The inhabitants of Nonantum removed thither, and the work was put in hand.

A bridge, eighty feet long and nine feet wide, had already been laid across the river, entirely by Indian workmen, under Mr.Eliot's superintendence; and the town was laid out in three streets, two on one side of the river and one on the other; the grounds were measured and divided, apple-trees planted, and sowing begun.

The cellars of some of the houses, it is said, remain to the present day.

In the midst was a circular fort, palisaded with trees, and a large house built in the English style, though with only a day or two of help from an English carpenter, the lower part of which was to serve as a place of worship on Sunday, and for a school on other days, the upper part as a wardrobe and storehouse for valuables, and with a room partitioned off, and known as "the prophet's chamber," for the use of Mr.
Eliot on his visits to the settlement.

Outside were canopies, formed by mats stretched on poles, one for Mr.Eliot and his attendants, another for the men, and a third for the women.