SERIES OF
Plans of Boston
SHOWING
EXISTING WAYS AND OWNERS OF PROPERTY
1630-1635-1640-1645.

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This series of plans of the Town of Boston is the resultof a great amount of research, and presents in a most interestingmanner the growth of the Town from the firstsettlement to 1645.

The plan dated December 25, 1645, while in the maincorrect, does not show all the transfers made during thatyear, as will be seen by consulting Suffolk Deeds, Lib. 1,as noted in the introduction to the Book of Possessions(Volume 2 of the Boston Records), the first 111 pages ofwhich were written by William Aspinwall prior to the 10thmonth, 1645.

The numbers on the plans follow the original paginationof the Book of Possessions.

On the plan of 1630 the lot marked S should have beenassigned to Thomas Sharp.

These plans show the old peninsula of Boston; consequentlythe allotments at the “field end next Roxbury”do not appear.

The New Field was located at the west part of the townin the angle bounded by the present Cambridge street, andextending through Lynde and Leverett streets to Haugh’sPoint. The principal town landing was at the head of thecove or dock, around which Valentine Hill’s highway waslaid out in 1641. Street names were not given until a laterperiod, though the present Washington street was known asthe “High street, the great street or highway to Roxbury.”

Other allotments were made at Rumney Marsh (Chelsea),Mt. Wollaston (Quincy), and Muddy River (Brookline).

Ownership and transfers of many lots between the periodsshown by the plans are not noted.

E. W. McGlenen,
City Registrar.

Boston, 1905.

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