BULLETIN 



ESSEX I3STSTITTJTE. 



VOL. 1. SALEM, MASS., DECEMBER, 1869. No. 12. 



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



FIRST HOUSES IN SALEM. 



BY W. P. TJPHAM. 



[Concluded from, page 136.] 



On the east side of Dean street was a lot of seven 

 acres, the eastern boundary of which was parallel with 

 Beckford street, and ran from a point on Essex street 

 about seventy feet west of Munroe street to the North 

 River. This was owned before 1664, by Thos. Spooner ; 

 and he and Thomas Gardner, Sen., and Samuel Shattuck, 

 Sen., had houses there as early as 1640. John Simp- 

 son built a house in 1672, on the south-east corner of 

 this land, which, in 1772, was conveyed by Jane Ropes 

 to John Higginson, and by Joseph Sewall to Miss Caro- 

 line Plummer in 1846. 



Next east of this was a two acre house-lot, nine rods 

 wide, where Richard Bishop lived before 1660, his house 

 being near the river. On the south-west corner of this lot 

 Roger Derby built a house, and lived there till his death, 

 in 1698. The site of his house was about three rods 

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