Petition of Shearjashub Bourne to the Massachusetts General Court

To William Stoughton, Esq., Lieutenant Governour of this Their Majesties’ Province of the Massachusetts Bay and Council and Representatives Now Assembled in General Court at Boston.

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The petition of Shearjashub Bourne of Sandwich humbly sheweth that whereas there is two small parcels of land which belongeth to the Indians, the one lyeth near to the now dwelling house of your petitioner adjoining unto his own lands on the northerly side, being by estimation about thirty or forty acres, and the other parcel is lying and being at a place called Waquoit near adjacent to Falmouth, and is bounded easterly and westerly by your petitioner’s land and is a small neck of upland containing about twenty or thirty acres with some skirts of meadow adjoining to it, all which the Indians are willing to sell, and lying most convenient for your petitioner.  He therefore humbly prays that he may have a grant from this Honored Court that he may purchase the said lands and skirts of meadow ground, and if this Court shall see cause to appoint two of the neighbors to see the manage thereof that the Indians may be fully satisfied and no more purchased but what is before mentioned, your petitioner shall be surely willing to comply therewith.

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And shall remain as in duty bound, your most humble servant,  

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Shearjashub Bourne

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