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The petitioners further Complain that they have to travel to the 

 Centre of the First Parish for Banns of Matrimony &c. this we 

 leave to operate as it stands seeing the Clerk is chosen by the 

 United Suffrages of the whole therefore remaining Quite an un- 

 certainty to which parish for y^ future we may be obliged to 

 Travel. Upon the whole we humbly submit the Observations by 

 us made to the wisdome and Justice of your Honor & Honors 

 And if you should think so widely different from us as to Judge 

 it Expedient and for the Benefit of this People to Cause a Divi- 

 sion of the Town of Hingham which is now supposed to be less 

 than five miles square, notwithstanding the many disadvantages 

 that must arise thereby to divide old towns for the reasons offered 

 by your petitioners, your Respondants must submit to it. 



Should that be the case we beg leave further to Observe as to 

 the Bounds they ask for (upon supposition they don't Intend to 

 Include a number of Families and their Homesteads which was 

 reannexed to the Old Parish a.d. 1747*) their Joining with us in 

 Choice of a Representative to the General Court their holding 

 their Right in the Powder House Arms & Amunition and the sole 

 right of Taxing One half of the Mill at Straights Pond so called 

 we acquiesce in ; but as to their Enjoying their Right in the 

 Town Wharf we view in a very different light, for it is Built upon 



* Hingham March 2nd 1746-47. Pursuant to the orders of the First and Second 

 Parishes in Hingham to run ye Line between ye s<J Precincts Wee, the subscribers 

 have proceeded as followeth — the Dividing Line begins, as by order of the Court, 

 at the Bridge on Hingham side, near ye dwelling-house formerly Lazell's at 

 Straights Pond, and continues as the rhoad or highway runs from thence unto ye 

 hill called Turkey Hill, and from thence we run by the East side of ye Land called 

 Turkey Hill Lane over sd Hill South about 5 deg. East and from thence South 

 about eleven and ^ deg. East 1% miles and about 40 rods, to ye North-west end 

 of ye Line between ye 53 & 54 Lotts in ye second part of ye thud Division — by 

 a range of Trees and Stakes marked and lettered with a marking iron W westerd 

 & E eastwd and stones laid about ym from thence to ye Pattent Line between 

 said 53 & 54 Lotts the Course is supposed to be about South 32 or 33 deg. East 

 all ye courses above mentioned being by ye needle. 



JOHN JACOB 

 JACOB BEAL 

 SOLOMON CUSHING 

 ABEL CUSHING 

 EBENr BEAL 

 STEPHEN STODDER 

 Committees 0/ ye First 6* Second Precincts. 



