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WITNESS Joseph Dudley President of Our Territory & Dominion aforesd this Seventeenth day of Decemb" Año Regni Nri Angliae &e Secundo Anoq Domini 1686. Ed Randolph Seer. # Curiam
Ben : Bullivant Cleric By vertu of this Writ to me directed, Curiae Super Dom : Reg : N. Angliâ Fye Eighteenth day of Decemb! in ye year within menconed, I have given unto ye within menconed Rich! Roc his possession of his term within writ- ten of & in the tenements within specified, with ye appurtenances, as by ye within Writ I was commanded. Pet. Bulkley Prov! Marshal
Entred & recorded according to ye Original ye 30th Decemb! 1686 Benjamin Bullivant Cl.]
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[Nicholas Paige was proprictor of both the Keayne farms from 1686 until his death in 1717. John Chamberlain was lessee of the little farm in 1703, and William Owen was mentioned in con- nection with the great farm in February, 1703/4.1 In 1701 Owen was taxed for one poll and one horse; in 1702 for one poll, one horse, one cow, a house, and six acres of upland and meadow. Colonel Paige was taxed in 1702 for five negroes, eight oxen, six- teen eows, two hundred sheep, five swine, four horses, and four hundred aeres of upland and meadow.' Sept. 7, 1703, Paige agreed with Francis Leathe of Ipswich to build as speedily as possible a house with a stone cellar, a lean-to, a well, and a barn forty-two by twenty-two feet, and rent it to Leathe for seven years at thirty pounds a year in silver. Leathe agreed to pay all taxes, and plant an apple orchard of five aeres, Paige paying for the trees and fencing one half. By writ dated May 23, 1711, Paige brought suit for rent for the year ending March 25, 1711, against Franeis Leathe of Charlestown.2 March 27, 1710, Nicholas Paige leased to Thomas Marable for three years at twenty-four pounds a year a " Messuage or Tenement commonly ealled or known by the name of the Lamb with the Farm and Lands thereunto belonging with the appurces in Rumney Marsh." 3 The following October the Selectmen of Boston approved " Thomas Marble " to " Sell Strong drinck as an Inholder at his House nigh Collo Paiges at Rumny Marsh." Three times within the previous three months they had disallowed his petition.4 March 31, 1712, Thomas Marable peti- tioned the seleetmen of Boston. He explained that some years since, because of his " Long continued Lamenes," which unfitted him for active work, and " the great Charge of Children weh he had," he obtained a lieense to sell drink, " not Long after wch Collo
1 Suff. Deeds, L. 31, f. 53; supra, vol. i. p. 651.
2 MSS. Rec. of Inf. Court of Common Pleas for Suff. Co., 1710-1713, pp. 51, 52; Suff. Early Court Files, Nos. 8354, 8316. With the farmlands included in this lease was a parcel of marsh or meadow "known by the Name of Forty Acres lying and being between two Ditches and adjoyning to Mr John Chamberlains meadow and the said Paiges meadow." Infra,
p. 83. Leathe could cut firewood on the farm. Verdict for Leathe.
3 Ibid., p. 127; Suff. Early Court Files, No. 8669; see also vol. i. p. 168,
4 Records of Selectmen, Boston Rec. Com. Rep., xi. 112, 115, 118, 119.
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Paige his Landlord puld downe the Honse wher : in yr Pet! Lived, so that he is now removed into the House wek was formerly Cap! Tho" Berrys."" In consideration of his continued illness, and his five small children he asked that "his wife may sell Ale of Her owne brewing, & wine bear & Cyder." " The petition was rejected. By writ dated May 30, 1712, Nicholas Paige sued Marable for two years' rent ending March 22, 1712, and obtained a writ of exe- ention June 16, 1713. April 6, 1714, the Selectmen directed the perambulators to meet " at ye Honse where Thomas Marble Lately dwelt now in the Tenure of - Lamson in R. marsh." July 5, 1715, they approved John Lamson to sell "Strong drink as An Innholder at a Tenem' he hires of Collo Paige at Rummy Marsh." Lamson's house was mentioned in the perambulation of the bounds between Boston and Malden in 1717 as near the bondary, that is, near Black Anu's corner. And the house where the "Sign of the Lamb " had been was mentioned in the perambulation of 1232 as in Captain Oliver's farm on the road to Lynn near the county bridge. In the perambulation of 1735, it was said to be in the occupation of John Lathe. Whether Colonel Paige built and leased other tenements on his farm is not known; leases were not ordinarily recorded.
The deed of gift of February, 1703/4, from Nicholas and Anna Paige, vested the title to the large farm in Governor Dudley and Nathanael Thomas for the use, after the death of Colonel Paige and his wife, of " Mrs Martha Hobbs Neice to the s! Nicholas Paige and to the heirs of her Body lawfully to be begotten for- ever." She married November 30, 1709, Nathaniel Oliver (H. C. 1701) a member of the Artillery Company (1701), son of a wealthy merchant of the same name, who bore the first sun- mons of surrender to Governor Andros at Fort Hill in 1689. The son was not successful in business, and shortly after Colonel Paige's death was obliged to remove from his home on Milk Street in Boston to the farm at Rumney Marsh. There he prepared yonng men for Harvard College, was a Justice of the Peace, and active in the affairs of the town until the growth of a settlement at Pullen Point, and the coming of Colonel Thomas Goldthwait. Previously to this Captain Nathaniel Oliver had shared with Judge Samuel Watts the honor of presiding at the town meetings. Also he was seleetman from 1749 to 1752, and town clerk from 1753 to 1757. He died in December, 1768.
5 Vol. i. pp. 286-290.
6 Misc. Papers in City Clerk's Office, Boston, i. 135; Boston Rec. Com. Rep., xi. 166.
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Ilis three sons, were: (1) Nathaniel, Jr. (H. C. 1733). He was a lawyer and resided in Chelsea and Boston. In 1741 he married Mercy, daughter of Hon. Jacob Wendell, a wealthy mer- chant in Boston, Colonel of the Boston Regiment (1742), and a member of the Governor's Council, 1734-1760. He married second, in 1763, Sarah Hill, who survived him. Nathaniel Oliver, Jr., died December 26, 1769, leaving two sons, Daniel (then a lad of 16) who graduated from Dartmouth College in 1785, and was a minister at Beverly; and Nathaniel, aged four in 1769, absent at sea in 1784. (2) Peter (H. C. 1737). He was a sea captain, and died in the West Indies. (3) William (II. C. 1739). He married in 1742 Rebecca, daughter of John Sale of Chelsea, and grand- daughter of Hon. Penn Townsend. He was a farmer in Chelsea, where he died in 1782 ; his widow died in 1801. Two sons survived him : William, an innkeeper in Chelsea, and Nathaniel, a physi- cian, who lived in Marblehead and Danvers. His daughters married Edward Wait and Walter Perkins.7
Nathaniel Oliver, Sr., was heavily burdened with debts, when he came to Chelsea in 1719. He mortgaged both his own and his wife's estate in Boston to secure his creditors, and also mortgaged the farm for a term of sixty years " if the said Nathaniel Oliver shall so long live" to Thomas Palmer and others as security to fourteen creditors; he received a lease for the same term of years at one hundred fifty pounds a year.8 The legatees of Colonel Paige were obliged to collect their legacies by process of law, exe- cutions being issued in the spring and early summer of 1719 for an aggregate of about £370.9
March 1, 1738 [1739] Nathaniel and Martha Oliver, seized of the farm " in the Right of the said Martha in fee tail," released their right to one hundred and ten acres of upland and forty acres of salt marsh at the east end of the farm to Nathaniel Oliver, Jr.10 The deed expressly denied to the son all right of alienation. In 1749 Nathaniel Oliver, Jr., suffered a common recovery to bar the entail. The following indenture of May 15, 1749, shows the process. This indenture "Witnesseth that Whereas by a plea of Land commenced at the Inferiour Court of Common pleas held at Boston in and for the County of Suffolk on the first Tuesday of January last the said Samuel Sewall Demanded of the said
7 Descendants of Captain Thos. Brattle, 55, 59-64.
$ Suff. Deeds, L. 34, ff. 4, 23.
9 Rec. of Inf. Court of Common Pleas for Suff. Co., 1718-1720, pp. 232- 236, 388, 412; also ibid., 1727-1728, p. 448; ibid., 1728-1729, p. 480. Suff. Deeds, L. 34, f. 143.
10 Suff. Deeds, L. 81, f.171.
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Nathaniel Oliver jun! the following tract of Land . . . in Chelsea aforesaid bounded . . . Southwesterly on the Towns Road leading from the Country Road to Chelsea Meeting house containing by Estimation one hundred and fifty acres, as his Inheritance & Right, and into which the said Nathaniel Oliver jun! had no Entry but after the Disseisin, which Hugh Hunt thereof unjustly and with- out Judgment committed against the said Samuel Sewall within Twenty Years last past, and whereof he complained that the said Nathaniel Oliver jun' unjustly deforced him &era unto which plea the aforesaid Nathaniel Oliver jun! did forthwith appear, and Vouched over the Common Vouchee to Warrant the premisses, who did forthwith appear enter into the Warranty of the Premis- ses, and afterwards made Default, whereupon a Common Recovery was had and recorded of the Premisses as by the Record thereof may more at large appear. Now therefore it is Declared and Agreed by & between the Parties to these presents and they do hereby severally for themselves and their heirs agree & Declare that the aforesaid Recovery of the tract of land and Appurces, and the Execution thereof, shall be and Enure to the only use & behoof of the said Nathaniel Oliver jun! his heirs and assigns. and the said Samuel Sewall and his heirs shall forever stand and be seized of the said traet of Land and Appurces to the only proper use and benefit of the said Nathaniel Oliver jun! his heirs and assigns forever and to no other use intent or purpose whatsoever." This indenture was recorded March 8, 1749/50, and on March 9, Nathaniel Oliver, Jr., mortgaged the land for £500 to John Ham- mock of Boston.11 Four years later, in 1753, Samuel Watts by agreement with Nathaniel Oliver, Sr., and his sons Nathaniel, Jr., Peter and William Oliver, the mother being dead, obtained in the court a common recovery to bar the entail for the whole farm. The agreement was that Nathaniel Oliver, Sr., should possess the western half of this traet of 768 aeres for life, after which it was to pass to Peter and William Oliver. Of the eastern half, one hundred fifty acres were to be conveyed to William Story, and the remainder was to be for the use of Nathaniel Oliver, Jr .. after two debts to Samuel Tuttle and Samuel Watts had been satisfied.12 Immediately, September 26, 1753, Nathaniel Oliver, Jr., and Mercy his wife conveyed title to the land to James Pitts and Thomas Flueker.13 Presumably Oliver remained on the farm, as he continued active in the affairs of the town, and there is no evidence that Pitts or Flicker lived in Chelsea.
11 Suff. Deeds, L. 78, f. 16.
12 Chamberlain MSS., iv. 47; Suff. Deeds, L. 84, ff. 16-18, 20, 23.
13 Suff. Deeds, L. 84, f. 24.
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In 1755, Thomas Flucker purchased the right of Peter Oliver, deceased, to one fourth of the farm, the deed to take effect on the death of Nathaniel Oliver, Sr. According to a later convey- ance the farm contained "by an accurate survey six hundred and sixty six Acres, but was formerly said to contain seven hundred and sixty eight Acres," - the eight hundred seven acres of the survey in 1686 less the forty-acre lot of marsh given to Paul Dudley with the little farm. As six acres were deducted for the highway, the western half of the farm was estimated to contain 330 acres. According to a survey of the farm preserved in the Massachusetts Archives, it contained in 1755 six hundred fifty-five aeres, one quarter, twenty-three poles.14 December 16, 1774, Thomas Flucker of Boston assigned his rights in the eastern half of the farm, and in one half of the land purchased in 1755, 821/2 aeres, to James Pitts of Boston,15 who acquired thereby a farm of 4121/2 acres, which his heirs sold in 1779 to Robert Temple of Charlestown.16
Title to this farm of 4121/2 acres, enlarged by some eighty- five acres from the farm of William Oliver, passed successively to Nathaniel Tracy of Newburyport, Thomas Russell, and Andrew Leach of Boston.17 There is no probability that any one of these owners lived on the estate. When the direct tax of 1798 was as- sessed, the farm was owned by Andrew Leach. There were two houses about half a mile apart. The one nearest the meeting- house was occupied by James Blodget. It covered 1284 fect, was of two stories, had fourteen windows, was " Verry Old," and with an acre of land was valued at $220. Presumably this was the house occupied earlier by Nathaniel Oliver, Jr. The other house, de- scribed as about two miles north of the meeting-house, was occu-
14 Suff. Deeds, L. 83, f. 1, L. 87, ff. 186, 190; Mass. Archives, Misc. Maps and Plans, xiii. 13.
15 Ibid., L. 126, f. 234.
16 Ibid., L. 131, ff. 1-4. Beginning at the southwest corner of the farm in Samuel Sergeant's line, at the corner of Temple's thirty-two acre lot, the boundary ran southeast by Sergeant's boundary-line to Chelsea road (now Malden Street ), then east by the road to Mr. Fuller's land ( Charles E. Fuller in 1874), then north 12 rods, then southeast by said Fuller to Chelsea way (a way to the back marshes along the western boundary of the B. H. Dewing estate), then by the said way to the Dudley marsh, then northwest by the Dudley marsh, then north by said marsh to the river (in 1874 between the heirs of P. C. Hall and Tewksbury). The river formed the northern boundary to the marsh of William Waite, whenee the line ran south, bounded west by land of William Waite, William Oliver, and said Temple to the first bound.
17 Ibid., L. 131, f. 4; L. 132, f. 156; L. 150, f. 189; L. 161, f. 184; L. 152, f. 62; L. 177, f. 150.
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pied by John McDowell, who was also tenant of the farm lands. This house covered 1924 feet, was of one story, and had twenty-four windows. There was also a one-story " Pump House " that cov- ered 504 feet, and a two-story granary that covered 800 foot. These buildings with an acre of land were valued at $880. The farm lands, 503 acres, with two barns (120 × 34 feet and 60 × 30 feet) and a "Blacksmith's shop" (30 × 18 feet), were valued at $8,095. The farm was described as bounded south by Samuel Sargeant; west by the town road (the road to Lynn) ; north by a river (the Pines River) ; and cast by Samuel Sewall and others (formerly Cogan's great farm).
In 1798, Nathaniel Ilall of "Westboston " purchased it of Andrew Leach for $8,100, then a farm of some five hundred acres.18 March 14, 1803, Nathaniel Hall conveyed to Jonathan P. Hall for $4,600 about 250 acres, bounded east by land of the grantee from the town road to the river; north by the river and marsh of William Wait and others to the Winnisinnet road; west by that road to the town road leading to Chelsea meeting- house ; south by the latter road to the first bound. He described this as the west half of the farm that he purchased of Andrew Leach,19
William Oliver, like his elder brother Nathaniel, lost during his lifetime the greater portion of his farm. In December, 1281, the executors of the estate of Benjamn Lynde obtained a judgment against William Oliver for £120 6s. 2d .. and had set off to them in April, 1782, three parcels of land containing ninety acres seventy-five rods. Fifty-three acres fifty rods were bounded west and northwest by the Country road, northeast by William Wait, and cast and south by 'Nathaniel Tracy. Twenty-nine acres were bounded northeast and cast by the Country road, south by Tower Hill, west by the county line, and northwest by said Oliver's land mortgaged to Samuel Clarke. Eight acres and twenty five rods were bounded southwest by the Country road, west and northwest by said Oliver, northeast by William Oliver, Jr., east and south by a creck.20 The second parcel, estimated at about twenty-eight acres but with the same bounds, was conveyed by the excentors of the estate of Benjamin Lynde to Edward Pratt of Chelsea, Jan- uary 15, 1788. Two days later Edward Pratt and his wife Elizabeth conveyed title to this land "with the Dwelling house & other Buildings thereon " for £75 to Thomas Russell of Boston. Pratt lived on the farm. When Thomas Russell conveyed his
18 Suff. Deeds, L. 190, f. 259.
10 Ibid., L. 204, f. 277.
20 Ibid., L. 134, f. 211.
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interests in Chelsea to Andrew Leach, in November, 1793, he excepted the farm commonly ealled the "Pratt Farm," stating that it had been sold to Ephraim Copeland. December 7, 1795, John Lane and Thomas Frasier of London, merehants, conveyed title to this land for £105 lawful money to Seth Copeland of Chelsea. It was described as a house and about thirty acres of land, bounded north by William Oliver, cast by the town road, south by Simon Knights, and west by John Grover; also as land which had formerly belonged to Edward Pratt.21 When the direct tax of 1798 was assessed, Seth Copeland owned and occupied this farm. It was then estimated to contain twenty-eight and one half acres of " Verry poor " land, and with a barn 20 X 15 was appraised at $310. The house covered 750 feet, was of two stories, with eighteen windows; with half an acre of land it was appraised at $275. When Hopkins' Atlas was prepared the land belonged to J. Copeland.
The first parcel assigned to the executors of Benjamin Lynde in 1782 was more carefully described in their deed to Nathaniel Traey in 1784. It was bounded southerly by the town way (Malden Street), easterly by Tracy's farm (purchased of Robert Temple), northerly and northwesterly by the marsh of Captain William Waite, Jaeob Perkins, and Deacon Joseph Perkins "to the creek against marsh of Mr. Olivers," westerly by this creek to the highway leading to Winnisimmet Ferry, then westerly by said highway to the town way first mentioned. This land passed suc- cessively to Russell, Leach, and Hall. November 6, 1771, William Oliver conveyed thirty-two and one fourth acres to John Sale. This parcel lay south of the town road to Chelsea meeting-house mentioned above, and was bounded southerly by land of Samuel Sergeant, easterly by the pasture of Pitts and Flucker, northerly by William Oliver, and westerly by the road from Lynn to Winni- simmet. By purchase of Robert Temple in 1778, this beeame a part of his farm and passed to Tracy, Russell, Leach, and Hall, who beeame possessed also of the rest of the great Keayne farm south of the road, owned by William Oliver in 1771.22
In 1771 and 1772, William Oliver conveyed to William Waite of Malden nine acres forty rods of saltmarsh abutting on the Pines River, also to Thomas Hills and Jacob Parker nine acres twenty rods of saltmarsh west of Waite's marsh, and to Joseph Perkins of Malden six aeres of saltmarsh west of Hills and Parker.23
21 Suff. Deeds, L. 162, f. 29; L. 177, f. 150; L. 182, f. 31.
22 Ibid., L. 150, f. 189; L. 120, ff. 86, 119; L. 132, f. 155; L. 218, f. 47; etc.
23 Ibid., L. 120, f. 9; L. 121, ff. 76, 268-270.
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Eight acres sixty-five poles sonth of the Copeland farm, between the Country road (now Washington Avenue) and the farm of John Grover in Malden, were sold by William Oliver in 1722 to Tower Hill, a free negro of Malden. When the direct tax of 1798 was assessed, this land was owned by Simon Knights and Sampson Bassett, both free negroes.24 On Hopkins' Atlas this land was assigned to W. Hall and Thos. Manning.
October 29, 1721, William Oliver and his wife Rebecca con- veyed to William Oliver, Jr., vietnaller, for £60, fourteen acres, bounded west by " Ann's bridge " to the swamp, south by a line fence to a small creek, east by that creek to a cross creek, north by a small ereek. He excepted his house and well.25 In 1772, the creek to the north was said to run "between Benjamin, Joseph and Samnel Wait's land and William Oliver's sen!," that is, this was the northwest corner of the great Keayne farm, as- signed by Hopkins' Atlas to W. O. Hall. There was inventoried with the estate of William Oliver, Sr., in 1782 "one Dwelling Honse where said Deceased Last Dwelt and a priviledge of Land · Adjoy [u]ing to it with a Well near by said House," valued at £15. When the land was conveyed by the son to William Hall in 1823, the house lot and well excluded were said to be where "the mansion house of Rebeccah Oliver deceased formerly stood." At his death in 1782 William Oliver, Sr., still owned the forty-four aeres and one hundred thirty-five poles of the great Keayne farm that lay in Malden.26 October 5, 1784, Nathaniel Oliver, physi- cian, of Marblehead, administrator of the estate of his father Wil- liam Oliver, gentleman, of Chelsea, conveyed to William Oliver (his brother ) seven acres sixty-eight rods near the land just deseribed. The boundary began ou the county road at the corner of Edward Pratt's land, and ran W. S. W. sixty rods to the county line, thence northeast on that line sixty-eight rods to the county road, thence on the road by the county bridge S. E. by S. forty-six rods to the first bound.27 On Hopkins' Atlas this land is assigned to Blodgett. In 1798 William Oliver of Malden was taxed for nineteen acres of upland in Chelsea.
24 Suff. Deeds, L. 123, f. 41. For Knights, see Corey, Malden, 423. Ac- cording to the record of Rev. Joseph Tuckerman on April 20/21. 1826, at 12 o'clock, there died of " old age " (86) " Sampson Bassett, a Black man, late one of the worthiest of the members of the chh of Xt here, and now a glori- fied member of his chh in heaven." For his purchase of half of the farm, see Suff. Deeds, L. 164, f. 277.
25 Suff. Deeds, L. 120, f. 92; see supra. the bounds of the third parcel set off to the exeentors of Benjamin Lynde in 1782.
20 1. 121, f. 267; L. 282, f. 68; L. 194, f. 3: Suff. Prob. Rec .. L. S2, 27 Ibid., L. 146, f. 34.
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By the deed of gift of February, 1702/3, the little farm passed on the death of Colonel Paige in 1717 to Paul Dudley of Roxbury, Judge of the Superior Court of Judicature from 1718 to 1752. April 28, 1746, he conveyed it to Samuel Winthrop in trust " for the sole proper use and benefit of the said Paul Dudley and Lucy his Wife for and during the term of their natural Lives and the survivour of them, and from and after the decease of the said Paul Dudley & Luey liis Wife in trust for and to the use of Joseph Dudley nepliew to the said Paul Dudley and Second son to his Brother William Dudley Esqr: deced. and to the heirs of his Body lawfully begotten forever in the same manner that Estates intail'd descend in England by virtue of the Statute of West- minster the second, or the statute de donis conditionalibus as it is sometimes called." In case Joseph Dudley died leaving no heirs of his body the lands were to revert to other relatives.28 Paul Dudley retained the right to revoke this gift, but later confirmed it by will. 'The farm was called "Wallsingham," and was leased in 1746 to Hugh Floyd,29 who owned the land to the north, the little farm of the Cogan estate.
Eight years after the death of Paul Dudley, on March 11, 1760, his nephew Joseph entered into an agreement with William Story of Boston, according to which " for barring all Estates in Tail and Reversions and Remainders thereupon expectant " William Story was to obtain at the April term of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas, " a good and perfect common Recovery." This agreement to bar the entail created by Paul Dudley was, five weeks later, placed on record in the Suffolk Registry of Deeds.30 Joseph Dudley was of Roxbury, and was known as Judge Dudley. He died in 1767, and the farm was sold at public vendue by the executor of his estate to John Williams for £506 13s. 4d.31
March 3, 1782, Jonathan Williams sold the western thirty-two acres to Captain Samuel Sargeant, who had purchased the western portion of the Hugh Floyd farm.32 Thereafter this was a part of the Sargeant, later the Oliver Pratt, farm. In the same month, March 25, 1782, Williams sold the farm buildings and eighty- seven and one-fourth acres of land to Samuel Clark for £716 13s. 4d.33 Clark's farm did not touch a public highway, but had a right of way to the road from Winnisimmet to Lynn across the
28 Suff. Deeds, L. 79. f. 142.
29 Vol. i. pp. 182-184.
80 Suff. Deeds, L. 94, f. 89.
81 Suff. Prob. Rec., L. 76, f. 389.
32 Suff. Deeds, L. 134, f. 214; supra, vol. i. p. 184.
83 Ibid., L. 140, f. 166. His wife Lydia released her rights of dower.
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land that Samuel Sargeant had purchased of Williams, and to the town road, which lay to the cast, across the land which Captain James Stowers bought of Williams on March 23.34
Through the foreclosure of a mortgage, by writ dated September 12, 1785, it appears that Joseph Tuttle was then tenant of the Clark farm.35 Through an earlier snit at the same term of court, it is learned that Samuel Clark was tenant of that part of the great Keayne farm owned by Nathaniel Tracy (500 acres) from April 2, 1784, to Angust 2, 1785. The sheriff attached hay, rye, a horse and chaise, household furniture, and one third of the sloop " Three Friends." 36 The day following that on which the writ of execution was issued Samuel Clark conveyed title to his farm to Nathaniel Tracy. The title stood in the name of Thomas Russell in 1787, and later in the names of Jolm Lane and Thomas Frazier of London ; 37 from whom title was conveyed November 25, 1795, Lo Moses Collins of Chelsea.38
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