Most of the persons named in the above list came to Newbury soon after their arrival at Boston; and, July 8, 1635, the General Court ordered: “that there shall be a convenient quantity of land set out by Mr. Dumer and Mr. Bartholemewe, within the bound of Newbury, for the keeping of the sheepe and cattell that came over in the Dutch shipps this yere, and to belong to the owners of said cattell.”
Thomas Colman, one of the prominent passengers who figures in the above list, could hardly have been opposed to such a benign and potentially constructive agreement. In fact, it was subsequently further recorded in a chapter from the same document entitled “THE LANDING AT PARKER RIVER,” that:
Governor Winthrop, in his History of New England, under date of June 3, 1635, records the arrival of two ships with Dutch cattle; and the same day the ship “James” arrived from Southampton, bringing, among other passengers, John Pike, father of the famous Robert Pike, of Salisbury, and one Thomas Coleman, who had been employed by the projectors of the stock-raising company to provide food for the cattle and take care of them for a specified term of years….
After citing the previous entry in the Massachusetts Colony Records regarding the distribution of lands for the purpose of raising and caring for the livestock, the account adds this enlightening, but disconcerting detail:
Evidently, those who were engaged in this new enterprise intended to utilize the vacant lands and at the same time establish a safe and profitable business for themselves; But Coleman, becoming dissatisfied, declined to carry out his part of the contract, and the General Court finally ordered a division of the grain that had been imported, and instructed each owner to take care of his own cattle.
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