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Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 30., The Bay path. (search)
rs had no stomach for secession. And on June 3, 1635, there was Leave granted to the inhabitants of Dorchester for their removal. These licenses were not long left unused. On the same May 6th William Pynchon of Roxbury presented himself at the General Court with his accounts as treasurer, which being audited, he was discharged from his responsibility. He went immediately to Agawam (Springfield) and preempted that ___location for the Roxbury party. He is said to have visited the valley in 1634. The Dorchester Association had pioneers in Windsor in the latter part of June, 1635, led overland by Roger Ludlow. Sixteen thirty-six was a year of great activity in the westward trek. Pynchon's Roxbury party began the journey about April 26th, the Blessing of the Bay sailing from Boston with their goods about the same time. At least twelve families went in this party, and on May 14th the men of the party signed a declaration and agreement for a town government. I have not read this d
Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 30., A New ship, a New colony, and a New church. (search)
d before closing with assurance of regard, the writer said:— It is a source of regret, that the descendants, by the male line, of my grandfather Nathan now number no more than six. I presume those of William and Lemuel [his brothers] are many times that number. As the writer, Charles C. Holton, mentioned his grandfather Nathan, we began our search along the genealogical line, which took us backward to one William Holton, who came over from England in the ship Francis to Charlestown in 1634, and was among the company that migrated from New-towne (i.e., Cambridge) and settled another New-towne on the Connecticut river, later and now called Hartford. That he did so, going over the Indian trail, later known as the Bay path, shows his pioneering spirit, and furthermore that he was of the earliest settlers of Northampton and one of the honored committee to begin at Northfield gives additional interest. In the fifth generation of Holtons we find that grandfather Nathan Holton was b
Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 30., History of Wellington. (search)
ock joined the Nowell and Wilson farms, and extended as far as the Mystic lakes and one mile inland from the Mystic river. This grant of land was made to Mr. Cradock, March 4, 1634. Governor Winthrop owned the land on the south side of the Mystic, in what is now Somerville, extending from Charlestown Neck to College hill, or Walnut hill as it was then called. He settled there in 1630 and called it Ten Hills Farm. Rev. Mr. Wilson built a house on the land granted him by the court about 1634. The building was probably a large log house with a small, deep cellar and brick chimney laid in clay, the cellar being walled up with stone. This building was situated on the hillside near the junction of Middlesex avenue and Fellsway. Of the life of these first settlers we have a very meagre record. The land was wooded, and the greater part had to be cleared before much in the way of agriculture was accomplished. The years passed, and in February, 1650-51, we find that Rev. John Wilso