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Forty Eighth Week, Friday's "Medfield Historical Minute"

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.

Rattlesnake
Rattlesnake (Courtesy photo)

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 1718 it was voted that “whatsoever person or persons within this town, in the months of April or May of this present year, kills any rattlesnake, he shall be paid a bounty of six pence per snake by bringing evidence, an inch of the snake’s tail, to the town treasurer, where he shall receive his bounty pay.”

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