. 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. ker to Joseph Green datedOctober 24th, 1744. Mr. Green retained his interest in this grantuntil his death, which took place some time between 1764 and widow, Anna Green, as executrix of his will, by deed dated Janu-ary 30tli, 1769, conveyed to George Green of Boston, the interestwhich her husband had in the Green & Walker grant at the time ofhis death, for the price of
. 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. ker to Joseph Green datedOctober 24th, 1744. Mr. Green retained his interest in this grantuntil his death, which took place some time between 1764 and widow, Anna Green, as executrix of his will, by deed dated Janu-ary 30tli, 1769, conveyed to George Green of Boston, the interestwhich her husband had in the Green & Walker grant at the time ofhis death, for the price of 400 pounds. In 1764 a partition of this grant was made by Oliver Partridge,Elijah Williams, and Moses Graves, commissioners appointed for thatpurpose by court, who made and returned a report December 18th,1764, and with it a plan upon which is the following minute: Aplan of 2,000 acres of land lying in Murrayfield laid out to Green, Isaac Walker, By field Lyde, and John Green, surveyedJune, 1739, and surveyed and marked anew October, 1764, by ElishaHubbard, surveyor/ greens deed to kietland. George Green sold 163f acres of his part to John Kirtland of Mur-rayfield by deed dated July 4th, Will I ami Grant. A HISTORY OF MURRAYFIELD. 17 WILLIAMS GRAXT. The Williams grant contained 700 acres of land, and was grantedby the General Court of the Province to the heirs of the Rev. JohnWilliams, formerly of Deerfield, whose name is familiar to all whohave read of the Indian wars in Xew England. The grant was madein answer to the petition of the Eev. Stephen Williams of Spring-field, June 1st, 1737; it Avas laid ont October 6th, 1737. The recordof the General Court shows the following: On petition of the Rev. Mr. Stephen Wilhams of Springfield, in the Houseof Representative?, June 1st, 1737, read & in answer to the petition, ordered,that the petitioner have l^ave to survey & lay out by a surveyor & chainmanon oath 700 acres of unappropriated lands of the province, in
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