MEDFIELD, NORFOLK, MASSACHUSETTS

(incorporated 16510

FAMILIES:

Albie,Barnes, Barbour, Ellis, Leland, Morse, Plympton, Rocket/Rockwood, Thurston, Twitchell, Wight

LINKS:

History of Medfield, Town of Medfield Website

Medfield Wikipedia article

Tilden, William Smith, History of the Town of Medfield, Massachusetts, 1650 - 1686, Boston, G.H. Ellis, 1887, Digitized by Internet Archive.

  

Peak House

Peak House: build ca. 1677-80 by Seth Clark. Photograph: John Phelan, Wikimedia Commons

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Vital Records:

New England Historic Genealogical Society, Vital Records of Medfield, Massachusetts to the Year 1850, Boston, Stanhope Press, 1903.

Available online as:

Massachusetts Vital Records to 1850. Online Database: NewEnglandAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2001-2007. (Subscription required)

Transcription of the above records by Dave Swerdfeger, available for free at Dunhamwilcox.net.

Medfield's Contribution to Harvard College, 1678 [Ref]

Mr. John Wilson 2 00 00 Mr Ralph Whellock 2 Thomas Wight se. 0 03 00 John Frairy sen. 4 Henry Smith 0 08 00 + 2
Timothy Dwight 0 10 00 William Partridge 1 John Prat 1.5 John Bowers* 0 01 00 Thomas Mason* 1.5
Thomas Elice 1.5 Nathaniel Whiting* 1 Ephraim Wight 2 Thomas Thurston* 00 01 00 Joseph Cheney 1
Edward West 2 Benjamin Clarke* 1 Benjam Whellock 1 Samuel Bulling 1 Thomas Boyden 1
Ephraim Clark 1 John Turner se. 2 Samuel Smith 2 Samuel Barbur 1 Samuel Rockwood 1
John Bulling 0 01 00 John Elice Ju. 1 John Bullard 1.5 Joseph Bullard* 1 Gamaliell Hinsdell 2
Nathanell Sutlife 0 01 00 John Metcallff 0 01 00 + 2 Benjamin Rockwood 0 01 00 Alexander Louet* 1 John Harding 0 02 00
Nicholas Rockwood* 1.5 + 1 John Bowers* 2 Elizabeth Frairy 0 05 00 George Barbur 0 03 00 + 1 Joshua Fisher se. 00 02 06 + 1
Joshua Fisher ju. 0 01 00 John Plimpton* 2 John Thurston ju. 3 George Farbank, ju. 0 01 00 Samuel Wight* 1
Daniell Morse se. 3 Obedy Morse 0 01 06 Daniell Morse ju. 1 Jonathan Morse 0 02 00 John Peery 1
Samuel Bulling se. 0 03 00 + 2 Ephraim Bulling 0 01 00 Elisha Bulling 0 01 00 Benjamin Bullard 2 Joseph Danielles 00 02 06 + 1
Marye Farbank 0 01 00 Henry Laland 0 03 00 Joseph Morse 0 01 00 John Elice se. 1 Thomas Wight ju.* 2
Joseph Clarke se. 2 Eliezer Adams* 1 Seth Smith 1    

*subsequently 'burned out by the Endians'.

Amounts in black are monetary (pounds, shillings, pence); amounts in green are bushels of Indian corn, amounts in orange are bushels of wheat

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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