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HISTORY OF THE TOWN OF MEDFORD, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, FROM ITS FIRST SETTLEMENT, IN 1630, TO THE PRESENT TIME, 1855. (ed. Charles Brooks), Chapter 2: (search)
ir noonday labor. Streets in Medford have received the following names: High, Main, Forest, Salem, Ashland, Oakland, Washington, Fountain, Fulton, Court, Cross, Park, Pleasant, Purchase, South, Middlesex, Water, Ship, Canal, Cherry, Webster, Almont, Cottage, Ash, Oak, Chestnut, Grove, Garden, Paris, Chaplin, Mystic, Brooks, Allston, Vernon, Irving, Auburn, Prescott, West, Laurel. Appropriation for highways from Feb. 1, 1850, to Feb. 1, 1851$1,500.00 Appropriation for highways from Feb. 15, 1854, to Feb. 15, 1855$1,800.00 Expenses of street lamps for the same times$323.75 Bridges. The bridge across Mystic River, in the centre of Medford, is the first that was built over this stream. This primitive structure was exceedingly rude, and dangerously frail. March 4, 1634: The General Court, holden at Newton, make a grant of much land in Medford, on the north side of Mystic River, to Mr. Mathew Cradock, merchant in London. This distinguished friend of the pilgrims never cam
HISTORY OF THE TOWN OF MEDFORD, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, FROM ITS FIRST SETTLEMENT, IN 1630, TO THE PRESENT TIME, 1855. (ed. Charles Brooks), Chapter 3: (search)
may be interesting to compare the expenses of 1818 and 1855. They are as follows. For 1818:-- Minister's salary and grant of wood$500.00 Poor1,225.46 Paid Charlestown for paupers241.00 Roads507.63 Schools740.00 Abatement of taxes258.47 Town-officers150.00 Collecting taxes270.00 Expenses for opposing a new road150.00 Interest on town-debt141.00 For injury of horse on drawbridge50.00 Sexton, $25.00; Miscellaneous expenses, $94.56119.56    $4,353.12 The expenses from Feb. 15, 1854, to Feb. 15, 1855, were as follows:-- Public schools$7,138.82 Highways2,031.10 Bridges37.71 Street lamps192.27 Poor — alms-house3,571.86 Fire department2,046.04 Salaries and fees1,482.67 Miscellaneous expenses3,123.09 Notes payable and interest paid5,284.00 Amount of town and county taxes for 1854$28,726.40 Receipts and income2,284.43 Balance in treasury7,909.23 Town debt--185534,100.00 Medford a town. Mr. Frothingham, in his excellent History of Charlestown, 1846
HISTORY OF THE TOWN OF MEDFORD, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, FROM ITS FIRST SETTLEMENT, IN 1630, TO THE PRESENT TIME, 1855. (ed. Charles Brooks), Chapter 8: Education. (search)
mary School53443920164903129 Everett Primary School5750467263621081339 Salem-street Primary School464339391101998193 Park-street Primary School504642617273736407 Union-street Alphabet School7259501032751768263 Everett Alphabet School7053471541801267204 Salem-street Alphabet School656049620721798266 Parks-street Alphabet School7258493841031418428 This School was kept only two months.Brooks Alphabet School26262087161128 Totals8246946155128200313,8072389 total expenses from Feb. 15, 1854, to Feb. 15, 1855. For salaries of teachers$5,490.64 Fuel616,45 For repairs and incidental expenses1,031.73    $7,138.82 Academies. Medford has been famous for its excellent private schools. So early as 1790, Mr. William Woodbridge opened one for young ladies and boys, providing board in his own family for many who came from Boston and other places. He seemed to have discovered, what is now so commonly known, that the surest way of having a select and full school was to as
HISTORY OF THE TOWN OF MEDFORD, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, FROM ITS FIRST SETTLEMENT, IN 1630, TO THE PRESENT TIME, 1855. (ed. Charles Brooks), Chapter 12: crimes and Punishments. (search)
ith commendable sympathy and discretion. The nearness of the alms-house to the places of public worship has rendered special religious services at the house less imperative. Whenever there has been a call for extra service, it has been immediately performed by some clergyman of the town. A series of sermons was preached at the house, each settled minister taking his turn. Similar services should be had during each winter. The amount paid by the town for support of the poor, from Feb. 15, 1854, to Feb. 15, 1855, was $3,571.86! Tornado. Medford bears its suffering testimony to the effects of the terrible tornado of Aug. 22, 1851. Such extensive destruction of property from such a cause has never before been witnessed in this State. At a meeting of citizens, Aug. 28, the following votes were passed:-- Voted that a committee of five be appointed to appraise damages. Voted that Gorham Brooks, Charles Caldwell, Franklin Patch, Albert Smith, and Jeremiah Gilson, consti
HISTORY OF THE TOWN OF MEDFORD, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, FROM ITS FIRST SETTLEMENT, IN 1630, TO THE PRESENT TIME, 1855. (ed. Charles Brooks), Chapter 14: fire-department. (search)
eneral and positive interest in the fire-department which it so much needs. We have great pleasure in learning that the fire-department of Medford is furnished with officers of reliable character, of good judgment, and prompt energy; and with firemen who have in times past done honor to themselves; who will, in times to come, show themselves equal to the severest emergencies, and continue to deserve the grateful esteem of their fellow-citizens. Expenses of the fire-department, from Feb. 15, 1854, to Feb. 15, 1855, $2,046.04. The engines in use at the present time are:-- Names.Places.When bought.Builders.Cost. Governor Brooks, No. 1Union St.March, 1840Hunneman & Co.$1007 General Jackson, No. 2High St.-----, 1845Hunneman & Co.800 Washington, No. 3Park St.May 31, 1850Hunneman & Co.1100 The number of men attached to each engine averages about forty-five. The salary of each officer and fireman per annum is six dollars, and poll-tax refunded. The hook-and-ladder appara
History of the First Universalist Church in Somerville, Mass. Illustrated; a souvenir of the fiftieth anniversary celebrated February 15-21, 1904, Anniversary exercises, Wednesday , February 17 (search)
stice of the peace was sent the following communication:— To Francis Tufts, Esq., Justice of the Peace:— The undersigned, inhabitants of the town of Somerville, and legal voters therein, desire to form themselves into a religious society, to be known and called the First Universalist Society in Somerville, and request you to take the proper legal steps to accomplish this object by issuing a warrant, calling a meeting at the committee rooms on Medford street, on Wednesday evening, February 15, 1854. Ira. Thorpe, Charles Williams, Erastus E. Cole, Reuben Horton, Edwin Munroe, Jr., David Russell, Francis Russell, James S. Runey, J. Q. Twombly, Robert Burrows, David P. Horton, Alfred Horton. A true copy. Attest: C. Williams, Clerk. In response to the above, the said justice issued the following warrant:— Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Middlesex, ss. To Ira Thorpe, of Somerville, in said County of Middlesex. Greeting: Whereas, application in writing has be<
Brigadier-General Ellison Capers, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 5, South Carolina (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Additional Sketches Illustrating the services of officers and Privates and patriotic citizens of South Carolina. (search)
eensboro in the spring of 1865. After the close of the war he began anew on his plantation, and is now one of the largest planters in the county. He has always been prominent in politics and public affairs, and was a member of the legislature at the time he enlisted for service in the Confederate cause. In 1884 he was elected to the State senate and at once took the important part his abilities justified, and at the expiration of his term he was re-elected and served until 1892. On February 15, 1854, he was married to Miss Cornelia M. Dantzler, of Orangeburg, who died in 1878, and he was married again in 1879 to Miss Rebecca V. Lyles, who is a greatgrand-daughter of the first white settler of Fairfield county. Captain Benjamin F. Wyman, a prominent physician of Columbia, is one of four brothers who served in the armies of the Confederate States. W. H., also a physician, held the rank of post surgeon, and survived the war to die in 1878; Edward H. was second lieutenant of Compa