. The New England magazine . J_/ / fl _ ^^^:, ^^^^^^ A corner in -the Pierce House. Dorchester, eighty in number, whichmade it the largest town in the colony ;and we find from the records that it musthave been the wealthiest town. Thatsame year Dorchester was assessed for_;2^8o, while the neighboring towns wereassessed for ;!{^48 only. In October of this year, the Dorches-ter Plantation, for as yet it had nospecial town government, feeling thenecessity of something of the kind, metand issued the following order: An agreement made by the whole Consentand vote of the Plantation, made Mooned
. The New England magazine . J_/ / fl _ ^^^:, ^^^^^^ A corner in -the Pierce House. Dorchester, eighty in number, whichmade it the largest town in the colony ;and we find from the records that it musthave been the wealthiest town. Thatsame year Dorchester was assessed for_;2^8o, while the neighboring towns wereassessed for ;!{^48 only. In October of this year, the Dorches-ter Plantation, for as yet it had nospecial town government, feeling thenecessity of something of the kind, metand issued the following order: An agreement made by the whole Consentand vote of the Plantation, made Mooneday, 8thof October, 1633. Iinpi-iinis. It is ordered that for the gen-erall good and well ordering of the assayers ofthe plantation, there shall be every JNIoonedaybefore the Court by eight of the clocke in themorning, and presently upon the heating of thedrwit, a generall meeting of the inhabitants ofthe plantation at the A/eeimg Hotise,^ there tosettle and sett downe such orders as may tend tothe generall good a
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