Hello Listers : < dougvbrown calling from MA > < based on the research of BETTY bbffrrpp@comcast.net > I understand that The 1655 new Grant was for settlers from Charlestown, Woburn and Concord et als Middlesex Co, to est. the new towns of Groton, Chelmsford and Billerica, they were to clear the dense forest build a community with houses churches meeting houses and appoint a town clerk who would keep the birth-marr-death records , body counts,for town business ( not genealogy ) Any inhabitant failing to report a BMD event would be fined 40 schillings ( abt 50 cents ) In a google search for CORNET HILL -early Chelmsford there was a Cornet Nathanial Hill mentioned and in Billerica , a Cornet Jonathan Hill who had a large farm bounded by the land of HUGH DITSON grandfather of Thomas Ditson Jr(1741-) "Yankee Doodle boy?" and thereby hangs a tale, for another time. (will the real Thom..Ditson please stand up? woodlots was land yet to be cleared ,not productive,not taxable, and liable for town repo houselots had one or more bldgs , fields had been cleared for planting, a continuous job of clearing the field of stones ,large and small (-viola - stone walls ) The parents of Winchester were Woburn,-Medford,-and Charlestown all Middlesex Co An early map of Wright's corner Ridge Road Woburn 1780 shows Thomas Wright and Hutchinson farms in Woburn,-Charlestown and Cambridge (Farms) (later Arlington ) all on one mile of Ridge Road. dvb files - 100228