Genealogical notes of Barnstable families - citizen hylbom blog

GENEALOGICAL NOTES OF BARNSTABLE FAMILIES. 395
owned by Ebenezer Bacon. The deed is from the land committee
in the usual form, as follows :
"November the 13, 1717. Bargained with and laid out to
Lieut. Ebenezer Lewis a small gore of land by the highways, and
is bounded by the ways, viz : on the south by the highway, or
County Eoad ;
easterly by the way that goeth down by the brook ;
on the west by the way that goeth by Benjamin Davis' land or
fence, down to Lieut. Nathaniel Bacon's, until it meeteth with
the other way, last before mention—not to infringe on any former
grant, for which he remits two shares and a half—two of them
in the right of Jedediah Jones, and half a share in the right of
Thomas Blossom. * DANIEL PARKEE,'
JOSEPH LOTHROP.
Lieut. Lewis being one of the committee, did not sign the
grant made to himself.
In 1717 the new Meeting House was built on Cobb's Hill, by
proprietors who purchased the land. The conditions of the sale
are recorded as follows : There is no date. The authority to lay
out land for public uses and setting Meetmg Houses were vested
in the land committee by a vote of the proprietors, dated April
15, 1715. The following was laid out in 1717 :
"Bargained with and set out to Mr. John Bacon, Lieut. John
Thar^her, Lieut. Ebenezer Lewis, Samuel Cob, Joseph Davis,
James Gorham, Thomas Lothrop, George Lewis, Lieut. Nathaniel
Bacon, Samuel Lewis, Samuel Sturgis, and Nathaniel Lumbert,
Jabez and Sylvanus Gorham, a piece of land lying on Cob's Hill,
bounded northerly by said Nathaniel Bacon's land and partly by
Samuel Bacon's land, to a stake by the fence ; thence set to a
Rock and soe to another Rock at the S. W. corner ; and from
thence sets easterly to Samuel Bacon's land, soe as to include the
land on which the pound stands, not to remove said pound unless
all parties concerned doe agree to it, for which they remitt fifty
shares and a quarter in this division, that is to say,
John Bacon, four and a quarter, 4 1-4
Thomas Lothrop, 5
•loseph Davis, 5
Samuel Cob, 4
George Lewis, 3
James Gorham, 3
Lieut. Jonathan Thacher, 3
Lieut. Ebenezer Lewis, 3
Samuel Sturgis, 5
* In the tliii'd or last division, the common lands were divided into 6000 shares—28
shares made a 40 acre lot—but some of the lots were smaller, and some much larger. In
the first division, 6000 shares, 43 made a lot, in the second 6000 shares, 42,—and in the Sandy
Neck lots 100 shares made a lot. The lots were all apprized at the same sum, and presumed
to be of equal value. If the land was poor, more acres were put into a lot—if valuable,
a less number. These shares were an article of trafic, and transferred from one to
another.