. A documentary history of Chelsea : including the Boston precincts of Winnisimmet, Rumney Marsh, and Pullen Point, 1624-1824. t at Kent Place, Summit, New Jersey. In January,l^lO, he was admitted to the bar in Boston, and opened a lawoffice on Washington Street, which he shared with the lateJohn S. Holmes. Later he removed to No. 35 Court Street,where the late Seth Webb was his office companion, and afterWebb the present writer shared the office with him from 1850to 1867. On June 6, 1849, he was married to Martha Ann,daughter of Colonel Jesse Putnam, of Danvers, Massachu-setts, whose acquaint
. A documentary history of Chelsea : including the Boston precincts of Winnisimmet, Rumney Marsh, and Pullen Point, 1624-1824. t at Kent Place, Summit, New Jersey. In January,l^lO, he was admitted to the bar in Boston, and opened a lawoffice on Washington Street, which he shared with the lateJohn S. Holmes. Later he removed to No. 35 Court Street,where the late Seth Webb was his office companion, and afterWebb the present writer shared the office with him from 1850to 1867. On June 6, 1849, he was married to Martha Ann,daughter of Colonel Jesse Putnam, of Danvers, Massachu-setts, whose acquaintance he had made during his terms ofschool teaching in that town, in his college course. In a let-ter to his father, written from the Law School at Cambridge,October 3. 1S48, he says: — I intended to have entered my profession about this time, but theretirement of die obi professors brought on new ones, who knewnothing of the affairs of the school, and they insisted upon my stayingtllki term, which I agreed to do for three hundred dollars extra. . .On the first of Jauuary I shall have seven hundred and thirty dollars. MEMOIR OF MELLEX CHAMBERLAIN XIX in pocket. If there is any such thing as luck in the world, I have hailit. True, I have worked like a dog and lived like a miser. ... I havearranged to get married, and suppose that my money will carry us toJanuary, 1850. when the purse will he empty. At twenty-eight onemav ffet married, and it becomes a matter of necessity, when one haslived so long alone as I have. But notwithstanding the apparent rash-ness of this step I have no fear. My life will be insured, so that incase I should be taken away, Martha will not he left destitute, amithats all I care about. But I will not anticipate that. Ten yearsunassisted toil have given me strength and power to do and to will gather from what I write that I am in excellent spirits;I am so. His anticipations were fully realized ; his marriage broughthim at once into a large and ag
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