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Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 7., Some old Medford houses and estates. (search)
was set off to his daughter, Katherine Wyer. This house stood where the Puffer house now stands. The four houses West of Marble brook. In 1660, when Messrs. Thomas Brooks and Timothy Wheeler purchased of Mr. Edward Collins the westerly portion of the Cradock farm, consisting of four hundred acres of land, there was but one hed at the time of the purchase by one Golden Moore. It was afterwards occupied by members of the Brooks family until the year 1779, when it was taken down. (See Brooks' History of Medford.) In 1675, when Mr. Edward Collins sold five hundred acres of land situated between Messrs. Brooks and Wheeler's on the west, and land of MMessrs. Brooks and Wheeler's on the west, and land of Mr. Jonathan Wade on the east, to Mr. Caleb Hubbart, who subsequently sold to Mr. John Hall and his associates, three houses only were spoken of as standing on the land. One of these houses was then occupied by Mr. Thomas Willis, and it stood near the junction of Arlington and Canal streets, probably on the triangular lot of Mr. L