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The Proprietors' records of the town of Mendon, Mass.
THE
PROPRIETORS' RECORDS
OF THE
TOWN OF MENDON
MASSACHUSETTS 7
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INCORPORATED MAY 15, 1667
BOSTON ROCKWELL AND CHURCHILL PRESS 1 899
Allen County Public Library 900 Webster Street PO Box 2270 Fort Wayne, IN 46801-2270
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The manuscript records were fast becoming illegible through age and worn out from much usage. A transcript has been made, and is now published in order to preserve and make more accessible the interesting and valuable matter therein contained.
Published jointly by the present towns of Mendon, Uxbridge, Northbridge, Milford, Blackstone, and Hopedale, towns made wholly or largely from the territory of the original town of Mendon, under the supervision of the following committees, viz. :
JULIUS A. GEORGE, NATHAN R. GEORGE,
HORACE C. ADAMS, Mendon.
BENJAMIN T. CLANCY,
GEORGE S. WHITNEY,
LEWIS HAYDEN,
Milford.
WILLIAM W. THAYER,
JAMES DALEY,
CRYSIS T. SCOTT,
Uxbridge.
MICHAEL CARROLL,
JAMES BUCKLEY,
JAMES CUSICK,
Blackstone.
J. M. LASELL, F. E. TAFT,
D. S. BOSTWICK, Northbridge.
E. A. DARLING,
LEWIS B. GASKILL,
JOHN M. FRENCH,
Hopedale.
MENDON, June 1, 1899.
I hereby certify that the matter contained in this volume has been compared with the original records of the Proprietors of the town of Mendon, and is a true copy of said records.
HORACE C. ADAMS, Town Clerk of Mendon, Massachusetts.
PROPRIETORS' RECORDS.
TOWN OF MENDON.
[1.] Whereas upon a petition put up to the Honorable Gen- eral Court of Massachusetts by the inhabitants of Braintree for a tract of land within the Government for the settleing of a plantation upon it. It pleased the Hon. Court to gratify their their request as more fully appears by their choosing Mr. Peter Bracket & Ensign Moses Paine for to purchase a title of the Indians containing eight miles square about fifteen miles from Medfield Town at a place commonly called Mascousapoug as more fully appears by a deed of sale bearing date 22ª. day of April one thousand six hundred sixty & two made to the said gentlemen from the Indians that were the proper owners of the said land which was signed sealed and delivered the twenty second day of April one thousand six hundred & sixty two. Under the above said Peter Bracket & Moses Paine and assigns to the selectmen of Mendon for the use of the town by the above said gentlemen upon the twelfth day of May in the year one thousand six hun- dred & seventy in presence of Samuel Simons Esqr :
The Grant of the great Meadow.
At a General Court the 15th May 1667 in answer to the peti- tion of the inhabitants of a new plantation called Sgshapauge. The Court doth grant them the meadow lying out of their line it running through that parcel. - And that the name of their town be Mendon - And that they & their successors be invested with town privileges as other towns of this jurisdiction enjoy
At a Gen. Court held at Boston 16th October 1660 in further
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answer to Braintree petition the Court declares that they judge mete to grant a plantation eight miles square and that the persons named have liberty to enter upon and make a beginning thereof and to take such persons into their society as they shall judge mete. And that Maj'. Humphry Atherton, Lieut. Roger Clapp. Eleazer Leasure & Deac. Parks, or any three of them shall, and hereby are empowered to make a valid act there. This is a true copy of that part of the Gen. Court's answer to Braintree peti- tion taken out of the Court book of Record. -
Attest -
EDWARD RAWSON. Secretary
Dorchester 22 : 5: 1662, We whose names are hereunto sub- scribed, being thereto empowered by the Gen. Court to assist the ordering & settling of the plantation granted at Nepmugg do agree and declare therein as followeth viz : The division of lands there, shall be by the ensuing rules. that. to one hundred pounds estate be granted one hundred & fifty acres of land viz., The house lot & ten acres of Meadow & five acres of swamp land being [2.] capable of being made meadow, and more one hundred & fifty acres for the great lott according to this proportion for all estates more or less, and this to be the rule for the dividing of the lands in said plantation
ELEAZAR LUSSHER ROGER CLAPP WILLIAM PARK
To all christian people to whom these presents shall come. Anawassanauk alis John. Quashaamitt alis William. of Bluehill and great John Womsconot alis Peter, & Upanboh Queen alis Jacob of Natick, sendeth greeting : Know ye that the said Ana- wassanauk, Quashaamitt. Great John Womsconot, Upanboh Queen. for diverse good & valuable considerations then thereunto moving. and especially for & in consideration of the sum of twenty- four pounds sterling. to them in hand paid by Moses Paine & Peter Bracket both of Braintree. the receipt whereof they do acknowledge by these presents and thercof & of every part & parcel
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thereof doth exhonorate acquit & discharge the said Moses Paine & Peter Bracket their heirs & assigns forever. By these presents hath given. granted. bargained. sold & enfeofed & confirmed. And by these presents doth give, grant, bargain, sell, enfeof & con- firm unto Moses Paine & Peter Bracket of Braintree aforesaid their heirs and assigns forever. A tract of land of eight miles square, lying about fifteen miles from Medfield, and is bounded one mile to the east of a small river which lyeth about three miles to the eastward of Nipmugg great pond. and so from the line of one mile on the east of that small river. is to run eight miles west or westerly, and is to lay three miles to the south or south- ward of the path that leads to Nipmugg great pond, and five miles on the other side of that path north or northward together with all the trees & timber, woods & underwoods standing, lay- ing & growing thereon, with all the meadows, swamps, rivers. ponds & brooks laying within this eight miles square: as it is bounded with all other privileges & appertenances belonging, or any ways appertaining thereunto, - To have & to hold the said eight miles square as it is bounded. together with all the trees, & timber, woods underwoods, standing, laying & growing thereon, with all the meadows, swamps, rivers, ponds & brooks laying within the eight miles square, as it is bounded with all other privileges & appertenances belonging or any wise appertaining [2a. ] unto, unto the said Moses Paine and Peter Bracket, their Heirs & assigns forever, and to the only proper use and behoof of them the said Moses Paine & Peter Bracket their heirs & assigns forever. To be holden in free sockege and not in capite nor by Knight services. And the said Annawassanauk alis John, & Quashammitt, alis William Great John Wonsconont alis Peter, Uppanboh Queen, alis Jacob doth covenant, promice & grant, by these presents, that they the said Annawassanauk, Quashaam- mitt, Great John Womsconont & Uppanboh Queen are the true and proper owners and proprietors of the said bargained premises, at the time of the bargain & sale thereof: and that the premises are free & clear, & frecly & clearly acquitted exhonorated & discharged of. for & from all. and all manner of former bargains, sales, gifts - grants, titles mortgages, actions, suits, attachments,
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judgments. executions, extincts & incumbrances, whatsoever, from the begining of the world until the time of the bargain & sale thereof, And the said Annawassanauk, Quashaammitt, Great John Womsconont, Uppanboh Queen, doth covenant promice and grant, by these presents, all & singular, the said bargained premises, with the appertenances. to warrant. acquit & defend unto the said Moses Paine & Peter Bracket. their heirs and assigns forever, against all Indians, or english people by, for or under them, claiming any right title or interest of or into the same or any part thereof forever, By these presents and that it shall and may be lawful to & for the said Moses Paine & Peter Bracket their heirs & assigns to record and enroll, or cause to be recorded & enrolled the title & tenor of these presents according to the true intent and meaning thereof, And according to the usual order and manner of recording deeds & evidences in such case made & provided. In witness whereof the said Annawassanauk, Quasha- ammitt. Great John Womsconont, Uppanboh Queen, have set to their hands & seals this twenty two day of April one thousand six hundred sixty & two
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The Indians specified in this deed, together with their heirs forever, have liberty to fish fowl & hunt as far as any law of this jurisdiction alloweth other places. notwithstanding anything in this deed, this was before the sealing hereof. - Signed, sealed & delivered the day & year above written in the presence of us
JOHN ELLIOT SENIOR JOHN ELLIOT JUNR. DANIEL WILD SENIOR
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[3.] We Moses Paine & Peter Bracket do assign over all our right title & interest in the deed, unto the selectmen of Mendon for the use of the said town.
PETER BRACKET MOSES PAINE
This was acknowledged by the said Peter Bracket & Moses Paine to be their act and deed upon the twelfth day of May 1670 before me - Samuel Simons
Book 9th page 570 Recorded word for word and compared therewith 10th of October 1674
pr FRAGRALL BENDALL Recorder. -
To all christian people to whom these presents may come, Know ye that John Awasamog & Amos Awasamog & Peter Ephriam heirs to John Awasamog late of Natick deceased : for good & valuable considerations then thereunto moving and especially for & in consideration of the sum of three pounds sterling money to them in hand paid by Fardinando Thayer. Joseph White senior Josiah Chapin, Abraham Staples senior, Samuel Hayward, James Lovett, Samuel Read senior. committee for the town of Mendon in the county of Suffolk in the Colony of Massachusetts in Newengland, the receipt whereof they do acknowledge themselves by these presents and thereof every part & parcel thereof, doth exhonorate acquit & discharge the said Fardinando Thayer. Joseph White, Josiah Chapin, Abraham Staples, Samuel Hayward, James Lovett, Samuel Read, their heirs & assigns forever. by these presents, have given, granted, bargained & sold enfeoffed & confirmed, and do by these presents give, grant. bargain, sell, enfeoff and confirm unto Fardinando Thayer, Joseph White, Josiah Chapin, Abraham Staples, Samuel Hayward, James Lovett, of Mendon aforesaid, their heirs and assigns forever a certain tract of land laying upon the north side of the township of Mendon, butted & bounded as followeth, southerly upon Mendon line, and easterly upon Sherburne line to the height of Maspenock, pond, and northerly upon a line of marked trees untill it comes to Maspenock pond, westerly partly
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upon the above said Maspenock pond and partly upon a river [4.] commonly known by Mendon Mill-River, home to Mendon line aforesaid, with all the trees, timber, woods & underwoods standing. laying & growing thereon, with all the meadows. swamps, watercourses, ponds & brooks laying within the sd. tract of land as it is bonnded with all other privileges and appertenances thereunto belonging or any-wise appertaining thereunto, together with a full & free confirmation of all lands formerly sold by John Awasamog father of the above said Awasa- mogs, late of Natick deceased, to the town of Mendon aforesaid, as it is butted & bounded in the deed and confirmed by the Gen. Court. To have & to hold the said tract of land as it is bounded together with all the trees, timber, woods & underwoods, stand- ing, laying & growing thereon, with all the meadows swamps, brooks, watercourses, within the said tract of land with all other privileges and appertenances any-ways appertaining or belonging thereunto, unto Fardinando Thayer, Joseph White, Josiah Chapin, Abraham Staples, Samuel Hayward, James Lovett & Samuel Read, to them their heirs and assigns forever, and to the only proper use. and behoof of them, the said Thayer White, Chapin, Staples, Hayward, Lovett & Read, their heirs & assigns forever, The said John Awasamog & Amos Awasamog & Peter Ephraim doth covenant, promise & grant, by these presents, that the said Awasamogs & Peter Ephraim are the proper owners of the said tract of land, that they are free from all manner of bargaining sales, gifts, grants, titles, mortgages, actions, suits, arrests, attachments, judgments, executions, extents, incum- brances whatsoever, from the beginning of the world, until the time of the sale & bargain thereof. And the said Awasamogs & Peter Ephraim doth covenant, promise & grant by these presents all & singular, the bargained premises with all the appertenances, to warrant, acquit & defend unto the said Thayer, White, Chapin, Staples, Hayward, Lovett & Read their heirs & assigns forever, against all Indians or any other person or persons whatsoever, from, by or under them, claiming any right title or interest of or into the same or any part thereof, by these presents, and that it shall and may be lawful for the said Thayer, White, Chapin,
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Staples, Hayward, Lovett & Read, their heirs & assigns, to record and enroll, or cause to be recorded & enrolled the title & tenor of these presents, according to the true intent and mean- ing thereof, [5.] and according to the usal order and manner of recording deeds, and evidences in such case made and provided, and to acknowledge the same before lawful authority, when called thereunto in witness whereof the said John Awasamog, Amos Awasamog & Peter Ephraim set to their hands & seals this nineteenth day of February in the year of our Lord sixteen hun- dred ninety and one or two and in the third year of the Reighn of our sovreigns William & Mary King & Queen of England &c : Signed, sealed, & delivered and
possession given in presence of us. -
JOSEPH WHITE JUNR SAMUEL READ JUNE
JOHN AWASAMOG his AE mark
AMOS AWASAMOG
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PETER EPHRIAM his PE mark O
At a General Court of election at Boston 19th of May 1669 In answer to the petition of the inhabitants of Mendon, the Court finding that the place is but meanly provided for of meadow, and that the distribution already made is but small to them that have the most, do order & grant the said town the meadow petitioned for as appears in a paper annexed being ninety acres which is on file. This is a true copy of the Court's grant to this part of the petition. --
The town, obtaining the above said grant, made choice of a committee to purchase the Indian title to said meadow. viz : Deac. Simon Peck, Josiah Chapin, Joseph White, Fardinando Thayer, Abraham Staples, Samuel Read, James Lovett and Samuel Hayward which we have done, With the lands adjacent for conveniences to said meadow, as will appear by the ensuing deed. -
The deed of the great meadow is not found,
[6.] The names of the first proprietors of the former town- ship of Mendon, and the number of acres of each mans lot,
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granted & taken up by them, which is the foundation of all after divisions of upland, meadow & swamp according the committee's rules as in page the first are as followeth. -
John Thompson, a forty acre lot.
John Jepson, a forty acre lot. Walter Cook, a forty acre lot. George Aldrich, a forty acre lot.
Fardinando Thayer, a forty acre lot.
Mr. Peter Bracket, a forty acre lot.
Mr. Moses Paine, a forty acre lot.
Gregory Cook, a forty acre lot. Col. William Crown, a forty acre lot.
Mr. Joseph Emerson, a forty acre lot.
Joseph White, a thirty five acre lot.
Daniel Lovett, a thirty five acre lot.
John Harbur, a thirty five acre lot.
Mathias Puffer, a thirty five acre lot.
John Moor, a thirty acre lot.
John Wodland, a thirty acre lot.
Joseph Stephens, a thirty acre lot.
Samuel Read, a thirty acre lot.
Abraham Staples, a twenty acre lot.
Benjamin Albee, a twenty acre lot, and fifty acres of land and six acres of meadow, for the encouragement of a gristmill.
John Parish, a twenty acre lot. Job Tyler, a twenty acre lot.
Stephen Cook, a twenty acre lot.
The . Ministry, a twenty acre lot.
The School, a twenty acre lot.
The names of those that purchased lots of the Town after they were a township and granted town privileges are as follows, -
William Holbrook, a forty acre lot.
John Sprague, a twenty acre lot.
Mathias Puffer, a forty acre lot.
Samuel Hayward, a twenty acre lot.
John Sprague, a twenty acre lot.
Mrs. Hoppin, a twenty acre lot.
John Bartlett, a twenty acre lot.
John Darling, a ten acre lot. Samuel Cook, a ten acre lot.
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Joseph Aldrich, a twenty acre lot.
John Gurny, a twenty acre lot.
Thomas Jewel, a twenty acre lot.
Samuel Spencer, a twenty acre lot.
Samuel Hayward, a twenty acre lot.
Hop Tyler, a ten acre lot.
John Rockwood, a twenty acre lot.
Grisel Gurney, a twenty acre lot.
Grindol Rawson, a forty acre lot.
Jonathan Richardson, a ten acre lot.
August the 26th 1745. Then laid out for John Corbet 17 acres and 54 rods of land, viz : nine acres & 30 rods fifth divi- sion, and two acres and 64 rods sixth division, two acres and 100 rods ninth division, & three acres & 20 rods tenth division of Lands laid together adjoining to his other land in the north purchase, and is bounded southwardly on said land east on Hop- kinton line 64 rods, north on common by a line of marked trees 56 rods, to a heap of stones being the northwest corner, thence with a direct line to the northwest corner of his other land, the whole containing 22 acres and 64 rods, five acres and 10 [7.] rods allowed for bad land, laid out by William Torry surveyor, Jacob Aldrich & John Corbet chainmen. The above land laid out to John Corbet was in lien of land formerly laid out to said Corbet, that wanted measure in recorded 5, 6, 9 & 10th divi- sions -
January 10th 17378 Laid out for Ebenezer Read 2 acres of Daniel Sumner's ninth division of land laid joining to the land of William Boyce, and is bounded easterly on said land 40 rods and southerly on land that formerly belonged to John French 18 rods, so. home to Daniel Tafts land, then bounded westwardly on said Taft's land home to said Boyce's land, it being a three cornered piece of land containing 2 acres & 40 rods, forty rods
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allowed for bad land, laid out by Jacob Aldrich & Seth Chapin.
June the first 1738, Laid out for Ebenezer Read Junr, 5 acres & 80 rods tenth division of land, that his father purchased of Nathaniel Nelson, laid joining to his other land, west from his house, and is bounded eastwardly on said land 23 rods, south on his father's land 67 rods to a black oak tree marked being a northwest corner of his fathers land, thence running north 6 deg9. west 14 rods to John Read's land to a white oak tree marked near the northwest corner, and is bounded northwardly on John Read's land to his own land, the whole being 7 acres : half an acre allowed for bad land, laid out by Thomas White sur- veyor, Ebenezer Read chainman, -
December 24th 1742. Laid out for the heirs of Ebenezer Read deceased, ten acres tenth division of land, and is bounded south- wardly on the land of Timothy Guy, eastwardly & northwardly on the land of Ebenezer Read senior, to said reads corner it being a three cornered piece of land containing 12 acres, 2 acres and 35 rods allowed for bad land. More for said Read. Half an acre, is bounded westwardly on their other land, south on common, west- wardly on Sumners land, it being a small gore of land, contain- ing 100 hundred rods, 20 rods allowed for bad land, laid out by Thomas White surveyor, Joseph Taft and John Read Chainmen
May 3d. 1745, Then laid out for John Corbet 24 acres of land 23 acres & half eleventh division, and half an acre that was for- merly laid out in other men's lands through a mistake joining on Hopkinton line, beginning at a black oak tree, being the south- west corner, thence running east 72 rods, bounded south partly on common and partly on Jonathan Whitney's land to a white oak tree & stones at the root, being the southeast corner, and the northeast corner of said Whitney's land : east on Hopkinton line 56 rods to a heap of stones, being the northeast corner: then [8.] turning & running west full point' 72 rods and bounding north on common to a heap of stones the northwest corner, thence bounding west partly on common and partly on Daniel Corbit's land to the first bounds, Laid out by William Torrey surveyor, Daniel Lovett & John Corbet chainmen,-
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August 26th 1745 Then laid out for John Corbet 70 rods of land joining to his meadow in the great meadow, bounding east on said meadow, north on the land of John Kilburn, westerly on a two rod road, southerly on the land of Jonathan Hayward Junr. Laid out by William Torrey surveyor, Jacob Aldrich chain- man. -
February 12th 17223. Laid out for Thomas Thayer, 12 acres sixth division of land. laid joining to the south side of his other land in the south woods, beginning at a heap of stones, being his former southeast corner, then running south 23 degrees east 40 rods to a heap of stones being the south east corner, then west 23 degrees south 60 rods to a heap of stones, then north 23 degrees 40 rods to said land, then bounded on said land 60 rods to the first bounds, the whole containing 15 acres, 3 acres allowed for bad land, Laid out by Robert Evens surveyor, Jacob Aldrich & James Keith chainmen.
April 27th 1745. Then laid out for Jonathan Whitney twenty acres of land, ten acres of David Taft's ninth and ten acres of David Taft's tenth division, joining to his other land west from his house beginning at a maple tree marked being the southwest corner, and the northwest corner of his other land : then bound- ing westerly on common 70 rods to a heap of stones on a rock on a little hill being the northwesterly corner, then bounding northwardly on common 82 rods to a heap of stones, being the northeastwardly corner, bounding eastwardly partly on common and partly on his other land, southwardly on his other land the whole containing thirty five acres, 15 acres allowed for 5 acres and a quarter formerly laid out within the compass of said land, and for bad land, Laid out by William Torrey surveyor, Jacob Aldrich & Jonathan Whitney chainmen.
NB. One return, joining Benjamin Thomson's land we cannot find out to whom it was laid out - Vid, the old leaf - supposing it to be Sam1. Thayer.
April 6th 1738. Laid out for Samuel Thayer eleven acres of land being tenth division, laid in the north purchase joining to the land of Philip Chase 48 rods. the northwest corner being
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[9.] a heap of stones and the north east corner a heap of stones then running south full point 40 rods to a heap of stones being the south east corner, then west full point 48 rods to a heap of stones being the southwest corner, then north 40 rods to the first bounds : the whole being twelve acres, one acre allowed for bad land. Laid out by Thomas White surveyor, Robert Taft and Samuel Thayer chainmen.
October 17th 1743, Laid out for Samuel Thayer 43 acres of land laid in the southwest corner of Uxbridge and is bounded north on the land of Ebenezer Read, west on the town line, south on the land of John Arnold, east part on the land of said Arnold & part on common, running from the northwardly corner of said Arnold's land, north 18 degrees east 24 rods to said Read's land, it being a broken piece of land containing 46 acres & half, com- passing in 20 acres of land that was given to Joseph Bullard, 23 acres & half allowed for said 20 acres & bad land : said land being part of several divisions. Laid out by Thomas White surveyor Jacob Aldrich and Samuel Thayer chainmen.
November 2ª. 1739. Laid out for Samuel Thayer five acres of land being part of several divisions laid out on the west side of the great river joining Deborah Aldrich's land, and as bounded north on said land 78 rods the whole breadth of said land : and is bounded east on common nineteen rods to a heap of stones being the southeast corner, south on common with a direct line to a heap of stones being the southwest corner, west on common 6 rods to the southwest corner of said Aldrich's land, the whole being six acres & 16 rods, one acre & 16 rods allowed for bad land. Laid out by Thomas White surveyor, Jacob Aldrich & Samuel Thayer chainmen. -
April 27th 1745. Then laid out for Jonathan Whitney two acres of Thomas Beard's tenth division of land joining to his other land west from his house and is bounded east on his other land fifty nine rods to a heap of stones being the southeast corner of the north purchase thence running west on common 6 rods to a heap of stones being the northwest corner, thence running south-
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