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He bought a dwelling-house and eighteen acres of
land of Miles Ives, of Watertown, iu 1639. This
estate was situated on the line which now divides
Newton from Brighton. He took the freeman's
oath in 1641, and was one of the first deacons of
the church. He gave one acre of land for the
church and a burving-place, on which the first
meeting-house was erected in 1660, and which is
now a part of the East Parish Cemetery on Centre
Street. He was probably the son of Christopher
Jackson, of London, who died December 5, 1633.
He had by two wives five sons and ten daughters,
and at the time of his deatii about fifty grand-
children.
The time when Deacon John Jackson came into
Cambridge Village may be properly considered the
date of the first settlement of Newton. He died
January 30, 1674 -75. His widow, Margaret,
died August 28, 1684, aged sixty. His son Edward
was killed by the Indians at Medfield in their
attack upon and burning of that town, February 21,
1676. His house was near the place in later times
covered by the shop of Mr. Smallwood. The cellar
reinained till recently, and he is said by tradition to
have planted the pear-trees on the premises, still
bearing fruit. Abraham Jackson was the only one
of his sons who reared a family. This son gave
one acre of land adjoining that given by his father,
additional to that set apart for the church and
burying-place.
Deacon Samuel Hyde was born in 1610. He
embarked in the ship Jonathan, at Loudon, for
Boston, April, 1639, and settled in Cambridge
Village about 1640. In 1647 he and his brother
Jonathan "bought of Thomas Danforth forty acres
of land, and in 1652 two hundred acres, of the
administrators of Nathaniel Sparhawk. This land
they held in common till 1662, when it was di-
vided. He was one of the first deacons of the
church. He had, by his wife Temperance, Samuel,
Joshua, Job, Sarah, and Elizabeth. Sarah married
Thomas Woolson of Watertown, in 1660. Eliza-
beth married Humphrey Osland in 1667. Samuel
Hyde conveyed to his son-in-law, Osland, a piece of
his land on the west side of Centre Street in 1678,
on which the latter had previously erected a house,
being part of the land later of Israel Lombard, Esq.,
and now of E. C. Converse, Esq. Samuel Hyde
died in 1689, aged seventy-nine, and his wife died
shortly afterwards. George Hyde, Esq., of the
sixth generation, now owns and resides on part of
the same land occupied by Deacon Samuel. Job,
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son of Deacon Samuel, married Elizabetli, daughter
of John Fuller. Job and his wife both died in No-
vember, 1685. His father took and provided for
half their children, and hers for the other half.
Samuel, son of the deacon, married Hannah Steadman
in 1673. His house was burnt May 21, 1709,
and raised again, with the help of his neighbors, in
fourteen days. He died in 1725, and his wife in
1727. His house stood on the east side of Centre
Street, near where George Hyde afterwards built,
and more recently Mr. Freeland.
Edward Jackson, Sr., was born in London, in
1602, according to his gravestone. Examinations
of the parish register of White Chapel, where he
lived and followed the trade of a nail-maker, indi-
cate that he was the son of Christophei; Jackson,
and was baptized February 3, 1604. His first
wife's name was Prances ;
by her he had four sons
and four daughters. Family tradition affirms that
the youngest son, Sebas (Seaborn?), was born on
the passage to this country in 1642 or 1643 ; if so,
Frances, the mother, died on the passage, or soon
after their arrival here. His second marriage, in
1619, was with Elizabeth, daughter of John New-
gate, and widow of Eev. John Oliver (H. C. 1645),
the first minister of Rumney Marsh (Chelsea), by
whom he had four daughters and one son. He
purchased land in Cambridge Village of Samuel
Holly, in 1643, took the freeman's oath in 1645,
and the year following purchased a farm from
Governor Bradstreet, of five lumdred acres, for
£140, long known as the Mayhew farm, — Brad-
street having purchased it of Thomas Mayhew in
1638, with all the buildings thereon, for six cows.
This five-hundred-acre farm commenced near what
is now the division line between Newton and
Brighton, and extended westward, including what
is now Newtonville, and covering the site where
Judge Fuller's house stood, now the site of the
residence of ex-Governor Claflin. The site where
General Michael Jackson's house stood (later Hon.
William Jackson's) was near the centre of the
Mayhew farm ; and a few rods nearer the brook
stood the old dwelling-house conveyed with the
land in Mayhew's deed to Bradstreet. Of course
it was built previous to 1638, and therefore it is
highly probable that it was the first dwelling-house
built in Newton. The cellar-hole, a few rods from
the brook, was visible until recent times. In the
laying out of the highway in 1708, which passed
by the house, the description is, " crossing the
brook near where the old house stood." The