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58 Endicott Street
Original house built for
Jesse S. Punchard
1846
Rebuilt after
the Great Salem Fire
June 1914
Researched & Written by
Amy Kellett
February 2019
Historic Salem, Inc.
9 North Street, Salem, MA 01970
978.745.0799 | HistoricSalem.org
© 2019
�House History Report
58 Endicott Street
Salem, Massachusetts
Original house built for
Jesse S. Punchard
1846
Destroyed by Great Salem Fire
June 1914
by
Amy E. Kellett
February 2019
Researcher’s Note:
The contents of this report are based on research done
through the Southern Essex County Registry of Deeds, the
Salem City Directory archives, Salem Street Books, Tax
Assessment Records, and other primary sources. (Where
secondary sources have been quoted or otherwise referred
to, there are corresponding citation footnotes.) This report is
completed to the best of my knowledge at the time of its
publication. However, I reserve the right to update, revise,
and otherwise edit this report if and/or when new
information is discovered.
This report is published and copyrighted by Historic Salem,
Inc., Feb. 2019.
Amy E. Kellett
Researcher & Author
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Part I: 1843-1851
One of Salem’s oldest families, the Pickering family, owned the land that 58 Endicott Street now
stands on, historically called the Broadfields. The home which now stands at 58 Essex Street in
Salem, Massachusetts was built as part of a development in 1925 of the even-side lots Endicott
Street by local real estate developer, Morris Gerber. The foundation on which the house at 58
Endicott now stands, however, dates to 1846, when the property was built and owned by painter
and glazier Jesse Punchard. Punchard purchased the lots from John Pickering and built a small
dwelling house that he likely lived in while building a larger two-family home at the corner of
Endicott and Winthrop Streets.
The 1840s in Salem proved to be an opportune time for a new generation of skilled and unskilled
laborers, industrial engineers, entrepreneurs, and the like. In mid-1843 one such man, Jesse S.
Punchard, a window glazier and painter, took an opportunity to purchase land from John
Pickering for $162 in the rapidly developing ‘Broadfields’ neighborhood at the corner of two
newly-named paths called Winthrop and Endicott. By 1843 John Pickering (now living in Boston)
had parceled off most of the Family’s land, including a plot sold to Jesse Smith Punchard,
recorded in the Southern Essex Registry of Deeds, Book 337, Page 242.
… unto the said Punchard a certain piece of land situate in said Salem described
as follows. Viz. Commencing at the Southwest bound and running Northerly
forty one feet by a private way forty feet wide called Winthrop Street; thence
Easterly about ninety two feet by other land of mine, thence Southerly forty feet
by land of Henry J. Lane, thence Westerly eighty three feet by a private way
forty feet wide called Endicott Street to the point commenced at.
According to contemporaneous records, Jesse Punchard began building the first of two homes
on this property — a larger two-family at 15 Winthrop Street, followed shortly thereafter in 1846
by a small single-family home intended to be a rental property. The smaller single-family home
was likely a front-gabled vernacular form of the Greek Revival style, also called the ‘National
Style’ at the time for its popularity the 1830s-1850s throughout the newly-formed United States.
The single-family foundation (originally numbered 60 Endicott) can still be found underneath
the present structure at 58 Endicott Street.
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1843 Land Deed | John Pickering to Jesse S. Punchard
Southern Essex Registry of Deeds | Book 337 Page 242
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Prior to owning the property on the corner of Winthrop and Endicott Streets, Jesse Punchard
had been a boarder at 21 Green Street before his marriage to Olive S. Lewis. The two would be
wed in January 1844, just six months after Jesse’s purchase of the land from John Pickering. The
couple likely moved into the larger two-family home on the corner of Winthrop Street while
Jesse finished building the income property dwelling house at 60 Endicott Street. The property
description is confirmed through the 1851 Salem Atlas, created from a survey published the same
year by Henry McIntyre, which shows the Punchard property on the corners of Winthrop and
Endicott Streets.
1851 Salem City Atlas | Endicott Street
Punchard & H. Lane noted in area of Winthrop Endicott Street
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The first tenants to occupy the property at 60 Endicott included the families of William Moore
and Charles Jesbro, according to the 1846 Tax Valuations of the City and the 1847 Salem Street
Book archives. Unfortunately, there is no other record in Salem of Charles Jesbro to be found.
William Moore was born in England in 1790, made his way to Salem as an adult, and earned a
living as a laborer. He was married to Hannah F. Ross on the 27th of August 1846, the same year
Moore is first recorded as living at 60 Endicott. The newlyweds made their first home at the
rental property on Endicott Street, but shortly thereafter moved to Ward 4 of the City.
1847 Salem Street Book | Endicott Street
Listed at 60 Endicott are ‘Wm. More’ and ‘Chs. Jesbro’— and their neighbor, Jesse Punchard
The 1848 Tax Valuation book for Ward 3 shows Charles F. Adams residing at 60 Endicott and
Jesse S. Punchard at 15 Winthrop, assessed for two houses each $600 value. Found in the 1848
Street book shows for 60 Endicott a young man named George Leach, and ‘gone’ penciled in
next to name (though he appears again in the 1849 Street Book archives, so it would seem that
Leach’s plans to move were postponed for another year after 1848). The 1849 Street Book shows
Chas. F. Adams, 25, and George Leach “gone” at #60. Charles F. Adams (1821-1871), died 28
Nov. 1871, was born in Salem on March 20, 1821, the son of Nathan Adams, a native of Danvers,
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and Eleanor Marshall, who had wed in Beverly in 1805. Charles had several older siblings, and
two, Lucy and George, who were younger.
1850 US Federal Census | Essex Co. | Salem, Mass. | Ward 3
Mary B. Price, et al. at 60 Endicott Street
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When he was 19, he shipped out as a seaman on board the ship Mount Wollaston, Capt. E. L
Rose (of Sag Harbor, L.I., NY), with a crew of 24 men, probably bound on a whaling cruise,
departing in June, 1840, for the Atlantic and Indian Oceans. He was then described as 5’ 6” tall,
with a fair complexion and brown hair, residing in Salem (see Mystic Seaport, Salem Crew Lists
for his seafaring career).
At 21, he sailed on a whaling voyage, departing Salem in September, 1843, on board the famous
bark Emerald, Capt. Edward F. Lakeman, 30, of Salem; first mate William B. Stanton, 30, of
New Bedford, and the other 23 crewmen residents of Salem except for one from Danvers. A book
has been published about this vessel!
At 27, now described as dark complected with brown hair, he sailed on board the brig Aerial,
Capt. William Hadley with mate John C. Luscomb, and a crew of eight more (including a black
seaman, Benjamin Peters, 22, of Salem—a native of Warren, Me.—and a black steward, George
Peckham), bound for Para (Brazil) and a market, departing in January, 1848.
Charles married c. 1845 Margaret M. Wiggin, born Sept. 12, 1827. Their first child, Eliza Ellen,
was born in 1847, followed by Lucy E. (1849), Edward (1851), and Mary P. (1854). By 1850 Charles
& family had moved to Marblehead and he was working as a machinist and residing on upper
Washington Street, near Rowlands Hill, in a house with the family of grocer and inn-holder
James A. Rix. By 1855, still in Marblehead, Charles, 34, was working as a railroad engineer, and
so he remained for the rest of his life. The family then resided on Sewall Street. Toward the end
of his life he returned to Salem, and was here in 1870. He died of heart disease on Nov. 28, 1871,
aged 50 years, and was survived by his wife and three daughters.
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By 1846 Jesse S. Punchard and his wife, Olive, are listed as living at 15 Winthrop, at which point
they had already begun renting out the smaller home at 60 Endicott. Among the earlier tenants
of 60 Endicott Street included 24 year-old George Leach (and presumably his family) who are
found in Salem’s 1848 and 1849 City Street Books.
1848 Salem City Street Book | Endicott Street
George Leach & H. J. Lane noted at 60 and 58 Endicott Street
When US Federal Census was taken in mid-1850, the lease for 60 Endicott had changed hands to
Mary B. Price, along with her three children and her mother, Lucy Doyle. The Price family is
found on the 1850 Census between the family at 15 Winthrop Street including their landlords
Jesse S. and Olive Punchard along with their three daughters, Mary (11), Rebecca (8), and Emma
(1), as well as the Punchard’s tenants in their two-family home, Joshua and Mary Jones, their two
daughters Mary (8) and Caroline (4), Joshua’s father Joseph Jones, and 19 year-old Catharine. To
the East of the Price’s lived the Lane Family; Henry, Mary, and 13 year-old Mary Eliza Lane, who
had had owned the property at 58 Endicott since Henry J. Lane purchased the land from John
Pickering in 1842, just one year before Jesse Punchard had done the same.
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Mrs. Mary B. Price began her life as Mary B. Doyle, born in Maine, born between 1805-1807. She
married New Hampshire native Ephraim S. Price, in Salem, Massachusetts on June 10, 1828 and
the couple had three children shortly thereafter: Mary Elisabeth, born in 1831, Harriet, born
1836, and Edward, the youngest and only surviving boy, born in 1839.
1837 Salem City Directory | Ephraim S. Price
Cabinet maker at 6 Charter Street; House at 6 Oliver Street
The family lived in a house at 6 Oliver Street, in the Salem Neck neighborhood of the City.
Ephraim Smith Price made his living as a cabinet maker, with a shop at 6 Charter Street, and by
1837 had partnered with James K. Averill to run a cabinet and furniture shop on Vine Street in
downtown Salem. 1
1957 | The Cabinetmakers of America
Clips pertaining to Ephraim S. Price & James K. Averill
In August 1839, Mrs. Mary B. Price became a widow after 10 years of marriage, and three
children, the youngest of which was born within the same year of his father’s death. Ephraim was
buried in Gilmanton, New Hampshire, while his widow and children remained in Salem.
As with many women of her era, it is unknown what Mary B. Price did to make a living for herself,
and local directories show the Price family living in several rental properties throughout the city;
the family likely remained among the working-class population of Salem in the late 19th and early
20th centuries.
1 Bjerkoe, E. Hall. The Cabinetmakers of America. Doubleday. New York. 1957.
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In 1850 Punchard decided it best to sell the small single family, and by doing so divide his
property. Approximately five years after the house at 60 Endicott Street was built on land that
had been purchased for $162, Jesse S. Punchard sold the house and property to Charles L.
Bradbury for $950. This deed provides a clear description of the property as it stood until the
early 20th century:
…The following described messuage 2 situate in said Salem viz. bounded
Southerly by Endicott Street twenty two feet and seven inches; easterly by land
of Henry J. Lane forty feet; Northerly by said Lane twenty two feet and seven
inches; Westerly by other land of mine forty feet.
1850 Deed | Jesse S. Punchard to Charles L. Bradbury
Southern Essex Registry of Deeds | Book 435 Page 172
2 messuage — (noun) a dwelling house with outbuildings and land assigned to its use; from the Latin word
“manere”, meaning ‘dwell'
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Charles L. Bradbury listed as a printer living at the property for only one year, in the 1851 Salem
City Directory. Shortly after purchasing the home, however, Bradbury received an employment
opportunity in Boston that he could not refuse, and he sold the property to Simon Pendar in 1851.
(It is unclear whether Bradbury was successful in Boston, as the 1855 Salem City Directory shows
him as living at 11 Rust Street with a printing shop at 191 Essex Street.)
1851 Salem City Directory
7th from the top shows Charles L. Bradbury, Printer, at 60 Endicott Street
Bradbury being listed on the 1853 Salem City Directory as a printer living at 60 Endicott
indicates provides further indication as to what the home that stood at 60 Endicott may have
looked like; with a profession listed but no business address, it can be assumed that there may
have been a space in the home for a workshop of sorts. (This is again shown through later tenants
of the property operating businesses from the same address.)
In 1851 Bradbury mortgaged the property to Simon Pendar (along with this wife, Anna), who
made his living as a horse trader and livery stable owner, for $565 cash and $450 mortgaged,
recorded in the Southern Essex Co. Registry of Deeds, Book 459, Page 44:
…I, Charles L. Bradbury of Boston County of Suffolk and State of
Massachusetts, Printer, in consideration of five hundred and sixty five dollars
to me paid by Simon Pendar of Salem, Essex County, State aforesaid, Trader,
and of the said Pendars, assuming a certain mortgage upon the following
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described premises of the further sum of four hundred & fifty dollars, the receipt
whereof I do hereby acknowledge, do hereby give, grant, sell and convey unto
the said Pendar a certain lot of land situated on Endicott Street in said Salem
bounded as follows, Viz. beginning at Punchards land on said Street and
running Easterly twenty two feet seven inches, thence Northerly by land of
Henry J. Lane forty feet, thence Westerly by land of said Lane twenty two feet
seven inches, thence Southerly by land of said Punchard forty feet to the point
begun at, together with the dwelling house standing thereon.
1851 Deed | Charles L. Bradbury to Simon Pendar
Southern Essex Registry of Deeds | Book 459 Page 44
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Part II: 1851-1887 — Simon Pendar, et al.
Simon Pendar (also spelled Pinder, Pindar, and Pender) was born at the turn of the 19th century
on August 1st, 1800, the son of Samuel Pindar and Mehitable “Hitty” Putnam. Hitty Pindar (née
Putnam) was the third of eight children born to Nathaniel Putnam and Mary Ober. Nathaniel
Putnam was a member of Captain Jeremiah Page’s company during the Revolutionary War, who
had marched to Lexington with the company on April 19, 1775.3 Little information can be found
about Simon Pendar’s father, Samuel, but his station in life would undoubtedly have been
improved by marrying the daughter of a Revolutionary War hero.
1829 Deed | Samuel Pinder to Simon Pinder | Danvers, Mass.
The Pendar’s were an upper-middle class working family, and as one of seven children, Simon
Pendar would have had his fair share of work to provide for himself and his family throughout his
life. At the age of 22 Simon married Almira Akerman in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, with whom
he had one son, George Luellen Pendar. By the age of 29 Simon was able to purchase property in
Danvers from his father, Samuel Pinder, the deed for which mentions Pendar’s title as
‘gentleman’, which does not describe a profession so much as indicate Pendar’s rank and
affluence in the community.
There are few records otherwise to be found regarding Simon’s professional life prior to 1842,
when he first appears in the Salem City Directory as living at 222R Essex Street, in the downtown
district of the city, where he lived with this wife and son. Just three years later on September 17th
3 Putnam, Eben. A History of the Putnam Family in England and America, Vol. II, 1908.
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1845, Simon Pendar became a widower after 23 years of marriage when his wife, Almira died at
just 43 years of age. A year later, in 1846 Simon Pendar is found renting at the ‘Mansion House’,
likely the Prince Mansion at 108-110 Federal Street in Salem. Simon was remarried in 1848 to
Ann Towle Leavitt. By 1851, Pendar had moved once again to 4 Ward Street, and is listed as the
1851 Salem City Directory | Page 164 | Business Directory
Listed under Livery Stables at 60 Washington St is Simon Pendar
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owner of a livery stable at 60 Washington Street. Finally, by 1853 the Pendar family had settled in
to living at 60 Endicott Street, while Simon still owned the livery stable at 60 Washington and
presumably continued to enjoy success as a horse trader.
1855 Mass. State Census | Salem, Mass. | Ward 3 | Endicott & Winthrop Streets
Between Henry J. Lane and Jesse S. Punchard’s families is Simon Pendar and his family at 60
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Simon Pendar was not a young man (by 19th century standards) when he purchased the property
at 60 Endicott from C. L. Bradbury in 1851, when he would have been approximately 51 years old,
a middle-aged man of some success with an adult son living elsewhere, and a new wife, family and
home.
Anna T. Pendar (née Leavitt) born on the 4th of August 1817 in North Hampton, New
Hampshire, to Oliver R. Leavitt and Eunice Batchelder. In 1855, at the age of 38, Anna found
herself Simon’s second wife, seventeen years younger than her husband.
Simon and Anna Pendar would have five children; three girls and two boys: Almira Anna Pindar
(1849-1852), Louisa Colby Pindar (1853-1854) and Lizzie Leavitt Pendar, born just five months
before the 1855 Massachusetts State Census. In the next ten years the Pendar family would add
two sons, Simon Oliver Pendar in 1857, and Samuel Dutch Pendar in 1859. The two oldest Pendar
girls sadly did not survive childhood, for reasons yet discovered as of this publication.
1865 Mass. State Census | Salem, Mass. | Ward 3 | Endicott Street
The Pendar family at 60 Endicott, still neighbored by Henry J. & Mary Lane
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II-A — The Surviving Pendar Family Children
Lizzie L. Pendar was born in Salem, Massachusetts in April 1855, the first and only girl in the
Pendar family. She was raised and educated in the working-class neighborhood of the
Broadfields. A map surveyed in 1861 shows the proximity of the Pendar family home to the newlyconstructed Salem High School, where all of the surviving Pendar children would have attended.
1861 Salem City Map | Endicott Street Neighborhood
On the 22nd of August 1876, at the age of 21 Lizzie L. Pendar married Joseph Monroe Parsons, a
Portsmouth, NH native that had in-migrated to Salem to made his living as a mason. The
newlyweds moved to a home on Beckford Street while Joseph M. Parsons worked as a builder and
contractor. Sadly, just after the couple celebrated their seventh anniversary in September of
1883, Lizzie L. (Pendar) Parsons succumbed to typhoid fever at only 28 years old.
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1883 September | Salem, Mass. — Death Records | Lizzie L. (Pendar) Parsons
Lizzie was the eleventh of 17 deaths in Salem, September 1883, and the only death caused by typhoid fever.
Simon Oliver Pendar, named for his father, was raised and educated in the Broadfields
neighborhood, and in his young adult life he found work in the shipyards. He eventually earned
the title of ‘Merchant’, and at the age of 27 married the daughter of Simeon & Ellen Flint, Mary
E. Flint (also 27). The marriage record indicates that Simon Oliver at some point decided to
invert his first and middle names, thus his name is recorded as Oliver S. Pendar on official
documents. The two were wed on the first day of November 1883, just a week after the passing of
his older sister, Lizzie.
1888 Salem Business Directory | S. D. Pendar
Samuel D. Pendar, youngest son of Simon and Anna
Pendar, listed as a mason and contractor with a
business at 15 Washington Street; home 5 Winthrop
Samuel Dutch Pendar, named for his paternal grandfather, was born the 25th of May 1859, and
likely worked as a child through his young adult years in his aging father’s livery stables. In his
adult life he married, decided to stay in Salem, and developed a successful business as a regional
mason and contractor. His travels took him to Peterborough, NH for the 4th of July weekend in
1931 when the 72-year-old Samuel Pendar suddenly succumbed to an embolism, causing a
cerebral hemorrhage. He was returned home to Salem and buried with the rest of his relatives at
Harmony Grove Cemetery.
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II-B — The Pendar Family: Life at 60 Endicott in Mid-to-Late 19th Century Salem
In 1846 when Jesse S. Punchard laid the foundation at what was 60 Endicott Street (now beneath
58 Endicott) Salem was in full swing of an industrial revival of its economy. During the 1840s, as
more industrial methods and machines were introduced, new companies in new lines of business
arose in Salem. The tanning and curing of leather was very important by the mid-1800s. On and
near Boston Street, along the upper North River, there were 41 tanneries in 1844, and 85 in 1850,
employing 550 hands. The leather business would continue to grow in importance throughout
the 1800s. In 1846 the Naumkeag Steam Cotton Company completed the construction at Stage
Point of the largest factory building in the United States, 60’ wide by 400’ long. It was an
immediate success, and hundreds of people found employment there, many of them living in
tenements built nearby.
Naumkeag Steam Cotton Co. & Neighborhood (Photo c.1907, Nelson Dionne Collection)
Also in the 1840s, a new method was introduced to make possible high-volume industrial shoe
production. In Lynn, the factory system was perfected, and that city became the nation’s leading
shoe producer. Salem had shoe factories too, and attracted shoe workers from outlying towns
and the countryside. Even the population changed, as hundreds of Irish families, fleeing the
Famine in Ireland, settled in Salem and gave the industrialists a big pool of cheap labor.
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Built 1847, Salem City Train Depot (Photo c.1897)
The Gothic symbol of Salem’s new industrial economy was the large twin-towered granite train
station—the “stone depot”--smoking and growling with idling locomotives, standing on filled-in
land at the foot of Washington Street, where before had been the merchants’ wharves. In the face
of all this change, some members of Salem’s waning merchant class continued to pursue their
sea-borne businesses; but even the conditions of shipping changed, and Salem was left on the
ebb tide. In the late 1840s, giant clipper ships replaced the smaller vessels that Salem men had
sailed around the world; and the clippers, with their deep drafts and large holds, were usually too
large for Salem and its harbor. The town’s shipping soon consisted of little more than Zanzibartrade vessels and visits from Down East coasters with cargoes of fuel wood and building timber.
By 1850 Salem was about finished as a working port.
Salem’s growth continued through the 1850s, as business and industries expanded, the
population swelled, new churches (e.g. Immaculate Conception, 1857) were started, new
working-class neighborhoods were developed (especially in North Salem and South Salem, off
Boston Street, and along the Mill Pond behind the Broad Street graveyard), and new schools,
factories, and stores were built.
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In 1851 when Simon Pendar purchased the property from Charles L. Bradbury, the middle-aged
man seized on the economic opportunity presenting itself in Salem; after all, horses were a major
mode of transportation locally and livery stables would have been a lucrative and steady business.
By 1866, now in his mid-sixties, Simon Pendar’s occupation is listed as ‘trader’. Presumably,
Pendar sold the livery stable that he had occupied for decades at 60 Washington, and continued
to make his living as a horse trader.
1853 Salem City Directory | Page 120
Simon Pendar listed with his livery stable at 60 Washington, and house at 60 Endicott
According to the 1870 Federal Census the Pendar family continued to live at 60 Endicott while
Simon made a living as a trader, Mrs. Pendar kept house, and the children attended school. Salem
continued to prosper in the 1870s, carried forward by the leather-making business. In 1874 the
city was visited by a tornado and shaken by a minor earthquake. In the following year, the large
Pennsylvania Pier (site of the old coal electrical engineering plant on Salem Harbor) was
completed to begin receiving large shipments of coal. Beyond it, at Juniper Point, a new owner
began subdividing the old Allen farmlands into a new development called Salem Willows and
Juniper Point. In the U.S. centennial year, 1876, A.G. Bell of Salem announced that he had
discovered a way to transmit voices over telegraph wires.
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1874 Salem City Atlas | Endicott Street
S. Pendar noted at 60 Endicott Street (now underneath the footprint of 58 Endicott)
As Simon Pendar entered this eighties, the family decided it best to sell the property to their
long-time neighbors, Henry J. Lane and his family, under the condition that the family could
continue to live on the premises for the remainder of their lives. Deed Release is recorded in the
Southern Essex Co. Registry of Deeds, Book 1087 Page 120:
I, Anna L. Pendar, wife of Simon Pendar, of Salem in the County of Essex and
Commonwealth of Massachusetts, in consideration of one dollar and other
valuable consideration paid by Henry J. Lane of said Salem in the receipt
whereof is hereby acknowledged, do hereby remise, release, and forever quit
claim unto the said Henry J. Lane all my right of and both dower and
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homestead in a certain parcel of land with the buildings thereon, situate in
Salem and bounded and described as follows. Beginning at land now or
formerly of Punchard on Endicott St. and thence running Easterly twenty two
feet seven inches more or less, thence turning and running Northerly by land of
said Henry Lane forty feet more or less then turning and running Westerly by
land of said Lane twenty two feet and seven inches thence turning and running
Southerly by land of said Punchard forty feet to the point begun at…
1882 Deed Release | Simon & Anna Pendar to Henry J. Lane
This release describes the same premises referred to in the 1851 deed between Bradbury and Pendar
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Just five years after this transfer of ‘both dower and homestead’ from Anna and Simon Pendar to
1887 Massachusetts Death Records | Simon Pendar
Noted as the only death on March 30, 1887, Simon Passed away aged 86 years, 8 months, 29 days
Henry J. Lane, Simon Pendar passed away at the age of 86. His cause of death listed as ‘Softening
of the brain’; brain tissue damage due to hemorrhage or inflammation.4
Shortly after Simon’s death, Anna Pendar moved in with her youngest son, Samuel D. Pendar, at
5 Winthrop Street (just around the corner from Endicott), as indicated by the the 1888 Salem
City Directory, where she lived until her death on the 19th of November 1899, aged 82 years.
By 1887 the Lane Estate had passed from Henry J. Lane to his eldest daughter, Mary E. Jelly (née
Lane), upon Henry’s passing in January 1883. Mary, who was born and raised on the property
next to the house at 60 Endicott and the Pendar family, likely lived just a few doors down
Endicott Street with her husband, William F. Jelly, while managing the house at 60 Endicott as a
rental property.
4 Sturges, Allen F, Noah Webster, et al. Webster’s New international dictionary of the English language,
based on the International dictionary of 1890 and 1900.
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Part III: 1887-1914 — Mary E. Jelly (née Lane) Ownership & Property Tenants
c.1890 Photograph | Salem, Mass. | On Washington Street looking down Front Street
Mary E. Jelly, born Mary Eliza Lane, spent nearly her entire life on Endicott Street, raised as the
only child of Henry J. Lane, a New Hampshire-born shoemaker, and Mary (Heard) Lane.
In the 1880s and 1890s, Salem kept building infrastructure; and new businesses arose, and
established businesses expanded. Retail stores prospered; horse-drawn trolleys ran every whichway; and machinists, carpenters, millwrights, and other specialists all thrived.
In the summer of 1886, the Knights of Labor brought a strike against the manufacturers for a tenhour day and other concessions; but the manufacturers imported labor from Maine and Canada,
and kept going. The strikers held out, and there was violence in the streets, and even rioting; but
the owners prevailed, and many of the defeated workers lost their jobs and suffered, with their
families, through a bitter winter.
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In 1887 the streets were first lit with electricity, replacing gas-light. More factories and more
people required more space for buildings, more roads, and more storage areas. This space was
created by filling in rivers, harbors, and ponds. The once-broad North River was filled from both
shores, and became a canal along Bridge Street above the North Bridge. The large and beautiful
Mill Pond, which occupied the whole area between the present Jefferson Avenue, Canal Street,
and Loring Avenue, finally vanished beneath streets, storage areas, junk-yards, rail-yards, and
parking lots.
1897 Salem City Atlas | Endicott Street
Mary E. Jelly is noted at both 58 & 60 Endicott, and her husband, W. F. Jelly at 48-50 Endicott
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Henry J. Lane was born in June 1809 in Chichester, New Hampshire, son of Simeon Lane and
Huldah (Tilton) Lane. He grew up in the upper Merrimack region of New Hampshire until his
early twenties, when he moved to Salem and married Mary Heard in 1836 at the age of 26. Mary, a
Salem native, was born in 1817 to Daniel Heard and Mary (Tucker) Heard. The two would have
their only child, a daughter named Mary Eliza Lane, in February 1837. Six years after Henry J.
Lane and Mary Heard were wed, in 1842, Henry purchased the property at 58 Endicott Street
from John Pickering (now the location of the yard and parking spaces for 56-58 Endicott) and
built his own house for his young family.
1846 Salem City Directory | Henry J. Lane at 58 Endicott
Lane’s profession listed as ‘cordwainer’ (the traditional term for leather shoemaker) at 326 Essex
Mary Eliza Lane would have been thirteen when Simon Pendar and his family moved in to the
small single-family home that neighbored her own at 60 Endicott, and certainly have been friends
with the Pendar family, as well as the children of Jesse S. Punchard.
1850 US Federal Census | Salem, Mass. | Ward 3 | Endicott Street
The Lane, Pendar, and Punchard families listed, including their children, which by 1850 there
were a total of seven children in the three households, the oldest being Mary Lane at age 18.
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1860 US Federal Census | Salem, Mass. | Ward 3 | Endicott Street
Henry J. Lane and his wife Mary shared their home with their daughter, Mary E. Jelly, their sonin-law William F. Jelly, and their newborn granddaughter, named Mary Jelly.
Mary Eliza Lane became a wife and a mother at age 23 in the same year, 1860, when she married a
local mariner named William F. Jelly, and their daughter Mary, born in May of the same year.
Sadly, their firstborn did not survive her childhood as there is no record of the child by the time
of the 1865 Massachusetts State Census.
1865 Massachusetts State Census | Salem | Ward 3 | Endicott Street
William F. Jelly (29), Mary E. Jelly (28), Eliza L. Jelly (4), and Hatty L. Jelly (1) neighboring
Henry J. & Mary Lane, as well as Simon & Anna Pendar and their 3 children.
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1870 US Federal Census | Salem, Mass. | Ward 3 | Endicott Street
Just below the 11-year-old Samuel D. Pendar are the Lane’s, including Henry J. Mary, as well as
their daughter, Mary E. Jelly, son-in-law William F. Jelly, and 4 surviving Lane grandchildren.
In the following five years, the Jelly family would add two sons: Henry and Edward. The three
surviving children of William F. And Mary E. Jelly would grow up next door to the Pendar
children. When Henry J. Lane passed away in 1883, he left his estate to his only child, Mary E.
Jelly, who owned and managed the homes as income properties.
1880 US Federal Census | Salem, Mass. | Ward 3 | Endicott Street
The Jelly Family, neighbored on either side by the families of Henry J. Lane and Simon Pendar
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After the passing of Simon Pendar in 1887, the property is listed on contemporaneous street
directories to be rented by Mr. James G. Perkins from 1887 through 1890. Perkins, a Civil War
Veteran, worked in Salem’s booming shoe leather industry as a ‘shoe cutter’, according to Salem
City Directories.
1890 Veterans Schedule | Minor Civil Division: Massachusetts
James G. Perkins, listed as a Sargent, enlisted from 1861-62, and noted as living at 60 Endicott St.
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Local painter, Wesley B. Ferguson lived at 60 Endicott from 1893-4, followed by Abner R.
Greenwood in 1895, an employee in the local shoe leather factories, Abner worked operating a
McKay stitching machine to earn his living. He was born the son of Framingham shoemaker,
Charles Greenwood, and Charlotte Beacon Rice in Westboro, Massachusetts. In his childhood
he learned his father’s trade of being a shoemaker, but time and circumstances had different
plans for Abner’s life in 1860s America.
Greenwood served in the Civil War with Company K of the 13th Massachusetts Volunteer
Infantry regiment, which saw action at Harper’s Ferry, Sharpsburg, and finally Antietam, the
bloodiest battle of the Conflict. Sargent Abner Greenwood led the rest of the 13th Mass.
Volunteer Infantry squad into a field of high corn, marching westward towards higher ground
held by the Rebels. Without any cover, the troops were decimated, and Sgt. Greenwood took a
bullet to through his chest and out his right shoulder, a grievous wound that may have added him
to the body count of the two bloodiest days in American history, but his men saved him and with
some rudimentary medical care, Abner was able to recover enough to reenlist in the 13th Veteran
Reserve Corps for the rest of the war (without being redeployed into battle).
1897 Salem City Directory
Abner Greenwood listed as an
McKay Stitcher with his home at
58 Endicott Street, as well as his
daughter, Rachel, the same year
that Abner passed away.
Following the war, Abner returned to Massachusetts, eventually making his way to Salem where
his skills as a shoemaker would earn him a living, as well as his daughter, Miss Rachel A.
Greenwood who also worked in the shoe factories. Greenwood lived the rest of his days at 60
Endicott, operating a McKay stitcher, until his passing on the 3rd of December 1897 (while living
at 60 Endicott Street) in his 57th year from “heart failure due to Rheumatism & war injuries”. He
was buried at Greenlawn Cemetery.
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Salem gardener, Stephen G. Hooper spent just one year, 1897, with his address at 60 Endicott.
By 1898, Linwood Lewis resided at the small home on Endicott Street, where he remained until
1908. In 1900 the Salem City Directory lists Linwood’s occupation as a janitor, until 1906 when
his occupation changes to a ‘Flagman’ (for the Boston & Maine Railroad) at the Washington
Street Crossing.
1897 Salem City Atlas | Endicott Street
58-60 Endicott Noted as the property of Mary E. Jelly, while directories show the property was being
rented by Stephen G Hooper at the time of this Atlas’ publication, and shortly thereafter 60 Endicott
became the residence of Linwood Lewis and his family
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1900 US Federal Census | Massachusetts | Essex Co. | Salem | Ward 3
Linwood Lewis, along with his second wife, Cassie B Lewis, and Linwood E Lewis at 60 Endicott
During the Lewis’ tenure at 60 Endicott, a Civil War veteran and hostler 5 named Nathaniel T.
Edwards and his family also resided at 60 Endicott from 1901 through 1903. For the year
following the Lewis’ family departure from 60 Endicott, 1909, the property is listed as ‘vacant’
according to the Salem Street Directory. Renovations may have taken place during this time to
modernize the functions of the home including electricity, plumbing, and heating systems; all
parts of Salem were booming and modernizing into the 20th century, including even the most
modest of homes in Salem’s busy streets.
1903 Salem City Directory
Nathaniel T. Edwards, a hostler,
with his home listed at 60
Endicott Street; his place of
business around the corner at 191
Federal Street
By the eve of World War One, Salem was a bustling, polyglot city that supported large
department stores and large factories of every description. People from the surrounding towns,
and Marblehead in particular, came to Salem to do their shopping; and its handsome government
buildings, as befit the county seat, were busy with conveyances of land, lawsuits, and probate
proceedings. The city’s politics were lively, and its economy was strong.
5 hostler— (noun) a man employed to look after horses of people staying an an inn or hotel; from Old
French ‘“hostelier”, meaning ‘innkeeper’
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At the beginning of the 20th century’s second decade in 1910, 60 Endicott Street was occupied
by Daniel W. Howe, an elevator works machinist. Howe lived on Endicott with his wife, Lucy,
and her two children from a previous marriage, Carol M Woodward and Berleigh D Woodward.
In 1910, fifteen year-old Carol Woodward is listed on the Federal Census as being an apprentice
in the prospering millinery industry of Salem.
1910 US Federal Census | Salem, Mass. | Ward 3
at 60 Endicott are Daniel Howe, as well as Lucy Howe and her two children, Carol and Berleigh
Just two years later in 1912, the home at 60 Endicott was occupied by watchmaker Arthur A.
Barton, his wife Winnifred, and their daughter Irene. Winnifred was also part of the working
class, as her occupation on the 1910 Census is listed as ‘tailoress’, when the family was located on
Beckford Street in Ward 4 of the City. The family remained at 60 Endicott until 1913, on the eve
of a disaster that few could have predicted.
1912 Salem Business Directory
Among the some two dozen watch and
clock dealers, makers, and repairers in
Salem is Arthur A. Barton, found at 60
Endicott Street
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1911 Salem City Atlas | Endicott Street
The final atlas drawn of the city of Salem before the disastrous fire of 1914 shows Mary E. Jelly
as the owner of 58-60 Endicott Street, though at the time of this atlas’ publication the home was
occupied by the Howe family
The final new name associated with the property at 60 Endicott is M. A. Choard, who only lived
in the home for the first six months of 1914, which appears in the Salem City Directory with an
asterisk next to the name and address— indicating that the home was lost in the Great Salem Fire
disaster.
1914 Salem City Directory
The only record of an M. A.
Choard living at 60 Endicott
Street, lost in the Great
Salem Fire of 1914
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On June 25, 1914, in the morning, in Blubber Hollow (Boston Street opposite Federal), a fire
started in one of Salem’s fire-prone wooden tanneries. This fire soon consumed the building and
raced out of control, for the west wind was high and the season had been dry. The next building
caught fire, and the next, and out of Blubber Hollow the fire roared easterly, a monstrous front of
flame and smoke, wiping out the houses of Boston Street, Essex Street, and upper Broad Street,
and then sweeping through Hathorne, Winthrop, Endicott, and other residential streets. Men
and machines could not stop it: the enormous fire crossed over into South Salem and destroyed
the neighborhoods west of Lafayette Street, then devoured the mansions of Lafayette Street
itself, and raged onward into the tenement district.
1914 June 25 | Great Salem Fire
Photo captures the fire raging along New Bridge Street and the destruction that leveled Salem
Despite the combined efforts of heroic fire crews from many towns and cities, the fire
overwhelmed everything in its path: it smashed into the large factory buildings of the Naumkeag
Steam Cotton Company (Congress Street), which exploded in an inferno; and it rolled down
Lafayette Street and across the water to Derby Street. There, just beyond Union Street, after a
13-hour rampage, the monster died, having consumed 250 acres, 1600 houses, and 41 factories,
and leaving three dead and thousands homeless. Some people had insurance, some did not; all
received much support and generous donations from all over the country and the world. It was
one of the greatest urban disasters in the history of the United States, and the people of Salem
would take years to recover from it.
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1914 | Destruction after the Great Salem Fire
The ruins of the once-mighty Naumkeag Steam Cotton Co. at the waterfront of The Point
Endicott Street suffered total destruction; there would have been nothing remaining of the street
besides foundations, concrete steps, and the occasional surviving chimney. William and Mary
Jelly lost both their home and their income properties at 48 and 58-60 Endicott Street.
According to the record of Data on the Burned District at Salem, Mass. published by the F. W.
Dodge Co. in the aftermath of the conflagration, the assessed valuation of the land at 60 Endicott
was $200; the building: $800 — for a total valuation of $1000, with only $600 of insurance
coverage on the building. Furthermore, this record confirms that all the buildings owned by the
Jelly family were constructed of wood, and were therefore little more than tinder in the 1914 fire.
1914 | Data on the Burned District of Salem, Mass.
Clip showing the properties owned by the Jelly family, including Mary, Katherine, and
the heirs of William F. Jelly (including his wife and children)
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1914 | Map of Data on the Burned District of Salem, Mass.
The bold line denotes the area which was completely destroyed by the fire, including
Endicott Street, along with 250 additional acres of the City
Now, in the 21st century, we can only begin to imagine the destruction left by the fire in 1914;
beyond the physical wreckage the conflagration left in its path, people’s entire lives and
livelihoods were utterly destroyed. Mary Jelly was born, raised, married, and widowed while
living on Endicott Street, and now everything she had ever known was gone. The insurance must
have helped some, but it seems that Mary could not bear to part with the property that her father
had purchased from John Pickering in 1842 and proceeded to build their entire family’s history
there on Endicott Street. Mary is found living with her adult daughters, Lizzie, Hattie, and
Martha Agnes in Ward 4 of the City in 1920, aged 82 years, during which time she still owned the
properties on Endicott Street. In 1925 after Mary’s passing at the age of 87, her heirs finally sold
the land to Morris Gerber.
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1925 Deed | Mary E. Jelly Executors to Morris Gerber
Deed refers to both properties originally owned by Lane and Pendar, for which Gerber paid just
$950 in 1925 for both properties at 58 and 60 Endicott Street
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Morris Gerber built the properties as they still stand at the corner of Winthrop and Endicott atop
the foundation that once was laid by Jesse S. Punchard after his purchase of the land from John
Pickering in 1843. The home that is now numbered 58 Endicott Street now stands partially on the
foundation of the building that stood firmly for decades as a home for dozens of men, women,
and children from a multitude of places and professions.
1925 Salem City Atlas | Endicott Street
In 1925 much of Salem had recovered post-fire; this clip shows the newly completed construction
along Endicott Street completed by Morris Gerber and others
By the 1920s, Salem was once again a thriving city; and its tercentenary in 1926 was a time of
great celebration. The Depression hit in 1929, and continued through the 1930s. Salem, the
county seat and regional retail center, gradually rebounded, and prospered after World War II
through the 1950s and into the 1960s. General Electric, Sylvania, Parker Brothers, Pequot Mills
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(formerly Naumkeag Steam Cotton Co.), Almy’s department store, various other large-scale
retailers, and Beverly’s United Shoe Machinery Company were all major local employers. Then
the arrival of suburban shopping malls and the relocation of manufacturing businesses took their
toll, as they have with many other cities. More than most, Salem has navigated its way forward
into the present with success, trading on its share of notoriety arising from the witch trials, but
also from its history as a great seaport and as the home of Bowditch, McIntire, Bentley, Story, and
Hawthorne. Most of all, it remains a city where the homes of the old-time merchants, mariners,
and mill-operatives are all honored as a large part of what makes Salem different from any other
place.
1926 | Salem, Mass. | City Hall | Washington Street
City Hall decorated for Salem’s Tercentenary (300th) Anniversary Celebration
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