Deacon Jasper Morgan. East of Strong's garden fence, a road turned down to the meadow. This is the same

that now passes along by Dea. Jasper Morgan's house, and so to the meadow by Mr. Fenton's store. It was the old Rivulet Ferry Road, and we shall speak more fully of it in another place. North of this road, and at the southeast corner of the Palisado was the lot belonging

to

Capt. JOHN MASON. One of the original Dorchester Company, who came in the Mary and John, in 1630; among the first at Windsor, whence he removed to Saybrook in 1647, and to Norwich in 1659. He sold out to Captain Samuel Marshall, who dwelt there in 1654. His next neighbor was Sgt. THOMAS STAYRES. Who afterwards sold to the Rev. EPHRAIM HUIT, who probably lived and died upon this place. It then passed to Mr. Clarke, who occupied it in 1654.

GEORGE PHILLIPS, one of the earliest settlers at Dorchester, occupied this place in 1654.

WILLIAM HUBBARD. Sold to THOMAS DIBBLE, who lived there in

1654.

MATTHEW GRANT.

One of the original members of the Dorchester Church, came to Dorchester in the Mary and John, 1630 came to Windsor in September, 1635. Stood in

the northeast corner of the Palisado, next to

THE TOWN HOUSE. This lot was first NICHOLAS DENSLOW's. He sold it to Capt. Samuel Marshall, who was a notable real estate dealer in those days, and he sold it in 1654 to the "inhabitants of Windsor for a town house." It is described in the deed as his "dwelling house, barn, orchard and land about it one acre more or less," together with a wood lot of 20 acres, &c., which the said inhabitants were "forever, fully and freely to enjoy for the benefit and entertainment of a minister successively." Shortly after, however (Feby. 10, 1656–7), at a town meeting, it “ was called into question the legalness of the record of the

1 The deed which records this purchase was not made until 1656.

town house, whereupon it was voted that the Townsmen. should cause the whole town to meet as conveniently as they would, giving sufficient warning of the particular occasion to each man engaged in the purchase, that so there might be a joint debate for future settling of it. Also in the mean time Matthew Grant [who occupied the adjacent lot] was appointed by vote to see to the preserving of the house and orchard, and when any fruit came to ripeness the Townsmen should have the disposing of it for the benefit of the town." (Town Acts, I, 33.)

September 28- The Town met to answer the appointment on the 8th of June before, but in the meeting little was done, but only the major part manifested themselves desirous to have the house sold, and every one to have his pay returned back to him, which he had laid out, if the sale of the house would reach to it."

The presumptive evidence, however, is, that the sale did not take place.

The same Town House was in existence in 1669-70, when it was refitted and occupied as a meeting-house by the dissenting party under the Rev. Mr. Woodbridge. Six years later, it was in a ruinous and dilapidated state, and the refusal of the town to repair it "upon a town cost," formed a serious "bone of contention" in the ecclesiastical dissentions which raged so fiercely at that period. It was occupied by the Woodbridge faction until the settlement of the controversy, in 1681; and was then "finished and made suitable" for the residence of the Rev. Mr. Samuel Mather, who became the pastor of the reconciled and united churches.

Perhaps on the same lot was another important structure, the Town Barn. In those days, when rates or taxes were paid in corn, pease, wheat, etc., etc., it was necessary to have a suitable place of deposit, to which the inhabitants could bring their tithes. It was probably among the earliest buildings erected in Windsor.

In January, 1659, "it was voted that the town barn should be put to sale, and that Mr. Allyn and Mr. Clark should do it

on behalf of the Town." In December, 1659, it was "agreed by the town that the town barn shall be repaired and thatched.” Finally, December, 1660, the old barn "was sold to Samuel Marshall for £13:10s, and he is to give bill for the payment, either in wheat, pease, Indian corn, or pork at £3:10s the barrel."

"Also from the Palisado, runs a way northeasterly, called the common street, and is to be four rods wide."

Stepping across this "common road"

lot of

JOHN TAYLOR.

we come first to the

ELTWOOD POMEROY. Proprietor and first selectman at Dorchester in 1633.

After the Rev. Mr. Huit's death in 1644, his widow had a dwelling on Pomeroy's land. The Land Records preserve this item: "Whereas Eltwed Pomeroy formerly gave liberty to Mrs. Elizabeth Huit, in the time of her widowhood, in way of courtesy, to build her a house, by the help of her friends, adjoining to the end of his dwelling house, to use for her own during her life, which she enjoyed, and after her death the said Eltwed Pomeroy took it for his own, at a price agreed upon between him and those which she desired as her overseers and friends to order that little estate which she left for her children, which price he hath payed as they appointed him."

BEGAT EGGLESTON. Probably one of the first comers at Dorchester

in 1630, freeman there in 1631— who afterwards bought out his two neighbors, Taylor and Pomeroy, and appears as the sole owner of this land, in the Plan of 1654. In 1662, he mortgaged "my now dwelling house, barn, &c., home lot and orchard, situate near the meetinghouse."

Separated from this by a little lane,

ELIAS PARKMAN. Grantee of lands at Dorchester, 1633, then again at Dorchester in 1637

an inhabitant of Windsor

8; removed afterwards to Boston.

Capt. AARON COOK. Probably in Dorchester in 1630 - from Windsor he removed to Northampton - from thence to Hadley-who bought out Parkman and Huit, and occupied the whole in 1654.

Rev. EPHRAIM HUIT. From Warwickshire, England-came to Windsor in 1639, died in 1644.

"There goeth out of the Palisado towards north-west a highway two rods wide; when past the house plots it is larger."

Next south of this road, on the west side of the Palisado, and on the property now occupied by Dr. William S. Pierson, was the home lot of

MICHAEL TRY, who sold it to Richard Saxton, and he to

Thomas Parsons, who lived there in 1654. Next south of this, on the lots now occupied by Dr. Wilson and Mr. Anson Loomis, was

MATTHIAS SENCHION at Dorchester in 1634; one of the keepers of the cows in 1637- he did not come to Windsor with the first company, who sold to Walter Gaylord, who lived there in 1654.

Having now traveled round the Palisado, we will pause before leaving it, to point out a few more localities of some interest.

The ancient meeting-house stood in about the center of the open central space, on the spot now marked by a telegraph pole, in front of the residence of Dr. Pierson. About seven rods in front of Michael Try's lot, as originally laid out, and facing the western side of the meeting-house, stood the blacksmith shop. This was three or four rods in the rear of Dr. Pierson's present house. We learn from the Town Acts (Bk. 1, 4), that in 1650-1, March 17th, "The town did order by a vote that there shall be a plot of ground laid out within the palisado by Thomas Parson's house to build a house for the smith upon it."

The smith, who was thus favored, was probably one Thomas Mattock, who by a previous vote of the town had been granted an appropriation of £10 to "help him set up his trade in the

town, provided he continued his trade. If not, he was to refund it again." (Town Acts 1, 4.)

From some unexplained cause, however, Mattock seems not to have settled here in Windsor. Tahan Grant, son of our old friend Matthew, is the first blacksmith on record; he occupied the place "by Thomas Parsons'," granted by the town, and in 1662 purchased of Parsons's widow, Lydia, her dwelling house, with the land about it, three quarters of an acre in extent. This is the lot now owned by Dr. Pierson.

'Also, by gift of the town, a small parcel of land near about of an acre in the street that lies between that which he bought [i. e. in front of it] and the smith's shop. He has all the breadth against his own [property] and [it] runs according to the range betwixt him and Walter Gaylord, up to range with the foreside of the shop, and is 6 rods, 2 feet in breadth as it faces against the meeting house."

We understand by this, that he was permitted to extend his lot east into the Palisado Common about 7 rods, in a line with the east side of his smith shop, which faced the meeting house.

Next south of this lot of Grant's, there stood, though at a subsequent period, a barber's shop, kept by James Eno, who came to Windsor about 1646.

On the Land Records, under date of Nov. 28, 1663, is " recorded the grant of a stray of land of James Eno in the Palisado, to build him a shop upon, to barber in, and he has now built it." The land granted him was one rod in breadth next to that granted to Tahan Grant, and ran back a rod till it met Walter Gaylord's fence, which formed its west bound. It will be seen therefore that it was quite a small lot, bounded north by Grant, west by Gaylord, southerly and easterly by the Palisado Common. The shop stood at its east end, about 6 rods south of the road running west by Dr. Pierson's, its front in a line with the front of the smith's shop, and facing the meeting house. This would locate it in the rear of Dr. Wilson's present residence.

THOMAS DEWEY. First settled at Dorchester, went to Westfield with his children and left this land to his daughter, the wife of George Phelps. In 1670 Phelps made over the