THE LAT\TIENCE FARM. 65 



cate Receips therefor one of which to be lodged in the Secretary's 

 office 



Sent up for concurrence Caleb Davis Spe! 



In Senate March 3"f 1781 — 



Read & Concurred Jer : Powell — Presi!!! 

 Approv'd John Hancock 



[Indorsed] Rec'' pge 320 Resolue on the Petition of Amos Law- 

 rence empowering the Agents appointed to sell confiscated Estates 

 in the County of Middlesex to sell the Farm mentioned March 3*: 

 1781 

 Massachusetts Archives, CCXXXI. 451. 



At this time the Honorable James Prescott, of Groton, was 

 one of a Committee of three, appointed for Middlesex County, 

 to sell forfeited estates. Amos Lawrence, the petitioner, was 

 the father of Deacon Samuel Lawrence, who died on June 20, 

 1785, when his son inherited the farm. 



It may be worthy of note that Caleb Davis, the Speaker of 

 the House at this time, two years later married the widow of 

 William Bant, a wealthy resident of Groton, who came here 

 from Boston, probably on account of the political troubles 

 there at that period. The two following items have a certain 

 connection with Mr. Bant, and I print them as I find them 

 in the newspapers. Ezekiel Lewis was a trader of Groton, 

 whose shop stood on a slight elevation just north of the 

 Town House. Among my earliest recollections I remember 

 the building, but it disappeared before Dr. Amos B. Bancroft 

 built his house on the site. In my boyhood that whole 

 square between Main Street and the present railway had no 

 buildings thereon. It was then owned by Dr. Bancroft, Senior, 

 and was called the Lewis lot. 



Married — At Groton, on Wednesday the 20th ult. the Hon. Caleb 

 Davis, Esq ; to Mrs. Mary Anne Bant, Widow of the late Mr. Wm. 

 Bant, and Daughter of Ezekiel Lewis, Esq ; of this Town. 



"The Boston Gazette, and the Country Journal," September i, 1783. 



Died] — In this town, on Friday last [January 12], Mrs. Mary- 

 Ann Davis, Consort of the Hon. Caleb Davis, Esq. 

 " The Massachusetts Gazette" (Boston), January 16, 1787. 



