. A narrative history of the town of Cohasset, Massachusetts . t get immediately about theirwork of dividing the Cohasset marsh land ; for, as lateas September 12 of that year, 1640, one Thomas Turner,who sold his property to one Thomas Thaxter, could notdescribe his Cohasset share except by saying, half the lotat Conehasset if any fall by lot, and half the commons —which belong to said lot. * Hingham Town Records, January i, 1650, state : William Woodcock givena piece of meadow east of Upland which lies east of Mr. Joseph Pecks meadow,etc. I 12 HISTORY OF COHASSRT. Indeed, for some reason, se
. A narrative history of the town of Cohasset, Massachusetts . t get immediately about theirwork of dividing the Cohasset marsh land ; for, as lateas September 12 of that year, 1640, one Thomas Turner,who sold his property to one Thomas Thaxter, could notdescribe his Cohasset share except by saying, half the lotat Conehasset if any fall by lot, and half the commons —which belong to said lot. * Hingham Town Records, January i, 1650, state : William Woodcock givena piece of meadow east of Upland which lies east of Mr. Joseph Pecks meadow,etc. I 12 HISTORY OF COHASSRT. Indeed, for some reason, several years passed by with-out any serious effort to get these marshes divided. On June 20, 1644, Henry Tuttle, one of the committee,sold to John Fearing what right he had to the Divisionof Conihassett meadows. This was four years after the division had been ordered ;but now occurred that militia turmoil, the Hingham rebel-lion, which confused and delayed the towns industry fortwo or three years more. Before speaking of that disgraceful affair of our fore-. Photo, Mrs. E. E. Ellms. Haying, near Eleazers Lane, looking south towards the head of Jacobs Meadow. fathers, it may be well to note some of the events thatwere transpiring in the Cohasset woods and cattle found the Indian trails and roamed throughclear places in the woods, browsing upon young trees ormunching grass by the brooks and the shore. Cleared land with good English grass was not veryplentiful about the Hingham settlement, and consequentlyonly the milch cows and working cattle or horses could be THE QUONAHASSIT PIONEERS. I 13 supplied ; while the young cattle, good only for the future,were compelled to shift for themselves. Cohasset was anasylum for such unfortunates, and these cattle were thefirst to come regularly as summer resorters from theabodes of civilized men. In the winter of 1644 the hay in the Hingham barnsmust have been sorely taxed by their increasing live stock,for on December 2, befor
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