An historic guide to Cambridge . later own-ers of the house are net known. JOHN HICKS HOUSE. (A16.) We now come to the one old house, still standing in this street, that ofJohn Hicks, the patriot, who was killed near the junction of Massachusettsand Rindge avenues by the retreating British, on April 19, 1775. Hewas great-grandson of Zechariah Hicks, the founder of the family. He wasbom on May 23, 1725, and married Elizabeth, daughter of Jonathan Nutting,of Wrentham. His son Jonathan was a graduate of Harvard, in 1770, and wassurgeon in the Revolutionary War. This house is on the southeast come
An historic guide to Cambridge . later own-ers of the house are net known. JOHN HICKS HOUSE. (A16.) We now come to the one old house, still standing in this street, that ofJohn Hicks, the patriot, who was killed near the junction of Massachusettsand Rindge avenues by the retreating British, on April 19, 1775. Hewas great-grandson of Zechariah Hicks, the founder of the family. He wasbom on May 23, 1725, and married Elizabeth, daughter of Jonathan Nutting,of Wrentham. His son Jonathan was a graduate of Harvard, in 1770, and wassurgeon in the Revolutionary War. This house is on the southeast comer ofDunster and Winthrop streets. In the early times, other noted persons livedin a still oMer house on this site—Major Simon Willard, who left in 1635to become one of the founders of Concord, and Edward Mitchellson, whowas marshal general, or high sheriff, fom 1637 till his death, in 1681. Hisdaughter, Ruth, married John Green, who succeeded him in his office, andtheir son, Jonathan, sold the house to Joseph Coolidge in *.?»fa-isiaK_y HISTORIC GUIDE TO CAMBRIDGE 69 JOHN BRIDGE HOUSE. (A17.) The house on the northeast corner of Dunster and South streets, directlyopposite Governor Dudleys, was built by John Bridge, whose statue may beseen today on Cambridge Common. He lived here until he bought thesite of the Longfellow house. BEXJAMIN-PAYNE-MANNING HOUSE. (A18.) The last house between South street and the river was built by ConstableJohn Benjamin, in 1635, who sold it to Moses Payne in 1646. Henry Adamslived here a few months, and it then passed into the Manning family, whokept it till 1720, when Samuel Manning, Jr., sold it to Jonathan Remington. M. I. J. G. HOLYOKE HOUSE. (28.) Holyoke street, called in the early times Crooked street, then much morecrooked than now, was the most easterly street of the old town. At thehead of the street, on the west corner, was the house of John Steele, who hada grant of land here in 1635. He was a brother of Ge
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