In or about the year of our Lord One thousand six hundred thirty and four the then present inhabitants of sa Town of Boston of whom the Honble John Winthrop Esq Govnr of the Colony was chiefe did treate and agree with Mr William Blackstone for the purchase of his Estate and rights in any Lands lying within said neck of Land called Boston after which purchase the Town laid out a plan for a trayning field which ever since and now is used for that purpose and for the feeding of cattell The deposition of John Odlin and others Concerning the sale of Blackstone's land known as Boston Common