. A history of the town of Murrayfield : earlier known as Township No. 9, and comprising the present towns of Chester and Huntington, the northern part of Montgomery, and the southeast corner of Middlefield : 1760-1763. of the unappropriated lands of the province be granted tothe petitioners, and that they present a plan thereof to this courtwithin twelve months from this time for their confirmation, which isin full consideration for the complaint made in the petition. April26th, I7S4, the proprietors presented to the General Court the planof a tract of land containing 1,200 acres, located in
. A history of the town of Murrayfield : earlier known as Township No. 9, and comprising the present towns of Chester and Huntington, the northern part of Montgomery, and the southeast corner of Middlefield : 1760-1763. of the unappropriated lands of the province be granted tothe petitioners, and that they present a plan thereof to this courtwithin twelve months from this time for their confirmation, which isin full consideration for the complaint made in the petition. April26th, I7S4, the proprietors presented to the General Court the planof a tract of land containing 1,200 acres, located in Hampshire was bounded east by No. 4 of the Narragansett grants; north byHuntstown, afterwards incorporated under the name of Ashfield; andwest and south by province land. This tract of 1,200 acres is withinthe present bounds of Cummington. In the History of the Connec-ticut Valley, published in 1879, it is erroneously stated that this tractwas west of Murrayfield, township No. 4, that was afterwards incor-porated under the name of Becl<et, being mistaken for No. 4 of theNarragansett grants, which were made to the descendents of those whowere in the Narragansett fight witli the Imlian?. vJ W. 20° , SurveyedJlpril 26^ l]6U By Cha^ fiakcr °S A HISTORY OF MURRAYBIELD. 41 The original ])roprietors never built any public ways within thelimits of Murrayfield, nor any bridge over either of the three veryrapid, rocky rivers^ mentioned in their petition. Their conduct inthe matter of building roads and bridges can best be told in the lan-guage of a memorial to the General Court by the people of Murrayfieldand Norwich in January, 1779. Conduct of the Proprietors in the Matter of Bridges. After representing the absolute necessity for a bridge over EastBranch at the place where Norwich bridge was afterwards built, thememorial sets forth ? That in the year 17G4 there was granted bythe Honorable General Court of this state unto Timothy Paine, Esq.,and others,
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