Medfield
- 1649-1713: New Dedham
- Vicinity: Central Massachusetts
- US County of Norfolk County, MA in Massachusetts
| Name of Notable | Genus | AsNotedIn | No | Address | Proximity | Area |
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| Name | Genus | AsNotedIn | Address | Proximity | Area | |
| Dwight-Derby House |
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7 | Frairy St | ||
| First Baptist Church of Medfield |
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438 | Main St | ||
| First Parish Unitarian Church |
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North St | |||
| Inness-Fitts House and Studio, Barn |
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406 | Main St | ||
| Medfield State Hospital |
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45 | Hospital Rd | ||
| Peak House |
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347 | Main St | ||
| Vine Lake Cemetery |
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Main St |
| Y/M/D | Person | Association | Description | Composition | Food | Event |
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| Y/M/D | Person | Association | Description | Composition | Food | Event |
| 1630/00/00 | In the late 1620s, Neponset's sachem Chickatabot sells tribal land that will later become New Dedham to European settler William Pynchon. | |||||
| 1650/06/19 | The first 13 lots are issued in Medfield, a new town recently set off from the western part of Dedham. | |||||
| 1651/00/00 | Rachel Newcome Adams | Home | Rachel Adams and family make a home (lost) in Medfield, west of Dedham. The farm is on 2.5 acres on Bridge Street near Dale Street just east of the Charles River. | |||
| 1651/00/00 | Peter Adams | Home | Peter, his wife and child, move with his brothers Henry and Edward and his mother and step-father to Medfield. Peter's lot is next his brother Edward's lot, next a clay pit, then his stepfather John Fussell's lot and finally his brother Henry's lot. | |||
| 1665/12/07 | Lydia Eliot Wight | Bride | Widow Lydia Eliot Penniman marries Thomas Wight in Medfield, Massachusetts Bay Colony. | |||
| 1676/02/21 | Before dawn, hundreds native warriors sneak undetected into New Dedham and begin setting fire to buildings while aiming their weapons to execute colonist fleeing the flames. John Fussell, nearly 100 years old, is burned to death in Jonathan Adams' house. | King Philip's War |
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| Locale Type | Town |
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