CURTIS CELLAR.-There is an old cellar about a quarter of a mile west of Mr. George W. Curtis' residence, where, it is said, stood the original Curtis house. Zaccheus Curtis, from Gloucester, erected his house here, when he settled in Boxford about 1661. By his wife Joanna he had half a dozen children, of whom Zaccheus, jr., became the ancestor of the late Francis Curtis, and Ephraim, under his father's will, which was made upon his death-bed in 1682, became possessed of the old place, which he resided upon. This is all we know of this old cellar. The following lines were written years ago, but the writer is unknown: "O little house lost in the heart of the cedars, What would I not give to behold you once more! "To see the neat windows thrown wide to the sunshine; (1) |