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191-179 Main Street
In 1783 Jabez Shumway
purchased the farm of William Ellis which included Rabbit Hill. In 1812 he deeded the land at the top of Rabbit Hill
to the West Precinct in Medway, now our Community Church.
179 Main St., the L.S. Daniels House
Above is a recent photo of the L.S. Daniels house circa 1840's.
In 1848, Joseph Bullard sold ¾ acre of his homestead land with bootshop,
on the east side of Main Street to Moses Thompson. The shop was still a boot shop in 1858, then belonged
to a painter, then a mechanic. By 1862, the shop was gone and the land, combined with the 2.75 acres they already
owned, belonged to Leander S. Daniels, boot manufacturer, and his wife Adeliza, who built their home there. In 1828,
Willard Daniels, Leanders’ father, opened his boot factory on Mechanic Street in West Medway. By 1850 there
were 6 boot factories in Medway.
Below is an old photo of the same house.
181 Main St., is shown above in a 2006
photo and below in an old black and white photo.
Joseph Bullard’s homestead of 2.75 acres was Simeon Fullers neighbor
on the east on Main Street in 1833. Joseph was a cordwainer or leather worker. Joseph and his wife
Laura Clark had 2 children Albert Emerson (b.1833) and Nancy Maria (b.1836). In 1865 after Joseph died, Laura sold
their dwelling house fronting Main Street with one acre of land.
183 Main St.,
In 1833, Simeon Fuller sold 84 rods (1/2 acre) of his property facing
Main Street to currier Charles Gould. Gould built a shop (1833-36) and sold it and land to Nathaniel Partridge
Clark, clock and watchmaker. Nathaniel died in 1850 and left the land and shop to his brother Hawley. Hawley
sold the land with 2 houses, a shop, and other outbuildings to another brother Samuel 2 years later. When Samuel Clark
got the lot (75 rods) in 1852, he divided it up - east and west. The west half was #187 (20 rods), the east half was
divided front and back. The back is #185 (40 rods), house built 1868, the front half #183 (35 rods) house built 1865,
both when Samuel Clark owned the land. In 1865 Samuel Clark sold the land at 183 Main Street with dwelling house
to George Heaton. In 1868 Samuel Clark sold the land at 185 Main Street with dwelling house to Lucy and Mary Coolidge.
185 Main Street is a tiny house down the driveway between 183 and
187 Main St.
187 Main Street circa 1833. The Tack shop.
In 1833, Simeon Fuller sold 84 rods (1/2 acre) of his property facing
Main Street to currier Charles Gould. Gould built a shop (1833-36) and sold it and land to Nathaniel Partridge
Clark, clock and watchmaker. Nathaniel died in 1850 and left the land and shop to his brother Hawley. Hawley
sold the land with 2 houses, a shop, and other outbuildings to another brother Samuel 2 years later. When Samuel Clark
got the lot (75 rods) in 1852, he divided it up - east and west. The west half was #187 (20 rods), the east half was
divided front and back. In 1873 he sold the west side (187
Main St) “small lot of land with shop in west village” to Hawley's son Lewis.
189 Main Street this was "Ye Olde Morocco Tannery" (Lowell Mann place)
circa 1810.
In 1835, Simeon Fuller sold 4.4 sq rods on the eastern side of his property
on Main to David Clark who built a small shop and sold it the next year to Carter Crocker, who had a currier shop there for
coloring and dressing leather after it is tanned. Five years later Crocker lost his shop because of debts.
The man who owned his mortgage Williard Daniels, sold the shop to Deming Hastings, who died insolvent in 1849. John
Carr, bootmaker, owned the shop next in 1849 and owned it still after 10 years. The lot was 33 feet across and 36 feet
deep.
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