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Historic leaves, volume 3, April, 1904 - January, 1905, Gregory Stone and some of his descendants (search)
r, david fifke, fenr, Mathew bredge, fenr. He served on a committee which was appointed to devid the lands conteyned betwixt oburne Concord and our head line, and alsoe to leave Convenient high ways of two rod wide between the divifions or Squadrents where need requires for a high way. An order of the Court establishing what was called a single rate was passed in November, 1646, the rate to be one penny for every twenty shillings estate. In the list of persons and estates taken in August, 1688, the name of Samuel Stone, Sr., is given as paying the highest tax, showing that he was a man of large landed property. In these days of high rates of taxation the sum of 11s 9d seems absurdly small, however. Meanwhile the inhabitants of The Farms, finding it difficult to perform their religious duties, which no right New England man thought of shirking, living, as some of them did, ten miles from the meeting-house, petitioned to be set off as a separate precinct. Cambridge was so mu