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Twenty-ninth Week, Saturday'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 and each day this week on two of the founders.
"James Allen came to Dedham about 1637 and drew his Medfield house lot on South Street near Pound Street. In 1638 he married Ann Guild, who died in 1773, Allen died in 1676.
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Robert Hinsdale came out Medfield from Dedham and built a house on the east side of North Street, just north of Vine Brook. He was a member of the first Board of Selectman and held that office for six years. He removed from Medfield with his family to the Connecticut River Valley, where he and threw of his sons were killed during the King Philip War in what became known as the “Massacre at Bloody Brook,” near Deerfield."
