An old-time Deed.
Heirs of
John Winthrop to
Benanuel Bowers.
About 4 acres of Marshland, Bounded, westerly by a line beginning at the mouth of a little creek and running from the said creek to a salt pond and from there to a stake down by the river side; and on all other sides by the Mistick river, together with a right of way through the farm to the highway.
Feb. 22, 1670.
Recorded in Book 8, Page 357, June 15, 1683.
This is Labor-in-Vain point as it was before the canal or highway was cut through, making the point an island
[p. 64] as it is at the present day. The little creek was that part of Two-penny brook through the salt marsh.
The salt pond was in the line of the canal or highway.
J. H. H.