BULLETIN 



OP THE 



VOL. I. SALEM, MASS., APRIL, 1869. No. 4. 



One Dollar a Year In Advance. 10 Cents a Single Copy. 



FIRST HOUSES IN SALEM. \ 



BY W. P. UPHAM. 

 [Continued from page 41.] 



SOUTH of Norman street, and east of Summer street, was 

 a house and nine acres of land, bounded east on the South 

 River, conveyed in 1651, by Thos. Ruck to John Ruck, 

 afterwards known as Ruck's Village. After the Mills on 

 the South River were built in 1664, an extensive business, 

 connected with shipbuilding, grew up in the neighborhood 

 of Creek street, then a cove called Sweet's Cove, from 

 John Sweet, who was the original owner and occupant of 

 the lot next north of the cove. South of Sweet's Cove, 

 and forming the southern portion of the nine acres above 

 mentioned, was a lot of four acres which had belonged to 

 Rev. Samuel Skeltou, and was laid out to him in 1630. 

 Next south of this, and extending along the South River 

 (now the Mill Pond) to land of Wm. Hathorne, which 

 was west of where Hathorne street is now, was the 

 "Broadfield," originally owned by Governor Endicott, 



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