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Historic leaves, volume 1, April, 1902 - January, 1903, Ten Hills Farm, with Anecdotes and Reminiscences (search)
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 governor's town house, included the land owned by the Old South church, Washington street, the house being about opposite to School street. It is recorded that the first vessel ever built in New England was launched by Winthrop at his summer home on the Mystic. The keel was laid oil July 4, 1631, and in October she spread her sails. This vessel he named the Blessing of the Bay, and the ways from which she was launched were until recently in existence near a point where the Edgworth (Wellington) bridge now stands. On October 6, 1631, the General Court granted to Governor Winthrop six hundred acres of land adjoining his estate on the Mystic. This, with the original possession, he called The Ten Hills Farm, from the fact that it contained ten hillocks. Probably the original f