22: March, 16JJ; the proprietors agree that what the committee had done in laying out ye town plot, and the house lots, shall stand; and the place they reserved for the town common, and the town lot to be as they laid it out, and the meeting house shall be set upon the common so laid out among the rocks called Bates; his Hill.

2: By vote, the proprietors agree to receive John Bates, Nathaniel Cross, proprietors with them, they enjoying a full proportion of charges with which that is part, and what shall be further expended upon the said land, and they to hold their house lots and their field lots, after those that were already granted to be laid out.

3. By vote the proprietors agree it shall not be in the power of any proprietor to sell, exchange or any other way alynate his propriaty in the said hop grounds without the approbation and consent of the maine part of the proprietors ; upon the penalty of forfeiting his right to ye said proprietors:

4ly. By vote the proprietors doe chuse, apoynt and fulley impower Joseph Heals, Abraham Ambler, John Bates, John Miller and John Cross as theire committee to lay out all their plaines and meadows, westward and eastward of the town plot already layd out; and on other lands and meadows they see convenyant; unto the propriators now in being; the comity to order the said lands; in laving it out according to their discresion.