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��The Boundary Lines of Old Groton. — //.

��prietors of the said Plantation, that may be surviving ; A Proportion thereof to be for Sarah Doublet alias Sarah Indian ;. The Rev. W. John Leveret & Spencer Phips Esqr. to be Trustees for the said Indians to take Care of the said Lands for their Use. And it is further Ordered that Cpt. Hope- still Brown, M^. Timothy Wily & M>-. Joseph Burnap of Reading be a Committee to lay out the said Five hundred Acres of Land reserved for the Indians, & to run the Line between Groton & Nashoba, at the Charge of both Parties & make Report to this Court, And that however the Line may divide the Land with regard to the Township, yet the Proprietors on either side may be continued in the Possession of their Improvements, paying as aforesaid ; And that no Persons legal Right or Property in the said Lands shall [be] hereby taken away or infringed.

Consented to J Dudley

The report of this committee is entered in the same volume of General Court Records (ix, 395, 396) as the order of their appointment, though the date as given by them does not agree with the one there mentioned.

The following Report of the Committee for Running the Line between Groton & Nashoba Accepted by Representees. Read & Concur'd ; Viz.

We the Subscribers appointed a Com- mittee by the General Court to run the Line between Groton & Nashoba & to lay out Five hundred Acres of Land in said Nashoba to the the \sic\ Descendants of the Indians ; Pursuant to said Order of Court, bearing Date Octob^ 20* [Nov- ember 2?] 17 14, We the Subscribers return as follows ;

That on the 301^1. of November last, we met on the Premises, & heard the Infor- mation of the Inhabitants of Groton, Nashoba & others of the Neighbouring Towns, referring to the Line that has been between Groton & Nashoba & seen several Records, out of Groton Town Book, & considered other Writings, that belong to Groton & Nashoba, & We have considered

��all, & We have run the Line (Which we

account is the old Line between Groton &

Nashoba;) We began next Chelmsford

Line, at a Heap of Stones, where. We were

informed, that there had been a great Pine

Tree, the Northeast Corner of Nashoba,

and run Westerly by many old mark'd

Trees, to a Pine Tree standing on the

Southerly End of Brown Hill mark'd N

and those marked Trees had been many

times marked or renewed, thd they do not

stand in a direct or strait Line to said Pine

Tree on said Brown Hill ; And then from

said Brown Hill we turned a little to the

East of the South, & run to a white Oak

being an old Mark, & so from said Oak to

a Pitch Pine by a Meadow, being an other

old Mark ; & the same Line extended to

a white Oak near the North east Corner of

Stow : And this is all, as we were informed,

that Groton & Nashoba joins together:

Notwithstanding the Committees Opinion

is, that Groton Men be continued in their

honest Rights, thd they fall within the

Bounds of Nashoba ; And We have laid

out to the Descendants of the Indians

Five hundred Acres at the South east

Corner of the Plantation of Nashoba ;

East side, Three hundred Poles long.

West side three hundred Poles, South &

North ends, Two hundred & eighty Poles

broad ; A large white Oak marked at the

North west Corner, & many Line Trees

we marked at the West side & North End,

& it takes in Part of two Ponds.

Dated Decemr 14. 1714.

HOPESTILL BROWN TIMOTHY WILY JOSEPH BURNAP

Consented to J Dudley.

The incorporation of Nashobah on November 2, 1714, settled many of the disputes connected with the lands ; but on December 3 of the next year, the name was changed from Nashobah to Littleton. As already stated, the plan of the original Groton grant had never been returned by the proprietors to the General Court for confirmation, and this neglect had acted to their

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