. The Harvard book : a series of historical, biographical, and descriptive sketches. auncy had petitioned for liberty tomake use of the Indian Buildings, etc., and it was agreed that for one yearnext ensuing, he might Improve the said building to accomodate some EnglishStudents, provided the said building bee secured from any dammage that maybefall the same through the use thereof. The building was afterwards turned to account, in part at least, for a printing-office. Within its humble but solid walls Eliots Indian Bible, and some othersimilar undertakings of translating and printing, evinced
. The Harvard book : a series of historical, biographical, and descriptive sketches. auncy had petitioned for liberty tomake use of the Indian Buildings, etc., and it was agreed that for one yearnext ensuing, he might Improve the said building to accomodate some EnglishStudents, provided the said building bee secured from any dammage that maybefall the same through the use thereof. The building was afterwards turned to account, in part at least, for a printing-office. Within its humble but solid walls Eliots Indian Bible, and some othersimilar undertakings of translating and printing, evinced the zeal with which thecolonists engaged in an arduous, and to a great extent a fruitless work. Thefollowing is an entry in Judge Sewalls Journal for 1698: In the beginning ofthis moneth of May the old Brick Colledge, commonly called the Indian College,is pulled down to the ground, being sold to Mr. Willis, the builder of Mr. Stough-tons Colledge. This was the first Stoughton Hall, which, if it were standingnow, would almost unite the rear ends of Harvard and Massachusetts WIGGLESWORTH HOUSE. Site of the House.—Assignment of the Lot to Rev. Thomas Hooker. — Removal of to Hartford, 1636. — Rev. Thomas Shepards Possession of the Homestead. —Gift made by the Town to him. — His Death. — Rev. Jonathan Mitchel. — Leverett pur-chases the Estate. — The Wigglesworths. — Sale of the Estate to the College. The Wigglesworth House, which was removed in 1844* was probably notthe first which was erected on the place where it stood; t yet the place itself ismemorable as the homestead of many illustrious men. In the original distribution of lands in Cambridge, this lot was assigned tothe Rev. Thomas Hooker, and was described on the Proprietors Records, 1635,as one house, with garden and backside, about one rood; William Peintrey onthe northwest, Cow-yard Lane on the northeast, Field Lane on the southeast,Brayntree Street on the southwest. More, in Cow-yard Ro
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