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called the Mohegan sachems east boundary, and elsewhere upon the Colony's land:-Now therefore, this Court do allow and approve of the said survey of the said four hundred acres of land, provided it doth not prejudice any former grant; and do order that the said Richard Lord, his heirs or assigns, shall have a patent for the said four hundred acres of land, qualified and executed according to the laws of this Colony, for the full confirmation of the same to him and them forever; [51] provided also it do not prejudice any township or any former grant of this Court.

Whereas the laws of this Colony do oblige the selectmen of each town within the same, (at the charge of the town,) to provide a stock of ammunition for the town, and a stock of arms and ammunition for the poor if need be, and divers other . things,

It is therefore ordered and enacted by the Governour, Council and Representatives, in General Court assembled, and by the authority of the same, That the selectmen, or the major part of them, in the several respective towns within this Colony, when and as often as there shall be need of a supply of money in the treasury of any town, to provide any of the things aforesaid, by them to be provided, and the inhabitants of the town at any town meeting (whereat such want of a supply is made known to them by their selectmen,) shall refuse or neglect to grant such supply, shall be and are hereby fully authorized and impowered to assess the several inhabitants of their said town, and make a rate upon them, according to the list of the ratable estates of the said inhabitants, for raising such sum or sums as shall be necessary for the providing the several things aforesaid, or any of them, which they shall be accountable for according to the law, title Poor.

And it is hereby further enacted and provided, That all such rates so made by the selectmen, or the major part of them, in any town within this Colony, and delivered to the constable or constables of the said town, with a warrant annexed thereto, and signed by the said selectmen, or major part of them, and directed to the said constable or constables for the gathering of it, shall be a full obligation upon the said constables for the collecting the same, who shall therein observe and follow the direction of the law relating to the gathering or collecting of country rates; and when they have collected the same according to the said warrant, shall pay the said sum or sums to the said selectmen, or the major part of them, or their order for the uses aforesaid, and take receipts of what they pay. And in case the said constables or any of them shall not perform

the trust hereby committed unto them, they shall be accountable and suffer distress as is provided against collectors of rates in the printed law, page 101.

Upon the petition of the trainband in the town of Guilford, this Court do grant and allow to them a liberty to divide themselves into two companies, and to choose their officers needful for them.

This Court do now choose and appoint Mr. John Plumb of New London to be the Surveyor of Lands in and for the county of New London, in the room and stead of Capt. John Prentts, and order that he be sworn accordingly.

Upon consideration of the petition of the inhabitants of the town of Wethersfield, praying this Court to describe and settle the line or boundary between their said town and the town of Farmington,

It is ordered and enacted by the Governour, Council and Representatives, now in General Court assembled, and by the authority of the same, That a straight line run from the heap of stones at the south west corner of Hartford bounds, on the east side of a boggy meadow, to a certain white oak tree, marked on four sides, standing on rising land about a mile to the south of Mattabesett River, shall be the dividing line between the said two towns, viz. Wethersfield on the east and Farmingtown on the west side of the said line; and that the surveyor of the county of Hartford shall run the said line, and make monuments therein according to law, at the charge of the said town of Wethersfield, they giving seasonable notice thereof to the inhabitants of the said town of Farmingtown. And in case that by running the said straight line from station to station as aforesaid, it shall appear that any mans allotment bordering upon the said line, hath been bettered by any labour or cost bestowed upon it by his bordering neighbour, the owner of [52] such land shall give reasonable satisfaction to his || neighbour for his labour and cost so bestowed, according to the benefit he shall receive thereby, to be valued by indifferent men mutually chosen by the parties concerned therein, or ap pointed by the county court in the county of Hartford.

And this Court have considered that the said petitioners shall recover the sum of two pounds one shilling and ten pence in money, and three pounds one shilling and four pence in pay, of and from the said town of Farmington, or their selectmen, for the costs of the said petition and attendance at this Court thereupon, and that execution shall be granted for the same accordingly.

This Assembly do establish and confirm Mr. Joseph Cadey of Kellingley to be Lieutenant, and Mr. John Winter to be Ensign of the souldiers or trainband in the said town of Kellingley. And this Court grants liberty to the inhabitants of the said town of Kellingly, to survey and lay out one hundred acres of land within their township, for the use and incouragement of a minister to settle there and carry on the worship of God among them, provided it do not prejudice any former grant of this Court.

Upon consideration of the petition of Joseph Bryan of Milford, now entred and heard in this Court, setting forth that there is a legacy due to him from the estate of his father, Mr. Richard Bryan, formerly of said Milford, deceased, and that there is some lands, debts or other things, part of said estate, (not yet distributed or set out to any of the children,) within this Colony, and that there is no administrator in this Colony of whom he can demand the said legacy: This Court do order and enact, that the court of probates in the county of Newhaven shall grant letters of administration on the estate of the said Richard Bryan, deceased, wheresoever in this Colony, unto the said Joseph Bryan, (taking bond of him as the law requires,) the better to enable him to obtain his said legacy or portion.

This Court do desire the Honb the Governour and Secretary, with such other persons as his Hon shall think fit, to draw and send an answer to the letter received from the Lords of the Council of Trade, of the 7th of May, 1707, as soon as may be.

Upon consideration of the petition of the inhabitants of the town of Canterbury, now presented to this Court: this Court do free and release them from paying any country rate for this present year, excepting so much as the Colony now owes to any of the said inhabitants for any service, matter or thing, which shall be paid by and amongst themselves this year, out of their country rate; provided also, that all the rest of what would have arisen and been due to the Colony by a rate upon a lawfull list of their estates this year be improved by them for the building a meeting house in their town, within one year next coming. And this Court do order that the said inhabitants without fail shall send a true list of their persons and estates according to law to the General Assembly in October next.

Whereas the General Assembly of this Colony, March 27th, 1643, did give and grant to the Honb! Mr. Haynes, Governour of the said Colony, one thousand acres of land about the Pe

quot country, and the said General Assembly October 10th, 1672, did appoint Thomas Leffingwell and Thomas Tracy to survey and lay out the same to the children of the said Governour Haynes, according to the said grant, on the east side of Paucatuck River, and the said Leffingwell and Tracy did survey and lay out on the east side said river, five hundred thirty eight acres of land for part thereof, from which the said heirs of the said Governour Haynes are ejected by tryal at law, (as they say.) And whereas John Haynes and Hezekiah Willis of Hartford, gent., pursuant to an act of this Assembly made and passed in May last, constituting the town of Kellingly, have desired Capt. John Chandler to survey and lay out for them (and other the heirs of the said Governour [53] Haynes,) the said thousand acres || of land granted as aforesaid, and he the said John Chandler hath accordingly surveyed and laid out the same in two pieces, on the east side of Queenabaug River within the said town of Killingley, according to a platt thereof exhibited in this Court, that is to say, five hundred acres thereof lying upon a river called Five Mile River, and is bounded therewith on the west, and with the said Colonys land on the east, and with a brook called Whetstone Brook southerly;-and other five hundred acres the residue thereof, lying upon and near to Chesnut Hill, and is bounded on the south with a farm of Mr. Timothy Woodbridge, on the east with the said Colonys land, and mostly with the land of Mr. Treat on the north; which said two pieces of land of five hundred acres each, the said John Chandler as agent for, and by the desire of the said John Haynes and Hezekiah Willis, had pitched upon and taken up for them, on or about the 26th of March, 1707 :-Now therefore, this Court do allow, approve and confirm the said surveys made by the said Chandler of the said thousand acres of land lying in two pieces, for the said John Haines and Hezekiah Willis, and do give and grant unto them the said two pieces of land so surveyed and laid out; provided always that the same do not prejudice any former grant of this Court; and do order that the said John Haynes and Hezekiah Willis, with the other heirs of said Governour Haynes, their heirs or assigns, shall have a patent. for the same thousand acres of land, qualified and executed according to the law of this Colony, for full confirmation of the same to them forever.

Whereas the General Assembly of this Colony, May 15th, 1662, did give and grant to Mr. Joseph Haines of Hartford, three hundred acres of land for a farm, whereof fifty acres to be meadow, where it might be found, and John Haynes only

son, with others the heirs of the said Joseph Haines now deceased, pursuant to an act of this Assembly made and passed in May last, constituting the town of Kellingley, having desired Captain John Chandler to find, survey and lay out for them, the said three hundred acres of land granted to their father as aforesaid, he the said Chandler hath accordingly surveyed and laid out the same, and exhibited in this Court a plat thereof, which lyes in one intire piece on the east side of Queenabaug River, upon and adjoyning unto Chesnut Hill, and is bounded on the south and west with the Colonys land, and also partly on the north, (which said parcel of land of three hundred acres the said Chandler as agent for, and by the desire of the said John Haines, had pitched upon and taken up for them, on or about the 26th of March, 1707,)— Now therefore, this Court do allow, approve and confirm the said survey of the said three hundred acres of land, for the said John Haynes and other the said heirs, provided it doth not prejudice any former grant of this Court; and that they shall have liberty to take a patent according to law for the same.

Whereas the General Assembly of this Colony, October 13th, 1687, did give and grant to Mr. Timothy Woodbridge of Hartford, two hundred acres of land for a farm, where he could find it; and the said Timothy Woodbridge pursuant to an act of this Assembly made and passed in May last, constituting the town of Kellingley, having desired Capt. John Chandler to survey and lay out for him the said two hundred acres of land granted him as aforesaid, he the said John Chandler hath accordingly surveyed and laid out the same, and exhibited in this court a plat thereof, which lyes in one intire piece on the east side of Queenabaug River, within the said town of Kellingley, at a place called Chesnutt Hill, and is bounded on the east and south with the Colonys land, and on the west mostly with the Whetstone country, (which said parcel of land of two hundred [54] acres, the said John Chandler as agent for || and by the desire of the said Timothy Woodbridge, had pitched upon and taken up for him on or about the 26th of March, 1707,)-Now therefore, this Court do allow, approve and confirm the said survey of the said two hundred acres of land, for the said Timothy Woodbridge, provided it do not prejudice any former grant of this Court, and order that he shall have a patent for the same.

Whereas the General Assembly of this Colony held at Hartford May 12th, 1687, did grant to Capt. Samuell Eells, then of Milford, (now of Hingham,) two hundred acres of land, and the General Assembly held at Hartford May 13th, 1708, did

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