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HISTORY
OF
MIDDLESEX COUNTY,
MASSACHUSETTS,
WITH
BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES
OF MANY OF ITS
PIONEERS AND PROMINENT MEN.
COMPILED UNDER THE SUPERVISION OF
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D. HAMILTON HURD.
VOL. I.
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PUBLISHER'S PREFACE.
THE History of Middlesex County, contained in these volumes, has been prepared by the publishers with a due sense of the responsibility resting upon them, and with an earnest effort to meet the just expectations of the public. Their undertaking was a formidable one, in- volving, as it did, histories of six cities and forty-eight towns, together with histories of the county proper, with its courts and officers, and of the bench and bar, as well as notices of many of its prominent men. As far as it was possible these histories and notices have been confided to local historians of acknowledged capacity for the work, a few of them only having been prepared by other writers accustomed to historical research and possessing literary skill. The chapters relating to the county, and the beneh and bar, will be found of especial value, entering, as they do, a field hitherto unexplored. In presenting these volumes, while the publishers cannot expect to wholly escape criticism, they look with hope, if not with confidence, for an approval of their work.
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CONTENTS OF VOL. I.
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GENERAL HISTORY.
CHAPTER I.
CHAPTER II.
MIDDLESEX COUNTY
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BENCH AND BAR .
XXIV
CITIES AND TOWNS.
CHAPTER I.
CAMBRIDGE
1
Introduction.
CHAPTER II.
CAMBRIDGE-( Continued)
4
The Indians of Cambridge and Vicinity.
CHAPTER III.
CAMBRIDGE-( Continued)
11
Ecclesiastical History.
CHAPTER IV.
CAMBRIDGE- ''Continued)
77
Harvard University.
CHAPTER V.
CAMBRIDGE-( Continued)
140
The Divinity School of Harvard University.
CHAPTER VI.
CAMBRIDGE-( Continued)
142
The Public Schools.
CHAPTER VII.
CAMBRIDGE-( Continued)
151
Literature.
CHAPTER VIII.
CAMBRIDGE-(Continued) .
153
Musical.
CHAPTER IX.
CAMBRIDGE-(Continued) .
158
Medical History.
CHAPTER X.
CAMBRIDGE-( Continued)
176
Military.
CHAPTER XI.
CAMBRIDGE-(Continued) .
190
Civil History.
CHAPTER XII.
CAMBRIDGE-(Continued) .
198
Banking and Insurance.
CHAPTER XIII.
CAMBRIDGE-( Continued)
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Manufacturing and Industrial.
.
201
CHAPTER XIV.
CAMBRIDGE-( Continued)
210
Miscellaneous.
CHAPTER XV.
ACTON
238
CHAPTER XVI.
ASHBY
306
Description. CHAPTER XVII.
ASHRY-(Continued)
314
Mechanical Industries.
CHAPTER XVIII
ASHBY -(Continued)
314
Ecclesiasticol Affairs.
CONTENTS.
CHAPTER XIX.
& SHBY-( Continued) . 319
The Great Civil War.
CHAPTER XX.
ASHBY-( Continued)
319
Miscellaneous.
CHAPTER XXI.
ASHBY-(Continued)
325
Civil History.
CHAPTER XXII.
AFHBY-( Continued.) . 327
Pust-Offices, Physicians, Agricultural, Personal Notices.
CHAPTER XXIII.
WOBURN . .
334
Introduction.
CHAPTER XXIV.
WOBURN-(Continued)
326
Civil History to 1800.
CHAPTER XXV.
WOBURN-(Continued)
355
Civil History from 1800 to Present Time.
CHAPTER XXVI.
WOBURN-( Continued)
365
Woburn as a City.
CHAPTER XXXVII.
WOBURN-(Continued) 366
The Medical and Legal Prefessions : Colonial, Provincial and Later Periods.
CHAPTER XXVIII.
WOBURN-( Continued) 377 Military History-The Colonial and Provincial Periods, 1642-1775.
CHAPTER XXIX.
WOBURN-(Continued) . 389
Military History-The Revolutionary and Later Periods to 1861, etc .- The Civil War of 1861-65.
CHAPTER XXX.
WOBURN-( Continued)
410
Biographical Notices.
CHAPTER XXXI.
WOBURN-(Continued)
414
Fr ciesiastical Ilistory.
CHAPTER XXXII.
456
CHAPTER XXXIII.
WESTON .
486
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WESTIN (Continued) .
498
Biographical.
CHAPTER XXXV.
NATICK ..
Natural Features and Productions.
CHAPTER XXXVI.
NATICK-( Continued) .
Indian Settlement, 1650-1700.
CHAPTER XXXVII.
NATICK-(Continued.)
520
I700-1800: Anomalons Condition of the Township-Change in the Indian Government-Their Records-Population -- Acts as Proprietors-Allotment of Lands-Sale of the Same-Natick as a Parish-Acts of General Court Relat- ing to it-Parish Meetings-Warning Out of Town-In the Revolutionary War-Parish Declaration Regarding Independence-Natick Soldiers-Oath of Allegiance- Town Incorporated.
CHAPTER XXXVIII.
NATICK-( Continued)
525
1800-1890: Prospects of the Town more Encouraging- General Progress-Town Action Respecting the Pastors of the Church-Town Hall Erected-The Town in Suppress- iog the Great Rebellion-Losses in the same-Financial Condition-The Centennial Celebration-Town Officers and Representative in the General Court.
CHAPTER XXXIX.
NATICK-(Continued) .
536
ECCLESIASTICAL : Organization of the Indian Church- Eliot's Translation of the Bible-The Printing and Dis- tribution of the same-Mr. Eliot's Death-Memorial Win- dows to Perpetuate his Memory-Pastor Takawambait- Rev. Mesers. Peabody and Badger Missionaries to the Natick Indians-Organization of the Congregational Church in the Centre of the Town-Sketches of its Pas- tors-The Baptist Church-The Methodist Episcopal Church-St Paul's Episcopal Church-The Roman Catho- lic Churches-The Unitarian or Eliot Church-The John Eliot Church-The Universalist Clinrch.
CHAPTER XL.
NATICK-( Continued) .
546
EDUCATIONAL: Schools-Libraries-Morse Institute -- College and University Honors.
CHAPTER XLI.
NATICK-(Continued ) .
553
MISCELLANEOUS: Population-Water Department -- Fire De- partinent-Natick Gas-Light Company-Natick Electric Company-Natick National Bank-Natick Five-Cents Savings Bank-Henry Wilson Co Operative Bank -- Post- Offices-Manufacturers-South Natick Business -- Cemeter- ies - Lawyers - Physicians - Express Companies-Coal, Wood, etc .- The Press-Biographical.
CHAPTER XLII.
TOWNSEND
569
CHAPTER XLIII.
LEXINGTON
604
Topography and Scenery.
CHAPTER XLIV.
LEXINGTON-(Continued) .
606
Civil History.
CONTENTS.
CHAPTER XLV.
LELANGTON-(Continued) . 615 Military Ilistory. CHAPTER XLVI.
LEXINGTON-(Continued) .
621
+ Education-Schools and Libraries.
CHAPTER XLVII.
LEXINGTON-(Continued ) 623
Ecclesiastical Affairs-Churches, Sunday-Schools and Benev- clent Organizations.
CHAPTER XLVIII.
LEXINGTON-( Continued)
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Miscellaneous.
CHAPTER XLIX.
STOW
637
CHAPTER L.
BURLINGTON.
663
Introduction.
CHAPTER LI.
BURLINGTON- - (Continued) . 665
Civil History. CHAPTER LII.
BURLINGTON-(Continued) .
670
Ecclesiastical History.
CHAPTER LIII.
SHERBORN.
680
CHAPTER LIV.
CARLISI.E
708
CHAPTER LV.
DUNSTABLE .
736
Present Condition of the Towo - Topography-Business
Interests.
CHAPTER LVI.
DUNSTABLE-( Continued)
: 738
Origin and Early Settlement-1043-1723.
CHAPTER LVII.
DUNSTABLE-( Continued)
742
Continued Attacks from the Indians-Growth of the Town- Church and School Affairs-1723-1768.
CHAPTER LVIII.
DUNSTABLE-(Continued)
751
The Towo as Represented in the American Revolution-
Educational, Religious and other Affairs-1768-1820.
CHAPTER LIX.
DUNSTABLE-(Continued)
757
Church Erected-Soldiers in the War of the Rebellion-Dun- stable Cornet Band Formed-Naslma, Acton and Bostou Railroad Opened-Bi-Centennial Celebration-1821-1890.
CHAPTER LX.
DUNSTABLE-(Continued)
702
Biographical.
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GENERAL HISTORY.
CHAPTER I.
MIDDLESEX COUNTY.
BY WILLIAM T. DAVIS.
A THOUGH it may be assumed that the reader is fam- iliar with the history of the settlement of Massachu- setts Colony, it may be well to hastily recount its chief incidents occurring before the incorporation of the county which includes a part of its territory.
On the 20th of April, 1606, King James issued let- ters-patent dividing a strip of land one hundred miles wide along the Atlantic coast of North America, ex- tending from the thirty-fourth to the forty-fifth de- gree of north latitude, between two companies, gener- ally called the Southern and Northern Virginia Com- panies. This territory was known as Virginia, so called after Queeu Elizabeth. The Southern Company was composed of knights, gentlemen, merchants and adventurers of London, and was granted all the lands between the thirty-fourth and forty-first degrees ; while the Northern Company, composed of persous of the same description, was granted the lands between the thirty-eighth and forty-fifth degrees. That por- tion lying between the thirty-eighth and forty-fifth which was included in both grants was open to the company first occupying it; and it was stipulated that neither company should settle within one hun- dred miles of any previous settlement of the other company. On the 3d of November, 1620, Sir Ferdi- nand Gorges and his associates, the members of the Northern Virginia Company, received a new patent, which passed the seal on the 3d of the following July under the title of "The council established at Plymouth, in the county of Devon, for the planting, ordering, ruling and governing of New England in America." Under this patent the company was all- thorized to hold territory extending from sea to sea and in breadth from the fortieth to the forty-eighth degree of north latitude ; and to make laws, appoint governors and other officers and generally to estab- lish all necessary forms of government.
The motive inspiring the issue of this new patent seems to have been to show special favors to this com-
pany and to inflict thereby a slight on the Southern Company. The King had for some reason fallen ont with Sir Edwin Sandys the governor and treasurer of the Southern Company, and forebade his re-election. The Earl of Southampton, the successor of Sir Ed- win, was equally obnoxious to the King, and the new charter of the Northern Company was the conse- quence. The new patent included all the terri- tory between Central New Jersey and the Gulf of St. Lawrence on the Atlantic coast and the north- ern part of California, Oregon and nearly all of Washington on the Pacific, with a line running through Lake Superior for its northern boundary and one through Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana and Illinois for its southern.
The colony settling at Plymouth in 1620 had re- ceived a patent from the Southern Company author- izing a settlement within their territory at some point south of New York harbor ; but finding them . outside of the jurisdiction of the company from when they had received their patent, they sent by the " May- flower," on her return, for a patent from the Northern Company. The Northern Company, under its new charter, consequently issued a patent, under date of June 1, 1621, to John Pierce and his associates in trust for the Plymouth Colony. This patent was brought to Plymouth in 1621 in the ship " Fortune," and is preserved iu Pilgrim Hall in that town. It is en- grossed on parchment and bears the signatures of the Duke of Lenox, the Marquis of Hamilton, the Earl of Warwick, Lord Sheffield and Sir Ferdinand Gor- ges. Another signature is illegible, which may be that of either Thomas, Earl of Arundel, or the Mar- quis of Buckingham. This is the oldest state paper in New England.
On the 30th of December, 1622, the Northern Com- pany, which, for convenience, may be still so called, notwithstanding its new charter and change of title, granted to Robert Gorges all that part of the main land " commonly called or known by the name of the Messachusiack " situated " upon the northeast side of the Bay called or known by the name of the Messachu- sett." 'This included the shore " for ten English miles towards the northeast and thirty English miles unto the main land through all the breadth afore-
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said," with all the rivers, islands, etc. This grant in- cluded a part of Middlesex County. Up to this date the only white men known to have visited this local- ity were John Smith, the navigator, who visited it in 1614, and a party of ten members of the Plymouth Colony who came by water from Plymouth on an ex- pedition, partly to trade and partly to conclude peace with the Massachusetts Indians. It is probable that on this expedition Point Allerton and the Brewsters, at the entrance of Boston harbor, received their names from Isaac Allerton and William Brewster, two of the "Mayflower " Pilgrims.
John Smith, after his expedition to Virginia in 1606, in the service of the Southern Virginia Com- pany and some years connection with the Virginia colony, returned to England, and in 1614 sailed with two ships under the auspices of English adventurers " to take whales and also to make trials of a mine of gold and copper." He anchored his vessels near the mouth of the Penobscot River and sailed with eight men in a shallop along the coast as far as Cape Cod, giving the name of New England to the country and " drawing a map from point to point, isle to isle, and harbor to harbor, with the soundings, sands, rocks and landmarks." After his return to England Prince Charles, afterwards Charles the First, attached names to many places on the coast as indicated on the map, of which only Plymouth, Charles River, named after himself, and Cape Anne, named after his mother, Anne of Denmark, still adhere to the localities then designated. Among the many other names affixed to the map by Prince Charles were Cape James for Cape Cod, Milford Haven for Provincetown Harbor, Stu- ard's Bay for Barnstable Bay, Point George for Branches Point, Oxford for Marshfield, London for Cohasset, Cheviot Hills for the Blue Hills, Taibot's Bay for Gloucester Harbor, and Dartmouth, Sandwich and Cambridge for places near Portland. It is possi- ble that besides John Smith and the Pilgrim party, De Monts, with Champlain, may have also visited this locality in 1604.
Robert Gorges, having received the grant above- mentioned in 1622, was appointed by the Plymouth Council in 1623 Lieutenant-General of New England, and arrived in Massachusetts Bay in September of that year, with what are described in the record as " passengers and families." At the end of a year, after futile efforts to establish his colony, he returned to England, and at his death, which soon after oc- curred, his brother John, to whom his rights had de- scended, leased a portion of his grant to John Old- ham and John Dorrill. This lease included " all the lands within the Massachusetts Bay between Charles River and Abousett (now Sangus River) containing in length by straight line five miles up the Charles River into the main land northwest from the border of said bay, including all creeks and points by the way ; and three miles in length from the mouth of the aforesaid river Abousett up into the main land,
upon a straight line southwest, including all creeks and points; and all the land in breadth and length between the foresaid rivers, with all prerogatives, royal mines excepted.
In the mean time the same territory which had been granted to Robert Gorges had been granted, with other lands, to the Massachusetts Company. By this grant, dated March 19, 1627-28, the Plymouth Council issued a patent to Sir John Roswell, Sir John Young, Thomas Southcoat, John Humphrey, John Endicott, and Simon Whitcomb covering a territory extending from three miles north of the Merrimac River to three miles south of the Charles River. The following is the text of the letters-patent issued March 4, 1628-29 :
"Charles By The Grace of God Kinge of England, Scotland, Fraunce and Ireland, Defendor of the Fayth etc, To All to whome these Presente Bhall come Greeting. Whereas our most deare and royall father Kinge James, of blessed memory, by his Highness lettere patents beareing .date at Westminster the third day of November in the eighteenth yeare of his raigne, hath given and graunted unto the Councell established at Plymouth, in the county of Devon, for the planting, ruling, ordering and goveruing of Newe England in America, and to their successore and aseignes for ever ; All that parte of America lyeing and being in bredth from forty degrees of northerly latitude from the equinoctiall lyne to forty-eight degrees of the saide northerly latitude inclueively, and in length of and within all the breadth aforesaid throughout the maine landes from eng to sea, together aleo with all the firme lande, soyles, groundee, havens, portes, rivers, waters, fishery, mynes and myn- eralls, se well royall mynes of gould and eilver as other mynes and myueralle, precious stones, quarries and all aud singular other comodi- ties, jurisdiccons, royalties, priviledges, franchesies and prebemynences, both within the said tract of lande upon the mayne and also within the islandes and seas adioiuing ; Provided alwayes That the said islandes or any the premises by the said letters patents intended aud meant to be graunted were not then actuallie possessed or inhabited by any other Christian Prince or State now within the bounds, lymitte or territories of the Southerue Colony then before graunted by our said deare father, to be planted by divers of hie loving subiecte in the south partes. To Have and to houlde, possesse and enjoy all and singular the aforesaid continent, landes, territories, islands, hereditaments aod precincte, ceas, waters, fisherye, with all and all manner their comodities, royalties, liberties, prehemynences and profitts that should from thenceforth arise from thence, with all and singular their appurtenances and every parte and parcell thereof unto the saide Councell and their successors and assignes forever, To the sole and proper use, benefitt and behoofe of them the saide Councell and their successors and assignes forever : To he houlden of our said moet deare and royall father, his heiree and suc- cessore as of his mannor of Eastgreenewich, in the County of Kent in free and comon Soccage, and not in capite nor by Knighte service. Yeildinge and paying therefore to the saide late Kinge, his beires and successors, the fifte parte of the oare of gould and silver which should, from tyme to tyme and at all tymes there after, happen to be found, gotten, had and ohteyned in, att or within any of the saide landes, lymnitts, territories and precincte, or, in or within any parte or parcell thereof, for or in respect of all and all manner of duties, demsunde and services whatsoever to be don, made or paide to our saide dear father, the late Kinge, his heires and successore, as in and by the said letters patent (amoogest eundrie other clauses, powers, priviledges and grauntee thereio couteyned) more at large appeareth. And wherede the saide Councell established at Plymouth, in the County of Devon, for the plantinge, ruling, ordering and governing of Newe England in America, have by their deede indented under their comon seale bearing date the nyneteenth day ot March last past in the third year of our reigne, given, graunted, bargained, soulde, enfeoffed, aliened and confirmed to Sir Henry Rosewell, Sir John Young Knightes, Thomas Southcott, John Humphrey, John Endecott and Symon Whetcombe, their heirs and as- sociates for ever, All that parte of Newe England in America aforesaid which lyee and extendes betweene a greate river there comonlie called Monomack alias Merriemack and a certen other river there called Charles river, beiog in the bottome of a certayne bay there compoly called Massachusette aliss Mattachusetts alles Massatueette bay, and also all and singular those landes and hereditamente whatsoever lying with-
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in the space of three English miles on the south parte of the said Charles river, or of any or everie parte thereof : And also all and singu- lar the landes and hereditaments whatsoever lyeing and being within the space of three English myles to the southwarde of the southermost parte of the said bay called Massachusetts nlias Mattachusetts alias Massatusets bay : and also all those landes and hereditaments whatsoever which lye and be within the space of three English myles to the northward of the saide river called Monomack alias Merrymack, on to the northward of any and every parte thereof: Aad all landes and hereditaments whatso- ever lying within the lymitts aforesaide, north and south, in latitude and bredth, and io length and longitude, of and within all the bredth aforesaide throughout the mayne landes there, from the Atlantick and westerne sea and ocean on the east parte, to the south sea on the west parte, and all landes and groundes, place and places, soyles, woodes and wood groundes, havens, portes, rivers, waters, fishinge and heredita- ments, whatsoever, lyeing within the said boundes and lymitte and everie parte and parcell thereof ; And also all islandes lyeing in America nforesaide in said seas or either of them on the westerne or easterne coastes or partes of the saide trades of lande by the saide indenture, mencoed to be given, graunted, bargained, sould, enfeoffed, aliened and confirmed or any of them : And also all mynes und myperalls, as well royall mynes of gould and silver aa other mynes and myneralls what- soever in the saide landes and premises or any parte thereof : And all jurisdiccons, rights, royalties, liberties, freedomes, ymmunities, privi- ledges, franchises, prehemeninces and comodities whatsoever which they, the said Conncell, established at Plymouth, in the County of Devon, for the planting, ruleing, ordereing and governing of Newe England in America, then had or might use, exercise or enioy in and within the said landes and premisses by the saidle indenture mencoed to be given, graunted, bargained, sould, enfeoffed aod confirmed or ia or within nny parte or parcell thereof. To have and to hould the saide parte of Newe England in America, which lyes and extendes and is abutted as aforesaide, and every parte and parcell thereof ; And all the saide islandes, rivers, portes, havene, waters, fishings, mynes and min- eralls, jurisdiccons, franchises, royalties, liberties, priviledges, comodi ties, hereditaments and premisses whatsoever with the appurtenances unto the said Sir Henry Rosewell, Sir John Younge, Thomas Southcott, John Humfrey, John Endecott and Simon Whetcombe, their heires and assignes and their associats to the onlie proper and absolute use and hehoofe of the said Sir Henry Rosewell, Sir John Younge, Thomas Southcott, John Humfrey, John Endecott and Symon Whettecombe, their heires and assignes and their associatts for evermore. To ba loniden of us, our heires and successors, As of our maunor of East- greenewich io the County of Kent, in free and comon socage and not in capite, uor by Knightes service, yeilding and payeing therefora unto 13, our heires and successors, the fifte parte of the oare of gould and Filver which shall, from tyme to tyme and all tymes hereafter, happen to be founde, gotten, had and obtayned in any of the saide landes with- in the saide lymitts or in or within any parte thereof, for and in satis- facon of all manner, duties, demaunds and services whatsoever, to he donn, made or paid to us, our heires or successors, as in and by the saide recid d indeptura moro at large maie appeare. Nowe knowe yee that wee, at the humble suite and peticon of the said Sir Henry Rose- well, Sir John Younge, Thomas Southcott, John Humfrey, John Ende- cutt and Simnon Whetcombe and of othere whom they have associated unto them, Have for divers good causes and consideracons us moveing, graunted and confirmed, And by thes presents, of our own especiall grace certen knowledge and meere mocon, due graunt and confirme unto the saide Sir Henry Rosewell, Sir John Younge, Thomas Southcott, John Humfrey, John Endecott and Simon Whetcombe, and to their Associate hereafter named [videlicet] Sir Richard Saltonstall Knight, Isaack Johnson, Samnel Aldersey, John Ven, Mathew Cradock, George Har- wood, Increase Nowell, Richard Perry, Richard Bellingham, Nathaniell Wright, Samuell Vassall, Theophilus Eaton, Thomas Goffe, Thomas Adams, John Browne, Samnell Browne, Thomas Hutchins, William Vassall, William Pincheon and George Foxcrofte, their heiros and an- signes, all the said parte of New England in America, lyeing and ex- tending betweene the boundes and lymitts in the said recited indenture expressedl, and all landes and groundes, place and places, soyles, woodes and wood groundes, havens, portes, rivers, waters, mynes, mineralls, jurisdiccons, rights, royalties, liberties, freedomes, immunities, privi- ledges, franchises, preheminences, hereditaments and comodities what- snever to them, the saide Sir Henry Rosewell, Sir John Younge. Thomas Southcott, John Humfrey, Jolin Endecott and Simon Whet- combe, their heires and assignes and to their associates by the side recited Indenture given, graunted, bargayned, sold, enfeoffed, aliened
and confirmed or mencoed or intended thereby to ho given, graanted, bargayned, sold, enfeoffed, aliened and confirmed, To have and to hould the saide parte of Newe England in America and other the prem- isses hereby mencoed to be graunted and confirmed, and every parte and parcell thereof with the appurtenances to the said Sir Henry Rosewell, Sir John Younge, Sir Richard Saltonstall, Thomas Southcott, John Humfrey, John Endecott, Simon Whetcombe, Isaack Johnson, Samuell Aldersey, John Ven, Mathewe Cradock, George Harwood, Increase Nowell, Richard Pery, Richard Bellingham, Nathaniell Wright, Sam- uell Vassall, Theophilus Eaton, Thomas Goffe, Thomas Adams, John Browne, Samuell Browne, Thomas Hutchins, William Vassall, William Piacheon and George. Foxcrofte, their heires and assignes forever to their onlie proper and absolute use and behoofe for evermore .. To be holden of us, our beires and successors as of our mannor of Eastgreene- wich aforesaid in free and comon socage and not in capite nor by knights service, and also yeilding and paying therefore to De, our heires and successore, the fifth parte onlie of all oare of gould and silver which from tyme to tyme and att all tymes hereafter shalbe there gotten, had or ohteyned for all services, exacons and demaunds whatsoever accord- ing to the tenure and reservacion in the said recited indenture expressed. And further knowe yee That of our more especiall grace, certen koowl- edg and meere mocon Wee have given and graunted, And by theis presents doe for us, our heires and successors, give and grannt unto the said Henry Rosewell, Sir John Younge, Sir Richard Saltonstall, Thomas Southcott, John Humfrey, John Endecoit, Symon Whetcombe, Isaack Johnson, Samuell Aldersey, John Ven, Mathewe Cradock, George Har- wood, Increase Nowell, Richard Pery, Richard Billinghaal, Nathaniell Wright, Samuell Vassall, Theophilus Eaton, Thomas Goffe, Thomas Adams, John Browne, Samnell Browne, Thomas Hutchens, William Vassall, William Pincheon and George Foxcrofte, their heires and as- signes, All that parte of Newe England in America which lyes and ex- tendes betweene a great river there comonlie called Monomack river alias Merrimack river and a certen other river there called Charles River, being in the bottome of a certen hay, there comonlie called Massachusetts alias Mattachusetts alias Massatusetts bay : And also all those landes and hereditaments whatsoever which lye and be within the space of three English myles to the northward of the saida river called Monomack alias Merrymack, or to tha porward of any and every parte thereof, and all lands and hereditaments whatsoever lyeing within the lymitts aforesaide north and south in latitude and bredth and in length and longitude of and within all the bredth aforesaide throughout tha mayne landes there from the Atlantick and westerne sea and ocean on the aast parte to the south sea on the west parte ; And all landes and , groundes, place and places, soyles, woodes and wood groundes, havens, portes, rivers, waters and hereditaments whatsoever lying within the said boundes and lymitte, and every parte and parcell thereof, and also all islandes in America aforesaide in the said seas or either of them on the westerna or easterna coastes or parts of the said tracts of landes here- by mencoed to be given and graunted or any of them, and all mybes and myneralle whatsoever in the said landes and premisses or any parta thereof and free libertie of fishing in or within any the rivers or waters within the houndes and lymytts aforesaid and the seas therounto ad- joining : And all fishes, royal fishes, whales, balan, sturgeons und other fishes of what kinda or nature soever that shall at any tyme hereafter be taken in or within the said seas or waters or any of them by the said Sir Henry Rosewell, Sir John Younge, Sir Richard Saltonstall, Thomas Southcott, John Humfrey, John Endecott, Simon Whetromhe, Isaack Johnson, Samuel Aldersey, John Ven, Mathewe Cradock, George Har- wood, Increase Noell, Richard Tary, Richard Bellingham, Nathaniell Wright, Sanmuell Vassall, Theophelns Eaton, Thomas Goffe, Thomas Adams, John Browne, Samuell Browne, Thomas Hutchens, William Vassall, William Pincheon nod George Foxcrofte, their heires and assignes or by any other person or persons whatsoever there inhabiting by them or any of them to be appointed to fisho therein, l'rovided nlwayes that yf the said landes, islandes or any other the premissea herein before mencoed and by their presents intended and meant to be grannted were at the tyme of the graunting of the saide former lettera patenta dated the third day of November in the eighteenth year of our said deare fathera raigne aforesaid actually possessed or inhabited by any other Christian I'rince or State, or were within the houndes, lymytte or territories of that sonthero colony then before graunted by our said late father, to be planted by divers of his loveing subjects in the south partes of America, That then this present grannt shall not extend to any auch partea or parcella thereof ane formerly inhabited or lysing within the bounder of the southerne plantacon as afurcsaido, but As to those partes or parcelle soe possessed or inhabited by such Christian
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