Whereas the Great and General Court were pleased at their last session to appoint a committee : to whom they referr'd the petition of several who had petitioned to be set off from the first to the third precinct in Roxbury ...

[Boston] : [Publisher not identified], [1773]

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Committee report on the petition which requested that petitioners be placed in the the third precinct of Roxbury from the first. Although the two sides were ordered to compromise, after they failed to do so and the committee again reviewed the matter. The petitioner freeholders published a copy of the reasons for their request, as well as answers to objects made by the opposition.

At end of address: Signed by all the Petitioners. The petitioners addressed the General Court on January 12, 1773, offering reasons of tax inequalities and proximity to the new meeting house in the third precinct to support their petition to be set apart from the first precinct.
Text in four columns; printed area measures 45.8 x 29.7 cm.

Bristol B3635
Shipton & Mooney 42496
Ford, W.C. Broadsides, 1688

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