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to pay yearly a fifth part of the fruits 

 thereof forever to the governor, who- 

 ever he might be. In 1634 the rent was 

 changed by the General Court to " a hogs- 

 head of the best wyne that shall grow 

 there to be paide yearly, after the death 

 of the said John Winthrop and noething 

 before." A few years afterwards, the rent 

 was changed to "two bushells of apples 

 every yeare one bushell to the Governour 

 & another to the Generall Court in win- 

 ter, the same to bee of the best apples 

 there growing." The records of the Gen- 

 eral Court in 1640 show that " Mr. Win- 

 throp, Senior, paid in his bushell of 

 apples." l John Josselyn, Gent., in his 

 account of his departure from New Kng- 

 land, October n, 1639, thus alludes to 

 Winthrop' s orchards : " The next day 

 Mr. lyuxon our Master having been ashore 

 upon the Governorrs Island gave me 

 half a score very fair Pippins which he 

 brought from thence, there being not one 

 Apple tree, nor Pear planted yet in no 

 1 Massachusetts Records, vol. i., p. 94. 

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