1822, Cambridge, Mass. traders, Hastings and Ward, signed lease, New Hampshire

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1822, Cambridge, Mass. traders, Hastings and Ward, signed lease, New Hampshire:
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This is a wonderful, original document dated 1822, where traders Edmund T. Hastings and Winthrop Ward of Cambridge, Massachusetts have signed a lease of buildings and land to Joel Patrick of Jaffrey, New Hampshire for a term of one year. Signed at bottom by Joel O. Patrick, Edmund T. Hastings , Winthrop Ward and George W. Lord. Document is 8x12, folds, minor splits along folds,else in overall good condition.

The business house known to three generations as that of J. A. Holmes & Co., was established by Edmund T. Hastings in the year 1810. In the year 1834, Mr. Joseph A. Holmes became a partner and the firm took the now familiar name. A few facts and dates will show how fully the business, and the gentlemen conducting it, have been identified with the history and the growth of the city of Cambridge.

Edmund Trowbridge Hastings was born in the year 1789. He was a descendant in a direct line from John Hastings, who came in 1654 to Cambridge, where his family resided for six generations. His father was a Major in the Revolutionary army, while his mother was a sister of Chief Justice Francis Dana. The Hastings homestead was the one on Holmes Place, known as the birthplace of Oliver Wendell Holmes. The opening of the \"Great Bridge\" to Boston in 1793, and the Act of Congress in 1805 making Cambridge a \"Port of Entry\" brought into existence a business settlement along the \"Great Road,\" and promised abundant rewards for energetic and enterprising men. Stores were built and a thriving business was done, not only with residents, but with farmers and traders bringing produce from other states. In one of these stores in the \"Port\" we find young Hastings as a clerk in 1808. Two years later, having become \"of age,\" he started in business for himself, and, in 1815, in company with Mr. Winthrop Ward, purchased a lot of land in the \"Northeast corner of the Locust Field,\" at \" the junction of the Great Road and the Brighton Road,\" and erected a building for the sale of \" West India\" goods and country produce.

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