DIVIDING THE LAND. 



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proved by the fact that the pioneers called the outlet of 

 Straits Pond a "falls," which is scarcely more of a tumble 

 than our James Brook makes when the tide is low. 



Besides these forty-five lots, the Third Division included 

 fourteen more lots "over the river," aggregating thirty- 

 nine and a half acres of the Threescore Acres that had 

 constituted for so many years the "bone of contention." 



These divisions* of marsh land were not all made at 



* As follows : — 



Lot. Name. Acres. 



1 James Whiton 14 



2 Anthony Eames 3^ 



3 Jciseph Underwood 1^4 



4 Nathaniel Baker 4 



5 John Fearing i 



6 William Buckland i?4 



7 George Marsh 2 



Lot. Name. 



32 Edward Burton 



33 Thomas Chubbuck 



34 (Widow) Hilliard 



35 Thomas Hobart 



36 John Lazell 



37 Ralph Woodward 



38 Robert Jones 



2^2 



Acres in Third Division 106 



Thomas Chaffe two acres, which was all the marsh on the south side of Straits Pond. 



