BIRTHS, MARRIAGES AND DEATHS, FROM THE RECORDS OF THE ANCIENT TOWN OF DARTMOUTH, MASS. [Transcribed by JAMES B. CONGDON, Esq., of New Bedford, for the Register.] July ye 20th, 1708. Then Joyned in maryedg Leiu'. nathaniel Soul and meribah Gifforord Into the true bonds of matre mony as Lawfull Lawfull man and wife witnes my hand the day above written. WILLIAM ARNOLD, Justtis." Hathaway, Anne Jan. 28, 1703 5, May 6, 1707 Feb. 8, 1709-10 Dec. 31, 1701 Smith, Rebecca, dau. of Peleg, jr. and Mary April 12, 1770 Jan. 21, 1729-30 [the first ordained minister at Dartmouth.] Dorothy, w. of Ephraim Tripp, James Jan. 17, 1743 May 30, 1730 Nov. 8, 1729 Jan. 24, 171} Sept. 11, 1726 March 28, 1750 Nov. 23, 1708 Feb. 13, 1694-5 Nov. 23, 1695 March 20, 1695 Dec. 25, 1695 March 1, 1691 Jan. 9, 1704 Oct. 2, 1752 March 9, 1728-9 Oct. 9, 1718 Taber, Samuel, s. of Thomas Thomas Akin, John, aged 83 Taber, Tucker, s. of Philip and Susannah Gifford, Stephen, s. of Stephen Soule, Oliver, s. of Jacob and Rebecca Howland, Benjamin Mosher, Diana, d. of John and Hannah West, Bartholomew, s. of Bartholomew Hix, Benjamin, s. of Joseph Hix, Joseph July 14, 1748 June 13, 1746 June 25, 1749 Feb. 23, 1711-12 Jan. 4, 1714-15 July 25, 1771 Feb. 12, 1726-7 5 mo. 30, 1743 Feb. 9, 1701 between 1753 & 1756 Nov. 10, 1708 Aug. 6, 1709 Aug. 22, 1752 March 3, 1723 Oct. 11, 171– April 3, 1718 June 30, 1729 Feb. 28, 1726-7 Sept. 26, 1742 Russell, Jonathan, Jr. Sept. 20, 1730 Judah, d. of Benjamin and Hannah March 15, 1771 Aug. 27, 1752 David, s. of William, Jr. and Pernal Jan. 20, 1718-9 44 Oct. 10, 1752 Oct. 30, 1759 April 27, 1762 Jan. 26, 1765 Jan. 22, 1768 Sarah, d. of MOONEDAY, 3 November, 1633. It is now ordered, that if the overseers, aforesayde, do upon vewe, find any pales of the feilds, aforesayde, defective, and give notice to the p'tye that is to amend it, and he doth not do it within Two dayes after, he is to pay 5s. for every 2 dayes, vntil the next meeteing, and then p'sently to be levied. It is ordered, likewise, that if any doe pull downe any pale, or throwe downe, he is p'sently to amend, or elce to pay 5. shillings for so doing. It is ordered, that there shall be a generall Rate thorow out the Plantation, to the making and maynetayneing gate* and fences of the Plantation and bridges, and that the Raters shall be m'. Woolcott, The north gate of the town was probably not far from what is now the line between Dorchester and Boston, a little south of the causeway, on Boston street, and near what was since the residence of Capt. William Clap, deceased. Deacon James Humphreys, for many years one of the Deacons of the First Church in Dorchester, who died July 13, 1845, aged 92 (See Register, iv. 198), has left the following record. "There was a fence running from the old mill by the marsh of Capt. W. Clap and Henry Humphreys, across, a little below and back of said Clap's barn, castward, to the marsh north of Thomas Moseley's house. There was erected a Gate in the road which led to Mattapan or the neck, which place was called Neck-gate-hill.' In the revolutionary war a breast-work was erected nearly on the same spot running in the same direction, and instead of a gate there was a chevaux-de-frise. The neck was then in common. The first inhabitants being settled near each other, each one chose his Home lot, and was then allowed by the selectmen their portion of out lands. The neck, as is said, was in Common; they planted their corn there, and raised large quantities of field peas, sowed broadcast; when ripe, they had a tool called a pea-hook to gather them up, and large loads were frequently brought off, when ripe, as loads of hay. Pea and bean broth not uncommon. When the harvest was gathered in, the Cattle turned on, in Common.” Within the memory of "one of ye oldest inhabitants" "neck-gate-hill" was standing. The boys used to receive a penny or two a piece for opening the gate to transient drivers of vehicles who came that way, being the only place of ingress to "the neck," now South Boston, then thinly inhabited, where a public house of entertainment was kept by Mr. Abraham Gould. On a sign near the house, was inscribed, in large letters, the words—“No entertainment on the Sabbath." The abovementioned hill has long since been levelled to accommodate the increased travel on Boston street, where the comfortable Mount Bowdoin horse cars now make their half-hourly passages. The well known serpentine causeway on Boston street has been somewhat raised and widened; in other respects we may suppose that it retains nearly the original shape of the "old cow walk" of more than two centuries ago, when what is now South Boston was one great pasture for Dorchester cattle. 24* VOL. XXI. |