Note 10 — Chapter VI

Page 32—I have found some material about Jonathan Holmes, Henry Richmond’s neighbor to the south. He was the son of Joseph Holmes and Phoebe, daughter of John Churchill, who were married in 1726. As of 1769 he was listed as a fisherman and had lived near Scook’s Pond near Manomet Point. In 1765 he sold some of his land there which was laid out to his father, Book 52, Page 165.

According to Book 54, Page 241, on April 17, 1769, he bought from Mary and William Bartlett, a seafaring man, “for nine pounds, six shillings, 8. d, a lot of woodland containing 40 acres at a place called South Pond and is in number fourth in the Fifth Great Lot, being the Lot which I bought of Josiah Churchill (brother of Jonathan) by deed June 30, 1767.” This would be the area running east from the southeast side of Boot Pond.

Nineteen years later, in 1788, as shown in Book 71, Page 265, he sold to “Mathew Porter of Plympton for 30 pounds whole of my land and buildings at South Pond ... saving the small part I sold Henry Richmond.” Mathew Porter sold the land the next year to Samuel Rickard of Plymouth, yeoman, along with 32 acres in the fifth share in the 6th great lot he had bought from William Thomas and Benjamin Bramhall. Porter goes on to say that the cut wood and grain in the ground “to be free for me until January next, also liberty for one Levi Hoit to remove his said house from said land if he moves it between this and the first day of January next,” Sept. 7, 1789. Hoyt’s Pond is on present day maps.

On September 26, 1791, Samuel and Priscilla Rickard sold for thirty pounds to Luke Hall, laborer, land purchased of Mathew Porter in 1789, containing about 69 acres, plus the other 24 acres. On June 8, 1792, Book 78, Page 94, the land is sold to William Hall Jackson, “trader,” 24 acres and 69 acres “in the easterly side of the southerly arm of South Pond, Gunner’s Exchange and Finney’s Meadow” for 24 pounds, two shillings to be paid by June 1, 1794.