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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
Digitizing Sponsor: Boston Public Library

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t a part of the bequest hadbeen paid over, and thereupon a committee, consisting of thePresident, the Treasurer, and the present writer, was ap-pointed to publish The History of Chelsea. At the followingAnnual Meeting in April, 1904, the Treasurer reported thathe had received from the executors the sum of 85,520 onaccount of the bequest, and that a further sum of about anequal amount was expected on the final settlement of theestate. The Committee of Publication has intrusted the prepara-tion for the press of the manuscript and illustrative ma-terial to Miss Jenny Chamberlain Watts, a relative of JudgeChamberlain, who had proved her capacity for such work byher valuable notes contributed to The Diary of John QuincyAdams, published in the Proceedings of this Society, andother literary work; and to Mr. William R. Cutter, Librarianof the Woburn Public Library, the author of the Historyof Arlington ; and it is expected that the printing of thehistory will be begun in the immediate future.
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BOSTON HARBOR, 1711. HISTORY OF CHELSEA CHAPTER I ROM 1739 to 1846, Chelsea included the present city of j the same name, with the towns of Revere and Winthrop,all of which, from 1634 to January 10, 1738/0, were parts ofBoston, and severally known as Winnisimmet, Rumney Marsh,and Pullen Point. In 1739 1 this territory, on the petitionof its inhabitants, but with the strenuous opposition of Boston,was set off and incorporated as the town of Chelsea; fromthat date its municipal history begins. But for a hundredyears these outlying communities, though parts of Boston andsubject to its municipal control, had lives and interests notquite the same as those of the principal settlement, fromwhich they were separated by more than a mile of water,the confluence of the Mystic and Charles rivers. I shall, therefore, give some account of this region, and ofits inhabitants, when first settled by Englishmen; and of thelife these settlers and their descendants led, so far as I mayfrom the scanty fact

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