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Page, 41. Paine, 43. Painter, 18, 19, 32, 40, 43, 45. Palmer, 36, 37.
Parker, 4, 13, 15, 20, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 28, 30, 31, 33, 37, 39, 41, 42.
Parsons, 4, 23, 32.
Pasmer, 10, 11. Pcase, 6, 14, 19, 23, 43. Pell, 3, 27. Pelton, 34. Pen, 4, 15, 23, 27, 28, 46. Penniman, 13. Pepes, 31, 32, 33. Perry, 2, 23, 26, 27, 29, 30, 32, 40, 44, 47.
Phillips, 7, 16, 20, 43, 45, 46, 47. Phippeni, 3, 11, 41, 46, 47. Pierce, 1, 9. 10, 15, 21, 22, 41, 42. Plimley, 31. Pope, 20,30, 31, 37, 42. ( Pormort, 45. ¿ Portmort, 19. Porter, 24, 28, 38. Powell, 24. Pullen Poynt, 1, 15. Purton, 36, 37.
Rainsford, 34. Rashley, 41. Rawlins, 10, 16, 47. Rawson, 25, 43. § Reading, 35. Readinge, 35. Reinolds, 21, 28, 36, 37, 41, 45. Ricer 3, 27. Richardson, 22, 36, 37, 45.
River, the, 5, 15, 16, 23, 32, 46. Charles, 2, 8, 25. Merimack, 11. Monotaquid, 7. Mouotaquit, 5, 9, 15, 29. Mouotoquit, 9. Muddy, 2, 7, 14, 18, 25, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35. Newbury, 11. Roberts, 28.
Roe, 34. Roote, 14, 30, 34. Roxbury, 2, 41. Ruck, 16. Ruggle, 13, 28, 30, 31. Ruggles, 40.
Salem, 17, 43. Salter, 26, 34. Saltonstall, 12, 17.
( Sanfford, 30. Sanford, 12, 13, 25. Savadge, S, 19, 29. ¿ Savage, 9, 16, 18, 19, 21, 29, 46. § Seot, 23, 27, 28, 37.
¿ Scott, 4, 22, 23, 37. Scotto, 1, 13, 14, 19, 25, 30, 32.
Sea, the, 1, 0, 8, 15, 23.
( Seaberry, 6, 22.
¿ Seahury, 46.
[ Sedgwick, 25. Sedgwicke, 25. § Selleck, 4, 39, 40. / Sellick, 4, 21, 22, 31.
Serch, 35. Shaw, 18, 19. Sherman, 2, 27, 29, 31, 37, 42. -
§ Shoare, 11, 12. ¿ Shore, 5, 9, 12, 22.
Shrimpton, 40, 47.
Sinet, 2, 15, 35.
Smith, 2, 6, 7, 37, 42, 44, 48.
[ Snow, 33. ¿ Snowe, 2. Sonther, 24. Spoone, 3. Spoore, 2, 16, 24, 27. Springate, 2, 4, 23. ( Stanley, 1, 6, 8, 10, 14, 15, 16, 17, 39, 41. / Stanly, 10.
Starbuck, 31. ( Stanghton, 40. ¿ Stoughton, 4. Steevenson, 23, 41. / Stevenson, 28, 37.
Stillmau, 17.
Stoddard, 3, 20, 40.
Straine, 40, 47.
Strattou, 16.
Streete, the, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 12, 13, 14, 15, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 41, 42, 44, 45, 46, 47.
Ceutry Hill, 14, 15.
Cove, 3. Fortt, 3, 37, 41.
High, 2, 3, 19, 23, 26, 27, 30, 33, 35, 36, 37, 40, 42, 43, 44, 45, 47.
Market, 3. Mill. 8, 35, 37, 38.
Millne, 39. New, 40. Sudbury, 3, 4, 13, 14, 21, 40.
Water, 3, 40. Sweete, 5, 6, 11, 22, 29, 41, 46. j Symonds, 14. ( Symons, 1, 9, 10, 21, 39. Synderland, 28, 29. ¿ Synderlant, 23.
Talhott, 48. § Talmage, 33, 34. / Talmidge, 2. Tanton, 40. Tapping, 26, 37. Toft, 8, 38. Thomas, 24. Thompson, 8. Thwing, 3, 13, 14, 40. ( Ting, 17, 43, 45. Tiuge, 43. Tings, 11. Tyng, 2, 3, 13, 16, 17, 18, 21, 28. ( Tynge, 1, 24.
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INDEX TO THE BOOK OF POSSESSIONS.
Townsend, 31, 37, 40, 42. Toy, 19.
§ Truesdailo, 24. "Truesdale, 25, 28, 30. Turner, 13, 24, 25, 26, 27, 38, 44, 46. 'Tuttic, 7, 8, 38, 39. .
Usher, 4, 5, 41.
Vyall, 39, 43.
Waite, 28, 36, 37, 39, 47.
Walker, 17, 33, 34.
Ward, 26, 27. Watering Place, 35.
Way, the, 12, 22, 37.
Waymouth, 45. ( Web, 19. Webb, 5, 7, 15, 17, 21, 23, 29, 32. ( Weebb, 4,
Weekes, 16.
Welis, 22. Werdall, 5, 9, 11, 15, 18, 19, 29. Wheeler, 35.
White, 36.
ś Wiborne, 45. / Wibourne, 45.
Wicks, 6, 41.
Willard, 31. Williams, 26, 39, 44. Willis, 18, 19, 44, 45. Wilson, 2, 3, 5, 7, 13, 14, 15, 18, 19, 20, 28, 30, 35, 41, 42. Wind Mill, 30. Wing, 19, 23, 32, 40. Winthrop, 1, 2, 4, 5, 7, 15, 19, 22, 24, 25, 32, 35, 39, 40, 41. 1 Winthrope, 24. ( Winthropp, 1, 4, 32. Woodhouse, 38, 39, 43. Woodwar, 37. Woodward, 14, 15, 26, 27, 30, 83, 34, 35, 36, 40, 43, 47.
Wormali, 42.
Wright, 18, 30.
Yow, 45.
INDIANS.
George, 48. Great David, 48.
Hawkins, 48. John, 48. Rouley, 48.
Tommoquin, 48.
William, 48.
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APPENDIX.
NOTES ON BOOK OF POSSESSIONS.
It has already been mentioned, in the Introduction to this Part, that Mr. Winsor had furnished in the second volume of the Memorial History of Boston, plans and descriptions elucidating the. Book of Possessions. By the kindness of the publishers of that book, and in concurrence with Mr. Winsor's consent, leave was obtained to reproduce that sketch ; but, on further consideration, this idea was somewhat changed. Mr. Winsor's plans were not exact parts of one map; as, for satisfactory reasons, he repeated some parts of one plan in another. In other words, if his several plans were cut out and laid side by side, they would not make one continuous map.
On the other hand, Lamb's map was constructed on a continuous system. Of its ten sheets, nine contained portions of the outline of old Boston. It seemed, therefore, best to reduce his sections to a size suited to our pages, and to give a number to each estate. In the reduced form it is impossible to give the names of the owners of lots, as Lamb has done, or to give his boundary lines. This is the less to be regretted, because, as already stated, those lines are purely imaginary. On the other hand, by using plans covering exactly the same territory as Lamb's, the present notes can always be used as a key or guide to those larger plans.
The writer has accordingly carefully revised the reduced plans and indicated the lots by numbers. For the descriptions Winsor's text was used wherever it could be, the additions and corrections being put in parenthesis and initialed. In this way the first place is given to Winsor, who is entitled to the credit of having first suggested and executed the method of making the Book of Posses- sions available to the general reader. In a few instances the revision has led the editor to differ from Winsor and Lamb, but in most of the descriptions there is no cause for doubt.
Of course much remains to be done in tracing each lot from the first grant to the present time. Mr. Bowditch's Gleaner articles (volume five of the Record Commissioners' Reports) show how interesting the study of old titles and boundaries may be made. As the Book of Possessions gives bounds and not measure- ments, the size and form of the first grant can be discovered only when these lots became subject to sale or division.
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It is confidently hoped that the plans, descriptions, and number- ing now submitted to all interested, will prove of sufficient assist- ance to stimulate renewed labor in the investigation of our early topography. The annexed table will show that all of the first grants recorded in the Book of Possessions have been located, with a reasonable degree of accuracy, covering thus the first one hundred and eleven pages of that work.
Undoubtedly the publication of the second portion of the Boston Town Records (A.D. 1660-1700), now in press, and to be issued as a Report of the Record Commissioners, will supply many facts hitherto unknown. Mueh also remains to be gleaned from the first volume of those Town Records already printed. Even the Records of the Colony, published by the State so many years ago, have apparently not been systematically examined for Boston items.
When the necessary material has been gathered, it will be possible to write such a history of Boston as will satisfy the anti- quary ; and it is not perhaps absurd to anticipate that in another eentury the inhabitants of our Western States will trace the noted localities in Boston with the same reverent interest with which we now visit the cities and towns of England.
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KEY TO REFERENCES.
In the following list the Book of Possessions is followed page by page, and the reference shows on which of the subsequent maps and explanatory notes each lot is to be found. No notice, of course, is taken of the lots granted outside of Boston, nor of the transfers by deed.
Original page.
5. Richard Bellingham
1 G. 41
27. Thomas Clarke K. 19
Thomas Marshall.
G. 10
6. Thomas Fowle
1 F. 99
2 K. 17
2 H. 3
John Low,
G. 18
7. William Hibbins 1
G. 107
G. 20
8. Edward Gibbons 1 G. 99
30. Isaac Cullimer 1 K. 21
2 K. 16 G. 4
31. Bartholomew Pasmer David Phippeny
G. 6
10. William Tyng
1
G. 40
32. Francis Hudson. John Cole
H. 8
Robert Keayne
1
G.81
K. 25
11. John Wilson
G. 85
34. John Gallop James Hawkins
H. 7 K. 24
Mr Dunster
G. 45
12. John Newgate.
H. 21
35. Sampson Shoare William Kirkby.
H. 27 G. 1 HI. 26 H. 29
13. Thomas Olliver
1
G. 78
36. Richard Sanford. Robert Mceres.
H. 47
Robert Howen,
H. 18
14.
Thomas Leverit Edmund Jackson
1
H. 10 Jeremy Houtchin
2
H. 35
38. Thomas Makepeace Benjamin Thwing
1
G. 52
16. Edwin Goodwin
К. 2
2
E. 13
Gabriel Fish
G. 15
Joshua Scotto
1
G. 50 E. 5
Henry Pease
1 H. 5
40. Alexandr Beck
1 G. 49
18. John Seaberry. John Smith.
H. 2
3
HI. 32
K. 6
John Biggs
1
E. 2
James Johnson.
1
HI. 24
3
1. 46
Thomas Hawkins
1 G. 46
3
E. 22
2
G. 12
4
H. 1
1 42. Thomas Buttolph G. 43
21. Anne Tuttle
1
K. 9
2
F. 103* K. 1
21. Bartholomew Cheever
4
K. 1 I. 2
John Arnold
23. Capt Thomas Hawkins.
K. 11
43. Christopher Stanly
G. 42
John Jackson
1 K. 13
G. 37
John Oliver.
G. 7
45. George Burden
1
G. 38
25. Edmund Grosse W'm. Werdall 1 G. 5 K. 14
26. Samuel Cole
K. 15
William Hudson Jun™
G. 36
John Hill. 1 G. 21
G. 35
G. 2
46. Samnucl Greamcs Sarah Knight
G. 34
1212
2 H. 3
Atherton Hangh 1 F. 64
John Milom
K. 22
9. John Cotton
H. 13
K. 23
2
G. 6
33. Matthew Chaffie Nathaniell Chappell
123
H. 30
G. 68
37. Henry Fane
H. 20
15. William Copp
John Mellowcs
1 H. 9
39. William Wilson
17. John Sweete
K. 3
2
H. 47
19. Walter Merry. John Davies
1
G. 14
41. James Browne
2
G. 47 G. 48
20. W= Beamsley
1
K. 8
2
F. 92
3 F. 27
3
22. Capt. Nchemiah Bonrne.
K. 10
5
8
E. 24
44. Hugh Gunnison John Glover
G. 39
24. Thomas Savage.
2
F. 91
3
H. 33
2
H. 44
3 F. 36
Original
page.
H. 15
3 G. 19
28. Thomas Joy 1 K. 20
G. 75
29. Richard Rawlins Henry Symons.
K. 18
F. 3
2 F. 31
Danicl Maud.
H. 14
H. 36
I. 3
H. 11 G. 28 G. 51
K. 5
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Original
page.
47. Francie Dowso
G. 32
74. Jolin Synderland Richard Cooke.
1
F. 80
48. Anne Hunno
1
G. 29
2
F. 76
2
11. 19
3
E. 25
John Button
1
G. 24
F. 81
2 I. 4
76.
Francis Lyle.
1
F. 65
50. Thomas Painter
1
G. 26
Thomas Millard
1
F. 66
James Everill
1
G. 22
2
E. 5
51. Jobn Coggan
1
G. 84
3
E. 12
52. William Franklin Robert Nash
1
G. 97
78. Ephraim Pope Edmund Dennis
1
F. 70
53. George Foxeroft. Edward Bendall
1 128 3
K. 12
William Townsend
1
F. 73
James Oliver
G. 91
2
E. 9
55. David Sellick
1
G. 90
Robert Blott
F. 83
81. Mr - Flint
12
F. 86
56. Isaac Crosse
1
G. 94
F. 85
2
K. 7
F. 87
Wm Davies, Junt
G. 88
1
F. 89
William Hudson Sent
1 G. 65
2
E. 20
2 E. 24
84. Richard Carter Jacob Leger
1
F. 96
William Davies, Sent
1
G. 66
2
F. 98
2
F. 16
3 E. 10
3
C. 19
85. William Coleborne
[C. 1
58. Robert Scott.
1
G. 69
Edward Belchar
C. 2
3
G. 70
86. William Talmage
1
C. 3
William Parsons,
G. 72
Robert Walker.
1
C. 5
G. 73
2
C. 10
1
G. 83
2
G. 71
88. William Salter
1
C. 13
60. Richard Fairebanks
1
G. 79
2
C. 14
2
F. 77
Jacob Eliot
C. 8
3
H. 42
89. Garret Bourne
F. 104
4 F. 14
John Cranwell
C. 11
Wm Corser
G. 80
90. Edward Rainsford
F. 105
61. John Leverit,
G. 57
David Offley
F. 106
Richard Parker.
G. 56
91. Owen Roe
F. 107
62. Richard Truesdale,
1
G. 58
John Pelton
F. 108
E. 6
92.
Griffith Bowen
F. 103
Valentine Hill,
1
G. 59
Cole
F. 102
93. John Odlin
F. 101
63. Bobert Sedgwick Richard Hutchinson,
G. 62
F. 97
64. Thomas Scotto,
1 F. 3
Thomas Wheeler
F. 63
Henry Messinger,
G. 63
1
F. 62
65. Richard Croychely,
1
G. 53
C. 20
Richard Tapping,
G. 54
John Hurd
F. 61
66. Benjamin Gillom
G. 104
96. Robert Hull
F. 60
F. 28
Job Judkin
F. 59
Benjamin Ward,
G. 103
97. Nathaniel Woodward Sent
F. 56
John Compton.
G. 105
John Marshall
F. 55
Nathaniel Woodward.
G. 101
98. Richard Hlogg
F. 54
68. Edward Hutchinson,
G. 102
Nathaniel Eaton
F. 53
Richard Sherman,
G. 76
99. Francis East
F. 52
69. John Spoore
1
G. 74
Charitie White
F. 51
100. Richard Waite
F. 50
William Pell.
F. 12
Edward Fletcher
F. 49
70. William Dinsdale,
F. 10
101. Robert Reinolds
F. 4
Robert Rice,
F. 11
John Palmer Jun
F. 57
James Pen
F.
8
John Palmer Senr
F. 38
72. Nicholas Parker
1
F.
7
103. Gamaliel Waito
1
F. 35
Nathaniel Bishop
Benjamin Negoos
F. 34
73.
John Steevenson Zaeeheus Bosworth
1
F. 77
F. 30
(E. 8
105. Richard Gridley
1
F. 18
2
G. 17
2
F. 15
3
E. 17
John Harrison
F. 17
2 E. 1
77. William Aspinwall Thomas Grubb,
F. 67
2
II. 4
G. 96
2
E. 16
G. 95
3
G. 23
79. Edward Jacklin
F. 71
54. Edward Tyng
G. 92
80. Jane Parker
2
G. 3
F. 84
William Pieree
G. 89
3
K. 4
83. Ralph Mason. Robert Wing
F. 88
57.
F. 95
3
F. 40
F. 32
4 F. 37
2
C. 9
59. James Davies, Henry Webb,
87. William Briseo Raph Roote
C. 12
3
F. 90
2
G. 44
G. 61
Walter Sinet
F. 100
94. Robert Woodward
95. William Blantaine
2 3
F. 42
71. John Kenrick
F. 9
102. Amos Richardson
F. 39
4
I.
8
2
F. 45
F. 6
F. 5
104.
Madid Engles
F. 33
Original page.
F. 79
George Bates
G. 30
75. John Lugg. Arthur Perry.
F. 82
49. Nicholas Willis George Barrell
G. 25
G. 27
2
E. 21
F. 68
G. 98
F. 69
H. 12
F. 72
82. Anthony Harker Thomas Clarke
1 C. 18
C. 6
2
2 C. 15
67.
2
F. 13
William Deming
1
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APPENDIX.
Original page.
Original page. 126. Francis Smith
1
-
Edward Browne
F. 20
2
F. 94
William Letherland
F. 22
127. Arthur Clarke
108. Wa Teft
F. 23
128. Richard Lippineot
129. John Vyall
F. 47
109. Jonathan Negoos
F. 25
130. Wm Browne
Thomas Foster
F. 26
131.
Thomas Beamont
Georg Griggs
F. 41
133.
Barnabas Fawer
111. Thomas Bell
F. 43
134. James Mattox
Richard Hollich
F. 44
135.
Robert Turner shoemaker
G. 44
112.
Christopher Lawson
136,
Christopher Clarke
115.
Roger Fleicher
116. Nicholas Busbie
139. Thomas Wiborne
11S.
Henry Shrimpton
141. Henry Browne
119. Abraham Page
142.
Wm Douglas
120. John Hansett
143.
John Baker
121. Hezekia Usher
144.
Wm Davies apothecary
H. 38
122. Wm Wicks,
145.
Richard Bennett
123. Joseph Phippeni,
146. Richard Straine
124. John Jephson.
147. George Michell
125. John Anderson
148. John Langdon
149. Rice Jones
113.
Robert Nanney
137.
James Nash
138. John Lake
117. William Hailestone
140. John Phillips
110. Richard Woodhonse
F. 46
132.
Wm Chamberlaine
F. 94
106. Nicholas Baxter,
F. 19
10%. Mathew Iyons
F. 21
3
Thomas Munt,
F. 24
fied. VOTE. - In the foregoing examination of the first 111 pages only three lots are not identi- These are, p. 21, Bartholomew Cheever, p. 22, John Arnold, and p. 23, John Jackson. Jackson was west of Arnold, and both had the street south, the highway north. Arnold had Thomas Munt east ; Jackson had Robert Hull west. Hull was north-east of Checver, who had the Cove south-west. I have not found a place for these lots, evidently all in one locality, and I believe Mr. Lamb also is at fanlt. Possibly the lots are given under other names. See also G. 17. - W.H.W.]
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[NOTE. - Map A, or No. 1, of Lamb's system is merely an outline composed of the other nine joined together. We give the same as our folding Map A. - W.II.W.]
MAP B, OR NO. 2.
MAP B, OR NO. 2.
It does not appear that any grant of land was made so far south as this. The east end is abont on Castle street, which was the south line of William Colborn's field. The cross-lines in the centre agree with the fortifications, which were a little south of Dover street. A few items from the town records will show the use made of the land. Oct. 28, 1639, Samnel Sherman was allowed to keep up his cow-honse, which he had built upon the common by the gate next Roxbury, and had leave to mow the plot " compassed abont with small creeks next the great creek between Roxbury and us." April 27, 1640, Sherman's leave was renewed, and he was " en- joined to set his fence straight, so as he do not encroach upon the highway." He had liberty for several years to mow there.
26th, 6mo, 1644, .. It is ordered and agreed with James Penn, that in consideration of his land at the Fort hill, be it more or less, he shall have three acres laid out next to William Hibbins his land near Roxbury gate."
On May 31, 1652 (Suff. Deeds, i., 211), William Hibbins, of Boston, sold to Margery Eliot, widow, for the nse of her children by elder Jacob Eliot, her late hnsband, five acres of land near Roxbury gate, bounded north and sonth by land of Jacob Eliot, west by Boston Common, east by the highway to Roxbury.
And at the same time James Penn sold to Margery Eliot, five acres at Roxbury gate, part marsh, part upland, bounded by land of Mr. William [Hibbins? - the name is lacking] south, Boston Common north, Roxbury creek west, and the highway to Rox- bnry east.
About the same time, May 27, 1652 (Col. Rec., iii., 274) it is recorded that " In answer to the petition of Margery Eliot, widow, for the confirmation of the sale of a certain parcel of land, sold by the deacons of the Church of Boston, administrators to Sam. Sherman. nnto Joseph Eliot, deceased, ordered," -that an answer be delayed until next session, and that the administrators give an account to the next County Court.
May 7, 1662 (Rec., Vol. iv., Part ii., p. 47) the Conrt decided on the petition of Samuel and Nathaniel Sherman, and Mary Clarke, children of the late Sam. Sherman, against Mr. Colborn, adminis- trator, that they had no canse of complaint.
28th, 2 mo. 1645, liberty was granted to Widow Howen to cut hay for the wintering of one cow, in some part of the marsh near Roxbury gate, where cattle cannot come to feed.
11th, 1 mo, 1650, Peter Oliver was allowed £15 annually for seven years to maintain the highways from Jacob Eliot's barn to the farthest gate by Roxbury town's end, for cart and horse.
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LOTS NO 1 TO NORTH SIDE OF BOYLSTON STREET, FROM WASHINGTON STREET TO THE BACK BAY.
C. a. Garret Bourne. See F. 104. East side of Washington st.
C. I. William Colborn. [House and garden, with J. Leger north, the High street east, the lane and E. Belcher south, no west bound. This was the north-west corner of Washington and Boylston streets. - W.H.W.]
C. 2. Edward Belcher. [House and garden, with Mr. Colborn east and north, the lane south, W. Talmage west. Evidently a front lot, with Colborn's lot behind it. It was afterwards divided. Bernard Trott bought the west half, being 70 feet wide and 71 feet deep, and the east half was given in the same year to Mary, wife of Edward Belcher, Jr. - W.H. W.]
C. 3. William Talmage. [House and garden, with the street south, E. Belcher east, T. Snow north and west. In 1669 Talmage sold the west half of this lot to Bernard Trott. It was 63 feet south on Snow's lane, west 57 feet on Snow, north 54 feet on Snow's orchard. The east half was sold in 1704 by Anne Flack, as heiress of Talmage, to William Griggs, bound south on the street 48 feet, west by Griggs (who must have got the Trott half), north by Platt 60 feet, east by land late of Talmage 64 feet. Thus the full lot was 64 feet on the east, 131 feet on Boylston street, 114 feet on the rear, and 57 feet on the west. - W.H. W. ]
C. 4. Thomas Snow. [Lot not recorded, but clearly shown in bounds of C. 3 and C. 5. In 1667 Snow sells to H. Usher, T. Lake, and P. Oliver, his old dwelling-house "on which the sign of the Dove is fastened." He sells in breadth south to the path leading to his new house which faces on the street, and so to the fence which parts the house lots from the pasture ; and also the pasture, which has this fence south, Colbron and Talmage east, the lane issuing out of the Common west, and land now fenced in by Gov. Bellingham north. After Snow died his widow, Milcha, or Milcab, married William Wright, and in 1672 they sold the pasture above described to Thomas Platts. In 1678 the heirs made a division. They were Samuel Snow, Mehitable Snow, Meletiah, wife of Samuel Fisher, of Braintree, and Abigail wife of William Wright, Jr., her step-brother. (In 1683 Samuel sold his lot to Platt.)
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CITY DOCUMENT NO. 46. - PART 2.
A plan is recorded (Suff. Deeds, ii., f. 82) which is here given as one of the earliest in our registry.
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The lot of Gov. Bellingham, mentioned in 1667, was evidently the lot granted him 29th. 3 mo. 1665 (Boston Records, Vol. 2, p. 20), as follows : " In consideration of Land received of Richard Bellingham, 'esq, for the Town high way toward Roxbury, in ex- change thereof we have granted and laid out a square piece of ground butting upon Thomas Snow on the south, and Mr. Col- bron on the east, and the Common on the west, and north as it is now fenced in." Bellingham had given 334 rods to the street (Records, Vol. 2, p. 16), which was at the time, September, 1664, when Washington street was laid out south from Boylston street on the present line. The old road to Roxbury was east, follow- ing the beach.
[The lane west, now Tremont street, must have been laid out between 1665 and 1667. - W.H.W.]
C. 5. Robert Walker. [House and garden, with the street south, the Common north, T. Snow east, W. Brisco west. - W.H.W.]
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C. 6. William Briscoe. [House and garden, with the street south, the Common north, R. Walker east, and - Flacke west. - W.H.W.]
C. 7. Cotton Flack. [Lot not recorded. In 1658, Jane, widow of Cotton Flack, sold to Thomas Clarke a house and garden of about half an acre, with a common lane south, the Common north, Goodman Brisco east, and said Thomas Clarke west. 29th. 4 mo. 1640. .. Cotton Flack hath a house lot granted him in the way from Mr. Coleburne's house to the sea, next to Good- man Briscoe's." (Boston Records, vol. 1, p. 44.) In 1676 Clarke sold this lot to his son-in-law Thomas Baker, sen., who married his daughter Leah. Their children were Thomas, John, Mary, and Rachel. who married George Waldron. These Bakers sold to their brother-in-law Waldron, in 1704, land bounded east 300 feet on Edward Bromfield. north 261 fcet on the Common, west 361 feet on the Common. south 438 feet on the street. In 1714 Waldron sold his lot to Col. Thomas Fitch, whence it came to Andrew Oliver. Jr., who sold to William Foster in 1780, from whom the town in 1787 bought it.
As Flack had Clarke west, it is perhaps useless to inquire how much was covered by Flack's lot. Evidently Clarke was the most westerly owner, and the lane " turned south to the sea," leaving some common land and marsh outside him at the west. - W.H. W.] C. 8. Jacob Eliot. [House and garden, with the highway east, W. Talmage west, the lane north, and Mr. Colborne's field south. This is the south-west corner of Washington and Boylston streets, where the market now stands. In the division of Eliot's property this went to his son-in-law, Theophilus Frary, thence to his daughter Abigail, wife of Berechiah Arnold, then to hier only child. Hannah, who married Samuel Welles. The market-house was moved south eleven feet in 1870. - W.H.W.]
C. g. William Talmage. [His lot No. 2, a garden bounded with J. Eliot east and south, the street north, and R. Walker west. This lot seems in 1690 to be in possession of Capt. Samuel Vcazie (see his will, Suff. Wills, xi., 243), and so in accordance with dceds of adjoining estate. He was twice married, left no issue, but had five sisters. Yet. in 1706, Anne, widow of Cotton Flack, as niece and sole heiress of William Talmage, sold this lot to John Clough. (Suff. Deeds, xxii., 486.)' Her mother was Christian Belcher, own sister to Talmage, and Anne was the only daughter. (See deposi- tion of John Marion.) (Deeds, xxi., 644.)
Clough, or a son of the same name, seems to have remained the owner in 1740, when Holyoke street was laid out through it ; a street also called Clough street, and now Tremont street. - W.H.W.]
C. 10. Robert Walker. [His second lot, with W. Talmage east, the street north, J. Cranwell west, and J. Eliot south. This lot seems to have passed to Thomas Downes prior to 1674, and to have been exchanged by him with his brother-in-law, Capt. Jacob Eliot. Eliot gave it, 19 March, 1678-9, to liis son-in-law, Elizur Holyoke, when the lot was about 60 feet wide and 132 feet deep. I have been obliged to assume various unrecorded divisions of the Eliot
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