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"The Deane Winthrop House was built by Captain William Peirce, at least in part, probably in 1637, the oldest house now standing in what was the old Boston and one of the very oldest houses in New England. A most excellent farm house of its day, it never pretended to be a mansion but we may doubt if another house can be found in this country whose owners during nearly three centuries present a more splendid galaxy of names...." |
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"...The c.1638 to 1650 construction date, corroborated by Cummings, places the Deane Winthrop house among the earliest surviving dwellings in Massachusetts....." |
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"The town of Winthrop is fortunate in having within its borders a dwelling built by one of the fifteen men to whom "Pullen was allotted by the Town of Boston seven years after of John Winthrop. On June 12, 1637, so reads the Boston records: "It was brought in that Mr. William Pierce have hundred acres of upland and marsh ground Layd out for him at Pullen Point Necke."..." |
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"…In 1649 he purchased of William Pierce, to whom it had been allotted in 1637, 100 acres of land with buildings, joining on the north, the land already obtained from his father and being a part of the section known or known as Winthrop Highlands. In this purchase was the land on which the old house now stands, and it was probably built for Mr. Pierce. The house which Judge Sewell refers to as having been occupied by Deane Winthrop “in his father's days” was probably on the southerly slopes of Great Head…." |
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