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65. EDWIN C. WHITING. "S. Larned" on map. At the west part of the town. A part of John Larned's purchase. [See H. 72] ; 8 March, 1769, Capt. John Larned to his son Elijah, 75 a., b. south on Dudley line, west on Pierpont's heirs ; 10 April, 1800, Elijah Larned to his son Salem, 100 a. and buildings ; Elijah and Salem both d. here ; Salem built a new house, his son Elias occupied the old one [E. Larned on map], since removed ; 18 April, 1859, Salem Larned to Alvah Kelsey of Webster ; 1866, Alvah Kelsey to Edwin C. Whiting.
66. FRED. O. CORTIS. "R. Emerson" on map. A part of H. 65. 18 March, 1816, Salem Larned to Billings Hayward, three- fourths of an a. ; Hayward built the present house ; 1816, Hayward mort. to Jeremiah Moffitt, who, 22 March, 1824, deeded to Rufus Hayward and Josiah Moffitt ; 4 Feb., 1825, Josiah Moffitt to Reuel Moffitt, who soon bought Rufus Hayward's share; 11 Feb., 1837, Reuel Moffitt to Harvey Upham, 47 a. ; 1 Feb., 1846, Harvey Upham to Preston Cummings ; 20 June, 1850, Preston Cummings to Maverick Jennison ; 14 Oct., 1851, Maverick Jennison to Reuben Emerson ; 1 Oct., 1856, Reuben Emerson to Charles Lamb ; 28 Feb., 1866, Charles Lamb to Ozias Cortis, who d. here ; his son Japheth succeeded, and d. here ; his nephew, Fred. O., is present owner.
67. CORNELIUS C. SHARPLES. "E. Stevens" on map. A part of H. 68. 20 April, 1813, Asahel Hayward to John P. Nichols, 13 a. ;
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Nichols built the house ; 15 Feb., 1816, John P. Nichols to Billings Hayward ; 17 May, 1817, Billings Hayward to John Brown ; 4 Sept., 1818, John Brown to his father, Charles Brown of Dudley ; 10 Nov., 1818, Charles Brown to Jeremiah Moffitt ; 16 Jan., 1819, Jeremiah Moffitt to Reuel Moffitt ; 5 March, 1820, Reuel Moffitt to Joseph Martin ; 1 Sept., 1822, Joseph Martin to Reuel Moffitt ; 11 Nov., 1824, Reuel Moffitt to Lot Marsh, who d. here ; 1845, administrator of estate of Lot Marsh to Denny S. Putnam ; 1851, Denny S. Putnam to Ebenezer Stevens ; 19 Nov., 1855, Ebenezer Stevens to Pliny B. Upham, who d. here ; 21 Oct., 1886, Catharine, widow of Upham, to Albert G. McIntire ; 9 May, 1887, Albert G. McIntire to Cornelius C. Sharples.
68. LYMAN WETHERELL. "L. Wetherell" on map. In his will Gov. Dudley gave Ann Hilton, his niece, 500 a. in Oxford. She m. Ebenezer Pierpont of Roxbury, thus the name " Pierpont" was given to lands on borders of Oxford and Charlton. 13 June, 1782, Benja- min and Ebenezer Pierpont, Jr., executors of Ebenezer, deeded 500 a. to Joseph Gibbs of Charlton; 14 May, 1783, Joseph Gibbs to Jacob Davis ; 19 June, 1784, Jacob Davis to Ephraim Segars, 50 a. at easterly part of same ; Segars settled here ; 2 June, 1791, Ephraim Segars to Jacob Smith of Deering, N. H .; 3 Sept., 1793, Jacob Smith to Jacob Larned ; 12 Nov., 1794, Jacob Larned to Nathaniel Brown, Jr., of Douglas ; 19 March, 1799, Nathaniel Brown, Jr., to Asahel Hayward, who bought other lands contiguous ; 21 Oct., 1815, Larned Hayward, son of Asahel, to Lyman Wetherell, 93 rods of land and the house, it having been set off to him from his father's estate, with 10 a. near; Wetherell built the present house in 1834 and d. here. His son Lyman is present owner.
69. AMOS S. PRATT. "R. White" on map. A part of the Gibbs lot.1 30 Dec., 1783, collector of Charlton taxes sold 60 a. wild land to Isaac Moffitt [estate set to Oxford, 1789]; 2 Oct., 1798, Isaac Moffitt to his son Jeremiah ; 1 April, 1811, Jeremiah Moffitt to Elihu Moffitt, 65 a. ; 1 Jan., 1819, Elihu Moffitt to Russell White of Douglas, 53 a. and buildings ; White d. here ; 19 March, 1858, his administrator to Jeremiah Brown ; 1 April, 1861, Jeremiah Brown to Amos S. Pratt.
70. Late JESSE BIGELOW. "J. Bigelow" on map. [House un- occupied.] A part of H. 72. 11 April, 1788, John Larned to
I George Gibbs m. Katharine, dau. of Peter Papillon. On 31 July, 1752, Ebenezer Learned, Samuel Davis and Ebenezer Foskett, all of Oxford, appraised the estate of Katharine Gibbs,
formerly of Boston, but last of London, shown by John Campbell, attorney of John Ballard, administrator, and returned 1,760 acres at 8 shillings.
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Isaac Moffitt, son-in-law, 60 a. ; 1 1 Feb., 1798, Isaac Moffitt to his son Elihu ; 13 March, 1806, Elihu Moffitt to widow Sally McIntire (Zenas Holbrook m. Sally McIntire) ; 1 Nov., 1809, Zenas Holbrook to Asahel Hayward ; 13 Aug., 1813, Asahel Hayward to Sally Hol- brook, his sister ; 9 Oct., 1815, Zenas Holbrook, Brimfield, 50 a. to Jesse Bigelow of Sutton, who occupied many years ; 19 March, 1864, Jesse Bigelow to Jonathan P. Dana, present owner.
71. ORLIN ALLARD. "C. Truesdell" on map. A part of John Larned's purchase [see H. 72]. 29 April, 1786, John Larned to his son John, 70 a., south of Amasa Kingsbury's ; John, Jr., built a house, occupied many years and d. here; 18 Dec., 1838, John Larned to Zenas M., his son; 10 March, 1852, Zenas M. Larned to Zaccheus A. Ballard ; 5 Sept., 1852, Zaccheus A. Ballard to Cyrus Truesdell ; 30 May, 1855, Cyrus Truesdell to David Wait; 13 April, 1866, David Wait to Sarah, w. of Orlin Allard.
72. [House removed.] Not on map. Original John Larned homestead. 12 July, 1738, John Wolcott of Salem to John Larned, 120 a., b. south on Dudley's farm, east on village line. The house stood on a rise of land near the river on the west side, near the line of the Webster railroad, southeast from Allard's. It was burned in 1786 and rebuilt by Jacob, son of John, who lived here and cared for his parents. 30 Aug., 1753, John Higginson of Salem to John Larned, 120 a. adjoining the above on the west, embracing land later his son Elijah's and Isaac Moffitt's ; 26 April, 1786, John Larned to Jacob, his son, 130 a., eastern part; 29 Oct., 1806, Jacob Larned to Jesse Ormsbee of Thompson, Conn. ; Larned rem. to Barnard, Vt. ; 28 Nov., 1807, Jesse Ormsbee to Peleg Corbin, who mort. to Ebenezer Davis and later rem. to Woodstock, Conn. ; 6 Sept., 1814, Ebenezer Davis to Abijah Davis, and he to Calvin Aldrich ; the place was oc- cupied by tenants. Before 1827 Timothy Aldrich owned it, and divided it and sold in lots ; 6 Jan., 1835, he sold house and land to Charles Negus and Samuel C. Butler, both of Webster, who removed the house to Webster, where it now stands.
73. GEORGE HINCHLIFF. "S. Larned" on map. In 1803 Joseph Dudley of Roxbury sold 50 a. to Jacob Larned ; William Larned, son of John, Jr., built a house on this land; 24 June, 1823, William Larned to John Larned, 4 a. and buildings ; 5 Feb., 1831, William
1 For several years before building a house here Moffitt lived in what was known as "Hut rock," about 25 rods east of the house. This rock rises about 12 or 15 feet from the ground, and is 60 or 70 feet in length and 25 in breadth. At its southern end there seems to have been by some convulsion of nature a portion of it broken off and removed 20 feet or more so that there re- mains an opening with nearly perpendicular 41
walls, and of sufficient size to form a com- fortable habitation. The northern wall is about 10 feet high at the centre and slopes gradually each way. The southern wall is lower. Timbers were placed across for a roof, and walls of wood built front and back. In the northeast corner were a fireplace and chimney. Several of his children were born here,
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Larned to Simon, his brother, 50 a. adjoining the house lot ; same date, John Larned to his son Simon, 1 a. and house ; Simon settled and d. here ; in 1881, Louisa, his widow, deeded to George Hinchliff.
74. JOSEPH L. AND GEORGE L. WOODBURY. "Col. De Witt" on map. 30 Aug., 1753, John Higginson of Salem, second husband of Elizabeth Papillon, to Josiah Kingsbury, 250 a., b. east on village line, west by Gibbs' lot, north by Williams' or Coburn's lot ; 19 April, 1764, Josiah Kingsbury to his son Amasa, 140 a. at east end of the foregoing ; Betsey, dau. of Amasa, was heir; 11 May, 1826, she deeded to Richard Olney, 170 a .; 7 Dec., 1832, Richard Olney to Edward Aldrich, 100 a. and buildings ; 18 Sept., 1834, Edward Aldrich to Timothy Aldrich ; 29 Sept., 1834, Timothy Aldrich to Alexander DeWitt ; 29 May, 1835, Alexander DeWitt to Harvey Conant ; 21 Feb., 1839, Harvey Conant to Sumner Moffitt, who d. here ; 11 Sept., 1877, Delia A. Moffitt to Joseph L. Woodbury ; 17 Sept., 1877, Joseph L. Woodbury to George L. Woodbury, one-half.1
75. [House removed.] "L. Shumway's Barn" on map. Long known as the "Coburn place." Martha Papillon inherited this prop- erty. She m. Richard Williams, who settled and d. here. 27 Feb., 1752, John Campbell, executor of Williams' will, to Ebenezer Coburn of Woodstock, 477 a; 23 Feb., 1775, Ebenezer Coburn to Richard Coburn, 71 a., south part; 20 May, 1777, Ebenezer Coburn to Ebenezer Coburn, Jr., 306 a. with buildings, north part ; 29 March, 1813, Richard Coburn to his son Sylvanus, 96 a. and buildings ; 12 April, 1817, Sylvanus Coburn to his brother Samuel Coburn ; 1819, Samuel Coburn to Stearns Witt; later it was owned by Richard Olney, who deeded it, 1 April, 1833, to Oxford Woolen M'f'g Co. ; 1 Jan., 1846, Oxford Woolen M'f'g Co. to George Hodges ; 10 April, 1848, George Hodges to Clovis M. Gates ; 12 May, 1848, Clovis M. Gates to Loriston Shumway; 2 Nov., 1882, Loriston Shumway to Joseph L. Woodbury.
76. [House removed. ] The northern part of H. 75. 16 Feb., 1782, Ebenezer Coburn to John Barton, Jr., 50 a. and buildings ; 7 Feb., 1787, John Barton, Jr., to William Eddy ; 25 May, 1787, William Eddy to John Angell, Jr. ; 20 March, 1789, John Angell, Jr., of Smithfield, to Daniel and John Sweet; 22 Jan., 1798, John Sweet of Oxford and Daniel Sweet of Scituate to David Wakefield of Dudley, 60 a. and buildings ; Wakefield lived here several years, and later the place was occupied by tenants, Oliver Smith, Lemuel Moffitt and Edward Wetherell having lived here. The house was large, with a long sloping roof descending to one story in the rear, and stood about one-fourth of a mile north of the Coburn house. It went
1 The old house stood north of the present ones and was taken down by Woodbury.
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to decay and was removed as early as 1825. This is supposed to have been the homestead of Richard Williams.
77. BUFFUMVILLE ESTATE. John Nichols, father and son, were large land owners in the west part of Oxford and the borders of Charlton. The first purchase was from Oxford assessors of land sold for taxes, Dec., 1751, 80 a., taxed to heirs of John Danforth of Dorchester. The next was more than 100 a. in the northeast corner of the Richard Williams 500 a. lot, as follows : 28 Feb., 1752, Ebenezer Coburn to William Lamb, a lot of 60 a. and another of 40 a. Through the first lot ran the [little ] river, with a " dam in it to supply ditches on both sides of said river," for irrigation of the Coburn farm. The old ditch is now to be seen on the south side of the river. 1 Feb., 1755, William Lamb to John Campbell ; 6 March, 1756, John Camp- bell to John Nichols. This purchase included the Gates place and that next west, which was Lieut. John Nichols' homestead, the house having stood on the north side the old Sturbridge road, through Howarth's village, near the school-house now standing. House re- moved as early as 1800. In 1756 was purchased 25 a., and in 1768 149 a. of William Thomas, husband of Mary Papillon, b. east on Ebenezer Coburn. In 1793 Samuel Danforth and Elijah Dunbar deeded to John Nichols and his grandsons, Alexander and Jonathan, 183 a., partly in Oxford and partly in Charlton, b. south by Blackwell's line, north by the "Centre line," east on Oxford village line. This in- cluded the water privilege and land on which it appears the buyers had previously lived. On 17 April, 1795, John Nichols deeded his third of the latter tract to his son John, who in 1811 deeded to his sons Alexander and Jonathan, who thus became sole owners. 24 June, 1823, Jonathan and Alexander Nichols, Barnabas Rich, w. Lucy, John Stevens, w. Lois, deeded to Stearns Witt, 29 a. and buildings. On 1 April, 1824, Stearns Witt to his brothers, Hollis, Archibald and Alexander C., three undivided fourths. Later Stearns DeWitt1 and Samuel Dowse became owners. On 20 Sept., 1842, Stearns De Witt deeded three-fourths (his interest) to Elias B. Craw- ford. On 24 April, 1845, Dowse having deceased, his widow deeded to Crawford the other fourth. On 1 July, 1847, Crawford deeded to Charles L. Harding, who in Dec., 1852, conveyed to Moses Buffum and Edward Thayer ; 1855, Edward Thayer to Moses Buffum, whose heirs are present owners. The mansion on the hill north of the village, known as " Bonnie View," was completed in 1881.
78. MOSES H. BUFFUM. This is a farm lying south of and con- tiguous to the manufacturing property at Buffumville, formerly owned by Hollis DeWitt. On 1 Oct., 1868, Benjamin DeWitt, son of Hollis, to Charles Lamb; 1 July, 1870, Charles Lamb to Moses Buffum.
1 See foot note, page 90.
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79. [Unoccupied.] "J. Gates" on map. A part of H. 77. John Meriam m. Hannah, dau. of John Nichols. We find no record of his purchase, but he removed here about 1802 from H. 86, on the old Charlton road, took down the old house and built the present one about 1808 ; 12 March, 1828, John Meriam to Stearns Witt and brothers ; Hollis Witt occupied; 8 Feb., 1838, DeWitt . Brothers & Co. to Amos Thompson, who occupied ; 15 March, 1845, Amos Thompson to Hiram Moffitt, who built a dam and mill ; 15 March, 1847, Hiram Moffitt to John Gates, who d. here.
80. [House removed. ] In the field about 40 rods northwest of the stone arch bridge is a cellar over which stood a house built by Ezra Bowman ; 7 April, 1781, Ebenezer Coburn sold him 260 a. ; 9 Feb., 1782, Ezra Bowman to Ebenezer Davis, "the deed to hold a house which I myself built on the premises, in which Samuel White's family now lives"; 2 April, 1784, Ebenezer Davis to John Nichols, 70 a. and buildings. The house was cheaply built and soon went to ruin.
81. [House removed.] New school-house on the site. Before 5 Sept., 1786, Jacob Davis sold to Silas Eddy land supposed to be this spot, on which Eddy settled.1 In 1793 Ebenezer Davis quit- claimed 20 a. and house to Eddy ; 3 July, 1826, Benjamin, son of Silas Eddy and Ruhamah, widow of Silas, to James Morton and Joseph Abbey, 24 a. and buildings ; 16 March, 1831, Reuben Morton to George Gould, 4 a. and buildings ; the remainder of the land was sold to Brown [see 82] ; 28 March, 1832, George Gould to Oxford Woolen M'f'g Co. The house was occupied by mill hands, became untenantable and was removed by Hodges.
82. JAMES BURKE. "A. Kingsbury" on map. A part of H. 81. 2 Oct., 1832, James Morton of Charlton to Nathaniel Brown, 22 a. ; Brown built a house ; 1839, Nathaniel Brown to Sylvanus Rob- inson ; 8 March, 1848, Sylvanus Robinson to Alfred Kingsbury, who d. here; 20 Sept., 1882, administrator of estate of Sophia, wid. of Alfred Kingsbury, to James Burke.
83. ANDREW HOWARTH. "George Hodges, Jr.," on map. The home lot of Abraham Skinner. 28 March, 1722, Abraham Skinner to Thomas Gleason, who d. here ; his estate granted by court to Moses, his son, he to pay certain sums to other heirs ; 19 March, 1734, Moses Gleason to James Coller of Uxbridge ; 15 March, 1735, James Coller to Jonathan Ballard of Billerica, tailor, who settled here ; 14 Aug., 1751, Jonathan Ballard to his son Ephraim, one-half ; 5 April, 1768, Ephraim Ballard to Elisha Davis ; 11 Dec., 1770, Elisha Davis to Ephraim Ballard ; 11 Dec., 1770, Ephraim Ballard to Amos Put-
1 In a deed, 5 Sept., 1786, Jacob to Ebenezer Davis, this tract sold to Eddy was reserved.
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nam of Sutton ; 17 March, 1779, Amos Putnam of Oxford to John Nichols, Sen. ; 9 Nov., 1790, John Nichols to John Nichols, Jr .; 1801, John Nichols, Jr., to his son David ; 26 Jan., 1826, David Nichols to Oxford Woolen M'f'g Co. ; 1 Jan., 1846, Oxford Woolen M'f'g Co. to George Hodges, Jr., who d. here, 1881 ; 21 June, 1882, executors of Hodges' estate to Andrew Howarth. The mansion house at this village was built by Hodges in fall of 1861.
84. [House removed. ] "R. Cudworth " on map. A part of H. 83. 6 Oct., 1765, Ephraim Ballard to John Marvin, who is supposed to have built the house ; 1777, John Marvin to Ezekiel Coller; 1784, Ezekiel Coller to Ebenezer Davis of Charlton; 10 April, 1792, Ebenezer Davis to William Cary of Spencer, later of North Oxford ; 1804, William Cary to Samuel Rider of Charlton; 1818, Samuel Rider and James Brown to Capt. William Googins, who d. here ; 1 April, 1833, heirs of Googins to Alexander De Witt ; 20 April, 1833, Alexander DeWitt to Alexander C. Thurston ; 1 April, 1838, Alex- ander C. Thurston to Harvey Burnett, who occupied, but the place reverted to Thurston; 20 Jan., 1842, Alexander C. Thurston to Susanna Elliot of Sutton, who d. here ; 1845, administrator of Elliot's estate to Gilbert Crane ; 1 April, 1847, Gilbert Crane to Orinda Cud- worth ; 15 Feb., 1871, Orinda Cudworth to Daniel T. Fuller ; 2 April, 1874, Daniel T. Fuller to Horace A. Pope, who occupied till 1 Dec., 1879, when the buildings were all burned.
85. JAMES CONLIN. "D. Rich" on map. 7 Jan., 1792, Luther Amidown to David Rich; 12 Jan., 1793, David Rich of Charlton to Jonathan Prince of Dudley and Stephen Prince, Jr., of Sutton, 50 a. wild land in west part of Oxford; Stephen became in 1800 sole owner, built the house, spent his days and d. here, and his son Free- man was his successor; 1 Jan., 1853, Freeman Prince to Daniel Rich, 150 a. ; 6 May, 1865, Daniel Rich to James Conlin, 92 a.
86. [House removed.] "S. Hunt" on map. 26 Jan., 1742, Richard and Martha (Papillon) Williams to Aaron Gleason, 62 a. on old Charlton road, b. west on John H. Rich farm, east on Jacob Town ; 13 March, 1752, Aaron Gleason to Moses Gleason ; 14 March, 1757, Moses Gleason to Joshua Meriam, Jr., of North Gore, who occupied many years ; 30 March, 1790, Joshua Meriam to his son John ; 20 Dec., 1802, John Meriam to Isaac Lamson ; 1 May, 1805, Isaac Lamson to Nathaniel Stockwell ; Joshua Meriam continued to live here with his son, and also with Lamson and Stockwell, and d. here. Stockwell also d. here ; after his decease Jacob Bond occupied. It came to Andrew Sigourney on a mort., and after his decease was set off to his dau. Susan, who m. Stephen Hunt. The house went to decay.
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87. [House removed. ] Next east of H. 86. Jan., 1742, Richard and Martha (Papillon) Williams to Jacob Town, 60 a., b. east on a town road [over Rocky Hill]; Town settled here and most of his children were b. here; 5 Sept., 1749, Jacob Town to Nathan Moore ; 16 July, 1751, Nathan Moore to James Sloan ; 1752, James Sloan to John Wyman, who occupied 23 years ; 9 May, 1775, John Wyman to John Farle ; 30 Oct., 1776, John Farle of Willington, Conn., to Jonathan Shattuck, who occupied ; 5 May, 1781, Jonathan Shattuck to Josiah White of Spencer; 8 April, 1800, Josiah White to John Meriam, owner of adjoining estate on the west. The house on this estate was on the east side, fronting on the road over Rocky Hill. It was standing about 1800 and was then occupied by William Hender- son, whose history has not been ascertained. [His son William m. Chloe, dau. of Daniel Fitts, and resided at West Greenwich, R. I., Shutesbury, and later Buffalo, N. Y., where he d. about 1850.] It was then an old house, and stood in a cleared space of an acre or two, which was surrounded by woods and was removed before 1810.
88. Late OTIS B. CHAFFEE. "M. Brown" on map. 18 Nov., 1791, Ebenezer Davis of Charlton to Joseph Brown of Dudley, 100 a., a part of Brown's confiscated land; Brown settled, built the present house, spent his life and d. here. His son Jasper owned later ; at his decease he devised it to his dau. Sarah, w. of Otis B. Chaffee.1
89. Late SAMUEL WILLIAMS. "S. Williams" on map. 12 April, 1760, Josiah Wolcott to Jedediah Barton, 32 a. ; Barton settled here ; 3 Dec., 1785, Jedediah Barton to Josiah Wolcott, with build- ings ; 1788, John Wolcott to James Williams, who d. here ; 7 Nov., 1811, heirs of Williams to Robert Williams, son of James. He d. here, 1838 ; his son Samuel succeeded, owning at his death, 1891.
89a. HORACE POPE. "H. Pope" on map. A part of H. 183. July 3, 1826, Solomon Walker to his son Elisha, 31 a. ; house rem. from near the railroad track east of North Common ; 2 Feb., 1843, Elisha Walker to Horace Pope, who enlarged the house and, 1890, owns and occupies.
90. Thirty or forty rods south of the road leading west from the old common, and not far from the present house of Horace Pope, stands a small house built about 1800 by Ebenezer, son of James Brown, tailor, where both lived many years. 13 March, 1839, Ebenezer Brown deeded to Susanna, dau. of Gilbert Crane. They, with Lemuel, brother of Gilbert, d. here. Ebenezer Crane, brother
1 The most picturesque spot in the town is on this farm a short distance west of the house, where the stream comes down through a rocky
gorge in a series of cascades, specially beautiful at high water in the spring.
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of Susanna, built another house near and occupied it. The old house has long been untenantable.
91. FRANCIS COGHLAN. "Jacob Marble" on map. On Rocky Hill. 15 March, 1813, Jonathan Davis, executor of will of Jeremiah Learned, to Benjamin and Jeremiah Learned, sons of Jeremiah, 165 a. ; Benjamin occupied and d. here, and his son Benjamin was suc- cessor ; 3 March, 1827, Benjamin Learned to Stephen Barton, 33 a. and house ; 1 April, 1830, Stephen Barton to Stephen Barton, Jr., and David Barton, 300 a., including this farm ; Stephen, Sen., had bought other lands north and built at " Jordan's Corner" a new house which he occupied, and having contracted with the town to support the poor, domiciled them on the old place ; 23 April, 1832, Stephen and David Barton to Amos Brown of Spencer, the old place ; 9 Dec., 1832, Amos Brown to Ebenezer Brown of Charlton, who d. here, 1849 ; 23 March, 1850, Ella, widow of Ebenezer Brown, to Jacob Marble ; 3 April, 1855, Jacob Marble to H. G. Otis and Asa B. Taft ; 16 April, 1856, they to Elias B. Crawford ; 1 April, 1860, Jane T., w. of Elias B. Crawford, to Francis Coghlan of Rhode Island ; the place has been of late occupied by tenants.
92. [House removed.] "Morey Place" on map. One hundred rods or more west of H. 91 is the site of the William and David Stone homestead. They had previously lived on Prospect Hill on a farm of 45 a. bought 28 March, 1775, of John Harwood of Oxford [24 Dec., 1761, John Town deeded to William Stone, 60 a. and buildings, ad- joining William Eddy and Jonathan Pratt, perhaps north of the rail- road station at North Oxford; 18 March, 1767, William Stone to Jonathan Pratt, Jr., same] ; 2 April, 1777, Jacob Davis of Charlton to William Stone, 42 a. "on Woody Hill"; 14 April, 1777, William Stone to his son David, one-half, and the whole at the death of the father ; 1 April, 1784, Ezra Taylor for Cox's heirs to David Stone, 52 a. near land of grantee ; 1806, David Stone to his son David, 94 a. ; 8 April, 1826, David Stone to Nathan Hall, 94 a. ; 8 Feb., 1828, Nathan Hall to David Hall, his son ; 1 Nov., 1835, David Hall to Otis Perry of North Gore, 100 a .; 1 Nov., 1837, Otis Perry to Thomas Smith of Smithfield, R. I. ; 18 April, 1844, Thomas Smith to Daniel Mowry ; 1 April, 1854, Thomas Mowry of Providence, R. I., brother of Daniel, into whose possession it came, to Horace Pope ; 1 May, 1870, Horace Pope to Asa H. Pope, who removed the house ; the barns which stood several years later were burned.
93. [House removed; not on map.] A short distance west of H. 94. In 1764 Simon Gleason and Joshua Bellows quitclaimed to John M. Jewell, 100 a., part in Oxford and part in Charlton, a part of Cox's land ; Jewell settled here, house in Oxford; 1 May, 1784, he quitclaimed 71 a. to Ezra Taylor, agent of Cox's heirs ; in Dec.,
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1786, Jewell was ejected on a suit by said heirs ; 9 Oct., 1791, Ezra Taylor to William Lamson, 70 a., "part in Oxford and part in Charl- ton, called the Jewell lot, b. east by Fitts, south by Samuel Baker, west by land in possession of one Lamb"; 23 March, 1804, William Lamson to Stephen Barton, who, on marriage, settled here, remain- ing till 1816, when he deeded to Jeremiah Learned and removed to Learned's house ; 9 Jan., 1818, Jeremiah Learned to Abisha Learned ; 3 Nov., 1818, Abisha Learned to Bela Tiffany ; 1 April, 1822, Bela Tiffany to Alpheus Eddy ; none of these owners after Barton occu- pied. The house went to decay and was removed before 8 June, 1830, when Eddy sold to John Fitts, owner of the adjacent farm, H. 94.1
94. JOHN O'MARA. "Thos. Appleby" on map. 19 Aug., 1775, Nathan Pratt to Andrew Patch, land called Cox's, b. south on John Rockwood, west on Samuel Baker and John M. Jewell, north on Josiah Wolcott, east on town road [over Rocky Hill], 140 a. ; Feb., 1777, Andrew Patch quitclaimed to Abraham Fitts of Sutton, dwell- ing, reserving one-half the potash house to Jacob Pierce ; 6 April, 1784, Ezra Taylor, agent, Daniel and Rebecca Cox, Trenton, N. J., Charles Cox, Ringwood, N. J., and John T. Kemp, w. Grace, of New York City, to Abraham Fitts, 68 a. ; 1 Sept., 1784, Abraham Fitts to Bartholomew Hutchinson of Sutton ; 9 Feb., 1788, Abraham Fitts of Dummerston, Vt., to Jonathan Fitts of Wardsboro', Vt., 3 a., " house, barn and hovel"; Daniel Fitts occupied before 1796 (at which date Hutchinson deeded him 34 a. and buildings), and d. here, 1837, devising his farm to his son John, who took down the old house and built the present one, 1827 ; 18 April, 1837, John Fitts to Robert Fitts of Auburn, 150 a. and buildings ; 23 Feb., 1839, Robert Fitts to Thomas Appleby of Smithfield, R. I. ; 3 April, 1855, Thomas Appleby to John O'Mara and Michael Butler ; Butler sold to O'Mara.
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