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to an act of incorporation, is on file in the office of the clerk of the
Judicial Courts in
Middlesex County:—
At a Council held at the Council Chamber in Boston on Wednesday the eleventh day of January, 1687; Present,
His Excy. Sr. Edmund Andros, Kt., &c.
William Stoughton, Esqs.
Robert Mason, Esqs.
Peter Buckley, Esqs.
Wait Winthrop, Esqs.
John Usher, Esqs.
Edward Randolph, Esqs.
Francis Nicholson, Esqs.
Upon reading this day in Council the petition of the inhabitants of Cambridge Village in the County of Middlesex, being sixty families or upwards, that they may be a village and place distinct of themselves and freed from the town of Cambridge to which at the first settlement they were annexed; they being in every respect capable thereof, and by the late authority made distinct in all things saving paying towards their school and other town charges, for which they are still rated as a part of that town; and also the answer of the town of Cambridge thereto; and hearing what could be alleged on either part, and mature consideration had thereupon; those who appeared on the behalf of the town of Cambridge being contented that the said Village be wholly separated from them as desired, and praying that they may be ordered to contribute towards the maintenance of Cambridge Bridge, and that other provision be made as formerly usual to ease the town therein:—Ordered, that the said village from henceforth be and is hereby declared a distinct village and place of itself, wholly freed and separated from the town of Cambridge, and from all future rates, payments, or duties to them whatsoever.
And that, for the time to come, the charge of keeping, amending, and repairing the said bridge, called Cambridge Bridge, shall be defrayed and borne as followeth (that is to say), two sixth parts thereof by the town of Cambridge, one sixth part by the said Village, and three sixth parts at the public charge of the County of Middlesex.
By order in Council, &c.
John West, Dy. Secy.
This is a true copy, taken out of the original, 4th day of Decem.
88.
As attests,
Laur. Hammond, Cler.
There remains no reasonable doubt, that “
Newtown,” which received its name December, 1691, was “separated from the ”
