Great Meadow Common Field Records, 1835-1903
Great Meadow Common Field Records
1835 – 1903 (Earliest/Latest dates)
Great Meadow Common Field Records, 1835-1903. List at beginning of volume shows the names of 49 proprietors and the number of acres for each man. Total of 462 acres in the Great Meadow. Records of meetings show the fence viewers, haywards, pound keepers, and other officers; the dates the field is opened for pasturing cattle, resolutions for the care and use of the field.
Surnames include Mather, Sweetland, Barker, Wilson, Rowland, Allen, Halsey, Sill, Allyn, Ellsworth, Pierson, Chaffee, Denslow, Morgan, Howard, Roberts, PHelps, Barber, Loomis, Filley, Drake, and Higinbotham.
The Great Meadow ran along the west bank of the Connecticut River.
Surnames include Mather, Sweetland, Barker, Wilson, Rowland, Allen, Halsey, Sill, Allyn, Ellsworth, Pierson, Chaffee, Denslow, Morgan, Howard, Roberts, PHelps, Barber, Loomis, Filley, Drake, and Higinbotham.
The Great Meadow ran along the west bank of the Connecticut River.
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