. A documentary history of Chelsea : including the Boston precincts of Winnisimmet, Rumney Marsh, and Pullen Point, 1624-1824. was stated tocontain 300 acres. By actual survey in 1844 (Suff. Deeds. L. 525, f. 305)there were 304 or 300 acres, of which 104 acres 03 rods belonged to theoriginal Brenton and Cole allotments. Of this latter, 19 or 20 acres werepurchased from the heirs of William Hasey during the eighteenth cen-tury ; thus about S5 acres bordering on Mill River belonged, presumably,to the farm in 10SS. It is known that John Newgate purchased theWinthrop and Glover allotments, which,
. A documentary history of Chelsea : including the Boston precincts of Winnisimmet, Rumney Marsh, and Pullen Point, 1624-1824. was stated tocontain 300 acres. By actual survey in 1844 (Suff. Deeds. L. 525, f. 305)there were 304 or 300 acres, of which 104 acres 03 rods belonged to theoriginal Brenton and Cole allotments. Of this latter, 19 or 20 acres werepurchased from the heirs of William Hasey during the eighteenth cen-tury ; thus about S5 acres bordering on Mill River belonged, presumably,to the farm in 10SS. It is known that John Newgate purchased theWinthrop and Glover allotments, which, with his own, aggregated some311 acres. Presumably Newgate and Parker exchanged lands (Appen-dix 1). Possibly. Cole or Tuttle purchased the Brenton lot. and ex-changed with Newgate. At least, the Glover allotment became eventuallya part of the Tuttle or Cole farm, and these farms seem, also, to haveprotruded into the western tier of allotments, and absorbed a part of theoriginal Newgate lot. See infra, chap, xix., where Judge Chamberlain statesthat the Sanford allotment became the Keayne small farm, and the notethereon.]. HElOTYPE BOSTON. Ciiap. VI] ALLOTMENTS OF LAND 97 the lands of Lieutenant-Colonel Nicholas Paige; and easterlyby lands of Elisha Tuttle, Jeremiah. Belcher and John Xewgate, a merchant of Boston, 1632, was [a mem-ber] of the General Court [in 1038]. Thomas Townsend, ofLynn, was a brother-in-law. One of his daughters marriedJohn Oliver, and, on his death, Edward Jackson; another,Peter Oliver, brother, of John; and a third, Simon Lynde,one of Andros judges, and a grantee of the Indians in thefirst deed above. In 1640, Xewgate gave the college fivepounds per annum for ever, towards the maintenance of law-full, usefull, and godly literature therein, and chiefly to thefurtherance of the knowledge of Jesus Christ, and his wordand will, to be paid from the rents of his farm at John Xewgate died in 1665, when his son Xathaniel soldth
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