1 In Billerica, the number of individual grants were as follows:
10 acres |
|
50 acres |
|
100 acres |
|
220 acres |
|
15 acres |
|
60 acres |
|
140 acres |
|
250 acres |
|
20 acres |
|
70 acres |
|
150 acres |
|
300 acres |
|
30 acres |
|
80 acres |
|
180 acres |
|
400 acres |
|
40 acres |
|
90 acres |
|
200 acres |
|
450 acres |
|
Source: William Haller, Jr., The Puritan Frontier; Town-Planting in New England Colonial Development 1630-1660 (New York, 1951), 68. See Stephen Innes, Labor in a New Land: Economy and Society in Seventeenth-Century Springfield (Princeton, 1983), 14.