174 THE ISLAND OF NANTUCKET. 



house lot within the limits not previously occupied, and 

 that each house lot shall contain sixty rods square to a 

 whole share. Tristram Coffin appears to have been 

 allowed to make the first selection," which he did at 

 ,c Cappamet Harbour head sixty rods squar, or there- 

 abouts," as did also Peter Coffin, Tristram Coffin, Jr., 

 William Pike, James Coffin, Stephen Greenleaf, and 

 others. 



William C. Folger, Esq., says that — 



u Thomas Macy and Edward Starbuck stopped at 

 Maddequet during the winter of 1659. In the spring 

 each took a hoe and went to find a better place. Ed- 

 ward chose near the north head of Hummock Pond, 

 where he settled, — probably on the now Cornish farm. 

 Thomas settled at Watercomet (the pond field), where 

 his son John and grandson Thomas — who died in 

 1759 — lived. 5 Tis very near the Eeed Pond, and the 

 land now belongs to Capt. Henry Coleman and others. 

 Eoundations of several houses are found there now." 



After careful examination of the map, after listening 

 attentively to all the arguments brought forward by 

 different people to prove that this or that locality was 

 the place where the first town was situated, and after 

 carefully weighing all the evidence in favor of each 

 site, the compiler has arrived at the following con- 

 clusions: first, that the houses were few and scattered 

 widely apart; second, that the site of the first town was 

 a considerable distance to the eastward of Long Pond, 

 and that the larger portion of the houses were situated 

 around the heads of Cappamet Harbor, now Capaum 

 Pond (but which then opened to the sea), and Hum- 

 mock Pond, and in the near vicinity of Maxcy's, 



