The ancient way south from Leyden Street in the center of town had a crossing by ford at low water to a beach on the southern side. There was lowland extending from Water Street through what was called Dublin to the springs in the rear of the houses standing on Sandwich Street opposite the Training Green (Wm. Davis, _Ancient Landmarks_, p. 294). The Burgess property was close to the springs. Even now they still have to be drained. In 1836 John Burgess bought a lot at the corner of Sandwich and North Green Street which the family kept beyond the 1880’s. In the same year he bought the adjoining lot on the west which he sold in 1848. In 1831, yeoman John Burgess was sixty-six years old. This year he deeded his property at the Pond to his son, Phineas, 172-47. Phineas, 1807-1890, now aged 27, “in consideration of two hundred dollars ... make over and secure to them (his parents) ... the use and improvement of the whole of the homestead farm ... during the terms of their natural lives or to the survivor of them.” In 1833, 177-97, John sold 70 woodland acres near the ponds to Samuel Leach and Daniel Gale. After his death in 1850, one of his sons and heirs, Nathaniel of Kingston, for $30.75, sold, 241-212, a total of one hundred assorted acres to Samuel and Thomas B. Sherman. The land was in the Half Moon Pond area and the southerly part of Boot Pond, not near the homestead. [16] Page 46--According to a note I have seen in the handwriting of Ruth Burgess Manter, which she says is copied from the _Record of the Sprague Family_, she states: “Jennie (Jennie, daughter of Isaac Burgess) has a Book with the History of the Sprague Family and Which I have been Reading. “My Grandmother was the daughter of Mercy and Phineas Sprague. They had two daughters and one Son, named Seth and two daughters, Mercy and Ruth. Ruth was my Grandmother and she was a twin to Seth Sprague. They were Born on the 4th of July, and she used to go over to Duxbury and Celebrate the day with him. I find by the Records he was a very Business like man and is called Hon. Seth Sprague, he was a member of Massachusetts Legislator 27 yrs., sometimes in the House and sometimes in the Senate, he has several times been chosen one of the Counsellors of the Governor of the Commonwealth but always declined that honor.” CHAPTER XI. THE SURROUNDING COMMUNITY, NEARBY AND BEYOND [17] Page 53 South Pond Cemetery Some names on gravestones to be seen there, on the land donated by the Wright Family, going back to the beginning of the nineteenth century. 28 Indian Graves William Burgess, 1767-1836 Mary Burgess, 1763-1843 John Burgess, 1765-1860 Anna Tribble Burgess, 1765-1805 Ruth Sprague Burgess, 1766-1846 Phineas Burgess, 1807-1890 Charlotte Burgess, 1812-1903 Jabez Burgess, 1796-1819 (died at sea) Seth Burgess, 1830-1907 Sarah Burgess, 1831-1903 Jennie Burgess, 1879-1971 (daughter of Isaac) Seth Bennett, 1811-1900