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Horas Savage James Davenport
in 1754 Davenport, who had kept the Globe Tavern, petitioned to keep the Bunch of Grapes, formerly known as Castle Tavern, near Scarlet's Wharf, which had been a licensed VOL. II. - b.
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house for forty or fifty years. There is an account of Davenport in N. E. Hist. and Geneal. Reg., 1879, p. 31. Diagonally opposite the upper corner of this lot, on the southerly corner of the modern Bennet and Hanover streets, Christ Church, the oldest church in Boston, was built in 1723. Its chime of bells was placed in it in 1744. A little way from Bennet Street, on the northerly side (it is shown on Bonner's map), stood the North Grammar School, erected in 1713. Recompence Wadsworth was the first master ; and there is on the files of the city clerk an interesting testimonial to his fidelity, signed by Increase Mather and other ministers of the town.
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43. John Anderson, 1652, was allowed to wharf be- fore the end of the lane, and to take wharfage of stran- gers but not of townspeople. 44. Edmund Grosse. His will, 1655, is given in N. E. Hist. and Geneal. Reg. July, 1858, p. 273. He sold the lot to John Anderson, shipwright, in 1647. It seems to have . been on this lot that Judge Edward Hutchinson later built him a house, which late in the eighteenth century became the North End Coffee House. It was opposite this point that the principal wharf of the North End was later built, known first as Clark's Wharf, and subsequently as Hancock's, - Thomas Han- cock being the principal proprietor.
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45. Samuel Cole, h. and g. ; sold in 1645 to George Halsall, who in 1646 had liberty " to set down a causey ten foot square, from his wharfe to low-watter marke, and that pas- singers shall come and goe free to it ; " and shortly after he was permitted " to imploy a passag boatt betweene his wharfe and the ships wher the ships rid, and is to take a penny for each person." 46. Isaac Cullimer, 114 a. ; allowed to wharf out in 1643.
47. Thomas Clarke, h. and warehouse ; and he is called of Dorchester, merchant, when in 1644 he granted a part of it to Christopher Stanley, which part is perhaps the identical " p'cell of land lying neere to the water side," which Stanley named in his will, two years Tto : Chanka later, as a bequest, "for the maintenance of the free schoole," and which the town in 1649 sold to William Phillips, in consideration of 13s. 4d. " per annum forever, to the use of the schole." This Thomas Clarke was a prominent merchant, and his inventory, in 1678, shows various estates in Boston. His shop goods are appraised at £756; the house where Elizabeth Stevens lives, £300; the one Mr. Woodmansy lived in, £150; orchard behind it, {100 ; land at lower end of the Common, £70; the house occupied by his son-in-law, Thomas Baker, £75 ; the house Edward Shippin lives in, £700.
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48. Thomas Joy, carpenter, 12 a. ; h. with another h. adjoining. He is called of Hingham when, in 1648, he bonded this estate to Major Savage, with its house, " near the new meeting-house in Boston." This second church, at 54, is usually considered as built two years later, in 1650 ; and in this last year a committee . was appointed "to lay out the high wayes by the new meetinge house." Mention is made of his cellar " by the water side," in 1642; and in 1644, when it is said to be in the highway. Perhaps this became the new house which, in 1647, he sold to Bozoone Allen, of Hingham, with adjoining wharf. Allen calls him- Bozoune Allen self of Boston in his will, 1652. N. E. Hist. and Geneal. Reg., July, 1851, p. 299. Joy built the town-house, and in the final settlement in January, 1661, he received £680.
49. Isaac Cullimer, 34 a. ; h. and g. 50. Bartholomew Pasmer, or Passmore, 14 a. ;
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h. and g. ; sold to John Sweet in 1650. It was here, on the corner of North and Richmond streets, that Nicholas Upsall kept the Red Lion Inn, and near liere the devastating fire of Nov. 27, 1676, broke out in one Wakefield's house. Upsall's will is given in N. E. Hist. and Geneal. Reg., July, 1861, p. 251 ; and an account of him in Register, January, 1880. 51. Francis Hudson, 12 a. He and James Hayden were farmers of the
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Charlestown ferry in 1648. 52. Richard Rawlins, plasterer, h. ; probably bought of Peter Johnson the Dutchman, in 1638; and when Hanover Street was extended in 1644, it took a part of his corn-field behind his house, for which he was compensated. These had lands hereabout later : Thomas Clark, Mark Hands, Henry Lampray, Edward Breck, William Burnell, Henry Paine, George Dell, Thomas Ryder, - some of them doubtless sharing in the breaking up of Stanley's pasture.
53. Thomas Joy, I a. Upon this lot William Clark (see his account of his family in N. E. Hist. and Geneal. Reg., 1879, pp. 19, 226), a prominent merchant of the provincial period, well known in public affairs and not always fortunate in his private ventures, built and lived in a house which became famous. It stood fronting the square, very nearly where Prince Street now comes into it, on the easterly corner. It was next the residence of Sir Charles Henry Frankland, the royal collector of customs, and of whose history there is something told elsewhere in this volume. Further to the east, and occupying the space intervening between the converging streets, was the estate on which Thomas Hutchinson, about 1710, erected, with its front on Garden Court leading from the Tho Hutchinson Square, the sumptuous house in which his son, Governor Thomas Hutchinson, was born and lived. The autograph is of the elder Hutchinson. 54. The second meeting-house, on Clark's Square, as it was then called, built in 1650, burned in 1676, and rebuilt in 1677.
55. John Gallop, h. and g. ; fined in 1636 for obstructing the highway on the sea-bank with his "payles ; " allowed to wharf out in 1643; after his death, his widow Mehitabel,
in 1649, conveyed a part of it to John Synderland. He John Callop signed his will (printed in N. E. Hist. and Geneal. Reg., July, 1853, p. 227) by his mark. About on the line of this estate a passage from the water front to the present Hanover Street was opened, and in Bonner's map, 1722, is marked as Wood Lane, the modern Richmond Street. Near the present northerly corner on Hanover Street the New Brick Church was built in 1721, and stood till it was rebuilt in 1845.
56. Matthew Chaffie, ship-carpenter, h. and g .; sold in part to John Capen, of Dor- chester, in 1649. Chaffie's lot extended back to what was the end of Hanover Street in 1643, when it was ordered that the way be continued further, two rods broad, "from the west corner of Matthew Chafeth's garden unto the little howse by the swamp," which Christopher Stanley had just maison shaffer bought of the town, "and from thence to the windmill as directly as the land will beare."
57. Sampson Shore, h. and g. ; wharfed out in 1643; sold to Edward Goodwin in 1648; Sampfon Shard later to Nathaniel Adams. 58. Edward Wells, h. and g. ; sold to David Sellick in 1647. 59. John Hill ; wharfed out in 1643. This estate afterwards came into the possession of George Burrill, and passed to his heirs.
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60. John Mylom, cooper, h., g., and shop ; sold to John Phillips, biscuit-maker, in 1648. It was upon this lot that one of the oldest buildings in Boston existed, half way up Cross John Myform Street, to our day. Phillips, who had come from Dorchester, became a deacon of the Second Church in 1650, added to his estate adjacent lands, and built the stone house; which, when it was torn down in 1864, was considered the oldest building in Boston. It has been described by Mr. Bynner in Vol. I. Phillips died in 1682. Shurtleff, Description of Boston, p. 667, has traced its his- tory to our day. Phillips, before he died, sold the part of his lot next the water-side to Captain Christopher Clarke. 61. William Werdall, h. and g. This lot afterwards passed to John Turrell and his heirs.
62. This lane was laid out in 1636, from the water-side "up the balke or meare that goes up from the end of John Mylom's house, next William Aspinwall's ground, and to goe along to the Mylne Cove, a rod and a halfe broade." Mylom was allowed, in 1647, to wharf before the eastern end of it. At the beginning of the next century it was called Coney's Lane. Sewall Papers, ii. 211.
63. Valentine Hill. 64. Valentine Hill; sold to Barnabas Fawer, in 1646, who was to maintain a cart-way by the wharf before his door, and whose will, 1654, is in N. E. Hist. and Geneal. Reg., July, 1851, p. 305. 65. Valentine Hill ; sold to James Mattock in 1646, whose will, 1666, is in N. E. Hist. and Geneal. Reg., Oct. 1861, p. 325. David Phippeny had a house and lot in this neighborhood. See his will in N. E. Hist. and Geneal. Reg., July, 1853, p. 233.
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66. Valentine Hill; sold to Arthur Perry. 67. Valentine Hill; sold to Richard Straine, in 1648; then passed to Paul Allistre, with a wharf in front; then to Robert Nanney, in 1650. His autograph is from his will, 1663, printed in N. E. Hist. and Geneal. Reg., April, to bort familye 1858, p. 155. Near the bridge over the creek, Hill sold, in 1651, a lot to William Aubrey, " for the use of the undertakers of the iron works in New England." A lane which later passed through this lot and 70 (the present North Centre Street) was called Paddy's Lane, from Captain William Paddy, a citizen of prominence, who lived upon it, and died in 1658. His will is in N. E. Hist. and Geneal. Reg., Oct. 1854, p. 355 ; also see 1877, p. 321. 68. John
Peirce. 69. John Oliver. If this was the son of Thomas Oliver, see his will, 1641, in N. E. Hist. and Geneal. Reg., July, 1849, p. 266. 70. John Knight.
John Oluret. 71. Thomas Marshall. 72. Joshua Scottow was allowed, in 1651, to wharf at the northeast end of the mill bridge. He had bought the marsh at that time of James Nash, of Weymouth, to whom John Mylom had sold it.
73. John Mylom; sold to Thomas Marshall, 1648. 74. John Mylom, h .; sold in part in 1650 to Robert Nash, the butcher. 75. John Mylom ; sold to Governor Leverett. 76. Lewis Kidby, fisherman. 1639; granted house lot on the marsh next to John Lowe. 77. John Lowe, upland, surrounded by marsh ; called a wheelwright, when it was granted to him in 1636-37. 78. Marsh held in common- Romas marshill age, part of which was granted in 1646 to John Mylom, who sold it to James Hawkins in 1648.
79. Thomas Marshall, shoemaker, h. and g. He offered to the town in 1652 a highway to shorten the way to the bridge (10), but withdrew his offer. The present Marshall Street, however, would indicate that the short cut was eventually established.
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80. Richard Bellingham's marsh, including what came to him under an order, 1644, granting him such of the town's marsh as was undisposed of, "for the continuance of peace and love, in consideration of a quiet resignation of all claim unto the wast before his house." The Governor sold this marsh in equal parts to Joshua Scottow and Christopher Lawson. Shurtleff, Description of Boston, ch. Ivii., shows how in the southerly part of this marsh, near the corner of Merchants Row and North Market Street, stood for many years the well-known Triangular Warehouse.
81. Henry Symons, h. ; sold to Christopher Lawson; and by him in 1645 to David Sellick, with wharf and lane before it; to Robert Nanney in 1646. This wharf was bought by John Shawe, the John: Chanie butcher. 82. John Hill, h. Somewhere in this vicinity in 1656 Thomas Savage built his new house, " between the drawbridge and the conduit." On the opposite side of the present North Street from this lot was an irregular piece of ground, partly reclaimed from the marsh, with a wooden building on it which was consumed in the fire of 1679, to be followed next year by the
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rough-cast structure, which, standing to our day, has been known as the " Old Feather- Store." Shurtleff, Description of Boston, p. 645, thinks the lot was originally a part of Symons's (No. 81), who dying in 1643, his widow Susannah married, about 1644, Isaac Walker, who conveyed it to their daughter Susannah, born 1646, who in 1668 married Mr. Thomas Stanbury, who built the old building, which was taken down in 1860. The sub- sequent history of the building is told by Shurtleff.
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PLAN B. 1. William Hudson, Sr., h. and g. 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 provincial days stood the Bunch-of- Grapes Tavern, with a sign of three bunches of the fruit; and Drake says two of the bunches now hang over the door of a store in North Market Street. The same writer gives its landlords as Francis Holmes (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 Waite. (N. E. Hist. and Geneal. Reg., 1877, p. 423 ) Goelet's Journal (N. E. Hist. and Geneal. Reg., 1870, p. 53) mentions Weatherhead 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."
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Street, in compliment to Christopher Kilby, a wealthy Boston merchant (see Heraldic Journal, ii. 48), 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.
2. William Davis, Sr., h. 3. Governor Winthrop's marsh, reaching up to the street, just east of Congress Davis Street. 4. Elder Thomas Leverett, h. and g. 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 extended back Sko Leveritt on the line of the present Congress Street ; and on a portion of it, opposite the junction of Congress Street and Exchange 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, Descrip- tion of Boston, 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 Belcher, a wealthy merchant, who lived here in 1691, and was the father of Governor Belcher. For a note on Andrew Belcher's family connections, see Sewall Papers, iii. 160; and N. E. Hist. and Geneal. Reg., 1873, p. 239. Andrew Belcher 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 Dummer, and of Jeremiah, - the last being born on this spot. 5. Robert Scott, small lot, h. It was somewhere between 5 and 7, fronting on the Court where Isaac Addington, the Colonial Secretary later lived. 6. The old meeting-house, where Brazer's Building is. Taken Robert-grott down or disused in 1640. James Everill seems to have owned the property in 1651-56, when he was enjoined to make safe a
cellar on the spot. 7. Robert Scott and Henry Webb, gardens. 8. Henry Webb, h., with William Corser just south of him on the lane. The will of Henry Webb, 1660, is given in N. E. Hist. and Geneal. Reg., April, 1856, p. 177. His daughter Margaret, widow
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of Jacob Sheaffe (whose inventory is given in Register, Jan. 1856, p. 84), inherited the " Mansion," and his grandchild, Elizabeth Sheaffe, his warehouse "now let out to build."
9. Mrs. Hudson, h. She died in 1651, and left £10 to the school. At this date she had two houses on this lot occupied by Nathaniel Duncan and John Tincker. (N. E. Hist. and Geneal. Reg., Jan. 1850, p. 54.) Near this spot, in the next century, John
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Phillips kept a book-shop. Drake, Boston, p. 566, gives an engraving of his sign. He died March 30, 1763. See Boston News-Letter, April 28, 1763.
10. Major Robert Keayne, h. and g. This public-spirited and somewhat eccen- Robert Keaynu tric citizen was a prominent merchant. Annexed are 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.), appended to a petition to the colony government in 1667, on file at the State House (Mass. Archives, " Estates," vol. i.). The most extended account of
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Keayne is found in Whitman's Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company, of which Keayne was the leading charter member. On this spot in the provincial times Daniel
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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.
11. The open market-stead, where John wilson Sunior Edw: Rawson James Johnson later, in 1657-58, the "Town and State House" was built, - the col- ony 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. There is, however, in the possession of the Hon. Joseph M. Wightman a subscription paper, of which that gentleman has kindly furnished a fac-simile ' to the Editor, and which reads as follows : -
"Whearas thear is given a considerabl sum by Capt. Keyne towars the Bulding of a towne house, wch sum will not ataine the Bulding wch he mentioneth in his will. Now considering the usefullnes of such a structur, we whoes names are underwritten doe ingag o' selves, o' heyres, executors for to give towards the abouse house and alsoe a condit in the market place the severall sums under written."
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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
relating to the inatter, preserved in the Historical Society's Cabinet, can be found appended to an
1 This fac-simile, together with other papers address delivered by Mr. Wightman in 1862, on laying the corner-stone of the present City Hall. See Mass. Hist. Soc. Proc., March, 1858.
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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 expect to find now at the State House, were probably then consumed. (Sewall Papers, i. 161.)
12. Richard Harding's lot, on which, in 1640, the new building for the First Church was built. It was burned in 1711, and rebuilt. 13. Governor John Leverett, h. and g. ; where Sears Building now is. 14. Richard Parker, h., y., and barn. 15. Prison and
yard, where the Court House now is. 16. Richard Tapping, h .; sold to Nathaniel Williams; again in 1649 to Richard Critchley or Croychley, who married the widow of William Dinely, the barber-surgeon, whose sad fate, in 1639, is described in Mr. Scudder's chapter, in Vol. I., and who left to his widow and children the next lot. A son of Dinely, named John, survived him ;
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and the infant with the name of sad remembrance, who came after the father's death, - Fathergone Dinely, - administered on his elder brother's estate. Between 16 and 17, on the lot now covered by the Adams Express Company's building, lived Colonel Daniel Henchman, father gon Denly the bookseller and bookbinder, with whom Thomas Han- cock served his time, and whose daughter Hancock mar- Dan Henchman ried. She, Lydia Hancock, gave the estate to the Brattle-Street Church in 1765, for a parsonage. See Gleaner Articles, No. 38 ; and comments, in 84, 88, 94 of the Report of the Record Commissioners containing them. James Otis at one time lived in the house.
17. Croychley for Dinely heirs. On this lot, in the flourishing days of Governor Shirley, lived one of the best known Boston 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.
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18. Richard Truesdall, h. and g. Sargent, Dealings with the Dead, ii. 567, says that Benjamin Faneuil, brother of Peter, had his town residence on this lot at a later day. 19 to 26 ; see Plan F., 5 to 11. 27. Nathaniel Chapell, h. and g. 23. John Cole, h. and g. 29. John Mellows, mariner, h. and. g. For his family see Sewall Papers, ii. 210. The annexed signature is from his will, 1674.
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30. Edmund Jackson, h. and g. It was on this corner that the Orange Tree Inn stood during the provincial period. While it was kept in 1712 by Jonathan Wardwell, he set up here the earliest hackney coach stand. Drake says that Mrs. Wardwell kept it in 1724. 31. Jeremy Houtchin, h., g., orchard, and tan-pits; sold in 1646 to Roger Fletcher, late of London.
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32. 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 VOL. II. - C.
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then extended to Hanover Street. Gilbert and Louis Deblois, braziers, conveyed it in 1754 . to Stephen Deblois, who in 1769 sold it to William Turner; and later it passed to the Amory family. Drake's Boston, p. 641.
33. Benjamin Thwing, h. It was about at this point that Smibert the painter lived in 1743, and Brattle Street was subsequently cut off in part from the estate of the artist. 34. Joshua Scottow, h. 35. Alexander Beck, h.
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36. James Brown, h. His will, 1651, is in N. E. Hist. and Geneal. Reg., Oct. 1853, P. 335. Hereabout, on the lower corner of the present Frank- lin Avenue, Samuel Kneeland, in 1718, began a printing-office, and here printed some of the early Boston newspapers. Later it became the stand of James Franklin ; and here his brother Bonne Benjamin assisted him on the New England Courant, and
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