xiv CONTENTS. 



CHAPTER VII. 

 A Bone of Contention 119 



Natural Boundary — Encroachments for Hay — Orders by Plymouth 

 Court and by Massachusetts Court — The Commissioners' Boundary — 

 Endicott and Bradford — Threescore Acres — Laying them out. 



CHAPTER VIII. 



Dividing the Land I34 



The Marshes First — Three Divisions — Indian Deed — Dividing 

 Uplands — Joshua Fisher, Surveyor — Drawing Shares — First Di- 

 vision — Second — Third — Highways. 



CHAPTER IX. 

 The First Homes 158 



No Log Huts — Saw-pit Boards — Cornelius Canterbury — King 

 PhiHp's War — Daniel Lincoln — Mordecai Lincoln — John Jacob 

 and his Bridge at Cold Spring — Ibrook Tower — Aaron Pratt — 

 Wolf Pits. 



CHAPTER X. 

 The Autonomy of a Precinct 182 



Remoteness of Cohasset Settlers — Attending Church in Hingham — 

 Demand for Church of their Own — Industries growing — Demand 

 refused — Effort to be set off as a Precinct — Granted by General 

 Court of Massachusetts, 171 7 — Ministers — Church Covenant — 

 Dame Schools — School Money. 



CHAPTER XI. 

 " An Highway shall be There and a Way " 204 



Wretched Roads — Fisher's Highways — Indian Trails — Landings 



— Beechvvood Street — Main Street — Jerusalem Road — Elm 

 Street — Encroachments — Wood Roads, etc. 



CHAPTER XII. 



Industries and Firesides 219 



Poverty and Ingenuity — Sheep Shearing — Spinning — Flax and 

 Linen — Tanning — Shoemakers — Food — " Rye 'n' Injun " — Pies 



— Corned Beef — Killings — Calf's Head and Pluck — Fish — Early 

 Fishermen — Cheese — Butter — Soft Soap — Candles — Cider — 

 Church Services — Physicians — Diphtheria Scourge, 1735 — Ceme- 

 teries — A Wedding — A List of Personal Property, 1749. 



