Continuation of Property Info:
The first grant north of Jones River went to twenty year old Joseph Rogers, and the nest
to Joseph Wadsworth, and the third to Stephen Tracy. All three farms went into the Bay
Farm when Thomas Loring of Boston bought them in 1703 and called the whole the Bay Farm.
When the boundary between Kingston and Duxbury was later established, all the Rogers and
Wadsworth lands and part of the Tracy fam fell on the Kingston side."
The fourth lot was owned by Wadsworth and then Clark, and the fifth was owned by John
Rogers (descended from Thomas Rogers who came on the Mayflower. One of the Rogers
children "who came later, bought a narrow lot from Edmund Chandler and a larger lot
from Ephraim Hicks, making sixty acres reaching to the shore. The small lots indicate
either a single man or a small family, so it is not surprising that they were combined
into reasonable acreages for families. Edmund Chandler settled in another part of Duxbury
and Ephraim Hicks left the town, Chandler leaving a large line of descendants, the other
only the names of Hicks' Point and Hicks' Road" What I find interesting
about this immediately foregoing info is that there is no description of the "narrow
lot from Edmund Chandler" nor is there anything about when it was given/granted to
him. However, I think I have that info in a book of old Plymouth/Pilgrim records that was
scanned in on a cd and will take a while to loca!
te the info.
There is also info on Cushing, Jonathan Brewster (son of Elder William Brewster), Constant
Starr, George Partridge, Thomas Prence, Joseph Soule, Charles Turner, Zedekiah Sanger, and
I think that some of those families intermarried with some of the Chandlers.
Now, I have to read some more to find more Chandler info in the book. The index is only
of geographic areas, not of people. I hope to post more info this evening or tomorrow
am.
Joan Earnshaw