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1741 AD (search for this): chapter 1
ments. Leading from the hall to the left is the dining-room, its dark-beamed ceiling giving it a warm and homelike appearance and the white paneled walls giving a cheerful tone. The old china closets with their treasures of other days need more than a passing glance. Across the hall from this room are the east and west parlors, showing furniture of Colonial days. On the wall near the door is a copy in oil painting of Isaac Royall, Jr., the original of which was drawn by Robert Feke in 1741 and hangs in Langdell Hall at Harvard College, having been given them by young Isaac. In the west parlor are seen the deep recessed window seats framed by beautiful arches which suggest a still more ancient architecture. The panelled walls are wonderful in themselves, several panels being of extreme width, one of them being of white pine forty-three inches wide. As we look at the massive front door, our eye is attracted by the hand-made strap hinges of the H. and L. variety, quaint remi
1905 AD (search for this): chapter 1
t one time forty-two boys and ninety-six girls. The estate was sold by the heirs in 1804 to Robert Fletcher for 16,000 pounds. It then passed into the hands of William Welsh of Boston, who in 1810 sold it to Francis Cabot Lowell, and two years later it was sold to Jacob Tidd for $9,000. After the death of Mr. Tidd his widow, who was a sister of William Dawes, lived here for fifty years, up to the time of the Civil War in 1860, since which time it has been occupied by various families until 1905, when the Royall House Association was organized. Much credit is due to the Sarah Bradlee Fulton Chapter, Daughters of the American Revolution, for their conception and active interest to preserve the house. The association purchased the mansion with its slave quarters and three-fourths of an acre of land surrounding it. Old trees planted by the Royalls still shade the roof and peonies blossom in the flower beds. Few houses can boast of such a succession of eminent owners, and not man
1860 AD (search for this): chapter 1
lliam Woodbridge kept a boarding and day school in the house, having at one time forty-two boys and ninety-six girls. The estate was sold by the heirs in 1804 to Robert Fletcher for 16,000 pounds. It then passed into the hands of William Welsh of Boston, who in 1810 sold it to Francis Cabot Lowell, and two years later it was sold to Jacob Tidd for $9,000. After the death of Mr. Tidd his widow, who was a sister of William Dawes, lived here for fifty years, up to the time of the Civil War in 1860, since which time it has been occupied by various families until 1905, when the Royall House Association was organized. Much credit is due to the Sarah Bradlee Fulton Chapter, Daughters of the American Revolution, for their conception and active interest to preserve the house. The association purchased the mansion with its slave quarters and three-fourths of an acre of land surrounding it. Old trees planted by the Royalls still shade the roof and peonies blossom in the flower beds. Fe
1621 AD (search for this): chapter 1
tten about this wild wilderness is true, it must have been a paradise to the sportsman, farmer and lover of nature, and yet the elements were very severe and many deaths ensued during the first few years. Men left stately manors at home and took up life in this country, living in rude log cabins, felling trees and clearing ground, and never a backward look. Probably the first white man who wandered over this part of the country was Myles Standish and his exploring party from Plymouth in 1621. John Winthrop, the first Governor of Massachusetts Bay Company, took up his abode on what is now Winter Hill. He was granted six hundred acres in 2631 which was named by him The Ten Hills Farm. The record reads: Sept. 6, 1631 granted to Mr Governor 600 acres to be sett forth by metes & bounds, near his home in Mystic to be held by him and his heirs forever. The date of the building of the original portion of the Royall House is uncertain; some writers claim that as a farmhouse it was
1628 AD (search for this): chapter 1
d twig, and in the name of the English king, seldom consulting the aboriginal owner. The territory round and about here had this royal authority, and more:— First, in the grant of James I to the Plymouth Council of all lands between 40° and 48° north latitude and from sea to sea. Second, by grant of the Plymouth Council, March 19, 1628, to the Massachusetts Bay Company. Third, by royal charter of King Charles, March 14, to the Massachusetts Bay Company which confirmed the grant of 1628. Fourth, a title not every colony could claim, a deed from an Indian sovereign. Among the instructions from the Parent Company, written from England to Mr. John Endecott, is the following:— If any of the savages pretend the right of inheritance to all or any of the lands granted in our patent, we pray you to endeavor to purchase their title, that we may avoid the least scruple of invasion. Under these instructions several deeds were received from the Indians, the one covering Medf<
1740 AD (search for this): chapter 1
ver the west parlor is the marble chamber, so-called, on account of its Corinthian columns surmounted by carvings of exquisite beauty. In its prime this room was beautifully furnished, and with its high four-posted bedstead and other furniture in 1740 was valued at over three hundred pounds. Every room in the house had fireplaces with tiles in different colors and designs brought from Holland. The blue room on the second floor was so called from the color of its blue scriptural tiles. On tve fireplace, ten feet across its beam, and brick oven where the food was cooked and carried to the home dining room to be served. Isaac Royall, Sr., died in 1739. The title then passed to Isaac Royall, Jr. When the estate was appraised in 1740, it was valued: House at 50,000 pounds and land at 37,000 pounds, making a total of 87,000 pounds, and well may it be said that the owner was one of the richest men, if not the richest man, in the Colonies. Such was the home of Col. Isaac Royal
1804 AD (search for this): chapter 1
oyall House since the Revolutionary War were, in 1778, Colonel Cary of Charlestown, at a rental of two hundred pounds per year. On account of Isaac Royall being an absentee from the Colony, his estate was held by the Colony until disposed of in 1804. In 1779 the General Court ordered all confiscated estates to be sold, but Royall's was not on the list, and later on the estate was turned back to the heirs for $1.00. In 1790 William Woodbridge kept a boarding and day school in the house, having at one time forty-two boys and ninety-six girls. The estate was sold by the heirs in 1804 to Robert Fletcher for 16,000 pounds. It then passed into the hands of William Welsh of Boston, who in 1810 sold it to Francis Cabot Lowell, and two years later it was sold to Jacob Tidd for $9,000. After the death of Mr. Tidd his widow, who was a sister of William Dawes, lived here for fifty years, up to the time of the Civil War in 1860, since which time it has been occupied by various families
1639 AD (search for this): chapter 1
ds being from Squa Sachem, who on the death of her husband, Sagamore John, became the chief of her tribe. The deed reads in part as follows: Wee Web-Cowit and Squa Sachem do sell unto the inhabitants of Charlestown all lands granted by the Court, closing with Wee acknowledge to have received in full satisfaction twenty and one coates, nineteen fathoms of wampum and three bushels of come. In witness whereof wee have here unto sett our hands this day the 15th of the seconed month 1639. Signed Web Cowit Squa Sachem. If all that has been written about this wild wilderness is true, it must have been a paradise to the sportsman, farmer and lover of nature, and yet the elements were very severe and many deaths ensued during the first few years. Men left stately manors at home and took up life in this country, living in rude log cabins, felling trees and clearing ground, and never a backward look. Probably the first white man who wandered over this part of the cou
1739 AD (search for this): chapter 1
hat time being used as headquarters at the request of George Washington. Slave quarters. The Slave Quarters, which housed Isaac Royall's retinue of servants, twenty-seven in number, may still be seen in the yard and in a good state of preservation. The out-kitchen of brick with its latch-string always out, still shows the massive fireplace, ten feet across its beam, and brick oven where the food was cooked and carried to the home dining room to be served. Isaac Royall, Sr., died in 1739. The title then passed to Isaac Royall, Jr. When the estate was appraised in 1740, it was valued: House at 50,000 pounds and land at 37,000 pounds, making a total of 87,000 pounds, and well may it be said that the owner was one of the richest men, if not the richest man, in the Colonies. Such was the home of Col. Isaac Royall, a man more sinned against than sinning, in the opinion of many writers. Royall family. Isaac Royall's ancestors were genuine Colonists and shared the trial
1724 AD (search for this): chapter 1
his grandson, born in Yarmouth on Casco Bay, Maine, in 1672. At the early age of three years his parent (William, Jr.) moved to Dorchester, Mass., because of continuous troubles with the Indians in Maine. Young Isaac, as he grew older, developed a love for the sea and took frequent trips from Dorchester to the West Indies, where he finally married and made a home, amassing great wealth as a planter and merchant. Isaac Royall, Jr., was born in Antigua in 1719, and a sister, Penelope, in 1724. The father realizing that his children could not receive the education in Antigua that he desired, sought for them his native land and placed them in a school in Dorchester. He then looked about the country for a suitable site for a home. The Mystic river and its adjacent lands appealed to his fancy, and in June, 1732, he purchased five hundred acres of the Ten Hills farm land and began the erection of the Royall House —which appears today on the exterior identically the same as it di
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