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67 Suff. Deeds, L. 177, f. 268, 269; also L. 168, f. 233; L. 172, f. 128.
68 Ibid., L. 175, f. 101.
6 Supra, p. 297.
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session of all the Ferry farm except the marshland, which Samuel Watts (1717-1791) and Mrs. Ann Hough sold to Dr. Samuel Danforth.7º At the time of his death in 1791 Samuel Watts owned 28 acres of marsh within the dyke, 341/2 acres of pasture, 363/4 acres of mowing-land, and 4 acres of tillage; 71 also 121/2 acres of woodland that was not a part of the Ferry farm. In 1798 HI. H. Williams of Noddle's Island and Samuel Danforth made an exchange of marshland, Williams conveying to Danforth the marshland bouglit of the heirs of Samuel Watts that lay within the dam north of Island End River.72 Thomas Williams sold to the United States, July 6, 1825, five acres at the southeast corner of the farm, bounded on the sea south and on the County road north. This with five acres purchased from the adjoining Shurtleff farm formed the first Marine Hospital lot.] 73
70 Suff. Deeds, L. 168, f. 67.
71 Suff. Prob. Rec., L. 91, f. 96.
Suff. Deeds, L. 191, ff. 205, 209.
73 Ibid., L. 302, f. 161; L. 301, f. 145; L. 351, f. 76. A plan of the Hospital Lot is in L. 718 end; see also plans of the Ferry and Shurtleff farms, L. 351, f. 153 and L. 393, f. 185.
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HENRY HOWELL WILLIAMS (son of Colonel Joseph Williams, of Roxbury in 1775) was born October 23, 1736, married Elizabeth, daughter of Thomas Bell, 28 January, 1762,1 and died at Chelsea, December 26, 1802. Having married the daughter of the lessee of Nodale's Island, he removed thither, and there he remained until he removed, about 1800, to Chelsea, where, some years previously, he had purehased the Ferry farm, later known as the Williams farm, though ealled by him Howell Plaee. The Williams journal, which appears to have been prineipally kept by the daughters of Mr. Williams, says under April 8, 1793, " Papa went to Chelsea immediately after dinner; there purehased a farm "; after which a daily intereourse was kept up between the Island and Chelsea until the removal of the family thither. The children of Henry Howell and Elizabeth Williams, probably all born on Noddle's Island, were: Elizabeth, b. Aug. 6, 1765, m. Andrew Sigourney Oet. 7, 1797, d. 1843; Henry Howell, b. Mareh 9, 1767, m. Sally Williams Sept. 25, 1800, d. 1832; Martha, b. Aug. 25, 1768, m. Daniel Sigourney Jan. 28, 1798, d. 1828; Thomas, b. Sept. 2, 1770, m. Eliza Avery Feb. 3, 1803, sueceeded his father as tenant of Noddle's Island, and died at Chelsea, 1833; John Shirley, b. May 3, 1772, m. Naney Hunt May 6, 1807; Harriet, b. Dee. 1, 1773, m. John Avery, Jr. (father of John Avery, Esq., of Lowell), April 9, 1799, both lost at sea Oct. 27, 1800; Ardelia, b. July 6, 1775, d. unmarried April 9, 1838; Naney, b. 19 March, 1777, m. Amos A. Williams Oet. 31, 1802, d. at Baltimore, Sept. 7, 1804; and Catherine, b. Jan. 15, 1780.
Mr. Williams was a man of character, and his life presents many interesting incidents, but as they oceurred chiefly at Noddle's Island, where his life was mainly passed, the reader is referred to Sumner's History of East Boston, where they will be found, and from which I have drawn a large part of the foregoing. Doubtless the papers in the possession of General Sumner contain many faets of interest respecting Chelsea. I have sought, and am still seeking for them, but thus far in vain, so that I am not able even to verify sueh statements as I have drawn from General Sumner's history.
1 Sumner, East Boston, 323.
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He and his son Thomas were successive tenants of Noddle's Island for seventy years. In the Revolution the property of the father was destroyed by the American troops for public reasons, and as a partial compensation General Washington gave him the abandoned barracks at Cambridge, which he removed to Noddle's Island, and partly used for building a house. Like some others who finally joined the revolutionary party, he was an " Addresser " of Governor Hutchinson.
[October 21, 1817, Daniel Sigourney of Chelsea, merchant, and his wife Martha quitelaimed to Thomas Williams of Noddle's Island their right to the homestead of the late Henry Howell Wil- liams in Chelsea, to the Ferry Ways there, and to the house and land on the corner of North and Lynn streets in Boston, which all had been set off in April, 1804, to Elizabeth Williams, widow of Henry Howell Williams, as her dower. The following releases were recorded with the above: April 21, 1821, from Ardelia and Cath- arine Williams of Chelsea, spinsters, for $2,400; from John Shirley Williams of Roxbury with his wife Nancy for $1,200; from John Avery of Boston, merchant, March.1, 1822 ; from Henry Howell Williams of Colrain, Franklin County, May 8, 1827; from Amos Adams Williams of Baltimore and his daughter Nancy ; from Elizabeth Sigourney of Boston, widow, for $900.2]
2 Suff. Deeds, L. 351, ff. 145-150.
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[IN the inventory of Governor Bellingham's estate Nicholas Rice was mentioned as tenant at £20 a year of one of the Win- nisimmet farms. He became involved in the conflict over the governor's will, as is related elsewhere,1 and removed to Reading. In 1692 his wife Sarah, who had "lived with him as a good, faithful, dutiful wife ... above twenty years," was imprisoned for some five months in the Boston jail on a charge of witchcraft. Nicholas Rice, petitioning in her behalf, said she was in her " old age " and " decrepit." 2 She died in 1698. He may have been the Nicholas Rice of Boston, planter, who executed letters of attorney in 1648 for the collection of legacies in Essex and Suffolk, England. He called Joseph Belknap of Boston brother.3
William Eustace succeeded Rice as tenant on the farm.4 He had seven sons and three daughters, born after 1659.5 Upon his death November 27, 1694, his widow Sarah and his son John were appointed administrators of his estate.6
In 1697 and 1700 lawsuits were brought against Sarah, widow of Willian Eustace. She died in June, 1713, aged 74, and was buried at Charlestown. William (1) Eustace at his death in 1694 owned land in Boston, on which a house had been built by the eldest son John. According to the inventory of the son's estate, he lived apparently on " the Back Street" at the North End of Boston. At least three sons lived at Winnisimmet, Joseph, . William, and Jonathan. Joseph died Jan. 29, 1690/1. Joseph's wife Abigail also died between January 29, when a babe was born and died, and February 27, when Samuel Townsend of the neigh- boring, farm presented an inventory of the estate of Joseph and Abigail Eustace. His brother, Benjamin Eustace, died on January
Infra, appendixes to chap. ix. and chap x.
2 Eaton, Reading, 110.
8 Boston Rec. Com. Rep., xxxii. 160; infra, chap. x. appendix.
Infra, Appendix 3 to chap. ix.
" With two exceptions their births are recorded at Boston. For the genealogy of the family see N. E. Hist. and Gen. Reg., xxxii. 204.
" Suff. Prob. Rec., L. 13, ff. 518, 519. His estate was appraised by John Smith and John Center.
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4, and was buried in Malden. Possibly the family suffered from the small-pox, which was then epidemic at Rumney Marsh.7 It was forbidden to carry the dead across the ferry for burial in Boston. In 1701 and 1702 the farm was taxed to William Eustace, the second son. Jonathan's name does not appear on either tax list, yet he was constable for the Rumney Marsh distriet in the year 1706, surveyor of highways the succeeding year, and fence viewer in 1708; while William was tithingman in 1709. The estates of Jonathan (2) Eustace, who died in 1738, and of his nephew Thomas (3) Eustace (son of William), who died in 1752, were both settled in the year 1760. Among the effects of Thomas Eustace were 71/2 cows.8 The lawsuit, instituted in 1757 by the town of Chelsea to recover this farm under the provisions of Governor Bellingham's will, was brought against Joshua Eustace, housewright, and Abigail Eustace, widow of Thomas Eustace. Joshua Eustace, husbandman of Chelsea,? was the administrator of the estate of Jonathan Eustace in 1760. Thus it appears that William (2) Eustace and Jonathan (2) Eustace and their heirs shared the tenancy of the farms until after 1760. Their sister Mary married November 30, 1708, Abraham Townsend of the adjoining farm. She and her sisters were mar- ried by Rev. Cotton Mather of the North Church in Boston, and the children of Joseph, William, and Jonathan were baptized there.10
William, son of the first William Eustace, was born February 25, 1660-1; married Sarah Cutler, daughter of Thomas and Mary Cutler of Charlestown, October 29, 1688; died February 10, 1736-7, aged seventy-seven years eleven months and twenty days, according to the gravestone at Revere. His wife died June 28, 1748, in the eighty-fifth year of her age. The ages and dates of death, as deciphered on the gravestones, are not quite in accord with the dates of birth given in the Boston records for William Eustace, and by Wyman for the wife, Sarah Eustace.11 Jonathan, son of the first William Eustace, was married by Rev. Cotton
7 Mass. Archives, xxxvi. 388.
8 Suff. Prob. Rec., L. 47, ff. 43, 417; L 54, f. 387.
Ibid., L. 57, f. 252.
10 Joseph Eustace, who died in 1690/91, joined the North Church March 24, 1689, and had his daughter Abigail baptized April 7, 1689. Sarah,
- wife of Jonathan Eustace, owned the covenant June 23, 1706, and had three children, Jonathan, Sarah, and Mary, baptized; William Eustace owned the covenant November 1, 1713, and had four sons baptized, Joseph, Thomas, Nathaniel, and Samuel, also two daughters, Mary and Ruth.
11 See also Suff. Deeds, L. 33, f. 16, where it is said that Sarah Eustace was 52 years old in 1718, June 18.
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Mather to Sarah Scollay November 16, 1699; he died, the grave- stone at Revere states, September 3, 1738, in the sixty-third year of his age.
Of the sons of William (2) Eustace and Sarah Cutler, two, William and Thomas, lie buried at Revere. Thomas was the first of his family to join the church at Rumney Marsh (Jan. 21, 1727/8), and his children were baptized there. He married, May 12, 1730, Abigail, daughter of Deacon John Chamberlain by his wife Hannah. The widow Abigail Eustace and her son William (4) Eustace left the farm April 19, 1775, and were living in Charlton, Worcester County, in 1785. On the same day their neighbor Jonathan Green by command, he said, of the Council of Safety removed his stock from Chelsea and took it to Reading. This was in order to cut off supplies from the British fleet in Boston harbor. Eustace was a tenant merely, and his removal was permanent. When in 1757 a part of the so-called Country Gore was annexed to the district of Charlton, Samuel and Na- thaniel Eustis were among its inhabitants.12 Thomas (3) Eustace of Winnisimmet had two younger brothers of that name, and according to his inventory, dated November 27, 1752, he pos- sessed 88 acres " in a place called the Country Gore." 13 Thomas and Abigail Eustace had two sons, Thomas and Chamberlain, who were settled in Rutland, Massachusetts, at the outbreak of the War of the Revolution. The first married a daughter of Dr. Wheat of Newton; the second a daughter of Rev. Joseph Buckminster.14 Two daughters lived at Rumney Marsh, Mary, who married Wil- liam Harris March 29, 1774, and Abigail, who married Joshua Cheever May 8, 1765. Finally William Eustace returned to Chelsea, was tenant of the Yeamans farm when the dircet tax was assessed in 1798, and died in 1818. The widow Abigail Eustace died in 1798. Both lie buried at Revere.
When William Eustaee left the farm it was owned by the descendants of the Robert Thompson who bought it in 1686. Their agents in America for renting it had been Thomas Cushing until his death in 1746; then Secretary (later Lt .- Gov.) An- drew Oliver till his death in 1774; after that apparently Thomas Hutchinson. Owned by an Englishman, whose agent was an emigrant loyalist, the town of Chelsea took possession, rented it, and finally claimed title thereto under Governor Bellingham's
12 D. H. Hurd, Hist. of Worcester County. Some 70 years before a Robert Thompson, possibly the proprietor of the Winnisimmet farm, owned 6000 acres there.
13 Suff. Prob. Rec., L. 47, f. 417.
14 Jonas Reed, Hist. of Rutland, 127.
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will, as the later chapters will show. From 1776 to 1779 Joseph Oliver and Ezra Brintnall were the town's tenants. After April 1, 1779, Rev. Phillips Payson accepted the farm in lieu of a portion of his salary. May 14, 1781, he informed the select- men that he had brought from Abington the widow Rebeckah Payne (aged about 40) with six children, and put them in the house on this farm. January 8, 1782, the selectmen warned them to depart, but the constable reported, "cant due nothing "; and entered a caution with the clerk of the County Court. September 21, 1787, Colonel Thomas Dawes as agent for Robert Thompson of Elsham, England, received formal possession of the farm. Josiah Batcheldor was mentioned as the tenant in 1793.15 The house standing on the farm in 1798 covered 1230 feet, was of two stories, with nineteen windows, was " Verry Old," and with an aere of land was valued at $660. There were two barns, 60 × 30 and 40 X 27, and a eorn barn 15 × 15. Josiah Batcheldor was the tenant.]
15 Suff. Deeds, L. 175, f. 245. Feb. 16, 1789, the selectmen of Chelsea gave the constable a warrant to warn out of town Captain Josiah Bachelor, his wife, Sarah, and their children, Nancy, Richard, Dolly, Josiah, Sarah, and Moses. They came from Kingston, N. H. Selectmen's Records, i. 200, 203.
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[MRS. ANNE GREAVES died intestate in 1738. By the indenture of June 21, 1728, two-thirds of the farm was confirmed to Thomas Greaves, who survived lier, and one-third passed at his deatlı to her heirs, her brother, William Antram, and her sister, the wife of John Channing and great-grandmother of William Ellery Channing. Thomas Greaves died June 19, 1747, leaving his two- thirds of the farm, with other property, to his two daughters, Katharine, wife of James Russell of Charlestown, and Margaret, wife of Captain Samuel Cary.1 The heirs of Mrs. Anne Greaves retained their interest in the farm at Chelsea until 1763, wlien they sold their rights to James Russell and Samuel Cary. Ben- jamin Cushing of Providence, who had married Elizabeth Antram in 1734, with his son Benjamin and his daughter Ann, sold one- tenth of one-third; Darius Sessions, who married Sarah Antram in 1750, his wife Sarah and Mary Antram, spinster, all of Provi- dence, sold four-tenths of one-third. William Antram of Provi- dence, merchant, had previously given his sister Mary a deed of gift of his two-tenths share. Eleazer Trevett of Newport, mer- chant, with his wife Sarah and Ann Channing, spinster, sold the remaining one-half of Mrs. Greaves' third of the farm. John Channing of Newport, merchant, had executed a deed of gift to his two sisters, Mary and Ann, in 1746.2 The consideration for the third of the farm was about £438.
Several acres adjoining the mill dam had a separate history. When a grist mill was built on Mill River the southern end of the dam touched this farm, and Thomas Greaves became owner of a half interest. March 6, 1737/8, title to this, a "Small Dwelling house," and a portion of the farm adjoining the house and mill pond, was conveyed by Thomas and Ann Greaves to Dr. Philip Thompson, who on the following day conveyed the same to Thomas Greaves, the consideration being the same in each conveyance, - £1000. Thus Mrs. Ann Greaves debarred her heirs from inherit- ing her thirds in this property, which descended to his daughters. In 1737/8 the house and, mill were in the occupation of Joseph
1 Middlesex Prob. Files, 6738.
2 Suff. Deeds, L. 101, ff. 11-17.
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Gould, the land in that of Stephen Kent. It was bounded south- cast by the river, south by a small ereek ; and from the head of said creek by a straight line up to the mowing land; then south by the stone wall of the mowing land to the northwest corner of that wall ; then by a straight line running northeast across the mill pond; north by the mill pond and creek; cast by the river. Forty acres were contained within these limits according to the record in the Suffolk Registry. Yct in a conveyance dated September 14, 1749, the land, described as above, was stated to contain 80 acres; and the remainder of the farm about 300 acres.3 As the heirs of Mrs. Ann Greaves quitclaimed all rights under the indenture of June 21, 1728, James Russell and Samuel Cary held in 1763 title to the whole farm, for the conveyances of 1749 above cited had vested title to the property in James Russell and Samuel Cary instead of in their wives.4
October 26, 1765, James Russell and his wife Katharine con- veyed to Samuel Cary for £591 an undivided half of the entire farm, which is there described as containing three hundred sixty- four acres, with dwelling-houses, barns, etc. The farm was said to be in the occupation of Samuel Sprague and John Oldham. Mention was made in an earlier deed of " a messuage on said land near the mills." 5 This house, occupied by Joseph Gould in 1737/8 and 1749, presumably was the one occupied by Oldham in 1765. James and Katharine Russell retained their right to one-fourth of the grist mill and dam." Thus in 1765, three years after his wife's death, Samuel Cary was sole owner of the whole farm and of one-fourth of the mill.
Four years later, December 4, 1769, Captain Samuel Cary died at Chelsea. His will, dated November 14, 1763, was probated December 29, 1769. After the gift of a house in Boston to his eldest son, Samuel, he left the remainder of his estate, including this farm, to his three sons, Samuel, born September 20, 1742, then in business at St. Kitts, Grenada; Thomas, born October, 1745, a minister at Newburyport; and Jonathan, born October 21, 1749.7 Jonathan Cary went to sea, became a captain, and died without heirs. November 12, 1770, Samuel Cary of the Island of Grenada, planter, now in Boston, mortgaged to Thomas Cary of Newburyport one-third of the farm for £500.8 September 13,
8 Suff. Deeds, L. 67, ff. 76-78; L. 105, ff. 66-72.
Ibid .; also L. 78, f. 235.
10 Ibid., L. 78, f. 235; L. 105, ff. 66, 68, 71, 72.
6 Ibid., L. 107, f. 52; L. 110, f. 23.
" Suff. Prob. Rec., L. 68, f. 437.
8 Suff. Deeds, L. 118, f. 153; released September 14, 1784.
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1784, Thomas Cary of Newburyport, clerk, sold to Samuel Cary of the Island of Grenada for £750 an undivided moiety of the farm and one-eighth of the gristmill ; and on the same day Samuel Cary and his wife Sarah mortgaged the entire farm and one-fourth 'of the mill to Thomas Cary for £1350.º September 18, 1795, Samuel Cary, of Chelsea, conveyed this farm, 365 acres with the mansion house and other buildings, to William Tudor and John Codman.in trust for the use of " Sarah Cary, wife of Samucl Cary for and during the term of her Natural Life," then to the use of the children of the said Sarah by the said Samuel.1º No mention was made of the mill rights. In the dircet tax of 1798 the man- sion house with an acre of land was assessed at $1100. It was of two stories with 31 windows. It covered 1596 feet; the wood house covered 450 feet, and a chaise house, 288 feet. The outhous- ing consisted of two barns, 40 × 30 and 30 X 18, a stable and tool-house, 40 × 12, an open shed 36 × 12, and a corn barn 16 × 12. These with 362 acres were assessed for $6502.50. A house of one story, 28 X 13, occupied by John Low, the tenant farmer, with an acre of land was valued at $60.
February 2, 1851, Henry Cary, Anne M. Cary, Harriet Cary, Thomas G. Cary, George B. Cary, Robert H. Cary, and Wm. T. Cary, seven of the surviving children of Samuel and Sarah Cary, each possessing one-tenth of the estate, and the four surviving children of Sarah Tuckerman, wife of Rev. Joseph Tuckerman and daughter of said Samuel and Sarah, conveyed their interests in the Cary farm to Charles S. Cary for $120,000.11 He acquired another tenth from the assignces of Margaret Cary.12 September 1, 1851, Charles S. Cary of Chelsea conveyed the farm to Joseph W. Clark, the consideration being $150,000. May 1, 1852, Joseph W. Clark of Dedham conveyed the same to The Cary Improve- ment Co.13 Charles S. Cary, Ann M. Cary, and Harrict Cary retained the mansion house and 38,164 square feet of land. The house is still standing (1906).14. So far as the records show the lands of the Cary Improvement Company in 1852 were iden- tical with the farm set off to Thomas and Ann Greaves in 1728, notwithstanding the fact that in 1765 the farm was estimated to contain 365 acres, in 1728, 300 acres.
No mill rights were conveyed to The Cary Improvement Com-
9 Suff. Deeds, L. 145, ff. 12, 20; released February 9, 1811.
10 Ibid., L. 181, f. 181.
11 Ibid., L. 625, f. 177.
12 Ibid., f. 179; see also L. 596, ff. 121-126; L. 617, ff. 284, 285.
13 Ibid., L. 625, f. 180; L. 632, f. 198.
14 Ibid., L. 642, ff. 88, 89. Plan by H. H. Wilson.
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pany. A few words as to their history follow. Mill rights in Chelsea date apparently from May 5, 1722.15 In 1735 there were two grist mills on the Mill River,16 full ownership of which became vested in Thomas Greaves and Hon. Samuel Watts, in the latter apparently by purchase from Thomas and Samuel Pratt, sons of Thomas Pratt of the Way-Ireland farm, who died in 1732. At the death of Hon. Samuel Watts, in 1770, the mills were in the improvement of Thomas Pratt, under the supervision of Hon. Samuel Watts, as the administrator charged "to one Day with mr. Russell & M". Cary to Inquire after mr. Pratts man- ner of Improveing Chelsea Mills I finding no Contract between Major Watts & said pratt." 17 At this time one-half of the mills belonged to the estate of Hon. Samuel Watts, one-fourth to the heirs of Samuel Cary, and one-fourth to James Russell. For £13 6s. 8d. paid October 7, 1769, and a like sum payable yearly for eleven years with interest thereon, James Russell of Lincoln sold one-fourth of the mills to Jonathan Williams of Chelsea, the final conveyance being signed and acknowledged December 1, 1780.18 August 21, 1781, Jonathan Williams of Chelsea with his wife Lydia conveyed the same for £26 12s. 4d. in specie to her father, Samuel Sprague, tenant of the Cary farm.19 In the meantime, on May 27, 1780, James Stowers, son-in-law of Samuel Sprague, had acquired the half of the mills formerly owned by Samuel Watts.20 Samuel Cary and his brother owned one-fourth. June 27, 1793, James Stowers with his wife Sarah conveyed one-half of the mills to Samuel Cary for £52 8s. 2d., and one-fourth to Joshua Cheever for £27 11s. 8d.21 Apparently the mills were stand- ing at that date, but were destroyed before 1795. In February, . 1795, Samuel Cary and the owners of the Pratt and Cheever farms petitioned the General Court to be incorporated for the pur- pose of building a dyke across the Mill River. They recite that " they are the Owners of upwards of Seventy Acres of Salt Marsh . . . at the End of a Creek whereon a Grist Mill formerly stood, which Land as it is now subjected to the Effects of the Tide is of very little Value, but if secured against the Salt Water by a strong
15 Boston Rec. Com. Rep., viii. 165; also Chelsea Town Records, May 18, 1763.
10 Chamberlain MSS., i. 139.
17 Ibid., ii. 87.
18 Suff. Deeds, L. 176, f. 243.
19 Ibid., L. 135, f. 99.
20 Ibid., L. 135, ff. 96-98.
' Ibid., L. 176, ff. 244, 245. See also L. 136, f. 198 for a conveyance to John Buckman and Thomas Lock.
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Dike would be made a valuable Property to your Petitioners, while it added a large Parcel of Grass Land to a Town the smallest in the County." 22 The petition was granted and the dyke was constructed.
April 29, 1819, Sarah Cary of Chelsea, widow, quitclaimed to the Town of Chelsea for $412 her right to erect a mill or mills on Mill River " on a dam of such height as will keep said river filled with Water, without overflowing the Marsh above said Dam." She gave a warranty against all claiming under her or her hus- band, Samuel Cary, deceased.23 March 28, 1822, the heirs of Joshua Cheever conveyed to the Town of Chelsea for $137.50 their right " to the old mill site " and to one-fourth of the mill rights.24]
22 Mass. Archives, papers filed with chap. 71, acts of 1794. The peti- tioners were Samuel Cary, Joshua Cheever, Edward Pratt, Caleb Pratt, Caleb Pratt, Jr., for Samuel H. Pratt, Samuel Pratt, and Joseph Chcever.
23 Suff. Deeds, L. 264, f. 172.
24 Ibid., L. 281, f. 243.
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APPENDIX 9
[STEPHEN KENT may have been the immediate suecessor of Samuel Watts on the Townsend-Cary farm, for he was fence- viewer at Rumney Marsh in 1734 and eonstable in 1736. Presum- ably he was a brother of Benjamin Kent, who married Elizabeth, daughter of Samuel Watts, and a son of Joseph Kent, of Charlestown, and was born June 14, 1706.1 Feb. 4, 1735/6, he married Elizabeth Hasey, daughter of Deaeon Jaeob and Abigail Hasey of Rumney Marsh.2 The following ehildren appear on the Boston and Chelsea reeords :
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