[Petition, 1701 February 25], to the honorable council and Representatives of His Majesty's Province of Massachusetts Bay in New England in General Court assembled.

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[Petition, 1701 February 25], to the honorable council and Representatives of His Majesty's Province of Massachusetts Bay in New England in General Court assembled.

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Handwritten copy of the petition by the Proprietors of part of the tract of land called Dracut (Samuel Sewall, Ephraim Hunt, Benjamin Walker, John Hunt and Jonathan Belcher) to establish the township of Dracut, Mass. Includes a note that the Council read, concured and consented to the petition on 26 February 1701.

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Hunt, Ephraim.

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Walker, Benjamin, 1913-....

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Dracut (Mass.). Proprietors.

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Sewall, Samuel, 1652-1730

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Samuel Sewell was born 28 March 1652 Bishop Stoke England. He arrived in Boston 1661. He was Commissioner of the Company for the Progagation of the Gospel in New England and Parts Adjacent (1699-1730), Captain of the Ancient and Honorable Artillery Co., Overseer of Harvard College, Judge of Probate for Suffolk Co. (1715-1728), and Chief Justice of the Superior Court of Judicature (1718-1728). He died 1 January 1729/30 Boston MA. From the description of [Account book of Samuel Sewall,...

Hunt, John, 1964-....

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John Hunt, playwright, with the collaboration of Martin Kaplan. From the description of Knights errant: typescript, 1982. (New York Public Library). WorldCat record id: 122531757 John Hunt was a missionary in Fiji, who took part in translating the Bible into Fijian and wrote several religious works. He was buried at Vewa. From the description of Diary [manuscript]. 1968. (Libraries Australia). WorldCat record id: 223760776 John Hunt and Martin Kaplan, pl...

Belcher, Jonathan, 1682-1757

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Jonathan Belcher was born on January 8, in 1681 or 1682, in Cambridge, Massachusetts, the son of Andrew and Sarah Belcher. In 1746, upon hearing about Governor of New Jersey Lewis Morris's poor health, Belcher actively pursued the opportunity for another royal appointment. Although the Morris Family nominated the former governor's son, Robert Hunter Morris, the alliance of Quakers in New Jersey and London cultivated by Belcher and his brother-in-law, Richard Partridge, managed to obtain the appo...