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162 Memoir of
Soon after making this will (r679), "he
presented to the General Court a claim for five
hundred acres of land, which he had by deed
of gift, from his brother-in-law, Mr. Richard
Westland, an alderman of Boston in England,
who had loaned money to the Colony of Massachusetts.
As the claim had been some time
due, the Court allowed him six hundred acres.
As this petition recounts several interesting
facts, and, withal, so faithfully exhibits the
meek and pious spirit of the venerable man, we
insert the whole : "*
"The humble petition of Samuel Whiting,
sen'r, of Lyn, sheweth, that whereas your peti.
tioner upon my comeing to New England,
which is now about forty-three years since, had
per deed of gift of my kinde brother-in-law,
Mr. Richard Westland, of Boston, in England,
alderman, in consideration of his disbursement
of fifty pounds of lawful money of England, in
way of loan to this colony, then low, and in its
beginning, which sum the said Mr. Westland,
* Annals of Lynn, 269.