An historic guide to Cambridge . it was re-namodBath lane. The Kings Highway (now Brattle street), from this point toElmwood was, before the Revolution, called Church or Tory row. ADAMS-BANCROFT-REMINGTON-BELCHER-FRIZELL-VASSALLHOUSE, MEDICAL HEADQUARTERS (B71). For about a century (1750 to 1850) there was only one house on the south sideof the highway, between Ash street and Elmwood, a distance of three-quartersof a mile. This house has been called the Vassall House since 1736. It is stillstanding on the easterly corner of Brattle and Hawthorn streets. The westernend of the house is very old,
An historic guide to Cambridge . it was re-namodBath lane. The Kings Highway (now Brattle street), from this point toElmwood was, before the Revolution, called Church or Tory row. ADAMS-BANCROFT-REMINGTON-BELCHER-FRIZELL-VASSALLHOUSE, MEDICAL HEADQUARTERS (B71). For about a century (1750 to 1850) there was only one house on the south sideof the highway, between Ash street and Elmwood, a distance of three-quartersof a mile. This house has been called the Vassall House since 1736. It is stillstanding on the easterly corner of Brattle and Hawthorn streets. The westernend of the house is very old, as is shown by the eight-foot square stack chimney,the bricks of which are laid with pounded oyster shells instead of lime. It mayhave been built by William Adams, to whom this homestead lot was grantedMarch 12, 1635. He early removed to Ipswich and his lands were bought byNathaniel Sparhawk, a dealer in real estate, who sold this house and half anacre of land, in 1639, to Roger Bancroft. Bancroft lived here until his death in. HISTORIC GUIDE TO CAMBRIDGE 95 1653. His widow married successively Martia Saunders of Braintree, 1654,Deacon John Bridge of Cambridge, 1658, and Edward Taylor of Boston. At the time of the Revolution the Vassall estate comprised eight acres, theland of five early settlers having been taken to make the garden and the time of William Adams, tlie acre lot east of his laud was occupied byRobert Parker and Judith, his wife. Parker was a butcher and gave a cow forthe tuition of his son, John, who graduated at Harvard in 1661. He sold hishouse to Roger Bancroft in 1649. Next east of this house was the homestead of William Wilcox, who in 1646 soldhis home to Samuel Green, the famous printer, and died in 1653, leaving a legacyof twenty shillings to my loving brethren that were of my family meeting, viz:Roger Bancroft, John Hastings, Thomas Fox, William Patten and FrancisWhitmore. Bartholomew Green, the father of Samuel, had lived in the next house, a
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