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Zaccheus Collins selectmen
Essex ss November ye 19th 1736 In observance of the above order I have Convayed the sd Mary Thoyts unto the sd Capt Benja Gareys house & Delivered her to him the sd Garey for him to take care of the sd Mary and provide for her as above sd
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Essex ss To Henery Silsbe Constable in Lynn -
Greeting
Whereas the selectmen of the Town of Lynn are Informed that David Stimson with his wife & two Children Came into the Town of Lynn on the Last of October 1736 and came from the Town of Boston where they Belonged and had their Last Resadence: Where- fore In His Majesties Name you are Required to warn the above named persons to depart out of the Town of Lynn or they shall be proceeded with as the Law Directs : and you are alick Required to Inquire of the above named persons when they came into the Town of Lynn and from whence they came & where they had their Last Resadence: fail not and make Retorn with your Doings hereon Dated at Lynn December ye 8th 1736 By order of ye selectmen
Richard Johnson Town Clerk
Lynn December ye 10th 1736 by Vertue of this warrant I have warned the above named David Stimson & his wife & two children to Depart out of this Town: I allso Inquired of them from whence they Came & when they Came into this Town & they said from the Town of Boston the Last of October Last Henery Silsbe Constable Essex ss To Henery Silsbe Constable in Lynn -
Greeting - Whereas the selectmen of the Town of Lynn are In- formed that Thorndick Very and wife & two children came into the Town of Lynn June ye 28th 1736 and came from the Town of Salem where they properly belong & had their Last Resadence : Wherefore In His Majesties Name you are Required to warn the above said persons to depart out of the Town of Lynn or they shall be proceeded
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with as the Law Directs : and you are alick Required to Inquire of the above named persons when they came into the Town of Lynn & from whence they Came & where they had their Last Resadence : fail not & make Retorn with your Doings hereon: Dated at Lynn December ye 8th 1736 By order of ye selectmen
Richard Johnson Town Clerk
Lynn December ye 10th 1736 In answer to the above warrant I have warned the above named Thorndick Very & his wife to Depart and Leave this Town with their children: I also Inquired of them from whence they came and when they came into this Town they answered me that they came into this Town ye 28th of June Last past & that they came from the Town of Salem
Henery Silsbe Constable
Essex ss To Henery Silsbe Constable in Lynn -
Greeting - Whereas the selectmen of the Town of Lynn are In- formed that Lois Gardner with two children came into the Town of Lynn sum time in the month of Last 1736 and came from Sherborn in Nantucket where they properly belong and had their Last Resadence: Wherefore In His Majesties Name you are Required to warn the above sd Lois Gardner to depart out of the Town of Lynn with her children or they shall be proceeded with as the Law Directs : allso you are alick Required to Inquire of the above sd person when she came into the Town of Lynn and from whence she came and where she had her Last Resadence : fail not and make Retorn with your Doings hereon Dated at Lynn December ye 13th 1736 By order of ye selectmen
Richard Johnson Town Clerk
Lynn December ye 14th 1736 By Virtue of this warrant I have warned the above named person Lois Gardner to Depart this Town with her two children I also Inquired of her when she came into this Town and from whence she came & she said from Nantuckit in June Last 1736 Henery Silsbe Constable
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Essex ss To Henery Silsbe Constable in Lynn -
Greeting -
Whereas the selectmen of ye Town of Lynn are Informed that Roger Darbe Came into the Town of Lynn & came from ye Town of Marblhead where he properly belongs & had his Last Resadence sum time in ye first of November Last: 1736: Therefore In His
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Majesties Name you are Required to warn the sd Roger Darbe to Depart out of ye Town of Lynn or he shall be proceeded with as the Law Directs : also you are alick Required to Inquir of ye sd Roger Darbe when he came into this Town & from whence he came & where he had his Last Resadence: fail not and make Retorn with your Doings hereon : Dated at Lynn January ye 17th 1736/7 By order of ye selectmen Richard Johnson Town Clerk
In Observation to the above written I have warned the above named Roger Darbe to Depart & Leave this Town and I also In- quired of him when he Came into this Town and from whence he came and he answered me he came sum time in November Last & that he came from the Town of Marblhead : Dated Lynn January 17th 1736
Henery Silsbe Constable
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Essex ss To Thomas Baker Constable in Lynn -
Greeting - Whereas the selectmen of the Town of Lynn are In- formed that on or about the fifteenth day of november 1736: Benja- min Ramsdill and his wife & two children came into the Town of Lynn and came from the Town of Beningham where they properly belong & had their Last Resadence: therefore In His Majesties Name you are Required to warn the sd Benjamin Ramsdill & his wife to Depart out of the Town of Lynn with their children or they shall be proceeded with as the Law Directs and you are Lickwise Re- quired to Inquire of the sd Ramsdils when they came into the Town of Lynn & from whence the came & where they had their Last Res- adence fail not and make Retorn with your Doings hereon: Dated at Lynn December ye first 1736 : By order of ye selectmen - Richard Johnson Town Clerk
Essex ss By virtue of this warrant I have warned the within named Benjamin Ramsdill his wife & children forthwith to Depart & Leave this Town
I have Inquired of them when they came into this Town & from whence they came but I could get no answer of them Lynn De- cember ye 4th 1736
Thomas Baker Constable
Essex ss To Henery Silsbe Constable in Lynn -
Greeting - Whereas the selectmen of the Town of Lynn are In- formed that in the first of Aprill Last 1736 David Tyler came into
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the Town of Lynn and came from the Town of Boxford where he properly belongs and had his Last Resadence: Therefore In His Majesties name you are Required to warn the sd David Tyler to Depart out of the Town of Lynn or he shall be proceeded with as the Law Directs : and you are Lickwise Required to Inquire of the sd David Tyler whence he came & when he came into this Town & where he had his Last Resadence fail not and make Retorn with your Doings hereon : Dated at Lynn January ye 17th 1736/7 By Order of the selectmen - Richard Johnson Town Clerk Lynn December ye 8th 1736: by Virtue of this warrant I have warned the above named named David Tyler to Depart and Leave This Town I also Inquired of him when and from whence he came and he said Last Aprill from Boxford
Henery Silsbe Constable
Whereas William Ballord & Nathan Breed petitioned the Town at their Annuall meeting in March 1737 to sell to them ye corner of comon Land that Lyeth Betwixt Nathanll Ballards House Who is deseased & Nathan Breeds hous & to Exchang sum of sd Land with Wm Ballord in order to accomadate the way Better: Wherefore Voted that the selectmen mak sale of so much of sd Land as they shall thinck Conveniant and Exchang so much as will accomadate the Rhoad Better : Whereupon we ye subscribers according to ye trust Reposed in us : have Laid out to William Ballard 20 poole and Ex- changed with sd Ballard 4 poole to accomadate ye way as afore sd & sold to sd Ballard 16 poole at 4s pr. poole and to Nathan Breed 21 poole Including his shop at 4s per pole as Witnis our hands June ye 20th 1737 then Recd Richard Johnson of Nathan Breed for himself & Daniel Mansfeild
William Ballard seven pound Eight shillings in full for sd Land above Described By me Richard Johnson Town Treasurer
Jacob Newhall
John Fuller
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At a Generall Townmeeting Held in Lynn March ye 7th 1736/7 Ebenezer Burrill Esq was chose moderator of sd meeting at the same Meeting
Richard Johnson was Chose Town Clerk to Keep the Towns Books & Records for the year Ensewing
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at the same Meeting
Capt Richard Mower Capt Elisha Newhall Jacob Newhall Daniel Mansfeild Zaccheus Collins Esq John Fuller and Richard Johnson was chose selectmen to order ye prudenshall affair of ye Town for ye year Ensewing
at the same Meeting
John Wait Walter Phillips & Thomas Hodgman was Chose Con- stables for ye year Ensewing
at the same Meeting
Ebenezer Newhall John Breed & Nathaniel Collins Junr was Chose tithingmen for ye year Ensewing
at the same Meeting
Jonathan Collins John Richards David Dunnel & Silas Ramsdill was Chose Hogreaves and they to Keep in ad Look aftor swine in Each Constables ward in which the were Chosen & that to be their Boundery Voted ye swine to go at Large as ye Law Directs
at the same Meeting
Voted that ye Highways be mended by Labour & Joseph Collins Robert Edmonds & Nathaniel Gowing Junr be the survayers of ye Highways for ye year Ensewing
at the same Meeting
David Johnson & Joseph Collins Junr was Chose Leather sealers
at the same Meeting
Samuel Ingols Thomas Riddan Ebenezer Burrill Junr & John Mower was chose fence vewers for the Town and Ensign Benja Newhall and John Jencks was chose fence vewars for Rumney marsh only : at the same Meeting
Ens Benjamin Newhall was Chose survayer of Hemp & flax for ye year Ensewing
and at ye same Meeting Ebenez Ramsdill pd 10s for sedg Island & he to have it again for 10s ye next year Godfrey Tarbox paid ten pounds for the hire of the Nahant Beachis for the year past and the Town Let them to him again for five pounds for the year Ensewing
at the same Meeting
Whereas William Ballord and Nathan Breed Desired ye Town to make an Exchange with the sd William Ballard of sum Land to straighten his fence against ye hous formerly Nathaniel Ballards : and to sell to sd Ballard & Breed about twenty or thirty pooles of Land in that Corner of Land Betwixt ye hous formerly Nathaniel
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Ballords & Nathan Breeds hous: In answer to sd Request Voted that the selectmen make an Exchange with the sd William Ballard and make sail of so much of that Land Requested as they in their prudence thinck Conveniant to Willem Ballard and Nathan Breed and ye selectmen to set ye price of sd Land and Receive ye money for it for ye Town
at the same Meeting whereas Edward Irson had complained to ye Town that he had not his full Wright in the common Lands and a Committe was Chosen to consider of his Complaint and make Report to ye Town Which is as followeth: We the subscribers being ap- pointed by the Town of Lynn at their Meeting held in Lynn Sep- tember ye 29th 1736 To take Under Consideration the Complaint of Edward Ireson to the sd Town of his not haveing had his pro- portionable part of the Common & Undevideds when they was Layd out to & among the Propriators & Inhabitants of the afore said Town -
Pursuant there to we have Carefully Examined into that affair & by sarching into the Records & other Information find that the said Edward Ierson hath: 1: acre &: 60: pooles more of the Com- mon Lands (in quontity) then the other Commoners who drawed the same Right with his prodesessors but for as much as the sd Iresons predesessors was the onely Commoner who had no Lot Laid out in Nahant & that haveing Risen in Vallue for more then the other common Lands - We are of Opinion that in Consideration there of and in full sattisfaction there for there be granted to the said Edward Ierson about : 80: pooles of common Land bounded Easterly on his homested & westerly on the Highway that Leads from Samuel Ingoles to Marblhead Road and Northerly so far as to take the front of his said homesteed & so far southerly as the said Ingoles well and the sd 80 pooles of Land to be the same Length on that side next to the aforesaid highway as on the other side thereoff the fore menshoned Report was Voted Ebenezer Burrill an acception by ye Town and the sd Richard Mower Edward Ierson Being present accepted Elisha Newhall of it in full Sattisfaction
At the same Meeting March ye 7th 1736/7
Whereas the Reverant Mr Nathaniel Henchman prefered a petition to the Town at their Townmeeting ye 17th of May: 1736: and in answer to the same ye selectmen was appointed to vew the same & make Report to the Town the next Townmeeting the Which they
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did : at a Townmeeting July ye 8th 1736: But nothing was acted up- on it at that meeting : and the sd Mr Hinchman Desired the Town to pass upon it at the Generall Town Meeting this day: the Petition is as followeth: To the Town of Lynn Assembled this 17th of May 1736: Gentlmen there being a few Pols of comon Land adjoyning to the Northern Bounds of my Homested the purchas where of would accomadate me with a certain watering place: the want of which By Reason of ye uncertainty of the upper stream is a Considerable Disapintment to me, I therefore Request your sail of it to me whereby youl ablidg yours to serve N Hinchman then the question was put wheither they would grant the prayer of the petition and it was Voted in the affirmitive then the qestion was put wheither they would give the peac of Land to Mr Hinchman and it was Voted in the affirmitive At A Meeting of ye selectmen March ye 11th 1736/7 the severall officers was sworn to their severall offices as followeth viz Richard Johnson as Town Clerk and Capt Mower Capt Newhall Jacob Newhall Daniel Mansfeild Capt Fuller & Richard Johnson as assessors
Walter Phillips as Constable Aaron Hart Thomas Hodgman also Constables Ebenezr Newhall and John Breed tithingmen
Samuel Larabe & Joseph Eaton Junr tithingmen allso
Jonathan Collins John Richards Silas Ramsdill as hogreaves Joseph Collins Robert Edmonds & Nathaniel Gowing survayers of high- ways: Joseph Collins Leather sealors Ens Benja Newhall John Jencks Thomas Riddan Samuel Ingols Ebenezer Burrill ju & John Mower fence vewers Ens Benja Newhall as survayer of Hemp & flax
May ye 25th 1737 then Received of Captn Fuller for & in behalf of ye committe of In chro achments that they had Recd of Joshua Collins -£4=0=0
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At A Town Meeting Held in Lynn March ye 25th 1737/8
Ebenezer Burrill Esq Was Chose Moderator of sd Meeting at the same Meeting
Aaron Hart was Chose Constable in the Roome & sted of Capt John Fuller sd Hart being present & accepted of it at ye same Meeting
Richard Johnson was Chose Town Treasurer - at the same Meeting & Town Clerk
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Voted that Mr Jacob Newhall Cap John Fuller & Mr David Johnson be a Committe Carefully to Inspect into any persons haveing made incroachment upon any of the Roads or highways within the Limmits of the Town or upon any of the Towns Land by Raising or Erecting any boulding thereon or on any part there off or that shall fence Inclose or Erect any Building on any of the Roads highways or Lands as afore sd before the annuall Town Meeting in March next & the afore said Committee are here by fully autherised & Impow- ered in behalfe of the Town to prosecute in the Law to Effect all & Every person Erecting any boulding fencing or Incloseing as a fore said (Excepting such only as have allready made satisfaction to the Town therefor) or otherwise to agree with all or any person fencing boulding or Erecting any boulding or Inclosing any of the Towns Land as afore sd and the said Committe to Render an Accompt of their Doings to the aforesaid Annuall Town Meeting
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At a Town Meeting Held in Lynn March ye 25th ---- 1737 Nathaniel Collins petitioned the Town to sell him about seven pools of Common Land to the southard of his Dwelling hous In answer to sd Request William Basset Ens Benja Newhall & Edwon Lewis are appointed a Committe to vew sd Land petitisoned for and make Report the next May Town Meeting
at the same Meeting March ye 25th Whereas Samuel Alley petitined the Town to sell to him about six pooles of Common Land at the East End of his hous to Make a Cow yard In answer to sd Request William Basset Ens Benja Newhall & Edmond Lewis are appointed a Commity to vew sd Land petitisoned for and make Report to the Town the next May Town Meeting
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Essex ss To Aaron Hart Constable in Lynn -
Greeting -
Whereas the selectmen of the Town of Lynn are Informed that John Makewater came into the Town of Lynn sum time in the month of November Last 1736 & came from the Town of Moldan where he had his Last Resadence -
Wherefore In His Majesties Name you are Required to warn the sd John Makewater to depart out of the Town of Lynn or he shall be proceeded with as the Law Directs - and you are Alick Re- quired to Inquire of the sd John Makewater when he came into
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this Town & from whence he came & where he had his Last Resa- dence : fail not and make Retorn with your Doings hereon: Dated at Lynn Aprill ye 23d 1737 By order of the selectmen - Richard Johnson Town Clerk
Essex ss In observance of the above warrant I have warned the above named John Makwater to Depart out of this Town or he shall be proceeded with as the Law Directs : and I allso Enquird of sd person when he came into this Town and from whence he came & where he came from and where he had his Last Resadence & he sd he came from the Town of Moldin and Came into this Town sum time in November 1736: Aprill ye 26th 1737 Aaron Hart Constable
At a Town Meeting Held in Lynn May ye 13th 1737
Capt William Collins was Chose for to serve for & Represent the Town at the Generall Coart according to precept
at the same Meeting
Ebenezer Burrill Esq was Chose Moderator of sd Meeting
at the same Meeting
the Act for Calling in ye torn Bills was Read to the Town at the same Meeting
the Law for Chuseing Jurimen was Read and the number ye selectme had Drawn out was Read & ye Town Voated an acceptance of those that was Drawn out
at the same Meeting
Whereas Nathaniel Collins senr petitioned the Town to sell him a small peace of Land upon ye common near his hous to set a Barn on at the Town Meeting March ye 25th 1737 In answer to sd petition William Basset Ens Benja Newhall & Edmond Lewis was appointed a committe to vew sd Land petitioned for and make Report to ye Town wheither it was Conveniant for the Town to sell it to the sd Collins : and at a Town Meeting Held in Lynn May ye 13th 1737 sd committe Mad & Repor to the Town that they had vewed sd Land petitioned for and thought their migh be sold to the petitiner ten pooles of Land without any predidsh to the Highway or neibourhod near his sons work hous as they had staked it out -
Upon which the Town voted that Nathaniel Collins should have ye ten pooles of Land as it was stacked out he paying to ye Town Treas- urer forty shillings for the sd Land for the Towns Use
June ye 6th 1738 Jedediah Collins pd for sd Land forty shilling to me Richard Johnson
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at the same Meeting
Whereas Samuel Alley petitioned the Town at their Town meeting in March ye 25th 1737 1737 to sell him a small peace of Common Land at the East End of his Dwelling hous for a Cow yard and a Committee Chose to vew sd Land petitined for and make Report the next Town meeting : the which they did at the Townmeeting Held in Lynn May ye 13th 1737 that they had vewed sd Land petitioned for and was of opinion that there might be about ten pools of Land sold to sd Alley without any Damage to the Road : Upon which Report the Town Voted that the sd Samuel Alley should have the sd Land as it was stacked out he paying to the Town Treasurer forty shillings for sd Land for ye use of the Town March ye 16th 1737/8 Samuel Alley paid forty shillings for ye said Land £2-0-0
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At A Town Meeting Held in Lynn September ye 22d 1737 Ebenezer Burrill Esq was Chose Moderator of sd Meeting at the same Meeting
Voted that ther shall be a tax of one hundered & ninty pounds to pay ye nessesary Charge ariseing in said Town for the year Ineswing at the same Meeting
Voted that the selectmen have full power to Receive any Books or Deeds or papers of the Excexretrix of Corll Burrill Deseased that was in his hands when he Deseased that was the Towns
At A Generall Town Meeting Held in Lynn March ye 6th 1737/8 Ebenezer Burrill Esq was Chose Moderator of said meeting
at the same Meeting
Richard Johnson was Chose Town Clerk & Town Treasurer for the year Insewing
at the same Meeting
Capt Benja Potter Capt Elisha Newhall Jacob Newhall Capt John Fuller Zaccheus Collins Robert Edmonds & Richard Johnson was Chose selectmen to order the Prudenshall affairs of the Town for the year Insewing
at the same Meeting
Aaron Hart Jonathan Phillips & Joseph Eaton Junr was Chose Constables
at the same Meeting
Joseph Bates Zaccheus Norwood & Leut Ebenezer Bancroft was Chose tithingmen
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at the same Meeting
Voted the swine to goe at Larg this year and Jacob Collins Thomas Lewis William Hill and John How was Chose hogreaves for the year Insewing
at the same Meeting
Joseph Collins Junr and Robert Edmonds & Benja Garey Junr was Chose survayers of highways
at the same Meeting
David Johnson & Joseph Collins Junr was Chose Leather sealers at the same Meeting
Henery Silsbe Jonathan Collins John Hawkes ye 4th Thomas Stocker Junr Jeremiah Newhall & Daniel Mansfeild Junr was chose fence vewers for ye year Insewing
at the same meeting
Ens Benja Newhall was Chose survayer of hemp & flax untill that Law be Ended
at the same Meeting
Deacon John Burriage was chose sealor of waits & measurers
at the same Meeting
Godfree Tarbox paid five pound for the Nahant Beaches Last year & the Town Let them to Benja Alley for five pounds for ye year Insewing : and Ebenezer Ramsdill pd ten shilling for ye sedg Islands for ye year past and the Town Let them again for ten shilling for the year Insewing
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At the same Meeting March the 6th 1737/8
Whereas Samuel Breed William Basset John Basset Zaccheus Collins & Samuell Newhall ye 3d Requested the Town to grant them a Peace of Land to Accomadate the People Called Quakers to bould a new meetinghous on the said Peace of Land to Joyne to the fence at the front of the Quakers old meeting hous the question being asked wheither the Town would grant their Request and it was voted in the affirmitive and Capt John Fuller Jacob Newhall and Edmond Lewis was Chose a Committe to stack out the said Land
at the same Meeting
Henery Silsbe Requested the Town to sell him about Eighty Poole of Common Land at the front of his hous and Land wherefore
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Voted that he shall have sd Land & that Ens Benja Newhall Edmond Lewis and Jonathan Blany be a committe to stack out said Land so that it may be Lest predishall to the neighbours - March ye 5th 1738/9 Received of Henery Silsbe fifteen pound for ye above Eighty poole of Land
at the same Meeting
Abraham Allen Petitisoned the Town to sell him about Eight or ten pole of Land upon ye southard of his hous adoyning to his garding In answer to the same Ens Benja Newhall Edmond Lewis and Jona- than Blany are appointed to vew the same and make Report to the Town the next Town Meeting
at the same Meeting
It was asked wheither the Town would Chuse a Committe to stack out the Land Mr Hinchman had a Vote of the Last March Town meeting and it past in the negative
at the same meeting
Whereas there was a grant of ten pools of Land to Edward Howard senr at a Town Meeting Held in Lynn October ye 30th 1710 where he set his hous and now stands and a Restriction was put upon it that if ever he sold said Land the Town to have the offer of buying it : therefore at this meeting Edward Howard Junr gave the Town the offer of buying it : and it was put to vote wheither the Town would by it and it passed in the neggative
at the same Meeting
the List of Jurymen was Read to the Town and approved of
at the same Meeting
Captn James Person put in a petition to the Town to se if they would give him fifteen pounds six shillings & six pence which was dew to the Town as by a Note of hand which was given by him to the selectm of sd Town and after sum Debate upon it: the further Consideration of it was continued untill the next Town Meeting
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We the subscribers Being Chosen a Committe carefully to Inspect into any persons haveing made Incroachments upon any of the Towns Land : In Lynn at a Legall Town Meeting held in March ye 25th 1737 : Pursuant to said vote wee having sold the severall peacis of Lands as followeth ---
Viz To Ebenezer Burrill Esq 5 poole of Land by his sons
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hous by the gate £1-5-0 to Abraham Allen:1 : pole in his gardin moar then his former grant 0-50
to Joshua Collins at the notherly End of his hous plott 20 pole 4-00 2-0-0 to Nathaniel Potter : 11 : pole Joyning his former grant to Zaccheus Norwood : 9: pole where his hous stands not to Infring on ye way .. 2-10-0
to Nathaniel Collins : 21/2 pole Joyning to his Earthen shop 0-12-0
to Joseph Ingols : 3 : pole where his hous stands & with- in the fence
0-15-0
to Henery Silsbe : 7 : pole on the front of his homested to Godfre Tarbox : 5 : pole on the front of his Land Ex- clusive of ye highway that Leads to Drivers Creck below Tarboxes hous
1-15-0
to Capt Richard Mower: 2: pole on the front of his Land Bought of Divin 0-10-0
to Benjamin Coats : 1 : pole by the Road now in fence 0-5-0
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