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lands among the various branches of the family, in order to make any sense out of the existing deeds .-. W.H. W.]
C. II. John Cranwell. [House and garden, with Robert Walk- er east, the street north, R. Root west, and on the south two acres belonging to the same ; which two acres had the garden north, Mr. Roe east, R. Croychiley west and south. Cranwell's lots went to his brother, Richard C. of Woodbridge, in the county of Suffolk, who in 1642 made his brother-in-law, Thomas Marrett of Cambridge, his attorney. Marrett sold, in 1652, to Margery, widow of the first Jacob Eliot. In fact Dea. Eliot had bargained for the lot before he died, and left it by will to his daughter Hannah, who married Theophilus Frary .- W. H. W.]
C. 12. Ralph Roote. [House and garden, with J. Cranwell east, J. Cranwell and R. Croychley south, W. Salter west, and the street north. This lot was sold in March, 1659-60, to James Balston .- W.H.W.]
C. 13. William Salter. [House and garden, with R. Roote east, the street north, J. Eliot and R. Croychley south, the Com- mon west. This was the end lot, on the south side of Boylston street. In 1689, at a division of Salter's land, this lot was as- signed to his son Jabez, when it bounded north and west on the highway to Fox Hill, south on J. Eliot, east on the marsh in the oceupation of the heirs of John Leverett. I suspect that there had been an encroachment by the sea between Salter's land and Roote's lot, as this marsh on the east seems new. Frog Lane " turned southerly to the sea," in 1708, according to the list of streets ; and we know the " Round Marsh " was the old terminus of the road .- W.H.W.]
C. 14. William Salter. [His lot No. 2, being an acre in Mr. Colborne's field, with the Common north, the Bay west, J. Eliot south and east. This lot was sold in 1678 by Mary, widow of William Salter, to John Leverett .- W.H.W.]
C. 15. Richard Croyehley. [His lot No.2, being two aeres in Mr. Colborne's field, with J. Eliot east and west, R. Parker south, W. Salter north. This lot he held in right of his step-children, he having married Aliee, widow of William Dinely. This lot of 2} aeres seems to have been sold in 1669 by Father-gone Dinely to Jacob Eliot, when the south bound was on lands of John Leverett, who seems to have the Parker lot. Perhaps Dinely exchanged with Eliot, for in 1675 D. sold to Leverett 23 aeres " lately bought of J. Eliot," with Colborne's heirs south, Eliot north and east, the sea west. All of these Leverett lots seem to have passed to Elisha Cook, son-in-law of J. Leverctt .- W.H.W.]
C. 16. Richard Parker. [Lot not in the Book, but mentioned in the bounds of C. 15. Undoubtedly it passed to Eliot or Leverett. -W.H.W.]
C. 17. Mr. Roe. {Lot mentioned as cast of Cranwell's lot, C. 11, but not otherwise mentioned.
20th, 4 mo., 1646, land at Mount Wallaston was laid out for Owen Roe (or Rowe) of London, " having a house and town's lott among us and certain eattell." He never came licre, and doubtless this lot passed to some resident. - W.H.W.]
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C. 18. William Colborn. [His field not laid down in the Book, though cited in C. 15. Croychley's lot was the great end grant. By a decision of our Supreme Court, in 1840 (Sparhawk vs. Bullard. 1 Met., 95). it was fixed that Colborn's south line was the north side of Castle street. If, as I suppose, John Cornish was an heir of Colborn, then the Dinely lots were the north bound of the Colborn field. The subsequent history of this land is connected with that of the Eliot property, in the hands of Eliots, Frarys, Lillies. Belchers, and others. - W.H.W.]
Winsor writes. " Here, upon what was later known as Hollis street, upon land given by Governor Belcher, who lived in the neighborhood. a small wooden meeting-house was built in 1732, in which Mather Byles was the first minister. This building stood upon the present site of the church till 1787. Byles lived in a house whose site is partly covered by Tremont street, opposite where Shawmut avenue enters it. Belcher lived on the easterly side of the main street, on the lot between the present Harvard and Bennett streets. (Drake's Boston, 585.) Belcher's mansion was bought in 1765 by Thomas Amory, the loyalist. For the grants south of Castle street see Gleaner Articles, No. 13."
C. 19. [Not located on map. This is William Davies, Sr.'s, lot No. 3, thus described : "One acre bounded with Jacob Eliot east and south, Mr. Colbourne west, and the sea on the north. This lies in Mr. Colborne's field." (Book of Possessions, p. 57.) This description is very bewildering, for there is no part of Colborne's field where the sea is north. Possibly it means some lot on the east side of Washington street, but it must be studied up care- fully. - W.H. W.]
C. 20. Lots not located. [It seems that 27th, 7 mo., 1641, " there is a house-lott graunted to John Search neare unto the house-lott of Robert Walker." Again, 29th, 7 mo., 1645, " there is graunted unto Arthur Clarke a howse-lot next unto the house-lot of John Search. to be layd out by Wm. Colbron and Jacob Eliot." In the Book of Possessions, p. 95, William Blaintain's lot No. 2 is " a house-lott, bounded with John Serch west, William Brisco east, the street south, and the Common north." But on the 30th, 1 mo., 1646, " William Brisco, Tho. Buttolfe, [Jacob] Leager, William Blanton, John Search, Robert Woodward, that hathi hows lots unbuilt on them, shalbe warned to the next townse mettinge." As Cotton Flack. 29th, 4 mo., 1640, had a house lot granted him in the way from Mr. Coleborne's house to the sea, next to Goodman Briscoe's. which he held afterwards, and as Blaintain's grant would have been this very lot, and Serch was west of that, and Clark next to Serch, it seems extremely probable that these tliree grants were " unbuilt on," because Mr. Flack protested. We may safely assume that they came to nought. - W.H.W.]
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The outline given herein is that of the Common, and of the part which was probably never granted. As already shown by Map C, there was a row of house-lots on the north side of Boylston street, which the town long afterwards bought back. It would be useless to try to fix the extreme north boundaries of these, as they have again been merged in Boston Common.
The island herein shown is Fox Hill, a small eminence long since dug down. but which was probably near the site of the pres- ent pond in the Public Garden. The lower part of the Common was a marsh, and this hill must have been quite small in size. It was, however, sometimes utilized. In 1640 Leonard Buttall was allowed to burn lime there, and in 1641 to have a second kiln, " provided that he shall have no propriety of land by virtue thereof." In 1649 Thomas Painter was allowed to set up a mill there at forty shillings rent.
3d, 2 mo., 1652. " Ensign James Oliver and Sargent Peter Oliver are granted liberty for to set up a wind mill on the top of the hill between the town and the hill called Fox Hill ; which said mill they are to fence in from harm and damage unto any cattle, and to pay unto the treasurer of the town the sum of 12d. per year to be paid yearly on the forfeit of 5s. for every quarter of a year which it shall not be paid into the treasurer, it being demanded in due season, the time to begin the first day that the said mill shall grind, and to continue to be paid unto the town so long as the mill shall there stand.
" Also, - the chief military commander of this town, and also the chief commander of the regiment hath power at any time of their military exercise whether of the town or regiment for to cause the mill to stand still, - within the grant of this liberty to set up this mill, is reserved as a condition to be performed by the owners for employers of the said mill."
Feb. 26. 1665. the selectmen made a lease to Gov. John Leverett of a parcel of land lying and being in Boston aforesaid, called or known by the name of Fox Hill, with all the marsh about the same as far as the salt water flows, bounded with the Highway south, with the Town's Commons east and north, and with the Beach and Sea west. It was to be for a term of forty years, at an annual rent of thirty shillings, with liberty reserved for the inhabitants to fetch sand or clay from the hill.
Fox Hill continued to figure on our maps to the beginning of the present century, sometimes marked as a promontory, but once at least as an island.
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E. I. John Cogan, 3 acre. Cogan's executrix sold to Joshua Scottow, 1659, and he to Colonel Samuel Shrimpton, in 1670, and he in turn to John Oxenbridge, in 1671, who left it to his daughter, wife of Richard Scott, and they conveyed it to her sis- ter's husband, Peter Thacher, in 1706. It then passed, in 1707, to Samuel Myles ; in 1728, to George Cradock, and, in 1733, to John Jeffries (son of the emigrant David Jeffries), from whom it passed to Samuel Eliot. (Gleaner Articles, No. 33.)
[It was his lot No. 2, about half an acre, with Mr. Bellingham north, Mr. Wilson south, the burying-place east, and the New Field west. - W.H.W.]
E. 2. Rev. John Wilson's garden-plot, divided by the street, when laid out in 1640; and the portion north of the street, in 1658, belonged to Elder James Penn, of the First Church, who devised the estate to his kinsman, Colonel Penn Townsend, whose executor, in 1750, sold it to Samuel Sturgis, and thence the title passed through John Erving, Gilbert Deblois, Nathaniel Coffin, and John Amory, to Samuel Eliot, and became his mansion estate. (Gleaner Articles, No. 33.)
[James Brown, Book, p. 41, has a half acre in the new field, with Mr. Wilson's garden north-east, A. Messenger north-west, the Common south. - W. H. W.]
E. 3. James Pen. [I cannot find that this lot was mentioned in the Book of Possessions. It was the hill-side, with the summit rising high above it, and was undoubtedly considered valueless at this date. The changes made by cutting down the hill and open- ing streets make it almost impossible to fix any lines on a map. Bowditch gives all the information attainable, and even he has to generalize. I cannot agree with Winsor (see his Map F, Nos. 15 and 16), that William Kirkby or Richard Sanford owned here. Penn owned here as early as 1658, says Bowditch, having the cor- ner lot (the "Albion"), in all 70 feet, on Tremont street ; he probably acquired of Coggan or Wilson. - W.H. W.]
E. 4. Robert Turner. [This great tract, made up of purchases and possible grants, is not in the Book. Gleaner Art. 36 shows that in 1665 Turner bought 13 acres of land of William Pell, hav- ing Turner east and south ; Bowditch thinks that Turner had some eight acres, including all the front land on Beacon street from Penn's lot, or Somerset street, to the State House. The east bound was five feet west of Somerset street. Turner's son-in-law, John Fayerweather, died in 1712, owning 124 feet on Beacon street, at the east portion of the Turner lot, reaching to Freeman place.
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IIe liad sold the west part, 135 feet on Beacon street, to Pollard, whence derived James Bowdoin. Other heirs of Turner inherited other parts. - W.H. W.]
E. 5. Thomas Millard. [His lot No. 2, with the Common south, N. Eaton north, T. Scottow east, R. Truesdale west. This calls for a lot for Scottow, east, possibly sold to Turner before this date ; part of his front line which Turner owned in 1655. Joshua Scottow also has lot No. 2, two acres in the new field, possibly hereabouts. - W. H. W.]
E. 6. Richard Truesdale. [His lot No. 2, three-quarters of an aere, with the Common south, N. Eaton north, T. Millard east, Z. Bosworth west. - W.H.W.]
E. 7. [An unrecorded lot of Nathaniel Eaton, north of E. 5 and E. 6, -i. e., as I take it, up the hill towards or beyond Mt. Vernon street. - W.II. W. ]
E. 8. Zaeeheus Bosworth. [His lot No. 2, being two aeres in the New Field, with the Common south, W. Wilson and J. Rug- gles north, R. Truesdale east, J. Parker west. - W.H.W.]
E. g. Jane Parker. [Her lot No. 2, with Thomas Millard east, Z. Bosworth, W. Beamsley, and R. Sherman north-west, Sel- liek Chappel, Leyer and Pepys southerly. - W. H. W.]
E. 10. These seem to have been granted, 1637-38, to William Hudson, Jr., Nathaniel Chappell, and Oliver Mellows. Later, Chappell was bounded on either hand by David Sellick and Jacob Leger, when Leger's lot is ealled about an aere. Francis East acquired this, and perhaps the other lots later still.
[Thus far I substantially agree with Lamb, exeept that he puts Franeis East here at the date of the Book, when, in reality, he seems to be of later date. See Gleaner Article, No. 66. - W. H. W.]
E. II. Richard Pepys. [Not entered in the Book, but cited in E. 9. - W.H.W.] It was William Blackstone's reservation of six aeres when he sold his rights to the town, in 1634. The orig- inal release of Blackstone to the town was in 1734, in the Town Clerk's office, but is not now to be found. The signatures of Blackstone in the Memorial History, Vol. 2, are from the records of the university at Cambridge, England, and I owe the traeings to the kind attention of the Rev. George Phear of Emmanuel Col- lege. They respectively represent his writing at the dates of his taking his bachelor's and master's degrees. His orehard is indi- eated on Bonner's map as an enclosure with trees, just east of the present Louisburg square. The limits of the lot are defined in Bow- diteh's Gleaner Articles, No. 1, quoted in Sewall Papers, i., 74. It extended on Beaeon street, from Spruee street, " the north-east eorner of Mr. William Blackstone's payles " (Town Records, Mareh, 1637-38), to the water, then flowing above Charles street. (See diagram in Mr. Adams's chapter in Mem. Hist., Vol. 1.) Richard Pepys bought it, and built a house on it, which William Pollard oeeupied for nearly fourteen years, during which time Blackstone " frequently resorted to it" on his visits from Rhode Island, as Anne Pollard deposed in 1711. (Sewall Papers, i., 73.) Pepys sold it, in 1655, to Nathaniel Williams, and Williams's widow marrying Peter Braeket, the latter conveyed it to Williams's
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children. The original house appears to have been standing, as Mr. Hassam points out to me, in 1662, when the inventory of the estate of Nathaniel Williams, led that year, shows this item : " It. the House and land yt was m' Blackston's. [£]150: 00: 00." In 1708-9 the orchard and pasture were sold to Thomas Bannister, and it appears as "Bannister's Gardens" on Burgiss's map of 1728. "Gleaner" traced this descent of the lot in 1828, and printed the story in the Boston Courier, and repeated it in the Transcript in 1855. (See also Gleaner Articles, No. 50.) The lot was later a part of the possession of John Singleton Copley, the painter, and from him passed to the Mount Vernon proprietors.
LOTS No. 12 TO 22, INSIDE THOSE BOUNDED BY BEACON STREET.
E. 12. Thomas Millard. [His lot No. 3, of one acre, in the New Field, with Jane Parker west, William Wilson east, Z. Bos- worth, John Ruggles, and E. Dennis north, south bound blank. - W.H. W.]
E. 13. William Wilson. [Two and a half acres in the New Field. with R. Parker east, J. Ruggles west, Z. Bosworth south, W. Hudson, Sr., north. - W.H.W.]
E. 14. Richard Parker. [Lot unrecorded. - W.H.W.]
E. 15. John Ruggles. [Lot unrecorded, but mentioned in other bounds. - W.H. W.]
E. 16. Edmund Dennis. [His lot No. 2, half an acre in the New Field, with J. Ruggles east, Z. Bosworth west, T. Millard south, T. Clarke north. - W.H.W. ]
E. 17. Zaccheus Bosworth. [Probably his lot No. 3, of an acre and a half, in the New Field, with T. Millard south, James Johnson north, E. Dennis east, and R. Sherman west. - W.H. W. ] E. 18. Richard Sherman. [Lot unrecorded, but see Bos- worth's west bound in last paragraph. - W.H.W. ]
E. 19. William Beamsley. [Lot unrecorded, but cited in Jane Parker's bounds, E. 9. - W.H.W.]
E. 20. Robert Wing. [His lot No. 2, half an acre, with the River west, Mr. Pepys south, J. Everill and - east. - W. H. W.]
E. 21. Francis Lyle. [His lot No. 2, of half an acre, in the New Field, no bounds given. - W. H. W.]
E. 22. James Johnson. [His lot No. 3, of an acre, in the New Field, with Z. Bosworth south, J. Biggs north, F. Lyle west, and T. Clarke east. - W.H. W.]
LOTS TOUCHING CAMBRIDGE STREET.
E. a. John Biggs. [His lot of marsh was on both sides of Cambridge street, - see G. 47. Gleaner, Article 18, seems to think that Biggs acquired some upland also. - W.H.W.]
E. 23. Thomas Clarke. [Lot unrecorded, but cited in E. 22 and E. 24. - W.H.W.]
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E. 24. Thomas Buttolph. [His lot No. 8, bought of W. Hud- son, Sr., 16th, 4 mo., 1646, of five aeres in the New Field, with J. Jolinson west, R. Cooke cast, W. Wilson south, and - Davis, the apothecary, north. Note that this is also recorded in the Book, p. 57, withi T. Clarke west. Johnson seems to have bought the west part of Clarke's lot. In Gleaner's article No. 20 it is shown that J. Johnson, having bought Lyle's lot also, sold, in 1649, to Buttolph, 33 acres in Centry field, thus making Buttolph's lot 8} aeres. Thus enlarged, the Buttolph lot reached from Cambridge street about 625 feet, to Myrtle street, and from Buttolph street on the west to Hancock street on the east. - W.H.W.]
E. 25. Richard Cooke. [His lot No. 3, being in the New Field a certain parcel with William Hudson, Sr. west (i.e., But- tolph's), and Valentine Hill west. - W.H.W.]
E. b. Valentine Hill. [This is better shown as H. 16, and thus completes the grantees when the Book of Possessions was prepared. - W.H.W.]
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LOTS 1 TO 3, EAST SIDE OF SCHOOL AND MILK STREETS.
F. A. John Cogan. His lot is described in Map E. It is the Albion building. corner of Tremont and Beacon streets.
F. B. The burying-ground. out of which, in Andros' time, was taken the lot for the King's Chapel.
F. I. Thomas Scottow, house and garden. His will is in N. E. Hist. and Geneal. Reg., Oct., 1856, p. 362. He sold to the town. in 1645, the present City Hall lot. The town built a school- house upon it. and Mr. Woodmansy, the teacher, lived in the old house. Woodmansy bequeathed his " little estate," in 1677, to his wife Margaret, and his daughters Martha and Bethia. His will is in N. E. Hist. and Geneal. Reg .. Jan., 1862, p. 55. In 1666 Daniel Henchman was employed to assist Woodmansy. Benjamin Tompson succeeded Woodmansy in 1667, acting with Henchman. Jan. 3, 1671, the celebrated Ezekiel Cheever took the school, and kept it until 1703. An account of Cheever. by Mr. Hassam, in N. E. Hist. and Geneal. Reg., 1879, p. 175, gives various particu- lars about the school-house while it was in charge of this master. Cheever was succeeded by Nathaniel Williams. Thomas Prince preached Williams' funeral sermon. which was printed in N. E. Hist. and Geneal. Reg .. Oct .. 1854, p. 368. Williams died in 1738. and was followed by John Lovell.
Between the teacher's house and the school-house Richard Cooke was permitted, in 1652, to build, paying a ground rent, which went for the school-master's salary. In 1703 a new school- house was built on the spot. The ground now in front of the City Hall was sold by the town later, and again repurchased. Just below this there stood, in the provincial times, the dwelling of Jean Paul Mascarene, a Huguenot, who went to Nova Scotia in 1711. became Governor there ; but died in Boston, in 1760. A little further down the street was the "Cromwell's Head Tavern," a somewhat famous resort in the provincial period ; and here Washington lodged when he came to Boston, in 1756. Just above this inn lived the merchant and wit, Joseph Green.
F. c. Richard Hutchinson. The corner of his lot on School street shows here, and is fully described as G. 62.
F. 2. Governor Winthrop's. His house stood nearly opposite the foot of School street. His " green " is now occupied by the Old South Church. Before his death he deeded the property to his son Stephen, reserving right of occupancy of one-half for his own and his wife's life. The property came into the possession of John Norton, the minister of the First Church, whose will is given in N. E. Hist. and Geneal. Reg., October, 1857, p. 342 ; and his widow gave it to the Third Church, and upon it their first edifice
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was built, in 1670, -a wooden structure, which gave place, in 1729, to the present building.
F. 3. Atherton Hough, house. This is the point at which James Boutincau, who married a sister of Peter Faneuil, in the provincial period, had his mansion. [This is his lot No. 2, street south, Common west, Mr. Hibbins cast, R. Sherman north. - W. H.W.]
LOTS 4 TO 13, SOUTH-WEST SIDE OF MILK STREET, FROM WASHINGTON STREET DOWN THE HILL.
F. 4. Robert Reynolds, shoemaker, house and garden. His will, 1658, is in N. E. Hist. and Geneal. Reg., April, 1855, p. 137 ; gives his house and orchard, after his wife's decease, to his son Nathaniel, who removed to Bristol, R.I. A family distinguished in the medieal profession represents the blood in Boston to-day. [He had the High street west, and the Fort street north. - W.H.W. ]
F. 5. John Stevenson, house and garden. His widow married William Blaekstone, and the lot passed, in 1646, to Abraham Page ; and then, same year, to John Hansett, of Roxbury ; but the spot got its chief glory sixty years later, when Benjamin Franklin was born here.
F. 6. Nathaniel Bishop, house and garden. A lane was laid out (Oet. 15, 1645 ; March 23, 1646) west of this lot, running through to Summer street, nearly the present Hawley street, and known early as Bishop's alley.
[He had a deep lot, having J. Stevenson, R. Waite, and E. Fleteher west. W. Hudson, Sr., was on his south. - W. H. W.]
F. 7. Nicholas Parker. [House and garden, with the street north, R. Scott south, N. Bishop west, James Penn east. - W. H. W. ]
F. 8. James Penn. [House and garden, with the street north, R. Parker west, J. Kenriek east ; no south bound; but Robert Seott and Thomas Oliver were on his south, as their lots (F. 37, and F. 36) show. - W.H.W.]
F. g. John Kendrick. [House and garden, with the street north, J. Penn west, W. Dinsdale east; no south bound ; but elearly it was T. Oliver's garden. See his lot F. 36. - W. H. W.]
F. 10. William Dinsdale. [House and garden, with the street north, R. Seott south, J. Leverett west, R. Riee east. This west bound is not explained. - W.H. W. ]
F. II. Robert Riee. [House and garden, with the street north, Capt. Keayne south, W. Dinsdale west, W. Pell east. - W. H. W. ]
F. 12. William Pell. [House and garden, with the street north, Capt Keayne south, R. Riee west, and J. Spoore east. - W.H. W. ]
F. 13. John Spoore. [His lot No. 2, of an aere and a half, with the street north, R. Turner south, R. Fairbanks east, Capt. R. Keayne and W. Pell west. See also G. 74, which probably joined this on the north. - W.H.W.]
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LOTS 14 TO 18, AROUND FORT HILL AND THE SHORE, NORTH TO SUMMER STREET.
F. 14. Richard Fairbanks. [His lot No. 4, on the Fort field, with J. Spoore west, Mr. Hibbens north-east, R. Turner south- west, R. Gridley south-east. (Mr. Hibbens' lot is shown in G. 75.) The street (Fort street, now Milk street) ran through Spoore's two lots, and seems to have ended against Fairbanks or the Creek. - W.H.W.] Richard Fairbanks' pasture, 5 a. It was this past- ure, east of the present Pearl street, that Theodore Atkinson, not long after 1700, sold to Edward Gray, who built ropewalks on it in 1712. They are seen in Bonner's map in 1722. In 1732 a lane running parallel to the building was called Hutchinson street, changed in 1800 to Pearl. A son, John Gray, succeeded to the business. Gleaner Articles, No. 16, traces the history of these ropewalk lots.
F. 15. Richard Gridley. [Another lot, with R. Turner north- west, J. Harrison south-west, the Bay south-east, and the Fort north-east. - W.H.W.] Richard Gridley's pasture. It was in this pasture, which, in Bonner's map, is intersected by Gibbs's lane, with Gibbs's wharf on the shore just north of it, that Colonel Robert Gibbs built his famous house, which surprised the colonial town by its costliness. His wife Elizabeth survived him.
F. 16. William Davies, Sr. His lot No. 2, of a house and three quarters of an acre, with the water south-east, R. Gridley south-west, north-west and north-east. - W. H. W. ?
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