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than 3000 /. before it be fully finifhed. 1 The Town is 
not divided into Parifhes, yet they have three fair Meeting- 
houfes or Churches, which hardly fuffice to receive the 
Inhabitants and Strangers that come in from all parts. 2 
Having refrefhed my felf here for fome time, and oppor- 
tunely lighting upon a paffage in a Bark belonging to a 
Friend of my Brothers, and bound to the Eaftward, I put 
to sea again, and on the Fifteenth of Auguji, I arrived at 
Black-point, otherwife called Scarborow, the habitation of 
my beloved Brother, 3 being about an hundred leagues to the 
1 This house was one Mr. Robert Gibbs's "of an ancient family in Devon- 
shire," says Farmer (Geneal. Reg., p. 120) ; and it stood on Fort Hill, the way 
leading to it becoming afterwards known as Gibbs's Lane, and a wharf at the 
waterside, belonging to the property, as Gibbs's Wharf. Mr. W. B. Trask, who 
obligingly examined for me the early deeds concerning this estate in Suffolk 
Registry, furnishes a memorandum, that on the 6th June, 1671, Robert Gibbs of 
Boston, merchant, conveys to Edward and Elisha Hutchinson, in trust, for Eliza- 
beth, wife of said Robert, during her life, and after her decease to such child or 
children as he shall have by her, his land and house on Fort Hill, with warehouse 
on wharf, ' which land was formerly my grandfather, Henry Webb's.' The wife 
of said Robert Gibbs was daughter to Jacob Sheafe by Margaret, daughter to 
Henry Webb, mercer. Sampson Sheafe, a Provincial councillor of New Hampshire, 
and the ancestor of a family of long standing there, married another daughter of 
Jacob Sheafe. Mr. Gibbs was father to the Rev. Henry Gibbs, minister of Water- 
town, and had other children ; and the family continues to this day. 
- Compare the author's Voyages, pp. 19, 161, 173, for other notices of Boston, 
and as to the first of these, which represents the town (in 1638) as "rather a 
village, . . . there being not above twenty or thirty houses," see the note in 
Savage's Winthrop, edit. 1, vol. i. p. 267. 
3 Mr. Henry Josselyn was probably living at Black Point in 1638, when his 
brother first visited it (Voyages, p. 20). It was then the estate (by grant from 
the council at Plymouth) and residence of Captain Thomas Cammock; but he, 
dying in 1643, bequeathed it, except five hundred acres which were reserved to his 
wife, to Josselyn, who, marrying the widow, succeeded to the whole property, 
which was described as containing fifteen hundred acres (Willis infra), but is 
called by Sullivan five thousand (History of Maine, p. 12S). In 1658, this and 
other adjoining tracts were erefted into a town by Massachusetts, under the name 
