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" To Major Oliver Hooker, Ensign Wheelock, and Lieutenant Edward Morris, parish assessors : Your petitioners pray that said parish may be called together as soon as convenient, to see if they will petition the next General Court to be set off as a town ; also, to choose a committee in aid of the same; signed as follows: Samuel Newall, Oliver Plimpton, Ger- shom Plimpton, Daniel Briggs, George Sumner, Lemuel Clark, John Mckinstry, Calvin Clemence, William Morris, Morris Marcy, and Moses Wheelock."
The assessors called a parish meeting, November 25, fol- lowing, when Oliver Plimpton presided. A vote was then taken in favor of a town. This meeting was then adjourned to the first Tuesday of January, 1812 ; at which time Gershom Plimpton presided, when it was voted to refer the further consideration of procuring an act for a town to the next parish meeting, and that the committee now raised for aiding the proposed object shall draft a petition and use their endeavors to circulate the same, and get all the signatures they can in favor of the object before the next meeting. This committee was as follows: Joshua Harding, Luther Ammi- down, and Reuben Harrington.
At the annual parish meeting, held March 31, 1812, Gershom Plimpton, Esq., was chosen moderator. After the transaction of the regular business affairs of the parish, it was voted to add three to the committee, on being set off as a town, and have the petition copied anew and the plan improved, in order to be sent to the General Court. Chose for the addition to said committee, Oliver Hooker, George Sumner, and Asa Walker.
Then voted to adjourn the meeting to the third Tuesday in May next, at two o'clock, P. M.
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SOUTHBRIDGE.
PARISH MEETING, MAY 19, 1812.
At this meeting, Gershom Plimpton, Esq., was chosen agent for the parish, to present to the next General Court the petition of the inhabitants, and to have the old plan of said parish (for being set off as a town), furnishing him with a copy of the votes of the parish relating to the same, certified to by the parish assessors, and attested by the clerk.
Voted : "That the name for the town be left blank in the petition for the same."
The acts of this agent do not appear upon the parish records.
The parish committees chosen at the two former meetings, held on November 25, 1811, and March 31, 1812, had engaged Major Samuel Freeman to prepare a plan of the territory, embraced in the lines as surveyed by Caleb Ammidown, Esq., in 1796, and presented the same for the consideration of the parish meeting, held on May 17, 1813.
Major Freeman made the following remarks written upon his plan :
" The outside lines, as also the lines between the towns, on this deline- ation, were laid down from minutes taken from the late Caleb Ammi- down, Esq. The river and principal roads were protracted from minutes taken by me.
(Signed) " SAMUEL FREEMAN. " STURBRIDGE, May 12, 1812."
At the meeting held as last above named, James Wolcott, Jr., was chosen as the agent of the parish, to attend the Gen- eral Court at its next session, to obtain a grant for a town ; and Oliver Plimpton, Esq., and Major Oliver Hooker were chosen as an advisory and consulting committee, to aid said agent in the object contemplated ; and it was ordered further, that the old petition be revised for the purposes aforesaid.
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This movement proving unsuccessful, a parish meeting was held, January 11, 1814, in pursuance of the object for obtain- ing an act for a town, at which time the meeting was organized by the choice of Oliver Mason, Jr., as moderator.
It was now decided to postpone the choice of an agent to attend the General Court, to choose a committee of five to draft a new petition, and to obtain as many signatures to the same as possible, before the 26tl instant, to which time this meeting was adjourned. Chose for said committee : Oliver Hooker, George Sumner, Oliver Mason, Junior, Calvin Am- midown, and Reuben Harrington.
" ADJOURNED PARISH MEETING, January 25, 1814.
" It was voted that Gershom Plimpton, Esquire, be the agent to pre- sent the petition to the next session of the General Court, and that he be furnished with the plan, and be authorized to transact any business necessary to carry into effect the prayer of said petition.
" ANNUAL PARISH MEETING, March 29, 1814.
" Oliver Plimpton was now chosen the agent for the parish to attend the next session of the court, and directed to use his endeavors to obtain an order of notice, and the appointment of a viewing committee.
" PARISH MEETING, May 17, 1814.
Voted : "That the expenses of a court's committee be paid by the peti- tioners, according to their estates. The following were chosen a com- mittee to wait on the viewing committee of the court, and to pay their expenses : John Ammidown, Calvin Ammidown, Jason Morse, Gershom Plimpton, and Fordyce Foster.
" Then it was voted, that Calvin Ammidown be joined with Oliver Plimpton, as an assistant agent of the parish ; also, chose the following committee, to obtain a more correct survey of the parish : Oliver Mason, Junior, Abel Mason, Junior, Jacob Edwards, Otis Ammidown, and George Sumner.
" Then voted, the following committee of seven, to draft a new peti- tion, and obtain signatures to the same: Oliver Hooker, Ralph Harding, Daniel Morse, Junior, Calvin Ammidown, William Blood, Joseph Vin- ton, Junior, and John Ammidown."
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COPY OF PETITION.
" To the Honorable the Senate and the House of Representatives of the Common- wealth of' Massachusetts in General Court assembled :
" The petition of the undersigned inhabitants of the Parish set off from the towns of Sturbridge, Charlton, and Dudley, in the county of Worcester,
"MOST RESPECTFULLY SHOWETH :
" That whereas the act incorporating a number of the inhabitants of said towns into a parish, passed, February 28, 1801, by reason of the death and removal of many of the original proprietors, proves very ineffectual towards transacting business necessary to support society ; and whereas none but corporators are under the regulations of said act, and as many others have moved within the limits of said parish, whose local situation is such, that an act of incorporation would be much for their accommodation ; therefore, your petitioners earnestly pray that your honorable body would pass an act to incorporate them with their estates into a town by the name of , agreeable to a plan herewith annexed, and your petitioners, as in duty bound, will ever pray.
"Abel Mason, Isaac Oaks,
Oliver Hooker,
Asa Walker, John Plimpton, Jr.,
Jacob Edwards,
Ephraim Martin,
Jacob Oaks,
Abel Mason, Jr.,
Ephraim Martin, Jr., John Webster,
Ephraim Wheelock,
Ralph Wheelock,
Edward Morris, Jr.,
John Plimpton,
Caleb Young,
Chester Hooker,
William Blood,
Simeon Mason,
Moses Fiske,
Asa Mixter,
Henry Hooker,
Ezra Perry,
Samuel Ellis,
Charles Dugar,
John Wight,
Lemuel Hooker,
Edward Morris,
Erastus Bowles,
Jeremiah Shumway,
Comfort Searle,
Jesse Fuller,
Dexter Clark,
Oliver Plimpton,
Oliver Mason,
Nathaniel Searle,
John McKinstry,
Reuben Harrington,
William Mckinstry,
Morris Marcy,
Isaac Clark,
Lyman Morris,
Joshua Farnum,
Perez B. Wolcott.
Asahiel Prouty,
William Sumner,
Daniel Baylis,
William Gould,
Benjamin F. Shumway, James Wolcott, Jr., John Marsh,
Joseph Stedman,
Oliver Mason, Jr.,
Samuel Newell,
Daniel S. Clark,
Fletcher Foster,
Duty Marsh,
Nathan Brown,
Daniel Morse,
Denison Wheelock,
Jonathan Clemence, L
Larkin Ammidown, Lewis Ammidown, John Ammidown, Luther Ammidown, Calvin Ammidown, Caleb Ammidown, Otis Ammidown, Joseph Marcy,
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Cyrus Ammidown, Mnason Morse, Alpha Morse,
Gershom Plimpton, Jason Morse,
William Stephens,
Peter Dugar,
Ralph Harding,
Stephen Tourtelot,
William Morris, Joshua Harding,
George Sumner,
Charles Brown,
Fordyce Foster,
Samuel Brown,
Moses Morris, Alfred Morris, Rufus Brown,
Duty Marsh, Jr., Asa Morse,
Elisha Morris,
Jonathan Green,
Perley Marsh,
Aaron Clemence,
Willard Bicknal,
Nathan Streeter,
Noah Blackmore,
Jonathan Tiffany,
Silas Ellis,
Joseph Clark,
Enoch Lewis,
Elias Foster,
John Newell,
Samuel Paul,
Smith Foster,
Ichabod Robbins,
Joseph Durfee,
Alphens Foster,
Eleazer Wheelock,
Benjamin Marey,
Hinsdale Foster,
Luther Wheelock,
Walter Hooker,
Enoch Bacon,
Davis Wheelock,
Elijah Marcy,
William Haskell,
Moses Wheelock,
Simon Plimpton,
Freeman Pratt,
Willard Morse,
Thomas Sawyer,
Richard Arnold,
Benjamin Walker,
Corbin Lyon,
Chester Pratt,
Nathan Abbot,
Salem Edmonds,
David Atherton, Abijah Oaks,
Salem Marsh,
Smith Ellis,
David Curtis,
Daniel Morse, Jr.,
Comfort Freeman,
Chester Stone,
Samuel Fiske,
James Young,
Zelotes Bowers,
Elisha Pratt,
Thomas Cheney,
Jephthah Clark,
Abisha Sabin,
Daniel Alliard,
John Martin,
Barzilla Baylies,
Leonard Cheney,
Charles West,
Martin Spencer,
Joseph Vinton, Jr.,
William Smith, Jr.,
John Heath,
Samuel Rider,
Charles Cheney,
Oliver Mason,
Rufus Putney,
David Putney,
David Smith,
Eleazer Putney,
Daniel Sabin,
Jolın Marsh, Jr.,
Moses Putney,
Joseph Arnold,
Hiram Cheney,
Joel Cheney,
Jacob Warren,
Charles Brown, Jr.,
Jacob Endicot,
Ruggles Morse,
Lyman Vinton,
Samuel Fiske, 2d,
Edmond Sabin,
Edward Baylies."
Lemuel Clark,
William West,
Thomas Young,
Moses Mason,
Nathan B. Clark,
The agents of the parish presented this petition to the General Court at the June session, 1814, when the following action was had on the same :
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SOUTHBRIDGE.
"In the House of Representatives, June 8, 1814, read and referred to the committee on towns.
" Sent up for concurrence.
"TIMOTHY BIGELOW, " Speaker.
" In Senate, June 8, 1814, read and concurred.
" JOIIN PHILLIPS, " President."
The order of notice having been given to adjoining towns by Major Oliver Hooker, deputy-sheriff, the court sent out Silas Holman, Jonas Sibley, and Abner Brown, to view the territory and report.
REPORT.
The following report was made by the foregoing committee: " COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS.
" We, the undersigned, named in the order of court, after having given seasonable notice, satisfactory to all parties and corporations interested in the subject-matter of the petition of Abel Mason and others, of the time and place appointed for the committee for the purpose of attend- ing to the business of the appointment, met the parties at the house of Morris Marey, in Sturbridge, on Monday, the 14th day of November, 1814; and, after viewing the premises to the satisfaction of the parties and committee, and fully hearing the parties, and carefully considering the subject, the committee ask leave to report the following as their opinion, to wit: That the prayer of the petitioners be so far granted that the inhabitants, with their estates included within the lines represented by the plan annexed, be incorporated into a town, with a provision in the act of incorporation, giving liberty to those inhabitants residing in the part proposed to be taken from the town of Charlton, of making their own election, whether during their time they shall continue to re- side in that part of said proposed new town, together with their estates, which they now possess, so long as they shall hold and possess the same, shall remain and belong to the said town of Charlton or to the new town, by certifying the same to the town clerk of said Charlton in writing, within one year from the passing of the aet for incorporating the new town.
(Signed ) "SILAS HOLMAN, " JONAS SIBLEY, "ABNER BROWN,
Court's Committee."
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SOUTHBRIDGE.
A meeting of the parish was called to hear this report, when considerable discussion arose in relation to its merits ; and by taking a vote to ascertain the views of the meeting. upon accepting or rejecting the terms of the same, there was found an almost unanimous vote against it.
" PARISH MEETING, December 6, 1814.
"Jason Morse was now chosen an assistant to attend the General Court, with Oliver Plimpton, Esq., and Major Calvin Ammidown.
" The following committee was raised, to draft an act of incorporation for the proposed town : Joshua Harding, Gershom Plimpton, and Fordyce Foster.
"Also a committee of five was chosen to select a name for the new town. to wit : Abel Mason, Joshua Harding, Gershom Plimpton. Fordyce Foster, and Jacob Edwards.
"This committee reported two names-Southbridge and Quinebaug. The name of " Southbridge" was adopted by the meeting, and then ad- journed to January 3, 1815.
" PARISH MEETING, January 3, 1815.
" Met according to adjournment ; voted to accept the report of the com- mittee chosen at the last May meeting, and the survey they presented of the parish, and to pay its expense.
"A committee of three was appointed to meet a committee from Dudley, to run the line between that town and the proposed new town. to wit: Major Calvin Ammidown, Captain Otis Ammidown, and Lieu- tenant Jason Morse.
" It was now voted to reconsider the vote naming the proposed town Southbridge, and to give it the name of " Vienna."
.. The following were appointed a committee to invite the remonstrants against the new town, who reside within the proposed limits, to with- draw their objections : Luther Ammidown. Esq., Major Calvin Ammi- down, and Captain Jolin Endicott. This meeting was then adjourned to 20th instant.
"ADJOURNED MEETING, January 20, 1815.
" Chose for clerk James Wolcott, Junior. It was now voted to recon- sider the vote calling the name of the town Vienna, and to substitute therefor Southbridge.
" Then it was voted that in case it should be found there was any other town in the State by the name of Southbridge, then the name of Newbury or Newbern be its substitute.
" This meeting was now dissolved."
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SOUTHBRIDGE.
"PARISH MEETING, March 28, 1815.
" A committee was appointed to survey the parish agreeable to direc- tion of the court, and to employ such surveyor as they thought fit, to wit : Oliver Mason, Junior, Abel Mason, Junior, Jacob Edwards, Otis Ammidown, and George Sumner.
" At this meeting three agents were appointed to attend the General Court, to manage the business for obtaining a town grant, to wit: Major Calvin Ammidown, Frederick W. Bottom, and James Wolcott, Junior."
These agents obtained from the General Court an order, appointing, on the 13th of June, a new viewing committee, to examine the territory on the 4th of October, ensuing, to wit: Dr. Ezra Starkweather, Daniel Kingsbury, Esq., and Noah Webster.
" PARISH MEETING, August 19, 1815.
"At this meeting the parish agents, Calvin Ammidown, F. W. Bot- tom, and James Wolcott, Junior, were appointed a committee to wait on the viewing committee on the 4th of October next. This meeting was then dissolved.
" Attest :
"LUTHER AMMIDOWN, JUNIOR, " Clerk."
The viewing committee having attended to the duties as- signed them by the court, made the following report :
" REPORT.
" To the Honorable Senate and House of Representatives of the Common- wealth of Massachusetts in General Court assembled :
" Agreeable to an order of the honorable Legislature of the common- wealth aforesaid, dated 'June 13, 1815,' the committee thereon appointed to consider the petition of Abel Mason and others, praying that the parish which was set off from the towns of Sturbridge, Dudley, and Charlton, on the 28th day of February, 1801, may be incorporated into a town; and also the report of a viewing committee thereon, and other documents accompanying the same, with instructions to view the afore- said towns, and parish ; having duly notified all persons concerned, they accordingly met the parties at the dwelling-house of Phineas Bemis, in Dudley, on the 4th day of October current.
" The committee proceeded to view the aforesaid towns of Dudley, Sturbridge, and Charlton, and the parish aforesaid, as far as they were
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requested, and to their own satisfaction; and after having carefully examined the subject in all its parts, and heard the petitioners, and others interested, and maturely considered the same in all its relations and connections, so far as they have been able to comprehend them, they are unanimously of the opinion that under all the circumstances of the case, the incorporation of those of the said parish, and all others within the limits described in the survey and plan, which is hereto annexed, would greatly conduce to the peace, happiness, and prosperity of all concerned.
" The committee therefore report that, in their opinion, the prayer of the petitioners ought to be so far granted, as that those of the petition- ers and other inhabitants residing within the limits and boundaries described in the aforesaid plan annexed, with their families and estates, should be incorporated into a town, by such name as the Legislature may deem proper, with all the powers, privileges, and immunities usually enjoyed by similar corporations within this Commonwealth.
" All of which is respectfully submitted by
" EZRA STARKWEATHER, " NOAH WEBSTER, Committee.
" DANIEL KINGSBURY,
" STURBRIDGE, October 10, 1815."
" PARISII MEETING, October 25, 1815.
"At this meeting, Calvin Ammidown was appointed to go and see Dr. Starkweather and Noah Webster, a part of the viewing committee, and present them a plan showing the lines the parish is willing to accept for the town, and see if they think it reasonable; and if he, the agent. deems it best, he is authorized to request said viewing committee to come and review the lines.
" A committee was chosen at this meeting to resurvey the parish ac- cording to the limits the parish is willing to accept for the town, and send a plan of the same by their agent, to the court's committee, to ascertain if they think it reasonable. This committee was: Calvin Ammidown, Jason Morse. Freeman Pratt, and Oliver Mason, Junior.
" The foregoing committee, chosen to resurvey the limits of the pro- posed town, were authorized to select their surveyor and chainmen, and have them sworn.
" Voted to dissolve this meeting.
" Attest :
"LUTHER AMMIDOWN, JUNIOR, " Clerk."
" PARISH MEETING. December 26, 1815.
" At this meeting, chose for moderator, Luther Ammidown, Esq. It was then voted to choose a committee of nine, to give our agents in- structions such as they think proper, before attending the General
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Court. Chose for this committee, Joshua Harding, Oliver Hooker, Luther Ammidown. Jason Morse. Abel Mason, Freeman Pratt, Gershom Plimpton. Oliver Mason, Junior, and Samuel Newell.
" It was now voted that but two of the three agents heretofore chosen to attend the General Court shall go, and they to agree which two shall attend.
" This meeting was then dissolved.
"Attest :
"LUTHER AMMIDOWN, JUNIOR, " Clerk."
"PARISH MEETING, January 30, 1816.
"Chose for moderator, Luther Ammidown. Esq .: then voted to adjourn the meeting, to 9 o'clock A. M., to-morrow."
" ADJOURNED PARISH MEETING, January 31, 1816.
Voted. : "To accept the territory, given to us by the last court's com- mittee for a town by the name of . Southbridge.'
"It was then voted that Otis Ammidown should not pay any tax for five years on his real estate in the town of Southbridge, unless sooner annexed to said town ; and that the petitioners who joined in aid of the act of incorporation for Southbridge, and were not included, that when they shall petition to be annexed to the said town, the expense shall be paid by the same.
" Also, it was voted that James Wolcott, Junior, be the agent of the town to attend the General Court, to superintend the business for carry- ing the act of incorporation of the town into effect, which our agents left with General Holman.
" Voted to dissolve this meeting.
" Attest : "LUTHER AMMIDOWN, JUNIOR, " Clerk." " PARISH MEETING, April 24, 1816.
" Chose for moderator, Captain Gershom Plimpton.
" It was then voted that the clerk of the parish receive all the books and papers concerning the parish proprietors, and that the clerk trans- fer and record the doings of the former pew-holders, in a book belong- ing to said proprietors.
" It was then voted to choose a committee of ways and meuns concern- ing the meeting-house, to consist of four, as follows, to wit: Calvin Ammidown, Jason Morse, Gershom Plimpton, and Joshua Vinton."
The object of this committee of ways and means was, no doubt. to dispose of the meeting-house ; as there had been a desire of the Congregationalists to either buy the interests of the other religious denominations, who were then proprietors
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in said house, or to sell their own interest ; and it appears there had been an offer by the Congregationalists to either buy or to sell, at fifteen hundred dollars, and it is probable that this committee arranged this mode of closing the joint interest by which the house was then held, as the other denominations did buy the interest of the Congregationalists at the price here stated. This transaction does not appear upon the parish records, but it is well known that such were the faets.
This was the last meeting held by the parish that appears upon its records.
As has been stated in the foregoing, there were several different surveys made during the progress of the effort for obtaining the grant for the town. Upon the last survey, made by Major Samuel Freeman, he inserts the following remarks :
" N. B .- On all former plans of this territory drawn by me, that part of Charlton formerly set off to Sturbridge has been included in the measure of Charlton, agreeable to the original plan by Caleb Ammidown, Esq., made in 1796; on all plans of this date, it is included with Stur- bridge ; and drawn 160 rods to an inch. Dated at Sturbridge, November, 1813."
The part set off from Charlton to Sturbridge, here referred to by Major Freeman, was set off, June 27, 1792, before there was a movement for the poll parish. It included all that part of Charlton that lay south of the main street, now in South- bridge village, on the road leading to Dudley, to wit : Begin- ning at a point on the line between Sturbridge and Charlton at about where the Columbian building in Southbridge village nowstands, corner of Elm street, and thence running southerly on said line to the great monument, or Dudley north-west corner, as the line and corner were then located ; thence easterly along the line between Dudley and Charlton, nutil it reached said Dudley road ; this three-cornered or triangular piece was set off to Sturbridge, as before stated, in 1792, on
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the petition of Colonel Thomas Cheney, Widow Seabury, and Benjamin Freeman.
The following is the oath administered to the surveyor and chainmen who surveyed the lines for the town of Southbridge; performed at several different times by the authority of the committees of the parish, to wit :
"'COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS, WORCESTER, SS. : "MAY 19, 1815.
"Then personally appeared Samuel Freeman, surveyor; and Oliver Mason, Junior, Abel Mason, Junior, Jacob Edwards, Otis Ammidown, and George Sumner, the chainmen; and made oath, that in taking an actual survey of the parish called Honest Town, set off from the towns of Dudley, Sturbridge, and Charlton, by an Act of this Commonwealth, passed, February 28, 1801, that they would faithfully and impartially, according to their best skill and judgment, make a true survey of the territory, proposed by the petitioners to be incorporated into a separate town, according to their petition, and a former survey, exhibited to the committee of the General Court at a former session, and agreeable to an order of the General Court, passed, February 2, 1815.
" Before me, " FREDERICK W. BOTTOM, " Justice of the Peuce.
" EXPLANATIONS ON THE LAST PLAN.
"Original lines of parish by Caleb Ammidown, marked thus,
" Lines reported by the court's committee, marked thus, - 0000000000000000
" Lines drawn by the petitioners, marked thus, - -
"Lines where the petitioners and committee agree, -0-0-0-0-
" STATEMENT.
" The whole number of aeres, by plan of Caleb Ammidown, Esq., within the outside lines are, - 15.0444
Taken from Sturbridge. 8,262}
Charlton, - 4,3673
Dudley, 2,414 15,044}
" The lines by the committee include,
From Sturbridge,
7,9403
Charlton, -
3,080₺
" Dudley, - 1,381 ₺ 12,4021
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" The petitioners' lines include,
From Sturbridge, 8,169} 66 Charlton, - 3,235} .. Dudley, - 2,074} 13,479
" The reports of the court committees, maps, petition, and estimates, are taken from documents in the files of the department of state at Boston."
This town, when incorporated, included 12,402} acres, but was enlarged by an addition taken from Dudley of about 1,000 acres, making a total of 13,500 aeres.
CHAPTER III.
AN ACT
TO INCORPORATE THE TOWN OF SOUTHBRIDGE.
SECTION 1. Be it enucted by the Senute and House of Representatives in General Court assembled, and by the authority of the same. That all the parts of the towns of Sturbridge, Charlton, and Dudley, as contained and described within the following boundaries, be, and the same are hereby established as a separate town, by the name of Southbridge, viz. : Beginning at the south-east corner, being a heap of stones on Connecti- cut line ; thence running north, 9 degrees west, eighty-nine rods (89), to the great monument, so-called ; thence, continuing the same course, four hundred and twenty rods (420), to a white-oak tree, marked, at the north- east corner of Sturbridge, projecting into Dudley ; thence north, 17 de- grees east, five hundred and twenty rods (520), to a stake and stones on the east line of Luther Ammidown's farm; thence north, 31} degrees east, one hundred and two rods (102), to a black-oak tree, marked ; thence north, 5} degrees east, eighteen and one-half rods (18}), to said Ammidown's north-east corner; thence west, 11 degrees south, fifty-one rods (51), to Eliakim Chamberlain's land, the south-west corner ; thence north, 1 degree west, one hundred and three rods (103), to a north- west corner of said Chamberlain's land ; thence east, 93 degrees north, forty rods (40) ; thence east, 18 degrees north, twenty-seven and one- half rods (273), to a south-east corner of said Ammidown's land ; thence north, 2} degrees east, fifty-eight rods (38), to another north-east corner of Luther Ammidown's land ; thence west. 11 degrees south, thirty-two and one-half rods (32}), to another south-west corner of said Chamber- lain's land ; thence north, 233 degrees cast, thirty-four and one-half rods (34}), to a stake and stones; thence north, 30 degrees cast, fifteen rods (15), to a stake and stones: thence west, 12 degrees north, thirty rods (30), to a poplar-staddle on Calvin Ammidown's east line : thence north, 1} degrees west, on said Calvin Ammidown's cast line, and crossing a small pond, two hundred and twenty-seven rods (297), to a stake on his north line, in a cedar swamp; thence west, 143 degrees south, forty-five and one-half rods (453), to Royal Ellis' south-east corner; thence west, 113 degrees south, forty-one rods (41), to said Ellis' south-west corner; thence west, 313 degrees north, five hundred and eighty-eight rods
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