His uncle, also John Burgess, has recorded many land transactions in Rochester from 1765-1795. His nephew John Burgess, also of Rochester, at age 30 made his first purchase in the South Pond area on Feb. 5, 1795, Book 77, Page 145, of a lot of 40 acres from Joshua Wright to the south of Gunner’s Exchange Pond. Rochester is located on the southern boundary of Plymouth at the foot of the original second and third great lots. In this region is the Wankinquoh River which begins near the western end of Halfway Pond Road in Carver. In the center flows the Agawam River which comes from the Halfway Pond Brook flowing southwest from Halfway Pond. Much of the region is now in the Myles Standish State Forest. Six years later, in 1801, he bought the Samuel Wright land and buildings on the east shore of the Pond, as recorded in Book 91, Page 78. He paid $600.00 for the property. He made his livelihood here until his death in 1850, a period of 49 years. In his family were 13 children. John Burgess’s next major purchase was forty acres on March 7, 1807, 106-227, for $80.00 from Rossiter Cotton, a justice of the peace and land agent and member of the Cotton family. It was “on the southerly side of the southerly arm of Grate South Pond.” Some of this land was valuable land for cedar timber and is now cranberry bog land. The next purchase was on June 18, 1821, 149-174, of one undivided half part of the third share of the fifth great lot laid out to Nathaniel Holmes and sold by his great grandchildren. The original deed of the transaction I have on the wall of the kitchen. It is signed by the heirs Ichabod Davie, Robert Davie, Samuel Talbot, Jerusha, his wife, Lydia Ryder, Josiah Carver, Josiah Carver, Jr., Elizabeth Carver, all of Plymouth. It was sold for $47.50, paid by John Burgess, yeoman. It contained thirty-eight acres on the eastern and western shores of the southern part of the southerly arm of the Pond. So at Boot Pond he accumulated during his lifetime some 250 acres. The area map on page vii shows the Burgess land holdings at their maximum amount. John Burgess also had land holdings in other parts of Plymouth, such as salt hay marsh and land at Saquish Neck, where his father was located. He bought in 1819 three acres near the present park or Training Green and Town Office Building. He sold it in 1825 to Samuel Doten and became part of Doten’s Wharf estate. This is part of the land allotted to Governor Bradford in 1623. The present Burgess home on Union Street is in this area. Barnes Lane was the old name for Lincoln Street.