He first appears in town records in 1700 when he was appointedone of the committee to run the town line between Braintree andWeymouth, and Braintree and Dorchester,and did the latter againin 1703. In 1708 he was elected to act as constable in place ofThomas Copeland, deceased.In 1700 he was one of the purchasersof the common land in Boston, now chiefly in the town ofRandolph and Holbrook, and was granted a share of thisland.Where he lived previous to this time is not on record butsoon after this purchase he settled on the 19th and 20th lots ofthe sixth Division,south of great Pond where Littlefield's sawmill was an important landmark often mentioned in deeds andother documents. The dam and outline of the unused pond arestill to be seen (1950) near where Norroway river or brookenters Great Pond.His decendants remained on these lands formany years, one of them being his great grandaughter BeulahLittlefield Hunt who died on part of the homestead in 1873 aged104.His house was probably the one sold by his son Nathaniel in1743(s.d. 66-122) which stood at the north end of the lot on theKnoll by Blue Hill river at the Quincy line where the HowardJohnson restaurant is today. MORE NOTES ON EDMUND LITTLEFIELD Hewas a farmer, Cornmill, Sawmill, Moved to Saco Maine with motherat age ten. Grant of 200 acres on the Kennebunk River. Largeproperty near Blue Hills, Ma.. 100 acres grant in Wells March16, 1680, in Cape Porpus Town rec. removed to Ma. ca. 1690. Wasin court May 1691 when Capt. Sam White agreed to pay fines. Hadone wife before Elizabeth Mott. Removed to Braintree Mass. 1689.At death of his father his mother apprenticed him to his uncleFrancis Littlefield, Sr.EDMUND LITTLEFIELD was born at Wells, Maine, about 1650. In1680, after the close of the King Philip war, he was granted 200acres of land with water privilege, as an inducement to build asaw-mill upon the Kennebunk River. He decided, however , not tobuild, and soon after sold out to other parties. It is thoughthe then removed to Braintree, Mass.,where, about 1685, hemarried Elizabeth Mott, daughter of Nathaniel and Anna Mott.In1700, he, with two others, was appointed to "run" the townline.In 1707, he is on record as voting against buying schoolland.The next year he was ordered to collect the rates, whichservice would be accepted in place of his serving as constable.He died at Braintree May 27,1717.