Source Colonial Records by Franklin Rice Pub 1910
At a Meeting of the inhabitants of the Town, ordered by the General Court to be Called Marlborough, on September 20, 1660.
It is ordered that every person "yt" claims any interest in the Town of Marlborough, shall pay to all publicke charge, both for minister and allother town charges that have arisen about the plantation to this day from the beginning thereof, according to their proportion in ye rate now presented with said proportion due; every person to pay at or before the 10th of Novemeber next ensuing, or else loose all legal interest in the aforesaid plantation; that is to say, four pence an acre for each acre of their House Lotts to the Minister, and three pence for all the estate that hath been kept or bought to keep, being found in the town or about the town; and nine pence an acre for every acre of their House Lotts to town charges, till all the debts that are due from the town to them that have been employed by the town or the plantation thereof
Signed
Edmund
Rice William Kerly
Thomas
King Henry Kerly
Soloman
Johnson John Howe
Richard
Newton Christopher Banister
William
Ward Jihn Johnson
Thomas
Goodnow John Ruddocke
They proceeded, on the 26th of November to lay out thier house lots. Some persons had been in this plantation for three years and this was confirmation of the lands they had occupied. The following is a list of the lot owners and acrerage they now owned or where about to own.
Edmund Rice - 50
acres
William Ward - 50
acres
John Ruddocke -
50 acres
Thomas Goodnow -
32 acres
Joseph Rice - 22
acres
Samuel Rice - 21
acres
Christopher Banister
- 16 acres
Thomas King - 39
1/2 acres
William Kerly -
30 acres
Soloman Johnson
- 23 acres
John Johnson - 30
acres
Richard Newton -
30 acres
John Howe Sr. -
30 acres
John Howe Jr. -
16 acres
Henry Kerly - 19
1/2 acres
Richard Barnes -
16 acres
Thomas Rice - 35
acres
Joseph Holmes -
18 acres
Samuel Howe - 16
acres
Andrew Belcher -
20 acres
Obadiah Ward - 21
aces
Edward Rice - 35
acres
Richard Ward - 18
acres
John Woods Sr. -
30 acres
John Maynard - 23
acres
Peter King - 22
acres
Benjamin Rice -
24 acres
A Minister - 30
acres
PeterBent - 30 acres
John Bellows - 20
acres
Abrham Howe - 25
acres
Thomas Goodnow Jr.
- 20 acres
John Rutter - 30
acres
John Barrett - 18
acres
John Rediat - 22
1/2 acres
A Black Smith -
30 acres
Henry Axtell - 15
acres
John Newton - 16
acres
End of List
The number of acres granted to the thirty eight parties mentioned, for house lots in the town amounted to 993 1/2.
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