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cution which had developed in England by centuries of 

 complex land tenures, and signed by the marks of illiterate 

 savages who would more naturally have transferred their 

 rights by a few whiffs of tobacco and a grunt of satisfaction. 

 The whole cost of the township paid to the Indians 

 was less than the value of twelve acres on Turkey Hill; 

 for those twelve acres " on Turkey Hill on the north side 

 of a way leading to Scituate" were granted to Lieut Jno. 

 Smith and Deacon John Leavitt, August 15 of that year, 

 " on condition that they satisfy all the charge about the 

 purchase of the town's land of Josiah — Indian sagamore, 

 both the principal purchase and all the other charge that 

 hath been about it." 



Having satisfied the punctilio of honor with the Indians, 



aforesayd and sonne and heire to the aforesayd Chickafabut : and Squmuck all 

 called by the English Daniel some of the aforesayd Chickatabut and Ahahden — 

 Indians: for a valueable consideration to us in hand payd by Captaine Joshua 

 Hubberd and Ensigne John Thaxter, of Hingham aforesayd wherewith wee doe 

 acknowledge ourselves fully satisfyed contented and payd and thereof and of 

 every part and percell thereof doe exonerate acquitt and discharge the sayd Joshua 

 Hubberd and John Thaxter their heires executors and Administrators and every 

 of them forever by these presents : have given granted bargained sold enfeoffed 

 and confirmed and by these presents doe give grant bargaine sell Enfeoffe and 

 confirme unto the sayd Joshua Hubberd and John Thaxter on the behalfe and to 

 the use of the inhabitants of the Towne of Hingham aforesayd that is to say all 

 such as are the present owners and proprietors of the present house lotts as they 

 have bin from time to time granted and layd out by the Towne : All that Tract of 

 land which is the Towneshippe of Hingham aforesayd as it is now bounded with 

 the sea northward and with the River called by the Englishmen weymoth River 

 westward which River flow from the sea : and the line that devide betweene the 

 sayd Hingham and Weymoth as it is now layd out and marked untill it come to 

 the line that devide betwene the colony of the Massachusets and the colony of 

 New Plimoth and from thence to the midle of accord pond and from the midle 

 of accord pond to bound Brooke to the flowing of the salt water and so along by 

 the same River that devide betwene Scittiate and the said Hingham until it come 

 to the sea northward : And also threescore acres of salt marsh on the other side 

 of the River that is to say on iBcittiate side according as it was agreed upon by the 

 commissioners of the Massachusets colony and the commissioners of Plimoth 

 colony Together with all the Harbours Rivers Creekes Coves Islands fresh water 

 brookes and ponds and all marshes unto the sayd Towneshippe of Hingham 

 belonging or any wayes app'taineing with all and singular thapp'tenences unto the 

 p'misses or any part of them belonging or any wayes app'taineing: And all our 

 right title and interest of and into the sayd p'misses with their app'tenences and 

 every part and p'cell thereof to have and to hold All the aforesayd Tract of land 



