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34. Thomas Millard, h. and g. After Millard's death this estate passed to Colonel Samuel Shrimp- ton in 1672, who sold it in 1676 to Peter Sergeant, who built upon the lot the famous house, later to be known as the " Province House," when it was bought in 1713 to be made the royal governor's official residence. The Indian which was perched upon the top of the cupola was the handiwork of Deacon Shem Drowne, the same who made the grasshopper vane of Faneuil Hall. The further history of the estate is traced in Shurtleff's Description of Boston, 596. See also Dr. Ellis's chapter in this volume.
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35. Walter Blackborne, h., g., and shop, which Elizabeth Blackborne (Walter having gone to England) sold in 1641 to Francis Lyle the barber, who united the service of a
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surgeon, after the fashion of his day, and in this capacity served later in the Parliamentary army in England. Henry Bridgham owned part of the lot, which he sold in 1648 to Richard Tapping and John Spoore.
36. Atherton Hough, h. and g. It was well up School Street that the little French Atherton: Haughe church was built, about 1714. They had bought the lot of James Meers. hatter, ten years earlier. Next door to them, in 1747, Richard Cranch, card-maker, had his shop, -the father of Judge Cranch. 37. Arthur Perry, tailor and drummer, h. and g. He died Oct. 9, 1652, but left a son, Seth, to keep up his trade.
38. John Lugge, h. and g. 39. Richard Cooke, h. and g. Here also lived his
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son, Dr. Elisha Cooke, a citizen who figured largely in the Inter-Charter period. It was in this house that Governor Burnet lived while the Province House was making ready.
40. John Synderland. 41. Zaccheus Bosworth, h. and g., with barns, cow-house, orchard ; sold in 1652 to Thomas Woodward. Ano: Fdunder land Bosworth's will, 1655, is in N. E. Hist. and Geneal. Reg., October, 1851, p. 443. On this lot there was erected, early in the next century, the brick house which became the residence of Jacob Wendell, a wealthy merchant and prominent citizen of his day.
42. Governor Winthrop. His house stood nearly opposite the foot of School Street. His " green " is now occupied by the Old South Church. Before his death he
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deeded the property to his son Stephen, reserving right of occupancy of one half for his own and his wife's life. The property came into the possession of John Norton, the minister of the First Church, whose will is given John Norton in N. E. Hist. and Geneal. Reg., October, 1857, p. 342 ; and his widow gave it to the Third Church, and upon it their first edifice was built, in 1670, - a wooden structure, which gave place in 1729 to the present building.
43. Atherton Hough, h. This is the point at which James Boutineau, in the pro-
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vincial period, had his mansion. He married a sister of Peter Faneuil. 44. Richard Sherman, h. The annexed signature is from his will, in 1660, which is printed in N. E. Hist. and Geneal. Reg., July, 1855, p. 227. See Ibid., April, 1864, p. 157, for the will of the widow Robinson, formerly wife of Richard Shearman.
45. William Hibbins, gentleman, h., g., and stable. Somewhere between 45 and 46 on the Water Street side, Major John Walley had his mansion-house in the early part of the next century, with wharf belonging, and land stretching through to Milk Street. Upon his death, in 1711, it descended to his son John; and on his death, in 1755, it was
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advertised as containing "upwards of twenty rooms." The present Devonshire Street runs through lot 45, and was early known as Joyliffe's Lane, from John Joyliffe, a prom- inent citizen, who lived upon it, and died in 1701. Drake's Boston, 509.
46. John Spoore, h. and g. Spoore was called of Clapton, Somersetshire, when he bought, in 1638, Mr. Wilke's house and ground, - perhaps this lot. Somewhere here- about on the Creek the leather-dressers, in 1643, were granted a place to water their leather. Spoore mortgaged this property in 1648, and by some means we find Deacon Henry Bridgham in possession in 1655, who built in 1670 a mansion Henry Bridgham on the ground, and had his tan-pits near by. He did not live, however, to move into the new house, but died in the old one in March, 1670-71; and on the death of his widow, in 1672, the property passed to the sons, and in 1680 was divided, the new house falling to Dr. John Bridgham, of Ipswich. The Doctor died in 1721, and this house fell to his nephew Joseph Bridgham, a recent graduate of Harvard, but now an apothecary in Boston. Bridgham sold it in February, 1734-35, to Francis Borland for {1,200. Joseph Calef was a tenant of the house, and plied his trade with the tan-pits. It was while Calef was here that Congress Street was laid out from Milk to Water Street. There was a petition in 1757 to continue Water Street over the old tan heaps and to pave it. Calef died in September, 1763, and the house and grounds fell to Francis Lindall Borland, but afterwards came in joint possession to John Borland, a brother of Francis Lindall, and to the children of Wait Still Winthrop, who had married a daughter of Francis Borland. The remaining history of the house falls later than the provincial times. It became the famous Julien House, and its descent is traced at length by Shurtleff, Boston, 659.
47. John Spoore, g. 48. William Pell, tallow chandler, h. and g. 49. Robert Rice, h. and g. 50. William Dinsdale, h. and g. 51. John Kenrick, h. and g. 52. James Penn, h. and g .; granted in 1637. 53. Nicholas Parker, h. and g. 54. Nathaniel Bishop,
James prom. Nathaniel Bishop
h. and g. A lane was laid out (Oct. 15, 1645 ; March 23, 1646) west of this lot, running through to Summer Street, nearly the present Hawley Street, and known early as Bishop's Alley.
55. John Stevenson, h. and g. His widow married William Blackstone, and the lot passed in 1646 to Abraham Page; and then, same year, to John Hansett of Roxbury ; but the spot got its chief glory sixty years later, when Benjamin Franklin was born here.
56. Robert Reynolds, shoemaker, h. and g. His will, 1658, is in N. E. Hist. and Geneal. Reg., April, 1855, p. 137; gives his house and orchard, after his wife's decease, to his son Nathaniel, who removed to Bristol, R. I. A family distinguished in the medical profession represents the blood in Boston to-day.
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57. Edward Fletcher, h .; sold the northern part in 1646 to William Hailstone, a tailor, from Taunton ; he to Richard Lippincott, barber. It was seemingly on this lot that Daniel Johonnot, the Huguenot distiller, dwelt in his latter years. N. E. Hist. and Geneal. Reg., October, 1852, p. 359. 58. Richard Waite, tailor, h. and g. An account of him and his family is given in N. E. Hist. and Geneal. Reg., 1877, p. 422. 59. Charity White, h. and small yard. 60. Francis East, carpenter, h. and g. 61. Nathaniel Eaton, h. and g. 62. Richard Hogg, h. and g. ; sold in 1645 to John Lake, and he to Thomas Wiborne
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in 1648, whose will, 1656, is in N. E. Hist. and Geneal. Reg., July, 1852, p. 289. 63. John Marshall, h. and g. 64. Nathaniel Woodward, h. and g. 65. John Palmer, Jr., h. and y.
66. James Stokes, h. and g .; sold to George Bromer ; he, in 1642, to Amos Richard- son, a tailor. Here in the next century, after Bishop's Alley (the modern Hawley Street) was run through, on the upper corner of it stood the old Seven Star Inn, giving its name for a while to the street ; and upon the same spot, in 1734, the first edifice of Trinity Church was erected, which stood till 1828. This land was bought for the church of William Speakman.
67. William Hudson, Sr., g. Sewall, in 1704, records the burial of a Quaker in what seems this lot, as the Quakers did not have till 1709 any cemetery of their own. At the time of the burial it was called Brightman's pasture and orchard. Sewall Papers, ii. 113, and note.
68. John Palmer, Sr., h. and g. Not far from this spot stood, in the provincial days, the elegant mansion of the younger Sir William Pepperrell, which was sold under the confiscation act in 1779. Sabine, American Loyalists, ii. 170.
69. Robert Scott, g. 70. Gamaliel Waite, h. Gamaliel Waite was a brother of Richard Waite, and died in 1685, aged eighty-seven. (N. E. Hist. and Geneal. Reg., 1877, p. 424.) 71. Thomas Oliver, g. 72. Benjamin Negoos, h. 73. Robert Scott, g.
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74. Maudit Engles, h. Mr. Crocker says that his descendants wrote the name " Engs." The name in the Book of Possessions is " Engles," though the autograph here given is "Enges." Savage gives it "Ingles." It madett Enger is written " English " sometimes. 75. Captain Robert Keayne, g. This lot fell to Keayne's granddaughter Anne and her husband, Captain Nicholas Paige, and from them passed to Daniel Johonnot in 1719, then bounding east, on Long Lane, while on its easterly bounds stood Mr. Johonnot's distillery and store-houses. In 1793 it was sold to the trustees of the Boston Theatre ; and on one part of it, separated from the theatre lot by Franklin Street, the Catholics, in 1803, erected their first church. N. E. Hist. and Geneal. Reg., Oct. 1852, p. 358.
76. Richard Tuttle, and afterward his widow, had a wind-mill here, near the present Church-Green estate. In 1642 permission was given to remove the wind-mill into the fort ; but the lot had a wind-mill on it when it subse- quently passed to Edward Holyoke, Richard Woodward, Pithard Zutfall and then to William Aspinwall. It was often spoken of as the "South Wind-mill." After that portion of Bedford Street (called Blind Lane) which connects with Summer Street was cut though, the lot formed by the junction seems to have come into the possession of the town, by which it was
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granted, in 1715, to a new society, which became the New South Church. The edifice then built stood through the provincial period, and was replaced in 1814 by the structure which the present generation remember as upon the spot before 1868. It is not explained why the site was called " Church Green " before it was contemplated to use it for church purposes. Sewall Papers, iii. 61.
77. George Griggs, h .; allowed to sell in 1638, " for his redeeming out of their debts," to Mr. Tuttill of Ipswich, and Mr. Tuttill of Charlestown. The annexed signature is to his will in 1655, when he spoke of him- self as sick in body. It is printed in Surge Briggs N. E. Hist. and Geneal Reg., Oct., 1855, P. 343.
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78. William Davies, lock and gunsmith ; granted 1638 ; sold to William Blantaine. The portion of this lot next the pond lot belonged, early in the provincial time, to Benjamin Church, the father of the Revolutionary traitor, who sold it in 1742 to Robert Thompson ; and he, in 1764, to John Rowe, who built upon it a mansion, afterwards the residence of Judge Prescott, and which is portrayed in George Ticknor's Life of William H. Prescott. In 1845 it passed by purchase to the Church of the Saviour, and the free- stone structure was built upon it, which has been taken carefully down and reconstructed on Newbury Street. Shurtleff, Description of Boston, p. 409.
79. Thomas Bell, h. and g. He died 1655, and his son Thomas conveyed it to John Maryon in 1668.
80. Richard Hollick, Hollidge, or Hollinghead, h. and 1. In 1680 Hollick and his wife Ann, in their old age, sold the lot (reserving the use of the house for their lives) to Henry Alline and Robert Sanderson, deacons of the First Church ; but not until 1808 did that church erect, on an inner part of this lot, their late meeting-house on Chauncy Place. Gleaner said, in 1855, that this was probably the only lot in Boston held under a direct conveyance from the first possessor.
81. Gamaliel Waite, g. This lot was the site of the fine old mansion of the provin- cial time which Leonard Vassall built, now marked by the building of C. F. Hovey & Co. Mr. T. C. Amory (N. E. Hist. and Geneal. Reg., Jan., 1871, P. 38 ; see also Jan., 1863, p. 59) has traced the descent of the property, and described the mansion. For the Vassall family, see N. E. Hist. and Geneal. Reg., Jan., 1863, and Heraldic Journal, ii. 17. Vassall bought it in 1727 of Simeon Stoddard; and FRED Hubbard after his death, in 1737, it passed by sale to Thomas Hubbard, who lived in the house till his death, in 1773. He had been Treasurer of Harvard College, and his portrait by Copley now hangs in Memorial Hall.
82. Elizabeth Purton, a widow as early as 1633, whose h. in 1651 seems to have been leased by Robert Morse to James Oliver. She made her mark to her will, dated 1650, which is printed in the N. E. Hist. and Geneal. Reg., July, 1853, p. 233. On this site, in the next century, Thomas English lived in a sightly mansion-house. 83. Job Judkins, h. and g.
84. Robert Hull, the blacksmith, h. and g. His will is in N. E. Hist. and Geneal. Satt Reg., Oct., 1861, p. 322 It was at this point that the printing-office stood, in 1704, where the first Boston newspaper, the News-Letter, was printed.
85. John Hurd, tailor, h. and g .; mortgaged to Governor Dudley for £23 in 1649. It was granted to Hurd by John Leverett in consideration of a garden granted Leverett in the New Field. For Hurd's descendants, see N. E. Hist. and Geneal. Reg., April, 1865, p. 123. 86. William Blantaine, h. and g. He made his mark to his will, which is printed
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in N. E. Hist. and Geneal. Reg., April, 1857, p. 172. 87. Thomas Wheeler, tailor, h. and g. His will, 1654, is in N. E. Hist. and Geneal. Reg., July, 1851, P. 305.
88. Pond, "the town's watering-place." This pond had become so much a nuisance in the provincial days that in 1739 the question of filling it up was mooted, and in 1753 the lot then containing about one ninth of an acre was sold by the town to David Wheeler. He died in 1770, and his wife, who held it, died in 1773.
. 89. John Viall, vintner ; conveyed by him and his wife Mary, about 1644, to William John Viet Costin, carpenter ; he to Edward Cowell, " cordwinder ; " and he and his wife Sarah, in 1671, to Rev. James Allen, of the First Church, who was reputed to be " very rich," and, perhaps having a speculative turn, he sold it the next year.
90. Common land. 91. Thomas Buttolph, g.
92. Miles Reading. 93. David Offley, h. and g. 94. Edward Rainsford, h. and g. 95. Garret Bourne, h. and g. Here within the house-yard stood the "Liberty Tree," which is said to have been planted in 1646, and became famous in the Stamp-Act times, and was cut down in spite by the Tories in 1775. 96. Griffith Bowen, h. and g.
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97. Cole, h. and g .; later owned by John Cuddington, John Bateman, and John Odlin, in 1650. 98. John Odlin, h. and g.
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99. Walter Sinet, fisherman, h. and g. ; granted in 1638. 100. Thomas Fowle, h. and g. He removed to Braintree. In 1650, h. and orchard sold by John Cuddington to William Holloway. 101. Jacob Leger, h. and g. His will is in N. E. Hist. and Geneal. Reg., Oct., 1857, p. 340. 102. Robert Woodward, h. and g .; granted in 1637. Papers relating to his estate are in N. E. Hist. and Geneal. Reg., Jan., 1859, p. 10. Bedford Street was laid out in 1644.
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103. Owen Roe, h. and g. 104. John Pelton, h. and 1. 105. A piece of marsh. 106. James Davies, sailor, h. and g. 107. William Parsons, h. and g. 108. William Corser, h. and g. He is called in his will, 1673, Cosser, and, being " weak of body," makes his mark to it. His wife was Joanna.
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109. Elder Thomas Oliver, h. and g. Here he practised the healing art, - the physician of the young town, as well as ruler in its church. See his relationship to the other Olivers in N. E. Hist. and Geneal. Reg., April, 1865, p. 100. Between this lot and No. 42, on the line of the present Spring Lane, was the ancient spring-gate of the first comers. (See Mr. Bynner's account of it in Vol. I. p. 543 ) When, in the provincial period, Water Street was extended through this lot into the present Washington Street, on the northerly corner, at the sign of the " Heart and Crown," Thomas Fleet in 1731 had his printing office, and here, in 1735, he began the publication of the Boston Evening Post. See further on this point in Mr. Goddard's chapter on the "Literature and the Press of the Provincial Period " in the present volume.
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110. Richard Fairbanks, h. and g. ; sold in 1652 to Robert Turner, who later built a new house on the lot, which is mentioned in his will (N. E. Hist. and Geneal. Reg., Jan., 1859, p. II). Here at a later day The Blue Anchor was kept by George Monck,
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whom Dunton celebrates in his Letters, and who extended his career into the provincial days. (See Whitmore's note to Record Commissioners' edition of Gleaner Articles, p. 18.) A petition from Joseph Willson for a license shows that this or another tavern of . the same name was called " Near Oliver's Dock " in 1755, and that it had been known as such for forty years, - a lesser period than is true, certainly, if it was not another hostlery. It was the same tavern which Thomas Bayley petitioned for the privilege of keeping in 1752. 111. Richard Woodhouse, h. and 1. 112. Thomas Foster, h .; sold in 1647 to William Browne, later of Salem.
113. Jonathan Negoos, h. 114. Thomas Munt. He had permission in 1635 to fence in a piece of marsh before his house for the making of brick. (See N. E. Hist. and Geneal. Reg., April, 1862, p. 162.) 115. Henry Messenger, joiner, h. and g .. This is
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the lot on which now stands the building of the Massachusetts Historical Society, and, in part, the Boston Museum. His will is dated March 15, 1672, and he died in 1681, his wife Sarah inheriting the estate ; and she at her death, 1697, gave the half next the burial-place to her son Thomas, and the other half to her son Simeon. An account of his descendants is in N. E. Hist. and Geneal. Reg., Oct., 1862, p. 309 ; and is given more at length in the Genealogy of the Messenger Family, by George W. Messenger, Albany, 1863. This Messenger lot, separating the town property on School from that on Court Street, was in part later acquired by the town. (Gleaner Articles, No 3.) 116. Burial-ground. See Gleaner Article, No. 4.
117. Thomas Scottow, h. and g. His will is in N. E. Hist. and Geneal. Reg., Oct., 1856, p. 362. He sold to the town in 1645, - the present City Hall lot. The town built a school-house Thomas: Stoffo upon it, and Mr. Woodmansy, the teacher, lived in the old house. Woodmansy bequeathed his " little estate" in 1667 to his wife Margaret and his daughters Martha and Bathia. His will is in
In 1666 Daniel Henchman was N. E. Hist. and Geneal. Reg., Jan., 1862, p. 55.
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employed to assist Woodmansy. Benjamin Tompson succeeded Woodmansy in 1667, acting with Henchman. Jan. 6, 1671, the celebrated Ezekiel Cheever took the school,
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having accepted the appointment the previous December 29, and kept it until 1708. An account of Cheever, by Mr. Hassam, in N. F. Hist. and Geneal. Reg., 1879, VOL. II. - e.
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p. 175, gives various particulars about the school-house while it was in charge of this master. Cheever was succeeded by Nathaniel Williams. Thomas Prince preached Williams's funeral sermon, which was printed in N. E. Hist. and Geneal. Reg., Oct., 1854, p. 368. Williams died in 1738, and was followed by John Lovell. In 1750 the
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school had about a hundred pupils, if we may judge from a petition of Lovell for a porch to be built to the school-house, since "every rainy day the chill is very great from a hundred wet great coats."
Between the teacher's house and the school-house, Richard Cooke was permitted in 1652 to build, paying a ground rent, which went for the school-master's salary. In 1704 a new school-house was built on the spot. The ground now in front of the City Hall was sold by the town later, and again repurchased. Just below this there stood, in the provincial times, the dwelling of Jean Paul Mascarene, a Huguenot. who went to Nova
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Scotia in 1711, and became Governor there ; but died in Boston in 1760. A little further down the street was the Cromwell's Head Tavern, a somewhat famous resort in the provincial period ; here Washington lodged when he came to Boston in 1756. Just above this inn lived the merchant and wit, Joseph Green.
118. Edward Hutchinson, h. and g. After his removal to Rhode Island, liis son was permitted to sell it to his uncle, Richard Hutchinson, of London, who never occupied it. The " Old Corner Book-Store," erected in 1712, now occupies a portion of the lot; and the descent of the property has been traced in Shurtleff's Description of Boston, p. 671.
119. Major-General Robert Sedgwick, h. and g. He had lived earlier in Charles- town. It was in a court which, in the provincial period, extended through this lot Soft Sedgwicke toward the present Court Square that the fire of 1711 began, breaking out, as the News-Letter of the day said, " in an old tenement, within a back-yard in Cornhill [Washington Street], near the first meeting- house ; " and Sewall says it " broke out in a little house belonging to Captain Ephraim Savage, by reason of the drunkenness of Moss," whom the News-Letter characterizes as a " poor Scottish woman ; " and Drake gives the name of Mary Morse. (Sewall Papers, ii. 323.) There are two petitions on file in the City Clerk's office giving the names of some of the principal sufferers by this fire. The first, whose signatures are opposite, is for an abatement of rates because of their losses, signed by Samuel Lynde and others. The other is for permission to move small buildings into the burnt district, to give temporary relief to such as were burned out, themselves among the number. This was headed by Nicholas Boone.
120. Valentine Hill, h. and g .; sold in 1645 to William Davies. Hill moved, after 1650, to Dover, New Hampshire It
was probably from a building on this lot that the first number of the Boston News- Letter was published, April 24, 1704.
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121. William Teft, h. He was enjoined, in 1644, not to plant it with Indian corn,
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nor anything that may hinder the wind-mill on 76. The records show that William Teffe, tailor, agreed to buy Jacob Wilson's h. and ground in 1638; and that in 1639-40
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he bought a h. and 1/2 a. of Edward Gibbons, which the latter had bought of William Mauer, and he of William Hudson, Sr., in 1639.
122. William Deming, h. 123. Benjamin
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Gillom, h. 124. Robert Turner's pasture ; sold 6 a. in 1652 to Richard Fairbanks. Long Lane (Federal Street) was later cut through the westerly part of this lot, and upon it the meeting-house was built in 1744, in which Channing subsequently ministered. There was a petition for widening Long Lane in 1716, and the annexed autographs (the Olivers, Sheafe, and Adams) show some of the principal resi- dents in this neighborhood at that time.
140. Richard Fairbanks. Marsh along the creek.
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PLAN D. 1. William Coleborne, h. and g. His will is given in the N. E. Hist. and Geneal. Reg., April, 1857, p. 174. In the next century, 1734, David Colson, one of the selectmen, built a house here. 2. Edward Belcher, h. and g.
witt dolbron The autographs of Edward Belcher, father and son, are annexed, the first to his will in 1671 ; the other in 1673. The father married Christian, sister of William Talmage, and their daughter Ann married Samuel Flack. He sold the westerly part to Bernard Trot in 1670.
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3. William Talmage, h. and g. He sold the westerly part to Bernard Trot in 1669, and in 1704 William Griggs owned the whole lot. 4. Thomas Snow. He had, Dec. 16,
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1667, an old dwelling-house " to which the sign of the Dove is fastened," and a new house " fronting to the highway leading to the street that leads to Roxbury." (Suffolk Deeds, v. 353., quoted in Report of Committee on the Nomenclature of Streets, 1879, p. 12.) His lot stretched east in the rear of Talmage and Belcher. His widow Milcha married
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