Statistics for occurrence #1 of “Cow-yard” in chapter 4 of Lucius R. Paige, History of Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1630-1877, with a genealogical register:

... higher land above the westerly portion of Bow Street, until it intersected Field Lane at the present junction of Bow and Arrow streets; this was indifferently called Back Lane, and Cow-yard Row. Cow-yard Lane, separating the house-lots from the yards in the rear, extended across the College enclosure, from the Common to the Old Field, at the distance of about a hundred feet from Harvard Street, hav...
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