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Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 15., Medford's mythical apple. (search)
urse the red cheeks were those of apples.) Readable and interesting stories are, as Mr. Trowbridge told the writer (relative to Tinkham Brothers' Tide Mill), mainly fiction, woven around some historic fact or incident that comes to public attention. The Baldwin apple had come into prominence some fifty years before this entertaining story, claiming Medford as its origination, was written. Governor Brooks had known Colonel Baldwin, and, himself in advanced years, tells his young kinsman Charles about the origin of the Baldwin apple, formerly called the Woodpecker, or, for short, the 'Pecker, and that the tree was on the Samuel Thompson farm. And at his request, in 1813, this spry young man of eighteen years visits the tree, i.e., a tree on a Samuel Thompson's farm. Woburn in those days adjoined Medford, and there were a regiment of Thompsons in Woburn. One of them, Samuel by name, had a farm just over the line in Upper Medford, and on it, forty or fifty rods south of the black
Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 15., An old Medford Schoolboy. (search)
ruary 10, at New Bedford, there passed away one, a native of Medford (and whose boyhood days were spent here), who is kindly remembered by his old associates still living. These lines are not intended as obituary; rather an appreciative mention of one we have never met, or even heard of, till in recent years. Thomas Meriam Stetson was the son of Rev. Caleb Stetson, the second Unitarian pastor of Medford's First Parish. His birth occurred in the house on High street, later the home of Rev. Charles and Miss Lucy Ann Brooks, June 15, 1830. His later boyhood home was the parsonage house, erected on the site of the present St. Joseph's parochial residence. His early education was in the schools of Medford (public and private), and his college course was at Harvard, graduating there in 1849. After study in the Dane Law Zzz. to the bar in 1854. His father's pastorate (of twenty-one years) in Medford closed in 1848, prior to the son's graduation, and this may account for the settl
Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 15., Something about Capt. Isaac Hall. (search)
g frequent trips to and from Boston. Among the events so recorded is that of his wedding to Eleanor Hall, on April 24, 1791, and of a visit Isaac Hall made him in Portland from August 1, to September i, 1801. On November 24, 1805, the record is Mr. Isaac Hall died at Boston Aged 66 One other event he records: October 14, 1814, Abigail Hall broke up her housekeeping at Franklin place. By reference to a Bible Record kept by my Uncle William Cutter Stimpson. William was the son of Charles and Eleanor S. and his middle name was the maiden name of his Grandmother Abigail Hall. I find Died at Our House Sept 28, 1825 Mrs Abigail Hall, Grandmother (maternal) of W. C. S. (a—yrs mo) She was on a visit to us, a stroke of Paralysis deprived her of speech and the use of her limbs, in which condition she lay nine days, and then took flight to that world of Spirits whither she had there long since directed her eyes and thoughts,—and in which, to all human appearances, she was, by God's