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HISTORY OF C OH ASSET. 



Conehassett River, the said inhabitants of Hingham complayninge 

 of theire grieveance to this Court, & desireinge redresse, the Court 

 thinkes meete to referre the consideracion of the matter to the 

 commissioners of the colonyes, to whom it properly appertaynes 

 to put issue thereunto.* 



While this matter was pending upon the commissioners' 

 pleasure, it was not possible for the town of Hingham to 

 be idle, as is revealed By the town records during that 

 summer : — 



At a legal meeting holden at Hingham in the County of Suf- 

 folk on the thirtieth day of September 1651 by joint consent of 

 the Town Nicholas Jacob, Joshua Hubbard and Nathanael Baker 

 are chosen to get the sixty acres of meadow measured out which 

 are upon the other side of the River at Conohasset and every per- 

 son that hath meadows there, shall pay for the measuring, as the 

 other men did ; and what charge more the aforesaid persons be 

 at about the measuring of the said sixty Acres of meadow, or for 

 any suit that shall arise about the said meadow the Town doth 

 promise to bear it. 



The liability of action at law over this tract of land is 

 yet further suggested by the Plymouth records ; for it 

 was probably in answer to complaints from Scituate men 

 that their legislature, or court so called, in the next year, 

 June 29, 1652, passed the following order : — 



Conserning the difference betwixt the jurisdictions of the Mas- 

 sachusetts and Plymouth about the lands that hath been in differ- 

 ence betwixt the Massachusetts and us att Conahassett, the Court 

 have refered the determinacion therof unto the commissioners 

 att theire next meeting, according to the articles of confederacion. 



This was twelve years after the first commission com- 

 posed of Bradford and Winslovv, Endicott and Stough- 

 ton, which had decreed the Threescore Acres, unmeas- 

 ured, to the Massachusetts side. Whether the matter 



* Mass. Rec, Vol. Ill, p. 236. Cf. Mass. Rec, Vol. IV, Part I. p. 56. 



