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The Madbury mast road appears to be the one referred to March 19, 1693-4, when 20 acres of land were granted James Jackson " near where the mast wheels whare (were) broken, on the no: west side of the way." The bounds of James Jackson's land, granted to his father James in 1693- 4, were renewed Oct. 14, 1732, " beginning at the mast way, so called, at a turn of said way, above where his house now stands." Ten acres of this land were laid out on the west side of said mast way, run- ning along this way 52 rods, near Eli Demerit's land. The other ten aeres were laid out on the east side of said mast way, beginning at a pine root, a former corner bound of Eli Demerit's land, and running 40 rods northeasterly along by said Demerit's land to a heap of stones, then 40 rods S. W. to a beech tree standing in the fence by said way N. West- erly of his house, thence S. easterly to the first bound. This land was in Madbury, and is still owned in part, if not wholly, by said James's de- seendants.
A mast road is mentioned the 7tlı, 9 mo., 1682, when 20 acres of land, granted Walter Jackson the 19th, 1 mo., 1665-6, " at the head of his own
lott betwixt the cow-path and the swampe," were laid out adjoining the land he bought of Thomas Johnson, " lying betweene William Beard's crick, and the crick called Thomas Jolinson's." This land ran along the mast path from the west end to the south. It does not appear what mast path this was. Walter Jackson of Oyster River and wife Jane conveyed to Robert Watson, Dec. 14, 1668, a tract of land on the north side of the river, (27} rods on the river), and ex- tending the same distance to "the Cochechow path from Wm. Beard's, bounded E. by Philip Chesley's land, and W. by said Jackson's." The Jackson land last mentioned was east of the Beard land, afterwards acquired by Edward Leathers. The commissioners appointed to measure a tract held in common between Robert Leathers (deceased) and Jonathan Leathers, Jan. . 26, 1773, began at the N. E. corner of Mary and Jonathan Chesley's land at the highway, thence ran easterly by said way to the land of sd Robert and Jonathan Leathers, and by their land about S. 5 deg. 52 rods, then N. 55 deg. E. 22 rods, to the land of Sam- uel Chesley and Wm. Jackson, and along sd land southerly to highwater mark at Jackson's point, so called. (See Jackson's Point.)
The MAST PATH TO OYSTER RIVER was laid out at least two hundred years ago. It is mentioned Ap. 2, 1694, when John Thompson, Sr., had a grant of fifty acres in Follet's swamp at Oyster River, on the north side of the mast path. And John Tuttle of Dover conveyed to John Thompson, Sr., Feb. 18, 1715-16, forty acres in Oyster River woods, on
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the south side of the Mast path that leads to Little river. This path was declared, June 6, 1701, to be a highway of four rods wide, " as first laid out," beginning at the foot of Oyster River falls, and extending " to the utmost bonnds of the town." John Pitman of Durham, Nov. 20, 1744, conveyed to Jonathan Thomp- son, Jr., 25 acres in Durham (which then included Lee), on the north side ot ye mast way yt leads up to Wm. Kelsey's at Nottingham, with dwel- ling-house, etc., beginning at a stake on the north side of said way near ye Little river mill.
Fifty acres of land, granted to Capt. Thomas Packer, Ap. 11, 1694, " on the south side of Lamprell river fourth falls. or elsewhere for his con- venieney," were laid out to Jonathan Chesley, beginning at a white oak on the south side of the mast path that leads from ye Little river to Oyster River Falls, and from said tree S. S. E. 100 rods to a pine stump near Wednesday Hill.
Fifty acres of land were laid out Dec. 17, 1723, to Jonathan Wood- man, James Davis, Joseph Meder, and Mary Thomas (widow of James Thomas, who was one of the original grantees), beginning at a white oak standing by the mast path, the west- ward bound of Capt. Packer's land, and running 84 rods by the mast path. Joseph Thomas conveyed to Samuel Smith, July 21, 1730, 15 acres of land (part of the above tract), be- ginning 35} rods from Packer's west corner bound standing by ye mast path and extending up to ye Little river.
In the warrant for a town-meeting in Durham, Nov. 9, 1744, is the pro-
posal of a highway from Little river mill to Nottingham " where the mast path way now goeth." At a town- meeting held Dec. 24, 1744, it was voted " that the mast way from litel Riner to Sam" Siases, and so to thie head of the township, be made and maintained."
This mast road begins at the Dur- ham Landing, at the lowest falls in Oyster river, and constitutes the principal street through Durham vil- lage as far as the foot of Chesley's hill, where it bends to the right. leav- ing the turnpike road, but joining it again at the top of the hill. A quar- ter of a mile further west, it again leaves the turnpike road, and bends around northwesterly, and then southerly, to the mast-road school- house, where it crosses the turnpike road in the direction of Lee Hill. The portion of this road between the schoolhouse and the Lee boundary constitutes a neighborhood, now pop- ularly called "the Mast Road," in- habited chiefly by the Bunker, Wig- gins, and Chesley families. On the bounds of Durham and Lee this mast road crosses Oyster river at the old mast bridge, otherwise called Laskey's bridge in the Durham re- cords.
MAST POINT. This point is on the westerly side of the Salmon Falls river, on the confines of Somers- worth and Rochester. It is men- tioned Nov. 10, 1753, when the bounds between Dover and Rochester were perambulated, " beginning at a dry piteh-pine tree at Mast Point by Salmon Falls river. three rods S. W. of a certain cove next adjacent to the uppermost head of the Little falls, so called." (Dover Records.) " The
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road from ye Mast Point to Cochecho landing," is mentioned last century in a deed from Benjamin to John Went- worth. A bridge across the river at Mast point once connected Berwick with Rochester and Dover, but this is now gone, and in its place is Mast Point dam, built by the Great Falls Manufacturing Co. in 1835. The river above, for several miles, is broad and deep, and in early times afforded a natural highway for the transportation of masts and other timber. The " Landing-place for masts," is mentioned on Holland's map of 1784, just above the junction with Little river. The cove at the upper side of Mast Point is said to have been another landing-place whence the timber was conveyed by teams to Cochecho landing, and sent to Portsmouth by water. The name of Mast Point falls is sometimes given to Little falls.
MATHEWS' CREEK, otherwise MATHES'S. This creek was called "the Great creek" in 1644, when Francis Mathews had a grant of marsh and npland on its northwest side. (See Great Creek.) It is mentioned the 10th, 8 mo., 1653, when John Bickford and Thomas ffootman had the grant of a neck of land " on the southwest side of Mrs. Mathews' creek, from the flowing of the tide of the southernmost branch of Mrs. Mathews' creek to the flowing of the tide in the creek at the old tree." This was Mrs. Tamsen or Thomasine Mathews, widow of the above Francis Mathews.
Three score and ten acres of land, or thereabout, were laid out to Oleuer (Oliver) Kent the 3d, 2 mo., 1658, bounded by Wm. Drew and
Mr. Mathews and Charles Adams, " by the creek side, commonly called Mr. Mathewses Creek."
Francis Durgin of Exeter con- veyed to John Smith, Dec. 25, 1723, all right and title to " a certain neck of land on the N. W. side of ye Great bay, aioyning to Matheses Creek, so called, being half of said neck of land which his father Wm. Durgin lived on in his life-time."
James Durgin of Dover, in Oyster River parish, conveyed to John Smith, Jr., March 9, 1729-30, one third of a tract of 20 acres on the N. W. side of Great Bay, " adjoining the creek commonly called Muthewes Creek, which land the Governor and council heretofore settled on ye heirs of my father Wm. Durgin, deceased, Oct. 19, 1706."
Lemuel Bickford of Newington, Oct. 10, 1733, conveyed to John Smith a tract of land on the south- west side of "Mathises creek, so called," originally granted to his grandfather John Bickford and Thomas Footman.
Robert and Joseph Kent, and others of the same family, conveyed to John Kent, Ap. 1, 1748, a tract of land, formerly the estate of Joseph Kent, father of said Robert, and grandfather of said John- which land joined Thomas Drew's land where he then dwelt, and " the land of Capt. Francis Mathes in ye possession of Abraham Mathes, which is called by the name of Mathes Neck," and thence ran to " Mistress Mathes' creek, commonly called and known by said name." A mill on this creek is spoken of in 1678. (See Long Creek.) The " old dam" at the head of it is mentioned
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Ap. 11, 1694. (See Daniel's Brook.) Eliphalet Daniel, March 13, 1755, conveyed to Daniel Rogers and Benjn Jenkins 100 acres of land in Durham, bounded northeasterly by land in possession of Gershom and Benj" Mathes, and running by their land to Mathes's mill-pond, so called.
Gershom Mathes conveyed his rights here to his brother Benjamin Feb. 13, 1756, and afterwards went to Loudon. Benjamin Mathes, Nov. 8, 1756, conveyed to Joseph Sias a tract of 60 acres in Durham, part of the farm where his father Francis Mathes, deceased, formerly dwelt, beginning at a stone at high-water mark, about 6 rods N. E. from the corn-mill, thence running N. 63 deg. W. 80 rods to the well marsh, so . called, thence N. 33 deg. E. 126 rods, to the road ; together with one half of the corn-mill adjoining thereto.
Benjamin Mathes, Jr., conveyed to Joseph Sias, Ang 15, 1765, all right and title to the creek or mill privilege, joining to that farm in Durham which he sold said Sias, with the mills thereon, and utensils, etc.
This mill and part of the Mathes land were afterwards acquired by Jacob Crommet or Crummit, from whom Mathes' creek derived the name of Crummit's creek, by which it is now known. (See Crummit's Creek.)
MATHEWS' NECK. This name is given on Smith's map of Durham in 1805, to the small peninsula at the Narrows, between Great and Little Bays, now called Adams' Point. Benjamin Mathews or Mathes, the 10 th, 2 mo., 1654, had a grant " on (of a ?) Little Plott of marsh at the
head of the little bay, with the neck of land there." It is mentioned Dec. 11, 1694, when Wm. Furber was licensed to "keep a ferry from his house at Welchman's cove to trans- port travellers over to Oyster River," at the rate of three pence for each person, and eight pence for man and horse, if landed "at Mathews his neck," and six pence for each person, and twelve pence for man and horse, if landed " at Durgin's, on the west side of Mathews his neck." (N. H. Prov. Pap., 2 : 146-7.)
Francis Mathes of Durham con- veyed to Jabez Davis, Sept. 13, 1769, eighty acres of land in Durham, being all that tract between Great bay and Little bay in Piscataqua river commonly called by the name of Mathes Neck, bounded on every part by water, except the northwest part which is bounded by land in possession of John Kent. Mathews' Neck was afterwards acquired by Richard Dame. (See Adams' Point.)
Seth Shackford of Newmarket, and others, petitioned the N. H. leg- islature in June, 1825, for a bridge across the Pascataqua river at a place called the narrows, or Furber's ferry, commencing at land belonging to the heirs of William Furber in the town of Newington, and crossing the Pascataqua river in a westerly direction to the east side of Mathes' neck in Durham, at land belonging to the heirs of Richard Dame, and extending from the west side of said Mathes' neck across a small cove, called Crummit's. Mill Cove, to land owned by James Furnald, Esq. A bridge here, it is stated in the peti- tion, would offer no obstruction to the navigation of the Pascataqua,
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and the current is less rapid than at any other place in the river below. The length of the bridge from the Newington shore to the east side of Mathes' Neck would be about 60 rods, and from the west side of Mathes' Neck across Crummit's Mill cove about 40 rods.
A similar petition was presented by Wm. Claggett and others in 1832, but the town of Durham instructed its representative to oppose this movement, and the petition was not granted.
Mathews' Neck, until the construc- tion of the present causeway, became an island at high tide. An inlet on one side is now called Island cove. Beneath the banks of this Neck may be seen some half-ruined caves, said to have been used by the aborigines in pre-historic times. At a later day they often served the early settlers as places of concealment from the Indians. There is a similar cave lower down, on the shore of the Emerson farm on Little Bay. Bel- knap says that four sons of John Wheeler, who with his wife and two children was killed by the Indians Ap. 27, 1706, "took refuge in a cave by the bank of the Little Bay, and though pursued by the Indians, escaped unhurt." (See Shooting Point.)
MEADER'S BRIDGE. Mentioned on Sanford & Evert's Atlas. This bridge is on the highway where it spans the Dover and Winnipiseogee R. R. near Mr. Moses Meader's in the upper part of Dover.
MEADER'S NECK. This neck of land is on the upper shore of the
Pascataqua, between the mouth of Oyster river and Royall's cove. It is mostly in Durham, and includes Cedar Pt. and Tickle Pt. Franklin city was laid out on this neck. Part of it was conveyed to John Meader by Valentine Hill and Mary his wife, Sept. 20, 1660, and part was acquired by a grant of 150 acres to John Meader and Wm. Sheffield in 1656. Wm. Sheffield's half was conveyed to James Davis, John Meader, Sr., and John Meader, Jr., in equal shares, by "Joseph Sheffield of Shurbury, Middlesex Co., Prov. of Mass. Bay," Nov. 11, 1701. John Meader, Sr., out of love and affection to his son John, conveyed to him, June 17, 1679, as his portion and patrimony in full, three score acres of land on the neck that lyeth between Oyster . river and ye Back river, being a part and moitie of a greater tract granted ye sª John Meader, ye father, and Wm. Sheffield at a public town-meet- ing in ye year of our Lord God 1656, -which three score acres begin at an aspe tree some four rods from ye flowing of ye tide at ye head of Rial's Cove, so north and by west 142 rods by ye lands lately Thomas Laiton's, and by ye land latelie Elder Nutter's1 to a red oak, and thence W. by S. 68 rods to a hemlock, thence S. and by E. to a great white oak, ye N. E. corner bound of ye land which John Meader, ye father, bought of Mr. Valentine Hill, and so from sd oak to ye aspe tree at ye head of Rial's Cove aforesd, always provided there be a highway one rod wide from ye sd oak to ye aspe tree at ye Cove aforesd for a watering way to sª Cove.
1 Elder Hatevil Nutter had a grant of 200 acres of upland for a farm, next adjacent to Wm. Sheffield's, the 2d, 12 mo., 1658.
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There was a fulling mill on this neck early last century, mentioned Nov. 10, 1724, when John Meder of Dover, weaver, for ye natural love and affection for his well beloved son Nicholas Meder, planter, conveyed to him. on certain conditions, Nov. 10, 1724, "a parcel of land and meadow in Dover, beginning at ye ould fulling mill, commonly so called, and running thence west to a great rock, thence to the dwelling house of sd John Meder where he now liveth, and from sd house to ye bridge that is over the gully or small brook that goeth out to ye commons-that is, all the land on the north side of the line from the fulling-mill to ye bridge, and from ye bridge to sd John Meder's fresh marsh on a N. W. by N. line from the head of the marsh to the land of John Laighton, thence to the aforesd fulling-mill, together with the moitie or half of his other lands in Dover, and also one half of the barn Joseph Meder built." (See Meader's Garrison, Royall's Cove, and Stony Brook.)
MEADERBORO' ROAD. Meaderbor- ough is a prosperous farming region in the northwestern part of Roches- ter, so named from Benjamin Meader and his four brothers, who were among the first settlers in that part of the town. They were Quakers. Meaderboro' road extends along the ridge through this district into Farm- ington.
MECHANICSVILLE. The Dover Di- rectory of 1843 gives this name to a hamlet or neighborhood about half- way between Garrison Hill and Wil- land's pond, in the vicinity of Gage's hill. It was at that period chiefly in -. habited by people of industrial pur-
suits, such as George and John Gage, wheelwrights ; John Gould, baker ; Daniel K. Webster, tanner and cur- rier, etc. The name is no longer in use.
MENDUM'S POND. This pond is in the western part of Barrington, next the Nottingham line. It is the source of Little river. The name was derived from Capt. Nathaniel Mendum of Portsmouth, whose saw- mill on this river is mentioned Oct. 7, 1742, when Daniel Davis of Durham conveyed to John Burnum 12 acres of land, together with "one fourth of a sawmill in Nottingham, below Capt. Nathaniel Mendum's sawmill on Little river." The Newmarket Manufacturing Co. have a dam at the outlet of Mendum's pond, and the sawmill here is now called the Factory- Dam mill. The next mill below is owned by Mr. Samuel Thompson. Marston's mill, also in Nottingham, is further down the river, on the highway to Lee, not far from the boundary line. (See Little River.)
MERIT'S MILL. See Demeritt's Mill. MESSENGER'S POND. See Cochecho Pond.
MIDDLE POINT, MIDDLE POINT BRIDGE, and MIDDLE POINT BROOK. There is a Middle Point on the Rol- linsford shore of the Newichawan- nock river at Jocelyn's Cove, be- tween Pine point and Henderson's point. And the brook which emp- ties into this cove, is called " Middle Point brook." A point of this name Grogk in Dover is mentioned May 12, 1736, when Timothy Tebbets conveyed to Howard Henderson six acres of land laid out to said Tebbets in 1736, where he then dwelt, at or near " Middle pinte Brook," in Dover.
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And again Jan. 20, 1743-4, when Howard Henderson mortgaged to Abraham Nute six acres of land at or near a place called by ye name of Middle Point brook, in Dover. This name is no longer in nse, and the bridge, formerly known as Middle Point bridge, has ceased to bear this name, but it appears to be the one across Canny's brook, on the so- called " Middle road" across the Up- per Neck, about midway between
Fore river and Back river.
It is
mentioned Dec. 7, 1737, when Samuel and Patience Carle conveyed to Jona- than Cushing ten acres of land ad- joining the road that leads down from Cochecho to Dover over Middle Point bridge, a little above Joseph Han- son's. Wm. Twombley, Jan. 23, 1771, conveyed to Caleb Hodgdon his homestead farm of 60 acres, adjoin- ing the main road from Cochecho to Dover neck, bounded " southerly by the land of Moses and Aaron Win- gate, and northerly adjoining the road that leads from the aforesaid road over Middle point bridge, so called, to Dover." Benj" Watson and wife Lydia, Jan. 29, 1785, conveyed to Moses Wingate 84 acres of land, set off as said Lydia's portion of the estate of her honored father Isaac Hanson, on the west side of the road that leads from Major Hodgdon's to Middle point (bridge ?), so called, bounded northwesterly by said Hodg- don's land, southwesterly by said Wingate's, southeasterly by Thomas Kinney's, and northeasterly by the aforesaid road.
MILES' HILL. This hill is on the borders of Lee and Nottingham, at the upper side of North river, on the road from Nottingham to Newmar-
ket. The name is derived from Miles Reynolds, who once lived on the top. He served in the Revolutionary war, and in that of 1812. " Miles Reynolds of the North River dis- trict" is mentioned in the Lee rec- ords of 1807.
MILL CREEK. Mentioned Feb. 21, 1711, when John and Elizabeth Edg- erly conveyed to Samuel Edgerly a tract of land on the north-west side of Little Bay, " bounded N. by the creek called and known by the name of the mill creek, E. by Little Bay, and S. by the land of John Wheeler, lately deceased." And again in the Durham records of March 21, 1746-7, when a petition was made for a highway " by John Edgerly's land to the creek called the Mill creek." This creek is in Dur- ham, at the easterly side of the Lub- berland district. The name was derived from a mill that once stood thereon at the head of tide water. It was otherwise called Mathews' creek, but is now generally known as Crummiť's creek.
Another Mill creek is in Newing- ton, above Fabyan's point, so named from a mill that once stood at the head of tide water, the remains of which ean still be seen, on the Thomas Pickering farm, now owned by Mr. J. S. Hoyt. (See Swadden's Creek.)
MILL ROAD. So called from Ches- ley's mill on Oyster river, to which this road once led on its way from Durham village to Packer's falls. The mill is now gone, but the road retains its name, which is often men- tioned in deeds of adjacent lands. (See Warner Farm.)
MILL-ROAD BROOK. This brook rises in Follet's swamp, above the
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Mast-road school-house, and empties into the Durham mill-pond on the west side. Its name is derived from the so-called Mill road, which it crosses near the Oyster River cream- ery, at which point it is a watering- place for cattle, and in rainy weather often swells to a considerable size.
MINNOW BROOK. This name- derived from the abundance of min- nows therein, used by fishermen for bait-is now given to a small run from Hall's spring that empties into Back cove on the western side of Dover Neck.
MIRY GUT. This is a channel twenty feet deep at the mouth of Reyner's brook, where it is crossed by the Dover and Winnipiseogee Railroad and the Scatterwit highway. There is a stone culvert at this point, forty feet in length, affording room for both roads to cross. This part of the brook is often called Miry Gut brook; and the cove above, on the easterly side of the Cochecho, is called Miry Gut core.
The MOAT. This is an outlet or arm on the left side of Lamprey river that encircles an island generally called the Moat island, otherwise Doe's island. It is in the Packer's Falls district, Durham, below the so-called " Diamond bridge," on the Boston and Maine railway. Mention is made of it the 11th, 7 mo., 1649, when An- thony Nutter's grant at a place called "the moote" is spoken of in the county records. It is again men- tioned the 11th, 11 mo., 1660, when Robert Burnum's 100 acre grant in 1656 was laid out, one head line
" joining to the moet," and the other bounded by " a marked tree at a let- tell Brook that cometh from the moett, joining to Elder Nutter's land." (See Broad Marsh.) It is again men- tioned Ang. 14, 1667, in the will of John Footman. Peter Coffin con- veyed to Samnel Allin of New Castle, Nov. 28, 1698, thirty acres of land " called by ye name of ye mote, which sd Peter Coffin purchased of ye Indi- ans." (See Moharimet's Planting- Ground.) Six score acres of land adjoining " the mote" are mentioned in the inventory of Nicholas Doe's estate, March 30, 1706. A road was ordered to be laid out, March 6, 1710-11, " from Lampereel river as straight as it may be to ye old Bridge by ye moat so as ye way goes to Graves 1 his land, thence to the falls," etc. (N. H. Prov. Papers. 17 : 710.) John Rawlins of Durham, Ap. 24, 1733, conveyed to "Joseph Smith of New- market in Exeter," all his homestead estate in Durham, beginning at the east side of the country road to Dur- ham falls. One side extended to "ye mouth of ye mote river." The
Moat and Moat river are repeatedly mentioned in the division of John Doe's estate, Ap. 24, 1742. His widow Elizabeth's dowry was set off from the homestead, beginning at the north corner of Joseph Smith's land, one side running along Lam- prey river to a pitch-pine " standing by a hollow that runs into the river commonly called the mote river." Mary Mason's part was on "the southerly side of that land called the mote." Elizabeth Woodman's part
1 This was Wm. Graves, who married Elizabeth, the widow of Richard York. He was wounded by the Indians and his estate devastated in 1694, as appears from his petition of January 8, 1694-5. (N. H. Prov. Pap., 2: 147.)
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(wife of Joshua) was on the moat river, and extended to the "east side of the mote." Joseph Doe's portion was "on the mote," between the por- tions of John and Benjamin. And Daniel Doe's part began at Deacon John Yorke's land, 109 rods N. E. from Lamperel river, and ran S. E. to the " mote river," near Joseph Smith's land at the pine tree boun- dary, and up by said Smith's land to the country road. The Moat still retains its ancient name. Moat island, otherwise Doe's, now belongs to Mr. Olinthus Doe, a descendant of the above mentioned John Doe.
MOHARIMET'S HILL, otherwise HICKS'S HILL. This beautiful hill, wooded to the very summit, is at Mad- bury corner, west of the railway sta- tion. Its original name was derived from Moharimet or Mahomet, an Indi- an sagamore of the seventeenth cen- tury. (See Moharimet's Marsh and Wadleigh's Falls. ) Charles Adams, of Oyster River, had a grant of 100 acres of land at the foot of Mohari- met's hill, in 1656, one half of which he conveyed, March 11, 1693-4, to his daughter, Mary, wife of William Tasker. Derry Pitman, Jan. 1, 1723-4, sold Eli Demerit, Sr., thirty acres of land on the south-west side of Meharmet's hill. Thomas Footman's hundred acre grant in 1656, was laid out anew, at the request of his son Jolın, June 23, 1715, beginning at a white pine bound tree on John Bick- ford's lot, near the lower end of Ma- harimutt's Hill on the west side. This land, when re-surveyed for John Roberts, July 25, 1729, ran from a white oak W. S. W. 120 rods, to " a heap of stones on the S. E. end of Moharmot's hill, about a rod from
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