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same estate. East of this, Hilliard Vereu owned three- 

 quarters of an acre, in 1665 ; and next to that were two 

 other house-lots, each seven rods in width, and both 

 owned by Philip Veren, in 1662, who lived where Mrs. 

 S. F. Orne now lives, opposite Cambridge street. On 

 the southeast corner of this land, where the entrance to 

 the Xorth Church is, Richard Sibley built a house in 

 1662. The rest was conveyed to Mary, widow of Nathan- 

 iel Veren, who became the wife of Thomas Putnam, and 

 conveyed the eastern half to his son Thomas Putnam, and 

 the western half to his son Joseph, the father of Gen. 

 Israel Putnam. Thomas' part came into the possession 

 of Benjamin Gerrish in 1713, and remained in that family 

 for many years. Joseph's part was sold by him in 1718, 

 to Mrs. Mary Lindall, a daughter of Mary Veren ; who 

 also bought the land to the west that had been owned by 

 Hilliard Veren ; and the whole was conveyed by the heirs 

 of Samuel Barnard to Nathaniel Ropes, in 1768. On 

 the West side of North street was the homestead of 

 Roger AY illiams in 1635-6, of which we shall give a more 

 extended account hereafter. All these lots ran throuoh 

 from Essex street to the river. 



The house-lots, between North and Summer streets on 

 the west and Washington street on the east, all of which 

 ran from east to west, have been already described. We 

 will only add that on the eastern corner of Essex and 

 North streets, on land which was conveyed, in 1670, by 

 Edmond Batter to his brother-in-law Hilliard Veren, 

 Sen., was built a house whicli Timothy Hicks conveyed 

 to Deliverance Parkman, in 1673, and which was taken 

 down about twenty years ago. On the south side, from 

 Summer street to Washington street, there were four 

 houses before 1661, in what was called "Fogg's Row;" 

 but we do not know who occupied them. 



