BULLETIN 



OF THE 



ESSEX in^STITTJTE. 



Vol. I. Salem, Mass., May, June, 1869. Nos. 5, 6. 



One Dollar a Year in Advance. | _ 



FIRST HOUSES IN SALEM. 



BY" "W. P. UPHAM. 



[Continued from page 57.] 



It thus appears that the lot above mentioned was owned 

 by Michael Shaflin before 1038 ; and the i^rice which 

 John Kitchen paid for it, indicates that there was a 

 dwelling house on it at that time ; but it had disappeared 

 in 1684. It was long known as the "Kitchen field," and 

 extended from the east side of Hamilton street westerly 

 two hundred and seventy-five feet, and southerly from 

 Essex street to Chestnut street. After the death of 

 Robert Kitchen it was owned by his son Edward Kitchen, 

 who left it by Avill, in 1766, to Edward Kitchen Turner, 



East of the Kitchen field was a lot of about the same 

 dimensions, originally owned by Thomas Antrum. It 

 extended easterly to a line about one hundred and twenty 

 feet west of Cambridge street, and southerly to Chestnut 

 street. East of this, and extending one hundred and 

 twenty feet east of Cambridge street, was another lot 

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