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 158 THE HISTORY OF BAllRENGTON. acres, those of the second rank shall have two acres, and those of the third rank shall have one; and that it shall be in the power of the selectmen for the time being, or com- mittee for. admission of inhabitants, to admit of and place such as shall be received as inhabitants, into either of the said ranks as they shall judge fit, till the number of three- score inhabitants shall be made up, and that when the said number of three-score is accomplished, the lands that are already bought shall be divided and proportioned according to the said three-fold ranks ; that in the meantime, the said selectmen or committee shall have full power to grant lots unto such persons as may not be placed into any of the said ranks until further order, provided the grants not to exceed nine acres to a man." " The said first ranks are only such as are in these col- umns : Capt. Thomas VVillett, Mr. Nathaniel Paine, Mr. James Browne, Mr. John Allen, Sen., John Butterworth, Mr. Richard Sharpe, William Ingraham, Mr. John Myles, Pastor, A Pastor's lot, A Teacher's lot, Mr. John Dickse. "The above second rank are only such as are in these col- umns Samuel Luther, Robert Jones, Zach'r Eddy, Hugh Cole, John Myles, Jun., Nicholas Tanner, Benjamin Alby, Sampson Mason, Thomas Barnes, John Cole, Joseph Carpenter, Gerard Ingraham, William Howard, Gideon Allen, Thomas Lewis, Jonathan Bosworth, Anthony Low, Obadiah Bowen, Thomas Eastabrooks, William Bartram, George Aldrich, William Salisbury, John Brown, A Schoolmaster.