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58 NORWALK. [1670.
their, to se if they and we can come to a loving and
neighborly issue and agreement, about the division of
bounds betwixt them and us ; and the said committee
is to make these propositions to the men of Stanford,
eyther to divide betwixt five mile river and pine brook ;
that is to say in the middle betwin both ; or else to divide
in the middle betwin Saketuk River and the bounds
betwin Stanford and Greenwig.
John Gregory.
At the same meting it was voted and concluded that
their shall be two men chosen to prosecute the case
against John Gregorie, senior,
as touching the lands he
howlds from the right of James the Indian, eyther by law
or otherwise, as that they may howld and maintaine
the rights which the town or any other land
which he claims in the like natuer, as the island called
Cokkanus Island.
Town Officers in 1670.
At the same meting [Feb. the 21, 1670] Matthu
Marvin, Junior, chosen to swepe the meating house, and
to have 20s for his pains, and Walter Hayte chosen to
beate the drume, and to have 10s for the sayd imployment;
Tho. Benny dick senr. chosen towne clerk, and to
have 20s for his pains ;
Mr. Fitch & John Bouton chosen
survaiors, Leuten* Olmsted, Ensign Tho. Fitch, Nathaniell
Richards, Daniell Kellogg & Tho. Bennydick,
senr. chosen celect men.
The Guard.
At the aforesayed meting it was voted and ordered
that it shall be left to the five men, to procure a handsome
and convenient seate made and sett up in the meting
house, for a garde to sitt in, in the most suitable
place, with all such conveniances for their Arms as they