64 FACTS RELATING TO GROTON, MASSACHUSETTS. 



wherefore he Humbly prays your Honours to take the matter under 



Consideration and to suffer him to purchase the same 



the Consideration which he gave for the other shares was sixty 



pounds silver money for Each and he humbly hopes that your 



Honours would not demand more of him than the other proprietors 



he would further observe that the buildings are not fit to Live in 



& no part can be repaired without the whole that the Fences are 



decaying and the Land Continually growing the worse and these 



together with the Rates Constantly arising will render the Interest 



but of very Little Value in a year or two whereof he hopes for the 



Interest of the Government as well as for his own inconvenience that 



he may be allowed to purchase and he will pray &c 



February i6th 1781 Amos Lawrance 



This may Certify that the subscribers with some of the other heirs 



of Captain Samuel Tarbell Deceased sold their shares in said Tarbells 



Farm in Groton for sixty pounds a share to Captain Amos Lawrence 



February i6th 1781 



Henry Farwell 



Samuel Reed 



[Indorsed] Amos Lawrence^ Petition & Report Cap* Mitchell 

 Capt Waterman M' Lewis 



Massachusetts Archives, CCXXXI. 452. 



Commonwealth of ) In the House of Representatives 



Massachusetts — ) March 3^*1781 



On The Petition of Amos Lawrence of Groton in the County of 

 Middlesex, praying that he may be allowed to purchase Two ninth 

 parts of the Farm in the said Town of Groton which Cap' Samuel 

 Tarbell deceased died seized of, which Two ninths was Set of to his 

 son Samuel Tarbell, & has since been taken by Execution for a debt 

 due to this Government 



Resolved that the Committee who are appointed to sell Confis- 

 cated Estates in the County of Middlesex be & hereby are Author- 

 ized & impowered to sell at publick or private sale as they shall 

 think most Beneficial for this Commonwealth, the above mentioned 

 Two ninths of the Farm which the above said Cap! Samuel Tarbell 

 Deceased, died seized of, & was set of to his son Samuel Tarbell 

 t& make & Execute a good & legal deed or deeds of the same, & 

 they are hereby directed to pay the neat proceeds Arising by said 

 sale or sales into the Treasury of this Commonwealth taking dupli- 



