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- Ref: "The Livermore Family of America," by Walter Eliot Thwing, pub. W.B. Clarke Company of Boston, 1902
John was made a freeman April 18, 1690. He lived on the Cowper farm (mentioned in the inventory of his father's estate) in that part of Watertown called Watertown Farms, now Weston, and near the Sudbury line. The Cowpen farm was bounded N. by
land of Robert Jennison and John Sawin; W. by that of Robert Jennison; E. by that of R. Jennison and Nathaniel Greene (son and heir of Rev. Henry Greene); S. by that of Capt. Hugh Mason. The twenty acres of meadow belonging to it were near
Nonesuch Meadow.
He was a tythingman in 1679; he was a selectman of Watertown in 1692 and collector of rates in 1692 and 1693; assessor in 1695. Oct. 22, 1695, John Grout, Sr., of Sudbury, conveyed to his son-in-law, John Livermore of Watertown Farms, a tract
of land situated between Dedham line, Watertown line and Sudbury line, adjoining partly 200 acres granted by the General Court to William Jennison of Watertown, bounded S. by Dedham line; N. by Sudbury line; E. by Watertown line; W. by the 200
acres above mentioned, now (1860) in the possossion of Matthew Rice. Nov. 21, 1712, John Livermore conveyed this tract of land to his four daughters, Hannah Rice, Sarah Fulham, Martha Gleason and Mary Bigelow.
He was a soldier in the Mt. Hope campaign in King Phillip's war, for which service he was paid L2.08.06 on Aug 27, 1675. He was called a lieutenant and also ensign. His will, dated Oct. 20, 1714, proved Feb. 25, 1719.
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