1 100 1 https://d1y502jg6fpugt.cloudfront.net/28828/archive/files/2724d213af6e847553535682c6eff0b1.pdf?Expires=1781740800&Signature=kDR7WvaFUljydncqV8dKTutCrpcP4jKEGaLpPH7b2IG%7Ek073X5sQrV4gVbtMvOoXhRLqELKrg0Ahlxwygfe1uBu2JIvqTvX76UqjivDg-tEuLlfPExwaslaC%7EJmHjoer8ZxLP1Zp7Mmt8x6GU2IlvKCQO5V0VkmfhXxMtpyaghXUhtbq2iOMbEJ-IalVurulg46QQNrDWkcOj-yoDk%7EO7dye70FScJpH2yNzPgU%7EgjGJF0HN9hkMlkwL4%7EbAlPd%7EL7jdk3TwLgWvpgLzLBVZqIWnwrjhY%7EflEgEqL9fpIX-YVptplFLQ--VS3zwN3t9MUHq1pOX8eenW%7ECu9CHjeyQ__&Key-Pair-Id=K6UGZS9ZTDSZM 27bc5de5915e9b9891a54edf27977994 PDF Text Text 22 Winter Street John Charles Howard Ship Chandler And his wife Priscilla Cheever Built c. 1850 Researched and written by Connie Barlow October 2022 Historic Salem Inc. The Bowditch House 9 North Street (978) 745-0799 / HistoricSalem.org ©2022 �8/31/22, 8:08 AM 1/1 22 Winter Street, Salem, MA from MACRIS files �Long before the first English colonists arrived and settled in the area that they called Salem in 1626, the land was inhabited by indigenous people who called themselves and the land “Naumkeag.” (See the Perley Map of Indian Lands) The houses that now line Winter Street sit on that land. The history of Winter Street can be traced back to 1688 and is listed in the Essex Antiquarian vol.8, page 66, as follows: “Winter Street was an ancient road. It was called a lane or highway in 1668; Road leading to Beverly Ferry, 1705; Highway leading from the training field to Beverly ferry 1760; the way to the ferry, 1769; Road, 1771; Way leading to ferry lane,1771; the ferry lane leading to Beverly 1779; Ferry Lane, 1780; Ferry lane or the way leading to Essex bridge; 1793; and Winter street, 1795.” 1 The lot on which this house stands was part of the early homestead of Thomas Watson, a tailor.2 He conveyed the lot, which included nearly the entire west side of Winter Street, to Jacob Pudeater, a blacksmith in 1672. 3 After the death of his first wife, Isabel, Jacob Pudeater married the widow, Ann Greenslatt. Following Jacob’s death in 1682, his estate was left to Ann. On June 5, 1685, Ann Pudeater sold a portion of the land to William Brown Jr. 4 (See Perley Map of Salem 1700 in Sources.) Mrs. Pudeator continued to reside in one of the dwellings left to her by Jacob until the fateful summer of 1692 when she was arrested for “sundry acts of witchcraft.” Following testimony given against her by neighbors and those “afflicted” by witchcraft, Ann Pudeator was executed as a witch on September 22, 1692. 5 By around 1780 the land on the west side of Ferry Lane was the site of “Benjamin Cheever’s Tan Yard,” adjacent to the tan yard of Samuel Cheever. (See Perley Map of About 1780 in Sources). No deed has been located to document the sale of land to either Samuel Cheever or Benjamin Cheever by William Brown or another entity. Benjamin Cheever who was born in 1747 in Essex, Massachusetts. He was the Benjamin Cheever, tanner, whose tan yard was shown on the 1780 map. In 1784 Benjamin married Mary 1 Essex Antiquarian, vol.8, p.66 Joyce King, House History for 24 -1/2 Winter St., HIS Archives, 1982 3 Essex County Registry of Deeds, Index, 31-61 4 Essex County Registry of Deeds, Index, 7-33 5 Boyer and Nissenbaum, The Salem Witchcraft Papers, Vol. III, pp.701-710, 1972 2 �Card in Salem. Benjamin died in Salem in 1832. 6 After the death of his wife Mary in 1842, his estate was divided into five parts, or “lots,” among his “children and heirs at law.” 7 Lot 4 was conveyed to Benjamin’s daughter, Mary Cheever, a single woman. Lot 4 had no dwelling or buildings listed on it. This is the lot on Winter Street where number 22 stands today. In 1850 Mary Cheever’s brother-in-law John Charles Howard, the husband of her sister Priscilla, purchased Lot 4 from her “with buildings now in part belonging to said Howard.” Mary Cheever held the mortgage on the property.8 Whether the “buildings in part” referred to a residence being built is not clear, but the property did not have a building or dwelling on it at the time Mary Cheever acquired the land. John Cheever was identified variously in deeds and documents as a sail maker, ship chandler and merchant. The current house at 22 Winter Street, shown in the National Register District materials prepared in 1976, was determined to have been built c. 1850. The style of the house is transitional with features of the earlier Federal style in its massing and fenestration, threestories, hip roof and five bay, symmetrically arranged facade. However, the application of decorative exterior details on the façade are indicative of the newer, Italianate style becoming popular at that time and are consistent with the 1850 date. These details include a modillion cornice comprised of a series of bracket-like supports; windows with hoods and bracketed sills; a recessed, semi-circular center entrance featuring side jamb paneling that is mimicked in the paneling of the front door; and an elaborate oriel window above the front entrance. The siding of the house was wood of flush boards, the foundation was granite. Only four years later, in 1854, John Howard sold the property to Oliver P. Ricker, “with dwelling house and all other buildings thereon standing.” 9 The fact that there was then a dwelling on the lot in 1854 is supporting evidence for John Howard and his wife having built 22 Winter Street about 1850. 6 Ancestry.com. Essex, Massachusetts Probate Records, 1648-1840, Case 5206 Essex County Registry of Deeds, 334-184 8 Essex County Registry of Deeds, 433-244; 433-246 9 Essex County Registry of Deeds 496-147 7 �Captain Ricker, a business partner in Howard’s provisions business, 10 was a somewhat largerthan-life figure for whom a brief biography was provided in his obituary in 1893 in the Salem News: “. . .born in Dover N.H. about 74 years ago . . .at the age of twelve he was thrown on the world to shift for himself. He took to the sea and made a number of voyages to different parts of the world, Zanziba [sic], China, California, and the Sandwich Islands being among the places he visited. He sailed for the firm of J. P. Farnham & Co. and Joseph Peabody of Salem. He made a voyage to California when it was under the Mexican government and was also in Puget Sound and adjacent places no white man had a residence there in 1835. For about 15 years he was in the ship brokerage and ship chandlery business in the Sandwich Islands being part owner of a fleet of vessels trading between the island s and San Francisco and the northwest coast. He was also interested in the whaling business. While in business in the islands he made considerable money but most of this was swept away by unfortunate ventures. He was at one time in the ship chandlery business on Derby Street and was also connected to William Pickering in the coal and lumber business. . . . he retired from active sea life nearly 40 years ago.”11 [Having died at age 74 in 1893, Ricker would have been in his 30s when he “retired” from sea around 1853, just prior to his purchase of the Howards’ Winter Street property in 1854.] The 1874 Salem Atlas shows Ricker as owner of the Winter Street residence. (See map in Sources.) Captain Ricker sold 22 Winter Street to Stephen Ives, Jr. in 1877. 12 In 1875 Sarah W. Ricker, wife of the Captain, had bought the land and buildings at 20 Winter Street that had been Lot #3 in the division of Benjamin Cheever’s estate, the portion of Sarah Cheever Lewis and her husband Dana. In 1878 Ricker razed the original Benjamin Cheever homestead and was granted a permit to build a new wooden dwelling house on that lot which is now 20 Winter Street.13 Stephen Ives, Jr. was an attorney in the firm Ives, Johnson and Ives in Salem at 114 Washington Street.14 A prominent citizen of Salem, Ives, was elected to a three-year term on the School Committee from 1874-1877.15 He passed away in 1884, recorded in the Vital Records for Massachusetts.16The Salem City Directory listed “Mrs. S.B. Ives, Jr., widow, “as still 10 SAL.232, for 22 Winter Street, MACRIS The Salem News, May 23, 1873 12 Essex County Registry of Deeds, 985-256 13 Joyce King, House History for 20 Winter Street, HIS Archives, 1979 14 Salem City Directory, 1882-1883 15 Boston Poston, January 6, 1874 11 16 Massachusetts, U.S., Town and Vital Records, 1620-1988 �living at 22 Winter Street in 1886, along with Rose and Walter Creamer. 17 Walter Creamer was a shoe manufacturer in Lynn. In January 1887 Constance B. Ives, widow of Stephen B. Ives, Jr., sold the house back to Oliver Ricker 18 On that same January day in 1887, Oliver Ricker sold the house and land to Mary Jewett, the wife of Col. George R. Jewett.19 The 1897 Atlas shows M. Jewett as owner of 22 Winter Street (see map in Sources). In the 1900 U.S. Federal Census, George Jewett was listed as 48 years old, and Mary was 47. Also listed were their three children: a son Holten, 22, a daughter Sarah Elizabeth, 18, and another daughter Alice, 16. Mary Jewett’s mother, Mary Tibbets, 76, lived with them on Winter Street, too, as well as three servants: Margaret Collie, 47, a native of Ireland whose occupation was listed as laundress; Sophia Duff, 22, born in Nova Scotia; and Selma Strandberg, 20, who immigrated from Sweden in 1896. The varied countries from which the three servants had come to Salem reflected the growing number of immigrants arriving in Salem in the late 1800s and early 1900s as more factories opened here. These familie would have benefited from the services becoming available in the city for their benefit, such as the Settlement House established by Caroline Emmerton in 1910. George Jewett’s occupation was listed in the census as “Private Secretary.”20 Jewett at that time worked as secretary to Mrs. Joseph B. Cabot in Boston. By 1920 the Jewett household consisted of George and his wife Mary, their daughters Alice Jewett, 35, and Sarah Elizabeth McCaw, 38, and her daughter Barbara McCaw, age 6.21 (A search for information on Sarah Elizabeth’s husband, Frank McCaw, revealed the couple had married in 1911; however, sometime after the birth of their daughter in 1913, the couple apparently divorced. Records in Philadelphia in 1919 gave the date of Frank McCaw’s second marriage to Alice Miles.22) 17 Salem City Directory, 1886 Essex County Registry of Deeds, 1189-137 19 Essex County Registry of Deeds, 1189-138 20 1900 U.S. Federal Census Place: Salem Ward 2, Essex, Massachusetts 21 1920 U.S. Federal Census Place: Salem Ward 2, Essex, Massachusetts 22 Ancestry.com. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S., Marriage Index, 1885-1951 18 �Mary Jewett died in 1927 at the age of 74. 23 George Jewett lived for another ten years in the Winter Street house. The obituary published in the Boston Globe at the time of Col. Jewett’s death illuminated his impressive career of service at both the local and state levels: 24 Following Jewett’s death, the house at 22 Winter Street was listed as “vacant” in city directories from 1937 through 1944.25 During that period the Jewett daughters resided elsewhere in Salem: S. Elizabeth McCaw on Lafayette Place and Alice Jewett on Washington Square.26 23 24 U.S., Newspaper Extractions from the Northeast, 1704-1930, Boston Transcript, 27 February 1927 Boston Globe, 10 February 1937 25 Salem City Directory, 1937, 1939, 1940, 1941, 1942, 1943, and 1944 26 Salem City Directory, 19 �In 1943 S. Elizabeth Jewett McCaw and Alice P. Jewett, having inherited 22 Winter Street from their mother Mary Jewett, sold the house to Isaac Lisak. 27 Lisak, born in Kiev, Ukraine, in 1903, had immigrated to Salem with his wife Annie who was born in Russia. He was self-employed as a carpenter.28 The house sat vacant for another two years after the purchase, perhaps while Lasik remodeled the interiors to eventually comprise six apartments. In 1945 the first three tenants recorded as living there were Mrs. Audrey Durkee; Alex Gouseff, a buyer at Almy Department Store; and Robert Stewart, who worked at GE in Lynn, and his wife Louise. 29 Not until 1951 were there a total of six units rented and occupied. Tenants were typically middle or upper middle-class couples and individuals. The men were employed as salesmen, clerks, safety engineers, chiropodist, lawyers and foremen among other professions; very few occupations were listed in the City Directory for the women, presumably homemakers through the1940s, 50s, and 60s (see Residents Table for a complete listing). In May of 1962, Isaac Lisak died and shortly thereafter, his wife and heirs (Annie Lasik, Sara and Gerald Posner and Judith and Richard Jaffee) formed Lisak Realty, comprised of three parcels of land previously owned by Isaac Lisak, Parcel II being that of the Winter Street property.30 In 1966 Salem Savings Bank acquired Lot #2 which was subsequently bought by Ellen Tobias of Hamilton Realty Trust. 31 Three years later Roger Soderberg and Neil Schauer of Marblehead formed Winter Street Realty Trust and, as such, acquired 22 Winter Street from Tobias,32 shortly thereafter creating the Master Deed for 22 Winter Street Condominium, consisting of six units, as NRS Realty in 1986.33 27 Essex County Registry of Deeds, 3346-207 1930 U.S. Federal Census Place: Salem, Ward 2, Essex County 29 Salem City Directory, 1945 30 Essex County Registry od Deeds, 4979-214 31 Essex County Registry of Deeds, 7046-532 32 Essex County Registry of Deeds, 7523-253 33 Essex County Registry of Deeds, 8377-399 28 �RESIDENTS TABLE DIRECTORY YEAR RESIDENT OCCUPATION or NOTE 1850-1854 John Charles Howard Ship chandler 1850-1854 Priscilla Cheever Howard Wife of Joh Howard; sister of Mary Cheever 1854-1877 1854-1877 1877-1884 1877-1886 1886 1887-1927 1887-1937 Oliver Ricker Sarah W. Ricker Stephen B. Ives, Jr. Constance B. Ives Rose Weaver May Jewett George R. Jewett 1887-~1920 Sarah Elizabeth Jewett McCaw Alice Jewett Holten Jewett Mary Tibbets Shipmaster & merchant Homemaker Attorney Wife, later widow of Stephen Widow Homemaker Executive Councilman to Mass. Governors Daughter 1887-~1920 1887-~1920 1887-~1900 Daughter Son Mother of Mary Jewett �1913-1920 1897- ? 1900-1904 1897- ? 1945-1949 1945 1945 1945 1947-1950 1947 1947 1947 1949-1951 1949-1951 1949-1957 Barbara McCaw Margaret Collie Sophia Duff Selma Stranberg Audrey Durkee (Mrs.) Alex Gousseff Robert Stewart Louise Stewart Doris Levenson Arthur V. Marrs Kath T. Marrs Mary Marrs James H. Green Joyce Green William Shoer 1949-1957 1950 1950-1951 1950-1952 1950-1952 1951 1951 1951 1951 1952 1952-1971 19523-1971 1952 1952 1952 1953-1956 1953-1956 1953 Jennie Shoer William Hollum Marjorie Hollum Lawrence Marcus Ruth Marcus Merrill Goldstein Fredda Goldstein George L. Hamilton Mary Hamilton Veronica Blenkhorn (Mrs.) Roger E. Knowlton May Knowlton Alfred Milton Lillian Milton Elizabeth Robinson (Mrs.) Arthur E. Harding Mary E. Harding Arthur J. Landers 1953 1953-1955 Nancy Landers Richard T. Soper 1953 DeLyle Soper Grandchild Laundress Servant Servant Unknown Buyer, Almy’s Dept. Store Employee, GE Homemaker Homemaker Foreman Homemaker Teacher Salesman Homemaker Pres., Shaw’s Eggs & Poultry Wholesale Homemaker Leather worker Homemaker; widow in 1951 Chiropodist Homemaker Physician, Salem Hospital Homemaker Dental student Homemaker Unknown Inspector, GE; later retired Homemaker Clerk Homemaker Widow of Charles R. Compositor Homemaker Supervisor, Hytron Radio & Electronics Co. Homemaker Safety Engineer, Lumberman Mutual Insurance Co. Unknown �1954-1959 1954-1959 1954 1954 1955-1958 1955-1958 1957-1958 Gilman B. Melcher Bertha Melcher Richard W. Mackie Dorothy Mackie William A. McClare Margaret McClare Robert Tremblay 1957-1958 1957-1959 1957-1959 1958 Margaret Tremblay Matthew F. Carroll, Jr. Catherine Carroll James Gallant 1958 1959 1959 1959-1960 1959-1960 1960-1970 1960-1961 1960 1960-1961 1961 1961 1963 1963 1963 Shirley Gallant Charles P. Scouras Helen Scouras Walter A. Johnson Judith M. Johnson Edna Reed Lillian G. Yates (Mrs.) Evelyn A. Harrison (Mrs.) William Crawley John Walsh Mary Walsh George A. Moroney Carol Moroney Roy Faria 1963-1964 1964 1963 1963 Elizabeth A. Faria (Mrs.) Roy Faria, Jr. Marie Hurley (Mrs.) Frederick G. Patten 1963 1964-1974 Joan T. Patten Clarence E. Negretti 1964-1974 1964-1971 1964 Ann M. Negretti Mary Blanchette (Mrs.) William L. Blades Foreman, Parker Bros, Inc. Homemaker USCG Homemaker Lawyer Homemaker Personnel Manager, Pioneer Plastics Homemaker Paymaster, B&M RR, Boston Homemaker Salesman, Jerry’s Inc. Men’s Furnishings Homemaker Sign painter Homemaker Tree surgeon Homemaker Unknown Widow of Irving Widow of Frank Unknown Clerk, Liggett’s Homemaker Salesman, Hood Dairy Homemaker Teacher, Peabody School Dept Bookkeeper, Naumkeag Trust Unknown Coffee Shop, Salem Hospital Leather worker, Cut Rite Leather Homemaker Launch man, Corinthian Yacht Club. Marblehead Homemaker Widow of Arthur Oiler, GE �1964 1966-1970 1966-1970 1967-1973 1967-1973 1971-1972 1971-1972 1972-1973 1972-1973 1972-1974 1972-1974 1972 1973 1974 1974-1976 1974 1974 1975 1975 1975 Donna Blades Francis McCormack Ann McCormack Edward Atwood Beatrice Atwood John Corning Fay Corning Richard Corning Janet Corning Richard Dionne Susan Dionne Adel Garonski Adel Skaronski Bill Lott George Bannon James Belanger Donald Marchs Stephen Heger Cathy Nichols Gerald Tatten 1975-1976 1975-1976 1975-1982 1976-1983 Gary Blau Barbara Blau Janet O’Connell William M. Conway 1976-1983 1976 1976 1976 Karen Conway Kathleen Bannon Jack LeVert Elizabeth O’Keefe 1977 1977-1982 1977 1977 1979-1981 1979 1979 1980-1983 Sally Fishman Marco Pirrotta Caroline Ruthkowski Nick Verminsky Sarah Hammons B. Torres Debra White James Kent Homemaker Driver, Irving’s Taxi Homemaker Unknown Unknown Student Homemaker Employee, GE Homemaker Salesman Homemaker Unknown Unknown Unknown Student; maintenance GE Unknown Unknown Unknown Unknown Professor, Salem State College Lawyer Homemaker Nurse Outreach worker, Council on Youth Needs Homemaker Homemaker (wife of George) Carpenter Nurse, North Shore Children’s Hospital Unknown Orderly, Salem Hospital Asst. Manager, Colonial Mkt Unknown Stewardess, TWA Unknown Unknown Counselor �1980-1983 1980-1983 1980-1983 1982-1983 1983 Robin Kent Kenneth Rennick Gina Rennick Rebecca Embler H. A. Doliber 1984, 1985 1986 Directories missing MASTER DEED - WINTER STREET CONDOMINIUM Homemaker Salesman Homemaker Student Veterinary teacher, Bay State Animal Clinic �OWNERSHIP TABLE Date Purchased October 18, 1672 Years of Number Ownership of Years 1672-1685 13 Purchase Price unknown Devised in Probate 1682-1685 William Brown, Jr. June 5, 1685 unknown Essex Probate Record unknown Benjamin Cheever Not known Until 1837 at death Mary Cheever November 22, 1842 September 10, 1850 1842-1850 8 1850-1854 4 From father’s will $2,800 Oliver P. Ricker June 21, 1854 1854-1877 23 $6,000 496147,148 Stephen B. Ives, Jr. August 6, 1877 February 8, 1884 January 17, 1887 January 17, 1887 August 16, 1943 September 10, 1962 February 8,1983 November 4, 1983 1877-1884 7 $10,500 985-256 1884-1887 3 Exc. Widow of Stephen Property Owner Jacob Pudeater Ann Pudeater, Exec. John Charles Howard Constance B. Ives Oliver Ricker Mary Jewett Isaac Lisak LisakRealty Corp. Ellen Tobias, Hamilton Realty John & Rosemary Collins 3 Documents Referenced Index, Essex Registry 22909 Index, Essex Registry Essex probate 5207 334184,185 433-244 Notes Book & page listed do not correspond See Perley Map c.1700 See Map of Salem c.1780 Lot #4 from 5 parcel division “and buildings now in part belonging to said Howard” “with dwelling house and all other buildings thereon” 1189-137 1887-1943 56 $7,860 1189-138 1943-1962 19 1962-19 4 1983 >1 $26,000 7046-532 1983-1986 3 $60,000 7262-213 3346-207 4979-214 For consideration paid Parcel II – Winter Street �Roger Soderberg & Neil Schauer as July 9, 1986 7523-253 NRS Development July 11, 1986 8377-399 to 407 Declaration of Winter Street Trust MASTER DEED WINTER STREET CONDOMINIUM �DEEDS �������������������������SOURCES ��2. Perley Map of Salem 1700 �3. See Map detail next page �4. Detail of Map of Salem c. 1780 �5. Salem Atlas 1874 – 22 Winter Street owned by Oliver Ricker �6. Salem Atlas 1897 – 22 Winter owned by M. Jewett � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Winter Street Historic Salem, Inc. House History A resource made available by Historic Salem, Inc. detailing the history of Salem's houses. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource 22 Winter Street, Salem, MA, 01970 Subject The topic of the resource House History Description An account of the resource John Charles Howard Ship Chandler and his wife Priscilla Cheever Built c. 1850 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Historic Salem Inc. Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Historic Salem Inc. house histories Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Historic Salem Inc. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource Built circa 1850 House history completed 2022 Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Connie Barlow Language A language of the resource English 1850 2022 22 Winter Street Cheever Howard Massachusetts Salem Ship chandler