Transcriber’s Note Italic text displayed as: _italic_ SERIES OF PLANS OF BOSTON SHOWING EXISTING WAYS AND OWNERS OF PROPERTY 1630-1635-1640-1645. _Compiled by GEORGE LAMB_, FROM TOWN RECORDS, BOOK OF POSSESSIONS, MASSACHUSETTS BAY RECORDS, SAVAGE’S WINTHROP, LECHFORD’S DIARY, ASPINWALL’S NOTARIAL RECORDS AND SUFFOLK COUNTY DEEDS. SCALE, ABOUT 600 FEET TO AN INCH. [Illustration: Decoration] BOSTON: MUNICIPAL PRINTING OFFICE. 1905. This series of plans of the Town of Boston is the result of a great amount of research, and presents in a most interesting manner the growth of the Town from the first settlement to 1645. The plan dated December 25, 1645, while in the main correct, does not show all the transfers made during that year, as will be seen by consulting Suffolk Deeds, Lib. 1, as noted in the introduction to the Book of Possessions (Volume 2 of the Boston Records), the first 111 pages of which were written by William Aspinwall prior to the 10th month, 1645. The numbers on the plans follow the original pagination of the Book of Possessions. On the plan of 1630 the lot marked S should have been assigned to Thomas Sharp. These plans show the old peninsula of Boston; consequently the allotments at the “field end next Roxbury” do not appear. The New Field was located at the west part of the town in the angle bounded by the present Cambridge street, and extending through Lynde and Leverett streets to Haugh’s Point. The principal town landing was at the head of the cove or dock, around which Valentine Hill’s highway was laid out in 1641. Street names were not given until a later period, though the present Washington street was known as the “High street, the great street or highway to Roxbury.” Other allotments were made at Rumney Marsh (Chelsea), Mt. Wollaston (Quincy), and Muddy River (Brookline). Ownership and transfers of many lots between the periods shown by the plans are not noted. E. W. MCGLENEN, _City Registrar_. BOSTON, 1905. ===1630=== A—John Winthrop, Gov. B—William Coddington. C—William Balston. D—Robert Harding. E—William Brenton. R—Miles Redding. S—Robert Sharp. T—John Underhill. W—William Cheesebrough. X—William Blackstone. 8—Edward Gibbons. 11—Revd. John Wilson. 17—Henry Pease. 26—Samuel Cole. 40—John Biggs. 41—James Brown. 43^a—Thomas Fairweather. 44—John Glover. 45—William Hudson, Jr. 53—Edward Bendell. 57—William Hudson, Sr. 58—Robert Scott. 59^a—Thomas Matson. 71—James Penn. 73—Zaccheus Bosworth. 77—William Aspinwall. 85—William Colbron. 85—Edward Belcher. 86—William Talmage. 86—Robert Walker. 89—Garret Bourne. 89—John Cranwell. 90—Edward Rainsford. 93—John Odlin. 107—William Lytherland. Giles Firman. John Mills. 1635. ===1635===