. A documentary history of Chelsea : including the Boston precincts of Winnisimmet, Rumney Marsh, and Pullen Point, 1624-1824. e first owner of the farm bearing that name, died in 1732, ashe bequeathed to his wife the life use of his dwelling-house, andto his son. Thomas, a house west of the road, in which the son wasthen living. Presumably Thomas Pratt, Sr., and his wife wereliving, in 1732, in the house which is still standing on WashingtonAvenue opposite Kimball Eoad, and Thomas, Jr., in the housementioned by Mr. Watkins, which stood west of WashingtonAvenue near Fremont Avenue. (Infra, App
. A documentary history of Chelsea : including the Boston precincts of Winnisimmet, Rumney Marsh, and Pullen Point, 1624-1824. e first owner of the farm bearing that name, died in 1732, ashe bequeathed to his wife the life use of his dwelling-house, andto his son. Thomas, a house west of the road, in which the son wasthen living. Presumably Thomas Pratt, Sr., and his wife wereliving, in 1732, in the house which is still standing on WashingtonAvenue opposite Kimball Eoad, and Thomas, Jr., in the housementioned by Mr. Watkins, which stood west of WashingtonAvenue near Fremont Avenue. (Infra, Appendix 4.) For a de-scription of the Way-Ireland house, see Suffolk Deeds, L. 15. f. also the perambulation of the bounds of Kumney Marsh in107 S. 1699, 1711. and 1726. There is no evidence that Parker orBurden lived on the farm. As the descriptions in the deed fromBurden to Way and Ireland are formal, it cannot be stated withcertainty that a house was standing on the farm in Irelandwas living at Tiumney Marsh in 1657, as he was appointed keeperof the pound. Parker came to Xew England in 1633, lived first at. -iSliOTVPE BOSTON. Chap. VI] APPENDIX 2 135 Roxbury, where he sold his house, July 18, 1639, and was later amerchant in Boston, owning a house on Milk Street. Burden, ashoemaker, came to America in 1635, aged twenty, was disarmedin the outcome of the Antinomian controversy, November, 1637;but in 1641 bought a house on the peninsula of Boston. Sevenmonths after he sold the farm at Rumney Marsh he sold a dwellinghouse in Boston. His wife Ann, in Bristol. England, gave herconsent to the sale. She had been admitted to the Boston 6, 1636, and excommunicated September 28, 1651, fivemonths before the sale of the farm, because she did not attend thecommunion, and refused to give a reason. (Church Records;Suff. Deeds, L. 1, ff. 18, 114, 261. 265)] When Ireland and Waydivided their estate, March 25, 1691 (Suff. Deeds, L. 15, f. SO), itwas bounded so
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