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land in that part of the town. Samuel Sharpe, who was 

 sent over in 1629, by the Company in London, to take 

 charge of military affairs, lived where the "Hunt house" 

 lately stood, on the northern corner of Lynde and Wash- 

 ington streets. His land, consisting of about three acres, 

 running back to North street, was known as "Sharpe's 

 field." The house, with about half an acre of land adjoin- 

 ing, was conveyed by his son Nathaniel Sharpe, in 1684, 

 to John Price, who, in 1698, conveyed the same land, the 

 house having probably been taken down or removed, to 

 Lewis Hunt, who, in 1701, built the house which was taken 

 down a few years ago. North of the Sharpe homestead 

 was about an acre of land, owned in 1656 by the widow 

 Eleanor Robinson. North of that and extending from 

 where the Court House is, to the North river, was a 

 homestead of two acres, conveyed in 1656, by Thomas 

 Wilkes, a shipwright, to Thomas Hale of Newbury. 

 Next south of Mr. Sharpe's house was a house and one 

 acre of land bought by Henry Cooke of Edmond Thomp- 

 son, in 1645, and afterwards owned by Rev. Nicholas 

 Noyes ; the house stood just south of the residence of the 

 late Robert Brookhouse. Next south was the house and 

 one acre of land of Robert Adams, conveyed in 1649 to 

 Edward Norris, and next south, on the corner, lived 

 Edmond Batter, a leading man among the early inhabi- 

 tants. On the opposite corner, where the Horse Railroad 

 Office now is, was **house belonging to Hugh Peters, 

 Pastor of the Church from 1636 to 1641, which was sold 

 to Benjamin Felton in 1659. South and west of this was 

 the homestead of Ralph Fogg, the first town clerk, after- 

 wards owned by John Hathorne. South of that was a 

 small house occupied, for a time, by the Lady Deborah 

 Moody, and next south was the homestead of Hugh 

 Peters, afterwards occupied by John Corwin. On the 



