1675 On 1 June, "In reference to a petition prefered to the Court by John Howland, John Tracye, Josiah Standish, Edward Southworth, Joseph Howland, Dauid Aldin, and Jabez Howland, requesting a supply of land according vnto and by vertue of a Court order which ingageth land to children heer borne and brought vp before strangers, the Court haue ordered, that the lands yett vndisposed of shalbe viewed, and that such of the ancient freemen as haue not bin yett accomodated may be supplyed in the first place, and afterward the petitioners to be supplyed." [1]
[1] Nathaniel B. Shurtleff, ed., Records of the Colony of New Plymouth, in New England, Vol. 5, Court Orders. 1668-1678 (Boston: William White, 1856), 170, item 118, [HathiTrust], [InternetArchive].