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Common pales divided as follows:—

John Haynes, Esq.70 rods.Steven Hart8 rods.
Thomas Dudly, Esq.40 rods.William Wadsworth7 rods.
Mr. Symon Bradstreet20 rods.George Steele6 rods.
John Benjamin50 rods.Richard Goodman6 rods.
John Talcott36 rods.John Bridg.6 rods.
Mathew Allen45 rods.Symon Sackett6 rods.
William Westwood30 rods.Richard Butler6 rods.
James Omstead25 rods.Capt. Patrike5 rods.
Daniell Denison25 rods.Richard Web5 rods.
Samuell Dudly25 rods.John Masters4 rods.
Andrew Warner20 rods.Antho. Colby4 rods.
William Goodwine16 rods.John Clark3 rods.
John White15 rods.Nath. Richards3 rods.
John Steele14 rods.Richard Lord3 rods.
Edward Stebinge12 rods.Abraham Morrill3 rods.
William Spencer12 rods.William Kelse3 rods.
Thomas Hosmer10 rods.Jonath. Bosworth2 rods.
William Lewis10 rods.Tho. Spencer2 rods.
Hester Musse10 rods.Garrad Hadon2 rods.
Joseph Readinge2 rods.Edward Elmer2 rods.
Thomas Heate2 rods.Jeremy Addams2 rods.

Of these forty-two persons, it is certain that at least one half were not of the Braintree Company, as many have supposed.1 Precisely how many of the other half were of that company, I have no means to determine; but from whatever place they may have come, the number of inhabitants so increased that in about a year there were nearly a hundred families in the New Town.

The division of lands and the establishment of highways were among the first necessities. The house-lots were laid out compactly in the “Town,” and in the “West end,” the tract bounded by Sparks, Wyeth, and Garden streets, Harvard and Brattle squares, and Charles River. For cultivation, lands were assigned in the impaled “Neck,” and afterwards elsewhere.

1 Thomas Dudley, Simon Bradstreet, Daniel Patrick, Simon Sackett, and William Spencer were here before August, 1632, when the “Braintree company” removed. Samuel Dudley was doubtless here also. Daniel Denison came here from Roxbury. Anthony Colby, Garrad Haddon, and Joseph Reading, were of Boston in 1630; and John Masters of Watertown, in 1631. John Benjamin, Edward Elmer, William Goodwin, William Lewis, James Olmstead, Nathaniel Richards, John Talcott, William Wadsworth, and John White, arrived at Boston, in the Lion, Sept. 16, 1632, a month after the Braintree Company removed; and John Haynes did not arrive until Sept. 3, 1633. The name of Simon Oakes is erroneously given in Col. Mass. Hist. Soc., VII. 10, instead of Simon Sackett.

Boston. Houghton and Mifflin. 1877.

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