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U NORWALK. [1654.
the same, and also the breadth and depth of the same
—to be made as such indifferent men chosen— appojnt;
provided also that whenever the saied draines are to be
made, there shall be allowance afforded to every man,
in meadow, for the losse of the ground by reason of the
said drains ; also that the same drains are also to be
kept and sustained by the owners thereof, for perpetual
—as they were appoynted ; and those men that are to
vewe and appoyent the saied drains—Mr. Camfield,
Nath. Eli, Tho. Fitch.
Allotments of Land.
Ordered allso that the allotments to beginne to be
layed out as following : Videlicett to beginne— at the
end of the hither plaine where John Greggory mowed
the last yeare, &c.
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The Mill.
At a meetinge held the 6th of January, 1654, it was
voted and agreede, that the* mill shall desist*
and not to be carryed on, and Richard Web,
Tho. Fitch, Nath. Richards, shall send upon the first
opportunitie to Leeiftenant Swaine, and acquaint him
with the minds of the Towne concerning saied mill.
Voted, ordered, agreed, and concluded at the aforesaied
meetinge, that the
three undertakers of the mill in the
behalfe of the Towne, with Leeiftenant Swaine, should
with all convenient speed agree with the said Leeiftenant
Swaine for the desystinge and leavinge of the
said mill, as well as they could ;
and what charges the
saied agreement amounted to, the said Towne would
satisfy & pay.
• Obliterated.