In Senate Jan' 23d 1784 Read & thereupon Orderd, that this Petition be Committed to the Committee appointed by a Resolve of the 28th of October last, to execute certain business therein mentioned in the County of Lincoln Sent down for Concurrence S Adams Presid In the House of Representatives same day Read & concurred Tristram Dalton Spk Petition for a Township Between Kennebeck and Penobscot. Commonwealth of Massachusetts To the Honourable the Senate and the House of Representatives in General Court Assembled the Petition of Thomas Denny of Leicester in the County of Worcester and Commonwealth aforesaid with Sixty of his Associates humbly Sheweth That whereas your Petitioners are very desirous of settleing a Township of unappropriated land in the Province of Main, under such rules and Regulations as your Honours shall Direct Prays that your Honours would Grant to him and his Associates a Township of unappropriated land Six Miles Square in said Province-between Penobscott River and Kenebeck River near the Line between a place Called Sour Dabscotts Mills and Fort Halifax and your Petitioners as in Duty bound Shall ever Pray Leicester July 3a 1783 Thomas Denny In Senate Jan' 23d 1784 for himself and Associates Read & thereupon Orderd that this Petition be Committed to the Committee appointed by a Resolve of the 28th of Oct last, to execute certain business therein mentioned in the County of Lincoln Sent down for Concurrence S Adams Presid In the House of Representatives same day Read & concurred Tristram Dalton Spk' Petition of Francis Shaw. To The Honorable Senate and Honble House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts The Petition of Francis Shaw in behalf of Himself and others, Inhabitants and Proprietors of Lands Eastward of Penobscott River Humbly Sheweth That at the Last session of the General Court a Petition was presented by some Inhabitants of Machias to have a Court of Sessions and Common Pleas Established in that place, and a Resolve passed to Warn all persons Conserned to Appear and Shew Cause, why such a thing should not be Allowed Your Petitioner would beg leave to Acquaint your Honours, that Machias lyes near a hundred Miles Eastward of Penobscot, the former of which with the settlements adjacent has not near the Number of Inhabitants, as the more Westerly part of this district, who have never been Consulted on this Important Affair, nor does it Appear many others Excep the Inhabitants of Machias Therefore your Petitioner Humbly Prays, that your Honours, would take the premisses, under Consideration, That no such Courts may be Established, till the whole of the Inhabitants Concerned may have an Oppertunity of Consulting on the subject, And your Petitioner in behalf of himself and others as in Duty bound will ever pray.— Francis Shaw Resolve on Petition of Francis Shaw. Commonwealth of Massachusetts house of Representa. 12 Feb 1784 On the Petition of Francis Shaw Resolved That the Petition from the inhabitants of Machias requesting the Establishment of a Court of Common Pleas, be Suspended untill the inhabitants of Gouldsbourough Penobscot &c, have opportunity to represent their Situation and that the Petitioner Francis Shaw Esq be requested to furnish the Gen' Court of this commonwealth with a just account of the Number of Inhabitants, & their Places of abode, Between Belfast & Passamaquoda Sent up for concurrence Tristram Dalton Spk Petition of John Peirce. Commonwealth of Massachusetts To the Honorable the Senate and the Honorable House of Representatives of the Commonwealth aforesaid, in General Court assembled The Petition of Elisha Gurney and John Peirce of Worcester; in the County of Worcester & Commonwealth aforesaid on their own accounts, and in behalf of sixty other persons, inhabitants of the Same County that your Petitioners at the desire of their associates, have been into the late Province of Main to view part of the unappropriated land there, in order for an immediate Settlement of a Township, if a Grant could be obtained from your Honors, for that purpose, and that their report has been Satisfactory to their Employers Your Petitioner therefore in behalf of said associates and themselves Humbly pray your Honors that a tract of land in the said late Province of Main of sufficient quality to form a Township may be Granted them, under Such limitations, restrictions and Conditions as to your Honors Shall Seem meet And as in duty bound shall ever pray — John Peirce Elisha Gurney Worcester Sept 26th. 1783 In Senate Febry 20th 1784 Read & thereupon Orderd that this Petition be Committed to the Committee appointed by a Resolve of the 28th October last, to execute certain business therein mentioned in the County of Lincoln Sent down for Concurrence S Adams Presid In the House of Representatives Feb" 20th 1784 Read and concurred Tristram Dalton Spk Resolve on the Petition of Josiah Brewer. Common Wealth Massachusetts In The House of Representatives March 2nd 1784 On The petition of Josiah Brewer praying for the Liberty. To dwell in the House at Fort Hallifax and to Improve Ten Acres of Land Round Said House which the said Josiah Brewer Fenced in at his own Cost Resolved. That the Prayer of the Petitioner be so far Granted, That the Said Josiah Brewer to make him Satisfaction for what he has fenced and done thereon, Have Liberty to Improve said House and Land. The Term of One Year from the date hereof he Leaving it with A good Fence and in As good order as it Now stands Sent up for concurrence Tristram Dalton Spk' Resolve for Laying Out Towns on the River St Croix. Commonwealth of Massachusetts In Senate March 1784Whereas it is expedient that a Number of Towns Should with all convenient dispatch be laid out upon the western side of and adjoining the River St Croix; the eastern boundof this Commonwealth & of the United States of America; therefore ary Resolved that six Townships each to contain a Number of Acres equal to six Miles square shall be laid out upon and adjoining the western side of the said River, to begin as near the mouth or entrance of the same as may be convenient and so to extend in succession and if practicable adjoining each other up the said River And it is further Resolv'd that each of the said Townships shall be laid out into lots of. fronting upon and towards the said River and extending back in succession in an equal width each as near as may be; the whole of the said Townships to be bounded on the back parts thereof by a direct Line drawn from the western termination of the northern boundary of the uppermost of the sa Townships. be a Committee And it is further Resolv'd that to lay out the said Townships & to employ in behalf of this Commonwealth a Surveyor or Surveyors & Chainmen sufficient to lay out and take an actual Survey & plan of the said Townships And it is further Resolved that when the said Committee have effected the business herein assigned them they are hereby directed to make return of their doings together with a plan of the s" Townships to the General Court and to report whether it may be expedient in their opinion to lay out any greater Number of Townships upon the said River or in |