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Historic leaves, volume 1, April, 1902 - January, 1903, Ten Hills Farm , with Anecdotes and Reminiscences (search)
Ten Hills Farm, with Anecdotes and Reminiscences by Alida G. Sollers.
It will be necessary, in writing a history of Ten Hills Farm, Somerville, Mass., to go back to 1588.
On June 12 of that year, there was born in Groton, Suffolk County, Eng., John Winthrop, who, with others, sailed for New England in the bark Arabella.
This was in 1630, when he was in his forty-third year.
Winthrop had the original charter of Massachusetts Bay-Colony, and was vested with the title of Governor.
He landed at Salem June 17, and on June 18 sailed up the Mystic river, stopping at Fort Maverick, Noddle's Island, now East Boston; thence he went to Charlestown, where he built a house.
Sometime in 1631, probably in the early spring, Governor Winthrop built a farmhouse on the right bank of the Mystic river, about three miles from the site of the present State House.
This he used as a summer residence, Charlestown, and later Boston, being his winter home, in which latter place the Green, the