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and sell the residue to pay that tax [one inserted] and make an entire sale of all the land in the town. In the first Volume of Massachusetts laws, Page 270, the statute points out the mode of organizing a Plantation & provides that the inhabitants shall be notified & warned "being freeholders". There being no freeholders in that Plantation, I do not perceive how they can be legally organized or how the inhabitants can assess a legal tax.

I should have settled your part of the State & County taxes according to your request when I saw you in Boston, but there is nearly a hundred dollars Cost which they require. They have paid only thirteen dollars of the State tax to the Sheriff and the proceeds are still in his possession.

If you think proper to pay [one inserted] this tax or a part of it & will direct what part you wish to pay I will pay it over for you, toward a lot of land in Kingfield. & I should like to pay highway taxes enough in Kingfield to take up John Thompson's notes as I have bought the land you gave him for a deed of the north half of lot No one in the 7 Range

I understand there has been one or more teams trespassing up the Sandy Stream, on each side of it

Respectfully yours Caleb Jewett