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22 Mason Street
Salem, Massachusetts 01970
Built 1889
by Nathaniel Gardner Symonds, treasurer of the Salem and South Danvers
Oil Company, and his wife, Harriet Fillebrown Symonds
Researched and Written by David Moffat – December 2022
�Date
Conveyed by
Conveyed to
Property
08
Dec
1859
James Ford Smith
Nathaniel G.
Symonds
“a certain
piece of
land situate
in said
Salem”
…”all the
lands with
the house
[24
Mason]”
Amount Doc
Book
$5,000 Deed 786
Page
259
09 Jul Estate of Nathaniel G.
1909 Symonds (Stillman G.
Symonds & Eben B.
Symonds, trustees)
Hannah Augusta “a certain
McDonald
parcel of
land with
the
buildings
thereon”
$1 Deed 1977
225
16
Feb.
1912
Hannah A.
McDonald, wife
of Martin
McDonald
$1 Deed 2139
62
Estate of Nathaniel G.
Simonds (Eben B.
Symonds, Martha E.
Symonds, Stillman G.
Symonds, Harriet G.
Symonds, Henry M.
Batchelder, Martha O.
Batchelder, William A.
Horton, Annie D.
Horton, George H.
Symonds, Fanny A.
Symonds, Frank P.
Symonds, Elizabeth C.
Symonds, Leverett
Vasmer Symonds, Mabel
F. Symonds
“a certain
parcel of
land with
the
buildings
thereon”
�22 Jul Hannah Augusta
1920 McDonald
Patrick J. Cleary “the land in
said
SALEM
with the
buildings
thereon”
Consider Deed 2458
ation
Paid
289
07
Dec
1936
Edward A. Coffey
Patrick J. Cleary “the land in
and Helen F.
said
Cleary
SALEM
with the
buildings
thereon”
Consider Deed 3096
ation
Paid
43
21
Nov
2003
Mary To [sic] Fleming
Katherine T.
Khan
“The land
and
buildings
located at
22 Mason
Street”
Nominal Deed 22107 27
Consider
ation
09 Jun Mary T. Flemming
2006
Katherine Khan
“All that
parcel of
land with
the
buildings
thereon”
$1 Deed 25910 110
10
Aug
2020
Katherine Khan
P.C.G Properties “a certain
LLC.
parcel of
land with
the
buildings
thereon”
$415,000 Deed 38855 267
29 Jun P.C.G Properties LLC.
2022
Nicholas DeLena “a certain
parcel of
land with
the
buildings
thereon”
$946,250 Deed 41035 601
000
�Narrative:
Nathaniel Gardner Symonds was born in Salem in 1808, to a father from an old Salem
family and a mother from an old Ipswich family. His early working career was spent as a
cordwainer (shoemaker), like his father. The Symonds had lived on Buffum Street since the
1600s, and numbers 24 and 26 Buffum were built by members of the family. The early Symonds
were celebrated cabinetmakers, and a few descendants carried on that line, but most were
cordwainers.
The house next door at 24 Buffum Street was built between 1846 and 1850 for jewelry
manufacturer James Ford Smith. In 1859, Smith sold the house and lot to Symonds for $5,000. It
sat on the corner of Mason and Barr streets. In 1860, Symonds, his wife Harriet, and their three
children called 24 Buffum Street home. As early as 1856, Symonds had served as treasurer of the
Salem and South Danvers Oil Company, which sold oils and chemicals as bulk goods. According
to a 1932 testimony by Frank P. Symonds, in the early 1890s the S & S.D. Oil Company merged
with the Salem Chemical and Supply Company.
In 1889, Symonds acquired a permit to build a house on the northeast side of his lot. He
was 81 at the time and he passed away only a few years later in 1894. The house formed part of
Symonds’ estate, and in 1909 and 1912, his other heirs gave the property to Hannah Augusta
McDonald. She was probably a relative of the Symonds, but how is not readily apparent.
Hannah McDonald was married to a Canadian born furniture-seller, Martin A.
McDonald. 22 Mason Street was a two family home, and the McDonalds occupied one side and
various other families the other, including early on the family of John G. Ellery, a locomotive
engineer, August Wagner, a German-American dry goods merchant, and John Rowen, who was a
street tram conductor.
Martin died in 1919 and the following year she deeded the house to Patrick J. Cleary, an
Irish-American grocery store manager who then boarded at 12 Barton Street with other Irish
immigrants. Patrick was born in the 1880s in Clarecastle, County Clare, Ireland, and immigrated
to the United States in 1895. He became a citizen in 1910, worked as a conductor, and served as
a private first class in World War I. In 1920, he married Helen F. Coffey., also an Irish immigrant
and the older sister of future Salem mayor Edward A. Coffey, who was in office from 1938 until
1947.
Patrick J. Cleary worked as a grocery store manager for most of his life. At some point in
the 1930s, the Clearys converted the house to a single family. The couple lived at 22 Mason
until they passed away in 1964 and 1976. The house was inherited by his kinswoman, Mary T.
Fleming, who in the early 2000s gave the home to her daughter, Katherine T. Khan, before it was
sold in 2020.
Atlases:
�1851 Map of Salem
1874 Atlas- N.G. Symonds
�1883 Bird’s Eye View
�1897 Atlas- N.G. Symonds Estate
1903 Atlas
�1911 Atlas- Hannah N. McDonald
1938 Atlas
From MACRIS:
“On April 22, 1889, a building permit was issued to Nathaniel Symonds, treasurer of the Salem
and South Danvers Oil Company, for a two-story pitch-roofed house at 22 Mason Street.
The 1880 Census lists at 24 Mason St: Nathaniel G. Symonds, age 72 for Salem & S.D. Oil Co.,
married to Harriet, 69, with a son Eben B., 29, a teller in a bank.”
Executors of Nathaniel G. Symonds listed in the 1912 Deed:
Salem, MA:
Stillman G. Symonds, son of the deceased
Eben B, Symonds, son of the deceased (wife: Martha E.)
Henry M. Batchelder and Martha O. Batchelder, in her right, daughter of Harriet
William A. Horton, son of Harriet M. Horton, a deceased daughter of the deceased (wife:
Annie D.)
George H. Symonds, son of Thomas Putnam Symonds, a deceased son of the deceased
(wife: Fanny A.)
Frank P. Symonds, son of Thomas Putnam Symonds (wife: Elizabeth C.)
Harriet G. Symonds, daughter of Thomas Putnam Symonds
Oakland, CA:
�Leverett Vasmer Symonds, son of Thomas Putnam Symonds (wife: Mabel F.)
Eben B. Symonds, as trustee of the will of Susan P. Blake, late of Brookline, a deceased
daughter of the deceased
Directories:
Nathaniel G. Symonds in the 1842 Salem Directory
1872: Nathaniel G. Symonds, treasurer, Salem and South Danvers Oil Company, 43 Mason, h.
24 do.
1874: Nathaniel G. Symonds, treasurer, Salem and South Danvers Oil Company, 43 Mason, h.
24 do.
1876: Nathaniel G. Symonds, treasurer, Salem and South Danvers Oil Company, 43 Mason, h.
24 do.
1878: Nathaniel G. Symonds, treasurer, Salem and South Danvers Oil Company, 43 Mason, h.
24 do.
Henry E. Ham, house 3 Odell Sq.
1881: 20 Mason: Thomas J. Gilford,
24 Mason: Nathaniel G. Symonds, Harry E. Ham
Nathaniel G. Symonds, treasurer, Salem and South Danvers Oil Company, 43 Mason, h.
24 do.
Henry E. Ham, grocer, 391 Essex, house 24 Mason, HAM & FRIEND, with Joel M.
Friend
1882-3: Nathaniel G. Symonds, superintendent and treasurer, Salem and South Danvers Oil
Company, 43 Mason, h. 24 do.
1884: Nathaniel G. Symonds, treasurer, Salem and South Danvers Oil Company, 43 Mason, h.
24 do.
1886: Nathaniel G. Symonds, treasurer, Salem and South Danvers Oil Company, 43 Mason, h.
24 do.
1890-91: Nathaniel G. Symonds, 24 Mason
1915: A. Shephardson
M. McDonald
�From Census:
Nathaniel G. Symonds and family in 1860 Census
1832: Harriet Maria, d. Nathaniel G. and Harriet, Nov. 11, 1832.
1834: Thomas Putnum, s. Nathaniel G. and Harriet, Dec. 30, 1834
1837: Stillman Gardner, s. Nathaniel G. and Harriet, Aug. 1, 1837.
On December 1st, 1863, “Stillman” G. Symonds, a bookkeeper, married Mary E. Humphreys,
her parents were Edwin Humphreys and Mary E. Phipps. In 1905, widowed, he married again to
43-year old Mary E. Kinsman, the daughter of Samuel A. Kinsman and Sarah Hardy.
In 1900, Stillman Symonds and his wife Mary E., lived at 25 Mason Street.
Thomas Putnam Symonds married Mary A. Carleton, his death certificate gives his mother’s
name as Harriet Baker. He lived at 107 North Street and died in 1907 of gastric carcinoma. He is
buried in Greenlawn Cemetery. He and Mary were the parents of George N., Lionel B. (bp.
1864), and Franklin P. Symonds (bp. 1861). George died in Asheville, N.C. in 1916.
1880 Census: Martin McDonald, 20 years old, is a servant to Boston lawyer Ellis L. Mott, but
probably the same M.B. McDonald in 1910 Census in Boston.
1910 Census:
John G. Ellery, locomotive engineer and Sarah E. Ellery, both 54, and
Martin A. McDonald, furniture merchant, 51, and Hannah A. McDonald, 53.
Martin A. McDonald was born in (English) Canada and moved to the US in 1870.
He was born in 1861, died in 1918.
Both Ellery and Hannah A. McDonald had fathers from Maine and mothers from Massachusetts
John G. Ellery was born in 1856, to John Ellery and Sarah E. Davis, in 1876 he married
Sarah E. Vanderford, and he died in 1919.
Hannah Augusta McDonald, b. 1855, d. 1932, in Holten Cemetery in Danvers.
�Findagrave gives her parents as John Morrison (1817-1872) and Caroline Hook (1823-1869),
says she and Martin were married in Peabody Nov. 26, 1887. John Morrsion was a shoe-cutter
born in Sanford, Maine. He married Caroline Hook Sep. 7, 1852, she was the daughter of John
Hook and Hannah Fish [incredible!], who were married Oct. 9, 1808.
Danvers Vital Records:
Hook (Births):
Caroline Augusta, d. John and Hannah (Fish), July 16, 1825.
She had 7 older siblings: Sally (b. 1809), Mary (b. 1811), John (b. 1813), Hiram
(b. 1815), Hannah (b. 1818), Harriet (b. 1819), James Augustus (b. 1821).
Sally possibly married Phineas Perley of Boxford in 1832 and certainly
died in 1834.
1930 Census:
Patrick J. Cleary, 42, manager Grocery store,
Helen F. Cleary, 44
John Rowen, 64, motorman, street railroad
Mary E. Rowen, 57
Anna E., 32, forelady, box factory
Thomas J., 28, box maker, box factory
Francis A., 23, laborer, street railroad
John Rowen was born in New York to Irish immigrant parents, Mary E. was an English
Canadian immigrant.
1940 Census:
Patrick J. Cleary, 52, manager grocery story
Helen F. Cleary, 53
�Hannah and Martin McDonald’s grave, from Findagrave.com
1920 Census:
Hannah A. McDonald, 64, widowed.
August Wagner, 54, proprietor of a dry goods store, father from Germany, mother from Austria,
born in Massachusetts, his wife Sarah A., 53, and their 23 year old son Otto.
Patrick J. Cleary, 1885-1976, buried in Saint Mary’s Cemetery in Salem
Helen F. Cleary, 1884-1964
They share a gravestone with Salem mayor Edward A. Coffey
Helen’s parents were James Coffey and Mary E. Dee
Edward A. Coffey’s parents were James Coffey and Mary E. Dee
�Grave of Patrick J. and Helen F. Cleary in St. Mary’s Cemetery, from Findagrave.com
Patrick J. Cleary’s Draft Registration for WWI.
�Marriage certificate of Patrick J. Cleary and Helen F. Coffey
Mary T. Fleming was born in 1932 and died in 2010. She was born in County Clare and her
maiden name was Cleary, she married Francis F. Fleming. Katherine T. Khan was her daughter.
https://obituaries.salemnews.com/obituary/mary-fleming-772160201
Edward A. Coffey
�Portrait of Edward A. Coffey, from artarchive.com
Edward Aloysius Coffey, 1892-1972,
He served as the 42nd mayor of Salem, from 1938 until 1947. He was on the city council from
1931-32, then served as a state representative from 1935 until 1938. Prior to his political career
he was an insurance man with Fidelity & Deposit. In 1947, he was one of 12 Massachusetts
mayors who wrote to Congress advocating for stronger anti-discrimination laws in education, in
connection with the first Mead-Aiken Federal Education Aid bill.
From Vital Records:
Nathaniel G. Symonds, shoemaker, died 17 January 1894, Father: Nathaniel Symonds of Salem,
Mother: Elizabeth Baker of Ipswich - His age 85 years, died of “La Grippe”
Ipswich Vital Records (Baker, births):
Elizabeth, d. William and Sarah, bp. May 4, 1755.
Elizabeth, d. John, jr., bp. June 28, 1761. [died 1818]
Betty, d. Ebenezer, bp. Mar. 18, 1770. CR5
�Elizabeth, d. Samuel, bp. Feb. 16, 1777.
Elisabeth, d. Allen and Rebeca, Dec. 11, 1786.
Betsy, d. Lt. Asa and Hannah, Apr. 8, 1792. [1791. CR1]
Marriages:
Elizabeth, and Nathaniel Symonds of Salem, Nov. 17, 1805.
Ipswich Vital Records Vol. 2: Marriages, p. 36
Salem Vital Records:
Nathaniel Gardner, May 16, 1808. GR10 (Greenlawn Cemetery)
Salem Vital Records, Vol. 1, Births, p. 340
Nathaniel, jr., and Elizabeth Gardner, certif. Nov. 17, 1779.*
Salem Vital Records, Vol. 2, Marriages, p. 370
Findagrave, Greenlawn Cemetery:
Nathaniel Gardner Symonds
Born March 16, 1808
Died January 17, 1894
Harriet F [Fillebrown] Symonds
Born September 11 1809
Died July 26 1896
Harriet Maria Symonds Horton (1832-1908)
Stillman C. Symonds (1840-1928)
Susan Price Symonds Blake (1848-1908)
Eben Baker Symonds (1851-1933)
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22 Mason Street, Salem, MA, 01970
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Built 1889
by Nathaniel Gardner Symonds, treasurer of the Salem and South Danvers Oil Company, and his wife, Harriett Fillebrown Symonds.
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22 Mason Street
Massachusetts
Salem
Salem and South Danvers Oil Company
Symonds
treasurer
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12 Chestnut
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Jonathan
Jonathan Hodges
treasurer