November^  1634,  Voted,  that  "a  sufficient  cart-way
be  made  to  the  mill  at  Naponset  at  the  common
chardge,if  the  chardge  exceed  not  above  five  pounds."

The  first  General  Court  held  by  delegates,  or  re-
presentatives, met  May,  1634,  when  the  Dorchester
plantation  sent  Israel  Stoughton,  William  Phelps,
and  George  Hull,  the  whple  assembly  consisting  of
twenty-four  persons,  representing  eight  towns.
Arrangements  for  the  burying  ground  commenced
with  the  following  vote,  November,  1633.  "  Agreed
that  there  be  a  decent  burial  place  bounden  in  upon
the  knap,  by  Goodman  Greenaway's,  and  that  shall
be  done  by  the  raters,  and  also  a  bier  to  carry  the
dead  on."

March  3,  1634,  Ordered,  that  the  new  burying*
place  last  agreed  on  shall  be  forthwith  impaled  with
double  rail  pale  five  rods  square.
The  General  Court  voted,  October  1,  1633,  a  tax
of  £400  ;  and  the  assessments  show  the  relative  im-
portance of  the  towns  at  that  period.  The  propor-
tions are  —  to  Dorchester,  £80 ;  Boston,  Roxbury,


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Newtown  or  Cambridge,  Watertown,  and  Charles-
town,  £48  each ;  Sagus  or  Lynn,  £36 ;  Salem,  £28 ;
Medford,  £12.  Two  years  after,  September,  1635,
the  rates  of  Dorchester  and  Cambridge  are  the  high-
est in  the  colony.
The  following  chronological  items  are  from  Win-
throp.
1631,  Jan.     A  honse  burnt  at  Dorchester.
1 632,  May,     Dorchester  men  work  on  Boston  fort.
1632,  August  Two  Neponset  Indians  put  in
the  bilboes  for  assaulting  some  Dorchester  people  in
their  houses,  after  which  Chickatabot  beat  them.
1633,  July  24.  A  ship  arrived  from  Weymouth,
Dorset,  with  about  eighty  passengers  and  twelve
kine,  who  sat  down  at  Dorchester.
