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AUTOGRAPHS (continued) :
Samuel Ph. Savage, Ezekiel Lewis), 536; Selectmen, 1762 (Samuel Hewes, John Scollay, Benjamin Austin, Samuel Sewall, Ezekiel Lewis), 536; Select- men, 176,4 (Joshua Henshaw, Jos. Jackson, John Scollay, Benjamin Austin, Samuel Sewall, John Ruddock), 537 ; Selectmen, 1770 (Joseph Jackson, John Ruddock, John Hancock, Samuel Pemberton, Henderson Inches, Jona- than Mason), 537 ; Town clerks (Joseph Prout, Samuel Checkley, William Cooper, Samuel Gerrish, Ezekiel Goldthwait), 537; John Powell, 538; John Foster, 539; Thomas Oliver, 540 ; Adam Winthrop, 542; Edmund Quincy, 547 ; John Clarke, chirurgeon, 548; John Clarke, speaker, 548; Richard Middlecott, 549; Louis Boucher, 549; Jacob Eliot, 550; Benjamin Eliot, 550; John Eliot, 550; Byfield Lyde, 551 ; Thomas Cushing, speaker, 553; James Bowdoin, 553; Andrew Cunningham, 555 ; Z. Boylston, 557 ; Silvester Gardiner, 558 ; Thomas Waldo, 559.
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INTRODUCTION.
ESTATES AND SITES. - The picturesque aspect of the town in the colonial and provincial periods has been set forth in the preceding and the present volumes. To supplement those chapters, and to place the local traditions of the sites which the Bostonian of the provincial period inherited, and to mark the transmission of some of the more interesting land titles, the Editor offers the following study. The Town Records, ante-dating the Book of Possessions, indicate allotments and transfers of which it is not always possible to fix the locality. With the aid of the Book of Possessions and the contemporary records of the town, and by documents preserved in the Registry of Deeds, it is not difficult to make a nearly perfect plot of the Peninsula, as its inhabitants knew it, in home lots and neighborhoods.1 The definition of bounds in these earlier records are not sufficiently exact to make us sure of the shapes of the lots, but their positions relative to one another, and to the modern land- marks, can be made out with considerable precision; and it is to this extent only that the following descriptions go. In this study the Editor
1 There are none of the original deeds pre- about six thousand plans had been recorded. served in the Suffolk Registry of an earlier date The original papers in the Probate Office are admirably arranged and in good condition. The earliest bear date about 1635-36. In the City Clerk's office the files of the original papers- consisting of minutes, reports, petitions, war- rants, leases, and all other papers used in the meetings of the town or of the selectmen - are very imperfect before 1734, and such as remain are scrapped in two volumes. After 1734 they are tied up in bundles, generally by years, though they are in some confusion. There is great need of their being properly arranged and in- dexed. When this is done, they will yield much that the historian of Boston must appropriate. The Editor has made such use of them as he could. of record than 1705, and those of the earliest years are in a very bad condition, in bundles which had not apparently been opened for many years when the Editor examined them, the papers being matted together with mould. Among them were found some of dates in the preceding cen- tury, the documents having not been presented earlier for record. Though the Registry is not an office of deposit, it is desirable that such early records as are left in its keeping should be better cared for. The engrossed records for 1766 and 1768 are missing from the Suffolk Registry, not being returned from Canada, whither they were removed during the Revolution. Up to 1862- VOL. II. - a.
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has freely availed himself of work in this direction which others have done. Mr. Uriel H. Crocker kindly placed in his hands the map already mentioned in the first volume. Mr. George Lamb has made, on a larger scale, a map to embody his interpretation of the Book of Possessions; and this plan was bought a year or two since by the City, and is now in the Public Library. It is not accompanied by descriptions, as is the case with Mr. Crocker's, but it has references to pages of the Book of Possessions. It is further developed than Mr. Crocker's in the regions of the town appropriated to pasturage and tillage; but Mr. Crocker's manuscripts give data for this part, and they have the further advantage of assisting to a considerable degree in tracing the transmissions of the estates. The Editor has also availed himself of some of the late Mr. N. I. Bowditch's results as given in the " Gleaner " articles, published in the Boston Transcript in 1855-56; and Mr. William H. Whitmore has kindly favored him with advance sheets of the new issue of these papers, printed for the city. Of the other printed sources of modern investigators he must needs mention particularly S. A. Drake's Landmarks, Shurtleff's Description of Boston, and the topographical notes to the Sewall Papers, understood to be due to Mr. Whitmore, one of the editors.1
The plan of the streets has been taken from the survey published by Bonner in '1722, with such changes and omissions as seemed to adapt it to the condition of the town at the earlier period. For the reader's convenience, present names have been given (in parentheses) to the streets, which are represented disproportionately wide. A repetition of the same figures on the plan signifies the general direction of the lot's extension. Dotted lines indicate later continuations of streets or cause- ways. Some sections from the original Bonner map of 1722 are also introduced as showing the condition in the early part of the succeeding century.
1 The Editor regrets that the printed volume of Suffolk Deeds, liber i., was not published in time to be of use to him. Mr. John T. Hassam, who has written a valuable introduction to it, kindly placed the proofs of that part of it in the Editor's hands. In this he says that nineteen rec- ord volumes had been filled up to 1700; 193 up to 1800; and to this day 1,510 volumes have been filled. This first volume comes down to April 7, 1654. It opens with two letters in cypher, of which the printed volume is to have a reduced fac-simile and a translation by Mr. William P. Upham, of Salem. This gentleman says the sys- tem of short-hand is that of John Willis of Lon-
don, as made known in 1602, and substantially the same with the marginal notes of Lechford to his Plaine Dealing, as seen in his MS. copy pre- served in the Historical Society's Library. The first letter is about. Hansard Knolles, from (Mr. Upham conjectures) Governor John Underhill, of Dover, to Governor Winthrop; and this is followed by a copy of a letter from Knolles, retracting certain accusations he had made against the Massachusetts Colony. Their dates were probably 1639. The Editor takes this oc- casion to acknowledge Mr. Hassam's courtesy in making various suggestions about the text of this Introduction.
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Of the Book of Possessions, which is in some sort the foundation of all titles of real estate within the old town limits, an abstract or abbreviated copy was printed in the appendix to Drake's History of Boston, in 1856; and it has since been printed entire in the Second Report of the Record Com- missioners. The first leaf (as at present bound) is missing; and, if it was not a part of the original cover, it probably contained the possessions of Governor Winthrop and of some of his family, for the third page begins with the possessions of Deane Win-
throp, his youngest son. The rec- ord seems to give, as originally entered, a half page to each person, down to page III. Subsequent
Doano Winthrop
entries were intercalated in different ink and writing, sometimes with dates attesting time of entry. New names were entered on pages sub- sequent to page III. The exact date of the original compilation nowhere appears. Snow, History of Boston, p. 128, says it " seems to embrace the period 1640-50." Dr. Shurtleff, Description of Boston, places it " about the year 1643." Mr. Whitmore, in his introduction to the Second · Report of the Record Commissioners, gave the evidence which seemed to him then to indicate the "summer of 1652" as the date; but in his chapter in the first volume of this history he determines upon 1645 as about the date. Chief-Justice Gray, in Boston versus Richardson (13 Allen, 146, 151), fixes it between 1639 and 1646. Mr. Uriel H. Crocker, in two communications in the Boston Daily Advertiser (Nov. 21, 1877, and Dec. 15, 1877), gives his reasons for fixing the date in 1643 or 1644; and relies largely upon the similarity of the accompanying signatures of william & spinwall William & spinwall william@spinivatt. the Recorder to prove that it was Aspinwall who made the original entries, about which a doubt had been expressed, and that he con- tinued to make entries till 1651, when he was succeeded by Edward Rawson. Of these signatures the first is of 1638, when he was Sec- retary of the Rhode Island Colony. The second is from Suffolk Deeds, i. p. 60. The third is from the Book of Possessions, p. 33. Mr. Hassam has established still more clearly Aspin- wall's connection with this record, from the handwriting of a letter known to be his, preserved in the Massachusetts Archives, lxxxviii. 384. Aspinwall
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THE MEMORIAL HISTORY OF BOSTON.
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held the office from 1644 to 1651; and Mr. Hassam considers that though the Book of Possessions may not have been begun so early as 1634, - cer- tainly not in the existing copy of it, - it was most likely in pursuance of an order of the General Court of April I of that year that it was compiled. (Suffolk Deeds, lib. i., Introduction.)
NOTE. - In the following notes a few abbreviations have been used : a., for acre ; g., for garden ; h., for house; Z., for lot ; and y., for yard.
PLAN A. - 1. Robert Nash, one a. 2. Edward Gibbons, h. and 1. 3. John Smith, h. and g. 4. John Davies, h. and g .; 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 Shurt- John Davis leff, 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. 5. Gabriel Fish, h. and y. 6. Valentine Hill, 1 .; perhaps later John Kinrick's.
7. James Johnson, glover, upland and marsh ; sold to Thomas Hawkins, baker and inn- Jamos Johnson holder, in 1662. In 1671-72 this lot and No. 4, by assignments and foreclosure of mortgages, came into the possession of Sampson Sheaffe, and from him the estate passed to William Stoughton, the Lieut .- Governor, who, though a Dorchester man, possessed a large Sampson Prof property in real estate hereabout when he died, in 1701, including the Blue-Ball estate (Plan B., No. 87). This last, as well as the present lot, No. 7, fell to Stoughton's niece Mehitabel, wife of Captain Thomas Cooper ; and when the Captain 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 Brattle-Square Church, sold the lot in 1743 to Dr. William Douglass, a physician and author, who had come from Scotland 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 Hil Douglass 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 asses- sors. (See also N. E. Hist. and Geneal. Reg., 1877, p. 118.) Ten years later, Catharine Kerr, the sister of Douglass, con- veyed it to the St. Andrew's Lodge of Freemasons, and it afterwards became 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 John Cary 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
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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.
8. Thomas Hawkins, 1/2 a. 9. John Button, 1.
10. The bridge, the draw of which was changed from one to two leaves in 1653, and the bridge was rebuilt in 1659. The 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 property.
11. 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. Mr. Hassam informs me that after this way was discontinued the town, in 1666, granted a portion of it to Major William Phillips. (Town Records, ii. 26.) In 1826 the Supreme Court, in the case of Rust v. Boston Mill-Corporation (6 Pickering, 158), ordered a plan drawn, which shows this "old way." Mr. Hassam has recently secured its deposit in the Registry of Deeds.
12. 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. 13. John Ruggles, 1637, had h , plot,
Bartholomen Gherman
and g. "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, also 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 continued well into this century.
14. William Wilson, 212 a. 15. Richard Parker. 16. Thomas Meekins, hereabout. Beer Lane was later cut through this region, and in 1735 Samuel Turrell and other abutters petitioned to have it paved. It is the present Parmenter Street.
17. William Hudson, Sr., 5 a ; sold to Norton Hudfon Thomas Buttolph, who again, in 1646, sold to Christopher Lawson, and Lawson sold it in part to William Phillips, who granted his purchase to his wife Susan for life; and the rest was broken up into small lots, Richard Bennett and others holding it. 18. William Davis, the apothecary.
Show further Lawson 38m Davis
19. Christopher Stanley's pasture, which extended west to Salem Street, and was defined on the other sides pretty nearly by Charter, Hanover, and Prince streets. He asipropor françay was a tailor, and left by will, 1646, the first be- quest to the town for the support of schools. (See N. E. Hist. and Geneal. Reg , Jan. 1850, p. 52.) Stanley's widow, Susannah, married William Phillips, who confirmed to her the house Stanley left her, "with the great pasture." (Register, Oct. 1851, p. 447.) A northerly part of this lot passed, in 1665, through Richard Dumer, to John Hull, the mint-master ; and in 1683 he died, and his daughter Hannah and her husband, Judge Sewall, conveyed Hull Street in 1701-5 to the town.
20. Thomas Buttolph, 12 a. 21. William Copp, shoemaker. A small cove lay south, with marsh stretching further east. The annexed autograph is from his will in 1669, in which he calls himself sick and weak ; a cordwainer by occupation ; milram Copp and he leaves the enjoyment of the house to his wife "Gooddeth." In his inventory his house, outhouses, orchard, garden, and land
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about the house are valued at £80. (See also Sewall Papers, ii. 408.) Early in the next century Joshua Gee had a ship-yard, as Mr. Hassam places it, on the southwest side of Prince Street ; and the Gee mansion stood on the southwest corner of Salem and Prince streets. Gee also owned adjacent lands, which fell in 1722-23 to his sons Joshua and Ebenezer (d. 1730), and finally wholly to Rev. Joshua Gee, who died in 1748, when the estate was divided according to a document which Joshua gov " Gleaner" calls one of the most important in the Probate Office.
22. John Button, the miller. 23. John Shaw, who seems to have surrounded the wind-mill lot. There was a bluff here above the beach where the way ran. 24. The wind-mill.
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25. Valentine Hill. Here, at Hudson's Point, was the ferry to Charlestown, and Francis Hudson, the ferryman, was allowed to wharf out here in 1652 "before his ground; " and Thomas Broughton had a like privilege hereabout the same year; and when this privilege was continued a year later, the expression is " to wharf or make a
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barrocadd before his land at Center Haven." Southerly from this point, on the brow of the hill, the town purchased of John Baker and Daniel Turrell in 1659 the beginning of Thomas Broughton the present Copp's Hill Burying-ground, and in 1711 added a part of Judge Se- wall's pasture, to the southwest. (Shurt- leff, Desc. of Boston, p. 199; Gleaner Articles, No. 14.) Hull Street adjacent was not paved till 1735, when Edward Pell and other abutters petitioned for leave to pave it.
26. Nicholas Parker, 2 a. ; allowed to wharf out in 1651. He had built a house here before 1646, when a footway was laid out from it through the gardens to the " mill lane or street ; " and along the shore in 1650 "a way of a rod broad " was laid out from the battery to the ferry. Well in from the shore in this lot, after Salem and Charter streets were laid out, on the westerly corner of them, there was a brick house which Daniel Turrell and Samuel Wakefield with their wives sold to Lady Phips in November, 1687.
Jamil turoce William Phipp.
Only a few days before Sewall records that news had come of her husband being dubbed Sir William Phips at Windsor Castle. The Governor later added to this estate from adjacent lots.
27. Thomas Buttolph, 472 a. Christopher Stanley in 1644 was allowed to wharf near Winnissimet ferry. Along this water front (Nos. 25 to 27) there were various ship-yards established later in the colonial and in the early provincial period. They appear in Williams: Friomanger Bonner's map in 1722. Captain William Greenough's yard was nearly opposite No. 27. Greenough's descendants are traced in the N. E. Hist. and Geneal. Reg., April, 1863, p. 167.
28. Edward Goodwin, h. and small lot. 29. John Sweet, 1 14 a. and h. ; sold to Wil- liam Wicks in 1644; wharfed out the previous year. 30. Isaac Grosse, brewer, h. and g. ; sold to Thomas Anker. Grosse's will is in N. E.
Edward Goodwin Hist. and Geneal. Reg., July, 1853, p. 228. 31. Walter Merry, who gave his name to the point, h .; sold to John Seabury, seaman, in 1639; and then passed successively to John Wilson and to Alexander Adams in 1645, who was allowed, in 1646, to wharf out, maintaining along the shore a highway for a cart.
32. Walter Merry, 12 a., who built " a roof over the highway on the sea-bancke " to the annoyance of the selectmen; and when Hanover Street was extended in the rear in 1644, he was allowed the cost of fencing on that side. He was ordered to keep a highway open on the shore sixteen feet broad, in 1646, and sold the property the same year to William Douglass, who in turn sold it to Henry Brown, mariner, in 1648, with what is called Anker's shop. 33. The North Battery was built out here in 1646, and repaired in 1656.
34. John Sweet, seeming to connect in the rear with his lot at 29. Perhaps this was the lot Governor Bellingham was permitted to wharf before in 1648, Willia Winfrey "if it did not prejudice the battery," when it was described as between Merry and William Winbourne ; and somewhere near was a house which Sampson Shore sold to Christopher Lawson in 1646, when he wharfed out before it.
35. Isaac Grosse. In the provincial period not far from this spot stood the Salutation Inn, which gave a name to an alley running by it, connecting Hanover with North Street. John Brooking owned it, and his widow sold it in 1692 to Sir William Phips. (Sewall
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Papers, i. 222.) John Scollay, hiring of Lady Phips in 1697, kept it. Samuel Green was the host in 1731. It became famous later, when William Campbell kept it in 1773, and it was a rallying-place for the patriots. 36. William Phillips ; sold to William Beamsley, who wharfed out John Sole in 1650, and whose will, 1658, is in N. E. Hist. and Geneal. Reg., Jan. 1855, p. 37. 37. Anne Tuttle. It was on the rear of this lot, on the lower corner of the present Clark and Hanover streets, that the New North Church was built in 1714, -
witt yphilly? William Beamshay
a small wooden building, enlarged in 1730, and giving place to the present edifice in 1802. The land was then bought of Colonel Thomas Hutchinson for £455.
Nehemiah Bonne 38. Nehemiah Bourne, shipwright, who built here in 1641 the "Trial," the first large vessel built in Boston. John Richards was using this yard in 1688. Bourne had come over in 1638 ; previously living at Charlestown and Dor- chester, had come to Boston in 1641. The " Trial " made her first voyage to the Azores and West Indies under the command of Thomas Coitmore. On her next voyage, to
Thomas Coytmorning
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Bilboa and Malaga, she was commanded by Thomas Graves, and returned to Boston, March 23, 1643-44. Bourne went again to England, and served as major of a regiment in the Parliamentary army ; but was once more in Boston in 1645, returning to England the next year, and became rear-admiral in the Parliament's navy. There is an account of Bourne in N. E. Hist. and Geneal. Reg., Jan. 1873.
39. Edward Bendall, h. ; sold to Captain Thomas Hawkins in 1645, who is supposed to have built the house, which became later the Ship Tavern, which stood till 1866. John Vyal kept it in 1663, and it is associated with some stirring events. Hawkins's ship- yard was on the opposite water front, and he built here as early as 1645 the ship " Seafort," of four hundred tons. Hawkins's inventory is given in N. E. Hist. and Geneal. Reg., Oct. 1855, p. 343.
40. Edward Bendall ; sold to Anchor Ainswortlı, and subsequent owners were Joseph Phippeni, 1647, George Mitchell, John Baker. Baker's will is in N. E. Hist. and Geneal. Reg., April, 1861, p. 124.
41. The way along the shore from the dock to Gallop's Point had been laid out "as it is begun " in 1643, and in 1650 it appears that " the way formerly granted of a rod in breadth from Gallop's Point to the Battery, being interrupted by Mrs. Hawkins her house [39], it shall turn up from the water side through Mrs. Hawkins her garden, and soe by Mr. Winthrop's house, between Major Borne's house and his garden [38], before Mr. Holiok's, to the Battery," - marking some changes in ownership.
42. Major Thomas Savage, h. and g .; wharfed out in 1643. This or another house on the spot became later the King's Head Tavern, which was burned in 1691, and rebuilt. Drake says that James Davenport kept it in 1755, and his widow in 1758 ; but
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