The Bay State Monthly, Volume 1, No. VI. June, 1884 | Page 5

Towns, whose Owners shall petition for that End, & that
this Court should think fit to grant, That the said Nashoba Lands having
been long since purchased of the Indians by M'r Bulkley & Henchman
one Half, the other Half by Whetcomb & Powers, That the said
purchase be confirmed to the children of the said Bulkley, Whetcomb
& Powers, & Cpt. Robert Meers as Assignee to M'r Henchman
according to their respective Proportions; Reserving to the Inhabitants,
who have settled within these Bounds, their Settlements with Divisions
of Lands, in proportion to the Grantees, & such as shall be hereafter
admitted; the said Occupants or present Inhabitants paying in
Proportion as others shall pay for their Allotments;. Provided the said
Plantation shall be settled with Thirty five Families & an orthodox
Minister in three years time, And that Five hundred Acres of Land be
reserved and laid out for the Benefit of any of the Descendants of the
Indian Proprietors of the said Plantation, that may be surviving; A
Proportion thereof to be for Sarah Doublet alias Sarah Indian;. The Rev.
M'r. John Leveret & Spencer Phips Esq'r. to be Trustees for the said
Indians to take Care of the said Lands for their Use. And it is further
Ordered that Cpt. Hopestill Brown, M'r. Timothy Wily & M'r. 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 Represent'ves. Read & Concur'd; Viz.
We the Subscribers appointed a Committee 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'r 20'th [November
2?] 1714, We the Subscribers return as follows;
That on the 30'th. of November last, we met on the Premises, & heard
the Information 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, thô 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, thô
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 Decem'r 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