,524 00
16 80
1884
2,094,392 00
6,088,460 00
8,182,852 00
19 60
1885
1,935,786 00
6,185,426 00
8,121,211 00
14 00
9,04 1
REGISTER OF FAMILIES.I
" Remember the days of old; consider the years of many generations: ask thy father, and he will show thee; thy elders, and they will tell thee." - DEUT. xxxii. 7.
[NOTE. - Appended to Brooks's History of Medford is a genealogical register of many families of the town. The list is far from complete, but contains much valuable information, not easily accessible elsewhere. It did not enter into the plan of the revised work to supple- ment this record. Such an undertaking, with the greatly increased population of the town, would involve an immense amount of labor, and would swell the contents of the volume beyond all reasonable limits. It has, however, been deemed advisable to preserve as much of the material collected by Mr. Brooks as relates to the families descended from the early settlers of the town, even when they have become extinct; and also such other families as still have living representatives residing in Medford.
Nothing more than this has been attempted; and only in one or two instances have addi- tions been made to the original record, with a view to bringing it down to present date.]
I ALBREE, JOHN, b. in the Island of New Providence in 1688; came to Boston in 1700, where he m., in 17II, Elizabeth Green, of Boston, a cousin of Gov. Belcher. She d. Dec. 6, 1751; and he d. Aug. 28, 1755. Chil- dren : -
I- 2 Joseph, b.
", 1712. 3 Elizabeth, " Jan. 28, 1716; d. Mar. 17, 1735.
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