FROM ITS FIRST SETTLEMENT, IN 1630, TO THE PRESENT TIME, 1855.

BY CHARLES BROOKS.

"Pleraque eorum quæ referam parva fortisan et levia memoratu videri, nescius sum."- TACITUS.
"Nescire quid antea quam natus sis acciderit, id est semper esse puerum."- CICERO.

BOSTON:

PUBLISHED BY JAMES M. USHER,

87, CORNHILL.

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1861, Oct. 14.

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Corneling Homway Felton, Darbard Cécilege. (Class of 1821)

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HARVARD
UNIVERSITY
LIBRARY

BOSTON:

PRINTED BY JOHN WILSON AND SON,

22, SCHOOL STREET.

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The Descendants of the First Settlers of Medford,

WHEREVER LIVING,

AND

TO ITS PRESENT INHABITANTS,

The following History is respectfully Enscribed

BY THEIR HUMBLE SERVANT,

CHARLES BROOKS.