Benjamin Beal was born to Benjamin Beal and his wife, Maria Swift Beal at Quincy on Nov. 7 1798. His father was a farmer whose home was once situated at the southeast corner of Beale and Adams street in the western part of Quincy. Benjamin and his brother, Jonathan partnered in business and became well known and successful as cattle farmers and butchers. Benjamin's farms were located in Milton in and around the area of Adams and Centre street. His land extended up along the Neponsett river, ideal land for grazing his cattle. Jonathan Beal's land is now where the public park and the Cunningham pool is situated. Benjamin committed suicide on May 9th, 1854. His widow, Salome sold his farm at public auction, the land sold for the unheard price at the time of $1000 an acre. She moved to Worcester to be with her oldest daughter, Salome Isadore Beal. She later moved back to her childhood home in Bournedale, where she passed away in 1888.
MILTON HILL. 121 The place in which the court sat was the council chamber of the old Town House, Boston. At that time it was an imposing and elegant apartment, ornamented with two splendid full-length portraits of Charles II. and James II. In this chamber near the lire were seated live judges, with Lieut. Governor Hutchinson at their head as Chief Justice, all in their fresh robes of scarlet English cloth, in their broad bands and immense judicial wi r s. In this chamber were seated at a long table all the barristers of Boston and its neighboring county of Middlesex, in their gown, bands aud tye- wigs. They were not seated on ivory chairs, but their dress was more solemn and more pompous than that of the Roman Senate when the Gauls broke in upon them. In a corner of the room must be placed wit, sense, imagination, genius, pathos, reason, prudence, eloquence, learning, science, ami immense reading hung by the shoulders on two crutches, covered with a cloth great coat, in the person of Mr. Pratt, who had been solicited on both sides, but would engage on neither, being about to leave Boston forever, as chief justice of New York. His only daughter, Isabella, married Samuel Wells, of Boston; and the Pratt farm was held in the Wells family for more than half a century, and became known as the "Wells farm." At a later period, this farm passed into the Beal family. John Wells sold the easterly part to Jonathan Beal, and the westerly part to Benjamin Beal. These brothers were extensive farmers and butchers. Some of our citizens recall the famous huskings in their barns, and remember the flocks of sheep formerly crowding the beautiful grove of Mr. Brooks on Centre street. Mr. John M. Forbes bought of Capt. Jonathan Beal, Nov. 3, 1846, a tract of nearly a hundred acres extending back to the Quincy line, and now forming a part of the estate of Edward Cunningham. The land of Benjamin Beal was sold at auction by his heirs Oct. 4, 1854, Mr. John W. Brooks being the purchaser at one thousand dollars per acre.
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MILTON HILL. 121 The place in which the court sat was the council chamber of the old Town House, Boston. At that time it was an imposing and elegant apartment, ornamented with two splendid full-length portraits of Charles II. and James II. In this chamber near the lire were seated live judges, with Lieut. Governor Hutchinson at their head as Chief Justice, all in their fresh robes of scarlet English cloth, in their broad bands and immense judicial wi r s. In this chamber were seated at a long table all the barristers of Boston and its neighboring county of Middlesex, in their gown, bands aud tye- wigs. They were not seated on ivory chairs, but their dress was more solemn and more pompous than that of the Roman Senate when the Gauls broke in upon them. In a corner of the room must be placed wit, sense, imagination, genius, pathos, reason, prudence, eloquence, learning, science, ami immense reading hung by the shoulders on two crutches, covered with a cloth great coat, in the person of Mr. Pratt, who had been solicited on both sides, but would engage on neither, being about to leave Boston forever, as chief justice of New York. His only daughter, Isabella, married Samuel Wells, of Boston; and the Pratt farm was held in the Wells family for more than half a century, and became known as the "Wells farm." At a later period, this farm passed into the Beal family. John Wells sold the easterly part to Jonathan Beal, and the westerly part to Benjamin Beal. These brothers were extensive farmers and butchers. Some of our citizens recall the famous huskings in their barns, and remember the flocks of sheep formerly crowding the beautiful grove of Mr. Brooks on Centre street. Mr. John M. Forbes bought of Capt. Jonathan Beal, Nov. 3, 1846, a tract of nearly a hundred acres extending back to the Quincy line, and now forming a part of the estate of Edward Cunningham. The land of Benjamin Beal was sold at auction by his heirs Oct. 4, 1854, Mr. John W. Brooks being the purchaser at one thousand dollars per acre.
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Benjamin Beal was born to Benjamin Beal and his wife, Maria Swift Beal at Quincy on Nov. 7 1798. His father was a farmer whose home was once situated at the southeast corner of Beale and Adams street in the western part of Quincy. Benjamin and his brother, Jonathan partnered in business and became well known and successful as cattle farmers and butchers. Benjamin's farms were located in Milton in and around the area of Adams and Centre street. His land extended up along the Neponsett river, ideal land for grazing his cattle. Jonathan Beal's land is now where the public park and the Cunningham pool is situated. Benjamin committed suicide on May 9th, 1854. His widow, Salome sold his farm at public auction, the land sold for the unheard price at the time of $1000 an acre. She moved to Worcester to be with her oldest daughter, Salome Isadore Beal. She later moved back to her childhood home in Bournedale, where she passed away in 1888.
MILTON HILL. 121 The place in which the court sat was the council chamber of the old Town House, Boston. At that time it was an imposing and elegant apartment, ornamented with two splendid full-length portraits of Charles II. and James II. In this chamber near the lire were seated live judges, with Lieut. Governor Hutchinson at their head as Chief Justice, all in their fresh robes of scarlet English cloth, in their broad bands and immense judicial wi r s. In this chamber were seated at a long table all the barristers of Boston and its neighboring county of Middlesex, in their gown, bands aud tye- wigs. They were not seated on ivory chairs, but their dress was more solemn and more pompous than that of the Roman Senate when the Gauls broke in upon them. In a corner of the room must be placed wit, sense, imagination, genius, pathos, reason, prudence, eloquence, learning, science, ami immense reading hung by the shoulders on two crutches, covered with a cloth great coat, in the person of Mr. Pratt, who had been solicited on both sides, but would engage on neither, being about to leave Boston forever, as chief justice of New York. His only daughter, Isabella, married Samuel Wells, of Boston; and the Pratt farm was held in the Wells family for more than half a century, and became known as the "Wells farm." At a later period, this farm passed into the Beal family. John Wells sold the easterly part to Jonathan Beal, and the westerly part to Benjamin Beal. These brothers were extensive farmers and butchers. Some of our citizens recall the famous huskings in their barns, and remember the flocks of sheep formerly crowding the beautiful grove of Mr. Brooks on Centre street. Mr. John M. Forbes bought of Capt. Jonathan Beal, Nov. 3, 1846, a tract of nearly a hundred acres extending back to the Quincy line, and now forming a part of the estate of Edward Cunningham. The land of Benjamin Beal was sold at auction by his heirs Oct. 4, 1854, Mr. John W. Brooks being the purchaser at one thousand dollars per acre.
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MILTON HILL. 121 The place in which the court sat was the council chamber of the old Town House, Boston. At that time it was an imposing and elegant apartment, ornamented with two splendid full-length portraits of Charles II. and James II. In this chamber near the lire were seated live judges, with Lieut. Governor Hutchinson at their head as Chief Justice, all in their fresh robes of scarlet English cloth, in their broad bands and immense judicial wi r s. In this chamber were seated at a long table all the barristers of Boston and its neighboring county of Middlesex, in their gown, bands aud tye- wigs. They were not seated on ivory chairs, but their dress was more solemn and more pompous than that of the Roman Senate when the Gauls broke in upon them. In a corner of the room must be placed wit, sense, imagination, genius, pathos, reason, prudence, eloquence, learning, science, ami immense reading hung by the shoulders on two crutches, covered with a cloth great coat, in the person of Mr. Pratt, who had been solicited on both sides, but would engage on neither, being about to leave Boston forever, as chief justice of New York. His only daughter, Isabella, married Samuel Wells, of Boston; and the Pratt farm was held in the Wells family for more than half a century, and became known as the "Wells farm." At a later period, this farm passed into the Beal family. John Wells sold the easterly part to Jonathan Beal, and the westerly part to Benjamin Beal. These brothers were extensive farmers and butchers. Some of our citizens recall the famous huskings in their barns, and remember the flocks of sheep formerly crowding the beautiful grove of Mr. Brooks on Centre street. Mr. John M. Forbes bought of Capt. Jonathan Beal, Nov. 3, 1846, a tract of nearly a hundred acres extending back to the Quincy line, and now forming a part of the estate of Edward Cunningham. The land of Benjamin Beal was sold at auction by his heirs Oct. 4, 1854, Mr. John W. Brooks being the purchaser at one thousand dollars per acre.
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