present Inhabitants paying in Proportion as others shall pay for
their Allotments;. Provided the said Plantation shall be settled
with Thirty five Families & an orthodox Minister in three years
time, And that Five hundred Acres of Land be reserved and laid out
for the Benefit of any of the Descendants of the Indian Proprietors
of the said Plantation, that may be surviving; A Proportion
thereof to be for Sarah Doublet alias Sarah Indian;. The Rev. M'r.
John Leveret & Spencer Phips Esq'r. to be Trustees for the said
Indians to take Care of the said Lands for their Use. And it is
further Ordered that Cpt. Hopestill Brown, M'r. Timothy Wily & M'r.
Joseph Burnap of Reading be a Committee to lay out the said Five
hundred Acres of Land reserved for the Indians, & to run the Line
between Groton & Nashoba, at the Charge of both Parties & make
Report to this Court, And that however the Line may divide the Land
with regard to the Township, yet the Proprietors on either side may
be continued in the Possession of their Improvements, paying as
aforesaid; And that no Persons legal Right or Property in the said
Lands shall [be] hereby taken away or infringed,

Consented to J DUDLEY

The report of this committee is entered in the same volume of General
Court Records (ix, 395, 396) as the order of their appointment, though
the date as given by them does not agree with the one there mentioned.

The following Report of the Committee for Running the Line between
Groton & Nashoba Accepted by Represent'ves. Read & Concur'd; Viz.

We the Subscribers appointed a Committee by the General Court to
run the Line between Groton & Nashoba & to lay out Five hundred