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VILLAGE HILL - At the extreme west of the old grant on the old Hartford Post road in Medway.
NEW CITY .- A settlement in Medway built up on Oakland street.
COCKERELL HILL -The entrance to New City, at the junction of Oakland and Knowlton streets.
PAUL'S HILL .- Now owned by Monroe Morse. On it stands the oldest dwelling in town, built in 1688.
THE OLD CANAL -It was built early in the century, at Fac- tory Village and made Goose Island. Filled up in 1909. SECOND GRIST MILL .- On Boggestowe, that of Joseph Daniel, 2d, near the "Priest" Hiram Daniel's place, Millis.
ROBERT HINSDELL'S MILL .- Built in 1662 on Boggestowe in the north end. Used as a mill site until 1912.
NEW GRANT LOCALITIES.
THE NEW GRANT .- Made to Medfield by the General Court in 1659, a tract in addition to former lands, two miles east and west, and four miles north and south, taking in the whole of the village of West Medway, the great- er part of Medway and a considerable part of Metcalf Station, with some territory in Holliston.
MUCKSQUIT .- The region bordering on Winthrop Pond, ex- tending down to the George Lawrence neighborhood. Sometimes called "Squitville" or "Squit."
RABBIT HILL -That part of West Medway on which stands the meeting house of the Second Church.
SODOM .- Sometimes called Plainville ; that portion of West Medway below Chicken Brook, near the Baptist Church. In and about 1830, Universalist services were held here ; hence the name given by the more Orthodox brethren of the town.
DRYBRIDGE HILL .- And school house on Main street, so called for the underground passage made to accommodate cattle under the turnpike.
SHUMWAY'S GROVE. - A group of noble oaks on the old Shum- way Farm, used for many years for celebrations and picnics.
WOODLAND PARK. - A tract of pine woods across the river from West Medway, once a famous picnic ground.
HOLY CROSS .- The neighborhood lying adjacent to the junc- tion of Summer and Milford streets.
SQUIRE LEVI ADAMS TAVERN .- At the corner of Summer and Main streets ; a noted stand in old stage days.
OLD TAVERN HOUSE .- Just east of the Second meeting house in West Medway ; another old-time tavern.
OLD STONE MILL .- On Chicken Brook, Main street, West
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Medway; built out of a huge boulder that was imbedded in a field back of the L. S. Daniels' boot factory.
OLD WHITING MILL .- The oldest Mill site on Chicken Brook, above Mechanics street, West Medway.
FIRST CARPET MILL IN THE UNITED STATES .- On Chicken Brook, near Winthrop street, West Medway.
OLD CUTLER HOUSE .- Winthrop street. The oldest dwelling in the New Grant. Now owned by A L. Smith. Here Dr. and Mrs. Ide commenced housekeeping, and meet. ings of the Second Church were held here frequently on cold Sundays.
GREAT WEST WOODS .- The forest originally extending from Summer street to Milford and Braggville.
SUMMER STREET .- Originally the boundary between Holliston and Medway, until 1829, when the present boundary was established.
VINE LANE, MECHANICS STREET, OAK STREET .- Originally one road. One of the earliest laid out in the New Grant.
LOVERS' LANE -A short street in Medway, leading from Vil- lage street, that has borne this name for a century.
NEW CHICAGO .- A settlement on Lovers' Lane.
BUNKER HILL .- A small wooded eminence across the river from the old Whiting mill.
COFFEE LOT .- The tract in Black Swamp on which in Revo- lutionary times, Ishmael Coffee, of Indian and Negro origin, lived with his wife, Hannah. They raised 16 children in a small one story house.
THE BIG ROCKS .- Huge boulders left by pre-historic glaciers in the neighborhood of the old Bullard saw mills on Ellis street.
GONKA .- Indian name for land near river in vicinity of Big Rock.
OLD PARISH HOUSE - - Built 1814, its timbers from the old first meeting house in the Second Precinct; now head- quarters of Medway Historical Society.
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MECHANICS HALL .- Built in 1852 out of timbers of the first meeting house of the Baptist Society. For many years the headquarters of the Knights of St. Crispin.
HASTINGS SPRING .- A famous spring near the site of the first meeting house in the Second Precinct. Its waters are as clear now as 200 years ago.
BAPTIZING PLACE, CHICKEN BROOK -Just above the stone mill, used by the Baptist society for over 40 years for the immersion of converts.
TORREY HOUSE .- Built for Mrs. Mary Ide Torrey by the Ab- olition Society after the death of her husband in a Southern prison, 1846. Stands just west of the Dr. Ide place on Main street.
HIXON CORNER .- Corner of Holliston and Main streets.
OLD TRAINING FIELD .- Used by militia for musters for many years, on the old Hunt farm, now the Methodist neigh- borhood on Cottage street.
OLD BRICK SCHOOL .- Now standing on Fisher street near the Bellingham line. A picturesque relic of olden times.
SITE OF THE FIRST SCHOOL IN NEW GRANT .- Where the barn on the Marston estate stands.
SITE OF FIRST MEETING HOUSE IN NEW GRANT .- Near Frederick W. Clark's on Main street.
OLD ADAMS GRIST MILL .- On J. G. Sanderson's place on Chicken Brook.
OLD DISTRICT NO. 4 SCHOOLHOUSE .- On Slocumb place near Second Congregational Church; built 1815.
OLD NORTH SCHOOL. - Its site South East of Jewish Synagogue on corner of Winthrop and Partridge streets. In 1790 over 100 pupils attended the winter session.
BULLARD SAW MILLS .- In woods off Ellis street; conducted for years by Ethan and Aner Bullard with a good water power where now only a trickling brook runs in the winter and spring.
BIRD'S EYE VIEW OF WEST MEDWAY.
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OLD PLYMPTON PLACE .- On Village street near the subway . One of the oldest improved farms in the New Grant; house burned a dozen years ago.
HENRY GARNSEY PLACE .- Older than the town-the well is still in existence In rear of Phineas McNutt's building on Village and High streets; the old oak that stood for more than 200 years taken down very recently.
HAPPY HOLLOW -The neighborhood beyond Cutler row on High street.
ADAMS NEIGHBORHOOD .- That part of Mucksquit, where, from Crane's Corner to the residence of Mr. Charles A. Wil- son, every house belonged to an Adams over 100 years ago.
POTASH ROAD .- Running from Milford street near Hotel Dewey to Bear Hill, Milford, named from old potash works situated there in olden times.
SOAPSTONE MINES .- On Meyer Gotz' farm at Holliston line, used years ago by local parties.
SITE OF HOUSE OF REV. DAVID THURSTON AND REV. DAVID SANFORD .- At residence of Henry E. Towne on Main street, West Medway.
BURYING PLACES.
1660. Most ancient burying place; in South Sherborn, near Death's Bridge. Here all the early settlers in the Farms rest from their toil and privations. George Fair- banks, Henry and Hopestill Leyland, John Death, Ben- jamin Bullard and other Puritan pioneers.
1714. First burial place on Bare Hill, near the site of the first meeting house. In its enclosure all the fathers of the town sleep, and it is the final resting place of seventy-four soldiers of the American Revolution.
1750. Second Precinct Burying Ground in the rear of the site of the First meeting house of the precinct. For seventy-five years the only place of burial in the New Grant. It contains the ashes of thirty-eight Revolu- tionary soldiers.
1826. Evergreen Cemetery laid out on the east of the Second Precinct burying ground in West Med way, and now in- corporated with it.
1855. The old Churchyard cemetery incorporated and addi- tional land acquired, joining the Old Bare Hill burying ground in East Medway.
1865. Oakland Cemetery laid out at Medway by Milton M. Fisher. Now owned by the Village Church and Socie- ty.
1876. St. Joseph's Cemetery on Oakland street, consecrated for burial purposes, and owned by St. Joseph's Catholic Society of Medway.
FRENCH AND INDIAN WARS.
This town furnished troops as follows : -
No. Men.
Capt. Nathaniel Whiting impressed
1745
65
Lieut. Nathaniel Clark 66 1754
2
Men that served at Crown Fort
36
Under Captain Edward Clark
1754
22
Again at Crown Point
1756
12
Impressed in
1756
23
Impressed September 4,
1756
7
66 April 3,
1758
40
May 2,
1758
32
May 23,
1758
22
Under Lord Louden, March 22,
1759
21
Pay Roll of 1759
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Names of Soldiers.
Capt. Jonathan Adams,
Jonathan Adams, Jr.,
Nathan Adams,
Dea. Elisha Adams,
Phineas Adams,
Jesse Adams,
Eleazer Adams,
John Anderson,
Isaac Adams,
John Alden,
Thomas Adams,
Seth Allen,
Stephen Adams,
Nathaniel Allen,
Moses Adams,
Ebenezer Allen,
Oliver Adams,
John Andey,
George Barber,
Joseph Baxter,
Joseph Barber,
James Boyden,
Joseph Barber, Jr.,
James Barber,
Ebenezer Blake, John Boden,
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SECOND CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH-1814.
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Daniel Bullen, Jabez Bullen, Nathan Bullard, John Bullard, Malachi Bullard,
Jesse Carpenter,
Benjamin Cochs,
Amos Clark, Henry Clark, John Clark,
Timothy Clark,
Nathaniel Clark, Jr.,
David Clarke,
Edward Clark,
Simeon Clark, Left. Temo. Clark,
James Clark,
Elijah Clark,
Theophilus Clark,
David Clark, Jr,
Nathaniel Clark,
Jonah Clark,
Nathaniel Cutler,
Simon Cutler,
Elisha Cutler,
Elisha Cuttlear,
Samuel Cutler,
Simeon Cuttlear,
Joseph Curtis, Henry Daniels,
Henry Daniell, Jr.,
Timothy Daniels,
Jeremiah Daniels, Jr., David Daniels,
Ezra Daniels,
Joseph Daniels,
William Daniels,
Jonathan Ellice,
Henery Ellice,
Timothy Ellice, Elisha Ellice, John Ellis,
Seth Ellise,
William Ellis,
Abner Ellis, Asa Ellis, Jonas Fairbanks,
Joseph Fairbanks,
George Fairbanks, Timothy Force, Job Harding,
Joshua Harding, Joseph Harding,
Samuel Ellis,
Benjamin Ellis,
Ebenezer Ellis,
Dea. Samuel Fisher, Joseph Follet, William Grant, Jonathan Hall, Nathan Harding,
Theodore Harding, Ichaburd Harding,
Rev. Nathan Bucknam, Henery Bullard, Elisha Bullard, Hoseiah Bullard, Timo. Bullard, John Carpenter, William Clemens, Asa Clark,
Moses Daniels, Samuel Daniels, Asa Daniels, Nathan Daniels,
John Daniels,
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QUINOBEQUIN " HOUSE
OLD QUINOBEQUIN HOTEL-1847.
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Isaac Harding, John Harding, Abraham Harding, Samuel Hawes, John Harris, Joseph Harris,
John Harding, Jr., Seth Harding,
Tho. Harding, Ichabod Hawes,
Erastus Harris,
Samuel Hayward,
Samuel Hill,
Samuel Hill,
Jonathan Hill,
Jonathan Hill, Jr.,
Timothy Hill,
Ebenezer Hill,
Simon Hill,
Seth Hixon,
John Hucker,
Thomas Jons,
Samuel Jones,
Jethro Jones,
Joseph Lovel,
Hop Lovel,
Thomas Metcalf,
Samuel Metcalf,
Timo. Metcalf,
Lieut. Metcalf,
John Melles,
John Mills,
Ezekiel Mors,
Uriah Morse,
Henery Morse,
Temo. Morse,
Gershom Morse,
Henry Morse, Jr.,
Eli Partridge,
Sergt. Seth Partridge,
Caleb Partridge,
Malechi Partridge,
Moses Partridge,
Nathaniel Partridge,
Joshuay Partridge,
Silas Partridge,
Timothy Partridge,
Silem Partridge,
James Partridge,
Jacob Parker,
Joseph Perry,
Daniel Richardson,
Samuel Richardson,
Nathan Richardson,
Moses Richardson,
William Rixford,
Samuel Rockwood, Timothy Rockwood, Josiah Rockwood,
Joseph Rockwood,
Sambo "Freeman,"
Moses Tho npson,
Ira Richardson, David Richardson,
Asa Richardson,
Benjamin Rockwood,
Hezekiah Rockwood, Asa Rockwood,
Moses Rockwood,
Seth Rock wood, Abel Smith,
Jonathan Underwood,
James Pennyman, Ensine Plympton,
Job Plympton,
William Richardson,
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John Varney,
Nathan Whiting,
Capt. Nathaniel Whiting, Sr.,
David Wheten,
Benjamin Whiting, Daniel Wheeton,
Joshua Wheten,
Joseph Wheten,
Jonathan Wheeler,
Joshuay Whitney,
Joseph Whitney,
Eleazer Wight,
James Wight.
Lem'y Write, William Williams,
THE WAR OF 1812.
Medway furnished but few soldiers in this war, and there is no official record from which to give their names. The following citizens of the town served for longer or shorter periods :-
Simeon Ellis, Cephas Thayer,
Capt. Jeremy Daniels,
Joshua Fairbanks,
Leonard Fairbanks, Silas Fairbanks,
Charles Howard.
REVOLUTIONARY WAR .- 1775-1783.
Medway, like most of the towns in this Commonwealth, had, previous to the outbreak of hostilities with England, companies of trained minute men, armed and drilled. Two companies from our town answered the alarm of April 19, 1775, marching to Roxbury, where they served for some time. The company from the Old Grant, now Millis, under Captain Joshua Partridge, had thirty-seven men. The company from the New Grant, now Medway, under Lieutenant Moses Adams, had thirty-six men. Medway men served in all the opera- tions in New England, aud in many of those in New York and New Jersey. Granted that many of them saw service only of short duration, yet the fact remains, that Massachu- setts was the first colony to rebel against the English crown, and that the conduct of her yeomanry made the independence of our country a possibility. Medway's record in the contest is one for which no son need blush.
Medway's Revolutionary Soldiers.
Capt. Jonathan Adams,
Lieut. Moses Adams,
Abner Adams,
Eliab Adams,
Joel Adams,
Titus Adams,
Thomas Adams,
Eliakim Adams,
Philemon Adams,
Lieut. Oliver Adams,
Obidiah Adams,
Reuben Adams,
Phineas Adams,
Elisha Adams,
Jonathan Adams, Jun'r,
Daniel Adams,
Jonathan Adams, 3d,
Fisher Adams,
Timothy Adams,
George Alerson,
John Allen,
Seth Allen,
Elijah Allen,
Jonathan Allen,
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Abijah Allen,. John Albee, John Anderson,
George Barber, Joseph Barber, Asa Blake.
Jacob Boyden, Alexander Bragg, Prince Bruoster,
Jonas Brick,
Rev. Nathan Bucknam,
Sergt. Samuel Bullen,
Jonathan Bullen,
Corp. Hezikiah Bullard,
Lieut. Nathan Bullard, Josiah Bullard,
Dwight Allen, John Alden, John Baker, James Barber,
Jacob Bliss,
Sergt. James Boyden,
Isaac Boyden,
Amos Broad,
James Brick,
Samuel Brinton,
Lieut. Jeduthan Bullen,
Daniel Bullen,
Ashbel Bullen,
Sergt. Isaac Bullard,
Henry Bullard,
Henry Bullard, Jun'r,
Elijah Bullard,
Eli Bullard,
Adam Bullard, Joshua Bullard, Henry Burk,
Jesse Carpenter,
Lieut. Stephen Clark,
Serg. Theodore Clark,
Benjamin Clark,
Joseph Clark,
Francis Clark,
James Clark,
Elijah Clark,
David Clark,
Nath'l Clark,
Elijah Clark, Jun'r,
Eliphaz Clap,
Samuel Cleaveland,
Damon Clifford,
Nathan Coolidge,
Ishmael Coffee,
Thomas Coffee,
Timothy Cheaver, Roger Crain,
Simon Cutler,
Luther Cutler,
Loreing Cushing, Benj. Davidson,
Jeremiah Crocker, Jeremiah Curtis, Elisha Cutler,
Lovel Cushing,
Wilm. Damsey, John Davidson,
Timothy Bullard, John Bullard, Joseph Bullard,
Henry Bush,
Lieut. Asa Clark,
Timothy Clark, Billing Clap,
Hezekiah Comacho,
John Combs, Elias Craig,
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John Dickerson, Jesse Day,
Isaiah Daniell, Levi Daniell, Jesse Daniell,
Capt. Jeremiah Daniels,
Asa Daniels, Jun'r,
David Daniels,
Levi Daniels,
Samuel Demon,
Charles Dupee,
John Ellis,
Ebenezer Ellis,
Henry Ellis,
Asa Ellis,
Abel Ellis,
Jonathan Ellis,
Elijah Ellis,
Paul Ellis,
Corp. Abijah Fairbanks, Silas Fairbanks,
Ashael Fairbanks,
Elijah Farrington, Corp. Obed Fisher,
Nathan Fisher,
Nathan Fisher, Jun'r,
Cyrus Fisher,
Henry Flemming, Peter Frost, Asa Fuller,
Josiah Fuller,
Josiah Ide, John Gould, Jotham Graves, Jonathan Graves, Capt. Timothy Hamant,
Capt. Samuel Harding, Corp. Stephen Harding, John Harding, 2nd, Ichabod Harding,
Capt. Joseph Daniell, Joseph Daniell, Jun'r, Henry Daniell, Lemeuel Daniell, Corp. Jeremiah Daniel,
Henry Daniels, Jun'r, Moses Daniels,
Seth Dixon,
Lieut. John Ellis, Jun'r, Timothy Ellis,
Abner Ellis, Eli Ellis,
Asa Ellis, Jun'r,
William Ellis,
Sergt. Jonathan Everet,
George Fairbanks, Jun'r, Joel Fairbanks,
Jothan Fairbanks,
Ebenezer Ferrington,
John W. Fisher, Samuel Fisher,
Samuel Fisher, Jun'r, Jonathan Fisher, Jonathan Foster, Capt. Josiah Fuller,
Bartholomew Fuller, Lieut Daniel Ide,
Calvin Cay, Nathan Grout,
Lieut. Joshua Gould, David Hagar, Lieut. John Harding, Corp. Elias Harding, Lieut. Abraham Harding, Abraham Harding, Jun'r, Thomas Harding,
JOHN POND HOUSE, 1688-OLDEST IN TOWN.
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Theodor Harding, Isaac Harding, Sergt. Erastus Harris, Nathan Hall, Joel Hawes, Eli Hawes, Sam. Hayward, John Hill,
Moses Hill, Samuel Hill, Jun'r,
Seth Hixon,
Zebulon Hodges,
Corp. Cornelius Holbrook,
Jonathan Holbrook, Matthew Hopkins,
Thomas Harding, Jun'r, Job Harding, David Harris, Ichabod Hawes, Ichabod Hawes, Jun'r,
John Hawes,
Sergt. Simon Hill, Samuel Hill, Jacob Hart,
Enoch Hill,
Serg. Isaac Heton,
Lieut. Aaron Holbrook,
Paul Holbrook,
Henry Holbrook,
David Hoges,
John Sylvester Johnson,
Abel Jones,
Thomas Jones,
Sam'l Jones,
John Kilburn,
Corp. Isaac Kilbee,
Sergt. Stephen Kingsbury,
James Kingsbury,
Capt. Joseph Lovell,
Timothy Lane,
Amos Lawrence,
Josiah Lawrence,
John Littlefield,
Jeremiah Littlefield, William Lee,
Robord Long, Daniel Marrow,
Ebenezer Lyon,
Sergt. Seth Mason,
Corp. Job Manston,
David MacLane,
Corp. Ozias Metcalf, Luther Metcalf,
Joseph Metcalf,
Hanun Metcalf,
Timothy Metcalf,
Theodore Mann,
Lieut. Henry Morse, Joel Morse, Joseph Morse,
Abner Morse,
Sylvanus Morse,
Thomas Morse,
Albert Jones,
Nathan Jones,
Simson Jones,
Isaac Kibbe,
Corp. Asa Kingsbury,
Ebenezer Knowlton,
Nathaniel Lovell,
Elihu Lawrence,
Michael Metcalf, Sergt. James Morse, Josiah Morse, Samuel Morse,
John Morse, Uriah Morse, Andrew Nelson,
THE MOSES RICHARDSON HOMESTEAD, MILLIS.
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Samuel Noble, Sergt. David Partridge, Nathan Partridge, Nathaniel Partridge,
Seth Partridge,
Seth Partridge, Jun'r,
Zeba Partridge,
James Perry,
Capt. James Penniman,
Sergt. Eli Pond,
Barzillai Pond,
Jedidiah Phillips,
John Plympton,
Corp. Simeon Richardson,
Daniel Richardson, Jun'r,
Moses Richardson,
Elisha Richardson,
Oliver Richardson,
Jason Richardson,
Abijah Richardson,
William Ray,
Jonathan Ralph,
Moses Rock wood,
Asa Robbins,
George Riley,
Philo Sanford,
Chaplain David Sanford,
Ichabod Seaver,
Ichabod Senor, Denny Sheffield,
Nathan Smith,
John Smith,
Jabez Shumway,
Will'm Southworth,
William Stinner,
Joseph Southworth,
George Sumner,
Nathan Thayer,
Lieut. Moses Thompson,
Timothy Thompson. Amos Turner,
Samuel Thompson,
Nathan Turner,
Jacob Turner, Amos Turner, Jun'r,
Obed Ware,
Daniel Ware,
Sergt. John Wheeler,
Jonathan Wheeler, John Whitney,
John Whiting,
Charles White,
Joshua Whitney,
Peter Wight,
Samuel Wight,
George Straten,
Cornelius Youngman.
Total, 330.
Capt. Joshua Partridge, Corp. Joel Partridge, Samuel Partridge, Moses Partridge, Simeon Partridge, Joshua Partridge, Jun'r, Benjamin Parnel,
Eliphalet Pierce, Jonathan Pierce, Moses Pond,
Corp. Job Plympton,
Sergt. Amos Richardson,
Asa Richardson,
Jesse Richardson,
John Richardson,
Ezra Richardson,
Moses Richardson, Jun'r,
Joshua Richardson,
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Simeon Turner,
Revolutionary Soldiers Buried in the Old Church Yard Cemetery in Millis.
Dates of Birth and Death.
Oliver Adams,
1738-1816.
Capt. Jonathan Adams, 1709-1804.
Elisha Adams,
1718-1781.
Jonathan Adams,
1737-1818.
Amos Bullard,
1752-1843.
Jeduthan Bullen,
1751-1830.
Daniel Bullen,
1729-1801.
John Bullard.
Henry Bullard, 1723-1799.
Timothy Bullard, 1740-1827.
Henry Bullard, Jr., 1749-1824.
Isaac Bullard,
1743-1832.
George Barber, 1743-1832.
Rev. Nathan Bucknam, 1703-1795.
Stephen Clark, 1743-1820.
Lt. Theo. Clark,
1741-1827.
David Clark, 1718-1803.
Elijah Clark, 1726-1801.
Timothy Clark, 1734-1807.
Jeremiah Curtis, 1757-1804.
Jesse Daniels, 1760-1837.
Dea. Asa Daniels,
1753-1840.
Lemeuel Daniels, 1757-1818.
Capt. Jeremiah Daniels, 1754-1830. Moses Daniels, 1736-1800.
Henry Daniels,
1708-1806.
Henry Daniels, Jr., 1739-1815.
Capt. Joseph Daniels,
1736-1823.
Henry Ellis,
1736-1822.
Asa Ellis, 1727-1784.
Lt. John Ellis, Jr., 1727-1809.
John Ellis, Jr., 1755-1826.
Ebenezer Ellis,
1729-1819.
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Silas Fairbanks, 1745-1823.
Lt. Abraham Harding, 1730-1819.
Stephen Harding, 1752-1835.
Lt. John Harding, 1693-1782.
Capt. S. Harding, 1693-1780.
Capt. T. Harding, 1698-1780.
Capt. T. Hammond,
1736-1813.
Thomas Harding, Jr.,
1760-1853.
Simon Hill, 1738-1802.
Enoch Hill,
1728-1793.
Samuel Hill,
1736-1815.
Capt. S. Jones,
1755-1825.
Nathan Jones, 1762-
Capt. Joseph Lovell,
1741-1827.
Nath. Lovell,
1748-1824.
Ozias Metcalf,
1744-1777.
Timothy Metcalf,
1718-1779.
Uriah Morse,
1709-1789.
Thomas Morse.
Ziba Partridge, 1761-1831.
Samuel Partridge, 1752-1842.
Seth Partridge, 1736-1807.
Joshua Partridge, 1745-1802.
Capt. J. Partridge, 1713-1795.
Benj. Parnell,
1746-1831.
Jedediah Phillips, 1762-1844.
Capt. James Penniman, 1726-1804.
Dr. Abijah Richardson, 1752-1822.
Ezra Richardson, 1745-1802.
Moses Richardson, 1717-1797.
Moses Richardson, Jr., 1740-1826.
Elisha Richardson, 1745-1810.
Daniel Richardson, 1721-1779.
Oliver Richardson, 1754-1845.
Asa Richardson, 1747-1851.
Simeon Richardson, 1744-1825.
Capt. Amos Turner, 1730-1780.
Amos Turner,
1760-1820.
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John Wheeler,
1742-1788.
Jonathan Wheeler, 1718-1796.
John Whitney,
1749-
Revolutionary Soldiers Buried in the Old Cemetery at West Medway.
Dates of Birth and Death.
Capt. Moses Adams,
1731-1815.
Lieut. Jonathan Adams, 1752-1849.
Phineas Adams.
Gen. Eliakim Adams, 1755-1807.
Timothy Adams,
1758-1831.
Titus Adams,
1758-1808.
Obidiah Adams,
1758-1820.
Joseph Barber,
1731-1812.
Simeon Cutler,
1738-1826.
Asa Clark, 1730-1810.
James Clark, Jr., 1724-1786.
Joseph Clark, 1760-1779.
Elisha Cutler,
1738-1806.
Timothy Ellis,
1735-1798.
Simeon Fisher,
1748-1818.
Asa Fuller, -1836.
Ichabod Harding, 1721-1794.
Capt. John Harding, 1756-1833.
Ichabod Hawes, 1719-1777.
Seth Hixon,
1734-1821.
Isaac Hixon, 1762-1849.
Lieut.Jonathan Holbrook, 1746-1793.
Lieut. Daniel Ide, 1726-1813.
Josiah Ide,
1758-1778.
Maj. Luther Metcalf, 1757-1838.
Ralph Mann,
1745-1825.
Capt. Simeon Partridge, 1760-1832.
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Joel Partridge, 1750-1825.
Barzillai Pond,
1759-1823.
Lieut. John Pond,
1751-1776.
Moses Pond, 1737-1832.
Capt. Job Plimton, 1723-1797.
Moses Rockwood,
1737-1823.
Rev. David Sanford,
1737-1810.
Philo Sanford, 1761-1835.
Jabez Shumway, 1747-1821.
Lieut. Moses Thompson, 1728-1794.
Lieut. Nathan Whiting, 1725-1790.
Dr. Aaron Wight,
1760-1831.
RELIGIOUS SOCIETIES ESTABLISHED IN MEDWAY.
First Church of Christ, (East Medway, now Millis) 1714. Second Congregational Church, (West Medway) 1750. Baptist Church, (West Medway) 1819. Universal Friend's Society, 1823-1830.
Third Congregational Church, (East Medway) 1836-1865. Village Evangelical Church, (Medway) 1838. St. Joseph's Church, (Medway) 1850. Methodist Episcopal Church, (West Medway) 1857. St. Clement's P. E., (Millis) 1865-1871. Christ Church P. E., (Medway) 1874.
Third Congregational Church, (West Medway) 1886-1891. Jewish Synagogue, (Medway) 1899. Jewish Synagogue, (Millis) 1910.
MEDWAY IN THE CIVIL WAR.
President Lincoln's first call for Volunteers, dated April 15, 1861, was responded to by seven men :-
Amos I .. Fuller,
George W. Mahr,
William S. Partridge, William H. Dunbar,
Addison T. Hastings, Egbert O. Hixon,
Francis L. B. Monroe.
Co. E, Second Mass. Regiment.
A company was formed in April, 1861, and drilled under Captain David Daniels of Militia fame. Early in May, it was found that by waiving their choice of officers from their own number, they could at once join a regiment, under command of Colonel George H. Gordon, and it was unanimously voted to do so. This was the first regiment raised in the North for three years' service, and on May 20th eighty men took train from this town and went into camp at Brook Farm, in West Roxbury. They were mustered into service on the same day, as Co. E. Fifty-four of these eighty men were citizens of Medway, and the remainder from neighboring towns. On June 26th, the flags, now in Memorial Hall at the State House, were presented to the regiment, and carried through the hard- est battles, and never lost or surrendered. On July 8th, the regiment left for Virginia, dining on Boston Common before taking the train. The principal battles in which they served, from 1861 to 1864, were Cedar Mountain, Antietam, Winches- ter, Chancellorsville, Gettysburg and Resaca. In 1863, they were sent to New York City to help quell the draft riots, and remained there two weeks, camping in City Hall Square. The engagements in which they took part were in the Upper Po- tomac region, Valley of Virginia, Kentucky and Tennessee. The lamented Colonel Shaw and Wilder Dwight were officers of this regiment. The late William R. Parsons was chosen
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first sergeant of Co. E. at Camp Andrew, before leaving Bos- ton. The only surviving members of Co. E., now living in this town, are Michael Slavin and Charles M. Disper.
Up to July, 1862, thirty-nine volunteers, enlisted in dif- ferent regiments from this town. Thirty-eight answered the President's call for three-year men July, 1862, and forty-eight responded to the call of August, for nine months' service ; twelve men were secured in an additional call for three-year men at the same time.
From October, 1863, to March, 1864, sixty-seven men volunteered for three years. In July, 1864, forty-four men enlist- ed for one hundred days' service, and thirty-two for a longer period of service. Seven Medway men joined the naval forces of the Government in 1864. In December, 1864, forty-six men were credited to this town on the last call for volunteers, made by the President.
The town paid $35,677.96 for its soldiers, in bounties and aid to families, and during the four years' prosecution of the war, fully kept up to the high standard set by our Common- wealth.
Union Soldiers from Medway. 1861-1865.
Lord M. Ackert,
Daniel Ackley,
Calvin Adams,
Charles A. Adams,
Charles C. Adams,
Eliakim A. J. Adams,
Erastus Adams,
George W. Adams,
Milton S. Adams,
Samuel B. Adams,
Silas P. Adams,
Stephen P. Adams,
William Adams,
Charles Allen,
George H. Allen,
Sydney W. Allen,
Edward L. Andrews,
Frank B. Andrews,
George H. Andrews,
James Andrews,
George W. Armitage,
William O. Andrews, Albert A. Ballou,
George W. Ballou,
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George W. Bancroft, Edward C. Barrows,
George H. Barton,
David H. Benner,
Marshall A. Bent, Aaron H. Blake,
Asaph M. Bisbee, Adin P. Blake, William F. Britton,
Charles W. Brackett, Aaron Brown, George F. Brown,
George Brown,
George F. Brown, 2d,
Henry W. Brown,
James Brown,
Robert W. Brown,
Lewis Buffum,
Albert E. Bullard,
Elbridge H. Bullard,
George W. Bullard,
Joel P. Bullard,
Sylvanus Bullard,
Edward M. Bullen,
Charles E. Burr,
Jacob W. Butler,
John Carr, Charles E. Cary,
Alfred A. Cary,
Samuel B. Cary,
John W. Cass,
Jeremiah Cassidy,
William H. Chace,
Calvin Claflin,
Albert H. Clark,
Albert L. Clark,
Asa Clark,
Charles Clark,
Charles S. Clark,
David A. Clark,
Edmund N. Clark,
Frederick F. Clark,
George E. Clark,
James W. Clark,
Sewell J. Clark,
Warren A. Clark,
William B. Clark,
Alfred Clifford,
Joseph C. Clifford,
John Coad,
John W. Codding, Charles H. Cole,
Samuel P. Coffan, John Conly,
Timothy Coughlin,
David F. Coville,
Charles E. Cummings,
Alexander M. Cushing,
Alonzo M. Dain,
Henry R. Dain,
Charles H. Daniels,
Edward Daniels,
Henry J Daniels,
Joseph L. Daniels,
William A. Daniels,
William D. Daniels,
David S. Darling,
Amos F. Davis,
Sheppard Davis,
Newell Barber,
George W. Bartlett, Alfred R. Bell,
Timothy Daley,
Jesse Darling,
Edwin S. Davis,
Benjamin F. Dexter,
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Charles M. Disper, Patrick J. Donovan, Thomas Dudy,
Shubael E. Dunbar,
William H. Dunbar,
Alonzo Dunton, Charles H. Everett,
John H. Durgin,
Albert F. Fales,
John M. Fales,
John Fendt,
Frank L. Fisher,
George H. Fisher,
George S. Fisher,
Lewis L Fisher,
Theodore W. Fisher,
Willard P. Fisher,
Julius A. Fitts,
James Fitzgerald,
Michael Fitzgerald,
Andrew Fitzsimmons,
James B. Flaherty,
Thomas Flaherty,
Emmons Force,
Silas Force,
William W. Forman,
George J. Foster,
Peter Foster,
William B. Foster,
George F. French,
Charles F. Fuller,
George A. Fuller,
George E. Fuller,
George F. Fuller,
James A. Gale,
Patrick Gallagher,
John Glancy,
John Gormly, Charles Grant,
Joseph H. Gould,
Charles A. Grant,
Edwin A. Grant,
Frank S. Grant,
George O. Grant,
Harrison G. Grant,
James M. Grant,
John P. Green,
George E. Green wood,
George H. Greenwood,
Isaac C. Greenwood,
John T. Greenwood,
Thomas Hackett,
Daniel Hammond, John Harney,
George B. Hardy,
Peter Harrington,
William Harrold,
Michael Hart, Jr.,
William Hawes,
William C. Hawes,
James H. Heaton,
Joseph A. Greenwood, Robert Hall,
Thomas J. Harrington,
Edward P. Hart,
Addison T. Hastings,
Albert M. Hayward, John Henry,
Francis T. Dodge, John F. Driscoll, Amos A. Dugan,
George B. Everett, James E. Fales, John Farren, Charles H. Fisher,
Amos L. Fuller,
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James T. Higgins, Edmund W. Hill, Moses Hill,
Alonzo Hixon,
Egbert O. Hixon,
George H. Hixon,
Edwin H. Holbrook,
James T. Holmes,
Dennis Hosmer,
Edwin H. Hosmer,
John G. Hosmer,
Albert C. Houghton,
Alvin W. Houghton,
Joseph H. Howard,
George H. Ide,
George A. Jacobs,
Edmund A. Jones,
John B. Jones,
Francis Kenny,
Cornelius Keating,
Martin M. Keith,
William F. Kemp,
John H. Kendall,
Joseph Kirsher,
Patrick Killaly,
Charles C. Kimball,
Frank W. Kimball,
George H. Kingsbury,
William Kirby,
Annah Ladd,
James E. Lawrence,
Gilbert H. Leland,
Horatio T. Leonard,
John Leonard,
William Lilley,
John Looby,
George W. Mahr,
Albert W. Mann,
George F. Marden,
George E. Mason,
Thomas H. Matthews,
Peter Mawn,
James B. May,
John McCabe,
James McCowan,
Richard B. McElroy,
James McLaughlin,
"Thomas McNamara, John Miller, James Mitchell,
John Monks,
Francis L. B. Monroe, Andrew Morse,
Edward A. May, Daniel McAlevy, John McCann, Gilbert McCallom,
Thomas McKenna,
Christopher McNamara,
William F. Merritt,
Lewis L. Miller, James S. Mitchell, Alexander L. B. Monroe, Amos B. Morse, Eleazer Morse,
Frank V. Mann,
William M. Martin,
Simon L. Mason,
William H. Matthews,
Charles MeGorty,
Charles G. Kingsbury,
George F. Leavitt,
John Higgins, Lewis S. Hill, John Hirl,
Edward Hogan,
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Frederic D. Morse, Robert T. Morse,
Charles Murray,
George L Meyer,
John Nolan, William A. Nolan,
John Nolan, George E. Nourse,
Hugh O'Brien,
Michael O'Donnell, Alfred Onion,
John O'Hara,
Thomas O'Rourke,
Charles Osborne,
William R. Parsons,
David A Partridge,
George V. Partridge,
Warren J. Partridge,
William S. Partridge,
William E. Pettingill,
George E. Pettes,
William H. Pettis,
John A. Pierce,
Ezra Pierson,
Jonathan Pitcher,
Edwin C. Pond,
Edwin D. Pond,
Elmer H. Pond,
George E. Pond,
George O. Pond,
Oscar A. Pond,
Asa D. Prescott,
Alpheus Proctor,
Franklin Proctor, Patrick Raferty,
Stephen F. Purdy,
George H. Read,
Patrick Regan,
Thomas Reise,
Timothy Reardon,
Benjamin Remmick,
George S. Rice,
George H. Rich,
Henry T. Rich,
James G. Richards,
Addison W. Richardson,
Emory Richardson,
Henry S. Richardson,
Brougham Roberts,
Thomas Rollins,
George S. Sanford,
Melvin Sawyer,
John Scott,
Richard Searles,
Frank X. Sinzinger,
Michael Slavin,
Edmund J. Smith,
William Smith,
Henry L. Snell,
Philip O. Sparrow,
Matthew M. Sperry,
George A. Stedman,
Charles H. Stewart,
George H. Stratton,
John S. Stratton,
Joseph H. Richardson,
Henry M. Rockwood,
Chandler W. Sanders,
Michael Schofield,
George T. Simpson,
Herman S. Sparrow,
James Spelman,
Milton H. Morse,
Daniel Mundon, James F. Murphy, William D. Newland,
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Frederick Swarman,
John H. Swarman,
Avery Sylvester,
William H. Thomas,
Henry Tibbets,
John Tevlin, John Thompson, Benjamin C. Tinkham,
Charles H. Torrey,
James J. Treanor,
John S. Treen,
Lewis A. Treen,
Lucius M. Turner,
William H. Turner,
Edward G Tutein,
Albert Vallet,
Albert L. Vallet,
John H. Vallet,
Jeremiah Vase, Charles Wardin,
John Watts,
George C. Webber,
James Welch,
Alfred C. Wheat,
Henry Wheat,
Edward H. Wheeler,
Lewis Wheeler,
James Whitcomb,
Samuel O. White,
John Whitman,
Charles Whitney,
Charles E. Whitney,
George W. Whitney,
Albert H. Wiley,
John Willey,
Allen T. Williams,
Charles E. Williams,
George H. Williams,
Horace J. Wilmarth, Emery Wood,
Henry A. Wood,
Levi Preston Wood,
Daniel S. Woodman,
William P. Wyman,
James G. Young,
Orson D. Young,
Robert O. Young.
Total, 377 men.
SPANISH-AMERICAN WAR.
The following Medway men served in the Spanish- American war : Harry C. Adams,
John E. Cullen, Lloyd T. Hunter,
Frederick L. Clark, George Holmes, Clyde C. Hunt,
Walter C. Gilmore,
Eugene C. L. Morse,
John E. O'Hara,
Walter C. Shorts.
William Spear,
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John Winter,
John Walch,
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