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The old house, now st.inding between that and the house 

 of Mr. Cabot, was built by Jeffry Lang in 1740 (Essex 

 Inst. Hist. Coll. Vol. 6, p. 257). The Cabot house was 

 built about the year 1744, the land having been sold that 

 year to Francis and Joseph Cabot. 



Between Cotta's lot and Flint street, and north of Wm. 

 Flint's homestead (see p. 56), was a lot of al)out four 

 acres on which John Reeves Hved before 1661. One- 

 half acre of this on the east side, with a dwelling house 

 on it, was given l)y John Reeves to his daughter Eliza- 

 beth and her son John Richards. Elizabeth, daughter of 

 John Richards and wife of Thomas Hooper, of Medfield, 

 sold the same to John Dynn, in 1708. In 1713 it came 

 into possession of his mother Elizabc^th Derby,* widow of 

 Roger Derby, and after her death in 1740, was owned by 

 her son-in-law, Joshua Hicks, and was conveyed to James 

 Ford, schoolmaster, in 1764, and to Rev. Daniel Hop- 

 kins, father-in-law of Dr. Emerson, in 1788. James 

 Ford built the house now occupied by Dr. Emerson. 

 The house of John Reeves was on the corner of Essex 

 and Flint streets, and was left by him to his daughter 

 Mary, wife of Ephraim Kempton. 



West of Flint street, and north of the land of Richard 

 Adams (see p. 55), was a lot of seven acres extending 

 west to "Brick-kiln lane," now the Turnpike. It was 

 owned by Wm. Flint in 1659, and appears to have been 

 originally two house lots, the Avestern one owned and oc- 

 cupied by Henry Kenny, and the eastern one by Thomas 

 Gouldthwait. Their houses had disappeared in 1672. 



Between "Brick-kiln lane" and Norman's Rocks, was 

 the "Brick-kiln field," which, in the deed to Wm. Flint 

 in 1656, is described as extending north "to the land of 



* Wm. Dynn maiTied Elizabeth Haskett, June G. 1()84, and had two sons, John 

 and William. His widow became the second wife of Roger Derby. 



