GROTON AS A SHIRE TOWN. 203 



Middlesex, ss ) '^~ 

 May 9, 1783 5 1 



*HE Clerk of the within mentioned Courts is 

 [ay 9, 1783 5 J. directed to pubhsh the within Advertisement 



in the papers, and to send Copies thereof to the several Parts of 

 the County. 



A Fuller, 

 Jainies Prescott, 

 Samuel Phillips Savage. 



A true Copy of the Originals filed in the Oftice of the Courts 

 abovementioned, May 9 1 783. 



Attest. THAD. MASON, Clerk 



The following Resolution was passed by the General Court, 

 on May 2, 1787, and is found in the printed volume of" Re- 

 solves" (p. 280), where the chapter is numbered XXXI. 



Resolve adjourning the Court of General Sessions of the Peace, and 

 Court of Common Pleas in the county of Middlesex^ to the fourth 

 Tuesday in May inst. May 2, 1787. 



Whereas by reason of the sitting of the Supreme Judicial Court, 

 at Concord, on the second Tuesday of May instant, the sitting of 

 the Court of General Sessions of the Peace, and Court of Common 

 Pleas, at Groton, on the Tuesday following, may be attended with 

 inconveniences. 



Resolved, That the said Court of General Sessions of the Peace, 

 and Court of Common Pleas, by law to be holden at Groton, within 

 and for the county of Middlesex, on the third Tuesday of May in- 

 stant, shall be holden at Grototi aforesaid, on the fourth Tuesday 

 of the same month, and that all writs, processes and recognizances, 

 returnable to, and all appeals made to the said Court of General 

 Sessions of the Peace, and Court of Common Pleas, appointed by 

 law to be holden at Groton; and all matters, causes and things, that 

 have day or that might have had day, been moved or done at, in, or 

 by the said Courts, at the time so appointed for holding the same, 

 shall be returnable to, and may be entered, prosecuted, had, moved 

 and done at, in, and by the said Courts, at the time herein appointed 

 for holding the same. And the Secretary is hereby directed, to pub- 

 lish this resolve, in the two next Adams and Nourse's, Halls, and 

 Charlestown papers. 



It is highly probable that Shays's Rebellion, which broke 

 out in the summer of 1786, had some connection with the 



