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![handle is hein.ssl/ssma0219 and id is 1 raw text is: Town of Foxeorougbh. 179
A CT S and L A W S,
Pafed by the Great and General Court or Affe pblo f
....the State of! the Ma chufetts-ayTt New-.England :
Eegun and held at Boflon, in the County of 4,uffolk,
on Wedneiay the TwentY-feventh Day ofMay, Anno
Domini, 1778-
C H± /I P. .
An A6 for incorporating certain Lands in the County of
SUffolh, formerly belonging to the Town of Dorchejler,
but now to' theToWns, of Wrentham, Wralpole, Stough-
ton, and Stoughtonham with thelnhabitants living there-
n, into a Town, by the Name of Foxborough.
firIHEE,4EA a Number of Inhabitantj belongirig to the 7owns of Wren-
KYtham, Walpole, Stoughton and Stoughtonham, have reprefenied to
this Court the Inconveniences -they labour under on account ef their Diflance preamblek
from the Places of -Public Worlhip in the feveral towns to whick they now be-
I ong, and have earnefly and repeatedly requefiedtht ey may be incorporated
into a Town :. , of
Be i tiherefore enafled by the Council a H-Roftle of Reptrfentative in GM V'owns of
rd 11841 dffFned, and by the duthorty of the fame. That £fuclr Part of the Wratghawag
Towns of Wretvijbg, Malpole, Stoughion and Stoughtonham, as are included Po,Osugb.eJ
in the folio wing Bounds, viz. Beginning at the County Line by SkuIl.Mea- incorporated
dow, fo called, and from thence proceeding in the Range Line that run4 over Into a Town,
Cow Hill, until it. comes to the Norton Road, and from thence a firait Line of (FX6rngh.
to the Southeafr:Corner of Benjamin Fairkank's Home Lot ; aod from thence
rurming Northweal and Northeafterly in the Line of faid Fai'bank's Farm
until it comes to che Weft End of the Furnace Dam' excluding the Furnace
La d, anid Buildings to Sboughbonbam ; and from thence'a firait Line until
it comese the Bridge by Capt. Elkanab Billings's ; and from thence on the
Road Southwardly, until it conies to the Line between Capt. Samuel Billings,
and his'Son ; thence ,n the Line between' them to the Northweft Corner of.
Capt. Samutl Billhng's Pafture; thence the fame Courfe in the Line 'of Major
Samul Billings's Land, until it comes to Col. Royal's Farm,. (excluding the
o -inte Lot that wasCapt. Elkjiab Billings's, to remain to thcTown of Stough-
tonblam, and the Home Lot of Nathan -/ark, jun. to be included within ihe
New Incorporation ;) from thence on the Line of Col. Royal's Farm, until it
comes to the Northeaft Corner ; thence on the Northwardly Line of faid
Farm, until it comes to : the Northweft Corner of it ; from thence a ,qraic
inl, to Dedham Rousk, fo called, or I~alpole Corner, to the Line of the Land
of ,1onmas Ma n I theace with the Line of the Land of laid !Thiotas Mant,
until it comes to a arait Lino from the Crotchec Black Oak Sturp, flanding
b7 the Road leading from Stougbion to WVrentham, which wa, Dorcbefler'sOld
Line, to *Itlebcrougb Corney ; therice a ftrait Line to laid ,fttleborougb Corner
where it meces w-!i th' Coun-y Lne, (excluding and leaving Thomas Braflo=,
Y y with
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