Browsing named entities in Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 1.. You can also browse the collection for North Chelsea (Massachusetts, United States) or search for North Chelsea (Massachusetts, United States) in all documents.

Your search returned 1 result in 1 document section:

Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 1., The importance of Preserving early history. (search)
the history of Winnisimmet and Rumney Marsh, from the earliest times. My first inquiry was at the city hall for the old town files, and I was told that there was not even a scrap. Some hints were found in the colony records respecting two cases which proved to be of the highest interest and importance, but neither in the files nor elsewhere were there any papers, for the reason which will immediately appear. One of these cases was respecting the Capt. Robert Keayne estate in what is now Revere, and the other was that of Gov. Richard Bellingham's farms, which included the whole of the city of Chelsea. These cases raged in every court,— colonial, provincial, and State,—and the latter was in the English courts, and finally settled only at the end of one hundred and fourteen years from its beginning. Yet nobody knew anything about them save some vague statements found in the public records; and the reason was this: A Chelsea town clerk, who was also concerned in the later stages of