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Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 2., chapter 15 (search)
0 acres of land granted by the Court of Assistants to Governor John Winthrop, and known as the Ten Hills. The records of the court say that, Sept. 6, 1631, the Court of Assistants grant to Mr. Govery it, to him and his heirs forever. There are two suggestions as to the origin of the name of Ten Hills; one is that ten hills were comprised within its limits, and the other that ten hills could be then the scratch of a Bears paw. He confirmed his friend Colonel Lidgett in his title to the Ten Hills and also granted him the Stinted Pasture. (The Stinted Pasture was a tract of land containingesterly on the Menotomy river (Alewive brook); northerly on Mistick river and easterly on the Ten Hills.) Colonel Lidgett then began to prosecute the rightful owners of this pasture for cutting woodigned by John and Elizabeth Usher, an abstract of which is as follows: Part of the farm called Ten Hills, now partly in the tenure, occupation, or improvement of the said John Usher . . . and partly