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RICHARDSON
In 1741 Ezekiel Richardson of Needham bought of Heze- kiah Fuller of Dedham, for £110, sixteen acres on the westerly end of the Great Plain, and four acres in the westerly part of the Broad Meadows, near the house of Joseph Mills.
SMITH
In 1701 John Smith, apparently a son of Christopher Smith of Dedham, was living in what was afterward Need- ham, presumably on the easterly side of the present High Rock Street, between Chestnut and South Streets. It is pos- sible, however, that his homestead was on South Street. He was constable in Dedham in 1694, fence viewer in 1695, '97-1701, '05, field driver in 1696, tythingman in 1697-1700, surveyor of highways in 1699, 1702, and selectman in 1707, '08. On May 2, 1709, he was appointed by the selectmen on a committee of three to build a new bridge over the Charles, and on April 9, 1711, was designated one of the two men who were to perambulate the line between Dedham and Water- town; Weston did not then exist. Prior to 1711 he had per- ambulated the town lines at different times. John was the ancestor of many of the Smiths who have lived in Needham, and the copy of his will contains seventeen hundred and twelve words, according to Horace Mann. Smith owned a great deal of land, and had in his lifetime given farms to his sons John, Christopher and Samuel. In 1717 he had conveyed to his son Moses eight acres at the Chestnut Trees on the highway leading from Needham Meeting-house to the County road, now Forest Street.
In his will he devised land bought of Jonathan Parker to son Jonathan, to son Moses other land, including one acre of Broad Meadow at Wilson's Island, to sons Joshua, Caleb and Aaron he gave tracts of land, and the latter's por- tion included two acres at "Wolf Pitt Hill". To his son Samuel he also devised real estate, and he bequeathed to
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his daughter, Abigail Brewer, £45, and to his grandson Ezra Smith, when he came of age, he gave a piece of land near the house of John, Jr., and joining the church land, provided he had remained with his grandmother till he was fifteen. He also gave Ezra a young mare "when found". Joshua and Caleb were directed to cut wood for their mother, Abigail, and Caleb and Aaron were to maintain "at my Dwelling House", two cows, one horse, and three sheep for her use, and to cut up the wood, ready for the fire, which Joshua and Caleb were to furnish. Aaron and his mother were requested "when they Kill their Winter's meat" to give Samuel one quarter part of it, and to let him choose "of the Swine". Aaron was to have half of the house and out-buildings, and at his mother's decease the whole. The widow had her dower, and conditional devises were made of land near Stephen Hunting's house and "Cold Spring" to John and Jonathan, and upland on the west side of Strife Meadow to Christopher. Aaron and Samuel were the residuary legatees, and the former for many years lived on South Street, opposite the east end of High Rock Street, and owned more than one hundred acres, most of it in that locality. John Smith, Jr., his son, was a field driver in Dedham in 1708, and a surveyor of highways in 1710.
The inventory of Christopher Smith, 1724, amounted to £227, IIS., 6d., and his widow, Rebecca, was the adminis- tratrix. She died September 17, 1761, in her eighty-first year. A deed of Caleb Smith, dated 1727, of three acres, refers to "High Rock" and the road to it. In 1729 Caleb and Rachel Smith sold Timothy Kingsbery two and one half acres of swamp near the house of Josiah Newell, and Caleb sold to Mr. Newell five acres, near the latter's house, and bounded east "upon a drawn path leading to the Meeting house", for £46. In 1726 Caleb Smith had sold to his brother Aaron one and one half acres in the corner where South and High Rock Streets meet. In 1730 Elizabeth, widow of
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Joshua Smith, conveyed to her son, Edward Smith, "Black- smith", four acres of upland and swamp, south of the home- stead, also meadow and woodland, including two acres in the Broad Meadow. Edward Smith made his will February 4, 1743, giving his intended wife, Elizabeth Cheney, a mourning suit throughout, to be delivered to her immedi- ately after his decease, also a cow and £30; he was then "Sick". He distributed £370, old tenor, to his mother, Elizabeth Mather, sister Hawes and her children, brother Ithamar Smith, sister Elizabeth and her children, sister Abigail Smith and brother Joshua Smith; to the latter he devised land and "Housings", and named him as executor and residuary legatee. The will of Jonathan Smith, dated January 31, 1749/50, gave to his wife, Martha, the house- hold goods, valued at £200, old tenor, the west end of the house, and an honorable maintenance by his executors. No bargain made by her was to stand for more than one year. Son Jonathan had had land given him by deed of even date to the value of £700, but was to have £500 additional, and also £200 for labor done "for me" after he was of age. Son Timothy had already had £500. Son Aaron was de- vised "all my Land lying on the East Side of the Road Lead- ing from Jonathan Dewings to the Widow Rebecca Smith's", valued at £1000. Presumably this was the Smith homestead next to Waban (Bullard's) Brook, where Capt. Aaron Smith, the devisee, lived at the time of the Revolutionary War, and which his great-grandson, George Smith, who died in 1884, gave by will to Wellesley College; although greatly changed the old house is still standing, and is used by the College as a hospital. Son David had the residue of the land, with buildings, the whole valued at £1ooo, and shared the personal property with his brother Aaron, before men- tioned; David and Aaron were the executors and were to pay their father's debts, but were not to sell the homestead while their mother lived, and were required "to carry her to meeting as often as she desires to go and to her Brothers
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and Sisters once in two years if she has a mind to go & is able". The executors were also to give her proper burial. Daughters Martha Dewing and Abigail Smith were each be- queathed £200, only half to be paid while their mother lived. Probably the testator was the Jonathan Smith who lived where the Wellesley Town Hall and Library now stands, and who died April 22, 1752.
In 1761 Abiel Smith was one of the blacksmiths of the town. In 1842 one of the ancient houses was the Luther Smith house, then in poor condition, which stood just east of the residence of the late Dr. James H. Grant, and near the rail- road track; in 1842 Mr. Fulton was living there.
The Church records inform us whence James Smith and his wife came: "Jan: 9. 1726. James Smith & Mary his Wife admitted into the Church. They came from Ireland A. D. 1718 & Brought a Teftimonial with them from M: John Stirling Minifter of the Congregation of Belly kelly in the County of Londonderry". In 1727 James Smith bought of John Fisher, Jr., and Elizabeth, his wife, fifteen acres on the "Great Playne" for £23, IOs., which land had been granted to Elder John Huntting in 1643. The Smiths lived on this estate for many years, and it is now the home of the family of Dea. George Gay Stevens. The large elms in front of the modern house are said to have been planted by Capt. Robert Smith, an officer in the Revolution, whose home was on this place. James Smith died May 18, 1754 (his grave- stone says May 16), and his son Capt. Robert died October 18, 1800, and was also buried in the old graveyard.
TOLMAN
Nathaniel Tolman died in Needham February 7, 1729, in his thirty-eighth year, according to his earlier gravestone, which disappeared subsequent to 1861, and has been replaced at the expense of Mrs. Anna M. Tolman Pickford. In 1737 Eleazer Kingsbery was guardian of Jemima and Ebenezer Tolman, and Jonathan Smith of Mary Tolman. In 1743
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Thomas Tolman, son of Nathaniel deceased, was fifteen years old, and chose Timothy Kingsbery as his guardian.
UNDERWOOD
John Underwood of Needham bought in 1714 of Hopestill Bent of Sudbury, who had been taxed in Needham in 1712, one hundred and fifty acres "Having for the South westerly Corner mark a heap of stones and a stake standing in the North line of the Township of Natick and from thence running Northerly to a Red oak tree mark'd standing on the Westerly side of the Cartway which leads from the house that was Cornett William Brown's to Natick". "Easterly by the land of said Coller and Rice to a brook and So run- ning by sd brook to a stake standing on the Southerly said in a meadow, which is the North Easterly corner mark And from thence running off and running Southerly crofs a brook which runs into another brook which is commonly called Strawbery Meadow brook", "and thence Southerly to Natick Township Line, and thence running off and running westerly by sd Natick North Line to the heap of stones and stake first above mentioned". The lengthy deed from which the foregoing is quoted was signed on January 21, 1714/15, and acknowledged on April 16, 1715, before Hopestill Browne, Justice of the Peace. Mr. Bent's deed mentions "Elizabeth his Well beloved Wife"; "said Coller and Rice" refer to John Coller and Ephraim Rice. Mr. Horace Mann incorrectly stated that John Underwood was a son-in-law of Mr. Bent, and Mr. Clarke quoted him in his volume of Wellesley Epitaphs. This farm is west of the Waban Con- servatories, and the house is the first on Walnut Street, north from Bacon Street. In walking from the noted Sta- tion Tree, where Needham, Weston and Natick joined, along the westerly line of The Leg, this estate is about half- way. Horace Mann wrote that John Underwood built the house in 1716, and stated in 1895 that it was one of three houses built by Mr. Underwood and his sons, and that all
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these houses were then in existence. The house of 1716 was apparently the "Jonathan Bacon House", as it is now called, which is owned by the heirs of John Bacon, 3d.
WADKINS -WATKINS
On March 9, 1710/11, Edward Cook deeded to Andrew Watkins, "Husbandman", son of his wife, Elizabeth Cook, by an earlier marriage, all of his land in Needham, including his home. The land consisted of ten acres at Maugus Hill, and six acres in the Natick Dividend, "my Common Right" as a Proprietor of Dedham. See grant to Edward Cook in 1696. In 1720 Andrew Watkins, "Yeoman", and Mary, his wife, sold the ten acres, and also four acres "near to the Damm in Rosemary Meadow", for £140, to Josiah Kings- bery and Hezekiah Broad, reserving the life rights of "Our Loving Mother Elizabeth Cooke the Relict Widow of Ed- ward Cook". Mr. Watkins removed from Needham.
WARD
Edward Ward, son of John, and grandson of William Ward of Sudbury, gave a tankard to the Natick Church on August 23, 1730, and joined the Church on February 6, 1742/3. He had come from Newton to Needham, and had a mill on Natick Brook; Ward's Mill and Ward's Brook were soon familiar names. The present Oak Street was then the road, or pathway, travelled by persons who came to Ward's Mill from Sudbury, and from the farms in that direction. The Coller and Dunn families are said to have lived on Oak Street prior to the Revolution. Ward's Lane ran west not far from the junction of Central and Pond Streets. On March 21, 1733, Thomas Frost of Needham, "Husbandman", sold to Edward Ward of Newton two acres in Needham "on the North Side of a troden Path leading from Framingham to Boston and on the Westwardly Side of a Certain Brook run- ning out of one Pond into another Pond" for £60 "Currant
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Money". In 1738 Zachariah Mills, of Needham, "Black- smith", sold to Edward Ward, "Miller ", also of Needham, sixteen acres and one hundred and thirty-one rods of land in Needham "Beginning at the Brook on which said Wards Mills Stand" for £9o. The "Mill Pond" is referred to in this deed. Edward Ward died in January, 1749, aged seventy- eight years (Ward Genealogy). Samuel Ward, son of Ed- ward, married Miriam, daughter of Samuel Morse, and died December 13, 1754, aged thirty-four years.
At the time of the Revolution Benjamin Ward lived in The Leg, and in 1788, probably earlier, owned a farm of one hundred and seventy-five acres, with buildings. There was a Ward farm, or farms, near North Main Street, in the extreme western part of Needham Leg.
In 1789 Benjamin Ward of Needham was killed by a yoke of unruly oxen, but it does not appear whether it was Ben- jamin in his forty-fifth year, or his son, or namesake, in his fourteenth year, as both died in 1789.
WARE
Robert Ware of Dedham, father of Ephraim and Ebenezer, both of whom lived to be very old, had a land grant in Rose- mary Meadow in 1654, and another beyond the Great Plain in 1662/3. In his will, dated 1698/9, Robert devised land at Maugus Hill and at Chestnut Hill. In 1730 Samuel Ware of Dedham, "Weaver ", sold for £20 to Ephraim Ware of Need- ham five acres at Maugus Hill, and in the inventory of the former, made in 1736, five or six acres at "Magers Hill" were included. In the division of Ephraim Ware's estate, July 22, 1757, son Ephraim had the homestead and eight acres, with the exception of two acres assigned to Robert. Ephraim was to have all three of his father's "Common Rights", one half acre in Rosemary Meadow, all the personal property, except that given to Deborah Ware, and he was to pay all the debts of his father, as well as to give Hannah Metcalf, "his Sister of Wrentham", £2, 13s., 4d., and to
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contribute one half of the necessary support for his sister Margaret Frost for eight years. Robert, besides the two acres of homestead, was given half an acre in Rosemary Meadow, and was charged with one half of the support of his sister Margaret, who was to live at the house of one or the other of her brothers. Deborah had three acres on the south- erly side of "Pine Plain", and was excused from attending the court on account of "Great Age", together with Eleazer Metcalf and wife, and Margaret Frost. The estate was small. Ephraim Ware died March 26, 1753, in his ninety-fourth year "as tis tho't", and Mehetabel, widow of the "Aged Ebenezer Ware", died suddenly November 2, following.
The ancient Ware homestead by Longfellow's Pond is elsewhere referred to, but mention should be made of the house of Joseph, and later of Daniel Ware, Esq., which stood on the west side of Cartwright Street, and was said to be one hundred and forty-five years old in 1858; it was taken down on July 13, 1885, and the house of the younger Daniel Ware, on Brook Street, which was built as early as 1800, was removed about 1900.
The Honorable Enos H. Tucker spoke highly of the widow of Daniel Ware, Esq. He said that the Reuel Ware house on Brook Street, near the junction with Benvenue Street, was built by Capt. Reuel Ware, or by his father; the latter's widow lived there. Lieut. Ephraim Ware, who was a benefactor of the First Church, lived in what we know as the Longfellow house on the Turnpike. The Tucker family then lived in the ancient Ware house, now Mr. Sheridan's. Enos H. Tucker, the elder, at one time lived in the house known as the "Johnson Place", and which had once been the home of Capt. Reuben Ware. The house was on Charles River Street, nearly opposite to the driveway of Charles H. W. Foster, and was burned on May 31, 1886.
The late Emma Forbes Ware of Milton published a Ware genealogy in 1887, and after her decease a greatly enlarged work was printed in 1901 from her manuscript.
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WOODCOCK
Jeremiah and John Woodcock of Needham were sons of John Woodcock of Dedham, and grandsons of John Wood- cock of Attleborough. Jeremiah was a field driver in Ded- ham in 1702, '03, '05, '06, fence viewer in 1705, '08, surveyor of highways in 1709, and constable in 1710. In 1695 John Gill sold for £15 to John Woodcock fourteen acres of up- land on the Great Plain, for £15, and in 1716 John Wood- cock and wife, Sarah, deeded to their son Samuel land in Broad and Rosemary Meadows. The John named in these deeds was the father of Jeremiah and John of Needham. Timothy Dwight was the justice before whom John Wood- cock and many other grantors acknowledged their deeds. In 1699/1700 Ebenezer Ware sold to Jeremiah Woodcock five acres joining the land of John and Sarah Woodcock, and near the Great Plain, and one acre of the common or un- divided land. In 1707 Edward Day and wife, Rebecca, Jonathan Wight and wife, Elizabeth, all of Wrentham, and Josiah Newell and wife, Hannah, sold to Jeremiah Wood- cock twenty acres near the Great Plain, part mowing and part arable, for £40, and in 1726 Jeremiah Woodcock sold to Timothy Kingsbery three acres of swamp at the "Great Slows" on the Great Plain road leading to Capt. John Fisher's, and one and one fourth acres in Broad Meadow, all for £5. In 1734 Jeremiah Woodcock bought five acres on the "Plain Road" from James Kingsbery, and in 1739 Mr. Woodcock deeded to his son Michael, who was born Decem- ber 1, 1711, one undivided half of his home place, which contained one hundred acres, with one half of the buildings, situated on the road from Dedham to Needham; and also one half of twenty acres on the Great Plain, and one half of five acres in Broad Meadows. Michael was to pay £ioo. Barnabas Woodcock and Francis Very were witnesses to this deed, which was acknowledged before John Fisher, Justice of the Peace. Most of the old deeds were witnessed
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by two or more persons, usually relatives or neighbors, and the names of some of the justices of the peace, as that of John Fisher, Josiah Newell, and others, are familiar to all searchers of titles in the counties where they dwelt. In 1742 Jeremiah and Michael Woodcock conveyed to Capt. John Holbrook of Roxbury eight acres of plowland for £130. In 1733 Jeremiah had apparently borrowed £200 on a "Land Bank" mortgage, and in 1742 gave up eighty acres and also twenty-five acres, the latter on the Great Plain, to offset this indebtedness. There are two deeds of 1745 in which he appears as grantor, and that year he and Hannah, his wife, son Michael and his wife, who was also named Hannah, mortgaged to Benjamin Bird, Esq., of Roxbury, one hundred and forty acres, the description of which is lengthy, for £1506, old tenor. Mr. Bird, who was a justice of the peace, was in the habit of lending money, and held other mortgages on the lands of Deacon Woodcock, and of his sons. Dea. Jeremiah Woodcock died September 27, 1752, N. S. In 1745 Nathaniel Woodcock, born in Dedham, September 14, 1707, son of Jeremiah, conveyed his homestead and fourteen and one half acres, for £198, 12s., old tenor, to Mr. Bird. There were stone walls in Needham early in its history, as these old deeds refer to them. At one time Dea. Jeremiah Woodcock was a large owner of land, distributed over the eastern portion of the town, but in his latter years he sold much of it. He had owned several houses, and the site of his homestead is unknown to the writer, as it was to the late Charles C. Greenwood.
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Petetion for the Incorporation of Needham.
TO His Excy Jofeph Dudley Efqer Cap: Generll & Gov- ernour in Cheife, In, And Ouer, Her Majties Province of ye Mafsachusetts Bay in New England &c And To the Honer- able the Councel, & Houfe of Reper Sentatives In Generll Court Afsembly
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Petetion of Sundry the Inhabitants of the Town of Ded- ham, in ye County of Suffolk in N.E. whofe Names Are under written
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That Wheras there is A Certaine Tract or Parcell of Lands of About five Miles Square Situate Lying And being within the Limmitts & bounds of ye Sd Town of Dedham On ye Northerly Side of Charles River & is Bounded Round with Charles River, Watertown Line & Natick Line; Upon ye which Tract bounded as Aboue Said there is Already fettled upwards of forty & five - famylies, Many of which by reafon of their Remote Living from ye place of ye publique Worfhip of God in our Own Town, Some 6.7.8.& 10.Miles. Which Renders it Utterly Impofsible for us with our familyes, Duly to Attend On ye publique worfhip of God there,
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And your poor petetioners being Humbly Apprehenfive That Chrift Gofpell Ordinances, with His Gratious presence in ye Midft of them
is ye Cheife glory of our Land; And that it is our Indif- pencable Duty to Seek After ye Injoym' of it. And That the Lord of ye Universs who Hath Made Man for his Own Service, Takes no pleafure In Seeing Such a Number of families as we are alredy Arived to, Content ourSelves Like the Brute Creaturs to grafe upon ye Earth Only; And To Starve our own Sols, & ye Souls of our poor Children that he hath given us ye Charg off -
We have heretofore, & Latly, Made Our Humble Adrefses To our Town of Dedham to whom we have a Memberly relation, for Redrefs of our Greevance, Humbly praying their Leave & Approbation, that ye preSent Inhabitants Living within ye bounds Aboue Mentioned; togather with Such as Shall from Time to Time Inhabit Among them; Excepting Only the Inhabitants Living on ye Great Island, Should be free'd from Minifterial Charg in our Town, To ye Intent your poore petetioners Might be A free people of them Selves, for ye Setting up ye publique Worfhip Among them, as in & by ye petetion we prefented to them, May More fully Appear. Yet Not with Standing are as Likly as Ever, to remaine Deftitute both of Schooling & preaching, unlefs Helped & releived by this Honerd Court, And your honers. Will Judge what May be Expected of A people That Cannot Injoy, Either the Means of Education Manners, Nor Grace,
Your Poor Petetioners Therefore Humbly pray this Honerd Court to pety us, & So To Compafionate our Affaiers As to Give us Such releife in this Matter as in your wifdom you Shall See Meet, And if it May pleafe this Honerd Court, To Grant That all ye Prefent Inhabitants Living within ye Bounds Aboue Mentioned, That is to Say Between Charles River, Watertown Bounds. & Natick Bounds To Gather with Such as Shall from Time to Time Inhabit Among them Excepting Only ye Inhabitants Living on ye Great Island
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Comonly So Called & Recorded in Sd Dedham Town Book, be Allowed The Bounds Aboue Mentioned; To be A Diftinct Town Shipp
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To ye Intent we May be Allowed & Enabled To Settle & Support ye Gofpell of Chrift Among ourSelves within Sd Bounds, & in Due Time as god Shall Enable us, A Shool for ye Education of our Children, & be freed from all Rates & Taxes in Any Other part of ye Town of Dedham, & being favoured with ye Injoymt of thofe Immunities & priviledges that we May Do Duty, & Receive previledge Among our- Selves.
We Humbly Offer to ye Confideration of this Honerd Court Some Reafons, why we Defire to be A Town-Shipp Rather Then A Precinct Viz
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tioned for is as we Apprehend Capible of Accomidating A fufficiant Number of Inhabitants with thofe Alredy Set- tled to Make A Decent Townfhip, & therfor a School fore ye Education of youth will Soon be Necefary.
2 The Diftance of our Livings, from & ye Difficulty of ye way to Our Chh & School in Dedham is Such that at Some Seafons of ye yeare by reafon of ye Water being high we Can Neither Attend Chh Meetings, Town Meetings Nor School meetings, & So Loofe all our priviledges at once.
3 Becaufe we Defire peace & Quiet Nefs in ye Injoymt of ye favours petetioned for, Without weh we canNot be hapy. -- for it hafs been Observed of Some, that in ye firft plant- ing of Chhes there Often Arifes Storms in Oppofition from their Own Towne as Some Times Drives ye Moving, & ufualy ye weaker party under ye wing of ye Sivile Govermts for help & Shelter & when freed as aprecinot Only, have Afterward Mett with Such hard Meafures from their Town as have been hard to Bare -
We Defire to blefs ye Lord that has placed us under ye Care & Conduct of A Governmt. So Religiously Difpofed as
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to Take Care that ye Gofpell be preached to all as fare as May be So that Even ye poor Indians are in that way pro- vided for & Not Neglec we are hence Incouraged to Hope & pray that we may So Share in ye Compafsions, & Favour of this Honerd Court, That we may have Caufe to rejoyce, in ye Injoymts of ye favours Defired, & petetioned for. And ye poor Petetioners as in Duty Bound Shall Ever pray
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Timothy kingsbery Samuel bacon
Ephrem Ware
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