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Documentary History of Chelsea Vol 1 including the Boston precincts of Winnisimm
Documentary History of Chelsea Vol 1 1624-1824 by Mellen Chamberlain
including the Boston precincts of Winnisimmet Rumney Marsh and Pullen Point
Hard Cover
668 pages
Copyright 1908
CONTENTS
ILLUSTRATIONS ix
PREFATORY NOTE, BY THE COMMITTEE OF PUBLICATION xi
MEMOIR OF MELLEN CHAMBERLAIN, BY HENRY W. HAYNES xvii
CHAPTER I INTRODUCTION 1
CHAPTER II THE PLANTERS AT WINNISIMMET 6
Appendix. Samuel Maverick 13
CHAPTER III SAMUEL MAVERICK'S PALISADE HOUSE 20
Appendix 1. Maverick's Place of Residence . . . 28
Appendix 2. Early houses at Chelsea 33
Appendix 3. Samuel Maverick and Dixy Bull . . 36
Appendix 4. Will of Elias Maverick 38
Appendix 5. Maverick's Descendants 42
Appendix 6. The Brintnall Family 46
Appendix 7. Jonathan Green 53
Appendix 8. Dyke and Dam at Island-End River 55
Appendix 9. Location of the Maverick Ferry Landing 57
CHAPTER IV THE INDIANS AT WINNISIMMET 60
Appendix. Their Places of Abode 70
CHAPTER V INDIAN DEEDS 72
CHAPTER VI ALLOTMENTS OF LAND 81
Appendix 1. The Great Allotments 123
Appendix 2. Houses on the Pratt Estate 134
Appendix 3. Way and Ireland 137
Appendix 4. The Pratt Family 140
Appendix 5. The Cheever Family 150
Appendix 6. The Newgate Farm 165
Appendix 7. Simeon Stoddard's Fence 171
Appendix 8. Cogan and Doolittle 173
Appendix 9. Cogan and Floyd 178
Appendix 10. James Bill 193
Appendix 11. The Tuttle Farms 204
Appendix 12. The Cole, Hasey, and Lewis Farms . 230
Appendix 13. The Sale Farm 254
Appendix 14. Deane Winthrop 262
Appendix 15. Samuel Bennett's Farm 267
Appendix 16. Malden Owners of Land in Chelsea . 293
CHAPTER VII GOVERNOR BELLINGHAM'S ESTATES AT WIN NISIMMET . . 294
Appendix 1. Lieutenant John Smith 319
Appendix 2.
Comparative Value of the Bellingham Farms 321
Appendix 3. Inventory of Edward Watts and Will of Rebecca Watts 323
Appendix 4. Letters of John Tudor 334
Appendix 5. The Watts Family 338
Appendix 6. Henry Howell Williams 363
Appendix 7. The Eustace Family 365
Appendix 8. The Cary Family369
Appendix 9. Stephen Kent 374
Appendix 10. The Senter Family 373
Appendix 11. Farm of Daniel Watts 387
Appendix 12. List of Plans391
CHAPTER VIII GOVERNOR BELLINGHAM'S WILL393
CHAPTER IX CONTEST FOR THE BELLINGHAM ESTATES BEGINS . . . . 420
Appendix 1. Inventory of Richard Bellingham . . . 427
Appendix 2. Suit of John Blake 429
Appendix 3. Suits of Oxenbridge and Smith . . 438
CHAPTER X GOVERNOR BELLINGHAM'S WILL BEFORE THE GENERAL COURT 441
Appendix. Suits of Nicholas Rice 451
CHAPTER XI RICHARD WHARTON SUES FOR HIS SERVICES 464
Appendix 1. Hammond vs. Bellingham 472
Appendix 2. Wharton vs. Stoddard and Ranger . 479
Appendix 3. Wharton vs. Eustace 481
Appendix 4. Bellingham vs. Eustace 482
Appendix 5. Thomson vs. Eustace 489
CHAPTER XII GOVERNOR BELLINGHAM'S ESTATE BY DESCENT. . . 495
Appendix. The Marriage Settlement 502
CHAPTER XIII THE BELLINGHAM WILL CASE REOPENED 528
Appendix. Appeal of Rev. James Allen 540
CHAPTER XIV SUITS FOR THE BELLINGHAM ESTATES RESUMED . . . . 544
Appendix 1. Pembroke and Hiller Suits 551
Appendix 2. Watts and Townsend Suits 559
CHAPTER XV THE CLERGY OF BOSTON MAKE AN ADDRESS TO THE GENERAL COURT 572
CHAPTER XVI A LONG TRUCE 576
Appendix. Letters of Joseph Hiller and Elizabeth Bellingham 579
CHAPTER XVII THE BELLINGHAM WILL IN TOWN MEETING 581
Appendix 1. Col. Thomas Goldthwait 602
Appendix 2. Allen vs. Eustace 610
Appendix 3. Danforth vs. Sargent et al. 614
CHAPTER XVIII THE END NEAR: THOMPSON SUES FOR THE EUSTIS FARM . 623
Appendix. Writ of Execution 633
CHAPTER XIX CAPTAIN ROBERT KEAYNE'S ESTATE IN RUMNEY MARSH . 635
Appendix 1. The Chamberlain Family of Rumney
Marsh 651
Appendix 2. Colonel Nicholas Paige 656
Appendix 3. The Tenants on the Farm 663
ILLUSTRATIONS
Portrait of Mellen Chamberlain Frontispiece
House of Mellen Chamberlain xix
Boston Harbor in 1711 1
Yeamans House 96
Deane Winthrop House 121
Pratt House 134
Map of Winthrop and Plan of Bill Farm 193
Bellingham Farms 294
Portraits of Samuel Cary and his Wife 310
Cary House 311
Carter House 318
Portrait of Thomas Goldthwait 602
Chelsea in 1739 668
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