The superscription on the old book is:
MEMORIALL OR BOOKE
OF RECORDS OF YE SEVERALL
DIVISIONS & BOUNDS OF YE
LANDS AT SAWOMES ALS. SA-
WAMSETT & PARTS ADJACENT
PURCHASED OF YE GREAT SACH
EM OSAMEQUiN & WAMSETTO
HIS ELDEST SONNE BY CERTAINE
GENTLEMEN OF YE ANCIENT INHABI-
TANTS OF YE COLONY OF NEW
PLYMOUTH IN N. E. BY ORDER OF YE
GEN'EL COURT. AS BY DEED BEARING
DATE TWENTY NINTH DAY OF
MARCH 1653
May Apeare.
Mr. James Brown, Mr. John Allen, Mr. John Viall, and Mr. John Saffin and divers other proprietors petitioned the Court at Plymouth to allow them the "choice of some person as a Cleark to enter and record the several! devitions and alienations of these their lands," "for the right and legal settlement of those our severall estates of land," "to the end that peace and good agreement may be continued amongst them as they are a Community and that every of them may legally and peacably enjoy his own." The original agreement or copartnership, is dated the 7th month 1652, and appears on page 59. Then the deed of Osamequin or Massassoit under date of March 20, 1653, follows, and appears on page 62.
The next record was an agreement made between Stephen Payne, Richard Bowen, Thomas Cooper, and William Sabine, delegates of Rehoboth, and Capt. Myles Standish, Captain Thomas Willett, and Josiah Winslow of the Sowams purchase, concerning such lands and all other matters as were in difference between them. The differences related first to the boundary line and fence dividing Rehoboth and Sowams
