136 HISTORY OF COHASSET. 



Cooper's Island was indicated as the south boundary of 

 Thomas Barnes and David Phippeny ; also the east 

 boundary of William Cockerum and Thomas Lincoln * 

 (cooper). " The beach was indicated as the north boundary 

 of Andrews and Hett and others. Joseph Underwood's lot 

 was said to be " in the First Division upon the islands " ; 

 and we understand that the series of rocky uplands on 

 the north side of Little Harbor, whether surrounded by 

 meadows or by water, constituted those islands. 



But the chief perplexity in locating these marshes f is the 

 fact that there is scarcely more than half cjumgli marsh 

 land nowadays about Little Harbor to supply the allotments. 



A careful measurement on the map recently made by 

 our government Coast Survey shows less than forty acres 

 of marsh about Little Harbor; while there are recorded 

 in the land grants of this First Division and a part of the 

 Second Division over seventy acres. This discrepancy is 

 increased by counting seven \ more meadows which were 

 named by the Hingham records in describing the grants 



*7"he re were four Thomas Lincolns: (i) the cooper; (2) the husbandman; 

 (3) the miller; (4) the weaver. 



+ The grantees of the First Division were as follows : — 

 Lots. Names. A 



1 Nath. Baker and Andrew Lane 



2 Thomas Hett 



3 Thoinas Andrews 



4 Thomas Thaxti-r 



5 Nathaniel Baker 

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7 Joseph Underwood 



8 William Ripley 



9 Francis James 



10 Richard Ibrook 



11 Edward Oilman 



12 John Foulsam 



13 John Leaviit 



14 Matthew Hawke 



15 George Strange 3 



Total, 48!/^ 



J These seven were the meadows of Thomas Clap, Matthew Gushing, Simon 

 Burr, Thomas Hewitt, Michael Peirce, Henry Smith, and James Whiton. 



