I 7 8 HIS TOR Y OF COHA SSE T. 



naming, we can infer that both families were living here 

 before the year 1681.* 



Of the Tower family there were twelve children, and of 

 the Lincoln six, so that a good deal of company might 

 be had without traveling far. 



At the death of Ibrook Tower, November 28, 1731, his 

 property was so divided that Hezekiah got some of the King 

 Street end of the lot. There the ruins of an old well and 

 a cellar may be seen to-day marking the home of this sec- 

 ond generation. Other lands bordering on Lily Pond fell 

 to this son, so that for many years the beautiful body of 

 water was called " Kiah Tower's Pond." 



The following inventory does not show the complete 

 household furnishing of Ibrook Tower's home ; for his 

 second wife, Patience, brought certain personal effects 

 which were to continue to be her property, as the written 

 agreement of their betrothal specified : — 



£ s. d. 

 Apparel;^ 2. 15^". dd. bed, 2 coverlids, i blanket 



I sheet, I bolster 10. 5. 6 



Lumber in cellar 23^. Woodenware Si-, dd. 2 



Chairs ds i. 19. 6 



1 chest, Table, Bedstead, Tubs in the chamber . 2. 10. o 

 Trundle bedstead 6i. 2 brass kettles & warm- 

 ing pan ;^4. 2S 4. 8. o 



2 Trammels & ironware £2. 6s. Frying pan 6^-. 



Pewter ;^2. 13^ 5- 5- » 



Small brass skillet & money scales gs. Iron pot 



\2S. Ironware £2 3. 1. 



* In John Ripley's will, dated January i, 1683, are these words : " half an acre of 

 fresh Meadow at Connihasset near the house of Ibrook Tower." 



The tradition in the Tower family that Ibrook Tower lived on Deer Hill is hard 

 to reconcile with John Ripley's statement that his fresh meadow was " near the 

 house of Ibrook Tower." That fresh meadow was probably a part of the Great 

 Neck meadow north of the railroad station. 



Since writing the above I have been told by Abraham H. Tower that some 

 foundation stones of an ancient dwelling were excavated from a place near his 

 flower bed on the southeast side of his present home by the Common. This foun- 

 dation, I believe, was Ibrook Tower's. 



