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74 DOGGETT~DAGGETT FAMILY.
The Mayhews having received grants of these islands proceeded to arrange for their settlement, by sharing with several others the privileges granted to them. Among their fellow townsmen of Watertown who became interested in the project was John Doggett, as appears in the following record:
Whereas Thomas Mayhew sen and Thomas Mayhew Jr, have granted to them by James Forett Marthas Vineyard and Elizabeth Isles,
This is to certify, that we, Thomas and Thomas 2"d, do hereby grant 'into John I)oggett, Daniel Pierce, and Richard Beers and John 5mith and Francis Smith, with ourselves, to make choice for the Present of a large Town, upon the same terms with us and equal possession administration of all that shall present themselves to come to live upon any part of the whole grant of all the Islands and we grant also to them and their associates with us, to receive another town-ship for posterity upon the same terms as we have from the. Grantees.
Tawanquatiek March 16 1641 ISAAC ROBINSON
Chappaquiddick THOMAS TRAPP
NICHOLAS HORTON
JOHN PEASE
TIIOMAS BAYLY
THOMAS BURCHARD
JOHN BOLLES
THOMAS BUTLER
JOSEPH NORTON
ISAAC NORTON
The Vineyard, called in early records Martin's Vineyard, is nineteen miles long and, upon an average, five miles broad. It is generally level, though in the northern and western parts the land rises into bills of two hundred and fifty feet above the adjacent country. There is a plain in the southern part, upon which Edgartown is situated, eight miles in length and five or 5 or 6 miles breadth, and it is the site selected "for the Present of a large Town," to which was given the name of Edgartown. The point of the Vineyard nearest Boston is but little over eighty miles.
1)r. 1'~reeman, when writing of the Vineyard, says that " Not less than three thousand Indians, it has been generally estimated, were on the island when it was entered by Mayhew." "Like the other savages of New England, they were in a low state of civilization; and they had attained few of the arts which contribute to the comfort of human life." They were, however, a hospitable and tractable people, and among them the younger Mr. Mayhew attempted to introduce the gospel. Several English families began a settlement and gathered a church as early as 1641, of which Thomas ~Mayhew, Jr., was pastor.
"The savages received Mr. Mayhew with kindness, and with readiness listened to his exhortations. “The wonderful progress which the Christian religion, through the zeal of this eminent evangelist and his worthy successors, made in Martha's vineyard surprised and delighted the pious of that age."
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