Joseph Theal to be a committee to entertain such persons as shall plant there & to manage, order & dispose of ye allays of that plantation according to their best skill as may best aduance ye wellfar and groth of ye said plantation & they ear tacke care yt there be sutable loot laid out for the first minister of ye place & a loot for ye ministry to be and belong to ye ministry forever. This is a trew coppy tacken out oi the Records of Harford.

Vera Copia

Tlartfrd Test. Eleazar Kimberly

Janry 21st, 1G9G. , Secretary."*

Upon the nth of October, 1681, the proprietors of the Hop ground agreed that no one might be admitted as an inhabitant, nor should have power to sell or exchange the land that might be allotted to him, nor should he have any voice in disposing of lands, but that any inhabitant on paying forty shillings should have an equal share with the proprietors in all the undivided land. "The settlers seem to have feared the ac- . cumulation of large tracts of land in the hands of single individuals. Hence, each man had a home lot of three acres which was to be forfeited if not built on in three years in the town, and a lot in the ' east field' or the great 'north plain,' and also some 'meadow land.'"'1 " In December, 1681, Samuel Barrett, Taebariah Roberts and Thomas Carfield commenced to inhabit only.J This man Roberts was chosen town clerk, afterwards Justice of the Peace and for many years prominent in nearly all the affairs of the town."§ He was also a bitter opponent of the Church of England as we shall have occasion to show presently.