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ftirm, the line of which correspouded nearly with Phelps 

 Court, east and south to the South River, now the Mill 

 Pond. This was at one time called the " Governor's 

 field." * It was sold by Gov. Endicott to Emanuel 

 Downing before 1640, as appears by a deed of mortgage 

 on the Suffolk Records, dated June 8, 1640, and ac- 

 knowledged Dec. 20, 1644, by Emanuel Downing of 

 "his mansion house | at Salem with four acres more or 

 less thereto adjoining, and twenty acres more purchased 

 of Mr. Endicott^ ^y^^^9 '^''POii the South River.''^ John 

 Pickering subsequently came into possession of thq 

 Broadfield by virtue of a deed of Indenture, now in the 

 possession of John Pickering, Esq., of which the follow- 

 ing is a literal copy : 



"This indenture made the 11th daj' of February anno 1642 AVit- 

 nesseth that Lucey Downiuge the wife of Emanuel Dowiiinge of 

 Salem in New Englaude Esq. & Edmund Batter of Salem, gent : for & 

 in consideration of the summe of twenty two pounds haue bargained 

 & sould & by these presents doe bargain & sell to Jolm Pickerriug of 

 Salem aforesaid carpenter all that parcell of grounde lying before the 

 now dwelling house of the sd. Jno. Pickerringe late in the occupation 

 of Jno. Endicott Esq. with all the appurtenances thereto belonging, 

 abutting on the East & South on the river commonly called the South 

 river & on the West on the land of William Hawthorne & on the North 

 vpon the towne common. To haue & to houlde to him, his heirs & 

 assignes forever. In consideration whereof the said Jno. Pickerriug 

 doth couenant to pay to the said Lucey & Edmund or either of them 

 the aforesaide sume of twenty two pownds in manner and forme fol- 

 lowinge. That is to say nine pownds of her debts to such persons as; 

 she hath appointed & eight pownds in bacon at vi^ the pound & corne 

 at such rates as they are sould commonly by Capt : Traske the 2d 

 week in Aprill next whereof xxi bushells is to be of Indian the rest 

 pease and wheate and the other five powndes in such comodities as 

 her occasions require excepting money & corne. Prouided that if the 

 aforesaid Jno. Pickering shal not duly performe the several payments 

 according to agreement that then it shall be lawfull for the said Lucey" 



* See Essex Inst. Coll., Vol. VIII, p. 23. 

 t Afterwards Gov. Bradstreet's. 



