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Title: Providence in colonial times
Year: 1912 (1910s)
Authors: Kimball, Gertrude Selwyn, 1863-1910
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Publisher: Boston & New York : Houghton Mifflin
Contributing Library: Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center
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ngland, each man had his rights as a towns-man to pasture and firewood from the common lands.We may well believe that the Streete alreadyspoken of was little more than a partially clearedpathway, along the line of which were marked at as-signed intervals the bounds of the home lots. Soon,however, rude yet substantial dwellings were put upat different points along the line of the shore, and by1640 life on the Towne Street had developed to suchan extent that civic and religious centres of commoninterest began to appear. It was in that year that,in view of *the many differences amongst us, fourworthy townsmen were selected by their lovingfriends and neighbors to weigh & consider all thesedifferences, being desirous to bring (them) to unityand peace, and after due deliberation they reportedthat they apprehended noway so suitable to ourCondition as government by way of arbitration.The adjustment of differing opinions, as well as ofland dividends, was to be in the hands of five arbitra-
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2 4 Providence in Colonial Times and Pachaset Rivers known as the Pawtuxet Pur-chase. The division was made with the apparentobject of securing to each proprietor one hundredacres of land of approximately equal value. Eachhouseholder was in this way provided with a homelot, a farm for planting, meadow or pasture land forhis cattle, and a tract or tracts of woodland. De-signated tracts of land were held in common, inaccordance with the custom of every English village,and, as in England, each man had his rights as a towns-man to pasture and firewood from the common lands.We may well believe that the Streete alreadyspoken of was little more than a partially clearedpathway, along the line of which were marked at as-signed intervals the bounds of the home lots. Soon,however, rude yet substantial dwellings were put upat different points along the line of the shore, and by1640 life on the Towne Street had developed to suchan extent that civic and religious centres of commoninterest began to

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