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50 HISTORY OF FALMOUTH.
siderable length, more than half of it being a kind of preamble, 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 Marshpee to be good and valid forever, etc. Signed, Isaac Robinson, Samuel Lewis, Agents for Falmouth, Ezra Bourne, Chenachuson, (X his mark,) Matthias Richard, (X his mark,) Caleb Pognet, (X his mark,) Agents for the South Sea Indians.
In 1728 we find the following vote respecting a kind of "surplus revenue," which by the way, seems to have given our honest ancestors quite as much trouble as the "surplus" has occasioned their descendants. "At a town meeting lawfully warned and held the 15th day of May, 1728, Thomas Shiverick moderator, at the same meeting it was voted that one part of the sixty thousand pounds loan money shall be fetched and brought into town -- it is also agreed and voted that the money so brought into town shall be divided into ten pound parcels not more or less -‑ it is also agreed and voted that the trustees shall have twenty shillings on a
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