and into the said prmisss.   To have and to hold the said Tenn acres of upland & wth all and singuler the apprtenences thereunto belonging unto the said Robte Carver his heirs and assignes for ever and to the onely per use and behoofe of him the said Robert Carver his heires and assignes forever."
                         "Bradford Govr
"The seaventeenth day of March 1645.
   "Memorand the same day That Mr. Myles Standish and Mr. John Alden do acknowledged joyntly and sevally That for and in consideracon of the sum of three score and eleaven pounde and tenn shillings to them allowed in payment of the said account to Mr. John Beauchamp Have freely and absolutely bargained and sold unto Mr Edmond ffreeman All those their three hundred Acrees of vplands wth the meddowing therevnto belonging lying on the North side of the South River wth in the Township of Marshfield to them formly joyntly granted by the Court the second day of July in the fourteenth yeare of his said Maties now Raigne of England and all their Right title and interest jointly or seually of and into the said prmisss with their apprtence & every part and pcell thereof   To have & to hold the said three hundred Acres of upland wth the meddowes thereunto belonging wth all & every their apprtences unto the said Edmond ffreeman his heirs and assigns forever to the onely p per use and behoofe of him the said Edmond ffreeman his heires & As-ss forever."
   One half of the above estate was sold two years later to Arthur Howland (who became a resident of Marshfield and one of the earliest) for twenty-one pounds sterling, part to be paid in money and part in corn and cattle.   It will be seen that if the above half sold was equally as good as the other half, our Pilgrim fathers were not good speculators, for in the space of two years Mr. Freeman sold one half his purchase for fourteen and a half pounds less than he gave for it.