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Falls. His record for long service in many different town offices has been rivalled to the present time (1911) only by that of the late Solomon Flagg. Captain Cook was also con- cerned with much of the private business of his fellow towns- men, and his name frequently occurs in the County records. He is called a "Horn Breaker" in some documents. In 1727 he was administrator of the estate of his son, William. Robert died April 1, 1756, aged eighty-six years, and was probably buried next to his wife in the old graveyard on Nehoiden Street.
DANIELL
Joseph Daniell, son of Samuel of Medfield, and grandson of Robert Daniell of Watertown and Cambridge, was a surveyor of highways in Dedham in 1705, field driver 1705, '06, constable 1706, tythingman 1707, '08. He had a grant from the Proprietors of Dedham of six acres at Maugus Hill on November 26, 1700, and at his decease, June 8, 1720, at the age of forty-three, he owned about one hundred and fifty acres of land in Needham, most of it near his home, which was not far from where the Orthodox Congregational Meeting-house now stands in Wellesley Hills. He was buried in the old graveyard in Needham, and his gravestone was there in the sixties, but is now missing. His estate was valued at £904, os., 4d., and Lydia "Daniels" of Medway was the administratrix. The widow's name was Lydia, that of the eldest son was Joseph, and the other sons were Jasper and Samuel, the daughters being Lydia Bullen and Mary Daniell, all of whom were living in 1729, when the estate was divided. Jeremiah Daniell, a grandson of Joseph, Sr., died in 1784. He had lived in the house, still standing, at the corner of Washington and Oakland Streets, but, old as this house is, it is hardly likely that it dates back to 1720. There is a good printed genealogy of the Daniell family of Needham by Moses Grant Daniell, A.M., a native of this town.
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DEWING
Lieutenant Andrew Dewing, who was living in Sudbury in 1640, had a garrison house, somewhere near the Charles River, and probably west of the place where the Nine Arch Bridge now stands. In 1676 he had charge of fifty Indians. Andrew had the bounty of twenty shillings for killing two wolves in 1664. The records of the Proprietors of Dedham contain the particulars of a number of grants of land to Andrew Dewing 1651- , although the tracts were not ex- tensive; the majority were in the western part of the town, a few in Rosemary Meadow, and others near the Great Plain. Andrew Dewing died September 7, 1677.
As early as 1683 the Bacons acquired by marriage an interest in some of the Dewing lands, and in 1771 a Bacon family was living on the Gay-Reynolds place, which had been Dewing property. Jonathan Dewing, son of Lieut. Andrew, when under age, had been a soldier in King Philip's War. In 1729 he sold to Nathaniel Bullard, who also was a "Hus- bandman", twenty acres part upland and part swampy in a plain near Natick Brook, located in Needham and in Natick Dividend. It was bounded on the southwest by land be- longing to Andrew Dewing, on the northeast by the land of Henry Dewing, on the southeast by a small brook, and on the northwest by waste land. The inventory, dated 1741, of Jonathan Dewing, amounted to £962, 3s., 2d., and included his homestead, and land in the Rosemary Meadow, in Horse Neck, and in Pine Swamp. In 1744 Edmund Dewing mortgaged his dwelling, barn and forty acres to John Trail of Boston, merchant, for one hundred and eighty- seven ounces ten penny weight of coined silver sterling alloy troy weight, and the next spring he mortgaged to the same merchant for a like amount the homestead of his late father, Andrew Dewing, with eighty acres. These mortgages were paid within a few years. Lieut. Andrew Dewing's son, Andrew, was chosen in 1671, '72, '75 and '77 to burn woods
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"for the Island Side". He was to perform that duty in 1678, '81-3, and was a constable in 1707, '08. He died January 14, 1717/18, and was the father of another Lieut. Andrew Dewing. The estate lately owned by Messrs. Alden and Pope was included in the Dewing property, and, after the incorporation of the town, there were two houses occupied by Dewing families on what is now Grove Street. The Dewings also owned land that now belongs to Charles H. W. Foster, and between this land and the present Central Avenue, once called Fisher's Meeting Road, was the farm and homestead of Josiah Newell. This Dewing territory was part of the Natick Dividend granted by the Dedham people in 1660 to half a dozen planters, of whom Andrew Dewing was one. Each right is said to have consisted of about seventeen or eighteen acres, in the proportion of two thirds upland and one third meadow, but an individual might secure two or more cow commons, as the tracts were called, according to his means and the size of his family. Horace Mann said that Andrew Dewing had over eight hundred acres in this region, and deeded farms to his sons, but the deeds do not appear to be on record. The Natick Dividend may be described as east of the Boston and Albany Railroad Company's tracks, and bounded on the northeast by Maugus Hill. The Hundreds Dividend was substantially a territory west of the railroad tracks, and extending from the Lower Falls to Blossom Street. The inventory of Andrew Dewing,1 dated 1746, amounted to £1404, 9s., 9d., and in- cluded his homestead on the northeast side of the road, "Stone Swamp" on the west side, land in Natick, and two acres near "the Wigwam". The estate was divided in 1751, and the heirs were Jeremiah and Solomon Dewing, the latter also by purchase representing Dorothy Ware, and Mary, wife of John Chickering. There were one hundred and fifty
1 Mr. Benjamin F. Dewing published in 1904 an excellent history, or genealogy, of the Dewings, which distinguishes between the different men who bore the name of Andrew in successive generations. Mr. Dewing possessed a large amount of valuable biographical matter that he did not include in his book.
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acres, most of it east of Sawmill Brook in Needham, but twelve acres were west of the brook at "Daniels Hill" in Natick.
There was a branch of the Dewing family in Natick, and they were prominent in the military annals, as were those resident in Needham. In 1771 a Dewing family lived where did the late George A. Alden, and another where formerly stood the Chamberlain house, perhaps in that same house. A third Dewing family dwelt southwest of the Gay-Reynolds place, presumably in the house afterward the home of Jacob Pierce.1 In 1771 Charles River Street ended at the Gay farm, then owned and occupied by Bacons.
Ebenezer Dewing, son of Henry Dewing, while returning from Cambridge on his wagon, on November 25, 1766, was murdered near the house of John Davenport in Newton, by a negro named Titus, a servant of Edward Durant of Newton. The jury brought in a verdict of not guilty, apparently on the ground that Mr. Dewing might have mistaken the iden- tity of his assailant, and that other evidence than that ob- tained from a dying man was necessary. Ebenezer lived on a portion of the Dewing lands on a farm later known as the Gay-Reynolds place, on Charles River Street.
DRURY
Joseph Drury, "Cordwainer", son of Caleb Drury of Sudbury, bought of Jonathan Underwood of Natick, "Hus- bandman", on April 4, 1752, thirty-two acres, apparently a part of the John Underwood farm, on the west side of the present Bacon Street; he bought also an orchard of one half acre, bounded northeasterly on the road now Bacon Street, the price for both parcels amounting to £153, 5s. Priscilla Underwood, wife of Jonathan, released dower. In 1761 Drury
1 The highly respected branch of this family, which has long been identified with the Town of Weston, invariably spell their surname Peirce, and this form is not unknown in Needham, although several generations of Jacob's descendants have written their names Pierce.
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purchased of John Sprague of Attleboro, "Husbandman", and of William Sprague of Dedham, "Blacksmith ", fifty acres adjoining the land bought of Jonathan Underwood, and paid £93, 6s., 8d. From the note book of Robert Jenni- son it appears that in 1752 he "finished" Joseph Drury's house, which must have been a new house, as neither of the deeds of 1752 refer to buildings. Joseph Drury apparently lived in the old red building, which now stands west of the Wight houses on Bacon Street. This old house was once a school-house, and has been moved down a lane. It is prob- ably one of the three houses that Horace Mann said were built by the Underwoods, another being the Farris house. The old John Goodenow house, at the Waban Conserva- tories, was at one time the residence of Captain Drury, who erected the dwelling west of it.
Joseph Drury lost his life from the fall of a temporary structure at his coal pits, and on March 18, 1773, Ephraim Drury, "Student", John Bacon, Jr., and Zeruiah, his wife, Lydia Drury, as guardian of Elizabeth a minor, all of Need- ham, conveyed to Joseph Drury, "Husbandman", for £124, all their rights in the estate of Joseph Drury deceased, except the widow's dower. Fifteen years later Joseph Drury sold fifty acres, with buildings, to Moses Fisk for £400, including his interest in his mother's dower, but in 1790 the land was deeded back to Drury.
EATON
John Eaton, one of the early settlers of Dedham, was a substantial citizen, and his descendants have been for gener- ations identified with Dedham and the adjoining towns, and have had extensive landed possessions in Norfolk County, including some in what is now Stoughton. The first John Eaton died in 1658, and his grandson, William, died in 1718, leaving to his younger sons, Josiah and Jeremiah, large tracts of land on the Great Plain, and on both sides of Rosemary Brook. The eldest son, William, had the two
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farms on Dedham Island, which had belonged to his great- grandfather, the first John Eaton. The Eatons were tax- payers in Needham from its incorporation, and Josiah and Jeremiah, previously referred to, became residents. Josiah is the ancestor of the families of Eatons now dwelling on the Great Plain. He was a blacksmith, and in 1760 owned a large territory extending from Kendrick's Bridge so far south that it included a portion, perhaps the greater part, of Bird's Hill, and also the estate on the south side of Great Plain Avenue, where for many years was the home of Augustus Eaton, who died October 15, 1909, aged eighty-six years, seven months and twenty-nine days. In 1771 the Eatons lived on Webster Street, east of where the railroad is, and the homestead built in 1822 by William Eaton, Jr., was sold within the recollection of persons now living, and became the residence of Jonathan Avery. The more ancient Eaton homestead was in the yard of the house built in 1822, and a short distance west of it.
John Alden Eaton of Newton contributed to the Dedham Historical Register for 1900 and 1901 a valuable account of this race of Eatons.
EDES
In 1729 Peter "Eades", who was of the Charlestown fam- ily, bought of Jeremiah and Deborah Fisher of Dedham fifty acres "It being one half of the Eighth lot Drawn in that Divident north of the Sherborn Road" for £150. In 1771 John Edes and the widow Edes each had a house on the north side of Washington Street, near the junction with the Turnpike, in what is now Wellesley Hills. The Oliver Edes house on South Street, near the pumping station, was a century old, and was burned on September 3, 1893.
FISHER
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England, lived in Dedham north of the river. His grand- father had owned land which is now in Needham as early as 1650, and other members of the Fisher family had grants there. John Fisher was a surveyor of highways in Dedham 1692, field driver 1695, 1702, '03, fence viewer 1697, '98. In 1703 he was appointed by Governor Dudley to look after the Natick Indians, but found it no easy duty. He was a soldier in King Philip's War, and was the captain of the first company of militia formed in Needham. By his will he gave £5 to Mr. Townsend for the use of the Church. He died January 21, 1735/6, aged eighty, and was buried in the old graveyard. His son, "Squire" John, sometimes called Captain, who died of the small-pox May 6, 1752, was also buried there. In 1746 John Fisher purchased of Caleb Wheaton a farm of fifty acres, which bounds on the river, and is the most westerly estate on the east side of Central Avenue. This farm was for many years the residence of Deacon John Fisher, whose sister, Elizabeth, had married Wheaton on September 8, 1736. The Honorable Enos H. Tucker recalled the Deacon John Fisher house.
John Trail of Boston held mortgages in Needham at this period, and in 1744 John Fisher, Esq., and Jeremiah Fisher mortgaged to Mr. Trail for one hundred and fifty ounces of coined silver sterling alloy (troy weight) eighteen acres of upland, eight acres near the Clay Brook, and nineteen acres, probably in the same locality. Deacon John was son of John Fisher, Esq., and grandson of Captain John. Capt. Ebenezer Fisher, a younger brother of Deacon John, lived in the old house on the easterly corner of Central Avenue and Charles River Street. This house was for twenty years in a ruinous condition, and was burned on July 3, 1896. There is a photograph of it in the Needham Free Public Library. According to the inscription on his monument Capt. Ebenezer Fisher died March 13, 1798, aged seventy- seven years.
The map of 1771 indicates a mill at Charles River Village,
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on the Needham side, and calls it Fisher's Mill. The Samuel Fisher house, better known as the "Liddy" Fisher house, stood on Charles River Street, and was burned on June 5, 1883. In February, 1842, the Rev. Daniel Kimball described some of the houses in town that were more than a century old. Of the Fisher house he said that it was then the home of the very aged widow of Samuel Fisher, that one room retained the characteristics of early times, with seven un- stained and unpainted oak beams, of a rich brown color, with other beams at right angles, which crossed a ceiling so low that Mr. Kimball could barely stand upright. "Liddy's" sister boarded babies and small children, and some were born and died in this house. Philip Adsit Fisher has published a good genealogy of the Fisher Family.
FISK - FISKE
Moses Fisk of Natick, "Cordwainer", bought of Samuel Morse of Dedham, "Husbandman", fifty-nine acres with buildings in Needham, for five hundred and fifty "Bills of Credit". Apparently this land was west of Bacon Street. The witnesses to the deed, June, 1741, were Joseph Drury and Hezekiah Broad; John Death was the Justice of the Peace. In 1769 Moses Fisk, then of Needham, and Samuel Morse, "Yeoman", bought of Josiah Morse of Needham, "Yeoman", and Anna his wife, for £100, twenty-seven acres in Needham on the north side of the road now Bacon Street, "thro the middle of the house belonging to the said Timothy Bacon", viz., one half of a house and barn together with a well privilege. Also forty acres in Needham, which bounded on land of Henry and Timothy Bacon, and ex- tended to within two rods of Joseph Drury's house. This property was sold in 1772 by Moses Fisk, "Adm'or on the Estate of Moses Fisk late of Said Needham", and Samuel Morse to Benjamin Ward of Waltham, "Yeoman", for £170. The same grantors also conveyed for £73, Is. to Mr. Ward seven and three fourths acres in Needham,
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bounded mostly on the land of Timothy Bacon, but partly on the highway and on land of Joseph Drury and Moses Fisk. In 1774 Joshua Fisk of Natick, "Husbandman", Enoch Fisk and Elijah Fisk, both of Needham, sold for £180 to Moses Fisk of Needham three parcels of land, - fifty acres and buildings, which was all of the remaining real estate in Needham of their late father, Moses Fisk, and eight acres of woodland and thirty of upland and woodland in Natick. In 1785 Moses Fisk bought of Jeremiah Smith seventy-three and one quarter acres in Needham for £150. The Samuel Fisk house stood on Grove Street, which is now in Natick. The residence of Mr. Walcott occupies the site according to Horace Mann, who also said that the Morse house in Natick, built in 1708, was at one time the home of Moses Fisk. Moses Fisk died February 18, 1770, aged fifty-seven years, and his son Moses died October 2, 1810, aged sixty-five years; both are buried in the old graveyard in North Natick, where rest many former inhabitants of Needham Leg.
The Fiske homestead in Wellesley Hills belonged to Isaiah Fisk, and was built in 1804 by his father, Enoch Fisk, Esq. On July 15, 1833, Isaiah deeded one hundred and eighty- eight acres, with buildings, to Moses, Jr., and to Emery Fisk, and a year later Emery became the sole owner. The house is now (1909) the home of his two granddaughters, one of whom, Isabella H. Fiske, is an authoress.
Enoch Fisk, Esq., was a large stout man of whom various anecdotes are told in connection with his trips to Boston with barrels of cider, which he sold there. "Squire" Fisk was known to the irreverent as "Old Snap".
FROST
Thomas Frost, son of Samuel of Billerica, and grandson of Elder Edmund Frost of Cambridge, lived in 1724 in the easterly portion of The Leg, east of "The Framingham Road". On December 17, 1728, he sold to John Goodenow
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twenty-six acres bounded west by land of the grantee, north by the brook, and east and south by land of the grantor for £80, 2s., 6d .; no wife signed the deed.
FULLER
In 1708 John Fuller conveyed to his son Thomas several parcels of land at a place called "Burch Plain", and at "Burch Meadow". The first parcel, twenty acres, had been granted to Thomas, father of John, by the town of Dedham, the second, twenty-seven acres, was called "Burch Plain neck", the third was one acre, and the fourth, two acres near North Hill, had on it Thomas's house and barn, and all three parcels last mentioned had been granted to the said John by the town. The deed also included rights in twenty- one acres that had been granted to his son, Thomas. The whole property was valued at £50. There seems to be no doubt that the house referred to in this deed is the old Mills house, now owned by the heirs of Curtis McIntosh, and sup- posed to be the oldest house in Needham. The great chimney has been removed since 1880 by Mr. McIntosh.1 Lieut. Oliver Mills, who lived on this farm at the time of the Revo- lution, was a grandson of Thomas Fuller, the grantee in the deed of 1708. It does not appear that this deed of John Fuller to his son included a twenty-acre tract, to the west- ward of the house, which together with other land he had bought of Nathaniel Richards in 1706. In 1702 Thomas Ful- ler, Jr., bought of Nathaniel Richards thirty-six acres, appar- ently in the same locality, for £30. John Fuller died January 15, 1719, aged seventy-four (monument).
At the time of the incorporation of Needham, Robert Fuller, a brother of Thomas, lived in the ancient house off Forest Street, now owned by Charles H. Snow. About
1 Besides the loss of its chimney the Fuller-Mills house has undergone altera- tions; the writer has a rough draft of the interior before the changes were made. Several of our ancient houses have been spoiled within recent years by the tearing out of the great chimneys.
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1735 a Fuller built the house at the corner of Forest Street and the road which has no name, but which ought to be called Fuller's Road, or Fuller's Lane. Both of these houses were Fuller homesteads for a long period, and both are in fair condition. Some ninety years ago Abijah Greenwood, afterward Captain Greenwood, bought the Moses Fuller house, the later one, and lived in it for more than sixty years. Extensive changes were made in the general appearance of this house in 1888, or 1889, by John Wesley Greenwood, and in 1902 Benjamin Lentell took out the ancient chimney. The late Charles Curtis Greenwood, a local antiquary, con- sidered the Robert Fuller house the second oldest house in town. In 1710 John Fuller conveyed to his son Hezekiah forty-three acres on the Great Plain, south of Webster Street, for £26, and in 1714 the latter bought of Michael Dwight forty-three acres at the west end of the Great Plain for £39. About 1742 Robert Fuller of Needham sold to Hezekiah of Dedham thirty-five acres and a barn, and one half of a dwelling, for £119. The land was on the road leading past the house of James Kingsbery, and over Rosemary Plain. The inventory of Hezekiah Fuller of Dedham, 1757, shows that he owned a piece of meadow and upland, partly in Dedham and partly in Needham, "Called Wolf Pitt", and also several woodlots in Needham; - one called "School Ground", one "Causey Lott", two lots at Pine Swamp, one joining Pine Swamp, one on the hill "Called North Hill", and other parcels of land. Capt. Robert Fuller died March 3, 1769, in his eighty-fourth year. In 1842 the Eleazer Fuller house near the "Boulevard" and Prince Street was then one of the ancient houses, and the Amos Fuller house on Nehoiden Street, built about 1754, was another. The latter was sadly out of repair when bought prior to 1830 by the Rev. William Ritchie, who put it in order, and after his death in 1842 it became the home of the Newell family. In 1900 Augustus William Newell, then its owner, inserted new sills, and made other repairs.
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The homestead of Capt. Jonathan Fuller was near the brook on the west side of Great Plain Avenue at the junction with Brook Street. About 1835 he built the house, nearer the present Needham line, where Edward Granville Fuller lived. Jonathan Fuller, Jr., built the house now standing on the opposite side of the road from the old homestead, and northeast of it.
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Jonas Fuller, descended from John Fuller, an early settler of Newton, came to Needham from Newton, and died here June 20, 1799. Ezra Fuller, son of Jonas, was born in a house that formerly stood on the east corner of Webster Street and Great Plain Avenue, and which was earlier a Coller home- stead; the cellar hole remained to modern times. Ezra Fuller, Jr., son of Ezra, was born in an old house that stood where is now the dwelling of the late Amasa Kingsbury on Green- dale Avenue, and in his youth he lived on the place later owned by Charles H. Flagg on Brookside Road. Mr. Fuller, who at the time this was written was the second oldest man in town, was a carpenter in his young days, but cut his knee, with such serious results that he could not continue his occupation, and became a shoemaker. He said that he gave ten pairs of shoes at $1 per pair for a clock, which sixty years later he repurchased for $1 of Charles H. Flagg, husband of his niece, who then lived in Cochituate. Mrs. Ezra Fuller, Jr. (Catharine Elizabeth Smith), was a bright, interesting old lady, as the writer remembers her, who had an excellent memory, and was an authority on events and people of the past. She said that in 1842 Mr. Talbot took the first daguerreotypes that were taken in Needham, and that he made his headquarters at the tavern hall, and lec- tured there. Ezra Fuller, Jr., at that time lived in the old tavern. Timothy Otis Fuller, a man of many accomplish- ments, who excels as a botanist and ornithologist, is a son of Ezra Fuller, Jr.
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GARFIELD
The Garfields were not early settlers in Needham, and the family name has long since disappeared from our voting lists, but their connection with this town entitles them to a place in its history. Lieut. Moses Garfield came here at the close of the Revolutionary War, and was for many years a prominent citizen, and a liberal supporter, at different periods, of the two Congregational Churches. He had a farm extending on both sides of the Turnpike, south of Cedar Street. This farm contained several hundred acres, and, according to the tax lists of 1834, Moses Garfield had more cattle, of a taxable age, than any one else in town; he then had thirty-five cows and ten oxen. In 1838 he was taxed for four houses. He lived in the house with brick ends, on the south corner of the streets, and here his great- grandson, John, who has lived for more than sixty-five years in Boston, was born in 1835. George Garfield, only son of Lieutenant Moses, and father of Moses, 2d, lived in the house west of the turnpike. Moses Garfield, 2d, removed to Boston, and at one time Timothy Newell Smith, another Needham man, lived there in the same house with Mr. Garfield. Three sons of the latter are locomotive engineers, and John, previously referred to, is occasionally seen in Needham. While the writer and Mr. Garfield were looking at the very strong tomb of Lieut. Moses Garfield, in the old burying-ground, their attention was called to the length of the lower granite slab, and to the fact that the granite blocks were laid on lead. Mr. Garfield stated that when the granite was put in place planks were laid on the stone, which was beaten down on the lead with sledge hammers. The tomb is also cemented inside. In September, 1880, Moses Garfield, 2d, visited the old burying-ground for the first time in thirty years, and was accompanied by his son John. On October 5, a week later, the old tomb was opened to receive the remains of the elder of the two.
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