82 History of Marshfield.  

[Thanks to Sarah Sully for transcribing this chapter]

and about 12 or 15 rods North Eastward of Saml. Hatch's house, we raised a heape of stones & from the said rock South east to the Cartway between Samuel & Seth Arnold's, where we raised a heap of stones and from thence to Green's Harbor fresh the path to be the bound, and on the eastward side of said fresh, just above where the said way goes through it we raised a heap of stones and from thence on a straight line to a tree of White Oak with the top broken off called poles, which said tree stands by the Cartway just where an old footpath turned out of it towards Careswell and between the said ways and from thence on a straight line to the South west side of Edward Bumpus' land so called, when he formerly lived at Duck Hill, taking in the said lands of the said Edward Bumpus to the township of Marshfield, and these bounds aforesaid to be the bounds betwixt the said townships of Duxboro and Marshfield forevermore.
   "In witness whereof we have hereunto set our hands the three & twentieth day of February 1683.
Signed

Wm. Peabody—Nathaniel Thomas

John Tracie—Samuel Sprague"
   A county road was laid out in 1684 "from Green's Harbor brook" at the bounds between Duxbury and Marshfield to "the path leadeth toward Robert Barker's, till it meeteth with Duxbury lands."

1685
   "The town upon enquiry of Sarah Staple and others find she hath not been in our town so as to make her an inhabitant here, did vote she should not be here intertained and warned her to depart out of this town by the selectmen.   The town agreed & chose Capt. Nathl. Thomas—Lieut. Isaac Little and Sergeant Sprague or either of them to endeavor to clear this town from any charge concerning Sarah Staple or the bastard child she saith she is with, and the town to defray their charge respecting the premises."

 

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