DIVIDING THE LAND. 1 53 



side of which our central schoolhouse now stands, and 

 which reaches to Little Harbor, was sliced into nine lots. 



The Beach Islands, including those not on the surveyor's 

 plan, made parts of six lots, and counted as the largest 

 island that which lies east of Cat Dam, where several 

 summer residences are now being built along Nichols 

 Avenue. 



Then the main land commencing where Jerusalem Road 

 skirts the shore was measured into narrow strips. 



These strips left room for a highway next to the water, 

 and most of them butted one end upon Rattlesnake Run, 

 which empties into Straits Pond. The other end of these 

 lots came near to the fences which skirted the marshes in 

 the region of Peck's Meadow, leaving a broad highway. 



A certain tree called " Bread and Cheese Tree " * was 

 standing near Rattlesnake Run upon a straight extension 

 of King Street, and a broad way six rods wide was to run 

 from this tree to Lily Pond. Only a part of this way. 

 King Street, has ever been built for travel. 



When fifty lots had been laid out, then the surveyor 

 began to measure the remainder of the eighty-three on 

 the southwest side of that broad way. The western 

 ends of the first eight of these lots came against Turkey 

 Meadow, which had already been granted, and against 

 the timber commons that had been reserved two or three 

 years before. The remaining twenty-four lots were a 

 mile long, stretching between King Street and a way 

 parallel to it, which was laid out from James Hill, near 

 Turkey Hill, perpendicularly towards the colony line. 



The last lot of this Second Division lay flat against a 

 highway five rods wide which is almost an extension of 

 Pond Street, running through the woods west of the pond, 

 and which is still reserved, though never yet opened for 

 travel. 



There was still left a tract of land as large as either of 



* Perhaps this is another bill of fare perpetuated. 



