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This line is now easily traced from Atherton Tavern, westerly by the walls, and easterly from Mr. Breck's as far as Milton Hill. Milton Hill and East Milton had already been disposed of by prior grants, and were not included in this subdivision.
At right angles, or nearly so, with this central parallel line, lines were drawn to the river parallel with each other, inclosing more or less territory, according to the claims of each com- moner.
In some cases these lines were so near together as to make a very long and narrow strip of land; in other cases so far apart as to inclose several hundred acres. In the same manner the territory of the second range, lying between the central parallel line and the line marking the Braintree boundary, was subdivided by lines at right angles with the same, and thus the whole of this district was owned by the commoners of Dor- chester before Milton was incorporated.
North-westerly of the central parallel line the division began at the westerly boundary of the ministerial land on the line which now separates the estates of J. M. Robbins and A. L. Hollingsworth, and ran westerly to Blue Hill meadows; south- easterly of the central line the division began at the outside of the thirteenth lot, next the lot of Samuel Rigby, or nearly op- posite the Pound, and ran westerly to the Canton line.
The following table gives the names of those who drew these lands and the amount of each : -
1/2
1 MILE
W
E
$
14.
15 % 16
1718
19
Pirer
Mill
RIVER
LANDS
DEPONSET RIVER
Mr. Glover
Mr. Stouton
Line
Parallel
to
Braintree
29
28
27
26 25 14 22
21
20 19 18 16
14
12 11
10 9
8765 321
SALT
Part of 1st Lot
MARSH
65 64 63
60 59
53
45 44 42 38 37
36
34 32 3130
Mr. Bourne
B. Wilkens
Sarg.
Mr. Hutchinson.
Mr. Holman
2
13
12
=
10 9
6.7 % 8
5
Collicot
Sarg.
4
Ensign
Holman
3
SUMMIT
GREAT BLUE HILL
Sturdy Oak
BRAINTREE
WOODCOCK
HILL
The Eastern portion is from an old plan. For the Church Lands and Sixth Division the attempted restoration is from imperfect records, the original plan being lost.
SKETCH (wie illustrate the ALLOTMENTS OF LAND IN THAT PART OF DORCHESTER which was incorporated as @MILTON9 1662.
COMMON LAND
CHURCH LOT
V
1
S
1ON
0
X
TI
NEPONSET
S
H
CHURCH
T. Lewis
Collicolt
Part of 1.
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ALLOTMENT OF THE SIXTH DIVISION.
N. W. of Central Line.
No.
A. Qr. Rd.
1 Thomas Trott,
10
1 10
2 George Procter,
25
2 24
31 Edward Breck, 30
1
6
3 John Cornell,
23
1
0
4
Widow Turner,
11 1 28
33
John Moseley,
21
0 24
5 Richard Baker,
48
1
8
34
Thos. Tileston,
16
2 12
6 Robert Pearse,
18
0 12
35
James Blake,
57
1 20
7 Abraham Howc,
24
3
0
36
John Hill, Sr.,
17
1 13
8 Widow Farnsworth,
32
2 32
37
Israel Stoughton,
456
3 12
10 Mrs. Fenno,
68
3
0
39
Richard Collicot,
41
3 28
11 William Sumner,
61
3 14
40
Jasper Bush,
17
3 22
12 Nathaniel Duncan,
78
3
0
41 Jacob Hewins,
17
1 36
13 Augustin Clement, 19 2
6
42 Widdow Dickerman, Richard Wright, half
22
L 22
15 Bray Wilkins,
17
2 32
43 of Thomas Lombard and Thomas Millet,
47
2
2
17
Lawrence Smith,
10
0
0
44 Wm. Blake, Sr.,
30
0
0
18
Nathaniel Patten,
33 3
0
45 Mr. Mather,
72
0
1 20
20 Wm. Blake, jr.,
44
2 3
47 Sam Jones,
35
1 06
21 Wm. Robbinson,
128
0 22
48 John Pearse,
26
1 12
22 Nathaniel Wales,
25 10 0
49
Henry Way,
15
1 32
23
Samuel Wadsworth, 24 George Dyer,
29
2 33
51
Mrs. Glover,
50
3 32
25 Wm. Daniels,
25
2 36
52
Edward Clapp,
28
0 32
26 Richard Leeds,
28 2 12
53
Enock Wiswall,
43
0 0
27 Thomas Andrews,
16
3 20 54
Wm. Clark and others, 82
41
2
8
57
Clenient Topliff,
13
2 24
58
Wnı. Weeks,
27
1 20
59 John Fenno,
20
2 32
60
John Capen,
120
1
61
Wm. Pond,
44
0
4
62
James Humphreys,
19
2 36
63
John Hill, jr.,
13
3
8
64 John Wiswell,
67
2
6
65
Daniel Preston,
53
0 34
66 Chind Lot,
40
2 12
Common land,
160
0 0
60
1 20
38
Lieut. Clapp,
43
3 38
16
Henry Butler,
48
0
3
19
Mr. Robert Howard,
61
0
1 34
50
Ensign Foster,
41
1 32
0 26
28 Wm. Turner,
15
29
Nicholas Clapp,
24
1
8 56
Capt. Edwd. Johnson, 23
3 16
14 Wm. Minot,
52 2 0
S. E. of Central Line.
No. A. Qr. Rd. 87 0 12
30 Samuel Rigby,
32 Mr. Ting,
23
2 32
9 Elder H. Withington,
32 46 Major Atherton,
102
10
1 24 55 Thos. Swift,
After the incorporation of Milton these lands rapidly changed hands. George Proctor sold to Robert Badcock and William Prescott ; Widow Turner to George Sumner; Richard Baker to S. Trescott; Robert Pearse to R. Sumner; Abraham Howe to R. Badcock; Widow Farnsworth, Elder Withington, and Mrs. Fenno to Robert Tucker. These are a few of the early changes.
The lot of Israel Stoughton, of four hundred and fifty-six acres, extending from Canton avenue to the old Braintree line,
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HISTORY OF MILTON.
and including the estates of Col. Russell and H. J. Gilbert south of Canton avenue, and many other estates, together with the poor-house lot, which the town received as a legacy fron Gov. Wm. Stoughton, his son, and all the land as far west as Pine Tree brook, was obtained by him from thirteen different owners, either through purchase or exchange, for the purpose of bring- ing his scattered lands into one tract.
BIOGRAPHIC.
Only a small portion of those whose names thus appear as land-owners ever became actual settlers in Milton. In most cases the lots were sold within a short time, and the original owners disappear from the records. A few made this place their home and the home of their children, and the identical lands, thus early received, have passed down in the same family from generation to generation, even to the present time. The names of all such will often appear in future pages of this history. Some, however, bravely met the severe toils and exacting de- mands incident to a new settlement, devoted their strength and lives to removing obstacles and laying foundations, and then passed away. Their families also have disappeared. These may justly claim the remembrance of those who follow them, even to the most distant generation.
Richard Collicot and John Holman may be spoken of in the same connection. They were active and enterprising citizens. They were here very early, before the arrival of the Dorchester people, and were intimately connected with the Indians, both being mentioned in Pyncheon's papers, in 1633, as collectors of furs. Their grants were located side by side.
Collicot built a house on Adams street in 1634. His house was near the north-west corner of Adams and Centre streets.
Twenty years ago a two-story house of great antiquity stood under the hill, on the corner, where the cottage now stands. The last occupant was Jonathan Beals.
This may have been the identical Collicot house ; but its style would place it rather among buildings of the second period, and the location so exposed and indefensible would hardly have been selected by the sensible Collicot.
At that time there was not a building nor a solitary inhabi- tant south of the Neponset river. There was only a bridle path over Milton Hill. It is not positively known, but it is highly probable, that Collicot's house was a " garrisoned house." It was used by Dorchester as a "Guard House."
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BIOGRAPHIC.
The only reference to the locality of this first house erected in Milton fixes it in this vicinity, but admits of its standing on the hill slightly in the rear of the mansion of Mr. Lovering on Centre street.1
There was a small house on the south-east corner of Adams and Pleasant streets, occupied by Mr. Bent, and a house north of the Crosby estate on Adams street, which was doubtless the first residence of John Gill. Mr. Holman built on his lot near by, probably in 1637. His house stood on the site now occupied by the mansion of Mrs. Payson. Each of them had a residence in Dorchester.
Holman was often selectman of the town; he was ensign of the first military company in Dorchester, which gave him a military title through life ; he was one of the first members of the Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company ; he died in 1652, leaving a large estate. Richard Collicot was named in the will as one of the overseers of his estate. His children were, John, born Feb. 23, 1637, and Margaret, by his first wife, who died. Dec. 1, 1639. By his second wife he had Thomas, born Aug. 6, 1641; Abigail, 1642; Samuel and Patience. Thomas succeeded to his father's estate in Milton. He was an excellent and useful citizen, active in the church and in the town. He was one of the committee to extend a call to Mr. Thacher.
Thacher's Journal : -
Sept. 10, 1680. Mr. Holman brought a quarter of mutton and some tobacco.
Sept. 8, 1682. I was at the raising of Mr. Holman's house.
He had ten children, most of whom settled in Milton and vicinity.
Mr. Thomas Holman, died in December, 1704. In his will he is represented as cordwainer; and the request is made that his two apprentices remain with his son Thomas until their time is out. There is reference in the will to his " oldest house enlarged and joined to his new house." He bequeathed to his eldest son, Thomas, " one half of his new house, and one half of his goods ;" and ordains that none of his lands be sold to strangers, but the whole estate be retained in the Holman name. The Holman family occupied the place for nearly a hundred years. The Milton estate was sold to Governor Belcher about 1730, and the Holman family removed to Bridgewater. Within a year the gravestones of Col. John Holman, his son John and wife Alice, with two children have been removed from their
1 See Records of Proprietors of Dorchester, Lib. 2, fol. 17.
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HISTORY OF MILTON.
resting-place in the old Bridgewater cemetery to a new line, where the whole family, before scattered, have been brought together.
Collicot was selectman of Dorchester, 1637-, and 1641; was deputy to the Court, 1637. He was first sergeant of the artillery company; he acted as messenger of the Dorchester Church at the Cambridge Synod for the trial of Mrs. Ann Hutchinson, 1637 ; he assisted at the Narragansett treaty in 1645 ; he engaged with Eliot in his work with the Indians ; he had a house also in Boston. Sewall, in his diary, states that his mother lodged at Collicot's house in Boston, 1660. Soon after he removed to his Unquity farm. He was trustee of Milton Church property in 1664, and continued his residence in Milton till a few years before his death, in 1686. His life was crowded with activity and usefulness. Sewall says: "Collicot was buried July 9, 1686." His gravestone is at Copp's Hill. He had three chil- dren : Experience, born 1641; Dependance, born July 5, 1643 ; and Preserved, baptized Jan. 28, 1648.
ROBERT BADCOCK.
The land of Robert Badcock was situated north of the brook, near its junction with the Neponset ; the brook at that point was called "Robert Badcock's river." It comprised the Rug- gles farm, and, by purchases from Nathaniel Duncan and Teague Crehore, extended westerly, on the north side of the brook, to Brook road.
Jonathan Badcock, his eldest son, as late as 1699, lived in the Dudley house. In February of that year Thacher speaks of a great flood coming up to his garden bars, and carrying away the bridge in front of Jonathan Badcock's house.
Thacher's Journal :
Dec. 26, 1684. This day Sergeant Badcock and Peter Lion were at my house to get me to go and treat with Sergeant Vose, about consenting to Peters marrying his daughter.
Dec. 30. Treated with Sergeant Vose about giving his consent that Peter Lion should marry his daughter, but his answer was plainly negative.
Jan. 3, 1685. I went with Sergeant Badcock to treat with Jane Vose, and to acquaint her that her father could not consent, whereupon we labored abundantly to take off her affection from Peter.
March 14, 1683. Jonathan Badcock refused to sign the petition to the king.
Here were the first rising beams of the dawn of liberty. Thus early, twenty years after the corporate existence of the town, a score of your sires gave distinct testimony of the spirit
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BIOGRAPHIC.
that was in them. Two days before, Rev. Mr. Thacher, the leader in temporal as well as spiritual things, had received the customary address of submission and loyalty to His Royal Majesty, to be subscribed by all males sixteen years old and upwards. The fourteenth was training-day in Milton, a public holiday, when the whole town came together. Mr. Thacher was there and read to the town the address to His Majesty, with the following result : -
Divers signed it, some would not, as J. Daniels, J. Fenno, W. Heick- away, Teague Crehore, Stephen Crane, Jonathan Badcock, John Jordan, David Himes, Edward Vose and others, so I made a speech to them, then took leave.
Mr. Thacher was a strict, uncompromising royalist. A few of his flock, who ordinarily heard the Shepherd's voice, restive under the restraints of royalty, and moved by stirrings for self- direction and control, refused to follow, even a century before the yoke was thrown off.
John Glover sold to Robert Badcock a tract of land in 1648. (Suf. Deeds, L. 7, f. 215.) Robert Badcock was assessor of Dorchester in 1657. His son Jonathan was born 1655; Nathaniel, born 1657; Caleb, born 1660; Eben, born 1662; Han- nah, born Feb. 8, 1665; Elizabeth, born Dec. 24, 1666, married Henry Vose of Milton ; Thankful, born Feb. 18, 1668. Robert died 1694; Joanna, his widow, died 1700, aged seventy-one years.
Robert Badcock was the progenitor of a long line of descend- ants, extending from that early period to the present time. Representatives of the family have always lived in Milton, among whom the record shows many earnest and faithful citizens.
NEHEMIAH BOURNE.
He was the son of Robert Bourne, shipwright of Wapping ; born 1611; married 1632; came to America, with Thos. Haw- kins, 1638 ; located in Dorchester, and became freeman in 1641; went to England with Graves in 1643. He was not a resident of Milton, but owned a tract of land on the hill, and probably was interested in the early ship-building on the river.
Mr. Bourne and his wife Hannah were members of the Dor- chester Church in 1639. He was also connected with the artillery company. He was with Col. Stoughton in England, 1644, and received the commission of major in Col. Stoughton's regiment under Gen. Rainsboro. At the death of Stoughton he returned to Boston in the ship "Trial," 1645, but again went
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HISTORY OF MILTON.
with his wife to England in 1646, and entered the naval service, where he afterwards attained distinction, rising to the rank of rear-admiral in the "St. Andrew," of 64 guns, and soon after in command of a squadron of five frigates. His fleet, under Ad- miral Blake, met the Dutch fleet under Van Tromp, an admiral of great renown, when a battle was fought, much to the disad- vantage of the Dutch. Again they met, Oct. 28, 1652, near the coast of Kent, the Dutch at this time under Deputy de Wit and Admiral de Ruiter, with the same successful issue for the English.1 He obtained pardon from Charles II., and may have been the man mentioned in a letter of the wife of Goffe the regicide, in 1672. (See Mass. Hist. Col., I., 60, and IX., 268, 3d Series.) He finally returned to Boston. Mrs. Bourne died in London, 1684; he died 1691.
WILLIAM DANIELS.
He was made freeman in 1648; he married Catherine Grenaway, and lived in Milton in 1650, on the estate conveyed to him by John Grenaway, his father-in-law. His house was situated on Milton Hill, where Mr. Glover's house now stands. Mary, his daughter, married John Kinsley, son of Stephen Kinsley, his nearest neighbor, in 1670; she died in 1671. His son John married Dorothy Badcock, March 29, 1672, daughter of George, who lived near by. His daughter Hannah married Ben Bad- cock, brother of Dorothy, Feb. 11, 1674.
The names of William and John Daniels are found in the list of tax-payers, 1674.
1680, Sept. 11. Young Daniels sends Mr. Thacher a quart of wine.
William and his son John appear to have kept a public house. Thacher's Journal : -
Nov. 7, 1681, I went to pray with our military company, and then went and dined with Sargeant Badcock and Sargeant Vose at William Daniels. Nov. 18. Went and dined with the selectmen at John Daniels.
John Daniels had eleven children. Dorothy, wife of John, admitted to the church, June 18, 1682; Elizabeth, daughter of John, admitted to the church, Nov. 25, 1688; Hannah, daugh- ter of John, married George Badcock, July 14, 1715.
The estate on Milton Hill was sold by Daniels to Provincial Secretary William Foye, in 1728, who removed the Daniels house, and erected on the site a building considered in that day a "stately and elegant mansion."
1 See Hume's Hist. of England, 1652.
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BIOGRAPHIC.
NICHOLAS ELLEN, OR ALLEN.
But little is known of this early resident of Milton. He appears as witness in case of the will of John Holman, before the General Court in 1686, with William Salsbury and Robert Redman. Thacher says : "April 9, 1684, I was sent for to visit Goodman Ellen, who they thought was dying."
Nicholas Ellen married the widow of Robert Pond, and may have lived in the Pond house, which was bought by Ezra Clapp, whose first wife was Abigail Pond, daughter of Robert; but his residence is supposed to have been in the east part of the town. His son Daniel also resided here.
Dec. 26, 1690. Small-pox at Daniel Ellen's, in Milton. Mary, wife of Daniel, was admitted to the church in 1706.
JOHN GLOVER.
Mr. Glover came to New England in the "Mary and John." He may have resided at Charlestown for a short time, but his name appears on the list of inhabitants at the incorporation of Dorchester, in 1631, according to Blake's Annals. He brought over with him a great number of cattle, and the men and im- plements needful for carrying on the business of tanning, in accordance with the regulations of the London Company, re- quiring each member to establish some trade on his estate.
This business he established in Dorchester, where the pits may be seen to this day, on Adams street, a few rods south of Park street near Harrison square. The members of the London Company were entitled to a share of two hundred acres of land for every fifty pounds adventured. Thus he, a member of the company, early located a grant at Unquity, where, on his farm west of Milton Hill, his cattle were kept. He was a man of high standing in England, being distinguished by the title of Mr., which meant something in those days. Johnson says of him : " Mr. Glover was a man strong for the truth, a plain, sincere, and godly man, and of good abilities."
The following lines appear in the work entitled "The Wonder working Providence ": -
" And Godly Glover, his rich gifts thou gavest,
Thus thou, by means, thy flock from spoiling savest."
His life in Dorchester was one of unceasing activity in the service of the church and colony. For a period of eighteen years his name appears on almost every page of the records, in- dicating a variety of duties and engagements, not only in
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HISTORY OF MILTON.
Dorchester, but through the colony, sufficient to exhaust the time and powers of any man. He has justly been termed one of the founders of New England.
In the latter part of his life he removed to Boston, where he died, Feb. 11, 1653. The whole of his Milton estate was sold by his heirs to Robert Vose, July 13, 1654. In the deed of conveyance is the following description of a portion of this estate :
All that Dwelling House and Farm, where now Nicholas Wood dwells, with the Barn, Cow House, Out House, and Yards, Orchards and Gardens, with what fences and privileges to the said House is thereto belonging, with all appurtenances belonging and appertaining, with ten acres of upland and meadow more or less within the close, lying about the said House and upon which the said IIouse standeth.
This "Close," in which were the dwelling-house, buildings, gardens, and orchards, covering an area of ten acres, embraced many of the present estates on Canton avenue, near the " wool works," including, doubtless, the estates of Vose, Whitney, Fitzpatrick, Cunningham, Stratton, and perhaps others.
The house here described is the old " Vose house," the cellar of which was seen, till within a few years, at the junction of Brook road and Canton avenue, and a part of the wall of the barn-yard, between the brook and Vose's lane, laid perhaps two centuries ago, has been removed within twenty years.
Beside many gifts to Harvard College during his life, Mr. Glover left a legacy of "five pounds a year forever as a per- petual annuity for the aid of indigent students," the payment to begin at the decease of his widow, unless she was able to pay during her life. From the year of her decease, which occurred in 1670, to October, 1871, the sum of sixteen dollars and sixty-seven cents was paid into the treasury of Harvard College annually by those who inherited the estate and their successors. Then the college accepted the sum of ($350) three hundred and fifty dollars in lieu of the annuity. This sum was invested for the purpose of founding a scholarship, and now (1887) amounts to $1,244.09. This will be named the " Glover Scholarship."
WILLIAM HUTCHINSON.
William Hutchinson, Israel Stoughton, and John Glover were stockholders in the company before they left England. Edward Hutchinson, with his nephew, the son of William, is supposed to have come over with Mr. Cotton in the "Griffin," arriving in Boston, September, 1633, and the remainder of the family fol-
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BIOGRAPHIC.
lowed on the next voyage of the same ship, arriving Sept. 13, 1634.
The family consisted of an aged widow, with five adult chil- dren : William, the eldest, husband of the famed Anne Hutchin- son, with his family; Richard, with his family, who did not accompany his brothers to New England; Samuel and Edward, unmarried, and a married daughter, wife of Rev. John Wheel- wright.
The committee appointed to lay out a farm for William Hutchinson assigned him a portion of the Mount Wollaston lands, belonging to the town of Boston.
Whereas, at a general meeting the 4th of the eleventh month, 1635, it was ordered that Mr. W. Coddington, Mr. W. Colburn, W. Aspinwall, Edmund Quincy, and J. Sampford should lay out Mr. Hutchinson a suffi- cient farm at Mount Wollaston, at their discretion.
Now the five persons have at this day, under their hands, thus given in the laying out thereof, viz. : -
They have assigned unto him five hundred acres of land lying betwixt Dorchester bounds and Mount Wollaston River, from the back of Mr. Cod- dington's and Mr. Wilson's farms up into the country, and if there be not sufficient meadow ground within this lot, to have such competent meadow assigned to him as shall be found most fitting for him.
The land assigned to Mr. Hutchinson by this allotment was called the "Great Lott," the whole of which appears to have been "within the precincts of Boston or Brayntree."
At about the same time William Hutchinson bought of Bray Rossiter, gent., an additional tract of land abutting the "great lot " on the west and lying within the confines of Milton. This constituted the " Hutchinson land" in East Milton. This tract was conveyed by his son Edward Hutchinson, and his son-in-law Sergeant Thomas Savage, June 12, 1639, to Richard Hutchinson, citizen and ironmonger of London. (See Lechford's Manuscript Note-Book [102].)
A farme lying on the east side of Neponsett river bounded in on the east side with an high Ridge wch is Boston Bounds on the west side with a freshe brooke called Unkataquassett and for the length of it to runne one hundred and sixty poles into the land wth all the meadow lying before it as it is bounded with a greate salte creeke unto the aforesaid high ridge as also tenne acres of meadowe or thereabout lying on the west syde of the aforesaid fresh brooke with one little house and one frame with all the timbers and appurtenances thereto belonging either falling or standinge. All wch said farme and lands came unto us by purchase from William Hutchinson ffather of me the said Edward who purchased the same of Bray Rossiter gent to whome the said premisscs came by purchase from the Indians & granted by the Court & Towne wth all rights priviledges commons in Necks of Land, Islands or Inlands with all other appurtenances thereunto belonging.
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HISTORY OF MILTON.
In 1637 Anne, wife of William Hutchinson, was convicted of heresy, and banished from the colony, together with Rev. John Wheelwright, brother-in-law of William Hutchinson. "Mrs. Anne Hutchinson was a woman of consummate ability and address, for we learn that Rev. John Cotton was ensnared by her, while Winthrop wavered. The latter, however, became her bitter enemy, and pursued her with great vindictiveness. For a time 1 she had all Boston by the ears, and even public business faltered."
William Hutchinson, and his sons Richard and Edward, and fifty-five prominent members of the colony, signed a remon- strance against the sentence of banishment; in consequence of this they were disfranchised, and were ordered to surrender their arms to the public authorities. William and Edward removed to Rhode Island, 1638, accompanied by Aspinwall, Coddington, and many of the most valuable citizens of Boston, who laid the foundations of another colony, of which William was chosen ruler. Richard returned to England.
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