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ed to individuals, about one acre in its extreme northwesterly corner was reserved for its former use, until trials, and imprisonments, and executions were transferred to East Cambridge. This lot was described in the Proprietors' Records, April 3, 1826, as about one acre of land, called the Gallows Lot, in front of the house of James Rule, and separated from his real estate by a bridle-way leading from the county road to said land, etc. It was sold on the 24th of the the same month to William Frost, and described as bounded easterly, southerly, and westerly, by his own land, northerly and northeasterly by a bridle-way, leading from the county road to land belonging to Mary Stone and Susanna Jarvis, etc. It was entered from North Avenue through a bridleway or passage, between Lancaster Place and Arlington Street, now called Stone Court. The names and the number of the wretched convicts who suffered the extreme penalty of the law at this Place of execution, are unknown to me. One
6. Jacob H. Bates, 1842, 1843. Omen S. Keith, 1844. Royal Morse, 1845, 1846. Jonas Wyeth 2d, 1847-1849. James Luke, 1847. Josiah W. Cook, 1848, 1849, 1855. Edward G. Stevens, 1848-1850, 1854. William L. Whitney, 1850-1852. John Hews, 1850. Charles Wood, 1851-1854. Joseph Whitney, 1851-1853, 1857. George Coolidge, 1853, 1854, 1856, 1857. Joseph H. Rice, 1855. Ozias Clark, 1855. Abel W. Bruce, 1856, 1860. Atherton H. Stevens, 1856. Alvaro Blodgett, 1857. William Frost, 1858-1863. George W. Livermore, 1858, 1859. Andrew J. Green, 1860-1877. Artemas Z. Brown, 1861-1877. Charles H. Saunders, 1864-1867. Levi L. Cushing, Jr., 1868-1877. Town Clerks. the Records were kept by the Clerk of the Selectmen until 1693, when an officer styled Town Clerk was first elected. William Spencer, 1632-1635. Joseph Cooke, 1636, 1637, 1639-1641. Joseph Isaac, 1638. Probably. Roger Shaw, 1642. Probably. Thomas Danforth, 1645-1668. John