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Twenty-ninth Week, Wednesday'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.
"Daniel Morse was 22 when he came to America from England with his parents. The Morse family settled first in Watertown and then removed to Dedham. As one of the founding families, the Morse house lot was located just South of Pound Street. Daniel and his wife Ann (Guild) then moved west of the Charles River, founding the town of Sherborn. He died in 1688, Ann in 1690.
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Joseph Clark was one of the earliest settlers in Dedham and was given a house lot in Medfield on the west side of South Street, near Oak Street. He was elected selectman in 1660. He died in 1684 and his wife, Alice in 1710."
