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tioiied, and left it to his grandson, Joseph Neal, descri- 

 bing it as " part of that ground I bought of Mr. Edmond 

 Batter and was formerly Thomas Antrums, and is 

 bounded north with the street, east with the land of 

 mine formerly the land of Richard Graves, south with 

 the land of John and Jonathan Pickering, and west with 

 the land of John Kitchen." In 1681 Thomas Maule 

 bought of Joseph Neal the eastern portion of the Antrum 

 lot, and also of Jonathan Neal a small portion of the 

 Graves lot, and built the house in which he afterwards 

 lived, and which was taken down a few years ago. Mr. 

 James B. Curwen, who lives on the same site, has the 

 original deeds in his possession. 



Jonathan Neale also conveyed a house lot, in ,1680, to 

 Benjamin Marston, who built thereon the house now 

 standing on the western corner of Cambrido-e street, 

 which street was then first laid out as a private way be- 

 tween that house lot and another which he conveyed to 

 Samuel Wakefield. Wakefield sold his house in 1684, 

 to John Bullock, Innkeeper, and in 1706 it was conveyed 

 to Richard Pike. Another house lot, next east, was 

 conveyed by Neal, in 1680, to Samuel Shattuck, Jr., hat- 

 maker and dyer, who built there the house now standing, 

 part of which is owned and occupied by Mrs. Mary C. 

 Stowers. This was the house to which Bridget Bishop 

 came to get some lace dyed, when the effect Shattuck 

 thought her visits had upon his child, aroused his suspi- 

 cions that she was a witch, and caused him to testify 

 against her at her trial in 1692. 



The house of William Lord, who oAvned the acre of 

 land at the corner of Essex and Summer streets, was 

 where Mr. Jonathan Peirce now lives. The southern 

 part of his land, near the northern corner of Chestnut 

 and Summer streets, was used by John Mason, from 1661 



