... 1656 the General Court gave the overseers of his will the right to sell all his real estate. It would appear that this Brigham Farm, as many ancient deeds refer to it, was bought for £ 16 by Hon. Thomas Danforth , an executor of the will, although no deed of the property is recorded. In 1695 the farm on the Rocks figures in the suit brought by the children of Thomas Brigham to recover, apparently, all the ...