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d be given a distinctive name. All the land on the north side of Mystic river, from Mystic pond to the creek (now known as Island-end river) which separates the cities of Everett and Chelsea, was called Mistick, or Mistickside; also, the land on the south side of the river was called Mistick. In 1631 the Court of Assistants granted to Governor Winthrop six hundred acres of land, to be set forth by metes and bounds, near his house at Mistick,. . . [See map in Register, Vol. I, p. 123.] July 4, 1631, the governor's bark, the Blessing of the Bay, was launched at Mistick. The governor's house, as shown on the map above referred to, was on the easterly slope of Winter hill, near the Medford line, within the present limits of the city of Somerville. May 11, 1649, In answer to a petition of several inhabitants of Mistick-side, their request is granted, viz.: To be a distinct town of themselves & the name to be Maulden. There was also a place called Mistick, and a Mistick river men