A meeting of the proprietors was held July 4, 1733 at John Mancher’s tavern in Newbury, Massachusetts :
“Voted Mr. Richard Hazen surveyor, shall have ten pounds for his service for taking a plan of the plantation & the three chainmen that were with said surveyors, six days a pice, shall have six & thirty shillings a man for their service in assisting him, the said surveyor, this put to vote & passed in the affirmative
Voted that the committee namely Joseph Gerrish, “William Ilsley, John Coffin, Tristram Little & Joseph Noyes, they being nine days with Mr. Hazen in taking a plan of the aforesaid plantation shall have ten shillings a day each man for their service, this put to vote by the moderator & passed on the affirmative.
“Col Joseph Gerrish, Lieut William Ilsley, Benjamin Pettengill, Daniel Pierce & John Weed Jr were chosen a committee to lay out the home lots so called in the above tract of land put to vote & passed on the affirmative” That the aforesaid Committee chosen to lay out the home lots so called shall have power to lay out said lots & intervale lot to shares alike in quantity & Quality according to the best skill and judgment leaving a conveniency for highways & private ways this put to vote by the moderator & passed on the affirmative.