After Kamesit A CHRONICAL OF A LOCAL HABITATION AND SOME NAMES _With notes, maps and photographs_ By CARROLL F. DALEY Pilgrim Publishers Kingston, Massachusetts 1974 To my mother, Alice Winifred Ford Daley, 1868-1949, Who passed on to me her love Of beauty in nature And in the lives of others. AFTER KAMESIT Page After Kamesit 2 I The Face of the Land and Growing Things 3 II The Indians 9 III Land Grants 17 IV The Churchills 25 V Cotton Family Land 27 VI Henry Richmond and His Son, Eliab 31 VII Nathaniel Clark Ownership 35 VIII Samuel Wright and the Wright Family 37 IX The First Burgesses 41 X John Burgess 45 XI The Community, Nearby, and Beyond 53 XII Phineas Burgess 69 Memories of Boot Pond Place, by Susan Burgess 85 XIII Peleg Burgess 121 XIV Lord’s Point 127 XV The Dwelling House 131 XVI To the Present 143 APPENDIX--List of Sources Consulted 147 Chapter Notes 149 LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS Woodcut of Homestead, by Susan Burgess Cover Area Map xi Alonzo Warren Painting, 1884, photo by Chip Vincent, 1972 7 Great Lots Map, 1712-1713, Copied 1882 by C. H. Holmes 15 Churchill-Richmond Deed, 1768 23 Wright-Burgess Deed, 1801 51 Phineas and Charlotte Burgess--Their Children 67 Rear View of House, Ice House on Pond, c. 1880 72 View of House by Barnes, c. 1880--Hitching Posts 79 Memories of the Boot Pond Place, Watercolors by Susan Burgess 85-119 Peleg Burgess at Side Door, Road up from the Pond 123 View from the Pond--Susan and Annie Burgess in Barn Art Class 125 The House, photo by Chip Vincent, 1972 133 Lawn and Field, photo by Chip Vincent, 1972 135 The Barn, photo by Chip Vincent, 1972 139