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North of the two lots last described was the homestead 

 of William Bacon, about three acres, where he lived in 

 1640. He also owned an acre of land between the Veren 

 lot, just described, and Dean street, on which Roger 

 Morey had a house before 1644, and north of which was 

 another acre of land which Elizabeth Spooner conveyed 

 to Edward Flint in 1668, and which was probably the 

 homestead of Kobert, or John Pease in 1644. The house 

 of William Bacon appears to have stood on the bank of 

 the North River about two hundred feet west of Dean 

 street. He left his house and one acre to his son Isaac, 

 and the other three acres to his wife Rebecca. In her 

 will, in 16");3, she gave the house and acre adjoining, or 

 the use -of it, to her "brother Robert Buffum" and the 

 three acres to "my cossen Ann Potter ,*aud^ my cossen 

 Richard Cherlcraft." Ann Potter* married Anthpny 

 Needham, who, in 1679, conveyed thethr^'e acres to Ed- 

 ward Flint. Robert Buftum also, it seems, conveyed to 

 Edward Flint, in 1667, the acre on which Bacon's house 

 had stood, in exchange for another acre adjoining his own 

 homestead. Thus Edward Flint became possessed finally 

 of about five acres on the west side of Dean street, which 

 he left, in 1711, to his son Benjamin, among whose heirs 

 it was divided in 1734. Edward Flint's house was on 

 the western corner of Essex and Dean streets. In 1721 

 Benjamin Flint was allowed three "rights" for "Mory, 

 Pease and Bacon's cottage rights on his father's home- 

 stead." 



[To he continued.] 



*It appears by several depositions, recorded in the Registry of Deeds in 1C95, 

 boolv 10, fol. ]8fi-',), that Wm. Bacon was living- in Duldin in l(i:?9, and came here soon 

 alter, and that his wile Rebecca was a daughter of -'Thomas Potter, Esq. who had 

 been Mayor of the City of Coventry " in Warwickshire, England, and that her 

 brother, Humplirey Potter, who was the father of Ann Potter, afterwards the wife 

 of Anthony Xeedham, was tlie only son of said Tliomas, and " was slain in that 

 great and general massacre that had been in Ireland;" and that thereupon Ann 

 Potter's aunt, Mrs. Rebecca Bacon, .'^ent to Ireland for hei- lo come and live with 

 her in Salem. 



