4 Highland Street.
Circa 1852 Patrick Welch House (bootmaker)
6/17/1847 Norfolk County Deed:
174:97
Josiah Bullard, stablekeeper to George Blake, blacksmith, 104 rods, 13 rods deep by 8 wide, no building listed “same
land which was conveyed by Amos Shumway to said Bullard by deed” “said piece of land being encloses with walls
on all sides except next to said road” $130.
4/15/1850 Norfolk County Deed: 199:25
George
Black, blacksmith to Liberty Rawson, bootmaker, 104 rods, no building listed “same as conveyed to George Blake by Josiah
Bullard by deed dated 6/17/1847” $150.
1/07/1851 Norfolk County Deed: 199:26
Liberty
Rawson, bootmaker To Michael Welch, bootmaker, 104 rods, no building listed “same as conveyed to George Blake by Josiah
Bullard by deed dated 6/17/1847. $160.
According to the 1850 Census, there were 7 people in the Michael Welch household:
Michael 29 years, Mary 27, and Ann 12, all born in Ireland. Also Patrick 26, Celia 25, and John 1 year old, all born
in Ireland. The seventh person was Mary A Glancy, 16 years old born in Nova Scotia. The 1860 census lists 7 more boot
makers from Ireland in the Michael Welch household.
10/21/1852 Norfolk County Deed: 213:170
Michael
Welch, bootmaker to Patrick Welch, bootmaker, “1/2 land conveyed by Liberty Rawson” “52 rods with ½ well
rights”, 13 rods deep by 4 wide “on which Patrick has erected a dwelling house” (4 Highland) “$80.75”
4/13/1855 Norfolk County Deed: 235:183
Partick
Welch, bootmaker to Michael Welch, bootmaker $315. 53 rods with dwelling house and ½ well rights, including $500. Mortgage
to James Mann, Michael paid the mortgage off in full 9/26/1857.
Michael Welch died 11/20/1861. (Probate # 19544). His wife
Mary inherited all real and personal estate including one house and land worth $675, and a second house and land with shop
worth $775. His brother Patrick inherited his clothes and boot bench.
By 1863, John and Mary Tevlin owned 4 and 6 Highland.
9/27/1863 Norfolk County Deed:
336:264
They sold 4 Highland to Marys’ sister Hannah Gahan. John and Mary
Tevlin to Hannah Gahan, married woman of Albany “52 rods with a dwelling house thereon” $700.
4/28/1866 Norfolk County Deed:
342:260
Michael and Sally Gahan to Sally Hixon and Sarah J Coolidge 52 rods with building “same premises as conveyed
to Hannah by John and Mary Tevlin”
