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and removed in 1765 to near its present site, and 

 again removed in 1834 to its present location. This 

 church or vestry was certainly built of wood grown 

 upon the island. (See Churches.) 



The Thomas Gardner, Sr., house on Gull Island, I 

 was told by Edmund Gardner, was built for his grand- 

 father in 1736; and his father, Thomas, Jr., lived and 

 died there in 1830, aged about ninety-four years. Capt. 

 Charles Gardner refitted and modernized it some time 

 between 1823 and 1826. The house is now owned by 

 Mr. I. S. Kiddell. The north half of the house, now 

 owned and occupied by James Austin, was built from 

 the Nathaniel, Sr., and Mary Starbuck house,* and 

 stood near the north head of Hummock Pond. 



And there are many other dwellings in the town 

 that have been built in part of materials from old 

 buildings. There are several old houses on Liberty 

 Street whose dates of erection I do not know, and sev- 

 eral on Gardner Street. There is one on the corner of 

 Gardner Street fronting on Main, which was known in 

 my early life as the " Reuben Joy or Father Joy " house, 

 which was owned and occupied by Zaccheus Macy in 

 former times. The one opposite and next eastward, 

 now occupied by Mr. B. G. Toby, is also a very old 

 house. It was formerly owned by Christopher Star- 

 buck, who was married in 1751, and is probably much 

 over one hundred years old. The Samuel Stanton, 

 Sr., house, next above that now owned and occupied 

 by Capt. Henry Coleman (Milk Street), was probably 



* This was the great Mary Starbuck, consequently the house 

 possesses considerable historical interest. 



