162 History of Hingham. 



along the shore, it was deemed advisable by the proprietors to 

 survey and lay out the unappropriated portions of the township, 

 to be divided among the settlers in proportion to the number of 

 acres which they had in their houselots. 



This led to the establishment of numerous landmarks, many of 

 which are recognized up to the present time, and their names, 

 often very quaint, will be handed down to posterity long after 

 their significance is forgotten. 



It may be of interest to state here that the houselots drawn 

 for on the 18th of September, 1635, were upon Town, now North 

 street. This year, also, the settlements extended to Broad Cove, 

 now Lincoln Street. In 1636 houselots were granted upon the 

 other part of Town Street, since re-named South Street, and on 

 the northerly part of " Bachelor's Rowe," now Main Street. 



The first grants of land in Cohasset (variously called " Cono- 

 hasset," " Conihast," " Comessett,") were mentioned in the Hing- 

 ham town records in 1647. The first settlements are said to have 

 been at Rocky Nook and on the Jerusalem Road. 



All these specific grants of land were for many years from ter- 

 ritory yet belonging properly to the Indians; but on the 4th of 

 July, 1665, a deed of all the tract of land now comprising the 

 towns of Hingham and Cohasset, together with " three score 

 acres of salt marsh" on the Scituate side of the river, which 

 divides Hingham from Scituate, was obtained from the chiefs 

 Wompatuck, Squmuck, and Ahahden, sons of the great sachem 

 Chickatabut, who lived on the banks of Neponset river, and who 

 probably permitted the first settlers to locate at Hingham, which 

 was in his realm. He ruled over the principal portion of the ter- 

 ritory now comprised in Plymouth and Norfolk counties. 



The system of surveying and allotting certain districts led to 

 their being designated by the general name of " divisions ; " as 

 " First Division," " Second Division," etc. There were six of 

 these divisions made. The first, second, and third were in 1670. 



The First Division, entirely in Cohasset, starts at the " Patent 

 Line," which runs from Bound Rock, on the milldam, across 

 Bound Brook in a straight line southwest by west, five miles 

 eighty rods. The coast line of the First Division follows the 

 course of Bound Brook northward to the harbor, then strikes into 

 Meeting-House Road (now South Main Street), crosses Great 

 Neck, extends along this road to Deer Hill Lane opposite the 

 southwest side of Little Harbor, then runs along this lane south- 

 westerly to King Street, thence follows a line through the centre 

 of Scituate Pond southeasterly to the patent line. 



The base line of the easterly part of the Second Division is the 

 northwest boundary of the First Division (Deer Hill Lane). On 

 the southeast, the line starts at the corner of the First Division 

 on Little Harbor, and follows the westerly side of the Ridge Road, 

 skirts Peck's Meadow on the west, returns to the Ridge Road and 

 runs to Walnut Angle (westerly end of Pleasant Beach) on the 



