History of Bridgewater p. 69

EARLY SETTLEMENT OF BRIDGEWATER.

[Thanks to Betty White for transcribing the History section]

1677.—	A piece of a highway granted to John Willis, through his lands, to the river.

1680.—	Ten men were appointed to build and maintain a horse bridge over the river, near where the three rivers meet in the road way laid out by a jury for the Plymouth road to Pimpkin bridge. (At Pope's bridge.)

1684.—	Lieutenant Thomas Hayward, Nathaniel Willis, Joseph Hayward and Francis Cary to maintain the bridge and causey at Lieutenant T. Hayward's house, fit for cart, horse, and foot: and are to be freed from all other highway work. And John Field, John Washburn, Jr., and Nathaniel Packard are to maintain a like bridge and causey towards Thomas Snell's house, at Sandy Hill, on the same conditions.

1685.—	Samuel Allen, Samuel Allen, Jr., William Brett, Isaac Harris, John Haward, Jr., Jonathan Hill, and Thomas Whitman, pray for a road and bridge over Matfield River. (at Joppa.)

1690.—	A way laid out from John Aldrich's to the corner of Goodman Edson's field, where it meets with the way that comes from the town: the way is to be where it's beaten.

"	A way to Isaac Alden's: beginning at the road leading from John Kingman's towards Nicholas Byram's—thence by the edge of Huckleberry plain to the old cow path and to the river—thence upon the plain commonly called Jonathan Cary's plain—thence by a slough and across a swamp to the northward of Jonathan Cary's house—thence to Beaver Brook, at the cartway between Isaac Alden's and James Cary's—thence to Isaac Alden's house—and thence to Snell's plain.—"The jury ordered to lay out such highways as are needful for the inhabitants to come to meeting and to mill, and to their meadows, especially the way to Indian Field and the meadows at Coasters' Kitchen."

"	A way to the meadows called Coasters' Kitchen: from the road at the corner of the land that was Mark Lathrop's—thence keeping the easterly side of the ridge to the meadows.

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