On 14 May 1663 the court granted "unto the Major, our worshipful Deputy Governor, of land for a farm, where he shall choose it, if it may not be prejudicial to a plantation already set up or to set up, so there be not above of meadow in it". On 13 October 1664, the "Major propounding to the Court to take up his former grant of a farm, at a place by the Indians called Pomakuck, near Norwich, the Court grants liberty to him to take up his former grant in that place, upon the same terms as it was granted to him by the Court".