[Journal of the House of Representatives (page 44), June 13, 1771.]

These conditions, as recommended by the report of the committee, appear
to have been fulfilled, and a grant was accordingly made. It lay on the
eastern border of Berkshire county, just south of the central part, and
was described as follows:--

The Committee on a Plan of a Tract of Land granted to the
Proprietors of _Groton_, reported.

Read and accepted, and _Resolved_, That the Plan hereunto annexed,
containing three Thousand nine Hundred and sixty Acres of Province
Land, laid out in Part to satisfy a Grant made by the Great and
General Court at their Sessions in _June_ 1771, to the Proprietors
of Groton, in Lieu of Land they lost by the late running of the
_New-Hampshire_ Line, as mention'd in their Petition, laid out in
the County of _Berkshire_, and is bounded as followeth, viz.
Beginning at a Burch Tree and Stones laid round it the Southwest
Corner of _Tyringham-Equivalent_ Lands standing on the East Branch
of _Farmington_ River; then North eighteen Degrees East in the West
Line of said _Equivalent_ five Hundred and sixty-one Rods to a
small Beach Tree and Stones laid round it, which Tree is the
Southeast Corner of a Grant of Land called _Woolcut's_ Grant; then
running West eighteen Degrees North in the South Line of said Grant
two Hundred and forty Rods to a Beach Tree marked I.W. and Stones
laid round it, which is the Southwest Corner of said Grant; then
running North eighteen Degrees East in the West Line of said Grant
four Hundred Rods to a Heap of Stones which is the Northwest Corner
of said Grant; then running East eighteen Degrees South two Hundred