The Bay State Monthly — Volume 2, No. 2, November, 1884Various
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The Bay State Monthly — Volume 2, No. 2, November, 1884
Various
Massachusetts -- Periodicals; New England -- Periodicals
[Journal of the House of Representatives (page 41), June 22, 1750.]
A Petition of sundry Inhabitants of the westerly Part of _Groton_,
and the easterly Part of _Lunenburg_, praying that their Memorial
and Report thereon, which was dismiss'd the 22'd of _June_ last,
may be revived and reconsidered, for the Reasons mentioned.
Read and _Ordered_, That Mr. _Turner_, Mr. _Tyng_, and Major
_Jones_ with such as the honourable Board shall join, be a
Committee to take this Petition under Consideration, and report
what they judge proper to be done thereon. Sent up for Concurrence.
[Journal of the House of Representatives (pages 76, 77), October 3,
1750.]
_John Greenleafe_, Esq.; brought down the Petition of sundry
Inhabitants of _Groton_ and _Lunenburg_, as entred the 3d Currant,
and referr'd. Pass'd in Council, _viz_. In Council _October_ 3d
1750. Read and nonconcur'd, and _Ordered_, That this Petition be
dismiss'd.
Sent down for Concurrence.
Read and nonconcur'd, and _Ordered_, That the Petitioner serve the
Town of _Lunenburg_ with a Copy of this Petition, that they shew
Cause, if any they have, on the second Wednesday of the next
Sitting of this Court, why the Prayer thereof should not be
granted.
Sent up for Concurrence.
[Journal of the House of Representatives (page 93), October 9,
1750.]
A Memorial of _John Whitney_ and others of the Southwesterly Part
of _Groton_, praying that their Petition exhibited in _November_
1749 may be revived, and the Papers prefer'd at that Time again
considered, for the Reasons mentioned.
Read and _Ordered_, That the Petition lie on the Table.
[Journal of the House of Representatives (page 64), October 9,
1751.]
_Ordered_, That the Petition of _John Whitney_ and others of the
Southwesterly Part of _Groton_, lie upon the Table.
[Journal of the House of Representatives (page 81), January 3,
1752.]
The Memorial of _John Whitney_ and others, as entred _October_ 9th
1751, Inhabitants of the Southwesterly Part of _Groton_ and the
Eastwardly Part of _Lunenberg_, setting forth that in _November_
1749, they preferred a Petition to this Court, praying to be set
off from the Towns to which they belong, and made into a distant
[distinct?] and seperate Town and Parish, for the Reasons therein
mentioned; praying that the aforesaid Memorial and Petition, with
the Report of the said Committee thereon, and all the Papers
thereto belonging, may be revived, and again taken into
consideration.
Read again, and the Question was put, _Whether the Prayer of the
Petition should be so far granted as that the petition and Papers
accompanying it should be revived_?
It pass'd in the Negative. And _Voted_, That the Memorial be
dismiss'd.
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