human
In August, 1724, John Quttamug, a Nipmug Indian, came to Boston, above 112 years of age. He affirmed that in 1630, upon a message that the English were in want of corn, soon after their arrival, he went to Boston with his father, and carried a bushel and a half of corn all the way on his back; that there was only one cellar began in town, and that somewhere near the _Common_.
gpt
This place hath very good land, affording rich cornfields and fruitful gardens, which, no doubt, were in existence years before he wrote his book. In 1635, it was voted,
human
Each able man is allowed two acres, and each able youth one acre to plant. Provision of some sort on the subject was no doubt made before this time, and gradually reached the regulation here recorded. In 1633, great scarcity of corn is mentioned by Winthrop, as he says,
gpt
By reason of the spoil of our hogs, there being no acorns, yet the people lived well with fish and the fruit of their gardens.
human
and it was further provided,
gpt
The field toward Rocksberry to be looked into by Jacob Elyott and Jonathan Negoose; the Fort Hill, by James Penn and Richard Gridley; the Mylne field, by John Button and Edward Bendall, and the New Field by John Audley and Thomas Faireweather.