BULLETIN 



OF THE 



VOL, 1. SALEM, MASS., OCT., Nov., 1869. Nos. 10, 11. 



One Dollar a Year in Advance. 



FIRST HOUSES IN SALEM. 



BY W. P. UPHAM. 



[Continued from page 81.] 



Cotta's lot (see p. 56) bounded southerly on Broad 

 street, extending from a point two hundred feet west of 

 Pickering street, westerly two hundred and seventy feet 

 to what was then the homestead of Wm. Flint, and so 

 through to Essex street, where it extended from the 

 eastern side of the estate now owned by Jos. S. Cabot, 

 Esq., westerly to the homestead of Rev. Dr. Emerson. 

 As already stated there were two houses on this lot in 

 the very early years of the settlement, but they had dis- 

 appeared in 1677. The first Quaker meeting house was 

 built on the north-west corner of it by Thomas Maule in 

 1688. When the second meeting house was built on the 

 north side of Essex street, in 1718, the old house was 

 turned into a dwelling house, and in 1788, was sold to 

 Robert Wallis. It stood on a small piece of land next 

 east of Dr. Emerson's house. The next house built on 

 Cotta's lot was by Richard Oakes in 1711, where the 

 house next but one east of Dr. Emerson's now stands. 

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