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TOWN AND COLONIAL LEGISLATION. 177 dered that the one Acre Lotts Lying on ye East side of New Meadow neck at ye lower End against William Ingraham's shall be laid out into two Acre Lotts." " It is ordered, concluded, & agreed that whereas ye Com- mittie Chosen for ye surveying of Brooks's Pasture, 25th of February, 1679, have now brought in their part of it to be 300 Acres. It is now ordered : 1. That Convenient highwayes may be laid out in sd Land. 2. That ye Land for house Lots be laid out. 3. Hugh Cole, Senior's, Land therein be laid out. 4. That ye Remaindder be laid out to each man accord- ing to his Proportion as Rank't, and that each man draw his lot when put in from which is to be done with Convenient Speed by 5 men as a Committee namely, John Brown, Wm. Ingraham, Hugh Cole, Samuel Luther, Obadiah Bowen. " It is voted three men be Chosen to take an account of ye former Constables. And that the sd three men Shall take an account of Mr. Miles of ye Town debts, viz. John Brown, Mr. Nicholas Tanner, Wm. Ingraham." "At a Town meeting Legally warned & ye Town being mett together this 25th day of February, 1679. It is ordered and voted that Mr. John Miles shall have and enjoy the House he now liveth in to him & his Executors & administs. and as- signs. Which house was built by ye Town on Conditions yt ye sd Mr. Miles acquit & discharge the town of all debts due unto him before and in ye time of ye War, Except nine pounds, fifteen shillings due to ye sd Myles from ye Estate of Capt. Willett which said Sum Mr. Miles gave to this Town." "Received of ye Town of Swanzey ye full of all debts due to me fron ye sd Town from ye beginning of ye world till ye eighteenth of June, 1679. I say Received this 25th of Feb., 1679, t>y me. John Myles." 12