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HISTORY OF THE TOWN OF MIDDLEBORO
[1672
Deeds and Evidence in ye Kings Maties Court of Newplymouth aforesd In wittnes whereof we the Aforesaid Tispiquin and William have hereunto set to our hands and Seales this seventh day of July one thousand six hundred sixty and nine Signed Sealed and Delivered in p¿ sents of Willyam Nickerson The mark \ of Tispiquin LS
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Henry ye Indian The Mark of William LS
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Danniell ye Indian
The Mark of old
Harry ye Indian This deed was acknowledg this 7th of July 1669: before mee John Alden Asist Ye words in breadth betwixt ye twelfe and
thirteenth Line; and land betwixt the
thirteenth & fourteenth Line before
the sealing and delivery hereof 1
TWELVE MEN'S PURCHASE
June 30, 1672, Tispequin and Mantomapact, alias William, his son, in consequence and in consideration of a debt of the latter to Major Winslow for the amount of ten pounds, eight shillings, conveyed to Edward Gray and Major Winslow a tract on the east side of Assawampsett Pond, since known as the Twelve Men's Purchase. It was a triangular piece of land, extending upon the northern side at a distance of about three miles, and upon the easterly and westerly sides at a distance of about four miles.2
1 From the original in the late Earl Alden's possession. The acknowledg- ment in bluer and paler ink, and is between the signatures of the witnesses and the Tispequins Deed very fairly and plainly written by the witness Nickerson. Seals cut out and lapped over. A stamp on the wax. Well preserved every way.
2 Tispequin to Edward Gray and Major Winslow, Plymouth Registry of Deeds, Book III, p. 238.
1672]
TWELVE MEN'S PURCHASE
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To all people to whom these presents shall come Tispaquin the Black Sachem of Namaskett and Wantowapatt (?) allias William (his sonne) sendeth greet, and further know yee That we the said Tispaquin and William have Given Granted bargained sold allianed enfeofed and Confirmed and by these presents doe give Grant bargaine sell alien enfeofe and Confirm from us and our heires unto Mr. Edward Gray and Major Josias Winslow and theire heires forever a Certaine Tract or Prcell of land settuate lying and being on the Easterly Syde of Ano- wamsett (?) pond, and 'is bounded as followeth, viz, beginning att that place of the said pond wher Namaskett River floweth out of the pond, and so Ranging southward the pond being the easterly bounds on till it comes to a Pynne tree marked standing neare the pond syde and so by a Range of Pyne Trees Runing to the Southward still, untill it Comes againe to touch upon another Corner of the pond, and then againe bounded by the pond on to a little brooke that floweth out of it, and Runs toward the east; and soe to a great Cedar Swamp being the southeast boundary; and from the said swamp is bounded on the easterly end or syde by a brooke that floweth out the said Cedar Swamp, and Runs Northeast- erly toward a pond comonly called Tispaquin's pond, and soe home to the lands formerly sold to henery Wood; and from Tispaquin's pond by a brook Called the fall (?) brooke; that Comes out of the saide pond, and falleth into Namas- kett River, and soe up the said River to the first mentioned boundary upon Na- maskett pond, only it must be understood that one hundred acres more or less as bounded; which was formerly sold to Mr. Thomas Prence; and lyeth on the southerly syde of the above mentioned fall brooke, although Comprehended within the above written bounds, is not hereby sold nor by us disposed unto the abovesaid Winslow and Gray, but all the Rest of the lands contained within the above mentioned bounds, wee the said Tispaquin and William doe herby fully freely clearly and absolutely sell and passe over from us and our heires unto them the said Major Winslow and Edward Gray and theire heires forever ; Together with all the woods, waters and all other benefitts emolluments and privilidges therunto appertaining to them the said Winslow and Gray and theire heires from the day of the sale herof for ever, to be held possessed and enjoyed in the most free and ample tenor that lands by us sold can be holden in ; for the valuable consideration of twenty seven pounds of Good and Currant pay to us in hand alreddy payed, and of which sume and of every pt and prcell therof, wee doe herby fully and Clearly acquitt exonerate and discharge them the abovesaid Winslow and Gray and theire heires forever, and for this wee the abovesaid Tis- paquin and William doe Covenant to and with the said Buyers that wee att this day and untill the ensealing and delivery hereof, the true and Right proprie- tors of the above mensioned Lands ; and that wee will warrant and defend them now and att all times against any that shall or may claim from by or under us, and to doe and performe any further acte that may by them be Required according to law, for the clere making and the firme settling of the premises unto them ; In witness whereof wee have herunto sett our hands and seales this thirtieth day of June, Anno. Dom. one thousand six hundred seventy and two. Signed sealled and delivered Tispaquin X his mark and (seal)
in presence of John Thomas
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HISTORY OF THE TOWN OF MIDDLEBORO
[1672
This deed of sale was acknowledged by Tispaquin and William his son this third day of July in open Court before mee
Thomas Prence Govr.
Major Winslow was allowed to make this purchase by the court in the May preceding, on his complaining to that body of the Indian's neglect or refusal to pay him his debt. In allowing this grant, the court directed that from this land the proprietors should pay all of the indebtedness of the Indians, and this was done before the close of the year. This is a cir- cumstance which should acquit our pilgrim fathers of fraud and injustice towards the natives in the purchase of lands. The names of those to whom the Indians owed money were : George Vaughan, Jonathan Dunham, John Nelson, Edward Gray, John Wood, Gershom Cobb, and John Dunham, Jr.
LOTS
First Draught
Second Draught
Abraham Jackson
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19
John Dunham 1
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18
Benjamin Warren
3
16
Benjamin Warren
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24
Thomas Morton
5
14
George Morton
6
17
John Cob 1
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23
Mrs. Clark for her children
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John Bennet 2
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21
Mrs. Doritie Clark for Samuell
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John Morton 1
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Nathaniell Morton 1
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John Morton 1
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THOMAS FAUNCE,1 the clerk who kept the records of these proprietors, was a son of John Faunce, who came over in the Anne in 1623. He succeeded Elder Cushman in 1699, and was the last ruling elder of the church at Plymouth. He was town clerk of Plymouth for more than thirty-five years, and died in 1745, in his ninety-ninth year. It is from him that
1 See chapter containing sketches of the lives of the early settlers and early purchasers.
2 See chapter containing an account of The Green.
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SOUTH PURCHASE
1673]
much of the early history of the pilgrims has been derived, particularly our knowledge of the genuineness of the rock at Plymouth.1
Proprietors of the Twelve Men's Purchase, an account of whose lives has not previously been given : - .
MRS. CLARK. We find nothing relating to her.
ABRAHAM JACKSON, an apprentice of Secretary Morton, was always a resident of Plymouth. He married Remember, a daughter of Nathaniel Morton, in 1657, and died October 4, 1714. He was also a proprietor in the South Purchase.2
GEORGE MORTON, a grandson of the first George Morton who came into the colony, was known as Deacon George Morton. He was born in 1645, and died October 7, 1693. His father was Lieutenant Ephraim Morton.
THOMAS MORTON. We find no record relating to him.
BENJAMIN WARREN. We find no one of this name of age at the time of this purchase.
SOUTH PURCHASE
July 23, 1673, Tispequin and his son sold for fifteen pounds to Benjamin Church of Duxbury and John Tomson of Barn- stable, for the inhabitants of Middleborough, an extensive tract conveying a part of what is now Rochester and Wareham and Carver as well as Middleboro, and known as the South Pur- chase. It contained all the unpurchased lands on the east and north bounds. By a subsequent adjustment of these bounds, the purchase extended on the south only to the southern bound- ary line of the town.
1 Goodwin, Pilgrim Republic, p. 469.
2 Savage, Genealogical Dictionary, vol. ii, p. 527.
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[1673
Know all men by these presnts that one Tispaquin allies the black Sachem of Namassekett and William his sonn, doe acknowledge for and in consideration of the sume of fifteen pounds to us in hand paid by Benjamin Church of the Towne of Duxburrow in the Jurisdiction of Plymouth in New England in America house- carpenter and John Tomson of the Towne of Barnstable in ye Jurisdiction aforesaid housecarpenter and in ye behalfe of all & singular the Inhabitants and proprietors of ye lands in & within ye Township of Middleberry in ye Jurisdiction aforesaid where with we ye said Tuspaquin ye black Sachem & William his son doe acknow- ledge orselves fully satisfied contented and paid, and thereof & of every prt and prcell thereof doe exonerate acquitt and discharge them ye said Benjamin Church & John Tomson & all and singular ye Inhabitants & proprietors of ye lands in ye Township of Middleberry aforesaid them and every of them their and every of their heirs executors & administrators for ever. That we have freely & abso- lutely bargained allienated & sold enfeofed & confirmed & by these presents doe freely and absolutely bargaine alienate sell enfeofe & confirme from us ye said Tuspaquin & William his son, & our heirs, to them ye said Benjamin Church & John Tomson for & in ye behalfe of all & singular ye Inhabitants & proprietors of ye Towne of Middleberry aforesaid & their & every of their heires & assignes for ever, A certaine Tract of land lying at & near ye Township of Middleberry aforesaid bounded westerly by a River caled Monhiggin which runneth into a pond called Quitquassett ponds & so ye westerly side of a Cedar swamp & so ranging to a pond called Tuspaquins & along to ye lands of henery Wood & a Cedar swamp & so along to an old Indian path to a place called Pochaboquitt with all ye vacant land between Tuspaqins ponds & ye said Pochaboquitt Northerly it is bounded by ye said Indian path to Mahudsett River & from ye sd Mahudsett River to a swamp purchased by William Bassett & so to a River that runneth out of Swanhold unto a place called Tusconnanset, Easterly it is bounded with ye South meadow River, so caled, & so along by the said river to a place caled by the Indians Massapanoh, & ye Southerly bounds is from ye said Mas- sapanoh ranging to a pond caled Sniptuet to ye easterly side of an Indian field taking in a fresh meadow & so over ye pond to a little Iland & so to a Rivers mouth caled Tuppatwett which runneth into ye pond caled Quittuwashett & along ye ponds side to ye fore named River caled Monheggen Containing within ye said purchase all ye unpurchased lands lying on ye easterly & northerly boundes afore- said ; To have and to hold all ye said tract of land bounded as aforesaid with all & singular ye appurtenances & priviledges belonging thereunto or to any prte or prcell thereof, from us the said Tuspaquin and William his son & our heires to them ye said Benjamin Church & John Tomson, and in ye behalfe & to ye use of all & singular ye Inhabitants and proprietors of ye lands in ye Town- ship of Middleborough to them and every of them & every of their heires and assigns for ever. The sd Tract of land bounded as aforesaid with all & singu- lar ye woods waters meadows & meadow lands herediments profitts priviledges enrollments belonging thereunto or to any prte or prcell thereof with all our Right title and Interest of & into ye same or any part or prcell thereof To belong & appurtaine unto ye only proper use & behoofe, of them ye sd Benjamin Church & John Tomson for and in ye behalfe & to ye use of ye Inhabitants & proprietors of ye lands in ye Township of Middleberry aforesaid. To them & every of them their & every of their heires & assignes forever free & clear & clearly acquitted of &
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SOUTH PURCHASE
1673]
from all other & former gifts grants bargains sales Ingagements & Intanglements whatsoever had made suffered comitted or done, or by us or either of our knowledge privity or procurement and to be holden of his Matie, Charles ye second King of England, etc: his manor of East Greenwich in ye County of Kent in ye realm of England in free & common soccage & not in capite nor by Knights service nor by ye rents & services thereof & thereby due & of right accustomed with war- rantie against all persons that by our right or title of or into ye same or any prte or prcell thereof, granting libertie unto ye said Benjamin Church & John Tomson for & in ye behalfe of ye Inhabitants & proprietors of ye lands of ye Towne of Middlebury aforesaid or either of them either by themselves or their Attorney to record & Inrole these presents or to cause them to be recorded or enrolled in his Maties Court of Records, for ye true performance of ye premises Wee ye said Tus- paquin ye sachem of Namaskett commonly caled & Knowne by ye black Sachem & William his son doe hereby binde orselves or heires executors & Administrators by these presents In witness whereof we ye said Tuspaquin & William his son have hereunto subscribed or hands & affixed or seals this twenty third day of July one thousand six hundred seventy & three 1673.
Signed sealed & delivered
The mark of Tuspaquin (S
the Black Sachem
in ye presence of
John Cotton
John Cushen
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The mark * of Sam Harry
son to ye Black Sachem
The mark & of Joseph of Namassakett
Tuspaquin ye black sachem & William his son acknowledged this deed July 22, 1673: before Josiah Winslow Governor
It is doubtful who were the original parties for whom this South Purchase was made. They were to pay the expenses of the purchase, and have the territory apportioned among them- selves. For some reason, they did not pay or settle for the same, and John Tomson and Benjamin Church were allowed to take about one third of the southern portion of this land as their own, which was afterwards known as the Snipetuit Purchase, and the remainder was laid out as the South Pur- chase.
November 1, 1673, William, Wetispaquin, Assaweta, Tobyas, and Beevatt In- dians, -for 10 lb. sold to John Tomson, Joseph Lathrop and Barnabas Lay- throp, all of Barnstable, - a tract bounded northerly by Quetaquash pond, east- erly by Quetaquash river and Snipetuet pond; and from the eastermost end and southermost side of a little neck of land by the said Snipetuit pond, and so from the eastermost side of a little pond on a straight line from thence to Dart- mouth path 100 rods; southerly from Dartmouth new bound tree, and so all
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[1698
along by Dartmouth path until within sight of Quatequash pond ; and from the path upon a straight line to the southermost end of the pond and by the pond.
(Wit. John Bryant, Nath1 Thomas ;) Old Tispaquin alias the Black Sachem and Daniel Pachange the same day gave up their right in the above sd deed. Actee- wamequa resigned his June 25, 1674.
July 13, 1685. This court allow & confirme all the lands contained in the above mentioned deed unto the 'bove mentioned Mr. Barnabas Laythrop, capt. Joseph Laythrop and John Thompson according to ye order of the General Court to hold to them the said Barnabas Laythrop, Joseph Laythrop, John Thompson their heirs & assigns for ever.
Attest Nathl Clarke Secretary of the jurisdiction of New Plymouth.
The following were the names of the proprietors of this purchase, found in the earliest list recorded : -
" A list of the proprietors of the South purchase taken at the proprietors meeting at the house of Isaac Howland in Middleborough on Tuesday the 17 day of May 1698 and at said meeting upon the drawing of the Lots: the Lots fell as they are here in Respectively afixed to each proprietors name
Experience Michill 1 18: 14 Edward Gray 1
131 : 63
Phillip Dillinoe 1
146: 145
Peregrine White 1
41
Nathaniel Morton 1 7:83 Sollomon Huet
135:136
John Rogers deceast
203 : 169
Mathew Fuller 1
191 : 181
Benjamin Warren 1
140 : 147
Francis Combs 2
185 : 186
Thomas Morton 1
17: 115
Gabrill Followell 1
74: 38
Midlebery Ministry Adam Wright 2
55: 26
Anthony Snow 1
20 : 149
John Soule seen 3
174:163
John Morton 2
204 : 158
Jonathan Dunham 2 I : III
Henry Sampson
200 : 155
Zechry Edie 2
128:196
David Alden
141 : 156
Samuell Richman
89: 104
William Harlow 1
70: 27
John Jones 1
121 : 143
John Hascall jur 2
93: 102
Plymouth Ministry
95: 180
John Winslow 1
14:152
Jonathan Sparrow
68: 132
Abraham Jackson 1
193:215
Nathaniel Loweth
50 : 3
Spare Lot 205 : 46
William Cadman
2:113
Liut Isack Little
99:17I
Edward Gray 1
34:161
John Dunham 2
97:159
is given to John Bennet theire clerk in way 4 of gratification of his service in the office of his clerkship "
1 See other purchases.
2 See sketches of the lives of the early settlers.
See chapter on Soule Neighborhood.
4 See chapter containing an account of the Green.
52 : 107
Elder Chusman 1
I33:134
George Morton 1
3: 80
Francis Walker and
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SOUTH PURCHASE
1700]
DAVID ALDEN, one of the proprietors of the South Purchase, was the son of John Alden of the Mayflower. He resided in Duxbury, was a man of influence in town and colony, and often employed in public matters. He died in 1719, aged ninety-three, when his estate in Middleboro, probably that portion which had been assigned to him in the South Pur- chase, May 20, 1719, was appraised. He married Mary, a daughter of Constant Southworth.1
WILLIAM CADMAN of Portsmouth, R. I., held many public offices. In 1669 land at Middleboro was conveyed to him by James Cole of Plymouth. This was afterward sold by his grandson to Seth Howland, in 1708.2
SOLOMON HUET may have been the son of Thomas Huet, who settled in Hingham. In 1715 Solomon Huet of Marsh- field bequeathed land in Middleboro to his son John.
ISAAC LITTLE, the son of Thomas Little, was born at Plym- outh in 1646. He was chosen lieutenant of the Plymouth County militia, July 7, 1681, and was one of a Council of War of the colony, August 14, 1689. He died in 1712. He and his brother Ephraim became residents of the town soon after its resettlement. In 1706 they kept an ordinary in what was afterwards known as the Sproat Tavern.
NATHANIEL LOWETH. We have been unable to find any facts concerning him. .
SAMUEL RICHMOND, the son of John Richmond, was born in Taunton, September 23, 1668. His father was a large owner of land, and was one of the distributors of the Irish Charity in 1677, to distressed sufferers from King Philip's War. He took part in many matters of public interest in Taunton, and was the ancestor of many of that name in Middleboro. He
1 Winsor, History of Duxbury, p. 214.
2 Plymouth Colony Deeds, vol. vii, p. 251.
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[1675
was probably the purchaser of the lot standing in the name of his son Samuel. As this purchase was made from the Indians June 30, 1672, his son Samuel was only four years old, and the entry upon the records is either a mistake, or else was entered subsequently, after the death of his father.1
JOHN ROGERS is named as "John Rogers deceased " in the list of proprietors of this purchase. He was probably the son of John Rogers, who was one of the early settlers of Dux- bury, having bought land in 1634. He died in 1660. John, Jr., who was also a native of Duxbury, married Elizabeth Pabodie in 1666, and died in 1696.
JONATHAN SPARROW, son of Richard, was constable of East- ham in 1656, and took the freeman's oath in 1667; in 1662 he was appointed by the court one of a committee to take an inventory of the "liquors, gunpowder, shot and lead that is brought into this government ;" in 1665 he was engaged as a schoolmaster. He was a deacon of the church. He was one of the selectmen of Eastham for ten years, deputy many years to the colony court, and representative to the Massachusetts General Court at Boston after the union of the colonies. In 1689 he was commissioned one of the justices of the Asso- ciation Court. In 1675 he was in the Narragansett fight as first lieutenant of the second company of Plymouth, and in the French and Indian War, in 1690, he was appointed captain of the militia of Eastham.2
SIXTEEN SHILLING PURCHASE
May 14, 1675, land was bought for £33 by Constant South- worth and John Tomson, of Watispaquin (Tispequin) Sr., and William Tispaquin, " Indian sachems now dwelling within the township of Middleborough three tracts of land, called the
1 Genealogy of the Richmond Family, p. 3. .
2 History and Genealogy of the Bangs Family, p. 20.
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SIXTEEN SHILLING PURCHASE
1675]
' Sixteen Shilling Purchase.'" This was by far the largest purchase, embracing what is now Lakeville.
May 14, 1675 Wituspequin alias the Black Sachem, and William alias Will Tispequin bind and make oath to Constant Southworth and John Tomson and the rest of the proprietors of Middleboro all Assawampsett Neck or Necks and places adjacent as security for the peaceable enjoyment of those tracts lately bought by a deed of this date.
Know all men by these presents that wee Witispican sinr and William Tispi- can iur : indian shachims now dwelling within the township of Middilbury in the iuzidickon of New Plimouth in New England in America : have for the iust some of thirty and three pounds starling : in hand paid before the insealing herof : by Constant Southworth and John Tomson of the same colliny or iuri- dicktion afore said : which said some wee doe acknowledge our selves fully satisfied contented and payd : and thereof : and of every part thereof : doe exonerate aquite and discharge the said Constant Southworth and John Tom- son : them there airs exsecutors and administrators forever : have freely fully absolutly bargained and sould infefed and confirmed : and by these presents doe bargaine sell infeefe and confirme from us and our aires (or any "other Indians now belonging or withing this iuridicktion as above said :) to them the said Constant. Southworth John Tomson and the rest of thes parnors or pro- priators whose names are inroulled or recorded in the Records of the towne booke of Midd:bury " as is above expressed to whom it properly belongs unto : to them and every of them ther airs and every of ther airs for ever: all those trakts of lands boutte uplands and medowlands lying and beeing within the compus of these bounds herin exspressed : as namely one trackt or parsell of land lying on the south-southwest : and westerly side or parts of sertaine ponds as namely one is commonly called by the name of Ninipoket the other gos by the name of quitticus pond : the ponds being the bounds on the one sid and end : and we are to close home unto a purchase of land made by Tresurer South worth and now belongs unto Elder Thomas Chushman's and some of the Littills : ther southerly bounds is our northerly : and from thire bounds by ther pond : upon the same point of compus as ther land runs wee are to extende three miles into the woods : and att the end of the three miles : then to rune or range away southerly till it meets with tow reed oke trees marked : the one is marked on foure sids the other on tow sids : they stand about a rode from eche other and on a littill knowle between tow swamps the one swamp runs away westerly the other northerly: and then from the aforesaid reed oke trees on a strait line through a sedar swampe till wee meete with tow white oke trees marked on foure sids ech of them and standing about three or foure roods asunder from ech other the one of them havth a heape of stones about him : and from these aforesaid white oks on a strait line southerly till wee meete with Dartmouth westerly line : and then to rune esterly as Dartmouth line runs till wee come to the path that gos from Middilebury unto Dartmouth wher stands by the path side a tree marked and is Dartmouth head bounds : and soe from the aforesaid tree notherly till wee clos with quitticus ponds : and soe to close
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home to those lands purchased by John Tomson and the Lathrops : a second trackt of land is neck of land commonly cald by the name of Wappond : and is bounded on the northerly sid with Assawamset pond and on the westerly sid or end with a pond comonly cald Poksha : and on the easterly sid or end with a tract of land comonely cald by gray's purchase and is to run as that purchase runs till it meets with the abovesaid Assawamset pond : a third trakt of land is lying betwene the aforesaid Grais purchase : and a trake of land sould by Tis- paquin to his father in law an indian cald by the name of John Taswood: and is bounded on the one side by the above said purchas of Edward Gray where runs a littill brooke : that parts that purchas and this of ours : the brook is cald by the name of pocaset : and runs into Poksha pond and from the head of that brooke or swampe on a strait line esterly till it meets with a great scraged rock and from tha rocke on a strait line till it meets with the river caled Suckte- qesite : which River parts this land and the lands purchased by John Tomson and Bin Church : and soe as the River runs till it meets with a white oke tree marked on tow sids and stands by the River : and from the said white oke tree marked on a strait line till it meets with a great rocke clift in thre : and soe from this rock till it meets with some marked trees standing by a swamp sid: and from them unto the pond called qsastenaqut : and allsoe a sedar swampe lying at the head of stony brooke or fall River: and is compased aboute with the lands purchased by John Tomson and Bin Church on the one sid or end and the lands of hiniry Woods on the other sid or end : and the lands of Govr Prince on the one end and a pond at the other end: wee say all these trakts of land with the sedar swampe thus described and bounded with. all woods waters and libirtys of fishing fowling with whatever apurtenances privildges Imunitys thereunto belonging or any ways thereunto apertaining : To have and to hould all thse abovesaid trakts of land unto them the above said Constant South- worth John Tomson and the rest of the proprietors to them and every of them thire airs and evry of ther airs forever : we say unto the proper use and behofe of Constant Southworth John Tomson and the rest of the proprietors to them ther airs and asigns forever : waringting the sale of hereof and of every part and parsall herof and titill or titills herof against all people whatsoever from by or under us the said Wetispican sir and William Tispican iur wee our airs and every of our airs forever : claiming any right titill whatsoe ever into any parte or par- sall of any of the lands above exspressed and bounded : wee say to have and to hold all thes abovesaid lands soe bounded be it more or les with all and sing- gelar the prividges and apurtences therunto belonging or therunto apertaining : quit and clerly aquitted and discharged of and from all other former gifts grants Bargains sals morgages Lesses Charges and all other incumbrances whatsoe ever : To be howld according to the manor of est in the county of Kent in fre and common sockkage and not in cappite nor by knits servis : the rents and servi's : the rents and servises thereof due and of Right acustomed : as allsoe it shall be lafull for the abovesaid Constant Southworth John Tomson or any of the proprietors to inrole or cause thes presents to be recorded or inroled in the records of Newplimouth according to the usshuall maner of recording of evidences of land : In witnes herof wee have herunto set to our
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