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1734 AD (search for this): chapter 9
n his interleaved almanac, the usual manner of keeping a diary in those days. Several of those he kept we have examined, and extracts were read in the above connection. We find in Nast's Sketch of Weymouth that in August 1634 [it should be 1734] a call was extended to Mr. William Smith of Charlestown to become the minister at a salary of one hundred and sixty pounds and three hundred pounds settlement, the latter to be paid one hundred pounds annually for three years, all in bills of credit. This invitation was accepted, and on the first Wednesday in December [1734] he was ordained as pastor of the First Church and Parish in Weymouth, which office he retained until his death, Sep 17, 1783, in his seventy-seventh year. He was a graduate of Harvard in 1725. In reading of Charlestown it is well to remember that at one time Charlestown entirely surrounded Medford, and that in 1754 Medford acquired considerable of Charlestown territory in two parcels. This Rev. William Smit
1738 AD (search for this): chapter 9
cres (and house), bounded north by Mystic river, south and southwest by J. Dickson, and east by James Tufts and C. Crosswell. It was situated, as will be thus seen, at the bend of the river and at the end of the old rangeway, now North street. In the division of the estate, nineteen and three-quarters acres fell to the son William, which he seems to have improved by fencing, building a barn and planting an orchard. Relative to this, we reproduce portions of his diary above alluded to: 1738.Apr. 7 bought of Joseph Porter one hundred and a half of Rails 2/5 P C. £3.7.6 Bought 130 Posts of Charls £5.5.0 Bought of Deacon Waterman 40 Rails £ 1.10.6. Bought of Ebenezer Porter 100 Rails Paid Mr. Willis for Boating up—Rails and posts £ 1. Bought of Mr. Austin a Jack 3.10. 1739January 2. Went to Charlestown Re[turne]d 10 8 1 p[reache]d at Charlestown all day Paid David an Indian the sum of £ 5. for stone wall April 15 I p[reache]d April 13 and 16 grafted in my Orchard and in
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