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CHAPTER XI.
BOUNDARIES OF ESTATES.
SUPPLEMENTARY to the preceding chapter, we give, in this con- nection, the location, dimensions and boundaries, so far as we are able, of many estates of residents of Newton in the earlier period, with other matters of interest thereto belonging. The items are arranged under the names of the citizens in alphabetical order, for convenience of reference.
ADAMS, JOSEPH (d. 1799), bought of William Park, in 1750, fifty-three acres of land, with the buildings thereon, for £320, being the east part of the Park farm, near Watertown line. The house was afterwards occupied by Joseph Faxon. The homestead was divided among the sons of Mr. Adams, Joseph, Roger and Smith, who settled thereon.
ANGIER, OAKES (d. 1789), kept a public house very near the site of the Nonantum House, Newton Corner. He purchased the place of Samuel Jackson, Esq., in 1731. The land was partly in Newton and partly in Watertown, with house and barn thereon. It was bounded west and south by the county road, which led from Watertown to Roxbury. See Daniel Bacon.
BACON, DANIEL, (d. 1691). In 1669 Gregory Cook conveyed to Daniel Bacon a dwelling-house and barn and six acres of land, bounded by the highway east, Edward Jackson south, and the Dummer farm north and west,-being the same place which William Clements conveyed in 1662 to Abram Williams. Mr. Bacon purchased several other parcels of land in the same vicinity. Some of his land was entailed by the will of his father-in-law, Reed. . In 1669, William Clements, jr., conveyed to Daniel Bacon twenty-five acres of land for £60, which he bought of Richard Dummer,- bounded southerly by the highway from Watertown to Roxbury, and northeast on Charles River,-being partly in New- ton and partly in Watertown. On this tract Isaac and John, his
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sons, settled ; John's part was within the bounds of Watertown. Isaac's part was afterwards owned by Oakes Angier, General William Hull and others. A part of it was afterwards occupied by the Nonantum House. Mr. Bacon purchased, besides, in 1688, of Nathaniel Stedman, of Boston, twenty acres, bounded by the highway to Nonantum, east.
BACON, JACOB, grandson of Daniel Bacon, settled at the south part of Newton, adjoining Roxbury line. In 1710 he sold twenty acres of land to William Ward.
BALDWIN, WILLIAM, married a daughter of Noah Wiswall, and lived near the Pelham house, belonging to the estate of Rev. John Cotton, on Centre Street, north of the Shannon estate, on the site of the former residence of Mr. John Cabot.
BARBER, JOHN, kept the tavern in West Newton near the West Parish meeting-house (1765) ; the place bears the name of the Old Tavern House.
BARTLETT, JOSEPH (d. 1702), lived on the north side of the hill occupied by the Newton Theological Institution, about ninety rods southeast of the railroad station. He mortgaged his house and four acres of land to Thomas Prentice, senior. His great grand- son, David Bartlett, was one of the early members of the First Baptist Church.
BARTON, JAMES, (d. 1729). In 1688, Jonathan Jackson, son of Edward Jackson, senior, conveyed to James Barton one hundred and three acres of land for £130,-bounded west and north by land of Thomas Park, east by land of his brother Sebas and others,-being the land bequeathed to him by his father, and which formed the north and west part of the Mayhew farm. Mr. Barton purchased other lands, extending over the Watertown line. He erected his dwelling-house on the south side of Charles River, just within the bounds of Watertown.
BEACH, ISAAC, (d. 1735). Abraham Jackson, son of John Jack- son, sen., conveyed to Isaac Beach in 1686 four acres of land, bounded "east and south by the way to the meeting-house," that is, the road leading from Centre Street, on the southern border of the burial place where the first meeting-house was located, to the east part of the town ; and west by the burial place. . He built his house on this lot. In 1727 he gave this homestead to Isaac Jack- son, sen., whom he brought up from a child.
BEALE, GERSHOM (d. 1723), bought five acres of land of Joshua Fuller at Newton Upper Falls, in 1712.
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BIXBY, JONATHAN (d. 1714), had his dwelling-house and farm at Newton Upper Falls, the northwestern part, on the bank of Charles River.
BLANDEN, FRANCIS (d. 1754), from Canada, of French descent, had his house on the north bank of Wiswall's Pond (northwest angle), on the same spot where Samuel Hyde, jr., lived, and many years in later times, Mr. Joseph White.
BOND, PHINEAS. The Bonds lived on the Fuller farm, the south- ern part, remotest from Charles River.
BOWLES, DEA. WILLIAM, from Roxbury, where he was deacon, owned the place at the east part of the town afterwards occupied by Obadiah Curtis, nearly opposite the estate of Col. Joseph Ward ; and near the site of Rev. Dr. Freeman's house ; late Fran- cis Skinner.
BULLOUGH, JOHN. The Bullough estate was in the vicinity of Bullough's Pond. The reputation of one of the family was dubious, although most of them were good and worthy people.
BURRAGE, EPHRAIM. This family lived north of the Trowbridges at Newtonville.
BUSH, RANDOLPH, in 1642 owned a house and eighteen acres of land near Newton Corner.
CHENEY, JOHN, lived near the Upper Falls.
CHENEY, JOSEPH (d. 1749), inherited part of the lands of his wife's father, Capt. Noah Wiswall, and lived in the southwest part of Newton. In 1748, he bought a tract of land of John Ham- mond for £500, bounded northwest on John Woodward.
CHILD, DANIEL, married Rebecca Richards ; lived near Brook farm.
CLARK, JOHN, (d. 1695). His father, Hugh Clark, conveyed to him by deed of gift, in 1681, sixty-seven acres of land, on the east side of Centre Street at the Common. His house was on the site of the house formerly of Dea. Ebenezer White, sen., later of Timothy Walker. He built a saw-mill at the Upper Falls on Charles River, and owned land adjoining.
CLARK, JOHN, JR. (d. 1730), conveyed to his brother William thirty-five acres of land, bounded south by Stephen Winchester, north by Ebenezer Woodward, east by the highway to the Lower Falls, west by land of William Clark.
CLARK, WILLIAM (d. 1737), conveyed to Noah Parker in 1725 seven acres of land, bounded west by the river, east and
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south by land of his own, north by Gershom Bates ; also one-fourth part of mills, stream and dam at the Upper Falls.
CLARKE, DR. SAMUEL, from Boston (d. 1830), father of Dr. James Freeman Clarke, and son-in-law of General Hull, occupied for a season the estate long owned by Joshua Loring, corner of Centre and Cotton Streets.
CLEMENTS, WILLIAM, in 1639 owned house and six acres of land near the line of Cambridge, which he sold to Edward Jackson, sen., in 1647. He also owned the Cook house, which he sold to Abram Williams in 1662 ; also, other lands.
CLEMENTS, WILLIAM, JR. (d. 1691), owned house and land ad- joining Captain Prentice, near Chestnut Hill. He bought twenty- five acres of Richard Dummer, and sold it to Daniel Bacon in 1669.
COLLINS, MATTHIAS (d. 1785), bought one hundred acres of land of Joseph Craft on the Sherburne road, adjoining John Woodward.
COOKE, GREGORY (d. 1690), bought of Samuel Hyde, in 1668, sixteen acres of land, bounded east by Centre Street, west by land of Edward Jackson, sen., and south by land of said Hyde. His descendants lived here till about the time of the Revolution. Capt. Phineas Cooke was the last of the name who owned it. Later it belonged to Mr. Nathaniel Brackett. In 1665, Abraham Williams conveyed to Gregory Cooke his late mansion and about six acres of land, bounded east by the highway from Watertown to Rox- bury, south by land of Edward Jackson, sen., north and west by the Dummer farm. This mansion house was at Newton Corner, near the Watertown line. In 1672, Jeremiah Dummer, of Boston, conveyed to Gregory Cooke, shoemaker, one hundred and twelve acres of land, with a house and barn thereon, lying partly in Cam- bridge and partly in Watertown, bounded east by the highway, south by land of Edward Jackson, sen., and Daniel Bacon, west by land of Thomas Park, and north by Charles river. The old, sharp-roofed house stood on the site afterwards occupied by Henry Fuller's.
COOKE, STEPHEN, JR., owned house, land and grist-mill in Watertown, which he conveyed by deed of gift to his son, John Cooke.
COOKE, CAPTAIN PHINEAS (d. 1784), built the house at New- ton Corner, near the Watertown line, owned and occupied by
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General Hull, after the war. His uncle, Daniel Cooke, left him a large estate.
COOKE, DANIEL (d. 1754), received from his father, Stephen Cooke, jr., in 1735, by deed of gift, his homestead, partly in New- ton and partly in Watertown.
COTTON, REV. JOHN (d. 1757), purchased of the heirs of his predecessor, Rev. Nehemiah Hobart, in 1715, about one hundred acres of land, with the dwelling-house and barn thereon. The house was afterwards owned and occupied by Charles Pelham, Esq., and was known as the Pelham house ; it was afterwards the property of John Cabot, whose daughter was the wife of Theodore Parker. The house has been removed. It stood on the corner of Centre and Cabot Streets.
COTTON, DR. JOHN, son of the minister, (d. 1758). The admin- istrator of his estate sold six and a half acres of land and house to Samuel Cooke, bounded west by Dedham Road. Probably the place soon after owned by Dr. John King,-the site of the present residence of Deacon Gustavus Forbes.
CRAFT, MOSES (d. 1768), purchased ninety-three and a half acres of land of Nathaniel Parker, in Newton, in 1729, on the Sher- burne road, and lived with Dea. John Staples, in the same vicinity.
CURTIS, SOLOMON, settled at Newton Lower Falls ; also, his sons, Allen C. and William Curtis.
DANA, JOHN (d. 1793), son of Benjamin, the ancestor of all of that name, lived in the south part of Newton.
DAVENPORT, JOSEPH, son of John Davenport and grandson of Thomas Davenport, born August 30, 1701, was a clothier, and set- tled about 1731 at Newton Lower Falls, on the right of the road leading to the Upper Falls, where he died March 12, 1752. His wife was Sarah Ware, daughter of Ebenezer Ware, of Needham.
DAVENPORT, BENJAMIN (d. Dec. 28, 1833), son of Joseph Dav- enport, born in Newton June 16, 1743, lived in Newton, nearly opposite the present poor-house. He died in Needham.
DAVENPORT, JOSEPH, son of Benjamin Davenport, born Aug. 18, 1773, lived at Newton Upper Falls, and died at Cambridge May 28, 1849. He had seven children, all born in Newton.
DOLBEAR, BENJAMIN, lived near the Upper Falls.
DOWNING, ROBERT. His homestead was on the east side of Centre Street, near the old burial place.
DRAPER, CAPTAIN THOMAS (d. 1769), lived at the south part of the town, near the Roxbury line.
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DURANT, CAPTAIN EDWARD (d. 1740), in 1732 bought ninety- one acres of land in Newton, of Daniel Robbins and Daniel Trowbridge for £1,800, bounded east and west by the highway, and north by land of Captain John Jackson. The estate lay on the southern part of Nonantum Hill, north of John Kenrick.
DRUCE, VINCENT. In 1650 Nicholas Hodgden of Boston (Brookline), conveyed to Thomas Hammond and Vincent Druce land in the easterly part of Newton, adjoining John Parker's land, on the north, northwest and northeast, which land was granted by the town of Cambridge to Robert Bradish. Messrs. Druce and Hammond held this land in common until 1664, when a division was made between them. The dividing line was one hundred rods in length, running over " the great hill." The pond was in Ham- mond's part, and has ever since borne his name. The (old) road through these lands to Muddy River (Brookline) was laid out in 1658. John Ward conveyed to Vincent Druce one hundred and thirty acres of woodland, bounded east by Roxbury line, north by Brookline line, and south and west by other land of said John Ward. Mr. Druce's dwelling-house was near Brookline line.
DYKE, JONATHAN (d. 1759), lived on the old Jonathan Hyde homestead.
ELIOT, BENJAMIN (d. 1798), purchased six and a half acres of land, in 1731, a little north of the Centre meeting-house, and there settled. In 1756, he bought eight acres on the plain, near the same meeting-house and school-house; westwardly.
ELIOT, REV. JOHN, JR., (d. 1668). "Eliot's homestead of twenty acres was the southerly corner of the Mayhew farm, and was situated on the westerly side of Centre Street, about sixty rods north of the burial place. The well where he drew his water, very near the spot where his dwelling-house stood, belongs to the estate of the late Thomas Edmands." His estate continued to be the property of his son John as long as he lived. After his death, it was sold to Henry Gibbs, Esq., in 1733, for £415, by order of the General Court, on the petition of the executors of Eliot's will, to raise money to carry his son John, then seventeen years old, through college at New Haven. By the deed it was bounded east by Centre Street, south by land of John Spring, north and west by land of Rev. John Cotton. Henry Gibbs sold the Eliot home- stead to the Rev. John Cotton in 1736, for £300. The heirs of Rev. John Cotton sold it to Charles Pelham, Esq., in 1765.
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ELLIOT, GENERAL SIMON (d. 1810), from Boston, erected snuff- mills at Newton Upper Falls about 1780, and owned extensively in that part of the town in mills, lands and water power. He lived in the house formerly Noah Parker's.
ESTY, REUBEN, lived in the West Parish.
FENNO, EPHRAIM (d. 1767), from Boston, in 1736, purchased thirty-three acres of land in Newton Centre, for £750, bounded east by Centre Street, southwest by Homer Street, northwest by Grafton Street, being the triangular farm, afterwards the home- stead of Rev. Joseph Grafton, then of Michael Tombs and lastly of George C. Rand, Esq.
FREEMAN, REV. JAMES (d. 1835), lived on Waverly Avenue nearly opposite Mr. Charles Brackett, (the Skinner place).
FULLER, JOHN (d. 1699), settled in Newton about 1644. In 1658, he purchased of Joseph Cooke, of Cambridge, seven hun- dred and fifty acres of land for £160, bounded north and west by Charles River,- the winding part of the river west; east by land of Thomas Park, south by farm of Samuel Shepard. His house stood on the south side of the brook, and within a few rods of both road and brook. By subsequent purchase, he increased his estate to upwards of one thousand acres ; Cheesecake Brook ran through it, and the tract was long known as the "Fuller Farm." By his will dated 1696, he divided it among his five surviving sons, with the proviso that they should not sell to any stranger, until they or their next relative should have the offer of it. He and Edward Jackson were the largest land-owners in the village. They divided their lands among their children in their lifetime, confirming the division by their wills .*
* Mr. Seth Davis says in 1847, "The southeast corner of this estate was marked by a large oak-tree which was standing, until within a few years, at the northeast cor- ner of the farm improved by William Bacon. This tree is perhaps the only land- mark that has existed without variation in the town until so late a period.
"As no house is recognized, on this lot of more than a mile square, and bounded on each side by a single farm, no more than one house probably existed in that section in 1658. And it is probable that no house existed on these seven hundred and fifty acres for more than twenty years afterwards, as in 1676, April 15, this John Fuller purchased of one John Magoon twenty-two acres of land with a dwelling-house and barn; also five acres near the Falls on Charles River. This house, purchased of John Magoon, is said to have stood on the same spot where the third, fourth and fifth meeting-houses in the first parish were built. Subsequently to this purchase by John Fuller, he with his six sons, whose names all began with I, as no J's were then used, settled on the aforesaid seven hundred and fifty acres of land, which was known as 'Fuller's Corner' for nearly a century. Two farms were owned and improved by John Fuller's descendants until 1847 and subsequently."
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FULLER, JONATHAN, son of John Fuller, senior (d. 1722), lived on the spot afterwards occupied by Captain Ezra Fuller.
FULLER, JOSEPH, son of John Fuller, senior, (d. 1740). His father-in-law, Edward Jackson, gave him twenty-three acres of land out of the westerly end of the Mayhew farm, which he bought of Governor Bradstreet, and from his father he inherited two hundred acres more. On this estate he erected his mansion house, covering the same spot where his grandson Judge Fuller lived, the site of the mansion of General William Hull, and later of Governor Claflin, in Newtonville. This farm descended to his son Joseph, his grandson Abraham, and his great-granddaughter Sarah, who married Colonel William Hull in 1781. In 1766, Abraham Fuller built an addition to his father's old house, of which he had lately come into possession, and in 1814 General William Hull removed the old part which had been built by Joseph Fuller in 1680, and built a new addition, so that the house, as removed and afterwards occupied by J. L. Roberts, Esq., was built partly in 1766 and partly in 1814.
FULLER, ELISHA, son of Jonathan Fuller (d. 1794), lived near the hill now covered by the Newton Theological Institution.
FULLER, COL. NATHAN (d. 1822), had in the West Parish a home- stead of fifty-five acres, appraised at $2,890. He gave to the West Parish an acre and a half of land for a burying place, in 1781.
GREENE, JONATHAN, from Malden (d. 1736), came to Newton in 1697, and "lived near the Falls."
GREENWOOD, THOMAS (d. 1693), bought in 1673 seven acres of land of Nathaniel Hammond, bounded southeast by land of said Hammond, north by Captain Prentice and John Ward. The same year he bought seven acres and fifty rods of Edward Jackson, adjoining the meadow of Elder Wiswall, and east by John Ward. In 1691, he purchased of Isaac Parker twenty-four acres with the dwelling-house thereon, bounded east by Thomas Hammond, west by John Hammond, south by Nathaniel Hammond and north by John Druce, being part of the same land which John Parker, sen., bought of Nicholas Hodgden in 1650.
GREENWOOD, DEACON THOMAS (d. 1774), had a homestead of eighty-six acres in the West Parish.
GIBBS, HENRY (d. 1761), came to Newton about 1742, purchased of Rev. John Prentice, of Lancaster, sixty acres of land on the east side of Centre Street, on which he built the large house, after-
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wards owned and occupied many years by the late Marshall S. Rice, long known as the Town Clerk of Newton, being part of the same land purchased by James and Thomas Prentice, in 1657 ; also, fourteen acres on the Plain, bounded east on Centre Street, lying between the farms of John Spring on the north and Jonathan Hyde, sen., on the south, being the same land owned by John Jackson, sen., and then by his son-in-law, Capt. Noah Wiswall ; -known later as the Lovell Place ;- between the estate of Thomas Nickerson, Esq., and Mill Street.
GODDARD, JOSIAH (d. 1758), was of Watertown, and bought of Jonathan Parks, jr., twenty-five acres, bounded, northeast by the Fuller farm.
GRAFTON, REV. JOSEPH (d. 1836), occupied the triangular estate in Newton Centre, bounded east by Centre Street, southwest by Homer Street and northwesterly by Grafton Street.
GREENOUGH, REV. WILLIAM (d. 1831), in the West Parish, occu- pied the estate on the left side of Washington Street, going towards Newton Lower Falls. On the map of 1700, streets are laid out on three sides of the estate, making a triangle, like Mr. Grafton's.
HALL, ANDREW (d. 1756), came into the south part of Newton about 1695, and bought forty-three acres of land in 1795, for £22, of Thomas Wiswall, son of Capt. Noah Wiswall. The tract was bounded east by Dedham highway, west by John Kenrick and the widow of Joseph Parker, north by John Woodward, jr., Samuel Truesdale and John Kenrick, jr., south by Deacon James Trow- bridge.
HAMMOND, THOMAS, (d. 1675). Nicholas Hodgden conveyed sixty-seven acres of land, in 1650, "on Cambridge Hill in Cam- bridge Village" to Thomas Hammond and Vincent Druce ; also, thirteen acres more, which was granted by the town of Cambridge to Robert Bradish ; "and also, sixteen acres more in Muddy River (Brookline) next to Cambridge Hill, adjoining John Parker's land north, northwest and northeast. Hammond and Druce bought in 1658 of Thomas Brattle and others six hundred acres at Muddy River (Brookline), called the Royton farm, for £100, north partly on the Roxbury line, south partly on the Cambridge line, surveyed. by John Oliver." The purchases of Messrs. Hammond and Druce were held in common until 1664, when a division was made. "The dividing line was one hundred rods long, running over the great
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hill, the pond being in Hammond's part." Mr. Hammond bought also of Esther Sparhawk, daughter of Nathaniel Sparhawk, in 1656, for £40, three hundred and thirty acres, being the same land granted to her father by the town of Cambridge, bounded "south and west on land of Robert Bradish, and north by land of Elder Frost, now in possession of John Ward and Lieut. Prentice." His will gave to his son Thomas a house and portions of land ; to his son Nathaniel, a house and land adjoining, "and the cranberry- meadow from the corner of the pond to 'Troublesome Swamp.'"
HAMMOND, JOHN (d. 1763), bought of Rev. Jared Eliot, of Connecticut, three hundred and seventy acres of the Governor Haynes' farm, in 1746, for £6,000, and mortgaged it to James Bowdoin for £3,000.
HASTINGS, SAMUEL (d. 1776), had a tan-yard near the West Parish meeting-house, where he settled. He came from Cambridge, and removed from the West Parish to Newton Corner, where he clied.
HASTINGS, THOMAS, from Watertown, lived near Bald Pate Hill, at the south part of Newton.
HEALY, NATHANIEL (d. 1734), bought of Jonathan Jackson, senior, twenty-six and a half acres of land, and lived near Brook Farm.
HOBART, REV. NEHEMIAH, (d. 1712). "His father-in-law, - Edward Jackson, gave him thirty acres of land on the northwest side of the Dedham highway (Centre street), adjoining the twenty acres south, which he also gave to Rev. John Eliot, jr., his prede- cessor." He built his mansion house on the spot where the house of Mr. John Cabot formerly stood, at the corner of Cabot and Centre Streets. It was occupied afterwards by his successor Rev. John Cotton. It was burnt in 1720, and rebuilt the same year. "In 1711 he conveyed to his four daughters his then dwelling- house, outhouses, and one hundred acres of land adjoining, reserv- ing to himself the right to enjoy it while he lived, with other reser- vations, together with the land he owned at Stake Meadow.
HOLLY, SAMUEL (d. 1643), owned a house and eighteen acres of land adjoining John Jackson in 1639, of which he sold six acres to Edward Jackson in 1643, for £5.
HOMER, REV. JONATHAN (d. 1843), owned and occupied an estate of considerable extent on the west side of Centre Street, north of the meeting-house. His dwelling-house stood midway
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between the houses of Hon. A. Speare, Ex-Mayor of Newton, and Thomas Nickerson, Esq. The site is marked by the two thorny acacias which shaded his front yard, and which were on each side of the walk from the gate to the front door.
HOVEY, DEACON THOMAS (d. 1829), owned and occupied the place afterwards owned by Deacon Nathan Pettee ; and which, later, was the Amos Lawrence estate, including the westerly basin of the Boston Water Works near Chestnut Hill.
HULL, GENERAL WILLIAM (d. 1825), lived, in his later years, on the place since owned and occupied by Ex-Governor Claflin. The large house, which was his mansion house, was removed to the vicinity of the Railroad Station at Newtonville, on the west side of the street.
HYDE, DEACON SAMUEL, (d. 1725). He and his brother Jona- than Hyde, in 1647, bought of Thomas Danforth forty acres of land. In 1652, they purchased two hundred acres of the heirs of Nathaniel Sparhawk, and held this land in common till 1661, when a division was made between them. Centre Street, at first called the Dedham highway, was laid out through their lands. Captain Samuel Hyde, of Hyde's Nursery, of the sixth generation, and George Hyde, his son, owned and occupied a part of the original homestead. He also owned a farm in Watertown, of a hundred and twenty-four acres.
HYDE, NEHEMIAH, son of Ensign Samuel Hyde (d. 1741), received by his father's will, the homestead, thirty-three acres and pasture, eight acres, on the hill.
HYDE, JONATHAN, son of John Hyde, sold five acres of land to Benjamin Eddy in 1754, bounded south by the road leading to the meeting-house.
HYDE, JONATHAN, SENIOR (d. 1711), came to Newton in 1647, and bought two hundred and forty acres of land, with his brother, Deacon Samuel Hyde, which they owned in common till 1661. He bought, in 1656, eighty acres, more or less, of Thomas Woolson, which Woolson bought of Edward Goffe in 1653. "Probably there was more in this tract, being one-eighth of the land recovered by Cambridge from the town of Dedham in a lawsuit. He settled on this land, and increased it by subsequent purchases to about three hundred and fifty acres. His dwelling-house was about sev- enty rods north of the Centre Congregational meeting-house." He bought and sold much land in the Village, and in some of his
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