The Bay State Monthly — Volume 2, No. 2, November, 1884Various
History
The Bay State Monthly — Volume 2, No. 2, November, 1884
Various
Massachusetts -- Periodicals; New England -- Periodicals
Read and accepted, and _Resolved_, That the Plan hereunto annexed,
containing three Thousand nine Hundred and sixty Acres of Province
Land, laid out in Part to satisfy a Grant made by the Great and
General Court at their Sessions in _June_ 1771, to the Proprietors
of Groton, in Lieu of Land they lost by the late running of the
_New-Hampshire_ Line, as mention'd in their Petition, laid out in
the County of _Berkshire_, and is bounded as followeth, viz.
Beginning at a Burch Tree and Stones laid round it the Southwest
Corner of _Tyringham-Equivalent_ Lands standing on the East Branch
of _Farmington_ River; then North eighteen Degrees East in the West
Line of said _Equivalent_ five Hundred and sixty-one Rods to a
small Beach Tree and Stones laid round it, which Tree is the
Southeast Corner of a Grant of Land called _Woolcut's_ Grant; then
running West eighteen Degrees North in the South Line of said Grant
two Hundred and forty Rods to a Beach Tree marked I.W. and Stones
laid round it, which is the Southwest Corner of said Grant; then
running North eighteen Degrees East in the West Line of said Grant
four Hundred Rods to a Heap of Stones which is the Northwest Corner
of said Grant; then running East eighteen Degrees South two Hundred
and forty Rods in the North Line of said Grant to a large Hemlock
Tree and Stones laid round it, which is the Northeast Corner of
said Grant; it is also the Northwest Corner of said _Equivalent_,
and the Southwest Corner of a Grant called _Taylors_ Grant; then
running North eighteen Degrees East one Hundred and sixty Rods in
the West Line of said _Taylors_ Grant to the Northwest Corner of
the same; then running East nine Degrees South in the Line of said
_Taylors_ Grant eight Hundred Rods to a Stake and Stones standing
in the West Line of _Blanford_, marked W.T. then running North
eighteen Degrees East in said _Blanford_ West Line five Hundred and
thirty Rods to a Beach Tree and Stones laid round it which is the
Northwest Corner of said _Blanford_; then running East ten Degrees
South forty-two Rods in the North Line of said _Blanford_ to a
Stake and Stones which is the Southwest Corner of _Merryfield_;
then running North ten Degrees East in said _Merryfield_ West Line
three Hundred and three Rods to a Heap of Stones the Southeast
Corner of _Becket_; then running West two Degrees South in said
_Becket_ South Line four Hundred and twenty-six Rods to the
Northeast Corner of a Grant of Land called _Belcher's_ Grant; then
running South in the East Line of said _Belchers_ Grant two Hundred
and sixteen Rods to a small Maple Tree marked T.R. which is the
Northwest Corner of a Grant of Land called _Rand's_ Grant; then
running East in the North Line of said _Rand's_ Grant two Hundred
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