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old stone walls, covered with lichens, and having every 

 appearance of having been built two hundred years ago. 

 This I believe to be the Wigwam Rock mentioned in the 

 deeds of Edmond Butler and Richard Way. The first, 

 in 1652, is as follows: "Edmond Butler, Salem, sold 

 to Richard Way, for twenty pounds, fourteen acres of 

 upland, lying next Thomas Goldthwait's land on the 

 north ; and ten acres lying on the south and a little below 

 Wigwam Rock ; and a piece of land running down to the 

 river." 1st Book, p. 15. The deed of Richard Way to 

 Samuel Very , 1656, runs thus : "And one acre of land 

 which sometime was Edmond Butler's, where the house 

 of Philip Verren, deceased, formerly stood ; and a parcel 

 of land containing about one acre and a half, exchanged 

 with the town, on the south side of the brook near the 

 farm; and also fourteen acres of ground, or thereabouts, 

 bounded with a parcel of ground of Thomas Goldthwait's 

 on the marsh ; and the ten acres on the east and to the 

 south, a little below a rock, known by the name of Wig- 

 wam Rock; and. to the northeast on Thomas Antrim, 

 with a small strip of land running down to the river to 

 the south, containing about two roods ; to have and to 

 hold." 1st Book, p. 74. 



The ten acre lot described in these deeds was probably 

 that lying to the east and south of this corner boundary 

 stone. The land slopes off from this stone, and on the 

 other side of the cart road makes a steep descent of fifty 

 or sixty feet. Thus the words "a little below" would 

 correspond. It is a suitable place, too, for an Indian 

 camp, as my friend, the farmer, thought. Local tradition 

 is silent. There are a number of other very large boul- 

 ders, some as large as Ship Rock, a little to the left as 

 you follow this road ; but none so likely to be Wigwam 

 Rock as the one I have described. JONES VERY. 



