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Lucius R. Paige, History of Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1630-1877, with a genealogical register, Chapter 2: civil History. (search)
amount unto. Ibid., i. 88. This canal still exists on the westerly side of College Wharf, from Charles River nearly to South Street. It was a natural creek, enlarged and deepened thus far, from which point, turning westerly, it extended along the southerly and westerly sides of South and Eliot streets, and crossed Brattle Street, where the town ordered a causeway and foot bridge to be constructed, Jan. 4, 1635-36. On the fifth of the following July, provision was made for the payment of Mr. Masters, when it was Ordered, That there shall be levied out of the several plantations the sum of thirty pounds, for the making of the creek at the New Town, —but no portion of this sum was assessed upon the New Town. Again, Feb. 3, 1631-2, It was ordered, That there should be three score pounds levied out of the several plantations within the limits of this patent, towards the making of a pallysadoe about the New Town; viz. Watertown, VIII.l. the New Town, III.l. Charlton, VII.l. Meadford, III
Lucius R. Paige, History of Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1630-1877, with a genealogical register, Genealogical Register (search)
fever. Masters, John, was one of the earliest inhabitants of Camb., and in 1635 owned a house and seven acres of land on the westerly side of Ash Street, near Brattle Street. In 1631 he engaged to construct a canal from the river, through the marsh, to the upland, near the foot of Dunster Street, 12 foot broad and 7 foot deep, for which the Court promiseth him satisfaction, according as the charges thereof shall amount unto. （Mass. Col. Rec.) The cost of the canal, or creek, was £ 30. Mr. Masters d. 21 Dec. 1639; his w. Jane d. 26 Dec. 1639. By his will, dated 19 Dec. 1639, it appears that he had daughters Sarah Dobyson, Lydia Tabor, and Elizabeth Latham; a grandson, John Lockwood; and probably sons Nathaniel and Abraham. Maynard, John, owned a house and five acres of land at the West End, 1635, fronting easterly on Garden Street. He rem. to Hartford, where he was living in 1648. Another of the same name was early in Sudbury. Mead, Israel, perhaps from Roxbury, m. Mary, da
Lucius R. Paige, History of Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1630-1877, with a genealogical register, M. (search)
fever. Masters, John, was one of the earliest inhabitants of Camb., and in 1635 owned a house and seven acres of land on the westerly side of Ash Street, near Brattle Street. In 1631 he engaged to construct a canal from the river, through the marsh, to the upland, near the foot of Dunster Street, 12 foot broad and 7 foot deep, for which the Court promiseth him satisfaction, according as the charges thereof shall amount unto. （Mass. Col. Rec.) The cost of the canal, or creek, was £ 30. Mr. Masters d. 21 Dec. 1639; his w. Jane d. 26 Dec. 1639. By his will, dated 19 Dec. 1639, it appears that he had daughters Sarah Dobyson, Lydia Tabor, and Elizabeth Latham; a grandson, John Lockwood; and probably sons Nathaniel and Abraham. Maynard, John, owned a house and five acres of land at the West End, 1635, fronting easterly on Garden Street. He rem. to Hartford, where he was living in 1648. Another of the same name was early in Sudbury. Mead, Israel, perhaps from Roxbury, m. Mary, da