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June 19, 1730, Jonathan Tuttle and his wife Sarah conveyed to Jacob Chamberlain of Rumney Marsh for £400, 681/2 acres, the upland bounded W. on Nathan Cheever and Elisha Tuttle; S. on Jacob Hasey; E. on Samuel Tuttle (son of John Tuttle) ; N. on the division line between the swamp and the upland. There were 10 acres in the swamp and 14 acres of meadow land. He quitclaimed all right in his father's estate, Jacob Chamberlain paying the legacies still unpaid. (L. 46, f. 131.) Josiah Tuttle of Rumney Marsh quitclaimed all rights in his father's estate on July 6, 1730, acknowledged July 12, 1735 (L. 51, f. 122) ; Jotham Tuttle of Medford with his wife Martha quitclaimed as above, January 26, 1731/2, acknowledged June 19, 1735 (L. 51, f. 123) ; Samuel Paine of Boston with his wife Rebekah quitclaimed as above, December 21, 1731, acknowledged Junc 7, 1735. (Ibid.) According to the account book of Samuel Watts he paid " Mary Holt Daughter to Jonathan Tuttle deceas'd " £20 " in pt of her portion," May 11, 1743. (Chamberlain MSS.)
January 17, 1731/2 Jacob Chamberlain and his wife Abigail conveyed to Samuel Tuttle for £170 current money, fourteen and one half acres of marsh. (L. 47, f. 216.) January 12, 1713/14 Jacob Chamberlain of Roxbury married Abigail Hasey, daughter of William and Judith Hasey. (Chap. xix. appendix 1.) Eight acres were sold to Elisha Tuttle, and 41/4 acres to Hugh Floyd. (L. 51, ff. 124, 126.)
April 9, 1736, Abigail Chamberlain, administratrix of the estate of Jacob Chamberlain deceased, by order of Court December 3, 1735, in order to pay the debts of the deceased, conveyed to Samuel Watts of Winnisimmet, for £805 bills of credit 41 acres. The upland, 35 acres, bounded S. on the Hascy farm; N. on the divi- sion line between the swamp and the upland; W. on Nathan Cheever and Elisha Tuttle and E. on Samuel Tuttle; 51/2 acres
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were swamp. Jonathan Tuttle, Senr., and his wife were still living and their rights were reserved. (L. 52, f. 217.) In 1757 Ebenezer Hough, step-son and son-in-law of Samuel Watts, was tenant on the farmn. November 25, 1763, Samuel Watts executed a deed of gift of this house and land in favor of his son Edward Watts, - who had married the daughter of his third wife, - to take effect after his death. (L. 110, f. 271.) On the death of Hon. Samuel Watts, his heirs were dissatisfied therewith and Jon- athan Green, one of the administrators, consulted with "lawyer Quinsey." (Ch. MSS.) In the final settlement of the estate this deed was ignored, and the farm was set off to William Watts and the heirs of Bellingham Watts, two of the sons of Hon. Samuel Watts. (Suff. Prob. Ree., L. 71, f. 395.) Hugh Floyd and Joseph Hasey were then tenants. (Ibid., ff. 295, 303.)
June 12, 1782, the Guardians of Bellingham, Samuel and Hannah Watts, minor children of Bellingham and Hannah Watts both deeeased, in accord with a permit from the court of April 20, 1782, conveyed to William Harris of Boston yeoman for £360 lawful money one half of a house, barn, and farm near " Chelsea old meeting housc," - the west half of the house, the north end of the barn, 34 aeres of upland and meadow within the dam, and 1/4 of a pew in " Chelsea old Meeting house," on the middle aisle in front of Rebecca Oliver. (L. 138, ff. 87-91.)
May 6, 1782, William Watts conveyed 14 aeres 58 rods to James Stowers, who on March 11, 1783, eonveyed the same for £114 18s. to William Harris of Hog Island. It was bounded N. on the dammed marsh, W. on Hawks, S. on William Watts; S.E. and E. on the town way. (I. 135, f. 101; L. 138, ff. 91-93.) May 2, 1783, William Watts of Chelsea conveyed to William Harris of Chelsea for £21 three acres 20 poles bounded S. on Deacon Jacob Hasey deceased; E. on William Harris; N. on the road from Chelsea meeting-house to the garden of said Watts. The garden, one fourth of an acre, lay south of the road, and bounded E. and S. on the land here conveyed. (L. 139, f. 58.)
June 15, 1784, William Watts of Chelsea conveyed to his son Benjamin Watts of Chelsea the east half of the house with half of the barn and some 18 acres of land. (L. 143, f. 250.) October 6, 1785, William Watts with his wife Mary, and Benjamin Watts, husbandmen, of Chelsea, conveyed the same to Samuel Sewall of Marblehead for £52. The garden one fourth aere, and the barn with 4 acres adjoining, were on the south side of the road from the meeting-house to Point Shirley. The house stood on the north side of the same road. From the land north of the road three rods of land " lately sold to Wm Oliver where his house stands "
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were excepted. The conveyance was made subjeet to a mortgage executed by Benjamin Watts to Joseph Oliver to secure £65. (L. 151, f. 171.) Sewall conveyed ten and one half acres of upland north of the road to John Tukesbury, Jr., and the remain- der, October 28, 1785, to William Harris. (L. 152, f. 10. See also Wm. Watts to Samuel Sewall, July 3, 1783, 12 acres in the dammed marsh. L. 144, f. 193.) When the tax of 1798 was assessed William Harris owned and occupied a farm of 681/2 acres bounded S. on Ebenezer Butman and John Low (the Hasey farm) ; E. on John Tewkesbury, Jr. (the John Tuttle farm) ; N. on John Low; W. on Samuel Low (land sold Elisha Tuttle in 1730) and Joshua Cheever (land sold Nathan Cheever in 1730). The house covered 1064 feet, was of two stories, had 20 windows, was " old," and with half an acre was valued at $550. His barns were 40 × 30 and 30 X 30; the corn barn 18 X 9. He owned 23 acres in the dammed marsh. As has been evident from the foregoing descriptions the farm of Jonathan Tuttle lay east of the meeting house on both sides of the road to the beach. Its upland bounded north on what was known as the dammed marsh. The southern boundary was a continuation of the northern line of the ancient burial-ground in Revere and Franklin Avenue. In Hop- kins' Atlas, Plate Q, it is plotted in streets, and marked with the names Revere Heights and Wm. G. Harris.
The John Tuttle Farm
In 1689 John Tuttle received as his share of the farm of his father, John Tuttle, the land next the sea, with Lt. William Hasey's farm on the south, Jonathan Tuttle on the west, and the marsh on the north. The children of John and Martha Tuttle, as recorded at Boston, were : Sarah, born January 8, 1685/6 ; John, July 5, 1688; Samuel, March 20, 1691/2; Mary, November 9, 1693; Elizabeth, December 14, 1696. Of the daughters, Sarah married William Hasey, third of the name, May 19, 1709; Mary married John Floyd, third of the name, May 27, 1712. In a decd dated March 28, 1729, it is stated that Samuel Tuttle was the only surviving son of John Tuttle. (L. 43, ff. 116, 117.)
The will of " John Tuttle of Rumney-marish " was probated June 13, 1723. He gave to his wife Martha his household goods and negro girl Peg and all his cattle, great and small, to be at her dispose forever; he gave her the life use of his house and land in Boston, and the use of his farm and his two negroes Jack and James " so long as she remains my Widdow." If she married she was to receive an annuity of twenty pounds. At her marriage or death the farm, the farm implements, the wood lot in Malden, VOL. I .- 15
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and two negroes Jack and James were to descend to his son Samuel, and " the heirs of his body lawfully begotten." Samuel was to pay £200 in money to each of his sisters, Sarah and Mary, within eight years after the widow's death. John Tuttle gave to his two daughters his house and land in Boston after his wife's death. He named his wife exceutrix as long as she remained his widow. The will is in the handwriting of Rev. Thomas Cheever, and the preamble is obviously his, as it appears in many Rumney Marsh wills. The probate of the will was before Judge Samuel Sewall, and the record thereof is characteristically interesting : " Thomas Cheever & Nathan Cheever ... declared upon Oath that the Testator was of sound disposing mind & memory according to theire best discerning, but Elisha Tuttle the other Witness declared that he could not say but the Testator was of Sound mind, but was not free to swear that he was of Sound mind & memory." (Suff. Prob. Files, No. 4758.)
Samuel Tuttle married Abigail Floyd, daughter of John Floyd, second of the name, Dec. 3, 1713. The children of Samuel and Abigail Tuttle as recorded at Chelsea were: Elizabeth, born 1718-23d day-10th month; Abigail, 1721-7-11; Tabitha, 1724-8-7; Samuel, 1726-9-3; John, 1728-16-10; Mary, 1731- 28-12. Samuel Tuttle died Jan. 18, 1742, aged 50 years 10 months. (Gravestonc.) Sept. 7, 1742, Abigail Tuttle was ap- pointed administratrix of the estate of her husband, Samuel Tuttle of Chelsea, husbandman, deceased. (Suff. Prob. Rec., L. 36, ff. 137, 138; L. 40, f. 191.) August 1, 1749, John Hasey and Samuel Hasey of Leicester, Worcester County, quitclaimed to Samuel Tuttle all the real or personal estate of said Samuel Tuttle's father, Samuel Tuttle deceased, and of his grandfather John Tuttle, that is, all rights which they might have to legacies bequeathed "to our late mother Sarah Hasey deceased " by the will of said John Tuttle. (L. 79, f. 185.) The consideration to John Hascy was £230 old tenor bills; to Samuel Hasey £80. April 16, 1752, Sarah Tuttle of Lynn, widow of Samuel Tuttle, Jr., late of Chelsea, quitclaimed to " John Tuttle Junr. of Chel- sea " for £137 silver, her right of dower in her late husband's estate. (L. 82, f. 119.) The intention of marriage of Samuel Tuttle, Jr., of Chelsea and Sarah Mansfield of Lynn was filed March 17, 1751. The term junior was applied to John Tuttle, doubtless because a cousin John, two years his senior, grandson of Edward and Abigail Tuttle, was living also in Chelsea. In 1752, Jonathan Belcher of Chelsea and his wife Elizabeth, Thomas Searjeant of Leicester, Worcester County, and his wife Tabitha, and Samuel Viall of Lynn, tanner, and his wife Mary, quit-
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claimed to their brother John Tuttle of Chelsea, yeoman, their claim to the estates of their wives' grandfather John Tuttle, father Samuel Tuttle, and brother Samuel Tuttle, Jr., all yeomen of Chelsea, and all deceased. (Suff. Deeds, L. 82, ff. 38-40.)
The intention of marriage of John Tuttle and Mary Burrell of Lynn was filed at Chelsea, August 25, 1752. The children of John and Mary Tuttle recorded at Chelsea were: Samuel, born 1753-2d day - 11th month; John, 1756- 18-4; Ebenezer, 1758-4-7; Burril, 1760-5-8 (John, Ebenezer, and Burrell were bapt. Oct. 18, 1761) ; Mary, 1762 - 2 - 10, bapt. Dec. 5, 1762; Ezra, bapt. Nov. 10, 1765.
May 10, 1753, John Tuttle with Abigail his mother, and Mary his wife, conveyed for £419 1s. 4d. to Samuel Watts title to 91 acres 31 rods including the highway which runs through the upland (the road from Chelsea meeting-house to Pullen Point). Of these, 461/2 acres were upland; 443/4 acres were meadow. The land bounded S. on the Hasey farm; W. on upland of said Watts (the Jonathan Tuttle farm), on meadow of Isaac Lewis (sold by Elisha Tuttle), and on the creek; N. on meadow of said Watts, Isaac Lewis, and John Floyd; E. on upland and meadow of John Tuttle. No mention was made of buildings. May 11, 1757, Samuel Watts mortgaged this land to Jane Boucher of Boston for £207; the mortgage was released April 3, 1775. (L. 83, f. 155; L. 90, f. 92.) Nov. 20, 1754, John Tuttle mortgaged 10 acres east of this land, bounded S. by the widow Hasey and his own land E. and N. (L. 86, f. 58.) On May 10, 1754, Abigail Tuttle widow and John Tuttle yeoman with his wife Mary conveyed to Nathan Cheever for £61 2s. 10 acres 33 rods of salt marsh bounded on the beach, a creek, etc. (L. 109, f. 36.) June 10, 1757, William Maycock obtained by writ of execution against John Tuttle of Chelsea, coaster, administrator of the es- tate of Samuel Tuttle deceased, 25 acres bounded N.W. by Samuel Watts (Ebenezer Hough, tenant), the line beginning on the N. side of the " Gate which stands upon the Road leading through the Land of the said Watts & the Land in possession of the said - John Tuttle as you commonly go to Point Shirley "; thence it ran, by a partition fence and ditch running N.E. to the partition fence between John Floyd and said Tuttle; thence S.E. or E. by said fence " untill you come to the Beach leading to said Floyd's House, and from thence Southerly upon the said Road " till it came to the road leading to Point Shirley; thence northwest on the northerly side of the " Road leading Westerly to Chelsea Meeting House " to the aforesaid gate. The land was appraised at £63 by Elisha Tuttle, chosen by the creditor's attorney (Benjamin
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Kent), Daniel Tuttle, chosen by John Tuttle, and Nathaniel Hlasey, chosen by the sheriff. (L. 91, f. 251.) But John Tuttle did not lose definitively complete ownership in these lands.
November 29, 1756, John Tuttle with his mother Abigail and his wife Mary conveyed to Thomas Hills of Malden for £189 6s. 8d. 351% acres of tillage, pasture, and mowing land. It lay southwest of the road from the meeting house to Pullen Point, and hounded northwest on Samuel Watts; southwest on land late of Jacob Hasey and William Hasey both deceased, measuring on that line 80 rods 23 links from the corner of said Watts' land to a heap of stones nigh to the bank next the marsh. Thence the line ran N. 131%° E. 241% rods to a stake; N. 341/2° E. 27 rods to a stake; N. 62° W. 22 rods " to the middle of the Great Spring"; N. 19º W. 39 rods to a stake on the southwest side of the road from Chelsea Meet- ing House to the Beach ; N. 591/4° W. to a stake at the fence divid- ing land of said Watts from the premises. Liberty was. given of " passing out of the Way that leads to the said Wm Hasey's late Landing Plaee into the said demised Premises " at the northeast corner of the same. (L. 89, f. 253. See also L. 100, f. 127.) August 12, 1762, John Tuttle with his wife Mary and his mother Abigail conveyed to Thomas Hills of Malden for £60 nine acres of upland and marsh. The ea'st boundary line passed " through the house between the old house & new," and " thro' the middle of the barn floor." To the south lay the marsh of Hasey and of Esquire Green; to the west Hills' own land. (L. 106, f. 130.) Aug. 13, 1762, the same grantees conveyed to Thomas Hills one half of 42 acres lying north of the road, and one half of two pareels of marsh. (L. 106, f. 129.)
September 17, 1772, Thomas Hills conveyed the above to Dr. Humphrey Devereaux of Marblehead, physician. On the same day John Tuttle with his wife Mary conveyed to Dr. Devereaux for £173 6s. 8d. " The whole of my place or farm I now live on in Chelsea." (1) Five acres of upland and marsh bounding north " on the Town road leading to Pullen Point . .. to the beach "; east " on said Towns road and the beach "; south on lands of Thomas Hills of Malden, and on marsh held by John Tuttle and Thomas Hills; west on said Hills. The western boundary line passed through the farin, and " through the house between the old part and the new." (2) one-half of 42 aeres of upland and marsh north of the same road, the west boundary running from the gate on the town road as the fenee ran down into the dammed marsh ending with a ditch. It bounded north on the dammed marsh of the heirs of Samuel Watts by a ditch; then west on the same by a diteh ; then north on lands of John Floyd " as the fenee stands over the
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ridge to the beach "; then east on the beach to the town road. (3) and (4) two small lots in the marsh. (L. 122, ff. 56, 58.) In 1790 the daughter of Humphrey Devereaux mortgaged this farm; it was then in the occupation of Joseph Cheever. Fifty-four and three fourths acres of upland and marsh lay south of the road to Pullen Point, and bounded west on land of the heirs of Samuel Watts, occupied by William Harris; south on Jacob Hasey de- ceased, and heirs of Ezra Green Esqr. to a small creek in the marsh; thence on said creek, land of the widow Hasey lying to the south, to marsh of Nathan Cheever; thence on said Cheever to Chelsea Beach. On the east, northeast, and north was the beach, and the town road to Pullen Point. Forty-two acres of upland and marsh lay north of the road. (L. 168, f. 159.)
December 21, 1795, Samuel and Abigail Sewall of Marblehead (she being the daughter of Dr. Devereaux) conveyed to John Tuxbury, Jr., of Chelsea for $4000 the above described farm with some 26 acres additional in the dammed marsh, and 101 acres of upland. The latter, conveyed by William and Benjamin Watts to Samuel Sewall Oct. 6, 1785, bounded south on the road and north on the dammed marsh, and lay between the farm of William Harris, and the parcel of 42 acres above described. (L. 182, f. 39.) When the direct tax of 1798 was assessed, John Tewkesbury, Jr., owned and occupied a farm of 127 acres valued at $2145. It was bounded south by Barnard Green and Mrs. Kent (the Hasey farm) ; west by William Harris; north by Hugh Floyd and others ; east by the beach. The house, described as "one Verry old House " 50 X 20, was valued at $50. The barn was 60 X 30.
The boundary between this farm and the Hasey farm was Franklin Avenue with its extension, and the creek which on Hopkins' Atlas formed the north and east boundary of marsh be- longing to Hart, formerly to Jacob Hasey. The marsh of Wilkin- son and of W. T. Hall belonged apparently to the Tuttle farm ; that of J. O. Young certainly to the Hasey and Lewis farmns. In 1690 Edward, Elisha, and Jonathan Tuttle sold to Capt. John Smith salt-marsh at the southeastern corner of their father's farm. Joseph and Josiah Bill acquired this, and in 1729 Joseph con- veyed a parcel, apparently with the same bounds but estimated as ten acres, to Samuel Tuttle. (L. 28, ff. 255-258; L. 30, f. 81; L. 34, ff. 221, 250; L. 43, f. 175.) Presumably this was the marsh sold to Nathan Cheever in 1754. (L. 109, f. 36.) For the title from Cheever to Wilkinson and to Hall, see L. 183, f. 40; L. 894, f. 243; L. 335, f. 164; L. 931, f. 101; etc.) ]
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The Cole Farm
THE Cole allotment comprising upland and marsh (the latter valuable for grass which it produeed perennially without the cost of cutting down forests and clearing upland) was a large estate reaching from the beach on the east to the present county road on the west. Its south boundary was the Newgate farm in small part, but chiefly the creek. It included the old church land, the burial ground adjacent, and the Harris farm. The Pullen Point road ran through it. [Franklin Avenue and the north line of the old burial-ground mark the northern boundary of the farm. The Harris farm and the Pullen Point road from the church corner were not within its limits. The meeting-house built in 1710 stood at the point where the Tuttle and Cole farms joined, and title to the land was conveyed by Elisha Tuttle and the heirs of Lieutenant Joseph Hasey by deed dated October 6, 1710.1 Whether this is the site of the present meeting-house or not is uncertain.2 To the west the Cole farm extended beyond Broadway to the Newgate farm, that is nearly as far to the west of Broadway as Beach Street lies to the east. It ineluded the lands of N. Berry and of T. Gay on the plan of the Yeamans farm in Suff. Deeds, L. 525, f. 305.] May 20, 1645, Cole bought of Valentine Hill a part of his allot- ment.3 [This land was on the Boston peninsula. ]
March 24, 1653/4, Samuel Cole and his wife Margaret, sold to William Halsey (sometimes Halee, Halsie, Hasey, Hasie, Hassy, Haseye and Hazzy; the later form was Hasey) of Pullen Point " All that their farme house Cottage or tent scittuate lying and being in Rumney marshe . . . Exeept and allwaies reserued out of the said dymised prmisses wth their Apprteññes vnto the said Samuell Cole his heires executors and Assignes Oone Six pte of the sd Bargained prmisses wth ye Apprteññcs And all so tenne Acres of vpland ground & Six Acres of meadow or marshe Ex- cepted vnto Edmond Grosse of Boston." 4
1 Suff. Deeds, L. 33, f. 244.
2 Supra, Appendix 11; infra, chaps. xxvi, xxvii.
3 Suff. Deeds, L. 1, f. 59.
4 Ibid., L. 2, f. 4.
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October 26, 1653, Cole sold to Edmond and Mary Jackson (daughter of Cole) " all that dwelling house lately purehased of willjam Halsey " in Boston.5 Halsey's deed of this estate is dated August 24, 1654.6 From this deed it may be inferred that at one time he lived in Boston. These dates seem discrepant; they are from the deeds as printed. [Presumably the eonveyanee first mentioned should read October 26, 1654, as on that date both deeds were acknowledged. In 1645 Lynn, in petitioning for an abatement of taxes, mentioned that many who had paid heavy taxes had removed from the town, - among others " Wm Halsey," whose tax had been £1.7 Possibly this refers to William Halsey of Pullen Point. The first authentic information is that given by his daughter, Esther Green. She wrote "J was Born at Puling Point in the Year 1650 the 20th Day of March. When J was four or five Years old my Father Removed his Family to Rumny Marish."] 8
In Cole's deed to Halsey, as above, are reservations to Edmond Grosse. April 3, 1665, Isaack Grosse [son of Edmond] having purchased the interest [of his sister] in these reserved lands, eon- veyed them to Halsey.9
William Hasey (for so the name eame and continued to be written) was born about 1619 and lived in Boston. He was of the Artillery Company in 1652, freeman as "Wm Hazzey " in 1665. He died May 30, 1689, and lies buried in the Wakefield grave- yard.10 [May 27, 1674, Cornet William Hasey was confirmed as Lieutenant of the Three County Troop, and was in command thereof when it was ealled into action in June, 1675. He mar- ried Judith, widow of Captain Jonathan Poole of Reading, May 16, 1681. He was one of the trustees for that town in the Indian deed September 4, 1686.11 In 1686 John Tuttle appointed Lieut. Wm Harsay, then of Reading, an overseer of his will.]
By Sarah he had William (2) born Sept. 15, 1652; Asa, Jan. 1, 1654/5; Joseph, May 29. 1657; Susanna, May 30, 1660; and Martha, baptized April 24, 1664.12 [Martha died May 4, 1676, aged twelve years, and was buried on Copp's Hill.] Phineas
Suff. Deeds, L. 3, f. 502.
6 Ibid.
Lewis and Newhall, Lynn (ed. 1865), 214.
N. E. Gen. Reg., liv. 211.
9 Suff. Deeds, L. 4, f. 285.
10 Bodge, Soldiers in King Philip's War, 276. [The inscription on his gravestone is printed in N. E. Hist. and Gen. Reg., xxxv. 86.]
Eaton, Reading, 31, 688.
12 Bodge, 276.
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Sprague of Malden married Sarah Hasey, Jan. 5, 1669/70, and Henry Green of Malden married Esther Hasse, Jan. 11, 1671/2, but I have not learned their parentage.13 [ Mrs. Esther Green wrote that she was the daughter of William and Sarah Hasey, and the wife of Henry Green.14 March 9, 1649/50 " Sara Harsey ye wife of Wm Harsey " was admitted to the Boston church, and on March 23, 1651/2 Elizabeth, Sarah and Hester, daughters of " William Hersy's wife " were baptized.]
William (2) Hascy married Judith [daughter of Richard and Martha (Appleton) Jacobs of Ipswich before Nov. 12, 1675, as on that date Mrs. Judith Haey was given a letter of recom- mendation from the church at Ipswich to the Second or North Church in Boston.15 Her brother Nathaniel Jacobs mentioned in his will Nov. 4, 1688, his "sister, Judith Hascy." 16 Wm Hassey was admitted to the North Church April 14, 1678.] They had William (3), born Dec. 21, 1679; Jacob, Aug. 26, 1684; Nathaniel, March 13, 1692; and there was a Judith, an Abigail, and a Martha. [The baptisms at the North Church were: Wil- liam, Feb. 8, 1679/80; Martha, June 11, 1682; Jacob, Aug. 31, 1687; Judith, Dec. 8, 1689; Nathanael, April 24, 1692; Abiel, Oct. 20, 1695.] William died June 7, 1695, and his widow Nov. 17, 1718, aged about 68.
Asa, son of William and Sarah, was an original member of the church gathered at Rumney Marsh October 19, 1715, of which Rev. Thomas Cheever was pastor. [Asa Hasey of the Rumney Marsh church was the son of Lieutenant Joseph Hasey, and grandson of William and Sarah Hasey.17]
Joseph, son of William and Sarah, and his brother William appear to have had the larger part of the Cole allotment. He was known as Lieutenant Joseph Hasey, and died June 28, 1707. Sce in volume ii, the Green house, which may have been the original Hasey house, as it certainly stands (1892) on the original Hasey estate.
Abigail, daughter of William and Judith, was the wife of Jacob Chamberlain, the first of the name in this country to whom the writer of this history can trace his ancestry.
13 [Wyman.]
14 N. E. Gen. Reg., liv. 211.
15 4 Coll. Mass. Hist. Soc., viii. 288.
16 Essex County Hist. and Gen. Reg., i. 164, 165.
17 Infra, p. 233; also Suff. Deeds, L. 33, f. 244.
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The Hascy Farm
[A conveyance dated March 13, 1689/90 recites that “ William Hercy late of Rumly Marsh ... yeoman " died leaving a farm of 190 acres of land, marsh and upland, that " his two sons William and Joseph liuing upon sd farme and haueing agreed with theire Sisters and payd them theire portions . . . did agree wt William Johnson Esqr to deuide the same as equally as he Could the which was dunn to our Content upon the twenty seauenth day of Nouem- ber 1689," and was " layd doune in a platt giuen to us under the hand of said William Johnson." In accordance therewith Joseph Hasey confirmed to his brother William Hasey 95 acres of his father's farm, including four parcels of marsh. The upland was bounded N. by " Land that was formerly Mr Edward Tuttls "; N. and W. by Joseph Hercy; S. by " Land of Mr Nugats also by a Crick of Saltwater "; E. "partly by the marsh that is Joseph Hercys." Of the four parcels of marsh, one lay southwards of the said William's house; another, at the S.E. corner of his land; a third, "northward of the long beach "; a fourth ad- joined Joseph Hercy's marsh on the S.E. The roads then in use through the farm were to continue.18 Joseph Hasey's land was, therefore, the northwestern part of his father's farm abutting westerly on the present Mill and Beach streets; northerly on Franklin Avenue and its extension to Beach Street. On Hopkins' Atlas it included the land north of Railroad Street accredited to William T. Hall, J. Harrington, etc., S. R. Hart, and Hopkins and Hichborn. William Hasey's estate included the land of the Eastern R. R. between Winthrop and Railroad streets; and the upland east of the railroad between the land of Joseph Hasey, as above defined, and the creek and Revere Beach, including about 17 acres which belonged later to the North Shore Land Company.
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