An Account of the Early Land-Grants of Groton, Massachusetts (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from An Account of the Early Land-Grants of Groton, Massachusetts The Colonial governments of Massachusetts and Plymouth, as well as the Provincial government of Massachusetts, granted from time to time to certain persons tracts of land suitable for townships. These persons, called proprietors, frequently had an equal number of shares, but sometimes one proprietor would have more than another, and they called their shares by such names and styles as they pleased. In Groton, these were called "acre-rights", but, sometimes, as in Bridgewater, they were called "purchase-rights, " and, at other times, as in Nantucket, "cows-commons, " or "sheep-commons." These proprietors organized as a corporation, chose a moderator, clerk, and all needful committees, at their meetings, and, pursuant to the vote of the majority, allotted the lands to individuals of the corporation or proprietary, as occasion required, in proportion to their respective shares. In the course of time, the lands of the proprietary were all distributed, as appears by their records, which, for the most part, have been preserved. These records are of two kinds: first, those of the votes of the corporation, and, secondly, those of the location of grants to individuals of the corporation, which last records are analogous to the Registry of Deeds. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.