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1776, March 11. Voted to allow the people at Pulling Point, their proportionable part of School money, they laying out the same in schooling their Children. That the school be kept in the body of the Town this present year.38
1777, March. Town paid Hugh Floyd,
To making 2 seats for the school, and finding Stuff for 1 . £1-2-6
To Mending the Schoolhouse windows 0- 15-0
To Making a Writing Table for the School 1- 2-6
To 1/2 cord wood, for School 4-10-0
£7-10-0
March 18. Voted to keep the school in the body of the town the whole year, and to allow Winnisimmet and Pulling Point their proportionable part of the School money this present year, pro- vided they lay it out in schooling their children.39
1778, Jan. 8. Allowed the whole of Dea. Benjamin Brintnall's account to pay off his Boarding himself 29 weeks, while he kept the school, from March 24, to Oct. 20, 1777, at two dollars a week, £17-8. And for keeping the Town's school, as abovesaid, at seven shillings and six pence a week, £10-16-6, and also for a key for the School-House door.40
1778, March 9. A writing and reading-school to be kept in Chelsea, this year, said school to be kept in the body of the town, at Pulling Point and at Winnisimmet, at each of said parts of said town a proportionable time, according to the Taxes that each of said parts pay. That Winnisimmet and Pulling Point may draw out of the Treasury their part of the money raised by the town for schools, provided they lay out this money for their schooling.
Voted, Deacon Benjamin Brintnall keep the Town's school till May meeting next.41
36 Town Ree., i. 153.
37 Ibid., 164.
38 Town Rec., ii. 6.
39 Ibid., 12.
40 Ibid., 17.
41 Ibid., 20.
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1779, March 8. Voted to have the school kept in the body of the town 31 weeks, at Pulling Point 12 weeks, and at Winnisim- met 9 weeks, all which makes a year.42
1779, December 16. Oliver Everett received of Joseph Green £75 for keeping school in Chelsea from January 2, '79.
December 28. Oliver Everett received of Selectmen £300, " which, with what I have heretofore Received, is in full for all my keeping school in Chelsea." 43
42 Town Ree., ii. 42.
43 This gentleman may have been the Rev. Oliver Everett, father of Alexander II., and Edward Everett.
As far as is known, the first school building in Winthrop was the seliool house erected in 1805, which stood on the present town hall site. The following copy of an old paper in possession of Mr. Hermon B. Tewks- bury gives the names of the seholars who were taught the three R's in the old Bill house, still standing on Beal street. The name of the teacher is not known :
Wednesday, February 3d, 1779.
This day opened a school att Mr. John Tuksberys att Pullin Point to teach Reading, Writeing and Arithmetick.
Write g 1 Came this day
& Read gy Jona Bill Tuksbery
Sarah Tuksbery
J. T. Junr Arithmetiek
Thos Tuksbery
Jno Tuksberys Children
Hannah Tuksbery
Write g: Anna & Poll .. Do.,
James Tuksbery Molly Tuksbery Jas T y. Childn John Sargent Tuksbery
Joshna Gleason eame ye 22 Feby to write
Jacob Gleason
Susanna Gleason { Josiah Gleason Do.
Hannah Gleason ) Readg & Writeing
Hannah Wood ) Seth Woods Do.
Seth Wood
& Write g
Thomas Bowman Mrs. Sargents Boy
George Davison Mr. Davison
Read g
John Beleher Na Belcher junr son
Andrew Tuksbery junr) Read g & Writeing
Susanna Tuksbery
Hannah Tuksbery
Elizabeth Tuksbery Carter Tuksbery
!
Andw Tuksberys Chiklren
Memo kept sehool till Saturday the 20th March included which was six weeks and four days 1779 and was obliged to desist (for want of fire- ing and Bill Tuksberys being sick ) all exeept JJnos Children.
Memo. Jona Bill Tuksbery dyed att one Clock in the morning the 6th
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1780, March 13. Voted to proportion the school money accord- ing to the number of weeks set to each part of the town. Com- mittees to provide school-masters, Joshua Cheever, Richard Shute, and James Stowers for the body of the town and Pulling Point; John Tucksbury and James Tucksbury for Pulling Point, further ; Capt. Jonathan Green and Ezra Brintnall for Winnisimmet.44
1781, March 12. School to be kept this year in Chelsea as usual. Joshua Cheever, Richard Shute, and James Stowers a committee to get a schoolmaster for the body of the town. For Pulling Point, John Tucksbury and James Tucksbury. For Win- nisimmet, Capt. Jonathan Green and Mr. Samuel Watts.45
1782, March 14. Voted to have the school kept as it was last year.46
1783, March 10. Voted to have the school kept in the body of the town 31 weeks; 12 weeks at the Point, and 9 weeks at the Ferry. Capt. James Stowers, Joshua Cheever, and Mr. Samuel Floyd Committee of the School for the body of the town. Deacon John Sale, Mr. John Tucksbery for the Point.47
March 11, 1783. The Selectmen gave Richard Shute, Junr., an order for keeping school, for four pounds & one shilling.48
October 30, 1783. Voted, not to raise any sum of money to repair Chelsea school-house.49
November 10, 1783. Reconsidered the vote not to repair the school-house. Voted to raise £8-16 to pay for said repairs, to be assessed on the polls and estates of Chelsea.50
1785, May 12. Voted to allow Messrs. Jesse Upham, Aaron Bordman, Aaron Bordman, Jr., and Wm. Bordman, their part of school money from 1781.51 These persons, I think, lived in the northwesterly part of the town, known as the " Pan Handle."
January 25, 1786. Gave Aaron Bordman an order for £5-6-11, his proportion of school money allowed him from 1781.
April 1779, aged 13 years the next day, vist, 7th April, of the Gaundice Billious Collick Fever &c. and was Intered att Chelsea ye 8th.
Memo. made out the accot fro ye 2 Febry to ye 23 March is 7 Wecks
a
44 Town Rec., ii. 51.
45 Ibid., 62.
40 Ibid., 69.
47 Ibid., 78, 88, 94, 97.
48 Selectmen's Rec., i. 109; and sce ibid., 111, 112, 113, 114, 116, 117, 119, 120, 121, 122, 123, 124, 125, 127, 128, 129, 130, 131, 133, 134, 135, 136, 137, 138, 143, 144, 147, 148, 150, 151, 152, 153, 155, 156, 157, 158, 160, 161, 162, 163, 164, 165, 166, 167, 168, 169, 170, 172, 173, 174, 175, 176, 178, 179, 181. 49 ! Town Rec., ii. 85.
50 Ibid., 86.
51 Ibid., 97.
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Mr. William Bordman for same, £1-16-8. Jesse Upham same. £0-17-8. Aaron Bordman, Jr., 2 shillings.52
1786, March 13. Voted to have the school kept as usual, viz., 31 weeks in the body of the town, 12 weeks at the Point, anl 9 weeks at the Ferry. Mr. Daniel Pratt, Capt. James Stower com- mittec for the body of the town; Samuel Floyd and John Tucks- bery for the Point; Ezra Brintnall and Isaac Watts for the Ferry."3
1787, December 18. Schooling proportioned to cach branch of the town as follows: the body of the town £33-19-6. The Point £15-2-0. The Ferry £11-6-6.54
1788, May 5. Schools proportioned to the four divisions of the town were: Body of the Town £24-17-0. The Point £12. The Ferry £10-6-0. Upper end £5-3-0.
School Committee for Body of Town James Floyd and John Low; James Tucksbery and David Belcher for the Point; Ezra Brintnall and Isaac Watts for the Ferry. Jesse Upham and Wil- liam Bordman for the Upper part of the Town.55
1790, April 5. Voted not to allow the Pratt neighborhood to join Winnisimmet with their proportion of money for schooling. And not to build a school-house at Winnisimmet.56
May 10. The Pratt neighborhood to join Winnisimmet with their proportion of school money, they supplying themselves with a school-house at their own expense.57
Chelsea June 21, 1790.
Whereas, the town of Chelsea at their Last may Meeting in Con- sequenses of a Petition to sd. Town to Class the Pratt Neighbour- hood to Winisimmitt For the Purpose of Schooling, & Accordingly sd. town Did Vote to Class sd. Neighbourhood as above - & the Class thinking it Proper to Come into Some Rules & Regularations For the Benefit of sd. Class, Accordingly the Class was Notified to Meet this day at the House of Mr. Samuell Low, which Accord- ingly sd. Class Meet, & Come into the Folowing Resolutions - lly, Mr. Ebenr. Pratt was Chosen Moderator - 2ly. Josiah Bach- elder was Chosen Clerk. 3ly, Mr. Samuell Watts, jur., Mr John Adams, & Mr Samuell Pratt was Chosen a Commitee to Lay out
52 Selectmen's Ree., i. 119. These parties lived in the remote part of the town, near Saugus. See the list of those who received school money, post.
Town Rec., ii. 100.
54 Ibid., 108.
55 Ibid., 110, 113.
50 Ibid., 123.
57 Ibid., 124.
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the Money Belonging to sd. Class in Schooling the Present Year, & Make a Number of Reports to the Class at their Next Meeting .- 4ly, Voted to Adjorn sd. Meeting Untill Next Monday at Seven Oclock, P.M., at the House of Mr Samuell Low.
The Meeting Met According to Adjornment, the Comtee Report that Mr. Pratt's House is not Proper for a School-House, & that Mr. Davies will keep the School at Eight Shillings pr. week. Voted, to Except the Report of the Comtee.
Voted, that the Meeting be Dissolved. -
A Meeting being Notified by the Comtec. to Meet at the House of Mr Samuell Low, June the First, 1790 - The Meeting Met According to the Notification.
1ly, Mr Ebenr. Pratt was Chosen Moderator. 2ly, Upon Re- port of the Comtee., that the School could not be Conveniently kept at Presint, it was Voted that the Money Belonging to the Class Should not be Laid out Untill Further orders of the Class. 3ly, Voted to adjorn the Meeting Untill Next Thursday Evening, at the house of Mr Isaac Watts.
The Meeting Met According to adjornment.
1ly, Voted, that we will build a School-House, & that we will Come into Obligations that Each Member of the Class Shall Be Taxed by the Class in the Same Proportion as they are for town taxes, & That if any one of the Class Shall be Obliged to Remove out of the Class, that the Remaining Part of the Class Shall Purchase his Right in sd House, at the Current Value, For the benefit of the Class. 2ly, Voted, that Josiah Bachelder, Ebenr. Pratt, & John Adams be a Comtee to Draw the Obligations for the Purpose of Building the School-House, to Lay before the Next Meeting. 3ly, Voted to Adjorn sd. Meeting Untill Next Thirsday, at the House of Mr. Danile Pratt, at Seven Oclock, P.M.
The Meeting Mett According to adjornment .-
1ly, Mr Daniel Pratt was Chosen Moderator, P : T. 2ly, Voted, that the Comtee. Shall Lay out the Money Belonging to the Class Winisimmitt to have their Part by their Selves, & the Pratt Neighbourhood to have their Part by their Selves. 3ly, Voted, that Josiah Bachelder, Saml. Pratt, & Edward Pratt be a Comtee., to Make a Tax on the Poles & Estates Belonging to the Class Called the Winisimmit & Pratt Neighbourhoods: For the Sum of twenty Pound. L: M. 4ly, Voted to Adjourn the Meeting, without day. [Original in Chamberlain MSS., VII. 135.]
November 1, 1790. Money raised and divided for schools in the town of Chelsea :
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To Winnisimmet District, .. £15-12-8-0 To district called body of the Town, 27-15-1-0 To Pulling Point District,
14- 2-7-0 To Boardman's district,
2- 9-4-0
£60- 0-0-05
1791, January 25. Voted to regulate the schools in this town, as the law directs.59
January 27, 1791.
Names. Polls
Real Estate
Personal
Mr. John Adams
2 0. 1. 5. 0 1.12. 8. 0
Mr. Ezra Brintnall
1 8. 2 0. 8.3.2
Capt. Josiah Batchelor 1
Mr. Tilestone Clark
3
8. 2 0. 8. 9. 1
Mr. Saml Low
Mr. Ebenezer Pratt
1 8. 2 1.19.0. 3
1.3.7.0
0. 2.8. 2
Mr. Danl Pratt, Jr 1
Mr. Caleb Pratt
1
8. 2 0.11.11. 2 0. 1. 6.3 8. 2 0. 2.10. 0 0. 1.3.1
Mr. Caleb Pratt, Jr
1
8. 2 0. 0.11.0
Mr. Wmn Pratt 1 8. 2
Lieut. Saml H. Pratt 1
Lieut. Samuel Pratt
1
8. 2 0.12. 3. 3
2.10.4.2
0. 0. 8. 3 0. 1.10. 1 0. 3.11. 2 0. 4. 3. 0
Mr. Isaac Watts
Mr. Belcher Watts
Mr. Richd Watts
1
8. 2
0. 0. 3. 0 0. 0.5.3
0. 0.3.0
Mr. Edward Pratt
1
8. 2
0. 1. 1.1
Capt. John Butman
1
8. 2
Capt. Matthew Butman 1
8. 2
A Tax upon Winisemet & the Pratt Nabourhood of £20 - 3 - 2, on perpose to build a Schoolhouse.
Chelsea, January 27th - 1791.
Samuel Pratt, Edward Pratt,
Committee.
October 3. That the Selectmen hire a room for the purpose of keeping a school at Winnisimmet, to give the same price in pro- portion that they do for a school-house at Pulling Point.60
Chelsea, Octr. 15th, 1291.
We, the Underwritten, Do Promise to Pay nuto Mess. Josiah Bachelder, John Adams, & Saml Hl. Pratt, or Either of theni, on
58 Town Rec., ii. 125. 59 Ibid., 126. 60 Ibid., 124.
VOL. II .- 22
8. 2 0. 5. 8.3
Mr. Saml Watts
0
Mr. Saml Watts, Jr 1
8. 2
0. 1.9.3
1 8. 2 1 8. 2
Mr. Jeffre Williams
I
8. 2
0. 3 2. ] 0. 1. 1. ] 0. 4. 2. 1 0. 0.5. 0 0. 3.2. 1
0. 2.10. 0
Mr. Danl Pratt 0
£ s. d. f £
£
- 8. 2 2.16. 5. 2
1 8, 2 5.00.10. 2
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Demand, the Sums we have Fixed against our Names, For the Purpose of Building a School-House For the Use of the Winnisimn- mett District & the Pratt Neighbourhood as Set off by the Town, & For their Use & Dispose ( ?), & we do Give up all right we may have in said School-House to Said District, as Soon as Built.
Eben Pratt £1-19-9
Saml. Watts, Saml. Watts, jr., & Belcher Watts . 2 - 14- 0
Samuel Watts
0. 14. 7 paid
Samuel Pratt 1. 19. 9 paid
3. 6.0
Richard Watts 0. 7. 6
Ezra Brintnall
0. 19.10
Belcher Watts
0. 7. 6
Isaac Watts 1. 5.6
Tilston Clark
0. 19. 6 paid
Edward Pratt, in behalf of his Father, himself, & also his Brother Danl Pratt 3. 18. 6 paid
And also promis to paint the Roof of the Above School-house, the insuing Season
Josiah Bachelder 3.
3. 0
Saml. H. Pratt
1. 4. 0
Wm Pratt 0. 6. 0
Isaac Smith
1.
Saml: Cary
18. 0. 0 paid
41. 5. 5
Chelsea, Decr. 26th, 1791.
We, your Committee, beg Leave to Lay before the Aforemen- tioned Destrict the Expenditure of the Money Committeed to our Care For the Purpose of Building a School-House For Said Dis- trict ; in the Following Manner, viz .-
Bot. of Mr Saml. Dilaway, Timber, Joist, Shingles,
& Boards 14. 16. 1
Bot. of Mr Nathan Adams, Brick 1. 12. 0
. Bot. of Mr Nathl. Hill, Mantle-Piece 0. 3.11
Bot. of Mr Saml. Dilaway, Clapboards & Laths 2. 0. 5
Bot. of Mr Ebenr. Burdit, window Joist 0. 8. 8 Bot. of Mr Jonathan Foster, Hinges 0. 10. 0
Bot. of Mr Saml. Bradstreet, Shingle Nails, Hooks & Hinges, Lock Bolts & Latches 1. 1. 0
Bot. of Mr Joseph Scoot, Clabboard Nails 0. 10. 0
Bot. of Mr Scoot, - Shingle Nails 0. 0. 9
Bot. of Mr Saml. Dilaway, Boards for window Sashes 0. 7. 6
Bot. of Mr Scott, Board Nails. 0. 3. 6
Bot. of Mr Newell : Nails 2. 2. 9 Bot. of Mr Ebenr. Pratt, Nails & Brads 0. 4. 3 Bot. of Mr Rodes, timber 0. 4. 6
Bot. of Mr. Jona. Foster, Hasps & Staples 0. 2. 6
John Adams
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Bot. of Mr Saml Pratt - Lime 1. 0. 0
Carpenters' Bill
11. 8. 0
Masons' Bill
3. 0. 0
One Leafe for Table
0. 1. 6
For one Window & Shutter
0. 10. 6
Errors Excepted £40. 7.10
Expenes of the Comtee & Mr Watts 1. 15. 6
£42. 3. 4
John Adams -
Josiah Bachelder Saml H. Pratt - Comtec,
December 27, 1791.
We, the Underwritten Subscribers, haveing the Committees Ac- counts as Before mentioned Laid Before us, for the Purpose of Building a School-House For the Winnisimmett & Pratt Neigh- bourhood District; For our Aprobation & Exceptance -
We Accordingly Approve & Except of said Accounts; & Fully & Freely (?) Except of said House of the Committee. And we return our thanks to Messrs. John Adams, Josiah Bachelder, and Saml. H. Pratt, for their great attention, dispatch and oeconomy in building and engageing a Master for said School .-
As a further mark of our approbation, We do request the said Gentlemen will continue to Act as a Committee for the district untill the 1st Janry., 1793.
Saml. Cary
Samuel Watts
Ezra Brintnall
Belcher Watts
Richard Watts
Tilston Clark
Isaac Watts
Edward Pratt, in behalf of his
Daniel Pratt, Jun.
father, Danl. Pratt, and Allso himself.
Ebenr Pratt
Caleb Pratt
Jeffrey B. Williams
Samuel Pratt. Chelsea, Feb'y 4, 1793.
We, the under written, do Engag to Pay an Equal Proportion of Four Pounds, & to be taxed for the same in the same Manner as we are taxed for other school Money; & we agree that it shall be binding, when all the class agree to it.
John Adams
Isaac Watts
Ezra Brintnall
Belcher Watts
Josiah Bachelder
Tilston Clark
Samuel Watts
Edward Pratt
Jeffery B. Williams
Danl Mason
Samuel Pratt Caleb Pratt, Junr
Richard Watts
Daniel Pratt
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The following Paper may relate to the assessment above.
John Adams
0. 6.2
Ebenezer Pratt
0. 6.5
Tileston Clark
0. 2.0
Daniel Pratt
0. 4.2
Isaac Watts
0. 0.9
Edward Pratt 0.0.5
Samuel Watts
0. 1.2 Caleb Pratt
0. 1. 7
Belcher Watts
0. 0.6
Caleb Pratt, Jr.
0. 0. 7
Richard Watts
0. 0. 6
Samuel Pratt
0. 3.0
Ezra Brintnall
0. 2.0
Daniel Pratt, Jr.
0. 2.8
Josiah Batchelder
0.10. 2
Samuel Watts heirs
0. 7. 6
Samuel Cary
0.17. 8 Ebenezer Pratt, Jun.
0. 0.6
Nathan Pratt
0. 0.6
Jeffery B. Williams
0. 6
Daniel Mason
0. 6.0
Mr. Adams
1. 4.7.2
Mr. D. Pratt
0.16. 8. 2
Mr. Clark
0. 7.8.3
Mr. E. Pratt
0. 1.6.3
Mr. 1. Watts
0. 3.0. 1
Mr. C. Pratt
0. 6.4.2
-
Mr. S. Watts
0. 4.5.0
Mr. C. Pratt, Jr.
0. 2. 5.2
Mr. B. Watts
0. 1.10. 2
Mr. W. Pratt
0. 6.0.0
Mr. R. Watts
0. 2.0.2
S. Pratt
0.11. 0. 2
Mr. Brintall
0. 7.10. 0
Mr. D. Pratt, Jr.
0.10. 6. 1
Capt. Batchelder
2.0.6.2
Mr. S. Watts heirs
1. 9.9.1
Mr. Cary
3.10. 1. 2
E. Pratt, Jun.
0. 1.10. 2
Mr. Eben. Pratt
1.5.8. 1
N. Pratt
0. 1.10. 0
Mr. J. Williams
0. 2.0.2
1795, October 14. Sehool Money in 1794.
Nathaniel Belcher, Jr., £0. 3.0
Andrew Tuckesbury,
0. 6.9
Elizabeth Glover,
0. 2. 6
Aaron Boardman and son,
1. 8. 4. 14
William Boardman and son,
0.13.11. 34
Jesse Upham,
0. 7.10. 34
1803, March 7. Rev. Joseph Tuckerman, Docr. Jonathan P. Hall, Joseph Stowers, Samuel Cary, and Joshua Cheever, Jr., a committee to inquire into the school matters, and propose measures for the advantage and improvement of the same.61
1803, April 4. Coneurred with the report of the committee respecting the necessity and utility of building a new sehool-house. That the committee apply to the proprietors of the Winnisimmet Distriet sehool-house, to see if they will give up their rights in said house to the town to be sold, and the money to go towards building a new house.62
July 4, 1803. The School-House committee to have the dis- posal of arrangements of building a new house on condition suffi- cient money be raised by subscriptions, and that the Winnisimmet
61 Town Rec., ii. 190. 62 Ibid., 192.
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and Pratt neighborhood school-house is given, if not, the old school-house to be repaired.""
March 5, 1804. The school at the Ferry District in future to be kept in the proportion as two is to nine months. $400 to be raised for the support. of the schools the ensuing year.44
June 13, 1805. Voted to build the centre school-house where the old house now stands, and accepted the report of committee respecting the alteration of the place, as above. Also, accepted the report regarding the Pulling Point district, and voted the thanks of the town to Mr. John Tuksbery for the gift of land to set the said house on.
That the Town do not consider themselves holding any right in the Winnisimmet and Pratt neighborhood School-house.65
May 4, 1807. A woman, or women's, school, to be kept a certain part of the year, at the discretion of the School-Committee.66
April 4, 1808. That no child be allowed to attend the school while under the instruction of a man, under the age of six years.
That no boy be allowed to attend school while under the instruc- tion of a woman, over nine years of age.67
February 9, 1813. Article to see if the town will encourage the singing-school.$8
April 5, 1813. The School Committee consider it expedient that the children should be instructed by a woman, in the six months, between April and November, and by a man the rest of the year.6º
1816, Nov. 4. Voted to raise Seventy-five Dollars for the support of a singing-school.7º
NOTE. - Sce in APPENDIX to this volume some tabulated matter entitled, " Educational Statistics."
The originals of the assessments dated January 27, 1791, of the subserip- tion paper dated October 15, of the report dated December 26, and the approval thereof dated December 27, ante, pp. 337-339, are in the Chamber- lain MSS., vii. 137-141.
03 Town Rec., ii. 196.
04 Ibid., 199.
05 Ibid., 213.
00 Ibid., 225.
07 Ibid., 231.
68 Town Rec., iii. 12.
Ibid., 16. School Districts, ibid., 25, 35, 44, 59.
70 Ibid., 53. Also, sce p. 60.
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CHAPTER XXXI MISCELLANEOUS MATTERS
1631-1739
THUS far I have not broken the continuity of subjects T by interposing in chronological order the organization of the town in 1739, which I shall take up in the next chapter. There are, however, memoranda of events and persons from 1630 to 1739, which, though of no great importance, never- theless are worth preserving.
1631, July. Winnisimmet was assessed 15s., " for making the creek at the new town " (Cambridge) ; and Saugus, 20s., showing the relative wealth of the two places. 1632, " for a palisado about the new town," Saugus was assessed £VI, and Winnisimmet, 30s.1
In 1633, to defray the public charges Saugus was assessed £36, Salem £28, Medford £12, and Winnisimmet £8.2
1633, Sept. 3. Administration of the goods and chattels of Richard Arnoll, of Wenctsemet, deceased, was granted to William Stitson.3
1634. Governor Bellingham lived in Boston; but after he pur- chased Winnisimmet, where he had a farm-house, doubtless visited it often. His will says : - " He (Angola, a negro), was the only instrument that, under God, saved my life, coming to me with his boat, when I was sunk in the river between Boston and Winisimet several years since, and laid hold of me and got me into the boat he came in and saved my life, which kindness of him I remember." 4
1635. Winnisimmet was annexed to Boston in 1634; Charles- town then included Everett, Malden, and some other towns, north- erly and westerly. Boston and Charlestown fell out as to their bounds, and the General Court referred "the difference to the final determination of John Haynes, Esq., John Winthrop, Esq.,
-
1
Col. Rec., i. 89, 93.
2 Ibid., 110.
8 Ibid., 108.
4 Savage's Winthrop, i. 174 n.
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Capt. Turner and Mr. [Thomas] Beccher; and no others are allowed to accompany them." "
1637, Sept. 28. " William Schooler brake prison, and fled as far as Powder Horn Hill, and there hid himself out of the way for fear of pursuit." "
1656, 29, 8. It is advised that there shall bee a pound sett upp by the Constable at Rumney marsh, for which he is to be paid out of the rate to be levied this yeare.
1657, April 27. Richard Way admitted into the town, provided that Aron Way doe become bound in the sum of twenty pound sterling, to free the town from any charge that may accrew to the town by the said Richard or his family, to which he agreed.7
Richard Way was of Dorchester, and brother of Aaron Way, who, with William Ireland, owned part of the Vane allotment - now Prattville, in part.
1657. Rumney Marsh tax for the town, was £12-13-6; for the county a rate and a quarter, £15-19s.
1660, May 4. Edward Holyoke died at Rumney Marsh.8
1661, 24, 12. Tho. Stocker, Constable of Rumny Marsh, shall be allowed, 40s. for present supply of one good [man] Favour,
" Col. Ree., i. 139.
Savage's Winthrop, i. 290. Powderhorn hill, then, and long after, was covered with trees.
7 Boston Ree. Com. Rep., ii. 136.
" With his son Elizur, about twenty, came over near 1637, and had a farm at, or near Rumney Marsh, where he died May 4, 1660 (Hull's Diary, Amer. Antiq. Soc. Coll., iii. 193), probably at the house of Jolin Tuttle, who married a daughter. (Ante, vol. i. p. 204.)
He was several years a deputy in the General Court, and onee for Spring- field, residence in the town represented not then being essential.
The son soon went to Springfield, where he married Mary Pynchon, "9 mo, 20 day, 1640." They had sons and daughters. The youngest son came to Boston, and was the father of Edward Holyoke, president of Har- vard College. (Conn. Valley Hist. Soe. Papers, 1876-'81, 62.)
Richard Tuttle had 161 aeres at Pulling Point Neck. (Boston Rec. Com. Rep., ii. 29.)
Where Edward Holyoke's house was, I cannot say; for the name Rumney Marsh sometimes included lands northerly of Revere. April 29, 1650, Boston " Ordered that Mr. Elias Maverick and James JJohnson, who were chosen by George Burden; Deacon Eliatt, and Mr. Thomas Clarke, who were chosen by the Townsemen in presence of Mr. Newgate and with Consent of him: should lay out a Cart and a Horse way at Runley Marsh from Mr. Holiock's Farme towards the Mill." ( Boston Rec. Com. Rep., ii. I0I.)
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Inhabitant of Rumny Marsh, besides what he hath disbursed for him.9
1662, 29, 10. Ordercd, that Doctor Stonne be allowed £3. 14s. out of the Towne Treasurye for ministring phissick and Chirur- gery to Goodman Fauor att Rumny Marsh.10
1664, 1. 28. Agreed by the Selectmen with Edward Wecden, of Rumny Marsh, that in and for consideration of £12, p. annu., to bce payed yearely, to free the Towne from any Chardge, that may arise during the natturall life of Elizabeth Ward.11
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