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F. 17. John Harrison. house. He established on this lot the first rope-walk, about 1641. (Gleaner Articles, No. 16.)
F. 18. Richard Gridley, captain of militia, house and land. It was on this ground, after Purchase street, then called Belcher's Lane, was laid out, that Captain Samuel Adams, the father of the patriot. lived ; and here, in 1722, the latter was born, in a fine, commanding house overlooking the harbor. Adjoining was his malt-house and other buildings. Adams, the father, had bought the lot in 1712, and a wharf on the water-front was long known by his name. East of this, on a line of the present Gridley street, Captain John Bonner lived.
LOTS 19 TO 22, BOUNDED BY SUMMER AND SOUTH STREETS AND THE SOUTH COVE.
F. 19. Nicholas Baxter. [House and lot, with the street or lane north and west, E. Brown and the Bay east, M. Irons south. - W.H.W.]
F. 20. Edward Brown. [House and garden, with N. Baxter north and west, the Bay east, M. Irons south. - W.H.W.]
F. 21. Matthew Iyons or Irons. [House and lot, with the lane west, the Bay east. N. Baxter and E. Brown north, W. Leatherland south. - W.H.W.]
F. 22. William Leatherland. [House and lot, with the lane west, the Bay east, M. Irons north, and A. Porter and the Cove
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south. The lanc which was the west bound of these three lots, F. 19, 21 and 22, is South street. Abel Porter is not in the Book ; but Winsor seems to give him the extreme end, or Windmill Point. - W.H.W.]
LOTS 23 TO 28, SOUTH SIDE OF SUMMER STREET, WEST OF SOUTH STREET.
F. 23. William Teft. [House and lot, with the Cove south, the lane cast, the Mill street north, T. Munt and (Anne) Tuttle west. - W.H.W.] William Teft was enjoined, in 1644, not to "plant it with Indian corn, nor anything that may hinder the wind-mill." The records show that William Teffe, tailor, agreed to buy Jacob Wilson's house and ground in 1638; and that in 1639-40 he bought a house and & acre of Edward Gibbons, which the latter had bought of William Mauer, and he of William Hudson, Sr., in 1639.
F. 24. Thomas Munt. [House and lot, with W. Teft east and north, the Cove southi, J. Negoos west. - W.H.W.] Thomas Munt had permission in 1635 to fence in a piece of marsh before his house for the making of brick. (See N. E. Hist. and Geneal. Reg., April, 1862, p. 162.)
F. 25. Jonathan Negoos. [House and lot, with the Cove south, W. Teft north, T. Munt east, T. Foster west. - W.H. W.]
F. 26. Thomas Foster. [House and lot, with the Cove south, Mrs. Tuttle north, J. Negoos east, and R. Woodhouse west.
F. 27. Richard Tuttle, and afterward his widow, had a wind- mill here, near the present Church-Green estate. In 1642 per- mission was given to remove the wind-mill into the fort; but the lot had a wind-mill on it when it subsequently passed to Edward Holyoke, Richard Woodward, and then to William Aspinwall. It was often spoken of as the " South Wind-mill." After that portion of Bedford street (called Blind lane) which connects with Summer street was cut through, the lot formed by the junction seems to have come into the possession of the town, by which it was granted, in 1715, to a new society, which became the New South Church. The edifice then built stood through the Provincial period, and was replaced in 1814 by the structure which the present generation remember as upon the spot before 1868. It is not explained why the site was called " Church Green" before it was contemplated to use it for church purposes. (Sewall Papers, iii., 61.)
LOTS 28 TO 40, NORTH SIDE OF SUMMER STREET FROM HIGH STREET TO HAWLEY STREET, INCLUDING INTERIOR LOTS TOWARD MILK STREET.
F. 28. Benjamin Gillam. [House and lot, with W. Deming west and north, R. Turner's pasture east, and the lanc south-east. This was the north corner of Summer and High streets. - W.H. W.] Gillam's inventory, in 1670, speaks of his estate on the shore as comprising a dwelling-house, shed, and wash-house, valued at
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£360. It includes also part of a ship on the stocks, £398, - probably building at this point. (See his family connections in N. E. Hist. and Geneal. Reg., July, 1865, p. 254.) The present High street is called in 1642 the highway, already begun from widow Tuthill's windmill to the Fort, twenty foot broad.
F. 29. Robert Turner's pasture ; sold six acres in 1652 to Richard Fairbanks. Long Lane (Federal Street) was later cut through the westerly part of this lot, and upon it the meeting-house was built in 1744, in which Channing subsequently ministered.
F. 30. William Deming. [House and lot, with the lane south- east, B. Gillam east, M. Engles west, and Capt. Keayne north. - W.H.W.]
F. 31. Captain Robert Keayne, garden. This lot fell to Keavne's grand-daughter Anne and her husband, Captain Nicholas Paige. and from them passed to Daniel Johonnot in 1719, then bounding east, on Long Lane, while on its easterly bounds stood Mr. Johonnot's distillery and store-houses. In 1793 it was sold to the trustees of the Boston Theatre ; and on one part of it, separated from the theatre lot by Franklin street, the Catholics, in 1803, erected their first church. (N. E. Hist. and Geneal. Reg., Oct. 1852. p. 358.)
[This great lot is his lot No. 2, called a garden, with John Spoore east, W. Pell and R. Rice north, no other bounds. - W.H.W.]
F. 32. Robert Scott. [Apparently his lot No. 2, with Capt. Robert Keayne east, T. Oliver west, John Webb north, though this last is not clear. - W. H.W. ]
F. 33. Maudit Engles. [House and lot, with the Mill street south, Mr. Scott north, W. Deming east, and B. Negoos west. - W.H. W.]
F. 34. Benjamin Negoos. [House and lot, with Mill street south. Mr. Oliver north, M. Engles east, G. Waite. west. - W. H.W.]
F. 35. Gamaliel Waite. [House and lot, with the Mill street south, T. Oliver north, B. Negoos east, J. Palmer west. - W.H. W.]
F. 36. Thomas Oliver. [His lot No. 3, a garden, with Robert Scott east and west, J. Penn and J. Kenrick north, no south bound, but Negoos and Waite were south by their lines. - W.H.W.]
F. 37. Robert Scott. [His lot No. 4, a garden, with W. Hud- son, Sr., west, N. Parker and J. Penn north, Jacob Leager east, and Edward Bates south. These last two bounds are hard to explain. - W.H. W.]
F. 38. John Palmer, Sr. [House and garden, with the Mill street south, G. Waite east, R. Scott and Wm. Hudson, Jr., north, A. Richardson west. - W.H.W.] Not far from this spot stood, in the provincial days, the elegant mansion of the younger Sir William Pepperrell, which was sold under the confiscation act in 1779. (Sabine, American Loyalists, ii, 170.)
F. 39. Amos Richardson. [House and garden, with the street south, J. Palmer, Sr., east, W. Hudson and R. Scott north, and J ..
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Palmer, Jr., J. Marshall and R. Ilogg west. - W.H.W.] James Stokes sold to George Bromer ; he, in 1642, to Amos Richardson, a tailor. Here, in the next century, after Bishop's Alley (the modern Hawley street) was run through, on the upper corner of it stood the old Seven Star Inn, giving its name for a while to the street ; and upon the same spot, in 1734, the first edifice of Trinity Church was erected, which stood till 1828. This land was bought for the church of William Speakman.
F. 40. William Hudson, Sr., garden. Sewall, in 1794, records the burial of a Quaker in what seems this lot, as the Quakers did not have till 1709 any cemetery of their own. At the time of the burial it was called Brightman's pasture and orchard. (Sewall Papers, ii., 112, and note.)
LOTS 41 TO 45, SOUTH SIDE OF SUMMER STREET, CONTINUED.
F. 41. George Griggs, house ; allowed to sell in 1638, " for his redeeming out of their debts," to Mr. Tuttill of Ipswich, and Mr. Tuttill of Charlestown. In his will, in 1655, he spoke of him- self as siek in body. It is printed in N. E. Hist. and Geneal. Reg., Oct., 1855, p. 343.
F. 42. William Blantaine. William Davies, lock and gun- smith ; granted 1638; sold to William Blantaine in 1646. The portion of this lot next the pond lot, belonged, early in the pro- vincial time, to Benjamin Church, the father of the Revolutionary traitor, who sold it, in 1742, to Robert Thompson ; and he, in 1764, to John Rowe, who built upon it a mansion, afterwards the residence of Judge Prescott, and which is portrayed in George Ticknor's Life of William H. Prescott. In 1845 it passed, by pur- chase, to the Church of the Saviour, and the freestone structure was built upon it, which has been taken carefully down, and recon- structed on Newbury street. (Shurtleff, Description of Boston, 409.)
[As Davies' lot when sold to Blantaine had Blantaine south, and Waite, F. 45, Hollich, F. 44, and Bell, F. 43, had Blantaine south, evidently he owned two lots, one perhaps including the pond. - W.H.W.]
F. 43. Thomas Bell, house and garden. He died 1655, and his son Thomas conveyed it to John Maryon in 1668.
F. 44. Richard Hollick, Hollidge, or Hollinghead, house and land. In 1680 Hollick and his wife Ann, in their old age, sold the lot (reserving the use of the house for their lives) to Henry Alline and Robert Sanderson, deacons of the First Church ; but not until 1808 did that church erect, on an inner part of this lot, their late meeting-house on Chauncy place. Gleaner said, in 1855, that this was probably the only lot in Boston held under a direct convey- ance from the first possessor.
F. 45. Gamaliel Waite, garden. This lot was the site of the fine old mansion of the provincial time, which Leonard Vassall built, now marked by the building of C. F. Hovey & Co. Mr. T. C. Amory (N. E. Hist. and Geneal. Reg., Jan., 1871, p. 38 ; see also Jan., 1863, p. 59) has traced the descent of the property,
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and described the mansion. For the Vassall family, see N. E. Hist. and Geneal. Reg., Jan., 1863, and Heraldic Journal, ii., 17. Vassall bought it in 1727 of Simeon Stoddard ; and after his death, in 1737. it passed by sale to Thomas Hubbard, who lived in the house till his death, in 1773. He had been Treasurer of Harvard College, and his portrait by Copley now hangs in Memorial Hall.
LOTS 46 AND 47, NEXT TO KINGSTON STREET EAST.
F. 46. Richard Woodhouse. [House and lot, with T. Foster east. J. Vyall west, G. Griggs north, and the Cove south, - W. H.W.]
F. 47. John Viall. vintner ; conveyed by him and his wife Mary. about 1644, to William Costin, carpenter ; he to Edward Cowell. " cordwinder"; and he and his wife Sarah in 1671, to Rev. James Allen, of the First Church, who was reputed to be " very rich," and, perhaps, having a speculative turn, he sold it the next year.
[The description is, house and garden of half an acre, with R. Woodhouse east, G. Griggs north, the marsh and Cove south, and the highway west. This highway was afterwards Short street, now Kingston street. - W.H.W.]
F. 48. The Pond, " the town's watering-place." This pond had become so much of a nuisance in the provincial days, that in 1739 the question of filling it up was mooted, and in 1753 the lot containing it was sold by the town to David Wheeler, then con- taining about one-ninth of an acre. He died in 1770, and his wife. who held it. died in 1773.
[Pond street became Bedford street in 1820. - W.H.W.]
LOTS 49 TO 63, ON THE EAST SIDE OF WASHINGTON STREET, FROM MILK STREET TO BEDFORD STREET.
F. 49. Edward Fletcher, house ; sold the northern part in 1646 to William Hailstone. a tailor. from Taunton ; he to Richard Lip- pincott, barber. It was seemingly on this lot that Daniel Johon- not, the Huguenot distiller, dwelt in his latter years. ( N. E. Hist. and Geneal. Reg., October, 1852, p. 359.)
F. 50. Richard Waite, tailor, house and garden. An account of him and his family is given in N. E. Hist. and Geneal. Reg., 1877, p. 422.
F. 51. Charity White. [House and small yard, with Francis East south and east, R. Waite north, the street west. - W.II.W.]
F. 52. Francis East. [House and garden, with the street east (error for west), Charity White and Richard Waite north, W. Hudson east, N. Eaton south. - W.H.W.]
F. 53. Nathaniel Eaton. [House and garden, with F. East north. W. Hudson, Sr., east, the street west, and R. Hogg south. - W. H.W. 7
F. 54. Richard Hogg. [House and garden, with A. Richard- son and W. Hudson east, N. Eaton north, the street west, and J.
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Marshall sonth. - W.H. W. ] Richard Hogg sold in 1645 to Jolin Lake, and he to Thomas Wiborne in 1648, whose will, 1656, is in N. E. Ilist. and Geneal. Reg., July, 1852, p. 289.
F. 55. John Marshall. [House and garden, with the street west, A. Richardson east, R. Hogg north, N. Woodward, Sr., south. - W.H.W.]
F. 56. Nathaniel Woodward, the elder. [House and garden, with the Mill lane south, the high street west, J. Marshall north, J. Palmer, Jr., east. This was, of course, the north-east corner of Summer and Washington streets. - W.H. W.]
F. 57. John Palmer, Jr. [House and yard, with the Mill street south, J. Marshall north, N. Woodward, Sr., west, and A. Riehard- son east. - W. H.W.]
F. 58. Elizabeth Purton, a widow as early as 1633, whose house, in 1651, seems to have been leased by Robert Morse to James Oliver. She made hier mark to her will, dated 1650, which is printed in the N. E. Hist. and Geneal. Reg., July, 1853, p. 233. On this site, in the next century, Thomas English lived in a sightly mansion-house. [Her lot is not in the Book, but is named, in the next lot, F. 59. - W.H.W.]
F. 59. Job Judkins. [House and garden, with the street west, Elizabeth Purton north, R. Hull south, and G. Waite east. - W. H. W.]
F. 60. Robert Hull, the blacksmith, house and garden. His will is in N. E. Hist. and Geneal. Reg., Oct., 1861, p. 322. It was at this point that the printing-office stood, in 1704, where the first Boston newspaper, the News-Letter, was printed. [It was here, apparently, that Samuel Sewall, who married John Hull's only ehild (grand-daughter of Robert), lived for many years, and wrote many pages of his diary. - W.H.W.]
F. 61. John Hurd, tailor, house and garden ; mortgaged to Governor Dudley for £23 in 1649. It was granted to Hurd by Jolın Leverett, in consideration of a garden granted Leverett, in the New Field. For Hurd's descendants, see N. E. Hist. and Geneal. Reg., April, 1865, p. 123.
F. 62. William Blantaine. [House and garden, with the street west, the watering-place west, J. Hurd north, and T. Wheeler south. - W . H.W.]
F. 63. Thomas Wheeler. [House and garden, with the High street west, the lane south, the watering-place east, and W. Blan- taine north. This was the north-east eorner of Bedford and Wash- ington streets. Wheeler's will, of 1654, is in N. E. Hist. and Geneal. Reg., July, 1851, p. 305. His descendants seemed to have remained here, and Wheeler's Pond is mentioned several times in Sewall's Diary. See ante, F. 48. - W.H.W.]
LOTS 64 TO 73, WEST SIDE OF WASHINGTON STREET, FROM SCHOOL STREET TO WEST STREET.
F. 64. Atherton Hough, house and garden. It was well up Sehool-street lot that the little Freneh church was built, about 1714. They had bought the lot of James Meers, hatter, ten years
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earlier. Next door to them, in 1747, Richard Cranch, card-maker, had his shop. - the father of Judge Cranch.
F. 65. Francis Lyle, house and garden. Walter Blackborne, had his lot, which Elizabeth (his widow?) sold, in 1641, to Francis Lyle. the barber. who united the service of a surgeon, after the fashion of his day, and in this capacity served later in the Parliamentary army in England. Henry Bridgham owned part of the lot, which lie sold, in 1648, to Richard Tapping and John Spoore.
F. 66. Thomas Millard, house and garden. After Millard's death this estate passed to Colonel Samuel Shrimpton, in 1672, who sold it. in 1676, to Peter Sergeant, who built upon the lot the famous house. later to be known as the .. Province House," when it was bought, in 1713, to be made the royal governor's official residence. The Indian, which was perched upon the top of the cupola, was the handiwork of Deacon Shem Drowne, the same who made the grasshopper vane of Faneuil Hall. The further history of the estate is traced in Shurtleff's Description of Boston, 596.
F. 67. Thomas Grubb. [House and garden, with T. Millard north. A. Perry west, the High street east, and W. Aspinwall south. - W.H.W.]
F. 68. William Aspinwall. [House and garden, with Richard and Thomas Grubb north, Richard Cooke and Ephraim Pope south, the High street east, the Common west. The blank after Richard is evidently Fairbanks. - W.H.W.] Winsor says that this lot was " about on the line of Bromfield street, Richard Fairbanks' garden ; later owned by William Davis the apothecary. Fairbanks. however, retained a lot in the rear of those on School street. William Aspinwall owned at one time from street to strcet, and he sold house, garden, orchard, and close, in 1652, to his son- in-law. John Angier. then making two acres. Another house and out-buildings he sold, in 1652, to Sampson Shoare; and he to Theodore Atkinson, who had formerly been a servant to John Newgate, the hatter. Atkinson sold to Edward Rawson, the Colonial Secretary. The street now known as Bromfield street was long called Rawson's lane. but became later known as Brom- field's lane, after a distinguished merchant of the provincial pe- riod. - Edward Bromfield, - who lived on the southerly side, about half-way up. where later the Bromfield House stood. (This site was afterwards occupied by the Indian Queen Tavern.) Mr. Brom- field had settled in Boston in 1675, and died in 1734. His family is traced in N. E. Hist. and Geneal. Reg., October, 1871, p. 330."
F. 69. Ephraim Pope. [House and garden, with the High street east, R. Cooke west, W. Aspinwall north, and E. Dennis south. - W. H. W.]
F. 70. Edmund Dennis. [House and garden, with E. Pope north, the street east, R. Cooke and D. Maud west, and E. Jacklin south. - W.H. W.]
F. 71. Edmund Jacklin, a glazier, house and garden ; sold, in 1646. to Nicholas Busbie, a worsted weaver. His will, 1657 (N. E. Hist. and Geneal. Reg., July, 1854, p. 279), mentions his new dwelling-house, with garden, which he gives to his wife, and
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after her to his son Abraham. He divided his books, - " phisicke bookes" to his son John, and " bookes of divinity or history " to Abraham.
F. 72. William Townsend. [House and garden, with the street east, D. Mand west, E. Jacklin north, and Jane Parker south. - W.H. W. ]
F. 73. Jane, widow of Richard Parker, house and garden ; and, intending to marry, she deeded it, in 1646, to her children, Margaret, John, Thomas, and Noah. [Her lot bounds with the street east and south ; it was therefore the north-west corner lot of Washington and Winter strects. - W.H.W.]
LOTS 74 TO 82, ALONG TREMONT STREET FROM WINTER STREET TO SCHOOL STREET, AND DOWN SCHOOL STREET TO THE CORNER LOT.
F. 74. Richard Sherman. Granted to Richard Sherman's wife in 1637, when Stephen Kinsley had a house-plot near by ; and Sher- man in 1647 sold a half acre to Francis Smith, who the same year deeded two acres, including land bought of Edmund Jacklin. This corner was later owned by Captain Edward Wyllys, and was bought of his heirs by Colonel Vetch in 1712, who in 1713-14 sold it to Captain Thomas Steel. (Sewall Papers, iii., 10.) It was later owned by Thomas Oxnard, the progenitor of the family of that name; and at his death, in 1754, it was valued at £1,200. (N. E. Hist. and Geneal. Reg., 1872, p. 4.) [It does not seem to be entered as Sherman's possession in the Book. - W.H.W.]
F. 75. Daniel Maud the school-master ; granted in 1637 ; sold to Edmund Jacklin in 1643. Here at a later day was the shop of the well-known London coach-maker, Major Adino Paddock, - the same who planted, about 1762, before the Granary burial-ground, the elms which not long since were cut down. The name of the burial-ground was derived from the public granary, which, in 1737, was built on the opposite side of the street where Park-street Church now stands. The keeper of this granary was for a long time Francis Willoughby. This part of Tremont street was called Long Acre in the provincial times. On a part of this lot, too, was built the manufacturing house which formed the east corner of what is now Hamilton place, and was erected by the Province to en- courage spinning and kindred occupations. It disappeared in 1806. [This lot does not appear in the Book. Lamb makes three lots of it, I know not why. - W.H.W.]
F. 76. Richard Cooke, garden ; sold to Edmund Jacklin, who, in 1647, sold to Francis Smith ; he to Amos Richardson the same year ; and later it was owned by Anthony Stoddard, the rich linen- draper.
F. 77. Richard Fairbanks. [Garden, bounded with W. Aspin- wall south and east, the Common west, Z. Bosworth, J. Synder- land, R. Cook, J. Lugg, and A. Perry cast. - W.H. W.]
F. 78. Zaccheus Bosworth, house and garden, with barns, cow-house, orchard ; sold in 1652 to Thomas Woodward.
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Bosworth's will, 1655, is in N. E. Hist. and Geneal. Reg., October, 1851, p. 443. On this lot there was erected, early in the next century. the brick house which became the residence of Jacob Wendell, a wealthy merchant and prominent citizen of his day.
F. 79. John Synderland. [House and garden, with Z. Bos- worth west. the street north, R. Fairbanks south, and R. Cooke east. - W.H.W. ]
F. 80. Richard Cooke, house and garden. Here also lived his son. Dr. Elisha Cooke, a citizen who figured largely in the Inter- Charter period. It was in this house that Governor Burnet lived while the Province House was making ready.
F. 81. John Lugg. [House and garden, with the street north, R. Fairbanks south. R. Cooke west, and A. Perry east .- W. H. W. ] F. 82. Arthur Perry. [House, yard and garden, with the street north. R. Fairbanks south, J. Lugg west, and Mr. Haugh, F. Loyall (or Lyle), T. Grubb. and T. Millard east. - W.H.W.]
LOTS 83 TO 93, IN THE SQUARE ENCLOSED BY WINTER, WASHINGTON, WEST, AND TREMONT STREETS.
F. 83. Robert Blott. [House and garden, with the street east and north, Mr. Flint south, J. Leverett west. - W. H. W.]
F. 84. Mr. - Flint. [House and garden, with R. Blott north. J. Leverett west, the street east, and A. Harker south. - W. H. W.]
F. 85. Anthony Harker. [House and garden, with the street east. J. Johnson west, Mr. Flint north and south. - W. H.W.] Cold to Isaac Vergoose in 1659.
F. 86. Mr. Flint. [His second lot, a house and garden, with the street east. G. Burden west, A. Harker north, and T. Clarke south. - W.H.W. ]
F. 87. Thomas Clarke. [House and garden, with the street east. G. Burden west, Mr. Flint north, and R. Mason south .- W.H. W.]
F. 88. Ralph Mason. [House and garden, with the street east, H. Webb west, T. Clarke north, R. Wing south. - W.H. W.] Ralph Mason. house and garden ; mortgaged to Matthew Cradock, of London, in 1638. for £17 ; sold to Thomas Painter. Painter had liberty to sell a house to Ephraim Hunt, in 1650. Mason made his mark to his will in 1672.
F. 89. Robert Wing. [House and garden, with the street east and south, R. Mason north, H. Webb west. - W.II. W.] Robert Wing, house, "both old and new built ;" sold in 1648 to Thomas Painter. He died in 1651. (See his will in N. E. Hist. and Geneal. Reg., January, 1850, p. 54.)
F. 90. Henry Webb. [His lot No. 3, a garden, with the lane south. G. Burden north, R. Wing and R. Mason east, the Cove west. This last is an evident error for the Common west. - W.H.W.]
F. 91. George Burden. [His lot No. 2, being a garden, near the Common, with H. Webb southi, the Common west, T. Clarke east. and J. Johnson north. - W. H. W.]
F. 92. James Johnson, garden. These lots, on the line of the present Mason street, were granted, in 1638, to James Johnson,
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John Davis, George Burden, and Nathaniel Chappell, and were then called " gardens on the back side of the lots in ye long street." They mark the sight of the mansion and grounds of James Swan of a later day, and, still later, the famous Washington Gardens of the early part of this century.
F. 93. John Leverett, who sold the south part in 1664 to one Wyard, and he, in 1666, to John Wampus, an Indian. (Gleaner Article No. 6.) [As I understand it, Lamb, on his map, has trans- posed these four lots, making them read from west to cast, - Lev- erett, Johnson, Burden, Webb, instead of Webb, Burden, Johnson, Leverett. Winsor agrees with ine. - W.II.W. ]
LOTS 94, 95, AND 96, ON THE WEST SIDE OF WASHINGTON STREET, FROM WEST STREET TO BOYLSTON STREET.
F. 94. William Chamberlain, house and garden. This lot Thomas Oliver sold, in 1645, to Nicholas Shapley. Oliver's will is in N. E. Hist. and Geneal. Reg., October, 1854, p. 351. This lot seems to have been sold, in 1647, by Francis Smith, to William Chamberlin, assigned by Chamberlin to Smith again 5th, 11 month, 1648 ; and was later sold to Richard Wilson. Opposite the rear of this lot, on the Common, now the line of Mason street, the town built, in 1717 (it is shown on Bonner's map), the South Writing School. It is described then as "adjoining to Cornell's lot, over against Mr. Wainwright's."
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