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52 brought back to Boston, the reality began to be made known, and that little frolic of taking the fort was really an ugly job, and hard to accomplish. Mrs. Ansart died in Dracut at the age of eighty-six years, January 27, 1849. She retained her mental and physical faculties to a great degree till within a short time before her death. She was accustomed to walk to church, a distance of one mile, when she was eighty years of age. Colonel and Mrs. Ansart were both buried in Woodbine Cemetery, in the part of Lowell which belonged to Dracut at the time of their interment.

{{c|{{sc|By the Hon. Samuel Abbott Green, M.D.}}

{{sc|The}} report of the Comitty of the Honᵇˡᵉ Court vpon the petition of Concord Chelmsford Lancaster & Stow for a grant of part of Nashobe lands

Persuant to the directions giuen by this Honᵇˡᵉ Court bareng Date the 30ᵗʰ of May 1711 The Comity Reports as foloweth that is to say &ce

That on the second day of October 1711 the sᵈ comitty went vpon the premises with an Artis and veved [viewed] and servaied the Land mentioned in the Peticion and find that the most southerly line of the plantation of Nashobe is bounded partly on Concord & partly on Stow and this line contains by Estimation vpon the servey a bought three miles & 50 polle The Westerly line Runs partly on Stowe & partly on land claimed by Groton and containes four miles and 20 poll extending to a place called Brown hill. The North line Runs a long curtain lands claimed by Groton and contains three miles, the Easterle line Runs partly on Chelmsford, and partly on a farm cald Powersis farm in Concord; this line contains a bought fouer miles and twenty fiue pole

The lands a boue mentioned wer shewed to vs for Nashobe Plantation and there were ancient marks in the seuerall lines fairly marked, And sᵈ comite find vpon the servey that Groton hath Run into Nashobe (as it was showed to vs) so as to take out nere one half sᵈ plantation and the bigest part of the medows, it appears to vs to Agree well with the report of Mʳ John Flint & Mʳ Joseph Wheeler who were a Commetty imployed by the County Court in midlesexs to Run the bounds of said plantation (June yᵉ 20ᵗʰ 82) The plat will demonstrate how the plantation lyeth & how Groton coms in vpon it: as aleso the quaintete which is a bought 7840 acres

And said Comite are of the opinion that ther may [be] a township in that place it lying so remote from most of the neighboreng Towns, provided this Court shall se reson to continew the bounds as we do judg thay have been made at the first laieng out And that ther be sum addition from Concord & Chelmsford which we are redy to think will be complyed with by sᵈ Towns And sᵈ Comite do find a bought 15 famelys setled in sᵈ plantation of Nashobe (5) in Groton claimed and ten in the remainder and 3 famelys which are allredy setled on the powerses farm: were convenient to joyn w sᵈ plantation and are a bought Eaight mille to any meting-house (Also ther are a bought Eaight famelys in Chelmsford which are allredy setled neer Nashobe line & six or seven miles from thir own meeting house

JONATHAN TYNG THOMAS HOW JOHN STEARNS

In the Houes of Representatives Novᵐ 2: 1711. Read Octo. 23, 1713. In Council

Read and accepted; And the Indians native Proprietors of the sᵈ Plantaᶜᵒⁿ. Being removed by death Except two or