Justice render it highly reasonable that their request be so far granted that a Register of Probate of Wills & of Deeds be Established at Machias to exercise their respective Officers in that part of the County of Lincoln which is to the Eastward of Union River, That the Judges of Probate of Wills for the County of Lincoln be directed to hold his Court twice every year at Machias and that the Court of General Sessions of the Peace and Court of Common pleas for the said County should hold one Term every Year at said Machias and that Jurors for the two last mentioned Courts be summoned from the Freeholders and other Inhabitants by Law qualified for that service wch are to the Eastward of said Union River, and that the Petitioners have leave to bring in a Bill for the purposes afore-mentiond

Cotton Tufts p' Order

In Senate October 17th 1783

Read and accepted

And Whereas several Petitions from the Inhabitants of Machias & others have been presented to the General Court, being in substance as follows-Viz,

That the Legislature of this Commonwealth would empower two or more Justices of the Peace to try Causes to the Amount of Twenty Pounds & under, and establish at Machias in the County of Lincoln, a Court of Probate of Wills, a Register of Probate, a Register of Deeds, a Court of General Sessions of the Peace, a Court of Common Pleas with a right of Appeal to the Supreme Judicial Court held at Boston, the said Officers to exercise their respective Offices and the said Courts to have jurisdiction, to the Eastward of Penobscot River, Orderd,

That, the Substance of the said Petition as aforementioned be published in three of the Boston Newspapers for three Weeks successively, which shall be considered as a Notifica

tion to the several Towns in the said County of Lincoln, to shew Cause, if any they have, on the second Wednesday of the first Sessions of the next General Court, why the prayer of the said Petition should not be granted

And the Secretary is hereby directed to publish the same accordingly

That the sum of Five hundred & six pounds, fifteen shillings & five pence, for loss & hire of the Sloop Hannah a Transport on the Expedition to Penobscott in the year 1779. and One hundred & twenty Pounds, seven shillings & one penny for Interest thereon to the first Instant- & also Twenty three pounds, one shilling & nine pence for the Masters Wages & his Bill of Disbursements after loss of the Vessell, the whole of which amounting to the sum of Six hundred & fifty Pounds, four shillings & three pence, is due to Melzar Sampson, which when paid will be in full for the same £650.4.3

Thomas Ivers

Comtee for Audits the

Peter Roe Dalton

Accots of the late Board of War

His Excellency the Governor, & the Hon" the Council of the

Commonwth of Massachusetts

In Council Oct 21. 1783

Advised that a Warrant be drawn on the Treasury in full

Discharge of the within Certificate

Jno Avery Sec

Petition of Josiah Brewer.

Commonwealth of Massachusetts

To the Honorable the Senate and the Honorable House of Representatives in General Court assembled

Octob' 22. 1783

The Petition of Josiah Brewer residing at Fort Hallifax on Kennebeck River within the County of Lincoln, Esq humbly sheweth, That in the Year 1779, when the Enemy took Possession of Majabaggaduce your Petitioner was driven from his Habitation on Penobscott River, leaving behind him all his Effects, (excepting a very few trifling Articles) which have been plunder'd by the Enemy & his dwelling house entirely destroyed; by Reason whereof, your Petitioner has been greatly reduced in his Circumstances - That your Petitioner has, for two or three years, resided at said Fort Hallifax, in the Service of this Commonwealth; but in March last was discharged from said Service, and being destitute of House or Home of his own, he prays that he may be permitted to remain in, and occupy the Fort House where he now resides, together with about ten Acres of Land adjoining which your Petitioner fenced in at his own proper Costs & Charge, for the Term of one or two years, free of any Rent, as it is probable that it will be of no Use or Service to the Commonwealth at Present, and that if your Petitioner removes therefrom, it will be improved by the first person that can get the Possession thereof, without ever paying any Rent to the Commonwealth therefor

And your Petitioner as in Duty bound &c

Josiah Brewer

Certificate in Favor Thomas Stevens.

This Certifies

Boston Octo. 27. 1783

That the sum of Three hundred & twenty six pounds, four shillings, for part of the Arm'd Ship Black Prince, lost on the Expedition to Penobscott in the year 1779. and eighty two Pounds eighteen shillings & two pence for Interest thereon to the first Instant, both sums amounting to Four hundred & nine pounds, two shillings & two pence, is due to Thomas Stevens, which when paid to Jonathan Peele, will be in full for the same £409.2.2

Thomas Ivers

Peter Roe Dalton

Comtee for Audits the Accots of the late Board of War

His Excell the Governor & the Hon. the Council of the

Commonwealth of Massachusetts

In Council Oct 28. 1783.

Advised that a Warrant be drawn on the Treasury in full discharge of the within Certificate

John Avery Sec

Land at Falmouth Declared Forfeited to the Commonwealth.

Cumberland Ss January 9th 1784

These certify That at a Court of Common Pleas for said County which was begun and holden at Falmouth within the same, on the last Tuesday of October A. D. 1782- Certain Lands and Buildings mentioned in a Complaint of the Attorney General of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts which was exhibited to the Inferior Court of Common Pleas for said County begun and holden at said Falmouth on the last Tuesday of October A. D. 1781-viz-One Moiety of a certain Lot of Land lying in Falmouth aforesaid in that part thereof called the Neck containing twenty eight Square

Rods with one half the House thereon Also ano Lot of Land there containing twenty four square Rods — with the Buildings thereon-And the hundred Acre number seventy eight in the third Division of Lotts in Pearsontown in said County, all bounded and described as by the said Complaint &c Records of said Court will appear-were by sd Court declared forfeited And by Law to escheat, enure and accrue to the Sole Use and Benefit of the Commonwealth aforesaid

Att

Sam' Freeman Cle

Petition for a Township.

Commonwealth of Massachusetts To the Honourable the Senate and the House of Representatives in General Court Assembled

the Petition of Ebenezer Lovell of Worcester in the County of Worcester and Commonwealth afors with Sixty of his Associates Humbly Sheweth that whereas your Petitioners are desirous of settling 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 Kennebeck River near the line between a place known by Sour Dabscotts Mills and fort Halifax and Your Petitioners as in Duty bound Shall ever pray

Ebenezer Lovele

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for himself and

associates.

Worcester June 25: 1783

In Senate Jan' 23d 1784

Read & thereupon Orderd that this Petition be Committed to the Committee appointed by a Resolve of the 28th Oct°