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is daughter, Mrs. Foxcroft. In his description of his estate we have a realistic picture of the district in 1699: My new dwelling house in Cambridge, with all the offices and buildings belonging thereto, together with my two orchards lying near to the same and all other my lands, swamps, medows, pastures, corn lands, adjoining thereto, the whole being by estimation about one hundred acres more or less, and is all fenced round about. Judge Foxcroft thus became a resident of Cambridge about 1700. At that time no bridges directly connected it with Boston and the place retained its colonial character. Besides the group of buildings near the river, it is said that there was only one at East Cambridge, only four in Cambridgeport, and some seven west of Harvard Square, all these being large estates with fine mansions and the appointments of wealth. The Danforth or Foxcroft estate was the only one in the vicinity of the Delta. It included the Norton estate, the site of the Museums a