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F. 95. Richard Carter, honse and garden. William Hudson, Jr., sold to Richard Carter, a carpenter, in 1639. This lot nearly corresponds to the site of the Lamb Tavern, which stood here before the middle of the last century. Drake says that Colonel Doty was the host in 1760. Adjoining it on the north was the Lion Tavern. [In the Book it is bounded by Mr. Oliver north, he being the owner before Chamberlain, as noted in F. 94. -W.H. W. ]
F. 96. Jacob Leger. [House and garden, with the street east, the Common west, R. Carter north, Mr. Coleborne south. - W.H. W.]
F. d. [William Coleborne's lot was next south of Leger's, and was the corner of Boylston and Washington streets. It is de- seribed in Map C. - W.H. W.]
LOTS 97 TO 103, EAST SIDE OF WASHINGTON STREET, FROM BEDFORD STREET TO ESSEX STREET.
F. 97. Robert Woodward, house and garden ; granted in 1637. Papers relating to his estate are in N. E. Hist. and Geneal. Reg., January, 1859, p. 10. Bedford street was laid out in 1644. [His lot has the High street west, the lane north, J. Leger south, T. Buttolph east. - W. H. W.]
F. 98. Jacob Leger. [His lot No. 2, a house and garden, with the street west, R. Woodward north, T. Buttolph cast, and T. Fowle south. - W.H. W.]
F. 99. Thomas Fowle, honse and garden. He removed to Braintree. In 1650, house and orchard sold by John Cuddington
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to William Holloway. [He had Leger north, Sinet south, But- tolph east. - W.H.W.]
F. 100. Walter Sinet. [House and garden, with the street west. T. Buttolph and M. Reading east, J. Leger uorth, and J. Odlin southi. Possibly this should be T. Fowle north. - W.H.W.]
F. 101. John Odlin, house and garden, with the street west, M. Reading east, - Cole south, W. Sinet north. - W.H. W.] F. 102. Cole, house aud gardeu ; later owned by Johu Cuddington, John Bateman, and John Odliu, iu 1650.
F. 103. Griffith Bowen, house and gardeu. Herc, within the house-yard, stood the "Liberty Tree," which is said to have been planted in 1646, and became famous in the Stamp-Act times, and was cut down in spite by the Tories, in 1775.
F. 103 *. [This lot is not placed on the map by an oversight. On Lamb's map it is marked as held by Miles Reading, but a part of it belongs to Thomas Buttolph, as shown by lots F. 97, 98, 99, and 100. It was Buttolph's Lot No. 2, being an acre and a half, first laid out for garden lots, with the highway south, a common lot east. J. Leger, W. Sinet, aud the lane north, Mr. Fowle and R. Woodward west. As Miles Reading only occurs as an abuttor in F. 100 and 101, it is impossible to say how much he owned. But Buttolph should stand as the maiu owner here, his lot reach- ing to Bedford street. - W.H. W.]
LOTS 104 TO 108, ON THE SOUTH SIDE OF ESSEX STREET, FROM WASHINGTON STREET EASTERLY.
F. 104. Garrett Bourne. [House and garden, with the street west and north, the marsh south, E. Rainsford east. - W. H.W. ]
F. 105. Edward Rainsford. [House and garden, with the street north, the Cove south, G. Bourne west, D. Offley east. Rainsford's lane in 1708, from Essex street to Beach street, now part of Harrison avenue, was near this lot. - W.H. W.]
F. 106. David Offley. House and garden, with the street north, the Cove south, E. Rainsford west, the lane east. - W.H.W.]
F. 107. Owen Rowe. [House and garden, with the street north, the lane west, the Cove south, J. Peltou east. - W.H. W. ] F. 108. John Pelton. [House and lot, with the street north, the Cove south, O. Rowe west, the marsh east. - W.H. W. ]
F. 109. [The Marsh, between Kingston street and the end of Essex street. Even on Bonner's map of 1722, after Essex street had been cut through to Kingston street, there is only one line of houses on Essex street, with a great open space behind it, and "Coal's Garden" making up nearly all of the southerly side of Bedford street. Exeter street was projected, in 1805, across this lot, which street became Rowe place in 1825, Rowe strect in 1837, and Chauncy street (by absorption) in 1856. The later Rowc place. on the easterly side, ended in a vacant lot in the rear of Garcelon's stable and the Kingston-street houses. When built upon, a few years ago, it was said to be covered for the first time by buildings. - W.H.W.]
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LOTS EAST OF HANOVER STREET AND NORTH OF THE COVE AND MILL CREEK; NOS. 1 TO 10.
G. I. Sampson Shore. [House and garden, with M. Chaffie north-east. John Hill south-west, the street north-west, the Cove south-east. - W.H.W.7
G. 2. John Hill. [His second lot being a small lot of quarter of an acre. with S. Shore north-east, J. Milom south-west, the street north-west. the Cove south-east. - W.H. W.]
G. 3. David Sellick. [By Book of Possessions, it seems that 14th. 7 mo .. 1647. Sellick bought of Edward Wells a lot, with S. Shore north-east. J. Hill's garden north-west. J. Milom south-west, the Core south-east. It must be here, though not on Lamb's map. -W.H. W.]
G. 4. John Mylom. cooper, house and garden ; sold to John Phillips. biscuit-maker. in 1648. It was upon this lot that one of the oldest buildings in Boston, half way up Cross street, existed to our day. Phillips, who had come from Dorchester, became a deacon of the Second Church in 1650, added to his estate adjacent lands, and built the stone house ; which, when it was torn down in 1864. was considered the oldest building in Boston. It has been described by Mr. Bynner, in Vol. I. of Memorial History of Boston. Phillips died in 1682. Shurtleff, Description of Boston, p. 667, has traced its history to our day. Phillips, before he died, sold the part of his lot next the water-side to Captain Christopher Clarke.
G. 5. William Werdall. [House and garden, with J. Milom south-west (error, evidently for south-east), J. Hill north-east, the street north-west, the highway south-west. This south-west high- way was Cross street. but Milom's bound is on Valentine Hill ; an example of how little precision is shown in these descriptions. - W.H.W.] Winsor writes of this lane, as follows : - " This lane was laid out in 1636, from the water-side ' up the balke or meare that goes up from the end of John Mylom's house, next William Aspinwall's ground. and to goe along to the Mylne Cove, a rod and a halfe broade.' Mylom was allowed, in 1647, to wharf before the eastern end of it. At the beginning of the next century it was called Coney's Lane. Sewall Papers, ii., 211."
G. 6. Valentine Hill, according to Winsor, had five lots here, thus described : - " a. Valentine Hill. b. Valentine Hill ; sold to Barnabas Fawer, in 1646, who was to maintain a eart-way by the wharf before his door, and whose will, 1654, is in N. E. Hist. and Geneal. Reg., July, 1851, p. 305. c. Valentine Hill; sold to
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James Mattock in 1646, whose will, 1666, is in N. E. Hist. and Geneal. Reg., Oct., 1861, p. 325. David Phippeny had a house and lot in this neighborhood. See his will in N. E. Hist. and Geneal. Reg., July, 1853, p. 233. [Phippeny's lot (Book, p. 31) bounded south-west on W. Tyng, and Tyng's lot no. 2 bounds on Phippeny. - W.H. W.] d. Valentine IIill; sold to Arthur Perry. e. Valentine Hill; sold to Richard Straine, in 1648 ; then passed to Paul Allistre, with a wharf in front ; then to Robert Nanney, in 1650. His will, 1663, is printed in N. E. Hlist. and Geneal. Reg., April, 1858, p. 155. Near the bridge over the creek, Hill sold, in 1651, a lot to William Aubrey, 'for the use of the undertakers of the iron works in New England.' A lane which later passed through this lot and the present North Centre street was called Paddy's Lane, from Captain William Paddy, a citizen of prominence, who lived upon it, and died in 1658. His will is in N. E. Hist. and Geneal. Reg., Oct., 1854, p. 355 ; also see 1877, p. 321."
G. 7. John Oliver. [House and garden, of about half an acre, with V. Hill north-east and south-east, the street north-west, John Pierce and John Knight south-west. - W. H. W.]
G. 8. John Knight.
G. g. John Pierce. [No possessions recorded, but the exist- ence of the lots is necessitated by G. 7 and G. 10. - W.H.W.]
G. 10. Thomas Marshall. [House and garden of about half an aere, with the marsh south-east, John Peirce or John Knight north-east, the street north-west and south-west. Also 8th, 6 mo. 1648, Marshall bought of John Milom, land near the water-mill with Milom south-east, 30 feet, Marshall south-west 76 feet, the Mill Creek north-east, 74 feet, the highway north-west 44 feet. From all which it appears that Marshall owned both sides of the Mill creek and cove up to the highway ; but the exact boun- daries are hard to trace. - W.H.W.]
Winsor adds : "Joshua Scottow was allowed, in 1651, to wharf at the north-east end of the mill bridge. He had bought the marsh at that time of James Nash, of Weymouth, to whom John Mylom had sold it."
Winsor places the following lots in this square with Union street west, and the Mill creek through its centre : -
a. John Mylom; sold to Thomas Marshall, 1648. b. John
Mylom, h. ; sold in part in 1650 to Robert Nash, the butcher.
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John Mylom ; sold to Governor Leverett. d. Lewis Kidby, fish- erman, 1639 ; granted house lot on the marsh next to John Lowe. e. John Lowe, upland, surrounded by marsh ; called a wheelwright, when it was granted to him in 1636-37. f. Marsh held in com- monage, part of which was granted in 1646 to John Mylom, who sold it to James Hawkins in 1648.
Thomas Marshall offered to the town in 1652 a highway to shorten the way to the bridge (G. 11), but withdrew his offer. The present Marshall street, however, would indicate that the short cut was eventually established.
G II. The bridge, the draw of which was changed from one to two leaves in 1653, and the bridge was rebuilt in 1659. The
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repairs on it are a matter of constant entry in the town records. In 1650 it was ordered that the spare land about the bridge should be wharfed by the neighbors for the common landing of prop- erty.
[Here also the] " old way " begun, which in 1649 was laid out, a rod broad. from the south side of the water mill, along the shore to the Mill Hill.
LOTS 12 TO 17, WEST OF HANOVER STREET.
G. 12. Thomas Hawkins. [A quarter of an acre towards Charlestown. with James Johnson south-west (see H. 1), the Cove north-west. John Button north-east. and the street south-east. See Book. p. 41. - W.H. W. ]
G. 13. John Button. [Lamb places William Cox here, I know not why. This lot does not seem to be recorded in the Book. Perhaps it is a reminiscence of Buttolph's lot No. 5, where Cox means Copp. - W. H. W. ]
G. 14. John Davies, house and garden ; sold in 1645 to John Trotman, and his wife Katherine conveyed it same day to Thomas Hawkins, who at a later day kept here, on Hanover street, the Star Inn. (See Shurtleff. Description of Boston, p. 606.) He mortgaged the property to Governor Bradstreet in 1650. From Hawkins's house went " the old hie way over the little bridge [near 11] behind the watter mile to the ferry to Charlestown." One Watters obstructing this old way with a fence in 1652, he was ordered to remove it : but in 1650 Hawkins was allowed to fence in a part of it temporarily.
G. 15. Gabriel Fish. [House and yard, with John Davies south and west. V. Hill north, the street east. - W.H. W. ]
G. 16. Valentine Hill ; perhaps later John Kinrick's.
G. 17. This whole triangle is left without owners on Lamb's map. Winsor assigns as follows : -
a. Zaccheus Bosworth. 1. hereabout. Also probably in this neighborhood. but not easily placed, the houses and gardens of Bartholomew Cheever, John Arnold. John Jackson, and a lot of Robert Hull. the blacksmith. [But these last two certainly were in the New field, i.e. the hill-side along from Beacon to Cambridge streets. and are so marked by Winsor in his Map F. More study is required for lot 17. - W.H.W.]
b. John Ruggles, 1637. had house-plot and garden " near the new mylne." If the same who was afterwards of Roxbury, his will, 1657, is printed in N. E. Hist. and Geneal. Reg., Oct., 1858, p. 343. Just north of this point. with its rear upon the cove, the Baptists built their first meeting-house in 1679, which was replaced by a larger one still. of wood, in 1771. Still further round the cove. on the site of the present Baldwin Place, the Second Baptist Church built their house in 1746, - a small structure which con- tinued well into this century.
c. William Wilson, 2} a.
d. Richard Parker.
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LOTS 18 TO 21, THE WEST SIDE OF THE COVE, EAST OF UNION STREET.
G. 18. John Lowe. [House and garden, with the marsh north and east, the cove south, and Mr. Bellingham west. - W.II. W.]
G. 19. Richard Bellingham's marsh, including what came to him under an order, 1644, granting him such of the town's marsh as was undisposed of, " for the continuance of peace and love, in consideration of a quiet resignation of all claim unto the wast before his house." The Governor sold this marslı in equal parts to Joshua Seottow and Christopher Lawson. Shurtleff, Description of Boston, ch. Ivii., shows how in the southerly part of this marsh, near the corner of Merehants' Row and North Market street, stood for many years the well-known Triangular Warehouse.
G. 20. IIenry Symons, house ; sold to Christopher Lawson ; and by him in 1645 to David Sellick, with wharf and lane before it ; to Robert Nanney in 1646. This wharf was bought by John Shawe, the butcher. [Henry Symons, house and lot, with Mr. Bellingham north and east, John Hill west, the cove south. - W.H.W.]
G. 21. John Hill, house. Somewhere in this vicinity, in 1656, Thomas Savage built his new house, "between the drawbridge and the conduit." On the opposite side of the present North street from this lot, on an irregular piece of ground, partly reclaimed from the marsh, and a wooden building, which was consumed in the fire of 1679, to be followed next year by the rough -east structure, which, standing to our day, has been known as the "Old Feather-Store." Shurtleff, Description of Boston, p. 645, thinks the lot was originally a part of Symons's [lot], who dying in 1643, his widow Susannah married, about 1644, Isaac Walker, who conveyed it to their daughter Susannah, born 1646, who in 1668 married Mr. Thomas Stanbury, who built the old building, which was taken down in 1860. The subsequent history of the building is told by Shurtleff. [John Hill, house bounded with H. Symons east, Mr. Bellingham north, the street west, the Cove south. - W.H. W.]
LOTS 22 TO 27, BOUNDED BY UNION, ELM, AND HANOVER STREETS.
G. 22. James Everill, a shoemaker, house and large lot, em- braeing nearly the whole front on Hanover street, out of which he sold lots to various people. William Tyng acquired a part on Elm street ; and along Hanover street, passing north, were the lots of Franeis Dowse, Evan Thomas, a vintner (sold to James Bill), William Corser (sold to John Chamberlyn), Robert Porter, John Stevenson, and William Hayward. The corner lot on Hanover and Union streets passed to Henry Maudesley about 1653; and Shurtleff, Desc. of Boston, p. 628, has traced the title down, until it became the famous " Blue Ball," the home of Franklin's father. It is now eut off by the extension of Washington street.
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G. 23. Edmund Dennis. [Apparently his lot No. 3. A small parcel with James Everil east. the lane and street south-west and north-west. Winsor agrees in this location, but it is not on Lamb's map. - W.H. W.]
G. 24. John Button. [Three houses and a garden and yard, in all about an acre, with J. Everill north-west, the lane south-west, the Cove south-east. N. Willis north-east. - W.H. W.] Winsor writes. " There was in later years some controversy as to whether the land opposite this lot and the town docks was public property. See depositions in N. E. Hist. and Geneal. Reg., Jan., 1864. p. 68." Winsor. in Map B. puts these lots on the east side of the Mill Creek. instead of the east side of the lane, now Elm street. He also puts Willis and Painter with Hanover street west. Herein he differs from Lamb, whose localities agree better with the Book. - W.H.W.]
G. 25. Nicholas Willis. [House and garden, with J. Everill westerly. J. Button south-west, the street east, T. Painter north- erly. - W.H.W.]
G. 26. Thomas Painter. [House and garden, with N. Willis south-west. the street east, Geo. Barrell north. - W.H.W.]
G. 27. . George Barrell. [House and lot not half an acre, with J. Everill north, T. Painter south, N. Willis west, the street east. - W. H.W.]
LOTS 28 TO 52, BOUNDED BY ELM, WASHINGTON, COURT, AND HANOVER STREETS.
G. 28. Thomas Makepeace. This was perhaps the house John Underhill surrendered in 1639 to Thomas Makepeace of Dorches- ter. whose will, 1666, is in N. E. Hist. and Geneal. Reg., October, 1861, p. 323. It was on the north-east corner that a well- known Boston merchant, William Tailer, lived, -the same who committed suicide July 12, 1682. (N. E. Hist. and Geneal. Reg., vii., 56.) His wife was Rebecca, a daughter of Israel Stoughton of Dorchester, and it was with her in this house that Andros is sup- posed to have taken up his abode when he came to Boston in 1686. The son, William Tailer of Dorchester, became Lieut .- Governor, and rented this house to Edward Lyde, who in 1701-2 bought the property. (Sewall Papers, i., 163, 202; N. E. Hist. and Geneal. Reg., July, 1863, p. 239 ; July, 1864, p. 289.)
G. 29. Anne, widow of George Hunne. [House and garden with George - on the east and south, T. Makepeace west, the lane north. The .. George -" is evidently George Bates. - W.H. W. ]
G. 30. George Bates. [House and garden, T. Makepcace west, A. Hunne north, G. Burden east, W. Wilson south. - W.H.W.]
George Bates in the rear of Anne Hunne. The will of John Endicott (V. E. Ilist. and, Geneal. Reg., October, 1862, p. 333), leaving his property to his wife Elizabeth, daughter of Jeremy Houtchin (he had no children). mentions his house as " joyning to George Bates on the west."
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G. 31. George Burden.
G. 32. Francis Dowse.
G. 33. Jeremy Houchin. [Of these lots only one is recorded. Dowse has a house and yard, with the lane east, W. Tyng west, G. Burden north, J. Houchin south. See Tyng's lot, G. 40. - W.H. W. 7
G. 34. Sarah Knight. [House and garden, with J. Houchin north, the lane east, W. Tyng west, and S. Greamnes south. - W.H.W.]
G. 35. Samuel Greames. [House and yard, with Sarah Knight north-west, the lane north-east, W. Hudson, Jr., south-cast, Wm. Tyng south-west. - W. H. W. ]
G. 36. William Hudson, jr. [Evidently the corner of Hud- son's lane, now Elm street, as he has Greames and the lane north- east and the street south-east. - W.H.W.]
This was known as the "Castle Tavern," and Hudson and his wife Anne conveyed it in 1674 to John Wing, who in 1687 " set a room in his house for a man to show tricks in ; " and Sewall rceords, amusingly, how he went to labor with Wing and convince him of its sinfulness, ending his aecount : "Sung the 90th Ps. from the 12th v. to the end. Broke up." (Sewall Papers, i, 196.) In 1694 it is called the "George Tavern." Mr. John T. Hassam traees the subsequent history of this estate in N. E. Hist. and Geneal. Reg., 1879, p. 400.
G. 37. Jolin Glover, house. By will, 1653, he left half his house nearest Mr. Webb's to his wife, and half to his son Habakkuk, with half his tanyard adjacent ; also to this son half his house next Goodman Hudson's. Another son, John, who had graduated at Harvard in 1651, continued to live with the mother. Becoming a merehant, he moved to Swansea ; and, returning to Boston in 1690, lived and died (1696) on Summer street, and lies buried in the Granary Burying-ground. (Glover Memorials, p. 149 ; Sibley, Harvard Graduates, p. 297. )
G. 38. George Burden, a shoemaker, house. There was a wharf opposite his house in 1641, where he had permission to place a vessel at the head of it in which to water his leather. Burden's will is in N. E. Hist. and Geneal. Reg., July, 1854, p. 278 ; and see 1880, p. 44, for a note of the deseent of this lot. A way round the north side of the Cove from this lot to John Lowe's was laid out definitely in 1642. When the town, in 1649, sold the rc- version till 1726 of the doek to James Everill, on his paying an annual £6 16s. 10d. "to the school's use," it was then ordered that all the land at the head of the Cove " round about by John Glover's, George Burden's, Hugh Gunnison's, Captain William Tinge's, William Franklin's, Robert Nashe's, and eight foot to the east- ward of it is highway ; as alsoe from the eastward six of the eight foot, and round about bye the corner of Edward Bendall's brick howse, and so by Samuel Cole's howse, as alsoe to Edward Ting's wharfe, shall goe a high way of twentye foote in breadth." This head of the doek was the " common landing place " as carly as 1634, when there was a bridge or pier here.
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This sketch is based on a plan preserved in the City Hall, and of which a copy made by the late W. G. Brooks is in the Cabinet of the Historical Society. The figures stand for the following names and sites : 1, Hutchinson ; 2, Billings ; 3, Randall ; 4, Harvard ; 5. Hannas; 6, Checkley; 7, Jackson; 8, Rand ; 9, Rawson ; 10, Right ; 11, W. Coffin ; 12, Millar ; 13, J. Tyler ; 14, Tyler ; 15. Hancock: 16, Boyce; 17, Pemberton ; 18 Brooks ; 19. Pitts ; 20, Watch-house ; 21, Jackson ; 22, Abbott ; 23, Brom- field : 24. Hubbard ; 25, Small shops ; 26, Billings ; 27, Platform, Fish shop : 28. Swing Bridge ; 29, Borland ; 30, Bridgman Hall and Warehouse ; 31. Woodmancy's wharf; 32, Fayerweather ; 33, Colman ; 34, Hutchinson ; 35, Cushing ; 36, Bronsdon; 37, Jeffery ; 38, Palmer's Warehouse; 39, Gill and Sewall ; 40, Green ; 41, Allen ; 42, Bromfield ; 43, Noyes; 44, Boylston ; 45, Bailey ; 46, Sun Taveru ; 47, Borman and Gibbs ; 48, Maverick ; 49, Edes ; 50, Blake ; 51, Colson.
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G. 39. Hugh Gunnison, vintner. Ile later removed to Kittery. In 1650 Gunnison's, or Gullison's, house is called The King's Arms, and the estate included a brew-house, barns, stables, etc. ; and in 1651 he and his wife Sarah conveyed it, according to an inventory printed in N. E. Hist. and Geneal. Reg., 1880, p. 42, to Henry Shrimpton and others ; and according to Mr. Hassam, when Shrimpton made his will, in 1666, he called it the " States Arms ; " and when Eliakim Hutchinson became Shrimpton's son-in-law, two years later, it is described as " faeing to the head of the dock, and heretofore called the King's Armes." The estate passed next, 1715-19, to William Hutchinson, the son, and in 1721 to Eliakim Hutchinson, the grandson, a loyalist.
G. 40. Captain William Tyng, house, garden, close, great yard, and little yard before the hall window. Ilis inventory is in N. E. IIist. and Geneal. Reg., 1876, p. 432. A part of this lot, after Captain Tyng's death, Jan. 18, 1652-53, fell to Elizabeth, his daughter, wife of Thomas Brattle, who died May 10, 1684. when it fell to Thomas Brattle. (Sewall Papers, i., 202.) Subsequently, in 1694, a part of the estate passed to Mr. Mumford, who after- wards conveyed it to the Quakers for a meeting-house. (Shurtleff, Desc. of Boston, p. 229.) On the rear of this lot, after passages had been opened aeross it, the first wooden house of the " Mani- festo Church " was ereeted in 1699, and stood through the provin- eial period. A part of this lot was eonveyed by Brattle to John Wing, and by him to Eliakim Hutchinson. (See N. E. Hist. and Geneal. Reg., 1880, p. 43.)
G. 41. Richard Bellingham, the residenee of the Governor probably before he built the house on Cotton Hill. In 1644 he compounded with the town by accepting a piece of marsh on the other side of the doek in lieu of the waste ground before this house. Hereabout, fronting on Doek Square, stood a landmark known in the early part of the next century as Colson's Stone House.
G. 42. Christopher Stanley. (See p. 43 of Book.)
William Balston sold the lot August, 1638, when it consisted of house, yard, garden, and elose "baek side of Mr. Coddington," to Thomas Cornell or Cornwell ; who sold to Edward Tyng, 1643 ; and he to Christopher Stanley. This one of the three Balston settlers left no male issue. Whitmore, Sewall Papers, ii., 130, 186, corrects Savage in an aeeount of these Balston settlers.
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