A town meeting on May 2, 1704, ordered that no
land shall be taken up within a mile and a half of the meeting
house.
The creek below Yaphank creek was called Little
Neck Creek. Little Neck was sold at public auction May 15, 1716, to
Nathaniel Brewster for 70 pounds 13 shillings “in money.”
The trustees arid the people made every effort
to protect their highways and on May 28, 1701, the trustees called
upon the people to notify the town clerk of any encroachments upon
the highways.
A town meeting on May 4, 1703, granted to John
Roe, Jr. and others the right to build grist mill on the Red Brook
at Wading River and to take up some land adjoining it provided the
mill was set up within two years and maintained continually.
A town meeting on May 5, 1713, voted that “all
the undivided Meadows and Creekhatch in the town both at the south
and north shall be equally divided to every man’s right as they
shall make their Rights appear.” (This probably meant the grass only
and not bottom).
On Jan. 2, 1716, the trustees decided to
prosecute all subscribers to the meeting house who refused to pay.
On March 5, of the same year the trustees voted
that the “Meeting house shall be ceiled with boards inside,
forthwith and with all convenient speed.”
On March 5, 1716, Col. Floyd presented a piece
of land for a pound opposite the town house by Daniel Brewster’s lot
and his own, to be so used as long as the town should keep a
sufficient pound upon it.
On April 10 of the same year, the trustees
“Ordered that George Phillips, Jr. shall be pounder to keep the keys
and have half a bit for letting in and out, and 9 pence apiece for
cattle and horses, and for pounding sheep a shilling more or less
the number, and for pounding hogs 2 pence a head.
The east part of the Granny road was laid out
April 20, 1772 beginning not far from the house of John Turner near
river, and running westerly to the road that ran from David
Overton’s to Patchogue. Later in the same year the road was
continued westward to a junction with the Horse Block road.
On Feb. 4, 1771, the trustees granted to Daniel
Homan to set up a mill on the same stream at the place or dam where
the saw mill was already established. The condition was that the
said mill be fir for grinding within two years and also and an
approved miller should be kept in it, “and also he said Homan shall
take for Toll three quarts and no more out of each bushel of all
sorts of grain he shall grind from time to time, also he shall grind
always keep a Bolting mill with a good country cloth always to be
used freely by those persons which have their grain ground at his
mill.” In default of these conditions the privilege to revert to the
town.
Shore bounds: “Lots that were laid out on the
Sound and harbors were designed to extend to ye Bottom of ye Clifts
against ye said lots; that is including all of the ye said Clifts to
ye Bottom; and that each and every person owning such Lotts shall be
entitled to ye same to the extent by force of this vote.” Trustees
order Feb. 6, 1753.
Swezey’s Mill; Feb, 12, 1739, the trustees
granted to Capt. Robert Robinson permission to build a mill on the
Connecticut river above the going over where Mr. Gerard lives,
within six years.
Dec. 9, 1718; Selah Strong obtained a grant for
building a grist tide mill on the creek from his meadow over to
Daniel Brewster’s Jr., to occupy stream and water so long as he
maintain “a good sufficient grist mill” to be built within a year
and a day.
June 2, 1722; “Nathaniel Brewster was chosen to
keep the Pound Key and to take care for the pounding creature this
present year.”