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BULLETIN 



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Vol. 2. Salem, Mass., March, 1870. No. 3. 



One Dollar a Year ia Advance. 10 Cents a Single Copy. 



FIRST HOUSES IN SALEM. 



BY W. P. TJPHAJI. 



[Continued from Vol.1, p. 150.1 

 APPENDIX. 



The only place in Salem which is associated, by name, 

 with the Old Planters of 1626, is the large open field on 

 the right of the northerly end of Bridge street, which 

 was for many years known as the "Planters Marsh." 

 This has naturally led some to suppose that the first 

 settlement of Salem, in 1626, was in that vicinity. We 

 fail, however, to find anything in published accounts, or 

 in the records, to support such a belief, except in the 

 following statements by Rev. Dr. Bentley, and by Hon. 

 Robert Rantoul, Sen. 



Bentley, in his Description of Salem (Mass. Hist. 

 Coll. Vol. 6, p. 233), says: — "Salem, considered as 

 within its present bounds, was first settled upon North 

 River. Shallop Cove (now Collins Cove), open to Bev- 

 erly harbour, was then much employed." Again, p. 231, 

 "When Francis Higginson arrived, in 1629, there were 

 only six houses, besides that of Gov. Endicott, and these 



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