1 3 8 nis roR y of cohasse t. 



pioneers then called " Great Neck," A casual examination 

 of the land from Little Harbor towards the south, down to 

 our present railroad station and thence by the course of 

 James Brook to the Cove, shows a very low neck of land 

 connecting all the high rocky peninsula east of Main Street 

 with the rest of the town. This peninsula was naturally 

 called therefore "Great Neck." 



Sixteen lots were laid out in the Second Division in 

 order to exhaust all the marshes north of Great Neck 

 which were left over from the First Division. That left all 

 the salt meadow on the south side of Great Neck for the 

 Third Division. In this last division there were forty-five 

 lots that were recorded as lying about the harbor and its 

 creeks, and also along the west bank of Gulf River up to 

 the mouth of Bound Brook. 



Lots 40, 41, and 43 were fresh meadow, aggregating five 

 and one quarter acres, and were lying somewhere apart 

 from the fresh meadow which Nicholas Jacob seems to 

 have appropriated several years before the division,* 



There is one boundary indicated in the description of 

 these meadows lying south of Great Neck which may be 

 of interest to a modern Cohasseter. It is the so-called 

 Creek Falls. Almost any citizen to-day would be puzzled 

 to find any waterfalls bounding a salt meadow, but the 

 pioneers undoubtedly found the mouth of James Brook to 

 have quite a noticeable falls when the tide was out. At 

 the beginning of Border Street this insignificant stream is 

 bridged over, and the highway is graded up over the falls, 

 hiding them from view ; but they can be heard tumbling 

 beneath the house and sidewalk now built across the 

 stream when the tide is ebbing. Lot 10 of the Third Di- 

 vision, belonging to Thomas Lincoln, was a half acre lying 

 north of these falls ; and Nicholas Jacob owned a lot of 

 two acres bounded by the "falls" eastward and south- 

 ward. That such were the " falls " is more conclusively 



*.See p. Ill, (Jhapttr VI. 



