As Quinnatisset had been in part already granted, the committee reported[30] a territory "commodiose" for settlement at "Seneksuk and Wapagusset and the lands ajasiant." A committee was therefore appointed to draw up an agreement for the "goers," as they were called, to sign. In 1685,[31] in answer to the petition of Edward Morris, deputy in behalf of the town of Roxbury, the General Court extended the limit of the time of settlement from June 10, 1687, to Jan. 31, 1688, and granted freedom from rates up to that time.[32] At town meetings held in Roxbury, during the same year, it was arranged that one half of the grant should belong to the new settlers and one hundred pounds in money be given to them in instalments of twenty pounds a year, and the other half of the grant should belong to "the stayers" in consideration of the aid given "the goers." The southern half of the grant was the portion subsequently occupied by "the goers." Actual possession, however, was not taken until April of the following year. On the second page of the cover of the old and musty first volume of records of the proprietors of New Roxbury, afterwards called Woodstock, are these words: "April 5, 1686. "These are the thirteen who were sent out to spy out Woodstock as planters and to take actual posession: Jonathan Smithers, John Frissell, Nathaniel Garey, John Marcy, Benjamin Griggs, John Lord, Benjamin Sabin, Henry Bowen, Matthew Davis, Thomas Bacon, Peter Aspinwall, George Griggs, and Ebenezer Morris." These thirteen planters, or the "Old Thirteen" as they have always been called, were visited in May or June[33] by a committee who had been appointed to ascertain the bounds of the grant. The last meeting of the "goers to settle" was held in Roxbury, July 21st; their first meeting in New Roxbury was held August 25th. A committee of seven, consisting of Joseph Griggs, Edward Morris, Henry Bowen, Sr., John Chandler, Sr., Samuel Craft, Samuel Scarborough, and Jonathan Smithers, having been appointed to make needful arrangements preliminary to the drawing of home lots, that drawing took place on the twenty-eighth of August, or, by the new style of reckoning time, exactly two hundred years ago to-day.