TOWN LEGISLATION. 159 " The said third rank are only such as are in these col- umns : Hez. Luther, John Martin, Joseph Lewis, Isaac Allen, Caleb Eddy, Eldad Kingsley, John Paddock, Samuel Woodbury, Nathaniel Lewis, Joseph VVheaton, Samuel Wheaton, John Wheaton, Thomas Manning, John Harding, William Cahoone, Jeremiah Child." Further town legislation as to ranks was as follows : November 2, 1671, first rank was ordered to pay £,2,., 12s.; second^rank, £2., 8s.; third rank, ^i., 4s. 1671, John Crabtree was permitted to occupy six acres of land for the present, and to be at the town's courtesy in re- lation to more lands. 1672, Joseph Wheaton admitted an inhabitant of the third rank. Job Winslow and John Lathrop admitted to the second rank. John Clow was admitted an inhabitant, if there be no just objection for his removal. 1673, Hezekiah Luther was promoted from the third rank to the second, and Gerard Ingraham, by his own consent, degraded from the second to the third rank. 1673, the names of George Aldrich, Wm. Salsbury, and John Harding were ordered to be erased from the town book "for not fulfilling the fundamental order of the town." 1674, John Harding was ordered to leave the town. Richard Burgess was placed in the third rank. Dermit Smith and Wm. Hammon were admitted inhabi- tants. 1677, There was granted to John West ye six acres of Land be it more or less Lying between John Martins Lot & Richard Burgesses Lot and also to be stated in ye third or lower Rank.
