CHAP. CXXIX. Resolve in favor of Russell and Gardner. Resolved, That there be allowed and paid, out of the treasury of this Commonwealth, to Russell and Gardner, the sum of one thousand, three hundred and nine dollars and ninety two cents, for printing for Benjamin Russell, Printer for the Sate, to this day. CHAP. CXXX. Resolve relating to the Location of Lands, in Maine. The Committee of both Houses, to whom was referred the report of the Commissioners of the Land Office, have considered its details and results, and also the map accompanying their report, and submit the following facts and resolutions for consideration. Their said report states, that five millions, four hundred and sixty five thousand and seventy five acres of the public lands have been granted and sold, since the twenty ninth of June, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and eighty five, and that two hundred and fifty thousand, four hundred and twenty acres have never been located nor surveyed. It is also ascertained, that the time for locating some portions of this latter quantity has never been determined or fixed by the General Court, and that the period for locating other parts thereof has been, from time to time, extended. Your Committee believe it to be highly important to the interests of the Commonwealth, that all unlocated lands, so granted or sold, should be speedily surveyed, and their situation determined and known; and that all monies due and payable on all contracts for such lands, be as soon collected as practicable. The map accompanying the said Commissioners' report, designed especially for the use of Maine, exhibits particulars, in writing, of the various grants and locations since the year one thousand seven hundred and eighty five, June twenty ninth, and the names of such as have had grants or conveyances made to them, and forms a territorial exhibit of what the said report expresses. Both the said report and the map deserve the particular consideration of the Legislature. WM. D. WILLIAMSON, Chairman. Resolved, That the location of all grants and conveyances of lands, at any time heretofore made on the part of the Commonwealth, and not yet located, shall be determined and actually made within one year from the passing of these resolves, and not afterwards: and it shall be the duty of the Commissioners of the Land Office, forthwith to give unto all claimants of such unlocated grants or conveyances, due notice of the time limited for said locations. Resolved, That the whole of the said Commissioners' report be printed with the resolves of the General Court, passed the present session. REPORT. To the Honorable Senate and House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, in General Court assembled. The Commissioners of the Land Office, in compliance with your order of the eighteenth of January, one thousand eight hundred and twenty, report on the several items of requisition therein mentioned, the annexed schedule, and statement, and plan, which are respectfully submitted. EDWARD H. ROBBINS. JOSEPH LEE. Land Office, February 15, 1820. A Schedule of all the Lands conveyed to Colleges, Academies, Purchasers, and Settlers? Lots, from the first establishment of the Land Office Department, to this time, collected from the several volumes of records, viz : Date of the Deeds. To Whom Conveyed. Quantity of Land Where Situated. 264 46 A tract of land adjoining Livermore, now part of Fayette. March 7, 1786. Benjamin Lincoln and others. August 3, 1786. Aaron Hobart. Oct. 21, 1786. Edw'd H. Robbins and Nath'l I. Robbins. Feb. 7, 1787. Henry Rust. 6,000 ་ June 22, 1787. James Lyon. Lying in the Town of Chesterville, in the County of Kennebec. Jan. 29, 1790. Daniel Lunt. 4,880 26,440 acres. A tract of land on Penobscot River, now part of Orrington. A tract of land on Penobscot River, now part of Orrington. Being Townships Nos. 1 and 2, in the County of Washington, now the Towns of Township No. 4, in Washington County, now Robbinstown. A tract of land in Oxford County, part of Norway. A tract of land in Washington County, on Machias Bay, called Sprague's Neck. A tract of land in the County of Oxford, adjoining New Hampshire line and Lovell. Township No. 13, in Washington County, adjoining Machias. In the County of Oxford, Township No. 5, now Buckfield. In Washington County, now Jonesborough. Two tracts in Oxford County, near Saco River. Township No. 14, in Washington County, near Machias. A tract of land in Oxford County, in Township No. 1, south side Androscoggin River. Adjoining Mose- Merrill's land. Township No. 15, in Washington County, northeast of Machias. [gin River. Lying in Township No. 1, in the County of Oxford, on the south side of Androscog. A tract of land on Sandy River, called Sandy River Lower Township, in Kennebec tract of land adjoining Raymond and Sebago Pond, in the County of Cumberland. [Perry and Dennysville. Where Situated. 30,020 acres. Township No. 1, on the north side of Androscoggin River in the County of Oxford, 23,062 Township No. 5, in the County of Oxford, now Albany, 1,000,000 A Tract of land in the County of Oxford, now East Andover. [now Dixfield. STownship No. 1, 1st range, in the County of Somerset, on the east side of Kenne- Three tracts of land, in Hancock County, late belonging to Sir F. Barnard, on A tract of land in Township No. 1, 2d Range, on the east side of Kennebec River, A tract of land in Township No. 1, 2d Range, on the east side of Kennebec River, A tract of land in Kennebec County, called Wyman's Plantation, part of the North half of Township No. 1, in the 2d Range, on the east side of Kennebec SA tract of land, in Oxford County, adjoining the Town of Jay, on the southerly Township No. 12, east of and adjoining Machias. Township No. 1, 1st Range, west of Kennebec River, now Anson. Township No. 2, 1st Range, north of Plymouth Claim, now New Vineyard. Part of Township No. 4, 1st Range, north of the Waldo Patent, Township No. 3, Third Range, north of the Waldo Patent. Township No. 3, Second Range, north of the Plymouth Claim, now Harmony. Township in the County of Oxford, now Portersfieid, or Porter. A tract of land in the County of Oxford. Township No. 2, Second Range, east of Kennebec River, now Athens. Date of the Deeds. To Whom Conveyed. Quantity of Land Conveyed. 30,720 " 1,974 Feb. 2, 1792. Palmer Gardner and others. 3,880 26 Feb. 2, 1792. Thomas Spaulding and others. 6,500 Feb. 28, 1792. Jedediah Prescott and Nathaniel Whittier. Mar. 9, 1792. Thomas Stevens and others. 1793. William Bingham. 33,136 44 Date of the Deeds.! To Whom Conveyed. Quantity of Land Where Situated. Feb'ry 15, 1794. Thomas Russell, jr. 24,000 Feb'ry 16, 1794. Leonard Jarvis. 63,840 29,764 acres. Township No. 5, between Kennebec and Androscoggin Rivers. S Township No. 2, First Range, east of Kennebec River, and north of the Plymouth Three Tracts of Land, lying between Penobscot River, and Lottery Townships Township No. 13, west of Machias, in Washington County, part of Columbia. Township No. 2, Fourth Range, north of the Waldo Patent, now Corinth. A Tract of Land in the County of Cumberland, between Hebron and Otisfield. Three Tracts of Land lying in the County of Oxford, near New Hampshire Line. A Tract of Land in the County of Kennebec, east of Androscoggin River, in the [Patent. Half of Township No. 4, First Range, part of the Town of Joy, north of the Waldo Part of Township No. 4, First Range, now part of Joy, north of the Waldo Patent. Township Letter E. in the County of Oxford. Township No. 5, Ninth Range, north of the Waldo Patent. A Tract of Land, in the County of Oxford, between Bridgton and Brownfield, A Tract of Land, in the County of Oxford, between Bridgton and Brownfield. Township Letter A. No. 2, in the County of Oxford. Township Letter A. No. 3, in the County of Oxford, now Newry. |
