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The Record of Lyme’s Common Field
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The Record of Lyme’s Common Field

In 1748/49 six proprietors (landowners) of Lyme, Connecticut petitioned the New London County Court for permission to create a “common field”,  based on  the laws and practice of the Colony, to allow townspeople to share in its benefits, in this case good meadowland  at the edge of the Connecticut River for salt hay and animal grazing.The documents…