Identifier: historicguidetoc02mass (find matches)
Title: An historic guide to Cambridge
Year: 1907 (1900s)
Authors: Massachusetts Daughters of the American Revolution. Hannah Winthrop chapter, Cambridge
Subjects: Cambridge (Mass.) -- Description and travel
Publisher: Cambridge, Mass.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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, a skilful engineer of Gravesend in the county ofKent, to lay out the town of Charlestown, and promised to pay him. If hestayed in their service, fifty pounds a year, to give him a house and land to liveon. The agreement reads: And in case the said Comp (after I) shall havecontinued 6 or 8 months in the country—shall desyre my con-tynuance—doe hereby pmise to bee at the chardge of the transportaconto Newe England of my wlffe, fCyve children, a boy and a mayd servant—and there to assyne me one hundred acres of land and to have pte thereofplanted at the eompainies chardge agaiust the coming of my ffameley. Thomas Graves arrived at Salem during the first week in July, 1629, in thefleet with Higginson. Later he laid out the town of Charlestown, directedthe building of the palisade and the Great House. He liked the new landand wrote home of it: It is a goodly country, rich—I never saw a richerexcept Hungaria—corn and cattle doe prosper—in iron it excelleth. He WtmtiamtmmmtkmL,
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1^O O ^(-1 03 O HISTORIC GUIDE TO CAMBRIDGE ISl was one of the council, trained the men in use of arms, was consulted oftenabout division of lands, but litt e is known of him, after all, except thathe was widely traveled and of great skill, experienced in the discovei-y andfinding- out of iron mynes—in ffortiflc icons of all sorts—in surveyinge ofbuildings and lands and in measuringe of land, in describing a country bymappe. That he stayed a few years is certain, for he was living onhlshun-dreil acres iu the uplands of what is now East Cambridge wlien, March6, 1632, the boundaries of Charlestown and Newtowne were fixed, for in theMassachusetts Bay Records we find this statement: First It Is agreed thatall the lands impaled by Newe Towne men with the necke thereunto ad-joyneing whereon Mr. Graves dwelleth shall belong to said New Towne. That the house was large we Infer, for the five children needed room, andprobably it was much like those built later by Dudley and Bradstreet,squar

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