(From August 26) On June 4, 1700, the proprietors made their first declaration to remove to Pamet, the following being the record: “At a meeting of the proprietors held this day it was agreed that what land at Pamet might be conveniently divided should be divided, and that they would go thither (God willing) on the last Monday of October next ensuing, and divide accordingly.”
There were people on the territory previous to this resolution and a resolution at the same meeting offered “five-and-twenty shillings” to any of the people of Pamet who would “make a sufficient fence below Eastern harbor pond to stop the sand and keep the tide out of said pond.” The Eastham purchasers were the first settlers who gave to the territory its first municipal government, prior to their arrival the residents were fisherman under the jurisdiction of Eastham.
At the proprietors’ meeting of June 16, 1703, Jedediah Lombard, Jr., John Snow and Thomas Paine were appointed to run bounds between the great lots and fix the bounds; also to record the same in the Pamet books of record. The same committee laid out the first road of the town, which appears on the records of 1703, the road running from the “head of the pond to the head of Pamet.” This was called a “Drift Highway,” and was laid out in July of that year.
The same year a division of lands near Hog’s Back was made, which reveals the fact that this knoll had been previously named and was a well-known landmark. Jedediah Lombard, sr., had his lot laid out between Thomas Mulford’s two lots (Thomas was the father of Elizabeth Mulford who married Samuel Rich), one of which was near Hog’s Back and the other toward the pond south of Pamet River. Richard Rich (brother of Samuel Rich) owned land in Truro in 1703. In 1711 Richard had grants of land at Griffith’s Isalnd and at Blackfish Creek. In Sept. 6, 1716 he sold his 4 acre tract of meadow in Truro to Thomas Mulford.
The shells of the shellfish were needed for the manufacture of lime. In 1705 these proprietors enacted that after June 1, 1706 no shellfish should be dug by any person that is not a resident of Pamet. In 1711 the proprietors voted that no wood be cut within the limits of the common lands for the burning of lime, except by the rightful owners. (continued on August 30)
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