History of Middlesex County, Massachusetts - citizen hylbom blog

154 HISTORY OF MIDDLESEX COUNTY.
the territory, some 1,300 acres were taken from'tlie
town of Stow, and included Pompsiticut Hill,
and other good farming lands, devoted to orchards,
tillage, and pasturage. Some 1,900 acres were
taken from the northwesterly part of Sudbury, and
included some good farming lands, but were to a
great extent woodland, baving some of the largest
growth of wood and timber to be found in Massachusetts.
By an arrangement the town of May-
nard agreed to pay to the town of Stow the sum of
36,500 as a compensation, and to the town of Sudbury
the sum of $2ii,.500; the town of Sudbury
to assign to the town of Maynard one hundred and
four shares of their Framingham and Lowell rail-
road stock ; the town of Maynard was also to pay
to the town of Sudbury the sum of three hundred
dollars per year, for ten years, towards the support
of their paupers, and one third part of all costs
and expenses for the support of military pau])ers.
The lands called the New Grams, in Siidhury,
were purchased of the Indians, and ronsistcd of
two strips, each one mile wide, with a " thirty rod
highway" to each lot, and parallel with them,
joining upon the westerly side of the town, and
were called squadrons of land. The following ex-
tract may explain the matter :
" At a town Meeting .lanuary !• f 1657, voted in
y' Town Meeting that whereas there is a pond lying
in y'' third and second squadron that soe our middel
Highway from South to North cannot pas streight,
our will and vote is that y' said way shall goe
round the pond at y" nearest end and alowance be
given by y" Surveyor to any person that shall be
damaged by y" highway going at y" ponds end and,
Alsoe let it be remembered that y" long Highway
from South to North goethe at y" west end of y*'
pond through y* land of John Toll and Solomon
Johnson and is twelve rods wide at y° narrowest
for which may y° said John Toll and Johnson, have
sufficient alowance.
" A true copy se old Book of Grant Folio
54, 55. John Rice, Toioh