Hi Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2010 with funding from Boston Library Consortium Member Libraries http://www.archive.org/details/secondreportofre1881bost SECOND REPORT Kecord Commissioners CITY OF BOSTON; CONTAINING THE BOSTON RECORDS, 1634-1660, AND THE BOOK OF POSSESSIONS. SECOIVO E»ITIOJV. ROCKWELL AND CHURCHILL, CITY PRINTERS, No. 39 ARCH STREET. 188 1. . i. / 96 [Document 46 — 1881.] In Boaed of Aldermen, April 30, 1877. Ordered, That the Record Commissioners be authorized to publish a second report, to contain a transcript of the first volume of the Town Records and of the Book of Possessions, to be printed, bound, and distributed in the same manner as their first report, at an expense not exceeding one thousand dollars, to be charged to the appropriation for printing. Passed. Sent down for concurrence. May 3, came up concurred. Approved by the Mayor, May 7, 1877. A true copy. Attest : JOHN T. PRIEST, Asst. City Clerk. SECOND REPORT OF THE RECORD COMMISSIONERS. To His Honor the Mayor and the Gity Council of Boston : — It will be understood, from the terms of the preceding vote, that no detailed report is to be expected from the Record Commissioners at the present time. Acting under the instructions given them, they have endeavored to present faithful transcripts of the two earliest volumes of the records of the town of Boston, viz., of the first Book of Records proper, and of the Book of Possessions. The value of the first volume of Records consists not only in the information given as to the names and posses- sions of the first inhabitants, but also in its indications of the extent of the powers exercised by the town authorities. Inasmuch as the progress of town government on the New England plan is, and always will be, of great interest to the student of social science, it must be worth while to present iv City Document No. 46. to the public the full and exact statement of the proceedings of the greatest town in the colony. As to the Book of Possessions, it is sufficient to say that this must be the foundation of all titles to real estate within the old town limits, and that, therefore, it was, on many accounts, most desirable that it should be made accessible and permanent by receiving the honors of print. The records of the town of Boston, now in the custody of the City Clerk, may be described as follows : — Ten volumes, of which the first is here printed, contain- ing the acts of the town from 1634 to 1822. The first volume (1634-1660) contains also the acts of the Selectmen; the second volume (1660-1728) contains the acts of the Selectmen from 1660 to 1701 ; and thenceforward it records only the proceedings of the town. In 1701 the system was established of recording the doings of the Selectmen sepa- rately, and twenty-three volumes contain their records until 1822. There are a few miscellaneous volumes, as the Book of Possessions, etc. In two large volumes, also, have been bound up the miscellaneous papers in the custody of the City Clerk, covering the periods of 1634-1715, 1717-1734. After this date the papers are still arranged in files and bundles. Recently the Record Commissioners have reported to His Honor the Mayor the necessity of taking some measures to assort and preserve the records of the old courts of the County of Suffolk prior to the Revolution. In spite of the neglect which these files have suffered for many years it is highly probable that they contain documents of prime im- portance to the history of our town. It may be proper to mention that very little has yet been done towards publishing the history of Boston. The mag- nitude of the task has probably prevented its accomplish- ment ; and the deplorable deficiencies in the records, which it is the task of the Commissioners to repair, may also have discouraged enthusiasts. A brief sketch of the principal contributions to our local history may be of some service. In the third volume of the Collections of the Massachu- setts Historical Society, for 1794, there was printed (pp. 241-304) "A Topographical and Historical Description of Boston, 1794," by Thomas Pemberton. Not much can be expected of a work of sixty pages on so large a subject. Second Report of Eecord Commissioners. v Next we find the following book : — " A Topographical and Historical Description of Boston, from the first settlement of the Town to the present period ; with some account of its Environs. By Charles Shaw, Esq., Member of the American Antiquarian Society Boston: printed and published by Oliver Spear. 1817." [12mo, pp. 311. Woodcuts. S. Dearborn, del., A. Bowen, Sc. New State House, Faneuil Hall, Christ Church, Old State House, Julien's, Milk St., Triangular Warehouse, Town Dock, Fac-simile of First*entry in Town records.] This work is based upon Pemberton's Description, with the addition of some material taken from the earlier writers. A few extracts from the Town records are given, but not enough to make the book a distinct authority. The most valuable portion is the additions to Pemberton's sketches, showing the changes between 1796 and 1817. Next we may notice the following : — , "A History of Boston, the metropolis of Massachusetts, from its origin to the present period ; with some Account of the Environs. By Caleb H. Snow, M.D. Embellished with engravings. Boston : published by Abel Bowen, No. 2 Congress-Square, Congress-street. Printed by Munroe and Francis, 128 Washington-street, 1825." 8vo, pp. 400. [It contains 29 engravings and wood-cuts, of which a list is given. Pp. 395-400 were occupied with the Index; but soon after an Appendix was published, being pp. 393-4 re- printed, and continued as pp. 395-424.] In 1828 a second edition was published ; but apparently it consisted only of the sheets of the first edition and the Appendix, with a new Index (pp. 425-427) and new title- page. It seems that Abel Bowen was the proprietor of the book, and that he issued proposals for a subsequent edition, but never carried his idea into execution. In 1829 Bowen published his "Picture of Boston" (2d edition, 1833; 3d edition, 1838), the parent of numerous guide-books. The next book claiming our attention bears the following title : — "A Municipal History of the Town and City of Boston, during two centuries. From September 17, 1630, to Sep- tember 17, 1830. By Josiah Quincy. Boston: Charles CL Little and James Brown. 1852." 8vo, pp. 444. vi City Document No. 46. This is substantially the history of Boston, under its char- ter as a city, from 1822 to 1830. The illustrations are, a view of the Quincy Market, and a plan of the same, showing the streets and estates taken, altered, and laid out in conse- quence of that construction. In 1852 the late Samuel G. Drake commenced the publi- cation, in parts, of the History of Boston, and in 1856 issued the volume, with the following title : — • " The History and Antiquities of Boston, the Capital of Massachusetts and Metropolis of New England, from its Settlement in 1630, to the year 1770. Also an Introductory History of the Discovery and Settlement of New England, with notes, critical and illustrative. By Samuel Gr. Drake, A.M., &c, &c. Boston: published by Luther Stevens, 186 Washington street. 1856." 8vo, pp. 840. It will be no disparagement to this very useful work to say that it was planned on too large a scale for success. The author received a very flattering request from the City Government to continue its publication, but was compelled by the infirmities of age to decline. In 1871 the City Government gave official sanction to the following-named work of Mayor Shurtleff : — " A Topographical and Historical Description of Boston. By Nathaniel B. Shurtleff. Boston : printed by request of the City Council, 1871." 8vo, pp. 720. This was in no sense a history of the town, but rather a collection of essays relating to various historical topics. Dr. Shurtleff 's familiarity with certain topics, as those of the early descriptions of the town, the maps, the graveyards, etc., etc., renders this book one of great interest and value. Lastly, we may note Hales' "Survey of Boston," 1821, pp. 156, and Samuel Adams Drake's " Old Landmarks and Historic Personages of Boston," 1873, pp. 484, as formal contributions to our local history. Of course, there have been many minor publications devoted to limited subjects, notably histories of the various religious societies, and many public documents issued by order of the City Govern- ment. Second Eeport of Eecord Commissioners. vii It will be seen, however, that Boston still remains without a complete history in print, and that, therefore, the publica- tion of any portion of its records is not unnecessary. It is also to be remembered that Boston now comprises at least three other ancient towns, each with records and a his- tory of its own. These may well demand in the future a proper amount of attention, and require proportionate publi- cation. It is hoped that the City Government will authorize the Eecord Commissioners to continue the work of publishing the records ; of course not in full, but by means of such judicious selections as will afford valuable information about our predecessors. Owing to the nature of the work, the duty of editing the First Book of Eecords, and of transcribing the Book of Possessions has devolved exclusively upon the senior Com- missioner. Kespectfully submitted, WILLIAM H. WHITMORE, WILLIAM S. APPLETON, Record Commissioners. PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION. The first edition of this report being out of print, the City Council has ordered the Commission«rs to reprint and stereo- type the volume. Advantage has been taken of this action to cause a careful revision of the whole book to be made. No important errors were discovered, but quite a number of trifling corrections have been made. As the two portions of the book were disconnected, it has seemed best to issue them as separate parts, so that those persons who wished only the Book of Possessions could have it complete. The seventh report, now nearly finished, will contain the Boston records from A.D. 1660 to 1700. In addition to the list of histories of Boston may now be cited "The Memorial History of Boston, including Suffolk County, Massachusetts, 1630-1880. Edited by Justin Winsor, librarian of Harvard University. In four volumes. viti City Document No. 46. Issued under the business superintendence of the projector, Clarence F. Jewett, Boston. James E. Osgood & Co. , 1880." Vol. 1, pp. 596, and vol. 2, pp. 577, have already been issued, and this completed work will be a grand contribution to local history. It is not a continuous history, but a collec- tion of essays by various authors, presumed to be specially familiar with the topics discussed. William H. Whitmoke, William S. Appleton, Record Commissioners. Boston, September 1, 1881. BOSTON TOWN RECORDS. Note. — It is intended that the following pages shall be an exact transcript of the original record, with the exception that abbreviations peculiar to written documents are herein printed in full. That is, the form "y e " for "the" "y"' for "that" "w th " for "with" "&" for "and," are confessedly not the forms used in printed documents of the date of these records. Hence, although it is intended to preserve all peculiarities of spelling, a retention of these contracted forms of writing would only unnecessarily add to the difficulty of using this transcript. The pagination of the original volume is inserted in our text in brackets. Every portion of the original is copied, except those mar- ginal notes which are simply indicative of the full record in the text. No use can be found for such notes which would in any degree compensate for the additional cost of printing. This edition is printed from a copy made by W. B. Trask, Esq., and has been compared with a copy made in 1855 by Mr. Morse for the City Government, as well as with the original record. W. H. W. [1..] 1634. Moneth 7th, daye 1. Jo. Winthrop, fm. Codding- ton, Capt. Underbill, Tho. Oliuer, Tho. Leuerett, Giles Firmin, Jo. Coggeshall, Win. Peirce, Root. Hardinge, ¥m. Brenton. Whereas it hath been founde that muche damage hath allreadye happened by laying of stones and logges near the bridge and land- inge place, whereby diverse boats have been much bruised, for preventing of such harmes for tyme to come, it is ordered that whosoever shall unlade any stones, timber or logges where the same may not be plainly seen at highe water, shall sett up a pole or beacon to give notice thereof upon paine that whosoever shall faile so to doe, shall make full recompense for all such damage as shall happen to any boats or other vessels by occasion of such stones, tymber or logges, the same to be recovered by wa3'e of Action at the Court ; and this order to be in force from this daye forward being only a declaration of the Common Lawe therein. It is also ordered that no person shall leave any fish or garbage neere the said Bridge or common landing place betweene the 2 Creekes whereby any anoyance may come to the people that pass 2 City Document No. 46. that wa}', upon paine to forfeit for every such offence five shillings, the same to be levyed by distresse of the goods of the offender ; and this order to be off force from the fourth daye of this month and so forward. And for the better execution of these orders the aforenamed Giles Firmin is appointed overseer of the said landing place, to give notice to such strangers and others as come hither with boats, and to take knowledge of all offences committed and to levye the penalty es which shalbe forfeited. And if after notice shalbe given by the said overseer to any people that shall have any tymber, logges or stones lye without such pole or beacon, he shall not take away the same or sett up such pole or beacon, the said offender shall (after making recompense to the party damnified if any dam- age happen) forfeit to the towne for every daye the same offence shall continue, five shillings, to be levyed by distresse as before. Moneth 8th, daye 6th. At a general meetinge upon public notice given the 5th da}-e of the last weeke, It was ordered and agreed as followeth: Imps. Rich. Bellingham, Esq., and J. Cogan, merchant, were chosen in the place of Giles Firmin, deceased, and Rbt. Harding, now in Virginia, to make up the 10 to manage the affaires of the towne. Item: Jo. Coggeshall, Wm. Colburne, Samuel Cole, ¥m. Bren- ton, Tho. Grubb, together with Wm. Cheeseborrowe, the constable, are deputed to make a rate for the levyinge of 401b assessed upon the towne as the first payment of a greater sume by order of the last General Court. Jo. Coogan, Tho. Matson and Ni. Willis are chosen to serve as jurors at the next Court of Assistants. The 10th day of the 9th moneth, Novemb. 1634. At a generall meeting upon public notice given the day before, it was ordered and agreed upon, viz., Imprymis that Hogg Iland shalbe letted out unto the inhabitants and freemen of this towne according to the number of names in every family by John Coxall, William Brenton and John Sannford, and that none shall further fell any wood there untill the same bee lotted out. Item : that Edmund Quinsey, Samuell Wilbore, William Boston, Edward Hutchinson the elder, and Will. Cheesebrough, the con- stable, shall make and assess all these rates, vizt., a rate of 301b to M r . Blackston, a rate for the cowes keeping, a rate for the goates keeping and other charges in rambe goats about them and for losse in common [line illegible, but in the duplicate made in 1855 it is said to be — " and to make a rate for the young cattle and cows- keeper at Muddy River."] [2.] 10th moneth, day 8th. At a general meeting upon public notice. Imprimis, it was ordered that M r . Willson the Pastor (in lieu of his land granted him at the north river by mestick which he should passe over to the towne of Boston) should have so much land at mount wooleston at his election, and after so much as shalbe his portion of other lands belonging to the towne to be layd him out Boston Town Becoeds, 1634. 3 so neere his other lands at mount woolaston as may be for his must conveniency. 18th of the same moneth. Att a generall meeting upon publique notice. Imprimis, it is agree! that M r . Winthrop. M r . Coddington, M r . Bellingham, M r . Cotton, M r . Ollyver, M r . Colborn and Willm Bal- stone shall have power to devide and dispose of all such lands belonging to the towne (as are not yet in the lawfull possesion of any particular persons) to the inhabitants of the towne according to the Orders of the Court, leaving such portions in Common for the use of newe Commers, and the further benifitt of the towne, as in theire discretions they shall thinke fitt ; the Hands hyred by the towne to be also included in this Order. 9th of the 12th moneth, 1634. Att a generall meeting upon publique notice. Imp^miis, it is agreed by generall consent that all the inhabitants shall plant eyther upon such ground as is alreadie broken up or inclosed in the neck or else upon the ground at Noddles Island from M r . Maverickes graunt, and. that everjr able man fitt to plant shall have allowed him twoe acres to plant on ; and for every able youth one acre to be allotted out by M r . Hutchinson, M r . Cogan, M r . Sampford and "William Cheesbrough and M r . Brenton, or any three of them. Item : That every man shall make his fences sufficient for all his planting ground on the necke upon paine that if any losse doe come for defect therein, that damage shall be satisfy ed by such upon whose fence the breach shalbe, unless it doe come by unruly cattell, and that then such as are owners of them shaU, after warn- ing given unto them, satisfie for all after damages by their said unruly cattell. All the fenses to bee made sufficient before the 7th day of the second month, and they to bee looked unto by our brother Grubb and brother Hudson for the new feild, our brother Pennyman and brother Colborne for the feild by him, our brother Penn and brother Belcher for the fort feild. [In margin] upon payne of 4s. for every [offence], brother Everill and brother Matson for mylne feild and M r . Wilkes. The 23d of the last moneth, 1634. Att a generall meeting upon publique notice. Imprymis, it is agreed by generall consent that all barren cattell whatsoever (except such as are constantly imployed in draughte) and weaned caulves 20 Weekes ould and Weaned mayle kiclds shalbe kept abroad from off the necke upon penaltie for every one unput away within a weeke after warning iis. rid. for every weeke not put away ; and our brethren, John Samford, William Cheesbrough and William Boston to take care for the observing of this order. Item : That there shalbe a little house built, and a sufficiently payled yard to lodge the Cattell in of nights att Pullen poynt necke before the 14th day of the next second moneth. Item : That noe swine above 12 weeke ould shalbe suffered to goe att libertie on the necke, but kept up in 3>ards, upon penaltie for 4 City Document No. 46. ever} T swine otherwise suffered, xiicL for every day soe taken, and this order also to bee looked unto by the aforesaid brethren, and they to looke out and appoint keepers for them, and to see them payd for their soe keeping the swine to bee put from of the necke before the first of the next month, or else to keepe them up in their yards under the penaltie afforesaid. The 23d of the 1st moneth, 1635. Att a generall meetinge upon publique warning. Imprymis : It is agreed, by generall consent, that the overseers of the fenses of the severall feilds shall see to the makeing of such styles and gates as may bee needfull for every feild, and brother Wilebore to see to the gate and style next unto Roxburie, all of them to bee done before the affores'd 7th day of the 2d moneth, the styles and gates for Comon high wayes to be made out of publique charge, forth of the Cunstables hand, and the pryvate styles and gates to bee made at the charge upon the lands in every feild proportionablie for every \_acre?~\ ; upon payne for every the feilde not soe done by the 1 day of the 3d moneth, 20s. to be forfeyted by the overseers thereof. Item: That whereas the wood upon the neck of land towards Roxburie hath this last winter beene disorderly cutt up and wasted, whereby many of the poore Inhabitants are disappointed of reliefe they might have had there in after and needfull tymes, now it is generally agreed that M r . Treasurer, M r . Bellingham, and M r . William Hutchinson, with the three Deacons, shall consider whoe have beene faultie herein, and sett downe what restitution of Wood unto the poore, such shall make according to theire severall propor- tions allotted by the maior part of them six. Item : That whosoever at any publique meeting shall fall into pryvate conference, to the hindering of the publique businesses, shall forfeit for every such offence 12cL, to be paid into the Cun- stables hand for publique use. [3.] Att the same Generall meeting on the said 23d day of the 1 moneth, 1635. Item : It is generally agreed that noe Wood shalbe felled at any of the Islands, nor elsewhere, untill they bee lotted out, but att MiKkby Ryver, Dorchester necke, or Noddles Island. Item : That all the wood, as yet left upon the necke of land towards Roxburie, shall hee gathered up, and layd or heaped in P3'les from ftyling of the ground, before the 7th of the next 2d moneth, upon the forfeyture of 6s.- for ever}" load left undressed up for eveiy Weeke afterwarde, to bee payd, by those that felled the trees, into the Cunstables hands for publique use. The 13th of the 2d moneth, 1635. Att a Generall meeting upon publique notice. Imprymis : It is agreed, by generall consent, that our Pastor, M r . John Wilson, shall have libertie to improve what ground may bee for him att Mount Woollystone, with free reserving unto him his graunt at Misticke, until his cominge home, for further agreement with the Inhabitants. Boston Town Records, 1635. 5 Item : That all the diye cattle that are put unto our brother William Cheesbrough, for keeping att Pullen poynt necke, untill the 1st of the 9th moneth, shalbe at the rate of 5s. a head unto him. Likewise it was then generally agreed upon, that our brother Philemon Pormont, shalbe intreated to beeome scholemaster, for the teaching and nourtering of children with us. Also, that our brother, Richard Fairbanke, shalbe intreated to take the Cowes to keeping that are upon the neck ; and in case he cannot then our brother, Thomas Wardall, to be intreated there- unto. The 8th of the 6th moneth, 1635. Nicholys Willys was Chosen a Cunstable for this following yeare , and hath taken his oath accordingly. 'The 30th of the 9th moneth (called November), 1635. Att a generall meeting upon publique notice. Imprymis : It is agreed that noe further allotments shalbe graunted unto any new comers, but such as may be likely to be received members of the Congregation. Item : That none shall sell their houses or allotments to any new comers, but with the consent and allowance of those that are appointed Allotters. Item : That all such as have allotments for habitations allotted unto them shall build thereon before the first of the first month next called March, or else it shall be in the power of the allotters to dispose of them otherwise. Item : That M r . William Hutchinson, M r . William Colborne and M r . William Brenton shall sett pryces upon all cattell comodities, victualls and labourers and Workmen's Wages and that noe other prises or rates shalbe given or taken. Item : That none of the members of this congregation or inhabi- tants among us shall sue one another at the lawe before that M r . Henry Vane and the twoe Elders M r . Thomas Ollyver, and Thomas Leveritt have had the hearing and desyding of the cause if they cann. The 4th of 10th moneth, 1635. Att a G-enerall meeting upon publique notice. Imprymis : It is agreed that noe manner of Cattell, neyther cowes, gelt beast, horse, swine or goates shalbe kept or suffered to goe at libertie on the inward necke from the middle of the second [month] called Aprill untill the latter end of Harvest. Item : That M r . William Brenton and M r . John Sampford [shall appoint] where and what manner of fence shalbe made betweene the [planting grounds ;] and also to appoint every man that shall have any new all[otment of planting] ground upon the necke, how much of the said fence [he shall make and to view and] allow of the sufficiency thereof, or else they are not [to plant their allot- ments.] Item : That in regard of the unequall disposing of the [planting 6 City Document No. 46. ground all iotteheretof] d re it is now agreed by genrall consent [that none of the inhabitants shall] be accounted to have any [estate of inheritance on the planting ground] upon the necke, save onely in theire house plotte, gardens [and yards, untill] the towne shall take [order for a more equal disposing thereof amongst them].* [4.] Item : Whereas the greatest part of the ground at Mount Woollistone intended to have beene given from the Inhabitants to our Pastor, M r . John Wilson, in leiwe or exchange for his farme at Misticke, have prooved to belong unto the Indyans and others, whose interest therein he hath beene forced to purchase. The Inhabitants doe therefore relinquish all claime unto his said land at Misticke, and doe further confirme unto him his interest in his said land att Mount Wollistone, with further allowance to have by way of purchase from the Indyans and others or other- wise, soe much of the upland ground within or about his said grounds there as may make him up a Convenient farme there. The 14th of the 10th moneth, 1635. Att a generall meeting uppon publique notice. Imprymis : It is agreed, by generall consent that M r . William Coleborne, M r . Willliam Asp3*nwall, M r . John Samp ford, William Balstone and Richard Wright, shall, in the behalf e of the towne, goe and take viewe at Mount Woollistone, and bound out there what may bee sufficient for M r . William Coddington and Edmund Quinsey to have for their particular farmes there, and accordingly as they five or foure of them shall agree upon to stand, and the same to be entered in this booke. Item : It is agreed that the said five men, or foure of them, shall lay out at Muddy Ryver a sufficient allotment for a farme for our Teacher, M r . John Cotton. Item : It is agreed that M r . William Colborne shall have his proportion of ground for a farme unto him laid outt at Muddy River, neare unto and about his house which he hath there built, by the other foure before mentioned, viz., William Asp3mwall, John Samp- ford, William Balstone and Richard Wright, or three of them. Item: That the two Elders, M r . Thomas Ollyver and Thomas Leveritt, shall have their proportion of allotments for theire farming layd out at Muddy River, by the before named five persons, viz., William Colborne, William Aspynwall, John Sampford, William Balstone and Richard Wright, or foure of them. Item : That the poorer sort of the Inhabitants such as are mem- bers or likely so to be, and have noe Cattell, shall have their pro- portion of allotments for planting ground, and other assigned unto them by the All otters, and layd out at Muddy River by the afore- named five persons, or foure of them ; those that fall betweene the foote of the hill and the Water to have but 4 acres upon a head, and those that are farther of to have five acres for every head, the plott to begin next Muddy Ryver side. [ *A part of the leaf is lost now, but the blanks are filled from the copy made in 1855.] Boston Town Kecords, lti35. 7 Item: That M r . William Hutchinson, M r . Edmund Quinsey, M r . Samuell Wilbore, M r . "William Cheesborowe and John Ollyver, or foure of them, shall, b}^ the assignments of the Allotters, lay out their proportion of allottments for farmes att Rumley Marsh, whoe there are to have the same. [5.] The 4th of the 11th moneth, called January, 1635. Att a generall meeting upon publique notice. Imprymis : It is agreed by generall consent that M r . Atherton Haulgh shall have sis hundred acres laj-d him out beyond Mount Woolly stone, betweene Moriottycott Ryver and the bounds that part our bounds from Wamoth ; and if there be not convenient meadowe there for his said farrne then he is to bee accomodated with meete meadowe for it in the little meaddow at the upper end of the fresh brooke called the stande, and to bee layd out by the former fyve mentioned persons, namely William Colborne, William Aspinall, John Sampford, William Balstone and Richard Wright, or foure of them. Item : It is agreed that hereafter from this day none shall fell any Wood or timber at Muddy Ryver, or any other place of private allottments, but upon their owne allottments. Item : That all such as have felled any trees in any the ap- pointed place for private allotments, shall eyther cart away the same within this six monthes, or else the owners of the ground shall have it. Item : It is agreed that every one shall have a sufficient way unto his allotment of ground, wherever it be, and that the Inhabitants of the towne shall have libertie to appoint men for the setting of them out, as need shall require, and the same course to be taken for all comon high ways, both for the towne and countrie. Item : It is agreed* that all the alottments att Mount Woollyston shalbe set out by M r . Coddington, William Colbourne, William Aspinall, Edmund Quinsey, and Richard Wright, or some foure of them ; and that every allotment shall have a convenient proportion of meaddowe therefore, according to their number of cattell that have the same. Item: That M r . William Hutchinson shall have a sufficient farme layd him out att Mount Woolly stone beyond M r . Codcling- ton's farme, and M r . Wilson's into the countrie adioyning to Dor- chester bounds by the afforesaid five persons, or foure of them, and at their discretions. The 23d of the 11th moneth, 1635. Att a generall meeting upon publique notice. Imprymis at this meeting, Thomas Marshall is, by generall con- sent, choosen for the keeping of a ferry from the mylne point unto Charltowne, an to Wynnyseemitt, and to take for his ferrying unto Charltowne, as the ferryman there hath, and unto Wynny- * [The following words are stricken out : " that Ollyver Mellows, William Balston,, Thomas E , Jacob Ellyot, James Everill, James Pennyman, John (Butter ?), Wil- liam Chesborowe, Richard Trucsdale, Edward Hutchinson, and Richard Wright shall, have."] 8 City Document No. 46. semitt for a single person, Qd. ; for two, 6d. ; and for every one above the number of two, 2d. a peece. Item : That such of the poorer Inhabitants, whose allotments were other where, should have libertie for 3 yeare to plant at Mudd}^ Ryver, where the rest doe plant, upon such part of their Allotments as themselves are not able for the present to plant : the}', in regard thereof, making their part of the fence, and leaving such fence as they doe make in due reparation, and not taking away an}'' of the Wood or timber upon those allottments. [6.] Item : It was likewise agreed that for the ray sing of a new Worke of fortification upon the Forthill, about that which is there alreddy begune, the whole towne would bestowe fourteene dayes worke, by equall proportion, and for this end M r . Deputie, M r . Henry Vane, M r . John Winthrop, Senr., M r . William Coddington, M r . John Winthrop, Junr., Captaine John Underhill, and M r . Wil- liam Brenton were authorised as Commissioners ; that they, or the greater part of them, should sett downe how many dayes worke would be equall for each man to doe, and what money such should contribute beside their worke as were of greater abilities, and had fewer servants, that there with provision of tooles and other necessaryes might bee made, and some recompence given to such of the poorer sort as should be found to bee overburdened with their foureteene dayes worke ; and M r . John Cogan is Chosen treasurer, and M r . William D}^er, clarke, for the furtherance of this worke. The Worke also is to be gon in hand with soe soone as Weather will permitt in regard that the Ingineere, M r . Lyon Garner, who doth soe freely offer his help thereunto hath but- a short time of stay. Money lent to this worke : By the Deputy, £5 ; by M r . Vane, £5 ; by M r . Winthrop, £5 ; M r . Coddington, £5 ; M r . Winthrop, Junr,, i5 ; M r . Kayne, £5 ; M r . Hutchinson, £5 ; M r . Cogan, £5 ; M r . Ollyver, and Tho. Leveritt, £5 ; M r . Cogeshall, and M r . Harding, £5. The 19th of the 12th moneth, called February, 1635. At a generall meeting upon publique notice. Impiymis : M r . William Hutchinson, M r . William Colborne and M r . William Brenton are chosen to serve for Comittyes ; M r . John Cogan and M r . William Aspinell to serve on the grand Jury, and Eichard Fairebancke, Wm. Hudson and James Pennj^man to serve of the pettie Jury. The 27th of the last moneth, called February, 1635. Att a meeting upon pryvate Warning it was agreed that there shalbe a Watch taken up and gone arround with from the 1 of 2d month next, for the summertime, from sunne sett an houre after the beating of the drumbe, upon penal tie for every one wanting therein 12 d. for every night. The 14 of the 1 moneth, called March, 1636 Att a generall meeting upon private warning. At this meeting it was agreed that M r . Thomas Oliver, Thomas Boston Town Eecords, 1636. 9 Leveritt, M r . William Hutchinson, William Colborne, John Gog- geshall, John Sampford, Richard Tuttell, William Aspenall, William Brenton, William Balston, Jacob Ellyott and James Penne shall from this day oversee, looke unto and sett order for all the Allottments within us, and for all Comers in unto us, as also for all other the occasions and businesses of this Towne, excepting matters of Election for the Generall courte — and so from time to . time to bee agreed upon and ordered by them, or the greater parte of them, for these next six monethes. And, whereas, att a Generall meeting the 14th of the 10th moneth last it was ordered that M r . William Colborne, M r . William Aspinall, John Sampford, William Balstone, and Richard Wright should bound out M r . William Coddingtons and Edmund Quinseys farmes ati Mount Woollystone, and the same accordingly to bee entred in this booke ; now the said five persons have thus given in the bounds thereof, vizt., that M r . Wilson's lott shallbe the Northerly bound and the Sea on the east part, witb so much of the neck of land toward Nutt Hand unto the marked trees of the neck, and so to be compassed about on the south and west part as wee have marked it out by trees from place to place unto the dead swamp next M r . Wilson's, Excluding a parcell of marsh land in which there stands 3 homocks, with pyne trees upon the south side of the marsh neare the water. [7.] The 21st of the 1st moneth, 1636. At a meeting of Thomas Ollyver, Thomas Leveritt, William Hutchinson, William Coulborne, John Coggeshall, John Sampford, William Brenton, William Balston, and James Penne. Iniprymis : At this day upon our viewe these former graunted Al- lotments were not built upon according to a former order made the 30th of the 9th moneth last, and therefore that they are free to be otherwise disposed of, vizt., M r . Atherton Haulghes, Zackie Bos- worth, Richard Truesdayles, Richard Oakes, Nathaniell Wood- warde, Thomas Meakins the elder, and Thomas Meakins the younger, M r . Greene's, M 1 '. Mullyn's, Richard Walker's, John Palmer's, James Johnson's, Richard Brackett's, Thomas Blott's, Richard Tuttell's,. Barnabie Dorryfall's, Thomas Savage's, Bush- nail's, M r . Woodwarde, M r . Stanley's, Roberte Houlton's, Anthony Barker's, Grigges, the Carpenters, and Richard Wrighte. Item : At this meeting it is ordered that all the fences belong- ing to the Corne feilde shall bee made sufficient before the 14th day of the next second moneth upon payne of 5s. for every rodd defective, and they to bee overseene and looked unto thus, namely, the feild towards Rocksberry by Jacob Ellyott and Jonathan Negoose, the fort feild by James Penn and Richard Gridley, the mylne feild by John Button and Edward Bendall, and the new feild by John Audley and Thomas Fairewether. Item : it is agreed that the Cowes shall bee kept from the 1st of the 3d moneth next unto the last of the eight moneth. Item : It is ordered that none of the Inhabitants amongst us that have any milch cow shall keepe any goate upon the necke, nor that they that have onely goats shall keepe any but their milch 10 City Document No. 46. goats upon the necke, nor to keepe above fyve of them for any- one houshold, and all the rest to be sent away by the 1 of the 3d moneth next. Item : That all gelt beast but those that are in present use for draughts, shall bee put of from of the necke before the said 1st day of the third moneth. Item : That noe Inhabitant amongst us shall keepe above twoe milche cowes on the necke ; and those that are more, to bee had a way before the said 1st day of the 3 moneth. Item : That all hoggs shall bee putt of the necke or kept up from goeing abroad before the 2d day of the 2d moneth next, upon payne of the forfeyture of them to bee seized upon by John Sampford and William Balstone, halfe to the owner, and one quarter to the takers, and the other quarter for publique uses. The 9th of the 3d moneth, called May, 1636. • Att a meeting on the day by Thomas Olyvar, Thomas Leveritt, William Hutchinson, William Coulborne, John Coggeshall, William Aspinall, William Brenton, William Balstone, James Penne. It was ordered that noe Townsmen shall entertaine any stran- gers into theire houses for above 14 daj^es, without leave from those that are appointed to-order the townes businesses. Item : It is ordered that William Aspinnall, William Brenton, William Balston, John Sampford, and James Penne, or some foure of them shall lay out our Pastor M r . John Wilsons bounds and M r . William Hutchinsons att Mount Woolly stone. Item : It is ordered that none shall keepe any victualling houses for the selling of wine, beare, cakes or any other kinde of victualls within this towne, but onely such as are allowed thereunto as Inkeepers. [8.] The 13th of the 3d moneth, May, 1636. Att a generall meetinge upon publique notice. Att this Assembly M r . William Hutchinson, M r . John Cogge- shall and M 1 . William Brenton are chosen for Deputyes or Com- mittees for the service of this next generall Court. The 6th of the 4th moneth, June, 1636. Att a meeting this day before Thomas Olyver, Thomas Leveritt, Willyam Hutchinson, Willyam Coulborne, John Coggeshall, William Aspenall, Richard Tuttell, John Sampford and James Penne, It was agreed that there shalbe a sufficient foote way made from William Colbornes feilde end unto Samuell Wjdebores feilde end next Roxburie, by the Surveyors of the high way es before the last of the next 5th month. Item : Wee finde that Richard Fairebanke hath sold unto twoe straingers the twoe houses in Sudbury end that were William Balstones, contrary to a former order, and therefore the sayle to bee voyd, and the said Richard Fairbancke to forfeite for his breaking thereof, xls. Item : Wee finde that Isaacke Cullymore Carpenter hath sould Boston Town Eecokds, 1636. 11 his house unto a strainger, contrary to the same order, and. therefore the sayle thereof to bee voyd, and the said Isaacke Cully- more to forfeite for his breaking thereof, xls. The 20th of the 4th moneth, 1636. Att a meeting this day before Thomas Olyver, Thomas Leveritt, William Hutchinson, William Coulborne, John Coggeshall, William Aspenall, William Brenton, John Sampford, William Balston and James Penne, it was agreed that M r . Owyn Roe, of London, having a house and townes lott amongst us and certaine cattell, shall have layd out for him 200 acres of ground att Mount Woollystone for the present releife of his cattell, and for him to inioy whenas he shalbecome an Inhabitant amongst us, and not otherwise to bee sett out by William Aspenall, William Brenton, William Balston, John Sampford and James Penne, or some foure of them. The 15th of the 6th moneth, 1636. Att a meeting this day before Thomas Olyvar, Thomas Leveritt, William Hutchinson, William Coulborne, John Coggeshall, John Sampford, Richard Tuttell, William Balstone and James Penne, It was ordered that John Sampford and William Hudson shalbe Water baylies to see that noe annojdng things eyther by fish, Wood or stone or other such like things, be left or layd about the sea shore, upon the forfeyture sett downe in former orders made the 1st of the 7th moneth, 1634. [9.] The 22d of the 6th moneth, August 1636. Att a generall meeting upon this day. Att this Assembly M r . Willyam Hutchinson, M r . John Cogge- shall and M r . William Brenton are chosen for Deputyes or Comittyes for the service of the next generall Court. Att this Assembly M r . John Newgate is chosen for one of the Constables within this towne for one whole yeare, and hath taken his oath accordingly. The 16 of the 7th moneth, September, 1636. Att a generall meeting upon this day. Att this Assembly M r . Thomas Olyvar, Thomas Leveritt, M r . William Hutchinson, M 1 '. Robte Keayne, M r . John Newgate, M r . William Coulborne, M r . John Coggeshall, M r . John Sampford, M r . William Brenton and M r . William Balstone are, with generall con- sent, chosen for these next sixe monthes to oversee and sett order for all allottments belonging to this towne, and for all other occa- sions and businesses of the same (excepting matters of Election for the Generall Corte) from time to time, to bee agreed upon and ordered by them or the greater part of them. Item : At this Assembly it was agreed upon by common vote and by lifting up of hands that the 565 acrs as the.y are described in a mapp and which were formerly purchased at Mount Woollystone by our Pastor, M r . John Wilson, with the consent of this towne, partly of M r . Pincheon, partly of M r . Woolcott, partly of M r . Smyth (or at least his Tytle utterly silenced) and partly of the Indyans 12 City Document No. 46. should bee, and is the Allotment of the said John Wilson there, together with the lands there in Controversie betwixt Dorchester and Boston, if the Court adiudge them to Boston. The 26th of the 7th moneth, 1636. Att a meeting this day before Thomas Olyver, Thomas Leveritt, William Hutchinson, Robte Keayne, John Newgate, William Coul- borne. John Coggesball, John Sampford and William Balstone, it was founde that William Hudson hath sould an housplott and garden unto one William Mawer, a strainger, without the consent of the appointed AUotters, contrarie to a former order, xx s. Also that William Aspewall hath sould a housplott and a garden unto one M r . Tinge, contrarie to the same order 2 lb. Item : That in like sort M r . Samuell Cole hath sold an Allotment unto one M r . Greenefield, and is to forfett for the breaking of the order hi lb. The 4th of the 8th moneth, October, 1636. Att a meeting this day before Thomas Olyvar, Thomas Leveritt, William Hutchinson, Robte Keayne, John Newgate, John Cogges- hall William Brenton and William Balston, it was agreed and ordered that from this day there shall noe house at all be built in this towne neere unto any of the streets or laynes therein, but with the advise and consent of the overseers of the townes occasions for the avoyding of disorderly building to the inconvenience of streets and laynes, and for the more comely and Commodious ordering of them upon the forfeyture for every house built Contrarie to this order, of such some as the ouerseers shall see fitting, under the sume of x lb. [lO.] The 17 of the 8th moneth, 1636. Att a meeting this day before Thomas Olyvar, Thomas Leveritt, William Hutchinson, Robert Keayne, John Newgate, William Coulborne, John Coggeshall, William Brenton and John Samp- ford, it was ordered by them that all the timber in the markett place shalbe taken away before the next meeting day, which is to be on the 1 day of the next moneth, upon the forfeyture of such timber as shalbe there then found, and that noe more timber shalbe thither brought upon the forfeyture thereof, and the markett place to be gotten cleane and cleare dressed by that time by William Brenton and John Sampford, upon theire forfej'ture of x s. in default thereof, and the sawe pitte gotten filled. Item : It is ordered that John Gallop shall remove his payles at his yarde ende within 14 dayes, and to rainge them even with the cor- ner of his house for the preserving of the way upon the Sea Bancke. Item : That William Wilkes, Isaack Cullimore, Henry Lynne, and M r . Greensnryth shall raynge theire payle upon each of their grounds streight from the corner of William Wilkes his house, or from the upper poast of his garding gap, and to preserve a path way, of a Rod breadth, betweene payle and payle, betweene this and the 1 of the next 2d moneth, and soc to goe all along unto John Pemberton's house in the same raynge. Boston Town Kecords, 1636. 13 Also that there shalbe a streete way betweene Henry Lynn and M r . Samuell Coles' ground, to runne up from the water syde to the next great crosse streete 1 Rod and halfe broad. Also another layne to goe up from the water side by John Gallop's, a pole breadth, unto the same crosse way. Also another layne to be left to goe from the water side up the balke or meare that goes up from the end of John Mylam's house, next William Aspenall's ground, and to goe along to the Mylne Cove a Rod and a halfe broade. Item : That the streete way from the gates next James Everill's towards ye mylne is to runne streight along in an even lyne to John Pemberton's house, and to raynge betweene Thomas Marshall's house and Sergyant Savage's house, and to be within the streete, betweene payle and payle, on eyther S} T de 2 pole bredth. Also that there shalbe a layne to goe from Cove to Cove, betweene Thomas Paynter and Thomas Marshall, 1 pole and a halfe betweene payle and payle in bredth. The 1st of the 9th moneth, 1636. Att a meeting this day before Thomas Olyvar, Thomas Leveritt, William Hutchinson, Robert Kea} T ne, William Coulborne, John Coggeshall, William Brenton, John Sampford, and William Bal- stone, it is ordered that all the feild fence shalbe made sufficient with duble rayle and payle before the first of the next second moneth, upon the forfeyture of those planting grounds that are not soe fenced, or else to pay for every rodd then undone, x s. The 15th of the same. Att a meeting this day before Thomas Olyvar, Thomas Leavitt, William Hutchinson, Robert Keayne, John Newgate, William Coulborne, John Coggeshall, John Samforcl, William Brenton, and William Balstone, William Hudson hath paycl into the hands of M r . Robert Keayne, v s. ; William Aspenall, xxv s. ; and Samuell Cole, xx s., for theire forfeyture upon their houses selling contrary to a former Order. Also at this meeting Richard Fairebanck is chosen for our Hog Reeve, according to order of Court. Also it was agreed that our Teacher, M r . John Cotton, shall have unto his lott, at Muddy Ryvar, all the ground lying betweene the twoe brooks next to William Colborne's allottment there, and soe to the other end unto the shortest overcut beyond the hill towards the north west. , [II.] The 28th of the 9th moneth, 1636. Att a meeting this day before Thomas Olyvar, Thomas Leveritt, William Hutchinson, Robert Keayne, John Newgate, William Coulborne, John Coggeshall, William Brenton, John Sampford, and William Balstone, it is ordered and agreed that Robte Harding shall remove the little house in his yard, and take it awa}^ from thence before the 1 of the next 3d moneth. Also it is agreed that the Inhabitants whoe doe want wood shall have liberty to gett for their use at Deare Island, soe as that 14 City Document No. 46. they presently take and carry e away what they doe gett, and what- soever they leave felled there to be at liberty for others to take away. The 3d day of the 10th moneth, 1686, December. Att a generall meeting upon publique notice, M r . John Cogge- shall, M r . William Coulborne, and M r . William Brenton are chosen for Deputyes or Comittees for the service of this next Generall Court. Also these 8 are chosen to Consider of Mount Wolistone busi- nesse, and for the ripening thereof how there may bee a Towne and Church there, with the consent of this Towne's Inhabitants, viz. : The Governor, the Deputy Governor, M r . Ollyvar, M r . Keayne, M r . Newgate, M r . Coulborne, M r . Coggeshall, and M r . Brenton. The 12th of the same 10th moneth. Att a meeting this day of Thomas Olyvar, Thomas Leveritt, Willyam Hutchinson, Robert Keayne, John Newgate, William Coulborne, John Coggeshall, William Brenton, John Sanford, and William Balstone, it is agreed that Edward Belchar, William Tal- mage, Thomas Snowe, and William Deninge, and John Arratt, the servants of William Brenton, shall have their great Allottments at Muddy Ryver, and also our brother Robert Hull and Thomas Wheelar. Also it is agreed that not above one dwelling house shalbe built upon any one lott without the consent of the Townes overseers. The 26th of the same 10th moneth. Att a meeting this day, of Thomas Olyvar, Thomas Leveritt, William Hutchinson, Robert Keayne, John Newgate, William Coulborne, John Coggeshall, William Brenton, John Sanford and William Balstone, it is agreed Thomas Mount shall have leave to fence in a peece of the marsh before his house, for the makeing of brick in, at the pleasure of the overseers of the towne, and at theire appointment to lay it open againe. The 9th of 11th moneth, called January, 1636. Att a meeting this day of Thomas Olyvar, Thomas Leveritt, William Hutchinson, Robert Keayne, John Newgate, William Coulborne, John Coggeshall, William Brenton, John Sanford and William Balstone, it is agreed, that the Captaine Underbill shall haye a great Allottment of 80 acrs of Upland, and 20 acrs of marsh ground in the most convenient place, after the laying out of the former graunted Allotments att Muddy Ryvar. Also, that our brother, John Ollyvar, shall have his greate Allotment of forty acrs att Pullen Poynt. And, Whereas, at a generall meeting the 4th of the 11th month, 1635, it was ordered that M r . William Coddington, M r . William Coulborne, William Aspinaull, Edmund Quinsey, and John San- ford, should lay out M r . William Hutchinson, a sufficient farme at Mount Woollystone, at their discretions ; now the said five persons have, at this day under their hands, thus given in the laying out Boston Town Kecords, 1636. 15 thereof, viz., they have assigned unto him six hundred acrs of ground, lying betwixt Dorchester bounds and Mount Woollistone ryver, from the back side of M r . Coddington's and M r . Wilson's farmes, up into the Country, and if there be not sufficient meddow ground within his lott to have such competent meddow assigned to him as we shall thinke fittinge. [13. ] The 9th of the 11th month, 1636. It was further agreed, that our brother, Isaac Grosse, shall have a great Allotment at Muddy River. And our brother, Hugh Gumvyson, at Mount Woollystone for 3 heads. Also, it was graunted to our brother, M r . William Brenton, that in leiwe of his allottment at Hogg Hand, he shall have twenty acrs more added unto his allottment at Pullen Poynte necke. And that our brother, M r . Edward Gibbon, shall have an Allott- ment of fourescore acrs at Pullen Pojmt, if it be there to be had. And that our brother, John Olyvar, shall have an allottment of fiftie acrs there, and that rayther in regard of his father's resign- ing his right at Hog Island to the Towne. The 23 of the same 11 moneth. Att an assembly this clay, of Thomas Olyvar, Thomas Leveritt, Willy am Hutchinson, Robert Keayne, John Newgate, Willy am Colbourne, John Goggeshall, John Samp ford and Wiiryam Brenton, it was agreed, that Bushnall, widdow, George Hardwood and John Lowe, the wheelwright, shall have house lotts and gardens upon the usuall Condition of inoffensive Carryage. The 7th of the 12th month, called February, 1636. Att a meeting this day, of Thomas Leveritt, William Hutchinson, Robert Keayne, John Newgate, John Coggeshall, John Sanford, Willyam Brenton and Willyam Balstone, it was agreed, that our brother, Thomas Alcock, shall have his great lott layd out at Muddy River. The 20th of the 12th moneth, called February, 1636. Att a meeting this day, of Thomas Olyvar, Thomas Leveritt, Willyam Hutchinson, Robert Keayne, John Newgate, Willyam Coulborne, John Coggeshall, John Sanford, Willyam Brenton and Willyam Balstone, it is agreed that our Brother, M r . John Wheele- wright, shall have an Allottment of twoe hundred and fiftie acrs layd out for him att Mount Woollystone, where may be most Con- venient, without preiudice to setting up of a towne there ; to be layd out by M r . Coddington and our brother Wright. Also that our brother, Willyam Wardall, Willyam Coale and Sampson Shelton, shall have, each of them, two acrs a peece layd them out at the Mount onely for their present planting, and to bee left b}" them att the discretion of the Allotters thereof allowing them such of their costs about them as then may be fitting. Also that Nicholys Needham shall have the like Allowed unto him there. 16 City Document No. 46. Also that our brother, Thomas Savage, shall have seaven acrs of the marsh ground att Muddy Ryver layd him out, for the keep- ing of his Cattle (being in number five) by our brother, William Coulborne and others. Also that Thomas Joyes shall have leave to buye a peece of ground of our brother Robert Turner, and to have it upon the usuall Condition of inoffensive Carry age. The 6th of the 1st moneth, called March, 1637. Att a meeting this day, of Thomas Olyvar, Thomas Leveritt, Willyam Hutchinson, John Newgate, Willyam Coulborne, John Goggeshall, William Brenton and William Balstone, it is agreed that Thomas Scottoe, the sonne of our sister Thomasine Scottoe, shall have leave to build an house on his mother's ground, ranching it in order with the Consent of the Townes Overseers. Also that our Brother Willyam Balstone, shall have the remayn- ing swampe on the backside of M r . Coddington's swampe unto the Widdow Purtons corner payle, leaving out twoe rodde and a halfe for e}' ther of the high ways that are against it, the one being the way to the mylne, and the other to the Cove next unto M r . Cod- dingtons. The 20th of the same moneth, 1637. Att a G-enerall Meeting upon Publique notice. Att this meeting M r . Thomas Olyvar, Thomas Leveritt, M r . Willyam Hutchinson, M r . Willyam Coulborne, M r . John Goggeshall, M r . Robert Harding, M r . John Sanford, M r . Willyam Brenton, M r . William Balstone, James Penne and Jacob Ellyot, are, with Generall Consent, Chosen for these next six monethes to oversee and sett order for the townes occasions as formerly hath beene. Also Thomas Grubbe and Jonathan Negoose are Chosen Sur- veyors for the high wayes towards Roxbury, and Thomas Marshall and John Button for the high wayes to the Milne for this next ye are. [13.] The 21st of the 1st moneth, called March, 1637. Att a meeting this day of Thomas Olyvar, Thomas Leveritt, Willyam Hutchinson, William Coulborne, John Goggeshall, Robert Harding, John Sanford, Willyam Balston, and James Penne, it was agreed that our brother James Pennyman shall have leave for this yeare to mowe that part of the marsh on the necke neare unto his garding which he hath wontedly mo wen. The 3d of the 2d moneth, called April, 1637. Att a meeting this day of Thomas Olyvar, Thomas Leveritt, Willyam Hutchinson, Willyam Coulborne, John Coggeshall, John Sanford, James Penne and Jacob Ellyott, It was agreed that our brother Alexander Winchester shall have a garding plott next unto our bretherenn William D} r neley and William Wilsons theire garden plotts upon like condition with them of building houses therein when they shall come to lye in a streete way. Whereas at a former meeting it was agreed that M r . Willyam Boston Town Records, 1637. 17 Coddington and our bothher Richard Wright should lay out our brother M r . John Wheelewright his Allotment of 250 acrs at Mount Woolly stone, now they have brought in the laying out there- of thus, vizt., 40 acrs thereof in the sunke marsh lying south and by east of the lands of the said Willyam Coddington, 5 acrs for his house lott and 205 acrs at the end of it running with one side of the first lott and the lyne of 20 acrs of the planting ground allotted to be extended into the countrie till his full proportion of 205 acrs between those two lynes be runned out. Also' it is agreed that Stephen Kinsley, labourer, shall have a house plott next unto our brother Alexander Winchester his garden plott. The 17th of the 2d moneth, 1637. Att a meeting this day of Thomas Leverett, William Hutchin- son, Willyam Coulborne, John Coggeshall, John Sanforcl, Willyam Brenton, James Penne and Jakob Ellyot, it is agreed that all the feild fences and gates shalbe made up and forthwith looked unto by Sergeant Hutchinson and Richard Gridley for the fort feild, by John Button, James Everill and Isaack Grosse for the mylne feild and new feild, and by Willyam Coulborne and Jacob Eltyott for the feild next Roxburie. Also, that Richard Sherman's wife shall have a house plott next unto Stephen Kinsley's house plott, or M r . Dairyell Maud's garding plott there. Also, that M r . Danyell Mawde, schoolemaster, shall have a gar- den plott next unto Stephen Kinsley's house-plott upon like Condition of building thereon if neede bee. The 29th of the same moneth. Att a meeting this day of Thomas Olyvar, Thomas Leveritt, Willyam Hutchinson, William Coulborne, John Coggeshall, John Sanford, Willyam Brenton, Willyam Balstone, James Penn, and Jacob Ellyot, it was granted that our brother Edmund Hutchinson shall have a garding plott layd out at the south end of M r . Robert Keayue's great garding. Also, it is ordered that the feild fences at Muddy Ryver shalbe made sufficient before the 7th day of the next third moneth by equall proportion of acrs upon the planters thereupon, in default of xij cl. for every acre then undone. The 13th of 3d moneth, called May, 1637. Att a meeting this day of Thomas Olyvar, Thomas Leveritt, Willyam Hutchinson, Willyam Coulborne, John Coggeshall, Robert Harding, John Sanford, Willyam Brenton, Willyam Balstone and James Penne, it is ordered that the fould keeper shall have for every trespassinge beast or horse that he fetcheth to ye fould iii cl. and for every trespassing Calfe, goat or hogg fetched unto the fould ii cl. ; and for every one brought unto the fould by an} r other, i cl. Item : It is agreed that whosoever else shall bring any trespass- ing Cattell to the fould they shall have for eveiy great beast and horse so brought, iii cl. and for every calf, goate and swine so. 18 City Document No. 46. brought, i cL, and that there shalbe paid for every fould breach, vs. or rescuing of any. Item : It is agreed that Richard Fairebancke shalbe the fold keeper for the residue of this our half yeare time. [14.] The 18th day of the 3d moneth, May,' 1637. Att a generall meeting upon publique notice, M r . Henry Vane, M r . Willy am Coddington, and M r . Atherton Haulgh, are chosen for the service of this Generall Corte as Deputyes or Comittees. The 19th of the same moneth. Att a generall meeting upon pryvate and particular Warning from house to house and by Reason of the. Courts refusall of the former Choyse, M r . Henry Vane, Esq., M r . Willyam Coddington and M r . Atherdon Haulgh are now againe Chosen deputyes or Comittees for the service of the present Generall Courte, and that upon Warrant to Us from the Courte for a new choyse. The 2d of the 4th moneth, June, 1637. Att a meeting this clay of Thomas Leveritt, William Hutchinson, William Coulborne, John Coggeshall, John Sanford, William Bre nton, William Balstone and James Penne, It is agreed that James Pennyman shall have the Hilsteade and the marsh ground under it as it shalbe measured and bounded out at Charles Ryver, He allow- ing out of his Allottment at Mount woollystone seaven acrs for five. Also, M r . Thomas Flint hath allotted unto him 24 acrs of the marsh ground at the mouth of Muddy River, and there to be layd out for him. Also, it is agreed that Richard Fairebancke shall have leave for this summer tyme to mow the marsh that is against his acr of plant- ing ground in the Newfeild, as he hath formerly mowne it. The 12th of the 4th moneth, June, 1637. Att a meeting this day of Thomas Olyvar, Thomas Leveritt, Willyam Hutchinson, Willyam Coulborne, John Coggeshall, Robte Harding, Willyam Brenton, Willyam Balstone, James Penne and Jacob Ellyott, George Woodward, sopeboylar, was found a delin- quent for an unlawfull entry upon some of the Towne's ground and for digging holes and annoying the high Way with stinking fish to the forfeiturs of £iii vi s. viii d. Att this meeting it was brought in that M r . Willyam Peirce hath an hundred acrs of upland and marsh ground la} T d out for him at Pullenpoint necke. Also M r . Edward Gibbon hath fourescore acrs of upland and marsh ground layd him out there. Also John Olyvar hath his fiftye acrs of upland and marsh ground layd him out there. Also M r . William Brenton had threescore and foure acrs of upland and marsh ground layd him out there, and a hundrd acrs on the otherside of M r . Aspenalls. Also Edward Bayts hath foureteene acrs of upland and marsh ground layd him out there.' Boston Town Records, 1637. 19 Also George Ruggle hath graunted unto him a housplott aiid gar- densteade to be layd out neere unto the new mylne by our brother Coulborne and some other of the compairy. The 1 of the 5th,moneth, July, 1637. Att a meeting this day of Thomas Olyvar, Thomas Leveritt, Willyam Hutchinson, Willyam Coulborne, John Coggeshall, Rob- ert Harding, Willyam Brenton, Willyam Balston, James Penne and Jacob Ellyott, there was granted to our brother Ralph Hudson a garding plott at the end of Thomas Mekins garden plott. Also a house and garden plott graunted to our brother Sammuell Wilbore att the side of Barnabie Dorryfalls housplott and garden. The 16th of the same 5th moneth. Att a meeting this day of Thomas Olyvar, Thomas Leveritt, Willyam Hutchinson, Willyam Coulborne, John Coggeshall, Rob- ert Harding, John Samford, Willyam Brenton, James Penne and Jakob Elbyott, there was graunted unto Jacob Ellyott the little marsh lying against Charles Rj^ver with a little hill of upland ground, neere the middest therof, and compast on three sydes with highland ground, allowing out of his Allotment att mount Woolly- stone seaven acrs for five. The which he afterwards allowed, and it layd out for parte of his brother Francis Elyotts Allotment at the Mount. [15.] The 7th of the 6th moneth, August, 1637. Att a meeting this clay of Thomas Olyvar, Thomas Leveritt, William Hutchinson, William Coulbourne, John Coggeshall, John Sanford, William Balston and James Penne, leave is granted to Richard Fairbank to sell his shopp to Saunders, a booke- bynder. The 28 of the same 6th moneth. Att a meeting this day of Thomas Olyvar, Thomas Leveritt, William Hutchinson, John Coggeshall, John Sanford, James Penn, William Balston and Jacob Ellvott, it is agreed that Richard Hull Carpenter shall have liberty to sell his house and ground neere John Galloppe unto Phillip Sherman, of Roxbury. Also it is agreed that M r . Willyam Hutchinson shall have leave for this present summer to mow the little meaddowe at the head of Monitycott Ryvar, and to be Considered of for further inioying of it. The 25th of the 7th moneth, September, 1637. Att a meeting this day of Thomas Olyvar, Thomas Leveritt, William Hutchinson, William Coulborne, John Coggeshall, John Sanford, William Balstone and James Penne, it is agreed that M r . Thomas Makepeace shall have a houseplott and gardingplacc. Also that our brother Edward Dennys shall have a housplott and garding stead towards the new mylne. Also our brother Richard Wayte to have the like thereabouts. Also Robert Gillam, marryner, hath leave to buy a houseplott where he can. 20 City Document No. 46. Also leave is granted to Henry Webbe to buy the house wherein he now dwelleth, and to have a garding plott where may be most Convenient for him. Also there is a garding plott granted to our brother James Penne for to lay to the house that was Widdowe Sheneys, to be layd out among the garden plotts towards the new mylne. Also there is granted to our brother Valentine Hill a garding plott there. Also there is granted to our brother "William Cheesbrough shall have 2 rodd and a halfe square of the marsh next unto M r . Belling- hams wocKiyard for to build upon. Also there is granted to John Lowe, Wheelewright, 2 rodd and a halfe square of the same marsh next unto our brother Cheesbrough for a house plott and yard roome. Also there is granted to our brother William Hudson a foote and a halfe to come into the streete way for the setting up of his new building towards the sea syde where he dwelleth. The 16 of the 8th moneth, October, 1637. Att a Generall meeting upon Publique notice. M r . Willyam Coddington, M r . John Coggeshall and M r . William Aspenall are chosen as Deputies or Comittees for this next generall Cort. Also at this meeting M r . Olyvar, M r . Leveritt, M r . William Hutchinson, M r . William Coulborne, M r . John Coggeshall, M r . William Aspenall, M r . John Sanford, M r . Kobte Harding, Ancient* Balston, James Penn and Jacob Ellyott are Chosen as formerly for the Occasions of this towne for these next six months, and so until new ones be made choise of and their charges at theire meet- ings to be borne by the towne in generall. Also at this meeting M r . Raph Hudson and Edward Bendall are chosen Ounstables of this towne for this next yeare. [16.] The 30th of the 8th moneth, called October, 1637. Att a meeting this day of Thomas Olyvar, Thomas Leveritt, William Hutchinson, William Coulbourne, John Coggeshall, William Aspenall, John Sanford, Robte Hardinge, William Bal- ston, James Penne, and Jacob Ellyott : our brother Valentine Hill hath his great Allotment granted him att Pullen Point, to the number of 60 acrs, if it be there to be had. Also there is graunted to our brother John Hansett a great Lott att the Mount, for 3 heads, yea, even for three heads. The 6th of the 9th moneth, November, 1637. Att a meeting this day, upon particular notice, the Freemen have, upon further Consideracon, by Warrant from the generall Court, instead of M r . John Coggeshall and M r . William Aspenall, Chosen M r . William Coulborne and John Olyvar, to be ioynedwith M r . William Coddington for Deputyes or Comittees for this present generall Court. * This name is very indistinct. Mr. Morse transcribed it as Americent. Boston Town Records, 1637. 21 The 13th of the 9th moneth, November, 1637. At a meeting this day of Thomas Olyvar, Thomas Leveritt, William Hutchinson, William Coulborne, John Coggeshall, William Aspenall, John Sanford, Robte Harding, William Balstone, James Penne and Jacob Ellyott, our brother, John Olyvar, hath granted unto him a peice of marsh adioyning to M 1 '. Ting's ditch, eighteene pace in bredth to the outside of his fence from his garding end to the high way nest the beach, Also there is granted to the Governor, M r . John Winthropp, the twoe hills nest Pullen Point, with some barren marsh adioyning thereunto, Provided it be noe hindrance of the townes setting up a Ware in Fisher's Creek, or fishing for Basse there. Also there is granted to our Brother Samuell Wilbore foure rodde in length of the marsh towards the sea shore, and 3 rodd in depth nest unto John Lowe his grant there. Also there is granted to our brother Thomas Marshall one rodd in depth of the same marsh nest unto the ground he hath there. The 4th of the 10th moneth, called December, 1637. Att a meeting this day of Thomas Olyvar, Thomas Leveritt, William Hutchinson, William Coulborne, John Coggeshall, John Sanford, Robte Harding, William Balston, James Penne, and Jacob Ellj'ott, there was graunted to John Bibbles a house plott nest unto Richard Woodhowses. Also it is agreed that M r . Atherton Haulgh shall have all the neck of land (as yet not layd out) Joyning to M r . William Cod- dington, and the rest of the Brethren's meadow Lotte there, and to have it made up seaven hundred Acrs upon the maineland, fiftie Acrs thereof to be in the little meadow where M r . William Hutch- inson had hay mown this last yeare ; and if the meadow esceed not threescore acrs, then is M r . Haulgh to have the whole meadow, and it is left to his choj'se to beginne for the rest, eyther at the little meadow, and so to come downwards to the Brethren's Lott of 7 Acrs upon a head, or to begin from their Lotte, and so up to the meadow all upon the south side of the stony brooke, and for the Rockie ground therein to have allowance, as the Brethren have unto their Rockie ground there, and to have Commonage, as the Brethren have there. And if the said meadow doe esceed three- score Acrs, then is M r . Haulgh to have his fiftie Acrs therein where he pleaseth, taking it altogether at which end thereof he will. The 28 day of the 8th moneth, called October, 1637. Furthermore, at a meeting of M r . Thomas Olyver, Thomas Leveritt, M r . Willyam Colborn, M 1 '. Robert Keayne, Captain Edward Oibon, M r . William Ting, Jacob Elyott and M r . John Cogan, It was fully agreed off and Concluded betweene the said Townsmen and on the Towne's behalfe on the one part, and the said M r . Atherton Haulgh on the other part, that M r . Haulgh shall relinquish all Clame unto all that land commonly Called the Cap- taine's Plaine, lying over against the southerne end of the 2d Company of Lotts at Mount Wooliston and being on the West side of the fresh brooke, bounded towards the North and East by 22 City Document No. 46. the said fresh brooke*rnnuinge out of a swamp in the middest of the plaine neere adioyning unto the said fresh brooke, towards the West by the marked trees : In consideration of which the men Chosen on the Towne's behalf afforesaid doe grant and agree that the said M r . Haulgh shall have with all Convenient speede meas- ured out unto him as much land in quantit} 7 as the plaine bounded as afforesaid contejmeth in it, and 50 Acrs overplus to adio} T ne unto the southernmost side of land allredy layd out to him to lye all along a lyne allredy sett out, extending about 500 Rodds in length, and to be of equall breadth from the said byne in all places as much as the quantity granted to him (whatsoever it be) shall require. [17.] The 18th day of the 10th moneth, called December, 1687. Att a meeting this day of Thomas Olyvar, Thomas Leveritt, Wrn. Plutchinson, William Coulborne, John Coggeshall, William Aspenall, John Sanford, William Balston, James Penne, and Jacob Ellyott, it is agreed that John Woodward and Robte Wood- ward, the sonnes of Nathaniell Woodward, shall have housplotts allotted them. Also, it is agreed that Edward Bendall shall keepe a sufficient ferry boate to carry to Noddles Island and to the shipps ryding before the towne, taking for a single person ii cl., and fortwoe 3 d., and if there be more i cl. a peece. The 8th of the 11th moneth, called January, 1637. Att a meeting this day of Thomas Leveritt, William Hutchin- son, William Coulborne, John Coggeshall, William Aspenall, John Sanford, Robte Harding, William Balstone, James Penne and Jacob Ellyott, it is agreed that John Martyn, shipcarpenter, shall have a housplott. Also, that Thomas Pettit, having served with our brother, Olyvar Mellowes, this three years and a halfe, shall have a hous- plott granted unto him towards the new mylne. Also, that Erasmus Bullocke, having beene this 5 years in towne, shall have leave for a housplott. Also, it is agreed that Richard Fairbancke shall have leave for this next summer tyme to mowe the marsh ground that is against his acre of planting ground in the newfeild as he hath formerly mowen it. Also, whereas att a Generall Meeting the 14th of the 10th moneth, 1635, it Was by generall Consent agreed upon for the laying out of great Allotments unto the then Inhabitants, the same are now brought in bounded as followeth : — 1 . Impiymis : Edward Browne, eight acrs : bounded on the southwest with M r . Wiltyam Coulborne, on the North West with Richard Bulgar, and on the south East with Muddy River, and North East with Benianryn Ward. 2. Beniamyn Ward, twelve acrs: bounded on the South West with Edward Browne, on the North West with the Cedar swamp, and on the South East with Muddy River, and on the North East with John Gramme . Boston Town Eecoeds, 1637. 23 3. John Gramme, sixteene acrs : bounded on the south- West with Beniamin Ward, on the North East with the Cedar swamp, and on the south East with Muddy River, and on the North West with Robert Houlton. 4. Robert Houlton, sixteene acrs : bounded on the south West with John Gramme, on North West with the Cedar swamp, and on the south East with Muddy River, and on the North East with Jarrat Bourne. 5. Jarrett Bourne, eight acrs : bounded on the South West with Robert Houlton, on the North West with the Cedar swamp, and on the South East with Muddy River, and on the North East with John Biggs. 6. John Biggs, eight acrs : bounded on the South West with Jarrett Bourne, on the North East and South East with Muddy River Marsh, and on the North West with William Beamskw. 7. William Beamsley, sixteene acrs : bounded on the South East with John Biggs, on the South West with the Cedar swamp, and on the North East with Muddy ryver marsh, and on North West with Thomasyn Scottua, Widdow. 8. Thomasjm Scottua, Widdow, sixteene acrs : bounded on the South East with William Beamsley, on the South West with the Cedar swamp, and on the North East with Muddy River Marsh, and on the North West on Alexander Becke. 9. Alexander Becke eight acrs: bounded on the South East with Thomasyn Scottua, Widdow, on the South West with the Cedar swampe, and on the North East with Muddy River marsh, and on the North West with Raphe Route, laborer. 10. Raphe Route, twelve acrs : bounded on the South East with Alexander Becke, on the North East with a little marsh at the mouth of Charles Ryver, and on the * Robert Reade on the North West. 11. Robert Reade, eight acrs : bounded on the South East with Raphe Route, and the said little marsh on the North East, with Charles River riming from thence towards the •south West, a quarter of a myle in length, towards the Surveyors marke, and on Mathew Ines on the Northwest. 12. Mathew Ines, eight acrs: bounded on the south East with Robert Reade, on the North East with Charles River, of the same length towards the South West, and on Anthony Harker on the North West. [18.] 13. Anthony Harker, eight acrs: bounded on the South East with Mathew Ines, on the North East with Charles River, and of the same length to the South West, and on John Pemmerton on the Northwest. 14. John Pemmerton, eight acrs : bounded on the South East with Anthony Harker, on North East with Charles River, and of the same length to the South West, and on George Griggs on the North West. 15. George Griggs, twentie and eight acrs: bounded on the South East with John Pemmerton, on the North East with Charles * Evidently an omission here in the original. 24 City Document No. 46. Ryver, and of the same length to the South West, and on James Fitch and Richard Fitch on the Northwest. 16. James Fitch and Richard Fitch, sixteene acrs : bounded on the South East with George Griggs and Edmund Jackson, on the North East with Charles River and on the North West with Watertowne, and on Anne Ormesby, Widdow, on the Southwest. 17. Anne Ormesby, Widdow, eight acrs : bounded on the South East side, and on both ends, with the Cedar Swamp, and on Nathaniell Woodward the elder on the South West. 18. Nathaniell Woodward the elder, twenty and eight acrs : bounded on the South East with Anne Ormesby, Widdow, on the North East with the Cedar swamp, the South East side extending 60 rodd and the North West side 80 Rodd towards the Southwest. 19. James Johnson, eight acrs : bounded on the South East with Nathaniell Woodward, being 80 Rodd in length, and on Nathaniell Heaton to the Northwest. 20. Nathaniell Heaton, twenty acrs : bounded on the South East with James Johnson, being 80 Rodd in length, and on Edmund Jackson to the Northwest. 21. Edmund Jackson, eight acrs: bounded on the South East with Nathaniell Heaton, and of the same length towards the North East, and on the North West with James Fitch and Richard Fitch, and on the Southwest with a Swamp. 22. Richard Bulgar, twenty acrs : bounded on the South East with Edward Browne, and on M r . William Coulborne, on the North East with the Cedar Swamp and Nathaniell Woodward, the North West syde being 80 Rodd in length. 23. Elizabeth Purton, Widdow, eight acrs : bounded on the South East with Richard Bulgar, and of the same length towards the South West and North East, and on William Salter towards the North West. 24. William Salter, eight acrs : bounded on the South East with Widdowe Purton, of the same length to the South West and North East, and on William Wilson to the North West. 25. William Wilson, twelve acrs : bounded on the South East with William Salter, and of the same length to the Southwest and North East, and on William Townsend to the Northwest. 26. William Townsend, eight acrs : bounded to the South East with William Wilson, on the Northwest with a Swamp by M r . John Coggeshall's Wigwam and William Dynele}'. 27. William Dyneley, foure and twenty acrs : bounded on the South East with William Townsend, and on the North East by the said Swamp, extending to the southwest about 40 Rodd in length, and on Richard Tappin to the Northwest. 28. Richard Tappin, foure and twenty acrs : bounded on the South I^ast with William Dyneley, and on the North East with the said Swamp, extending to the South West about 40 Rodd in length, and on the North West by Newtowne, a small peece of land lying between e. 29. Francis Bushnall, foure and twenty acrs, tying in the forme of a Tryangle : bounded on the South with M r . William Coulborne, and on the North East with Richard Bulgar, Widdow Purton and AVilliain Salter, and on Henry Elkyn to the Northwest. Boston Town Records, 1637. 25 80. Henry Elkyn, eight acrs : bounded on the South East with Francis Bushnall, and on the South west with M r . Willyam Coul- borne, being about 70 Rodd in length and on Richard Fairbancke to the North west. 31. Richard Fairbancke, three and twenty acrs : bounded on the South East with Henry Ellsyn, and on the South end partly with M r . Willm Coulborne, being 80 Rodd in length on the Northwest syde. [19.] 32. John My lam, fourteene acrs: bounded on the South East with Richard Fairbancke, being 80 Rodd in length to the South West and North East, and on Robte Walker to the North West. 33. Robte Walker, fourteene acrs : bounded on the South East with John Mylam, on the Northwest with James Davisse, and a fresh marsh by Newtowne, being 80 Rodd in length to the South- west and North East. 34. James Davisse, tenn acrs : bounded on the South East with Robte Walker, on the North East with the said fresh marsh extending from it to the Southwest about 40 Rodd on the North- west bv Newtowne, about 2 acres of ground overplus betweene. 85. Willyam Pell, five and twenty acrs : bounded on the South West with M r . Willm Coulborne and a brooke running betweene M r . John Cotton and him on the Northwest syde, being 80 Rodd in length. 36. Robte Reynolds, five and twenty acrs : bounded on the South East with Willm Pell, and John Cranwell and George Baytes, on the North West with Newtowne, being on the North- west syde half a myle in length. 37. John Cranwell, tenn acrs : bounded on the South East with M r . John Cotton, on the North East with the said Freshbrooke, and on the Northwest with Robte Reynolds and George Baytes. 38. George Ba^ytes, fifteene acrs, bounded on the North East with John Cranwell, on the South East with M r . John Cotton, and on the Northwest with Robte Reynolds, 39. Philemon Pormont, thirtie acrs : bounded on the North East with John Cranwell, on the South East with M r . Thomas Leveritt, and by a peece of ground lying betweene him and M r . John Cotton, on ye Northwest with Newtowne. 40. Robert Mears, twenty acrs : bounded on the North East with M r . Thomas Otyvar, on the South East with Roxbnrie, and on the Southwest with Captaine John Underbill, his land lyeth in forme of a Try angle. 41. Edward Bendall, five and thirty acrs: bounded on the South East with Robte Meares, on the North East with M r . Thomas Leveritt, extending it self to the North West side about 70 Rocld in length, and on Thomas Wardall to the Southwest. 42. Thomas Wardall, twentie acrs : bounded on the South East with Edward Bendall, on the North East with M r . Leveritt, extending it self on the North West side 80 Rodd in length. 43. M r . Willyam Blackstone, fifteene acrs : bounded on the South East with Thomas Wardall, extending itself 80 Rodd in length to the Southwest and North East and on Robte Tytus to the North West. 26 City Document No. 46. 44. Robert Tytus, twenty acrs : bounded on the South East with M r . Blaekstone, extending it self 80 Eodd in length towards the Southwest and North East, and on William Courser to the North- west. 45. William Courser, tenn acrs: bounded on the South East with Robert Tytus, being 80 Rodd in length to the Southwest and North-East, and on Alexander Winchester to the Northwest. 46. Alexander Winchester, twenty acrs : bounded on the South East with William Courser, being 80 Rodd in length towards the Southwest and North East, and on Henry Burchall to the North west. 47. Henry Burchall, fifteene acrs : bounded on the South-East with Alexander Winchester, being 80 Rodd in length to the South- west and North East, and on Robte Turner to the Northwest. 48. Robert Turner, tenn acrs : bounded on the South East with Henry Burchall, on the Northwest with Newtowne, being 80 Rodd in length to the Southwest and North East. 49. William Denning, tenn acrs: bounded on the South East with Roxbury, being 80 Rodd in length to the South west and North East, and on John Arratt to the Northwest. 50. John Arratt, tenn acrs : bounded on the South East with William Denning, being in length 80 Rodd to the South West and North East, and on Captaine John Underbill to the Northwest. [SO.] 51. Captaine John Underbill, fourescore acrs : bounded on the South East with John Arratt, being 92 Rodd in length on the Northwest syde. 52. William Talmage, fifteene acrs: bounded on the South East with Captaine John Underbill, being 80 Rodd in length to the Southwest and North East, and upon Thomas Snow on the North- west. 53. Thomas Snow, tenn acrs : bounded on the South East with William Talmage, being 80 Rodd in length to the Southwest and North East, and upon Isaack Grosse on the Northwest. 54. Isaack Grosse, fiftie acrs : bounded on the South East with Thomas Snow, beinge 80 Rodd in length to the Southwest and North East. M r . William Coulborne, a hundred and fiftie acrs : bounded on the North West by Francis Bushnall, Henry Elkin, Richard Faire- bank and William Pell, to the West by William Pell, to the South by a fresh brooke running betweene him and M r . Cotton, to the North East by Edward Browne, and to the East by Muddy River. M r . John Cotton, all the ground lying betweene the twoe brooks next unto M r . Coulbornes Allotment, and so to the other end unto the shortest Cutting over beyond the hill toward the North West, Conteyning twoe hundred and fiftie acrs (be it more or lesse) , bounded on the North by the said fresh brooke, on the west by John Gramme and George Bates, on the South by a fresh brooke run- ning betweene him and M r . Leveritt, and on the East b}' Muddy River. M r . Thomas Leveritt, a hundred acrs ; bounded on the North by the sayd fresh brooke running betweene him and M r . Cotton ; on Boston Town Eecords, 1637. 27 the West by Edward Bendall and Philemon Pormont ; on the South by M 1 ". Oliver, the East end being a sharp Angle. M r . Thomas Oliver, a hundred acrs : bounded on the North with M r . Leveritt ; on the West with Robte Meares ; on the South with Rocksbury, the East end being a sharp Angle. M r . Thomas Oliver, fifteene acrs of Marsh : bounded on the South with Muddy River ; on the West with Jarratt Bourne, the browes of his Upland being 80 Rodd in length ; and on the North with M r . Leveritt. M r . Thomas Leveritt, fifteene acrs of the same Marsh next adioyning : bounded on the South with M r . Oliver ; on the West with the browes of the Upland, there being 80 Rodd in length ; and on the North with M r . Coulborne. M r . William Coulborne, tenn acrs of the same Marsh : bounded on the South with M 1 '. Leveritt ; on the West with the browes of the Upland, there being 80 Rodd in length ; and on the North with Robte Walker. Robte Walker, five acrs of the same marsh : bounded on the South with M r . Coulborne ; on the West with the browes of the Upland, there being 80 Rodd in length, and 10 Rodd broad. And for the more cleare distinctions of all these, the Markes and L3-mmitts of the Survayors are extant. [21.] The great Allottments at Rumley Marsh and Pullen Point. Impiymis : M r . Henry Vane, Esq., two hundred acrs : bounded on the South with M r . Richard Bellingham ; on the West with Charlestowne ; on the North with M r . Winthropp ; and on the East with the highway there. 2. M r . John Winthropp, the Elder, a hundred and fiftie acrs : bounded on the South with M 1 '. Vane ; on the West with Charles- towne ; on the North with M r . Newgate and James Penn ; and on the East with the highway. 3. James Penn, fiftie acrs: bounded on the South and on the West with M r . Winthrop ; on the North with M r . Newgate ; and on the East with the highway. 4. M r . John Newgate, a hundred and twelve acrs : bounded on the South with M r . Winthrop and James Penn ; on the West with Charlestowne ; on the North with M r . Sanford ; and on the East with the highway. 5. M r . John Sanford, a hundred acrs : bounded on the South with M r . Newgate ; on the West with Charlestowne ; on the North with Thomas Marshall ; and on the East with the highway. 6. Thomas Marshall, seventy e acrs : bounded on the South with M r . Sanford ; on the West with Charlestowne ; on the North with M r . Keine and Thomas Matson ; and on the East with the highway. 7. Thomas Matson, eight and twenty acrs : bounded on the South and on the West with Thomas Marshall ; and on the North with M r . Keine and Benianxyn Gillam ; and on the East with the highway. 8. Beniamyn Gillam, eight and twenty acrs : bounded on the 28 City Document No. 46. South with Thomas Matson ; on the West with M r . Keine ; and on the North with John G-allopp ; and on the East with the highway. 9. John Gallopp, nine and forty acrs : bounded on the South with Beniamyn Gillam ; on the West and on the North with M r . Keine ; and on the East with the highway. 10. M r . Robte Keine, three hundred and fourteene acrs: bounded on the South with Thomas Marshall, Thomas Matson and John Gallopp ; on the West with Charlestowne ; and on the East with Beniamin Gillam, John Gallopp, and the highway. 11. M r . John Coggeshall, twoe hundred acrs: bounded on the South with M r . Keine and M r . Cogan ; on the West with Charles- towne ; on the North with Saugust"; and on the East with the Sandy beach unto the mouth of Saugust River. 12. M r . John Cogan, two hundred and tenn acrs: bounded on the North with M r . John Coggeshall ; on the East with the beach ; on the South with M r . Harding ; and on the West with the highway. 13. M r . Robte Harding, a hundred acrs : bounded on the North with M r . Cogan ; on the East with the Beach ; on the South with Nicholis Willys ; and on the West with the highway. 14. Nicholis Willys, nyne and forty acrs : bounded on the North with M r . Harding ; on the East with the Beach ; on the South with ; and on the west with the highway. 15. John Odlin, fourescore and foure Acrs : bounded on the North with Nicholis Willys ; and on the South with Richard Tuttell ; on the East with the beach, and on the highway to the West. Some of the Allottments at Pulling Point Necke. William Stidson, 30 Acrs of upland and marsh together ; bounded towards the North and North East by the said Allottments of John Oliver and Thomas Fayreweather, towards the East by the aforesaid northermost Creeke, and towards the south by the Allottments of Edward Baytes, and towards the West by the Common highway aforesaid. Edward Bayts, 14 Acrs of upland and marsh together : bounded towards the North by the said Allottment of William Stidson, towards the East by the said Northermost Creeke, towards the South by the Allotment of Thomas Matson, and towards the West by the said highway. Thomas Matson, 28 Acrs of upland and marsh together : bounded towards the North b} r the said Allotment of Ed. Ba3 T ts, towards the East by Fishers Creeke, towards the West by the said Way, and towards the South by the Allottment of M r . Edward Gibones. M r . Edward Gibones, 110 Acrs of upland and marsh together: bounded towards the North by the Allottment of the said Thomas Matson, towards the East and South by Fishers Creeke, and the Common shore, and towards the West by the said highway. [22.] These are of the great allottments at Rumley Marsh and Pullen Point. Boston Town Records, 1637. 29 M r . Richard Tuttell, a hundred threescore and one acres : bounded on the North with , on the East with the Beach, on the South with M r . Glover, and on the West with the highway. M r . Glover, nyne and fortie acrs : bounded on the North with M r . Tuttell, on the East with the Beach, on the South with M r . Dyar, and on the West with the highway. M r . William Dyar, twoe and fortie acrs : bounded on the North with M r . Glover, on the East with the Beach, on the South with M r . Cole, and on the West with the highway. M r . Samuell Cole, a hundred and five acrs : bounded on the North with M r . Dyar, on the East with the Beach, on the South with M r . William Brenton, and on the West with the highway. M r . William Brenton, a hundred sixtie and foure acrs : bounded on the North with M r . Cole, on the East with the Beach, on the South with M r . William Aspinwall, and on the West with the high way. M r . William Aspinwall, a hundred sixtie and foure acrs : bounded on the North with M r . Brenton, on the East with the Beach and M r . Pierce, and on the South and on the West point with Crooked lane. The quantityes and bounds of the Lotts at Pullen Poynt Necke. M r . William Aspinwall, 22 acrs of upland at the nethermost point of the necke, towards the south : it is bounded by the Allottment of Thomas Buttalph, and towards the West by the 6 acrs of marsh granted to M r . John San ford. John Sanford, 6 acrs of Marsh, bounded towards the North , towards the East by the Upland of William Aspinwall, towards the South by the Allottment of Thomas Buttalph, towards the West by the Allottment of the Governor, M r . John Winthropp, sen r . Thomas Buttalph, acrs of Upland and Marsh : bounded towards the East and north East by the Sea shore, towards the South and South East by the Allotment of William Peirce, towards the West and southwest by the Allottment of Thomas Fayreweather, towards the North and North West by the above- said land of William Aspinwall. M r . John Winthrop, sen r ., Governor: 50 acrs of Upland and Marsh together : bounded towards the North by the great salt Creeke compassing Hog Island, Easterly towards the East by John Sanfords 6 acrs of Marsh, towards the South and soutli East by the said Allottment of Thomas Buttalph and Thomas Faire- weather, and towards the West by the Allottment of John Oliver. John Oliver, 50 Acrs of upland and marsh together : bounded towards the North by the said great Creeke, towards the East by the said Allottment of the Governor, M r . John Winthrop, sen 1 '., towards the south by the Allottments of Thomas Faireweather and William Stidson of Wynesemitt, and towards the West by the Allottment of William Brenton. Willyam Brenton, 64 acrs of Upland and Marsh together : bounded towards the North by said great Creeke, towards the 30 City Document No. 46. East by the said Allottment of John Olyver, towards the South by the Allotment of William Stidson, and towards the West by the Common shore. Elias Mavericke, 12 Acrs of upland : bounded towards the North by the Common shore, towards the East by an highway 2 rodd in breadth, running betweene the Lotts over the Neck, towards the south by the Allottment of Valentine Hill, and towards the West by the Common shore. Valentyne Hill, 60 Acrs of Upland : bounded towards the north by the said Allottment of Elias Mavericke, towards the East by the said high way, towards the South by the Allottment of Raph Hudson, and towards the West and southwest by the Common shore. Raph Hudson, 50 Acrs : bounded towards the north by the said Allottment of Valentyne Hill, towards the East by the said highway, and towards the south and southwest by the common shoare. Thomas Fayreweather, 30 Acrs of Upland and Marsh together ; bounded towards the North and Northwest by the Allottments of the Governor, M r . John Winthrop, sen r ., and John Oliver, towards the East and north East by the afforesaid Allottment of Thomas Buttalph, towards the south and southeast by the Allottment of William Peirce, towards the south west hj the afforesaid Allott- ment of William Stidson. Thomas Fayreweather, 4 Acrs of upland at the Eastermost corner of Raph Hudsons : bounded by his said Allottment towards the North and West, towards the East by the said high way, and by the Common shore towards the South. Willyam Peirce, 100 Acrs of Upland and Marsh together : bounded towards the north and northwest by the said Allottments of Thomas Fayreweather and Thomas Buttalph, towards the East and south East by the sea shore, and towards the southwest by the said Allottment of the Governor. All the Remainder of the land, both upland and marsh, to the southward of the northermost Creeke running up out of Fishers Creeke or Cove, and from the southwest End of Peirces Lott to Pulling Point Gutt, being Compassed on all the sides with the Sea, save onely where it Joyneth to M r . Peirce, belongeth to the said John Winthrop, Governor. [23.] The 29th of the 11 moneth, called January, 1637. Att a meeting this day of Thomas Olyvar, Thomas Leveritt, William Hutchinson, William Coulbourne, John Coggeshall, John Sanford, William Balstone Robte Harding, James Penne and Jacob Ellyott, It was agreed that Isaacke Cully more shall have a great Lott at the Mount for foure heads. Also Thomas Buttall is granted a great Lott at Pullen Point necke for six heads. Also our brother M r . Raph Hudson is granted his great Lott there for six heads. Also our brother Francis East is granted his great Lott at the Mount for twoe heads. Boston Town Records, 1637. 31 Also Francis Ellyott is granted a great Lott there for four heads. Also our brother Richard Wayte is granted a great Lott there for f3 T ve heads. Also M r . Henry Webb is granted a great Lott there for tenn heads. Also our brother Samuell Wayte is graunted a great Lott there for foure heads. Also our brother George Hunne is granted his great Lott there for five heads. The 12th of 12thmoneth, Febr., 1637. Att a Generall meeting upon Publique Notice. Att this meeting M r . Atherton Haulgh, M r . William Coulborne and M r . John Olyvar are Chosen for deputyes or Comitties for the service of this next Generall Cort. The 19th of 12th moneth, [called Febr.,] 1637 Att a meeting this day of Thomas Olyvar, Thomas Leveritt, William Coulborne, John Coggeshall, Robte Harding, John San- ford, William Balstone, James Penne and Jacob Ellyott, It is agreed that M r . John Clarke shall have a great Lott at Mount Woollystone for tenne heads. Also there is graunted to John Love to have a housplott, and also a great Lott at Muddy Ryver. Also to Abell Porter, having served our brother Thomas Grubbe foure yeares a houseplott and a great Lott at the Mount for twoe heads. Also to Richard Awards, to have a housplott upon Condicon of Innoffensive Carryage.. Also to Thomas Scottoe a great Lott at Muddy Ryver for three heads. Also to William Mawer a great Lott att the Mount for nyne heads. Also to Henry Gray, Taylor, a housplott upon Condicon of Inoffensive Carryage, and to have it on the East side of our brother Samuell Wilebore. Also to James Hawkins a great Lott at the Mount for four heads. Also to Thomas Hawkins a great Lott there for four heads. Also to Martha Bushenall, wid., a great Lott there for fyve heads. Also to brother Edward Dennys a great Lott there for three leads. Also to brother Isaac Perry a housplott neere to brother Robte Walkers, and a great Lott at Muddy Ryvar, for three heads. Also to Thomas Bell a housplott neere to M r . D3 r ar's, and a great Lott att the mount, for three heads. Also to John Jackson, Carpenter, a great Lott there for three heads. Also to John Crabtree a great Lott there for twoe heads. Also to Silvester Saunders a great Lott at Mudcty R}^var for twoe heads. 32 City Document No. 46. Also to Samuell Howard, Taylor, a houslott and a great Lott at the Mount for three heads. Also to our brother George Burdon a great Lott there for five heads. Also to our brother William Wardall a great Lott there for three heads. Also to our brother William Browne a great Lott there for three heads. Also to our brother Edward Hutchinson the younger a great Lott there for six heads. Also to Baph Mason a great Lott at Muddy Ryvar for six heads. Also to our brother Robte Scott a great Lott for twelve heads at the Mount. Also to Anthony Stannyon a great Lott there for eleven heads. Also to John Lowe a great Lott at the Mount for foure heads. Also to Stephen Kinsley a great Lott there for nyne heads, four acrs upon a head. Also to our brother Mathew Chafey a great Lott there for four heads. [24,] The 9th of the 1 moneth, called March, 1638. Att a Generall meeting upon publique notice. Att this meeting M r . John Newgate is Chosen for a Deputie or Coinittee in the steade or place of M r . William Coulborne for the service of the next Generall Court. The 12 th of the same 1st moneth. Att a meeting this day of Thomas Olyvar, Thomas Leveritt, William Coulborne, Robte Harclinge, James Penne, and Jacob Eliott, there is graunted to Waters Sinnott, Fisherman, to have a housplott. Also, there is graunted to our brother Olyvar Mellowes, and to our brother Nathaniell Chappell, and to William Hudson the Eldest sonne of our brother William Hudson, leave of taking in the corner of ground betweene the last year's new impaled plant- ing ground and the North East corner of M r . William Blackstone's payles, our brother Mellowes to have twoe acrs thereof, our brother Chappell to have one acr thereof, and William Hudson to have the residue so that there be not above an acre of it. Also, it is ordered that ever}' Inhabitant amongst us shall forth- with ring and j'oake theire swine, and that all swine within this towne shall be ringed and yoaked upon paine of every swine found abroad unrung and unyoaked after the 28 day of this first moneth for every time so taken ii .s. vi d, one halfe to the Towne and the other to the taker of them, beside answering or making satisfac- tion for any damage which they shall have done, and Richard Fairebancke is appointed to looke unto the observing of this order. The 2d of the 2d moneth, called Aprill, 1638. Att a meeting this day of Thomas Olivar, Thomas Levei'itt, William Coulborne, Robte Harding, William Balstone, James Boston Town Eecords, 1638. 33 Penne and Jacob Elliott there be garding places granted to our brethren James Johnson, John Davisse, George Burdon and Nathaniell Chappell on the back syde of the Lotts in the long streete. Also to M r . John Mansfield, having served his brother M r . Robte Keayne, to have a housplott. Also, it is agreed that William Hudson shall be the cowkeeper for this following yeare, and to have for every cowe goeing upon the necke a bushell of Corne at harvest, and for eveiy calfe put to his keeping a pecke of Corne. Also, it is ordered that (according to Court order) noe goate shall goe at libertie upon the necke without a keeper upon penaltie for every goate for every time without a keeper xicL, beside the answering of double damage done by them after the xi d day of this moneth, the one halfe to the taker of them and the other to the Towne, and they to be looked unto by William Hudson the younger. The 16th of the same 2d moneth. Att a meeting this day of Thomas Olyvar, Thomas Leveritt, William Coulborne, Robert Hardinge, James Penne and Jacob Eliott,- It is agreed that Thomas Sellen shall have a housplott at the Mount. Also a great Lott is granted to Edmund Oremsby for three heads at Mudcby Ryver. Also to our brother Thomas Wheeler a great Lott at Muddy Ryvar for three heads. Also to Jacob Wilson a great Lott there for three heads. Also to Mawdit Inge a great Lott there for three heads. Also to our brother William Coursar a garding place wher a convenient place for gardinge plotts can be found. Also it is this day ordered for soe much as our Comon pasturing is but scant upon the necke, and cowe keepings for the Inhabitants is of neeesstiYy, that, therefore, all the sheepe on the necke, and chy cattell, such as are not for draught, shalbe had away from off the necke by the last day of this moneth, in penaltie for every head after that time ii s. a Weeke for every weeke after, and the sheepe not. Also that all fence about the Corne feilds shalbe sufficiently made, according to Court order, before the last of this moneth, upon penaltie for every rodd then undone hi s. iiii d. And to be seene unto % these men, viz., our brother John Cranwell and William Salter, for the feild by them our brethren Richard G-ridley and Beniamyn Gillam, for the Fort Feild, our brethren Oryvar Mellowes, Thomas Marshall and Jonathan Negoose, for the mylne feild and the newe feild. Also there is granted leave to George Griggs to sell his house, and garding under it, and 20 acrs of his great Lott, to M r . Tuttell, of Ipswich, and M r . Tuttell, of Charlestowne, for his redeeming out of theire debts. [35.] At the same meeting the said 16th of the said 2d moneth, 1638, there was a house plott granted to the said George Griggs, some where towards the new mylne. 3 34 City Document No. 46. Also there is granted to George Harwood, Carpenter, a great Lott at the Mount, for three heads. Also there is granted to William Hudson, the younger, a great Lott att Muddy Ryvar, for three heads. Also there is granted to Williain Davisse, the Locksmyth, a housplott neare unto the new mylne, upon the usuall Condition of Inoffensive carry age. The 23d of the 2d moneth, called Aprill, 1638. Att a Generall Meeting this day upon Publique Notice. Att this Meeting M r . Atherton Haulgh, M r . Robte Keayne and M r . John Olyvar, are Chosen for deputies or Committees for the ser- vice of this next Generall Court. Also at this Meeting M r . Thomas Olyvar, Thomas Leveritt, M r . Robte Keayne, M r . William Colbourne, M r . John Newgate, James Penne and Jacob Elyott, are Chosen, as formerly for the Townes occasions, for these next six moneths, to be ordered by them or by fyve of them at the least. The 1 of the 4th moneth, called June, 1638. Att a meeting this clay of Thomas Olyvar, Thomas Leveritt, Robert Keajme, William Coulborne, John Newgate, James Penne and Jacob Elyott, leave was granted to our brother Richard Brocfcett, to sell his howse and garding next to William Hudson, the youuger, unto one Jacob Legar. Item : To Samuell Wilbore, to sell his house and garding plott, adioyning to that was Barnaby Denyfalls, unto one M r . Offley. Alsoe his house and ground next Roxbury unto Samuell Sherman. The 18th of the same 4th moneth. Att a meeting this day of Thomas Olyvar, Thomas Leveritt, Robert Keayne, William Coulborne, John Newgate, James Penne and Jacob Elyott, there was leave granted to John Spoore, late of Clapton, in Somersetshire, to buye M r . Wilkes house and ground, and that his brother, James Mattocke, a Cooper, shall have liberty to live with him or in some other place in this towne. Also that said John Spoore hath leave to buy of George Burdon a little house neere unto the Coave, next unto Edward Bendalls. The 9th of the 5th moneth, called July, 1638. Att a meeting this day of Thomas Olyvar, Thomas Leveritt, Robert Keayne, William Coulborne, John Newgate, James Penne and Jacob Elyott, it was agreed that Robert Reynolds shall have five acrs of Marsh ground, att Muddy Ryvar in exchange for five acrs of his upland there, to be layd out by M r . Coulborne. The 23 of the same mo. Att a meeting this day of Thomas Olyvar, Thomas Leveritt, Robert Keayne, William Coulborne, John Newgate, James Penne and Jacob Elyott, it was agreed that none shall sell their houses, but with some parte of their great Allotments, without the Con- sent of the overseers of the Townes occasions. Boston Town Kecords, 1638. 35 The 7th of the 6th moneth, called August, 1638. Att a meeting this clay of Thomas Olyvar, Thomas Leveritt, Robert Keayne, John Newgate, James Penne and Jacob Elyott, there was leave graunted to Francis Lyall to become an Inhab- itant. The 20th of the 6th moneth called August, 1638. Att a Generall Meeting this clay upon Publique Notice. At this Meeting M r . Atherton Haulgh, M r . Robert Keayne and M 1 ". John Newgate, are Chosen for deputies or Comittees, for the service of this next Generall Court. Also M r . Robert Keayne, M r . John Cogan, M r . Willian Coul- borne and Jacob Elyott, are, at this Meeting, Chosen Overseers or Survey ers for the Townes high wayes for this 3 T eare followinge. Att a meeting this same clay of Thomas Olyvar, Thomas Lev- eritt, Robert Keayne, Willyam Coulborne, James Penne and Jacob Elyott, there is leave graunted to M r . Thomas Cornnell for the buying of our brother Willyam Balstone's house, and to become an Inhabitant of this Towne. The 17th of the 7th moneth, September, 1638. [26.] Att a Meeting this day of Thomas Olyvar, Thomas Leveritt, Robert Keayne, Willyam Coulborne, John Newgate, James Penne and Jacob Elyott : Whereas there was a stray sow that had been often taken in the Corne, and some five or six Weeks kept up at our brother Fairbancks, and often Cry eel, but noe owner thereof to be knowne, It was therefore praysed to 40s., whereof to Samuell Gryne towards his losses in his Corne 30s., and the Residue allowed to Richard Fairebancks for the Charges of her keeping all that time. The 8th of the 8th moneth, 1638. Att a meeting this day of Thomas Olivar, Thomas Leveritt, Robert Keayne, Wilbyam Coulborne, John Newgate, James Penne and Jacob Elyott, there was granted to M r . William Tinge, the having of his great Lott att Muddy River for Eight persons, and Fortie and twoe heads of Cattell in present possession, and thirtie heads to come, foure hundred Acrs and an hundred more. The 2d of the 9th moneth, November, 1638. Att a meeting this day of Thomas Olivar, Thomas Leveritt, Robte Keayne, William Coulborne, James Penne and Jacob Elyott, leave is granted to Richard Rawlings, a plasterer, to buy Peter Johnson, the Dutchman's house, and to become an Inhab- itant of this Towne. The 5th day of the 9th moneth, November, 1638. Att a Generall Meeting upon Publique notice or Warning. Att this Meeting M r . John Cogan and M r . Richard Tuttle are Chosen Cunstables for this following yeare. Also att this meeting M r Thomas Olyver, M r Thomas Leveritt, M r Willyam Coulborne, M' Robert Keayne, M r Robert Hardinge, 36 City Document No. 46. James Penne and Jacob Ellyott are Chosen for the Towne's occa- sions, as formerly, for this ensuing half yeare. The 19th day of the same 9th moneth. Att a meeting this day of Thomas Olyver, Thomas Leveritt, William Coulbrone, Robert Keayne, Robert Harding, James Penne, Jacob Ellyott, it appeared by a Wryting dated the 2d day of November last, under the hand of Thomas Painter, that George Barrill, Cooper, hath for him and his heirs and assigns for £28 bought of the said Thomas Painter, his dwelling-house, with the Appurtenances, and ground Under it, in 'this towne, and whereto he had the Consent of the Townesmen, and soe is admitted a Townes- man upon Condition of Inoffensive Carry age. Also by another Writing, dated the 9th of the same moneth, it appeareth that James Everill hath for £3 sould unto the said George Barrill, his heirs and Assignees, a parsell of ground lying next to the said house, Conteyning in bredth three powle, within one foote. The 10th day of the 10th moneth, December, 1638. Att a meeting this day of Thomas Olyver, Thomas Leveritt, William Coulborne, Robert Keayne, Robert Harding, and James Penne, It is agreed that Arthur Perry e shall have yearely allowed for his drumming to the Company upon all occasions the some of £5, to be paid by the Towne. The 24th day of the same 10th moneth. At a meeting this day of Thomas Olyver, Thomas Leveritt, Willyam Coulborne, Robert Keayne, Robert Harding, James Penne and Jacob Elyott, It appeared by a Wryting, under the hand of John Odlin, dated the 19th of the 5th Moneth last past, that for the sume of £29 8s., he hath sould his great Lott of 84 Acrs att Romely Marsh unto M r . Richard Tuttell of this Towne, and to his heirs forever. Also at this meeting, one Willyam Teffe, a Taylor, is allowed to bee an Inhabitant, and hath this day fully agreed with Jacob Wilson of his house, and the ground under it, in this towne. Also Esdras Reade, a Taylor, is this day allowed to bee an In- habitant, and to have a great Lot at Muddy River for 4 heads. [27.] The 21st of the 11th moneth, January, 1638. Att a Meeting this day of Thomas Olyver, Thomas Leveritt, Willm Coulborne, Robert Keayne, Robert Harding, James Penne and Jacob Elyott, leave was graunted to John Odlyn to make Use of a piece of Marsh ground at Muddy River, conteyning an acre, lying against the third Lott there untill the Towne shall see occasion for further disposing of it. Also it appeared to them this day by a Writing, under the hand of Nicholas Willys, dated the 27th of the 10th, 1638, that for the sume of £30 12s. 6cZ., he hath sold his great Lott of 49 Acrs of Upland and marsh at Romeley Marsh unto Richard Tuttell of this Towne and his heirs forever. Boston Town Records, 1638. 37 Also it appeared by a Writinge, under the hand of James Hawkings, dated the fifth day of the 9 moneth, November (1638), that for the sume of £15 he hath sold one dwelling-house in this Towne, Wherein George Ruggle lived, and which he formerly bought of M r . Brenton, together with a garden plott Joyning to it, unto oue Henry Garrold of this Towne, Tanner, and to his heirs and assigns forever. Also it appeared by a Writinge, under the hand of Jacob Will- son, of this Towne, Sawyer, dated the 24th of the 10th Moneth, December (1638), that he hath sold unto Willyam Teffe, of this Towne, taylor, one house, and a lott under it, which is now in the use of the said William Teffe, unto him, and his heirs and Assignes forever. Also at this day, Richard Tuttell, our brother, hath undertaken for one Dorothie Bill, a Widowe, a Soiourner in his house to dis- charge the Towne of any Charge that may befall the Towne for any thing about her. Also this day, our Brother, Robte Scott, hath for the sume of £13 16s. sould 23 Acrs of Upland att Mudcty River, that was our brother Richard Fairebancks great Allottment, unto our brother Thomas Savidge, his heirs and Assignes forever. Also this day Willyam Hyricke is allowed to be an Inhabitant. Also there is this day granted to the owners of the Wharfe and Crayne an hundred acrs of Land at Mount Wolly stone, next to the Allottments alredy graunted, towards the repayringe and main- teyning of the said Wharfe and Crayne. The 18th of the 12th moneth, February, 1638. Att a meetinge this day of Thomas Olyvar, Thomas Leverett, William Coulbourn, Robert Keayne, Robert Harding, James Penne, and Jacob Elyott, there is graunted to our Brother Richard Wright a narrow peece of land lyeing at Mount Woollystone, betweene the Rocks and the Fresh brooke, to beginne at the end of the first Lott, and to extend fourescore Rodd in length to the furtherance of his Water Mylne building there, and in regard of his redy serviceablenesse to the Towne 's Occasions. Att this day it hath appeared that the said Richard Wright hath sold 130 Acrs of land at Mount Woollystone to one M r . Pane, of Concord, without the consent of the Towne 's Allotters, contrary to a former Order, and he is therefore to pay for a Fyne to the towne's stocke, to be paid at the next Towne's Meeting the sume of £6. Also there is leave graunted to our Brother Richard Fairbanke for this next summer to mowe the marsh ground which is against his acr of planting ground in the new feild, as he hath formerly mo wen it. Also there is leave graunted to our brother Henry Pease for this next summer to move the marsh against his planting ground in the same feild. Also there is leave graunted to our brother Edmund Jackson for this next summer to mowe the marsh that our brother Willyam Balstone hath formerly mowen in the same feild. Also there is leave granted to our brother James Pennyman for 38 City Document No. 46. this next summer to mowe the marsh in the New feild as he hath heretofore mowen the same. Also there is leave graunted to our Sister, the Widdow Purton, for this next summer to mowe the peece of marsh in the same feilde lying under our brother Robte Turner's garding payles. Also it appeared this day by a Writing under the hand of Willin Baulston, dated the 5th of August, 1638, that he hath sould his house, with all the appurtenences thereunto belonging, And all the ground that he was possest of (vizt.), the house, yards, gar- dens, one close on the backside of M r . Coddington's, conte3ming, by estimation, one Acre (be it more or lesse), and two Acrs, more or lesse, lyeingin theMillfeild bordering on Water Merryall's house, and three Acrs of Land, more or lesse, on Hogg Hand, and foure- score and tenne Acrs, more or lesse, in Mount Willystone unto Thomas Connell and his heirs forever. It is ordered that Edward Hutchison, Samuell Cole, Robte Turner, M r . Robte Harding, M r . William Parker and Richard Brackett, shall make sufficient the cart-way against M r . Hutchin- son's house, under which they drayne their gardens before the 11th day of this next 1st moneth, upon the [forfeiture?] [About half a line at the bottom of the page is worn away.] [£J8.] Further, at the same meetinge it appeared by a Writing dated this same 18th day of 12th Moneth, 1638, that Thomas Scottow of Boston, Jo}*ner, hath sold to Thomas Grubb of the same, all his six acrs of ground lying at Muddy River adioyning to my Mother's Lott there, and which I bought of her : In consid- eration whereof the said Thomas Grubb hath resigned all his right of three acrs of ground lying in the New feild at Boston, which was allotted to him by the Towne adioyning unto Isaac Grosses lott on the one side and Widdow Purton's on the other. Also at this Assembly there is granted to M r . Beniamjm Keayne, the Sonne of our brother, M r . Keayne, a great Lott of Meadow and Upland att Monotticott Ryver, in Mount Woollystone, Running to a long Ridge or hill towards the Fresh Pond there. The 25th day of the 12th moneth, called February, 1638. Att a Generall Meeting this day upon Publique Notice. Att this meeting M r . Atherton Haulgh, M r . Robert Keayne and Mr. Edward Gibbon were Chosen for Comittees or deputyes for this next Generall Cort. The 25th day of the 1st moneth, called March, 1639. Att a meeting this day of Thomas Olyver, Thomas Leveritt, William Coulbron, Robert Keayne, James Penne and Jacob Elyott, our Brother M r . Gryffen Bowen hath a great Lott granted unto him at Muddy River for [blank in original.] Likewise our brother Richard Holledge hath a great Lott granted unto him there for three heads. Also there is leave granted to our Brother Valentine Hill to build a fitting house and a shopp upon the house plott which he hath bought that was our brother M r . William Aspinwall's, and to lett it to Francis Lysle, Barber. Boston Town Kecords, 1639. 39 Also John Hord, Taylor, having served within this towne M r . William Hutchinson for diverse years is Allowed to be an Inhabi- tant amongst Us. Also at this meeting our brother Henry Pease hath promised to fence out the highway through his ground where he dwelleth, 25 foot broade from against the Cove neare his dwelling unto the Crosse high way by our brother James Everill's before the 1st day of the 2d moneth, Aprill,1640, upon the forfeture of £5 in default thereof, and in Witnesse thereof he hath hereunto sett his hand. his Henry -f- Pease. mark. Further, at this Meeting it appeared by a Writing dated the first day of August, 1638, that M 1 ". John Unclerhill hath surrendered unto M 1 '. Thomas Makepeace, of Dorchester, his house in Boston with an hundred akers of upland ground at Muddy River and tenn acrs of meadow or marsh ground there, and his share of Wood- land in the Hands with a garding at the house and another behind M r . Parker's house to the quantity of halfe an acre and some what more, and also neare half an Aker upon the fort hill for the some of an hundred pounds. Also it is ordered that all the Cornefeild fences about the Towne shalbe made sufficient before the eight clay of this next 2d moneth Aprile, upon the penalty of every rodd of fence then undone hi s. iv d. and the fence in the feild towards Roxbury to be lookt unto by our brethren Willm Coulbron & Jacob Elyott & about the fort feild by o r brethren Beniamyn Gillam and Richard G-ridley, and about the mylnefeild our brethren John Button and Jonathan Negoose, and about the NewMld our brethren Willyam Hudson and Richard Fairbancks. Also it is agreed that our brother Robert Walker shalbe the Cow keep for this yeare, to begin the 8th Day of the next 2d Moneth, and to have for every Cow goeing on the necke untill the first of the nynth Moneth a bushell of Corne at Harvest, and a pecke of corne for every calf put to his keeping, and a pecke — [Apparently a line at the bottom of the page is missing.] [29.] The same 25th of the 1st moneth, March, 1639. It is also ordered that the Corne feild fence at Muddy River shalbe made sufficient before the 20th of this next 2d Moneth Aprill, upon penaltie of every Rodd then undone vi s. viii d. And to be seene unto by our brethren John Aucllyn and Edward Baytes. And for the Charge of the fence the broken up ground to pay for every acr three thirds thereof, and the unbroken up twoe thirds of the Charge of every Acre. Also it is ordered that all clrye Cattell that are not Wrought in the Towne shalbe putt from off the necke before the 10th of the next 3d Moneth, in payne for every such beast not put away ii s. vi d. for every Week, and the Cow keeper to looke to this order, and to give a Weeks Warning to the owners of such Cattell, and to have xii d. a peece after such warning out of the forfeture, and the residue to be paid to the Townes use, and upon every his neglect in not giving Warning and taking the forfeiture to forfett vi d. 40 . Citt Document No. 46. Also that noe goate shall goe on the necke Without a keeper after the 10th of this next 2d Moneth, in paine for every goate for every time so taken xii d., the one halfe to the taker, and the other to the Towne, besides making satisfaction for any damage done by them, and old Winge to looke to this Order. Also it is ordered that the owners of all the hoggs that are found within this necke and are not both j^oked and rung after the 8th of this next 2d Moneth, shall pay for all the damage done by them as shalbe iudged by twoe of the Brethren, and shall pay xii d. for every swine for every time soe taken or impounded ; the one half to the taker and the other to the Towne. And in Case any shall take them up into their yard; then forthwith eyther to lett the owners knowe of them, or to sett a note of them upon the "Whip- ping poast, or else to loose both damage and the takeing of them up. Further about the Order for hoggs, it was ordered that in Case any shall take them up into their yards then forthwith, eyther to lett the owners know of them, or to send a note of them to the foldkeeper, to be sett eyther upon one of the poasts of the fould gate or on the Whipping poast, or else the taker of them into his yard shall loose both his damage and his part for the taking of them, and that whoesoever take any such swine shall see that the forfeiture to the Towne be paid ; Moreover Wee doe appoint our brother Richard Fairbanck to be the fould keeper, and to see to the executing of this order, upon the penaltie of xii d. for every his defalt about this order. Also Wee Order that none of those that dwell in any of the feilds shall suffer any of their swine to goe at libertie in any of the feilds, though they be yoked and Runge, in paine of v s. a peece for every time soe taken, the one halfe to the Towne and the other half to the taker of them. Alsoe at this meeting one Henry Shrimpton, a Brasyer, is allowed to be an Inhabitant in this Towne. The 29th day of the 2d moneth, called Aprill, 1639. Att a meeting this day of Thomas Oliver, Thomas Leveritt, Willy am Coulbron, Robert Keayne and Robert Hardinge, It was agreed upon together, With the Consent of M r . William Peirce, that there shall be a passage of seven foote wide from the lower part of M r . Keaynes garden, at his Mud Wall house unto the Creeke neare Edward Bendalls'new house, to be fenced out by the said Willy am Peirce out- of his garden, and at his Charges on the one side, and at the Charges of the said Edward Bendall on the other side, and soe to be maintenyed. Also it is now agreed upon that whereas our brother Thomas Matson Was Allotted for his great Allotment at Rumney Marsh short by the number of twoe heads ; therefore at the next Alloting at Mount Woollystone that it shall be made up unto him at the end of the lott he hath now bought of our brother Edward Hutchinson, the Elder. Also Samuell Grame is Allowed for an Inhabitant. Boston Town Records, 1639. 41 [30.] The 13th day of the 3d moneth, called May, 1639. Att a Generall Meeting upon particular or private Generall notice giveing from house to house. Att this Meeting M r . Robert Keayne and Captaine Edward Gibon Were Chosen for Comittees or deputyes for this next Generall Cort. Also at this meeting M r . Thomas Olyvar, M r . Thomas Leveritt, M r . Willyam Coulbron, M r . Robert Keayne, Captaine Edward Gibbons, M r . Willyam Tinge, M r . Robert Hardinge, Jacob Elyott and M r . John Cogan are Chosen as formerly for the Townes occa- sions for this next ensueing halfe yeare. The 27th day of the same 3d moneth. Att a meeting this day of M r . Thomas Olyvar, Thomas Ler- eritt, M r . Willyam Tinge, Captaine Edward Gibbons, M r . Robert Hardinge, Jacob Elyott and M r . John Cogan, it is agreed that M r . Will}' am Hibbins shall be admitted an Inhabitant in this Towne. The 2d day of the 5th moneth, Julye, 1639. Att a Meeting this day of M r . Thomas Olyvar, Thomas Lev- eritt, M r . William Coulborne, M r . Robert Keajme, M r . William Tinge and M r . John Cogan, it is agreed that William Needham, the Cooper, shall have an acre for his housplott, out of the little Island att Mount Woolly stone, over against Barnaby Dorry falls land, beyond M r . William Coddingtons brooke. Also that Stephen Kinsley, husbandman, shall have the residue of the said Iseland for his housplott there. Also there is granted to John Jepson, Shoemaker, a great lott at the Mount for three heads, twelve acrs, paying for the same, to the use of this towne, three shillings an acre upon the entrance of the platforme or bounders thereof, after the Surveying of it, and that to be at the next townes meeting thereunto. Also there is leave granted to Richard Carter, a Carpenter, to buy a house, with the ground under it, of William Hudson, the younger, next unto M r . Thomas Olyvars new housplott, upon Con- dition of Inoffensive Carry age. Also there is leave granted to Gabryell Fallowell to sell his house, garding, and half acre of land in the new feilde, unto one Richard Bidggood, late of London, Cloth worker, upon Condition of his Inoffensive Carry age amongst us. The 29th day of the 5th moneth, July, 1639. Att a meeting this day of M r . Thomas Olytfar, Thomas Lev- eritt, M r . Willyam Coulbron, M r . Robert Keayne, Captaine Edward Gibbon, M r . Willyam Ting, Jacob Elyott and M r . John Cogan, there is granted a great Lott to our brother, John Smyth, Taylor, at Muddy River, for three heads. Also there is leave granted to our brother, Edward Hutchinson, the 3 T ounger, in behalfe of his father, William Hutchinson, to sell his house in this Towne to M r . Richard Hutchinson, of London, lynning draper. 42 City Document No. 46. Also there is granted to our brother, John Hurd, a great Lott at the Mount, for three heads. Also John Leveritt hath granted unto him a great Lott at Muddy River, for tenn heads. Also M r . David Offley hath a great Lott, &c. [This sentence has been crossed with the pen.] [31.] The 12th day of the 6th moneth, August, 1639. Att a Generall meeting upon Publique Notice. Att this Meeting Captaine Edward Gibon and M r . William Tinge were Chosen, for Comittees or deputyes, for this next Gen- erall Court. The 26th day of the same 6th moneth. At a meeting this da}- of M r . Thomas Oliver, Thomas Leveritt, M r . Willyam Colbron, M r . Eobte Keayne, Captaine Edward Gibon, M r . Willyam Tinge, Jacob Elyott and M r . John Cogan, there is leave granted to M r . Anthony Stoddard, lynning drap. to become a Townsman. Alsoe John Seaborne, a Taylor, having served for the space of three years within this Towne, is granted to be an Inhabitant. Also our brother, Nathaniell Willyams, is graunted a great Lott at Mount Woolbystone, for 4 heads. Also our brother, John Leveritt, is granted a house plott and gardensted, next unto our brother Robert Hulls, to be layd out by our brethren, M r . Willyam Coulbron and Jacob Elyott, building a good house there upon, by the spring time, or Within six Monethes after the laying of it out. Also to Alexander Plumley, that was M r . Colbrons man, is granted a great Lott at the Mount, for three heads. The 30th day of the 7th moneth, Sept., 1639. Att a meeting this day of M r . Thomas Oliver, Thomas Leveritt, M r . Willyam Colbron, M r . Robert Keayne, Captaine Edward Gibon, and Jacob Elyott, there was granted to Thomas Foster, the Gunner at the Castle Island, a great Lott at the Mount, for six heads upon Condition expressed for Mount Woolly stone lands. Also to Cleoment Cole, whoe served with M r . Robert Keayne 4 years, a great Lott there, forseaven heads, upon the like Condition. Also to Thomas Millard, husbandman, a great Lott at the Mount, for fyve heads, upon the like condition. Also to M r . David Offley, a great Lott at Muddy River, for 15 heads. • Also M r . Richard Parker, Marchant, is allowed to be an In- habitant. Also M r . Thomas Foule is allowed to be an Inhabitant. The 28th clay of the 8th mon., October, 1639. At a meeting this day of M r . Thomas Oliver, Thomas Leveritt, M r . Willyam Colbron, M r . Robert Keayne, Captaine Edward Gibon, M r . Willyam Tinge, Jacob Elyott and M r . John Cogan, It is per- mitted to Samuell Sherman for the standing of his Cow house, Boston Town Records, 1639. 43 which he hath built upon the Common by the gate next Rox- bury, untill the spring time, and then he is to take it downe unlesse he have further leave from the Towne for the standing thereof. Also he hath leave granted unto him for this next yeare to mow the plotts of ground compassed about with small Creekes next the great Creeke betweene Eoxbury and us, such as the Cattell use not to feede upon. Also a great Lott granted to our brother Nathaniell Woodward at Muddy River for 3 heads. Also there is granted to our brother Thomas Savidge a garden plott, where it may be Conveniently had, for the hous plott next to the hous plott granted to our brother John Leveritt and upon the like Condition. Also there is granted to John Robbinson, late servant to our brother M r . Newgate, a housplott Where it may conveniently be had. [32.] The same 28 of the 8 4 . mon. Octob. 1639. At this day it appeared by a Writing dated the 11th of the 3d moneth, 1639, that Robert Harding, of Boston, for the sume of £33 6s. 8cl. hath sould unto Richard Tuttell of the same half of his pp Allotment at Romely Marsh (comonly so called) , being in quantity about 50 Acres of upland and Marsh together, bounded towards the North by a strait line parting betweene it and the other half of my pper Allotment, Towards the East by the Comon sewer, Towards the South it Adioyneth to Certaine lands purchased by the said Richard Tuttell ; towards the West by the Comon High Way ; With all the parts of it and appurtenances belonging unto it unto the said Richard Tuttell and to his heirs forever. The 25th day of the 9th moneth, Novemb., 1639. At a meeting this day of M r . Thomas Olyvar, Thomas Leveritt, M r . Willyam Colbron, Captaine Edward Gibon, M r . Willyam Tinge, M r . Robert Harding, Jacob Elyott, and M r . John Cogan, there is granted to our brother Thomas Wheelar a hous plott and garden- stead next unto the housplott the last day granted to our brother Savidg, and upon like Condition, to be layd out by our brethren M r . Willm Colbron and Jacob Elyott. Also this day M r . Edward Tinge is Allowed to be an Inhabitant here. Also there is a great Lott granted to our brother Francis Lysle at the Mount for 5 heads upon the Condition therein limited. Also this day John Seaberry, a Seaman hath with leave bought our brother Water Merry e's house, and half an Acre under it in the Mylne feild, and so is allowed for an Inhabitant. Also Richard Storer, the Sonne of Elizabeth Hull, the Wife of our brother Roberte Hull, is Allowed to be an Inhabitant and to have a great Lott at the Mount for three heads. Also our brother Arthure Pury hath leave to sell his house and garding to Silvester Saunders whoe [hath] long beene a servant in this towne. Also Nicholis Baxter, a fisherman, is Allowed to be an Inhabi- tant. 44 City Document No. 46. Also our brother John Milles hath sould to our brother Thomas Savidge the Wood Lott of foure Acrs of Upland and Marsh at Hogg Island, and all his right of an Acre and a half of planted ground in the Newfeild. Also Thomas Clarke, a locksmith, is Allowed for an Inhabitant and to be Considered of for a housplott here and a great Lott at Mount Wooly stone for six heads. Also, Whereas at a former meeting there was granted to our brother George Burdon a great Lott at the Mount for five heads which as yet hath not beene layd out, and that now he is increased to eight heads which are now allowed. [33.] The 16th day of the 10th moneth, December, 1639. Att a Generall Meeting upon Publique Notise. Att this meetinge the orders of the last Generall Court were openly Reade. Alsoe att this meetinge M r . John Winthrop, Governor, M r . Richard Bellingnam, Treasurer, M r . Wiltyam Coulbron*, Captaine Edward Gibon, M r . Willyam Tinge, M r . Willyam Hibbon, M r . John Cogan, M r . Robert Harding and Jacob Ellyott are Chosen as formerly for the Townes Affayrs for these next six Monethes. Also this day M r . John Cogan and Willyam Hudson the Elder are Chosen the Cunstables of this Towne for this next«yeare. The 30th day of the same moneth. Att a Meeting this day of M r . John Winthrop, Governor, M r . Richard Bellingham, Treasurer, M r . Willyam Coulborne, Captaine Edward Gibon, M r . Willyam Ting, M r . Willyam Hibbon, M r . John Cogan, M 1 '. Robert Harding and Jacob Elyott there is graunted to Richard Sherman a great Lott for seaven heads att Muddy Ryver, if it be there to be had. Also Gregory Belchar hath a great Lott granted unto him for 13 heads, 52 Acrs at the Mount, paying.3s. an Acre to the use of this Towne upon the entrance of the bounders thereof after the Surveying of it. Also Willyam Potter hath the like granted to him for xi heads, 44 Acrs there, pajdng 3s. an acre, upon the entrance as before. Also our brother John Remicke, hath a great Lott allowed to him at Muddy Ryver for four heads. Also our brother, George Curtys, hath a great Lott granted to him there for two heads. Alsoe this day Willyam Blanton Carpenter is allowed for an Inhabitant. Alsoe Leonard Buttle is this day Allowed for an Inhabitant. Also Edmund Grosse is this day Allowed for an Inhabitant. Also this day Richard Woodas, fisherman, is granted a great Lott at the Mount for 3 heads, upon the usuall condition for that ground. At this day it was agreed that 300 Acrs at Muddy River for perpetuall Commonage to the Inhabitants there and the towne of Boston, to begin at the outer bounds of M r . Hibbins Lott, and soe to goe into the Country as the Land will afford before any other allotments are layd out hereafter. Boston Town Eeoords, 1639. 45 Frauds Dowse, servant to our brother, George Burdou, is allowed for an Inhabitant. Alsoe there is leave granted this day to our brother, Edmund Jackson, for this next summer tyme, to mowe the meadow in the New feild adioyning to his planting ground there. Alsoe M r . Edward Tinge hath this day granted unto him a great Lott at the Mount for 250 Acrs, adioyning to the lands of Edward Hutchinson and Thomas Savidge on the upper side of the Pond. Also there is leave granted to our brother, Richard Fairbancke, for the next Summer, to mowe the marsh ground in the new feild as he hath formerly mo wen. [34.] The same 30th day of the 10th moneth, December, 1639. Whereas, at a former Meeting, there was granted to our brother, Thomas Scottoe, a great Lott at Muddy River for three heads, which, as yet, have not beene layd out for him, and that now he is increased to fyve heads. He is, therefore, now allowed to have the said Lott for five heads. The like also is granted to John Crab tree for 5 heads at the Mount and upon Mount land Condicon ; Whereas he was formerly allowed but for two heads. Our brother, Arthure Perry, hath a great Lott granted to him for 7 heads at the Mount upon the usuall Condition thereof. The 27 day of the 11th moneth, January, 1639. Att a meeting this day of M r . John Winthrop, Governor, M r . Richard Bellingham, Treasurer, M r . Willyam Coulbron, Captaine Edward Gibon, M r . Willyam Ting, M r . John Cogan, M r . Robert Harding and Jacob Elyott, it is ordered that whereas there was formerly graunted to M r . John Wheelewright a great Lott of 250 Acrs, 205 Acrs Whereof have beene layd out where parte of the first Allottments should have lyen, and that the purchaser of M r . Wheelewrights grant hath Consented to the parting with the said 205 Acrs for the having in lue thereof all the Captaines plaine, and 80 Acrs more. Also William Neeclham hath a great Lott granted him at the Mount for 2 heads, 8 Acrs, payinge 3s. an Acre, according to the agreed order for them of the Mount. Also Robert Hewstead hath a great Lott granted unto him att the Mount 'for eight heads, 32 Acrs, paying 3s. an Acre, to the Use of the Towne Upon the Entrance of the bounders thereof, after the Surveying of it. Also George Wright hath the like granted to him there for 3 heads, 12 Acrs, paying 3s. an Acre upon the entrance as before. Also our brother, Henry Shrimpton, hath granted unto him a great Lott for 3 heads. Also our brother, Richard Hogge, hath the like granted unto him, for 5 heads there, upon like Condition. Also he desireth a house Lott and garden plott. Also our brother, John Spoor, hath a great Lott granted unto him for 5 heads at the Mount, upon the usuall Condition thereof. Also there is granted to Edmund Grosse the square peece of ground adioyning to William Letherlands yard, and bounding 46 City Document No. 46. towards the Beech there for a housplott, excepting one Rodd in bredth from William Letherlands house plott to Thomas Grubbs Fish bouse, which is granted to Willy am Letherland. Also there is graunted to Richard Critchley a great Lott for 5 heads at the Mount, upon the usuall Condition thereof. Also our brother, John Gallopp, hath the meadow or Marsh plott in Long Island, being about six acrs, granted unto him as other men have their planting Lotts there. Also Thomas Clarke, smith, hath a great Lott granted unto him for 8 heads at the Mount, upon the Usuall Condition thereof. [35.] The same 27th clay of the 11th moneth, 1639. Our Brother, Edward Bendall, is Appointed to bestow all goods Whereof the owners are not knowne. Also all that have businesses for the Townsmens Meeting are to bring them in to M 1 '. Leveritt, M r . Willyam Ting, or to Jacob Elyott, before the Townse Meetings. Also Samuell Grame hath a great Lott granted unto him for 4 heads at the Mount, upon the Usuall Condition thereof. Also for enclinge the difference betweene the Purchasers of M r . Wheelewrights lands and the owners of the second division or Lott at Mount Woollystone, for as much as the said Purchasers cannot have their lands supplyecl in course, as those of the first Lott had, without prejudice to many men whoe have improved their Lotts ; It is therefore ordered by Consent of diverse of the partyes, that the Purchasers of M r . Wheelewrights lands shall have (in leiue of the 205 Acrs which was taken away towards the making up of what was wanting to the first dyvision or Lott there) the 43 Acrs at the end of his Land and the Captaines Plaine, being about 114 Acrs, and that the Widdow Shelley s Sonne, and those whoe chal- lenge interest in the said Plaine, shall have their parts supplyed, first served and layde out where noe grant is alredy made in per- ticular, and together therewith the 30 Acrs remayning of M r . Wheelewrights proportion besides ; and the Purchasers are to have in lew of the Residue more than the 30 Acrs which they Allowed to the said Widdow Shelley s sonne, and the Rest, such proportion of the Rocky grounds lying next the said Playne and the said 43 Acrs as the Surveyors upon view shall finde answerable to the 18 Acrs remayning to them. At this meeting Robert Mears hath sould to Dorothie Bill, Wid- dow, for her life, and to her Sonne, James Bill, with her, to him and his heirs his house and gardenstead under it Wherein they now doe dwell. Robert Bradford, Taylor, allowed to be an Inhabitant. Also to our Brother Anthony Stoddard there is granted a great Lott of 100 Acrs upon the Condition thereof. Also there is granted to M r . Thomas Foule a great Lott of 600 Acrs Att Also to M r . Samuell Mavericke a great Lott of 400 Acrs att Also to Henry Messenger a great Lott at Muddy River for 2 heads. Also to our brother Josua Scotto a great Lott there for 3 heads Boston Town Records, 1639-40. 47 Also to Thomas Painter, Joyner, a great Lott at Muddy River for 4 heads. Also there is granted to brother Robert Hull six Acrs of Upland ground at Hog Island. Also Benianryn Negoose, a Salter, is Allowed to be an Inhabitant. [36.] The same 27th clay of the 11th moneth, January, 1639. It was agreed with our Neighbors and Brethren of the Mount, viz. : William Cheesebrough, Alexander Winchester, Richard Wright, James Pennyman, Stephen Kinsley, and Martin Saunders, in the name of the Rest there (for whom they under- tooke) that they should give to this Towne of Boston towards the maintenance thereof 4s. an Acre for every 2 Acrs of the 7 Acrs formerly granted to divers, then of Boston, upon expectation they should have Continued With Us ; And 3s. an Acre for every Acre that hath beene, or shalbe, granted to any others whoe are not In- habitants of Boston ; and that in Consideration hereof, and after that the said portions of money shalbe payd to this Towne's Treasurie of Boston, all the said lands shalbe free from any Towne Rates or Charges to Boston, and also from all Countrie Charges when the Mount shalbe Rated by the Court, by it selfe, and not Assessed with the Towne of Boston; And upon these Termes., If the Court shall think fitt to grant them to be a Towne of them selves, they shall have free liberty to Accept thereof ; Provided that this Order shall not extend to any more or other Lands than such as shall make payment of the said Rates soe agreed upon of 4s. and 3s. an Acr. And upon the former Consideration, there is granted to the Mount all the Rocky ground lying betweene the Fresh brooke and M r . Coddington's brooke, Adioyning to M r . Haulghe's Farme, and from the west Corner of that Farme to the South west Corner of M r . Hutchinson's Farme, to be Reserved and Used in Comon for ever by the Inhabitants and Land holders there, to- gether with one other parsell of Rockie ground neare to the Knight's necke, which was left out by the third Company of Lotts (ex- cepting all such grounds lying among or neere the said Rocky grounds, formerly granted out in Lotts to particular Persons. Also there is granted to M r . William Thompson, Pastor of the Church at the Mount, 120 Acrs of Land there, Free from the foresaid Rate of 3s. per Acre. Also there is granted to M r . Henry Flint 80 Acrs of Land there, in like sort, Free from the said Rate of 3s. per Acr. Also there is granted to John Lugg a great Lott, for 9 heads, at the Mount, upon the Usual Conditions. Also there is further granted to M r . William Ting, in regard that his great Lott at Muddy River is not yet la}"d out, nor could be in regard the Bounders between Boston and Roxbury were but lately determined, and that now the number of his Persons and Cattell are increased, there is further granted to him an hundred acrs more to be layd unto his Lott formerly granted. The Brethren's Lotts and the Commonage there alredy granted being first layd out. [37.] The same 27th day of the 11th moneth, January, 1639. Also Att this Meeting John Vyall, Weaver, is Allowed to be an Inhabitant. 48 City Document No. 46. Also there is granted to M r . Beniamin Keayne a great Lott at Mount Woolyston, of 200 Acrs (be it more or lesse), as it is alredy layd out with markes and stakes towards the North with M r . Haulgkes great Allottment ; towards the East with Lands yet in Comon ; towards the South with Monotecott Eyver, and towards the West with the great Pyne Swampe. Also there is granted 500 Acrs of Land at Mount Wooliston, Where it may be Conveniently layd out for the use of the Can- oneere of Boston Wheresoever he is, or shall be, in the service thereof from time to time. Also there is granted to our Elder, M r . Thomas Olyvar, all the fresh meadow belonging to Boston lying under the foote of the great Hill at Muddy River next Newtowne bounds there. Also there is granted to Mr. William Coulbron, a parcell of f resh meaddowe adioyning to the little fresh brooke parting betweene us and Newtowne bounds at Muddy River, and Running into Charles Ryver there. Also there is 2,000 Acrs to be sett a part at the Mount for the use of this Towne in the most Convenient place unallotted. The 24th clay of the 12th moneth, February, 1639. At a Meeting this day of M r . John Winthrop, Governor, M r . Richard Bellingham, Treasurer, Captaine Edward Gibon, M r . Willin Ting, M r . William Coulbron, M r . John Cogan, M r . Robert Harding, and Jacob Elyott, there is granted to M 1 '. Richard Par- ker a great Lott of 400 Acrs at the Mount, besides the hundred Acrs given to the Wharf e, and to be laid out together. Also there is granted to Lewys Kidby a houslott on the Marsh next unto John Lowes, twoe Rodds towards the Sea in bredth, and 4 Rodds in length on the backeside. Also there is granted to William Blanton, Carpenter, a great Lott at Muddy River, for 3 heads and a houslott on the necke Where it inay be had. Also there is granted to Leonard Buttles, bricklayer, a great Lott at Muddy River for 4 heads. Also Edward Fletcher, Cutler, is Allowed to be an Inhabitant, and to have a housplott Where it may be had. Also there is leave granted to our brother Richard Brackett to mo we the Marsh lying in the Newfeild, Which he hath usually mowen, for this next Summer time. Also our brother, Arthure Perry, hath a housplott granted him. Also our brother, Richard Hogg, the like. Also our brother, John Hurd, the like. [38.] The same 24th day of the 12th mon. Feb. At this Meeting William Briscoe, taylor, is Allowed to be an Inhabitant, and to have a great Lott, for eight heads, at the mount. Also John , Marshall, husbandman, having served with our brother, M r . Edward Hutchinson, is allowed an Inhabitant. Also there is granted to ould Robert Wing a great Lott at Muddy River, for 4 heads. Boston Town Records, 1639-40. 49 Also the like is granted to Lewys Kiclby, Fisherman, for 2 heads, at the Mount, upon the Usuall Condition. The like is granted to John Moore, the Governors servant, for 3 heads. The like is granted to brother Thomas Mekyns, the younger, for 7 heads. The like is granted to George Barrell, Cooper, for 9 heads there. The like is granted to William Kirkby, Fisherman, for 3 heads there. The like is granted to John Arnould, Plasterer, for 2 heads there. The like is granted to Richard Carter, Sawyer, for 3 heads there. The like is granted to "Waters Sinnott, Fisherman, for 3 heads there. Also there is granted to Thomas Jewell, of the Mount, Milner, for three heads, 12 Acrs, upon the Covenant of 3s. p. Acre. The like to M r . Danyell Welles, of the same, for 20 heads, 80 Acrs there, upon the same Covenant of 3s. p. Acre. The like to Peter Brackett, of the same, for 12 heads, 48 Acrs there, upon the same Covenant of 3s. p. Acre. The like to Samuel Allen, of the same, for 7 heads, 28 Acrs there, upon the same Covenant of 3s. p. Acre. The like to Willy am Allyce,* of the same, for 3 heads, 12 Acrs there, upon the same Covenant of 3s. p. Acre. Jacob Wilson, of the same, hath the like, for 4 heads, 16 Acrs there, upon the same Covenant of 3s. p. Acre. The like to John Reade, of the same, for 11 heads, 44 Acrs there, upon the same Covenant of 3s. p. Acre. The like to Robte Stephens, of the same, for 3 heads, 12 Acrs there, upon the same Covenant of 3s. p. Acre. The like to George Rose, of the same, for 5 heads, 20 Acrs there, upon the same Covenant of 3s. p. Acre. The like to Henry Addams, of the same, for 10 heads, 40 Acrs there, upon the same Covenant of 3s. p. Acre. [39.] The same 24th day of the 12th moneth, Feb. 1639. And at the same Meeting there was granted to Thomas Place, of Mount Woolly stone, for 5 heads, 20 Acrs there, upon the Covenant of 3s. p. Acre. The like to John Harbar, of the same, for 3 heads, 12 Acrs there, upon the same Covenant of 3s. p. Acre. The like to Beniamyn Allrye, of the same, for 3 heads, 12 Acrs there, upon the same Covenant of 3s. p. Acre. The like to Thomas Simons, of the same, for 10 heads, 40 Acrs there, upon the same Covenant of 3s. p-. Acre. The like to John Marchant, of the same, for 2 heads, 8 Acrs there, upon the same Covenant of 3s. p. Acre. The like to George Poffer, of the same, for 5 heads, 20 Acrs there, upon the same Covenant of 3s. p. Acre. The like to John Pafflyn, of the same, for 2 heads, 8 acrs there, upon the same Covenant of 3s. p. Acre. The like to Robert Sharpe, of the same, for 4 heads, 16 acrs there, upon the same Covenant of 3s. p. Acre. * This name may be read Allyee. 50 City Document No. 46. The like to John Dasset, of the same, for 7 heads, 28 Acrs there, upon the same Covenant of 3s. p. Acre. The like to Thomas Blysse, of the same, for 9 heads, 36 acrs there, upon the same Covenant of 3s. p. Acre. The like to Thomas Gilbert, of the same, for 7 heads, 28 Acrs there, upon the same Covenant of 3s. p. Acre. The like to Henry Neale, of the same, for 3 heads, 12 Acrs there, upon the same Covenant of 3s. p. Acre. The like to Henry Mauclsley, of the same, for 3 heads, 12 Acrs there, upon the same Covenant of 3s. p. Acre. The like to James CoYej, of the same, for 4 heads, 16 Acrs there, upon the same Covenant of 3s. p. Acre. The like to Samuell Bitfeild, of the same, for 5 heads, 20 Acrs there, upon the same Covenant of 3s. p. Acre. The like to James Clarke, of the same, for 2 heads, 8 Acrs there, upon the same Covenant of 3s. p. Acre. «. The like to James Wiseman, of the same, for 3 heads, 12 Acrs there, upon the same Covenant of 3s. p. Acre. The like is granted to John Collyns, of Monaticott, at Mount Woollystone, for 3 heads, 12 Acrs there, upon the same Covenant of 3s. p. Acre, to the use of this towne. The like to Christofer Collyns, of the same, for 2 heads, 8 Acrs there, upon the same Covenant of 3s. p. Acre. The like to George Aldrich, of the same, for 5 heads, 20 Acrs there, upon the same Covenant of 3s. p. Acre. The like to Anthony Newton, of the same, for 3 heads, 12 Acrs there, upon the same Covenant of 3s. p. Acre. The like to Mathew Snryth, of the same, for 5 heads, 20 Acrs there, upon the same Covenant of 3s. p. Acre. [40.] The same 24th day of the same 12th Moneth, February, 1639. Att this Meeting there was granted to John French, of Monati- cott, at Mount Woollystone, a great Lott there, for 5 heads, 20 Acrs, and 20 Acrs more at his request to witt 40 Acrs in all there, upon the Covenant of 3s. p. Acre. The like to John Miles, of the same, for 6 heads, and 20 Acrs more there, being in all 44 Acrs, upon the same Covenant of 3s. p. Acre. The like to Richard Rockett, of the same, for 5 heads, and 20 Acrs more, there being in all 40 Acrs, upon the same Covenant of 3s. p. Acre. The like to Nicholas Hathwajr, of the same, for 4 heads, and 20 Acrs more, there being in all 36 Acrs, upon the same Covenant of 3s. p. Acre. The like to Thomas Bird, of the same, for 4 heads, and 20 Acrs more, there being in all 36 Acrs, upon the same Covenant of 3s. p. Acre. The like to George Sheppard, of the same, for 2 heads, and 10 Acrs more, there being in all 18 Acrs, upon the same Covenant of 3s. p. Acre. The like to Thomas Tayer, of the same, for 9 heads, and 40 Acrs more, there being in all 76 Acrs, upon the same Covenant of 3s. p. Acre. Boston Town Kecords, 1640. 51 The like to Dairy ell Lovell and his mother, of the same, for 3 heads, 12 Acrs there, upon the same Covenant of 3s. p. Acre. The like to David Rogers, of the same, for 2 heads, 8 acrs there, upon the same Covenant of 3s. p. Acre. The like to John Onyon, of the same, for 2 heads, 8 Acrs there, upon the same Covenant of 3s. p. Acre. Alsoe at this Meeting it appeared by a "Writing under the hand of one Willyam Mawer, late of this Towne, husbandman, dated the 7th day of this 12th moneth Called February, 1639, that the said Willyam Mawer hath for the sume of £15, unto him in hand payd, sould to Captaine Edward Gibon, of the same, one house and garding plott, Conteyning by estimacon half an Acre (be it more or lesse) with the buildings thereupon and appurtenances Whatsoever belonging to the same, within this Towne now in the occupation of one Willyam Teffe, taylor, unto him the said Cap- taine G-ibon and to his heirs and Assignes forever. Also at this Meeting our brethren Edward Randsford and Wil- lyam Hudson are appointed to accompany the Surveyor to la3*e out the planting ground at Long Hand, and they are to beginne at the East end, and if any have bestowed any labor upon that Which shall fall to another man, he Whoe shall enioye the benefitt there- of, shall eyther allow for the Charge, or Cleare soe much for the other. [41.] The 30th day of the 1st moneth, March, 1640. Art a Meeting this day of M r . John Winthrop, Governor, Cap- taine Edward Gibon, M r . William Colbron, M r . William Ting, M r . John Cogan, and Jacob Elyott. On this day Captaine Edward Gibon, for the Some of £16, hath sould unto Willyam Teffe, of this Town, taylor, and to his heires and assignes forever, one house and garding plott, with the buildings thereupon and appurtenances belonging to the same, Within this Towne, sometime Will}* am Hudson's, the elder, and now in the possession of the said Willyam Teffe, and Which he the said Cap- taine Gibon lately purchased of one Willyam Mawer, late of this Towne, husbandman. Also it is ordered, that M r . Willyam Coulbron and Jacob Elyott shall sett out to brother John Ocllyn such quantity of Marsh ground at Muddy River as they shall thinke Convenient for him, and shall Certify the same at the next Towne's meeting that a piyce may be sett of the same, upon payment Whereof the said Marsh ground to be granted to the said John Ocllyn and to his heirs forever. Also, Consideration to be had of brother Sargient Savage, his demaund to have the overplus land at Hogg Hand, Which he bought of divers men, sett out unto him. Also, at this Meeting John Freind, Carpenter, now dwelling in this Towne, is to be allowed an Inhabitant thereof. Also, John Palmer, Carpenter, now dwelling here, is to be allowed an Inhabitant, if he can gett an house, or land to sett an house upon (it being not proper to allowe a man an Inhabitant Withou[t] habitation. Also William Needham of the Mount, hath granted unto him 12 Acrs there, upon the Coven*, of 3 s . p. Acre. 52 City Document No. 46. Also agreed upon that henceforth there shalbe noe land granted ey ther for housplott or garden to any person out of the open ground or Coraon Feild Which is left betweene the Centry Hill and M r . Colbrons end ; Except 3 or 4 Lotts to make up the streete from bro. Eobte Walkers to the Round Marsh. Also it is ordered that notice shalbe given by the Cunstables unto such as have not built upon their house Lotts which have beene sett out to them above a yeare, that they come to the next meeting to shew Cause why their Lotts should not be granted to others according to the Originall grant ; and if they come not, that then the Towne Will dispose of them. Also it is agreed that Edward Baytes (in regard of his absence at Isle Sables) shalbe allowed 6 monethes to build upon his Lott ; otherwise he Consents to leave it to the Towne, his Charges being allowed to the Value. Also it is ordered that the Streete from M r . Atherton Haulghes to the Centry hill to be layd out, and soe kept^open for ever. Also the great Lott formerly granted to Thomas Hawkins, at the Mount is now Confirmed to Him, and 5 Acrs more Added to it, in regard of some damage he sustaynes in the ground Where he dwells, by the laying out of Highwayes on both sides of it. Also M r . Willyam Colbron and Jacob Elyott are appointed to lay out the high Wayes at Muddy River, towards Cambridge. Also William Davis, gunsmyth, hath granted him a great Lott of 20 Acrs at the Mount, upon the usual Covenant for such Lotts. Also it is agreed that William Hudson, the elder, shalbe Com- mended to the Court, that he may have Allowance to keepe an Ordinary. Also William Briscoe, Taylor, hath granted him an houselott in the Way betweene Robte Walkers and the Round marsh, to be sett out by M r . Colbron and Jacob Ellyott. Also it is ordered that Richard Fairebancke and William Salter shall looke to the fences in the feild next Roxbury, and likewise Beniamin Gillam and Edmund Jacklyn for the Fort feild, and also William Hudson and Edward Bendall for the new feild, and further also M r . Valentine Hill and John Button for the mime feild fences. [42.] The 20th day of the 2d moneth, called Aprill, 1640. Att a Generall meeting upon publique notice. At this meeting Captaine Edward Gibon and M r . Willyam Tinge where Chosen for the Comittees or Deputyes of this Towne for this next Generall Court. The 27th day of the 2d moneth, called Aprill, 1640. At a meeting this day of M r . John Winthropp, Governor, M r . Richard Bellingham, Assistant, Captaine Edward Gibbones, M r . William Colbron, M r . William Ting, M r . John Cogan, & Jacob Eliott. It was Ordered, First, that William Hibbins should have his greate Lotte at muddy River (yf it be there to be had) as neare his land he bought as may be without wrong to others ; and for this end M r . Colebron and goodman Eliott are to vue the place, and Certifie at the next meeting what may bee donnc. 2dly. There is graunted to M r . William Ting a parcell of the Boston Town Kecokds, 1640. 53 marsh lieing next that he bought of M r . John Oliver, 4 Rodd in breadth, and soe the whole length of the marsh. 3rdly. Upon M r . Tresurers* motion for a peece of marsh at the end of that where his sawpitt is, It is referred to view before the next meeting. 41y. For the difference betwixt M r . Oliver and Mch. Carter about a fence, Carter is for the present to make up the fence he pulled downe, And yf the next Generall Court shall make any order for fences it shall bee disposed accordingly. 51y. Samuell Sherman is alowed a Lott at the mount for fifteene heads. 6. John Scarlett is allowed a lott at the mount for twoe heads. 7. Ed. Goodwine is alowed a lott at the mount for twoe heads. 8. Samuell Sherman is allowed that his Cowe house may stand near Eoxburie gate, where it now is, and he is inioyned to sett his fence straight, soe as he doe not incroch upon the high way. 9. The parcell of marsh at Hogg Island is tendered to goodman Marshall and goodman Raynolds and B. Gridley, to be sould to them att such rates as shall be agreed. fll. Peter the dutch man, is allowed one acre at Long Island. 12. The house Lott formerly graunted to Bibble, which he hath forfetted for not building upon it, according to the order, Is now graunted to Joh. Eobertsonne, provided he buylt upon it within six monethes. 13. John Woodward is allowed a howselott next Henry Gray, provided he build upon it within six moneths. [43.] 14. Eobert Walker is alowed the howse lott next his house to make a garden, Provided that he put of that which is now his garden on the other side the way, to be a house Lott. 15. Ed. Goodwine is graunted a howse Lott next to Wiilia. Briscowe, provided hee build on it within six moneths. 16. Ed. Grosse is graunted a Lott for twoe heads at muddy River, if it be there to be had after former graunts are served. 17. Natha : Willis is spared for Cleareing halfe an acre of his ground at spectackell Island, in regard his servant did scald his legg. \ 18. James Davis is allowed three acres at long Island. 19. Seriant Savage is graunted tenn acres of upland at hogg Island for £4, to be set out of the over plus Land. 20. All drie Cattle are to bee removed of the neck within foure- teene dayes upon paine of five shillings the weeke for every beast, except workeingbeests, and noe man is to keepe above twoe Cowes. 21. Wiilia. Hibbins is Chosen Treasurer for the towne stock, which shall arise of sale of Lands, or by any other waies then by ordinary rates, to Continue untill another be Chosen in his place. 22. George Burden, his Lott at long Island is (by his Consent) assigned to Ed. Jacksonne. 23. John Odline is to have 8 Acres of marsh at muddie river for £4, which he payed clpwne ; and Ed. Grubb six acrs there for £3 ; * The margin says Mr. Bellingham's motion ; he was formerly treasurer, f No item No. 10 is on the Record. 54 City Document No. 46. and Ben. Gillum 10 Aors for £5 ; and Joh. Davis 8 Acrs for £4. to be set out by M r . Coleburne and Goodman Eliott after M r . Hibbins is served. 24. All swine are to be sufficiently yocked, except such as have a keeper with thern, upon paine of forfeture for every swine above six weekes ould not so yocked ; 2s. for every time any swine shall be taken unyocked, whereof the one halfe shall goe to the prosecutor; this order is to take place from the 8th of the 3d moneth. 25. The residue of the ground not graunted at long island (yf an} r be) is graunted to Ben : Gillum. The 25th of the 3d moneth, called May, 1640. At a meeting this da} r of M r . William Ting, Treasurer, M r . Wil- liam Coleburne, M r . John Cogan, Brother Jacob Eliott, and William Hibbins, it was ordered Imprj-mis : M r . Edward Ting is graunted to digg Turfe of the Island lieing among the flatts by mill feild going to Charlestowne . [44.] Also to William Hibbins is graunted a parcell of meddowe at Muddy River Containing by estimation about 10 Acres inclosed by a greate swanipe on the one side and greate rocks on the other, provided it fall not in any former graunt ; if wee can better accomodate him heare after he is content to resigne his againe. It is agreede and Consented unto in regard our brother Everell hath a great parcell of woode and timber to land heare this present yeare, that he shall make use to himselfe for the time being, namely for this present winter following of the quantitie of eight Rodds or there about, betweene the beach and the sea, and that the timber he may rowle upon the marsh, provided he keepe a faire passage for other men to passe with their wood or with an}^ other Loadeing. Chrystopher Stanley is promised the refusall of six acres of upland in Hog iland on purchase, yf it be there to be sould. There is an over plus of land in brother Buttons greate lotte at Mount Wollaston, the which is to make up the lotts of those breethren that are shorte in theires, and the residue is to be sould, and the money to bee put into thetowne Tresury of Boston. As alsoe another parcell of land lieing neare the new fence, the which for like purpose is to be sould. The 29th of the 4th moneth, 1640. At a meeting this day of M r . Richard Bellingham, Deputie, M r . John Winthrop, M r . Ting, M r . Cogan, M r . Coleburne, Brother Eliott, and William Hibbins, it was Ordered That the 400 Acres formerly graunted to M r . Richard Parker, together with the 100 Acres due to him, in right of the wharfe, are now appoynted to bee set out to him upon monotacott River next to M r . Beniamine Canes farme, and soe in all he is to have 500 acres in the same place. Cotton Elack hath a howse lott graunted unto him in the way from M r . Coleburnes house to the sea next to Goodman Briscoes. Robert Howen is graunted a greate lott upon the land near Braintree for fower heads. John Viall hath a greate Lott graunted him at the mount for 4 heades. Boston Town Records, 1640. 55 [45,] George Barrell is grauntecl to have that acre of ground at Spectackell Island which was passed over to him by Goodman Smith. The last 2d day of the 5th moneth, 1640. At a meeting this day of the deputies, M r . Winthropp, Captaine Gibons, M r . Ting, M r . Coleburne, M r . Cogan, brother Eliott, and William Hibbins, It was ordered, And time was given to those, the brethren, with others of the mount, upon their request that the payment for some Certaine parte of the land thej^ hould there according to an order agreed on afore entered in this sayd booke should bee as followeth : The first pay- ment on the 3d day of the 10th month, 1640, at which time the one halfe is to be payd either in Corne, Cattle, or moneys accord- ing to the then rate of Corne, or Cattle. And the other parte or halfe on the 3d of the 10th month, 1641, in the like, to bee paj r d in into the towne tresurie of Boston. The 31st of the 6th moneth, 1640. At a meeting this day of M r . Deputie, M r . Coleburne, M r . Cogan, brother Eliott, and William Hibbins It is ordered That William Douglas is allowed to be a townseman, he behaving himself e as becometh a Christian man. It is also ordered, that the parcell of marsh ground unallotted at hogg Island, formerly tendered to our brother Marshall, brother Gridley, and brother Raynolds to purchase, is now resigned up to our Brother Marshall, by our brother Raynolds and our brother Gridley, hee paying for the same twenty shillinges worth in postes and railes for the townes use. Theodor Atkinsone is graunted his greate Lott, for twoe heades at muddie River, yf it be there to bee had after others are served that had their graunts before him. The 28th of the 7th moneth, 1640. At a generall townes meeting, M r . William Tinge, Treasurer, and William Hibbins are appoynted deputies for this the next generall Courte. At the same meeting there were chosen Townsmen for the six moneths following, M r . Richard Bellingham, Deputie, M r ., John Winthropp, senior, M r . WilliamTing, Treasurer, Captaine Edward Gibons, M r . William Coleburne, brother Jacob Eliott, M r . John Nugate, M r . Atherton Howgh, and Willam Hibbins. For surveiors of the high waies, M r . John Nugate and Brother Jonathan Negus ; and for towne Crier, William Courser. [46.] [Blank in the original.] [47.] The 28th of 7th moneth, 1640. Att a meeting this day of Captaine Edward Gibones, M r . William Ting, senr., M r . Coleburne, brother Eliott, and William Hibbins. Mr. Henry Webb hath graunted unto him 200 acres without allowance at mount willaston, beyond monotocott river, adioyning to M r . Edward Ting and M r . Edward Hutchinson's farmes. At the same meeting our brother Robert Scott hath the like 200 5Q City Document JSTo. 46. acrs graunted him there, namely, adioyning to our brother Webb's, without alowance for rockienes or swampe. The 26th day of the 8th moneth, 1640. Att a meeting this day of M r . Richard Belliugham, Deputie, Johu Winthropp, Esquire, M r . Atherton Howgh, M r . William Ting, sen r . Captaine Edward Gibones, M r . Nuegate M r . Coleburne, brother Jacob Eliott, and M r . William Hibbins. There is sould to our brother John Odline one Acre and halfe of marsh at muckty river, adioyning to the 8 acres formerly graunted & sould to him, for the which he hath payd in hand 15s. Also at the same meeting our brother Thomas Grubb and our brother Garrett Bworne are appo3 Coleborne, 61, 99, 101, 102, 108. Colebron, 52. Coleburne, 54, 55, 56, 57, 58, 59, 60, 61. Coloborne, 100. Coulborne, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 24, 25, 26, 27, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 41, 44. Coulbourn, 35, 36, 37, 160. Coulbourne, 19, 20, 30, 35, 36. Coulbron, 38, 40, 41, 42, 44, 45, 48, 51. : Colimore, 139. Collimoor, 114. Collimore, 114. •^ Culimore, 1 Cullamore, i g^ Colimore Cullimore, f CM3e ^ onmore - Cullymore,J J Collins, 134. j Collyns, 50 Commissioners, seven chosen, 112. " for the Fort, 8. " of Rates, 106, 156. " to carry votes, 114, 129, 134, 143, 149, 159. Committee of the town, 8. Common (and waste lands), 43, 52, 67, 78, 79, 80, 83, 84, 88, 89, 90, 93, 110, 116, 119, 126, 135, 154, 158, 160. at Mt. Wollaston, 47. at Muddy River, 44. Commonage, 88, 124, 160. Companies, the six, 65. Compton, 94, 96. Concord, 37. Conduit, 132, 138, 148, 158. Connell, 38. I Conney, 146. } Conny, 146, 148. Constables, 4, 5, 11, 20, 35, 44, 58, 62, 63, 64, 69, 70, 73, 75, 76, 80, 81, 82, 83, 84, 86, 87, 88, 89, 90, 92, 94, 95, 99, 100, 103, 108, 113, 114, 115,116, 118, 121,122, 123,128, 129, 133, 134, 140, 143, 150, 154. Coogan, 2. ( Cook, 90, 139. j Cooke, 109, 117, 157. Cook-shop, 67, 112. Coope, 95. t Cop, 144. j Copp, 90. Corn, measures of, 126. Corimell, 35. f Corser, 114. | Coursar, 33. J Courser, 26, 55, 59, 60, 73, 74, 75, 90, 103, *) 108, 112, 118, 123, 134, 137, 143, 150, 153, 154. [Couresser, 99. ( Cotten, 103, 108, 122. \ Cotton, 3, 6, 13, 25, 26, 99, 113, 129, 138, 146, ( 160. Court-house, 94. Cove, the, 34, 39, 74, 79, 81, 94, 99, 113, 117. Covey, 50. Cowell, 150. Coxall, 2. I Crabtre,110. j Crabtree, 31, 45. Cramme, 22, 23, 26. Crane, 108. Cranwell, 25, 33. Creek, the, 2, 106. Creek, Fisher's, 21, 28, 30. Great, 43. Salt, 29. ( Criehley, 118, 122. I Critchley, 46. Cromwell, Capt. T., his gift, 102, 108. Crumell, 108. Crumwell, 102. Cunny, 129, 134. ( Curtis, 83, 140. ( Curtys, 44. Dasset, 50. Davenport, 128. fDavice, 89, 90, 91,94. Davies, 61. Davis, 52, 53, 54, 69, 72, 73, 80, 84, 91, 92, 95, 96, 101, 103, 105, 106, 108, 118, 119, 120, 121, 122, 123, 124, 125, 126, 127, 128, 137, 139, 142. (.Smyth, 11,41,94,96. Snelling, 156. ( Snow, 26. ( Snowe, 14. Sods not to be dug, 90. Soldiers pressed, 121, 122. Somertshife, 34. Somes, 152. South end (south of the Mill Creek), 105. Sowell, 139. Sowers, 113 Sowther, 97. Spalle, 95. Spanish captives, 157. ( Spoor, 45. ) Spoore, 34. Spring, the, 130, 159. Staines, 149. I Stanbcrrye, 95. / Stanburie, 58. Stande brook, 7. Stanford, IS. ( Stanley, 9, 54, 58, 92, 95, 100. Stanly, 71, 72, 74, 79. i Stannyon, 32. ) Stanyarne, 62. States' Arm Tavern, 115. Steadman, 149. fStebbins, 91, 112,126, 131. 1 Stebin, 147, 153. (.Stebins, 106,107. Steedsonne, 57. ( Stephens, 49. ( Stevens, 62, 71, 106, 129. i Stevenson, 90. ( Stivinson, 129. Stidson, 28,29,30. Stocker, 108, 118, 123. fStodard, 134, 154, 157. I Stoddard, 42, 46, 78, 92, 94, 95, 96, 97, 98, i 99, 100, 101, 102, 103, 104, 105, 106, 107, ] 112, 149. . - [Stodder, 62, 65, 75, 83, 89, 90, 91. Stone, 139. Stony brooke, 21. Storer, 43. Stoughton, 90. Strange, 95. Strangers forbidden, 10, 90, 109, 152. 170 Index of Names. Strangers not to hire houses, 103. bonds and fines for entertaining, 101, 106, 113, 115, 116, 120, 121, 127, 130, 131, 135, 139, 140, 141, 149, 151, 152, 160. Streets. (See Ways.) to be kept clear, 98. Strong waters, sale of, 116. Styles and gates, 4. Sudbury, 10. Sudbury, end, 10. Suits prohibited, 5 Sumner, 122. Surveyors of Highways, 7, 16, 35, 55, 63, 73, 90, 92, 94, 99, 103, 108, 114, 118, 122, 129, 134, 143, 150, 154. Swamp. (See Marsh.) Cedar, 22, 23, 24, 146, 147, 159. Pyne, 48. Sweet, 78. Sweete, 59. Swett, 121. Swine, orders about, 3, 4, 10, 32, 35, 39, 40, 54, 60, 68, 69, 73, 74, 75, 85, 91, 92, 100, 103, 109, 115, 119, 123, 124, 128, 131, 145, 147, 148, 151. Talbott, 105. Talmage, 14, 26, 60, 128, 160. Tan-house, 126, 155. Tan-vats, 148. Tappin, 24. Tarne, 57, 60, 72, 111. Taunton, 79. Path, 79. Tayer, 50. I Taylor, 96, 113, 122, 123, 126, 129, 141. ( Taylour, 66. Tax, 2. (Bee Rate.) abated, 71. lists prepared, 111. Teffe, 36, 37, 51, 79. Terry, 149. Tetherly, 131. I Thayer, 139. I Thayre, 111. Thomas E , 7. Thomas, 56, 58, 83, 90, 121, 152, 157. I Thompson, 47. | Tomson, 80. Thurstone, 102. Thwing, 68. Timber, 12, 54, 77, 80, 103. Ting, 21, 41, 44, 45, 46, 47,48, 51, 52, 54, 55, 56, 57. 58, 59, 60, 61, 92, 99, 101, 103, 104, 105, 106, 107. Tinge, 12, 35, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 52, 55, 56, 58, 90, 92, 93, 95, 99, 103, 104, 105, 106, 107. Tyng, 112. Tynge, 61, 62, 63, 64, 65, 66, 67, 68, 69, 70, 71, 72, 73, 74, 75, 76, 78, 79, 80, 84, 85, 86, 154, 159. Tobacco, 111, 151. ( Tourner, 87, 88, 89, 94. \ Turner, 16, 26, 38, 62, 63, 68, 73, 81, 112, ( 119, 123, 145, 150, 153, 156. Town-house, 126, 155. Townsend, 24. Townsmen. (See Selectmen.) Toy, 68, 128, 129. Trask, 1. Treasurer, 4, 53. of town, 53, 55, 61, 62, 66, 69, 86, 92, 100, 101, 103, 108, 119, 123, 129,134,144, 150,155. of county, 159. Trees, injury to, 124. ( Truesdale, 7. \ Truesdayle, 9. ( Trusdale, 112. f Turell, 139. j Turrell, 98, 139. Turf, 54. Turin, 128. fTouthill, 119. ' Tuthill, 70, 71, 72, 1G6, 108. Tuttell, 9, 10, 11, 28, 29, 33, 36, 37, 43, 136, 160. Tuttill, 123, 155. [Tuttle, 35. Tytus, 25, 26. Unclaimed goods, 46. Underhill, 1, 8, 14, 25, 26, 39. I Upsall, 154. \ Upshall, 80, 121. Usher, 103, 107, 114, 120, 134, 149, 150, 151, 153, 154, 155, 156, 157, 158. Vane, 5, 8, 18, 27, 160. t Vener, 101. ( Venner, 95. ) Viall, 95. ) Vyall, 47, 108, 135, 155. Victualling houses, 10, 112. (See Ordinary.) Virginia, 2. fWaight, 95. 1 Waite, 111. LWayte, 1, 9, 31. Wakefield, 152. Waker, 93, 95, 97. Walden, 146. Wales, 121, 132. Walker, 9, 25, 27, 31, 39, 52, 53, 63, 106, 127, 133, 150. Walker, Robert, his house, 52, 63. f Ward, 22, 23, 91, 63, 94, 96, 97, 108, 120, 1 133, 142, 154. (.Warde, 95. Wardall, 5, 15, 25, 32. Ware, 113, 140. Warren, 58. Waste land, 80, 83. (See Common.) Watch, 8, 115. Water bailiffs, 11, 74, 98, 129, 150, 153, 154. channel, 80. mill, 105, 113. Waters, 155. Watertown, 24, 69, 136. I Way, 130, 136, 137, 154. I Waye, 119. Waymouth, 96. ) Wamoth, 7. Ways, (including streets, lanes, and alleys), 7,12. to Roxbury, 10, 16, 99. to J. Pemberton, 12, 13, 120. between II. Lynn and S. Cole, 13. by J. Gallop's, 13. to the Mill Cove, 13. from Cove to Cove, 13. by Mr. Hutchinson's, 3S. by II. Pease, 39. to the Creek, 40. to Ccntry Hill, 52, 60, 155, 156. by J. Lowe's, 66. towards Roxbury, 67, 80, 99. to Charlestown, 69, 71, 74, 95. from town to town adjoining, 67. on the sea bank, 70. by T. Joy, 77. to the Port, 71. near the windmill and gardens, 72. through the mill field, 73. towards Gallop's point, 76. to the South windmill, 78, 85. by Rawlins', 81. at head of the cove, 82, 99. to Perry's wharf, 86, 87. from Perry's house, 87. at Halsoll'S wharf, 88. by Stoughton's land, 90. by Anderson's, 91. over the water-course, 94. to the bridge, 94, 96. Index of Names. 171 Ways, by Butman's, 98. by the new meeting house, 99. at North end, 100. from Battery to Oharlestown ferry, 100. to Ferry point, 100. from Gallop's point to Battery, 100. at Rumney Marsh, 101. by R. Fairbanks', 103, 104. to the WindmMl, 107. old way by T.. Hawkins, 113. to Ward's wharf, 120. to the mill-cove, 120. to John Barrell's, 126. by Phillips' house, 130, 156. by Shrimpton's, 134. from Phillips' to Duncan's, 139. from Pen's to Gentry Hill, 145, 150. to Centry Hill, 150. through Johnson's marsh, 156. {Web, 101, 106, 107, 137, 138. Webb, 31, 55, 58, 61, 122, 131, 146, 158. Webbe, 20, 62, 65, 66, 73. Weeb,90, 94. Webb's legacy, 158. Weeden, 66, 122. Weights and measures. (See Sealers of.) Well, 76, 101, 124, 141. Welles, 49. fWenborne, 114. J Wenbourne, 119. 1 Winbourne, 93. [Winburne, 140. f Wenesemett, 119. I Winnesemet, 79. iWinnesemett, 62, 81. Winnesimet, 58. Winnisimett, 7, 57. Wynesemitt, 29. Westmoreland, 112. ( Weyborne, 95. \ Wibourne, 118. ( Wiburne, 114. Wharf, 37, 54, 62, 63, 76, 78, 79, 80, 84, 86, 87, 90, 91, 93, 97, 98, 102, 103, 106, 107, 110, 112, 113, 119, 139, 156. ( Wheelar, 14, 78. Wheeler, 32, 43. Wheelwright, 15, 17, 45, 46. \ Wheelewright, 75, 80. Whipping-post, 40. White, 80, 119, 122, 123, 149, 151, 159. Whitmore, 1. Whitwell, 107, 112, 126, 132, 139. ( Wilbore, 2, 7, 19, 21, 34. } Wilebore, 4, 31. ( Wylebore, 10. Wilbore's field end, 10. Wilkes, 3, 12, 34, 160. f Williams, 68, 76, 108, 114, 122, 134, 146, J 154, 155, 156, 157, 158. 1 Willyams, 42. [Willms, 120. ( Willis, 2, 53, 87, 88, 89. { Willys, 5, 28, 36, 160. ( Wills, 93, 95, 130. f Willson, 2, 36, 37, 115, 137, 145. I Wilson, 4, 6, 7, 9, 10, 11, 12, 15, 16, 24, 33, \ 49, 77, 96, 160. (.Wilsonne, 60. Winchester, 16, 17, 26, 47, 150. Windmill, 70, 71, 72, 73, 78, 79, 98, 105, 107, 108, 109, 126. Wing, 48, 62, 66, 68. "Winthorp, 92, 120. Winthrop, 1, 3, 8, 27, 29, 30, 44, 45, 48, 51, 54, 56, 57, 58, 59, 60, 61, 62, 63, 65, 66, 67, 68, 69, 70, 71, 72, 73, 74, 75, 76, 77, 78, 79, 80, 81, 82, 83, 84, 85, 86, 87, 88, 89, 92, 100, 103, 108, 109, 110, 120, 133, 160. Winthropp, 21, 27,29, 52, 55, 58, 59. Wiseman, 50, 123. Wolf, 140. Wood, cutting of, 2, 4, 7, 13, 82, 92, 125. corders of, 123, 129. storing, 60. {Woodard, 128. Woodwarde, 18, 22, 24, 43, 55, 78, 80, 88, 139. Woodwarde, 9. Woodbndge, 82. ( Wooddy, 107. J Woody, 133, 141, 144. Woodhowse, 21. ( Woodmancye, 116. \ Woodmansey, 99, 139. ( Woodmansy, 109, 148. Woolcott, 11. I Wormall, 141. \ Wormwall, 97. Wright, 6, 7, 9, 15, 17, 37, 45, 47, 59. ) Wrighte, 9. Wyatt, 127. Youth, idle, 133, 156, 160. PART II THE BOOK OF POSSESSIONS. INTKODUCTION. When the first edition of this book was prepared, the writer furnished a sketch of such facts as were obtainable in regard to its history and probable authorship. The sugges- tion was then made that this list of land-owners was made in 1652, after the discharge of William Aspinwall from the post of Recorder of Suffolk County. Various indications favored this surmise, but it becomes entirely untenable in view of the fact that some of the entries are evidently in the handwriting of Aspinwall. This fact was proved by Uriel H. Crocker, Esq., who published three fac-similes of Aspin- wall's signature, two from other sources, and one from this book, page 33. The true date and author are matters to be considered later. In regard to the " Book " the following testimony is inter- esting. It is on a slip -of paper, in the library of the Massa- chusetts Historical Society, in a volume entitled " Letters and Papers, Boston, 1631-1783," in cabinet 61, II. "These may Certify whome it may Concern, That when I came first into the office of Clerk of the County Court of Suffolk in the year 1672 I there found a Booke Entituled on the Cover Possessions of the Inhabitants of Boston, which I many times lookt into and extracted several things out of it at the desire of particular persons, but alwaies was in doubt of the validity of it as a Record. And it remained in the office at the time when I was dismissed. Isa. Addington." Succeeding generations, however, have placed a higher value on this book, and it is now recognized as the founda- tion of the title of most of the real estate of the old portion of the city. The volume itself, now in the custody of the City Clerk, was evidently prepared on a plan of giving a half-page to each person, and of entering under his name a list of his lands. The first 111 pages appear to have been written at one time, or at least the first entries under each name are all in one handwriting. After that the pages fol- IV City Document No. 46. — Paet 2. low with dates appended, but in regular succession, as the following examples show : — P. 112-20, 11 mo. , 1645 P. 131-19 8 mo., 1647 113-25, 1 a 1646 132- 9 9 < ' 1647 115*26, 4 i i 1646 133-14 1 < < 1647 116-22, 6 t i 1646 134-14 1 < < 1647 117-29, 6 1 1 1646 135-10 2 ' ' 1648 118-28, 7 t <■ 1646 136-12 3 < < 1648 119-22, 8 ( t 1646 137- 7 4 ' < 1648 120-22, 8 a 1646 138-14 4 < < 1648 121- 2, 12 a 1646 139-14 4 < ' 1648 122-12, 1 i t 1646 [? 1647] 140-16 4 ' < 1648 123-30, 1 i i 1647 141 - 20 4 ' < 1648 124-30, 2 a 1647 142-15 4 < < 1648 125-20, 3 i i 1647 143- 1 4 < < 1648 126-22, 3 a 1647 144- 2 6 < ' 1648 127- 5, 5 a 1647 145-26 6 ' ' 1648 128-31, 5 t i 1647 146-25 7 ' < 1648 129 -no date 147-10 8 < < 1648 130-13, 8 mo. 1647 148-16 149-17 8 ' , 9 ' ' 1648 < 1648 The regular record ends with this date. On many of the pages there are additional entries, copies of deeds, and memoranda of sales ; a portion of these is clearly in the handwriting of Aspinwall. At first sight it would appear as if the first entries were not in Aspin wall's handwriting ; and, certainly, not only is the ink of the later entries different, but the angle of the writing and the size of the letters are different. Still, the more study is given to the matter, the greater is the conviction that all these variations are but changes of one pen, and that Aspinwall wrote all of the manuscript except a few cross-references, and such few lines as are Rawson's. At all events, whether the first 111 pages were written by Aspinwall or another, it is desirable to try to fix a date for their compilation. We have already seen that the dated pages 112-149 cover the period from 20th, 11 mo., 1645 (i.e., January 11, 1646, of our style), to 17th, 9 mo., 1648. An examination of the various deeds entered on the first 111 pages under the original entries brings out the curious fact that the earliest dates are as follows : — 50, James Averill, 19, 11 mo. 1645 55, David Sellick, 20, 11 mo. 1645 83, Ralph Mason, 21, 12 mo. 1645 Introduction. v 14, Thomas Leverett, 30, 1 mo. 1646 95, William Blantaine, 27, 4 mo. 1646 19, John Davies, 23, 8 mo. 1646 84, Richard Carter, 2, 9 mo. 1646 73, John Stevenson, 5, 11 mo. 1646 14, Edmund Jackson, 1, 12 mo. 1646 79, Edward Jacklin, 22, 3 mo. 1647 The inference is almost irresistible, that in the 11th month, 1645, Mr. Aspinwall began to continue the previous record of 111 pages, adding new pages for new names, and record- ing new transactions under the old ones. It is well known that our General Court, on April 1st, 1634, ordered that a survey of the houses and lands of every inhabitant in every town should be made, and a transcript sent to the Court within six months. This law was, evi- dently, only partially obeyed, as late as September, 1639, when Stephen Winthrop was made Recorder. In Septem- ber, 1642, Mr. Winthrop was allowed to go to England, and November 13, 1644, William Aspinwall was chosen Recorder till the next Court of Election. If the Book of Possessions be in Aspinwall's writing, it would seem most probable that he compiled the 111 pages during the year 1645, following his appointment. On p. 4 of the original Richard Bellingham has recorded a piece of marsh, " with John Hills and the highway on the west : the Common Marsh on the north : John Lowe on the east : Henry Symons, John Hills and the Cove on the south." This seems to be the lot granted by the town to Bellingham, 27, 11 mo., 1644, after another strip was granted to Joshua Scottow. Again : Thomas Scottow (p. 64) is entered as owning the lot on School street, which he sold to the town, 31st, 1 mo. , 1645 . Certainly this transaction must have been known very soon to all the inhabitants, as the house and lot were bought for the town's use. So, again, Sun°. Deeds, i. 59, has a deed dated 4th, 2 mo., 1645, recorded 21st same month, of Edmund Jackson to Thomas Leverett, three acres on the new field. In the Book of Possessions it still stands as number two of Jackson's lot. It seems that Valentine Hill was an early owner of land on the east side of State street. Our town records, p. 28 of original, show that 25th, 1 mo., 1639, he had leave to build a house and shop on the lot which he had bought from William Aspinwall. By Suff. Deeds, i. 100, it seems he sold this lot, house, and shop, to David Sellick, 24, 12, 1641, vi City Document No. 46. — Paet 2. and also 1st, 6 mo., 1641, to Mary Friend, a quarter of an acre bounded by the street south, Sellick west, Edward Tyng east, and said Hill north. These deeds were recorded 27, (12,) 1648. But in the Book of Possessions Valentine Hill's lots then were, first, one on the west side of Washington street, the prison west, the meeting-house and Truesdale north : Sedge- wick south ; and secondly a lot beyond Valley Acre : while David Sellick is named in the Book of Possessions, p. 55, as owner of the lot which he has bought. So, again, Suff. Deeds, i. 60, record a deed to William Davies from Valentine Hill, apparently of part of his lot, with the prison garden west, the street east, Philemont Portmont and the meeting-house north, and the ordinary in the possession of James Pen, south ; dated and recorded 20th, 3d mo., 1645. These items all seem to confirm the idea that the compilation of these 111 pages was made by Aspinwall very soon after his appointment, taking no note of sales even in the early months of 1645. It must be remembered, however, that the record is not complete. We find many instances of persons put down as abutters on lots described, and yet no record of those persons as distinct owners. At the same time the first volume of deeds contains but few entries in regard to trans- fers of land in Boston at that date. In fact, in order to understand the entries in the Book of Possessions it is often necessary to refer to deeds two or three generations later, when the land was sold by measurement and description. At a meeting of the General Court, Oct. 19, 1652, it was voted, that, whereas the passing of houses and land in England was effectually done in various ways, and whereas certain in this jurisdiction are apt to rest upon a verbal bargain or sale for houses or lands, henceforth no such sale should be good in law unless made by deed in writing, under hand and seal and delivered, or possession given, etc., unless the deed be acknowledged according to law and recorded. (Rec, iii. 280.) They had previously, June 19, 1650 (Rec, iii. 203), provided that a sale recorded by the recorder of the county should be sufficient without any further certifying to the Secretary of the General Court. May 6, 1657 (Rec, iii. 422), the Court recites, "The great neglect of many persons, in the infancy of these plantations, to observe any due order or legal course for the confirmation of such sales and alienation of houses and lands as have passed," and then orders that every one who did, Introduction. vii before the passage of the law of 1652, possess or occupy house or land iu fee simple, should ever after this date hold the same, unless a counter-claim was prosecuted . to effect within live years from May 20, 1657. The result was that long afterwards deeds and depositions were recorded, of which the following is an example : — In Suffolk Deeds, lib. 12, f. 364, is the deposition dated May 5, 1683, of William Dawes, aged 64, and wife Susanna, that they lived in Boston from 1652 and before, and that Mr. Simon Eyre, physician, in the said year 1652, lived in and possessed the very same house in Boston where his son John now lives, adjoining upon the ground that was Mr. Richard Parker's and the Prison land. Again : many estates were settled by order of the Court, and the record is to be sought in the Probate files instead of the Registry of Deeds. The note-book of Thomas Lechford, the first lawyer in the colony, fortunately preserved in manuscript, contains doubtless memoranda in regard to early transfers of land. Aspinwall refers to one volume of his records as notary public (see p. 54) , and even to a second Book of Possessions. (See original, pp. 43, 50, 73, 88, 129.) His "Book of Mortgages" (see p. 14) seems to be volume first of Suffolk Deeds. The " great booke of Records of Copies, etc." (p. 77), may be the same. October 14th or 23d, 1651, Mr. Aspinwall was set aside from his offices, Mr. Rawson was made Recorder of Suffolk, and Jonathan Nesfoos was made clerk of the writs for Boston. This, of course, fixes the latest date for the compilation of the Book of Possessions. It may be well to state here that, in 1866, the late Win. Appleton made a map of the locations of the lots of the owners mentioned in the Book of Possessions, and printed a few copies. The scale is about 16 inches by 12 inches. Mr. George Lamb has prepared a map 9 ft. 4 in. by 5 ft. 4 in., undertaking to mark thereon the outlines of the several estates. This map was purchased by the Trustees of the Public Library. It has been photographed in nine sections, and copies have been distributed for corrections. It is a very creditable beginning, but the boundary lines are purely imaginary, and will require almost entire revision. This must be the work of years, if correctness be attainable at all. The more modest plans and descriptions prepared by Mr. Justin Winsor, for the second volume of the "Memorial History of Boston," are reproduced in the appendix to this volume, and will be found most serviceable. vin City Document No. 46. — Part 2. It is hoped that the work herein performed will prove accurate and durable. As successive volumes are printed, information will increase, but it does not seem probable that anything can lessen the value of the Book of Possessions. William H. Whitmore, William S. Appleton, Record Commissioners. TABLE OF OWNEKS. The following list gives the names of the persons whose possessions are herein recorded. The references are to the pages of the original volume, which pagination is placed in the text in heavy figures, enclosed in brackets. W. H. W. Anderson, John, 125. Arnold, John, 22. Aspinwall, William, 77. Baker, John, 143. Barrell, George, 49. Bates, George, 47. Baxter, Nicholas, 106. Beamont, Thomas, 131. Beamsley, William, 20. Beck, Alexander, 40. Belchar, Edward, 85. Bell, Thomas, 111. Bellingham, Richard, 5. Bendall, Edward, 53. Bennett, Richard, 145. Biggs, John, 40. Bishop, Nathaniel, 72. Blantaine, William, 95. Blott, Robert, 80. Bos worth, Zaccheus, 73. Bourne, Nehemiah, 22. Bourne, Garret, 89. Bowen, Griffith, 92. Brisco, William, 87. Browne, Edward, 106. Browne, Henry, 141. Browne, William, 130. Browne, James, 41. Burden, George, 45. Busbie, Nicholas, 116. Buttolph, Thomas, 42. Button, John, 48; Carter, Richard, 84. Chaffie, Matthew, 33. Chamberlaine, William, 132. Chappell, Nathaniell, 33, Cheevers, Bartholomew, 21. Clarke, Arthur, 127. Clarke, Christopher, 136, Clarke, Thomas, 27. "Clarke, Thomas, 82. Coggan, John, 51. Cole, John, 32. Cole, Samuel, 26. Cole, , 92. Coleborn, William, 85. Compton, John, 67. Cooke, Richard, 74. Copp, William, 15. Corser, William, 60. Cotton, John, 9. Cranwell, John, 89. Croychley, Richard, 65. Cullimer, Isaac, 30. Davies, James, 59. Davies, John, 19. Davies, William, apothecary , 1 44. Davies, William, Sr., 57. Davies, William, Jr., 56. Deming, William, 104. Dennis, Edmund, 78. Dinsdale, William, 70. Douglas, William, 142. Dowse, Francis, 47. Dunster, , 11. East, Francis, 99. Eaton, Nathaniel, 98. I Eliot, Jacob, 88. City Document No. 40. — Part 2. Engles, Madid, 104. Everill, James, 50. Fairbanks, Richard, 60. Fane, Henry, 37. Fawer, Barnabas, 133. Fish, Gabriel, 16. Fletcher, Edward, 100. Fletcher, Roger, 115. Flint, Mr., 81. Foster, Thomas, 109. Fowle, Thomas, 6. Foxcroft, George, 53. Franklin, William, 52, Gallop, John, 34. Gibones, Edward, 8. Gillom, Benjamin, 66. Glover, John, 44. Goodwin, Edward, 16. Greames, Samuel, 46. Gridley, Richard, 105. Griggs, George, 110. Grosse, Edmund, 25. Grosse, Isaac, 56. Grubb, Thomas, 77. Gunnison, Hugh, 44. Hailestone, William, 117. Hansett, John, 120. Harker, Anthony, 82. Harrison, John, 105. Haugh, Atherton, 8. Hawkins, James, 34. Hawkins, Capt. Thomas, 23. Hawkins, Thomas, 41. Hibbins, William, 7. Hill, John, 26. Hill, Valentine, 62. Hogg, Richard, 98. Hollich, Richard, 111. Hontchin, Jeremy, 37. Howen, Robert, 13. Hudson, Francis, 32. Hudson, William, Sr., 57. Hudson, William, Jr., 45. Hull, Robert, 96. Hunne,Anne,wid. of George, 48. Hurd, John, 95. Hutchinson, Edward, 68. Hutchinson, Richard, 63. Lyons (otherwise Irons), Ma- thew, 107. Jacklin, Edward, 79. Jackson, Edmund, 14. Jackson, John, 23. Jephson, John, 124. Johnson, James, 20. Jones, Rice, 149. Joy, Thomas, 28. Judkin, Job, 96. Keayne, Robert, 10. Kenrick, John, 71. Kirkby, William, 35. Knight, Sarah, 46. Lake, John, 138. Langdon, John, 148. Lawson, Christopher, 112. Leger, Jacob, 84. Letherland, William, 107. Leverit, John, 51. Leverit, John, 61. Leverit, Thomas, 14. Lippincott, Richard, 128. Low, John, 28. Lugg, John, 75. Lyle, Francis, 76. Makepeace, Thomas, 38. Marshall, John, 97. Marshall, Thomas, 27. Mason, Raph, 83. Mattox, James, 134. Maud, Daniel, 12. Meeres, Robert, 36. Mellows, John, 15. Merry, Walter, 19. Messinger, Henry, 64. Michell, George, 147. Millard, Thomas, 76. Milom, John, 30. Munt, Thomas, 108. Nanney, Robert, 113. Nash, James, 137. Nash, Robert, 52. . Negoos, Benjamin, 103. Negoos, Jonathan, 109. Newgate, John, 12. Odlin, John, 93. Offley, David, 90. Oliver, James, 54. Oliver, John, 24. Oliver, Thomas, 13. Page, Abraham, 119. Painter, Thomas, 50. Palmer, John, Sr., 102. Palmer, John, Jr., 101. Parker, Jane, 80. Table of Owners. XI Parker, Nicholas, 72. Parker, Richard, 61. Parsons, William, 58. Pasraer, Bartholomew, 31. Pease, Henry, 17. Pell, William, 69. Pelton, John, 91. Pen, James, 71. Perry, Arthur, 75. Phillips, John, 140. Phillips, William, 43. Phippeni, David, 31. Phippeni, Joseph, 123. Pierce, William, 55. Pope, Ephraim, 78. Rainsford, Edward, 90. Rawlins, Richard, 29. Reinolds, Robert, 101. Rice, Robert, 70. Richardson, Amos, 102. Rowe, Owen, 91. Roote, Raph, 87. Salter, William, 88. Sanford, Richard, 36. Savage, Thomas, 24. Scott, Robert, 58. Scotto, Joshua, 39. Scotto, Thomas, 64. Seaberry, John, 18. Sedgwick, Robert, 63. Sellick, David, 55. Sherman, Richard, 68. Shoare, Sampson, 35. Shrimpton, Henry, 118. Sinet, Walter, 93. Smith, Francis, 126. Smith, John, 18. Spoore, John, 69. Stanlej*', Christopher, 43. Stevenson, John, 73. Straine, Richard, 146. Sweete, John, 17. S_ymons, Henry, 29. Synderland, John, 74. Talmage, William, 86. Tapping, Richard, 65. Teft, William, 108. Thwing, Benjamin, 38. Townsend, William, 79. Truesdale, Richard, 62. Turner, Robert, 135. Tuttle, Anne, 21. Tyng, Edward, 54. Tyng, William, 10. Usher, Hezekiah, 121. V'yall, John, 129. Waite, Gamaliel, 103. Waite, Richard, 100. Walker, Robert, 86. Ward, Benjamin, 66. Webb, Henry, 59. Werdall, William, 25. Wheeler, Thomas, 94. White, Charity, 99. Wiborne, Thomas, 139. Willis, Nicholas, 49. Wicks, William, 122. Wilson, John, 11. Wilson, William, 39. Wing, Robert, 83. Winthrop, Deane, 3. Woodhouse, Richard, 110. Woodward, Nathaniel, 67. Woodward, Nathaniel (the elder), 97. Woodward, Robert, 94. THE BOOK OF POSSESSIONS. [Note. — In the following transcript the abbreviations of the original have been followed, except in regard to " wth," " wthin," "&," and " w ch ," respect- ively printed ''with," "within," "and," "which." These occurred so often that exactness in copying would have disfigured the text greatly. So, also, the use of capitals in the words east, south, west, north, has been abandoned, as the original was very irregular, and a partial use would have made the text less easily understood. The pagination of the original is given herein in brackets. W. H. W.] [3.] * The possession of M r . Deane Winthropp within the Limits of Boston. One Farme at Pullen poynt, conteineing about one hundred and twenty Acres, be it more or lesse, bounded with M r . Pierce's lott on the north, the Bay and Fisher's Cove on the west : Pullen point on the south : and the Sea on the east. 6 (10) 1649. Bridget Pierce and William Pierce, of Boston, granted unto M r . Deane Winthrop, of Boston, all that theire Messuage and Farme at Pullen point (adjoining unto the Farme of the sd Deane Winthrop) , containeing one hundred Acres, be the same more or lesse, with all the outhouseing, fences, wood, and all other appurtenances ; and this was by an absolute deed of sale, dated 14 (11) 1647. Witnes Wm. Aspinwal, Bridget Pierce and a seale. John Evered, William Pierce and a seale. [4.] Blank. [5.] The possession of Richard Bellingham, Esq r ., within the Limits of Boston. 1. One house and Lott about a quarter of an acre, bounded on the east with the streete : Christopher Stanley, John Biggs, James Browne, and Alexander Becke on the south : Joshua Scotto on the west ; and M r . William Tynge on the north. 2. Also a garden plott, bounded with M r . John Cotton and Daniell Maude on the north : the highway uppon the east : John Coggan on the south : and 3. Also a piece of marsh, bounded with John Hills and the highway on the west : the Common Marsh on the north : John Lowe on the east : Henry Symons, John Hills and the Cove on the south. ♦Pages 1 and 2 are missing, if, indeed, they were more than. a, .cover. 2 City Document No. 46. — Part 2. [6.] M r . Thomas Fowle's possession within the Limits of Boston. 1. One house and garden, bounded with Walter Sinet on the south : Thomas Buttolph on the east : the highstreete on the west : and Jacob Leger on the north. [7.] Tlie possessions of M r . William Hibbins within the Limits of Boston. 1. One house, garden and stable, bounded with M r . John Winthrop's on the west : Richard Sherman and some part of the Fortt streete on the south : the Springate on the north : and John Spoore on the east. 2. Also sixe score Acres of land at Muddy River, bounded with M r . Thomas Oliver on the north : Edward Bendall on the west : together with Thomas Snowe and Willm. Talmidge : Boston Com- mon on the south : and Roxbury bounds south east. 3. Also twenty -fyve Acres of Marsh at Muddy River, bounded [by] Muddy River, Charles River, and a creeke in forme of an Isthmos. 4. Also a house and Farme of three hundred and fifty Acres, or thereabouts, at Muddy River, bounded M r . Win. Tyng on the south : Cambridge bounds on the northwest : and Dedham bounds on the southwest. [8.] The possessions of Major Edward Gibones within the Limits of Boston. 1. His dwelling house, together with other houseing, and a gar- den, bounded with the streete on the west and on the north: M r . John Wilson on the east and on the south. 2. Also another house and lott, bounded on the east with John Smith: Robert Nash on the west : the streete on the south: and the Cove or Mill Pond on the north. 15 (8) 1G49. John Milom, of Boston, coop, granted unto Edw. Gibons of the same, merch'., one quarter part of the water mill or mills, and of all the watercourses, milldams, sluces and floodgates thereto belonging, situat in Boston, and one fourth part of all the lands, houses, edifices, buildings, meadowes, marshes, tenements and hereditaments, with the appurtenances appertaining to the sd. mill or mills, and of all emoluments, p'fitts, and com- odities which may be raised of the premises. And this was by an absolute deed of sale, dated 12 (8) 1649. Signed, John Milom and a seale ; witnessed b} r John Dane, John Mills ; acknowl- edged by the said Jo : Milom to me, William Aspinwall, this 15 (8) 49. M r . Atherton Haugh, his possessions within the Limits of Boston. 1. One house and garden, bounded with the streete on the east and on the north : Arthur Perry on the west : and Francis Lyle on the south. 2. Also another house and garden, bounded with M r . Hibbins on the east : the Coihon on the west : Richard Sherman on the north : and the streete on the south. The Book of Possessions. 3 [9.] The possession of M r . John Cotton within the Limits of Boston. 1. One house and garden, about halfe an Acre, with an Acre ad- joyneinge, bounded with Sudbury streete on the east : Edward Bendall on the north : the Centry hill on the west : and M r . Bellingham and Daniel Maude on the south. [lO.] M r . William Tyng , his possessions within the Limits of Boston. 1. One house, one close, one garden, one greate yard, and one little yard before the hall winclowe, bounded with M r . Richard Bel- lingham and the streete that goes to the Dock, southwards : Benja- min Thwing and ¥m. Wilson, westward : George Burden, Francis Dowse, Jeremy Houthin, Sarah Knight and Samuel Grearoes, northward : John Glover, Wm. Hudson, junior, George Burden and Hugh Gunnison and the streete, eastward. 2. Also in the Mill field Marsh, eighteen yards and foure rodd in breadth from the ditch, and so all the depth of the marsh thus bounded : David Phippeni on the ditch north east : the high way southeast : the marsh granted to the millne southwest : Thomas Marshall and John Oliver north west. Capt. Robert Keayne, his possessions within the Limits of Boston. 1. One house and garden, bounded with the marketstreet on the north : the high street on the west : Richard Fairebanks on the south : and M r . Hudson on the east. 2. Also a garden, bounded with John Spoore, east : William Pell, north:* and Robert Rice, north.* [11.] The possession of M r . John Wilson within the Limits of Boston. One house and barne, twoe gardens and a yard, bounded with the water streete on the south : Anthonie Stoddard and Wm. Francklin on the east : the Cove street and Major Edward Gibones on the north : Major Gibones, Wm. Courser, and John Coggan on the west. M r . Dunster's possession within the Limits of Boston. One house and yard, bounded with Thomas Hawkins on the west and the north : and the streete on the east and the south. [12.] John Newgate, his possession within the Limits of Boston. One house and garden, conteineinge about three quarters of an Acre, bounded with Henry Fane northwards : the new field west- wards and southwards : Anne Hunne, vid. George Hunne, east- wards. Daniel Maud, his possession within the Limits of Boston. One house and garden, bounded with M r . Bellingham south and west : M 1 . Cotton north : and the streete east. * Thus in the original. 4 City Document No. 46. — Part 2. [13.] The possession of M r . TJiomas Olliver within the Limits of Boston. 1. One house and garden, bounded on the north with Richard Fairebanks and Capt. Robert Keayne : Wm. Courser and the lane on the east : the Springate on the south : and the streete on the west. 2. Also one Acre and halfe in the New Field, bounded with Richard Fairebanks on the south ;* the Marsh on the west ; and Richard Carter on the south.* 3. Also a garden plott, bounded with Robert Scott on the east and the west : James Pen and John Kenricke north. The possession of Robert Howen within the Limits of Boston. One house and garden, containeinge about a quarter of an Acre, bounded with Sudbury streete north east : Robert Meeres south east : Anne Hunne, vid. George Hunne, northwest : Valentine Hill southwest. [14.] The possessions of M r . Thomas Leverit within the limits of Boston. One house and garden, bounded with M r . John Winthropp's on the east : the streete and Robert Scott on the north : the marsh of M r . Winthropp on the south : and the ould meetinge house, Robert Scott, M r . Henry Weebb, and Thomas Parsons on the west. 30 (1) 1646. David Selleck granted to M r . Thomas Leverit one acre ground, be it more or lesse, bounded Richard Parker and Edward Hutchinson west : M rs . Stoughton south : Thomas Leverit west : which lyeth in the Newfield, as appeares by a deed, dated 20 (12) 1645, acknowledged before M r . Winthrop, Dep. Gover., 30 (1) 1646, by Dav. Selleck. 7 (12) 1650. John Milom, of Boston, for valueable considera- tion received, granted unto Capt. John Leveret of Boston, a p'cell of land neere the mill, being betweene fourty-fyve and fifty foote in length by the Mill Creeke, bounded toward the west and the north by the high way : the Mill Creek northeast : and Thomas Marshall toward the South : with free liberty of egresse and regresse in and out of the Mill Creeke with vessell or vessells not pjudiceing the mill streame : and this was by deed dated 7 (6) 1648. Edmund Jackson, Jiis possession zvilhin the limits of Boston. 1. One house and garden, bounded with the lane south: John Leverit east : John Mellowes north : and Sudbury streete west. 2. Also in the new field about three Acres, bounded with Valen- tine Hill south : Robert Meeres west : Georg Burden north : and David Sellick east. 17 (5) 1645. John Davies granted to Edmund Jackson 10 foote in breadth, and 40 foote in length, as appeares by the Record in the booke of mortgages, p. 61, which is againe sould to Heze- kiah Usher, 1 (12) 1646. 5 (8) 1646. John Davies, of Boston, granted to Edmund * Thus in the original. The Book of Possessions. 5 Jackson (both of Boston) his dwelling house and yard, in Boston, bounded with M r . Wilson north : Edmund Jackson east : market place south : John Coggan west : by an absolute sale, dated 5 (8) 164- : acknowledged before John Winthrop, Governor, 6 (8) 46 : which is alsoe sould to Hezekiah Usher, 1 (12) 1646. See in this booke, p. — . [19 under John Davies. W. H. W.] [15.] The possession of William Copp within the Limits of Boston. One house and lott of halfe an Acre in the Mill field, bounded with Thomas Buttolph southeast : John Button northeast : the marsh on the southwest : and the River on the northwest. John Mellowes his possession within the limits of Boston. 1. One house and garden, bounded with Edmund Jackson south : John Leverit east : John Cole north : and the streete west. 2. Also at Brain tree, one hundred thirty-two Acres, bounded with James Browne northwards : John Davies southward : John Webb and the Rocky Coinon westward ; the mouth of Monotaquit River and the Bay eastwards. 3. Also eight Acres, bounded with John Webb east : James Brown and Wm. Werdall north : and Monotaquit River southwest. 4. Also Foure Acres and halfe marsh, bounded with James Brown north : Zaccheus Bosworth west : and Monotaquit river southeast. [16.] The possession of Edwin Goodwin within the Limits of Boston. One house and lott, about halfe an Acre, bounded with John Sweete southeast : Thomas Buttolph northwest and southwest : and the baye northeast. 5 (11) 1648. One house and garden, bought of Sampson Shore, being bounded with Sampson Shore southeast and north- west : Matthew Chaffie northeast : and Christopher Gibson south- west ; with priviledge of the well, and landing his goods or wood on Sampson Shore's wharfe, p'vided it stand not above eight dayes ; and this was by an absolute deed of sale, dat. 5 (11) 1648, sealed and d'd before William Aspinwall, Nota. publ. 22 (10) 1649. Sampson Shore granted unto Edward Goodwin his garden, in Boston, being bounded southwest with Thomas Faulconer : the cove southeast : M r . John Clerk and Matthew Chaffie northeast : and the streete northwest : and this was by an absolute deed, dat. 22 (10) 1649. 11 (2) 1651. Sampson Shore, of Boston, granted to Edward Goodwin, of Boston, a house and garden in Boston, bounded on the southeast and northwest with his owne land ; Matthew Chaffy northeast ; and Christopher Gibson southwest ; together with the priviledges of the well, and landing of goods or wood uppon the wharfe, p'vided they lye not there above eight dayes ; and this was by a deed, dated 5 (11) 1648, sealed and d'd in presence of W m . Aspinwall, Not 7 public. This is againe sould to Nathaniel Adams. 6 City Document No. 46. — Paet 2. Gabriel Fish, his possession within the limits of Boston. One house and yard, bounded with John Davies on the south and on the west : Valentine Hill on the north : and the streete on the east. [17.] The %)ossession of John Sweete within the limits of Boston. One house and lott, about one Acre and quarter, bounded with Edward Goodwin northwest : Isaac Grosse southeast : Christopher Stanley southwest : and the Bay northeast. This is sould to W m . Wicks. Seep. 122. 7 (1) 1648. Mark Hawes* granted unto John Sweete all that parcell of the shopp (formerly John Milom's) then in possession of the s'd Marke Hawes, and that parcell of ground towards the sea, conteineing in breadth fourteen foote and halfe, and two ynches, and in length as far as the said Milom had any right to grant ; and also that parcell of ground on the back side, con- tein'g in breadth sixteene foote and halfe, and in length twenty- sixe foote, with all privileges, &c. ; and this was by an absolute assignement, dated 7 (9) 1647 ; acknowledged before mee, William Aspinwall, Notarius pub. This is assigned to John Farnam, Lib. 2. Vide page 30, in Cullimore's possession. Henry Pease, his possession within the limits of Boston. 1. One house and garden, bounded with the lane on the east: the streete on the south : John Leverit on the west : and the Cove on the north. 2. Also a Farme at Brain tree, bounded with the Comon on the north and the west : James Everill on the south and the east. 3. Also one acre three quarters of marsh at the Mount, com- passed east, west, and south with James Everill's marsh ; and a salt bay on the north. [18.] The possession of John Seaberry within the limits of Boston. One house and garden, about half an acre, bounded with Isaac Grosse northwest : Walter Merry southeast and southwest : and the sea or bay northeast. John Smith, his possession within the limits of Boston. One house and garden, bounded with the streete on the south : John Davies on the east : Major Edward Gibones on the west : and the Cove on the north. [19.] TJie possession of Walter Merry ivithin the Limits of Boston. One house and lott, about an Acre, bounded with John Seaberry and Isaac Grosse northwest ; John Sweete southwest and on the southeast. John Davies, his possession within the limits of Bojston. 1. One house and garden, bounded with James Johnson north ; * This name is vciy indistinct. The Book of Possessions. 7 Gabriel Fish and Valentine Hill east : John Smith west : and the streete south. 2. Also at Brain tree, thirty sixe Acres, bounded with John Mellowes northward : Zaccheus Bosworth southward : Jonn Webb westward : and Monotaquid River eastward. 3. Also one Acre of marsh, bounded with Zaccheus Bosworth north and west : and Monotaquid River south. 5 (2) 44; 29 (2) 45. M 1 . John Wilson, of Boston, sould to John Davies 45 foote in front to the streete, and 40 foote in depth, bounded with the said M r . Wilson's garden north and east, and the market steed south : and John Coggan west : by an absolute deed of sale, dated 5 (2) 44, and 29 (2) 45 ; acknowledged before John Winthrop, Governor, 23 (8) 46. In which writeing John Davies is bound to make and maintaine the fence between M r . Wilson and him, and not to annoy him with any stincks or jackes. This after was sould to Edmund Jackson. See p. 14. [20.] The possession of Wm. Beamsley within the limits of Boston, 1. One house and houselott about halfe an Acre, bounded with Anne Tuttle on the south and southwest : the bay on the east : and Isaac Grosse north and northwest. 2. Also at Muddy River sixeteene Acres bounded with John Bigges on the east, Thomas Grubb on the west, the cedar swamp on the south : and the marsh and River uppon the north. 6 (5) 1650. Wm. Phillips granted unto Wm. Beamsley of Boston a p'cell of land in the mill field in Boston being two hun- dred thirty eight foote in length and (towards the southeast) foure score foote in breadth, and northwest sixty foote more or lesse : bounded with M r3 . Mary Hawkins on the south east ; Richard Bennet southwest ; and my owne land northwest and northeast : and this was by an absolute deede dated 6 (5) 1650. The possession of James Johnson within the limits of Boston. 1 . One house and garden bounded with Thomas Hawkins north- east : the streete southeast and southwest : and the Cove north- west. 2. Also a garden neere the Comon bounded with John Leverit north : George Burden south : Anthony Harker east : and the Coinon on the west. 3. Also an Acre in the new field bounded with John Biggs on the north : Francis Loyall west : Zaccheus Bosworth south : and Thomas Clarke east. 4. Also three quarters of an Acre of marsh and upland bounded with the Cove on the north and the east : John Smith west : and John Davies south. [21.] The possession of Anne Tuttle loithin the limits of Boston. 1 . One house and garden bounded with W m . Beamsley on the north : Nehemiah Bourne on the south : the Bay on the east : and 2. Also a Farme at Rumney Marsh, bounded with John Coggan 8 City Document No. 46. — Part 2. on the north ; Samuel Cole on the south ; the sea on the east : and the high way on the west. Also a house and garden bounded with W m . Teft east : Thomas Foster south : Georg Griggs west : and the mill streete north. The possession of Bartholomew Cheevers within the Limits of Boston. One house and garden bounded with the streete southeast : the cove northwest : and on the northeast Eobert Hull. [22.] The possession of Capt. Nehemiah Bourne within the Limits of Boston. One house and Garden bounded with Anne Tuttle on the north : Captaine Hawkins on the south : the Bay on the east : and on the north. The possession of John Arnold within the limits of Boston. One house and garden bounded with Thomas Munt on the east : the streete south : and the high way north : and John Jackson west. [23.] The possession of Capt. Thomas UaivMns within the Limits of Boston. *[One house and garden bounded with Capt. Bourne on the north : the Bay on the east : Edward Bendall on the south : and — ] 30 (11 th ) 1650. Edward Bendall granted to Capt. Thomas Hawkins a certaine p'cell of land scituat in Boston, the bounds thereof begining fourty foote to the northward from that lott which was Mr. Robert Thompsons and so to Major Nehemiah Bournes lott, running with a streight line according as Major Bournes pales run from the seaside (toward the east), and unto the railes of Christopher Stanley toward the west, the southerly side running neere parallell unto this : and this was by an absolute deed of sale dat. 30 (11) 1645. Edw. Bendall and a seale. Sealed and d'd in p'nce of William Aspinwall Not y publ. The possession of John Jackson within the limits of Boston. One house and garden bounded with John Arnold east : the streete south : the highway north : and Robert Hull west. [24.] The possession of Enskjne Thomas Savaclge, tvithin the limits of Boston. 1 . One house and garden bounded on the east with the Bay : Edward Bendall on the north : the lane on the south : and Christo- pher Stanley on the west. 2. Also a Farme at Braintree lyeing in two parts : the one con- taining thirty-eight Acres and a quarter bounded with Rocky ground * Apparently cancelled at the time. The Book of Possessions. 9 westwards : James Everill north : Richard Cooke south : and a salt Bay east. The other conteines twenty sixe Acres and is bounded with rocky ground eastwards : William Werdall and George Hunne westwards ; James Everell north : and Richard Cooke south. 3. Also one Acre three-quarters of marsh, bounded with Oliver Mellowes east and north : Richard Cooke west : Monotoquit River south. 4. Also — John Oliver, his possession within the limits of Boston. One house and garden about halfe an Acre bounded with Valen- tine Hill northeast and southeast : John Pierce and John Knight southwest : and the streete northwest. [25.] The possession of Edmund Grosse within the Limits of Boston. One house and lott bounded with the lane north : Samuel Cole south : Isaac Cullimer west : and the Bay east. This was sould to John Anderson p. 124-5. W m . Werdall his possession within the limits of Boston. 1 . One house and garden bounded with John Milom southwest :* John Hill northeast : the streete northwest : and the high way southwest.* 2. Also at Braintree twenty Acres bounded with John Mellowes south : George Hunne north : a Rocky bottome and Monotaquit River west : James Browne, Richard Cooke and Thomas Savage east. [26.] The possession of Samuel Cole xoithin the Limits of Boston. One house and garden in Boston bounded with Edmund Grosse north : the Bay east : Isaac Cullimer southwest. The possession of John Hill within the limits of Boston. 1 . One house bounded with Henry Syinons on the east : M r . Bellingham on the north : the streete on the west : and the Cove on the south. 1. Also one smale lott of a quarter of an Acre bounded with Sampson Shore northeast : John Milom southwest : the streete northwest : and the Cove southeast. [27.] TJie possession of M r . Thomas Clarke within the Limits of Boston. One warehouse and houselott bounded with the Cove and Thomas Joy on the south : Isaac Cullimer on the west : Thomas Joy northwest : and Isaac Cullimer northeast. The possession of Thomas Marshall ivithin the limits of Boston. One house and garden about halfe an Acre bounded with the * Thus in the original. 10 City Document No. 46. — Part 2. marsh southeast : the streete south west and northwest : John Pierce or John Knight on the northeast. 8 (6) 1648. John Milom granted to Thomas Marshall a p'cell of land in Boston neere to the watermill, bounded with the mill Creek northeast : Thomas Marshall southwest : the high way northwest : and John Milom southeast : being seventy six foote on that side next Thomas Marshall and seventie foure foure* foote at the Creeke, thirty foote on the southeast side and fourtie foure on the northwest : with libertie of egresse and regresse in the sd. Creek with boats, lighters and other vessells as he shall have occa- sion. And it is agreed that the sd. Tho: Marshall shall not build any neerer the Creeke than the now dwelling house of the sd. Milom, and that he shall not hinder the mills going by any vessel or vessells in the Creeke. Dat. 2 (3) 1648, and acknowledged before M r . Rich. BeUingham, 8 (6) 1648. [28.] The possession of Thomas Joy within the limits of Boston. 1. One house and lott about halfe an Acre, and another house adjoyneing bounded with M r . Thomas Clarke northwest, northeast and southeast : and the Cove southwest. 2. Also one Acre lyeing betweene Isaac Cullimer northeast : Richard Rawlins southwest : Christopher Stanley northwest : and M r . Clarke southeast. The possession of John Lowe within the limits of Boston. One house and garden bounded with the marsh northwards and eastwards : the Cove southwards : and M r . BeUingham on the west. [29.] The possession of Richard Rawlins within the limits of Boston. One house and garden about an Acre and three quarters bounded with Isaac Cullimer southwest : Thomas Joy northeast : M r . Clarke southeast : and Christopher Stanley northwest. Henry Symons possession within the limits of Boston. One house and lott bounded with M r . BeUingham on the north and east : John Hill on the west : and the Cove southwards. [30.] The possessioji of Isaac Cullimer within the limits of Boston. 1. One house and garden about three quarters of an Acre bounded with Richard Rawlins northeast: Christopher Stanley northwest : Francis Hudson and Bartholomew Pasrner southwest : and the Cove southeast. 2. Also another house and lott about an acre and quarter bounded with Christopher Stanley, Samuel Cole and the way north east : the Bay southeast : M r . Clark and Richard Rawlins south- west : and Christopher Stanly northwest. 12(7) 1650. Bartholomew Pasmer of Boston sould unto John ' Word repeated in the original. The Book of Possessions. 11 Sweete a pareel of ground below the high way next the water side and this was by a deed dated 1 (10). Bartholomew Pasmer. John Milom his possession in the limits of Boston. One house and garden bounded with John Hill on the northeast : Valentine Hill southwest : W m . Werdall northwest : and the Cove southeast. [31.] The possessio7i of Bartholomew Pasmer within the limits of Boston. One house and garden about a quarter of an Acre bounded with Isaac Cullinier northeast : John Gallop southwest : the Cove southeast : and Francis Hudson northwest. David Phippeni his possession within the limits of Boston. One house and lott bounded with Valentine Hill northeast : the cove southeast : M r . W m . Tings southwest : and John Oliver northwest. 15 (12) 1650. John Milom of Boston for valueable consideration reed, granted unto David Phippeni of Boston a p'cell of land in Boston in length one hundred and two foote and in breadth at the high way nine foot nine jmches according as it laid out, bounded with Bartholomew Barlow (sic) on the southwest ; the lott of David Phipeni on the northeast, the highway southeast, and on the northwest : and this was by an absolute deed of sale dated 7 (12) 1649, and sealed and delivered in presence of John Gore. [32.] The possession of Francis Hudson within the Limits of Boston. One house and garden about halfe an Acre bounded with Isaac Cullinier northeast : Bartholomew Pasmer southeast : John Gallop southwest William Hudson, senior, northwest. The possession of John Cole within the Limits of Boston. One house and garden bounded with John Mellowes on the south : Nathaniell Chappell on the north : John Leveritt east : and the lane west. [33.] The possession of Matthew Chaffie within the limits of Boston . One house and lott bounded with John Gallop northeast : Samp- son Shoare southwest : Thomas Mekins northwest : and the Cove southeast. 29 (7) 1649. M r . John Clarke, late of Newberry, now of Bos- ton, granted unto Matthew Chaffe of Boston, shipwright, one Ferme conteineing foure hundred Acres of land, be it more or lesse, lying and being betweene the river of Merimack and Newbury River in Newbury in the County of Essex in New England, with all the houses, edifices and buildings thereunto belonging, and all the woods, underwoods, comons, meadowes, pastures, feedings, 12 City Document No. 46. — Part 2. cohiodities and priviledges together with all writeings and evi- dences concerning the same : and this was by an absolute deed of sale, dated 29 (7) 1649. John Clarke and a seale. Sealed and d'd in p'nce of Robert Saltonstoll John Dane "William Aspinwall, Not y . Publ: Nathaniell Chappell his possession within the Limits of Boston. One house and garden about a quarter of an Acre of land bounded with John Cole south : John Leverit east : the Cove on the north ; and the lane on the west. [34.] The possession of John Gallop within the limits of Boston. One house and garden bounded with Matthew Chaffie southwest : Francis Hudson northeast : the Cove southeast : and the way northwest. The possession of James Hawkins within the limits of Boston. One house and garden bounded with William Kirkby south : Richard Sanford westerly : and 28 (12) 1648. John Milom of Boston for good and valueable consideration by him received the 26 (12) 1646, hath granted unto James Hawkins of Boston a p'cell of Marsh in Boston, being bounded on the northeast with a smale p'cell of marsh reserved for a wharfe : the highway southeast : M r . Bellingham southwest : and a smale p'cell of marsh reserved for a wharfe northwest : being on the N. E. fifty foote : on the southeast sixt} r foote : on the south- west one hund'd and twenty foote, and on the IS", west one hun- d'd and fifteen foote : with liberty for the sd. James his heires and assignes to bring any vessell or vessells into the said Creeke or the branch thereof, and to land any goods for the use of his or theire families uppon the said marsh reserved for a wharfe or wharfs to be erected without paying wharfage or any other taxe saveing six pence for a boate if they open the bridge. Provided the goods so landed lye not uppon the scl. reserved marsh or wharfe above six houres after they are so landed. And this was by a deed sealed and delivered in presence of William Aspinwall, Notary publ. [35.] The possession of Sampson Shoare within the limits of Boston. One house and garden bounded with Matthew Chaffie north- east : the Cove southeast : John Hill southwest : and the streete northwest. 27 (8) 1651. Richard Hawghton of Boston granted to Sampson Shore of Boston, tailor (for good and valueable consideration reed.) , his dwelling house and garden in Boston bounded with M r . Tho. Clarke north, John Anderson south and east ; and the highway west ; and this was by a deed dat. 27 th Octob. 1651, sealed and dd. in presence of W rn . Aspinwall, notary publ. The Book of Possessions. 13 The possession of William Kirkby within the limits of Boston. One house and garden bounded with James Hawkins north : the lane southeast : and Richard Sanford westerly. [36.] Tlie possession of Richard Sanford within the limits of Boston. One house and lot about an acre bounded with Robert Meeres on the west : Richard Parker on the north : James Hawkins and Win. Kirby easterly : and the streete west. Robert Meeres his possession ivithin the limits of Boston. 1 . One house and garden bounded with the streete northeast : Edward Bendall southeast ; Robert Howen northwest : Valentine Hill southwest: this was confirmed by deed dat. 22 (7) 1648. 2. Also in the New field two Acres bounded with Edmund Jackson on the east : Robert Turner west : Richard Cooke south : and George Burden north. 3. Also halfe an Acre of land in the new field bounded with Tho. Scotto southwards : James Hawkins eastward : M r . Richard Parker's northward : and Richard Meeres westward : This was granted and confirmed unto Robert Meeres by James Penniman as was also the first parcell, by an absolute deed dat 22 (7) 1648, sealed and delivered before William Aspinwall, Not. publ. [37.] Henry Fanes possession within the Limits of Boston. One house and garden bounded with Sudbury streete easterly, the lane north : the newfield west : and Mr. John Newgate south. Jeremy Houtchin his possession within the limits of Boston. One house and garden about a quarter of an Acre bounded with Sudbury streete southwest : W m . Wilson southeast : the lane north- west : Thomas Makepeace and W m . Wilson northeast. [38*] Tliomas Makepeace his possession within the limits of Boston. One house and garden bounded with Jeremy Houtchin south- west : William Wilson south : the streete westerly : and the bine northerly. The possessions of Benjamin Thwing in Boston. One house and garden bounded with Sudbury streete southwest : William Wilson northwest and northeast: Joshua Scotto south- east. [39.] The possession of William Wilson within the Limits of Boston. 1. One house and garden bounded with M r . W m . Tyug on the east : Thomas Makepeace and George Bates north : Sudbury streete southwest : and Benjamin Thwing south. 2. Also in the new field two Acres and halfe bounded with Rich- ard Parker on the east : John Ruggle west : Zaccheus Bosworth south : and W m . Hudson, senior, north. 14 City Document No. 46. — Part 2. Joshua Scotto his f)ossession within the Limits of Boston. 1. Oue house and garden about halfe an Acre bounded with Sudbury streete southwest : Benjamin Thwing northwest : Mr. Bellingham northeast : and Alexander Beck southeast. 2. Also in the New field two Acres. 7 (3) 1646. 3. Mr. Richard Bellingham of Boston granted unto Joshua Scotto of the same, one equall pportionable halfe of marsh land formerly granted to him by the Towne lyeing betwixt John Lowes and M r . Symonds : and this was by an absolute deed of sale dated 4 (4) 1644, under his hand and seale. 30 (3) 1650. James Everill of Boston for and in consideration of twenty foure pounds granted unto- Joshua Scotto a p'cell of marsh lately belonging to M r . Bellingham, lying in Boston in forme of a Triangle, bounded on one Angle with pt of the marsh belonging to the sd Ja. Everill, being one hundred and fourty foote, on the other Angle with the land of W m . Francklin , being one hundred fourty and seven foote : on the third Angle with the back pt of the houslot now in the possession of good. Emans, with six foote eleven ynches at the lott of Joshua Scotto at the east end thereof: and this was by an absolute deed of sale dat. 3 (3) 1650, and acknowledged before M r . Bellingham (30) 3 1650. ).] AlexcmcF. Becks possession within the Limits of Boston. 1 . One house and garden bounded with the streete on the south : James Browne east : M r . Bellingham north : Joshua Scotto, west. 2. Also in the New field one Acre bounded with Thomas Munt, east : the water, north : Major Edward Gibones on the west and on the south. 3. Also a smale parcell of land first granted for a houselot bounded with John Leverit south : Henry Pease east : a smale Creeke west : and the Cove north. 11 (9) 1651. Thomas Woodward of Boston granted to Alex- and r . Beck of Boston a pcell of land at muddy river conteining foure Acres and a quarter be it more or lesse, bounded with Rich- ard Carter southeast : W m . Lamb southwest : Nathaniel Wood- ward and Robert Roote northwest : and this was by a deed (valueable consideration being first received) dated 11 th Novemb. 1651, sealed and dd. in presence of John Angier and William Aspinwall, Notarj r publ. John Biggs his possession ivithin the Limits of Boston. 1 . One house and yard bounded with James Browne on the west : and northly M r . Bellingham : on the east Thomas Hawkins, Valen- tine Hill, Thomas Buttolph and Christopher Stanley : and Gentry Hill streete on the south. [41.] James Brovmes possession within the Limits of Boston. 1. One house and garden bounded with John Biggs east: Mr. Bellingham north : Alexander Beck west and Centriehill streete south. 2. Also halfe an Acre in the New field bounded with the Comon on the south : M r . Wilsons Garden northeast : and Andrew Mes- singer northwest. The Book, of Possessions. 15 3. Also halfe an Acre more in the Newfield bounded with Rich- ard Fairebanks north : Isaac Allington east : Alexander Beck west : Thomas Clark south. 4. Also at Braintree twenty sixe Acres bounded with Richard Cooke northwards : John Mellowes southward : the Bay eastwards : and Comon Rockie ground westwards. 5. Also eight Acres bounded with John "Webb westwards : John Mellowes southward : William Werdall westward : and Richard Cooke northward. 6. Also one acre of marsh bounded with Monotaquit River east : and Zaccheus Bosworth on the west. Thomas HawMns possession within the limits of Boston. 1. One house and 3 r ard bounded with Valentine Hill on the north : the streete on the east : John Biggs west : and on the south M r . Henry Dunster and Centriehill streete. 2. Also a quarter of an Acre towards Charlstowne bounded with James Johnson southwest : the Cove northwest : John Button northeast : and the street southeast. 12 (7) 1648. John Pierce granted to Tho. Hawkins of Boston his house and lott in Boston which he lately purchased of M r . Val. Hill. And this was by a deed dat. 12 (7) 1648. [42.] The possessions of Thomas Buttolph withinthe limits of Boston. 1 . One house and Garden bounded with Valentine Hill south : the streete on the east : John Biggs on the west : and Christopher Stanley on the north. 2 . Also one Acre and halfe or thereabouts (which was first layde out for garden lots) bounded with the highway on the south : a lot that lyes comon to the eastwards : Jacob Leaguer, Walter Sinet (and the lane northwards) : M r . Fowle and Robert Woodward west- wards. 3 . Also in the Milne field about f oure Acres and halfe bounded with the bay northeast : Nicholas Parker and Valentine Hill north- west : and Christopher Stanley south : aliened to X'fer Lawson, p. 112. 4. Also about one Acre compassed with Christopher Stanleyes ground. 5. Also about halfe an Acre bounded with the Cawsey north- east : William Cox northwest : and the marsh southwest. 6. Also at Pulling point twenty fyve Acres upland bounded with the sea northeast : M r . Pierce southeast : James Pen north- west : John Webb and John Oliver southwest. 7. Also seven acres of marsh more or lesse bounded with his own upland east : the River west : Edward Hutchinson, Junior, south : and James Pen north. 8. William Hudson of Bosto, senior, granted to Thomas But- tolph fyve Acres of land in the newfield bounded with Ri Cooke east : James Johnson west : William Wilson south : and Davies, Apothecary, north : and this was by a deed dated 16 (4) 1646, acknowledged the same day before Joh. Winthrop, Gov. 16 City Document No. 46. — Part 2. [43.] Christopher Stanley his possession within the Limits of Boston and W m . Phillips his successor. 26 (6) 1648. Christopher Lawson granted unto W m . Phillips of Boston a certaine p'cell of land in the Mill field in Boston, conteine- ing two Acres and halfe of land more or less, being bounded with the highway to Charlstow northwest : the Causway west : W m . Phillips southeast : and Thomas Ruck and Christopher Lawson north-east. And this was by an absolute deed sealed and dd before W m . Aspinwall and John Spoore 23 (4) 1648 : which land the sd. W m . Phillips granted to Susan his wife during her life and to the heires of her bodie begotton. 26 (6) 1648. Richard Bennet of Boston granted unto W m . Phillips of Boston two or three Acres of land in Boston be it more or lesse, bounded with W m . Phillips and Christopher Lawson northwest : the land of W m . Phillips and the land lately exchanged with him southwest : W m . Phillips southeast : the River and sundry smale lotts northeast. And this was by an absolute deed sealed and dellivered 26 (6) 1648, before William Aspinwall, Not. publ. 10 (4) 1650. Tho. Clarke of Dorchester, merch'. granted to Christoph r Stanley of Boston, tailor, a certaine p'cell of land in Boston neck, being pt. of an houslott formerly belonging to W m . Weekes, cont. sixty pole of ground more or lesse, bounded on the southwest by Isaac Cullimer : Thomas Clarke northwest, Raw- lins northeast : southeast the sea, through which are two high wayes, the one going towards the mil hill being twelve foote broad, the other thirty six foote unto the lowermost highway, and from thence to low watermarke thirty foote. And this was by an absolute deed of sale dat. 30 (2) 1644 : reserving liberty for the sd. Thomas or such tenants as shall dwell and abutt on the said way of twelve foote broad, to loade all kind of goods at the highwater mark or wharf e there to be erected, p'vided it lye not above twenty foure houres at most without paying wharfage. And whereas the breadth granted for the highway is thirty foote from Isaac Cullimers, it is only hereby granted liberty to Tho. Clarks assignes and tenenants as aforesd only to land goods within the space of that ten foote next Isaac Cullimers land, pvided it lye not above twenty foure houres as before. Tho. Clarke Sealed and d'd in p'nce of JonN Stratton Robt. Jeoffreys Edward Bendall granted to Christopher Stanley of Boston a p'cell of land moore or lesse, bounded by an highway southwest : Capt. Hawkins northeast : Lieftenant Savage pales southeast : M r . Stanleyes rails northwest : and this was bv an absolute deed dat. 20 (10) 1645 Edw. Bendall Witness Samuel Bellingham Edward Tyng granted to M r . Stanley a p'cell of land about two The Book of Possessions. 17 Acres, which land was allotted to M r . Baulston and sould by him to M r . Cornewell of whom the said Edw. bought it and made sale thereof to M r . Stanley and his forever, dat. 26 (10) 1643. p. me Edward Tyng See more in the 2 booke, page [44.] TJie possession of Hugh Gunnison within the Limits of Boston. One house and garden bounded with the streete southeast : George Burden northeast : W m . Hudson, Junior, northwest : M r . "William Ting westwards. 10 (4) 1650. Robert Saltonstall granted to Hugh Gunnison of Boston fifty Acres of land be it more or lesse hying in the bounds of Salem neere M r . Downings Ferme which was late the land of Rich : Walker of Salem. And this was by an absolute deed of sale dat. 25 (5) 1647. Robt. Saltonstall and a seale Signed, sealed and d'd. in p'nce of Rich. Stileman John Bushwell William Aspinwall John Glover his possession within the limits of Boston. One house and yard bounded with the streete on the southeast : George Burden southwest : W m Hudson, Junior, northwest and northeast. [45 . ] The possessions of George Burden within the limits of Boston. 1 . One house and yard bounded with the streete southwards : Hugh Gunnison westward : W m . Hudson, Junior, northwards : and John Glover eastwards. 2. Also a garden neere the Comon bounded with James John- son north : Henry Webb south : Thomas Clarke east : and the Coihon west. 3. Also in the new field fyve Acres and halfe bounded with Richard Fairebanks north : John Mellowes west : Edmund Jackson south : and the marsh east. William Hudson, Junior, his possession within the limits of Boston. One house and garden bounded with M r . W m . Tyng south- west : Samuel Greames and the Lane northeast : the streete southeast. [46.] Samuel Greames his possession within the limits of Bo.ston. One house and yard bounded with the lane northeast : Will m Hudson, Junior, southeast : M r . W m . Ting southwest : and Sarah Knight northwest. Sarah Knight her possession within the limits of Boston. One house and garden bounded with Samuel Greames south- 18 City Document No. 46. — Paet 2. wards : the lane eastwards : M r . W m . Tyng westwards : and Jeremy Houtchin northwards. [47.] Francis Doivse his possession within the limits of Boston. . One house and yard bounded with the lane eastwards : Jeremy Houtchin southwards : M r . W m . Tyng westwards : and George Burden northward. George Bates his possession zoithin the limits of Boston. One house and garden bounded with W m . Wilson on the south : George burden on the east : Anne Hunne on the north : and Thomas Makepeace on the west. [48.] Anne, vid.* George Hunne, her possessions in the limits of Boston. 1 . One house, and garden bounded with Georges on the east and the south : Thomas Makepeace on the west : and the lane on the north. 2. Also about halfe an Acre in the New field bounded with Robert Ho wen on the south the streete on the east. 3. Also at Braintree thirty one Acres bounded with Thomas Savage and James Everill east : Richard Wright west : W m . Werdall south : and the north bordereth uppon the Rocke that lies common. John Button his possession within the limits of Boston. 1. Three houses and a garden and yard, containeing in all about an Acre bounded with the Cove southeast : the lane southwest : James Everill northwest ; and Nicholas Willis northeast. 2. Also in the mill field one Acre bounded with Charles River northerly : the marsh southwest : and John Shaw northeast and southeast. [49.] Nicholas Willis his possession within the limits of Bos- ton. One house and garden bounded with John Button on the south- west : the streete east : Thomas Painter northerly, and James Everill westerly. George Barrell his possession within the limits of Boston. One house and lott not halfe an Acre bounded with Thomas Painter south : Nicholas Willis west : James Everill north : and the streete east. [50.] Thomas Painter his possession within the limits of Boston. 1. One house and garden bounded with Georg. Barrell on the north: Nicholas Willis southwest: and the streete eastwards. 2. Also twenty Acres at Muddy River bounded with Ralph * Vidua or widow. The Book of Possessions. 19 Goultrop east : William Toy west : Griffith Bowen south : and John Leverit north. 25 (1) Ifto- Robert Wing granted unto Thomas Painter all his dwelling house both old and new built, being bounded on the north with Raph Mason, the high streete on the east : Henry Web on the west : and the lane on the south : and this was by an absolute deed of sale dated 18 (3) 1648 Robert Wing and a seale Witness John Mainard, Job Judkin, Philemon Pormort. This is again aliened to Ephraim Hunt, Lib 2. page Sould to Thomas Painter my peece of Marsh next to W m . Hud- sons senior on the west : on the south the highwa} r : on the east Hawkins : on the ground of Ri. Billingham on the north, conteine- ing in breadth to the streete about 46 foote. in breadth to the north about 14 foote, on the same length with W m Hudsons pales By me Ri. Bellingham This also is sould to Ephraim Hunt, Lib. 2, p. The possession of James Everill within the limits of Boston. 1. One house and houselott with the streete eastwards and northwards : the lane southwest : John Button, Nicholas Willis, and George Barrell southeast. 2. Also at Braintree one farme conteineing eighty eight Acres, bounded with Thomas Savage and Rocky ground undisposed of towards the south : George Hunne towards the west : Henry Pease and a certaine swampe toward the north : and his own marsh land northeast. 3. Also twoe Acres three quarters of marsh bounded with a salt Bay northeast and partly with Henry Pease his marsh : and south- west with his owne upland and the uplands of Henry Pease. 4. Thomas Savadge of Bosto granted to James Everill twenty sixe Acres upland at Braintree bounded with Rocky ground east : Richard Cooke south : W m . Werdall and George Hunne west : and James Everill north. Also one Acre three quarters marsh bounded with Monotacut southeast : Rich. Cook southwest : and Oliver Mel- lowes on the north : and this was by an absolute deed of sale dated 15 (11) 1645, acknowledged before M r . Winthrop, D. Go. 19 (11) 1645. 5. John Shaw of Boston granted unto James Everill of Boston a certaine p'cell of land at the docke being in front at the dock about fourty foote, bounded on the east with Joshua Scotto : Edmund Jackson west : the cove south : and the highway north : together with the Cellar frame and all priviledges and immunities thereto belonging. Dat. 25 (8) 1649, and acknowledged by John Shawe before mee W m . Aspinwall Recorder. [51.] The possessions of M r . John Coggan within the limits of Boston. 1. One house and garden bounded with M r . John Wilson on the 20 City Document No. 46. — Part 2. north and on the east : and with the streete on the west and on the south. 2. Also halfe an Acre or thereabouts bounded with M r . Belling- hams northwards : M r . Wilsons southwards : the burieing place on the east : and the new field on the west. John Leverit his possession within the limits of Boston. * One house and yard bounded with Richard Parker south and west, and the streete north and east. [52.] TJie possession of William Franklin in Boston. One house and garden, bounded with the streete east and north : Mr. John Wilsons west : and John Leverit and Anthonie Stoddard on the south. Robert Nash his possession within the limits of Boston. 1. One house and yard, bounded north and west f: Valentine Hill south : and Edward Bendall, east. 2. Also one Acre for a houslott bounded with Major Edward Gibones on the east : the lane on the west : the streete on the south : and the Cove on the north. 26 (1) 1650. W m . Phillips of Boston granted unto Robert Nash of Boston a p'cell of land in Boston neere the new meeting house being in breadth sixty foote more or lesse and in length six score foote more or less as it is now staked out, bounded on the north- west, southwest and southeast with the lands of the said W m . Phillips and the river on northeast, with all priviledgs thereto belonging: and this was by an absolute deed of sale dat. 26 (1) 1650. Susan Phillips wife of the said W w . Phillips did release unto Robert Nash all her right and title to the aforesaid p'cell of land : and this was by her deed dated the same 26 (1) 1650. 28 (6) 1650. This land was againe sould to W m . Phillips 28 (6) 1 650 as appeares under the hand of the sd Robert Nash before Will. Asp : pub : not. 5 (8) 1650. John Milom of Boston granted unto Robt. Nash of Boston three quarters of his dwelling house neere the Mill together with the wharfe and land thereto app'teining and priviledg of free egresse and regresse of boates and vessells into the Mill Creeke (not hindring or stopping the mill streame and the passage of other boates : he paying to W m . Francklin six pence a boat for such as open the bridge) with free passage or way to the sd house at the northermost side thereof : and this was by an absolute deed dated 2 (8) 1650. Sealed and d'd in p'nce of John Milom and a seale Jo: Bushwell Ri: Waite, William Aspinwall [53.] Mr. George Foxcroft his possession within Boston. One house lot bounded with the Cove on the north : Edward Bendall on the east and the south : and Robert Nash on the north. * Thi* entry is repeated on p. 61 of the original. f Thus in the original. The Book of Possessions. 21 Edward Bendall Ms possession within the limits of Boston. 1. One house and lott about a quarter of an Acre bounded with Mr. Foxcroft and Robert Nash on the west : Mr. Hill on the south : and the Cove on the North and the east. 2. Also another house and garden together with two Acres of land adjoyneinge bounded with Sudbury streete east : Robert Meers north : Mr. Cotton south and on the west. 3. Another houselott bounded with Capt. Hawkins north : Lieffc. Savage south, the Ba}~ east. This was by him sould to Anchor Ains worth. [54.] Edward Tyng his possession within the limits of Boston. One house and yard and warehouse and Brewhouse bounded with the Bay on the east : Valentine,* Henry Webb and part of the Cove on the north : James Oliver on the west : and the streete on the south. Also at Braintree two hundred and seventeene Acres and a halfe of upland, nine Acres and a quarter of Medow, and fifty three Acres and a quarter of swamp as by the plott made in the } T eare 1640 by M r . John Oliver may appeare : which land is bounded on the north with a swampie bottom pting betwixt him and M r . Edw. Hutchinson, and also with a pond and George Burden. 18 (10) 1650, Jane Harwood and Nathaniel Bishop Attorneys to George Harwood, granted unto Edw. Tyng of Boston the dwelling house of the sd. George and the land thereto belonging at the end of the lane which joyneth to the house and land of M r . Tho: Oliver : and this was by a deed dated decern. 1650. Jane Harwoods marke and a seale Nath. Bishop and a seale Sealed and d'd in p'nce of us Rob t Reinolds, Nathaniel Reinolds, and W M . Aspinwall The tow atturney and affidavit are in my notaries booke James Oliver his possession within the limits of Boston. One house and }^ard bounded with Edward Tyng on the East : Valentine Hill on the north : David Sellick on the west : and the streete on the south. [55.] David Sellick Ms possession within the limits of Boston. One house and garden bounded with James Oliver on the east : Valentine Hill on the north : Mr. Pierce on the west : and the treete on the south. 20 (11) 1645. One house purchased of Christopher Lawson which formerly was Henry Symons, and a garden bounded with the streete or highway westward, the comon marsh towards the north and east : and John Hill and Nathaniel Long towards the south : together with a lane of ten foote leadeing to the said garden. Also the wharf e or land lyeinge afore the said house in breadth forty two foote and length fifty sixe foote according to the grant of the * Probably the name Hill is omitted here by accident. 22 City Document No. 46. — Part 2. Generall Court : and this was by an absolute deed of sale dated 20 (11) 1645 Christopher Lawson and a seale. Acknowledged before M r . Hibbins. 20 (11) 1045. 14 (7) 1647. Edward Wells granted unto David Selleck his house and garden in Boston bounded with Sampson Shore north east : the Cove southeast : John Milom southwest : and John Hills garden northwest, and this was by an absolute deed of sale dated 11 (7) 1647, and acknowledged before Mr. Winthrop, Gover. 14 (7) 1647. William Pierce his possession within the limits of Boston. One house and garden bounded with David Sellick on the east : Isaac Grosse and the high way on the north : William Davies junior and the streete on the south : Edward Bendall, Valentine Hill and William Davies on the west. [56.] Isaac Grosse his possession within the limits of Boston. 1. One house bounded with W m . Pierce on the south and the east : Edward Bendall west : and the Cove on the north. 2. Also a house and garden about halfe an Acre bounded with W m . Beamsley on the south : the way on the west : the Bay and John Sweete northerly. 3. Also another house and garden bounded with John Seaberry south : John Sweete north : Walter Merry west : and the Bay east. W m . Davies, Junior, his possession within the limits of Boston. One house bounded with William Pierce east and north : Valen- tine Hill on the west : and the streete on the south. [57.] William Hudson, senior, his possession within the limits of Boston. 1 . One house and yard bounded with the streete on the north : the Bay on the east : Mr. Winthrop on the south : and W m . Davies, senior, on the west. 2. Also a lot in the new field containeing about fyve Acres bounded with Richard Cooke on the east : and Mr. Thomas Clarke on the west. Sould to Thomas Buttolph, page 42. 3. Also a garden plot towards the Fort hill, bounded with Robert Scott on the east : Nathaniell Eaton, Richard Hogg and Francis East on the west : Amos Richardson on the south : and Nicholas Parker on the north. William Davies, senior, his possession within the limits of Boston. 1. One house bounded with W m . Hudson, senior, on the east: the streete on the north : M r . Winthrop on the south and on the west 2. Also another house and about three quarters of an Acre bounded with the water on the southeast : and Richard Gridley southwest, northwest and northeast. 3. Also one Acre bounded with Jacob Eliot east and south : M r . The Book of Possessions. 23 Colbourne west : and the sea on the north. This lies in Mr. Colbournes field. [58.] Robert Scott his possession within the limits of Boston. 1. One house bounded with Mr. Thomas .Leverit on the east and on the south, and with the streete on the west and on the north. 2. Also a garden bounded with Capt. Robert Keine on the east : Thomas Oliver on the west : John Webb on the north. 3. Also a garden bounded with Mr. Thomas Leverit on the east : Henry Webb on the south : and the high way on the west and on the north. 4. Also a garden plot bounded with Jacob Leger on the east: W m . Hudson, senior, on the west : Nicholas Parker and James Pen on the north : and Edward Bates on the south. William Parsons Jlis possession within the limits of Boston. One house and garden bounded with the lane on the west : Henry Webb on the north : James Davies on the east : and the sringate* on the south. [59.] James Davies his possession zoithin the limits of Boston. One house and garden bounded with Thomas Leverit on the north : the marsh on the east : William Parsons on the west : and the Springate on the south. Henry Webb his possession within the limits of Boston. 1. One house and garden bounded with the market place on the north : the ould meeting house and the lane on the east : the high- way on the south : and Mrs. Hudson on the west. 2. Also a garden bounded with John Leverit on the east: the high way and Robert Scot on the north : the lane on the west : and Mr. Thomas Oliver on the south. 3. Also another garden bounded with Robert Wing and Raph Mason on the east : the lane on the south : George Burden on the uorth : and the Como. on the west. [60.] Richard Fairebanks his possession within the limits of Boston. 1. One house and garden bounded with Capt. Keine on the north and on the east : Mr. Oliver on the south : and the high streete on the west. 2. Also a garden bounded with William Aspinwall on the south and on the east : Zaccheus Bosworth, John Synderlant, Richard Cooke, John Lugg and Arthur Perry on the north : and the Common on the west. 3. Also foure Acres in the New field bounded with M r . Tho : Oliver north: Georg Burden and Henry Pease south: Isaac Allington, Alexander Beck and James Browne west : and the River on the east. 4. Also five Acres in the Fort field bounded with Mr. Hibbins * The word should he Springate. 24 City Document No. 46. — Part 2. northeast : Robert Turner southwest : John Spoore west : the CoSon north : and Richard Griclley southeast. W m . Corser his possession within the limits of Boston. One bouse and garden bounded with M r . Thomas Oliver on the south and on the west : Capt. Robert Keine on the north : and the lane on the east. 22 (6) 1649. James Everill of Boston granted to W m . Courser of Boston a certaine houselott bounded on the southeast with Robt. Porter and the streete north east, W m . Tynge south, Evan Thomas northwest. And this was by an absolute deed dated 22 (6) 1649, before W m . AspinwaU notary publ. [61.] John Leverit his possession within the limits of Boston. One house and yard bounded with Richard Parker on the south and on the west : the streete on the north and on the east. Richard Parker his possession within the limits of Boston. One house, barne and yard bounded with the market steed* on the east : John Leverit on the north : the prison yard west : and Richard Truesdaile and the meeting house on the south. 18 (8) 1651. M r . Adam Winthrop by order from his brother Major Stephen Winthrop for valueable consideration reed, granted to Mr. Rich. Parker of Boston that house in the yard that belonged to his Fathers dwelling house by the spring, southeast from the sd dwelling house, with fourty foote of ground fronting to the spring : and backward to the pales of the garden. Dat. 7th decemb. 1650. Adam "Winthrop and a seale. Witness Michael Powell. Valentine Hill. The sixth day of the ninth month, 1651. Whereas amongst other things conteined in a letter written by M r . Stephen Winthrope to his brother M r . Adam Winthrope beare- ing date the sixt clay of february anno domi 1650, the sa} r d Ste- phen Winthrope doth authorize the sayd Adam Winthrope to sell some lands for him heere in New England as appeares in these words viz. : for those things vow mentioned for my land in New England and howse I must referr it to yow, rather than it should decay for want of repaire I would sell it, I referr it wholy to yow. I know 3*ow will doe for me as for youre selfe and yow can better judge uppon the place then I at this distance. Wee whose names are hereunto subscribed that it is a true coppy of so much of the sd letter as concernes this buisenes. Examined b} r us the day and yeare abovesd. Rich. Brackett, Richard Martin, Nathaniell Souther, Adam Winthrop. This writing was acknowledged by M r . Adam Winthrop to be * An obsolete word, also spelt stead. It means " place ; " as is shown in the phrase of " being in one's stead," or " instead of" another. The Book of Possessions. 25 the contents of a letter written to him by M r . Stephen Winthrop whereby he is authorized to deale for the said Steeven in all his affaires in New England, before me the 16th of the 12th month 1651. William Hibbins. Eecorded 16: Feb. 1651. Edw. Rawson, Recrd r . [62.] Richard Truesdale his possession within the limits of Boston. 1. One house and garden bounded with Richard Parker on the north : Valentine Hill on the south : the prison yard on the west : and the meeting house on the east. 2. Also three quarters of an Acre in the New field bounded with the Comon on the south : Nathaniel Eaton on the north : Zaccheus Bosworth on the west : and Thomas Millard on the east. Valentine Hill his possession within the limits of Boston. One house and garden bounded with the streete on the east : the meeting house and Richard Truesdale on the north : Capt. Robert Sedgwick on the south : and the prison garden west. Also another house and backside bounded with John Biggs on the west : Thomas Buttolph on the north : Thomas Hawkins on the south : and the streete on the east. Aliened p. 135. [63.] Major Robert Sedgwick his possession within the limits of Boston. One house and garden bounded with Thomas Clarke, Robert Turner and the streete on the east : M r . Hutchinson on the south : Valentine Hill on the north : and Henry Messinger west. M r . Richard Hutchinson his possession within the limits of Boston. One house and garden bounded with the streete on the east and on the south : Thomas Scotto on the west : and M r . Sedgwicke on the north. [64.] Tlwmas Scotto his possession within the limits of Boston. 1. One house and garden bounded with the burying place on the west : Henry Messinger north : the streete south : and M r . Richard Hutchinson east. 2. Also foure Acres upland at Muddy River bounded with W m . Beamsley and Thomas Grubb on the south : Richard Sanford and Alexander Beck north : the Cedar Swampe westward : and his owne marsh east. 3. Also one Acre of Marsh at Muddy river ; bounded with Charles River east : Richard Sanford, Thomas Grubb and his owne upland west : and Jacob Eliot southwards. Henry Messinger his possession within the limits of Boston. One house and garden bounded with the streete westwards : Richard Crychley north : Thomas Scotto and the burieing place on the south : Major Sedgwick east. 26 City Document No. 46. — Part 2. [65.] Richard Croychely his possession within the limits of Boston. 1. One house and garden bounded with the streete on the north and on the west : Richard Tapping on the east : and Henry Mes- singer on the south. 2. Also two Acres in M r . Colbornes field bounded with Jacob Eliot on the east and on the west ; Richard Parker on the south : and W m . Salter on the north. It is to be understood that both the house and garden, and also the two Acres in M r . Colbornes field doe belong to the wife and children of William Dineley although they be put under the name of Richard Croychlejr, who onely possesseth them in the right of his wife and her former husband's children. 22 (12) 1648. Nathaniel W ms granted unto Richard Critchley his house and land thereto belonging being bounded with the streete on the north : the prison on the east : Henry Messinger on the south : and Richard Critchley on the west : and this was by an absolute deed dated 22 (12) 1648. This house and land last named being formerly the possession of Richard Tapping, the said Richard Tapping did acknowledge himselfe satisfyed and did for himselfe and heires release unto Nathaniell Williams all his right and title therein, dat. 5 (11) 1649. Rich. Tapping and seal. Test. W". Aspinwall, Robt. Meeres. Richard Tapping his possession within the limits of Boston. One house and garden bounded with Richard Croychley on the west : Prison (aliened) on the east : street north : Hen. Messinger on the south. 12 (11) 1648. Henry Bridgham of Boston granted unto Rich- ard Tapping of Boston the dwelling house wherein the said Richard now dwells and halfe the lott as now it is marked out, being bounded with Thomas Milland on the south : Arthur Perry west : the high street east : and the sd Henry Bridgham north : as by a deed dated 12 (11) 48 appeares. Sealed and dd. in presence of Wm. Aspinwall, Not. publ. [66.] Benjamin Gillom his possession within the limits of Boston. One house and garden bounded with Benjamin Ward on the west : M r . W m . Hibbins south : John Compton and the Cove east : and the marsh north. Also one house and lott bounded with W m . Deming westward and northward : Robert Turners pasture east : and the lane south- east. Benjamin Wards possession within the limits of Boston. One house and about an Acre of ground bounded with Na- thaniell Woodward the yonger on the west : Benjamin Gillom east : M r . Hibbins south : Edward Hutchinson and the marsh north. The Book of Possessions. 27 [67.] John Compton his possession within the limits of Boston. One house and garden bounded with the Cove on the east : Ben- jamin Gillom on the west : the Fort hill on the south : and Beniamin Gilloin on the north. Nathaniel Woodward his possession within the limits of Boston. One house and garden bounded with Benjamin Ward and Edward Hutchinson on the east : the marsh on the north : and on the west. [68.] Edward Hutchinson his possession within the limits of Boston. One house and yard bounded with Benjamin "Ward east and south : Nathaniel Woodwar west : and the marsh north. Richard Sherman his possession within the limits of Boston. One house and garden bounded with M r . Hibbins on the north and on the east: M r . Atherton Haugh on the south: and the greene on the west. [69.] John Spoore his possession within the limits of Boston. 1. One house and garden bounded with M r . Hibbins west: the Creek north : the marsh east : and the streete south. Aliened see 2 booke p. 9. 2. Also one Acre and halfe or therabouts bounded with Richard Fairebanks on the east : Robert Turner southwards : the streete north : and Captaine Robert Keine and William Pell west. 13 (11) 1648. Henry Bridgham .of Boston granted unto John Spoore of Boston his dwelling house in Boston and his lott as it is now marked out, being bounded on the south with Richard Tapping : Arthur Perry on the west : M r . Haugh on the north and the high streete on the east, and this was by a deed elated 13 (11) 1648, sealed and dd in presence of William Aspinwall, notarius publ. William Pells possession within the limits of Boston. One house and garden bounded with John Spoore east : the streete north : Capt. Keine south : and Miles Robert Rice* west. [70.] William Dinsdale his possession within the limits of Boston. One house and garden bounded with Robert Rice east: the streete north : John Kenrick west : and Robert Scot south. Robert Rice his possession within the limits of Boston. One house and garden bounded with W m . Pell on the east : W m . Dinsdale on the west : Capt. Keine on the south : and the streete on the north. [71.] John Kenricks possession ivithin the limits of Boston. One house and garden bounded with W m . Dinsdale on the east : James Pen on the west : the streete on the north : and on the south. * Thus in the original. 28 City Document No. 46. — Part 2. James Pens possession within the limits of Boston. One house and garden bounded with John Kenrick on the east : the streete on the north : Richard Parker on the west : and [72.] * Nicholas Parkers possession within the limits of Boston. 1 . One house and garden bounded with James Pen on the east : the streete north: Nathaniell Bishop west: and Robert Scot south. 2. Also a Farme of two hundred and sixtj^ Acres at Rumney Marsh bounded with John Newgate on the north and on the east : M r . Bellingham and the Creeke on the south : and Charlstowne bounds on the west. 3. Also twenty Acres of land at Rumney Marsh bounded with Samuel Cole on the east and on the north : and John Newgate on the west and on the south. 4. Also two acres in the mill field bounded with Thomas Buttolph southeast and southwest : Valentine Hill northwest : and the water northeast. Nathaniel Bishops possession within the limits of Boston. One house and Garden bounded with Nicholas Parker on the east : W m . Hudson, senior, on the south : John Steevenson, Richard Waite and Edward Fletcher on the west : and the streete on the north. [73.] John Steevensons possession within the limits of Boston. One house and yard bounded with Nathaniel Bishop east : the streete on the north : and Robert Reinolds on the west and on the south. This is sould see pag. 119. 5 (11) 1646. Richard Parker of Boston granted to John Ste- venson a certaine p'cel of land in Boston bounded with Rich. Truesdale and the meeting house yard on the south and his owne land on the north, east and west, and this was by an absolute deed dat. 5 (11) 1646. Rich. Parker. Witnes Tho. Roberts. This was againe sould to James Astwood, page , in the second booke. 22 (6) 1649. James Everill of Boston granted to John Steven- son a certaine houselot in Boston bounded on the southeast with W ra . Hayward : W m . T} r ng south : Robt. Porter northwest : and the streete northeast : and this was by an absolute deed dated 22 (6) 1649, before W m . Aspinwall, Not. publ. The possession of Zaccheus Bosworth within the limits of Boston. 1 . One house and garden bounded with the streete on the west and on the north : Richard Fairebanks south : and John Synder- land east. 2. Also two Acres in the New field bounded with the Comon on the south : Richard Truesdale east : Jane Parker west : William Wilson and John Ruggle north. * Richard written first and erased. The Book or Possessions. 29 3. Also one Acre and kalfe in the new field bounded with Thomas Millard south : James Johnson north : Edmund Dennis east : and Richard Sherman west. 4. Also at Braintree fifty one Acres bounded with Rocky Corhon and Richard Cooke north : John Mellowes, John Davies and Monotaquit River south : John Mellowes and James Browne west : Zaccheus Bosworth, John Davies and John Mellowes east. [14.] John Synderlands possession witliin the limits of Boston. One house and garden bounded with Zaccheus Bosworth west : the streete north : Richard Fairebanks south : and easterly Richard Cooke. 15 (6) 1650. Whereas John Gallop deceased in his lifetime granted to John Synderland a p'cell of land in Boston in breadth nine rod more or lesse and in length twenty rodcl more or lesse, bounded with the streete southeast : with the mill damme (where it is but eight rod in breadth) north west : Francis Hudson easterly : and M r . Coales westerly. Also a p'cell of land in length eighty foote, in breadth thirty and six foote, bounded with the streete northward : John Sweete southward : John Gallop west- ward : and John Synderland eastward. Mehetabel Gallop wife of the sd. John did ratify and confirme the same by a deed dated 27th Feb. 1649. Mehetabell Gallop and a seale. Richard Cookes possession within the limits of Boston . 1. One house and Garden bounded with John Synderland west : the streete north : Richard Fairebanks south : and John Lugg east. 2. Also one Garden bounded with the Comon west : Daniell Maud south : William Aspinwall north : and Ephraim Pope east. This is againe sould, see page 79. 3. Also in the Newfield a certaine parcell bounded with W m . Hudson, senior, west : Valentine Hill east. 4. Also a Farme at Braintree of thirty fyve Acres bounded with Thomas Savage northwards : James Browne southwards : the Bay eastwards : and Rocky ground westwards. 5. Also seven Acres more bounded with Thomas Savadge north : James Browne and John Webb south : W m . Werdall west. 6. Also one Acre and quarter marsh, bounded with Thomas Savage and Monotaquit River east : John Davies and Oliver Mel- lowes west. [15.] John Lugg his possession within the limits of Boston. One house and garden bounded with Richard Cooke west : Richard Fairebanks south : Arthur Perry east : and the streete north. Arthur Perry his possession within the limits of Boston. One house and yard and garden bounded with John Lugg west : Richard Fairebanks south : the streete north : M r . Haugh, Francis Loyall, Thomas Grubb and Thomas Millard east. 30 City Document No. 46. — Part 2. [76.] Francis Lyle his possessions toithin the limits of Boston. 1. One house and garden bounded with M r . Haugh on the north : the streete east : Arthur Perry west : and Thomas Millard south. 2. Also halfe an Acre in the New field. Thomas Millard his possession within the limits of Boston. 1. One house and garden bounded with Francis Lyle north: Thomas Grubb south : Arthur Perry west : and the streete east. 2. Also in the New field halfe an Acre bounded with Richard Truesdale west : Thomas Scotto east : Nathaniell Eaton north : and the Coinon south. 3. Also one Acre in the Newfield bounded with Jane Parker west : William Wilson east : Zaccheus Bosworth and John Ruggle north, and also Edward Dennis north : and on the south. 10 (8) 1651. Zaccheus Bosworth granted to Tho. Millard (for valueable consideration reed) a p'cell land in Gentry field cont. one Acre be it more or lesse, bounded with Edw. Hutchinsons land north : the Comon south : Thomas Millard east : and Zaccheus Bosworth west : and this was by an absolute deed dat. 10th Octo- ber, 1651. Sealed and dd. in presence of William Aspinwall, not- publ. and Raph Roote. ['IT.] William Aspinwall his possession within the limits of Boston. 1. One house and garden bounded with Richard and Thomas Grubb on the north : the Coinon on the west : the high streete on the east : and Richard Cooke and Ephraim Pope on the south. 2. Also at Muddy River nine Acres surrounded with the Cedar swamp and Nathaniell Woodward the elder. 3. Also at Hogg Island one Acre of Upland and three quarters of Marsh bought of Mrs. Ormsbie. Concerning the windmill, see the great booke of Records of Copies, &c. William Davies, apothecary, for good and valueable consider- ation, granted to W m . Aspinwall of Boston a p'cell of land in Boston be the same halfe an Acre more or lesse bounded with the land of the scl. W m . Aspinwall south and east : the Coinon west : Zaccheus Bosworth, Barker, Richard Cooke, Robert Wright, and Bomsted north : and this appeares by a deed dated 11th November, 1651. Sealed and d'd. in presence of John Sanfford. Thomas Grubb his possession loithin the limits of Boston. One house and garden bounded with Thomas Millard north : Arthur Perry west : William Aspinwall south and the high streete east. [78.] Ephraim Popes possession within the limits of Boston. One house and garden bounded with William Aspinwall north : Richard Cooke west : Edmund Dennis south : and the high streete east. The Book of Possessions. 31 Edmund Dennis his possession within the limits of Boston. 1. One house and garden bounded with Ephraim Pope north : Edmund Jaeklin south : the streete east : Richard Cooke and Daniel Maud west. 2. Also in the new field halfe an Acre bounded with John Ruggle east : Zaccheus Bosworth west : Thomas Millard south : Mr. Thomas Clark north. 3. Also a smale parcell bounded with James Everill eastwards : the lane and streete southwest and northwest. 4. Also at Brain tree about twenty Acres bounded with Thomas Metson east : Alexander Plimley westwards : Valentine Hill southwards. [79.] Edward JacMin his possession within the limits of Boston. One house and garden bounded with Edmund Dennis north : William Townsend south : the streete east : and Daniell Maud west. Aliened, see p. 116. 22 (3) 1647. Richard Cooke of Boston granted unto Edmund Jaeklin halfe an Acre of land in Bost5, being bounded with W m . Aspinwall north : Daniell Maud south : the Corhon west : and Ephraim Pope east : and this was by a deed dated, sealed and d'd, 10 (2) 1645 in presence of William Aspinwall, public Notary. This is againe soulcl, p. 125. 22 (3) 1647. Daniell Maud of Boston granted to Edmund Jaek- lin of the same, halfe an Acre of land in Boston, bounded with Rich. Cookes north : the Comon west : Rich. Sherman south : and Edmund Jaeklin east: and this by a deed dated 13 (8) 1643, in p'sence of Hatavill Nutter and Edward Starbuck, Elders of the Church at Dover. This is againe sould, p. 125. William Townsend his possession within the limits of Boston. One house and garden bounded with Edmund Jaeklin north : Jane Parker south : the streete east : and Daniell Maud west. [80.] Jane Parker her possession within the limits of Boston. 1. One house and garden bounded with the streete east and south : William Townsend north : and Richard Sherman west. 2. Also halfe an Acre in the new field bounded with Thomas Millard eastwards : David Sellick, Nathaniell Chappele, Jacob Leger and M r . Pepes southwards : William Beamsley, Richard Sherman, and Zaccheus Bosworth northwest. 3. Also fourty Acres of land at Muddy River bounded with — Jane Parker, the widdow of Richard Parker, intending to marrie, did by a deed of gift thus dispose of her land. Unto Mar- garet her daughter and her heires, she did give out of her house- lott twenty one foote square in the angle at the meeting of the streets. Then all her house and lott, also the halfe Acre in the newfield, and fourt}' Acres at Muddy river, she doth give to her sonns, viz', halfe to John Parker her eldest and his heires, and the other halfe equally to be divided betwixt Thomas and Noah and theire heires, and if the one dye, then to descend to the sur- 32 City Document No. 46. — Part 2. vivor : if both dye then to the eldest, and this was by a deed dated 15 (5) 164G, and the same day acknowledged before the Governor. Robert Blotts possession in Boston. One house and garden bounded with the streete on the east and north : Mr. — Flint on the south : John Leverit on the west. [81.] M r . — Flint Jiis possession within the limits of Boston. One house and garden bounded with Robert Blot north : John Leverit west : the streete east : and Anthony Harker south. Mr. Flint his possession within the limits of Boston. One house and garden bounded with Anthony Harker north : Thomas Clarke south : the streete east : and George Burden west. [82.] Anthony Harkers possession in Boston. One house and garden bounded with the streete east : James Johnson west : Mr. Flint north : and Mr. Flint south. Thomas Clarks possession within the limits of Boston. One house and garden bounded with Mr. Flint north : Henry Webb and Georg Burden west : the streete east and Raph Mason south. [83.] Raph Masons possessions in Boston. One house and garden bounded with Thomas Clarke north : Henry Webb west : the streete east : and Robert Wing south. This is sould to Thomas Painter, p. 50. 21 (12) 1645. Isaac Perry granted unto Raph Mason of Boston ten Acres of land, be it more or lesse, at Muddy River, bounded with Raph Masons lot south, Thomas Scotto north : M r . Hibbins west : and this was by an absolute deed dated 20 (10) 1645 : Acknowledged before Mr. Winthropp. Robert Wings possession within the limits of Boston. 1 . One house and garden bounded with the streete on the south and the east : Henry Webb on the west ; and Raph Mason on the north. 2. Also halfe an Acre of land bounded with the River on the west : Mr. Pepes on the south ; James Everill and on the east. [84.] Richard Carters possessions in Boston. One house and garden bounded with Mr. Oliver north: the Common west : the streete east : and Jacob Leger south. 2 (9) 46. William Parsons granted unto Rich: Carter, a parcell of land, about an acre, bounded Robert Wing and Raph Mason east : the lane south : the Cohion west : and Georg Burden north : by an absolut deed dated 2 (9) 46, acknowledged before John Winthrop, Governor. The Book of Possessions. 33 7 (1) 47. W m . Aspinwall granted unto Rich: Carter his lott at Muddy River containeing nine Acres more or lesse, bounded with Nathaniell Woodward, senior, towards the northwest, and the Cedar swamp on the other side : and this was by an absolute deed of sale, dat. 7 (1) 1647. 4. (11) 1648. Richard Gridley granted to Richard Carter of Boston his lott at Spectacle Island, being by estimation three Acres more or lesse, situat on the hithermost part of the Easterne Spectacle, to have and to hould according to all the right he hath in the same: and this was by a deed of sale dat. 2 (11) 1648, sealed and d'd in presence of W m . Aspinwall, Not. publick. Jacob Leger his possession within Boston. 1 . One house and garden bounded with Mr. Coleborne on the south : the Comon west : the streete east : and Richard Carter north. 2. Also a house and garden bounded with Mr. Thomas Fowle south : the streete west : Robert Woodward north : and Thomas Buttolph east. 3. Also an Acre or thereabouts bounded with Chaplaine east : Richard Parker north : the Comon south : and Mr. Pepes west. [85.] M r . William Coleborne within the limits of Boston. One house and garden bounded with the high streete east : the lane and Edward Belchar south : Jacob Leger north : and . Edward Belchars possession within the limits of Boston. One house and garden bounded with Mr. Colborne east and north : the lane south : and William Tannage west. [86.] TJie possession, of William Tahnage in Boston. 1 . One house and garden bounded with the streete on the south : Edward Belchar east : and Thomas Snow on the north and on the west. 2. Also a garden bounded with Robt. Walker west: Jacob Eliot east and south : and the streete north. The possession of Robert Walker in Boston. 1. One house and garden bounded with Thomas Snow on the east : the Common north : the streete south : and William Brisco west. *[2. Also a garden bounded with Thomas Snow east : the Com- mon north : and : this was bounded before.] 2. Also a garden bounded with William Talmage east: the streete north : John Cranwell west : and Jacob Eliot south. [87.] William Brisco his possession in Boston. One house and garden bounded with Robert Walker east : the Common north : the streete south : and Flacke west. 24 (4) 1651. Thomas Alcock of Dedham granted unto W m . * Evidently a clerical error. 34 City Document No. 46. — Part 2. Brisco of Boston a lott of twenty acres be it more or lesse, bounded with Edmund Crosse on the east and Edward "Belehar on the west, halfe a mile from M r . Hibbins ferme : and this was by a deed dat. in the yeare 1644. Raph Roote his possession in Boston. One house and garden bounded with John Cranwell east : John Cranwell and Richard Croychely south : William Salter west : and the streete north. [88*] William Salter his possession in Boston. 1. One house and garden bounded with Raph Roote east: the Common west : the streete north : Jacob Eliot and Richard Croychley south. 2. Also an Acre in Mr. Colbornes field bounded with Jacob Eliot south and east : the bay west : and the Comon north. 3. Also at Muddy River eight acres, bounded with Robt. Burden west : William Brisco east : Nathaniel Woodward, senior, north : and Jacob Eliot south. This is againe sould to Ed: Devotion. Transcr, lib. 2, page 129. Jacob Eliots possession within the limits of Boston. One house and garden bounded with the highway east : the lane north : William Talmage west : and Mr. Colborns field south. [89.] Garret Bournes possession loithin the limits of Boston. One house and garden bounded with Edward Rainsford east : the marsh south : and the streete west and north. John Cranwells house and possessions in Boston. One house and garden bounded with Raph Roote west : Robert Walker east : the streete north : and on the south twoe Acres of ground belonging to it : which twoe Acres is bounded with the garden on the north : Mr. Roe on the east : and Richard Croychley on the west and on the south. [90.] Edward Rainsfords possession in Boston. One house and garden bounded with Garret Bourne west David Offley east : the streete north : and the Cove south. David Offleys possession in Boston. One house and garden bounded with Edward Rainsford west i the lane east : the streete north : and the Cove south. [91.] M r . Owen Roe his possession in the limits of Boston. One house and garden bounded with the streete north : the lane west : the Cove south : and John Pelton east. John Peltons possession in Boston. One house and houselot bounded with Owen Roe west : the streete north : the Cove south : and the marsh on the east. The Book of Possessions. 35 [93.] Griffith Boivens possession in Boston. One house and garden bounded the streete on the south and on the west : Miles Reading on the east : and Cole on the north. Cole his possession within the limits of Boston. One house and garden bounded with Griffith Bowen south : the streete west : Miles Reading; east : and John Odlin north. [03.] John Odlinn his possession in the limits of Boston. One house and garden bounded with the streete west : Miles Reading east : Cole south : and Walter Sinet on the north. 12 (8) 1650. John Bateman granted to John Odlin a houselot in Boston (lately bought of John Cuddington) being bounded on the north with the lott of the sd John Odlin : the lott of Griffith Bowen on the south : the high streete west : and Richard Wilson east : and this was by an absolute deed, dat. 10 (8) 1650. John Bateman and Test. William Aspinwall, a seale. John Cuddington. Walter Sinets possession in Boston. One house and garden bounded with John Odlin south : the streete west : Thomas Buttolph and Miles Readinge east : and Jacob Leger north. [94.] Robert Woodioards possession in Boston. One house and garden bounded with Jacob Leger south : Thomas Buttolph east : the high streete west : and the lane north. Thomas Wheelers possession in Boston. 1 . One house and garden bounded with the lane south : high streete west : the watring place east : and William Blaintaine north. 2. Also at Muddy river fifteene Acres bounded with M r . Hibbins west : Cambridg bounds north : Robert Hull east : and Henry Fane south. [95.] William Blantaines possession in Boston. 1. One house and garden bounded with Thomas Wheeler south : John Hurd north : the streete west : and watring place east. 2. Also another houselott bounded with John Serch west : Wil- liam Brisco east : the streete south : and the Comon north. 27 (4) 1646. William Davies, Gunsmith, granted to W m . Blan- taine, carpenter, halfe an Acre of land, be it more or lesse, bounded with Thomas Bel west : the Mill streete north : Georg Griggs east : and William Blantaine south ; and this was b}' an absolute deed of sale dated 27 (4) 1646, and acknowledged the same day before John Winthrop, Governor. John Hurds possession within the limits of Boston. One house and garden bounded with William Blantaine south: 36 City Document No. 46. — Part 2. the high streete west : Gamaliel "Waite east : and Robert Hull north. [96.] Robert Hulls possession in Boston. One house and garden bounded with John Hurd south : the high streete west : Job Judkin north : and Gamaliel Waite east. The possession of Job Judltins in Boston. One house and garden bounded with Robert Hull south : Elisa- beth Purton north : the streete west : and Gamaliel Waite, east. [97.] The possessions of Nathaniel Woodward (the elder) in Boston. One house and garden bounded with the mill lane south : the high streete west : John Palmer, Junior, east : and John Marshall north. John Marshall his possession within the limits of Boston. One house and garden bounded with Nathaniell Woodward, sen- ior, on the south : Richard Hogg north : Amos Richardson east : and the streete west. [98.] Richard Hoggs possession within Boston. One house and garden bounded with John Marshall, south : Na- thaniel Eaton north : Amos Richardson and W m . Hudson, East : and streete west. Aliened to John Lake, p. 138. Nathaniel Eaton his possession within Boston. One house and garden bounded with Richard Hogge south : Fran- cis East, north : W m . Hudson, senior, east : and the streete west. [99.] Francis East his possession in Boston. One house and garden bounded with Nathaniell Eaton south : Charitie * and Richard Waite north : William Hudson east : and the streete east.-\ Charitie White her possession in Boston. One house and smale yard bounded with Francis East, south and east ; the streete west : and Richard Waite north. [100.] Richard Waite his possession in Boston. One house and garden bounded with Charitie White and Francis East, south : Edward Fletcher, north : the streete west : and Na- thaniell Bishop east. Edward Fletchers possession in Boston. One house and garden bounded with Richard Waite, south : Robert Reinolds north: the high streete west: and Nathaniell Bishopp east. * Evidently a word is dropped — should be Charitie White and Richard Waite. See next two lots. f Sic in grig. Should be west. The Book of Possessions. 37 [101.] Robert Reinolds Ms possession in Boston. One house and garden bounded with Edward Fletcher, south : the high streete west : the Fort streete north : and John Steeven- son, east. John Palmer, junior, Ms possession in Boston. One house and yard bounded with Nathaniel Woodwar, senior, west : the Mill streete, south : Amos Richardson, east : and John Marshall, north. [102.] Amos Richardson Ms possession in Boston. One house and garden bounded with John Palmer, John Mar- shall and Richard Hogg, west : the streete south : John Palmer, senior, east : and William Hudson, senior, arid also with Robert Scott, north. 22 (3) 1647. Francis Smith of Boston granted unto Amos Richardson of Boston, 2 Acres of land purchased by him of Ed- mund Jacklin and Richard Sherman, being bounded with W m . As- pinwall north : the cornon on the west : the streete on the south : Jane Parker, W m . Townsend, Edmund Jacklin, Edmund Jackson and Ephraim Pope, east. This was by a deed dated the 22 (3) 1647, and signed before "William Aspinwall, publ. Notary. John Palmer, senior, Ms possession in Boston. One house and garden or houselott bounded with Amos Richard- son, west : Gamaliel Waite, east : Robert Scot and yong W m . Hudson, north : and the Mill streete, south. [103.] Gamaliel Waite Ms possession in Boston. One house and lott bounded with John Palmer west: Mr. Thomas Oliver, north : Benjamin Negoos easterly : and the Mill streete south. Also one garden plott bounded with Richard Hollich, east : Elizabeth Purton, west : William Blaintaine south : and the streete on the north. Benjamin Negoos Ms possession in Boston. One house and lott bounded with Gamaliel Waite, west : Madie Engles, east : Mill streete, south : and M r . Oliver, north. [104.] Madie Engles his possession in Boston. One house and lott bounded with M r . Scott, north : Benjamin Negoos, westward : William Deming, eastward : and the Mill steed southward. William Deming his possession within the limits of Boston. One house and lott bounded Capt. Keine, north : Madie Engles, west : and Benjamin Gillom, easterly : and the lane southeast. [105.] Richard Gridley his possession in Boston. One house and lott bounded with the streete south and west : the Bay, easterly : and John Harrison northerly. 38 City Document No. 46. — Paet 2. Also another lott bounded with Robert Turner northwest : John Harrison southwest : the Bay southeast : and the Fort, northeast. John Harrison his possession in Boston. One house and lott bounded with Richard G-ridley southerly : the Bay, easterly : Richard Gridley, northerly : Robert Turner, westerly. [106.] Nicholas Baxter his possession within the limits of Boston. One house and lott bounded with the streete or lane, north and west : Edward Browne and the Bay, east : Mathew Iyons, south- ward. Edward Broivne his possession in Boston. One house and garden bounded with Nicholas Baxter northerly and westerly : the Bay easterly : and Mathew Iyons southward. [107.] Mathew Iyons his possession in Boston. One house and lott bounded with the lane westward : Nicholas Baxter and Edward Browne, northward : the Bay, eastward : and W m . Netherland southwards. William Letherland* his possession in Boston. One house and lott bounded with the lane westward ; the bay eastwards : Matthew Iyons northward : and Abel Porter and the Cove southward. [108.] W m . Teft his possession in Boston. One house and lott bounded with the Cove, south : the lane east : the Mill streete, north : and Thomas Munt and Tuttle, westward. Thomas Munts possession in Boston. One house and lott bounded with W m . Teft, east and north : the Cove, south : and Jonathan Negoos westward. [109.] Jonathan Negoos his possession in Boston. One house and lott bounded with Thomas Munt, east : Thomas Foster, west : William Teft, north : and the Cove, south. Thomas Foster his possession in Boston. One house and lott bounded with Jonathan Negoos, east : Rich- ard Woodhouse, west : M rs . Tuttle, north : and the Cove, south. Sould to W m . Browne, p. 130. The 30 (7) 39. Boston granteth to Tho. Foster, the Com'dr. at the Castle Island, a great lot at the Mount for six heads, uppon condition expressed for Mount Woollaston lands. This land is 49 Acres, bounded toward the north with land of M r . Haughs : toward the west with land of M r . Benjamin Keaine : toward the ♦This name was first spelled by the clerk as i^etherland, as in the preceding line. It should be Zethorland. The Book or Possessions. 39 south with the land of Francis Lyall : toward the east with land of Nathaniell W ms . and Francis Lyall. If it be aliened from the towne, they require 2 Acres in seven to be returned to the towne, or 2s. 4d. in steed thereof. Teste John Oliver, secret. [HO.] Richard Woodhouse his possession in Boston. One house and houselott bounded with Thomas Foster on the east : John Vyall on the west : Georg Griggs on the north : and the Cove on the south. Georg Griggs his lott and possession in Boston. One houselott bounded with M rs . Tuttle east : William Davies west : John Vyall south : and the millne streete north. [111.] Thomas Bells possession in Boston. One house and lott bounded with William Davies east : Richard Hollich west : William Blantaine on the south : and the streete on the north. Richard Hollich his possession in Boston. One house and lott bounded with Thomas Bell, east : Gamaliel Waite, west : William Blaintaine, south : and the streete north. [112.] Christopher Lawson his possession in the towne of Boston. 20 ( 1 1 ) 1 645 . Richard Bellingham of Boston, Esq. : granted unto Christopher Lawson of Boston the one equall p'portionable halfe of the marsh land anciently granted to him by the towne of Boston, lyeing betweene his owne howse which he bought of M r . Symons, and John Lowes. As appeareth by a deed dated 4 (4) 1644. Richard Bellingham and a seale. Witnes Samuel Bellingham Thomas Lake. 20 (6) 1646. Thomas Buttolph of Boston granted unto Chris- topher Lawson of Boston a p'cell of land in the Mill field, contein- ing four Acres and halfe, be it more or lesse, bounded with bay north east : Nicholas Parker and Val. Hill northwest : and Chris- topher Stanley south : and this by deed dated 20 (6) 1646, acknowl- edged before John Winthrop, Governor. [113.] Robert JSfanney his possession in the towne of Boston. 25 (1) 1646. David Selleck of Boston granted unto Robert Nanney his house and garden thereunto belonging with ten foote broade for a way leading to the said garden, (formerly purchased of Christopher Lawson) and also ten foote of the wharfe in breadth from John Hills, and in length from the Dock to his house : being bounded with John Hills and the streete westerly : the marsh north- erly : the marsh and Nathaniel Long easterly : and the Cove south- erly : as appeares by a deed of sale dated 25 (1) 1646 and the same day acknowledged before M r . Winthrop, Dep. Gov r . David Selleck and a seale. 40 City Document No. 46. — Part 2. Also David Selleck granted sixe foote more of the wharfe next adjoyneing unto the former ten foote, and this by deed of sale with warranty against all men, and provision that he should leave roome to passe upon the wharfe, and land goods as the rest of the neigh- bours doe. Dat. 29 (5) 1646 and acknowledged the same clay before M r . Winthrop, Governor. 16 (7) 1650. Paul Allistre granted to Robert Nanney his dwell- ing house in Boston, taken in execution of a Judgm*. against Rich: Straine, bounded with the land of Thomas Lake southwest : Arthur Perry northeast : Robert Wing northwest : and the cove southeast, (being in breadth 31 foote as appeares by the apprisement) , to- gether with the land and wharfe to the sd. house belonging : with warrantie against all that shall challeng any title thereto, by, from, or under him or Richard Straine or his p'decessors : and this was by a deed dated 16 (7) 1650. Pau. Allistre and a seale. [114 is blank.] [115.] M r . Roger Fletcher his possession in Boston. 26 (4) 1646. Jeremy Houtchin of Boston in the Massachusetts, tanner, granted unto Roger Fletcher, late of London, merch*. his dwelling house, garden, orchard and tanpitts in Boston, bounded with Benjamin Thwing, south : John Ruggle and Widdow Hunne east : Sudbury streete west : and the lane north. Also a parcell of land bounded with John Newgate, southwest: M r . Staughton, northwest: the highway, northeast: and Thomas Ludkin, south- east: and this was by an absolute deed of sale, dat. 26. (4) 1646. Acknowledged the same day before M r . Richard Bellingham. [116.] Nicholas Busbie his possession in Boston. 22 (6) 1646. Edmund Jacklin of Boston granted unto Nicholas Busbie, worsted weaver, his dwelling house and garden, be it half Acre more or lesse, bounded with Edmund Dennis north : W ra . Townsend south : the highstreete east : and Edmund Jacklin west. Acknowledged before the Governor, John Winthrop, esq r . ; 22 (6) 1646. [117.] William Hailestones possession in Boston. 29 (6) 1646. Edward Fletcher granted unto W m . Hailestone, late of Tanton, taylor, part of his dwelling house, viz', the north end thereof, being 13 foote north and south, and twenty sixe foote east and west or thereabout ; with halfe his garden, being thus bounded : with Thomas Painter north : the Highway east : Na- thaniel Woodward and Edw. Fletcher south : and the High streete and Edward Fletcher west: this was by a deed dat. 29 (6) 1646, acknowledged before the Governor the same day. This is againe aliened, p. 128. [118.] Henry Shrimpton his possession in Boston. 28 (7) 1646. Anthony Stoddard and John Leverit sould unto Henry Shrimpton of Boston, Brassier, a dwelling house and garden in Boston, bounded with the water streete south : the new streete The Book of Possessions. 41 east : M r . John "Wilsons * west : and John Parker north : and this was by an absolute deed, dat. 9 (5) 1646: acknowledged the 26 (7) 1646, before John Winthrop, Governor. [119.] Abraham Page his possession in Boston. 22 (8) 1646. John Steevenson granted his house and yard to Abraham Page, which is bounded with Nathaniel Bishop east : the Fort streete north : and Robert Remolds south and west : as by his deed dated 22 (8) 1646 doth appeare. Acknowledged before M r . John Winthrop, Governor, the same day: this is sould to John Hanset, page 120. [120.] John Hansett his possession in Boston. Abraham Page granted unto John Hansett of Roxbury his house and yard in Boston, bounded on the east with Nathaniel Bishop : the Fort streete on the north : and Robert Remolds on the south and on the west : as appeares by his deed dated the 22 (8) 1646 : acknowledged before John Winthrop, Governor, the same day. [121.] Ilezekia Usher his possession in Boston. 1. 2. Edmund Jackson of Boston granted unto Hezekiah Usher of Boston his house and garden in Boston, bounded with M r . John Wilson north and east : the market steed south : and John Coggan west : being in front to the street 25 foote, and fourty foote deepe : and this was by an absolute deed of sale, dated 1 (12) 1646. Acknowledged before John Winthrop, Governor, 2(12) 1646. [122.] W m . Wicks his possession in Boston. 12 (1) 46. John Sweete of Boston granted unto W m . Wicks of Boston a certaine house and garden in Boston, bounded with Thomas Ankor southeast : Christopher Stanley southwest and northwest : To have and to hould to him and his heires for ever : dat. 25 (12) 1644, and Acknowledged 12 (1) 1646, before John Winthrop, Governor. [123.] Joseph Phippeni his possession in Boston. One housplott which formerly was Anchor Ainsworths, and by Henry Rashle}^, Attorney to the sd. Anchor (as b} T his p'curation dat. 8 (7) 1645 may appeare) sould unto the aforesaid Joseph : as by his deed of sale, dat. 30 (1) 1647 may appeare: which deed was acknowledged before John Winthrop, Governor, the said 30 (1) 47. [124.] TJie possession of John Jephson in Boston. James Oliver by vertue of the last will and testament of John Oliver late of Boston deceased, hath granted unto John Jepson the house and garden in Boston which formerly was M r . John Oli- vers : bounded with Valentine Hill southeast and northeast : the streete, northwest : and John Pierce and John Knight southwest : as also the lott of Thomas Marshall which (for one rod length *Name indistinct. 42 City Document No. 46. — Part 2. abutteth on the southwest at the southerly end of John Knights and John Pierces lott : and this was by an absolute deed of sale dated 30 (2) 1647, and acknowledged before the Governor the same day. [125.] The possession of John Anderson in Boston. Edmund Grose of Boston granted unto John Anderson of the same, shipwright, his dwelling house in Boston, situat next to George Halsalls : and this was by an absolute deed of sale clat. 1 (8) 1647, and acknowledged before the Governor 20th (3) 1647. [126.] Francis Smith his possessio?is in Boston. 22 (3) 1647. Edmund Jaclin of Boston granted unto Francis Smith of Boston, one Acre and halfe of land, be the same more or lesse, which was by him formerly purchased of Daniell Maud and Rich. Cooke, being bounded on the north with William Aspinwall : the CoTITon on the west : Richard Sherman on the south : and W m . Townsend, Edmund Jacklin, Edmund Dennis and Ephraim Pope on the east : and this was by a deed dated, sealed and d'd the 22 (3) 1647 before William Aspinwall, publ. notary. 22 (3) 1647. Richard Sherman of Boston granted to Francis Smith of Boston, halfe an Acre of land in Boston, bounded with the said Francis Smith north : the Coihon west : the streete south : and Jane Parker east : and this was by a deed dat. sealed and d'd the 22 (3) 1647 before William Aspinwall, publick Notary. Both these are sould, see page 102. 12 (7) 1648. W m . Hudson of Boston, Junior, did sell unto Francis Smith of Boston, his p't in the dwelling house of W m . Hudson, senior, being fourty six pound (the whole being one hun- dred and thirty) : and this was by an absolute deed of sale, dat. sealed and delivered 12 (7) 1648, in presence of W m . Aspinwall, Not. publ. 1 (10) 1648. John Milom of Boston, Coop., granted unto Fran- cis Smith of Boston his p't in the dwelling house of W m . Hudson, senior, beinge fourty pounds sterl. (the whole being 130 u -) : and this was by an absolute deed of sale, dat. 29 (12) 1637. 5 (11) 1648. W m . Chamberlaine assigned unto Francis Smith and his heires forever his house and ground thereto belonging, formerly bought of the sd. Francis, being bounded on the north with the lane : on the east with the highstreete : Richard Carter on the south : and the Comon on the west. This assignment was dated 4 (11) 1648. W M . Cha.mbebla.ine. This house was againe sould to Ri. Wilson : p. 18 (2) 1651. Ambrose Leech of Boston for valueable consider- ation granted to Francis Smith a p'cell of land in Boston in breadth all betweene the house which is Joseph Wormalls and the land of the sd. Francis, being at the streete eight or nine foote more or lesse, and so according to the range by the end of Joseph Worm- alls house, unto the wharfe or Cove : and this was by a deed dat. 16 (2) 1651. Signed, sealed and d'd. in presence of W m . Aspin- wall, Not'y publ. The Book of Possessions. 43 [127.] The possession of Arthur Clarke in Boston. 5 (5) 1647. Henry Pease of Boston, planter, granted unto Ar- thur Clarke of the same, carpenter, a certaine p'cell of ground, being in breadth fourty two foote and J- at the front, and ninety 8 foote and £ in length on the southwest side : the other side being ninety one foote and ^ : and the end 38 foote : bounded on the southeast with the streete : Mr. Paine southwest : and his owne lott on the northeast and northwest : and this was by an absolute deed of sale, dat. 28 (4) 1647, and acknowledged before M r . Nowel 5 (5) 1647. I, W m . Ting, doe heereby Give halfe my five lots of land of the Betweene goodm. Fippen^-s and the bridge in Boston to my Couzen Jno. Francklyn, to him and his heires for ever. Bos- ton. 15, ll mo - 1652. p me Wm. Tynge Entred and recorded 2 Feb. 1652, p. Edw. Rawson, Recorder. The testimony of W m . Francklin, aged about forty five years : being by occasion at M r . W m . Tings house upon the 15 (11) 1652, hard M r . W m . Tinge say that one half of the five Roods of land belowe the high way betweene the bridge and goodman Fippennies, he did give to his Cozen John Francklin, and would confirme it by deede to him. Taken upon oath, the first of the 12 mo - 1652 before Mr. Hib- bins. Entred and Recorded, 2d February 1652. Edward Rawson, Recorder. This deede of guift within written under Capt. W m . Tings own hand, I, W m . Phillips, jun., of Boston do testifie that it was d'd unto my Brother John Franckling by M r . Willm. Tinge in my pres- ence : witnes my hand this (1) clay of the 12 mo. 1652. Taken upon oath the 1 of the 12 mo. 1652 before Mr. Hibbins. Entred and Recorded 2d february 1652. p. Edw. Rawson, Recorder. [128.] Richard Lippincot his possession in Boston. 31 (5) 1647. William Hailestone of Boston, Tailor, granted unto Rich. Lippincot of Boston, Barber, his house and garden in Boston, bounded with Tho. Painter north : the high street and Ed- ward Fletchers garden west : the high way east : Nathaniel Wood- ward and Edward Fletcher south : and this was by an absolute deed of sale, dat. 31 (5) and acknowledged before M r . Endicot 10th of the 6 mo - 1647. [129«] John Vyall his possession in Boston. One house and garden containeing halfe an Acre bounded on the east Richard Woodhouse : the high way on the west : Georg Griggs north : and the marsh and Cove on the South. Aliened to W m . Cosin, Booke 2, page 27. [130.] W m . Browne his possession in Boston. Thomas Foster granted to W m . Brown late of Salem, his house and garden in Boston, bounded with Jonathan Negoos east : Georg Griggs north: Richard Woodhouse west: and Cove south: and 44 City Document No. 46. — Part 2. this was by an absolute deed dat. 13 (8) 1647 : and acknowledged before the Governor the same day. [131.] TJwmas Beamont Ms possession in Boston. Thomas Foster of Boston granted unto Tho: Beamont of Lon- don, Mariner, fourtie nine Acres of land at Mount Woollaston, bounded on the north with M r . Atherto Haugh : Benjamin Keane on the west : Francis Lyle south : Nathaniell Williams and Francis Lyle on the east. And this was by a deed of absolute sale, dat. 9 (8) 1647: and acknowledged before the Governor 19 (8) 1647. Also he granted a hyeway of six foote to be maintained between Barnabas Fawer, James Mattox, Arthur Perry and his owne, at the bead of the lotts. 14 (1) 1648. [132.] William Chamberlaine Jus possession in Boston. 9 (9) 1647. Francis Smith granted unto William Chamberlaine his house and garden together with the shopp and houseinge unto the same belonging, being bounded on the north with the lane : on the west with the Comon : the high streete east : and Richard Car- ter south : and this was by an absolute deed dat. 30th of October 1647 ; acknowledged the 9 (9) 1647 before M r . Hibbins. This was again assigned to Francis Smith, see p. 126. [133.] Barnabas Faioer his possession in Boston. 14 (1) 1647. Valentine Hill of Boston granted unto Barnabas Fawer of Boston, a houslott in Boston bounded with the Cove southeast: the lane northeast: James Mattocks southwest: and his owne norwest : and this by an absolute deed of sale, dat. 23 (9) 1646, and acknowledged before M r . W m . Hibbins, 14 (7) 1647. [134.] James Mattox his possession in Boston. 14 ( 1 ) 1647. Valentine Hill granted unto James Mattox in Bos- ton a certaine houslott in Boston, bounded with Arthur Perry southwest : the Cove southeast : Barnabas Fawer northeast : and his owne land northwest : and this was by a deed dat. 23 (9) 1646, and acknowledged before M r . W ra . Hibbins 14 (1) 1648. Also he granted a hyewaye of six foote to be maintained at the head of the lotts of Barnabas Fawer, James Mattox and Arthur Perry for theire accommodation and his owne. 14 (1) 1647. [135.] The possession of Robert Turner, shoomaJcer, in Boston. 14 (2) 48. Valentine Hill granted unto Robert Turner, one house and garden in Boston, bounded with Thomas Buttolph north : Thomas Hawkins south : John Biggs west : and the streete east: and this was by deed dat. 1 (10) 1644, and acknowledged before M r . Bellingham 10 (2) 1648. [136.] The possessions of Oliristopher Clarke of Boston. 12 (3) 1648. Nicholas Willis of Boston granted unto Christo- pher Clarke of the same, mariner, his house and garden in Boston The Book of Possessions. 45 bounded with John Button southwest : the street east : Thomas Painter northerly : and James Everill westerly : and this was by an absolute deed of sale dated 12 (3) 1648. Nicholas Willis and a seale. Sealed and d'd in presence of William Aspinwall James Allison. [137.] Tlie possession of James Nash in Boston. 7 (4) 1648. John Milom of Boston granted unto James Nash of Waymouth, a certaine parcell of marsh in Boston, being fourty foote in breadth at the front, bounded with the Mill creeke south- west ; the highway northwest : M r . W m . Ting northeast and south- east, as farr as low water marke : and this was by a deed, dated and sealed before William Aspinwall, Notary publ. 7 (4) 16-18. [138.] John Lake Ms possession in Boston. 14 (4) 1648. Richard Hogg of Boston sould unto John Lake of Boston his house and garden in Boston, bounded with John Mar- shall south : Nathaniel Eaton north : Amos Richardson and W m . Hudson east : and the high streete west : as appeares by a deed dat. 21 (8) 1645. witnes Philemon Pormort. JSould to Thomas Wiborne, p. 139. 26 (4) 1648. Thomas Wibourne granted unto John Lake of Boston a certaine p'cell of land, conteineing eleven perches be the same more or lesse, being bounded with Robt. Reinoulds on the north and the east : Edward Fletcher south : and the high streete west: and this was by an absolute deed, dat. 26 (4) 1648, sealed and delivered before me, William Aspinwall, Notar}^ publick. [139.] Thomas Wiborne his possession in Boston. 14 (4) 1648. John Lake granted unto Thomas Wiborne his dwelling house in Boston and the garden thereto belonging, being bounded on the south with John Marshall : Nathaniell Eaton north : Amos Richardson and W m . Hudson east : the high streete west : and this was by an absolute deed of sale, Dated the 14 (4) 1648, before William Aspinwall, publick Notary. [140.] John Phillips his possession in Boston. 16 (4) 1648. John Milom granted unto John Phillips all that his dwelling house and shop and garden in Boston, bounded on the northeast with John Hill : the lane southwest : Tho. Yow * northwest : and the Cove southeast : and this was sealed and delivered the 16 (4) 1648, before me, W m . Aspinwall Notar}' publ. [141.] Henry Browne his possession in Boston. 20 (4) 1648. William Douglas of Boston granted unto Henry Browne of Limehouse, mariner, a parcell of land, part of his houselott in Boston, containeing fifty six perches, three quar- * This name is often spelt Yeo. 46 Citt Document No. 46. — Part 2. ters, of land, be the same more or lesse ; being in front at the sea thirty one foote, and in front toward the streete fyve rod, three foote, or thereabouts : bounded on the northeast with Joseph Baster, the River and W m . Douglas : on the southeast with W m . Douglas and the streete : on the southwest, with W m . Phillips and : and on the northwest with Joseph Baster and Thomas Anchor : and this was by an absolute deed of sale, sealed and d'd in presence of me, William Aspinwall, Not. publ. the 20 (4) 1648. [142.] W m . Douglas his possession in Boston. Walter Merry in behalfe of himselfe and Thomas Anchor, granted unto W m . Douglas of Boston, Coop., one dwelling house in Boston, scituate betweene the lotts of John Sweete and John Seabury, to- gether with the shopp which was Thomas Anchors and the ground thereunto belonging : and this was bj an absolute deed of sale dated 1 (3) 164G, acknowledged before M r . Bellingham 15° (4) 1648. Walter Merry granted unto W m . Douglas one little house with the ouse* late in the tenure and occupation of John Newgrove, adjoying to the former house and ground, to have and to hould the said house and ground to him and his heires forever. Dat. 12 (1) 1647, and acknowledged before Mr. Bellingham, 15 (4) 1648. [143.] John Baker his possession in Boston. 1 (4) 1648. Joseph Phippeni granted unto Joh. Baker the moietie or one halfe of his house lott, being in breadth twentie foote, bounded on the south with Thomas Savage : W m . Phillips west : the said Joseph Phippeni north : and the Bay east : and this was by an absolute deed of sale, sealed and d'd in presence of W m . Aspin- wall, publ. Notarie. [144.] M r . W m . Dawies, Apothecary, his possession in Boston. 2 (6) 1648. Valentine Hill of Boston granted unto W m . Davies a certaine p'cell of land in the Newficld in Boston, being foure Acres more or lesse, bounded on the north with James Pen : John Biggs and James Pen on the west : Robert Turner on the east : and Thomas Buttolph on the south : and this was by an absolute deed of sale sealed and delivered before W m . Aspinwall, Not. publ. the 2 (6) 1648. [145.] Richard Bennet his possession in Boston. 26 (6) 1648. W m . Phillips and Susan his wife granted unto Richard Bennet of Boston twoe or three Acres of land in Boston in the Mill field, bounded with theire owne land northwest, south- west and northeast : and on the southeast with the lands of the sd. Richard Bennet and W m . Phillips : and this was by a deed sealed and delivered 26 (6) 1648, before William Aspinwall, Not. publicke. 12 (1) 1650. Thomas Clark of Boston, merch'., for valueable consideration reed., granted to Richard Bennet of Boston one quarter of an Acre of land in Boston, in the mill field, bounded •Th'i* in the original. The Book of Possessions. 47 with the barne and barne yard of the sd. Rich, on the northeast : the streete southeast : W m . Phillips southwest and northwest : and this was by a deed dated 12 (1) 1G50, before rne W m . Aspinwall sealed and delivered. [146.] Richard Straine his possession in Boston. 25 (7) 1648. Valentine Hill of Boston granted unto Richard Straine of of* Boston, one Acre of land in Boston, be the same more or lesse, being bounded on the southwest with M r . Nathaniell Eldred : M r . John Oliver and the high waves northwest and north- east : Arthur Peny and the greate Cove southeast : and this was by an absolute deed of sale dated the 27th of August 1G48, and Acknowledged \>y M r . Hill before mee W m . Aspinwall 25 (7) 1648. Witnes Henry Shrimpton and Thorn. Bomsted. [147.] George Michell his possession in Boston. 10 (8) 1648. Joseph Phippeni of Boston granted unto George Michell a house and house lott in Boston, bounded on the north with Capt. Thomas Hawkins : John Baker on the south : the Ba} r on the east : and W m . Phillips on the west : and this was by a deed dat. 10 (8) 1648, before W m . Aspinwall, Not. publ. [148.] John Langdon his possession in Boston. Nathaniell Woodward, Junior, granted unto John Langdon of [Bo]f ston, his dwelling house and garden in Boston, being bounded on the [south] f with Richard Waite : Edward Fletcher on the north : Nathaniell Bishop on the east : and the high streete on the west: and this was by an absolute deed, dat. 16 (8) 1648, sealed and d'd before William [ Aspin] fwall and Robert Button. [149.] Mice Jonies his possession in Boston. 17 (9) 1648. Robert Burnam granted unto Rice Jones of Bos- ton a houslott in Boston, bounded on the south with Robert Burnam : ould Rawlins on the north : the highway east : and W m . Phillips west: and this was by a deed, dat. 17 J (9) 1648, before W m . Aspinwall, Not. publ. [Here ends the Record of Possessions, the next page, the reverse of p. 149, being occupied with part of a contemporaneous in- dex. At the foot of pp. 145-149 are some notes of stray cattle recorded in 1675 by Free Grace Bendall, and in 1693 by another clerk.] ♦Repeated thus. t Nearly illegible in original. JThis date may bo read"27 (9) 1648. 48 City Document No. 46. — Part 2. The following document is undoubtedly worth a place ; it is at the foot of p. 145 : — Massachusetts Collont John Leverett, esq 1 . Gov r . in New England [The Seale.] To all people who shall see these presents or heare them read, greeting. Know yee that Lancelott Talbott and Joseph Smith have bought of the Tresurer of this Collony seaven Indians, viz 1 . George, William, Hawkins, great David, Rouley, John Indian and Tommoquin, which Indians were sentanc'd to be sould for slaves : to which end the said Talbott and Smith ma}* trans- port them to any place out of this Continent. In testimony of the truth hereof, I have caused the publique seale of the Collony to be affixed hereunto, this 22 of 9 br 1675, Ano'q. Kegni Regis Caroli. secundi nunc Aug* xxvii. John Leverett, Gov r . Recorded and compard, 20 th . 9 br . 75, pr. F. Bendall, Rec. * The next word is indistinct. INDEX TO THE BOOK OF POSSESSIONS. Adams, 5. Addington, 23. Ainsworth, 21, 41. Alcock, 33. Allington, 15. Allison, 45. Allistre, 40. ( Anchor, 46. | Ankor, 41. Anderson, 9, 12, 42. Angier, 14. Arnold, 8. ( Aspinwal, 1. 1 Aspinwall, 2, 5, 6, 8, 12, 13, 14, 16, 17, 19, 20, 21, 23, 24, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 33, 35, 37, 42, 45, 46, 47. Astwood, 28. Baker, 46, 47. Barker, 30. Barlow, 11. Barrell, 18, 19. Baster, 46. Bateman, 35. Bates, 13, 18, 23. Baulston, 17. "Raxter ^18 Bay, the, 1, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 15, 21, 22, 29, 34, 38, 46, 47. Salt, 8, 19. Beamont, 44. Beamsley, 7, 22, 25, 31. * Beck, 14, 15, 23, 25. j Becke, 1. Beek, 14. < Bel, 35. I Bell, 39. Belchar, 33, 34. / Belcher, 33. Bellingham, 1, 3, 9, 10, 12, 14, 16, 19, 20, 28, 39, 40, 44, 46. Bendall, 2, 3, 8, 13, 16, 20, 21, 22, 47, 48. Bennet, 7, 16, 46. Biggs, 1, 7, 14, 15, 25, 44, 46. I Bishop, 21, 28, 36, 41, 47. Bishopp, 36. Blaintaine, 35, 37, 39. Blantaine, 39. Blot, 32. Blott, 32. Bomsted, 30, 47. Boston necke, 16. Bosworth, 5, 7, 13, 15, 23, 25, 28, 29, 30, 31. Bourne, 7, 8, 34. Bowen, 19, 35. Brackett, 24. Braintree, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 15, 18, 19, 21, 29, 31. Bridgham, 26, 27. Brisco, 33, 34, 35. j Brown, 5, 14, 43. I Browne, 1, 5, 9, 14, 23, 29, 38, 43, 45. Burden, 3, 4, 7, 13, 17, 18, 21, 23, 32, 34. Burieing Place, 20. Burnam, 47. Busbie, 40. Bushwell, 17, 20. Buttolph, 2, 5, 14, 15, 22, 25, 28, 33, 35, 39, 44, 46. Button, 2, 15, 18, 19, 45, 47. ( Cambridg, 35. ( Cambridge, 2. Carter, 4, 14, 32, 33, 42, 44. ( Causway, the, 16. I Cawsey, the, 15. Cedar Swamp, 7, 25, 30, 33. ( Chaffe, 11. ? Chaffle, 5, 11, 12. ( Chaffy, 5. Chamberlaine, 42, 44. Chaplaine, 33. Chappell, 11, 12, 31. Charlestowne, 15, 16, 28. Cheevers, 8. Church at Dover, 31. ( Clark, 10, 15, 16, 46. 1 Clarke, 7, 9, 10, 11, 12, 16, 17, 22, 25, 31, 32, ( 43,44. Clerk, 5. I Coales, 29. I Cole, 5, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 28, 35. Coggan, 1, 3, 5, 7. 19, 41. ( Colborne, 26, 33, 34. J Colbourne, 23. ( Coleborne, 33. Common, Boston, 2. Comon, The, 2, 6, 7, 14, 17, 23, 24, 25, 28, 29, _30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 37, 42, 44. Comon, Rocky, 5, 15, 29. Compton, 26, 27. j Cook, 19. I Cooke, 9, 13, 15, 19, 22, 23, 29, 30, 31, 42. Copp, 5. Cornewell, 17. ( Corser, 24. ( Courser, 3, 4, 24. Cosin, 43. Cotton, 1, 3, 21. Cove, the, 1, 2, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 14, 15, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 26, 27, 34, 38, 39. 40, 42, 43, 44, 45. Fisher's, 1. Grate, 47. Cox, 15. Cranwell, 33, 34. Creeke, the, 12, 14, 27, 28. Creeke Mill, 4, 20. < Critchley, 26. j Crychley, 25. Crosse, 34. J Croychely, 26, 34. / Croychley, 26, 34. Cuddington, 35. Cullimer, 9, 10, 11, 16. Cullimore, 6. Dane, 2, 12. Davies, 4, 5, 6, 7, 22, 23, 29, 30, 35, 39, 46. Davis, 15. Dedham, 2, 33. Deming, 26, 37. Dennis, 29, 30, 31, 40, 42. Devotion, 34. Diggcs, 7. Diueley, 26. Dinsdale, 27. Dorchester, 16. Douglas, 45, 46. Downing, 17. 50 Index to the Book of Possessions. Dowse, 3, 18. Dunster, 3, 15. East, 22, 36. I Eaten, 22. } Eaton, 25, 30, 36, 45. Eldred, 47. Eliot, 22, 25, 26, 33, 34. Endicot, 43. England, New, 11, 24, 25. Engles, 37. Essex Co. 11. Eveans, 14. Evered, 1. { Everell, 9. ) Everill, 6, 9, 14, 18, 19, 24, 28, 31, 32, 45. Fairebanks, 3, 4, 15, 17, 23, 27, 28, 29. Fane, 3, 13, 35. Farnam, 6. N Faulconer, 5. Fawer, 44. Field, Centry, 30. Fort, 23. Mill, 5, 7, 16, 18, 28, 39, 46. Milne, 15. New, 3, 4, 7, 13, 14, 15, 17, 18, 20, 22, 23, 25, 28, 29, 30, 31, 46. Fippenny, 43. Fish, 6, 7. .Flacke 32. Fletcher, 28, 36, 37, 40, 43 45, 47. Flint, 32. Fort, the, 38. Foster, 8, 38, 39, 43, 44. Fowle, 2, 15, 33. Foxcroft, 20, 21. {Francklin, 43. Franckling, 43. Francklyn, 48. Franklin, 3, 14, 20. Gallop, 11, 12, 29. Georges, 18. ( Gibones, 2, 3, 6, 14, 20. I Gibons, 2. Gibson, 5. Gillom, 26, 27, 37. Glover, 3, 17. Goodwin, 5, 6. Gore, 11. Goultrop, 19. Greames, 3, 17. Green, the, 27. Gridley, 22, 24, 33, 37, 38. Griggs, 8, 35, 39, 43. I Grose, 42. / Grosse, 6, 7, 9, 22. Grubb, 7, 25, 29, 30. Gunnison, 3, 17. Hailstone, 40, 43. Halsall, 42. ( Ilanset, 41. I Hansctt, 41. Uarkcr, 7, 32. Harrison, 37, 38. Harwood, 21. Haugh, 2, 27, 29, 30, 38, 44. Hawes, 6. Hawghton, 12. Hawkins, 3, 7, 8, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 19, 21, 25, 44,47. ( Hibbens, 23. \ Hibbins, 2, 22, 23, 25, 26, 27. 32, 34, ( 44. Highway, the.l, 3, 4, 8, 9,10, 11, 12,15 21, 22, 23, 34, 40, 43, 45, 47. f Hill, 4, 6, 7, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, I 22,24,25, 28, 29, 31, 39, 41,44, | 47. (.Hills, 1,22, 39. Hill, Gentry, 3. Fort, 22, 27. 35, 43, 5,16,19, 20, 21, 45, 40, ( Hogg, 22, 36, 37, 45. | Hogge, 36. Hollich, 37, 39. Houtchin, 13, 18,40. Houthin, 3. How, 45, Howen, 4, 13, 18. Hudson, 3, 10, 11, 12, 13, 15, 17, 19, 22, 23, 28, 29, 30, 37, 42, 45. Hull, 8, 35,36. Hunne, 3, 4, 9, 18, 19, 40. Hunt, 19. Hurd, 35, 36. Hutchinson, 4, 15, 21, 25, 26, 27, 30. Island, Castle, 38. Hogg, 30. Spectacle, 33. Iyons, 38. | Jacklin, 31, 37, 40, 42. ( Jaclin, 42. Jackson, 4, 5, 7, 8, 13, 17, 19, 37, 41. Jeoffreys, 16. ( Jephson, 41 j Jepson, 41. Johnson, 6, 7, 15, 17, 29, 32. Jones, 47. Jonies, 47. Joy, 9, 10. Judkins, 19, 36. (Keaine, 38. Keane, 44. Keayne, 3, 4. Keine, 23, 24, 27, 37. I Kenrick, 27, 28. | Keniicke, 4. Kirkby, 12, 13. Knight, 3,9, 10, 17, 41, 42. Lake, 36, 39, 40, 45. Lamb, 14. Lane, the, 8, 9, 11, 12, 13, 15, 17, 18, 19, 20, 23 24. 26, 31, 32, 33,34, 35, 37, 38, 40, 42, 44, 45. Langdon, 47. Lawson, 15, 16, 21, 22, 39. I Leauger, 15. } Leger, 2, 23, 31, 32, 33, 35. Leech, 42. Letherland, 38. {Leveret, 4. Leverett, 4S. Leverit, 4, 5, 6, 7, 12, 14, 19, 20, 23, 24, 27, 32, 40. Leveritt, 11. Lippincot, 43. London, 40, 94. Long, 21, 39. ( Low, 10, 45. { Lowe, 1, 14, 39. Loyall, 7, 29. Ludkin, 40. Lugg, 23, 29. Lyall, 39. Lyle, 2, 30, 44. Mainard, 19. Makepeace, 13, 18. Market Place, 5. Market Steed, 7, 41. Marsh, the, 3, 4, 5, 7, 10, 12, 15, 17, 18, 23, 26, 27, 34, 39, 43. Common, 1, 21. Mill Field, 3. Ilumney, 7, 28. Marshall, 3, 4, 9, 10, 36, 37, 41, 45. Martin, 24. Mason, 19, 23, 32. Massachusetts, 40. ( Mattocks, 44. ( Mattox, 44. Index to the Book of Possessions. 51 IMaud, 3, 29, 31, 42. Maude, 1, 3. Meercs, 4, 13, 26. Meers, 21. Mekins, 11. Mellowes, 4, 5, 7, 9, 11, 15, 17, 19, 29. Merry, 6, 22, 46. Messinger, 14, 25, 26. Metson, 31. Michell, 47. Mill, the, 20. creeke, 10, 20, 45. damme, 29. lane, 36. pond, 2. Milland, 26. Millard, 25, 29, 30, 31. Milom, 2, 4, 6, 9, 10, 11, 12, 20, 22, 42, 45. Monotacut, 19. Mount Wallaston, 38, 44. Munt, 8, 14, 38. Nanney, 39, 40. Nash, 2, 20, 21, 45. Negoos, 37, 38, 43. Netherland, 38. I Newberry, 11. J Newbury, 11. Newgate, 3, 13, 28, 40. ■ i Newgrove, 46. Nowel, 43. Nutter, 31. Odlin, 35. Offley, 34. Oliver, 2, 3, 4, 9, 11, 15, 21, 23, 24, 32, 37, 39, 41,47. Ormsbie, 30. Page, 41. Paine, 43. Painter, 18, 19, 32, 40, 43, 45. Palmer, 36, 37. Parker, 4, 13, 15, 20, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 28, 30, 31,33,37,39,41,42. Parsons, 4, 23, 32. Pasmer, 10, 11. Pease, 6, 14, 19, 23, 43. Pell, 3, 27. Pelton, 34. Pen, 4, 15, 23, 27, 28, 46. Penniman, 13. Pepes, 31, 32, 33. Perry, 2, 23, 26, 27, 29, 30, 32, 40, 44, 47. Phillips, 7, 16, 20, 43, 45, 46, 47. Phippcni, 3, 11, 41, 46, 47. Pierce, 1, 9, 10, 15, 21, 22, 41, 42. Plimley, 31. Pope, 29, 30, 31, 37, 42. ( Pormort, 45. | Portmort, 19. Porter, 24, 28, 38. Powell, 24. Pullen Poynt, 1, 15. Purton, 36, 37. Rainsford, 34. Rashley, 41. Rawlins, 10, 16, 47. Rawson, 25, 43. ( Reading, 35. j Readinge, 35. Reinolds, 21, 28, 36,37, 41, 45. Rice, 3, 27. Richardson, 22, 36, 37, 45. River, the, 5, 15, 16, 23, 32, 46. Charles, 2, 8, 25. Merimack, 11. Monotaquid, 7. Monotaquit, 5, 9, 15, 29. Monotoquit, 9. Muddy, 2, 7, 14, 18, 25, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35. Newbury, 11. Roberts, 28. Roe, 34. Roote, 14, 30, 34. Roxbury, 2, 41. Ruck, 16. Ruggle, 13, 28, 30, 31. Ruggles, 40. Salem, 17, 43. Salter, 26, 34. Saltonstall, 12, 17. I Sanfford, 30. Sanford, 12, 13, 25. Savadge, 8, 19, 29. | Savage, 9, 16, 18, 19, 21, 29, 46. Scot, 23, 27, 28, 37. j Scott, 4,22, 23, 37. Scotto, 1, 13, 14, 19, 25, 30, 32. Sea, the, 1,0, 8, 15,23. I Seaberry, 6, 22. | Seabury, 46. j Sedgwick, 25. ( Scdgwicke, 25. Selleck, 4, 39, 40. } Scllick, 4, 21, 22, 31. Serch, 35. Shaw, IS, 19. Sherman, 2, 27, 29, 31, 37, 42. < Shoare, 11, 12. j Shore, 5, 9, 12, 22. Shrimpton, 40, 47. Sinet, 2, 15, 35. Smith, 2, 6, 7, 37, 42, 44, 48. < Snow, 33. } Snowe, 2. Souther, 24. Spoone, 3. Spoore, 2, 16, 24, 27. Spriugate, 2, 4, 23. I Stanley, 1, 6, 8, 10, 14, 15, 16, 17, 39, 41. | Stanly, 10. Starbuck, 31. ( Staughton, 40. { Stoughton, 4. \ Steevenson, 28, 41. | Stevenson, 28, 37. Stillman, 17. Stoddard, 3, 20, 40. Straine, 40, 47. Stratton, 16. Streete, the, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 12, 13, 14, 15, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 41, 42, 44, 45, 46, 47. Gentry Hill, 14, 15. Cove, 3. Fortt, 3, 37, 41. High, 2, 3, 19, 23, 26, 27, 30, 33, 35, 36, 37,40, 42, 43,44, 45, 47. Market,' 3. Mill, 8, 35, 37, 38. Millne, 39. New, 40. Sudbury, 3, 4, 13, 14, 21, 40. Water, 3, 40. Sweete, 5, 6, 11, 22, 29, 41, 46. j Symonds, 14. Symons, 1, 9, 10, 21, 39. | Synderland, 28,29. ( Synderlant, 23. Talbott, 48. I Talmage, 33, 34. } Talmidge, 2. Tanton, 40. Tapping, 26, 37. Teft, 8, 38. Thomas, 24. Thompson, 8. Thwing, 3, 13, 14, 40. f Ting, 17, 43, 45. Tinge, 43. i Tings, 11. | Tyng, 2, 3, 13, 16, 17, 18, 21, 28. (.Tynge, 1, 24. 52 Index to the Book of Possessions. Townsend, 31, 37, 40, 42. Toy, 19. I Truesdaile, 24. j Truesdale, 25, 28, 30. Turner, 13, 24, 25, 26, 27, 38, 44, 46. Tuttle, 7, 8, 38, 39. Usher, 4, 5, 41. Vyall, 39, 43. Waite, 28, 36, 37, 39, 47. Walker, 17, 33, 34. Ward, 26, 27. Watering Place, 35. Way, the, 12, 22, 37. Waymouth, 45. ( Web, 19. \ Webb, 5, 7, 15, 17, 21, 23, 29, 32. ( Weebb, 4, Weekes, 16. Wells, 22. Werdall, 5, 9, 11, 15, 18, 19, 29. Wheeler, 35. - White, 36. I Wiborne, 45. J Wibourne, 45. Wicks, 6, 41. Willard, 31. Williams, 26, 39, 44. Willis, 18, 19, 44, 45. Wilson, 2, 3, 5, 7, 13, 14, 15, 18, 19, 20,28, 30, 35, 41, 42. Wind Mill, 30. Wing, 19, 23, 32, 40. fWinthrop, 1, 2, 4, 5, 7, 15, 19, 22, 24, 25,32, 35, 39, 40, 41. I Winthrope, 24. IWinthropp, 1,4, 32. Woodhouse, 38, 39, 43. ( Woodwar, 37. I Woodward, 14, 15, 26, 27, 30, 33, 34, 35, 36, ( 40, 43, 47. Wormall, 42. Wright, 18, 30. Tow, 45. George, 48. Great David, 48. Hawkins, 48. John, 48. Rouley, 48. Tommoquin, 48. William, 48. INDIANS. APPENDIX NOTES ON BOOK OF POSSESSIONS. It has already been mentioned, in the Introduction to this Part, that Mr. Winsor had furnished in the second volume of the Memorial History of Boston, plans and descriptions elucidating the Book of Possessions. By the kindness of the publishers of that book, and in concurrence with Mr. Winsor's consent, leave was obtained to reproduce that sketch ; but, on further consideration, this idea was somewhat changed. Mr. Winsor's plans were not exact parts of one map ; as, for satisfactory reasons, he repeated some parts of one plan in another. In other words, if his several plans were cut out and laid side by side, they would not make one continuous map. On the other hand, Lamb's map was constructed on a continuous system. Of its ten sheets, nine contained portions of the outline of old Boston. It seemed, therefore, best to reduce his sections to a size suited to our pages, and to give a number to each estate. In the reduced form it is impossible to give the names of the owners of lots, as Lamb has done, or to give his bounda^ lines. This is the less to be regretted, because, as already stated, those lines are purely imaginary. On the other hand, by using plans covering exactly the same territory as Lamb's, the present notes can always be used as a key or guide to those larger plans. The writer has accordingly carefully revised the reduced plans and indicated the lots by numbers. For the descriptions Winsor's text was used wherever it could be, the additions and corrections being put in parenthesis and initialed. In this way the first place is given to Winsor, who is entitled to the credit of having first suggested and executed the method of making the Book of Posses- sions available to the general reader. In a few instances the revision has led the editor to differ from Winsor and Lamb, but in most of the descriptions there is no cause for doubt. Of course much remains to be done in tracing each lot from the first grant to the present time. Mr. Bowditch's Gleaner articles (volume five of the Record Commissioners' Reports) show how interesting the study of old titles and boundaries may be made. As the Book of Possessions gives bounds and not measure- ments, the size and form of the first grant can be discovered only when these lots became subject to sale or division. 54 City Document No. 46. — Part 2. It is confidently hoped that the plans, descriptions, and number- ing now submitted to all interested, will prove of sufficient assist- ance to stimulate renewed labor in the investigation of our early topograph}'. The annexed table will show that all of the first grants recorded in the Booh of Possessions have been located, with a reasonable degree of accuracy, covering thus the first one hundred and eleven pages of that work. Undoubtedly the publication of the second portion of the Boston Town Records (A.D. 1660-1700), now in press, and to be issued as a Report of the Record Commissioners, will supply man}' facts hitherto unknown. Much also remains to be gleaned from the first volume of those Town Records, already printed. Even the Records of the Colony, published b} 7 the State so many j^ears ago, have apparently not been systematically examined for Boston items. When the necessary material has been gathered, it will be possible to write such a history of Boston as will satisfy the anti- quaty ; and it is not perhaps absurd to anticipate that in another centuiy the inhabitants of our Western States will trace the noted localities in Boston with the same reverent interest with which we now visit the cities and towns of England. WILLIAM H. WHITMORE. KEY TO KEFERENCES. In the following list the Book of Possessions is followed page by page, and the reference shows on which of the subsequent maps and explanatory notes each lot is to be found. No notice, of course, is taken of the lots granted outside of Boston, nor of the transfers by deed. Original Orig nal pag e. page. 5. Richard Bellingham 1 G.41 27. Thomas Clarke K. 19 2 H. 15 Thomas Marshall. G. 10 3 G. 19 28. Thomas Joy 1 K. 20 6. Thomas Fowle 1 P. 99 2 K. 17 2 H. 3 John Low, G. 18 7. William Hibbins 1 ( G. 75 G. 107 29. Richard Rawlins Henry Symons. K. 18 G. 20 8. Edward Gibbons 1 G. 99 30. Isaac Cullimer 1 K. 21 2 H. 3 2 K. 16 Atherton Haugh 1 F. 64 John Milom G. 4 2 F. 3 31. Bartholomew Pasmer K. 22 9. John Cotton H. 13 David Phippeny G. 6 10. William Tyng 1 G. 40 32. Francis Hudson. K. 23 2 G. 6 John Cole H. 8 Robert Keayne 1 G. 81 33. Matthew Chaffie K. 25 2 F. 31 Nathaniell Chappell H. 7 11. John Wilson G. 85 34. John Gallop K. 24 Mr Dunster G. 45 James Hawkins H. 27 12. John Newgate. H. 21 35. Sampson Shoare G. 1 Daniel Maud. H. 14 William Kirkby. H. 26 13. Thomas Olliver 1 G. 78 36. Ricnard Sanford. H. 29 2 H. 44 Robert Meeres. 1 H. 47 3 F. 36 2 H. 36 Robert Howen, H. 18 3 H. 30 14. Thomas Leverit G. 68 37. Henry Fane H. 20 Edmund Jackson 1 H. 10 Jeremy Houtchin H. 11 2' H. 35 38. Thomas Makepeace G. 28 15. William Copp I. 3 Benjamin Thwiug G. 51 John Mellowes 1 H. 9 39. William Wilson 1 G. 52 16. Edwin Goodwin K. 2 2 E. 13 Gabriel Fish G. 15 Joshua Scotto 1 G. 50 17. John Sweete K. 3 2 E. 5 Henry Pease 1 H. 5 40. Alexand r Beck 1 G. 49 18. John Seaberry. K. 5 2 H. 47 John Smith. H. 2 3 H. 32 19. Walter Merry. K. 6 John Biggs G. 47 John Davies 1 G. 14 41. James Browne 1 G. 48 20. W m Beamsley 1 K. 8 2 E. 2 James Johnson. 1 H. 24 3 H. 46 2 F. 92 Thomas Hawkins 1 G. 46 3 E. 22 2 G. 12 4 H. 1 42. Thomas Buttolph 1 G. 43 21. Anne Tuttle 1 K. 9 2 F. 103* 3 F. 27 3 K. 1 21. Bartholomew Cheever 4 K. 1 22. Oapt. Nehemiah Bourne. K. 10 5 I. 2 John Arnold 8 E. 24 23. Capt Thomas Hawkins. K. 11 43. Christopher Stanly G. 42 John Jackson 44. Hugh Gunnison G. 39 24. Thomas Savage. 1 K. 13 John Glover G. 37 John Oliver. G. 7 45. George Burden . 1 G. 38 25. Edmund Grosse K. 14 2 F. 91 Wm. Werdall 1 G. 5 3 H. 33 26. Samuel Cole K. 15 William Hudson Jun* G. 36 John Hill. 1 G. 21 • G. 2 46. Samuel Greames Sarah Knight G. 35 G. 34 56 City Document No. 46. — Paet 2. Original Original page. page. 47. Francis Dowse G. 32 74. John Synderland F. 79 George Bates G. 30 Richard Cooke. 1 F. 80 48. 'Anne Hunne 1 G. 29 2 F. 76 2 H. 19 3 E. 25 John Button 1 G. 24 75. John Lugg. F. 81 2 I. 4 Arthur Perry. F. 82 49. Nicholas Willis G. 25 76. Francis Lyle. 1 F. 65 George Barrell G. 27 2 E. 21 50. Thomas Painter 1 G. 26 Thomas Millard 1 F. 66 James Everill 1- G. 22 2 E. 5 51. John Coggan 1 G. 84 3 E. 12 2 E. 1 77. William Aspinwall F. 68 52. William Franklin G. 98 Thomas Grubb, F. 67 Robert Nash 1 G. 97 78. Ephraim Pope F. 69 2 H. 4 Edmund Dennis 1 F. 70 53. George Foxcroft. G. 96 2 E. 16 Edward Bendall 1 G. 95 3 G. 23 2 H. 12 79. Edward Jacklin F. 71 3 K. 12 William Townsend F. 72 54. Edward Tyng G. 92 80. Jane Parker 1 F. 73 James Oliver G. 91 2 E. 9 55. David Sellick 1 G. 90 Robert Blott F. 83 2 G. 3 81. M> Flint 1. F. 84 William Pierce G. 89 2 F. 86 56. Isaac Crosse 1 G. 94 82. Anthony Harker F. 85 2 K. 7 Thomas Clarke F. 87 3 K. 4 83. Ralph Mason. F. 88 W m Davies, Jun* G. 88 Robert Wing 1 F. 89 57. William Hudson Sen' 1 G. 65 2 E. 20 2 E. 24 84. Richard Carter F. 95 3 F. 40 Jacob Leger 1 F. 96 William Davies, Sen 1 1 G. 66 2 F. 98 2 F. 16 3 E. 10 58. Robert Scott. 3 1 C. 19 G. 69 85. William Coleborne " him and his wife Mary, about 1644, to William Costin, carpenter; he to Edward Cowell, " cordwinder " ; and he and his wife Sarah in 1671, to Rev. James Allen, of the First Church, who was reputed to be " very rich," and, perhaps, having a speculative turn, he sold it the next j'ear. [The description is, house and garden of half an acre, with R. Woodhouse east, G. Griggs north, the marsh and Cove south, and the highway west. This highway was afterwards Short street, now Kingston street. — W.H.W.] F. 48. The Pond, "the town's watering-place." This pond had become so much of a nuisance in the provincial days, that in 1739 the question of filling it up was mooted, and in 1753 the lot containing it was sold by the town to David Wheeler, then con- taining about one-ninth of an acre. He died in 1770, and his wife, who held it, died in 1773. [Pond street became Bedford street in 1820. — W.H.W.] LOTS 49 TO 63, ON THE EAST SIDE OF WASHINGTON STEEET, EEOM MILK STEEET TO BEDFOED STEEET. F. 49. Edward Fletcher, house ; sold the northern part in 1646 to William Hailstone, a tailor, from Taunton ; he to Richard Lip- pincott, barber. It was seemingly on this lot that Daniel Johon- not, the Huguenot distiller, dwelt in his latter years. (A. E. Hist. and Geneal. Beg., October, 1852, p. 359.) F. 50. Richard Waite, tailor, house and garden. An account of him and his family is given in A. E. Hist, and Geneal. Beg., 1877, p. 422. ■ F. 51. Charity White. [House and small yard, with Francis East south and east, R. Waite north, the street west. — W.H.W.] F. 52. Francis East. [House and garden, with the street east (error for west), Charity White and Richard Waite north, W. Hudson east, N. Eaton south. — W.H.W.] F. 53. Nathaniel Eaton. [House and garden, with F. East north, W. Hudson, Sr., east, the street west, and R. Hogg south. — W.H.W.] F. 54. Richard Hogg. [House and garden, with A. Richard- son and W. Hudson east, N. Eaton north, the street west, and J. 82 City Document No. 46. — Part 2. Marshall south. — W.H.W.] Richard Hogg sold in 1645 to John Lake, and he to Thomas Wiborne in 1648, whose will, 1656, is in N. E. Hist, and Geneal. Beg., July, 1852, p. 289. F. 55. John Marshall. [House and garden, with the street west, A. Richardson east, R. Hogg north, N. Woodward, Sr., south. — W.H.W.] F. 56. Nathaniel Woodward, the elder. [House and garden, with the Mill lane south, the high street west, J. Marshall north, J. Palmer, Jr., east. This was, of course, the north-east corner of Summer and Washington streets. — W.H.W.] F. 57. John Palmer, Jr. [House and yard, with the Mill street south, J. Marshall north, N. Woodward, Sr., west, and A. Richard- son east. — W.H.W.] F. 58. Elizabeth Purton, a widow as early as 1633, whose house, in 1651 , seems to have been leased by Robert Morse to James Oliver. She made her mark to her will, dated 1650, which is printed in the JST. E. Hist, and Geneal. Reg., July, 1853, p. 233. On this site, in the next century, Thomas English lived in a sightly mansion-house. [Her lot is not in the Book, but is named, in the next lot, F. 59. — W.H.W.] F. 59. Job Judkins. [House and garden, with the street west, Elizabeth Purton north, R. Hull south, and G. Waite east. — W.H.W.] F. 60. Robert Hull, the blacksmith, house and garden. His will is in N.E. Hist, and Geneal. Reg., Oct., 1861, p. 322. It was at this point that the printing-office stood, in 1704, where the first Boston newspaper, the News-Letter, was printed. [It was here, apparently, that Samuel Sewall, who married John Hull's only child (grand-daughter of Robert), lived for many years, and wrote many pages of his diaiy. — W.H.W.] F. 61. John Hurd, tailor, house and garden; mortgaged to Governor Dudley for £23 in 1649. It was granted to Hurd by John Leverett, in consideration of a garden granted Leverett, in the New Field. For Hurd's descendants, see N. E. Hist, and Geneal. Reg., April, 1865. p. 123. F. 62. William Blantaine. [House and garden, with the street west, the watering-place west, J. Hurd north, and T. Wheeler south. — W.H.W.] F. 63. Thomas Wheeler. [House and garden, with the High street west, the lane south, the watering-place east, and W. Blan- taine north. This was the north-east corner of Bedford and Wash- ington streets. Wheeler's will, of 1654, is in N. E. Hist, and Geneal. Reg., July, 1851, p. 305. His descendants seemed to have remained here, and Wheeler's Pond is mentioned several times in Sewall's Diary. See ante, F. 48. — W.H.W.] LOTS 64 TO 73, WEST SIDE OF WASHINGTON STREET, FROM SCHOOL STREET TO WEST STREET. F. 64. Atherton Hough, house and garden. It was well up School-street lot that the little French church was built, about 1714. They had bought the lot of James Meers, hatter, ten years Appendix. 83 earlier. Next door to them, in 1747, Richard Cranch, card-maker, had his shop, — the father of Judge Cranch. F. 65. Francis Lyle, house and garden. Walter Blackborne, had his lot, which Elizabeth (his widow?) sold, in 1641, to Francis Lyle, the barber, who united the service of a surgeon, after the fashion of his day, and in this capacity served later in the Parliamentary army in England. Henry Bridgham owned part of the lot, which he sold, in 1648, to Richard Tapping and John Spoore. F. 66. Thomas Millard, house and garden. After Millard's death this estate passed to Colonel Samuel Shrimpton, in 1672, who sold it, in 1676, to Peter Sergeant, who built upon the lot the famous house, later to be known as the " Province House," when it was bought, in 1713, to be made the royal governor's official residence. The Indian, which was perched upon the top of the cupola, was the handiwork of Deacon Shem Drowne, the same who made the grasshopper vane of Faneuil Hall. The further history of the estate is traced in Shurtleff's Description of Boston, 596. F. 67. Thomas Grubb. [House and garden, with T. Millard north, A. Perry west, the High street east, and W. Aspinwall south. — W.H.W.] F. 68. William Aspinwall. [House and garden, with Richard and Thomas Grubb north, Richard Cooke and Ephraim Pope south, the High street east, the Common west. The blank after Richard is evidently Fairbanks. — W.H.W.] Winsor says that this lot was " about on the line of Bromfield street, Richard Fairbanks' garden ; later owned by William Davis the apothecary. Fairbanks, however, retained a lot in the rear of those on School street. William Aspinwall owned at one time from street to street, and he sold house, garden, orchard, and close, in 1652, to his son- in-law, John Angier, then making two acres. Another house and out-buildings he sold, in 1652, to Sampson Shoare ; and he to Theodore Atkinson, w T ho had formerly been a servant to John Newgate, the hatter. Atkinson sold to Edward Rawson, the Colonial Secretar}'. The street now known as Bromfield street was long called Rawson's lane, but became later known as Brom- field's lane, after a distinguished merchant of the provincial pe- riod, — Edward Bromfield, — who lived on the southerly side, about half-way up, where later the Bromfield House stood. (This site was afterwards occupied by the Indian Queen Tavern.) Mr. Brom- field had settled in Boston in 1675, and died in 1734. His family is traced in N. E. Hist, and Geneal. Meg., October, 1871, p. 330." F. 69. Ephraim Pope. [House and garden, with the High street east, R. Cooke west, W. Aspinwall north, and E. Dennis south. — W.H.W.] F. 70. Edmund Dennis. [House and garden, with E. Pope north, the street east, R. Cooke and D. Maud west, and E. Jacklin south. — W.H.W.] F. 71. Edmund Jacklin, a glazier, house and garden ; sold, in 1646, to Nicholas Busbie, a worsted weaver. His will, 1657 (N. E. Hist, and Geneal. Reg., Jury, 1854, p. 279), mentions his new dwelling-house, with garden, which he gives to his wife, and 84 City Document No. 46. — Part 2. after her to his son Abraham. He divided his books, — " phisicke bookes" to his son John, and " bookes of divinity or history" to Abraham. F. 72. William Townsend. [House and garden, with the street east, D. Maud west, E. Jacklin north, and Jane Parker south. — W.H.W.] F. 73. Jane, widow of Richard Parker, house and garden ; and, intending to marry, she deeded it, in 1646, to her children, Margaret, John, Thomas, and Noah. [Her lot bounds with the street east and south ; it was therefore the north-west corner lot of Washington and Winter streets. — W.H.W.] LOTS 74 TO 82, ALONG TREMONT STREET FROM WINTER STREET TO SCHOOL STREET, AND DOWN SCHOOL STREET TO THE CORNER LOT. F. 74. Richard Sherman. Granted to Richard Sherman's wife in 1637, when Stephen Kinsley had a house-plot near b} T ; and Sher- man in 1647 sold a half acre to Francis Smith, who the same year deeded two acres, including land bought of Edmund Jacklin. This corner was later owned by Captain Edward Wyll3 r s, and was bought of his heirs by Colonel Vetch in 1712, who in 1713-14 sold it to Captain Thomas Steel. (Sewall Papers, iii._, 10.) It was later owned by Thomas Oxnard, the progenitor of the family of that name ; and at his death, in 1754, it was valued at £1,200. (N. E. Hist, and Geneal. Beg., 1872, p. 4.) [It does not seem to be entered as Sherman's possession in the Book. — W.H.W.] F. 75. Daniel Maud the school-master ; granted in 1637 ; sold to Edmund Jacklin in 1643. Here at a later clay was the shop of the well-known London coach-maker, Major Adino Paddock, — the same who planted, about 1762, 'before the Granary burial-ground, the elms which not long since were cut down. The name of the burial-ground was derived from the public granary, which, in 1737, was built on the opposite side of the street where Park-street Church now stands. The keeper of this granaiy was for a long time Francis Willoughby. This part of Tremont street was called Long Acre in the provincial times. On a part of this lot, too, was built the manufacturing house which formed the east corner of what is now Hamilton place, and was erected by the Province to en- courage spinning and kindred occupations. It disappeared in 1806. [This lot does not appear in the Book. Lamb makes three lots of it, I know not why. — W.H.W.] F. 76. Richard Cooke, garden ; sold to Edmund Jacklin, who, in 1647, sold to Francis Smith ; he to Amos Richardson the same year ; and later it was owned by Anthony Stoddard, the rich linen- draper. F. 77. Richard Fairbanks. [Garden, bounded withW. Aspin- wall south and east, the Common west, Z. Bosworth, J. Synder- land, R. Cook, J. Lugg, and A. Perry east. — W.H.W.] F. 78. Zaccheus Bosworth, house and garden, with barns, cow-house, orchard; sold in 1652 to Thomas Woodward. Appendix. 85 Bosworth's will, 1655, is in N. E. Hist, and Geneal. Beg., October, 1851, p. 448. On this lot there was erected, early in the next century, the brick house which became the residence of Jacob Wendell, a wealthy merchant and prominent citizen of his day. F. 79. John Synderland. [House and garden, with Z. Bos- worth west, the street north, R. Fairbanks south, and R. Cooke east.— W.H.W.] F. 80. Richard Cooke, house and garden. Here also lived his son, Dr. Elisha Cooke, a citizen who figured largely in the Inter- Charter period. It was in this house that Governor Burnet lived while the Province House was making ready. F. 81. John Lugg. [House and garden, with the street north, R. Fairbanks south, R. Cooke west, and A. Perry east. — W.H.W.] F. 82. Arthur Perry. [House, yard and garden, with the street north, R. Fairbanks south, J. Lugg west, and Mr. Haugh, F. Loyall (or Lyle), T. Grubb, and T. Millard east. — W.H.W.] LOTS 83 TO 93, IN THE SQUARE ENCLOSED BY WINTER, WASHINGTON, WEST, AND TREMONT STREETS. F. 83. Robert Blott. [House and garden, with the street east and north, Mr. Flint south, J. Leverett west. — W.H. W.] F. 84. Mr. Flint. [House and garden, with R. Blott north, J. Leverett west, the street east, and A. Harker south. — W.H.W.] F. 85. Anthony Harker. [House and garden, with the street east, J. Johnson west, Mr. Flint north and south. — W.H.W.] Sold to Isaac Vergoose in 1659. F. 86. Mr. Flint. [His second lot, a house and garden, with the street east, G. Burden west, A. Harker north, and T. Clarke south. — W.H. W.] F. 87. Thomas Clarke. [House and garden, with the street east, G. Burden west, Mr. Flint north, and R. Mason south. — W.H.W.] F. 88. Ralph Mason. [House and garden, with the street east, H. Webb west, T. Clarke north, R. Wing south. —W.H. W.] Ralph Mason, house and garden ; mortgaged to Matthew Cradock, of London, in 1638, for £17 ; sold to Thomas Painter. Painter had liberty to sell a house to Ephraim Hunt, in 1650. Mason made his mark to his will in 1672. F. 89. Robert Wing. [House and garden, with the street east and south, R. Mason north, H. Webb west. — W.H.W.] Robert Wing, house, " both old and new built ;" sold in 1648 to Thomas Painter. He died in 1651. (See his will in JSf. E. Hist, and Geneal. Beg., Januar} 7 , 1850, p. 54.) F. 90. Henry Webb. [His lot No. 3, a garden, with the lane south, G. Burden north, R. Wing and R. Mason east, the Gove west. This last is an evident error for the Common west. — W.H.W.] F. 91. George Burden. [His lot No. 2, being a garden, near the Common, with H. Webb south, the Common west, T. Clarke east, and J. Johnson north. — W.H.W.] F. 92. James Johnson, garden. These lots, on the line of the present Mason street, were granted, in 1638, to James Johnson, 86 City Document No. 46. — Part 2. John Davis, George Burden, and Nathaniel Chappell, and were then called " gardens on the back side of the lots in y e long street." The}' mark the sight of the mansion and grounds' of James Swan of a later day, and, still later, the famous Washington Gardens of the early part of this century. F. 93. John Leverett, who sold the south part in 1664 to one Wj-ard, aud he, in 1666, to John Wampus, an Indian. {Gleaner Article No. 6.) [As I understand it, Lamb, on his map, has trans- posed these four lots, making them read from west to east, — Lev- erett, Johnson, Burden, Webb, instead of Webb, Burden, Johnson, Leverett. Winsor agrees with me. — W.H.W.] LOTS 94, 95, AND 96, ON THE WEST SIDE OF WASHINGTON STEEET, FROM WEST STREET TO BOYLSTON STREET. F. 94. William Chamberlain, house and garden. This lot Thomas Oliver sold, in 1645, to Nicholas Shapley. Oliver's will is in N. E. Hist, and Geneal. Reg., October, 1854, p. 351. This lot seems to have been sold, in 1647, by Francis Smith, to William Chamberlin, assigned by Chamberlin to Smith again 5th, 11 month, 1648 ; and was later sold to Richard Wilson. Opposite the rear of this lot, on the Common, now the line of Mason street, the town built, in 1717 (it is shown on Bonner's map), the South Writing School. It is described then as " adjoining to Cornell's lot, over against Mr. Wainwright's." F. 95. Richard Carter, house and garden. William Hudson, Jr., sold to Richard Carter, a carpenter, in 1639. This lot nearly corresponds to the site of the Lamb Tavern, which stood here before the middle of the last century. Drake says that Colonel Doty was. the host in 1760. Adjoining it on the north was the Lion Tavern. [In the Book it is bounded by Mr. Oliver north, he being the owner before Chamberlain, as noted in F. 94. — W.H.W.] F. 96. Jacob Leger. [House and garden, with the street east, the Common west, R. Carter north, Mr. Coleborne south. — W.H.W.] F. d. [William Coleborne's lot was next south of Leger's, and was the corner of Boylston and Washington streets. It is de- scribed in Map C. — W.H.W.] LOTS 97 TO 103, EAST SIDE OF WASHINGTON STREET, FROM BEDFORD STREET TO ESSEX STREET. F. 97. Robert Woodward, house and garden ; granted in 1637. Papers relating to his estate ai'e in N. E. Hist, and Geneal. Reg., January, 1859, p. 10. Bedford street was laid out in 1644. [His lot has the High street west, the lane north, J. Leger south, T. Buttolph east. — W.H.W.] F. 98. Jacob Leger. [His lot No. 2, a house and garden, with the street west, R. Woodward north, T. Buttolph cast, and T. Fowle south. — W.H.W.] F. gg. Thomas Fowle, house and garden. He removed to Braintree. In 1650, house and orchard sold by John Cuddington Appendix. 87 to William Holloway. [He had Leger north, Sinet south, But- tolpheast. — W.H.W.] F. ioo. Walter Sinet. [House and garden, with the Street west, T. Buttolph and M. Reading east, J. Leger north, and J. Odlin south. Possibly this should be T. Fowle north. — W.H.W.] F. 101. John Odlin, house and garden, with the street west, M. Reading east, Cole south, W. Sinet north. — W.H.W.] F. 102. Cole, house and garden ; later owned by John Cuddington, John Bateman, and John Odlin, in 1650. F. 103. Griffith Bowen, house and garden. Here, within the house-yard, stood the "Liberty Tree," which is said to have been planted in 1646, and became famous in the Stamp-Act times, and was cut down in spite by the Tories, in 1775. F. 103*. [This lot is not placed on the map by an oversight. On Larnb's map it is marked as held by Miles Reading, but a part of it belongs to Thomas Buttolph, as shown by lots F. 97, 98, 99, and 100. It was Buttolph's Lot No. 2, being an acre and a half, first laid out for garden lots, with the highway south, a common lot east, J. Leger, W. Sinet, and the lane north, Mr. Fowle and R. Woodward west. As Miles Reading only occurs as an abutter in F. 100 and 101, it is impossible to say how much he owned. But Buttolph should stand as the main owner here, his lot reach- ing to Bedford street. — W.H.W.] LOTS 104 TO 108, ON THE SOUTH SIDE OP ESSEX STREET, FROM WASHINGTON STREET EASTERLY. F. 104. Garrett Bourne. [House and garden, with the street west and north, the marsh south, E. Rainsford east. — W.H.W.] F. 105. Edward Rainsford. [House and garden, with the street north, the Cove south, G. Bourne west, D. Offley east. Rainsford's lane in 1708, from Essex street to Beach street, now part of Harrison avenue, was near this lot. — W.H.W.] F. 106. David Offley. House and garden, with the street north, the Cove south, E. Rainsford west, the lane east. — W.H.W.] F. 107. Owen Rowe. [House and garden, with the street north, the lane west, the Cove south, J. Pelton east. — W.H.W.] F. 108. John Pelton. [House and lot, with the street north, the Cove south, O. Rowe west, the marsh east. — W.H.W.] F. iog. [The Marsh, between Kingston street and the end of Essex street. Even on Bonner's map of 1722, after Essex street had been cut through to Kingston street, there is only one line of houses on Essex street, with a great open space behind it, and "Coal's Garden" making up nearly all of the southerly side of Bedford street. Exeter street was projected, in 1805, across this lot, which street became Rowe place in 1825, Rowe street in 1837, and Chauncy street (by absorption) in 1856. The later Rowe place, on the easterly side, ended in a vacant lot in the rear of Garcelon's stable and the Kingston-street houses. When built upon, a few 3-ears ago, it was said to be covered for the first time by buildings. — W.H.W.] Map G, or No. 7. (88) MAP G, OR NO. 7. LOTS EAST OF HANOVER STREET AND NORTH OF THE COVE AND MILL CREEK; NOS. 1 TO 10. G. I. Sampson Shore. [House and garden, with M. Chaffie north-east, John Hill south-west, the street north-west, the Cove south-east. — W.H.W.] G. 2. John Hill. [His second lot being a small lot of quarter of an acre, with S. Shore north-east, J. Milom south-west, the street north-west, the Cove south-east. — W.H.W.] G. 3. David Sellick. [By Book of Possessions, it seems that 14th, 7 mo., 1647, Sellick bought of Edward Wells a lot, with S. Shore north-east, J. Hill's garden north-west, J. Milom south-west, the Cove south-east. It must be here, though not on Lamb's map. — W.H.W.] G. 4. John Mylom, cooper, house and garden ; sold to John Phillips, biscuit-maker, in 1648. It was upon this lot that one of the oldest buildings in Boston, half way up Cross street, existed to our day. Phillips, who had come from Dorchester, became a deacon of the Second Church in 1650, added to his estate adjacent lands, and built the stone house ; which, when it was torn down in 1864, was considered the oldest building in Boston. It has been described by Mr. Bynner, in Vol. I. of Memorial History of Boston. Phillips died in 1682. Shurtleff, Description of Boston, p. 667, has traced its history to our day. Phillips, before he died, sold the part of his lot next the water-side to Captain Christopher Clarke. G. 5. William Werdall. [House and garden, with J. Milom south-west (error, evidently for south-east), J. Hill north-east, the street north-west, the highway south-west. This south-west high- way was Cross street, but Milom's bound is on Valentine Hill ; an example of how little precision is shown in these descriptions. — W.H.W.] Winsor writes of this lane, as follows : — "This lane was laid out in 1636, from the water-side ' up the balke or meare that goes up from the end of John Mylom' s house, next William Aspinwall's ground, and to goe along to the Mylue Cove, a rod and a halfe broade.' Mylom was allowed, in 1647, to wharf before the eastern end of it. At the beginning of the next century it was called Coney's Lane. Sewall Papers, ii., 211." G. 6. Valentine Hill, according to Winsor, had five lots here, thus described : — "a. Valentine Hill. 6. Valentine Hill ; sold to Barnabas Fawer, in 1646, who was to maintain a cart- way by the wharf before his door, and whose will, 1654, is in N. E. Hist, and Geneal. Meg., July, 1851, p. 305. c. Valentine Hill; sold to 90 City Document No. 46. — Part 2. James ' Mattock in 1646, whose will, 1666, is iu N. E. Hist, and Geneal. Beg.-, Oct., 1861, p. 325. David Phippenj* had a house and lot in this neighborhood. See his will in N. E. Hist, and Geneal. Reg., July, 1853, p. 233. [Phippeny's lot (Book, p. 31) bounded south-west on W. Tyng, and Tyng's lot no. 2 bounds on Phippeny. — W.H.W.] d. Valentine Hill; sold to Arthur Perry, e. Valentine Hill; sold to Richard Straine, in 1648; then passed to Paul Allistre, with a wharf in front ; then to Robert Nanney, in 1650. His will, 1663, is printed in N. E. Hist, and Geneal. Reg., April, 1858, p. 155. Near the bridge over the creek, Hill sold, in 1651, a lot to William Aubrey, ' for the use of the undertakers of the iron works in New England.' A lane which later passed through this lot and the present North Centre street was called Paddy's Lane, from Captain William Paddy, a citizen of prominence, who lived upon it, and died in 1658. His will is in N. E. Hist, and Geneal. Reg., Oct., 1854, p. 355 ; also see 1877, p. 321." G. 7. John Oliver. [House and garden, of about half an acre, with V. Hill north-east and south-east, the street north-west, John Pierce and John Knight south-west. — W.H.W.] G. 8. John Knight. G. 9. John Pierce. [No possessions recorded, but the exist- ence of the lots is necessitated by G-. 7 and G. 10. — W.H.W.] G. 10. Thomas Marshall. [House and garden of about half an acre, with the marsh south-east, John Peirce or John Knight north-east, the street north-west and south-west. Also 8th, 6 mo. 1648, Marshall bought of John Milom, land near the water-mill with Milom south-east, 30 feet, Marshall south-west 76 feet, the Mill Creek north-east, 74 feet, the highway north-west 44 feet. From all which it appears that Marshall owned both sides of the Mill creek and cove up to the highway ; but the exact boun- daries are hard to trace. — W.H.W.] Winsor adds : " Joshua Scottow was allowed, in 1651, to wharf at the north-east end of the mill bridge. He had bought the marsh at that time of James Nash, of Weymouth, to whom John Mylom had sold it." Winsor places the following lots in this square with Union street west, and the Mill creek through its centre : — a. John Mylom; sold to Thomas Marshall, 1648. b. John Mylom, h. ; sold in part in 1650 to Robert Nash, the butcher, c. John Mylom ; sold to Governor Leverett. d. Lewis Kidby, fish- erman, 1639 ; granted house lot on the marsh next to John Lowe. e. John Lowe, upland, surrounded by marsh ; called a wheelwright, when it was granted to him in 1636-37. /. Marsh held in com- monage, part of which was granted in 1646 to John Mylom, who sold it to James Hawkins in 1648. Thomas Marshall offered to the town in 1652 a highway to shorten the way to the bridge (G. 11) , but withdrew his offer. The present Marshall street, however, would indicate that the short cut was eventually established. G 11. The bridge, the draw of which was changed from one to two leaves in 1653, and the bridge was rebuilt in 1659. The Appendix. 91 repairs on it are a matter of constant entry in the town records. In 1650 it was ordered that the spare land about the bridge should be wharfed by the neighbors for the common landing of prop- erty. [Here also the] " old way" begun, which in 1649 was laid out, a rod broad, from the south side of the water mill, along the shore to the Mill Hill. LOTS 12 TO 17, WEST OF HANOVEE STREET. G. 12. Thomas Hawkins. [A quarter of an acre towards Charlestown, with James Johnson south-west (see H. 1), the Cove north-west, John Button north-east, and the street south-east. See Book, p. 41.— W.H.W.] G. 13. John Button. [Lamb places William Cox here, I know not why. This lot does not seem to be recorded in the Book. Perhaps it is a renriniscence of Buttolph's lot No. 5, where Cox means Copp. — W.H.W.] G. 14. John Davies, house and garden ; sold in 1645 to John Trotman, and his wife Katherine conveyed it same day to Thomas Hawkins, who at a later day kept here', on Hanover street, the Star Inn. (See Shurtleff, Description of Boston, p. 606.) He mortgaged the property to Governor Bradstreet in 1650. From Hawkins's house went "the old hie way over the little bridge [near 11] behind the watter mile to the ferry to Charlestown." One Watters obstructing this old way with a fence in 1652, he was ordered to remove it ; but in 1650 Hawkins was allowed to fence in a part of it temporarily. G. 15. Gabriel Fish. [House and yard, with John Davies south and west, V. Hill north, the street east. — W.H.W.] G. 16. Valentine Hill ; perhaps later John Kinrick's. G. 17. This whole triangle is left without owners on Lamb's map. Winsor assigns as follows : — a. Zaccheus Bosworth, 1. hereabout. Also probably in this neighborhood, but not easily placed, the houses and gardens of Bartholomew Cheever, John Arnold, John Jackson, and a lot of Robert Hull, the blacksmith. [But these last two certainly were in the New field, i.e. the hill-side along from Beacon to Cambridge streets, and are so marked by Winsor in his Map F. More study is required for lot 17. — W.H.W.] 6. John Buggies, 1637, had house-plot and garden " near the new mylne." If the same who was afterwards of Roxbury, his will, 1657, is printed in N. E. Hist, and Geneal. Reg., Oct., 1858, p. 343. Just north of this point, with its rear upon the cove, the Baptists built their first meeting-house in 16.79, which was replaced by a larger one still, of wood, in 1771. Still further round the cove, on the site of the present Baldwin Place, the Second Baptist Church built their house in 1746, — a small structure which con- tinued well into this century. c. William Wilson, 2^ a. d. Richard Parker. 92 City Document No. 46. — Part 2. LOTS 18 TO 21, THE WEST SIDE OF THE COVE, EAST OE UNION STREET. G. 18. John Lowe. [House and garden, with the marsh north and east, the cove south, and Mr. Bellingham west. — W.H.W.] G. 19. Richard Bellingham's marsh, including what came to him under an order, 1644, granting him such of the town's marsh as was undisposed of, " for the continuance of peace and love, in consideration of a quiet resignation of all claim unto the wast before his house." The Governor sold this marsh in equal parts to Joshua Scottow and Christopher Lawson. Shurtleff , Description of Boston, ch. lvii., shows how in the southerly part of this marsh, near the corner of Merchants' Row and North Market street, stood for many years the well-known Triangular Warehouse. G. 20. Henry Symons, house ; sold to Christopher Lawson ; and by him in 1645 to David Sellick, with wharf and lane before it ; to Robert Nanney in 1646. This wharf was bought by John Shawe, the butcher. [Henry Symons, house and lot, with Mr. Bellingham north and east, John Hill west, the cove south. — W.H.W.] G. 21. John Hill, house. Somewhere in this vicinity, in 1656, Thomas Savage built his new house, "between the drawbridge and the conduit." On the opposite side of the present North street from this lot, on an irregular piece of ground, partly reclaimed from the marsh, and a wooden building, which was consumed in the fire of 1679, to be followed next year by the rough -cast structure, which, standing to our &&y, has been known as the "Old Feather-Store." Shurtleff, Description of Boston, p. 645, thinks the lot was originally a part of Sj^mons's [lot], who cbying in 1643, his widow Susannah married, about 1644, Isaac Walker, who conveyed it to their daughter Susannah, born 1646, who in 1668 married Mr. Thomas Stanbury, who built the old building, which was taken down in 1860. The subsequent history of the building is told by Shurtleff. [John Hill, house bounded with H. Symons east, Mr. Bellingham north, the street west, the Cove south.— W.H.W.] LOTS 22 TO 27, BOUNDED BY UNION, ELM, AND HANOVER STREETS. G. 22. James Everill, a shoemaker, house and large lot, em- bracing nearly the whole front on Hanover street, out of which he sold lots to various people. William Tyng acquired a part on Elm street; and along Hanover street, passing north, were the lots of Francis Dowse, Evan Thomas, a vintner (sold to James Bill), William Corser (sold to John Chamberlyn), Robert Porter, John Stevenson, and William Howard. The corner lot on Hanover and Union streets passed to Henry Maudesley about 1653 ; and Shurtleff, Desc. of Boston, p. 628, has traced the title down, until it became the famous " Blue Ball," the home of Franklin's father. It is now cut off by the extension of Washington street. Appendix. 93 G. 23. Edmund Dennis. [Apparently his lot No. 3. A small parcel with James Everil east, the lane and street south-west and north-west. Winsor agrees in this location, but it is not on Lamb's map. — W.H.W.] G. 24. John Button. [Three houses and a garden and yard, in all about an acre, with J. Everill north-west, the lane south-west, the Core south-east, N. Willis north-east. — W.H.W.] Winsor writes, " There was in later years some controversy as to whether the land opposite this lot and the town docks was public property. See depositions in N. E. Hist, and Geneal. Meg., Jan., 1864, p. 68." Winsor, in Map B, puts these lots. on the east side of the Mill Creek, instead of the east side of the lane, now Elm street. He also puts Willis and Painter with Hanover street west. Herein he differs from Lamb, whose localities agree better with the Book. — W.H.W.] G. 25. Nicholas Willis. [House and garden, with J. Everill westerly, J. Button south-west, the street east, T. Painter north- erly. — W.H.W.] G. 26. Thomas Painter. [House and garden, with N. Willis south-west, the street east, Geo. Barrell north. — W.H.W.] G. 27. George Barrell. [House and lot not half an acre, with J. Everill north, T. Painter south, N. Willis west, the street east. — W.H.W.] LOTS 28 TO 52, BOUNDED BY ELM, WASHINGTON, COUET, AND HANOVEE STEEETS. G. 28. Thomas Makepeace. This was perhaps the house John Underbill surrendered in 1639 to Thomas Makepeace of Dorches- ter, whose will, 1666, is in JSf. E. Hist, and Geneal. Reg., October, 1861, p. 323. It was on the north-east corner that a well- known Boston merchant, William Tailer, lived, — the same who committed suicide July 12, 1682. (JSF. E. Hist, and Geneal. Reg., vii., 56.) His wife was Rebecca, a daughter of Israel Stoughton of Dorchester, and it was with her in this house that Andros is sup- posed to have taken up his abode when he came to Boston in 1686. The son, William Tailer of Dorchester, became Lieut. -Governor, and rented this house to Edward Lyde, who in 1701-2 bought the propert}^. (Sewall Papers, i., 163, 202 ; JSf. E. Hist, and Geneal. Reg., July, 1863, p. 239 ; July, 1864, p. 289.) G. 29. Anne, widow of George Hunne. [House and garden with George on the east and south, T. Makepeace west, the lane north. The "George " is evidently George Bates. — W.H.W.] G. 30. George Bates. [House and garden, T. Makepeace west, A. Hunne north, G. Burden east, W. Wilson south. — W.H.W.] George Bates in the rear of Anne Hunne. The will of John Endicott (^V. E. Hist, and Geneal. Reg., October, 1862, p. 333), leaving his property to his wife Elizabeth, daughter of Jeremy Houtchin (he had no children), mentions his house as " joyning to George Bates on the west." 94 City Document No. 46. — Part 2. G. 31. George Burden. G. 32. Francis Dowse. G. 33. Jeremy Houchin. [Of these lots only one is recorded. Dowse has a house and yard, with the lane east, W. Tyng west, G. Burden north, J. Houchin south. See Tyng's lot, G. 40. — W.H.W.] G. 34. Sarah Knight. [House and garden, with J. Houchin north, the lane east, W. Tyng west, and S. Greames south. — W.H.W.] G. 35. Samuel Grearnes. [House and yard, with Sarah Knight north-west, the lane north-east, W. Hudson, Jr., south-east, Wm. Tyng south-west. — W.H.W.] G. 36. William Hudson, jr. [Evidently the corner of Hud- son's lane, now Elm street, as he has Greames and the lane north- east and the street south-east. — W.H.W.] This was known as the " Castle Tavern," and Hudson and his wife Anne convej^ed it in 1674 to John Wing, who in 1687 " set a room in his house for a man to show tricks in ; " and Sewall records, amusingly, how he went to labor with Wing and convince him of its sinfulness, ending his account: "Sung the 90 th Ps. from the 12 th v. to the end. Broke up." (Sewall Papers, i, 196.) In 1694 it is called the "George Tavern." Mr. John T. Hassam traces the subsequent history of this estate in N. E. Hist, and Geneal. Reg., 1879, p. 400. G. 37. John Glover, house. By will, 1653, he left half his house nearest Mr. Webb's to his wife, and half to his son Habakkuk, with half his tan yard adjacent ; also to this son half his house next Goodman Hudson's. Another son, John, who had graduated at Harvard in 1651, continued to live with the mother. Becoming a merchant, he moved to Swansea ; and, returning to Boston in 1690, lived and died (1696) on Summer street, and lies buried in the Granary Burying-ground. (Glover Memorials, p. 149 ; Sibley, Harvard Graduates, p. 297. ) G. 38. George Burden, a shoemaker, house. There was a wharf opposite his house in 1641, where he had permission to place a vessel at the head of it in which to water his leather. Burden's will is in N. E. Hist, and Geneal. Reg., July, 1854, p. 278 ; and see 1880, p. 44, for a note of the descent of this lot. A way round the north side of the Cove from this lot to John Lowe's was laid out definitely in 1642. When the town, in 1649, sold the re- version till 1726 of the dock to James Everill, on his paying an annual £6 16s. lOd. "to the school's use," it was then ordered that all the land at the head of the Cove "round about by John Glover's, George Burden's, Hugh Gunnison's, Captain William Tinge's, William Franklin's, Robert Nashe's, and eight foot to the east- ward of it is highway ; as alsoe from the eastward six of the eight foot, and round about bye the corner of Edward Bendall's brick howse, and so by Samuel Cole's howse, as alsoe to Edward Ting's wharfe, shall goe a high way of twentye foote in breadth." This head of the dock was the ' ' common landing place " as early as 1634, when there was a bridge or pier here. Appendix. 95 t>OCK SQUARE, ABOUT 173s. This sketch is based on a plan preserved in the City Hall, and of which a copy made by the late W. G. Brooks is in the Cabinet of the Historical Society. The figures stand for the following names and sites: 1, Hutchinson; 2, Billings; 3, Randall; 4, Harvard; 5, Hannas ; 6, Checkley ; 7, Jackson; 8, Rand; 9, Rawson; 10, Right ; 11, W. Coffin; 12, Millar; 13, J. Tyler; 14, Tyler; 15, Hancock; 16, Boyce ; 17, Pemberton ; 18 Brooks; 19. Pitts ; 20, Watch-house ; 21, Jackson ; 22, Abbott ; 23, Brom- field ; 24, Hubbard ; 25, Small shops ; 26, Billings ; 27, Platform, Fish shop ; 28, Swing Bridge ; 29, Borland ; 30, Bridgman Hall and Warehouse ; 31, Woodmancy's wharf; 32, Fayerweather ; 33, Colman ; 34, Hutchinson; 35, dishing ; 36, Bronsdon ; 37, Jeffery; 38, Palmer's Warehouse; 39, Gill and Sewall ; 40, Green; 41, Allen; 42, Bromfield ; 43, Noyes ; 44, Boylston ; 45, Bailey ; 46, Sun Tavern ; 47, Borman and Gibbs ; 48, Maverick; 49, Edes ; 50, Blake ; 51, Colson. 96 City Document No. 46. — Part 2. Gr. 39. Hugh Gunnison, vintner. He later removed to Kittery. In 1650 Gunnison's, or Gullison's, house is called The King's Arms, and the estate included a brew-house, barns, stables, etc. ; and in 1651 he and his wife Sarah conveyed it, according to an inventory printed in JV. E. Hist, and Geneal. Beg., 1880, p. 42, to Henry Shrimpton and others ; and according to Mr. Hassam, when Shrimpton made his will, in 1666, he called it the " States Arms ; " and when Eliakim Hutchinson became Shrimpton's son-in-law, two years later, it is described as " facing to the head of the dock, and heretofore called the King's Armes." The estate passed next, 1715-19, to William Hutchinson, the son, and in 1721 to Eliakim Hutchinson, the grandson, a loyalist. G. 40. Captain William Tyng, house, garden, close, great yard, and little yard before the hall window. His inventory is in N. E. Hist, and Geneal. Beg., 1876, p. 432. A part of this lot, after Captain Tyng's death, Jan. 18, 1652-53, fell to Elizabeth, his daughter, wife of Thomas Brattle, who died May 10, 1684, when it fell to Thomas Brattle. (Seivatt Papers, i. , 202. ) Subsequently, in 1694, a part of the estate passed to Mr. Mumford, who after- wards conveyed it to the Quakers for a meeting-house. (Shurtleff, Desc. of Boston, p. 229.) On the rear of this lot, after passages had been opened across it, the first wooden house of the "Mani- festo Church" was erected in 1699, and stood through the provin- cial period. A part of this lot was conveyed by Brattle to John Wing, and by him to Eliakim Hutchinson. (See JV. E. Hist, and Geneal. Beg., 1880, p. 43.) G. 41. Richard Bellingham, the residence of the Governor probably before he built the house on Cotton Hill. In 1644 he compounded with the town by accepting a piece of marsh on the other side of the dock in lieu of the waste ground before this house. Hereabout, fronting on Dock Square, stood a landmark known in the early part of the next century as Colson's Stone House. G. 42. Christopher Stanley. (See p. 43 of Book.) William Balston sold the lot August, 1638, when it consisted of house, yard, garden, and close " back side of Mr. Coddington," to Thomas Cornell or Cornwell ; who sold to Edward Tyng, 1643 ; and he to Christopher Stanley. This one of the three Balston settlers left no male issue. Whitmore, Sewall Papers, ii., 130, 186, corrects Savage in an account of these Balston settlers. G. 43. Thomas Buttolph, house and garden. Buttolph's will is in N.E. Hist, and Geneal. Beg., April, 1862, p. 159, leaving to his wife Anna his house, yards, stable, barn, and other housing, and after her to his son Thomas. This he calls his " new house." This old house he leaves to Thomas till his mother dies ; then to his son John. G. 44. Valentine Hill, house, sold to Robert Turner, shoemaker, in 1644. Turner's will is dated 1651. (See N. E. Hist, and Geneal. Beg., July, 1850, p. 285.) G. 45. Mr. Henry Dunster. [House and yard, with the street east and south, T. Hawkins west and north. Evidently the north corner of Court and Washington streets. — W.H.W.] G. 46. Thomas Hawkins. [House and yard, with V. Hill north, the street east, J. Biggs west, II. Dunster and Centry-hill street south. — W.H.W.] Appendix. 97 G. 47. John Biggs. [House and yard, with Bellingham north, Centry-hill street south, T. Hawkins, V. Hill, T. Buttolph and C. Stanley east, James Brown west. — W.H.W.] G. 48. James Brown, house. His will, 1651, is in N. E. Hist, and Geneal. Reg., Oct., 1853, p. 885. Hereabout, on the lower corner of the present Franklin avenue, Samuel Kneeland, in 1718, began a printing office, and here printed some of the early Boston newspapers. Later it became the stand of James Franklin ; and here his brother Benjamin assisted him on the New England Cou- rant, and in 1723 became under a pretence its proprietor. In 1769 it was the office of Edes and Gill, prominent printers of their clay. G. 49. Alexander Beck. [House and garden, with the street south, Mr. Bellingham north, J. Brown east, J. Scottow west. — W.H.W.] G. 50. Joshua Scottow. [House and garden of about half an acre, Mr. Bellingham north-east, A. Beck south-east, Sudbury street south-west, B. Thwing north-west. Evidently Gentry Hill street ended and Sudbury street began at about this point ; but this point is about the corner of Cornhill, and our Sudbury street is now con- tracted to the part north of Hanover street. — W.H. W.] G. 51. Benjamin Thwing, house. It was about at this point that Smibert the painter lived in 1743, and Brattle street was subse- quently cut off in part from the estate of the artist. [Benjamin Thwing is called " my man," by Ralph Hudson, in his will of 24 Sept., 1638.— W.H.W.] G. 52. William Wilson, joiner, with considerable back land. Soon after the middle of the next century the building known to our own day as Concert Hall was built. The estate then extended to Hanover street. Gilbert and Louis Deblois, braizers, conveyed it in 1754 to Stephen Deblois, who in 1769 sold it to William Tur- ner ; and later it passed to the Amory family. (Drake's Boston, p. 641.) a. Edward Bendall b. John Cotton c. Daniel Maud d. Richard Bellingham These letters show the front lines of the above estates on Tremont street, more fully figured on Map H, or Map No. 8. LOTS 53 TO 63, BOUNDED BY COURT, WASHINGTON, SCHOOL, AND TREMONT STREETS. G. 53. Croychley for Dinely heirs. On this lot, in the flour- ishing da} T s of Governor Shirley, lived one of the best known Bos- ton merchants, John Wendell ; and under his roof, in 1759, George Cradock had his office as Royal Collector of Customs. For the Cradock connections see N. E. Hist, and Geneal. Reg., Jan., 1854, p. 28 ; April, 1855, p. 123. G. 54. Richard Tapping, house ; sold to Nathaniel Williams ; again in 1649 to Richard Critchley or Croychley, who married the 98 City Document No. 46. — Part 2. widow of William Dinely, the barber-surgeon, whose sad fate, in 1639, is described in Mr. Scudder's chapter, in Vol. I. of the Memorial History, and who left to his widow and children the next lot. A son of Dinely, named John, survived him ; and the infant with the name of sad remembrance, who came after the father's death, — Fathergone Dinely, — administered on his elder brother's estate. Between 53 and 54, on the lot now covered by the Adams Express Company's building, lived Colonel Daniel Henchman, the bookseller and bookbinder, with whom Thomas Hancock served his time, and whose daughter Hancock married. She, Lydia Han- cock, gave the estate to the Brattle-street Church in 1765, for a parsonage. James Otis at one time lived in the house. G. 55. The Prison lot where the Court-House now stands. G. 56. Richard Parker. [House, barn, and yard, with the prison-yard west, the market-place east, J. Leverett north, R. Truesdale and the meeting-house south. — W. H.W.J G. 57. John Leverett. [House and 3'ard, with R. Parker south and west, the street north and east. This lot is where Sears' Building stands. — W.H.W.] G. 58. Richard Truesdale, house and garden. Sargent, Deal- ings with the Dead, ii., 567, sa} T s that Benjamin Faneuil, brother of Peter, had his town residence on this lot at a later clay. [Valentine Hill was on his south. — W.H.W.] G. 59. Valentine Hill. [House and garden, with the street east, the meeting-house and R. Truesdale north, the prison-garden west, R. Sedgwick south. — W.H.W.] Valentine Hill sold in 1645 to William Davies. Hill moved, after 1650, to Dover, New Hampshire. It was probably from a building on this lot that the first number of the Boston News- Letter was published, April 24, 1704. G. 60. The Meeting-house. [The first one was built on the west side of State street, where Brazier's Building is. In 1640 it was given up, and this site chosen. In 1809, it was sold to Ben- jamin Joy, who built Joy's Building ; now torn down to give place to Rogers' Building. — W. II. W.] G. 61. Major-General Robert Sedgwick, house and garden, who had lived earlier in Charlestown. It was in a court which, in the provincial period, extending through this lot toward the present Court square, that the fire of 1711 began, breaking out, as the Nev;s-Lelter of the day said, " in an old tenement, within a back- yard in Cornhill [Washington street], near the first meeting- house ; " and Sewall says it " broke out in a little house belonging to Captain Ephraim Savage, by reason of the drunkenness of Moss," whom the Neivs-Letter characterizes as a "poor Scottish woman;" and Drake gives the name of Mary Morse. (Sewall Papers, ii., 323.) There are two petitions on file in the City Clerk's office giving the names of some of the principal sufferers by this fire. G. 62. Edward Hutchinson, house and garden. After his re- moval to Rhode Island, his son was permitted to sell it to his uncle, Richard Hutchinson, of London, who never occupied it. The "Old Corner Book-Store," erected in 1712, now occupies a por- Appendix. 99 tion of the lot ; and the descent of the property has been traced in Shurtleff" s Description of Boston, p. 671. G. 63. Henry Messenger, joiner, house and garden. This is the lot on which now stands the building of the Massachusetts His- torical Society, and, in part, the Boston Museum. His will is elated March 15, 1672, and he died in 1681, his wife Sarah inherit- ing the estate ; and she at her death, 1697, gave the half next the burial-place to her son Thomas, and the other half to her son Sim- eon. An account of his descendants is in N. E. Hist, and Geneal. Reg., Oct., 1862, p. 309 ; and is given more at length in the Gene- alogy of the Messenger Family, by George W. Messenger, Albany, 1863. This Messenger lot, separating the town property on School from that on Court street, was in part later acquired by the town. {Gleaner Articles, No. 3.) [His south bound was Scottow and the burying-ground. — W.H.W.] [Note. — Thomas Scottow's lot on School street, the only one between Hutchinson's corner and the King's chapel burying-ground, is noted on Map F, or No. 6, as the front is on that plan. — W.H.W.] THE MARKET PLACE, NOW THE OLD STATE-HOUSE LOT. G. 64. The open market-stead, where later, in 1657-58, the "Town and State House" was built, — the colony excusing the town from current payment of rates in consideration. (June 10, 1658, Mass. Archives, "Towns," i. 108.) The money had largely been received under Robert Keayne's will. The colony and the county subsequently shared with Boston the expense of repairs, the building being of wood. It was destroyed in the fire of 1711, and the next year a building of brick took its place. All but the walls of this building were burned in 1747 (Historical Magazine, Sept., 1868), and many of the original papers, which we might ex- pect to find now at the State House, were probably then consumed. (Seivall Papers, i., 161.) [It was used as the State House until the new State House, on Beacon Hill, was finished and occupied, January 11th, 1798. For thirty years following it was given up to business purposes. In 1830 the City took possession, and it be- came the City Hall. In 1840, the City having changed its offices to the site on School street, it was again let for business. After much hard usage, the City Council, in 1881, appropriated $35,000 to restore the exterior and the legislative halls, leaving only the lower floor and basement for business purposes. — W.H.W.] LOTS 65 TO 83. BEGINNING AT THE WATER'S EDGE, ON THE SOUTH SIDE OF STATE STREET, THENCE THROUGH DEVON- SHIRE STREET TO WATER STREET (BOTH SIDES), THENCE ON WASHINGTON STREET TO STATE STREET. G. 65. "William Hudson, Sr., house and garden. He was allowed to keep an ordinary in 1640 ; and in 1643 a "harbor for boats " was ordered to be made in the marsh near by. This lot is at the corner of Kilby street. After Hudson's death it passed to Francis Smith, and later to Governor Leverett. Here in the pro- 100 City Document No. 46. — Part 2. vincial days stood the Bunch of Grapes Tavern, with a sign of three bunches of the fruit ; and Drake says two of the bunches now hang over the door of a store in North Market street. The same writer gives its landlords as Francis Holmes (1712), "William Coffin (1731), Joshua Barker (1749), Colonel Joseph Ingersoll (1764). Samuel Holbrook seems to have owned part of it, at least, before 1724, when his widow sold a moiety to Thomas Waite. (JV. E. Hist, and Geneal. Beg., 1877, p. 423.) Goelet's Journal (N. E. Hist, and Geneal. Reg., 1870, p. 53) mentions Weather- head as the keeper in 1750, and says it is "noted for the best punch house in Boston, and resorted by most the gent n merch' 3 and masters vessels." This passage by the shore was known as Mack- erel Lane, and remained very narrow until the great fire of 1760 swept eveiything away, when it was widened and named Kilby street, in compliment to Christopher Kilby, a wealthy Boston mer- chant, who lived long in London as agent for the town and colony, and was now living in New York. He was very liberal to the sufferers by the fire. The committee for laying out the widened street were Andrew Oliver, Thomas Hancock, Joshua Henshaw, and John Scollay ; and their report is on file. G. 66. William Davies, S r . [House, with the street north, W. Hudson, Sr., east, Mr. Winthrop south and west. — W.H.W.] G. 67. John Winthrop. [His possessions are not in the Book ; perhaps they were recorded on the missing first two pages. This lot is not his house-lot, which was on Washington street, opposite the foot of School street. — W.H.W.] G. 68. Elder Thomas Leverett, house and garden. When he died, in 1650, this estate is described as "old houses and lands lyeing neare the old meeting-house in Boston, £50." This lot ex- tended back on the line of the present Congress street ; and on a portion of it, opposite the junction of Congress street and Ex- change place (lately Lindall street) , the Quakers built a meeting- house in 1709, and had their burial-ground in the rear. Interments took place, though rarely, in this ground till 1815, and in 1826 the bodies, such as could be found, were removed, chieny to Lynn. (See Shurtleff, Description of Boston, p. 231.) Leverett's property also took in the present Exchange Building lot. The upper part of Leverett's lot afterwards became the home of Andrew Belcher, a wealthy merchant, who lived here in 1691, and was the father of Governor Belcher. For a note on Andrew Belcher's family con- nections, see Seivall Bapers, iii., 160 ; and N. E. Hist, and Geneal. Beg., 1873, p. 239. Andrew Belcher died in 1717. East of him was the land which Governor Leverett sold to Jeremiah Dummer, a goldsmith, in 1677, the father of Lieut. -Governor William Dum- mer, and of Jeremiah, — the last being born on this spot. G. 69. Robert Scott. [House, with Mr. Leveritt east and south, the street west and north. Evidently on the corner of a lane, presumable Pudding Lane, now Devonshire street. — W.H.W.] G. 70. Robert Scott. [His lot No. 3, a garden, with T. Lev- eritt east, H. Webb south, the highway south and west. — W.H.W.] G. 71. Henry Webb. [His lot No. 2, with J. Leveritt east, the highway and R. Scott north, the lane west, and T. Oliver Appendix. 101 south. This south boundary is a puzzle. It apparently should be W. Parsons (see next lot, G. 72), and Oliver does not seem to have owned east of the lane. Perhaps Oliver had sold to Parsons, and the old ownership remained in mind. — W.H.W.] G. 72. William Parsons. [House and garden, with the lane west, H. Webb north, J. Davies east, and the Springate south. — W.H.W.] G. 73. James Davies. [House and garden, the Springate south, T. Leverett north, W. Parsons west, the marsh east. — W.H. W.] G. 74. John Spoore, house and garden. Spoore was called of Clapton, Somersetshire, when he bought in 1638, Mr. Wilke's house and ground, — perhaps this lot. Somewhere hereabout, on the Creek, the leather-dressers, in 1643, were granted a place to water their leather. Spoore mortgaged this property in 16-48, and by some means we find Deacon Henry Bridgham in possession in 1655, who built, in 1670, a mansion on the ground, and had his tan- pits near by. He did not live, however, to move into the new house, but died in the old one, in March, 1670-71 ; and on the death of his widow, in 1672, the property passed to the sons, and in 1680 was divided, the new house falling to Dr. John Bridgham, of Ips- wich. The doctor died in 1721, and this house fell to his nephew, Joseph Bridgham, a recent graduate of Harvard, but now an apothecary in Harvard. Bridgham sold it in February, 1734- 35, to Francis Borland, for £1,200. Joseph Calef was a tenant of the house, and plied his trade with the tan-pits. It was while Calef was here that Congress street was laid out from Milk to Water street. He died in September, 1763, and the house and grounds fell to Francis Lindall Borland, but afterwards came in joint possession of John Borland, a brother of Francis Lindall, and to the children of Wait Still Winthrop, who had married a daughter of Francis Borland. The remaining history of the house falls later than the provincial times. It became the famous Julien House, and its descent is traced at length by Shurtleff, Boston, 659. G. 75. William Hibbens, gentleman, house, garden, and stable. Somewhere between 74 and 75 on the Water-street side, Major John Walley had his mansion-house in the early part of the next century, with wharf belonging, and land stretching through to Milk street. Upon his death, in 1711, it descended to his son John ; and on his death, in 1755, it was advertised as containing " upwards of twenty rooms." The present Devonshire street runs through G. 75, and was early known as Joyliffe's lane, from John Joyliffe, a prominent citizen, who lived upon it, and died in 1701. (Drake's Boston, 509.) G. 76. Richard Sherman, house. His will, in 1660, is printed in N. E. Hist, and Geneal. Reg., July, 1855, p. 227. (See Ibid, April, 1864, p. 157, for the will of the widow Robinson, formerly wife of Richard Sherman.) [Richard Sherman, house and garden, with Mr. Hibbins north and east, A. Haugh south, the Green west. — W.H.W.] G. 77. The Spring-gate. [This was a spring and watering place, probably reaching from Washington street to Mr. Hibbins' land. Spring lane preserves the memory, and the great spring found in 102 City Document No. 46. — Paet 2. digging the foundations of the New Post Office is probably the representative of the original. — W.H.W.] G. 78. Deacon Thomas Oliver, house and garden. (See his relationship to the other Olivers in N. E. Hist, and Geneal. Reg., April, 1865, p. 100.) Between this lot and Gov. Winthrop's well- known house, on the line of the present Spring lane, was the ancient spring-gate of the first comers. When, in the provincial period, Water street was extended through this lot into the present Washington street, on the northerly corner, at the sign of the "Heart and Crown," Thomas Fleet, in 1731, had his printing office, and here, in 1735, he began the publication of the Boston Evening Post. G. 79. Richard Fairbanks, house and garden ; sold in 1652 to Robert Turner, who later built a new house on the lot, which is mentioned in his will (JV. E. Hist, and Geneal. Reg., Jan., 1859, p. 11). Here at a later da} r the Blue Anchor was kept by George Monck, whom Dunton celebrates in his Letters, and who extended his career into the provincial days. (See Whitmore's note to Record Commissioners' edition of Gleaner Articles, p. 18.) A peti- tion from Joseph Willson for a license shows that this or another tavern of the same name was called "Near Oliver's Dock" in 1755, and that it had been known as such for forty years, — a lesser period than is true, certainly if it was not another hostlery. It was the same tavern that Thomas Bayley petitioned for the privilege of keeping in 1752. G. 80. William Corser, house and garden. He is called in his will, 1673, Cosser, and, being " weak of bod}'," makes his mark to it. His wife was Joanna. G. 81. Major Robert Keayne, house and garden. This public- spirited and somewhat eccentric citizen was a prominent merchant. The signatures of the "overseers" of his remarkable will (an abstract is given in N. E. Hist, and Geneal. Reg., Jan., 1852, p. 89, etc.) are appended to a petition to the colony government in 1667, on file at the State House. {Mass. Archives, "Estates," Vol. I.) The most extended account of Keayne is found in Whit- man's Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company, of which Keayne was the leading charter member. On this spot, in provincial times, Daniel Henchman kept his well-known book shop ; and in this shop, later, Henry Knox was brought up. Nicholas Boone also kept a book-shop on this lot in the early part of the eighteenth century. G. 82. Mary, widow of Ralph Hudson, house. She died in 1651, and left £10 to the school. At this date she had two houses on this lot, occupied by Nathaniel Duncan and John Thicker. (N. E. Hist, and Geneal. Reg., Jan., 1850, p. 54.) Near this spot, in the next century, John Phillips kept a book-shop. Drake, Boston, p. 566, gives an engraving of his sign. He died March 30, 1763. (See Boston Nevis- Letter, April 28, 1763.) [Mrs. Hudson's lot is not specified in the Book. — W.H.W.] G. 83. Henry Webb, house, with William Corser just south of him on the lane. The will of Henry Webb, 1660, is given in N. E. Hist, and Geneal. Reg., April, 1856, p. 177. His daughter Appendix. 103 Margaret, widow of Jacob Sheaffe (whose inventory is given in Register, Jan, 1856, p. 84), inherited the "Mansion," and his grandchild, Elizabeth Sheaffe, his warehouse " now let out to build." LOTS 84 TO 100, NORTH SIDE OF STATE STREET, FROM WASH- INGTON STREET TO THE WATER-LINE, THENCE ALONG THE COVE AND WASHINGTON STREET. G. 84. John Cogan, house and shop. Cogan's will (given in N. E. Hist, and Geneal. Reg., Jan., 1855, p. 85 ; also see 1877, p. 106) speaks of his rnansion-house and the house adjoining (oc- cupied by Goodman Bumstead), and two shops adjoining. One- third of the property descended to his widow Martha, whom he had married when, as the fourth wife of Governor Winthrop, she sur- vived him. She was a sister of Increase Nowell of Charlestown, and widow, wken Winthrop married her, of Thomas Coitmore, of the same town. Joseph Rocke married Elizabeth, daughter of Cogan. G. 85. Rev. John Wilson, house, two gardens, yard, and barn, bounding south on Wilson's lane, now widened and called Devon- shire street. Wilson's will is given in N. E. Hist, and Geneal. Reg., Oct., 1862, p. 348. In 1641 he sold part to Sergeant John Davies, the joiner, and provided that he should not be "annoyed with any stincks ;" and Davies in 1646 sold to Edmund Jackson, from whom it passed to Hezekiah Usher, the merchant of a later clay, who had removed from Cambridge to Boston in 1646. Usher's inventory mentions a dwelling-house, garden, land, and "inward warehouse," with lean-tos at the dock, — £700 ; the dwelling-house that John Usher lives in, and " outward warehouse," by the town dock, £570. His descendants are traced in N. E. Hist, and Geneal. Reg., October, 1869, p. 410. G. 86. Anthony Stoddard, linendraper, who, in 1644, was suf- fered to open his ' ' shop window board " two feet into the street, and who bounded east on the ' ' new street " (Exchange street) . In 1644 he sold the northerly part, fronting on the new street, to James Mattock the cooper, and in the same year this portion passed successively to John Synderland and to John Parker the carpenter. In 1646, Stoddard, John Leverett joining with him, sold the southerly part to Henry Shrimpton, brazier. His will, 1666, is in N. E. Hist, and Geneal. Reg., Jan., 1861, p. 76. It was on this corner that the Royal Exchange Tavern stood at a later day. Luke Vardy kept it in 1727, and he was succeeded in 1747 by Robert Stone, and in his time it was a resort of the British officers stationed in the town. It was in this house, in 1728, that the altercation began which ended in the first duel fought in Bos- ton, when Benjamin Woodbridge was killed hy Henry Phillips. (See Shurtleff' s Boston, p. 222.) [From W. Franklin's lot, G. 98, it seems that he had Stoddard and John Leverett south. Leverett's presumed lot is shown on Lamb's map. — W.H.W.] 104 City Document No. 46. — Part 2. G. 87. Valentine Hill ; sold to William Davies, and he, in 1645, to Anthony Stoddard. This was the site of the States Arms Tav- ern, and just before the Revolution the royal Custom-house was here, Bartholomew Green living in the chambers over it. G. 88. William Davies, Jr. [House with W. Pierce east and' north, V. Hill west, the street south. — W.H. W.] G. 89. William Pierce, along the line of the present 'Change Avenue. (See N. E. Hist, and Geneal. Beg., 1878, p. 319.) On the site forming the lower corner of this avenue, after the middle of the next century, John Mein kept the London Bookstore, the most considerable in the town ; and here he started the earliest circulating library. Opposite the northerly end of this estate, where it abutted on the dock, on land reclaimed from the tide, Peter Faneuil built, in 1742, the famous hall. [Pierce had house and garden, with D. Sellick east, I. Grosse and the highway north, W. Davies, Jr., and the street south, E. Bendall, V. Hill, and W. Davies west. — W. H. W.] G. 90. David Sellick. [House and garden, with the street south, W. Pierce west, V. Hill north, J. Oliver east. Suff. deeds, i., f. 100, 27th, 12 mo., 1648. V. Hill sells to D. Sellick his house that H. bought of Mr. Aspinwall, with the barber's shop and all pertaining, except what H. had sold to John Friend. At the same time Hill sold to Mary Friend a quarter of an acre with the street south, D. Sellick west, E. Tyng east, V. Hill north, with a right of way to the water. This lot does not seem to be in the Book, unless, as Winsor saj^s, it was James Oliver's — the next lot, G. 91. — W.H.W.] G. 91. James Oliver. [House and yard, with the street south, V. Hill north, D. Sellick west, E. Tyng east. — W.H. W.] G. 92. Edward Tyng, house, brewhouse, warehouse, with wharf in front, which he sold, in 1651, to James Everill, describing it as " my wharf against the end of the great street," and along which on the south went the " town's way down upon the flats," — which corresponds to the present State street below Merchants' Row ; and this street was then designated as " Mr. Hill's highway twenty feet broad," which followed the shore of the Cove to the present Dock square. Somewhere on the water front of Tyng's estate there were wharves occupied by Thomas Venner, 1 and another that Henry Webb was allowed "to enjoy" in 1647, having bought it of Tyng. In the next century the rich Huguenot merchant, Andrew Faneuil, had his warehouse where Tyng's wharf stood, the present lower corner of Merchants' Row. This was in 1732 ; and later, in 1743, Richard Smith kept here the Admiral Vernon Tavern. In 1750 there seems to have been a change, for in the State Archives there is a petition from Smith to be licensed to keep the Crown Coffee House " at the lower end of King street," which had been a licensed house for nearly forty years. At the same date James Gooch, Jr., took possession of the "Vernon's Head," as his peti- tion calls it. Smith's pi'edecessor in the "Crown" was widow 1 [Ho is styled a wine-cooper, and was later of Salem. Returning to England, he became a Filth Monarchy preacher, and enyayed in an insurrection ; was executed in 1661.] Appendix. 105 Anna Swords, and the estate was then owned by Governor Belcher. Robert Shelcock kept it in 1751. It stood at the lower corner of Chatham Row, projecting into the street. It was the first house on Long Wharf, which, after the fiats had been filled in below Merchants' Row, was projected by Oliver Noyes and others in 1707. Noyes was a selectman and a citizen of prominence ; and the town, within a year or two, adopted his plan to build a pier to low-water mark. — (See Proceedings Mass. Hist. Soc. for Sept., 1864.) 4^ 106 City Document No. 46. — Part 2. Near the ' ' Crown " were the counting-house and warehouse of a noted mercantile firm of the early part of the last century, — Samuel and Cornelius Waldo, — later on Merchants' Eow, near the Swing Bridge. (See a note on the family in A 7 ". E. Hist, and Genial. Keg., April, 1864, p. 176.) [Mr. Lamb assigns a lot here between G-. 91 and G-. 92 to Henry Webb ; probably the one which Winsor notes above. — W.H.W.] G. 93. Valentine Hill ; sold, in 1645, to Samuel Cole, who had before this kept a house of entertainment somewhere along the water front in this vicinity. Cole's will, 1666, is given in M. E. Hist, and Geneal.lteg., July, 1861, p. 249. This is, too, the nearest point on the original shore to the. spot where, in the provincial times, on land reclaimed from the dock, and near the head of the present South Market street, John Hancock kept store, and by ad- vertisement called upon debtors to the estate of his late uncle, the Hon. Thomas Hancock, to make pa}'ment. G. 94. Isaac Grosse. [House, with W. Pierce south and east, E. Bendall west, the Cove north. This lot is apparently laid out on Lamb's map, with no name affixed. — W.H. W.] G. 95. Edward Bendall, stone house, with warehouse adjoining. Bendall had been allowed, in 1637, to establish from this point a ferry to Noddle's Island, and to the ships riding before the town. His lot was just west of 'Change avenue. G. 96. George Foxcroft. [House lot, with the Cove north, E. Bendall east and south, R. Nash north (an evident blunder for west).— W.H. W.] G. gy. Robert Nash, butcher, house, garden and outhouses, in- cluding his slaughter-house, which occasioned the town's men more or less trouble from the careless disposition Nash made of his garbage. He was warned not to kill beasts in the street in 1647. [His lot saj^s, " bounded north and West — ." I suspect this should be the Cove, as Bendall has the Cove north and east. This would indi- cate a point of land with the Cove curving, especially as Franklin does not bound on Nash, but on a street. — W.H.W.] G. 98. William Franklin. [House and garden, with the street east and north, J. Wilson west, and J. Leverett and A. Stoddard south. — W.H.W.] G. 99. Major Edward Gibbons, house, garden, and " housings," including two shops, one occupied by John Newgate, hatter, and the other by Thomas Savage, the tailor, better known from his military honors. [Gibbons has the street west and north ; Rev. John Wilson south and east. — W.H.W.] G. 100. William Corser, house, which seems to be the lot after- wards occupied by William Tilley, whose wife Alice, under power from her husband, conveyed it, in 1649, to Anthony Stoddard. [This lot is not in the Book, but is given in the bounds of Rev. John Wilson's lot, G. 85, as "Major Gibones, W m . Courser and John Cogan on the west." — W. H. W.] Appendix. 107 LOTS ON THE NOETH SIDE OF FOET HILL, FACING THE COVE. G. /. Valentine Hill's bridge, about where the present Liberty square is, on the line of Kilby street. There were others round this shore in 1649, when Hutchinson, Gillom, Ward, and Compton, and also Jonathan Balston, Thomas Smyth, Stephen Baker, and Richard Richardson, were allowed' to make a highway over the marsh " to Mr. Hill's bridge." G. g. The present bend on Batterymarch street, which was laid out in 1673. On the marsh to the north-west, on the corner of what is now Batterymarch street and Liberty square, stood a well- known ordinary. The marsh had been let by the town in 1656 to Captain James Johnson, and this site was conveyed by him to Thomas Hull; and in 1673 Nathaniel Bishop lived here, and the house was known as "The Blue Bell," and as early as 1674 was jointly tenanted by Deacon Henry Alline and Hugh Drury. In 1692 it is called "The Castle Tavern," and Mr. Hassam thinks (N. E. Hist, and Geneal. Rtg., 1877, p. 329) it ceased to be an inn after 1707. G. ioi. Nathaniel Woodward. [House and garden, with B. Ward and E. Hutchinson east, the marsh north and west. — W.H.W.] G. 102. Edward Hutchinson. [House and yard, with B. Ward east and south, N. Woodward west, the marsh north. — W.H.W.] G. 103. Benjamin Ward. [House and about an acre, with N. Woodward, Jr., west, B. Gillom east, Mr. Hibbins south, E. Hutchinson and the marsh north. — W.H.W.] G. 104. Benjamin Gillom. [House and garden, with B. Ward west, W. Hibbins south, J. Compton and the Cove east, the marsh north. — W.H.W.] G. 105. John Compton. House and garden, with the Cove east, B. Gillom west and north, the Fort Hill south. — W.H.W.] G. 106. The Fort. In 1644 land of Mr. William Hibbins was taken for the " breast-worke upon the Fort Hill" ; and also, same year, land of James Penn. G. 107. William Hibbins. [Apparently part of his lot described in the Book (see plan G. 75, ante), as follows : House, garden, and stable, with J. Winthrop west, the Springate north, J. Spoore east, and R. Sherman and some part of Fort street south. As the marsh and bridge were hereabouts, it is clear that Hibbins owned some land east of them, probably all in one continuous tract. See G. 103, and G. 104. — W.H.W.] 15 1h 13 Map H, or No. 8. (108) MAP H, OR NO. 8. LOTS 1 TO 4, WEST OF HANOVER STREET, AND NORTH OF PORTLAND STREET. H.I. James Johnson, glover, upland and marsh; sold to Thomas Hawkins, baker and innholder, in 1662. In 1671-72 this lot and John Davies', by assignments and foreclosure of mortgages, came into the possession of Sampson Sheaffe, and from him the estate passed to William S tough ton, the Governor, who, though a Dorchester man, possessed when he died, in 1701, a large property in real estate hereabout, including the Blue Ball estate. This last, as well as other property, fell to Stoughton's niece Mehitabel, wife of Captain Thomas Cooper, and when the Cap- tain died, in 1705, this lot was valued at £650. His widow afterwards married Peter Sergeant, and again, in 1714, Simeon Stoddard; and as Mrs. Stoddard she died in 1788, and her son by her first husband, Rev. William Cooper, of the Brattle- square Church, sold the lot in 1743 to Dr. William Douglass, a physician and author, who had come from Scotland in 1716, and wrote a Summary of New England History ; and when Douglass died, in 1754, mention is made of his mansion-house in Green Dragon lane, which was a passage in the direction of the present Union street, and upon which his house abutted. Douglass was a good deal exercised over the taxes he was called upon to pay ; and Drake, Boston, p. 623, sets forth his querulous communication to the assessors. (See also JV. E. Hist, and Geneal. Reg., 1877, p. 118.) Ten years later, Catharine Kerr, the sister of Douglass, conveyed it to the St. Andrew's Lodge of Freemasons, and after- wards it became celebrated as the Green Dragon Tavern. Shurtleff considers that it was in the yard in the rear, which bordered upon the mill-pond, that Franklin, as a boy, built the wharf which he describes in his Autobiography. The house had probably been built in Stoughton's clay, and it was kept as an inn by Alexander Smith, who died in it in 1696. To him succeeded Hannah Bishop, and in 1697 John Cary took it, and in a petition in 1705 he speaks of having kept it several 3'ears. In 1734 Joseph Kidder was the landlord. It acquired the widest reputation after the Revolutionary troubles began, when the "Green Dragon" became the rally ing- place of the patriots. (Shurtleff, Description of Boston, p. 613.) Opposite the "Green Dragon," John Borland owned property, which in 1714 he conveyed to Daniel Johonnot, where the latter seems to have had his Distil-House. (N. E. Hist, and Geneal. Reg., Oct., 1852, p. 357.) 110 City Document No. 46. — Part 2. [This lot is No. 4 of Johnson's possessions, being three quarters of an acre of upland and marsh, with the Cove north and east, John Smith west, and John Davies south. — W.H.W.] H. 2. John Smith. [House and garden, with the Cove north, the street south, J. Davies east, E. Gibbons west. — W.H.W.] H. 3. Major Edward Gibbons. [His lot 2, being a house and lot, with the Cove or Mill Pond north, the street south, J. Smith east, R. Nash west. — W.II.W.] H. 4. Robert Nash. [His lot No. 2, being an acre with a house-lot, with the Cove north, the street south, the lane west, E. Gibbons, east. — W.H.W.] LOTS 5 TO 10, BOUNDED BY POETLAND STREET, HANOVER STREET, AND SUDBURY STREET. H. 5. Henry Pease. [House and garden, with the Cove north, the street south, the lane east, J. Leverett west. The street is now Hanover street, and the lane is Portland street. — W.H.W.] H. 6. John Leverett and Henry Pease had lots here. The highway adjoining, the present Portland street, seems to be the twenty-five-foot passage that Henry Pease agreed to ' ' fence out through his lands against the Cove, near his dwelling, unto the cross high way by our brother James Everill's," 1639-40. It was on this lot, where now stands the American House, that Joseph Warren, in 1 764, took up his abode, and began the practice of medi- cine. He lived then in a house in which Joseph Green, a prominent merchant of his day, — not to be confounded with Joseph Green the wit, — died, July 1, 1765. Green had bought of Governor Belcher, in 1734, the large house on this lot for £3,600. (N. E. Hist, and Geneal. Reg., vi.,275.) [It will be noted that the next four lots, all facing on Sudbury street, bound east on Leverett, who must have owned from Hanover street to the water line, though his lot is not on record. — W.H.W.] H. 7. Nathaniel Chappel. [House and garden of about quar- ter of an acre, with the cove north, J. Cole south, the lane west, John Leverett east. — W.H.W.] H. 8. John Cole. House and garden, with N. Chappel north, J. Mellows south, the lane west, J. Leverett east. — W.II.W.] H. g. John Mellows. [House and garden, with J. Cole north, E. Jackson south, the street west, and J. Leveritt east. See my note in Sewall's Diary, II., 210, about Mellows and Coney. — W.II.W.] H. 10. Edmund Jackson. [House and garden, with J. Mel- lows north, the lane south, J. Leveritt east, and Sudbury street west. — W.II.W.] It was on this corner that the Orange-Tree Inn stood during the provincial period. While it was kept, in 1 712, by Jonathan Ward- well, he set up here the earliest hackney coach stand. Drake says that Mrs. Wardwell kept it in 1724. Appendix 111 EAST CORNER OF HANOVER AND COURT STREETS. H. ii. Jeremy Houtchin. [One house and garden of about a quarter of an acre, with Sudbury street south-west, W. Wilson south-east, the lane north-west, T. Makepeace and W. "Wilson north-east. Sold, in 1646, to Roger Fletcher, late of London. — W.H.W.] LOTS 12 TO 23, WEST SIDE OF TREMONT ROW, ACROSS THE HILL TO CAMBRIDGE STREET, AND ALONG THE WEST SIDE OF COURT STREET. H. 12. Edward Bendall. This had Sudbury [Court] street east, and took in Tremont Row and the centre of Scollay square. Governor Endicott seems to have dwelt during the close of his life on a part of this lot, leaving when he died, in 1665, a widow, Elizabeth, whom he had married in 1630. Endicott' s will is in JV. E. Hist, and Geneal. Reg., April, 1861, p. 127. David Yale, a brother of Thomas, the founder of Yale College, had, in 1645, purchased of Bendall, who, holding theological views at variance with those of the magistrates, found it convenient to remove, leaving Thomas Lake and Thomas Clark power of attor- ney to sell the estate. Captain John Wall became the purchaser, and his widow sold it, in 1678, to Edward Shippen (Sewall Papers, i. 60), who sold, in 1702, a part to Cyprian Southack, who laid out Southack's lane in 1 720 (Howard street). The selectmen, -in 1738, directed him to secure his hill, by rails or otherwise, that people may not be in danger. " Gleaner " places " Valley Acre " in the lower portion of Southack's pasture, referring to a deed of 1758, when it was the property of John Tyng. Where it came out on Tremont Row, Southack sold to John Jekyll, in 1724, whose heirs passed it, in 1768, to Dr. James Lloyd. It was on a part of the original Bendall lot, opposite the head of the modern Cornhill, that, in 1683-84, the free writing-school was built, the second in the town ; John Cole being the first master. Soon after 1700 Richard Henchman was the master. (See Drake's Boston, 512.) H. 13. Rev. John Cotton, house and land, extending back as far as the Mount Vernon Church. (See Cotton's will in N. E. Hist, and Geneal. Reg., April, 1851, p. 240.) The estate passed to his widow, Sarah (subsequently married to Rev. Richard Mather of Dorchester), and to Cotton's son by this wife, — the Rev. Seaborn Cotton. Cotton's (the father's) will shows that Governor Vane had built the south part of the house when he sojourned with Cotton, and had deeded it to Seaborn, to whom the father confirmed it. Later, it became by successive purchases the property of John Hull, the mint-master, whose daughter Hannah married Samuel Sewall the judge, who occupied the estate still later. Whitmore (Seivall Papers, i. 62, where, p. 63, the descent is traced in detail) says it was occupied in 1758 by William Vassall, who purchased it Sept. 11 of that year (N. E. Hist, and Geneal. Reg., April, 1863, p. 115). In 1787 he conveyed it to Leonard V. Borland, who, 112 City Document No. 46. — Paet 2. in 1790, sold it to Patrick Jeffrey. Jeffrey had come to Boston and had married a Madame Haley, a sister of the notorious John Wilkes ; he was an uncle of Francis, Lord Jeffre}\ (See Gleaner Articles, Nos. 80 and 31.) In 180*1 Somerset street was cut through the estate, and Jeffrey sold the part west of the street to Asa Hammond, in 1804 ; and the part east to Jonathan Mason, in 1802. In 1803 Gardiner Greene bought of Mason, and in 1824 he added the Maud lot (No. 14). Greene made the estate the most famous in Boston. In 1835 this and neighboring estates were sold to Patrick T. Jackson, and Pemberton square was laid out. H. 14. Daniel Maud, school-master, house and garden. He removed to Dover, N.H., in 1642, and made his will in 1654. (N. E. Hist, and Geneal. Beg., April, 1851, p. 241.) Hezekiah Usher next owned it, who sold it to Thomas Scottow, in 1645. " Gleaner" says it subsequently passed through Leblond, Erving, Brimmer, Bowdoin, Waldo, Walcott, Winthrop, till Gardiner Greene, in 1824, annexed it. H. 15. Richard Bellingham, garden plot, but afterwards his house-lot, when he removed from Washington street. In his will he speaks of this house and grounds, with a shop before it. The will was set aside, and is printed in N. E. Hist, and Geneal. Reg., July, 1850, p. 237. (See the notes to Mr. Deane's and Mr. Whit- more's chapters in Vol. I. of the Memorial History of Boston.) Bellingham sold the south part of this lot, in 1663, to Humphrey Davis, whose heirs sold it, in 1710, with a stone house thereon, for £800, to Andrew Faneuil, from whom the estate descended to his nephew, Peter Faneuil, and later it was owned by John Vas- sall. The north part was sold to the Rev. John Davenport, and after the death of his son John, was, in 1676, conveyed to the First Church, and became the parsonage lot. The parish sold it, in 1787, to Sampson Reed. Both of these sections of the Belling- ham estate were united, when William Phillips successively pur- chased them in 1791 and 1805. There was about half an acre of Bellingham's lot back of the other sections which Sewall added to the original Cotton estate. (Sewall Papers, i., 61 ; Gleaner Arti- cles, No. 32.) H. 16. Valentine Hill's ground. A portion of this area lying on Cambridge street was, later, the Middlecott pasture (Gleaner Articles, No. 21), through which, in. 1727, a street was laid out and called Middlecott ; but when it was opened through to Beacon street, in 1800, it was called Bowdoin street. [For a thorough account of Beacon Hill, and the titles of the estates thereon, con- sult Mr. Bowditch's " Gleaner" notes, reprinted as volume five of the Report of the Record Commissioners. — W.H.W.] H. 17. Robert Meeres, house and garden. He was aged in 1666, when he executed his will (printed in N. E. Hist, and Geneal. Reg., Oct. 7, 1863, p. 345), and made his mark. This lot, in 1709, came to John Stamford, who sold it to Rev. Henry Harris, whose executors sold to James Pemberton, whose family name be- came in the end attached to Pemberton square. " Gleaner" traces another part of the original lot to Dr. Samuel Danforth, in 1785. H. 18. Robert Howen, | acre. John and Israel Ilowcn (pre- Appendix. 113 sumably his heirs) sold it, in 16G2-63, to Simon Lynde, who died iu 1G87 ; and his daughter Sarah was the wife of Nathaniel New- gate, who conveyed it, in 1694, under the name of "The Spring House." H. ig. Anne Hunne, widow of George Hunne, -*- acre. This lot marks the site of the elegant mansion and grounds of the late Theodore Lyman, who purchased it in 1785. H. 20. Henry Fane. [House and garden, with Sudbury street east, New Field west, the lane north, J. Newgate south. ■ — W.H.W.] H. 21. John Newgate, the hatter, house and garden, £ acre. His will, 1664 (N. E. Hist, and Geneal. Reg., Oct., 1859, p. 333), left his house to his Avidow, Ann. (Also see Register^ 1879, p. 57, for Newgate's family.) Westerhy from this a tract belonging to Newgate fell, after his death in 1665, to Simon Lynde, his son- in-law ; and then, in 1687, or earlier, to his son, Samuel Lynde. About the middle of the last century it became the property of Thomas Bulfinch, and remained in his family for fifty 3'ears. The Revere House marks the south end of Bulfinch's four-acre pasture, as the Mount Vernon Church marks the north end. {Gleaner Arti- cles, No. 23.) H. 22 and 23. [Next west of the lots of Fane and Newgate, Lamb's map places Jeremy Houtchin No. 22, and Mr. Stoughton No. 23 ; but I find no warrant for them in the Book. — W.H.W.] LOTS 24 TO 33, BOUNDED BY CAMBRIDGE AND GREEN STREETS, LEVERETT STREET, THE WATER LINE, AND THE WEST SIDE OF SUDBURY STREET. H. 24. [The square lying north of our Cambridge street, from Sudbury street to Pitts street, was owned by James Johnson, Thomas Hawkins, William Kirkb} T , James Hawkins, Richard San- ford, Robert Meers, Thomas Scottow, Richard Meers, Henry Pease, Alexander Beck, and John Leverett. I cannot, however, see the grounds for the divisions made on Lamb's map, as will be pointed out later. — W.H.W.] H. 24. James Johnson. [House and garden, with the street south-east and south-west, the Cove north-west, and Thomas Haw- kins north-east. Evidently the corner, and, as evidently, running through to the water. — W.H. W.] H. 25. Thomas Hawkins. [Apparently not entered in the Book of Possessions. — W.H.W.] H. 26. William Kirkby. [House and garden, with the lane south-east, James Hawkins north, Richard Sanford west. This lot seems to be in the curve of the street (Cambridge street), and probably had J. Johnson on the east in part. — W.H.W.] H. 27. James Hawkins. [House and garden, with W. Kirkby south, R. Sanford west. No other bounds given east or north. — W.H.W.] H. 28. Richard Parker. [Apparently not recorded; but it figures as the north bound of Sanford and Robert Meers. — W.H.W.] H. 29. Richard Sanford. [House and lot of about an acre, 114 City Document No. 46. — Part 2. R. Parker north, J. Hawkins and "W". Kirby east, the street west, and Robert Meers toest. Here are two ivest bounds, and no' south line. The street was probably south. — W.H.W.] H. 30. Robert Meers. [His lot No. 3, being half an acre in the New -Field, with R. Parker north, J. Hawkins east, Tho. Scot- tow south, Richard Meers west. Here I suspect another error, as Richard Meers does not elsewhere appear. If it be Robert, i.e., another lot of the same owner, I should surmise that Scottow's lot was the same as Sanford's. It seems that Thomas Scottow's will mentions his aged mother Sanford ; hence, it is probable that Scottow and Richard Sanford were brothers-in-law. As Scottow is not recorded as owning any lot here, it seems more reasonable to conclude that it was the Sanford lot which was meant. This would bring Meers out to the lane, now Chardon street, which would close the description as nearly as can now be done. The following cut may represent the first apportionment. — W.H.W.] Appendix. 115 H. 31. Henry Pease. H. 32. Alexander Beck. [These two lots are so laid clown on Lamb's map. But Pease's lot is already located (H. 5) as on the corner of Hanover and Portland streets. Beck's lot is thus de- scribed : "A small parcel of land, first granted for a houselot, bounded with John Leverett south, Henry Pease east, a small creek west, and the Cove north." This apparently might as well be down on Sudbury street, unless there be other reasons for giving Pease another lot — unrecorded in the Book — in this vicinity. — W.H.W.] H. 33. George Burden. [His lot No. 3, being in the New Field five and a half acres, with the marsh east, J. Mellows west, R. Fairbanks north, and E. Jackson south. — W.H.W.] LOTS 84 TO 51, WEST OF CAMBRIDGE STREET, AND SOUTH OF LEVERETT STREET, WITH THE WATER LINE. H. 34. David Sellick. [By the terms of E. Jackson's lot, it would seem that David Sellick owned a lot here ; but it is not recorded. — W.H.W.] H. 35. Edmund Jackson. [His lot No. 2, being about three acres in the New Field, with G. Burden north, Valentine Hill south, D. Sellick east, R. Meers west. — W.H.W.] H. 36. Robert Meers. [His lot No. 2, being two acres in the New Field, with E. Jackson east, R. Turner west, G. Burden north, R. Cook south. — W.H.W.] H. 37. Robert Turner. [There seems to be of necessity a lot of Turner's here, between H. 35 and H. 37. Probably he had it of Valentine Hill, though it is not recorded in the Book. — W.H.W.] H. 38. William Davies the apothecary'. [His lot of four acres in the New Field, bought of Valentine Hill, with Thomas Buttolph south, James Pen north, R. Turner east, John Biggs and James Pen west. —W.H.W.] H. 39. John Biggs. H. 40. James Pen. H. 41. John Mellowes. [These three lots seem to be required by the boundaries of H. 33 and H. 38, but are not recorded. — W.H.W.] Mr. Winsor's note is as follows : — a. The present Cambridge street was laid out in 1647, twelve feet wide, through Mr. Stoughton's ground at this point, "along the rayle side," through Richard Cooke's and Thomas Buttolph's, "to the farder end of the lots to Tho. Munt's ground on the farthest side.". 6. David Sellick ; sold to John Leverett. The highway, which at this point extended north and west, was early called Green lane ; and there is a petition on file in the City Clerk's office, March 10, 1734, asking that it may be paved, which gives many of the chief abutters at that time. c. Edmund Jackson, 3 acres ; afterwards Thomas Leverett. 116 City Document No. 46. — Part 2. d. Robert Meeres, 2 acres. Synion Lynde bought it in 1667-91 ; sold it in 1718, to John Staniford, — then increased to six acres. Stamford seems to have disposed of a part of it, at least, by lot- tery. (Seioall Papers, iii., 227; Gleaner Articles, No. 9.) This included the rising ground, where a windmill stood, near the pres- ent "West Church (Dr. Bartol's). This edifice was raised in 1736, and the original structure is shown in the view of the Battle of Bunker Hill, given in the third volume of the Memorial History. e. Robert Turner. Passed later to Staniford. /. Valentine Hill ; sold, in 1648, to William Davis, 4 acres ; then on his death, 1676, to his son Benjamin, who conveyed it to his mother (she having married Edward Palmes),, and they, in 1695, passed it to Charles Chambers, who gave his name to the street now running through the lot. (Gleaner Articles, No. 10.) g. John Biggs, 1^- acre. Marsh granted in 1641, west of North Russell street. His widow died in 1676, and the land coming to her father, John Dasset, it was conveyed to James Allen, in 1696. h. Thomas Munt. i. James Penn. In 1671 it fell by his will to James Allen, his nephew, who, later, added lot No. g, making a twenty-acre farm. He extended Chambers street northerly. "Gleaner" thinks it certain that Allen thus owned a larger lot in Boston than any one else, excepting Blackstone. j. Edward Gibbons. k. Alexander Beck, 1 acre, — a little marsh, " next Mr. Hough's Point ;" and described a few years before, when Beck was allowed to mow it, as in the new field,. " near the place where Mr. Hough taffes boat." H. 42. Richard Fairbank. [His lot No. 3, being four acres in the New Field, with George Burden and Henry Pease south, the river east, T. Oliver north, Isaac Addington, Alexander Beck, and James Brown west. — W.H.W.] H. 43. Henry Pease. [Lamb places Pease's lot on the marsh at the point, crossing the end of the causeway which led over the mill-pond. — W.H.W.] H. 44. Thomas Oliver. [His lot No. 2, being one acre and a half, with R. Fairbanks south, the marsh west, R. Carter south, as the description reads. — "W.II.W.] H. 45. Richard Carter. [Apparently, but the lot is not re- corded. — W. II. W.] H. 46. James Brown. [His lot No. 3, being half an acre in the New Field with R. Fairbanks north, J. Allington (or Adding- ton) east, A. Beck west, Thomas Clark south. — W.H.W.] H. 47. Alexander Beck. [His lot No. 2, being one acre in the New Held with Thomas Munt east, the water north, E. Gibbons south and west. — W.II.W.] H. 48. Isaac Addington. [This lot is necessitated by lots H. 42 and II. 40. It is not on record. — W.H.W.] H. 49. Thomas Clarke. [Not recorded, but mentioned in H. 46. — W.II.W. ] H. 50. Edward Gibbons. H. 51. Thomas Munt. [These two lots are necessary, but not well indicated. — W. H. W.] Map I, ok No. 9. (118) MAP I, OR NO. 9. COPP'S HILL, OR THE MILL FIELD. I. i. Christopher Stanley's pasture, which extended west to Salem street, and was defined on the other sides pretty nearly by Charter, Hanover, and Prince streets. He was a tailor, and left by will, 1646, the first bequest to the town for the support of schools. (See N. E. Hist, and Geneal. Reg., Jan. 1850, p. 52.) Stanley's widow, Susannah, married William Phillips, who con- firmed to her the house Stanley left her, " with the great pasture." {Register, Oct., 1851, p. 447.) A northerly part of this lot passed, in 1665, through Richard Dumer, to John Hull, the mint-master; and in 1683 he died, and his daughter Hannah and her husband, Judge Sewall, conveyed Hull street, in 1701-5, to the town. [The map line cuts off the southerly part of this pasture, which is shown on Map K, or No. 10. — W.H.W.] I. 2. Thomas Buttolph. [Apparently his fifth lot (see B. of P., p. 42), " about half an acre, bounded with the causeway north- east, William Cox (i.e. , Copp) north-west, the marsh south-west. He had other lands in Mill Field. (See Map K.) — W.H. W.] I. 3. William Copp, shoemaker. A small cove made in south of him, with marsh stretching farther east. In his will, in 1669, he calls himself sick and weak ; a cordwainer by occupation ; and he leaves the enjoyment of the house to his wife, " Goodcleth." In his inventory his house, out-houses, orchard, garden, and land about the house are valued at £80. (See also Sewall Papers, ii., 408.) Not far from this point, and taking part of the property of the Gas Company, early in the next century Joshua Gee had a ship-yard, and he owned adjacent lands, which fell, in 1724, to his son Ebenezer (d. 1730), and finally wholly to Rev. Joshua Gee, who died in 1748, when the estate was divided according to a docu- ment which " Gleaner" calls one of the most important in the Probate Office. [He had a house and half an acre in the Mill field, with the marsh south-west, Thomas Buttolph south-east, the river north- west, John Button north-east. Hence he had the corner lot. — W.H.W.] I. 4. John Button. [One acre, with Charles river north, the marsh south-west, John Shaw north-east and south-east. — W.H.W.] I.5. John Shaw, who seems to have surrounded the wind-mill lot. There was a bluff here above the beach where the way run. [His name is not among the possessors, but figures in the above description of Button's abutters. — W.H. W.] 120 City Document No. 46. — Part 2. I. 6. The wind-mill lot. I. 7. Valentine Hill. Here, at Hudson's Point, was the ferry to Charlestown, and Francis Hudson, the ferryman, was allowed to wharf out here in 1652 "before his ground;" and Thomas Broughton had a like privilege hereabout the same year ; and when this privilege was continued a year later, the expression is "to wharf or make a barrocadd before his land at Center Haven." Southerly from this point, on the brow of the hill, the town pur- chased of John Baker and Daniel Turrell, in 1659, the beginning of the present Copp's Hill Burying-ground, and in 1711 added a part of Judge Sewall's pasture, to the south-west. (Shurtleff, Desc. of Boston, p. 199; Gleaner Articles, No. 14.) Hull street adjacent was not paved till 1735, when Edward Pell and other abutters petitioned for leave to pave it. I. 8. Nicholas Parker, 2 acres ; allowed to wharf out in 1651. He had built a house here before 1646, when a footway was laid out from it through the gardens to the ' ' mill lane or street ; " and along the shore, in 1650, " a way of a rod broad" was laid out from the battery to the ferry. Well in from the shore in this lot, after Salem and Charter streets were laid out, on the westerly corner of them, there was a brick house which Daniel Turrell and Samuel Wakefield, with their wives, sold to Lady Phips in November, 1687. Only a few days before Sewall records that news had come of her husband being dubbed Sir William Phips at Windsor Castle. The Governor later added to the estate from adjacent lots. [Parker had V. Hill north-west, the water north-east, T. But- tolph south-west and south-east. — W.H.W.] Mai- K, or No. 10. (122) MAP K, OR NO. 10. THE SOUTH-EASTERLY PART OF COPP'S HILL, FOLLOWING THE LINE OF NORTH AND COMMERCIAL STREETS. K. 00. The remainder of Christopher Stanley's lot. I. 1. K. 0. The remainder of Nicholas Parker's lot. I. 8. K. i. Thomas Buttolph. [Apparently his lots Nos. 3 and 4, of 44 acres in the Mill-field, with the Bay north-east, N. Parker and V. Hill north-west, C. Stanley south ; also one acre compassed by Stanley's ground. — W.H.W.] Christopher Stanley in 1644 was allowed to wharf near Winnis- simet ferry. Along this water front there were various ship-yards established later in the colonial and in the early provincial period. They appear in Bonner's map in 1722. Captain William Green- ough's yard was nearly opposite this lot. K. 2. Edward (or Edwin) Goodwin. [House and half an acre, the Bay north-east, J. Sweet south-east, T. Buttolph north- west and south-west. — W.H.W.] K. 3. John Sweet. [House and 1£ acres, with E. Goodwin north-west, the Bay north-east, I. Grosse south-east, anclC. Stanley south-west. Lamb's map makes Sweet's lot form two sides of a square enclosing Meny, Grosse, and Seabury, the water making the two other sides. This seems necessitated by the description of Grosse's two lots, which see K. 7. — W.H.W.] John Sweet seems to connect in the rear with his other lot. Perhaps this was the lot Governor Bellingham was permitted to wharf before, in 1648, "if it did not prejudice the battery," when it was described as between Merry and William Winbourne ; and somewhere near was a house which Sampson Shore sold to Chris- topher Lawson in 1646, when he wharfed out before it. K. 4. Isaac Grosse. [Apparently his third lot, with the Bay east, John Sweet north, John Seaberry south, Walter Merry west. — W.H.W.] K. 5. John Seabury. [House and garden, about half an acre, with Isaac Grosse north-west, the Bay north-east, W. Merry south- east and south-west. Winsor sa^ys this was first Merry's land, bought by Seabury in 1639, and then sold " successively to John Wilson and Alexander Adams in 1645, who was allowed, in 1646, to wharf out, maintaining along the shore a highwa}' - for a cart." — W.H.W.] K. 6. Walter Merry, £ acre, who built " a roof over the highway on the sea-bancke " to the annoyance of the selectmen ; and when Hanover street was extended in his rear, in 1644, he was allowed the cost of fencing on that side. He was ordered to keep a high- 124 City Document No. 46. — Part 2. way open on the shore sixteen feet broad, in 1646, and sold the property the same year to William Douglass, who in turn sold it to Henry Brown, mariner, in 1648, with what is called Anker's shop. The North Battery was built out here in 1646, and repaired in 1656. K. 7. Isaac Grosse. [His second lot, the Bay and John Sweet north, W. Beamsley south, the way west. Perhaps there was a little bend or cove here, as otherwise we should call the Bay east. Although Lamb's map makes a way from Savage's corner east to Sweet's lot, none of the six owners between bound westerly on a way except Gross ; but, curiously, nearly all omit the west bounds. — W.H.W.] In the provincial period not far from this spot stood the Saluta- tion Inn, which gave a name to an alley running by it, connecting Hanover with North street. John Brooking owned it, and his widow sold it, in 1692, to Sir William Phips. (Sewall Papers, i., 222.) John Scollay, hiring of Lady Phips in 1697, kept it. Samuel Green was the host in 1731. It became famous later, when William Campbell kept it, in 1773, and it was a rallying-place for the patriots. K. 8. William Beamsley. [House and house-lot of about half an acre, the Bay east, I. Grosse north and north-west, Anne Tuttle south and south-west. — W.H.W.] K. 9. Anne Tuttle. [House and garden, with W. Beamsley north, N. Bourne south, the Bay east, and — (probably the west bound was left for farther search). — W.H.W.] It was on the rear of this lot, on the lower corner of the present Clark and Hanover streets, that the New North Church was built in 1714, — a small wooden building, enlarged in 1730, and giving place to the present edifice in 1802. The land was then bought of Colonel Thomas Hutchinson for £455. K. 10. Nehemiah Bourne, shipwright, who built here, in 1641, the " Trial," the first large vessel built in Boston. John Richards was using this yard in 1688. Bourne had come over in 1638 ; pre- viously living at Charlestown and Dorchester, had come to Boston in 1641. The "Trial" made her first voyage to the Azores and West Indies under the command of Thomas Coitmore. On her next voyage, to Bilboa and Malaga, she was commanded by Thomas Graves, and returned to Boston, March 23, 1643-44. Bourne went again to England, and served as major of a regiment in the Parliamentary army ; but was once more in Boston in 1645, returning to England the next year, and became rear-admiral in the Parliament's navy. There is an account of Bourne in N. E. Hist, and Geneal. Iieg., Jan., 1873. [His house and garden had Capt. Hawkins south, the Bay east, Anne Tuttle north, " and on the north — ," which last entry I sur- mise was for north-west or west, and never filled out. — W. H.W.J K. 11. Capt. Thomas Hawkins. [Apparently the lot sold him by Edward Bendall, 30th, llmo., 1650. If so, it began 40 feet north from the lot that was R. Thompson's, and so to N. Bourne's, running with Bourne's pales from the sea on the east to C. Stan- ley's rails on the west, the south line being parallel. — W.H.W.] Appendix. 125 Hawkins is supposed to have built the house, which became later the " Ship Tavern," which stood till 1866. John Vyal kept it in 1663, and it is associated with some stirring events. Hawkins's ship-yard was on the opposite water front, and he built here, as early as 1645, the ship " Seafort," of four hundred tons. Haw- kins's inventory is given in A. E. Hist, and Genecd. Beg., Oct., 1855, p. 343. K. 12. Edward Bendall. [His third lot, with the Bay east, Capt. Hawkins north, and Lieut. Savage south. — W.H.W.] Edward Bendall sold to Anchor Ainsworth, and subsequent owners were Joseph Phippeni, 1647, George Mitchell, John Baker. Baker's will is in A. E. Hist, and Geneal. Beg., April, 1861, p. 124. The way along the shore from the dock to Gallop's Point had been laid out "as it is begun" in 1643, and in 1650 it appears that " the wa} r formerly granted of a rod in breadth from Gallop's Point to the Battery, being interrupted by Mrs. Hawkins her house, it shall turn up from the water side through Mrs. Hawkins her gar- den, and soe by Mr. Winthrop's house, between Major Borne 's house and his garden, before Mr. Holiok's, to the Battery," — marking some changes in ownership. K. 13. Thomas Savage. [House and garden, with the Bay east, C. Stanley west, E. Bendall north, and the lane south. This lane became Bennet street, and Scarlet's wharf was at its easterly end. — W.H.W.] This, or another house on the spot, became, later, the "King's Head Tavern," which was burned in 1691, and rebuilt. Drake says that James Davenport kept it in 1755, and his widow in 1758 ; but in 1754, Davenport, who had kept the " Globe Tavern," peti- tioned to keep the " Bunch of Grapes," formerly known as " Castle Tavern," near Scarlet's Wharf, which had been a licensed house for forty or fifty years. There is an account of Davenport in A. E. Hist, and Geneal. Beg., 1879, p. 31. A little way from Bennet street, on the northerby side (it is shown on Bonner's map), stood the North Grammar School, erected in 1713. Recompence Wads- worth was the first master ; and there is on the files of the city clerk an interesting testimonial to his fidelhy, signed by Increase Mather and other ministers of the town. K. 14. Edmund Grosse. His will, 1655, is given in A. E. Hist, and Geneal. Beg., July, 1858, p. 273. He sold the lot to John Anderson, shipwright, in 1647. It seems to have been on this lot that Judge Edward Hutchinson later built him a house, which, late in the eighteenth century, became the "North End Coffee House." It was opposite this point that the principal wharf of the North End was later built, known first as Clark's Wharf, and subsequently as Hancock's, — Thomas Hancock being the principal proprietor. [House lot, with the lane north, I. Cole south, I. Cullimer west, the Bay east. — W.H.W.] K. 15. Samuel Cole, house and garden; sold, in 1645, to George Halsall, who, in 1646, had liberty " to set down a causey ten foot square, from his wharfe to low-watter marke, and that passingers shall come and goe free to it ; " and shortly after he was permitted " to im ploy a passag boatt betweene his wharfe and 126 City Document No. 46. — Part 2. the ships wher the ships rid, and is to take a penny for each per- son." K. 16. Isaac Cullimer had two lots, the other being K. 21. [I cannot reconcile myself to Lamb's method of marking out these lots with the two of Thomas Joy, and one each of Richard Raw- lins and Thomas Clark. Without clear proof, I must doubt that these six lots were cut into such extremely irregular forms, when a much simpler arrangement will answer. Cullimer's east lot (No. 2 of his Possessions), according to the Book, has the bay south-east, C. Stanley north-west, Stanley, S. Cole, and the way north-east, Clark and R. Rawlins south-west. Here I suspect a mistake of " Rawlins " for " Thomas Joy." For Rawlins' lot (K. 18) has Joy (not Cullimer) on the north-east, and Joy's lot (K. 17) has Rawlins south-west and Cullimer north-east. Is it not probable that the perambulator overlooked Joy's strip, which inter- vened between Cullimer and Rawlins? — W.H.W.] K. 17. Thomas Joy. [His second lot, of one acre, bounds with C. Stanley north-west, I. Cullimer north-east, R. Rawlins south-west, Mr. Clarke south-east. — W.H.W.] Upon this lot William Clark (see the account of his fanrny in N. E. Hist, and Geneal. Reg., 1879, pp. 19, 226), a prominent merchant of the provincial period, well known in public affairs, and not always fortunate in his private ventures, built and lived in a house which became famous. It stood fronting the square, very nearly where Prince street now comes into it, on the easterly cor- ner. It was next the residence of Sir Charles Henry Frankland, the royal collector of customs. Further to the east, and occupy- ing the space intervening between the converging streets, was the estate on which Thomas Hutchinson, about 1710, erected, with its front on Garden court leading from the square, the sump- tuous house in which the son, Governor Thomas Hutchinson, was born and lived. See Col. Henry Lee's paper on these and other old houses hei'eabouts, in Mass. Hist. Soc. Proceedings, Feb., 1881. A view of the Hutchinson house is given in the American Magazine, Vol. ii. K. 18. Richard Rawlins. [House and garden of l£ acres, with C. Stanley north-west, T. Joy north-east, Clarke south-east, I. Cullimer south-west (i.e., Cullimer's west lot, K. 21). — W.H.W.] Richard Rawlins, plasterer, probably bought of Peter Johnson, the Dutchman, in 1638 ; and when Hanover street was extended, in 1644, it took a part of his corn-field behind his house, for which he was compensated. These had lands hereabout later : Thomas Clark, Mark Hands, Henry Lampray, Edward Breck, William Burnell, Henry Paine, George Dell, Thomas Ryder, — some of them doubtless sharing in the breaking up of Stanley's pasture. K. 19. Thomas Clarke. [Warehouse and house lot. T. Joy north-west, I. Cullimer west (i.e., K. 21), I. Cullimer north-east (i.e., K. 16), and the Cove and T. Joy south (i.e., Joy's lot No. 1 , K. 20). — W.H.W.] Thomas Clarke is called of Dorchester, merchant, when in 1644 he granted a part of his land to Christopher Stanley, which part is Appendix. 127 perhaps the identical " p'cell of land lying neere to the water side," which Stanley named in his will, two years later, as a bequest, " for the maintenance of the free schoole," and which the town in 1649 sold to William Phillips, in consideration of 13s. 4cZ. " per annum forever, to the use of the schole." This Thomas Clarke was a prominent merchant, and his inventory, in 1078, shows various estates in Boston. His shop goods are appraised at £756 ; the house where Elizabeth Stevens lives, £300 ; the one Mr. Woodmansy lived in, £150 ; orchard behind it, £100 ; land at lower end of the Common, £70 ; the house occupied- by his son-in-law, Thomas Baker, £75 ; the house Edward Shippen lives in, £700. K. 20. Thomas Joy. [One house and lot of about half an acre, and another house adjoining, with the Cove south-west, Thomas Clarke north-west, north-east, and south-east. Evidently just at the bend of the Cove. — W.H.W.] Thomas Joy, carpenter, is called of Hingham, when, in 1648, he bonded this estate to Major Savage, with its house, " near the new meeting-house in Boston." This second church is usually con- sidered as built two 3 r ears later, in 1650 ; and in this last year a committee was appointed ' ' to lay out the high wayes by the new meetinge house." Mention is made of his cellar a by the water side," in 1642 ; and in 1644, when it is said to be in the highway. Perhaps this became the new house which, in 1647, he sold to Bozoone Allen, of Hingham, with adjoining wharf. Allen calls himself of Boston in his will, 1652. (N. E. Hist, and Geneal. Meg., July, 1851, p. 299.) Joy built the town-house, and in the final settlement in January, 1661, he received £680. K. 21. Isaac Cullimer. [Evidently his first lot, with C. Stanley north-west, the Cove south-east, R. Rawlins north-ea^,t, F. Hudson and B. Pasmer south-west. It will be noticed that Stanley makes the north-west boundary of Cullimer, Rawlins, Joy, and Cullimer. This was undoubted^ the line of the street, but whether at that date it was more than a cart-track does not appear. F. Hudson, the next westerly owner on the shore, bounds north-west on Wm. Hudson, who here joins Stanley. — W.H.W.] K. 22. Bartholomew Passmore. [House and garden of about a quarter of an acre, with Francis Hudson north-west, the Cove south-east, I. Cullimer north-east, J. Gallop south-west. — W.H.W.] Passmore sold to John Sweet in 1650. It was here, on the corner of North and Richmond streets, that Nicholas Upsall kept the Red Lion Inn, and close here the devastating fire of Nov. 27, 1676, broke out in one Wakefield's house. Upsall's will is given in N. E. Hist, and Geneal. Reg., July, 1861, p. 251 ; and an ac- count of him in Reg., January, 1880. K. 23. Francis Hudson. [House and garden of about half an acre, with William Hudson, Sr., north-west, I. Cullimer north-east, B. Passmore south-east, J. Gallop south-west. — W.H.W.] K. 24. John Gallop was fined in 1636 for obstructing the high- way on the sea-bank with his " payles ;" allowed to wharf out in 1643 ; after his death, his widow Mehitabel, in 1649, conve} r ed a part of it to John Synderland. He signed his will (printed in 128 City Document No. 46. — Part 2. N. E. Hist, and Geneal. Reg., July, 1853, p. 227) by his mark. About on the line of this estate, a passage from the water front to the present Hanover street was opened, and in Bonner's map, 1722, is marked as Wood lane, the modern Richmond street. Near the present northerly corner on Hanover street, the New Brick Church was built in 1721, and stood till it was rebuilt in 1845. [Gallop had "the way" north-west. —W.H.W.] K. 25. Matthew Chaffle, ship-carpenter, house and garden ; sold in part to John Capen, of Dorchester, in 1649. Charlie's lot ex- tended back to what was the end of Hanover street in 1(543, when it was ordered that the way be continued further, two rods broad, " from the west corner of Matthew Chafeth's garden unto the little howse by the swamp," which Christopher Stanley had just bought of the town, " and from thence to the windmill as directly as the land will beare." [Chaffle had Sampson Shoare south-west, and Thomas Meekins north-west. — W.H.W.] K. 26. William Hudson, Sr., 5 acres ; sold to Thomas But- tolph, who again, in 1646, sold to Christopher Lawson, and Law- son sold it in part to William Phillips, who granted his purchase to his wife Susan for life ; and the rest was broken up into small lots, Richard Bennett and others holding it. K. 27. Thomas Meekins. [Mentioned as an owner in Chaffle's record, but there seems to be no farther description. — W.H.W.] Thomas Meekins hereabout. Beer lane was later cut through this region, and in 1735 Samuel Turrell and other abutters peti- tioned to have it paved. It is the present Parmenter street. INDEX. A. Abbott, 95. Adams, 5, 70, 77, 123. Addington, 23, 116. Ainsworth, 21, 41, 125. Albany, 99. Albion, The, 69. Albion Building, 75. Alcock, 33. Allen, 81, 95, 116, 127. Alline, SO, 107. Allington, 15, 116. Allison, 45. Allistre, 40, 90. Amory, 65, 69, 80, 97. Anchor, 41, 46. Ankor, 41. Anderson, 9, 12, 42, 125. Andros, 15, 93. Angier, 14, 83. Anker, 124. Arnold, 8, 63, 91. fAspinwal, 1. J Aspinwall, 2, 5, 6, 8, 12, 13, 14, 16, 17, 19, 1 20, 21, 23, 24, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 33, 35, I 37, 42, 45, 46, 47, 78, 83, 84, 89, 104. Astwood, 28. Atkinson, 77, 83. Aubrey, 90. Azores, The, 124. B. Back Bay, 61. t Bailey, 95. ) Bayley, 102. Baker, 46, 47, 63, 107, 120, 125, 127. I Balston, 64, 96, 107. ( Baulston, 17. Bannister, 71. Bannister's Garden, 71. Barker, 30, 100. Barlow, 11. Barrell, 18, 19, 93. Bartol, 116. Baster, 46. Bateman, 35, 87. Bates, 13, 18, 23, 79,93. Battery, 125. Baulston, see Balston. Baxter, 38, 77. Bay, The, 1, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 15, 21, 22, 29, 34, 37, 38, 46, 47, 64, 77, 123, 124, 125, 126. Bayley, see Bailey. Beach, The, 67. Beamont, 44. Beamsley, 7, 22,25, 31, 70, 71, 124. ( Beck, 14, 15, 23, 25, 97, 113, 115, 116. / Becke, 1. Beek, 14. ( Bel, 35. I Bell, 39, 80. Belchar, 38, 34. } Belcher, 33, 61, 63, 65, 100, 110. Bellingham, 1, 3, 9, 10, 12, 14, 16, 19, 20, 28, 39, 40, 44, 46, 61, 62, 69, 92, 96, 97, 112, 123. Bendall, 2, 3, 8, 13, 16, 20, 21, 22, 47, 48, 94, 97, 104, 106, 111, 124, 125. { Bennet, 7, 16, 46. | Bennett, 128. Biggs, 1, 7, 14, 15, 25, 44, 46, 71, 96, 97, 115, 116. Bilboa, 124. Bill, 92. Billingham, 19. Billings, 95. I Bishop, 21, 28, 36, 41, 47, 76, 107, 109. I Bishopp, 36. Bishop Alley, 76, 80. Blackborne, 83. ( Blackston, 71. / Blackstone, 70, 76, 116. Blake, 95. ( Blantain, 65. ) Blantaine, 35, 37, 39, 80, 82. Blanton, 65. I Blot, 32. } Blott, 32, 85. Blue Anchor, 102. Blue Ball Estate, 109. Blue Bell, 107. Bomsted, 30, 47. Bonner, 70, 77, 87. Boone, 102. Borland, 95, 101, 109, 111. Borraan, 95. Borne, 125. Boston Common, 59, 67. Courier, 71. Museum, 99. Neck, 16. Theatre, 79. Bosworth, 5, 7, 13, 15, 23, 25, 28, 29, 30, 31, 70, 71, 84, 85,91. Bourne, 7, 8, 34, 61, 87, 124. Boutineau, 76. Bowditch, 69,' 112. Bowdoin, 70, 112. Bowen, 19, 35, 87. Boyce, 95. Boylston, 95. ( Bracket, 70. ( Brackett, 24. Bradstreet, 91. Braintree, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 15, 18, 19, 21, 29, 31, 61,86. Brattle, 96. , Brazier's Building, 98. Breck, 126. Bridge, The, 90, 91, 107. Little, 91. Mill, 90. Swing, 95, 106. Bridgham, 26, 27, 83, 101. Brightman's Pasture, 80. Brimmer, 112. j Brisco, 33, 34, 35, 62, 63, 65. ) Briscoe, 63, 65. Bristol, 76. Bromer, 80. Bromfield, 63, 83, 95. House, 83. Bromsdon, 95. Brooking, 124. Brooks, 95. 130 City Document No. 46. — Part 2. Broughton, 120. I Brown, 5, 14, 43, 69, 77, 97, 116. I Browne, 1, 5, 9, 14, 23, 29, 3S, 43, 45. Bultinch, 113. Bui lard, 65. Bumstead, 103. Burden, 3, 4, 7, 13, 17, 18, 21, 23, 32, 34, 85, 86, 93, 94, 115, 116. Burgiss, 71. Burnani, 47. Burnell, 126. Burnet, 85. Burying Ground, The, 75. Copp's Hill, 120. Place, The, 20, 25, 69. Granary, 84. King's Chapel, 99. Busbie, 40, 83. Bushwell, 17, 20. fButtall, 67. I Buttolfe, 65. { Buttolph, 2, 5, 14, 15, 22, 25, 28, 33, 35, 39, I 44, 46, 72, 86, 87, 91, 96, 97, 115, 119, 120, I 123, 128. Button, 5, 15, 18, 19, 45, 47, 91, 93, 119. Byles, 65. Bynner, 89. c. Calef, 101. Cambridge, 2, 35, 64, 70, 103. Campbell, 124. Capen, 128. Carter, 4, 14, 32, 33, 42, 44, 86, 116. Cary, 109. Castle Island, 38. ( Causeway, The, 16. j Cawsev, The, 15. Cedar Swamp, 7, 25, 30, 33. Center tlaven, 120. Chafeth, 128. ( Chafl'e, 11. ] Chaffie, 5, 11, 12, 89, 123. ( Chaffy, 5, {Chamberlain, 86. Chamberlaine, 42, 44. Chamberlin, 86. Chamberlyn, 92. Chambers, 116. Change Avenue, 104, 106. Channing, 79. Chaplaine, 33. I Chappel,31, 70, 110. ) Chappell, 11, 12, 70, 86. Chark'stown, 15, 16, 28, 80, 91, 98, 103, 120, 124. Checkley, 95. Cheever, 8, 75, 91. Church, 80. Church of Boston, 59. Brattle square, 109. Brattle St., 98. First, 69, 75,80,81, 112. French, 82. Green, 78. Manifesto, 96. Mount Vernon, 111, 113. New Brick, 128. " North, 1J4. " South, 78. of the Saviour, 80. Old South, 75. Bark St., 84. Second, H:i. " Baptist, 91. Third, 75. Trinity, 80. West, no. City Hall, 05. Clapton, 101. f Clark, 10, 15, 16, 46,65, 111, 116, 126. J Clarke, 7, 9, 10, n, 12, 10, 17, 22, 25, 31, 1 32, 43, 44, 59, 63, 65, 71, 72, 85, 89, 116, I 120, 127. Clerk, 5. Clough, 63. Coales, 29. Coal's Garden, 87. Coddington, 96. Coffiu, 69, 95, 100. ) Cogan, 69, 75, 103, 106. / Coggan, 1, 3, 5, 7, 19, 41, 69. Coitmore, 103, 124. fColborn, 59, 61, 65. I Colborne, 26, 33, 34, 63, 64, 65. J Colbourne, 23, 65. ) Colbron,61, 62, 65. Coleborne,33, 65, 86. (^Colcburne, 63. Cole, 5, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 28, 35, 87, 94, 106, 110, 111,125,126. Colman, 95. Colson, 95. " Stone House, 96. fCommon, The, 2, 23, 32, 33, 34, 59, 61, 62, J 63, 64, 65, 67, 69, 70, 76, 83, 84, 85, 86, 127. 1 Comon, The, 2, 6, 7, 14, 17, 24, 25, 28, 29, L 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 37, 42, 44. Common landing place, 94. Comon Rocky, 5, 29. Compton, 26, 27, 107. Conduit, 92. Coney, 110. ( Cook, 19, 64, 84, 115. \ Cooke, 9, 13, 15, 19, 22, 23, 29, 30, 31, 42, 72, ( 75, 83, 84, 85, 115. Cooper, 109. Copley, 71, 81. Copp, 5, 91, 119. Cornell, 86, 96. I Cornewell, 17. / Cornwell, 96. Cornhill, 97, 98, 111. Cornish, 65. Corser, 24, 92, 102, 106. Cosin, 43. Cosser, 102. Costin, 81. Cotton, 1, 3, 21, 97, 111, 112. County Court, 59. County of Essex, 11. County of Suffolk, 64. Courser, 3, 4, 24, 106. Court General], 22. Square, 98. Cove, The, 1, 2, 3, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 14, 15, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 26, 27, 34, 38,40,42, 43,44, 45, 77, 78, 85, 87, 8'.), 91, 92, 93, 94, 101, 103, 104, 106, 107, 113, 115, 118, 126, 127. Fisher's, 1. Great, 47. Mylne, 89. South, 77. Cowell, 81. Cox, 15, 91, 119. Craden, 85. Cradock, 69, 85, 97. Craneh, 83. Cranwell,33, 34, 63,64. Creek Great, 59. Mill, 4, 10, 20, 45, 89, 90, 93, 101. Creeke, The, 10, 77, 101. I Critchley, 26, 97. J Croychely, 20, .;4. I Croychley, 26, 64, 65, 97. [Crychley, 25. Crosse, 34. Crown Coffee House, 104. Cuddington, 35, 86, 87. Cullimer, 9, 10, 11, 10, 125, 126, 127. Cullimorc, 6. Gushing, 95. Custom-house, 104. Index. 131 D. Dane, 2, 12. Danforth, 112. Dasset, 116. Davenport, 112,125. Davies, 4, 5, 6, 7, 22, 23, 29, 30, 35, 39, 46, 65, 77, 80, 91, 98, 100, 101, 103, 104, 109, 110, 115. Davis, 15, 72, S3, 86, 112, 116. Deane, 112. Deblois, 69,97. Dedhani, 2, 33. Dell, 126. Deming, 26, 37, 78, 79. Dennis, 29, 30, 31, 40, 42, 71, 83, 93. Devotion, 34. Dirges, 7. I Dineley, 26. I Dinely, 64, 65, 97, 98. Dinsdale, 27, 76. Ditch, The, 3. Dock, 3, 19, 39, 94, 106. Dock Square, 96, 104, 106. Dorchester, 16, 89, 93, 109, 111, 124, 126, 128. Doty, 86. I Douglas, 45, 46. / Douglass, 109, 124. Dover, 31, 98, 112. Downe, 63. Downing, 17. Dowse, 3, 18, 92, 94. Drake, 65, 86, 97, 98, 100, 101, 102, 109, 110, 111,125. Drawbridge, The, 92. Drown, 116. Drowno, 83, 116. Drury, 107. Dudley, 82. I Dumer, 119. j Dummer, 100. Duncan, 102. D mister, 3,15,96. Dunton, 102. E. East, 22, 36, 70, 81. I Eaten, 22. ) Eaton, 25, 30, 36, 45, 70, 81. Edes, 95, 97. Eldred, 47. Eliot, 22, 25, 26, 33, 34, 59, 63, 64, 65, 69. Emmanuel College, 70. I Endicot, 43. } Endicott, 93, 111. England, 70, 83, 104, 124. Eimles, 37, 79. _ English, 82. Erving, 69, 112. Essex County, 11. Eveans, 14. Evered, 1. ( Everell, 9. \ Everill, 6, 9, 14, 18, 19, 24, 28, 31, 32, 45, ( 71, 92, 93, 94, 104, 110. Exchange Building, 100. F. ( Fairbank, 116. } Fairbanks, 76, 77, 79, 83, 84, 85, 102, 115. ( Fairebanks, 3, 4, 15, 17, 23, 27, 28, 29. Fane, 3, 13, 35, 113. Faneuil, 76, 98, 104, 112. Farnham, 6. Faulconer, 5. Fawer, 44, 89. Fayerweathcr, 69, 95. Ferry, The, 91. Field Ccntry, 30, 72. Fort, 23, 77. Mill, 5, 7, 16, 18, 28, 39, 46, 119, 123. Milne, 15. New, 3, 4, 7, 13, 14, 15, 17, 13, 20, 22, 23, 25, 28, 29, 30, 31, 46, 69, 70, 71, 72,82,91,113,114,115,116. Fippennvs, 43. Fish, 6, V, 91. Fisher, 61. Fish shop, 95. Fitch, 63. I Flack, 61, 63, 65. \ Flackc, 32, 33, 63. Flats, 104. Fleet, 102. Fletcher, 28, 36, 37, 40, 43, 45, 47, 76, 81, 111. Flint, 32, 85. Fort, The, 38, 77, 79, 107. Foster, 8, 38, 39, 43, 44, 63, 78, 81. Fowle, 2, 15, 33, 86, 87. Foxcroft, 20, 21, 106. Fox Hill, 64. fFrancklin, 43. Franckling, 43. < F'rancklyn, 43. I Franklin, 3, 14, 20, 76, 92, 94, 97, 103, 106, I 109. Frankland, 126. Franklin Avenue, 97. Frary, 63, 64, 65. Freeman Place, 69. Friend, 104. G. Gallop, 11, 12, 29, 127, 128. Gallop's Point, 125. Garcelon's Stable, 87. Garden, 86. Court, 126. Gas Company, 119. Gee 119. Gibbons, 78, 106, 110, 116. Gibones, 2, 3, 6, 14, 20, 106. Gibons,"2. Gibbs, 77, 95. Wharf, 77. Gibson, 5. Gill, 95, 97. ( Gillam, 78, 79. ( Gillom, 26, 27, 37, 107. Glover, 3, 17, 94. Goelet's Journal, 100. Goodwin, 5, 6, 123. Gooch, 104. Gore, 11. Goultrop, 19. Gover, 4. Granary Burying Ground, 74, 84, 94. Graves, 124. Gray, 77. Grcames, 3, 17, 94. ( Green, 75, 95, 104, 110, 124. \ Greene, The, 27, 101, 112. Greenough, 123, Gridley, 22, 24, 33, 37, 3S, 77. Griggs, 8, 35, 39, 43, 61, 80, 81. Grose, 41, 112. Gross, 124. Grosse, 6, 7, 9, 22, 104, 106, 123, 124, 125. Grubb, 7, 25, 29, 30, 83, 85. Gullison, 96. Gunnison, 3, 17, 94, 96. H. I Hailestone, 40. j Hailstone, 43, 81. Haley, 112. Hall, Bridgman,95. City, 75, 95, 99 Concert, 97. Faneuil, 83. Memorial, 81. 132 City Document No. 46. — Part 2. Halsall, 42, 125. Hammond, 112. Hancock, 95, 98, 100, 106, 125. Hands, 126. Hannas, 95. Hanset, 41. Hansett, 41, 76. I Harkar, 85. ) Barker, 7, 32, 85. Harris, 112. Harrison, 37, 38, 77. Harrison Ave., 87. I Harvard, 94, 95, 101. ( Harvard College, 81. Harwood, 21. Hassam, 71, 75, 94, 96, 107. Haugh, 2, 27, 29, 30, 38, 44, 85, 101. Hawes, 6. Hawghton, 12. Hawkins, 3, 7, 8, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 19, 21, 25, 44, 47, 90, 91, 96, 97, 109, 113, 114, 124, 125. Hayward, 28, 92. Henchman, 75, 98, 102, 111. Henshaw, 100. Heraldic Journal, 81. ( Hibbens, 23, 77, 101. \ Hibbins, 2, 22, 25, 26, 27, 32, 34, 35, 43, 44, ( 59, 76, 101, 107. Highway, The, 1, 3, 4, 8,9, 10, 11, 12, 15, 16, 19, 21, 22, 23, 34, 40, 43, 45, 47, 59, 63, 67, 79, 81, 87, 89, 90, 100, 104, 110, 123, 127. Highway Cross, 110. Old, 91. Hill, 1, 4, 6, 7, 9,10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 20, 21, 22, 24, 25, 28, 29, 31, 39, 41, 44, 45, 46, 47, 72, 89, 90, 91, 92, 96, 97, 98, 104, 106, 107, 112, 115, 116, 120, 123. Hill Beacon, 99, 112. Bunker, 116. Centry, 3. Copp's, 119, 123. Cotton, 96. Fort, 22, 27, 59, 77, 107. Fox, 64, 67, Mil, 16. Hill Mill, 91. Hingham, 127. j Hogg, 22, 36, 37, 45, 80, 81, 82. / Hogge, 36. Hogg Island, 30. Holbrook, 100. J Holiok, 125. ) Holyoke, 78. Hollich, 37, 39, 80. | Hollick, 80. Hollidge, 80. Hollinghead, 80. Holloway, 87. Holmes, 100. Hough, 76, 82. Hough's Point, 116. House American, 110. Court, 98. Julien, 101. State, 102. Houtchin, 13, 18, 40, 93, 94, 111, 113. Hovey, 80. Howen, 4, 13, 18, 59, 112. Hubbard, 81, 95. Hudson, 3, 10, 11, 12, 13, 15, 17, 19, 22, 23, 28, 29, 36, 37, 42, 45, 70, 71, 72, 76, 78, 79, 80, 81, 86, 94, 97, 99, 100, 102, 120, 127, 128. Hudson's Point, 120. Hull, 8, 35, 36, 82, 91, 107, 111, 119. Hunne, 3, 4, 9, 18, 19, 40, 93, 113. Hunt, 19, 85. Hurd, 35, 36, 82. Hutchinson, 4, 15, 21, 25, 26, 27, 30, 75, 95, 96, 98, 99, 107, 124, 125, 126. I. Indian Queen Tavern, 83. Indians, George, 47. Indians, Great David, 47. Hawkins, 47. John, 47. Rouley, 47. Tommequin, 47. John Wampus, 86. Ingersoll, 100. Inn Orange Tree, 110. Red Lion, 127. Salutation, 124. Seven Star, 80. Starr, 91. Ipswich, SO, 101. I Irons, 77. j Iyons, 38, 77. J. Jacklin, 31, 37, 40, 42, 83, 84. Jackson, 4, 5, 7, 8, 13, 17, 19, 37, 41, 91, 95, 103, 110, 112, 115. f Jeffery, 95. ! Jeffrey, 112. ) Jeffries, 69. I Jeofifreys, 16. Jekyll, 111. I Jephson, 41. } Jepson, 41. Johnson, 6, 7, 15, 17, 29, 32, 71, 72, 85, 86, 91, 107, 109, 110, 113, 114, 126. Johonnot, 79, 81, 109. Jonies, 47. Jones, 47. Joy, 9, 10, 98, 126, 127. Joy's Building, 98. Joyliflfe, 101. Judkin, 19, 36, 82. K. {Keaine, 38. Keane, 44. Keayne, 3, 4, 76, 79, 99, 102. Keine, 23, 24, 27, 37. Kendrick, 76. Kenrick, 27, 28, 76, 79. Keuricke, 4. Kerr, 109. Kidby, 90. Kidder, 109. Kilby, 100. King's Chapel, 75. Kinrick, 91. Kinsley, 84. ( Kirby, 12, 13, 114. | Kirkby, 13, 69, 113, 114. Kittery, 96. Kneeland, 97. Knight, 3, 9, 10, 17, 41, 42, 90, 94. Knox, 102. L. Lake, 36, 39, 40, 45, 61, 82, 111. Lamb, 14, 59, 70, 84, 86, 87, SD, 91, 106, 113, 115, llfi, 123, 124, 126. Lampray, 126. Lane, Beer, 128. Belcher's, 77. Blind, 78. Bromfleld's, 83. Coney's, 89. Frog, 64. Gibbs, 77. Green, 115. Green Dragon, 109. Hudson's, 94. Joyliffe, 101. Long, 79. Mackerel, 100. Mill, 82, 120. Paddy's, 90. Index. 133 Lane, Pudding, 100. Rainsford's, 87. Rawson's, 83. Snow's, 61. Southack's, 111. Spring, 101, 102. Wilson's, 103. Wood, 128. Langdon, 47. Lawson, 15, 16, 21, 22, 39, 92, 123, 128. ( Leagcr, 65, 79. < Leaguer, 15. ( Leger, 2, 23, 31, 32, 33, 35, 61, 70, 86, 87. I Leatberland, 77. I Letherland, 38. Leblond, 112. Lee, 126. Leech, 42. {Leveret, 4. Leverett, 48, 64, 67, 76, 82, 85, 86, 90, 98, 99, 100, 101, 103, 106, 110, 113, 115. Leverit, 4, 5, 6, 7, 12, 14, 19, 20, 23, 24, 27, 32, 40. Leveritt, 11, 100. Leyer, 70. Liberty Square, 107. Liberty Tree, 87. Lillie, 65. Limehouse, 45. Lindall, 101. | Lippincot, 43. ( Lippincott, 81. Lloyd, 111. London, 40, 44, 64, 85, 98, 100, 111. Long, 21, 39. Long Acre, 84. Louisburg Square, 70. Lovell, 75. I Low, 10. } Lowe, 1, 14, 90, 92, 94. Lowes, 39. Loyall, 7, 29, 85. Ludkin, 40. Lugg, 23, 29, 84, 85. Lyall, 39. Lyde, 93. Lyle, 2, 30, 44, 71, 72, 83, 85. Lyman, 113. Lynde, 113, 116. Lynn, 100. M. Mainai'd, 19. Makepeace, 13, 18, 93, 98, 111. Malaga, 124. Mandesley, 92. Maner, 78. I Marion, 63. ) Maryon, 80. Market-place, 5, 23, 98, 99. ( Market-stead, 99. ) Market-steed, 7, 24, 41. Marrett, 64. Marshall, 3, 4, 9, 10, 36, 37, 41, 45, 80, 82, 90. Marsh Common, 1, 21. Marsh Rumney, 7, 28. Marsh, The, 3, 4, 5, 7, 10, 14, 15, 17, 18, 23, 26, 27, 34, 39, 43, 59, 64, 81, 87, 90, 92 , 101, 107, 115, 116, 119. Marsh, The, Mill-field, 3. Marsh, Towns, 92. Martin, 24. Maryon, see Marion. Mascarene, 75. Mason, 19, 23, 32, 85, 112. Massachusetts, 40. Mass. Collony, 48. Mather, 111, 125. ( Mattock, 90, 103. \ Mattocks, 44. ( Mattox, 44. Maud, 3, 29, 31, 42, 83, 84, 97, 112. ) Maude, 1, 3. Maudesley, 92. Mauer, 78. Maverick, 95. ( Meekins, 128. ( Mekins, 11. i Meeres, 4, 13, 26. I Meers, 21, 82, 112, 113, 114, 115, 116. Meeting-IIouse, 24, 25, 28, 79, 91, 98. Mein, 104. t Mellowes, 4, 5, 7, 9, 11, 15, 17, 19, 29, 115. | Mellows, 70, 110, 115. Merchant's Row, 92, 104, 106. Merry, 6, 22, 46, 123. j Messenger, 69, 99. / Messinger, 14, 25, 26. Metson, 31. Michell, 47. Middlecott, 112. Milland, 26. Millar, 95. Millard, 25, 29, 30, 31, 70, 71, 83, 85. Mill damme, 29. Mill lane, The, 36, 120. Millne, The, 3. Mill, The, 4, 20. ( Milom, 2, 4, 6, 9, 10, 11, 12, 20, 22, 42, 45, { 89, 90. ( Mylom, 89, 90. Mill Pond, 109, 110, 116. Mills, 2. Mill-streame, 4, 20. Mitchell, 125. Monck, 102. Monotacut, 19. Morse, 82, 98. Moss, 98. Mount, The, 6, 38. Mount Vernon Proprietors, 71. Mount Wollaston, 64. Mount Woollaston, 38, 44. Mumford, 96. Mun, 114. Munt, 8, 14, 38, 78, 115, 116. Myles, 69. Nannoy, 39, 40, 90, 92. | Nash, 2, 20, 21, 45, 90, 106, 110. i Nashe, 94. Negoos, 37, 38, 43, 78, 79. Netherland, 38. ( Newberry, 11. / Newbury, 11. New England, 11, 24, 25, 48, 90, 124, 125. New England Courant, 97. Newgate, 3, 13, 28, 40, 83, 106, 113. Newgrove, 46. New Hampshire, 98, 112. New meeting-house, 20, 127. New Mylne, 91. New State House, 99. New York, 100. Noddle's Island, 106. North Battery, The, 124. North End, 125. North End Coffee House, 125. Norton, 75. Nova Scotia, 75. ( Nowel, 43, / Nowell, 103. Noyes, 95. Nutter, 31. o. Odlin, 35, 87. Offley, 34, 87. Old Corner Book Store, 98. Old Feather Store, 92. Old Meeting House, 4, 23, 100. Old State House, 99 134 City Document No. 46. — Part 2. Oliver, 2, 3, 9, 11, 15, 21, 23, 24, 32, 37, 39, 41, 47, 59, 61, 63, 67, 76, 79, 82, 86, 90, 100, 101, 102, 104, 116. Olliver, 4. Oliver's Dock, 102. Ormsbie, 30. Otis, 98. Oxeubridge, 69. Oxnard, 84. P. Paddock, 84. Paddy, 90. Page, 41, 76. Paige, 79. Paine, 43, 126. Painter, 18, 19, 32, 40, 43, 45, 67, 85, 93. Palmer, 36, 37, 79, 80, 82. Palmer's Warehouse, 95. Palmes, 116. Parker. 4, 13, 15, 20, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 28, 30, 31, 33, 37, 39, 41, 42, 64, 70, 71, 76, 79, 84, 91, 98, 103, 113, 114. 120, 123. Parliamentary Army, 83. Parsons, 4, 23, 32, 101. Pasmer, 10, 11, 127. Passmore, 127. Pasture, Middlccott, 112. Sewall's, 120. Southack's, 111. Stanley's, 119, 126. The great, 119. Pease, 6, 14, 19, 23, 43, 110, 113, 115, 116. Peirce, see Pierce. Pell, 3, 27, 69, 76, 79, 120. Pelton, 34, 87. Pemberton, 95, 112. Pemberton Sq., 112. Pen, 4, 15, 23, 27, 28, 46, 69, 115. Penn, 59, 69, 76, 79, 107, 116. Pcnniman, 13. Pepes, 31, 32, 33. Pepperrell, 79. Pepys, 70, 71. Perry, 2, 23, 26, 27, 29, 30, 32, 40, 44, 47, 83, 84,85,90. Phear, 70. Phillips, 7. 16, 20, 43, 45, 46, 47, 89, 102, 103, 112, 119, 127, 128. ( Phippeni, 3, 11, 41, 46, 47, 125. / Phippeny, 90. Phips, 120, 124. I Pierce, 1, 9, 10,15, 21, 22,41, 42, 90,104,106. ( Peirce, 90. Pitts, 95. Place, Baldwin, 91. Chauncy, 80. Exchange, 100. Hamilton, 84. Rowe, 87. Platform, 95. Plat!, Gl. Plimley, 31. Point Windmill, 78. Pollard, 70. Pond, Mill, 2. Pond, The, 81. Pond. Wheeler's, 82. Pope, 29, 30, 31, 37, 42, 83. ( Pormort, 45. i Portmort, 19. Porter, 24, 28, 38, 77, 78, 92. Post Office, New, 102. Powell, 24. Preseott, 80. Prince, 75. Prison Garden, 25, 98. Prison Yard, 24, 25, 98. Prison, The, 26. Province House, 83, 85. Public Garden, 07. Granary, 84. ( Pullen poynt, 1, ) Pulling point, 15. Purton, 36, 37, 82. R. Rainsford,34, 87. Rand, 95. Randall, 95. Rashley, 41. Rawlins, 10, 16, 47, 126, 127. Rawson, 25, 43, 83, 95. j Reading, 35, S7. \ Readinge, 35. Reed, 112. I Reinolds, 21, 28, 36, 37, 41, 45. | Reynolds, 41, 76. Revere House, 113. Rhode Island, 70, 76, 98. Rice, 3, 27, 76, 79. Richards, 124. Richardson, 22, 36, 37, 45,79,80, 81, 82, 84, 107. Right, 95. River, Charles, 2, 18, 25, 119. Merrimack, 11. Monotacut, 19. Monotaquid, 7. Monotaquit, 5, 9, 15, 29. Monotoquit, 9. Muddy, 2, 7, 14, 18, 25, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35. Newbury, 11. The, 5, 7, 15, 16, 20, 23, 32, 46, 71, 116, 119. Roberts, 28. Robinson, 101. Rocke, 103. Rocky ground, 8, 9, 19, 29. Roe, 34, 64. Roarers Building, 98. ( Root, 64. ) Roote, 14, 30, 34, 64. Round Marsh, 64. Rowe, 64, SO, 87. Roxbury, 2, 41, 59, 62, 76, 91. Roxbury creek, 59. Roxbury gate, 59. Ruck, 1(3. ( Ruggle, 13, 28, 30, 31. / Ruggles, 40, 70, 71, 91. Ryder, 126. S. Sabine, 79. Salem, 17, 43, 104. ( Saltonstall, 17. ( Saltonstoll, 12. Salter, 20, 34, 64. Sanderson, 80. I Sanfford, 30. ) Sanford, 12, 13, 25, 69, 113, 114. Sargent, 98. ( Savadge, 8, 19, 29. \ Savage, 9, 16, 18, 19, 21, 29, 46, 92, 96, 98, ( 106, 124, 125, 127. School House, 75. School North Grammar, 125. Scollay, 100, 124. ScollaySquare, 111. < Scot, 23, 27, 28, 37. / Scott, 4, 22, 23, 37, 69, 76, 79, 100. Scotland, 109. Scotto, 1, 13, 11, 19. 25, 29, 30, 32. Scottow, 69, 70, 75, 90, 92, 97, 99, 112, 113, 114. Seudder, 98. Seabancke, The, 123. I Seabcrry, 6, 22, 123. ) Seabury, 46, 123. ( Search, 65. Serch, 35,65. Sear's Building, 98. Index. 135 < Sedgwick, 25, 98. j Sedgwicke, 25, 26, 34, 64. Selleck, 4, 39, 40. Sellick, 4, 21, 22, 31, 70, 89, 92, 104, 115. Sergeant, 83, 109. Sewall, 70, 78, 80, 82, 89, 95, 96, 110, 111, 112, 119, 120. Sewall's Diary, 82. ■ Shapley, 86. ( Shaw.lS, 19, 119. I Sbawe, 92. Sbawmut av., 65. Sheaffe, 103, 109, Sherman, 2, 27, 29, 31, 37, 42, 59, 70, 71, 76, 81, 101, 107. Shipper., 111, 127. Shirley, 97. I Shoare, 11, 12, 83, 128. j Shore, 5, 9, 12, 22, 77, 89, 123. Shrimpton, 40, 47, 69, 83, 96, 103. Shurtleff, 80, 83, 80, 91, 92, 96, 99, 100, 101, 103, 109, 120. Sibley, 94. Sinet, 2, 15, 35, 87. Small shops, 95. Smibert, 97. Smith, 2, 6, 7, 37, 42, 44, 48, 84, 86, 99, 104, 103, 110. Smyth, 107. | Snow, 33, 61, 62. I Snowe, 2. Snow's orchard, 61. Somersetshire, 101. Southack, 111. Souther, 24. South Wind-mill, 78. South Writing-School, 86. Sparhawk, 65. Speakman, 80. Spectacle Island, 33. ■Spring, The, 24. Spring, The great, 101. Sprinagate, The, 2, 4, 23. Spring-gate, 101, 102, 107. Spring House, 113. Spoone, 3. Spoore, 2, 16, 24, 27, 76, 77, 79, 83, 101, 107. Sauare, The, 126. Stanbury, 92. Stamford, 112, 116. ( Stanley, 1, 6, 8, 10, 14, 15, 16, 17, 39, 41, 96, \ 97, 119, 123, 124, 125, 126, 127, 128. ( Stanly, 10. Starbuck, 31. State House, 69, 98, 99, 102. States Arms, 96. Steel, S4. I Steevenson, 28, 41. ( Stevenson, 28, 37, 76, 92. Stevens, 127. Stillman, 17. Stoddard, 3, 20, 40, 81, 84, 103, 104, 106, 109. Stokes, 80. Stone, 103. Stoughton, 4, 40, 93, 109, 113, 115. Str.aine, 40, 47, 90. Stratton, 16. St. Andrew's Lodge, 109. Street, Batterymareh, 107. Beach, 87. Beacon, 69, 70, 71, 75, 91, 112. Bedford, 78, 81, 82, 86, 87. Bonnet, 65, 125. Bowdoin, 112. Boylston, 61, 62, 63, 64, 67, 86. Brattle, 97. Bromtield, 83. Buttolph, 72. Cambridge, 7 1, 72, 91, 111, 112, 113, 115. Castle, 59, Go. Centriehill, 14, 15. Centry Hill, 14, 96, 97. Chambers, 116. Chardon, 114. Street, Charles, 70, 119. Charter, 119, 120. Chauncy, 87. Clark, 124. Clough, 63. Commercial, 123. Congress, 100, 101. Court, 93, 96, 97, 99, 111. Cove, 3. Cross, 89. Devonshire, 99, 100, 101, 103. Dover, 59. Elm, 92, 93, 94. Esses, 86, 87. Exchange, 103. Exeter, 87. Federal, 79. J Fort, 77, 107. i Forrt, 2. Franklin, 79. Green, 113. Gridley, 77. Hancock, 72. Hanover, 89, 91, 92, 93, 97, 109, 110, 111, 115, 119, 123, 124, 126, 128. Harvard, 65. Hawley, 76, 78, 80. High, 78, 79. Hollis, 65. Holyoke, 63. Howard, 111. Hull, 119, 120. Hutchinson, 77. Kilby, 99, 100, 106. King, 104. Kingston, 81, 87. Leverett, 113, 115. Lindall, 100. Marshall, 90. Mason, 86. Milk, 75, 76, 77, 78, 81, 101. Mill, 120. Mt. Vernon, 70. Myrtle, 72. Newbury, 80. North, 92, 123, 124, 127. N. Centre, 90. Market, 92, 100. Russell, 116. Parmenter, 128. Pearl, 77. Pitts, 113. Pond, 81. Portland, 109, 110, 115. Prince, 119, 126. Purchase, 77. Richmond, 127, 128. Rowe, S7. Salem, 119, 120. School, 75, S2, 83, 84, 97, 99, 100. Short, 81. Somerset, 69, 112. South, 77, 78. S. Market, 106. Spruce, 70. State, 98, 99, 103, 104. Sudbury, 3, 4, 13, 14, 21, 40, 97, 110, 111, 113, 115. Summer, 76, 77, 78, 80, 82, 94. The Cove, 3. Fort, 37, 41, 76, 77. Fortt, 2. Great, 104. High, 2, 3, 19, 23, 26, 30, 33, 35, 36, 37, 40, 42, 43, 44, 45, 47, 61, 76, 82,83, 86. Long, 86. Main, 65. Market, 3. Mill, 8, 35, 37, 38, 78, 79, 82. Millne, 39. New, 40, 103. Water, 3,40, 101. Tremont, 02, 63, 65, 69, 75, 84, 85, 97. 136 City Document No. 46. — Part 2. Street, Union, 92, 109. "Washington, 61, 62, 63,65, 76, 81, S2, 84, 85, S6, 87, 92, 93, 96, 97, 98, 99, 100, 101,102, 103, 112. "Water, 99, 101, 102. "West, 82, 85, 86. "Winter, 84, 85. Sturgis, 69. Swamp, 128. Swan, 86. Swansea, 94. ( Sweet, 123, 124, 127. I Sweete, 5, 6, 11, 22, 29, 41, 46, 123. I Symonds, 14. I Symons, 1, 9, 10, 21, 39, 92. Synderland, 28, 29, 84, 85, 103, 127. ) Synderlant, 23. T. Tailer, 93. Talbott, 48. Talmage, 33, 34, 61, 63. Talmidge, 2. Tanton, 40. Tapping, 26, 27, 83, 97. Taunton, 81, 84. Tavern, Admiral Vernon, 104. Bunch of Grapes, 100, 125. Castle, 94, 107, 125. Cromwell's Head, 75. George, 94. Globe, 125. Green Dragon, 109. Indian Queen, 83. King's Arms, 96. King's Head, 125. Lamb, 86. Lion, 86. Royal Exchange, 103. Ship, 125. States Arms, 96, 104. Sun, 95. Teffe, 78. Teft, 8, 3S, 78. Thacher, 69. Thomas, 24, 92. I Thompson, 8, 80, 124. ) Tompson, 75. Thwing, 3, 13, 14, 40, 97. Ticknor, 80. Tilley, 106. Tincker, 102. f Ting, 11, 17,43,45,94. ' Tinge, 43, 94. Tyng, 2, 3, 13, 16, 17, 18, 21, 28, 90, 92, 94, 96, 104, 111. Tynge, 1, 24. Towne Records, 70, 91. Townsend, 31, 37, 40, 42, 69, 84. Town's way, The, 104. Toy, 19. Transcript, 71. Tremont Row, 111. Trotman, 91. Trott, 01. ( Truesdailc, 24. / Truesdale, 25, 28, 30, 70, 98. Turner, 13, 24, 25, 26, 27, 38, 44, 46, 69, 70, 76, 77, 78, 79, 96, 97, 102, 115, 116. Turrell, 120, 128. Tuttill, 80. Tuttle, 7, 8, 38, 39, 78, 124. Tyler, 95. u. Underhill, 93. Upsall, 127. Usher, 4,5, 41,61, 103, 112. Valley Acre, 111. Vane, 111. Vardy, 103. Vassall, 80, 81, 111, 112. Veazie, 63. Venner, 104. Vergoose, 85. Vernon's Head, 104. Vetch, 84. ( Viall, 81. ] Vyal, 125. ( Vyall, 39, 43. w. "Wainwright, 86. "Waite, 20, 28, 36, 37, 39, 47, 76, 79, 80, 81, 82, 100. "Wadsworth, 125. "Wakefield, 120, 127. "Walcott, 112. "Waldo, 106, 112. "Waldron, 63. "Walker, 17, 33, 34, 62, 63, 64, 65, 92. "Wall, HI. "Walley, 101. "Ward, 26, 27, 107. Wardwell, 110. Warehouse, 95. Warren, 110. "Washington, 75. "Washington Gardens, 86. Watch-house, 95. Water-line, The, 103, 110, 115. Water Mill, The, 10, 90, 91. Watring place, 35. Watters, 91. Way, The, 10, 12, 128. ( Waymouth,45. ( Weymouth, 90. Weatherhead, 100. f Web, 19. J Webb, 5, 7, 15, 17, 21, 23, 29, 32, 79, 85, 86. 1 94,100,101,102,104,106. (.Weebb, 4. Weekes, 16. ( Welles, 63. | Wells, 22, 89. Wendell, 85, 97. Werdall, 5, 9, 11, 15, 18,19, 29, 89. West Indies, 124. Wharfe, The, 42. Wharf, Clark's, 125. Wharf, Woodmancy's, 95. Wharf, Scarlet's, 125. Wheeler, 35, 81, 82. White, 36, 81. Whitman, 102. Whitmore, 96, 102, 111, 112. ( Wiborne, 45, 82. ( Wibourne, 45. Wicks, 6, 41. Wilkc.lOl. Wilkes, 112. Willard, 31. William, 7. Williams, 26, 39, 44, 70, 71, 75, 97. ( Willis, 18, 19, 44, 45, 93. ) Wyllis, 84. Willoughby, 84. 'Willson, 102. Wilson, 2, 3, 5, 7, 13, 14, 15, 18, 19, 20, 28, 30, 35, 41, 42, 69, 70, 71, 72, 78, 86, 91, 93, 97, 103, 106, 111,123. Winbourne, 123. Windmill, The, 30, 78, 79, 119, 120, 128. Windmill, Tuthill's, 79. Windsor Castle, 120. Wing, 19, 23, 32, 40, 71, 85, 94, 96. Winnisimet ferry, 123. Winsor, 65, 69, 78, 83, 86, 89, 90, 91, 93, 104, 106, 115, 123. Index. 137 (Winthrop, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, 15, 19, 22, 24, 25, 32, 35, 39, 40, 41, 75, 100, 101, 102, 103, 107, 112, 125. Winthrope, 24. Winthropp, 1, 4, 32. Woodbridge, 64, 103. Woodhouse, 38, 39, 43, 78, 81. Woodmansy, 75, 127. ( Woodwar, 37. { Woodward, 14, 15, 26, 27, 30, 33, 34, 35, 36, ( 40, 43, 47, 65, 78, 82, 84, 86, 87, 107. Worraall, 42. Wright, 18, 30, 61. Wyard, 86. 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