THE TOWN OF BEDFORD. 



*5 



The same year the following charges were expended on account of 

 the " Hop Ground" : 



The amount of charges expended upon the account of and for ye 

 ground" in the year 16S0 



; hopp 



Rich. Arnbler 

 Abra. ' ' 

 Jos Theals 

 Dan. Weed 

 Dan. Wescot 

 Jo. 



Jonah Petit 

 Jo. Cross 



06-04-06 

 06-00-00 

 04-00-00 

 06-00-00 

 05-00-00 

 05-00-00 

 09-00-00 

 02-06-04 



Total is : 43-10-10 



ye sum paid purchase as above was 

 Forty shillings each person. 



The proportion and how these men 



paid 



Jos. Hunt 



Nickolas Webster to {_ 

 Richd Ambler j 



Abra. Ambler to") 

 Jo Miller j 



Eli Slason X X 

 David Waterbery 



Joseph Theale payd>^ 

 by Sa Weed j 



Dan Weedpaydby) 

 Thos Parroyer j 

 b} r Rich Ayres 

 Dan Wescot by) 

 Will Clark j 



by Jonas Selfy 2 lb ) 

 by Tho panoyer 1 lb) 

 Dan Wescot by) 

 Ben Stevens j 

 Jonah Pettit payd> 

 by Gren j" 



Jos Stevens 

 Kilborn 

 Dan Jones 

 Jo Cross : pd by) 

 Eli Slauson x j" 



02-00-00 

 02-00-00 



02-00-00 



01-12-06 

 00-07-06 



02-00-00 



01-00-00 

 03-00-00 

 02-00-00 



03-00-00 



02 00-00 



01-00-00 



02-00-00 

 02-00-00 

 02-00-00 



00x07-00 



By the following document it appears that the proprietors began their 

 settlement by holding their first meeting at Stamford from whence they 

 all came. 



Stamford io March 



i6 S0 

 iU sr 



by vote the proprietors of the "hop grounds" doe chuse and appoynt 

 and fully empower Jos Theale Abra Ambler John Miller Daniel Jones: 

 and John Cross to be theire committee to lay out the town plot both for 

 situation and also to lay out the house lots and one lotment to every 

 proprietor in the field or the East side of the plains : and three of the 

 aforesaid men have full power to act in ye premises and it shall be in 

 the discretion of these men to make each man's lot proportionable; in 



