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201 Main St., this is the A.M.B. Fuller house circa 1825.
Elisha Cutler, gentleman, built this house in 1825 and sold it in that year to Leonard
Hazelton, chaisemaker. It consisted of 1 acre with dwelling house, shop, and “necessary”.
In 1832, the lot was divided into east and west sections and sold again. The
east section consisted of 60 rods including the east half of the dwelling house, the east half of a chaise shop,
and the east half of 20 yards of land. In 1848, this east side was sold again to Asa Metcalf Blake Fuller, his wife
Mary and son Charles. The west section consisted of 60 rods, the west side of the dwelling house, the west side
of the chaise shop, the west side of 20 yards of land, and a tailor shop.
Things did not always go smoothly between the owners of east and west. In 1852
east side owner AMB Fuller took west side owner to court to dispute the right of Wiley to cross his land to obtain water from
the well and to spread out his clothes to dry them. In 1866, the two halves
were united by sale of this west side to AMB Fuller.
The 1858 map of West Medway shows 2 buildings on this lot: the AMB Fuller
Store, and the Wiley and Fuller Chaise Shop.
203 Main St., circa 183? the Samuel Cutler house.
Amos Shumway, yeoman, sold this 60 rods of land to Elisha Cutler in 1826.
In 1836 Cutler sold the house divided into east and west halves (similar to what was done at his house at 201 Main).
The east half was sold to Lyman P Pond, chaisemaker. It consisted of 30 rods of land (2 rods wide
and 11 rods long) and the eastern half of the dwelling house – “said Pond to have the whole of the lower
closet in the front entry…..said Cutler reserving the right to the well for any tenant occupying his premises adjoining,
by paying 1/3 of the expense of keeping the apparatus for drawing water in repair”.
The west half was sold to David Partridge, pumpmaker. It consisted of 23 rods of land and the western half
of the dwelling house – “Partridge is to have the whole of the closet at the head of the front stairs in the house
and a right to pass and repass around the east end of the house to the wood yard….said Cutler reserving the right to
draw water from the well near the house, and for the use of any tenant of my premises adjoining house lot on the east.
The 1858 map of West Medway shows two buildings on this lot: a building belonging to LP Pond and D. Partridge, and
an Engine House.
The first West Medway Engine house was located on Main Street between houses 201 and 203. The building belonged
to Lyman P Pond and he sold it to a group of West Medway citizens to house their fire engine in 1856. The deed stated
“ to purchase a fire engine house for the accommodation of a fire engine called the “Torrent” belonging
to the Town of Medway….. 2 stories high, 28 feet long, 16 feet wide standing near my dwelling house and adjoining my
shop…… together with the right and privilege for said building to stand on my land….. to pass and repass
direct from the highway….. shall have the privilege of removing said building from the premises if they elect to do
so in 30 days from the time they cease to occupy it as a fire engine house” . In 1876 AMB Fuller sold the
Town of Medway a lot 26X62 feet, adjacent to the Parish House on Main Street, for a fire house.
207 Main St., circa 1829 the Steven Adams house.
In 1826 Amos Shumway, yeoman, son of Jabez, sold half acre of land without
buildings located “about 40 rods southwest of the meeting house in West Parish” to Stephen Adams, shop joiner. Stephen
Adams built houses, cabinets, benches , other furniture, and coffins. He and his wife Julia A. (married 1828) had 2
sons Charles Thompson Adams and John M Adams.
When Stephen Adams died in 1885, his executors inventory listed house,
shop, barn, and other buildings situated on Main Street in the westerly track of Medway. It was a triangular piece of
land 8 rods across at Main Street and only 2 rods at the back.
209 Main St., the Caleb Coolidge/Cabot house circa 1840's.
In 1847 Amos Shumway, yeoman, sold half an acre of land to Caleb Coolidge,
mechanic and bootmaker, who built a dwelling house there. In 1856, when the property was sold to Reverend Asa
Hixon, there was a dwelling house and a bootshop.
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