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Elder Richard Browne, left England, 1630; free- man, 1631 ; a selectman in 1635, '38, '39, '41 and 42; a grantee of thirteen lots in the town, besides 200 acres granted by the Court out of town. In 1642 lie had disposed of not less than seven of these grants. His homestall was on the south side of Mt. Auburn Street, probably a short distance west of the Old Graveyard, with the three-acre lot of J. Prescott between his and the street. It is probable that this was his second residence. He had a seven-aere lot on the east of Mount Anburn, bounded south by Bank Lane. Between this and the river he had two and one-half acres of marsh. He sold these to R. Wellington. It is probable that he first settled there, and that it was while he lived there that he was licensed to keep a ferry.
So far as these names go, taken in order, but with the omission of many others, we have a specimen of Bond's manner of treating the whole list of settlers. Many signifieant facts are mentioned which suggest mueh to the student of early Watertown history. To the casual reader it must seem little more than a cat- alogue, as it professes only to be.
Following are a few interesting names and events culled from the remainder of the list :
Ensign Thomas Cakebread : freeman 1635, grantee of seven lots, which he sold to John Grant; an early grantee of Dedham ; went thence to Sudbury, where he died in 1643.
Elder Thomas Carter, left England 1635 ; a freeman in 1657; died in Woburn in 1684; grantee of a home- stali of ten acres, also had a farm of ninety-two aeres and a lot in the town plot.
Leonard Chester, left England 1633 ; grantee of sixty acres in the Great Dividends ; also thirteen acres homestall sold to W. Paine. The above grant im- plies that he did not move to Connecticut until after July, 1636.
Wm. Clarke, left England 1630; a freeman 1631 ; constable of Watertown, 1632; went to Ipswich in 1633.
John Coolidge, freeman 1636; a selectman thirteen different times between 1638 and 1682; died 1691, aged eighty-six ; grantee of nine lots ; purchased two other lots before 1644.
Henry Cuttris (Curtis), grantee of five lots aud pur- chaser of two lots. His homestall of sixteen acres was east of Dorehester Field. He moved to Sudbury.
Gov. Thomas Dudley purchased the mill in Water- town in April, 1640, and his lands are mentioned as boundaries ; but his name is not on the list of pro- prietors.
Simon Eire, chirurgeon (surgeon), embarked at London, 1635; a freeman, 1637 ; aselectman, 1636-43; town clerk and clerk of writs for several years ; moved to Boston in 1645; died 1658 ; was a grantee of twelve lots amounting to 350 acres; had purchased four other lots, one of which was his homestall of sixteen acres west of the pond and next the Cambridge line.
Robert Feake, came in 1630; freeman 1631 ; a son-in- law of Gov. Winthrop; a selectman in 1636, '38-39 ; homestall on Bank Lane.
Samuel Freeman, applied to be admitted freeman in 1630; admitted in 1639.
Edward Garfield, freeman 1635; died 1672; a grantee of eight lots before 1644; selectman in 1637, '55, '62.
Elder Edward How, freeman 1634; died 1644; was a selectman 1636, '38, '40-42; grantor of fifteen lots, and purchaser of seven lots before '44. [Probably with Governor Cradock through his agents and under the direction of the engineer, Thomas Graves, who came over at the expense one-half of the Massachu- setts Bay Company, and one-half at the expense of Governor Cradock, built the mill, the "water-mill," and probably the dam.]
Thomas King, came 1634 ; pioneer of the first plant- ing of Nashaway (Lancaster).
John Knight, freeman 1636; grantee and purchaser of 392 aeres.
John Lawrence, freeman 1637 ; of Groton 1662; died 1666; grantee of ten lots ; who sold, when he moved to Groton, his homestall to Bisco.
Cupt. Hugh Mason, embarked at Ipswich 1634; free- man 1635; died 1678; grantee of six lots, purchaser of two lots ; a selectman twenty-eight times in forty, and town clerk many years.
Thomas Mayhew, freeman 1634; went to Martha's Vineyard about 1644; six large grants by the town ; a selectman 1636-42; [purehaser of the " mill " from How & Cradock, whose sons served as missionary teachers to the Indians of Martha's Vineyard.]
John Oldham, arrived in Plymouth in 1623; free- man 1631 ; went to Wethersfield; killed by the In- dians at Block Island July, 1636, which murder led to tbe Pequot War.
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Cupt. Daniel Patrick, freeman 1631 ; killed at Stam- ford 1643 ; selectman and captain of train band.
Rev. George Phillips, 1630 ; freeman 1631 ; died July, 1644 ; grantee of eight lots, purchaser of one. Proba- bly resided always on his lot next homestall of Sir Richard Saltonstall, at the east of Mount Auburn.
John Prescott, 1641 ; freeman 1660 ; a first settler of Lancaster ; a grantee of a farm of ninety acres ; pur- chased five other lots.
Sir Richard Saltonstall, founder of the town 1630; returned to England 1631 ; grantee of about 558 acres, which passed to his sons Samuel and Henry. Robert probably settled in Boston 1642, where he died 1650.
William Shattuck, of Watertown, 1642 ; died 1672, aged fifty. In 1644 he was the proprietor of two small lots on the east border of Piquusset Common, (Waverly).
Capt. John Sherman, 1634, came from England ; a freeman in 1637 ; died 1691 ; selectman and town clerk many years, 1636 to 1682; had three grants of over 190 acres, purchased ten lots, had homestall on both sides of Bowman's Lane (Common Street), immedi- ately south of Strawberry (School-house or Meeting- house) Hill.
Rev. John Sherman, 1634; dismissed to Wethersfield, 1635; went to Milford 1641; dismissed then to Water- town 1647 ; freeman 1669; died 1685. Supposed to have lived on the east side of Grove Street, on the forty acre meeting-house lot between Mount Auburn and Belmont Streets.
Isaac Sterne (Stearns), came 1630; freeman 1630; died 1671 ; was a selectman 1659, '70, '71.
Having given so many names from this catalogue, which abundantly illustrate the character of the cata- logue, the variety of lots owned by most in different parts of the town,-illustrations of the fact that Water- town furnished settlers for many other towns,-we have done is much as we have space for in this place and have shown how indispensable the list, and especially the full genealogies of Dr. Bond, are to any student of the history of Watertown, I might say of almost any local history.
FREEMEN .- I cannot do better, perhaps, than give Dr. Bond's list of the freemen of Watertown, ad- mitted previous to the union of the Colonies of Plym- outh and Massachusetts Bay, with the date of their admission. To become a freeman it was necessary to be a church-member, and so it happened that men in respectable social positions were not admitted till ad- vanced age, or never admitted. It was not necessary, however, to be a freeman, or even a church-member, in order to hold office in the town, or appoint- ments from the Court, although the rule allowed none but freemen to hold office or vote for rulers. This rule was so far modified, in 1664, that individuals might be made freemen who could produce certifi- cates from some clergyman that they were correct in doctrine and conduct.
Bond gives some exceptions to the rule. Thomas
Mayhew held a responsible appointment from the Governor and Assistants two years before he was ad- mitted freeman. Joseph Bemis and Thomas Flagg were never admitted, although they were both select- men and held other offices. John Bigelow, Sr., took the oath of fidelity in 1652, but he was not admitted freeman until April, 1690, at the age of seventy-three. William Bond was admitted freeman in 1682, more than twenty years after he had been selectman, juror, constable, and likewise town clerk, and only a short time before he was elected magistrate.
Some of the settlers and proprietors, or natives of Watertown, were admitted freemen after they had removed to other towns. This mark (?) is pre- fixed to the names of freemen who were early pro- prietors, where there is an uncertainty or improb- ability as to their having ever been residents.
Every freeman was obliged to take the freeman's oath: "I, A. B., being by God's providence an in- habitant and freemen within the jurisdiction of this | Commonwealth, do freely acknowledge myself to be subject to the government thereof, and, therefore, do hereby swear, by the great and dreadful name of the everlasting God, that I will be true and faithful," etc. etc.
LIST OF FREFMEN OF WATERTOWN, 1630-90.
1631, May, George Phillips
Nathaniel Foote
Richard Brown
Robert Reynalde
Capt. Daniel Patrick , 1635, Mar., Hugh Mason
Sgt. John Strickland
George Munning
Jahn Oldbam
Edward Dix
Edmund Lockwood
Thomas Bartlett
John Paga 1635, Mar., John Princa
John Doggett
John Walcott
Ephraim Child May Barnabas Wines Robert Seeley John Reynolds Henry Bright
Wmn. Clarke I
Robert Feaka 1
Thomas Hastings
Samuel Hosier
John Livermore
Charles Chadwick
John Batchelor
Jonas Weede John Tompson
R. Saltonstall, Jr.
John Gay
William Jennison
Richard Kemball
Daniel Abbott
Daniel Morse
John Warren
Edward Garfield
Daniel Finch 1635, Sept., Richard Woodward
John Masters 1636, Mar., Nicholas Jacob Isaac Sterne John Whitney
John Firman
William Swain Jahn Kingsbury Michael Barstow
1632, Mar., Abraham Browne
1636, May, John Knight
1632, Nov., John Benjamin
William Hammond
1633, Mar., John White
1634, Mlay, Thomas Cakebread
Edward How
John Stowers
John Smith (? Jr.)
Andrew Ward Thomas Mayhew
John Eaton
Edmund Sherman
John Coolidge
Gregory Stone Simon Stone
Jahn Laveran
(?) William Wilcocke
(?) Edward White
Thomas Brooks
Robert Coe
1637, Mar., Abraham Shaw
1
John Gosse Francie Smith
Mathias [? Miles,] Ives Edward Goffe Edmund Lewis
John Hayward
1634, Sept., Bryan Pendleton Anthony Peirce John Bernard Martin Underwoo.l
(?) Samuel Smith John Browne
John Eddy Robert Abbot
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Robert Lockwoutl
William Barsham Richard Beers
Thomas C'arter Richard Waite
1154, May, John Sawin Richard Norcross 1653, Feb., [Jeremiah] Norcross 1633, May, Sunon Stone, Jr. Samuel Stratton
of New Camb.) Stephen Cooke (then New Camb.) April Josiah Jones
John Livermore, Jr.
Thomas Woolson
Joseph Garfield
Samuel Thatcher, Jr. John Bacon
1637, May, Thomas Smith
Thomas Rogers John Sherman John Rogers Miles Nutt
1663, May, Robert Harrington Nathaniel Holland (*) Daniel Pearse Lawrence Walters
Thomas Hammond Michael Barstow
Joseph Pierce, Sen. John Bigelow, Sen.
1638, May, Isaac Mixer
Henry Kemball Henry Dow Daniel Peirce
1666, May, John Betyjamin, Jr. Thomas Fitch
Henry Dow, Jr.
1039, Mar., John Dwight
Henry Phillips Robert Daniel
1639, May, Samutiel Freeman Nicholas Guy Edmund Blois Roger Porter
1639, Sept., John Cross
Robert Tucke Robert Sanderson William Paine
(?) Thomas Ruck (?) Timothy Wheeler Henry Green William Godfrey Thomas Arnold (?) Peter Noyes William Potter (*) Samuel Morse 1641, June, Ellis Barron
William Parker George Bulland
1642, May, John Clough
Jolin Wetherill Samuel Thatcher Isaac Cummings Robert Peirce
1673, Oct., Stephen Cooke (then of Mendon) 1674, May, Gershom Flagg (then of Woburn) 167s, May, Obadiah Perry (then of Billerica)
1043, May, Nathan Fiske
1614, May,
George Parkhurst Nathaniel Norcross John Gay Herbert Pelham Jolin Stimson Lambert Chinery Robert Jennison John Warren, Jr. 1615, Muy, Joseph Underwood
1640, May, Benjamin Crispe Henry Thorpe George Woodward
1646, May, Charles Sternes John Wincoll
1647, May, William Bridges John Whitney, Jr. John Stebbin David Fiske, Jr. Thomas Boyden Richard Hassell 1648, May, Bartholomew Pierson 1649, May, Garrett Church Joshua Stubbs 1649, John Knowles John Ball Robt. Pearse (Peirce)
1651, May, Richard Whitney (?) William Hamlet
1684, May, John Whitney (then of Roxbury.) 1685, May, Uriah Clark (then of Roxbury.) 1686, Mar., Lt. Wm, Bond, Jr. Ebenezer Prout Abiah Sherman Caleb Church Samuel Eddy 1690, Mar., Nicholas Wyeth Thomas Rider Eliezer Flagg (then of Concord) John Tarbell (then of Salem Village) John Mason (then of New Camb.) Ebenezer Stone (then
1
Sammel Hagar Palsgrave Wellington
Thomas Harrington Nathaniel Bond John Kemball Jonathan Smith. John Bisco William Goddard
1637, Apr., (') Thomas Brigham Simon Kire Jobn Lawrence
1654, Mny, Joseph Child 1656, May, John Chadwick 1667, May, Justinian Holden
Anthony Beers 1660, May, 1Ingh Clarke Henry Spring
Josiah Treadway John Woodward
Benjamin Wellington
John Bond John Fiske Joseph Harrington
1638, Mar., John Pearce (Peirce) Nicholas Busby David Fiske
1665, May, Isaac Sternes, Jr. John Stone .
Juhn Grout 1
(?) John Wright Daniel Harrington Roger Wellington William Shattnek John Chinery John Parkhurst
Daniel Warren John Stearns (then of Billerica)
Nathaniel Bright May Joseph Mason John Warren, Jr. Thomas Straite
THE LAND GRANTS AND THE PROPRIETORS' Book .- Among the records of the town-house, in the town safe, is a book labeled the proprietors' book, which should be published for the use of students of our early history. It contains matters of interest to all who trace their origin to our early settlers; it is essential to those who would understand the relations of the different citizens and inhabitants of this town, and, so far at least, of the county and the State as well.
It contains presumably records of all the land grants of the town and of the General Court within the town to individuals.
The first grants were small lots for homesteads, or as they are designated, homestalls and home-lots, and were scattered over nearly the whole of, and sometimes beyond the present limits of Watertown.
Besides these homestalls, there were within the same limits certain tracts of land known as commons, for instance, Meeting-house common, which was in the triangle between Belmont, Mt. Auburn and School Streets, and contained about forty acres. "Fifteen acres of upland upon the Meeting-house Common were granted to" Rev. George Phillips. Rev. John Sherman was allowed to take wood from it. The expense of rebuilding the Mill Bridge was defrayed by the sale of a part of it. Pequusset Common, after- wards King's Common, over in the Waverly District, was reserved for common use. "May 23, 1638. Ordered, that all the land not granted, called Pequusset Common, bounded with the great dividents on the West, with Cambridge line on the North, with ye small Lotts on the East and South, shall re- main for Common, for the feed of Cattle, to the use of ye Townsmen forever, and not to be alienated without ye consent of every Townsmen." However, a note [in darker ink ] says : ' This order repealed at a public Towne meeting."
"On July 30, 1635, Agreed, by the consent of the
1640, May.
16os, Apr., John Benjamin (prob- ably a repetition). Nathaniel Coolidge Johnathan Whitney Johnathan Browne Benjamin Bullard (then of Meadfield). Thomas Philbrick (then of Hampton). 1069, May, John Morse (!) (of Groton). John Sherman John Prescott (then of Lancaster).
1670, Oct , John Warren
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1671, May, John Barnanl Samuel Livermore John Bright
1672, May, Nathan Fiske, Jr. John Morse
1679, Oct., John Marrion (then uf Camb.) 1682, Oct., Jolin Flagg Abraham Gale Nathaniel Barsham Wilham Bond Samuel Jeunison 1683, Feb., Samuel Parris, (then of Boston) Theophilus Rhodes (then of Boston)
Thomas Whitney Richard Child, Jr. Benjamin Pierce Joseph Underwood (?) Thomas Kidder Richard Cutting, Sr. Henry Spring, Jr. Jonathan Stimson Samuel Bigelow Benjamin Flagg Benjamin Garfield Richard Child
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freemen, that two Hundred Aeres of upland next to the Mill shall be reserved as most convenient to make a Township." There were also other reservations.
The Court of Assistants also made a few grants within these bounds-these certainly : First, " In November, 1632, the Court granted to George Phillips, thirty acres of land up Charles river, on the South side," etc., probably meadow opposite the United States Arsenal. Second, " On the first of April, 1634, the Court granted Mr. John Oldham five hundred acres lying near Mt. Feake, on the North-west of Charles river." This was before the western boundary was settled, and before the freemen had made any grants besides " the small lots." Third, March 3, 1635-36, the Court "agreed that Sir Richard Saltonstall shall have one hundred acres of meadow." This lot is described as remote meadow, bounded with the farm land. This lay near the farm of two hundred aeres and the one hundred acre lot in the Great Dividends, both granted soon after by the town. Bond says that these three grants appear as the only ones made by the Court within the limits of the town, and none was thus made after the western boundary was determined.
The homestalls and home-lots assigned to the first planters comprised from one to sixteen acres, seldom more ; probably, as is seen by the list in the town lot, averaging about six acres. Where much larger home- stalls are found, especially later, it is where certain persons were able to purchase the lots of several others. In some cases the per-ons to whom lots were assigned in the quite equal division,-although it was understood and agreed before the colonists came that the amount of land received by each should be determined by the amount of money each adventured, -were servants to others, and doubtless many pre- ferred to retain this relation to their neighbors and so parted with their lots for a consideration. In the map of 1720, now preserved in the State archives, a copy of which we should be glad to exhibit, the location of 150 houses is given, very few being given where the group of houses must have been made at first, in what was known as "the town," near the landing ; and compact groups of houses in the lot set aside for the town just west of Lexington Street, where very few houses are found to-day ; while over beyond Beaver Brook, next to the northern limit of the town, were clustered about twenty houses, forming quite a compact village. Not more than twenty-five houses were then to be found in what is now the entire village of Watertown. As the change has gone on in the industries of the town, from agriculture to manufactures, there bas been a gradual withdrawal of the smaller houses and absorption of the smaller lots by the larger holders and a concentration ofinterests about the manufactories, which now so largely predominate in importance.
THE GREAT DIVIDENDS .- The first division of lands after the small lots, few of which exceeded sixteen acres, generally one to five or six acres, was
recorded in the old town book, and is dated July 26, 1636.
This list contains 120 names, all the townsmen then inhabiting. It is headed with these words :
"The grant of the Great Dividends [allotted] to the freemen, to all the townsmen then inhabiting, being 120 in number. The land being divided into four divisions, every division being 160 rods in breadth, beginning next to the small lots, and bounded with Cambridge line on the North side, and with the plowlands on the South, to be laid out successively one after another (all the meadows and cartways excepted) for them to enclose or feed in common."
This record is in the first original book of records of the town, preserved as well as may be, but fast going to decay. Much of the paper is worn away, is much discolored, but the hand-writing is still clear and distinct, written in a very regular, almost print-like hand.
Bond, in speaking of this list, says that "These four divisions were sometimes called the Squadrons, and the lines dividing them, the squadron lines." These divisions are said " to begin next to the small lots," but it is difficult to determine this line exactly. Pequusset Meadow is described as bounded on the north by the Cambridge line, and on the west by the Great Dividends. It is conjectured that the Dividends began not far from the present boundary between Watertown and Waltham, and that for some distance these were bounded by the road (now Warren Street), which was the western boundary of the town plot.
The first Great Dividend, beginning next the small lots at the east, was bounded on the south by the Bea- ver Brook Plowlands, as follows :
[These are taken from the original lists, or earliest copics, in the town archives. ]
Lott Acres
Lott
Acres
1 John Coolidge . 30
17 Jobn Kingshury 40
2 Edmund Sherman 50
18 Gregory Stone 40
3 John Tucker 25
19 Bryan Pembleton 70
4 Isaac Mixer . 30 20 John Browne 30
Robert Veazey 20 21 John Dwight 30
6 Hugh Mason 30
22 John Bernard 60
7 John Stowers 30
23 William Knap 30
8 Robert Jennison 20
24 Daniel Perse 25
9 John Vahan
20
25 John Hayward 50
10 Richard Beers
25
26 Edmund Lewis 30
11 William Paine 70
27 George Richardson
25
12 Thomas Hastings 25
28 James Cutler 25
13 John Simson (sic) 30
29 John Grigs
25
14 Robert Betts 20
30 1Ienry Goldstone
. 60
15 llenry Dergaine (sic) 20
16 John Ruse 20
THE SECOND DIVISION.
Lott
ACTes
Lott
Acres
1 John Eaton
40
10 Robert Feke
80
2 Edward Garfield
40
11 Abraham Shaw
70
3 John Smith.
35
12 Samuel Hosier
35
4 Robert Daniel 35 13 Robert Lock wood 35
5 Edward Gosse 60
14 Ilenry Cuttris . 20
6 Thomas Mason 20
15 Samuel Swaine 60
7 Simon Stone 70
16 John Firmin
60
8 Ephraim Child 60
17 Nicholas Knap
30
9 Charles Chadwick 35 18 William Basum
. 30
31 Jolin Cutting . 60
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1. Robert Tuck .
John Batchelor
. 35
26 Thomas Brookes 20
.1 John Smith . . 30 27 John Gay 35 51 John Bernard 10 80 Henry Kemball .
2: Abram Browne . .
William Bridges 30
- 1 Richard Browne 50
20 George Munnings 31
THE THIRD DIVISION.
Acres . Lott Acres
1 Thomas Arnold . 30
20 Thomas Smith 17 John Ellett 25
3 Hlebry Kemball . 35 18 Thomas Bartlet 30
50 + Edward Dikes (Dix 19 Daniel Mosse (Murse) 20
5 Nathaniel Bowman 35 20 Richard Woodward 35
6 Eilward Lambe
" Thomas Rogers
30
Thomas Parish 20
8 Benjamin Crispe 20
4 Martin Underwood 24 John Winter 25
10 Lawrence Waters 25
11 Emanuel White . 20
Thomas Mayhew 80
27 Jobn Finch . 30
1 John Springe
35 28 Wilhanı Palmer 20
1 4 William Swift 40 29 Esther Pickram 35
15 Edward How 30 Sir R. Salteston(SaltoDetull) 100
THE FOURTH DIVISION.
L .!!
Acres Lott
1 Sunon Eire 60
CI Roger Willington 20
17 John Gutterige 25
3 William Baker 25 18 John Lawrence 30
4 Leonard Chester . 60 19 Francis Onge
5 William Hammond 40 20 Henry Bright 30
6 Teaac Cummins 35 21 Garrett Church 20
Phillip Labor . 30
22 John Tomson 23
23 Christofer Grant . 25
n John Page 50
24 Barnaby Windes .
3.5
10 John Eddy 50
25 John Winkoll
11 John Livermore 25 26 John Warrin 60
1: Juha Doggett 30
27 John Gosse
35
13 Edmund James 40
14 Robert Abbot 35
29 Thomas Cakebred 50
15 Janac Sterne. 50
1636. February 28th. "A grant of the Plowlands at Beverbroke Planes, divided and Lotted out by the freemen to all the Townsmen then inhabiting, being 106 in number, allowing one acre for a person and likewise for Cattle valued at £20 the head, beginning next to the small lotts beyond the ware, and bounded with the great Lotts on the north side and Charles river on the South divided by a cartway in the middest, the first Lott to begin next the River, the second on the north side of the Cartway, and so to be laid out successively until all the Lots be ended." Lott Acres
Lott Acres
24 John Gay 5
lips, Pastor .
40
25 Simon Eire 18
1 John Whitney 10 26 Sir Richard Salteaton . . 30
2 Thomas Hastinga 2
3 Richard Woodward. 6
28 Jobn Richardson
3
4 Robert Betts
29 George Munnings 1
4
1 5 John Grigs . 30 Henry Bright.
6 Jobn Simson 4
31 Nicholas Knap 6
32 Richard Sawtle
1
8 Robert Veazy
1
23 John Ellett . 4
9 Henry Goldstone 7
10 John Smith, Sr 4
11 John Tomson
2
96 John Loveran . 20
37 William Jennison 10
13 William Baseum
3
38 John Page I3
14 Benjamin Crispe
9
39 Samuel Hosier
5
15 Edmund Sberman
6
40 John Winkoll . 3
16 William Bridges
6
41 John Gosse
4
17 Gregory Taylor
5 42 Nathanel Bowman
7
18 Jobn Coolige
5 43 Brian Pembleton 12
19 Daniel Pattrick 14 44 Richard Browne
20 Joseph Mosse 2 45 Jobn Lawrence
21 Ephraim Child 16 46 John Tucker 3
22 Robert Lockwood 6 47 Thomas Cakebred 8
23 Francis Onge 6 48 Robert Tuck
5
49 Henry Cutrice 1 78 Joba Batchelor 6
50 Richard Kemball 12 79 William Knop 7
52 Edward Dikes 3 81 William Palmer 1
52 Thomas Brookes
53 Timothy Hawkens 2
54 Gregory Stone 10 84 William Swift
65 James Cutler 3
56 Jobn Cutting 10
57 Daniel Perse 1
58 Baraaby Windes
50 John Kingsberry 6
89 Christofor Grant
90 Jobn Nichols
4
61 Isaac Sterno 11
62 Thomas Smith 2
63 John Rose
3
93 Jobn Springe
6
64 Miles Nutt 3
94 John Warner
7
65 John Hayward 7
66 Thomas Filbrick
96 Edward Garfield
7
68 Robert Daniel 8
69 Toaac Mixer 4
70 Edward How 24
71 Henry Dengayne 1
101 John Doggett .
6
72 Thomas Maihew 30
102 Lawrence Waters
4
73 John Stowers 2 103 Martin Underwood
74 Richard Beers 2 104 Wilham Paine . 21
75 Edmund James 5 105 Garrett Church
76 John Firmin 9 106 Abraham Shaw 10
77 John Warrin 13
In 1637, June 26th, " A grant of the remote or West pine meddowes, devided and lotted ont by the Freemen to all the townsmen then in- habiting, being 114 in number ; allowing one acre for a person, and hke- wise for cattle valued at 20 lb. the head, beginning next to the Plaine Meddow, and to goe on untill the lots be ended.
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