. A documentary history of Chelsea : including the Boston precincts of Winnisimmet, Rumney Marsh, and Pullen Point, 1624-1824. re the tenant farmerlived. Evidence of this is given by Mrs. Cary in 1701 and 1801. (CaryLetters, 90. 104.) It is noticeable that Flora, servant of Captain Cary,owned the covenant at Rumney Marsh October 29. 1709, and her sonHamblett was baptized there on the same day. This is the first referenceto the family in the church records. After this date an almost constantoccupation of these rooms can be traced. The presumption is that thecustom did not exist before the death
. A documentary history of Chelsea : including the Boston precincts of Winnisimmet, Rumney Marsh, and Pullen Point, 1624-1824. re the tenant farmerlived. Evidence of this is given by Mrs. Cary in 1701 and 1801. (CaryLetters, 90. 104.) It is noticeable that Flora, servant of Captain Cary,owned the covenant at Rumney Marsh October 29. 1709, and her sonHamblett was baptized there on the same day. This is the first referenceto the family in the church records. After this date an almost constantoccupation of these rooms can be traced. The presumption is that thecustom did not exist before the death of Mrs. Samuel Cary in 17G2. thepurchase from the heirs of Mrs. Ann Greaves in 1703, and the division in17G5 of the estates till then held in common by Samuel Cary and JamesRussell, and the assignment to Captain Cary of this farm, as. described 300-372. Tradition says that the house was what is called an L-house,till [Captain Cary] had the northeast corner built. (Cary Letters, 5.)] 48 The Cary Letters, 3: An interesting collection to which I am muchindebted for the history of the family. K Cary Letters, 15. *. Chap. VII] GOVERNOR BELLINGHAMS ESTATES 311 to Grenada, leaving his wife with her mother presumably atChelsea; for there she joined the church August 1, 1773,and there, according to the family ggnealogy (though theChelsea records make no mention of it), their son Samuel wasborn October 17 of the same year. The next winter reluc-tantly leaving her infant son with her mother at Chelsea, asI suppose, she joined her husband at Grenada, which was herhome for eighteen years. She died at Chelsea August 26, Both Captain Samuel Cary, seaman, and his son, the WestIndia planter and merchant, Were much abroad, and formany years the Cary farm was without resident have inquired with some diligence, but with little success,as to the tenants who lived on this farm between 1742 I find no memorandum, public or private, that it wastaxed to the fa
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