Excerpt from A Centennial Address: Delivered at Upton, Mass., June 25, 1835In 1716, the General Court freely gave to the trustees of the legacy of Edward Hopkins, all the Province lands contained within the town of Hopkinton, to be appropri ated to the purpose of the trust. Both tracts of land amounted to about acres. In the same year, 1716, the trustees agreed upon the terms of their leases, which were to run ninety-nine years from the 25th of March, 1723; and the tenants were to pay an annual rent of three pence per acre during that term, and not exceeding nine pence an acre after, and the trustees agreed to pay three quarters of the Province taxes.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work.

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