take effect until January 5, 1753, when it was signed
by the governor.

On June 3, 1771, thirty years after Groton Gore had been lost by the
running of the provincial line, the proprietors of the town held a
meeting, and appointed Lieutenant Josiah Sawtell, Colonel John Bulkley,
and Lieutenant Nathaniel Parker, a committee to petition the General
Court for a grant of land to make up for this loss. They presented the
matter to that body on June 7, and the following entry in the records
gives the result:--

The Committee on the Petition of _Josiah Sartel_, and others,
reported.

Read and accepted, and _Whereas it appears to this Court, That the
Proprietors aforesaid, had a Grant made to them by the General
Court in_ April 1735, _of Ten Thousand, Eight Hundred Acres of
Land, in Consideration of Land taken from said_ Groton _by_
Littleton, _Major_ Willard _and_ Read's _Farms being prior Grants,
and for their extraordinary Suffering in the former Indian Wars and
in_ June 1736 _said Grant was confirmed to said Proprietors, since
which Time, the said Proprietors have been entirely dispossessed of
said Land by the running of the Line between this Province and_
New-Hampshire: _And whereas it appears there has been no
Compensation made to the said Proprietors of_ Groton, _for the
Lands lost as aforesaid, excepting Three Thousand Acres granted in_
November _last_, to James Prescot, William Prescot, _and_ Oliver
Prescot _for their Proportion thereof_. Therefore _Resolved_, That
in Lieu thereof, there be granted to the Proprietors of _Groton_,
their Heirs and Assigns forever, Seven Thousand and Eight Hundred
Acres of the unappropriated Lands belonging to this Province, in
the Western Part of the Province, to be layed out adjoining to some
former Grant, and that they return a Plan thereof, taken by a
Surveyor and Chainmen under Oath into the Secretary's Office,
within twelve Months for Confirmation.

Sent up for Concurrence.

[Journal of the House of Representatives (page 44), June 13, 1771.]

These conditions, as recommended by the report of the committee, appear
to have been fulfilled, and a grant was accordingly made. It lay on the
eastern border of Berkshire county, just south of the central part, and
was described as follows:--

The Committee on a Plan of a Tract of Land granted to the