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Twenty-ninth Week, Tuesday'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 for the rest of this week on two of the founders.
"In 1641 John Ellis became a freeman in Dedham, meaning he was accepted by the church. This same year he married Susanna Lumber. In 1649 he was with the group wishing to leave Dedham and found the new town of Medfield. The Ellis house lot was on Main Street on the northwest corner of Main Street and Upham Road. He was a leading citizen of the town, serving as selectman for seven years. He died in 1697
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In 1636 Samuel Bullen was living in Watertown and later bacame one of the founders of Dedham. Coming to Medfield, his house stood just north of Philip Street, where the Medfield High School football field is located. Hoist grave stone declares that he was the “first European with a family in this town” His house was burnt in the attack on Medfield during the King Philip War. He and his wife Mary (Morse) both died in 1691."
