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Near the "Crown" were the counting-house and warchouse of a noted mercantile firm of the carly part of the last century, - Samuel and Cornelius Waldo, -later on Merchants' Row, near the Swing Bridge. (See a note on the family in N. E. Ilist. and Geneal. Reg., April, 1864, p. 176.)
[Mr. Lamb assigns a lot here between G. 91 and G. 92 to Henry Webb ; probably the one which Winsor notes above. - W.II. W.]
G. 93. Valentine Hill ; sok, in 1645, to Samuel Cole, who had before this kept a house of entertainment somewhere along the water front in this vicinity. Cole's will, 1666, is given in N. E. Hist. and Geneal. Reg., July, 1861, p. 249. This is, too, the nearest point on the original shore to the spot where, in the provincial times, on land reclaimed from the dock, and near the head of the present South Market street, John Haneock kept store, and by ad- vertisement called upon debtors to the estate of his late uncle, the Hon. Thomas Hancock, to make payment.
G. 94. Isaac Grosse. [House, with W. Pierce south and cast, E. Bendall west, the Cove north. This lot is apparently laid out on Lamb's map, with no name affixed. - W.H.W.]
G. 95. Edward Bendall, stone house, with warehouse adjoining. Bendall had been allowed, in 1637, to establish from this point a ferry to Noddle's Island, and to the ships riding before the town. His lot was just west of 'Chauge avenue.
G. 96. George Foxcroft. [House lot, with the Cove north, E. Bendall east and south, R. Nash north (an evident blunder for west). - W.H.W.]
G. 97. Robert Nash, butcher, house, garden and outhouses, in- cluding his slaughter-house, which occasioned the town's men more or less trouble from the careless disposition Nash made of his garbage. He was warned not to kill beasts in the street in 1647. [His lot says, " bounded north and west - . " I suspect this should be the Cove, as Bendall has the Cove north and east. This would indi- cate a point of laud with the Cove curving, especially as Franklin does not bound on Nash, but on a street. - W. H. W. ]
G. 98. William Franklin. [House and garden, with the street east and north, J. Wilson west, and J. Leverett and A. Stoddard south. - W.H. W. ]
G. 99. Major Edward Gibbons, house, garden, and " housings," including two shops, one occupied by John Newgate, hatter, and the other by Thomas Savage, the tailor, better known from his military · honors. [Gibbons has the street west and north; Rev. John Wilson south and east. - W.H.W.]
G. 100. William Corser, house, which seems to be the lot after- wards occupied by William Tilley, whose wife Alice, under power from her husband, conveyed it, in 1649, to Anthony Stoddard. [This lot is not in the Book, but is given in the bounds of Rev. John Wilson's lot, G. 85, as " Major Gibones, Wm. Courser and John Cogan on the west." - W. H. W.]
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LOTS ON THE NORTH SIDE OF FORT HILL, FACING THE COVE.
G. f. Valentine Hill's bridge, about where the present Liberty square is. on the line of Kilby street. There were others round this shore in 1649, when Hutchinson, Gillom, Ward, and Compton, and also Jonathan Balston, Thomas Smyth, Stephen Baker, and Richard Richardson. were allowed to make a highway over the marsh .. to Mr. Hill's bridge."
G. g. The present bend on Batterymarch street, which was laid out in 1673. On the marsh to the north-west, on the corner of what is now Batterymarch street and Liberty square, stood a well- known ordinary. The marsh had been let by the town in 1656 to Captain James Johnson, and this site was conveyed by him to Thomas Hull ; and in 1673 Nathaniel Bishop lived here, and the house was known as "The Blue Bell," and as early as 1674 was jointly tenanted by Deacon Henry Alline and Hugh Drury. In 1692 it is called .. The Castle Tavern," and Mr. Hassam thinks (N. E. Hist. and Geneal. Reg., 1877, p. 329) it ceased to be an inn. after 1707.
G. 101. Nathaniel Woodward. [House and garden, with B. Ward and E. Hutchinson east, the marsh north and west. - W.H. W.]
G. 102. Edward Hutchinson. [House and yard, with B. Ward east and south. N. Woodward west, the marsh north. - W.H.W. ]
G. 103. Benjamin Ward. [House and about an acre, with N. Woodward, Jr., west. B. Gillom east, Mr. Hibbins south, E. Hutchinson and the marsh north. - W.H. W.]
G. 104. Benjamin Gillom. [House and garden, with B. Ward west. W. Hibbins south. J. Compton and the Cove east, the marsh north. - W.H. W. ]
G. 105. John Compton. House and garden, with the Cove east. B. Gillom west and north, the Fort Hill south. - W.H. W.7
G. 106. The Fort. In 1644 land of Mr. William Hibbins was taken for the .. breast-worke upon the Fort Hill" ; and also, same year. land of James Penn.
G. 107. William Hibbins. [Apparently part of his lot described in the Book (see plan G. 75, ante), as follows : House, garden, and stable, with J. Winthrop west, the Springate north, J. Spoore east. and R. Sherman and some part of Fort street south. As the marsh and bridge were hereabouts, it is clear that Hibbins owned some land east of them, probably all in one continuous tract. See G. 103. and G. 104. - W.H. W.]
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LOTS 1 TO 4, WEST OF HANOVER STREET, AND NORTH OF PORTLAND STREET.
H. I. James Johnson, glover. upland and marsh; sold to Thomas Hawkins, baker and innholder, in 1662. In 1671-72 this lot and John Davies'. by assignments and foreclosure of mortgages, came into the possession of Sampson Sheaffe, and from him the estate passed to William Stoughton, the Governor, who, though a Dorchester man. possessed when he died, in 1701, a large property in real estate hereabout, including the Blue Ball estate,
This last, as well as other property, fell to Stoughton's nieee Mehitabel, wife of Captain Thomas Cooper, and when the Cap- tain died. in 1705, this lot was valued at £650. His widow afterwards married Peter Sergeant, and again, in 1714, Simeon Stoddard ; and as Mrs. Stoddard she died in 1738, and her son by her first husband. Rev. William Cooper, of the Brattlc- square Church, sold the lot in 1743 to Dr. William Douglass, a physician and author, who had come from Seotland in 1716, and wrote a Summary of New England History ; and when Douglass died, in 1754, mention is made of his mansion-house in Green Dragon lane, which was a passage in the direction of the present Union street. and upon which his house abutted. Douglass was a good deal exercised over the taxes he was called upon to pay ; and Drake, Boston, p. 623, sets forth his querulous communication to the assessors. (See also N. E. Hist. and Geneal. Reg., 1877, p. 118.) Ten years later, Catharine Kerr, the sister of Douglass, conveyed it to the St. Andrew's Lodge of Freemasons, and after- wards it beeame celebrated as the Green Dragon Tavern. Shurtleff considers that it was in the yard in the rear, which bordered upon the mill-pond, that Franklin, as a boy, built the wharf which he describes in his Autobiography. The house had probably been built in Stoughton's day, and it was kept as an inn by Alexander Smith, who died in it in 1696. To him succeeded Hannah Bishop, and in 1697 John Cary took it, and in a petition in 1705 he speaks of having kept it several years. In 1734 Joseph Kidder was the landlord. It acquired the widest reputation after the Revolutionary troubles began, when the " Green Dragon " became the rallying- place of the patriots. (Shurtleff, Description of Boston, p. 613.) Opposite the " Green Dragon," John Borland owned property, which in 1714 he conveyed to Daniel Johonnot, where the latter seems to have had his Distil-House. (N. E. Hist. and Geneal. . Reg., Oct., 1852, p. 357.)
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[This lot is No. 4 of Johnson's possessions, being three quarters of an acre of upland and marsh, with the Cove north and east, John Smith west, and John Davies south. - W.H. W.]
H. 2. John Smith. [Ilouse and garden, with the Cove north, the street south, J. Davies east, E. Gibbons west. - W. H. W.]
H. 3. Major Edward Gibbons. [His lot 2, being a house and lot, with the Cove or Mill Pond north, the street south, J. Smith east, R. Nash west. - W.II.W.]
H. 4. Robert Nash. [His lot No. 2, being an aere with a house-lot, with the Cove north, the street south, the lane west, E. Gibbons, east. - W.H. W.]
LOTS 5 TO 10, BOUNDED BY PORTLAND STREET, IIANOVER STREET, AND SUDBURY STREET.
H. 5. Henry Pease. [House and garden, with the Cove north, the street south, the lane east, J. Leverett west. The street is now Hanover street, and the lane is Portland street. - W.H.W. ]
H. 6. Johu Leverett aud Henry Pease had lots here. The highway adjoining, the present Portland street, seems to be the twenty-five-foot passage that Henry Pease agreed to "fenee out through his lands against the Cove, near his dwelling, unto the eross high way by our brother James Everill's," 1639-40. It was on this lot, where now stands the American House, that Joseph Warren, in 1764, took up his abode, and began the practice of medi- eine. He lived then in a house in which Joseph Green, a prominent merchant of his day, - not to be confounded with Joseph Green the wit, - died, July 1, 1765. Green had bought of Governor Beleher, in 1734, the large house on this lot for £3,600. (N. E. Hist. and Geneal. Reg., vi., 275.)
[It will be noted that the next four lots, all facing on Sudbury street, bound east on Leverett, who must have owned from Hanover street to the water line, though his lot is not on record. - W.H.W.]
H. 7. Nathaniel Chappel. [House and garden of about quar- ter of an aere, with the cove north, J. Cole south, the lane west, John Leverett east. - W. H. W.]
H. 8. John Cole. House and garden, with N. Chappel north, J. Mellows south, the lane west, J. Leverett east. - W.H. W.]
H. g. John Mellows. [House and garden, with J. Cole north, E. Jackson south, the street west, and J. Leveritt east. See my note in Sewall's Diary, II., 210, about Mellows aud Coney. -W.H.W.]
H. 10. Edmund Jackson. [House and garden, with J. Mel- lows uorth, the lane south, J. Leveritt east, and Sudbury street. west. - W.II. W.]
It was on this corner that the Orange-Tree Inn stood during the provincial period. While it was kept, in 1712, by Jonathan Ward- well, he set up here the earliest hackney eoach stand. Drake says that Mrs. Wardwell kept it iu 1724.
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EAST CORNER OF HANOVER AND COURT STREETS.
H. II. Jeremy Houtehin. [One house and garden of about a quarter of an aere, with Sudbury street south-west, W. Wilson south-east. the lane north-west. T. Makepeace and W. Wilson north-east. Sold, in 1646, to Roger Fletcher, late of London. - W.H.W.]
LOTS 12 TO 23, WEST SIDE OF TREMONT ROW, ACROSS THE HILL TO CAMBRIDGE STREET, AND ALONG THE WEST SIDE OF COURT STREET.
H. 12. Edward Bendall. This had Sudbury [Court] street east. and took in Tremont Row and the centre of Seollay square. Governor Endieott seems to have dwelt during the elose of his life on a part of this lot, leaving when he died, in 1665, a widow. Elizabeth, whom he had married in 1630. Endieott's will is in N. E. Hist. and Geneal. Reg., April, 1861, p. 127. David Yale. a brother of Thomas, the founder of Yale College, bad, in 1645, purchased of Bendall, who, holding theologieal views at varianee with those of the magistrates, found it convenient to remove. leaving Thomas Lake and Thomas Clark power of attor- ney to sell the estate. Captain John Wall became the purehaser, and his widow sold it. in 1678, to Edward Shippen ( Sewall Papers, i. 60). who sold, in 1702. a part to Cyprian Southack, who laid out Southaek's lane in 1720 (Howard street). The seleetmen, in 1733. directed him to seeure his hill, by rails or otherwise, that people may not be in danger. "Gleaner " places " Valley Acre " in the lower portion of Southack's pasture, referring to a deed of 1758. when it was the property of John Tyng. Where it eame out on Tremont Row, Southack sold to John Jekyll, in 1724, whose heirs passed it, in 1768, to Dr. James Lloyd. It was on a part of the original Bendall lot, opposite the head of the modern Cornhill. that. in 1683-84. the free writing-school was built, the seeond in the town ; John Cole being the first master. Soon after 1700 Richard Henchman was the master. (See Drake's Boston, 512.)
H. 13. Rev. John Cotton, house and land, extending back as far as the Mount Vernon Church. (See Cotton's will in N. E. Hist. and Geneal. Reg., April. 1851. p. 240.) The estate passed to his widow, Sarah (subsequently married to Rev. Richard Mather of Dorchester), and to Cotton's son by this wife, -the Rev. Seaborn Cotton. Cotton's (the father's) will shows that Governor Vane had built the south part of the house when he sojourned with Cotton, and had deeded it to Seaborn, to whom the father confirmed it. Later, it became by successive purchases the property of John Ifull. the mint-master, whose daughter Hannah married Samuel Sewall the judge, who occupied the estate still later. Whitmore (Sewall Papers, i. 62. where. p. 63, the deseent is traced in detail ) says it was occupied in 1758 by William Vassall, who purchased it Sept. 11 of that year (N. E. Hist. and Geneal. Reg., April, 1863, p. 115). In 1787 he conveyed it to Leonard V. Borland, who,
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in 1790, sold it to Patrick Jeffrey. Jeffrey had come to Boston and had married a Madame Haley, a sister of the notorious JJolin Wilkes ; he was an unele of Francis, Lord Jeffrey. (Sce Gleaner Articles, Nos. 30 and 31.) In 1801 Somerset street was cut through the estate, and Jeffrey sold the part west of the street to Asa Hammond, in 1804 ; and the part east to Jonathan Mason, in 1802. In 1803 Gardiner Greene bought of Mason, and in 1824 lie added tlic Maud lot (No. 14). Greene made the estate the most famous in Boston. In 1835 this and neighboring estates were sold to Patrick T. Jackson, and Pemberton square was laid out.
H. 14. Daniel Mand, school-master, house and garden. He removed to Dover, N.H., in 1642, and made his will in 1654. (N. E. Hist. and Geneal. Reg., April, 1851, p. 241.) Hczckiah Usher next owned it, who sold it to Thomas Scottow, in 1645. " Gleaner " says it subsequently passed through Leblond, Erving, Brimmer, Bowdoin, Waldo, Walcott, Winthrop, till Gardiner Greene, in 1824, annexed it.
- H. 15. Richard Bellingham, garden plot, but afterwards his house-lot, when he removed from Washington strect. In his will he speaks of this house and grounds, with a shop before it. The will was set aside, and is printed in N. E. Hist. and Geneal. Reg., July, 1850, p. 237. (See the notes to Mr. Deanc's and Mr. Whit- morc's chapters in Vol. I. of the Memorial History of Boston.) Bellingham sold the south part of this lot, in 1663, to Humphrey Davis, whose licirs sold it, in 1710, with a stone house thercon, for £800, to Andrew Faneuil, from whom the cstate deseended to his nephew, Peter Fancuil, and later it was owned by John Vas- sall. The north part was sold to the Rev. John Davenport, and after the death of his son John, was, in 1676, eonveycd to the First Church, and became the parsonage lot. The parish sold it, in 1787, to Sampson Reed. Both of these sections of the Belling- ham cstate werc united, when William Phillips successively pur- ehased them in 1791 and 1805. There was about half an acre of Bellingham's lot back of the other scetions which Sewall added to the original Cotton cstate. (Sewall Papers, i., 61; Gleaner Arti- cles, No. 32.)
H. 16. Valentine Hill's ground. A portion of this area lying on Cambridge street was, later, the Middlecott pasturc (Gleaner Articles, No. 21), through which, in. 1727, a strect was laid out and ealled Middlecott ; but when it was opened through to Bcaeon strect, in 1800, it was called Bowdoin strect. [For a thorough account of Beacon Hill, and the titles of the cstates thereon, con- sult Mr. Bowditch's "Gleaner " notes, reprinted as volume five of the Report of the Rceord Commissioners. - W.H.W.]
H. 17. Robert Mecres, house and garden. He was aged in 1666, when he executed his will (printed in N. E. Hist. and Geneal. Reg., Oct. 7, 1863, p. 345), and made his mark. This lot, in 1709, came to John Staniford, who sold it to Rev. Henry Harris, whosc cxcentors sold to James Pemberton, whose family name be- came in the cnd attached to Pemberton squarc. "Gleaner " traees another part of the original lot to Dr. Samuel Danforth, in 1785.
H. 18. Robert Howen, { aere. John and Israel Howcn (pre-
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sumably his heirs) sold it. in 1662-63, to Simon Lynde, who died in 1687 : and his daughter Sarah was the wife of Nathaniel New- gate. who conveyed it. in 1694, under the name of " The Spring House."
H. 19. Anne Hunne. widow of George Hunne, } acre. This lot marks the site of the elegant mansion and grounds of the late Theodore Lyman. who purchased it in 1785.
H. 20. Henry Fane. [House and garden, with Sudbury street east. New Field west. the lane north, J. Newgate south. - W.H.W.]
H. 21. John Newgate, the hatter, house and garden, 2 acre. His will. 1664 (N. E. Hist. and Geneal. Reg., Oct., 1859, p. 333), left his house to his widow. Ann. (Also see Register, 1879, p. 57. for Newgate's family.) Westerly from this a tract belonging to Newgate fell. after his death in 1665. to Simon Lynde, his son- in-law : aud then, in 1687. or earlier. to his son, Samuel Lynde. About the middle of the last century it became the property of Thomas Bulfinch. and remained in his family for fifty years. The Revere House marks the south end of Bulfinch's four-acre pasture, as the Mount Vernon Church marks the north end. (Gleaner Arti- cles, No. 23.)
H. 22 and 23. [Next west of the lots of Fane and Newgate, Lamb's map places Jeremy Houtchin No. 22, and Mr. Stoughton No. 23 ; but I find no warrant for them in the Book. - W.II.W.]
LOTS 24 TO 33, BOUNDED BY CAMBRIDGE AND GREEN STREETS, LEVERETT STREET, THIE WATER LINE, AND TIIE WEST SIDE OF SUDBURY STREET.
H. 24. [The square lying north of our Cambridge street, from Sudbury street to Pitts street, was owned by James Johnson, Thomas Hawkins, William Kirkby. James Hawkins. Richard San- ford. Robert Meers. Thomas Scottow, Richard Meers. Henry Pease, Alexander Beck, and John Leverett. I cannot, however, see the grounds for the divisions made on Lamb's map, as will be pointed out later. - W.H. W.]
H. 24. James Johnson. [House and garden, with the street south-east and south-west; the Cove north-west, and Thomas Haw- kins north-east. Evidently the corner, and, as evidently, running through to the water. - W.II. W. ]
H. 25. Thomas Hawkins. [Apparently not entered in the Book of Possessions. - W.H.W.]
H. 26. William Kirkby. [House and garden. with the lane south-east. James Hawkins north, Richard Sanford west. This lot seems to be in the curve of the street (Cambridge street), aud probably had J. Johnson on the east in part. - W. H.W.]
H. 27. James Hawkins. [House and garden, with W. Kirkby south, R. Sanford west. No other bounds given east or north. -: W.H. W.]
H. 28. Richard Parker. [Apparently not recorded; but it figures as the north bound of Sanford and Robert Meers .- W. H. W. ] H. 29. Richard Sanford. [House and lot of about an acre,
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R. Parker north, J. Hawkins and W. Kirby cast, the street west, and Robert Meers west. Here are two west bounds, and no south line. The street was probably south. - W.H.W.]
H. 30. Robert Meers. [His lot No. 3, being half an acre in the New Field, with R. Parker north, J. Hawkins east, Tho. Scot- tow south, Richard Meers west. Here I suspect another error, as Richard Meers does not elsewhere appear. If it be Robert, i.e., another lot of the same owner, I should surmise that Scottow's lot was the same as Sanford's. It seems that Thomas Scottow's will mentions his aged mother Sanford; hence, it is probable that Scottow and Richard Sanford were brothers-in-law. As Scottow is not recorded as owning any lot here, it seems more reasonable to conclude that it was the Sanford lot which was meant. This would bring Meers out to the lane, now Chardon street, which would close the description as nearly as can now be done. The following cut may represent the first apportionment. - W.H.W.]
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H. 31. Henry Pease.
H. 32. Alexander Beck. [These two lots are so laid down on Lamb's map. But Pease's lot is already located (H. 5) as on the corner of Hanover and Portland streets. Beck's lot is thus de- scribed : " A small parcel of land, first granted for a houselot, bounded with John Leverett south. Henry Pease east, a small creek west. and the Cove north." This apparently might as well be down on Sudbury street, unless there be other reasons for giving Pease another lot - unrecorded in the Book - in this vicinity. - W.H.W.]
H. 33. George Burden. [His lot No. 3. being in the New Field five and a half aeres. with the marsh east. J. Mellows west, R. Fairbanks north. and E. Jackson south. - W.H. W.]
LOTS 34 TO 51, WEST OF CAMBRIDGE STREET, AND SOUTH OF LEVERETT STREET, WITH THE WATER LINE.
H. 34. David Sellick. [By the terms of E. Jackson's lot, it would seem that David Sellick owned a lot here ; but it is not recorded. - W.H.W.]
H. 35. Edmund Jackson. [His lot No. 2, being about three aeres in the New Field, with G. Burden north. Valentine Hill south, D. Sellick east. R. Meers west. - W.H. W. ]
H. 36. Robert Meers. [His lot No. 2. being two acres in the New Field, with E. Jackson east, R. Turner west, G. Burden north. R. Cook south. - W. H. W.]
H. 37. Robert Turner. [There seems to be of necessity a lot of Turner's here. between H. 35 and H. 37. Probably he had it of Valentine Hill. though it is not recorded in the Book. - W.H. W. ]
H. 38. William Davies the apotheeary. [His lot of four acres in the New Field. bought of Valentine Hill, with Thomas Buttolph south. James Pen north. R. Turner east, John Biggs and James Pen west. - W.H. W. ]
H. 39. John Biggs.
H. 40. James Pen.
H. 41. John Mellowes. [These three lots seem to be required by the boundaries of H. 33 and H. 38, but are not recorded. - W.H.W.]
Mr. Winsor's note is as follows : -
a. The present Cambridge street was laid out in 1647, twelve feet wide, through Mr. Stoughton's ground at this point, "along the ravle side:" through Richard Cooke's and Thomas Buttolph's, "'to the farder end of the lots to Tho. Munt's ground on the farthest side."
b. David Sellick : sold to John Leverett. The highway, which at this point extended north and west, was early ealled Green lane : and there is a petition on file in the City Clerk's office, March 10, 1734, asking that it may be paved, which gives many of the chief abutters at that time. c. Edmund Jackson, 3 acres ; afterwards Thomas Leverett.
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d. Robert Meeres, 2 acres. Symon Lynde bought it in 1667-91 ; sold it in 1718, to John Staniford, - then increased to six acres. Staniford seems to have disposed of a part of it, at least, by lot- tery. (Sewall Papers, iii., 227; Gleaner Articles, No. 9.) This included the rising ground, where a windmill stood, near the pres- ent West Church (Dr. Bartol's). This edifice was raised in 1736, and the original structure is shown in the view of the Battle of Bunker Hill, given in the third volume of the Memorial History.
e. Robert Turner. Passed later to Staniford. f. Valentine Hill ; sold, in 1648, to William Davis, 4 acres ; then on his death, 1676, to his son Benjamin, who conveyed it to his mother (she having married Edward Palincs), and they, in 1695, passed it to Charles Chambers, who gave his name to the strect now running through the lot. (Gleaner Articles, No. 10.)
g. John Biggs, 13 acre. Marsh granted in 1641, west of North Russell street. His widow died in 1676, and the land coming to her father, John Dasset, it was conveyed to James Allen, in 1696. h. Thomas Munt.
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