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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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as built within thenext six months, and a master engaged for it. This vras the school overwhich, as mentioned in the text, a woman was placed in the springof 1702, because Chelsea could not afford to pay all the year round fora mans school. (Cary Letters, 8S. 92, 95, 114.) In 1795. when the newsof losses in the West Indies arrived, the children were recalled from theboarding school in Medford: and the youngest received the rudiments oftheir education in this little schoolhouse. (Ibid., 99, 112, 114.) In 1799,Henry was at Billerica Academy. (Ibid., 147; also. 172, 17C.) Threeof the younger sons graduated from Harvard College: in 1811, ThomasGreaves Can-, later a member of the Mass. Hist. Soc.; in 1S1G. RobertHoward Cary (M.D. 1820); in 1817, William Ferdinand Cary.) w (The Rev. Phillips Payson died in 1801. The eldest son, Samuel Cary,studied Latin with him before leaving Chelsea, at about ten years of ageit is said, for a school in England. (Cary Letters, 71, 73.)) 81 Letters, 88, 95,
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Chap. VII) GOVERNOR BELLINGHAAIS ESTATES 315 Hie Senter, or Carter, Farm The fourth of Governor Bellinghams estates at Winnisim-met was early known as the Senter,66 and in later years as theCarter farm. On the division of the Watts farms in 1728 the Senter farm,as has been said, was taken by Daniel, afterwards known asDeacon Watts. He, like all the children of Edward and RebeccaWatts, was born in England, and came to Winnisimmet withhis parents in 1710. Unlike his brothers he was only afarmer, and lacked their opportunities for gaining wealth.The inventory of his personal estate shows only simple furni-ture and a small farm stock. His real estate was valued as follows: 07 L money To 16 -acres of mowing and Plow land at £10 pr acre . . £160 00 00 to 66 acres of Pasture Land at 6 £ 396 00 00 To 56 acres of Sallet marsh at 3 £ pr acre 16S 00 00 To a Mansion House S6 13 04 Barn & hog house nere the house 13 6 OS the Great Barn & Hay Scrues 17 6 08 to the Pew in Chelsea Meettin

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