The Bay State Monthly — Volume 1, No. 6, June, 1884Various
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The Bay State Monthly — Volume 1, No. 6, June, 1884
Various
Massachusetts -- Periodicals; New England -- Periodicals
A Memorial of Benj'a Prescott Esq: Represent'a of the Town of
Groton in behalf of the Proprietors there, praying that the Votes
of the House on his Memorial & a plat of Ten Thousand Eight hundred
Acres of Land, lately Granted to the said Proprietors, as Entred in
the House the 25 of March last, may be Revived and Granted, The
bounds of which Tract of Land as Mentioned on the said Plat are as
follows viz't.: begining at the North West Corner of Dunstable at
Dram Cup hill by Sohegan River and Runing South in Dunstable line
last Perambulated and Run by a Com'tee of the General Court, two
Thousand one hundred & fifty two poles to Townshend line, there
making an angle, and Runing West 31 1-2 Deg. North on Townshend
line & province Land Two Thousand and Fifty Six poles to a Pillar
of Stones then turning and Ruñing by Province Land 31 1-2 deg North
two Thousand & forty Eight poles to Dunstable Corner first
mentioned
In the House of Represent'a. Read & Ordered that the prayer of the
Memorial be Granted, and further that the within Plat as Reformed
and Altered by Jonas Houghton Survey'r, be and hereby is accepted
and the Lands therein Delineated and Described (Excepting the said
One Thousand Acres belonging to Cambridge School Farm and therein
included) be and hereby are Confirmed to the Proprietors of the
Town of Groton their heirs and Assignes Respectivly forever,
According to their Several Interests; Provided the same do not
interfere with any former Grant of this Court nor Exceeds the
Quantity of Eleven thousand and Eight hundred Acres and the
Committee for the Town of Ipswich are Allowed and Impowred to lay
out such quantity of Land on their West line as is Equivalent to
what is taken off their East line as aforesaid, and Return a plat
thereof to this Court within twelve Months for confirmation.
In Council Read & Concurr'd.
Consented to J Belcher
And in Answer to the said Memorial of Benj'a Prescott Esq'r
In the House of Represent'a. Ordered that the prayer of the
Memorial be Granted and the Com'tee. for the new Township Granted
to some of the Inhabitants of Ipswich are hereby Allowed to lay out
an Equivalent on the West line of the said New Township
Accordingly.
In Council Read & Concurr'd
Consented to J Belcher
[General Court Records (xvi, 334), June 15, 1736, in the office of
the secretary of state.]
This grant, now made to the proprietors of Groton, interfered with the
territory previously given on April, 1735, to certain inhabitants of
Ipswich, but the mistake was soon rectified, as appears by the
following:--
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