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Title: A documentary history of Chelsea : including the Boston precincts of Winnisimmet, Rumney Marsh, and Pullen Point, 1624-1824
Year: 1908 (1900s)
Authors: Chamberlain, Mellen, 1821-1900 Watts, Jenny C. (Jenny Chamberlain), 1869-1941 Cutter, William Richard, 1847-1918 Massachusetts Historical Society
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Publisher: Boston : Printed for the Massachusetts Historical Society
Contributing Library: Boston Public Library
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. In the absence of knowngrant we may assume that his equitable claim was recognizedby the Company, as Bichard Bellingham rested his title toYVinnisimruet on the following deed: Samuell Maverick and Amias his wife John Blackleach) his wife have granted and sowld vnto Richard Beling-ham and his heires, A messuage called winesemet wtb the Apur-tainances also his interest in the ferrye this was by deed of Saledated 27 of ffebr 1634. 2 November 30, 1640, Boston recognized his title as Thelands of M* Pich. Bellinghams, lieing at Winnisimett, be-longing to the towne of Boston, are bounded with the land ofWilliam Steedsonne. of Charles towne, and with Charles towne J Younjr. Chronicles of Mass., 145. For Richard Bellinghams estatesin Boston. Vide Memorial Hist, of Boston, i. 360, note 2; Shurtleff, Bos-ton. 214. 2 1C35. New Style. Suff. Deeds, L. 1, f. 15. Maverick had leased theferry to William Stitson for life. Ibid., L. 12, f. 347. (For WilliamStitson and the ferry see infra, chap, xxii.)
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29G HISTORY OF CHELSEA (Chap. VII The earliest 7 tenant I learn of was Lieutenant John Smith,who died September 21, 170G, aged eighty-five. His wifeMary, probably a daughter of James Bill of Pullen Point,died February 6, 1693/4, aged about forty-eight.8 Theirgravestones were lately seen in the Revere churchyard, andmay be read in the appendix. The rental of the farm about1670 was estimated at £50; and in 10S7 it was taxed as thirtyacres of arable land and meadow, and seventy of pasture.9 From 1694 to 1711 this farm and the ferry were leased toJohn Brentnall;10 but Edward Watts and his wife Rebecca(heiress of her sister Elizabeth, second wife of Samuel Belling-ham, sole heir to the Bellingham estates), coming from Englandin 1710. not long after took possession of and carried on as theyhad been, the Ferry farm, the ferry, and the inn.11 Theirepitaphs in the Revere churchyard say that Edward Watts sade House stood. There must have been a house on the Ferry farm;for a week later, when St

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