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York County Proprietor's Record Book of Colonel Josiah Waters

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�laid out near the middle thereof, leaving
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suitable + convenient Roads to be four Rods
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wide; and that a plan thereof be returned
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to the Proprietors
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  Voted that the Hon Nath Sparhawk and
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David Sewal Esq be empowered to settle the Lines
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with the propritors under Mohegins Deed and
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with the proprietors of Box Hall
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  Voted that this meeting be further adjourned
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till the 2 Monday in August next
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The following is a letter from a number of the Proprietors
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to the Clerk requesting him to call a meeting
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                                                  Boston December 7 1770
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Sir
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    We the subscribers Proprietors of a Tract of Land
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Lying in the Province of Maine, holding under the
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Will of Bridget Phillips late of Boston deceased, desire
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you would advertize a meeting of the Proprietors of
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said Land assoon as may be for the following Purpose
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    To raise money to defray such charges as said Proprietors
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have been and may be at; and to chuse officers for
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asepting + collecting the same
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    To grant such Tract or Tracts to Settlers to those upon
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such Conditions + Limitations as shall be appointed
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    To determine upon what Encouragement the Proprietors
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will give toward the Settlement of one or more Townships
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    To appropriate any Quantity of Land within such
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Townships as are already laid out or may hereafter be
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laid out, for particular purposes.
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    To authorize some person or persons to settle the Bounda-
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-ries with such person or proprietors as own Land con-
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-tiguous to any part of said Propriety
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    To appoint one or more persons to admit Settlers as
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shall from time to time be though necessary in the Name
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and Behalf of said Proprietors
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    To appoint an Agent or Agents to prosecute Trespassers
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and do such other matters as shall be thought to be advan
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-tageous  We are sir your humble Servants
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Mr Saml Adams                    Wm Phillips Advisory[?]
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Clerk to the Proprietors                Abigail Bromfield
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above named                          SN Brown
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                                                Dan Marsh
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                                                  Lyers to Bev Thos Sheppard
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                                              Joseph Warren a doctor to the
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                                                    Chale[?] of Hash[?] Wheelwright
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                                              Edward Lad Landry
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                                              Thomas Cushing

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�laid out near the middle thereof, leaving suitable + convenient Roads to be four Rods wide; and that a plan thereof be returned to the Proprietors 

 Voted that the Hon Nath Sparhawk and

David Sewal Esq be empowered to settle the Lines with the propritors under Mohegins Deed and with the proprietors of Box Hall 

 Voted that this meeting be further adjourned

till the 2 Monday in August next

The following is a letter from a number of the Proprietors to the Clerk requesting him to call a meeting 

                                                 Boston December 7 1770

Sir 

    We the subscribers Proprietors of a Tract of Land

Lying in the Province of Maine, holding under the Will of Bridget Phillips late of Boston deceased, desire you would advertize a meeting of the Proprietors of said Land assoon as may be for the following Purpose 

    To raise money to defray such charges as said Proprietors

have been and may be at; and to chuse officers for asepting + collecting the same 

    To grant such Tract or Tracts to Settlers to those upon

such Conditions + Limitations as shall be appointed 

    To determine upon what Encouragement the Proprietors

will give toward the Settlement of one or more Townships 

    To appropriate any Quantity of Land within such

Townships as are already laid out or may hereafter be laid out, for particular purposes. 

    To authorize some person or persons to settle the Bounda-

-ries with such person or proprietors as own Land con- -tiguous to any part of said Propriety 

    To appoint one or more persons to admit Settlers as

shall from time to time be though necessary in the Name and Behalf of said Proprietors 

    To appoint an Agent or Agents to prosecute Trespassers

and do such other matters as shall be thought to be advan -tageous We are sir your humble Servants Mr Saml Adams Wm Phillips Advisory[?] Clerk to the Proprietors Abigail Bromfield above named SN Brown 

                                               Dan Marsh
                                                 Lyers to Bev Thos Sheppard
                                              Joseph Warren a doctor to the
                                                   Chale[?] of Hash[?] Wheelwright
                                              Edward Lad Landry
                                              Thomas Cushing