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29.] The governor and council, and divers of the ministers, and others, met at Castle Island,[153] and there agreed upon erecting two platforms and one small fortification to secure them both, and, for the present furtherance of it, they agreed to lay out '5 a man till a rate might be made at the next general court. The deputy, Roger Ludlow, was chosen overseer of this work.

John Winthrop Winthrop's Journal, History of New England, 1630-1649: Volume 1

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