First Families of Waterbury, Connecticut

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The Petition for a Plantation

To the honored generall court now sitting In Hartford Octobr 9, 73
Honord gentlemen and fathers we being sensible of our great neede of a comfortable subsistance doe herby make our address to your selfes. In order ot the same Not Questioning your ceare and faithfulness In ye premisses: allso hoping of your freeness and readyness to accomidate your poore supplicants with yt which we Judge to be: In your hands: according to an orderly proseeding we therefore whose names are hereafter Inserted to humbly petition your honours to take congnicance: of our state who want Land to Labour upon: for our subsistance & Now having found out a trackt at a place called by ye Indians matitacoock: which we aprihend may susfetiently acomidate to make a small plantation: we are therefore bould hereby to petition your honors to grant us ye liberty of planting ye same with as many others as may be: capable comfortably to entertaine and as for the purchasing of ye natives with your allowance we shall take care of: & so not to trouble with farther Inlargement we rest only desiring your due consideration & a return By our Louing ffriend John Lankton and subscribe our selfes your nedy petitioners.

Thomas Newell	Daniell Warner
John Lankton	Abraham Andrews
John Andrews	Thomas Hancox
John Warner Senior	John Carrington
Daniell Porter	Daniell Andrews
Edmun Scoot	Joseph Heacox
John Standly Junior	Thomas Standly
Abraham Brounsen	Obadiah Richards
Richard Seamer	Timothy Standley
John Warner Junior	William Higginson
Isack Brounsen	John Porter
Samuell Heacox	Thomas Barnes
John Wellton	John Woodruff

Map of Houselots from 1681 Anderson's Waterbury, pg. 160 (click to enlarge)	Map of Mattatuck Plantation Anderson's Waterbury, pg. 161 (Click to enlarge)