101 



After the death of Benjamin Ives in 1752, the estate 

 with additional purchases, including land obtained from 

 the town by vote of the citizens, in exchange for Pignal's 6 

 or Roache's Point, on which is located the present alms- 

 house, amounting to forty acres, and also land from 

 Abbot, 6 16 Aug., 1738 (Eeg. Deeds, Essex, vol. Ixxiv, fol. 

 176), passed into the possession of his son John Ives, who 

 conveyed the same to Richard Derby 7 May 16, 1758 (see 

 Reg. Deeds, Essex, vol. cxliv, fol. 40). 



After the death of Richard Derby this property was 

 assigned to John Derby towards his portion of his father's 

 estate, who conveyed the same by deed to Edward Allen, 

 Dec. 13, 1793 (see Reg. Deeds, Essex, vol. clvii, fol. 73). 

 After the death of Edward Allen, July 27, 1803, and ot 

 his wife Margaret, Aug. 13, 1808, this estate passed into 

 the possession of his son Edward Allen, who sold the 

 same to Josiah Orne, Feb. 26, 1810 (see Reg. Deeds, 

 Essex, vol., clxxxviii, fol. 177). Josiah Orne, April 6, 

 1816, conveyed the same to Jonathan Dustin of Danvers 

 (see Reg. Deeds, Essex, ccx, fol. 86). Eliza Sutton, 

 Hazen Ayer and Serena his wife, in her own right, all 

 of Peabody, being heirs of the late Jonathan Dustin, 



8 This, name appears in deeds, but it should be " Picton " named for Thomas 

 Picton to whom the land was originally granted. Sometimes spelled Pigden. 



The following Deposition from the State Records probably refers to the same 

 person : John Abbot of Salem, Shoreman, aged seventy years, testifyeth and 

 deposeth that during my acquaintance of many years with Mr. Philip English of 

 Salem who is now a Prisoner in the said Town Gaol, I have heard him the said 

 English declare that he was bred & born in the Communion of the Church of Eng- 

 land, and that he would go to no other publick worship willingly, & if he had 

 opportunity to go to a Church agreeable to which when the Church was erected at 

 Marblehead he the said English & I have gone frequently thither together from 

 that time down to this, & further there lying a ferry between this Town & Marble- 

 head over which the ferryman could by no means be prevailed upon to carry us 

 every Lord's day, he, the satd English, has several times spoke to me to be partner 

 with him in a Boat that we might go thither constantly to Church. 

 Salem, Feb. 29 : 1721-5. 



7 For a sketch of the Derby Family, see Hist. Coll., Essex Inst., vol. Ill, pp. 

 154, 201, 283. 



