273 Account of the Improvement of the Lands

    [Ipswich May 13 1723]

    An Account of the Improvement of the Lands in Rowley Belonging to Harvard College in Cambridge Anno 1721

    Dr.

    Harvard College

    April 20th

    To 250 Rails for the Homestead a 25/ per Cr.

    £3– 2–6

    To 20 five Holed posts

    –10–

    May 15th

    To 2 Days Ditching Cow Bridge Meadow

    – 6–

    20th

    To 50 Rails and 10 posts for the Lott att Capt. Northens

    –17–6

    To 2 Days Spent in running the Rounds of the Marsh and Laying out a way through the Upland Adjoining to said Marsh as reserved by Town Grant

    –10–

    £5– 6–

    Cr.

    May

    1st 1722 By Cash of Leut. Thomas Lambert for the Homestead

    £ 3– –

    By Do. of Thomas Wood and Gershom Nelson for the Lot per Capt. Northens –1/2– sachel and Cow Bridge Meadow

    £ 2–10–

    By Do. of Ames Pillsberry and Benjamin Smith for 6 Acre Lott per Mr. Paysons and ½ sachel and Cow Bridge Meadow

    £ 3– –

    By Do. of Leut. Lambert for ½ the ware House pasture

    £ –15–

    By Do. of Thomas Wood and Moses Bradstreet for the other half of Ware House pasture

    £ –15–

    By Do. of Samuel Dresser for Salt Marsh

    £ 1–10–

    By Do. of Thomas Dow for Salt Marsh

    £ 1–10–

    £13– –

    £ 5– 6–

    Due to Ballance

    £ 7–14–

    Errors Excepted

    per Thomas Berry.

    [Endorsed:] Dr. Berrys Account of the Incombe of Rowly Lands 1721 and 1724.

    Rowley Lands Papers. There is a further account by Thomas Berry (A.B. 1712) in the same folder; see No. 338.