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Documentary History of the State of New York, Vol. III

O'Callaghan, E.B., ed. The Documentary History of the State of New York, Vol. III. Albany: Weed, Parsons and Co., 1850. 251 words

the premises, and sine* the Act of the General Court of the Massachuset's Bay Colony to appoint Commissioners in Conjunction with this province, to settle the Boundaries between the two provinces, Your Memorialist received a Letter from the abovementioned Joseph Dwight Esqr dated at the abovesaid Town of Sheffield the seventh day of May instant signed by the said Joseph Dwiglit on tlie Behalf of the Committee appointed by tlie said General Court ©f the Massachusets bay Colony ujwn the Report made on the petition of the said William Bull and others, requesting your Memorialists to meet the said Committee at three o'Clock in the afternoon of the next day, whicli your Memorialist accordingly did At whicli Time the said Joseph Dwight (being Chairman of the Committee) told your Memorialist that the Government of the Massachusetts Bay had for a long Time neglected the Settlement of their West Bounds, they lying very remote from Boston, But that tliey had now appoints them as a Committee to view and value the Lands petitioned for by the said William Bull and others and lying a Taquanack, and to make their report thereon to the General Court of the Massachusets Bay Colony at tiieir next Sessions, and then shewed to your Memorialist a Copy of the Order of the said General Court, appointing the said Josepli Dwight Esq"" Coll Bradford and Capt Livermore to be a Committee for that purpose and also a Copy of the petition of the s^iid William Bull and others.