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5 Mass. Acts and Resolves, iii. 454, 456.
" For other services, see ibid., iii. 559, 743, 817, 941, 958, 1056, and 1061; and iv. 320, 338, 378, 431, 449, 630, and 791.
[Suff. Prob. Rec., L. 60, f. 220.]
8 A rough draft of a bill shows that Edward Watts, the younger, kept a grocery at Winnisimmet, in connection with the ferry, as early as 1716. Chamberlain MSS., i. 117.
Mr Channing, Dr. to E. Watts, vizt .:
£ S. d.
1715. To a Bill Carryed in
02 15 00
Mar. 3. To Cash Lent .
05 00 00
.
1716, May 22. To Ferrage of Mr : Antrams horse 02
June 7. To 1 Wtt : of Sugar 01 16
.
Aug. 30. To 1 Quart of Brandy 00 04 2
To 2 horses, Mr Morphell 00 12 0 7br 10. To 2:34 Gall of rum 00 13 9
19. To a horse to Hampton 00 16 0
Chamberlain MSS., i. 129.
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in his newly acquired inn. From time to time he purchased lands, and before 1739 one half of the mill, in Revere, on or near the site of Slade's Mill. As has been said, public affairs came to engage his attention, and his situation was favorable for his advancement.
The site of his mansion was the most beautiful in the upper bay. On a bluff twenty or thirty feet above high water, rounding boldly and gracefully to the sea, as some now living recollect it, before it was razed and cast into the water, and looking southward towards the sun, it commanded a view of Dorchester Heights, across the bay ; and on the left was Eagle Cliff, the highest point of Noddle's Island; and on the right was Moulton's Point in Charlestown; and beyond were the imperial hills of Boston. Here, about 1730, he built a mansion house, recollected by some living as a good specimen of colonial architecture, now removed to Tre- mont Street, and divided into tenement houses. Not far away were the great barns, a blacksmith-shop, the inn, a trade house, and the buildings connected with the ferry. It was the felicity of this position that many not only passed by it, but many also tarried at it, - men whose acquaintance, thus formed, promoted the political advancement of Samuel Watts.
In 1734, at the age of thirty-six he was justice of the peace, an office of more consequence than now, and rarely conferred save for merit. From 1742 to 1763 he was Councillor; and judge of the Court of Common Pleas from April 6, 1748, to his death in 1770. In 1746 he was connected with the army, and commissioned as muster-master of the force raised for an expedition against Canada. In 1752 he was commissioner, with Thomas Hubbard and Chambers Russell, to treat with the Eastern Indians. Besides these varied duties he managed the ferry, and, like some other eminent men of his, and even of a later day, such as General Israel Putnam, he kept a tavern, to which was added trade, black- smithing, and farming.1º
Besides his regular occupations Samuel Watts was a Director of the Land Bank. This, a revival of a scheme originating some years before, was opposed by Governor Belcher, who characterized
10 A Day-Book, apparently in his hand, from April, 1742, to April, 1746, indicates that he gave his personal attention to all these matters; but, from the papers of Captain Richard Watts, his second son, it appears that, from 1746, and perhaps a little earlier, Richard was manager of the busi- ness which had grown up about the ferry. I have selected, infra, p. 348, from his Day Book some items which give the names of a few of the public characters who frequented his inn; and also show the varied activities and modes of life of the little community at Winnisimmet, of which Samuel Watts was the leading man. See Washburn, Judicial Hist. of Mass., 328.
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it as " a thing so full of fraud & of all other mischiefs that the nature of it will admit of." 11 As a plan to make chcap money it was the prototype of that brought forward 150 years later by the Populists. It divided the people into parties, one of which was in favor of coin, and the other of a paper currency, based on farm products and manufactures of the province. It was on this issue that Samuel Watts was elected Speaker of the House, and his election was negatived by Governor Belcher. Neverthe- less the plan was supported, as the Governor wrote to the Lords of the Admiralty, by " a great number of the merchants and gentle- men of the best substance." 12 They proposed to emit £150,000 in bills loanable on the securities as named above. This was very popular with the farmers, who thus found money very plentiful, but, in the end, very costly; for, by accepting loans, they became partners in the Bank, and on its failure, individually liable for its outstanding bills.13
11 Beleher Papers, ii. 363, and Hutchinson, Hist. (ed. 1795), ii. 189, 353. 12 Beleher Papers, ii. 368.
13 This matter is very fully treated by Andrew McF. Davis, vide Publi- eations of the Col. Soe. of Mass., iii. 2-40; but the nature of the trans- aetion is best shown by a single example, of which Chelsea afforded many : Benjamin and Sarah Floyd, in consideration of £200, in Bills of Credit, ealled Manufactory Bills, received of Robert Auchmuty, Samuel Adams, William Stoddard, Peter Chardon, Samuel Watts, George Leonard, Robert Hale, John Choate, and Thomas Cheever, Directors of the Manufactory Company (so ealled), by the said Benjamin Floyd, for his share, as a Partner in said Company, do give, grant, ete. [The land west of B. H. Dewing's estate (1874) on both sides of Malden Street.] Provided, the said Floyd shall pay, at the expiration of every year, for twenty years, five in the 100, of the principal sum now received, and three per eent, interest in Manufactory Bills, as aforesaid, or in merehantable Hemp, Flax, Cordage, Bar Iron, Cast Iron, Linnens, Copper, Tan'd Leather, Flax Seed, Bee's Wax, Bayberry Wax, Sail Cloth, Canvas, Nails, Tallow, Lumber, Vizt., Shingles, Staves, Hoops, White Pine Boards, White Oak Plank, White Oak Boards, and Ship Timber, Barrel Beef, Barrel Pork, Oi!, Whale Bone, or, Cord Wood, of the manufactures, or produce, of the Province, aforesaid, Logwood, at sueh prices, as the Directors shall judge they pass for, or, in lawful money, at six shillings and eight pence, per ounce, with one per cent advance, thereon, at the respective times of payment, then this deed to be void, etc., Sept. 9, 1740. Suff. Deeds, L. 60, f. 25.
Similar mortgages in Chelsea were made by Edward Tuttle, Thomas Pratt, John Brintnall, Nathan Cheever, Benj. Brintnall, Isaac Lewis, Samuel Watts, John Chamberlain, Jonathan Beleher, Samuel Floyd, Benj. Blaney, Joseph Hasey, Hugh Floyd, John Floyd, Daniel Watts, Samuel Pratt, William Hasey, and, perhaps, others.
As predicted by the best business men of the day, and predestinated by financial laws, the Land Bank [eame to a disastrous end by aet of Parliament ] ; and this brought trouble to the partners. October, 1743,
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After a long and honorable life Samuel Watts died March 5, 1770. Ilis business interests were numerous and varied, re- quiring for their successful management more exclusive and con- stant attention than his publie duties allowed. As a result his affairs on his death were found to be in disorder, aggravated by a custom of those days of allowing mutual accounts to run for years without settlement.14
an act was passed for the more speedy finishing of the Land Bank, or Manufactory Scheme, providing for the appointment of commissioners to adjust its affairs, and to assess its partners their several shares for the redemption of its bills.
In their report appear the names of several citizens of Chelsea, with the sums for which they were severally liable: Samuel Watts, £20; Jona- than Belcher, £3; Samuel Pratt, £2; Edw. Tuttle, £4; John Chamberlain, £4; John Brentnall, £4; Samuel Floyd, £2; Nathan Cheever, £4; Benja- min Brintnall, £4; [ Benjamin Floyd, £8; Hugh Floyd, £18; John Floyd, £3; Daniel Watts, £8; William Hasey, £4; Thomas Pratt, £6; Benjamin Blaney of Malden, £4; Isaac Lewis, £6.]
These assessments were complained of for many years; and Samuel Adams, the patriot, was more truculent than honest in resisting the sale of his patrimonial estate for the payment of the just claims of those who held the bills of the Land Bank Company.
The last I find of Samuel Watts's conection with the bank is as follows: Land Bank, Dr., to Samuel Watts.
1741. To my Sallery
£150
1742. To, ditto, for 1% ycar
75
1745. To cash pd in
20
1749. To Ditto
33
278
the Inter., 278£, 26 years
433
13
2
1763
pd. in .
87
10
Interest, 3 yrs.
15
15
814
18
2
71/2.
5704 7
2
407
9
1
Due me, Sept., 1766 S. WATTS.
6111
16
3
·
The last I find is this :
1769. Bro't from the Beginning of this Book . . £6111 : 16 3
To 3 ycares Interest, of the above . . 366 14 01
In The Boston Gazette, August 21, 1744, is printed an act supplementary to " An Act for the more speedy finishing of the Land Bank," with a list of some delinquent in their ducs, with the amount of cach. A list of the partners in the Land Bank (perhaps complete) is in the Evening Post (Supplement, No. 543), 1745. The settlement of the bank lasted many years; and I have an original execution issued against one of the bor- rowers, dated September, 1764. More about the Land Bank is in Acts and Resolves (Goodell's ed.), iii. Index.
14 An example of this is given infra, p. 349.
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The division of Samuel Watts's estate among his eight ehildren and their legal representatives is in the Probate Offiee.15 Its extreme length allows nothing more here than a general statement of its purport. It was divided into portions, severally assigned to those entitled at an estimated valuation ; these were to be equalized by assessments on those whose allotments of the realty exeeeded their just proportion. To Samuel Watts,16 as the eldest son, was set off a double share, consisting of the mansion house with three- fourths of an acre of land, the small dwelling-house, wliere William Watts lived, with the eorn house, the dwelling-house, where the tavern was kept, [two ferry boats] and the ferry, [the new barn, the west end of the old barn, the chaise house, an old blacksmith's shop, about 138 aeres in Chelsea and 400 aeres in Royalston], all valued at £1762 18 4.
To Ann Hough, his second daughter, the house in which she lived, near the mansion house, with 8 aeres of land, adjacent, [the warehouse near the tavern, the east end of the great barn, twelve acres of pasture] and 12 aeres of marsh, [200 aeres in Royalston and one-fourth of a wall pew in Chelsea meetinghouse between the pews of Deaeon John Sale and Captain Jonathan Green.] all valued at £374 6 8.
To Edward Watts was assigned (and greatly to his dissatis- faction; for he desired the Ferry estate) 1% of the Daniel Watts estate [200 aeres in Royalston, and one fourth of a pew], valued at £564 6 8.
To Hannah Danforth, wife of Dr. Samuel Danforth, 1/2 of the Daniel Watts estate, [ete.] valued at £564 6 8.
To the representatives of Bellingham Watts the westerly half of the Jaeob Chamberlain estate (formerly, the Jonathan Tuttle, now the Harris estate, in Revere) [three and one-half acres of salt-marsh belonging formerly to the Hasey farm, about 200 aeres in Royalston, and one-fourth of a pew in Chelsca meeting-house] valued at £442 13 11.
[To William Watts the other half of the above estate one-half of the grist mill in Chelsea, one-fourth of a pew, about 200 aeres in Royalston, valued at £489. 14.] .
To Elizabeth Kent, wife of Benjamin Kent, land in Boston and Royalston, valued at £51 19.
To the representatives of Richard Watts land in Royalston, valued at £45 6 00.
15 L. 71, f. 395.
10 Samuel Watts was a most respectable man. He was honored by his fellow-citizens with many municipal trusts, which he discharged with ability and fidelity, and was chosen to represent them in more public and responsible stations.
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Total valuation of the real estate, £4,293 11 3. Appraisers, John Dexter, Thomas Pratt, and Samuel Sprague, May 15, 1772.
Among Samuel Watts' personal effects were Negro Charles, with apparel, £33 6 8; Cato, 20; Flora,17 20; 160 ounces of silver, 53 8 41/2.
17 Flora may have been " that Negro woman " who was the subject of the following letter from Jonathan Green, one of the administrators of the estate of Samuel Watts, to Dr. Samuel Danforthi, in the right of his wife, a daughter.
Sir: I am not able to come to Boston to Day about Selling that Negro woman. I have been with Mr Watts, this morning, to Get him to go to Boston to Day, but he Cant but we have agreed to Sell her for £200 old tenor and Let whoso will be Inelined to buy Let them Come to us and if we Can think it Best to abate of that Sum we will Do that; that we think will be best for the Estate.
yours to serve
Jona Green
Monday Morning Nov! ye 19th 1770.
Ps I eould and would have Gon to Boston in Said affair Last Satterday had I known it a Little Sooner; but I had not the news untill the Sun Seant half an hour high at evening and no wind to Carry the ferry boats over So that I Could not have Rowed my boat over & done the business & returned that night. Mrs Pratt Last Fryday morning promised to get that money for Mrs Hannah Watts that she sent for direetly I hope he has given it to her.
[Addressed ] For Doeter Samll Danforth of Boston.
Chamberlain MSS., ii. 63.
Jonathan Green, of Stoneham, where his family had long resided, eame to Chelsea about 1769, and returned to Stoneham about 1786. He appears to have been a eordwainer, and an able and efficient publie man. He acquired a valuable estate in Chelsea (among others, the whole of the Maverick farm, now owned by the United States). While in Clielsea, lie filled almost every offiee in the gift of the people, and was usually sought by them for making their deeds and wills, and for administering their estates. Hle, with Samuel Watts, the younger, administered the estate of Hon. Samuel Watts, sometimes ealled Major Watts. This estate, thougli large in realty and in personalty, was mueh involved, and, perhaps, in- solvent. The administrators divided the labor, each taking and becoming responsible for certain " moveables." Madam Sarah Watts, the widow, appears to have held property in her own right, and was a ereditor of her husband's estate: henee, this entry in Green's account. "To I Day, in Reeoning with Madam Sarah Watts, & Selling to her, Several Silver Vessels, to pay part of the debt, dne to her." Major Watts had given a bond to William Oliver for the reeonveyanee of certain land. Green spent a day in Boston consulting with Lawyer Adams, later better known as John Adams. Major Watts had given a deed of a valuable estate in Revere (the modern Harris farm) to his son Edward, and without con- sideration, as was thought. The heirs desired Mr. Green to consult with " Lawyer Quinsey," afterwards the famous patriot. He did so, "twise."
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The third wife of Samuel Watts was Madam Sarah Oxnard, the widow of Thomas Oxnard of Boston, who married her, March 10,
Twice also he went to "Lawyer Otis," the then famous James Otis, Jr. To the ordinary troubles of administration of Samuel Watts' estate, were those which arose from the renewal of the attempt to reopen litigation in respect to Governor Bellingham's will, of which I give an account under that head.
Jonathan Green's father, like all his neighbors who could afford it, purchased slaves: as witness the following:
Boston, June ye : 7th : 1716.
Know all men by thees presents, that I, Thomas Porter of Boston In Newengland Dow Sell . . . a Nager man, named Dolphin for ye Sum of forty pounds Curant money of ye Cunter as Wittniss my hand ye Day and year, aboue mentioned, and have Reed : ye Ualey, for ye Same. THOMAS PORTER. Chamberlain MSS., v. 6.
To Capt Jonathan Green. Sir: I do alowe of my negro man, Jack, To be maried To Deen Joseph Greens negro woman, Cloea, and that yo may Publish Them when they Desier it.
Reading April : 6 : 176S. DAVID GREEN. Ibid., v. 75.
Watts estate. An account of what the heirs take.
Mr. Samll. Watts takes of the moveables
Belonging to his fathers estate . in old tenor is
318: 12: 6: 0
Mr. Willm Watts Takes of the move- ables, and the Boat moncy & Great Bible about £13. L m In old tenor is
27: 13: 4: 0
Mr. Ebenr. Hough takes of the move- ables and ferry Boat money
in old tenor is
178. 12 6 0
7: 10 8 3
Mrs. Eliz Kent takes of said moveables In old tenor is
56: 0. 6 0
Capt. Richd Watts takes of said move- ables
7. 0 0 0
is in old tenor not all taken. Docr. Edwd Watts takes of sd. move- ables
11: 0 0 0
is in old tenor
82. 10 00
Doer. Samll. Danforth & his wife takes of sd moveables
16: 7. 4 0
is in old tenor
122. 15. 0. 0
Lawfull money
135: 17: 4: 3
Total in old tenor is
1019: 0. 6. 0.
then adding thereto the Rents of the farms & buildings & wearing ap- parrel at .
133. 6. 8. 0
in old tenor is 100: 0. 0. 0.
So that the children take about £2000 o: t. Chamberlain MSS., 11. 137.
42: 9: 8: 0
305. 0 0 0
23: 16. 4. 0
52. 10 0 0
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1756.18 For some time after [1757] they lived in the Oxnard house, in Boston.19
Madam Watts held a life interest in the great mansion-house, which after her death was set at | £145-6-8; the southeast quar- ter of the house with half the garden was leased in 1772 for] £4, 13, 4, L. M. She died before Sepember 3, 1773, when her will was proved in Suffolk County. It bears no date, and though she is described as of Falmouth, the witnesses were well-known Boston people. [She died July 16.]
Her will indicates opulence, and contains matters of interest. She gives to " my eldest son," Thomas Oxnard, £180, L. M., two pair of silver candlesticks, a shagreen case of knives and forks, six silver spoons, and " my best Diamond Ring." To her son Edward Oxnard, £180 L. M., and my silver coffee pot and my silver waiter and all my silver spoons marked T. O. To my daughter Mary, wife of Doctor Edward Watts, my gold watch, all linnen & wear- ing apparel, one pair of silver butter cups, my picture, by Copley, and a ruby ring set with diamonds. To Mercy Basset, the sum of £6. To each of my sisters, Mary Turner, Katherine Sargent, and Mercy Osborne, 40s., L. M., and the same to Elizabeth Kent, wife of Benjamin Kent, to buy them a ring of remembrance. To my granddaughter, Sarah Watts, £25, L. M., to be put out by my executors, and paid to her, when of lawful age, or married; and I give her her mother's picture, done by Copley. The residue, to my three children, Thomas, Edward, and Mary, equally. I give to my servant, Prince,20 his freedom from the state of slavery, and £4, L. M." Her sons, Thomas and Edward Oxnard, to be executors.21
The Watts family continued a most respectable one down into the present century, when, as has been the case with many other families, the members had removed to other communities, and in the male line it has but few representatives in its old home.
[In response to the suggestion 22 that the estate of Samuel
18 Sarah Osborne - per Boston Marriages. The name is given as Mary by Willis (Smith's and Deane's Journals, Portland) .
19 So I infer from an extract of a letter of Edward Watts, who married Mary, daughter of Madam Oxnard, who, after Samuel Watts died, was at Falmouth, Me. It was written to the administrator of the Watts estate, and dated March 17, 1772. "I would not omit quainting you that [ the] two Mr. Oxnards are going to put in a Clame against the Estate for my Father not paying them for the Rent of there part of the House he lived in while in Boston which was about four years which will be near £100 Sterling." Chamberlain MSS., ii. 117.
20 Prince Watts married Violet Hasey, July 26, 1770. Church Records.
21 Suff. Prob. Rec., L. 73, f. 94.
22 Supra, p. 344, note.
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Watts may have been insolvent, the following certificate is given.23
Suffolk ss
Foster Hutchinson Esq. Judge of Probate &s Certifies the Honble His Majestys Justices of the Inferiour Court &c That by the Accompts of Samuel Watts and Jonathan Green Administra- tors of the Estate of the Honb! Samuel Watts Esq. late of Chelsea in the County aforesaid deceased Intestate and a List of Debts remaining due it appears that the Debts will exceed the Personal Estate Eight hundred fifty six Pounds, seven shillings & 3ª - The Real Estate has been appraised at Four thousand six hundred eighty one Pounds nineteen Shillings & 4ª
Dated at Boston the 26º Day of July 1771 F Hutchinson.
Administrators must, if possible, satisfy all debts out of the personal estate of the deceased. If that was not possible, the court declared the estate insolvent, and empowered the adminis- trators to sell enough of the intestate's real estate to pay his debts. The above certificate accompanied a petition of Samuel Watts and Jonathan Green to the Court for such a permit. This is the real estate of Samuel Watts as inventoried by Thomas Pratt, Samuel Sprague, and William Low, February 28, 1771.24
1. The Farm at the Ferry with the Building thereon & the Privileges of the Ferry, containg about 200 Acres of Upland, & salt Marslı
2. To Deacon Watts Farm, so called, Upland & Salt Marsh, with the Building thereon containing about, 140 Acres
2133 : 6: 8 800 : -
3. To a Farm near Chelsea Mcetg house wth the Buildings thereon containg about 150 Acres 999 : 6 : 8
To one half of a Grist Mill, in Chelsea 66 : 13 : 4
To Lands, lying in Royalshire, so called containing 2008 Acres at 2/- 200: 16 :
To certain Piece of Land lying in Boston measurg 100 feet one way, & forty the other 9 : 18 : 4
4210 : 1 : -
To this was added a Farm with house and barn thereon in Blanford, Hampshire Co. £ 471:18: 4
On November 22, 1771, the administrators advertised the following lands for sale, - about 20 acres near Chelsea meeting-
23 Court Files, Inf. Court of Common Pleas for Suff. Co., July term, 1771.
24 Suff. Prob. Rec., L. 70, ff. 95, 98.
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house with a barn thereon - (formerly part of the Hasey farm) ; " one half of the Two Grist Mills " in Chelsea; "between Twenty & thirty Acres of Meadow, near Chelsea Beach lying within the Dam so Call'd"; also about thirty acres of the Island End Marsh "lying partly in Malden & partly in Chelsea "; the lot of land in Boston (100 X 40 ft.) ; a number of lots in Royal- shire, and a farm of about 1000 acres with buildings thereon in Blanford, Hampshire. March 5, 1772, Green wrote Dr. Edward Watts that they had sold the twenty acres on the road between Chelsea mills and meeting-house, the Island End marsh of about thirty acres, and the lands in Blanford.25 The remainder of the real estate was divided among the heirs.]
Extracts from the Day Book of Samuel Watts 26
1742, May 19. Richard Watts Dr. To a Negroe Girl, Named Moll . £100
June 9. Capt. Temple Dr. To ferrege to Jack . . 00 06
Sept. 3. Peter Oliver Dr. To Horse and Chaise to Chelsea 00 10 00
[Afterwards, Chief Justice Oliver: the journey was from the ferry to the centre of the town, then called Chelsea, now, Revere. ]
Aug. 30. Mr. Goldthwait Dr. To a Chaise ferrage to Jack
00 5 00
Oct. 4. Mr. Joseph Merion Dr. To Horse to Pis- cataqua, eight Days . [Joseph Marion, at one time, Secretary of the Province. ]
5 00 00
Sepr. The Manufactory Company Dr. To a horse to Cap ann for Mr. Hiller .
£1
10 00
Mr: Thomas Gooding Dr. To Cash pd towards the Slupe Two Brothers, & Cargo, Sept. ye 9, 1742
£125
Octr. 27. To Ditto .
60
p. Cr By Qr., part of Said Slupe Cargo & out Sets . £240.10.11 Nov. 6. Benja. Blaney Dr. To five Hides, Wt 416 . 13 17 4
Dec. 25. Mr. Saml. Floyd, of Chelsea Dr. To cash paid (by his order to me by word of mouth ) to the late Dyrectors of the Manufactory Company at Boston Sepr. ye 17th, 1742
47 13
pd the Justice for Acknowlidging his dis- charge, 2 6
[Of this company, and Samuel Watts' con- nection with it, we shall hear more.]
20 Chamberlain MSS., ii. 91, 93, 111.
28 Chamberlain MSS.
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Feby. 1742/3. Manufactory Company, Dr., To cash pd. Collo. Pollard, for Service don the Company 1743, Sept. Mr: John Brintnall, Cr. By Cash, twenty Shillings, Manufactory Bills, for which I'm to give a receipt on the Back of his Note four pounds old tenor.
£11 14 00
1744. The Honble John Jeffries Esqr. Dr. To Caslı Lent, at ye Castle to pay the workmen 4 0 0
To Ditto to pay the bargemen Nov. 26. Mr. Lee, of Mhd [Marblehead], Dr., to a Horse to Mhd., and contrary to Solem promis, put two men on him, we was seen p. Mr. Levenstone £5 00 0
0 12 00
This year he added to his stock :
Octr 29. Memdm: Young Cattle bought of Mr. Williams [of Noddle's Island] Vizt.
one Bull
one Red Spark'd Steer with a White face. one Red Ditto with a White face.
one Black Ditto with a Brown Nose. one Red spark'd Ditto.
one Black Ditto. one Red Ditto whiteface.
one Red Ditto.
one Black Spark'd Ditto.
one Brown Ditto.
one Red Ditto.
one Red Sparked Ditto.
one Red Hefter
one Red Sparkd Ditto
one Sparked Do.
one black Ditto.
one Brown Ditto. 17, all one Years and Advantage.
1745, March 13, Thomas Hutchinson [afterwards the gov- ernor ], Dr. To Horse to Cape Ann . May 17. Danll Watts Dr. To Jack, for boating Hay, 30 of March last . [His brother, owner of the Carter farm and marshes southerly, from which, by a gulch, navigable by gundalows, hay and other farm produce was carried by Island End River to the Mystic, and thence to Boston for exportation to the south.]
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