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1 Records of the Court of General Sessions of the Peace, 1712-1719, 32, 33.
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From the report of the committee of 1666 here referred to, it appears 2 that the road to the waterside, staked out between the allotments of January, 1637/8,3 was deflected to avoid marsh and . hill. Hence the town landing came to be within the limits of the Newgate farm.
The cost of this suit to the town of Boston appears in the following account.4
[1713] Charge of Sute with mr Simeon
Stodard aboute the hiway att
p Con: Cr
[April] rumli-marsh
paid Mr Brintnol for 7 horses and exspenses £ -15-
p Charge alowed p the Corte £3 - 13-6
to ferry of 14 men bak and forwd
7 -
Balans du 2- 00 - 6
to Mr Wats for 5 horses 10 -
£5-14-0
to exspenses theare 4-6
to the Jurey for going ouer :
2- 6-6
to Mr Dudleys fee
10 -
to taking oute the record
2-
to a patision drawing
2 -
to 2 sumones
2 -
to more money to Mr Dudley
5 -
to my owne exspenses
10 -
£5-14-0 Erers excepted p Elisha Bennett.]
2 Infra, chap. xxV.
Supra, Appendix 1.
4 A. D. S. Town Papers, 1713-1733, p. 1. Office of Registry of Births and Deaths, Old Court House, Boston. The figures and word in brackets are in ink of a different color.
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APPENDIX 8
[JOHN COGAN died April 27, 1658. Under date of April 25, 1659 in the town records is the entry: "Whereas information is given of a considerable tract of meadow and upland belonging to this towne, which lays obscured under the claime of Mr Cogans farme in Rumny Marsh. Now to the end that the towne might nott loose itts right, nor yett by any claime of the said towne the said Cogans just due [be] diminished; itt is therefore ordered that a surveyor bee speedily sent to measure the said land, and according to the right due either to towne or person aforesaid, to sett out the bounds, that the cleare right of the said Cogan may bee settled on a sure foundation, and the towne advantaged to make improovement of what shall appeare justly to be their owne." The vote of June 13, quoted in the text, was presumably based on the report of this survey. June 14, 1698, the following deposition was placed on record.1
" The Testimony of Thomas Skinner sent of Malden being of full Age Saith that of my certain knowledge that mr Cogging's ffarme at Rumny Marsh within the bounds of Boston where Capt ffloyd now lives in, hath been possest by John Doolittle and Thomas Stocker and the said Floyd by plowing and fencing quite to the Sea or the Sandy beach and so quite along to the pines River that goes to Lynn, and so the abovesaid hath peaceably injoyed it without any claime being laid to it as I can ever heare for above forty seven yeares as Tenents to Master Coggans and his success- ors and farther saith not as witness my hand.
Thomas Skinner
Sworne Lynn May the 28th 1698
Before John Hathorne ) Just pe. p Joseph Webb Regr."
Entred from June 14. 1698 Jonathan Corwin ) & Corº
On the same day, May 28, 1698, Crispin Brewer of Lynn signed a duplicate of this deposition.
The names of Thomas Stocker, Sr., Thomas Stocker, Jr., and John Doolittle appear on the Rumney Marsh tax list for 1674. John Doolittle was the heaviest taxpayer in the district - paying
1 Suff. Deeds, L. 18, f. 211.
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seventeen shillings each for town and eounty; Thomas Stocker, Sr., Deane Winthrop, Ben. Mussy (tenant on the Keayne farm), and William Hasey paid sixteen shillings each. In 1681 there appears " John Flood for himself and the estate of Jnº Dolittle"; no one by the name of Stoeker is listed. Thomas Stocker was surveyor in 1652, 1654, and eonstable in 1661, for the dis- triet of Rumney Marsh; John Doolittle was constable in 1653, 1671; surveyor in 1663, and tythingman in 1680; John Floyd was constable in 1681, 1698; surveyor in 1684; tythingman in 1685 and 1695.
April 12, 1640, Thomas Leehford drew artieles of agreement between " Mr. John Cogan & Thomas Stocker." 2 Presumably the latter's tenaney of the farm dates from 1640. He witnessed, by mark, not. signature, the eonveyanee from Cogan to Bennett, in Mareh, 1652/3, of the house and land north of the Pines River on the road to Lynn.3 He is mentioned as tenant on the Cogan farm in June, 1652.4 May 6, 1655, Thomas and Elizabeth, children of Thomas and Martha Stocker of the ehureh of Lynn, were bap- tized by the pastor of the First Church in Boston. Later the family lived apparently in Lynn, near Boston bounds.
The name of John Dolitle was appended to a Lynn petition in 1643.5 He received a small legaey from Edward Holyoke, by will dated December 25, 1658, and with John Tuttle appraised his estate, June 19, 1660. He was appointed overseer of the will of William Burnell of Pullen Point, dated April 16, 1660, and held other offices of trust.6 February 1, 1667/8, John Doolittle bought of Samuel Bennet thirty-five acres of land, with " a new House " thereon, adjoining Capt. Keayne's farm to the northwest, but across the boundary in Malden; John Paul was living in this house at the death of Doolittle in 1681.7 In 1677 and 1678, he bought for £400 the life interest of Mrs. Joseph Roeke, daughter of John Cogan, in one fifth of her father's estate, and also the right therein bequeathed to Mrs. Roeke and her daughter Mrs. Hannah Brading by the will of her nephew James Robinson, grandson of John Cogan.8 Acording to his inventory James Robinson owned one fifth of the farm at Rumney Marsh and a part of Mr. Cogan's estate in Boston. He willed one half to his
2 Note-Book, 144.
Suff. Deeds, L. 1, f. 294.
4 Ibid., L. 117, f. 102.
5 N. E. Hist. and Gen. Reg., xxxiii. 61.
Appendixes 10 and 11.
7 Middlesex Deeds, L. 38, f. 660.
8 Suff. Deeds, L. 10, ff. 184, 186; L. 11, f. 41.
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brothers and sisters and one half to his aunt and cousin; the division of the estate is not given, but presumably Doolittle by the above deeds became owner of one tenth of the farm. He bequeathed his right in the houses on the peninsula of Boston to his brother Abraham, who sold it.9 Presumably John Floyd, Doo- little's son-in-law, acquired for his children, as Doolittle's residuary legatees, one tenth of the Cogan farm, for the widow and chil- dren of Thomas Robinson, grandson of John Cogan, sold to Hugh Floyd one third part of nine tenths of the farm.1º According to the inventory of James Robinson the farm was "in the tenurc and occupation of John Doelittle " in 1676.11 December 27, 1678, Doolittle purchased for £250 one fourth of the Keayne great farm (exclusive of buildings), from John Wiswall, Jr.12 October 30, 1674, he married Sibyl, widow of Miles Nutt, who died at Malden, July 2, 1671, and earlier of John Bible of Malden, who died in July, 1653.13 She died September 23, 1690, aged about eighty-two.1+ He died September 24, 1681. He left legacies to a brother, Abraham Dowlettell of Wallingford, New Haven County, Connecticut, to his wife Sibyl and to her grandchildren, Benjamin Jones and the children of Mary Jenkins, wife of Oba- diah Jenkins. He gave to Sarah Floyd, daughter of John Floyd, £100, and to " Sarah Floyd the wife of John and their Children," fifty pounds; and left as residuary legatees "John Floyds Chil- dren." He appointed his "Son in Law John Floyd " executor. He gave to " the Reverend mr Wigglesworth Pastor of the Church of Malden twenty shillings in Silver yearly to bee paid to him so long as hee liveth in Malden," and secured the same on a farm in Malden which he gave to Joseph Floyd, son of John Floyd, if he lived to attain his majority.15 He gave " unto John Floyd that two hundred pounds that Ebenezar Stocker is to pay me twenty pounds a yeare towards the maintaining of one of his Sons at the Colledge which hee and his wife thinke most fit that if God see good hee may bee an able minister to preach the holy word of God." He made his mark. The will was witnessed by John Richards and Ebenezar Stocker Sept. 22, 1681; both made their marks. 16 His inventory follows.
9 Suff. Deeds, L. 12, ff. 343, 344.
10 Ibid., L. 26, f. 198.
Suff. Prob. Rec., L. 12, f. 124.
12 Suff. Deeds, L. 11, f. 202; infra, chap. xix.
13 Wyman; Savage, Gen. Dict., i. 174.
14 Malden Vital Records, 341.
15 See also Corey, Malden, 366, note.
16 Suff. Prob. Rec., L. 6, f. 358.
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AN JNVENTORY 17 OF THE ESTATE OF JOHN DOWLETTELL OF RUMNEY MARSH IN BOSTON IN THE COUNTY OF SUFFOLKE DECEASED THE. 24 : 7 : 81 : AND APPRIZED BY US WIIOSE NAMES ARE UNDERWRITTEN THE. 10 : 8 : 1681.
Jmprs Jn money
Jn Bonds bills and mortgages . money In the Parlor.
1 : new Searge Sute, being a loose Coate wast coate & breeches 002 : 10 : 00 £
1 . sad coloured Cloth Sute, being a loose Coate & breeches £ 002 : 00 : 00
1 . black Sute being doublet and breeches £ 001 : 00 : 00
5 . pr old breeches at £ 001: 00 : 00
1 . old doublet & wast coate & two old close bodyed Coates
2. Searge loose bodied Coates
2. Cloth Coates loose bodyed . 30/s ffour old Shirts &. 2. new. 30/s
£ 003 : 00 : 00
11 . bands . 1. silke Neck cloth . 3. night caps . 1 . Speckle Neck cloth. £ 001 : 00: 00
5 . pa Stockins . 2 . pa gloves . 1 . pa bootes . 1 . pa Shoes . 1 . pa busks
£ 001 : 17 : 00
2. Hatts. at. 20/s two Bibles & all other Bookes . 511 £ 006 : 00 : 00
3. muskets . 2. Swords . belts Snaps £"004 : 00 : 00
1 . ffeather Bed and ffurniture £ 008 : 00 : 00
1 . trundle Bed and ffurniture . £ 007 : 00 : 00
4 . table cloth's . 14 . Napkins . 40/s two : pr Sheets. 2 pa pillowbeers & Chest 50/s £ 004 : 10: 00
4 . yds Searge
£ 000 : 15 : 00
1 . great table and fforme, Carpet Chaires Chest & Box . £ 003 : 10 : 00
1 . warming pan, Bed pan & Chamber pot £ 000 : 18: 00
Kitchin.
Pewter . dishes porringers and Cups . .
. £ 003:00:00 2 . tramels . 1 . pa Andirons, tongs firepan. 2 Spits & drip pan, pestle morter . fry pan Jron pot & other Lumber £ 003 : 00 : 00
Leanto & Cellar
Milke vessells, Cheese presses, brass, Earthen pots & other £ 005 : 00 : 00
Lumber
Parlor Chamber
Home made Kearsey . 34. yds 4/6 . £ 007 : 13: 00
1 . ps Blanketing . 20/s thirty yds Cotton & Lin : Cloth : £ 005 : 04:00 &. 7 . yds linnen
1 . Green Rugg . 1 . blankett and pillow
£ 002 : 00 : 00 10 . pa Sheets and towell £ 006 : 00 : 00
Bedding Chamber pot. Chest and Lumber £ 004 : 00: 00
li . 8 . d
£ 033 : 08 : 00
£ 305 : 00: 00
£ 001 : 00 : 00
£ 001 : 00: 00
17 Suff. Prob. Rec., L. 9, ff. 55, 56.
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Kitchin Chamber
8 : bushs Rye and wheate . 7 : Jndian £ 002 : 00 : 00 4. Sacks . 2 : old Saddles, Pillion Seives woolen wheele Lumber
£ 002 : 00 : 00
Cattle
15 : Oxen at . 60li twenty one Cowes at . 63li £ 123 : 00 : 00 9. 2 . yearelings . at 22/10 . ffour yeare olds . at . £ . 6 £ 028 : 10 : 00
9 . Suñer Calves . 9li Seventy Six Sheep & . 10 . Lambs . 7li p Score .
£ 037 : 00 : 00
7 . Horses . at . 2lli three . 2. yeare old Colts. £. 8 £ 029 : 00 : 00
2 . yearling Colts . at . 311/10 : one Sucking Colt. 20/s 21 : hoggs & . 8 . Shoates . 23li £ 027 : 10: 00
Husbandry Utensils
2 plowes with Jrons & chaines . 1 . Cart & yokes £ 002 : 15 : 00
wedges, beetle and rings, axe, Cro . grindstone winch £ 001: 05: 00
Forkes rakes and how's £ 000 : 06 : 00
2. cart : ropes, halters, Bed cord
£ 000 : 15 : 00 Augurs, Mortis axe . £ 000 : 04 : 00
Box iron, Sheep Sheer's, pannell Lumber
£ 000 : 13: 00
Corne
80 . bushs Jndian Corne.£. 8. Sixty bushs Barley. £. 9. Eighteen bushs Rye . 54/s . £ 019:14:00
Houses & Lands.
At Lyn . 20 . acres of Salt Marsh land that was bought of mr Holyoke £"100:00:00 At Lyn . 10. acres of Salt Marsh that was bought of Browne
£"050: 00:00 One Quarter part of Keyn's ffarme bought of John Wiswall .
£" 250:00:00
A . house and land in Malden . that John Paul lives in bought of Samuel Bennet
£" 150:00:00
One halfe part of James Robinsons Estate that hee gave to mrs Rock and mrs Braiden . and was bought of mr Rock and mr Bromfeild £"300:00:00 £" 030: 00: 00
The land bought of Wellman . lying in Malden
£"1578:07:0
Apprized by us - John Waite . John Smith . William Jreland -
John Floyd Executor made Oath this . 14º. Octobr 1681 . before Tho : Danforth Esq Deputy Govr and John Richards Esqr Assist . that this Inventory containes a just and true Accott of the Estate of his late ffather in law John Dowlettell so far as hath come to his knowledge, and that w" more appeares hee will cause it to bee added.
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COGAN's estate was 600 acres, of which Captain John Floyd was tenant. Cogan's daughter married Thomas Robinson of Scituate, where was a John Floyd in 1640, who may have been the father of Captain John of Rumney Marsh. [For Jolin Floyd and Anne his wife, of Scituate, London, and Boston, merchant, sec Boston Rec. Com. Rep., xxxii. 37; Lechford, Note-Book, 297 [168]; Suff. Deeds, L. 2, f. 294; L. 3, ff. 210-212; Boston Town Rec- ords, September 25, 1654. According to Alonzo Lewis there was a Joseph Floyd at Lynn in 1635, who sold his house there in 1666, and "removed to Chelsea." (Hist. of Lynn, ed. 1865, 153.) John Floyd is known to have lived in Lynn, as five of his children were reported to the court as born there, - Sarah, February 24, 1661/2, Hugh, John, Joseph, and Joana, the latter born January 3, 1668/9. (Vital Records of Lynn.) In December, 1670, he had a son Noah born in Malden, where his son Daniel was also born, December 28, 1675. (Vital Records of Malden.) He owned a house and land near Black Ann's Corner, near the house which John Doolittle bequeathed to the son, Joseph Floyd. (Corey, 366, note 29.) Presumably Mary, recorded at Boston as of " John & Sarah Flood," born August 14, 1679, was his daugh- ter. He was constable for Rumney Marsh in 1681. In 1674, when he took the oath of fidelity, he was "about thirty-six years of age." (Corey, 323, note 61.) In June, 1680, he was “44 years or thare abouts," and, from the testimony which he gave, appears to have lived in the neighborhood as early as January, 1664/5, the date of John Smith's lease of the Ferry farm. (Infra, chap. xxiii.) ]
Floyd was a man of intelligence, and an officer of merit in the Indian War of 1690. See his deposition, Oct. 4, 1690, when, at the age of fifty-four, he was sailing against the enemy at the east- ward; and an interesting letter to the Governor and Council, January 27, 1691/2, giving an account of Indian hostilities at York, Maine. Mass. Archives, xxxvi. 178; xxxvii. 258. [May 27, 1690, Captain John Floyd was ordered to gather the troop under his command and advance toward Piscataqua, and June 10 sixty soldiers were added to the command of Captain Floyd and posted at Portsmouth. (Ibid., xxxvi. 85, 114.) "July 6, 1690, Capt.
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Floyd fought the enemy at Wheelwright's pond," then in Dover, now Lee, N. H., " but was forced to Retire with loss of 16 men." (Proc. Mass. Hist. Soc., xiv, 126.) For the encounter at Casco, now Portland, September, 1690, see 4 Coll. Mass. Hist. Soc., v. 275. He served as Lieutenant under Captain Henchman in King Philip's War, being accredited to Malden in the settlement of August, 1676. (Corey, 324; Mass. Archives, Ixviii. 244, 246.) April 12, 1689, Governor Andros, according to a rough draft in his handwriting preserved in the Massachusetts Archives, wrote Captain Floyd " fforasmuch as you have given me to undrstand that Severall of yr Souldiers undr yor Command have in a Mutinous Manner con- trary to yor Ordr left & Deserted their Service & Station att Saco River & are marching towards this place, Yo" arc therefore forthwith to Repair to yr sd Station & by the Way to Command & March Back any of your sd Souldiers you shall mecte with " and " there Remaine till further Ord!s " Also Lieutenant John Pud- dington of the post at Kenebunke was ordered to Boston to ex- plain why he had contrary to his orders, " Quitted & Discharged ye Garison & Souldiers att Kenebunke," and Captain Floyd was ordered to take command thereof. Rough drafts of these letters, and of an order that Justices of the Peace, Constables, and sheriffs render aid to Captain Floyd in the discharge of his said duty, have been preserved in the Mass. Archives (cxxix. 368-372). This was a week before the Revolution which deposed Andros. See infra, chaps. xix. to xxi, for losses suffered by Floyd during the intercharter period.] March 14, 1700/01 the General Court resolved " That Twenty Pounds be Granted in full for Accts of Capt John ffloyd." Acts and Resolves, vii. 274; from page 223, it appears that this was for services "during the time of Sr Edmond Andros's Governmt." [See also ibid., 653, 671. During the witchcraft craze, in June, 1692, a warrant was issued for his arrest, and testimony was given against him at Salem. Corey, Malden, 332.]
He was at Rumney Marsh in 1680, and died in 1701, leaving four sons: Hugh, born [Sept. 10,] 1663; died November 17, 1730 [aged sixty-seven years according to the gravestone at Re- vere]; John, born 1665, died January 7, 1723/4; Joseph and Daniel. He also left two daughters, Mrs. Sarah Upham [wife of Nathaniel Upham of Malden] and Mrs. Jonathan Hawkes, wife of Jonathan Hawkes, who kept the tavern in the house now stand- ing, and'lately occupied by Mr. Tewksbury. [November 3, 1702, Joseph Floyd, with his wife Elizabeth, and Daniel Floyd were of Malden ; Hugh Floyd, with his wife Elcnor, and John Floyd with his wife Rachel, were of Boston, that is, Rumney Marsh; "John
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Hawks " and his wife Abigail were of Lynn. Presumably Jona- than Hawks, the innkeeper, belonged to a younger generation; his widow, also named Abigail, was living in 1782. Middlesex Deeds, I .. 17, f. 272; Suff. Deeds, L. 136, f. 166; Vital Records of Lynn.] He left by his will eight slaves, - Jack and Tom to his widow ; Dick, to Hugh; "Caesar & Sarah & their youngest Child called James," to John; Harry, to Daniel; and Lydia to Mrs. Upham. [Captain John Floyd died intestate. May 22, 1701, Sarah Floyd, widow, and Hugh Floyd, "eldest Son," of " John Floyd late of Rumney marsh . . Yeoman " were ap- pointed to administer the estate. An " Agreement between the Widow & Children of Captain John Floyd deced, for a division of his Estate," signed Mareh 25, 1701, was allowed by the court September 30. (Suff. Prob. Rec., L. 14, ff. 341, 400.) Aeeording to the gravestone at Revere the widow, Sarah, died June 16, 1717, aged seventy-five.] Hugh and John bought of John Cogan's grandchildren all his real estate at Rumney Marsh by deeds dated April 8, 1700, February 15, 1703/4, and April 19, 1709. [The conveyanees were: - (1) Mary, granddaughter of John Cogan, and her husband Jacob Green, Jr., of Charlestown, to John Floyd, for £500, April 8, 1700 (Suff. Deeds, L. 21, f. 638). This was the first John Floyd, not the son. The deed was recorded July 26, 1704. (2) Sarah Robinson, widow and administratrix of the estate of Joseph Robinson, grandson of John Cogan, to Hugh and John Floyd, for £560, Feb. 15, 1703/4 (L. 21, f. 532). In the inventory of Joseph Robinson in October, 1703, his share was valued at £300. Suff. Prob. Rec., L. 15, f. 206. The farm was spoken of as "now in the possession of the Floyds." (3) Three great-grandchildren of John Cogan, children of his grandson Thomas Robinson, and the widow Sarah Robinson, to Hugh Floyd, for £600, April 19, 1709; recorded July 18, 1712 (Suff. Deeds, L. 26, f. 198). The will of Thomas Robinson was probated in 1700, and his share in the farm was valued at £300. (Prob. Ree., L. 14, ff. 196, 226.) ] Hugh had the small farm, and his dwelling- house -- still standing near Woodlawn cemetery - was the resi- dence of the late Oliver Pratt. [Hugh Floyd owned the little farm, and also a large part of the great farm, as the deeds from the heirs of Cogan, above eited, would lead us to expect. His son, Hugh, owned the little farm only. The farmhouse of Samuel Floyd stood on land owned by the elder Hugh Floyd, who by will or deed disposed also of marshland, of a part of Oak Island, and of the Point of Pines.] John had the large farm from the beach west. His dwelling-house was lately removed from Revere Street to Broadway, at the edge of the Marsh. Hugh
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Floyd was of the Malden church. [April 5, 1724, Hugh Floyd and his wife transferred their church membership from Malden to Rumney Marsh. ]
John Tuttle was the first signer of the Church covenant in 1715. Then came John Floyd, Senr., Edward Tuttle, Senr., and Elisha Tuttle. After the lapse of one hundred seventy-two years, the families were represented in the Congregational Church at Revere by Deacon Daniel Tuttle Fuller and Deacon David Floyd. (B. H. Dewing, in Revere Journal, April 30, 1887.)
[Children to Hugh and Ellinor Floyd were recorded in Boston in 1686 and later. He was constable in 1688 and 1709, surveyor in 1694, tithingman in 1705 and 1712. His will, signed August 28, was probated December 21, 1730. The witnesses were Thomas Pratt, Simon Grover, and Thomas Wayte; the executors, Samuel and Hugh Floyd, his sons. As minute provision was made for the wife Elinour, as was made by Thomas Pratt and Thomas Cheever for their wives. In money she was to receive £25 yearly. Bequests were made to his daughters Sarah Layth and Elinour Lath, and the children of his deceased daughter Joanna Tuttle. His real estate was divided among his sons, - Samuel, Benjamin, and Hugh. His negro man Richard was to serve each of the sons in turn a year and then receive his freedom. (Suff. Prob. Rec., L. 28, f. 342.) Joanna Floyd was married to Edward Tuthill by Rev. Cotton Mather, June 11, 1706; Sarah Floyd to Francis Leath, Jr., by Rev. Thomas Cheever, March 25, 1713; Elinor Floyd to John Leath, May 30, 1717; Benjamin Floyd was married to Sarah Eustice by Rev. Thomas Cheever, November 28, 1726; Samuel Floyd, to Joannah Floyd, February 8, 1727/8; Hugh Floyd to Mary Baker of Lynn by Wm. Welsted, April 29, 1729.
The division of the Cogan farm between Hugh Floyd and his brother John was not placed on record. Hence the possessions of the former are known only through conveyances from him by deed and will. During his lifetime he sold several parcels of marsh on the " Ware River " and the " Pines River." December 13, 1714, he conveyed to William Basset, Jr., and John Bassct of Lynn, for £90 current money of New England, title to twenty acres of " Salt Marsh and upland or pine Land " situated "at a place known by the Name of the Pines." It was bounded W. on salt marsh of John Floyd by a line running S. from the Pine River 79 poles to "a Cedar Stake Standing in the Edge of the Salt Marsh with a Heap of Stones about it." Thence the line ran S.E. 51 poles " to a pine tree Marked, standing upon the pine Beach bank the Woodland of sd Hugh ffloid lying on
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the South Westerly side thereof." The land conveyed was bounded " Southerly on ye Bank of s? pine Beach, and Easterly on the Bay so call'd, & Northerly upon the pine River so called." (Suff. Deeds, L. 29, f. 28.) This appears to have been on the Point of Pines.
Hugh Floyd, by will eited above, gave to his son Benjamin " Ten Aeres of upland lying in Sanfords lott so Called Joyning unto that Twenty Acres I sold unto him," and sixteen aeres of marsh. The following children of Benjamin and Sarah Floyd were recorded in Boston: Mary born Feb. 14, 1727/8; Sarah, Oct. 3, 1729 ; Benjamin, April 4, 1731; Ebenezer, April 2, 1732. All were baptized at Rumney Marsh. Two other children were baptized there, - Abigail, May 11, 1735; Elizabeth, Sept. 10, 1738. November 24, 1741, Samuel and Hugh Floyd of Chel- sea and Sarah Floyd of Medford, widow, administrators of the estate of Benjamin Floyd of Medford, Innholder, deceased, by order of the Probate Court for payment of debts, conveyed to Nathaniel Oliver, Junr. of Chelsea for £1295 the real estate of the deceased in Chelsea, namely, thirty and one half aeres of upland bounded east on Joseph Ingraham, Jr., west on said Hugh Floyd, north on said N. Oliver, Jr. (the great Keayne farm), and south on Paul Dudley, Esq. (the little Keayne farm), with the " Build- ings Oreharding " ete., on said upland; also eight aeres of salt marsh. (Suff. Deeds, L. 75, f. 109.) The land of Joseph Ingra- liam had belonged originally to the Tuttle farm, being the north- western eorner thereof. November 27, 1741, Nathaniel Oliver, Jr., conveyed to Hugh Floyd for £735, twenty aeres with the same bounds except that the north boundary was the road, - that is, Nathaniel Oliver retained about ten and one half acres of the little Cogan farm, lying north of the road which led from the church at Rumney Marsh to Lynn. No mention was made of buildings ; in 1746 the twenty aeres were denominated pasture land. (Suff. Deeds, L. 63, f. 48; L. 79, f. 156.)
January 13, 1725/6, Ensign Hugh Floyd and his wife Eleanor had conveyed to Hugh Floyd, Jr., twenty aeres, bounded east and west by Ensign Floyd, north by Captain Oliver and south by Mr. Dudley's farm (L. 63, f. 131; recorded June 10, 1742). July 31, 1730, same to same, twenty acres of upland " being a part of the Lot of Land known by the Name of Sanford's Lott." This seems to have been the same land conveyed January 13, 1725/6, the deed for which had not been recorded. The west boundary started at the point where a brook proceeded " out of Mr Dudley's farm." (L. 45, f. 21. Recorded on the day on which the will of Hugh Floyd, Sr., was probated.) By will Hugh Floyd, Sr., gave the
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