The town of Roxbury: its memorable persons and places, its history and antiquities, with numerous illustrations of its old landmarks and noted personages . aken down atthe time Mr. Dudleys housewas built, some fifty yearssince, having stood more thana century and a half. The oldwell remains. Col. Williams was perhaps the largest land-owner of Roxbury in his day, his estate comprising about onehundred and fifty acres. It included the homestead estate onboth sides of Centre Street, extending from Cedar Street toHog Bridge, and including the hill opposite his house, wdierethe old forts stood, and
The town of Roxbury: its memorable persons and places, its history and antiquities, with numerous illustrations of its old landmarks and noted personages . aken down atthe time Mr. Dudleys housewas built, some fifty yearssince, having stood more thana century and a half. The oldwell remains. Col. Williams was perhaps the largest land-owner of Roxbury in his day, his estate comprising about onehundred and fifty acres. It included the homestead estate onboth sides of Centre Street, extending from Cedar Street toHog Bridge, and including the hill opposite his house, wdierethe old forts stood, and much of the land south of it to School,now Amory Street. In front of the house of Col. Williams,who was a magistrate, the whipping-post formerly stood. Joseph, great-grandson of Robert Williams, the emigrant,resided here until his death in 1798, at the age of name occurs oftener in the town records than that of Williams. He was many years a selectman ; was fre-quently moderator of town meetings and active in townaffairs ; was often a member of the General Court; had beena colonel in the French war. serving at Lake George and in. 1IOUSE. COL. JOSEPH WILLIAMS. :)S5 the Mohawk region : and was prominent and active in the1 ne-revolutionary movements of the day. A journal kept byhim during the French war was. till lately, in possession ofthe family. For nearly half a century, and until he attainedthe age of eighty, he had been clerk of the First Parish. had fifteen children. Those by his first wife, MarthaHowell, were remarkable for their great size and physicalpower, the sons averaging nearly three hundred pounds daughter Martha, whomarried William Williams, ofPomfret, was a woman of pro-digious strength and greatpowers <»f mind. n our right, nearly parallelwith the course of StonyBrook and the track of theProvidence Railroad, whichlies to the west of it. is Pyn-chon Street, laid out in 1834from Carletons, on TremontStreet,
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