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rendered impossible. That some of the petitioners live at a distance of seven miles, and a medium of their travel will exceed four miles, to the present Meeting Houses. That they are fully persuaded that the number of Inhabitants, starts, the wealth and respectability of the Town of Milford will warrant the establishment of a separate Society in the Northerly part of said Town. That the inhabitants in the part are united in the object and feel it their duty to petition for the establishment of such a Society.
''That the Limits for which they pray will comprehend about one-third part of the Grand List of the said Town, and about one-third part of the Land and will be in a compact form. That said Societies are each of them possessed of large funds for the support of the ministry and public worship.
''Your petitioners, therefore, in behalf of themselves and their associates, pray your Honors to incorporate them into a new Ecclesiastical Society, with all the forms, privileges and immunities, usually granted or appertaining to other Ecclesiastical Societies in this State, and that the Lines and Limits of said new Society be as follows viz: Beginning at the Line between New Haven and Milford, 35 rods north of the head of Oyster creek or Oyster River; thence in a westerly direction to the place where two roads intersect, about 12 rods south of John Treat's house; thence to the stone bridge on the Derby road over Weaver's Brook; thence to Housatonic river at the north end of the upper meadow, thence on said river to the Derby line, thence on Derby line till the same is intersected by Woodbridge line, thence on the line between Milford and Woodbridge to Hog Meadow road, thence northerly in said Road to the southwest corner of Enoch Baldwin's land, thence southerly about six rods to the northwest corner of Richard Baldwin's land, thence easterly on the North Line of his Land to an Highway, thence southerly in said Highway to the Southwest corner of Nathaniel Camp's Land, thence easterly on the Southerly Line of said Camp's Land to
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