History of Middlesex County, Massachusetts - citizen hylbom blog

far greater mimber of descendants than any otlier
of the early settlers of the town.
Jonathan Hyde was born in 1626. He bought
two hundred and forty acres of land in Cambridge
Village with his brother Samuel, which they owned
in common until 1661. '
acres, which was one eighth of the tract recovered
by Cambridge from Dedham in a lawsuit. He
settled upon the land, and increased it by subse-
quent purchases to several hundred acres. His
house was about sixty rods north of the Centre
Congregational Church. He bought and sold
much land in the town. He had twenty-three
children,— fifteen by his wife ^Inry French, daugh-
ter of William French of Billcrica, and eight by
his second wife, Marv Rediat, daughter of John
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Picdiat of ^[arlborongh, with whom he made a
marriage covenant in 1673, in which it was stipu-
lated that, in case he should die first, she should
have his house, barn, and about one hundred acres
of land. This part of his homestead was bounded
In 1656 lie bought eighty by the highway from Watertown to Dedham (Cen-
tre Street), one hundred and sixty rods, and one
hundred westwardly, and south by the farm of Elder
Wiswall, reserving a highway one rod wide next to
WiswalFs. This highway ran from the training-
field (Common) by the nortii bank of Wiswall's
Pond, and for more than a century was known as
Blanden's Lane, — its commencement on Centre
Street nearly coinciding with Pelham Street, and
bending southwestwardly, past the house anciently
known by the name of Blanden, more recently