irections, with respect to Such Part of the
s'd. Tract as has been formerly reserv'd for the Indians, but for a
Long time has been wholly Left, & is now altogether unimprov'd by
them, And all other things which this Hon'ble: Court in their
Wisdom & justice Shall See meet to appoint for the Regulation of
such Plantation or Town.

And Yo'r: Hum'ble: Petitioners as in Duty Bound Shall Ever Pray &c.

Gershom Procter
Sam'll. Procter
John Procter
Joseph Fletcher
John Miles
John Parlin
Robert Robins
John Darby
John Barker
Sam'l: Stratton
Hezekiah Fletcher
Josiah Whitcomb
John Buttrick
Will'm: Powers
Jonathan Hubburd
W'm Keen
John Heald
John Bateman
John Heywood
Thomas Wheeler
Sam'll: Hartwell, jun'r:
Sam'll: Jones
John Miriam

In the House of Representatives
June 6: 1711. Read & Comitted.
7 ... Read, &

Ordered that Jo'a. Tyng Esq'r: Thom's: Howe Esq'r: & M'r: John
Sternes be a Comittee to view the Land mentioned in the Petition, &
Represent the Lines, or Bounds of the severall adjacent Towns
bounding on the s'd. Lands and to have Speciall Regard to the Land
granted to the Indians, & to make report of the quantity, &
circumstances thereof.

Sent up for Concurrence.

JOHN BURRIL Speaker
In Council
June 7. 1711, Read and Concurr'd.
ISA: ADDINGTON, Secry.

[Massachusetts Archives, cxiii, 602, 603.]

The committee, to whom was referred this subject, made a report during
the next autumn; but no action in regard to it appears to have been
taken by the General Court until two years later.

* * * * *

THE NEW ENGLAND TOWN-HOUSE.

By J.B. SEWALL.

A Recollection of my boyhood is a large unpainted barnlike building
standing at a point where three roads met at about the centre of the
town. When all the inhabitants of the town were of one faith
religiously, or at least the minority were not strong enough to divide
from the majority, and one meeting-house served the purposes of all,
this was the meeting-house. To this, the double line of windows all
round, broken by the long round-topped window midway on the back side,
and the two-storied vestibule on the front, and, more than all, the old
pulpit still remaining within, with the sounding-board suspended