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HISTORY OF COH ASSET. 



Now that their several proportions were determined, the 

 next need was a surveyor, who should make a plot of the 

 land so that the good and the bad patches might be evenly 

 shared, and also to lay out proper highways for gaining 

 access to the separate lots. 



The surveyor chosen was Lieut. Joshua Fisher, of Ded- 

 ham, and it was voted to send for him immediately. It 

 was well known by all the settlers that the best land of 

 Cohasset was that along the harbor up to the mouth of 

 Bound Brook, the region which has since become the main 

 village. Everybody desired a slice of that preferred ground. 

 Therefore a block of land a mile thick and two miles long, 

 reaching from the colony line northwestward to Little 

 Harbor, was the first to be shared. There were nearly 

 fourteen hundred acres in the block, so that each of the 

 seven hundred shares would be nearly two acres.* 



♦The exact total was 1,394 acres and 31 rods, making 314 rods for one share, 

 providing 7105^ shares ; but 7112 shares were re.illy granted, so there was a very 

 slight scrimping of some shares to make up the extra i-^^ shares. 



