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£ 40;
Edward Stow, £ 10;
David Phips,
Esq., £ 40. Five of these estates were subsequently confiscated and sold by the
Commonwealth; the estates of
Lechmere (144 acres) and
Oliver (96 acres), to
Andrew Cabot,
Esq., of
Salem, Nov. 24, 1779; the estate of
Sewall (44 acres) to
Thomas Lee of
Pomfret, Conn., Dec. 7, 1779;
1 the estate of
Phips (50 acres) to
Isaiah Doane of
Boston, May 25, 1781; and the estate of
Vassall (116 acres) to
Nathaniel Tracy,
Esq., of
Newburyport, June 28, 1781.
Inman returned soon, and his estate was restored to him. The heirs of
Borland and the
widow Vassall succeeded to the ownership of their estates in
Cambridge; but several houses and stores in
Boston, formerly belonging to
Borland, were advertised by the agents of the
Commonwealth to be leased at auction, March 1, 1780.
General Brattle conveyed all his
real estate in
Cambridge, Dec. 13, 1774, to his only surviving son,
Major Thomas Brattle, and died in
Halifax, N. S., October, 1776.
By the persevering efforts of
Mrs. Katherine Wendell, the only surviving daughter of
General Brattle, the estate was preserved from confiscation, and was recovered by
Major Brattle after his return from
Europe,—having been proscribed in 1778, and having subsequently exhibited satisfactory evidence of his friendship to his country and its political independence.
Besides the persons already named, there were a few other loyalists, or tories, in
Cambridge, but not holding such a prominent position:
John Nutting, carpenter, was proscribed in 1778; Antill Gallop, a deputy sheriff, who had promised conformity in September, 1774, is said by
Sabine2 to have gone with the
British troops to
Halifax, in 1776; also
George Inman (H. C. 1772, died 1789) and
John Inman, sons of
Ralph Inman,
Esq.
After the close of the war, it was proposed to permit the proscribed loyalists to return,—not indeed to share in the administration of the government, but to reclaim their confiscated estates.
This proposition did not meet the approval of the inhabitants of Cambridge.
At a town meeting, May 5, 1783, instructions to their representative, reported by a committee consisting of James Winthrop, Samuel Thatcher, and Abraham Watson, Esquires, were unanimously adopted:—
Sir, the choice that this town has made of you, to represent
