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No. 9. Some 50 rods in front of the Smyrna Whitney house on B. P. hill. are there evident signs of a former dwelling and accompanying farm buildings presumed to have been built by Darius Sawyer, who came to town from Lanc. about 1770. He conveyed the estate to his brother-in-law, Joseph Gerry of L. and John Darby of W., the following year, but prob. continued to occupy it some time afterward. It was sold to Samuel Whit- ney, Jr., father of Smyrna, in 1778. He soon located upon it. remaining there till the large house upon the present highway was erected, ab. the year 1800, when he removed thither. Elisha Train, and perhaps others, sub- sequently lived there. It seems to have been a part of lot 65, 2d Div. A road running from near the dwelling of the late S. Newell Barnes to the Nathl. Sawyer place just mentioned, passed by the site.
No. 10. Half a mile eastwardly from the last mentioned locality are there similar tokens (unvisited) of an old family residence. One David Pratt bought lands of Dr. Zachariah Harvey ab. 1770, and, after erecting buildings, resided there till 1778. when he sold to S. Whitney, Jr., and left town. Other occupants, if any, unknown.
No. II. Many persons now living remember the farm buildings formerly standing on the hill aforesaid, at the corner where the road leading to Mr. Robinson's leaves the main highway. They were erected by Josiah Wheeler, Jr., early in the present century, and occupied by him till his decease in 1851, and by his son, Newell R., who d. in 1853. The estate afterward passed into the possession of S. F. Towne. He lived there till the buildings were burned under somewhat suspicious circumstances in 1862. The Ins. Co. refused to pay the insurance money, and the owner did not see fit to urge his claim for it before the courts.
No. 12. Half a mile N. W. of the last, in the Cowee pasture, so called, there are plainly visible an old cellar, well, and orchard. The lot thus marked was No. 3, 2d Div., which was sold, in 1770, by Wm. Bemis to Eli Keyes of Shrewsbury. He erected the house and made other improvements, but soon disposed of the property to Timothy Lewis of Reading, who res. there several yrs. In 1777 it came into the possession of Silas Whitney, bro. of Saml., Jr., who, early the following year, disposed of it to James Cohee. His son, James, Jr., lived there awhile, the last resident perhaps.
No. 13. Still farther to the N. W., near Mud Pond, there once lived Joshua Mellen and family in a house, the cellar of which is said to be still visible. A public road to the premises was laid out, in 1776, from the last named place. Who were the first residents on the lot is not known, nor who followed Mr. Mellen.
No. 14. Some distance beyond the present E. T. Smith place on Bragg Hill, is the site of the former house of Benjamin Lynde, father of the present John Lynde. A Mr. Lynde, perhaps father of Benj., occupied the premises in 1796. Prob. he was the builder of the house. Matthias Mosman lived there early in the century, and Abel Mosman, bro. of Samuel, Sen., at a later day.
No. 15. In the same neighborhood, possibly near the site occupied more recently by the Kendall barn, lived one Josiah Shattuck, 1766-1774, no memorials of whose dwelling house are known to exist. The first road to that part of the town was laid out by his residence.
No. 16. This was the Capt. Aaron Bolton homestead, located a short distance N. of the Jonas Winship, Jr., place, now owned by Leonard Smith. Long since abandoned.
No. 17. Still farther north was the site of the dwelling of Stephen Hol- den, Jr., on lot No. 53, 2d Div., owned by him and by his son Jonas after- ward. It was sold to Nahum Barrell in 1829, who erected new buildings
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near where the original ones stood. Of late years it has been in posses- sion of John Carr. The buildings were destroyed by fire Aug. 30, 1887.
No. 18. On the E. side of the road to So. Ashm., near the town line, once stood a dwelling house, the tokens of which are now wholly obliterated. It was the home of David Maynard, who was in town 1772, and is sup. to have been built by him. His son John lived there awhile, selling the place in 1803 to Luther Barrell, Sen., from Hingham, at whose d. it passed into the hands of Luther, Jr., who settled on the adjoining lot, and who caused the buildings to be removed.
No. 19. Half a mile N. E. of the last, on the cross road to Ashm. Center, there was a dwelling a hundred years ago, supposed to have been erected by Oliver Whitcomb, a resident in town before 1780. It was owned or occu- pied successively by him, Caleb Wilder, Thomas Keyes, and perhaps others, before being left to final decay. Tokens of its exact site have been sought for but not found.
No. 20. S. W. of, and adjoining the Maynard-Barrell farm just re- ferred to, was 2d Div., lot No. 90, once a flourishing homestead, the dwell- ing, whose site is easily determined, standing on the west side of the river. It belonged originally to Joseph Lynde, who sold it to Benj. Howard of Holden. His son Benj. conveyed it to Isaac Blodgett of Ashm., who built upon it and spent his life there. He d. 1824, leaving the property to his son, Elias, who decd. the following year. Subsequent owners and occupants not ascertained. The buildings long since disappeared.
No. 21. Some 75 rods back of the residence of the late James Puffer, now J. F. Kellon's, on the high lands, there is a well, etc., marking the site of the farm buildings of Nathl. Kezar, who erected them ab. 1770, occupy- ing them till 1776, when he sold to Jona. Sawyer. Only transient tenants of Mr. S. prob. lived there afterwards. The lot was No. 58, 2d Div .. owned successively by David Dunster, Ezra Houghton, Lanc., N. Kezar, J. Saw- yer, etc.
No. 22. Opp. the residence of Mr. Kellon just named, formerly stood that of John Whitney, 2d (so called), father of Wilber F. of So. Ashburn- ham, built by him in 1832, and destroyed by fire in 1856.
No. 23. About three-fourths of a mile S. E. of the last, on the same road, nearly opp. where the one to No. Common branches off, are the re- mains of a cellar. A part of lot No. 118, 2d Div., was bought of Josiah Cut- ting in 1783, by Ephm. Pike, who erected a house in which he lived some ten yrs., selling to Samuel Taylor from Reading, the next occupant. From him the estate passed to his son-in-law, James Bruce, who was succeeded by John Boynton, and perhaps others.
No. 24. Half a mile N. E. of the residence of the late S. Newell Barnes, on an old cellar now visible, once stood a house built possibly by Joshua Mellen bef. 1777. in which year he mortgaged the property to John Brooks. In 1780 he sold to Elisha Whitney, who lived there till ab. 1800, when the estate was conveyed by him to his nephew, Jonas W. Whitney. The last resident owner is sup. to have been Lorey Barnes, who sold to Francis Curtis in 1812. Prob. occupied by transient tenants afterwards.
No. 25. Just below the R. R. crossing, on the E. side of the road leading from No. Common to Scrabble Hollow, formerly stood the dwelling house of John Monroe and others. It was destroyed by fire some 50 years ago.
No. 26. Farther northward, almost to the bridge on the west side of the road, was formerly a small house owned and occupied by Samuel Mosman, Jr .. and possibly others.
No. 27. On the road from the Hollow to Beech Hill, on the north side near what is known as Benton's crossing, the cellar being still visible, lived Isaac Wetherbee for some years, and also Charles G. Griffin. The house on this place was burned.
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No. 28. Near the last was the residence of Levi Richardson, perhaps first occupied by him. The dwelling was destroyed by fire, and a new house was erected on the site by Joel W. Benton, after whom the R. R. crossing close by was named. Possibly there were other residents.
No. 29. A few rods south of the Noah May, now Charles S. Smith. place, on the road to No. Common, stood the house of Vinal S. Dunn, on a part of lot No. 76, 2d Div., sold by Jonas W. Whitney to Dolly Dunn in 1822. The building was rem. many yrs. ago.
No. 30. Tokens of an old homestead may be seen in an open lot some quarter of a mile W. of the former Edw. Jackson, Jr., now Joseph Seaver, residence. There lived Abner Miles as the first occupant. Dying in 1778, the estate passed to his son, Trowbridge, who sold it to his cousins, Edwd. and John Jackson, one of whom prob. occupied the house for a time bef. it finally went to decay.
No. 31. The 2d Div., lot No. 31, lying W. of the present Eugene Gates place on Beech Hill, was originally drawn by a Mr. Pemberton of Boston. Passing through several hands, it came into possession of Thomas Wether- bee of Stow in 1778, who built a house thereon in which he lived till 1801, when he sold to his son Caleb and Jeremiah Wood. From them it passed to Henry Coolidge, and thence to Ezra Derby, who, it is supposed, res. there many years. It was subsequently owned by Joel Derby, then by Oliver Estey, and was occupied by various families while the buildings stood.
No. 32. In 1768 Isaac A. Green from Mendon bought lot No. 33, 2d Div., adjoining the last, and prob. erected buildings on it and resided there till 1776, selling at that date to Samuel Fessenden, who, in 1795, re-sold to Jonas White of Waltham, the last permanent occupant. It originally be- longed to Thomas Merriam of Lexington, and was owned, improved, and possibly occupied, for a brief period, by his son David, who afterwards set- tled in Hubn.
No. 33. As early as 1762 Jacob Emerson was living on 2d Div., lot No. 35, the second one W. of the last, and was succeeded by Ezra Penniman of Braintree, perhaps bro. of Wm., who bought the place in 1795. The site of the dwelling house has not been found.
No. 34. In 1759 Nathl. Eaton of Reading bought of Richard Newton No. 43. 3d. Div., upon which he erected buildings, and occupied them soon after with his family. He was succeeded by his son Nathan, well remem- bered by the older inhabitants. The cellar, etc., may be seen at the end of the cart-way leading northward from the residence of his grandson Nathaniel.
No. 35. Half a mile N. W. of the last named site, on a commanding height overlooking a wide extent of country, formerly stood the spacious dwelling house of Elisha Pierce. After his decease, in 1858, it was owned and occupied by Geo. K. Ray, and perhaps others, till 1887, when it was burned.
No. 36. In the pasture lying between the late residence of Lyman Allen, now F. M. Poor's, and that of A. F. Green, may be seen evidences of an old building site. It was the home of Josiah Stearns. the grandfather of the late widow of Thomas Merriam. He settled there ab. 1760, remaining a few years and selling to Daniel Hoar. From him the property passed through his son, Stephen, to his daughter, Rebecca (Holden) Brown, who is thought to have been the last resident on the premises. A public school was once kept in the house.
No. 37. In the large field opposite the residence of Geo. W. Whitney, on the N. W. slope of the hill, is the site, now easily recognized, of the original dwelling of Josiah Cutting, the first occupant of lot No. 45. His estate finally included lot No. 44, on which the house of his present successor was built in 1823.
No. 38. In an open field some 50 or 60 rds. S. E. of the just mentioned house, is a well, with other indications of a former dwelling near by. These
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mark the spot on lot No. 43, Ist Div., where John Brooks had settled in 1751, and where Benjamin Butterfield located about 1755, remaining some 8 yrs., when he left for Vt. He sold to Elijah Gibbs. How long Mr. G. occupied is not known. The estate, or a portion of it, rem. in possession of the Gibbs family till 1817, when it was conveyed to Abner Whitney, gd. father of Geo. W.
No. 39. Evident indications of an old homestead may be seen in the Bige- low pasture, so called, some twenty rods back of the house of C. B. Cooley. The dwelling which stood there was erected by Samuel Gibbs, or his son Elijah, just referred to, ab. 1750, and occupied by the latter till 1762, when he sold the property-lot No. 2 and buildings-to Joseph Holden, Jr. Subsequently it came into possession of his bro. Abner, who left it by will to his son Ezra. Prob. the latter lived there till he built the present Cooley house, which was subsequently his place of residence.
No. 40. In the field opp. where the road leading by the Cutler place turns from the one running to Albert Howard's, on lot No. 41, is the site of the dwelling of John Stearns, an early settler of the town. His successor was Benjamin Howard from Holden, who bought in 1775, and, after res. there nearly 30 years, sold to Joseph Howard, father of Nathan, whose widow still lives upon the estate. The old house long since disappeared.
No. 41. Directly across the stream which runs back of the residence of the late Abijah H. Raymond, once stood a house built late in the last cen- tury by Elisha Hall, and occupied by him some dozen or more years. It, with the fulling mill and other property attached. was sold in 1809 to Reuben Bond, who was succeeded in the ownership by Jesse Stone and Elias Evans, all of whom carried on business there. In 1839 the whole estate passed into the hands of Maj. Nathan Raymond, who caused the buildings to be removed.
No. 42. Half a mile N. E. of the last named site, near the foot of the hill on the road running to the Bathrick place, now owned by Albert How- ard, may be seen indications of an old homestead. The buildings were erected by one John Baldwin, from Pelham, N. H., soon after the town was incorporated. He had bought the lot No. 56 of Philip Bemis, Jr., who had united it with the adjoining lot, No. 119, on which a sawmill was built ab. the same time. The entire property returned to Bemis, who sold it, consist- ing of two lots, house, barn, mill, etc., to Daniel Munjoy, Sept. 20, 1765. Three years later Mr. Munjoy disposed of the mill lot to Wm. Baldwin, wheelwright, and he in turn to Thos. Brigden, Esq., whose representatives, after his decease, sold to Nathan Howard. From him it passed into the possession of Nathan Raymond, as elswhere narrated. In 1769 the lot on which the dwelling house stood, No. 36, was sold by Daniel Munjoy to Israel Moore of Lanc., who resold to Abner Holden in 1773. It was soon conveyed to Jonathan Raymond, who located upon it permanently. The original house was prob. of cheap construction, and so abandoned at an early day for a better one near the opposite end of the lot, the exact site of which can now be recognized a dozen rods E. of the dwelling recently built by Mr. Howard.
No. 43. Half a mile northward, perhaps, of the last place, and some 30 or 40 rods east of the Thomas Merriam (now M. D. Whitney) house, on Ist Div., lot No. 98, stood the house of James Taylor, built by him as early as 1751. He d. in 1792. Most of his estate had previously been disposed of to Col. Thaddeus Bond, who suffered the buildings to be removed or to run to decay.
No. 44. On the N. W. side of the road leading from the old red school- house to the A. Curtis place, is a cellar, comparatively modern, in the dwell- ing belonging to which lived for a few years a Mr. Brosnahan. It was a temporary structure, and stood on land of Edmund Nichols.
No. 45. On the S. E. corner formed by the meeting of the highways opposite the schoolhouse just named, a still existing well indicates the site
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of the former dwelling of Henry Dunster, William Lewis, Geo. W. Munjoy, and perhaps others. Nothing further found.
No. 46. A few rods east of this stood the small, temporary structure in which Thomas Conant was for some years domiciled. Prob. it had other transient occupants. Its ownership has not been learned.
No 47. Still further east, but in the same immediate vicinity, was the residence for some years of Joseph Perry and his family. Dates and further facts unascertained.
No. 48. Nearly opposite No. 45 is the wreck of a house of fair propor- tions, occupied by Geo. W. Munjoy for a time, but more recently by Barney Cunningham.
No. 49. A few rods southwardly from the red schoolhouse corner, on the road leading to the Narrows, stood the dwelling in which Daniel Munjoy, sometimes known as Daniel Butterfield, spent the later years of his check- ered life. He was succeeded there by Lafayette Willard, and possibly others. Ownership undetermined.
No. 50. On the rising ground 20 or 30 rods east of the birthplace of Gen. N. A. Miles, now owned by Patrick Brosnahan, lived Wm. Curtis for ab. 15 yrs. He bought the land in 1807 of John Bigelow, and prob. built upon it. In 1824 his son, Wm. Curtis, Jr., of Stoughton, sold the farm and its belongings to Daniel Miles of Petersham, who erected a new house and abandoned the old one. Some years later he put up the brick dwelling where J. Johnson now resides, and in it he subsequently had his home.
No. 51. Still farther eastward, on the north side of the turnpike, is the easily recognized site of the Miles tavern, the name of which was derived from Thomas Miles, the first landlord. The estate formerly belonged to Fg. but was annexed to W. in 1813. Mr. Miles had several successors as elsewhere mentioned. (See Chap. XVI.) The house was burned by a spark from the engine, as was supposed, soon after the railroad was opened.
No. 52. On the south side of the stream opp. the dwelling of Samuel H. Sprague in Wachusettville, once stood a house occupied for many years by Phineas Gates, who had a tannery a few rods below. Subsequent to his death his son Winslow lived there, as did also Paul Walker, Joseph Edgell, and perhaps other transient tenants.
No. 53. Some 60 or 75 rods S. E. of the residence of Benj. Wyman, on the left, is a cellar where, some 50 yrs. since, Mr. W. erected a house, which after a few years was destroyed by fire.
No. 54. Half a mile farther, in the same direction, stood formerly the so-called Bemis place where Wm. Lewis once res. Its earlier and later occupants are unknown.
No. 55. A mile southward from the last site, on Ball Hill, are there tokens of a homestead long known as the Butler place, possibly the home of James, who was taxed in W. 1770, though not then within town limits. Martin Gately was a later resident there.
No. 56. According to a deed of conveyance dated 1792, a house, at that time, formed a part of the so-called trip hammer property in Wachusettville. If so, it stood very near, if not on, some portion of the ground now covered by the upper paper mill of Mr. Wyman. John Heywood and others probably occupied it. No one living knows anything about it.
No. 57. On lot No. 106, lying S. of the lower part of the village just named. a "good house " was reported to the Gen. Ct. as standing in 1751. It was then owned by James Hay of Malden, and occupied by Benj. Gould, a resident in town for some years. The property was afterwards conveyed to Jona. Brown, grandson of Mr. Hay, who possibly lived thereon until he could build on his adjoining lot, No. 105, lately in possession of Edward R. Carter. The exact location of the structure has not been determined.
No. 58. A few rods up the hill from the trip hammer house (No. 56), between the road and the river, are there still indications of the site of the
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first dwelling on lot No. 112-the first sawmill lot. It was prob. erected by Henry Stevens, and occupied by him and others until superseded by one, on the hill near the dam, which was burned a few years since. It is remembered by some of the older inhabitants.
No. 59. A small house once stood a few rods S. W. of the present res. of James Gorman in the same village. It was prob. built by David Dunster, and occupied by him and his descendants for many years. John Wood lived there for a time, and also Elmer Baker and others.
No. 60. On the N. side of the old turnpike, W. of the house of George Harris, two barns are still standing, the representatives of a large array of farm buildings formerly covering that swell of land, -most of which were burned many years since. On this lot, No. 66, Philip Bemis, the third set- tler in town, located. The original house was some rods easterly from the site indicated. Mr. Bemis was succeeded by his son, Capt. Edmund, who sold to Asa Farnsworth in 1801. Later owners were Asa Farnsworth, Jr., Benjamin and Henry Perkins, and Benj. F. Battles.
No. 61. In the pasture opposite, a few rods from the S. E. corner of the present cemetery, may be seen the well and other signs of the farm build- ings belonging to lot No. 21. This was the homestead of David Bemis, who had a house in 1751, in which he lived till 1783, when he sold to his brother Edmund, and went to Vt. Prob. only transient tenants occupied the house afterward. It stood near the old Lunenburg and Harvard road.
No. 62. Lot No. 20, which joined the last on the N. W. and included the two additions to the original cemetery, was purchased by Samuel Gibbs in 1748. He erected a dwelling house, whose site is faintly indicated near the burial place of Geo. Smith and family. In 1772 Paul Gibbs, son of Samuel, sold the N. E. corner of the estate, with house, etc., to Nathl. Brown, who was succeeded in the ownership by Joseph Viles, Grace and WVm. Cavendar, Wm. Edgell, and Elijah Hager. The daughters of Mr. Hager sold to the town for cemetery uses in 1846, the house having been burned many years before, during the Edgell ownership.
No. 63. At the same date upon which Paul Gibbs sold the N. E. corner of lot No. 20 to Mr. Brown, he conveyed the corresponding N. W. corner to Jeremiah Gager, who built a house, etc., thereon, and no doubt resided there for a few years. Subsequent owners, in their order, were Elias Farnsworth, John Rand, Dr. Israel Green, Edmund Bemis, and Michael Gill. In 1796 the latter sold to the town for the purpose of enlarging the "burying ground." The house and barn were then standing, but were at once sold and taken down. The site can be recognized in the southerly part of the middle section of the cemetery territory, east of the Ahijah Wood burial lot,
No. 64. At the foot of the Meetinghouse Pond, opp. the barn of Hobart Raymond, is the site of the Reuben Fenno house, destroyed by fire a few years ago. It was built on the corner of the original Joseph Holden farm, lot No. I, by Abner Holden, son of Joseph, prob. about the time of his marriage, in 1752, and was occupied by him, as is supposed, till his father's decease in 1768. It thereafter passed successively through the ownership of Wm. Bemis, Ebenezer Bemis, Dodd and Sawyer, Abel Wood, Benj. Dike, Reuben Fenno, Wm. Edgell, Jr., and Reuben Fenno again, to his son, Frank B. Fenno, in the possession and occupancy of whose widow it was when burned.
No. 65. Joseph Lynde, a temporary early settler in the township, located on lot No. 9, building a house upon it, one-third of a mile S. W. of the old common. Indications of its exact site can be seen on the N. side of the road as it descends towards the S. Westminster crossing. After Mr. Lynde left the place it was occupied by Robert Seaver, Benjamin Hosley, whose bro. Joseph owned it, and perhaps others. In 1765 it was bought by Rev. Asaph Rice, and thereafter occupied only by transient tenants, probably, till its demolition at an unknown date.
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No. 66. House lot No. 14 lay directly S. E. of the well-known Damon lot, and bordered on the pond. Wm. Baldwin, who purchased it of the O. P. in 1738, built upon it some five years afterward and had his home there awhile. He conveyed it to Benj. Garfield, from whom it passed through the hands of Edmund Fuller of Stow to Reuben Miles in 1749. Mr. Miles res. there till 1776, when he sold to his son Nathan, who, 12 yrs. later, disposed of it to Stephen Hoar. Prob. Mr. Hoar lived there but a few years, if at all, and only casual tenants afterwards.
No. 67. On the easterly side of Mt. Pleasant Cemetery, partly in the road, may be seen marks of the site of a former building. It was prob. a barn belonging to the estate of Daniel Hoar, an early settler, his house having been located on the opp. side of the highway, near some clusters of lilac bushes still growing there. Mr. Hoar's son Stephen, who succeeded him, built the hotel on the same lot, about 1800, and the original dwelling was demolished.
No. 68. A still usable well some twenty rods N. W. of the last-named locality, in the old "Muster field," marks the spot on which were the farm buildings of Eliezer Bigelow, who came to the place with his aged father, Joshua, a soldier in King Phillip's War, in 1742. The house was occupied by Mr. B. and his son Joshua until abandoned for a new one directly on the road - the John Bigelow place, now owned by Frederick Nichols.
No. 69. Some So or 100 rods west of the well-known Benson Bigelow farmhouse (now R. J. Lavers'), near a small barn, was the home of Richard Newton, a resident of the township when incorporated. Mr. N. d. ab. 1772, and the property was bought by Daniel Hoar, and remained in possession of himself and sons for a great many years. Later owners unknown. The house was standing far down into the present century. Its last occupant, so far as informed, was Joel Flagg.
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