Salem Witchcraft, Volumes I and II: With an Account of Salem Village and a History of Opinions on Witchcraft and Kindred SubjectsUpham, Charles Wentworth
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Salem Witchcraft, Volumes I and II: With an Account of Salem Village and a History of Opinions on Witchcraft and Kindred Subjects
Upham, Charles Wentworth
Salem (Mass.) -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775; Witchcraft -- Massachusetts -- Salem -- History -- 17th century
Granted Aug. 21, 1648; sold (including 30 acres formerly John
Bridgman's) to Job Swinnerton, Jr., and William Cantlebury, Jan. 18,
1661.[i.xxiv]
XII. Richard Hutchinson, John Thorndike, and Mr. Freeman.
Granted in 1636 and 1637; owned in 1692 by Joseph, son of Richard
Hutchinson, and by Sarah, wife of Joseph Whipple, daughter of John, and
grand-daughter of Richard Hutchinson.
XIII. Samuel Sharpe.
Granted Jan. 23, 1637; sold to John Porter, May 10, 1643; owned by his
son, Israel Porter, in 1692.
XIV. John Holgrave.
Granted Nov. 26, 1638; sold to Jeffry Massey and Nicholas Woodberry,
April 2, 1652; and to Joshua Rea, Jan. 1, 1657.
XV. William Alford.
Granted in 1636; sold to Henry Herrick before 1653.
XVI. Francis Weston.
Granted in 1636; sold by John Pease to Richard Ingersoll and William
Haynes, in 1644.
XVII. Elias Stileman.
Granted in 1636; sold to Richard Hutchinson, June 1, 1648.
XVIII. Robert Goodell.
504 acres laid out to him, Feb. 13, 1652: comprising 40 acres granted
to him "long since," and other parcels bought by him of the original
grantees; viz., Joseph Grafton, John Sanders, Henry Herrick, William
Bound, Robert Pease and his brother, Robert Cotta, William Walcott,
Edmund Marshall, Thomas Antrum, Michael Shaflin, Thomas Venner, John
Barber, Philemon Dickenson, and William Goose.
XIX. Job Swinnerton.
300 acres laid out, Jan. 5, 1697, to Job Swinnerton, Jr.; having been
owned by his father, by grant and purchase, as early as 1650.
XX. Townsend Bishop.
Granted Jan. 11, 1636; sold to Francis Nurse, April 29, 1678.
XXI. Rev. Samuel Skelton.
Granted by the General Court, July 3, 1632; sold to John Porter, March
8, 1649; owned by the heirs of John Porter in 1692.[i.xxv]
XXII. John Winthrop, Jr.
Granted June 25, 1638; sold by his daughter to John Green, Aug. 9,
1683.
XXIII. Rev. Edward Norris.
Granted Jan. 21, 1640: sold to Elleanor Trusler, Aug. 7, 1654; to
Joseph Pope, July 18, 1664.
XXIV. Robert Cole.
Granted Dec. 21, 1635; sold to Emanuel Downing before July 16th, 1638;
conveyed by him to John and Adam Winthrop, in trust for himself and
wife during their lives, and then for his son, George Downing, July 23,
1644; leased to John Procter in 1666; occupied by him and his son
Benjamin in 1692.
XXV. Col. Thomas Reed.
Granted Feb. 16, 1636; sold to Daniel Epps, June 28, 1701, by Wait
Winthrop, as attorney to Samuel Reed, only son and heir of Thomas Reed.
XXVI. John Humphrey.
Granted by the General Court, Nov. 7, 1632, May 6, 1635, and March 12,
1638, 1,500 acres, part in Salem and part in Lynn; sold, on execution,
to Robert Saltonstall, Dec. 6, 1642, and by him sold to Stephen
Winthrop, June 7, 1645, whose daughters—Margaret Willie and Judith
Hancock—owned it in 1692: that part within the bounds of Salem is given
in the Map according to the report of a committee, July 11, 1695.
Orchard Farm.
Granted by the General Court to Gov. Endicott; owned by his grandsons,
John and Samuel, in 1692.
The Governor's Plain.
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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