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HISTORY OF AMESBURY. VII<br />

Lots; Petition not granted; Joseph Peasley preaches; Order <strong>of</strong> General<br />

Court; Mortgage <strong>of</strong> Macy.<br />

1659.<br />

Grant to Pike; Road to Buttonwood; Children's land; Names <strong>of</strong>; Walter<br />

Taylor, townsman ; Land on river; Joseph Peasley; Opposition to attending<br />

meeting in old town; Mr. Worcester at new town; Peasley foi-bidden to<br />

preach; Reasons for;<br />

Whittier's poem.<br />

Thomas Macy; Fined; Letter <strong>of</strong>; Flees to Nantucket;<br />

1660.<br />

Cattle, regulation <strong>of</strong>; Townships to sons; Bounty on wolves; Indians;<br />

Petition for new town ; Shubael Dumer ; Courts consent ; Failure <strong>of</strong>.<br />

1661.<br />

Frog pond; Thomas Haynes; Indian grounds; Anthony Colby; Sketch <strong>of</strong>'<br />

1662.<br />

Richard Currier, clerk; Ge<strong>org</strong>e Can", common right; Great swamp; Lion's<br />

Mouth; Great lots ; Vallentine Rowell; Death <strong>of</strong>;- Sketch <strong>of</strong>.<br />

1663.<br />

New burying ground enlarged; Golgotha; Five hundred and twenty acres<br />

given out; Ezekiel Worthen, townsman; Sketch <strong>of</strong>.<br />

1664.<br />

Committee to layout Great swamp; Lots <strong>of</strong>; Common land; Hampton<br />

lots; Hollow highway; John Pressey buys at river.<br />

1665.<br />

Meeting house built; Size <strong>of</strong>; Location <strong>of</strong>; Committee to obtain minis-<br />

ter; Not successful; Treat with Capt. Pike; Cows on common; Herdsmen.<br />

1666.<br />

Minister's salary ; Petition to the General Court for minister and township ;<br />

R. Currier, agent; Pet granted; Organization <strong>of</strong>; Townships; R. Goodale;<br />

Sketch <strong>of</strong>; Freemen, number <strong>of</strong>.<br />

1667.<br />

Land to several; Dissent; Bridge at G. Martin's; Richard Hubbard, a<br />

common right; William Hackett, a common right; Trouble with Haverhill;<br />

John Nash and Thomas Nichols, townsmen; Minister's support; Thomas<br />

Sargent, townsman ; Town named ; Land for minister ; People<br />

meeting-house.<br />

1668.<br />

seated in the<br />

Minister's pay; Name <strong>of</strong> town; Goodwin's ferry; Four divisions <strong>of</strong> land;<br />

Ge<strong>org</strong>e Carr's four hundred acres confirmed; Cattle; Way from mill.<br />

1669.<br />

Thomas Stevens and Joseph Lanckester, common rights; Land to minis-<br />

ter; Committee to purchase house for minister; Mr. Woodbridge ; Efforts<br />

to obtain a minister ; Sends to Mr. Hobberd; No success; New committee<br />

Obtain Mr. Hubbard ; John Gimson and Joseph Worthen, townsmen<br />

Highway north <strong>of</strong> river lots ; The ferry ; Dispute about.<br />

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