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pike, seven acres lying east, and nine acres west of the turnpike. (Suff. Deeds, L. 252, f. 176.) The distance on the turnpike from the north boundary by Stowers to the south line by the Yeamans farm was 18 poles 2 links. December 16, 1818, John and Charlotte Low of Boston for $606 conveyed to John Wright of Chelsea, five and three fourths aeres twenty-two rods of mowing and tillage land bounded N.W. by Salem turnpike, S.W. by Greenough and others (the Yeamans farm), S.E. by the town road (Beach Strect), N.E. by the heirs of James Stowers. (Suff. Deeds, L. 261, f. 175.) June 3, 1835, John Wright conveyed to the town of Chelsea for $227.81 one half aere one rod of land "at the most Westerly corner of the land which I purchased of John and Charlotte Low " by the deed cited above, as a site for a Town Hall. The lot bounded N.W. on the turnpike and S.W. on the heirs of Greenough. (L. 392, f. 135.) Thus the present Town Hall of Revere stands on the south line of the farm which Samuel Cole bequeathed to his daughter Elizabeth Weeden in 1666. The line of division between the lands of James Stowers and of Low may be seen on the plan of the Stowers estate in Suff. Deeds, L. 260, end of volume. In 1806, James and Lydia Stowers sold to Joseph Pratt, blacksmith, a lot four by ten rods on the western side of the Salem Turnpike adjoining their lands to the south ; this appears on the plan abovementioned, and accounts for the N.E. bounds in the mortgage from John Low to Nathaniel Low. (L. 215, f. 229.) Thus the southern ten or eleven aeres of the Stowers farm west of the old road from Winnisimmet to the meeting-house (Beach Street) belonged originally to the Cole farın. In 1798, James Stowers owned and occupied a house near the centre of the town. Presumably this was the Lewis home- stead. It covered 952 fcet, was of two stories, had 19 windows, was " Verry Old," and with one acre of land was valued at $550. The outbuildings were a barn (60 > 27), and two corn barns (each 12 × 8). Presumably the southernmost house on the plan of Stowers' estate in 1817, above cited, marks the site of the farmhouse of Edward and Elizabeth Weeden, and Isaac Lewis. The house a little south of the point where School and Beach streets diverge marks, presumably, the house of Joseph Lewis, later in the tenancy of Abijah Hastings as noted above. If this was the case, Central Avenue, and its extension west of Broadway, marks the northern boundary of the Lewis farm. When Hopkins' Atlas was compiled the marsh of Edward Weeden's farm was owned by J. O. Young. (See Suff. Deeds, L. 1488, f. 228; L. 870, f. 46.)]
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IN 1783, John Sale, then owner of the estate, wrote to the Assessors of the Town of Chelsea the following letter,1 in which are interesting particulars as to the course of husbandry, the changes in the property made by the sea, and the discouragements of farmers, particularly on the seacoast :
Chelsea April 30 1783
Gent1., The occasion of my writing to you at this Time is because I am over rated which I think I Can make plainly appear, if you will Consider the following things, when my Father in Law Mr. John Floyd 2 Lived on this Farm I now Live on, which lie did 12 years about Seventy years ago, My Grandfather told him the whole farm Contained 300 acres, 187 acres of which is Salt marsh and a number of acres is not worth mowing, &, Since that time the Sea has wasted Some acres of the upland, about 30 years ago the marsh was valuable Salt hay Sold quick to the Southern people which was our Dependance, but Lately they have Cleared up their Swamps which used to Lay Dormant, & mow so much hay that they buy but very Little Salt hay, & sometimes my Grass Stands & my hay Lies upon my hands every year, & I am So Scituated that I Cant Sell it any where else, my Father used to keep above 200 Sheep besides a Large Stock of Cattle & 2 horses when the farm Lay all Common, I have been at a great Charge for 7 years in making Division pastures & Cant keep but about 90 Sheep 20 head of horn Cattle 2 horses & Could not do that but Lately I have turned out two Lots of marsh for the Creatures to feed on, for the grasshoppers has been so numerous for Several years past some people that See them Said they Destroyed as much grass as my whole Stock, I Cant fat my Beef upon the farm am obliged to put them out I have no woodland no Orchard & a very poor house one of the oldest Buildings in the town only fit for Shelter I expend above 20 Cords of wood in a year & find hard
1 A. L. S .; addressed "To the Assessors of the Town of Chelsea." Chamberlain MSS., vii. 103. 2 [Supra, p. 190.]
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to get it some years beeausc the people dont buy hay I pay 10£ yearly for the use of poor Scholars I have paid Mr Payson 5 years annuity for his Sons & in the time paper mony went the order was artfully kept back for 2 years & the third year he brougt me an order for 100 hard Dollars I told him I Could not pay it there was but Little Silver moncy passing but he was urgent for it & finally I was obliged to Sell a yoke of oxen to Discharge the order, I Could tell you some other Difficulties I Labour under were I personally with you, but I think what I have wrote Suffice to convince any reasonable person that I am rated too high, Gent: I dont want no more favour than any other person, but only have you do by me as you would be willing to be done by yourselves, which is the golden Rule, Gent. I Submit these things to your Serious Consideration; not doubting but if you Let them have their due weight upon your minds you will Ease me of some of my Burden which will be thankfully acknowledged, -
by your most Obedient Humle Servt
John Sale
Apparently he sent also the following schedule.3
Chelsea Decbr 2 1783
90 acres pasture 10 D° mowing Land 7 Tonns english hay 11 Do Tillage 170 bush1 grain 150 acres Salt marsh 80 Tonns Salt hay 4 oxen 2 Steers 9 Cows 1 young Bull 1 heifer 3 Calves 2 horses 90 Sheep 4 hogs Gent this is the invoice of my Estate, I have a very poor old house just fit for Shelter I have no orchard & have to buy all my wood which Costs me more than it would do if I had a good house, & I think I Stand too high yet in the Single Rate by reason of that money I pay to the College which should be wholly taken out of the rents of the farm & Desire you would Consider it
John Sale
[Fifteen years later when the direct tax of 1798 was assessed, the farm was owned by John Sale, and occupied by John Sale, Jr. It was bounded, south, west and north on a creek; east on the beach and the Bowdoin farm, and with the house lot was esti- mated to contain 285 acres. It paid annually to Harvard Col- lege $33.33, - the annuity of ten pounds entailed thereon for the support of poor scholars by the will of James Penn. The
& A. D. S., addressed " To the Assessors of Chelsea," Ibid., 127.
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house on the farm covered 1216 feet, was of two stories, and had twenty-two windows. There was a " Back Porch " with three windows that covered 90 feet. A one story wood and " chaise " house covered 390 feet. These buildings with an acre of land were valued at $1100. The farm lands with a barn 60 X 30 feet and a corn barn 14 × 14, were valued at $4342.50. A plan of this farm may be seen in Suff. Deeds, L. 443, f. 96.
In the inventory of Penn Townsend, taken in 1727, the farm was valued at £3000.4 The house of Penn Townsend on the north west corner of Beacon and Tremont streets in Boston was valued at only £800. Seven years later, August 16, 1734, his son-in-law, John Sale, described the latter as " old, and gone much to Decay." He wished to demolish it, if he could obtain a license to rebuild with timber; he planned to erect a "handsome dwelling" 40 feet in front and 25 feet in the rear, 30 feet from the nearest house.5 But he did not rebuild; in 1739 he was anxious to sell. According to the will of Penn Townsend, John Sale and his wife held only a life interest in the estates, the reversion belonging to their children, two of whom were minors, hence an act of the General Court was necessary to enable them to convey title. John and Ann Sale of Boston petitioned the General Court which met April 19, 1739, stating that Ann was the only surviving daughter and heir of Penn Townsend, and that they stood "in need of Mony to repair the buildings upon the aforesd Farm, and to pur- chase Sheep and other Stoek to put thereon, which They design to Improve for the benefit of themselves & their Children." April 24, 1739, the petition was read in the Council and dismissed.
March 21, 1739/40 a similar petition was read in the House of Representatives and referred to a committee. At the next session of the Court, on June 5, the House voted " That Ebenezer Pom- roy, Esq; Capt. Oliver Partridge, Samuel Watts, Esq; and Mr. William Fairfield, with such as shall be joined by the honourable Board, be a Cominittee to view the Premises, and report what they judge proper for this Court to do thereon." When this petition and the order of the House thereon reached the Council, it was met by a protest signed by William Hiekling and his wife Sarah, daughter of John and Ann Sale. They protested that "if the produce of the Land in Boston should be Expended for living Stock on the ffarm such stock would be lyable to be attached to pay Mr. Sales Debts. ... And as the ffarm is surrounded by the
4 Suff. Prob. Rec., L. 26, f. 378.
5 Petition to the Selectmen, Files of the Boston City Clerk, in the base- ment of City Hall.
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Salt water almost there is little need of fencing, And the House is not so ruinous as has bin represented by Mr. Sale in his peti- tion." They added that they were not notified of the petition, and had no opportunity to present their protest to the House of Representatives, which voted favorably on the petition and sent it to the Council for its eoneurrenee. Upon reading this answer the Couneil voted June 7, that the petition be dismissed. The House voted a non-eoneurrenee, and returned the matter to the Couneil with an order for a hearing before a committee of the two houses, Samuel Watts, Esq., William Fairfield, and Ebenezer Pom- roy, Esq., to represent the House.6
To the General Court which met in August, 1740, a petition was presented signed by John Sale and Ann Sale, of Chelsea, Mary and Rebeekah Sale, and John Marshall as guardian for John Sale, a minor. They said that the house on Tremont Street was " ruinous and much gone to deeay," and that all the children were willing to sell except William Hiekling and his wife. They wished to expend the proceeds from the sale "in repairing the Buildings & fenees upon the afores! Farm in Chelsea where the sd John Sale and his Wife are removed," which, they added, were " gone to decay." They were willing that the proceeds from the sale should be placed in the hands of two or more trustees living in and about Chelsea, and that one fourth of the proceeds, - the share of Sarah Hiekling, - should remain in the hands of the trustees. September 2, 1740, the petition was read in the House of Representatives, and it was ordered that William Hiekling be served with a copy of the petition, to show cause, ete. The answer of William and Sarah Hiekling was presented at the November term of Court. They insisted that their share of the estate eould not be determined at the present moment, as the estate was to be divided among such grandehildren of Penn Townsend as were living at the death of John and Ann Sale. Also the " Respondts say that the house & Fenees on sª Farm have been often Repaired & the Income of s! Townsends Estate is Suffiet with a Consider- able Over plus to Repair the Fenees & Buildings on said Farm, if the Pet! John was Inelined to manage the Same for the bennefite of his Children." Also the land in Boston would increase in value, while the buildings and fenees in Chelsea might be permitted to go to deeay so that the respondents might gain very little from the expenditures on them. They added that Rebeekah Sale was a minor, and with Mary and John lived with the petitioner, and was
" Mass. Archives, xvii. 565, 690; House Journal, 1739, p. 239; ibid., 1740, pp. 21, 27.
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" by him influenced to preferr said pet! not knowing their Reall Interest." November 27, 1740, the petition of John Sale and this answer thereto were read in the Council, and the prayer of the petition was refused. December 2, 1740, the House of Repre- sentatives concurred.7
Fifteen months later a third petition was presented. The wife, Ann Sale, had died. This was signed by John Sale for himself and his daughter Rebecea a minor, by Mary Sale, by William and Sarah Hickling, and by John Marshall as guardian of John Sale. These were the " only Surviving Grand children and heirs of the said Penn Townsend." The plan was to place the proceeds from the sale of the house on Tremont Street in the hands of Samuel Watts Esq., Jacob Hasey, Samuel Pratt, and Nathaniel Oliver, Jr., of Chelsea "to be laid out upon the Farm for fitting up the Dwelling house thereon which is much out of repair, & for build- ing a Barn or repairing the old Barn, making of stone Walls, Ditches &c and otherwise as they (or any three of them) shall Judge most for the advantage of the Farm." If there was an overplus it was to be let out at interest, and the income paid to John Sale for life. March 24, 1741/2 the House of Representa- tives voted to grant the prayer of the petition; March 29, 1742, the Council concurred. The name of Jacob Hasey was omitted.8 A fourth petition, signed by the same parties, and tendered, it was said, at the request of the purchaser of the house, was pre- sented to the Court which met in May, 1742, praying that William Hickling and John Marshall be added to the committee for the expenditure of the money. This was granted by the House of Rep- resentatives June 14, 1742. The Council concurred June 18.9 There still remained of the estate of Penn Townsend the half of a brick house on Marlboro Street. John and Ann Sale in April, 1738, had petitioned in vain for permission to sell. In June, 1743, permission was granted. Samuel Watts was then the guar- dian of John Sale, Jr., a minor about sixteen years of age.10
Apparently entailed estates were not popular among the land- holders of Chelsea. Twice the entail on the Newgate-Shrimpton farm was barred by a common recovery, - by Nathaniel Newdi- gate in 1687, and by John and Shute Shrimpton Yeamans in 1742. That on the Dudley and Oliver farms was also barred by the same process. Inability to accomplish this, because of the minority of
- Mass. Archives, xvii. 720-722.
8 Ibid., 864.
9 Ibid., 898; also xviii. 48.
10 Ibid., xvii. 538; xviii. 139.
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their children, eaused Edward and Rebeeea Watts to come to New England in 1710, and establish themselves on the Ferry farm.
John Sale was the first proprietor to live on the farm. Pre- sumably he moved thither in 1739 or 1740. Both the earlier owners of the farm, James Penn and Penn Townsend, were influ- ential citizens of Boston, and lived on the northwest corner of Beacon and Tremont streets. James Penn was a ruling elder in the First Church, and a deputy to the General Court. Penn Townsend, his nephew, was colonel of a militia regiment, com- mander of the Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company, select- man and moderator of town meetings, deputy to the General Court, Speaker of the House in 1696 and 1697, Assistant for twenty-seven years, Chief Justice of the Inferior Court of Com- mon Pleas for Suffolk County, 1718-1727.
Who the tenants on the farm were is not known, but not im- probably John Grover, whose name appears on the Rumney Marsh list of 1674 and 1676; and William Colmer, on the tax lists of 1687, 1688, 1692, 1695, and 1702 (also as " William boumer " in 1701). Possibly John Floyd (born 1687) succeeded the latter, as he lived on the farm for twelve years, "about Seventy years ago," John Sale wrote in 1783. The only children who sur- vived Penn Townsend were two daughters by his first wife, Sarah, sister of Isaac Addington, Secretary of the Province, and niece of Governor John Leverett. Sarah married Ebenezer Thayer, pastor of the Second Church in Roxbury. Ann married John Sale June 5, 1712. Mrs. Thayer died without issue. John Sale was the son of Ephraim and Mary Sale, and was born January 17, 1686/7. The children of John and Ann Sale as recorded at Boston were: Mary, born July 3, 1713, died young ; Sarah, born Oct. 11, 1714, married William Hickling, Nov. 21, 1734; Penn Townsend, born April 9, 1718, mentioned in the will of his grandfather Penn Townsend, died before 1739; Mary, born May 21, 1719, married Benjamin Tuttle of Chelsea, Feb. 14, 1744/5; Rebeckah, born May 26, 1722, married William Oliver, son of Capt. Nathaniel Oliver of Chelsea, Jan. 6, 1742/3; John, born March 17, 1723; John, born March 3, 1727.
John Sale, married (2) Huldah Belknap of Boston April 16, 1742. December 29, 1749, He joined the church at Rumney Marsh, where he died in September, 1763. By his will, dated August 25, 1763, he gave to his wife Huldah the plate she brought with her at her marriage, one half his pew in Chelsea meeting-house, and also his negro man Cæsar for life. (Cæsar owned the covenant Feb. 12, 1758, and was married March
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22, 1759, to Susanna, a servant of "Granny Tuttle.") To his son John he gave his lands "at the Eastward at great Chebeg & Caseo Bay " in possession of Colonel Westbrook's and Brigadier Waldo's heirs. To Benjamin Tuttle's daughter Huldah he gave 20s .; to John Sale Oliver, son of his daughter Rebeeca, 20s .; to Rev. Phillips Payson, 40s. The remainder of his estate was to be divided between his wife Huldah and his three children, - John Sale, Sarah Hiekling, and Rebeeea Oliver. The executors were his wife Huldah, son John, and Thomas Goldthwait, Esq.11 The farm does not appear in the inventory of his estate; 12 it descended according to the will of Penn Townsend. The widow Huldah Sale died in May, 1780, aged ninety-two.13.
The son, John, married Sarah, daughter of John Floyd, April 7, 1752. She died in June, 1785, aged fifty-nine.14 He died April 20, 1803, aged seventy-six.15 June 24, 1784, John Sale of Chelsea conveyed to John Sale, Jr., for £400 lawful money, "my Estate for life which I hold in said Chelsea and whereof the said John Sale Iunior hath the reversion - the same being bounded on the Eastward side by land of the honorable James Bowdoin Esq" and the other sides bounded on Chelsea River excepting one small part which adjoins on point Shirley marsh being the homestead plaee whereon I now dwell." 16
John Sale, Sr., was for many years deacon of the church at Chelsea, but resigned that office April 29, 1798, and presumably was not living in the town at the time of his death. The following children shared in the distribution of his estate: Anna (born 1753-30th day 10th month) ; Penn Townsend Sale (born April 10, 1760) ; Mary (born Nov. 3, 1763), wife of Andrew MeFar- land; Sarah (born March 22, 1766), wife of John Randall; Rebeckah (born Mareh 4, 1769), wife of Walter Perkins.17
November 29, 1797, John Sale, Jr., of Chelsea, married Deborah Hobart at Boston. The farm was under his improvement when the direet tax was assessed in 1798. His wife died December 18, 1804, aged thirty-one.18 Colonel John Sale married (2) Hannah Butterfield April 2, 1810.19 A plan of the " Farm in Chelsea
11 Suff. Prob. Rec., L. 62, f. 445.
12 Ibid., f. 591.
13 Church Records.
14 Ibid.
15 Gravestone.
16 Suff. Deeds, L. 143, f. 263.
17 Suff. Prob. Rec., L. 103, f. 83; Vital Records of Chelsea.
18 Gravestone.
19 Church Records.
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belonging to the Heirs of the late Col. John Sale," was made by Alonzo Lewis, November, 1838. The upland was 129 acres, 57 rods; the marsh 128 acres, 131 rods; the beach 8 acres, 3 rods, - a total of some 267 acres.2º This farm, bounded by Sales Creek, Belle Isle Inlet, and Revere Beach, included within its bounds the present Beachmont.]
20 Suff. Deeds, L. 443, f. 96.
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MARCH 16, 1703/4 " Mr. Dean Winthrop, of Pulling Point, dies upon his Birth-day, just about the Breaking of it. He was Taken at eight aclock the evening before, as he sat in his chair, sunk first, being set up, he vomited, complain'd of his head, which were almost his last words. Hardly spake anything after his being in bed. 81 years old. He is the last of Gov" Winthrop's children . . . statione novissimus exit. March, 20. is buried at Pulling Point by his son and Three Daughters. Bearers Russel, Cooke; Hutchinson, Sewall; Townsend, Paige. From the House of Hasey. Scutcheons on the Pall. I help'd to lower the Corps into the Grave. Madam Paige went in her Coach. Majr. Gen1 and Capt. Adam Winthrop had Scarvs, and led the widow. Very pleasant day ; Went by Winisimet." 1
Sewall's statement that Winthrop was buried at Pullen Point is remarkable, for his gravestone is still seen at Revere, more than a mile away from Pullen Point and Winthrop's residence. So was Hasey's housc. And yet Sewall, who lowered the corpse into the grave, says it was at Pullen Point. This seems decisive; and if so, then Winthrop's remains must have been transferred to Rum- ney Marsh, where they now lie. [To a dweller in the Boston peninsula the line of demarcation between the districts popularly known as Rumney Marsh and Pullen Point was presumably in ordinary parlance no more definite than that now between Roxbury and Dorchester. When the original grant of Pullen Point was made to the town of Boston in 1632 it included " the necke of land betwixte Powder Horne Hill & Pullen Poynte." Note also that in the Direct Tax of 1798 the Sale farm, which included within its limits the present Beachmont, was accounted a part of Pullen Point. Elder Hasey's landing place was on the creek which formed the west bound of the Sale farm.]
Will of Deane Winthrop 2
Jn the Name of God Amen the Twenty ninth day of December Anno Dni Seventeen hundred and two J Deane Winthrop of
Sewall, Diary, ii. 96.
2 Suff. Prob. Rec., L. 15, ff. 273, 274. The will was probated April 27, 1704.
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Pullingpoint within the Township of Boston in the County of Suffolke in N: England Gent., being of perfect & sound mind and Disposeing memory, Doe make and Ordain this my last Will and Testamt, as followeth. First J commend my Soul to Almighty God, my Body to the Earth, and as touching such worldly Estate wherewith it hath pleased God to bless me, J dispose of the same in manner following. First I will and Ordain, That all such Debts as I shall happen to owe at my decease shall be truely paid as they grow due; and that the funeral of my body shall be decent and Christian like, at the Discretion of my Execrs. herein After named. And after my Debts paid and funeral Expences deducted J will and Ordain, That my loveing Wife Martha shall have yearly paid unto her the Sum of Twenty pounds a year during her Natural life out of the Incomes and profits of my Estate in lieu of her Dower and Thirds, And J do also give unto her the use & Service of my Negro Woman named Moreah, during my Wifes Natural life. Jtem I do will, devise and bequeath unto my Grandson Iotham Grover, onely the Sum of Five pounds, because he is under the care & Tuition of his Grandmother Kent. Item J will, devise and bequeath unto my Grandsons Deane Grover & John Grover the Sons of my Daughter Margarett, And to my Grandaughters Priscilla Adams and Priscilla Haugh, and to their heires & Assignes forever, the rest residue and Remainder of all my Estate, both Real & personal, whersoever the same is, can or may be found to be equally divided among them, when the Young- est shall Attain the Age of Twenty one years or be married, but if my Grandaughters Priscilla Adams & Priscilla Haugh shall happen to dye before such division of my Estate be made, - then J will That the Sum of One hundred & fifty pounds currant money of New England, or the value thereof in such things as the Country doth produce, be paid unto each of their Fathers, my Sons in Law Eliah Adams and Atherton Haugh, or unto the Father of either or such of said Girls as shall happen to dye under Age or not marryed as Aforesaid, - And that after such paymt. or paymts., the remainder of my sª Estate shall be Equally shared among my said two Grandsons, but if one of them be then dead without issue, the Survivo! to have the whole; And in case any of my said four Grandchildren dye before Age or marriage as aforesaid, or without Issue, then the part or Share of Such Grand Child or Grandchildren so dying and not leaving Issue shall be Equally divided among the Survivours - Saving what herein before is by me Willed or provided for in case of the Death of my sª two Grandaughters or either of them And if all my sª Grand Children dye before they Attaine their respective Ages
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