Know all men by these presents that wee Samuel Tilson & Stephen Tilson, both of the Town of Plimpton, in the County of Plimouth, in New England, both joint partners in the lands and meadows given unto us by our honoured father, Edmond Tilson of Plimpton, afores'd, that is to say his homestead land on which he now dwells, and also his meadow lying in the meadows called Mahutchet meadows, and also his meadow at the south meadow, so called, below the furnace; and also part of that lot of meadow which our s'd father formerly bought of Ichabod Bartlett, which part of said lot of meadow lyeth on the northwest side of the brook, called Mahutchet Brook, which said lands and meadows are lying and being in the township of Plimpton, aforesaid, wherefore wee have now by mutuale agreement divided said land and meadows between us as followeth: Namely, we do mutually agree that the said Stephen Tilson shall have a certain parcel of said homestead land and meadow that is to say all that part, thereof, which lyeth there adjoining together, both upland and meadow, on the westerly side of the highway, as said way is now traveled, excepting a small parcel thereof which is hereafter in this agreement set forth by meats and bounds unto the aforesaid Samuel Tilson; and also the said Stephen Tilson to have one other parcel of said homestead, being the easterly part thereof, which is bounded as followeth: Beginning at the red oak tree marked, which is the northwest corner bound of John Tilson's, and from thence ranging north twenty-one degrees and a half; westerly thirty-one poles, and a half to a stake standing on a hummock by a stump in a swamp, and from thence ranging north fifty-three degrees and a half; easterly thirty-four poles and a half to a stake with stones about it, standing on the northerly side of a cartway, and from thence on the same course about three poles and a half near to Isaac Nye's land, and so to include all that part of said homestead which lyeth there adjoining together on the easterly side of said ranges, which said two parcels of s'd homestead as above described, we do mutually agree shall belong unto the said Stephen Tilson and his heirs and assignes forever. And we do mutually agree that the said Stephen Tilson shall have all the aforesaid part of that lot of meadow which our aforesaid father formerly bought of Ichabod Bartlett, which part of said lot lyeth on the northwest side of the afores'd brook called Mahutchet Brook, and we do mutually agree that the said Samuel Tilson shall have a small parcel of land and orchard being part of the aforesaid homestead which lyeth on the westerly side of the highway, (being that which is about excepted out of what was set of to Stephen Tilson), and is bounded as followeth: Beginning at a stake and stones standing about two poles to the northeast of