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Before specifying these allotments, somne account is to be given of the lands occupied before the coming of Winthrop in 1630. The extinction of the Indian title to Boston and other towns has been noticed, and the occupancy of the penin- sula by William Blackstone, and of Winnisimmet by Samuel Maverick with whatever right that conferred. Blackstone took no title from Gorges, for Boston was not within his patent ; 19 but the General Court, April 1, 1633, ordered that Blackstone should " haue 50 ac of ground sett out for him necre to his howse in Boston, to inioy for euer "; and the next year Boston purchased his land, less six acres, every householder paying six shillings, and some more.20 As to Winnisimmet the facts are less clear. Samuel Maverick had a house there in 1625, and was living there in 1630 when he entertained Winthrop; and he and John Blackleach claimed to own it in 1635 when they sold the land, and the former the reversion of the ferry, to Richard Bellinghamn; but how or from whom they obtained a title satisfactory to a lawyer like Bellingham, is unknown. There is no evidence of a grant to any one. April 1, 1633, the General Court, apparently recognising Maverick's and Black- leach's title to Winnisimmet, granted Noddle's Island to Maverick, reserving a nominal rent and the right to Boston and Charlestown of taking wood therefrom.21 Whatever may have been the title of the " old planters " to the lands they occupied, it was recognized as valid in the instructions of the Company to Endicott.22
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Registry of Deeds (perhaps copied from Holland), not then existing in England, for the reason, it is said, that people were unwilling that the state of their property should be known.
19 [A line due west from Point Shirley would include the Boston penin-
sula, but not South Boston. ]
20 Mass. Col. Rec., i. 104; Shurtleff, Description of Boston, 296.
21 Mass. Col. Rec., i. 104.
22 [The original plan was to give individual settlers deeds under the seal of the Company; but population flowed in so swiftly that the system necessarily broke down, and the task of dividing lands was delegated to the towns. Richard Bellingham bought the lands at Winnisimmet in 1635;
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Before "The great Allottments at Rumley Marsh and Pullen Point " recorded January 8, 1637/8, there were some special grants of lands or privileges in those places either by the General Court or by the town of Boston. The first is the unique order of April, 1632, " that noe pson w soeuer shall shoote att fowle vpon Pullen Poynte or Noddles Ileland, but that the sd places shalbe reserved for John Perkins to take fowle wth netts." 23 A part of what is now Winthrop appears to have been used as a common pasturage for cattle by the town of Boston. " Att a generall meeting," on February 23, 1634/5, it was "agreed . . . that all barren cattell what- soever (except such as are constantly imployed in draughte) and weaned caulves 20 Weekes ould and Weaned mayle kidds shalbe kept abroad from off the necke. . . . 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 "; and April 13, that " all the drye 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."
November 30, 1635, it was " agreed that noe further allot- ments shalbe graunted unto any new comers, but such as may be likely to be received members of the Congregation.
the transfer was not recorded, though it stands on the fifteenth page of the first book of records, until November 13, 1640. (Suff. Deeds, L. 1, f. 15.) If the officers of the Company kept for their own, or the Com- pany's, use a list of the patents issued during the first years of the settlement, it has not been found. Only exceptional grants of larger tracts of land than could be claimed under the general regulations of the Company were matter of record before 1635. Such grants were made by the General Court, and appear in its proceedings. There is no record to show how either Samuel or Elias Maverick obtained title to their lands at Winnisimmet, - it is to be inferred that the land was theirs under the general regulations of the Company as to "Old Planters." (Mass. Col. Rec., i. 387.) The grant of Noddle's Island to Samuel Maverick required a special vote of the Court. In 1640 Richard Bellingham complied with the law of April 1, 1634, by inserting the record of his estate in the town proceedings, as well as in the Suffolk Registry of Decds. His title was thereby made secure.]
23 Ibid., i. 94. The consideration does not appear. John Perkins, said to have come over with Roger Williams in 1631, removed with John Win- throp, jr., to Ipswich in 1633, and represented that town as deputy in 1636.
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" Item : That none shall sell their houses or allotments to any new comers, but with the eonsent and allowance of those that are appointed Allotters." 24
December 14, 1635, voted " That Mr. William Hutchinson, Mr. Edmund Quinsey, Mr. Samuell Wilbore, Mr. William Cheesborowe and John Ollyver, or foure of them, shall, by the assignments of the Allotters, lay out their proportion of allottments for farmes att Rumley Marsh, whoe there are to have the same."
January 9, 1636/7,25 voted " that our brother, John Ollyvar, shall have his greate Allotment of forty aers att Pullen Poynt." Same day, " that our brother, Mr. Edward Gibbon, shall have an Allottment of foureseore aers at Pullen Poynt, if it be there to be had.
" And that our brother, John Olyvar, shall have an allott- ment of fiftie aers there, and that rayther in regard of his father's resigning his right at Hog Island to the Towne."
June 12, 1637, some of the above allotments are repeated and others voted. Thus " Mr. Willyam Peiree hath an hun- dred aers of upland and marsh ground layd out for him at Pullenpoint neeke "; Mr. Edward Gibbon, " foureseore aers of upland and marsh ground "; John Olyvar, " his fiftye aers of upland and marsh ground "; William Brenton, " had three- score and foure aers of upland and marsh ground layd him out there, and a hundrd acrs on the otherside of Mr. Aspen- alls "; 26 and Edward Bayts, " fourteene aers of upland and marsh ground." All were at Pullen Point.
24 May 18, 1631, the General Court " to the end the body of the comons may be pserued of honest & good men " ordered " that for time to come noe man shalbe admitted to the freedome of this body polliticke, but such as are members of some of the churches within the lymitts of the same." Mass. Col. Rec., i. 87. But this left a side door open; for though non- church members could not be voters, they might purchase lands of those who were, and thus attach themselves to the soil with influence, if with- out legal participation, in its affairs. To stop this the town voted as in the text, - a large assumption of power for a town meeting. [The “ Al- lotters " were the committee appointed December 18, 1634. See infra, Appendix 1.]
25 [Also, same date, “ it was graunted to our brother, Mr William Bren- ton, that in leiwe of his allottment at Hogg Iland, he shall have twenty acrs more added unto his allottment at Pullen Poynte necke."]
26 [Note that according to the record of January 8, 1637/8, William
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October 30, " 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."
November 13, 1637, there was " granted to the Governor, Mr. John Winthropp, the twoe hills next 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 next unto John Lowe his grant there.27
" Also there is granted to our brother Thomas Marshall one rodd in depth of the same marsh next unto the ground he hath there." 27
The foregoing comprise the allotments at Pullen Point before January S, 1637/8, when " The great Allottments at Rumley Marsh and Pullen Point " were made.28
THE GREAT ALLOTMENTS AT RUMLEY MARSH AND PULLEN POINT BY THE TOWN OF BOSTON
The allotments of land in the old town of Chelsea, January 8, 1637/8, can now be traced, though not with exactness; and in some cases they can be divided among present owners. They began [at] the creek between Chelsea and Revere, and went north towards Lynn, bounded on the west by Charles- town, now Everett [and Malden], and on the east by the old county road,29 to Pines River; then turning easterly followed
Brenton had 164 acres laid out on the " otherside of Mr. Aspenalls ",- that is in Revere, - and also 64 acres at Pullen Point. Presumably there was a mistake in the later record.]
27 [These two allotments were not at Pullen Point, but on the Boston peninsula, as was the allotment which preceded that to Governor Winthrop.] [See Appendix 1.]
29 [ The old " Country " road, as it was originally called, because insti- tuted by the General Court of October, 1641 (see infra, chap. xxv.), later known as the "County " road, followed Washington Avenue through Chelsea and Revere, that is, ran to the boundary between Everett (then Charlestown) and Revere (then Boston), thence northwest along that boundary toward Lynn, making a shallow loop eastward through what was then Captain Keayne's farm. The highways designated in the text and in note (30) as the County road, were legalized by Boston in the years 1650 and 1666. (See infra, chap. xxv.) The highway referred to in these
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the sea down to the southerly point of Winthrop. As nearly all the present city of Chelsea, in 1638, was owned by Gov- ernor Bellingham, under the Maverick-Blackleach deed of 1635, it was not allotted. The first allotment, therefore, began at the northerly boundary of the Bellingham estate, at the creek dividing Chelsea from Revere, and was:
" Imprymis: Mr. Henry Vane, Esq., two hundred acrs: bounded on the South with Mr. Richard Bellingham; on the West with Charlestowne; on the North with Mr. Winthropp; and on the East with the highway there." 30
Sir Henry Vane came to Boston, October 3, 1635, and in 1636, at the age of twenty-four, superseded Winthrop as gov-
allotments was a town road laid out from Mill River northward towards Pines River for the private use of the farms in shipping their produce to Boston. See Appendix 1.]
30 The old county road from the original Winnisimmet Ferry to Saugus. It continues Washington Avenue through Revere, by the southerly side of Fenno Hill, crosses the Salem turnpike, and running by the old brick school house, again crosses the turnpike, and goes westerly through the Keayne Farm towards Saugus. It is the highway mentioned in the following allotments. [See supra, note 29.]
The southerly boundary of the Vane allotment was the northerly of the Cary and Carter estates. It included that part of Prattville northerly of Lash Street, easterly of the Everett line over Mt. Washington; and that part of Revere southerly of an east and west line crossing the top of Fenno Hill to Everett, and westerly of Broadway. Doubt has arisen as to Vane's southerly line because there are two branches of Chelsea Creek, a northwesterly and a southwesterly; also two "fresh water runnels " flowing into it: one between Woodlawn and Mt. Washington, and another which crosses Washington Avenue near the car stables. It was the southerly branch of the Creek, and the southerly runnel which formed the southerly line of Vane, and the northerly of Bellingham. [This state- ment rests on the presumption that Richard Bellingham sold no land to the later owner of the Vane allotment, Nicholas Parker. See infra, Appendix 1.] Westerly of Bellingham, in Everett, was land once owned by the famous John Cotton, who sold it, July 21, 1645, to Thomas Whitte- more, as "a parcell of Meddow counted two Cowe grasses being bounded wth the said Thomas Whitamore west & North : mr Bellin[gham] east: & Mistick River south: " Suff. Deeds, L. 1, f. 61. Whittemore was a large proprietor, and his estate included, apparently, the westerly part of Mt. Washington. See item four of his will, Middx. Prob. Office. Whittemore was ancestor of a numerous and respectable posterity, in whom his estate remained to recent times. [According to the inventory of his estate, Thomas Whittemore left a house, a barn, and seventy acres of land. This was the whole of his real estate. Middx. Prob. Rec., i. 274, 277. William Ireland witnessed the will February 8, 1660, and signed the inventory May 25, 1661.]
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ernor. Defeated the next year, he was elected representative to the General Court, from Boston. He went to England, August 3, 1637, and was prominent in the English Revolu- tion. On the restoration of Charles II., he was committed to the Tower, and executed on Tower Hill, June 14, 1662. Sir Henry was not in the country at the date of his allotment,31 nor is there on record any conveyance of his estate; 32 but Nicholas Parker owned it in 1639.33 He sold the westerly part, by deed not recorded, to George Burden,34 who, Febru- ary 19, 1651/2, sold it with other lands westerly, for £230, to Aaron Way and William Ireland, of Dorchester. The im- provements of that date (unless conventionally stated) were " my howse howseing barnes buildings stables Cowhowses Orchards tofts gardens fold yards and all that my farme lying at Rumley marsh Conteyning eight score acres of vpland and marsh. formerly purchased of m' Niccolas Parker and lying betweene the lands of Richard Bellingham Esq" on the south side and the lands of m" John Newgate of Boston merchant on the North side and betweene the lands of the sajd Niccolas Parker one the east side and the lands belonging to the Towne of maulden on the west side." 35 The other lands westerly of the Vane allotment, purchased by Ireland and Way, included thirty-five acres, more or less, between Woodlawn Cemetery and Mt. Washington, owned in part by the late Isaac Pratt.36 In 1652, there was a house on this estate which may have been that now occupied by Mr. Nathan Pratt.37
Within the memory of those lately living, there were two 1
31 [See infra, Appendix 1.]
' In Lechford's Note Book (p. 60) is the following: " Copie of a grant of Powderhorne Hill by Henry Vane Esqr. to William Brampton gent. Dated 2. 1638 [sic]." Vane never owned Powderhorn Hill, and the grant to Brampton may have been Vane's actual allotment.
33 He agreed to pay £5 for cutting the wood on the swamp, and placing it " in heapes fit for carriage & reasonable burdens fitt for a man easily to carry." Ibid., 139. [Parker's ownership of Vane's allotment was attested December 18, 1639, in the legal description of the land sold to John Newgate by Governor John Winthrop. Ibid., 141. Parker sold his house in Roxbury, July 18, 1639.]
34 [See Appendix 2.]
35 Suff. Deeds, L. 1, ff. 206-208.
[This note has been transferred to Appendix 2.]
87 No. 435 Washington Avenue on Hopkins' Atlas of Suffolk County, iv.
Plate F. [See Appendix 2 for a continuation of this note.]
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other very old houses which stood on the Ireland-Way Farm. One was on the Robert Pratt estate; 38 and the other on the Samuel Pratt estate.39 The first, replaced by a new house, was that in which General Washington is said to have lunched when riding the casterly end of the American line, at the siege of Boston. When the Andros goverment, in 1688, would have prevented Increase Mather from going to Eng- land in behalf of the Colony, he came from Boston, through Charlestown, to Aaron Way's house (that supposed to be still standing), and at night went from Way's to a boat near Mr. Newgate's Landing Place (near Slade's Mill), and thenee through Crooked Lane (dividing Noddle's and Hog islands) to the sea, boarded the President, and sailed for England. 40
March 25, 1691, when Way and Ireland divided their estate, Way took the westerly rooms of the house, and the northerly half of the barn; and Ireland, the easterly and southerly parts of the same.41 October 21, 1696, Joanna, widow and exee- utrix of Aaron Way, and Moses their son, and Sarah his wife, sold their estate for £330 to Thomas Pratt.42 He purchased the other half of William Ireland, perhaps the younger,43 for £500, December 17, 1714, and thus became sole
38 No. 400 Washington Avenue.
39 No. 435.
40 Sewall, Diary, i. 209, 210.
41 Suff. Decds, L. 15, f. 80.
42 Ibid., L. 23, f. 203. Thomas Pratt, ancestor of the Chelsea family, married Mary, widow of Isaac Lewis, who died in 1691, aged 34, and was buried at Malden. [Suff. Prob. Rec., L. 21, f. 183.] He was a son of John Lewis of Charlestown and Malden. She was a daughter of Samuel and Mary (Waters) Davis of Groton. [Wyman. ]
43 [The deed was signed by William Ireland and Abigail his wife, and it is stated therein that the division of 1691 was made by " Aaron Way deced and the sd William Ireland." Abigail, wife of William Ireland, died November 21, 1715, aged 74. (Vital Records of Malden, 355.) Presumably she was the daughter of John Greenland, whose will, dated May 1, 1685, was probated in Middlesex County, March 27, 1691. December 17, 1701, William Ireland of Rumney Marsh gave a house in Boston by deed of gift to Elizabeth Ireland, widow of "his Son William Jreland late of Boston deceđ.," for the use of herself and her two children, John and Jonathan Ireland (both minors). Suff. Deeds, L. 20, f. 509. He had earlier given the son land at "Wills hill," Salem. Three children of William and Elizabeth Ireland appear on the Boston records: John, born September 17, 1682; Elizabeth, February 24, 1687/8; and Jonathan, January 5, 1694/5. Presumably the William Ireland baptized at Dorches- ter, December 16, 1655, was William Ireland, Jr., husband of Elizabeth.]
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owner of the Way and Ireland estate. 44 Those of his blood and name now oceupy the old mansion. 45
The Vane allotment, by estimation, contained two hundred and sixty acres,46 one hundred and thirty of which, on the easterly part of Fenno Hill, became the property of Rev. Thomas Cheever. 47
" 2. M". John Winthropp, the Elder, a hundred and fiftie acrs : bounded on the South with Mr. Vane; on the West with Charlestowne; on the North with Mr. Newgate and James Penn; and on the East with the highway."
This estate, the northerly part of Fenno Hill, lying between Sir Henry Vane's allotment and Mountain Avenue, was eon- veyed to John Newgate, December 18, 1639, by deed unre-
# Suff. Deeds, L. 29, f. 83. Oetober 17, 1710, Ireland purchased of Edward and Rebeca Watts, for £12, a piece of marsh, - bounded easterly and southerly on their other land, westerly on Thomas Pratt, and northerly on Ireland, - ineluding a " Creek that runs between said granted premisses and said Ireland's Land," -about two aeres. Suff. Deeds, L. 25, f. 139. This deed indicates that Edward Watts eame over not later than its date. [Presumably this was that parcel of land, south of the ereek, which on Hopkins' Atlas, Plate G. of vol. iv., was marked as belonging to E. Kim- ball, and which was owned by the Revere Rubber Company when purchased by the Metropolitan Park Commission for the Revere Beach Parkway. For a continuation of this note, see Appendix 3.]
45 [See Appendix 4.]
46 [The Vane allotment in January, 1637/8, was, nominally, 200 aeres. See Appendix 1.]
47 The title is this: Vane to Nieholas Parker, about 1639, by deed un- recorded. Parker devised the estate, then in possession of Samuel Davis, to his son Captain Nicholas Parker; and he [by will dated] August 27, 1668, to his brother Jonathan, or, he dying, to his sisters, Joanna, wife of Arthur Mason of Boston, and Mary, wife of William Davis (or Dauiee) of Barbadoes; and they for £290, sold 130 aeres to Thomas Savage, September 30, 1674. Suff. Deeds, L. 9, f. 25. For title from Savage's heirs to Samuel Sewall, of the estate, then in the oeeupation of Thomas Townsend, see Ibid., L. 13, ff. [62], 82. Sewall eonveys the estate, still in Townsend's oeeupation, April 27, 1685, to James Bill, Jr., Jonathan Bill, and Joseph Bill. L. 13, f. 307. They conveyed to Thomas Cheever (who married Sarah, daughter of James Bill, Sr.), October 22, 1689 (L. 15, f. 2), for £357, the estate, then in his oeeupation, bounded east and north by Mr. Newgate, west by Ireland and Way and south by the Creek. The Vane allotment has been known for many years as Fenno Hill; but now that it has passed out of the Fenno family, it is worth a thought whether, in honor of a great patriot and friend of the Puritan colonists, it might not well be ealled Sir Harry Vane Hill. [For further information as to the owners and tenants of this farm, see infra, Appendix 5.]
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corded, drawn by Thomas Lechford,48 author of " Plain Dealing." The price was fourscore pounds, and the sale by Winthrop was forced by the unfaithfulness of his agent. 49
" 3. James Penn, fiftie acrs: bounded on the South and on the West with Mr. Winthrop; on the North with Mr. New- gate; and on the East with the highway."
James Penn came to Boston with Winthrop in 1630. IIe held various offices, died in 1671.5º His estate was probably sold to Nicholas Parker, April 4, 1640, for £28.51
" 4. Mr. John Newgate, a hundred and twelve acrs: bounded on the South with Mr. Winthrop and Jame's Penn; on the West with Charlestowne; on the North with Mr. San- ford; and on the East with the highway."
This allotment, with those of Winthrop, Glover, and prob- ably of Penn and Sanford, became the great Newgate Farm of " Foure hundred and Fifty or Five Hundred Acres " 52 (afterwards known as the Shrimpton, or Yeamans Farm) which, in 1688, was bounded thus: Southerly on the river to Hogg Island and Creeks; westerly by the lands of James Bill (Cheever estate), Aaron Way and William Ireland; northerly by the [country] highway and Maulden line; northeast by
48 Note-Book, 141.
49 Savage, Winthrop, ii. 3, note 1; 2 Proc. Mass. Hist. Soc., vii. 127.
50 For the Penn family, sec Essex Inst. Hist. Coll., xix. 269; also Bos- ton Rec. Com. Rep., v. 22, 71; infra, p. 116.
51 Lechford's Note-Book, 142. [Judging from the position of the entry in the note-book, the decd was drawn in January, 1639/40; the money was payable June 1, 1640. No authority has been found for the date in the text.]
52 [In the agreement between Nathaniel Newdigate alias Newgate, and John Shelton and Nicholas Brattle, June 1, 1687, the farm was stated to contain 300 acres. By actual survey in 1844 (Suff. Deeds, L. 525, f. 305) there were 364 or 366 acres, of which 104 acres 63 rods belonged to the original Brenton and Cole allotments. Of this latter, 19 or 20 acres were purchased from the heirs of William Hascy during the eighteenth cen- tury; thus about 85 acres bordering on Mill River belonged, presumably, to the farm in 1688. It is known that John Newgate purchased the Winthrop and Glover allotments, which, with his own, aggregated some 311 acres. Presumably Newgate and Parker exchanged lands (Appen- dix 1). Possibly, Cole or Tuttle purchased the Brenton lot, and ex- changed with Newgate. At least, the Glover allotment became eventually a part of the Tuttle or Cole farm, and these farms seem, also, to have protruded into the western tier of allotments, and absorbed a part of the original Newgate lot. See infra, chap. xix., where Judge Chamberlain states that the Sanford allotment became the Keayne small farm, and the note thereon.]
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the lands of Lieutenant-Colonel Nicholas Paige; and easterly by lands of Elisha Tuttle, Jeremiah Belcher and William Hasey.53
John Newgate, a merchant of Boston, 1632, was [a mem- ber] of the General Court [in 1638]. Thomas Townsend, of Lynn, was a brother-in-law. One of his daughters married John Oliver, and, on his death, Edward Jackson; another, Peter Oliver, brother of John; and a third, Simon Lynde, one of Andros' judges, and a grantee of the Indians in the first deed above. In 1640, Newgate gave the college " five pounds per annum for ever, towards the maintenance of law- full, usefull, and godly literature therein, and chiefly to the furtherance of the knowledge of Jesus Christ, and his word and will," to be paid from the rents of his farm at Rumney Marsh.54
John Newgate died in 1665, when his son Nathaniel sold this farm of four hundred acres to Colonel Samuel Shrimpton for £350, charged with a perpetual annuity of £5 to Harvard College.55
Colonel Samuel Shrimpton, son of Henry, a wealthy citizen of Boston, was born there May 31, 1643.56 The son was his father's principal legatee, and N. I. Bowditch, the convey- ancer, thought him one of the wealthiest citizens of Boston in his day. He also took an important part in the govern- ment; but as his connection with Rumney Marsh was merely that of a landed proprietor, his personal history is omitted here, but may be found in Sumner's History of East Boston.57
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