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Emanuel Downing
History of Salem Vol 2
CHAPTER II. THE GAME PRESERVE.
Pages 18 & 19
Among the adventurers who belonged to the Massachusetts Bay Company in England in 1629 was Emanuel Downing, whose wife was Lucy, sister of Gov. John Winthrop, and daughter of Adam Winthrop, Lord of the manor of Groton, in Suffolkshire, and his wife Anna. Lucy Winthrop was baptized Jan. 27, 1601.
Mr. Downing was a barrister of the Inner Temple; and in 1633 and later he appeared before the Privy Council in London in behalf of the Colony. He lived, in 1626, "at the Sign of the Bishop," on Fleet Street, London. In 1637, he concluded to remove to New England, and wrote the following letter to Mr. Winthrop:
To the Honourable his verie loving brother John Winthrop, Governor of the Massachusetts in New England,
Good Brother:
. . . Its noe small comfort to me that I haue hope ere long to enioy your Companie. I purpose God willinge to sett forth hence in the begynning of Aprill at furthest and to take your sonne hence with me.
I follow your councell in coming to the bay before I resolue where to pitche. I pray helpe me to hire or buy some house (so as I may sell yl againe if I shall remove) in some plantacion about the Bay. Thus for present I take leave and rest leaving you and your affayres to ye blessed protection of ye Almighty.
Your assured and loving brother,
Em. Downinge. 21 9ber 1637.
Mr. Downing was licensed to pass from England beyond the seas March 13, 1637-8, and sailed immediately; and upon his arrival probably went directly to Governor Winthrop's house in Boston. In June, he settled in Salem, and within a month thereafter purchased of Robert Cole. the three hundred acres of land, lying in what is now Peabody, at Proctor's Crossing, which had been granted to him by the town Dec. 28, 1635-1. Mr. Downing erected a house upon it, and called this country -seat "Groton," after the name of the English home of his wife. They lived upon this place. It was not far from Governor Endecott's orchard farm and a highway ran from one to the other.
July 16, 1638, the town granted to Mr. Downing one hundred acres of land adjoining to Mr. Cole's farm which he had purchased, lying on the southwest side of said farm, next Roger Maury's farm; but, Oct. 17, 1638, this grant was reversed, and instead the town granted to him one hundred acres on the north side of and adjoining the farm bought of Cole, whereby the farm might be commodious to him. Four hundred acres of land, eighty acres being meadow, was also granted to him July 6th, which tract lay adjoining to Humphrey Bishop's farm northwesterly.
When Mr. Downing was in England in the summer of 1645, on Sunday, April 6th, while Mrs. Downing and her family were at meeting in the town, the chimney of the house caught fire, and the house was wholly consumed, the house and bedding, apparel and the household furniture and furnishings being worth, Governor Winthrop wrote, two hundred pounds. Upon his return from England, Mr. Downing apparently bought the house and land on Essex Street, where he afterwards lived. He and his family let the farm to various tenants as long as it was owned by the Downings.
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