Oct 23: At the meeting of the Committee on the Suffolk Resolves House, Mary Hinckley, founding member of the Milton Historical Society recalls her father quoting Edmund J. Baker on Nathaniel F. Safford and the commemoration plaque on the house: "If the damn fool wants it up there, let him have it."

Baker's daughter, Lydia Taft, counters that "when Mr. Safford put up that tablet he consulted my father about it, so that my father was equally responsible for it; and as they never agreed on any other subject, I think it must have been correct. My father owned the house that was burned and would have only been too proud to have felt that the Suffolk Resolves were held there. He heard from his mother [Elizabeth, daughter of Daniel and Rachel Vose] all the stories of the Revolution.... He always brought me up with the idea that the house which was called the Suffolk Resolves House was the Suffolk Resolves House. He was thirty-nine years old when his mother died, and it seems very strange to me that he should not know, and there would have been no object in his concealing it."