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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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perhaps builtby Daniel Watts.81 It is shown in the vignette painted byKathaniel Rudd, Esqr., who has kindly permitted its use forthis work. On the site of that house stands that erected by thelate Levi Slade; and on the site of the stable the house ofMellen Chamberlain, erected in 1870. * (March 24. 1S84. the trustee filed releases of the property in question:ucarly all were dated October 19. 18S2. Sufi. Prob. Rec. L. 55G. f. 60.) 8! (In 1773 a part of this farm was conveyed to Moses Collins with thehalf of a dwelling house that was built by Deacon Daniel Watts, and alsowith a large barn. The house faced the south, and fifteen poles of landadjoining it to the west were bounded west and south by the road fromWinnisinimet ferry to Lynn. (SufT. Deeds. L. 123. f. 102.) The site ofthe mansion house of Joshua Carter is marked on the plan of the Carterestate recorded in SufT. Deeds, L. 580; end of vol.; also on the map ofChelsea showing the location of the Bellingharu farms, supra, p. 294.)
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Chap. VII) APPENDIX 1 319 APPENDIX 1 (Lieutenant John S^iith was the son of Francis Smithof Reading. His lease of the Ferry farm was dated in Janu-ary, 1664/5. He was then about forty-four years of age. AtReading he had been an innkeeper, lieutenant of the militarycompany of the town since 1656, and many years a selectman.1He married for a first wife Catharine, daughter of Isaac Morrellof Roxbury. She died, it is said, in 1662. Five children by thefirst marriage were living when Isaac Morrell made his will inDecember, 1661: Mary, John (born 1651), Isaac (b. 1655),Francis (b. 1658), and Abraham (b. 1661). Isaac was killedby the Indians at York, Maine, in 1677.2 In 1697 only two chil-dren by this first marriage were living, Francis Smith, whomarried Ruth, daughter of Elias Maverick, and returned toReading, where he dwelt on his grandfathers homestead, andbecame selectman, town clerk, and deacon in the church; andMary, who married Major Jeremiah Sweyne of Reading, the com-mander of a reg

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