In 1877, the farm was destroyed and much of the high ground was used to fill in surrounding marshlands. In 1832 Colonel Samuel Jaques, a well known horticulturalist and breeder of livestock bought Ten Hills Farm and made it famous as a stock farm. The action sparked what became known as the Powder Alarm, in which thousands of colonists, believing an attack had been made, marched on Boston and Cambridge. The British landed at Ten Hills Farm, and then proceeded to Powder House Square and took 250 barrels of gunpowder to Boston. On September 1, 1774, General Thomas Gage ordered an expedition of 200 British troops up the Mystic River to remove provincial munitions. Captain Temple built a luxurious mansion at Ten Hills Farm, overlooking the river, which lasted until it was torn down in 1877. In 1740, the remaining 251 acres (1.02 km 2) of the Lidgett's property, located in Somerville, was sold to Captain Robert Temple, who owned that land through the Revolutionary War. It still stands today and is known as the Isaac Royall House.
Royall's son, Isaac Royall, Jr., took possession of that property in 1739, and greatly expanded it. Royall remodelled a brick house on that property, originally built in 1692. In 1731, the Lidgetts deeded 504 acres (2.04 km 2) of the property, most of which is located in the current city of Medford, to Sir Isaac Royall, an Antiguan slave trader. In 1677, the farm was deeded to Elizabeth Lidgett, widow of Peter Lidgett. Winthrop's son, John the Younger, governor of Connecticut. In 1649, the Ten Hills Farm was inherited by Gov. The farm was named by Governor Winthrop for the ten small knolls located on the property, which included orchards and meadows for grazing cattle. It extended from Cradock Bridge, near Medford Centre, along the Mystic River, nearly to Convent Hill, and included all the land between Broadway, as far as the Powder House on the south and the river on the north. The farm was located along the southern bank of the Mystic River in portions of what are now the cities of Somerville and Medford. This estate of 600 acres (2.4 km 2) was granted to Governor Winthrop by the Massachusetts Bay Colony on September 6, 1631. Ten Hills is named after Ten Hills Farm, owned by Massachusetts' first governor, John Winthrop. Winthrop Road and Shore Drive, marking the site of John Winthrop's home in Ten Hills Historic marker at the intersection of Gov.
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