98 FACTS RELATING TO GROTON, MASSACHUSETTS, 



he prays that a due allowance may be made him for his services 

 and losses aforesd and he as in duty bound shall ever pray &c 



Asa Lawrence 

 Groton 28th January 1779 



A Grant of ;^ioo to Asa Lawrence for Losses sustained at 

 Bunker Hill May 4 — 1 780 — N° 7 1 



The State ot M Bay to Asa Lawrence D' for Loss at Bunker Hill 



17th June 1775 



To I Gun cSr Bayonet 38 



To I Coat 4°/ Blanket 3°/ 3 10 



Knapsack & Tumline 12/ 12 



7 10 



State of ) 



Masstts Bay J Middlesex ss Feby ist 1779 then the sd Asa 

 Lawrence appeared and made oath to the Truth of the above 

 account before me Ja Sullivan Just Peace 



Asa Lawrence Petition 



Mar. 23. 1780 Coll Gerrish Capt Newton Capt Bonney 

 Massachusetts Archives, CLXXXIV. 388. 



THE TEA TAX. 



The following " Proceedings " are taken from " The Boston 

 Evening-Post," January 3, 1774. It will be noticed that the 

 meeting was held on the day of the Boston Tea- Party. 



Proceedi7igs of the Town of Groton. 



AT a Meeting of the Freeholders and other Inhabitants of the 

 Town of Groton, assembled at the Public Meeting-House in 

 said Town, on Thursday Dec. i6th, 1773. 



To Consider what is proper for this Town to do relative to the 

 large quantities of TEA, belonging to the Hon. East-India Com- 

 pany, arrived and expected to arrive in this Province, subject to an 

 American Duty. 



Chose JAMES PRESCOTT, Esq; Moderator. 



