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G. 43. Thomas Buttolph, house and garden. Buttolph's will is in N. E. Hist. and Geneal. Reg., April, 1862, p. 159, leaving to his wife Anna his house, yards, stable, barn, and other housing, and after her to his son Thomas. This he ealls his " new house." This old house he leaves to Thomas till his mother dies ; then to-his son Jolin.
G. 44. Valentine Hill, house, sold to Robert Turner, shoemaker, in 1644. Turner's will is dated 1651. (See N. E. Ilist. and Geneal. Reg., July, 1850, p. 285.)
G. 45. Mr. Henry Dunster. [House and yard, with the street east and south, T. Ilawkins west and north. Evidently the north eorner of Court and Washington streets. - W. H.W. ]
G. 46. Thomas Hawkins. [House and yard, with V. Hill north, the street east, J. Biggs west, H. Dunster and Centry-hill street south. - W.H.W.]
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G. 47. John Biggs. [House and yard, with Bellingham north, Centry-hill street south, T. Hawkins, V. Hill, T. Buttolph and C. Stanley east, James Brown west. - W.H.W.]
G. 48. James Brown. house. His will, 1651, is in N. E. Hist. and Geneal. Reg., Oet., 1853, p. 335. Hereabout, on the lower corner of the present Franklin avenue, Samuel Kneeland, in 1718, began a printing offiee. and here printed some of the early Boston newspapers. Later it became the stand of James Franklin ; and here his brother Benjamin assisted him on the New England Cou- rant, and in 1723 became under a pretenee its proprietor. In 1769 it was the office of Edes and Gill, prominent printers of their day.
G. 49. Alexander Beek. [House and garden, with the street south, Mr. Bellingham north, J. Brown east, J. Scottow west. - W.H.W.]
G. 50. Joshua Scottow. [House and garden of about half an acre. Mr. Bellingham north-east. A. Beck south-east, Sudbury street south-west. B. Thwing north-west. Evidently Centry Hill street ended and Sudbury street began at about this point ; but this point is about the corner of Cornhill, and our Sudbury street is now con- tracted to the part north of Hanover street. - W.H.W.]
G. 51. Benjamin Thwing, house. It was about at this point that Smibert the painter lived in 1743, and Brattle street was subse- quently cut off in part from the estate of the artist. [Benjamin Thwing is ealled " my man," by Ralph Hudson, in his will of 24 Sept., 1638 .- W.H.W.]
G. 52. William Wilson, joiner, with considerable back land. Soon after the middle of the next century the building known to our own day as Concert Hall was built. The estate then extended to Hanover street. Gilbert and Louis Deblois, braizers, conveyed it in 1754 to Stephen Deblois, who in 1769 sold it to William Tur- ner ; and later it passed to the Amory family. (Drake's Boston, p. 641.)
a. Edward Bendall b. John Cotton
c. Daniel Maud
d. Richard Bellingham
These letters show the front lines of the above estates on Tremont street, more fully figured on Map H, or Map No. 8.
LOTS 53 TO 63, BOUNDED BY COURT, WASHINGTON, SCHOOL, AND TREMONT STREETS.
G. 53. Croychley for Dinely heirs. On this lot, in the flour- ishing days of Governor Shirley, lived one of the best known Bos- ton merchants, John Wendell ; and under his roof, in 1759, George Cradock had his office as Royal Collector of Customs. For the Cradock connections see N. E. Hist. and Geneal. Reg., Jan., 1854, p. 28 ; April, 1855, p. 123.
G. 54. Richard Tapping, house ; sold to Nathaniel Williams ; again in 1649 to Richard Critchley or Croyehley, who married the.
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widow of William Dinely, the barber-surgcon, whose sad fate, in 1639, is described in Mr. Scudder's chapter, in Vol. I. of the Memorial History, and who left to his widow and children the next lot. A son of Dinely, named John, survived him ; and the infant with the name of sad remembrance, who came after the father's deatlı, - Fathergone Dinely, - administered on his elder brother's estate. Between 53 and 54, on the lot now covered by the Adams Express Company's building, lived Colonel Daniel Henchman, the bookseller and bookbinder, with whom Thomas Hancock served his time, and whose daughter Hancock married. She, Lydia Han- coek, gave the estate to the Brattle-street Church in 1765, for a parsonage. James Otis at one time lived in the house.
G. 55. The Prison lot where the Court-House now stands.
G. 56. Richard Parker. [House, barn, and yard, with the prison-yard west, the market-plaee east, J. Leverett north, R. Truesdale and the meeting-house south. - W.H.W.]
G. 57. John Leverett. [House and yard, with R. Parker south and west, the street north and east. This lot is where Sears' Building stands. - W.II. W. ]
G. 58. Richard Truesdale, house and garden. Sargent, Deal- ings with the Dead, ii., 567, says that Benjamin Faneuil, brother of Peter, had his town residence on this lot at a later day. [Valentine Hill was on liis south. - W.H.W.]
G. 59. Valentine Hill. [House and garden, with the street east, the meeting-house and R. Truesdale north, the prison-garden west, R. Sedgwick south. - W.H.W. ] Valentine Hill sold in 1645 to William Davies. Hill moved, after 1650, to Dover, New Hampshire. It was probably from a building on this lot that the first number of the Boston News-Letter was published, April 24, 1704.
G. 60. The Meeting-house. [The first one was built on the west side of State street, where Brazier's Building is. In 1640 it was given up, and this site chosen. In 1809, it was sold to Ben- jamin Joy, who built Joy's Building ; now torn down to give place to Rogers' Building. - W.II.W. ]
G. 61. Major-General Robert Sedgwick, house and garden, who had lived earlier in Charlestown. It was in a court which, in the provincial period, extending through this lot toward the present Court square, that the fire of 1711 began, breaking out, as the News-Letter of the day said, "in an old tenement, within a back- yard in Cornhill [Washington street], near the first meeting- house ; " and Sewall says it " broke out in a little house belonging to Captain Ephraim Savage, by reason of the drunkenness of - Moss," whom the News-Letter characterizes as a " poor Seottish woman ;" and Drake gives the name of Mary Morse. (Sewall Papers, ii., 323.) There are two petitions on file in the City Clerk's office giving the names of some of the principal sufferers by this fire.
G. 62. Edward Hutchinson, house and garden. After his re- moval to Rhode Island, his son was permitted to sell it to his unele, Richard Hutchinson, of London, who never occupied it. The " Old Corner Book-Store," ereeted in 1712, now oeeupies a por-
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tion of the lot ; and the descent of the property has been traced in Shurtleff's Description of Boston, p. 671.
G. 63. Henry Messenger, joiner, house and garden. This is the lot on which now stands the building of the Massachusetts His- torical Society, and, in part, the Boston Museum. His will is dated March 15, 1672, and he died in 1681, his wife Sarah inherit- ing the estate ; and she at her death, 1697, gave the half next the burial-place to her son Thomas, and the other half to her son Sim- eon. An account of his descendants is in N. E. Hist. and Geneal. Reg .. Oct., 1862. p. 309 ; and is given more at length in the Gene- alogy of the Messenger Family. by George W. Messenger, Albany, 1863. This Messenger lot, separating the town property on School from that on Court street. was in part later acquired by the town. (Gleaner Articles, No. 3.) [His south bound was Scottow and the burying-ground .- W.H.W.]
[Note. - Thomas Scottow's lot on School street, the only one between Hutchinson's corner and the King's chapel burying-ground, is noted on Map F, or No. 6, as the front is on that plan .- W. H. W.]
THE MARKET PLACE, NOW THE OLD STATE-HOUSE LOT.
G. 64. The open market-stead, where later, in 1657-58, the " Town and State House " was built, -the colony excusing the town from current payment of rates in consideration. (June 10, 1658, Mass. Archives, "Towns," i. 108.) The money had largely been received under Robert Keayne's will. The colony and the county subsequently shared with Boston the expense of repairs, the building being of wood. It was destroyed in the fire of 1711, and the next year a building of brick took its place. All but the walls of this building were burned in 1747 (Historical Magazine, Sept., 1868), and many of the original papers, which we might ex- pect to find now at the State House, were probably then consumed. (Sewall Papers. i .. 161.) [It was used as the State House until the new State House, on Beacon Hill, was finished and occupied, January 11th, 1798. For thirty years following it was given up to business purposes. In 1830 the City took possession, and it be- came the City Hall. In 1840. the City having changed its offices to the site on School street, it was again let for business. After much hard usage, the City Council, in 1881, appropriated $35,000 to restore the exterior and the legislative halls, leaving only the lower floor and basement for business purposes. - W.II. W.]
LOTS 65 TO 83. BEGINNING AT THE WATER'S EDGE, ON THE SOUTH SIDE OF STATE STREET, THENCE THROUGH DEVON- SHIRE STREET TO WATER STREET (BOTH SIDES), THENCE ON WASHINGTON STREET TO STATE STREET.
G. 65. William Hudson, Sr., house and garden. He was allowed to keep an ordinary in 1640; and in 1643 a " harbor for boats" was ordered to be made in the marsh near by. This lot is at the corner of Kilby street. After Hudson's death it passed to Francis Smith, and later to Governor Leverett. Here in the pro-
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vincial days stood the Bunch of Grapes Tavern, with a sign of three bunches of the fruit; and Drake says two of the bunches now liang over the door of a store in North Market street. The same writer gives its landlords as Francis Holines (1712), William Coffin (1731), Joshua Barker (1749), Colonel Joseph Ingersoll (1764). Samuel Holbrook seems to have owned part of it, at least, before 1724, when his widow sold a moiety to Thomas Waitc. (N. E. Hist. and Geneal. Reg., 1877, p. 423.) Goclet's Journal (N. E. Ilist. and Geneal. Reg., 1870, p. 53) mentions Weather- head as the keeper in 1750, and says it is "noted for the best punch house in Boston, and resorted by most the gent" merchts and masters vessels." This passage by the shore was known as Mack- erel Lane, and remained very narrow until the great fire of 1760 swept everything away, wlien it was widened and named Kilby street, in compliment to Christopher Kilby, a wealthy Boston mer- chant, who lived long in London as agent for the town and colony, and was now living in New York. He was very liberal to the sufferers by the fire. The committee for laying out the widened street were Andrew Oliver, Thomas Hancock, Joshua Henshaw, and John Scollay ; and their report is on file.
G. 66. William Davies, St. [House, with the street north, W. Hudson, Sr., east, Mr. Winthrop south and west. - W.H. W.]
G. 67. John Winthrop. [His possessions are not in the Book ; perhaps they were recorded on the missing first two pages. This lot is not his house-lot, which was on Washington street, opposite the foot of School street. - W.H.W.]
G. 68. Elder Thomas Leverett, house and garden. When he died, in 1650, this estate is described as "old houses and lands lyeing neare the old meeting-house in Boston, £50." This lot ex- tended baek on the line of the present Congress street ; and on a portion of it, opposite the junction of Congress street and Ex- change place (lately Lindall street), the Quakers built a meeting- house in 1709, and had their burial-ground in the rear. Interments took place, though rarely, in this ground till 1815, and in 1826 the bodies, such as could be found, were removed, chiefly to Lynn. (See Shurtleff, Description of Boston, p. 231.) Leverett's property also took in the present Exchange Building lot. The upper part of Leverett's lot afterwards became the home of Andrew Beleher, a wealthy merchant, who lived here in 1691, and was the father of Governor Beleher. For a note on Andrew Beleher's family eon- nections, see Sewall Papers, iii., 160 ; and N. E. Hist. and Geneal. Reg., 1873, p. 239. Andrew Beleher died in 1717. East of him was the land which Governor Leverett sold to Jeremiah Dummer, a goldsmith, in 1677, the father of Lieut .- Governor William Dum- mer, and of Jeremialı, - the last being born on this spot.
G. 69. Robert Seott. [House, with Mr. Leveritt east and south, the street west and north. Evidently on the corner of a lane, presumable Pudding Lane, now Devonshire street. - W.H. W.]
G. 70. Robert Seott. [His lot No. 3, a garden, with T. Lev- eritt east, H. Webb south, the highway south and west. - W.H. W.]
G. 71. Henry Webb. [His lot No. 2, with J. Leveritt east, the highway and R. Scott north, the lane west, and T. Oliver
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south. This south boundary is a puzzle. It apparently should be W. Parsons (see next lot, G. 72), and Oliver does not seem to have owned east of the lane. Perhaps Oliver had sold to Parsons, and the old ownership remained in mind. - W.H.W.]
G. 72. William Parsons. [House and garden, with the lane west. H. Webb north, J. Davies east, and the Springate south. - W.H.W.]
G. 73. James Davies. [House and garden, the Springate south, T. Leverett north. W. Parsons west, the marsh east. - W.H.W.]
G. 74. John Spoore, house and garden. Spoore was ealled of Clapton. Somersetshire, when he bought in 1638, Mr. Wilke's house and ground. - perhaps this lot. Somewhere hereabout, on the Creek, the leather-dressers, in 1643, were granted a place to water their leather. Spoore mortgaged this property in 1648, and by some means we find Deaeon Henry Bridgham in possession in 1655, who built. in 1670, a mansion on the ground, and had his tan- pits near by. He did not live, however, to move into the new house, but died in the old one, in March, 1670-71 ; and on the death of his widow. in 1672, the property passed to the sons, and in 1680 was divided, the new house falling to Dr. John Bridgham, of Ips- wich. The doetor died in 1721, and this house fell to his nephew. Joseph Bridgham, a recent graduate of Harvard, but now an apotheeary in Harvard. Bridgham sold it in February, 1734- 35, to Francis Borland, for £1,200. Joseph Calef was a tenant of the house. and plied his trade with the tan-pits. It was while Calef was here that Congress street was laid out from Milk to Water street. He died in September, 1763, and the house and grounds fell to Francis Lindall Borland, but afterwards eame in joint possession of John Borland, a brother of Franeis Lindall, and to the children of Wait Still Winthrop, who had married a daughter of Francis Borland. The remaining history of the house falls later than the provincial times. It became the famous Julien House, and its deseent is traeed at length by Shurtleff, Boston, 659.
G. 75. William Hibbens, gentleman, house, garden, and stable. Somewhere between 74 and 75 on the Water-street side, Major John Walley had his mansion-house in the early part of the next century, with wharf belonging, and land stretehing through to Milk street. Upon his death, in 1711, it deseended to his son John ; and on his death, in 1755, it was advertised as containing "upwards of twenty rooms." The present Devonshire street runs through G. 75, and was early known as Joyliffe's lane, from John Joyliffe. a prominent citizen, who lived upon it, and died in 1701. (Drake's Boston, 509.)
G. 76. Richard Sherman, house. His will, in 1660, is printed in N. E. Hist. and Geneal. Reg., July, 1855, p. 227. (See Ibid, April, 1864, p. 157, for the will of the widow Robinson, formerly wife of Richard Sherman.) [Richard Sherman, house and garden, with Mr. Hibbins north and east, A. Haugh south, the Green west. - W.H.W.]
G. 77. The Spring-gate. [This was a spring and watering place, probably reaching from Washington street to Mr. Hibbins' land. Spring lane preserves the memory, and the great spring found in
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digging the foundations of the New Post Office is probably the representative of the original. - W.H.W.]
G. 78. Deacon Thomas Oliver, house and garden. (See his relationship to the other Olivers in N. E. Hist. and Geneal. Reg., April, 1865, p. 100.) Between this lot and Gov. Winthrop's well- known house, on the line of the present Spring lane, was the ancient spring-gate of the first eomers. When, in the provincial period, Water street was extended through this lot into the present Washington street, on the northierly corner, at the sign of the " Heart and Crown," Thomas Fleet, in 1731, had his printing office, and here, in 1735, he began the publication of the Boston Evening Post.
G. 79. Richard Fairbanks, house and garden ; sold in 1652 to Robert Turner, who later built a new house on the lot, which is mentioned in his will ( N. E. Hist. and Geneal. Reg., Jan., 1859, p. 11). Here at a later day the Blue Anchor was kept by George Monck, whom Dunton celebrates in his Letters, and who extended his career into the provincial days. (See Whitmore's note to Record Commissioners' edition of Gleaner Articles, p. 18.) A peti- tion from Joseph Willson for a license shows that this or another tavern of the same name was called "Near Oliver's Doek" in 1755, and that it had been known as such for forty years, - a lesser period than is true, certainly if it was not another hostlery. It was the same tavern that Thomas Bayley petitioned for the privilege of keeping in 1752.
G. 80. William Corser, house and garden. He is ealled in his will, 1673, Cosser, and, being " weak of body," makes his mark to it. His wife was Joanna.
G. 81. Major Robert Keayne, house and garden. This public- spirited and somewhat eccentrie citizen was a prominent merehant. The signatures of the "overseers" of his remarkable will (an abstract is given in N. E. Hist. and Geneal. Reg., Jan., 1852, p. 89, etc.) are appended to a petition to the colony government in 1667, on file at the State House. (Mass. Archives, "Estates," Vol. I.) The most extended aeeount of Keayne is found in Whit- man's Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company, of which Keayne was the leading eharter member. On this spot, in provincial times, Daniel Henchman kept his well-known book shop; and in this shop, later, Henry Knox was brought up. Nicholas Boone also kept a book-shop on this lot in the early part of the eighteenth century.
G. 82. Mary, widow of Ralph Hudson, house. She died in 1651, and left £10 to the school. At this date she had two houses on this lot, oeeupied by Nathaniel Duncan and John Tincker. (N. E. Hist. and Geneal. Reg., Jan., 1850, p. 54.) Near this spot, in the next century, John Phillips kept a book-shop. Drake, Boston, p. 566, gives an engraving of his sign. He died Mareh 30, 1763. (See Boston News-Letter, April 28, 1763.) [Mrs. Hudson's lot is not specified in the Book. - W.H.W.]
G. 83. Henry Webb, house, with William Corser just south of him on the lane. The will of Henry Webb, 1660, is given in N. E. Ilist. and Geneal. Reg., April, 1856, p. 177. His daughter
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Margaret. widow of Jacob Sheaffe (whose inventory is given in Register. Jan. 1856. p. 84), inherited thie "Mansion," and his grandehild, Elizabeth Sheaffe, his warehonse " now let out to build."
LOTS 84 TO 100, NORTH SIDE OF STATE STREET, FROM WASH- INGTON STREET TO THE WATER-LINE, THENCE ALONG THE COVE AND WASHINGTON STREET.
G. 84. John Cogan. house and shop. Cogan's will (given in N. E. Hist. and Geneal. Reg .. Jan., 1855, p. 35 ; also see 1877, p. 106) speaks of his mansion-house and the house adjoining (oe- eupied by Goodman Bumstead), and two shops adjoining. One- third of the property deseended to his widow Martha, whom he had married when. as the fourth wife of Governor Winthrop, she snr- vived him. She was a sister of Inerease Nowell of Charlestown, and widow. when Winthrop married her, of Thomas Coitmore, of the same town. Joseph Roeke married Elizabeth, daughter of Cogan.
G. 85. Rev. John Wilson, honse, two gardens, yard, and barn, bounding south on Wilson's lane, now widened and ealled Devon- shire street. Wilson's will is given in N. E. Hist. and Geneal. Reg .. Oct., 1862, p. 343. In 1641 he sold part to Sergeant John Davies. the joiner. and provided that he should not be "annoyed with any stincks ; " and Davies in 1646 sold to Edmund Jackson, from whom it passed to Hezekiah Usher, the merchant of a later dav. who had removed from Cambridge to Boston in 1646. Usher's inventory mentions a dwelling-honse, garden, land, and "inward warehouse." with lean-tos at the doek, -£700 ; the dwelling-house that John Usher lives in, and "outward warehouse," by the town dock. £570. His descendants are traced in N. E. Hist. and Geneal. Reg .. October. 1869, p. 410.
G. 86. Anthony Stoddard. linendraper, who, in 1644, was suf- fered to open his "shop window board" two feet into the street, and who bounded east on the "new street" (Exchange street). In 1644 he sold the northerly part, fronting on the new street, to James Mattock the cooper, and in the same year this portion passed successively to John Synderland and to John Parker the carpenter. In 1646, Stoddard, John Leverett joining with him, sold the sontherly part to Henry Shrimpton, brazier. His will, 1666. is in N. E. Hist. and Geneal. Reg., Jan., 1861, p. 76. It was on this corner that the Royal Exchange Tavern stood at a later day. Luke Vardy kept it in 1727, and he was succeeded in 1747 by Robert Stone, and in his time it was a resort of the British officers stationed in the town. It was in this house, in 1728, that the altercation began which ended in the first duel fonght in Bos- ton, when Benjamin Woodbridge was killed by Henry Phillips. (See Shurtleff's Boston, p. 222.)
[From W. Franklin's lot, G. 98, it seems that he had Stoddard and John Leverett sonth. Leverett's presumed lot is shown on Lamb's map. - W.H.W.]
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G. 87. Valentine Hill ; sold to William Davies, and he, in 1645, to Anthony Stoddard. This was the site of the States Arms Tav- ern, and just before the Revolution the royal Custom-house was here, Bartholomew Green living in the chambers over it.
G. 88. William Davies, Jr. [House with W. Pieree east and north, V. Hill west, the street south. - W. H.W.]
G. 89. William Pierce, along the line of the present 'Change Avenue. (See N. E. Hist. and Geneal. Reg., 1878, p. 319.) On the site forming the lower corner of this avenue, after the middle of the next century, John Mein kept the London Bookstore, the most considerable in the town ; and here he started the earliest circulating library. Opposite the northerly end of this estate, where it abutted on the doek, on land reclaimed from the tide, Peter Faneuil built, in 1742, the famous hall. [Pieree had house and garden, with D. Selliek east, I. Grosse and the highway north, W. Davies, Jr., and the street south, E. Bendall, V. Hill, and W. Davies west. - W. H. W.]
G. 90. David Selliek. [House and garden, with the street south, W. Pieree west, V. Hill north, J. Oliver east. Suff. deeds, i., f. 100, 27tlı, 12 mo., 1648. V. Hill sells to D. Selliek his house that H. bought of Mr. Aspinwall, with the barber's shop and all pertaining, except what H. had sold to John Friend. At the same time Hill sold to Mary Friend a quarter of an aere with the street south, D. Selliek west, E. Tyng east, V. Hill north, with a right of way to the water. This lot does not seem to be in the Book, unless, as Winsor says, it was James Oliver's - the next lot, G. 91. - W.H.W.]
G. 91. James Oliver. [House and yard, with the street south, V. Hill north, D. Selliek west, E. Tyng east. - W.H. W.]
G. 92. Edward Tyng, house, brewhouse, warehouse, with wharf in front, which he sold, in 1651, to James Everill, describing it as " my wharf against the end of the great street," and along which on the south went the " town's way down upon the flats," - which corresponds to the present State street below Merchants' Row ; and this street was then designated as " Mr. Hill's highway twenty feet broad," which followed the shore of the Cove to the present Doek square. Somewhere on the water front of Tyng's estate there were wharves occupied by Thomas Venner,1 and another that Henry Webb was allowed "to enjoy " in 1647, having bought it of Tyng. In the next century the rich Huguenot merchant, Andrew Faneuil, had his warehouse where Tyng's wharf stood, the present lower corner of Merehants' Row. This was in 1732; and later, in 1743, Richard Smith kept here the Admiral Vernon Tavern. In 1750 there seems to have been a change, for in the State Archives there is a petition from Smith to be licensed to keep the Crown Coffee House " at the lower end of King street," which had been a licensed house for nearly forty years. At the same date James Gooch, Jr., took possession of the "Vernon's Head," as his peti- tion ealls it. Smith's predecessor in the "Crown" was widow
1 [He is styled a wine-cooper, and was later of Salem. Returning to England, he became a Fifth Monarchy preacher, and engaged in an insurrection; was executed in 1661.]
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