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& Edmund or either of them to reenter and enjoy the said premises as 

 before notwithstanding this agreement or any thinge therein con- 

 tained : In witness whereof the parties aboue-said have hereunto set 

 their hands & scales interchangably the day and yeare aboue written. 

 Sealed & deliuered in the presence 

 of vs SAM : SHARPE. WILLM HATHORNE 



LUCIE DOWNINGE [Seal.] 

 EDMOND BATTER [Seal.] 



This Indenture is endorsed as follows : Mrs. Down- 

 ings and Mr. Batters Sale of the Broadfield unto Carpen- 

 ter John Pickering 1642 



On a separate paper is the following confirmation by 

 Emanuel Downing : 



"I doe freely agree to the sale of the ffeild in Salem made by wife 

 to Goodm : Pickering witness my hand this 10th of the 12 moneth 1G43. 



EM: DOWNINGE. 



(Endorsed.) This Febr: 10th 1643 Emmanuel Downinge Esq. his 

 Confirmation of his wife Lucies Sale of the Broadfield unto Carpen- 

 ter John Pickering." 



These papers have always remained in possession of 

 the family and were not recorded till 1785. The expres- 

 sion "late in the occupation of Jno. Endicott Esq.," has 

 been thought to apply to the dwelling house of John 

 Pickering,* but it seems most probable that it referred to 

 the " parcell of grounde " which it appears by other evi- 

 dence had belonged to Gov. Endicott. 



The westerly half of the Broadfield, being that part 

 lying between Phelps court and Winthrop street, consist- 

 ing of ten acres, caaift, in some way, into the possession 

 of William Lord, Sen.', who, in 1668, conveyed it to 

 Nicholas Manning; and it finally, in 1756, came into the 

 possession of Joseph Hathorne, and thus became merged 

 in the Hathorne farm, except one acre and a half on the 

 eastern side. Hathorne street was laid out, as a private 



* See Essex Inst. Hist. Coll., Vol. II, p. 40. 



