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Twenty-ninth Week, Monday's "Medfield Historical Minute"
In honor of Medfield's 13 founding families, this week's Historical Minutes will focus on three of these founders.
A Medfield Historical Minute...
This "Medfield Historical Minute" is brought to you by town historian Richard DeSorgher.
A little something to read and learn to give you a little break during this time of boredom during isolation due to the Coronavirus Crisis. A different "Medfield Historical Minute" will appear each day during the Crisis.
*In honor of Medfield’s 13 founding families, this week’s Historical Minutes will focus today on the one considered the Founder of Medfield, Ralph Wheelock, and each of the other days this week on two of the other founders.
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"In 1600, Ralph Wheelock was born in England. He was educated at Cambridge University where he graduated in 1626. He became a “dissenting” minister and with his wife, Rebecca and fled to America with the Great Migration in 1637, settling first in Watertown and then in Dedham. In 1649 he was the leader of a group of residents leaving Dedham and founding the new town of Medfield. He was the author and first signer of the town’s compact, elected to the first Board of Selectman, elected Representative to the General Court and became the first school teacher in Medfield. He was given the first house lot, located northwest of the intersection of today’s Main and North Streets. He died January 11, 1683."
