FOR PROMOTING AGRICULTURE 77 



was held in Brighton, on June 8, and a committee was 

 appointed. The committee was able to report at the 

 adjourned meeting of June 15, that two offers had 

 been made of gift to the town, as desired. 



One of these was from Samuel W. Pomeroy, who 

 proposed to grant the half acre on either side of the 

 road near his tavern, and the use of a field of ten acres 

 opposite to the tavern. This building was known as 

 the Bull's Head tavern and stood on the northeasterly- 

 side of the present Washington street, 1,000 feet from 

 Cambridge street, and 400 feet from Union street. 

 The ten-acre lot was within the area now bounded by 

 Union street and Lexington avenue. The other offer 

 was from Abiel Winship, of a half acre in the middle 

 of his pasture, already referred to, and a roadway to 

 it, with the use of four acres in such part of the field 

 as he might choose, from time to timic. The thanks of 

 the town were voted to each of the two citizens, and 

 the committee was directed to submit the two offers 

 to the trustees of the society. They chose the Win- 

 ship premises, as being more central in the village, and 

 the half-acre lot being, as the committee of the trus- 

 tees express it in their report, "on elevated and beau- 

 tiful ground, commanding an extensive view." The 

 deed of Abiel Winship to the society is of date, July 

 2i, 1818, and has conditions that in case the premises 

 cease to be used for a cattle show the land shall revert 

 to the grantor; also, that the erection of booths, tents 

 or buildings upon either the half-acre or the four-acre 

 premises, for the vending of liquors, refreshments or 

 articles of any description, shall be subject to the 

 approval of the grantor. There is a stipulation that 

 the agricultural hall shall belong to the society in any 

 event. 



The boundaries of the half-acre lot have been ob- 



