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Again, in 1640, March 30,
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To look to the fences: Richard Fairbanks and William Salter the field towards Roxbury; Benj. Gillam and Edmd. Jacklyn, the Fort Field; Wm. Hudson and Edward Bendall the New Field; Mr. Valentine Hill and John Button, the Mill Field.
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Topographical and Historical Description of Boston, enumerates five fields as follows, and speaks of them as ungranted lands:
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The land around Copps' Hill, was known as the Mylne Field, or Mill Field; that around Fort Hill, the Fort Field; that at the Neck, the Neck Field, or the Field towards Roxbury; that where Beacon Hill Place now is, Centry Hill Field, and that west of Lynde Street, and north of Cambridge, the New Mill Field, or the New Field. And to show that these were not waste lands or pastures, the writer enumerates the various pastures for cattle, besides the privileges at Muddy Brook and Winnisimmet, as follows:
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Besides the fields there were many pastures, so called: Christopher Stanley's was at the North End, covering the region of North Bennet Street, between Hanover and Salem Streets; Buttolph's was south of Cambridge Street; Tucker's, in the neighborhood of Lyman Street; Rowe's, east of Rowe Street; Wheeler's, where the southerly end of Chauncy Street is; Atkinson's, where Atkinson Street was a few years ago, and where Congress Street now is. And besides these he names Leverett's on Leverett Street; Middlecott's on Bowdoin Street; another on Winter and Tremont Streets, and, as he says,
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and that is in the order of 1636, above quoted. There is, however, one other reference to them made, in 1657, in the body of instructions prepared for the selectmen to guide them in the discharge of their duties:
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Relying on your wisdom and care in seeking the good of the town, we recommend that you cause to be executed all the orders of the town which you have on the records, &c.,