1641 in J. Merrill (1880) 19 Three hundred acres of upland inclosed for an ox common.
1746 in H. H. Metcalf & O. G. Hammond (1915) III. 368 Half a share of Marsh lying at a place called the Ox Common.
a1889 J. Dow (1893) I. ii It had been agreed at a town-meeting on the 23d of March, 1641, to set apart this tract as an ox-common from that time ‘to the world's end’.