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The Court grants that the petitioners, Mr. Stephen Bachiler, Christopher Hussey, Mary Hussey
vidua*, Thomas Cromwell, Samuel Skullard, John Osgood, John Crosse, Samuel Greenfield, John Moulton, Thomas Moulton, William Estow, William Palmer, William Sergant, Richard Swayne, William Sanders, Robert Tucke, with diverse others, shall have liberty to begin a plantation at Winnacunnet and Mr. Bradstreet, Mr. Winthrop, Junior, and Mr. Rawson, or some two of them, are to assist in setting out the place of the town, and apportioning the several quantity of land to each man, so as nothing shall be done therein without leave from them, or two of them. MGC
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indicates that Mary Hussey was a widow. An important distinction, as widows had more legal rights than single and married women. A widow could buy and sell land and run a tavern in her own name.
