Readers' Theatre Script from Historical Data Part 1

Reader One: The Boston Ten Towns
Reader Two: The Revolutionary War is over.
Reader Three: The United States of American is an independent nation under the Articles of Confederation.
Reader Four: New Englanders look westward for new opportunities.
Reader One: Both Massachusetts and New York claimed the land which is today western New York. But these were lands still occupied by the Iroquois.
Reader Three: On December 16, 1786, commissioners representing each state met in Hartford, Connecticut.
Reader Two: The Commonwealth of Massachusetts was represented by John Lowell, James Sullivan, Theophilus Parsons and Rufus King.
Reader Four: Representing New York State were James Duane, Robert R. Livingston, Robert Yates, John Haring, Melancthon Smith and Egbert Benson.
Reader One: It was finally agreed that Massachusetts should relinquish to New York their sovereignty of the whole of the disputed territory, but in return receive the right of soil and preemptive right of Indian purchase west of a meridian passing through the eighty-second milestone of the Pennsylvania line, excepting certain reservations upon the Niagara River.
Reader Two: The title to the tract known as the "Boston Ten Towns," lying eastward of this meridian, previously granted to Massachusetts, was also confirmed.
Reader Three: This agreement is known as the Treaty of Hartford.
Reader One: Prior to agreement, a company of Boston investors
Reader Four: Originally 11, later expanding to 60
Reader One: was working to purchase a tract of this land.
Reader Two: They were incorporated as the Boston Purchase Company.