John Wade House is a historic house at 253 High Street in Medford, Massachusetts

Medford, Massachusetts

Medford is a city in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, in the United States, on the Mystic River, five miles northwest of downtown Boston. In the 2010 U.S. Census, Medford's population was 56,173...

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It was built in 1784 and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1975.

Historic clipper ship

The medium clipper ship

Clipper

A clipper was a very fast sailing ship of the 19th century that had three or more masts and a square rig. They were generally narrow for their length, could carry limited bulk freight, small by later 19th century standards, and had a large total sail area...

 John Wade, 678 tons, was built in Medford by Hayden & Cudworth in 1851, and owned by Reed & Wade. It was sold in 1854 to J.J. Dixwell, Augustine Heard Line

Augustine Heard and Company

Augustine Heard and Company was a major nineteenth century American trading firm in China whose operations consisted in importing and exporting a large array of goods, including tea and opium.- History and leadership:...

, for service in the China trade. John Wades time from Boston to San Francisco was 131 days in 1851-1852, 119 days in 1853; from New York to San Francisco, 117 days in 1852-1853. While enroute from Bangkok to Hong Kong, she struck a rock in the Gulf of Siam at 10 degrees 40 min. N, 104 degrees 48 min. E. The ship was abandoned, March 29, 1859.