The lots marked A. B and C, containing 81/2 rods of land, were owned by Robert Hull in 1646, who sold to Josiah Atwater, who sold to Augustine Lindon in 1659, who sold to Gaudy James in 1668. Gaudy James sold the lot marked C to Richard Brooks, who sold it to Thomas Ricks in 1677-8 and Thomas Ricks sold to Capt. Andrew New- comb, 13 Apr. 1681. This lot, C, was given by him to his daughter Grace (Newcomb) Butler-Kankin, and from her it descended to her son James Butler, 1715, and to his son James Butler who sold it to Harrison Gray in 1751.

Gaudy James bought lot B 1668; his estate was sold to Bartholamew Cheever, 1687; the Cheever estate was sold to Andrew Rankin in 1694; Rankin gave it to his widow, Grace (Newcomb) Butler-Rankin, in 1702, and she to her three children in 1713.

William Ricks (or Rix) owned lot D, E, and died there in 1657; his widow Grace married Capt. Andrew Newcomb in 1663, and they appear to have resided there until 1681, when they removed to the lot marked C, at what is now No. 166 Hanover St. In 1672 there were two dwelling houses on lot D, E, the old house on D of William Ricks in which Andrew Newcomb lived, and the new house adjoining on E, in which John Rix (son of William) lived. Thomas Ricks mortgaged this lot to Simon Lynde in 1677-8, and failing to pay the mortgage, it was sold to Capt. Andrew Newcomb 13 Apr. 1681, who sold it the following day to John Ricks (brother of Thomas) for £25. The old house on lot D was built by Thomas Ricks in 1641.

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