Daily Genealogist

“[Mary] Walker was an enslaved woman who fled north to freedom and ended up owning one of the more famous houses in the Boston area. It’s one of the best known houses on Brattle Street in Cambridge, in the heart of Harvard Square, immortalized in poetry by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, who lived not far away.”

Although a developer had already had demolition permits in hand, the Thomas Clark House, built circa 1760, in Belmont, Massachusetts, was saved from destruction.

Cousins researching their genealogy discovered “that their family hadn't come from Scotland after all but from Jamaica.”