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e 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 the third floor the spinning garret is of noteworthy interest, reminding us of days when clothing for the household was spun and woven in the home. Over all is the great attic, with its heavy beams still holding up the roof, most of them seven and eight inches square, and it might well be the home of spooks, as the name of Hobgoblin Hall was given it by the generals of the Revolutionary War—at that time being used as headquarters at the request of George Washington. Slave quarters. The Slave Qu
March 14th (search for this): chapter 1
to the home of the Indians rested usually in a royal grant by turf and 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 instructio<
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st 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 did when completed after five years of faithful labor, neither time nor money being spared to make the house one of beauty and grandeur. The hospitality of the Royall House was known far and wide, and we may be sure that the cellaret would be amply supplied and the hearty old-time greeting dealt out with no niggardl
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
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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<
March 19th, 1628 AD (search for this): chapter 1
Medford was sell of as a separate township from Charlestown. The title of the white man to the home of the Indians rested usually in a royal grant by turf and 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 purch<
1629 AD (search for this): chapter 1
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 trials and tribulations of the people of those days. The name of Royall appears in the early records and has been perpetuated in various localities. William Royall of England was granted a tract of land in Salem in 1629. A son, William, Jr., was born in 1640. Isaac Royall, Sr., whose wealth built and made famous our Royall House in Medford, was 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 h
1630 AD (search for this): chapter 1
examples of old Colonial mansions, and we hear with pleasure the recent awakening of local authorities to their duty of withholding the destroying hand and the preservation of the grounds bordering on Main street of this historic and architectural treasure, the Royall House. In relating the history of the Royall House and its occupants it will be well to go back to the early records and find how these lands came into possession of the white men. Drake's History states that Meadford in 1630 was formerly a part of Charlestown, that honored ancestor of all towns of the Mystic Valley. In 1754 Medford was sell of as a separate township from Charlestown. The title of the white man to the home of the Indians rested usually in a royal grant by turf and 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 betwe
September 6th, 1631 AD (search for this): chapter 1
ors 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 built in the early days of Winthrop's ownership, probably about 1637. It was a brick house, two and one-half stories in height, with dormer windows on the roof. When occupied by John Usher in 1690, a lean — to was added to g
1637 AD (search for this): chapter 1
ny, 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 built in the early days of Winthrop's ownership, probably about 1637. It was a brick house, two and one-half stories in height, with dormer windows on the roof. When occupied by John Usher in 1690, a lean — to was added to give more room. Under the ownership of the Royalls the house assumed its present proportions. When purchased in 1732 by Isaac Royall the work of enlarging was put into the hands of his brother Jacob. The plans were drawn in Antigua from a nobleman's house which Royall much admired and it was his wish to have an exact duplicate. Shi
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