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On March 7, 1652 at a General meeting of the Plymouth Purchasers, it was agreed and ordered that all the tract of lands…(later called Dartmouth)… should be given to those (purchasers) whose names are hereunder written. The full list of thirty-six original equal shareholders of Dartmouth includes The Sherman ancestors: Mr. JOHN ALDEN, Mistress (SARAH?) WARREN, GEORGE MORTON, EDWARD DOTEY, FRANCIS COOKE Pilgrim,  JOHN COOKE and GEORGE SOULE, each share comprising about 3,200 acres. Much of the land was later sold in smaller parcels to Quakers and Baptists who were seeking to escape religious persecutionof the Puritans.