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HISTORY OF FALMOUTH. 43
two parts, each of which is a particular allotment, and that allotment on the westerly side of said way we denominate the hill lots, and the other, the plain lots. We began to lay out lots near the line between Sandwich and Falmouth, butting the easterly ends of them all upon the aforesaid way and the westerly ends to extend to the utmost bounds of the purchase, the ranges of all these hill lots run lengthways west north-west from the aforesaid way down towards the Bay or salt water." Now follows a record of the bounds of 34 of these hill lots which are assigned to the different proprietors. I noticed one of these lots was assigned to John Jenkins one of my ancestors. The record runs thus: "Thence we measured twenty-six rods for the twenty-ninth lot and set a pine stake marked xxx for the bounds between the twenty-ninth and thirtieth lots. Twenty-ninth lot is John Jenkins." This lot as it was originally laid out is now, 1884, in the possession of the fourth generation of the same family and same name. Having laid out these hill lots, they say: "Now that all these before mentioned lots are set off on the line or way that divides the purchase into two parts from the first lot toward the southward along said line in the said order as they are before set down, we reserve in this hill allotment to the use of the proprietors, their heirs and assigns the privilege of digging clay to carry away or to make brick and to burn them at a certain place of clay where people are wont to dig near the path that goes from Isaac Robinson's to Benjamin Nye's with a convenient way or ways to come to said clay.* * -- It is presumed that, if the manufacture of brick should now be commenced in the center of the forest between North and East Falmouth it would be said "there is a new thing under the sun." But we should in this case have to assent to the saying of the wise man; "The thing that hath
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