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to 1687, for making bricks, and afterwards by Isaac 

 Stearns for the same purpose ; and west of that as far as 

 to Cambridge street, was another "brick place" owned by 

 Thomas Maule, and afterwards Samuel AVoodwell. 



South of the " Kitchen field " and the Antrum lot, and 

 fronting on Broad street from the land of Francis Lawes 

 to Cotta's lot, al)ove described, which was about two 

 hundred feet Avest of Pickering street, was the homestead 

 of John Pickering, of about five acres. The first house 

 in which he lived when he bought the Broadfield of 

 Emanuel Downing, in 1643, was near the site of the 

 present dwelling now^ occupied by John Pickering, Esq., 

 his descendant in the seventh generation. This house, 

 now standing, is one of the most interesting relics of the 

 past we have in the city, both from its having been 

 always occupied l)y the same family, and on account of 

 its well authenticated antiquity. The following is taken 

 from an account of this house in a memorandum book, 

 and was written by Col. Timothy Pickering, Dec. 3, 

 1828. After referring to another house which his eldest 

 sister Sarah (Pickering) Clark, who died Nov. 21, 1826, 

 in her 97th year, remembered as standing at a small 

 distance eastward of the present house. Col. Pickering 

 writes : 



"I well remember that wJien I went to the woman's school, being 

 then only six years old, my father raised the roof of the northern side 

 of the present house, and so made room for three chambers to accom- 

 modate his family, having then nine children. The roof, according to 

 the fashion of the time, running down pn the northern side, so as to 

 leave but one upright story. The windows were glazed with small 

 panes, some diamond-shaped, and the others small oblongs. These 

 were all set in leaden strips, formed thin, with grooves (bj' a machine 

 made for the purpose) for the reception of tlie glass, on which the 

 lead was easily pressed close down. Where the leads crossed they 

 were soldered together; and I perfectly remember seeing the glazier, 

 Moore by name, setting glass in the old windows, in the manner here 

 described. 



