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HISTORY OF THE TOWN OF MEDFORD, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, FROM ITS FIRST SETTLEMENT, IN 1630, TO THE PRESENT TIME, 1855. (ed. Charles Brooks), Chapter 4: (search)
ourt resolved that all moneys received from rent or sale of the land of absentees be put into the treasury of the State. May 1, 1779: The Court resolved to direct all agents to warn out the present possessors, and give possession to the new lessees of the State. May, 1779: The General Court appointed a Committee to sell at auction the confiscated estates of certain absentees. Sir William Pepperell, the son-in-law of Colonel Royal, is named in the list; but Colonel Royal is not. October, 1782: The General Court resolved that the estates of absentees ought to be held to pay the just debts of said persons; and therefore they order that the moneys received from the sale of such estates shall go to pay the creditors, deducting three per cent to the State for expenses. The mode of restoring the estate of Colonel Royal to his heirs, and their disposition of it, may be learned from the following documents. Extract from the deed given by Henry Hutton and Elizabeth Royal Hutton,