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house-lot granted to John Abby, Jan. 2, 1637.* It 

 appears by the Commoners Records that there were three 

 houses on this farm before the year 1661, and that Wm. 

 Hathorne's house was t^till standing in 1714, being then 

 owned by his son Col. John Hathorne. 



"Brick-kiln lane" led south from the western end of 

 Essex street to the uoi'therly gate of the Town Pasture ; 

 and west of it extending to Norman's Rocks was the 

 "brick-kiln field," about six acres, conveyed by the heirs 

 of Thomas Trusler. in 1656, to Wm. Flint. Richard Nor- 

 man, who probably gave the name to Norman's Rocks, 

 lived on the southern part of it, and John Barber on the 

 northern part of it, before 1661, This was, perhaps, the 

 same brick-kiln mentioned by Francis Higginson in 1629. 

 We find it referred to frequently in the early records. 



The northern part of Brick-kiln lane is now merged 

 in the Turnpike ; the southern part still remains leading 

 from the western end of A^'arren street to the Pasture 

 Gate. On the east side of this lane, bounding south by 

 Broad street and east by Flint street, was the homestead 

 of Richard Adams, conveyed by him to Lieut. John 

 Pickering in 1679, and described as containing four or 

 five acres, "being at the western end of the town over 

 against Maj. Hathorne's : and is bounded with the street 

 southerly, and a lane or street easterly, and a highway, 

 or common land partly, westerly, and the land formerly 

 of Wm. Flint, now the land of Edward and Thomas 

 Flint, northerly." In 1646 the agents of Townsend 

 Bishop conveyed to Richard Adams "one oulcl house 

 with one acre of laud within the common field, and 

 about an acre and an half of land next to the common 

 inclosed by itself." They also at the same time conveyed 

 to Ralph Fogg " the new messuage or dwelling house of 



*See Town Record, Jan. 2, 1636-7, and April 23, 1638. 



