Rutland -- Situate in the
County of
Worcester 56 mile west of
Boston & 13 mile Northwest
of
Worcester -- from Surveys made between the years
1720 &
1729 the courses of the bounding lines; and from
various other Surveys the length of those lines round
the town of
Rutland (includeing that part Let off to
Pa-
xton) are assertained to be as
follows viz begining
at the oreginal south east corner of
Rutland [yn] N 12º W
4 mile. N 56º E 2 mile 115
rod. N 30º W 4 mile 210
rod S 60º
W 4 mile 170 rod S 11º
E 6 mile 105 rod S 85º
E 4 mile 190 rod.
Rutland -- formerly comprehended
Oakham,
Barre,
Hubbardston, part of
Princeton and part
of
Paxton -- But within a few years after its first
Grant; sixty persons, by contract with what was called the Grand Proprietors,
undertook the settlement
of
Rutland as delineated in this Plan, including what has since
ben let off to
Paxton; At what period
this happened dos not appear - but in
June 1720 the Setters Petition the Committe for
Rutland for
certain purposes, and in
June 1721 the aforesaid Committe pass
a vote confirming 54, out of 63, Rights
to persons therein named, as haveing done the
setteling duty agreable to contract --
May 15, 1723 the Proprietors of the Setteling part of
Rutland hold their first meeting and
Vote 150 acres to be laid out on each right for first Division --
Rutland is peculiarly a hill Country - it is not only the
Source of
Quaboag and
Ware Rivers which
fall into thee
Connecticut, but also a branch of
Merrimac River rises here so that
Rutland is
properly the highth of Land, and except
Machuset, or
Wachusit, Hill which lies NESW about
8 mile from
Rutland Meeting House, there are no lands short of
Monadnock in
Newhampshire
which appear Higher then those in
Rutland.
Brookfield was surveyed
1719 by Col. Tim Dwight and acording to him the course of the eastline
of that Town was South 18 30º W 8 mile - But in
November 1766 this line was run by Capt Hosmer of
Concord and found to be S 0 0 30º East 9 mile 150 rod - the
other boundary lines of
Brookfield, both in its oreginal [original]
and present state, the lines between
Western [Warren] and
Brookfield; those round
Hardwick, except the river, and
between
New Braintree &
Oakham, werer surveyed between the year
1766 &
1774, according to which they are
delineated in this plan.
In the year
1660 certain Inhabitants of
Ipswich obtained from the General Court a grant of Six mile
square near
Quaboag.-
Brookfield, alias
Quaboag, was the residence of a numerous tribe of Indians, whose
principle village is noticed(?) in the Plan - in
1665
Shattoockquis, alias, Shadookis, in consideration of 300 fathom of wampumpeage
sells for the use of the English planters at
Quaboag a
Tract of land at
Quaboag, bounded as follows "begining at a little meadow at the north end of the pond
Quaboag called
Podunk, and So to a
Hill Wullamanuck from there Northward or North and by east about three mile,
and So westward off to the north end of
Wikobaug Pond, takeing
in all the plains meadows and uplands from
Podunk by
Quaboag Pond, to
Wikobaug Pond, all the land betweent
as that called
Nacommuck " etc " and So through the plain to
Wikobaug Pond and then down to
Lashaway, and
from
Lashaway down the River to a Brook called
Naltaug, and So up that Brook to the
head of it southward
and then from the head of that Brook to the verge of a hill called
Asquoach and So down southward or
south
east to that pond
Quaboag" etc. etc. etc. In
1673 the Inhabitants ware Incorporated
into a Township by
the name of
Brookfield. In
1675 the Town was Burnt and the settlement brookup [broke up] , but was resetled
soon after and in
1719 the limits extended and fixed agreable to the oreginal
Bounds marked in
this plan Sence which part has ben set off to make the Town of
Western [Warren] another part to
New Braintree and a small tract to
Ware leveing
Brookfield in the Ireguler form in
which it appears in this Plan.--
March 30th 1785.