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aud by him conveyed to Emanuel Downing, who sold it 

 to John Pickering. 



What is now Broad street, together with the ground 

 south of it, which has been used as a cemetery since May 

 17, 1655, was called the Town Common, and for the first 

 few years, before the Town Bridge in Boston street w^as 

 built, appears to have been the only means of exit from 

 the town. A broad road thus led from Summer street 

 to the Town Pasture, then common land, and there 

 branched out in one direction round the west side of the 

 South River, to Marblehead, and in the other passing near 

 where the house of j\Ir. Horace Ware is, and around the 

 west side of Norman's Rocks, and coming out on Boston 

 street, above where the town bridge was afterwards 

 built (which was where the Engine House stands, near 

 Goodhue street), thus avoiding the creek, which was then 

 quite large, but has since almost wholly disappeared. 

 Persons now living can remember when the low land to 

 the north of Norman's Rocks was filled with water at high 

 tide, and a very considerable stream ran under the town 

 bridge. Goodhue street is, perhaps, a remnant of this 

 old way, and the part of it on the other side of Boston 

 street can still be traced. 



West of the Broadfield was a farm of sixty acres owned 

 by Wm. Hathorne, and after his decease by his son John 

 Hatliorne, which bounded north and west on the highway, 

 now Broad street, west and south-west on the way lead- 

 ing to Marblehead, south on the Castle Hill farm, after- 

 wards owned by Benj. Lynde, and east on the South 

 River, now the Mill Pond, and on the Broadfield. On 

 part of this farm was a little brook called Frost Fish 

 Brook, described in the record as "coming forth betweene 

 the twoe hills, " on the east of which lived Richard Wa- 

 ters, gunsmith, as early as 1636, and near it was a 



