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Court Orders, 1668-1678 CORNELL UNIVERSITY LIBRARY BOUGHT WITH THE INCOME OF THE SAGE ENDOWMENT FUND GIVEN IN 1891 BY HENRY WILLIAMS SAGE CORNELL UNIVERSITY LIBRARY 924 070 695 113 Cornell University Library ^^ The original of this book is in the Cornell University Library. There are no known copyright restrictions in the United States on the use of the text. http://www.archive.org/details/cu31924070695113 RECORDS PLYMOUTH COLONY. COURT OPvDEES, YOL. Y. 1668-1678. RECORDS OF THE COLONY OF NEW PLYMOUTH IN NEW ENGLAND. PRINTED BY ORDER OF THE LEGISLATURE OF THE COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS. EDITED BY NATHANIEL B. SHURTLEFF, M.D., MEMBER OP THE MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL SOCIETY, FELLOW OF THE AMERICAN ACADEMY OF ARTS AND SCIENCES, MEMBER OP THE AMERICAN ANTIQUARIAN SOCIETY, FELLOW OF THE SOCIETY OF ANTIQUARIES OF LONDON, ETC. COURT ORDERS YOL. Y. 1668-1678. BOSTON: FROM THE PRESS OF WILLIAM WHITE, PRINTER TO THE COMMONWEALTH. 18 5 6. ^ H63 4-h V.5 ^•J//^4 . R E M A 11 K S TN the following pages is included a copy of the fifth manuscript -*- volvime of Court Orders of the Colony of New Plymouth, embracing the acts of the General Court and the Court of Assistants of that colony, with grants of land and other entries of a more miscellaneous character, among which will be found a list of the freemen transcribed on the twenty-ninth of May, 1670. All the entries in the volume are in the handwriting of Secretary Morton. Governor Prence was at the head of affairs in the colony at the time when the volume commenced, on the fourth of June, 1661, and continvied so to be until the time of his decease, which event occurred on the twenty-ninth day of March, 1673. During the remaining time covered by the records of this volume, ending on the thirtieth day of October, 1678, Mr. Josiah Winslow was Governor, having been elected to the office on the third day of June, 1673. The period of time included was about ten years. N. B. S. Decembee, 1856. MARKS AND CONTRACTIONS. A Dash (or straight line) over a letter indicates the omission of the letter following the one marked. ~ A Curved Line indicates the omission of one or more letters next to the one marked. A Superior Letter indicates the omission of contiguous letters, either pre- ceding or following it. A Caret ^ indicates an omission in the original record. A Cross X indicates a lost or unintelligible word. All doubtful words supplied the editor are included between, brackets, by [ ]. Some redundancies in the original record are printed in Italics. Some interlineations, that occur in the original record, are put between parallels, || i|. Some words and paragraphs, which have been cancelled in the original record, are put between + + . Several characters have special significations, namely : — (ci; , — annum, anno, o, — mo, month. an, curia, curiam, — par, por, — pt, part ption, por- a, — am, — p, ; a, — matrate, magistrate. tion, E.o%t, per, — pson, person. h, — ber, — num%, number ; p, — Robert. p, — pro, — pporc8n, proportion. c, — ci, ti, — accon, action. P, — pre, — psent, present. q,stion, question. CO, — tio, — jurisdiccon, jurisdiction. q,, — 6, — ere, cer, — a6s, acres. q>, — escp, esquire. d, — dd, delivered. f, — Apr, April. e, — Trer, Treasurer. i, — s, session ; sd, said. e, — committe, committee, s, — ser, — svants, servants. ter, neu?, neuter. g, — glial, general ; Georg, George, i, — — h, — chr, charter. t, — capt, captain. Q, uer, — seQal, seueral. 1, — begig, beginig, beginning, — above. i, — ire, letter. u, — abou, aboue, in, — mm, mn, — comittee, commit- ?, — ver, — seVal, several. tee, w, — wn, when. y"", them y", then their ni, — recomdac8n, recommendation, y% the ; ; ; y, ; this y', that. m!, — mer, — formlly, formerly, y% ; m, — month. 3, — us, — vilibs, vilibus. aiio, anno, — es, et, — statut^, statutes. xi, — nn, — Peii, Penn ; ^, n, — Dili, Domini. {d, &6, (fee", — et ca;tcra. viz^, — videlicet, namely. fii, — ner, — manfi), manner. full point. 5, — on, — mentio, mention. ./ — CONTENTS OF VOLUME Y. PAGE COURT ORDERS, 1668—1678, 3 GEXERAL INDEX, 281 PLYMOUTH COURT ORDERS. lees-iefs, PLYMOUTH RECORDS. THE RECORDS OF THE COLONY OF NEW PLYMOUTH IN NEW ENGLAND. [The fifth volume of the Court Orders of the Colony of New Plymouth properly commences on the second folio of the original manuscript volume, the first page belonging to the earliest portion of the preceding Tolura,e. The volume is in the handwriting of Secretary Morton, and contains the records of the Court held on the twenty-ninth of October, 1668, and of those held subsequent to that time as far as and including that which was held on the thirtieth of October, 1678, and closes with «. list of the freemen of the Colony transcribed on the twenty-ninth of May, 1670, The index at the end of the printed volume has been prepared from that contained in the original by proper enlargement.] ACTS AND PASSAGES OF COURT AND GRANTS OF LAND FROM THE YEAR 1668 UNTIL THE YEAR 1678. Pkence, Goxi". *Att the Generall Court held att Plymouth, in JVew England, the 1661 4'" of June, 1661. 4 June. THE said Court graunted vnto M"^ Richard Bourne, of Sandwich, a cer- taine tract of land, lying on the westerly side of Pampaspecite Riuer, wher Sandwich men take alewiues ; the land is a longe slipp lying by the riuer syde ; for breadth from the riuer vnto the topp of the hill or ridge that runs alonge the length of it, from a point of rockey land, by a swamp called Pametoopauksett, vnto a place called by the Enghsh Muddy Hole, but by the Indians Wapoampauksett. The meddow is that which was called M"' Leuer- ich his meddow, as alsoe the other slipps that are aboue, alonge the riuer side vnto a point bounded with two great stones or rockes ; alsoe all the meddow lying on the easterlysyde of the said riuer, vnto Thomas Burge, Seni"" his farme, all which tracts and psells of land, both vpland and meddow, with all and singulare the appurtenances belonging thervnto, is graunted by the Court onto the said Richard Bourne, to him and his heires foreuer. Moreouer, the Court haue graunted vnto the said Richard Bourne, that hee shall haue libertie (3) PLYMOUTH COLONY RECORDS. 16G1. to take yeerly twelue thousand of alewiues att the riuer where Sandwich men vsually take alewiues, to him and his heii'es for euer. i June. Prence, Likewise the said Court haue graunted vnto the said M' Richard Bourne Gou=. a psell of meddow lying att !Mashpe, the one halfe therof to belonge to him and his heires for euer, and the other halfe to be made vse of and improued by the said Richard Bourne vntill the Court shall see reason otherwise to order. Moreouer the Court haue graunted vnto the said M"^ Richard Bourne a necke of meddow att Mannamuchcoy, with a little vjjland in it, the meddow lying between two little brookes, and the said meddow adjoyning to the vpland called by the Indians Auntaanta ; the said g>mises, with all and singu- lare the appurtenances belonging thervuto, excepting the one halfe of the meddow att Mashpe aboue excepted, to haue and to hold vnto the said Richard Bourne, to him and his heires and assignes for euer. 1GG8. '^'Jltt the Court of his Ma"° held att Plt/moulh, for the jurisdiction of JVew Plymouth, the 29'" of October, 1668. 29 October. [*2.] Befoke Thomas Prenco, GoO, Wiliam Bradford, John Alden, Thomas Hinckley, Josias "Winslow, John Freeman, and Thomas Southworth, Nathaniel Bacon, Assistants, &S. N order sent vnto Bridgwater as followeth : — A^ Gentlemen : Vpon the complaint of M"^ Nicolas Birom, in the behalfe of himselfe and some others of youer towne that apprehend that they are opressed by youer way of rateing, and pticularly youer puting too much vpon dorment lands, and too little vpon faculties and psonall abillities, notwithstanding that some gett a great pte of theire huelyhood off the townes coiiions, to the great wasting and destruction therof, and haue little else to be rated for, the Court haue ordered mee to signify theire advice vnto you, that you would con- sider of some more equall and just way and course, that some men that are on all occations vsefull in the place be not opressed, and others that Hue mostly vpon the spoyle of youer comons, and put not themselues vpon any improue- ment that might be to publicke benifitt, goe free ; and that you would be more obseruant of such orders as the Court haue prouided respecting rateing ; that COURT OEDERS. you may, att least for the future, prevent the like complaints, which if you doe not, the Court wilbe nessesitated. to make further enquiry, and improue 29 October. theire authoritie to regulate you therin. But in expectation that you will doe Prence, youer endeaiiors for redresse of such injury complained of, wee rest, &d. God". Wheras, att the request of John Jacob, of Hingham, in the behalfe of himselfe and diuers others of his ptenors, the Court haue formerly graunted that there should be a deuision made of the land somtimes graunted vnto M'^ Hatherley att Accord Pond, this Court ordereth, that incase the ptenors in the said land doe not agree to make deuission therof in a cheaper way, that then the cheife marshall shalbe authorised to impanell a jury to make deuision therof ^VTieras a former graunt hath bine made by the Court vnto Experience Michell, Henery Sampson, Kichard Church, and Thomas Little, to looke out for land for theire accomodation, and that since the said graunt they haue sought out a pcell of land for that end lying att Namassakett Pond, these are to be a memorandum that none shall interpose soe as to depriue them of the said land vntill the Court haue taken course for the piuxhase of it, and settleing such a proportion therof to the said psons as shalbe by the Court thought meet.
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