John Gifford's petition to Gov. Andros and Council

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John Brandon

John Gifford's petition to Gov. Andros and Council

Legg inn av John Brandon » 30 nov 2004 22:53:35

(I'm posting this in the interest of completeness).

_Proceedings of the American Antiquarian Society_, n.s., 13
(1899-1900):487-88:

Att a Councill held att Boston the 19th day of December 1687.

Present: His Excellencye Sr Edmond Andros Knt

Joseph Dudley
Robert Mason
Waite Winthrop
John Usher
Edw: Randolph
Fran: Nicholson Esqrs.

...

Upon reading the Peticon of John Gifford for confirmacon of two
hundred and sixty acres of Land in the Towne of Lynn.
_Ordered_ That notice thereof be given in the said Towne, that if
any others lay Clayme thereto, they may bring in the same. [Footnote
1: See _Massachusetts Archives_, vol. CXXVII., p. 294. This order is
signed by "John West D. Secry." Also _Ibid._, vol. CXXIX., p. 12.
Also _Ibid._, vol. CXXIX., p. 75.]

Mr. Gifford was in pretty good company here, as the two petitions
immediately preceding his were those of Joseph Dudley "for Confirmacon
of certaine houses and Lands ... in Roxbury," and of Nicholas and Anna
Page/Paige "for confirmacon of severall houses and Lands in Boston and
Rumney Marsh." Col. Nicholas Paige's wife Anna or Hannah was a
granddaughter of Anne (Mansfield) (Keayne) Cole. See _Register_,
155:3-35.

John Brandon

Re: John Gifford's petition to Gov. Andros and Council

Legg inn av John Brandon » 01 des 2004 15:23:30

Someone should check me on this, but I think Gifford's request was the
first example of people requesting vacant (unowned) property. Several
others immediately followed suit, with the detested Royal official
Edward Randolph requesting 500 acres in Lynn and several other
properties elsewhere. In most cases, the response seems to have been
similar to the ruling on Gifford's petition: "That notice thereof be
given in the said Towne, that if any others lay Clayme thereto, they
may bring in the same."

John Brandon

Re: John Gifford's petition to Gov. Andros and Council

Legg inn av John Brandon » 01 des 2004 20:07:02

"[WEST,] JOHN, Boston, Secr. of the arbitra. governm. of Sir Edmund
Andros, was seiz. and sent home with him 1689. I presume his only ch.
d. Feb. 1688, as Sewall notes bur. 29 of the mo. in his diary" (James
Savage, _Geneealogical Dictionary_).

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