iThe following will serve as a sample of the vote by which new settlers were received into the colony. The date is " December 1681. Th.'y give unto William Stnrdeuant upon his acceptance and submitting to their order of reselling Inhabitants : they give him a house lott containing three Accres, and six Accres of land in the east feild : and three accres of meadow : he paving twenty shillings to ye company and to take twenty rod of fence in ye conian Held for eu'er."'-- Address of Joseph Barrett.

{Address of Joseph Barrett, July 4, 1S76.-- The Recorder, Win. A. Miller and J. T. Lockwood editors, &c.

II Ditto.

THE TOWN OK BEDFORD.

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" This mill stood on Myanos road about a quarter of a mile, or less above where James Miller's mill now stands. In 1701 the town "doth agree to buy " the mill of Richard Webb, son of Joshua, for the use of the town, for the sum of fifteen pounds. Another mill seems to have become necessary at this time, for in November 1701, "the town by a maigor vote doth agree that their corn mill shall be set upon beucr dam Riuerat the first conueniant place below davids broock: and that there shall be thirty acres of land laved out to the mill and to lye to it foreuer that the lawful oners of the mill shall enjoy the said thirty acres of land foreuer, not else." And very stringent "artickells of agreement" were entered into with John Dibell to build the mill, he is in the former case to "fmde the town with good sofisiant meall, they finding good sofisiant come" and he to have both mill and "thirty acres of land" foreuer. This was on the site where Cox's mill now stands.