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ietor, admitted Freeman March 16, 1636-7: Selectman most of the time from 1644 to 1675; Representative thirteen years, 1663-75. He was a grantee of seven lots, including twenty-five acres in 1st Great Dividend. His homestall was near Fresh Pond. He also purchased another on the south side of Mount Auburn Street, west of the old burying ground. He was for many years a licensed innholder.—Bond. of Watertown, was making ready to come to its relief. He and Captain Lothrop had been sent to Brookfield with their companies, from Boston, August 7th. On the 4th of September, as he drew near the town, still ignorant of the attack that had been made upon it, he was ambushed and himself and twenty of his band of thirty-six men were killed. He was one of four men sent out in 1669 by the General Court to examine this section of country, and was one of the first white men—perhaps the very first—to be buried in its soil. And it is not unlikely that his grave is very near the spot whence he cau<
taverns, two stores, the tailor, blacksmith, wheelwright, and cabinet maker's shops. The center of this cluster was the old Bird Tavern, where the militia trainings and many public gatherings took place. The first dwelling in 1798 above Newton Street, on the south side of the main road, was then owned by Abijah Livermore and occupied by Eliphalet Warren. Before that date it had been the home of Peter Ball, a deputy sheriff, and one of the coroners of Middlesex in 1774, who removed to Brookfield and died there. It was afterwards purchased and occupied by Warham Cushing, eldest son of Rev. Jacob Cushing, a cabinet maker, who died in 1804. It was finally taken down and another built by his son Leonard on the same lot. Warham Cushing built the next house above for a workshop soon after 1800, which Elijah Brigham, the sexton, occupied for some years. These are still standing, and owned by heirs and descendants of the Cushing family. Next stood the tavern kept by Captain Isaac Gl