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bounded with Mistick river on the South and the rocks on 

 the Nortli, is granted to Mr. Mathew Cradock, merchant, to enjoy 

 to him and his heirs forever." 



1635, General Court paid him £55. 



1635, March 3, Voted, former grant to M. Cradock " shall 

 extend one mile into the country from the river side in all 

 places," making 3500 acres. 



All cattle were imported by him and were the joint property 

 of him and the company, and so of the ship building materials. 



1638, another 1000 acres were granted to him. 



1641, June 2, John Oldham's 500 acres were "to be set 

 out" to M. Cradock. 



As the founder of Medford, he is long to be remembered. 

 Memorials still exist of the man and merchant. After the 

 " Wear at Mistick" was granted to him, he had there early his 

 agent, employed men in fishing and ship building, was fined 

 for their neglect in training, built a bridge over the Mystick, 

 built his house, and impaled a park ; all which look very much 

 like a contemplated future residence here, though he never 

 came. 



Had Cradock (between the years 1623 and 1641, within 

 the only eighteen years of which we can find any trace of him,) 

 crossed the Atlantic and visited this western wilderness, how 

 would he have been greeted by the people of that age ! The 

 Colonists of those days knew full well the extent and value of 

 his services. Nothing would have been conjecture. His name 

 and deeds would have been fresh and familiar to the living of 

 that day ; as the old chief of their courts and councils in Lon- 

 don, he would have been received with open hearts and arms, 

 by Endicott, and Winthrop, and Dudley, and Johnson, and 

 Nowell, and Humphrey, and all then living, and who had acted 

 with him as assistant or otherwise in the old country. 



It would not have been necessary to grope among the musty 

 files of neglected history, for a fragmentary scrap here and 

 there, to revive his name ; but the living memories of that age 

 and generation would have supplied all deficiencies and filled up 



