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John Maisters (search for this): chapter 4
g of soldiers in all the plantations. Mass. Coll. Rec., i. 90. Although the Governor and Assistants generally did not perform their agreement to make the New Town the place of their permanent residence, they seem to have regarded it as the prospective seat of government, and not long afterwards, as will appear, commenced holding the general and particular courts there. Several orders, passed during the year, indicate such an expectation and intention. For example: June 14, 1631, Mr. John Maisters hath undertaken to make a passage from Charles River to the New Town, twelve foot broad and seven foot deep; for which the Court promiseth him satisfaction, according as the charges thereof shall amount unto. Ibid., i. 88. This canal still exists on the westerly side of College Wharf, from Charles River nearly to South Street. It was a natural creek, enlarged and deepened thus far, from which point, turning westerly, it extended along the southerly and westerly sides of South and Eli
Benjamin I. Lane (search for this): chapter 4
the printing office, and finding along the higher land above the westerly portion of Bow Street, until it intersected Field Lane at the present junction of Bow and Arrow streets; this was indifferently called Back Lane, and Cow-yard Row. Cow-yard Lane, separating the house-lots from the yards in the rear, extended across the College enclosure, from the Common to the Old Field, at the distance of about a hundred feet from Harvard Street, having an outlet into Harvard Street about a hundred feet easterly from the present Holyoke Street; this, like that into which it entered, was called Field Lane. Cow-yard Lane and Field Lane north of Harvard Street were discontinued and enclosed with the adjoining lands immediately after Mr. Hooker's company removed. The foregoing are all the highways of which I find any trace in the present bounds of Cambridge, prior to 1636. On the south side of the river, however, a highway was early established, called the highway to Roxbury, from a point oppos
William Spencer (search for this): chapter 4
Inhabitants there—Mr. Tho. Dudly Esq., Mr. Symon Bradstreet, Mr. Edmond Lockwood, Mr. Daniell Patricke, John Poole, William Spencer, John Kirman, Symon Sackett. Of these eight persons who laid the foundation of the New Town, Thomas Dudley was thin the list of proprietors, in 1633. He was of Lynn, 1638, and afterwards of Reading, where he died April 1, 1667. William Spencer, uniformly styled Mr. on the court records, was one of the principal gentlemen. He was associated with Mr. Lockwood5 rods.Nath. Richards3 rods. John Steele14 rods.Richard Lord3 rods. Edward Stebinge12 rods.Abraham Morrill3 rods. William Spencer12 rods.William Kelse3 rods. Thomas Hosmer10 rods.Jonath. Bosworth2 rods. William Lewis10 rods.Tho. Spencer2 rods.the Braintree Company, as many have supposed. Thomas Dudley, Simon Bradstreet, Daniel Patrick, Simon Sackett, and William Spencer were here before August, 1632, when the Braintree company removed. Samuel Dudley was doubtless here also. Daniel D
William Coddington (search for this): chapter 4
ber, we grew to this resolution, to bind all the assistants Winthrop was then Governor, and Dudley Deputy Governor; the Assistants were Sir Richard Saltonstall, John Endicott, Increase Nowell, William Pynchon, Thomas Sharp, Roger Ludlow, William Coddington, and Simon Bradstreet. (Mr. Endicott and Mr. Sharpe excepted, which last purposeth to return by the next ship into England), to build houses at a place a mile east from Watertown, near Charles River, the next spring, and to winter there thed for traffic, in the open air, between the inhabitants and such as brought commodities for sale. but he went to England in the spring of 1631, and did not return. Nowell remained at Charlestown; Pynchon, at Roxbury; Ludlow, at Dorchester; and Coddington, at Boston. Endicott and Sharpe were originally free from engagement. Dr. Holmes says, the Deputy Governor (Dudley), Secretary Bradstreet, and other principal gentlemen, in the spring of 1631, commenced the execution of the plan. Coll. Mas
Matthew Allen (search for this): chapter 4
Eastwardly from Small-lot hill the land was divided into large lots, which were assigned in the following order and quantity: Samuel Dudley, 22 1/2 acres; Thomas Dudley, Esq., 63 acres; Richard Goodman, 6 acres; William Westwood, 27 acres; John Talcott,. 32 acres; Daniel Denison, 22 1/2 acres; John Haynes, Esq., 63 acres; (these lots severally extended from what is now Main Street to Somerville line; the following lots bordered southerly on the Great Marsh): Widow Hester Mussey, 9 acres; Matthew Allen, 27 acres; John Talcott, 45 acres, bordering eastwardly on the marsh, and another lot, wholly marsh, 50 acres; Atherton Hough, 130 acres of marsh and upland, embracing Graves his neck, or East Cambridge. At a later period, another planting field was enclosed by a common fence, and was called the West field, and sometimes West-end field. It was bounded northerly by Garden Street, easterly by Wyeth Street, southerly by Vassall Lane, and westerly by the Great Swamp, or Fresh Pond meadow
John Benjamin (search for this): chapter 4
, indicating the relative shares in the impaled ground. Common pales divided as follows:— John Haynes, Esq.70 rods.Steven Hart8 rods. Thomas Dudly, Esq.40 rods.William Wadsworth7 rods. Mr. Symon Bradstreet20 rods.George Steele6 rods. John Benjamin50 rods.Richard Goodman6 rods. John Talcott36 rods.John Bridg.6 rods. Mathew Allen45 rods.Symon Sackett6 rods. William Westwood30 rods.Richard Butler6 rods. James Omstead25 rods.Capt. Patrike5 rods. Daniell Denison25 rods.Richard Web5 rodust, 1632, when the Braintree company removed. Samuel Dudley was doubtless here also. Daniel Denison came here from Roxbury. Anthony Colby, Garrad Haddon, and Joseph Reading, were of Boston in 1630; and John Masters of Watertown, in 1631. John Benjamin, Edward Elmer, William Goodwin, William Lewis, James Olmstead, Nathaniel Richards, John Talcott, William Wadsworth, and John White, arrived at Boston, in the Lion, Sept. 16, 1632, a month after the Braintree Company removed; and John Haynes d
Deputy (search for this): chapter 4
s Winthrop, i. 82, 83. Winthrop says Dudley complained of the breach of promise, both in the governor and others, in not building at Newtown. The governor answered, that he had performed the words of the promise; for he had a house up, and seven or eight servants abiding in it, by the day appointed; and for the removing his house, he alleged that, seeing that the rest of the assistants went not about to build, and that his neighbors of Boston had been discouraged from removing thither by Mr. Deputy himself, and thereupon had (under all their hands) petitioned him, that (according to the promise he made to them when they first sat down with him at Boston, namely, that he would not remove, except they went with him), he would not leave them:—this was the occasion that he removed his house. Upon these and other speeches to this purpose, the ministers went apart for one hour; then returning, they delivered their opinions, that the governor was in fault for removing of his house so sudde
Samuel Dudley (search for this): chapter 4
sed. Thomas Dudley, Simon Bradstreet, Daniel Patrick, Simon Sackett, and William Spencer were here before August, 1632, when the Braintree company removed. Samuel Dudley was doubtless here also. Daniel Denison came here from Roxbury. Anthony Colby, Garrad Haddon, and Joseph Reading, were of Boston in 1630; and John Masters ofe. The original assignment is not found; but the work was commenced before the Braintree company arrived; for Winthrop alleged, as early as August 3, 1632, that Dudley had empaled, at Newtown, above one thousand acres, and had assigned lands to some there. Savage's Winthrop, i. 84. So much of the impaled land as lies northerlana Street to the easterly line. Eastwardly from Small-lot hill the land was divided into large lots, which were assigned in the following order and quantity: Samuel Dudley, 22 1/2 acres; Thomas Dudley, Esq., 63 acres; Richard Goodman, 6 acres; William Westwood, 27 acres; John Talcott,. 32 acres; Daniel Denison, 22 1/2 acres; John
William Wadsworth (search for this): chapter 4
ord, I preserve the original orthography, together with the number of rods, indicating the relative shares in the impaled ground. Common pales divided as follows:— John Haynes, Esq.70 rods.Steven Hart8 rods. Thomas Dudly, Esq.40 rods.William Wadsworth7 rods. Mr. Symon Bradstreet20 rods.George Steele6 rods. John Benjamin50 rods.Richard Goodman6 rods. John Talcott36 rods.John Bridg.6 rods. Mathew Allen45 rods.Symon Sackett6 rods. William Westwood30 rods.Richard Butler6 rods. James Omfrom Roxbury. Anthony Colby, Garrad Haddon, and Joseph Reading, were of Boston in 1630; and John Masters of Watertown, in 1631. John Benjamin, Edward Elmer, William Goodwin, William Lewis, James Olmstead, Nathaniel Richards, John Talcott, William Wadsworth, and John White, arrived at Boston, in the Lion, Sept. 16, 1632, a month after the Braintree Company removed; and John Haynes did not arrive until Sept. 3, 1633. The name of Simon Oakes is erroneously given in Col. Mass. Hist. Soc., VII.
Edward Holyoke (search for this): chapter 4
way into the little neck, now Putnam Avenue. From the town into the highway to the oyster-bank there were two principal entrances: one being a continuation of Braintree (now Harvard) Street, from Holyoke Street easterly, through Harvard Street and the northerly portion of Bow Street to Arrow Street, and indifferently called Field Lane and the highway to the oyster-bank; the other being a continuation of Spring (now Mount Auburn) Street, or rather branching from a sharp angle in Crooked (now Holyoke) Street, opposite to the site of the printing office, and finding along the higher land above the westerly portion of Bow Street, until it intersected Field Lane at the present junction of Bow and Arrow streets; this was indifferently called Back Lane, and Cow-yard Row. Cow-yard Lane, separating the house-lots from the yards in the rear, extended across the College enclosure, from the Common to the Old Field, at the distance of about a hundred feet from Harvard Street, having an outlet int
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