Massachusetts spy and Worcester advertiser. [volume] ([Worcester, Mass.]) 1823-1825, 1825-03-09

claim, demand, or challenge, whatsoever, not
withstanding.
NATHANIEL PAINE and Seal,
JOSEPH jerks and Seal,
NATH'L: BLAC KGROVE and Seal,
RANDALL HOLDEN and Seal,
SAMUEL THAXTER and Seal,
SAMUEL WILKINSON and Seal,
THOMAS JEFFERY and Seal"
Having fixed upon the "station, or COM
mencement 10. begin the line," and having
determined it should run in such direction
" so as it may, at Connecticut river, be two
miles and an half to the southwark of due
west lime, the Commissioners aforesaid appoint
ed Subcommittee to run the line, and erect
lasting monuments to perpetuate the same
This Subcommittee, in dircharge oftheir du-
ty, made the following report, viz.
"ProDince Of Massachusetts Bag.
"The Committee appointed by two orders
of this Court, as entered June 18th, aud Nov.
%, 17H, to run the divisional line on Rhode
Island, report as follows, viz.
"Ne, the subscribers, being Committee
appointed and Empowered by the Government
of the Province of the Massachusetts Bay, and
the Colony of Rhode-Island and Providence
Plantation, for settling the east and west line
between the Governments, by virtue of
the agreement Of the major part Of the said
Committee, at their meeting at Rehobolh on
the god of October last, past, at which time
the said line was fully settled and agreed, and
by them directed to be by US run, having met
at the stake Of Nathaniel Woodward and Sol
ONION Saffery, on Wrentham Plain, the 18th
day of May, A. d. 1919, in the morning, and
corrected the course of said agreed line, and
founG it to he, by the compass, by which we
run west two degrees and twenty-tour minutes
south, according to the variation Of nine de-
grees from the magnet, we proceeded to run
said line towards Patucket river and proved
our course by measuring from the former lines
run on either hand with Rhode-lsland and
Connecticut, we erected heap Of stones on
the asst bank OF Patucket river, being very
high on that side from the water, and marked
pine at about fifteen perch distant from the
bank, eastward, on the north of the land,
called Balcomb's land, and from thence cross
ing the river, continued our course west as
aforesaid through the country, marking divers
trees, and making many monuments of stone
in said line, by which it may be easily found
hereafter, we carried it by estimation two
miles west OF Alum pond, where we erected
a large heap OF stones, east of small river
called Fiye-mile river.
Dated at said river, the 18th day of May,
1919.
SAMUEL THAXTER,l For
JOHN CHANDLER, & Massachusetts,.
SAMUEL WILKINSON, For
JONATHAN MUMFORD, Rhode-Island.' y
h, presence Of
JOHN ARNOLD,
JAMES WARREN,
RANFIELD CAPRoN.
elm Council read and accented.
In the House Of Representatives, read and
concurred.
Consented to, SAMUEL SHUTE,
June 5, l719."
This was also ratified and confirmed by the
Government of Rhode-Isand.
In 1880, Rhode-Island claimed part Of
Massachusetts On the east in 1740, the King
of Great Britain appointed Commissioners to
hear the parties and decide the controversy
By their decision Massachusetts lost the most
valuable part of the County of Bristol, cut of
from the shores of Narragansett Bay. Although
this decision was unexpected by both parties
yet Massachusetts acquiesced IN it, rather
than to have disputes of this nature continual
ly disturbing the peace and harmony of the
two States.
As this was question OF Jurisdiction dis
cussed before and determined by tribunal o
The highest authority, and as nothing was sac
| in relation to the line now under consideration
| it is to be fairly inferred that this line wa,
considered by both parties as having been set
tied by Commissioners in 1919, beyond the
possibility of ever being again disturbed.
The Committee therefore recommend the
adoption of the following resol utions.
NATHANIEL P. DENNY, Chairman.