An historic guide to Cambridge . wives in the Brattle tomb, in the old buryingground on Garden street. The house had a lean-to roof on the north, which sloped nearly to the ground,and the late John Bartlett liked to tell of a visit his mother made to the Gau-netts here. She was a great belle, and one morning awoke to find the slopingroof, beneath which she slept, had been covered in the night with roses by thestudents, her admirers. The Gannett estate was bought by the college in 1829. The quaint old house was taken down and its place occupied by the railroadstation of the Harvard branch of th
An historic guide to Cambridge . wives in the Brattle tomb, in the old buryingground on Garden street. The house had a lean-to roof on the north, which sloped nearly to the ground,and the late John Bartlett liked to tell of a visit his mother made to the Gau-netts here. She was a great belle, and one morning awoke to find the slopingroof, beneath which she slept, had been covered in the night with roses by thestudents, her admirers. The Gannett estate was bought by the college in 1829. The quaint old house was taken down and its place occupied by the railroadstation of the Harvard branch of the Fitchburg Railroad, the one and onlyattempt to bring Old Cambridge into communication with Boston by steam. Itfailed, and the station was converted by the college into commons, the students 158 HISTORIC GUIDE TO CAMBRIDGE eating house. Mr. Nathaniel Thayer gave money to enlarge it, and it wascalled Thayer Commons, and occupied until ^Memorial Hall was completed. Oarpicture shows building with tha Richardson-Morse LAMSON-FRANOIS-GAMAGE-RICHARDSON-MOESB HOUSE (B and C56). The last house in the row, the easterly corner, was the property of Barnabasor Barnaby Lamson, selectman in 1636, who died about 1640, leaving his five chil-dren to different friends—My daughter Mary to my brother Sparahak (Spar-hawk); to my brother Isaak, my daughter Sarah; my son Barnaby to my brotherParish; my daughter Martha to my brother Stone; my son Joseph to my brotherBridge. Joseph lived with Deacon Bridge and may have been the father ofMary Lamson who married James Clark, Jr., in 1703. Nathaniel Sparhawk, perhaps as executor for tlie Lamson children, sold thehouse in 1644 to Richard Francis and Alice, his wife. Richard Francis died in16S7, aged eighty-five or thereabouts, and is called by Judge Sewall an ancientand good man indeed. His son, John, married Lydia, daugliter of Deacon JohnCooper in 1688. He was a brickmaker and was injured when the new collegewas raised in 1674, by a piec
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