I 3 2 HIS TOR Y OF COHA SSE T. 



outh on the i8th of November next, to meet at Walter Briggs 

 house, at an eleven of the clock, to lay out the sixty acres of 

 meadow according to the agreement betweene our and Plymouth 

 commissioners, and in case they agree not, they fower are to 

 choose a fifth and any three of them are to determine it, making 

 retourne of what they shall doe to the next Gen'l Court. This to 

 be done at the charge of Hingham.* 



Now there is no statement in the Plymouth records of 

 the time between 1655 and 1657 that tells of the appoint- 

 ment of any Plymouth men to meet these of Massachu- 

 setts, but the following report of the committee has the 

 name of Josias Winslow, a Plymouth man, upon it : — 



Wee, whose names are hereunder subscribed, being appoynted 

 by the Gen'l courts of the Massachusetts & New Plymouth to 

 settle a difference between the townes of Hingham & Scituate, 

 referring to 60 acors of salt marsh graunted to the Massachusetts 

 lying on the east side of the River Conehasset, and in obedience 

 to the said order mett accordingly upon the place, and upon a 

 survay of the said land could not find any bound markes appear- 

 ing, according as it was set out by Hingham men, but understood 

 that Hingham men had run the lyne a little higher upon the river 

 then Scituate men had done, and thereby had taken 6 or 7 acors 

 of land upon the river, which Scituate men had layd out near the 

 sea, which we conceive was not so agreeable to the commissioners 

 order as the first lyne and doe therefor conclude and agree, as a 

 full issue of the case, that the said lyne as it now stands marked 

 & bounded by Scituate men, shall stand firme & good, & the 

 other lyne, run by Hingham men, be voyd and of none effect. 



Subscribed by 

 WM. TORREY & JOSIAS WINSLOW. 



Capt. Brackett being not so cleare in this determination, was 

 not willing to subscribe.! 



Following this immediately the record says : — 



* Mass. Col. Rec, Vol. IV, Part I, p. 285. 



tMass. Col. Rec, Vol, III. p. 437. Cf. Vol. IV, Part I, p. 294. 



