Records of the Town of Plymouth: 1705 to 1743Avery & Doten, 1892 - Plymouth (Mass.) |
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Page 149 - AB within-bounden, being thereunto required, do render and deliver the said letters of administration (approbation of such testament being first had and made) in the said court ; then this obligation to be void and of none effect, or else to remain in full force and virtue.
Page 133 - Successors, onely the Fifth parte of all the Oare of Gold and Silver which from tyme to tyme and att all tymes hereafter shall bee there gotten, had or obteyned, in liew of all Services, Dutyes and Demaunds whatsoever...
Page 263 - that every householder shall from time to time be provided with a sufficient ladder or ladders to reach from the ground to the ridge of such house, at the charge of the owner thereof; and in case the owner or owners of such house or houses be not an inhabitant of the town, then the occupiers thereof to provide the same, and deduct the charge thereof out of his or their rent, on pain of the forfeiture of five shillings per month for every month's neglect after the tenth day of June next.
Page 126 - Ore of the Mines of Gold and Silver, and one other fifth Part thereof to the President and Council which shall be had, possessed and obtained within the Precincts aforesaid, for all Services whatsoever, as in said Charter may more fully appear.
Page 263 - Lane, and Eleazer Churchill at Jabez Corner, shall at all times within the limitations aforesaid keep in their house-yards or backsides, nigh to their houses, a hogshead or two barrels full of water, or a cistern to the value of two hogsheads, on pain of forfeiture of the sum of five shillings for every such neglect, it being provided that, notwithstanding this order, any house which stands twenty rods from the highway or Kings road shall be exempt.
Page 163 - Ponds, the 25th of November, 1737, there were several irons put into her, one was a backward iron on her left side, and two irons on her right side pretty backward, and one lance on her right side, the iron on the left side was broke about six inches from the socket. She carried away one short warp with a drug to it, and a long warp with a drug without a buoy, one of the drug staves was made with...
Page 126 - Charles the first his Heires and Successors as of his Mannor of East Greenwich in the County of Kent in free and Comon Soccage and not in Capite nor by Knights Service...
Page 244 - ... Cambridge, Charlestown and Medford, their equal benefit from said fishery, the inhabitants of the town of Cambridge shall, within the limits of that town, have full right to catch with any kind of net, seine, or other fishing implement, any shad or alewives, on Monday, Tuesday and Friday, in every week, from the first day of March to the last day of June inclusively ; and the inhabitants of Charlestown and Medford shall, in like manner, in their respective towns, have full right to catch any...
Page 129 - Corporate Perpetually consisting of Forty Persons, and that they should have perpetual succession and one common Seal to serve for the said Body, And that they and their Successors should be incorporated called and known by the name of the Council established at Plimouth in the County of Devon, for the Planting ruling Ordering and...
Page 346 - ... of March, passed a law authorizing the emission of bills of credit to the amount of fifty thousand pounds, for the use of the province, giving the following reason : " Whereas the public bills of credit on this province, which, for want of silver, have for many years not only answered the charge of his majesty's government, both in war and peace, but served as a medium of exchange in the merchandise, trade and business of the province, are grown scarce in proportion to the great demand of the...