‘ [14] the overseers of my father's estate, in the division of the same, ordered me to give a deed hereof, unto my said brother William Cutter’—grants to said Cutter ‘one piece of land situate in the township of Cambridge, on the west corner of the aforesaid homestead, containing by estimation four acres; bounded northeast and eastwardly by the rest of the land of the homestead, and south and westwardly by Cambridge town common, with the house that he hath built upon it, and part of it within a fence that said Cutter hath set up; and the rest lyeth unfenced, adjoining to that which is fenced; with the liberty of making a dam for the convenience of the mill near the said Cutter's house1; as also a twelfth part of a sawmill upon Sergt. Francis Whitmore's land.’ Dated April 10, 1685, and signed ‘John Rolfe and seal’ (Midd. Registry, IX. 366). It is witnessed in part by the mark of Mary Rolfe, Jr.2
1686
William Cutter to Edward Thomas, of Boston, ‘agent for Mr. William Metcalfe, of Newberry in Oxfordshire in Old England,’ sells, or mortgages, the four acres, with house on same, the allowance for a dam, and one twelfth of a sawmill, which were formerly part of the estate of his father-in-law John Rolfe, in Cambridge; also nineteen
