Records of the Town of Plymouth, ed. William T. Davis, vols 1-3 (1889-1903)

The Plymouth town meeting records in print. The link is vol. 2 (1705-1743), read in the archive.org full text.

• Vol. 2 pp. 43-44: at a town meeting of 2 March, among entries of 1710 (the year is unclear in the full text and should be read on the page image), the town “Chose serjant John Churchell Elisar Cushman William harlow and Stephen Barnebe Grand Jurors for the year Ensuing.”
• Vol. 2 pp. 199-200: on 14 Dec 1719 the owners of land “at obery” (Oberry) in Plymouth met “in order to The renewing and settling of the Bounds of our severall lands”: the widow Hannah Morton, Serjeant John Churchill, Eleazer Churchill, John Drew and Samuel Dunham. Corners were marked by stakes, a stump, “heape[s] of stones” and white oaks “marked on : 4 : sides.”
• Vol. 3: in March 1774 a George Ellis was “Chosen to take care of Plimouth beach,” with James Warren and Josiah Morton Jr.; in March 1777 a George Ellis was fence viewer and field driver. A list of evidence against suspected Tories (c. 1777) has: “Mrs Ellis Says about Seven months ago Mr Churchell Came to her house & talked Verry high against America.” Which Mrs. Ellis is not stated. (Vol. 3 as cited in the Freeman-Ellis research; the page numbers are not given.)

Vol. 1 (1636-1705, printed 1889; https://archive.org/details/cu31924092203680), entries used for the Harlow and Rider families:

• 1:118: the rating of trades, 5 Aug 1672: “Samuel Ryder being a Cooper his facultie” valued at £30, “Serjeant harlow,” also a cooper, at £40.
• 1:138: in 1673/4 the town found the land Samuel Rider Jr. had bought from Samuel Eddy legally “Comon,” and granted it to him.
• 1:146-147: the order of 1675 for “a fortification … upon the fort hill … an hundred foot square the pallasadoes to be 10 foot and one halfe longe,” the fort whose timbers tradition puts in the Harlow Old Fort House.
• 1:200: on 10 Mar 1690/1 a drift whale came ashore against the Clarkes’ pasture fence and the selectmen attached it for the town; the town chose others to act in court, “seing serjant harlow & Joseph Bartlet did somwhat decline the Thing.”
• 1:201: Samuel Harlow chosen a constable, 19 May 1690.
• 1:203: “An Rider the mother of Samuel Rider deceased the forteenth of december 1695.”
• 1:248: in 1696/7 the town granted Samuel Harlow “the swampy land by the highway Joyning to his spring.”
• 1:268 and following: in 1698/9 the town granted John Rider “forty foot of land to Run up from his barns towards the highway … for his Convenience of building”; the surveyors bounded it on 28 Mar 1700, setting a stake “about 6 ffoott” from the southeast corner of his house.

Vol. 2 also has (pp. 22-23) the grant of 21 Feb 1708/9 to John Harlow of eighty feet square at the end of “his fathers land to build an house,” provided that “his father Samuel Harlow leave out of fence for a publick Road yt knowl of land from his Spring to his shop”; Samuel Harlow’s later service as grand juror, tithingman, surveyor of highways, fence viewer and measurer of boards and timber, and his turn counting the blackbirds’ and crows’ heads each household owed the town; John Rider chosen a constable in March 1708/9, with service on juries and as hog constable; and (pp. 171-172) the town’s release in 1716/17 of its claim to the common land at “obery” that Eleazer Churchill’s son Eleazer had fenced, “only his Brother Elkana haveing his part of it according to their fathers will and Testament,” the son giving thirty shillings “for the scole.”