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Suffolk County (Massachusetts, United States) (search for this): chapter 14
as issued April 5, 1781, to Thomas Brooks, Aaron Hall and Moses Billings of Medford. Their report was filed, but the creditors refuse to have their claims liquidated on account of fluctuations in the currency. Isaac Royall died of small pox in London, England, in 1781, and his will written on parchment was probated there so far as relates to the estate in Antigua, Sir William Pepperell being appointed executor. He had expressed a wish that his will should also be recorded in Suffolk County, Massachusetts, so it may be found in the records of the Probate Office in Boston. After leaving small legacies to different relatives, handsome enamelled mourning rings to friends (among others to Ebenezer Tirell (?) and David Osgood), he gives to the Town of Medford for the support of schools 100 acres of land in Granby formerly known by the name of South Hadley. All the remaining land in Granby (809 acres) and his right of land in the county of Worcester (928 acres) which he bought Decemb
Granby (Massachusetts, United States) (search for this): chapter 14
in Boston. After leaving small legacies to different relatives, handsome enamelled mourning rings to friends (among others to Ebenezer Tirell (?) and David Osgood), he gives to the Town of Medford for the support of schools 100 acres of land in Granby formerly known by the name of South Hadley. All the remaining land in Granby (809 acres) and his right of land in the county of Worcester (928 acres) which he bought December 28, 1752, in company with the Hon. James Otis, John Chandler and CalebGranby (809 acres) and his right of land in the county of Worcester (928 acres) which he bought December 28, 1752, in company with the Hon. James Otis, John Chandler and Caleb Daney, he gives to the Overseers and Corporation of Harvard College to endow a professorship of laws or physics and anatomy, and they shall have full power to sell said lands and to put the money out at interest, the income whereof shall be for the aforesaid purpose. The simple professorship of laws led the way to the establishment of the Harvard Law School, so that our Cambridge University has much to thank Isaac Royall for. A special bequest gives to Harriot Pepperell, a granddaughter, fo
Marblehead (Massachusetts, United States) (search for this): chapter 14
only surviving children, and that part of the estate, after setting aside two shares for the heirs of Joseph, now an absentee, was assigned to Samuel Kidder, a grandson. Sabine states that in June, 1775, news reached the Provincial Congress that the Irvings of Boston had fitted out under color of chartering to Thompson, a schooner of their own, to make a voyage to New Providence to procure provision for the British troops shut up in Boston. One Captain Samuel Webb was sent to Salem and Marblehead to secure Thompson and prevent the vessel from making the voyage. Thompson, however, made good his escape. March 1, 1779, his estate was put into the hands of Richard Hall of Medford as agent. No inventory was filed, but on April 6, 1780, an account was allowed, the balance of which, £ 446-2, was assigned to his wife, Rebecca Thompson, for her support. On June 3, 1780, on the petition of Rebecca Thompson asking that she be granted leave to rejoin her husband in England on the first c
Walpole (Massachusetts, United States) (search for this): chapter 14
ge University has much to thank Isaac Royall for. A special bequest gives to Harriot Pepperell, a granddaughter, four pieces of land in Medford; namely: 3 acres forming part of the land leased to Gershom Williams, a wood lot 14 1/2 acres commonly called Turkey Swamp; two more wood lots under one inclosure 29 acres 26 rods on the hill commonly called Pine Hill. These lots were purchased by him after the death of his father. The rest of the real estate in Medford, the house and land in Walpole, he leaves in trust to Dr. Simon Tufts, Jacob Royall and Thomas Palmer as an entailed estate to be held in trust for Mary McIntosh Royall during her life, then to go to her first son and his issue, then to her other sons in succession and, failing sons, to her daughters. Failing heirs in this line, then to his grandson William Pepperell for life, and then to his heirs. Further provision is made that the estate shall descend in the following order; to Elizabeth Royall Pepperell and her hei
United States (United States) (search for this): chapter 14
n of Rebecca Thompson asking that she be granted leave to rejoin her husband in England on the first convenient opportunity, and also to return again to this state, the General Court decreed that the said petition be so far granted as to allow her to go, but she might not return without leave being first obtained of the General Court, and the Committee of Inspection for Medford was directed to see that she carried no letters nor papers that might be detrimental to this or any of the United States of America. Joseph Thompson's real estate was sold in 1782 and 1783 by the committee appointed to dispose of the estates of absentees. The deeds all begin with the following preamble, Commonwealth of Massachusetts. To all People to whom these Presents shall come: Greeting-Whereas in and by an Act of the great and general Court passed and enacted on the thirtieth day of April in the Year of our Lord One Thousand seven hundred & seventy nine the Estate of the Persons therein mentioned for
Maine (Maine, United States) (search for this): chapter 14
Thompson, resided here. Both were descended from the early settlers; Isaac Royall from William Ryall who first settled at Salem, having a large grant of land called Ryall Side (a name still applied to a part of Beverly), and who early removed to Maine; Joseph Thompson, from James Thompson who came to Charlestown (1630) and who subsequently became one of the founders of Woburn. Daniel Thompson, the martyr hero of Woburn who fell at the Battle of Lexington, and Benjamin Thompson, better known aend in regular succession after the English fashion, and perpetuate the name of Royall for several generations; for after dividing his Antiguan property equally between his two remaining children, Isaac and Penelope, and bequeathing his estate in Maine and in Worcester County to Isaac, he wills his estate in Medford, Charlestown and Woburn, and also that in Bristol County to his brother, Jacob Royall, in trust for my son Isaac for life, and afterwards to the sons of his son Isaac, in regular su
England (United Kingdom) (search for this): chapter 14
; of merchants and other persons who resided in Boston, two hundred and thirteen; of farmers, mechanics and traders, three hundred and eighty-two. Most of these found new homes in Halifax; some few went to England or to colonies belonging to Great Britain, but all had to commence life anew, exiled from their native land, and many of them stripped of the greater part of their property. The Americans now found time to formulate laws against the loyalists. Van Tyne says In Massachusetts a ver therein named was passed in 1778 and included the names of Isaac Royall and his son-in-law, Sir William Pepperell. Any one named in this Act having the temerity to return might be arrested and put into jail, transported to some province of Great Britain at his own expense if possible, otherwise at the expense of the state. If he persisted in returning after such banishment, death without benefit of clergy would be the punishment of his crime. Two Acts to confiscate were passed April 30,
Dorchester Heights (Massachusetts, United States) (search for this): chapter 14
er, cold and the loathsome disease small pox. The versatile Burgoyne, leaving for a while his complaints against his brother chiefs, sought to enliven that dreary winter by organizing plays which were performed in Faneuil Hall, the cradle of liberty. One farce The Blockade of Boston, in which Washington was caricatured, was said to be his own production. Washington remarked that it might turn out a tragedy. His words were justified when the British awoke one morning in March to find Dorchester Heights occupied by the enemy and their own position no longer tenable. On the seventeenth of March, 1776, the obnoxious British soldiers left Boston to the triumphant Americans, and with them went more than a thousand loyalists, including men, women, and children. Sabine says, Of members of the Council, commissioners, officers of the customs and other officials, there were one hundred and two; of clergymen, eighteen; of merchants and other persons who resided in Boston, two hundred and thi
South Hadley (Massachusetts, United States) (search for this): chapter 14
Antigua, Sir William Pepperell being appointed executor. He had expressed a wish that his will should also be recorded in Suffolk County, Massachusetts, so it may be found in the records of the Probate Office in Boston. After leaving small legacies to different relatives, handsome enamelled mourning rings to friends (among others to Ebenezer Tirell (?) and David Osgood), he gives to the Town of Medford for the support of schools 100 acres of land in Granby formerly known by the name of South Hadley. All the remaining land in Granby (809 acres) and his right of land in the county of Worcester (928 acres) which he bought December 28, 1752, in company with the Hon. James Otis, John Chandler and Caleb Daney, he gives to the Overseers and Corporation of Harvard College to endow a professorship of laws or physics and anatomy, and they shall have full power to sell said lands and to put the money out at interest, the income whereof shall be for the aforesaid purpose. The simple professor
Foxborough (Massachusetts, United States) (search for this): chapter 14
ed agent of the estate by the Judge of Probate, he giving a bond for £ 1,000 for the faithful performance of his trust. In this bond it is stated that Isaac Royall has fled to our enemies for protection. The real estate, including the farm at Foxborough, was valued at £ 47,098, and the personal estate at £ 3,603-7-4; the rents of the real estate at the time of the inventory were valued at £ 434-4-8. The estate was rented or leased to different persons, and after the payment of necessary expenRoyall for the purchase money according to a Decree of the Court of Chancery (England). This included the Royall Farm and a lot of land north of the Great Brickyard (520 acres), and a pew in the Parish Church, all in Medford, also the estate in Foxborough known as the Royall Foxborough Farm (500 acres.) Later it was disposed of to different individuals, a part being sold for the old Middlesex Canal. Joseph Thompson was the son of Joseph and Sarah Thompson, who were located in Medford at least
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