. The Granite monthly : a magazine of literature, history and state progress. .___—: i Co-igregat onal Church. her permanent home in transferred from countyto county, through its various vicis-situdes, she retained an amiable coun-tenance, keeping her weather eye con-stantly on Providence and willing toadd or subtract from her possessions,as best suited her near we are not surprised tolearn that in 1762, she listened to apetition from the little town of Mon-son to take it under her protectingwing. Amherst seeming to feel jeal-ous about the annexation, th
. The Granite monthly : a magazine of literature, history and state progress. .___—: i Co-igregat onal Church. her permanent home in transferred from countyto county, through its various vicis-situdes, she retained an amiable coun-tenance, keeping her weather eye con-stantly on Providence and willing toadd or subtract from her possessions,as best suited her near we are not surprised tolearn that in 1762, she listened to apetition from the little town of Mon-son to take it under her protectingwing. Amherst seeming to feel jeal-ous about the annexation, this peti-tion was dismissed; but in 1770 thegovernor settled the matter by divid-ing the loaf between the two Monson died, aged twenty-fouryears, mourned by none ; and leav-. I . .l Interior of the Congregational Churcn. : 93 MOLLIS: AN AGRICULTURAL TOWN ing as the only public record, apound, which the Undertaker Decayhas since disposed of. Then there was the border contro-versy about One Pine Hill, whichcreated discord for seventeen Pine Hill was a settlement ofvery worthy people on the easternside of West Dunstable. When thestate division line was fixed, theyfound themselves where they did notwish to be, namely, in Old friends, their church, and their cided that One Pine Hill had thebest of the argument, and an act waspassed in 1763 giving to Hollis theright to adopt this well-to-do noted pine tree that markedthe boundary of those belligerenttowns, was a tall, straight Norwaypine nearly one hundred feet inheight, standing like a solitary senti-nel on the top of a hill. For years itwas a landmark for travellers and arendezvous for scores of hunters whosenames were engraved in the bark. View looking toward the Soi. Ce
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