In the southeast corner of the land he bought from Jonathan Churchill he had a boundary with Jonathan Holmes. The latter, a year earlier in 1767, had bought land from Josiah Churchill, brother of Jonathan Churchill. Curiously, somehow, Jonathan Holmes had built his house on the Richmond land. So Richmond sold him two and one half acres where the Holmes dwelling was located, “all with a Fence going sixteen rods (264 feet) wide.” The consideration was an exchange of two and one half acres from Jonathan Holmes from another part of his land described in the deed as “a piece of land at South Pond, so called, being the southwest corner of my land and a strip that lyes by the Pond and to extend so far from the Pond as to make the said Richmond Range a straight line down to the Pond and containing about two acres and a half.” Apparently this was an amicable swap-settlement. On September 14, 1773, the same year, Book 57, Page 180, Henry Richmond sold to Josiah Bradford, mariner, one and one half acres for “Eighteen shillings lawful money.” Josiah Bradford was from Middleboro. According to Davis’s Genealogy, Josiah Bradford married Hannah Rider in 1746 and had Josiah born 1754. In 1781 Josiah, Jr., married Elizabeth Holmes. I have not been able to find in the Registry of Deeds a record of the final disposition of Bradford’s one and a half acre. The deed describes the land as “the piece of land where said Bradford’s House stands and is all included with Fence and is twenty Rods long and sixteen Rods wide at one end and eight Rods at the other end. Being in the easterly Part of my said Homestead lands.” Another case of a man building his house on another man’s land? [10] Page 32--I have found some material about Jonathan Holmes, Henry Richmond’s neighbor to the south. He was the son of Joseph Holmes and Phoebe, daughter of John Churchill, who were married in 1726. As of 1769 he was listed as a fisherman and had lived near Scook’s Pond near Manomet Point. In 1765 he sold some of his land there which was laid out to his father, Book 52, Page 165. According to Book 54, Page 241, on April 17, 1769, he bought from Mary and William Bartlett, a seafaring man, “for nine pounds, six shillings, 8. d, a lot of woodland containing 40 acres at a place called South Pond and is in number fourth in the Fifth Great Lot, being the Lot which I bought of Josiah Churchill (brother of Jonathan) by deed June 30, 1767.” This would be the area running east from the southeast side of Boot Pond.