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... a settlement in some supposed better place , while repeated and destructive
fires , set by people in the adjacent towns , had consumed vast tracts of wood and
timber , and even the very soil itself , in some places to the hard for many acres .
... a settlement in some supposed better place , while repeated and destructive
fires , set by people in the adjacent towns , had consumed vast tracts of wood and
timber , and even the very soil itself , in some places to the hard for many acres .
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1 12 2C 71 ord Grass Island , of one eighth of an acre , mowed sometimes , and
is twenty rods from Grape Island , and ... Island is the fifth , covered with wood ,
and lies southeast twelve rods from Grass Island , and contains three acres .
1 12 2C 71 ord Grass Island , of one eighth of an acre , mowed sometimes , and
is twenty rods from Grape Island , and ... Island is the fifth , covered with wood ,
and lies southeast twelve rods from Grass Island , and contains three acres .
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Making fifty three miles of road , occupying two hundred and sixty two acres of
land . The whole contents of the town amount to fourteen thousand and sixty
acres ...
37 2 62 124 3 88 NY GY GP GP GP GP GP GP GP GP GP GP GP GP GP GP GP
Making fifty three miles of road , occupying two hundred and sixty two acres of
land . The whole contents of the town amount to fourteen thousand and sixty
acres ...
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... William Taylor , one of the Proprietors , who exchanged acre for acre ( the
whole quantity , ten acres ) and tock swamp land in the Gulf , so called , for his
pay . and necessary to be done for the procuring of a 16 HISTORY OF
SHREWSBURY .
... William Taylor , one of the Proprietors , who exchanged acre for acre ( the
whole quantity , ten acres ) and tock swamp land in the Gulf , so called , for his
pay . and necessary to be done for the procuring of a 16 HISTORY OF
SHREWSBURY .
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As early as 1663 , the Colonial Legislature made a grant of 500 acres of land
lying northwesterly of the east pond , to Francis Norton and Nicholas Davison , t
for the use of the town of Charlestown . A part of this tract still retains tbe name of
the ...
As early as 1663 , the Colonial Legislature made a grant of 500 acres of land
lying northwesterly of the east pond , to Francis Norton and Nicholas Davison , t
for the use of the town of Charlestown . A part of this tract still retains tbe name of
the ...
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