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shall keep the goats, and to have three half pence a week for one goat, and a penny a week for wethers or kids; to begin next Monday.
March 1, 1635-6.
Agreed with
Richard Rice to keep 100 cows for the space of three months, to begin when he shall be appointed; and is to have ten pounds paid him within ten days after the ships be come in, or in June.
Also he is to have 2 men to help him keep them the first 14 days, and one man the next 7 days; also to have them kept 2 sabbath days, and he one, during the time.
Also he is to fetch the cows into the town every morning out of the common, half an hour after the sun is up, at the farthest, and to bring them into the town half an hour before the sun goeth down, and to pay IIId. a cow for every night he leaveth out any. Also he is not to keep any cattle for any man except he have leave from the Townsmen, upon the forfeiture of vs. a cow he shall so keep.
Also he hath liberty to keep his own heifer without pay.
Agreed with
John Clarke to make a sufficient weir to catch alewives upon Menotomies River in the bounds of this town, before the 12th of April next, and shall sell and deliver unto the inhabitants of the town and no other, except for bait, all the alewives he shall take at IIIs., 6d. per thousand, and shall at all times give such notice to the persons that shall be appointed to fetch them away as he shall be directed, who shall discharge the said
John Clarke of them within 24 hours after notice, or else he to have liberty to sell them to whom he can. Provided, and it is the meaning of the Townsmen, that if any shall desire to have some to eat before the great quantity cometh, then he is to have iid. a score and fetch them there, or IIId. a score and he bring them home.
Further the Townsmen do promise in the behalf of the town to make good all those fish that he shall be damnified by the Indians, that is, shall himself deliver unto them, being appointed before by the Townsmen how many he shall deliver.
Also to save him harmless from any damage he shall sustain by Wattertowne, provided it be not his own fault.
He is to have his money within 14 days after he hath done fishing.
March 13, 1635-6
Agreed with
William Patten to keep 100 cattle on the other side the
River for the space of seven months, to begin when the
Town shall appoint him, and to have twenty pounds, the one half paid him in money when he hath keep half his time, and the other half in corn when he hath done keeping, at the price which the common rate of corn goeth when
