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deeds was styled "Sergeant." Jackson says "he had twenty-one children,- fourteen by Mary French, daughter of William French, of Billerica, and seven by Mary Rediat, daughter of John Rediat, of Marlboro'. He made a marriage covenant in 1673 with her father and brother, in which it was stipulated that he should marry Mary Rediat, and in case he should die before her, she should have his house, barn and about one hundred acres of land. In case she had no children by him, then the one hundred acres was to pass to the children of his first wife, after the decease of the said Jona- than and Mary. This interesting document was dated 2, 11, 1673, nearly three months before the marriage ceremony. It was wit- nessed by the Rev. Nathaniel Gookin, of Cambridge, and his sis- ter Elizabeth, the widow of the Rev. John Eliot, jr. This part of his homestead was bounded easterly by the highway from Water- town to Dedham, one hundred and sixty rods, and one hundred rods deep ; westerly by his other lands ; northerly by land of John Jackson, senior, and southerly by the farm of Elder Wiswall ; reserving a way one rod wide next to Wiswall's, to go to his other lands. This land ran from the Dedham Road (Centre Street) at the training field (Newton Centre Common), by the north bank of Wiswall's Pond, and for the last century has been known by the name of 'Blanden's Lane,' now (1854) called Pond Street. The front of this grant extended from this lane, northerly one hundred and sixty rods, to about opposite the road leading to the east- erly part of the town (Ward Street). This farm, therefore, was very near the centre of Newton, and included the spot where the Centre meeting-house (Congregational) now stands. In 1702, he gave to John Kenrick and others, Selectmen of Newton, and their successors in office, 'half an acre of land near Oak Hill, abutting ten rods on the Dedham Road, and eight rods wide, northwesterly by his own land, for the use and benefit of the school at the south part of the town, to be employed by said Selectmen to the ends aforesaid.' This half acre of land was sold many years ago, and a small fund accumulated from the proceeds, which was divided among the inhabitants of the south school district a few years since by vote of the town, pro rata, according to the taxes each one paid." He probably gave part of the land for the training field, though no record remains of such a gift, and Elder Wiswall or his heirs gave the residue. "In 1705, he deeded to his children a cartway through the then homestead to the Dedham
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highway (Centre Street), 'to be used with gates forever.'" The " forever," nevertheless, came to an end. For that "cartway " is now Grafton Street, the northwestern boundary of the triangular estate of the late George C. Rand.
HYDE, SAMUEL, son of Jonathan Hyde, senior, had his house on the north side of Wiswall's Pond, afterwards occupied by Blanden. His land was conveyed to him by deeds of gift in 1703 and 1710. He binds himself that the rod-wide way "shall be free to bring hemp or flax to the pond, and sheep to washing, or such like neces- sary occasions to come to the pond."
HYDE, ELISHA (d. 1781), took the homestead of John Hyde, senior.
JACKSON, DEACON JOHN (d. 1675), the first settler of Cambridge Village, who remained and died in it. In 1639, he bought of Miles Ives, of Watertown, a dwelling-house and eighteen acres of land, situated on the Roxbury road, very near the line which now divides Newton from Brighton. It was he who gave an acre of land for the first meeting-house and burial place, now the oldest. part of the old cemetery on Centre Street. His old mansion house, which was pulled down about 1800, stood on the spot afterwards. occupied by the dwelling-house of Edwin Smallwood. The old pear trees on the estate are supposed to have been planted by his son Abraham, who added an acre to the acre given by his father for the meeting-house and burial place. He left eight hundred and sixty-three acres of land.
JACKSON, ABRAHAM (d. 1740), conveyed to his son John in 1734 all his real estate in Cambridge and Newton. In 1717 he had already conveyed to the same several parcels of land, "one of which was forty acres at Chestnut Hill (except four acres sold to Isaac. Beach in 1686), bounded west by the burial place and the land given for the burial place on which the meeting-house now standeth, so long as the town shall see cause to improve it for the use they now do."
JACKSON, EDWARD, SENIOR (d. 1681), purchased land in Cam- bridge Village, of Samuel Holley in 1643. In 1646 he bought a. farm in Cambridge Village of five hundred acres of Gov. Bradstreet for £140, long known as the Mayhew farm,- Bradstreet having pur- chased it of Thomas Mayhew, of Watertown, in 1638, with all the buildings thereon, for six cows. This five-hundred-acre farm com- menced near what is now the division line between Newton and
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Brighton, and extended westward, including what is now Newton- ville, and covering the site where Judge Fuller's mansion once stood. The site where Gen. Michael Jackson's mansion house stood was near the centre of the Mayhew farm; and a few rods nearer the brook stood the old dwelling-house conveyed with the farm, in Mayhew's deed to Bradstreet. Of course it was built previous to 1638, and therefore it is highly probable that it was the first dwelling-house built in Newton ;- the cellar hole,-now almost filled,-a few rods from the brook, is still visible. In the laying out of the old highway in 1708 (long since discontinued), which passed by the old house, the description is, " crossing the brook near where the old house stood." This house, which was erected before 1638, was gone before 1708 ; it had stood about the allotted space of three- score years and ten. It may have been the first residence of Edward Jackson, senior, in Cambridge Village, from his first coming until his marriage in 1649, and perhaps for many more years. At his death in 1681, his then dwelling-house stood about three-quar- ters of a mile easterly, near the line of Brighton, and about twenty rods northerly from the road to Roxbury. It is described in his inventory as a spacious mansion, with a hall,- designed, no doubt, for religious meetings. His great grandson, Capt. Samuel Jack- son (d. 1808) pulled down the mansion built by his great-grand- father, and built a splendid house for that day, which afterwards passed into the possession of Jonathan Hunnewell, Esq.
JACKSON, JONATHAN, oldest son of Edward Jackson, senior, set- tled in Boston, and sold the land in Newton, left him by his father's will in 1638, to James Barton one hundred and three acres, to Rev. Mr. Hobart thirty acres, and to Nathaniel Healy twenty-six and a half acres. His son Jonathan Jackson (d. 1736) sold ten acres of land in Newton, left him by his grandfather Edward Jackson, senior, to Nathaniel Healy in 1713.
JACKSON, SEBAS (d. 1690), received by the will of his father Edward Jackson, senior, the house and one hundred and fifty acres of land, which house stood on the spot now occupied by the man- sion of the late Hon. William Jackson. The house was eighteen feet by twenty-two, two stories. The old house was built in 1670, and enlarged before 1690, making its length thirty-nine feet. Af- ter standing about a hundred and forty years, it was demolished in 1809. By his will Sebas Jackson gave his eldest son, Edward Jackson, sixty acres of land, and divided the remaining one hun- dred and ten acres between the three other sons.
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JACKSON, LIEUT. TIMOTHY (d. 1774), son of Joseph Jackson and grandson of Sebas Jackson, lived in the east part of the old man- sion, which then measured eighteen by thirty-nine feet (on the Hon. William Jackson lot). The inventory of his estate speaks of nine and a half acres of land on the north side of the road, and part of the dwelling-house and barn, and twenty-one acres of pas- ture land on the south side of the road.
JACKSON, ISAAC (d. 1769), was a carpenter, learned his trade of Isaac Beach, who gave him four acres of land, with house, adjoin- ing the burial place.
JACKSON, EDWARD, kept the Cattle Fair Hotel in Brighton.
JACKSON, DANIEL, son of Sebas Jackson, lived near Weston Bridge.
JACKSON, MAJOR TIMOTHY (d. 1814), father of Hon. William Jackson, occupied the estate long known and still known as the property of Hon. William Jackson and his heirs.
JACKSON, SAMUEL, son of Edward, kept the Cattle Fair Hotel at Brighton. His widow married Thomas Hastings, Newton Corner.
KENRICK, JOHN (d. 1686), bought of Richard Parker, of Boston, in 1658, two hundred and fifty acres of land in the south- erly part of Cambridge Village, previously owned by Thomas Mayhew, bounded west by Charles River, and north by Governor Haynes' farm of one thousand acres granted by the General Court in 1634, with farm-house and barn thereon. The house was near the bridge crossing Charles River, called " Kenrick's Bridge." By his will he gave his son-in-law, Jonathan Metcalf, fifty acres of land at the southeast part of his farm, which he bought of Deacon John Jackson, and the rest of his meadow at Cow Island, contain- ing ten acres ; to Rev. Nehemiah Hobart four acres of meadow, adjoining the meadow of John Parker north and Charles River west, or £10, at the option of his son John Kenrick,
KENRICK, CAPTAIN CALEB, son of John Kenrick, jr. (d. 1771), took the west part of the homestead. By his will he gave his son John Kenrick thirty acres, bounded south by Israel Stowell and Edward Hull, north by the highway to the river, to his son Daniel Kenrick twenty acres.
KING, DR. JOHN (d. 1807), from Sutton, lived on the east side of Centre Street. His house was on the site of the house since owned and occupied by Gustavus Forbes, Esq. Dr. King pur- chased his house of Dr. John Cotton, son of Rev. John Cotton,
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who preceded him in the practice of medicine in Newton. His son Ebenezer King occupied the same house, which was removed, but is still tenanted.
KING, CAPTAIN HENRY (d. 1822), lived on the place owned and occupied by William Hyde and his son Noah Hyde, since Rev. George J. Carleton.
KING, DEACON NOAH (d. 1843), lived on the southwestern slope of Oak Hill, where his son Noah S. King succeeded him.
LENOX, CORNELIUS, from Boston, settled about 1783, on the bank of Charles River, near the Watertown line.
LITTLEFIELD, EBENEZER (d. 1727), lived near the Lower Falls. He purchased a place of Thomas Wiswall in 1727.
LONGLEY, NATHANIEL (d. 1732), came to Newton about 1700. His house was near the Institution Hill at Newton Centre, on the southerly side, where he bought thirty-four acres of land of Nathan- iel Hancock, of Cambridge, in 1703 ; he also bought nine acres of Captain Thomas Prentice in 1713 ; and mill property and privi- leges at the Upper Falls in 1725, of Nathaniel Parker and William Clark. His land at the Institution Hill adjoined the Bartlett land.
LYON, SAMUEL, lived at the south part of the town.
MACOY [or MACKAY], DANIEL, from Roxbury, a Scotchman, in 1679 purchased land in Cambridge Village adjoining land of Elder Wiswall and Captain Noah Wiswall; also in 1673, of John Jack- son, senior.
MACOY, ARCHIBALD, lived on the same land which Daniel Macoy bought of Daniel Preston and John Jackson. In 1696 Thomas Wiswall conveyed to him two acres, bounded northwest by John Clark, south by Thomas Prentice.
MACOY, NATHANIEL, in 1713 sold land to Captain Thomas Prentice.
MAREAN, WILLIAM (d. 1761), removed from Roxbury to New- ton, and lived near Kenrick's Bridge.
MAREAN, LIEUTENANT JOHN (d. 1788), kept the Hotel after- wards Mitchell's, at the junction of Centre and Boylston Streets.
MARSHALL, THOMAS, in 1715 bought shop and six acres of land, adjoining land of John Park. Removed to Holliston, and was deacon there thirty-eight years.
MARSHALL, FRANCIS, from Boston, a restorateur, bought the place anciently Brown's, at Newton Corner, which was kept many years as a tavern.
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MASON, JOHN, a tanner, lived near the Falls. His father, Capt. Hugh Mason, of Watertown, owned land in England, and also in Newton.
MAYO, THOMAS, from Roxbury, lived on Brook farm.
MERIAM, REV. JONAS (d. 1780), lived on the same estate as his predecessors in the pastorate of the first church, Messrs. Eliot, Hobart and Cotton.
MILLER, JOSEPH (d. 1697), lived on the Stimpson place, West Parish.
MILLER, SAMUEL (d. 1759), West Parish, in 1726 gave the town four rods of land for a school-house, near his house.
MIRICK, JOHN (d. 1706), owned the place adjoining Obadiah Curtis.
MITCHELL, EDWARD, a carpenter from Brookline (d. 1807), kept the tavern previously Marean's at the south part of Newton (Newton Highlands, junction of Centre and Boylston Streets).
MOORE, REUBEN, took the John Jackson place.
MORSE, JOSEPH (d. 1780), lived on the Williams farm. In 1721, John and Solomon Park conveyed land to him.
MURDOCK, ROBERT, (d. 1754). His name on the Plymouth Records is sometimes written thus, and sometimes Murdo and
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Murdow. Robert Murdock, of Roxbury, removed to Newton in
1703, purchased house and one hundred acres of land of Jonathan Hyde and John Woodward for £90, bounded east by school land and Dedham road, south by Jacob Chamberlain and west by John Hyde ; being the same place afterwards owned by Captain Jere- miah Wiswall.
MURDOCK, LIEUTENANT ROBERT (d. 1762), took the homestead which he bought of his father in 1754, for £1,500, one hundred and twenty acres.
MURDOCK, JOHN (d. 1744), in 1721 bought twenty-two acres of land in Newton of William Hyde for £200, bounded east on the road, north by James Prentice, west by Daniel Hyde.
MURDOCK, JOSHUA (d. 1797), bought sixty acres of land for £350, in 1754, bounded north by Ephraim Fenno, and adjoining James Allen, Lieut. William Hyde, Abraham Hyde and Nathan Hyde. He built a house on this land, about sixty rods west of the First Parish meeting-house at Newton Centre. He probably bought his homestead near the Centre meeting-house of John Mur- dock, his uncle, who bought it of William Hyde in 1721.
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NEWELL, JOHN, JR., lived near Brook farm.
NORCROSS, PHILIP (d. 1748), lived where the Eliot church stands. His inventory acknowledges house, barn, shop and four- teen acres of land.
OLIVER, DEACON THOMAS (d. 1715), in 1670 purchased dwell- ing-house and sixty-seven acres of land, being part of the home- stead of Richard Dana, senior, in what is now Brighton, and owned lately by Samuel Brooks, near the place of the late Gorham Parsons, on the road leading towards Harvard College, bounding west by the road which runs northeast to the marshes ; north by the ancient high- way on the bank of the river, which was the original way from the, Great Bridge to Nonantum (long since discontinued) ; on the east by land formerly of Richard Oldham, then of Richard Dana, and after to Thomas Cheney.
OSLAND, HUMPHREY (d. 1720), erected a house on land of his father-in-law, Samuel Hyde, senior, which by will he bequeathed to H. Osland, being part of the same land on which the late Israel Lombard, Esq., afterwards erected a valuable mansion.
PALMER, JOHN (d. 1809), removed from Warren, Me., to south part of Newton, near Brook farm. His son, Thomas Palmer, took the homestead.
PARK, RICHARD. In a division of lands in 1647, he had eleven acres in Cambridge Village, bounded west on land of Mr. Edward Jackson. The highway to Dedham was laid out through it in 1648. An ancient dwelling-house on this lot, pulled down about 1800, is supposed to have been built by him. It stood within a few feet of the spot now occupied by the Eliot church, Newton Corner. He owned a large tract of land in the northwest part of the Village previous to 1652. This tract was bounded west by the Fuller farm, north by Charles River, east by the Dummer farm, south and east by the Mayhew farm (Mr. Edward Jackson's). It contained six hundred acres, which he probably bought of pastor Shepard or his heirs.
PARK, THOMAS (d. 1690), settled on the six-hundred-acre tract (see above), and had his house near Bemis' mills on the bank of Charles River. His estate, when divided in 1693-4 among the heirs, included seven hundred and twenty-two acres of land and part of a corn-mill on Smelt Brook, erected by Lieutenant John Spring.
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PARKER, JOHN (d. 1686), left Hingham about 1650 with Nicholas Hodgden, John Winchester, Thomas Hammond and Vincent Druce, and all settled in the same neighborhood, in the southeast part of Newton. By his will he gave his son Isaac the homestead, about twenty-eight acres ; to his son Jonathan, forty-six acres of woodland, near the land of Captain Prentice ; to his son John, eleven acres of land, " whereon he has erected his new dwelling- house, and seven acres meadow and woodland." His inventory shows a house and twenty-eight acres of land adjoining, and about ninety acres elsewhere.
PARKER, NATHANIEL (d. 1747), settled on part of the Wiswall land, and bought in 1694 the house and land of Lieut. Ebenezer Wiswall. In 1708 he purchased of John Clark one-quarter of saw-mill, stream, eel-wear and half an acre of iand at the Upper Falls for £12, and in 1717 another quarter of the same, with an acre and a half of land for £45.
PARKER, NOAH (d. 1768), settled at Newton Upper Falls. He received from his father by deed of gift in 1725 half the saw-mill, fulling-mill and grist-mill at the Upper Falls, with the lands appur- tenant thereto. The same year he purchased of William Clark one-quarter of the same mills and seven acres of land adjoining for £95; and at the same time of Nathaniel Longley the remain- ing quarter part of the same mills, and he thus became sole owner of the first and oldest mills in 1725, with the dam, stream, eel- wears, etc.
PAUL, LUTHER (d. 1863), purchased the old Noah Wiswall homestead, bounded west on Centre Street, near the Pond.
PELHAM, CHARLES (d. 1793), came to Newton in 1765, bought the homestead of Rev. John Cotton, house, barn and cider-mill, and one hundred and three and three-quarters acres of land adjoining for £735. The estate bounded east on Centre Street.
PETTEE, SAMUEL, or PETES, as he himself wrote it, bought one hundred acres of land, being the southwest part of the Governor Haynes' farm, of a Mr. Woodbridge, of Connecticut.
PETTEE, NATHAN (d. 1837), owned and occupied the Deacon Thomas Hovey place, afterwards Lawrence, including the site of the upper reservoir of the Boston Water Works, Beacon Street.
PIGEON, JOHN, owned land in Newton. His son John Pigeon kept a store at West Newton and afterwards at the Lower Falls.
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PIGEON, HENRY (d. 1799), occupied the house at Auburndale afterwards used as the Poor House, near the railroad depot.
PRENTICE, CAPTAIN THOMAS (d. 1709 or '10), settled in the east- erly part of Cambridge Village. His house was near the spot where the old Harbach house stands, corner Ward Street and Waverley Avenue. In 1653 he hired Governor Haynes' farm in the southwest part of the town, and occupied a part of it in 1694. In 1663 he bought eighty-five acres of land in the easterly part of Cambridge Village, adjoining land of John Ward, which was his homestead for more than fifty years.
PRENTICE, JOHN (son of the preceding), (d. 1689) left by will to his wife the right to dispose of one-half his estate at her death. She gave it to her cousin (nephew), Rev. John Prentice, of Lan- caster, in 1741, being seventy-five acres on the plain, with house and barn. He sold it in 1742 to Henry Gibbs, Esq., for £1,420, being nearly the same land which James and Thomas Prentice, jr., acquired by joint purchase in 1657.
PRENTICE, SAMUEL (d. 1728), received from the old Captain Prentice by deed of gift in 1705 one hundred acres of land, with dwelling-house thereon, lying between Bald Pate hill and meadow in the south part of Newton.
PRENTICE, JAMES, SENIOR (d. 1710), with Thomas Prentice, 2d, or jr., purchased in 1657 one hundred acres in Cambridge Village, being " that farm that James Prentice now dwells on," bounded northeast by land of John Jackson, part of which is now the ancient cemetery on Centre Street. This Prentice farm was on the east side of Centre Street, and extended from the cemetery south- west, south of the house owned and occupied by the late Marshall S. Rice, Esq., to the land of John Clark, near the Brook. "James and Thomas, 2d, built the ancient sharp-roofed dwelling-house which stood a few rods from the Dedham Road and the burial place, and which was pulled down about 1800. They occupied this place in common many years. Sixty acres of the southwest part of this farm passed into the hands of John Prentice, senior, son of the captain, who by his will in 1689 bequeathed half of it to his nephew, Rev. John Prentice, of Lancaster. At the decease of John Prentice seniors' widow, 1740, then Madam Bond, she bequeathed the other half to Rev. John, and he sold the whole to Henry Gibbs, Esq., in 1742 ; also fifteen acres on the west side of Centre Street, lying between the farms of John Spring and
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Jonathan Hyde, which John Jackson gave to his son-in-law, Capt. Noah Wiswall, and he conveyed it to John Prentice, senior, in 1678."
PRENTICE, THOMAS 2D (prob. d. 1724), was joint purchaser of lands with James Prentice in 1650 and 1657, and probably his brother. His father-in-law, Edward Jackson, senior, bequeathed to him one hundred acres of land at the south part of the town near Bald Pate meadow, where he built a house and resided in it during the latter part of his life ; also, two other tracts of land. In 1694, Thomas Prentice, senior, probably Thomas Prentice, 2d, con- veyed lands to Rev. Nehemiah Hobart ; in 1706 to his grandsons, Thomas and Samuel ; in 1774, by deed of gift, to his son Thomas, jr., after his own decease, his homestead at Burnt Hill in Newton, adjoining the new dwelling-house of said Thomas, except what he allowed to his son-in-law, John Hyde, reserving two-thirds of the Cedar Swamp to his sons John and Edward. His affidavit, dated 1713, recorded with the deeds, states that "about sixty years ago he held one end of the chain to lay out a highway over Weedy Hill in Newton." His heirs sold his dwelling-house and farm in 1728.
PRENTICE, THOMAS, (d. 1714). John Prentice, of Preston, Conn., and Ebenezer Prentice, blacksmith, of Newton, his sons, conveyed to Timothy Whitney, of Newton, land and dwelling-house in New- ton, being the last residence of their grandfather, Thomas Pren- tice, senior, for £615; bounded southeast by Thomas Hastings, south by John Hyde and southeast by Edward Prentice.
PRENTICE, JOHN, son of Thomas (d. 1721), in 1703 bought eighteen acres of land in Newton of John Parker. He was called in the deed a cordwainer. In 1718, under the name of physician, he conveyed to Nathaniel Longley part of the same land. He must have relinquished the care of the shoes for the care of the bodies of his fellow-citizens at some date between 1703 and 1718.
PRENTICE, EDWARD, (d. 1724). His house must have been on Ward Street, a few rods west of the house formerly owned and occupied by Deacon Ebenezer Davis White. An old pear-tree long marked the site of the house. His widow conveyed this homestead of fifty acres in 1764 to Ebenezer Davis ; bounded north on highway and land of Nathan Hyde, south by John Clark and Henry Gibbs, west by Robert Prentice.
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RICE, MARSHALL S. (d. 1879), owned and occupied the Henry Gibbs estate, Newton Centre. He developed it largely, raising most of the apple-trees on it from the seed, and at a late period opening on it Gibbs Street and part of Sumner Street.
ROBINSON, WILLIAM (d. 1754), by will bequeathed house, barn and seventy-nine acres of land to his son Jeremiah ; fifty-eight acres and a half to his son William; fifty-five acres to his son John. He had a large farm at what is now Auburndale. One of his sons lived on the site of the Seaverns house ; one in the Bourne house, once a tavern, and one in the house enlarged for the former Newton Poor House.
ROGERS, JOHN (d. 1815), in 1746 purchased of Oakes Angier six rods of land on the Roxbury highway, at Newton Corner, seven and a half rods deep, for £140, bounding east on land of the heirs of Samuel Jackson, Esq., north and west on Oakes Angier.
SEGER, HENRY, in 1686 bought one hundred and fifteen acres of land of Thomas Danforth, bounded southeast by Alcock's meadow, northeast by lots granted to Messrs. Chauncy, Oakes, Parker, Shepard and others ; southwest by lots granted to Messrs. Fessen- den, Boardman and others ; northwest by John Palfrey,- all pro- prietors of Cambridge. He conveyed by deeds of gift his home- stead to his sons Henry and Job in 1716.
. SEAVERNS, ELISHA (d. 1831), built his house in West Newton about 1795. His daughter married Walter Ware in 1798 and took the homestead.
STAPLES, DEACON JOHN, (d. 1740). He and John Woodward were near neighbors and joint purchasers of lands, which they divided in 1705. He bought thirty-six acres of land of William Robinson, a neighbor, in 1737, for £405, and by his will (1740) gave seventeen acres of this purchase "for and towards the sup- port of the ministerial fire from year to year annually." He gave to Moses Craft " all his housing and lands, after the decease of his wife and payment of legacies."
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