Identifier: dayswaysinoldbos00ross_0 (find matches)
Title: Days and ways in old Boston
Year: 1915 (1910s)
Authors: Rossiter, William Sidney, 1861-1929
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Publisher: Boston : R. H. Stearns and company
Contributing Library: Boston Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Boston Public Library

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e suspicion, and was accused by Susanna Sheldon of Salem. She declared that he stuck pins into her, but his brother and Winthrop pre-vented prosecution. In the winter of 1696-7 while Usher was on a journey, he fell from his horse in the town of Maiden and was taken to the tavern of IsaacHill in an injured condition, where he became worse, mentally and physically. His brother was made his guardian and in April, 1697, he was removed to Lynn, where he died in July. Ushers body was brought to Boston and placed in his fathers tomb in the Kings Chapel Burial Ground. Passers-by can readily read the inscription on the tomb located next the old Registry Building.His will clearly shows his disordered mind and in it he bitterly denounces his wife. Mrs. Usher had attempted to obtain the family home before her husbands death, upon the authority of a deed of gift given at the time of marriage. An effort to eject Winthrop the tenant was unsuccessful, but upon Ushers death Mr. Winthrop moved; but suits were brought 99
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An Historic Corner by Judge Sewall as Mrs. Ushers attorney against the executor and tenant for possession. Mrs. Usher was successful in the lower and higher courts and the case was appealed by Ushers executor to the Privy Council in England. Their confirmation of Mrs. Ushers right was received in 1700 and she came into possession of the house. Judge Sewall presented to his client a cord of wood from Muddy River (as Brookline was then called), to start housekeeping. Mrs. Usher held possession of the house till 1714. Her death occurred in 1725. In the Days of the Province In 1714 Mrs. Usher sold the mansion to Francis Wainwright of Ipswich. His father, Colonel John, left him considerable wealth. He also inherited through his mother, a niece of Rev.John Norton, lands in Ipswich granted that minister. Coming to Boston, Wainwright married a daughter of Governor Joseph Dudley. His business ventures, however, were unsuccessful, and he mortgaged the Usher house together with other properties. The mortgag

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