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hard bargain. The "consideration" was "Six Acres of ground 

 empayled and broken up and one house, as also Foure and Twenty 

 Acres of ground lying neare ye small pond neare ye plantation or 

 Towne now cald Waymouth." The names of the signatories of 

 the document were on the part of the settlers James Parker, Will. 

 Jefferay, William Carpenter, John Uppame, Thomas White ; on 

 the part of the Indians Wampetuc, Webcowette, Nateaunte, 

 Nahauton. The witnesses were Edward Bennett, James Luddon, 

 Thos. Holbrooke. The last and of course all of the Indians affixed 

 their marks only. 



The permanent increase of the town was a good deal interfered 

 with by repeated emigrations. On one occasion the Rev. Samuel 

 Newman led forth to a place called Rehoboth no less than 40 

 families. " Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Rhode Island, and 

 Connecticut made large demands. Then followed the calls from 

 New York and the other middle States, and still later the vast 

 West, which have all been abundantly answered, until not a State 

 in the Union, and hardly a county or town, but has one or more 

 of the sons of Weymouth to represent it." 



However, I have followed up my subject, the settling of 

 Weymouth, far enough ; those interested in noting its gradual rise 

 to the happy position it now holds, or care to trace the part it 

 played in Indian wars, or those still more momentous wars of the 

 Revolution and the attempted secession ; or can find amusement in 

 reading records of Church troubles, Civil Government, and the like, 

 will find all they need between the covers of the exhaustive work 

 of Mr. Nash, which I have already referred to and to which I owe 

 many obligations. I will now proceed to relate my own experience 

 of what I may call New Weymouth. 



Before starting on my trip to America I made up my mind to 

 devote a day when in the neighbourhood of Boston to a pilgrimage 

 to the town which, bearing the name of the place of my birth, 

 caused me to feel for it a certain amount of sympathy. 



One object of my visit was to deposit with the local Historical 

 Society a copy of Moule's " Catalogue of the Charters, Minute 



