Rathbone genealogy

362 RA THEONE GENEA LOG}.
stone for the purchase of him by the town of Boston of all
the lands situated on Boston Xeck. so called, except about
six acres reserved by Blackstone for his own use. This purchase
comprised what is now the City of Boston.
In the laying out of the city and in the settlement of
boundary disputes the Boston records show that William
Chesebrough took a leading part.
Mr. William Chesebrough and Mr. Breutou or any three
of them. After this Jan. 17, 1640. the consent of Boston
that Mount Wallaston should become a new town was voted
in the following words, viz.:
It was agreed that our brethern of the Mount, viz.: William
Chesebrough. Alexander Winchester. Richard Wright.
James Penniman. Stephen Kinsley and Martin Sanders in
the name of the estate rent them for whom they undertake.
that they should give to the town of Boston towards the
maintainence of the ministry thereof 4 per cent of an acre for
every two acres of the seven acres formerly granted to the
University of Boston upon expectation they should have
continued with us and 3 per cent of an acre of every acre
that hath been or shall be granted to any others who are not
inhabitants of Boston. And in consideration hereof, and after
that the said portions of money shall be paid to the town
treasury of Boston. All the said land shall be free from any
town rates or charges, when the mount shall be rated by the
Court, and not assessed with the town of Boston, and upon
these terms, if the Court shall think fit to grant them to be
a town of themselves they shall have libertv to accept there-
of.
Feb. lt>, 1640. the petition of the inhabitants of Mount
Wolaston. was granted them according to the agreement
with Boston and the town to be called Braintree.
In Holmes Arnolds' Vol. r, page 310. also in Trumbull's
History of Connecticut. Vol. 1. Page 233. we find the following
account of the settlement of what is now the town
of Stonington in Connecticut in the following words: "1658.
this year, a considerable settlement was made between Mystic
and Paucatuck rivers. This tract was called Pequot and
originally belonged to Xew London: the first men who settled
upon this point was William Chesebrough from Reho-
hoth, in 1649. A complaint was exhibited against him for