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daughter, Ann ; and she afterwards married Gov. Brad- 

 street. 



North of Brown street w-ere house-lots extendmg to 

 the river, and occupied before 1660, by Christopher 

 Waller, Joseph Miles, Isaac Page and Rev. Edw^ard 

 Norris. East of where Williams street is, lived George 

 Williams, who left his homestead in 1654, to his eldest 

 son, John Williams. Between that and Winter street, 

 was the homestead of Thomas Watson. He gave his 

 estate, in 1668 and in 1672, to Jacob Pudeator, whose 

 Avife, Ann, was executed as a witch in 1692. 



The Common, until 1660, extended south to Essex 

 street, and also included the land between Winter street 

 and Pleasant street. On the east side of Pleasant street 

 the earliest houses were those of Thomas Rootes, whose 

 house was on the north side of the cove at the east end of 

 Forrester street ; and Josiah Rootes, Edward Giles, Phile- 

 mon Dickenson and John Borne, who lived in the vicinity 

 of where Pickman street is now, their houses having dis- 

 appeared in 1655, when John Gedney owned the land, 

 afterwards known as the Gedney Pasture. * 



For an account of the square between Washington 

 street and Central street, see Hist. Coll. Vol. 8, p. 250. 

 Where the Charter street Cemetery is now was the 

 ancient, and probably the first, burying place. Near it 

 John Home had a windmill in 1637. Among the earliest 

 houses between Central and Elm streets, may be men- 

 tioned those of John Holgrave (Downing Block) , Henry 

 Bartholomew (Pickman house and E. I. Marine Hall), 



* We propose, in an appendix, to give an account of tlie first houses on the neck 

 of land through. M'hich Bridge street runs, and of the Planters Marsh, so called; 

 and will only remark here, that the interest which the Old Planters had in the land 

 there, does not appear to have been as a place of residence, but simply to have 

 arisen from a very early use of it, in common, on account of the great importance 

 to them of the salt marsh. We also intend to give a further account of the houses 

 of Roger Conant and Roger Williams. 



