Petition addressed "to His Excellency Francis Bernard, esq., Captain General and Commander-in-Chief ..., the Honourable his Majesty's Council and House of Representatives in General Court assembled" May 26, 1762, in regard to a division of the Town of Rutland, [1762].
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