...Gillow's favor. On the sixth of September, Mr. John Humfrey sold to Emanuel Downing, of Salem, " the 2 ponds and so much high ground about the ponds, as is needful to keep the Duck Coys, privately set, from disturbance of ploughmen, herdsmen, and others passing by that...

...graunted unto Emanuel Downing of Salem, Esqu., the two ponds and soe much high ground about the ponds aa is needful to keepe the duck coye private from the disturbance of plowman, herdsmen . . passing that way wch he may . . as he take not in above fifty acres of upland...

...Humphrey, Esq., of Salem, "hath graunted unto Emanuel Downing of Salem, Esqu., the two ponds and soe much high ground about the ponds as is needful to keepe the duck coyc private from the disturbance of plowman, herdsmen . . passing that way wch he may . . as he take...

...he there vpon frely relinquished his farme of three hundred •Salem town records (Grants), page 6. acres that foe mr Humphryes might the better be accomodated....in above fifty acres of the upland round aboute the same, "f Mr. Downing was a brother-in-law of Governor Winthrop and had brought over from England "...