Survey Committee Appointment Order, 1684

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In answer to the petition of the inhabitants of Cambridge: Their petition and the town’s answer being read, the Court, on due consideration, do order that Captain Thomas Prentice, Mr. John Fairweather, and Mr. John Saffyn be a committee to view the place in a thorough way, some of the inhabitants of the town and also of the petitioners having notice given them to be there; Mr. Fairweather, and Mr. Saffyn to appoint time and place of meeting, and on all considerations to make their return on their view of the [appropriate] place as to a dividing line between them, to this Court, for their due consideration and determination.