The ancient historical records of Norwalk, Conn ... - Hay genealogy

122 NORWALK. [1733.
" Westward of Canfield's Hill;" six acres " about ye
Wolf pits ;
and six acres " Where it may be most convenient
about ye White Oak Shade, for ye use and Improvement"
" of a Dissenting, Presbiterian
or Congregational!
minister thereabouts Improved and settled in
that work, and so from time to time."]
Grant to Canaan Parish.
April 3, 1732. The Proprietors by major vote grant
to the Inhabitants of Canaan Parish all ye common land
where their meeting house standeth, and Thirty Rods
from the meeting house, that is common and highway
there, so long as they shall support a meeting house in
said place.
Grant to the Church of England Professors.
Feb. 11, 1733-4. The Proprietors by major vote
grant to such persons in the Town of Norwalk that are
professors of the Church of England by law established.
One Rood of land on such part of the plain before Lt.
Lees, as the committee hereafter named and chosen by
sd proprietors shall think most fitting, stake the same
out, for them to build a Church upon, for ye worship of
God in that way ;
and for a burying yard ; to be for yt
use forever ;
of it.
Provided they build a Church on any part
[Oct. 5, 1750. Nehemiah Mead and Joseph Lockwood,
Jr., purchased of the Proprietors a small parcel of
land " Near the Mill Brook, where their Tann fattsnow
stand ;" and "At the same meeting the Proprietors by
major vote, grant to ye professors of the Church o^
England in Norwalk, seventy one Poles of land adjoining
to ye aforesaid land, as ye same is staked out by
sd committee ; who are hereby ordered to execute a deed
in proper form and manner for their holding the same.'^