That thereupon, as your Memorialist hath been informed, a Committee was appointed by the said General Court to take under Consideration the petition of the said V/illiam Bull and others, Who made Report that they " were of opinion that a ^' Committee should be appointed by the said General Court to " repair to the Lands petitioned for, and to make full Inquiry " into the Circumstances thereof, What number of Settlements " were begun, the Number of Acres as near as they should be " able to judge in each Settlement, tlie names of tlie Settlers, the " Value of each Settlement under all its Circumstances, and also " the Quality and Quantity of the province Lands compreliended " within the Bounds of tlie whole Tract, upon whicli there had " as yet been no Intruders " and that the Committee should make Report thereof at the following Sessions, in order to a Conveyance of the said Lands to the setlers or such person as would purchase the same Which said Report being read and a^.cepted in

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Council on the thirteenth day of December last it was ordered, " Tliat Joseph Dwight Esq"" with such as should be appointed " by the honom-able House should be a Committee for the " Services above mentioned, And being sent down to the House of Representatives it was read & Concurred with, and Coll Bradford & Capt. Livermore were joined with tlie said Joseph Dwight Esq"" in the Committee. Whicli last mentioned Petition was preferred, and the proceedings of t!ie said General Court were had thereon during the Time your Memorialists said petition w^as under the Consideration of the abovementioned Committee of this Honourable Board, and were as your Memorialist humbly conceives, the Gr)unawork of all those proceedings on the part of the Massachusets Bay Colony, whereby your Memorialist hath, since the said William Bulls petition was preferred, been frequently disturbed and interrupted, in his possession of a great part of the Lands in the said Mannor.