iS HISTORY OF THE COUNTY OF WESTCHESTER. 



Jonathan Lockwood and Mr. Joseph Theal to be a committee to entertain such 

 persons as shall plant there & to manage, order & dispose of ye affays of that 

 plantation according to their best skill as may best aduance ye wellfar and groth 

 of ye said plantation & they ear tacke care yt there be sutable loot laid out for 

 the first minister of ye place & a loot for ye ministry to be and belong to ye 

 ministry forever. This is a trew coppy tacken out oi the Records of Harf ord. 



Vera Copia 

 Hartfrd Test. Eleazar Kimberly 



Janry 21st, 1696. Secretary."* 



Upon the nth of October, 1681, the proprietors of the Hop ground 

 agreed that no one might be admitted as an inhabitant, nor should have 

 power to sell or exchange the land that might be allotted to him, nor 

 should he have any voice in disposing of lands, but that any inhabitant 

 on paying forty shillings should have an equal share with the proprietors 

 in all the undivided land. "The settlers seem to have feared the ac- 

 cumulation of large tracts of land in the hands of single individuals. 

 Hence, each man had a home lot of three acres which was to be for- 

 feited if not built on in three years in the town, and a lot in the ' east 

 field' or the great 'north plain,' and also some ' meadow land.' " a " In 

 December, 1681, Samuel Barrett, Taebariah Roberts and Thomas Car- 

 field commenced to inhabit only.:}: This man Roberts was chosen town 

 clerk, afterwards Justice of the Peace and for many years prominent in 

 nearly all the affairs of the town. "§ He was also a bitter opponent of 

 the Church of England as we shall have occasion to show presently. 



"In December, 1681, Joshua Webb is received as Inhabitant, in 

 case they shall agree with him to build a grist mill in ye place." "A 

 committee was appointed to confer with Joshua Webb, and a mill and 

 a dam were built by him and the town jointly, he to furnish the iron 

 work and the town to cart and furnish the timber and mill-stones," and 

 the mill when finished is to be the sd Joshua Webb's, his proper right 

 and tytle, only he is not at any time to sell, alienate or any other ways 

 dispose of ye said mill; except it be to him or them that the town shall 

 appoint and the said Joshua doth binde himself; and his ; to finde the 

 town at hop-ground with goodmeale, they finding good corne; the tole 

 as in the law expressed." || 



* Address of Joseph Barrett July 4th, 1776, copied from the original document preserved 

 among the old papers of John Holmes are of the original pioneers, now in possession of John 

 C. Holmes, Esq., of Cross River, Lewisboro. 



a Address of Joseph Barrett, July 4, 1S76. Recorder, Katonah, July 7th. 



tThe following will serve as a sample of the vote by which new settlers were received into 

 the colony. The date is " December 1681. They give unto William Sturdeuant upon his 

 acceptance and submitting to their order of reselling Inhabitants : they give him a house lott 

 containing three Accres, and six Accres of land in the east feild : and three accres of mead- 

 ow : he paying twenty shillings to ye company and to take twenty rod of fence in ye coman 

 field for euer.'' — Address of Joseph Barrett, 



§Address of Joseph Barrett, July 4, 1S76.— The Recorder, Wm. A. Miller and J. T. Lock- 

 wood editors, &c. 



II Ditto. 



