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78 HISTORY OF AMESBURY.
"William Osgood, first lott, 200 acres; John Weed, second
lott, 200 acres; John Hoyt, jr., third lott, 120 acres; John
Colby, fourth lott, 160 acres; Hen Blasdell, fift lott 160 acres:
Willi. Huntinton, six lott, 120 acres; Walter Taylor, seven lott,
108 acres ; James George, eight lott, 040 acres ; Edward Cot-
tle, ninth lott, 160 acres; Ms Gove, tenth lott, 108 acres; Rich-
ard Currier, leaventh lott, 200 acres ; Widow Colby, twelth lott,
108 acres ; Thomas Barnard, thirteen lott, 200 acres ; Willi.
Sargent, fourteen lott, 200 acres; Sam 11 Foot, fifteen lott, 120
acres; Edman Elleat, sixteen lott, 120 acres; George Martin,
seventh lott, 160 acres; Jeret Hadden, eighteerrK)tt, 200 acres:
Widow Peasly, nineteen lott, 108; Sam" Colby, twenty lott, 108
acres ; Rob Quenby, twenty one lott, 108 acres ; Nath Gold,
twenty two lott, 108 acres ; John Hoyt sen., twenty three lott, 200
acres; Vail Rowell, twenty four lott, 160 acres; Willi. Barnes,
twenty five lott, 200 acres ; Philip Challis, twenty six lott, 200
acres."
Phillip Challis deputy this year.
May 1 7th. Valentine Rowell, one of the first eighteen, and
a signer of the Articles of Agreement, died. He was, probably,
son of Thomas, who received land at the first division of Salisbury
in 1639. He seems to have been one of the first who
crossed the Powow, as previous to 1652 he sold his house
and land to John Bayly, sen., which fact Bayly mentions in his
will made in 1651. Bayly gave this house and five acres of
land to his daughter Johanna, wife of William Huntington, and
April 2d of this year they sold the same to John Maxfield for
^5. By the description given in the deed it seems to have
been at the Ferry near Bayly's hill.
Rowell received land in all the divisions up to the time of
his death, and was chosen to lay out the Lion's mouth lots
with "goodman Mearting & goodman Hoyt." He was made a
townsman in Salisbury in 1650.
His children were Hannah, born January, 1643 j Thomas,
born September 7th, 1644; John, born ^45, died Feb-
ruary 1 8th, 1655; Phillip, born March 8th, 1647; Mary, born
January 31st, 1650; Sarah, born November 16th, 165 1 ; John,