Three Lectures On the Early History of the Town of Falmouth Covering the Time
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" Five Mile river, " now called "Dexter's River, " probably received its name from this proprietor, Philip Dex- ter, In 1 719 it was voted "That the act of getting birds heads should be one-half taken off" — from which we infer that our ancestors were good marksmen ; as black birds, both old and young, seem to be growing scarce. In 1724 it was voted in town meeting that the school mistress shall have 12 pounds for her salary and suitable diet and the use of a horse to visit her friends twice a ...year. " The line between this town and the district of Marshpee had not been definite- ly fixed, up to 1725. By a very formal instrument, of con- 50 HISTOBY OF FALMOUTH. siderable length, more than half of it being a kind of pream- ble, inserted in the Town's Book this year we find two agents were employed by the town and four by Marshpee to fix the line of boundary between the town of Falmouth and the South Sea Indians. They say " We begin at a creek called " Moononwist, " Waquoit, from said Moononwist on a straight line about north-west and by north to a certain tree marked by a heap of stones at the south-west end of Ashumet Pond, from thence westerly to a small pine tree standing near the county road that leads from Sandwich to Falmouth — from thence by the aforesaid road easterly until it meets with Sandwich line — to be the line between Falmouth and Marsh- pee to be good and valid forever, etc.
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