"To Thomas Miller, one house lott containinge one acree and an halfe, bounded on the north side by William Tenney's house lott, the east end by the streete.

"To William Harris, one house lott containinge two acrees, bounded on the south side by the common, the east end by the streete.

"To John Harris, one house lott containinge two acrees, bounded on the south side by William Harris, his house lott, the east end by the streete.

"To Thomas Harris, one house lott containinge two acrees, bounded on the south side by John Harris, his house lott, the east end by the streete.

"To John Newmarch, one house lott containinge two acrees, bounded on the south side by Thomas Harris, his house lott, the east end by the streete.

"To Mr. William Bellingham, one house lott containinge foure acrees, bounded on the north side by a peece of common [land], part of it lyinge on the east side of the streete, and part of it on the west side.

"To Mr. Thomas Nelson, one house lott containinge six acrees, bounded on the north side by a peece of common [land], part of it lyinge on the east side of the streete, and part of it on the west side.

"To Thomas Barkar, one house lott containinge foure acrees, bounded on the north side by a peece of common [land], part of it lyinge on the east side of the streete, and part of it on the west side.

"To Sebastian Briggam, one house lott containinge foure acrees, bounded on the north side by Thomas Barkar's house lott, part of it lyinge on the east side of the streete, and part of it on the west side.

"To George Abbot, one house lott containinge two acrees, bounded on the north side by Sebastian Briggam's house lott, the east end by the streete.

"To Edward Bridges, one house lott containinge an acree and an halfe, bounded on the north side by the crosse streete, the east end by the high streete.

"To Cushins Crosby, one house lott containinge one acree and an halfe, bounded on the north side by a peece of ground unlaid out, and the east end by the streete.

"To Richard Nalam, one house lott containinge one acree and an halfe, bounded on the north side by Cushins Crosby's house lott, the east end by the streete."

The following are the names of the first settlers of the town, or of such as had each a house lot, as aforesaid, alphabetically arranged, with other notices.

Mr. Thomas Nelson, May 23, 1639, Aug.

1648, in England.

* Recompense, daughter of John Miller, was baptized in Boston,

October, 1630, being the first child baptized in Boston.

Which of the aforenamed sixty persons were heads of those (about) twenty families, which came out from England with Mr. Rogers, cannot now be determined. There is little doubt, however, that James Barkar, Thomas Barkar, Matthew Boyes, Jane Brocklebank, Edward Carleton, Hugh Chaplin, John Haseltine, Robert Haseltine, Joseph Jewett, Maximilian Jewett, Francis Lambert, Thomas Mighill, Thomas Nelson, Thomas Palmer, Francis Parrot, John Spofford, and Thomas Tenney, were among them.

Michael Hopkinson, William Stickney, and Richard Swan, were dismissed from the church in Boston, to the church in Rowley; and John Remington was previously settled in Newbury.

Mr. John Miller was of Roxbury in 1638. Perhaps of Boston in 1630. William Bellingham was previously of Boston, or Ipswich. John Newmarch and perhaps others were from Ipswich.

Soon after the settlement was commenced in 1639, by the sixty families before named, others moved into town, so that, before a record was made of the lots first laid out, sixteen other families had been added to their number, as the records conclusively show, viz.

John Smith, who had a house lot of one acre and a half, joining the southeasterly side of Thomas Leaver's house lot.

Mark Prime, a house lot of one acre and a half, joining the southerly side of William Acy's house lot, east end on the street.

William Tenney, a house lot of one acre and a half, joining the south side of Mark Prime's, east end on the street, the southerly side by Thomas Miller's house lot.

Nicholas Jackson, a house lot on the easterly side of Holmes Street, of one acre and a half, lying on the south side of Mr. John Miller's house lot.

Richard Leighton, one of one acre and a half, lying on the southerly side of Mr. John Miller's lot.

John Pearson, one of one acre and a half, lying on the southerly side of Richard Leighton's lot.

Edward Sawer, one of one acre and a half, lying on the south side of James Bailey's lot.

Jarnes Bailey, one of one acre and a half, lying on the north side of Edward Sawer's lot.

Richard Holmes, a lot of one acre, joining the southerly side of Edward Sawer's lot.

The three last lots are supposed to have been on the easterly side of the street where Dr. B. Proctor now lives.

Thomas Burkby, a lot of one acre and a half, on the south side of Sarnuel Bellingham's lot.

John Tillison, a lot of one acre and a half, on the south side of Thomas Burkby's lot.

Samuel Bellingham, a lot of

of Thomas Burkby's lot.

on the north side

Thomas Sawer, one house lot of one acre and a half, bounded southerly by John Newmarch's house lot, easterly by the street.

Daniel Harris, one house lot of one acre, bounded easterly by William Law's lot.

William Law, one house lot of

erly by Daniel Harris's lot.

bounded west

John Hill, one house lot of one acre and a half, bounded northerly by John Tillison's lot.

The first entry upon the records of the General Court, which has any reference to Mr. Rogers's plantation, is