• General Notes

  WFT- Vol. 11, No. 1970
  1659---Arrived in Northampton at age 21.  He was a gun smither as well as a general blacksmither.  He was granted  a chest of tools and some land in compensation for his skills to come to this township. Worked for a John Webb
  
  May 31, 1661   freeman
  
  1675 --elected Selectman and relected 27 times.
  
  1677  chosen Deputy to which he was reelected  6 times sering until 1692
  
  Often served as "judge'  in many judical offices and even served as an Associate Justice for the County  of Hampshire
  
  1678   appointed Clerk of Writs(register of deeds)--held office until death
  
  1698--County Treasurer until his death
  
  Some years he held not less than six important town offices at the same time.  He held various judicial offices, employed in settlement of estates.  It has been intimated that he was a lawyer, but there is no evidence he ever studies law or practiced law at the bar.
  
  His home-lot was in vicinty of Bridge Street Cemetery, but it is doubtful he ever occupied it.  His homestead consisted of 12 acres in the heart of the settlement.  One acre on Meeting-House Hill where he resided until death.
  
  Engaged in  the fight at Turner's Falls, May 19, 1676.
  
  Deputy to General Court 1677, 1683-86, 1690, 1692, seven year
  
  1672--brought his father from Windsor to Northampton
  
  1675-began terms as Deacon of the church
  
  Ancestry dates back in unbroken succession to William the Conqueror

Details of Medad's family with Abigail Strong