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GENEALOGICAL NOTES OF BARNSTABLE FAMILIES. 893<br />

same inconvenience. In going to the mill or to their planting<br />

grounds in the Common Field, they went by the circuitous route I<br />

have described. Lieut. James Lewis' house, which is now standing,<br />

was built about two centuries ago. About the time that that<br />

house was built, the road on the north <strong>of</strong> Lewis' Swamp was<br />

cleared, and thus the distance was shortened.<br />

I have heret<strong>of</strong>ore supposed that there were three original<br />

allotments between Goodspeed's lot and Taylor's Lane, though I<br />

was unable to give the names <strong>of</strong> the owners <strong>of</strong> only two. On a<br />

more careful examination <strong>of</strong> deeds and the records, 1 think it is<br />

evident there were only two original allotments, yet three house<br />

lots, John Scudder's being divided into two by the road called<br />

Goodspeed's Out-Let.<br />

The following diagram exhibits the relative position <strong>of</strong> the<br />

lots. The situations <strong>of</strong> buildings to which reference is made, are<br />

indicated by figures<br />

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