10 and 16 Milford Street started as one lot - then split
2/20/1824 Norfolk County Deed 74:197
David and James Mann (Executors
(sons) for Ralph Mann) to Paris Mann (son) 15 acres on the Hartford and Dedham Turnpike (109)
03/1835 Norfolk County Deed 107:15
Paris Mann
to Noah Coombs 15 acres on the Hartford and Dedham Turnpike
12/13/1836 Norfolk County Deed 114:85
Noah Coombs to Simeon
Clark No building listed $300. 150 rods (160=1 acre) 10 rods long x 15 wide on the new road to Milford, with Daniel
Nourse east, and Noah Coombs house lot west
also;
5/6/1837 Norfolk County Deed 118:2
Noah Coombs
to Simeon Clark $14. 42 rods (on the north edge of 114:85) 3 rods long x 14 wide
5/28/1837 Norfolk County Deed 116:324
Simeon
Clark, cordwainer, to Joseph Curtis, yeoman
at the new road to Milford Noah Coombs house lot to the west No building listed
West half of the lot:
16 Milford the John Adams House
In
1850, John Adams, bootmaker, lived here with his wife Eliza Cresey (m.1832), and 5 children and 4 boarders, 1 from Canada
and 3 from Ireland, all bootmakers. Maps of Medway in 1858 show “Adams Livery Stable” on the property.
By 1870, only John and Eliza live there and the census lists his occupation as “stablekeeper”.
4/23/1841 Norfolk County Deed 132:18
Joseph Curtis to
John Adams 13 rods deep by 7 wide ½ acre with dwelling house and ½ well rights Curtis other land (#10) on the east Seth Holbrook’s
land west
East half of the lot:
10 Milford the Timothy Pond House
In 1850, Timothy Pond, a bootmaker, lived here
with his wife Eliza J Creecy (m.1844) and two children Alfred and John, and a boarder from Ireland John McGinley, also a bootmaker.
They lived here 17 years.
4/1/1848 Norfolk County Deed 197:258
Joseph
Curtis to Timothy Pond, bootmaker ½ acre with dwelling house and ½ well rights (sharing with #16) $525.
3/10/1865 Norfolk County Deed 330:239
Timothy Pond
to Jemima Lovering (widow) ½ are land with dwelling house and ½ well rights Gilbert Nourse to the east John Adams house lot
(#16) to the west
4/12/1865 Norfolk County Deed 332:235
Jemima W Lovering
to Roxanna R Holbrook ½ acre with dwelling house 4/24/1872
Norfolk County Deed 424:50
Roxanna R Holbrook to WLG Hunt Dwelling house with ½ well rights Heirs of Betsy Nourse
on the east John Adams house lot on the west
2/12/1874 Norfolk County Deed 459:106
WLG Hunt to
Ellen Finneran (wife of James) ½ acre with dwelling house, with well on westerly line, on northerly side of Milford Road Heirs
of Betsy Nourse on the east John Adams house lot on the west
The land between Highland Street and 10, 16, 18 &
20 Milford Street
3/27/1850 Norfolk County Deed: 193:48
Noah
Coombs to Elisha Cutler 4 acres with barn, slaughter house, and well rights
4/12/1856 Norfolk County Deed: 251:172
David
Partridge to Allen Partridge 2 acres, with John Adams lot to the east, and Slocumbs lot to the west 13 rods deep by 15 rods wide $650.
6/21/1861 Norfolk County Deed: 299:136
Allen
Partridge, laborer To John Adams, Jr, stablekeeper 2 acres $1000.
3/30/1869 Norfolk County Deed: 377:175
John
Adams, Jr to Charles Williams
Norfolk County map of 1876: C. Williams
