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(III) Jonathan Locke, son of James Locke (2), born at Woburn, January 17, 1717, died there January 10, 1799, aged eighty-two years; married February . I, 1746, Phebe Pierce, born September 28, 1713, died at Wo- burn, March 2, 1893, aged eighty years, daughter of James and Hannah Pierce of Woburn. At the settlement of his father's estate he was allowed £280 for serveices ren- dered after he was twenty-one. His father's farm was decreed to him by the court October 6, 1747, and is the same property later owned and occupied by his grandson Jonathan. It has been supposed that he was the Jonathan who was impressed into the army with Ezen- ezer Locke before 1746. Children: I. Jona- than, born September 12, 1746, died young. 2. Phebe, born March I, 1747-8; married, Oc- tober 4, 1770, Aaron Fay, of Woburn. 3. Jonathan, born November 29, 1749; married, January 3, 1775, Mary Frost, of Cambridge. 4. James, born April 7, 1752, married, 1777, Sarah Symmes, of Charlestown. 5. Josiah, see forward.
(IV) Josiah Locke, son of Jonathan Locke (3), born at Woburn, February 3, 1753, died
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there August 5, 1811, aged fifty-seven years ; married, December 27, 1775, Elizabeth Rich- ardson, born December 30, 1755, died April 2, 1835, aged seventy-nine years, daughter of Jacob and Judith (Lawrence) Richardson, of Woburn. Mr. Locke was a member of the train band of the First Woburn (militia) Company, under Captain Josiah Johnson, April 30, 1775. He resided in the locality called the Hill District, formerly in Woburn, but now in Winchester. In 1804 he bought the old Philemon Wright farm in South Wo- burn, which now belongs to his great-grandson George Lewis Locke (7). His homestead was that which originally belonged to the first James Locke. Children: I. Sarah, born December 25, 1777 ; married first, June 24, 1801, Shad- rach Shattuck, of Charlestown; married sec- ond, 1827, Silas Stickney, of Beverly. 2. Josiah, born December 23, 1779; married, January 30, 1803, Susanna Frost. 3. Asa, born May 5, 1781 ; see forward. 4. Artemas, born July 18, 1784; married April 25, 1816, Ruth Butterfield, of West Cambridge. 5. Micajah, born December 14, 1786, married, September 20, 1812, Elmira Russell, of West Cambridge. 6. Betsey, born March 5, 1788, died June 23, 1793. 7. Mary, born August 3, 1791 ; married, June 14, 1812, Charles Rich- ardson, of Sudbury. 8. Alfred, born October 8, 1792; married, April 14, 1814, Anna D. Pierce. 9. Jonathan, born March 26, 1794; married, March 5, 1816, Elizabeth Russell, of West Cambridge.
(V) Asa Locke, son of Josiah Locke (4), born at Woburn, May 5, 1781, died at Win- chester, July 16, 1857 ; married, April 7, 1807, Lucy Wyman, born January 18, 1779, died at Winchester, December 8, 1860, aged eighty- one years, daughter of Daniel and Lucy (Gardner ) Wyman of Woburn. He was educated in the common schools of Woburn. Mr. Locke was a successful farmer and accumulated a good property. He disposed of the products of his farm in the Charlestown and Boston markets. He was a large power- fui man, and positive in opinion, and was a man of strong temperance principles. He was a member of the Baptist church, and a Democrat in politics. In his early life he was a member of the militia.
Children : 1. Elbridge Gardner, born March 22, 1808; married, first, May 15, 1832, Eliza B., daughter of Charles and Sarah (Robbins) Cutter, born 1809, died October 8, 1844; and married second, October 5, 1845, Mary E., daughter of James and Mehitable Colby.
Children by first wife: i. Sarah Eliza, born February 20, 1833., ii. Warren Elbridge. iii. Ruth Augusta, born November 1, 1836. iv. Charles. v. William. Child of second wife: vi. James Henry, born April 19, 1847. 2. Almira Wyman, born July 18, 1809, died February 26, 1888; married, April 7, 1829, Hiram Andrews, born October 28, 1802, died October 21, 1881. Children : i. Delmont Mal- com (Andrews) born May 10, 1831. ii. Henry Edwin Gardner (Andrews), September 16, 1833. iii. William Hiram (Andrews), July 31, 1836. iv. Ellen Maria (Andrews), Aug- ust 26, 1839. v. Asa Locke ( Andrews), born November 19, 1842. vi. Daniel Wyman (An- drews), born April 19, 1847. 3. Lydia, born June 27, 1811, died June 28, 1876. 4. Betsey Richardson, born August 28, 1813; married, November 19, 1843, Timothy Eaton, of West Cambridge. Children : i. Joseph Henry (Eaton), born December 31, 1844. ii. Jose- phine A. (Eaton), May 16, 1847. 5. Josiah, born November 22, 1815, see forward. 6. Asa, born January 23, 1818, died April 22, 1899; married Caroline Hutchins, of Carlisle. Children : i. Emily Carrie, born May 16, 1858; married, Walter Symmes, of Winches- ter. ii. Lucy, born November 27, 1860. iii. Hattie L., born March 25, 1862 ; married Fred Fiske. iv. Mary R., died March 24, 1866. v. Asa Wyman, born April 13, 1866. vi. Helen Adelaide, February 24, 1870. vii. Arthur Hibbert, died April 25, 1874. 7. Daniel Wyman, born December 21, 1819; married, April 20, 1843, Adeline Matilda, born Septem- ber 24, 1817, daughter of Jonathan and Betsey S. Locke, of Woburn. Children: i. George, died in infancy. ii. Benjamin Franklin, born 1844, died August, 1873; married Mary Cox ; no issue. iii. Walter Wyman, born June II, 1853; married, June 1, 1882, Augusta Ger- trude (Boynton), born July 31, 1854, widow of Benjamin Smith; child, Ronnald Walter Locke, born February 13, 1883; married Gertrude S. Waldemere, December 24, 1901 ; she was born April 6, 1881; their chil- dren are: Ronnalda Wilhelmina, born Janu- ary 15, 1903 ; Gertrude, born October 9, 1904; Catharine Varnum, born August 22, 1907. iv. William Eugene, born 1856; married Nellie Bemis; one child, Florence Locke. Nellie and Eugene Locke died in 1890. v. Daniel Wyman, born 1858-9, died 1862. vi. Varnum Prescott, died aged two and a half years. Daniel Wyman Locke, the father, died in May, 1886, and the mother, Adaline Matilda Locke, died November 29, 1903. 8. Lucy
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Gardner, born August 23, 1823 ; married, Jan- uary 22, 1846, William Adams, of West Cam- bridge. Children: i. Lucy Ann (Adams), born November 27, 1846. ii. William (Adams). iii. Frederick (Adams). iv. Warren ( Adams).
(VI) Josiah Locke, son of Asa Locke (5), born at Woburn, November 22, 1815, died at Winchester, April 2, 1899; married, January 5, 1843, Harriet Priscilla Symmes, born at Charlestown, August 3, 1819, died at Win- chester, December 13, 1904, daughter of Stephen and Harriet Priscilla (Reed) Symmes, of Charlestown. He obtained his education in the common schools and at the Warren Academy in Woburn, supplemented by a course at the academy in Hampton Falls, New Hampshire. During the winter of 1839 and 1840 he taught school in the Hill district of South Woburn, and one of his pupils says : "To the unpretentious building which he had for a school house he playfully gave the name of Meadow Gate Seminary, from the fact that there was a meadow very near it and across the road a gate. The name clung to it as long as it was used for a school house. When the town of Winchester was incorpor- ated the building was sold and it is now used as a storehouse on a neighboring farm. He was a successful farmer and had an honest pride in his calling; of this his productions and well kept farm gave ample proof. He possessed a genius and a passion for hard toil, which was in his case a sort of birthmark. He was self-reliant and exhibited sound judg- ment in practical matters. He was ever ready by voice and vote to promote the best interests of his native town. . As his residence was near the borders of the town of Arlington he attended the Baptist church in that place, which he joined in 1842 and was a member of for fifty-seven years. He was one of its strong supporters and in his piety, industry and free thought, a sturdy specimen of the earlier New England type. At the death of his father in 1857, he and his three brothers bought his father's farm, and later Josiah and Asa, two of the brothers, bought out the others and carried on the old place together until 1872, when a division was made. He possessed strong temperance principles, and was very patriotic during the civil war. He was six feet in stature, and very powerful in physique ; quiet in manner, and respected by all. He was a Democrat in politics, and a delegate to various conventions of that party and was once nominated for representative, but suffered defeat at the polls.
Children: I. Albert Henry, born June 3, 1844, died August 17, 1848. 2. Louisa Symmes, born January 13, 1846 ; married, De- cember 10, 1874, Ira Locke Russell, of Arling- ton. Children: i. Harriet Priscilla (Russell), born November 14, 1876. ii. Amy Louisa (Russell), born April 22, 1878 ; married Octo- ber 7, 1902, Charles T. Bunker, of Arlington, and have Amy Helen (Bunker), born Febru- ary II, 1905. iii. Warren Locke (Russell), born August 16, 1880; married June 26, 1907, Lois Alice, daughter of Everett and Lois (Thing) Upham. iv. Howard Symmes (Rus- sell), born July 28, 1887. v. Abbie Munroe (Russell), born April 15, 1890. 3. Harriet Priscilla, born November 6, 1847, died No- vember 4, 1856. 4. Julia Ann, born January 23, 1850, died September 15, 1853. 5. Josiah Howard, born March 9, 1852, died September 8, 1853. 6. Abbie Francina, born June 18, 1854; married, December 25, 1876, Edwin S. Farmer, of Arlington; one child, Chester Edward; died in early life. 7. Stephen Symmes, born October 7, 1856; married, July 21, 1880, Helen Humphrey Wharton, of Arlington. Children: i. Helen Maud, born January 20, 1882. ii. Abbie Louise, born June 1, 1887, died August 22, 1887. iii. Mar -. ion Estelle, born November 14, 1889. 8. George Lewis, see forward.
(VII) George Lewis Locke, son of Josiah Locke (6), born at Winchester, December 15, 1859; married, September 12, 1880, Elizabeth Ellis, born December 15, 1858, daughter of Robert and Agnes (Ryan). Ellis, of Shipa- nacty, Nova Scotia. He was an attendant of the Winchester public schools until seventeen years old, when defective eyesight prevented further attendance. He then began the market gardening business on his father's farm. On the death of his father in 1899, he assumed the responsibility and bought out the heirs and began business entirely on his own behalf. Mr. Locke has made market gardening a suc- cess, and raises lettuce, celery, peas, squash and other produce which he markets in Bos- ton. His four sons are also engaged in the same work. The farm is situated in the west part of Winchester on Ridge street-being the Philemon Wright place of yore. This estate was purchased by Josiah Locke (4) of Philemon Wright (the founder of Hull and Ottowa, Canada), in the early part of the century. Mr. Locke cultivates under ten thousand square feet of glass the early raising of his product. His teams are run daily to Boston in the summer and three times a week
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in the winter. He is a member of the Arling- ton Baptist church, and voted for Cleveland, but is now a Republican. He is a member of the Market Gardeners' Association of Boston.
Children: I. George Ellis, born February I, 1881. 2. Chester Cleveland, July 3, 1886. 3. Edna Florence, September 8, 1887. 4. Wendall Wyman, January 6, 1889. 5. Alice Bertha, February 3, 1890. 6. Harry Dexter, December 7, 1891. 7. Arthur Church, March 25, 1895. 8. Willard Reed, November 18, 1896.
BOSSON Many French Huguenots sought refuge in the beautiful little Isle of Jersey, and not a few of our early Salem families came from that island, the descendants of the Huguenots, Philip English and others. The records of the Bosson family were lost at the time of the civil war, but tradition is strong that they were Huguenots and came to Salem, Massa- chusetts, with the early families. These refugees are said by historians to have been among the very best people in France. As men of character and moral worth, they were eminent. In comparison with the Puritans they were as firm and well established in their religious opinions, and as devout, less bigoted, yet more cultivated and refined. They were intelligent in religious matters, profound Bible students, and also excelled in music, having a metrical translation of the Psalms, and the hymns of Beza, and of Marot, who was called the French Watts, set to the sweet harmonies of Goudinel, an early French composer.
(I) William Bosson, the immigrant, came to America before 1630, with son William. From Salem, Massachusetts, he settled near Watertown, and was there called Bassom and Barsham. The records say William Bassom was in Watertown, 1636, and William Bas- som was a proprietor at Wethersfield. Bond, the historian of Watertown, gives the coat of arms : Per pale gu, and ar., a chief or. Crest. -a garb in fesse. (Bond, Page 677). Wil- liam Bosson served on a jury inquest Septem- ber 28, 1630; was selectman in 1653; sealer of weights and measures. He bought a lot of land in Watertown, March 22, 1646-47, of Abigail Benjamin and others, perhaps heirs of an estate he or his wife was interested in. This place was east of Jeremiah Norcross's land. He married second, Annabel -, and their children were: I. William, mentioned be- low. 2. John, born December 8, 1635, men-
tioned below. 3. Hannah, born January 7, 1637-38, died in Newton, August 18, 1710; married, September 19, 1656, John Spring, Jr. 4. Joshua, born March 15, 1640-41. 5. Susan, born January 28, 1641-42; married John Capen, Jr. 6. Nathaniel, born 1644, married, March 13, 1678-79, Elizabeth Bond. 7. Sarah, married Brown. 8. Mary, born June 24, 1648; married, May 7, 1675, Deacon John Bright; married (second), De- cember 12, 1700, Hananiah Parker, of Read- ing (see Lowell family). 9. Rebecca, born December 12, 1657; married, May 14, 1683, Edward Winship, of Cambridge. 10. Eliza- beth, born July 29, 1659; married, July 5, 1694, Adam Eve, of Boston. William Bosson, father of these children, died July 3, 1684. In will dated August 28, 1683, codicil dated April 15, 1684, and proved August 29, 1684, he bequeathed to sons John, Joshua and Na- thaniel; daughters Hannah. Spring, Susannah Capen, Sarah Browne, Mary Bright, Rebecca Winship and Elizabeth Bosson; grandson William Bosson, son of John.
(II) William Bosson, son of William ( I). We know nothing of this son until we find in 1660, in Marblehead, (then part of Salem), his widow and two sons, William (3) and John. The following items show their con- nection with Marblehead, where the spelling is Bosson, Boatswain, Boatson, Boson, and Bosen. "Widow Boatson in Marblehead, in 1660."-Marblehead Church Records. "Widow Boatson was one of 114 householders in Marblehead in 1674, only one other woman mentioned, Widow Stacie."-History of Mar- blehead. "William Bosson gone out of town. He, of Marblehead." Endorsed on back of writ, 1684, No. 62 files. "William Boatson and Ann Hooper married August 7, 1689."- Marblehead Town Records. "William Boats- wain, administrator to the estate of his brother John Boatswain." "William Bosson, of Rox- bury, administrator of the estate of John Bos- son, late of Marblehead, September 17, 1714." "October 6, 1714. William Bosson, of Rox- bury, tailor, appointed administrator of the estate of his brother, John Bosson, of Marble- head, Mariner." "Inventory of estate of John Boatswain, late of Marblehead, deceased, May 26, 1715."-Probate Records. "William Bos- son and Dorothy his wife, sold June 30, 1721, for fifty pounds, the house his brother John left to him in Marblehead."
(II) John Bosson, son of William Bosson (I), was born in Watertown, December 8, 1635. He graduated from Harvard College
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in 1658, and was a minister of the gospel. Bond says he settled in or near Exeter, New Hampshire, and gives the following children from records at Concord, New Hampshire, where the old Exeter files are now deposited : I. Annabel, May 31, 1670; 2. Mary, February 26, 1672; 3. Dorothy, February 2, 1674; 4. Sarah, August II, 1676; 5. William, April 25, 1678. William Bosson, only son of Rev. John Bosson (2) last named, was born April 25, 1678, in the vicinity of Exeter, New Hamp- shire. He was a tailor by trade. The records say little about him.
William and Dorothy (Holbrook) Bosson came to Roxbury from Marblehead in 1706. Dorothy's father or brother, John Holbrook, was made trustee of the property that William Bosson bought at Roxbury. He bought of James Bailey of Roxbury a lot of land with shop, between the. road and brook, granted originally by the town to Bailey, in October, 1697. This deed is dated April 29, 1706. Mrs. Dorothy (Holbrook) Bosson was a haberdasher or small ware seller of some capital. She opened a shop with stock brought from England, the first in Roxbury. She would make trips alone rowing herself in a wherry across Charles river to supply her trade with potters ware from Charlestown. She was quite authorita- tive at home and abroad, reared her children well, with perhaps more expectation than industry. William and Dorothy his wife, made a trust deed, dated October 25, 1706, for their two children, William and Dorothy, in trust until they came of age. He may not have been well, and so left his property in this way. Another deed of trust was made May 16, 1713, to John Holbrook for the son Wil- liam, and May 19, 1713, to Dorothy, of land in the rear of the plot given to the son. Dor- othy, either mother or daughter, deeded land to Joseph Scarborough, September 22, 1739, near Town street. Widow Bosson was one of the owners in 1741 of pews in the Third Meeting House of the First Church in Rox- bury. Dorothy, born about 1695, married August 5, 1714, Elias Monk, son of Elias Monk. Children: Hopestill, born October 31, 1720; Elias, born April 9, 1723.
(III) Rev. William Bosson, son of (2) William and Dorothy, was born before 1700, and died about 1748, according to the Harvard Quinquennial Catalogue. He was graduated from Harvard in 1723, and admitted to the Roxbury Church, August 14, 1726. He was a preacher, and for many years chaplain at
Castle William, Boston Harbor (see Win- throp's Interleaved Catalogue; also Massa- chusetts House Journal, August 16, 1744, reg. vl., p. 190). He mortgaged his house in Roxbury, November 18, 1742, as security for a note, and the mortgage was discharged in 1744. He signed the petition of the members of the Roxbury church in 1737 for the adop- tion of the Tate and Brady Psalm Book in place of the Bay State Psalm Book then in use. "Among the founders of the original church were George Alcock, William Packe, William Pynchon and Thomas Lamb, and among the occupants of pews in 1736 are a number of well-known families. In the spacious gallery pews were such worthies as Deacon Samuel Gridley, Mrs. William Bos- son, and Samuel Gore." Among the Sub- scribers to Prince's Chronological History of New England, in 1736, is William Bosson, M. A., of Roxbury.
Rev. William Bosson married Mary, whose surname is unknown, and she owned the cove- nant at Roxbury, June 23, 1728-29. Children : I. William, born April 29, 1724. 2. John, born 1726; married September 3, 1747, Elea- nor Nissbet ; children: John Elizabeth, and William, baptized together, January 18, 1756. 3. Dorothy, born September 4, 1727. 4. Win- ter, born January 1, 1732; married, 1761, Mary Abrams, of Milton. Children: Nathan- iel, born August 22, 1762, and William, July II, 1765, at Milton. 5. Sarah, born March 29, 1739; married May 3, 1759, William Pat- rick.
(IV) William Bosson, son of Rev. William Bosson (3), born in Roxbury, April 29, 1724. He was a wig or peruke maker, and also called a barber. He bought the interests of the other heirs of his father's estate, June 14, 1779. The property is described as a cellar near the school-house, on the junction of roads to Mil- ton and Dedham. His grandmother, Dorothy Bosson, whom the deed calls a shopkeeper, deeded him a cellar 18 by 21 feet on the road to Boston and Braintree, adjoining his land. He bought land in Roxbury, April 12, 1750, of John Solomon, a wheelwright. He mar- ried August 15, 1745, Abigail Partridge, born in Medfield, November 7, 1707, daughter of Samuel and Hannah (Mason) Partridge. Her children were: I. Abigail, born October 27, 1748; married Daniel Kelly; her daughter Mary married John Proctor. 2. Mary, born December 29, 1750, died. 3. William, born April 28, 1753; major in Revolutionary war. 4. Mary, born February 18, 1755; married
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John Browne, August 4, 1777. 5. Nehemiah, born May 22, 1757; in Revolutionary war; enlisted May 1, 1775, fifer, under Captain Moses Whiting. 6. Thaddeus, born Septem- ber 3, 1759; in Revolutionary war, and a pris- oner on the ship "Jersey," in the Wallabout Bay, New York, who with many others never fully recovered from his hardships there. (There were five prison ships in Wallabout Bay, Brooklyn, New York, during the latter part of the war of the Revolution, viz: The "Jersey," the "John," the "Scorpion," the "Strombolo," and the "Hunter." Upon the "Jersey" over eleven thousand prisoners of war actually died from hardship, starvation and contagion). 7. Lucy, born March 27, 1761. 8. Jonathan Davis, born June 14, 1762 ; in Revolutionary war. William Bosson, the father, married second, July 9, 1767, Ruth Curtis, of Dorchester, Abigail (Partridge) Bosson having died July 9, 1766. Ruth's chil- dren were: I. Charles, baptized at Roxbury, March 27, 1768; died April 12; buried in old Roxbury burying ground. 2. Nancy, born 1769 ; Ralph Smith, of Roxbury, was appoint- ed her guardian, January 12, 1790. Ruth (Curtis) Bosson died May 13, 1769. William Bosson married third, January 24, 1771, Sarah Hawes. No children. William Bosson died in 1787. His son William (5) was appointed administrator February 27, 1787, with Thomas Clark as surety on his bond; his account was filed October 23, 1787, and he was buried in the old Roxbury burying ground, the first burying place in Roxbury. Abigail (Partridge) Bosson and two children, Mary and Ann, were also buried there, and Ruth (Curtis) Bosson and her infant son.
(V) Major William Bosson, born in Rox- bury, Massachusetts, April 28, 1753, son of William Bosson (4), married September 18, 1777, Prudence Mayo, born December 18, 1755, daughter of Thomas, Jr., and Mary (Heath) Mayo. Children: I. William, born July 9, 1778, died August 1, 1799, on island of Grenada. 2. Nehemiah, born August 31, 1779, January 10, 1807, lost on the coast of Africa. 3. Prudence, born February 14, 1782, died August 16, 1787. 4. Sukey, born April IO, 1784, died in fall of 1833; married Jonathan Hill; children: Prudence, Mary, George and Willey. Mrs. Prudence (Mayo) Bosson died May 29, 1784. Major William Bosson mar- ried second, December 16, 1784, Susanna Mayo, his first wife's sister. Children : I. Thomas Mayo, born November 9, 1785; in 1812 went to Cincinnati, Ohio; a physician ;
married Mary, daughter of Lemuel Whiting ; died May, 1850. 2. Prudence, born August 13, 1787, died August 4, 1790. 3. John Som- ers, born January 29, 1790, died April 4, 1790. 4. Charles Thompson, born April 7, 1791; graduated at Harvard, class 181I, a classmate of Edward Everett; Charles T., died at his father's house at Murfreesboro, Tennessee, during the seige of that place by Forrest, and a day before the battle of Nashville, December, 1864. He was a lawyer in Kentucky, leaving one son, James. 5. John Somers, born May II, 1793 ; graduated Yale, 1813; was a physician at Cincinnati; died, 1818. 6. Joseph, born April 22, 1795, emigrated and joined brothers in Cincinnati in 1817. Children: William, David and Susan. 7. Catherine Mayo, born March 23, 1797; married Judge Powers, of Cincinnati, brother of Hiram Powers; one daughter, Ellen, married Daniel Kelly. 8. Nancy S., born March 5, 1799, died January 22, 1803, at Boston. 9. Mary Heath, born July 29, 1801, died 1871, Troy, Ohio. 10. William, born September 29, 1803, married Julia Bennett ; two boys: Thomas Mayo, boin February, 1856, and William, June, 1857.
Major William Bosson (5), father, was in battle of Lexington, was afterward major, and served to the end of the war. His com- mission is signed by John Hancock and In- crease Sumner. "The first public library of Roxbury was established in 1805, and was kept in the lower story of the building where the dial is. Bacon's Block is the site of Ed- ward Dorr's residence about the middle of the last century, and also that of Major William Bosson, a veteran of the Revolution, and one of the minute-men at Lexington." "In 1784, on the sight of the Greyhound, was located the first fire engine of Roxbury. Among the engine men appoined was Wm. Bosson, Jr." He was a merchant in Roxbury street from 1785 to 1817, and was one of the selectmen for many years. "Pew, No. 61, on lower floor. Sold by the First Parish at their sale of pews on the Ioth May to Mr. William Bosson, for the sum of $320 as appears by deed of their Clerk dated June 3, 1805." "The above is from the Record of Sales of Pews in our pres- ent building when it was completed." Signed, William Crosby, Treasurer, 1898.
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