 Now free of the directives of the Merchant Adventurers , the leaders of Plymouth Colony exerted their new @-@ found autonomy by organizing a land division in 1627 . Large farm lots were parceled out to each family in the colony along the shore of the present @-@ day towns of Plymouth , Kingston , Duxbury , and Marshfield , Massachusetts . Standish received a farm of 120 acres ( 49 ha ) in what became Duxbury . He built a house and settled there around 1628 . 
