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THE

NEW HAMPSHIRE GRANTS

Being Transcripts of

THE CHARTERS OF TOWNSHIPS

AND Minor Grants of Lands Made by the Provincial Government of

New Hampshire, Within the Present Boundaries of the State

OF Vermont, from 1749 to 1764.

WITH AN APPENDIX

Containing the Petitions to King George the Third, in 1766, by the

Proprietors and Settlers Under the New Hampshire Grants,

and Lists of the Subscribers ; also Historical and

Bibliographical Notes Relative to the Towns

IN Vermont, by Hiram A. Huse, State

Librarian.

VOLUME XXVI.

Town Charters, Volume HL

ALBERT STILLMAN BATCHELLOR,

Editor of State Papers.

CONCORD:

EDWAKD N. PEARSON, PUBLIC PEINTEK.

1895.

JOINT EESOLUTION relating to the preservation and publication of

portions of the early state and provincial records, and other state

papers of New Hampshire.

Resolved hij the Senate and House of Bepresentatives in General Court

convened :

That His Excellency the Governor be hereby authorized and empoAvered,

^vith the advice and consent of the Council, to employ some suitable person-

and fix his compensation, to be paid out of any money m the treasiu-y not

otherwise appropriated-to collect, arrange, transcribe, and superintend the

miblication of such portions of the early state and provincial records and

Sther state papers of New Hampshire as the Governor may deem proper;

and that eight hundred copies of each volume of the same be printed by

the state printer, and distributed as follows : namely, one copy to each city

and town in the state, one copy to such of the public libraries m the state

as the Governor may designate, fifty copies to the ^^e^: Hampshire Hist^^^^^^^

cal Society, and the remainder placed in the custody of the state libiaiian,

who is hereby authorized to exchange the same for similar publications by

other states.

Approved August 4, 1881.

PREFACE.

The exercise of territorial jurisdiction and the grants of townships by the
provincial government of New Hamj^shire west of the Connecticut, within
the jjresent boundaries of the State of Vermont, is an important and interest-
ing element in the history of both of these states. An acquaintance with the
contentions between the provincial or colonial governments of New York,
Massachusetts, and New Hamjjshire is necessary to a fair conception of the
legal and political status of these grants in the first period of their history.
In the earlier volumes of this series, the serious complications between New
Hampshire and Massachusetts Bay, arising from the disputed boundary
between them, may be studied to good purpose, particularly in the docu-
ments jjresented in Vol. XIX. The Massachusetts claim, at times, extended
to an east and west line running through a point three miles north of the
outlet of Lake Winnipiseogee, that being claimed as the point intended in
the language of the charter, "the said River called Monomack, alias Merri-
mack, or to the northward of any and every part thereof ; " (Vol. XIX, p.
335). If that point had been intended as "any jDart " of the Merrimack
Eiver, the argument should have been effective in locating the north line
of Massachusetts Bay three miles north of the point marked by the monu-
ment at Weirs known as Endicott Rock. But the King in Council, March,
1739-40, determined the line to be governed by the river so far as that fol-
lowed a westerly course, but when it turned to the north the line should
continue "thence due West across the said River till it meets with his
Majesty's other Governments." This result was favorable to the New
Hampshire contention. The controversies over the theoretical location
were thus practically ended. Differences have nevertheless existed as to
the actual location of the line, until the recent settlement of the matter by
commissions from both states.*

In 1741, Jonathan Belcher, who had been since 1730 the royal Governor
of both Massachusetts Bay and New Hampshire, was succeeded in Massa-
chusetts by William Shirley and in New Hampshire by Benning Wentworth.
The commission of the latter described the boundary of the province " on
the south side by a similar curve line pursuing the course of the Merrimack

♦Joint commissions are at this time placing monuments on the line, and there is no reason
to suppose that this matter will hereafter be a subject of interstate agitation.

iv PREFACE.

river at three miles distance on the north side thereof, beginning at the
Atlantic Ocean, and ending due north of a place called Pantucket Falls,
and by a straiffht line drawn from thence due west across (he said river
till it meets with our other governments.''^ The commission also contained
a grant of authority to dispose of lands upon such terms as might seem fit.
In 1744, by an order of the King in Council, the Province of New Hamp-
shire was reminded that it had neglected to take possession of and to pro-
vide for a fort called Fort Dummer, which was built in 1724 by Massachu-
setts upon the then western frontier of that province, and had been hitherto
governed by them, "&(/!' is lately fallen tvithin the limits of said province
of Neiv Hampshire hy the settlement of the boundary line between the two
j^rovinces." Fort Dummer was situated within the limits of the present
town of Brattleboro, Yt. In a report dated Aug. 14, 1752, on a case stated
by the King in Council for the opinion of the English attorney-general and
solicitor-general with respect to certain tracts of land granted by the gov-
ernments of Massachusetts Bay and Connecticut, the following passage
occurs in the official statement :

"There are also about 60,000 acres of land on the west side of Connecti-
cut river which were purchased by private persons from the government of
Connecticut, to whom that land had been laid out by the government of the
Massachusetts Bay, as an equivalent for two or three townships which the
Massachusetts Bay purchased from Connecticut government. This tract of
land by the determination of the boundary line in 1738, is become x>(i>'t of
yew Hantpshire, but the projDrietors of it are subject to no conditions of
improvement, and the land is waste and uncultivated."*

It will be observed that the boundary to the westward of Pantucket Falls
between Massachusetts and New Hampshire is "due west * * * till it meets
with our other governments." The western terminus of this line and the west-
ern boundary of Xew Hampshire would manifestly depend upon a determina-
tion of the eastern boundaries of "our other governments" lying to the west-
ward. It is manifest from the evidence that important considerations in re-
spect to actual conditions, and official utterances, had contributed to the gen-
eral understanding that the easterly boundary of New York was not on the
Connecticut Eiver. But it is at an earlier period that this question was
first raised and made an important element in colonial affairs. The Hart-
ford treaty of 1656 between the United Colonies of New England on the one
part, and the Dutch colony of New Netherlands on the other, fixed a line of
division between New Netherlands and New England to begin at the west
side of Greenwich Bay, being about four miles from Stamford, and to
run a northerly course twenty miles up into the country, and after, as it

*Hairs Earlv History of Vermont, p. 478. From Mass. Archives. See Stevens Papers, 1730-
1775, p. 14, and" Doc. Hist. N. Y., vol. 4, p. 542.

PREFACE. V

should be agreed by the two goveruments of the Dutch and of New Haven ;
provided the line should not come within ten miles of Hudson's Kiver. The
Dutch were to retain all the lauds in Hartford of which they were actually
possessed, known or set out by certain bounds or marks, and all the remain-
der of the said laud on both sides of Connecticut River to be and to remain
to the English. This settlement seems to have been treated as conclusive
by the parties till the conquest of the New Netherlands by the English in
1664. It was recognized by Dutch authority in the time of their reconquest
and brief reoccupation of their former possessions in 1673. The provision
for an extension of the line northerly, as settlements might ensue and require
t, is the occasion for an inference that the Dutch pretensions would not
extend easterly beyond the prolongation of the twenty-mile line provided
that it did not come within ten miles of the Hudson.

The royal Connecticut charter of 1662 bounded the colony on the Avest by
the South Sea. At this period there seems to be no evidence of a serious
claim by the Dutch to territorial jurisdiction to the Connecticut Eiver, and
no admission of the validity of such a pretension by the English. In 1664,
a charter was granted to the Duke of York by King Charles to confirm his
purchase of Long Island and other territory from the Earl of Stirling, to
whom they had been conveyed by the Council of Plymouth on the surrender
of their charter to the crown in 1635. Furthermore the charter to the Ply-
mouth Comijany of Nov. 3, 1620, granted them "that part of America lying
between -49 and 48 degrees north latitude and in length by all the breadth
aforesaid throughout the main laud from sea to sea." It was also the inten-
tion to convey to the Duke of York the Dutch i^ossessions of New Nether-
lands by the same instrument.*

The following extract from the language of the charter is sufficient to
indicate the basis of the claim for a New York boundary on Connecticut
Kiver : "all that part of the main land of New England beginning at a cer-
tain place called or known by the name of St. Croix, next adjoining New
Scotland in America, and from thence extending along the sea coast unto a
place called Potuaquine or Pemaquid, and up the river thereof to the farthest
head of the same as its breadth northwards ; and extending from thence to
the river Kinebequi, and so upwards by the shortest course to the river
Canada northwards, and also all that island or islands called l)y the name
or names of Mattowacks or Long Island situate lying and being towards
the west of Cape Cod, and the Narrow Highgansetts, abutting ujjon the
main land between the two rivers there called or known by the several
names of Connecticut and Hudson's river together also ivith the said river
called Hudson's river, and all the land, from the ivest side of Connecticut
river to the cast side of Delaware Baij; and also all those several islands
* The Boundary Disputes of Connecticut, by Clarence W. Bowen, 1882.

VI PREFACE.

called or known by the names of Martin's Vineyard and Nantukes or
otherwise Nantucket."*

"With this charter as the foundation of the contention, drawn after the
grant to the Duke of York, issues were raised with Connecticut and Massa-
chusetts successively, with a result confirming the boundary twenty miles
east of and parallel with the Hudson River. It was also understood, for a
considerable part of the period prior to 1740, that the western boundary of
Massachusetts, against New York, extended to the line of Canada. The
region afterwards constituting the State of Vermont was, for the most part,
a wilderness, and the relations existing between the English and the
French and their Indian allies rendered any considerable settlement of
that part of New England hazardous in the extreme and imjiracticable.
The claim of New York to territorial jurisdiction to the Connecticut Eiver,
if not practically abandoned, was for a long time held in abeyance. If,
therefore, it was not a settled question whether the extent of New Hamp-
shire to the westward was a line coi'responding to that of Massachusetts,
the history and situation of affairs were such that Governor Wentworth
might well apply the practical test of actual land grants on the west side of
the Connecticut, with reasonable expectation of being sustained in the
movement. The enterjjrising and overflowing siirplus population of the
older New England towns, long confined in restricted limits by French and
Indian aggressions, were looking to this region as the most promising for
their future occupation. Governor Wentworth, in 1749, entered upon the
business of disposing of the lands lying between the Connecticut and the
twenty-mile line. In the period from that date to and including 1764 he
issued not less than 129 township charters and 6 individual grants. Mean-
time a correspondence was carried on between the New York and New
Hampshire governors, in which Governor Wentworth declared his position
and purpose, and Governor Clinton denied that his claims were well founded
and asserted the counter title. This resulted in an ajDpeal to the crown.
A decision by the King in Council, rendered in 1764, declared "the western
banks of the river Connecticut from where it enters the province of Massa-
chusetts bay, as far north as the forty-fifth degree of northern latitude to
be the boundary line between the said two provinces of New Hampshire
and New Y'ork." It is surprising to those who critically examine the
charter titles, the conduct of the parties, and the admissions of crown
authorities, that the contention of New Hampshire should have been inef-
fectiial. It may well be questioned whether its cause was urged with the
skill and vigor which characterized the agency of John Thomlinson for
the province in the contest over our Massachusetts boundary. A London

♦Hall's Earlj- History of Vermont, p. 19. Col. Hist. N. Y., vol. 2, p. 295. U. S. Land Laws,
vol. 1, p. 80.

PREFACE. VU

letter of Marcli 31, 1763, from Mr. 8. Jolinson to John Wendell, may sug-
gest an explanation of tlie causes Avliich led to the result foreshadowed.

"I am really surprised at the supiness of the Proprietors and even of
your Province in this matter; had it been pursued with spirit immediately
upon the alteration of the Jurisdiction & before any Grants had been made
by New York, it is very plain to me, that the Prop''^ might very easily have
secured their Lauds, tho' the Province had not recovered its Jurisdiction,
and even the latter I think was very probable.

" Many things which have since happened have increased the difficulty,
but I should by no means even now despair of it, if the cause was supported
as it ought to be by the joint aid and apj)lication of all the Proprietors and
the Province, the one for the Property and the other for the Jurisdiction
of the lands, the real Poverty of those who joined Capt. Eobiuson (tho'
they did the best they could) rendered them unable to give the cause that
efi'ectual support which was (and is) necessary to give it proper weight and
render the application to the Crown as regular and respectable as its
Importance and the usual course of Proceedings in cases of this kind justly
required; Money has in fact been wanting to do Justice to this Cause; it
came here rather in Forma Pauperis which is an appearance seldom made
or much regarded in this country, and is by no means an Eligible light in
which to place an affair of this kind."*

Upon the rendition of a judgment by the King in Council making the west
bank of the Connecticut Eiver the boundary between New York and New
Hampshire, an opportunity was afforded for an equitable arrangement of
resulting conditions.

The region occupied by the New Hampshire Grants was fully opened to
settlers by the termination of the French and Indian wars and the English-
American conquest of Canada. The country had been extensively traversed
by the troops of New Hampshire and the lower New England colonies engaged
in the war, and its advantages for settlement were well understood. A gen-
eral movement of those interested in the grants, as holders or assignees of
titles, ensued in the four years that elapsed before the royal adjudication of
1764.

The settlers on the grants and on the corresponding territory in northern
New Hampshire rapidly cleared farms, made imi3rovements, and established
homes. This was undertaken and accomplished with full confidence in the
validity of their titles under New Hampshire. The change in their political
relations on the westerly side of the river, resulting from the King's decree,
was unexpected and unwelcome. Nevertheless, it is not improbable that
they would have acquiesced in the transfer of political jurisdiction to New

* X, N. H. State Papers, 216.

Yiii PREFACE.

York without serious objection or opposition, provided it had allowed them
an undisturbed possession of their lands and improvements.

There was also a considerable portion of the territory between the Con-
necticut Eiver and the line to the westward to which New Hami^shire had
claimed and asserted jurisdiction, that was not covered by New Hampshire
grants. Of course it was expected that this would be disposed of by the
government of New York for its own purposes and in its own way, and no
serious difficulties arose in that direction.

From the year 1761, until the beginning of the Revolution, Cadwallader
Golden had held the office of Lieutenant-Governor, acting as chief magistrate
during a large part of the period, and had been influential in reference to
the vigorous policy pursued towards the New Hampshire Grants. He in-
augurated the scheme of regranting the lands, which had been included in
the previous charters of New Hampshire. He was able and persistent in all
his serious undertakings.

The inhabitants of the grants, however, long accustomed to local self-
government in the Connecticut, Massachusetts, and New Hampshire towns,
were well skilled in the exercise of their political jjrerogatives, and were
determined in the defence of what they deemed to be their just rights, never
for an instant wavering in the defence of their new possessions, whatever
form of resistance it involved.

They first appealed to the King, and on the 24th of July, 1767, obtained
an order forbidding the Governor of New York to regrant lands covered by
New Hampshire titles or to disturb the settlers under them. The language
of the decree was as follows :

" His Majesty taking said report into consideration was pleased with the
advice of his privy council to approve thereof, and doth hereby strictly
charge require and command that the Governor, Commander-in-Chief of his
Majesty's province of New York, for the time being, do not (upon pain of
his Majesty's highest displeasure) presume to make any grant whatever of
any part of the lands described in the said report, until his Majesty's further
pleasure shall be known concerning the same."

No modification of this order was ever made by royal authority. Never-
theless, Governor Colden persisted in his policy of aggression, which would
compel a repurchase from New York or an abandonment of the earlier
grant from New Hampshire. The settlers having the choice between
one or the other of these alternatives and open resistance, moved with
great unanimity to the adoption of the latter course, both from inclination
and necessity.

Although in some instances the proprietors of New Hampshire titles
chose to pxirchase immunity from disturbance from New York, it is note-

PREFACE. IX

worthy that where tlie alternative of resistance was adopted on the part of tlie
settlers, they eventually maintained their position. The rule of persistence
prevailed in all cases and each of the Xew Hampshire grants became a per-
manent political entity.

The conflict which ensued occupies the critical period in the history of
Vermont, and had an important and controlling influence upon the course
of events down to the time of the complete establishment of her statehood.
Its presentation is not essential to an outline of the events which were pre-
cedent to the creation of the titles known as the New Hampshire Grants.
Those Avho are interested in this epoch are referred to the works of the early
historians of Vermont ; History of Eastern Vermont, by Benjamin H. Hall,
1858 ; The Early History of Vermont, by Hiland Hall, 1868 ; and Belknap's
History of Xew Hampshire, chap. 26. (Governor Hall finds occasion in his
work for a vigorous dissent from the conclusions of Mr. B. H. Hall as to
the New York contention.) The principal references in documentary
history are, the Records of the Governor and Council of Vermont, vols. 1
and 2 ; the Collections of the Historical Society of Vermont ; the Province
and State Papers of New Hamisshire, volume 10 ; and the published Col-
onial Records and Documentary History of New York. Maps presenting
the townships as laid out on the disputed territory may be found in the
Records of the Governor and Council of Vermont, volume 8, ojjposite page
430, and in the Documentary History of New York, (quarto) volume 1, appen-
dix. Valuable monographs treating the same subject in its various asjDects,
recently published, are New Hampshire and Vermont, by Henry A.
Hazen, 1894 ; Dartmouth College and the State of New Connecticut, by
John L. Rice, Proceedings of the Connecticut Valley Historical Society,
1879, page 152 ; The Vermont Controversy, by C. A. Downs, Granite
Monthly, volume 11, pages 320, 349 ; The College Hall in Politics, by
Frederick Chase, History of Hanover, 1891, chaj^ter 7, page 422; Address
of E. J. Phelps, at the Dedication of the Bennington Monument, 1891, p.
84 ; Vermont, A Study of Independence, by Rowland E. Robinson, 1892 ;
Saunderson's History of Charlestown, N. H., 1876, chapters 8 to 12.

In the following pages, copies of -all the New Hampshire grants Avest of
the Connecticut River are presented. The arrangement is alphabetically
by towns. These are exact transcripts from the records in the office of the
Secretary of the State of New Hami^sire. Plots of the outline of each grant
accompany the charter. The admirable notes which appear in the appendix
have been prepared by Hon. Hiram A. Huse, whose special qualifications
for such a task are manifest in the part of the volume which was iDrej^ared
by him.

In further illustration of the history of these grants, a copy of the peti-

X PREFACE.

tions Avliicli were submitted to the King by the grantees aud settlers in
1767, is given with the names of the petitioners. An incomplete catalogue
of the grants was published in Slade's State Papers of Vermont, 1823,
pages 13 to 16. The same list is reprinted in Province and State Papers of
New Hampshire, volnme 10, pages 204 to 207. These authorities included
a grant of date June 7, 1763, without name. The omitted to^\nship was-
evidently Essex. The manuscript books of charters contain two grants,
Stratton, July 30, 1761, and Somerset, Sept. 9, 1761, which should be added
to the list.

Hinsdale was laid by its charter on both sides of the river, and is included
in the lists above named. There were also six grants to officers for service
in the French and Indian wars, covering 14,000 acres, which are mentioned
as a supplement to Mr. Slade's list ; four townships, viz. : Marlborough,
afterwards New Marlborough ; Draper, formerly Wilmington ; Flamstead,
alias Chester ; and Thomlinson, were regranted, and without including the
grant of Hinsdale or the four renewals of grants, or those made to officers
in His Majesty's military service, but adding Stratton, Somerset, and
Essex, the whole number of original township grants should be 129.

This contribution to the documentary history of a most important period
may well be supplemented hereafter by a production of the unpublished
grants of townships and lesser tracts made upon the authority of the
French, and those patents which the colonial government of New York
issued for lands in the regions upon Avhich the State of Vermont Avas
erected. Other jjatents on the same ground, emanating from Massachusetts
or Connecticut authority, should have place in the same work.

Equally important and interesting, and equally deserving of publication,
are the petitions of the inhabitants, and other public documents relating to
local affairs within the same state limits, which remain in obscurity in the
archives of the French, English, Canadian, and several American state gov-
ernments. This undertaking will doubtless commend itself to the favorable
consideration of the people of the progressive state, whose history must be
traced in the labyrinth which leads to these records in many distant, and
often inconvenient, places of deposit and reference.

The communication which is appended, contains comments and suggestions
which are an essential part of the jjrefatory statement introducing the prin-
cipal text of this volume.

THE EDITOE.

PllEFACE. XI

MoNTPELiER, Vt., Octobei" 10, 1895.

My Dear Mr. Batchellor : — Tlie notes will be useful mainly in giving a
pretty full list of tlie names by which grants in Vermont have been known.
They are not such as to warrant the word "admirable" applied to them in
your manuscript preface, which you read to me Monday, unless you use it
as meaning remarkable in the sense a friend of mine once said the good old
village of East Bethel was a remarkable place. "You can start from East
Bethel," he said, "and go anywhere you like. " So one can start from the
notes and acquire elsewhere full and interesting information. He Avill have
to enquire his way for the most part, however, for the guide boards set up
in the notes are far from sufficient to give him full directions for his way.

Some errors in the notes as printed I hope you may have opportunity to
correct. On p. filT, in line 25, 4,000 should be 40,000. On p. G19, in line
8, the comma after the word "on" is an unwelcome and untruthful in-
truder. Father Abell (of many Vermont legislatures), once told of a comma
that saved a man's life a third of a century ago, by absenting itself from
its proper place. Our constitution provides that in cases of treason and
murder the governor shall have "power to grant reprieves, but not to par-
don, until after the next session of assembly." In the constitution as
printed in a certain governor's day, the comma after "pardon" dropped
out, and the governor, after a session of assembly, pardoned a prisoner
who had been convicted of murder. This is not the constitutional comma
returned, however, for that has already retaken its proper place.

On page 627 in the 5th line under Bamf, and on page 633 in the 4th line
under Billymead, there should be no period after Bamf.

On page 648 under Coventry, the statement should be that Coventry Leg,
(not Coventry Gore), was annexed to Newport in 1816. On jiage 649 it
should be stated that Coventry Gore was annexed to Newport in 1894,
(Laws of 1894, p. 406).

On page 650, (and in your index of names), read Dellius instead of Dellins
as printed.

On page 670 in the last line 1719 should be 1791.

On page 690 the incorporation of Montpelier as a city should have been
noted as in Laws of 1894, pages 177-200.

On page 694 under Newport there should have been noted the annexation
of Coventry Leg and part of Salem, (Laws of 1816, p. 129) ; and the an-
nexation of Coventry Gore, (Laws of 1894, p. 406).

On page 704 the name of the leading grantee of Randolph should have
been given as Aaron Storrs.

On page 708 it should have been noted that part of the city of Eutland
was annexed to the town of Rutland in 1894, (Laws of 1894, p. 242).

Xll PREFACE.

On page 715 South Bennington should be South Burlington as you have
stated on page 740.

Reference should have been made under the resj^ective towns named to
the following town histories :

Matthews's History of Cornwall, also Dudley's ; Williams's History of
Danby ; Adams's History of Fairhaven ; Tucker's History of Hartford ; Mun-
son's Manchester ; Eev. E. H. Newton's Ms. History of Marlboro, (in Ver-
mont Historical Society Library); Swift's Middlebury ; Frisbie's Middle-
town ; Newfane Centennial ; Bottum's Orwell ; Hollister's Pawlet for One
Hundred Years ; Davis's Beading ; Zadock Steele's Burning of Royalton ;
Goodhue's Shoreham ; Paul and Parks's Wells ; also a history of Whiting-
ham whose author I do not at this moment recall ; and a sketch of Wilming-
ton Reunion.

No one desirous of tracing the early history of a Vermont town can leave
•out a careful examination of all the eight volumes of the Governor and
Council. In that work Mr. Walton did much in the line on which your
state has done much more in the publication of its State and Town Papers.

The manuscript Vermont State Papers in the Secretary of State's office
contain a great amount of material never in print that is illustrative both of
the history of the state and of the great majority of its towns. It is to be
hoped and believed that, some day, the work of arranging and printing
much of the matter contained in those papers will be entered upon. Most
of the early legislation was upon petition, as were nearly all the grants.
These petitions especially show the form and pressure of their time, with
such accuracy as to be of great interest to any student of the days when
the foundations were laid. With these papers, and access to the state libra-
ries and official records of New Hamjishire, New York, and Vermont, the
full story of the New Hampshire Grants can some day be written ; and it is
one that, well told, will be neither flippant nor prosy.

Sincerely yours,

HIRAM A. HUSE.

Hon. a. S. BatchelijOR,

Editor N. H. State Papers.

TABLE OF CONTENTS.

Addison .

Andover .

Arlington

Averill

Barnai'd .

Barnet

Bennington

Berlin

Bloomfield

Bolton

Brandon .

Brattleborougb

Bridgewater

Bridport .

Bristol

Brunswick

Bui'lington

Castleton

Cavendish

Charlotte

Chester .

Clarendon

Colchester

Corinth

Cornwall

Danby

Dorset

Dover

Peter Brown
Stephen Holland
James Tute

Dummerston

Duxbury .

Essex

Fairfax

Fairfiebl .

Smitbfield

Fairlee

103

107

111

115

119

123

125

127

130

138

142

146

150

154

159

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TABLE OF CONTENTS.

Ferdinand

Wenlock
Ferrisburg
Georgia .
Glastenbury
Grafton .
Granby
Guildhall
Guilford .
Halifax .
Hartford
Hartland
Highgate
Hinesbxirgh
Hubbardton
Huntington
Jericho
Leicester
Lemington
Lewis
Ludlow
Lunenburg
Maidstone
Manchester
Marlboro
Middlebury
Middlesex
Milton
Monkton
Moretown
Mount Tabor
Newbury
Newfane .
New Haven
Norwich .
Orwell
Panton
Pawlet
Peacham
Peru
Pittsford
Plymouth
Pomfret .
Poultney
Pownal
Putney
Reading .

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167

171

175

180

184

192

196

200

207

212

216

220

224

228

232

236

240

244

248

252

257

261

265

269

279

283

287

291

295

299

303

307

315

319

323

327

331

335

339

343

347

351

355

359

363

369

TABLE OF CONTENTS.

Readsboro

Andrew F
Robert Ro
Rockingham
Rupert
Rutland .
Ryegate .
Salisbury .
Sandgate
Shat'tsbury
Sharon
Shelbiirne
Sheldon .
Sherburne
Shoreham
Shrewsbury
Somerset
Springfield
St. Albans
St. George
Stamford
Stockbridge
Stowe
Strafford
Stratton .
Sudbiu'y .

Dunbar
Sunderland
Swanton .
Thetford
Tinmouth
Topsham
Townshend
Tmibridge
Underbill

Mansfield
Wallingford
Wardsboro

John Walk
Waterbury
Weathersfield
Wells
Westford
Westminster
Weybridge
Whiting .
Williston

Phillips

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TABLE OF CONTENTS.

Wilmington ........

557

Windsor .........

566

Winhall

569

Woodford ........

573

Woodstock ........

579

Worcester ........

583

APPENDIX.

Petitions of Inhabitants of New Hampshire Grants to the King, 1766 589
Historical Notes . . . . . . . . . . 611

Index.

ailA.NTS

VERMONT TERRITORY

GOVERNMENT OF NEW HAMPSHIRE.

OR^NTS

VERMONT TERRITORY

GOVERNMENT OF NEW HAMPSHIRE.

ADDISON.

*Province of New- Hampshire. *2-281

Addison GEORGE, the Third,

, ,-*^^— s By the Grace of God, of Great-Britain, France and

\ / Ireland, King, Defender of the Faith, &c.

j I To all Persons to whom these Presents shall come,

^ — .i^..-*^ ^ Greeting.

4 CHARTER RECORDS.

uate, lying and being within our said Province of Neiv-Hampsldre^
containing by Admeasurement, Twenty Five Thousand Acres, which
Tract is to contain Something more than Six Miles square, and no
more; out of which an Allowance is to be made for High Ways and
unimprovable Lauds by Rocks, ]*onds, Mountains and Rivers. One
Thousand and Forty Acres free, according to a Plan and Survey
thereof, made by Our said Governor's Order, and returned into the
Secretarj's Office, and hereunto annexed, butted and bounded as
follows. Viz. Begining at the North West Corner of Bridport from
thence Runing East Seven Miles b}' Bridport to the North East
Corner thereof then begining at the First bounds Mentjond & then
running down Wood Creek or (South bay) So farr as to make it Six
Miles on a streight Line, from thence East Seven Miles, from thence
Southerly to the North East Corner of Brid[)ort aforesaid — And that
the same be, and hereby is Licorporated into a Township by the
Name of Addison And the Inhabitants that do or shall hereafter
inhabit the said Township, are hereb}^ declared to be Enfranchized
with and Intitled to all and every the Priviledges and Immunities
that other Towns within Our Province by Law Exercise and Enjoy:
And further, that the said Town as soon as there shall be Fifty F'am-
ilies resident and settled thereon, shall have the Liberty of holdiug
Two Fairs, one of which shall be held on the

And the other on the ^ annually, which Fairs are

not to continue longer than the respective follow-

ing the said and that as soon as the said Town

*2-282 shall consist of Fifty Families, a Market may be *opeued
and kept one or more Days in each Week, as may be
thought most advantagious to the Inhabitants. Also, that the first
IMeeting for the Choice of Town Officers, agreable to the Laws of
our said Province, shall be held on the Last Tuesday in November
next which said Meeting shall be Notified by M*" Sara' Seldon who is
hereby also appointed the Moderator of the said first Meeting, which
he is to Notify and Govern agreable to the Laws and Customs of Our
said Province; and that the annual Meeting for ever hereafter for
the Choice of such Officers for the said Town, shall be on the Sec-
ond Tuesday of March annually. To Have and to Hold the said
Tract of Land as above expressed, together with all Privileges and
Appurtenances, to them and their respective Heirs and Assigns for-
ever, upon the following Conditions, viz.

I. That every Grantee, his Heirs or Assigns shall plant and culti-
vate five Acres of Laud within the Term of five Years for every fifty
Acres contained in his or their Share or Proportion of Land in said
Township, and continue to improve and settle the saiue by additional

ADDISON. 5

Cultivations, on Penalty of the Forfeiture of his Grant or Share in
the said Township, and of its reverting to Us, our Heirs and Suc-
cessors, to be by Us or them Re-granted to such of Our Subjects as
shall effectually settle and cultivate the same.

II. That all white and other Pine Trees within the said Township,
fit for Masting Our Royal Navy, be carefully preserved for that Use,
and none to be cut or felled without Our special Licence for so doing
first had and obtained, upoii the Penalty of the Forfeiture of the
Right of such Grantee, his Heirs and Assigns, to Us, our Heirs and
Successors, as well as being subject to the Penalty of any Act or
Acts of Parliament that now are, or hereafter shall be Enacted.

in. That before any Division of the Land be made to and among
the Grantees, a Tract of Land as near the Centre of the said Town-
ship as the Land will admit of, shall be reserved and marked out for
Town Lots, one of which shall be allotted to each Grantee of the
Contents of one Acre.

IV. Yielding and paying therefor to Us, our Heirs and Successors
for the Space of ten Years, to be computed from the Date hereof,
the Rent of one Ear of Indian Corn only, on the twenty-fifth Day
of December annually, if lawfully demanded, the first Payment to be
made on the twenty-fifth Day of December. 1762

V. Every Proprietor, Settler or Inhabitant, shall yield and pay
unto Us, our Heirs and Successors yearly, and every Year forever,
from and after the Expiration of ten Years from the abovesaid
twenty-fifth Day of December., namely, on the twenty-fifth Day of
December., which will be in the Year of Our Lord 1772 One shilling
Proclamation Money for every Hundred Acres he so owns, settles or
possesses, and so in Proportion for a greater or lesser Tract of the
said Land; which Money shall be paid by the respective Persons
abovesaid, their Heirs or Assigns, in our Council Chamber in Ports-
month^ or to such Officer or Officers as shall be appointed to receive
the same; and this is to be in Lieu of all other Rents and Services
whatsoever.

In Testimony whereof we have caused the Seal of our said Prov-
ince to be hereunto affixed. Witness Benning Wentworth, Esq;
Our Governor and Commander in Chief of Our said Province, the
14'** Day of October In the Year of our Lord Chiust, One Thous-
and Seven Hundred and Sixty One And in the First Year of Our
Reign.

B Went worth

By His Excellency's Command,
With Advice of Council,

Theodore Atkinson S''^

CHAKTER RECORDS.

Province of New Hamps*" October 14, 1761

Recorded According to the Origioiial Charter under the Province
Seal

^ Theodore Atkinson Sec'y

* 2-283 *The Names of the Grantees of Addison (Viz)

Simon Ely
John M'Curdy
Ezra Selden
Silvanns Tinker
Lemuel Bushnell
Isaac Clark
William Bebe 2*1
Hobard Spencer
George Harris
Eben' Spencer
Will'" Booge
Matt^ Sears
Sam' Gates
John M'Call
Sam' Church
Benadam Gallop
Nath' Fisk
Step" Nott
Dan' Cone
Dan' Warner Esq
Geo : Jaffery Esq

Joseph Spencer
John Olmsted
Christo'' Holmes
James Olmsted
Nath' Jones
Samuel Olmsted
Jonah Cone
James Booge
Eben'' Eams
Jared Spencer
Richard Andrews
James Gates
Will"! Steward
Nath' Spuroow
Josiah Cotton
Jonas Betton
Stephen Clerk
John Kirtland

Richard Mather
Sam' Selden
John Holmes
Edward Bull
John Beckwith
Icha^' Olmsted
Josej)h Cone
Aaron Cleaveland
Isaac Spencer
Benj=' Allcott
Matt^^ Smith
Bezaleel Gates
James Steward
Green Hungerford
James Sparrow
Dudley Woodbridge
Dan' Williams
Gideon Waters
Richard Wibird Esq

Tho« Fuller 2^

Tlie: Atkinson Jun"" Esq Clement March Esq

Rev'' Josiah Cotton Jos'' Bl an chard Esq

& Ja* Stoodley

His Excellency Benning Wentworth Esq a Tract of Land to Con-
tain Five Hundred Acres as Marked B-W- in the Plan which is to
be Accounted two of the within Shares, One Whole Share for the
Incorporated Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign
Parts, One Share for a Glebe for the Church of England as by Law
Establish'd One Share for the First Settled Minister of the Gospel &
One Share for the benefit of a School in said Town —

Province of New Hamps*" Octo' 14, 1761

Recorded from tlie Back of the Origional Cbarter of Addison
under the Province SeaL /

Attested '^ Theodore Atkinson Sec'^

ANDOVER.

«) 1^1 ":;

^s^.

ATU-n. of

Taif 7 rrnles

Bv Br..clA»'-t

Province of New Hampshire October 14, 1761
Recorded from the back of the Origional Charter of Addison
under the Province Seal

m Theodore Atkinson SeCy

ANDOVER.

*Province of New-Hampshire.
CxEORGE, THE Third,

*2-277

Andover

- .^^-^^ . By the Grace of God, of Great-Britain, France and

) / Ireland, King, Defender of the Faith &c.

j ^ I To all Persons to tvhom these Presents shall come,

^ ^,-^^w ■' Greeting.

Know ye, that We of Our special Grace, certain Knowledge, and
meer Motion, for the due Encouragment of settling a JVew Plan-
tation within our said Province, by and with the Advice of our
Trusty and Well-beloved Benning Wentworth, Esq; Our Gov-
ernor and Comniandei- in Chief of Our said Province of New-Hamp-
shire in New-England, and of Our COUNCIL of the said Province ;
Have upon the Conditions and Reservations herein after made,
given and granted, and by these Presents, for us, our Heirs, and
Successors, do give and grant in equal Shares, unto Our loving Sub-
jects, Inhabitants of Our said Province of New-Hampshire, and Our

8 CHAETER RECORDS.

other Governments, and to their Heirs and Assigns for ever, whose
Names are entred on this Grant, to be divided to and amongst them
into Seventy Two eqnal Shares, all that Tract or Parcel of Land sit-
uate, lying and being within our said Province of New- Hampshire.,
containing by Admeasurement, Twenty Three Thousand Five Hun-
dred Acres., which Tract is to contain Something more than Six
Miles square, and no more ; out of which an Allowance is to be^
made for High Ways and unimprovable Lands by Rocks, Ponds,
Mountains and Rivers, One Thousand and Forty Acres free, accord-
ing to a Plan and Survey thereof, made by Our said Governor's Or-
der, and returned into the Secretary's Office, and hereunto annexed,
butted and bounded as follows. Viz. Begioing at the South West-
erly Corner of Ludlow from thence Runing South fifty five Degrees
East Six Miles by Ludlow to the North Westerly Corner of Flam-
stead, then by Flamstead about Six Miles to the South West Corner
thereof, thence North Sixty Three Degrees West Six Miles thence
North Thirty Degrees East Six Miles & Three Quar""* of a Mile to
the South Westerly Corner of Ludlow the Bound begun at — And
that the same be, and hereby is Incorporated into a Township by the
Name of Andover And the Inhabitants that do or shall hereafter in-
habit the said Township, are hereby declared to be Enfranchized
with and Intitled to all and every the Priviledges and Immunities
that other Towns within Our Province by Law Exercise and Enjoy :
And further, that the said Town as soon as there shall be Fifty Fam-
ilies resident and settled thereon, shall have the Liberty of holding
Tico Fairs., one of which shall be held on the

And the other on the annually, which Fairs

are not to continue longer than the respective following

the said and that as soon as the said Town

*2-278 shall consist of Fifty F\amilies, a Market may be *opened

and kept one or more Days in each Week, as may be
thought most advantagious to the Inhabitants. Also, that the first
Meeting for the Choice of Town Officers, agreable to the Laws of
our said Province, shall be held on the First Tuesday of November
next which said Meeting shall be Notified by M"" Nathan^ House who
is hereby also appointed the Moderator of the said first Meeting,
which he is to Notify and Govern agreable to the Laws and Customs
of Our said Province ; and that the annual Meeting for ever liere-
after for the Choice of such Officers for the said Town, shall be on
the Second Tuesday of March annually. To Have and to Hold the
said Tract of Land as above expressed, together with all Privileges
and Appurtenances, to them and their respective Heirs and Assigns
forever, upon the following Conditions, viz.

ANDOVER. y

I. That every Grantee, his Heirs or Assigns shall plant and culti-
vate live Acres of Land within the Term of five Years for every fifty
Acres contained in his or their Share or Pro[)ortion of Land in said
Townsliip, and continue to improve and settle the same by addi-
tional Cultivations, on Penalty of the Forfeiture of his Grant or
Shave in the said T()\vnship, and of its reverting to Us, our Heirs and
Successors, to be by Us or Them Re-granted to such of our Subjects
as shall effectually settle and cultivate the same.

H. That all white and other Pine Trees within the said Township,
fit for Masting Our Royal Navy, be carefully preserved for that Use,
and none to be cut or felled without Our special Licence for so
doing first had and' obtained, upon the Penalty of the Forfeiture of
the Right of such Grantee, his Heirs and Assigns, to Us, our
Heirs and Successors, as well as being subject to the Penalty of
any Act or Acts of Parliament that now are, or hereafter shail be
P^nacted.

HL That before any Division of the Land be made to and among
the Grantees, a Tract of Land as near the Centre of the said Town-
ship as the Land will admit of, shall be reserved and marked out for
Town Lots, one of which shall be allotted to each Grantee of the
Contents of one Acre.

IV. Yielding and pa3dng therefor to Us, our Heirs and Successors
for the Space of ten Years, to be computed from the Date hereof,
the Rent of one Ear of Lidian Corn only, on the twenty-fifth Day of
December annually, if lawfully demanded, the first Payment to be
made on the twenty-fifth Day of December. 1762

V. Every Proprietor, Settler or Inhabitant, shall yield and pay
unto Us, our Heirs and Successors yearly, and every Year forevei",
from and after the Expiration of ten Years from the abovesaid twen-
ty-fifth Day of December^ namely, on the twenty-fifth Day of Decem-
ber^ which will be in the Year of Our Lord 1772 One shilling Proc-
lamation Money for every Hundred Acres he so owns, settles or pos-
sesses, and so in Proportion for a greater or lesser Tract of the said
Land ; which Money shall be paid by the respective Persons above-
said, their Heirs or Assigns, in our Council Chamber in Portsmouth
or to such Officer or Officers as shall be appointed to receive the
same ; and this is to be in Lieu of all other Rents and Services what-
soever.

In Testimony whereof we have caused the Seal of our said Pro-
vince to be hereunto affixed. Witness Benning VVentworth, Esq ;
Our Governor and Commander in Chief of Our said Province, the
IS*** Day of October In the Year of our Lord Christ, One Thous-

CHARTER RECORDS.

and Seven Hundred and Sixty One And in the First Year of Our
Reign.

B Wentwortli

By His Excellency's Command,
AVitii Advice of Council,

Theodore Atkinson Sec''^

Province of New Hamps' Octo' 13 1761

Recorded According to the Origional charter under the Province
Seal

^ Theodore Atkinson Sec''y

*2-279 *The Names of the Grantees of Andover (Viz*)

Nathan' House
Timoy Wasburne
James Wriglit
Nathan Damman
Elisha Bill
Eliphalet House
Gain Miller
Benj^ Little
Simeon Curtis
Freman Ellis
.lessee Townsend
Cons* Woodward
Orlando Mack Jun"^

Nathan' Dunham
John Damman
Jon^ Swetland
Will"" Swetland
Rufus Rude
Philip Bell
Nath' White
Joseph Wright
Tho^ Lymau
David Strong
John Nelson
Bennony Clark
Robert Hunter
Sam' Sprague

Benajah Bill

Israel Woodward Jun'' John Sprague
John Lossan Aaron Clark

Joseph Hibbard Benj** House

Denison Kingsbury Steph" Hutchinson

Sam' Fish

Israel Woodward

Asael Clark
Jon^ Brown
Tho* Perkins
John Gibbs Jun'
Will™ Hunt
Stephen Hunt Jun""
James Simes
Joseph Loamer
Will™ Downer
Orlando Mack
David Townsend
Thomas Lyman
Robert Benet
Benony Lomis
Will"" Sims
Benj'-^ Attwill
Solo in an Tupper
Ezekel Thomas
Mark Hs VVentworth Esq
John Mills
John Rond
Stephen Emerson

The*^** Atkinson Esq Peter Easman
Benj^ Emerson Simon Stevens

Jacob Sawyer Peter Mors

His Excellenc}^ Penning Wentworth Esq a Tract of Land to Con-
taiu five Hundred Acres as Marked B-W- in the Plan which is to be
Accounted two of the within Shares, One Share for the Incorpor-
ated society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts,
One Share for a Glebe for the Church of England as by Law Es-
tablished, One share for the first Settled Miuister of the Gospell &
One Share for the Benefit of a school in said Town

ARLINGTON.

Province of New Hamps*^ Octo : 13, 1761

Recorded from the back of the Origional Charter of Andover un-
der the Prov® Seal

Attested "^ Theodore Atkinson Sec'^

^PlcLTi of Mrxdovit

2,3 S 00 >4cr«5

''i-»l^ULt /\A ptl\t^'/i/

Prov«« of New Hamps^ Octo' 13, 1761

Recorded from the l)ack of the Origional Charter of Andover
under the Prov^ Seal

^ Theodore Atkinson Sec^y

Arling['ton

1' s

ARLINGTON.

*2-81

*Province of New-Hampshire.
GEORGE, THE Third,
By the Grace of God, of Great-Britain, France and
Ireland, King, Defender of the Faith, &c.

To all Persons to whotn these Presents shall come^
^ ^ — -^^ ^ Greeting.

Know ye, that We of Our special Grace, certain Knowledge,
and raeer Motion, for the due Encouragement of settling a New
Plantation within our said Province, by and with the Advice of
our Trusty and Well-beloved Benning Wentworth, Esq ; Our

12 CHARTER RECORDS.

Governor and Coinmander in Chief of Our said Province of New-
Hampshire, in Neiv-Enfiland, and of our Council of the said prov-
ince ; Have upon the Conditions and Reservations herein after
made, given and granted, and by these Presents, for us, our Heirs,
and Successors, do give and grant in equal Sliares, unto Our loving-
Subjects, Inhabitants of Our said Province of New-Hamjyslilre^ and
Our other Governments, and to their Heirs and Assigns for ever,
whose Names are entred on this Grant, to be divided to and amongst
them into Sixty Eight equal Shares, all that Tract or Parcel of Land
situate, lying and being within our said Province of New- Hampshire^
containing by Admeasurement, Twenty Three Thousand & forty
Acres, which Tract is to contain Six Miles square, and no more ;
out of which an Allowance is to be made for High Ways and unim-
provable Lands by Rocks, Ponds, Mountains and Rivers, One
Thousand and Forty Acres free, according to a Plan and Survey
thereof, made by Our said Governor's Order, and returned into the
Secretary's Office, and hereunto annexed, butted and bounded as
follows. Viz. Beginning at A Stake Six Miles due North of the
North West Corner of Bennington from thence due North or by the
Magnet North Ten degrees East Six Miles from thence East Ten
degrees South by the Needle Six Miles from thence South Ten
Degrees West by the Needle Six Miles from thence West Ten
degrees North Six Miles to the Bounds first Mentioned — And that
the same be, and herpby is Incorporated into a Township by the
Name of Arlington And the Inhabitants that do or shall hereafter
inhabit the said Township, are herebj^ declared to be Enfranchized
with and Intitled to all and every the Priviledges and Immunities
that other Towns within Our Province by Law Exercise and Enjoy :
And further, that the said Town as soon as there shall be Fifty
Families resident and settled thereon, shall have the Liberty of hold-
ing Two Fairs, one of which shall be held on the

And the other on the
annually, which Fairs are not to continue
longer than the respective following the said

and that as soon as the said Town shall
*2-82 consist of Fifty Families, a Market may be *opened and
kept one or more Days in each Week, as may be thought
most advantagious to the Inhabitants. Also, that the first Meeting
for the Choice of Town Officers, agreable to the Laws of our said
Province, shall be held on the First Wednesday in October Next
which said Meeting shall be Notified by Isaac Searl who is hereby
also appointed the Moderator of the said first Meeting, which he is
to Notify and Govern agreable to the Laws and Customs of Our

ARLINGTON. 13

said Province ; and that the annual Meeting- for ever hereafter for
the Choice of such OtMcers for the said Town, shall be on the Second
Tuesday of March annually, To Have and to Hold the said Tract
of Land as above expressed, together with all Privileges and Ap-
purtenances, to them and their respective Heirs and Assigns forever,
upon the following Conditions, viz.

I. That every Grantee, his Heirs or Assigns shall plant and culti-
vate five Acres of Land within the Term of five Years for every fifty
Acres contained in his or their Share or Proportion of Land in said
Townshi[», and continue to improve and settle the same b}' additional
Cultivations, on Penalty of the Forfeiture of his Gi-ant or Share in
the said Townshijj, and of its reverting to Us, our Heirs and Suc-
cessors, to be by Us or Thera Re-granted to such of Our Subjects as
shall effectually settle and cultivate the same.

H. That all white and other Pine Trees within the said Township,
fit for iNlasting Our Royal Navy, be carefully preserved for that Use,
and none to be cut or felled without Our special Licence for so
doing first had and obtained, upon the Penalty of the Forfeiture of
the Right of such Grantee, his Heirs and Assigns, to Us, our Heirs
and Successors, as well as being subject to the Penalty of any Act
or Acts of Parliament that now are, or hereafter shall be Enacted.

HI. That before any Division of the Land be made to and among
the Grantees, a Tract of Land as near the Centre of the said Town-
ship as the Laud will admit of, shall be reserved and marked out for
Town Lots, one of which shall be allotted to each Grantee of the
Contents of one Acre.

IV. Yielding and paying therefor to Us, our Heirs and Successors,
for the Space of ten Years, to be computed from the Date hereof,
the Lent of one Ear of Indian Corn only, on the twenty-fifth Day of
December annuall}', if lawfully demanded, the first Payment to be
made on the twenty -fifth Day of December. 1762

V. Every Proprietor, Settler or Inhabitant, shall yield and pay
unto Us, our Heirs and Successors yearly, and every Year forever,
from and after the Expiration of ten Years from the abovesaid
twenty-fifth Day of December., namely, on the twenty-fifth Day of
December., which will be in the Year of Our Lord 1772 One isJdlUng
Proclamation Money, for every Hundred Acres he so ovrns, settles
or possesses, and so in Proportion for a greater or lesser Tract of
the said Land; which Money shall be paid by the respective Persons
abovesaid, their Heirs or Assigns, in our Council Chamber in Ports-
mouth, or to such Officer or Officers as shall be appointed to receive
the same; and this is to be in Lieu of all other Rents and Services
whatsoever.

CHARTER RECORDS.

In Testimony whereof we have caused the Seal of our said Prov-
ince to be hereunto affixed. Witness Benning VVentworth, Esq;
Our Governor and Commander in Chief of Our said Province, the
28*^ Day of July In the Year of our Lord Christ, One Thousand
Seven Hundred and Sixtv one And in the First Year of Our Reig-n.

B Wentworth
By His Excellency's Command,
With Advice of Council,

Theodore Atkinson Sec''y

Province of New Kam\/ July 28^" 1761

Recorded from the Original und tlie Province Seal —

^ Theodore Atkinson Sec'^

*2-83 *The Names of the Grantees of Arlington (Viz)

John Searl Ebenez'' Hunt

Docf Samuel Mather Noah Parsons

James Lyman
Elisha Searl
Nathan Lyman
Hezzekiah Wright
Ebenez'' Strong
Jonathan Strong
Isaac Searl
Abiaham Dibble
David Beebee
Nehemiah Smedley
William Warner
Jedediah Smedley
Asael Beebee

Medad Edwards
John Parsons
Jon^ Basscomb
Nathaniel Searl
Joseph Allen
Increes Clark
James Searl
Jeremiah Hosford
John Landon
Josiah Hosford
Samuel Curtis
William Hosford

Moses Kingslej
Ebenez"^ Clark
Ephraim Parsons
Samuel Janes
Ebenez"^^ Pomry
Caleb Strong
Israel Rust
Timothy Wright
Daniel Hosford
Hezekiah Jones
Hezzekiah Jones
John Smedley
John Beebee Esq
Abraham Hollembeck
John Dean

James Beebee

Jonathan Kilburne Jonathan Killburne Jun*" Benjamin Culver
Daniel Cole Daniel Hosford jun' Theodore Atkinson Esq

Mark Hunks Wentworth Esq

Maj"" John Wentworth Sara" Wentworth Boston
Benning Wentworth Wiseman Clagget John George Gregger

Sam" Roberts Henry Borns Peter Lampson &

Henry Young John Hosford jun""

One Tract of Land to Contain Five Hundred Acres for his Excel-
lency Benning Wentworth Esq as Marked B: W: in the Plan which
is to be Accounted Two of the within Shares one whole Share for
the Incorporated Society for Propagating the Gospel in foreign
Parts One whole Share for A Glebe lor the Church of England as

ARLINGTON.

by Law Established one Share for the first Settled Minister of the
Gospel & one Share for the Benefit of A School in Said Town

Province of New Hamp' Jul}- 28'" 1761

Recorded from the Back of the Original Charter of Arlington
nnder tlie Province Seal

^ Theodore Atkinson Sec^y

J)■^^■£'a<^^<>7■Ay^^c- Tna.qTie.i J.vo'* So-u.i'K. (sTTlilea

K
"=«;

IB.W:

Province of New Hamp'' July 28 — 1761

Recorded from the Back of the Original Charter of Arlington
under the Pro^ Seal

19 Theodore Atkinson Sec^y

16 CHARTER RECORDS.

AVERILL.

*2-389 *Province of New-Hampshire.

Averill GEORGE, the Third,

, .— .^^— V . By the Grace of God, of Great-Britiaii, France and

\ / Ireland, King, Defender of the P'aith, &c.

I ' ( To all Persons to whom these Presents shall come^

^ — -■.^•^ -' Greeting.

Know ye, that We of Our special Grace, certain Knowledge, and
meer Motion, for the due Encouragement of settling a Neio Planta-
tion within our said Province, by and with the Advice of our
Trnsty and Well-beloved Benning Wentworth, Esq ; Our Gov-
ernor and Commander in Chief of Our said Province of New-Hamp-
shire in Neu'-England, and of our Council of the said Province;
Have upon the Conditions and Reservations herein after made,
given and granted, and by these Presents, for' us, our Heirs, and
Successors, do give and grant in equal Shares, unto Our loving Sub-
jects, Inhabitants of Our said Province of New-Hampshire, and Our
other Governments, and to their Heirs and Assigns for ever, whose
Names are entred on this Grant, to be divided to and amongst them
into Seventy equal Shares, all that Tract or Parcel of Land situate,
lying and being within our said Province of New-Hampshire, con-
taining by Admeasurement, Twenty Three Thousand & forty Acres,
which Tract is to contain Six Miles square, and no more; out of
which an Allowance is to be made for High Ways and unimprovable
Lands by Rocks, Ponds, Mountains and Rivers, One Thousand and
Forty Acres free, according to a Plan and Survey thereof, made by
Our said Governor's Order, and returned into the Secretary's Office,
and hereunto annexed, butted and bounded as follows. Viz. Begin-
ing at the Westerly corner Tree of Limington, then runing by Lym-
ington to the Northerly corner thereof being about Six Miles &
carrying that breadth back North Westerly between the Town of
Lewis & ungranted Lands, so far as that a Parralell Line with Lim-
ington Line aforesaid will Encompass the Contents of Six Miles
square — And that the same be, and hereby is Incorporated into a
Township by the Name of Averill And the Inhabitants that do or
shall hereafter inhabit the said Township, are hereby declared to be
Enfranchized with and Intitled to all and every the Priviledges and
Immunities that other Towns within Our Province by Law Exer-
cise and Enjoy : And further, that the said Town as soon as there
shall be Fifty Families resident and settled thereon, shall have the

AVE RILL. 17

Liberty of holding Tioo Fairs, one of which shall be held on the

And the other on the
annually, which Fairs are not to continue longer than the respective
following the said and that as soon as the said

Town shall consist of Fifty Families, a Market may be
*opened and kept one or more Days in each Week, as may *2-390
be thought most advantagious to the Inhabitants. Also,
that the first Meeting for the Choice of Town Officers, agreable to
the Laws of our said Province, shall be held on the Second Tues-
day in August next which said Meeting shall be Notified by M"^
Sam : Smith who is hereby also appointed the Moderator of the said
first Meeting, which he is to Notify and Govern agreable to the
Laws and Customs of Our said Province; and that the annual
Meeting for ever hereafter for the Choice of such Officers for the
said Town, shall be on the Second Tuesday of March annually. To
Have and to Hold the said Tract of Land as above expressed, to-
gether with all Privileges and Appurtenances, to them and their
respective Heirs and Assigns forever, upon the following Conditions,
viz.

L That every Grantee, his Heirs or Assigns shall plant and cul-
tivate five Acres of Land within the Term of live Years for every
fifty Acres contained in his or their Share or Proportion of Land in
said Township, and continue to improve and settle the same by
additional Cultivations, on Penalty of the Forfeiture of his Grant
or Share in the said Township, and of its reverting to Us, our Heirs
and Successors, to be hj Us or them Re-granted to such of Our Sub-
jects as shall effectually settle and cultivate the same.

n. That all white and other Pine Trees within the said Township,
fit for Masting Our Royal Navy, be carefully preserved for that Use,
and none to be cut or felled without Our special Licence for so
doing first had and obtained, upon the Penalty of the Forfeiture of
the Right of such Grantee, his Heirs and Assigns, to Us, our Heirs
and Successors, as well as being subject to the Penalty of any Act
or Acts of Parliament that now are, or hereafter shall be enacted.

IV. Yielding and pa3'ing therefor to Us, our Heirs and Succes-
sors for the Space of ten Years, to be computed from the Date here-
of, the Rent of one Ear of Indian Corn only, on the twenty-fifth Day

CHARTER RECORDS.

of December annually, if lawfully demanded, the first Payment to be
made on the twenty-fifth day of December. 1763

V. Every Proprietor, Settler or Inhabitant, shall yield and pay
unto Us, our Heirs and Successors yearly, and every Year forever,
from and after the Expiration of ten Years from the abovesaid twen-
ty-fifth Day of December, namely, on the twenty-fifth Day of Decem-
ber^ which will be in the Year of Our Lord 1773 One shiUing Proc-
lamation Money for every Hundred Acres he so owns, settles or
possesses, and so in Proportiton for a greater or lesser Tract of the
said Land ; which Money shall be paid by the respective Persons
abovesaid, their Heirs and Assigns, in our Council Chamber in Ports-
mouthj or to such Officer or Officers as shall be appointed to receive
the same ; and this is to be in Lieu of all other Rents and Services
whatsoever.

In Testimony whereof we have caused the Seal of our said Pro-
ince to be hereunto affixed. Witness, Benning Wentworth,
Esq ; Our Governor and Commander in Chief of Our said Province,
the 29'** Day of June In the Year of our Lord Christ, One Thous-
and Seven Hundred and Sixty two And in the Second Year of Our
Reign.

B Wentworth

By His Excellency's Command,
With Advice of Council,

T Atkinson Jun' Sec^

Prov« of New Hamp"- June 29-1762
Recorded According to the Original Charter under the Prov® Seal

W T Atkinson Jun' Sec^^

*2-391

*The Names of the Grantees of Averill (Viz)

Daniel Betts
Steph"^ Burr
Steph"! Gold
Seth Sam : Smith
Joseph Sanford
James Sanford
Nathan Sanford
Sam : Barlow
Nath^ Barlow
John Sanford
Sam : Hungerford
Eben' Williams
Ephr™ Jackson
Gershom Morhousej'

Benj* Betts
Hezekiah Burr
Philip Burit
Will"^ Greene
Zalmon Read
Steph" Sanford
Tho^ Perry
James Barlow
Steph" Meade
Lemuel Sanford
Ezekiel Sanford
Theo"' Hull
Nath : Bartlett
Lemuel Sanford

David Betts
Seth Sanford
Sara' Smith
Eben' Greene
Joseph Adams
Jos'' Sanford Jun^
Rich'* Allison
Jabez Barlow
Oliver Sanford
Sara : Averill
Hezekiah Sanford
Seth Hull
Tho» Rouland
Sara' Cornwell

AVERTLL.

Rich<i Squier James Hull Tho« Gold

Gurdon Merchant David Lyon And^^ Pacthen

Peter Fairchild Will"^ Havvley Asa Norton

Reuben Booth And^^ Fairchild Joshua Hall

Joshua Hall Jun' Simon Couch Jun' James Gray
Seth Hall Jun' Benj=* Fairchild Zalmon Hill

Hon : John Downing Esq Hon : John Temple Esq
L G Ricli'^ Wibird Esq Jos : Newmarch Esq —

His Excellency Beiining Wentworth Esq a Tract of Land to Con-
tain Five Hundred Acres as marked B- W-in The Plan, which is to be
Accounted two of the within shares, one whole share for the Incor-
porated society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts,
one Share for a Glebe for the Church of England as by Law Estab-
lish'd, one Share for the first settled Minister of the Gospel & one
Share for the benefit of a school in said Town

Prov« of New Hamp' June 29'»» 1762

Recorded from the Back of the original Charter of Averill under
the Pro^ Seal

W T Atkinson Jun' SeC^

Flan of

J.3^0^0 /4ci'«S

.-^S'^

'^9

Prov* of New Hamp' June 29^^ 1762

Recorded from the Back of the original Charter of averill under
the Pro^ Seal

f T Atkinson Jun' Sec^y

20 CHARTER RECORDS.

BARNARD.

*2-73 ^Province of New-Hampshire.

Bernard GEORGE the Third,

^ <— -^^.^ . By the Grace of God, of Great-Britain, France
\ / and Ireland, King, Defender of the Faith, &c.

i I To all Pe7'S07is to ivhoin these Presents shall come,

^ -^0"^."-^ -'' Greeting.

Know ye, that We of Our special Grace, certain Knowledge,
and meer Motion, for the due Encouragement of settling a New
Plantation within our said Province, by and with the Advice of
our Trusty and Well-beloved Benning Wentworth, Esq ; Our
Governor and Commander in Chief of Our said Province of New
Hampshire in Neiv-England, and of our Council of the said Prov-
ince; Have upon the Conditions and Reservations herein after
made, given and granted, and by these Presents, for us, our Heirs,
and Successors, do give and grant in equal Shares, unto Our loving
Subjects, Inhabitants of Our said Province of New-Hampshire, and
Our other Governments, and to their Heirs and Assigns for ever,
whose Names are entred on this Grant, to be divided to and amongst
them into Sixty Nine equal Shares, all that Tract or Parcel of Land
situate, lying and being within our said Province of Neiv- Hampshire,
containing by Admeasurement, twenty Six Thousand Acres, which
Tract is to contain Six miles and one half Mile square, and no more ;
out of which an Allowance is to be made for High Ways and unim-
provable Lands by Rocks, Ponds, Mountains and Rivers, One Thous-
and and Forty Acres free, according to a Plan and Survey thereof,
made by Our said Governor's Order, and returned into the Secre-
tary's Office, and hereunto annexed, butted and bounded as follows.

Viz. Begining at the North East Corner of Bridgwater Which is
the South west Corner of Pomfret, from Thence North Sixty de-
grees west Six miles (by Bridgwater) to the Northwest Corner
Thereof, from Thence North thirty two degrees East Seven miles,
from Thence South Sixty degrees East Six miles to the Northwest
Corner of Pomfret from Thence by Pomfret to the first Bounds
mentioned — And that the same be, and hereby is Incorporated into
a Township by the Name of Bernard And the Inhabitants that do or
shall hereafter inhabit the said Township, are hereby declared to be
Enfranchized with and Intitled to all and every the Priviledges and
Immunities that other Towns within Our Province by Law Exercise
and Enjoy: And further, that the said Town as soon as there shall

BARNARD. 21

be Fifty Families resident and settled thereon, shall have the Lib-
erty of holding Two Fairs, one of which shall be held on the

And the other on the
annually, which Fairs are not to continue longer
than the respective following the said

and that as soon as the said Town shall
consist of Fifty Families, a Market may be *opened and *2-74
kept one or more Days in each Week, as may be thought
most advantagious to the Inhabitants. Also, that the first Meeting
for the Choice of Tow^u Ofiicers, agreable to the Laws of our said
Province, shall be held on the first Tuesday of September Next
which said Meeting shall be Notified by William Story who is
hereby also appointed the Moderator of the said first Meeting, which
he is to Notify and Govern agreable to the Laws and Customs of
Our said Province ; and that the annual Meeting for ever hereafter
for the Choice of such Officers for the said Town, shall be on the
Second Tuesday of March annually. To Have and to Hold the said
Tract of Land as above expressed, together with all Privileges and
Appurtenances, to them and their respective Heirs and Assigns for-
ever, upon the following Conditions, viz.

I. That every Grantee, his Heirs or Assigns shall plant and cul-
tivate five Acres of Land within the Term of five Years for every
fifty Acres contained in his or their Share or Proportion of Land in
said Township, and continue to improve and settle the same by ad-
ditional Cultivations, on Penalty of the Forfeiture of his Grant or
Share in the said Township, and of its reverting to Us, our Heirs
and Successors, to be by Us or Them Re-granted to such of Our Sub-
jects as shall effectually settle and cultivate the same.

n. That all white and other Pine Trees within the said Township,
fit for Masting Our Royal Navy, be carefully preserved for that Use,
and none to be cut or felled without Our special Licence for so do-
ing first had and obtained, upon the Penalty of the Forfeiture of the
Right of such Grantee, his Heirs and Assigns, to Us, our Heirs and.
Successors, as well as being subject to the Penalty of any Act or
Acts of Parliament that now are, or hereafter shall be Enacted.

IV. Yielding and paying therefor to Us, our Heirs and Successors
for the Space of ten Years, to be computed from the Date hereof,
the Rent of one Ear of Indian Corn only, on the twenty-fifth Day of

CHARTER RECORDS.

December annually, if lawfully demanded, the first Payment to be
made on the twenty-fifth day of December, 1762

V. Every Proprietor, Settler or Inhabitant, shall yield and pay
unto Us, our Heirs and Successors yearly, and every Year forever,
from and after the Expiration of ten Years from the abovesaid
twenty-fifth Day of December^ namely, on the twenty-fifth day of
December^ which will be in the Year of Our Lord 1772 One shilling
Proclamation Money for every Hundred Acres he so owns, settles or
possesses, and so in Proportion for a greater or lesser Tract of the said
Land ; which Money shall be paid by the respective Persons above-
said, their Heirs or Assigns, in our Council Chamber in Portsmouth
or to such Officer or Officers as shall be appointed to receive the
same; and this is to be in Lieu of all other Rents and Services
whatsoever.

In Testimony whereof we have caused the Seal of our said Pro-
vince to be hereunto affixed. Witness Benning Wentworth, Esq ;
Our Governor and Commander in Chief of Our said Province, the
Seventeenth Day of July In the Year of our Lord Christ, One
Thousand Seven Hundred and Sixty one And in the first Year of
Our Reign.

B Wentworth

By His Excellency's Command,
With Advice of Council,

Theodore Atkinson SeC^

Province of New Hampshire July 17*'' 1761

Recorded According to the Original under the Province Seal

19 Theodore Atkinson Sec'^

*2-75 *The Names

of the Grantees of the Township of B

Bernard

William Story

Boston

Josiah Fairfield

Wen ham

Francis Bernard Esq

Boston

John Ruddock

Boston

John Bernard

D»

Elisha Story

D°

Abiel Ruddock

D°

William Sloan

Jarathmiel Converse

D»

Francis Bernard jun'

D«

Story Daws

W™ Daws jun""

Thomas Anderson

D«

Jeremiah Saintfair

D°

Jon=^ M^far

D«

Jonas Jonathan

James Hollowell

D°

Richard Champny

Boston

Thomas Bently

Joshua Bently

John Delarue

D«

Zebulon Grice

D°

Ebenez' Pemberton

Bost°

Icabod Inkester

Joel Bellman

Peter Curtis

D«

Thomas Kirk

D«

Joseph Stoneham

D°

BARNARD.

W™ Dodge Ipswich

Isaac Dodge D"
Mathew Fairfield Weiiham

Isacker Fish D"

Robert M'-'niellon Boston

Elias Thompson D°

Isaac Bucknam Boston

John Box D°

Partrick Burt Boston

John Edward D°

Arthur Abbot D°

Joseph Newmarch Esq D°
Jonathan Lovewell Esq
George Jaffrey Esq
Thales Greenwood
James Macdonnongh
M' Rich*^ Emerv &

\ym Dodge jun' Ipswich

Ismael Tarbox D**

Tobias Fish Wenham

Isaac Longfellow Boston

Isaac Dickman D**

Benj'* Fairfield Wenham

Benj^ Goldthwait Boston

John Box JLin'' D"

Elisha Hains D«

Joseph Webb D°

John Vaughan D**

Dan" Warner Esq D«
Sam" Sherburne Esq
ReV^ Anthony Wibird
John Wendall
Hunking Wentworth

Sam" Wentworth Boston

His Excellency Benning Wentworth Esq A Tract as marked in
the Plan B : W: — to Contain Five Hundred Acres which is to be
Accounted Two of the within Shares One whole Share for the Incor-
porated Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in foreign Parts
One whole Share for the first Settled Minister of the Gospel one
Share for the Benefit of A School in Said Town One whole Share
for A Glebe for the Church of England as by Law Established

Province of New Hamp' July 17'^ 1761

Recorded from the Original under the Province Seal

f Theodore Atkinson Sec'y

24 CHARTER RECORDS.

Recorded from the Back of the Original Charter under the Prov-
ince Seal this IT^*^ July 1761

19 Theodore Atkinson Sec'y

L s

BARNET.

3-54 * Province of New-Hampshire.

Barnett GEORGE, the Third,

^ , — ''— ^ >^ By the Grace of God, of Great-Britain, France and
Ireland, King, Defender of the Faith, &c.

To all Persons to whom these Presents shall come,

^ V-— ^*i^ -' Greeting.

Know Ye, that We, of Onr special Grace, certain Knowledge, and
meer Motion, for the due Encouragement of settling a Hetv Planta-
tion within our said Province, by and with the Advice of our Trusty
and Well-beloved Benning Wentworth, Esq ; Our Governor and
Commander in Chief of Our said Province of New-Hampshire, in
New-England and of Our Council of the said Province ; Have
upon the Conditions and Reservations herein after made, given and
granted, and by these Presents, for Us, Our Heirs, and Successors,
do give and grant in equal Shares, unto Our loving Subjects, Inhab-
itants of Our said Province of Neiv-Hampshire, and Our other Gov-
ernments, and to their Heirs and Assigns for ever, whose Names are
entred on this Grant, to be divided to and amongst them into Sev-
enty three equal Shares, all that Tract or Parcel of Land situate,
lying and being within our said Province of New-JIatnpshire, con-
taining by Admeasurement 23,040 Acres, which Tract is to contain
Six Miles square, and no more ; out of which an Allowance is to be
made for High Wa3^s and unimprovable Lands by Rocks, Ponds,
Mountains and Rivers, One Thousand and Forty Acres free, accord-
ing to a Plan and Survey thereof, made by Our said Governor's
Order, and returned into the Secretary's Office, and hereunto an-
nexed, butted and bounded as follows. Viz. Begining at the North
Westerly Corner Bounds of y^ Town of Ryegate & from thence Run-
ing South Sixty Eight Degrees East by Ryegate to the North East-
erly Corner Bounds thereof being a Tree Standing on the Banks of
the Westerly Side of Connecticut River thence up the said River as
that Tends so far as to make Six Miles on a Streight Line thence
Turning off & Runing North 28 Degrees West so far a that a
Streight Line Drawn from that Period to the North Westerly Corner
Bounds of Ryegate the Bounds Began at shall Include the Contents

BARNET. 25

of Six Miles Square — And that the same be, and hereby is Incorpo-
rated into a ToAvnship by the Name of Barnet And the Inhabitants
that do or shall hereafter inhabit the said Township, are hereby
declared to be Enfranchized with and Intitled to all and every the
Priviledges and Immunities that other Towns within Our Province
by Law Exercise and Enjoy : And further, that the said Town as
soon as there shall be Fifty Families resident and settled thereon,
shall have the Liberty of holding two Fairs, one of which shall be
held on the And the other on the

annually, which Fairs are not to continue longer than the respective

following the said
and that as soon as the said Town shall consist of Fifty Fam-
ilies, a Market may be *opened and kept one or more Days *3-55
in each Week, as may be thought most advantagious to the
Inhabitants. Also, that the first Meeting for the Choice of Town
Officers, agreable to the Laws of our said Province, shall be held on
the first Tuesday of October next which said Meeting shall be Noti-
fied by M'' Simons Stevens who is hereby also appointed the Moder-
ator of the said first Meeting, which he is to Notify and Govern
agreable to the Laws and Customs of Our said Province ; and that
the annual Meeting for ever hereafter for the Choice of such Officers
for the said Town, shall be on the of March annually.

To Have and to Hold the said Tract of Land as above expressed,
together with all Privileges and Appurtenances, to them and their
respective Heirs and Assigns forever, upon the following Conditions,
viz.

I. That every Grantee, his Heirs or Assigns shall plant and culti-
vate five Acres of Land within the Term of five Years for every
fifty Acres contained in his or their Share or Proportion of Land in
said Township, and continue to improve and settle the same by
additional Cultivations, on Penalty of the Forfeiture of his Grant
or Share in the said Township, and of its reverting to Us, our Heirs
and Successors, to be by Us or them Re-granted to such of our Sub-
jects as shall effectually settle and cultivate the same.

II. That all white and other Pine Trees within the said Township,
fit for Masting Our Royal Navy, be carefully preserved for that Use,
and none to be cut or felled without Our special Licence for so doing
first had and obtained, upon the Penalty of the Forfeiture of the
Right of such Grantee, his Heirs and Assigns, to Us, our Heirs and
Successors, as well as being subject to the Penalty of any Act or
Acts of Parliament that now are, or hereafter shall be Enacted.

III. That before any Division of the Land be made to and among
the Grantees, a Tract of Land as near the Centre of the said Town-

26 CHARTER RECORDS.

ship as the Land will admit of, shall be reserved and marked out for
Town Lots, one of which shall be allotted to each Grantee of the
Contents of one Acre.

IV. Yielding and paj'ing therefor to Us, our Heirs and Successors
for the Space of ten Years, to be computed from the Date hereof, the
Rent of one Ear of Indian Corn only, on the twenty-fifth Day of
December annually, if lawfully demanded, the first Payment to be
made on the twenty-fifth Da}^ of December. 1763

V. Every Proprietor, Settler or Inhabitant, shall yield and pay
unto Us, our Heirs and Successors yearly, and every Year forever,
from and after the Expiration of ten Years from the abovesaid
twenty-fifth Day of December, namely, on the twenty-fifth Day of
December, which will be in the Year of Our Lord 1773 One shilling
Proclamation Money for every Hundred Acres he so owns, settles or
possesses, and so in Proportion for a greater or lesser Tract of the
said Land ; which Money shall be paid by the respective Persons
abovesaid, their Heirs or Assigns, in our Council Chamber in Ports-
mouth, or to such Officer or Officers as shall be appointed to receive
the same ; and this is to be in Lieu of all other Rents and Services
whatsoever.

In Testimony whereof we have caused the Seal of our said Prov-
ince to be hereunto affixed. Witness Benning Wentworth, Esq;
Our Governor and Commander in Chief of Our said Province, the
16'** Day of September In the Year of our Lord Christ, One Thous-
and Seven Hundred and Sixty Three And in the Third Year of Our
Reign.

B Wentworth

By His Excellency's Command,
With Advice of Council,

T Atkinson Jun' Sec'^

Province of New Hampshire Sept' 16*'^ 1763

Recorded from the Original Charter under the Province Seal

f T Atkinson Jun'' Sec'^

*3-56 *The Names of the Grantees of Barnet Viz

Simons Stevens Abijah Willard Nathan Baldwin
William Jennisson Sterns Lemuel Hastings Abel Willard

Enos Stevens John Hastings Levi Willard

Elijah Williams Samuel Stevens Thomas Sterns Jun'

Thomas Furber William Grimes David Brewster

Joseph Stevens Samuel How Robert Lavit Fowle

Nathan Willard Phineas Stevens Henry Quincy

David Stone Samuel Hall Daniel Fowle

BAKNET.

Joshua Willard
Stephen Jones
Elijah Alexander
Timothy Taylor
Willard Stevens
Samuel Marble
William Smeed
Joseph Hammond
Benjamin Melvin

Joel Stone
Jonathan Brewer
John Searls
John Ellis
Ephraim Adams
John Gould
Mathew Liverraore
John Peirce

Elijah King
Joseph Stevens Jun'
Thomas Davis
Samuel Whitemore
Thomas Blanchard
Jeremiah Hall
Simons Stevens
Jonathan Hammond

Abijah Willard Jun' Daniel Jones
John Blunt Henry Appleton

Fairbanks Moore Meshech Bell Sen
John Odiorne Samuel Hobart

Thomas Sterns Stevens Oliver Fairwell
Benjamin Hall
Daniel Odeorne
Oliver Willard

Benjamin Bell Sen'
John Card

The Hon^^e Theod' Atkinson Jun' )

Nathi Barren & [ Esq"

William Temple )

His Excellency Benning Wentworth Esq a Tract of Land to Con-
tain five Hundred Acres as Marked B W in the Plan which is to be
Accounted two of the within Shares. One whole Share for the Incor-
porated Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts.
One whole Share for a Glebe for the Church of England as by
Law Established. One Share for the first Settled Minister of the Gos-
pel & One Share for the Benefit of a School in said Town for Ever —

Province of New Hamp' Sept' 16^^^ 1763

Recorded from the Back of the Original charter under the Prov-
ince Seal

19 T Atkinson Jun' Sec'y

CHARTER RECORDS.

Provmce of New Hamp' Sept' 16'^^ 1763

Recorded from the Back of the Original Charter under the Prov-
ince Seal

19 T Atkinson Jun' Sec''

P SEAL

BENNINGTON. 29

BENNINGTON.

*Province of New Hampshire *l-47

GEORGE the Second by the Grace of God
of Great Brittain France And Ireland King Defender
of the faith *fcc'* —
^ s^^-v-*^ ^ To ALL Persons to whom these Presents Shall

Bennington come, Greeting

Know ye that We of our Especial Grace, Certain Knowl-
edge & Mere Motion for the Due Encouragement of Settling A
New Plantation within Our S'^ Province By and with the Ad-
vise of Our Trusty & well beloved Benning Wentworth Esq our
Governour & Com'ander in Chieff of our Said Province of New
Hampshire in America And Of Our Council of the Said Province
Have upon the Conditions & reservations herein after made Given &
Granted — And by these Presents for us our heirs & Successors Do
give And Grant in Equal Shares unto our Loveing Subjects Inhabi-
tants of our Said Province of New Hampshire And his Majesties
Other Governm" And to thier heirs and Assignes for ever whose
names Are Entred on this Grant to be Divided to and Amongst
them into Sixty four Equal Shares All that Tract or Parcell of Land
Scituate Lying & being within our Said Province of New Hampshire
Containing by Admeasurement Twenty three thousend & forty
Acres which Tract is to Contain Six Miles Square & no more Out of
which An Allowence is to be made for high ways & unimproveable
Lands, by Rock, Ponds Mountains & Rivers One thousend And forty
Acres free According to A Plan & Survey thereof made by our Said
Governour's order by Mathew Clesson Surveyer returnd into the
Secretarys office And hereunto Annexed Butted and Bounded as
follows Viz — Begining at A Crotched Hemlock Tree Marked W ; W :
Six miles Due North of A White Oak Tree Standing in the Northern
Boundary Line of the Province of the Massachusetts Bay Twenty
four Miles East of Hudsons River Marked M : C : J : T : and from Said
Hemlock Tree West Ten degrees North four Miles to A Stake &
Stones which is the South West Corner and from Said Stake &
Stones North Ten degrees East Six miles to A Stake & Stones which
is the North West Corner and from Said Stake & Stones East Ten
Degrees South Six Miles to A Stake & Stones which is the North
East Corner And from thence South Ten degrees West Six Miles to

30 CHARTER RECORDS.

a Stake & Stones which is the South East Corner & from thence
West Ten degrees North two Miles to the Crotched Hemlock First
mentioned — And that the Same be & hereby is Incorporated
*l-48 into a Township By the Name of *Bennington and the
Inhabitants that do or Shall hereafter Inhabit the Said
Township Are hereby Declared to be Enfranchized with and Inti-
tuled to All & Every the Previledges & Imunities that Other
Towns within Our Province by Law Exercize & Enjoy and further
that the Said Town as Soon as there Shall be fifty families resident
And Settled thereon Shall have the Liberty of Holding two Fairs
One of which Shall be held On the first Monday in the Month of
March and the Other on the iirst Monday in the Month of Septem-
ber Annually which fairs Are not to Continue And be held Longer
than the respective Saturdays following the Said Mondays And that
As Soon as the Said Town Shall Consist of fifty Families A market
Shall be Opened & kept one or more Days in Each Week as may be
tho* most Advantagious to the Inhabitants Also that the first Meet-
ing for the Choice of Town officers Agreeable to the Laws of Our
Said Province Shall be held on the Last Wednesday of March next
which Said Meeting Shall be notified by Coll William Williams who
is hereby also Appointed the Moderator of the Said first Meeting
which he is to Notify & Govern Agreeable to the Laws & Custom of
our Said Province And that the Annual Meeting forever hereafter
for the Choice of Such officers for the S"* Town Shall be on the Last
Wednesday of March Annually — To have & to hold the said Tract
of Land as above Expressd togeather with All Previledges And
Appurtenances to them & thier respective Heirs And Assignes for
ever upon the following Conditions Viz —

Imprimis That every Grantee his heirs or Assignes Shall Plant
And Cultivate Five Acres of Land within the Term of five years for
Every fifty Acres Contained in his or thier Share or Proportion of
Land in Said Township And Continue to Improve & Settle the Same
by Aditionall Cultivations on Penalty of the forfieture of his Grant
or Share in the Said Township and of its reverting to his Majesty his
hiers & Successors to be by him or them regranted to Such of his
Subjects as Shall Effectually Settle & Cultivate the Same

Secundo That All white & other Pine Trees within the said
Township fit for masting our Royal Navy be carefull}^ Preserved for
that Use And None to be Cut or felld without his Maj'y^ Especial
Lycence for So doing first had & Obtained upon the Penalty of the
forfeiture of the right of Such Grantee his hiers or Assignes to us
our hiers or Successors as well as being Subject to the Penalty of

BENNINGTON. 31

Any Act or Acts of Parliament that now are or hereafter Shall be
Enacted

Tertio That before Any Division of the Said Land be
made to and *Amoung the Grantees a Tract of Land as near *l-4:9
the Center of the Said Township as the Land will admit of,
Shall be reserved & Marked Out for Town Lotts one of which Shall
be Allotted to Each Grantee of the Contents of One Acre —

Quarto Yielding & Paying therefor to us our Hiers &, Successors
for the Space of Ten Years to be Computed from the Date hereof the
rent of one Ear of Indian Corn only on the Twenty fifth Day of
December Annually if Lawfully Demanded the first Payment to be
made on the Twenty fifth Day of December next Ensueing the Date
hereof —

Quinto Every Proprietor Settler or Inhabitant Shall Yield & Pay
unto us our hiers & Successors Yearly & every Year for ever from &
after the Expiration of Ten years from the Date hereof Namly on the
Twenty fifth Day of December which will be in the year of Our
Lord 1760 — One Shilling Proclamation Money for every Hundred
Acres he So Owns Settles or Possesses and so in Proportion for a
greater or A Lesser Tract of the Said Land which money Shall be
paid by the Respective Persons above S*^ thier hiers or Assignes iu
our Council Chamber in Portsmouth or to Such officer or officers as
Shall be Appointed to receive the Same and this to be in Lieu of all
other rents or Services whatsoever

In Testamony whereof We have Caused the Seal of our Said Pro-
vince to be hereunto Affixed Wittness Penning Wentworth Esq our
Governour & Com'ander in Chieff of our Said Province the Third
Day of January in the Year of Our Lord Christ One thousand Seven
hundred & forty Nine and in the Twenty third Year of Our Reign —

B Wentworth

By his Excelencys Comand
with Advice of the Council

Theod' Atkinson Sec'y

Record the IV^ of Jan^^ 1749

^ Theodore Atkinson Sec^^

Names of the Grantees

William Williams Hugh Morrison John Clearing

Ezeck Johnson John McHarris Josiah Williams

David Pixley Samuel Kingston Elijah Williams jun'

Benj'^ Dreadnot Jacob Cooper Samuel Robinson

John S* Clair Symon Diamond Josiah Williams jun''

Edward Longstaff Eph™ Williams Jun' W" Williams jun'

CHARTER RECORDS.

Nath'^ Sparhawk Simon Sharp

John Hamond Sami' Taylor Tho' Chelters

John Perkins Timothy Knox Michael Colbey

*l-50 Thomas Williams Thomas Walkup*Soloman Williams jim'

Israel Williams Joseph Patterall Joseph Wood
Nahum Humphreys jun' John Legonier

Aron Wire
Sam^' Stanfast
Charles Doolittle
John Calhoon
Richard Wibird
Sampson Sheaffe

William Sabens
Fortunatus Hunt
Thomas George
Peter Diamond
Sam^' Smith

John Williams
John Butterworth
Thomas Rich
Theodore Atkinson
John Downing
School

Joseph Simpson
Foster Wentworth
John M'^murphy
Thomas Walingsford

Ministers
Benning Wentworth Benning Wentworth
John Wentworth George Walton
Clem* March Thomas Bell

Richard Jennes John Gage

Attest' Theodore Atkinson Sec'^

Entred & recorded According to the Original this 11*^ Jan'' 1749

^ Theodore Atkinson Sec'y

A Plan of A Township in his Majesties Province of New Hamp-
shire on Melloomscock River Twenty miles East of Hudson's River &
Six miles North of the Province Line —

s»^»"^A /Vp<":Ai *r^zUjpiM.

A Plan of a Town Ship of Six mile Square Lying in his Majesties
Province of New Hampshire Laid Out by Mathew Clesson Surveyer
Abraham Bass John Hooker Ezekail Foster & Sam'' Calhoon Chain-

BENNINGTON. 33

men ill Pursuance of an order from his Excelency Benninpj Went-
wortli Esq Governour of Said Province to Coll William Williams
Lying Six miles North of the I^rovince Line that was run by M""
Richard Hazzen between Said Government and the Province of the
^Massachusetts Bay and Twenty Miles East of Iludsons River (Viz)
begining at a Crotched Hemlock Tree Marked W : W : Six miles
Due North or at a Right Angle from S'^ Province Line Said Angle
Comenceing at a White Oak Tree in Said Line Marked M : C : J : T :
which Tree is Twenty four Miles East from Hudsons River Allowing
one Chane in Thirty for Swagg (which Allowence is made thr6 the
whole following Survey) and from Said Hemlock Tree W : 10*^ North
four Miles to A Stake & Stones and from Said Stake & Stones
North 10^ East Six Miles to a Stake & Stones *from thence *1-51
E: 10^' South Six miles to A Stake & Stones and from thence
South lO'^ West to A Stake & Stones and from thence West lO'J
North Two Miles to the Hemlock first Mentioned which Survey
was made November 1749

^ Mr Mathew Cleson Survey'

Hamp' ss October 30**^ 1749 Mathew Cleson Survey' John Taylor
Ezekiel Foster & W°» Williston Chain men & on Nov : 3'' 1749 John
Hooker Abraham Bass & Sam'' Calhoon were all Sworne to the faith-
full Performances of thier respective Services afore Said and for the
above Survey

Coram Timothy Dwight Jus' Pac^

A Plan of the Township of Bennington Granted by his Excelency
Benning Wentworth Esq Governour &C''' and the Hon^'*^ His Maj'y*
Council of New Hampshire in America unto Coll W™ Williams &
Others Jan'y 3^' 1749 As it is to be Plotted by a Surveyer & Chain
men upon Oath unto Each Proprietor or Grantee in Equal Shares be
thier Lotts better or worse (Excepting the four Lotts next the Town
Plott or Scite which are Sixteen Acres Less Measure than the other
Lotts) as they were Drawn by the Agents for the Proprietors — Li
Portsmouth Jan'J' lO^*" 1749 and were Entred by the Secretary of Said
Province upon this Plan Each Man takeing his Chance whose Name
Stands in the Schednle Annexed to the Grant of s*' Township

CHARTER RECORDS.

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Entred And Recorded this 11*^ Day of Jan^y 1749

"59 Theodore Atkinson Sec''^

BERLIN. 35

BERLIN.

*Province of New-Hampshire. *2-473

Berlin GEORGE, the Third,

, .-*^— ^ . By the Grace of God, of Great-Britain, France and
\ / Ireland, King, Defender of the Faith &c.

J ' "( ^" '^^^ Persons to ivhom these Presents shall come,

^ ^— ^^ — ■ - Greeting.

Know ye, that We of Our special Grace, certain Knowledge, and
meer Motion, for the due Encouragement of settling a Neiv Planta-
tion within our said Province, by and with the Advice of our Trusty
and Well-beloved Benning VVentworth, Esq ; Our Governor and
Commander in Chief of Our said Province of New-Hampshire, in
Neiv-Enjilayuh and of our Council of the said Province ; Have,
upon the Conditions and Reservations herein after made, given and
granted, and by these Presents, for us, our Heirs, and Successors,
do give and grant in equal Shares, unto Our loving Subjects, Inhabi-
tants of Our said Province of JVew-Hampshire, and Our other Govern-
ments, and to their Heirs and Assigns for ever, whose Names are
entred on this Grant, to be divided to and amongst them into Seventy
equal Shares, all that Tract or Parcel of Land situate, lying and
being within our said Province of New-Hampshire, containing by
Admeasurement 23040 Acres, which Tract is to contain Six Miles
square, and no more; out of which an Allowance is to be made for
High Ways and unimprovable Lands by Rocks, Ponds, Mountains
and Rivers, One Thousand and Forty Acres free, according to a Plan
and Survey thereof, made by Our said Governor's Order, and
returned into the Secretary's Office, and hereunto annexed, butted
and bounded as follows, Viz. Begining at the North Easterly Corner
of ^Nloretown at the southerly side of Onion or French River, from
thence Easterly up said River & bounding on the same so far as to
make six Miles on a streight Line allowing the same to be Perpen-
dicular with the Easterly Line of said Moretown, from thence South-
erly a Parralell Lino with the Easterly Line of said Moretown Six
Miles, from thence Westerly about six Miles to the southerly corner
of Moretown from thence Northerly l)y said Moretown six Miles to
the said River the place begun at And that the same be, and hereb}'
is Incorijorated into a Townshi[» by the Name of Berlin And the
Inhabitants that do or shall hereafter inhabit the said Township, are
hereby declared to be Enfranchized with andlntitled to all and every
the Priviledges and Immunities that other Towns within Our Prov-

36 CHARTER RECORDS.

ince by Law Exercise and Enjoy: And further, that the said Town
as soon as there shall be Fifty Families resident and settled thereon,
shall have the Liberty of holding Two Falrs^ one of which shall be
held on the And the other on the

annually, which Fairs are not to continue longer than the respective
following the said and that

as soon as the said Town shall consist of Fifty Families, a
*2-474 Market may be *opened and kept one or more Days in each
Week, as may be thought most advantageous to the Inhabi-
tants. Also, that the first Meeting for the Choice of Town Officers,
agreable to the Laws of our said Province, shall be held on the ID^**
July next which said meeting shall be Notified by Theodore Van
Wyck Esq' who is hereby also appointed the Moderator of the said
first Meeting, which he is to Notify and Govern agreable to the
Laws and Customs of Our said Province; and that the annual Meet-
ing for ever hereafter for the Choice of such Officers for the said
Town, shall be on the Second Tuesday of March annually, To Have
and to Hold the said Tract of Land as above expressed, together
with all Privileges and Appurtances, to them and their respective
Heirs and Assigns forever, npon the following Conditions, viz.

L That every Grantee, his Heirs or Assigns shall plant and culti-
vate five Acres of Land within the Term of tive Years for every fifty
Acres contained in his or their Share or Proportion of Land in said
Township, and continue to improve and settle the same by additional
Cultivations, on Penalty of the Forfeiture of his Grant or Share in
the said Township, and of its reverting to Us, our Heirs and Success-
ors, to be by Us or them Re-granted to such of Our Subjects as shall
effectuall}' settle and cultivate the same.

n. That all white and other Pine Trees within the said Township,
fit for Masting Our Royal Navy, be carefully preserved for that Use,
and none to be cut or felled without Our special Licence for so doing
first had and obtained, npon the Penalty of the Forfeiture of the
Right of such Grantee, his Heirs and Assigns, to Us, our Heirs and
Successors, as well as being subject to the Penalty of any Act or
Acts of Parliament that now are, or hereafter shall be Enacted.

IV. Yielding and paying therefor to Us, our Heirs and Successors
for the Space of ten Years, to be computed from the Date hereof, the
Rent of one Ear of Indian Corn only, on the twentj'-fifth Day of

BERLIN. 37

December annually, if lawfully demanded, the first Payment to be
made on the twenty-iifth da}' of Decemher. 1768

V. Every Proprietor, Settler or Inhabitant, shall yield and pay
unto Us, our Heirs and Successors yearly, and every Year forever,
from and after the Expiration of ten Years from the abovesaid
twenty-fifth Day of December^ namely, on the twenty-fifth Day of
Beeemlirr, which will be in the Year of Our Lord 1773 One shilling
Proclamation Money for every Hundred Acres he so owns, settles or
possesses, and so in Proportion for a greater or lesser Tract of the
said Land; which Money shall be paid by the respective Persons
abovesaid, their Heirs or Assigns, in our Council Chamber in Ports-
mouthy or to such Ofticer or Officers as shall be appointed to receive
the same ; and this is to be in Lieu of all other Rents and Services
whatsoever.

In Testimony whereof we have caused the Seal of our said Prov-
ince to be hereunto affixed. Witness BenjSTING Wentworth, Esq ;
Our Governor and Commander in Chief of Our said Province, the
Eighth Day of June In the Year of our Lord Christ, One Thousand
Seven Hundred and Sixty three And in the Third Year of Our
Reign.

B Wentworth

By His Excellency's Command,
With Advice of Council,

T Atkinson Jun' Sec^y

Province of New Hamp"^ June S'** 1763

Recorded according to the original Charter under the Pro^ Seal

f T Atkinson Jun' Sec'y

*2-474 *The Names of the Grantees of Berlin (Viz)

Rev** D' Chauncy Graham Jacob Griffin Matthias Horton

Matthew Brett John Sheerar David Love

John Sheerar Jun Henry Ter Bos Jun John Bally Jun'

Cornelius Van Wyck Gabriel Many Wines Many

Will™ Laurence John J Langdon Matt'' Allen

Aaron Brown Isaac Teller Jun Jere***^ Teller

Charles Piatt Tho^ Sheerar Will'" Sheerar

Benj'"* Roe Tlieodorus Van Wyck Jun"" David Sheerar

Theodorus Van Wyck Peter Horton Isaac Adriance

Simeon Smitii Cap' Jacobus Swartwo Rob*^ Sheerarut

Chauncy Graham Jun' Joseph Dorlin Geo: Isaac Brinckerhoff

Francis Way Dan* Lightheart Will"" Van Wyck

John Van Wyck Benj* Southard Jonas Canniff

Cap*^ Cornelius Swartwout Jacobus Swartwout Jun' Jonas Southard

CHARTER RECORDS.

Will'" Van tine

Nath' Sackett

Daniel Haasbrook

Isaac Hodge

Coll" John Brinckerhoff

Esq'^

James Wiltsie John Cooke

Andrew Bracestead Benj-^ Haasbrook
John Haltstead Cornelius Osburn

John Montross Hendrick Brewoort

Patrick M^Key Sam^ Averill

Daniel Sawyer Jun'

Hon: John Temple ^ Will" Temple

Theo Atkinson : > Esq''^ John Nelson

M'^ Hs VVentworth ) Theo: Atkinson Jnn' ^

His Excellency Benning Wentworth Esq' a Tract of Land to

Contain Five Hundred Acres as marked B-VV in the Plan, which is

to be Accounted two of the within shares, One whole Share for the

Incorporated Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign

Parts, One Share for a Glebe for the Church of England as by Law

Establish'd, One Share for the first settled Minister of the Gospell &

One Share for the benefit of a School in said Town —

Prov^ of New Harap"^ June 8"'— 1763

Recorded from the Back of the original Charter of Berlin under
the Pro''' Seal

13 T Atkinson Jun' Sec'^'

Province of New Hamp' June 8 — 1763

Recorded from the Back of the original Charter of Berlin under
the Pro^ Seal

19 T Atkinson Jun' Sec^^'

BLOOMFIELD. 39

BLOOM FIELD.

*Province of New-Hampshire. *2-377

Mineliead (tEOIIGE, the Third,

, ,— .1^— ^ . By the Grace of God, of Great-Britain, France and

) , , ( Ireland, King, Defender of the Faith &c.

To all Persona to ivhom these Presents shall come.

V s

MLS

Greeting.

Know ye, tliat We of Our special Grace, certain Knowledge, and
nicer Motion, for the due Encouragement of settling a New Planta-
tion within our said Province, by and with the Advice of our Trusty
and Well-beloved Bknning Weistworth, Esq ; Our Governor and
Commander in Chief of Our said Province of New-Hampshike in
New-EnylawU and of our CouNCTi. of the said Province; Have
upon the Conditions and Reservations herein after made, given and
granted, and by these Presents, for us, our Heirs, and Successors,
do give and grant in equal Shares, uuto Our loving Subjects, Inhabi-
tants of Our said Province of Neiv-Hainpshire , and to Our other Gov-
ernments, and to their Heirs and Assigns for ever, whose Names are
entred (>n this Grant, to be divided to and amongst them into
Seventy equal Shares, all that Tract or Parcel of Land situate, lying
and being within our said Province of New-Hampshire , containing by
Admeasurement Twenty Three Thousand & ioriy Acres, which Tract
is to contain Six Miles square, and no more ; out of which an
Allowance is to be made for High Ways and unimprovable Lands by
Rocks, Ponds, Mountains and Rivers, One Thousand and F'orty
Acres free, according to a plan and Survey thereof, made by Our
said Governor's Order, and returned into the Secretary's Office, and
hereunto annexed, butted and bounded as follows. Viz. Begining
at the most Easterly Corner of Brunswick at a Tree marked Stand-
ing on the Westerly side of Connecticut River at a place called the
upper Co'os thence North Easterly up Connecticut River bounding
upon said River so farr as to make Six Miles upon a Streight Line,
tlience carrying that breadth of six Miles North Westerly so farr as
that a Parralel line with the streight Line afores'' will make the Con-
tents of Six Miles Square — And that the same be, and hereby is
In','orporated into a Townshi[) by the Name of Minehead And the
Inhabitants that do or shall hereafter inhabit the said Township, are
hereby declared to be F^nfranchized with and Intitled to all and
every the Priviledges and Immunities that other Towns within Our
Province by Law Exercise and F^njoy : And further, that the said

40 CHARTER RECORDS.

Town as soon as there shall be Fifty Families resident and settled
thereon, shall have the Liberty of holding Two Fairs, one of which
shall be held on the And the other on the

annually, which Fairs are not to continue
longer than the respective following the said

and that as soon as the said Town shall consist
*2-378 of Fifty Families, a Market may be *o])ened and kept one
or more Days in each Week, as may be thought most advan-
tagious to the Inhabitants. Also, that the first Meeting for the Choice
of Town Officers, agreable to the Laws of our said Province, shall be
held on the Second Thursday in August which said Meeting shall be
Notified by M' Sam : Averill who is hereby also ayjpointed the Mod-
erator of the said first Meeting, which he is to Notify and Govern
agreable to the Laws and Customs of Our said Province ; and that
the annual Meeting for ever hereafter for the Choice of such Officers
for the said Town, shall be on the Second Tuesday of March annu-
ally. To Have and to Hold the said Tract of Land as above ex-
pressed, together with all Privileges and Appurtenances, to them and
their respective Heirs and Assigns forever, upon the following Condi-
tions, viz.

I. That every Grantee, his Heirs or Assigns shall plant and culti-
vate five Acres of Land within the Term of five Years for every fifty
Acres contained in his or their Share or Proportion of Land in said
Township, and continue to improve and settle the same by additional
Cultivations, on Penalty of the Forfeiture of his Grant or Share in
the said Township, and of its reverting to Us, our Heirs and Success-
ors, to be b}^ Us, or Them Re-granted to such of Our Subjects as shall
effectually settle and cultivate the same.

II. That all white and other Pine Trees within the said Township,
fit for Masting Our Royal Navy, be carefully preserved for that Use,
and none to be cut or felled without Our special Licence for so doing
first had and obtained, upon the Penalty of the Forfeiture of the
Right of such Grantee, his Heirs and Assigns, to Us, our Heirs and
Successors, as well as being subject to the Penalty of any Act or Acts
of Parliament that now are, or hereafter shall be Enacted.

HI. That before any Division of the Land be made to and among
the Grantees, a Tract of Land as near the Centre of the said Town-
ship as the Land will admit of, and shall be reserved and marked out
for Town Lots, one of which shall be allotted to each Grantee of the
Contents of one Acre.

IV. Yielding and paying therefor to Us, our Heirs and Successors
for the Space of ten Years, to be computed from the Date hereof, the
Rent of one Ear of Indian Corn onlj', on the twenty-fifth Day of

BLOOMFIELD.

Decemher annually, if lawfully demanded, the first Payment to be
on the twenty-fifth Day of December. 1763

V. Every Proprietor, Settler or Inhabitant, shall yield and pay
unto Us, our Heirs and Successors yearly, and every Year forever,
from and after the Expiration of ten Years from the abovesaid
twenty-fifth Day of Decemher, namely, on the twenty-fifth day of
December, which will be in the Year of Our Lord 1773 One shilling
Proclamation Money for every Hundred Acres he so owns, settles or
possesses, and so in Proportion for a greater or lesser Tract of the
said Land ; which Money shall be paid by the respective Persons
abovesaid, their Heirs or Assigns, in our Council Chamber in Ports-
mouth, or to such Officer or Officers as shall be appointed to receive
the same ; and this is to be in Lieu of all other Rents and Services
whatsoever.

In Testimony whereof we have caused the Seal of our said Prov-
ince to be hereunto affixed. Witness Benning Wentworth, Esq ;
Our Governor and Commander in Chief of Our said Province, the
29''^ day of June In the Year of our Lord Christ, One Thousand
Seven Hundred and Sixty two And in the Second Year of Our
Reign .

B Wentworth

By His Excellency's Command,
With Advice of Council,

T Atkinson Jun' Sects'

Province of New Hamp' June 29'^* 1762

Recorded According to the Original Charter under the Pro^ Seal

T Atkinson Jun"" SeC'

*The Names of the Grantees of Minehead Viz *2-379

Rev*^Noah Waddams Rev*^ Elijah Sill
Rev*^ Silvanus Osburn Auo-er Judson

Elisha Mills
David Doldwin Jun'
Nathan Beardslee
John Hains
Israel Johnson
Joseph Davis
Heath Garlick
Dan' Bostwick
Joseph Wheten
Cap' Nath : Boswick
David Hawley
Elias Keene
Zach''!' Nobles

Sam' Jones
Medad Wright
Brewster Dayton
Tho^ Wooster
Sam' Cathfield J'
Sam : Nichols
Reuben Booth
Dan' Peckitt
Samuel Mallery
Dan' Averill
Josiah Caswell
Steph" Nobles
Moroin Nobles

Rev^' Joel Bordwell
Beach Thomlinson
Sam' Hurd
Ephr"^ Beers
Steph" Frost
Joseph Holbrook
Wooster Twichell
Benj* Benitt
Mark Langdon
Sam' Canfield
Steph" Moreshouse
Moses Averill
Dan : Keene
Israel Nobles
Zephan'''' Branch

CHARTER RECORDS.

Benj* Mallery Sain^ Mallery Butler Mallery

Cap* Elipba'^ VVhitelsey Tho'' Beeman Aaron PhelpvS Jiin'

Sam^ Prindle Cap* Nathan Hicok John Marsh Portsm*'

Joseph Calhown James C'alhown David Calhovvn

Johij Calhown Will: Cogswell Sam : Averill

Hon Theo : Atkiuson Esq Will : Temple Esq Rich'^ Wirbird Esq

Dan : Warner Esq
His Excellency Benning Wentworth Esq. a Tract of Land to Con-
tain Five Hundred Acres as marked B-W- in the Plan w^'' is to be
Accounted two of the within Shares one whole share for the Incor-
j)orated Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts,
one Share for a Glebe for the Church of England as by Law Estab-
lish'd, one Share for the first settled Minister of the Gospel & one
Share for the Benefit of a school in said Town —

Pro^ of New Hamp^ June 29"' 1762

recorded from the Back of the Original Carter of Minehead under
the Pro^ Seal

T .Vtkinson Jun' Sec"'

'Bt.iMr'^ U^jym-nffo-n. '^/^^^ -r-n'rita^

ji^/u Jr- i^ntitnio' Ag-

Prov« New Hamp' June 29"' 1762

Recorded fi-om the Back of the Original Charter of Minehead

T Atkinson Jun' Sec'

BOLTON. 43

BOLTON.

*Province of New-Hampshire. *2-437

lU)lioii GEORGE, THE Thiud

. — » — -s . By the Grace of God, of Great-Britian, France and
\ 3 . ( Ireland, King, Defender of the Faith, &c.
j ^ { To all Pej'sons to whom these Presents shall come^

^ v-*^.-^ ^ (ireetinp;.

Know ye, that We of Our special Grace, certain Knowledge, and
nieer Motion, for the due Encouragement of settling a JVew Planta-
tion within our said Province, by and with the Advice of our Trusty
and Well-beloved Benning Wentworth, Esq ; Our Governor and
Commander in Chief of Our said Province of New-Hampshire in
NcH'-Eiijiland, and of our COUNCIL of the said Province ; Have
upon the Conditions and Reservations herein after made, given and
granted, and by these presents, for us, our Heirs, and Successors, do
give and grant in equal Shares, unto Our loving Subjects, Inhabi-
tants of Our said Province of New-Hampshire, and Our other Gov-
ernments, and to their Heirs and Assigns for ever, whose Names are
entred on this Grant, to be divided to and amongst them into Sev-
enty two equal Shares, all that Tract or Parcel of Eand situate, lying
and being within our said Province of Neiv- Hampshire, containing by
Admeasurement, 23040 Acres, which Tract is to contain Six Miles
square, and no more : out of which an Allowance is to be made for
Higli Ways and unimprovable Lands by Rocks, Ponds, Mountains
and Rivers, One Thousand and Forty Acres free, according to a Plan
and Survey thereof, made by Our said Governor's Order, and re-
turned into the Secretary's Othce, and hereunto annexed, butted and
bounded as follows, Viz. Begining at the Sonth East Corner of Jer-
ico on the Northerly side of Onion River (so called) from thence
Easterly runing up said River, so far as to make six Miles on a Line
Perpendicular with the South Easterly Line of said Jerico, from
thence Runing Six Miles Northerly upon a Parralell Line with the
line on the Easterly side of Jerico, from thence Runing Westerly
about six Miles to the North Easterly corner of said Jerico, from
thence Southerly by Jerico to where we began — And that the same
be, and hereby is Incorporated into a Township by the Name of Bol-
ton, And the Inhabitants that door shall hereafter inhabit the said
Township, are hereby declared to be Enfranchized with and Intitled
to all and every the Priviledges and Immunities that other Towns
within Our Province by Law Exercise and Enjoy: And further, that
the said Town as soon as there shall be Fifty Families resident and
settled thereon, shall have the Liberty of holding Two Fairs, one of

44 CHARTER RECORDS.

which shall be held on the And the other on the

annually, which Tairs are not to continue
longer than the respective following the said

and that as soon as the said Town shall
*2-438 consist of Fifty Families, a Market may be *opened and
kept one or more Days in each Week, as may be thought
most advantagious to the Inhabitants. Also, that the first Meeting
for the Choice of Town Officers, agreable to the Laws of our said
Province, shall be held on the 27"* Day of July next which said
Meeting shall be Notified by M' Tho^ Darling who is hereby also ap-
pointed the Moderator of the said first Meeting, which he is to Notify
and Govern agreable to the Laws and Customs of Our said Province ;
and that the annual Meeting for ever hereafter for the Choice of
such Officers for the said Town, shall be on the Second Tuesday of
March annually, To Have and to Hold the said Tract of Land as
above expressed, to gether with all Privileges and Appurtenances,
to them and their respective Heirs and Assigns forever, upon the
following Conditions, viz.

L That every Grantee, his Heirs or Assigns shall plant and culti-
vate five Acres of Land within the Term of five Years for every fifty
Acres contained in his oj- their Share or Proportion of Land in said
Township, and continue to improve and settle the same by additional
Cultivations, on Penalty of the Forfeiture of his Grant or Share in
the said Township, and of its reverting to Us, our Heirs and Suc-
cessors, to be by Us or Them Re-gra!ited to such of Our Subjects as
shall effectually settle and cultivate the same.

IL That all white and other Pine Trees within the said Township,
fit for Masting Our Royal Navy, be carefully preserved for that Use,
and none to be cut or felled without Our special Licence for so doing
first had and obtained, upon the Penalty of the Forfeiture of the
Right of such Grantee, his Heirs and Assigns, to Us, our Heirs and
Successors, as well as being subject to the Penalty of any Act or
Acts of Parliament that now are, or hereafter shall be Enacted.

IV. Yielding and i)aying therefor to Us, our Heirs and Successors
for the Space of ten Years, to be computed from the Date hereof, the
Rent of one Ear of Indian Corn only, on the twenty-fifth Day of
December annually, if lawfully demanded, the first Payment to be
made on the twentv-fifth Dav of December. 1763

BOLTOX.

V. Every Proprietor, Settler or Inhabitant, shall yield and pay
unto Us, our Heirs and Successors yearly, and every Year forever,
from and after the Expiration of ten Years from the abovesaid twen-
ty-fifth Day of December^ namely, on the twenty-fifth Day of December^
which will be in the Year of 0\ir Lord 1773 (hte shillini/ Proclama-
tion Money for every Hundred Acres he so owns, settles or possesses,
and so in Proportion for a greater or lesser Tract of the said Land ;
which Money shall be paid by the respective Persons abovesaid, their
Heirs or Assigns, in our Council Chamber in Portsmouth, or to such
Officer or Officers as shall be appointed to receive the same ; and this
to be in Lieu of all other Rents and Services whatsoever.

In Testimony whereof we have caused the Seal of our said Pro-
vince to be hereunto affixed. Witness Benning Wentworth, Esq;
Our Governor and Commander in Chief of Our said Province, the
Seventh Day of June In the Year of our Lord Chkist, One Thou-
sand Seven Hundred and Sixty three And in the Third Year of Our

Reign.

By His Excellency's Command,
With Advice of Council,

T Atkinson Jun'

B Wentworth

Sec^y

Prov® New Hamp' June 7-1763

Recorded According to the Original under the Prov^ Seal

19 T Atkinson Jun' Sec'^

^The Names of the Grantees of Bolton (Viz)

*2-439

George Bunnell
John Bonn ell
Tho^ Darling
Bethuel Person
Israel Ward
David Ward
Nathan Wilkison
Stephen Tuttle
Daniel Tuttle
Tho* Kiney
Phillip Hathaway
Benj'"* Coe
Eben' Haulbert
Elisha Frazee
John Macgilura
Stephen Day
William Darling

Josiah Broadwill
Alex^ Simpson
Isaac Clarke
Ezekiel Johnson
Jacob Morrell
Tho« Millidge
Alex' Carmicheal
Jon" Wilkison
Tho* Osborne
John Johnson
Tho^ Throope
Eben' Coe
Sam^ Hainds
Nath^ Cogswill
Enoch Beach
George Day
Thomas Day Esq"'

Nath' Bonnell
Will"" Broadwill
Henry Broadwill
Joel Osborn
Lawrence Wilson
Stephen Moore
Isaac Tuttle
Christ" Wood
Gil m on Freeman
Ephr™ Hayward
Elisha Wick
Seth Babbit
Wilber Clark
Dan' Cogswill
Crowell Wilkerson
Seth Crowell Jun'
Paul Day

CHARTER RECORDS.

Benf Day Matthias Clark Rich'' Minthorn

Joseph Ward David Samson Joseph Winget

Timothy Day
Sam' Averill Patridge Thatcher The Hon. Rich'' Wibird 1

Col** Joseph Smith ( p, r^ Zebulon Giddings John Downing > Esq''*
Peter Gilniau ) '^^ Daniel Warner )

His Excellency Benning Wentworth Esq' a Tract of Land to
Contain Five Hundred Acres as marked B. W in the Plan which is
to be Accounted two oft he within shares, One whole share for the
Incorporated Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign
Parts, One Share for a Glebe for the Church of England as by Law
Eslablish'd, One Share for the first settled Minister of the Gospel,
& One Share for the benefit of a School in said Town

Province of New Hamp'' June 7-1763

Recorded According to the Back of the original Charter Bolton
under the Pr° Seal

m T Atkinson Jun' Sec^y

S92M^^^r^^_^o:py A£^?^S^^

Belt,

0 7%,

.•r»

BRANDON. 47

Pro^ of New Ham]/ June 7-1763

Recorded from tlie Plan of the original Charter of Bolton und' the
Pro^' Seal

^ T Atkinson Jun^ Sec^^

BRANDON.

*2-325 *Provinee of New-Hampshire.

GEORGE, THE Third,
By the Grace of God, of Great-Britain, P>ance and
Ireland, King, Defender of the Faith &g.

To all Persons to ivhom these Presents shall come.
Greeting.

Know ye, that We of Our special Grace, certain Knowledge, and
nieer Motion, for the due Encouragement of settling a JYetr Planta-
tion within our said Province, by and with the Advice of our Trusty
and Well-beloved Benning Wentnvohth, Esq ; Our Governor and
Commander in Chief of Our said Province of New-Hampshire in
New-England, and of our Council of the said Province ; Havp:,
upon the Conditions and Reservations herein after made, given and
granted, and by these Presents, for ns, our Heirs, and Successors,
do give and grant in equal Shares, unto Our loving Snbjects, Inhabi-
tants of Onr said Province of Hew- Hampshire, and Our other Govern-
ments, and to their Heirs and Assigns for ever, whose Names are
entred on this Grant, to be divided to and amongst them into Sev-
enty Two equal Shares, all that Tract or Parcel of Land situate, lying
and being within our said Province of Neir-Hampshire, containing by
Admeasurement About Twenty Three Thousand Acres, which Tract
is to contain About Six Miles square, and no more: out of which an
Allowance is to be made for High Ways and unimprovable Lands by
Rocks, Ponds, Mountains and Rivers, One Thousand and Forty
Acres free, according to a Plan and Survey thereof, made by Our
said Governor's Order, and returned into the Secretary's Office, and
hereunto annexed, butted and bounded as follows. Viz. Begining at
the North Westerly Corner of Pittsford a Town lately Granted
within this Province & from thence Runing North, Four Degrees
West Six Miles, thence Runing East Five Deg^ South Six Miles,
thence South Four Deg^ East Six Miles to the North Easterly Corner
of Pittsford afores'* thence West Five Deg' North Six Miles by Pitts-
ford Afores*^ to the North Westerly Corner thereof the Bounds begun
at And that the same be. and hereby is Incorporated into a Town-
shi[) by the Name of Neshobe And the Inhabitants that do or shall

48 CHARTER RECORDS.

hereafter iiiluibit the said Township, are hereby dechired to be
Enfranchized with and Intitled to all and every the Priviledges and
Immunities that other Towns within Our ProAdnce by Law Exercise
and Enjoy: And further, that the said Town as soon as there shall
be Fifty Families resident and settled thereon, shall have the Liberty
of holding Two Fairs, one of which shall be held on the
And the other on the annually, which Fairs are not

to continue longer than the respective following

the said and that as soon as the said Town

shall consist of Fifty Families, a Market may be *opened *2-326
and kept one or more Days in each Week, as may be
thought most advantagious to tlie Inhabitants. Also, that the first
Meeting for the Choice of Town Officers, agreable to the Laws of
our said Province, shall be held on the Last Tuesday of November
next which said Meeting shall be Notified by Cap*^ Josiah Powers
who is hereby also appointed the Moderator of the said first Meeting,
which he is to Notify and Govern agreable to the Laws and Customs
of Our said Province; and that the annual JNleeting for ever here-
after for the Choice of such Officers for the said Town, shall be on
the Second Tuesday of March annually. To Have and to Hold the
said Tract of Land as above expressed, together with all Privileges
and Appurtenances, to them and their respective Heirs and Assigns
forever, upon the following Conditions, viz.

I. That every Grantee, his Heirs or Assigns shall plant and culti-
vate five Acres of Land within the Term of five Years for every fifty
Acres contained in his or their Share or Proportion of Land in said
Township, and continue to improve and settle the same by additional
Cultivations, on Penalty of the Forfeiture of his Grant or Share in
the said Township, and of its reverting to Us. our Heirs and Success-
ors, to be by Us or Them Re-granted to such of Onr Subjects as shall
effectually settle and cultivate the same.

II. That all white and other Pine Trees within the said Township,
fit for Masting Our Royal Navy, be carefully preserved for that Use,
and none to be cut or felled without Our special Licence for so
doing first had and obtained, upon the Penalty of the Forfeiture of
the Right of such Grantee, his Heirs and Assigns, to Us, our Heirs
and Successors, as well as being subject to the Penalty of any Act
or Acts of Parliament that now are, or hereafter shall be Enacted.

III. That before any Division of the Land be made to and among
the Grantees, a Tract of Land as near the Centre of the said Town-
ship as the Land will admit of, shall be reserved and marked out for
Town Lots, one of which shall be allotted to each Grantee of the
Contents of one Acre.

BRANDON. 49

IV. Yielding ami paying therefor to Us, our Heirs and Successors
for the Space of ten Years, to be computed from the Date hereof,
the Rent of one Ear of Indian Corn only, on the twenty-fifth Day of
December annually, if lawfully demanded, the first Payment to be
made on the twenty-fifth Day of December. 1762

V. Every Proprietor, Settler or Inhabitant, shall yield and i)ay
unto Us, our Heirs and Successors yearly, and everj^ Year forever,
from and after the Expiration of ten Years from the abovesaid
twenty-fifth Day of Decemher., namely, on the twenty-fifth Day of
December., which will be in the Year of Our Lord 1772 One shilling
Proclamation Money for every Hundred Acres he so owns, settles or
possesses, and so in Proportion for a greater or lesser Tract of the
said Land; which Money shall be paid by the respective Persons
abovesaid, their Heirs or Assigns, in our Council Chamber in Ports-
mouth., or to such Officer or Officers as shall be appointed to receive
the same; and this to be in Lieu of all other Rents and Services
whatsoever.

In Testimony whereof we have caused the Seal of our said Prov-
ince to be hereunto affixed. Witness Benning Wentwokth, Esq;
Our Governor and Commander in Chief of Our said Province, the
Twentieth Day of October In the Year of our Lord Christ, One
Thousand Seven Hundred and Sixty One And in the First Year of
Our Reign.

B Wentworth

By His Excellency's Command,
With Advice of Council,

Theodore Atkinson Sec'^

Province of New Hamps' Nov"" 3, 17dl

Recorded According to the Origional Charter under the Province
seal

1^ Theodore Atkinson Sec^y

*The Names of the Grantees of Neshobe Viz *2-327

.losiah Powers William Kyes Boaz Brown

David Powers Benj^ Shattock jun' Silas Wetherbee

.lonathan Read John Fox William Farr

Levi Farr Aaron Davis Samuel Pool

Nath" Farr Stephen Brown David Munrow

Walter Powers Joseph Fuller Phinehas Wilder

Edward Brown David Veners Nehemiah Fuller

Pvzekiel Wright John Lampson Aaron Brown

John Cum'ing Daniel Pond Amos Lampson

CHARTER RECORDS.

Silas Lanipsoii
Eliphalet Fales
Peter Wright
Eph"» Brown
Josiali Imwood
Aaron lirown
Benj'^ Robins
Benj** Powers
Ezekiel Powers
Titus Salter
Thomas Gibbs
Benjamin Read
Timothy Hale

Nath" Fellows
Nathan Chase
Joshua Wright
Nath'i Russell Esq
Thomas Sawyer
Elijah Powers
David Spafford
David Fales

Josiah Powers juir
Asa Holyest
Tilly Wilder
William Russell
William Frye
Aaron Brown juu""
P^zekiel Powers
Silas Brown
Theodore Atkinson Esq Joseph Nevvraarch Esq
Eph'" Sherman E[)h™ Sherman jun'

William Sliattock Jon" Hartwell

Joseph Read Thomas Munrow

Thomas Barret Timothy Fox

His Excellency Benning Wentworth Esq a Tract of Land to Con-
tain Five Hundred Acres as Marked B- W- in the Plan which is to
be Accounted Two of the within shares, Ojie whole Share for the
Incorporated Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign
Parts, One Share for a Glebe for the Church of England as by Law
Established, One Share for the First Settled Minister of the Gospell
& One Share for the Benefit of a school in said Town —

Province of New Hampshire Nov' 3. 1761

Recorded from the back of the Origional Charter of Neshobe under
the Province Seal —

Attested ^ Theodore Atkinson Sec'^

BRATTLEBOROUGH.

J^CLtt r Jay» llSov^/t Six 7T7xlta

Province of New Hamps'' Nov' 3, 1761

Recorded from the back of the Original Charter of Neshobe under

the Province Seal

Theodore Atkinson Se""'

BRATTLEBOROUGH.

»,1 ►■• K

P. s-

*1-181 *Province of New Hampshire

,-w^^-. ^ George the Second by the Grace of God of

Great Britain France & Ireland King Defender of the
Faith &c=^

To AH Persons to whom these Presents Shall come
Greeting
See Page (223) Know Yc that We of our Special Grace certain

more Time given Knowledge & mere motion for the Due Encour-

agement of Settling A New Plantation within our Said Province By
& with the advice of our Trusty & well beloved Beuning Went worth
Esq our Governour and Com'ander in Chieff of our Said Province

Brattleborrough

52 CHARTER RECORDS.

of New Hampshire in America and of our Council of the S'^ Province
Have upon the Conditions & Reservations hereafter made Given &
Granted & by these Presents for us our heirs & Successors Do Give
& Grant in Equal Shares unto our Loving Subjects Inhabitants of
our Said Province of New Hampshire and his Majestys Other Gov-
ernments and to their heirs & assigns for P^ver whose Names Are
Entered on this Grant to be Divided to & Amoungst them into fifty
Six Shares (Two of which Shares to be Laid out in one Tract of the
Contents of Eight Hundred Acres for his Excellency Benning Went-
worth Esq and is in full for his Two Shares hereof which Tract is
bounded as follows Viz begining at the rocks at the upper End of the
Fort meadow so called up Connecticut River two hundred & forty
Rodds & to Carry that Breadth back West ten degrees North So far
as to Contain Eight Hundred Acres) All that Tract or Parcel of
Land Scituate Lying & being within our Province of New Hampshire
Containing by Admeasurement Nineteen thousend Three hund<^ &
Sixty Acres which Tract is to Contain five miles & one half mile
square & no more out of which an allowence is to be made for high-
ways & unimprovable Lands by Rocks Mountains Ponds & Rivers One
thousend & forty acres free According to A Plan thereof made & Pre-
sented by our Said (xovernours orders and hereunto Annexed Butted
and Bounded as followeth — Viz — begining at the mouth of Venters
Brook So called where it Empties it self into Connecticut River and
ruYJs from thence six miles or thereabouts to the South East C'orner
of Marlebrough thence five miles North Ten degrees East by Marle-
brough aforesaid to A Stake & Stones in Said Line thence East Ten
degrees South to Connecticut River aforesaid then Down Said River
to the Bounds first mentioned at Venters brook Except A Tract of
Land Lying in the Said East Corner of tbe said Township Contain-
ing about Two hundred Acres as the same is now fenced in &
Improved which is hereby Granted & Assigned to Oliver Willard

& to his heirs And Assignes One of the within Grantees He
*1-182 having *heretofore Cleared and Improved the Said Tract

and is to be in full for his Share & Proportion of the said
Township Said Two hundred Acres are Bounded as followeth Viz Be-
gining At Venters Brook and runs West lO"^ North Sixt}' Rods to a
Hill & then runs under the Hill round as the Hill runs to the rocks
at the upper End of the meadow called fort meadow thence Down
the river to Venters Brook — And that the Same be and is incorpo-
rated into a Township by the Name of Brattleburough And that the
Inhabitants that do or Shall hereafter inhabit Said Township Are
hereby Declared to be Enfranchized with & Entituled to all & every
the Previledg€s & Imunitys that other Towns within our s'' Province

BKATTLEBOROUGH. 53

l)V Law Exercise & Enjoy and fnrther that the s'^ Town as soon as
there shall be fifty familys resident & Settled thereon Shall have the
Liberty of holding- Two fairs one of which Shall be held on the first
Thursday in October Annually and the Other on the first Thursday
in Feb'-'' Annually which Fairs Are not to Continue & be held
Longer than the Respective Saturdays following the s** Respective
Thursdays And As Soon as the Said Town Shall Consist of fifty fam-
ilys A Market Shall be Opened & kept one or more Days in Each
Week as may be tho' most Advantagious to the Ldiabitants Also
that the first Meeting for the Choice of Town officers Agreable to
the Laws of our Said Province Shall be held on the fifteen Day of
Jan'y next which Meeting Shall be Notifyed by Josiah Willard Esq
who is hereby also Appointed the Moderator of the said first Meeting
which he is to Notify & Govern Agreable to the Laws & Customs of
our Said Province And that the Annual Meeting for ever hereafter
for the Choice of Such officers of Said Town Shall be on the first
Wednesday in March Annually To have & to hold the Said Tract
of Land as above Expressed togeather with All the Previledges &
Appurtenances to them & their respective heirs And Assignes for
ever Upon the following Conditions — Viz — That every Grantee his
heirs or assignes Shall Plant or Cultivate five Acres of Land within
the Term of five years for every fifty Acres Contained in his or their
Share or Proportion of Land in said Township And Continue to Im-
prove & Settle the Same by Aditional Cultivation on Penalty of the
forfeiture of his Grant or Share in the Said Township and its revert-
ing to his Majesty his heirs & successors to be by him or them Re-
granted to such of his Subjects as Shall Effectually Settle & Culti-
vate the Same That all white & other Pine Trees within the Said
Township fit for Masting our Royal Navy be carefully Pre-
served for *that Use and none to be Cut or felled without *1-183
his Majestys Especial Lycence for So doing first had & Ob-
taind upon the Penalty of the forfeiture of the Right of Such Grantee
his heirs or assignes to us our heirs & Successors as well as being subject
to the Penalty of Any Act or Acts of Parliament that now are or
hereafter Shall be Enacted also his Maj^ys fort Dum'er & A Tract
of Land of fifty rods Square round it — Viz — fifty rods West Twenty
five Rods South & Twenty five Rods North of said Fort — That before
Any Division of the Land be made to And Amoungst the Grantees A
Tract of Land as near the Center of the Townshi[) as the Land will
Admit of Shall be reserved & marked Out for Town Lotts one of
whicli Shall be allotted to Each Grantee of the Contents of one
Acre Yeilding & Paying therefor to us our heirs & successors for the
Space of Ten years to be Computed from the Date hereof the Rent

54 CHARTER RECORDS.

of one Ear of Indian Corn only on the first day of January Annually
if Lawfully Demanded the first Payment to be made on the first Day
of January after the first of January next Ensueing the Date hereof
and every Proprietor Settler or Inhabitant Shall Yeild & Pay unto us
our heirs & successors Yearly & Every year for ever from & after the
Expiration of the Ten years from the Date hereof Namely on the first
Day of January which will be in the year of our Lord Christ one
thousend Seven hundred & sixty four One Shilling Proclamation
money for every hundred Acres he so owns Settles or Possesses and
So in Proportion for A Greater or Lesser Tract of the Said Land
which money Shall be paid by the Respective Persons abovesaid their
heirs or assigns In our Council Chamber In Portsmouth or to such
officer or officers as Shall be Appointed to Receive the Same and this
to be in Lieu of All Other Rents & Services whatsoever in Testi-
mony hereof We have Caused the Seal of our Said Province to be
hereunto affixed Wittness Benning Wentworth Esq our Governour
& Commander in Chieff of our Said Province the Twenty sixth Day
of December in the year of our Lord Christ 1753 And in the Twenty
seventh year of Our Reign

B Wentworth

By his Excellencys Comand with
Advice of Council

Theodore Atkinson Sec'y

Entred & recorded According to the Original Under the Prov Seal
this 27'^' Day of December 1753

■^ Theodore Atkinson Sec^

Names of the Grantees of Brattleburough-Viz —

William Brattle, Jacob Wendell, James Read,

Isaac Bradish, Owen Warland, William Lee,

Ebenezer Smith, William Gamage, John Hicks,
*1-184 *Ebenezer Bradish, James Whitemore, William Manning,

Thomas Sherren, Thomas Hastings, Jonathan Sprague,
John Warland, Benjamin Lynde, Andrew Oliver jun',

William Bowls, Cornelius Woodbury, William Willard,

Oliver Willard, Samuel Allen, Moses Wright,

Sampson French, Joseph French, William Fessenden,

Stephen Palmer, Stephen Palmer jun', William Barrett,
Daniel Printice, Caleb Prentice, Ebenezer Stedman,

Edward Marritt jun% Abner Hasey, Benjamin French,

Thomas Blanchard, Thomas Blanchard jun', Jacob Fletcher,
Samuel Searles, Samuel French, Sampson Willard,

BRATTLEBOROUGH.

Oliver Coleburne, Jeremiah Coleburne, Peter Powers,
Stephen Powers, Daniel Emerson, William Laurence,

Abel I^aiirence, Mathew Livermore, Theodore Atkinson,

his Excellency Benning Wentworth Esq A Tract of Land to Con-
tain Eight hundred Acres which is to be Accounted Two of the
within mentioned Shares & Laid out & Bounded as within mentioned
One whole Share for the Licorporated Society for the Propagation of
the Gospel in forreign Parts one whole Share for the first Settled
Minister of the Gospel in Said Town, One whole Share for a Glebe
for the Ministry of the Church of England as by Law Established —
Also his Maj^ys Fort Dumraer and a Tract of Land of Fifty rods
Square round it Viz — 50 rods West Twenty five rods South &
Twenty five rods North of said fort

Recorded from the Back of the Charter for Brattleburough the
27*'' Day of December 1753

^# Theodore Atkinson Sec'y

r.a

'y^W

Ht-^'Up'^' ?^?M

yi«>Up<" i^?M.

Taken from the Plan on the Back of the Charter of Brattlebur-
ough this 27"' of December 1753

le Theodore Atkinson Sec'y

56 charter records.

[Brattleboro Charter Renewed, 1760.]

*l-22o *Province of ) George the Second by the Grace of God of
New Hamp' \ Great Britain France & Ireland King De-

Brattlebnrough fender of the Faith &c''
Lengthned Out &q^ To All People to whom these Presents Shall
^ ^ s, come Greeting

f ^ Whereas We of our Special Grace & mere

<( Prov Seal )■ Motion for the due Encouragement And Set-

I J tling of a New Plantation within our Province

"- .^ -^ of New Hampshire by Oui- Letters Patent

See (181) or Charter under the Seal of Our Said Prov-

ince Dated the 26*^' Day of December in the Twenty Seventh year
of Our Reign Granted a Tract of Land equal to Six Miles Square
bounded as therein expressed to a Number of Our Loyal Sub-
jects whose Names are Entred on the Same to Hold to them their
Heirs & Assigns on the Conditions therein declared to be a Town
Corporate by the Name of Brattleburough as by referrence to the
sd Charter may more fully Appear —

And Whereas the Said Grantees have represented that by the In-
tervention of an Indian Warr Since the making of said Grant it has
been Impracticable to Comply with and fulfill the Conditions afore-
said & Humbly suplicated us not to take advantage of the Breach
of said Conditions but to Lengthen out & Grant them some
reasonable Term for the Performance thereof after the Said hiipedi-
ment shall cease

Now Know Ye that We being Willing to Promote the End Pro-
posed have of our Further Grace & Favour suspended our Claim of
the Forfeitures which the said Grantees may have incurrd and by
these Presents do Grant unto the Said Grantees their Heirs & As-
signs the Term of One Year for Promoteing & Fullfilling the Condi-
tions Matters & Things by them to be done which Term is to be
renewd Annually until His Maj''^'^ Plenary Instructions Shall be
received relative to the Incident that has Prevented A Complyence
with the Charter according to the True Intent & Meaning thereof —

In Testimony whereof We have caused the Seal of Our Said Prov-
ince to be hereunto affixed Wittness Penning Wentworth Esq our
Governour & Com'ander in Chieff the Eleventh Day of June
Annoq Domini 1760

B Wentworth

By his Excellencys Com'and
with Advice of Council

Theodore Atkinson Sec'^

BRATTLEBOROTJGH. 57

IVov of New lianip''

Recorded according to the Original under the Province Seal the
12'" Day of June 17G0

19 Theodore Atkinson Sec'y

[BUATTLEBORO CHARTER RENEWED, 1761.]

*Province of New Hampshire *1-2B8

Brattleburough George The Third by the Gi-ace of God of

, ^^--^-^-^ . Great Britain F'rance & Ireland King Defender of tlie
\ / faith &c-

i I To all whom these Presents shall come Greeting

' -^...^.^.^ J Whereas our Late Royall Grandfather King

George tlie Second of Glorious Memory did of his Special grace
and mere motion for the Encouragement of setling a "^qw Plantation
within our said Province of New Hampshire by his Letters Patient
or Charter under the Seal of our said Province dated the 26"^ day of
Decemb' 1753 & in the 27''' Year of his Majestys Reign Grant a
Tract of Land equal to five & i Miles square Bounded as therein
Expressed to a Number of our Loyal Subjects whose Names are
Entered on the same to hold to them their Heirs or Assigns on the
Conditions therein Declared to be a Town Corporate by the Name of
Brattlebourough as by Reference to the said Charter may more fully
appear

And whereas the said Grantees have Represented that by the
Intervention of an Indian Warr since making y*^ said Grant it has
been Impracticable to comply with and fulfill the Conditions & hum-
bly Supplicated us not to take Advantage of the Breach of said Con-
ditions but to Lengthen out & Grant them some Reasonable time for
Performance thereof after the said Impediment shall Cease

Now Know Ye that we being willing to Promote the End Proposed
have of our Further Grace «S: Favour Suspended our Claim of the
forfeiture whicli the said Grantees may liave Incurred & by these
Presents do grant unto the said Grantees tlieir Heirs & Assigns the
Term of one Year for Performing & Fulfilling the Conditions Mat-
ters & things by them to be done which Term is to be Renewed An-
nually if the same Impediment Remains untill our Plenary Instruc-
tions shall be Received Relating to the Incident that has Prevented
a Compliance with the said Charter According to the Intent &
meaning of the same

In Testimony whereof we have Caused the Seal of our said
Province to be hereunto Affixed Witness Penning Wentworth

68 CHARTER RECORDS.

Esq' our Governour and Couimaiider in C'heif of onr Province afore-
said the 6"" day of July in the Year of our Lord Christ 1761 and in
the first Year of his Majestys Reign

B Went worth

By his Excellency's Command
with Advice of Council

Theod' Atkinson Se'^

Prov« of New Hamp"" July 7'^ 1761
Recorded from the original

19 Theodore Atkinson Sec'^

BRIDGEWATER.

*2-65 *Province of New-Hampshire.

Bridgewater GEORGE the Third,

By the Grace of God, of Great-Britain, France and
Ireland, King, Defender of the Faith, &c.

To all Persons to wltojn these Presents shall come,,
Greeting.

Know ye, that We of Our special Grace, certain Knowledge,
and nieer Motion, for the due Encouragement of settling a New
Plantation within our said Province, by and with the Advice of
our Trusty and Well-beloved Benning Wentworth, Esq ; Our
Governor and Commander in Chief of Our said Province of New-
Hampshire in New-England., and of our Council of the said Prov-
ince; Have upon the Conditions and Reservations herein after
made, given and granted, and by these Presents, for us, our Heirs,
and Successors, do give and grant in equal Shares, unto Our loving
Subjects, Inhabitants of Our said Province of Neiv-Hampshii-e, and
Our other (Tovernments, and to their Heirs and Assigns for ever,
whose Names are entred on this Grant, to be divided to and amongst
them into Sixty Seven equal Shares, all that Tract or Parcel of Land
situate, lying and being within our said Province of New-Hampshire,
containing by Admeasurement, twenty Eight Thousand ^(?res, which
Tract is to contain Somthing then Six miles and one half Mile
square, and no more; out of which an Allowance is to be made for
High Ways and unimprovable Lands by Rocks, Ponds, Mountains
and Rivers, One Thousand and Forty Acres free, according to a Plan
and Survey thereof, made by Our said Governor's Order, and re-
turned into the Secretary's Office, and hereunto annexed, butted and
bounded as follows, Viz. Begining at the North west Corner of

BHIDGEWATEE. 50

Reading from Thence North Sixty four degrees west Six miles by the
North Line of Saltash from Thence North thirty two degrees East
Eight miles, from Thence South Sixty two Degrees East Six miles
from Thence Soutli thirty two Degrees West Seven miles and one
half mile to the first Bounds Mentioned — And that the same be, and
hereby is Incorporated into a Township by the Name of Bridgwater
And the Inhabitants that do or shall hereafter inhabit the said Town-
ship, are hereby declared to be Enfranchized with and Intitled to all
and every the Priviledges and Immunities that other Towns within
Our Province by Law Exercise and Enjoy: And further, that the
said Town as soon as there shall be Eifty Eamilies resident and settled
thereon, shall have the Liberty of holding Two Fairs, one of which
shall be held on the " And the other on the

annually, which Fairs are not to continue longer
than the respective following the said

and that as soon as the said Town shall
consist of Fifty Families, a Market may be *opened and *2-66
kept one or more Days in each Week, as may be thought
most advantagious to the Inhabitants. Also, that the first Meeting
for the Choice of Town Officers, agreable to the Laws of our said
Province, shall be held on the Last thursday of August Next
which said Meeting shall be Notified by Oliver Willard who is
hereby also appointed the Moderator of the said first Meeting, which
he is to Notify and Govern agreable to the Laws and Customs of
Our said Province; and that the annual Meeting for ever hereafter
for the Choice of such Officers for the said Town, shall be on the
Second Tuesday of March annually. To Have and to Hold the said
Tract of Land as above expressed, together with all Privileges and
Appurtenances, to them and their respective Heirs and Assigns for-
ever, upon the following Conditions, viz.

I. That every Grantee, his Heirs or Assigns shall plant and cul-
tivate five Acres of Land within the Term of five Years for every
fifty Acres contained in his or their Share or Proportion of Land in
said Township, and continue to improve and settle the same by ad-
ditional Cultivations, on Penalty of the Forfeiture of his Grant or
Share in the said Townshi]), and of its reverting to Us, our Heirs
and Successors, to be by Us or Them Re-granted to such of our Sub-
jects as shall effectually settle and cultivate the same.

II. That all white and other Pine Trees within the said Township^
fit for Masting Our Royal Navy, be carefully preserved for that Use,
and none to be cut or felled without Onr special Licence for so do-
ing first had and obtained, upon the Penalty of the Forfeiture of the
Right of such Grantee, his Heirs and Assigns, to Us, our Heirs and

60 CHARTER RECORDS.

Successors, as well as being subject to the Penalty of any Act or
Acts of Parliament that now are, or hereafter shall be Enacted.

IV. Yielding- and paying therefor to Us, our Heirs and Successors
for the Space of ten Years, to be computed from the Date hereof,
the Rent of one Ear of Indian Corn only, on the twenty-fifth Day of
December annuall}'', if lawfully demanded, the first Payment to be
made on the twenty-fifth Day of December. 1762

V. Every Proprietor, Settler or Inhabitant, shall yield and pay
unto Us, our Heirs and Successors yearly, and every Year forever,
from and after the Expiration of ten Years from the abovesaid
twenty-fifth Day of December, namely, on the twenty-fifth Day of
December^ which will be in the Year of Our Lord 1772 One shillmg
Proclamation Money for every Hundred Acres he so owns, settles or
possesses, and so in Proportion for a greater or lesser Tract of the said
Land ; which Money shall be paid by the respective Persons above-
said, their Heirs or Assigns, in our Council Cltamber in Port>mouth^
or to such Officer or Officers as shall be appointed to receive the
same; and this to be in Lieu of all other Rents and Services
whatsoever.

In Testimony whereof we have caused the Seal of our said Pro-
vince to be hereunto affixed. Witness Benning Wentworth, Esq ;
Our Governor and Commander in Chief of Our said Province, the
Tenth Day of July In the Year of our Lord Christ, One Thousand
Seven Hundred and Sixty one And in the first Year of Our Reign.

B Wentworth
By His Excellency's Command,
With Advice of Council,

Theodore Atkinson SeC^
Prov« N Hamp' July 10"^ 1761

Recorded According to the Original Charter under the Pro^ Seal

^ Theodore Atkinson Sec^'

*2-67 *The Names of the Grantees of Bridgwater — viz

Seth Field Orlando Bridgman John Bridgman

Rufus Field Thomas Emmons Quartus Poniroy

Stephen Pomroy Timothj' Herrington Joseph Burt

James Harwood Andrew Harwood Isaac Parker

Thomas Sargents Elijah Williams Oliver Field

BRIDGEWATER.

Oliver Warner ' Elijah Alexander John Hart

Beniiiiijr AVentworth Rev'^ M' M^'C'lentock &Mesheck Wears Esq

Samuel Mattoon
Samuel Johnson
Josiah Lock
Moses Evaiies
Asa Baldwin
Samuel Smith

Andrew Loeker
Cut Shannon
Caleb Willard
Edward Houghton
Nath^ Hovey
John Sa rodents

Sam' Wentu'orth Boston Rev'' M' Chase

Ezra Robinson
Joseph Field
Joel Smith
Timoth}" Lull
Abel Emmou
Thomas Wiggins

William Creen
.Tames Bunde
Zur Evans
Ephraim Baldwin
Israel Calkins
William Cumings
John Bill in (Ts
Abiel Chamberlin
Smith Ingram
Timothy Herrington
Seth Field
Sampson Sheaf Esq
Abel Morse

Jonathan Hilldreth

Helkiah Giout

Aaron Nash

W^illiam Moore

John Downing Esq

William Richarson
The Re\^ M'' Baley H Palls—
His Excellency Bening Wentworth Esq a Tract of Land to Con-
tain live Hundred acres as Marked on the Plan B W Which is to be
Accounted two of the within Shares, one Whole Share for the So-
ciety for the Propegation of the Gosple in Forren Parts — one Whole
Share for a Glebe for the Church of England as by Law Estab-
lished one Share for the first Settled Minister of the Gosple one Share
for the Benefit of a School in Said Town

Province of New Hamp' July 10"^ 1761 —

Recorded from the Back of the Original Charter in the Book of
Charters

"^ Theodore Atkinson Sec'"y

CHARTER RECORDS.

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Province of New Ham}/ July 10"' 1761
Recorded from the Back of the Original Charter

■^ Theodore Atkinson Sec'^

BRIDPORT.

*2-237
Bridport

p s

*Province of New-Hampshire.

GEORGE THE Third,
By the Grace of God, of Great-Britain, France and
Ireland, King, Defender of the Faith &c.

To all Persons to whom these Pi^esents shall come,
^ s- — ^ — ^ ^ Greeting.

Know ye, that We of Our special Grace, certain Knowledge, and
meer Motion, for the due Encouragement of settling a Hew Planta-
tion within our said Province, by and with the Advice of our Trusty
and Well-beloved Benning Wentworth, Esq ; Our Governor and
Commander in Chief of Our said Province of New-Hampshire, in
JVew-Piif/land, and of our Council of the said Province ; Have
upon the Conditions and Reservations herein after made, given and
granted, and by these Presents, for us, our Heirs, and Successors,
do give and grant in equal Shares, unto Our loving Subjects,
Inhabitants of Our said Province of Netv-HampsJdre, and Our
other Governments, and to their Heirs and Assigns for ever, whose

BRIDPORT. 63

Names are entred on this Grant, to be divided to and amongst
them into Seventy equal Shares, all that Tract or Parcel of Land
situate, lying and being within our said Province of New-Hamp-
shire^ containing by Admeasurement, Twenty Five Thousand
Acres^ which Tract is to contain Something more than Six Miles
Sijuare, and no more; out of which an Allowance is to be made for
Pligh Ways and unimprovable Lands by Rocks, Ponds, Mountains
•and Rivers, One Thousand and Forty Acres free, according to a Plan
and Survey thereof, made by Our said Governor's Order, and
returned into the Secretary's Office, and hereunto annexed, butted
and bounded as follows, [7.;. Begining at the North Westerly Corner
of Shoreham from thence Ruuing Northerly by the Wood Creek
Waters so far as to make up Six Miles on a S freight Line from said
Corner, from thence East Seven Miles, from thence Southerly to the
North East Corner of Shoreham from thence West by Shoreham
to the bounds first Mentioned And that the same be, and hereby
is Incorporated into a Township by the Name of Bridport And the
Inhabitants that do or shall hereafter inhabit the said Township, are
hereby declared to be Enfranchized with andlntitled to all and every
the Priviledges and Immunities that other Towns within Our Prov-
ince by Law Exercise and Enjoy: And further, that the said Town
as soon as there shall be Fifty Families resident and settled thereon,
shall have the Liberty of holding Two Fairs, one of which shall be
held on the And the other on the

annually, which Fairs are not to continue longer than the respective
following the said and that

as soon as the said Town shall consist of Fifty Families, a
Market nuiy be *opened and kept one or more Days in each *2-238
Week,as inay be thought most adv^antagious to the Inhabi-
tants. Also, that the first Meeting for the Choice of Town Offi-
cers, agreable to the Laws of our said Province, shall be held on the
which said Meeting shall be Notified by
who is hereby also appointed the Moderator of the said
first Meeting, which he is to Notify and Govern agreable to the
Laws and Customs of Our said Province; and that the annual Meet-
ing for ever hereafter for the Choice of such Officers for the said
Town, shall be on the Second Tuesday of March annually, To Have
and to Hold the said Tract of Land as above expressed, together
with all Privileges and Appurtances, to them and their respective
Heirs and Assigns forever, upon the following Conditions, viz.

64 CHARTER RECORDS.

Township, and continue to improve and settle the same by additional
Cultivations, on Penalty of the Forfeiture of his Grant or Share in
the said Township, and of its reverting to Us, our Heirs and Success-
ors, to be by Us or Them Re-granted to such of Our Subjects as shall
effectually settle and cultivate the same.

II. That all white and other Pine Trees within the said Township,
fit for Masting Our Royal Navy, be carefully preserved for that Use,
and none to be cut or felled without Our special Licence for so doing
first had and obtained, upon the Penalty of the Forfeiture of the
Right of such Grantee, his Heirs and Assigns, to Us, our Heirs and
Successors, as well as being subject to the Penalty of any Act or
Acts of Parliament that now are, or hereafter shall be Enacted.

HI. That before any Division of the Land be made to and among
the Grantees, a Tract of Land as near the Centre of the said Town-
ship as the Land will admit of, shall be reserved and marked out for
Town Lots, one of which shall be allotted to each Grantee of the
Contents of one Acre.

IV. Yielding and paying therefor to Us, our Heirs and Successors
for the Space of ten Years, to be computed from the Date hereof, the
Rent of one Ear of Indian Corn only, on the twenty-fifth Day of
December annually, if lawfully demanded, the first Payment to be
made on the twenty-fifth Da\" of December. 1762

V. Every Proprietor, Settler or Inhabitant, shall yield and pay
unto Us, our Heirs and Successors yearl}-, and every Year forever,
from and after the Expiration of ten Years from the abovesaid
twenty-fifth Day of December, namely, on the twenty-fifth Day of
December., which will be in the Year of Our Lord 1772 One shilling
Proclamation Money for every Hundred Acres he so owns, settles or
possesses, and so in Proportion for a greater or lesser Tract of the
said Land; which Money shall be paid by the respective Persons
abovesaid, their Heirs or Assigns, in our Council Chamber in Ports-
mouth., or to such Officer or Officers as shall be appointed to receive
the same ; and this to be in Lieu of all other Rents and Services
whatsoever.

In Testimony whereof we have caused the Seal of our said Prov-
ince to be hereunto affixed. Witness Benning Wentworth, Esq ;
Our Governor and Commander in Chief of Our said Province, the
9*^ Day of October In the Year of our Lord Christ, One I'housand
Seven Hundred and Sixty One And in the First Year of Our
Reign.

B Wentworth

By His Excellency's Command,
With Advice of Council,

Theodore Atkinson Sec'y

BRIDPORT.

t)5

Province of New Hamps' Octo'' 10"' 1761

Recorded According to the Origional Charter under the Province
Seal

19 Theodore Atkinson Sec'"y

'The Names of the Grantees of Bridport (Viz)

*2-239

Ebenez' Wis wall
James Carlyle
Elisha Smith
James Brown
Luke Brown
Thomas Stearns Jun
Edward Ray men t
Ephraim Wheeler
Arch^*^ Campbell
James 'lllford
Joseph I) ill
John P^isk 2*^
Jacob Smith
Tyrus Rice
Samuel Rice
Benf Fisk
Nathan Perry
Samuel Rice
Elijah Morton
Ephraim Doolittle
Thomas Watson

Joseph Wiley
Henry Ward
Ebenez' Stearns
Jonath" Rolf
Sam^ Brown
Simon Stevens
David Moore
Henry Quincy
John Dennie
Peter Jones
Jon* Ozling
Nathan Baldwin
Peter Goulding
Richard Stowers
Joseph M'Crackin
Ignatius Goulding
Josiah Perry
Nathi Moore

Will™ M'Farland
Adonijah Rice
Josejjh Hastings
Nath' Harington
Thomas Stearns
Elisha Smith
Nath^ Stearns
Alexand' Campbell
Johnson Jackson
Duncan Campbell
Joseph Blair
Will™ Crawford
Nath' Green
Noah Jones
Nahum Willard
Samuel Brewer
Jacob Hemingway
Timothy Heald
Abel Gouldinof

Palmer Goulding

Joseph Newmarch Esq James Nevin Esq

John Wason Jun' Dan' Tilton &

Joseph Tilton
His Excellency Benning Wentworth Esq a Tract of Land to
Contain Five Hundred Acres as marked B-W in the Plan, & is
to be Accounted two of the within shares, One whole Share for the
Incorporated society for the Propagation of the Gospell in Foreign
Parts, One share for a Glebe for the Church of England as by Law
Established, One share for the first Settled Minister of the Gospell &
One Share for the Benefit of a School in said Town —

Province of New Hamps' Octo' 10, 1761

Recorded from the back of the Origional Charter of Bridport under
the ProV^* Seal

Attested '^ Theodore Atkinson Sec''

CHARTER RECORDS.

-■uxpi^auff^g A^(9ji1_£^-u.-»Avg ■iST'2-

PZa.n of ~B-rzdJtoTt

ZVooo Acres —

"Wisi- SeveTiTTTT?*

Province of NewHamps' Octo' 10*^ 1761

Recorded from the back of the Origional Charter of Bridport under
the Province Seal

"39 Theodore Atkinson

*2-373
Pocock

BRISTOL.

*Proviiice of New-Hampshire.

p-s-

GEORGE THE Third,
By the Grace of God, of Great^Britian, France and
Ireland, King, Defender of the Faith, &c.

To all Persons to whom these Presents shall come,
^ --^0^^-^ ^ Greeting.

Know Ye, that We of Our special Grace, certain Knowl-
edge, and meer Motion, for the due Encouragement of settling a
Nezv Plantation within our Said Province, by and with the Ad-
vice of our Trusty and Well-beloved Penning Wentworth, Esq ;
Our Governor and Commander in Chief of Our said Province of
New-Hampshire, in Neiv-England, and of our Council of the said

BRISTOL. 67

Province ; Have upon the Conditions and Reservations herein after
made, given and granted, and by tliese Presents, for us, our Heirs,
and Successors, do give and grant in equal Shares, unto Our loving
Subjects, Inhabitants of Our said Province of Neiv-HampHhire^ and
Our other Governments, and to their Heirs and Assigns for ever,
whose Names'are entred on this Grant, to be divided to and amongst
them into Seventy equal Shares, all that Tract or Parcel of Land
situate, lying and being within our said Province of Neiv- Hampshire^
containing by Admeasurement, Twenty Three Thousand Six Hun-
dred Acres^ which Tract is to contain Something more than Six
Miles square, and no more; out of which an Allowance is to be
made for High Ways and unimprovable Lands by Rocks, Ponds,
Mountains and Rivers, One Thousand and Forty Acres free, accord-
ing to a Plan and Survey thereof, made by Our said Governor's
Order, and returned into the Secretary's Office, and hereunto an-
nexed, butted and bounded as follows, Viz. Begining at the North
Easterly Corner of New Haven from thence South six Miles by New
Haven afores** to the south Easterly Corner thereof, then turning off
& runing East, four Miles & one half Mile to a marked Tree, then
turning off & runing North Eight Miles & one half Mile to another
marked Tree, then turning off & runing West four Miles to the
Easterly side Line of Monkton, then South by Monkton about half
a Mile to an Angle thereof, then West by Monkton afores^ about
two Mile to another angle thereof, then South by Monkton afores'^
420 Rods to the Northerly side Line of New Haven, then South 70
Deg* East, one Mile & 190 Rods by New Haven to the North East-
erly Corner thereof being the bounds begun at —

And that the same be, and hereby is Licorporated into a Town-
ship by the Name of Pocock And the Inhabitants that do or shall
hereafter inhabit the said Township, are hereby declared to be
Enfranchized with and Intitled to all and every the Priviledges
and Immunities that other Towns within Our Province by Law
Exercise and Enjoy : And further, that the said Town as soon as
there shall be Fifty Families resident and settled thereon, shall have
the Liberty of holding tivo Fairs., one of which shall be held on
the And the other on the

annually, which Fairs are not to continue longer than the respective
following the said and that as soon as the

said Town shall consist of Fifty Families, a Market may be
*opened and kept one or more Days in each Week, as may *2-374
be thought most advantagious to the Inhabitants. Also,
that the first Meeting for the Choice of Town Officers, agreable
to the Laws of our said Province, shall be held on the first Wednes-

68 CHARTER RECORDS.

day in August next which said Meeting shall be Notified by M"^
John Burling who is hereby also appointed the Moderator of the
said first Meeting, which he is to Notify and Govern agreable to
the Laws and Customs of Our said Province ; and that the annual
Meeting for ever hereafter for the Choice of such Oiificers for the
said Town, shall be on the Second Tuesday of March annually, To
Have and to Hold the said Tract of I^and as above expressed,
together with all Privileges and Appurtenances, to them and their
respective Heirs and Assigns forever, upon the following Conditions,
viz.

I. That every Grantee, his Heirs or Assigns shall plant and
cultivate five Acres of Land within the Term of five Years for every
fifty Acres contained in his or their Share or Proportion of Land
in said Township, and continue to improve and settle the same
by additional Cultivations, on Penalty of the Forfeiture of his Grant
or Share in the said Township, and of its reverting to Us, our Heirs
and Successors, to be by Us or Them Re-granted to such of Our
Subjects as shall effectually settle and cultivate the same.

H. That all white and other Pine Trees within the said Town-
ship, fit for Masting Our Royal Navy, be carefull}^ preserved for
that Use, and none to be cut or felled without Our special Licence
for so doing first had and obtained, upon the Penalt}^ of the
Forfeiture of the Right of such Grantee, his Heirs and Assigns, to
Us, our Heirs and Successors, as well as being subject to the
Penalty of any Act or Acts of Parliament that now are, or here-
after shall be Enacted.

HL That before any Division of the Land be made to and
among the Grantees, a Tract of Land as near the Centre of the said
Township as the Land will admit of, shall be reserved and marked
out for Town Lots, one of which shall be allotted to each Grantee
of the Contents of one Acre.

IV. Yielding and paying therefor to Us, our Heirs and Successors
for the Space of ten Years, to be computed from the Date hereof, the
Rent of one Ear of Indian Corn only, on the twenty-fifth Day of
December annuall}^ if lawfully demanded, the first Payment to be
made on the twenty-fifth day of December. 1762

BRISTOL.

Tract of the said Land ; which INIoney shall be paid by the respec-
tive Persons abovesaid, their Heirs or Assigns, in our Council
Chamber in ForUmouth, or to such Officer or Officers as shall be
appointed to receive the same ; and this to be in Lieu of all
other Rents and Services whatsoever.

In Testimony whereof we have caused the Seal of our said Pro-
vince to be hereunto affixed. Witness Benning Wentworth, Esq :
Our Governor and Commander in Chief of Our said Province,
the 26"' Day of June In the Year of our Lord Christ, One Thous-
and Seven Hundred and Sixty two And in the Second Year of
Oar Reign.

B Wentworth

By his Excellency's Command,
With Advice of Council,

T Atkinson Jun' Sec'y

Province of New Hamp'" June 26'^ 1762

Recorded According to the Original Charta under the Province
Seal

19 T Atkinson Jun"- Sec'"

*The Names of the Grantees of Pocock (Viz)

*2-375

Sam' Averill
Zeb" Seaman
Francis Nash
Albort Baker
John Hallock
Rob' Croocker
Steph" Field
Benj-' Clapp
Elnathan Hall
Jos*^ Corn well
Theo'''* Anthony
James Parsons
James Bowne
James Fairlee Jun''
Will"' Field
Wynant Vanzandt
John Burling
Edw' Burling Jun""
John Parish
Edw'' Laurence
Hon:

Sam' Hungerford
Sam' Willis
Jos'' Burr
Uriah Field
Jos'' Sherwood
John Cornell
John Tripp
Elias Palmer
Seth Hall
Rich'' Titus
John Lawrence
James Fairlee
Nich* Anthony
Rob^ Fairlee
Francis Field
Jos'' Laurence
Richardoon Cornwell
Henry Bogert
Towns'' Parish

Caleb Hyatt
Jos'' Newmarch Esq James Nevin Esq Will
Cap^ Geo: Frost

James Tripp
Sam' Lyon
Josli"^ Hutchings
Edmond Brown
Will'" Croocker
Silas Mead
Daniel Tooker
John Clapp
John Keese
Sam' Willets
Jos'' Underbill
Sam' Franklin
Will"' Kenedy
Tho*" Franklin Jun'"
Will'" Field Jun-^
Jos" Parsall
Henry Hedar
Daniel Parish
John Franklin
Zeb" Seaman

Temple Esq

CHARTER RECORDS.

His Excellency Benning Wentworth Esq a Tract of Land to Con-
tain Five Hundred Acres as marked B — W — in the plan, which is
to be Accounted two of the within shares, one whole Share for the
Incorporated Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign
Parts, one Share for a Glebe for the Church of England as by Law
Established, one Share for the first settled Minister of the Gospel, &
one Share for the benefit of a school in s'^ Town

Province of New Hamp*^ June 26 1762

Recorded from the Back of the Original Charter under the Pro-
vince Seal

W T Atkinson Jun^ Sec'''

iTo*? vA rnilt

Province of New Hamp' June 26 1762

Recorded from the Back of the Original Charter under the Pro-
vince Seal

^ T Atkinson Jun' Sec'^

BRUNSNYICK. 71

BRUNSWICK.

*Province of New-Hampshire *2-265

Brunswick GEORGE the Third,

, ,-wA^i^ By the Grace of God, of Great-Britain, France and
\ _ _ ( Ireland, King, Defender of the Faith, &c.
< ~ "" I To all Persons to wfiom these Presents shall eome,

^ ^— .i^^*-' ^ Greeting.

Know ye, that We of Our special Grace, certain Knowledge, and
meer Motion, for the due Encouragement of settling a JVeiv Planta-
tion within our said Province, by and with the Advice of our Trusty
and Well-beloved Benning Wentwoeth, Esq ; Our Governor and
Commander in Chief of Onr said Province of New-Hampshike, in
Neiv-England, and of our COUNCIL of the said Province ; Have
upon the Conditions and Reservations herein after made, given and
granted, and by these Presents, for us, our Heirs, and Successors, do
give and grant in equal Shares, unto Our loving Subjects, Inhabi-
tants of Our said Province of Neiv-Hampshire^ and Our other Gov-
ernments, and to their Heirs and Assigns for ever, whose Names are
entred on this Grant, to be divided to and amongst them into
Seventy equal Shares, all that Tract or Parcel of Land situate, lying
and being within our said Province of New-ITampshire^ containing
by Admeasurement, ab' Twenty Five Thousand Acres, which Tract
is to contain Something more than Six Miles square, and no more ;
out of which an Allowance is to be made for High Ways and unim-
provable Lands by Rocks, Ponds, Mountains and Rivers, One Thou-
sand and Forty Acres free, according to a Plan and Survey thereof,
made by Our said Governor's Order, and returned into the Secre-
tary's Office, and hereunto annexed, butted and bounded as follows,
viz. Begining at the most Easterly Corner of Maidstone from
thence North Easterly up Conneticut River so far as to make Six
Miles upon a Streight Line thence from said River North West Six
jNIiles and One half Mile, from thence South Westerly on a Parralel
Line, with that on the River to the Northerly Corner of Maidstone
afores'', from thence South East by Maidstone aforesaid to Conneti-
cut River to the bounds first above Mention'd And that the same
be, and liereby is Incorporated into a Township by the Name of
Brunswick And the Inhabitants that do or shall hereafter inhabit
the said Township, are hereby declared to be Enfranchized with
and Intitled to all and every the Priviledges and Immunities that
other Towns within Our Province by Law Exercise and Enjoy :
And further, that the said Town as soon as there shall be Fifty Fam-

72 CHARTER RECORDS.

ilies resident and settled thereon, shall have the Liberty of holding
Tivo Fairs, one of which shall be held on the

And the other on the annually,

which Fairs are not to continue longer than the respective

following the said and that as soon as

the said Town shall consist of Fifty Families, a Market
*2-266 may be *opened and kept one or more Days in each Week,

as may be thought most advantagious to the Inhabitants.
Also, that the first Meeting for the Choice of Town Officers agrea-
ble to the Laws of our said Province, shall be held on the Fourth
Tuesday in Nov' Next which said Meeting shall be Notified by M''
Sam^ Averhill who is hereby also appointed the Moderator of the
said first Meeting, which he is to Notify and Govern agreable to
the Laws and Customs of Our said Province ; and that the annual
Meeting for ever hereafter for the Choice of such Officers for the said
Town, shall be on the Second Tuesday of March annually. To Have
and to Hold the said Tract of Land as above expressed, together
with all Privileges and Appurtenances, to them and their respective
Heirs and Assigns forever, upon the following Conditions, viz.

I. That every Grantee, his Heirs or Assigns shall plant and culti-
vate five Acres of Land within the Term of five Years for every
fifty Acres contained in his or their Share or Proportion of Land in
said Township, and continue to improve and settle the same by addi-
tional Cultivations, on Penalty of the Forfeiture of his Grant or
Share in the said Township, and of its reverting to Us, our Heirs
and Successors, to be by Us or Them Re-granted to such of Our Sub-
jects as shall effectually settle and cultivate the same.

II. That all white and other Pine Trees within the said Town-
ship, fit for Masting Our Royal Navy, be carefully preserved for that
Use, and none to be cut or felled without Our special Licence for so
doing first had and obtained, upon the Penalty of the Forfeiture of
the Right of such Grantee, his Heirs and Assigns, to Us, our Heirs
and Successors, as well as being subject to the Penalty of any Act
or Acts of Parliament that now are, or hereafter shall be Enacted.

IV. Yielding and paying therefor to Us, our Heirs and Successors
for the Space of ten Years, to be computed from the Date hereof, the
Rent of one Ear of Indian Corn onl}-, on the twenty-fifth Day of
December annually, if lawfully demanded, the first Payment to be
made on the twenty-fifth Day of December, 1762

BRUNSWICK.

V. Every Proprietor, Settler or Inhabitant, shall yield and pay
nnto Us, our Heirs and Successors yearly, and every Year forever,
from and after the Expiration of ten Years from the abovesaid twen-
ty-fifth Day of December, namely, on the twenty-fifth Day of Decem-
ber^ which will be in the Year of Our Lord 1772 One shillmg Proc-
lamation Money for every Hundred Acres he so owns, settles or
possesses, and so in Proportion for a greater or lesser Tract of the
said Land ; which Mone}^ shall be paid by the respective Persons
abovesaid, their Heirs or Assigns, in our Covncil Chamber in Porta-
moutJu or to such Officer or Officers as shall be appointed to receive
the same ; and this to be in Lieu of all other Rents and Services
whatsoever.

In Testimony whereof we have caused the Seal of our said Pro-
vince to be hereunto affixed. Witness Penning Wentwokth,
Esq; Our Governor and Commander in Chief of Our said Province,
the 13"' Day of October In the Year of our Lord Christ, One Thous-
and Seven Hundred and Sixty one And in the First Year of Our
Reign.

B Wentworth

By His Excellency's Command,
With Advice of Council,

Theodore Atkinson Sec"^

Province of New Hamps'' Octo"^ 13, 1761

Recorded According to the Origional Charter under the Province
Seal

^ Theodore Atkinson Sec'^
*The Names of the Grantees of Brunswick (Viz) *2-267

Stephen Noble
Abijali Hubbell
John Bostwick
David Calhown
Nath' Slicock
Daniel Terrell
Reed Ferriss
Jesse Bastwick
Eliphalet Whittlesey
Zadock Clark
Benj'' Seeley
Will'" P>arns
Isaac Bold win
Abell Camp
James Barns

Jabez Warner
Jethro Hatch
John Brinsmead
Jacob Kene
Sam' Shelton
John Barns
Israel Noble
Nath' Bosworth
Benj'* Farriss Jun""
Nath' Brown
Aaron Prindle
Will"' Vaugham
Heath Garlick
Aell Gillitt
Edmund Haws

Azariah Pratt
Ezra Gere
Daniel Averhill
Will'" Cogswell
George Stillman
Jonah Camp
Morgan Noble
John Gurnej^
Seth Sherwood
James Potter
Asael Tryon
Jonah Todd
Nath' Ruggles
Steph" Barns
William Kenedy

CHARTER RECORDS.

Alex' Steward Elijah Sill Dan Towner

Isaac Buck Benj* Hallock Sam' Averill

Elias Lord Thomas Kenne Moses Averill

Nath' Sherburne John Whittelsey Mark Hunk^ Wentworth Esq

John Downing Esq Park Beeman Nathan Hawley

Ephriam Gutherie Joseph Calhoon Timothy Hatch &

Seth Kent
His Excellency Benning Wentworth Esq a Tract of Land to Contain
Five Hundred Acres as marked in the Plan B — W — which is to be
Accounted two of the within shares, One whole Share for tlie Incor-
porated society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts,
One Share for a Glebe for the Church of England as by Law Estab-
lished, One Share for the First Settled Minister of the Gospell & One
Share for the Benefit of a School in Said Town

Province of New Hamps' Octo' 13, 1761

Recorded from the back of the Origional Charter of Brunswick
under the Prov*^ Seal

Attested "^ Theodore Atkinson Sec"^^'

g.-T: &h. TTlxle^

fin

- s>i.i2z^ v^<j /^f/

Province of New Hamps"^ Octo 13, 1761

Recorded from the back of the Origional Charter of Brunswick
under the Prov*^ Seal

^ Theodore Atkinson Sec-^^^

BURLINGTON. 75

BURLINGTON.

*Province of New-Hampshire. *2-405

Burlington GEORGE the Third,

, ,— .^^*-v , By the Grace of God, of Great-Britain, France and
\ ( Ireland, King, Defender of the Faith &c.

J ( To all Persons to tvhom these Presents shall come,

' v-^-^w ' Greeting.

Know ye, that We of Our special Grace, certain Knowledge, and
meer Motion, for the due Encouragement of settling a New Planta-
tion within our said Province, by and with the Advice of our Trusty
and Well-beloved Benning Wentworth, Esq, Our Governor and
Commander in Chief of Our said Province of New-Hampshire in
Neu'-England, and of our Council of the said Province; Have
upon the Conditions and Reservations herein after made, given and
granted, and by these Presents, for us, our Heirs, and Successors,
do give and grant in equal Shares, unto Our loving Subjects, Inhabi-
tants of Our said Province of Netv-Hampshire, and Our other Gov-
ernments, and to their Heirs and Assigns for ever, whose Names are
entred on this Grant, to be divided to and amongst them into Seventy
two equal Shares, all that Tract or Parcel of Land situate, lying and
being within our said Province of Neiv- Hampshire, containing by
Admeasurement, 23,040 Acres, which Tract is to contain Six Miles
square, and no more ; out of which an Allowance is to be made for
High Ways and unimprovable Lands by Rocks, Ponds, Mountains
and Rivers, One Thousand and Forty Acres free, according to a Plan
and Survey thereof, made by Our said Governor's Order, and re-
turned into the Secretary's OfHce, and hereunto annexed, butted
and bounded as follows. Viz. at the Southerly or South Westerly
Side of French or Onion River so called at the Mouth of Said River
thence runing up by Said River until it comes to A Place that is
Ten Miles upon a Strait Line from the Mouth of the River afore
Said then runs u])on A Line Perpendicular to the afore Said Ten
Miles Line, Southerly so far as that A Line to Lake Champlain Par-
rellel to the Ten Miles Line afore Said will within the Lines and the
Shore of the Said Lake Contain Six Miles Square

And that the same be, and hereby is Incorporated into a Township
by the Name of Burlington And the Inhabitants that do or shall
hereafter inhabit the said Township, are hereby declared to be En-
franchized with and Intitled to all and every the Priviledges and Im-
munities that other Towns within Our Province by Law Exercise and
Enjoy : And further, that the said Town as soon as there shall be Fifty
Families resident and settled thereon, shall have the Liberty of hold-
ing Two Fairs, one of which shall be held on the And

76 CHARTER RECOItDS.

the other on the annually, which Fairs are not to con-

tinue longer than the respective following the said

and that as soon as the said Town shall
*2-406 consist of Fifty Families, a Market may be *opened and
kept one or more Days in each Week, as may be thought
most advantagious to the Inhabitants. Also, that the first Meeting
for the Choice of Town Officers, agreable to the Laws of our said
Province, shall be held on the Eighteenth of July next which said
Meeting shall be Notified by M' Sam^ Willis who is hereby also
appointed the Moderator of the said first Meeting, which he is to
Notify and Govern agreable to the Laws and Customs of Our said
Province; and that the annual Meeting for ever hereafter for the
Choice of such Officers for the said Town, shall be on the Second
Tuesday of March annually, To Have and to Hold the said Tract
of Land as above expressed, together with all Privileges and Appur-
tenances, to them and their respective Heirs and Assigns forever,
upon the following Conditions, viz.

L That every Grantee, his Heirs or Assigns sliall plant and culti-
vate five Acres of Land within the Term of five Years for every fifty
Acres contained in his or their Share or Proportion of Land in said
Township, and continue to improve and settle the same by additional
Cultivations, on Penalty of the Forfeiture of his Grant or Share in
the said Township, and of its reverting to Us, our Heirs and Suc-
cessors, to be by Us or Them Re-granted to such of Our Subjects as
shall effectually settle and cultivate the same.

II. That all white and other Pine Trees within the said Township,
fit for Masting Our Royal Navy, be carefully preserved for that Use,
and none to be cut or felled without Our special Licence for so doing
first had and obtained, upon the Penalty of the Forfeiture of the
Right of such Grantee, his Heirs and Assigns, to Us, our Heirs and
Successors, as well as being subject to the Penalty of any Act or
Acts of Parliament that now are, or iiereafter shall be Enacted.

IV. Yielding and paying therefor to Us, our Heirs and Successors
for the Space of ten Years, to be computed from the Date hereof, the
Rent of one Ear of Indian Corn only, on the twenty-fifth Day of
December annually, if lawfully demanded, the first payment to be
made on the twenty-fifth Day of December. 1763

V. Every Proprietor, Settler or Inhabitant, shall yield and pay
unto Us, our Heirs and Successors yearly, and every Year forever,

BURLINGTON.

from and after the Expiration of ten Years from the abovesaid tvven-
ty-tifth Day of December, namely, on the twenty-fifth Day of Decem-
ber, which will be in the Year of Our Ijord 1773 One shilliiKj Procla-
mation Money for every Hundred Acres he so owns, settles or
possesses, and so in Proportion for a greater or lesser Tract of the
said Land; which Money shall be paid by the respective Persons
abovesaid, their Heirs or Assigns, in our Council Chamber in Ports-
mouth, or to such Officer or Officers as shall be appointed to receive
the same; and this to be in Lieu of all other Rents and Services
whatsoever.

Li Testimony whereof we have caused the Seal of our said Pro-
vince to be hereunto affixed. Witness Penning Wentwoeth, Esq;
Our Governor and Commander in Chief of Our said Province, the
Seventh Day of June In the Year of our Lord Christ, One Thousand
Seven Hundred and Sixty three And in the Third Year of Our Reign.

B Wentworth

By His Excellency's Command,
With Advice of Council,

T Atkinson Jun'' Sec^'

Province of New Hamp"^

Recorded According to the Original Charter under the Prov Seal

"^ T Atkinson Jun' Sec'^

*The Names of the Grantees of

Samuel Willis
John Willis y*- 3'^
Thomas Cheshire jun'
Thomas Young
Zebulon Seaman jun""
Joseph Udill
Minne Suydam
Nicholas Townsend
Thomas Alsop
Thomas Frost
Zebulon Frost
Harman Lefford
John Wright
George Pearsall
John Birdsall Jun""
Laurence Fish
Rich'' Seamon
Nathan Seaman Jun"^
Israel Seaman
Rich'' Ellison jun''

Tunis Wortman
Stephen Willis
John Birdsell
Samuel Jackson
John Whitson
John Wright jun'^
Jacobus Suj'dam
Samuel Van Wyck
Thomas Pearsall jun''
William Frost jun'
William Cook
Thomas Jackson
Daniel Voorhers
John Wortman jun'
Jacob Kerbee
John Whitson the 3''
Morris Seamon
Rich'' Jackson jun''
Jacob Seaman Sen""
Rich" Ellison the 3''

Burlington Viz *2-407
Thomas Dickinson
Daniel Bowne
Benj" Townsend
Gilbert Weekes
William Kerbee
Abraham Van Wick
Edmond Weekes
John Willis Jun'"
Will'" Frost Sen'-
Penn Frost
Thomas Van Wyck
Thomas Udell
Joseph Denton
Benj-' Birdsall
Benj'' Fish
Nathan Fish
John Pratt
Solomon Seam'an
Jacob Seaman
Sam' Averhill

CHARTER RECORDS.

Hon : John Temple Eleazer Russell

Theo: Atkinson \ Andrew Clarkson

M^ H« Wentvvorth V Esq^'
Henry Sherburne )

His Excellency Benuing Wentworth Esq a Tract of Land to Con-
tain Five Hundred Acres as Marked B — W — in the Plan which is to
be accounted two of the within Shares One Whole Share for the
Incorporated Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in foreign
Parts, One Share for A Glebe for the Church of England as by Law
Established — One Share for the first Settled Minister of the Gospell
& one Share for the Benefit of A School in Said Town

Province of New Hanip'"

Recorded According to the Original Chartor under the Province Seal.

f T Atkinson Jun"^ Sec^^
^«

CASTLETON. 79

Province of New Hamp'^

Recorded from the Back of the Original Charter under the Prov®
Seal

19 T Atkinson Jun^ Sec'^

CASTLETON.

*Province of New-Hampshire. *2-205

Castleton GEORGE the Third,

, ^-w-— s . By the Grace of God, of Great-Britain, France and

\ / Ireland, King, Defender of the Faith &c.

J i To all Persons to whom these Presents shall come,

' >-i-^.-w ^ Greeting.

Know ye, that We of Our special Grace, certain Knowledge, and
meer Motion, for the due Encouragement of settling aJ^etv Plantation
within our said Province, by and with the Advice of our Trusty and
Well-beloved Benning Wentworth, Esq ; Our Governor and
Commander in Chief of Our said Province of New-Hampsh[RE, in
New-England, and of our Council of the said Province ; Have
upon the Conditions and Reservations herein after made, given and
granted, and by these Presents, for us, our Heirs, and Successors,
do give and grant in equal Shares, unto Our loving Subjects, Inhabi-
tants of Our said Province of Neiv-Hampshire, and Our other Gov-
ernments, and to their Heirs and Assigns for ever, whose Names are
entred on this Grant, to be divided to and amongst them into Sev-
enty equal Shares, all that Tract or Parcel of Land situate, lying and
being within our said Province of New- Hampshire, containing by
Admeasurement, Twenty three thousand & forty Acres, which Tract
is to contain Six Miles square, and no more ; out of which an Allow-
ance is to be made for High Ways and unimprovable Lands by
Rocks, Ponds, Mountains and Rivers, One Thousand and Forty
Acres free, according to a Plan and Survey thereof, made by Our
said Governor's Order, and returned into the Secretary's Office, and
hereunto annexed, butted and bounded as follows. Viz. Begining at
the North West Corner of Poultney from Thence runing Due
North Six Miles then Turning off at Right Angles and runing
Due East Six Miles then Turning off at Right Angles again &
runing due South Six Miles to the North East Corner of Poultney
aforesaid thence runing due West by Poultney Six Miles to the
North West Corner thereof being the Bounds began at —

80 CHARTER RECORDS.

And that the same be, and hereby is Incorporated into a Township
by the Name of Castleton And the Inhabitants that do or shall
hereafter inhabit the said Township, are hereby declared to be
Enfranchized with and Intitled to all and every the Priviledges and
Immunities that other Towns within Our Province by Law Exercise
and Enjoy : And further, that the said Town as soon as there shall
be Fifty Families resident and settled thereon, shall have the
Libert}' of holding Two Fairs, one of which shall be held on the

And the other on the
annually, which Fairs are not to continue longer than the respective
following the said and that as soon as the said

Town shall consist of Fifty Families, a Market may be
*2-206 *opened and kept one or more Days in each Week, as may

be thought most advantagious to the Inhabitants. Also,
that the first Meeting for the Choice of Town Officers, agreable to
the Laws of our said Province, shall be held on the Third Tues-
day in October Next which said Meeting shall .be Notified by M^
Samuel Brown, who is hereby also appointed the Moderator of the
said first Meeting, which he is to Notify and Govern agreable to the
Laws and Customs of Our said Province ; and that the annual Meet-
ing for ever hereafter for the Choice of such Officers for the said
Town, shall be on the Second Tuesday of March annually, To Have
and to Hold the said Tract of Land as above expressed, together
with all Privileges and Appurtenances, to them and their respective
Heirs and Assigns forever, upon the following Conditions, viz.

I. That every Grantee, his Heirs or Assigns shall plant and culti-
vate five Acres of Land within the Term of five Years for every fifty
Acres contained in his or their Share or Proportion of Land in said
Township, and continue to improve and settle the same b}' additional
Cultivations, on Penalty of the Forfeiture of his Grant or Share in
the said Township, and of its reverting to Us, our Heirs and Suc-
cessors, to be b}'' Us or Them Re-granted to such of Our Subjects as
shall effectually settle and cultivate the same.

II. That all white or other Pine Trees within the said Township,
fit for Masting Our Royal Navy, be carefully preserved for that Use,
and none to be cut or felled without Our special Licence for so doing
first had and obtained, upon the Penalty of the Forfeiture of the
Right of such Grantee, his Heirs and Assigns, to Us, our Heirs and
Successors, as well as being subject to the Penalty of any Act or
Acts of Parliament that now are, or hereafter shall be Enacted.

III. That before any Division of the Land be made to and
among the Grantees, a Tract of Land as near the Centre of the said
Township as the Land will admit of, shall be reserved and marked

CASTLETON.

V. Every Proprietor, Settler or Inhabitant, shall yield and pay
unto Us, our Heirs and Successors yearly, and every Year forever,
from and after the Expiration of ten Years from the abovesaid
twenty-fifth Day of December, namely, on the twenty-fifth Day of
December^ which will be in the Year of Our Lord 1772 One sliilling
Proclamation Money for every Hundred Acres he so owns, settles
or possesses, and so in Proportion for a greater or lesser Tract of
the said Land; which Money shall be paid by the respective Persons
abovesaid, their Heirs or Assigns, in our Council Chamber in Ports
mouth, or to such Ofiicer or Officers as shall be appointed to receive
the same ; and this to be in Lieu of all other Rents and Services
whatsoever.

In Testimony whereof we have caused the Seal of our said Prov-
ince to be hereunto affixed. Witness Penning Wentworth, Esq ;
Our Governor and Commander in Chief of Our said Province, the
22'' Day of September In the Year of our Lord Christ, One Thou-
sand Seven Hundred and Sixty one And in the First Year of Our
Reign.

B Wentworth

By His Excellency's Command,
With Advice of Council,

Theodore Atkinson Sec''^

Province of New Hampshire Sept"^ 22*^ 1761

Recorded According to the Original Charter under the Province
Seal

Attest'" Theodore Atkinson Sec''^
*The Names of the Grantees of Castleton Viz— *2-20T

Samuel Brown
John Willard
Josiah Jones
Elijah Williams
Jacob Cooper
Isaac Brown
Isaac Vanduson
Josiah Jones jun"^
Israel Dewe}'
Samuel Brown jun'"
Daniel Raymond
Samuel Lee
Isaac Laurence jun''
Elijah Brown
Joseph Pattinson

Timothy Woodbridge
John Taylor
Joseph Woodbridge
James Willson
Isaac Gorfield
Elijah Willson
Benj^^ Willard
Mathew Cadwell
Will'" Kennedy
Hendrick Burgot
Abel Rowe
Jonathan Nash
Joseph Allen
Azariah Williams
Tim" Woodbridge jun"^

Stephen Nash
Elihu Parsons
David Pixley
Stephen West
Isaac Davy
Coffe Vancank
Joseph Willard
Aaron Sheldon
Jon"^ Pixly
John Chamberlain
Abner Clapp
Daniel Allen
Solomon Glesson
Moses Pigsley
Stephen Nash jun"^

CHARTER RECORDS.

John Chadwick Isaac Davis Joshua Warren jun'

Sam'' Jackson Benj* Warren John Burgot

Samuel Robinson Zach: Foi-se Thomas Wliite

Beny^ Alvard Caleb Blodget Joseph Newmarch Esq

M H Wentworth Esq Will"' Thornton James Furguson
Wiler Davidson John Davidson James Thornton

Mathew Thornton
One Tract for his Excellency Benning Wentworth Esq to Con-
tain five Hundred Acres as Marked B: W: in the Plan which is to
be Accounted Two of the within Shares one whole Share for the In-
corporated Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in foreign
Parts one Share for A Glebe for the Church of England as by Law
established one Share for the first Settled Minister of the Gospel
and one Share for the Benefit of a School in Said Town

Province of New Hampshire Septemb'' 22'' 1761
Recorded from the Back of the Original Charter of Castleton
under the Pro'' Seal

Theodore Atkinson Sec''^

■jj-atEasi^SvxTnjtlil

Pi-ovince of New Hamp'" Sepf^ 22'' 1761

Recorded from the Back of the original Charter of Castleton
under the Pro'' Seal

^ Theodore Atkinson Sec''^

CAVENDISH. 83

CAVENDISH.

*Province of New-Hampshire. *2-253

Cavendish GEORGE, the Third,

. -— — ^--s . B}' the Grace of God, of Great-Britian, France and

S ^ ^ \ Irehmd, King, Defender of the Faith &c.

To all Persons to wlioin these Presents shall come^

^ >— i--v-w ■' Greeting.

Know ye, that We of Our special Grace, certain Knowledge, and
Meer Motion, for the due Encouragement of settling a Neio Plan-
tation within our said Province, by and with the Advice of our Trusty
and Well-beloved Benning Wentworth, Esq; Our Governor and
Commander in Chief of Our said Province of New-Hampshire in
Neic-England^ and of our Council of the said Province; Have
upon the Conditions and Reservations herein after made, given and
granted, and by these Presents, for us, our Heirs, and Successors, do
give and grant in equal Shares, unto Our loving Subjects, Inhabi-
tants of Our said Province of New-Haynpshire^ and Our other Gov-
ernments, and to their Heirs and Assigns for ever, whose Names are
entred on this Grant, to be divided to and amongst them into Sev-
enty two equal Shares, all that Tract or Parcel of Land situate, lying
and being within our said Province of New-Hamjhshire, containing
b}' Admeasurement, Twenty Five Thousand Acres, which Tract is to
contain Something more than Six Miles square, and no more; out of
which an Allowance is to be made for High Ways and unimprovable
Lands by Rocks, Ponds, Mountains and Rivers, One Thousand and
Forty Acres free, according to a Plan and Survey thereof, made by
Our said Governor's Order, and returned into the Secretary's Office,
and hereunto annexed, butted and bounded as follows, Viz. Begin-
ing at the North Easterly Corner of Flamstead from thence Runing
North Twenty Nine Deg^ East something more than A Mile to the
south Westerly Corner of Weathers Field then by Weathers Field
North Thirteen Degrees East Six Miles to the South Easterly corner
of Reading, thence North Seventy Four Degrees West by Reading
Six Miles to the North Easterly Corner of Ludlow then south Eight
Degrees West Seven Miles & One half mile by Ludlow to the North-
erly Side Line of Flamstead then South Eighty Degrees East five
Miles to the First bounds above Mentioned — And that the same be,
and hereby is Incorporated into a Township by the Name of Cavan-
dish And the Iidiabitants tlrat do or shall hereafter iidiabit the said
Township, are hereby declared to be Enfranchized with and Intitled
to all and every the Priviledges and Immunities that other Towns
within Our Province by Law Exercise and Enjoy: And further, that

84 CHARTER RECORDS.

the said Town as soon as there shall be Fifty Families resident and
settled thereon, sliall have the Liberty of holding Tivo Fairs, one of
which shall be held on the And the other on the

annually, which Fairs are not to continue longer than the respective
following the said and that as soon as the said Town

*2-254 shall consist of Fifty Families, a Market may be *opened
and kept one or more Days in each Week, as may be
thought most advantagious to the Inhabitants. Also, that the first
Meeting for the Choice of Town Officers, agreable to the Laws of
our said Province, shall be held on the Third Wednesday of Novem-
ber next which said Meeting shall be Notified by M' Amos Kimball
who is hereby also appointed the Moderator of the said first Meeting,
which he is to Notify and Govern agreable to the Laws and Cnstoms
of Our said Province; and that the annual Meeting for ever here-
after for the Choice of such Officers for the said Town, shall be on
the Second Tuesday of March annually. To Have and to Hold the
the said Tract of Land as above expressed, together with all Privi-
leges and Appurtenances, to them and their respective Heirs and
Assigns forever, upon the following Conditions, viz.

I. That every Grantee, his Heirs or Assigns shall plant and culti-
vate five Acres of Land within the Terra of five Years for every fifty
Acres contained in his or their Share or Proportion of Land in said
Township, and continue to improve and settle the same by addi-
tional Cultivations, on Penalty of the Forfeiture of his Grant or
Share in the said Township, and of its reverting to Us, our Heirs
and Successors, to be by Us or Them Re-granted to such of Our Sub-
jects as shall effectually settle and cultivate the same.

IL That all white and other Pine Trees within the said Township,
fit for Masting Our Royal Navy, be carefully preserved for that Use,
and none to be cut or felled without Our special Licence for so
doing first had and obtained, upon the Penalty of the Forfeiture of
the Right of such Grantee, his Heirs and Assigns, to Us, our Heirs
and Successors, as well as being subject to the Penalty of any Act
or Acts of Parliament that now are, or hereafter shall be Enacted.

IV. Yielding and paying therefor to Us, our Heirs and Successors
for the Space of ten Years, to be computed from the Date hereof, the
Rent of one Ear of Indian Corn only, on the twenty -fifth Day of
December annuallj", if lawfully demanded, the first Payment to be
made on the twenty-fifth Day of December. 1762

CAVENDISH.

V. Ever)' Proprietor, Settler or Inhabitant, shall yield and pay
unto Us, our Heirs and Successors yearly, and every Year forever,
from and after the Expiration of ten Years from the abovesaid
twenty-tifth Day of December^ namely, on the tvventy-lifth Day of
December, which will be in the Year of Our Lord 1772 One shilling
Proclamation Money for every Hundred Acres he so owns, settles or
I)Ossesses, and so in Proportion for a greater or lesser Tract of the
said Land ; which Money shall be paid by the respective Persons
above said, their Heirs or Assigns, in our Council Chamber in Ports-
mouth, or to such Officer or Officers as shall be appointed to receive
the same ; and this to be in Lieu of all other Rents and Services
whatsoever.

In Testimony whereof we have caused the Seal of our said Prov-
ince to be hereunto affixed. Witness Benntng Wentworth, Esq ;
Our Governor and Commander in Chief of Our said Province, the
1-2'" Day of October In the Year of our Lord Christ, One Thousand
Seven Hundred and Sixty One And in the First Year of Our Reign,
Reign.

B Wentworth

By His Excellency's Command,
With Advice of Council,

Theodore Atkinson Sec'"'''

Province of New Hamps' Octo"" 12, 1761
Recorded According to the Origonal Charter under the Province Seal.

"^ Theodore Atkinson Sec''^

*The Names of the Grantees of
Amos Kimball Beny' Whitcomb

Phineas Steward
Benj^ Steward
Will"' Henderson
Eph'" Kimball
Edward Scott
Eph'" Whitney
Jacob Gold
Dan' Steward
Nehe-'^" Fuller
Richard Taylor
Jon" Leavet
David Sterns
John Leavet
John Muzzv

David Goodridge
Sam' Hunt
John Demary
Josiah Bayly
Timo^' Bankrupt
Steph" Boy n ton
Sam' Read Jun''
Aaron Taylor
Abijah Stearns
Jon'' Witherley
Andrew Spear
Caleb Willard
And" Gardner

Jos'' Webster
Meshech Weare Esq John Parry of y'' Pla
David Tavlor Caleb How

Cavendish (Viz) *2-255

Tho^ Dutton

Levi Stiles

William Moffatt

Peter Page

Simon But tier

Jou'*^ Willard

Phillip Goodrich

Jacob Gould Jun""

James Dascomb

Nath' Hastings

Nath' Hovey

John Jennison

James Hovey

John Webster

Levi Webster
ins Josiah Webster

Oliver Willard

CHARTER RECORDS.

Sam' Evans
John Noble
James Emerson

The : Atkinson Esq'' Joseph Newmarch Esq Henry Hilton
John Muzzy Jun' Tho' Muzzy Dan^ Fowle

John Fowle Jacob Kent

Sam^ Plummer Benj'' Heath

William Marshall & Moses Kimball
His Excellency Benning Wentworth Esq a Tract of Land to Con-
tain Five Hundred Acres as Marked B — W — in the Flan which is to
be Accounted two of the within Shares, One Share for the Incorpo-
rated Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts,
One Share for a Glebe for the Church of England as by Law Estab-
lished One Share for the First Settled Minister of the Gospel & One
Share for the Benefit of a School in said Town —

Province of New Haraps"^ Octo'^ 12, 1761

Recorded According to the Origional Charter of Cavendish under
the Pro^ Seal

Attested ^ Theodore Atkinson Sec'^>'

Seu^-h n>2]a,f^Z'a.iiS7n-iU

CHARLOTTE. 87

Province of New Hampshire Octo"" 12"*, 1761
Heoorded from the bad
iiiuler the Province Seal —

Heoorded from the back of the Origional Charter of Cavendish

Theodore Atkinson Sec"^^

CHARLOTTE.

*Province of New-Hampshire. *2-353

Charlotta GEORGE the Third,

By the Grace of God, of Great-Britain, France and
Ireland, King, Defender of the Faith, &c.

To all Persons to ivhom these Presents shall come,
Greeting.

Know ye, that We of Onr special Grace, certain Knowledge, and
meer Motion, for the due Encouragement of settling a New Planta-
tion within our said Province, by and with the Advice of our Trusty
and Well-beloved Benning Wentworth, Esq ; Our Governor and
Commander in Chief of Our said Province of New-Hampshire in
New-England, and of onr Council of the said Province; Have,
upon the Conditions and Reservations herein after made, given and
granted, and by these Presents, for us. our Heirs, and Successors, do
give and grant in equal Shares, unto Our loving Subjects, Inhabi-
tants of Our said Province of New-Hampshire, and Our other Govern-
ments, and to their Heirs and Assigns for ever, whose Names are
entred on this Grant, to be divided to and amongst them into Sev-
enty One equal Shares, all that Tract or Parcel of Laud situate,
lying and being within our said Province of Neu'-Hampshire, con-
taining by Admeasurement, Twenty Three Thousand & Sixty Acres,
which Tract is to xiontain Six Miles square, and no more; out of
which an Allowance is to be made for High Ways and unimprovable
Lands by Rocks, Ponds, Mountains and Rivers, One Thousand and
Forty Acres free, according to a Plan and Survey thereof, made by
Our said Governor's Order, and returned into the Secretary's Office,
and hereunto annexed, butted and bounded as follows. Viz. Bigining
at a Marked Tree standing in the Notherly Side Line of the Town-
ship of Monkton thence ruuing West about Two Miles & an Half by
Monkton to the North Westerly Corner thereof which is also the
North Easterly Corner of Ferrissburg & from thence about Four
Miles by Ferrissburg aforesaid to Lake Champlain then begining
again at the first Mentioned Marked Tree & runins: from thence

00 CHARTER RECORDS.

North Six Miles to A Marked Tree, thence West about Six
Miles to Lake Champlain afore Said then as the Said Lake runs
Sourtherly to the North West Corner Bounds of Ferrissburg
aforesaid And that the same be, and hereby is Incorporated into
a Township by the Name of Charlotta And the Inhabitants that
do or shall hereafter inhabit the said Township, are hereby declared
to be Enfranchized with and Intilled to all and every the Priviledges
and Immunities that other Towns within Our Province by Law Exer-
cise and Enjo}^: And further, that the said Town as soon as there
shall be Fifty Families resident and settled thereon, shall have the
Liberty of holding Two Fairs, one of which shall be held on the

And the other ou the
annually, which Fairs are not to continue longer than the respective

following the said and that as soon as the said Town

*2-354 shall consist of Fifty Families,a Market may be *openedand

kept one or more Days in each Week, as may be thought
most advantagious to the Inhabitants. Also, that the first Meeting
for the Choice of Town Officers, agreable to the Laws of our said
Province, shall be held on the last Thursday in July next which said
Meeting shall be Notified by M' Benj'' Farriss who is hereby also
appointed the Moderator of the said first Meeting, which he is to
Notify and Govern agreable to the Laws and Customs of Our said
Province; and that the annual Meeting for ever hereafter for the
Choice of such Officers for the said Town, shall be ou the Second
Tuesday of March annually, To Have and to Hold the said Tract
of Land as above expressed, together with all Privileges and Appur-
tenances, to them and their respective Heirs and Assigns forever,
upon the following Conditions, viz.

I. That every Grantee, his Heirs or Assigns shall plant and culti-
vate five Acres of Land within the Term of five Years for evt^ry fifty
Acres contained in his or their Share or Proportion of Land in said
Township, and continue to improve and settle the same by additional
Cultivations, on Penalty of the Forfeiture of his Grant or Share in
the said Township, and of its reverting to Us, our Heirs and Suc-
cessors, to be by Us or Them Re-granted to such of Our Subjects as
shall effectually settle and cultivate the same.

II. That all white and other Pine Trees within the said Township,
fit for Masting Our Royal Navy, be carefully preserved for that Use,
and none to be cut or felled without Our special Licence for so doing
first had and obtained, upon the Penalty of the Forfeiture of the
Right of such Grantee, his Heirs and Assigns, to Us, our Heirs and
Successors, as well as being subject to the Penalty of any Act or
Acts of Parliament that now are, or hereafter shall be Enacted.

CHARLOTTE. 89

IV. Yielding and paying therefor to Us, our Heirs and Successors
for the Space of ten Years, to be computed from the Date hereof, the
Rent of one Ear of Indian Corn only, on the twenty-lifth Day of
December annually, if lawfully demanded, the first Payment to be
made on the twenty-fifth Day of December. 1763

V. Every Proprietor, Settler or Inhabitant, shall yield and pay
unto L^s, our Heirs and Successors yearly, and every Year forever,
from and after the Expiration of ten Years from the abovesaid twen-
ty-fifth Day of December., namely, on the twenty-fifth Day of December.,
which will be in the Year of Our Lord 1773 One sliilling Proclama-
tion Money for ever^^ Hundred Acres he so owns, settles or posseses,
and so in Proportion for a greater or lesser Tract of the said Land;
which Money shall be paid by the respective Persons abovesaid, their
Heirs or Assigns, in our Council Chamber in Portsmouth., or to such
Officer or Officers as shall be appointed to receive the same; and this
to be in Lieu of all other Rents and Services whatsoever.

In Testimony w-hereof we have caused the Seal of our said Province
to be hereunto affixed. Witness Benning Wentworth, Esq ; Our
Governor and Commander in Chief of our said Province, the 24'"'
Day of June In the Year of our Lord Christ, One Thousand Seven
Hundred and Sixt}- Two And in the Second Year of Our Reign.

B Wentworth
By His Excellency's Command,
With Advice of Council,

T Atkinson Jun"^ Sec"^-^'

Province of New Hamps"" June 24'^

Recorded According to the Origional Charter under the Province
Seal—

f T Atkinson Jun^ Sec^^

*The Names of the Grantees of Charlotta *2-355

Benj'^ Ferriss Jon'' Akin Benj'*^ Ferriss Jun'

Josiah Akin Daniel Wing Elihu Wing

Lott Trip David Akin Jun' Tim" Dakin

John Cromwell John Hoag Merch' John Hoag the 2''

John Wing Reed Ferriss Zeb" Ferriss

Wing Kelly Nehe-'" Merritt Abr'" Thomas

Anth' Tripp Elias Palmer David Palmer

Sam^ Coe George Soule Elijah Doty

CHARTER RECORDS.

Peter Palmer
John Hitchcock
Jedediah Dow
Nath' Potter Jun''
Daniel Merritt
Dobson Wheeler
Will"' Field
John Burling
Tho^ Franklin Jun''
Isaac Corsa
Joseph Ferriss
Dan' Chase

Josiah Bull
John Brownsoii
Enoch Hoag
Rob' Southgate
Nehe-'^" Merritt J''
Sam' Browne
Isaac INIarlin
John Franklin
Sam' Franklin
Elijah West
Joseph Ferriss Jun^

Josiah Bull Jun''
Jon'' Dow
Steward Southgate
John Southgate
Steph" Noble
Joshua Delaplane
John Laurence
Walter Franklin
James Franklin
Rob*^ Caswell
David Ferriss
Tho* Darlincr

Patrick Thacher
Hon : John Temple Esq L : G Theodore Atkinson Esq
Mark H^ Wentworth Esq John Nelson Esq George Frost

His Excellency Penning Wentworth Esq a Tract of Land to Con-
tain Five Hundred Acres as marked B — W — in the Plan which is to
be Accounted two of the within shares, One whole share for the
Incorporated Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign
Parts, one Share for a Glebe for the Church of England as by Law
Establish'd, One Share for the first Settled Minister of the Gospel &
one Share for the benefitt of a School in s'' Town —

Province of New Hamps'" June 24

Recorded from the back of the Origional Charter of Charlotta,
under the Prov : Seal —

f T Aikinson Jun'' Sec-^^

•■:'''uj.-} vi-^oA/

Tlarx cf
PharlottZL

X 3 oloC J^CTli

CHESTER. 91

Province of New Hamps'' June 24, 1762

Recorded from the back of the Origional Charter of Charlotta
under the Province Seal —

19 T Atkinson Jun"^ Sec'>'

CHESTER.

*Province of New Hampshire. *1-193

Flamstead George the Second by the Grace of God of

Create Britain France & Ireland King Defender of
the faith &c''

To all Persons to whom these Presents Shall Come
Greeting

Know Ye that We of our Especial Grace Certain Knowledge &
mere motion for the due Encouragement of Settling: a New Planta-
tion within our Said Province by & with the Advice of our
Trusty & well beloved Banning Wentworth Esq our Governor
& Com'ander in Chieff of our Said Province of New Hampshire
in America and of our Council of the Said Province Have upon
the Conditions & Reservations hereafter made Given & Granted
and by these Presents for us our heirs & Successors Do give & Grant
in Equal Shares unto our Loving Subjects Inhabitants of our Said
Province of New Hampshire Maf-^'' other Governments and to their
heirs and assigns forever whose Names are Entred on this Grant To
be Divided to and Amoungst them into Sixty four Equal Shares All
that Tract or Parcel of Land Situate Lying and being within our
Province of New Hampshire Containing by Admeasurement Twenty
three thousand & forty Acres which Tract is to Contain Six miles
Square & no more out of which an allowence is to be made for high-
ways and unimprovable Lands by Rocks mountains Ponds & Rivers
One thousand & forty Acres free According to A Plan thereof made
& Presented by our said Governors Orders and hereunto Annexed
Butted & bounded as follow's (Viz) Begining at the North Westerly
Corner of Rockingham a Township Lately Granted & Lying on the
West side of Connecticut River and from said North Westerly
Corner to Extend Due West Six Miles from thence to run North
Ten Degrees East Six Miles and then to Turn oft" and run due East
Six miles Then to Turn off again & Run South Ten Degrees West

92 . CHAKTER RECORDS.

six miles to the North West Corner of Rockingham a fores'' and
that the Same be & hereby is incorporated into A Township by the
Name of Flamstead and that the Inhabitants that do or Shall liere-
after inhabit said Township Are hereby Declared to be Enfranchized
With & Entitiiled to all & every the Previledges & Immunities that
Other Towns within our Said Province by Law Exercise & Enjoy
and further that the Said Town as Soon as there Shall be fifty famil-
ies resident & settled thereon A Market Shall be Opened and kept

one or more Days in each Week as may be tho' most Ad-
*1-194 vantagious *to the Inhabitants Also that the first meeting

for the Choice of Town officers Agreable to the Laws of
our Said Province Shall Be held on the third Wednesday in March
next which Meeting Shall be Notifyed by Palmer Goulding who is
hereby Also Appointed the Moderator of the Said first Meeting which
he is to Notify & Govern Agreable to the Laws & Customs of our
sd Province And that the Annual Meeting for ever hereafter for the
Choice of Such Officers of said Town Shall be on the Third Wednes-
day in March Annually To have & TO hold the said Tract of
Land as above Expressed togeather with all Previledges and appur-
tenances to them & their Respective heirs & assigns for ever upon
the following Conditions (Viz) That every Grantee his heirs or
Assigns Shall Plant or Cultivate five Acres for ever}^ fifty Acres Con-
tained in his or their Share or Proportion of Land in Said Township
and Continue to Improve & Settle the same by Additional Cultiva-
tions on Penalty of the forfeiture of his Grant or Share in the Said
Township and its reverting to his Majesty his heirs & Successors to
be by him or them Regranted to Such of his Subjects as Shall Effect-
ually Settle & Cultivate the Same — That all white & other Pine
Trees within the s'' Township fit for his Masting Our Royal Navy be
carefully Preserved for that use and none to be Cut or Felld with-
out his Majesty's Especial Licence for so Doing first had & obtaind
upon the Penalty of the forfeiture of the right of Such Grantee his
heirs or assigns as well as being subject to the Penalty of any Act
or Acts of Parliament that now are or hereafter Shall be Enacted —
That before Any Division of the Said Lands be made to & Amoungst
the Grantees A Tract of Land as near the Center of the Township as
the Land will admit of Shall be reserved and Marked out for Town
Lotts one of which Shall be allotted to Each Grantee of the Contents
of one Acre Yeilding & Paying there for to us our heirs & Successors
for the S[)ace of Ten years to be Computed from the Date hereof the
Rent of one Ear of Indian Corn only on the first Day of January
Annually if Lawfully Demanded the first Payment to be made on
the first day of January next Ensueing the Date hereof and every

CHESTER. 93

Proprietor Settler or Inhabitant Shall Yeild & Pay unto us our heirs
& successors Yearly & and Ever\' Year for ever from and
After *the Expiration of the ten years from the Date here- *1-195
of namely on the first Day of January which will be in the
vear of our Lord Christ One thousend Seven hundred & Sixty four
One Shilling- Proclamation money for every Hundred Acres he so
owns Settles or Possesses And so in Proportion for A Greater or
Lesser Tract of the said Land which money Shall be i)aid by the Re-
spective Persons above said their Heirs or Assigns in our Council
Chamber in Portsmouth or to Such officer or Officers as Shall be Ap-
pointed to receive the same and this to be in Lieu of all other Rents
& Services whatsoever Li Testimony hereof We have Caused the
Seal of our Said Province to be hereunto affixed Wittness Penning
Wentwouth Esq our Governor and Com'ander in Chieff of our
Said Province the Twenty Second Day of Feb'^'' in the year of our
Lord Christ one thousend Seven hundred & fifty four and in the
Twenty Seventh year of our reign —

B Wentworth.
By his Excellencys Com'and
with Advice of Council

Theodore Atkinson Sec"^^

Entred & recorded According to the Original under the Province
Seal the 23'^ Day of Feb^> 1754—

^ Theodore Atkinson Sec'^

Names of the Grantees of Flamstead — Viz —

John Baldridge, Ebenez"" Carlile, Charles Davenport,

Luke Brown, Alexander Clark, Francis Smith,

Samuel Dunkin, William Clark, Francis Smith jun"",

James Hambleton, David Bellows, Israeli Jennison

Jacob Holms, Mathias Stone, John Waters,

Jerem'* Rice, Benjamin Flagg, Palmer Goulding,

Isaac Sterns, Sam*"^^ Clark Pain, Abraham Wheeler

Cornelius Stowell, Moses Peters, Charles Adams,

Ebenezer Sterns, Thomas W^heeler, Jacob Smith,

Jonas Rice, Charles Davenport jun'", William Mahan,

John Rickey, W^illiam Johnson, Nathaniel Child,

Jeremiah Beath, Thomas Cowden, Ebenezer Wissall

John Starns, Isaac Morse, John Roberts,

James Carlile, John Kelsow, Richard Ward,

James Stoodley, Daniel Haywood, Abel Haywood,

Daniel Haywood jun', *Nathaniel Adams, Mathew Livermore

*1-196

CHARTER RECORDS.

Samuel Smith,
Samuel Solley,
Theodore Atkinson,

John Downing,
Sampson Sheaffe,
Jonathan Gates,

Thomas Bell,
Richard Wibird,
Daniel ^Varner,
John Wentworth,

one Sliare His Excellency Benning Wentworth Esq Two Shares
which Three Last mentioned Shares Are to be Laid out togeather in
one Tract on the East Side of the Said Town to begin four hundred
and Eighty Rods North Ten degrees East of the South P^ast Corner
of the Said Township and INIeasure these Two hundred & forty rods
& Carry that breadth Back West Seven hundred & Twenty Rods
one whole Share for the Incorporated Society for the Propagation
of the (iospel in lorreign Parts, one whole Share for the first Settled
Minister of the Gospel in Said Town One Share for A Glebe for the
Ministry of the Church of England as by Law Established —

Recorded from the Back of the Charter of Flamstead this 23'' Day
of Feb'> 1754

m Theodore Atkinson Se''^

Zaii Sik/TZiU

Taken from the Back of the Original Charter of Flamstead &
Recorded here the 23'^ of Feb'> 1754

19 Theodore Atkinson Sec'^'

CHESTER. 95

[Chester Regrant, 17G1.]

*Province of Nevv-Hanipsbire. *2-321

New Flamstead GEORGE the Third,

Sz-i.^^-^ s I)Y the Grace of (jOD, of Great-Britain, France and
/ Ireland, King, Defender of the Faith &c.
PS/
I To all Persons to whom these Presents shall come^

-— -v-*i-' ' Greeting.
Know ye, that We of Onr special Grace, certain Knowledge, and
nieer ^Motion, for the due Encouragement of settling a New Planta-
tion within our said Province, by and with the Advice of our Trusty
and AVell-beloved IJknxinc; Wentworth, Esq; Our Governor and
Commander in Chief of Our said Province of New Hampshire in
Neic-England, and of our Council of the said Province ; Have
upon the Conditions and Reservations herein after made, given and
granted, and by these Presents, for us, our Heirs, and Successors,
do give and grant in equal Shares, unto Onr loving Subjects, Inhabi-
tants of Our said Province of New-Hampshire, and Our other Gov-
ernments, and to their Heirs and Assigns forever, whose Names are
entred on this Grant, to be divided to and amongst them into Sev-
enty four equal Shares, all that Tract or Parcel of Land situate,
lying and being within our said Prbvince of Neiv-IIampshire , con-
taining by Admeasurement, 23,040 Acres, Avhich Tract is to contain
Six Miles square, and no more ; out of which an Allowance is to be
made for High AVays and unimprovable Lands by Rocks, Ponds,
Mountains and Rivers, One Thousand and Forty Acres free, accord-
ing to a Plan and Survey thereof, made by Our said Governor's
Order, and returned into the Secretary's Office, and hereunto
annexed, butted and bounded as follows. Viz. Begining at the
North Westerly Corner of Rockingham A Township formerly
Granted Lying on the West Side of Conneticut River from
said North Westerly Corner to Extend due West Six Miles, from
thence to Run North Ten Degrees East Six Miles, then to Turn
off Run due East Six Miles, then to Turn off again Run South
T&n Deg^ West Six Miles to the North West Corner of Rockingham
afores'' —

And that the same be, and hereby is Incorporated into a Township
by the Name of New Flamstead And the Inhabitants that do or
shall hereafter inhabit the said Township, are hereby declared to be
Enfranchized with and Intitled to all and every the Priviledges and
Immunities that other Towns within Our Province by Law P^xercise
and Enjoy : And further, that the said Town as soon as there shall

96 CHARTER RECORDS.

be Fifty Families resident and settled thereon, shall have the Liberty
of holding Two Fairs, one of which shall be held on the

And the other on the annually, which

Fairs are not to continue longer than the respective

following the said and that as soon as the said

*2-322 Town shall consist of Fifty Families a Market may be *opened
and kept one or more Days in each Week, as may be
thought most advantagious to the Inhabitants. Also, that the first
Meeting for the Choice of Town Officers, agreable to the Laws of
our said Province, shall be held on the Third Tuesday in December
which said Meeting shall be Notified by M'' Luke Brown who is
hereby also appointed the Moderator of the said first Meeting, which
he is to Notify and Govern agreable to the Laws and Customs of
Our said Province; and that the annual Meeting for ever hereafter
for the Choice of such Officers for the said Town, shall be on the
Second Tuesday of March annually, To Have and to Hold the
said Tract of Land as above expressed, together with all Privileges
and Appurtenances, to them and their respective Heirs and Assigns
forever, upon the following Conditions, viz.

I. That every Grantee, his Heirs or Assigns shall plant and cul-
tivate five Acres of Land within the Term of Five Years for every
fifty Acres contained in his or their Share or Proportion of Land in
said Township, and continue to improve and settle the same by addi-
tional Cultivations, on Penalty of the Forfeiture of his Grant or
Share in the said Township, and of its reverting to Us, our Heirs
and Successors, to be by Us or Them Re-granted to such of Our Sub-
jects as shall effectually settle and cultivate the same.

IV. Yielding and paying therefor to Us, our Heirs and Successors
for the Space of Ten Years, to be computed from the Date hereof,
the Rent of one Ear of Indian Corn only, on the twenty-fifth Day of
December annually, if lawfully demanded, the first Payment to be
made on the twentj'^-fifth Day of December. 1761

CHESTER.

V. Every Proprietor, Settler or Inhabitant, shall yield and pay
unto Us, our Heirs and Successors yearly, and every Year forever,
from and after the Expiration of Ten Years from the abovesaid
twenty-tifth Day of December^ namely, on the twenty-fifth Day of
December^ which will be in the Year of Our Lord 1771 One shilling
Proclamation Money for every Hundred Acres he so owns, settles or
possesses, and so in Proportion for a greater or lesser Tract of the
said Land ; which 'Money shall be paid by the respective Persons
abovesaid, their Heirs or Assigns, in our Council Chamber in Ports-
mouthy or to such Officer or Officers as shall be appointed to receive
the same ; and this to be in Lieu of all other Rents and Services
whatsoever.

In Testimony whereof we have caused the Seal of our said Prov-
ince to be hereunto affixed. Witness Benning Wentwokth, Esq ;
Our Governor and Commander in Chief of Our said Province, the
3*^ Day of November In the Year of our Lord Christ, One Thou-
sand Seven Hundred and Sixty One And in the Second Year of Our

Reign.

B Wentworth

By His Excellency's Command,
With Advice of Council,

Theod'' Atkinson Sec""^'

Province of New Hamps"" Nov"" 3, 1761

Recorded According to the Origional Charter under the Province
Seal —

■^ Theodore Atkinson Sec''^

*The Names of the Grantees of New Flamsted *2-323

Dan^ Haywood
Asa Moore
Eph"' Doolittle
Nathan Baldwin
Peter Brooks
Ephraim Stearns
Tyrus Rice
Jacob Holmes Jun''
Charles Devenport
Israel Jenison
Jacob Smith

Abiel Haywood
Silas Moore
Benj'^ Willard
Aaron Kimball
Benj'' Winchester
John Fisk
David Moore
Solomon Woodward
Charles Devenport J''
Isaac Stearnes
Eben' Wiswall

Palmer Goulding Jun"" John Goulding
Ignatus Goulding Peter Goulding
John Green Ephraim Curtis

Will"' Oaks John Moors

Jeremiah Beath
Cornelius Stowell
Noah Brooks
Joseph Willard Jun'
Robert Gray
Berzillai Rice
Jacob Holmes
Jon'' Gates
Sam^ Dunkin
Charles Addams
Palmer Goulding
Windsor Goulding
Abel Goulding
Naham Willard
Hezekiah Stowell

CHARTER RECORDS.

Benj'' Whitney Jnn" John Stowell Adonijah Rice

Benj=' Richardson Jabez Sergant Joseph Rugg

Will'" Crawford John Brooks John Davis

Matt""' Livermore Esq Theod'' Atkinson Esq Richard Wibird Esq

Simon Davis Simon Davis Jun"^ Luke Brown

Theo'^® Atkinson Jun'" Ephraim Brown Edward Brown

Tho* Barret James Barret Sam' Brown &

Sam' Brooks —

His Excellency Benning Wentworth Esq a Tract of Land to Con-
tain Eight Hundred Acres as Marked B — W — in the Plan which is
to be Accounted three of the within Shares, One whole Share for
the Incorporated society for the Propagation of the Gospell in
Foreign Parts, One Share for a Glebe for the Church of England as
by Law Establish'd One Share for the First Settled Minister of the
Gospel & One share for the Benefit of a School in said Town —

Province of New Hamps'' Nov"" 3'' —

Recorded from the back of the Origional Charter of New Flam-
stead under the Province Seal

Attested 19 Theod^ Atkinson Sec^^

Province of New Hamps"" Nov'' 3, 1761

Recorded from the back of the Origional Charter of New Flam-
sted under the Province Seal

f Theodore Atkinson Se^

CLARENDON, 99

CLARENDON.

*Proviiice of New-Hampshire. *2-165

Clarendon GEORGE the Third,

, ."^-^-^ . By the Grace of God, of Great-Britain, France and

\ / Ireland, King, Defender of the Faith &c.

I (To all Persons to ivhom these Presents shall come,

^ --*-v-*^ ■' Greeting.

Know ye, that We of Our special Grace, certain Knowledge, and
meer Motion, for the due Encouragement of settling a New Planta-
tion within our said Province, by and with the Advice of our Trusty
and Well-beloved Benning Wentworth, Esq ; Our Governor and
Commander in Chief of Our said Province of New-Hampshire in
Neic-England, and of our Council of the said Province ; Have
upon the Conditions and Reservations herein after made, given and
granted, and by these Presents, for us, our Heirs, and Successors,
do give and grant in equal Shares, unto Our loving Subjects, Inhabi-
tants of Our said Province of New- Hampshire, and Our other Gov-
ernments, and to their Heirs and Assigns for ever, whose Names are
entred on this Grant, to be divided to and amongst them into
Seventy equal Shares, all that Tract or Parcel of Land situate, lying
and being within our said Province of New- Hampshire, containing by
Admeasurement, about Tv/enty three thousand Six Hundred Acres,
which Tract is to contain Something more than Six Miles square,
and no more ; out of which an Allowance is to be made for High
Ways and unimprovable Lands by Rocks, Ponds, Mountains and
Rivers, One Thousand and Forty Acres free, according to a Plan
and Survey thereof, made by Our said Governor's Order, and
returned into the Secretary's Ofiice, and hereunto annexed, butted
and bounded as follows. Viz. Beginning at the South Westerly Cor-
ner of Shrewsbury thence North five degrees East Six Miles by
Shrewsbury to the North West Corner thereof thence West five
degrees North Six Miles & Three quarters of a mile thence South
four Degrees East Six Miles thence East five degrees South Six
Miles to the South West Corner of Shrewsbury the Bound first
Mentioned And that the same be, and hereby is Incorporated into a
Township by the Name of Clarendon And the Inhabitants that do or
shall hereafter inhaljit the said Township, are hereby declared to be
Enfranchized with and Intitled to all and every the Priviledges and
Immunities that other Towns within Our Province by Law Exercise
and Enjoy : And further, that the said Town as soon as there shall

100 CHAETER RECORDS.

be Fifty Families resident and settled thereon, shall have the Liberty
of holding Ttvo Fairs, one of which shall be held on the
And the other on the annually, which Fairs are

not to continue longer than the respective

following the said and that as soon as the said

Town shall consist of Fifty Families, a Market may be
*2-166 *opened and kept one or more Days in each Week, as may
be thought most advantagious to the Inhabitants. Also,
that the first Meeting for the Choice of Town Officers, agreable to
the Laws of our said Province, shall be held on the First Wednesday
in October Next which said Meeting shall be Notified by Josiah Wil-
lard Esq who is hereby also appointed the Moderator of the said first
Meeting, which he is to Notify and Govern agreable to the Laws and
Customs of Our said Province; and that the annual Meeting for
ever hereafter for the Choice of such Officers for the said Town,
shall be on the of March annually, To Have

and to Hold the said Tract of Land as above expressed, together
with all Privileges and Appurtenances, to them and their respective
Heirs and Assigns forever, upon the following Conditions, viz.

I. That every Grantee, his Heirs or Assigns shall plant and culti-
vate five Acres of Land within the Term of five Years for every fifty
Acres contained in his or their Share or Proportion of Land in said
Township, and continue to improve and settle the same by addi-
tional Cultivations, on Penalty of the Forfeiture of his Grant or
Share in the said Township, and of its reverting to Us, our Heirs
and Successors, to be by Us or Them Re-granted to such of Our Sub-
jects as shall effectually settle and cultivate the same.

H. That all white and other Pine Trees within the said Township,
fit for Masting Our Royal Navy, be carefully preserved for that Use,
and none to be cut or felled without Our special Licence for so
doing first had and obtained, upon the Penalty of the Forfeiture of
the Right of such Grantee, his Heirs and Assigns, to Us, our Heirs
and Successors, as well as being subject to the Penalty of any
Act or Acts of Parliament that now are, or hereafter shall be En-
acted.

IV. Yielding and paying therefor to Lis, our Heirs and Successors
for the Space of ten Years, to be computed from the Date hereof, the
Rent of one Ear of Indian Corn only, on the twenty-fifth Day of

CLARENDON.

101

December annually, if lawfully demanded, the first Payment to be
made on the twenty-fifth Day of December. 1762

V. Every Proprietor, Settler or Inhabitant, shall yield and pay
unto Us, our Heirs and Successors yearly, and every Year forever,
from and after the Expiration of ten Years from the abovesaid
twenty-fifth Day of December, namely, on the twenty-fifth Day of
December, which will be in the Year of Our Lord 1772 One shilling
Proclamation Money for every Hundred Acres he so owns, settles or
possesses, and so in Proportion for a greater or lesser Tract of the
said Land; which Money shall be paid by the respective Persons
abovesaid, their Heirs or Assigns, in our Council Chamber in Ports-
7nouth, or to such Officer or Officers as shall be appointed to receive
the same ; and this to be in Lieu of all other Rents and Services
whatsoever.

In Testimony whereof we have caused the Seal of our said Pro-
vince to be hereunto affixed. Witness Benning WENT\yoRTH, Esq;
Our Governor and Commander in Chief of Our said Province, the
fifth Day of September In the Year of our Lord Christ, One Thous-
and Seven Hundred and Sixty one And in the First Year of Our
Reign.

B Wentworth

By His Excellency's Command,
With Advice of Council,

Theodore Atkinson Sec''^

Province of New Hamp"^ September 5''' 1761

Recorded According to the Original Charter under the Province
Seal

f Theodore Atkinson Sec-'y

*The Names of the Grantees of Clarendon Viz — *2-167

Caleb Willard
John Searl
Elijah Arms
Timothy Taylor
Mark Gould
Timothy Pain
Abner Hawkes
William Heaton
Seth Chase
Benjamin Melvin
Orlando Bridgman
Zadock Hawkes
Ebenezer Barnard

Josiah Willard jun''
Caleb Stone
Jon'* Oaks

Robert Fletcher Jun""
Gamaliel Bradford
Samuel Frink
John Frink
Ephraim Butterfield
Thomas Frink Jun''
Josiah Willard
Enock Baudwell
Hilkeah Grout
Daniel Arms

Sampson Willard
Timothy Whitney
Ebenezer Alexander
Phineas Wait
Thomas Frink
Ezra Taylor
James Scott
Thomas Butterfield
Oliver Ashley
Thomas Bridgman
Gideon Baudwell
Samuel Wellds
William Arms

102

CHAETER RECORDS.

John Mackard
Alexander Gordon
Robert Willson
John Waldo Wood
Samuel Marble
David Stone Jun''

Samuel Simpson
Edward Selfredge
Silvanus How
Jeremiah Whittemore
Robert Fletcher
Ephraim Stone

Daniel Murry

Alexander Murry

Joshua Willard

Samuel Gates

Ephraim Dorman

Phinehas Stevens
Theodore Atkinson Esq" M H^ Wentworth Esq' Col° John Hart
Simon Chamberlain John Cass Benning Wentworth

& John Wentworth Esq'

His Excellenc}'' Benning Wentworth Esq' a Tract of Land to Con-
tain Five Hundred Acres as Marked B — W — in the Plan which is
to be Accounted two of the within Shares, One whole Share for the
Incorporated Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in foreign
Parts, One Share for the First settled Minister of the Gospel, One
Share for a Glebe for the Church of England as by Law Established,
& One Share for the Benefit of a School in said Town —

Province of New Hamps*^ Sep'' 5"' 1761

Recorded from the Back of the Origional Charter of Clarendon
under the Province Seal —

Attested 19 Theodore Atkinson Se^^

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'P?<X-n. of Clarendon

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COLCHESTER. 103

COLCHESTER.

*Province of New-Hampshire. *2-425

Colchester GEORGE The Third,

, .-^N-— s . By the Grace of God, of Great-Britain, France and

\ / Ireland, King, Defender of the Faith &c.

) I To all Persons to ivhom these Presents shall come^

^ N— -v-w -' Greeting.

Know ye, that We of Our special Grace, certain Knowledge, and
meer INIotion, for the due Encouragement of settling a New Planta-
tion within our said Province, by and with the Advice of our Trusty
and Well-beloved Benning Wentworth, Esq ; Our Governor and
Commander in Chief of Our said Province of New-Hampshire in
Neiv-Eugland^ and of our Council of the said Province ; Have,
upon the Conditions and Reservations herein after made, given and
granted, and by these Presents, for us, our Heirs, and Successors,
do give and grant in equal Shares, unto Our loving Subjects, Inhabi-
tants of Our said Province of Neiv-Hampshire^ and Our other Gov-
ernments, and to their Heirs and Assigns for ever, whose Names are
entred on this Grant, to be divided to and amongst them into Seventy
two equal Shares, all that Tract or Parcel of Land situate, lying and
being within our said Province of Netv-Hampshire, containing by
Admeasurement, 23040 Acres, which Tract is to contain Six Miles
square, and no more ; out of which an Allowance is to be made for
High Ways and unimprovable Lands by Rocks, Ponds, Mountains
and Rivers, One Thousand and Forty Acres free, according to a Plan
and Survey thereof, made by Our said Governor's Order, and re-
turned into the Secretary's Office, and hereunto annexed, butted and
bounded as follows, Viz. Begining at the Northerly or North East-
erly side of French or Onion River (so called) at the mouth of said
River thence Runing up by said River untill it comes to a place
that is six Miles upon a streight Line from the Mouth of said River
(bounding on the same) thence Runing upon a Line Perpendicular
to the aforesaid Six Mile Line Northerly Six Miles from thence run-
ing Westerly a Parralel Line with the first ]\Iention'd Line, to Lake
Champlain, thence southerly by the said Lake to the Mouth of the
River aforesaid the place begun at — And that the same be, and hereby
is Incorporated into a Township by the Name of Colchester And the
Inhabitants that do or shall hereafter inhabit the said Township, are
hereby declared to be Enfranchized with and Intitled to all and
ever}'^ the Priviledges and Immunities that other Towns within Our
Province by Law Exercise and Enjoy : And further, that the said

104 CHARTER RECORDS.

Town as soon as there shall be Fifty Families resident and settled
thereon, shall have the Liberty of holding Two Fairs, one of which
shall be held on the And the other on the

annually, which Fairs are not to continue
longer than the respective following the said

and that as soon as the said Town shall
*2-426 consist of Fifty Families, a Market may be *opened and
kept one or more Days in each Week, as may be thought
most advantagious to the Inhabitants. Also, that the first Meeting
for the Choice of Town Officers, agreable to the Laws of our said
Province, shall be held on the 12'^ Day of July next which said
Meeting shall be Notified by John Bogart Jun"^ Esq*^ who is hereby
also appointed the Moderator of the said first Meeting, which he is
to Notify and Govern agreable to the Laws and Customs of Our
said Province ; and that the annual Meeting for ever hereafter for
the Choice of such Officers for the said Town, shall be on the Second
Tuesday of March annually. To Have and to Hold the said Tract
of Land as above expressed, together with all Privileges and Appur-
tenances, to them and their respective Heirs and Assigns forever,
upon the following Conditions, viz.

I. That every Grantee, his Heirs or Assigns shall plant and culti-
vate five Acres of Land within the Term of five Years for every fifty
Acres contained in his or their Share or Proportion of Laud in said
Township, and continue to improve and settle the same by additional
Cultivations, on Penalty of the Forfeiture of his Grant or Share in
the said Township, and of its reverting to Us, our Heirs and Suc-
cessors, to be by Us or Them Re-granted to such of Our Subjects as
shall effectually settle and cultivate the same.

IL That all white and other Pine Trees within the said Township,
fit for Masting Our Royal Navy, be carefulh^ preserved for that Use,
and none to be cut or felled without Our special Licence for so doing
first had and obtained, upon the Penalty of the Forfeiture of the
Right of such Grantee, his Heirs and Assigns, to Us, our Heirs and
Successors, as well as being subject to the Penalty of any Act or
Acts of Parliament that now are, or hereafter shall be Enacted.

IIL That before any Division of the Land be made to and among
the Grantees, a Tract of Land as near the Centre of the said Town-
ship as the Land will admit of, shall be reserved and marked out for
Town Lots, one of which shall be allotted to each Grantee of the
Contents of one Acre.

IV. Yielding and paying therefor to Us, our Heirs and Successors
for the Space of ten Years, to be computed from the Date hereof,
the Rent of one Ear of Indian Corn only, on the twenty-fifth Day of

COLCHESTER.

106

December annually, if lawfully demanded, the first Payment to be
made on the twenty-fifth Day of December. 1763

V. Every Proprietor, Settler or Inhabitant, shall yield and pay
unto Us, our Heirs and Successors yearly, and every Year forever,
from and after the Expiration of ten Years from the abovesaid twenty-
fifth Day of December^ namely, on the twenty-fifth Day of December^
which will be in the Year of Our Lord 1773 One sldlling Proclama-
tion Money for every Hundred Acres he so owns, settles or possesses,
and so in Proportion for a greater or lesser Tract of the said Land ;
which Money shall be paid by the respective Persons abovesaid,
their Heirs or Assigns, in our Council Chamber in Portsmouth^ or to
such Officer or Officers as shall be appointed to receive the same;
and this to be in Lieu of all other Rents and Services whatsoever.

In Testimony whereof we have caused the Seal of our said Province
to be hereunto affixed. Witness Benning Wentwoiith, Es6[; Our
Governor and Commander in Chief of Our said Province, the
Seventh Day of June In the Year of our Lord Christ, One Thousand
Seven Hundred and Sixty three And in the Third Year of Our Reign.

B Wentworth

By His Excellency's Command,
With Advice of Council,

T Atkinson Jun^ Sec'^

Province of New Hamp'' June 7-1763

Recorded According to the original Charter under the Province
Seal

^ T Atkinson Jun-^ Sec^y

*The Names of the Grantees of Colchester (viz) *2-427

Edward Burling
John Lawrence
Rich'' Lawrence
Joseph Hanxhurst
Will"' Field
John Latham
David Latham
Benj=* Hildreth Jun''
Will"' Keese
Edw*^ Agar
John Burling Jun''
Sam' Burling
Tho^ Burling
Thomas Dobson
John J Bogert

John Burling
Effingham Lawrence
Will"' Hanxhurst
Sampson Hanxhurst
Peter Dobson
Thomas Latham
Lancaster Burling
Theo"* Anthony
John Butler
Philip Doughty
Hugh Ryder
George Richey
Effingham Lawrence
John Bogert Jun''
Nich* J Bogart

Edward Burling Jun
J"^ Caleb Lawrence
Peter Townsend
Daniel Hanxhurst
Thomas Dobson Jun"^
Daniel Latham
Daniel Latham Jun""
Benj'^ Hildreth
Will"' Van Wyck
Alex"" Litch Miller
Francis Pan ton
Rich'' Burling
John Godsands Miller
Sam' Burling Jun"^
James Bogert Jun"^

106

CHARTER RECORDS.

Peter J Bogart

Joseph Latham

Petrus Byvanck

Will"' Mott

John M'Creedy

Hon: John Temple^
Theo : Atkinson l-p,
M: H: Wentworth f^^^

Henry J Bogart
Joseph Latham Juu"^
John Cornell
Sam^ Averill
Cap* Nehe-'^'^ Lovewell

Cornelius J Bogart
Edw'^ Burling New York
John Latham
Sam^ Willis
Charles ^^Creedy
Cap' Tim*^ Beedle
Clem' March Esq""

Henry Sherburne J

His Excellency Benning Wentworth Esq'^ a Tract of Land to
Contain Five Hundred Acres as marked B-W in the Plan which is
to be Accounted two of the within shares, One whole Share for the
Incorporated Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign
Parts, One Share for a Glebe for the Church of England as by Law
Establish'd, One Share for the first settled Minister of the Gospel, «Sc
One Share for the benefit of a School in said Town —

Province of New Hamp'^ June 7"^ 1763

Recorded from the Back of the Original Charter under the Prov-
ince Seal

T Atkinson Jun' Sec^^

Province of New Hamp^ June 7'^ 1763

Recorded from the Plan on the Back of the original Charter of
the Town of Colchester

■^ T Atkinson Jun^ Sec'^

CORINTH. 107

CORINTH.

*Province of New Hampshire. *3-98

Corinth GEORGE the Third,

, ,-w^^ . By the Grace of God, of Great-Britain, France and

\ ^ / Ireland, King, Defender of the Faith, &c.

i ' I To all Persons to ivliom these Presents shall come,

' v^-v-w -' Greeting.

Know Ye, that We of Our special Grace, certain Knowledge, and
meer Motion, for the due Encouragement of settling a Neiv Planta-
tion within our said Province, by and with the Advice of our Trusty
and Well-beloved Benning Wentworth, Esq ; Our Governor and
Commander in Chief of Our Said Province of New-Hampshire, in
New-England, and of Our Council of the said Province; Have upon
the Conditions and Reservations herein after made, given and granted,
and by these Presents, for Us, Our Heirs, and Successors, do give
and grant in equal Shares, unto Our loving Subjects, Inhabitants of
Our said Province of New-Hampshire, and Our other Governments,
and to their Heirs and Assigns for ever, whose Names are entred on
this Grant, to be divided to and amongst them into Seventy Two
equal Shares, all that Tract or Parcel of Land situate, lying and
being within our said Province of New-Hampshire, containing by
Admeasurement, 24000 Acres, which Tract is to contain Six Miles
square, and no more ; out of which an Allowance is to be made for
High Ways and unimprovable Lands by Rocks, Ponds, Mountains
and Rivers, One Thousand and Forty Acres free, according to a Plan
and Survey thereof, made by Our said Governor's Order, and returned
into the Secretary's Office, and hereunto annexed, butted and
bounded as follows, Viz. Begining at the South Westerly Corner
Bounds of the Town of Newbury thence runing South Thirty Two
degrees West ab' Six Miles & one half Mile to the North Westerly
Corner Bound of the Township of Fairlee thence North Sixty one
Deg West Six Miles then North Thirty deg: East about Six Miles to
the South Westerly Corner Bounds of the Town of Topsom then
South Sixty five deg : East by Topsom aforesaid to the Bounds
begun at And that the same be, and hereby is Incorporated into a
Township by the Name of Corinth And the Inhabitants that do or
shall hereafter inhabit the said Township, are hereby declared to be
Enfranchized with and Intitled to all and every the Priviledges and
Immunities that other Towns within Our Province by Law Exercise
and enjo}^ : And further, that the said Town as soon as there shall be
Fifty Families resident and settled thereon, shall have the Liberty of
holding tivo Fairs, one of which shall be held on the

108 CHARTER RECORDS.

And the other on the annually, which Fairs are not to

continue longer than the respective following the said

and that as soon as the said Town shall consist
*3-99 of Fifty Families, a Market maybe *opened and kept one or
more Days in each Week, as may be thought most advantagious
to the Inhabitants. Also, thatthefirst Meeting for the Choice of Town
Officers, agreable to the Laws of our said Province, shall be held on
the first Tuesday in March next which said Meeting shall be Notified
by Jonathan White Esq who is hereby also appointed the Moderator
of the said first Meeting, which he is to Notify and Govern agreable
to the Laws and Customs of Our said Province ; and that the annual
Meeting for ever hereafter for the Choice of such Officers for the said
Town, shall be on the first Tuesday of March annually. To Have
and to Hold the said Tract of Land as above expressed, together
with all Privileges and Appurtenances, to them and their respective
Heirs and Assigns forever, upon the following Conditions, viz.

I. That every Grantee, his Heirs or Assigns shall plant and culti-
vate five Acres of Land within the Term of five Years for every fifty
Acres contained in his or their Share or Proportion of Land in said
Township, and continue to improve and settle the same by additional
Cultivations, on Penalty of the Forfeiture of his Grant or Share in
the said Township, and of its reverting to Us, our Heirs and Suc-
cessors, to be by Us or them Re-granted to such of our Subjects as
shall effectually settle and cultivate the same.

IH. That before any Division of the Land be made to and among
the Grantees, a Tract of Land as near the Centre of the said Town-
ship as the Land will admit of, shall be reserved and marked out for
Town Lots, one of which shall be allotted to each Grantee of the
Contents of one Acre.

IV. Yielding and paying therefor to Us, our Heirs and Successors
for the Space of ten Years, to be computed from the Date hereof, the
Rent of one Ear of Indian Corn only, on the twenty-fifth Day of
December annually, if lawfully demanded, the first Payment to be
made on the twenty-fifth Day of December. 1764

V. Every Proprietor, Settler or Inhabitant, shall yield and pay
unto Us, our Heirs and Successors yearly, and every Year forever,

CORINTH.

109

from and after the Expiration of ten Years from the abovesaid twen-
ty-fifth Day of December^ namely, on the twenty-fifth Day of December,
which will be in the Year of Our Lord 1774 One shilling Proclama-
tion Money for every Hundred Acres he so owns, settles or possesses,
and so in Proportion for a greater or lesser Tract of the said Land ;
which Money shall be paid by the respective Persons abovesaid, their
Heirs or Assigns, in our Council Chamber in Portsmouth, or to such
Officer or Officers as shall be appointed to receive the same; and this
to be in Lieu of all other Rents and Services whatsoever.

In Testimony whereof we have caused the Seal of our said Prov-
ince to be hereunto affixed. Witness Benning Wentwokth, Esq ;
Our Governor and Commander in Chief of Our said Province, the
Fouth Day of Feb*^* In the Year of our Lord Christ, One Thousand
Seven Hundred and Sixty four And in the Fourth Year of Our
Reign.

B Wentworth

By His Excellency's Command,
With Advice of Council,

Theodore Atkinson jun'' Sec'^

Province of New Hamp'' Feb'^^ 4 — 1764 —
Recorded from the Original under the Pro'^ Seal

m T Atkinson Jun^ Sec'-^

*Names of the Grantees of Corinth

*2-100

Jonathan White Esq
Nathaniel Hastings
Isaac Redington
Barzillai Willard
Jon'' White Jun'
William Clark
Joseph Chaolin
Jon'' Willard
Thomas Carter
Seth Dodge
Benj'' Goodiidge
Eldad Worster
William Tuttle
Oliver Whiing
John Taplin
Abel Fox
Peter Evens
Hilkiah Grout

Benj'' Redington
Ezekiel Wiman
Phinehas Hutchins
Sam'i Ward
David Sterns
Elijah Grout
Eliphalet Goodridge
Israel Wiman
John Fuller
Jon'' Pirce
Thomas Wilder
John Mears
Peter Fox
Benj" Whiting
Nathan Bridgham
Joseph How
Jon" Hunt
Joshua Sawver

Joseph Bellows
James Reed
Timothy Parker
Jonas Cuttler
Joshua Hutchins
Jacob Steward
Caleb Trobridge
Simon Butler
Daniel Astin
Darius Stoughton
William Worster
Leonard Whiting
Timothy Fox
Sam" Gilbert
Sampson Tuttle
John Evens
Elijah Alexander
Benj" Moors

110

CHARTER RECORDS.

Enoch Bayley
Jon'^ Bradstreet
RiclV^ Taylor

Joseph Wood Jacob Gould

David Chaplin David Taylor

The Hon"!'^ Theod"" Atkinson ")
]VP H« Wentworth ' ^^

Theod^ Atkinson jun^ (^^^

Nath" Barren J

and Amos Moodey
His Excellency Benning Wentworth Esq a Tract of Land to Con-
tain five Hundred Acres as Marked B W — in the Plan which is to be
accounted two of the within Shares One whole Share for the Incor-
porated Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in foreign Parts
one whole Share for A Glebe for the Church of England as by Law
Established one Share for the first Settled Minister of the Gospel &
one Share for the Benefit of A School in Said Town forever
Prov*^ of New Hamp'^ Feb'"^^ 4—1764
Record According to the Original Charter under the Pro'^ Seal

m T Atkinson Jun^ Sec^^

^C'^

A/«Tt>it/ rf'fi * Wtsi- ^ 7r7tU»

s- iPlarx of 6'o-rt.niK

Province of New Hamp^ Feb^^ 4"> 1764—

Recorded from the Plan on the Back of the Original Charter of
Corinth

19 T Atkinson Juu Sec'^

CORNWALL. Ill

CORNWALL.

*Province of New-Hampshire. *2-309

Cornwall GEORGE the Third,

, .— .^N-ii-s . By the Grace of God, of Great-Britain, France and

\ ^ / Ireland, King, Defender of the Faith, &c.

) * * I To all Persons to ivliom these Presents shall come,

^ ^.^--.^— ^ -' Greeting.

Know ye, that We of Our special Grace, certain Knowledge, and
meer Motion, for the due Encouragement of settling a Meiv Plantation
within our said Province, by and with the Advice of our Trusty and
Well-beloved Benning Wentworth, Esq ; Our Governor and Com-
mander in Chief of Our said Province of New-Hampshire, in iVew-
Eii'jland , and of our Council of the said Province; Have upon
the Conditions and Reservations herein after made, given and granted,
and by these Presents, for us, our Heirs, and Successors, do give and
grant in equal Shares, unto Our loving Subjects, Inhabitants of Our
said Province of New- Hampshire^ and Our other Governments, and
to their Heirs and Assigns for ever, whose Names are entred on this
Grant, to be divided to and amongst them into Seventy equal Shares,
all that Tract or Parcel of Land situate, lying and being within our
said Province of Neiv- Hampshire^ containing by Admeasurement,
About 25000 Acres^ which Tract is to contain Something more than
Six Miles square, and no more ; out of which an Allowance is to be
made for High Ways and unimprovable Lands by Rocks, Ponds,
Mountains and Rivers, One Thousand and Forty Acres free, accord-
ing to a Plan and Survey thereof, made by Our said Governor's
Order, and returned into the Secretary's Office, and hereunto annexed,
butted and bounded as follows. Viz. Begining at A Tree Standing
on the Bank of the Westerly Side of the Otter Crick so called which
is the South Easterly Corner of Weybridge and from thence runing
West by Weybridge about four Miles & one half Mile or until it
Meets with A Township latelj^ Granted by the Name of Addison
then begining at the first Bound & runing up the Crick afore Said
Southerl}" til it comes Opposite to the South West Corner of Salis-
bury then Turning dff & Runing West about four Miles or til it In-
tersects the Easterly Side Line of Bridport A Town also lately
Granted & is to Contain the Land between the Towns of Addison &
Bridport and Otter Crick afore Said — And that the same be, and
hereby is Incorporated into a Township by the Name of Cornwall
And the Inhabitants that do or shall hereafter inhabit the said Town-
ship, are hereby declared to be Enfranchized with and Intitled to all
and every the Priviledges and Immunities that other Towns within

112 CHA.RTER RECORDS.

Our Province by Law Exercise and Enjoy : And further, that the said
Town as soon as there shall be Fifty Families resident and settled
thereon, shall have the Liberty of holding Two Fairs, one of which
shall be held on the And the other on the

annually, which Fairs are not to continue longer than the respective

following the said and that as soon as the said

*2-310 Town shall consist of Fifty Families, a Market may be *opened

and kept one or more Days in each Week, as may be
thought most advantagious to the Lihabitants. Also, that the first
Meeting for the Choice of Town Officers, agreable to the Laws of our
said Province, shall be held on the First Wednesday of Feb''^ Next
which said Meeting shall be Notified by Elias Reed who is hereby
also appointed the Moderator of the said first Meeting, which he is to
Notify and Govern agreable to the Laws and Customs of Our said
Province; and that the annual Meeting for ever hereafter for the
Choice of such Officers for the said Town, shall be on the Second
Tuesday of March annually. To Have and to Hold the said Tract
of Land as above expressed, together with all Privileges and Appur-
tenances, to them and their respective Heirs and Assigns forever, upon
the following Conditions, viz.

I. That every Grantee, his Heirs or Assigns shall plant and culti-
vate five Acres of Land within the Term of five Years for every fifty
Acres contained in his or their Share or Proportion of Land in said
Township, and continue to improve and settle the same by additional
Cultivations, on Penalty of the Forfeiture of his Grant or Share in
the said Township, and of its reverting to Us, our Heirs and Succes-
sors, to be by Us or Them Re-granted to such of Our Subjects as shall
effectually settle and cultivate the same.

II. That all white and other Pine Trees within the said Township,
fit for Masting Our Royal Navy, be carefully preserved for that Use,
and none to be cut or felled without Our special Licence for so do-
ing first had and obtained, upon the Penalty of the Forfeiture of the
Right of such Grantee, his Heirs and Assigns, to Us, our Heirs and
Successors, as well as being subject to the Penalty of any Act or
Acts of Parliament that now are, or hereafter shall be Enacted.

in. That before any Division of the Laud be.made to and among
the Grantees, a Tract of Land as uear the Centre of the said Town-
ship as the Land will admit of, shall be reserved and marked out for
Town Lots, one of which shall be allotted to each Grantee of the
Contents of one Acre.

IV. Yielding and paying therefor to Us, our Heirs and Successors
for the Space of ten Years, to be computed from the Date hereof, the
Rent of one Ear of Indian Corn only, on the twenty-fifth Day of

CORNWALL.

113

December annually, if lawfully demanded, the first Payment to be
made on the twenty-fifth Day of December. 1761

V. Every Proprietor, Settler or Inhabitant, shall yield and pay
unto Us, our Heirs and Successors yearly, and every Year forever,
from and after the Expiration of ten Years from the abovesaid
twenty -fifth Day of December., namely on the twenty-fifth Day of
December, which will be in the Year of Our Lord 1771 One shilling
Proclamation Money for every Hundred Acres he so owns, settles or
possesses, and so in Proportion for a greater or lesser Tract of the
said Land ; which Money shall be paid by the respective Persons
abovesaid, their Heirs or Assigns, in our Council Chamber in Ports-
mouth, or to such Officer or Officers as shall be appointed to receive
the same : and this to be in Lieu of all other Rents and Services
whatsoever.

In Testimony whereof we have caused the Seal of our said Prov-
ince to be hereunto affixed. Witness Benning Wentwokth, Esq ;
Our Governor and Commander in Chief of Our said Province, the 3''
Day of Novemb'^ In the Year of our Lord Christ, One Thousand
Seven Hundred and Sixty one And in the Second Year of Our

Reign.

B Wentworth

By His Excellency's Command,
With Advice of Council,

Theodore Atkinson Sec"^^

Province of New Hamp"^ Novemb'^ 3'' 1761

Recorded According to the Origional Charter under the Prov^ Seal

19 Theodore Atkinson Sec'>'

*The Names of the Grantees of Cornwall

*2-311

M' Elias Reed
Samuel Lee
Ebenez"" Fletcher
Alexander Gaston
Timothy Bronson
Daniel Cowles
David Averil
James Smith
Jabez Tuttle
Benj'' Smally
Joseph Williams
Phinehas Holdwin
Josiah Heath

Thomas Chipman
James Nicholls
Samuel Keep
George Nicholls
Andrew Esquire
Moses Read the 3'^
Amos Chapman
Samuel Chipman
Stephen Ronton
John Willoby
James Nicholls Jun'^
Josiah Willoby
Samuel Holbud

Murry Lester
Jonah Dean
Roswell Steal
John Judd
Moses Buck
Zeriel Jacobs
Jabez Williams
Thomas Tuttle
Sarah Nicholls
Joel Read
Enoch Slouson
John Skinner
Hannah Austin

114

CHARTER RECORDS.

Riilluff White
Eleanor Smith
Benj'' Woodruff
William Read
John Evarts
James Landon jun''

William Nicholls
Solomon Linsly
Jona San ford
Nathan Benton
William Trumball
Ezekiel Landon

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Right

Samuel Judd
Andrew Bronson
Jonathan Schovil

Abiel Linsey

James Landon Esq

Thomas Landon

Daniel Read

Joseph Newmarch Esq

John Hutchinson Esq William Ham
David Stevens Rich'' Wibird Esq

Samuel Beebe and Isaac Benton

His Excellency Benning Wentworth Esq a Tract of Land to Con-
tain five hundred Acres as Marked B W in the Plan which is to be
Accounted Two of the within Shares One Share for the Incorporated
Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in foreign Parts One Share
for a Glebe for the Church of England as by Law Established one
Share for the first Settled Minister of the Gospel & one Share for the
Benefit of a School in Said Town,

Province of New Hamps"^ Nov' 3, l'^61

Recorded from the back of the Origional Charter of Cornwell under
the Prov* Seal

Attested 19 Theodore Atkinson Sec'^

-^^ Or,,7,

Province of New Hamps'" Nov' 3 1761

Recorded from the back of the Origional Charter of Cornwell
under the Prov*^ Seal

■^ Theodore Atkinson Sec''^

DANBY. 115

DANBY.

*Province of New-Hampshire. *2-149

Danbv GEORGE the Thikd,

-. .^^^-^ . By the Grace of God, of Great-Britain, France and

\ ^ / Ireland, King, Defender of the Faith, &c.
J ' * \ To all Persons to tvhom these Presents shall come,

^ <— i^^*^ -' Greeting.

Kno'.v^ ye, that We of Our special Grace, certain Knowledge, and
meer Motion, for the due Encouragement of settling a New Planta-
tion within our said Province, b}^ and with the Advice of our Trusty
and Well-beloved Benning Wentwokth, Esq ; Our Governor and
Commander in Chief of Our said Province of New-Hampshire in
Neu'-Enyland^ and of our Council of the said Province ; Have
upon the Conditions and Reservations herein after made, given and
granted, and by these Presents, for us, our Heirs, and Successors,
do give and grant in equal Shares, unto Our loving Subjects, Inhabi-
tants of Our said Province of New- Hampshire^ and Our other Gov-
ernments, and to their Heirs and Assigns for ever, whose Names are
entred on this Grant, to be divided to and amongst them into Sixty
Eight equal Shares, all that Tract or Parcel of Land situate, lying
and being within our said Province of New-Hampsldre^ Qoni'dimng by
Admeasurement, Twenty three thousand & forty Acres^ which Tract
is to contain Six Miles square, and no more ; out of which an Allow-
ance is to be made for High Ways and unimprovable Lands by
Rocks, Ponds, Mountains and Rivers, One Thousand and Forty
Acres free, according to a Plan and Survey thereof, made by Our
said Governor's Order, and returned into the Secretary's Office, and
hereunto annexed, butted and bounded as follows, Viz. Begining at
the North West Corner of Dorsett from thence runing due North
Six Miles thence due East Six Miles from thence Due South Six
Miles to the North East Corner of Dorsett aforesaid from thence
Due West by Dorsett afore Said Six Miles to the North West Cor-
ner thereof which is also the South East Corner of Pawlet — And
that the same be, and hereby is Incorporated into a Township
by the Name of Danby And the Inhabitants that do or shall here-
after inhabit the said Township, are hereby declared to be Enfran-
chized with and Intitled to all and every the Priviledges and Immu-
nities that other Towns within Our Province by Law Exercise and
Enjoy : And further, that the said Town as soon as there shall be
Fifty Families resident and settled thereon, shall have the Liberty
of holding Two Fairs, one of which shall be held on the

116 CHARTER RECORDS.

And the other on the annually, which Fairs are

not to continue longer than the respective

following the said and that as soon as the said

Town shall consist of Fifty Families, a Market may be
*2-150 *opened and kept one or more Days in each Week, as may
be thought most advantagious to the Inhabitants. Also,
that the first Meeting for the Choice of Town Officers, agreable to
the Laws of our said Province, shall be held on the Fourth Tuesday
in September Next which said Meeting shall be Notified by M"^ Jona-
than Willard who is hereby also appointed the Moderator of the said
first Meeting, which he is to Notify and Govern agreable to the
Laws and Customs of Our said Province ; and that the annual Meet-
ing for ever hereafter for the Choice of such Officers for the said
Town, shall be on the Second Tuesday of 3Iarch annually. To Have
and to Hold the said Tract of Land as above expressed, together
with all Privileges and Appurtenances, to them and their respective
Heirs and Assigns forever, upon the following Conditions, viz.

I. That every Grantee, his Heirs or Assigns shall plant and culti-
vate five Acres of Land within the Term of five Years for every fifty
Acres contained in his or their Share or Proportion of Land in said
Township, and continue to improve and settle the same by addi-
tional Cultivations, on Penalty of the Forfeiture of his Grant or
Share in the said Township, and of its reverting to Us, our Heirs
and Successors, to be by Us or Them Re-granted to such of Our Sub-
jects as shall effectually settle and cultivate the same.

n. That all white and other Pine Trees within the said Township,
fit for Masting Our Royal Navy, be carefully preserved for that Use,
and none to be cut or felled without Our special Licence for so doing
first had and obtained, upon the Penalty of the Forfeiture of the
Right of such Grantee, his Heirs and Assigns, to Us, our Heirs and
Successors, as well as being subject to the Penalty of any Act or
Acts of Parliament that now are or hereafter shall be Enacted.

IV. Yielding and paying therefor to Us, our Heirs and Successors
for the Space of ten Years, to be computed from the Date hereof,
the Rent of one Ear of Indian Corn only, on the twenty-fifth Day of
December annually, if lawfully demanded, the first Payment to be
made on the twenty -fifth Day of December. 1762

V. Every Proprietor, Settler or Inhabitant, shall yield and pay

DANBY.

117

unto Us, our Heirs and Successors yearly, and every Year forever,
from and after the Expiration of ten Years from the abovesaid
twenty-fifth Day of December^ namely, on the twenty-fifth Day of
Dece7nhe}\ which will be in the Year of Our Lord 1772 One shilling
Proclamation Money for every Hundred Acres he so owns, settles or
possesses, and so in Proportion for a gi-eater or lesser Tract of the
said Land ; which Money shall be paid by the respective Persons
abovesaid, their Heirs or Assigns, in our Council Chamber in Ports-
mouthy or to such Officer or Officers as shall be appointed to receive
the same; and this to be in Lieu of all other Rents and Services
whatsoever.

In Testimony whereof we have caused the Seal of our said Prov-
ince to be hereunto affixed. Witness Benning Wentworth, Esq ;
Our Governor and Commander in Chief of Our said Province, the
27^'' Day of August In the l^ear of our Lord Christ, One Thous-
and Seven Hundred and Sixty one And in the first Year of Our
Reign.

B Wentworth

By His Excellency's Command,
With Advice of Council,

Theodore Atkinson Sec'-'"'

Pro^ of New Hamp-- August 27*^ 1761

Recorded According to the Original Charter under the Province
Seal

f Theodore Atkinson Sec^^

*The Names of the Grantees of

Jon=^ Willard
Lawrence Welsey
Samuel Hunt
Moses Kellog
Israel Waller
Ruben Napp
Nathan Weller
Daniel Ford
Benj^ Finch
Nehemiah Renalds
Thomas Brown
John Edmons
John ^«ellson
Joseph Stanton jun"^
Jonathan Oramsby

Samuel Rose
Joseph Marks
John Partito
Daniel Weller
Stephen Villitto
Isaa Fench
Josey)h Alger
Dan" Dunham
Noah Pettebone
Benj'' Palmer
William Kenad}'^
Rich'' Joslen
John 'Sutherland jun''
David Weller
Gideon Ormsby

Danby *2-151

Mathew Ford
Asa Aulger
Sam" Aulger
Sam" Hunt jun"^
Jon'"^ Weller
Eliakim Weller
Lusas Palmer
Joseph Brown
John Weller
William Barton
Nath" Fellows
James Baker
Iccousah Palmer
Jonathan Palmer
Joseph Brown jun^

118

CHAETEK RECOKDS.

Benj'' Hammon Sam'^ Shepard Eph'" Renalds

William Shaw Joseph Soper Aaron Buck

Noah Gillet William Blunt Sampson Sheaffe Esq

John Downing Esq Daniel Willard William Willard

John Willard Coll Ebenez' Hindsdale Wiir"Taylorjun' Boston

Hugh Hall Wentworth & Cap* John Chamberlain.

His Excellency Benning Wentworth Esq A Tract to Contain five
Hundred Acres of Land as Marked B: W: in the Plan which is to
be Accounted Two of the within Shares one whole Share for the In-
corporated Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in foreign Parts
One whole Share for A Glebe for the Church of England as by Law
Established one Share for the first Settled Minister of the Gospel &
one Share for the Benefit of A School in Said Town

Province of New Hamp' August 27"' 1761

Recorded from the Back of the Original Charter of Danby under
the Seal of the Prov*'

■^Theodore Atkinson SeC^^

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Recorded From the Back of the Original Charter under the Prov-
ince Seal

Theodore Atkinson Sec'^

DORSET.

119

DORSET.
^Province of New-Hampshire. *2-137

Dorset GEORGE the Third,

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liy the Grace of God, of Great-Britain, France and
IreUxntl, King, Defender of the Faith, &c.

To all Persons to ivliom these Presents shall come,
^ v-^-v^^^ '' Greeting.

Know ye, that We of Our special Grace, certain Knowledge, and
meer Motion, for the due Encouragement of settling a New Planta-
tion within our said Province, by and with the Advice of our Trusty
and Well-beloved Benning Wentworth, Esq ; Our Governor and
Commander in Chief of Our said Province of Ne\y-Hampshire in
New-England, and of our Council of the said Province : Have
upon the Conditions and Reservations lierein after made, given and
granted, and by these Presents, for us, our Heirs, and Successors, do
give and grant in equal Shares, unto Our loving Subjects, Inhabi-
tants of Our said Province oi New-Hampshire, and Our other Govern-
ments, and to their Heirs and Assigns for ever, whose Names are
entred on this Grant, to be divided to and amongst them into Sev-
enty equal Shares, all that Tract or Parcel of Land situate, lying and
being within our said Province of New-Hampshire, containing by
Admeasurement, Twenty Three thousand & forty Acres, which Tract
is to contain Six Miles square, and no more ; out of which an Allow-
ance is to be made for High Ways and unimprovable Lands by Rocks,
Ponds, Mountains and Rivers, One Thousand and Forty Acres free,
according to a Plan and Survey thereof, made by Our said Governor's
Order, and returned into the Secretary's Office, and hereunto annexed,
butted and bounded as follows. Viz. At the North West Corner of
Manchester from thence Due North Six Miles from thence due East
Six Miles from thence due South Six Miles to the North East Corner
of Manchester aforesaid thence Due West by Manchester afore Said
to the North West Corner thereof being the Bound first began at —
And that the same be, and hereby is Incorporated into a Township by
the Name of Dorsett And the Inhabitants that do or shall hereafter
inhabit the said Township, are hereby declared to be Enfranchized
with and Intitled to all and every the Priviledges and Immunities
that other Towns within Our Province by Law Exercise and Enjo}' :
And further, that the said Town as soon as there shall be Fifty Fami-
lies resident and settled theron, shall have the Liberty of holding Two
Fairs, one of which shall be held on the And the

120 CHARTER RECORDS.

other on the annually, which Fairs are not to continue

longer than the respective following the said

and that as soon as the said Town shall consist
*2-138 of Fifty Families, a Mai;ket may be *opened and kept one or
more Days in each Week, as may be thought most advanta-
gious to the Inhabitants. Also, that the first Meeting for the Choice
of Town Officers, agreable to the Laws of our said Province, shall be
held on the Fourth Tuesday in November Next which said Meeting
shall be Notified by Gideon Lyman Esq who is hereby also appointed
the Moderator of the said first Meeting, which he is to Notify and
Govern agreable to the Laws and Customs of Our said Province; and
that the annual Meeting for ever hereafter for the Choice of such
Officers for the said Town, shall be on the Second Tuesday of March
annually. To Have and to Hold the said Tract of Land as above
expressed, together with all Privileges and Appurtenances, to them
and their respective Heirs and Assigns forever, upon the following
Conditions, viz.

I. That every Grantee, his Heirs or Assigns shall plant and culti-
vate five Acres of Land within the Term of five Years for every fifty
Acres contained in his or their Share or Proportion of Land in said
Township, and continue to improve and settle the same by additional
Cultivations, on Penalty of the Forfeiture of his Grant or Share in
the said Township, and of its reverting to Us, our Heirs and Suc-
cessors, to be by Us or Them Re-granted to such of Our Subjects as
shall effectually settle and cultivate the same.

H. That all white and other Pine Trees within the said Township,
fit for Masting Our Roj^al Navy, be carefully preserved for that Use,
and none to be cut or felled without Our special Licence for so doing
first had and obtained, upon the Penalty of the Forfeiture of the Right
of such Grantee, his Heirs and Assigns, to Us, our Heirs and Successors,
as well as being subject to the Penalty of any Act or Acts of Parlia-
ment that now are, or hereafter shall be Enacted.

IV. Yielding and paying therefor to Us, our Heirs and Successors
for the Space of ten Years, to be computed from the Date hereof, the
Rent of one Ear of Indian Corn only, on the twenty-fifth Day of
December annually, if lawfully demanded, the first Payment to be
made on the twent3'^-fifth Day of December. 1762

V. Every Proprietor, Settler or Inhabitant, shall yield and pay

DORSET.

121

unto Us, our H'iirs and Successors yearly, and every Year forever,
from and after the Expiration of ten Years from the abovesaid twen-
ty-fifth Day oi December, namely, on the twenty-fifth Day of December,
which will be in the Year of Our Lord 1772 One sJulling Proclama-
tion Money for every Hundred Acres he so owns, settles or possesses,
and so in Proportion for a greater or lesser Tract of the said Land ;
which Money shall be paid by the respective Persons abovesaid, their
Heirs or Assigns, in our Council Chamber in Portsmoutlu or to such
Officer or Officers as shall be appointed to receive the same ; and this
to be in Lieu of all other Rents and Services whatsoever.

Li Testimony whereof we have caused the Seal of our said Province
to be hereunto affixed. Witness Benning Wentworth, Esq ; Our
Governor and Commander in Chief of Our said Province, the 20"' Day
of August In the Year of our Lord Christ, One Thousand Seven
Hundred and Sixty one And in the First Year of Our Reign.

B Wentworth

B}' His Excellency's Command,
Witii Advice of Council,

Theodore Atkinson Se''^

Province of N Hamp' August 20"' 1761
Recorded According to the Original Charter
Seal— Page 137—138

19 Theodore Atkinson Sec^^

under the Province

*The Names of the Grantees of Dorsett (Viz) *2-139

Gideon Lyman Esq Cap*^ Benj-'' Sheldon
Samuel Hanscumjun'^Phinehas Lyman Esq
Docf Job Lyman Oliver Wendall
Heman Pomroy
Samuel Cutt
Bildad Wright
Benj'^ Sheldon jun''
Gad Lyman
Eph'" Wright
Joseph Olvard
Nath' Day
John Hall Esq

John Davison
Caleb Hall
Elah Southwell
Joseph Olvard
Noah Clark jun''
William Lem'on
Sam^ Parsons
Elijah Lyman
John Miller
Elisha Strong
Timothy Lyman
Eleazer Burt

Thomas Hubbard
Quartus Pomroy
Cap^ William Lyman

Phineas Lyman jun'' Philip Clark
Charles Chauncy Kittry Philip Hubbard

Will'" Taylor jun'' Bost"
Gideon Lyman jun'
Elnathan Wright
Gideon Lyman Esq
Simeon Person
Eleaz'" Pomroy
Noah Clark
Elias Lyman
Elijah Lymon
Simeon Parsons
Medad Olvard
Stephen Olvard
Joseph Olvard
Tira° Ruggles jun"^
Selah Wright
Tim"^ Clark
Sampson Sheaffe

122

CHARTER RECORDS.

Joseph Newmarch
Ezra Clark
Job Lyman
Joel Lyman

Joseph Olvard Isaac Parsons

John Miller Timothy Ruggles Jun"^

Elnathan Wright Noah Clark

Cap* William Lyman John Lyman jun"^
& Gideon Lyman Esq
His Excellency Benning Wentworth Esq a Tract of Land to Con-
tain five Hundred Acres as Marked B W : in the Plan which is to be
Accounted two of the within Shares one whole Share for the incor-
porated Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in foreign Parts
one Share for A Glebe for the Church of England as by Law Estab-
lished One Share for the first Settled Minister and one Share for the
Benefit of A School in S'' Town

Province of New Hampshire August 20"' 1761
Recorded according to the Back of the Original Charter for Dor-
sett under the Prov" Seal

^ Theodore Atkinson Sec*^*'

?»J/.«;sV-i'"S'"P

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Province of New Hamp"^ August 20"' 1761

Recorded from the Back of the Oi-iginal Charter of Dorsett under
the Pro^' Seal

■^ Theodore Atkinson Sec"^*'

DOVER. 123

DOVER.

[Grant to Peter Brown, 1764.]

*George the Third By the Grace of God of Great *l-276
Lieu' Peter Britain France & Ireland King Defender
Brown of the Faith &'"

i'-w . . To all to whom these Presents shall come —

/ Greeting —
i Whereas we have tho* fit by our Proclamation

^ — ^ — ' ^ given at S* James's the 7"^ Day of October in the 3'^
Year of Our Reign Annoq Domini 1763 amongst other things to
Testify by our Royal Sence & approbation of the Conduct & Bravery
of the officers & Soldiers of our Armies and Signify our Desire of
Rewarding the Same & have therein Com'anded & Impowered
our Several Governors of our Respective Provinces on the Conti-
nent of America to grant without Fee or Reward to Such Reduced
officers as have Served in North America during the Late Warr
and to such Private Soldiers as have or Shall be disbanded there &
Shall Personally apply for such Quantities of Land Respectively as
in & by our afores*^ Proclamation are Perticularly mentioned subject
Nevertheless to the Same Quit Rents & Conditions of Cultivations
& Improvements that other our Lands are Subject to in the Province
within which they are Granted And Whereas Peter Brown Gen-
tleman now residing at Portsmouth in our Province of New Hamp-
shire had our Appointment as Lieutenant Fire worker of Our Royal
Train of artilary and served during the Warr in North
America and is now *Reduced & having agreable to our *l-277
aforesaid Proclamation Personally Solicited such Grant
Know Ye that We of our especial Grace certain Knowledge & mere
Motion & to signify our approbation as aforesaid & for Encour-
aging the Settlement & Cultivation of our Lands within our
Province of New Hampshire in New England have by & with the
advice of our Trust}^ & well beloved Benning Wentworth Esq Gov-
ernor and Com'and'' in Chieff of our Said Province of New
Hampshire & of our Council for Said Province agreable to our
aforesaid in Part recited Proclamation and upon the Conditions &
Reservations hereafter mentioned given & granted & by these Pres-
ents for us our heirs & successors Do Give & Grant unto the s'^
Peter Brown Gentleman his Heirs & Assigns forever a Certain Tract
of Land containing Two Thousand Acres of Land lying & being
within our Said Province of New Hampshire Butted & Bounded as

124 CHARTER RECORDS.

follows, (Viz)begining on the East Side of Fane & at the North East
Corner of Lands Granted to Lieu' James Tute then runingWest Ten
deg^ North by the Needle to the East Side of Somerset & at the North
West Corner of Lieu' James Tutes Grant then Northerly by Somersett
Two Hundred & forty Rodds then East Ten degrees South by the Nee-
dle to the West Side of Fane then Southerly to the Bounds first men-
tioned To Have & to Hold the Said Tract of Land as above expressed to
to him the Said Peter Brown Gentleman & to his heirs & assignes
forever upon the following Conditions & Reservations Viz First that
the Said Peter Brown Gentleman his Heirs or Assignes shall Plant &
Cultivate five Acres of Land within the Term of Five Years for every
Fifty Acres containd in this his Grant & Continue to Improve &
Settle the Same b}" aditional Cultivations on the Penalty of the
forfeiture of this his Grant & of its reverting to us our Heirs &
Successors to be by us or them Regranted to such of our subjects as
shall effectually Settle & Cultivate the same Secondly that all white
& other Pine Trees within the s'^ Tract fit for Masting our Royal
Navy be Carefully Preserved for that Use & none to be Cut or
Fell'd without our especial Licence for so doing first had & obtaind
on the Penalty of the forfeiture of the Right of the Grantee his Heirs
or Assigns to to us our Heirs & Successors as well as being subject to
the Penalty of Any Act or Acts of Parliament that now are or hereafter
Shall be Enacted Thirdly Yielding & Paying therefor to us our Heirs
& Successors for the Space of Teii Years to be computed from the
Date hereof the rent of one Ear of Indian Corn only on the 25"' day
of December Annually if Lawfully Demanded — Fourthly the said
Grantee his Heirs & Assigns shall Yield & Pay unto us our Heirs &
Successors Yearly & every Year for ever from & after the expiration
of Ten Years from the above Said 25"' Day of December Namely on
the 25"' of December which will be in the Year of our Lord 1774 one
Shilling Proclamation Money for every Hundred Acres he so owns
Settles & Possesses & so in proportion for A Greater or Lesser Tract
of the said Land which Money shall be paid by the respective owner
Settler or Possessor as aforesaid in our Council Chamber in Ports-
mouth in the Province aforesaid or to such officer or officers as shall
be Appointed to receive the Same and this being in Lieu of all Other
Rents and Services whatsoever In Testymoney whereof We have

caused the Seal of our said Province to be hereunto
*l-278 Affixed Wittness Benning Wentworth Esq *Governor &

Com'ander in Chieff of our s'' Province the 4"' Day of
July in the Year of our Lord Christ 1764 and in the Fourth Year of
Our Reign

B Wentworth

DOVER. 125

By liis Excellencys Comand
with Advice of Council

Theod"^ Atkinson j' Sec'^

Province of New Hamj)"^

I Do bereby acknowledge to have recievd a Grant of Two thou-
sand Acres of Land as by tbe above Patent will appear in Virtue of
his Maj''* Proclamation above referrd to & I Do hereby Declare that
I never have receivd any satisfaction of any of his Majestys Gov-
ernments before Wittness my hand this 4"' July 1764 —

Peter Brown

Recorded According to the original Patent under the Province
Seal the first Day of November 1764 —

•39 T Atkinson Jun Sec'^

[Grant to Stephen Holland, 1764,]

*George the 3'* by the Grace of God of great *l-274
Lieu* Hollands Britain France & Ireland King Defender
Grant of the Faith &c''

S.-W- — ^ , To all to whom these Presents Shall come Greet-

p s ( '"^
( Whereas We have tho' fit by our Proclamation

>— ^.^--' ^ given at S* James's the Seventh Day of October in
the third Year of our Reign Annoq Domini 1763 amoung Other things
to Testify our Royal Sence & approbation of the Conduct &
Bravery of the ofiicers & soldiers of Our Armies and to Signify
our Desire to Reward the Same & have therein Com'anded
*And Impowerd our Several Governors of our Respective *l-275
Provinces on the Continent of America to grant without
Fee or reward to Snch Reduced Officers as have Served in North
America during the late Warr «& to such of our Private Soldiers as
have been or Shall be disbanded there & Shall Personally Apply for
the Same such Quantitys of Land respectively as in & by our Said
Proclamation are Particularly mentiond Subject nevertheless to the
Same quit Rents & Conditions of Culture & Improvement as other
our Lands are Subject in the Province within which they are granted
And Whereas Stephen Holland Esq of Londonderry in the Province
aforesaid had our appointment as first Lieutenant of our Corps
of Rangers commanded by Major Gorham in America & Served dur-
ing the Late War there & is now Reduced and having agreable to
our afores'' Proclamation personally Solicited such Grant — Know Ye
that We of our Especial Grace certain knowledge & mere Motion do

126 CHARTER RECORDS.

Signify our approbation as aforesaid and for Encouraging the Settle-
ment & Cultivation of our Lands within our Province of New Hamp''
in New England Have by & with the advice of our Trusty & well
beloved Benning Wentworth Esq Govern'' & Com'ander in Chieff
of our said Province of New Hamp' & of our Council for said Prov-
ince agreable to our aforesaid in Part recited Proclamation & upon
the Conditions & Reservations hereinafter mentioned given &
granted & by these Presents for us our Heirs & Successors do give
& Grant unto the said Stephen Holland & his Heirs & assignes forever
a Certain Tract of Land containing Two Thousand Acres lying &
being within the Said Province Bounded as follows Viz Begining at
the West Side of Fane at the North East Corner of Lands lately
granted to Peter Brown then Runing West Ten degrees North by
the Needle to the East Side of Somerset & to the North West Cor-
ner of Said Browns Lands Then due North on the Line of Somerset
aforesaid Two Hundred & thirty Three Rods then East Ten deg** South
by the Needle to the West line of Fane thence Southerly by P'ane to
the Bounds first mentioned To Have & to Hold the s'' Land as above
expressed to him the Said Stephen & to His Heirs & Assignes forever
upon the following Conditions & Reservations Viz — first that the said
Stephen his Heirs & Assigns shall Plant & Cultivate five Acres of
Land within the Term of Five Years for every Fifty Acres containd
in this his Grant & to Continue to Improve & Settle the Same by
aditional Cultivations on the Penalty of the Forfeiture of this his
Grant & of its reverting to us our Heirs & Successors to be by us
or them regranted to such of our Subjects as Shall effectually & Cul-
tivate the Same (2'">) That all White & Other Pine Trees within
Said Tract fit for Masting our Royal Navy be carefully preserved for
that Use & none to be cut or Felld without our Especial Lycence for
so doing first had & obtaind under Penalty of the forfeiture of the
Rights of the Grantee his heirs or assigns to us our Heirs & Succes-
sors as well as being Subject to the Penalty of any Act or Acts of
Parliament that now are or hereafter Shall be Enacted — 3'"'^) Yield-
ing & Paying therefor unto us our heirs & Successors for the Space
of Ten Years to be computed from the Date hereof the Rent of
One Ear of Indian Corn only on the 25'" Day of December annually
if Lawfully Demanded (4^^) The Said Grantee his Heirs or Assigns
Shall Yield & Pay unto us our Heirs & Successors Yearly & every
Year for ever from & after the Expiration of Ten Years from the
above said 25"' Day of December which will be in the Year of

our Lord 1774 One Shilling Proclamation Money for
*l-276 *every Hundred Acres he so owns Settles or Possesses and

so in Proportion for A Greater or Lesser Tract of the Said

DOVER. 127

Land which Money shall be paid by the respective Owner Settler or
Possessor as aforesaid in our Council Chamber at Portsmouth in the
Province aforesaid or to such officer or officers as Shall be appointed
to receive the Same & this to be in Lieu of All Other Rents & Ser-
vices whatsoever Li Testymoney whereof We have caused the Seal of
our said Province to be hereunto annexed Wittness Penning Went-
worth Esq our Governor & Com'ander in Chieff of our s'' Province
the 5'^ Day of July in the Year of our Lord Christ 1764 & in the
Fourth Year of our Reign

B Wentworth
By his Excellencys Com'^
with Advice of Council

Theodore Atkinson j"" Sec'^y

Province of New Hamp'

I do hereby acknowledge to have receiv'' a Grant of Two thousand
Acres of Land as by the above Pattent will Appear in Virtue of his
Majestys Proclamation above Referr'd to & I hereby declare that I
never have Recievd any Satisfaction of any of his Maj'^'* Gov-
ernm** before Wittness my hand this 5"' Day of July 1764 —

Stephen Holland

Entered & Recorded according to the Original Pattent under
the Prov*^ Seal this 19"' Day of October 1764—

19 T Atkinson Jun Sec'^

[Grant to James Tute, 1764.]

*George the Third by the Grace of God of great *l-265
Lieu' Tute Britain France & Ireland King Defender of
Grant the Faith &c-'

/ z-*-'^-— V X To all to whom these Presents Shall come Greeting

\ / Whereas we have tho' Fit by our Proclamation given

j I as S' James's the 7 Day of October in the third year of

^ ^-^.^iii-' ' our Reign anuoq Domini 1763 amoungst other Things to

Testify Our royal Sence & approbation of the Conduct & Bravery of

the officers & soldiers of our armies & to Signify our Desire of

rewarding the Same & have therein Com'anded & Impowered our

Several Governours of Our Respective Provinces on the Contenant

of America to grant without Fee or reward to Such reduced officers

as have Served in North America during the late War & to Such

Private Soldiers as have been or Shall be disbanded there and Shall

128 CHARTER RECORDS.

Personally apply for Such Quaatities of Lands respectively as in &
by our afore said Proclamation are Perticularly mentioned Subject
Neyertheless to the Same Quit Rents «k Conditions of Cultivations
& Improvements that other our lands are Subject to in the Province

within which they are Granted And Whereas James Tute
*l-266 Esq of Deerfield in the Province of the *Massachusetts

had our appointment as first Lieutenant of his Maj'-''* Corps
of Raingers commanded by Maj' Gorham &: Served during the late
"War in North America and is now reduced and having agreable to
our afore Said Proclamation Personally Solicited Such Grant Know
Ye that We of Special Grace certain Knowledge i: Mere Motion do
Signify our approbation as afore said and for Encouraging the Settle-
ment and Cultivation of our Lands within our Province of Xew
Hamp"^ in Xew England have by «S: with the advice of our Trusty &
beloved Beuning Wentworth Esq Governour vk Com'ander in
Chieff of our Said Province of New Hampshire dc of our Council for
Said Province agreable to our aforesaid in Part recited Proclamation
and upon the Conditions tk reservations here after mentioned Given
6: Granted and by these Presents for us our Heirs »k Successors Do
Give «i: Grant unto the said James Tute Esq his Heirs «S: assigns for
ever A Certain Tract of Land containing Two Thousand Acres of
Land Lving »i: being within the s^ Province of Xew Hampshire afore
said Butted and Bounded as follows Viz begining on the West Line
of Fane at the North East Corner of Lands lately granted to Nathan
Whiting Esq then runiug West Ten Degrees North by the Needle to
the North West Bounds of Said Whiting Land in the East Line of
Somersett then due North along Said Somersett Line Two hundred
&: fifty rods then East 10' South to the West Line of Fane then
Southerly by Fane to the Bounds first Mentioned To Have & to
Hold the s ■ Tract of Land as above Expressed to him the said James
Tute «i: to his Heirs i: assigns forever upon the following Conditions
»ic Reservations Viz First that the said James Tute Esq his Heirs 6:
assigns Shall Plant »S: Cultivate five acres of Land within the Term
of five Years for every fifty Acres contained in this his Grant & Con-
tinue to Improve & Settle the Same by additional Cultivations on
Penalty of A Forfeiture of this his Grant and of its reverting to us
our Heirs «S: Successors to be by us or them regranted to such of our
subjects as shall effectually Settle «k Cultivate the Same -'-^^ — That
all White »i: other Pine Trees fit for Masting our Royal Navy be
carefully Preserved for that use *k none to be Cutt or Felld without
our Special Licence for so doing first had & obtaind upon the Pen-
alty of the forfeiture of the Right of the Grantee his Heirs & assigns
to us our heirs ic Successors as well as being subject to the Penalty

DOVER. 129

of any Act or Acts of Parliani' that now are or hereafter shall be
Enacted 3'">' Yealding & Paying there for to us our heirs & Succes-
sors for the Space of Ten Years to be Computed from the Date here-
of the Rent of one Ear of Indian Corn only on the 25 Day of December
Annually if Lawfully Demanded — 4'-' — The s'^ Grantee his Heirs or
assigns Shall Yield & Pay unto us our Heirs & Successors Yearly &
every Year for ever from and after the Expiration of Ten Years
from the above said 25"' day of December namely on the 25"' Day of
December which will be iu the Year of our Lord 1774 one Shilling
Proclamation Money for every Hundred Acres he so owns Settles &
Possesses & so in Proportion for a greater or lesser Tract of the said
Land which Money shall be paid by the Respective owners Settlers
or Possessors as aforesaid in our Council Chamber in Portsmouth in
the Province afore s'^ or to such officer or officers as Shall be ap-
pointed to receive the Same & this being in Lieu of all other Rents
& Services whatever in Testimony whereof We have caused the Seal
of our said Province to be here unto affixed Wittness Benning Went-
worth Esq our Governour & Com'ander in Chieff of oar s'^ Province
the 4'" Day of July in the year of our Lord Christ 1764 & in the 4'^
Year of our Reign

B Wentworth

By his Excellencys Command
with advice of Council

*Prov" of New Hamp« July 6'^ 1764 *l-267

Recorded According to the original Grant under the Prov-
ince Seal

f T Atkinson Jun Sec"^^

Province of New Hamp'' July 6-1764

I Do hereby acknowledge to have received a Grant of Two Thous-
and Acres of Land as by the above Patent will appear in Virtue of
his Maj'-^^ Proclamation above referrd to & I Do hereby declare that
I never have Rec'' any Satisfaction of any of his Maj^^^ Governments
before Wittness my Hand

James Tute

July 6-1764

Recorded from the Bottom of the original & forgoing Grant Signed
by the s'' James Tute

Attest' T Atkinson Jun Sec'"y

P s

130 CHARTER RECORDS.

DUMMERSTON.

*1-185 *Province of New Harap'"

Fullum George the Second by the Grace of God of Great

I ,— ..^^.— s ,^ Britain J'rance & Ireland King Defender of the
faitli &^

To All Persons to whom these Presents Shall come
^ s—^^*-^ ' Greeting
®?i® Pa.v (225) Know Ye that we of our Special Grace Certain

Conditions »it«t • cit>. t-i

Altered Knowledge And Mere motion tor the Due Kncourage-

ment of Settling A New Plantation within our Said Province by
& with the Advice of our Trusty & well beloved Bemiing
Wentworth Esq our Governour & Commander in Chieff of our
Said Province in New Hamp"" in America and of our Council of the
Said Province Have upon the Conditions & Reservations herein
After made Given & Granted & by these Presents for us our heirs
& Successors Do give & Grant in Equal Shares unto Our Loving
Subjects Inhabitants of our Said Province of New Hampshire «Sc his
Maj'^* Other Governments and to their heirs & assigns forever
whose names Are Entered on this Grant to be Divided to &
Amoungst them into fifty Six Shares (Two of which Shares to be
Laid out in one Tract of the Contents of Eight hundred Acres for
his Excellency Penning Wentworth Esq and in full for his Two
Shares which s*^ Tract is bounded Viz Begining at the North East
Corner of this Town thence running Down Connecticut River Two
hundred and forty Rods thence West 10'^ North Carrying that
Breadth back till Eight hundred Acres are Compleated) All that
Tract or Parcel of Land Scituate Lying & being within our Prov-
ince of New Hamp'^ Containing by Admeasurement nineteen thou-
send Three hundred & Sixty Acres which Tract is to Contain five &
a half miles Square and no more out of which an allowence is to be
made for highways & unimprovable Lands by Rocks Mountains
Ponds & Rivers One thousend & forty Acres free According to A
Plan thereof made «&; Presented by our Said Governours orders
& hereunto Annexed Buted & bounded as follows Viz — Begining
at A Stake & Stones on the bank of Connecticut River being the
North East Corner of Brattleburrough and runs West 10'^ North on
Said Brattleburrough to Marlebrough East Line thence North 10'^
East on Said Marlebrough to the Line of Fane thence on the Line
of Fane East 10'^ South five hundred rods tlience Northerly on Said
Fane four miles to A Stake & Stones from thence East 10'^ South to
Connecticut River and from thence Down Said River to the Bounds

DUMMERSTON. 131

first mentioned And that the Same be & Is incorporated into A
Township by the Name of Fullura and the Inhabitants that Do or
shall hereafter Inhabit Said Township Are hereby
Declared to be *Enfranchized with & Intitled to all & *1-186
every the Previledges and Immunities that Other Towns
within our said Province by Law Exercize & Enjoy and further that
the Said Town as Soon as there shall be fifty families resident &>
settled thereon Shall have the Liberty of holding two fairs one of
which Shall be held on the first Thursday in May Annually and the
Other on the iirst Thursday in September Annually which fairs Are
not to Continue And be held Longer than the Respective Saturday
following the Said Respective Thursday and as Soon as the Said
Town Shall Consist of fifty famlys A Market Shall be Opened &
kept one or more Days in Each Week as may be tho* most Advan-
tagious to the Inhabitants Also that the first meeting for the Choice
of Town officers Agreable to the Laws of our Said Province Shall
be held on the fifteenth Day of January next which Meeting Shall
be Notifyed by Josiah Willard Esq who is hereby also appointed the
Moderator of the Said first Meeting which he is to Notify & Gov-
ern Agreable to the Laws & Customs of our Said Province And
that the Annual Meeting forever hereafter for the Choice of Such
officers of Said Town Shall be on the first Tuesday in March
Annually To have & to hold the Said Tract of Land as above
Expressed Togeather with all the Previledges & Appurtenances to
them and their Respective heirs & Assigns forever upon the follow-
ing Conditions (Viz) that every Grantee his heirs or assigns Shall
Plant or Cultivate five Acres of Land Within the Term of five years
for every fifty Acres Containd in his or their Share or Proportion of
Land in Said^ Township and Continue to Improve & Settle the Same
by additional Cultivations on Penalty of the forfeiture of his Grant
or Share in the Said Township and its Reverting to his Majesty his
heirs & successors to be by him or them regranted to Such of his
Subjects as Shall Effectually Settle & Cultivate the Same That all
w^hite & other Pine Trees within the Said Township fit for Masting
our Royal Navy be Carefully Preserved for that Use «Sb none to be
Cut or felled without his Majestys Especial Lycence for So doing
first had and Obtained upon the Penalty of the forfeiture of the
Right of Such Grantee his heirs or assigns to us our heirs and Suc-
cessors as well as being Subject to the Penalty of Any Act or Acts
of Parliament that now are or hereafter Shall be Enacted,
That *before Any Division of the Said Lands be made to *1-187
& Amongst the Grantees A Tract of Landas near the Center
of the Township as the Land will Admit of Shall be reserved and marked

132 CHARTEK RECORDS.

out for Town lotts one of which Shall be Allotted to Each Grantee
of the Contents of one Acre Yeilding & Paying therefor to us our
heirs & Successors for the Space of Ten years to be Computed
from the Date hereof the Rent of one Ear of Indian Corn only on
the first Day of January Annually if Lawfully Demanded the first
payment to be made on the first Day of Jan'-^ after the first of Jan-
uary next ensueing the Date hereof And Every Proprietor Settler or
Inhabitant Shall yield & Pay unto us our heirs & Successors Yearly
& Every year forever from and After the Expiration of the Ten
years from the Date hereof namely on the first Day of January
which will be in the year of our Lord Christ One thousend Seven
hundred & Sixty four One Shilling Proclamation money for every
hundred Acres he So owns Settles or Possesses & So in Proportion
for A Greater or Lesser Tract of the Said Land which money Shall
be paid by the Respective Persons abovesaid their heirs or assigns in
our Council Chamber in Portsmouth or to Such officer or officers as
Shall be Appointed to Recieve the Same And this to be In Lieu of
All Other Rents & Services whatsoever In Testimony hereof We
have Caused the Seal of our Said Province to be hereunto affixed
Wittness — Benning Wentworth Esq our Governour & Cona'and"^ in
Chieff of our Said Province the Twenty Sixth Day of December in
the Year of our Lord Christ One thousend Seven hundred & fifty
three and in the Twenty Seventh year of our reign —

B Wentworth

By his Excellencys Com'and
with Advice of y'' Council

Theodore Atkinson Se'^^
Entred & recorded According to the Original under the Province
Seal this 27'^ Day of December 1753

■^Theodore Atkinson Sec'^^

Names of the Grantees of Fullum (Viz)

Simeon Stodard, John Franklin, Anthony Stodard,

Martha Holmes, Thomas Hubbard, Samuel Holebrook,

Nathaniel Perkins, Thomas Brumfield, John Gushing,

Samuel Watts, John Chandler, Joseph Royal,

Benjamin Lowder, William Lowder, Solomon Willard,

Daniel Oliver, Gillum Phillips, John Foy,

*1-188 John Foy jun^ *Ebenezer Field, Samuel Hunt

John Powel, Jeremiah Powel, Shrimptom Hutchinson,

Eliakim Hutchinson, Henry Liddle, William Hutchinson,

Robert Jenkins, Thomas Amory, Nath" Coffin

Jonas Muson, Thomas Scales, Nicholas Loreing,

DUMMERSTON.

133

Benj^' Hollowell,
Samuel Treet,
David Nevins,
Elijah Alexander,
Daniel Warner,
Samuel SoUey,

Will'"' Phillips,

Robert Fletcher jun'

Jon" Hubbard,

John Peirce,

Richard Wibird,

His Excellency Benning

Henry Bromfield,

Richard Foster,

James jNIinot,

John Summers,

Theodore Atkinson,

Meshech Wear,
Wentworth Esq A Tract of Land to Contain Eight hundred Acres
which is to be Accounted two of the within mentioned Shares and
Laid out 6c Bounded as within mentioned One whole Share for the
Licorporated Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in foreign
Parts, One whole Share for the first Settled Minister of the Gospel
in Said Town One whole Share for A Glebe for the Ministry of the
Church of England as by Law Established Also Sampson Willard —

Recorded from the Back of the Original Charter for Fullum this
27''^ Day of December 1753—

19 Theodore Atkinson Sec^^

-'/,

>"■.,

- V7I/ ,-"'' '^

-v?-''V;o<'^ ?«>i:

>/uv<^ u>?m^}^ 3UI-/ ■.'■^v'""a"

Taken from the Plan on the Back of the Charter of Fullam this
2-7"' Day of December 1753 —

19 Theodore Atkinson Sec''*'

134 CHARTER RECORDS.

[DUMMERSTON CHARTER RENEWED 1760.]

*l-225 *Proviuce of New Hamp''

Fullam Charf George the Second by the Grace of God of Great
Lengthned out Britian France & Ireland King Defender of the

. '^ , Faith &'^

f ^ To all to whom these Presents Shall come

<; Prov'' Seal } Greeting
l^ J WhereasWeof Our Special Grace & Mere Motion

"^ V ^ for the d\\e Encouragement & Settling of A New

fcfr^^^chartfr Plantation within Our Province of New Hamp'' by

our Letters Patent or Charter under the Seal of Our Said Province
dated the 26"' Day of December in the Twenty Seventh Year of Our
Reign Granted a Tract of Land equal to Six Miles Square Bounded
as therein expressed to A Number of Our Loyal Subjects whose
Names are entered on the Same to hold to them their heirs & assigns
on the Conditions therein declared to be A Town Corporate by the
Name of FuUum as by Referrence to the Said Charter may more
fully appear

And Whereas the s'' Grantees have represented that by the Inter-
vention of an Indian War since the making of said Grant it has been
impracticable to comply with & fullfiU the Conditions aforesaid and
Humbly supplycated lis not to take advantage of the Breach of Said
Conditions but to Lengthen out & Grant them Some Reasonable
Term for the Performance thereof after the Said Impediment shall
Cease

Now Know Ye that We being Willino: to Promote the End Pro-
posed Have of Our Further Grace & favour suspended Our Claim of
the forfeitures which the Said Grantees may have Incurrd and by
these Presents do Grant unto the Said Grantees their Heirs & assigns
the Term of one Year for Performing & Fullfilling the Conditions
Matters & things by them to be done (which Term is to be renewd
annually until his Maj'-'* Plenary Instructions shall be recieved
relative to the Incident that has Prevented a Complyance with the
Charter according to the True Intent & meaning thereof

In Testimony Whereof We have caused the seal of Our Said Prov-
ince to be hereunto atifixed Wittness Benning Wentworth Esq our
Goveruour & Commander in Chieff the 12"' Day of June in the 33'^
year of Our Reign Annoq Domini 1760 —

B Wentworth

By his Excellencys Command
with advice of Council

Theodore Atkinson Sec''^

DUMMEESTON. 135

Province of New Hanip'

Recorded according to the Original under the Province Seal the
12'" Day of June 1760

"39 Theodore Atkinson Sec''^

[DUMMERSTON CHARTER RENEWED, 1761.]

*Province of New Haraps'' *l-237

Fulluni George the Third by the Grace of God of Great

— -i^-^^ >^ Britain France and Ireland King Defender of the
Faith &c

p s

To all whom these Presents shall Come Greeting

^ ^i-.^*^ -' Whereas our LateRoyall Grand father King George

the Second of Glorious Memory did of his Special Grace & mere
motion for the Encouragement of setling a New Plantation within
our said Province of New Hampshire by his Letters Patient or Char-
ter under the Seal of our said Province Dated the 26"' Day of Decem-
ber 1753 & in the Twenty Seventh Year of his Majestys Reign
grant a Tract of Land equal to five & ^ Miles square Bounded as
therein Expressed to a Number of our Loyal Subjects Whose
Names are Entered on the same to hold to them their Heirs or
Assigns on the Conditions therein Declared to be a Town Corporate
by the Name of Fullam as by Referrence to the said Charter may
more Fully appear

And Whereas the said Grantees have Represented that by the
Intervention of an Indian Warr since making the said grant it has
been Impracticable to Comply with & fulfill the Conditions & humbly
Supplicated us not to take advant^' of the Breach of said Condi-
tions but to Lengthen out & Grant them some Reasonable time for
Performance thereof after the said Impediment shall Cease

Now Know Ye that we being Willing to Promote the End Pro-
posed have of our Further Grace & Favor Suspended our Claim of
the Forfeiture which the said Grantees may have Incurred and by
these Presents do grant unto the said Grantees their Heirs & Assigns
the Term of One Year for Performing & FuUfilling the Conditions
Matters & things by them to be done which Term is to be Renewed
Annually if the same Impediment Remains untill our Plenary
Instructions sliall be Received Relating to the Incident that has Pre-
vented a Compliance with the said Charter According to the Intent
& meaning of the same

In Testimony whereof we have Caused the Seal of our said Prov-
ince to be hereunto Affixed. Witness Benning Wentworth Esq'' our

136 CHARTER RECORDS.

Governour & Commander in Cheif of our Province aforesaid the 6'*^
day of July in the Year of our Lord Christ 1761 & in the first Year
of his Majestys Reign

B Wentworth
By his Exeellencys Command
with Advice of Councill

Theodore Atkinson Sec'^''
Recorded the T'' Day of July 1761

^^ Theodore Atkinson Sec^^

p s

[DuMMERSTON Charter Renewed, 1762.]
*l-248 ^Province of New Hampshire

Fullam George the Third by the Grace of God of Great

f /-*--—-. ,^ Britain France & Ireland King Defender of Faith &c
Whereas our late Royal Grandfather King George
the Second of Glorious Memory did of his Special
^ >— »^.— i^ ^ Grace & mere Motion for the Encouragement of Set-
tling a new Planta" within our said Province of New Hampshire
by his Letters Pattient or Charter under the Seal of our said Province
dated the 26"' day of December 1755 & in the Twenty Seventh Year
of his Majestys Reign grant a tract of Land equal to Five & one half
Miles Square Bounded as therein Expressd to a number of our
Loyall Subjects whose Names are Enter'd on the same to hold to
them their Heirs or Assigns on the Conditions therein declared to be
a Town Corporate by the Name of Fullam as by Referrance to the
said Charter may more fully appear

And Whereas the said Grantees have Represented that by the In-
tervention of an Indian Warr since making the said Grant it has
been Impracticable to Comply with and fulfill the Conditions & hum-
bly Supplicated us not to take Advantage of the Breach of said Con-
ditions but to Lengthen out & grant them some Reasonable time for
Performance thereof after the said Impediment shall cease

Now Know Ye that we, being Willing to Promote the End Pro-
posed have of our further grace & favour Suspended our Claim of
the Forfeiture, which the said Grantees may have Incurr'd &by these
Presents do Grant unto the said Grantees their Heirs & Assigns the
Term of two Years for Performing & fulfilling the Conditions, mat-
ters & things by them to be done, which term is to be Renew'd if the
same Impediment Remains, untill our Plenary Instructions shall be
Received Relating to the Incident that has Prevented a Coraplyance

DUMMERSTON. 137

^vith the said Charter, According to the Intent & meaning of the
same

In Testimony whereof we have Caused the seal of our said
Province to be hereunto affixed Witness Benning Wentworth Esq.
our Govern"^ & Comnv', in Cheiff of our Province aforesaid the 7^''
day of July in the Year of our Lord Christ 1762 & in the Second
Year of our Reign —

B Wentworth

By his Excellency's Comni'*
with Advice of Council

Theo : Atkinson Jun' Sec'^''

Province of New Hampshire Aug*^ 12 — 1762

Recorded from the Origional Charter under the Prov : Seal —

f T : Atkinson Jun Sec""5^

P S

[DUMMERSTON CHARTER RENEWED, 1764.]

*Province of New Hamp' *l-278

George the third by the Grace of God of Great
Britain F' ranee & Ireland King Defender of the Faith

^ ^-— .^-^ ^ To all whom these Presents shall Come Greeting

Fullam AVhereas our Late Royal Grand Father King George

the Second of Glorious Memory did of his Special
Grace & mere motion for the Encouragement of Settling A New
Plantation within our Said Province of New Hamp'^ by his Letters
Pattent or Charter under the Seal of our Said Province dated the 26"'
Day of December 1753 & in the 27"' Year His Majestys Reign granted
a Tract of Land equal to F^ive & one half Miles Square bounded as
therein expressed to A Number of our Loyal Subjects whose Names
are Entered on the Same to Hold to them their Heirs or Assigns on
the Conditions therein declared to be a Town Corporate by the Name
of Fullam as by reference to tiie s'' Charter may more fully Appear
And whereas the Said Grantees have represented that by the Inter-
vention of an Indian War Since making the Said Grant it has been
Impracticable to comply with & fullfill the Conditions & humbly sup-
plycated us not to take advantage of the Breach of the Said Condi-
tions but to Lengthen out & grant them some Reasonable Time for
Performance thereof after the Same Impediment Shall Cease Now
Know Yee that we being Willing to promote the End Proposed have
of our Further Grace & Flavour Suspended our Claim of the Forfeit-

138 CHARTER RECORDS.

ure which the Said Grantees may have Incnrrd & by these Presents
do Grant unto the Said Grantees their Heirs & Assignes the
*l-279 Term of one Year for Performing *Andfiillfilling the Condi-
tions Matters & Things by them to be done which Term is to
be renewd if the Same Impediment Remains until our Plenary Instruc-
tions Shall be recievd relating to the Incident that has prevented a
Coraplyance with the Said Charter according to the Intent & Mean-
ing of the Same In Testimony whereof we have caused the Seal of
our Said Province to be hereunto affixed Wittness Penning Went-
worth Esq our Governor & Commander in Chieil of our Said Prov-
ince the 7"' day of June in the Year of our Lord Christ 1764 & in
the fourth Year of our Reign

B Wentworth
By his Excellencys Comand
with Advice of Council

Theod' Atkinson Jun'' Sec'^^

Entered & Recorded according to the original Charter under the
Province Seal this 7'^' Day of June 1764—

19 T Atkinson Jun Sec^^^

DUXBURY.

*2-417 *Province of New-Hampshire.

Duxbury GEORGE the Third,

/■ .—i^^^-s . By the Grace of God, of Great-Britain, France and

\ / Ireland, King, Defender of the Faith &c.

) (To all Persons to tvJiom these Presents shall come^

^ ^— -V-*-' -' Greeting.

Know ye, that We of Our special Graoe, certain Knowledge, and
meer Motion, for the due Encouragement of settling a New Planta-
tion within our said Province, by and with the Advice of our Trusty
and Well-beloved Penning Wentworth, Esq ; Our Governor and
Commander in Chief of Our said Province of Ne'W-Hampshire in
Neiv-Emjland^ and of our Council of the said Province ; Have
upon the Conditions and Reservations herein after made, given and
granted, and by these Presents, for us, our Heirs, and Successors,
do give and grant in equal Shares, unto Our loving Subjects, Inhabi-
tants of Our said Province of New- Hampshire^ and Our other Gov-
ernments, and to their Heirs and Assigns for ever, whose Names are
entred on this Grant, to be divided to and amongst them into

DUXBURY. 139

Seventy one equal Shares, all that Tract or Parcel of Land
situate, lying and l)eing within our said Province of New- Hump shire,
containing- by Admeasurement, 23040 Acres, which Tract is to con-
tain Six Miles square, and no more; out of which an Allowance is
to be made for High Ways and unimprovable Lands by Rocks, Ponds,
Mountains and Rivers, One Thousand and Forty Acres free, accord-
ing to a Plan and Survey thereof, made by Our said Governor's
Order, and returned into the Secretary's Office, and hereunto annexed,
butted and bounded as follows, Viz. Begining at the North Easterly
Corner of New Huntington on the Souther Side of Onion or French
River from thence runing Easterly up Said River & bounding on the
Same so far on a Strait Line as to make it Six Miles from the Said
Corner of New Huntington allowing the Same to be Perpendicular
with the Easterly line of Said New Huntington from thence Southerly
a Parrellel Line with New Huntingtons East Line Six Miles thence
Westerly about Six Miles to New Huntingtons South Easterl}^
Corner from thence Notherly by Said New Huntingtons East Line
Six Miles to the place began at And that the same be, and hereby is
Incorporated into a Township by the Name of Duxbury And the
Inhabitants that do or shall hereafter inhabit the said Township, are
hereby declared to be Enfranchized with and Intitled to all and every
the Priviledges and Immunities that other Towns within Our
Province by Law Exercise and Enjoy : And further, that the said Town
as soon as there shall be Fiftv Families resident and settled thereon,
shall have the Liberty of holding Two Fairs, one of which shall be
held on the And the other on the

annually, which Fairs are not to continue
longer than the respective following the said

and that as soon as the said Town shall
consist of Fifty Families, a Market may be *opened and kept *2-418
one or more Days in each Week, as may be thought most
advantagious to the Inhabitants. Also, that the first Meeting for the
Choice of Town Officers, agreable to the Laws of our said Province,
shall be held on the 28'" Day of July next which said Meeting shall
be Notified by the Rev'' M' Isaac Browne who is hereby also appointed
the Moderator of the said first Meeting, which he is to Notify and
Govern agreable to the Laws and Customs of Our said Province ;
and that the annual Meeting for ever hereafter for the Choice of
such Officers for the said Town, shall be on the Second Tuesday of
March annually, To Have and to Hold the said Tract of Land as
above expressed, together with all Privileges and Appurtenances, to
them and their respective Heirs and Assigns forever, upon the fol-
lowing Conditions, viz.

140 CHARTER RECORDS.

I. That every Grantee, his Heirs or Assigns shall plant and culti-
vate five Acres of Land within the Term of five Years for every fifty
Acres contained in his or their Share or Proportion of Land in said
Township, and continue to improve and settle the same by additional
Cultivations, on Penalty of the Forfeiture of his Grant or Share in
the said Township, and of its reverting to Us, our Heirs and Suc-
cessors, to be by Us or Them Re-granted to such of Our Subjects as
shall effectually settle and cultivate the same.

IL That all white and other Pine Trees within the said Township,
fit for Mastiug Our Royal Xavy, be carefully preserved for that Use,
and none to be cut or felled without Our special Licence for so doing
first had and obtained, upon the Penalty of the Forfeiture of the
Right of such Grantee, his Heirs and Assigns, to Us, our Heirs and
Successors, as well as being subject to the Penalty of any Act or
Acts of Parliament that now are, or hereafter shall be Enacted.

IV. Yielding and paying therefor to Us. our Heirs and Successors
for the Space of ten Years, to be computed from the Date hereof, the
Rent of one Ear of Indian Corn only, on the twenty-fifth Day of
December annually, if lawfully demanded, the first Payment to be
made on the twenty-fifth Day of iJectmher. 1763

V. Every Proprietor, Settler or Inhabitant, shall yield and pay
unto Us, our Heirs and Successors yearly, and every Year forever,
from and after the Expiration of ten Years from the abovesaid
twenty-fifth Day of December, namely, on the twentj'-fifth Day of
December, which will be in the Year of Our Lord 1773 One shilling
Proclamation Money for every Hundred Acres he so owns, settles or
possesses, and so in Proportion for a greater or lesser Tract of the
said Land ; which Money shall be paid by the respective Persons
abovesaid, their Heirs or Assigns, in our Council Chamber in Ports-
mouth, or to such Officer or Officers as shall be appointed to receive
the same ; and this to be in Lieu of all other Rents and Services
whatsoever.

In Testimony whereof we have caused the Seal of our said
Pro\ince to be hereunto affixed. Witness Ben>;i>'G \Ventworth,
Esq; Our Governor and Commander in Chief of Our said Province,
the Seventh Day of June In the Year of Our Lord Christ, One
Thousand Seven Hundred and Sixty three And in the Third Year of
Our Reign. B Wentworth

DUX BURY.

141

By His Excellency's Command,
With Advice of Council.

T Atkinson Jun'' Sec"^

Pro^ of New Hamp"^ June 7-1763

Recorded According to the Original Charter under the Pro'' Seal

"^ T Atkinson Jun'' Sec^'

*The Xaraes of the Grantees of Duxburj

*2-419

Rev*^ Isaac Brown
Jacob Joralemon
Thomas Cadmus
Ann Yandvck
Henry Joralemon
William Berber
Xicholoso Joralemon
Abram Godwin
Josiah Gilbart
Joseph Brown
Philip Scuyler
John Berdan
Lodowyck Rice
James Obrien
Jacob Tissoort
Hendrick V Giesen
Abr"" Van Wyck
Direck Brinckerlaoef
John Vance

Ten* Joralemon
Jan Devoer
Thomas Cadmus Jun""
Asa King
Elias M Untandt
John Kingsland
Harper Joralemon
William Camp
Daniel Riggs
Stephen Tuttle
Abraham Gouverneur
William Brown
Gabril Ogdon
Barnet Vanthorne
James Vanbureu

Dirch Yaralemon
Henry King
John Speer
John Winne
Joseph Kingsland
John Joralemon
James Niesbit
Daniel Farrand
Job Brown
Johannes Scuyler
Barent Governeur
Peter Zabirskie

Edw^ M' allister
Sam" Jacobus Demarest
Daniel Jessup
Hendrick Van Giesen Jun"" Isaac Van Giesen
Theodo" Van Wvck William Provoost

Xatha^ Philip Earle John Chappel
Abra'" Ackermon Garrit Hopper

Daniel Isaac Brown Esq Patridge Thatcher Sam" Averhill
Hon^'^ Rich^ Wibird ) Cap^ John Wentworth

John Downing > Esq" Tho* Westb^ Waldron

Dan^ Warner )

His Excellency Penning Wentworth Esq a Tract of Land to Con-
tain Five Hundred Acres Marked B-W- in the Plan which is to be
accounted two of the within Shares One whole Share for the Incorpor-
ated Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts One
Share for A Glebe for the Church of England as by Law Established
one Share for the first Settled Minister of the Gospel »S: One Share
for the Benefit of A School in S ' Town

Pro^ of New Hamp"^ June 7'^ 1763

Recorded from the Back of the Original Charter of Duxbury un-
der the Pro"" Seal

^ T Atkinson Jun'^ Sec''^

142

CHARTER RECORDS.

■drv.u

Prov® of New Hamp"" June 7-1763

Recorded from the Back of the original Charter of Duxbury under
the Pro^ Seal

"p T Atkinson Jun^ Sec^^^

ESSEX.

^2-429 *Province of New-Hampshire.

Essex GEORGE the Third,

p s-

By the Grace of God, of Great-Britain, France and
Ireland, King, Defender of the Faith, &c.

To all Persons to ivJiom these Presents shall come,
^ -— ^^-w -' Greeting.

ESSEX. 143

Seventy two equal Shares, all that Tract or Parcel of Land situate,
lying and being within our said Province of New- Hampshire^ contain-
ing by Admeasurement, 23040 Acres^ wliich Tract is to contain Six
Miles square, and no more ; out of which an Allowance is to be made
for High Ways and unimprovable Lands by Rocks, Ponds, Mountains
and Rivers, One Thousand and Forty Acres free, according to a Plan
and Survey thereof, made by Our said Governor's Order, and returned
into the Secretary's Office, and hereunto annexed, butted and bounded
as follows. Viz. Begining at the Northerly Side of Onion or French
River at the southerly corner of Colchester, from thence Runing
Easterly up said River, (^bounding on the same) so far as to make
Six Miles upon a streight line Perpendicular with the upper line of
Colchester afores'' thence Northerly a Parralell line with the said upper
line of Colchester Six Miles, thence Westerly a Parralell Line, with
the line on the river (first mention'd) abo' six Miles to the North East
Corner of said Colchester, from thence southerly by the East line of
Colchester to the River where we began — And that the same be,
and hereby is Incorporated into a Township by the Name of Essex
And the Inhabitants that do or shall hereafter inhabit the said Town-
ship, are hereby declared to be Enfranchized with and Intitled to all
and ever}^ the Priviledges and Immunities that other Towns within
Our Province by Law Exercise and Enjoy : And further, that the
said Town as soon as there shall be Fifty Families resident and settled
thereon, shall have the Liberty of holding Two Fairs, one of which
shall be held on the And the other on

the annually, which Fairs are not to

continue longer than the respective

following the said and that as soon

as the said Town shall consist of Fifty Families, a Market
may be *opened and kept one or more Days in each Week, *2-430
as may be thought most advantagious to the Inhabitants.
Also, that the first Meeting for the Choice of Town Officers, agrea-
ble to the Laws of our said Province, shall be held on the 13"^ of
July next which said Meeting shall be Notified by John Bogart Jun"^
Esq'' who is hereby also appointed the Moderator of the said first Meet-
ing, which he is to Notify and Govern agreable to the Laws and
Customs of Our said Province ; and that the annual Meeting for
ever hereafter for the Choice of such Officers for the said Town,
shall be on the Second Tuesday of 3Iarch annually. To Have and to
Hold the said Tract of Laud as above expressed, together with all
Privileges and Appurtenances, to them and their respective Heirs and
Assigns forever, upon the following Conditions, viz.

I. That every Grantee, his Heirs or Assigns shall plant and culti-

144 CHARTER RECORDS.

vate five Acres of Land within the Terra of five Years for ever}' fifty-
Acres contained in his or their Share or Proportion of Land in said
Township, and continue to improve and settle the same by additional
Cultivations, on Penalty of the Forfeiture of his Grant or Share in
the said Township, and of its reverting to Us, our Heirs and Succes-
sors, to be by Us or Them Re-granted to such of Our Subjects as shall
effectually settle and cultivate the same.

IL That all white and other Pine Trees wdthin the said Towniship,
fit for Masting Our Royal Navy, be carefully preserved for that Use,
and none to be cut or felled without Our special Licence for so doing
first had and obtained, upon the Penalty of the Forfeiture of the Right
of such Grantee, his Heirs and Assigns, to Us, our Heirs and Succes-
sors, as well as being subject to the Penalty of any Act or Acts of
Parliament that now- are, or hereafter shall be Enacted.

III. That before any Division of the Land be made to and among the
Grantees, a Tract of Land as near the Centre of the said Township
as the Land will admit of, shall be reserved and marked out for Town
Lots, one of which shall be allotted to each Grantee of the Contents
of one Acre.

IV. Yielding and paying therefor to Us, our Heirs and Successors
for the Space of ten Years, to be computed from the Date hereof,
the Rent of one Ear of Indian Corn only, on the twenty-fifth Day of
December annually, if lawfully demanded, the first Payment to be
made on the twenty-fifth Day of Becemher. 1763

V. Every Proprietor, Settler or Inhabitant, shall yield and pay
unto Us, our Heirs and Successors yearly, and every Year forever,
from and after the Expiration of ten Years from the abovesaid
twenty-fifth Day of December^ namely, on the twenty-fifth Day of
December^ which will be in the Year of Our Lord 1773 One
shilling Proclamation Money for every Hundred Acres he so owns,
settles or possesses, and so in Proportion for a greater or lesser
Tract of the said Land ; which Money shall be paid by the respective
Persons abovesaid, their Heirs or Assigns, in our Council Chamber
in Portsmouth, or to such Officer or Officers as shall be appointed
to receive the same ; and this to be in Lieu of all other Rents and
Services Avhatsoever.

In Testimony wdiereof we have caused the Seal of our said Prov-
ince to be hereunto affixed. Witness Benning Wentworth, Esq ;
Our Governor and Commander in Chief of Our said Province, the
Seventh Day of June In the Year of our Lord Christ, One Thou-
sand Seven Hundred and sixty three And in the Third Year of Our
Reign.

B Wentworth

ESSEX.

145

By His Excellency's Command,
With advice of Council,

T Atkinson Jun-" Sec^^^
Prov^ New Hamp"^ June 7-1763

Recorded According to the Original Charter under the Pro'' Seal

f T Atkinson Jun"- Sec^^^

*The Names of the Grantees of Essex (Viz) *2-431

Edward Burling
Stephen Fowler
Theophilus Anthony
James Bogert Jun'^
John Taylor
Peter J Bogert
John Jac Bogert
Jacobus N Bogert
Joseph Tompkins
Stephen Hicks
Steph" Van Wyck
Will'" Elsworth Jun^
Abr"^ Lefferts Jun^
George Hogewout
Bernardus Swartwout
Michael Hillegas
John J Jennings
Abra"' Lynsen
John Haydock
And"' Slopper
Sam' Averill
Joseph Wright

Elijah Gedney
Edward Agar
Petrus Byvanck
Nicholas J Bogert
John J Bogert
Henry J Bogert
Jacobus Bogert
Thomas Fisher
John Horton
Thomas Hicks
Tho* Burling
Will"' Stymas
Charles Tillinghast
Nich* Anderson
Abra"' Lefferts
Samuel Hillegas
Christ" Stymes
James Murray
Walter Burling
Nich' H Bogart
Hon*^'*^ Will'" Temple
John Nelson
Theo : Atkinson J'^

Joseph Drake
Francis Panton
John Bogert Jun""
Willet Taylor
Cornelius J Bogert
John N Bogert
Nicholas N Bogert
John Drake
Joseph Hunt
Whitehead Hicks
Will"' Elsworth
Dirick Lefferts
Wiir» Wiley
Cornelius De Groot
Peter Clopper
Michael Jennings
Christ" Stymes Jun''
John Lawrence
Edw'' Burling Jun""
Matt"' Wolf Bogart
And"' Wiggeus Esq""
Esq'"*

His Excellency Benning Wentworth Esq'^ a Tract of Land to
Contain Five Hundred Acres as marked B-W in the Plan which is
to be Accounted two of the within shares : One whole share for the
Incorporated Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign
parts, One Share for a Glebe for the Church of England as by Law
Establish'd, One share for the first settled Minister of the Gospel,
And One share for the benefit of a school in said Town —

Province of New Hamp' June 7"' 1763

Recorded from the Back of the Original Charter under the Prov-
ince Seal

19 T Atkinson Jun"^ Sec'^^

146

CHARTER F.ECOEDS.

5i3

Province of New Hamp" June 7-1763

Recorded from the Plan on the back of the Original Charter
Essex under the Pro'^ Seal

■y T Atkinson Jun"^ Sec^

FAIRFAX.

*S-30 *Province of Ne "^-Hampshire.

Fairfax GEORGE the Third,

^-ii-^*~^^ Bv the Grace of God. of Great-Britain. France and Ire-
\ , I lanti. King. Defender of the Faith A:c.
] "^ /" To all P-:rioni to ichom the*e Preitviti fhall come.

^^ —ii^ ^ Greeting.

Kjsow Ye. that We of Our special Grace, certain Knowledge, and
meer Motion, for the due Encouragement of settling a Xeic Plantation
within our said Province, bv and with the Advice of our Trustv and
Well-beloved Benntsg Wentwoeth. Esq: Our Governor and Com-
mander in Chief of Our said Province of Xric- Ramp shire, in 3>ef-
EngJand, and of Our Cor>fcrL of the said Province; Have upon
the Conditions and Reservations herein after made, given and granted.
andbv these Presents, for Us. Our Heirs, and Successors, do give and
grant in equal Shares, unto Our loving Subjects, Inhabitants of Our
said Province of Xeic-Rampihire, and Our other Governments, and
to their Heirs and Assigns for ever, whose Xames are entred on this
Grant, to be divided to and amongst them into Seventy equal Shares,
all that Tract or Parcel of Land situate, lying and being within our

FALRFAX. 147

said Province of Xetc- Hampshire, containing by Admeasarement,
Twenty three Thousand A: forty Acres, vrhich Tract is to contain Six
Miles square, and no more : out of which an Allowance is to be made
for High Ways and unimprovable Lands by Rocks. Ponds. Mountains
and Rivers. One Thousand and Forty Acres free, acc-ording to a Plan
and Survey thereof, made by Our said Governor's Order, and returned
into the Secretary's Office, and hereunto annexed, butted and bounded
as follows, n^. Begining at the North Elastly Comer of Westford
a Town lately granted in this Province thenee runing Westerly by
Westford as that runs to the North West Comer thereof which is
also the South Easterly Comer of Georgia a Township lately granted
then turning off Northerly iSc runing by Greorgia afore Said as that
runs to the North Easterly Corner thereof then turning Easterly it
runing so far on a Parallel Line with the Northerly Side Line of
Westford afore Said as that A Streight Line Drawn from that Peri«jd
to the North Easterly Comer Bounds <:>f Westford afore Said the
Bounds began at Shall include the Contents of Six Miles Square
And that the same be. and hereby is Lic-c>rporated into a Township
by the Name of Fairfax And the Inhabitants that do or shall
hereafter inhabit the said Township, are hereby declared to be
Enfranchized with and Intitled to all and every the Priviledges
and Immunities that other Towns within Our Province by Law
Exercise and Enjoy : And further, that the said Town as soon as
there shall be Fifty Families resident and settled thereon, shall have
the Liberty of holding ttco Fair*, one of which shall held on the

And the other on the
annually, which Fairs are not to c-ontinue longer
than the resp»ective following the said

and that as soon as the said Town shall
consist of Fifty Families, a Market may be *of'ened and kept *S-31
one or more Days in each Week, as may be thought most
advantagious to the Inhabitants. Also, that the first Meeting for the
Choice of Town Officers, agreable to the Laws of our said Prv:>vinee.
shall be held on the fifteenth Day of September Next which said Meet-
ing shall be Notified by M" Edward Burling who is hereby also
appointed the Moderator of the said first Meeting, which he is to
Notify and Govern agreable to the Laws and Customs of Our said
Province; and that the annual Meeting for ever hereafter for the
Choice of such Officers for the said Town, shall be on the Second
Tuesday of March annuaUy, To Havz and to Hold the said Tract
of Land as above expressed, toiretner with all Privileges and Appur-
tenances, to them and their resf>ective Heirs and Assigns forever,
upon the following Conditions, viz.

148 CHARTER RECORDS.

I. That every Grantee, his Heirs or Assigns shall plant and culti-
vate five Acres of Land within the Term of five Years for every
fifty Acres contained in his or their Share or Proportion of Land in
said Township, and continue to improve and settle the same by addi-
tional Cultivations, on Penalty of the Forfeiture of his Grant or
Share in the said Township, and jof its reverting to Us, our Heirs
and Successors, to be by Us or them Re-granted to such of our Sub-
jects as shall effectually settle and cultivate the same.

XL That all white and other Pine Trees within the said Township,
fit for Masting Our Royal Navy, be carefully preserved for that Use,
and none to be cut or felled without our special Licence for so doing
first had and obtained, upon the Penalty of the Forfeiture of the
Right of such Grantee, his Heirs and Assigns, to Us, our Heirs and
Successors, as well as being subject to the Penalty of any Act or
Acts of Parliament that now are, or hereafter shall be Enacted.

IV. Yielding and paying therefor to Us, our Heirs and Successors
for the Space of ten Years, to be computed from the Date hereof, the
Rent of one Ear of Indian Corn only, on the twenty -fifth Day of
December annually, if lawfully demanded, the first Payment to be
made on the twenty-fifth Day of December. 1763

V. Every Proprietor, Settler or Inhabitant, shall yield and pay
unto Us, our Heirs and Successors yearly, and every Year forever,
from and after the Expiration of ten Years from the abovesaid
twenty-fifth Day of December., namely, on the twenty-fifth Day of
December., which will be in the Year of Our Lord 1773 One shilling
Proclamation Money fqr every Hundred Acres he so owns, settles or
possesses, and so in Proportion for a greater or lesser Tract of the
said Land ; which Money shall be paid by the respective Persons
abovesaid, their Heirs or Assigns, in our Council Chamber in Ports-
mouth., or to such Officer or Officers as shall be appointed to receive
the same ; and this to be in Lieu of all other Rents and Services
whatsoever.

In Testimony whereof we have caused the Seal of our said
Province to be hereunto affixed. Witness Benning Wentworth,
Esq ; Our Governor and Commander in Chief of Our said Province,
the 18 Day of August In the Year of our Lord Christ, One
Thousand Seven Hundred and Sixty three And in the 3'' Year of
Our Reigrn. B Wentworth

FAIRFAX.

149

By His Excellency's Command,
With Advice of Council,

T Atkinson JuiV Sec^^

ProV^ of New Hamp' Augs' 18-1763

recorded According to the Original Charter under the Province
Seal

19 T Atkinson Jun'" Sec^^

*The Names of the Grantees of Fairfax (Viz)

*3-32

Edward Burling
John Leageraft
James Armstrong
Cardin Proctor
Garden Lee

Viuer Leageraft Viner Leageraft jun'

ChrisfCadwinLeageraft James Leageraft

Will'" Leageraft
Tim" M' Carth}^
Thomas Miller

Thomas Will'" Moore Christopher Miller
James Gilchrist James Sacket

Peter Farmer Thomas Seymour

Jasper Jasper Farmer Jasper Peter Farmer
Peter Wallis GallaudetThomas Gallaudet

John Read Wilmot
Joseph Sackett
Sam" Deal Sen''
Will"' Newton
Adam Gilchrist jun
William Willson
John Sackett
Edward Leslie
Nicholas Dean
Peter Totten jun""

George Leargeraft
Will'" Prockter
Paul Miller
Joseph Haveland
Henry Arnald
Thomas Seymour jun''
Jasper Farmer
Edger Gallaudet

Thomas Gallaudet jun'' James Wilmot jun""

Elisha Gallaudet
Joseph Sackett jun"^
Samuel Deal jun''
Thomas Newton
Edward Agur

Peter Elisha Gallaudet
Peter Sacket
John MTveney
Adam Gilchrist Sen''
Philip Doughty
Francis Panter

William Darlington
George Willocks Leslie George Leslie
Uriah Field Stephen Dean

Tho* Drake Benj'' Haviland

The Hon"!-^ Rich'^ Wibird^
Dan" Warner I -p ^g

Natha" Barrel & ?^sq

Joseph Newmarch J

His Excellency Penning Wentworth Esq a Tract to Contain Five
Hundred Acres as marked B W in the Plan which is to be Accounted
two of the withi-n Shares one whole Share for the Incorporated Society
for the Propagation of the Gospel in foreign Parts one Share for A
Glebe for the Church of England as by Law Established One Share
for the first Settled Minister of the Gospel in S'^ Town & one Share
for the Benefit of A School in S'' Town forever
Prov« New Hamp-" August 18- 1763

Recorded According to the Original Charter under the Pro"" Seal

19 T Atkinson Jun' Sec^^

150

CHARTER RECORDS.

2'i y -lO /^c-es
/ 2 i ?• fa K.

'9 -^ff

,->•

•'•Wt.ltrl^ A

.."3

Province of New Hamp'' August 18 1763

Recorded from the Back of the Origiual Charter under the Pro''
Seal

19 T Atkinson Jun^ Sec^^

*3-34

Fairfield

FAIRFIELD.

*Province of New-Hampshire.
GEORGE THE Third,

p s

By the Grace of God, of Great-Britain, France and
Ireland, King, Defender of the Faith &c.

To all Persons to ivhom these Presents shall come,
^ V— ^v-*—' ^ Greeting.

Know Ye, that We of Our special (xrace, certain Knowledge, and
meer Motion, for the due Encouragement of settling a New Planta-
tion within our said Province, by and with the Advice of our Trusty
and Well-beloved Benning Wentworth, Esq ; Our Governor and
Commander in Chief of Our said Province oi New-Hampshire, in New-
Unf/land, and of Our Council of the said Province ; Have upon
the Conditions and Reservations herein after made, given and granted,
and by these Presents, for Us, Our Heirs, and Successors, do give and

FAIRFIELD. 151

grant in equal Shares, unto Our loving Subjects, Inhabitants of Our
said Province of Neiv-Ham'psJiire^ and Our other Governments, and
to their Heirs and Assigns for ever, whose Names are entred on this
Grant, to be divided to and amongst them into Seventy equal Shares,
all that Tract or Parcel of Land situate, lying and being within our
said Province of JVen'-Hampshire, containing by Admeasurement,
Twenty three Thousand & forty Aci'es, which Tract is to contain Six
Miles square, and no more ; out of which an Allowance is to be made
for High Ways and unimprovable Lands by Rocks, Ponds, Mountains
and Kivers, One Thousand and Forty Acres free, according to a Plan
and Survey thereof, made by Our said Governor's Order, and returned
into the Secretary's Office, and hereunto annexed, butted and bounded
as follows. Viz. Begining at the North Easterly Corner of Fairfax a
Township this Day Granted from thence runing Westerly by Fair-
fax as that runs to the North West Corner thereof which is also the
South East Corner of S' Albans then turning off Northerly & Tun-
ing by S^ Albans as that runs to the North Easterly Corner thereof
then Turning off & runing Easterly so far on a Parrallel Line with
the Notherly Side Line of Fairfax aforesaid as that A Streight Line
Drawn from that Station to the North Easterly Corner of Fairfax
aforesaid (the Bound began at) Shall include the Contents of Six
Miles Square And that the same be, and hereby is Incorporated into a
Township by the Name of Fairfield And the Inhabitants that do or shall
hereafter inhabit the said Township, are hereby declared to be Enfran-
chized with and Intitled to all and every the Priviledges and Immun-
ities that other Towns within Our Province by Law Exercise and
Enjoy : And further, that the said Town as soon as there shall be
Fifty Families resident and settled thereon, shall have the Liberty of
holding ttvo Fairs., one of which shall be held on the

And the other on the
annually, which Fairs are not to continue longer than the respective

following the said
and that as soon as the said
Town shall consist of Fifty Families, a Market may be *opened *3-35
and kept one or more Days in each Week, as may be thought
most advantagious to the Inhabitants. Also, that the first Meeting
for the Choice of Town Ofticers, agreable to the Laws of our said
Province, shall be held on the Twentieth Day of September next
which said Meeting shall be Notified by M' Samuel Smith who is
hereby also af)pointed the Moderator of the said first Meeting, which
he is to Notify and Govern agreable to the Laws and Customs of Our
said Province : and that the annual Meeting for ever hereafter for
the Choice of such Officers for the said Town, shall be on the Second

152 CHARTER RECORDS.

Tuesday of March annually. To Have and to Hold the said Tract
of Land as above expressed, together with all Privileges and Appurt-
enances, to them and their respective Heirs and Assigns forever, upon
the following Conditions, viz.

I. That every Grantee, his Heirs or Assigns shall plant and
cultivate five Acres of Land within the Term of five Years for every
fifty Acres contained in his or their Share or Proportion of Land in said
Township, and continue to improve and settle the same by additional
Cultivations, on Penalty of the Forfeiture of his Grant or Share in
the said Township, and of its reverting to Us, our Heirs and Succes-
sors, to be by Us or them Re-granted to such of our Subjects as shall
effectually settle and cultivate the same.

II. That all white and others Pine Trees within the said Township,
fit for Masting Our Royal Navy, be carefully preserved for that Use,
and none to be cut or felled without Our special Licence for so doing
first had and obtained, upon the Penalty of the Forfeiture of the
Right of such Grantee, his Heirs and Assigns, to Us, our Heirs and
Successors, as well as being subject to the Penalty of any Act or Acts
of Parliament that now are, or hereafter shall be Enacted.

IV. Yielding and paying therefor to Us, our Heirs and Successors
for the Space of ten Years, to be computed from the Date hereof, the
Rent of one Ear of Indian Corn only, on the twenty-fifth Day of
December annually, if lawfully demanded, tlie first Payment to be
made on the twenty-fifth Day of December . 1763

V. Every Proprietor, Settler or Inhabitant, shall yield and pay
unto Us, our Heirs and Successors yearly, and every Year forever,
from and after the Expiration of ten Years from the abovesaid twenty-
fifth Day of December^ namely, on the twenty-fifth Day of December^
which will be in the Year of Our Lord 1773 One^ shilling Proclama-
tion Money for every Hundred Acres he so owns, settles or possesses,
and so in Proportion for a greater or lesser Tract of the said Land ;
which Money shall be paid by the respective Persons abovesaid, their
Heirs or Assigns, in our Council Chamber in Portsmouth., or to such
Officer or Officers as shall be appointed to receive the same ; and
this to be in Lieu of all other Rents and Services whatsoever.

In Testimony whereof we have caused the Seal of our said Province
to be hereunto affixed. Witness Benning Wenworth, Esq ; Our
Governor and Commander in Chief of Our said Province, the 18 Day

FAIRFIELD.

153

of August In the Year of our Lord Christ, One Thousand Seven
Hundred and Sixty three And in the third Year of Our Reign.

B Went worth
By His Excellency's Command,
With Advice of Council,

T Atkinson Jun' Sec"'^
Pro^" of New Hamp^ August 18- 1763

Recorded According to the Original Charter under the Pr° Seal

19 T Atkinson Jun^ SeC^^

*The Names of the Grantees of Fairfield (Viz)

^3-36

Samuel Hungerford
Abraham Gold
Moses Bulkley
Ebenez"^ Silliman jun
Peter Barr
Daniel Smith
Daniel Jackson
Alexander Sloan
Abel Plat
Elnathan Williams
Andrew Sturges
Hayns Hanford
Eleaz'^ Osburne
Joseph Lyon
Sam" Ogden
Ebenez' Ogden
Thomas Staples y*" 2'
Gideon Wells
Sam" Waters
Tho* Nor thro up

Samuel Smith
Ebenez' Bartram
Ezekiel Hull
David Barlow
Moses Wakman
John Banks
Sam" Bennit y*^ 2''
Sam" Starling
Nath" Price
Ephraim Nicholds
Noah Rockwell
Joshua Jennings
James Bradley
George Burr
Peter Blackman
Job Bartram
Andrew Jennings
Benj"' Wyncoop Jun"^
Sam" Waldo

Abraham Hayes
Ebenez"^ Burr
Jabez Hubbell
Abel Jennings
Eph™ Hawley
Daniel Belden
Hezekiah Deforest
Stephen Hull
Ezra Williams
Benoni Dimon
Peter Betts
Benj"^ Osburne
Benj'^ Banks
Thadeus Banks
John Ogden jun""
Jon--^ Cuttler
Jabez Wakman
William Livesav
Benj*^ Eliot
Benj'* Eliot jun""

Jonah Hungerford
The Hon''^'' Dan" Warner ^

Rich'' Wibird ' ^^ ,,

Joseph Newmarch j ^

& James Nevin J
For his Excellency Benning Wentworth Esq a Tract to Contain
Five Hundred Acres as Marked B. W- in the Plan which is to be
Accounted Two of the within Shares One whole Share for the
Incorporated Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in foreign
Parts One Share for A Glebe for the Church of England as by Law
Established One Share for the first Settled Minister of the Gospel
there & One Share for the Benefit of A School in S'' Town forever

154

CHARTER RECORDS.

Province of New Hamp'^ August 18 1763

Recorded from the Back of the Original Charter of Fairfield under
the Prov^ Seal

m T Atkinson Jun^ Sec^^

.^V

\'l/
v*-^

PUn ofTaxTfiUd

J^W

9"''r^K4S'"7'^''""<*'"A'

0-5

Province of New Hamp' August 18"' 1763

Recorded from the Back of the original Charter of Fairfield under
the Pro^ Seal

19 T Atkinson Jun"^ Sec''^

[Smithfield Charter, 1761.]
* Province of New-Hampshire.
GEORGE THE Third,

By the Grace of God, of Great-Britain, France and
Ireland, King, Defender of the Faith &c.

To all Persons to tvhom these Presents shall come,
^ N-— v-^-' ^ Greeting.

*3-33

Smithfield

FAIRFIELD. 155

Commander in Chief of Our said Province of New-Hampshire, in Neiv-
En<jJand, and of Our Council of the said Province; Have upon the
Conditions and Reservations herein after made, given and granted,
and by these Presents, for Us, Our Heirs, and Successors, do give
and grant in equal Shares, unto Our loving Subjects, Inhabitants of
Our said Province of New-Hampshire, and Our other Governments,
and to their Heirs and Assigns for ever, whose Names are entred on
this Grant, to be divided to and amongst them into Seventy equal
Shares, all that Tract or Parcel of Land situate, lying and being
within our said Province of Neiv-Hamp shire, containing by Admeas-
urement, 23040 Acres, which Tract is to contain Six Miles square,
and no more ; out of which an Allowance is to be made for High
Ways and unimprovable Lands by Rocks, Ponds, Mountains and
Rivers, One Thousand and Forty Acres free, according to a Plan and
Survey thereof, made by Our said Governor's Order, and returned
into the Secretary's Office, and hereunto annexed, butted and bound-
ed as follows, Viz. Begining at the North Easterly Corner of Fair-
field a Township this Day Granted from thence runing Westerly by
Fairfield as that runs to the North West Corner thereof which is also
the South East Corner of Swanton then turning off Notherly and
runing by Swanton afore Said as that runs to the North Easterly
Corner thereof, then turning off Easterly & runing so far on a Par-
rallel Line with the Notherly Side Line of Fairfield afore Said as
that A Streight Line drawn from that Period to the North Easterly
Corner Bounds of Fairfield afore Said (the Bound began at Shall in-
clude the Contents of Six Miles Square And that the same be, and
hereby is Incorporated into a Township by the Name of Smithfield
And the Inhabitants that do or shall hereafter inhabit the said Town-
ship, are hereby declared to be Enfranchized with and Intitled to
all and every the Priviledges and Immunities that other Towns within
Our Province by Law Exercise and Enjoy : And further, that the
said Town as soon as there shall be Fifty Families resident and
settled thereon, shall have the Liberty of holding two Fairs, one of
which shall be held on the And the other on the

annually, which Fairs are not to continue
longer than the respective following the said

and that as soon as the said Town shall
consist of Fifty Families, a Market may be * opened and kept *3— 39
one or more Days in each Week, as may be thought most
advantagious to the Inhabitants. Also, that the first jNIeeting for
the Choice of Town Officers, agreable to the Laws of our said Prov-
ince, shall be held on the 19"' Day of September next which said
Meeting shall be Notified by M'' Thomas Douglass who is hereby also

156 CHARTER RECORDS.

appointed the Moderator of the said first Meeting, which he is to
Notify and Govern agreable to the Laws and Customs of Our said
Province ; and that the annual Meeting for ever hereafter for the
Choice of such Officers for the said Town, shall be on the Second
Tuesday of March annually. To Have and to Hold the said Tract
of Land as above expressed, together with all Privileges and Appur-
tenances, to them and their respective Heirs and Assigns forever,
upon the following Conditions, viz.

I. That every Grantee, his Heirs or Assigns shall plant and culti-
vate five Acres of Land within the Term of five Years for every
fifty Acres contained in his or their Share or Proportion of Land in
said Township, and continue to improve and settle the same by
additional Cultivations, on Penalty of the Forfeiture of his Grant or
Share in the said Township, and of its reverting to Us, our Heirs and
Successors, to be by Us or them Re-granted to such of our Subjects
as shall effectually settle and cultivate the same.

II. That all white and other Pine Trees within the said Township,
fit for Masting Our Royal Navy, be carefully preserved for that Use,
and none to be cut or felled without Our special Licence for so doing
first had and obtained, upon the Penalty of the Forfeiture of the
Right of such Grantee, his Heirs and Assigns, to Us, our Heirs and
Successors, as well as being subject to the Penalty of any Act or
Acts of Parliament that now are, or hereafter shall be Enacted.

IV. Yielding and paying therefor to Us, our Heirs and Successors
for the Space of ten Years, to be computed from the Date hereof, the
Rent of one Ear of Indian Corn only, on the twenty-fifth Day of
December annually, if lawfully demanded, the first Payment to be
made on the twenty-fifth Day of December. 1763

V. Every Proprietor, Settler or Inhabitant, shall yield and pay
unto Us, our Heirs and Successors yearly, and every Year forever,
from and after the Expiration of ten Years from the abovesaid twenty-
fifth Day of December., namely, on the twenty-fifth Day of December.,
which will be in the Year of Our Lord 1773 One dialling Proclama-
tion Money for every Hundred Acres he so owns, settles or pos-
sesses, and so in Proportion for a greater or lesser Tract of the said
Land ; which Money shall be paid by the respective Persons abovesaid,
their Heirs or Assigns, in our Council Chamber in Portsmouth^ or to
such Officer or Officers as shall be appointed to receive the same ;

FAIRFIELD.

157

an<l this to l)e in Lieu of all other Rents and Services whatsoever.
In Testimony whereof we have caused tlie Seal of our said Prov-
ince to be hereunto affixed. Witness Benxing Wentwokth, Esq ;
Our Governor and Commander in Chief of Our said Province, the
18"' Da}' of August In the Year of our Lord Christ, One Thousand
Seven Hundred and Sixty three And in the Third Year of Our

Reign.

By His Excellency's Command,
Witli Advice of Council,

T Atkinson Jun'' Sec''^

Pro^ of New Hamp^ August 18-1763

Recorded from the original Charter under the Pro"" Seal

B Wentworth

^ T Atkinson Jun^ Sec-"*'

*The Names of the Grantees of Smithfield — Viz

^3-40

Sam" Hungerford
Abel Seelye
Lydol Buck
Ruben Cloos
Eph"' Hubbell jun^
Aaron Prendle
Isaac Coller
Samuel Waters jun'^
Henry Smith
Daniel Bostwick
Thomas Taber
Nathan Wade jun"^
John Wallis
John Bolt
Tho* Younof
John Prior
Eliphalet Downer
Dan Howlett
Thomas Tobias
Fines Wortman

The

Thomas Douglass

Amos Fitsimmons

David Cummins jun"^

Daniel Lake

Nath" Seelye

Kent Right

Andrew Morhouse

John Soule

John Gorham

John Brackit

Elijah Brownell

Ziba Brownson

Joseph Wheeler jun''

James Moger

Adam Right

Isaac Dean

Elisha Leffingwell

Jacob Herenton

Charles Weeks

Minor Sedam
Hon"'« Rich'' Wibird
Dan" Warner
Jo* Newmarch
and James Nevin

Paul Yeats
Nathan Smith
Amos Agard
Gaylard Hubbell
Silas Hubbel
Thatford Holmes
Samuel Waters
Will'" Barnes jun^
John Sunderland
James Akin
William Adgate
Jon* Gidding-s
John Porter
Sam" Dean
Daniel Young
Benj* Throop Jun''
John Morhouse
Nathan Wade
Benj'' Birdsall
Benj-''^ Seamans

Esq"

For his Excellency Benning Wentworth Esq a Tract to Contain
five Hundred Acres as marked B W in the Plan which is to be

i68

CHARTER RECORDS.

accounted Two of the within Shares one whole Share for the Incor-
porated Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in foreign Parts
one Share for A Glebe for the church of England as by Law Estab-
lished one Share for the first Settled Minister of the Gospel in Said
Town & one Share for the Benefit of a School in S'^ Town forever

Pro^ of New Hamp-- August 18"> 1763

Recorded from the Back of the Original Charter of Smithfield
under the Prov*^ Seal

^ T Atkinson Jun' Sec'"

■u»jM-».»iS '^S

(a K

I I

t
3

Prov*^ of New Hamp'" August 18-1763
Recorded from the Back of the
under the Pro"" Seal

original

Charter of Smithfield

T Atkinson Jun^ Sec'y

FAIRLEE. 159

FAIRLEE.

*Province of New-Hampshire. *2-177

Fairlee GEORGE the Third,

. .— ^--^> . By the Grace of God, of Great-Britain, France and

\ / Irehind, King, Defender of the Faith &c.

J I To all Persons to ivliom these Preseiits shall come,

^ s— ^^w^ ^ Greeting.

Know ye, that We of Our special Grace, certain Knowledge, and
meer ^Motion, for the due Encouragement of settling a JVew Planta-
tion within our said Province, by and with the Advice of our Trusty
and Well-beloved Benning Wentworth, Esq; Our Governor and
Commander in Chief of Our said Province of New-Hajmpshire in JSfew-
JEni/land, and of our Council of the said Province ; Have upon
the Conditions and Reservations herein after made, given and
granted, and by these Presents, for us, our Heirs, and Successors,
do give and grant in equal Shares, unto Our loving Subjects, Inhabi-
tants of Our said Province of Neit'-Hampshire, and Our other Govern-
ments, and to their Heirs and Assigns for ever, whose Names are
entred on this Grant, to be divided to and amongst them into
Seventy equal Shares, all that Tract or Parcel of Land situate, lying
and being within our said Province of Neiv-Hamp shire, containing by
Admeasurement, about Twenty four Thousand Acres, which Tract is
to contain something more than Six Miles square, and no more ; out
of which an Allowance is to be made for High Ways and unimprov-
able Lands by Rocks, Ponds, Mountains and Rivers, One Thousand
and Forty Acres free, according to a Plan and Survey thereof, made
by Our said Governor's Order, and returned into the Secretary's
Office, and hereunto annexed, butted and bounded as follows, Viz.
Beginning at a Tree Standing on the Bank of Conneticut River,
jNlarked with the Figures 7 «& 8 which is the North Easterly Corner
Bounds of Thetford, thence North Sixty One Degrees West Six
jV[iles by Thetford aforesaid to the North Westerly Corner thereof,
thence North Thirty Three Degrees East Six Miles & One Half
Mile, thence South, Sixty One Degrees East Seven Miles to a Tree,
Marked with tlie Figures 8 & 9 Standing on the back of Conneticut
River afores'^ thence down the said River as that Runs to the Bounds
first above Mention'd — And that the same be, and hereby is Incorpo-
rated into a Township by the Name of Fairlee — And the Inhabitants
that do or shall hereafter inhabit the said Township, are hereby declared

160 CHARTER RECORDS.

to be Enfranchized with and Intitled to all and every the Priviledges
and Immunities that other Towns within Our Province by Law Exer-
cise and Enjoy: And further, that the said Town as soon as there shall
be Fifty Families resident and settled thereon, shall have the Liberty
of holding Ttvo Fairs, one of which shall be held on the
And the other on the annually, which Fairs are not

to continue longer than the respective following the

said and that as soon as the said Town shall

*2-178 consist of Fifty Families, a Market may be *opened and

kept one or more Days in each Week, as may be thought
most advantagious to the Inhabitants. Also, that the first Meeting
for the Choice of Town Officers, agreable to the Laws of our said
Province, shall be held on the Second Tuesday of October next which
said Meeting shall be Notified by M'' Wilder Willard who is hereby
also appointed the Moderator of the said first Meeting, which he is to
Notify and Govern agreable to the Laws and Customs of Our said
Province ; and that the annual Meeting forever hereafter for the
Choice of such Officers for the said Town shall be on the Second
Tuesday of March annually. To Have and to Hold the said Tract
of Land as above expressed, together with all Privileges and Appur-
tenances, to them and their respective Heirs and Assigns forever,
upon the following Conditions, viz.

I. That every Grantee, his Heirs or Assigns shall plant and culti-
vate five Acres of Land within the Term of five Years for every fifty
Acres contained in his or their Share or Proportion of Land in said
Township, and continue to improve and settle the same by additional
Cultivations, on Penalty of the Forfeiture of his Grant or Share in
the said Township, and of its reverting to Us, our Heirs and Suc-
cessors, to be by Us or them Re-granted to such of Our Subjects as
shall effectually settle and cultivate the same.

II. That all white and other Pine Trees within the said Township,
fit for Masting Our Royal Navy, be carefully preserved for that Use,
and none to be cut or felled without Our sjDecial Licence for so doing
first had and obtained, upon the Penalty of the Forfeiture of the
Right of such Grantee, his Heirs and Assigns, to LTs, our Heirs and
Successors, as well as being subject to the Penalty of any Act or Acts
of Parliament that now are, or hereafter shall be Enacted.

IV. Yielding and pajdng therefor to Us, our Heirs and Successors

FAIRLEE. 161

for the Space of ten Years, to be computed from the Date hereof, the
Kent of one Ear of Indian Corn only, on the twenty-fifth Day of De-
cember annually, if lawfully demanded, the first Payment to be made
on the twenty-fifth Day of December. 1762

V. Eveiy Proprietor, Settler or Inhabitant, shall yield and pay
unto Us, our Heirs and Successors 3'early, and every Year forever,
from and after the Expiration of ten Years from the abovesaid twen-
ty-fifth Day of December^ namely, on the twenty-fifth Day of Decemher,
which will be in the Year of Our Lord 1772 One shilling Proclama-
tion Money for every Hundred Acres be so owns, settles or possesses,
and so in Proportion for a greater or lesser Tract of the said Land ;
which ]Money shall be paid by the respective Persons abovesaid, their
Heirs or Assigns, in our Council Chamber in Portsmouth, or to such
Officer or Officers as shall be appointed to receive the same ; and this
to be in Lieu of all other llents and Services whatsoever.

In Testimony whereof we have caused the Seal of our said Prov-
ince to be hereunto affixed. Witness Benning Wentworth, Esq ;
Our Governor and Commander in Chief of Our said Province, the
Ninth Day of Septem'^ In the Year of our Lord Chuist, one Thous-
and Seven Hundi'ed and Sixty One And in the First Year of Our
Reign.

B Wentworth
By His Excellency's Command,
With Advice of Council,

Theodore Atkinson Sec''*'
Province of New Hamps'' Sep"" 9. 1761

Recorded According to the Origional Charter under the Province
seal

^ Theodore Atkinson Sec'^y

*The Names of the Grantees of Fairlee *2-179

Josiah Chaiuicy Joseph Hubbard Wilder Willard

Daniel Jones Oliver Warner Hezzekiah Hubbard

Joim Cook Samuel Belknap Samuel Airs

Fellows Billing John Eastman David Warner

John Blair Nathan Goodman William Baxton

Phineas Lyman Thomas Elwell Justin Bull

Peter ^Marshall John Stringling Caleb Pomroy

Joseph Wright Nathaniel Bartlet Moses Harvey

Ebenezer Moody Ebenezer Dickinson Jun"^ Robert Emons

Isaac Ward Abner CoUey Israel Hubbard

162

CHARTER RECORDS.

Ricliard Chauncy
Israel Chauncy
Isaac Goodail
David Blogget
Ebenezer Mattoon jun''
Moses Cook
Robert Dickinson

Joseph Clmrch Martin Smith

Charles Chauncy David Parsons

Alexandar Smith Ebenezer Dickinson

Samuel Hunt Eleazer Mattoon

Soloman Boltwood jun'' Simeon Clark
Joseph Dickinson Gideon Dickinson

Noacliah Lewis Theodore Atkinson Esq"^

Mark Hunk^ Wentworth Esq" Benning Wentworth Samuel Hunt
Jonathan Hunt Arad Hunt Ebenezer Houghton

Soloman Ellsworth Samuel Stevens Samuel Wentworth Esq"" Boston
Major Jonathan Greeley Oliver Williard Jonathan Hubbird

& Thomas Frink

His Excellency Benning Wentworth Esq"" a Tract of Land to Contain
Five Hundred Acres as Marked in the Plan B- W- which is to be
Accounted Two of the within shares, One whole Share for the Incor-
porated society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts,
One Share for a Glebe for the Church of England as by Law Estab-
lished, One share for the first Setled Minister of the Gospel in said
Town. & One share for the Benefit of a School in Said Town —

Province of New Hampshire sep"^ 9 1761

Recorded from the Back of the Origional Charter for Fairlee under
the Province seal

Attested '59 Theodore Atkinson Sec'^y

■ dtf £ait 7m

P^an. of lairit

J>^

FERDINAND. 163

Province of New HamiV Sepf 9-1761

Recorded from the Back of the Original Charter of Fairlee

W Theodore Atkinson Sec"^*'

FERDINAND.

*Province of New-Hampshire. *2-261

Ferdinand GEORGE the Third,

, ^-w'.-^ . By the Grace of God, of Great^Britain, France and

\ / Ireland, King, Defender of the Faith &c.

) I To all Persons to whom these Presents shall come,

^ -— .— ^w ^ Greeting.

Know ye, that We of Our special Grace, certain Knowledge, and
meer Motion, for the due Encouragement of settling a Netv Plantation
within our said Province, by and with the Advice of our Trusty and
Well-beloved Benning Wentworth, Esq ; Our Governor and Com-
mander in Cliief of Our said Province of New-Hampshire in JVew-
Enyland, and of our Council of the said Province ; Have upon
the Conditions and Reservations herein after made, given and granted,
and by these Presents, for us, our Heirs, and Successors, do give and
grant in equal Shares, unto Our loving Subjects, Inhabitants of Our
said Province of New-Hampshire, and Our other Governments, and
to their Heirs and Assigns for ever, whose Names are entree! on this
Grant, to be divided to and amongst them into Seventy equal Shares,
all that Tract or Parcel of Land situate, lying and being within our
said Province of New-Hampshire, containing by Admeasurement, about
Twenty five Thousand Acres, which Tract is to contain Something
more than Six Miles square, and no more ; out of which an Allowance
is to be made for High Ways and unimprovable Lands by Rocks,
Ponds, Mountains and Rivers, One Thousand and Forty Acres free,
according to a Plan and Survey thereof, made by Our said Governor's
Order, and returned into the Secretary's Office, and hereunto annexed,
butted and bounded as follows. Viz. Begining at the most Westerly
Comer of Maidstone thence runing north Easterly by Maidstone to
the Northerly Corner thereof thence North West Six Miles & One
half mile Thence South Westerly on a Parralel Line, with that on the
North West Side of Maidstone afores'^ thence Soutli East to the
Northerly Corner of Granby then b}' Granby South East to the Westerly
Corner of Maidstone the bounds first above Mention'd And that the
same be, and hereby is Incorporated into a Township by the Name of
Ferdinand And the Inhabitants that do or shall hereafter inhabit the

164 CHAPTER RECORDS.

said Township, are hereby declared to Ije Enfrancliized with and
Intitled to all and every the Priviledges and Immunities that other
Towns within Our Province by Law Exercise and Enjoy : And
further, that the said Town as soon as there shall be Fifty Families
resident and settled thereon, shall have the Liberty of holding Two
Fairs, one of which shall be held on the

And the other on the annually,

which Fairs are not to continue longer than the respective

following the said

and that as soon as the said Town shall consist of Fifty
*2-262 Families, a Market may be *opened and kept one or more

Days in each Week, as may be thought most advantagious
to the Inhabitants. Also, that the first Meeting for the Choice of
Town Officers, agreable to the Laws of our said Province, shall be
held on the Third Tuesday of Novem'' next which said Meeting shall
be Notified by M'' Sam^ Averill who is hereby also appointed the
Moderator of the said first Meeting, which he is to Notify and Govern
agreable to the Laws and Customs of Our said Province ; and that
the annual Meeting for ever hereafter for the Choice of such Officers
for the said Town, shall be on the Second Tuesday of March annually.
To Have and to Hold the said Tract of Land as above expressed,
together with all Privileges and Aj)purtenances, to them and their
respective Heirs and Assigns forever, upon the following Conditions,
viz.

I. That every Grantee, his Heirs or Assigns shall plant and cultivate
five Acres of Land within the Term of five Years for every fifty Acres
contained in his or their Share or ProiDortion of Land in said Town-
ship, and continue to improve and settle the same by additional Cult-
ivations, on Penalty of the Forfeiture of his Grant or Share in the
said Townsliip, and of its reverting to Us, our Heirs and Successors,
to be by Us or Them Re-granted to such of Our Subjects as shall effect-
ually settle and cultivate the same.

II. That all white and other Pine Trees within the said Township,
fit for Masting Our Royal Navy, be carefully preserved for that Use,
and none to be cut or felled without Our special Licence for so doing
first had and obtained, upon the Penalty of the Forfeiture of the Right
of such Grantee, his Heirs and Assigns, to Us, our Heirs and Succes-
sors, as well as being subject to the Penalty of any Act or Acts of
Parliament that now are, or hereafter shall be Enacted.

III. That before any Division of the Land be made to and among
the Grantees, a Tract of Land as near the Centre of the said Town-
ship as the Land will admit of, shall be reserved and marked out for

FERDINAND.

165

Town Lots, one of which shall be allotted to each Grantee of the
Contents of one Acre,

IV. Yielding and paying therefor to Us, our Heirs and Successors
for the Space of ten Years, to be computed from the Date hereof, the
Rent of one Ear of Indian Corn only, on the twenty-fifth Day of
December annually, if lawfully demanded, the first Payment to be
made on the twenty-fifth Day of Decetnher. 1762

V. Every Proprietor, Settler or Inhabitant, shall yield and pay
unto Us, our Heirs and Successors yearly, and every Year forever,
from and after the Expiration of ten Years from the abovesaid twenty-
fifth Day of December, namely, on the twenty-fifth Day of December,
which will be in the Year of Our Lord 1772 One shilling/ Proclama-
tion Money for every Hundred Acres he so owns, settles or possesses,
and so in Proportion for a greater or lesser Tract of the said Land ;
which ]Money shall be paid by the respective Persons abovesaid, their
Heirs or Assigns, in our Council Chamber in Portsmouth, or to such
Officer or Officers as shall be appointed to receive the same ; and this
to be in Lieu of all other Rents and Services whatsoever.

In Testimony whereof we have caused the Seal of our said Province
to be hereunto'^affixed. Witness Benning Wentworth, Esq; Our
Governor and Commander in Chief of Our said Province, the 12*''
Day of October In the Year of our Lord Christ, One Thousand
Seven Hundi-ed and Sixty One And in the First Year of Our Reign.

B Wentworth
By His Excellency's Command,
With Advice of Council,

Theodore Atkinson Se''^
Province of New Hamps'^ Octo"^ 12, 1761

Recorded Accordincr to the Orisfional Charter under the Province
Seal —

19 Theodore Atkinson Se'"^'

'The Names of the Grantees of Ferdinand Viz*

*2-263

Tho- Hungerford
Jon*^ Hungerford
Jonah Barnes
Nath' P>rown
Eben'^ Marven
Versal Dickinson
Will'" Barns Jun'"
Nath' Chapman
Timo-' Fuller
Sam' Stentsquire
David Cook Jun'^

Alex'' Steward Jun'^
Noah Smith
Asahel Noble
Dan Barns
Tho^ Hamlin
Joseph Giddings
Jonas Goorich
Ebenezer Bird
Joiel Frost
Sam' Beach
Sam' Holt

Josiah Hungerford
Cotton Mather
Ruben Halbert
Tho' Barns
John Gray
Sam' Cook
James Kasson
Nathan Chapman
Sam' Frost
Elisha Hall
Dayton Johnson

166

CHAKTER RECORDS.

William Lucas
Daniel Merritt
David Hoag- Jiin'^
Nath' Stevenson
Elnathan Marsh

Jedediah Hubbert Elislia Brewster

Nehemiah Merritt Jun' Benj'^ Ferriss

George Stillman
William Kennedy
Clement Averill
Mason Cogswell
Joseph Newmarch Esq

Zebulon Ferris
Abr'" Thomas
Elisha Akin
Maj"" Joseph Blanchard Agur Judson
Eleaz'^ Thompson Rich'^ Wibird Esq

Ammi Ruamah Cutter Nehemiah LoveAvell John INIarsh of Portsmouth
Sam^^ Frost David Culver Solomon Bell

Stephen Noble Morgan Noble Israel Noble

David Hoag —
His Excellency Benning Wentworth Esq a Tract of Land to Con-
tain Five Hundred Acres as marked B — W — in the Plan which Is to
be Accounted two of the within Shares, One whole Share for the In-
corporated Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign
Parts, On^ Share for a Glebe for the Church of England as bj^ Law
Established, One Share for the First Settled INIinister of the Gospel
& One Share for the Benefit of a School in said Town —
Province of New Hamps"^ Octo' 12 1761

Recorded from the back of the Origional Charter of Ferdinand
under the Prov*^ Seal

Attested ^ Theodore Atkinson Sec'^^'

BW I

■»u.»^\-p ■V»\LL(v^

♦■•ijui^ M*'> VAa.^i"»s

FERDINAND. 167

Province of New Hamps"^ Octo"^ 14 1761

Recorded from the l)ack of the Orio-ional Charter of Ferdinand

under the Prov'" Seal

'§ Theodore Atkinson Sec'^''

[Wenlock Chaktee, 1761.]
*Province of New-Hampshire. *2-269

Wenlock GEORGE the Tried,

p s

By the Grace of God, of Great-Britian, France and
Ireland, King, Defender of the Faith &c.

To all Persons to whom these Presents shall come,
^ >— ^.-^w J Greeting.

Know 3-e, that We of Our special Grace, certain Knowledge, and
meer Motion, for the due Encouragement of settling a Neio Plantation
within our said Province, by and with the Advice of our Trusty and
Well-ljeloved Bexxing Wentwouth, Esq; Our Governor and Com-
mander in Chief of Our said Province of New-Hampshire in Wew-
Unf/Iand, and of our Council of the said Province ; Have upon the
Conditions and Reservations herein after made, given and granted,
and by these Presents, for us, our Heirs, and Successors, do give and
grant in equal Shares, unto Our loving Subjects, Inhabitants of Our
said Province of Neiv-Hampshire, and Our other Governments, and to
their Heire and Assigns for ever, whose Names are entred on this
Grant, to be divided to and amongst them into Seventy equal Shares,
all that Tract or Parcel of Land situate, lying and being within our
said Province of Netv-Hamp shire, containing by Admeasurement,
about Twenty Five Thousand Acres, which Tract is to contain Some-
thing more than Six Miles square, and no more ; out of which an
Allowance is to l)e made for High Ways and unimprovable Lands by
Rocks, Ponds, ]\Iountains and Rivers, One Thousand and Forty Acres
free, according to a Plan and Survey thereof, made by Our said Gov-
ernor's Order, and returned into the Secretary's Office, and hereunto
annexed, Imtted and bounded as follows. Viz. Begining at the most
Westerly Corner of Brunswick thence Runing North Easterly by
Brunswick Six Miles to the Nortli Westerly Corner thereof, thence
North West Six ]\Iiles & one half mile, thence South Westerly on a
Parralel Line with that on the North West Side of Brunstvick afore-
said to the Northerly Corner of Ferdinand thence South East by
Ferdinand to the Westerly Corner of Brunswick the bounds begun

168 CHARTER RECORDS.

at And that the same be, and hereby is Incorporated into a Township
by tlie Name of Wenlock And the Inhabitants that do or shall here-
after inhal)it the said Township, are hereby declared to be Enfran-
chized with and Intitled to all and every the Priviledges and Immuni-
ties that other Towns within Our Province by Law Exercise and
Enjoy : And further, that the said Town, as soon as there shall be
Fifty Families resident and settled thereon, shall have the Liberty of
holding Two Fairs^ one of which shall be held on the And

the other on tlie annually, which Fairs are not to con-

tinue longer than the respective following the said

and that as soon as

the said Town shall consist of Fifty Families, a Market may
*2-270 be *opened and kept one or more Days in each Week, as

may be thought most advantagious to the Inhabitants. Also,
that the first Meeting for the Choice of Town Officers, agreable to
the Laws of our said Province, shall be held on the First Tuesday
in Deceml)er next which said Meeting shall be Notified by M' Sam^
Averill who is hereby also appointed the Moderator of the said first
Meeting, which he is to Notify and Govern agreable to the Laws and
Customs of Our said Province ; and that the annual Meeting for ever
hereafter for the Choice of such Officers for the said Town, shall be on
the Second Tuesday of March annually, To Have and to Hold the
said Tract of Land as above expressed, together with all Privileges
and Appurtenances, to them and their respective Heirs and Assigns
forever, upon the following Conditions, viz.

I. That every Grantee, his Heirs or Assigns shall plant and culti-
vate five Acres of Land within the Term of five Years for every fifty
Acres contained in his or their Share or Proportion of Land in said
Township, and continue to improve and settle the same by additional
Cultivations, on Penalty of the Forfeiture of his Grant or Share in
the said Townsliip, and of its reverting to Us, our Heirs and Succes-
sors, to be by Us or Them Re-granted to such of Our Subjects as shall
effectually settle and cultivate the same.

II. That all white and other Pine Trees within the said Township,
fit for Masting Our Royal Navy, be carefully preserved for that Use,
and none to be cut or felled without Our special Licence for so doing
first had and obtained, upon the Penalty of the Forfeiture of the
Right of such Grantee, his Heirs and Assigns, to Us, our Heirs and
Successors, as well as being subject to the Penalty of any Act or Acts
of Parliament that now are, or hereafter shall be Enacted.

III. That before any Division of the Land be made to and among
the Grantees, a Tract of Land as near the Centre of the said Town-
ship as the Land will admit of, shall be reserved and marked out for

FERDINAND. 169

Town Lots, one of which shall be allotted to each Grantee of the
Contents of one Acre.

IV. Yielding and paying therefor to Us, our Heirs and Successors
for the Space of ten Years, to be comi)uted from the Date hereof, the
Rent of one Ear of Indian Corn only, on the twenty-fifth Day of
December annually, if lawfully demanded, the first Payment to be
made on the twenty-fifth Day of December. 1762

V. Every Proprietor, Settler or Inhabitant, shall yield and pay
unto Us, our Heirs and Successors yearly, and every Y^ear forever,
from and after the Expiration of ten Years from the abovesaid
tAventy-fifth Day of December., namely, on the twenty-fifth Day of
December^ which will be in the Y^ear of Our Lord 1772 One shilling
Proclamation Money for every Hundred Acres he so owns, settles or
possesses, and so in Proportion for a greater or lesser Tract of the
said Land ; which Money shall be paid by the respective Persons
abovesaid, their Heirs or Assigns, in our Council Chamber in Ports-
mouth, or to such Officer or Officers as shall be appointed to receive
the same ; and this to be in Lieu of all other Rents and Services
whatsoever.

In Testimony whereof we have caused the Seal of our said Prov-
ince to be hereunto affixed. Witness Benning Wentworth, Esq;
Our Governor and Commander in Chief of Our said Province, the
13'^ Day of October In the Year of our Lord Christ, One Thou-
sand Seven Hundred and Sixty One And in the First Year of Our
Reign.

B Wentworth

By His Excellency's Command,
With Advice of Council,

Theodore Atkinson Sec^^^

Province of New Hamps'' Octo"" 13, 1761

Recorded According- to the Oricrional Charter under the Province
seal

■^ Theodore Atkinson Sec'"^

*The Names of the Grantees of Wenlock Viz' * 2-271

Israel Woodward Nath' Edwards Eph'" Merels

Dan' Brown Dan Walton Ephraim Warner

Abijah Warner John Coal Moris Davis

Timothy Cole William Adams Jon'' Bolwin

Aaron Torrell Eldad Mix Moses Frost

Josiah Stow Asa Judd Benj'' Stillwill

Sam' Fenn John Nelson John Judd Jun''

Stephen Scott Amos Hickcock James Smith Jun*^

170

CHARTER RECORDS.

John Parker
Thomas Dunk
Caleb Merrell
William Munson
Amos Andrews
Sam^ Andrews
Will'" Hubbard
Joel Hitchcock
James Bronson
Woodbury Langdon
Mark H§ Wentworth
Henry Scelton
Josiah Cassebell

Joseph Prichet
Thomas Mathews
Steph" Upson Jun''
Timothy Upson
Eben' Scott
Jon* Andrews
Steph" Root
John Carter
Sam^ Averill
John Pliillips
Benj* Simons
John Bostick
Dan^ Averill

Woolsey Scott
Steph'^ Mathews
Joseph Beach
Nathan Lewis
Josiah Wadrieff
Abel Carter
Timothy Lewis
Tim" Carronton
David Whitney
John Downing Esq
Joseph Lamb
Will'" Cogswell
Moses Averill &

James Guthery —
His Excellency Benning Wentworth Esq a Tract of Land to Con-
tain five Hundred Acres as marked B-W-in the Plan which is to be
Accounted two of the within Shares, One whole Share for the Incor-
porated Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts,
One Share for a Glebe for the Church of England as by Law Estab-
lished, One Share for the First Settled Minister of the Gospel & One
Share for the Benefit of a School in said Town

Province of New Hamps'' Octo'^ 13, 1761

Recorded from the back of the Origional Charter of Wenlock under
the Province Seal

Attested '^ Theodore Atkinson Sec''^

-^^^i£S^ire

A^"^

>">«3

FERKISBURG.

171

Province of New Hamps"" Octo"^ 13, 1761

Recorded from the back of the Origional Charter of Weiilock under
the Province Seal —

19 Theodore Atkinson Sec'''

FERKISBURG.

*Province of New-Hampshire. *2-345

Farrisbourg GEORGE the Third,

, ^-— '-^ — . s By the Grace of God, of Great-Britain, France and

\ / Ireland, King, Defender of the Faith &c.

I \ To all Persons to whom these Presents shall co7ne,

^ N— ^/-*-^ ^ Greeting-.

Know Ye, that We of Our special Grace, certain Knowledge, and
meer Motion, for the due Encouragement of settling a Neu> Plantation
within our said Province, by and with the Advice of our Trusty and
Well-beloved Benning Wentworth, Esq ; Our Governor and Com-
mander in Chief of Our said Province of New-Hampshii{E in Neiv-
England, and of our Council of the said Province; Have upon
the Conditions and Reservations herein after made, given and granted,
and by these Presents, for us, our Heirs, and Successors, do give and
grant in equal Shares, unto Our loving Subjects, Inhabitants of Our
said Province of Neiv-Hampshire^ and Our other Governments, and to
their Heirs and Assigns for ever, whose Names are entred on this
Grant, to be divided to and amongst them into Seventy equal Shares,
all that Tract or Parcel of Land situate, lying and being within our
said Province of New-Hampshire^ containing by Admeasurement,
Twenty Four Thousand Six hundred Acres, which Tract is to contain
Something more than Six Miles square, and no more ; out of which
an Allowance is to be made for High Ways and unimprovable Lands by
Rocks, Ponds, Mountains and Rivers, One Thousand and Forty Acres
free, according to a Plan and Survey thereof, made b}" Our said Gov-
ernor's Order, and returned into the Secretary's Office, and hereunto
annexed, Ijutted and bounded as follows, Viz. begining at a Tree
Marked on the Easterly Side of Otter Creek so Called Standing near
the Head of the first falls in Said Creek which is the North Westerly
Corner of New Haven from thence runing South 70 degrees East 4
Miles & 32 rods by New Haven afore Said then Turning off & runs
North Seven Miles & 200 Rods to a Tree Spotted thence West to
Lake Champlain then begining again at A Walnut Tree Marked
Standing on the Westerly" Side of Otter Creek aforesaid near the

172 CHARTER RECORDS.

Head of the falls afore Said which is the North Easterly Corner of
Panton and from thence runing West by Panton to Lake C'haniplain
afore Said then Notherly by Lake Champlain to end of the West Line
afore Said And that the same be, and hereby is Incorporated into
a Township by the Name of Ferrissbnrg And the Inhabitants that
do or shall hereafter inhabit the said Township, are hereby declared
to be Enfranchized with and Intitled to ail and every the Privileges
and Immunities that other Towns within Our Province by Law
Exercise and Enjoy : And further, that the said Town as soon as
there shall be Fifty Families resident and settled thereon, shall have
the Liberty of holding Two Fairs, one of which shall be held on the

And the other on the
. annually, which Fairs are not to con-
tinue longer than the respective following the

said and that as soon as the said Town

*2-345 shall consist of Fifty Families, a Market may be *opened and

kept one or more Days in each Week, as may be thought most
advantagious to the Inhabitants. Also, that the first Meeting for the
Choice of Town Officers, agreable to the Laws of our said Prov-
ince, shall be held on the last Tuesday in July next which said Meet-
ing shall be Notified by M"^ Benjamin Ferriss who is hereby also
appointed the Moderator of said first Meeting, which he is to Notify
and Govern agreable to the Laws and Customs of Our said Pi-ovince ;
and that the annual Meeting for ever hereafter for the Choice of
such Officers for the said Town, shall be on the second Tuesday of
March annually, T( > Have and to Hold the said Tract of Land as
above expressed, together with all Privileges and Appurtenances, to
them and their respective Heirs and Assigns forever, upon the follow-
ing Conditions, viz.

I. That every Grantee, his Heirs or Assigns shall plant and culti-
vate five Acres of Land within the Term of five Years for every
fifty Acres contained in his or their Share or Proportion of Land in
said Township, and continue to improve and settle the same by addi-
tional Cultivations, on Penalty of the Forfeiture of his Grant or
Share in the said Township, and of its reverting to LTs, our Heirs and
Successors, to be by LTs or Them Re-granted to such of Our Subjects
as shall effectually settle and cultivate the same.

II. That all white and other Pine Trees within the said Township,
fit for Masting Our Royal Navy, be carefully preserved for that Use,
and none to be cut or felled without Our special Licence for so doing
first had and obtained, upon the Penalty of the Forfeiture of the
Right of such Grantee, liis Heirs and Assigns, to Us, our Heirs and

FERRISBURG. 173

Successors, as well as being subject to the Penalty of any Act or
Acts of I'arliament that now are, or hereafter shall be Enacted.

IV. Yielding and paying therefor to Us, our Heirs and Successors
for the Space of ten Years, to be computed from the Date hereof, the
Rent of one Ear of Indian Corn only, on the twenty-fifth Day of
December annually, if lawfully demanded, the first Payment to be
made on the twenty-fifth Day of December. 1763

V. Every Proprietor, Settler or Inhabitant, shall yield and pay un-
to Us, our Heirs and Successors yearly, and every Year forever, from
and after the Expiration of ten Years from the abovesaid twenty-fifth
Day of December., namely, on the twenty-fifth Day of December., which
will be in the Year of Our Lord 1773 One ahilling Proclamation
]\Ioney for every Hundred Acres he so owns, settles or possesses, and
so in Proportion for a greater or lesser Tract of the said Land ;
which iSIoney shall be paid by the respective Persons abovesaid, their
Heirs or Assigns, in our Council Chamber in Portsmouth., or to such
Officer or Officers as shall be appointed to receive the same ; and this
to be in Lieu of all other Rents and Services whatsoever.

In Testimony whereof we have caused the Seal of our said Prov-
ince to be hereunto affixed. Witness Penning Wentworth, Esq ;
Our Governor and Commander in Chief of Our said Province, the
24"^ Day of June In the Year of our Lord Christ, One Thousand
Seven Hundred and Sixty two And in the Second Year of Our
Reign.

B Wentworth

By His Excellency's Command,
With Advice of Council,

T Atkinson Jun^ Sec""*'

Province of New Hamps'^ June 24'"

Recorded According to the Origional Charter under the Province
Seal

^ T: Atkinson Jun'' Sec^-^
*The Names of the Grantees of Ferrissburg — *2-347

Daniel ]\lerritt Thomas Dowglass Valentine Perry

Gideon Gifford Timothy Dakin Josiah Akin

Nehemiah ]\Ierrit Samuel Nottingham Anthony Field

Edward Burling Anthony Field jun"" Tho* Field

174

CHARTER RECORDS.

John Field
Thomas Franklin jun''
Isaac Corsa
Robert Caswell
Benj'^ Ferriss
Ebenez'' Peaslee
Henry Davis
Benj"- Ferriss jun^'
Dobson Wheeler
Joseph Ferriss
Sam^' Ferriss
James Franklin
Joshua Delaplane
Nicholas Delaplane
John Burling jun"'
Jonathan Akin
Samuel Barr

Edward Burling jun"^
Walter Franklin
Isaac Winn
Jacob Haviland
John Akin
Thomas Akin
Zebulon Ferriss
Stephen Noble
Daniel Chase
Joseph Ferriss jun'
John Brownson
Peter Field
Joshua Delaplane jun''
William Delaplane
Peter Burling
Abel Hine

William Field
Sam'^ Franklin
Hugh Rider
Will'" Haviland
Thomas Hicks
Elijah Doty
Read Ferriss
Phineas Chase
Lott Trip
Zachariah Ferriss
John Wing
John Burling
Sam^' Delaplane
Tho^ Burling
James Tripp
Aaron Gayland jun""

the Hon'''*^ Joseph Newmarch Esq

James Nevin Esq & William Temple Esq

His Excellency Benning Wenworth Esq a Tract of Land to Contain
five Hundred Acres as Marked B W in the Plan which is to be
Accounted two of the within Shares — One Whole Share for the Incor-
porated Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Forreign Parts
One Share for A Glebe for the Church of England as by Law Estab-
lished one Share for the first Settled Minister of the Gospel & one
Share for the Benefit of A School in Said Town

Province of New Hamps"" June 24''' 1762

Recorded from the back of the Origional Charter of Ferrissburg
under the Prov : Seal —

19 T Atkinson Jun-" Sec'^

GEORGIA.

175

Province of New Hamps'' June 24, 1762

Recorded from the back of the Origional Charter of Ferrissburg
under the Province Seal

1 T Atkinson Jun-- Sec^^

*3-2

GEORGIA.

*Province of New-Hampshire.

Georgia GEORGE the Third,

'-*-^— N x By the Grace of God, of Great-Britain, France and

J ^ / Ireland, King, Defender of the Faith &c.

( To all Persons to tvhom these Presents shall come^

^— ^^*-^ ^ Greeting-.

Know Ye, that We of Our special Grace, certain Knowledge, and

176 CHARTER RECORDS.

meer Motion, for the due Encouragement of settling a Neiv Planta-
tion within our Said Province, by and with the Advice of our Trusty
and Well-beloved Benning Wentworth, Esq ; Our Governor and
Commander in Cliief of Our said Province of Netv-Jffampshire, in New-
England, and of Our Council of the said Province ; Have upon the
Conditions and Reservations herein after made, given and granted,
and by these Presents, for Us, Our Heirs, and Successors, do give and
grant in equal Shares, unto Our loving Subjects, Inhabitants of Our
said Province of New-Hampshire, and Our other Governments, and to
their Heirs and Assigns for ever, whose Names are entred on this
Grant, to be divided to and amongst them into Seventy equal Shares,
all that Tract or Parcel of Land situate, lying and being within our
said Province of Neiv-Hampshire, containing by Admeasurement,
Twenty three Thousand & forty Acres, which Tract is to contain Six
Miles square, and no more; out of which an Allowance is to be made
for High Ways and unimprovable Lands by Rocks, Ponds, Mountains
and Rivers, One Thousand and Forty Acres free, according to a Plan
and Survey thereof, made l)y Our said Governor's Order, and returned
into the Secretary's Office, and hereunto annexed, butted and bounded
as follows. Viz. Begining at the North Easterly Corner of Milton a
Town Lately Granted on the Easterly side of Lake Champlain from
thence Runing Westerly by Milton Line to Lake Champlain then
Turning off Northerly & Runing by the Shores of said Lake to a
Stake & Stones by the side of the Lake at Six Miles Distance on a
Streiofht Line from the North West Corner of Milton aforesaid then
turning off Easterly & Runing on a Parrallell Line with the Northerly
side Line of said Milton so far as that a Streight Line drawn to the
North Easterly Corner of Milton the Bounds began at Shall make &
Include the Contents of Six Miles Square — And that tlie same be,
and hereby is Incorporated into a Township by the Name of Georgia
And the Inhabitants that do or shall hereafter inhabit the said Town-
ship, are hereby declared to be Enfranchized with and Intitled to all
and every the Pi'iviledges and Immunities that other Towns within
Our Province by Law Exercise and Enjoy: And further, that the
said Town as soon as there shall ])e Fifty Families resident and set-
tled thereon, shall have the Liberty of holding tivo Fairs, one of
which shall be held on the And the other on the

annually, which Fairs are not to continue longer than the respective

following the said

and that as soon as the said Town shall consist of Fifty Fami-
*3-3 lies, a Market ma}- be *opened and kept one or more Days in

each Week, as maybe thought most advantagious to the Inhab-
itants. Also, that the fu'st Meeting for the Choice of Town Officers,

GEORGIA. 177

agreal)le to the Laws of our said Province, shall be held on the First
Tuesday in September Next which said Meeting shall be Notified by
M'' Joseph Joinings who is hereby also appointed the Moderator of
the said first Meeting, wliich he is to Notify and Govern agreable to
tlie Laws and Customs of Our said Province ; and that the annual
Meeting for ever hereafter for the Choice of such Officers for the
said Town, shall be on the Second Tuesday of 3Iarc]i annually, To
Have and to Hold the said Tract of Land as above expressed, to-
gether with all Privileges and Appurtenances, to them and their
respective Heirs and Assigns forever, upon the following Conditions,
viz.

L That every Grantee, his Heirs or Assigns shall plant and culti-
vate five Acres of Land within the Term of five Years for every fifty
Acres contained in his or their Share or Proportion of Land in said
Township, and continue to improve and settle the same by additional
Cultivations, on Penalty of the Forfeiture of his Grant or Share in
the said Township, and of its reverting to Us, our Heirs and Suc-
cessors, to be by Us or them Re-granted to such of our Subjects as
shall effectually settle and cultivate the same.

n. That all white and other Pine Trees within the said Township,
fit for ]\Iasting Our Royal Navy, be carefully preserved for that Use,
and none to be cut or felled without Our special Licence for so doing
first had and obtained, upon the Penalty of the Forfeiture of the
Right of such Grantee, his Heirs and Assigns, to Us, our Heirs and
Successors, as well as being subject to the Penalty of any Act or Acts
of Parliament that now are, or hereafter shall be Enacted.

IV. Yielding and paying therefor to Us, our Heirs and Successors
for the Space of ten Years, to be computed from the Date hereof, the
Rent of one Ear of Indian Corn only, on the twenty-fifth Day of
December annually, if lawfully demanded, the first Payment to be
made on the twenty-fifth Day of December. 1763

178

CHARTER RKCORDS.

and so in Proportion for a greater or lesser Tract of the said Land ;
which Money shall be paid by the respective Persons abovesaid, their
Heirs or Assigns, in our Council Chamber in Portsmouth, or to sucli
Ofiticer or Officers as shall be appointed to receive the same ; and this
to be in Lieu of all other Rents and Services whatsoever.

In Testimony whereof we have caused the Seal of our said Prov-
ince to be hereunto affixed. Witness Penning Wentworth, Esq ;
Our Governor and Commander in Chief of Our said Province, the
17'^ Day of August In the Year of our Lord Christ, One Thousand
Seven Hundred and Sixty three And in the Third Year of Our Reign.

B Wentworth

By His Excellency's Command,
With Advice of Council,

T Atkinson Jun^ Sec^>

Province of New Hamp"" Augs' 17-1763

Recorded According to the original Charter under the Prov** Seal

19 T Atkinson Jun^ Sec^=^

*3-4

*NAiVrES of the Grantees of Georgia (Viz)

Richard Emery Benjamin Burt

Samuel Wells John Amies

ffohn Evans Charles Evens

Moses Evens jun"' Jon-' Ashley

William Earl Treadwell John March

Rev^' M^ Levet

John Hawks

Job Chamberlain

Ebenezer Walbridge

Nathan Fraley

Aaron Denio

Eli Denio

Ebenezer Bardwell

Israel Stoddard

Samuel Belding

Elisha Wait

Asa White

John Marsh

Hon"^''RichardWibird
Daniel Warner
Joseph Newmarch

and Hunking Wentworth Esq^

Lockart Willard
Ebenezer Bernard
Oliver Dolittle
Jonathan Burt
Eleazer Burt
Aaron Denio jun''
William Symes
Joshua Dickinson
Perez Graves
Reuben Belding
Peter Train
Thomas Frink
Joseph Symes

John Hart
Esq" Eleazer Burt

James Dwyer

Nathan Harvey

Bunker Gay

Josiah Willard jun""

Paul March

Daniel Peirce

David Field

Selah Bernard

William Symes Ashley

Rufus Field

Elijah Taylor

Seth Denio

Cap' Thomas Bell

Julius AUis

Silas Graves

Joseph Holmes

Paul March

John Fisher Esq

James Stoodley

William Lyman

Peter Evens

Oliver Ashley

GEORGIA.

179

His Excellency Beniiing Wentworth Esq a Tract of Land to Con-
tain five Hundred Acres as Marked B W in the Plan which is to be
Accounted two of the within Shares. One whole Share for the In-
corporated Society for the Propagation of the (iospel in Foreign
Parts — One Share for a Glebe for the Chiirch of England as by Law
Established — One Share for the first Settled Minister of the (xospel
& One Share for the Benefit of a School in said Town for Ever

Prov*" of New Hanq/ August 17-1763

Recorded from the Back of the Original Charter of Georgia under
the Prov^ Seal

19 T Atkinson Jun"" Sec'^

"7 '?".- t^^•^/ '^•«^*v

"^'i

Province of New Hamp"" Angus' 17-1763

Recorded from the Plan on the Back of the Original Charter of
Georgia under the Province Seal

19 T Atkinson Jun^ Sec'^^

180 CHAKTER RECORDS.

GLASTENBURY.

* 2-1 25 * Province of New-Hampshire.

Glossenburry GEORGE the Third,

, ,^-.^-^0^ . By the Grace of God, of Great-Britain, France and

\ / Ireland, King, Defender of the Faith, &c.

) * ' I To all Perso7is to whom these Presents shall come,

^ V— -v^-—' -' Greeting.

Know ye, that We of Our special Grace, certain Knowledge, and
meer Motion, for the due Encouragement of settling a New Planta-
tion within our said Province, by and with the Advice of our Trusty
and Well-beloved Benning Wentwokth, Esq; Our Governor and
Commander in Chief of Our said Province of New-Hampshire in
New-England, and of our Council of the said Province; Have
upon the Conditions and Reservations herein after made, given and
granted, and by these Presents, for us, our Heirs, and Successors,
do give and grant in equal Shares, unto Our loving Subjects, Inhabi-
tants of Our said Province of Netv-Hampshire, and Our other Gov-
ernments, and to their Heirs and Assigns for ever, whose Names
are entred on this Grant, to be divided to and amongst them
into Sixty Eight equal Shares, all that Tract or Parcel of Land
situate, lying and being within our said Province of Neiv-Hamp-
shire, containing by Admeasurement, Twenty three Thousand &
forty Acres, which Tract is to contain Six Miles square, and no
more ; out of which an Allowance is to be made for High Ways
and unimprovable Lands by Rocks, Ponds, Mountains and Rivers, One
Thousand and Forty Acres free, according to a Plan and Survey
thereof, made by Our said Governor's Order, and returned into the
Secretary's Office, and hereunto annexed, butted and bounded as fol-
lows. Viz. begining At the South East Corner of Shaftsbur}^ thence
due North Six Miles to the South East Corner of Arlington thence
Due East by Sunderland to the South East Corner thereof being Six
Miles thence Due South Six Miles to the North East Corner of
Woodford thence Due West by Woodford Six Miles to the Bounds
first mentioned — And that the same be, and hereby is Incorporated
into a Township by the Name of Glossenbury And the Inhabitants
that do or shall hereafter inhabit the said Township, are hereby de-
clared to be Enfranchized with and Intitled to all and every the
Priviledges and Immunities that other Towns within Our Province by
Law Exercise and Enjoy: And further, that the said Town as soon as.

GLASTENBURY. I8l

there shall be Fifty Families resident and settled thereon, shall have
the Liberty of holding Tivo Fairs^ one of which shall be held on the

And the other on the
annually, which Fairs are not to continue longer than the respective
following the said • and

that as soon as the said Town shall consist of Fifty Families,
a Market may be *opened and kept one or more Days in each *2-126
Week, as may be thought most advantagious to the Inhabi-
tants. Also, that the first Meeting for tlie Choice of Town Officers,
agreable to the Laws of our said Province, shall be held on the
Second Tuesday in October next which said Meeting shall be Notified
by Cap' Samuel Robinson who is hereby also appointed the Modera-
tor of the said first Meeting, which he is to Notify and Govern agrea-
ble to the Laws and Customs of Our said Province ; and that the
annual jMeeting for ever hereafter for the Choice of such Officers for
the said Town, shall be on the Second Tuesday of March annually.
To Have and to Hqld the said Tract of Land as above expressed,
together with all Privileges and Ap^^urtenances, to them and their
respective Heirs and Assigns forever, upon the following Conditions,
viz.

I. That every Grantee, his Heirs or Assigns shall plant and culti-
vate five Acres of Land within the Term of five Years for every
fifty Acres contained in his or their Share or Proportion of Land in
said Township, and continue to improve and settle the same by
additional Cultivations, on Penalty of the Forfeiture of his Grant or
Share in the said Township, and of its reverting to Us, our Heirs and
Successors, to be by L^s or Them lie-granted to such of Our Subjects
as shall effectually settle and cultivate the same.

H. That all white and other Pine Trees within the said Township,
fit for ]\Iasting Our Royal Navy, be carefully preserved for that Use,
and none to be cut or felled without Our special Licence for so doing
fu-st had and obtained, upon the Penalty of the Forfeiture of the
Right of such Grantee, his Heirs and Assigns, to Us, our Heirs and
Successors, as well as being subject to the Penalty of any Act or
Acts of Parliament that now are, or hereafter shall be Enacted.

HL That before any Division of the Land be made to and among
the (jrantees, a Tract of Land as near the Centre ,of the said Town-
ship as the Land will admit of, shall be reserved and marked out
for Town Lots, one of which shall be allotted to each Grantee of the
Contents of one Acre.

IV. Yielding and papng therefor to Us, our Heirs and Successors
for the Space of ten Years, to be computed from the Date hereof, the
Rent of one Ear of Indian Corn only, on the twenty-fifth Day of

182

CHABTER RECOKDS.

December annually, if lawfully demanded, the first Payment to be
made on the twenty-fifth Day of December. 1762

V. Every Proprietor, Settler or Inhabitant, shall yield and pay
unto Us, our Heirs and Successors yearly, and every Year forever,
from and after the Expiration of ten Years from the abovesaid twenty-
fifth Day of December^ namely, on the twenty-fifth Day of December^
which will be in the Year of Our Lord 1772 One shilling Proclama-
tion Money for every Hundred Acres he so owns, settles or possesses,
and so in Proportion for a greater or lesser Tract of the said Land ;
which Money shall be paid by the respective Persons abovesaid, their
Heirs or Assigns, in our Coiincil Cltamber in Portsmouth, or to such
Ofiicer or Officers as shall be appointed to receive the same ;
and this to be in Lieu of all other Rents and Services whatsoever.

In Testimony whereof we have caused the Seal of our said Prov-
ince to be hereunto affixed. Witness Penning Wentworth, Esq ;
Our Governor and Commander in Chief of Our said Province, the
20*^^ Day of August In the Year of our Lord Christ, One Thous-
and Seven Hundred and Sixty One And in the First Year of Our
Reign.

B Wentworth

By His Excellency's Command,
With Advice of Council.

Theodore Atkinson Sec''^

Province of New Hamp'' August 20*^ 1761

Recorded According to the Original under the Province Seal

^ Theodore Atkinson Se"""

*2-127 *The Names of the Grantees of Glossenburry

Cap* Samuel Robinson
Samuel Robinson
David Robinson
Gideon Lyman Esq
Gideon Lyman jun"^
Benj'^ Sheldon jun""
Daniel Lyman Esq
Roswell Lyman
Erastus Bradley
John Fasset
Fredrick How
Jn" Moffat of Boston
Bildad Wright
Ruben Fray
Ruben Wright

Phineas Prat

Moses Robinson

Jon^ Robinson

Coll Tho« Dota Esq

Cap* Benj"^ Sheldon

Phineas Lyman

John Lyman jun''

John Nellson

Benj* Moore

Jacob Fish

John Seagrave

Sam" Cutt of Portsm"

James Fray

Isaac Fray

Aaron Wright jun""

Leonard Robinson
Silas Robinson
Joseph Pinchin Esq
Benj'' Whipple
Elijah Lyman
Cap' John Nixson
Moses Buttler
Isaac Thompson
William Moore
Silas Pratt
Naomi Lyman
Will'" Smybert Boston
James Fray jun""
Benj"^ Moore
Daniel Sheldon

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183

Elijah Wright
Stephen Coats
Richard Wibird Esq
Dan" Little Esq

John Eliot
(jeorere Abbot
Cap' Thomas Martin
of y*" Assembly

Byfield Loyd Esq

Joseph Wooder

Oliver li'u-e

Daniel Warner Esq

Assemblyman Beuj"^
Stevens
John Wentworth Esq Benning Wentworth
Paul March Benning Wentworth &

Cap* John Wentworth of Kittry
His Excellency Benning Wentworth Esq a Tract to Contain Five
Hundred Acres as Marked In the Plan B : W : which is to be
Accounted Two of the within Share One whole Share for the Society
for the Propagation of the Gospel in foreign Parts one Share for A
Glebe for the Church of England as by Law Established one Share
for the firet Settled Minister of the Gospell & one Share for the Ben-
efit of the School in Said Town

Province of New Hamp"" August 20*'* 1761

Recorded According to the Back of the Original Charter under the
Pro^ Seal

'§ Theodore Atkinson Sec''*'

.ep*.

dw '^oylf, S.^TnUt

o,«

Tiu^^syf'p ^"P

Pro' of New Hamp' August 20"> 1761

Recorded from the back of the original Charter of Glossenbury

19 Theodore Atkinson Se'*'

184 CHARTER RECORDS.

GRAFTON.

*1-201 *Provirice of New Hamp'^

Thomlinson George the Second by the Grace of God of Great

S--^^- — > V Britain France & Ireland King Defender of the faith
p-s- ^''^-
I To all Persons to whom these Presents Shall Come
^-^"v—-.-' -' Greeting

Know Ye that We of our Especial Grace Certain Knowledge
and mere motion for the Due Encouragement of Settling A New
Plantation within our said Province by & with the advice of our
Trusty & well beloved Penning Wentworth Esq our Governour
& Commander in Chieff of our Said Province of New Hampshire in
America and of our Council of the Said Province have upon the
Conditions & Reservations hereafter made Given & Granted and by
these Presents for us our heirs & Successors Do give & Grant in
Equal Shares unto our Loveing Subjects Inhabitants of our Province
of New Hampshire and his Maj'^^ other Governments and to his
heirs and assignes forever whose names Are Entred on this Grant to
be Divided to & Amoungst them into Six[ty] four Equal Shares all
that Tract or Parcel of Land Scituate Lying and being within our Prov-
ince of New Hampshire Containing by admeasurement Twenty three
thousend and forty Acres which Tract is to Contain Six Miles
Square & No more out of which an Allowence is to be made for high
ways and unimproveable Lands by Rocks Mountains Ponds & Rivers
one thousend & forty Acres free According to A Plan thereof made
& Presented by our Said Governours Orders and hereunto Annexed
Butted & bounded as follows (Viz) Begining at the North West
Corner of Rockingham from thence South Ten degrees West by
Rockingham Six Miles then Due W^est Six miles thence North Ten
degrees East Six miles then Due East Six miles to the North
West Corner of Rockingham aforesaid begun at and the Same be
and is Incorporated into A Township by the Name of Thomlinson —
And that the Inhabitants that do or Shall hereafter inhabit said
Township Are hereby declared to be Enfranchized with And Enti-
tuled to all & Every the Previledges and Im unities that other
Towns within our said Province by Law Exercise & Enjoy and
Further that the said Town as soon as there Shall be fifty familys
resident & Settled thereon A Market Shall be opened & kept one or
More Da3^s in Each week as may be tho' most advantagious to the
Inhabitants also that the first meeting for the Choice of Town officers
Agreable to the Laws of our Said Province Shall be held on the first
Tuesday in May next which Meeting shall be Notifyed by Nathan

GRAFTON. 185

Chace who is hereby also appointed the Moderator of the Said first
Meeting- whicli he is to Notify & Govern Agreable to the
Laws *& Customs of onr Said Province and that the Annual *l-202
Meeting forever liereafter for the Choice of Such officers of
said Town shall be on the Second Tuesday in march Annually To
have & to hold the Said Tract of Land as above Expressed Togeather
with all the Previledges and Appurtenances to them & their
respective heirs and assignes for ever upon the following Conditions
Viz That every Grantee his heirs or assigns shall Plant or Cultivate
five Acres of Land within the Term of five years for every fifty
Acres Containd in his or their Share or Proportion of Land in the
Said Township and Continue to Improve & Settle the Same by
additional Cultivations on Penalty of the forfeiture of his Grant or
Share in the Said Township and its Reverting to his Majesty his
heirs & Successors to be by him or them Regranted to Such of his
Subjects as Shall Effectually Settle & Cultivate the Same that all
white & other Pine Trees wdthin the Township fit for Masting our
Royal Navy be carefully Preserved for that use and none to be Cut
or felled without his Maj'>^ Especial Lycence for So doing first had
and obtaind upon the Penalty of the forfeiture of the Right of Such
Grantee his heirs or Assigns to us our heirs & Successors as well
as being Subject to the Penalty of Any Act or Acts of Parliament
that now are or hereafter Shall be Enacted that before any Division
of the Said Land be made to and Amoungst the Grantees A Tract of
Land as near the Center of the Township as the Land will admit of
Shall be Reserved and marked out for Town Lotts one of which Shall
be Allotted to each Grantee of the Contents of one Acre Yielding
& Paying therefor to us our heirs & Successors for the Space of Ten
years to be Computed from the Date hereof the Rent of one Ear of
Indian Corn only on the first Day of January Annually if Lawfully
Demanded the first Payment to be made on the first Day of January
next Ensueing the Date hereof and every Proprietor Settler or Inhab-
itant Shall Yield & Pay unto us our heirs & Successors Yearly and
Every year for ever from and after the Expiration of the Ten years
from the Date hereof Namely on the first Day of January which will
be in the year of our Lord Christ One thousend Seven hundred &
Sixty four One Shilling Proclamation Money for every hundred
Acres he So Owns Settles or Possesses and So in Proportion for A
Greater or Lesser Tract of the Said Land which Money Shall
be paid by the Respective Persons above said *their heirs or *l-203
Assigns in our Council Chamber in Portsmouth or to Such
Officer or Officers as Shall be Appointed to Receive the Same and this
to be in Lieu of all Other Rents & Services whatsoeverJN Testimony

186

CHART EE RECORDS

hereof We have caused the Seal of our Said Province to be hereunto
affixed Witness Bennesg Wentwobth Esq our Goveruoor &: Com-
'ander in Chieff of our Said Province the Eighth Dav of April in
the Year of our Lord Christ 1754 and in the Twenty Seventh year
of Our Reign —

B Wentworth
By His Exeellencys Com'and
With Advice of Council

Theodore Atkinson Sec'^

Rec-orded According to the Original under the Province Seal this
9^ Day of April 1754—

"^ Theodore Atkinson Sec"^

The Names of the Grantees of TsoMLiNSOX-Viz —

Jonathan Whitney,
Philip Goodridge,
Jonathan Wood.
Jacob Gould jun^
Thomas Gt^uld jun%
John Buttrick,
Joshua Stickney,
Samuel Larabee,
Samuel Preston.
Joseph Baker jan^
James Allen.
Joseph Worster,
Jonas Warren,
John Fox jun"".
Oliver Corey.
Stephen Chase,
Benjamin Shattuck.

William Holt,
Benony B^ynton jun%
Ephraim Whitney,
Oliver Gt)uld,
Joseph GiDodridge.
Zachariah Whitney,
Oliver Stickney,
Isaac Holden,
James Preston.
Eleazer Davis,
Nathan Chase,
Simon Tuttle jun"",
Oliver Warren,
Peter Fox,
Jacob Fox.
Joshua Chase,

Nathaniel Harris,
David Peirce.
Benjamin Wetherbee,
Jacob Gould,
Nathaniel Callen,
Stephen Stickney,
Nehemiah Bowers,
Eleazer Laurence Jnn%
Jonathan Whitcombe,
John Baker,
Simon Tuttle,
Thomas Warren,
Josiah Powers,
Daniel Fox,
Stephen Shattuck,
Ezekiel Chase,
Mathew LivermoreEsq,
John Thomlinson,
Theodore Atkinson,
His Excellency

Thomas Bell Esq,
Joseph Newmarch Esq.Nathaniel Dyke,
John Thomlinson jun"" John Wentworth,
Henry Sherburne, Daniel Warner,

Benning Wentworth Esq A Tract of Laud to Contain five hundred

Acres which is to be Accounted Two of the within Shares
*1— 204 One *whole Share for the Incorporated Society for the

Propagation of the Gospel in forreign Parts, One whole Share
for the first Settled Minister of the Gospel in Said Town One whole
Share for A Glebe for the Ministry of the Church of England as by
Law Established —

Recorded from the back of the Cbarter of Thomlinson the 9"*
Day of April 1754 "^ Theodore Atkinson Sec^

GRAFTON.

187

.'Ccs.^..,..

ThcTnli 7?5tri

'V*- ( .^ -g

•'* ^

Taken from the Back of the Original Charter of ThomliDSon &
recorded here the 9"" Day of April 1754 —

"^ Theodore Atkinson Sec'^

[Grafton Charter Renewed, 1761.]
*Pro"vince of Xew-Hamp"^

*l-235

L.. ■(

IZL^

Thomlinson George the Third by the Grace of God of Great
renewd- Britain France &: Ireland King Defender of the Faith &c*
To All to whom these Presents Shall Come Greeting
Whereas our late Roval Grand Father Kingr Georsre
the Second of Glorious Memory did of his Special Grace
& mere motion for the due Encouragement of Settling
a new Plantation within our Said Proyince of New Hamp"^ by his
Letters Patent or Charter under the Seal of our Said Province Dated
the Eighth day of April 175-1: in the 27^*" Year of his Majestys reign
grant a Tract of Land equal to Six Miles Square bounding as therein
expressed to a Number of our Loyal Subjects whose Xames are Entred
on the Same to Hold to them their heirs &: Assigns on the Conditions
therein declared to be A Town Corporate by the Name of Thomlinson
as b}- referrence to the Said Charter may more fully appear.

And whereas the Said Grantees haye Represented that by the Liter-

188 CHARTER RECORDS.

vention of an Indian Warr since making the Said Grant it has been im-
practicable to comply with & fulltill the Conditions aforesaid &
humbly Supplycated ns not to take advantage of the Breach of Said
Conditions but to lengthen out & Grant them some Reasonable
Time for Performance thereof after the Said Impediment Shall
Cease —

Now Know Ye that We being Willing to Promote the End Pro-
posed Have of our Further Grace & Favour Suspended our Claim of
the Forfeiture which the Said Grantees may have Incurrd And by
these Presents do Grant nnto the Said Grantees their Heirs and
assigns the Term of one Year for Performing & ful'lfilling the
Conditions JNIatters & things by them to be done which Term is to be
renewd Annually if the Same Impediment remains until our Plenary
Instructions shall be received relative to the Incident that has
Prevented a Complyance with the Said Charter according to the
Intent & meaning thereof — In Testimony whereof We have Caused
the Seal of Our Said Province to be hereunto affixed Wittness Pen-
ning Wentworth Esq our Govern' & Com'ander in Chiefl of our
Province aforesaid the 9"' Da}^ of July in the Year of our Lord Clirist
1761 & in the first Year of Our Reign

B Wentworth

By his Excellencys Comand
with Advice of Council

Theodore Atkinson Sec'^^

Recorded According to the Original under the Province Seal this
9*'^ July 1761

19 Theodore Atkinson Sec"^^

[Grapton Regrant, 1763.]

*3-46 *Province of New-Hampshire.

Thomlinson GEORGE the Third,

r .-w^-^ , By the Grace of God, of Great-Bj-itain, France and

\ f Ireland, King, Defender of the Faith &c.

I i To all Persons to ivhom these Presents shall come,

^ V— -v^*-' ^ Greeting.

Know Ye, that We of Our special Grace, certain Knowledge, and
meer Motion, for the due Encouragement of settWng sl JVew Plantation
within our said Province, by and with the Advice of our Trusty and
Well-beloved Penning Wentworth, Esq ; Our Governor and Com-
mander in Chief of Our said Province of Neiv-Hampshlre^ in New-

GRAFTON. 189

Unqland., and of Our Council of the said Province ; Have upon the
Conditions and Reservations herein after made, given and granted,
and by these Presents, for Us, Our Heirs, and Successors, do give and
grant in equal Shares, unto Our loving Subjects, Inhabitants of Our
said Province of Netv-ITampshire^ and Our other Governments, and
to their Heirs and Assigns for ever, whose Names are entred on this
Grant, to be divided to and amongst them into Sixty four equal
Shares, all that Tractor Parcel of Land situate, lying and being within
our said Province of New-Hampshire^ containing by Admeasurement,
Twenty three Thousand & forty Acres, which Tract is to contain Six
Miles square, and no more; out of which an Allowance is to be made
for High Ways and unimprovable Lands by Rocks, Ponds, Mountains
and Rivers, One Thousand and Forty Acres free, according to a Plan
and Survey thereof, made by Our said Governor's Order, and returned
into the Secretary's Office, and hereunto annexed, butted and bounded
as follows, Viz. Begining at the North West Corner of Rockingham,
from thence south Ten Degrees West by Rockingham six Miles, then
due West six Miles then JSorth Ten Degrees East six Miles, then
due East to the North West Corner of Rockingham aforesaid begun
at And that the same be, and hereby is Licorporated into a Township
by the Name of Thomlinson And the Inhabitants that do or shall
hereafter inhabit the said Township, are hereby declared to be Enfran-
chized with and Intitled to all and every the Priviledges andLnmun-
ities that other Towns within Our Province by Law Exercise and
Enjoy : And further, that the said Town as soon as there shall be
Fifty Families resident and settled thereon, shall have the Liberty of
holding two Fairs, one of which shall be held on the

And the other on the
annually, which fairs are not to continue longer than the respective

following the said
and that as soon as the said Town shall consist of Fifty
Families, a Market may be * opened and kept one or more *3-47
Days in each Week, as may be thought most advantagious
to the Inhabitants. Also, that the first Meeting for the Choice of
Town Officers, agreable to the Laws of our said Province, shall be
held on the First Tuesday in December next which said Meeting shall
be Notified by M'' Oliver Corey who is hereby also appointed the
Moderator of the said first Meeting, which he is to Notify and Govern
agreable to the Laws and Customs of Our said Province; and that the
annual Meeting for ever hereafter for the Choice of such Officers for
the said Town, shall be on the Second Tuesday of March annually,
To Have and to Hold the said Tract of Land as above expressed,
together with all Privileges and Appurtenances, to them and their

190 CHARTER RECORDS.

respective Heirs and Assigns forever, upon the following Conditions,
viz.

I. That every Grantee, his Heirs or Assigns shall plant and cultivate
five Acres of Land within the Term of five Years for every fifty Acres
contained in his or their Share or Proportion of Land in said Town-
ship, and continue to improve and settle the same by additional
Cultivations, on Penalty of the Forfeiture of his Grant or Share in
the said Township, and of its reverting to Us, our Heirs and Succes-
sors, to be by Us or them Re-granted to such of our Subjects as shall
effectually settle and cultivate the same.

n. That all white and other Pine Trees within the said Township,
fit for Masting Our Royal Navy, be carefully preserved for that Use,
and none to be cut or felled without Our special Licence for so doing
first had and obtained, upon the Penalty of the Forfeiture of the
Right of such Grantee, his Heirs and Assigns, to Us, our Heirs and
Successors, as well as being subject to the Penalty of any Act or Acts
of Parliament that now are, or hereafter shall be Enacted.

IV. Yielding and paying therefor to Us, our Heirs and Successors
for the Space of five Years, to be computed from the Date hereof, the
Rent of one Ear of Indian Corn only, on the twenty-fifth Day of
December annually, if lawfully demanded, the first Payment to be
made on the twenty-fifth Day of December. 1763

V. Every Proprietor, Settler or Lihabitant, shall yield and pay
unto Us, our Heirs and Successors yearly, and every Year forever, from
and after the Expiration often [five] Years from the abovesaid twent}"-
fifth Day of December., namely, on the twenty-fifth Day of December^
which will be in the Year of Our Lord 1768 One .s7«7??>i'Y7 Proclamation
Money for every Hundred Acres he so owns, settles or possesses, and
so in Proportion for a greater or lesser Tract of the said Land ; which
Money shall be paid by the resi)ective Persons abovesaid, their Heirs
01" Assigns, in our Council Chamber in Portsmouth.! or to such Officer
or Officers as shall be appointed to receive the same ; and this to
be in Lieu of all other Rents and Services whatsoever.

In Testimony whereof we have caused the Seal of our said Province
to be hereunto affixed. Witness Penning Wentworth, Esq ; Oar
Governor and Commander in Chief of Our said Province, the First
Day of September In the Year of our Lord Christ, One Thousand
Seven Hundred and Sixty three And in the Third Year of Our Reign.

P> Wentworth

GRAFTON.

191

By His Excellency's Command,
With Advice of Council,

Theodore Atkinson Jun' Sec''''

Province of New Hampshire Sept" 1*' 1763

Recorded from the Original Charter under The Province Seal

f T Atkinson Jun^ Sec^^

*The Names of the Grantees of Thoralinson (Viz) *3-48

Jonathan Whitney
Phillip Goodridge
Jonathan Wood
Jacob Gould Jun""
Thomas Gould Juu""
John Buttrick
Joshua Stickney
Sam^ Larrabee
Sam' Preston
Joseph Baker Jun'^
James Allen
Joseph Worster
Jonas Warren
John Fox Jun''
Oliver Corey
Steph" Chase
Benj* Shattuck
Jos^ Newmarch Esq

William Holt
Benoni Boynton Jun'^
Ephraim Whitney
Oliver Gould
Joseph Goodridge
Zachariah Whitney
Oliver Stickney
Isaac Holden
James Preston
Eleazer Davis
Nathan Chase
Simon Tuttle Jun""
Oliver Warren
Peter Fox
Jacob Fox
Joshua Chase
Thomas Bell Esq

Nath' Harris
Peter Reed
Benj'"' Weatherbee
Jacob Gould
Rogers King
Stephen Stickney
Nehemiah Bowers
Eleazer Lawrence Jun""
Jon'^ Whitcombe
John Baker
Simon Tuttle
Thomas Warren
James King
Daniel Fox
Steph" Shattuck
Ezekiel Chase
Matt'"" Livermore Esq
John Thomlinson Jun'
M" Speaker Sherburn

John Thomlinson Esq
John Wentworth Esq Theo : Atkinson Esq
& Dan' Warner Esq
His Excellency Benning Wentworth Esq a Tract of Land to
Contain Five Hundred Acres as marked B W in the Plan which is
to be Accounted two of the within shares, One whole share for the
Incorporated Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign
Parts, One share for a Glebe for the Church of England as by Law
P^stablish'd, One share for the first Settled Minister of the Gospel &
One share for the benefit of a School in said Town —

Province of New Hamp' Sepf 1*' 1763

Recorded from the Back of the Original Charter under the Prov-
ince Seal

19 T Atkinson Jun^ Sec^^

192

CHARTER RECORDS.

No-rih .f r'.»* Zoit Si > n?, >.;

Plan of

ryii,iy-"gi -l<7 •.,- jT VJ'^'P

Province of New Harap' September l^'' 1763

Recorded from the Back of the Original Charter Under the Prov-
ince Seal

19 T Atkinson Jun'^ Sec^^

L s-

GRANBY.

*2-245 *Province of New-Hampshire.

Granby GEORGE the Third,

^ ,-*i-'^--s >^ By the Grace of God, of Great-Britain, France and
Ireland, King, Defender of the Faith &c.

To all Persons to whom these Presents shall come,
^ -^-^v—i^ '' Greeting.

Know ye, that We of Our special Grace, certain Knowledge, and
meer Motion, for the due Encouragement of settling a JVew Platita-
tion within our said Province, by and with the Advice of our Trusty
and Well-beloved Benning Wentworth, Esq ; Our Governor and
Commander in Chief of Our said Province of New-Hampshire in
Nen'-England, and of our Council of the said Province ; Have
upon the Conditions and Reservations Iierein after made, given and
granted, and by these Presents, for us, our Heirs, and Successors, do
give and grant in equal Shares, unto Our loving Subjects, Inhabi-

GRANBY. 193

tants of Our said Province oi New- ffampshire, and Our other Govern-
ments, and to their Heirs and Assigns for ever, whose Names are
entred on this Grant, to be divided to and amongst them into Sev-
enty equal Shares, all that Tract or Parcel of Land situate, lying and
being within our said Province of Netv-HamiJshire, containing by
Admeasurement, Twenty three thousand & forty Acres^ which Tract
is to contain Six Miles square, and no more; out of which an Allow-
ance is to be made for High Ways and unimprovable Lands by Rocks,
Ponds, Mountains and Rivers, One Thousand and Forty Acres free,
according to a Plan and Survey thereof, made by Our said Governor's
Order, and returned into the Secretary's Office, and hereunto annexed,
butted and bounded as follows. Viz. Begining at the North Westerly
Corner of Guildhall from thence Runing North West Six Miles from
thence North East Six Miles from thence South East Six Miles to
Guildhall Corner, from thence by the North Westerly Line of Guild-
hall to the First bounds Mention'd — And that the same be, and
hereby is Licorporated into a Township by the Name of Granby
And the Lihabitants that do or shall hereafter inhabit the
said Township, are hereby declared to be Enfranchized with
and Intitled to all and every the Priviledges and Immunities
that other Towns within Our Province by Law Exercise and Enjoy :
And further, that the said Town as soon as there shall be Fifty Fami-
lies resident and settled theron, shall have the Liberty of holding Two
Fairs, one of which shall be held on the And the

other on the annually, which Fairs are not to continue

longer than the respective following the said

and that as soon as the said Town shall consist
of Fifty Families, a Market may be *opened and kept one or *2-246
more Days in each Week, as may be thought most advanta-
gious to the Inhabitants. Also, that the first Meeting for the Choice
of Town Officers, agreable to the Laws of our said Province, shall be
held on the Last Monday of Octo'' Instant which said Meeting
shall be Notified by Elihu Hall Esq who is hereby also appointed
the Moderator of the said first Meeting, which he is to Notify and
Govern agreable to the Laws and Customs of Our said Province; and
that the annual Meeting for ever hereafter for the Choice of such
Officers for the said Town, shall be on the Second Tuesday of 3Iarch
annually, To Have and to Hold the said Tract of Land as above
exi)ressed, together with all Privileges and Appurtenances, to them
and their respective Heirs and Assigns forever, upon the following
Conditions, viz.

I. That every Grantee, his Heirs or Assigns shall plant and culti-
vate five Acres of Land within the Term of five Years for every fifty

194 CHARTER RECORDS.

Acres contained in his or their Share or Proportion of Land in said
Township, and continue to improve and settle the same by additional
Cultivations, on Penalty of the Forfeiture of his Grant or Share in
the said Township, and of its reverting to Us, our Heirs and Suc-
cessors, to be by Us or Them Re-granted to such of Our Subjects as
shall effectually settle and cultivate the same.

II. That all white and other Pine Trees within the said Township,
fit for Masting Our Royal Navy, be carefully preserved for that Use,
and none to be cut or felled without Our special Licence for so doing
first had and obtained, upon the Penalty of the Forfeiture of the Right
of such Grantee, his Heirs and Assigns, to Us, our Heirs and Successors,
as well as being subject to the Penalty of any Act or Acts of Parlia-
ment that now are, or hereafter shall be Enacted.

IV. Yielding and paying therefor to Us, our Heirs and Successors
for the Space of ten Years, to be computed from the Date hereof, the
Rent of one Ear of Indian Corn only, on the twenty-fifth Day of
JDecemher annually, if lawfully demanded, the first Payment to be
made on the twent3'-fifth Day of Decemher. 1762

V. Every Proprietor, Settler or Inhabitant, shall yield and pay
unto Us, our Heirs and Successors yearly, and every Year forever,
from and after the Expiration of ten Years from the abovesaid twen-
ty-fifth Day of December, namely, on tlie twenty-fifth Day of December^
which will be in the Year of Our Lord 1772 One shilling Proclama-
tion Money for every Hundred Acres he so owns, settles or possesses,
and so in Proportion for a greater or lesser Tract of the said Land ;
which Money shall be paid by the respective Persons abovesaid, their
Heirs or Assigns, in our Council Chamber in Portsmouth, or to such
Officer or Officers as shall be appointed to receive the same ; and this
to be in Lieu of all other Rents and Services whatsoever.

In Testimony whereof we have caused the Seal of our said Province
to be hereunto affixed. Witness Benning Wentworth, Esq ; Our
Governor and Commander in Chief of Our said Province, the 10"' Day
of October In the Year of our Lord Christ, One Thousand Seven
Hundred and Sixty One And in the First Year of Our Reign.

B Wentworth
By His Excellency's Command,
With Advice of Council,

Theodore Atkinson Sec''^'

GRANBY.

196

Province of New Hamps^ Octo'' 12 1761

Recorded According to the Origional Charter under the Province
Seal

W Theodore Atkinson Sec^^

*The Names of the Grantees of Granby (Viz)

*2-247

Elihu Hall
Tho* Rice
Edw'^ Carter
Sani^ Baker
David Hubart
Abraham Kimball
Dan G Hubbard
Tho^ Howell
Joshua Caulleler
Jesse Pavker
Sam' Whittelsey
James Drake
Cha^ Whittelsey
John Philips
Ebeu"" Harthorne
Jos'' New march Esq
Joseph Barthom}-
Stephen Ives
And"' Parker
Gamaliel Parker
Samuel Parker

Joshua Ray
Tho^ Ray
Elisha Whittelsey
John Willowby
John Hall 5"'
Sam' Sharp Beadel
John Stevens
Francis Worster Jun""
Jon'"' Butterfield
Sam' Ives

Chauncey Whittelsey
Timo' Hardy
The"^ Doolittle
Nath' INIerriel
James Blanchard
Isaac Cook
Benj=^ Hall 2'^
Stephen Andrevrs
Abra"' Parker
Isaac Parker
James Marks

Sam' Mansfield
Joshua Ray Jun''
Timo^ Barker
Jouath" Barker
Medad Dudley
Eiihu Hall Jun''
Nathiel Parker
Jon-'^ Johnson
Joseph Atkins
Jonath" Ives
Nath' Chauncy Esq
John Thomson
Eben^ Ball
Hezekiah Hamblett
Dan' Warner Esq
Oliver Dudley
Abel Hall
Philemon Johnson
Jacob Parker
Dedimus Parker
Jonathan Marks &

Joseph Doolittle
His Excellency Penning Wentworth Esq a Tract of Land to Con-
tain five Hundred Acres as B W in the Plan which is to be Account-
ed two of the within Shares on Share for the incorporated Societ}^ for
the Propagation of the Gospel in foreign Parts one Share for A
Glebe for the Church of England as by Law Established one Share
for the first Settled Minister of the Gospel and one Share for the
Benefit of A School in Said Town

Province of New Hamps^ Octo^ 12*'^ 1761

Recorded from the back of the Origional Charter of Granby under
the Province Seal —

Attested ^ Theodore Atkinson Sec'^

196

CHARTER RECORDS.

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GUILDHALL.

*2-241 *Province of New-Hampshire.

Guildhall GEORGE the Third,

, ,— i^.'^^^ . By the Grace of God, of Great-Britain, France and

\ / Ireland, King, Defender of the Faith &c.

J ' I To all Persons to lohom these Presents shall come^

^ >— ^v'*.-' ^ Greeting.

GUILDHALL. 197

upon the Conditions and Reservations herein after made, given and
granted, and by these presents, for us, our Heirs, and Successors, do
give and grant in equal Shares, unto Our loving Subjects, Inhabi-
tants of Our said Province of New-Hampsldre , and Our other Govern-
ments, and to their Heirs and Assigns for ever, whose Names are
entred on this Grant, to be divided to and amongst them into Seventy
equal Shares, all that Tract or Parcel of Land situate, lying and
being within our said Province of Neu'-JIa7)ipshire, containing by
Admeasurement, Twenty Three Thousand & Forty Acres, which Tract
is to contain Six Miles square, and no more; out of which an Allow-
ance is to be made for High Ways and unimprovable Lands by
Rocks, Ponds, Mountains and Rivers, One Thousand and Forty
Acres free, according to a Plan and Survey thereof, made by Our
said Governor's Order, and returned into the Secretary's Office, and
hereunto annexed, butted and bounded as follows. Viz. Begining
at a Stake & Stones which Stands on the Westerly Side of Conneti-
cut River at or near the Lower end of the Upper Co'os Thirty Miles
on a Straight Line from the Mouth of Amonoosock River from thence
Runing North West Six Miles from thence North East Six Miles
from thence South East Six Miles to the bank of Conneticut River
from thence down said River to the Place it begun at And that the
same be, and hereby is Licorporated into a Township by the Name
of Guildhall And the Inhabitants that do or shall hereafter inhabit
the said Township, are hereb}^ declared to be Enfranchized with and
Intitled to all and every the Priviledges and Immunities that other
Towns within Our Province by Law Exercise and Enjoy: And
further, that the said Town as soon as there shall be Fifty Families
resident and settled thereon, shall have the Liberty of holding Two
Fairs, one of which shall be held on the

And the other on the
annually, which Fairs are not to continue longer than the respective
following the said
and that as soon as the said Town shall consist of
Fifty Families, a Market may be* opened and kept one or *2-242
more Days in each Week, as may be thought most advaii-
tagious to the Inhabitants. Also, that the first Meeting for the
Choice of Town Officers, agreable to the Laws of our said Province,
shall be held on the Last Monday of October Instant which said
Meeting shall be Notified by Elihu Hall Esq"^ who is hereby also
appointed the Moderator of the said first jNIeeting, which he is to
Notify and Govern agreable to the Laws and Customs of Our said
Province; and that the annual Meeting for ever hereafter for the
Choice of such Officers for the said Town, shall be on the

198 CHARTER RECORDS.

of March annually, To Have and to Hold the said
Tract of Land as above expressed, together with all Privileges and
Appurtenances, to them and their respective Heirs and Assigns for-
ever, upon the following Conditions, viz.

I. That every Grantee, his Heirs or Assigns shall plant and culti-
vate five Acres of Land within the Term of five Years for every fifty
Acres contained in his or their Share or Proportion of Land in said
Township, and continue to improve and settle the same by additional
Cultivations, on Penalty of the Forfeiture of his Grant or Share in
the said Township, and of its reverting to Us, our Heirs and Success-
ors, to be by Us or Them Re-granted to such of Our Subjects as shall
effectually settle and cultivate the same.

HL That before any Division of the Land be made to and among
the Grantees, a Tract of Land as near the Centre of the said Township
as the Land will admit of, shall be reserved and marked out for
Town Lots, one of which shall be allotted to each Grantee of the
Contents of one Acre.

IV. Yielding and paying therefor to Us, our Pleirs and Successors
for the Space of ten Years, to be computed from the Date hereof, the
Rent of one Ear of Indian Corn onl}-, on the twenty-fifth Day of
December annually, if lawfully demanded, the first Payment to be
made on the twenty-fifth Day of December. 1762

V. Every Proprietor, Settler or Inhabitant, shall yield and pay
unto Us, our Heirs and Successors yearly, and every Year forever,
from and after the Expiration of ten Years from the abovesaid
twenty-fifth Day of December^ namely, on the twenty-fifth Day of
December, which will be in the Year of Our Lord 1772 One shilling
Proclamation Money for every Hundred Acres he so owns, settles or
possesses, and so in Proportion for a greater or lesser Tract of the
said Land; which Money shall be paid by the respective Persons
abovesaid, their Heirs or Assigns, in our Council Chamber in Ports-
mouth, or to such Officer or Officers as shall be appointed to receive
the same; and this to be in Lieu of all other Rents and Services
whatsoever.

In Testimony whereof Ave have caused the Seal of our said Prov-
ince to be hereunto affixed. AVitness Benning VVentworth, Esq ;

GUILDHALL.

199

Our Governor and Commander in Chief of Our said Province, the
10'" Day of October In the Year of our Lord Christ, One Thousand
Seven Hundred and Sixty One And in the First Year of Our Reign.

B Wentworth
By His Excellency's Command,
With Advice of Council,

Theodore Atkinson Sec'"^'

Province of New Hamps'' Octo'' 10. 1761

Recorded According to Origional under tlie Province Seal

^ Theodore Atkinson Sec^^

*The Names of the Grantees of Guildhall (Viz*) *2-243

Elihu Hall
John Benham
Gamaliel Benham
Ebenezer Blakslee
En OS Todd
Gershom Todd
Chauncy Whittelsey
Walter Munson
Hest"' Mackey
Aaron Tuttle •
David Tharp
Oliver Dudley
Nath' Chauncy Esq
Elisha Whittelsey
James Mathews
Rich'' Wibird Esq
Tho^ Darling Esq
John Maccleave
Charles Cook
Rev Sam' Hall
Thomas Hart

Edmond Ward
John Benham Jun''
John Hall 6"'
Elihu Hall Jun''
Sam' Mix
Joshua Ray
Dan' Mackey
Thomas Ray
Simon Tuttle
Titus Tuttle
John Blackslee
Medad Dudley
Cha* Whittelsey Esq
John Herpen Jun"^
James Mathews Jun''
Dan' Warner Esq
Tho^ Dodd
Sam' Mansfield
Will'" Prindle
Theopolis Doolittle
D^ Will'" Gould
John Moss

Dan' Thomas
Benaj'^ Thomas
Adonijah Thomas
Ashbel Stiles
Giles Dayton
Sam' Whittelsey
Sam' Sharp Beadel
Joel Tharp
Ithamar Tuttle
James Pain
Timothy Barker
Abra"' Kimberly
Damans Hall Jun'"
Edw'' Golston Lutwyche
Peter Russell
Comfort Sage
Philip Mortimore
Thomas Rice
Jon'^ Blan chard
Richard Alsop
And''' Andress &&

His Excellency Benning Wentworth Esq a Tract of Land to Con-
tain Five Hundred Acres as Marked B- W- in the Plan which is to
be Accounted two of the within shares. One Share for tlie Incorpo-
rated Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts,
One Share for a Glebe for the Church of England as by Law Estab-
lishd One Share for the First Settled Minister of the Gospel & One
Share for the Benefit of a School in said Town —

200

CHARTER RECORDS.

Province of New Hamps'^ Octo'^ 10. 1761

Recorded from the back of the Origioual Charter of Guildhall under
the Province Seal

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*1-197
Guilford

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GUILFORD.

*Province of New Hamp""

George the Second by the Grace of God of Great
Britain France & Ireland King Defender of the
faith &c

To All Persons to whom these Presents Shall come
^ s.^^/-*-^ ^ Greeting

Know Ye that we of our Especial Grace Certain Knowledge &
mere motion for the Due Encouragement of Settleing A New Planta-
tion within our Said Province by & with our Trusty and well beloved
Benning Wentworth Esq our Governour & Com'ander in Chieff of our
Said Province in New Hampshire in America and of our Council of
the Said Province Have upon the Conditions & Reservations here-
after made Given & Granted and bv these Presents for us our heirs

GUILFORD. 201

& successors Do give & Grant in Equal Shares unto our Loving
Subjects Inhabitants of our Said Province of New Hampshire and his
Maj'-^'^ Other Governments and to their heirs and assignes forever
whose Names are P^ntred on this Grant to be Divided to And
Amoungst them into Sixty four Equal Shares all that Tract or Parcel
of Land Scituate Lying & being within our Province of New Hamp-
shire Containing by Admeasurement Twenty three thousend & forty
Acres which Tract is to Contain Six miles Square & no more out
of which an allowence is to be made for High ways and unimprovable
Lands by Rocks Mountains Ponds & Rivers One Thousend & forty
Acres free According to A Plan thereof made And Presented by
our Said Governours Order and hereunto Annexed Butted and
Bounded as follows (Viz) begining at the South East Corner of
Hallifax at A Stake in the Province Line thence running Six miles
due East to the South West Corner of Hindsdale thence Due North
six miles to the North West Corner of Hindsdale thence due West by
Brattleborough six miles to the Noth East Corner of Halifax afore-
said thence due South Six Miles by Halifax to the bounds first
mentioned — And that the Same be and hereby is incorporated into a
Township by the name of Guilford and that the Inhabitants that Do
or Shall hereafter inhabit Said Township Are hereby Declared to be
Enfranchized with and Entituled to AH & every the Previledges
and Immunities that Other Towns within our Said Province b}' Law
Exercise & Enjoy and that the first Meeting for the Choice of Town
otficers Agreable to the Laws of our Said Province Shall be
held on the Second Tuesday in May next *which Meeting *1-198
Shall be notifyed by John Chandler Jun'' Esq who is hereby
also a})pointed the moderator of the said first Meeting which he is
to Notify & Govern Agreable to the Laws & Customs of our Said
Province and also that the Annual Meeting forever hereafter for the
Choice of Such officers of s*^ Town Shall be held on the first Tuesday
in March Annually To have & to hold the Said Tract of Land as
above Expressed togeather with all the Previledges And Appurtenances
to them & their respective heirs & assigns forever Upon the follow-
ing Conditions (Viz) that every Grantee his heirs or assigns Shall
Plant or Cultivate five Acres of Land within the Term of five years
for every fifty Acres Containd in his or their Share or Proportion of
Land in the Said Township and Continue to Improve & Settle the Same
by Additional Cultivations on Penalty of the forfeiture of his Grant
or Share in the Said Township and its reverting to his Maj*'' his
heirs and Successors to be by him or them Regranted to Such of his
Subjects as Shall Effectually Settle & Cultivate the Same That All
white & other Pine Trees within the Said Township fit for masting

202 CHARTER RECORDS.

our Royal Navy be carefully Preserved for that use and none to be
Cutt or felld without his Maj^*'^ Especial Lycence for So doing
first had & obtaind upon the Penalty of the forfeiture of the
right of Such Grantee his heirs or Assigns to us our heirs & Suc-
cessors as well as beiug Subject to the Penalty of Any Act or Acts
of Parliament that now are oi hereafter Shall be Enacted That
before Any Divission of the Said Laud be made to and Amoungst
the Grantees a Tract of Land as near the Center of the Town-
ship as the Land will admit of Shall be Reserved & marked out
for Town Lotts one of which Shall be Allotted to Each Grantee
of the Contents of one Acre Yeilding and Paying therefor to us our
heirs & Successors for the space of ten years to be Computed
from the Date hereof the Rent of one Ear of Indian Corn only on
the first Da}' of January annually if Lawfully Demanded the first
Payment to be made on the first Day of January next Ensueing the
Date hereof And every Proprietor Settler or Inhabitant Shall Yield
& Pay unto us our heirs & Successors Yearly & every Year for ever

from and After the Expiration of the Ten years from the
*1-199 Date hereof Namely on the first *Day of January which

will be in the year of our Lord Christ one thousend Seven
hundred and Sixty four One Shilling Proclamation money for every
hundred Acres he So owns Settles or Possesses & So in Proportion
for A Greater or Lesser Tract of the Said Land which money Shall
be paid by the Respective Persons abovesaid their heirs or assigns In
our Council Chamber in Portsmouth or to such officer or officers as
Shall be Appointed to recieve the Same and this to be in Lieu of
all other Rents & Services whatsoever In Testimony hereof We
have Caused the Seal of our Said Province to be hereunto affixed
Wittness Benning Wentworth Esq our Governour & Comander in
Chieff of our Said Province the Second Day of April in the year of
our Lord Christ 1754 and in the Twenty seventh year of His Maj-
estys Reign —

B Wentworth
By his Excellencys Comand
with Advice of Council

Theodore Atkinson Sec'"''

Recorded According to the Original under the Province Seal this
2'^ April, 1754—

"^ Theodore Atkinson Se''^

GUILFORD.

203

The Names of the Grantees of the Town of Guilford

Elijah Williams,
Samuel Field,
Eleazer Hawkes,
Obediah Dickinson,
James Morris,
John Armes,
John Allen, Jun*",
Gardiner Chandler,
John Curtis,
Benjamin Green,
Benjamin Eager,
John Curtis jun'",
Asa Flagg,
John Chandler Jun'",
Benjamin Pollard,
John Billings,
Ezra Carpenter,
*Theodore Atkinson,

Seth Dwight,
William Morris,
Ebenezer Barnard,
Samuel Barnard jun"",
Salah Barnard,
David Wells,
Richard Crouch,
John Chaddick,
John Chaddick Jun*",
Nathaniel Green,
Peter Green,
Ebenezer Cuttler,

David Field,
Mathevv Clesson,
Joseph Barnard,
Charles Coates,
Samuel Partridge,
Aaron Scot,
John Chandler,
James Boyd,
Nahum Willard,
Timothy Pain
Samuel Williams,
George Bruce,
John Boyden,

Samuel Mower,
Samuel Wentworth of Boston,
Jonathan Martin, jun^ Elisha Higgins,
Thomas Warren, Phillip Wheeler,

Samuel Chandler, Leonard Jarvis,

Richard Wibird, Daniel Warner, *l-200

His Excellency Penning Wentworth Esq A Tract of Land
to Contain five hundred Acres which is to be Laid out in one body —
One whole Share for the Licorporated Society for the Propagation
of the Gospel in forreign Parts One whole Share for the first Settled
Minister of the Gospel in Said Town One whole Share for A Glebe
for the ministry of the Church of England as by Law Established —
Caleb How John Wentworth Joseph Blanchard, Eleazer Williams,
William Rawson jun"^ & William Johnson —

Recorded from the Back of the Charter of Guilford this 2'^ of April
1754—

19 Theodore Atkinson Se'^

204

CHARTER RECORDS.

Taken from the Back of the Orighial Charter of Guilford this 2'*
Day of April 1754

19 Theodore Atkinson Sec'^

*l-239

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[Guilford Charter Renewed, 1761.]
*Province of New Hampshire

George the Third by the Grace of God of Great
Britain France & Ireland King Defender of the Faith
&c

^ <>— ^^«.-' ■' To all whom these Presents shall Come Greeting

Guilford — Whereas our Late Royall Grandfather King
George the second of Glorious Memory did of his Special grace & Mere
Motion for the Encouragement of setling a New Plantation within
our said Province of New Hampshire by his Letters Patient or Char-
ter under the Seal of our said Province dated the 2'' day of Aprill
1754 and in the Twenty Sixth Year of his Majestys Reign Grant a
Tract of Land equal to Six Miles square Bounded as therein

GUILFORD. 205

expressed to a Number of our Loyall subjects whose names are
entered on the same to hold to them their heirs & Assigns on the
Conditions therein Declared to be a Town Corporate by the name of
Guilford as by Reference to said Charter may more fully Appear —

And whereas the said Grantees have Represented that by the Inter-
vention of an Indian Warr since making the said Grant it has been
Impracticable to Comply with and fulfill the Conditions and humbly
Supplicated us not to take Advantage of the Breach of said Condi-
tions but to Lengthen out & grant them some Reasonable time for
Performance thereof after the said Impediment shall Cease

Now Know Ye that we being willing to Promote the End Proposed
have of our Further grace & Favour Suspended our Claim of the Forfeit-
ure which the said Grantees ma}^ have Incurred and by these Presents
do grant unto the said Grantees their heirs & assigns the Term of One
Year for Performing and fullfilling the Conditions Matters & things
by them to be done which Term is to be Renewed Annuall}'^ if the
same Impediment Remains untill our Plenary Instructions shall be
Received Relating to the Incident that has Prevented a Compliance
with the said Charter According to the Intent & meaning of the
same

In Testimony Whereof we have Caused the Seal of our said Prov-
ince to be hereunto Affixed Witness Benning Wentworth Esq"" our
Governour & Commander in Cheif of our Province afores'^ the 6'^
July in the Year of our Lord Christ 1761 & in the first Year of his
Majestys Reign

B Wentworth

By his Excellencys Command
with Advice of Councill

Theodore Atkinson Sec""^

Pro^ N Hamp^ July 7"' 1761
Recorded from the Original under Seal

^ Theodore Atkinson Sec'^

[Guilford Charter Renewed, 1764.]

*Province of New Hamp'" *l-263

Guilford George the Third by the Grace of God of great

/■ .— ii--— -^ . Britain France & Ireland King Defender of the Faith &*
\ / To all to whom these Presents Shall come Greeting-

) I Whereas our late Royal Grand Father King George

^ ^— ^.•-*-^ ■' the Second of Glorious Memory did of his Special Grace

& mere Motion for the Encouragem' of Settling A New Plantation

206 CHARTER RECORDS.

in our Said Province of New Hamp'^ by his letters Patents or Charter
under the Seal of our Said Province dated the 2'* Day of April 1754
& in the 26'*" Year of His Majestys Reign grant A Tract of Land
equal to Six Miles Square bounded as therein expressed to a Number
of our Loyal Subjects whose Names Are Entered on the Same to hold
to them their Heirs or Assigns on the Conditions therein declared to
be a Town Corporate b}' the Name of Guilford as by reference to the
said Charter may more fully Appear —

And Whereas the Said Grantees have Represented that by the
Intervention of an Indian War since making the Said Grant it has
been Impracticable to comply with & to fullfill the Conditions &
humbly Supplycated us not to take advantage of the Breach of said
Conditions but to lengthen out & grant them Some Reasonable Time
for Performence thereof after the s'^ Impediment shall cease —

Now Know Yee that we being willing to Promote the end Proposed
have of our Further grace & Favour suspended our Claim of the forfei-
ture which the s'' Grantees may have Incured And by these Presents do
grant unto the said Grantees their Heirs & Assigns the Term of one
Year from the first of Jau''^ 1765 for Performing & fullfilling the
Conditions Matters & things by them to be done which Term is to be
renewd annually if the Same Impedim' remains until our Plenary
Instructions shall be Receivd relating to the Incident that has prevented
a Comply en ce with the said Charter according to the Intent & mean-
ing of the Same

In Testimony whereof we have caused the Seal of our said Province
to be hereunto affixed Wittness Benning WentworthEsq our Govern''
& Comander in Chieff of our Province aforesaid the 20"' Day of
March in the Year of our Lord Christ 1764 & in the fourth Year of
his Maj*- * reign

B Wentworth

By his Excellencys Com'and
with advice of Council

Theod^ Atkinson jun^ Se-^^

Recorded this 8"^ Day of June 1764 According to the original
Charter under the Prov** Seal

^ T Atkinson Jun Sec'^y

P: S-

HALIFAX. 207

HALIFAX.

*Province of New Hampshire *l-63

Halifax George the Second by the Grace of God of Great

, /-w^--N . lirittain France & Irehind King Defender of tlie Faith

To all Persons to whom these Presents Shall come
^ ^^ — ■^^■^ ^ Greeting —

Know ye that we of our Especial Grace Certain Knowledge and
mere motion for the Due Encouragem' of Settling A New Plantation
within our Said Province by & with the advice of our Trusty & Well
beloved Penning Wentworth Esq our Governour & Coma'nder in
Chieff of our Said Province of New Hampshire in America & of Our
Council of the Said Province Have upon the Conditions & reserva-
tions hereinafter made Given & Granted & by these Presents for us
our hiers & Successors Do Give & Grant in Equal Shares unto our
Loveing Subjects Inhabitants of our Said Province of New Hampshire
& his Maj'-* other Governments and to their hiers and Assignes for
ever whose names Are Entred on this Grant to be Divided to and
Amoungst them into Sixty four Equall Shares all that Tract or Parcell
of Land Scituate Lying & being within our Said Province of New Hamp-
shire Containing by Admeasurement Twenty three thousend «& forty
Acres which Tract is to Contain Six Miles Square & no more out of
which an Alloweuce is to be made for highways and unimprovable
Lands by Rocks ^lountains Ponds & Rivers One thousend & forty
Acres free According to A Plan thereof made & Presented By our
Said Governours Order and hereunto Annexed Butted & Bounded
as follows (Viz) Begining at A Marked Tree Standing half a
Mile West of Green River in the boundary line between the Govern-
ment of the Massachusets Bay & New Hampshire and from thence
Due West on Said Boundary line Six miles & at the End of Said Six
miles to turn off at a Right Angle and run Due North Six miles & at
the End of Said Six Miles to Turn of At A Right Angle & run Due
East Six miles, and at the End of Said Six Miles to turn A Right
Angle & run Due South Six Miles to the Tree first mentioned And
that the Same be & here is Incorporated into A Township By the
name of Halifax and that the Inhabitants that do or Shall hereafter
Inhabit the Said Township are hereby Declared to be Enfranchized
with and Intituled to all & Everv the Previledges and Imunities
that Other Towns within our S'' Province by Law Exercize & Enjoy
and further that the Said Town as Soon as there Shall be fiftv families

208 CHARTER RECORDS.

resident tS: Settled thereon Shall have the Liberty of Holding
Two fairs One of which Shall be held on the Last monday
*l-t)4 in the Month of * April and the other in the Last monday
of the month of September Annually which Fairs are not to
Continue and be held Longer than the respective Saturdays following
the said Mondays And As Soon as the Said Town Shall Consist of
Fifty Families A Market Shall be opned and kept one or more Days
in Each Week as may be tho^ most Advantagious to the Inhabitants
also that the first Meeting for the Choice of Town Officers Agreable
to the Laws of our Said Province Shall be held on the first
"Wednesday in August next which meeting Shall be notifyed by
Oliver Partridge Esq who is hereby Also Appointed the Moderator
of the Said first Meeting which he is to notify & Govern Agreeable to
the Law &: Custom of Our Said Province and that the Annual meeting
for ever hereafter for the Choice of Such officers for the Said Town
Shall be on the Last Wednesday of ISLirch Annually To ha"\t: & to
HOLD the Said Tract of Land as above Expressed togeather with All
the Previledges & Appurtenances to them And thier respective heirs
and Assignes for ever upon the following Conditions — Viz —

Imprimis That every Grantee his heirs or assignes Shall Plant or
Cultivate five Acres of Land within the Term of five years for ever}^
fifty Acres Contained in his or thier Share or Proportion of Land in
Said Town Ship and Continue to Improve & Settle the Same by
Aditional Cultivations on Penalty of the forfeiture of his grant or
Share in the Said Township and its reverting to his Majesty his heirs
& Successors to be by him or them regranted to Such of his Subjects
as Shall effectually Settle Sz Cultivate the Same —

Secundo — That all white & other Pine Trees within the Said
Township fit for Masting our Royal Navy be Carefully Preserved for
that use & none to be Cut or felld without his Maj"^ Especial
Lycence for So Doing first had & Obtained upon the Penalty of the
forfeiture of the right of Such Grantee his heirs or assigns to us our
heirs or Successors as well as being Subject to the Penalty of Any
Act or Acts of Parliament that now are or hereafter Shall be Enacted

Tertio — That before any Divission of the Said Land be made to and
Among the Grantees a Tract of Land as near the Center of the Said
Township as the Land will Admit of Shall be reserved & Marked out
for Town Lotts one of which Shall be allotted to Each Grantee of the
Contents of one Acre —

Quarto — Yielding &: paying therefor to us our heirs & Successors

for the Space of Ten Years to be Computed from the Date hereof the

rent of One Ear of Indian Corn only on the Twenty fifth

*l-65 Day of December *Annually if Lawfully Demanded the

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209

first payment to be made on the Twenty fifth Day of December next
Insueiiig the Date hereof —

Quiuto — Every Proprietor Settler or Inhabitant Shall Yield & pay
unto us our heirs and Successors Yearly & Every year for ever from
and after tlie Expiration of Ten Years from the Date hereof Namly
on the Twenty fifth Day of December which will be in the year of our
Lord one thousend Seven hundred & Sixty & one one Shilling Procla-
mation money for every hundred Acres he So ownsSettlesor Possesses
& So In Proportion for a greater or Lesser Tract of the Said Land
which money Shall be paid by the respective Persons above Said
their heirs or Assigns in our Council Chamber in Portsm** or to Such
officer or officers as Shall be Appointed to recieve the Same & this to
be in Lieu of All other Rents or Services whatsoever

In Testimony Whereof we have Caused the Seal of our Said Prov-
ince to be hereunto affixed Wittness Benning Wentworth Esq our
Governour & Com'ander in Chieff of Our Said Province the Eleventh
Day of May in the year of our Lord Christ One thousend Seven hun-
dred & fifty & in the Twenty third year of our reign

B Wentworth

By his Excelencys Com'and
with Advice of Council

Theodore Atkinson Se"'

Entred & recorded According to the Original under the Province
Seal this 11'^ Day of May 1750—

1^ Theodore Atkinson Se"^
Names of the Grantees Viz —

Oliver Partridge Esq
Abner Barnard
Charles Couts
Eleaz"" Hawks
Seth Catlen
John Tavlor
Tim° Childs Jun^
Abraham Bass
Edward Partridge
Benj'' Sheldon
Seth Graves
Ephraim Allen
Israel Graves
David Billing
Daniel White
Elihu White

Ebenezer Barnard
Selah Barnard
David Hoit
John Hawks
John Catlen
Jon'' Ashley
Gad Corse
Peter Bover
Aaron Denieur
David ffield
Perez Graves
Sam" Bodman
Oliver Graves
Seth D wight
Dan" White Jun^
Obediah Dickinson

Joseph Barnard
Tim° Woodbridge
Jesse Heath
Benj* Man
George Howland
Sam" Partridge jun'
Sam" Brown
Will™ Bull
Nathan Frary
Elnathan Graves
Silas Graves
Joseph Bodman
Zech^ Billing
Seth Dwight jun""
Salmon White
Elij" Dickinson

210 CHARTER RECORDS.

Ebenez"^ Bardwell Ebenez"^ Bardwell jiin"^ Benning Wentworth Esq
Bennigh Wentworth Esq Theodore Atkinson Esq

*l-66 Rich'^ Wibird Esq *Samuel Smith Esq Samuel Solley Esq
Sampson Sheaffe Esq First Minister School Meshech Wear

Esq Joseph Newmarch Esq John Wentworth Esq Ebenez"" Wentworth

Esq John Wentworth jun"^ Esq

Entred and recorded According to the Original this ll''^ Day of
May 1750

f Theodore Atkinson Sec^'y

A Plan of the Township of Halifax Granted by his Excelency
Benning Wentworth Esq Governour &c* an the Hon^'** his Majesties
Council of New Hampshire in America Unto Oliver Partridge Esq
& Others May 11'^ 1750 as it is to be Plotted by A Surveyer & Chain
men upon Oath unto Each Proprietor or Grantee in Equal Shares be
their Lotts better or worse (Excepting the four Lotts next the Town
Plot or Scite which Are Sixteen Acres Less measure than the Other
Lotts) as they were Drawn by the Agents for the Proprietors in
Portsmouth May the 11^^ 1750 and were Entred by the Secretary of
Said Province upon this Plan each man takeing His Chance whose
name Stands in the Schedule annexed to the Grant of Said Town-
ship—

Mem** A Plott Agreable to the within order was made by Mathew
Clesson Survey'' & Aron Denieu & John Morrison Chain men under
Oath was filed in the Sec'"^ office the 2^ of April 1751—

Attest"" Theodore Atkinson Se^^

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212 CHARTER RECORDS.

HARTFORD.

*2-9 *Province of New-Hampshire.

Hartford GEORGE the Third,

, ^—^--^ . By the Grace of God, of Great-Britain, France and

\ / Ireland, King, Defender of the Faith &c.

i (To all Persons to whom these Presents shall come,

^ V— -v^w -' Greeting.

Know ye, that We of Our special Grace, certain Knowledge, and
meer Motion, for the due Encouragement of settling a Neiv Planta-
tioyi within our said Province, by and with the Advice of our Trusty
and Well-beloved Benning Wentworth, Esq ; Our Governor and
Commander in Chief of Our said Province of Nev7-Hampshire in
New-England., and of our Council of the said Province ; Have
upon the Conditions and Reservations herein after made, given and
granted, and by these Presents, for us, our Heirs, and Successors,
do give and grant in equal Shares, unto Our loving Subjects, Inhabi-
tants of Our said Province of Neu'-Hampshire, and Our other Gov-
ernments, and to their Heirs and Assigns for ever, whose Names are
entred on this Grant, to be divided to and amongst them into Sixty
Eight equal Shares, all that Tract or Parcel of Land situate, lying
and being within our said Province of New-Hampshire, containing by
Admeasurement, Twenty Seven Thousand Acres, which Tract is to
contain Six Miles & one half Mile square, and no more ; out of
which an Allowance is to be made for High Ways and unimprovable
Lands by Rocks, Ponds, Mountains and Rivers, One Thousand and
Forty Acres free, according to a Plan and Survey thereof, made by
Our said Governor's Order, and returned into the Secretary's Office,
and hereunto annexed, butted and bounded as follows, Viz. Begin-
ning at A White Pine Tree marked Opposite to the South West
Corner of Labanon cross the river Connecticut, from thence North
Sixty Eight degrees Wast Seven Miles from thence North Thirty
four Degrees East Seven Miles from thence South Sixty Degrees
East Six Miles to A Hemlock Tree marked at the Head of White
River falls from thence Down the river to the first Bounds Men-
tioned And that the same be, and hereby is Incorporated into a
Township by the Name of Hartford And the Inhabitants that do or
shall hereafter inhabit the said Township, are hereby declared to be
Enfranchized with and Intitled to all and every the Priviledges and
Immunities that other Towns within Our Province by Law Exercise

HARTFORD. 213

and Enjoy: And further, that the said Town as soon as there shall
be Fifty Families resident and settled thereon, shall have the Liberty
of holding Two Fairs, one of which shall be held on the

And the other on the annually, which

Fairs are not to continue longer than the respective
following the said and that as soon as

the said Town shall consist of Fifty Families, a Market may
be *opened and kept one or more Days in each Week, as may *2-10
be thought most advantagious to the Inhabitants. Also,
that the first iNIeeting for the Choice of Town Officers, agreable to
the Law^s of our said Province, shall be held on the last Wednesday
in August Next which said Meeting shall be Notified by M'' John
Baldwin who is hereby also appointed the Moderator of the said first
Meeting, which he is to Notify and Govern agreable to the Laws and
Customs of Our said Province ; and that the annual Meeting for
ever hereafter for the Choice of such Officers for the said Town, shall
be on the Second Tuesday of 3Iarch annually, To Have and to Hold
the said Tract of Land as above expressed, together with all Privi-
leges and Appurtenances, to them and their respective Heirs and
Assigns forever, upon the following Conditions, viz.

I. That every Grantee, his Heirs or Assigns shall plant and culti-
vate five Acres of Land within the Term of five Years for every
fifty Acres contained in his or their Share or Proportion of Land in
said Township, and continue to improve and settle the same by
additional Cultivations, on Penalty of the Forfeiture of his Grant or
Share in the said Township, and of its reverting to Us, our Heirs
and Successors, to be by Us or Them Re-granted to such of Our Sub-
jects as shall effectually settle and cultivate the same.

II. That all white and other Pine Trees within the said Township,
fit for Masting Our Royal Navy, be carefully preserved for that Use,
and none to be cut or felled without Our special Licence for so doing
first had and obtained, upon the Penalt}' of the Forfeiture of the
Right of such Grantee, his Heirs and Assigns, to Us, our Heirs and
Successors, as well as being subject to the Penalty of any Act or
Acts of Parliament that now are, or hereafter shall be Enacted.

IV. Yielding and paying therefor to Us, our Heirs and Successors
for the Space of ten Years, to be computed from the Date hereof,
the Rent of one Ear of Indian Corn only, on the twenty-fifth Day of

214

CHAETER RECORDS.

December annually, if lawfully demanded, the first Payment to be
made on the twenty-fifth Day of December. 1762

V. Every Proprietor, Settler or Inhabitant, shall yield and pay
unto Us, our Heirs and Successors yearly, and every Year forever,
from and after i?he Expiration of ten Years from the abovesaid twenty-
fifth Day of December, namely, on the twenty-fifth Day of December,
which will be in the Year of Our Lord 1772 One shillmg Proclama-
tion Money for every Hundred Acres he so owns, settles or possesses,
and so in Proportion for a greater or lesser Tract of the said Land ;
which Money shall be paid by the respective Persons abovesaid, their
Heirs or Assigns, in our Council Chamber in Portsmouth, or to such
Olficer or Officers as shall be appointed to receive the same ; and this
to be in Lieu of all other Rents and Services whatsoever.

In Testimony whereof we have caused the Seal of our said Prov-
ince to be hereunto affixed. Witness Benning Wentworth, Esq ;
Our Governor and Commander in Chief of Our said Province, the
fourth Day of July In the Year of our Lord Christ, One Thousand
Seven Hundred and Sixty one And in the First Year of Our Reign.

B Wentworth

By His Excellency's Command,
With Advice of Council,

Theodore Atkinson Sec''''

Province of New Hamp"^ July 5*^ 1761

Recorded from the Back of the Original Charter of Hartford under
the Province Seal

Attesf Theodore Atkinson Sec''''

*2-12

*The Names of the Grantees of Hartford —

Prince Tracy
Samuel Terry
Samuel Terry jun''
Daniel Newcomb
Samuel Porter
Oliver Booth
Elijah Bingham
NathanielHolbrook jun
Joshua Pomroy
John Spencer jun""
Caleb Owen
James New Comb
Eleaz'' Fitch the 3'^
John Bold win jun''
Nath^ Clark

William Clark
Eleaz^ Hebard
Ebenez^ Gillit
Jonathan Cumins
Nathan Waldow
Jonathan Martin jun''
Elisha Doubleday jun'
■Elias Frink
Eliphalet Phelps
Sam" Williams
Timothy Clark
Aron Tush
James Flint
William Auld
Gideon Flint

Oliver Bruster
Benj'^ Wright
Silas Phelps
Joseph Martin
Daniel Pomroy
Nathaniel Warner
Thomas Tracy
Will'" Young''jun'^
Joshua Wright jun'^
Caleb Howard
Daniel Reddington *
Eph'" Terry
John Roundy
Hezzkiah Huntington
Elijah Bibbins

HARTFORD.

215

Ben J* Wright juu"^ Joseph FoUet Rowland Powel jan"^

Jedtlian Simons Gideon Bingham jun'^ Benj"^ Whitney

Gideon Hibard John Baldwin Joseph Blanchard

Daniel Newcomb Benj'' Whitney Dan'' Warner Esq

Joseph Newmarch Esq Tho^ Bell Esq Will'" Temple &

Sam" Wentworth of Boston

One whole Share for the Incorporated Society for the Propagation
of the Gospel in foreign Parts one whole Share for a Glebe for
Church of England as by Law Established one whole Share for the
first Settled Minister of the Gospel on Share for the Benefit of a
School in S'^ Town His Excellency Benning Wentworth Esq Five
Hundred Acres to be laid out as Marked in the Plan B : W :

Province of New Hamp' July 5"' 1761

Recorded from the Back of the Original Charter of Hartford under
the Province Seal

^ Theodore Atkinson Sec'^

Province of New Hamp"" July 5^^ 1761

Recorded from the Back of the original Charter of Hartford under
the Pro^ Seal

Attesf^ Theodore Atkinson Sec'^^

2J6 CHARTER RECORDS.

HARTLAND.

*2-61 *Province of New-Hampshire.

Hertford GEORGE the Third,

, .-WS-— ^ By the Grace of God, of Great-Britain, France and

\ / Ireland, King, Defender of the Faith &c.

J (To all persons to ichom these Presents shall come,

^ ^— ^.^*^ ^ Greeting.

Know ye, that We of Our special Grace, certain Knowledge, and
meer Motion, for the due Encouragement of settling a JSfeiv Planta-
tion within our said Province, by and with the Advice of our Trusty
and Well-beloved Benning Wentworth, Esq ; Our Governor and
Commander in Chief of Our said Province of New-Hampshike in
New-England, and of our Council of the said Province ; Have
upon the Conditions and Reservations herein after made, given and
granted, and by these Presents, for us, our Heirs, and Successors,
do give and grant in equal Shares, unto Our loving Subjects, Inhab-
itants of Our said Province of Netv-Hampshire, and Our other Gov-
ernments, and to their Heirs and Assigns for ever, whose Names are
entred on this Grant, to be divided to and amongst them into
Seventy One equal Shares, all that Tract or Parcel of Land situate,
lying and being within our said Province of Neiv-Hampshire, con-
taining by Admeasurement, twenty Six Thousand Acres, which Tract
is to contain Six miles and one half Mile square, and no more ; out
of which an Allowance is to be made for High Ways and unimprov-
able Lands by Rocks, Ponds, Mountains and Rivers, One Thousand
and Forty Acres free, according to a Plan and Survey thereof, made
by Our said Governor's Order, and returned into the Secretary's
Office, and hereunto annexed, butted and bounded as follows, Viz.
Begining at the North East Corner of Windsor from Thence North
Seventy five degrees west Six miles and one Quarter of a mile by
Windsor north line from thence North thirty Three degrees East
Seven miles and one Quarter of a mile from Thence South Sixty
Eight degrees East Seven miles to the Southeast Corner of Hartford
from thence down The River to The first Bounds Mentioned And
that the same be, and hereby is Incorporated into a Township
by the Name of Hertford And the Inhabitants that do or shall
hereafter inhabit the said Township, are hereby declared to be
Enfranchized with and Intitled to all and every the Priviledges and
Immunities that other Towns within Our Province by Law Exercise
and Enjoy : And further, that the said Town as soon as there shall

HARTLAND. 217

be Fifty Families resident and settled thereon, shall have the Liberty
of holding Two Fairs^ one of which shall be held on the
And the other on the annually, which Fairs are not

to continue longer than the respective following the said

and that as soon as the said Town shall consist of Fifty
Families, a Market may be *opened and kept one or more *2-62
Days in each Week, as may be thought most advantagious
to the Inhabitants. Also, that the first Meeting for the Choice of Town
Officers, agreable to the Laws of our said Province, shall be held on
the last Wednesday in August Next which said Meeting shall be
Notified by Oliver Willard who is hereby also appointed the Moderator
of the said first Meeting, which he is to Notify and Govern agreable
to the Laws and Customs of Our said Province ; and that the annual
Meeting for ever hereafter for the Choice of such Oificers for the
said Town, shall be on the Second Tuesday of March annually. To
Have and to Hold the said Tract of Land as above expressed,
together with all Privileges and Appurtenances, to them and their
respective Heirs and Assigns forever, upon the following Condi-
tions, viz.

L That every Grantee, his Heirs or Assigns shall plant and cul-
tivate five Acres of Laud within the Term of five Years for every
fifty Acres contained in his or their Share or Proportion of Land in
said Township, and continue to improve and settle the same by addi-
tional Cultivations, on Penalty of the Forfeiture of his Grant or
Share in the said Township, and of its reverting to Us, our Heirs
and Successors, to be by Us or Them Re-granted to such of Our Sub-
jects as shall effectually settle and cultivate the same.

H. That all white and other Pine Trees within the said Town-
ship, fit for Masting Our Royal Navy, be carefully preserved for that
Use, and none to be cut or felled without Our special Licence for so
doing first had and obtained, upon the Penalty of the Forfeiture of
the Right of such Grantee, his Heirs and Assigns, to Us, our Heirs
and Successors, as well as being subject to the Penalty of any Act or
Acts of Parliament that now are, or hereafter shall be Enacted.

IV. Yielding and paying therefor to Us, our Heirs and Succes-
sors for the Space of ten Years, to be computed from the Date hereof,
the Rent of one Ear of Indian Corn only, on the twenty-fifth Day of

218 CHARTER RECORDS.

December annually, if lawfully demanded, the first Payment to be
made on the twenty-fifth Day of December-. 1762

V. Every Proprietor, Settler or Inhabitant, shall yield and pay
unto Us, our Heirs and Successors yearly, and every Year forever,
from and after the Expiration of ten Years from the abovesaid
twenty-fifth Day of December., namely, on the twenty-fifth Day of
December^ which will be in the Year of Our Lord 1772 One sliilling
Proclamation Money for every Hundred Acres he so owns, settles or
possesses, and so in Proportion for a greater or lesser Tract of the
said Land ; which Money shall be paid by the respective Persons
abovesaid, their Heirs or Assigns, in our Council Chamber in Ports-
mouth., or to such Officer or Officers as shall be appointed to receive
the same ; and this to be in Lieu of all other Rents and Services
whatsoever.

In Testimony whereof we have caused the Seal of our said
Province to be hereunto affixed. Witness Benning Wentworth,
Esq ; Our Governor and Commander in Chief of Our said Province,
the Tenth Day of July In the Year of our Lord Christ, One Thou-
sand Seven Hundred and Sixty one And in the First Year of Our
Reign.

B Wentworth

By His Excellency's Command,
With Advice of Council,

Theodore Atkinson Sec^'^

Province of New Hamp"^ July 10'^ 1761

Recorded in the Book of Charters According to the Original
Charter under the Pro"" Seal

•^ Theodore Atkinson Sec'^y

*2-63 *The Names of the Grantees of Hertford — Viz —

Samuel Hunt Thomas Taylor Lusias Dolittle

Ebenezer Harvey Aaron Hosmore Zadock Wright

Thomas Chamberlain John Hastings Jun"" Thomas Chamberlain jun'

Benjamin Taylor Jonathan Hunt Michael Gellson

Andrew Gardner William Symonds Levi Willard

Andrew Powers Millam Nutting Elisha Harding

Joseph Lord Samuel Minot William Willard

Joseph Willard Moses Wright Amasa Wright

Enoch Hall Wilder Willard Daniel Shattock

John Hunt Caleb Strong Amos Tute

John Hubbard Sampson Willard Joseph Burt

Jacob Foul Phineas Waite Nathan Willard

HARTLAND.

219

Uriah Morse
John Harwood
Daniel Sergent
Willard Stevens
Fairbanks j\Ioore
James Nevin Esq
W" Moiilton

Ebenez"^ Hindsdale
Elisha Hunt
Nathaniel Foulsom
Jonathan Blan chard
Richard Wibird Esq
Eleaz'^ Russell

Timothy Nash

Solomon Emmons

John Sergent

Eleazer Porter

Oliver Willard

Howard Henderson

Sam" Wentworth Boston Henry Hillton
W" Earle Treadwell Clem^ March Esq John Goffe Esq

George March George Waldron Maj' John Wentworth

Benning Wentworth John Tasker Esq

His Excellency Benning Wentworth Esq a Tract of Land to Con-
tain Five Hundred Acres as Marked in the Plan B-W — which is to
be Accounted Two of the within Shares One whole Share for the
Incorporated Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Forreiign
Parts — One whole Share for A Glebe for the Church of England as
by Law Established — One Share for the first Settled Minister of the
Gospel One Share for the Benefit of A School in Said Town

Province of New Hamp^ July the lO'*^ 1761

Recorded According to the Back of the Original Charter —

19 Theodore Atkinson Sec'^

■<"*'«<=''" Pa,

Pro^ of New Hamp^ July 10'" 1761

Recorded According to the Back of the Original Charter —

19 Theodore Atkinson Sec'"''

220 CHAKTER RECORDS.

HIGHGATE.

*3-14 *Province of New-Hampshire.

Highgate GEORGE the Third,

^ /-*-^^— ~s . By the Grace of God, of Great-Britain, France and Ire-

\ , / land. King, Defender of the Faith &c.

I i To all Persons to whom these Presents shall come^

^ ^— i^^^wx / Greeting.

Know Ye, that We of Our special Grace, certain Knowledge, and
meer Motion, for the due Encouragement of settling a Neiv Planta-
tion within our said Province, by and with the Advice of our Trusty
and Well-beloved Benning Wentworth, Esq ; Our Governor and
Commander in Chief of Our said Province of New- Hampshire^ in Neiv-
England., and of Our Council of the said Province ; Have upon the
Conditicms and Reservations herein after made, given and granted,
and by these Presents, for Us, Our Heirs, and Successors, do give
and grant in equal Shares, unto Our loving Subjects, Inhabitants of
Our said Province of New-Hampshire., and Our other Governments,
and to their Heirs and Assigns for ever, whose Names are entred on
this Grant, to be divided to and amongst them into Seventy equal
Shares, all that Tract or Parcel of Land situate, lying and being
within our said Province of Netv-Hampshire, containing by Admeas-
urement, Twenty Three Thousand & forty Aeres., which Tract is to
contain Six Miles square, and no more ; out of which an Allowance
is to be made for High Ways and unimprovable Lands by Rocks,
Ponds, Mountains and Rivers, One Thousand and Forty Acres free,
according to a Plan and Survey thereof, made by Our said Governor's
Order, and returned into the Secretary's (3ffice, and hereunto
annexed, butted and bounded as follows, Viz. Begining at the
North Easterly Corner of Swanton a Town this Day Granted
(which Lays on the Easterly side of Lake Champlain) & Runing
Westerly by Swanton's Line to Lake Champlain then turning off
Northerly & Runing by the Shores of said Lake to a Stake & Stones
by the side of the Lake at Six Miles Distance on a Streight Line
from the North Westerly Corner of Swanton aforesaid then turning
off Easterly & Runing on a Parrellell Line with the Northerly Side
Line of said Swanton so far as that a Streight Line Drawn to the
North Easterly Corner of Swanton aforesaid the Bounds Began at
Shall make & Include the Contents of Six Miles Square And that
the same be, and hereby is Incorporated into a Township by the
Name of Highgate And the Inhabitants that do or shall hereafter

HIGHGATE. 221

inhabit the said Township, are hereby declared to be Enfranchized
with and Intitled to all and ever}- the Priviledo-es and Immunities
that other Towns within Our Province by Law Exercise and Enjoy:
And further, that the said Town as soon as there shall be Fifty
Families resident and settled thereon, shall have the Liberty of hold-
ing two Fairs, one of which shall be held on the

And the other on the annually, which Fairs

are not to continue longer than the respective

following the said and that as soon as the

said Town shall consist of Fifty Families, a Market may be
*opened and kept one or more Days in each Week, as may *3-15
be thought most advantagious to the Inhabitants. Also, that
the first Meeting for the Choice of Town Officers, agreable to the
Laws of our said Province, shall be held on the first Tuesday in Sep-
tember Next which said Meeting shall be Notified by Coll William
Symes who is hereby also appointed the Moderator of the said first
Meeting, which he is to Notify and Govern agreable to the Laws and
Customs of Our said Province ; and that the annual Meeting forever
hereafter for the Choice of such Officers for the said Town, shall be
on the Second Tuesday of March annually. To Have and to Hold
the said Tract of Land as above expressed, together with all Privi-
leges and Appurtenances, to them and their respective Heirs a7id
Assigns forever, upon the following Conditions, viz.

I. That every Grantee, his Heirs or Assigns shall plant and culti-
vate five Acres of Land within the Term of five Years for every fifty
Acres contained in his or their Share or Proportion of Land in said
Township, and continue to improve and settle the same by additional
Cultivations, on Penalty of the Forfeiture of his Grant or Share in
the said Township, and of its reverting to Us, our Heirs and Succes-
sors, to be by Us or them Re-granted to such of our Subjects as shall
effectually settle and cultivate the same.

II. That all white and other Pine Trees within the said Township,
fit for Masting Our Royal Navy, be carefully preserved for that LTse,
and none to be cut or felled without Our special Licence for so doing
first had and obtained, upon the Penalty of the Forfeiture of the
Right of such Grantee, his Heirs and Assigns, to Us, our Heirs
and Successors, as well as being subject to the Penalty of any
Act or Acts of Parliament that now are, or hereafter shall be En-
acted.

HI. That before any Division of the Land be made to and among
the Grantees, a Tract of Land as near the Centre of the said Town-
ship as the Land will admit of, shall be reserved and marked out for

222 CHARTER RECORDS.

Town Lots, one of which shall be allotted to each Grantee of the
Contents of one Acre.

IV. Yielding and paying therefor to Us, our Heirs and Successors
for the Space of ten Years, to be computed from the Date hereof, the
Rent of one Ear of Indian Corn only, on the twenty-fifth Day of
December annually, if lawfully demanded, the first Payment to be
made on the twenty-fifth Day of December. 1763

V. Every Proprietor, Settler or Inhabitant, shall yield and pay
unto Us, our Heirs and Successors yearly, and every Year forever,
from and after the Expiration of ten Years from the abovesaid
twenty-fifth Day of December., namely, on the twenty-fifth Day of
December., which will be in the Year of Our Lord 17 i 3 One shilling
Proclamation Money for every Hundred Acres he so owns, settles or
l^ossesses, and so in Proportion for a greater or lesser Tract of the
said Land ; which Money shall be paid by the respective Persons
abovesaid, their Heirs or Assigns, in our Comicil Chamber in Ports-
mouth, or to such Officer or Officers as shall be appointed to receive
the same ; and this to be in Lieu of all other Rents and Services
whatsoever.

In Testimony whereof we have caused the Seal of our said Prov-
ince to be hereunto affixed. Witness Penning Wentworth, Esq ;
Our Governor and Commander in Chief of Our said Province, the
Seventeenth Day of August In the Year of our Lord Christ, One
Thousand Seven Hundred and Sixty three And in the Third Year of
Our Reign.

B Wentworth

By His Excellency's Command,
With Advice of Council,

T Atkinson Jun"" Sec'^

Prov« New Hamp"^ August 17*^ 1763

Recorded according to the Original Charter under the Pro^ Seal

^ T Atkinson Jun"" Sec'^

*3-16 *The Names of the Grantees of Highgate

Samuel Hunt Jacob Elmer Eleazer Pomroy

Elisha Hunt Nehemiah Houghton Samuel Marble

Hilkiah Grout John Beman Josiah Willard

Samuel Bennett Phillip Alexander Elisha Harding

Henry Bond Nathaniel Dart Hophni King

Joseph Lord Benjamin Dike Joseph Ashley

Jeremiah Hall Peter Bellos Josiah Pomroy

Jonathan Hunt Arad Hunt Elijah Wells

HIGHGATE.

223

Samuel Hunt Jun"^
Ebeuezer Mattson
John Hunt
Josiah Stebins
Joshua Hide
William Symes
John Ferrer
John Fish
Caleb Noble
Joseph More
Samuel Hinsdale
Cap' Thomas Bell
& Daniel Kindge

Ebenezer Pomroy
Joseph Spencer
Moses Evens
Josiah Stebins Jun''
Samuel Williams
Hezekiah Elmer
Savage Trescott
Benoni Smith
James Mathews
Leonard Williams
Thomas Williams

Sampson Willard
William Kolton
William White
Elisha Stebins
Thomas Taylor
Elisha Smith
Israel Knowles
Isaac Robinson
John Williams
Nathan Williams
Barnibas Hindsdale

jjQjjbie Theodore Atkinson ~^ John Fisher Esq
Mark H^ Wentworth I -^
James Nevin j ^

Theodore Atkinson j'' J

For his Excellency Benning Wentworth Esq a Tract of Land to
Contain five Hundred Acres as Marked B W in the Plan which is to
be accounted two of the within Shares — One whole Share for the
Incorporated Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in foreign
Parts — One Share for a Glebe for the Church of England as by Law
Established One Share for the first Settled Minister in said Town
One Share for the Benefit of a School in Said Town for Ever

Pro"^ of New Hampshire August 17 1763

Recorded from the Back of the Original Charter of Highgate under
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Province of New Hamp'' August 17 — 1763

Recorded from the Back of the original Charter of Highgate under
the Pro^ Seal

m T Atkinson Jun^ Sec''^

HINESBURGH.

*2-367 ^Province of New-Hampshire,

Hinesburg GEORGE the Third,

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By the Grace of God, of Great-Britain, France and
Ireland, King, Defender of the Faith &c.

To all Persons to whom these Presents shall come.

Greeting.

Know ye, that We of Our special Grace, certain Knowledge, and
meer Motion, for the due Encouragement of settling a JVetv Planta-
tion within our said Province, by and with the Advice of our Trusty
and Well-beloved Benning Wentworth, Esq ; Our Governor and
Commander in Chief of Our said Province of New-Hampshire in
New-Engla7id^ and of our Council of the said Province ; Have
upon the Conditions and Reservations herein after made, given and
granted, and by these Presents, for us, our Heirs, and Successors,
do give and grant in equal Shares, unto Our loving Subjects, Inhabi-
tants of Our said Province of Netv-Hampshire, and Our other Gov-
ernments, and to their Heirs and Assigns for ever, whose Names are
entred on this Grant, to be divided to and amongst them into
Seventy equal Shares, all that Tract or Parcel of Land situate, lying
and being within our said Province of Netv- Ham j) shire, containing by
Admeasurement, Twenty Three Thousand & forty Acres, which Tract
is to contain Six Miles square, and no more ; out of which an Allowance
is to be made for High Ways and unimprovable Lands by Rocks, Ponds,
Mountains and Rivers, One Thousand and Forty Acres free, accord-
ing to a Plan and Survey thereof, made by Our said Governor's
Order, and returned into the Secretary's Office, and hereunto annexed,
butted and bounded as follows. Viz. Begining at A Marked Tree
Stand in the Notherly Side Line of the Township of Monkton Three
hundred Rods East of the North Westerly Corner thereof thence
runing East Six Miles to A Marked Tree thence Turning off & runs
North Six Miles to A Marked Tree then Turning off & runs West
Six Miles to a marked Tree which is the North Easterly Corner of
Charlotta then South Six Miles by Charlotta to the Bound Tree first
Above mentioned — And that the same be, and hereby is Incorporated

HINESBURGH. 225

into a Township by the Name of Hinesbourg And the Inhabitants
that do or shall here after inhabit the said Township, are hereby
declared to be Enfranchized with and Intitled to all and every the
Priviledges and Immunities that other Towns within Our Province
by Law Exercise and Enjoy: And further, that the said Town as
soon as there shall be Fifty Families resident and settled thereon,
shall have the Liberty of holding Two Fairs^ one of which shall be
held on the And the other on the

annually, whicli Fairs are not to continue longer than the respective
following the said and

that as soon as the said Town shall consist of Fifty Fam-
ilies, a Market may be *opeued and kept one or more Days *2-368
in each Week, as may be thought most advantagions to
the Inhabitants. Also, that the first Meeting for the Choice of
Town Ofticers. agreable to the Laws of our said Province, shall be
held on the last Fryday in July next which said Meeting shall
be Notitied by M"" Benj" Ferriss who is hereby also appointed the
Moderator of the said first Meeting, which he is to Notify and Govern
agreable to the Laws and Customs of Our said Province; and that
the annual Meeting for ever hereafter for the Choice of such Officers
for the said Town, shall be on the Second Tuesday of March annimWy^
To Have and to Hold the said Tract of Land as above expressed,
together with all Privileges and Appurtenances, to them and their
respective Heirs and Assigns forever, npon the following Conditions,
viz.

I. That every Grantee, his Heirs or Assigns shall plant and culti-
vate live Acres of Land within the Term of five Years for every fifty
Acres contained in his or their Share or Proportion of Land in said
Township, and continue to improve and settle the same by additional
Cultivations, on Penalty of the Forfeiture of his Grant or Share in
the said Township, and of its reverting to Us, our Heirs and Succes-
sors, to be by Us or Them Re-granted to such of Our Subjects as shall
effectually settle and cultivate the same.

II. That all white and other Pine Trees within the said Township,
fit for Masting Our Royal Navy, be carefully preserved for that Use,
and none to be cut or felled without Our special Licence for so doing
first had and obtained, upon the Penalty of the Forfeiture of the
Right of such Grantee, his Heirs and Assigns, to Us, our Heirs and
Successors, as well as being subject to the Penalty of any Actor Acts
of Parliament that now are, or hereafter shall be Enacted.

III. That before any Division of the Land be made to and among
the Grantees, a Tract of Land as near the Centre of the said Town-

226 CHARTER RECORDS.

ship as the Land will admit of, shall be reserved and marked out for
Town Lots, one of which shall be allotted to each Grantee of the
Contents of one Acre.

IV. Yielding and paying therefor to Us, our Heirs and Successors
for the Space of ten Years, to be computed from the Date hereof, the
Rent of one Ear of Indian Corn only, on the twenty-fifth Day of
December annually, if lawfully demanded, the first Payment to be
made on the twenty-fifth Day of December. 1763

V. Every Proprietor, Settler or Inhabitant, shall yield and pay
unto Us, our Heirs and Successors yearly, and every Year forever,
from and after the Expiration of ten Years from the abovesaid twenty-
fifth Day of December., namely, on the twenty-fifth Day of December,
which will be in the Year of Our Lord 1773 One shilliyig Proclamation
Money for every Hundred Acres he so owns, settles or possesses, and
so in Proportion for a greater or lesser Tract of the said Land ;
which Money shall be paid by the respective Persons abovesaid, their
Heirs or Assigns, in our Council Chamber in Portsmouth, or to such
Officer or Officers as shall be appointed to receive the same ; and
this to be in Lieu of all other Rents and Services whatsoever.

In Testimony whereof we have caused the Seal of our said Prov-
ince to be hereunto affixed. Witness Benning Wentworth, Esq;
Our Governor and Commander in Chief of Our said Province, the
24"' Day of June In the Year of our Lord Christ, One Thousand
Seven Hundred and Sixty Two And in the Second Year of Our
Reign.

B Wentworth

By his Excellency's Command,
With advice of Councjl,

T Atkinson Jun^ Sec^-^

Province of New Hamps'' June 24^'' 1762

Recorded According to the Origional Charter under the Province
seal

f T Atkinson Jun^ Sec^^

*2-359 *The Names of the Grantees of Hinesbourg (Viz)

David Ferriss Abel Hine John Brownson

Zaclr*'' Ferriss Dan^ Bostwick J-" Tho^ Oviatt Jnn^

Will'" Goold Moses Johnson Benj"^ Brownson

Isaac Canfield David Hall Josiah Brownson

Sam^ Brownson Sam^ Brownson J"" Sara' Canfield

Jolm Carrington Tho^ Weller I'illy Weller

Abel Weller Eben'^ Hotchkiss Israel Baldwin Jun''

Abel Camp John Comstock Sam' Hitchcock J""

HINESBURGH.

227

John Hitchcock
Zadock Noble
Asahel Noble
Orange Warner
James Bradshap
Jos'' Wooster
Noble Hine
Job Goold Jun''
Joseph Underbill
And"' Underbill

Isaac Hitchcock
Benj^ Gaylard
John Warner
Tho^ Darling-
Tho^ Noble
And" Bnrritt
Daniel Bnrritt

Asahel Hitchcock
Sam' Comstock
Martin Warner
Patridge Thacher
Will"' Vaughan
Isaac Bostwick
Job Goold
Amos Bostwick

David Goold

Edw'^ Burling New York Sam: Underbill
Tho^ Underbill Will'" Van Wyck

Will'" Van Wyck Jun^Iugh Rider William Pleld

Jos'' Pearsall Tho^ Pearsall Benj* Ferriss

Hon: John Temple Esq: L' Gov: Theodore Atkinson Esq
M" H''' Wentworth Esq John Nelson Esq —

His Excellency Benning Wentworth Esq a Tract of Land to Con-
tain Five Hundred Acres as marked B- W- in the Plan which is to
be Accounted two of the within Shares, one whole Share for the
Incorporated society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign
Parts, one share for a Glebe for the Church of England as by Law
Establish'd, One Share for the first settled Minister of the Gospel &
one Share for the Benefit of a School in said Town —

Province of New Hamps"" June 24, 1762

Recorded from the back of the Origional Charter of Hinesbourg,
under the Province seal —

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Province of New Hamps'' June 24*'' 1762

Recorded from the back of the Origioual Charter of Hinesbourg
under the Province seal

f T Atkinson j^ Sec'^

HUBBARDTON.

*3-114 *Province of New-Hampshire.

Hubbardton GEORGE the Third,

, — '• — V . By the Grace of God, of Great-Britain, France and

\ I Ireland, King, Defender of the Faith &c.

1 I To all Persons to whom these Presents shall come^

^ ■^-^.-i*-^ ' Greeting.

Know Ye, that We of Our special Grace, certain Knowledge, and
meer Motion, for the due Encouragement of settling a JVew Plantation
within our said Province, by and with the Advice of our Trusty and
Well-beloved Benning Wentworth, Esq ; Our Governor and
Commander in Chief of Our said Province of New-Hampshire, in
Neio-EnglancU and of Our Council of the said Province; Have
upon the Conditions and Reservations herein after made, given and
granted, and by these Presents, for Us, Our Heirs, and Successors, do
give and grant in equal Shares, unto Our loving Subjects, Inhabitants
of Our said Province of Neiv- Hampshire, and Our other Governments,
and to their Heirs and Assigns for ever, whose Names are entred on
this Grant, to be divided to andamongst them into Seventy four equal
Shares, all that Tract or Parcel of Land situate, lying and being
within our said Province of New-Hampshire, containing by Admeasure-
ment, 23040 Acres, which Tract is to contain Six Miles square, and
no more ; out of which an Allowance is to be made for High Ways
and unimprovable Lands by Rocks, Ponds, Mountains and Rivers,
One Thousand and Forty Acres free, according to a Plan and Survey
thereof, made by Our said Governor's Order, and returned into the
Secretary's Office, and hereunto annexed, butted and bounded as
follows. Viz. Begining at the North West Corner of Castleton & from
thence due North Six Miles, then turning off & runing due East
Six Miles but not to Interfere with any former Grant of this
Province from thence due South Six Miles to the North East Corner
of Castleton aforesaid, then due West by Castleton to the North
Westerly Corner thereof being the bounds begun at And that the
same be, and hereby is Incorporated into a Township by the Name of

HUBBARDTON. 229

Hubbaidtoii And the Inhabitants that do or shall hereafter inhabit
the said Township, are hereby dechared to be Enfranchized with and
Intitled to all and every the Priviledges and Immunities that other
Towns within Our Province by Law Exercise and Enjoy : And
further, that the said Town as soon as there shall be Fifty Families
resident and settled thereon, shall have the Liberty of holding two
Fairs, one of which shall be held on the

And the other on the annually, which

Fairs are not to continue longer than the respective

following the said
and that as soon as the said Town shall consist of Fifty
Families, a Market may be * opened and kept one or more *3-115
Days in each Week, as may be thought most advantagious
to the Inhabitants. Also, that the first Meeting for the Choice of
Town Officers, agreable to the Laws of our said Province, shall be
held on the which said Meeting

shall be Notified by Isaac Searle who is hereby also appointed the
Moderator of the said first Meeting, which he is to Notify and Govern
agreable to the Laws and Customs of Our said Province ; and that
the annual Meeting for ever hereafter for the Choice of such Officers
for the said Town, shall be on the Second Tuesday of March annually,
To Have and to Hold the said Tract of Land as above expressed,
together with all Privileges and Appurtenances, to them and their
respective Heirs and Assigns forever, upon the following Conditions,
viz.

I. That every Grantee, his Heirs or Assigns shall plant and
cultivate five Acres of Land within the Term of five Years for every
fifty Acres contained in his or their Share or Proportion of Land in
said Township, and continue to improve and settle the same by
additional Cultivations, on Penalty of the Forfeiture of his Grant or
Share in the said Township, and of its reverting to Us, our Heirs and
Successors, to be by Us or them Re-granted to such of our Subjects
as shall effectually settle and cultivate the same.

II. That all white and other Pine Trees within the said Township,
fit for Masting Our Koyal Navy, be carefully preserved for that Use,
and none to be cut or felled without Our special Licence for so doing
first had and obtained, upon the Penalty of the Forfeiture of the
Right of such Grantee, his Heirs and Assigns, to Us, our Heirs and
Successors, as well as being subject to the Penalty of any Actor Acts
of Parliament that now are, or hereafter shall be Enacted.

III. That before any Division of the Land be made to and among
the Grantees, a Tract of Land as near the Centre of the said Town-
ship as the Land will admit of, shall be reserved and marked out for

230 CHARTER RECORDS.

Town Lots, one of which shall be allotted to each Grantee of the
Contents of one Acre.

IV. Yielding and paying therefor to Us, our Heirs and Successors
for the Space of ten Years, to be computed from the Date hereof, the
Rent of one Ear of Indian Corn only, on the twenty-fifth Day of
December annually, if lawfully demanded, the first Payment to be
made on the twenty-fifth Day of December. 1764

V. Every Proprietor, Settler or Inhabitant, shall yield and pay
unto Us, our Heirs and Successors yearly, and every Year forever,
from and after the Expiration of ten Years from the abovesaid twenty-
fifth Day of December, namel}', on the twenty-fifth Day of Decembery
which will be in the Year of Our Lord 1774 One shillirig Proclamation
Money for every Hundred Acres he so owns, settles or possesses, a^
so in Proportion for a greater or lesser Tract of the said Land ; which
Money shall be paid by the respective Persons abovesaid, their Heirs
or Assigns, in our Council Chamber in Portsmouth, or to sucli Officer
or Officers as shall be appointed to receive the same ; and this to
be in Lieu of all other Rents and Services whatsoever.

In Testimony whereof we have caused the Seal of our said Province
to be hereunto affixed. Witness Benning Wentworth, Esq; Our
Governor and Commander in Chief of Our said Province, the 15'^
Day of June In the Year of our Lord Christ, One Thousand Seven
Hundred and Sixty four And in the Fourth Year of Our Reign.

B Wentworth
By His Excellency's Command,
With Advice of Council,

T Atkinson Jun"" Sec'^^

Province of New Hampshire June 22'^ 1764

Recorded According to the Origional Charter under the Province
Seal

^ T Atkinson Jun Sec'^

*3-116 *The Names of the Grantees of Hubbardton

Isaac Searle Esq" Alex"^ Orr Alex'' Orr Jun''

Volacart Doun And^^ Doun John Doun

John Matthews James Matthews John Miller

David Miller Sam' Miller Daniel Miller

James Miller Rob*^ Miller John Miller Jun""

John Hall Daniel Hall Sam' Hall

Daniel MTntier Peter M'Intier Dan' Hall Jun"^

Abr'" Jacob Launsing Joseph Lau using Tho® Launsing

Joseph Putney John Putney Henry Putney

HUBBARDTON.

231

Asa Putney
Rich'' Heselton
Dan' Chase
Daniel Chase Jun""
John Moors
John Moors Jun''
Rev' John Searle
Giles Alexandar
Isaac Wendall
Eben'' Nichols Esq""
Sam' Robinson Jun'"
Hon'"« Rich" Wibird
Jos'' Newmarch
John Nelson

John Chase
Joseph Heselton
Jon"^ Chase
James Moors
William Moors
John iVikin
Hon'''^- Will'" Brattle
Will"' Alexandar
Sam' Blodgett
Daniel Jones Jun'"
Jabez Warren

Abner Chase
John Heselton
Isaac Chase
Ephraim Moors
Daniel Moors
Andrew M'Farling
His Excell'y Fra' Ber-
nard Esq
Giles Alexandar Jun'^

Hon'"« Tho« Hubbard Esq
Sam' Robinson Esq
ColP John Goffe Esq Jesten Wheeler
Esq" And" Wiggins Esq John Hale Esq
George Wyllis P^sq'' Sam' Hobard Esq'"

Hrs Excellency Benning Wentworth Esq a Tract of Land to Con-
tain Five Hundred Acres as Marked B W in the Plan which is to be
Accounted two of the within Shares One whole Share for the Incor-
porated Society for the Propagating the Gospel in Foreign parts, One
Share for a Glebe for the Church of England as by Law Establish'd,
One Share for the frist Settled Minister of the Gospel & One Share
for the benefit of a School in said Town —

Province of New Hampshire June 22'' 1764

Recorded from the back of the Origional Charter under the Prov :
Seal —

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232 CHA.RTER RECORDS.

HUNTINGTON.

*2-413 *Province of New-Hampshire.

New Huntiugton GEORGE the Third,

. ,-*-'^*~^ . ^y the Grace of God, of Great-Britain, France and

\ / Ireland, King, Defender of the Faith, &c.

J ' * ( To all Persons to whom these Presents shall come^

^ ^— ^v^-*-' -' Greeting.

Know 3'e, that We of Onr special Grace, certain Knowledge,
and meer Motion, for the due Encouragement of settling a New Plan-
tation within our said Province, by and with the Advice of our
Trusty and Well-beloved Benning Wentworth, Esq; Our Governor
and Commander in Chief of Our said Province of New-Hampshire in
New-England, and of our Council of the said Province ; Have upon
the Conditions and Reservations herein after made, given and granted,
and by these Presents, for us, our Heirs, and Successors, do give
and grant in equal Shares, unto Our loving Subjects, Inhabitants of
Our said Province of Neiv- Hampshire, and Our other Governments,
and to their Heirs and Assigns for ever, whose Names are eutred on
this Grant, to be divided to and amongst them into Seventy two
equal Shares, all that Tract or Parcel of Land situate, lying and
being within our said Province of New- Hampshire, containing by Ad-
measurement, 23040 Acres, which Tract is to contain Six Miles square,
and no more ; out of which an Allowance is to be made for High
Ways and unimprovable Lands by Rocks, Ponds, Mountains and
Rivers, One Thousand and Forty Acres free, according to a Plan
and Survey thereof, made by Our said Governor's Order, and
returned into the Secretary's Office, and hereunto annexed, butted
and bounded as follows, Viz. Begining at the Southerly or South
Westerly Side of Onion or French River so called at the Easterly or
North Easterly Corner of Williston & runs up Said River So far as
to make Six Miles upon a Perpendicular to the uper or Head Line
of Said Williston then South Westerly and Parallel to the Said uper
Line of Williston afore Said & measureing there Six Miles then West-
erly to Willistons Head Line afore Said on Such A Point of the
Compass as Shall Contain within the Bounds afores'^ the Quantity of
Six Miles Square & no more — And that the same be and hereby is
Incorporated into a Township by the Name of New Huntington
And the Inhabitants that do or shall hereafter inhabit the said Town-
ship, are hereby declared to be Enfranchized with and Intitled to all

HUNTINGTON. 233

and every the Priviledges and Immunities that other Towns within
Our Province by Law Exercise and Enjoy: And further, that the
said Town as soon as there shall be Fifty Families resident and set-
tled thereon, shall have the Liberty of holding Tivo Fairs, one of
which shall be held on the And the other on the

annually, which Fairs are not to continue longer
than the respective following the said

and that as soon as the said Town shall consist
of Fifty Families, a Market may be* opened and kept one *2-414
or more Days in each Week, as may be thought most
advantagious to the Inhabitants. Also, that the first Meeting for
the Choice of Town Officers, agreable to the Laws of our said Prov-
i!ice, shall be held on the 15'^ July next which said Meeting shall be
Notified by Edward Burling Gent who is hereby also appointed the
Moderator of the said first Meeting, wliich he is to Notify and Govern
agreable to the Laws and Customs of Our said Province ; and that
the annual Meeting for ever hereafter for the Choice of such Officers
for the said Town, shall be on the Second Tuesday of March annually,
To Have and to Hold the said Tract of Land as above expressed,
together with all Privileges and Appurtenances, to them and their
respective Heirs and Assigns forever, upon the following Conditions,
viz.

L That every Grantee, his Heirs or Assigns shall jjlant and culti-
vate five Acres of Land within the Term of five Years for every fifty
Acres contained in his or their Share or Proportion of Land in said
Township, and continue to improve and settle the same by additional
Cultivations, on Penalty of the Forfeiture of his Grant or Share in
the said Township, and of its reverting to Us, our Heirs and Suc-
cessors, to be by Us or Them Re-granted to such of Our Subjects as
shall effectually settle and cultivate the same.

H. That all white and other Pine Trees within the said Township,
fit for Masting Our Royal Nav}^ be carefully preserved for that LTse,
and none to be cut or felled without Our special Licence for so doing
first had and obtained, upon the Penalty of the Forfeiture of the
Right of such Grantee, his Heirs and Assigns, to Us, our Heirs and
Successors, as well as being subject to the Penalty of any Act or
Acts of Parliament that now are, or hereafter shall be Enacted.

IV. Yielding and paying therefor to Us, our Heirs and Successors

234

CHARTER RECORDS.

for the Space of ten Years, to be computed from the Date hereof, the
Rent of one Ear of Indian Corn oidy, on the twenty-fifth Day of
Decemher annually, if lawfull}^ demanded, the first Payment to be
made on the twenty-fifth Day of December. 1763

V. Every Proprietor, Settler or Inhabitant, shall yield and pay
unto Us, our Heirs and Successors yearly, and every Year forever,
from and after the Expiration of ten Years from the abovesaid twenty-
fifth Day of December., namely, on the twenty-fifth Day of December.,
which will be in the Year of Our Lord 1773 One sMlling Proclama-
tion Money for ever}' Hundred Acres he so owns, settles or possesses,
and so in Proportion for a greater or lesser Tract of the said Land ;
which Money shall be paid by the respective Persons abovesaid, their
Heirs or Assigns, in our Council Chamber in Portsmouth., or to such
Officer or Officers as shall be appointed to receive the same; and
this to be in Lieu of all other Rents and Services whatsoever.

In Testimony whereof we have caused the Seal of our said Prov-
ince to be hereunto affixed. Witness Penning Wentworth, Esq ;
Our Governor and Commander in Chief of Our said Province, the
Seventh Day of June In the Year of Our Lord Christ, One Thou-
sand Seven Hundred and Sixty three And in the Third Year of
Our Reign.

B Wentworth

By His Excellency's Command,
With Advice of Council,

T Atkinson Jun^' Sec''^

Prov^ of New Hamp^ June 7-1763

Recorded According to the original Charter under the Prov'^ Seal

f T Atkinson Jun^ Sec^^

*2-415 *The Names of the Grantees of New Huntington Viz

Edward Burling
Aaron Van nor strand
Joshua Hunt
Charles Hunt
William Giffers
Oliver Besly Jun""
Josiah Quinby
Jon^ Fowler
George Antunes
Sam" Crawford
Marraaduke Palmer
Marmaduke Hunt
James Ferris Jun""

Samuel Treadwell
John Lawrence
Tho* Brown
Benj"' Cornnell
Benj'^ Bowne
Joshua Antunes
Aaron Quinby Jun"^
James Fowler
John Angevin
Thomas Oakley
Peter Hnggeford
James Ferres
John Ferris

Jesse Lawrence
John Underbill
Cornelius Davoe
LTriah Travis
David Guion
Aaron Qui m by
Israel Honeywell
James Antunes
Jacob Constant
Isaac Oakle}^
James Davis
Thomas Ferres
John Ferris Jun*"

HUNTINGTON.

235

Will'" Ferris
John Burling
Charles Pinkney
Will'" Cornnell
Benj'^ Ferris Jun""
Rich'' Titus
Sanuiel Averill
Hon: Will"' Temple
John Nelson
Theo: Atkinson Jun

Joseph Cornnell John Cornnell

Hugh Rider John Pinckney

David Rinkney Joseph Cornnell Jun'

Benj'"' Ferris Jaraes Ferris Son of Benjamin
IMathew Franklin Thomas Haviland

Caleb Griffin Edward Burling Jun"^

Jou'^ Rinkney Gilbird Pinkney

Maj'" Jon'^ Aloulton
Esq'^'' Christ" Toppan Esq'' &

ColP Clem^ xMarch

His Excellency Benning Wentworth Esq a Tract of Land to Con-
tain Five hundred Acres as Marked B-W- in the Plan which is to
be Accounted two of the within Shares One Whole Share for the
Incorporated Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign
Parts — one Share for a Glebe for the Church of England as by Law
Established one Share for the first Settled Minister of the Gospel &
one Share for the Benefit of A School in Said Town

Prov*^ of New Hamp'^ June 7-1763

Recorded from the Back of the original Charter of New Hunting-
ton nnder the Pro"" Seal

19 T Atkinson Jun-" Sec^^

JV,„<A .T07„.r,3?

Pro^ of New Hamp^ June 7-1763

Recorded from the Back of the Charter of New Huntington under
the Pro' Seal

19 T Atkinson Jun^Sec'■y

236 CHARTER RECORDS.

JERICHO.

*2— 433 *Province of New-Hampshire.

Jerieo GEORGE the Third,

, ,— ---^-N . By the Grace of God, of Great-Britain, France and
\ i Ireland, King, Defender of the Faith &c.

i (To all Persons to tvltom these Presents shall come^

^ V— ~^-*^ ' Greeting.

Know ye, that We of Our special Grace, certain Knowledge, and
meer Motion, for the due Encouragement of settling a Neio Planta-
tion within our said Province, by and with the Advice of our Trusty
and Well-beloved Benning Wentworth, Esq; Our Governor and
Commander in Chief of Our said Province of New-HajMpshire in
New-England^ and of our Council of the said Province; Have
upon the Conditions and Reservations herein after made, given and
granted, and by these Presents, for us, our Heirs, and Successors, do
give and grant in equal Shares, unto Our loving Subjects, Inhabi-
tants of Our said Province of Netv- Hampshire, and Our other Gov-
ernments, and to their Heirs and Assigns for ever, whose Names are
entred on this Grant, to be divided to and amongst them into Seventy
two equal Shares, all that Tract or Parcel of Land situate, lying and
being within our said Province of Neiv-Hampshire, containing by
Admeasurement, 23040 Acres, which Tract is to contain Six Miles
square, and no more; out of which an Allowance is to be made for
High Ways and unimprovable Lands by Rocks, Ponds, Mountains
and Rivers, One Thousand and Forty Acres free, according to a Plan
and Survey thereof, made by Our said Governor's Order, and
returned into the Secretary's Office, and hereunto annexed, butted
and bounded as follows. Viz. Begining at the Southerly or South
Easterly Corner of Essex at the Northerly side of Onion or French
River (so called) from thence Easterly up said River so far as to
make Six Miles on a streight Line, allowing the same to be Perpen-
dicular with the South Easterly Line of said Essex from thence
Northerly a Parralell Line with the south Easterly line of said Essex
six Miles from thence Westerly about six Miles to the North East-
erly corner of said Essex, from thence southerly by the Easterly
Line of said Essex Six Miles to the place begun at — And that the same
be, and hereby is Incorporated into a Township by the Name of Jerieo
And the Inhabitants that do or shall hereafter inhabit the said Town-
ship, are hereby declared to be Enfranchized with and Intitled to all
and every the Priviledges and Immunities that other Towns within

JERICHO. 237

Our Province by Law Exercise and Enjoy: And further, that the said
Town as soon as there shall be Fifty Families resident and settled
thereon, shall have the Liberty of holding Two Fairs, one of which shall
be held on the And the other on the

annually, which Fairs are not to continue longer
than the respective

following the said and that as

soon as the said Town shall consist of Fifty Families, a
Market may be *opened and kept one or more Days in each *2-434
Week, as may be thought most acdvantagious to the Inhabi-
tants. Also, that the first Meeting for the Choice of Town Officers,
agreable to the Laws of our said Province, shall be held on the 14''^
July next which said Meeting shall be Notified by M'^ John Burling
who is hereby also appointed the Moderator of the said first Meeting,
which he is to Notify and Govern agreable to the Laws and Customs
of Our said Province; and that the annual Meeting for ever here-
after for the Choice of such Officers for the said Town, shall be on
the Second Tuesday of 3Iarch annually, To Have and to Hold the
said Tract of Land as above expressed, together with all Privileges
and Appurtenances, to them and their respective Heirs and Assigns
forever, upon the following Conditions, viz.

I. That every Grantee, his Heirs or Assigns shall plant and culti-
vate five Acres of Land within the Term of five Years for every fifty
Acres contained in his or their Share or Proportion of Land in said
Township, and continue to improve and settle the same by additional
Cultivations, on Penalty of the Forfeiture of his Grant or Share in
the said Township, and of its reverting to Us, our Heirs and Success-
ors, to be by Us or Them Re-granted to such of Our Subjects as shall
effectually settle and cultivate the same.

H. That all white and other Pine Trees within the said Township,
fit for Masting Our Royal Nav}', be carefully preserved for that Use,
and none to be cut or felled without Our special Licence for so doing
first had and obtained, upon the Penalty of the Forfeiture of the
Right of such Grantee, his Heirs and Assigns, to Us, our Heirs and
Successors, as well as being subject to the Penalty of any Act or
Acts of Parliament that now are, or hereafter shall be Enacted.

IV. Yielding and paying therefor to Us, our Heirs and Successors
for the Space of ten Years, to be computed from the Date hereof, the

238

CHARTER RECORDS.

Rent of one Ear of Indian Corn only, on tlie twenty-fifth Day of
December annually, if lawfully demanded, the first Payment to be
made on the twenty-fifth Day of December. 1763

V. Every Proprietor, Settler or Inhabitant, shall yield and pay
unto Us, our Heirs and Successors yearly, and every Year forever,
from and after the Expiration of ten Years from the abovesaid twenty-
fifth Day of December., namely, on the twenty-fifth Day of December.,
which will be in the Year of Our Lord 1778 One shilling Proclama-
tion Money for every Hundred Acres he so owns, settles or possesses,
and so in Proportion for a greater or lesser Tract of the said Land ;
which Money shall be paid by the respective Persons abovesaid, their
Heirs or Assigns, in our Council Chamber in Portsmouth or to such
Officer or Officers as shall be appointed to receive the same ; and this
to be in Lieu of all other Rents and Services whatsoever.

In Testimony whereof we have caused the Seal of our said Prov-
ince to be hereunto affixed. Witness Benning Wentworth, Esq ;
Our Governor and Commander in Chief of Our said Province, the
Seventh Day of June In the Year of our Lord Christ, One Thou-
sand Seven Hundred and Sixty three And in the Third Year of Our
Reign.

By His Excellency's Command,
With Advice of Council,

f T Atkinson Jun^ Sec^^

Pro^ New Hamp^ June 7"' 1763

Recorded According to the Original Charter under the Prov'' Seal

f T Atkinson Jun"^ Sec^^
*2-435 *The Names of the Grantees of Jerico (Viz)

Edw^^ Burling
Walter Burling
John Sackett
Dan^ Wiggins
Will"" Wiggins
Dan' Latham
Amos Dodge Jun''
James Jarvis Jun"^
Philip Brasher
Morris Earle
Amos Underbill Jun''
Edm'^ Underbill
Tho« Grenell
John Dyer Mercier
John Bowne

James Burling
Sam' Burling
James Sackett Jun""
John WiffSfins
Benj^ Wiggins
Lancaster Burling
Arthur Jarvis
Charles Jarvis
Abr'" Brasher
Barnard De Forcest
David Underbill
Sam' Laurence
Tho'^ Grenell Jun''
John Burling
John Vermilye

Tho* Burling
Benj"^ Burling
John Sackett Jun""
Dan' Wiggins Jun''
Will'" Latham
Amos Dodge
James Jarvis
Benj=^ Bill

Will'" D Peyster Jun^
John Bates
Soloman Underbill
James Laurence
Will'" Mercier
Phillip Burling
Nich'' H Bocrart

JERICHO.

239

* Jolin iNIartine
Peter Tetard
Stephen Davis
James McCreedy
Sam' Averill
Joseph Bhmchard
Benj" Jarvis

Jere'*'' Martiue John Guerinaux

Sam' Gillat Charles Davis

John Davis James Davis

John Cornell of Flushing Henry Mattliews
Hon John Temple ) Coll" Sam' Barr

Theo : Atkinson [ Esq" D"" John Hale
M"^ H« Wentworth ) Tho^ Grenell Sen^

His Excellency Bemiing Wentworth Esq'' a Tract of Land to
Contain Five Hundred Acres as marked B- W- in the Plan which is
to be Accounted two of the within shares, One whole share for the
Incorporated Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign
Parts, One Share for a Glebe for the Cliurch of England as by Law
Establish'd, One Share for the First settled Minister of the Gospel,
& One Share for the benefit of a School in said Town —

Province of New Hamp'" June 7"' 1763

Recorded according to the Back of the Original Charter of Jerico
under the Pro"" Seal

^ T Atkinson Jun^ Sec^^

Province of New Hamp"" June 7"' 17(33

Recorded from the Back of the Original Charter of Jerico under
the Pro^ Seal

^ T Atkinson Jun' Sec'^

£40 rWAlCTltK SB0IKD6.

LEICESTEE.

*±S^ *PiO¥Tiice of Keir-Haiiipshire.

Leieestef GEORGE rsiz Thzsix.

^- Bv tbe Giaee of Great-Biitain. France and

^ ^ ^ / Ireland.Krs-G,l ;__rr of ae Faith, &e.

i " ^ I TiS' aU JPertentM to wksm tkete J*rt^ttt9 tkall eome,

^ ^. — ^ Gieetmg.

Ky«>%v' ine, lliat We of Our special Giace. certain Knowledge, and
raeer Modaon, for the dne Encouragement of settling a Xett Plamta-
thm widun our said ProTince. bir and with Khe Adiice of our Trastr
and Well-beloTed BKSXDfG WEnrrwoETH. Esq : Onr GoTemor and
Commander in Chief of Char said ProTinc* of Xew-Hampshiee in
Mev-Mi^aMdy, and of oar Council of the said Proirince: Hate
UffSBL the Conditions and Resenrations hermi after made, giren and
gnnted, and b^ these Presents, for ns, oor Heiis, and Sneeessors. do
gire and grant in equal Shares, nnto Our kmng Snbjecte, Inhahitanta
of Onr said ProTinee of Mem-Bimmpddre^ and Oor other GoTem-
mffirityj and to Idbeir H^xs and Assigns for eTer. whose Xames are
t7 ~ _ this Grant, to he divided to and amongst th^n into SeTenty

. ^^lazes, an lAot Tract or Parcel of Land sitoate, lying and
yaar said Province of WemrHam^kire^ containing h^ Ad-
. afao^ Twenihr three Thousand AereSr, which Tract is to
: Six miles square, and no more: oat of which an AUow-
- • - r High Wajs and onimpioTahle Lands by Rocks,
.1 lUrers, One Thonsand and Forty Acres feee,
"■Trvey thereof, made hy Oar said Governor's
:b~ Seeretaiy^s Oflfice, and hereonto annexed,
-, Viz. Begining at the Xorth Westeriy
•z ^ '^ . '' -'. e Roning Xortibi fonr Degrees West
East F _ Soath Six MQes, llience sonl^ foar

j>=^ -■'-..'- mx i: " -TeadT Comer of l^eshobe afore-

said, then:-^ ^^- by Xeshobe aforesaid to the

]!ii^aii& Y-' . e; Boonds began at — And

And th£L' :^' 'fated into a Township

bf iAte y ~ Idiat do or shall here-

afi^ :"' -ired to be Enfean-

^ditr ~ ledges and Imman-

ities " ~ Exercise and

Enjc *^hrr«= slrsl! be

Fifty Fa- of

LEICESTEE- 241

holding Tvt'j Fain, one of wbicli shall be held on ih^
And the other on the

annually, which Fairs are not to conmme longer Tr-.r. -ji - - ,- , - -^
following the said :

as soon as the said Town shall " " ~ ~ _r^.
a Market may be * opened and 1 . 1 . ~ — *l:— 5S*J
each Week, as may be thought most a-ivantagioiis to tlr
Inhabitants. Also, that the first Meetiiig for the Choice ■:•! Town
Officers, agreable ix) the Laws of our said ProTince, shall be held on
the Last Tues-iay of XoTem* : " ' ' , ' ^ ' - ," " ' ^" - -- "
by Cap' Aar«jn Brown who i; : ! . ;

the said first Meeting, which he is to Xoniy and Goven: _ . r to
the Laws and Cnstoms of Our said ProTince ; and that :_ ; . n»l
Meeting for ever hereafter for the Choic-e of stieh Officers for the said
Town, shall be on the Second Tnes<iay of M-JircJi anniLalLy. To Hatt:
and to Holt* the said Tract of Land as aloTe exTresse-i. tC'^^ether
with all PnTileges and Appurtenances, to them : respectixe

Heirs and Assigns forexer. np^n the following C:: ' ;. viz.

I. That erery Grantee, his Heirs or Assigns shall plant ^id cul&Tate
five Acres of Land within the Term of fire Tears for every fifty Acres
c-ontained in his or their Share or Pr>:>portion of Land in said Town-
siiir. and continue to rmpr:<ve and settle the same by additional
L -iltivations. on Penalty of the Forfeiture of his Grant or Share in
the said Township, and of its reverting to Us, our Heirs and Sueces-
sors. to be by Us or Them Re-granted to such of Our Subjects as shall
enectually settle and cultivate the same.

n. That all white and other Pine T — -- - , - — -.iir>.
fitforMastingChirRoyaiyavy.be . ~ Vse,

and none to be cut or felled without L>ur special Lic-ence for so doing^
first Jiad and obtained, upon the Penalty of the Forfeiture of the Eight
of such Grantee, his Heiis and Assiirns, to Us, our Heirs and Suec^s-
s<:«is. as ' - _ - ^ Act or Acts of

Pariianir:." :_.:.. . . . - _. . ^\_ :tL

HI. That before any Divi? e Land be made to and amoncr

the Grantees, a Tract of Lan,. ..- _ ..r the Centre of the said Town-
ship as the Land will admit of. shall be reserved and marked, out for
Town Lots, one of which shall be allotted, to each Gianiee oi the
Contents of one A:-re.

R'. Yielding _ - ^

for the Space of :.- -. — ;... , . _:,„ i.. _. :^, _,-._;.__

Rent of one Ear of Indian Com only, on the twenty-fifth Day of

I'i^mltr annually. ■* " — ^ "" ' 'rd, the first Payment to be

made on the twenty-: -. 176-

xvr

242

CHARTER RECORDS.

V. Every Proprietor, Settler or Inhabitant, sLafl yield And pay unto
Us, our Heirs and Successors yearly, and every Ye^ir foreVer,. from and
after the Expiration of ten Years from the abovesaid twenty-fiftli Day
of December^ namely, on the twenty-fifth Day of I)ece)nhe)\ which will
be in the Year of Our Lord 1772 One sldlling Proclamation Money
for every Hundred Acres he so owns, settles or possessesv and so in
Proportion for a greater or lesser Tract of the said Land ;. which
Money shall be paid by the respective Persons abovesaid, their Heirs
or Assigns, in our Council Chamber in PorUvnoutli^ or to such Oflficer
or Officere as shall be appointed to receive the same ; and this to
be in Lieu of all other Rents and Services whatsoever.

In Testimony whereof we have caused the Seal of our said Province
to be hereunto affixed. Witness Benning Wentworth, Esq ; Our
Governor and Commander in Chief of Our said Province, the Twen-
tieth Day of October In the Year of our Lord Christ, One Thousand
Seven Hundred and Sixty One And in the First Year of Our lleign,

B Wentworth

By His Excellency's Command,
With Advice of Council,

Theodore Atkinson Se''^'

Prov*" of New Hamps' Nov"" 3, 1761

Recorded According to the Origional Charter under the Province
Seal

Theodore Atkinson Sec''''

*2-331 *The Names of the Grantees of Leicester (Viz)

Aaron Brown
Jon'^ Haughton
Glasher Wheeler
James Maxwell
Water Powers
Steph" Shadduck
Nath^ Rament
Dan^ A mason
Josiah Powers
Edw'^ Fuller
Peter Buckle
Benj'* Abbot
Oliver Sawyer
Jon'"^ Perkham
David Si)afford
Robert Cuttler

Dan' Pond
Abner Ousgood
Peter Wheeler
Luke Brown
Abiatha Houghton
David Tayler
Peter Wright
Dan' Prest
David Fales
Will'" Kenady
Joseph Fuller
Rob* Powers Jun""
Oliver Cory
Ezra Genet
Nahum Powers
Benj"^ Danford

Jon^ Hammond
Robert Powers
Abijah Powers
Jacob Waters
Matthew Powers
John Tayler
Whitcom Powers
Silas Brown
Jos'^ Hucker
Jos'' Blancliard
Steph" Powers
Joseph French
Eben'- Griffin
Eplira'" Brown
Abel Powers
Josiah Hording

LEICESTER.

243

John Cuming
Edw'* Robins Jun''
Stepli" Johnson
Dan' ^^'anle^ Esq
Oliver Carter
Lieu' ColP Weeks

Jeremiah Powers Joseph Storer

John Avery Enoch Clark

Oliver Hale Boaz Brown

j\r^ Hs Wentworth EsqClem' Marcli Esq
Josiah Carter Elijah Mash

D'' Emera & Maj'' Sam' Hale —

His Excellency Benning Wentworth Esq a Tract of Land to Contain
Five Hundred Acres, as Marked B- W- in the Plan which is to be
Accounted two of the within shares, One whole share for the Incorp-
orated Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts,
One Share for a Glebe for the Church of England as by Law Estab-
lished, One Share for the First Settled Minister of the Gospel & One
Share for the Benefit of a School in said Town —

Province of New Hamps"" Nov'" 3, 1761 —

Recorded from the back of the Origional Charter of Leicester under
the Prov'' Seal —

Attested ^ Theodore Atkinson Se-^^'

^0 ^^ ■^•l'UL'>\ ^\1-^'f/,bta.V i"/it

'1. '<i.

Province of New Hampshire Nov'' 3 1761

Recorded from the back of the Origional Charter of Leicester under
the Prov : Seal

19 Theodore Atkinson Sec"^^

244 CHARTER RECORDS.

LEMINGTON.

*2-381 *Province of New-Hampsliire.

Limington GEORGE the Third,

. ,-iw— ^ >^ By the Grace of God, of Great^Britain, France and

\ / Ireland, King, Defender of the Faith, &c.

J ' I To all Persons to whom these Presents shall come,

^ ^^^^-^i-' ^ Greeting.

Know ye, that We of Our special Grace, certain Knowledge, and
meer Motion, for the due Encouracjement of settling- a Neiv Plantation
within our said Province, by and with the Advice of our Trusty and
Well-beloved Benning Wentworth, Esq; Our Governor and
Commander in Chief of Our said Province of New-Hampshire in
New-England., and of our Council of the said Province ; Have upon
the Conditions and Reservations herein after made, given and granted,
and by these Presents, for us, our Heirs, and Successors, do give and
grant in equal Shares, unto Our loving Subjects, Inhabitants of Our
said Province of New-Ifampshirv, and Our other Governments, and to
their Heirs and Assigns for ever, whose Names are entred on this
Grant, to be divided to and amongst them into Seventy equal Shares,
all that Tract or Parcel of Land situate, lying and being within our
said Province of Neiv-Hampshire, containing by Admeasurement^
Twenty Three Thousand & forty Acres, which Tract is to contain Six
Miles square, and no more ; out of which an Allowance is to be made
for High Ways and unimprovable Lands by Rocks, Ponds, Mountains
and Rivers, One Thousand and Forty Acres free, according to a Plan
and Survey thereof, made by Our said Governor's Order, and returned
into the Secretary's Office, and hereunto annexed, butted and bounded
as follows. Viz. Begining at the most Easterly Corner of Minehead
at a Tree Marked, standing on the Westerly side of Connecticut River
at a place called the upper Co'os thence North Easterly up Conecti-
cut River bounding upon said River so far as to make Six Miles upon
a streight Line, thence carrying that breadth of six Miles North
Westerly so far as that a Parralel Line with the streight Line afores'^
will make the Contents of Six jMiles Square — And that the same be,
and hereby is Incorporated into a Township by the Name of Limington
And the Inhabitants that do or shall hereafter inhabit the said Town-
ship, are hereby declared to be Enfranchized with and Intitled to all
and every the Priviledges and Immunities that other Towns within
Our Province by Law Exercise and Enjoy: And further, that the

LEMINGTON. 245

said Town as soon as there shall be Fifty Families resident and settled
thereon, shall have the Liberty of holding T^vo Fairs, one of which
shall be held on the And the other on the

annually, which Fairs are not to continue
longer than the respective following the

said and that as soon as the said Town

shall consist of Fifty Families a Market may be *opened and *2-382
kept one or more l)a3'S in each Week, as may be thought
most advantagious to the Inhabitants. Also, that the first Meeting
for the Choice of Town Officers, agreable to the Laws of our said
Province, shall be held on the First Tuesday in August next which
said Meeting shall l^e Notitied by jM'' James Tripp who is hereby also
appointed the ]\Ioderator of the said first JNIeeting, which he is to
Notify and Govern agreable to the Laws and Customs of Our said
Province ; and that the annual Meeting for ever hereafter for the
Choice of sucli Officers for the said Town, shall be on the Second
Tuesday of JIarch annually. To ILvvE and to Hold the said Tract of
]yand as above expressed, together with all Privileges and Appurten-
ances, to them and their respective Heirs and Assigns forever, upon
the following Conditions, viz.

L That every Grantee, his Heirs or Assigns shall plant and cultivate
five Acres of Land within the Term of five Years for every fifty
Acres contained in his or their Share or Proportion of Land in said
Township, and continue to improve and settle the same by additional
Cultivations, on Penalty of the Forfeiture of his Grant or Share in
the said Township, and of its reverting to Us, our Heirs and Succes-
sors, to be by Us or Them Re-granted to such of Our Subjects as shall
effectually settle and cultivate the same.

H. That all white and other Pine Tees within the said Township,
fit for Masting Our Royal Navy, be carefully preserved for that Use,
and none to be cut or felled without Our special Licence for so doing
first had and obtained, upon the Penalty of the Forfeiture of the Right
of such Grantee, his Heirs and Assigns, to Us, our Heirs and Succes-
sors, as well as being subject to the Penalty of any Act or Acts of
Parliament that now are, or liereafter shall be Enacted.

HI. That before any Division of the Land be made to and among
the Grantees, a Tract of Land as near the Centre of the said Town-
ship as the Land will admit of, shall be reserved and marked out for
Town Lots, one of which sliall be allotted to each Grantee of the
Contents of one Acre.

IV. Yielding and paying therefor to Us, our Heirs and Successors
for the Space of ten Years, to be computed from the Date liereof, the
Rent of one Ear of Indian Corn only, on the twenty-fifth Day of

246

CHARTER RECORDS.

December annually, if lawfully demanded, the first Payment to be
made on the twenty-fifth Day of December. 1763

V. Every Proprietor, Settler or Inhabitant, shall yield and pay
unto Us, our Heirs and Successors yearly, and every Year forever,
from and after the Expiration of ten Years from the abovesaid twenty-
fifth Day of December., namely, on the twenty-fifth Day of Decernber,
which will be in the Year of Our Lord 1773 One shilling Proclama-
tion Money for every Hundred Acres he so owns, settles or possesses,
and so in Proportion for a greater or lesser Tract of the said Land ;
which Money shall be paid by the respective Persons abovesaid, their
Heirs or Assigns, in our Council Chamber in Portsmouth, or to such
Officer or Officers as shall be appointed to receive the same ; and this
to be in Lieu of all other Rents and Services whatsoever.

In Testimony whereof we have caused the Seal of our said Province
to be hereunto affixed. Witness Penning Wentworth, Esq ; Our
Governor and Commander in Chief of Our said Province, the 29'**
Day of June In the Year of our Lord Christ, One Thousand Seven
Hundred and Sixty Two And in the Second Year of Our Reign.

B Wentworth

By His Excellency's Command,
With Advice of Council,

Thodore Atkinson Jun'^ Sec''^

Prov*^ of New Hamp"" June 29"' 1762

Recorded from the Original Charter under the Pro'^ Seal

19 T Atkinson Jun"- Sec^^

*2-883 *The Names of the Grantees of Limington (Viz)

Sam^ Averill
Jon''^ Seaman
Peter Muttea
John Hoag Jun"^
John Hall Jun''
Anthony Tripp
William Cook
John Bobbins
Sam' Smith
Will"' Langdon
David Seaman
Townsend Dickson
Daniel Frost
Benj'' Clapp
Jacob Bowne

Sam' Willis
Hermon Lefford
Tho^ Seaman Jun''
Gilbert Thorn
John Tripp
John Cromwell
Dan' Hopkins
Joseph Carpenter
Nath' AVhitson
Rich'' Jackson Jun''
Giles Seaman
Joseph Cotes
William Mudge
Dan' Browne
Jolm Pratt

Zebulon Seaman
Jon'^ Pratt
Will'" Willis
Jon"^ Lyon
Tho** Hopkins
Tho^ Vail
Tho' Hopkins
Moses Doty
John Butler
John Wright
Austen Seaman
Sam' Hungerford
Jacob Carpenter
Sam : Hingham
John Searino"

LEMINGTON.

247

Willet Seaman
Isaac Ruslimore
David Hawley
Israel Noble
Jos^ Calliowii

Obediah Seamen
Dan' Averill
Will"' Cogswell
Dan' Kene
James Calhown

Benj"^ Rushmore
Moses Averill
Morgain Noble
James Gutliry
David Calhown

Hon : Theo : Atkinson Esq j\Iark 1 1^-' Wentworth Esq John Nelson Esq

James Nevin Esq

His Excellenc}- Renning Wentworth Esq a Tract of Land to Con-
tain Five Hnndred Acres as marked B- W- in the Plan, which is to
be Accounted two of the within Shares, one whole Share for the
Incorporated Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in For" Parts,
one Share for a Glebe for the Church of England as by Law Estab-
lished, one Share for tlie first Settled Minister of the Gospel & one
share for the benefit of a school in s*^ Town

Pro^ New Hamp^ June 29-1762

Recorded from the Back of the Original Charter of Limington
under the Pro'' Seal

'^ T Atkinson Jun-- Sec'^

linypa.n?ft/Z<3

pVfi^t/lt^ fi.(J ■

Pro^ New Hamp^ June 29"> 1762

Recorded from the Back of the Original Charter of Limington under
the Pro^ Seal

f T Atkinson Jun^ Sec-^y

248 CHARTER RECORDS.

LEWIS.

*2-385 *Province of New-Hampshire.

Lewis GEORGE the Third,

. , -— s s By the Grace of God, of Great-Britain, France and Ire-

\ ^ / land, King, Defender of the Faith &c.

J ' I To all Persons to whom these Presents shall eotne,

^ ^^^0^^-^ ' Greeting.

Knoav ye, that We of Our special Grace, certain Knowledge, and
meer Motion, for the due Encouragement of settling a JVetv Planta-
tion within our said Province, by and with the Advice of our Trusty
and Well-beloved Benning Wentworth, Esq; Our Governor and
Commander in Chief of Oursaid Province of New-Haimpshire in New-
Pn(/land, and of our Council of the said Province ; Have upon the
Conditions and Reservations herein after made, given and granted,
and by these Presents, for us, our Heirs, and Successors, do give and
grant in equal Shares, unto Our loving Subjects, Inhabitants of Our
said Province of JVeiv-Hampshire, and Our other Governments, and to
their Heirs and Assigns for ever, whose Names are entred on this
Grant, to be divided to and amongst them into Seventy equal Shares,
all that Tract or Parcel of Land situate, lying and being within our
said Province of New-Hampshire, containing by Adineasurement,
Twenty Three Thousand & forty Acres, which Tract is to contain
Six Miles square, and no more; out of which an Allowance is to be
made for High Ways and unimprovable Lands by Rocks, Ponds,
Mountains and Rivers, One Thousand and Forty Acres free, accord-
ing to a Plan and Survey thereof, made by Our said Governor's
Order, and returned into the Secretary's Office, and hereunto annexed,
butted and bounded as follows. Viz. Begining at a Marked Tree
standing in the Westerly Corner of Minehead, then runing up
North Easterly six Miles or thereabouts to tlie Northerly Corner of
Minehead aforesaid, then carrying that breadth back North Westerly
by Brundswiclc & Wenlock so farr as that a Parralell Line with tlie
North Easterly line of Minehead afores** will Contain the Contents of
Six Miles square — And that the same be, and hereby is Incorporated
into a Township by the Name of Lewis And the Inhabitants that
do or shall hereafter inhal)it the said Townsliip, are hereb}^ declared
to be Enfranchized with and Intitled to all and every the Priviledges
and Immunities tliat other Towns within Our Province by I^aw Exer-
cise and Enjoy : And further, that the said Town as soon as there shall
be Fifty Families resident and settled thereon, shall have the Liberty

LEWIS. 249

of holding Two Fairs^ one of wliicli shall be held on the
And the other on the annually, which Fairs are not

to continue longer than the respective following the

said and that as soon as the said Town shall

consist of Fifty Families, a Market may be *opened and *2-386
kept one or more Days in each Week, as may be thought
most advantagious to the Inhabitants. Also, that the first Meeting
for the Choice of Town Officers, agreable to the Laws of our said
Province, shall be held on the Second Fryday in August next which
said Meeting shall be Notified by M"" And" Graham who is hereby
also appointed the jModerator of the said first Meeting, which he is to
Notify and Govern agreable to the Laws and Customs of Our said
Province ; and that the annual Meeting forever hereafter for the
Choice of such Officers for the said Town, shall be on the Second
Tuesday of March annually, To Have and to Hold the said Tract
of Land as above expressed, together with all Privileges and Appur-
tenances, to them and their respective Heirs and Assigns forever,
ujDon the following Conditions, viz.

I. That every Grantee, his Heirs or Assigns shall plant and culti-
vate five Acres of Land within the Term of five Years for every fifty
Acres contained in his or their Share or Proportion of Land in said
Township, and continue to improve and settle the same by additional
Cultivations, on Penalty of the Forfeiture of his Grant or Share in
the said Township, and of its reverting to Us, our Heirs and Suc-
sessors, to be by Us or Them Re-granted to such of Our Subjects as
shall effectually settle and cultivate the same.

II. That all white and other Pine Trees within the said Township,
fit for Masting Our Royal Navy, be carefully preserved for that Use,
and none to be cut or felled without Our special Licence for so doing-
first had and obtained, upon the Penalty of the Forfeiture of the
Right of such Grantee, his Heirs and Assigns, to Us, our Heirs and
Successors, as well as being subject to the Penalty of any Act or Acts
of l^arliament that now are, or hereafter shall be Enacted.

HI. Tliat before any Division of the Land be made to and among
the Grantees, a Tract of Land as near the Centre of the said Town-"
ship as the Land will admit of, shall be reserved and marked out for
Town Lots, one of which shall be allotted to each Grantee of the
Contents of one Acre.

IV. Yielding and paying therefor to Us, our Heirs and Successors
for the Space of ten Years, to l)e computed from the Date hereof,
the Rent of one Ear of Indian Corn only, on the twenty-fifth Day of
December annually, if lawfully demanded, the first Payment to be
made on the twenty-fifth Day of December. 1763

250

CHAKTEK RECORDS.

V. Every Proprietor, Settler or Inhabitant, shall yield and pay
unto Us, our Heirs and Successors yearly, and every Year forever
from and after the Expiration of ten Years from the abovesaid
twenty-fifth Day of JJecemher^ namely, on the twenty-fifth Day of
December^ which will be in the Year of Our Lord 1773 One shilling
Proclamation Money for every Hundred Acres he so owns, settles or
possesses, and so in Proportion for a greater or lesser Tract of the
said Land; which Money shall be paid by the respective Persons
abovesaid, their Heirs or Assigns, in our Council Chamber in Ports-
mouth, or to such Officer or Officers as shall be appointed to receive
the same ; and this to be in Lieu of all otlier Rents and Services
whatsoever.

In Testimony whereof we have caused the Seal of our said Prov-
ince to be hereunto affixed. Witness Benning Wentworth, Esq;
Our Governor and Commander in Chief of Our said Province, the
29"" Day of June In the Year of our Lord Christ, One Thousand
Seven Hundred and Sixty two And in the Second Year of Our Reign.

B Wentworth

By His Excellency's Command,
With Advice of Council,

T Atkinson Jun' Sec-'y

Prov'' New Hamp' June 29 1762

Recorded According to the Original Charter under the Prov*^ Seal

f T Atkinson Jun"" Sec''"

*2-387 *The Names of the Grantees of Lewes (Viz)

Eleazer Hinman
John Hinman
Joseph Sanford
Abijah Hinman
Huthwitt Tuttle
David Johnson
Gideon Hinman
Sam' Hinman
David Hinman
Elijah Hinman
Elijah Hind
Jon=^ Mitchell
Jehial Preston
Sam' Moodey
Edw'* Hinman
Joseph Hicok

Matt^ Mitchell
Joseph Richards
Rob* Torrance
And* Graham
Freeman Hinman
Amos Hicok
Agur Curtis
Reuben Hinman
And" Coe
William Young
Buslniel Benidict
Tho^ Drakly
Seth Preston
Joseph Perry
Benj'"- Stiles
Elijah Brownson

Silas Hicok
Moses Knapp
Sam: Moulton
Eleazer Knowles
Nath : Tuttle
Tho^ Kimberly
Sam' Curtis
Thadius Curtis
Moses Downs
John Stiles
Seth Curtis
Noah Hinman
Tho^ Bull
Gideon Walker
Phineas Potter
Reuben Squier

LEWIS.

251

John Tweedy Adam Ilinnian Obediah Wlieler

David Boland AVill'" Boland Josepli Pierce

John Pierce Jnstus Pierce David Pierce

Nathan Pierce Jacob Meek Sam: Ave rill

Hon''*'" John Downing Esq Kich'* WibirdEsq Theo : Atkinson Jun"" Esq
Jonathan Warner Esq
His Excellency Benning Wentworth Esq a Tract of Land to Con-
tain Five Hundred Acres as marked B- W- in the Plan which is to
be Accounted two of the within shares, one whole Share for the
Incor{)orated Society for the Propagation of the Gospell in Foreign
Parts, one share for a Glebe for the Church of England as by Law
Establish'd, one Share for the first Settled Minister of the Gospel &
one Share for the Benefit of a school in said Town —

Pro^ New Ilamp"- June 29-1762

Recorded According to the Back of the Original Charter Lewis
under the Pro"" Seal

T Atkinson Jun^ Sec'-^
Prov'^ of New Hamp'' June 29"^ 1762

Recorded from the Back of the original Charter of Lewis under the
Pro^ Seal

19 T Atkinson Jun^ Sec''

BV"!

Plan of_

Lfujt s ^

.23, «vC>'t'-«»

S 1

252 CHARTER RECORDS.

LUDLOW.

*2-197 *Province of New-Hampshire.

Ludlow GEORGE the Third,

S'-*^^-^^ N By the Grace of God, of Great-Britain, Frauce and
/ Ireland, King, Defender of the Faith, &c.
* ' * { To all Persons to whom these Presents shall come,

^— ^^— ^ -' Greeting.

Know ye, that We of Our special Grace, certain Knowledge, and
nieer Motion, for the due Encouragement of settling a Neto Planta-
tion within our said Province, by and with the Advice of our Trusty
and Well-beloved Benning Went worth, Esq ; Our Governor and
Commander in Chief of Our said Province of New-Hampshire in
Neiv-England, and of our Council of the said Province ; Have
upon the Conditions and Reservations herein after made, given and
granted, and by these Presents, for us, our Heirs, and Successors, do
give and grant in equal Shares, unto Our loving Subjects, Inhabitants
of Our said Province of New-Hamiisliire, and Our other Govern-

J. '

ments, and to their Heirs and Assigns for ever, whose Names are entred
on this Grant, to be divided to and amongst them into Seventy One
equal Shares, all that Tract or Parcel of Land situate, lying and
being within our said Province of New-Hampshire, containing by
Admeasurement, about Twenty Four Thousand Acres, which Tract
is to contain Something more than Six Miles square, and no more ;
out of which an Allowance is to be made for High Ways and unim-
provable Ijands by Rocks, Ponds, Mountains and Rivers, One
Thousand and Forty Acres free, according to a Plan and Survey
thereof, made by Our said Governor's Order, and returned into the
Secretary's Office, and hereunto annexed, butted and bounded as fol-
lows, Viz. Begining at the North Westerly Corner of Flamstead
thence Runing North fifty five Degrees West Six Miles, Thence
North Seventeen Degrees East Six Miles & One half Mile to the
South Westerly Corner of Saltash thence South Sixty Five Degrees
East Six Miles by Saltash aforesaid to the South Easterly Corner
thereof, then south Eight Degrees West Seven Miles & One half
Mile to Flamstead Line then by Flamstead s'^ Line to the North
Westerly Corner of Flamstead being the Bound first above
Mention'd — And that the same be, and hereby is Incorporated into a
Township by the Name of Ludlow And the Inhabitants that do or
shall hereafter inhabit the said Township, are hereby declared to be
Enfranchized with and Intitled to all and every the Piiviledges and

LUDLOW. 253

Tminunities that other Towns within Our Province by Law Exercise
and Enjoy : And further, that the said Town as soon as there shall
he Fifty Families resident and settled thereon, shall have the Liberty
of holding Two Fairs^ one of which shall be held on the

And the other on the annually, which

Fairs are not to continue longer than the respective
following the said and that as soon as

the said Town shall consist of Fifty Families, a Market may
be *opened and kept one or more Days in each Week, as *2-198
may be thought most advantagious to the Inhabitants.
Also, that the first Meeting for the Choice of Town Officers, agreable
to the Laws of our said Province, shall be held on the Second
Monday in October next which said Meeting shall be Notified by
Cap' Eliakim Hall who is hereby also appointed the Moderator of the
said first Meeting, which he is to Notify and Govern agreable to the
Laws and Customs of Our said Province; and that the annual
Meeting for ever hereafter for the Choice of such Officers for the
said Town, shall be on the Second Tuesday of March annually. To
Have and to Hold the said Tract of Land as above expressed,
together with all Privileges and Appurtenances, to them and their
respective Heirs and Assigns forever, upon the following Conditions,
viz.

I. That every Grantee, his Heirs or Assigns shall plant and culti-
vate five Acres of Land within the Term of five Years for everv
fifty Acres contained in his or their Share or Proportion of Land
in said Township, and continue to improve and settle the same by
additional Cultivations, on Penalty of the Forfeiture of his Grant or
Share in the said Township, and of its reverting to Us, our Heirs
and Successors, to be by Us or Them Re-granted to such of Our Sub-
jects as shall effectually settle and cultivate the same.

n. That all white and other Pine Trees within the said Town-
ship, fit for Masting Our Royal Navy, be carefully preserved for that
Use, and none to be cut or felled without Our special Licence for so
doing first had and obtained, upon the Penalty of the Forfeiture of
the Right of such Grantee, his Heirs and Assigns, to Us, our Heirs
and Successors, as well as being subject to the Penalty of any Act
or Acts of Parliament that now are, or hereafter shall be P^nacted.

HL That before any Division of the Land be made to and amono-
the Grantees, a Ti-act of Land as near the Centre of the said Township
as the Land will admit of, shall be reserved and marked out for Tovi'n
Lots, one of which shall be allotted to each Grantee of the Contents
of one Acre.

IV. Yielding and paying therefor to Us, our Heirs and Successors

254

CHARTER RECORI>S.

for the Space of ten Years, to be computed from the Date hereof, the
Rent of one Ear of Indian Corn only, on the twenty-fifth Day of
December annually, if lawfully demanded, the first Payment to be
made on the twenty -fifth Day of December. 1762

V. Every Proprietor, Settler or Inhabitant, shall yield and pay unto
Us, our Heirs and Successors yearly, and every Year forever, from
and after the Expiration of ten Years from the abovesaid twenty-
fifth Da}^ of December^ namely, on the twenty-fifth Day of December,
which will be in the Year of Our Lord 1772 One shil/irig Proclama-
tion Money for every Hundred Acres he so owns, settles or possesses,
and so in Proportion for a greater or lesser Tract of the said Land ;
which Money shall be paid by the respective Persons abovesaid, their
Heirs or Assigns, in our Council Chamber in Portsmouth^ or to such
Officer or Officers as shall be appointed to receive the same ; and this
to be in Lieu of all other Rents and Services whatsoever.

In Testimony whereof we have caused the Seal of our said
Province to be hereunto affixed. Witness Benning Wentworth,
Esq; Our Governor and Commander in Chief of Our said Province,
the Sixteenth Da}'- of September In the Year of our Lord Christ,
One Thousand Seven Hundred and Sixty One And in the First Year
of Our Reign.

B Wentworth

By His Excellency's Command,
With Advice of Council,

Theodore Atkinson Se""^'

Province of New Hamps' Sept"^ 16, 1761

Recorded According to the Origional Charter under the Province
seal

Attested ^ Theodore Atkinson Sec'^

*2-199 *The Names of the Grantees of Ludlow — Viz

Jared Lee Esq

Amos Lee
Eliakim Hall jun""
Stephen Hall
Thomas Thebets
Joseph Blackley
Josiah Newell
Nathaniel Penfield
David Austin
Samuel Austin
Nathaniel Fellows

Cap' Eliakim Hall
Timothy Lee
Hezzekiah Hall
Street Hall
Thomas Thibets jun""
Abraham Turner
Jonathan Norton
Samuel Bishop
Isaac Doolittle
Daniel Lyman Esq'"
Rev'' Nathan Williams

Seth Lee

Isaac Hall jun'^

Doct^ Caleb Hall

Timothy Hall

Timothy Bormau

Moses Lyman

Samuel Stow

John Mix

Samuel Bishop Jun""

llry Tuttle

Doc' John Dickinson

LUDLOW.

255

Timothy Root
John Newell
Phinehas Lewis
Jonathan Woodruff
Thomas Hart Tertis
^ilas Beck with
Stephen Barnes Jun""
Joel Potter
Joseph Bishop
Elihu Hall Esq^
Daniel VVarner Esq'^

Thomas Norton
Isaac Bidwell
Ezekiel Cowles
John Carter
David Hill
William Lee
William Judd
Charles Norton
Steel Smith
John Hall
Israel Calkins

Solomon Hart
Zadoch Orvis
Solomon Curtis
David Cleark Jun"^
Moses Hill
Samuel Hickcock
Joseph Lee
George Hindesdale
John Norton
Richard Wibird Esq""

His Excellency Benning Wentworth Esq' a Tract of Land to Con-
tain Five Hundred Acres as marked B-W-in the Plan & is to be
Accounted two of the Within Shares, One whole Share for the
incorporated Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign
Parts, One share for a Glebe for the Church of England as by Law
Established, One share for the first Settled Minister of the Gospel,
& One share for the benefit of a school in said Town —

Province of Ne w Hamp-" Sep-" 16, 1761

Recorded from the Back of the Origional Charter for Ludlow under
the Province seal

Attested f Theodore Atkinson Sec'>'

256

CHARTER RECORDS.

1:^

r£aTr,sl.»ii iin»

Province of New Hamps"" Sep'' 16, 1761

Recorded from the Back of the Origional Charter of Ludlow under
the Province Seal —

Attested ^ Theodore Atkinson Sec''^

LUNENBURG. 257

LUNENBURG.

*Province of New-Hampshire. *2-480

Luningbiirg GEORGE the Third,

. ."-^-^^ . By the Grace of God, of Great-Britain, France and
) / Ireland, King, Defender of the Faith, &c.

j I To all Persons to whom these Presents shall come^

^ ^— ^.^*^ ^ Greeting.

Know ye, that We of Our special Grace, certain Knowledge, and
meer Motion, for the due Encouragement of settling a Neiv Planta-
tion within our said Province, by and with the Advice of our Trusty
and Well-beloved Benning Wentworth, Esq ; Our Governor and
Commander in Chief of Our said Province of New-Hampshire in
Neiv-Ungland., and of our Council of the said Province; Have
upon the Conditions and Reservations herein after made, given and
granted, and by these Presents, for us, our Heirs, and Successors, do
give and grant in equal Shares, unto Our loving Subjects, Inhabi-
tants of Our said Province of New-Hampshire, and Our other Gov-
ernments, and to their Heirs and Assigns for ever, whose Names are
entred on this Grant, to be divided to and amongst them into
Seventy Six equal Shares, all that Tract or Parcel of Land situate,
h'ing and being within our said Province of JVew-Hamfshire^ con-
taining by Admeasurement, Twenty three Thousand & Forty Acres,
which Tract is to contain Six Miles square, and no more; out of
which an Allowance is to be made for High Ways and unimprovable
Lands by Rocks, Ponds, Mountains and Rivers, One Thousand and
Forty Acres free, according to a Plan and Survey thereof, made by
Our said Governor's Order, and returned into the Secretary's Office,
and hereunto annexed, butted and bounded as follows. Viz. Begin-
ning at a Stake & Stones Standing on the Bank of the West Side of
Connecticut River which is the South Easterly corner Bounds of
Guild Hall, from thence runing North West six Miles to the North
Westerly Corner of Guild Hall, thence turning off & runing South
Sixty nine Degrees West, four Miles & two Hundred & fifty Six
Rods, & from thence Runing South Fifteen Degrees East to Con-
necticut River, thence up the River as that Trends to the Stake &
stones first above Mentiond the bounds begun at And the same be,
and hereby is Incorporated into a Township by the Name of Luning-
bourg And the Inhabitants that do or shall hereafter inhabit the said
Township, are hereby declared to be Enfranchized with and Inti-
tled to all and every the Priviledges and Immunities that other

XVII

258 CHAKTER RECORDS.

Towns within Our Province by Law Exercise and Enjoy : And
further, that the said Town as soon as there shall be Fifty Families
resident and settled thereon, shall have the Liberty of holding Two
Fai7's, one of which shall be held on the
And the other on the
annually, which Fairs are not to continue longer than
the respective following

the said and that as

soon as the said Town shall consit of Fift}'' Families, a
*2— 481 Market may be *opened and kept one or more Days in each

Week, as maybe thoughtmost advantagious to the Inhabitants.
Also, that the first Meeting for the Choice of Town Officers, agreable
to the Laws of our said Province, shall be held on the first Tuesday
in August next which said Meeting shall be Notified by David Page
who is hereby also appointed the Moderator of the said first Meeting,
which he is to Notify and Govern agreable to the Laws and Customs
of Our said Province; and that the annual Meeting for ever hereafter
for the Choice of such Officers for the said Town, shall be on the
Second Tuesday of March annually, To Have and to Hold the said
Tract of Land as above expressed, together with all Privileges and
Appurtenances, to them and their respective Heirs and Assigns for-
ever, upon the following Conditions, viz.

I. That every Grantee, his Heirs or Assigns shall plant and culti-
vate five Acres of Land within the Term of five Years for every fifty
Acres contained in his or their Share or Proportion of Land in said
Township, and continue to improve and settle the same by additional
Cultivations, on Penalty of the Forfeiture of his Grant or Share in
the said Township, and of its reverting to Us, our Heirs and Success-
ors, to be by Us or Them Pe-granted to such of Our Subjects as shall
effectually settle and cultivate the same.

II. That all white and other Pine Trees within the said Township,,
fit for Masting Our Royal Navy, be carefully preserved for that Use,
and none be cut or felled without Our special Licence for so doing
first had and obtained, upon the Penalty of the Forfeiture of the
Right of such Grantee, his Heirs and Assigns, to Us, our Heirs and
Successors, as well as being subject to the Penalty of any Act or
Acts of Parliament that now are, or hereafter shall be Enacted.

IV. Yielding and paying therefor to Us, our Heirs and Successors

LUNENBURG.

259

for the Space of ten Years, to be computed from the Date hereof,
the Rent of one Ear of Indian Corn only, on the twenty-fifth Day of
December annually, if lawfully demanded, the first Payment to be
made on the twenty-fifth Day of December. 1763

V. Every Proprietor, Settler or Inhabitant, shall yield and pay
unto Us, our Heirs and Successors yearly, and every Year forever,
from and after the Expiration of ten Years from the abovesaid
twenty-fifth Day of December^ namely, on the twenty-fifth Day of
December^ which shall be in the Year of Onr Lord 1773 One shilling
Proclamation Money for every Hundred Acres he so owns, settles or
possesses, and so in Proportion for a greater or lesser Tract of the
said Land; which Money shall be paid by the respective Persons
abovesaid, their Heirs or Assigns, in our Council Chamber in PorU-
inouth, or to such Officer or Officers as shall be appointed to receive
the same; and this to be in Lieu of all other Rents and Services
whatsoever.

In Testimony whereof we have caused the Seal of our said Prov-
ince to be hereunto affixed. Witness Benning Wentworth, Esq ;
Our Governor and Commander in Chief of Our said Province, the
Fifth Day of July In the Year of our Lord Christ, One Thousand
Seven Hundred and Sixty three And in the Third Year of Our Reign.

B Wentworth

By His Excellency's Command,
With Advice of Council,

T Atkinson Jun'' Sec""*'

Province of New Haraps'' July 6. 1763

Recorded According to the Original Charter under the Pro"" Seal

T Atkinson Jun"" Sec"^^'

*The Names of the Grantees of Luninbourg Viz *2-482

Gustavus Swan Jon''^ Sanderson

David Page
Charles Man
Eben' Hartshorne
Stephen Farnsworth
William Bigelow^
John Darling
Seth Oaks
Caleb Wood
Samuel Gates
Timothy Rogers
Henry Merchant
Dennis Lockliu
Oliver Robinson

E])hraim Stockwell
William Wood
Will"' Kiinpland
David Fowle
John Peirce
Levi Silvister
Timothy Whitney
Zebediah Rogers
James Wheeler
James Shepard
Henr}^ Sartwell
David Twitchel

Charles Baker
I very Holland
John Page
Philip Goodridge
Abner Newton
Walter Fairfield
Jonathan Moulton
Samuel Rogers
Simeon Houghton
Joab ]Miles
Benj^ Chandler
Joel Grout

260

CHARTER RECORDS.

Joseph Willsoii Nath^ Wilder

George Jaffrey James Shepard

Coll" John Goffe Esq John Sweat

Nath' Green
John Blunt
David Sanderson
Israel Jenison
Joseph Rassell
Hon Nath' Barrell

Theo : Atkinson Jun''

Stephen Boynton
Jon'^ Grout
John Richardson
Ezekiel How
David West

}■ Esq""

Samnel Sleeper
Samuel Martin
John Clark
Thomas Lord
Cyrus Whitcomb
John Curtis
Joseph Kelly
Hugh Giles

Cap'^ Jon'^ Carlton
Joseph Blanchard Esq
& Richard Jen n is Esq"^

Will"' Temple ,

John Nelson J

His Excellency Benning Wentworth Esq. a Tract of Land to
Contain Five Hundred Acres as marked B W in the Plan w''' is to
be Accounted two of the within Shares, One Whole Share for the
Incorporated Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign
Parts, One Share for a Glebe for the Church of England as by Law
Establish'd, One Share for the first settled Minister of the Gospel &
One Share for the benefit of a School in said Town

Pro^ New Hamp^ July 6 1763

Recorded from the Back of the Original Charter of Luninbourg under
the Prov"*" Seal

19 T Atkinson Jun' Sec'-y

MAIDSTONE. 261

Pro'' of New Hamp'' July 6- 1763

Recorded from the Back of the original Charter of Luniiiburg
under the Pro"" Seal

f T Atkinson Jun' Sec^>'

p s-

MAIDSTONE.

*Province of New-Hampshire. *2-257

Maidstone GEORGE the Third,

( ,— ii^^—v ^ By the Grace of God, of Great-Britain, France and
Ireland, King, Defender of the Faith, &c.

To all Persons to whom these Presents shall come^

^ V— ^.-w -' Greeting.

Know ye, that We of Our special Grace, certain Knowledge, and
meer Motion, for the due Encouragement of settling a Netv Planta-
tion within our said Province, by and with the Advice of our Trusty
and Well-beloved Benning Wentworth, Esq ; Our Governor and
Commander in Chief of Our said Province of New-Hampshire in
New-England^ and of our Council of the said Province ; Have
upon the Conditions and Reservations herein after made, given and
granted, and by these Presents, for us, our Heirs, and Successors, do
give and grant in equal Shares, unto Our loving Subjects, Inhabitants
of Our said Province of New-Hampshire^ and Our other Govern-
ments, and to their Heirs and i\ssigns for ever, whose Names are
entred on this Grant, to be divided to and amongst them into Seventy
equal Shares, all that Tract or Parcel of Land situate, Ij'ing and
being within our said Province of New-Hampshire, containing by Ad-
measurement, ab' Twenty five thousand Acres, which Tract is to con-
tain something more than Six Miles square, and no more ; out of
which an Allowance is to be made for High Ways and unimprovable
Lands by Rocks, Ponds, Mountains and Rivers, One Thousand and
Forty Acres free, according to a Plan and Survey thereof, made by
Our said Governor's Order, and returned into the Secretary's Office,
and hereunto annexed, butted and bounded as follows. Viz. Begin-
ing at the Most Easterly Corner of Guildhall from thence North
Easterly up Connecticut River so far as to make Six Miles on a
Streight Line then from Said River North West Six Miles & one
half Mile thence South Westerly on A Parrellel Line with that on
the River to the East Line of Grandby from thence by Granby &
Guildhall to the River Connecticut to the Bounds first above Men-

262 CHAETER RECORDS.

tioned And that the same be, and hereby is Incorporated into a Town-
ship by the Name of Maidstone And the Inhabitants that do or shall
hereafter inhabit the said Township, are hereb}' declared to be En-
franchized with and Intitled to all and every the Priviledges and Im-
munities that other Towns within Our Province by Law Exercise
and Enjoy : And further, that the said Town as soon as there shall
be Fifty Families resident and settled thereon, shall have the Liberty
of holding Two Fairs, one of which shall be held on the

And the other on the annually, which

Fairs are not to continue longer than the respective

following the said and that as soon as the said

*2-258 Town shall consist of Fifty Families, a Market ma}^ be *opened

and kept one or more Days in each Week, as may be thought
most advantagious to the Inhabitants. Also, that the first Meeting
for the Choice of Town Officers, agreable to the Laws of our said
Province, shall be held on the Second Tuesday in November next
which said Meeting shall be Notified by M'' Samuel Averill who is
liereby also appointed the Moderator of the said first Meeting, which
he is to Notify and Govern agreable to the Laws and Customs of Our
said Province ; and that the annual Meeting for ever hereafter for
the Choice of such Officers for the said Town, shall be on the Second
Tuesday of March annually, To Have and to Hold the said Tract
of Land as above expressed, together with all Privileges and xA-ppur-
tenances, to them and their respective Heirs and Assigns forever,
upon the following Conditions, viz.

I. That every Grantee, his Heirs or Assigns shall plant and culti-
vate five Acres of Land within the Term of five Years for every fifty
Acres contained in his or their Share or Proportion of Land in said
Township, and continue to improve and settle the same by additional
Cultivations, on Penalty of the Forfeiture of his Grant or Share in
the said Township, and of its reverting to LTs, our Heirs and Succes-
sors, to be b}* Us or Them Re-granted to such of Our Subjects as shall
effectually settle and cultivate the same.

II. That all white and other Pine Trees within the said Township,
fit for Masting Our Ro3\al Navy, be carefull}- preserved for that Use,
and none to be cut or felled without Our special Licence for so doing
first had and obtained, upon the Penalty of the Forfeiture of the
Right of such Grantee, his Heirs and Assigns, to Us, our Heirs and
Successors, as well as being subject to the Penalty of any Act or
Acts of Parliament that now are, or hereafter shall be Enacted.

III. That before any Division of the Land be made to and among
the Grantees, a Tract of Land as near the Centre of the said Town-
ship as the Land will admit of, shall be reserved and marked out for

MAIDSTONE. 263

Town Lots, one of which shall be allotted to each Grantee of the
Contents of one Acre.

IV. Yielding- and paying therefor to Us, our Heirs and Successors
for the Space of ten Years, to be computed from the Date hereof, the
Rent of one Ear of Indian Corn only, on the twenty-fifth Day of
December annually, if lawfully demanded, the first Pa3'ment to be
made on the twenty-fifth Day of December. 1762

V. Ever}^ Proprietor, Settler or Inhabitant, shall yield and pay
unto Us, our Heirs and Successors yearly, and ever}' Year forever,
from and after the Expiration of ten Years from the abovesaid twenty-
fifth Day of December., namely, on the twenty-fifth Day of Decem,ber,
which will be in the Year of Our Lord 1772 One shilling Proclama-
tion Monej' for every Hundred Acres he so owns, settles or possesses,
and so in Proportion for a greater or lesser Tract of the said Land ;
which Money shall be paid by the respective Persons abovesaid, their
Heirs or Assigns, in our Council Chamber in Portsmouth., or to such
Officer or Officers as shall be appointed to receive the same ; and
this to be in Lieu of all other Rents and Services whatsoever.

In Testimony whereof we have caused the Seal of our said Pro-
vince to be hereunto affixed. Witness Benning Wentwqrth, Esq;
Our Governor and Commander in Chief of Our said Province, the
12'^ Day of October In the Year of our Lord Christ, One Thou-
sand Seven Hundred and Sixty One And in the First Year of Our
Reign.

B Wentworth

By His Excellency's Command,
With Advice of Council,

Theodore Atkinson Se'^^'

Province of New Haiups'^ Octo"^ 12 1761

Recorded According to the Origional Charter under the Province
Seal

f Theodore Atkinson Sec^^

*The Names of the Grantees Maidstone Viz *2-259

Agur Judson Thomas French John Moss

John Yeats John Mallery John Hide

Abner Judson Jabez Blake Beach Thomlinson

Luke Summers Thomas Saxon Jonah Newland

David Newland Thomas Bearsley Benj-^ Booth

Edmund Pendleton John Bcardsley Seth Crane

Jon" Judson Ebenez' Beardsley Daniel Judson jun''

John Dunning Elnathan Lake Daniel Beardsley jun''

Benajah Dickinson William Babbit Jeremiah Beardsley

264

CHARTER RECORDS.

Edmond Levensworth Joseph French

Samuel Plawkins
Nathan Birdsey
John Gill

Zachariah Blakeman
Edmund Curtis
Thomas Wooster
Gideon Wheeler
Salvinus Hatch
Daniel Warner Esq
James Calhoon
Joel Frost

Daniel Judson
Stiles Curtis
Cornelius Hall
Henry Curtis
John Nellson
Joseph Thomlinson
Sam^^ Averill
Jethr" Hatch
Daniel Averill
John Calhoon

Israel Johnson
Sevignior Lewis jun''
William Emmes
Joseph Hoi brook
John Brooks
John Becher
James Birdsley
Joseph Blanchard Esq
Rich'' Wibird Esq
Job In graham
Timothy Fuller
Joseph Wheaton &

Nath" Bosworth
Theodore Atkinson Jun'^
His Excellency Benning Wentworth Esq a Tract of Land to
Contain Five Hundred Acres as Marked B- W- in the Plan which
is to be Accounted two of the within Shares, One whole Share for
the Incorporated Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign
Parts. One Share for a Glebe for the Church of England as by Law
Established, One Share for the First Settled Minister of the Gospel
& One Share for the Benefit of a School in said Town —

Province of New Ramps'- Octo^ 12''' 1761

Recorded from the back of the Origional Charter of Maidstone
under the Prov*^ Seal

Attested 19 Theodore Atkinson Sec'^

Province of New Hamp' Octob^ 12'*' 1761

Recorded from the Back of the Original Charter of Maidstone
under the Pro^' Seal

^ Theodore Atkinson Sec"'^

MANCHESTER. 265

MANCHESTER.

*Province of New-Hiinipsliire. *2-97

Manchester GEORGE the Third,

. .-w^-^ . By the Grace of God, of Great-Britain, France and

\ / Irehind, King, Defender of the Faith, &c.

) (To all Persons to whom these Presents shall come,

^ — ^.-"i-^ ^ Greeting.

Know ye, that we of Our special Grace, certain Knowledge, and
nieer ^Motion, for the due Encouragement of settling a JVetv Planta-
tion within our said Province, by and with the Advice of our Trusty
and Well-beloved Benning Wentwop.th Esq ; Our Governor and
Commander in Chief of Our said Province of New-Hampshire in
New-Enyland, and of our Council of the said Province ; Have
upon the Conditions and Reservations herein after made, given and
granted, and by these Presents, for us, our Heirs, and Succes-
sors, do give and grant in equal Shares, unto Our loving Subjects,
Inhabitants of Our said Province of Neiv- Hampshire, and Our other
Governments, and to theii Heirs and Assigns for ever, whose Names
are entred on this Grant, to be divided to and amongst them into Sev-
enty equal Shares, all that Tract or Parcel of Land situate, lying and
being within our said Province of Neiv- Hampshire, containing by
Admeasurement, Twenty three Thousand & forty Acres, which Tract
is to contain Six Miles square, and no more; out of which an Allow-
ance is to be made for High Ways and unimprovable Lands by Rocks,
Ponds, Mountains and Rivers, One Thousand and Forty Acres free,
according to a Plan and Surve}' thereof, made by Our said Governor's
Order, and returned into the Secretary's Office, and hereunto annexed,
butted and bounded as follows. Viz. Begining at the North East
Corner of Arlington from thence due North by Sandgate Six Miles
to the North East Corner thereof from thence due East Six Miles
from thence due South Six Miles to the North East Corner of Sun-
derland from thence Due West by Sunderland to the North West
Corner of Sunderland aforesaid being the Bound began at — And
that the same be, and hereby is Incorporated into a Township by
the Name of Manchester And the Inhabitants that do or shall
hereafter inhabit the said Township, are hereby declared to be
Enfranchized with and Intitled to all and every the Priviledges
and Immunities that other Towns within Our Province by Law
Exercise and Enjoy: And further, that the said Town as soon as
there shall be Fiftv Families resident and settled thereon, shall have

266 CHAKTER RECORDS.

the Liberty of holding Two Fairs^ one of wliich shall be held on
the And the other on the

annually, which Fairs are not to continue
longer than the respective following the said

and that as soon as the said Town shall consist of
*2-98 Fifty Families, a Market may be ^opened and kept one or
more Days in each Week, as may be thought most advan-
tagious to the Inhabitants. Also, that the first Meeting for the
Choice of Town Officers, agreable to the Laws of our said Province,
shall be held on the First Wednesday in October Next which said
Meeting shall be Notified by M"^ Ephraim Cowen who is hereby also
appointed the Moderator of the said first Meeting, which he is to
Notify and Govern agreable to the Laws and Customs of Our said
Province; and that the annual Meeting for ever hereafter for the
Choice of such Officers for the said Town, shall be on the Second
Tuesday of March annually, To Have and to Hold the said Trad
of Land as above expressed, together with all Privileges and Appur-
tenances, to them and their respective Heirs and Assigns forever,
upon the following Conditions, viz.

L That every Grantee, his Heirs or Assigns shall plant and culti-
vate five Acres of Land within the Term of five Years for every fifty
Acres contained in his or their Share or Proportion of Land in said
Township, and continue to improve and settle the same by additional
Cultivations, on Penalty of the Forfeiture of his Grant or Share in
the said Township, and of its reverting to Us, our Heirs and Succes-
sors, to be by Us or Them Re-granted to such of Our Subjects as shall
effectually settle and cultivate the same.

IL That all white and other Pine Trees within the said Township^
fit for Masting Our Royal Navy, be carefully preserved for that Use,
and none to be cut or felled without Our special Licence for so doing
first had and obtained, upon the Penalty of the Forfeiture of the
Right of such Grantee, his Heirs and Assigns, to Us, our Heirs and
Successors, as well as being subject to the Penalty of any Act or
Acts of Parliament that now are, or hereafter shall be Enacted.

HL That before any Division of the Land be made to and among
the Grantees, a Tract of Land as near the Centre of the said Township
as the Land will admit of, shall be reserved and marked out for
Town Lots, one of which shall be allotted to each Grantee of the
Contents of one Acre.

IV. Yielding and paying therefor to Us, our Heirs and Successors
for the Space of ten Years, to be com])uted from the Date hereof, the
Rent of one Ear of Indian Corn only, on the twenty -fifth Day of
JJecemher annually, if lawfully demanded, the first Payment to be
made on the twenty-fifth Day of JDecemher. 1762

MANCHESTER.

267

V. Eveiy Proprietor, Settler or Inhabitant, shall yield and pay
unto Us, our Heirs and Successors yearly, and every Year forever,
from and after the Expiration of ten Years from the abovesaid
twenty-tifth Day of December^ namel}', on the twenty-fifth Day of
December, which will be in the Year of Our Lord 1772 One sliilling
Proclamation Money for every Hundred Acres he so owns, settles or
possesses, and so in Proportion for a greater or lesser Tract of the
said Land; which Money shall be paid by the respective Persons
abovesaid, their Heirs or Assigns, in our Council Chamber in Ports-
mouth, or to such Officer or Officers as shall be appointed to receive
the same; and this to be in Lieu of all other Rents and Services
whatsoever.

In Testimony whereof we have caused the Seal of our said Prov-
ince to be hereunto affixed. Witness Benning Wentworth, Esq ;
Our Governor and Commander in Chief of Our said Province, the
11"' Day of August In the Year of our Lord Christ, One Thousand
Seven Hundred and Sixty One And in the First Year of Our Reign.

B Wentworth

By His Excellency's Command,
With Advice of Council,

Theodore Atkinson Sec'-^'

Province of New Hamp"^ August 11*^ 1761

Recorded from the Original Charter under the Province Seal

^ Theodore Atkinson Se'>'

*The Names of the Grantees of Manchester

Ephraim Cowen
Francis Brakinridge
William Clark
James Halbert
James Harknes
William Dunlap
John Hunter
William Harkness
Robert Boyes
George Cowen
Robert Boj^es
Robert Park
James Wough jun""
Samuel Smith
William M<=Nut
John Kellsey
William Rosters

James Cowen
Sara^' AVillson
Robert Gilmore
James Taylor
James Pebbles
John Pebbles
William Blair
James Hunter
Adam Weare
John Concey
Oliver Selfige
Joseph Wough
Alexander Park
Antipass Dodge
James Miller
William Eaton
Robert Archibald

*2-99

Robert Cowen
John Blair
George Gilmore
Sam'^ Cowden
Partrick Pebbles
Isaac Stevenson
Isaac Hunter
Alexand"^ M'^Cullough
James Weare
Mathew Thornton
Hugh Campbell
James Wough
John Wallass
Josej)!! Parke
William Kelsey
Meshech Weare Esq
James Ramsey

268

CHARTER RECORDS.

James Boyd
Robert Alexander
William Boyes
James Nevin Esq

William Wough
James Boyes
Andrew Walker
Benning Wentworth
& Coll John Gofee—

Benj'^ Willsou
Joseph Boyes
Daniel Warner Esq
John Wentworth Esq

His Excellency Benning Wentworth Esq one Tract of Land to
Contain five hnndred Acres as Marked B — W- in the Plan which is
to be Accounted two of the within Shares one whole Share for the
Incorporated Society for the Propagating of the Gospel in foreign
Parts one Share for A Glebe for the Church of England as by Law
Established One Share for the First Settled Minister of the Gospel
one Share for the Benefit of A School in Said Town

Pro^ N Hamp' August 11"^ 1761

Record'^ from the Back of the Original Charter under the Pro'
Seal

■^ Theodore Atkinson Sec''-^

s^.-H..

MARLBORO. 269

Proy® of New Hanip"" August 11 — 1761

Taken & Recorded from the back of the original Charter under the
Pro^' Seal

Attes'' Theodore Atkinson Se'^

p s

MARLBORO.

'Province of I George the Second by the Grace of God *1-71

N: Hami/ ( of Great Brittain France & Ireland King Defender
Marlebrough of the faith &c^ —
, .— .^^— V . To All Persons to whom these Presents Shall

( come Greeting —

( Know Ye that We of our Especial Grace Certain

^ V— ^v-w ^ Knowldege & mere motion for the Due Encouragement
of Settling A New Plantation within our Said Province By & with the
Advice of our Trusty & wellbeloved Benning Wentworth Esq
our Governour & Com'ander in Chieff of our Said Province
of New Hampshire in America & of our Council of the Said Prov-
ince Have upon the Conditions & reservations herein after made
given And Granted and by these Presents for us our heirs & Suc-
cessors Do give & Grant in Equal Shares unto our Loveing
Subjects Inhabitants of Our Said Province of New Hampshire
& His Majesties Other Governments & to thier heirs and Assignes
forever whose names Are Entred on this Grant to be Divided
to & Amoungst them into Sixty four Equal Shares All that Tract
or Parcel of Land Scituate Lying & being within our Said
Province of New Hampshire Containing by Admeasurement Twenty
three thousend & forty Acres which Tract is to Contain Six miles
Square & no more out of which an Allowence is to be made for high
ways & unimproveable Lands by rocks mountains Ponds & rivers
One thousend & forty Acres free According to a Plan thereof made
& Presented by our Said Governours orders & hereunto Annexed
Butted & bounded as follows (Viz) Begining at the North West
Corner of a Township Called Halifax Lately Granted to Oliver Part-
ridge Esq & his Associates Lying West of Connecticut River thence
runing by the Needle North Ten degrees East Six miles from
thence East Ten Degrees South Six miles from thence South Ten
Degrees West Six miles & from thence West Ten degrees North
by Halifax aforesaid Six Miles to the Corner first mentioned —
& that the Same be & hereby is Incorporated into a Township
by the Name of Marlebrough and that the Inhabitants that do
or Shall hereafter Inhabit the Said Township Are hereby Declared to

270 CHARTER RECORDS.

be Enfranchized with & Intituled to all & Every the Previledges &
Imunities that other Towns within our Said Province by Law Exer-
cize & Enjoy, and further that the Said Town as Soon as there Shall
be fifty families resident & Settled thereon Shall have the Liberty of
Holding two fairs one of which Shall be held on the Lastmonday — in
the month of May — and the Other In Last Monday — of the Moth of
Octo"^ which fairs Are not to Continue & be held Longer than the

respective Saturdays following the Said respective Days And
*l-72 as soon as the Said Town Shall Consist of fifty Families *A

Market Shall be Opned & Kept one or more Days in Each
Week as may be tho' most Advantagious to the Inhabitants also that
the first Meeting for the Choice of Town officers Agreeable to the
Laws of our Said Province Shall be held on the first monday In
March next which meeting Shall be notifyed by Timoth}' Dwight
Esq who is hereby also Appointed the Moderator of the Said first
Meeting which he is to Notify & Govern Agreeable to the Law &
Custom of our Said Province and that the Annual Meeting forever
hereafter for the Choice of Such Officers for the Said Town Shall be
on the first Mond-ay of March Annually To Have & to Hold the
Said Tract of Land as above Expressed togeather with all Previledges
& Appurtenances to them & thier respective Heirs & Assignes for ever
upon the following Conditions (Viz) that every Grantee his Heirs or
Assignes Shall Plant or Cultivate five Acres of Land within the Term
of five Years for every fifty Acres Containd in his or thier Share or
Proportion of Land in the Said Township And Continue to Improve
& Settle the Same by Aditional Cultivations on Penalty of the for-
feiture of His Grant or Share in the Said Township and its reverting
to his Majesty his heirs & Successors to be by him or them regranted
to Such of his Subjects as Shall Effectually Settle & Cultivate the
Same That all white & other Pine Trees within the Said Township
fit for Masting our Royal Navy be Carefully Preserved for that Use
& none to be Cut or felld without his Majesties Especial Lycence for
So doing first had & obtaind upon the Penalty of the forfieture of
the right of Such Grantee his heirs or Assigns to us our heirs & Suc-
cessors as well as being Subject to the Penalty of Any Act or Acts of
Parliament that now Are or hereafter Shall be Enacted That before
Any Division of the Said Land be made to & Among the Grantees A
Tract of Land as near the Center of Said Township as the Land will
Admit of Shall be reserved & marked out for Town J^otts one of which
Shall be Allotted to Each Grantee of the Contents of One Acre
Yeilding & ])aying tlierefor to us our hiers & Successors for the Space
of Ten years to be Computed from the Date hereof the rent of one
Ear of Indian Corn only on the Twenty fifth Day of December

MARLBORO. 271

Aniiualy it" Lawfully Demanded the first Payment to be made on
the 2iV'Day of December next Ensueing- the Date hereof, Every Pro-
])rietor Settler or Inhabitant Shall Yield & Pay unto us our Hiers &
Successors Yearly &: Every Year for ever from & after the Expira-
tion of Ten years from the Date hereof Namly on the 25"^
Day of December which will be in the Year *of our Lord *l-73
One Thousand Seven hundred & Sixty Two One Shilling
Proclamation mone}^ for every hundred Acres he So owns Settles or
Possesses & So in Proportion for a Greater or Lesser Tract of the
Said Land which money Shall be paid by the respective Persons
above S'^ thier Heirs or assigns in our Council Chamber in Portsmouth
or to Such officer or officers as Shall be Appointed to receive the
Same And this to be in Lieu of All other Rents & Services Whatso-
ever I Wittness whereof we have Caused the Seal of our Said Prov-
ince to be hereunto Affixed Wittness Benning Wentworth Esq our
Governour & Com'ander in Chief? of our Said Province the 29^'^ Day
of April in the Y^ear of our Lord Christ one thousend Seven hundred
& fifty One & in the Twenty fourth year of Our Reign —

B Wentworth

By his Excelencys Comand
with Advice of Council

Theod"" Atkinson Se'^^

En tied & recorded According to the Original under the Prov®
Seal the 30'^ Day of April 1751

■^ Theodore Atkinson Sec^^

Names of the Grantees Viz —

Tim" DwightEsq Tim° Dwight jun"" Sam^^ Mather

v*^am" Mather juu'' Noah Parsons jun"^ Benj'* Sheldon

Benj=* Sheldon jun'' Benj"^ Alvord Supply Kingsly

Aaron Kingsly Joseph Allen Joseph Allen jun''

Jonathan Rust Sam" Phelps Daniel Warner

Ebenez'' Edwards Israel Rust jun'' Josiah Clark

Nath" Strong Eliphaz Clapp Asa Wright

Sam" Kingsley Jonathan Edwards Jon''^ Kingsley

Jon" Kingsley jun'' Elihu Parsons Elisha Searl

Elihu Dwight Noah Clark jun'" Benj'' Lyman

Titus Wri"ht John Vanhorn Edward Billino'

Natli" Dwight Jorr' Graves Caleb Sheldon

Noah Edwards Elisha Puraro}'' Joseph Bridgman

Noah Clark Increese Clark Gideon Clark

Charles Phelps Benning Wentworth Esq Benning Wentworth Esq

Ellis Husk Esq Theodore Atkinson Esq John Downing Esq

Sampson Sheaffe Esq Rich'' Wibird Esq

272 CHARTER RECORDS.

one Shear for the First Settled Minister one Shear for the School^
one Shear for to remain as a Glebe for the benefit of the Church of
England as by Law Established which is to be under the Direction of
the Church Wardens of tiie Queens Chaple in Portsm° and for the
Benefit of the Church there till An Episcopal Clergyman is Settled
in the S"' Town of Marlebrough & then to remain for the Sole
Benefit of the Ministrj' there Sam" Wentworth Esq Robert Trayl
John Wentworth Esq Foster Wentworth Maj^' John Wentworth
Esq Timothy Edwards Job Strong Stephen Crowfoot Aaron
Lyman Noah Parsons & Jon'^ Philps

Entred And Recorded According to the Original the 30**^ Day of
April 1751

^ Theodore Atkinson Se^''

*l-74 *A Plat of the Township of Marlbrough Granted by his
Excelency Benning Wentworth Esq Governour &c^ & the
Hon'''*^ his Majesties Council of the Province of New Harap'" in New
England unto Timothy Dwight Esq & Others April 26"^ 1751 as it is
to be Platted by a Surveyor & Chain men under oath unto Each
Proprietor or Grantee in Equal Shares be thier Lotts better or worse
(Excepting the four Lotts next the Town Plot or Scite which Are
Sixteen Acres less Each than the Other Lotts) as they were Drawn
by the Agents for the Proprietors in Portsm° April 30'*^ and were
Entred by the Sec"^^ of the Province upon this Piatt Each man takeing
his Chance whose name Stands on the Schedule Annexed to the
Grant of S'^ Township

MARLBORO.

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Timothy Dwight

Province of New Hampshire May 1^' 1751
Recorded According to the original —

■^ Theodore Atkinson Se'^'

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274 charter records.

[Marlboro Charter Renewed, 1761.]

*l-242 *Province of New Hampshire

George the Third by the Grace of God of Great
Britain France & Ireland King Defender of the Faith
&c

To ALL whom these Presents shall come Greeting
Whereas our Late Royal Grandfather King George
the Second of Glorious Memory did of his Special Grace & mere
Motion for the Encouragement of Setling a New Plantation within
our said Province of New Hampshire by his Letters Patient or
Ciiarter under the Seal of our said Province dated the 29"' day of
Aprill 1751 & in the Twenty Fourth Year of his Majestys Reign,
grant a Tract of Land equal to Six Miles Square Bounded as there-
in Expi-essed to a Number of our Loyal subjects whose Names are
Entered on the same to Hold to them their Heirs & Assigns on the
Conditions therein Declared to be a Town Corporate by the Name of
Marlbrough as by Reference to the said Charter may more fully
appear —

And whereas the said Grantees have Represented that by the
Intervention of an Indian Warr since making the said Grant it has
been Impracticable to comply with & fulfill the Conditions & humbly
Supplicated us not to take Advantage of the Breach of said Condi-
tions but to Lengthen Out & Grant them some reasonable Time for
Performance thereof after the said Impediment shall cease —

Now Know Yee that we being Willing to Promote the End Pro-
posed have of our Further grace & Favour suspended our t^laim of
the Forfeiture which the said Grantees may have Incurred & by these
Presents do grant unto the said Grantees their Heirs & Assigns the
Term of One Year for Performing & fulfilling the Conditions Mat-
ters & things by them to be done which Term is to be Renewed
Annually if the same Impediment Remains untill our Plenary
Instructions shall be Received Relating to the Incident that has
Prevented a Compliance with the said Charter According to the
Intent & Meaning of the same

In Testimony whereof we have Caused the Seal of our said
Province to be hereunto Affixed Witness Benning Wentworth
Esq our Governour & Comm*^ in Cheif of our Province aforesaid the
21*'' of September in the Year of our Lord Christ 1761 & in the first
Year of our Reign

B Wentworth

By his Excellency s Command
with advice of Council

Theodore Atkinson Sec''^

MARLBORO. 276

Prov : of New Hanips"^ Sept' 21, 1761

Recorded from the Origional under the Province seal

^ Theodore Atkinson Sec'^

[jNIaklboro Regrant, 1764.]

*Province of New-Hampshire. *3-106

New Marlborough GEORGE the Third,

!.-*-^— ^ X By the Grace of God, of Great-Britain, France and
_, / Irehind, King, Defender of the Faith &c.
I To all Persons to whom these Presents shall come,

^-^v-w -' Greeting.

Know Ye, that We of Our special Grace, certain Knowledge,
and meer Motion, for the due Encouragement of settling a Neiv Plan-
tation within our said Province, by and with the Advice of our
Trusty and Well-beloved Benning Wentworth, Esq ; Our Governor
and Commander in Chief of Our said Province of New-Hampshire, in
Neiv-England, and of Our Council of the said Province ; Have upon
the Conditions and Reservations herein after made, given and granted,
and by these Presents, for Us, Our Heirs, and Successors, do give
and grant in equal Shares, unto Our loving Subjects, Inhabitants of
Our said Province of Neiv-Hampsliire, and Our other Governments,
and to their Heirs and Assigns for ever, whose Names are entred on
this Grant, to be divided to and amongst them into Sixty four
equal Shares, all that Tract or Parcel of Land situate, lying and
being within our said Province of Neiv- Hampshire, containing by Ad-
measurement, 23040 Acres, which Tract is to contain Six Miles square,
and no more ; out of which an Allowance is to be made for High
Ways and uiiim[)rovable Lands by Rocks, Ponds, Mountains and
Rivers, One Thousand and Forty Acres free, according to a Plan
and Survey thereof, made by Our said Governor's Order, and
returned into the Secretary's Office, and hereunto annexed, butted
and bounded as follows. Viz. Begining at the North Westerly
Corner Bounds of the Town of Hallifax, from thence Runing North ten
Degrees East by the Needle Six Miles, Then turning off & Runing
East 10 Degrees South by the Needle Six Miles, Then turning off' again
& Runing South 10 Degrees West by the Needle Six Miles to the
North Easterly Corner of Hallifax from thence West 10 Degrees North
by the Needle by Hallifax aforesaid to the North Westerly Corner
thereof the Bounds began at — And that the same be and hereby is
Incorporated into a Township by the Name of New Marlborough

276 chtUiter records.

And the Inhabitants that do or shall hereafter inhabit the said Town-
ship, are hereby declared to be Enfranchized with and Jntitled to all
and every the Priviledges and Immunities that other 1'owns within
Our Province by Law Exercise and Enjoy : And further, that the
said Town as soon as there shall be Fifty Families resident and set-
tled thereon, shall have the Liberty of holding Uvo Fairs, one of
which shall be held on the And the other on the

annually, which Fairs are not to continue longer
than the respective following the said

and that as soon as the said Town shall consist
*3-107 of Fifty Families, a Market may be *opened and kept one
or more Days in each Week, as may be thought most
advantagious to the Inhabitants. Also, that the first Meeting for
the Choice of Town Officers, agreable to the Laws of our said Prov-
ince, shall be held on the Second Monday in May next which said Meet-
ing shall be Notified by Charles Phelps Esq who is hereby also appointed
the Moderator of the said first Meeting, which he is to Notify and Gov-
ern agreable to the Laws and Customs of Our said Province ; and that
the annual Meeting for ever hereafter for the Choice of such Officers
for the said Town, shall be on the Second Tuesday of 3Iarch annually.
To Have and to Hold the said Tract of Land as above expressed,
together with all Privileges and Appurtenances, to them and their
respective Heirs and Assigns forever, upon the following Conditions^
viz.

I. That every Grantee, his Heirs or Assigns shall plant and culti-
vate five Acres of Land within the Term of five Years for every fift}^
Acres contained in his or their Share or Proportion of Land in said
Township, and continue to improve and settle the same bj' additional
Cultivations, on Penalty of the Forfeiture of his Grant or Share in
the said Township, and of its reverting to Us, our Heirs and Suc-
cessors, to be by Us or them Re-granted to such of our Subjects as
shall effectually settle and cultiv^ate the same.

IL That all white and other Pine Trees within the said Township,
fit for Masting Our Royal Navy, be carefully preserved for that Use»
and none to be cut or felled without Our special Licence for so doing
first had and obtained, upon the Penalty of the Forfeiture of the
Right of such Grantee, his Heirs and Assigns, to Us, our Heirs and
Successors, as well as being subject to the Penalty of any Act or
Acts of Parliament that now are, or hereafter shall be Enacted.

MAliLBOKO. 277

IV. Yielding and ]Kiying therefor to Us, our Heirs and Successors
for the Space of Five Years, to be computed from the Date hereof, the
Kent of one Ear of Indian Corn on]j, on the twenty-fifth Day of
December annually, if lawfully demanded, the first Payment to be
made on the twenty-fifth Day of December. 1764

V. Every Proprietor, Settler or Inhabitant, shall yield and pay
unto Us, our Heirs and Successors yearly, and every Year forever,
from and after the Expiration of five Years from the abovesaid
twenty-fifth Day of December., namely, on the twenty-fifth Day of
December., which will be in the Year of Our Lord 1769 One shillim/
Proclamation Money for every Hundred Acres he so owns, settles or
possesses, and so in Proportion for a greater or lesser Tract of the
said Land ; which Money shall be paid by the respective Persons
abovesaid, their Heirs or Assigns, in our Council Chamber in Ports-
mouth, or to such Officer or Officers as shall be appointed to receive
the same; and this to be in Lieu of all other Rents and Services
whatsoever.

In Testimony whereof we have caused the Seal of our said Prov-
ince to be hereunto affixed. Witness Penning Wentwokth, Esq;
Our Governor and Commander in Chief of Our said Province, the
1(*^ Day of April In the Year of our Lord Christ, One Thousand
Seven Hundred and 64 And in the fourth Year of Our Reign.

By His Excellency's Command,
With Advice of Council,

T Atkinson Jun'' Sec''-^'

Province of New Hampshire April 19'^ 1764

Recorded according to the Original Charter under the Province Seal

f T Atkinson Jun'" Sec^>'

*Names of the Grantees of New Marlborough (Viz) *3-108

Timothy Dwight Esq Timothy Dwight Jun" Samuel Mather Esq""

Samuel Mather Jun' Benjamin Sheldon Benjamin Sheldon Jun"^

Noah Parsons Sup[)ly Kingsly Aaron Kingsley

Benjamin Alvord Joseph Allen Jun'' Samuel Phelps

Joseph Allen Ebenezer Edwards Israel Rust

Daniel Warner Nathaniel Strong Eliphaz Clapp

Josiah Clark Jonathan Kingsly Elisha Searle

Samuel Kingsly Titus Wright Nathaniel Dwight

Noah Clark Jun"" Noah Edwards Josei)h Bridgraan

Jonathan Graves Increase Clark Gideon Clark

278

CHAKTER RECORDS.

Robert Trail Esq

p, rs MajMolm Went-

^ worth Esq
Charles Phelps Jim''
Jonathan Phelps
Timothy Phelps
John Phelps
Hezekiah Root
Jonathan Judd
Eleazer Root and

Noah Clark Hon^'^'' Theod'' Atkinson ~]

Charles Plielps Esq Nath'^ Barrell I

Sam" Wentworth Esq"" Theod'" Atkinson j"" \
Boston M H^ Wentworth j

Solomon Phelps Martin Phelps

The Heirs of John Wentworth Esq ) y^ ^

The Heirs of Foster Wentworth (
Nathaniel Phelps Nehemiah Geylard

Simeon Parsons John Miller

Joseph Root John Kellogg

Eleazer Pomroy Ebenezer Hutchinson

His Excellency Benning Wentworth Esq a Tract of Land to Con-
tain five Hundred Acres as Mark'd B W in the Plan which is to be
Accounted two of the within Shares. One Whole Share for the
Incorporated Societj^ for the Propagation of the Gospell in Foreign
Parts. One whole Share for a Glebe for the Church of England as
by Law Established. One Share for the first Settled Minister of the
Gospell & One Share for the Benefit of a School in said Town for-
ever—

Province of New Hampshire April 19*^ 1764

Recorded from the Back of the Original Charter under the Prov-
ince Seal

19 T Atkinson Jun"- Sec^>'

- East

J-* Souihhi, th^TittJU i.7Ti,i,i

^Vv'

'^^lu 7''1F'

MIDDLEBURY. 279

Province of New Hampshire April 19*" 1764

Recorded from the Back of the Original Charter under the Prov-
ince Seal

f T Atkinson Jun-" Sec^^

p. s.

MIDDLEBURY.

*Province of New-Hampshire. *2-297

Midlebury GEORGE the Third,

f — iw— N ^ By the Grace of God, of Great-Britain, France and
Ireland, King, Defender of the Faith, &c.

To all Persons to tvhoni these Presents shall come,

^ ^— ^^i^' ^ Greeting.

Know ye, that We of Our special Grace, certain Knowledge, and
meer Motion, for the due Encouragement of settling a Neio Planta-
tion within our said Province, by and with the Advice of our Trusty
and Well-beloved Benning Wentworth, Esq ; Our Governor and
Commander in Chief of Our said Province of New-Hampshire in
Neii'-England., and of our Council of the said Province ; Have
upon the Conditions and Reservations herein after made, given and
granted, and by these Presents, for us, our Heirs, and Successors,
do give and grant in equal Sliares, unto Our loving Subjects, Inhabi-
tants of Our said Province of Neu'-Hamjjshire, and Our other Gov-
ernments, and to their Fleirs and Assigns for ever, whose Names are
entred on this Grant, to be divided to and amongst them into Sixty
Eight equal Shares, all that Tract or Parcel of Land situate, lying
and being within our said Province of Neiv- Hampshire, containing by
Admeasurement, Twenty Five Thousand & Forty Acres, which Tract
is to contain Something more than Six Miles square, and no more; out
of which an Allowance is to be made for High Ways and unimprovable
Lands b}' Rocks, Ponds, Mountains and Rivers, One Thousand and
P^orty Acres free, accoi-ding to a Plan and Survey thereof, made by
Our said (Governor's Order, and returned into the Secretary's Oftice,
and hereunto annexed, butted and bounded as follows. Viz. Begin-
iug at the Southerly Corner of a Township Granted this day by the
Name of New Haven, at a Tree Marked Standing on the bank of the
Easterly or Northeasterly Side of Otter Creek so called, from thence
Tuning P^ast Seven Miles, then turning Off & Runing South Ten
Degrees West Six Miles ik, sixty P^our Rodds, then Turning off

280 CHARTER RECORDS.

& Riming West to Otter Creek afores*^ then down said Creek
as that Runs to the Bounds first Mentiond And that the same be,
and liereby is Incorporated into a Townsliip by the Name of Midle-
bury And the Inhabitants that do or shall hereafter inhabit the said
Township, are hereby declared to be Enfranchized with and In titled
to all and every the Priviledges and Imnuinities that other Towns
within Our Province by Law Exercise and Enjoy: And further,
that the said Town as soon as there shall be Fifty Families resident
and settled thereon, shall have the Liberty of holding Two Fairs, one
of which shall be held on the

And the other on the annually, which

Fairs are not to continue longer than the respective
following the said and that as soon as

the said Town shall consist of Fifty Families, a Market may
*2-298 be *opened and kept one or more Days in each Week, as may

be thought most advantagious to the Inhabitants. Also,
that the first Meeting for the Choice of Town Olificers, agreable to
the Laws of our said Province, shall be held on the First Tuesday in
January Next which said Meeting shall be Notified by Cap* Sam^
Moore who is hereby also appointed the Moderator of the said first
Meeting, which he is to Notify and Govern agreable to the Laws and
Customs of Our said Province; and that the annual Meeting for
ever hereafter for the Choice of such Officers for the said Town, shall
be on the Second Tuesday of March annually, To Have and to Hold
the said Tract of Land as above expressed, together with all Privi-
leges and Appurtenances, to them and their respective Heirs and
Assigns forever, upon the following Conditions, viz.

I. That every Grantee, his Heirs or Assigns shall plant and culti-
vate five Acres of Land within the Term of five Years for every
fifty Acres contained in his or their Share or Proportion of Land in
said Township, and continue to improve and settle the same by
additional Cultivations, on Penalty of the Forfeiture of his Grant or
Share in the said Township, and of its reveiting to Us, our Heirs
and Successors, to be by Us or Them Re-granted to such of Our Sub-
jects as shall effectually settle and cultivate the same.

II. That all white and other Pine Trees within the said Township,
fit for Masting Our Ro3'al Navy, be carefully j^reserved for that Use,
and none to be cut or felled without Our special Licence for so doing
first had and obtained, upon the Penalty of the Forfeiture of the
Right of such Grantee, his Heirs and Assigns, to Us, our Heirs and
Successors, as well as being subject to the Penalty of any Act or
Acts of Parliament that now are, or hereafter shall be Enacted.

III. That before any Division of the Land be made to and among

MlDDLEnUllV. 281

the Grantees, a Tract of Land as near tlie Centre of the said Town-
ship as the Laud will admit of, shall be reserved and marked out for
Town Lots, one of which shall be allotted to each Grantee of the
Contents of one Acre.

IV. Yielding and paying therefor to Us, our Heirs and Successors
for the Space of ten Years, to be computed from the Date hereof,
the Kent of one Ear of Indian Corn only, on the twenty-fifth Day of
December annually, if lawfully demanded, the first Payment to be
made on the twenty-fifth Day of December. 1761

V. Every Proprietor, Settler or Inhabitant, shall yield and pay
unto Us, our Heirs and Successors yearly, and every Year forever,
from and after the Expiration of ten Years from the abovesaid twenty-
fifth Day of December, namely, on the twenty-fifth Day of December,
which will be in the Year of Our Lord 1771 0)ie sMUing Proclama-
tion Money for every Hundred Acres he so owns, settles or possesses,
and so in Proi^ortion for a greater or lesser Tract of the said Land ;
which Money shall be paid by the respective Persons abovesaid, their
Heirs or Assigns, in our Council Chamber in Portsmouth, or to such
Officer or Officers as shall be a^jpointed to receive the same ; and this
to be in Lieu of all other Rents and Services whatsoever.

In Testimon}' wdiereof we have caused the Seal of our said Prov-
ince to be hereunto affixed. Witness Benntng Wentworth, Esq ;
Our Governor and Commander in Chief of Our said Province, the
Second Day of November In the Year of oui Lord Christ, One
Thousand Seven Hundred and Sixty One And in the Second Y^ear
of Our Reign.

B Wentworth

By His Excellency's Command,
With Advice of Council,

Theodore Atkinson Sec'-''

Province of New Haraps"" Nov"^ 2, 1761

Recorded According to the Origional Charter under the Province
Seal "^ Theodore Atkinson Sec""^

*The Names of the Grantees of Midlebury (Viz) *2-299

John Evarts Elijah Skinner Elkanah Paris

Benj' Paris John Baker Gideon Hurlbat

Eben'' Hanchit Deliv'*" Spaulding Noah Chittenden

John Abbit Moses Read Sam^ Keep

Elisha Painter Rulof White Nath^ Evarts Jun""

John Turner Jun' Eben' Field 3'' Sam' Turner

Zachariah Foss Eben' Field Nath' Flint

Benj' Evarist Jeremiah How John Read

282

CHARTER RECORDS.

James Claghorn
Rufus Marsh
Amos Handiest
John How
Cap* Josiah Stoddar
Cap' Sam' Moore
Benj*^ Smallej^
Leiu' Janna Meigs
Moses Read Jiin''
John Benton
Nath' Skinner Jun""

Lieu* Matthias Kelsey
Elias Read
Sam' Towsley
Oliver Evarts
Bethel Selick
Hezekiah Camp Jan''
Lien* John Seymour
Elisha Shelden Jun'"
Matth"' Boldwin
John Evarts Jun''
David Hide Jun""

Daniel Morris
Noah Waddams
John Strong
Russel Hunt
Sam' Skiner
John M'Quivey
Datis Ensign
David Owen
Lieu* Jon'' Moore
Jon'^ Moore Jun''
Tho* Chipman
& M H Wentworth Esq

Charles Brewster Theodore Atkinson Esq
Matt^^ Bostwick & Tho^ Chittenden—

His Excellency Benning Wentworth Esq a Tract of Land to
Contain Five Hundred Acres as Marked B-W- in the Plan, which is
to be Accounted two of the within Shares, One whole Share for the
Incorporated Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign
Parts, One Share for a Glebe for the Church of England as by Law
Established, One Share for the first Settled Minister of the Gospel &
One Share for the Benefit of a School in said Town

Province of New Hampshire Nov' 2, 1761

Recorded from the Back of the Origional Charter of Midlebury —
under the Province Seal —

Attested f. Theodore Atkinson Sec^^

MIDDLESEX. 283

Province of New Hamps'' Nov'' 3, 1761

Recorded from the back of the Origional Charter of Midlebury
under the Proince Seal

19 Theodore Atkinson Se""-''

MIDDLESEX.^

*Province of New-Hampshire. *2-445

Midlesex GEORGE the Third,

/ .-ii^^— >s . B}' the Grace of God, of Great-Britain, France and

\ / Ireland, King, Defender of the Faith &c,

j ' I To all Persons to tvJiom these Presents shall come,

^ ^—'^.^.^ ^ (Greeting.

Know ye, that We of Our special Grace, certain Knowledge, and
meer Motion, for the due Encouragement of settling a Netv Planta-
tion within our said Province, by and with the Advice of our Trusty
and Well-beloved Benning Wentwoeth, Esq ; Our Governor and
Commander in Chief of Our said Province of New-Hampshire in
Neu'-England, and of our Council of the said Province ; Have
upon the Conditions and Reservations herein after made, given and
granted, and by these Presents, for us, our Heirs, and Successors,
do give and grant in equal Shares, unto Our loving Subjects, Inhab-
itants of Our said Province of _ New-Hampshire, and Our other Gov-
ernments, and to their Heirs and Assigns for ever, whose Names are
entred on this Grant, to be divided to and amongst them into
Seventy one equal Shares, all that Tract or Parcel of Land situate,
lying and being within our said Province of New-Hampshire,
containing by Admeasurement, 23040 Acres, which Tract is to
contain Six Miles square, and no more ; out of which an Allow-
ance is to be made for Iligh Ways and unimprovable Lands
by Rocks, Ponds, Mountains and Rivers, One Thousand and Forty
Acres free, according to a Plan and Surve}' thereof, made by
Our said Governor's Order, and returned into the Secretary's
Office, and hereunto annexed, butted and bounded as follows. Viz.
Begining at the southerly or South Easterly Corner of Waterbury,
on the Northerly side of Onion or French River (So Called) from
thence Runing Easterly up said River (& bounding on the same) so
far as to make it six Miles on a streight Line allowing the same to
be Perpendicular with the Easterly JJne of said Waterbur3% from
thence Northerly a Parralell Line with the Easterly Line of said

284 CHARTER RECORDS.

Waterbury Six Miles, from thence Westerly about six Miles to the
North Easterly Corner of said Waterbury from thence Southerly by
the Easterly Line of s'^ Waterbury Six Miles to the place begun at —
And that the same be, and hereby is Incorporated into a Township
by the Name of Middlesex And the Inhabitants that do or shall
hereafter inhabit the said Township, are hereby declared to be
Enfranchized \Yith and Intitled to all and every the Priviledges and
Immunities that other Towns within Our Province by Law Exercise
and Enjoy : And further, that the said Town as soon as there shall
be Fifty Families resident and settled thereon, shall have the Liberty
of holding Two Fairs, one of which shall be held on the
And the other on the annually, which Fairs are not

to continue longer than the respective following the said

and that as soon as the said Town shall consist
*2-4-fr) of Fifty Families, a Market may be * opened and kept one or
more Days in each Week, as may be thought most advantagi-
ous to the Inhabitants. Also, that the first INIeeting for the Choice of
Town Officers, agreable to the Laws of our said Province, shall beheld
on the 20"' Day of July next which said Meeting shall be Notified by
Capt Isaac Woodruff who is hereby also appointed the Moderator
of the said first Meeting, which he is to Notify and Govern agreable
to the Laws and Customs of Our said Province ; and that the annual
Meeting for ever hereafter for the Choice of such Officers for the
said Town, shall be on the Second Tuesday of March annually. To
Have and to Hold the said Tract of Land as above expressed,
together witii all Privileges and Appurtenances, to them and their
respective Heirs and Assigns forever, upon the following Condi-
tions, viz.

I. That every Grantee, his Heirs or Assigns shall plant and cul-
tivate five Acres of Land within the Term of five Years for every
fifty Acres contained in his or their Share or Proportion of Land in
said Township, and continue to improve and settle the same by addi-
tional Cultivations, on Penalty of the Forfeiture of his Grant or
Share in the said Township, and of its reverting to Us, our Heirs
and Successors, to be by Us or Them Re-granted to such of Our Sub-
jects as shall effectually settle and cultivate the same.

II. That all white and other Pine Trees within the said Town-
ship, fit for Masting Our Royal Navy, be carefully preserved for that
Use, and none to be cut or felled without Our special Licence for so
doing first had and obtained, upon the Penalty of the Forfeiture of
the Right of such Grantee, his Heirs and Assigns, to Us, our Heirs
and Successors, as well as being subject to the Penalty of any Act or
Acts of Parliament that now are, or hereafter shall be Enacted.

MIDDLESEX. 285

III. That before any Division of the Land be made to and among
the Grantees, a Tract of Land as near the Centre of the said Town-
ship as the Land will admit of, shall be reserved and marked out for
Town l^ots, one of which shall be allotted to each Grantee of the
Contents of one Acre.

IV. Yielding and paying therefor to Us, our Heirs and Succes-
sors for the Space of ten Years, to be computed from the Date hereof,
the Rent of one Ear of Indian Corn only, on the twenty-iifth Day of
December annuall3% if lawfully demanded, the first Payment to be
made on the twenty-fifth Day of Becemher. 17G3 ,

V. Every Proprietor, Settler or Inhabitant, shall yield and pay
unto Us, our Heirs and Successors yearly, and every Year forever,
from and after the Expiration of ten Years from the abovesaid
twenty-fifth Day of December^ namely, on the twenty-fifth Day of
December^ which will be in the Year of Our Lord 1778 One shilling
Proclamation Money for every Hundred Acres he so owns, settles or
possesses, and so in Proportion for a greater or lesser Tract of the
said Land ; which Money shall be paid by the respective Persons
abovesaid, their Heirs or Assigns, in our Council Chamber in Ports-
mouth, or to such Officer or Officers as shall be appointed to receive
the same ; and this to be in Lieu of all other Rents and Services
whatsoever.

In Testimony whereof we have caused the Seal of our said
Province to be hereunto affixed. Witness Penning Wentworth,
Esq ; Our Governor and Commander in Chief of Our said Province,
the Eighth Day of June In the Year of our Lord Christ, One
Thousand Seven Hundred and Sixty three And in the Third Year
of Our Reign.

B Wentworth
By His Excellency's Command,
With Advice of Council,

T Atkinson Jun'' Sec^^
Province of New Hamp'" June 8"" 1763
Recorded from the Original Charter under the Pro'' Seal

^ T Atkinson Jun-" Sec^>'

*The Names of the Grantees of Middlesex (Viz) *2-447

Jacob Rezeau Rich'' Johnson Dan' Ogden

Jon-' Skinner Jon'' Dayton Jun'' Will'" Reeve

Josh'' Horton George Ross Jere"" Mulbord

Nath' Littell Gabriel Ogden David Ball

Day'' Morehouse Jun'' John Force Cap* Isaac Woodruff Jun*"

Jacob Brookfield Isaac Winnans David Lummoris

286

CHARTER RECORDS.

Alex"" Carmichael
Tho^ Dean
Will"' Hand
Benj'' ('rane 3'^
Jeliiel Ross
Job Wood
Henry Earle
Tho* Woodruff
Jon^' Dayton 3'^
David Bon nil
Jonas Ball
Rob^ French
Seth Crowell
Eben'^ Canfield
Hon : Ja* Nevin
Nat: Barrel!
Jos^ Newmarch

James Seaward
Amos Day
Sam' Crowell
Law'^^'^ Egbort Jun"^
Lawrence Egbert
Cornelius Ludlow
John Little 2'^
Jos^ Ragffs Jun""
Sam' Meeker Jun"^
Steph" Potter
John David Lamb
Jon'^ Woodruff
James Campbell
Sam' Averill
George Frost

Nath' Potter
Will'" Brant
Ezekiel Ball
Matthias Ross
Rob' Earle
John Roll Jun*^
Sam' Little 3'^
Dan' Perrnie
John Cory Jun""
Steph" Wilcocks
James Colie Jun'^
Aaron Barnett Jun""
Tho^ Ball
Patridge Thatcher
Rich'' Jennis Esq"^

Esq'-

His Excellency Benning Wentworth Esq"" a Tract of Land to
Contain Five Hundred Acres as marked B-W — in the Plan which is
to be Accounted two of the within shares, One whole share for the
Incorporated Societj' for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign
Parts, One share for the first Settled Minister of the Gospel, One
Share for a Glebe for the Church of England as by Law Establish'd
& One Share for the benefit of a school in said Town —

Prov'' New Hamp'' June 8-17G3

Recorded from the Back of the Original Charter of Middlesex
under the Pro'*' Seal

f T Atkinson Jun^ Sec'^

Oni o-F

J-rertc'

MILTON. 287

Province of New Hamp^ June 8"^ 1763

Recorded from the Plan on the Back of the original Charter of
of Midlesex under the Pro' Seal

19 T Atkinson Jun-- Sec^^

MILTON.

*Province of New-Hampshire. *2-449

Milton GEORGE the Third,

. .-w-^v By the Grace of God, of Great-Britain, France and

) , ( Ireland, King, Defender of the Faith, &c.

) I 2^0 all Persons to ivhom these Presents shall come^

' -^ — V — ' ^ Greeting.

Know ye, that We of Our special Grace, certain Knowledge, and
Tueer Motion, for the due Encouragement of settling a Neio Planta-
tion within our said Province, by and with the Advice of our Trusty
and Well-beloved Bennixg Wentworth, Esq; Our Governor and
Commander in Chief of Our said Province of New-Hampshire in
Neu'-Eniiland, and of our Council of the said Province; Have
upon the Conditions and Reservations herein after made, given and
granted, and by these Presents, for us, our Heirs, and Successors, do
give and grant in equal Shares, unto Our loving Subjects, Inhabi-
tants of Our said Province of Neiv-Hampshire^ and Our other Govern-
ments, and to their Heirs and Assigns for ever, whose Names are
entred on this Grant, to be divided to and amongst them into Seventy
one equal Shares, all that Tract or Parcel of Land situate, lying and
being within our said Province of Neiv-Hampsliirc, containing by
Admeasurement, 28040 Acres, which Tract is to contain Six Miles
square, and no more; out of which an Allowance is to be made for
High Ways and unimprovable Lands by Rocks, Ponds, Mountains
and Rivers, One Thousand and Forty Acres free, according to a Plan
and Survey thereof, made by Our said Governor's Order, and
returned into the Secretary's Office, and hereunto annexed, butted
and bounded as follows, Viz. Begining at the North Easterly Corner
of Colchester which is the North Westerly Corner of Essex (which
is within six Miles of Onion or French River) (so Called) from
thence Runing Northerly the same course of the Line between said
Colchester & Essex six Miles from thence Westerly a Parralell line
with the Northerly Line of Colchester to Lake Champlaine, from
thence southerly by the said Lake to the North Westerly Corner of
Colchester, from thence Easterly about six Miles by said Colchester

288 CHARTER RECORDS.

to the place begun at — And that the same be, and hereby is Incor-
porated into a Township by the Xanie of Milton And the Inhab-
itants that do or shall hereafter inhabit the said Township, are hereby
declared to be Enfranchized with and Intitled to all and every
the Priviledges and Immunities that other Towns within Our Prov-
ince by Law Exercise and Enjoy: And further, that the said Town
as soon as there shall be Fifty Families resident and settled thereon,
shall have the Liberty of holding Two Fairs, one of which shall be
held on the And the other

on the annually, which Fairs are not to continue

longer than the respective following the said

and that as soon as the said Town shall
*2— 450 consist of Fifty Families, a Market may be *opened and
kept one or more Days in each Week, as may be thought
most advantagious to the Inhabitants. Also, that the first Meeting
for the Choice of Town Oliicers, agreable to the Laws of our said
Province, shall be held on the 19'^ of July next which said Meeting
shall be Notified by M"^ Will"' Procter who is hereby also appointed
the Moderator of the said first Meeting, which he is to Notify and
Govern agreable to the Laws and Customs of Our said Province;
and that the annual Meeting for ever hereafter for the Choice of such
Officers for the said Town, shall be on the Second Tuesday of
JfarcJi annually. To Have and to Hold the said Tract of Land as
above expressed, together with all Privileges and Appurtenances^
to them and their respective Heirs and Assigns forever, upon the
following Conditions, viz.

I. That every Grantee, his Heirs or Assigns shall plant and culti-
vate five Acres of Land within the Term of five Years for every
fifty Acres contained in his or their Share or Proportion of Land in
said Township, and continue to improve and settle the same by addi-
tional Cultivations, on Penalty of the Forfeiture of his Grant or
Share in the said Township, and of its reverting to Us. our Heirs and
Successors, to be by Us or Them Re-granted to such of Our Subjects
as shall effectually settle and cultivate the same.

II. That all white and other Pine Trees within the said Township,
fit for Masting Our Royal Navy, be carefully preserved for that Use,
and none to be cut or felled xN'ithout Our special Licence for so doing
first had and obtained, upon the Penalty of the Forfeiture of the
Right of such Grantee, his Heirs and Assigns, to Us. our Heirs and
Successors, as well as being subject to the Penalty of any Act or
Acts of Parliament that now are. or hereafter shall be Enacted.

HI. That before any Division of the Land be made to and among
the Grantees, a Tract of Land as near the Centre of the said Town-

MILTON. 289

ship as the Land will admit of, shall be reserved and marked out for
Town Lots, one of which shall be alloted to each Grantee of the Con-
tents of one Acre.

IV. Yielding and paying therefor to L^s, our Heirs and Successors
for the Space of ten Years, to be computed from the Date hereof, the
Rent of one Ear of Indian Corn only, on the twenty-fifth Day of
December annually, if lawfully demanded, the first Payment to be
made on the twenty-fifth Day of December. 1763

V. Every Proprietor, Settler or Inhabitant, shall yield and pay
unto Us, our Heirs and Successors yearly, and every Year forever,
from and after the Expiration of ten Years from the abovesaid
twenty-fifth Day of December., namely, on the twenty-fifth Day of
December^ which will be in the Year of Our Lord 1773 One
shilling Proclamation Money for every Hundred Acres he so
owns, settles or possesses, and so in Proportion for a greater or
lesser Tract of the said Land; which Money shall be paid by the
respective Persons abovesaid, their Heirs or Assigns, in our Council
Chamber in Portsmouth^ or to such Officer or Officers as shall be
appointed to receive the same; and this to be in Lieu of all other
Rents and Services whatsoever.

In Testimony whereof we have caused the Seal of our said Province
to be hereunto affixed. Witness Benning Wentworth, Esq ; Our
Governor and Commander in Chief of Our said Province, the Eighth
Day of June In the Year of our Lord Christ, One Thousand Seven
Hundred and Sixty three And in the Third Year of Our Reign.

B Wentworth
By His Excellency's Command,
With Advice of Council,

T Atkinson Jun' SeC^

Province of New Hamp"^ June 8-1763

Recorded According to the Original under the Province Seal

f T Atkinson Jun"^ Sec^^

*The Names of the Grantees of Milton. *2-451

Sam^ Rogers James Willmott Jun"^ Fra* Silvestei

Isaac Rogfers Jos'^ Borden Jun"" Jos'' Kirkbridi

Will'" Procter Carden Procter Alex'' Moore

Peter Carne John Inlay Jos'' Haviland

James Haviland Tim*^ M'Carthy Carden Lee

Sam' Dodge John Burrough James Burrough

Will"' Burrough Will"' Popplesdorff Jun Jos'' Zabrisker

John Zabrisker Rich'^ Cornwell Dan' Bates

290

CHARTER RECORDS.

Tho' Liscum
Jacob Smith
John Willett
Benj* Lintott
Rich'' Evans
Mich' Duff
Christo^ Miller
Phillip French Jun
Benj^' Underhill
John Blagge
George Woods
Abert Baker
Hon: Rich" Wibird
John Downing
Dan' Warner

Will'" Smith
Tho^ Miller
Ralph WilP Miller
Will'" Ferguhez
Sam' Kemble
Paul Miller
Tho^ Shreave
Adolphus French
David Barcklay
John Gifford
John Turner
Joshua Huchins
Maj"" Rich'' Downing

Esq^

Will'" Smith Jun""
Tho^ Willett
Jos" Royall
Rich'' Sharp
Rich'' Kemble
Paul Miller Jun'
Phillip French
Henry Franklin
Benj'' Blagge
John Gifford Jun""
John Turner Jun"^
Henry Dickinson
Sam' Emerson &

His Excellency Benning Wentworth Esq"" a Tract of Land to
Contain Five Hundred Acres as marked B. W. in the Plan which is
to be Accounted two of the within shares, One whole share for the
Incorporated Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign
Parts, One Share for a Glebe for the Church of England as by Law
Establish'd, One Share for the first settled Minister of the Gospel,
And One share for the Benefit of a school in said Town —

Province of New Hamp'' June 8"^ 1763

Recorded from the Back of the Original Charter of Milton under
the Pro^ Seal W T Atkinson Jun"- Sec'^

UlOJVWBy^j SJtO'J- <V A)X3'J5»^

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MONKTON. 291

Province of New Hamp"^ June 8 — 1763

Recorded from the Plan on the Back of the Charter of Milton under
the Pr-^ Seal

19 T Atkinson Jun-- Sec^^

MONKTON.

*Province of New-Hampshire. *2-349

Monkton GEORGE the Third,

. .-^.^-^.i-s . By the Grace of God, of Great-Britain, France and

I ^ / Ireland, King, Defender of the Faith, &c.

) I To all Persons to ^vliom these Presents shall come,

^ ^— v^-*-^ ^ Greeting.

Know ye, that We of Our special Grace, certain Knowledge, and
meer Motion, for the due Encouragement of settling a JVetv Plantation
within our said Province, by and with the Advice of our Trusty and
Well-beloved Benning Wentworth, Esq ; Our Governor and Com-
mander in Chief of Our said Province of New-Ha^ipshire in Netv-
England^ and of our Council of the said Province ; Have upon
the Conditions and Reservations herein after made, given and granted,
and by these Presents, for us, our Heirs, and Successors, do give and
grant in equal Shares, unto Our loving Subjects, Inhabitants of Our said
Province of New-Hampshire, and Our other Governments, and to their
Heirs and Assigns for ever, whose Names are entred on this Grant, to
be divided to and amongst them into Seventy equal Shares, all that
Tract or Parcel of Land situate, lying and being within our said
Province of New-Hampshire, containing by Admeasurement, Twenty
four Thousand Acres, which Tract is to contain Something more than
Six Miles square, and no more ; out of which an Allowance is to be
made for High Ways and unimprovable Lands by Rocks, Ponds,
Mountains and Rivers, One Thousand and Forty Acres free, according
to a Plan and Survey thereof, made Ijy Our said Governor's Order,
and returned into the Secretary's Office, and hereunto annexed, butted
and bounded as follows, Viz. Begining at a Tree Marked standing
in the Nother Esterly Angle of the Township of Ferrissboug and
from thence runing South Six Miles and one Quarter of A Mile by
Ferrissbourg afore Said then turning off & runing East Six Miles
Then turning off & runing North Six Miles & one Quarter of A
Mile to the Southerly Side Line of the Township of Hindsbourough
then West by Hindsbourough afore Said & Charlotta to the North

292 CHARTER RECORDS.

Easterly Corner Bounds of Ferrissbourg afores*^ the Bounds began at —
And that the same be, and hereby is Incorporated into a ToAvnship by
the Name of Monkton And the Inhabitants that do or shall hereafter
inhabit the said Township, are hereby declared to be Enfranchized
with and Intitled to all and every the Priviledges and Immunities
that other Towns within Our Province by Law Exercise and Enjoy :
And further, that the said Town as soon as there shall be Fifty Families
resident and settled thereon, shall have the Liberty of holding Ttvo
Fairs, one of which shall be held on the

And the other on the annually, which

Fairs are not to continue longer than the respective
following the said

and that as soon as the said Town shall consist of Fifty
*2-350 Families, a Market may be * opened and kept one or more

Days in each Week, as may be thought most advantagious
to the Inhal3itants. Also, that the first ^Meeting for the Choice of
To^\^l Officers, agreable to the Laws of our said Province, shall beheld
on the last Wecbiesday in July next which said Meeting shall be Notified
by AP Benjamin Ferriss who is hereby also appointed the IVIoderator
of the said first Meeting, which he is to Notify and Govern agreable
to the Laws and Customs of Our said Pro%'ince; and that the annual
Meeting for ever hereafter for the Choice of such Officers for the said
Town, shall be on the Second Tuesday of March annually, To Have
and to Hold the said Tract of Land as above expressed, together with
all Privileges and Appurtenances, to them and their respective Heire
and Assigns forever, upon the following Conditions, viz.

I. That every Grantee, his Heirs or Assigns shall plant and cultivate
five Acres of Land within the Term of five Years for every fifty Acres
contained in his or their Share or Proportion of Land in said Town-
ship, and continue to improve and settle the same by additional
Cultivations, on Penalty of the Forfeiture of his Grant or Share in
the said Township, and of its reverting to Us, our Heirs and Succes-
sors, to be by Us or Them Re-granted to such of Our Subjects as shall
effectually settle and cultivate the same.

II. That all white and other Pine Trees within the said Townsliip^
fit for Masting Our Royal Navy, be carefully preserved for that Use,
and none to be cut or felled without Our special Licence for so doing
fu'st had and obtained, upon the Penalty of the Forfeiture of the Right
of such Grantee, his Heirs and Assigns, to Us, our Heirs and Succes-
sor, as well as being subject to the Penalty of any Act or Acts of
Parliament that now are, or hereafter shall be Enacted.

III. That before any Division of the Land be made to and among
the Grantees, a Tract of Land as near the Centre of the said Town-

MONKTON. 293

ship as tlie Land will admit of, shall be reserved and marked out for
Town Lots, one of which shall be allotted to each Grantee of the
Contents of one Acre.

IV. Yielding and paying therefor to Us, our Heirs and Successors
for the Space of ten Years, to be computed from the Date hereof, the
Rent of one Ear of Indian Corn only, on the tAventy-fifth Day of
December annually, if lawfully demanded, the first Payment to be
made on the twenty-fifth Day of Deeemher. 1763

Y. Every Proprietor, Settler or Inhabitant, shall yield and j)ay unto
Us, our Heirs and Successors yearly, and every Y^ear forever, from
and after the Expiration of ten Years from the abovesaid twenty-fifth
Day of December, namely, on the twenty-fifth Day of December, which
will be in the Year of Our Lord 1773 One shilling Proclamation Money
for every Hundred Acres he so owns, settles or possesses, and so in
Proportion for a greater or lesser Tract of the said Land ; which
Money shall be paid by the respective Persons abovesaid, their Heirs
or Assigns, in our Council Chamber in Portsmonth, or to such Officer
or Officers as shall be appointed to receive the same ; and this to
be in Lieu of all other Rents and Services whatsoever.

In Testimony whereof we have caused the Seal of our said Province
to be hereunto affixed. Witness Bexning Wentwoeth, Esq; Our
Governor and Commander in Chief of Our said Province, the 24'**
Day of June In the Year of our Lord Christ, One Thousand Seven
Hundred and Sixty Two And in the Second Y^ear of Our Reign.

B Wentworth

By His Excellency's Command,
With Advice of Council,

T Atkinson Jun'' Sec"^^

Province of New Hamps"^ June 24^^

Recorded According to the Origional Charter under the Province
Seal

^ T Atkinson Jun' Sec--^

*The Names of the Grantees of Monkton — *2-351

Abraham Dow Benj"* Ferriss Zebulon Ferriss

Josiah Akins Jonathan Akins Daniel Merrett

John Hoag Nehemiah Merritt Reed Ferris

Patrick Thatcher Thomas Darling Amos Northrop

Daniel Chase Nathan Soal Jun' John Hoag jun''

John Hoag merch' George Denill William Nichols

David Ferris John Brownson Benj'^ Ferriss jun'^

Abraham Thomas Elijah Doty Zadock Noble

Thomas Weller Seth Weller Ebenez'' Hodeskins

294

CHARTER RECORDS.

Nathan Soule
George Hill
Edward Wing
Jon* Moslier
Peter Dobson
Henry Haydock
Thomas Burling
John Franklin
Sam'' Burling
John SouthGate
Tho^ Burling jun'^

John Soule
William Davis
James Bridsall

George Soule
W'" Haviland
John Thorn

Nehemiah Merritt Jun'' Thomas Dobson

John Haydock
Joshua Watson
James Franklin
Samuel Franklin
Robert Southgate
W'" Keige
Edward Laurence

Haydock Brown
Jacob Watson
Tho* Franklin jun""
Walter Franklin
John Burling jun"'
John Burling
John Laurence
The Hon'*''' Rich'* Wibird Esq John Downing Esq Dan" Warner Esq
Theod"^ Atkinson jun"^ Esq

His Excellency Benning Wentworth Esq a Tract of Land to Contain
Five Hundred Acres as Marked B : W : in the Plan which is to be
accounted two of the within Shares One whole Share for the Incor-
porated Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts
one Share for A Glebe for the Church of England as by Law Estab-
lished One Share for the first Settled Minister of the Gospel & one
Share for the Benefit of A School in Said Town —

Province of New Hamps'" June 24^^^

Recorded According to the Origional Charter of Monkton under the
Prov : Seal W T Atkinson Jun"- Sec'^'^

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MOKETOWN. 295

Province of New Hamps"^ June 24"' 1762

Recorded from the back of the Origional Charter of Monkton, under
the Province Seal

^ T Atkinson Jun'" Sec'^

MORETOWN.

* Province of New-Hampshire. *2-421

Moretown GEORGE the Third,

, .-w-^-^ By the Grace of God, of Great-Britain, France and

\ ( Ireland, King, Defender of the Faith, «Sz;c.

j "^ ( To all Persons to tvhom these Presents shall come,

^ N— ^^*-^ ^ Greeting.

Know ye, that We of Our special Grace, certain Knowledge, and
meer Motion, for the due Encouragement of settling a JVetv Planta-
tion within our said Province, by and with the Advice of our Trusty
and Well-beloved Benning Wentavokth, Esq ; Our Governor and
Commander in Chief of Our said Province of New-Hampshiiie in Neiv-
England, and of our Council of the said Province; Have upon the
Conditions and Reservations herein after made, given and granted,
and by these Presents, for us, our Heirs, and Successors, do give
and grant in equal Shares, unto Our loving Subjects, Inhabitants of
Oui" said Province of Neiv- Hampshire, and Our other Governments,
and to their Heirs and Assigns for ever, whose Names are entred on
this Grant, to be divided to and amongst them into Seventy one
equal Shares, all that Tract or Parcel of Land situate, lying and be-
ing witliin our said Province of New-Hampshire, containing by Ad-
measurement, 23040 Acres, which Tract is to contain Six Miles square,
and no more ; out of which an Allowance is to be made for High
Ways and unimprovable Lands by Rocks, Ponds, Mountains and
Rivers, One Thousand and Forty Acres free, according to a Plan
and Survey thereof, made by Our said Governor's Order, and re-
turned into the Secretary's Office, and hereunto annexed, butted and
bounded as follows. Viz. Begining at the Nortli Easterly Corner of
Duxbury on the southerly side of Onion or French River, from
thence Easterly up said River & bounding on the same so far as to
make it six Miles on a streight Line, alloAving the same to be Per-
pendicular witli the Easterly Line of Duxbury from thence southerly
a Parralell Line with the said East Line of Duxbury six Miles, from
thence Westerly about six Miles to the south Easterly Corner of

296 CHARTER RECORDS,

Duxbury, from thence Xortherly by said Duxbury last line to Onion
River where we began — And that the same be, and hereby is Incorp-
orated into a Township by the Xame of More town — And the Inhabitants
that do or shall hereafter inhabit the said Township, are hereby declared
to lie Enfranchized yrith and Intitled to all and every the Priviledges
and Immunities that other Towns within Our Province by Law Exercise
and Enjoy : And further, that the said Town as soon as there shall be
Fifty Families resident and settled thereon, shall have the Liljerty of
holdinor Ti.c'j Fairs, one of which shall be held on the

And the other on the
annually, which Fairs are not to continue longer than the respective

following the said
and that as soon as the said Town shall consist
*2-422 of Fifty Families, a Market may be * opened and kept one
or more Days in each Week, as may be thought most advan-
tagious to the Inliabitants. Also, that the first Meeting for the
Choice of Town Officers, agreable to the Law^s of our said Province,
shall be held on the 1 2^^ July next which said Meeting shall be Noti-
fied by the Rev^ M^ Sam' Seabury who is hereby also appointed the
Moderator of the said first Meeting, which he is to Xotify and Govern
agreable to the Laws and Customs of Our said Province : and that
the annual Meeting for ever hereafter for the Choice of such Officers
for the said Town, shall \ye on the Second Tuesday of Mareh annual-
ly. To Havi: and to Hf;)LD the said Tract of Land as above ex-
pressed, together with all Privileges and Appurtenances, to them and
their respective Heirs and Assigns forever, upon the following Con-
ditions, \VL.

I. That every Grantee, his Heirs or Assigns shall plant and culti-
vate five Acres of Land within the Term of five Years for every fifty
Acres contained in his or their Share or Proportion of Land in said
Township, and continue to improve and settle the same by additional
Cultivations, on Penalty of the Forfeiture of his Grant or Share in
the said Township, and of its reverting to L's. our Heirs and Succes-
sors, to be by L's or Them Re-granted to such of Our Subjects as shall
effectually settle and cultivate the same.

II. That all white and other Pine Trees within the said Township,
fit for Masting Our Royal Navy, be carefully preserved for that Use,
and none to be cut or felled without Our special Licence for so doing
first had and obtained, upon the Penalty of the Forfeiture of the
Right of such Grantee, his Heirs and Assigns, to L's. our Heirs and
Successors, as well as being subject to the Penalty of any Act or Acts
of Parliament that now are, or hereafter shall be Enacted-

III. That before any Division of the Land be made to and among

MORETOWN. 297

tlie Grantees, a Tract of I^and as near the Centre of the said Town-
ship as the Land will admit of, shall be reserved and marked out for
Town Lots, one of which shall be allotted to each Grantee of the
Contents of one Acre.

IV. Yielding and paying therefor to Us, our Heirs and Successors
for the Space of ten Yeai-s, to be computed from the Date hereof, the
Rent of one Ear of Indian Corn only, on the twenty-fifth Day of De-
cember annually, if lawfully demanded, the first Payment to be made
on the twenty-fifth Day of December. 1763

V. Every Proprietor, Settler or Inhabitant, shall yield and pay un-
to LTs, our Heirs and Successors yearly, and every Year forever, from
and after the Expiration of ten Years from the abovesaid twenty-fifth
Day of December, namely, on the twenty-fifth Day of December., which
will be in the Year of Our Lord 1777 One shiUing Proclamation
Money for every Hundred Acres he so owns, settles or possesses, and
so in Proportion for a greater or lesser Tract of the said Land ; which
Money shall be paid by the respective Persons abovesaid, their Heirs
or Assigns, in our Coune'd Cliamber in Portsmouth, or to such Officer
or Officers as shall be appointed to receive the same ; and this to be
in Lieu of all other Rents and Services whatsoever.

In Testimony whereof we have caused the Seal of our said Prov-
ince to be hereunto affixed. Witness Penning Wentworth, Esq ;
Our Governor and Commander in Chief of Our said Province, the
Seventh Day of June In the Year of our Lord Christ, One Thou-
sand Seven Hundred and Sixty three And in the Third Year of Our
Reign.

B Wentworth
By His Excellency's Command,
With Advice of Council,

T Atkinson Jun^ Sec^>'
Province of New Hamp"" June 7-1763

Recorded according to the Original Charter under the Pro'' Seal

^ T Atkinson Jun^ Sec^^^

*The Names of the Grantees of Moretown (Viz) *2-423

Jonah Forster Jon'' Smith Eben"" Rockwell

Abner Benedict James Morehouse Peter Benedict

Jabesh Smith Jun'^ Nathan Smith James Wallace

James Wallace Jun'" Benj" Close Eben'^ Browne

Nehemiah Reynold Josiah Forstei Steph" Hull

Dan' Morehouse James Smith Gam' Northrup Jun''

Eben' Lobdell James Bradley Joseph Dyckraan

Sam' Averill Tho' Northrup Augustine Wright

John Wright Jun' Ephraim Smith Ichabod Doolittle

298

CHARTER RECORDS.

Rich^' Whitney
Tho'' Querch
Gershom Sellick
Joseph Griffin
Silas Griffiths
Benj''^ Higgins
Gabriel Bennett
Jeremiah Osburn
Joseph Mead
Elijah Keeler
James Bradley Jun""
The Hon""' Ja** Nevin
Nath' Barrel!

Tho' Saint John
Eli Northrup
Henry Whitney
George ToUcot
Fred" Dick man
Dan' Browne
Isaac Keeler
Elisha Gilbart
Joseph Smith
Jon'*^ Whitlock
Lemuel Abbot

(Ssq^

James Northrup
Jeremiah Willson
Ezekiel Bradley
Nath' Sillick
Joseph Stebbings
Sam' Bennett Jun"^
John Jones
John Bouton
Sam' Olmsted Jun""
Bartlett Folliot
Isaac Keeler Jun"^
Maj' Rich'' Downing
Sam' Emerson Esq''

Jos*^ Newmarch

His Excellenc}^ Benning Wentworth Esq" a Tract of Land to Con-
tain Five Hundred Acres as marked B W in the Plan which is to be
Accounted two of the within shares, One whole Share for the Incor-
porated Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts,
One Share for a Glebe for the Church of England as by Law Estab-
lish'd One Share for the first settled Minister of the Gospel, & One
Share for the benefit of a school in said Town —

Pro^ of New Hamp" June 7—1763

Recorded from the Back of the original Charter under the Pro''
Seal

T Atkinson Jun"" Sec''^

MOUNT TABOR. 299

Pro^ of New Hamp^ June 7—1769
Recorded fi
the Pro^ Seal

Recorded from the Back of the Original Charter of Moretown under

T Atkinson Jun'' Sec'"^

MOUNT TABOR.

*Province of New-Hampshire. *2-153

Harwich GEORGE the Third,

S/— »^^— ^ . By the Grace of God, of Great-Britaiii, France and

_ , / Ireland, King, Defender of the Faith, &c.
~ I To all Persons to loliom these Presents shall come^

^— ^.^*-' ^ Greeting.

Know ye, that We of Our special Grace, certain Knowledge, and
raeer Motion, for the due Encouragement of settling a JVeiv Planta-
tion within our said Province, by and with the Advice of our Trusty
and Well-beloved Benning Wentworth, Esq; Our Governor and
Commander in Chief of Our said Province of New-Hampshire in
Neiv-England^ and of our Council of the said Province ; Have
upon the Conditions and Reservations herein after made, given and
granted, and by these Presents, for us, our Heirs, and Successors,
do give and grant in equal Shares, unto Our loving Subjects, Inhabi-
tants of Our said Province of New-Hampshire, and Our other Gov-
ernments, and to their Heirs and Assigns for ever, whose Names are
entred on this Grant, to be divided to and amongst them into Sixty
Eight equal Shares, all that Tract or Parcel of Land situate, lying
and being within our said Province of New-Hampshire, containing by
Admeasurement, thirty Three thousand & forty Acres, which Tract
is to contain Six Miles square, and no more ; out of which an Allowance
is to be made for High Ways and unimprovable Lands by Rocks, Ponds,
Mountains and Rivers, One Thousand and Forty Acres free, accord-
ing to a Plan and Survey thereof, made by Our said Governor's
Order, and returned into the Secretary's Office, and hereunto annexed,
butted and bounded as follows. Viz. Begining at the North East
Corner of Dorsett thence runing due North Six Miles b}'^ Danby
to the North East Corner thereof thence due East Six Miles Thence
Due South Six Miles Thence Due West Six Miles to the North East
Corner of Dorset afore Said which is Also the South East Corner of
Danby afores'^ & is the Station began at And that the same
be, and hereby is Incorporated into a Township by the Name

300 CHARTER RECORDS.

of Harwich Aud the Inhabitants that do or shall hereafter inhabit
the said Township, are hereby declared to be Enfranchized with
and Intitled to all and every the Priviledojes and Immunities
that other Towns within Our Province by Law Exercise and Enjoy:
And further, that the said Town as soon as there shall be Fifty
Families resident and settled thereon, shall have the Liberty of hold-
ing Two Fairit, one of which shall be held on the

And the other on the annually, which Fairs

are not to continue longer than the respective
following the said and that as soon as the

said Town shall consist of Fifty Families, a Market may be
*2-lo4 *opened and kept one or more Days in each Week, as may

be thought most advantagious to the Inhabitants. Also,
that the first Meeting for the Choice of Town Officers, agreable to the
Laws of our said Province, shall be held on the fourth Tuesday of Sep-
tember next which said Meeting shall be Notified by M' Jonathan
Willard who is hereby also appointed the Moderator of the said first
Meeting, which he is to No*:ify and Govern agreable to the Laws and
Customs of Our said Province : and that the annual Meeting forever
hereafter for the Choice of such Officei-s for the said Town, shall be
on the Second Tuesday of March annually. To Have and to Hold
the said Tract of Laud as above expressed, together with all Privi-
leges and Appurtenances, to them and their respective Heirs and
Assigns forever, upon the following Conditions, ^^z.

I. That every Grantee, his Heirs or Assigns shall plant and culti-
vate five Acres of Land within the Term of five Years for every fifty
Acres contained in his or their Share or Proportion of Land in said
Township, and continue to improve and settle the same by additional
Cultivations, on Penalty of the Forfeiture of his Grant or Share in
the said Township, and of its reverting to Us, our Heirs and Succes-
sors, to be by Us or Them Re-granted to such of Our Subjects as shall
effectually settle and cultivate the same.

II. That all white and other Pine Trees within the said Township,
fit for Masting Our Royal Navy, be carefully preserved for that L^se,
and none to be cut or felled without Our special Licence for so doing
first had and obtained, upon the Penalty of the Forfeiture of the
Right of such (i-rantee. his Heirs and Assigns, to Us, our Heirs
and Successors, as well as being subject to the Penalty of any
Act or Acts of Parliament that now are, or hereafter shall be En-
acted.

HI. That before any Division of the Land be made to and among
the Grantees, a Tract of Land as near the Centre of the said Town-
ship as the Land will admit of, shall be reserved and marked out for

MOUNT TABOR. 301

Town Ivots. one of which shall be allotted to each Grantee of the
Contents of one Acre.

IV. Yielding and pa\"ing therefor to Us, our Heirs and Successors
for the Space of ten Years, to be computed from the Date hereof, the
Rent of one Ear of Indian Corn only, on the twenty-tifth Day of
December annually, if lawfully demanded, the first Payment to be
made on the twenty-fifth Day of December. 1762

V. Every Proprietor. Settler or Inhabitant, shall yield and pay
unto Us. our Heirs and Successors yearly, and every Year forever,
from and after the Expiration of ten Years from the abovesaid
twenty-fifth Day of December^ namely, on the twenty-fifth Day of
December, which will be in the Y'ear of Our Lord 1772 One shilling
Proclamation Money for every Hundred Acres he so owns, settles or
possesses, and so in Proportion for a greater or lesser Tract of the
said Land : which Money shall be paid by the respective Persons
abovesaid. their Heirs or Assigns, in our Council Chamber in Ports-
mouth, or to such Officer or Officers as shall be appointed to receive
the same : and this to be in Lieu of all other Rents and Services
whatsoever.

In Testimony whereof we have caused the Seal of our said Prov-
ince to be hereunto affixed. Witness Benxing Wkstworth, Esq;
Our Governor and Commander in Chief of Our said Province, the
28^^ Day of August In the Y'ear of our Lord Christ, One Thou-
sand Seven Hundred and Sixty one And in the First Y'ear of Our
Reign.

B Wentworth

By His Excellency's Command,
With Advice of Council.

Theodore Atkinson Sec'^

Province of New Hamp'' August 28^ 1761

Recorded According to the Oricnnal under the Prov* Seal

~^ Theodore Atkinson Sec'^

*The Names of the Grantees of Harwich Viz — *2-155

Jonathan Willard John Howard Will™ Buck

Elijah Ferris John Renald Thos Hunter

Nath" Marshall David Hunter Ezekiel Napp

Amos Fuller Peter Renald Sam'^ Rowley

Abraham Finch Joseph Cranch Gabril Sherwood

James Palmer Lewis Barton Daniel Harris

Eli Parsons Nehemiah Messenger Sarah Lampson Wid**

John Lampson John Walbridge Jn" Williams the 3*^

302

CHARTER RECORDS.

Sam" Cantfield
Will'" Fimont
Beriah Lomis
Judah Aulger
Joseph Eames
John Aulger
Rich^^ Truesdall
W"' Hare
Anthony Woolf
Asa Douglass
Dan" Warner Esq
Tho* Wentworth
Thomas Martin

Eldad Van wort
Ebenez'' Strong
Abraham Utter
Elisha Smith
Ebenez"^ Eames
Ebenez"^ Napp
John Joslin
Hendrick Minard
Sam" Willard
Jacob Lomis
James Nevin Esq
John Chamberlain

Hezekiah Lomis
John Rice
Sam" Rose jun""
David Aulger
Cyrus Aulger
Rich'^ Fogeson
Dan" Hare
Christian Ray
Jonas Cutler
Rich'^ Wibird Esq
John Wentworth
Charles Foot

John Nellson
His Excellency Benning Wentworth Esq a Tract of Land to Con-
tain five Hundred Acres as Marked in the Plan B W : which is to
be accounted two of the within Shares one whole Share for the incor-
porated Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in foreign Parts
one Share for A Glebe for the Church of England as by Law Estab-
lished one Share for the first Settled Minister of the Gospel & one
Share for the Benefit of a School in Said Town

Prov*^ of N Harap^ August 28'^ 1761

Recorded from the Back of the Original Charter for Harwich under
the Pr° Seal

"^ Theodore Atkinson Sec'"^'

^Sfc«XA«t<H rml^

,,,.»-» »Wi**Nr^

NEWBURY. 303

Prov N Hami/ August 28—1761

Recorded from the Back of the original Charter of Harwich

19 Theodore Atkinson Se'^

NEWBURY.

*Province of New-Hampshire. *2-393

Newbury GEORGE the Thikd,

, z-*.--^— s ^ By the Grace of God, of Great-Britain, France and

\ ( Irehmd, King, Defender of the Faith &c.

) "^ I To all Persons to whom these Presents shall come,

^ -^^-^.--^ ^ Greeting.

Tract is to contain Something more than Six Miles square ; out
of which an Allowance is to be made for High Ways and unimprov-
able Lands by Rocks, Ponds, Mountains and Rivers, One Thousand
and Forty Acres free, according to a Plan and Survey thereof, made
by Our said Governor's Order, and returned into the Secretary's
Office, and hereunto annexed, butted and bounded as follows, Viz.
Begining at a Tree marked standing on the Bank of the Westerly
Side of Connecticut River opposite to the Mouth of amonusock River
so called and from thence Southerly or South Westerly down Con-
necticut River as that runs til it comes to A Tree there standing
marked with the Figures and is about Seven Miles on A Strait

Line below the Mouth of Amonusock afores*^ from thence runing

304 CHARTER RECORDS.

North fifty nine degrees West Six Miles & one Quarter of A Mile to
A Stake & Stones from thence North Twenty deg^ East Six Miles &
one half Mile to a Stake & Stones from thence to the Marked Tree
on the Side of the river the Bonnd first above mentioned — And that
the same be, and hereby is Incorporated into a Township by the
Name of Newbury And the Inhabitants that do or shall hereafter
inhabit the said Township, are hereby declared to be Enfranchized
with and Intitled to all and every the Priviledges and Immunities
that other Towns within Our Province by Law Exercise and Enjoy :
And further, that the said Town as soon as there shall be Fifty Fam-
ilies resident and settled thereon, shall have the Liberty of holding
Tivo Fahs, one of which shall be held on the

And the other on the annually, which Fairs

are not to continue longer than the respective

following the said and that as soon as the said

*2-394 Town shall consist of Fifty Families, a Market may be *opened

and kept one or more Days in each Week, as may be thought
most advantagious to the Inhabitants. Also, that the first Meeting
for the Choice of Town Officers, agreable to the Laws of our said
Province, shall be held on the Second Monday in June next which
said Meeting shall be Notified by Jacob Bayley Esq who is hereby
also appointed the Moderator of the said first Meeting, which he is to
Notify and Govern agreable to the Laws and Customs of Our said
Province ; and that the annual Meeting for ever hereafter for the
Choice of such Officers for the said Town, shall be on the Second
Tuesday of March annually, To Have and to Hold the said Tract
of Land as above expressed, together with all Privileges and Appur-
tenances, to them and their respective Heirs and Assigns forever,,
upon the following Conditions, viz.

I. That every Grantee, his Heirs or Assigns shall plant and cultivate
five Acres of Land within the Term of five Years for every fifty Acres
contained in his or their Share or Proportion of Land in said Town-
ship, and continue to improve and settle the same by additional Cul-
tivations, on Penalty of the Forfeiture of his Grant or Share in the
said Township, and of its reverting to Us, our Heirs and Successors,
to be by Us or Them Re-granted to such of Our Subjects as shall
effectually settle and cultivate the same.

II. That all white and other Pine Trees within the said Township,
fit for Masting Our Royal Navy, be carefully preserved for that Use,
and none to be cut or felled without Our special Licence for so doing
first had and obtained, upon the Penalty of the Forfeiture of the
Right of such Grantee, his Heirs, and Assigns, to Us, our Heirs and
Successors, as well as being subject to the Penalty of any Act or
Acts of Parliament that now are, or hereafter shall be Enacted.

NEWBURY, 305

IV. Yielding and paying therefor to Us, our Heirs and Successors
for the Space of ten Years, to be computed from the Date hereof, the
Rent of one Ear of Indian Corn only, on the twenty-fifth Day of
December annually, if lawfully demanded, the first Payment to be
made on the twenty-fifth Day of December. 1763

V. Every Proprietor, Settler or Inhabitant, shall yield and pay
unto Us, our Heirs and Successors yearly, and every Year forever,
from and after the Expiration of ten Years from the abovesaid
twenty-fifth Day of December., namely, on the twenty-fifth Day of
December, which will be in the Year of Oar Lord 1773 One shilling
Proclamation Money for every Hundred Acres he so owns, settles or
possesses, and so in Proportion for a greater or lesser Tract of the
said Land ; which Money shall be paid by the respective Persons
abovesaid, their Heirs or Assigns, in our Council Chamber in Ports-
mouth, or to such Officer or Officers as shall be appointed to receive
the same ; and this to be in Lieu of all other Rents and Services
whatsoever.

In Testimony whereof we have caused the Seal of our said Prov-
ince to be hereunto affixed. Witness Penning Went\vorth, Esq ;
Our Governor and Commander in Chief of Our said Province, the
18"' Day of May In the Year of our Lord Christ, One Thousand
Seven Hundrd and Sixty Three And in the Third Year of Our
Reign.

B Wentworth
By His Excellency's Command,
With Advice of Council,

Theodore Atkinson Jun'" Sec'"^

Province of New Hamp'' May 18-1763

Recorded According to the Original Charter under the Province
Seal

f T Atkinson Jun' Sec^^

*The Names of the Grantees of Newbury Viz *2-305

Jacob Bayley Esq John Hazzan Ephraim Bayley

Eph"' Noyse Jeremiah Allen Enoch Thurstin

David Flanders John Beard Samuel Stevens

Joshua Copp John Ingalls Abner Sawyer

306

CHARTER RECORDS.

Joshua Bayley
John Goodwin
Joshua Haward
Moses Little
Simeon Stevens
Abner Newton
Hayns Johnson
Ebenezer Eaton
Thomas Danforth
Timothy Beadle
Ebenez' Mudget
Dan" Appleton

William White
Simeon Goodwin
Edmond Morse
Stephen Little
Jacob Kent
Jaasiel Herriman
Samuel Hobart
Zacheus Peasley
Caleb Johnson
William Holden
Asa Foster
Rich'^ Chamberlain

Thomas Chamberlain Jonathan Broadstreet

Will'" Haywood
Benj'^ Emerson
Archelaus Miles
Fry Bayley
Hon''^'' John Temple
Theodore Atkinson

Sam" Stevens Esq
Peter Morse
Joshua Hains
Coll Will"' Symes

John Hasseltine
Noah White
Jesse Johnson
Peter Page
Abner Bayley
John Hugh
Joseph White
John White jun"^
James King
Moses Hazzan
Joseph Chamberlain
Abiel Chamberlain
Sam" Johnson
Jacob Eaton
Nath" Morton
Edward Bayley

Mark Huuk^ Wentworth ( ^^^'
Will'" Temple J

Martin Severe nee
Benj^ Winn Samuel Cummins
John Cummins Elnathan Blood
Elias Alexander Coll Clem' March
Cap' Markqaand of Newbury And
Coll John Goffe —
His Excellency Benning Wentworth Esq a Tract of Land to Con-
tain five Hundred Acres as Marked B: W: in the Plan which is to
be accounted two of the within Sares — one whole Share for the
Incorporated Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign
Parts — one Share for A Glebe for the Church of England as by Law
Established One Share for the first Settled Minister of the Gospel
and one Share for the Benefit of A School in Said Town

Province of New Hamp"^ May 18'^ 1763

Recorded from the Back of the original Charter of Newbury under
the Pro"^ Seal

"^ T Atkinson Jun'^ Sec'^

NEWFANK.

307

Pro^ of New Hami/ May 18-1763

Recorded from tlie Back of the Original Charter of Newbury under
the Province Seal

19 T Atkinson Jun"- Sec'^

NEWFANE.

*Province of New Hamp''

*1-153

P-Seal

Fane

George by the Grace of God of Great Brittain France
& Ireland King Defender of the faith &:c''

To all Persons to whom these Presents Shall Come
Greeting

Know ye that We of our especial Grace Certain knowl-
edge & meer motion for the Due Encouragement of Settling a New
Plantation witliiu our s'' Province By & with the Advice of our
Trusty & well beloved Benning Wentworth Esq our Governour &
Com'ander in Chieff of our Province of New Hampshire in America
and of our Council of the s'' Province Have upon the Conditions
and Reservations hereafter made Given & Granted and by these
Presents for us our heirs & Successors Do give & Grant in Equal
Shares unto our Loveing Subjects inhabitants of our Said Province of
New Hampshire & his Majestys other Governments and to their
Heirs & assignes for Ever whose names Are Entered on this Grant to
be Divided to & amoungst them into Seventy four Equal Shares all
that Tract or Parcel of Land Scituate Lying & being within our

308 CHARTER RECORDS.

Province of New Hampshire Contaiiiiug by admeasurement Twenty
three thousend and forty acres which Tract is to Contain Six Miles
Square & no more out of which an AHowence is to be made for high-
ways & unimproveable Lands by Rocks mountains Ponds & Rivers
one thousend & fort}^ Acres free According to the Phxn thereof made
& Presented b}^ our Said Governours orders and hereunto Annexe f/
Butted & bounded as follows (Viz) Begining at A Stake & Stones
five hundred Rods East 10'^ South by the Needle from the North
East Corner of the Town of Marlebrough and from thence runing
Six miles North 20'^ East by the Needle to A Stake & Stones from
thence West 10'^ North by the Needle Six miles to A Stake & Stones
from thence South 20'^ West by the Needle Six miles to the North
side of Marlebrough aforesaid thence by Marlebrough Line East 10''
South to Marlebroughs North East Corner from thence Continueing
that Course to the Stake & Stones first above mentioned And that
the Same be & is Licorporated into a Township the Name of Fane
and that the Inhabitants that Do or Shall hereafter Inhabit said
Township Are hereby Declared to be Enfranchized with and
*1-154 Entituled to all & every the *Previledges & Immunities
that other Towns within our said Province by Law Exercize
& Enjoy and further that the said Town as soon as there Shall be
fifty familys resident & Settled thereon Shall have the Liberty of hold-
ing Two fairs one of which Shall be held on the

And the other on the Annually which fairs are

not to Continue & be held Longer than the respective

following the s'' respect Days and as soon as the s'' Town shall
Consist of fifty familys A market Shall be opened & kept one or
more Days in Each week as may be tho' most advantagious to the
Inhabitants Also that the first meeting for the Choice of Town officers
agreable to the Laws of our Said Province Shall be held on the Last
Wednesday in August next which Meeting Shall be notifyed by M""
Abner Sawyer who is hereby also appointed the Moderator of the
Said first Meeting which he is to Notify & Govern Agreable to the
Laws & Customs of our Said Province and that the Annual Meet-
ing for ever hereafter for the Choice of such officers of said Town
Shall be on the Second Wednesday in March Annually To have &
TO HOLD the Said Tract of Laud as abve Expressed togeather with
all the Previledges & Appurtenances to them & their Respective
heirs and assignes for ever Upon the following Conditions (Viz) That
every Grantee his heirs or assignes Shall Plant or Cultivate five
Acres of Land within the Term of five years for every fifty Acres
Contained in his or their Share or Proportion of Land in s'' Town-
ship & Continue to Improve & Settle the same by aditional Culti-

NEWFANE. 309

vations on Penalty of the forfeiture of his Grant or Share in the
said Townshij) and its reverting to his Majesty his heirs & succes-
sors to be by him or them regranted to such of his subjects as Shall
Effectually Settle & Cultivate the Same That all white Pine Trees
within the said Townshiy^) fit for Masting our Royal Navy be Care-
fully Preserved for that Use & none to be Cut or felled without his
Majestys Especial Lycence for So Doing first had And
Obtained u[)on the Penalty *of the forfeiture of the right of *1-155
such Grantee his heirs and assigns to us our heirs & Succes-
sors as well as being Subject to the Penalty of any Act or Acts of
Parliament that now are or hereafter Shall be Enacted That before
Any Division of the Said Lands be made to and Amoungst the
Grantees A Tract of Land as near the Center of the Township as
the Land will Admit of Shall be reserved & marked out for Town
Lotts one of which Shall be allotted to Each Grantee of the Con-
tents of one Acre Yeilding & Paying therefor to us our heirs &
Successors for the Space of Ten years to be Computed from the
Date hereof of the rent of one Ear of Lidian Corn only on the first
Day of Jan'"^' Annually if Lawfully Demanded the first Payment to
be made on the day of January next Ensueing the Date hereof And
every Proprietor Settler or Inhabitant Shall Yield & Pay unto us our
Heirs & Successors Yearly & every year for ever from & after the
Expiration of the Ten years from the Date hereof namely on the
first day of Jan'-^' which will be in the year of our Lord Christ one
thousend Seven hundred & Sixty four one Shilling Proclamation
money for every hundred Acres he so owns Settles or Possesses &
So in Proportion for a Greater or Lesser Tract of the Said Land
which money Shall be paid by the Respective Persons above said
their heirs or assignes In Our Council Chamber in Portsmouth or to
such officer or officers as Shall be Appointed to receive the Same
And this to be in Lieu of all other Rents & Services whatsoever

In Testimony thereof we have Caused the Seal of our Said Prov-
ince to be hereunto affixed Witness Benning Wentworth Esq our
Governour & Com'and"^ in Chieff of our Said Province the 19"'
Day of June in the year of our Lord Christ 1753 and in the Tvv^enty
Sixth year of our reign

B Wentworth

By his Excellencys Command
with Advice of Council

Theodore Atkinson Se""^

Entred & recorded According to the Original Charter under the
Province Seal this 21 June 1753—

'§ Theodore Atkinson Sec''^

310

CHARTER RECORDS.

*1-156

*The Names of the Grantees of Faine

Abner Sawyer,
Vespacian Millen,
James Ball,
Jabez Beaman,
John Young,
Joseph Dyer jun'",
Ebenezer Taylor,
Edward Goodail,
Joshua Hoten,
Jonathan Osgood,
Thomas Sawyer,
Sam" Kendal,
Joseph Bayley,
Philip Goos,
Benf"^ Glazer,
William Densmore,
Nathaniel Bexby,
Peter Larkin,
Jotham Wilder,
Esera Sawyer jun"",

John Milling
Joseph Baker,
John Ball,
John Hazeltine,
John Adams,
John Chadock,
Ebenez'' Prescot,
John Holond,
Asa Boucker,
Asa Whitcomb,
Saul Houghton,
Daniel Allyen,
Nath" Houghton,
Joseph Glazer,
Abner Wilder,
Barzilia Holt,
Ruben Moore,
Matthias Larkin,
Title Wilder,

Ebenez"^ Morse
Thomas Adams
Samuel Brown,
Rowse Wyman,
Charles Brigham,
Barnet Waite
Isaac Tempel,
Phineas Wilder,
David Osgood,
Samuel Bayley,
Ezekiel Kindal,
Ebenezer Taylor jun%
John M'bride,
Jacob Pike,
Josiah Wilder,
John Glazer,
Aaron Nuton,
Samuel Moor,
Esera Sawyer,
John Stone,

Fortunatus Taylor,
His Excellency Benning Wentworth Esq one Tract of Land of the
Contents of live hundred acres which is to be accounted Two of the
within Shares one whole Share for the Incorporated Society for the
Propagation of the Gospel in foreign Parts one whole Share for the
first settled Minister of the Gospel in the Said Town one whole
share for a Glebe for the Ministry of the Church of England as by
Law Established — Henrj^ Sherburn Theodore Atkinson, Richard
Wibird, Sam" Smith John Downing, Sam" Solley, Sampson Sheaffe
& Daniel W^arner, John Wentworth jun'^

Prov New Hamp"^ Entied & recorded from the Back of the Charter
of Faine the 21 June 1753

19 Theodore Atkinson Se"'

NEWFANE. 311

/f,

'«: 1

fe:

-4

f'Si-tv"'"'^''^ St.m,/^

'/-"U/ J' /■'"./ jooi.a. "*^

Takeu from the Plan on the back of the Charter of Faine June 21
1763

19 Theodore Atkinson Sec'^

[Newfane Regrant, 1761.]
^Province of New-Hampshire. *2— 317

New Fane GEORGE the Third,

By the Grace of God, of Great-Britain, France and

Ireland, King, Defender of the Faith, &c.

To all Persons to icliom these Presents shall come,

Greeting.

that We of Our special Grace, certain Knowledge, and
meer Motion, for the due Encouragement of settling a lieiv Planta-
tion within our said Province, by and with the Advice of our Trusty
and Well-beloved Bexxixg Wentworth, Esq ; Our Governor and
Commander in Chief of Our said Province of New-Hampshire in
Keic-Enfiland, and of our Council of the said Province ; Have
upon the Conditions and Reservations herein after made, given and
granted, and by these Presents, for us, our Heirs, and Successors,
do give and grant in equal Shares, unto Our loving Subjects, Inhab-
itants of Our said Province of JYeio-ITampshire, and Our other
Governments, and to their Heirs and Assigns for ever, whose Names
are entred on this Grant, to be divided to and amongst them into
Seventy Two equal Shares, all that Tract or Parcel of Land situate,
lying and being within our said Province of Neic-Hampshire, con-

312 CHARTER RECORDS.

taiiiing by Admeasurement, Twenty Three Thousand & Forty Acres^
•which Tract is to contain Six Miles square, and no more ; out of
which an x\llowance is to be made for High Ways and unimprovable
Lands by Rocks, Ponds, Mountains and Rivers, One Thousand and
Forty Acres free, according to a Plan and Survey thereof, made by
Our said Governor's Order, and returned into the Secretary's Otifice,
and hereunto annexed, butted and bounded as follows, Viz. Begin-
ing at a Stake & Stones, Five Hund'' Rods East, Ten Deg* South
by the Needle, from the North East Corner of the Town of Marle-
brough, & from thence Runing Six Miles North, Twenty Deg'^ East
by the Needle to a Stake & Stones, From thence West Ten Deg*
North by the Needle Six Miles to a Stake & Stones, From thence
south Twenty Deg^ West by the Needle Six Miles to the North Side
of Marlebrough aforesaid, thence by Marlebrough Line East Ten
Deg* South, to Marlebrough's North East Corner, from thence Con-
tinuing that Course to the Stake & Stones first above Mentiond —
And that the same be, and hereby is Incorporated into a Township
by the Name of New Fane And the Inhabitants that do or shall
hereafter inhabit the said Township, are hereby declared to be
Enfranchized with and Intitled to all and every the Priviledges and
Immunities that other Towns within Our Province by Law Exercise
and Enjoy : And further, that the said Town as soon as there shall
be Fifty Families resident and settled thereon, shall have the Liberty
of holding Two Fairs, one of which shall be held on the

And the other on the
annually, which Fairs are not to continue longer than the respective

following the said

and that as soon as the said Town shall consist of
*2-318 Fifty Families, a Market may be *opened and kept

one or more Days in each Week, as may be thought most
advantagious to the Inhabitants. Also, that the first Meeting
for the Choice of Town Officers, agreable to the Laws of our said
Province, shall be held on the Second Tuesday in December which
said Meeting shall be Notified by M'' Luke P)rown who is hereby
also appointed the Moderator of the said first Meeting, which he is
Notify and Govern agreable to the Laws and Customs of Our said
Province; and that the annual Meeting forever hereafter for the
Choice of such Officers for the said Town, shall be on the Second
Tuesday of 3Iarch annually. To Have and to Hold the said Tract of
Land as above expressed, together with all Privileges and Appurten-
ances, to them and their respective Heirs and Assigns forever, upon
the following Conditions, viz,

I. That every Grantee, his Heirs or Assigns shall plant and culti-

NEWFANE. 313

Tate live Acres of Lund within the Term of Two Years for every fill}'
Acres contained in his or their Share or Proportion of Land in said
Township, and continue to improve and settle the same by addi-
tional Cultivations, on Penalty of the Forfeiture of his Grant or
Share in the said Township, and of its reverting to Us, our Heirs
and Successors, to be by Us or Them Re-granted to such of Our Sub-
jects as shall effectually settle and cultivate the same.

II. That all white and other Pine Trees within the said Township,
fit for Masting Our Royal Navy, be carefully preserved for that Use,
and none to be cut or felled without Our special Licence for so doing
first had and obtained, upon the Penalty of the Forfeiture of the
Right of such Grantee, his Heirs and Assigns, to Us, our Heirs and
Successors, as well as being subject to the Penalty of any Act or
Acts of Parliament that now are, or hereafter shall be Enacted.

IV. Yielding and paying therefor to Us, our Heirs and Successors
for the Space of four Years, to be computed from the Date hereof, the
Rent of one Ear of Indian Corn only, on the twenty-fifth Day of
December annually, if lawfully demanded, the first Payment to be
made on the twenty-fifth Day of December. 1762

V. Every Proprietor, Settler or Inhabitant, shall yield and pay
unto Us, our Heirs and Successors yearly, and every Year forever,
from and after the Expiration of four Years from the abovesaid
twenty-tifth Da}' of December, namely, on the twenty-fifth Day of
December, which will be in the Year of Our Lord 1766 One shilliyig
Proclamation Money for every Hundred Acres he so owns, settles or
possesses, and so in Proportion for a greater or lesser Tract of the
said Land; which Money shall be paid by the respective Persons
abovesaid, their Heirs or Assigns, in our Council Chamber in jPorts-
mouth, or to such Otficer or Officers as shall be appointed to receive
the same : and this to be in Lieu of all other Rents and Services
whatsoever.

In Testimony whereof we have caused the Seal of, our said Prov-
ince to be hereunto affixed. Witness Benning Wentwouth Esq;
Our Governor and Commander in Chief of Our said Province, the
Third Day of November In the Year of our Lord Chi;ist, One Thou-
sand Seven Hundred and Sixty One And in the Second Year of Our
Reign.

B Went worth

314

CHARTER RECORDS.

By His Excellency's Command,
With Advice of Councel,

'J'heodore Atkinson Sec^'^

Province of New Hamps' Nov'' 3, 1761

llecoi'ded According to the Origional Charter nnder the Province
Seal

19 Theodore Atkinson Sec'"^

*2-319

*The Names of the Grantees of New Fane.

Benj** Flagg
Sam' Jones
Abijah Brown
Tho'* Sawyer
Simon Davis
Simon Davis Jnn'
Sam' Brown
Sam' Brooks
Eben'" Morse
Ross Wyman
James Tayler
Thomas Green
Benj'' Stowell
Tim° Payne Esq
Joseph Hubbard
Sam' Ball
Sam' Heywood
Joseph Hubbard
Jon=' Fisk

James Barrat
Sam' Jpnes Jnn''
Isaac Glezon
David Fiske
Sam' Potter
Ephra'" Brown
Luke Brown Jun'
Mary Sawyer
Isaac Miller

Tho" Barrat
Jonas Potter
John Brooks
Israel Davis
Sam' Potter Jun""
Edward Brown
Jon-^ Heywood
John ^Milling
John Hazleton Esq

Charles Brigham Esq Ezra Sawyer Jun''

Incress Sternes
John Woodward
Isaac Barnard Esq
Will'" Young
David Wheeler
Luke Brown
Amos Heywood
Isaac Hubbard

Job Gushing
Isaac Willard
Josepli Bixby
Tho^ Hubbard
Jonas Heywood
Tim° Brown
Charles Heywood
Thos Davis
Daniel Warner Esq

Ezra Sawyer
Mark Hunking Wentworth Esq Theodore Atkinson Esq
Maj' John Wentworth Esq Eph'" Potter Timothy Wheeler

Simon Hunt Joseph Hubbard Jun"' & Josiah Conant

His Excellency Benning Wentworth Esq a Tract of Land to
Contain Eight Hundred Acres which is to be Accounted Three of
the within shares, One whole Share for the Incorporated Society for
the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts, One Share for a
Glebe for the Church of England, as by Law Established, One Share
for the first Settled Minister of tlie Gospell & One Share for the
Benefit of a School in said Town

NEW HAVEN.

315

f TV

-An,

Province of New Ilamps' Nov'' 3, 1761

Recorded from the back of the Origional Charter of New Fane
under the Province Seal —

Attested f Theod'" Atkinson Sec^>'

Province of New Hamps'' Nov"" 3 1761

Recorded Accordinor to the Origional Charter of New Fane under
tlie Prov'*^ Seal

19 Theodore Atkinson Sec'>'

NEW HAVEN.

■Province of New-Hampshire.

*2-293

New Haven GEORGE the Third,

, -.-w^-^ , By the Grace of God, of Great-Britain, France and
Ireland, King, Defender of the Faith, &c.

To all Persons to whom these Presents shall eome^

p pi-

Greeting.

Know ye, that We of Our special Grace, certain Knowledge, and
meer ]\lotion, for the due Encouragement of settling a JVew Plantation
within our said Province, by and with the Advice of our Trusty and
Well-beloved Bennino Wentwokth, Esq; Our Governor and Com-
mander in Chief of Our said Province of NEW-IlAMrsniiiE in Neiv-
Enyland, and of our Council of tlie said Province ; Have upon the
Conditions and Reservations herein after made, given and granted,
and by these Presents, for us, our Heirs, and Successors, do give and

316 CHARTER RECORDS.

grant in equal Shares, unto Our loving Subjects, Inhabitants of Our
said Province of JVew-Hampskire, and Our other Governments, and to
their Heirs and Assigns for ever, whose Names are entred on this
Grant, to be divided to and amongst them into Sixty Eight equal
Shares, all that Tract or Parcel of Land situate, lying and being within
our said Province of Neic-R'ampsldre^ containing by Admeasurement,
Twenty Five Thousand & Forty Acren^ which Tract is to contain
Something more than Six Miles square, and no more ; out of which
an Allowance is to be made for High Ways and unimprovable Lands
by l\ocks. Ponds, Mountains and Rivers, One Thousand and Forty
Acres free, according to a Plan and Survey thereof, made by Our said
Governor's Order, and returned into the Secretary's Office, and here-
unto annexed, butted and bounded as follows, Viz. Begining at a Tree
Marked on the Easterly Side of Otter Creek so Called Standing near
the Head of the Falls in said Creek, from thence KuningEast Twenty
Degrees South Seven Miles thence Runing South Six Miles, then
Turning of at Right Angles & Runing West to Otter Creek afores'^
then to follow the Course of the Creek as that Runs to the Tree at
the FLead of the falls begun at — And that the same be, and hereby is
Incorporated into a Township by the Name of New Haven And the
Inhabitants that do or shall hereafter inhabit the said Township, are
hereby declared to be Enfranchized with and Intitled to all and every
the Priviledges and Immunities that other Towns within Our Province
by Law Exercise and Enjoy : And further, that the said Town as soon
as there shall be Fifty Families resident and settled thereon, shall
have the Liberty of holding Two Fairs, one of which shall be held on
the And the other on the

annually, which Fairs are not to continue
longer than the respective
following the said and that as soon

as the said Town shall consist of Fifty Families, a INIarket
■*2-294 may be * opened ^nd kept one or more Days in each AYeek,

as may be thought most advantagious to the Inhabitants.
Also, that the first Meeting for the Choice of Town Officers, agreable to
the Laws of our said Province, shall be held on the First Tuesday in
January next which said Meeting sliall be Notified by Deacon John
Bostwick who is hereby also appointed the Moderator of the said first
Meeting, which he is to Notify and Govern agreable to the Laws and
Customs of Our said Province ; and that the annual Meeting for ever
hereafter for the Choice of such Officers for the said Town, shall be
on the Second Tuesday of 3Iarch annually. To Have and to Hold the
said Tract of Land as above expressed, together witli all Privileges

NEW HAVEN. 317

and .Vppurteiiances, to them and their respective Heirs and Assigns
forever, upon the following Conditions, viz.

I. That every Grantee, his Heirs or Assigns shall plant and cultivate
five Acres of Land within the Term of live Years for every fifty Acres
contained in liis or their Share or Proportion of Land in said Town-
ship, and continue to improve and settle the same by additional
Cultivations, on Penalty of the Forfeiture of his Grant or Share in the
said Township, and of its reverting to L^s, our Heirs and Successors,
to be by Us or Them Re-granted to such of Our Sul)jects as shall effect-
ually settle and cultivate the same.

H. That all white and other Pine Trees witliin the said Township,
fit for Masting Our Royal Navy, be carefully preserved for that Use,
and none to be cut or felled without Our special Licence for so doing
fu'st had and obtained, upon the Penalty of the Forfeiture of the Right
of such Grantee, his Heirs and Assigns, to Us, our Heirs and Succes-
sors, as well as being subject to the Penalty of any Act or Acts of
Parliament that now are, or hereafter shall be Enacted.

IV. Yielding and paying therefor to Us, our Heirs and Successors
for the Space of ten Years, to be computed from the Date hereof, the
Rent of one Ear of Indian Corn only, on the twenty-fifth Day of
December annnally, if lawfully demanded, the first Payment to be
made on the twentj'-fifth Day of Decemher. 1761

V. Every Proprietor, Settler or Inhabitant, shall yield and pay
unto Us, our Heirs and Successors yearly, and every Year forever,
from and after the Expiration of ten Years from the abovesaid
twenty-fifth Day of Decemhei% namely on the twenty-fifth Day of
Decemler^ which will be in the Year of Our Lord 1771 One shilling
Proclamation Money for every Hundred Acres he so owns, settles or
possesses, and so in Proportion for a greater or lesser Tract of the
said Land; which Money shall be paid by the respective Persons
abovesaid, their Heirs or Assigns, in our Council Chamber in Ports-
mouth, or to such Officer or Officers as shall be appointed to receive
the same ; and this to be in Lieu of all other Rents and Services
whatsoever.

In Testimony whereof we have caused the Seal of our said Prov-
ince to be hereunto affixed. Witness Benning Wentw^orth, Esq;
Our Governor and Commander in Chief of Our said Province, the
Second Day of November In the Year of our Lord Christ, One Thou-

318

CHARTER RECORDS.

sand Seven Hundred and Sixty One And in the Second Year of Our
Reign.

B Went worth
By His Excellency's Command,
With Advice of Council,

Theodore Atkinson Sec""^

Province of New Hampshire Nov'" 2, 1761

Recorded According to the Origional Charter under the Province
Seal

f Theodore Atkinson Sec-^"

*2-296 The Names of the Grantees of New Haven (Viz)

John Evarts
Dan' Hopkins
Soloman Bingham
Nehemiah Hopkins
Tim° Chittenden
Peter Cogswell
Jacob Scarromhorn
Rev'^ Jon-'' Lee
Edw'^ Bostwick
Sam^ Hurlbat
James Nichols
John Turner
Luke Camp
Sam^ Graves "

Sam^ Pettebone Esq
Benj'*^ Smalley
Sam^ Cole
Seth Dean
Cap'' Sam^ Bebee
Amos Bird

Lieu' John Pardee
Cap' Sam* Elmer
Eliser Claghorn
Lois Buck
And''' Squiar
Sam' Chipman
Will'" Read
Jon-'' Buell
Simeon Lyman
Eben'' Hopkins
James Claghorn Jun"^
Moses Roode
Joshua Porter
John Grees would
Jon'^ Buck
John Newbury
Cap* Benj'^ Cowles

Joel Camp
Cap' Nath' Evarts
And"' Barton
Eben'' Stevens
Doc' John Bostick
John Skinner
James Owen
Enoch Strong
Benj* Everist
Dan' Bingham
David Evarist
Jon-' Buck Jun""
Ezekiah Camp
Nathan M' Quivey
Noah Isbell
Alex'' Thompson
Elias Reed
Jabez Binp'ham

Eben"" Smith Jun'"

John Hutchinson Esq Lieu' James Bird
Caleb Smith Esq Geo: Mash

The"^ Atkinson Esq & Rich'' Wibird Esq

His Excellency Benning Wentworth Esq a Tract of Land to Con-
tain Five Hundred Acres as marked B-W- in the Plan, which is to
be Accounted two of the within shares, One whole Share for the
Incorporated Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign
Parts, One Share for a Glebe for the Church of England as by Law
Established, One share for the First Settled Minister of the Gospel
& One share for the Benefit of a School in said Town —

Province of New Hamps' Nov"^ 2, 1761

Recorded from the Back of the Origional Charter of New Haven
under the Prov'' Seal Attested "^ Theodore Atkinson Sec'^

NORWICH.

319

Province of New Ramps'" Nov'' 3, 1761

Recorded from the back of the Origional Charter of New Haven
under the Prov*^ Seal

19 Theodore Atkinson SeC'^

NORWICH.

Norvvhich

*2-17

*Province of New-Hampshire.

GEORGE THE Third,

By the Grace of God, of Great-Britain, France and
Ireland, King, Defender of the Faith, &c.

To all Persons to tvhom these Presents shall come,
^ N— v^w ^ Greeting.

Know ye, that We of Oar special Grace, certain Knowledge, and
meer ]Motion, for the due P^ncouragenient of settling a Neiv Planta-
tion within our said Province, by and with the Advice of our Trusty
and Well-beloved Bknning Wentwouth, Esq; Our Governor and
Commander in Chief of Our said Province of New-Hampshihe in
New-Enf/land, and of our Council of the said Province ; Have
upon the Conditions and Reservations herein after made, given and
granted, and by these Presents, for us, our Heirs, and Successors,
do give and grant in equal Shares, unto Our loving Subjects, Inhab-
itants of Our said Province of Netv-Hamj^shire, and Our other

320 CHARTER RKCORDS.

Governments, and to their Heirs and Assigns for ever, whose Names
are entred on this Grant, to be divided to and amongst them into
Sixty Nine equal Shares, all that Tract or Parcel of Land situate,,
lying and being within our said Province of New-Hampsliire^ contain-
ing by Admeasurement, Twenty three Thousand Acres, which Tract
is to contain Six Miles square, and no more ; out of which an Allow-
ance is to be made for High Ways and unimprovable Lands by Rocks,
Ponds, Mountains and Rivers, One Thousand and Forty Acres free,
according to a Plan and Survey thereof, made by Our said Governor's
Order, and returned into the Secretary's Office, and hereunto annexed,
butted and bounded as follows, Viz. Begining at a Hemlock Tree
marked with the Figures 5 & 6 that Stand on the Bank of Connecti-
cut River just at the Head of White River Falls and is opposite to
the North West Corner of Labanon from thence North Sixty degrees
West Six Miles from theuce North forty five degrees East Six Miles
from thence South Sixty degrees East Seven Miles to an Elm Tree
marked with the figures 6 & 7 from thence down the river to the
first Bounds Mentioned And that the same be, and hereby is Incor-
porated into a Township by the Name of Norwhich And the Inhab-
itants that do or shall hereafter inhabit the said Township, are here-
by declared to be Enfranchized with and Intitled to all and every
the Priviledges and Immunities that other Towns within Our Prov-
ince by Law Exercise and Enjoy: And further, that the said Town
as soon as there shall be Fifty Families resident and settled thereon,
shall have the Liberty of holding Two Fairs, one of which shall be
held on the And the other on the

annually, which Fairs are not to continue longer
than the respective following the said

and that as soon as the said Town shall consist of Fifty Fami-
*2-18 lies, a Market may be *opened and kept one or more Days in

each Week, as may be thought most advantagious to the
Inhabitants. Also, that the first Meeting for the Choice of Town
Officers, agreable to the Laws of our said Province, shall be held on the
last Wednesday of August Next which said Meeting shall be Notified
by M"' Eleazer Wales who is hereby also appointed the Moderator of
the said first Meeting, which he is to Notify and Govern agreable to
the Laws and Customs of Our said Province; and that the annual
Meeting forever hereafter for the Choice of such Officers for the said
Town, shall be on the Second Tuesday of 3Iarch annuall}^ To Have
and to Hold the said Tract of Land as above expressed, together
with all Privileges and Appurtenances, to them and their respective
Heirs and Assigns forever, npon the following Conditions, viz.

NORWICH. 321

I. That every Grantee, his Heirs or Assigns shall plant and culti-
vate five Acres of Land within the Term of five Years for every fifty
Acres contained in his or their Share or Proportion of Land in said
Township, and continue to improve and settle the same by additional
Cultivations, on Penalty of the Forfeiture of his Grant or Share in
tlie said Township, and of its reverting to Us, our Heirs and Success-
ors, to be by LTs or Them Re-granted to such of Our Subjects as shall
effectually settle and cultivate the same.

n. That all white and other Pine Trees within the said Township,
fit for Masting Our Royal Nav}^ be carefully preserved for that Use,
and none to be cut or felled without Our special Licence for so doing
first had and obtained, upon the Penalty of the Forfeiture of the
Right of such Grantee, his Heirs and Assigns, to Us, our. Heirs and
Successors, as well as being subject to the Penalty of any Act or
Acts of Parliament that now are, or hereafter shall be Enacted.

HL That before any Division of the Land be made to and amono'
the Grantees, a Tract of Land as near the Centre of the said Town-
ship as the Land will admit of, shall be reserved and marked out for
Town Lots, one of which shall be allotted to each Grantee of the
Contents of one Acre.

IV. Yielding and paying therefor to LTs, our Heirs and Successors
for the Space of ten Years, to be computed from the Date hereof, the
Rent of one Ear of Lidian Corn only, on the twenty-fifth Day of
December annually, if lawfully demanded, the first Payment to be
made on the twenty-fifth Day of December. 17G2

y. Every Proprietor, Settler or Inhabitant, shall yield and pay
unto Us, our Heirs and Successors yearly, and every Year forever,
from and after the Expiration of ten Years from the abovesaid
twenty-fifth Day of December., namely, on the twenty-fifth Day of
December., which will be in the Year of Our Lord 1772 One shilling
Proclamation Money for every Hundred Acres he so owns, settles or
possesses, and so in Proportion for a greater or lesser Tract of the
said Land; which Money shall be paid by the respective Persons
abovesaid, their Heirs or Assigns, in our Council Chamber in Ports-
mouth., or to such Officer or Officers as shall be appointed to receive
the same; and this to be in Lieu of all other Rents and Services
whatsoever.

In Testimony whereof we have caused the Seal of our said Prov-
ince to be hereunto affixed. Witness Benning Wentworth, Esq;
Our Governor an^l Commander in Chief of Our said Province, the
fourth Day of July In the Year of our Lord Christ, One Thousand
Seven Hundred and Sixty One And in the First Year of Our Reign.

B Wentw^orth

322

CHARTER RECORDS.

B}' His Excellency's Command,
With Advice of Council,

Theodore Atkinson 860""=^

Province of New Hamp'' July b^^ 1761

Recorded According to the Original Charter under the Province
Seal

Attest Theodore Atkinson Sec''-^'

*2-19

*The Names of the Grantees of Norwhich

Eleaz"" Wales
Ebenez' Wales
Gideon Noble
Calvin Topliff
Seth Wales
John Fowler
William Johnson
Joseph Blanchard
George Swain
Moses Holmes
Lemuel Holmes
Samuel Long
Thomas Welch
Judah Heath
Jonathan Hatch
James Bicknall
Eleaz"" West
Stephen Palmer

Daniel Welch
Ebenez'' Heath
James West
Samuel Johnson
Amos Fellows
Nathan Strong
Samuel Root
Josiah Root
Samuel Root jun""
Benj-'' Sheapard
Abner Barker jun^
Ebenez'^ Smith
Joseph Soores
James Russell
Samuel Slafter
Jacob Fen ton
Andrew Crocker

Abner Barker
William Johnson j'' 3*^
Daniel Baldwin
Elisha Wales
Jedediah Brinton
Robert Turner
Solomon Wales
Adoniram Grant
Benj'* Jennings
Elisha Carpenter
Natha" Herriman
John Johnson
Samuel Cobb
Hezekiah Johnson
Benj* Whitney
Moses Barnard
Eliphas Hunt
Abijah Learned
Richard Wibird Esq
Clement March Esq
Rev'' M' Samuel Haven

Eleaz'' Warner
The Hon'''*^ Theod'' Atkinson Esq
Henry Sherburne Esq M' Andrew Clarkson
John Shackford Meshech Weare Esq

& Peter Gillman Esq
One whole Share for the Society for Propagating the Gospell in
foreign Parts one whole Share for a Glebe for the Church of Eng-
land as by a Law Established one Share for the first Settled Minister
— one Share for the Benefit of A School in Said Town His Excellency
Benning Wentworth Esq Five Hundred Acres to be laid out as
marked in the Plan B: W: and is to be Accounted two of the within
Shares —

Province of New Hamp"" July 6'^ 1761

Recorded from the Back of the Original Charter of Norwhich
under the Province Seal

Attesf Theodore Atkinson Sec'*'

on WELL.

323

f. r^.^, ,.-::.['•■

Province of New Hampshire July 5^^ 1761

Recorded from the Back of the original Plan of Norwhich under
the Province Seal

Attest'' Theodore Atkinson Sec''^

Orwell

ORWELL.

*Province of New-Hampshire.
GEORGE THE Third,

*3-26

p. s.

By the Grace of God, of Great-Britain, France and
Ireland, King, Defender of the Faith &c.

To all Persons to whom these Presents shall come,
^ V— -v^--' -' Greeting.

Know Ye, that We of Our special Grace, certain Knowledge, and
meer Motion, for the due Encouragement of settling a Netv Planta-
tion within our said Province, by and with the Advice of our Trusty
and Well-beloved Benning Wentworth, Esq; Our Governor and
Commander in Chief of Our said Province of Netv- Hampshire, in
New-England, and of Our Council of the said Province ; Have
upon the Conditions and Reservations herein after made, given and
granted, and by these Presents, for Us, Our Heirs, and Successors,
do give and grant in equal Shares, unto Our loving Subjects, Inhabi-
tants of Our said Province of New- Hampshire, and Our other Gov-
ernments, and to their Heirs and Assigns for ever, whose Names are

324 CHARTER RECORDS.

entred on this Grant, to be divided to and amongst them into Sevent}^
equal Shares, all that Tract or Parcel of Land situate, lying and
being within our said Province of Netv-Ham]) shire, containing by
Admeasurement, Twenty three Thousand five Hundred Acres, which
Tract is to contain Something More then Six Miles square, and no
more; out of wdiich an Allowance is to be made for High Ways and
unimprovable Lands by Pocks, Ponds, Mountains and Rivers, One
Thousand and Forty Acres free, according to a Plan and Survey
thereof, made by Our said Governor's Order, and returned into the
Secretary's Office, and hereunto annexed,, butted and bounded as fol-
lows, Viz. Begining at A Marked Tree Standing on the Easterly
Side of the Wood Creek so called which Tree bears East from
Ticonderoga Fort and is the South Westerly Corner Bound of the
Town of Shoram from thence runing East by Shoram Seven Miles to
the South East Corner thereof thence South Six Miles to A Stake &
Stones thence turning of & runing West to the Shores of the Wood
Creek afore Said then runing down Notherly as the Said Creek
runs to the South West Corner of Shoram afore Said the Bound
began at And that the same be, and hereby is Incorporated into a
Township by the Name of Orwell And the Inhabitants that do or
shall hereafter inhabit the said Township, are hereby declared to be
Enfranchized with and Intitled to all and every the Priviledges and
Immunities that other Towns within Our Province by Law Exercise
and Enjoy : And further, that the said Town as soon as there shall
be Fifty Families resident and settled thereon, shall have the Liberty
of holding tivo Fairs, one of which shall held on the

And the other on the
annually, which Fairs are not to continue longer than the respective

following the said

and that as soon as the said Town shall consist of Fifty
*3-27 Families, a Market may be *opened and kept one or more

Days in each Week, as ma}^ be thought most advantagious to
the Inhabitants. Also, that the first Meeting for the Choice of Town
Officers, agreable to the Laws of our said Province, shall be held on
the Third Thursday in September Next which said Meeting shall be
Notified by M'' Benj^ Underbill who is hereby also appointed the
Moderator of the said first Meeting, which he is to Notify and Gov-
ern agreable to the Laws and Custftms of Our said Province ; and
that the annual Meeting for ever hereafter for the Choice of such
Officers for the said Town, shall be on the Second Tuesday of March
annually. To Have and to Hold the said Tract of Land as above
expressed, together with all Privileges and Appurtenances, to thera
and their respective Heirs and Assigns forever, upon the following
Conditions, viz.

OliWELL. 325

I. That every Grantee, liis Heirs or Assigns shall plant and culti-
vate five Acres of Land within the Term of five Years for every fifty
Acres contained in his or their Share or Proportion of Land in said
Township, and continue to improve and settle the same by additional
Cultivations, on Penalty of the Forfeiture of his Grant or Share in
the said Townshi[), and of its reverting to Us, our Heirs and Succes-
sors, to be by Us or them Re-granted to such of our Subjects as shall
effectually settle and cultivate the same.

IL That all white and other Pine Trees within the said Township,
fit for Masting Our Royal Navy, be carefully preserved for that Use,
and none to be cut or felled without Our special Licence for so doing
first had and obtained, upon the Penalty of the Forfeiture of the
Right of such Grantee, his Heirs and Assigns, to Us, our Heirs and
Successors, as Avell as being subject to the Penalty of any Act or
Acts of Parliament that now are, or hereafter shall be Enacted.

IV. Yielding and paying therefor to Us, our Heirs and Successors
for the Space of ten Years, to be computed from the Date hereof,
the Rent of one Ear of Indian Corn only, on the twenty-fifth Day of
December annually, if lawfully demanded, the first Payment to be
made on the twenty-fifth Day of December. 1763

V. Every Proprietor, Settler or Inhabitant, shall yield and pay
unto Us, our Heirs and Successors yearly, and every Year forever,
from and after the Expiration of ten Years from the abovesaid
twent}' -fifth Day of December., namely, on the twenty-fifth Day of
December, which will be in the Year of Our Lord 1773 One shilling
Proclamation Money for every Hundred Acres he so owns, settles or
possesses, and so in Proportion for a greater or lesser Tract of the
said Land ; which Money shall be paid by the respective Persons
abovesaid, their Heirs or Assigns, in our Council Chamber in Ports-
mouth, or to sucli Officer or Officers as shall be appointed to receive
the same ; and this to be in Lieu of all other Rents and Services
whatsoever.

In Testimony whereof we have caused the Seal of said Province
to be hereunto affixed. Witness Benning Wentworth, Esq ; Our
Governor and Commander in Chief of Our said Province, the 18"'
Day of August In the Year of our Lord Christ, One Thousand
Seven Hundred and 63 — And in the 3'^ Year of Our Reign.

B Went worth

326

CHARTER RECORDS.

By His Excellency's Command,
With Advice of Council,

T Atkinson Jim'^ Sec"'

Province of New Hamp"^ August 18-1763

Recorded according to the original Charter under the Pro"^ Seal

f T Atkinson Jun^ SeCy

*3-28 *The Names of the Grantees of Orwell— Viz

Benj'* Underhill Henry Frankling

Jon'' Cowpland Uriah Woolman

Benj'^ Seaman Edmund Seaman

Benj'^ Seaman jun'' Thomas Brookman
Thomas Brookman Jun"" Will'" Brookman

William Milner
John Milner
Daniel Beats
Henry Seaman
John Hadock
Zebulon Ferriss
Benj'* Blage jun''
John Gifford
George Woods
Cranoley l^orrowe
David M^Cleish
Benj-' Ogden
Robert Boyd Jun'
James Nelart
Isaac Peck

Andrew Gautier

Daniel Gautier

Thomas Liscomb

Paul Mathews

Paul Mathews jun'

Benj'^ Blage

Edward Blage

Henry Tedford

John Turner

John Borrowe

William M'^Cleish

Benj'' Walker

Andrew Burn

John Mitchell

Elijah Doty

Hon'''" Theodore Atkinson

Mark H= Went worth

John Temple &

Nath" Barren

Benj^ Farris Jun"^
Joseph Jacobs
Rich'' Seaman
John Brookman
eToseph Holmes
Andrew Gautier
Rich'' Cornwell
John Seaman
Benj"^ Mathews
Jon'' Akin
John Blage
Joseph Webb
Gafford Dally
James Glean
Sam" Borrowe
John Ogden
Robert Boyd Sen^
Alexander Burn
David Potts
Read Ferris

> Esq"

)

For His Excellency Benning Wentworth Esq a Tract to Contain
Five Hundred Acres as Marked B-W-in the Plan which is to be
accounted two of the within Shares one whole Share for the Incor-
porated Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in foreign Parts
One Share for A Glebe for the Church of England as by Law Estab-
lishd One Share for the first Settled Minister in Said Town & one
Share for the Benefit of A School there

Pro^ of New Hamp'' August 18'" 1763

Recorded According to the Back of the Original Charter of Orwell
under the Pro' Seal

19 T Atkinson Jun^ Sec''^^

PANTON.

327

i/*

.li^h^ g'i...a,T.

'•c?P"aa 'i <'*A1

Pro^ of New Hamp-- August 18-1763

Recorded from the Back of the origiual Charter of Orwell uuder
v*^ Pro^ Seal

19 T Atkinson Jun^ Sec'-^

Panton

PANTON.

*Province of New-Hampshire.
GEORGE THE Third,

*2-313

, ^■^-.^^-^ . By the Grace of God, of Great-Britain, France and

\ , , / Ireland, King, Defender of the Faith &c.

i ' ' ( To all Persons to wliom these Presents shall come^

^ ^wi^^*^ ^ Greeting'.

Know ye, that We of Our sj)ecial Grace, certain Knowledge, and
meer Motion, for the due Encouragement of settling a New Plantation
within our said Province, by and with the Advice of our Trusty and
Well-beloved Ben NINO Wentwokth, Esq; Our Governor and Com-
mander in Chief of Our said Province of New-Hampshiue in New-
England^ and of our Council of the said Province; Have upon the
Conditions and Reservations herein after made, given and granted,
and by these Presents, for us, our Heirs, and Successors, do give
and grant in equal Shares, unto Our loving Subjects, Inhabitants of
Our said Province of New-Ham ps}tu\\ and Our other Governments,
and to their Hell's and Assigns for ever, whose Names are entred on

328 CHARTER RECORDS.

this Grant, to be divided to and amongst tlieni into Seventy Six equal
Shares, all that Tract or Parcel of Land situate, lying and being
within our said Province of Neiv-Hampshire^ containing by Admeasure-
ment, abo^ 25,000 Acres, which Tract is to contain Something more
than Six Miles square, and no more ; out of which an Allowance is
to be made for High Ways and unimprovable Lands by Rocks, Ponds,
Mountains and Rivers, One Thousand and Forty Acres free, according
to a Plan and Survey thereof, made by Our said Governor's Order,
and returned into the Secretary's Office, and hereunto annexed, butted
and bounded as follows, Viz. Begining at a Tree Marked Standing
on the West Side of Otter Creek so Called near the Head of the Falls
in said Creek, from thence Runing West Seven Miles, Then South
Six Miles, then Turning off & Runhig East to Otter Creek afores'^
then Down the Creek as that Runs to the Bounds first above j\Ien-
tioned Then begining again at the End of the South Line afores'^
which in the Grant of the Town of Waybridge is called the South
West'*' Corner of Panton «fe is the North Westerly Corner of s'' Way-
bridge & from thence runing West to Lake Champlain tlience
Northerly by the Shores of the Said Lake to A Stake & Stones there
standing in the Side of the Seven Miles West Line afore said And
that the same be, and hereby is Incorporated into a Township by the
Name of Panton And the Inhabitants that do or shall hereafter
inhabit the said Township, are hereby declared to be Enfranchized
with and Intitled to all and every the Priviledges and Immunities
that other Towns within Our Province by Law Exercise and Enjoy :
And further, that the said Town as soon as there shall be Fifty
Families resident and settled thereon, shall have the Liberty of holding
Two Fairs, one of which shall be held on the

And the other on the annually, which Fairs are

not to continue longer than the resj^ective

following the said and that as soon

as the said Town shall consist of Fifty Families, a Market
*2-314 may be * opened and kept one or more Days in each Week,
■ as may be thought most advantagious to the Inhabitants.
Also, that the first Meeting for the Choice of Town Officers, agreable
to the Laws of our said Province, shall be held on the Second Tues-
day in December next which said Meeting shall be Notified by Cap^
Josiah Dean who is hereby also appointed the jVIoderator of the said
first Meeting, which he is to Notify and Govern agreable to the
Laws and Customs or Our said Province ; and that the annual Meeting
for ever hereafter for the Choice of such Officers for the said Town,
shall be on the Second Tuesday of 3Iarch annually. To Have and to
Hold the said Tract of Land as above expressed, together with all

PANTON. 329

Privileges and Appurtenances, to them and their respective Heirs and
Assigns forever, upon the following Conditions, viz.

J. That every Grantee, his Heirs or Assigns shall plant and cultivate
five Acres of Land within the Term of live Years for every fifty Acres
contained in his or their Share or Proportion of Land in said Town-
ship, and continue to improve and settle the same by additional
Cultivations, on Penalty of the Forfeiture of his Grant or Share in
the said Township, and of its reverting to Us, our Heirs and Succes-
soi-s, to be by Lis or Them Re-granted to such of Our Subjects as shall
effectually settle and cultivate the same.

H. That all white and other Pine Trees within the said Township,
fit for Masting Our Ro3^al Navy, be carefully preserved for tht>t Use,
and none to be cut or felled without Our special Licence for so doing
fii-st had and obtained, upon the Penalty of the Forfeiture of the
Right of such Grantee, his Heirs and Assigns, to Us, our Heirs and
Successors, as well as being subject to the Penalty of any Act or Acts
of Parliament that are now, or hereafter shall be Enacted.

IV. Yielding and paying therefor to Us, our Heirs and Successors
for the Space of ten Years, to be computed from the Date hereof, the
Rent of one Ear of Indian Corn only, on the t%venty-fifth Day of
December annually, if lawfully demanded, the first Payment to be
made on the twenty-fifth Day of December. 1761

V. Every Proprietor, Settler or Inhabitant, shall yield and pay
unto Us, our Heirs and Successors yearly, and every Year forever,
from and after the Expiration of ten Y'ears from the abovesaid twenty-
fifth Day of December., namely, on the twenty-fifth Day of December.,
which will be in the Y^ear of Our Lord 1771 One shilling Proclama-
tion ]\Ioney for every Hundred Acres he so owns, settles or possesses,
and so in Proportion for a greater or lesser Tract of the said Land ;
which Money shall be paid by the respective Persons abovesaid, their
Heirs or Assigns, in our Council Chamber in Portsmouth^ or to such
Officer or Officers as shall be appointed to receive the same ; and this
to be in Lieu of all other Rents and Services whatsoever.

In Testimony whereof we have caused the Seal of our said Province
to be hereunto affixed. Witness Bi<:nning Wextwouth, Esq ; Our
Governor and Commander in Chief of Our said Province, the Third
Day of November In the Year of our Lord Christ, One Thousand
Seven Hundred and Sixty One And in the Second Year of Our Reign.

B Wentworth

330

CHARTER RECORDS.

By His Excellency's Command,
With Advice of Council,

Tlieod'" Atkinson Sec''^
Province of New Hamps'' Nov' 3, 1761

Recorded According to the Origional Charter under the Province
Seal

^ Theodore Atkinson Sec'^

*2-315 *The Names of the Grantees of Panton (Viz)

James Nichols
Sam^ Kellog
James Claghorn
Nath' Dean
John Cohurn
Peter Knickerbacker
Isaac Peck
Rulof White
Jon'^ Rnssel
Elieazer Wright
Collins Chapman
John Waddams
Caleb StronCT
Eben"^ Jackson
Eben' Hill
Timothy Horsford
Jahiel Williams
Eben"" Fletcher
Sam* Blodgfet Jun"^
Sampson Sheafe Esq
Tho* Little
Oclel Squire
James Eason

Soloman Wrig-ht
David Holcomb
Elisha Painter
Zach^ Hanchet
Benj'* Phelps
John Dean
Tho^ Ensign
Charles Bvirrell
Phineas Waller
Cap^ Nath* Evarts
Appleton Burnham
Jon"^ Deverix
Rich'* Brock way
John Clothier Jun'
Nath* Moodey
Joseph Langborn
William Warner
Sam* Norton
Cap' Benj'^ Coles
John Downing Esq
John Sweetland
Jesse Sawyer Jun"^
Tim° Holcom

Daniel Dean
Will'" Coit
Ezra Fellows
Will'" Fellows
John Knickerbacker
Elisha Ensign
Oliver Dean
Phineas Spaulding
Cap* John Fellows
Joseph Hanchet
Noah Waddams
Cap* Isaac Laurence
John Clothier
Jon'' Edgeton
Benj'''^ Sedgwick
Joseph Langborn Jun'
David Whitney
Sam* Blodget
Cap* Josiah Dean
John Kimbolly Esq
Russell Hunt
Josiah Deane Jun''
Isaiah Dean &

Titus Hill

His Excellency Benning Wentworth Esq a Tract of Land to Con-
tain Five Hundred Acres as INIarked B- W- in the Plan, which is to
be Accounted two of the within Shares, One whole Share for the
Incorporated Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign
Parts, One Share for a Glebe for the Church of England as by Law
Established, One Share for the First Settled jNIinister of the Gospel
& One Share for the Benefit of a School in said Town —

Province of New Hamps'" Nov'' 3, 1761

Recorded from the back of the Origional Charter of Panton under
the Prov^ Seal Attested f Theod'" Atkinson Se'^

PAWLET.

331

r^tt t. CHty^^„i —

Province of New Hamps' Nov"" 3, 1761

Recorded from the back of the Origional Charter of Panton under
the Province Seal

19 Theodore Atkinson Sec--^^

Pawlet

PAWLET.

*Pro\ance of New-Hampshire.
GEORGE THE Third,

*2-l-45

p. s.

By the Grace of God, of Great-Britain, France and
Ireland, King, Defender of the Faith, &c.

To all Persons to 2vhom these Presents shall come^
^ ^^^-^^^-^ -' Greeting.

Know ye, tlmt We of Our special Grace, certain Knowledge and
meer Motion, for the due Encouragement of settling a Neiv Planta-
tion within our said Province, by and with the Advice of our Trusty
and Well-beloved Benning Wentworth, Esq ; Our Governor and
Commander in Chief of Our said Province of New-Hampshire in
Neic-Pniflnnd, and of our Council of the said Province; Have upon
the Conditions and Reservations herein after made, given and
granted, and by these Presents, for us, our heirs, and Successors, do
give and grant in equal Shares, unto Our loving Subjects, Inhab-
itants of Our said Province of Neiv- Hampshire^ and Our other
Governments, and to their Heirs and Assigns for ever, whose Names

332 CHARTER RECORDS.

are entred on this Grant, to be divided to and amongst tliem into
Sixty Eight equal Shares, all that Tract or Parcel of Land situate,
lying and being within our said Province of JYeu--H'ampshire, contain-
ing by Admeasurement, Twenty three Thousand & forty Acres,
which Tract is to contain Six Miles square, and no more ; out of
which an Allowance is to be made for High Ways and unimprovable
Lands by Rocks, Ponds, Mountains and Rivers, One Thousand and
Forty Acres free, according to a Plan and Survey thereof, made by
Our said Governor's Order, and returned into the Secretary's Office,
and hereunto annexed, butted and bounded as follows. Viz. Begining
the North West Corner of Rupert from thence runing due North
Six Miles Thence due East Six Miles thence Due South Six Miles to
the North East Corner of Rupert afore Said thence due West by
Rupert Six Miles to the North West Corner thereof being the
Bounds began at And that the same be, and hereby is Incorporated
into a Township by the Name of Pawlett And the Inliabitants that
do or shall hereafter inhabit the said Township, are hereby declared
to be Enfranchized with and In titled to all and every the Priviledges
and Immunities that other Towns within Our Province by Law
Exercise and Enjoy: And further, that the said Town as soon as
there shall be Fifty Families resident and settled thereon, shall have
the Liberty of holding Two Fairs, one of which shall be held on the

And the other on the

annually, which Fairs are not to continue

longer than the respective following the said

and that as soon as the said Town shall
*2-146 consist of Fifty Families, a Market may be *opened and
kept one or more Days in each Week, as may be thought
most advantagious to the Inhabitants. Also, that the first Meeting
for the Choice of Town Officers, ao-reable to the Laws of our said
Province, shall be held on the Second Tuesday in October next
which said Meeting shall be Notified by M'' Jonathan Willard who is
hereby also appointed the Moderator of the said first Meeting, which
he is to Notify and Govern agreable to the Laws and Customs of
Our said Province; and that the annual Meeting for ever hereafter
for the Choice of such Officers for the said Town, shall be on the
Second Tuesday of March annually, To Have and to Hold the said
Tract of Land as above expressed, together with all Privileges and
Appurtenances, to them and their respective Heirs and Assigns for-
ever, upon the following Conditions, viz.

PAWLET. 333

U\)wnsbi[), and continue to improve and settle the same by additional
Cultivations, on Penalty of the Forfeiture of his Grant or Share in
the said Townshij), and of its reverting to Us, our Heirs and Succes-
sors, to be by Us or them lie-granted to such of Our Subjects as shall
effectually settle and cultivate the same.

II. That all white and other Pine Trees within the said Township,
fit for ]\lasting Our Royal Navy, be carefully preserved for that Use,
and none to be cut or felled without Our special Licence for so
doing first had and obtained, u])on the Penalty of the Forfeiture of
the Right of such Grantee, his Heirs and Assigns, to Us, our Heirs
and Successors, as well as being subject to the Penalty of any Act or
Acts of Parliament that now are, or hereafter shall be Enacted.

III. That before any Division of the Land be made to and among
the Grantees, a Tract of I^and as near the Centre of the said Town-
ship as the Land will admit of, shall be reserved and marked out for
Town I^ots, one of which shall be allotted to each Grantee of the
Contents of one Acre.

IV. Yielding and jjaying therefor to Us, our Heirs and Successors
for the Space of ten Years, to be computed from the Date hereof, the
Rent of one Ear of Indian Corn only, on the twenty-fifth Day of
December annually, if lawfully demanded, the first Payment to be
made on the twenty-fifth Day of Deceiuher. 1762

V. Every Proprietor, Settler or Inhabitant, shall yield and pay
unto Us, our Heirs and Successors yearly, and every Year forever,
from and after the Expiration of ten Years from the abovesaid
t went} -fifth Day of December^ namely, on the twentj'-fifth Day of
December^ which will be in the Year of Our Lord 1772 One shilling
Proclamation Money for every Hundred Acres he so owns, settles or
possesses, and so in Proportion for a greater or lesser Tract of the
said Land; which Money shall be paid by the respective Persons
abovesaid, their Heirs or Assigns, in our Council Chamber in Ports-
mouthy or to such Officer or Officers as shall be appointed to receive
the same ; and this to be in Lieu of all other Rents and Services
whatsoever.

In Testimony whereof we have caused the Seal of our said Prov-
ince to be hereunto affixed. Witness Bennjng WENTWOUTfT, Esq ;
Our Governor and Commander in Chief of Our said Province, the
26"" Day of August In the Year of our Lord Christ, One Thousand
Seven Hundred and Sixty one And in the First Year of Our Reign.

P Wentworth
By His Excellency's Command,
With Advice of Council,

Theodore Atkinson Sec^'^

334

CHAETER RECORDS.

Province of New Hamj/ August 26"' 1761

Recorded According to the Original under the Province Seal

f Theodore Atkinson Se'^

^2-147 *The Names of the Grantees of Pawlett (Viz)

Jonathan Willard
Benj* Brooks
John Huff
Zephania Snow
Martin Dewey
James Stanley
John Penoyer
Hezekiah Parsons
Noah Jellet jun''
Henry Morris
Charles Clark
Benj'^ Willard
Gideon Wright
George Havens
Mathew Davis
Daniel Ross
Roswell Willcocks
Daniel Warner Esq
John Clark
Byfield Loyd — Boston

Benj"" Wright
Charles Read
David Huff
Moses Fuller
David Pixley
John Daman
Sam" Roberts
David Parsons
Elisha Prat
Jonas Wilds
Noah Lomis
Abner Baldwin
Joel Fisk
Josiah Willard
Nath'i Fellows
Asaph Patman
Peter A^ancampen
James Stoodly
Daniel Barber
John Gould Jun^

Abner Fuller
Justus Ashman
John Stark
John Willard
Samuel Wright
Ebenez'" Ashman
Jeremiah Clements
Amasa Jones
John Tainter
Jonathan Carver
Joel Lomis
Josiah Carpenter
Silas Howard
William Blunt
John Abbot
William Kenady
Rich'^ Wibird Esq
William Clark
Benning Wentworth
Benj'^ Fannil

James Apthorp & Theodore Atkinson jun'

His Excellency Benning Wentworth Esq a Tract of Land to
Contain five hundred Acres as Marked in the Plan B W- which
is to be accounted two of the within Shares one whole Share for
the Incorporated Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in foreign
Parts one Share for A Glebe for the Church of England as by Law
Established one Share for the first Settled minister of the Gospel
One Share for the Benefit of A School in said Town

Province of New Hamp"^ August 26 — 1761

Recorded from the Back of the Original Charter of Pawlett under
the Pro^ Seal

19 Theodore Atkinson Sec""^

PEACH AM.

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PEACHAM.

385

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Peacham

*Province of New-Hampshire.
GEORGE THE Third,

*3-74

L. S.

By the Grace of God, of Great-Britain, France and
Ireland, King, Defender of the Faith &c.

To all Persons to whom these Presents shall come^
^ ^^^.^w -' Greeting.

Know Ye, that We of Our special Grace, certain Knowledge, and
meer Motion, for the due Encouragement of settling a New Planta-
tion within our said Province, by and with the Advice of our Trusty
and Well-beloved Penning Wentworth Esq ; Our Governor and
Commander in Chief of Our said Province of Neiv-Hampshire^ in
New-England., and of Our Council of the said Province; Have
upon the Conditions and Reservations herein after made, given and
granted, and by these Presents, for Us, Our Heirs, and Succes-
sors, do give and grant in equal Shares, unto Our loving Subjects,
Inhabitants of Our said Province of New- Hampshire^ and Our other
Governments, and to theii Heirs and Assigns for ever, whose Names
are entred on this Grant, to be divided to and amongst them into Sev-
enty Six equal Shares, all that Tract or Parcel of Land situate, lying
and being within our said Province of New-Hampshire^ containing by
Admeasurement, Twenty Three Thousand & forty Acres^ which Tract
is to contain Six Miles square, and no more; out of which an Allow-

336 CHABTER RECORDS.

ance is to be made for High Ways and unimprovable Lands by Rocks,
Ponds, Mountains and Rivers, One Thousand and Forty Acres free,
according to a Ph\n and Survey thereof, made by Our said Governor's
Order, and returned into the Secretary's Office, and hereunto annexed,
butted and bounded as follows, Viz. Begining at the North West-
erly Corner Bounds of the Township of Ryegate which is the South
Westerly Corner of Barnet & runing from thence North Sixty Eight
Degrees West Six Miles then Turning of & Runing Northerly on a
Parrallel line with the Head or Westerly Side Line of the said
Townsh'p of Barnet Six Miles & an half then Turning off &, Runing
South Sixty Eight Degrees East Six Miles to the said Head Line of
Barnet aforesaid thence on said Line Southerly to the Bounds began at
And that the same be and hereb}^ is Incorporated into a Township
by the Name of Peacham And the Lihabitants that do or shall
hereafter inhabit the said Township, are hereby declared to be
Enfranchized with and Intitled to all and every the Priviledges
and Immunities that other Towns within Our Province by Lav»^
Exercise and Enjoy : And further, that the said Town as soon as
there shall be F'lity Families resident and settled thereon, shall have
the Liberty of holding two Fairs, one of which shall be held on
the And the other on the

annuall}^ which Fairs are not to continue
longer than the respective following the said

and that as soon as the said Town shall consist of
*o-75 Fifty Families, a Market may be *opened and kept one or
more Days in each Week, as may be thought most advan-
tagious to the Inhabitants. Also, that the first Meeting for the
Choice of Town Officers, agreable to the Laws of our said Province,
shall be held on the Third Wednesday in Jan''^ next which said
Meeting shall be Notified by Gideon Lyman Esq who is hereby also
appointed the Moderator of the said first jMeeting, which he is to
Notify and Govern agreable to the Laws and Customs of Our said
Province; and that the annual Meeting for ever hereafter for the
Choice of such Officers for the said Town, shall be on the Second
Tuesday of 3Iarch annually. To Have and to Hold the said Tract
of Land as above expressed, together with all Privileges and Appur-
tenances, to them and their respective Heirs and Assigns forever,
upon the following Conditions, viz.

PEACH AM. 337

the said Township, and of its reverting to Us, our Heirs and Succes-
sors, to be by Us or Them Re-granted to such of Our Subjects as shall
effectually settle and cultivate the same.

II. That all white and other Pine Trees within the said Township,
fit for ]\[asting Our Royal Navy, be carefully preserved for that Use,
and none to be cut or felled without Our special Licence for so doing
first had and obtained, upon the Penalty of the Forfeiture of the
Right of such Grantee, his Heirs and Assigns, to Us, our Heirs and
Successors, as well as being subject to the Penalty of any Act or
Acts of Parliament that now are, or hereafter shall be Enacted.

HI. That before any Division of the Land be made to and among
the Grantees, a Tract of Land as near the Centre of the said Township
as the Land will admit of, shall be reserved and marked out for
Town Lots, one of which shall be allotted to each Grantee of the
Contents of one Acre.

IV". Yielding and paying therefpr to Us, our Heirs and Successors
for the Space of ten Years, to be computed from the Date hereof, the
Rent of one Ear of Indian Corn only, on the twenty-fifth Day of
December annually, if lawfully demanded, the first Payment to be.
made on the twenty-fifth Day of December. ITG-t

V. Ever}^ Proprietor, Settler or Inhabitant, shall yield and pay
unto Us, our Heirs and Successors yearly, and every Year forever,
from and after the Expiration of ten Y^earsfrom the abovesaid twenty-
fifth Day of December^ namely, on the twenty-fifth Day of December.,
which will be in the Year of Our Lord 1774 One shilling Proclama-
tion Money for every Hundred Acres he so owns, settles or possesses,
and so in Proportion for a greater or lesser Tract of the said Land ;
which Money shall be paid by the respective Persons abovesaid, their
Heirs or Assigns, in our Council Chamber in Portsmouth., or to such
Officer or Officers as shall be appointed to receive the same ; and
this to be in Lieu of all other Rents and Services whatsoever.

In Testimony whereof we have caused the Seal of our said Prov-
ince to be hereunto affixed. Witness Benning Wentworth, Esq;
Our Governor and Commander in Chief of Our said Province, the
Thirty first Day of December Jn the Year of our Lord Christ, One
Thousand Seven Hundred and Sixty Three And in the fourth Year
of Our Reign. B Wentworth

By His Excellency's Command,
With Advice of Council,

T Atkinson Jun'' Sec'-y

Province of New Hampshire Dec"^ 31*' 1763

Recorded from the Original Charter under the Province Seal

^ T Atkinson Jun'' Sec^^

338

CHARTER RECORDS.

*2-76 *Names of the Grantees of Peach am (Viz)

David Smith Samuel Smith

Jonathan Warner of Hadley

Lemuel Warner

Warum Warner

Stephen Goodman

John Kellog

Oliver White

Oliver Smith

James Meecham

Phineas Lyman Esq

Jonathan Smith

Eliakim Smith

Joseph Burt

Coleman Cook

Abraham Kellog

Moses Montague

Noah Smith Jun""

Moses Warner

Hezekiah Hubbard

Henry Merchant

Gideon Lyman Jun'^

Hon^^'' Mark H^ Wentworth
James Nevin
Theod'' Atkinson j''
Nath Barren

Noahdiah Warner
Jacob Warner Jun''
Aaron Cleveland
John White
Thomas Jiid

Oliver Bartlet
Orange Warner
Jacob Warner
Nath" Phelps
Elihu Warner
Samuel White
Samuel Cutts

Edmund Houbord Jun' Elijah Lyman

Moses Houbord
Aaron Burt
En OS Smith
Seth Smith
Oliver Warner
Elisha Cook Jun""
Benj'^ Buckman
Samuel Hopkins
Josiah Smith
Aaron Warner
Joseph Hubbard
Gideon Lyman Esq
Selah White

Joseph Hutchins
Elihu Smith
Noah Cook
Eleazer Burt
Elisha Cook
Samuel Cook
Nath" Kellog

Esq-"

Noah Smith
Elisha Porter Esq
Moses Graves
John Pickern of
Benjamin Burt
Waitstill Cook

John Marsh

Wyseman Clagett Esq

Hunking Wentworth Esq &

John Penhallow

His Excellency Benning Wentworth Esq a Tract of Land to Con-
tain five Hundred Acres as Marked B W: in the Plan which is to be
Accounted two of the within Shares. One whole Share for the Licor-
porated Societ}^ for the Propagation of the Gospel in foreign Parts,
One whole share for a Glebe for the Church of England as by Law
Established. One Share for the first Settled Minister of the Gospel
& One Share for the Benefit of a School in said Town forever

Province of New Hampshire Dec'' Sl^"^ 17d8

Recorded from the Back the Original Charter under the Province
Seal

^ T Atkinson Jun-'Sec''^'

PERU.

339

A.!--.;;.; t. B..^^.> v.«'j l . -

Province of New Ramps'^ Dec^ SI''* 1763

Recorded from the back of the Origional Charter under the Prov.
Seal

f T Atkinson Jun'' Sec-^y

PERU.

Brumley

p s

*Province of New-Hampshire.
GEORGE THE Third,

*2-273

By the Grace of God, of Great-Britain, France and
Ireland, King, Defender of the Faith, &c.

To all Persons to wliom these Presents shall coine,
^ >— -^.^ ^ Greeting.

340 CHARTER RECORDS.

Ijang and being within our said Province of JVew- Hampshire, con-
taining by Admeasurement, Twenty Three Thousand & Forty Acres.
which Tract is to contain Six Miles square, and no more; out of
which an Allowance is to be made for High Ways and unimprovable
Lands by Rocks, Ponds, Mountains and Rivers, One Thousand and
Forty Acres free, according to a Plan and Survey thereof, made by
Our said Governor's Order, and returned into the Secretary's Office,
and hereunto annexed, butted and bounded as follows. Viz. Begin-
ing at the North West Corner of Wiuhall & from thence Due North
Six Miles to the South West Corner of Harwich from thence East by
Harwich aforesaid Six Miles to the South East Corner thereof thence
due South Six Mile to the North East Corner of Wiuhall afores'^
thence due West by Wiuhall Six Miles to the Bounds begun at And
the same be, and hereby is Incorporated into a Township by the Name
of Brumley And the Inhabitants that do or shall hereafter inhabit the
said Township, are hereby declared to be Enfranchized with and Inti-
tled to all and every the Priviledges and Immunities that other
Towns within Our Province by Law Exercise and Enjoy : And
further, that the said Town as soon as there shall be Fifty Families
resident and settled thereon, shall have the Liberty of holding Two
Fairs, one of which shall be held on the

And the other on the annually, which Fairs are

not to continue longer than the respective

following the said and that as

soon as the said Town shall consist of Fifty Families, a
*2-274 Market may be *opened and kept one or more Days in each
Week, as maybe thoughtmost advantagious to the Inhabitants.
Also, that the first Meeting for the Choice of Town Officers, agreable
to the Laws of our said Province, shall be held on the first Monday
in November next which said Meeting shall be Notified by Sam^ Gilbert
Esq who is hereby also appointed the Moderator of the said first Meet-
ing, which he is to Notify and Govern agreable to the Laws and Cus-
toms of Oar said Province ; and that the annual Meeting for ever here-
after for the Choice of such Officers for the said Town, shall be on the
Second Tuesday of Marcli annually. To Have and to Hold the said
Tract of Land as above expressed, together with all Privileges and
Appurtenances, to them and their respective Heirs and Assigns for-
ever, upon the following Conditions, viz.

PERU. 341

the said Township, and of its reverting to Us, our Heirs and Success-
ors, to be by Us or Them Re-granted to such of Our Subjects as shall
effectually settle and cultivate the same.

II. That all white and other Pine Trees ^^dthin the said Township,
fit for Masting Our Ro3'al Navy, be carefully preserved for that Use,
and none be cut or felled without Our special Licence for so doing
first had and obtained, upon the Penalty of the Forfeiture of the
Riglit of such Grantee, his Heirs and Assigns, to Us, our Heirs and
Successors, as well as being subject to the Penalty of any Act or
Acts of Parliament that now are, or hereafter shall be Enacted.

IV. Yielding and paying therefor to Us, our Heirs and Successors
for the Space of ten Years, to be computed from the Date hereof,
the Rent of one Ear of Indian Corn only, on the twenty-fifth Day of
Deceynher annuaWy if lawfully demanded, the first Payment to be made
on the twenty-fifth Day of December 1762

V. Every Proprietor, Settler or Inhabitant shall yield and pay unto
Us, our Heirs and Successors 3'early and every Year forever, from
and after the Expiration of ten Years from the abovesaid twenty-fifth
Day of December, namely, on the twenty-fifth Day of December^ which
will be in the Year of our Lord 1772 One shilling Proclamation
Money for every Hundred Acres he so owns, settles or possesses, and
so in Proportion for a greater or lesser Tract of the said Land ;
which Money shall be paid by the respective Persons abovesaid,
their Heirs or Assigns, in our Council Chamber in Portsmouth^ or to
such Officer or Officers as shall be appointed to receive the same ;
and this to be in Lieu of all other Rents and Services whatsoever.

In Testimony whereof we have caused the Seal of our said Prov-
ince to be hereunto affixed. Witness Benning Wentwokth, Esq;
Our Governor and Commander in Chief of Our said Province, the
IS*** Day of October In the Year of our Lord Christ, One Thousand
Seven Hundred and Sixty One And in the First Year of Our Reign.

B Wentworlh
By his Excellency's Command,
With Advice of Council.

Theodore Atkinson Sec''^

Province of New Hamps^ Octo'' IS"* 1761

Recorded According to the Origional Charter under the Province
SeaL 19 Theodore Atkinson Sec'^

342

CHARTER RECORDS.

'2-275 *The Names of the Grantees of Brumley (Viz)

William Summer
Ebenezer Buck
Sam^ Gilbert Jun"^
Worthy Waters
Joseph Waters
Eld ad Post
Obediah Willcox
Joseph Waters Jun'
Johu Curtis
Jourden Post
David Curtis
Dan Clark
Thomas Buck
Thomas Post
Peter Post
Asael Strong
Elijah Webster
Joseph Webster
Aaron Wright
Daniel Little
Benjamin Hale
Benj^ Harriman

Sam' Gilbert
Elijah Lathrop
John Gillitt
John Kilborn
Lyzer Hubbard
Elisha Dunk
Nath' Davis
Tho^ Rowley
Abijah Rowley
John Nelson
Ezekiel Kelloge
Phillip Mattoon
Gideon Post
Isaac Ford
Ebenezer Root
Tho^ Gilbird
Simeon Webster

Tho^ Perring
Benj'"' Summer
John Gillitt Jun""
John Perkins
Tho^ Post Jun^
Jonathan Summer
Joseph Davis Jun"^
James Noble
Richard Curtis
Ichabod Phillips Jun^
Thomas Summer
Isaac Waters
Jeremiah Post
Adam Waters
Ebenezer Root Jun""
John Post
David Webster
Darius Post

Roger Loomis
Mark fl^ Wentworth Esq Joseph Newmarch Esq
John Hogg Edmund Morse

Reuben Harriman John Atwood
Jon''' Kimball & Benj'^ Kimball

His Excellency Benning Wentworth Esq a Tract of Land to Con-
tain Five Hundred Acres as Marked B- W in the Plan which is to
be Accounted two of the within shares One whole share for the
Incorporated Scociety for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign
Parts, One Share for a Glebe for the Church of England as by Law
Established, One Share for the first Settled Minister of the Gospel, &
One Share for the Benefit of a School in said Town

Province of New Ramps'^ Octo'' 13, 1761

Recorded from the back of the Origional Charter of Brumley —
under the Province seal —

Attested '39 Theodore Atkinson Sec''^'

PITTSFORD.

343

Province of New Hamps'" Octo'" IB'"^ 1761

Recorded from the back of the Origional Charter under the Province
Seal-
is Theodore Atkinson Sec'''^

PITTSFORD.

Pittsford

*Province of New-Hampshire.
GEORGE THE Third,

*2-249

p s

By the Grace of God, of Great-Britain, France and
Ireland, King, Defender of the Faith, &c.

To all Persons to ivhom these Presents shall come,
^ >— -s^«— ' -' Greeting.

Know ye, that We of Our special Grace, certain Knowledge, and
meer jMotion, for the due Encouragement of settling a Mew Planta-
tion within our said Province, by and with the Advice of our Trusty
and Well-beloved Benning Wentwoiith, Esq; Our Governor and
Commander in Chief of Our said Province of New-Hampshire in
New-England, and of our Council of the said Province ; Have
upon the Conditions and Reservations herein after made, given and
granted, and by these Presents, for us, our Heirs, and Successors, do
give and grant in equal Shares, unto Our loving Subjects, Inhabitants

344 CHAKTER RECORDS.

of Our said Province of New-Harwp shire ^ and Our other Governments,
and to their Heirs and Assigns for ever, whose Names are entred on
this Grant, to be divided to and amongst them into Seventy equal
Shares, ail that Tract or Parcel of Land situate, lying and being within
our said Province of New-Hampshire^ containing by Admeasurement,
Twenty three thousand & forty Acres, which Tract is to contain Six
Miles square, and no more ; out of which an Allowance is to be made
for High Ways and unimprovable Lands by Rocks, Ponds, Mountains
and Rivers, One Thousand and Forty Acres free, according to a Plan
and Survey thereof, made by Our said Governor's Order, and returned
into the Secretary's Office, and hereunto annexed, butted and bounded
as follows, Viz. Begining at the North Westerly Corner of Rutland
thence Runing North Four Degrees West Six Miles thence East Five
Degrees South Six Miles thence South Twenty Degrees East to Rut-
land aforesaid thence West Five Degrees North by Rutland the North
Westerly Corner thereof the Bounds first above Mention'd — And
that the same be, and hereby is Incorporated into a Township by the
Name of Pittsford And the Lihabitants that do or shall hereafter
inhabit the said Township, are hereby declared to be Enfranchized
with and Intitled to all and every the Priviledges and Immunities
that other Towns within Our Province by Law Exercise and Enjoy :
And further, that the said Town as soon as there shall be Fifty
Families resident and settled thereon, shall have the Liberty of
holding Two Fairs., one of which shall be held on the
And the other on the annually, which Fairs

are not to continue longer than the respective
following the said and that as soon

as the said Town shall consist of Fifty Families, a Market
*2-250 may be * opened and kept one or more Days in each Week,

as may be thought most advantagious to the Inhabitants.
Also, that the first Meeting for the Choice of Town Officers, agreable
to the Laws of our said Province, shall be held on the Second Tues-
day of December next which said Meeting shall be Notified by Cap'
Ephra™ Doolittle who is hereby also appointed the Moderator of the
said first Meeting, which he is to Notify and Govern agreable to the
Laws and Customs of Our said Province ; and that the annual Meet-
ing for ever hereafter for the Choice of such Officers for the said
Town, shall be on the Second Tuesday of March annually, To Have
and to Hold the said Tract of Land as above expressed, together
with all Privileges and Appurtenances, to them and their respective
Heirs and Assigns forever, upon the following Conditions, viz.

I. That every Grantee, his Heirs or Assigns shall plant and culti-
vate five Acres of Land within the Term of five Years for every fifty

PITTSFOKD.

345

Acres contained in his or their Share or Proportion of Land in said
Township, and continue to improve and settle the same by additional
Cultivations, on Penalty of the Forfeiture of his Grant or Share in
the said Township, and of its reverting to Us, our Heirs and Succes-
sors, to be by Us or Them Re-granted to such of Our Subjects as shall
effectually settle and cultivate the same.

II. That all white and other Pine Trees within the said Town-
ship, lit for Masting Our Royal Navy, be carefully preserved for that
Use, and none to be cut or felled without Our special Licence for so
doing first had and obtained, upon the Penalty of the Forfeiture of
the Right of such Grantee, his Heirs and Assigns, to Us, our Heirs
and Successors, as well as being subject to the Penalty of any Act or
Acts of Parliament that now are, or hereafter shall be Enacted.

IV. Yielding and paying therefor to Us, our Heirs and Successors
for the S[)ace of ten Years, to be computed from the Date hereof,
the Rent of one Ear of Indian Corn only, on the twenty-fifth Day of
December annually, if lawfully demanded, the first Payment to be
made on the twenty-fifth Day of December. 1762

V. Every Proprietor, Settler or Inhabitant, shall yield and pay
unto Us, our Heirs and Successors yearly, and every Year forever,
from and after the Expiration of ten Years from the abovesaid
twenty-fifth Day of December., namely, on the twenty-fifth Day of
December, which will be in the Year of Our Lord 1772 One shilling
Proclamation Money for every Hundred Acres he so owns, settles or
possesses, and so in Proportion for a greater or lesser Tract of the
said Land; which Money shall be paid by the respective Persons
abovesaid, their Heirs or Assigns, in our Council Chamber in Ports-
mouth., or to such Officer or Officers as shall be appointed to receive
the same; and this to be in Lieu of all other Rents and Services
whatsoever.

In Testimony whereof we have caused the Seal of our said Prov-
ince to be hereunto affixed. Witness Bknning Wentwohth, Esq;
Our Governor and Commander in Chief of Our said Province, the
12^*" Day of October In the Year of our Lord Christ, One Thousand
Seven Hundred and Sixty One And in the First Year of Our Reign.

B Wentworth
By His Excellency's Command,
With Advice of Council,

Theodore Atkinson Sec''''

346

CHARTER RECOEDS.

Province of New Haraps'" Octo'^ 12, 1761

Recorded According to the Origional Charter under the Province
seal

19 Theodore Atkinson Sec^^

*2-251

*The Names of the Grantees

Ephraim Doolittle
Joshua Hutchens
Alex' Scott
Eben"" Harvey
Aaron Deniho
Josiah Ames
Edward Flynt
Phineas Stay ward
David Oakes
Dan^ Thomas
Elihu Hall
Lint Merry man
Nath^ Channcy Esq
Chauncy Whittelsey
David Purple
Dan^ Drigs
Elisha Fuller
Elisha Harvey
John Loomis
Dan' Boyden
Joshua Johnson

Will"* Nutting
Abraham Morton
Andrew Powers
Joseph Burt
David Field
Nath' Moore Jun"^
Dan' M'Farland
Ezra Sanger
John Jenks
Elisha Whittelsey
Sam' Mansfield
Elihu Hall Jun--
Lucius Hall
Jedediah Winslow
Nathan Jewitt
Amos Jones
Sam' Fuller Jun""
Daniel Lord
Dan' Warner Esq
The: Atkinson Jun'
Sam' Johnson
Sam' Braver

of Pittsford (Viz)
Samuel Bowers
John Hubbard
Lucius Doolittle
Aaron Burt
John Armes
Robert Crawford
Geo : Robins
John Oakes
John Benham
Asbel Stiles
John Hall 5*'^
Cha^ Whittelsey Esq
Sam' Whittelsey
Timothy Patterson
Benajah Huntley
Phineas Newton
Elkanah Fox
Wil?" Steward
Richard Wibird Esq

Esq Peter Johnson
Jacob Hemmingway

His Excellency Benniug Wentworth Esq a Tract of Land to Con-
tain Five Hundred Acres as Marked B-W- in the Plan which is to
be Accounted two of the within Shares One Share for the Incorpo-
rated Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts,
One Share for a Glebe for the Church of England as by Law Estab-
lished one Share for the First Settled Minister of the Gospel & One
Share for the benefit of a School in said Town —

Province of New Hamps"" Octo'' 12, 1761

Recorded from the back of the Origional Charter of Pittsford
under the Province Seal

Attested f Theodore Atkinson Sec'''

PLYMOUTH. 347

*s1

"/•«/ Vi VJ-./t^ ,».«tf ».i^

Province of New Hamps'" Octo'" 12, 1761

Recorded from the back of the Origional Charter of Pittsford
under the Prov'' Seal

^ Theodore Atkinson Se'^

PLYMOUTH.

*Province of New-Hampshire. *2-29

Saltash GEORGE the Third,

/ ,—i^^-^ . By the Grace of God. of Great-Britain, France and

\ / Ireland, King, Defender of the Faith, &c.

i '^ I To all Persons to whom these Presents shall coyne^

^ >— .i^^*^ ^ Greeting.

Know 3^e, that We of Our special Grace, certain Knowledge, and
meer Motion, for the due Encouragement of settling a Netv Planta-
tion within our said Province, by and with the Advice of our Trusty
and Well-beloved Benning Wentworth, Esq ; Our Governor and
Commander in Chief of Our said Province of New-Hampshire in
New-Enfiland., and of our Council of the said Province ; Have
upon the Conditions and Reservations herein after made, given and
granted, and b}^ these Presents, for us, our Heirs, and Successors, do
give and grant in equal Shares, unto Our loving Subjects. Inhal)itants
of Our said Province of Neiv-IIanipaJiire^ and Our other Govern-
ments, and to their Heirs and Assigns for ever, whose Names are entred
on this Grant, to be divided to and amongst them into Seventy

348 CHARTER RECORDS.

equal Shares, all that Tract or Parcel of Land situate, lying and
being within our said Province of New-Hmnpshire, containing by
Admeasurement, Twenty five Thousand Six hundred Acres, which
Tract is to contain Six and one third Miles square, and no more ;
out of which an Allowance is to be made for High Ways and unim-
provable Lands by Rocks, Ponds, Mountains and Rivers, One
Thousand and Forty Acres free, according to a Plan and Survey
thereof, made by Our said Governor's Order, and returned into the
Secretary's Office, and hereunto annexed, butted and bounded as fol-
lows. Viz. Begining at the South West Corner of Reading from
thence North Sixty five degrees West Six Miles from thence
North Seventeen Degrees East Seven Miles from thence South Sixty
four Degrees East Six Miles to the North West Corner of Reading
from thence South fifteen Degrees West Six Miles & Three Quarters
of A Mile by Reading line to the first Bounds Mentioned — And
that the same be, and hereby is Incorporated into a Township
by the Name of Salt Ash And the Inhabitants that do or shall
hereafter inhabit the said Township, are hereby declared to be
Enfranchized with and Intitled to all and every the Priviledges and
Immunities that other Towns within Our Province by Law Exercise
and Enjoy : And further, that the said Town as soon as there shall
be Fifty Families resident and settled thereon, shall have the Liberty
of holding Tivo Fairs, one of which shall be held on the

And the other on the annually, which

Fairs are not to continue longer than the respective
following the said and that as soon as

the said Town shall consist of Fifty Families, a Market may
*2-30 be *opened and kept one or more Days in each Week, as

may be thought most advantagious to the Inhabitants.
Also, that the first Meeting for the Choice of Town Officers, agreable
to the Laws of our said Province, shall be held on the First
Wednesday in August Next which said Meeting shall be Notified by
Jeremiah Hall who is hereby also appointed the Moderator of the
said first Meeting, which he is to Notify and Govern agreable to the
Laws and Customs of Our said Province ; and that the annual
Meeting for ever hereafter for the Choice of such Officers for the
said Town, shall be on the Second Tuesday of 3Iarch annually. To
Have and to Hold the said Tract of Land as above expressed,
together with all Privileges and Appurtenances, to them and their
respective Heirs and Assigns forever, upon the following Conditions,
viz.

I. That every Grantee, his Heirs or Assigns shall plant and culti-
vate five Acres of Land within the Term of five Years for every

PLYMOUTH. 349

fifty Acres contained in his or their Share or Proportion of Land
in said Township, and continue to inij)rove and settle the same by
additional Cultivations, on Penalty of the Forfeiture of his Grant or
Share in the said Township, and of its reverting to Us, oar Heirs
and Successors, to be by Us or Them Ke-g-ranted to such of Our Sub-
jects as shall effectually settle and cultivate the same.

II L That before any Division of the Land be made to and among
the Grantees, a Tract of Land as near the Centre of the said Township
as the Land will admit of, shall be reserved and marked out for Town
Lots, one of which shall be allotted to each Grantee of the Contents
of one Acre.

IV. Yielding and paying therefor to Us, our Heirs and Successors
for the Space of ten Years, to be computed from the Date hereof, the
Rent of one Ear of Indian Corn only, on the twenty-fifth Day of
December annually, if lawfully demanded, the first Payment to be
made on the twenty-fifth Day of December. 1762

V. Every Proprietor, Settler or Inhabitant, shall yield and pay unto
Us, our Heirs and Successors yearly, and every Year forever, from
and after the Expiration of ten Years from the abovesaid twenty-
fifth Day of December., namely, on the twenty-fifth Day of December^
which will be in the Year of Our Lord 1772 One shilling Proclama-
tion Money for every Hundred Acres he so owns, settles or possesses,
and so in Proportion for a greater or lesser Tract of the said Land ;
which Money shall be paid by the respective Persons abovesaid, their
Heirs or Assigns, in our Council Chamber in Portsmouth, or to such
Officer or Officers as shall be appointed to receive the same ; and this
to be in Lieu of all other Rents and Services whatsoever.

In Testimony whereof we have caused the Seal of our said
Province to be hereunto affixed. Witness Benning Wentwokth,
Esq ; Our Governor and Commander in Chief of Our said Province,
the Sixth Day of July In the Year of our Lord Christ, One Thous-
and Seven Hundred and Sixty One And in the first Year of Our
Reign.

B Went worth

350

CHARTER RECORDS.

By His Excellency's Command,
With Advice of Council,

Theodore Atkinson Sec"^^

Province of New Harap'' July 6"' 1761

Recorded in the Book of Charters According to the Original under
the Province Seal

19 Theodore Atkinson Sec^^

^2-31

*The Names of the Grantees of Saltash Viz-

Jeremiah Hall
Josiah Willard
William Willard
Samuel Willson
Edward Coburne
Samuel Roberson
John Hunt
John Amies
Bildad Andrews
Enos Stevens
Thomas Cresson
James Grimes
Sam" Field jun^
Ebenez'' Allexander
Stephen Temple
Icabod Fisher
joj-^a Whetherby
W"' Wright
Paul March
Sam" Appleton
Jacob Sheaffe

Samuel Hall
John Grims
Benjamin Chandler
Ebenez"^ Hartshorn
Thomas Cambell
Daniel Ide
Eph'" Dorman
Joseph Hammon
Aron Hill
Phineas Stevens
Ebenez'' Nims
Moses Field
Paul Field
Ruben Allexander
Isaac Temple
Nathan Blake
Timothy Root
John Combs
Gregory Purcell
James Clarkson jun''
John Downing Esq
and Coll John Harte

David Nims jun'"
David Goddard
Benj'' Willson
Samuel Willson jun""
Ralph Rice
Ebenez'" Sanderson
Eleaz'" Burt
Sam" Root
Michael Medcalf juii''
Samuel Hills
John French
Samuel Field
William Carr
John Ellis
John Peirce
James Nutter Willard
William McClure
Thos Davis
Sam" Livermore
Rich'' Downing
Sampson Sheaffe Esq

His Excellency Benning Wentworth Esq a Tract of Land Contain-
ing five hundred Acres which is to be Accounted Two of the within
Shares One whole Share for the Incorporated Society for the Propa-
gation of the Gospel in forreign Parts one whole Share for the first
Settled Minister of the Gospel one Whole Share for a School for the
Town one whole Share for A Glebe for the Church of England as by
Law Established

Recorded According to the Original Charter under the Seal from
the Back thereof this 6"' July 1761

19 Theodore Atkinson Sec^>'

POMFRET.

*v.i4, r Am.

;>•

ThA

PiO-TV

S<xJ

\ »

351

g 4* r *TnW«.

Proviijce of New Hamp''

Recorded from the Back of the Charter of Salt Ash this 6"' Day of
July 1761—

^ Theodore Atkinson Sec-^y

POMFRET.

*Province of New-Hampshire. *2-49

Pomfret GEORGE the Third,

/ z-"^'-— ^ >. By the Grace of God, of Great-Britain, France and
) , / Ireland, Kikg, Defender of the Faith, &c.

) (To all Persons to ivhom these Presents shall co7ne,

^ ^-— v-iw -' Greeting.

352 CHARTER RECORDS.

our said Province of JVew-JSampshire, containing by Admeasurement^
twenty Three Thousand and five Hundred Acres, which Tract is to
contain Something more Than Six Miles square, and no more ; out of
which an Allowance is to be made for High Ways and unimprovable
Lands by Rocks, Ponds, Mountains and Rivers, One Thousand and
Forty Acres free, according to a Plan and Survey thereof, made by
Our said Governor's Ordei\ and returned into the Secretary's Office,
and hereunto annexed, butted and bounded as follows, Viz. Begingng
at the Southwest Corner of Hartford from Thence North Sixty two
degrees west five miles and one half mile from Thence North Thirty
four degrees East Seven miles from Thence South Sixty degrees
East five miles and one half mile to the North West Corner of Hart^
■ ford from Thence South thirty four degrees West by Hartford line
Seven Miles to the first Bounds Mentioned — And that the same be,
and hereby is Incorporated into a Township by the Name of Pomfret
And the Inhabitants that do or shall hereafter inhabit the said Town-
shij), are hereby declared to be Enfranchized with and Intitled to all
and ever}^ the Priviledges and Immunities that other Towns within
Our Province by Law Exercise and Enjoy : And further, that the
said Town as soon as there shall be Fifty Families resident and set-
tled thereon, shall have the Liberty of holding Two Fairs, one of
which shall be held on the

And the other on the annually, which

Fairs are not to continue longer than the respective

following the said and that

as soon as the said Town shall consist of Fifty Families,
a Market may be * opened and kept one or more Days in *2-50
each Week, as may be thought most advantagious to the
Inhabitants. Also, that the first Meeting for the Choice of Town
Officers, agreable to the Laws of our said Province, shall be held on
the First Monday in September Next which said Meeting shall be Not-
ified by M' Isaac Dana who is hereby also appointed the Moderator of
the said fu^st Meeting, which he is to Notify and Govern agreable to
the Laws and Customs of Our said Province ; and that the annual
Meeting for ever hereafter for the Choice of such Officers for the said
Town, shall be on the Second Tuesday of March annually, To Have
and to Hold the said Tract of Land as above expressed, together
with all Privileges and Aj^purtenances, to them and their respective
Heirs and Assigns forever, upon the following Conditions, viz.

NEWBURY. 353

Cultivations, on Penalty of the Forfeiture of his Grant or Share in
the said Township, and of its reverting to Us, our Heirs and Succes-
sors, to be by Us or Them Re-granted to such of Our Subjects as shall
effectually settle and cultivate the same.

II. That all white and other Pine Trees within the said Township,
fit for INIasting Our Royal Nav}-, be carefully preserved for that Use,
and none to be cut or felled without Our special Licence for so doing
lirst had and obtained, upon the Penalty of the Forfeiture of the Right
of such Grantee, his Heirs and .Vssigns, to Us, our Heirs and Succes-
sors, as well as being subject to the Penalty of any Act or Acts of
Parliament that now are, or hereafter shall be Enacted.

IV. Yielding and paying therefor to Us, our Heirs and Successors
for the Space of ten Years, to be computed from the Date hereof, the
Rent of one Ear of Indian Corn only, on the twenty-fifth Day of
December annually, if lawfully demanded, the first Payment to be
made on the twenty-fifth Day of JJeeemher. 1762

V. Every Proprietor, Settler or Inhabitant, shall yield and pay
unto Us, our Heirs and Successors j'early, and every Year forever^
from and after the Expiration of ten Years from the abovesaid
twenty-fifth Day of iJecember, namely, on the twenty-fifth Day of
December, which will be in the Year of Our Lord 1772 One shilling
Proclamation ]\Ioney for every Hundred Acres he so owns, settles or
possesses, and so in Proportion for a greater or lesser Tract of the
said Land; which Money shall be paid by the respective Persons
abovesaid, their Heirs or Assigns, in our Council Chamber in Ports-
mouth, or to such Officer or Officers as shall be appointed to receive
the same ; and this to be in Lieu of all other Rents and Services
whatsoever.

In Testimony whereof we have caused the Seal of our said Prov-
ince to be hereunto affixed. Witness Bennixg Wentworth, Esq;
Our Governor and Commander in Chief of Our said Province, the
Eighth Day of July In the Year of our Lord Christ, One Thou-
sand Seven Hundred and Sixty one And in the First Year of Our
Reign.

B Wentworth

By His Excellency's Command,
With Advice of Council,

Theodore Atkinson Sec''^

354

CHAETEli RECORDS.

Province of New Hamp"" July 8"' 1761

Recorded in the Book of Charters According to the original

19 Theodore Atkinson

^2-61

*The Names of the Grantees of Pomfrett

Isaac Dana
Gersham Sharp
John Stone
William Sharp
William Dawes
James Dana
Isaac Weuchester

John Sharp
John Weld
Elias Weld
Joseph Weld
Peter Roberts
Edward Weld
John Wenehester

John Wenchester Dana Mathew Bowen
Elijah Sharp William Dana

Judah Dana Eph'" Hide

Darius Sessions Ebenez'^ Demming

Thomas Williams Esq Benj'^ Sharp

Amariah Dana
Jedediah Dana jun"^
William M'"night
Joseph Dana jun'^
John Williams
Jon"' Morrison
Hunking Wentworth
Daniel Warner Esq

Josiah Saben
Samuel Cutt
Benj'' Frissell
David Chandler
Samuel Dana

Isaac Sharp
Solomon Sharp
William Wenchester
Samuel Weld
Elijah Chandler
Edmond Weld
Isaac Dana jun""
John Thorpe
Gilberd Homey
Simeon Sessions
Joseph Ormsby
Amasa Sessions
Ebenez*^ Williams Esq
Henry Thompson
Joseph Scarborough
Richard Servan
John Parker
Joseph Blanchard Esq

Samuel Farley

Sam" Wentworth Esq Boston
Joseph Newmarch Esq Thomas Dering
The Re v'^' Edw'^ Holyoke President of Harv^' CoU^
Rever'^ M'' Henry Caner James Clarkson Esq Amos Sevey
John Knight jun"^ John Chamberlain Jonathan Warner

His Excellency Benning Wentworth Esq a Tract of Land Con-
taining five Hundred Acres as Marked in the Plan B: W: which is
to be Accounted Two of the within Shares one whole Share for the
Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Forreign Parts one Share
for the first Settled Minister of the Gospel One Share for the Benefit
of A School in Said Town — one whole Share for A Glebe for the
Church of England as by Law Established

Prov'' of New Hamp-" July 8"' 1761

Recorded from the Back of the Charter of Promfrett under the
Province Seal

^ Theodore Atkinson Sec^^

POULTNEY.

355

»y h/fff.-d

Prov New Hampshire July 8"" 1761

Recorded from the Back of the Charter of Pomfrett under the
Province Seal.

Theodore Atkinson Sec''''

Poultney

POULTNEY.

*Province of New-Hampshire.
GEORGE THE Third,

*2-20l

p s —

By the Grace of God, of Great-Britain, France and
Ireland, King, Defender of the Faith, &c.

To all Persons to whom these. Presents shall come^
^ v^-^^i— ' -' Greeting.

356 CHARTER RECORDS.

Admeasurement, Twenty three thousand & forty Acres, which Tract
is to contain Six iMiles square, and no more; out of which an Allow-
ance is to be made for High Ways and unimprovable Lands by Rocks,
Ponds, Mountains and Rivers, One Thousand and Forty Acres free,,
according to a Plan and Survey thereof, made by Our said Governor's-
Order, and returned into the Secretary's Ofhce, and hereunto
annexed, butted and bounded as follows. Viz. Begining at the Nortli
West Corner of Wells A Township lately granted in this Province
and from thence runing due North Six Miles Thence Turning off at
Right Angles & runing due East Six Miles Thence Turning off at
Angles again & runing Due South Six Miles to the North East
Corner of Wells aforesaid thence Due West by AVells afore Said Six
Miles to the North West Corner thereof being the Bound began at —
And that the same be, and hereby is Incorporated into a Township
by the Name of Poultney And the Inhabitants that do or shall here-
after inhabit the said Township, are hereby declared to be Enfran-
chized with and Intitled to all and every the Priviledges and Immun-
ities that other Towns within Our Province by Law Exercise and
Enjoy: And further, that the said Town as soon as there shall be
Fifty Families resident and settled thereon, shall have the Liberty of
holding Two Fairs, one of which shall be held on the
And the other on the
annually, which Fairs are not to continue longer than
the respective following the said

and that as soon as
the said Town shall consist of Fifty Families, a Market
*2-202 may be * opened and kept one or more Days in each
Week, as may be thought most advantagious to the Inhab-
itants. Also, that the first Meeting for the Choice of Town OiScers,
agreable to the Laws of our said Province, shall be held on the
Second Tuesday in October Next which said Meeting shall be NotiBed
by M'' Samuel Brown who is hereby also appointed the Moderator of
the said first Meeting, which he is to Notify and Govern agreable to
the Laws and Customs of Our said Province; and that the annual
Meeting for ever hereafter for the Choice of such Officers for the said
Town, shall be on the Second Tuesday of March annually, To Have
and to Hold the said Tract of Land as above expressed, together
with all Privileges and Appurtenances, to them and their respective
Heirs and Assigns forever, upon the following Conditions, viz.

POULTNEY. 357

additional Cultivations, on Penalty of the Forfeiture of his Grant or
Share in the said Township, and of its reverting to Us, our Heirs and
Successors, to be by Us or Them Re-granted to such of Our Subjects as
shall effectually settle and cultivate the same.

II. Tliat all white and other Pine Trees within the said Township,
fit for Masting Our Royal Navy, be carefully preserved for that Use,
and none to be cut or felled without Our sj)ecial Licence for so doing
first had and obtained, upon the Penalty of the Forfeiture of the Right
of such Grantee, his Heirs and Assigns, to Us, our Heirs and Succes-
sors, as well as being subject to the Penalty of any Act or Acts of
Parliament that now are, or hereafter shall be Enacted.

IV. Yielding and paying therefor to Us, our Heirs and Successors
for the Space of ten Years, to be computed from the Date hereof, the
Kent of one Ear of Indian Corn only, on the twenty-fifth Day of
December annually, if lawfully demanded, the first Payment to be made
on the twenty-fifth Day of December. 1762

V. Every Proprietor, Settler or Inhabitant, shall yield and pay
unto Us, our Heirs and Successors yearly, and every Year forever,
from and after the Expiration of ten Years from the abovesaid twenty-
fifth Day of December, namely, on the twenty-fifth Day of Deceinber^
which will be in the Year of Our Lord 1772 One sliilling Proclama-
tion Money for every Hundred Acres he so owns, settles or possesses,
and so in Proportion for a greater or lesser Tract of the said Land ;
which Money shall be paid by the respective Persons abovesaid, their
Heirs or Assigns, in our Council Chamber in Portsmouth, or to such
Officer or Officers as shall be appointed to receive the same ; and this
to be in Lieu of all other Rents and Services whatsoever.

In Testimony whereof we have caused the Seal of our said Prov-
ince to be hereunto affixed. Witness Benning Wentworth, Esq ;
Our Governor and Commander in Chief of Our said Province, the
21^' Day of Septemb'^ In the Year of our Lord Christ, One
Thousand Seven Hundred and Sixty One And in the First Year
■of Our Reign.

B Wentworth

By His Excellency's Command,
With Advice of Council,

Theodore Atkinson Sec'^^

358

CHARTER RECORDS.

Province of New Hamp"" Sep^ 21*' 1761

Recorded According to the Original Charter under the Province
Seal

Attest^ Theodore Atkinson Sec''^

*2-203 *The Names of the Grantees of Poultney Viz

Samuel Brown
Ezra Whitersy
Sam" Brown
Counrod Vanduson
Jacob Vanduson
Ruben Pixly
Stephen Hallock
David Whitney
John Nellson
John Hart
Will'" Dunkay
Ely Cowle
William Buck
Daniel Moldich
Rich'^' Southgate
Sam" Hide
Nath" Fellows
Isaac Garfin
David Glaizier

Isaac Laurence
Isaac Brown
Elijah Brown
John Vanduson
Isaac Vanduson
Elijah Willson
John Chamberlain
Benj** Cowle
Isaac Davis
Aaron Whitmore
Thomas Ashley
Solomon Whitney
Eph'" Hewet
James Cornwall
Thomas Gage
William Gage
Stephen Davey
Abner Dewey

Timothy Hopkins
Coffe Vanschans
Abraham Vanduson
Mathew Vanduson
Jon*^ Nash
Abraham Brown
Sam" Southgate
Gideon Laurence
John Dunkay
Thomas Sumner
Elijah Cobb
Ruluff Dutcher
Caleb Culver
Elkanah P arris
Solomon Blodget
Tim** Demuck
Joseph Paterson
John Brown
John Fassit
John Langdon jun""
Woodbury Langdon &.

Stephen Say
Theodore Atkinson Esq Daniel Warner Esq
Moses Boyuton Tho* Bradford

Titus Salter

His Excellency Benning Wentworth Esq a Tract of Land to Con-
tain five Hundred Acres as Marked B : W : in the Plan which is to
be Accounted two of the Within Shares one whole Share for the
incorporated Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in foreign
Parts one Share for A Glebe for the Church of England as by Law
Established One Share for the first Settled Minister of the Gospel &
one Share for the Benefit of A School in Said Town

Province of New Hamp"" September 21 1761

Recorded from the Back of y*' Original Charter of Poultney — under
the Province Seal

Attest*" Theodore Atkinson Sec""^

POWNAL.

359

= /J 'jM *^ **? ' '-^ ^ ^*'M'

Province of New Hamp'' Septemb'' 21 — 1761
Recorded from the Back of the original Charter of Poiiltney-
under the Pro^ Seal —

Attest"" Theodore Atkinson Sec''^

p s —

POWNAL.

*Province of [ George the Second by the Grace of God of * 1-214
New Hamp'' \ Great Britain France & Ireland King De-

j. /-w^-^ ^ fender of the Faith &c''

To All Persons to whom these Presents Shall Come
Greeting

^ «— V — ' ^ Know Ye that We of Our Special Grace Certain

Pownal Knowledge & mere Motion for the due Encourage-
ment of Settling A New Plantation within Our Said Province
by & with the Advice of Our Trusty & well beloved Benning
Wentworth Esq our Governour & Com'ander in Chieff of our
Said Province of New Hampshire in America and of our Council of
Said Province Have upon the Conditions & Reservations hereafter
made Given & Granted & by these Presents for us and our Succes-
sors do give & grant in Equal Shares unto our Loving Subjects
Inhabitants of our Said Province of New Hamp'' and his Majestys
other Governments and to their Heirs and Assignes for ever whose
Names Are Entred on this Grant to be Divided to and amoungst them
into Sixty Two Shares All that Tract or Parcel of Land Scit-
uate Lying & being within *Our Province of New Hampshire *1-215
containing by admeasurement about Twenty three thousand

360 CHARTER RECORDS.

Acres which Tract is to Contain Six Miles Square & no more out of
which an Allowence is to be made for higways & unimprovable
Lands by Rocks Mountains Ponds & Rivers One Thousand & forty
Acres free and According to A Plan thereof made & Presented by
Our said Governours Orders And hereunto Annexed butted &
Bounded as follows Viz South on the Massachusetts Line West on
New York Line North on Bennington & East on Stamford by the
Name of Pownal and that the Inhabitants wlio do or Shall hereafter
Inhabit the Said Township are hereb}^ declared to be Enfranchized
with & Entituled to all & every the Previledges & Immunities that
other Towns within Our said Province by Law exercise & Enjoy and
Further that the Said Town as soon as there Shall be fifty Families
Resident & Settled thereon Shall have the Liberty of holding Two
Fairs one of which Shall be held on the First Tuesday in June and
the Other on the first Tuesday in October Annually which Fairs Are
not to Continue & be held Longer then the next Thursday following
the s'' Respective Days & as soon as the Said Town Shall Consist
of Fifty Families A Market Shall be Opened & kept one or more
Days in each Week as may be tho* most Advantagious to the Inhab-
itants also that the first Meeting for the Choice of Town Officers
agreable to the Laws of Our said Province Shall be held on the first
Tuesday in March which meeting Shall be Notifyed by Seth Hudson
Gentleman who is also hereby Appointed the Moderator of the Said
first Meeting which he is to Notify & Govern agreable to the Laws
& Customs of our Said Province & that the Annual Meeting forever
hereafter for the Choice of such officers of the Said Town Shall be
on the first Tuesday in January Annually — To Have & to Hold the
said Tract of Laud as above Expressed togeather with all Previledges
& Appurtenances to them & their Respective Heirs & Assigns for
ever upon the following Conditions (Viz) That every Grantee his
heirs or Assigns Shall Plant or Cultivate Five Acres of Land within
the Term of Five Years for every P^ifty Acres Contained in his or
their Shares or Proportions of Land in the Said Township & Con-
tinue to Improve & Settle the Same by Additional Cultivations on
Penalty of the Forfeiture of his Grant or Share in the Said Town-
ship & its Reverting to His Majesty his heirs & Successors to be by
him or them Regranted to such of His Subjects as Shall Effectually
Settle & Cultivate the Same That all white & other Pine Trees
within the Said Township fit for Masting Our Royal Navy be care-
fully Preserved for that Use & none to be cut or felld without his

Majestys esjjecial Lycence for so doing first had & Obtained
*1-216 upon the Penalty of the *Forfeiture of the Right of such

Grantee his heirs or Assigns to us our Heirs & Successors as

POWNAL.

361

^ell as being Subject to the Penalty of any Act or Acts of Parlia-
ment that now Are or hereafter Shall be Enacted — That before Any
Division of the Said Lands be made to and Amoiingst the Grantees A
Tract of Land as near the Center of the Township as the Land will
Admit of Shall be Reserved & Marked out for Town Lotts one of
which shall be Allotted for each Grantee of the Contents of One Acre
YeiUling & Paying therefor to us our heirs & Successors for the
Space of Ten years to be Computed from the Date hereof the Rent of
One Ear of Indian Corn only on the Tenth Day of January Annually
if Lawfully Demanded the first Payment to be made on the Tenth
Day of January next Ensuing the Date hereof & every Proprietor
Settler or Lihabitant Shall Yield & Pay unto us Our Heirs & Suc-
cessors Yearly & every Year forever from & After the Expiration of
the Ten Years from the Date hereof Namely on the Tenth Day of
January which will be in the Year of Our Lord Christ one thousand
Seven Hundred & Seventy One One Shilling Proclamation money
for every Hundred Acres he so owns Settles or Possesses & so in
Proportion for a greater or Lesser Tract of the Said Land which
Money Shall be paid by the Respective Persons whose Names Are
Entred on this Grant as aforesaid their heirs or Assigns in Our Coun-
cil Chamber in Portsmouth to Such Officer or Officers as Shall be
Appointed to Receive the Same and this to be in Lieu of All Other
Rents & Services whatsoever In Testimony whereof We have caused
the Seal of One Said Province to be hereunto Affixed Wittness Ben-
ning Wentworth Esq our Governor & Com'ander in Chieff of Our
Said Province the Eighth Day of January in the Year of Our Lord
Christ 1760 and in the Thirty third Year of Our Reign

B Wentworth

By His Excellencys Com'and
With Advice of Council

Theodore Atkinson Sec''''

Recorded According to the Original Charter under the Province
Seal this 28"^ Day of January 1760—

^ Theodore Atkinson Sec'^^

The Names of the Grantees of Pownal Viz

Seth Hudson, Seth Hudson 2'\ Seth Hudson 3-*,

George Willis Esq, Abraham Jacob Lamson Esq, Reverend

Jonathan Willard jun"" Mr Canar of Boston

Isaac Searle, Joseph Denio, Isaac Vanernam,

John Vanernum, Isaac Wallace, Derrick Webb,

Gideon Warren, Ebenezer Smead, David Smead,

Jonathan Arthurton, David Billings, Peter Train,

362

CHARTER RECORDS.

Samuel Dickinson, Tliomas Train, Joel Wells,
*1-217 *Asa Wells, Gad Chapiii " Jonathan Train,

Abiel Sraeacl Theodore Atkinson, jun''
Samuel Allen, Benjamin Willson, Jonas Carrath,

Nathaniel Phelps, William Lyman Esq, Seth Pomroy Esq,

Oliver Wendall M' Speaker Sherburne, John Micha Wendall,

Jacob Wendall Esq Reverend John Searle, one Share for A Glebe
for the Church of England as by Law Established, Samuel Hill, Benoni
Danks Esq, Gideon Lyman jun% His Excellency Governour Pownal,
Brigadier Gen" William Brattle, Joseph Pynchon Esq Thomas Clark
Deputy Secretary, Gad Cross, Joel Graves, John Moffat, Gamaliel
Wallace Esq, Ezra Hudson, Abraham Vanderdum Esq, John Pownal
Esq, Sec''^ to the Right Hon"*^ the Lord for Trade and Plantations,
Hunking Wentworth Esq, The Hon^'"^ Daniel Warner Esq, the Hon^^*^
Mark Hunking Wentworth Esq, the Hon*^^" James Nevin Esq, Wyse-
man Clagett Esq — The first Ordained Minister, Publick School for
Said Town, five Hundred Acres to be laid out for his Excellency
Governour Wentworth his heirs & Assigns in Lieu of Two Shares

Recorded from the Back of the Original Charter of Pownal Jan""^
28*'^ 1760

19 Theodore Atkinson Sec'^^

^.<^'
f"'*'

x»^£»ttBi- m,u

rUntrl B>U/ 71.0,1

,.-^

Taken from the Back of the Original Charter of Pownal & Recorded
here the 28'" Jan'-^' 1760— ^ Theodore Atkinson Sec^'^

PUTNEY. 36S

PUTNEY.

*Province of New-Hamp'' *1-189

Putue}" George the Second by the Grace of God of Great

f /-*--— N . Britain France & Ireland King Defender of the faith

\ I &c'^

) I To all Persons to whom these Presents Shall Come

^ v— -v-»-' ^ Greeting

See (234) Know Ye that We of our Especial Grace Certain Know-
Longer Time ledge and mere Motion for the Due Encouragement of
Allowed Settling A New Plantation within our Said Province
B}' & with the Advice of our Trusty & well beloved Penning Went-
worth Esq our Governour & Com'ander in Chieff of our Said
Province of New Hamp"" in America and of our Council of the Said
Province Have upon the Conditions & Keservations hereafter made
Given & Granted And by these Presents for us our heirs & Succes-
sors Do give & Grant in Equal Shares unto our Loving Subjects.
Inhabitants of our Said Province of New Hampshire and his Maj'^*
Other Governments and to their heirs and assignes forever whose
Names Are Entered on this Grant to be Divided to and Amoungst them
into fifty Six Shares (Two of which Shares to be Laid out in One
Tract of the Contents of Eight hundred Acres for his Excellency
Penning Wentworth Esq and is in full for his Two Shares Entred
on the Back hereof which Tract is bounded As follows (Viz) begining
one hundred Rods South of the mouth of Shims brook so Called then
runing North up Connecticut River Two hundred rods then carrying
that Breadth Back West 10'^ North until Eight hundred Acres are
fully Measured out) All that Tract or Parcel of Laud Scituate Lying
& being within our Province of New Hampshire Containing by
Admeasurement Nineteen thousend three hundred & Sixty Acres
which Tract is to Contain five & one half miles Square & no more
out of which an Allowence is to be made for highways & unimprov-
able Lands by Rocks Mountains Ponds & Rivers One thousend &
forty Acres free According to A Plan thereof made & Presented by
our Said Governours orders and hereunto Annexed Butted & bounded
as follows Viz) Begining at A Stake & Stones on the bank of Con-
necticut River being the North East Corner of Fullum & runs West
10'' North on s'' Fullum to Fanes East Line thence Notherly on s''
Fane & Townshend Line till it comes to the South West Corner of
Westminster from thence East 10'' South till it comes to Connecti-
cut River and from thence Down Said River till it comes to the

364 CHAETER RECORDS.

bounds first mentioned Excepting A Tract of Land Lying in the
North East Corner of the Said Township Containing about four
hundred Acres as the Same is now Fenced in & Improved which is
hereby granted and assigned to Josiah Willard his heirs and assignes

forever one of the within Grantees he having heretofore
*1-190 Cleared & Improved the Said Tract and is to be * in full for

his Share & Proportion of the Said Township Said four
hundred acres is bounded as follows Begining At the Rocks on the
bank of Connecticut River at the Lower End of the Meadow Called
the great meadow and runs Westerly about forty rods to the foot of
the Hill and then runs under Said Hill as the Said Hill runs to A
brook at the upper End of the Said Meadow at the Town Line thence
on Said Town Line about forty Rods to the river and from thence
down the Said river to the rocks first mentioned And that the Same
be & is Incorporated into A Township by the Name of Putny and
that the Inhabitants that do or shall hereafter Inhabit said Township
Are hereby declared to be Enfranchized with & Entituled to All &
■every the Previledges & Immunities that other Towns within our
Said Province by Law Exercize & Enjoy and further that the s'^ Town
as Soon as there shall be fifty familys resident & Settled thereon Shall
have the Liberty of Holding two fairs one of which Shall be held on
the Second Thursday in May Annually And the Other on the Second
Thursday in September Annually which fairs Are not to Continue &
be held Longer than the Respective Saturdays following the Respective
Thursdays and as soon as the said Town Shall Consist of fifty familys
A Market Shall be Opened & kept one or more Days in each Week
as may be tho^ most Advantagious to the Inhabitants Also that the
first Meeting for the Choice of Town Otficers Agreable to the Laws
of our Said Province Shall be held on the fifteenth Day of January
next which meeting Shall be Notifyed by Josiah Willard Esq who is
hereby Also Appointed the Moderator of the said first meeting which
he is to notify & Govern Agreable to the Laws & Customs of our
Said Province and that the Annual Meeting for ever hereafter for the
Choice of Such Officers of Said Town Shall be on the first Monday in
March Annually To have & to hold the Said Tract of Land as above
Expressed togeather with all the Previledges & Appurtenances to
them & their Respective heirs and assignes for ever upon the following
Conditions (Viz) that every Grantee his heirs or assignes Shall Plant
or Cultivate five Acres of Land within the Term of five years for
every fifty Acres Contained in his or their Share or Proportion of
Land in Said Township and Continue to Improve & Settle the Same
b}'' aditional Cultivations on Penalty of the forfeiture of his Grant or
Share in Said Township and its reverting to his Majesty his heirs

PUTNEY. 365

& Successors to be by him or them Regranted to Such of his Subjects
as Shall Effectually Settle & Cultivate the Same That all white And
other Pine Trees within the s'' Township fit for Masting our Royal
Navy be carefully Preserved for that use and none to be Cut or felld
without his Majestys Especial Lycence for So doing first had &
obtaind upon the iPenalty of the forfeiture of the right
of Such Grantee his heirs or Assignes to us * Our heirs & *1-191
Successors as well As being Subject to the Penalty of Any
Act or Acts of Parliament that now Are or hereafter Shall be Enacted
That before any Divission of the Said Lands be made to & amoungst
the Grantees A Tract of Land as near the Center of the Township as
the Land will Admit of Shall be Reserved & Marked out for Town
Lotts One of which Shall be Allotted to each Grantee of the Contents
of one Acre Yeilding & Paying therefor to us our heirs & Successors.
for the S])ace of Ten years to be Computed from the Date hereof the
Rent of One Ear of Indian Corn only on the first Day of Januarj^
Annually if Lawfully Demanded the first Payment to be made on
the first Day of January 1754 next Ensueing the Date hereof And
every Proprietor Settler or Inhabitant Shall Yeild & Pay unto us our
heirs & successors Yearly & Every Year for ever from and after the
Expiration of the Ten Years from the Date hereof Namely on the first
Da}' of January which will be in the year of our Lord ('hrist one
thousend Seven hundred & Sixty four One Shilling Proclamation
Money for every hund'' Acres he So owns Settles or Possesses and So
in Proportion for A Greater or Lesser Tract of the Land which money
Shall be paid by the Respective Persons above Said their heirs or
Assigns In our Council Chamber in Portsmouth or to Such officer or
officers as Shall be Appointed to receive the Same and this to be in
Lieu of All other Rents & Services whatsoever In Testimony hereof
We have Caused the Seal of our Said Province to be hereunto Affixed
Wittness Benning Wentworth Esq our Governour & Comander in
Chieff of our Said Province the Twenty Sixth Day of December in
the year of our Lord Christ 1753 &in theTwenty Seventh year of our
reign —

B Wentworth
By His Excellencys Com'and
with Advice of Council

Theodore Atkinson Se""^

Entred And recorded According to the Original under the Prov-
ince Seal the 27'" Day of December 1758 —

Theodore Atkinson Sec'^''

366

CHARTER RECORDS.

Names of the Grantees of Putney Viz —

Josiah Willard,
Nathan Willard,
Joseph Ashley,
Oliver Willard,
Joseph Baker,
John White,
Thomas Hill,
Sam" Hews jun%

John Bowles,

Moses Wright,
Louis Butler,
John Moor,
Thomas Whiting,
Timothy Baker,
Benj'* White,
Henry Hill,
Francis Bowles,
James Tileston,

John Armes,
John Peirce,
Wilder Willard,
Daniel Rogers,
Isaac White,
James Clemmens,
Sam" Hews,
Isaac Bowles,
John Newel,

*1-192 Samuel Sparhawk, Samuel Sparhawk jun'', Jeremiah *HalI,

Samuel Hall,
Thomas Prentice,
Eluathan Blood,
Isaac Power,
Josiah Willard jun^
Jonathan Cummins,
Richard Wibird,

William Smeed,
Samuel Allen,
Amasa Parker,
Robert Fletcher,
Robert Usher,
Thomas Parker,
Theodore Atkinson,

Prentice Willard,
Jonathan Hammon,
Ephraim Addams,
Jonathan Hubbard,
John Usher,
Elias Alexander,
His Excellency Pen-

ning Wentworth Esq A Tract of Land to Contain Eight hundred
Acres which is to be Accounted two of the within Shares and Laid
out & bounded as within mentioned One whole Share for the Incor-
porated Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in forreign Partes
One v/hole Share for the first Settled Minister of the Gospel in Said
Town one whole Share for A Glebe for the Ministry of the Church
of England as by Law Established also Jonathan Willard —

Recorded from the Back of the Original Charter for Putney this
2V^ Day of December 1753

19 Theodore Atkinson Sec'^

-j-VM-'-'V -"-V"

PUTNEY. 367

Taken from the Back of the Original Charter of Putny — Decem-
ber 27 1753

"39 Theodore Atkinson Se''^'

[Putney Chakter Renewed, 1760.]

*Province of New Hampshire *l-224

Putney George the Second by the Grace of God of great

Lengthned Britain France & Ireland King Defender of the Faith

out &c* &C''

, .-*► . , To All People unto whom the Presents Shall come

) p i; 1 ( Greeting

< i -.eai > Whereas we of Our Special Grace & Mere Motion

^ s — -^^ ' for the due Encouragement & Settling A New Plan-

See Page (189) tation within our Prcsdnce of New Hampshire by
Our Letters Patent or Charter under the Seal of Our Said Province
dated the Twenty Sixth of December in the Twenty Seventh Year
of Our Reign granted A Tract of Land equal to Six Miles Square
bounded as therein expressed to A Number of Our Loyal Subjects
whose Names are Entred on the Same to hold to Them their Heirs &
Assigns on the Conditions therein declared to be a Town Corporate
by the Name of Puttney as by referrence to the Said Charter may
more fully Appear

And Whereas the Said Grantees have represented That by the Inter-
vention of an Indian War since the making the s'^ Grant it has been
Impracticable to Comply with & fullfill the Conditions aforesaid and
Humbly Supplycated us not to take advantage of the Breach of Said
Conditions but to Lengthen out & Grant them Some reasonable
Term for the Performance thereof after after the Said Impediment
Sliall Cease

Now Know Ye that We being Willing to Promote the End Pro-
posed have of Oar Farther Grace & favour Suspended Our Claim of
the Forfeiture which the Said Grantees may have Incurrd and by
these Presents Do Grant unto the Said Grantees their Heirs tfe
assigns the Term of one Year for Performing & fulfilling the Con-
ditions Matters & Things by them to be done which Term is to be
renewd Annually until his Maj'-'^ Plenary Instructions Shall be
receivd relative to the Incident that has Prevented a Complyence
with the Charter According to the True Intent & Meaning thereof

In Testimony whereof We have Caused the Seal of Our s'^ Prov-
ince to be hereunto Affixed Wittness Benning Wentworth Esq Our

368 CHARTER RECORDS.

Governoiir & Com'ander in Chieff the 12"' Day of June in the 33'*^
Year of Our Regn Anno Doni' 1760

B Wentworth
By his Excellencys Com''
with Advice of Council

Theodore Atkinson Sec''*'

Prov of New Hamp''

Recorded According to the Original under the Province Seal the
12"' Day of June 1760—

Theodore Atkinson Sec''^

p s —

[Putney Charter Renewed, 1761.]

*l-236 *Province of New Hampshire

Putny George the Third by the Grace of God of Great Britain

^ ,-w-^ii^ ^ France & Ireland King Defender of the Faith &''

To all whom these Presents shall Come Greeting
Whereas our Late Roy all Grandfather King George
'^ -^ — v.-^ -' the Second of Glorious Memory did of his Special
Grace & mere Motion for the Encouragement of Setling a New
Plantation within our said Province of New Hampshire by his Letters
Patient or Charter under the seal of our said Province Dated the 26"'
day of December 1753 and in the Twenty Seventh Year of his
Majestys Reign Grant a Tract of Land equal to Five & i Miles
square Bounded as therein Expressed to a Number of ourLoyall Sub-
jects who's Names are Entered on the same to Hold to them their
Heirs or Assigns on the Conditions therein Declared to be a Town
Corporate by the Name of Putny as by Referrence to the said Charter
may more fully appear

And Whereas the said Grantees have Represented that by the
Intervention of an Indian Warr since making the said Grant it has
been Impracticable to Comply Vv'ith & fullfill the Conditions &
humbly Supplicated us not to take Advantage of the Breach of said
Conditions but to Lengthen out & Grant them some Reasonable time
for Performance thereof after the said Impediment shall Cease

Now Know Ye That we being Willing to Promote the End Pro-
posed have of our Further Grace & Favour Suspended our Claim of
the Forfeiture which the said Grantees may have Incurred & by
these Presents do Grant unto the said Grantees their Heirs & Assigi.s
the Term of one Year for Performing and fullfiUing the Conditions
Matters & things by them to be done which Term is to be Renewed

READING. 369

Annually if the same Impediment Remains untill our Plenary
Instructions shall be Received relating to the Incident that has Pre-
vented a Compliance with the said Charter According to the Intent
& meaning of the same

In Testimony whereof we have Caused the seal of Said Province
to be hereunto Affixed Witness Ben*"' Wentworth Esq'' our Governour
& Connn-' in Cheif of our Province afores'^ the G Day of July in the
Year of our Lord Christ 1761 & in the First Year of his Majestys
Reign

B Wentworth

By his Excellencys Comand
with Advice of Council

Theodore Atkinson Sec''''

Recorded this Patent the 7'^ Day of July 1761—

19 Theodore Atkinson Sec^^

READING.

*Province of New-Hampshire. *2-25

Reading GEORGE the Thitid,

!/— ^^.— s X By the Grace of God, of Great-Britain, France and Ire-
/ land, King, Defender of the Faith, &c.
I To all Perso7is to wJiom these Preseiits shall come^

^-^^«-' ' Greeting.

370 CHARTER RECORDS.

Miles square, and no more; out of which an Allowance is to be
made for High Waj^s and unimprovable Lands by Rocks, Ponds,
Mountains and Rivers, One Thousand and Forty Acres free, accord-
ing to a Plan and Survey thereof, made by Our said Governor's
Order, and returned into the Secretary's Office, and hereunto annexed,
butted and bounded as follows. Viz. Beginning at the South West
Corner of Winsor from thence North Seventy four degrees West
Six Miles from thence North fifteen Degrees East Six Miles & Three
Quarters of A Mile Thence South Sixty five degrees E. Five Miles &
one half Mile to the North West Corner of Windsor thence South
Ten decrees West 6 Miles on Winsor Line to the Bounds first
Mentioned — And that the same be, and hereby is Incorporated
into a Township by the Name of Reading — And the Inliabitants that
do or shall hereafter inhabit the said ToAvnship, are hereby declared
to be Enfranchized with and Intitled to all and every the Priviledges
and Immunities that other Towns within Our Province by Law Exercise
and Enjoy : And further, that the said Town as soon as there shall be
Fifty Families resident and settled thereon, shall have the Liberty of
holding Tivo Fairs, one of which shall be held on the

And the other on the
annually, which Fairs are not to continue longer than the respective

following the said

and that as soon as the said Town shall consist of Fifty
*2-26 Families, a Market may be * opened and kept one or

more Days in each Week, as may be thought most advan-
tagious to the Inhabitants. Also, that the first Meeting for the
Choice of Town Officers, agreable to the Laws of our said Province,
shall be held on the Last Tuesday in July Instant which said Meeting
shall be Notified by Zedekiah Ston who is hereliy also appointed the
Moderator of the said first Meeting, which he is to Notify and Govern
agreable to the Laws and Customs of Our said Province ; and that
the annual Meeting for ever hereafter for the Choice of such Officers
for the said Town, shall be on the Second Tuesday of llarch annually.
To Have and to Hold the said Tract of Land as above expressed,
together with all Privileges and Appurtenances, to them and their
respective Heirs and Assigns forever, upon the following Condi-
tions, viz.

I. That every Grantee, his Heirs or Assigns shall plant and culti-
vate five Acres of Land within the Term of five Years for every fifty
Acres contained in his or their Share or Proportion of Land in said
Township, and continue to improve and settle the same by additional
Cultivations, on Penalty of the Forfeiture of his Grant or Share in
the said Township, and of its reverting to Us, our Heirs and Succes-

READING. 371

sors, to be by Us or Them Re-granted to.such of Our Subjects as shall
effectually settle and cultivate the same.

II. That all white and other Pine Trees within the said Township,
fit for Masting Our Royal Navy, be carefully preserved for that Use,
and none to be cut or felled without Our special Licence for so doing
first had and obtained, upon the Penalty of the Forfeiture of the
Right of such Grantee, his Heirs and Assigns, to Us, our Heirs and
Successoi-s, as well as being subject to the Penalty of any Act or Acts
of Parliament that now are, or hereafter shall be Enacted.

III. That before any Division of the Land be made to and among
the Grantees, a Tract of I^and as near the Centre of the said Town-
ship as the Land will admit of, shall be reserved and marked out for
Town Lots, one of which shall be allotted to each Grantee of the
Contents of one Acre.

IV. Yielding and paying therefor to Us, our Heirs and Successors
for the Space of ten Years, to be computed from the Date hereof, the
Rent of one Ear of Indian Corn only, on the twenty-fifth Day of De-
cember annually, if lawfully demanded, the first Payment to be made
on the twenty-fifth Day of December. 1761

V. Every Proprietor, Settler or Inhabitant, shall yield and pay unto
Us, our Heirs and Successors yearly, and every Year forever, from and
after the Expiration of ten Years from the abovesaid twenty-fifth Day
of December^ namely, on the twenty-fifth Day of December., which will
be in the Year of Our Lord 1772 One sldlling Proclamation Money
for every Huncb"ed Acres he so owns, settles or possesses, and so in
Proportion for a greater or lesser Tract of the said Land ; which
Money shall be paid by the respective Persons abovesaid, their Heirs
or Assigns, in our Council Chamber in Portsmouth, or to such Officer
or Officers as shall be appointed to receive the same ; and this to
be in Lieu of all other Rents and Services whatsoever.

In Testimony whereof we have caused the Seal of our said Province
to be hereunto affixed. Witness Benning Wentwoeth, Esq ; Our
Governor and Commander in Chief of Our said Province, the Sixth
Day of July In the Year of our Lord Christ, One Thousand Seven
Hundred and Sixty One And in the First Year of Our Reign.

B Wentworth
By His Excellency's Command,
With Advice of Council,

Theodore Atkinson Sec""^

Province of New Hamp'^

Recorded According to the original under the Province Seal this
G''^ July 1761

19 Theodore Atkinson Sec""^

372

CHARTER RECORDS.

*2-27

*The Names of the Grantees of ReadiiiCT-

Zedeekiah Stone
Joseph Martin
James Putman
Caleb Stone —
Sharp Addams
Ebenezer Winslow
Daniel Pond
Thomas Clemmons
William Grimes
Jacob Addams
Joseph Negos
Jonathan Sanderson
Jonathan Prescot
Timothy Heald
W" Smead
Thomas Stearns
Isaac Butterfield
John Hilton
Sam'^ Wentworth of
Henry Loyd Ijoston
Kobert Traile Esq

James Clements
Joseph Howell
Jonas Wheeler
William Negos
Elijah Mattoon
Joseph Chandler
Jacob Amsdell
Israel Stowell
Nathan Stone
John Sawyer
Nathaniel Stevens
David Nims
John Wait
George Robins
Nathaniel Sanderson
William Temple
John Wilder

John Bntterfield
Michael jNIedcalf
John Willson
David Stone
Seth Eaton
Nahum Willard
Joshua Willard —
Jonathan Hammon
W" Jenison Sterns
John Wilder jun''
Philip Mattoon
Simon Stevens
Joel Stone
Joseph Stowell
Daniel Spooner
Timotliy Pain
Wiseman Clagget
Cap*^ Thomas Palmer

Henry Hilton
Boston Sam^^ Wentworth of Portsm*^'
Arthur Brown jun^ George March —
Dan" Warner Esq & Joseph Newmarch Esq

One whole Share for the Society for the Propagation of the Gos-
pel in forreign Parts — one Share for the first Settled Minister of
the Gospell One Share for the Benefit of A School in Said Town
one Share for a Glebe for the Church of England as by Law
Established for his Excellency Benning Wentworth Esq a Tract of
Land to Contain Five Hundred Acres which is to be Accounted
Two of the within Shares — marked B W in the Plan —

Recorded According to the Original Charter under the P"" Seal
this 6"^ Day of June 1761—

m Theodore Atkinson Se^^

KEADSBOKO.

373

••ruy <> M,-C A/

Province of New Hamp""

Recorded from the Back of the Charter of Reading this 6"* Day of
July 1761

19 Theodore Atkinson Sec"^^

READSBORO.

p s

[Geant to Andrew F. Phillips, 1764.]

*Province of New Hampshire *l-267

Leiiit Philips George the third by the Grace of God of Great
( ^^-^^ — V >^ Britain France & Ireland King Defender of the Faith
&c &c

To all to whom these Presents shall come Greeting
^ ^^ — -v.— -^ ^ Whereas We have tho't fit by our Proclamation

Given at S' James' the 7''' Day of October in the Third Year of our
Reign Annoq Domini 1763 amongst other things to testif}'- our Roj'al
Sence & Approbation of the Conduct & Bravery of the Officers &
Soldiers of our Armies & to Signify our desire of Rewarding the
same, & have therein Commanded & Impower'd our several Governors
of our respective Provinces on the Continent of America to grant
without Fee or Reward to such Reduced Officers as have served in
North America during the Late War & to such Private Soldiers as have
been or shall be Dislianded there & 'shall Personall}' Apply for such
Quantitj-s of Land Respectively as in & by our aforesaid Proclama-
tion are particularly mentioned, subject nevertheless to the same quit

374 CHARTER RECORDS.

rents & Conditions of Cultivations & Improvements that as other our
Lands are subject to in the Province within which they are granted.
And Whereas Andiiew Faneuil Phillips Gent" of Boston in the
County of Suffolk & Province of the Massachusetts Bay had an Ap-
pointment under the Hand & Seal of Georoe Williaisison Esq Col-
onel & Commanding Officer of our Royal Train of Artil-
*l-268 ERY in America &c *To he Conductor of our Stores in our
Said Train & served during the late War in North
America & is now Reduced & having agreable to our aforesaid
Proclamation Personally Solicited such Grant Know ye that
we of our Especial Grace certain Knowledge & Mere Motion do
Signify our approbation as aforesaid & for Encouraging the Settle-
ment & Cultivation of our Lands within our Province of New
Hampshire in New England Have by & with the Advice of our
Trusty & well beloved Penning Wentworth "Esq G-overnor &
Commander in Chief of our Said Province of New Hampshire & our
Council for said Province agreable to our aforesaid in Part recited
Proclamation & upon the Conditions & Reservations hereinafter
mentioned Given & Granted & by these Presents for us our Heirs &
Successors do Give & Grant unto the said Andrew Faneuil Phillips
his Heirs and Assigns forever a Certain Tract of Land Containing
Two Thousand Acres lying & being within our said Province of
New Hampshire Butted & bounded as Follows (Viz) Beginging at
the North Easterly Corner Bounds of a Tract of Land latel}^ granted
to Robert Rogers Esq which Tract is bounded on the Eastern side
Line of the Township of Stamford in this Province & from the said
North Easterly of said Rogers's said Grant to Run due West by said
Rogers's Grant to the Easterly side Line of Stamford aforesaid &
from thence to Carry the Length of that Line Back due North so far
as that a Parrellel Line will Include Two Thousand Acres of Land
To have & to hold the said Tract of Land as above Expressed to him
the said Andrew Fanieuil Phillips & to his Heirs & Assigns forever
upon the Following Conditions & Reservations (Viz) 1*' that the
said Andrew Faneuil Phillips his Heirs or Assigns shall Plant &
Cultivate five Acres of Land within the Term of five Years for
every fifty Acres contain'd in this his grant & Continue to Im-
prove & Settle the same by additional Cultivating on Penalty of
the forfeiture of this his Grant & of it's Reverting to us our Heirs &
Successors to be by us or them Regrantecl to such of our subjects as
shall Effectually Settle & Cultivate the Same 2'' That all white &
other pine Trees within said Tract fit for Masting our Royal Navy be
carefully preserved for that use & none to be cut or fell'd without
our Especial Lincence for so doing first had & Obtaind upon the

READSBORO. 375

Penalty of the Forfeiture of the Kight of tlie Grantee his Heirs or
Assigns to us our Heirs & successors as well as being subject
to the Penalty of any Act or Acts of Parliament that *Now *l-269
are or hereafter shall be Enacted. 3'' Yeihling tfc Paying
therefor to us our Heirs & Successors for the Space of Ten Years to
be Computed from the date hereof the Rent of one Ear of Indian
Corn only on the 25"' Day of December Annually if Lawfully De-
manded. 4'-^' The said Grantee his Heirs or Assigns shall Yeild & pay
unto us our Heirs & Successors Yearly & Every Year for ever from
& after the Expiration of Ten Years from the above said 25'^'' Day of
December Namely on the 25 Day of December which will be in the
Year of our Lord 1774 one Shilling Proclamation Money for every
Hundred Acres he so owns Settles or Possesses & so in Proportion
for a greater or Lesser Tract of the said Land which money shall be
})aid by the Respective Owner Settler or Possessor as aforesaid in our
Council Chamber in Portsmouth in the Province aforesaid or to such
Officer or Officers as shall be appointed to Receive the same & this to
be in I^ieu of all other Rents & Services whatsoever In Testimony
Whereof we have caused the Seal of our said Province to be hereunto
Affixed Witness Penning Wentworth Esq our Governor & Comman-
der in Chief of our said Province the 11"* Day of August in the
Year of our Lord Christ 1764 & in the fourth Year of our Reign —

B Wentworth
By his Excellency's Command
With Advice of Council

T Atkinson Jun Sec'"''

Province of New Hampshire August 20"" 1764
Recorded according to the Original Charter under the Province
Seal

f T Atkinson Jun Sec^"

Province of New Hampshire August 20 1764

I do hereby Acknowledge to have Received a Grant of Two
Thousand Acres of Land as by the Above Pattent will Appear in
Virtue of his jNIajesty's Proclamation above Refer'd to, & I do hereby
Declare that I never have Received any Satisfaction of any of his
Majesty's Goverments before. Witness my Hand

A F Phillips

August 20'" 1764

Recorded from the Bottom of tlie Original Grant Signed by Andrew
Faneuil Pliillips

Atf T Atkinson Jun Sec-'y

376 charter records.

[Grant to Robert Rogers, 1764.]

*l-264 *George the Third by the Grace of God of great

Britain France & Ireland King Defender of the
Cap' Rob' Rogers's Faith &'*

Grant To all to whom these Presents shall come Greet-

) ( Whereas we have tho' fit by our Proclamation

) "^ ^ ( given at S' James's the V^ Day of October in

' v-^-..-w ' the third year of our reign Annoq Domini 1763

Amongst Other Things to Testify Our Royal
Sence & Approbation of the Conduct & Bravery of the oflicers & sol-
diers of Our Armies & to signify our Desire of rewarding the same
& have therein Comanded & Impowered Our Several Governors of
our respective Provinces on the Continent of America to Grant with-
out Fee or reward to such reduced ofKcers as have Served in North
America during the Late War and to such Private Soldiers as have
been or Shall be disbanded there & shall Personally apply for Such
Quantitys of Land Respectivly as in & by our aforesaid Proclamation
are Perticularly mentioned Subject Nevertheless to the Same Quit
rents & Conditions of Cultivations & Improvements that Other our
Lands are Subject to in the Province within which they are granted
and Whereas Robert Rogers Esq now Resideing at Portsmouth in
our Province of New Hamp^ had our Appointm' as Cap' of our
New York Independent Company & Served During the Late War in
North America and is now reduced and having agreable to our afore-
said Proclamation Personally Solicited Such Grant Know Ye that
We of our especial Grace certain Knowledge & mere motion to Sig-
nify our approbation as aforesaid & for Encouraging the Settlement
& Cultivation of Our Land within our Province of New Hampshire
in New England Have by & with the Advice of our Trusty & well
beloved Benning Wentworth Esq Govern our & Comander of Our
Said Province of New Hamp'' & of our Councel for said Province
agreable to our aforesaid in Part recited Proclamation & upon the
Conditions & Reservations hereinafter mentioned Given & Granted
& by these Presents for us our Heirs & Successors Do Give & Grant
into the Said Robert Rogers Esq his Heirs & Assigns for ever a Tract
of Land Containing three Thousand Acres Lying & being within our
Said Province of New Hamp' and bounded as follows (Viz) begining
at a Stake & Stones Standing in the Dividing Line between this Prov-
ince & the Massachusetts at the Distance of Six Miles Due West
from the South Westerly Corner of Halifax & from thence due West
to the South East Corner of Stamford & carrying the Length of that

READSBORO. 377

Line back due North by Stamford aforesaid so far as to comprehend &,
Include Three Thousand Acres of Land to Have & to Hohl the Said
Tract of Land as above expressed to him the said Robert Rogers Esq
& to his Heirs & Assigns for ever upon the following Conditions &
Reservations Viz First that the said Robert Rogers Esq his Heirs &
Assigns shall Plant & Cultivate hve Acres of Land w^ithin the Term
of Five Years for every fifty acres Containd in this his Grant &
Continue to Imjn-ove & Settle the Same by additional Cultivating on
Penalty of the forfeiture of this his Grant & of its Reverting to us
our Heirs & Successors to be us or them regranted to such of our
subjects as shall effectually Settle & Cultivate the Same — Secondly —
that all White & other Pine Trees within Said Tract fit for Masting
our Royal Navy be carefully preserved for that Use & none to be Cut
or Felid without our Special Licence for so Doing first had &
obtaind upon the Penalty of the forfeiture of the Right of the
Grantee his Heirs or assigns to us our Heirs and Successors as well
as being subject to the Penalty of Any Act or Acts of Parliament
that now are or hereafter shall be Enacted Thirdly — Yielding & Pay-
ing therefor to us our Heirs & Successors for the Space of Ten Years
to be Computed from the Date hereof One Ear of Indian
Corn only *on the 25'^ Day of December annually if Law- *l-265
fully Demanded — Fourthh' — The s'^ Grantee his Heirs or
Assigns Shall Yield & Pay unto us our heirs & Successors Yearly &
every Year forever from & after the expiration of Ten Years from
the above s'* Twenty fifth of December namely on the 25"' Day of
December which shall be in the Year of our Lord 1774 One Shilling
Proclamation Money for every Hundred Acres he so owns Settles
or Possesses & so in Proportion for A greater or lesser Tract of
the Said Land which money shall be paid by the respective
owners Settlers or Possessors as aforesaid in our Council Chamber in
Portsmouth in the Province afores' or to such officer or officers as
Shall be appointed to Receive the Same & this to be in Lieu of all
other Rents & Services whatever —

In Testimony whereof We have caused the Seal of our said Province
to be hereunto affixed Wittness Benning Wentworth Esq our Govern-
our & Com'ander in Chieff of our Said Province the 4"' Day July
in the Year of our Lord Christ 1764 & in the Fourth Year of our
Reiffn —

B Wentworth

By his Excellencys Com''
with advice of Council

Theod'^ Atkinson Jun"" Sec''^'

378 CHARTER RECORDS.

Recorded from the Original Grant under the Prov*" Seal the 6'^ Day
of July 1764

f
Province of New Hamp"^

I do hereby acknowledge to have Received a Grant of Three
Thousand Acres of Land as by the above Patent will appear in
Virtue of his Maj'^ Proclamation above referrd to & do hereby
Declare that I never have Rec'' any Satisfaction of Any of his Maj'^®
Governments before Wittness my Hand —

July 6'" 1764

Robert Rogers

Recorded from the Bottom of the foregoing Grant Signed b}*^ Rob-
ert Rogers Esq

■^ T Atkinson Jun Sec'"^

ROCKINGHAM.

*1-111 *Province of New Hamp'^

Rockingham George the Second by the Grace of God of Great

. ,— —-— ~v . Brittain France & Ireland King Defender of the faith,

\ / &c^^—

i (To all Persons to whom these Presents Shall come

^ ^— .^.^^ -' Greeting —

Know Ye that We of our Special Grace Certain Knowledge &
mere motion for the Due Encouragement of Settling a New Planta-
tion within our Said Province By & with the Advice of our Trusty
& Wellbeloved Benning Wentworth Esq our "Governour & Com-
mand in Chieff of our Said Province of New Hamp"" in America and
of our Council of the Said Province Have upon the Conditions &
reservations hereafter made Given & Granted And by these Presents
for us our heirs and Successors Do give & Grant in Equal Shares
unto our Loveing Subjects Inhabitants of our Said Province of New
Hampshire and his Maj*^^ other Governments And to thier heirs and
Assignes for ever whose names Are Entered on this Grant to be
Divided to and Amongst them into Seventy four Equal Shares All
That Tract or Parcel of Land Scituate Lying &■ being within our
Province of New Hamp'' Containing by admeasurement Twenty three
thousend & forty Acres which Tract is to Contain Six Miles Square
& no more out of which An Allowence is to be made for highways
& unimproveable Lands by Rocks, Mountains, Ponds & Rivers One

ROCKINGHAM. 379

thoiisend & forty Acres free According to a Plan thereof made &
Presented by our Said Governours orders »fc hereunto Ainiexed Put-
ted & bounded as follows (Viz) Begining at the North East Corner
of Westminister & running up by Connecticut River till it Extends
Six iVIiles upon A Strait Line Notherly to A Stake & Stones upon
the Hank of Said River in ITickup Meadow Thence running Due
West Six Miles to A Stake cV: Stones, Thence running Southerly
Six Miles to the North West Corner of Westminster thence running
Due East to the liounds first mentioned — And that the Same be &,
is Incorporated into a Township by the name of Rockingham and
that the Inhabitants that do or Shall hereafter Inhabit Said Town-
ship are hereby declai-ed to be Enfranchized with & Intituled to all &
every the Previledges & Immunities that other Towns within our Said
Province by Law Exercise & Enjoy and further that the Said Town
as Soon as there Shall be fifty families resident & Settled
thereon Shall have the Liberty of holding two fairs *One of *1-112
which Shall be held on the And the other

on the Annually which fairs are not to Con-

tinue And be held Longer than the respective

following the respective Days — And as Soon

as the S'' Town shall Consist of fifty families A market Shall be
Opened & kept one or more Days in Each Week as may be tho*
most Advantagious to the Inhabitants also that the first IVIeeting for
the Choice of Towni officers Agreable to the Laws of our Said Prov-
ince Shall be held on the Last Wednesday in March next which
Meeting Shall be Notifyed by Mr Benjamin Bellows who is hereby
Also Appointed the Moderator of the Said fu-st meeting which he is
to Notify & Govern Agreable to the Laws & Customs of our
Said Province And that the Annual Meeting forever hereafter for the
Choice of Such officers of Said Town Shall be on the Last Wednes-
day in March Annually To Have & to hold the Said Tract of Land
as above Expressed togeather with all Priviledges & appurtenances
to them And their respective heirs & Assignes for ever L^pon the
following Conditions (Viz) That every Grantee his heire or Assignes
Shall Plant or Cultivate five Acres of Land within the Term of five
Years for every fifty Acres Contained in his or their Share or Pro-
portion of Land in Said Township And Continue to Improve &
Settle the Same by Additional Cultivations on Penalty of the forfeit-
ure of his Grant or Share in the Said Township and its reverting to
his Maj'*' his heirs & Successors to be by Him or them regranted to
Such of his Subjects as Shall Effectually Settle & Cultivate the
Same — That All white & other Pine Trees within the S'' Townsliip
fit for masting our Royal Navy be Carefully reserved for that Use

380 CHARTER RECORDS.

and none to be Cut or felld without his Maj'*'* Especial Lycence for
So doing first had & obtained upon the Penalty of the forfeiture of
the right of Such Grantee his heirs or Assigns to us our heirs & Suc-
cessors as well as being Subject to the Penalty of Any Act
or Acts of Parliament that now Are or hereafter Shall be Enacted
that before any Division of the Said Lands be made to & amongst the
Grantees a Tract of Land as near the Center of the Township as the
land will admit of Shall be reserved & marked out for Town Lotts
one of whicli Sliall be Allotted to Each Grantee of the Contents of
one Acre Yielding & Paying therefor to us our heirs & Succes-
sors for the Space of Ten Years to be Computed from
*1-113 the Date hereof the rent of One Ear of Indian *Corn only
on the first Day of January Annually if Lawfully
Demanded the first Payment to be made on the first Day of
Jan"" 1754 after the Date hereof And Every Proprietor Settler or
Lihabitant Shall Yield & Pay unto us Our heirs & Successors Yearly
& Every Year for ever from and after the Expiration of the Ten
Years from the Date hereof Namly on the first Day of Jan"^^ which
will be in the Year of Our Lord Christ one thousend Seven hun-
dred & Sixty four one Shilling Proclamation money for Every
hundred Acres he So owns Settles or Possesses And so in Propor-
tion for A Greater or Lesser Tract of the Said Land which money
Shall be paid by the respective Persons above Said their heirs or
Assigns in our Council Cliamber in Portsmouth or to Such officer
or officers as Shall be Appointed to receive the Same And this to be
in Lieu of All other rents & Services whatsoever In Testimony
hereof We have Caused the Seal of our Said Province to be hereunto
Affixed Wittness Penning Wentworth Esq our Governour and
Com'ander in Chieff of our Said Province the 28"' Day of Decem-
ber in the Year of our Lord Christ 1752 & in the 26"' year of our
reign

B Wentworth
By his Excellencys Com'and
with Advice of Council

Theodore Atkinson Se""*'

Entred & recorded According to the Original Under the Province
Seal this 30"' of Decemb'- 1752

f Theodore Atkinson Se'"'^

Names of tlie Grantees of Rockingham Vz

Samuel Johnson Nathan Smith Ezra Farnsworth

William Parker Isaac Parker Jonah Moor

John Killburne Lemuel Hastings Silvanus Hastings

ROCKINGHAM.

381

Jonathan White
Nathan VViUard
Benj-"^ Stowell
Peter Bellows
Andrew Gardner jnn'
Oliver Willard

Asel Stebens
*1-114 Jothaui Bush

Josiah Willard
Benjamin Bellows
William Willard
Jonathan Wetherbee
William Symons
David Farnsworth
Jonatlian Bigelow
*.I()hn Arms

Jacob Elmore Samuel Larrabee

David Page
Benjamin French
Johainia Wetherbee
Daniel Warren
Obediah Dickinson
Timothy Taylor
Joseph Lee
Tuttle Hubbard
James Pitts
Henry Sherburne
Samuel Smith

Thomas Stebbins
Asa Douglass
Daniel JNIaynard
John Stow
Jon"^ Marble
Palmer Gouldinc

Valentine Butler
Robert Henry
Andrew (Jardner
Abijali Wetherbee
Sam" Wetherbee
Stephen Farnsworth
John Densmore
Simeon Knight
Josiah Sawyer
Hezekiah Elmore
John Moffat
Jaazemel How
Ebenezer Hindsdale
William Symes
Isaac Winslow"
Thomas ^Martin

Richard Clark

Samuel Wentworth of Boston
John Wentworth jun'^ Byfield Loyde
Theodore Atkinson Richard Wibird
John Downing Samuel SoUey

Sampson Sheaife his Excellency Benning Wentworth Esq A Tract of
Land to Contain five hundred Acres which is to be Accounted two
of the within mentioned Shares, one whole Share for the Incorporated
Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in forreign Parts, One
whole Share for the first Settled Minister of the Gospel in Said Town
one whole Share for A Glebe for the Ministry of the Church of
England as by Law Established —

Entred & recorded from the Back of the Charter of Rockingham
the 30'*" Day of December 1752

^ Theodore Atkinson Se^^

ftj

nmjM.^"^ '^'''"^

382 CHARTER RECORDS.

Taken from Plan on the back of the Charter of Rockingham &
Record'! ^j^jg gQu. December 1752—

■^ Theodore Atkinson Sec''^'

RUPERT.

*2-129 *Province of New-Hampshire

Rupert GEORGE the Third,

, .— .^^-^ . By the Grace of God, of Great-Britain, France and
\ / Ireland, King, Defender of the Faith, &c.

) I To all Persons to whom these Presents shall come^

^ vw^-^-w ' Greeting.

Know ye, that We of Our special Grace, certain Knowledge, and
meer Motion, for the due Encouragement of settling a JVeiv Planta-
tion within our said Province, by and with the Advice of our Trusty
and Well-beloved Benning Wentworth, Esq; Our Governor and
Commander in Chief of Our said Province of New-Hampshire in
New-England^ and of our Council of the said Province ; Have
upon the Conditions and Reservations herein after made, given and
granted, and by these Presents, for us, our Heirs, and Successors,
do give and grant in equal Shares, unto Our loving Subjects, Inhabi-
tants of Our said Province of Neiv-Hampshire^ and Our other Gov-
ernments, and to their Heirs and Assigns for ever, whose Names are
entred on this Grant, to be divided to and amongst them into Sixty
Eight equal Shares, all that Tract or Parcel of Land situate, lying
and being within our said Province of New- Hampshire^ containing by
Admeasurement, Twenty Three Thousand & forty Acres^ which Tiact
is to contain Six Miles square, and no more ; out of which an Allowance
is to be made for High Ways and unimprovable Lands by Rocks, Ponds,
Mountains and Rivers, One Thousand and Forty Acres free, accord-
ing to a Plan and Survey thereof, made by Our said Governor's
Order, and returned into the Secretary's Office, and hereunto annexed,
butted and bounded as follows. Viz. Begining at the North Westerly
Corner of Sand Gate from thence due North Six Miles thence due
East Six Miles thence due South Six Miles to the North East Corner
of Sandgate afore Said thence Due West by Sandgate to the Bounds
first mentioned And that the same be, and hereby is Incorporated into
a Township by the Name of Rupert And the Inhabitants that do or
shall hereafter inliabit the said Township, are hereby declared to be

RUPERT. 383

Enfrancliized- with and Intitled to all and every the Priviledges and
Imnumities that otlier Towns within Our Province b}^ Law Exercise
and Enjoy : And further, that the said Town as soon as there shall be
Fifty Families resident and settled thereon, shall have the Liberty of
holding Two Fairs, one of which shall be held on the

And the other on the
annually, which Fairs are not to continue longer than the respective

following the said
and that as soon as the said Town shall consist of Fifty
Families, a Market may be * opened and kept one or more *2-130
Days in each Week, as may be thought most advanta-
gious to the Ldiabitants. Also, that the first Meeting for the Choice
of Town Officers, agreable to the Laws of our said Province, shall
be held on the First Tuesday of November Next which said Meeting
shall be Notified by Cap' Samuel Robinson who is hereby also
appointed the Moderator of the said first Meeting, which he is to
Notify and Govern agreable to the Laws and Customs of Our said
Province ; and that the annual Meeting for ever hereafter for the
Choice of such Officers for the said Town, shall be on the Second
Tuesday of March annually. To Have and to Hold the said Tract of
Land as above expressed, together with all Privileges and Appurten-
ances, to them and their resjjective Heirs and Assigns forever, upon
the following Conditions, viz.

L That every Grantee, his Heirs or Assigns shall plant and cultivate
five Acres of Land within the Term of five Years for every fifty Acres
contained in his or their Share or Proportion of Land in said Town-
ship, and continue to improve and settle the same by additional
Cultivations, on Penalty of the Forfeiture of his Grant or Share in
the said Township, and of its reverting to Us, our Heirs and Succes-
sors, to be by Us or Them Re-granted to such of Our Subjects as shall
effectually settle and cultivate the same.

II. That all white and other Pine Trees within the said Township,
fit for Masting Our Royal Navy, be carefully preserved for that Use,
and none to be cut or felled without Our special Licence for so doing
first had and obtained, upon the Penalty of the Forfeiture of the
Right of such Grantee, his Heirs and Assigns, to Us, our Heirs and
Successors, as well as being subject to the Penalty of any Act or Acts
of Parliament that now are, or hereafter shall be Enacted.

384

CHARTER RECORDS.

IV. Yielding and paying therefor to Us, our Heirs and Successors
for the Space of ten Years, to be computed from the Date hereof, the
Rent of one Ear of Indian Corn only, on the twenty-fifth Day of
December annually, if lawfully demanded, the first Payment to be
made on the twenty-fifth Day of Becemher. 1762

V. Every Proprietor, Settler or Inhabitant, shall yield and pay unto
Us, our Heirs and Successors yearly, and every Year forever, from
and after the Expiration of ten Years from the abovesaid twenty-lifth
Day of December^ namely, on the twenty-fifth Day of December^ which
will be in the Year of Our Lord 1772 One sldlling Proclamation
INIoney for every Hundred Acres he so owns, settles or ))ossesses, and
so in Proportion for a great or lesser Tract of the said Land ; which
Money shall be paid by the respective Persons abovesaid, their Heirs
or Assigns, in our Council Chamber in Portsmouth, or to such Officer
or Officers as shall be appointed to receive the same ; and this to be
in Lieu of all other Rents and Services whatsoever.

In Testimony whereof we have caused the Seal of our said Province
to be hereunto affixed. Witness Benning Wentworth, Esq ; Our
Governor and Commander in Chief of Our said Province, the 20'^
Day of August In the Year of our Lord Christ, One Thousand
Seven Hundred and Sixty one And in the first Year of Our Reign.

B Wentworth
By His Excellency's Command,
With Advice of Council,

Theodore Atkinson

Prov New Hamp"" August 20"' 1761

Recorded According to the original under the Pro^ Seal

"59 Theodore Atkinson Sec''^

*2-131

^The Names of the Grantees of Rupert Viz

Cap* Sam" Robinson
Elisha Billings
Aaron Baker
Ebenez"" Phelps
Gideon Lyman jun""
David Glaizier
Experience Johnson
Naomi Lyman
Jacob Dexter
Nathan" Wright
Ebenez'' Clark
Selah Wright
John Fay

Sam" Billings
Nathaniel Phelps
Martin Phelps
Gideon Lyman Esq
Barnabas Fay
Elijah Lyman
Charles Spafford
Joseph Thomas
Jon'' Fasset
John Allen
Jonas Fay
Tim" Lyman jun''
Benj-'^ Fay jun'

Asael Billings
John Baker
Stephen Fay jun''
Phineas Lyman
Josiah Glaizier
John Phelps
Meshech Weare Esq
Phineas Lyman jun"^
Ebenez'' Wright
Daniel Allen
John Wright
Steph" Fay
Sam" Hunter

RUPERT.

385

William Johnson The*' Johnson

Jon'' Warner of Hardwick John White
Daniel WanuT of D" Josiah Willard
William Kenada

John Downing P^sq
John Hammond
Ithanmr Strong
Sam" Marshall &

William lilunt
James Nevin Esq
Ebenezer Strong
Joseph Hally Esq
Ithamur Strong —

Jacob Knowlton
Judah Weekes
Ezra Leonard
Leonard Eobinson
Eleaz^' Hammond
Cap*^ James Go wen
Ebenez'" Phelps

His Excellency Benning Wentworth Esq a Tract of Land to Contain
Five Hundred Acres as ]\ Larked B W in the Plan which is to be
Accounted two of tlie within Sliares One whole Share for the Incor-
porated Societ}'^ for the Propagation of the Gospel in foreign Parts
one Share for A Glebe for the Church of England as by Law Estab-
lished one Share for the first Settled Minister in Said Town one
Share for the Benefit of A School in Said Town —

Province of New Hamp'' August 20"' 1761

Recorded from the Back of the Original Charter for Rupert

Attesf Theodore Atkinson Sec''^

'iu''5 '''•^r'Oi; -'! >^'M"'P

">?•%

Province of New Hamp'" August 20 1761

Recorded from the Back of the original Charter for Rupert —

19 Theodore Atkinson Sec'"''

386 CHARTER RECORDS.

RUTLAND.

*2-169 *Province of New Hampsliire.

Rutland GEORGE the Third,

, ^-^- . s By the Grace of God, of Great-Britain, France and

\ ( Ireland, Kin(j, Defender of the Faith, &c.

I I To all Persons to ivlioin these Presents shall come,

^ ^— — —^ ^ Greeting.

Knoav ye, that We of Our special Grace, certain Knowledge, and
meer Motion, for the due Encouragement of settling a JVeiv Planta-
tion within our said Province, hy and with the Advice of our Trusty
and Well-beloved Benning Wentwc )KTH, Esq ; Our Governor and
Commanderin Chief of Oursaid Province of New-Hampshire in New-
Unc/land, and of our Council of the said Province; Have upon the
Conditions and Reservations herein after made, given and granted,
and by these Presents, for us, our Heirs, and Successors, do give
and grant in equal Shares, unto Our loving Subjects, Inhabitants of
Our said Province of Netv-Hampshire, and Our other Governments,
and to their Heirs and Assigns for ever, whose Names are entred on
tliis Grant, to be divided to and amongst them into Seventy
equal Shares, all that Tract or Parcel of Land situate, lying and be-
ing within our said Province of JSfeiv-Hamp shire, containing by Ad-
measurement, About Twenty Six thousand five hundred Acres, which
Tract is to contain Something more than Six ]Miles square, and no
more ; out of which an Allowance is to be made for High Ways
and unimprovable Lands by Rocks, Ponds, ]\Iountains and Rivers,
One Thousand and Forty Acres free, according to a Plan and
Survey thereof, made by Our said Governor's Order, and returned
into the Secretary's Office, and hereunto annexed, butted and bounded
as follows. Viz. Jieginning at the North Westerly Corner of Shrews-
bury thence North Five Degrees East Plve iSIiles & One half mile
thence West Five Degrees North Seven Miles «fe One half mile thence
South Four Degrees East five Miles & One half Mile to the North
Westerly Corner of Clarendon thence East five Degrees South Six
Miles & Tliree Quarters of a Mile by Clarendon aforesaid to the
Bounds first above jNIentioned — And that the same be, and hereby is
Incorporated into a Township by the Name of Rutland And the
Inhabitants that do or shall hereafter inhabit the said Township, are
hereby declared to be Enfranchized with and Intitled to all and every
the Priviledges and Immunities that other Towns within Our Prov-
ince by Law Exercise and Enjoy : And further, that the said Town

IIUTLAND. 387

as soon as there shall be Fifty Families resident and settled tliereon,
shall have the Liberty of holding Two Fairs, one of which shall
be held on the And the other on the

annuall}', which Fairs are not to continue
longer than the respective following the

said and that as soon as the said Town

shall consist of Fifty Families, a Market maybe *opened and *2-170
kept one or more Days in each Week, as may l)e thought
most advantagious to the Inhabitants. Also, that the first Meeting
for the Choice of Town Officers, agreable to the Laws of our said
Province, shall be held on the first JNIonday in October Next which
said Meeting shall be Notified 1)}^ Zedekiah Stone who is hereby also
appointed the jNIoderator of the said first Meeting, which he is to
Notify and Govern agreable to the Laws and Customs of Our said
Province ; and that the annual Meeting for ever hereafter for the
Choice of such Officers for the said Town, shall be on the Second
Tuesday of March annually. To Have and to Hold the said Tract of
Land as above expressed, together with all Privileges and Appurten-
ances, to them and their respective Heirs and Assigns forever, upon
the following Conditions, viz.

I. That every Grantee, his Heirs or Assigns shall plant and cultivate
five Acres of Land within the Term of five Years for every fifty
Acres contained in his or their Share or Proportion of Land in said
Township, and continue to improve and settle the same by additional
Cultivations, on Penalt}* of the Forfeiture of his Grant or Share in
the said Township, and of its reverting to L^s, our Heirs and Succes-
sors, to be \yj Us or Them Re-granted to such of Our Subjects as shall
effectually settle and cultivate the same.

II. Tliat all white and other Pine Trees within the said Township,
fit for ]Masting Our Iloyal Navy, be carefully preserved for that LTse,
and none to be cut or felled without Our special Licence for so doing
first had and obtained, upon the Penalty of the Forfeiture of the Right
of such Grantee, his Heirs and Assigns, to LTs, our Heirs and Succes-
sors, as well as being subject to the Penalty of any Act or Acts of
Parliament that now are, or hereafter shall be Enacted.

III. That before any Division of the Land be made to and among
tlie Grantees, a Tract of Land as near the Centre of the said Town-
ship as the Land will admit of, shall be reserved and marked out for
Town Lots, one of which shall be allotted to each Grantee of the
Contents of one Acre.

IV. Yielding and paying therefor to L^s, our Heirs and Successors
for the Space of ten Years, to be computed from the Date hereof, the
Rent of one Ear of Indian Corn only, on the twenty-fifth Day of

388

CHARTER RECORDS.

December annually, if lawfully demanded, the first Payment to be
made on the twenty-fifth Day of December. 1762

V. Every Proprietor, Settler or Inhabitant, shall yield and pay
unto Us, our Heirs and Successors yearly, and every Year forever,
from and after the Expiration of ten Years from the abovesaid
twenty-fifth Day of Deceviber, namely, on the twentj^-fifth Day of
December, which will be in the Year of Our Lord 1772 One shillin(/
Proclamation Money for every Hundred Acres he so owns, settles or
possesses, and so in Proportion for a greater or lesser Tract of the
said Land ; which Money shall be paid by the respective Persons
abovesaid, their Heirs or Assigns, in our Council Chamber in Ports-
mouth, or to such Officer or Officers as shall be appointed to receive
the same; and this to be in Lieu of all other Rents and Services
whatsoever.

In Testimony wdiereof we have caused the Seal of our said Prov-
ince to be hereunto affixed. Witness Benning Wentworth, Esq ;
Our Governor and Commander in Chief of Our said Province, the
Seventh Day of September In the Year of our Lord Chkist, One
Thousand Seven Hundred and Sixty One And in the First Year of
Our Reign.

By His Excellency's Command,
With Advice of Council,

Theodore Atkinson Sec'"^

Prov« of New Hamp'" Sep^ 7^^^ 1761

Recorded According to the Original Charter under the Pro^ Seal

Theodore Atkinson Sec''^

B Wentworth

^2-171

*The Names of the Grantees of Rutland

John Murrey
Caleb Johnson
Joel Stone
Asa Hawks
Elijah Hindsdall
Josiah Willard Jun''
Abuer Stone
Ephraim Adams
Oliver Coleborne
Joseph Cass
Nathan Foster
Abraham Scott
Michael Medcalf

Zedekiah Stone
Nathem Stone
John Arms
Elijah Mitchell
Ruben Nimbs
Samuel Stevens
Eliakim Arms
Samuel Stoue
Jonathan Farneld
John Dandly
Nehemiah Haughton
William Smeed
Sampson Willard

Benjamin Melven
Wiug Spooner
Thomas Badwell
John Hindsdall
Samuel Stone Jun""
William Willard
Elijah Arms
Enos Stevens
Thomas Blauchard
Thomas Davis
George Heart
Joseph Hammon
John Bo3dston

RUTLAND.

389

John Hunt
Abel Laurence

Joseph Ashley • William Laurence

Susanna Johnson Widow Jemima How Widow

Elizabeth Stevens Widow Joseph Willard
Moses Willard Aaron Williard

Printece AVillard Moses Field

Daniel Warner Esq'^ Richard Wibird Esq
Col" Ebenezer Hindsdale Ebenezer Killum
Ool° Clemont March Cap' George March

& Nathan Willard Jun^

James Nutting Willard
Solomon Willard
Joseph Ashley
John Barber
Samuel Whitemore
Benning Wentworth

His Excellency Benning Wentworth Es(i'' a Tract of Land to Con-
tain Five hundred Acres as Marked B-W- in the Plan which is to
be Accounted two of the within Shares, One whole Share for the
Incorporated Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign
Parts, One Share for a Glebe for the Church of England as by Law
Established, One Share for the First Setled Minister of the Gospel
& One Share for the Benefit of the School in Said Town —

Province of New Hampshire Sep'' 7"' 1761

Recorded from the back of the Origional Charter for Rutland
under the Province Seal —

Attested ^ Theodore Atkinson Sec"'y

Province of New Hamp"" Septemb"" 7^'^ 1761

Recorded from the Back of the original Charter for Ruttland

Attest' Theodore Atkinson Sec'"''

!90 CHARTER RECORDS.

RYEGATE.

*3-50 *Province of New-Hampshire.

Ryegate GEORGE the Third,

!/—^~^-^ >, By the Grace of God, of Great-Britain, France and
/ Irehind, King, Defender of the Faith &c.
I To all Persons to whom these Presents shall come,

^— ^'— ^ ^ Greeting.

Know Ye, that We of Our special Grace, certain Knowledge, and
meer Motion, for the due Encouragement of settling a New Plantation
within our said Province, by and with the Advice of our Trusty and
Well-beloved Benning Wentworth, Esq ; Our Governor and Com-
mander in Chief of Our said Province of New-Hampshire, in JVew-
England, and of Our Council of the said Province ; Have upon
the Conditions and Reservations herein after made, given and granted,
and by these Presents, for Us, Our Heirs, and Successors, do give and
grant in equal Shares, unto Our loving Subjects, Inhabitants of Our said
Province of JVew-JIamjjshire, and Our other Governments, and to their
Heirs and Assigns for ever, whose Names are entred on this Grant, to
be divided to and amongst them into One Hundred equal Shares, all
that Tract or Parcel of Land situate, lying and being within our said
Province of Neiv-Hampshire, containing by Admeasurement, 23040
Acres, which Tract is to contain Six Miles square, and no more ; out
of which an Allowance is to be made for High Ways and unimprov-
able Lands by Rocks, Ponds, Mountains and Rivers, One Thousand
and Forty Acres free, according to a Plan and Survey thereof, made
by Our said Governor's Order, and returned into the Secretary's
Office, and hereunto annexed, butted and bounded as follows, Mz.
Begining at a Tree standing on the Westerly Side of Connecticut
River which is the North Easterly Corner Bounds of the Town of
Newbury in this Province & runs from thence up Connecticut River
Notherly as that runs to a Tree marked with y" Figures 11.. & 12..
which is about Six Miles upon a Streight Line from Amonusock
Rivers Mouth from thence turning off & runing North Sixty Eight
Degrees West Six Miles & one Quarter of a Mile to A Stake &
Stones thence Turning off & runing Southerly to the North Westerly
Corner of Newbury afores'* then Turning oft" again by Newbury to
the Bounds by Connecticut River first above mentioned — And
that the same be, and hereby is Incorporated into a Township by
the Name of Ryegate And the Inhabitants that do or shall hereafter
inhabit the said Township, are hereby declared to be Enfranchized

RYEGATE. 391

with and Intitled to all and every the Priviledges and Immunities
that other Towns Avithin Our Province by Law Exercise and Enjoy:
And further, that the said Town as soon as there shall be Fifty Families
resident and settled thereon, shall have the Liberty of holding ttco
Faim, one of which shall be held on the
And the other on the
annually, which Fairs are not to continue longer than the
respective following the said and that as soon

as the said Town shall consist of Fifty Families, a INIarket
may be *opened and kept one or more Days in each Week, *3-51
as may be thought most advantagious to the Inhabitants.
Also, that the first ]Meeting for the Choice of Town Officers, agreable
to the Laws of our said Province, shall be held on the First Tuesday
in October next which said Meeting shall be Notified by Rich'' Jennes
the 3'' Esq who is hereby also appointed the Moderator of the said
first Meeting, which he is to Notify and Govern agreable to the Laws
and Customs of Our said Province; and that the annual Meeting for
ever hereafter for the Choice of such Officers for the said Town, shall
be on the Second Tuesday of Marclt annually. To Have and to Hold
the said Tract of Land as above expressed, together with all Privileges
and Appurtenances, to them and their respective Heirs and Assigns
forever, upon the following Conditions, viz.

I. That every Grantee, his Heirs or Assigns shall plant and cultivate
five Acres of Land within the Term of five Years for every fifty Acres
contained in his or their Share or Proportion of Land in said Town-
ship, and continue to imj)rove and settle the same by additional
Cultivations, on Penalty of the Forfeiture of his Grant or Share in
the said Township, and of its reverting to Us, our Heirs and Success-
ors, to be by Us or them Re-granted to such of our Subjects as shall
effectually settle and cultivate the same.

n. That all white and other Pine Trees within the said Township,
fit for Masting Our Royal Navy, be carefully preserved for that Use,
and none to be cut or felled without Our special Licence for so doing
first liad and obtained, upon the Penalty of the Forfeiture of the Right
of such Grantee, his Heirs and Assigns, to Us, our Heirs and Success-
ors, as well as being subject to the Penalty of any Act or Acts of
Parliament that now are, or hereafter shall ])e Enacted.

HL That before any Division of the Land be made to and among
the Grantees, a Tract of Land as near the Centre of the said Town-
ship as the Land will admit of, shall be reserved and Marked out for
Town Lots, one of which shall be alloted to each Grantee of the Con-
tents of one Acre.

IV. Yielding and paying therefor to Us, our Heirs and Successors

392

CHARTER RECORDS.

for the Space of ten Years, to be computed from the Date hereof, the
Rent of one Ear of Indian Corn only, on the tAA^enty-fifth Day of
Decemher annually, if lawfully demanded, the first Payment to be
made on the twenty-fifth Day of Decemher. 1763

V. Every Proprietor, Settler or Inhabitant, shall yield and pay unto
Us, our Heirs and Successors yearly, and every Year forever, from
and after the Expiration of ten Years from the abovesaid twenty-fifth
Da}^ of I)eeemhe7\ namely, on the twenty-fifth Day of Decemher., which
will be in the Year of Our Lord 1773 One sldUhvj Proclamation Money
for every Hundred Acres he so owns, settles or possesses, and so in
Proportion for a greater or lesser Tract of the said Land ; which
Money shall be paid by the respective Persons abovesaid, their Heirs
or Assigns, in our Council Chamber in PortsmoutJi, or to such Officer
or Officers as shall be appointed to receive the same ; and this to
be in Lieu of all other Rents and Services whatsoever.

In Testimony whereof we have caused the Seal of our said Province
to be hereunto affixed. Witness Benning Wentworth, Esq; Our
Governor and Commander in Chief of Our said Province, the Eighth
Day of September In the Year of our Lord Christ, One Thousand
Seven Hundred and Sixty Three And in the Tliird Year of Our
Reign.

B Wentworth

By His Excellency's Command,
With Advice of Council,

Theodore Atkinson jun'' Sec''^'

Province of New Hamp^ Septemb'' 8"' 1763

Recorded According to the Original Charter under the Province
Seal

f T Atkinson Jun"" Sec^^^

*3-52 *The Names of the Grantees of Ryegate (Viz) —

Rich'^ Jennes Esq
Francis Jennes
Henry Dow
William Sevey
Reuben Moidton
Richard Lock jun'^
Will'" Ran dell
Joseph Mardin
Peter Garland
Bickford Lang
Natha" Jennes

Rich'i Rand
Jon'* Towle
Job Jennes
James Sevey
Amos Knowles
Thomas Watson
Benj''' Garland
Rich'' Jennes jun'
Amos Sevey
Job Foss
Merryfiekl Berry

James Mardin
Robert Sanders
William Thomas
Samuel Jennes
Sam" Wallis
Josiah Webster
Nathan Goss
Stephen Mardin
Joseph Jennes
Joshua Jennes
Jacob Berry

RYEGATE.

393

Richard Goss
Samuel jNIurry
Joseph Brown
Sam" Knowles
Jeremiah Berry
Peter Johnson
Isaac Jennes
Joseph Libby
Philip Pain
Joseph Rand
Jeremiah Lock
W" Palmer
Solomon Sevey
Tristram Coffin
David Smith
Sam" Jones
Sam" Rand
Arthur Libby
Moses Sevey
Sam" Sanders

Joshua Weeks
Jon'' Brown
Rev'* M-" Sam" Parsons
Francis Lock
William Berry
Joseph Yeaton
Jon'' (joss
Simon Garland
Joseph Blanchard Esq
John Bracket
Sam" Ealkins
Ebenez' Philbrook
Ebenez'' INIardin
SleeperReuben Philbrook
Benj'' Lang-
Abraham Libby
Paul Randall
Jonathan Mardin
Sam" Wells
Dan" Philbrook
The Hon'"^' Will"' Temple ;
John Nellson

Rich'' Jennes 3'" Esq
Wall is Foss
Zebedee Hunt
Amos Rand
Jon" Towle Jun'^
Nehemiah Moulton
Sam" Samburn
Ozem Dowse
Cap' Sam" Frost
Nathan Knowles
Christ" Gold
Rich'* Lock
Ozem Dowse jun"^
Henry Ealkins
Cap' George Frost
Benj" Libby
Shadrach Weymoth
Nath" Berry Jun^
Ephraim Rand

! Esq^'

His Excellency Benning Wentworth Esq a Tract of Land to
Contain five Hundred Acres as Marked B : W : in the Plan which is
to be Accounted Two of the within Shares— one whole Share for
the Incorporated Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign
Parts — one whole Share for a Glebe for the Church of England as by
Law Established — one Share for the first Settled Minister of the
Gospel & one Share for the Benefit of A School in Said Town
forever —

Pro^ of New Hamp^ Sepf 8'" 1763

Recorded from the Back of the Original Charter of Ryegate under
the Pro^ Seal

m T Atkinson Jun"" Sec^^

394

CHARTER RECORD;

.K.cqa^,

ProYiDce of New Hamp' Septemb' & 1763

Recorded from the Plaa of the original Charter of Rvegate under
the Pro^ Seal

Aires' T Atkinson Jun'' See"^

*2-301
Salisburv

SALISBURY.

*Province of Xew-Hampshire.

GEORGE THE Third.

)

Br the Grace of G«;»d. of Great-Britain, France and
Ireland. King, Defender of the Faith. »S:c

To all Persons to tchom these Presents shall come.
Greeting.

Kx(:»w ye, that We of Our sj^ecial Grace, certain Knowledge, and
meer ^lotion, for the due Encouragement of settling a Xeic Planta-
tion witliin our said ProA-ince. by and with the Ad^'ice of our Trusty
and Well-beloved Bexxixg Wentworth, Esq : Our Governor and
Commander in Chief of Our said Pro\-ince of Xeav-Haaipshire in
Xeic-En<jland. and of our Council of the said P^o^■ince ; Have
ujDon the Conditions and Reservations herein after made, given and
granted, and by these Presents for us. our Heirs, and Successors, do
give and grant in equal Shares, unto Our lo\-ing Subjects, Inhabitants
of Our said Pro%-ince of Xew-Hampshire, and Our other Govern-
ments, and to their Heirs and Assigns for ever, whose Xames are

SALISBURY. 395

entred on this Grant, to be divided to and among-st them into Sixty-
Eight equal Shares, all that Tract or Parcel of Land situate, lying and
being within our said Province of Ncw-Hainpaliire., containing l)y Ad-
measurement, Twenty Five Thousand & Forty Acres, which Tract is
to contain Something more than Six Miles square, and no more ; out
of which an Allowance is to be made for High Ways and unimprov-
able Lands by Rocks, Ponds, IMountains and Rivers, One Thousand
and Forty Acres free, according to a Plan and Survey thereof, made
by Our said Governor's Order, and returned into the Secretary's
Office, and hereunto annexed, butted and bounded as follows, Viz.
Begining at the South Westerly Corner of Midlebury at a Tree
Standing on the Bank of the Easterly Side of Otter Creek & Runing
from thence East by JNIidlebur}- to the south Easterly Corner thereof,
then Turning off & Rvuiing South ten Degrees West Six Miles &
Sixty Four Rods, from thence Turning off & Runing West to Otter
Creek aforesaid then down the said Creek as that Runs to the bounds
first above JVIentiond And that the same be, and hereby is Incorpo-
rated into a Township l)y the Name of Salisbury — And the Inhabi-
tants that do or shall hereafter Inhabit the said Township, are hereby
declared to be Enfranchized with and Intitled to all and every the
Priviledges and Immunities that other Towns within Our Province
by Law Exercise and Enjoy: And further, that the said Town as
soon as there shall be Fifty Families resident and settled thereon,
shall have the Liberty of holding Two Fairs, one of which shall be
held on the And the other on the

annually, which Fairs are not to
continue longer than the respective following the

said and that as soon as the said Town shall

consist of Fifty Families, a Market may be *opened and *2-302
kept one or more Days in each Week, as may be thought
most advantagious to the Inha])itants. Also, that the first Meeting
for the Choice of Town Officers, agreable to the Laws of our said
Province, shall be held on the First Tuesday in January next which
said Meeting shall be Notified by M"' John Evarts wlio is hereby
also appointed the Moderator of the said first Meeting, which he is to
Notify and Govern agreable to the Laws and Customs of Our said
Province ; and that the annual ]Meeting forever hereafter for the
Choice of such Officei*s for the said' Town, shall be on the Second
Tuesday of 3Iarch annually. To Have and to Hold the said Tract
of Land as above expressed, together with all Privileges and Appur-
tenances, to them and their respective Heirs and Assigns forever,
upon the following Conditions, viz.

I. That every Grantee, his Heirs or Assigns shall plant and culti-

396 CHARTER RECORDS.

vate five Acres of Land within the Term of five Years for every fifty
Acres contained in his or their Share or Proportion of Land in said
Township, and continne to improve and settle the same by additional
Cnltivations, on Penalty of the Forfeiture of his Grant or Share in
the said Township, and of its reverting to Us, our Heirs and Suc-
sessors, to be by Us or Them Re-granted to such of Our Subjects as
shall effectually settle and cultivate the same.

II. That all white and other Pine Trees within the said Township,
fit for Masting Our Royal Navy, be carefully preserved for that Use,
and none to be cut or felled without Our special Licence for so doing
first had and obtained, upon the Penalty of the Forfeiture of the
Right of such Grantee, his Heirs and Assigns, to Us, our Heirs and
Successors, as well as being subject to the Penalty of any Act or Acts
of Parliament that now are, or hereafter shall be Enacted.

III. Tliat before any Division of the Land be made to and among
the Grantees, a Tract of Land as near the Centre of the said Town-
ship as the Land will admit of, shall be reserved and marked out for
Town Lots, one of which shall be allotted to each Grantee of the
Contents of one Acre.

IV. Yielding and paying therefor to Lis, our Heirs and Successors
for the Space of ten Years, to be computed from the Date hereof,
the Rent of one Ear of Indian Corn only, on the twenty-fifth Day of
December annually, if lawfully demanded, the first Payment to be
made on the twenty-fifth Day of December. 1761

V. Every Proprietor, Settler or Inhabitant, shall yield and pay
unto Us, our Heirs and Successors yearly, and every Year forever,
from and after the Expiration of ten Years from the al)ovesaid twenty-
fifth Day of December^ namely, on the twenty-fifth Day of December^
which will be in the Year of Our Lord 1771 One shilliruj Proclama-
tion Money for every Hundred Acres he so owns, settles or possesses,
and so in Proportion for a greater or lesser Tract of the said Land;
which Money shall be paid by the respective Persons abovesaid, their
Heirs or Assigns, in our Council Chxmiber in Portsmouth, or to such
Officer or Officers as shall be appointed to receive the same ; and this
to be in Lieu of all other Rents and Services whatsoever.

In Testimony whereof we have caused the Seal of our said Prov-
ince to be hereunto affixed. Witness Benning Wentworth, Esq ;
Our Governor and Commander in Chief of Our said Province, the
Third Day of Novem'^ In the Year of our Lord Chkist, One Thou-
sand Seven Hundred and Sixty One And in the Second Year of Our
Reign.

B Wentworth

SALISBURY

397

By His Excellency's ComnianJ,
Witii Advice of Council,

Theodore Atkinson Sec'"''"

Province of New ITanips'" Nov'" 3, 1761

Recorded According to the Origional Charter under the Province
Seal

19 Theodore Atkinson Sec""^

The Names of the Grantees of Salisbury

*2-30a

Jolni Evarts
Benj-' Benadict
Ca])' Will"' Eno
Elijah Owen
Cap' Josiah Dean
Tim*^ Brownson Jun""
Elias Read
Jesse e Bostwick
Janna Migs Jun*^
Jon-' Buck
Tliomas Chipman
Samuel Moore jun""
Nathaniel Windsow
Prince Winslow
John Moore
Zacli*' Hanchet
John Newbury
Daniel Evarts
Daniel Benton
Asa Landon

Josiah Heth
Seth Kent
Phineas Bradley
Sam' Keep
Lien' Nath' Buel
Alexander Gaston
Isaac Prat
Jonas Marsh
Gilbert Evarts
Elias Read jun'"
Bathuel Chittenden
William Fitch
Benj* Smally
Isaac Saris
Daniel Morris
Jacob Schormerhoru
Solomon Ensign
John Benton jun'
Joshua Jewell

Tim° Brownson
Steph" Hawly
Azariah Rood
Cap' Josiah Stoddard
Sam' Abbot
Abiel Camp
Joseph Waterhouse
Nathaniel Dyali
Jacob Spafford
Sam" Turner
Abner Woodworth
Luther Evarts
Silvan us Evarts
Jonathan Kellsey
Cap' Moses Lyman
Abraham Turner
Joel Evarts
Sam" Benton
James Man gar
Isaac Benton

Philip Catlield
Joseph Newmarch Esq Daniel Warner Esq

His Excellency Penning Wentworth Esq a Tract of Land to con-
tain Five Hundred Acres as Marked B-W- in the Plan which is to
be Accounted two of the within Shares one whole Share for the
Incorporated Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign
Parts one Share for A Glebe for the Church of England as by Law
Established One Share for the first Settled Minister of the Gospel
k one Share for the Benefit of A School in Said Town

Province of New Hamps"" Novemb'" 3-1761

Recorded from the Back of the Original Charter of Salisbury under
the Province Seal

■^ Theodore Atkinson Sec*"^

398 CHARTER RECORDS.

*^'^-->)Wi}^>Jl^

Province of New Hamp'^ Novenib' 3'' 1761

Recorded from the back of the Origional Charter of Salisbury
under the Prov*^ Seal

^ Theodore Atkinson Sec^^

SANDGATE.

*2-93 *Province of New-Hampshire.

Sandgate GEORGE the Third,

. /-*.---—> . By the Grace of God, of Great-Britain, France and
\ / Ireland, King, Defender of the Faith &c.

I (To all Persons to whom these Presents shall come,

^ -— v^— ' ^ Greeting.

SANDGATE. 399

ing by Admeasurement, Twenty tbree thousand & fort}'^ Acres, which
Tract is to contain Six Miles square, and no more ; out of which an
Allowance is to be made for High Ways and unimprovable Lands by
Rocks, Ponds, Mountains and Rivers, One Thousand and Forty Acres
free, according to a Plan and Survey thereof, made by Our said Gov-
ernor's Order, and returned into the Secretary's Office, and hereunto
annexed, butted and bounded as follows, Viz. At the North West
Corner of Arlington & from thence due North Six Miles thence due
East Six Miles thence due South Six Miles to the North East
Corner of Arlington afore Said then due West by Arlington afore
Said to the Bound first began At — And that the same be, and hereby
is Incorporated into a Township by the Name of Sandgate And the
Inhabitants that do or shall hereafter inhabit the said Township, are
hereby declared to be Enfranchized with and Intitled to all and ever}"
the Priviledges and Immunities that other Towns within Our Prov-
ince by Law Exercise and Enjo}" : And further, that the said Town
as soon as there shall be Fifty Families resident and settled thereon,
shall have the Liberty of holding l^ivo Fairs, one of which shall be
held on the And the

other on the annually, which

Fairs are not to continue longer than the respective

following the said
and that as soon as the said Town shall consist of Fifty Fami-
lies, a Market may be *opened and kept one or more Days in *2-94
each Week, as may be thought most advantagious to the Inhabi-
tants. Also, that the first Meeting for the Choice of Town Officers,
agreable to the Laws of our said Province, shall be held on the
Second Tuesday in September Next which said Meeting shall be Noti-
fied by Robart Boyes Esq who is hereby also appointed the Mod-
erator of the said first Meeting, which he is to Notify and Govern
agreable to the Laws and Customs of Our said Province ; and that
the annual Meeting for ever hereafter for the Choice of such Officers
for the said Town, shall be on the Second Tuesday of ilfart'/i annually.
To Have and to Hold the said Tract of Land as above expressed,
together with all Privileges and Appurtenances, to them and their
respective Heirs and Assigns forever, upon the following Conditions,
viz.

L That every Grantee, his Heirs or Assigns shall plant and culti-
vate five Acres of Land within the Term of five Years for every fifty
Acres contained in his or their Share or Proportion of Land in said
Township, and continue to improve and settle the same by addi-
tional Cultivations, on Penalty of the Forfeiture of his Grant or
Share in the said Township, and of its reverting to Us, our Heirs

400 CHARTER RECORDS.

and Successors, to be by Us or Them Re-granted to such of Our Sub-
jects as shall effectually settle and cultivate the same.

II. That all white and other Pine Trees within the said Township,
fit for Masting Our Royal Navy, be carefully preserved for that Use»
and none to be cut or felled without Our special Licence for so doing
first had and obtained, upon the Penalty of the Forfeiture of the
Right of such Grantee, his Heirs and Assigns, to Us, our Heirs and
Successors, as well as being subject to the Penalty of any Act or
Acts of Parliament that now are, or hereafter shall be Enacted.

III. That before any Division of the Land be made to and among
the Grantees, a Tract of Land as near the Centre of the said Town-
ship as the Land will admit of. shall be reserved and marked out for
Town Lots, one of which shall be allotted to each Grantee of the
Contents of one Acre.

IV. Yielding and paying therefor to Us, our Heirs and Successors
for the Space of ten Years, to be computed from the Date hereof, the
Rent of one Ear of Indian Corn only, on the twenty-fifth Day of
JJecember annually, if lawfully demanded, the first Pa^-ment to be
made on the twenty-fifth Day of December. 1762

V. Ever}- Proprietor, Settler or Inhabitant, shall yield and pay
unto Us, our Heirs and Successors yearly, and every Year forever,
from and after the Expiration of ten Years from the abovesaid
twenty-fifth Da}' of December, namely, on the twenty-fifth Day of
December^ which will be in the Year of Our Lord 1772 One shilling
Proclamation Money for every Hundred Acres he so owns, settles or
possesses, and so in Proportion for a greater or lesser Tract of the
said Land; w^hich Money shall be paid by the respective Persons
abovesaid, their Heirs or Assigns, in our Council Chamber in Ports-
mouthy or to such Officer or Officers as shall be appointed to receive
the same : and this to be in Lieu of all other Rents and Services
whatsoever.

In Testimony whereof we have caused the Seal of our said Prov-
ince to be hereunto affixed. Witness BEN^'ING Wentworth Esq;
Our Governor and Commander in Chief of Our said Province, the
11"' Day of August In the Year of our Lord Christ, One Thousand
Seven Hundred and Sixtv one And in the First vear of Our Reign.

B Went worth
By His Excellency's Command,
With Advice of Council,

Theodore Atkinson Sec''^'

Province of Xew Hamp"" August the 11'*^ 1761
Recorded According to the Original under the Pro^' Seal

^ Theodore Atkinson Se''^

SANDGATE.

401

*Tlie Names of the Grantees of Sanclgate Viz *2-95

John Park
John Gillmore
Arthur Archibahl
Peter Cockran
Andrew M'lame
James Adams
Jon-' GiUmore
William Eger
James M'Connel
Killy Blair
Joseph Cockran
James Stevenson
Divid Linne
David Cowden
Robert Gillmore
AVilliam C^ilmore
John Blair
Robert Pebbles
James Neily
John Morse
Alexander Todd
Benning Wentworth

Moses Barnard
Henry Erwin
Joseph Wough
Thomas Christee
Hugh Simle
Robert M^Niell
John Clark
James Crozet
E2)hraim Cowen
Isaac Hunter
Thomas Halbart
Joseph Steward
Robert M'Cullough
Thomas Cockran
Daniel M-Cullum
James Gilmore
William Blair
William Selfige

Andrew Boyd
James Boyse
James Cockran
Jesse Christee
Alexand Park
John Park
Sam'i Clark
John llalbert
James Cowen
David Slaruh
George Duncan
Isaac Stinson
Robert Cowen
John Hambleton
Samuel Crozet
James Dunlap
Jon'^ Dickinson
John Wousrh

Sam^' Allison Hugh Ramsey

Andrew Todd Coll Gregg of Londonderry
Joseph Newmarch Esq Sampson Sheaffe Esq
Henry Sherburne Esq John Wentworth Esq

For His Excellency Benning Wentworth Esq"" A Tract of Land to
Contain Five Hundred Acres as Marked B : W : in the Plan which is
to be Accounted Two of the within Shares One whole Share for the
incorporated Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in foreign
Parts one Share for A Glebe for the Church of England as by Law
established One whole Share for the first Settled jNIinister of the Gospel
and one Share for the Benefit of the School in Said ToAvn —

Province of New Hamp' August IP^ 1761
Recorded from the Back of the Original Charter

19 Theodore Atkinson Sec'^^

402

CHARTER RECORDS.

a^i Cuii s. . "i.u ,

,*-

Province of New Hamp"" August 11"' 1761
Recorded from the Back of tlie Original Charter

^ Theodore Atkinson Se^"

SHAFTSBURY.

p— s

*2-121 *Province of New-Hampshire.

Shaftsbury GEORGE the Third,

^ .-W-— >^ ^ By the Grace of GoD, of Great^Britain, France and
Ireland, King, Defender of the Faith, &c.

To all Permns to whom these Prese)its shall come,
^ •- — -^"— ' -' Greeting.

Know ye, that We of Our special Grace, certain Knowledge, and
meer Motion, for the due EncouraQ-ement of settlino- a New Plantation
within our said Province, by and with tlie Advice of our Trusty and
Well-beloved Benning Wentworth, Esq ; Our Governor and Com-
mander in Chief of Our said Province of New-HxVmpshlre in New-
Pnr/land, and of our Council of the said Province ; Have upon the
Conditions and Reservations herein after made, given and granted,
and by these Presents, for us, our Heirs, and Successors, do give and
grant in equal Shares, unto Our loving Subjects, Inhabitants of Our
said Province of JVew-JIaonj) shire, and Our other Governments, and to

SHAFTSBURY. 403

their Heirs and Assigns for ever, whose Names are entred on this
Grant, to be divided to and amongst them into Sixty Eiglit equal
Shares, all that Tract or Parcel of Land situate, lying and being within
our said Province of New-Hampshire^ containing by Admeasurement,
Twenty three Thousand & forty Acres, which Tract is to contain
Six INIiles square, and no more ; out of which an Allowance is to be
made for High Ways and unimprovable Lands by Rocks, Ponds,
Mountains and Rivers, One Thousand and Forty Acres free, accord-
ing to a Plan and Survey thereof, made by Our said Governor's Order,
and returned into the Secretary's Office, and hereunto annexed, butted
and bounded as follows, Viz. Begining at the North West Corner of
Bennington thence Due North Six Miles to the South West Corner
of Arlington thence Due East Six Miles by Arlington Afore Said to
the South P^ast Corner thereof thence Due South Six Miles to the
North East Corner of Bennington afore Said thence due West to the
Bounds first Above mentioned And that the same be, and hereby is
Incorporated into a Township by the Name of Shaftsbury And the
Inhabitants that do or shall hereafter inhabit the said Township, are
hereby declared to be Enfranchized with and Intitled to all and every
the Priviledges and Inmiunities that other Towns within Our Prov-
ince by Law Exercise and Enjoy: And further, that the said Town as
soon as there shall be Fifty Families resident and settled thereon,
shall have the Liberty of holding Two Fairs, one of which shall be
held on the
And the other on the
aiuiually, which Fairs are not to continue longer than the respective

' following the said
and that as soon as the said Town shall consist of Fifty
Families, a Market may be *opened and kept one or more *2-122
Days in each Week, as may be thought most advanta-
gious to the Inhabitants. Also, that the first Meeting for the
Choice of Town Officers, agreable to the Laws of our said Province,
shall be held on the Last Tuesday in October next which said
Meeting shall be Notified by Elisha Jones Esq who is hereby also
appointed the Moderator of the said first Meeting, which he is to
Notify and Govern agreable to the Laws and Customs of Our said
Province ; and that the annual Meeting for ever hereafter for the
Choice of such Officers for tlie said Town, shall be on the Second
Tuesday of March annually. To Have and to Hold the said Tract
of Land as above expressed, together with all Privileges and Appur-
tenances, to them and their respective Heirs and Assigns forever,
upon the following Conditions, viz.

I. That every Grantee, his Heirs or Assigns shall plant and cultivate

404 CHARTER RECORDS.

five Acres of Land Avithin the Term of five Years for every fifty Acres
contained in liis or their Share or Proportion of Land in said Town-
ship, and continue to improve and settle the same by additional
Cultivations, on Penalty of the Forfeiture of his Grant or Share in the
said Township, and of its reverting to Us, our Heirs and Successors,
to be by Us or Them Re-granted to such of Our Sul)jects as shall
effectually settle and cultivate the same.

IL That all white and other Pine Trees within the said Township,
fit for Masting Our Royal Navy, be carefully preserved for that Use,
and none to be cut or felled without Our special Licence for so doing
first had and obtained, upon the Penalty of the Forfeiture of the Right
of such Grantee, his Heirs and Assigns, to Us, our Heirs and Success-
ors, as well as being subject to the Penalty of any Act or Acts of
Parliament that now are, or hereafter shall be Enacted.

IV. Yielding and pa^dng therefor to Us, our Heirs and Successors
for the Space of ten Years, to be computed from the Date hereof, the
Rent of one Ear of Indian Corn only, on the twenty-fifth Day of
December annually, if lawfully demanded, the first Payment to be
made on the twenty-fifth Day of December. 1762

V. Every Proprietor, Settler or Inhabitant, shall jdeld and pay
unto Lis, our Heirs and Successors yearly, and every Year forever,
from and after the Expiration of ten Years from the abovesaid twenty-
fifth Day of December, namely, on the twenty-fifth Day of December,
which will be in the Year of Our Lord 1772 One shilling Proclama-
tion Money for every Hundred Acres he so owns, settles or possesses,
and so in Proportion for a greater or lesser Tract of the said Land ;
which Money shall be paid by the respective Persons abovesaid, their
Heirs or Assigns, in our Council Chamber in Dortsmoiith, or to such
Officer or Officers as shall be appointed to receive the same ; and this
to be in Lieu of all other Rents and Services whatsoever.

In Testimony whereof we have caused the Seal of our said Province
to be hereunto affixed. Witness Benning Went worth. Esq ; Our
Governor and Commander in Chief of Our said Province, the Twenti-
eth Day of August In the Year of our Lord Christ, One Thousand
Seven Hundred and Sixty one And in the First Year of Our Reign.

B Wentworth

SHAFTSBURY.

405

By His Excellency's Command,
AN'itii Advice of Council,

Theodore Atkinson Se'^''

Pro^

1761

N Hamp-- August 20">
Recorded According to the Original under the Prov Seal

Attesf Theodore Atkinson Sec'''^

*The Names of the Grantees of Shaftsbury

*2-123

John Brown
Elias Willard
Phinehas Nash
Joseph Allen
Thomas Pior
Mattice Hoose
Nath" Fellows
Samuel Cooper
Ebeuez' Baldwin
Aaron Jones
John Mirich
Francis Jones
Isaac Allen
Nathan Jones
Josiah Allen
Daniel Jones
Samuel Severiis
Ephraim Joues
Byfield Lo3'd Esq

Jon* Hindsdale
John Willow
Moses Old
John Taylor
Henry Burgart
Joseph Noble
William Kanady
Joseph Pixley
Aaron Lomis
Aaron Sheldon
Lemuel Jones
Elisha Fullam
Elisha Jones
Nathaniel Allen
Israel Jones
Icabod Stanly

Joseph Bernard
Benf Willard
William Pendall
Asael Duey
Jonathan Pixly
Samuel Lee
John Nellson
Samuel Dowey
Cooper Pixly
Abraham Jones
Increase Leadbetter
Abraham Jones
Samuel Woodward
Elisha Jones Jun''
Nath" Jenison
Elias Jones
Thomas Peirce
M'^ H^ Went worth Esq
Benniug Wentworth

Josiah Jones
Theodore Atkinson Esq

John Tasker Esq
John Wentworth Esq Wiseman Claggit Esq Simeon Jones
Sam" Wentworth Boston & Oliver Warner

His Excellency Benning Wentworth Esq a Tract of Land to Con-
tain five Hundred Acres as Marke B : W : in the Plan which is to be
Accounted two of the within Shares one whole Share for the incor-
porated Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in foreign Parts
one Share for A Glebe for the Church of England as by Law Estab-
lished One Share for the first Settled Minister of the Gospel one
Share for the Benefit of A School in Said Town

Prov*- of New Hamp"^ August 20"' 1761

Recorded from the Back of the Original Charter for Shaftsbury
under the Prov*" Seal

Attest' Theodore Atkinson Sec'"^

406

CHARTER RECORDS.

«-■•■

•\>

Province of New Hamj/ August 20 — 1761

Recorded from the Back of the Original Charter for Shaftsbury-
under the Pro^ Seal

■^ Theodore Atkinson Sec''*'

SHARON.
*2-117 *Province of New- Hampshire.

Sharon GEORGE the Third,

i- .-w^-^ . By the Grace of God, of Great-Britain, France and

\ p g / Ireland, King, Defender of the Faith, &c.
) " ( To all Personn to whom these Presents shall come,

^ ^— ->.-»-' -' Greeting.

SHARON. 407

do give and grant in equal Shares, unto Our loving Subjects, Inliul)-
itants of Our said Province of New-Hamjnhlre^ and Our other
Governments, and to their Heirs and Assigns for ever, whose Names
are entred on this Grant, to be divided to and amongst them into
Sixty Eight equal Shares, all that Tract or Parcel of Land situate,
lying and being within our said l*roviuce of New- Hampshire^ con-
taining by Admeasurement Twenty Two Thousand Ac.res^ which
Tract is to contain Something Short of Six Miles square, and no
more; out of which an Allowance is to be made for High Ways and
unimprovable Lands by Rocks, Ponds, Mountains and Rivers, One
Thousand and Forty Acres free, according to a Plan and Survey
thereof, made by Our said Governor's Order, and returned into the
Secretary's Office, and hereunto annexed, butted and bounded as
follows. Viz. Begining at the North Westerly Corner of Hartford
thence North Sixty Degrees West five Miles & one half Mile by
r*omfret to the North Wesf'y Corner thereof, thence North, forty De-
greest East Six Miles & one Quarter of a Mile Thence South fifty
Seven Degrees East Six Miles to the North Westerly Corner of Nor-
which thence South forty five Degrees West Six Miles by Norwhich
to the Bounds first above Mentiond And that the same be, and hereby
is Incorpoiated into a Township by the Name of Sharon And the
Inhabitants that do or shall hereafter inhabit the said Township, aie
hereby declared to be Enfranchized with and Intitled to all and
every the Priviledges and Immunities that other Towns within Our
Province by Law Exercise and Enjoy: And further, that the said
Town as soon as there shall be Fifty Families resident and settled
thereon, shall have the Liberty of holding Two Fairs, one of which
shall be held on the
And the other on the
annually, wliich Fairs are not to continue longer than the respective

following the said
and that as soon as the said Town shall consist of
Fifty Families, a Market may be *opened and kept *-2-ll8
one or more Days in each Week, as may be thought most
advantagious to' the Inhabitants. Also, that the first Meeting
for the Choice of Town Officers, agreable to the Laws of our said
Province, shall be held on the first Monday in September Next which
said Meeting shall be Notified by M' Benjamin Spaulding who is here-
by also appointed the ^Moderator of the said first Meeting, which he is
to Notify and Govern agreable to the Laws and Customs of Our said
Province; and that the annual Meeting for ever hereafter for the
Choice of such Officers for the said Town, shall be on the Second
Tuesday of March annually, To Have and to Hold the said Tract of

408 CHARTER RECORDS.

Land as above expressed, together with all Privileges and Appurten-
ances, to them and their respective Heirs and Assigns forever, upon
the following Conditions, viz.

I. That every Grantee, his Heirs or Assigns shall plant and culti-
vate five Acres of Land within the Term of five Years for every fifty
Acres contained in his or their Share or Proportion of Land in said
Township, and continue to improve and settle the same by additional
Cultivations, on Penalty of the Forfeiture of his Grant or Share in
the said Township, and of its reverting to Us, our Heirs and Suc-
cesors, to be by Us or Them Re-granted to such of Our Subjects as
shall effectually settle and cultivate the same.

n. That all white and other Pine Trees w^ithin the said Towuship,
fit for Masting Our Royal Navy, be carefully preserved for that Use,
and none to be cut or felled without Our special Licence for so doing
first had and obtained, upon the Penalty of the Forfeiture of the
Right of such Grantee, his Heirs and Assigns, to Us, our Heirs and
Successors, as well as being subject to the Penalty of any Act or
Acts of Parliament that now are, or hereafter shall be Enacted.

IV. Yielding and paying therefor to Us, our Heirs and Successors
for the Space of ten Years, to be computed from the Date hereof, the
Rent of one Ear of Lidian Corn only, on the twenty-fifth Day of
Decemher annually, if lawfully demanded, the first Payment to be
made on the twenty-fifth Day of Decemher. 1762

V. Every Proprietor, Settler or Inhabitant, shall yield and pay
unto Us, our Heirs and Successors yearly, and every Year forever,
from and after the Expiration of ten Years from the abovesaid
twenty-fifth Day of December.^ namely, on the twenty-fifth Day of
December^ which will be in the Year of Our Lord 1772 One alullhui
Proclamation Money for every Hundred Acres he so owns, settles or
possesses, and so in Proportion for a greater or lesser Tract of the
said Land ; which Money shall be paid by the respective Persons
abovesaid, their Heirs or Assigns, in our Council Chamber in Ports-
mouth, or to such Officer or Officers as shall be appointed to receive
the same; and this to be in Lieu of all other Rents and Services
whatsoever.

In Testimony whereof we have caused the Seal of our said Prov-
ince to be hereunto affixed. Witness Benning Wentwouth, Esq ;
Our Governor and Commander in Chief of Our said Province, the

SHARON.

409

IT'*" Day of August In the Year of our Lord Christ, One Thou-
sand Seven Hundred and Sixty one And in the First Year of Our
Reign.

B Wentvvorth
By His Excellency's Command,
With Advice of Council,

Theodore Atkinson Sec'''^

Province of New Hami/ August 17"' 1761

Recorded according to the Original Charter of Sharon under the
Province Seal

Attest"^ Theodore Atkinson Sec""*'

*The Names of the Grantee of Sharon Viz

*2-119

John Taylor
David Spaulding
Joseph Kingsley
Sam^' Parkhurst jun''
Oliver Lovejoy
Silas Hutchens
Tilly Parkhurst
Benjamin Spaulding
Joseph Parkhurst jun'
Philip Spalding
Luther Cady
Jacob Sheapard
Uriah Mackey
Samuel Sheapard
Seth Dean
Phineas Parkhurst
David Sheapard
Moses Perkins
James How
Sampson Sheaffe Esq
Cap* Nath' Dowse

Isaac Morgan
Tim" Spaulding jun'^
Samuel Wheeler
Curtis Spaulding
William Lovejoy
Joseph Spaulding
Joseph Thornton
David Rowland
Isaac Wheeler
Natha" Wheeler
William Cady
Daniel Mackey
Benj'^ Renalds
Willard Sheapard
John Parkhurst
Eli])halet Kimball
Abijah Ward
John Stevens
Daniel Coit
Jn'' Downing Esq
Benningf Wentworth

Eleaz"" Spaulding jun""
Benj'* Wheeler
Isaac Sheapard
Rich'^ Lovejoy
Joseph Parkhurst
Joseph Barret
William Kennady
Timothy Wheeler
Robert "Miller
Isaac Wheeler jun""
Jonas Sheapard
Nathaniel Mackey
Jonathan Parkhurst
Joseph Sheapard
John Parkhurst jun""
John Nellson
Josiah Russell
Isaac Coit
John Nellson
Daniel Warner Esq

His Excellency Benning Wentvvorth Esq a Tract of Land to
Contain Five Hundred Acres as marked B W in the Plan which
is to be Accounted two of the within Shares one Share for the
incorporated Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in foreign
Parts One Share for A Glebe for the Church of England as by Law
Established One Share for the first Settled Minister of the Gospel
&, one Share for the Benefit of A School in Said Town —

410 CHAKTER RECORDS.

Province of New Hamp' August 17"' 1761

Recorded from the Back of the Original Charter of Sharon under
the Province Seal

Attesf^ Theodore Atkinson Sec'^^

Province of Nevr Haraps"^ August 17-1761

Recorded from the Back of the Original Charter of Sharon under
the Pro^ Seal

"39 Theodore Atkinson Sec"''

SHELBURNE.

*3-18 *Province of New-Hampshire.

Shelburne GEORGE the Third,

r /—i^^^ . By the Grace of God, of Great-Britain, France and

) p o / Ireland, KiMG, Defender of the Faith &c.

I (To all Perso7is to ivhom these PresejitH shall come,

^ -^"^ — -^ ^ Greeting.

Know Ye, that We of Our special Grace, certain Knowledge, and
meer Motion, for the due Encouragement of settling a JVeiv Planta-
tion within our said Province, by and with the Advice of our Ti-usty
and Well-beloved Benning Wentworth Esq ; Our Governor and
Commander in Chief of Our said Province of New-Hampshire, in

SHELBURNE. 4ll

New-Enyland, and (»f Our Council of the said Province ; Hav^e
upon the ConditioiiS and Reservations herein after made, given and
granted, and b}' these Presents, for Us, Our Heirs, and Succes-
sors, do give and grant in equal Shares, unto Our loving Subjects,
Inhabitants of Our said Province of New-Hampshire, and Our other
Governments, and to their Heirs and Assigns for ever, whose Names
are entred on this Grant, to be divided to and amongst them into Sev-
enty equal Shares, all that Tract or Parcel of Land situate, lying
and being within our said Province of New-Hampshire, containing by
Admeasurement, 23o00 Acres, which Tract is to contain Something
More then Six Miles square, and no more; out of which an Allow-
ance is to be made for High Ways and unimprovable Lands by Rocks»
Ponds, Mountains and Rivers, One Thousand and Forty Acres free,
accordii]g to a Plan and Survey thereof, made by Our said Governor's
Order, and returned into the Secretary's Olifice, and hereunto annexed,
butted and bounded as follows. Vis. Begining at A Stake & Stones
Standing on the Easterly Shore of Lake Champlain which is the North
Westerly Corner Bounds of Charlotta a Township lately Granted in
this Province and from thence runing East Seven Miles Partly by
Charlotta afore Said & Partly by Hindsburgh to a Stake & Stones in
the Northerly Side Line of Hindsburgh from thence turning off &
runing North Six Miles to a Stake & Stones then Turning off again
& runing West about Six Miles to Lake Champlain then runing
Southerly by the S'' Lake as that runs to the North Westerly Corner
Bound of Charlotta the Bound began at — And that the same be
and hereby is Incorporated into a Township by the Name of Shel-
burne And the Inhabitants that do or shall hereafter inhabit
the said Township, are hereby declared to be Enfranchized with
and Intitled to all and every the Priviledges and Immunities
that other Towns within Our Pro%'ince by Law Exercise and
Enjoy: And further, that the said Town as soon as there shall
be Fift3' Families resident and settled thereon, shall have the Liberty
of holding tivo Fairs, one of which shall be held on the

And the other on the
annually, which Fairs are not to continue longer than the respective

following the said
and that as soon as the said Town shall consist of Fifty Fam-
ilies, a Market may be *opened and kept one or more Days *3-19
in each Week, as may be thought most advantagions to the
Inhabitants. Also, that the first Meeting for the Choice of Town
Officers, agreable to the Laws of our said Province, shall be held on
the Third Tuesday in September Next which said Meeting shall be
Notified by M"" Jesse Hallock who is hereby also appointed the

412 CHARTER RECORDS.

Moderator of the said first Meeting, which he is to Notify and
Govern agreable to the Laws and Customs of Our said Province;
and that the annual Meeting for ever hereafter for the Choice of
such Officers for the said Town, shall be on the Second Tuesday of
3Iarch annually, To Have and to Hold the said Tract of Land as
above expressed, together with all Privileges and Appurtenances, to
them and their respective Heirs and Assigns forever, upon the fol-
lowing Conditions, viz.

I. That every Grantee, his Heirs or Assigns shall plant and culti-
vate five Acres of Land within the Term of five Years for every fifty
Acres contained in his or their Share or Proportion of Land in said
Township, and continue to improve and settle the same by additional
Cultivations, on Penalty of the Forfeiture of his Grant or Share in
tlie said Township, and of its reverting to Us, our Heirs and Success-
ors, to be by LTs or them Re-granted to such of our Subjects as shall
effectually settle and cultivate the same.

II. That all white and other Pine Trees within the said Township,
fit for Masting Our Royal Navy, be carefully preserved for that Use,
and none to be cut or felled without Our special Licence for so doing
first had and obtained, upon the Penalt}^ of the Forfeiture of the
Hight of such Grantee, his Heirs and Assigns, to Us, our Heirs and
Successors, as well as being subject to the Penalty of any Act or
Acts of Parliament that now are, or hereafter shall be Enacted.

IV. Yielding and paying therefor to Us, our Heirs and Successors
for the Space of ten Years, to be computed from the Date hereof, the
Rent of one Ear of Indian Corn only, on the twenty-fifth Day of
December annually, if lawfully demanded, the first Payment to be
made on the twenty-fifth Day of December. 1763

V. Every Proprietor, Settler or Inhabitant, shall yield and pay
unto Us, our Heirs and Successors yearly, and every Year forever,
from and after the Expiration of ten Years from the abovesaid
twentj'-fifth Day of December., namely, on the twenty-fifth Day of
December., which will be in the Year of Our Lord 1773 One shilling
Proclamation Money for every Hundred Acres he so owns, settles or
possesses, and so in Proportion for a greater or lesser Tract of the
said Land; which Money shall be paid by the respective Persons
abovesaid, their Heirs or Assigns, in our Council Chamber in Ports-
mouth., or to such Officer or Officers as shall be appointed to receive

SHELBUKNE.

413

the same: and this to be in Lieu of all other Rents and Services
whatsoever.

In Testimony whereof we have caused the Seal of our said Prov-
ince to be hereunto affixed. Witness Benning Wentworth, Esq;
Our Governor and Couimander in Chief of Our said Province, the
18"" Day of Au,2:ust lu the Year of our Lord Christ, One Thousand
Seveu Hundred and Sixty Three And iu the Third Year of Our
Reign.

B Wentworth

By His Excellency's Command,
Witii Advice of Council,

T Atkinson Jun^ Sec'^

Prov' New Hamp'^ August 18-1763

Recorded according to the original Charter under the Pro^ Seal

19 T Atkinson Jun"" Sec''^'

*Names of the Grantees of Shelburne

*3-20

Jesse Hal lock
Richard Gleason
John Bond Jun"^
Samuel Seabury
James Bradshaw
David Farris
Silas Mead
William Cornal
Tideman Hull
Lewis Cammell
Thomas Field
John Burling
Isaac Underhill
Jonathan Akin
Elijah Doty
Benjamin Ferris jun^
Samuel Hight
Joshua Dakin
Stephen Field
Joseph Pearsall
Jacob Underhill

For his Excellency
five Hundred Acres

Steward Southgate
Richard Gleason Jun""
John Potter
Thomas Darling
Ebenezer Sealy
Joshua Franklin
Nathaniel Potter Jun''
Peter Totten
Joseph Hull
Thomas Hull
Edward Burling
Ebenezer Preston
Zebu Ion Ferris
Jeremiah Griffin
John Hallock
Samuel Willis
Gilbert Totten

John Southgate
Nathaniel Potter
Antipas Earl
Patridge Thatcher
Samuel Waters
Thomas Franklin jun^
Robert Southgate
Benjamin Clap
Tideman Hidl jun"^
John Cornal
John Cromwell
Uriah Field
Daniel Merrit
Read Ferris
Benjamin Ferris
David Akin
Simon Dakin

John Thorn jun"^ Flushing

Nathaniel Howland Hadock Bowne

John Akin John Cannon

Hon''^'' William Temple )

Theodore Atkinson >

Mark H« Wentworth )

Benning Wentworth Esq

as Marked B W in the

John Fisher Esq
Esq"*

a Tract to
Plan which is

Contain
to be

414

CHARTER RECORDS.

Accounted two of the within Shares — One whole Share for the Incor-
porated Societ}^ for the Propagation of the Gosi)el in Foreign Parts
— One Share for the Glebe for the Church of England as by Law
Established — One Share for the first Settled Minister of the Gospel
there. — & One Share for the Benefit of a School in said Town forever

Pro' New Hamp-^ August 18-1763

Recorded According to the Back of the original Charter of Shel-
burne und' the Pro"" Seal

^ T Atkinson Jun"" Sec^^

,^*y

) S*-**** m%u%

'V.X

Province of New Hamp^ August IS''' 1763
Recorded from the Back of the
under the Province Seal

Original

Charter for Shelburne
T Atkinson Jun' Sec'"^'

SHELDON.

*3-42
Hungerford

*Province of New-Hampshire.
GEORGE THE Third,

p s

By the Grace of God, of Great-Britain, France and
Ireland, King, Defender of the Faith &c.

To all Persons to whom these Presents shall come,

>— ^.-^«-^ -' Greeting.

Know Ye, that We of Our special Grace, certain Knowledge, and

SHELDON. 415

nieer Motion, for the due Encouragement of settling a Netv Planta-
tion within our said Province, by and with the Advice of our Trusty
and \Vell-beh)ved Benning VVENTWOiiTH, Esq; Our Governor and
Commander in Chief of Our said Province of Neiv-IIampsldre^ in
New-England^ and of Our Council of the said Province ; Have
upon the Conditions and Reservations herein after made, given and
granted, and by these Presents, for Us, Our Heirs, and Successors,
do give and grant in equal Shares, unto Our loving Subjects, Inhabi-
tants of Our said Province of Nen'-IIamp><hirf\ and Our other Gov-
ernments, and to their Heirs and Assigns for ever, whose Names are
entred on this Grant, to be divided to and amongst them into Seventy
equal Shares, all that Tract or Parcel of Land situate, lying and
being within our said Province of Neiv-Hampshire^ containing by
Admeasurement, 23040 Acres^ which Tract is to contain Six Sliles
square, and no more; out of which an Allowance is to be made for
High Ways and unimprovable Lands by Rocks, Ponds, Mountains
and Rivers, One Thousand and Forty Acres free, according to a Plan
and Survey thereof, made by Our said Governor's Order, and returned
into the Secretary's Office, and hereunto annexed, butted and bounded
as follows, Mz. Begining at the North Easterly Corner of Smithfield
A Township this Day granted from thence runing Westerly by
Smithfield as that runs to the North Westerly Corner thereof which
is also the South Easterly Corner of Highgate then Turning off
Northerly & runing by Highgate afore Said as that runs to the North
Easterly Corner thereof then turning oii Easterly & runing so far on
a Parrallel Line with the Northerly Side Line of Smithfield afore
Said as that a Streight Line drawn from that Period to the North
Easter Corner Bound of Smithfield afore Said (the Bound began at)
Shall Include the Contents of Six Miles Square And that the same be,
and hereby is Incorjiorated into a Township by the Name of Hunger-
ford And the Inhabitants that do or shall hereafter inhabit the said
Township, are hereby declared to be Enfianchized with and Intitled
to all and every the Priviledges and Immunities that other Towns
within Our Province by Law Exercise and Enjoy : And further, that
the said Town as soon as there shall be Fifty P'amilies resident and
settled thereon, shall have the Liberty of holding two Fairs, one of
which shall be held on the
And the other on the
annually, which Fairs are not to continue longer than the respective

following the said
and that as soon as the said Town shall consist of Fifty Fami-
lies, a Market may be *opened and kept one or more Days *3-43
in each Week, as may be thought most advautagicms to the

416 CHARTER RECORDS.

Inhabitants. Also, that the first Meeting for the Clioice of Town
Officers, agreable to the Laws of our said Province, shall be held on
the 13^"' Day of Septemb"" next which said Meeting shall be Notified
by Beiij'^ Clapp who is hereby also appointed the Moderator of the
said first Meeting, which he is to Notify and Govern agreable to the
Laws and Customs of Our said Province; and that the annual Meet-
ing for ever hereafter for the Choice of such Officers for the said
Town, shall be on the Second Tuesday of March annually. To Have
and to Hold the said Tract of Land as above expressed, together
with all Privileges and Appurtenances, to them and their respective
Heirs and Assigns forever, upon the following Conditions, viz.

I. That every Grantee, his Heirs or Assigns shall plant and culti-
vate five Acres of Land within the Term of five Years for every fifty
Acres contained in his or their Share or Proportion of Land in said
Township, and continue to improve and settle the same by additional
Cultivations, on Penalty of the Forfeiture of his Grant or Share in
the said Township, and of its reverting to Us, our Heirs and Success-
sors, to be by Us or them Re-granted to such of our Subjects as shall
effectually settle and cultivate the same.

III. That before any Division of the Land be made to and
among the Grantees, a Tract of Land as near the Centre of the said
Township as the Land will admit of, shall be reserved and marked
out for Town Lots, one of which shall be allotted to each (xrantee of
the Contents of one Acre.

IV. Yielding and paying therefor to Us, our Heirs and Successors
for the Space of ten Years, to be computed from the Date hereof,
the Rent of one Ear of Indian Corn only, on the twenty-fifth Day of
December annually, if lawfully demanded, the first Payment to be
made on the twenty-fifth Day of December. 1763

SHELDON.

417

said Land ; which Money shall be paid by the respective Persons
abovesaid, their Heirs or Assigns, in our Council Chamber in Ports-
mouthy or to such Officer or Officers as shall be appointed to receive
the same; and this to be in Lieu of all other Rents and Services
whatsoever.

In Testimony whereof we have caused the Seal of said Province
to be hereunto affixed. Witness Benning Went worth, Esq; Our
Governor and Commander in Chief of Our said Province, the 18"'
Day of August In the Year of our Lord Christ, One Thousand
Seven Hundred and Sixty three And in the Third Year of Our Reign.

B Went worth

By His Excellency's Command,
With Advice of Council,

T Atkinson Jun'' Sec'"''

Pro^ New Hamp^ August 18"' 1763

Recorded according to the Original under the Prov'' Seal

f T Atkinson Jun^ Sec'^

*The Names of the Grantees of Hungerford Viz *3-44

Samuel Hungerford
Rich'^ Sutton
John Powell
Silvan us Mead
Eph"^ Mead Sen^
Benj'^ Mead jun""
John Halloek
Joseph Hiaght
Cornelius Steamood
Charles Green Sen""
Sam" Beacker Jun''
Caleb Sutten
Uriah Field
Solomon Right
Robert Feaild
Philip Allen jun'"
John Clapp
Henry Allen
Gilbird Merrit
Tho* Northroup

The H

Benj* Clapp
Adam Simons jun'"
William W^heeden
Gideon Mead
William Creaft
^Vill'" Mead
Francis Knash
Ezekiel Lockerd
Silas Mead jun'
Thomas Peardey
Joshua Beacker
Edward Sutten
John Young
James Young
Nehemiah Brown

Roger Brown
James Anderson Sen^
Icabod Ogden
Silas Mead
David Marshall
Daniel Ogden
Joseph Sutton Sen""
William Randel
Titus Mead
Samuel Beacker Sen""
Gilbird Peardey
Pell Sutten
Elisha Youngf
Abijah Heaight
Philip Allen Sen""
Richard Allen
John Allen
Caleb Mead

and

Elijah Allen
John Ilorten Palders
Will'" Ogden
Alexander Steward jun'^Samuel Waldo
Sam" Waters Sam" Waters jun

on'''« Nath" BarrelH

Rich" Wibird U ,
Dan" Warner [ ^
Joseph NewraarchJ

418

CHARTER RECORDS.

For His Excellency Benning Wentworth Esq a Tract to Contain
Five Hundred Acres as Marked B W in the Plan which is to be
accounted two of thee within Shares one Whole Share for the Incor-
porated Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in foreign Parts
one Share for A Glebe for the Church of England as by Law Estab-
lished one Share for the first Settled Minister of the Gospel in Said
Town & one Share for the Benefit of A School in S'^ Town forever

Pro^ of New Hamp'' August 18—1763

Recorded from the Back of the Original Charter of Hungerford
under the Prov"^'" Seal

"39 T Atkinson Jun^ Sec^^

Province of New Hamp'' August 18'^'^ 1763

Recorded from the Back of the Original Charter of Hungerford
under the Pro"^ Seal

19 T Atkinson Jun^ SeC-^

SHERBURNE. 419

SHERBURNE.

*Province of New-Hampshire. *2-33

Killington GEORGE the Third,

. ,^ — s . By the Grace of God, of Great-Britain, Erance and
\ ( Ireland, King, Defender of the Faith, &c.

j ( To all Ferso7is to whom these Presents shall come,

^ ^>— i — -«i-' ^ Greeting.

Know ye, that We of Our special Grace, certain Knowledge, and
nieer Motion, for the due Encouragement of settling a Netv Planta-
tion within our said Province, by and with the Advice of our Trusty
and Well-beloved Benning Went worth, Esq; Our Governor and
Commander in Chief of Our said Province of New-Hampshire in
Neiv-England, and of our Council of the said Province; Have upon
the Conditions and Reservations herein after made, given and
granted, and by these Presents, for us, our Heirs, and Successors, do
give and grant in equal Shares, unto Our loving Subjects, Inhab-
itants of Our said Province of Neiv-Hampshire, and Our other
Governments, and to their Heirs and Assigns for ever, whose Names
are entred on this Grant, to be divided to and amongst them into
Seventy two equal Shares, all that Tract or Parcel of Land situate,
lying and being within our said Province of Neiv- Hampshire, contain-
ing by Admeasurement, twenty four Thousand and Six Hund and forty
^crgs, which Tract is to contain Something more then Six Miles square,
and no more ; out of which an Allowance is to be made for High Ways
and unimprovable Lands by Rocks, Ponds, Mountains and Rivers,
One Thousand and Forty Acres free, according to a Plan and Survey
thereof, made by Our said Governor's Order, and returned into the
Secretary's Office, and hereunto annexed, butted and bounded as
follows. Viz. Begining at the Northwest Corner of Saltash from thence
North Sixty two degrees west five miles and one half mile from thence
North Twenty Eight degrees East Seven miles, from Thence South
Sixty two degrees East five miles and one half mile from Thence
South twenty Eight Degrees West Seven miles to the first
Mentioned l)Ounds — And that the same be, and hereby is Incorporated
into a Township by the Name of Killington And the Inhabitants that
do or shall hereafter inhabit the said Township, are hereby declared
to be Enfranchized with and Intitled to all and every the Priviledges
and Immunities that other Towns within Our Province by Law
Exercise and Enjoy : And further, that the said Town as soon as

420 CHABTER RECORDS.

there shall be Fifty Families resident and settled thereon, shall have
the Liberty of holding Two Fairs^ one of which shall be held on the

And the other on the

annually, which Fairs are not to continue

longer than the respective following the said

and that as soon as the said Town shall
*2-34 consist of Fifty Families, a Market may be *opened and
kept one or more Days in each Week, as may be thought
most advantagious to the Inhabitants. Also, that the first Meeting
for the Choice of Town Officers, agreable to the Laws of our said
Province, shall be held on the first Tuesday in September Next
which said Meeting shall be Notified by Benjamin EUery who is
hereby also appointed the Moderator of the said first Meeting, which
he is to Notify and Govern agreable to the Laws and Customs of
Our said Province; and that the annual Meeting for ever hereafter
for the Choice of snch Officers for the said Town, shall be on the
Second Tuesday of March annually. To Have and to Hold the said
Tract of Land as above expressed, together with all Privileges and
Appurtenances, to them and their respective Heirs and Assigns for-
ever, upon the following Conditions, viz.

I. That every Grantee, his Heirs or Assigns shall plant and culti-
vate five Acres of Land within the Term of five Years for every fifty
Acres contained in his or their Share or Proportion of Land in said
Township, and continue to improve and settle the same by additional
Cultivations, on Penalty of the Forfeiture of his Grant or Share in
the said Township, and of its reverting to L^s, our Heirs and Succes-
sors, to be by Us or Them Re-granted to such of Our Subjects as shall
effectually settle and cultivate the same.

IL That all white and other Pine Trees within the said Township,
fit for Masting Our Royal Navy, be carefully preserved for that Use,
and none to be cut or felled without Our special Licence for so
doing first had and obtained, upon the Penalty of the Forfeiture of
the Right of such Grantee, his Heirs and Assigns, to Us, our Heirs
and Successors, as well as being subject to the Penalty of any Act or
Acts of Parliament that now are, or hereafter shall be Enacted.

IV. Yielding and paying therefor to Us, our Heirs and Successors
for the Space of ten Years, to be computed from the Date hereof, the
Rent of one Ear of Indian Corn only, on the twenty-fifth Day of

SHERBURNE.

421

December annually, if lawfully demanded, the first Payment to be
made on the twenty-fifth Day of December. 1762

V, Every Proprietor, Settler or Inhabitant, shall yield and pay
unto Us, our Heirs and Successors yearly, and every Year forever,
from and after the Expiration of ten Years from the abovesaid
twenty-fifth Day of December^ namely, on the twenty-fifth Day of
December., which will be in the Year of Our Lord 1772 One shilling
Proclamation Money for every Hundred Acres he so owns, settles or
possesses, and so in Proportion for a greater or lesser Tract of the
said Land; which Money shall be paid by the respective Persons
abovesaid, their Heirs or Assigns, in our Council Chamber in Ports-
mouth., or to such Officer or Officers as shall be appointed to receive
the same ; and this to be in Lieu of all other lients and Services
whatsoever.

In Testimony whereof we have caused the Seal of our said Prov-
ince to be hereunto affixed. Witness Bennjng Wentworth, Esq;
Our Governor and Commander in Chief of Our said Province, the
Seventh Day of July In the Year of our Lord Christ, One Thousand
Seven Hundred and Sixty one And in the firs Year of Our Reign.

B Wentworth

By His Excellein'Cy's Command,
With Advice of Council,

Theodore Atkinson Sec'^-^

Prov'' New Hamp"" July the 7"> 1T61

Recorded According to the Original under the Province Seal

19 Theodore Atkinson Sec'^^

*The Names of the Grantees of Killington

*2-35

Samuel Yeates
Ashbil Stiles
Benjamin Church
Joseph Wilbour
Alexander Bradford
Samuel Bours
Daniel Rindge
Daniel Wentworth
Thomas Phips Darrell
Benjamin Ellery
Jerem*' Philips
John Heath
John Flag'"' Jun''
Josiah Brown
Nath^ Peirce Esq

Isa

Zephaniah Heath
Jonathan Otis
Archib'^ Campbill
Jonathan Simmans
Joseph Crandall
PoUipus Hammond
Richard Nason
Jonathan Heath Jun''
John Treby
Isaac Daton
Edward Simmans
Jonathan Heath
Robert Elliott
John Rindge
John Downinof

iic Stiles of New Haven
Edw^ Upham
Cornelious Dillingham
Caleb Jaffrees
Peter Bours
David Heald
James Stoodley
LTrial Lyon
Nath' Russell
John Starnes
Joshua Pauld
Charles Church
Christopher Ellery
Ephr' Dinneck
Joseph Heath Juu'"

422

CHAETEE EECORDS.

Ezra Stiles
Abraham Dennes
Elijah Weeden
Jacob Stockman
John Landers
Ichibod How
Jolin Dinneck

James Wesgates
Benjamin Sherburne
Joim Bull
Uziah Wilbur
John Hadwen
Samuel Gibson

Robert Stevene^
Joseph Howlaud
Jolui Pitman
William James
John Boures
William Earl Treadwell

Daniel Peirce Esq »S: Sampson Sheaf Esq

For his Excellency Benning Wentworth Esq A Tract of Land Con-
taining live Hundred Acres as marked in the Plan B W which is to
be Accounted Two of the TN^thin Shares One whole Share for the
Incorporated Society for Propagating the Gospel in forreign Parts
one share for the first Settled minister of the Gosple one Share for
the Behefit of a School in Said Town one "NATiole Share for a Greab
for the Church of England as by Law Established

P^o^•ince of Xew Hamp' July 7'^ 1761

Recorded from the Back of the Original Charter under the Province
Seal

■^ Theodore Atkinson Sec"^

5 tZ £ SATn.ilt.t

Province of New Hamp'^ July 7'^ 1761

Recorded from the Back of the original Charter under the Prov«
Seal

■^ Theodore Atkinson Sec"^

SHOREHAM. 423

SHORi:iIAM.

*Province of New-Hampshire. *2-233

Shoreham GEORGE the Third,

/ .-w«^— V , By tlie Grace of God, of Great-Britain, France and
) ^ ^ ( Ireland, King, Defender of the Faith, &c.

To all Persouis to ivhom these Presents shall come,

Greeting.

Know ye, that We of Our special Grace, certain Knowledge, and
nieer Motion, for the due Encouragement of settling a Neiv Plantation
within our said Province, by and with the Advice of our Trusty and
AVell-beloved Bennixg Wentworth, Esq; Our Governor and Com-
mander in Chief of Our said Province of New-Hampshire in New-
England, and of our Council of the said Province ; Have upon the
Conditions and Reservations herein after made, given and granted,
and by these Presents, for us, our Heirs, and Successors, do give
and grant in equal Shares, unto Our loving Subjects, Inhabitants of
Our said Province of Neiv-Hampsldre, and Our other Governments,
and to their Heirs and Assigns for ever, whose Names are entred on
this Grant, to be divided to and amongst them into Seventy equal
Shares, all that Tract or Parcel of Land situate, l}^ng and being
within our said Province of New-Ha7npshire, containing by Admeasure-
ment, Twenty Five Thousand Acres^ which Tract is to contain Some-
thing more than Six Miles square, and no more ; out of which an Allow-
ance is to be made for High Ways and unimprovable Lands by Rocks,
Ponds, Mountains and Rivers, One Thousand and Forty Acres free,
according to a Plan and Survey thereof, made by Our said Governor's
Order, and returned into the Secretary's Office, and hereunto annexed,
butted and bounded as follows, Viz. Begining at a Tree Marked
Standing by the AVater Side of the Wood Creek so called (on an East
Point from Ticonderoga Fort from thence Runing East Seven Miles,
then begining again at the aforesaid Tree by the Wood Creek thence
Runing Northerly by the Water of the Wood Creek or Imy so far as
to make up Six Miles on a Straight Line from thence east Seven
]\Iiles «S: from thence Southerly to the End of the Seven Miles from
the bounds begun at — And that the same be, and hereby is Incorporated
into a Township by the Name of Shoreham And the Inhabitants that do
or shall hereafter inhabit the said Township, are hereby declared to be
Enfranchized with and Intitled to all and every the Priviledges and
Immunities that other Towns within Our Province by Law Exercise and
Enjoy : And further, that the said Town as soon as there shall be Fifty

424 CHARTER RECORDS.

Families resident and settled thereon, shall have the Liberty of holding

Two Fairs^ one of which shall ho, held on the

And the other on the annually, which Fairs are

not to continue longer than the respective

following the said and that as soon

as the said Town sliall consist of Fifty Families, a Market
*2-234 may be * opened and kept one or more Days in each Week,

as may be thought most advantagious to the Inhabitants.
Also, that the first Meeting for the Choice of Town Officers, agreable
to the Laws of our said Province, shall be held on the Second Tues-
day in Januaiy next which said Meeting shall be Notified by Gardner
Chandler Esq : who is hereby also Appointed the Moderator of the said
first Meeting, which he is to Notify and Govern agreable to the
Laws and Customs of Our said Province ; and that the annual Meeting
for ever hereafter for the Choice of such Officers for the said Town,
shall be on the Second Tuesday of March annually, To Have and to
Hold the said Tract of Land as above expressed, together with all
Privileges and Appurtenances, to them and their respective Heirs and
Assigns forever, upon the following Conditions, viz.

I. That every Grantee, his Heirs or Assigns shall plant and cultivate
five Acres of Land within the Term of five Years for every fifty Acres
contained in his or their Share or Proportion of Land in said Town-
ship, and continue to improve and settle the same by additional
Cultivations, on Penalty of the Forfeiture of his Grant or Share in
the said Township, and of its reverting to Us, our Heirs and Succes-
sors, to be by Us or Them Re-granted to such of Our Sul^jects as shall
effectually settle and cultivate the same.

II. That all white and other Pine Trees within the said Township,
fit for Masting Our Royal Navy, be carefully preserved for that Use,
and none to be cut or felled without Our special Licence for so doing
first had and obtained, upon tlie Penalty of the Forfeiture of the
Right of such Grantee, his Heirs and Assigns, to Us, our Heirs and
Successors, as well as being subject to the Penalty of any Act or Acts
of Parliament that now are, or hereafter shall be Enacted.

III. That before any Division of the Land be made to and among
the Grantees, a Tract of Land as near the Centre of the said Town-
ship as the Land will admit of, shall be reserved and marked out for
Town Lots, one of which shall l)e allotted to each Grantee of the
Contents of one Acre.

IV. Yielding and paying therefor to LTs, our Heirs and Successors
for the Space of ten Years, to be computed from the Date hereof, the
Rent of one Ear of Indian Corn only, on the twenty-fifth Day of De-
cember annually, if lawfully demanded, the first Payment to l)e made
on the twenty-fifth Day of December. 1762

SHOKEHAM.

425

V. Every Proprietor, Settler or Inhabitant, shall yield and pay un-
to Us, our Heirs and Successors yearly, and every Year forever, from
and after the Expiration of ten Years from the abovesaid twenty-fifth
Day of December^ namely, on the twenty-fifth Day of December, which
will be in the Year of Our Lord 1772 One shillim/ Proclamation
Money for every Plundred Acres he so owns, settles or possesses, and
so in Proportion for a greater or lesser Tract of tlie said Land ; which
Money shall be paid by the respective Persons abovesaid, their Heirs
or Assigns, in our Council Chamber in Portsmouth, or to such Officer
or Officers as shall be appointed to receive the same; and this to be
in Lieu of all other Rents and Services whatsoever.

In Testimony whereof we have caused the Seal of our said Province
to be hereunto affixed. Witness Penning Wentwokth, Esq ; Our
Governor and Commander in Chief of Our said Province, the 8"^ Day
of October In the Year of our Lord Chuist, One Thousand Seven
Hundred and Sixty One And in the First Year of Our Reign.

B Wentworth

By His Excellency's Command,
With Advice of Council,

Theodore Atkinson Sec"^^

Province of New Hamps'^ Octo'' 9. 1761

Recorded According to the Origional Charter under the Province
Seal

^ Theodore Atkinson Sec""^

*The Names of the Grantees of Shoreham (Viz') * 2-235

John Cliandler Esq
Zerubabell Snow
Eph'" Doolittle
Jacob Hemingway
Ruben Rice
Elijah Morton
James Forbiis
Asa Moore
John M'Crackin
Thomas Wheeler
Cha" Richardson
Sam' Brooks
John (joddaid Jun'
Joir' Perry
Timo' Pain
Thomas Brown
Cornelius Culnon

John Chandler J'' Esq
John Knaj)
Ebeoezer Warren
Robert (Jray Jun"^
Jon-' Morton Jun'"
Sam' Smith
James Forbus Jun""
Jabez Sergeant
Thadeus Bigelow
Matthew Gray
Enoch Cook
Cornelius Stowell
.Sam' Goddard
Daniel Ward
John Waters
Absolem Rice
Jonathan Stone

Gardener Chandler Esq
Samuel Chandler
Daniel Boyden
Silas Harthorne
Joshua Dickinson
David Morton
Jonathan Gales
John Marsh
Philip Roberts
Will'" Kennedy
Benj'"^ Flagge
John Goddard
Josej)h Perry
Jabez Swan
Sam' Curtis
Joseph Curtis
Jonas Nutton

426 CHARTER RECORDS.

Eben'' Stearns Jmi'' Francis Harington Eprhaim Stearns
Will'" Ward Will'" Jeuison Stearns Ephra'" Curtis

Dan^ Warner Esq Richard Wibird Esq Dan^ Tilton

William White Jonathan Tilton John White h

Caleb Tilton —
His Excellency Benning Wentworth Esq a Tract of Land to Con-
tain Five Hundred Acres as Marked B-W- in the Plan which is to
be Accounted two of the within Shares, One Share for the Incorpo-
rated Society for the Propogation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts,
One Share for a Glebe for the Church of England as by Law Estab-
lished, One Share for the First Settled Minister of the Gospel, &
One Share for the benefit of a School in said Town —

Province of New Hamps'" Octo'' 9. 1761

Recorded from the back of the Origional Charter for Shoreham
under the Province Seal

Attested IS Theodore Atkinson Sec'^

Province of New Hampsh'' Octo"" 9. 1761

Recorded from the back of the Origional Charter of Shoreham
under the Province Seal

19 Theodore Atkinson Sec^^

SHREWSBURY. 427

SHREWSBURY.

*ProviDce of New-Hampshire. *2-161

Shrewsbury GEORGE the Third,

/ r-*--^--N . By the Grace of God, of Great-Britain, France and

) ( Irehmd, King, Defender of the Faith, &c.

) ( To all Persons lo ivhom these Presents shall come,

^ >— s.-*-^ ^ Greeting.

Know ye, that We of Our special Grace, certain Knowledge, and
meer Motion, for the due Encouragement of settling a JVeiv Planta-
tion within our said Province, by and with the Advice of our Trusty
and Well-beloved Benning Wentworth, Esq ; Our Governor and
Ct)mmander in Chief of Our said Province of New-Hampshihe iu
Neiv-England, and of our Council of the said Province; Have
upon the Conditions and Reservations herein after made, given and
granted, and by these Presents, for us, our Heirs, and Successors, do
give and grant in equal Shares, unto Our loving Subjects, Inhabi-
tants of Our said Province of New-Hampshire , and Our other Gov-
ernments, and to their Heirs and Assigns for ever, whose Names are
entred on this (irant, to be divided to and amongst them into Seventy
equal Shares, all that Tract or Parcel of Land situate, lying and
being within our said Province of New-Hampshire^ containing by
Admeasurement, about Twenty Four thousand Acres, which Tract is
to contain Something more than Six Miles square, and no more; out
of which an Allowance is to be made for Highways and unimprova-
ble Lands by Rocks, Ponds, Mountains and Rivers, One Thousand
and Forty Acres free, according to a Plan and Survey thereof, made
by Our said Governor's Order, and returned into the Secretary's
Office, and hereunto annexed, butted and bounded as follows, Viz.
Begining at the South Westerly Corner of Saltash from thence North
Seventeen Degrees East Six Miles by Saltash thence West five
Degrees JNorth Seven Miles & one Quarter of A Mile thence South
five degrees W>st Six Miles thence East five Degrees South to the
Corner of Saltash being the Bounds first Above mentioned — And that
the same be, and hereby is Incorporated into a Township by the Name
of Shrewsbury And the Inhabitants that do or shall hereafter inhabit
tlie said Township, are hereby declared to be Enfranchized with and
Intitled to all and every the Priviledges and Lnmunities that other
Towns within Our Province by Law Exercise and Enjoy: And further,
that the said Town as soon as there shall be Fifty Families resident

428 CHARTER RECORDS.

and settled thereon, shall have the Liberty of holding Two Fairs^ one
of which shall be held on the

And the other on the annually, which

Fairs are not to continue longer than the respective

following the said and that as soon

as the said Town shall consist of Fifty Families, a Market
*2-162 may be *opened and kept one or more Days in each Week,
as may be thought most advantagious to the Inhabitants.
Also, that the first Meeting for the Choice of Town Officers, agreable
to the Laws of our said Province shall be held on the First Wednes-
day in October Next which said Meeting shall be Notified by M' Samuel
Ashley who is hereb}^ also appointed the Moderator of the said first
Meeting, which he is to Notify and Govern agreable to the Laws and
Customs of Our said Province; and that the annual Meeting for ever
hereafter for the Choice of such Officers for the said Town, shall be
on the Second Tuesday of March annually, To Have and to Hold the
said Tract of Land as above expressed, together with all Privileges
and Appurtenances, to them and their respective Heirs and Assigns
forever, upon the following Conditions, viz.

I. That every Grantee, his Heirs or Assigns shall plant and culti-
vate five Acres of Land within the Term of five Years for every
fifty Acres contained in his or their Share or Proportion of Land
in said Township, and continue to improve and settle the same by
additional Cultivations, on Penalty of the Forfeiture of his Grant or
Share in the said Township, and of its reverting to Us, our Heirs
and Successors, to be by Us or Them Re-granted to such of Our Sub-
jects as shall effectually settle and cultivate the same.

IL That all white and other Pine Trees within the said Town-
ship, fit for Masting Our Royal Navy, be carefully preserved for that
Use, and none to be cut or felled without Our special Licence for so
doing first had and obtained, upon the Penalty of the Forfeiture of
the Right of such Grantee, his Heirs and Assigns, to Us, our Heirs
and Successors, as well as being subject to the Penalty of any Act
or Acts of Parliament that now are, or hereafter shall be Enacted.

HL That before any Division of the Land be made to and among
the Grantees, a Tract of Land as near the Centre of the said Township
as the Land will admit of, shall be reserved and marked out for Town
Lots, one of which shall be allotted to each Grantee of the Contents
of one Acre.

IV. Yielding and paying therefor to Us, our Heirs and Successors
for the Space of ten Years, to be computed from the Date hereof, the
Rent of one Ear of Indian Corn only, on the twenty-fifth Day of
December annually, if lawfully demanded, the first Payment to be
made on the twenty -fifth Day of December. 1762

SHREWSBURY.

429

V. Ever}" Proprietor. Settler or Inhabitant, shall 3'ield and pay unto
Us, onr Heirs and Successors yearly, and every Year forever, from
and after the Expiration of ten Years from the abovesaid twenty-
fifth Day of December, namely, on the twenty-fifth Day of Becemher^
which will be in the Year of Onr Lord 177*2 One sh'dlinri Proclama-
tion Money for every Hundred Acres he so owns, settles or possesses,
and so in Proportion for a greater or lesser Tract of the said Land ;
which Money shall be paid by the respective Persons abovesaid, their
Heirs or Assigns, in our Council Chamber in /Portsmouth, or to such
Officer or Officers as shall be apjjointed to receive the same ; and this
to be in Lieu of all other Rents and Services whatsoever.

In Testimony whereof we have caused the Seal of our said
Province to be hereunto affixed. Witness Penning Wentworth,
Esq; Our Governor and Commander in Chief of Our said Province,
the 4'^ Da}' of Septemb"^ In the Year of our Lord Christ, One Thous-
and Seven Hundred and Sixty one And in the first Year of Our
Reign.

B Went worth

B}' His Excellency's Command,
With Advice of Council,

Theodore Atkinson Sec*^^

Province of New Hamp"" Septemb' 4 1761

Recorded According to the Original under the Pro''' Seal

Attest"" Theodore Atkinson Sec'^y

^The Names of the Grantees of Shrewsbury

*2-163

Samuel Ashley
Joseph Ellis
Nathaniel Heaton
Benj'^ Melvin jun"^
Isaac Savage
Ebenez'' Foster
Abijah Will aid
Elijah Grout
Israel Dickinson
Moses Milvin
Sam" Greely Jun""
Joseph Lord
AVilliam Smeed
Phinehas Stevens
Henry Foster
Dunk Campbell
Simon Stevens

John Wheeler
Gideon Ellis
Joseph Wood
Elijah Alexander
Abraham Savage
Beriah Ward
Abel Willard
Joel Grout
Jinben Beldwin
Gideon Ashly
Jon'' Hubbard
Joseph Lord jun'"
Jonathan Thayer
Nathan Willard
William Frink
Josei)h Stone
Jason Stone

Joel Wheeler
William Heaton
Elijah Dodge
James Black
William English
Thomas Beman
Sam" Stevens
Elijah Dickinson
Elijah Dodge Jun""
Sam" Greely
Elisha Marsh
Jonathan Ham'ond
Robert Harris
Levy Willard
James Putnam
Josei)h Stone jun''
Moses Wright

430

CHAKTEK RECORDS.

Jonathan Ashly
John Downing Esq
Jon'' Houghton
Sam" Ashly Jun'^

Phinehas Wait jun'" Davis Hawlett
Joseph Newmarch Esq Joseph Ham'ond
George Watkins Benning Went worth

Ezra Carpenter Clement Sumner &

Sam" Frink

His P^xeellency Benning Wentwortli Esq A Tract of Land to Con-
tain Five Hundred Acres as Marked in the Plan B: W: which is to
be accounted Two of the within Shares one whole Share for the
Incorporated Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign
Parts one Share for A Glebe for the Church of England as by Law
Established one Share for the first Settled Minister of the Gospel and
one Share for the Benefit of A School in Said Town

Province of Xew Harap"^ September 4'^ 1761 —
Recorded from the Back of the Original Charter of Shrewsbury
under the Province Seal

Attesf^ Theodore Atkinson Sec''^'

*.-'*

;; ^-'-/s.:..,.

Province of New Hamp"^ Septemb"^ 4"' 1761

Recorded from the Back of the Original Charter of Shrewsbury
under the Province Seal

Theodore Atkinson Sec"^

SOMERSET. 431

SOMERSET.

*Province of New Hampshire. *2-173

Somersett GEORGE the Third,

^ /— ^^--v . By the Grace of God, of Great-Britain, France and Ire-
1 / land King, Defender of the Faith, &c.

I (To all Persons to whom these Presents shall come^

' v-^.^-^ -' Greeting

Know ye, that We of Our special Grace, certain Knowledge, and
meer Motion, for the due Encouragement of Settling a Neiv Planta-
tion within our said Province, by and with the Advice of our Trusty
and Well-beloved Benning Wentworth, Esq ; Our Governor and
Commander in Chief of Our said Province of New-Hampshire in
Neiv-England., and of our Council of the said Province ; Have
upon the Conditions and Reservations herein after made, given and
granted, and by these Presents, for us, our Heirs, and Successors,
do give and grant in equal Shares, unto Our loving Subjects, Inhabi-
tants of Our said Province of New-Hampshire, and Our other Gov-
ernments, and to their Heirs and Assigns for ever, whose Names are
entred on this Grant, to be divided to and amongst them into Sixty
Eight equal Shares, all that Tract or Parcel of Land situate, lying
and being within out said Province of New-Hampshire, containing
by Admeasurement, Twenty three thousand & forty Acres, which
Tract is to contain Six Miles square, and no more ; out of which an
Allowance is to be made for High Ways and unimprovable Lands by
Rocks, Ponds, Mountains and Rivers, One Thousand and Forty Acres
free, according to a Plan and Survey thereof, made by Our said Gov-
ernor's Order, and returned into the Secretary's Ofhce, and hereunto
annexed, butted and bounded as follows, Viz. Begining at the
South East Corner of Glossenbury thence due North Six Miles by
Glossenbury afore Said to the South West Corner of Stratton thence
Due East Six Miles to the South East Corner of Stratton then Due
South Six Miles thence Due West Six Miles to the South East Cor-
ner of Glossenbury the Bound first above mentioned — And that the
same be, and hereby is Licorporated into a Township by the Name of
Somersett And the Inhabitants that do or shall hereafter inhabit the
said Township, are hereby declared to be Enfrancliized with and
Intitled to all and every the Privil edges and Immunities that other
Towns within Our Province by Law Exercise and Enjoy: And

432 CHARTER RECORDS.

further, that the said Town as soon as there shall be Fi% P'amilies
resident and settled thereon, shall have the Liberty of holding Tivo
Fairs, one of which shall be held on the

And the other on the annually, which

Fairs are not to continue longer than the respective
following the said
and that as soon as the said Town shall consist of Fifty Fam-
*2-174 ilies, a Market may be *opened and kept one or more Days
in each Week, as may be thought most advantagious to the
Inhabitants. Also, that the first Meeting for the Choice of Town
Officers, agreable to the Laws of our said Province, shall be held on
the Second Wednesday of October next which said Meeting shall be
Notified by Thomas Denny who is hereby also appointed the Moderator
of the said first Meeting, which he is to Notify and Govern agrea-
ble to the Laws and Customs of Our said Province ; and that the
annual Meeting forever hereafter for the Choice of such Officers for
the said Town, shall be on the Second Tuesday of March annually.
To Have and to Hold the said Tract of Land as above expressed,
together with all Privileges and Appurtenances, to them and their
respective Heirs and Assigns forever, upon the following Conditions,
viz.

I. That every Grantee, his Heirs or Assigns shall plant and culti-
vate five Acres of Land within the Term of five Years for every fifty
Acres contained in his or their Share or Proportion of Land in said
Township, and continue to improve and settle the same by additional
Cultivations, on Penalty of the Forfeiture of his Grant or Share in
the said Township, and of its reverting to Us, our Heirs and Success-
ors, to be by Us or Them Re-granted to such of Our Subjects as shall
effectually settle and cultivate the same.

IV. Yielding and paying therefor to Us, our Heirs and Successors
for the Space of ten Years, to be computed from the Date hereof.

SOMERSET.

433

the Rent of one Ear of Indian Corn only, on the twentv-fifth Dav of

Z,l\t , \ Ofticers as shall be appointed to receive the same •

VrV,° ^^ '" V'" " "" ?'•'*"• R-^"'" ••'nd Serviees whatsoever '
. In Testimony whereof we have caused the Seal of our said Pmv
mce t. be hereunto affixed. Witness Benmng Wentwor™ Es„
Our Governor and Commander in Chief of Our said Province the
Nmth Day of September In the Year of our Lord Cheist oieTho u

Re°ign '•'''' ""^ ^'^'' ^'" ^"-^ "' '•'^ First Year of 0«

^By His Excellency's Command, ^ Wentworth

With Advice of Council,

Theodore Atkinson Sec'»
Province of New Hamp' Septemb' 9"> 1761
^^Reeorded According to the Original Charter under the Province

Thomas Denny
Jonathan Nail
Nathan Sergent
Peris Rice
Ebenezer Fisk
Jonas Fay
Soloman Green
John Houghton
Elijah Williams
Samuel Trask
Jonathan Sibly
Phinehas Jones

XXVIII

^The Names of the Grantees of Somerset

Theodore Atkinson Sec'^

David Hall
Daniel Tenory
Joseph Chai3lin
Timothy Nurse
Jacob Fisk
Samuel Rugles
John Moffatt
Nehemiah Wright
John Bird
Amos Putnam
Johnson Walter
Robert Henry

*2-175

Henry King
Noah Jones
Asa Stores
Samuel Robinson
Ancbew Haskil
John Haskil
John Bearmon
Daniel Jones
Elisha Goddai-d
Jonathan Waters Jun""
Abijah Tucker
Matthew Westson

434

CHARTER RECORDS.

BartliolomeNY Woodbury Benj^^ Levinston
Ebenezer Chaplain John Fletcher

Judah ^looi
William Honshard
Wilder Willard
John Pntman
Daniel Watson
Ephraim Rice
Sampson Sheaf Escx

jSIoses Gelt
Seth Washmore
Ichabod Odel
Ehjah Dickinson
Willard Stevens
Pdchard Dodge
John Downing Esq'

Samuel Deaney
Jonathan Stone
Benj'' Sanderson
Joseph Plummer
James Taylor
Obediah Dickinson
]Moses Singletary
Thomas Beard

His Excellency Benning Wentworth Esc^ a Tract of Land to Con-
tain Five Hunclred Acres Is Marked in the Plan B- W- which is to
le Accounted Two of the within Shares, One whole Share for the
be ^^'°Xa c;,^.- ... for the Propagation of the Gospel m foreign
Pai^One Sluire f!;r aGlebe foi'the Church of England as by Law
EsiaUished. One Share for the first settled Minister of the Gospell, &
One Share for the Benefit of a School m said i own-

Charter for Somerset

Pro%dnce of New Ramps'- Sep' 9. lTt31
Recorded from the back of the Origional
under the Pro^'ince seal- ^^^^^^^^ ^ ^^^^^^^^^.^ ^^^^.^^^^ g^^..

,* -•'•'

SPRINGFIELD. ^oc

Province of iVe^y Hampshire Sept^ 9 17(31
the id^o/s:;!*'" ''"' °' "" °"S'-1 Charter of Some,.ett under

? Theodore Atkinson Sec'^

SPRINGFIELD.

*Province of New-Hampshire. *2-133

Springfield GEORGE the Thied,

i ) Mand Kr^ D f^'T' '^" ?^^?;^Britain, France and

I p— s } ^i;^'''^V,^^^^' Defender ot the Faith, &c.

' ^^ ) r, f '"""' ^' ''^'"' ^^'''' Presents shall come,

^-^^^-' ^ Greeting. '

VV ell-beloved Bexxixg Wextwopttt Por. n >r -^™®^3' and
C..^,„der in Chief oi ^^^J^'^i SZiZl7u;..'t
Aew-h„glm<l, and of our Council of the said Province Have uJn

saict 1 lOMnce o± ^eir-Hampskire, and Our other Governments ind fo
Something „,ore than Six Miles squarr nd no , or • Ztnf

Rockmgham to the tii^t Bounds MentionecI^And thaftire S bt

436 CHAKTER RECORDS.

and hereby is Incorporated into a Township by the Name of Springfield
And the Inhabitants that do or shall hereafter inhabit the said Town-
ship, are hereby declared to be Enfranchized with and Intitled to all
and every the Priviledges and Immunities that other Towns within
Our Province by Law Exercise and Enjoy : And further, that the
said Town, as soon as there shall be Fifty Families resident and set-
tled thereon shall have the Liberty of holding T^vo Fairs, one of
which shall be held on the

And the other on the annually, which

Fairs are not to continue longer than the respective

following the said and that

as soon as the said Town shall consist of Fifty Families,
*2-134 a Market may be * opened and kept one or more Days in

each Week, as may be thought most advantagious to the
Inhabitants. Also, that the first Meeting for the Choice of Town
Officers, agreable to the Laws of our said Province, shall be held on
the Second Tuesday in October next which said Meeting shall be Not-
ified by Gideon Lyman Esq who is hereby also apj)ointed the Moderator
of the said first Meeting, which he is to Notifyand Govern agreable to
the Laws and Customs of Our said Province ; and that the annual
Meeting for ever hereafter for the Choice of such Officers for the said
Town, shall be on the Second Tuesday of March annually. To Have
and to Hold the said Tract of Land as above expressed, together
with all Privileges and Appurtenances, to them and their respective
Heirs and Assigns forever, upon the following Conditions, viz.

I. That every Grantee, his Heirs or Assigns shall plant and cultivate
five Acres of Land within the Term of five Years for every fifty Acres
contained in his or their Share or Proportion of Land in said Town-
ship, and continue to improve and settle the same by additional
Cultivations, on Penalty of the Forfeiture of his Grant or Share in the
said Township, and of its reverting to Us, our Heirs and Successors,
to be by Us or Them Re-granted to such of Our Subjects as shall
effectually settle and cultivate the same.

II. That all white and other Pine Trees within the said Township,
fit for Masting Our Ro3^al Navy, be carefully preserved for that Use,
and none to be cut or felled without Our special Licence for so doing
first had and obtained, upon the Penalty of the Forfeiture of the Right
of such Grantee, his Heirs and Assigns, to Us, our Heirs and Succes-
sors, as well as being subject to the Penalty of any Act or Acts of
Parliament that now are, or hereafter shall be Enacted.

III. That before any Division of the Land be made to and among
the Grantees, a Tract of Land as near the Centre of the said Town-
ship as the Land will admit of, shall be reserved and marked out for

SPRINGFIELD.

437

Town Lots, one of which shall be allotted to each Grantee of the
Contents of one Acre.

I\^. Yieldino- and paying therefor to Us, our Heirs and Successors
for the Space of ten Years, to be computed from the Date hereof, the Rent
of one Ear of Indian Corn only, on the twenty-fifth Day of December
annually, if lawfully demanded, the first Payment to be made on the
twenty-fifth Day of December. 17G2

V. Every Proprietor, Settler or Inhabitant, shall yield and pay unto
Us, our Heirs and Successors yearly, and every Year forever, from and
after the Expiration of ten Years from the abovesaid twenty-fifth Day
of December, namel}^ on the twenty-fifth Day of Deceinber, which will
be in the Year of Our Lord 1772 One shilling Proclamation Money
for every Hundred Acres he so owns, settles or possesses, and so in
Proportion for a greater or lesser Tract of the said Land ; which Money
shall be paid by the respective Persons abovesaid, their Heirs or
Assigns, in our Council Chamber in Portsmouth, or to such Officer or
Officers as shall be appointed to receive the same ; and this to be
in Lieu of all other Rents and Services whatsoever.

In Testimony whereof we have caused the Seal of our said Province
to be hereunto affixed. Witness Benning Wentworth, Esq ; Our
Governor and Commander in Chief of Our said Province, the 20"*
Day of August In the Year of our Lord Christ, One Thousand Seven
Hundred and Sixty one And in the First Year of Our Reign.

B Wentworth

By His Excellency's Command,
With Advice of Council,

Theodore Atkinson Sec''^

Province of New Hamp"" August 20"' 1761

Recorded According to the Original under the Province Seal

^ Theodore Atkinson Sec'"''

*The Names of the Grantees of Springfield Viz — *2-135

Gideon Lyman Esq
Gideon Lyman jun''
Caleb Lyman
Ebenez"" Sheldon
Sam" Parsons
Ruben Coats
Stephen Pomroy
Col : Seth Pomroy
Selah Wright
Elijah Lyman
Daniel Graves

Simeon Parson
John Phelps Chaplen
Aaron Wright
Oliver Lyman
Naomi Lyman
Seth Clark
Eleaz"" Root
Sam'^ Bankcroft
Jon'^ Strong
William Kenady
Gideon Lyman Esq

Phiueas Lyman
Phineas Lyman Esq
Simeon Person
Nath" Fellows
Medad Olvard
Oliver Thomas
Thomas Quiner
John Burt jun""
Selah Wright
Israel Lyman
Elijah Lyman

438

CHAKTER RECORDS.

Josiah Peirce
Elias Lyman
John Lyman jun"^
Cap* James Lyman
Gideon Lyman Esq
Cap' John Lyman
Elij'^ Lyra an

Benj''^ Parsons
Gadcl Lyman
Joseph Little
Nath" Day
Rich'i Cutt Esq
Sam" Marshal
Theodore Atkinson Esq
John Wentworth Esq
John Gould jun"^

Eph"' Wright

Elias Lyman jun'^

Brig'' Tim" Ruggles

Stephen Root

John Nellson

Nath" Phelps

Docf'Sam" Mather
Joseph Newmarch Esq Benning Wentworth
Hunking Wentworth James Apthorp
Henry Hilton & Sam" Wentworth Esq of Boston

One Tract of Laud to Contain five hundred Acres for his Excel-
lency Benning Wentworth Esq as Marked on the Plan B : W : which
is to be Accounted two of the within Shares one whole Share for
the Incorporated Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in
foreign Parts one Share for A Glebe for the Church of England as
by Law Established one Share for the first Settled Minister of the
Gospel one Share for the Benefit of A School in Said Town —

Province of New Hamp'' August 20 1761

Recorded from the Back of the Original Charter of Springfield
under the Pro"' Seal

^ Theodore Atkinson Sec^'y

»2''lU ^ ■' * '-^ p -J ' -if -'A/

Province of New Hamp'' August 20"' 1761

Recorded from the Back of the original Charter of Springfield
under the Pro'' Seal IP Theodore Atkinson Sec'^

ST. ALBANS. 439

ST. ALBANS.

*Province of New-Hampshire. *3-6

S' Albans GEORGE the Thied,

, ,.-*--^— ^ . By the Grace of God, of Great-Britain, France and

\ ^ ( Ireland, King, Defender of the Faith &c.

1 I To all Persons to wJiom these Presents shall come^

^ ^- — .^"i^ ' Greeting.

Know Ye, that We of Our special Grace, certain Knowledge, and
meer Motion, for the due Encouragement of settling a JV^ew Planta-
tion within our said Province, by and with the Advice of our Trusty
and Well-beloved Benning Wentworth, Esq ; Our Governor and
Commander in Chief of Our said Province of Neiv-Hampshire^ in
Neu'-Pn</lan(L and of Our Council of the said Province; Have
upon the Conditions and Reservations herein after made, given and
granted, and by these Presents, for Us, Our Heirs, and Successors, do
give and grant in equal Shares, unto Our loving Subjects, Inhabi-
tants of Our said Province of Neiv- Hampshire, and Our other Gov-
ernments, and to their Heirs and Assigns for ever, whose Names are
entred on this Grant, to be divided to and amongst them into
Seventy equal Shares, all that Tract or Parcel of Land situate,
lying and being within our said Province of JVew-Hainpshire^ con-
taining by Admeasurement, Twenty Three Thousand & Forty Acres^
which Tract is to contain Six Miles square, and no more; out of
which an Allowance is to be made for High Ways and unimprovable
Lands by Rocks, Ponds, Mountains and Rivers, One Thousand and
Forty Acres free, according to a Plan and Survey thereof, made by
Our said Governor's Order, and returned into the Secretar3'^'s Office,
and hereunto annexed, butted and bounded as follows. Viz. Begin-
ing at the North Easterly Corner of Georgia a Town this Day
Granted which Lays on the Easterl}' Side of Lake Champlain from
thence Runing Westerly by Georgia Line to Lake Champlain then
Turning off Northerly & Runing by the Shores of said Lake to a
Stake & Stones b}- the Side of the Lake at Six Miles Distance on a
Streight Line from the North Westerly Corner of Georgia aforesaid
then Turning off Easterly & Runing on a Parrellell Line with the
Northerly Side Line of said Georgia so far as that a Streight Line
drawn to the North Easterly Corner of Georgia aforesaid the Bounds
began at Shall make & Include y*' Contents Six Miles Square And that
the same be, and hereby is Incorporated into a Township by the Name
of S' Albans And the Inhabitants that do or shall hereafter inhabit the

440 CHAETEE EECOEDS.

said Township, are hereby declared to be Enfranchized with and Inti-

tled to all and every the Priviledges and Immunities that other

Towns within Our Province by Law Exercise and Enjoy : And

further, that the said Town as soon as there shall be Fifty Families

resident and settled thereon, shall have the Liberty of holding two

Fairs, one of which shall be held on the

And the other on the annually, which Fairs are

not to continue longer than the respective

following the said and that as

soon as the said Town shall consist of Fifty Families, a
*3-7 Market may be *opened and kept one or more Days in each

Week, as may be thought most advantagious to the Inhabitants.
Also, that the first Meeting for the Choice of Town Officers, agreable
to the Laws of our said Province, shall be held on the Second Tuesda}'^
of September Next which said Meeting shall be Notified by Doctor
Thomas Williams who is hereby also appointed the Moderator of the
said first Meeting, which he is to Notify and Govern agreable to the
Laws and Customs of Our said Province; and that the annual Meeting
for ever hereafter for the Choice of such Officers for the said Town,
shall be on the Second Tuesday of March annually. To Have and to
Hold the said Tract of Land as above expressed, together with all
Privileges and Appurtenances, to them and their respective Heirs
and Assigns forever, upon the following Conditions, viz.

I. That every Grantee, his Heirs or Assigns shall plant and culti-
vate five Acres of Land within the Term of five Years for every
fifty Acres contained in his or their Share or Proportion of Land in
said Township, and continue to improve and settle the same by addi-
tional Cultivations, on Penalty of the Forfeiture of his Grant or
Share in the said Township, and of its reverting to Us, our Heirs and
Successors, to be by Us or them Re-granted to such of our Subjects
as shall effectually settle and cultivate the same.

II. That all white and other Pine Trees within the said Township,
fit for Masting Our Royal Navy, be carefully preserved for that Use,
and none to be cut or felled without Our special Licence for so doing
first had and obtained, upon the Penalty of the Forfeiture of the
Right of such Grantee, his Heirs and Assigns, to Us, our Heirs and
Successors, as well as being subject to the Penalty of any Act or
Acts of Parliament that now are, or hereafter shall be Enacted.

ST. ALBANS.

441

I\'. Yielding and paying therefor to Us, our Heirs and Successors
for the Space of ten Years, to be computed from the Date hereof, the
Rent of one Ear of Indian Corn onh% on the twenty-fiftli Day of
December annually, if lawfully demanded, the first Pa^'ment to be
made on the twenty-fifth Day of December. 1763

V. Every Pro])rietor, Settler or Inhabitant, shall yield and pay
unto Us, our Heirs and Successors yearly, and every Year forever,
from and after the Expiration of ten Years from the abovesaid twenty-
fifth Da}' of December., namel}^ on the twenty-fifth Day of December.,
wliich will be in the Year of Our Lord 1773 One shilling Proclama-
tion Money for every Hundred Acres he so owns, settles or possesses,
and so in Proportion for a greater or lesser Tract of the said Land ;
which Money shall be paid by the respective Persons abovesaid, their
Heirs or Assigns, in our Council Chamber in Portsmouth., or to such
Officer or Officers as shall be appointed to receive the same ; and
this to be in Lieu of all other Rents and Services whatsoever.

In Testimony whereof we have caused the Seal of our said Prov-
ince to be hereunto affixed. Witness Benning Wentworth, Esq;
Our Governor and Commander in Chief of Our said Province, the
17"" Day of August In the Year of our Lord Christ, One Thousand
Seven Hundred and 63 And in the 3*^ Year of Our Reign.

B Wentworth

By His Excellency's Command,
With Advice of Council,

T Atkinson Jun"^ Sec^^^

Pro^ of New Hamp^ August 17 1763

Recorded according to the Original Charter under the Prov*' Seal

1^ T Atkinson Jun^ Sec^^

*Names of the Grantees of S' Albans (Viz)

*3-8

Stephen Pomroy
Lemuel Stoughton
Jonathan Hunt
Nathaniel Stoughton
Hemon Pomroy
Medad Pomroy
John Hunt jun"^
George Field
Thomas W^illiams
Thomas Williams jun""
Joseph Burt
John Hastings
Samuel Hunt

Elijah Hunt
Solomon Elsworth
Simeon Omsted
John Hubbard
Joel Hunt
Elisha Hunt
Caleb Strong jun"^
John Genison
Silas Hambleton
Samuel Smith
Aaron Smith
John Gentle
Sham mall Pomroy

Joseph Hunt
Ebenezer Harvey
Fredrick Elsworth
Jonathan Hunt jun'
Phillip Safford
Ebenezer Pomroy juu'^
Seth Field
Samuel Field
Arad Hunt
Aaron Burt
Willard Stevens
Peter Stanley
Lemuel Pomroy

442

CHARTER RECORDS.

Joseph Ashley
Fellows Beldings
Josiah Foster
Rufus Harvey
Napha Freeman
Hon'''"" John Temple
William Temple
John Nelson
Asa Alexander and T

Joseph Stebbins
John Clary
Bread Batcheldor
James Robinson
John Hnbbard
John Fisher Esq

Daniel Jones
Abner Cooley
Caleb Strong
Richard Montague
Oliver Cooley
Paul March

Esq'^* William Earl Treadwell
) Ebenezer Alexander Reuben Alexander
he Hon''^" James Nevin Esq''

His Excellency Benning Wentworth Esq a Tract of Land to Con-
tain five Hundred Acres as Marked B W in the Plan which is to be
Accounted two of the within Shares — One whole Share for the Incor-
porated Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Forreign Parts —
One Share for a Glebe for the Church of England as by Law Estab-
lished— One Share for the First Settled Minister of the Gospel in said
Town & One Share for the Benefit of a School forever —

Pro^ New Hamp'^ August 17 1763

Recorded from the back of the Original Charter S*^ Albans under
the Pro^ Seal

19 T Atkinson Jun'' Sec^^

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Pro^ New Harap'' August 17 1763

Recorded from the Back of the Original Charter of S' Abans
under the Pro" Seal

19 T Atkinson Jun^ Sec'-''

ST. GEORGE. 443

ST. GEORGE.

*Province of New-Hampshire. *3-22

S' George GEORGE the Third,

p s —

By the Grace of God, of Great-Britain, France and
Ireland, King, Defender of the Faith &c.

To all Persons to whom these Presents shall come^
^ ^— i^^*^ ^ Greeting.

Know Ye, that We of Our special Grace, certain Knowledge, and
meer Motion, for the due Encouragement of settling a Neiv Planta-
tion within our said Province, b}' and with the Advice of our Trusty
and Well-beloved Benning Wextworth, Esq; Our Governor and
Commander in Chief of Our said Province of Neiv-Hampshire^ in
New-Bn(/land, and of Our Council of the said Province ; Have
upon the Conditions and Reservations herein after made, given and
granted, and by these Presents, for Us, Our Heirs, and Successors, do
give and grant in equal Shares, unto Our loving Subjects, Inhabitants
of Our said Province of Neic- Ham d shire, and Our other Govern-
ments, and to their Pleirs and Assigns for ever, whose Names are entred
on this Grant, to be divided to and amongst them into Seventy
equal Shares, all that Tract or Parcel of Land situate, lying and
being within our said Province of Neiv-Hampshire, containing by
Admeasurement, 23040 Acres^ which Tract is to contain Six Miles
square, and no more ; out of which an Allowance is to be made for
High Ways and unimprovable Lands by Rocks, Ponds, Mountains
and Rivers, One Thousand and Forty Acres free, according to a Plan
and Survey thereof, made by Our said Governor's Order, and
returned into the Secretary's Office, and hereunto annexed, butted
and bounded as follows. Viz. Begining at the South East Corner of
Shelburne a Township this Day Granted being a Stake & Stones in
the Northerly side of Hindsburg & from thence Runing East Six
Miles to a stake & Stones; thence Turning off & Runing North six
Miles to a Stake & stones then turning off & Runing West six Miles
to the North Easterly Corner of Shelburne aforesaid then Runing
South six Miles by Shelburne aforesaid to the South Easterly Corner
thereof the Bounds began at And that the same be, and hereby is
Incorporated into a Township by the Name of S' George And the
Inhabitants that do or shall hereafter inhabit the said Township, are
hereby declared to be Enfranchized with and Intitled to all and every
the Priviledjjes and Immunities that other Towns within Our Prov-

444 CHAKTEK RECORDS.

ince by Law Exercise and Enjoy : And further, that the said Town
as soon as there shall be Fifty Families resident and settled thereon,
shall have the I^iberty of holding two Fairs, one of which shall be
held on the And the

other on the annually, which

Fairs are not to continue longer than the respective

following the said
and that as soon as the said Town shall consist of Fifty
*3-23 Families, a Market may be *opened and kept one or
more Days in each Week, as may be thought most advanta-
gious to the Inhabitants. Also, that the first Meeting for the Choice
of Town Officers, agreable to the Laws of our said Province, shall be
held on the Third Wednesday in September Next which said Meet-
ing shall be Notified by M'' Jesse Hallock who is hereby also appointed
the Moderator of the said first Meeting, which he is to Notify and
Govern agreable to the Laws and Customs of Our said Province; and
that the annual Meeting for ever hereafter for the Choice of such
Officers for the said Town, shall be on the Second Tuesday of March
annually, To Have and to Hold the said Tract of Land as above
expressed, together with all Privileges and Appurtenances, to them
and their respective Heirs and Assigns forever, upon the following
Conditions, viz.

I. That every Grantee, his Heirs or Assigns shall plant and culti-
vate five Acres of Land within the Term of five Years foi- every fifty
Acres contained in his or their Share or Proportion of Land in said
Township, and continue to improve and settle the same by additional
Cultivations, on Penalty of the Forfeiture of his Grant or Share in
the said Township, and of its reverting to Us, our Heirs and Success-
ors, to be by Us or them Re-granted to such of our Subjects as shall
effectually settle and cultivate the same.

IV. Yielding and paying therefor to Us, our Heirs and Successors

ST. GEORGE. 445

for the Space of ten Years, to be computed from tlie Date hereof, the
Rent of one Ear of Indian Corn only, on the twenty-fifth Day of
December annually, if lawfully demanded, the first Payment to be
made on the twenty-fifth Day of December. 1763

V. Every Proprietor, Settler or Inhabitant, shall yield and pay
unto Us, our Heirs and Successors j^early, and every Year forever,
from and after the Expiration of ten Years from the abovesaid
twenty-fifth Day of December, namely, on the twenty-fifth Day of
December, which will be in the Year of Our Lord 1773 One shilling
Proclamation Money for every Hundred Acres he so owns, settles or
possesses, and so in Proportion for a greater or lesser Tract of the
said Land : which Money shall be paid by the respective Persons
abovesaid, their Heirs or Assigns, in our Council Chamber in Ports-
mouth, or to such Officer or Officers as shall be appointed to receive
the same; and this to be in Lieu of all other Rents and Services
whatsoever.

In Testimony whereof we have caused the Seal of our said Prov-
ince to be hereunto affixed. Witness Benning Wentwokth, Esq;
Our Governor and Commander in Chief of Our said Province, the
IS'** Day of August In the Year of our Lord Christ, One Thousand
Seven Hundred and 63 And in the 3*^ Year of Our Reiffn.

B Went worth

By His Excellency's Command,
With Advice of Council,

T Atkinson Jan'' Sec'"''

Prov« of New Hamp^ August 18"' 1763

Recorded According to the original Charter under the Province Seal

^ T Atkinson Jun' Sec'^

*The Names of the Grantees of St George (Viz) *3-24

Jesse Ilallock Samuel Farmer Christian Farmer

John Farmer Christian Farmer Robert Farmer

Peter Farmer Jeremiah Leming Tho' Ellison

William Ellison Simon Ramson Shem Ramson

Isaac Sears Jasper Drake Joseph Sackett

Joseph Sackett Doctor Francis Sacket William Buttler

John Man Thomas Man Will'" Man

Ennes Graham John Jefferys Isaac Underbill

Benj' Underbill Henry Frankling Jon* Coutland

Uuriah Wolman Amos Underbill Richard Willits

Sam" Willits Jacob Watson Benj" Ferris

Dan" Prindle Joshua Watson Benf Seaman

446

CHAKTER RECORDS.

Edmund Seaman Rich'^ Seaman Rich'' Titus

Isaac Man Isaac Man jun"" Peter Vanderwort

William Hayier Magnes Garrat Robert Ling [Jun""

John Dervieux Murphy Edward Ferrol Murphy Jn° Dervieux Murphy

John Wright
John Witmore
Henry Clap
Jon^ Quinby
John Fisher Esq

Thomas Wright Caleb Wright

Tim*^ Whitmore Tim** Browndige

Benj"' Clap Benj-'^ Clap Juu'^

Daniel Quinby Jon'^ Weeks

The Hon"'*- John Temple Esq

Theod'' Atkinson Esq &
M'^ Hunks Wentworth

His Excellency Benning Wentworth Esq a Tract of Land to Con-
tain five Hundred Acres as Marked B- W-in the Plan which is to be
Accounted two of the within Shares One whole Share for the Incor-
porated Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in foreign Parts
One whole Share for a Glebe for the Church of England as by Law
Established One whole Share for the first Settled Minister & One
Share for the Benefit of a School in said Town forever

Prov*^ New Hamp'" August the 18- 1763

Recorded according to the Original Charter under the Province
Seal

19 T Atkinson Jun' Sec^^

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STAMFORD. 447

Pro^ of New Hamp^ August 18—1763

Recorded from the Back of the Original Charter S' George under
the Pro'' Seal —

f T Atkinson Jun^ Sec^^

STAMFORD.

*Province of New Hampshire *1-141

Stamford George the Second by the Grace of God of Great Brittain

/ - — ^-^ — -• N France And Ireland King Defender of the faith &c''
\ , I To All Persons to whom these Presents Shall Come

) I Greeting

^ ^— ^^w ■' Know ye that We of our Especial Grace Certain

Knowledge & mere motion for the due Encouragement of Settling
A New Plantation within our Said Province By & with the Advice
of our Trust}' & well beloved Benning Wentworth Esqour Governour
& Com'ander in Chieff of our Said Province of New Hampshire
in America and of our Council of the Said Province Have upon the
Conditions & Reservations hereafter made Given & Granted and by
these Presents for us our Heirs & Successors do give & Grant in
Equal Shares unto our Loveing Subjects Inhabitants of our
Said Province of New Hampshire and his Maf*'^ other Governments
& to their heirs and assigns for ever whose names are Entered on
this Grant, to be Divided to & amoungst them into Equal

Shares All that Tract or Parcel of Land Scituate Lying & being within
our Province of New Hampshire containing by Admeasurement
twenty three thousend & forty Acres which Tract is to Contain Six
miles Square & no more out of which an AUowence is to be made
for highways & unimproveable Lands by Rocks Mountains Ponds
& Rivers One thousend & forty Acres free According to A Plan
thereof made & Presented by our Said Governours orders and hereunto
Annexed Butted & bounded as follows Viz-Begining at the South
East Corner of A Certain Township in the South Western Part of
the Province aforesaid Called by the name of Bennington and Runs
from thence by the Needle of the Surveying Instruement South Ten
degrees West Six miles to the Dividing Line Between the Province
afores'' and the Province of the Massachusetts Bay & from thence in
the Said Divideing Line Six miles and from thence North Ten degrees
East Six Miles and from thence West Ten Degrees North to the
Boundary lirst mentioned which is Likwise Six miles, & that the Same
be and is Incorporated into A Township by the name of Stamford

448 CHARTER RECORDS.

and that the Inhabitants that do or Shall Inhabit Said Township
are hereby declared to be Enfranchized with and Entituled to all &
every the Priviledges & Immunities that other Towns within
our said Province by Law Exercise & Enjoy and * further *1-142
that the said Town as Soon as there Shall be fifty families
resident & Settled thereon Shall have the Liberty of Holding Two fairs
one of which Shall be held on the and the Other

on the Annnally which Fairs are not Continne

& be held Loger than the Respective

Days following the Respective Days and

as Soon as the Said Town Shall Consist of fifty families A market
Shall be Opened & kept one or more days in Each week as may be
thought most advantageous to the Inhabitants also that the first
meeting for the Choice of Town officers Agreable to the Laws of our
Said Province Shall be held on the first monday in Ma}^ next which

meeting Shall be Notifyed by Timothy DwightEsq who is hereby

also Appointed the Moderator of the Said first Meeting which he is
to notify & Govern agreable to the Laws & Customs of our Said
Province and that the Annual Meeting for ever hereafter for the Choice
of Such Officers of Said Town Shall be on the Second Monday in March
Annually, To Have & To Hold the Said Tract of Land as Above
Expressed Togeather with All y"^ Previledges & Appurtenances to
them & their Respective Heirs & assignes forever Upon the follow-
ing Conditions Viz) That every Grantee his heirs or assignes Shall
Plant or Cultivate five Acres of Land within the Term of five years
for every fifty Acres Contained in his or their Share or Proportion of
Land in Said Township and Continue to Improve & Settle the Same
by Additional Cultivations on Penalty of the forfeiture of His Grant
or Share in the Said Township & its reverting to his Maj*'' his heirs
& Successors, to be by him or them regranted to such of his Subjects
as Shall Effectually Settle & Cultivate the Same That all white &
other Pine Trees within the Said Township fit for Masting our Royal
Navy, be Carefully Preserved for that use and none to be Cut or felled
without his Maj''' Especial Lycence for so doing first had and
Obtaind upon the Penalty of the forfeiture of the right of such
Grantee his heirs or Assigns to us our heirs & Successors as well as
being subject to the Penalty of Any Act or Acts of Parliament that
now Are or hereafter Shall be Enacted That before any Division of
the Said Lands be made to and amoungst the Grantees A Tract
of Land as near the Center of the Township as * the Land *1-143
will Admit of Shall be reserved & marked Out for Town Lotts
one of which Shall be allotted to Each Grantee of the Contents of one
Acre — Yeilding & Paying therefor to us our heirs & Successors for

STAMFORD. 449

the Space of Ten Years to be Computed the Date hereof the rent
of one Ear of Indian Corn only on the first Day of Jan'-^ Annually if
Lawfully Demanded the first Payment to be made on the first Day
of Jan"^-^' next Ensueing the Date hereof and every Proprietor Settler or
Inhabitant shall Yield & Pay unto us our heirs & successors Yearly
& every Year for ever from and after the Expiration of the Ten
Years from the Date hereof namlj^ on the first Day of Jau*^^ which
will be in the Year of our Lord Christ one thousend Seven hundred
and Sixty four One Shilling Proclamation Money for every hundred
Acres he so owns Settles or Possesses and So in Proportion for A
Greater or Lesser Tract of the Said Land which money Shall be paid
by the Respective Persons above Said their heirs or assigns in our
Council Chamber in Portsm" or to such officer or officers as Shall be
Appointed to receive the Same and this to be in Lieu of all Other
Rents & Services whatsoever Li Testimoney hereof We have Caused
the Seal of our Said Province to be hereunto affixed Wittness Benning
Wentworth Esq our Governour & Commander in Chieff of our Said
Province The Sixth Day of March in the year of our Lord Christ 1753
and in the 26"^ Year of our reign

B Wentworth
By his Excellencys Com'aud
with Advice of Council

Theodore Atkinson Sec''^'

Entred & recorded According to the Original under the Province
Seal this Sixth Day of March 1753

^ Theodore Atkinson Sec''^

The Names of the Grantees of Stamford (Viz) —

Elisha Cook, Elihu Clark Noah Bridgman jun"",

Paul King, Benj-' Symonds, Noah Allen,

Israel Clark, Josiah Kentfield, Elijah Hunt,

Jonathan Phelps, Eleaz*" King jun'' Joseph Allin,

Seth Hutson, Nathaniel Day, John Phelps,

Isaac Searl, William Clark, Martin Phelps,

Mark Warner jun'", Enos Kingsley, Samuel Kingsley,

Joseph Kingsley, Thomas Starr, Thomas Allen jun'',

Joseph Parsons, Solomon Miller, Josiah Raymond,

Noah Smith jun'', Ithamar Strong, Joseph Cook,

Noah Cook jun^ Jonathan Allen, Timothy Dwight

Charles Phelps,Gideon Clark, Amos Hull,

*1-144 Eleaz-- Root, Selah Wright, *Ebenezer Hunt,

Nicholas Street,Ebenezer Edwards, Joel Clark,

450

CHARTER RECORDS.

Elisha Wright, Joseph Root, Elisha Smith,

John Miller jun"" Elisha Mather, Supply Kiiigsley,

Amasa Cook, Thomas Webster, Bela Strong.

Moses Kingsley, [ger John George Brimerl ''^ John George Brimer 2'^
Jn° George Vandegre-Andrew Hike Thomas Hutchinson Esq,

Jonathan Hunt jun"", Nathaniel Phelps, Timothy Dwight jun'',

Theodore Atkinson His Excellency Benning Wentworth Esq A
Tract of Land to Contain five hundred Acres which is to be Accounted
two of the within Shares one whole Share for the Incorporated Society
for the Propagation of the Gospel in foreign Parts, one whole Share
for the first Settled Minister of the Gospel in Said Town one whole
Share for A Glebe for the Ministry of the Church of England as by
Law Established —

Entred & recorded from the Back of the Charter of Stamford the
6'" Day of March 1753—

19 Theodore Atkinson Se'^

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■^ Theodore Atkinson Sec""^'

stamfokd. 451

[Stamford Charter Renewed, 1761.]

*Province of New Hampshire *l-243

Stamford George The Third by the Grace of God of Great

. ^w— -V Britain France & Irehmd King Defender of the Faith

) p Seal ( ^^

) ' I To all to whom these Presents Shall come

^ ^- — V — ' ' Greeting —

Whereas our Late Royall Grandfather King George the Second
of Glorious Memory did of his special Grace & mere Motion for the
Encouragement of settling a New Plantation within our said Province
of New Hampshire by his Letters Patient or Charter under the Seal
of our said Province dated the 6"' day of March 1752 & in the Twenty
Sixth Year of his Majestys Reign, Grant a Tract of Land equal to
Six Miles Square Bounded as therein Expressed to a Number of our
Loyal Subjects whose Names are Entered on the same to hold to them
their Heirs & Assigns on the Conditions therein Declared to be a
Town Corporate by the Name of Stamford as by Referrence to the
said Charter may more fully appear —

And whereas the said Grantees have Represented that by the Inter-
vention of an Indian Warr since making the said Grant, it has been
Impracticable to Comply with & fulfill the Conditions & humbly
Supplicated us not to take Advantage of the Breach of said Conditions
but to Lengthen out & grant them some Reasonable Time for Perfor-
mance thereof after the said Impedim' shall cease —

Now Know Yee that we being Willing to Promote the End Pro-
posed have of our Further grace & Favour Suspended our Claim of
the Forfeiture which the said Grantee may have Incurred, & by
these Presents do grant unto the said Grantees their Heirs &
Assigns the Term of One Year for Performing & fulfilling the
Conditions Matters & things by them to be done which Term is to
be Renewed Annually if the same Impediment Remains untill our
Plenary Instructions shall be Received Relating to the Incident that
has Prevented Complyance with the said Charter According to the
Intent & Meaning of the same —

In Testimony whereof we have Caused the seal of our said Province
to be hereunto Affixed — Witness Benning Wentworth Esq'' our
Governour & Commander in Cheif of our Province aforesaid the 21,
of Septem"' in the Year of our Lord Christ 1761, & in the First year
of our Reign

B Wentworth

452 CHARTEll RECORDS.

By his Excellency's Command
with Advice of Council

■^ Theodore Atkinson Sec^'y

Province of New Hamps'' Sept'' 21, 1761

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■^ Theodore Atkinson Sec''^

Recorded from the Origional under the Province Seal

[Stamford Regrant, 1764.]

*3-110 *Province of New-Hampshire.

New Stamford GEORGE the Third,

, .-^•^— ^ . By the Grace of God, of Great-Britain, France and
\ / Ireland, King, Defender of the Faith &c.

/■rev ' '

] (To all Persons to whom these Presents shall come,

' v^'^.^i^ ^ Greeting.

Know Ye, that We of Our special Grace, certain Knowledge, and
meer Motion, for the due Encouragement of settling a JVew Planta-
tion within our said Province, by and with the Advice of our Trusty
and Well-beloved Benning Wentworth, Esq ; Our Governor and
Commander in Chief of Our said Province of New- Hampshire, in
New-England., and of Our Council of the said Province; Have
upon the Conditions and Reservations herein after made, given and
granted, and by these Presents, for Us, Our Heirs, and Successors,
do give and grant in equal Shares, unto Our loving Subjects, Inhabi-
tants of Our said Province of New-Hampshire, and Our other Gov-
ernments, and to their Fleirs and Assigns for ever, whose Names are
entred on this Grant, to be divided to and amongst them into Seventy
two equal Shares, all that Tract or Parcel of Land situate, lying and
being within our said Province of Neio- Hampshire, containing by
Admeasurement, 23040 Acres, which Tract is to contain Six Miles
square, and no more; out of which an Allowance is to be made for
High Ways and unimprovable Lands by Rocks, Ponds, Mountains
and Rivers, One Thousand and Forty Acres free, according to a Plan
and Survey thereof, made by Our said Governor's Order, and returned
into the Secretary's Office, and hereunto annexed, butted and bounded
as follows. Viz. Begining at the North Easterly Corner of the Town
of Pownal & from thence runs South 10 Degrees West by the Needle
by Pownal aforesaid Six Miles to the Province Line, then Turning
off at Right Angles & runs due East by the Province Line aforesaid

STAMFORD. 453

Six Miles to a Stake & Stones, then tnrning off again & runing due
North Six Miles from thence Due West Six Miles to the Bounds
began at which is also the South East Corner of Bennington And
that the same be, and hereby is Incorporated into a Township by
the Name of New Stamford And the Inhabitants that do or shall here-
after inhabit the said Township, are hereby declared to be Enfran-
chized with and Intitled to all and ever}^ the Priviledges and Immun-
ities that other Towns within Our Province by Law Exercise and
Enjoy: And further, that the said Town as soon as there shall be
Fifty Families resident and settled thereon, shall have the Liberty of
holding two Fairs, one of which shall be held on the
And the other on the
annually, which Fairs are not to continue longer than
the respective following the said

and that as soon as
the said Town shall consist of Fifty Families, a Market
may be * opened and kept one or more Days in each *3-lll
Week, as may be thought most advantagious to the Inhab-
itants. Also, that the first Meeting for the Choice of Town Officers,
agreable to the Laws of our said Province, shall be held on the
first Tuesday in July Next which said Meeting shall be Notified
by Isaac Searl who is hereby also appointed the Moderator of
the said first Meeting, which he is to Notify and Govern agreable to
the Laws and Customs of Our said Province ; and that the annual
Meeting for ever hereafter for the Choice of such Officers for the said
Town, shall be on the first Tuesday of March annually, to Have
and to Hold the said Tract of Land as above expressed, together
with all Privileges and Appurtenances, to them and their respective
Heirs and Assigns forever, upon the following Conditions, viz.

I. That every Grantee, his Heirs or Assigns shall plant and
cultivate five Acres of Land within the Term of five Years for every
fifty Acres contained in his or their Share or Proportion of Land in
said Township, and continue to improve and settle the same by
additional Cultivations, on Penalty of the Forfeiture of his Grant or
Share in the said Township, and of its reverting to Us, our Heirs and
Successors, to be by Us or them Re-granted to such of our Subjects as
shall effectually settle and cultivate the same.

II. That all white and other Pine Trees within the said Township,
fit for Masting Our Royal Navy, be carefully preserved for that Use,
iind none to be cut or felled without Our special Licence for so doing
first had and obtained, upon the Penalty of the Forfeiture of the Right
of such Grantee, his Heirs and Assigns, to Us, our Heirs and Succes-
sors, as well as being subject to the Penalty of any Act or Acts of
Parliament that now are, or hereafter shall be Enacted.

454 CHARTER RECORDS.

III. That before any Division of tbe Land be made to and among
the Grantees, a Tract of Land as near the Centre of the said Town-
ship as the Land will admit of, shall be reserved and marked out for
Town Lots, one of which shall be allotted to eacli Grantee of the
Contents of one Acre.

IV. Yielding and paying therefor to Us, our Heirs and Successors
for the Space of five Years, to be computed from the Date hereof, the
Rent of one Ear of Indian Corn only, on the twenty-fifth Day of
December annually^ if lawfully demanded, the first Payment to be made
on the twenty-fifth Day of December. Next

V. Every Proprietor, Settler or Inhabitant, shall yield and pay
unto Us, our Heirs and Successors yearly, and every Year forever,
from and after the Expiration of ten Years from theabovesaid twenty-
fifth Day of December, namely, on the twenty-fifth Day of December,
whicb will be in the Year of Our Lord 1769 One shilling Proclama-
tion Money for every Hundred Acres he so owns, settles or possesses,
and so in Proportion for a greater or lesser Tract of the said Land ;
which Money shall be paid by the respective Persons abovesaid, their
Heirs or Assigns, in our Council Chamber in Portsmouth, or to such
Officer or Officers as shall be appointed to receive the same ; and this
to be in Lieu of all other Rents and Services whatsoever.

In Testimony whereof we have caused the Seal of our said Prov-
ince to be hereunto affixed. Witness Henning Wentworth, Esq ;
Our Governor and Commander in Chief of Our said Province, the
Ninth Day of June In the Year of our Lord Christ, One
Thousand Seven Hundred and Sixty four And in the Fourth Year
of Our Reign.

B Wentworth

By His Excellency's Command,
With Advice of Council,

T Atkinson Jun"- Sec'^

Province of New Hampshire June 9. 1764

Recorded according to the Original Charter under the Province
Seal

T Atkinson Jun^ Sec'^

*3-112 *Names of the Grantees of New Stamford

His Excell'' Francis Berna.d Esq' Elihu Clark

Giles Alexander Elijah Hunt Joseph Allen

Isaac Searl William Clark Martin Phelps

Daniel Jones Boston Samuel Kingsley Samuel Blodget

Thomas Starr Jun"^ Thomas Allen Jun"" Joseph Parsons

Josiah Raymond Noah Smith Giles Alexander Jun""

STAMFORD.

455

Jose{)h Cook
Noah Cook
William Alexander
Elislia Mather
Nathaniel Phelps
Ebenezer Wood
Ezra Newton
Aaron Wright
David Allen
Silas Robinson
John Cochran
Timothy Wright
William Mather
Jonathan jNleechum
Samuel Hobart
John Fisiier Esqr
Rev'' Henry Caner
Sam' Wentworth Esq''

Caleb Strong William Lyman

Jonathan Allen Jn" Mico Wendel

P^benezer Hunt J^enoni Danks Esq

Harrison Gray Esq'' Oliver Wendel
Theodore Atkinson Esq'' Moses Kingsley

Isaac Glazier

Nathan Clark

Moses Graves

John Fascet

John Harwood

William Brattle Esq"'

Samuel Clark

Elisha Mather

Asa Alger

j^Qj-jbie Xheodore Atkinson Jun'^
Mark H^ Wentworth
James Nevin Esq

Boston

James Brakridge
Samuel Roberts
Moses Robins
Samuel Safford
David Robinson
Rev'' John Searl
Samuel Mather Juu'
Samuel Pain
Moses Graves Jun''

Esq^

His Excellency Benning Wentworth Esqr a Tract of Land to con-
tain five Hundred Acres as Marked B W in the Plan, which is to
be accounted two of the within Shares, One whole Share for the
Incorporated Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign
Parts. One whole Share for a Glebe for the Church of England as by
Law established. One whole Share for the first Settled Minister of
the Gospel & one whole Share for the Benefit of a School in Said
Town for ever. —

Province of New Hampshire June the Ninth 1764
Recorded according to the Original Charter under the Province
Seal —

T Atkinson Jun'" Sec'^''

456

CHARTER RECORDS.

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sj;ii^ i;iSis»Al"^C:

I Ian ofTlevv'Sio-'rrxf-crcL

-V,.,i:asiSzv'rn<.le5

Province of Xew Hampshire June the 9. 1764. —
Recorded in the Book of Charters N" 3 Page 109

^ T Atkinson Jun Sec^

*2-77
Stockbridge

STOCKBRIDGE.

*Province of New Hampshire.
GEORGE THE Third,

^ /— -"— X - By the Grace of God, of Great-Britain, France and

\ ^ / Ireland, King, Defender of the Faith, &c.

) " ( To all Persons to whom these Presents shall come,

^ ^-^-v-w f Greeting.

STOCKBRIDGE. 457

Commander in Chief of Oar said Province of New-Hampshike in
New-England, and of our Council of the said Province; Have
upon the Conditions and Reservations herein after made, given and
granted, and b}' these Presents, for us, our Heirs, and Successors,
do give and grant in equal Shares, unto Our loving Subjects, Inhab-
itants of Our said Province of Neiv-Hamp^hire, and Our other Gov-
ernments, and to their Heirs and Assigns for ever, whose Names are
entred on this Grant, to be divided to and amongst them into
Seventy two equal Shares, all that Tract or Parcel of Land situate,
lying and being within our said Province of New-Hampshire, contain-
ing by Admeasurement, twenty Eight Thousand and one Hundred
Acres, which Tract is to contain Soni thing more than Six miles and
one half Mile square, and no more ; out of which an Allowance is
to be made for High Ways and unimprovable Lands by Rocks,
Ponds, Mountains and Rivers, One Thousand and Forty Acres free,
according to a Plan and Survey thereof, made by Our said Gov-
ernor's Order, and returned into the Secretary's Office, and hereunto
annexed, butted and bounded as follows, Viz. Begining at the
North east Corner of Killington from Thence North Sixty degrees
West five miles and one half mile from Thence North thirty one
degrees East Eight miles from Thence South Sixty degrees East five
miles and one half mile To The Northv/est Corner of Bernard from
Thence by Bernard and Killington to the first Bounds mentioned —
And that the same be, and hereby is Incorporated into a Township
by the Name of Stockbridge And the Inhabitants that do or shall
hereafter inhabit the said Township, are hereby declared to be
Enfranchized with and Intitled to all and every the Priviledges and
Immunities that other Towns within Our Province by Law Exercise
and Enjoy : And further, that the said Town as soon as there shall
be Fifty Families resident and settled thereon, shall have the Liberty
of holding Two Fairs, owe of which shall be held on the

And the other on the
annually, which Fairs are not to continue longer than the respective

following the said
and that as soon as the said Town shall consist of Fifty Fami-
lies, a Market may be *opened and kept one or more Days in *2-78
each Week, as may be thought most advantagious to the Inhabi-
tants. Also, that the first Meeting for the Choice of Town Officers,
agreable to the Laws of our said Province, shall be held on the
first Wednesday in September Next which said Meeting shall be Noti-
fied by M"^ William Dodge who is hereby also appointed the Mod-
erator of the said first Meeting, which he is to Notify and Govern
agreable to the Laws and Customs of Our said Province ; and that

458 CHARTER RECORDS.

the annual Meeting for ever hereafter for the Choice of such Officers
for the said Town, shall be on the Second Tuesday of ilia re A annually,
To Have and to Hold the said Tract of Land as above expressed,
together with all Privileges and Appurtenances, to them and their
respective Heirs and Assigns forever, upon the following Conditions,
viz,

I. That every Grantee, his Heirs or Assigns shall plant and culti-
vate five Acres of Land within the Term of five Years for every fifty
Acres contained in his or their Share or Proportion of Land in said
Township, and continue to improve and settle the same by addi-
tional Cultivations, on Penalty of the Forfeiture of his Grant or
Share in the said Township, and of its reverting to Us, our Heirs
and Successors, to be by Us or Them Re-granted to such of Our Sub-
jects as shall effectually settle and cultivate the same.

H. That all white and other Pine Trees within the said Township,
fit for Masting Our Royal Navy, be carefully ])reserved for that Use,
and none to be cut or felled without Our special Licence for so doing
first had and obtained, upon the Penalty of the Forfeiture of the
Right of such Grantee, his Heirs and Assigns, to Us, our Heirs and
Successors, as well as being subject to the Penalty of any Act or
Acts of Parliament that now are, or hereafter shall be Enacted.

IV. Yielding and paying therefor to Us, our Heirs and Successors
for the Space of ten Years, to be computed from the Date hereof, the
Rent of one Ear of Indian Corn only, on the twenty-fifth Day of
December annually, if lawfully demanded, the first Payment to be
made on the twenty-fifth Day of December. 1762

V. Ever}- Proprietor, Settler or Inhabitant, shall yield and pay
unto Us, our Heirs and Successors yearly, and every Year forever,
from and after the Expiration of ten Years from the abovesaid
twenty-fifth Day of December., namely, on the twenty-fifth Day of
December^ which will be in the Year of Our Lord 1772 One shilling
Proclamation Money for every Hundred Acres he so owns, settles or
possesses, and so in Proportion for a greater or lesser Tract of the
said Land; which Money shall be paid by the respective Persons
abovesaid, their Heirs or Assigns, in our Council Chamber in Ports-
mouth., or to such Officer or Officers as shall be appointed to receive
the same : and this to be in Lieu of all other Rents and Services
whatsoever.

STOCKBRIDGE.

469

In Testimony whereof we have caused the Seal of our said Prov-
ince to be hereunto affixed. Witness Benning Wentworth Esq:
Our Governor and Commander in Chief of Our said Province, the
twenty first Day of July In the Year of our Lord Christ, One
Thousand Seven Hundred and Sixty one And in the first Year of
Our Keign.

B Went worth

By His Excellency's Command,
With Advice of Council,

Theodore Atkinson Sec*'*'

Province of New Hamp'' July 22'' 1761

Recorded from the Originall under the Province Seal

^ Theodore Atkinson Sec'^

*A list of the Grantees of the town of Stockbridge — *2-79

'^ William Dodge
Isaac Appleton
Michal Farley
Arthur Abbot
Isaac Burham
Isaac Dodge
Moses Fitts
Abraham Choat

Joremy Green
William Cooper
Samuel Adams
Thomas Bently
Samuel Frothingham
Aaron Davis
Will"' Mason Weston
Robert M-^^Mullon

Tho*" Burham Javner Samuel Davis

Benj' Davis
Abraham Dodge
^Joshua Henshaw'

Thomas Fisk

James Frend

Josiah Fairfield

Ephr"' Kimball

John Sherburne
John Winthrop
Joshua Went worth

Thomas Anderson
William Hall
Thomas Ramon d
Henry AUeyne Jun^
Peter Curtis
William Story
Thomas Kirk
William Sloan
John Cunnable
Andrew Belcher
John Edwards
Silas Jones
Joshua Orne
Nath' Fairfield
John Herike

Joseph Marion

Joseph Russell

John Ruddock

William Fisk

John Porter

Nath' Dodge

Benj-' Fairfield
Joseph Whipple manchester Israel Andrews Dan vers
Daniel Warner Esq James Neving Esq Eleaz'^ Russell Jun

Geo Went worth

Edw'^

Nath' Warner
Sam' Went worth Esq Boston

Jacob Dodge

Wiggles worth

Hon'''*' Tho"* Hutchinson Esq

Henry Dearing
Rev'' Nath' Appleton
Byfield Loyd
Sam' Warner
Col Jacob Wendall

Five Hundred acres to be laid out for His Excell^ Benning Went-
worth Esq as Marked on the Plan B W : to be Accounted two
Shares — one Whole Share for a Gleeb : for the Church of England —
one Whole Share for the Use of a Public School one Whole Share for

460

CHARTER RECORDS.

the first Settled Minister one Whole Share for the Society for Prop-
agating the Gospel in Forren Parts —

Province of New Harap'' July 22*^ 1761

Recorded from the Back of the original Charter under the Pr° Seal

■^ Theodore Atkinson Sec''^

/V 3//J . i-miLe

.AV

Province of New Hamp'' July 22'^ 1761

Recorded from the Back of the original Charter under the Province
Seal

19 Theodore Atkinson Sec^>'

STOWE. 461

STOWE.

*Proviiice of New-Hampshire. * 2-465

Stow GEORGE the Thiiid,

, ,^^-— ^ . B}' the Grace of God, of Great-Britain, France and Ire-
) / land, King, Defender of the Faith, &c.

j "^ I To all Persons to tvhom these Presents shall come^

^ N^-.^^ ' Greeting.

Know ye, that We of Our special Grace, certain Knowledge, and
meer jNIotion, for the due Encouragement of settling a JVew Planta-
tion within our said Province, by and with the Advice of our Trusty
and Well-beloved Benning Wentwoeth, Esq; Our Governor and
Commander in Chief of Our said Province of New-Hampshire in JSfew-
Emjland, and of our Council of the said Province ; Have upon the
Conditions and Reservations herein after made, given and granted,
and by these Presents, for us, our Heirs, and Successors, do give and
grant in equal Shares, unto Our loving Subjects, Inhabitants of Our
said Province of New-Hampshire^ and Our other Governments, and to
their Heirs and Assigns for ever, whose Names are entred on this Grant,
to be divided to and amongst them into Seventy equal Shares, all
that Tract or Parcel of Land situate, lying and being within our said
Province of Neu'-Hamjjshire^ containing by Admeasurement, 23040
Acres^ which Tract is to contain Six Miles square, and no more ; out
of which an Allowance is to be made for High Wa3^s and unimprova-
ble Lands by Rocks, Ponds, Mountains and Rivers, One Thousand
and Forty Acres free, according to a Plan and Survey thereof, made
by Our said Governor's Order, and returned into the Secretary's
Office, and hereunto annexed, butted and bounded as follows. Viz.
Begining at the North Easterly corner of Mansfield, from thence
Runing Southerly by said Mansfield, six Miles to the North Westerly
corner of Waterbury, from thence Easterly by said Waterbury North
Line aljout six Miles to the North Easterly corner thereof, from
thence Nortlierly a Parralell Line with the Easterly Line of Mans-
field six iSIiles, from thence Westerly about six Miles to the Corner
of Mansfield where we began — And that the same be, and hereby is
Incorporated into a Township by the Name of Stow And the Inhabi-
tants that do or shall hereafter inhabit the said Township, are hereby
declared to be Enfranchized with and Intitled to all and every the
Priviledges and Immunities that other Towns within Our Province
by Law Exercise and Enjoy: And -further, that the said Town as soon

462 CHARTER RECORDS.

as there shall he Fifty Families resident and settled thereon, shall
have the Liberty of holding Tivo Fairs, one of which shall be held on
the And the other

on the annually, which Fairs

are not to continue longer than the respective

following the said
and that as soon as the said Town shall consist of Fifty
*2-466 Families, a Market may be * opened and kept one or more
Days in each Week, as may be thought most advantagious
to the Inhabitants. Also, that the first Meeting for the Choice
of Town Officers, agreable to the Laws of our said Province, shall
be held on the 26"' July next which said Meeting shall be Noti-
fied by M'' Will'" Foster who is hereby also appointed the Moderator
of the said first Meeting, which he is to Notify and Govern agreable
to the Laws and Customs of Our said Province ; and that the annual
Meeting for ever hereafter for the Choice of such Officers for the said
Town, shall be on the Second Tuesday of March annually. To Have
and to Hold the said Tract of Land as above expressed, together
with all Privileges and Appurtenances, to them and their respective
Heirs and Assigns forever, upon the following Conditions, viz.

I. That every Grantee, his Heirs or Assigns shall plant and culti-
vate five Acres of Land within the Term of five Years for every fifty
Acres contained in his or their Share or Proportion of Land in said
Township, and continue to improve and settle the same by additional
Cultivations, on Penalty of the Forfeiture of his Grant or Share in
the said Township, and of its reverting to Us, our Heirs and Succes-
sors, to be by LTs or Them Re-granted to such of Our Subjects as shall
effectually settle and cultivate the same.

n. That all white and other Pine Trees within the said Township,
fit for Masting Our Royal Navy, be carefully preserved for that Use,
and none to ho, cut or felled without Our special Licence for so doing
first had and obtained, upon the Penalty of the Forfeiture of the
Right of such Grantee, his Heirs and Assigns, to Us, our Heirs and
Successors, as well as being subject to the Penalty of any Act or Acts
of Parliament that now are, or hereafter shall be Enacted.

IV. Yielding and paying therefor to LTs, our Heirs and Successors
for the Space of ten Years, to be computed from the Date hereof, the
Rent of one Ear of Indian Corn only, on the twenty-fifth Day of

STOWE.

468

December annually, if lawfully demanded, the first Payment to be made
on the twenty-fifth Day of December. 1763

V. Every Proprietor, Settler or Inhabitant, shall y'l^VX and pay unto
l^s, our Heirs and Siu'cessors 3'early, and every Year forever, from and
after the Expiration of ten Years from the abovesaid twenty-lifth Day
of December, namely, on the twenty-fifth Day of December, which will
be in the Year of Our Lord 1773 One shilling Proclamation Money
for every Hundred Acres he so owns, settles or possesses, and so in
Proportion for a greater or lesser Tract of the said Land ; which
Money shall be paid by the respective Persons abovesaid, tlieir Heirs
or Assigns, in our Council Cliamber in Portsmouth, or to such Officer
or Officers as shall be appointed to receive the same ; and this to
be in Lieu of all other Rents and Services whatsoever.

In Testimony whereof we have caused the Seal of our said Province
to be hereunto affixed. Witness Penning Wentworth, Esq ; Our
Governor and Commander in Chief of Our said Province, the Eighth
Day of June In the Year of our Lord Christ, One Thousand Seven
Hundred and sixty three And in the Third Year of Our Reign.

B Wentworth

By His Excellency's Command,
With Advice of Council,

T Atkinson Jun'" Sec"'-^'

Prov*^ New Hamp^ June 8-1763

Recorded according to the Original Charter under the Pro'^ Seal

T Atkinson Jun'' Sec''^

*The Names of the Grantees of Stow

*2-467

Joshua Simmons
Hikk Simmons Jun''
Elijah Bucklee
Benj'* Ketcham J"^
Isaac Montross
Sam' Davenport
Jos'' Ketcham Jun''
Shuon Brady
Rich'' Smith
John Bradey
Will'" Parreut
Ezekiel Griffin
Midi' Louiesbury J""
Eljen"" A vary
FrecP Shafer
Joshua Bassett

Will"' Fise
Rich'' Ketcham
Ezekiel Bucklee
Benj''^ Greene
John Davenport
John Davenport Jun""
Jere^'" Shafer
Zebulon Brady
Will'" M'C'resy
Barth" Carpenter
James Leggett
Isaac Louiesbury
David Storm
Tho** Bradey
Rob' Davenport
Lott Sarlls

Reuben Wood
Zopher Ketcliam
Elijah Bucklee Jun
Peter Montross
Steph" Davenport
Nathan Burdege
Jacob Shafer
Nath' Conklin
Nath' Merritt
Tho* Louiesbury
Asa Browne Jun*^
Abel Wicks
Benj* Greene
Benj'' Browne
Tho'* Davenport
Elijah Sarlls

464

CHARTER RECORDS.

John Griffin
Oliver Legatt
Dan^ Parrant
James Wicks

Gasham Griffin John Parrunt

Cha** Haight Jun'^ Jacob Parrant

Jacob Kniffen Jacob Griffin

James Wicks Jun'^ Hon : Rich"' Wibird \

Jonathan Church & John Maccluffee John Downing S Esq''*

Dan^ Warner )

His Excellency Benning Wentworth Esq a Tract of Land to
Contain Five Hundred Acres as marked B W in the Plan which is
to be Accounted two of the within shares, One whole Share for the
Incorporated Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign
Parts, one Share for a Glebe for the Church of England as by Law
Establish'd, One Share for the First Settled Minister of the Gospel, &
One share for the benefit of a school in said Town —

Province of New Hamp'' June 8-1763

Recorded from the Back of the Original Charter of Stow under the
Pro^ Seal

19 T Atkinson Jun"" Sec^^

Prov'^ New Hamp^ June 8-1763

Recorded from the Back of the Original Charter of Stow under the
Pro^ Seal

^ T Atkinson Jun"^ Sec^-^

P s

STRAFFORD. 465

STRAFFORD.

*Province of New-Hampshire. *2-105

Straford GEORGE the Third,

, ..— .^"^^ ,^ By the Grace of God, of Great-Britain, France and
Ireland, King, Defender of the Faith &c.

To all Persons to zvhom these Presents shall come^
^ -— ^^-^ '' Greeting.

Know ye, that We of Our special Grace, certain Knowledge, and
meer Motion, for the due Encouragement of settling a Neiv Planta-
tion within our said Province, by and with the Advice of our Trusty
and Well-beloved Benning Wentworth, Esq ; Our Governor and
Commander in Chief of Our said Province of New-Hampshire in
Netc-England ^ and of our Council of the said Province ; Have
upon the Conditions and Reservations herein after made, given and
granted, and by these Presents, for us, our Heirs, and Successors,
do give and grant in equal Shares, unto Our loving Subjects, Inhabi-
tants of Our said Province of Nen'-Hampshire, and Our other Gov-
ernments, and to their Heirs and Assigns for ever, whose Names are
entred on this Grant, to be divided to and amongst them into Seventy
equal Shares, all that Tract or Parcel of Land situate, lying and
being within our said Province of New-Hampshire^ containing by
Admeasurement, Twenty three thousand & forty Acres, which Tract
is to contain Six Miles square, and no more ; out of which an Allowance
is to be made for High Ways and unimprovable Lands by Rocks, Ponds,
Mountains and Rivers, One Thousand and Forty Acres free, accord-
ing to a Plan and Survey thereof, made by Our said Governor's
Order, and returned into the Secretary's Oflfice, and hereunto annexed,
butted and bounded as follows. Viz. Begining at the South Westerly
Corner of Thetford from thence North fifty Seven degrees West Six
Miles from thence North Thirty Six degrees East Six Miles from
thence South fifty Seven degrees East Six Miles to the North West-
erly Corner of Thetford afore Said thence South Thii'ty Seven degrees
West by Thetford to the Bound first Mentioned — And that the same
be, and hereby is Incorporated into a Township by the Name of
Strafford And the Inhabitants that do or shall hereafter inliabit
the said Tnvnshij), are hereby declared to be Enfranchized with and
Intitled to all and every the Priviledges and Immunities that other
Towns within Our Province by Law Exercise and Enjoy: And fur-
ther, that the said Town as soon as there shall be Fiftv Families res-

466 CHAKTEE RECORDS.

ident and settled thereon, shall have the Liberty of holding Two
Fairs, one of wliich shall be held on the

And the other on the annually, which

fairs are not to continue longer than the respective
following the said
and that as soon as the said Town shall consist of Fifty
*2-106 Families, a Market may be * opened and kept one or more
Days in each Week, as may be thought most advanta-
gious to the Inhabitants. Also, that the first Meeting for the Choice
of Town Officers, agreable to the Laws of our said Province, shall
be held on the First Tuesda}^ in September Next which said Meet-
ing shall be Notified by JVP Jonathan Root who- is hereby also
appointed the Moderator of the said first Meeting, which he is to
Notify and Govern agreable to the l^aws and Customs of Our said
Province ; and that the annual Meeting for ever hereafter for the
Choice of such Officers for the said Town, shall be on the Second
Tuesday of March annually, To Have and to Hold the said Tract of
Land as above expressed, together with all Privileges and Appurten-
ances, to them and their respective Heirs and Assigns forever, upon
the following Conditions, viz.

I. That every Grantee, his Heirs or Assigns shall plant and cultivate
five Acres of Land within the Term of five Years for every fifty Acres
contained in his or their Share or Proportion of Land in said Town-
ship, and continue to improve and settle the same by additional
Cultivations, on Penalty of the Forfeiture of his Grant or Share in
the said Township, and of its reverting to Us, our Heirs and Succes-
sors, to be by Us or Them Re-granted to such of Our Subjects as shall
effectually settle and cultivate the same.

n. That all white and other Pine Trees within the said Township,
fit for Masting Our Royal Navy, be carefully preserved for that Use,
and none to be cut or felled without Our special Licence for so doing
first had and obtained, upon the Penalty of the Forfeiture of the
Right of such Grantee, his Heirs and Assigns, to Us, our Heirs and
Successors, as well as being subject to the Penalty of any Act or Acts
of Parliament that now are, or hereafter shall be Enacted.

IV. Yielding and paying therefor to Us, our Heirs and Successors
for the Space of ten Years, to be computed from the Date hereof, the
Rent of one Ear of Indian Corn only, on the twenty-fifth Day of

STRAFFORD.

467

December annually, if lawfully demanded, the first Payment to be
made on the twenty-fifth Day of December. 1762

V. Every Proprietor, Settler or Inhabitant, shall yield and pay unto
Us, our Heirs and Successors yearly, and every Year forever, from
and after the Expiration of ten Years from the abovesaid twenty-lifth
Day of December, namely , on the twenty-fifth Day of December^ which
will be in the Year of Our Lord 1772 One shillmg Proclamation
Money for every Hundred Acres he so owns, settles or possesses, and
SQ in Proportion for a great or lesser Tract of the said Land ; which
Money shall be paid by the respective Persons abovesaid, their Heirs
or Assigns, in our Council Chamber in Portsmouth, or to such Officer
or Officers as shall be appointed to receive the same ; and this to be
in Lieu of all other Rents and Services whatsoever.

In Testimony whereof we have caused the Seal of our said Province
to be hereunto affixed. Witness Benning Wentworth, Esq; Our
Governor and Commander in Chief of Our said Province, the 12'^
Day of August In the Year of our Lord Christ, One Thousand
Seven Hundred and Sixty one And in the First Year of Our Reign.

B Wentworth

By His Excellency's Command,
With Advice of Council,

Theodore Atkinson Sec''''

Province of New Hamp"^ August 12"' 1761

Recorded According to the Original Charter under the Province
Seal

19 Theodore Atkinson Sec'^

*The Names of the Grantees of Strafford Viz

*2-107

Solomon Phelps Stephen Barber

Daniel Newcomb Stephen Barber jun'

Daniel Ingham John Chamberlin

Rev'^M'Eleaz'WheelockCap^ Icabod Phelps

Daniel Foot
Benf Buell
Benj'' Beach
Daniel Benet
xVzeriah Beach jun''
Icabod Phelps jun'^
Jabez Kingsbery
George Brindley
Silas Pee[)Oon
David Phelps
Silvanus Phelps

Samuel Pahner jun'
Enos Horsford
Joseph Horsford
Medad Beach
Samuel Bill
John Longbottom
William White
Increes Porter
David Carver jun'^
Solomon Tarbox
Peter Swetland

Fredrick Smith
Cap' Solomon Phelps
Sam" Fielding
Asaph Trumble
Timothy Phelps y 3'^
Cap' Jon^ White
Benj'* Skiner
Eltsha Beach
Thomas Sawyer
Abraham Burnap Jun'^
Peletiah Porter
Joshua Phelps
Ebenez'' Gilbirt
John Gott
Ebenez"" Cole

468

CHAKTER RECOKDS.

William Biiscow James Jones Ebenez'' Kneeland

W" Peunock Ruben Porter Sampson Sheaffe Esq

Joseph Newraarch Esq John Gould James Apthorp

Nath" Mendon Peirce Long George Janveriu

Thomas Wentworth Hall Jackson Paul March

Clem' March Esq Sam" Moffat Jotham Odiorne &

Robert Odiorne
His Excellency Penning Wentworth Esq a Tract of Land to Con-
tain Five Hundred Acres As Marked B- W- in the Plan which is
to be Accounted two of the within Shares one whole Share for the
incorporated Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in foreign
Parts one whole Share for A Glebe for the Church of England as
by Law Established One Share for the first Settled Minister of the
Gospel & One Share for the Benefit of the School in Said Town —

Province of New Hampshire August 12'^ 1761
Recorded from the Back of the Original Charter under the Prov-
ince Seal

"39 Theodore Atkinson Sec^^^

•^ Plan of
^iTTKLffo-rd,

Province of New Hamp'' August 12*^ 1761

Recorded from the back of the Original Charter under the Prov-
ince Seal

19 Theodore Atkinson Sec^^

STRATTON. 4.69

STRATTON.

*Province of New-Hampshire. *2-89

Stratton GEORGE the Third,

p s

By the Grace of God, of Great-Britain, France and
Ireland, King, Defender of the Faith, &c.

To all Persons to whoyn these Presents shall come,
^ ^ — V — ^ ^ Greeting.

Know ye, that We of Our special Grace, certain Knowledge, and
meer Motion, for the due Encouragement of settling a New Planta-
tion within our said Province, by and with the Advice of our Trusty
and Well-beloved Benning Wentworth, Esq; Our Governor and
Commander in Chief of Our said Province of New-Hampshire in
New-England, and of our Council of the said Province ; Have
upon the Conditions and Reservations herein after made, given and
granted, and by these Presents, for us, our Heirs, and Successors,
do give and grant in equal Shares, unto Our loving Subjects, Inhab-
itants of Our said Province of Neiv-Hampshire, and Our other
Governments, and to their Heirs and Assigns for ever, whose Names
are entred on this Grant, to be divided to and amongst them into
Sixty Nine equal Shares, all that Tract or Parcel of Land situate,
lying and being within our said Province of New-Hampshire, con-
taining by Admeasurement, Twenty three thousand & forty Acres,
which Tract is to contain Six Miles square, and no more ; out of
which an Allowance is to be made for High Ways and unimprov-
able Lands by Rocks, Ponds, Mountains and Rivers, One Thou-
sand and Forty Acres free, according to a Plan and Survey
thereof, made by Our said Governor's Order, and returned into the
Secretary's Office, and hereunto annexed, butted and bounded as
follows, Viz. Begining at the North East Corner of Sunderland
from thence due East Six Miles from thence due South Six Miles
from thence due West Six Miles to the South P2ast Corner of Sunder-
land Thence due North by Sunderland aforesaid to the Bound first
mentioned — And that the same be, and hereby is Incorporated into
a Township by the Name of Stratton And the Inhabitants that do
or shall hereafter inhabit the said Township, are hereby declared to
be Enfranchized witli and Intitled to all and every the Priviledges
and Immunities that otiier Towns within Our Province b}^ Law
Exercise and Enjoy: And further, that the said Town as soon as
there shall be Fifty Families resident and settled thereon, shall have

470 CHAKTER RECORDS.

the Liberty of holding Two Fairs, one of which shall be held on the

And the other on the
annually, which f'airs are not to continue longer than the respective

following the said

and that as soon as the said Town shall consist of
*2-90 Fifty Families, a Market may be *opened and kept

one or more Days in each Week, as may be thought most
advantagious to the Inhabitants. Also, that the first Meeting
for the Choice of Town Oihcers, agreable to the Laws of our said
Province, shall be held on the First Wednesday of October Next which
said Meeting shall be Notified by Isaac Searl who is hereby also
appointed the Moderator of the said first Meeting, which he is
to Notif}^ and Govern agreable to the Laws and Customs of Our said
Province; and that the annual Meeting for ever hereafter for the
Choice of such Officers for the said Town, shall be on the Second
Tuesday of 3Iarch annually. To Have and to Hold the said Tract of
Land as above expressed, together with all Privileges and Appurten-
ances, to them and their respective Heirs and Assigns forever, upon
the following Conditions, viz.

I. That every Grantee, his Heirs or Assigns shall plant and culti-
vate five Acres of Land within the Term of five Years for every fifty
Acres contained in his or their Share or Proportion of Land in said
Township, and continue to improve and settle the same by additional
Cultivations, on Penalty of the Forfeiture of his Grant or Share in
the said Township, and of its reverting to Us, our Heirs and Suc-
cesors, to be by Us or Tiiem Re-granted to such of Our Subjects as
shall effectually settle and cultivate the same.

II. That all white and other Pine Trees within the said Township,
fit for Masting Our Royal Navy, be carefully preserved for that Use,
and none to be cut or felled without Our special Licence for so doing
first had and obtained, upon the Peualt}^ of the Forfeiture of the
Right of such Grantee, his Heirs and Assigns, to Us, our Heirs and
Successors, as well as being subject to the Penalty of any Act or
Acts of Parliament that now are, or hereafter shall be Enacted.

IV. Yielding and paying therefor to Us, our Heirs and Successors
for the Space of ten Years, to be computed from the Date hereof, the
Rent of one Ear of Indian Corn only, on the twenty-fifth Day of
December annually, if lawfull}^ demanded, the first Payment to be

STRATTON.

471

made on the twenty-fifth Day of December. 1762

V. Every Proprietor, Settler or Inhabitant, shall yield and pay
unto Us, our Heirs and Successors yearly, and every Year forever,
from and after the Expiration of ten Years from the abovesaid
twenty-fifth Day of Decemhe)\ namely, on the twenty-fifth Day of
December, which will be in the Year of Our Lord 1772 One shilliti;/
Proclamation Money for every Hundred Acres he so owns, settles or
possesses, and so in Proportion for a greater or lesser Tract of the
said Land ; which Money shall be paid by the respective Persons
abovesaid, their Heirs or Assigns, in our Council Chamber in PorU-
mouth, or to such Officer or Officers as shall be appointed to receive
the same; and this to be in Lieu of all other Rents and Services
whatsoever.

In Testimon}' whereof we have caused the Seal of our said Prov-
ince to be hereunto affixed. Witness Benning Wentworth, Esq;
Our Governor and Commander in Chief of Our said Province, the
Thirtieth Day of July In the Year of our Lord Christ, One Thou-
sand Seven Hundred and Sixty one And in the First Year of Our
Reign. B Wentworth

By His Excellency's Command,
With Advice of Council,

Theodore Atkinson Sec''^

Province of New Hamp"^ July 30"' 1761

Recorded from the Original Under the Province Seal

■^ Theodore Atkinson Sec''^

*The Names of the Grantees of

*2-91

Isaac Searl
Nathan Lyman
Daniel Lee Esq
Caleb Strong
Asael Clap jun""
Nathaniel Cudvvorth
Charles Mather
Nathaniel Burt
Rev'' John Searl
James Hill
John Halden
William Rawson 3''
Lieu' Thomas Sweat
John Smith jun""
Gideon Clark
Oliver Wendal
Joel Hunt

John Lyman
Eleazer Hannum
Elisha Mather
Spencer Phelps
Oliver Lyman
Nathaniel Noyse
Ruggles Woodbridge
Samuel Blodget
Daniel Lee jun'^
Joseph Hill
Josiah Brewer
John Smith
Nath'i Phelps
William Lyman
Jonathan Basscomb
Caleb Blodget
Seth Babbit

Stratton
Job Searl
Charles Clapp
Martin Phelps
Martin Phelps jun"^
Joel Lee

Augustus Clap Esq
Elias Lymon
Caleb Blodget
Cap*^ Benoni Danks
John Hill
Jonas Cuttler
Rev'' Jonathan Judd
Nath" Phelps jun^
Will"' Blunt
Cutis Leoniis
Benj'^ Cud worth
Richard Staner

472

CHARTER RECORDS.

Joseph Brown
William Pearson
William Brattle Esq
John Downing Esq

Joseph Pincheon Esq Monsieur Bundbury
Henry Apthorp Jacob Wendal Esq

Thomas Hubbard Esq Rich'' Wibird Esq
Sam" Wentworth of Boston &
Benninor Wentworth

One Tract of Land to Contain Five Hundred Acres for His
Excellency Benuing Wentworth Esq as marked B: W : in the Plan
wliich is to be Accounted Two of the within Shares one whole Share
for the incorporated Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in
foreio"n Parts One whole Share for A Glebe for the Church of England
as by Law Established One Share for the first Settled Minister of the
Gospel & one Share for the Benefit of the School in Said Town —

Province of New Hamp'' July 30"' 1761

Recorded with the Original Charter & from the Back thereof —

■^ Theodore Atkinson Sec''^

2)u.» JTa-jf Sit 771^?,

A Plan. of-StraHorL

■>l •Ut.'"BlSfj^.K^

SUDBURY. 473

Province of New Hanip' July 30'" 17(31
Recorcl(
ince Seal

Recorded from the Back of the Original Charter under the Prov-

Theodore Atkinson Sec'"''

SUDBURY.

*Province of New-Hampshire. *2-508

Sudbury GEORGE the Third,

. -^-^^ — ^ V By the Grace of God, of Great-Britain, France and

) , ( Ireland, King, Defender of the Faith, &c.

) ' ( To all Persons to whom these Presents shall come,

^ >— 'v-w ^ Greeting.

Sudbury Know ye, that We of Our special Grace, certain Knowledge,
and meer Motion, for the due Encouragement of settling a Ne^v Plan-
tation within our said Province, by and with the Advice of our Trusty
and Well-beloved Benning Wentworth, Esq ; Our Governor and
Commander in Chief of Our said Province of New-Hampshire in
New-England, and of our Council of the said Province; Have upon
the Conditions and Reservations herein after made, given and
granted, and by these Presents, for us, our Heirs, and Successors, do
give and grant in equal Shares, unto Our loving Subjects, Inhab-
itants of Our said Province of Neiv-Hampshire, and Our other
Governments, and to their Heirs and Assigns for ever, whose Names
are entred on this Grant, to be divided to and amongst them into
Fifty four equal Shares, all that Tract or Parcel of Land situate,
lying and l)eing within our said Province of Neiv-Hampshire , contain-
ing by Admeasurement, fourteen thousand four Hundred & Twenty
four Acres, which Tract is to contain near five Miles square,
and no more ; out of which an Allowance is to be made for High Ways
and unimprovable Lands by Rocks, Ponds, Mountains and Rivers,
One Thousand and Forty Acres free, according to a Plan and Survey
thereof, made by Our said Governor's Order, and returned into the
Secretary's Olfice, and hereunto annexed, butted and bounded as
follows, Viz. BesfininCT at the South West Corner of Neshobe from
thence North four deg^ West five Miles & Two hundred rods to a
Stake & Stones from thence North Eighty five deg^ West to the
Easterly Side Line of Shoream from thence South five Miles & Two

474 chaeter records.

hundred rods to a Stake & Stones from thence South Eighty five deg*
East about five Miles to the Place began at And that the same be, and
hereby is Incorporated into a Township by the Name of Sudbury And
the Inhabitants that do or shall hereafter inhabit the said Township, are
hereby declared to be Enfranchized with and Intitled to all and every
the Priviledges and Immunities that other Towns within Our Province
by Law Exercise and Enjoy : And further, that the said Town as soon
as there shall be Fifty Families resident and settled thereon, shall have
the Liberty of holding Two Fair%^ one of which shall be held on the

And the other on the

annually, which Fairs are not to continue

longer than the respective following the said

and that as soon as the said Town shall
*2-509 consist of Fifty Families, a Market may be *opened and
kept one or more Days in each Week, as may be thought
most advantagious to the Inhabitants. Also, that the first Meeting
for the Choice of Town Officers, agreable to the Laws of our said
Province, shall be held on the first Tuesday in September next
which said Meeting shall be Notified by Cap' Silas Brown who is
hereby also appointed the Moderator of the said first Meeting, which
he is to Notify and Govern agreable to the Laws and Customs of
Our said Province; and that the annual Meeting for ever hereafter
for the Choice of such Ofiicers for the said Town, shall be on the
Second Tuesday of March annually, To Have and to Hold the said
Tract of Land as above expressed, together with all Privileges and
Appurtenances, to them and their respective Heirs and Assigns for-
ever, upon the following Conditions, viz.

I. That every Grantee, his Heirs or Assigns shall plant and culti-
vate five Acres of Land within the Term of five Years for every fifty
Acres contained in his or their Share or Proportion of Land in said
Township, and continue to improve and settle the same by additional
Cultivations, on Penalty of the Forfeiture of his Grant or Share in
the said Township, and of its reverting to LTs, our Heirs and Succes-
sors, to be by Us or Them Re-granted to such of Our Subjects as shall
effectually settle and cultivate the same.

II. That all white and other Pine Trees within the said Township,
fit for Masting Our Royal Navy, be carefully preserved for that Use,
and none to be cut or felled without Our special Licence for so
doing first had and obtained, upon the Penalty of the Forfeiture of
the Right of such Grantee, his Heirs and Assigns, to Us, our Heirs
and Successors, as well as being subject to the Penalty of any Act or
Acts of Parliament that now are, or hereafter shall be Enacted.

III. That before any Division of the Land be made to and among

SUDBURY. 475

the Grantees, a Tract of Land as near the Centre of the said Town-
ship as the Land will admit of, shall be reserved and marked out for
Town Lots, one of which shall be allotted to each Grantee of the
Contents of one Acre.

IV. Yielding and ])aying therefor to Us, our Heirs and Successors
for the Space of ten Years, to be computed from the Date hereof, the
Rent of one Ear of Indian Corn only, on the twenty-fifth Day of
December annually, if lawfully demanded, the first Payment to be
made on the twenty-fifth Day of December. 1763

V. Every Proprietor, Settler or Inhabitant, shall yield and pay
unto Us, our Heirs and Successors yearly, and every Year forever,
from and after the Expiration of ten Years from the abovesaid
twenty-fifth Day of December., namely, on the twent^^-fifth Day of
December., which will be in the Year of Our Lord 1778 One shilling
Proclamation Money for every Hundred Acres he so owns, settles or
possesses, and so in Proportion for a greater or lesser Tract of the
said Land; which Money shall be paid by the respective Persons
abovesaid, their Heirs or Assigns, in our Council Chamber in Ports-
mouth., or to such Officer or Officers as shall be appointed to receive
the same ; and this to be in Lieu of all other Kents and Services
whatsoever.

In Testimony whereof we have caused the Seal of our said Prov-
ince to be hereunto affixed. Witness Bennjng Wentwoktet, Esq ;
Our Governor and Commander in Chief of Our said Province, the
Sixth Day of Augs* In the Year of our Lord Christ, One Thousand
Seven Hundred and Sixty three And in the Third Yearof Our Reign.

B Wentworth
By His Excellency's Command,
With Advice of Council,

Theodore Atkinson jun'' Sec"^*'

Pro' of New Harap^ Aug^' 6 1?63

Recorded According to the Original Charter under the Province
Seal

^ T Atkinson Jun^ Sec"^"

*The Names of the Grantees of Sudbury Viz *2-5lO

Cap' Silas Brown Maj'" Thomas Tash Ca[)' Aaron Brown

Coll Joseph Smith John Tash Thomas Ham Jun'

James Foulsam Jacob Doe John Ham

Aaron Moses jun'' Beiij'^ Fox James Bryant

Joshua Durgin James Palmer Arthur Bennet

L' Joseph Thomas Joshua Crumet Lieu' John Burleigh

Jon'' Young Doct' Josiali Bartlet Cap' Joshua Fuller

476

CHARTER RECORDS.

Elisha Fuller
Jerem'' Fuller
Joshua Jackson
Henry Gardner Esq
Cap' Henry Spring
Dan'i Pond
Jacob Tash Ham
Esq John White
John Huggins

Tho* Miller

Tho^ Fuller
Jon** Fuller
Peter Bent
John Trusdell
Josiah Holden
David Davis

Jeremiah Wiswell
Rich'i Fuller
Enoch Clark
Peter Bent jun""
Sam'i Bent
Leu*^ Micha Jackson
Cap' John White
Sam" Severence

Nathan Jones

Hon"" Rich*^ Wibird & Joseph New march Esq
His Excellency Benning Wentworth Esq a Tract of Land to Con-
tain Four Hundred Acres as marked on the Plan B W- which is to
be accounted Two of the within Shares one Share for the Incorpo-
rated Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts
One Share for a Glebe for the Church of England as by Law Estab-
lished— one Share for the First Settled Minister in Said Town &
one Share for the School there forever

Pro^ of New Hamp^ August 6-1763

Recorded from the Back of the Original Charter under the Pro^
Seal

19 T Atkinson Jun^ Sec-^^

Pro^ New Hamp' August 6- 1763

Recorded from the Back of the Original Charter of Sundbury
under the Prov*" Seal

m T Atkinson Jun^ Sec^^^

SUDBURY. 477

[Same Tereitokv Granted as Dunkak, 1764.]

*Province of New-Hampshire. *3-118

Dunbar GEORGE the Third,

S-^-i^^-^ v^ By the Grace of God, of Great-Britain, France and
/ Irehmcl, King, Defender of the Faith &c.
1 To all Persons to whom these Presents shall come,

■^^0^^-^ ^ Greeting.

Know Ye, that We of Our special Grace, certain Knowledge, and
meer Motion, for the due ^Encouragement of settling a JVetv Plantation
within our said Province, by and with the Advice of our Trusty and
Well-beloved Benning Wentwokth, Esq ; Our Governor and Com-
mander in Chief of Our said Province of Netv-Hampshire, in New-
England, and of Our Council of the said Province ; Have upon the
Conditions and Reservations herein after made, given and granted,
and by these Presents, for Us, Our Heirs, and Successors, do give
and grant in equal Shares, unto Our loving Subjects, Inhabitants of
Our said Province of New-Hampshire, and Our other Governments,
and to their Heirs and Assigns for ever, whose Names are entred on
this Grant, to be divided to and amongst them into Seventy three
equal Shares, all that Tract or Parcel of Land situate, lying and being
within our said Province of Neiv-Hampshire, containing by Admeasure-
ment, 23040 Acres, which Tract is to contain Six Miles square, and no
more ; out of which an Allowance is to be made for High Ways and
unimprovable Lands by Rocks, Ponds, Mountains and Rivers, One
Thousand and Forty Acres free, according to a Plan and Survey
thereof, made by Our said Governor's Order, and returned into the
Secretary's Office, and hereunto annexed, butted and bounded as fol-
lows, Viz. Begining at the North Westerly Corner of the Township
of Hubbardton, & runing from thence due North Six Miles, then
turning off & runing due East Six Miles but not to Interfere with
any former Grant of this Province & from thence due South to the
North Easterly Corner of ILibbardton afores*^ then due West by Hub-
bardton af ores'' to the bounds begun at — And that the same l)e, and
hereby is Incorporated into a Township by the Name of Dunbar And
the Inhabitants that do or shall hereafter inhabit the said Township,
are hereby declared to be Enfranchized Avith and Intitled to all and
every the Priviledges and Immunities that other Towns within Our
Province by Law Exercise and Enjoy : And further, that the said Town
as soon as there shall be Fifty Families resident and settled thereon,
shall have the Liberty of holding tivo Fairs, one of which shall be
held on the And the other

478 CHAETER RECORDS.

on the annually, which Fairs

are not to continue longer than the respective
following the said

and that as soon as the said Town shall consist of
*3-119 Fifty Families, a Market may be *opened and kept one

or more Days in each Week, as may be thought most advan-
tagious to the Inhabitants. Also, that the first Meeting for the
Choice of Town Olhcers, agreable to the Laws of our said Province,
shall be held on the Second Tuesday of July next which said Meeting-
shall be Notified by Isaac Searle Esq who is hereby also appointed
the Moderator of the said first Meeting, which he is to Notify and
Govern agreable to the Laws and Customs of Our said Province ; and
that the annual Meeting for ever hereafter for the Choice of such Ofli-
cers for the said Town, shall be on the Second Tuesday of March
annually, To Have and to Hold the said Tract of Land as above
expressed, together with all Privileges and Appurtenances, to them
and their respective Heirs and Assigns forever, upon the following
Conditions, viz.

I. That every Grantee, his Heirs or Assigns shall plant and cultivate
five Acres of Land within the Term of five Years for every fifty Acres
contained in his or their Share or Proportion of Land in said Town-
ship, and continue to improve and settle the same by additional
Cultivations, on Penalty of the Forfeiture of his Grant or Share in
the said Township, and of its reverting to Us, our Heirs and Succes-
sors, to be by Us or them Re-granted to such of our Subjects as shall
effectually settle and cultivate the same.

II. That all white and other Pine Trees within the said Township,
fit for Masting Our Royal Navy, be carefully preserved for that Use,
and none to be cut or felled without Our special Licence for so doing
first had and obtained, upon the Penalty of the Forfeiture of the
Right of such Grantee, his Heirs and Assigns, to Us, our Heirs and
Successors, as well as being subject to the Penalty of any Act or Acts
of Parliament that now are, or hereafter shall be Enacted.

IV. Yielding and paying therefor to Us, our Heirs and Successors
for the Space of ten Years, to be computed from the Date hereof, the
Rent of one Ear of Indian Corn only, on the twenty-fifth Day of De-
cember annually, if lawfully demanded, the first Payment to be made
on the twenty-fifth Day of December. 1764

SUDBURY

479

V. Every Proprietor, Settler or Inhabitant, shall yield and pay un-
to Us, our Heirs and Sueeessors yearly, and every Year forever, from
and after the Expiration of ten Years from the abovesaid twenty-fifth
Day of Decemhe)\ namely, on the twcnty-lifth Day of December, which
will be in the Year of Our Lord ITT-t One s/iillivi/ Proclamation
Money for every Hundred Acres he so owns, settles or possesses, and
so in Proportion for a greater or lesser Tract of the said Land ; which
]\Ioney shall be paid by the respective Persons abovesaid, their Heirs
or Assigns, in our Coune'd Chamber in Portsmoutli, or to such Officer
or Officers as shall be appointed to receive the same; and this to be
in Lieu of all other Rents and Services whatsoever.

In Testimon}' whereof we have caused the Seal of our said Province
to be hereunto affixed. Witness Bexning Wentworth, Esq ; Our
Governor and Commander in Chief of Our said Province, the 15"' Day
of June In the Year of our Lord Christ, One Thousand Seven
Hundred and Sixty four And in the fourth Year of Our Reign.

B Wentworth

By His Excellency's Command,
With Advice of Couxcil,

T: Atkinson Jun"^ Sec""^

Province of New Hampshire June 22'' 1764

Recorded According to the Origional Charter under the Prov. Seal

W T Atkinson Jun^ Sec^^

*The Names of the Grantees of Dunbar

*3-120

Isaac Searle Esq""
Hon''''" Jos'' Pinchon
Rev'' John Searle
Sam' Carr
John Carr
Hugh Gregg
William Blair
James Cochran
Sam' M'Duff
Rob' Cochran
Will"' Eyers
Alex^ :\I'Neal
Xath' Livermore
William Alexandar
Sam' Blodfrett
Daniel Jones Jun"^
John Aikin

His Excell''^' Fra* Bernard Esq""
Esq William Brattle P^sq"" Harrison Gray Esq'"
Rich'' Oliver Jun^ Esq
Edw'' Ives Esq"^

John INIissing Esq""
John Mitchell
Alex"" I^lair
Hugh M'Duff
Daniel M'Duff
James Poule
Joseph Eyers
Seth Calling
Elien"" Bodwell
Giles Alexandar Jun""
Sam' Blodgett Jun""
Moses Peck
Andrew M' Farling

of Great
Britain

John Coldwill
John M'Duff
Matthew Read
Hugh M'Dufe
Hugh Hurling
Daniel M' Neal
David Willis
Giles Alexandar
Isaac Wendall
Coll" John Gofeee Esq-"
John iNIoore Jun""
John Parker

480

CHARTER RECORDS.

Thomas Parker
Sam' Dilplace
Sam^ Adams
Jacob Dayton
Moses Graves Jim''
Nath' Barrel! Esq

John Davis Isaac Fascant

Sam' Williams Jon'' Adams

Caleb Page Jeremiah Page

Francis Dayton Moses Graves

Hon' Dan' Warner Esq James Xevin Esq
John Hale Esq Sam' Hobart

And''" Wiggins Esq &: Geo: Wyllis Esq

His Excellenxy Benning Wentworth Esq'' a Tract of Land to
Contain Five Hundred Acres as ^Marked B W in the Plan wliich is to
be Accounted two of the within shares. One whole share for the
Incorporated Society- for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign
Parts. One Share for a Glebe for the Church of England as by Law
Established, One share for the first settled ^Minister of the Gospel in
said Town. »k: One share for the benefit of a school in said To\\ai for
ever

Province of New Hanips"^ June 22'^ 176-4

Recorded from the back of the Origional Charter under the Prov:
Seal —

19 T Atkinson Jun^ Sec-^y

IhutXcHSir^,!,

"*^X

Province of New Hampshire June 22' 1764 —
Recorded from the back of the Origional Charter under the Prov
ince Seal —

^ T Atkinson Jun Sec"^

SUNDERLAND. 481

SUNDERLAND.

*Proviiice of New-Hampshire. *2-85

Siiiulerland GEORGE the Third,

/■ '- — ^- — -^ N By the Grace of God, of Great-Britain, France and

) , ( Ireland, King, Defender of the P^aith, &c.

) ' ( To all Persons lo whom these Presents shall come,

^ >^^v-*i-' ^ Greeting.

Know ye, that We of Our special Grace, certain Knowledge, and
meer Motion, for the due Encouragement of settling a JVetv Planta-
tion within our said Province, by and with the Advice of our Trusty
and Well-beloved Bknning Wentwouth, Esq; Our Governor and
Commander in Chief of Our said Province of New-Hampshire in
New-Pnc/land, and of our Council of the said Province; Have
upon the Conditions and Reservations herein after made, given and
granted, and by these Presents, for us, our Heirs, and Successors, do
give and grant in equal Shares, unto Our loving Subjects, Inhabi-
tants of Our said Province of New-Hampshire, and Our other Gov-
ernments, and to their Heirs and Assigns for ever, whose Names are
entred on this Grant, to be divided to and amongst them into Sixty
Eight equal Shares, all that Tract or Parcel of Land situate, lying
and being within our said Province of New-Hampshire, containing
by Admeasurement, Twenty Three Thousand And Forty Acres,
which Tract is to contain Six Miles square, and no more; out of
which an Allowance is to be made for High Waj^s and unimprova-
ble Lands by Rocks, Ponds, Mountains and Rivers, One Thousand
and Forty Acres free, according to a Plan and Survey thereof, made
by Our said Governor's Order, and returned into the Secretary's
Office, and hereunto annexed, butted and bounded as follows, Viz.
Beginning at the South East Corner of Arlington from thence Due
Nortii Six Miles by Arlington Thence due East Six Miles Thence
Due South Six Miles Thence due West Six Miles to Bound first
Mentioned And that tiie same be, and hereby is Incorporated into a
Township by the Name of Sunderland And the Inhabitants that do or
shall hereafter inhabit the said Township, are hereby declared to be
Enfranchized with and Intitled to all and every the Priviledges and
Immunities that other Towns within Our Province by Law Exercise
and Enjoy: And further, that the said Town as soon as there shall
be Fifty Families resident and settled thereon, shall have the Liberty of
holding Tivo Fairs, one of which shall be held on the

And the other on the annually, which

XXXI

482 CHARTER RECORDS.

Fairs are not to continue longer than the respective

following the said and that as soon

as the said Town shall consist of Fifty Families, a Market
*2-86 may be *opened and kept one or more Days in each Week,
as may be thought most advantagious to the Inhabitants.
Also, that the first Meeting for the Choice of Town Officers, agreable
to the Laws of our said Province, shall be held on the First Wednes-
day in October Next which said Meeting shall be Notified by Isaac
Searl who is hereby also appointed the Moderator of the said first
Meeting, which he is to Notify and Govern agreable to the Laws and
Customs of Our said Province; and that the annual Meeting for ever
hereafter for the Choice of such Officers for the said Town, shall be
on the Second Tuesday of March annually, To Have and to Hold the
said Tract of Land as above expressed, together with all Privileges
and Appurtenances, to them and their respective Heirs and Assigns
forever, upon the following Conditions, viz.

I. That every Grantee, his Heirs or Assigns shall plant and culti-
vate five Acres of Land within the Term of five Years for every
fifty Acres contained in his or their Share or Proportion of Land
in said Township, and continue to improve and settle the same by
additional Cultivations, on Penalty of the Forfeiture of his Grant or
Share in the said Township, and of its reverting to Us, our Heirs
and Successors, to be by Us or Them Re-granted to such of Our Sub-
jects as shall effectually settle and cidtivate the same.

III. That before any Division of the Land be made to and among
the Grantees, a Ti-actof Land as near the Centre of the said Township
as the Land will admit of, shall be reserved and marked out for Town
Lots, one of which shall be allotted to each Grantee of the Contents
of one Acre.

IV. Yielding and paying therefor to Us, our Heirs and Successors
for the Space of ten Years, to be computed from the Date hereof, the
Rent of one Ear of Indian Corn only, on the twenty-fifth Day of
December annually, if lawfully demanded, the first Payment to be
made on the twenty -fifth Day of December. 1762

V. Every Proprietor, Settler or Inhabitant, sliall yield and pay unto
Us, our Heirs and Successors yearly, and every Year forever, from

SUNDERLAND. 483

and after the Expiration of ten Years from the abovesaid twenty-
fifth Day of December, namely, on the twenty-fifth Day of December,
wliieh will be in the Year of Our Lord 1772 Otie shilling Proclama-
tion Money for every Hundred Acres he so owns, settles or possesses,
and so in Proportion for a greater or lesser Tract of the said Land ;
which Money shall be paid by the respective Persons abovesaid, their
Heirs or Assigns, in our Council Chamber in Portsmouth, or to such
Officer or Officers as shall be appointed to receive the same ; and this
to be in Lieu of all other Rents and Services whatsoever.

In Testimony whereof we have caused the Seal of our said
Province to be hereunto affixed. Witness BE^'NING Wentwokth,
Esq ; Our Governor and Commander in Chief of Our said Province,
the Twenty Ninth Da}^ of July Li the Year of our Lord Christ, One
Thousand Seven Hundred and Sixty one And in the First Year of
Our Reign.

B Went worth

By His Excellency's Command,
With Advice of Council,

Theodore Atkinson Sec""-^

Province of New Hamp"" July 29'^ 1761

Recorded According to the Original under the Province Seal

^ Theodore Atkinson Sec'^

*The Names of the Grantees of Sunderland *2-87

Isaac Searl Francis Bernard Esq Gov'' Woodbridge Brown

John IMoffat Thomas Clap John Beard

George Willis Esq Nath^ Mather John Searl

Joseph Basset Jacob Yanderheiden Mannigram Dortteiden
Dyrrick J. Yander Heiden Jacob A'anderheiden jun'' Jacob Yanderheiden

Jacob Yanaurnam John Quaken Ross Jacob Quaken Ross

Rich*^ Yanaurnum Cornelius Quaken Ross Timothy Woodbridge
Josh'' Lamb Woodbridge Mathias Yanderheiden Derick YanderHeiden

Isaac Phelps Samuel Eno Elisha Pomroy

Elisha Alvord Simeon Clap Timothy Lyman

Joseph Clark Ithamer Strong Cap' Benj-' Sheldon

Tim'' ]\Iather Joseph Lyman jun"" Abijah Prince

Ebenezer Baccus Esq Abner Wells William iSIather

Jon" Strong jun'' Ebene?/ Strong Jon" Strong tertius

Elias Strong Elias Lyman James Searl

Richard Stainer Daniel Jones Daniel Jones jun"^

Josiah Hubbard Henry Wheeler John Holden

Cap* John Smith Richard Wibird Esq John Downing Esq

484

CHABTER RECORDS.

Monsieur Banbury Cap' William Pearson Henry Apthorp
Jacob Wendall Esq William Brattle Esq Tbo*' Hubbard Esq
Sam" Wentworth of Boston & Benning Wentwortli

A Tract of Land for his Excellency Benning Wentworth to Con-
tain Five Hundred Acres as JMarked in the Plan B : ^V^ : which is
to be accounted two of the within Shares One whole Share for the
Incorporated Society for Propagating the Gospel in foreign Parts
One Share for A Glebe for the Church of England as by Law
Established one Share for the first Settled Minister of the Gospel &
one Share for the Benefit of the School in Said Town —

Province of New Hamp'' July 29"^ 1761

Recorded According to the Original under the Province Seal

19 Theodore Atkinson Sec""^

_5Hi^£liSi3 7rj,2t

Cil^lU. i:i04S2ji^

Province of New Hamp-- July 29"^ 1761

Recorded According to the Plan on the Back of the Charter of
Sunderland

"^ Theodore Atkinson Sec"^^'

S WANTON. 485

SVV ANTON.

*Province of New-Hampshire. *3-10

Swantoii GEORGE the Thikd,

S, — '^^ . By the Grace of God, of Great-Britain, France and
/ Ireh\nd, King, Defender of the Faith &c.
I To all Persons to wlioin these Presents shall coine^

-- — ^-i-' ^ Greeting.

Know Ye, that We of Our special Grace, certain Knowledge, and
meer Motion, for the due Encouragement of settling a New Plantation
within our said Province, by and with the Advice of our Trusty and
Well-beloved Benning Wentworth, Esq ; Our Governor and Com-
mander in Chief of Our said Province of Neir-Jlampshire, in JVew-
England, and of Our COUNCIL of the said Province ; Have upon
the (Conditions and Reservations herein after made, giA^en and granted,
and by these Presents, for Us, Our Heirs, and Successors, do give and
grant in equal Shares, unto Our loving Subjects, Inhabitants of Our said
Province of Neiv-ITampshirc, and Our other Governments, and to their
Heirs and Assigns for ever, whose Names are entred on this Grant, to
be divided to and amongst them into Seventy equal Shares, all that
Tract or Parcel of Land situate, lying and being within our said Prov-
ince of Nen'-Hampshire, containing by Admeasurement, Twenty
Three Thousand & forty Acres, which Tract is to contain Six Miles
square, and no more ; out of wliich an Allowance is to be made for
High Ways and unimproval)le I>ands by Rocks, Ponds, Mountains
and Rivers, One Tliousand and Forty Acres free, according to a
Plan and Survey thereof, made by Our said Governor's Order, and
returned into the Secretary's Office, and hereunto annexed, butted
and bounded as follows, Viz. Begining at the North Easterly Cor-
ner of S' Albans a Town Granted this Da}^ which Lays on the
Easterly side of Lake Champlaiii from thence Runing Westerly by
S' Albans Line to Lake Cliamplain then Turning off Northerl}^ &
Runing by the Shores of said Lake to a Stake & Stones by the side
of the Lake at Six Miles Distance on a Streight Line from the North
Westerly Corner of S' Albans aforesaid then Turning off Easterly &
Runing on a Parrellel Line witli the Northerly side Line of said S'
Al])ans so far as y' a Streight line Drawn to the North Easterly Corner
of S' Albans aforesaid the Bounds l)egan at & Shall make & Include the
Contents of Six INIiles Square And that the same be, and hereby is
Incorporated into a Township by the Name of Swanton And the
Inhabitants that do or shall hereafter inhabit the said Township, are

486 CHARTER RECORDS.

hereby declared to be Enfranchized with and Intitled to all and
every the Priviledges and Immunities that other Towns within Our
Province by Law Exercise and Enjo}^: And further, that the said
Town as soon as there shall be Fifty Families resident and settled
thereon, shall have the Liberty of holding tivo Fairs, one of which
shall be held on the And the otlier

on the annually, which Fairs are

not to continue longer than the respective
followmg the said and that as soon

as the said Town shall consist of Fifty Families, a Market
*3-ll may be *opened and kept one or more Days in each Week,

as may be thought most advantagious to the Inhabitants.
Also, that the first Meeting for the Choice of Town Officers, agreable
to the Laws of our said Province, shall be held on the Third Tuesday
of September Next which said Meeting shall be Notified by Cap* Samuel
Hunt who is hereby also appointed the INIoderator of the said
first Meeting, which he is to Notify and Govern agreable to the Laws
and Customs of Our said Province ; and that the annual Meeting for
ever hereafter for the Choice of such Officers for the said Town, shall
be on the Second Tuesday of 3Iarch annuall3% To Have and to Hold
the said Tract of Land as above expressed, together with all Privileges
and Appurtenances, to them and their respective Heirs and Assigns
forever, upon the following Conditions, viz.

I. That every Grantee, his Heirs or Assigns shall plant and cultivate
five Acres of Land within the Term of five Years for every fifty Acres
contained in his or their Share or Proportion of Land in said Town-
ship, and continue to improve and settle the same by additional
Cultivations, on Penalty of the Forfeiture of his Grant or Share in
the said Township, and of its reverting to Us, our Heirs and Success-
ors, to be by Us or them Re-granted to such of our Subjects as shall
effectually settle and cultivate the same.

II. That all white and other Pine Trees within the said Township,
fit for Masting Our Royal Navy, be carefully preserved for that Use,
and none to be cut or felled without Our special Licence for so doing
first had and obtained, upon the Penalty of the Forfeiture of the Right
of such Grantee, his Heirs and Assigns, to L^s, our Heirs and Success-
ors, as well as being subject to the Penalty of any Act or Acts of
Parliament that now are, or hereafter shall be Enacted.

SWAN TON.

487

IV. Yielding and paying therefor to Us, our Heirs and Successors
for tlie Space of ten Years, to be computed from the Date hereof, tlie
Rent of one Ear of Indian Corn only, on the twenty-fifth Day of
December annually, if lawfully demanded, the first Payment to be
made on the twentj-fifth Day of Dereviher. 1763

V. Every Proprietor, Settler or Inhabitant, shall yield and pay unto
Us, our Heirs and Successors yearly, and every Year forever, from
and after the Expiration of ten Years from the abovesaid twenty-fifth
Da}' of December, namely, on the twenty-iifth Day of December, which
will be in the Year of Our Lord 1773 One shilling Proclamation Money
for every Hundred Acres he so owns, settles or possesses, and so in
Proportion for a greater or lesser Tract of the said Land ; which
^loney shall be paid by the respective Persons abovesaid, their Heirs
or Assigns, in our Council CJinmber in Portsmouth, or to such Ofticer
or Officers as shall be appointed to receive the same ; and this to
be in Lieu of all other Rents and Services whatsoever.

In Testimony whereof we have caused the Seal of our said Province
to be hereunto affixed. Witness Bexning Wextworth, Esq; Our
Governor and Connnander in Chief of Our said Province, the 17"'
Da}- of August In the Year of our Lord Christ, One Thousand
Seven Hundred and Sixty three And in the Third Year of Our
Reicfn.

B Wentworth

By His Exc'ELLENCy's Command,
With Advice of Council,

T Atkinson Jun'' Sec"^^

Province of New Hamp'^ August 17-1763
R^
Seal

Recorded Accordino- to the Orio-inal Charter under the Province

f T Atkinson Jun'- Sec--^'
*Names of the Grantees of Swanton (Viz) *3 12

Joshua Goodrich

Noah Wells
Samuel Wells
David Bartlet
Jonathan Morton jun''
Elijah Pain
Asa Billing
Benjamin Billing jun''
Joseph Billing
Robert Whittemore
Oliver Graves

Zachy Billing
Silas Billing
David liillings
Noah Coleman
Thomas Temple
Samuel Billing
Joseph Billing jun'"
James Gray
Josiah Chauncy
Daniel Billing
Daniel Morton

Bennoni Crofts
Simeon White jun""
Solomon Bartlet
Medad Field
Thomas Temple jun'
Thomas Miller
Benj" Billing
John Hastings,
Amos Negro alias Billing
Samuel Allis
Abner Lyman

488

CHARTER RECORDS.

Abner Lyman jnn'"
Elisha AUis Juu'
Elisha All is
Jouathan Warner
Israel Dickinson
Simeon White
Israel Williams
Josiah Allis
Paul March

John Dickinson

Elisha Lyman

John Aliis

Elisha Allis

Thomas Bridgman

Samuel Wells jun""

David Scoot
Hon^'^*^ Theodore Atkinson
Theodore Atkinson jun'

Joseph Lyman
Erastus Lyman
Elisha Smith
Obediah Dickinson
Elias Dickinson
Noah Belding
Josiah Old

John Fisher Esq
Esq^^ Jaraes Stoodlej^
Samuel Ashley jun"^

William Earl Treadwell Nathaniel Barrell

& Sampson Bell

His Excellency Benning Wentworth Esq a Tract of Land Contain-
ing Five Hundred Acres as Marked B W. in the Plan which is to be
Accounted two of the within Shares. One Whole Share for the In-
corporated Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign
Parts — One Share for a Glebe for the Church of England as by Law
Established — One Share for the first Settled Minister of the Gospel
in Said Town — & One for the Benefit of a School in said Town
forever

Prov"* New Hamp'' August 17-1763

Recorded from the Back of the original Charter of S wanton under
the Pro^ Seal

19 T Atkinson Jun^ See'>'

THETFOED. 489

Prov" New Haiiip' August 17-1763

Recurded from the Plnn on the Back of the original Charter of
Swanton under the Prov*" Seal

19 T Atkinson Jun' Sec'-y

p- s

THETFORD. ,

*ProYiuce of New-Hampshire. *2-101

Thetford GEORGE the Third,

^ ,— ^— N ^ By the Grace of God, of Great-Britain, France and Ire-
land King, Defender of the Faith, &c.

To all Persons to whom these Presents shall come^

^ ^— -^.— «-^ -' Greeting

Know ye, that We of Our special Grace, certain Knowledge, and
meer Motion, for the due Encouragement of settling a New Planta-
tion within our said Province, by and with the Advice of our Trusty
and Well-beloved Benning Wentworth, Esq ; Our Governor and
Commander in Chief of Our said Province of New-Hampshire in
Neiv-England, and of our Council of the said Province : Have
upon the Conditions and Reservations herein after made, given and
granted, and by these Presents, for us, our Heirs, and Successors,
do give and grant in equal Shares, unto Our loving Subjects, Inhabi-
tants of Our said Province of JSfeic-Hampshire^ and Our other Gov-
ernments, and to their Heirs and Assigns for ever, whose Names are
entred on this Grant, to be divided to and amongst them into Sixt}'
Eight equal Shares, all that Tract or Parcel of Land situate, lying
and being within our said Province of Netv-Ha.mjjshire, containing
by Admeasurement, Twenty Three thousand Two hundred Acres,
which Tract is to contain Something more than Six Miles square, and
no more; out of which an AUowance is to be made for High Ways
and unimprovable Lands by Rocks, Ponds, Mountains and Rivers, One
Thousand and Forty Acres free, according to a Plan and Survey
thereof, made by Our said Governor's Order, and returned into the
Secretary's Office, and hereunto annexed, butted and bounded as fol-
lows, Jlz. Begining at the North Easterly Corner of of Norwhich at
an Elm Tree Standing on the Bank of (-onnecticut River marked
with the figures 6 & 7 from thence North 60 Degs West by Norwich
Seven Miles to the North Westerly Corner thereof thence North
Thirty Seven degrees East Six Miles thence South 61 d East 6 Miles to
Connecticut River then Down Southerly as the river runs to the Elm

490 CHARTER RECORDS.

first mentioned — And that the same be, and hereby is Incorporated
into a Township by the Name of Thetford And the Inhabitants that
do or shall hereafter inhabit the said Township, are hereby declared
to be Enfranchized with and Intitled to all and every the Privi-
ledges and Immunities that other Towns within Our Province by
Law Exercise and Enjoy : And further, that the said Town as
soon as there shall be Fifty Families resident and settled thereon,
shall have the Liberty of holding Tivo Fairs, one of which shall be
held on the And the other on the

annually, which Fairs are not to continue longer than the
respective following the said

and that as soon as the said Town shall consist of Fifty Fam-
*2-102 ilies, a Market may be *opened and kept one or more Days

in each Week, as may be thought most advantagious to the
Inhabitants. Also, that the first Meeting for the Choice of Town
Officers, agreable to the Laws of our said Province, shall be held on
the first Tuesday of September Next which said Meeting shall be Noti-
fied by M'' Jonathan Root who is hereby also appointed the Moderator
of the said first Meeting, which he is to Notify and Govern agrea-
ble to the Laws and Customs of Our said Province : and that the
annual Meetino; for ever hereafter for the Choice of such Officers for
the said Town, shall be on the Second Tuesday of March annually.
To Have and to Hold the said Tract of Land as above expressed,
together with all Privileges and Appurtenances, to them and their
respective Heirs and Assigns forever, upon the following Conditions,
viz.

I. That every Grantee, his Heirs or Assigns shall plant and culti-
vate five Acres of Land within the Term of five Years for every fifty
Acres contained in his or their Share or Proportion of Land in said
Township, and continue to improve and settle the same by additional
Cultivations, on Penalty of the Forfeiture of his Grant or Share in
the said Township, and of its reverting to Us, our Heirs and Success-
ors, to be by Us or Them Re-granted to such of Our Subjects as shall
effectually settle and cultivate the same.

II. That all white and other Pine Trees within the said Township,
fit for Masting Our Royal Navy, be carefully preserved for that Use,
and none to be cut or felled without Our special Licence for so doing
first had and obtained, upon the Penalty of the Forfeiture of the
Right of such Grantee, his Heirs and Assigns, to Us, our Heirs and
Successors, as well as being subject to the Penalty of any Act or
Acts of Parliament that now are, or hereafter shall be Enacted.

III. That before any Division of the Land be made to and among
the Grantees, a Tract of Land as near the Centre of the said Town-

THETFORD.

491

ship as the Land will admit of, shall be reserved and marked out for
Town l^ots, one of which shall be allotted to each Grantee of the
Contents of one Acre.

IV. Yielding and paying therefor to Us, our Heirs and Successors
for the Space of ten Years, to be computed from the Date hereof,
the Rent of one Ear of Indian Corn only, on the twenty-fifth Day of
December annually, if lawfully demanded, the first Payment to be made
on the twenty-fifth Day of December. 1762

V. Every Proprietor, Settler or Inhabitant, shall yield and pay unto
Us, our Heirs and Successors yearly, and every Year forever, from
and after the Expiration of ten Years from the abovesaid twenty-fifth
Day of December, namely, on the twenty-fifth Day of December, which
will be in the Year of Our Lord 1772 One sUllmg Proclamation
Money for every Hundred Acres he so owns, settles or possesses, and
so in Proportion for a greater or lesser Tract of the said Land ;
which Money shall be paid by the respective Persons abovesaid,
their Heirs or Assigns, in our Council Chamber in Portsmouth, or to
such Officer or Officers as shall be appointed to receive the same ;
and this to be in Lieu of all other Rents and Services whatsoever.

In Testimony whereof we have caused the Seal of our said Prov-
ince to be hereunto affixed. Witness Benning Wentworth, Esq;
Our Governor and Commander in Chief of Our said Province, the
Twelfth Day of August In the Year of our Lord Christ, One Thou-
sand Seven Hundred and Sixty One And in the First Y^ear of Our
Reign. B Wentworth

By His Excellency's Command,
With Advice of Council,

Theodore Atkinson 860""^

Province of New Hamp*" August 12'*' 1761

Recorded According to the Original Charter under the Pro"" Seal

^ Theodore Atkinson Se^y

*The Names of the Grantees of Thetford — Viz

*2-103

John Phelps Esq
John Phelps jun""
Aaron Phelps
Roger Phelps
Aaron Barber
Talcot Hosford
Daniel Hosford
Daniel Griswold
Benj'^ Baldwin
Daniel Tillotson

Cap' Samuil Filer
David Carver
Samuel Filer ye 3'^
Oliver Barber
Israel Post .
Amos Phelps
David Miller
Ebenez' Baldwin
Ezekiel Jones
Timothy Phelps

Samuel Filer jun'"
John Filer
David Barber
Israel Smith
Obediah Hosford
Cap' William Buel
ViQw'f Baldwin jun'"
Joseph Griswold
Will"' Kenada
Joseph Skiner

402

CHARTER RECORDS.

Rossell Phelps
Asael Phelj)s
Elijah Root
Samuel Jones jun''
Azariah Beach [worth

Daniel Tillotson jun'' Daniel Horseford jun"^ Alexander Phelps Esq

Philip Mattoon Davenport Phelps Stephen Palmer

Alexander Phelps jun'" Asael Phelps

Isaac Pheljis Oliver Phelps

Jonathan Root Israel Taylor

Josiah Colman Caleb Root

Eliphas Jones Joel Jones

Theodore Atkinson Esq Mark Flunking Wentworth Benning Went-

Henry Hilton Hunking Wentworth John Wentworth Esq

Rev^^ M'' Fogg Kensington Wiseman Clagget John Wentworth

Samuel Wentworth Boston Theodore Atkinson jun""

His Excellency Benning Wentworth Esq one Tract of Land to Con-
tain Five hundred Acres as Marked B- W:in the Plan which
is to be Accounted Two of the within Shares one whole Share for
the Incorporated Society for the Propagation of the Gosj)el in foreign
Parts One Share for A Glebe for the Church of England As by Law
Established One Share for the first Settled Minister of the Gospel
One Share for the Benefit of the School in Said Town

Province of New Hamp'' August 12'" 1761

Recorded from the Back of the Original Charter under the Province
Seal 1^ Theodore Atkinson Sec'^^

TINMOUTH. 493

Province of New Haiup' August 12"' 1761

Kecorded from the Back of the original Charter under the Province
Seal

"^ Theodore Atkinson Sec'-^

TINMOUTH

*Province of New-Hampshire. *'2-193

Tinmouth GEORGE the Third,

, ,.-^^^0^ . By the Grace of God, of Great-Britain, France and

) ( Ireland, King, Defender of the Faith, &c.

J ' I To all Persons to whom these Presents shall come,

^ --^v^w^ -' Greeting.

Know ye, that We of Our special Grace, certain Knowledge, and
meer Motion, for the due Encouragement of settling a JVew Planta-
tion within our said Province, by and with the Advice of our Trusty
and Well-beloved Benning Wentworth, Esq ; Our Governor and
Commander in Chief of Our said Province of New-Hampshire in
Neu'-E)i<iland, and of our Council of the said Province; Have
upon the Conditions and Reservations herein after made, given and
granted, and by these Presents, for us, our Heirs, and Succes-
sors, do give and grant in equal Shares, unto Our loving Subjects,
Inhabitants of Our said Province of JVetv-ITampshire^ and Our other
Governments, and to their Heirs and Assigns for ever, whose Names
are entred on this Grant, to be divided to and amongst them into Sev-
enty equal Shares, all that Tract or Parcel of Land situate, lying
and being within our said Province of New-Hampshire, containing by
Admeasurement, Twenty Three Thousand & forty Acres, which Tract
is to contain Six Miles square, and no more; out of which an Allow-
ance is to be made for High Ways and unnnprovable Lands by Rocks,
Ponds. Mountains and Rivers, One Thousand and Forty Acres free,
according to a Plan and Survey thereof, made by Our said Governor's
Order, and returned into the Secretary's Office, and hereunto annexed,
butted and bounded as follows. Viz. Beginning at the North East
Corner of Pawlet & Running from thence due North Six Miles, from
thence due East Six Miles, from thence Turning of at Right Angles
& Running due South Six Miles to the North East Corner ot" Danby,
thence Runing due West by Danby Six Miles to the North West
Corner thereof being the Bounds began at — And that the same be,
and herebv is Incorporated into a Township by the Name of Tin-

494 CHARTER RECORDS.

mouth And the Inhabitants that do or shall hereafter mhabit
the said Township, are hereby declared to be Enfranchized with
and Intitled to all and every the Priviledges and Immunities
that other Towns within Our Province by Law Exercise and
Enjoy : And further, that the said Town as soon as there shall
be Fifty Families resident and settled thereon, shall have the Liberty
of holding Two Fairs, one of which shall be held on the

And the other on the
annually, which Fairs are not to continue longer than the respective

following the said

and that as soon as the said Town shall consist of Fifty Fam-
*2-194 dies, a Market may be *opened and kept one or more Days

in each Week, as may be thought most advantagious to the
Inhabitants. Also, that the first Meeting for the Choice of Town
Officers, agreable to the Laws of our said Province, shall be held on
the Second Tuesday in October next which said Meeting shall be
Notified by Jared Lee Esq who is hereby also appointed the
Moderator of the said first Meeting, which he is to Notify and
Govern agreable to the Laws and Customs of Our said Province;
and that the annual Meeting for ever hereafter for the Choice of
such Officers for the said Town, shall be on the Second Tuesday of
March annually. To Have and to Hold the said Tract of Land as
above expressed, together with all Privileges and Appurtenances, to
them and their respective Heirs and Assigns forever, upon the fol-
lowing Conditions, viz.

I. That every Grantee, his Heirs or Assigns shall plant and culti-
vate five Acres of Land within the Term of five Years for every fifty
Acres contained in his or their Share or Proportion of Land in said
Township, and continue to improve and settle the same by additional
Cultivations, on Penalty of the Forfeiture of his Grant or Share in
the said Township, and of its reverting to Us, our Heirs and Success-
ors, to be by Us or Them Re-granted to such of Our Subjects as shall
effectually settle and cultivate the same.

II. That all white and other Pine Trees within the said Township,
fit for Masting Our Royal Navy, be carefully ])reserved for that Use,
and none to be cut or felled without Our special Licence for so doing
first had and obtained, upon the Penalty of the Forfeiture of the
Right of such Grantee, his Heirs and Assigns, to Us, our Heirs and
Successors, as well as being subject to the Penalty of any Act or
Acts of Parliament that now are, or hereafter shall be Enacted.

III. That before any Division of the Land be made to and among
the Grantees, a Tract of Land as near the Centre of the said Town-
ship as the Land will admit of, shall be reserved and marked out for

TINMOUTH. 495

Town Lots, one of which shall be allotted to each Grantee of the
Contents of one Acre.

IV. Yielding and paying therefor to Us, our Heirs and Successors
for the Space of ten Years, to be computed from the Date hereof, the
Rent of one Ear of Indian Corn only, on the twenty-fifth Day of
December annually, if lawfully demanded, the first Payment to be
made on the twenty-fifth Day of December. 1762 ,

V. Every Proprietor, Settler or Inhabitant, shall yield and pay
unto Us, our Heirs and Successors yearly, and every Year forever,
from and after tJie Expiration of ten Y^ears from the abovesaid
twenty-lifth Day of December, namely, on the twenty-fifth Day of
December, which will be in the Year of Our Lord 1772 One sliilling
Proclamation Money for every Hundred Acres he so owns, settles or
possesses, and so in Proi)ortion for a greater or lesser Tract of the
said Land; which Money shall be paid by the respective Persons
abovesaid, their Heirs or Assigns, in our Council Chamber in Ports-
i7ionth, or to such Officer or Officers as shall be appointed to receive
the same; and this to be in Lieu of all other Rents and Services
whatsoever.

In Testimony whereof we have caused the Seal of our said Prov-
ince to be hereunto affixed. Witness Benning Wentworth, Esq;
Our Governor and Commander in Chief of Our said Province, the
Fifteenth Day of September In the Year of our Lord Christ, One
Thousand Seven Hundred and Sixty One And in the First Y^ear of Our
Reign.

B Wentworth

By His Excellency's Command,
With Advice of Council,

Theodore Atkinson Sec""-^'

Province of New Hamp"^ Sep"^ 15'^ 1761

Recorded According to the Original Charter under the Prov'' Seal

'^ Theodore Atkinson Se'^''

*The Names of the Grantees of Tinmouth Viz *2-195

Joseph Hooker Esq'' .Tared Lee Elijah Cowles

Eleazer Root Jehiel Pamerlee Ebenezer Orvis

Joseph Porter Lemuel Whiteman John Porter

Cap* Eph'" Treadwell Leu' John Hart Daniel Curtis

Gideon Bilden Stephen Dorchester James Ilickcock

Abraham Crittinton James Noughton Jun"" Thomas Newill

Josiah Lewis John Hafford Elias Roberts

Amos Barnes Levi Porter Abel Havvley

John Camp Stephen Hart Jun"" Samuel Pike

496

CHARTER RECORDS.

John Wierad
Isaac Newill
Abel Carter
Ephraim Hough
Adiniah Parks
Eph'" Tuttle

Ebenezer Hawley
Jonathan Andress
Ens" David Smith
Stephen Grains
Simeon Hart
John Street

John Carter of Wallinosford

Asahel Cogswell
Jonathan Blackbee
Andrevv^ Gredley
Aaron How
Daniel Warner Esq
Timothy Hall &

Samuel Cogswell

John Bell

Eben"" Fisk

Cap' Isaac Hullburt

Joel Parks

John Hart

Jacob Carter Jun''

Daniel Langton

Cap' Edward Galard

Eben'' Hubbard

Richard Wibird Esq''

Zachariah Gillet

Josiah Moss

Joseph Star

Reynold Bockwith

Joseph Bunell

Cap' Eliakim Hall

John Carrington
His Excellency Benning Wentworth Esq a Tract of Land to Con-
tain Five Hundred Acres as Marked B: W: in the Plan which is to be
Accounted Two of the within Shares one whole Share for the incor-
porated Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in foreign Parts
one whole Share for A Glebe for the Church of England as by Law
Established One Share for the first Settled Minister of the Gospel &
one Share for the Benefit of A School in the Said Town

Province of New Hampshire Septem'" 15"' 1761

Recorded from the Back of the Charter of Tinmouth under the

Pro^ Seal

Attes'' Theodore Atkinson Se''^

Dxte-I^a^i SiV 772

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TOPSHAM. 497

Province of New Hamp'' September 15"' 1761 —
Recorded from the Back of the Original Charter of Tinmouth
under the Pro^ Seal

Attesf Theodore Atkinson Sec'"^

TOPSHAM.

*Province of New-Hampshire. *3-62

Topsham GEORGE the Third,

. .— ^-^-^ . I5y the Grace of God, of Great-Britain, France and

\ ^ / Ireland, King, Defender of the Faith &c.

j • '^- / rp^ all Persons to icJiom these Presents shall coine,

^ V— ii^v-w^ -' Greeting.

Know Ye, that We of Our special Grace, certain Knowledge, and
meer Motion, for the due Encouragement of settling a ]}^ew Planta-
tion within our said Province, by and with the Advice of our Trusty
and Well-beloved Benning Wentwoeth, Esq ; Our Governor and
Commander in Chief of Our said Province of New- Hamp shire, in
Neiv-England, and of Our Council of the said Province ; Have
upon the Conditions and Reservations herein after made, given and
granted, and by these Presents, for Us, Our Heirs, and Successors, do
give and grant in equal Shares, unto Our loving Subjects, Inhabitants
of Our said Province of JVetv- Hampshire, and Our other Govern-
ments, and to their Heirs and Assigns for ever, whose Names are entred
on this Grant, to be divided to and amongst them into Eighty Eight
equal Shares, all that Tract or Parcel of Land situate, lying and
being within our said Province of New-Hampshire, containing by
Admeasurement, Twenty three thousand & forty Acres, which Tract
is to contain Six Miles square, and no more ; out of which an
Allowance is to be made for High Ways and unimprovable Lands
by Rocks, Ponds, Mountains and Rivers, One Thousand and Forty
Acres free, according to a Plan and Survey thereof, made by Our
said Governor's Order, and returned into the Secretary's Office,
and hereunto annexed, butted and bounded as follows, Viz. Begin-
ing at the South Westerly Corner Bounds of Newbury a Town lately
granted in this Province lying on the Westerly Side of Connecticut
River from thence runing North Sixty five degrees West Six Miles
to a Stake & Stones then turning off & runing North Twenty
degrees East Six Miles to A Stake & Stones then turning off Again

498 CHARTER RECORDS.

& Tuning South Sixty Nine deg^ East about Six Miles to the North
Westerly Corner of Newbury afore Said thence South Twenty deg*
West about Six Miles & one half Mile by Newbury afores'^ to the
Bounds began at And that the same be, and hereby is Incorporated
into a Township by the Name of Topsham And the Inhabitants
that do or shall hereafter inhabit the said Township, are hereby
declared to be Enfranchized with and Intitled to all and every the
Priviledges and Immunities that other Towns within Our Province
by Law Exercise and Enjoy : And further, that the said Town as
soon as there shall be Fifty Families resident and settled thereon,
shall have the Liberty of holding two Fairs, one of which shall be
held on the And the

other on the annually, which

Fairs are not to continue longer than the respective

following the said
and that as soon as the said Town shall consist of Fifty
*3-63 Families, a Market may be *opened and kept one or
more Days in each Week, as may be thought most advanta-
gious to the Inhabitants. Also, that the first Meeting for the Choice
of Town Officers, agreable to the Laws of our said Province, shall be
held on the Second Tuesday in November next which said Meeting
shall be Notified by Cap' George Frost Esq'' who is hereby also
appointed the Moderator of the said first Meeting, which he is to
Notify and Govern agreable to the Laws and Customs of Our said
Province; and that the annual Meeting for ever hereafter for the
Choice of such Officers for the said Town, shall be on the First Tues-
day of Marcli annually, To Have and to Hold the said Tract of
Land as above expressed, together with all Privileges and Appur-
tenances, to them and their respective Heirs and Assigns forever,
upon the following Conditions, viz.

L That every Grantee, his Heirs or Assigns shall plant and culti-
vate five Acres of Land within the Term of five Years for every fifty
Acres contained in his or their Share or Proportion of Land in said
Township, and continue to improve and settle the same by additional
Cultivations, on Penalty of the Forfeiture of his Grant or Share in
the said Township, and of its reverting to Us, our Heirs and Success-
ors, to be by Us or them Re-granted to such of our Subjects as shall
effectually settle and cultivate the same.

II. That all wiiite and other Pine Trees within the said Townshij),
fit for Masting Our Royal Navy, be carefully preserved for that Use,
and none to be cut or felled without Our special Licence for so doing-
first had and obtained, upon the Penalty of the Forfeiture of the
Right of such Grantee, his Heirs and Assigns, to Us, our Heirs and

TOPSHAM. 499

Successors, as well as being subject to the Penalty of any Act or
Acts of Parliament that now are, or hereafter shall be Enacted.

III. That before any Division of the Land be made to and among
the Grantees, a Tract of Land as near the Centre of the said Town-
ship as the Laud will admit of, shall be reserved and marked out for
Town Lots, one of which shall be allotted to each Grantee of the
Contents of one Acre.

IV. Yielding and paying therefor to Us, our Heirs and Successors
for the Space of ten Years, to be computed from the Date hereof, the
Kent of one Ear of Lidian Corn only, on the twenty-fifth Day of
December annually, if lawfully demanded, the first Payment to be
made on the twentj^-fifth Day of December. 1763

V. Every Proprietor, Settler or Inhabitant, shall yield and pay
uuto Us, our Heirs and Successors yearly, and every Year forever,
from and after the Expiration of ten Years from the abovesaid
twenty-fifth Day of December^ namely, on the twent^^-fifth Day of
December., which will be in the Year of Our Lord 1773 One shilling
Proclamation Money for every Hundred Acres he so owns, settles or
possesses, and so in Proportion for a greater or lesser Tract of the
said Land ; which Money shall be paid by the respective Persons
abt)vesai(l, their Heirs or Assigns, in our Council Chamber in Ports-
mouth., or to such Oificer or Officers as shall be appointed to receive
the same ; and this to be in Lieu of all other Rents and Services
whatsoever.

Li Testimony whereof we have caused the Seal of our said Prov-
ince to be hereunto affixed. Witness Penning Went\vorth, Esq;
Our Governor and Commauder in Chief of Our said Province, the
Seventeenth Day of August In the Year of our Lord Christ, One
Thousand Seven Hundred and Sixty Three And in the Third Year
of Our Reign.

P> Went worth

By His Excellency's Command,
With Advice of Council,

T Atkinson J an' Sec''^

Province of New Hamp' Sepf 27—1763

Recorded According to the Original Charter under the Pro^ Seal

^ T Atkinson Jun^ Sec^-"

The Names of the Grantees of Topsham-Viz — *3-64

George Frost Esq Cap' Joseph Frost Cap' John Blunt

Andrew TVpperrell Frost Edward Sergeant Joseph Sergeant

Rev'' ]\P Stephen Chase Ephraim Amaseen John Amaseen

Noah Sherburne James Randell Stephen Battson

500

CHARTER RECORDS.

John Crown Robinson Jones W" Jones

Cap' Abraham Trefethen Abraham Trefethen jun*" William Trefethen

Henry Trefethen Jun''
Nath" Batson
Christ" Amaseen
Meshech Bell jm/
Robert Wliite
Edward Card
John Sevey
William Tredick
Nathan White Jun""
Will'" Neal
Rich'^ Yeaton
Sam" Wallis
George Walton jun''

George Trefethen
Henry Tredick
Joseph Amoseen
Alcock Stevens
Gershom Lambert
Benj* Randell
David Mitchell
Paul Randell
John Peirce
Will'" Clark
Benj'"^ Yeaton
James Sevey
Sam" Wallis jun'"

W'" Frost Esq
John Trefethen
Shadrach Bell
Solomon White
Benj'' Underwood
Mark Randell
Henry Tucker
William Trundy
Sam" Peirce
John Talton
Rob* Lapish

John Tuckerman
Cap' Will'" Branscomb
Cap' Simon Branscomb Cap' Will'" Vennard Cap' Zacli^' Jones
Henry Langmaid John Skinner Steph" Barton

John Shannon John Card Joshua White Jun""

John Odiorne Will'" Blunt George Frost Esq

Joseph Frost Rich'' Jennes 3'' Esq Francis Jennis

The Hon"'^ Rich" Wibird } ^ ,, John Colefax Walker Lear

Dan" Warner \ ^^^ John Neal Robert Neal
Joseph Newmarch Tho* Bell Esquires John Simpson &

Henry Foss —

His Excellency Benning Wentworth Esq A Tract of Land to Con-
tain Five Hundred Acres as Marked B- W- in the Plan which is to
be Accounted Two of the within Shares One whole Share for the
Incorporated Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in foreign
Parts one whole Share for A Glebe for the Church of England as by
Law Established One Share for the first Settled Minister of the Gos-
pel And one Share for the Benefit of A School in Said Town forever

Prov of New Hamp-- Sept^ 27 1763

Recorded from the Back of the Original Charter of Topsham under
the Pro^ Seal

19 T Atkinson Jun' Sec-'y

TOWNSHEND.

501

ProV^ New Hauip^ Sepf 27'^^ 1763

Recorded from the Back of the original Charter of Topshani under
the Pro^ Seal

f T Atkinson Jun^ Sec^^^

TOWNSHEND.

^Province of N Hamp'

*1-157

George the Second by the Grace of God of Great
Brittain France & Ireland King Defender of the faith

To all Persons to whom these Presents Shall Come

Greeting.

Know ye that We of our Especial Grace Certain Knowledge &
mere motion for the due Encouragement of Settling A New Plan-
tation within our Said Province By & with the advice of our

502 CHARTER RECORDS.

Trusty & Well beloved Benning Wentworth Esq our Governour and
Cora'ander in Cliieff of our Said Province of New Hampshire in
America and of our Council of the Said Province Have upon the
Conditions & Reservations hereafter made Given & Granted and by
these Presents for us our heirs & successors Do give & Grant in
Equal Shares unto our Loveing Subjects Inhabitants of our Said
Province of New Hampshre and his Maj'^'** Other Governments and
to their heirs & Assignes for ever whose names Are Entered on this
Grant to be Divided to & amoungst them into Sevent}^ four Equal
Shares All that Tract or Parcel of Land Scituate Lying & being
within our Province of New Hampshire Containing by admeasure-
ment Twenty three thousend & forty Acres which Tract is to Contain
Six miles Square & no more and of which an allowence is to be made
for high ways and unimproveable Lands by Rocks Mountains Ponds
& Rivers One thousend & forty Acres free According to A Plan
thereof made & Presented by our Said Governours orders and here-
unto Annexed Butted & bounded as follows Viz — Beginning at a
Stake & Stones the North Easterly Corner of Fane thence runingSix
miles North Twenty Degrees East to a Stake & Stones thence West
10 degrees North to A Stake & Stones thence South Twenty degrees
West to the North Westerly Corner of Fane thence East 10 Degrees
South by Fane Afores'' to the Northesterly Corner thereof being
the stake & stones first began at and that the Same be and is incor-
porated into a Township by the Name of Townshend & that the
Inhabitant that do or Shall hereafter Inhabit the Said Township Are
hereby Declared to be Enfranchized with and Entituled to all & Every

the Previledges & Immunities that other Towns within our
*1-158 said Province by Law Exercize & Enjoy and further *that

the Said Town as Soon as there Shall be fifty families
Resdent & Settled thereon shall have the Liberty of holding Two
fairs one of which shall be held on the

And the Other on the Annually which

fairs Are not to Continue & be held Longer than the Respective

following the s'^ Respective
Days and as Soon as the Said Town Shall Consist of fifty families A
Market Shall be Opened & kept one or more Days in Each Week as
may be thought most advantagious to the Inhabitants also that the
first Meeting for the Choice of Town Officers Agreable to the Laws
of our s'' Province shall be held on the Last Wednesday in August
next which Meeting Shall be Notifyed by John Hazeltine Esq who is
hereby also Appointed the Moderator of the said first meeting which
he is to Notify & Govern Agreable to the Laws & Customs of our s''
Province and that the Annual Meetine: for ever hereafter for the

TOWNSHEND. 503

Choice of Sucli officers of said Town Shall be on the Second Wednes-
day in IMaich Annually To Have & to hold the Said Tract of
Land as above Expressed togeather with all tlie Previledges & A[)[)ur-
tenances to them & there Respective Heirs & Assigns for ever Upon
the following Conditions Viz — That every Grantee his heirs or
Assignes Shall Plant or Cultivate five Acres of Land within the
Term of five years for every fifty Acres Contained in his or their
Share or Proportion of Land in said Township & Continue to Im-
prove & Settle the Same by additional Cultivations on Penalty of
the forfeiture of his Grant or Share in the said Township & of its
reverting to his Majest}' his heirs & Successors to be by him or them
Regranted to Sucli of his Subjects as Shall Effectually Settle & Cul-
tivate the Same That all white & other Pine Trees within the said
Township fit for Masting our Royal Navy be Carefully Preserved for
that use & none be Cut or felld without his Majesties Espec-
ial Lycence for so doing first had & obtained upon the Penalty of the
forfeiture of the right of such Grantee his heirs or assignes to us our
heirs & successors as well as being Subject to the Penalty of Any
Act or Acts of Parliament that now Are or hereafter Shall
be Enacted That before any * Divission of the said Lands be *1-159
made to & amoungst the Grantees a Tract of Land as near
the Center of the Town as the Land will admit of Shall be reserved
and marked out for Town Lotts one of which Shall be allotted to
Each Grantee of the Contents of one Acre Yielding & Paying there-
for to us our heirs & successors for the Space of Ten years to be
Computed from the Date hereof the Rent of one Ear of Indian Corn
only on the first Da}' of Jan''^ Annually if Lawfully Demanded the
first Payment to be made on the first Day of Jan"^'' next ensueing the
Date hereof and every Proprietor Settler or Inhabitant Shall Yield
& Pay unto us our heirs & successors Yearly & Every year for ever
from & after the Expiration of the Ten years from the Date hereof
namely on the first Day of Jan''^ which will be in the Year of our
J^ord Christ one thousend seven hundred & Sixty four One Shilling
Proclamation money for every hundred Acres he so owns Settles or
Possesses & So in Proportion for A Greater or Lesser Tract of the
Said Land which money Shall be paid by the Respective Persons
above said their Heirs or Assigns in our Council Chamber in Portsm"
or to such officer or otficers as Shall be Appointed to receive the
Same and this to be in Lieu of All other Rents & and Service what-
soever-

In Testamony hereof "\Ve have Caused the Seal of our s' Province
to be hereunto affixed Wittness Penning Wentworth Esq our Gover-
nour & Commander in Chieff of our Said Province the 20"' Day of

504

CHARTER RECORDS.

June ill the year of our Lord Christ 1753 And in the 26 year of Our
Reign

B Went worth
By his Excellencys Com''
with Advice of Council

Theodore Atkinson Sec""^

Entered & Recorded According to the Original Charter under the
Province Seal this 21'' Day of June 1753 —

f Theodore Atkinson Se""^

The Names of the Grantees of Townshend —

John Hazeltine,
Elisha Fish,
Solomon Holmon,
Luke Brown
Jon° Fry,
Isaac Gail,
Eliakim Rise,
Jason Wait,
Jonathan Barnard,

David Hall, James Willman,

Benjamin Woodbury, Isaac Miller,

Joseph Dyer,

John Stow el,

Benjamin Marsh,

Joshua Woodbuiy,

David Hall jun"^

Samuel Dagget jun"",

Joshua Barnard,
Abner Sawyer, Paul Hazeltine,
*1-160 Abner Hazeltine, Jn° Willson,

Isaac Harrington jun'", Nathaniel Wait, Marshal Backer,
Ebenezer Fisk, Henery Walker, John Clemonts,

Isaac Barnard,
Jesse Smith,
Jonathan Hale,
Nathaniel Wait,
William Young,
Hezekiah Stowel,
Solomon Holmon jun'
Moses Backer,
*Silas Hazeltine,

Alexander Cletyon,
James Leland,
Moody Chase,
Samuel Chase,
Phineas Leland,
Jones Warring jun"",
Abel Chase jun",
Henry Sherburne,
Samuel Smith,
Sampson Sheaffe,

Samuel Gils,
Glesear Fletcher,
Moses Chase,
Josiah Gail,
Samuel Chase jun"",
Joseph Sparhawk,
Jonathan Holman,
Theodore Atkinson,
John Downing,
Daniel Warner,

Isaac Harrington,
Daniel Chase,
Jonathan Wait,
Lemuel Robins,
Hezekiah Ward,
Thomas Denny,
Antipas Holond,
Richard Wibird,
Samuel Solley,
John Wentworth juii^

His Excellency Benning Wentworth Esq a Tract of Land to Con-
tain five hundred Acres which ivS to be Accounted Two of the within
Shares one whole Share for the Incorporated Society for Propagating
the Gospel in forreign Parts one whole Share for the first settled
Minister of the Gospel in said Town one whole Share for A Glebe
for the Ministry of the Church of England as by Law Established —

Recorded from the Back of the Charter of Townshend the 21
Day of June 1753 '^ Theodore- Atkinson Se'^''

TOWNSHEND.

505

Taken from the Plan on the back of the Charter of Townshend
June 21'^^ 1753

19 Theodore Atkinson Sec'^

[Townshend Chakter Renewed, 1762.]
* Province of New Hamp"^

*l-250

p s-

Townsend George the Third hy the Grace of God of Great Britain

Renevvd France & Irehmd King Defender of the Faith &c
, - — •' — . V Whereas our Late Royal Grandfather King George the

Second of Glorious Memory did of his Special Grace &
mere motion for the Encouragment of Settling a New
'^ ^ii^.^.^ -' Plantation within our said Province of New Hamp'^ by
his Letters Patents or Charter under the Seal of our Said Province
dated the 25'^ Day of June 1753 and in the 26"' Year of his Majestys
Reign Granted A Tract of Land Equal to Six Miles Square Bounded
as therein Expressed to a Nundjerof Our Loyal Subjects whose Names
are Entred on the Same to hold to them their Heirs or Assigns on
the Conditions therein Declared to be A Town Corporate by the
Name of Townsend as l)y referrence to the said Charter may more
fully appear

And whereas the Said Grantees have Represented that by the

f)06 CHARTER RECORDS.

Intervention of an Indian War since making the Said Grant it has
been Impracticable to comply with & fullfill the Conditions and
Humbly Supplicating us not to take Advantage of the Breach of Said
Conditions but to Lengthen oiit & Grant them Some Reasonable
Time for Performance thereof after the Said Impediment shall Cease

Now Know Ye that we being Willing to Promote the End Proposed
have of our Further Grace & Favour Suspended our Claim of the for-
feiture which they may have Incurrd an(l b}^ these Presents do Grant
unto the Said Grantees their heirs & assigns the Term of One Year
for Performing & fullfilling the Conditions Matters & Things by
them to be done which Term is to be Renewd if the Same Iinpedi-
m*" remains until our Plenary Instructions Shall be Received Relative
to the Incident that has Prevented a Complyence with the Said
Charter according to the Intent & Meaning of the Same

In Testimony whereof we have caused the Seal of Our Said Prov-
ince to be hereunto afltixed Witness Benning Wentworth Esq our
Governour & Commander in Chieff of Our Province aforesaid the
20*^ Day of August in the Year of our Lord Christ 1762 & in the
Second Year of Our Reign

B Wentworth

By his Excellencys Com''
with Advice of Council

Theod'' Atkinson jun'' Se"^^

Recorded According to the original Charter under the Prov*^ Seal
this 20"' August 1702

19 T : Atkinson Jun^ S>'

TUNBRIDGE.

*2-157 *Province of New-Hampshire.

Tunbridge GEORGE the Third,

!/— — -— ^ N By the Grace of God, of Great-Britain, France and
/ Ireland, King, Defender of the Faith, &c.
I To all Persons to whom these Presents shall come^
^ — V — - ■^ Greeting.

TUNBRIDGE. 507

Commander in Chief of Our said Province of New-Hampshire in
Neiv-En<ilamh and of our Council of the said Province; Have
upon the Conditions and Reservations herein after made, given and
granted, and by tliese Presents, for us, our Heirs, and Successors, do
give and grant in equal Shares, unto Our loving Subjects, Inhabi-
tants of Our said Province of Netv-Hatnpshire, and Our other Gov-
ernments, and to their Heirs and Assigns for ever, whose Names are
entred on this Grant, to be divided to and amongst them into
Seventy One equal Shares, all that Tract or Parcel of Land situate,
Ij'ing and being within our said Province of JVew-Hampshire^ con-
taining by Admeasurement, Twenty Three thousand & forty Acres,
which Tract is to contain Six Miles square, and no more; out of
which an Allowance is to be made for High Ways and unimprovable
Lands b}^ Rocks, Ponds, Mountains and Rivers, One Thousand and
Forty Acres free, according to a Plan and Survey thereof, made by
Our said Governor's Order, and returned into the Secretary's Office,
and hereunto annexed, butted and bounded as follows. Viz. At the
South Westerly Corner of Strafford from thence runing North fifty
Seven degrees West Six Miles thence North Thirty Six degrees East
Six Miles thence South fifty Nine degrees East Six Miles to the
North Westerly Corner of Strafford afores'^ thence South Thirty
Six degrees West Six Miles by Strafford afore Said to the South
Westerly Corner thereof being the Bound began at And that the
same be, and hereby is Incorporated into a Township by the Name
of Tunbridge And the Inhabitants that do or shall hereafter inhabit the
said Township, are hereby declared to be Enfranchized with and Inti-
tled to all and every the Priviledges and Lnmunities that other
Towns within Our Province by Law Exercise and Enjoy: And
further, that the said Town as soon as there shall be Fifty Families
resident and settled thereon, shall have the Liberty of holding two
Fairs., one of which shall be held on the

And the other on the annually, which Fairs are

not to continue longer than the respective

following the said and that as soon

as the said Town shall consist of Fifty Families, a Market
may be *opened and kept one or more Days in each Week, *2-lo8
as may be thought most advantagious to the Inhabitants.
Also, that the first Meeting for the Choice of Town Officers, agreable
to the Laws of our said Province, shall be held on the fourth Tuesday
of this Instant Sejjtember which said Meeting shall be Notified by
M'' Ebenezer Fletcher who is hereby also appointed the Moderator of
the said first Meeting, which he is to Notify and Govern agreable to the
Laws and Customs of Our said Province; and that the annual Meeting

508 CHAKTER RECORDS.

for ever hereafter for the Choice of such Officers for the said Town,
shall be on the Second Tuesday of March annually, To Have and to
Hold the said Tract of Land as above expressed, toj^ether with all
Privileges and Appurtenances, to them and their respective Heirs
and Assigns forever, upon the following Conditions, viz.

I. That every Grantee, his Heirs or Assigns shall plant and culti-
vate five Acres of Land within the Terra of five Years for e very-
fifty Acres contained in his or their Share or Proportion of Land in
said Township, and continue to improve and settle the same by addi-
tional Cultivations, on Penalty of the Forfeiture of his Grant or
Share in the said Township, and of its reverting to Us, our Heirs and
Successors, to be by Us or Them Re-granted to such of Our Subjects
as shall effectually settle and cultivate the same.

HL That before any Division of the Land be made to and among
the Grantees, a Tract of Land as near the Centre of the said Township
as the Land will admit of, shall be reserved and marked out for
Town Lots, one of which shall be allotted to each Grantee of the
Contents of one Acre.

IV. Yielding and paying therefor to Us, our Heirs and Successors
for the Space of ten Years, to be computed from the Date hereof, the
Rent of one Ear of Indian Corn only, on the twenty-fifth Day of
December annually, if lawfully demanded, the first Paj'ment to be
made on the twenty-fifth Day of Decenther. 1762

V. Every Proprietor, Settler, or Inhabitant, shall yield and pay
unto Us, our Heirs and Successors yearly, and every Year forever,
from and after the Expiration of ten Years from the abovesaid twenty-
fifth Day of December^ namely, on the twenty-fifth Day of December,
which will be in the Year of Our Lord 1772 One shilling Proclama-
tion Money for every Hundred Acres he so owns, settles or possesses,
and so in Proportion for a greater or lesser Tract of the said Land ;
which Money shall be paid by the respective Persons abovesaid, their
Heirs or Assigns, in our Council Chamber in Portsmouth, or to such
Officer or Officers as shall be appointed to receive the same ; and
this to be in Lieu of all other Rents and Services whatsoever.

In Testimony whereof we have caused the Seal of our said Prov-
ince to be hereunto affixed. Witness Benning Wentworth, Esq;

TUNBUIDGE.

509

Our Governor and Commander in Chief of Our said Province, the
3'' Day of September In the Year of our Lord Christ, One Thousand
Seven Hundred and Sixty one And in the First Year of Our Reign.

B Wentvvorth
By His Excellency's Command,
With Advice of Council,

Theodore Atkinson Sec"'

Province of New nanip"" September 3'' 1761

Recorded According to the Original Charter under the Province
Seal

■39 Theodore Atkinson Sec"^^'

*The Names of the Grantees of Tunbridsfe Viz —

*2-159

Abraham Root
Joshua Warren
Noah Thomas
Luke Camp
Martin Root
Jolni Weklon
Obediah Noble Jun""
Samuel Hide
Elisha Warner
Joseph Hanmer
Theophilos Westover
Stephen Holey
William Corp
Ebenezer Fletcher
Samuel Catlin
Timothy Seymore
Benjamin Tucker
William Buck

Timothy Brunson
John Jackson
Hezekiah Camp
Hartman ^^anduser
William Roberts
James Weldon
Samuel Bush
Ezekiel Roberts
Philip Cullender
George Palmer
David Walker
Cotton Fletcher
Joseph Waterhouse
Asa Norton
Joseph Pickit
Nathaniel Pease
Joshua Tucker
William Fitch

Hezekiah Camp Jun'
Ephraim Thomas
Joel Camp
Moses Corbit
Jesse Weldon
Obediah Noble
William Whitney
Elisha Noble
Abiel Camp
Samuel Lane
Ebenezer Fletcher Jun""
Abiel Williams
Samuel Lee
Roswell Killborne
Benjamin Pickett
Henry Allyn
Walter Briant Esq""
Ezra Hiccock

Joseph Newmarch Esq' M H^' Wentworth Esq'' Robert Traill Esq""
George Brindley Boston Daniel Allen John Deane

Odiah Moore James Saxton Daniel Lladen

Daniel Taylor Jun'' James Nicholls —

His Excellency Benning Wentworth Esq'' a Tract of Land to Contain
Five Hundred Acres as iNlarked B-W- in the Plan which is to be
Accounted Two of the within Sliares, One wliole Share for the Incor-
porated Society for the Propagation of the Gospell in Foreign Parts,
one whole share for A Glebe for the Church of England as by Law
P^stablished. One Share for the first Setled Minister of the Gospel, &
One Share for the Benefit of a School in said Town —

510

CHARTER RECORDS.

Province of New Hamps"^ Sep'' 3. 1701

Recorded from the back of the Origional Charter for Tunbridge,
under the Province Seal —

■99 Theodore Atkinson Sec'^

Province of New Hamp'' August 3'' 1761

Recorded from the Back of the Charter of Tunbridge under the
Pro^ Seal

"^ Theodore Atkinson Sec'"^

UNDERHILL.

*2-457
Underhill

*Province of New-Hampshire.
GEORGE THE Third,

, ,-*.^--.^ . By the Grace of God, of Great-Britain, France and

) / Ireland, King, Defender of the Faith, &c.

) ' I To all Persons to whom these Presents shall eo7ne,

^ -^ — v-*^ ^ Greeting.

Know ye, that We of Our special Grace, certain Knowledge, and
meer Motion, for the due Encouragement of settling a N^eiv Plantation
within our said Province, by and with the Advice of our Trusty and

UNDEUHILL. 511

Well-beloved I>KNNiN(i Wentwohth, Esq; Our Governor and
Commander in Chief of Our said Province of New-ITampshike in
Neic-E)H/l<(nd^ and of our Council of the said Province; Have upon
the Conditions and Reservations herein after made, given and granted,
and by these Presents, for us, our Heirs, and Successors, do give and
grant in equal Shares, unto Our loving Sid^jects, Inliabitants of Our
said Province of New-Hampshire^ and Our other Governments, and to
their Heirs and Assigns for ever, whose Names are entred on this
Grant, to be divided to and amongst them into Seventy one equal
Shares, all that Tract or Parcel of Land situate, lying and being within
our said Province of New-Hampsldre, containing by Admeasurement,
23040 A<-res^ which Tract is to contain Six Miles square, and no more ;
out of which an Allowance is to be made for High Ways and unim-
provable Lands by Rocks, Ponds, Mountains and Rivers, One Thous-
and and Forty Acres free, according to a Plan and Survey thereof,
made by Our said Governor's Order, and returned into the Secre-
tary's Office, and hereunto annexed, butted and bounded as follows.
Viz. Begining at the North Easterly Corner of Westford from thence
Runing Southerly by the Easterly Line of said Westford six Miles to
the North West Corner of Jerico, from thence Easterly by the North-
erly Line of said Jerico about six INIiles to the North Easterly corner
thereof, from thence Northerly a Parralell Line with the Easterly
Line of Westford six Miles from thence Westerly about six INIiles to
the North Easterly Corner of Westford the place begun at — And that
the same be, and hereb}" is Incorporated into a Township by the Name
of L^nderhill And the Inhabitants that do or shall hereafter inhabit the
said Township, are hereby declared 1 o be Enfranchized with and Inti-
tled to all and every the Priviledges and Immunities that other
Towns within Our Province by Law Exercise and Enjoy: And further,
that the said Town as soon as there shall be Fifty Families resident
and settled thereon, shall have the Liberty of holcling Two Fairs, one
of which shall be held on tlie
And the other on the
annually, which Fairs are not to continue longer than the respective

following the said
and that as soon as the said Town
shall consist of Fifty Families, a Market may be *opeued *2-458
and kept one or more Days in each Week, as may be
thought most advantagious to the Inhabitants. Also, that the
first jNIeeting for the Choice of Town Officers, agreable to the
Laws of our said Province, shall be held on the 21*^ Day of July
next which said Meeting shall be Notified by Doc'f Joseph Sackett
Jun"" who is hereby also appointed the INIoderator of the said first Meet-

612 CHARTER RECORDS

iiig, which he is to Notify and Govern agreahle to the Laws and Cus-
toms of Our said Province ; and that the annual Meeting for ever
hereafter for the Choice of such Officers for the said Town, shall be on
the Second Tuesday of March annually, To Have and to Hold the
said Tract of Land as above expressed, together with all Privileges
and Appurtenances, to them and their respective Heirs and Assigns
forever, upon the following Conditions, viz.

I. That every Grantee, his Heirs or Assigns shall plant and cultivate
five Acres of Land within the Term of five Years for every fifty Acres
contained in his or their Share or Proportion of Land in said Town-
ship, and continue to improve and settle the same by additional
Cultivations, on Penalty of the Forfeiture of his Grant or Share in the
said Township, and of its reverting to Us, our Heirs and Successors,,
to be by LTs or Them Re-granted to sucli of Our Subjects as shall
effectually settle and cultivate the same.

II. That all white and other Pine Trees within the said Township,
fit for Masting Our Royal Navy, be carefully preserved for that Use,
and none to be cut or felled without Our special Licence for so doing
first had and obtained, upon the Penalty of the Forfeiture of the Right
of such Grantee, his Heirs and Assigns, to Lis, our Heirs and Succes-
sors, as well as being subject to the Penalty of any Act or Acts of
Parliament that now are, or hereafter shall be Enacted.

IV. Yielding and paying therefor to Lis, our Heirs and Successors
for the Space of ten Years, to be computed from the Date hereof, the Rent
of one Ear of Indian Corn only, on the twenty-fifth Day of December
annually, if lawfully demanded, the first Payment to be made on the
twenty-fifth Day of Decemher. 1763

V. Every Proprietor, Settler or Inhabitant, shall yield and pay unto
Us, our Heirs and Successors yearly, and every Year forever, from and
after the Expiration of ten Years from the abovesaid twenty-fifth Day
of Decemher^ namely, on the twenty-fifth Day of December^ which will
be in the Year of Our Lord 1773 One shiUing Proclamation Money
for every Hundred Acres he so owns, settles or possesses, and so in
Proportion for a greater or lesser Tract of the said Land ; which Money
shall be paid by the respective Persons abovesaid, their Heirs or
Assigns, in our Council Chamber in Portsmouth^ or to such Officer or
Officers as shall be appointed to receive the same ; and this to be
in Lieu of all other Rents and Services whatsoever.

UNDERHILL.

513

111 Testimony whereof we have caused the Seal of our said Province
to be hereunto affixed. Witness Benning Wkntwokth, p]sq; Our
Governor and Coniniander in Chief of Our said I'rovince, the Eigth
Day of June In the Year of our Lord Christ, One Thousand Seven
Hundred and Sixty three And in the Tliird Year of Our Reign.

B Wentworth
By His Excellency's Command,
With Advice of Council,

T Atkinson Jun'" Sec''^

Prov'' New Hamp-" June 8-1763

Recorded According to the Original Charter under the Province Seal

m T Atkinson Jun^ Sec'^

'The Names of the Grantees of Underhill (Viz)

*2-459

Joseph Sackett Jun''
Joseph Sackett
James Jamesson
Jon'' Hazard
John Yeats
John Sackett
Will"' Sackett
Micael Butler
Jacaiiiiah Allen
Rob' Freeborn
Will-" Sands
WilV" Allen
James Horton Sen"^
Maurice Salts
Peter Ten Eike Jun"^
Myer Myers
Joshua Watson
Will"' Butler
Derrick Amberman
Jon'^ Copland
Hon : John Temple )
Theo: Atkinson >
M'' He Wentworth )

His Excellency Benning Wentworth Esq" a Tract of Land to
Contain Five Hundred Acres as as marked B-W- in the Plan which
is to be Accounted two of the within shares, One whole share for
the Incorporated Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in
Foreign Parts ; One Share for a Glebe for the Church of England as

XXXIII

James Sackett Tert**
Edw'' Earle
Corn*" Low Jun' Esq'
And"' Anderson
James Sackett
David Mathews
Joseph Savage
Sami Wall
Henry Allen
Sam^ Browne
Benj''^ Underhill
Henry Franklin
Silvan us Horton
Lewis Reley
Isaac Adolphies
Solomon Marache
Silvanus Dillingham
Rob' Midwinter
Joseph Holmes
Uriah Woolman

Doct' John Hal
Esq'''' Maj'" Sain^ Hale

Peter Sackett
Marmaduke Earle
Jon'' Dayton Jun'"
James Anderson
Sam' Sackett
Andr^ Ten Eike Jun'
Daniel Voorhis
Joseph Bull
John Freeborn
Carry Dunn
Peter Allen
Bishop Hadley
Underhill Horton
James Reid
Sam' Judea
Jacob Watson
John Dillingham
John Midwinter
John Cockle
John Sears
e &

514 CHARTER RECORDS.

by Law Established, One Share for the first settled Minister of the
Gospel, And One Share for the benefit of a School in Said Town —

Province of New Hanip' June 8"^ 1763

Recorded according to the Back of the Charter of Underhill under
the Prov'' Seal

^ T Atkinson Jun' Sec^^

J,yJi.

Prov^ of New Hamp^ June 8'*^ 1763

Recorded from the Plan on the Back of the Charter of Underhill
under the Pro^ Seal

T Atkinson Jun"" Se

e '■•

[Mansfield Charter, 1763.]
*2-461 *Province of New-Hampshire.

Mandsfield GEORGE the Third,

. ,-w-— V By the Grace of God, of Great-Britain, France and

\ / Ireland, King, Defender of the Faith, &c.

^ ■ ■ ( To all Persons to whom these Presents shall come,)

^ V— -v-«^ ^ Greeting.

Know ye, tliat We of Our special Grace, certain Knowledge, and
meer Motion, for the due Encouragement of settling a JVew Planta-
tion within our said Province, by and with the Advice of our Trusty
and Well-beloved Benning Wentwohth, Esq ; Our Governor and
Commander in Chief of Our said Province of New-Hampshire in
Neu'-England^ and of our Council of the said Province : Have
upon the Conditions and Reservations herein after made, given and

UNDERHILL. 515

granted, and by these Presents, for us, our Heirs and Successors, do
give and grant in equal Shares, unto Our loving Subjects, Inhabit-
ants of Our said Province of New-Hampshire^ and Our other Govern-
ments, and t(» their Heirs and Assigns for ever, whose Names are
entred on this Grant, to be divided to and amongst them into
Seventy one equal Shares, all that Tract or Parcel of Land situate,
lying and being within our said Province of Neiv- Hampshire, contain-
ing by Admeasuiement, 23040 Acres, which Tract is to contain Six
Miles square, and no more ; out of which an Allowance is to be
made for High Ways and unimprovable Lands by Rocks, Ponds,
Mountains and Rivers, One Thousand and Forty Acres Free accord-
ing to a Plan and Survey thereof, made by Our said Governor's
Order, and returned into the Secretary's Office, and hereunto
annexed, butted and bounded as follows, Viz. Begining at the
North Easterly Corner of Underbill from thence Runing Southerly
by said Underbill six Miles to the North Westerly corner of Bolton,
from thence by s'^ Bolton North Line about six Miles to the North
Easterly Corner thereof, from thence Northerly a Parralell Line
with the Easterly Line of Underbill six Miles, from thence Westerly
about six Miles to Underbill Corner the place began at And that
the same be, and hereby is Incorporated into a Township by the
Name of Mansfield And the Inhabitants that do or shall hereafter
iidiabit the said Township, are hereby declared to be Enfranchized
with and Intitled to all and every the Priviledges and Immunities
that other Towns within Our Province by Law Exercise and Enjoy:
And further, that the said Town as soon as there shall be Fifty
Familes resident and settled thereon, shall have the Liberty of holding
Two Fairs, one of which shall be held on the

And the other on the annually, which Fairs are

not to continue longer than the respective

following the said and that as soon

as the said Town shall consist of Fifty Families, a Market
may be *opened and kept one or more Days in each Week, *2-461
as may be thought most advantagious to the Inhabitants.
Also, that the first Meeting for the Choice of Town Officers, agreable
to the Laws of our said Province, shall be held on the 22'^ Day of
July next which said Meeting shall be Notified by M'' Nath : Sackett
who is hereby also appointed the Moderator of the said first Meeting,
which he is to Notify and Ciovern agreable to the Laws and Customs
of Our said Province ; and that the annual Meeting for ever here-
after for the Choice of such Officers for the said Town, shall be on
the Second Tuesday of March annually. To Have and to Hold the
said Tract of Land as above expressed, together with all Privileges

516 CHARTER RECORDS.

and Ap[)urtenances, to them and their respective Heirs and Assigns
forever, upon the following Cojiditions, viz.

I. That every Grantee, his Heirs or Assigns shall plant and cultivate
five Acres of Land within the Term of five Years for every fifty Acres
contained in his or their Share or Proportion of Land in said Town-
ship, and continue to improve and settle the same b}^ additional
Cultivations, on Penalty of the Forfeiture of his Grant or Share in the
said Township, and of its reverting to Ls, our Heirs and Successors,
to be by L^s or Them Re-granted to such of Our Subjects as shall
effectually settle and cultivate the same.

II. That all white and other Pine Trees within the said Township,
fit for Masting Our Royal Xavy, be carefully preserved for that L^se,
and none to be cut or felled without Our special Licence for so doing
first had and obtained, upon the Penalty of the Forfeiture of the Right
of such Grantee, liis Heire and Assigns, to Us, our Heirs and Success-
ors, as well as being subject to the Penalty of any Act or Acts of
Parliament that now are, or hereafter shall be Enacted.

HL That before any Division of the Land be made to and among
the Grantees, a Tract of Land as near the Centre of the said Town-
ship as the Land will admit of, shall be reseiwed and marked out for
Town Lots, one of which shall be allotted to each Grantee of the
Contents of one Acre.

IV. Yielding and pacing therefor to L'^s, our Heirs and Successors
for the Space of ten Years, to be computed from the Date hereof, the
Rent of one Ear of Lidian Corn only, on the twenty-fifth Day of
Decemher annually, if lawfully demanded, the fu-st PaAnnent to be
made on the twenty-fifth Day of December. 17(33

V. Every Proprietor, Settler or Inliabitant, shall yield and pay
unto L^^s, our Heirs and Successors yearly, and every Year forever,
from and after the Expiration of ten Yeai-s from the abovesaid twenty-
fifth Day of JJecemler^ namely, on the twenty-fifth Day of December.,
which will be in the Year of Our Lord 1773 One shillinc/ Proclama-
tion Money for every Hundred Acres he so o^^^ls, settles or possesses,
and so in Proportion for a greater or lesser Tract of the said Land ;
which Money shall be paid by the respective Persons abovesaid, their
Heirs or Assigns, in our Council Chamber in Portsmouth., or to such
Officer or Officers as shall be appointed to receive the same ; and this
to be in Lieu of all other Rents and Services whatsoever.

hi Testimony whereof we have caused the Seal of our said Province
to be hereunto affixed. Witness Benning "Wentworth, Esq ; Our
Governor and Commander in Chief of Our said Province, the Eighth
Day of June In the Year of our Lord Chhi.st, One Thousand Seven
Hundred and sixty three And in the Third Year of Our Reign.

B Wentworth

UNDERHILL.

617

By His Excellency's Coniiniuid,
With Advice of Council,

Prov'' New Hamp^ June 8'" 1763

Recorded according to the Original Charter under the l*ro^ Seal

^ T Atkinson Jun' Sec'^

*The Names of the Grantees of Mansfield (Viz) *2-463

Jeremiah Fravise
Nich** Bueld
David (xuion
Voluntine Lownsbury
David Stanley
Daniel Birdsell
Samuel Jones
John Cornwall
Piatt Rogers
Silas Smith
Eben'" Boy'd
Walter Ward
Will'" Borden Jun^'
Will"' Palmer
Will'" Warren
Sam' Drake
Rich'' Thompkins
Will'" Foster
Jacob Maybee
Joseph Sherwood Jun""
Hon Will'" Temple
John Nelson
Theo : Atkinson Jun

Rob' Townsend
Joseph Bueld Jun''
And" l^amoureux
John Agur
John Stevery
Benj'*^ Lord
Samuel Frost
Joseph Formal!
Nath' Sackett
John Boyd
Sam' Sherwood
Will'" Borden
Benj'' Ketchaur
Joseph Strang
Dan' Seaman J""
Joshua Drake
Amos Thompkins
Will'" Maybee
Jeremiah Maybee
Tho* Tompkins
I Sam' Emerson

> Esq""* George Frost

Nath' Whitnee
John Couert
John Barney
Jon"^ Stevens
Will'" Horton
Will'" White
John Veale
Cap' Annanias Rogers
Jacob Smith
John Baly
Bartlett Brundege
Sam' Bucklee
John Bucklee
Joseph Veille
Cornelius Vanvalzah
Jasper Drake
Enoch Thompkins
John Maybee
Fredi'ick Maybee
John Wood
Esq'

His Excellency Benning Wentworth Esq"" a Tract of Land to
Contain Five Hundred Acres as marked B- W in the Plan which is
to be Accounted two of the within shares, One whole share for the
Incorporated Society for the ProT)agation of the Gospel in Foreign
Parts, One share for a Glebe for the Church of England as by Law
Establish'd, One share for the first settled Minister of the Gospel &
One Share for the benefit of a School in said Town

Pro^ of New Hamp' June 8'" 1763

Recorded from the Back of the Original Charter under the Pro^
Seal

f T Atkinson Jun-" Sec^^

518

CHAKTER RECORDS.

X, (.he

'Pixi 7 '^?-"'-i*iai

Prov*" New Hamp'" June 8—1763

Recorded from the Plan on the Back of the original Charter of
Mansfield under the Prov — Seal

■39 T Atkinson Jun^ Sec'>'

WALLINGFORD.

*2-34i *Province of New-Hampshire.

Wallingford GEORGE the Third,

By the Grace of God, of Great-Britain, France and
Ireland, Kfng, Defender of the P^aith, &c.

To all Persona to wliom these Presents shall come^
Greeting.

Know ye, that We of Our special Grace, certain Knowledge, and
meer Motion, for the due Encouragement of settling a Neu' Planta-
tion within our said Province, by and with the Advice of our Trusty
and Well-beloved Benning Wentworth, Esq; Our Governor and
Commander in Chief of Our said Province of NE^y-HAMPSHIRE in
Neiv-England^ and of our Council of the said Province ; Have
upon the Conditions and Reservations herein after made, given and
granted, and by these Presents, for us, our Heirs, and Successors,
do give and grant in equal Shares, unto Our loving Subjects, Inhabi-
tants of Our said Province of New-Hampshire^ and Our other Gov-
ernments, and to their Heirs and Assigns for ever, whose Names are

WALLINGFORD. 519

entred on this Grant, to be divided to and amongst them into Seventy
two etiual Shares, all that 'J'laet or Parcel of Land situate, lying and
being within our said Province of JVew-Ifampshire, containing by
Admeasurement, Twenty Three Thousand & Forty Acres, which Tract
is to contain Six Miles square, and no more ; out of which an Allow-
ance is to be made for High Ways and unimprovable Lands by Rocks,
Ponds, Mountains and Rivers, One Thousand and Forty Acres free,
according to a Plan and Survey thereof, made by Our said Governor's
Order, and returned into the Secretar3'''s Olifice, and hereunto annexed,
butted and bounded as follows, Viz. Beginiug at the North East
Corner of Tinraouth thence Runing due East Six Miles, thence due
South Six Miles to the North East Corner of Harwich, thence Six
Miles due West by Harwich to the Sonth East Corner of Tinmouth
afores'' thence due North by Tijimouth to the North Easterly Corner
thereof, being the Bounds begun at — And that the same be, and
hereby is Incorporated into a Township by the Name of Walling-
ford And the Inhabitants that do or shall hereafter inhabit the said
Township, are hereby declared to be Enfranchized with and Intitled
to all and every the Priviledges and Immunities that other Towns
within Our Province by Law Exercise and Enjoy : And further, that
the said Town as soon as there shall be Fifty Families resident and
settled thereon, shall have the Liberty of holding Two Fairs, one of
which shall be held on the
And the other on the
annually, which Fairs are not to continue longer than the respective

following the said
and that as soon as the said Town shall consist of Fifty Fami-
lies, a Market may be *opened and kept one or more Days *2-342
in each Week, as may be thought most advantagious to the
Inhabitants. Also, that the first Meeting for the Choice of Town
Officers, agreable to the Laws of our said Province, shall be held on
the which said Meeting shall be Notified

by Cap' Eliakim Hall who is hereby also appointed the Moderator of the
said first Meeting, which he is to Notify and Govern agreable to the
Laws and Customs of Our said Province; and that the annual Meet-
ing for ever hereafter for the Choice of such Officers for the said
Town, shall be on the Second Tuesday of March annually. To Have
and to Hold ihe said Tract of Land as above expressed, together
with all Privileges and Appurtenances, to them and their respective
Heirs and Assigns forever, upon the following Conditions, viz.

620 CHARTER RECORDS.

Township, and continue to improve and settle the same by additional
Cultivations, on Penalty of the Forfeiture of his Grant or Share in
the said Township, and of its reverting to Us, our Heirs and Success-
sors, to be by Us or Them Re-granted to such of Our Subjects as shall
effectually settle and cultivate the same.

II. That all white and other Pine Trees within the said Township,
fit for Masting Our Royal Navy, be carefully preserved for that Use,
and none to be cut or felled without Our special Licence for so doing-
first had and obtained, upon the Penalty of the Forfeiture of the
Right of such Grantee, his Heirs and Assigns, to Us, our Heirs and
Successors, as well as being subject to the Penalty of any Act or
Acts of Parliament that now are, or hereafter shall be Enacted.

III. That before any Division of the Land be made to and
among the Grantees, a Tract of Land as near the Centre of the said
Township as the Land will admit of, shall be reserved and marked
out for Town Lots, one of which shall be allotted to each (xrantee of
the Contents of one Acre.

IV. Yielding and paying therefor to Us, our Heirs and Successors
for the Space of ten Years, to be computed from the Date hereof,
the Rent of one Ear of Indian Corn only, on the twenty-fifth Day of
December annually, if lawfully demanded, the first Payment to be
made on the twenty-fifth Day of Decemher. 1762

V. Every Proprietor, Settler or Inhabitant, shall yield and pay
unto Us, our Heirs and Successors yearly, and every Year forever,
from and after the Expiration of ten Years from the abovesaid
twenty-fifth Day of Decemher^ namely, on the twenty-fifth Day of
December^ which will be in the Year of Our Lord 1772 One shilling
Proclamation Money for every Hundred Acres he so owns, settles or
possesses, and so in Proportion for a greater or lesser Tract of the
said Land ; which Money shall be paid by the respective Persons
abovesaid, their Heirs or Assigns, in our Council Chamber in Porta-
mouth, or to such Officer or Officers as shall be appointed to receive
the same ; and this to be in Lieu of all other Rents and Services
whatsoever.

In Testimony whereof we have caused the Seal of our said Province
to be hereunto affixed. Witness Penning Wentworth, Esq ; Our
Governor and Commander in Chief of Our said Province, the 27"'
Day of November In the Year of our Lord Christ, One Thousand
Seven Hundred and Sixty One And in the Second Year of Our Reign.

B Went worth
By His Excellency's Command,
With Advice of Council,

Theodore Atkinson Se'^''

WALLINGFOIIU.

521

Province of New Hainps' Novein'" 27. 1761

IJecortled According to the Origional Charter under the Province
seal —

^ Theodore Atkinson Se'^^

*The Names of the Grantees of Wallingford (Viz) *2-343

Cap' Eliakim Hall
Timo>' Bradley
John Mix
Isaac Bradley
Samuel Munson
Hezekiah Sabin
Abra'" Bassit
Dan' Lyman Esq
John vSackett
Sam' iNIansfield Esq
Richard Hood
Rev" Sam' Hall
Elnathan Ives
Doctor Caleb Hall
Stephen Hall
Just is Holt
David Page
Will'" Peck
Isaac Townsend
Sam' Miles
Hezekiah Day
Joseph Newmarch Esq

Sam' Bishop Jun''
Isaac liishop
Phineas Bradley
Tho^ Willmot
Samuel liishop
Isaac Doolittle
John Turner
John Rice
John Whiting Esq
Joshua Chandler Esq
Josiah Thompson
En OS Page
Elisha Hall
Tim" Page
Hezekiah Hall
John Hall Esq
Benf Hall Jun"-
Eli Todd
Joseph Dorman
Thomas Rice
Maj Benj'^ Day

Amos Perkins
Charles Sabin
Israel Bishop
Stephen Ford
Dan' Bassett
David Austin
Enos Tuttle
John Prout Esq
Enos Ailing
Thomas Howell
Medad Lyman
Brinton Hall
Isaac Hall
Eliakim Hall Jun""
Rev" Nathan Williams
Giles Hall
Cha* Chauny Hall
Jeremiah Townsend
Sam' Dorman
Will'" Day
Dan' Warner Esq

Sam' Willis Esq & Cap* Eliakim Hall-

Ilis Excellency Benning Wentworth Esq a Tract of Land to Con-
tain Five Hund' Acres as marked B- W- in the Plan, which is to
be Accounted two of the within Shares, One whole Share for the
Incorporated Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign
Parts, One Share for a Glebe for the Church of England as by Law
Established, One Share for the First Settled Minister of the Gospel
& One Share for the Benelit of a School in said Town —

Province of New Hamps"^ Novem" 27. 1761 —

Recorded from the back of the Origional Charter of Wallingford
under the Province seal —

19 Theodore Atkinson Sec""-''

522

CHARTER RECORDS.

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Province of New Hampshire Novem"" 27. 1761

Recorded According to the Origional Charter of Wallingford under
the Province seal —

19 Theodore Atkinson Se^^

WARDSBORO.

[Grant to John Walker, 1764.]

*George the Second by the Grace of God of Great
Britain France & Ireland King Defender of the Faith
&c'^

To all to whom these Presents Shall come Greeting
Whereas we have tho' fit by our Proclamation given at
S* James's the 7"' Day of October in the Third Year of
our Reign Annoq Domini 1763 (amoung other Things to
^ v-^ — ' '' Testif}' our Royal Sence and approbation of the Con-
duct & Bravery of the officers & Soldiers of Our Armies and to
Signify our Desire of rewarding the Same and have therein Cora'an-
ded & Impowered our Several Governors of our Respective Provinces

* 1-273

Cap*^ Lieu'

John Walkers

Grant

L-S-

WAKDSBORO. 523

on the Contetiant of America to Grant without Fee or Reward to such
reduced officers as have Served in North America during the late
Warr cV to such Private Soldiers as have been or shall be I)isbanded
there and Shall Personally aj^ijly for such Quantitys of Land respec-
tivly as in & b^ our aforesaid Proclamation are Perticularly
mentioned Subject Nevertheless to the Same Quit Rents and Condi-
tions of Cultivation & Improvem' which Other our Land are Subject
to in the Province within which they are Granted and whereas John
Walker Esq now Residing at Portsmouth in our Province of New
Hampshire had our appointment as Cap' Lieutenant of a Corps of
Rangers under the Com'and of Joseph Goram Esq Major Com'a-
dant and Served during the last AVar in North America and is now
reduced and having agreable to our aforesaid Proclamation Personally
solicited such Grant Know Ye that We of our Special certain Know-
ledge & mere motion do Signify our approbation aforesaid and for
the Encouraging the Settlement & Cultivation of our Lauds within
our Said Province of New Hamp'' have by & with the Advice of our
Trusty & well beloved Beuning VVentworth Esq Governour and
Com'ander in Chieff of our said Province of New Hampshire and of
our Council for said Province agreable to our aforesaid Proclamation
and upon the Conditions & Reservations herein after mentioned given
&> granted and by these Presents iov us our Heirs & Successors Do
give & grant unto the Said John Walker his Heirs & Assigns for
ever a Certain Tract of Land containing Three Thousand Acres lying
& being within Our Said Province of New Hamp"" and Bounded as
follows Viz Begining at the South Corner of the Tt)wn of Stratton
which is the North East Corner of Somersett then runing Southerly
by Somersett until it comes to Land granted to Stephen Holland
about 828 Rods then Turning off at right angles and carrying that
Breadth Back due East so far as that a Parrellel Line with the Easterly
Side Line of Somersett aforesaid and of the same Length Shall include
Three thousand Acres- To Have & to Hold the said Tract of Land
as above expressed to him the Said .lolni Walker his heirs & assigns
for ever upon the following Conditions & Reservations (Viz) 1*' that
the Said John Walker his Heirs & Assigns Shall Plant &
Cultivate five Acres of Land within the Said Term of *Five *l-274
Years for every fifty Acres Containd in this Grant & Con-
tinue to Lnjjrove & Settle the same by additionall Cultivations under
Penalty of Forfeiting this (irant & of its reverting to us our Heirs &
Successors to be by us or them regranted to such of our subjects as
shall Effectually Settle & Cultivate the Same

2'"' That all white & other Pine Trees within Said Tract for Masting
Our Royal Navy be carefully Preserved for that Use and none to be

524 CHAPtTRR RECORDS.

Cutt or felld without our Special Licence for so doing first had &
obtaind upon Penalty of the forfeiture of the right of the Grantee his
Heirs or assigns to us our Heirs or Successors as well as being Subject
to any Act or Acts of Parliament (and the Penaltys therein Con-
taind which now are or hereafter Shall be Enacted)

gaiy Yielding & Paying therefor to us our heirs & Successors for
the Space of Ten Years from the Date hereof the rent of one Ear of
Indian Corn only on the 25 day of December annually if lawfully
Demanded —

4^^ The s'^ Grantee his Heirs or Assigns Shall Yield & Pay unto us
our Heirs & Successors Yearly & every Year for ever from and after
the Expiration of Ten years from the above mentioned 25"' of
December which will be in the Year of our Lord 1774 one Shilling
Proclamation Money for every Hundred Acres he so owns Settles or
Possesses & so in Proportion for A greater or lesser Tract of the Said
Land which Money Shall be paid by the Respective owners Settlers
or Possessors as aforesaid in our Council Chamber in Portsm° in the
Prov*" aforesaid or to such officer or officers who Shall be appointed
to Receive the Same and this to be in Lieu of all other Rents &
Services whatsoever — In Testimony whereof we have Caused the Seal
of our Said Prov** to be hereunto affixed Wittness Benning Wentworth
Esq Our Govern'' & Com'ander in Chieff of our Said Province the
17"' Day of October in the 4"' Year of Our Reign Ann" Domini 1764

B Wentworth

By his Excellencys Comand
with Advice of Council

Theod' Atkinson Jun'' Sec"^^

Entred & Recorded from the Original Charter under the Province
Seal this 17"' Day of October 1764—

^ T Atkinson Jun Sec^>'

Province of New Flampshire Octob'' 17 — 17d4 —

I Do hereby Acknowledged to have received a Grant of Three Thous-
and Acres of Land as by the above Pattent will appear in Virtue of
his Majestys Proclamation above Referrd to & I do hereby Declare
that 1 have not recievd any Grant for Land from any of his Maj""*
Governments except the above as Wittness my hand —

John Walker

WATERBURY. 525

WATERBURY.

*Proviiice of New Hampshire. *2-441

GEORGE THE Third,

By the Grace of God, of Great-Britain, France and Ire-
land, King, Defender of the Faith, &c.

To all Persons to ivhom these Presents shall come,
Greeting

Kmow ye, that We of Our special Grace, certain Knowledge,
and meer Motion, for the dne Encouragement of settling a JVew
Plantation within our said Province, by and with the Advice of our
Trusty and Well-beloved Benning Went\a^orth, Esq ; Our Gov-
ernor and C'ommander in Chief of Our said Province of New-Hamp-
shire, in Neiv-England, and of our Council of the said Province ;
Have upon the Conditions and Reservations herein after made,
given and granted, and by these Presents, for us, our Heirs, and
Successors, do give and grant in equal Shares, unto Our loving Sub-
jects, Inhabitants of Our said Province of New-Hampshire, and Our
other Governments, and to their Heirs and Assigns for ever, whose
Names are entred on this Grant, to be divided to and amongst them
into Seventy two equal Shares, all that Tract or Parcel of Land
situate, lying and being within our said Province of Neic- Hampshire,
containing by Admeasurement, 23040 Acres, which Tract is to con-
tain Six Miles square, and no more ; out of which an Allowance is
to be made for High Ways and unimprovable Lands by Rocks,
Ponds, Mountains and Rivers, One Thousand and Forty Acres free,
according to a Plan and Survey thereof, made by Our said Gov-
ernor's Order, and returned into the Secretary's Office, and hereunto
annexed, butted and bounded as follows. Viz. Begining at the South
Easterly corner of Bolton on the Northerly side of Onion or French
River, from thence Easterly up said River (& bounding on the same)
so far as to make Six Miles on a streight Perpendicular Line, with
the Easterly Line of said Bolton, from thence Northerly on a
Parrallel Line with the East line of Bolton six Miles, from thence
Westerly about six Miles to the North Easterly Corner of said
Bolton, from thence southerly by said Bolton East line six INIiles the
place begun at — And that the same be, and hereb}' is Incorporated
into a Township by the Name of Waterbury And the Inhabitants
that do or shall hereafter Inhabit said Township are hereby
declared to be Enfranchized with and Intitled to all and every
the Priviledges and Lnmunities that other Towns witlnn Our

526 CHARTER RECORDS.

Province by Law Exercise and Enjoy : And further, that the
said Town as soon as there shall be Fifty Families resident and
settled thereon, shall have the Liberty of holding Two Faim^ one of
which shall be held on the And the other

on the annually which Fairs are not to continue

longer than the respective following the

said and that as soon as the said Town

*2-442 shall consist of Fifty Families, a Market may be * opened

and kept one or more Days in each Week, as may be thought
most advantagious to the Inhabitants. Also, that the first Meet-
ing for the Choice of Town Officers, agreable to the Laws of our said
Province, shall be held on the 20^^ Day of July next which, said
Meeting shall be Notified by Cap' Isaac Woodruff Jun'' who is hereby
also appointed the Moderator of the said first Meeting which he is
to Notify and Govern agreable to the Laws and Customs of Our
said Province, and that the annual Meeting for ever hereafter for the
Choice of such Olficers for the said Town, shall be on the Second
Tuesday of March annually. To Have and to Hold the said Tract
of Land as above expressed, together with all Privileges and Appur-
tenances, to them and their respective Heirs and Assigns forever,
upon the following Conditions, viz.

I. That every Grantee, his Heirs or Assigns shall plant and cultivate
five Acres of Land within the Term of five Years for every fifty
Acres contained in liis or their Share or Proportion of Land in said
Township, and continue to improve and settle the same by additional
Cultivations, on Penalty of the Forfeiture of his Grant or Share in
the said Township, and of its reverting to L^s, our Heirs and Succes-
sors, to be by L's or Them Re-granted to such of Our Subjects as shall
effectually settle and cultivate the same.

II. That all white and other Pine Trees within the said Township,
fit for ]\Iasting Our Royal Navy, be carefully preserved for that L^se,
and none to be cut or felled without Our special Licence for so doing
first had and obtained, upon the Penalty of the Forfeiture of the Right
of such Grantee, his Heirs and Assigns, to L's, our Heirs and Succes-
sors, as well as being subject to the Penalty of any Act or Acts of
Parliament that now are, or hereafter shall be Enacted.

IV. Yielding and paying therefor to Us, our Heii-s and Successors
for the Space of ten Years, to be computed from the Date hereof, the

WATERBURY. 527

Kent of one Ear of Indian Corn only, on the twenty-fifth Day of
Dercmher annually, if lawfully demanded, the first Payment to be
made on the twenty-fifth Day of December. 176-3

y. Every Proprietor, Settler or Inhabitant, shall yield and pay
unto Us, our Heirs and Successors yearly, and every Year forever,
from and after the Expiration of ten Years from the abovesaid
twenty-fifth Day of Di'eember, namely, on the twenty-fifth Day of
December, which will be in the Year of Our Lord 1773 One skillm;/
Proclamation jNIoney for every Hundred Acres he so owns, settles or
possesses, and so in Proportion for a greater or lesser Tract of the
said Land; which Money shall be paid by the respective Persons
abovesaid, their Heirs or Assigns, in our Council Chamber in Ports-
mouth, or to such Officer or Officers as shall be appointed to receive
the same ; and this to be in Lieu of all other Rents and Services
whatsoever.

In Testimony whereof we have caused the Seal of our said Prov-
ince to be hereunto affixed. Witness Benning Wentworth, Esq ;
Our Governor and Commander in Chief of Our said Province, the
Seventh Day of June In the Year of our Lord Christ, One Thou-
sand Seven Hundred and Sixty three And in the Third Year of
Our Reign.

B Wentworth

By His Excellency's Command,
With Advice of Council,

T Atkinson Jun' Sec''''

Prov'' of New Hamp'' June 7"' 1763

Recorded According to the Original Charter under the Pro"^ Seal

^ T Atkinson Jun"" Sec''^

*The Names of the Grantees of Waterbury. *2-443

John Stiles Esq"" Jon*" Crane Esq'' Isaac Woodruff Jun''

Josiah Crane John Nixson Isaac Roll

Hezekiah Thompson Zophar Squire John Boyle

Jesse Muir David Potter David Lacey

Abner Frost John Dickinson Jonath" Stiles

Nath' Potter Daniel Bedford James Cory

Kennedy Vance Joseph Abbets Will'" Connet

David Ball Tlionias Gardner James Puflosey

ALanen Force Charles Gillam James Osl)orn

Jeremiah Mulford Thomas Miller Jose|)h Osborn

Joseph Bagdly Nath' Salmon Steph" Bedford

Sam' Bedford Nath' Wade James Scudder

Jere**' Pangboon Nath' Baker David Meeker Jun'

628

CHARTER RECORDS.

David Baker
Will'" Pierson
J 011^ Dayton 3''
Abra'" Rooll
Eben'' Price
Ichabod Deane
Will"' Willcocks
Hon''^'' James Neviii

Daniel Baker
John Meeker
John Mills

Bernerdus Van Neste
John Marsh
Benj"^ Williams
Sam' Averill

Henry Baker

Will"' Pearson Jun^

Will"' Mills

Tho^ Willis

Jesse Clark

Elias Bedford

Patridge Thatcher

J Meshech Wear Esq

Jos'' Newmarch > Esq"^ John Page Esq'^
Natli' Barren ) Cap' Ezekiel Worthen

His Excellency Benning Wentworth Esq'" a Tract of Land to
Contain Five Hundred Acres as marked B- W in the plan which is
to be Accounted two of the within shares, One whole Share for the
Incorporated Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign
Parts, One Share for a Glebe for the Church of England as by Law
Establish'd, one Share for the first settled Minister of the Gospel,
And one Share for the benefit of a school in said Town

Province of New Hamp'" June 7'''^ 1763

Recorded According to the Back of the Original Charter of
Waterbury under the Pr° Seal

^ T Atkinson Jun^ Sec'^

■^^mi^tis ,°rp ^2-^;.-?.>Ai

Pro'' New Hamp"" June 7-1763

Recorded from the Back of the Charter of Waterbury under the
Pro' Seal

18 T Atkinson Jun" Sec'"''

WEATHEKSFIELD. 529

WEATHERSFIELD.

*Province of New-Hampshire. *2-141

Weathei-sfield GEORGE the Third,

. .-*^-- — - ^ By the Grace of God, of Great-Britain, France and

\ , / Ireland, King, Defender of the Faith, &c.

) i To all Persons to ivliom these Presents shall eome^

^ s-^v-w^ ^ Greeting.

Know ye, that We of Our special Grace, certain Knowledge, and
meer Motion, for the due Encouragement of settling a Neiv Plantation
within our said Province, by and with the Advice of our Trusty and
AV^ell-beloved Benning Wentwohth, Esq; Our Governor and Com-
mander in Chief of Our said Province of New-Hampshire in New-
Euijland^ and of our Council of the said Province; Have upon the
Conditions and Reservations herein after made, given and granted,
and by these Presents, for us, our Heirs, and Successors, do give and
grant in equal Shares, unto Our loving Subjects, Inhabitants of Our
said Province of New-Hampshire^ and Our other Governments, and to
their Heirs and Assigns for ever, whose Names are entred on this
Grant, to be divided to and amongst them into Sixty Eight equal
Shares, all that Tract or Parcel of Land situate, lying and being within
our said Province of New-Hampshire^ containing by Admeasurement,
Twenty Three thousand Aeres^ which Tract is to contain something
Shorte of Six IMiles square, and no more ; out of which an Allowance
is to be made for High Ways and unimprovable Lands by Rocks,
Ponds, ^Mountains and Rivers, One Thousand and Forty Acres free,
according to a Plan and Survey thereof, made by Our said Governor's
Order, and returned into the Secretary's Office, and hereunto annexed,
butted and bounded as follows. Viz. Begining at A Stake Standing
near the Bank of Connecticut River which is the North Easterly
Corner of Springfield in this Province thence up Said river as that
runs to A Black Ash Tree near tlie Bank of Said River Marked with
the figures 2 & 3 — and is about Six jNIiles upon A Point & is the
South East Corner of Windsor from thence North al/ Seventy four
Degrees West ab' Six Miles to the South West Corner of Windsor
afore Said thence South Thirteen degrees West about Six Miles to
the North West Corner of Springlield afores'' thence South aV
Seventy Eight degrees East by Springfield About Six Miles to the
Bounds first JMentioned — And that the same be, and hereby is In-
corporated into a Township by the Name of Weathersfield And the

530 CHARTER RECORDS.

Inhabitants that do or shall hereafter inhabit the said Township, are
hereby declared to be Enfranchized with and Intitled to all and every
the Priviledges and Immunities that other Towns within Our Prov-
ince by Law Exercise and Enjoy: And further, that the said Town as
soon as there shall be Fifty Families resident and settled thereon,
shall have the Liberty of holding Two Fairs, one of which shall be
held on the
And the other on the

annually, which Fairs are not to continue longer than the respective

following the said

and that as soon as the said Town shall consist of Fifty
*2-142 Families, a ]\larket may be *opened and kept one or more

Days in each Week, as may be thought most advanta-
gious to the Inhabitants. Also, that the first Meeting for the
Choice of Town Officers, agreable to the Laws of our said Province,
shall be held on the Third Tuesday of September next which said
Meeting shall be Notified by Gideon Lyman Esq who is hereby also
appointed the Moderator of the said first ^Meeting, which he is to
Notify and Govern agreable to the LaAvs and Customs of Our said
Province ; and that the annual Meeting for ever hereafter for the
Choice of such Officers for the said Town, shall be on the Second
Tuesday of March annualh^ To Have and to Hold the said Tract
of Land as above expressed, together with all Privileges and Appur-
tenances, to them and their respective Heirs and Assigns forever,
upon the following Conditions, viz.

I. That every Grantee, his Heirs or Assigns shall plant and culti-
vate five Acres of Land within the Term of five Years for every fifty
Acres contained in liis or their Share or Proportion of Land in said
Township, and continue to improve and settle the same by additional
Cultivations, on Penalty of the Forfeiture of his Grant or Share in
the said Township, and of its reverting to L^s, our Heirs and Suc-
sessors, to be by Us or Them Re-granted to such of Our Subjects as
shall effectually settle and cultivate the same.

II. That all white and other Pine Trees within the said Township,
fit for Masting Our Royal Nav}-, be carefully preserved for that LTse,
and none to be cut or felled without Our special Licence for so doing
first had and obtained, upon the Penalty of the Forfeiture of the
Right of such Grantee, his Heirs and Assigns, to Us, our Heirs and
Successors, as Avell as being subject to the Penalty of any Act or Acts
of Parliament that now are, or hereafter shall be Enacted.

III. That before any Division of the Land be made to and among
the Grantees, a Tract of Land as near the Centre of the said Town-
ship as the Land will admit of, shall be reserved and marked out for

WEATHERSFIELD. 531

Town Lots, one of which shall be allotted to each Grantee of the
Contents of one Acre.

IV. Yielding and paying therefor to Us, our Heirs and Successors
for the S2)ace of ten Years, to be computed from the Date hereof,
the Kent of one Ear of Indian Corn only, on the twenty-fifth Day of
December annually, if lawfully demanded, the first Payment to be
made on the twenty-fifth Day of December. 1762

V. Every Proprietor, Settler or Inhabitant, shall yield and pay
unto Us, our Heire and Successors yearly, and every Year forever,
from and after the Expiration of ten Years from the abovesaid twenty-
fifth Day of December, namely, on the twenty-fifth Day of December,
which will be in the Y^'ear of Our Lord 1772 One shilling Proclama-
tion ]Money for every Hundred Acres he so owns, settles or j)ossesses,
and so in Proportion for a greater or lesser Tract of the said Land;
which jNIoney shall be paid by the respective Persons abovesaid, their
Heirs or Assigns, in our Council Chamber in PortsmoutJi, or to such
Oificer or Officers as shall be appointed to receive the same ; and this
to be in Lieu of all other Rents and Services whatsoever.

In Testimony whereof we have caused the Seal of our said Prov-
ince to be hereunto affixed. Witness Penning Wentworth, Esq ;
Our Governor and Commander in Chief of Our said Province,
the 20'*' Day of August In the Year of our Lord Christ, One
Thousand Seven Hundred and Sixty one And in the First Year of
Our Reign.

B Wentworth

By His Excellencey's Command,
With Advice of Council,

Theodore Atkinson Sec"^-^

Province of New Hamp'' August 20"> 1761

Recorded According to the Original Charter under the Province
Seal

^ Theodore Atkinson Sec''^

*The Names of the Grantees of Weathersfield Viz *2-14o

Gideon Lyman Daniel Lyman Esq Daniel Lyman jun''

Joseph Little Medad Lyman Sam" Miles

vSam" ^liles jun' Enos Allen James Rice

Joseph Trobridge Roswell Woodward Tho'' Trobridge

Abraham Thompson Jun"" Phineas Lyman Abraham Thompson

Jacob Thomj)son Stephen Allen Joseph Thompson

Caleb Gilljert Joseph Dorman Joseph "Wooder

Gideon Lyman jun'' James Storer Silvanus Bishop jun''

John Mix John Pearpoint John Bradley jun'

582

OHAKTER RECORDS.

John Cornel
Jonah Bradley
Israel Monson
Tim° Potter
Naomi Lyman
Benj*" Sheldon
Phineas Lyman Hadlev
Eph'" Wright jun""

Phineas Bradley Elijah Lyman

Samuel Hotchkins John Nellson

Hezekiah Parmerly Jun'' Jt)hn Osten

Joel Gilbirt Sam'^ Bishop jun''

Ebenez'" Johnson Selah Wright

John layman jun'' Gad Lyman

Will'" Kenady Ruben Wright

Eleaz'' Burt Elnathan Wright

Theodore Atkinson Esq Mark Hunk^' Wentworth Esq Bildad Wriglit

Elias Lyman Nathanill Phelps Penning Wentworth

John Wentworth Esq John Nellson Merch' Hugh Hall Wentworth

Wiseman Clagget & Theodore Atkinson jun''

For his Excellency Benning Wentworth Esq a Tract to Contain
Five Hundred Acres as Marked B — W— in the Plan whicli is to be
accounted Two of the within Shares one whole Share for the incor-
porated Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in foreign Parts
one whole Share for A Glebe for the Church of England as by
Law Established One Share for the first Settled Minister of the
Gospel and one Share for the Benefit of A School in Said Town —

Province of New Hamp'" August 20"' 1761

Recorded from the Back of the Orio-inal Charter of Weathersfield
under the Pro"" Seal

19 Theodore Atkinson Sec"^*'

WELLS. 533

Province of New Hamp'' August 20'" 1761

Recorded from the back of tlie original Charter of Weathersfield

^ Theodore Atkinson Se'"^

WELLS.

*Proyince of New-Hampshire. *2-189

Wells GEORGE the Third,

, ,^^-^-^ . By the Grace of God, of Great-Britain, France and

\ / Ireland, King, Defender of the Faith, &c.

i i To all Persons to whom these Presents shall come.,

^ V— --^-w -' Greeting-.

Know ye, that We of Our special Grace, certain Knowledge, and
nieer Motion, for the due Encouragement of settling a New Planta-
tion within our said Province, by and with the Advice of our Trusty
and Well-l^eloved Benning Wentworth, Esq ; Our Governor and
Commander in Chief of our said Province of New-Hampshire in
Neic-England, and of our Council of the said Province; Have
upon the Conditions and Reservations herein after made, given and
granted, and by these Presents, for us, our Heirs, and Successors, do
give and grant in equal Shares, unto Our loving Subjects, Inhabitants
of Our said Province of JVcw-Hampshire, and Our other Govern-
ments, and to their Heirs and Assigns for ever whose Names are
entred on this Grant, to be divided to and amongst tliem into Seventy
equal Shares, all tliat Tract or Parcel of Land situate, lying and
being within our said Province of JVetv-ITampshire, containing by
Admeasurement, Twenty three thousand & forty Acres, which Tract
is to contain Six ]\Iiles square, and no more ; out of which an Allow-
ance is to be made for High Waj'S and unimprovable Lands by
Rocks, Ponds, ISIountains and Rivers, One Thousand and Forty
Acres free, according to a Plan and Survey thereof, made by Our
said Governors Order, and returned into the Secretary's Office, and
hereunto annexed, butted and bounded as follows, Viz. Beginning at
the North West Corner of Pawlet thence due North Six Miles,
thence Turning off at Right Angles & Ivunning due East Six Miles
thence turnino- oft" at Rigflit Ano-les & Runniiio- due soutli Six Miles
to the North East Corner of Pawlet aforesaid, thence Runing due
West Six Miles by Pawlet aforesaid to the North West Corner
thereof being the Bounds first above Mentiond — And that the same
be, and hereby is Incorporated into a Township by the Name of Wells

534 CHATITER KECORDS.

And the Inhabitants that do or shall hereafter inhabit the said Town-
ship, are hereby declared to be Enfranchized with and Intitled to all
and every the Priviledges and Immunities that other Towns within
Our Province by Law Exercise and Enjoy: And further, that the said
Town as soon as there shall be Fifty Families resident and settled
thereon, shall have the Liberty of holding Two Fairs, one of which
shall be held on the And the other

on the annually, which Fairs are not to continue

longer than the respective following the said

and that as soon as the said Town shall
* 2-1 90 consist of Fifty Families, a Market may be *opened and
kept one or more Days in each Week, as may be thought
most advantagious to the Inhabitants. Also, that the first INIeeting for
the Choice of Town Oiftcers, agreable to the Laws of our said Prov-
ince, shall be held on the Second Tuesday in October next which said
Meeting shall be Notified by Cap*^ Eliakim Hall who is hereby
also appointed the Moderator of the said first Meeting, which he is
to Notify and Govern agreable to the Laws and Customs of Our
said Province ; and that the annual Meeting for ever hereafter for the
Choice of such Officers for the said Town, shall be on the Second
Tuesday of March annually. To Have and to Hold the said Tract
of Land as above expressed, together with all Privileges and Appur-
tenances, to them and their respective Heirs and Assigns forever,
upon the following Conditions, viz.

I. That every Grantee, his Heirs or Assigns shall plant and culti-
vate five Acres of Land within the Term of five Years for every fifty
Acres contained in his or their Share or Proportion of Land in
said Township, and continue to improve and settle the same by
additional Cultivations, on Penalty of the Forfeiture of his Grant or
Share in the said Township, and of its reverting to Us, our Heirs and
Successors, to be by Us or Them Re-granted to such of Our Subjects
as shall effectually settle and cultivate the same.

II. That all white and other Pine Trees within the said Township,
fit for Masting Our Royal Navy, be carefully preserved for that Use,
and none to be cut or felled without Our special Licence for so doing
first had and obtained, upon the Penalty of the Forfeiture of the
Right of such Grantee, his Heirs and Assigns, to L^s, our Heirs and
Successors, as well as being subject to the Penalt}^ of any Act or Acts
of Parliament that now are, or hereafter shall be Enacted.

WELLS.

535

IV. Yielding ami paying therefor to Us, our Heirs and Successors
for tlie Space of ten Years, to be computed from the Date hereof, the
Rent of one Ear of Indian Corn only, on the twenty-fifth Day of
December annually, if lawfully demanded, the first Payment to be
made on the twenty-fifth Da}' of December. 1762

\. Every Proprietor, Settler or Inhabitant, shall yield and pay
unto Us, our Heirs and Successors yearly, and every Year forever,
from and after the Expiration of ten Years from the abovesaid twenty-
fifth Day of December., namely, on the twenty-fifth Day of December.,
which will be in the Year of Our Lord 1772 One shilUny Proclama-
tion jNIoney for every Hundred Acres he so owns, settles or possesses,
and so in Proportion for a greater or lesser Tract of the said Land ;
which Money sliall be paid by the respective Persons abovesaid, their
Heirs or Assigns, in our Council Chamber in Portsmouth^ or to such
Officer or Officers as shall be appointed to receive the same ; and this
to be in Lieu of all other Rents and Services whatsoever.

In Testimony whereof we have caused the Seal of our said Prov-
ince to be hereunto affixed. Witness Bexning Wentworth, Esq ;
Our Governor and Commander in Chief of Our said Province, the
15*" Day of September In the Year of our Lord Chkist, One Thousand
Seven Hundred and Sixty One And in the First Year of Our Reign.

B Wentworth

By His Excellency's Command,
With Ad\dce of Council,

Theodore Atkinson Sec""^

Province of New Hampshire Sep"" 15"' 1761

Recorded According to the Original under the Province Seal

Att'" Theodore Atkijison Sec'''

*The Names of the Grantees of

Cap^ Eliakim Hall
Daniel ^Nlurwin Jun'
Ruben Ives
Samuel Hall Quar*
Nathaniel Hulls
Abel Austin
John :Vv()re
Joseph Murwin
John Austin Tertius
John Ives
Joel Halle om
Levi jNIoss
Titus Beacli

Rev'^ Edw'> Eales
Thomas Murwin
John Moss
Asael Thomas
Miles Johnson
Benj'* Roys
Abel Ives
Noali iVndrews
Aaron Parsons
Stephen Peck
Sam' Sharp Beedels
Stephen Hall
Daniel Clark

Wells (Viz—) *2-191

Isaac Hall Juu'
John Hulls
Samuel Jerome
Titus Culver
Eliakim Hall Jun''
Asael Beach
Stephen ]Miirwin
Bartho''' Andrews
Stephen Ives
Docf Caleb Hall
Caleb Culver
Doc' John Dickinson
Jacob Parker

536

CHARTER RECORDS.

Abraham Parker
Hezekiali Hall
Titus Ives
Doct"^ Isaac Hall
Jo" Peirce
Jarecl Lee

Daniel Lyman Esq''
Joseph Branson

Andrew Barsley
Thomas Thibets
Hezekiali Wodsworth
Warham Williams
M H§ Wentworth Esq'
Joseph Byshop
John Beacher
Gershom Knott
Street Hall

Joseph Frances
Jared Spencer
Caleb Merriman Esq""
Nathan Williams
Joseph Newmarch Esq""
Sam^ Byshop
Zebulon Frisby
Robert Hazzard &

His Excellency Benning Wentworth Esq a Tract of Land as
Marked B- W- in the Plan which is to Contain five Hundred Acres
and is to be Accounted Two of the within Shares one whole Share
for the incorporated Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in
foreign Parts one Share for A Glebe for the Church of England as
by Law Established one Share for the first Settled Minister of the
Gospel & one Share for the Benefit of A School in Said Town

Province of New Hampshire Septeml/ 15**^ 1761

Recorded from the Back of the original Charter of Wells — under
the Province Seal

Atf 19 Theodore Atkinson Sec'"^

dneEa-i} (' TUx Ut,

Province of New Hamp'' Sepf^ 15 1761

Recorded from the Back of the original Charter of Wells under
the Province Seal

Att' Theodore Atkinson Sec''''

WESTFORD. 537

WESTFORD.

*Proviiice of New-Hampshire. *2-453

Westford GEORGE the Third,

^ -^-^ — ^ N By the Grace of God, of Great-Britain, France and

\ / Irehmd, King, Defender of the Faith, &c.

i i To all Persons to whom these Presents shall come.,

^ ^-^-^.i^ ^ Greeting.

KxoAV ye, that We of Our special Grace, certain Knowledge, and
nieer Motion, for the due Encouragement of settling a JVetv Planta-
tion within our said Province, by and with the Advice of our Trusty
and Well-beloved Benninc; Wentwokth, Esq; Our Governor and
Commander in Chief of Our said Province of New-Hampshire in JVew-
JEngland, and of our Council of the said Province ; Have upon the
Conditions and Reservations herein after made, given and granted,
and by these Presents, for us, our Heirs, and Successors, do give
and grant in equal Shares, unto Our loving Subjects, Inhabitants of
Our said Province of JVetv-IfamjJshire, and Our other Governments,
and to their Heirs and Assigns for ever, whose Names are entred on
this Grant, to be divided to and amongst them into Seventy one
equal Shares, all that Tract or Parcel of Land situate, lying and be-
ing within our said Province of Weu'-JIamp shire, containing by Ad-
measurement, 23040 Acres, which Tract is to contain Six Miles
square, and no more ; out of which an Allowance is to be made
for High Ways and unimprovable Lands by Rocks, Ponds, Moun-
tains and Rivers, One Thousand and Forty Acres free, according to
a Plan and Survey thereof, made by Our said Governor's Order,
and returned into the Secretary's Office, and hereunto annexed,
butted and bounded as follows. Viz. Begining at the North Easterly
Corner of JNIilton from thence Runing Southerly by the Easterly
Line of said Milton six Miles to the South Easterly corner thereof
which is the North Westerly corner of Essex, from thence Easterly
by the Northerly Line of said Essex, about six Miles to the North
Easterly corner thereof, from thence Northerly a Parralell Line, with
the Easterly Ijine of Milton six Miles from thence Westerly about
Six Miles to Miltons North Easterly (Corner the j)lace begun at — And
that the same be, and hereby is Incorporated into a TowJiship by
the Name of Westford And the Inhabitants that do or shall here-
after inhabit the said I'ownship, are lierel)y declared to be Enfran-
chized with and Intitled to all and every the Priviledges and Im-
munities that other Towns within Our Province by Law Exercise

538 CHARTER RECORDS.

and Enjoy: And further, that the said Town as soon as there sliall
be Fifty Families resident and settled thereon, shall have the
Liberty of holding Two Fairs, one of which shall be held on the

And the other on the
annually, which Fairs are not to continue longer than the respective

following the said

and that as soon as the said Town shall consist of Fifty
*2-4o4 Families, a Market may be *opened and kept one or more

Days in each AVeek, as may be thought most advantagious
to the Inhabitants. Also, that the first Meeting for the Choice of
Town Officers, agreable to the Laws of our said Province, shall be
held on the 20"" July next which said Meeting shall be Notified by
Doct"^ Jos'^ Sackett Jun'' who is hereby also appointed the Moderator
of the said fii-st Meeting, which he is to Notify and Govern agreable
to the Laws and Customs of Our said Province ; and that the
annual Meeting forever hereafter for the Choice of such Officers
for the said Town, shall be on the Second Tuesday of 3Iarch annu-
ally, To Have and to Hold the said Tract of Land as above ex-
pressed, together with all Privileges and Appurtenances, to them
and their respective Heirs and Assigns forever, upon the following
Conditions, viz.

I. That every Grantee, his Heirs or Assigns shall plant and culti-
vate five Acres of Land within the Term of five Years for every fifty
Acres contained in his or their Share or Proportion of Land in said
Township, and continue to improve and settle the same by additional
Cultivations, on Penalty of the Forfeiture of his Grant or Share in
the said Township, and of its reverting to Us, our Heirs and Suc-
cessors, to be by Us or Them Re-granted to such of Our Subjects as
shall effectually settle and cultivate the same.

II. That all Avhite and other Pine Trees within the said Township,
fit for Masting Our Royal Nav;)", be carefully preserved for that Use,
and none to be cut or felled without Our special Licence for so doing
first had and obtained, upon the Penalty of the Forfeiture of the
Right of such Grantee, his Heirs and x\ssigns, to Us, our Heirs and
Successors, as well as being subject to the Penalty of any Act or
Acts of Parliament that now are, or hereafter shall be Enacted.

IV. Yielding and paying therefor to Us, our Heirs and Successors
for the Space of ten Years, to be computed from the Date hereof, the

WESTFORD.

539

I\ent of one P^ar of Indian Corn only, on the twenty-fifth Day of
December annually, if lawfully demanded, the first Payment to be
made on the twenty-fifth Day of December. 1763

V. Every Proprietor, Settler or Iniiabitant, shall 3deld and ])ay
unto ITs, our Heirs and Successors yearly, and every Year forever,
from and after the Expiration of ten Years from the abovesaid
tAventy-fifth Day of December^ namely, on the twenty-fifth Day of
Deeonber, which will be in the Year of Our Lord 1773 One shilling
Proclamation Money for every Hundred Acres he so owns, settles or
possesses, and so in Proportion for a greater or lesser Tract of the
said I^and; which Money shall be ]3aid by the respective Persons
abovesaid, their Heirs or Assigns, in our Council Cliamher in Ports-
mouth, or to such Officer or Officers as shall be appointed to receive
the same ; and this to be in Lieu of all other Rents and Services
whateoever.

In Testimony whereof we have caused the Seal of our said Prov-
ince to be hereunto affixed. Witness Penning Wentworth, Esq :
Our Governor and Commander in Chief of Our said Province, the
Eighth Day of June In the Year of our Lord Christ, One Thousand
Seven Hundred and Sixty three And in the Third Year of Our
Reign.

B Wentworth

By His Excellency's Command,
With Advice of Council,

T Atkinson Jun'' Sec''^

Province of New Hamp'' June 8-1763

Recorded according to the Original Charter under the Pro^ Seal

f T Atkinson Jun"- Sec'>

*The Names of the Grantees of Westford (Viz) *2-4o5

Henry Franklin
Silv** Dillingham
Underhill Horton
Derrick Ambrman
James Sackett Tert^
James Jamerson
Jon'' Hazard
John Yeats
Joshua Bloomer
Henry Law
James Finglass
Mich' Huffnal
Jon" Coupland

Jacob Watson
John Dillingham
John I\ I id winter
Joseph Holmes
Peter Sackett
Corn* Low Jun*"
And" Anderson
Isaac Sears Jun'"
James Bloomer
And" Law
Will'" Thompson
Benj'^ Underhill
Joseph Jaco])s

Joshua Watson
Will"' liutler
Rob' Midwinter
Joseph Sackett Jun'
Joseph Sackett
Jon'^ Dayton Jun'
James Anderson
Gilb' Bloomer
Gilb' Bloomer Jun''
John Finglass
Will"' Thomixson Jun''
Uriah Woolman
James Sackett

540

CHARTER RECORDS.

John Sackett
Ancr^' Ten Eike Jun'
James Reid
Sam' Judea
Micael Butler
David Dickson
John Ryner Dickson

iNIaj^ Jos'^ Smith &
Esq''* Howard Henderson

John Sears
Will'" Sackett
Peter Ten P^ike
Sam' Wall
Isaac Sears
Myers Myers
David Dickson Jun""

Sam' Sackett
David Matthews Esq
Lewis Boeley
Isaac Adolphus
Joseph Savage
Jesper Drake
Solomon Morache
Hon: RichMVibird)
John Downing
Dan' Warner )

His Excellency Benning Wentworth Esq'' a Tract of Land to
Contain Five Hundred Acres as marked B-W- in the Plan which is
to be Accounted two of the within Shares, One whole Share for the
Incorporated Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign
Parts, One Share for a Glebe for the Church of England as by Law
Establish'd, One Share for the First Settled Minister of the Gospel,
& One Share for the benefit of a School in said Town —

Pro^ of New Hamp^ June S'^' 1763

Recorded from the Back of the Original Charter of Westford under
the Pro^ Seal

19 T Atkinson Jun"" Sec'^

Province of New Hamp"" June 8 — 1763

Recorded from the Plan on the Back of the Charter of Westford
under the Pro'' Seal

19 T Atkinson Jun^ Sec'"'^

WESTMINSTER. 541

WESTMINSTER.

*Province of New Hamp"^ *1-107

Westminster George the Second by the Grace of God of great
Charter Brittain France & Irehmd King Defender of the faitli

) ^ , / To ALL Persons to wliom these Presents Shall Come

) ■ ' I Greeting —

' -— ^.—^ ' Know Ye that we of our Especial Grace Certain

See (222) Knowledge & mere motion for the Due Encouragement
]>onger Time of Settleing A New Plantation within our Said Prov-
Granted- ince By & with the Advice of our Trusty & well
beloved Benning Wentworth Esq our Governour & Comander in
Chieff of our Said Province of New Hampshire in America <& of our
Council of the Said Province Have upon the Conditions & reserva-
tions hereafter made and By these Presents for us our hiers &
Successors do give & Grant in Equal Shares unto our Loving Sul>
jects Inhabitants of our Said Province of New Hampshire & his
JNIajesties Other Governments &, to thier heirs & Assigns for ever
whose names are Entered on this Grant to be Divided to & amongst
them into Seventy three Equal Shares All that Tract or Parcel of
Land Seituate Lying & being within our Province of New HamjDshire
Containing By Admeasurement Twenty three thousend & forty
Acres which Tract is to Contain Six miles Square & no more, out of
which an Allowence is to be made for highways & unimproveable
Land by Rocks Mountains Ponds & Rivers One thousend & forty
Acres free According to a Plan thereof made & Presented by our
S'* Governours orders & hereunto Annexed Butted & bounded as
follows (Viz) Biginning at the North Side of the mouth of Saxtons
River So called wliere it Empties it Self into Connecticut River
thence runing Southerly down by Said river Six miles to A Stake
Standing by the bank thereof & about forty rods Notherly of a
brook called Thayers brook Carrying that Breadth back from Con-
necticut River Due West Six Miles to A Stake at Each Corner
togeather with A Small Island of about four or five Acres Com'only
called Thayers Island and that the Same be, & is incorporated into a
Township by the name of Westminster — And that the Inhabitants
that do or Shall hereafter Inhabit S"^ Township Are hereby Declared
to be Enfranchized with And Entituled to All & Every the Previ-
ledges & Immunities tliat other Towns within our Said Province by
Law Exercise & Enjoy and further that the Said Town as
Soon as there Shall be fifty families resident & *Settled *1-108
thereon Shall have the Liberty of holding two fairs one of

542 CHARTER RECORDS.

which Sliall be held on the And the other on

the Annually which fairs are not to Continue

And be held Longer than the respective

following the S'' respective Days and as Soon as the Said Town Shall
Consist of fifty families A Market Shall be opened & kept one or
more Days in each Week as may be tho' most Advantagious to the
Inhabitants Also that the first meeting for the Choice of Town
officers Agreable to the Laws of our s'^ Province Shall be held on the
Last Wednesday in December next which meeting Shall be notifyed
by Josiah Willard Esq who is hereby also Appointed the Moderator
of the S'^ first Meeting which he is to Notify & Govern Agreable to
the Laws & Customs of our Said Province And that the Annual
Meeting for ever hereafter for the Choice of Such ofiicers of Said
Town Shall be on the third Tuesday in March Annually To have &
TO HOLD the Said Tract of Land as above Expressed togeather with
all the Previledges & Appurtenances to their respective heirs &
Assigns for ever upon the following Conditions (Viz) that every
Grantee his heirs or Assigns Shall Plant or Cultivate five Acres of
Land within the Term of five Years for every fifty Acres Contained
in his or thier Share or Proportion of Land in Said Township & to
Continue to Improve & Settle the Same by Additional Cultivations
on Penalty of the forfeiture of his Grant or Share in the Said Town-
ship And its reverting to his Maj'^' his heirs & Successors to be by
him or them regranted to Such of his Subjects as Shall Effectually
Settle & Cultivate the Same— That all white & other Pine Trees
within the Said Township fit for Masting our Royal Navy be care-
fully Preserved for that use & none to be Cut or felld without his
Maj'^^ Especial Lycence for So doing first had & Obtain'd upon the
Penalty of the forfeiture of the right of Such Grantee his heirs and
assigns to us our heirs & Successors as well as being Subject to the
Penalty of Any Act or Acts of Parliament that now Are or hereafter
Shall be Enacted That before any Divission of the S'' Land be made
to and Amoungst the Grantees a Tract of Land as near the Center of

the Township as the Land will admit of Shall be reserved &
*1-109 marked out for Town Lotts one of which Shall be *Alloted

to Each Grantee of the Contents of one Acre Yeilding &
Paying therefor to us our Heirs & Successors for the Sj)ace of Ten
Years to be Computed from the Date hereof the rent of one Ear of
Indian Corn only on the first Day of Jan'^' Annually if Lawfully
Demanded the first Payment to be made on the first Day of Jan'"^
next after the Date hereof and every Proprietor Settler or Inhabitant
shall Yield & Pay unto us our hiers & Successors Yearly & every
year for ever from & after the Expiration of the Ten years from the

WESTMINSTER.

543

Date hereof Naiiu'ly on tlie first day of Jan"^-^ whicli will be in the year
of our Lord Christ one thousend Seven hundred & Sixty four One
Shilling Proclamation money for everj^ hundred Acres he so owns
Settles or Possesses & So in i)roportion for a Greater or Lesser Tract
of the Said ]^and which money Shall be paid by the respective
Persons aboves*^ thier heirs or Assigns in our Council Chamber in
Portsmouth or to Such officer or officers as Shall be Appointed to
receive the Same and this to be in Lieu of all other rents & Services
whatsoever In Testimony hereof We have caused the Seal of our S''
Province to be hereunto Affixed Witness Penning Wentworth Esq
our Governour & Commander in Chieff of our S'' Province the 9"'
Day of November in the Year of our Lord Christ 1752 and in the 26
year of our reign

B Wentworth
By his Excelencys Com'and
with Advice of Council

Theodore Atkinson Sec'-''

Entred & recorded According to the Original under the Province
Seal this 11^^' Day of November 1752—

'^ Theodore Atkinson Sec""-^'

The Names of the Grantees of Westminster (Viz) —

jun^

John Halbirt
Valentine Buttler
Susanna Gilson
Wilder Willard
William Willard
Ephraim Dean
Samuel Ashley
Jetliro Wheeler
Submit Foster
Joseph Ashley
John Taylor
Anthony Peirce
Simon Hunt
Solomon Willard
Billy Willard
Jon"* Hubbard
Benj'^ Fairwell
Josiah Brown
Jonathan Cumminsfs

Josiah Willard

Joseph Alexander

Oliver Willard

John Moor jun''

Printice Willard

Elijah Cade

John Alexander

Jonathan Thayer
Nathan Willard jun'^ Joseph Hubbard
Nathaniel Mattoon *John Hunt
John Peirce Andrew Gardner jun'

William Willard
Nathan Williard
John Amies
Daniel Whetmore
John Moor
Asa Douglass
Samuel Greeley
Joshua Welds

*1-110

James Jewel
William Willson
Ebenezer Field
Caleb How
James Hill
Robert Usher
Peter Powers
Robert 1^'letcher jun"'

Jonathan Cummings jun"^ David Sterns
Byfield Loyd

Mannassah Divil
John Arms jun'
Samuel Allen
Jon'^ Willard
Josiah Willard jun"^
Sanuiel Cunnniiigs
John Cliamberlain
John Usher
Timothy Letherby

644

CHARTER RECORDS.

His Excelency Benning Wentworth Esq a Tract of Land to Con-
tain five liiindred Acres which is to be Accounted two of the within
mentioned Shares One wliole Share for the Incorporated Society for
tlie Propagation of the Gospel in Forreign Parts, one whole Share
for the first Settled Minister of the Gospel in S'' Town One whole
Share for a Glebe for the ministry of the Chnrch of England as by
LaAV Established Henry Sherburne, Theodore Atkinson, Richard
Wibird, Sam" Smith, John Downing, Sampson Sheaffe John Went-
worth jun''

Attest Theodore Atkinson Se''^

Entred & recorded from the back
the 11"' Day of November 1752—

of the Charter for Westminster
19 Theodore Atkinson Sec'''^

Taken from the Plan on the Original Charter of Westminster this
11''' of November 1752

"^ Theodore Atkinson Sec''^

westminster. 545

[Westmixstki: Chauter Renewed, 1760.]

Province of / *(ieorge the Second b}- the Grace of God *l-222

New lianip'^ \ of great Britain France & Ireland King

Westminster Defender of the Faith &c"'
Time Lengthned To all to whome these Presents Shall
<.Vc-' come greetino-

Whereas We of our Special Grace & mere Motion
for the due Encouragement & Settling of a New
Plantation within our Province of New Hamp'' by Our
Letters Patent or Charter under the Seal of Our Said
See Page Province Dated the Nineth Day of November in the

(107) TAventy Sixth Year of Our Reign Granted a Tract of

Land equal to Six ]\Iiles Square bounded as therein Expressed to A
Number of our Loyal Subjects whose Names are entred on the Same
to Hold to them their Heirs and Assignes on the Conditions therein
Declared to be A Town Corporate l)y the Name of Westminster as hj
Referrence to the Said Charter may more fully appear

And whereas the Said Grantees have represented that by the Inter-
vention of an Indian Warr Since the makino- of Said Grant it has
been Impracticable to Comply with & fulfill the Conditions aforesaid
And Humlily Supplycated L"s not to take advantage of the Breach of
Said Conditions Init so Lengthen out & Grant them Some reasonable
Term for Performance thereof after the Said Impediment Shall
Cease —

Now Know Ye that We being Willing to Promote the End Pro-
posed have of Our furthe Grace & Favour Suspended Our Claim of
the Forfeiture which the Said Grantees may have incurrd & by
these Present do Grant unto tlie s'^ Grantees their Heirs & Assigns
the Term of (^ne Year for Performing And fullfiling the Conditions
matters & things by them to be done which Term is to be renewd
Annually until liis Maj'^® Plenar}^ Instructions Shall be Receivd
Relative to the Incident that lias Prevented A Complyence with the
s'' Charter according to the Intent & ^Meaning thereof

In Testimony whereof We have Caused the Seal of Our Said
Province to be hereunto affixed Wittness Penning Wentworth Esq
our Governour & Commander in ChiefT the 11"' l)ay of June in the
Thirty third Year of Our Reign Annoq Domini 1700

13 Wentworth

By his Excellencys Comand
with Advice of Council

Theodore Atkinson Sec""^

546 CHARTER RECORDS.

Prov of New Hampshire

Recorded According to the Original under the Pro^ Seal the 11"'
Day of June 1760

Theodore Atkinson Sec'^

WEYBRIDGE.

*2-305 *Province of New-Hampshire.

Weybridge GEORGE the Third,

, , — '- — - . By the Grace of God, of Great-Britain, France and

\ ^ / Ireland, King, Defender of the Faith, &c.

J I To all Perso7is to tvhom these Presents shall coiyie,

' V— ^^^ ^ Greeting.

Know ye, that We of Onr special Grace, certain Knowledge, and
meer Motion, for the due Encouragement of settling a New Planta-
tion witliin our said Province, by and with the Advice of our Trusty
and Well-beloved Benning Wentworth, Esq ; Our Governor and
Commander in Chief of Our said Province of New-Hampshire in
Neiv-England^ and of our Council of the said Province ; Have
upon the Conditions and Reservations herein after made, given and
granted, and by these Presents, for us, our Heirs, and Successors,
do give and grant in equal Shares, unto Our loving Subjects, Inhabi-
tants of Our said Province of New-Hampshire^ and Our other Gov-
ernments, and to their Heirs and Assigns for ever, whose Names are
entred on this Grant, to be divided to and amongst them into
Seventy equal Shares, all that Tract or Parcel of Land situate, lying
and being within our said Province of New-Hampshire, containing by
Admeasurement, Twenty Five Thousand Acres, which Tract is to
contain Something more than Six Miles square, and no more; out of
which an Allowance is to be made for High Ways and unimprovable
Lands by Rocks, Ponds, Mountains and Rivers, One Thousand and
Forty Acres free, according to a Plan and Survey thereof, made by
Our said Governor's Order, and returned into the Secretary's Office,
and hereunto annexed, butted and bounded as follows, Jlz. Begin-
in g at the south Easterly Corner of Pan ton & from thence Runs
West by Panton to the South Westerly Corner thereof, then Turn-
ing off & Runing South four Miles & One Quarter of a Mile, then
Turnin off & Runing East to Otter Creek Then down Northerly as
the Creek Runs to the South East Corner of Panton aforesaid being
a Marked Tree Standing on the Bank of the West Side thereof
&, is the bounds begun at And that the same be, and hereby is

WEYBIUDGE. 547

Incorporated into a Township by the Name of Weybriclge And the
Inhabitants that do or shall hereafter inhabit the said Township, are
hereby dedared to be Enfranchized with and Intitled to all and
every the Priviledges and Immunities that other Towns within Our
Province by Law Exercise and Enjoy : And further, tliat the said
Town as soon as there shall be Fifty Families resident and settled
thereon, shall have the Liberty of holding Two Fairs, one of which
shall be held on the And the other on the

annually, which Fairs are not to continue
longer than the respective following the

and that as soon as the said Town
shall consist of Fifty Families, a Market maybe *opened and *2-306
ke[)t one or more Days in each Week, as may be thought
most advantagious to the Inhabitants. Also, that the first Meeting
for the Choice of Town Officers, agreable to the Laws of our said
Province, shall be held on the First Tuesday in February next which
said Meeting shall be Notified by Docto'^ Ebenezer Fletcher who is
hereb}' also appointed the Moderator of the said first Meeting, which
he is to Notify and Govern agreable to the Laws and Customs of
Our said Province; and that the annual Meeting for ever hereafter
for the Choice of such Officers for the said Town, shall be on the
Second Tuesday of March annually. To Have and to Hold the said
Tract of Land as above expressed, together with all Privileges and
Appurtenances, to them and their respective Heirs and Assigns for-
ever, upon the following Conditions, viz.

I. That every Grantee, his Heirs or Assigns shall plant and culti-
vate five Acres of Land within the Term of five Years for every fifty
Acres contained in his or their Share or Proportion of Land in said
Township, and continue to improve and settle the same by addi-
tional Cultivations, on Penalty of the Forfeiture of his Grant or
Share in the said Township, and of its reverting to L^s, our Heirs
and Successors, to be by Us or Them Re-granted to such of Our Sub-
jects as shall effectually settle and cultivate the same.

II. That all white and other Pine Trees within the said Township,
fit for Masting Our Royal Navy, be carefully preserved for that Use,
and none to be cut or felled without Our special Licence for so doing
first had and obtained, upon the Penalty of the Forfeiture of the
Right of such Grantee, his Heirs and Assigns, to Us, our Heirs and
Successors, as well as being subject to the Penalty of any Act or
Acts of Parliament that now are, or hereafter shall be Enacted.

HI. That before any Division of the Land be made to and among
the Grantees, a Tract of Land as near the Centre of the said Town-
ship as the Land will admit of, shall be reserved and marked out for

548 CHARTER RECORDS.

Town Lots, one of which shall be allotted to each Grantee of the
Contents of one Acre.

IV. Yielding and paying therefor to Us, our Heirs and Saccessors
for the Space of ten Years, to be computed from the Date hereof, the
Rent of one Ear of Indian Corn only, on the twent3'-fifth Day of
December annually, if lawfully demanded, the first Payment to be
made on the twenty-fifth Day of Decemler. 1761

V. Every Proprietor, Settler or Inhabitant, shall yield and pay
tmto Us, our Heirs and Successors yearly, and ever}* Year forever,
from and after the Expiration of ten Years from the abovesaid
twenty-fifth Day of Decemhei\ namely, on the twenty-fifth Day of
December^ which will be in the Year of Our Lord 1771 One shilling
Proclamation Money for every Hundred Acres he so owns, settles or
possesses, and so in Proportion for a greater or lesser Tract of the
said Land : which Money shall be paid by the respective Persons
abovesaid. their Heirs or Assigns, in our Council Chamher in Ports-
mouthy or to such Officer or Oflicers as shall be appointed to receive
the same ; and this to be in Lieu of all other Rents and Services
whatsoever.

In Testimony whereof we have caused the Seal of our said Prov-
ince to be hereunto affixed. Witness Be^'NIXG Wentworth, Esq;
Our Governor and Commander in Chief of Our said Province, the
Third Day of November In the Year of our Lord Christ. One
Thousand Seven Hundred and Sixty One And in the Second Year of
Our Reign.

B Wentworth
By His Excellency's Command,
With Advice of Council,

Theodore Atkinson Se""^
Province of Xew Hamps"" Nov'" 3. 1761

Recorded According to the Origional Charter under the Province
Seal

"^ Theodore Atkinson 560""^

*2-307 *The Names of the Grantees of Weybridge

Joseph Gilbert Elias Gilbert Cotton Fletcher

Sam^ Lee Eben'^ Rice Tiraotliy Ham

Daniel Taylor John Ashley Esq Eben' Fletcher

Eben^ Fletcher Jun"^ Timo' Seymore Josiah Dean

Will"' Powell Will"' Spencer Sam' Lee Jun'^

Joseph Noble Will"' Shaw Israel Dowey

Constant Noble John Pell Joshua Stanton

WE YB RIDGE.

549

Aaron Sheldon
Daniel Allen
Benj" Mooney
Micha Taylor
Abel Cad well
Kogrer Enos
Ezekiel Thomas
Collins Chapman
Dan' Febrick
John Sedgwick
James Saxon
Will"' Pees
John Downing Esq
Aaron Root

Joseph I) wight Esq
Rich'' Jenness
Jessee Tavlor
Stei)h" Haul
Enoch Hoi com
Zebediali Dewey
Isaac Tucker
Nathan' Chapman
Ephraim Thomas
Sam' Catlin

Zaclr''' Foss
Joshna Root
Will"' Hain
Rob' Taylor
Sam' Ham
Matthew Noble
Oliver Ingersol
Dan Chapman
James Thomas
Will'" Fitch
John Dean

Martin Dewey

]NP H- Wentworth Esq Dan' Warner Esq
Matt" Noble Jun"" Eliphaz Spenser

Azariah Root James Smith &

Tim° Ham
His Excellency Benning Wentworth Esq a Tract of Land to Con-
tain Five Hundred Acres as Marked B- W- in the Plan which is to
be Accounted two of the within Shares, One v>hole Share for the
Incorjjorated Societ}' for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign
Parts. One Share for a Glebe for the Church of England as b}" Law
Establishd, One Share for the First Settled Minister of the Gospell
& One Share for the Benefit of a School in said Town

Province of New Hamps"" Nov"" 3, 1761

Recorded According to the Origional Charter of Wevbridge under
the Prov*^ Seal

Attested "^ Theodore Atkinson Se"^'

Province of New Hamps' Nov"^ 3, 1761

Recorded from the Back of the Origional Charter of Weybridge
under the Prov^ Seal

■^ Theodore Atkinson Sec''^

550 CHARTER RECORDS.

WHITING.

*2-512 *Province of New-Hampshire.

Whiteing GEORGE the Third,

, ..~.^^^ By the Grace of God, of Great-Britain, France and
\ i Ireland, King, Defender of the Faith, &c.

j I To all Persons to tvhom these Presents shall eome^

' V— ^.-w/ ^ Greeting.

Know ye, that We of Our special Grace, certain Knowledge, and
nicer Motion, for the due Encouragement of settling a Neiv Flayita-
tion within our said Province, by and with the Advice of our Trusty
and Well-beloved Benning Wentworth, Esq; Our Governor and
Commander in Chief of Our said Province of New-Hampshire in
New-England^ and of our Council of the said Province: Have
upon the Conditions and Reservations herein after made, given and
granted, and by these Presents, for ns, our Heirs, and Successors,
do give and grant in equal Shares, unto Our loving Subjects, Inhabi-
tants of Our said Province of New-Hampshire, and Our other Gov-
ernments, and to their Heirs and Assigns for ever, whose Names are
entred on this Grant, to be divided to and amongst them into Fifty
Four equal Shares, all that Tract or Parcel of Land situate, lying and
being within our said Province of Neto-Hampshire, containing b}^
Admeasurement, 14424 Acres, which Tract is to contain Near Five
Miles square, and no more; out of which an Allowance is to be made
for High Ways and unimprovable Lands by Rocks, Ponds, Mountains
and Rivers, One Thousand and Forty Acres free, according to a Plan
and Survey thereof, made by Our said Governor's Order, and returned
into the Secretary's Office, and hereunto annexed, butted and bounded
as follows. Viz. Begining at the North West Corner of Licester from
thence North Eighty five degrees West to the West Line of Brid-
Port to A Stake & Stones from thence South by the Lines of Brid-
port and Shoram Six Miles & one Hundred & Twenty rods to A
Stake & Stones from thence South Eighty five degrees East by the
North Side Line of Sudbury to the North Easterly Corner thereof
From thence North four deg' West Six Miles & one Hundred &
Twenty rods to the Place began at And that the same be, and
hereby is Incorporated into a Townsliip by the Name of Whiteing
And the Inhabitants that do or shall hereafter inliabit the said
Township, are hereby declared to be Enfranchized with and In titled
to all and every the Priviledges and Immunities that other Towns
within Our Province by Law Exercise and Enjoy: And further,

WHITING. 551

that the said Town as soon as there shall be Fifty Families resident
and settled thereon, shall have the Liberty of holding Two Fairs,
one of which shall be held on the

And the other on the annually, which Fairs

are not to continue longer than the respective

following- the said and that as soon as

the said Town shall consist of Fifty Families, a Market
may be * opened and kept one or more Days in each *2-513
Week, as may be thought most advantagious to the Inhab-
itants. Also, that the first Meeting for the Choice of Town Officers,
agreable to the Laws of our said Province, shall be held on the
First Tuesday of September next which said Meeting shall be Notified
by Daniel Pond who is hereby also appointed the Moderator of
the said first Meeting, which he is to Notify and Govern agreable to
the Laws and Customs of Our said Province ; and that the annual
Meeting for ever hereafter for the Choice of such Officers for the said
Town, shall be on the Second Tuesday of March annually, to Have
and to Hold the said Tract of Land as above expressed, together
with all Privileges and Appurtenances, to them and their respective
Heirs and Assigns forever, upon the following Conditions, viz.

I. That every Grantee, his Heirs or Assigns shall plant and
cultivate five Acres of Land within the Term of five Years for every
fifty Acres contained in his or their Share or Proportion of Land in
said Township, and continue to improve and settle the same by
additional Cultivations, on Penalty of the Forfeiture of his Grant or
Share in the said Township, and of its reverting to Us, our Heirs and
Successors, to be by Us or Them Re-granted to such of Our Subjects as
shall effectually settle and cultivate the same.

n. That all white and other Pine Trees within the said Township,
fit for Masting Our Royal Navy, be carefully preserved for that Use,
and none to be cut or felled without Our special Licence for so doing
first had and obtained, upon the Penalty of the Forfeiture of the Right
of such Grantee, his Heirs and Assigns, to Us, our Heirs and Succes-
sors, as well as being subject to the Penalty of any Act or Acts of
Parliament that now are, or hereafter shall be Enacted.

IV. Yielding and i)aying therefor to Us, our Heirs and Successors
for the Space of ten Years, to be computed from the Date hereof, the
Rent of one Ear of Indian Corn only, on the twenty-fifth Day of

552 CHARTER RECORDS.

December annuall}', iflawfully demanded, the first Payment to be made
on the twenty-fifth Day of December. 1763

V. Every Proprietor, Settler or Inhabitant, shall yield and pay
unto Us, our Heirs and Successors yearly, and every Year forever,
from and after the Expiration of ten Years from the abovesaid twenty-
fifth Day of December^ nameh', on the twenty-fifth Da}^ of December^
which will be in the Year of our Lord 1773 One shilling Proclama-
tion Money for every Hundred Acres he so owns, settles or })Ossesses,
and SO in Proportion for a greater or lesser Tract of the said Land ;
which Money shall be paid by the respective Persons abovesaid, their
Heirs or Assigns, in our Council Chamber in Portsmouth, or to such
Officer or Officers as shall be appointed to receive the same ; and this
to be in Lieu of all other Rents and Services whatsoever.

Li Testimony whereof we have caused the Seal of our said Prov-
ince to be hereunto affixed. Witness Benning Wentworth Esq;
Our Governor and Commander in Chief of Our said Province, the
Sixth Day of August In the Year of our Lord Christ, One
Thousand' Seven Hundred and Sixty three And in the Third Year
of Our Reign. B Wentworth

By His Excellency's Command,
With Advice of Council,

Theodore Atkinson jun'' Se''^

Prov*^ of New Ilamp'' August 6"' 1763

Recorded According to the Original Charter under the Pro"" Seal

T Atkinson Jun'' Sec""^'

*2-514 *The Names of the Grantees of Whiteing.

M'' Daniel Pond Rev'^ David Thurstin Cap^ Nathaniel Whiteing

Leu' John Pond Leu' Daniel Ide Jeremiah Parker

Nathaniel Partridge Sam^^ Cuttler Assa Barstow

Hezzekiah Fisher Nathan Alldis John Smith

Seth Danells Eleaz' Addams jun"' Thomas Addams

Ebenez' Aldis Moses Adams Benj'' Pond

John Bullard Eliplr^ Whiteing Cap' Ebenez"" Man

Leu' Benj^' Guile Ebenez'' Man jun'' Benj'' Day

Asa Whiteing David Man John Whiteing

Lewis Whiteing Cap' Nath" Weare Preserved Hall

David Fisher Nath" Floyd James Fisher

Joseph White Elij^' Fisher Deac" Richard Fisher

Jon'' Whitney Esq Maf Thomas Tash Cap' Silas Brown

John Tash Coll Joseph Smith Joshua Crumit

Sam" Pond James Pond Nathan Johnson

Benj'' Archer jun'' Hon'''"" John Temple Esq & John Nellson Esq

WILLISTON. 553

His Excellency Beninng Weiitworth Esq a Tract of Land to Con-
tain Four Hundred Acres as Marked in the Plan B- W which
is to be Accounted Two of the within Shares One Share for the
Incorporated Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in foreign
Parts one Share for A Glebe for the Church of England as
by Law Established One Share for the first Settled Minister in Said
Town & One Share for the School there for ever

Pro"" of New Hamp'^ August 6 1763

Recorded from the Back of the Original Charter of Whiting under
the Pro^' Seal

T Atkinson Jun'' Sec*"*'

Pro''' of New Hamp'' August 6 — 1703

Recorded from the Back of the original Charter of Whiting under
the^Pro^" Seal

19 T Atkinson Jun"" Sec^>'

WILLISTON.
*Province of New-Hampshire. *2-409

Williston GEORGE the Third,

, .-w'^i^ . B}^ the Grace of God, of Great-Britain, France and
\ I Ireland. King, Defender of the Faith, &c.

I ' i To all Persons to whom these Presents shall come,

^ ^— .-*-^ -' Greeting.

Know ye, tliat We of Our special Grace, certain Knowledge,
and meer Motion, for the due Encouragement of settling a New Plan-

554 CHARTER RECORDS.

tation within our said Province, by and with the Advice of our Trusty
and Well-beloved Benning Wentworth, Esq ; Our Governor and
Commander in Chief of Our said Province of New-Hampshire in
Neu'-England^ and of our Council of the said Province; Have upon
the Conditions and Reservations herein after made, given and
granted, and by these Presents, for us, f)ur Heirs, and Successors, do
give and grant in equal Shares, unto Our loving Subjects, Inhab-
itants of Our said Province of Neio- Hampshire^ and Our other
Governments, and to their Heirs and Assigns for ever, whose Names
are entred on this Grant, to be divided to and amongst them into
Seventy one equal Shares, all that Tract or Parcel of Land situate,
lying and being within our said Province of Neiv- Hampshire^ contain-
ing by Admeasurement, 23,040 Acres^ which Tract is to contain Six
Miles square, and no more ; out of which an Allowance is to be made
for High Ways and unimprovable Lands by Rocks Ponds, Mountains
and Rivers, One Thousand and Forty Acres free, according to a Plan
and Survey thereof, made by Our said Governor's Order, and returned
into the Secretary's Office, and hereunto annexed, butted and bounded
as follows. Viz. Begining on the Southerly or South Westerly Side of
Onion or French River at the Easterly or North Easterly Corner of
Burlington & runs up by Said River so far as to make Six Miles
upon A Perpendicular Line to the uper Line of Burlington afore Said
Then Southerly Parrellel to the uper Line of S'^ Burlington Six Miles
then Westerly to a Tree Standing Six Miles from the River upon a
Line with the Head Line of Burlington then Notherly or North
Easterly as Burlington runs to the Bound at the River Begun at
And that the same be, and hereby is Incorporated into a Township by
the Name of Williston And the Inhabitants that do or shall hereafter
inhabit the said Township, are hereby declared to be Enfranchized with
and Intitled to all and every the Priviledges and Immunities that other
Towns within Our Province by Law Exercise and Enjoy : And further,
that the said Town as soon as there shall be Fifty Families resident and
settled thereon, shall have the Liberty of holding Two Fairs, one of
which shall be held on the And the other on the

annually, which Fairs are not to continue
longer than the respective following the said

and that as soon as the said Town shall
*2-410 consist of Fifty Families, a Market may be *opened and
kept one or more Days in each Week, as may be thought
most advantagious to the Inliabitants. Also, that the first Meeting
for the Choice of Town Officers, agreable to the Laws of our said
Province, shall be held on the 19'^ Day of July next which
said Meeting shall be Notified by Docf^ Sam' Allen who is

WILLISTON. 555

hereby also appointed the Moderator of the said first Meeting, which
he is to Notify and Govern agreable to the Laws and Customs of
Our said Province; and that the annual Meeting for ever hereafter
for the Choice of such Officers for the said Town, shall be on the
Second Tuesday of March annually, To Have and to Hold the said
Tract of Land as above expressed, together with all Privileges and
Appurtenances, to them and their respective Heirs and Assigns for-
ever, upon the following Conditions, viz.

L Tliat every Grantee, his Heirs or Assigns shall plant and culti-
vate five Acres of Land within the Term of five Years for every fifty
Acres contained in his or their Share or Proportion of Land in said
Township, and continue to improve and settle the same by additional
Cultivations, on Penalty of the Forfeiture of his Grant or Share in
the said Township, and of its reverting to LTs, our Heirs and Succes-
sors, to be by Us or Them Re-granted to such of Our Subjects as shall
effectually settle and cultivate the same.

IL That all white and other Pine Trees within the said Township,
fit for Masting Our Royal Navy, be carefully preserved for that Use,
and none to be cut or felled without Our special Licence for so
doing first had and obtained, upon the Penalty of the Forfeiture of
the Right of such Grantee, his Heirs and Assigns, to Us, our Heirs
and Successors, as well as being subject to the Penalty of any Act or
Acts of Parliament that now are, or hereafter shall be Enacted.

IV. Yielding and i)aying therefor to Us, our Heirs and Successors
for the Space of ten Years, to be computed from the Date hereof, the
Rent of one Ear of Lidian Corn only, on the twenty-fifth Day of
December annually, if lawfull}^ demanded, the first Payment to be
made on the twenty-fifth Da}^ of December. 1763

V. Every Proprietor, Settler or Inhabitant, shall yield and pay
unto Us, our Heirs and Successors yearly, and every Year forever,
from and after the Expiration of ten Years from the abovesaid
twenty-fifth Day of December., namely, on the twent3'-fifth Day of
December^ which will be in the Year of Our I^ord 1778 One shilling
Proclamation Money for every Hundred Acres he so owns, settles or
possesses, and so in Proportion for a greater or lesser Tract of the
said Land; which Money shall be paid by the respective Persons
abovesaid, their Heirs or Assigns, in our Council Chamber m Ports-
mouth, or to such Officer or Officers as shall be appointed to receive

556

CHAETER RECORDS.

the same ; and this to be in Lieu of all other Rents and Services
whatsoever.

In Testimony whereof we have caused the Seal of our said Prov-
ince to be hereunto affixed. Witness Benning Wentworth, Esq;
Our Governor and Commander in Chief of Our said Province, the
Seventh Day of June In the Year of our Lord Christ, One Thousand
Seven Hundred and Sixty three And in the Third Year of Our Reign.

B Wentworth

By His Excellency's Command,
With Advice of Council,

T Atkinson Jun'' Sec'"^

Pro^ of New- Hamj/ June 7'^^ 1763

Recorded According to the Original Charter under the Pro'^ Seal

f T Atkinson Jun^' Sec-^^

*2-411 *The Names of the Grantees of Williston Viz —

Samuel Willis
Sam'^ Allen
James Rogers
Israel Kitcham
Simon Fleet Jun""
Cornelius Harte
Thomas Brush
Abel Gillett
Joshua Rogers
Ebenez'' Gold
John Carle
Henr}- Smith
Ezekiel Smith
David Chichester
Cornelius Stratton
Isaac Rogers
Ezekiel Rogers
Timothy Conklin
Phillip Ketcham
Benjamin Seaman
Sam'^ Averhill Hon :
Theo
M-^H

Nath" Williams
John Mowbray
Rich^^ Conklin
Solomon Kitcham
Jacob Brush
Christo'' Tobias
Joel Ketcham
Shuball Smith
Henry Sammis
Israel Wood
Sam" Harte
Zopher Piatt Jun^
Thomas Oakes

Jeremiah Wood
Stephen Wood
Jonas Piatt
Benjamin Denton
Thomas Fleet jun""
Philip Conklin
Hubbard Conklin
Reuben Brush
John Brush jun'^
John Weeks
Nath" Harrison
Joseph Smith
Ezekiel Weekes

Sam" Seaman of Jerusalem

Obediah Rogers Hezekiah Rogers

Micah Rogers
Jonas Wood
Tho^ Conklin jun""
James Chichester
Tunis Wortman

Jn° Temple )

: Atkinson > Esq''*

s Wentworth \

Hezekiah Rogers jun""
Stephen Conklin
Nathaniel Killey
Robert Shadbolt
Will"' Frost Sen'
Will'" Temple j

Theo : Atkinson Jun

Esq'

His Excellency Benning Wentworth Esq a Tract of Land to Con-
tain Five Hundred Acres as Marked B- W- in the Plan which is to
be accounted two of the Within Shares One whole Share for the

WILMINGTON.

557

Incorporated Society for the Pro])agiUion of the (xospel in Foreign
Parts one Share for A Glebe for the Church of England as by Law-
Established one Share for the first Settled Minister of the Gospel &
One Share for the Benefit of A School in Said Town —

Pro^ New Ha rap'' June 7"' 17(i3

Recorded from the Back of the Original Charter of Williston
under the Pro"" Seal

^ T Atkinson Jun' Sec'^

Province of New Hamp"" June 7- 1763

Recorded from the Back of the Charter of Williston under tlie
Pro^- Seal

19 T Atkinson Jun^' Sec^^

WILMINGTON.

*Province of ) George the Second by the Grace of God of *l-75
New Hamp"" | Great Brittain France & Ireland King De-

, ,^*^^-~s . fender of the faith &c''' —

\ p . c / 'Po All Persons to whom these Presents Shall Come

I { Greeting —

^ -— ^.^i^' ^ Know Ye that We of our Especial Grace Certain

Wilmington Knowledge & mere Motion for the Due Encourage-
ment of Settling A New Plantation within our Said Province by &
with the Advice of our Trusty & well beloved Penning Wentworth
Esq our Governour & Com'ander in Chieff of our Said Province of

558 CHARTER RECORDS.

New Hamp'' in America & of Our Council of the Said Province
Have upon the Conditions & reservations herein after made, Given
& Granted & by these Presents for us Our hiers & Successors Do
Give & grant in Equal Shares unto our Loveing Subjects Inhabi-
tants of our Said Province of New Hampshire & his Maj'''^ other
Governments and to thier hiers & Assigns for ever whose names
Are Entred on this Grant to be Divided to & Amoungst them into
Sixty four Equal Shares — All that Tract or Parcel of Land Scituate
Lying & being within our Province of New Hampshire Containing
by admeasurement Twenty three thousend & forty Acres which Tract
is to Contain Six Miles Square & no more out of which an Allow-
ence is to be made for high ways & unimproveable Lands by Rocks
Mountains Ponds & Rivers One thousend & forty Acres free
According to A Plan thereof made & Presented by our Said Govern-
ours orders & hereunto Annexed butted And bounded as follows (Viz)
Begining at the North West Corner of A Township Called Halifax
Lately Granted to Oliver Partridge Esq And Others his Associates
tlience runing West Ten degrees North by the Needle Six Miles
thence runing North 10'* East Six Miles Thence runing East 10'*
South Six Miles thence runing South 10'' West Six Miles to the Cor-
ner first mentioned which is also the South West Corner of A Town-
ship Granted this Day to Tim° Dwight &c'' and that the Same be &
hereby is Incorporated into A Township by the Name of Wilming-
ton and that the Inhabitants that do Or Shall hereafter Inhabit
the Said Township Are hereby Declared to be Enfranchized with
& Intituled to all & every the Previledges & Immunities that
other Towns within our Said Province by Law Exercize &
Enjoy & further that the Said Town as Soon as there Shall be
lift}' families resident & Settled thereon Shall have the Liberty
of Holding two Fairs One of which Shall be held on the first mon-
day in the month of June & the Other in the first monday in the

month of November Annually which Fairs Are not to Con-
*l-76 tinue & be held Longer then the respective Saturdays *fol-

lowing the Said respective Days and As Soon as the Said
Town Shall Consist of fifty families A Market Shall be Opened &
kept one or more Days in Each Week as may be tho' most Advan-
tagious to the Inhabitants also that the first Meeting for the Choice
of Town Officers Agreable to the Laws of our Said Province Shall
be held on the first monday In March next which Meeting Shall be
Notifyed by Phinehas Lyman Esq who is hereby Also Appointed the
Moderator of the Said first Meeting which he is to Notify &
Govern Agreable to the Law & Custom of our Said Province &
that the Annual Meeting for ever hereafter for the Choice of

WILMINGTON. 559

Siieli Officers of the Said Town Sliall be on tlie first Monday of
March Annually To Have & to hold the Said Tract of Land as
above Expressd togeather with all Previledges And Appurtenances
to them & thier respective hiers & Assignes for ever upon the
following Conditions (Viz) That every Grantee his heirs or Assignes
Shall riant or Cultivate five Acres of Land within the Term of five
Years for every fifty .Veres Containd in his or thier Shear or Pro-
portion of Land in Said Township & Continue to hii[)rove & Settle
the Same by Aditional Cultivations on Penalty of the forfeiture of
his Grant or Share in the Said Township & its reverting to his
Majesty his Heirs & Successors to be by him or them regranted to
Such of his Subjects as Shall Effectually Settle & Cultivate the Same
That all White & other Pine Trees within the Said Township
fit for Masting Our Royal Navy be carefiill}' Preserved for that Use
& none to be Cut or felld without his Maj'-^^ Especial Lycence for So
Doing first had & obtained upon the Penalty of the forfeiture of the
right of Such Grantee his heirs or Assigns to us our hiers &
Successors as well as being Subject to the Penalty of Any Act or
Acts of Parliament that now Are or hereafter Shall be Enacted —
That before Any Divission of the Said Lands be made to and Amoungst
the Grantees A Tract of Land as near the Center of the Town-
ship as the Land will admit of Shall be reserved & marked out for
the Town Lotts one of which Shall be Allotted to Each Grantee of
the Contents of one Acre Yielding & paying therefor to ns our heirs
& Successors for the Space of ten Years to be Computed from the
Date hereof the rent of One Ear of Indian Corn only on the 25"'
Day of December Annually if Lawfully Demanded the first Pay-
ment to be made on the Twenty fifth Day of December next Ensue-
ing the Date hereof, Every Proprietor Settler or Li habitant Shall
Yield & Pay unto us Our hiers & Successors Yearly & every year
forever from & after the Expiration of the Ten Years from the Date
hereof Namly on the 25"' Day of December which will be in the year
of Our Lord Christ one thousand Seven hundred & Sixty Two
One *Shilling Proclamation money for every hundred Acres he *l-77
So owns Settles or Posseses & So in Proportion for a greater
or a Lesser Tract of the Said Land which money Shall be paid by
the resijective Persons above S'' thier hiers or Assignes in our Coun-
cil Chamber in Portsmouth or to Such officer or officers as Shall be
Appointed to recieve the Same & this to be In Lieu of all other
rents & Services whatsoever — Li Testimony Whereof We have
Caused the Seal of our S'' Province to be hereunto affixed Wittness
Benning Wentworth Esq our Governour & Com'ander in Chieff
of Our Said Province the Twenty Ninth Day of April in the year

560

CHAKTER RECORDS.

of Our Lord Christ One thousend Seven hundred & fifty one
& in the Twenty fourth year of Our Reign B Wentworth

By his Excelencys Comand
with Advice of Council

Theod'- Atkinson Se'^

Entred & recorded According to the Original under the Province-
Seal the 30"' Day of April 1751— ^ Theodore Atkinson Sec-^^

Names of the Grantees — Viz —

Phinehas Lyman
Medad Pumroy
Paul Kent
Samuel Grainger
Benj'^ Kent
Elihu Kent
Sam" Harman
Lemuel Grainger
Phineas Sheldon
John Grainger
John Old
Peletiah Adams
Dan" Austen
Simeon Hathway
Elijah Kent

Samuel Kent jun'
Noah Pumroy
Joel Kent
Joshua Austen
Jon'^ Dwight
Tim" Mather
Joshua Kendal
Simeon Grainger
Ruben Harman
Asaph Levet
Isaac Hall
Sam" Dwight
Joseph Kent
Daniel Gillet

Abraham Burbank
Aaron Riseing
Jon'^ Underwood
Sam" Hathway
Shem Burbank
John Levet
Aaron Hitchcock
Elij'' Easton
Silas Kent
John Roe jun''
Joseph Forward
Seth Dwiglit
Dan" Smith
Elijah Sheldon
Ashur Sheldon

Zephinia Taylor
Benning Wentwortli Esq. Benning Wentworth Esq Theodore
Ellis Huske Esq Rich'^ VVibird Esq Atkinson Esq

Sampson Sheafte Esq John Downing Esq
One Shear for the first Settled minister, One Shear for the Benefit
of the School for ever, and one Shear for to remain as a Glebe for
the Benefit of the Church of England as by Law Established which
is to be under the Direction of the Church Wardens of the Queens
Chaple in Portsm° & for the benefit of the Church there 'till an
Episcopal Clergiman is Settled in the Said Town of Wilmington &
then to remain for the Sole Benefit of the ministr}^ there the Rever-
end Docf Tim° Cuttler Maj^' Jn° Wentworth Esq John Wentworth
Esq Foster Wentworth Cap^ Samuel Carey Jon'' Edwards Timothy
Edwards Christ" Rymes Phineas Lyman jun''

Entred & recorded '^ Theodore Atkinson Sec^'^

*l-78 *A Plat of the Township of Wilmington Granted by his
Excelency Benning Wentworth Esq Governour & the Hon'''"
his Maj'- ' Council of the Province of N Hami)shire in New England
unto Phinehas Lyman Esq & Others April 29"' 1751 as it is to be
Plotted by A Surveyer & Chainmen under Oath unto Each Pro-

WILMINGTON.

561

prietor or Grantee in Equal Shares be their Lotts better or worse
(Excepting the four Lotts next the Town Plat or Scite which Are 16
Acres less each than the Other Lotts) as they were Drawn by the
Agents for the Proprietors in Portsmouth April 29 1751 & were
Eutred by the Sec'>' of the Province afore Said upon this Plan each
man takeing his chance whose names stand on Schedule Annexed to
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562 CHARTER RECORDS.

Recorded May 1^' 1751 According to the original

19 Theodore Atkinson Sec''^

[Wilmington Regrant, 1763.]

*2-476 *Province of New-Hampshire.

Draper GEORGE the Third,

By the Grace of God, of Great-Britain, France and Irehxnd, King,
Defender of the Faith, &c.

To all Persons to tvliom these Presents shall come, Greeting.

Know ye, that We of Our special Grace, certain Knowledge, and
meer Motion, for the due Encouragement of settling a JVew Plantation
within our said Province, by and with the Advice of our Trusty and
Well-beloved Benning Wentworth, Esq ; Our Governor and Com-
mander in Chief of Our said Province of New-Hampshire, in New-
England, and of our Council of the said Province ; Have upon
the Conditions and Reservations herein after made, given and granted,
and by these Presents, for us, our Heirs, and Successors, do give and
grant in equal Shares, unto Our loving Subjects, Inhabitants of Our said
Province of New-Hampshire, and Our other Governments, and to their
Heirs and Assigns for ever, whose Names are entred on this Grant, to
be divided to and amongst them into Seventy three equal Shares, all
that Tract or Parcel of Land situate, lying and being within our said
Province of New- Hampshire, containing by Admeasurement, Twenty
three thousand & forty Acres, which Tract is to contain Six Miles
square, and no more ; out of which an Allowance is to be made for
High Ways and unimprovable Lands by Rocks, Ponds, Mountains
and Rivers, One Thousand and Forty Acres free, according to a
Plan and Survey thereof, made by Our said Governor's Order, and
returned into the Secretary's Office, and hereunto annexed, butted
and bounded as follows. Viz. Begining at the North West Corner
of Hallifax a Township formerly granted in this Province to Oliver
Partridge Esq & others his Associates, thence Running West 10
Deg' North by the Needle Six Miles from thence North 10 Deg' East
by the Needle Six Miles, thence Turning off at Right Angles & Run-
ing East 10 Deg' South Six Miles to the North West Corner of a
Township formerly granted in this Province by the Name of Marl-
borough thence South 10 Deg: West by Marlborough aforesaid to
the Corner of Halifax begun at And that the same be, and hereby is
Incorporated into a Township by the Name of Draper And the

'WILMINGTON. 563

Inhabitants that do or shall hereafter inhabit the said Township, are
hereby declared to be Enfrancliized with and Intitled to all and
every the Priviledges and Innnunities that other Towns within Onr
Province by Law Exercise and Enjoy: And further, that the said
Town as soon as there shall be Fifty Families resident and settled
thereon, shall have the Liberty of holding Tivo Fairs, one of which
shall be held on the And the other

on the annually, which Fairs are

not to continue longer than the respective

following the said and that as soon

as the said Town shall consist of Fifty Families, a Market
may be *opened and kept one or more Days in each Week, *2-477
as may be thought most advantagious to the Inhabitants.
Also, that the first Meeting for the Choice of Town Officers, agreable
to the Laws of our said Province, shall be held on the first Thursday
of July next which said Meeting shall be Notified by Isaac Searle
who is hereby also appointed the Moderator of the said first
Meeting, which he is to Notify and Govern agreable to the Laws
and Customs of Our said Province ; and that the annual Meeting for
ever hereafter for the Choice of such Officers for the said Town, shall
be on the Second Tuesday of March annually. To Have and to Hold
the said Tract of Land as above expressed, together with all Privileges
and Appurtenances, to them and their respective Heirs and Assigns
forever, upon the following Conditions, viz.

I. That every Grantee, his Heirs or Assigns shall plant and cultivate
five Acres of Land within the Term of five Years for every fifty Acres
contained in his or their Share or Proportion of Land in said Town-
ship, and continue to improve and settle the same by additional
Cultivations, on Penalty of the Forfeiture of his Grant or Share in
the said Township, and of its reverting to Us, our Heirs and Success-
ors, to be by L"s or Them Re-granted to such of Our Subjects as shall
effectually settle and cultivate the same.

II. That all white and other Pine Trees within the said Township,
fit for Masting Our Royal Navy, be carefully preserved for that LTse,
and none to be cut or felled without Our special Licence for so doing
first had and obtained, upon the Penalty of the Forfeiture of the Right
of such Grantee, his Heirs and Assigns, to Us, our Heirs and Success-
ors, as well as being subject to the Penalty of any Act or Acts of
Parliament that now are, or hereafter shall be Enacted.

HI. That before any Division of tlie Land be made to and amono-
tlie Grantees, a Tract of Land .as near the Centre of the said Town-
ship as the Land will admit of, shall be reserved and marked out for
Town Lots, one of which shall be allotted to each Grantee of the Con-
tents of one Acre.

564

CHARTER RECORDS.

IV. Yielding and paying therefor to Us, our Heirs and Successors,
for tlie Space of ten Years, to be computed from the Date hereof, the
Rent of one Ear of Indian Corn only, on the twenty-fifth Day of
December annually, if lawfully demanded, the first Payment to be
made on the twenty-fifth Day of December. 1763

V. Every Proprietor, Settler or Inhabitant, shall yield and pay untO'
Us, our Heirs and Successors yearly, and every Year forever, from
and after the Expiration of ten Years from the abovesaid twenty-fifth
Day of December^ namely, on the twenty-fifth Day of December., which
will be in the Year of Our Lord 1773 Oyie shilling Proclamation Money
for every Hundred Acres he so owns, settles or possesses, and so in
Proportion for a greater or lesser Tract of the said Land ; which
Money shall be paid by the respective Persons abovesaid, their Heirs
or Assigns, in our Council Chamber in Portsmouth, or to such Officer
or Officers as shall be appointed to receive the same ; and this to
be in Lieu of all other Rents and Services whatsoever.

In Testimony whereof we have caused the Seal of our said Province
to be hereunto affixed. Witness Benning Wextworth, Esq; Our
Governor and Commander in Chief of Our said Province, the 17''^
Day of June In the Year of our Lord Christ, One Thousand
Seven Hundred and Sixty three And in the Third Year of Our
Reign.

B Wentworth

By His Excellency's Command,
With Advice of Council,

T Atkinson Jun"- Sec-^^

Province of New Hamp"" June 17'^ 1763

Recorded according to the Original Charter under the Pro"" Seal

19 T Atkinson Jun'' Sec'>'

*2-478

^Names of the Grantees of Draper

His Excellency Francis Bernard P^sq

Harrison Gray Esq
Samuel Blodget
Jonathan Strong
Benj" Edwards
Moses Peck
Samuel Bowles
William Brattle Esq
Timothy Wright Jun'
Ebenezer Laurence
Peter Hay Jun'
James Stoodley

Samuel Mather Esq
John Searl
Ebenezer Wells
John Clark
Edward Lutwyche
Phineas Lund
Samuel Mather Jun
Daniel Wright
Daniel Green
Peter Hay Ter^
Joseph Bryant

Thomas Hubbart Esq
Daniel Jones
Seth Blodget
Seth Pomroy
James Cowen
Thymothy Taylor
Jonathan Hastings
Ebenezer Arms
Jonathan Laurence
Peter Hay
John Holden
Joseph Bryant Jun''

WILMINGTON,

565

Diin*"' Bryant
Joseph Lyman
Jason Wriufht
Walter Burk
Joseph Pynchon Esq
Moses Robinson
Moses Robinson Jun''
Caleb Strong- Jun''
Coll John Goffe

John Fowle Jacob Emerson

Daniel Wheeler Thomas Willee

Benjamin Wilson Benjamin Kent

Oxnabridge ThatherEsq Oliver Wendell
Samuel Robinson Esq Samuel Robinson Jun"^

John Fassatt
Isaac Searle
Martin Phelps
James Walker

(?ap' Jonathan Carl ton John Marsh

Nathaniel Marchant
Caleb Strong
John Fassatt Jun''
John Goffe Jun""
Hon''"'' James Nevin \
John Nelson & ^ Esq''''

Theodore Atkinson j"^ )

His Excellency Benning Wentworth Esq a Tract of Land to Con-
tain 500 Acres as Marked B W in the Plan which is to be Accounted
two of the within Shares One Whole Share for the Incorporated
Society for the Propagation of the Gospell in Foreign Parts — One
51iare for a Glebe for the Church of England as by Law Established
One Share for the First Settled Minister of the Gospell & One Share
for the Benefit of a School in said Town —

Province of New Hamp'' June 17"' 1763

Recorded from the back of the original Charter of Draper under
y Pro^' Seal f T Atkinson Jun^ Sec^^

Pla-n ofD-ra/icr
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Pro^" New Hanip' June 17-1763
Recurded from the Plan on the
under the Pro'' Seal

Back of the original Charter
19 T Atkinson Jun' Sec^y

566 CHARTER RECORDS.

WINDSOR.
*2-21 *Province of New-Hampshire.

Windsor GEORGE the Third,

/• '-w^— ^ By the Grace of God, of Great-Britain, France and

) ( Ireland, King, Defender of the Eaith, &c.

) ' ( To all Persons to whom these Presents shall come,

^ -— ^--«-' -' Greeting.

Know ye, that We of Oar special Grace, certain Knowledge, and
meer Motion, for the due Encouragement of settling a New Planta-
tion within our said Province, by and with the Advice of our Trusty
and Well-beloved Bknning Wentworth, Esq ; Our Governor and
Commander in Chief of Our said Province of New-Hampshire in
New-England, and of our Council of the said Province; Have
upon the Conditions and Reservations herein after made, given and
granted, and by these Presents, for us, our Heirs, and Successors, do
give and grant in equal Shares, unto Our loving Subjects, Inhabi-
tants of Our said Province of New-Hampshire, and Our other Gov-
ernments, and to their Heirs and Assigns for ever, whose Names are
entred on this Grant, to be divided to and amongst them into Sixty
five equal Shares, all that Tract or Parcel of Land situate, lying
and being within our said Province of New- Hampshire, containing
by Admeasurement, Twenty three Thousand five Hundred Acres,
which Tract is to contain Something More than Six Miles square,
and no more; out of which an Allowance is to be made for High
Ways and unimprovable Lands by Rocks, Ponds, Mountains and
Rivers, One Thousand and Forty Acres free, according to a Plan
and Survey thereof, made by Our said Governor's Order, and returned
into the Secretary's Office, and hereunto annexed, butted and bounded
as follows. Viz. Beginning at A Black Ash Tree Marked with the
Figures Two & three from thence run'ing North Seventy four
degrees West Six Miles from thence North Ten degrees East Six
Miles from thence South Seventy five Degrees East Six Miles & a
Quarter to a Tree Marked with the figures Three & four Standing
on the Bank of the River Connecticut Six Miles on A Streight Line
South of the South East Corner of Hartford from thence down the
river to the first Bounds Mentioned — And that the same be, and
hereby is Incorporated into a Township by the Name of Windsor
And the Inhabitants that do or shall hereafter inhabit the said
Township, are hereby declared to be Enfranchized with and In titled
to all and every the Priviledges and Immunities that other Towns
within Our Province by Law Exercise and Enjoy: And further, that

WINDSOR. 567

the said Town as soon as there shall be Fifty Families resident and
settled thereon, shall have the Liberty of holding Two Fairs, one of
which shall be held on the

And the other on the annually, which

Fairs are not to continue longer than the respective

following the said and that as soon

as the said Town shall consist of Fifty Families, a Market
may be *opened and kept one or more Days in each Week, *2-22
as may be thought most advantagious to the Inhabitants.
Also, that the first Meeting for the Choice of Town Officers, agreable
to the Laws of our said Province, shall be held on the first Wednes-
day in August which said Meeting shall be Notified by Samuel
Ashlev who is hereby also appointed the Moderator of the said first
Meeting, which he is to Notify and Govern agreable to the Laws and
Customs of Our said Province; and that the annual Meeting for ever
hereafter for the Choice of such Officers for the said Town, shall be
on the Second Tuesday of March annually, To Have and to Hold the
said Tract of Land as above expressed, together with all Privileges
and Appurtenances, to them and their respective Heirs and Assigns
forever, upon the following Conditions, viz.

L That every Grantee, his Heirs or Assigns shall plant and culti-
vate five Acres of Land within the Term of five Years lor every
fifty Acres contained in his or their Share or Proportion of Land
in said Township, and continue to improve and settle the same by
additional Cultivations, on Penalty of the Forfeiture of his Grant or
Share in the said Township, and of its reverting to Us, our Heirs
and Successors, to be by Us or Them Re-granted to such of Our Sub-
jects as shall effectually settle and cultivate the same.

H. That all white and other Pine Trees within the said Town-
ship, fit for Masting Our Royal Navy, be carefully preserved for that
Use, and none to be cut or felled without Our special Licence for so
doing first had and obtained, upon the Penalty of the Forfeiture of
the Right of such Grantee, his Heirs and Assigns, to Us, our Heirs
and Successors, as well as being subject to the Penalty of any Act
or Acts of Parliament, that now are, or hereafter shall be Enacted.

HL That before any Division of the Land be made to and among
the Grantees, a Tract of Land as near the Centre of the said Township
as the Land will admit of, shall be reserved and marked out for Town
Lots, one of which shall be allotted to each Grantee of the Contents
of one Acre.

IV. Yielding and paying therefor to Us, our Heirs and Successors
for the Space of ten Years, to be com])uted from the Date hereof, the
Rent of one Ear of Indian Corn only, on the twenty-fifth Day of

568

CHARTER RECORDS.

December annually, if lawfully demanded, the first Payment to be
made on the twenty-fifth Day of December. 1762

V. Every Proprietor, Settler or Inhabitant, shall yield and pay unto
Us, our Heirs and Successors yearly, and every Year forever, from
and after the Expiration of ten Years from the abovesaid twenty-
fifth Day of December., namely, on the twenty-fifth Day of December.,
which will be in the Year of Our Lord 1772 One sldlling Proclama-
tion Money for every Hundred Acres he so owns, settles or possesses,
and so in Proportion for a greater or lesser Tract of the said Land ;
which Money shall be paid by the respective Persons abovesaid, their
Heirs or Assigns, in our Council Chamber in Portsmouth^ or to such
Officer or Officers as shall be appointed to receive the same ; and this
to be in I^ieu of all other Rents and Services whatsoever.

In Testimony whereof we have caused the Seal of our said
Province to be hereunto affixed. Witness Benning Wentwokth,
Esq; Our Governor and Commander in Chief of Our said Province,
the Sixth Day of July In the Year of our Lord Christ, One Thousand
Seven Hundred and Sixty One And in the First Year of Our Reign.

B Wentworth

By His Excellency's Command,
With Advice of Council,

Theodore Atkinson Sec"^^

Province of New Hamp'' July 6"' 1761

Recorded According to the Original under the Province Seal

19 Theodore Atkinson Sec/"

^2-23

*The Names of the Grantees in Windsor Viz

Samuel Ashley —
Thomas Root —
Sam'' Stone Jun'
George field —
Simon Chamberlain
Levy Silvester —
Thomas Witt —
Moses Walkins
Eleazer Harlow
David Sanderson
James Otis —
David Field
Robert Harris —
Arid Hunt —
Thomas Frink
Samuel Spalding —

Jacob Cummins —
Simeon Smead —
Adonijah Rice —
Josiah Bwron
Simon Cooley —
Jonatlian Fairwell
John Chandler —
Joseph Hubbard
Augustus Wells
Jonas Holland
Joseph Ashley
John Moore jun'"
AVill- Harris-
John Murry —
Ebenez'' Wells —
David Stone jun*'

David Hubbard —
Joseph Stevens —
Menassah Divel —
Nathaniel Mattoon
Joseph Root —
Coneleius Winslow
Simon Allexandei*
Nehemiah Houghton
Jonath" Parkhurst
Joshua Lymon
Samuel Hunt jun''
John Cass —
Eliakira Sj)Ooner
John Butterfield
Ebenez' Stratton
Isaac Rice —

WIN HALL.

569

Stephen Ashley — Timothy Ruggles Thomas Butterfield

Oliver Ashley M H Wentworth James Nevin Esq

8ara" Wentworth of Boston Clem' March Esq

& Josiah Willard Esq & Zedekiah Stone Sam" Ashley Jun"^

His Excellency Benning Wentworth Esq a Tract of Land to con-
tain tive Hundred Acres which is to be accounted Two of the within
Shares as marked B W in the Plan One Whole Share for the Incor-
porated Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in forreign Parts —
one Whole Share for the first Settled Minister of the Gospel One
Share for A Glebe for the Church of England as by Law Established
One Share for the benefit of a Publick School in Said Town
Province of New Hamps'' July 6"* 1761
Recorded from the Back of the Charter of Windsor —

^ Theodore Atkinson Sec'"''

S 7

.^•w'^

Province of New Hampshire

Recorded from the Back of the Charter for Windsor this 6"' Day
of July — 1761 ^ Theodore Atkinson Sec'^^

WINHALL.

*Province of New-Hampshire.
GEORGE THE Third,

*2-185

Winhall

- — -'' — ^ l>y the Grace of God. of Great-Britain, France and

( Ireland, King, Defender of the Faith, &c.

( To all Persons to whom these Presents shall come,

^— ^^*-^ -' Greeting.
Know ye, that We of Our special Grace, certain Knowledge, and

570 CHARTER RECORDS.

meer Motion, for the due Encouragement of settling a Neiv Planta-
tion within our said Province, by and with the Advice of our Trusty
and Well-beloved Benning Wentworth, Esq; Our Governor and
Commander in Chief of Our said Province of New-Hampshire in
New-England^ and of our Council of the said Province ; Have
upon the Conditions and Reservations herein after made, given and
granted, and by these Presents, for us, our Heirs, and Successors, do
give and grant in equal Shares, unto Our loving Subjects, Inhabitants
of Our said Province of New-Hamvakire^ and Our other Govern-
ments, and to their Heirs and Assigns for ever, whose Names are entred
on this Grant, to be divided to and amongst them into Sixty Eight
equal Shares, all that Tract or Parcel of Land situate, lying and
being within our said Province of New-Hampshire^ containing by
Admeasurement, Twenty Three Thousand & Forty Acres, which Tract
is to contain Six Miles square, and no more ; out of which an
Allowance is to be made for High Ways and unimprovable Lands
by Rocks, Ponds, Mountains and Rivers, One Thousand and Forty
Acres free, according to a Plan and Survey thereof, made by Our
said Governor's Order, and returned into the Secretary's Office,
and hereunto annexed, butted and bounded as follows. Viz. Begin-
ning at the South East Corner of Manchester, thence Running due
North by Manchester to the North East Corner thereof, thence due
East Six Miles, then turning off at Right Angles & Running due
South Six Miles to the North East Corner of Stratton, thence due
West by Stratton to the Bounds first above Mention'd — And that
the same be, and hereby is Incorporated into a Township by the
Name of Winhall And the Inhabitants that do or shall hereafter
inhabit the said Township, are hereby declared to be Enfranchized
with and Intitled to all and every the Priviledges and Immunities
that other Towns within Our Province by Law Exercise and Enjoy:
And further, that the said Town as soon as there shall be Fifty
Families resident and settled thereon, shall have the Liberty of hold-
ing Two Fairs., one of which shall be held on the
And the other on the annually, which

fairs are not to continue longer than the respective

following the said

and that as soon as the said Town shall consist of Fifty
*2-186 Families, a Market may be *opened and kept one or

more Days in each Week, as may be thought most advanta-
gious to the Inhabitants. Also, that the first Meeting for the Choice
of Town Officers, agreable to the Laws of our said Province, shall be
held on the Second Tuesday in October next which said Meet-
ing shall be Notified by Cap' Jared Lee who is hereby also
appointed the Moderator of the said first Meeting, which he is to

WINHALL. 571

Notify and (Govern agreable to the Laws and Customs of Our said
Province; and that the annual Meeting for ever hereafter for the
Choice of such Oflficers for the said Town, shall be on the Second Tiies-
da}'- of March annually. To Have and to Hold the said Tract of
Land as above expressed, together with all Privileges and Appur-
tenances, to them and their respective Heirs and Assigns forever,
upon the following Conditions, viz.

L That every Grantee, his Heirs or Assigns shall plant and culti-
vate five Acres of Land within the Term of five Years for every fifty
Acres contained in his or their Share or Proportion of Land in said
Township, and continue to improve and settle the same by additional
Cultivations, on Penalty of the Forfeiture of his Grant or Share in
the said Township, and of its reverting to Us, our Heirs and Success-
ors, to be by Us or Them Re-granted to such of Our Subjects as shall
effectually settle and cultivate the same.

IL That all white and other Pine Trees within the said Township,
fit for jNIasting Our Royal Navy, be carefully preserved for that Use,
and none to be cut or felled without Our special Licence for so doing
first had and obtained, upon the Penalty of the Forfeiture of the
Right of such Grantee, his Heirs and Assigns, to Us, our Heirs and
Successors, as well as being subject to the Penalty of any Act or
Acts of Parliament that now are, or hereafter shall be Enacted.

HL Tliat before any Division of the Land be made to and among
the Grantees, a Tract of Land as near the Centre of the said Town-
ship as the Laud will admit of, shall be reserved and marked out for
Town Lots, one of which shall be allotted to each Grantee of the
Contents of one Acre.

IV. Yielding and paying therefor to Us, our Heirs and Successors
for the Space of ten Years, to be computed from the Date hereof, the
Rent of one Ear of Lidian Corn only, on the twenty-fifth Day of
December annually, if lawful!}'- demanded, the first Payment to be
made on the twenty-fifth Day of December. 1762

V. Every Proprietor, Settler or Inhabitant, shall yield and pay
unto Us, our Heirs and Successors yearly, and every Year forever,
from and after the Expiration of ten Years from the abovesaid
twenty-fifth Day of December., namely, on the twenty-fifth Day of
December., which will be in the Year of Our Lord 1772 One shilling
Proclamation Money for every Hundred Acres he so owns, settles or
possesses, and so in Proportion for a greater or lesser Tract of the
said Land; which Mone}' shall be paid by the respective Persons
abovesaid, their Heirs or Assigns, in our Council Chamber in Forts-
moiith, or to such Officer or Officers as shall be appointed to receive
the same ; and this to be in Lieu of all other Rents and Services
whatsoever.

572

CHARTER RECORDS.

In Testimony whereof we have caused the Seal of our said Prov-
ince to be hereunto affixed. Witness Benning Wentworth, Esq;
Our Governor and Commander in Chief of Our said Province, the
Fifteenth Day of September In the Year of our Lord Christ, One
Thousand Seven Hundred and Sixty One And in the First Year
of Our Reign.

B Wentworth

By His Excellency's Command,
With Advice of Council,

Theodore Atkinson Sec'"''

Province of New Hamps'' Sep'^ 15 — 1761

Recorded According to the Origional Charter under the Province
Seal— 19 Theodore Atkinson Sec^'^

*2-187

The Names of the Grantees of Winhall

Osce Wibster
Elisha Haile
Bishop Manroas
Stephen Grannis
Maroin Beckwith
David Smith
Rev'' Benj-' Chapman
Medad Lewis
Lovewell Thomas
Robert F. Hassard
Ebenezer Fisk
Gershum Orvis
Amos Camp
Eleanah Hall
Jonathan Barnes
Edward Parker Jun''
Seth Lee
Josiah Lewis
Jared Lee
Caleb Culver
Zadoc Brownson

Zachariah Gillit
Joshua Porter
Stephen Hitchcock
Isaac Bidwell
John Roys Jun"^
Zacheus Frisbee
Elnathan Ives
Stephen Andrews
John Austin
David Rich
Stephen Root
Isaac Halsey
Charles Ivis
William Jeroins
Abell Carter
Ephrain Parker
Eliakim Deming
Stephen Perkins
James Lee
John Morse
Caleb Hall—

Nath^Cookof Wallingsf-i

James Brownson

Asahel Newell

William Lewis

Amos Lee

Joseph Lee

Docf Isaac Hall

Moses Lyman

Enoch Thomas

Ebenezer Lee

Abraham Crittenton

Elnathan Ivis

Ezekiel Hall

Docter Isaac Lewis

Isaac Glesson
Soloman Whiteman Esq"

John Austin

Cap' Eliakim Hall

Rev'' Sam' Newall

Isaac Hall Jun'

His Excellency Benning Wentworth Esq"" a Tract of l^and to Con-
tain Five Hundred Acres as Marked B- W- in the Plan which is to
he Accounted two of the within shares, One whole share for the
Incorporated Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign
Parts, One Share for a Glebe for the Church of England as by Law
Established, One Share for the first Setled Minister of the Gospel
& One Share for the Benefit of a School in said Town

WOODFORD.

673

Province of New Hamps'^ Sep"" 15"' 1761

Recorded from the back of the Origional Charter for Winhall un-
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Recorded from the Back of the Original Charter of Winhall under
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WOODFORD.

*Province of New Hampshire

*1-145

Woodford George the Second by the Grace of God of Great

Brittain France and Ireland King Defender of the
faith &c='—

To All Persons to whom these Presents Shall come
Greeting

Know Ye that we of our Especial Grace certain knowledge &
mere motion for the Due Encouragement of Settling A New Planta-
tion within our s'* Province By & with the advice of our Trustv &
well beloved Benning Wentworth Esq our Governour & Com'ander
in Chieff of our Said Province of New Hampshire in America and
of our Council of our Said Province have upon the Conditions &
Reservations hereafter made Given & Granted and by these Presents

574 CHARTER RECORDS.

for us our heirs & Successors Do give & Graut in Equal Shares unto
our Loveing Subjects Inhabitants of our s'^ Province of New Hamp-
shire and his Majesties Other Governments & to their heirs and
assigns for ever whose Names Are Entered on this Grant to be Divided
to and Amoungst them into Sixty Six Equal Shares all that Tract or
Parcel of Land Scituate Lying & being within our Province of New
Hampshire Containing by admeasurement Twenty three thousend &
fort}' Acres which Tract is to Contain Six miles Square & no more
out of which an allowence is to be made for highways and unim-
proveable Lands by Rocks mountains Ponds & rivers one Thousend
& forty Acres free According to A Plan thereof made & Presented
by our Said Governours orders & hereunto Annexed Butted &
Bounded as follows (Viz) begining at the North East Corner of A
Certain Township Situate in the South Western Parte of the Province
aforesaid called by the name of Bennington and runs from thence by
the Needle of the Survejnng Instruement South Ten degrees West
Six miles and from thence East Ten degrees South Six Miles and
from thence North Ten degrees East Six Miles and from thence West
Ten Degrees North to the Boundary ^rst mentioned which is Like-
wise Six Miles.

And that the Same be & Is Incorporated into A Township by the
Name of Woodford — And that the Inhabitants that do or Shall
hereafter Inhabit said Township are hereby Declared to be Enfran-
chized with and Entituled all & every the Previledges & Imunities
that other Towns within our Said Province by Law Exercise & Enjoy

And further that the said Town as Soon as there Shall be
*1-146 fifty Familys resident & Settled thereon * Shall have Liberty

of Holding Two fairs one of which Shall be held on the
And the Other on the
Annually which Fairs Are not to Continue & be held no
Longer than the respective followiiig the

respective days And as soon as the Said Town Shall Consist
of fifty families A Market Shall be Opened And kept one or
more Days in Each Week as may be tho' most advantagious
to the Inhabitants also that the first Meeting for the Choice of Town
Officers Agreable to the Laws of our Said Province Shall be held on
the First Monday — in May next which Meeting Shall be Notifyed by
Timothy Dwight Esq who is hereby Also Appointed the Moderator
of the Said first Meeting which he is to Notify & Govern agreable to
the Laws & Customs of our Said Province and that the Annual
Meeting for ever hereafter for the Choice of Such Officers of s'' Town
Shall be on the first Tuesday in March Annually To have & to
HOLD the Said Tract of Land as Above expressed Togeather with
all y'' Previledges and Appurtenances to them & their Respective

WOODFORD. 575

Heirs & assigns for ever upon the following- Conditions (Viz) That
every Grantee his heirs or assigns Shall Plant or Cultivate five Acres
of Land within the Term of five Years for ever}' fifty Acres contained
in his or their Share or Proportion of Land in Said Township and
Continue to Lnprove & Settle the Same hy Additional Cultivations
on Penalty of the forfeiture of His Grant or Share in the Said
Township & its reverting to his Majesty his heirs & Successors to
be by him or them regranted to Such of his Subjects as Shall Effect-
ually Settle & Cultivate the Same That all white and other Pine
Trees within the s'' Townshii) fit for Masting our Royal Navy be
Carefully Preserved for that use And none to be Cutt or felld without
his Majesties Especial Lycence for so doing first had & obtained
upon the Penalty of the forfeiture of the Right of Such Grantee
his heirs or assigns to Us our heirs & Successors as well as being
subject to the Penalty of any Act or Acts of Parliament that now
Are or hereafter Shall be Enacted, That before Any Divission of the said
Lands be made to & amoungst the Grantees A Tract of Land As near
the Center of the Township as the Land will admit of Shall
be * Reserved & Marked out for Town Lotts one of which *1-147
Shall be allotted to Each Grantee of the Contents of one
Acre Yielding & Paying therefor to us our heirs & Successors for
the Space of Ten years to be Computed from the Date hereof the
Rent of one Ear of Indian Corn only on the first day of Jan'^'' Annu-
ally if Lawfully Demanded the first Payment to be made on the
first Day of January Ensueing the Date hereof And Every Proprietor
Settler or Inhabitant Shall Yield & Pay unto us our heirs & Success-
ors Yearly & every Year for ever from &, after the Expiration of the
Ten Years from the Date hereof namely on the first Day of January
which will be in the Year of our Lord Christ one thousend Seven
hundred & sixty four One Shilling Proclamation money for every
hundred Acres he so owns Settles or Possesses & So in Proportion
for A greater or Lesser Tract of the s'' Land which money Shall be
I)aid by the Respective Persons above said their Heirs or Assigns in
our Council Chamber in Portsmouth or to Such officer or officers as
Shall be Appointed to Receive the Same & this to be in Lieu of all
other rents & services whatsoever In Testimony hereof We have
Caused the Seal of our s'' Province to be hereunto Affixed Wittness
Renning Wentworth Es(i our Governour & Com'ander in Chieff
of our s'" Province y*' Sixth Day of March — in the year of our
Lord Christ 1753 And in the Twenty Sixth year of Our Reign —

B Wentworth
By his Excellencys Com'and
with Advice of Council

Theodore Atkinson Se'^''

576

CHARTER RECORDS.

Entered & recorded According to the Original under the Province
Seal the e'*" Day of March 1753—

Theodore Atkinson Sec""^

Names of the Grantees of Woodford Viz —

Elihu Chauncy,
Israel Godard,
Benjamin Picket,
Jess Austin,
John Jones,
Simeon Parmele,
Israel Burrit,
Jabez Hamlin,
Daniel Stocking,
Samuel Gaylord,
John Elton,
James Burnam,
Elihu Hall jun%

Nathaniel Chauncy,
Timothy Hall,
Joseph Hickox,
Stephen Bates the 3'\
Elias Austin,
Aaron Alvord
Samuel Griswold,
Edward Estes,
Timothy Bigeloe,
Philip Mortemore,
Seth Wetmore,
Elihu Hall,
Theophylas Hall,
George Stilman,
Benj^ Spencer,

Elnathan Chauncy,
Ebenezer Robinson
Phineas Meeker
William Clark,
Hezekiah Palmer,
Joseph Wright,
John Canfield,
Joseph Stocking,
Elisha Stocking,
Samuel Russel,
Michael Burnam
John Hally« 5'^^
Aaron Lyman
Nash Yale,
Josiah Robinson,
Eph'" Norton,
Gersham Birdsey,
Benj'^ Birdsey,
Ebenez'' Tibbats,

Samuel Willis,

Nath" Yale,
*1-148 *Aaron Parsons jun^ John Norton,

Samuel Higbey, Abraham Camp,
John Lyman, Elisha Wadsworth,

James Tibbats, Thomas Tibbats,

Mathew Livermore Esq, Theodore Atkinson Esq His Excellency
Benning Wentworth Esq A Tract of Land to Contain five hundred
Acres which is to be Accounted as Two of the within Shares Also
one Share to John Wentworth His Excellencys Son to be Laid out
Contiguous or in Two peices at most one whole Share for the Encor-
porated Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in forreign Partes
to be Laid out in one Lot of good Land One Share for A Glebe for
the Ministry of the Church England One Share for the Ministry that
shall be in Said Town & One Share for the use of A School in Said
Town

Entred And recorded from the Back of the Original Charter

19 Theodore Atkinson Se'"''

WOODFOKD.

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Woodford
renewed

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[Woodford Charter Renewed, 1762.]
*Province of New Harap""

*l-249

George the third by the Grace of God of Great Britain
France & Ireland King Defender of the Faith &'"
To all to whom these Presents Shall come Greeting
Whereas our late Royal Grandfather King George the
Second of Glorious Memory did of his Special Grace
"" ^— -v-*i-' '' & mere Motion for the Encouragment of Settling a
New Plantation within our Said Province of New Hamp"^ by his

578 CHARTER RECORDS.

Letters Patent or Charter under the Seal of our Said Province dated
the 26"' Day of March 1750 & in the 26 year of his Majestys reign
granted A Tract of Land equal to Six Miles Square Bounded as
therein expressed to a JN umber of our Loyal Subjects whose Names
are entred on the Same to hold to them their Heirs & Assigns on the
Conditions therein declared to be a Town corporate by the Name of
Woodford as by Referrence to the Said Charter may more fully
appear

And whereas the Said Grantees have Represented that by the
Intervention of An Indian War since makeng the Said Grant it has
been Impracticable to comply with & fullfill the Conditions &
Humbly Supplycating us not to take Advantage of the Breach of Said
Conditions but to lengthen out & Grant them Some Reasonable
Time for Performence thereof after the Said Impediment shall cease

Now Know Ye that we bfiing Willing to Promote the End Proposed
have of our Further Grace & Favour suspended our Claim of the For-
feiture which the Said Grantees may have incurrd & by these Pres-
ents do grant unto the Said Grantees their Heirs & Assigns the
Term of one Year for Performing & fullfilling the Conditions
Matters & Things by them to be done which Term is to be Renewd
annually if the Same Impediment Remains until our Plenar}^ Instruc-
tions Shall be receivd relating to the Incident that has Prevented
a Complyance with the Said Charter according to the Intent &
meaning of the Same —

And Further that the Said Grantees may be Enabled to Act witli
the more regularity in their Town & Proprietory affairs we do here
by nominate & appoint Sam" Robinson Esq to call the first Meeting
of the Grantees and when so called to be the Moderator thereof in
Testymony whereof we have caused the Seal of Our said Province to
be hereunto Affixed Wittness Benning Wentworth Esq our Gov-
ern'' & Com'ander in Chieff of Our Province aforesaid the 12'^
Day of August in the Year of our Lord Christ 1762 & in the
Second Year of our reign

B Wentworth

By his Excellencys Com'^
with Advice of Council

Theodore Atkinson Se'^'

Recorded According to the original Charter under the Prov'^ Seal
this 12"' of August 1762

^ T : Atkinson Jun^ Sec'^^

WOODSTOCK. 579

WOODSTOCK.

*Proviiice of New-Hampshire. *2-57

Woodstock GEORGE the Third,

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. ]>v the Grace of God, of Great-Britain, France and

( Irehuid, King, Defender of the Faith, &c.
{ To all Persons to ivJiom these Presents shall come,

— . _ -' Greeting.

Know ye, that We of Our special Grace, certain Knowledge, and
meer Motion, for the due Encouragement of settling a JSfeiv Planta-
tion within our said Province, by and with the Advice of our Trusty
and Well-beloved Benning Wentworth, Esq ; Our Governor and
Commander in Chief of Our said Province of New-Hampshire in
New-Eniiland, and of our Council of the said Province ; Have
upon the Conditions and Reservations herein after made, given and
granted, and by these Presents, for us, our Heirs, and Successors,
do give and grant in equal Shares, unto Our loving Subjects, Inhab-
itants of Our said Province of Neiv-Hampshire, and Our other
Governments, and to their Pleirs and Assigns for ever, whose Names
are entred on this Grant, to be divided to and amongst them into
Sixty Eight equal Shares, all that Tract or Parcel of Land situate,
lying and being within our said Province of Weiv-ffampshire, con-
taining by Admeasurement, twenty four Thousand acres Nine Hun-
dred Acres, which Tract is to contain Something more than Six
Miles square, and no more ; out of which an Allowance is to be
made for High Ways and unimprovable Lands by Rocks, Ponds,
Mountains and Rivers, One Thousand and Forty Acres free,
according to a Plan and Survey thereof, made by Our said Gov-
ernor's Order, and returned into the Secretary's Office, and here-
unto annexed, butted and bounded as follows, Viz. Begining at
the Northwest Corner of Windsor from Thence North Sixty five
deg* West five miles and one half mile, from Thence North thirty
two degrees East Seven miles and one half mile to the South west
Corner of Pomfret from Thence South Sixty two degrees East five
miles and one half miles to the North west Corner of Hartford, from
thence South thirty Three degrees West by Hartford west line to the
first Bounds Mentioned — And that the same be, and hereby is Incor-
porated into a Townshij) by the Name of Woodstock And the Inhab-
itants that do or shall hereafter inhabit the said Township, are hereby
declared to be Enfranchized with and Intitled to all and every the

580 CHARTER RECORDS.

Priviledges and Immunities that other Towns within Our Province
by Law Exercise and Enjoy: And further, that the said Town as
soon as there shall be Fifty Families resident and settled thereon,
shall have the Liberty of holding Two Fairs, one of which shall be
held on the And the other on the

annually, which Fairs are not to continue longer than the respective

following the said

and that as soon as the said Town shall consist of
*2-58 Fifty Families, a Market may be *opened and kept

one or more Days in each Week, as may be thought most
advantagious to the Inhabitants. Also, that the first Meeting
for the Choice of Town Officers, agreable to the Laws of our said
Province, shall be held on the last Tuesday of Aust Next which
said Meeting sliall be Notified by Oliver Willard who is hereby also
appointed the Moderator of the said first Meeting, which he is
to Notify and Govern agreable to the Laws and Customs of Our said
Province, and that the annual Meeting for ever hereafter for the
Choice of such Officers for the said Town, shall be on the Second
Tuesday of March annually. To Have and to Hold the said Tract of
Land as above expressed, together with all Privileges and Appurten-
ances, to them and their respective Heirs and Assigns forever, upon
the following Conditions, viz.

I. That every Grantee, his Heirs or Assigns shall plant and culti-
vate five Acres of Land within the Term of five Years for every fifty
Acres contained in his or their Share or Proportion of Land in said
Township, and continue to improve and settle the same by additional
Cultivations, on Penalty of the Forfeiture of his Grant or Share in
the said Township, and of its reverting to Us, our Heirs and Suc-
cessors, to be by Us or Them Re-granted to such of Our Subjects as
shall effectually settle and cultivate the same.

II. That all white and other Pine Trees within the said Township,
fit for Masting Our Royal Navy, be carefully preserved for that Use,
and none to be cut or felled without Our special Licence for so doing
first had and obtained, upon the Penalty of the Forfeiture of the
Right of such Grantee, his Heirs and Assigns, to Us, our Heirs and
Successors, as well as being subject to the Penalty of any Act or
Acts of Parliament that now are, or hereafter shall be Enacted.

IV. Yielding and paying therefor to Us, our Heirs and Successors

WOODSTOCK.

581

for the Space of ten Years, to be computed from the Date hereof, the
Kent of one Ear of Indian Corn only, on the twenty-fifth Da}' of
December^ annually, if lawfull}- demanded, the first Payment to be
made on the twenty-fifth Day of December. 1761

V. Every Proprietor, Settler or Inhabitant, shall yield and pay
unto Us, our Heirs and Successors yearly, and every Year forever,
from and after the Expiration of ten Years from the abovesaid
twenty-fifth Day of December, namely, on the twenty-fifth Day of
December, which will be in the Year of Our Lord 1772 One shilliu;/
Proclamation Money for every Hundred Acres he so owns, settles or
possesses, and so in Proportion for a greater or lesser Tract of the
said Land ; which Money shall be paid by the respective Persons
abovesaid, their Heirs or Assigns, in our Council Chamber in Ports-
month, or to such Officer or Officers as shall be appointed to receive
the same; and this to be in Lieu of all other Rents and Services
whatsoever.

In Testimony whereof we have caused the Seal of our said Prov-
ince to be hereunto affixed. Witness Benning Wentworth, Esq;
Our Governor and Commander in Chief of Our said Province, the
Tenth Day of July In the Year of our Lord Christ, One Thou-
sand Seven Hundred and Sixty one And in the First Year of Our
Reign. B Wentworth

By His Excellency's Command,
With Advice of Council,

Theodore Atkinson Sec""^

Pro^ of New Hamp^ July 10"^ 1761

Recorded According to the Original Charter under the Province
Seal

^ Theodore Atkinson Sec""^

*The Names of the Grantees of Woodstock — Viz — *2-59

David Page
Joel Grout
David Page jun'
Eph'" Shattock
Joseph Stoel
John Grout
John Darling
William Page
Andrew Derrumple
William Hoskins
John Church

Nathaniel Smith
Seth Hudson
Thomas Shattock
Marodock Smith
Israel Stowel
Solomon Willson
Nathaniel Page
Jon'' Grout
Edmond Stockwell
Philip Gutridge
William Powers

Ephraim Stockwell
Samuel Bryant
Thomas Rogers
John Rogers
Elijah Grout
Joseph Willson
Joseph Page
James Partricks
Natha" Wheelwright
Josiah Grout
James Powers

582

CHARTER RECORDS.

James Powers Philip Alexander

Atherton Chasey Joshua Warner

Samuel Skinner Jacob Hall

Richard Chamberlain Joseph Chamberlain

Moses Smith
Joseph Ashley Jun
Joseph Winn
Jon'^ Tuck
John Moffat Esq

Joseph Perry
Daniel Warner
Simeon Hall
Daniel Hubbart
Abel Willard
John Holton
James Nevin Esq
Abner Morrel
Cap*^ George King

Aaron Smith
Henry Foster
Ptich""' Wibird Esq
Zebalon Giddings
Thomas Harte
W" Parker Esq And Mathew Livermore Esq

His Excellency Benning Wentworth a Tract of Land to Contain
Five Hundred Acres as Marked in the Plan B- W which is
to be Accounted Two of the within Shares one whole Share for
the Incorporated Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in For-
reign Parts One Share for A Glebe for the Church of England as by
Law Established One Share for the first Settled Minister of the
Gospel One Share for the Benefit of the School in Said Town

Province of New Hamp'" July 10"' 1761

Recorded from the Back of the Original Charter under the Pro'*' Seal

19 Theodore Atkinson Se^^

Province of New Hamp'' July 10"' 1761
Recorded from the Back of the Original Charter

^ Theodore Atkinson Sec""^'

WORCESTER. 583

WORCESTER.

*Pi'ovince of New-Hampshire. *2-4:69

Worster GEORGE the Third,

. . — '^ — . . By the Grace of God, of Great-Britain, France and

\ I Ireland, King, Defender of the Faith, &c.

i (To all Persons to whom these Presents shall come,

^ V— ^.^-w ■' Greeting.

Know ye, that We of Our special Grace, certain Knowledge, and
nieer Motion, for the due Encouragement of settling a JVew Planta-
tl'oi within our said Province, by and with the Advice of our Trusty-
and Well-beloved Bexning Wextwoeth, Esq ; Our Governor and
Commander in Chief of Our said Province of New-Hampshire in
New-Entjland, and of our Counxtl of the said Province ; Have
upon the Conditions and Reservations herein after made, given and
granted, and by these Presents, for us, our Heirs, and Successors,
do give and grant in equal Shares, unto Our loving Subjects, Inhabi-
tants of Our said Province of New-Hampshire, and Our other Gov-
ernments, and to their Heirs and Assigns for ever, whose Names are
entred on this Grant, to be divided to and amongst them into Seventy
one equal Shares, all that Tract or Parcel of Land situate, lying
and being within our said Province of JVeiv-ITampshire, containing
by Admeasurement, 23040 Acres, which Tract is to contain Six Miles
square, and no more; out of which an Allowance is to be made for
High Ways and unimprovable Lands by Rocks, Ponds, Mountains
and Rivers, One Thousand and Forty Acres free, according to a
Plan and Survey thereof, made by Our said Governor's Order, and
returned into the Secretary's Office, and hereunto annexed, butted
and bounded as follows. Viz. Begining at the North Easterly Corner
of Stow from thence runing Southerly by the Easterly line of Stow
Six Miles to the North West Corner of Middlesex from thence East-
erly by said Middlesex about six Miles to the North Easterly corner
thereof, from thence Northerly a Parralell Line with Stow's Easterly
Line Six Miles, from thence Westerly about six Miles to the Corner
of Stow, the place begun at — And that the same be, and hereby is
Incorporated into a Township by the Name of Worster And the
Inhabitants that do or shall hereafter inhabit the said Township,
are hereby declared to be Enfranchized wdth and Intitled to all and
every the Priviledges and Immunities that other Towns within Our
Province by Law Exercise and Enjoy : And further, that the said Town
as soon as there shall be Fifty Families resident and settled thereon,

584 CHARTER RECORDS.

shall have the Lil^erty of holding Two Fairs, one of which shall be
held on the And the other

on the annually, which Fairs

are not to continue longer than the respective
following the said

and that as soon as the said Town shall consist of
*2-470 Fifty Families, a Market may be *opened and kept one

or more Days in each Week, as may be thought most advan-
tagious to the Inhabitants. Also, that the first Meeting for the
Choice of Town Officers, agreable to the Laws of our said Province,
shall be held on the 27"^ of July next which said Meeting shall be
Notified by M'' Henry Franklin who is hereby also appointed the
Moderator of the said first Meeting, which he is to Notify and
Govern agreable to the Laws and Customs of Our said Province ; and
that the annual Meeting for ever hereafter for the Choice of such Offi-
cers for the said Town, shall be on the Second Tuesday of March
annually. To Have and to Hold the said Tract of Land as above
expressed, together with all Privileges and Appurtenances, to them
and their respective Heirs and Assigns forever, upon the following
Conditions, viz.

I. That every Grantee, his Heirs or Assigns shall plant and cultivate
five Acres of Land within the Term of five Years for every fifty Acres
contained in his or their Share or Proportion of Land in said Town-
ship, and continue to improve and settle the same by additional
Cultivations, on Penalty of the Forfeiture of his Grant or Share in
the said TownshiiD, and of its reverting to Us, our Heirs and Succes-
sors, to be by Us or Them Re-granted to such of Our Subjects as shall
effectually settle and cultivate the same.

II. That all white and other Pine Trees within the said Township,
fit for Masting Our Royal Navy, be carefully preserved for that Use,
and none to be cut or felled without Our special Licence for so doing
first had and obtained, upon the Penalty of the Forfeiture of the
Right of such Grantee, his Heirs and Assigns, to Us, our Heirs and
Successors, as well as being subject to the Penalty of any Act or Acts
of Parliament that now are, or hereafter shall be Enacted.

WORCESTER.

585

cemher annually, if lawfully demanded, the first Payment to l)e made
on the twenty-tifth Day of December. ITGo

V. Every Proprietor, Settler or Inhabitant, shall yield and pay
unto Us, our Heirs and Successors yearly, and every Year forever,
from and after the Expiration of ten Years from the abovesaid
twenty-tifth Day of December, namely, on the twenty-fifth Day of
Decoiiber, which will be in the Year of Our Lord 1773 One shilling
Proclamation Money for every Hundred Acres he so owns, settles or
possesses, and so in Proportion for a greater or lesser Tract of the
said Land; which Money shall be paid by the respective Persons
abovesaid, their Heirs or Assigns, in our Council Chamber in Ports-
mouth, or to such Officer or Officers as shall be appointed to receive
the same; and this to be in Lieu of all other Rents and Services
whatsoever.

In Testimony whereof we have caused the Seal of our said Prov-
ince to be hereunto affixed. Witness Benning Wentworth, Esq;
Our Governor and Commander in Chief of Our said Province, the
Eighth Day of June In the Year of our Lord Christ, One
Thousand Seven Hundred and Sixty three And in the Third Year of
Our Reign.

B Wentworth

By His Excellency's Command,
With Advice of Council,

T Atkinson Jun^ Sec'''

Province of New Hamp"" June 8- 1763

Recorded According to the original Charter under the Pro'' Seal

^ T Atkinson Jun' Sec'^

*The Names of the Grantees of Worster (Viz) *2-471

Joshua Mason
John Davidson
Alex' Davidson
Will"' Davidson
Abra"" Betts
Grant Striken
Joshua Ilutchins
Will"' Gibbons
Will"' Ashbridge
Tho* Shraves
John Hand
Lamb' Decamp
Moses Little

Tho** Burgie
David Davidson
Sam' Halstead
Benf Betts
Ichabud Betts
Henry Dickinson
Sam' Dodge
Will"' Pusey
David Bacon
Joseph Decamp
Rob' Stanbury
John Nefus
Will'" Frandenburou

Rob' Burgie
Rob' Davidson
Joshua Halstead
Sam' Betts
John Betts
Anthony Baker
Job Bacon
James Gibbons
Manning Bull
Lambert Decamp
Jos'^ Underbill
Josiah Stanbury
gh Eph'" Cutler

586

CHARTER RECORDS.

Eben' Cuttler
Isaac Burgun
Isaac Gray
George Woods
Crowley Burrow
WilP" Micliell
John Cockle

Coll° Sam^ Barr
Esq""* Maj^ Jos^ Blanchard

David Decamp
Jacob Noe
Benj'' Skinner
John Gilford
Tho* Yong
Charles Wiggins
Henry Franklin

John Decamp
Daniel Marshe
Isaac Xoe jun"^
John Turner
Benj* Ogden
Joseph Yong
John Hafnal
Hon : James Xeyin
Xath^ Barren
Joseph Xewmarch

His Excellency Benning Wentworth Esq'^ a Tract of Land to
Ciintaiu Five Hundred Acres as marked B-^V in the Plan, which is
to be Accounted two of the within shares, One whole share for the
Incorporated Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign
Parts, One Share for a Glebe for the Church of England as hj Law
Establish'd, One Share for the First Settled Minister of the Gospel
& One Share for the Benefit of a School in said Town —

Prov^ Xew Hamp^ June 8'^ 1763

Recorded from the back of the Original Charter of Worster under
the Pro^ Seal

'f^ T Atkinson Jun"" Sec"^

Py771-.ii««t

Pro^ of New Hamp"" June 8"' 1763

Recorded from the Plan on the back of the Original Charter of
^Vorste^ under V Pr'^ Seal

■^ T Atkinson Jun'' Sec^

APPEXDIX.

PETITIONS

INHABITANTS OF THE NEW HAMPSHIRE GRANTS

TO THE

KING.

NOTE.

The originals of these petitions are contained in a small volume in the
Vermont State Library, entitled " Green Mountain Boy's Petition to the
King, 1767." The outline of their history is given in the notes of Henry
Stevens and Gov. Hall following. They are here arranged according
to the original numbering of the petitions, and the powers of attorney
are matched to their respective petitions by the corresponding signatures
as these documents are in some cases misnumbered. It is evident that
there were originally at least twenty petitions, as that is the highest num-
ber appearing, but Nos. 3 and 7 are missing entire, as are also the pow-
ers of attorney for Nos. 12, 18, and 20. One power of attorney is found
with no corresponding petition. These papers are very valuable, not
only as evidence of the great disturbance and consequent strong feeling
aroused by this long dispute, but also in showing us, as far as they go,
what men took an active part in the actual settlement of that territory.

The Editor.

690 APPENDIX.

NOTE BY HENRY STEVENS.

These Petitions by the Green Mountain Boys were found by me in 1842,
on one of my Antiquarian excursions from Yale College while mousing
for unconsidered trifles in the old Johnson Family Mansion at Stratford,
Con', among the papers of William Samuel Johnson, of Stamp Act noto-
riety, and subsequently President of Columbia College. He acted as
agent in London of the settlers of the New Hampshire grants in 1767, and
died in 1819 A P2. 92. These Petitions were scattered among a lar[g]e
quantity of old papers, books, & pamphlets, in old barrels, stored in the
garret. I brought together all the copies I could find. Probably a few
are lost. Mr. W'" Samuel Johnson, the son, who died four year after,
in Oct. 1846, aged 85, seeing the great interest I took in them, as a*
Vermonter, kindly gave them to me. Returning with them to Yale Col-
lege, I arranged and had them bound. Afterwards I deposited the Vol-
ume with my father Henry Stevens of Barnet, Antiquarian. How it
drifted from his collection, and became the right volume in the right
place, or what had become of it, my father Could never tell me. I am
glad however today again to see it, after more than a quarter of a
Century, and am not now disposed to inquire into, or trace out its wander-
ings. The Vermont State Library is the proper place for it, and long may
it remain here.

Written in the Vermont State Library this 17'^ day of August 1869.
Henry Stevens G. M. B.

of 4 Trafalgar Square, London.

NOTE BY GOV. HILAND HALL.

The Petitions & Powers of attorney here bound together, were taken to
England by Capt. Samuel Robinson, as Agent of the Settlers on the New
Hampshire Grants. Mr Robinson sailed from New York Dec' 25,
1766 on board the same vessel with William Samuel Johnson, who went
out as Agent for the Colony of Connecticut. He was also employed by
the settlers to assist Mr. Robinson in obtaining relief from the Crown.
On reaching London it was deemed advisable to prepare and substitute for
these, another petition stating the case of the settlers more in detail ;
which was signed by Mr Robinson on their behalf & presented to the
king. Mr. Robinson died in London Oct 27, 1767. These papers
were found by Henry Stevens, Jr., among those of the deceased Mr
Johnson, at Stratford Connecticut

HiLAND Hall

This written March 1868

I>ETITIO^ *

His Majesty, Kixg GEORGE the Third.

To the KING'S Most Excellent MAJESTY.

The Humble Petition of the several Subscribers hereto, Your Majesty 8
Most Loyal Subjects,

Sheweth to your Majesty ;

THAT We obtained at considerable Expence of Your Majesty's
Governor of the Province of Neic-Hampslure^ Grants and Patents for
more than One Hundred Townships in the Western Parts of the said
supposed Province (^) ; and being about to settle the same, many of
Us (2), and others of Us, having actually planted Ourselves on the
same, were disagreeably surprized and prevented from going on with
the further intended Settlements, by the News of its having been
determined by Your Majesty in Council, That those Lands were
within the Province of New-York \ and by a Proclamation issued by
Lieutenant Governor Golden, in Consequence thereof forbidding any
further Settlement until Patents of Confirmation should be obtained
from the Governor of Neiv-York. Whereupon We applied to the
Governor of said Province of Netv-York, to have the same Lands con-
firmed to Us in the same Manner as they had been at first granted to
Us by the Governor of the said Province of New-Hampshire ; when,
to Our utter Astonishment, We found the same could not be done,
without our paying as Fees of Office for the same, at the Rate of
Tiv^nty Five Pounds, Neiv-York Money, equal to about Fourteen
Pounds Sterling, for every Thousand Acres of said Lands, amounting
to about Three Hundred and Thirty Pounds Sterling at a Medium, for
each of said Townships, and which will amount in the Whole to about
<£. 33,000 Sterling, besides a Quit-rent of Tivo Shillinc/s and Six Pence
Sterling, for every Hundred Acres of said Lands ; and which being
utterly unable to do and perform, We find Ourselves reduced to
the sad Necessity of losing all our past Expence and Advancements ;
and many of Us of being reduced to absolute Poverty and Want,
having expended Our All in making said Settlements.

Whereupon Your Petitioners beg Leave most Humbly to observe,

1. That when We applied for and obtained said Grants of said
Lands, the same were and had been at all Times fully understood and
reputed to lie and be within the said Province of New-Hampshire,
and well within the Power of the Governor of that Province to grant :
So that Your Petitioners humbly hope they are equitably entitled to
a Confirmation of the said Grants to them (^).

2. The said Grants were made and received on the moderate Terms
of Your Petitioners paying as a Quit-rent One Shilling only. Pro-

APPENDIX. 593

clamation Money, equal to Nine Petice Sterling per Hundred Acres ;
and wliieh induced Us to undertake to settle said Townships through-
out, and thereby to form a full and compacted Country of People,
whereas the imjiosing of the said Tiro iShillinf/s and SixPoice^tevMug
per Hundred Acres, will occasion all the more rough and unprofitable
Parts of said Lands not to be taken up ; but Pitches, and the more
valuable Parcels only to be laid out, to the utter preventing the full
and proper Settlement of said Country, and in the Whole to the
lessening Your Majesty's Revenue.

3. Your humble Petitioners conceive, that the insisting to have
large and very exorbitant Fees of Office to arise and be computed
upon everv Thousand Acres in every Township of Six or perhaps
more Miles square, and that when one Patent, one Seal, and one Step
only of every Kind, toward the completing such Patents of Confirm-
ation respectively, is necessary, is without all reasonable and equitable
Foundation, and must and will necessarily terminate in the totally
preventing Your Petitioners obtaining the said Lands, and so the same
will fall into the Hands of the Rich, to be taken up, the more valu-
able Parts only as aforesaid, and those perhaps not entered upon and
settled for many Years to come ; while Your Petitioners with their
numerous and helpless Families, will be obliged to wander far and
wide to find where to plant themselves down, so as to be able to live.

Whereupon Your Petitioners most humbly and earnestly pray, that
Your Majesty will be graciously pleased to take their distressed State
and Condition into Your Royal Consideration, and order that We
have Our said Lands confirmed and quitted to Us (*), on such reason-
able Terms, and in such Way and Manner, as Your Majesty shall
think fit. Further, We beg Leave to say, that if it might be con-
sistent with Your Majesty's Royal Pleasure, We shall esteem it a very
great Favour and Happiness, to have said Townships put and con-
tinued under the Jurisdiction of the Government of the said Province
of Neio-Hampshire^ as at the first, as every Emolument and Convenience
both publick and private, are in Your Petitioners humble Opinion,
clearly and strongly on the Side of such Connection with said New-
Hampshire Province. All which Favours or such and so many of
them as to Your Majesty shall seem meet to grant, We humbly ask;
or that Your Majesty will in some other Way grant Relief to Your
Petitioners ; and they, as in Duty bound, shall ever pray.

Bated in New-England, November, 17()<). And in ^/«« Seventh Year
of His Majestifs lleiyn.

Cotton M Smith Tempe Worthington

G Caldwell Tho^ Pardee

Sam" Elmer Juner Mai tin Elmer Juner

Samuel Hurlbut

594 APPENDIX.

*p. 57. *We the Subscribers Proprietors and Claimants in and of
sundry Townships, lately granted by Governor Wentworh,
in the Western Parts of the then supposed Province of New-Hampshire.,
do hereby fully impower Our trusty Friends and fellow Partners in
those Interests, Samuel Robinson, Esq ; Ebenezer Cole, Jeremiah.
French, Benjamin Ferris, Samuel Hungerford, Ebenezer Fish, John
Brooks, John Sherrer, Samuel Keep, Partridge Thatcher, Abraham
Thompsot}, Edward Burling, Benjamin Townsend, Tunis Wortman,
Peter Clapper, John Burling, Joseph Hallet, Thomas Hicks, Esq ; and
David 3Iattheu's, Esq ; for Us and in Our Behalf and Stead, to take
and pursue all and every needful and proper Measure and Step, by
Application to His Majesty or otherwise, to obtain a full Confirmation
to tJs of said Lands, on such reasonable Terms as may be ; hereby
granting to them and to any and every three or more of them, full
Power of Substitution. Witness our Hands, in Neiv-England, Novem-
ber, 1766.

Cotton Mather Smith Tempe Worthington

G Caldwell Tho^ Pardee *

Sam" Elmer Juner Martin Elmer Juner

Samuel Hurlbut

* This name is crossed out in the origiuah Ed.

^p. 21. *[No. 2. Petition.']

James Owen David Vallance

Samuel Tousley Ju*^ Abner woodwarth

Joseph Hanchet amos bird

Andrew Squier Roswell Steel

Ruluff White David owen

Eliger Skinner Elias Reed

Joel Reed Elias Reed Ju''

Daniel Reed David Stevens

Andrew Brownson John Scovil

Daniel Cole Ebenezer Hanchet

Elisha Strong Samuel Chipman

Heman Allen Thomas Chipman

Jonathan Chipman Rej'nold Marvin

Aaron owen Ju"" Jonathan Hall

Eliphalet Owen Gideon Kellogg

William Ham Sam" Keys

Jabez Keys John Chipman

APPENDIX.

595

^\_Power of Attorney.']

*p. 37.

James Owen

David Vallance

Samu" Tousley Ju'^

Abner woodwarth

Josepli Hanchet

amos bird

andrew Squier

Rosel Steel

Ruluff White

David owen

Eligar Skinner

Elias Reed

Elias Reed Jun

Joel Reed

Daniel Reed

David Stevens

Andrew Browuson

John Scovil

Daniel Cole

Ebenezer Hanchet

Elisha Strong

Samuel Chipman

Thomas Chipman
Russell Hunt

Jonathan Chipman
Elisha Sheldeu J--

Appleton Burnham
Thomas Porter

odel Squier
Phenihas Spaulden

Henery Spaulden
Joseph Bradley
methy Pangboon

Thomas Barney
Dan'^ Griswold
Charles Burrall

Jonathan Hall

Reynold Marvin

Aaron owen Ju"^

Eliphalet Owen

■Gideon Kellogg
William March

William Ham

\_No. 4' Petitioji.']

^p. 41

■Charles Burrall
Dan" Griswold
Daniel Hopkins
Tim° Holcomb
Elisha Sheldon Jun""
Thomas Porter
Henery Spaulden
Joseph Bradley
Timothy Pangboun
Charles Burrall Ju'
Ovid Burrall

Sam" Elmor
David Holcomb J""
Ruben Squier
Isaac Kellogg
Appleton Burnham
Phenihas Spaulden
Thomas Barney
odel Squier
William Burrall
Jonathan Burrall
Russell Hunt

\^For Power of Attorney see No. 2.~\

596

APPENDIX.

61.

[iVb. 5. Petition^

Stiles Ciirtiss
Abner Judson
Josepli Tomlinson

( Joseph Tomlinson

) Purchasar of John Becher

Nathan Birdsey
Francis Hawley
Purchaser of Gideon Wheeler

Beach Tomlinson

Daniel Jndson

Joseph Birdsey Purchaser of Daniel Bardslee

Agur Tomlinson under ) & Agur Tomlinson under

Benajah Dickinson \ John Hide —

Silas Curtis under ) Jonathan Judson

Edmund lavenworth \ Jeremiah Beardslee

Agfur Judson Luke Summers

Agur Judson under John Mallary

John Wooster under Samuel Hockings

Thomas Wooster Israel Johnson

Joseph Holbrook Elnathan Lake

Thomas French Thomas French

John Beardslee Henry Curtiss

Edmund Curtiss Zechariah Tomlinson J''

John Moss ( William Pendleton By

John Brooks \ Edmond Pendleton

77.

\Power of Attorney.']

Beach Tomlinson
Joseph Tomlinson
Abner Judson
Daniel Judson
Agur Tomlinson
Stiles Curtiss
Silas Curtiss
Agur Judson
Luke Summurs
Thomas Wooster
Joseph Hoolbrek
Thomas French
Henry Curtiss
Zechariah Tomlinson J"
William Pendleton

Nathan Birdsey
j Joseph Tomlinson
( Pursher of John Becker

francis Hawley

Jeremiah Beardslee

Joseph Birdsey

Jonathan Judson

Agur Judson

John Wooster

Elnathan Lake

Thomas French

John Beardslee

Edmund Curtiss

John Moss

APPENDIX.

597

*lNo. 6. Petition.-] *p. 81.

[This petition bears the words "Both original Grantees & Pur-
chassers" inserted at the place marked (2) in the preceding printed
form, and "'allowing ns till the time your Majestys Quit Rent
Becomes on Each Township Granted for to Settle & Improve the
Same: or" at (*). Ed.]

Joseph Sanford
Stephen Sanford
Joseph Sanford Juner
James Barlow
Nathaniel Barlow
Benjamin Beets
Peter Fairchild
Wm Green
Joshua hall
Hesekiah Sanford
Seth Sanford
Job Bartram
Abra'" Gold
Seth Samuel Smith

Nathan Sanford
James Sanford
Samuel Barlow
Jabez Barlow
Dan" Bets
Nath" Bartlett
Eben'' Greer
James Gray
Joshua hall Junr
Gershom raorhous J""
William Hawley
W'" Livesay
Zalmou Hull

■[^Potver of Attorney.']

97.

[This document has added to it, and afterwards crossed out, the
words, ''N: B: Tis agreed that the Sums to be Raised shall be
four Shillings : to Each Single Right york money". Ed.]

Joseph Sanford Ju"^
Benjamin Beets
Nathan Sanford
Stephen Sanford
James Barlow
Nathaniel Barlow
Joshua Ilall
Hezekiah Sanford
Seth Sanford

Dan" Beets
Joseph Sanford
James Sanford
Samuel Barlow
Jabez Barlow
Nath" Bartlett
Joshua hall Junr
Gershom morhous J'
W" Livesay

*\_No. 8. Petition.]

Samuel Holt Thomas Matthews

Stephen Matthews Stephen Upson

Gideon Matthews
Joseph Beach

101.

George Nichols
Israel Woodward

598

APPENDIX.

Ephraim Woriier
Abijah Worner
Nathaniel Edwds

Jonathan Baldwin
William Nichols

^p. 117.

'[Potver of Attorney/.]

George Nichols
Israel Woodward
Jonathan Baldwin
Thomas Matthews
Stephen Upson
Abijah Worner
Nathaniel Edwards

121.

Joseph Beach
Ephraim Worner
Sam — Holt
Stephen Matthews
Gideon Matthews
William Nichols

*[iVb. 9. Petition.']

Thomas Clapp
Timothy Seymour Jun'
Timothy Seymour

Purchased of Joshua Stantor
Seth Lee
Timothy Lee
Ephraim Tuttle

137.

Calep Croswell

Claims under Spenser
Timothy Seamour Jun"" 3ct
Jared Lee
Amos Lee
Eliakim Hall

*l_Power of Attorney.']

thomas Clapp
Timothy Seamer Jun"^
Jared Lee
Amos Lee
Ephraim tuttle

Calep Croswell
Timothy Seamer
Seth Lee
Timothy Lee

*p. 141. *[No. 10. Petition.]

[This petition bears the words " Both original grantees & purchas-
ers " inserted at (2), and the words "allowing us till the time your
majestys Quitrent of money Becomes Due on Each Township
Granted for to Settle & Improve the Same : or " at (■*). Ed.]

Partridge Thatcher

Samuel Caniield

^p. 157.

Samuel Canfield

^\_Poiver of Attorney.]

Abel Hine

APPENDIX. 599

*[No. 11. Petitio7i.'\ *1). 161.

[This petition bears the words *•' Both original Grantees & Pur-
chassers " inserted at (2), and the words "Allowing ns till the time
your Majestys Qnit Rent of money Becomes Due on Each Township
Granted for to Settle & Improve the same: or" at (*). Ed.]

Noble Hine John Brownson

William G<wld Ebenezer Hotchkiss

Isaac Hitchcock Israel Baldwin

John Carington Benjamin Eastman

David Ferris Samuel Comstock

Joseph Ferriss Thomas Weller

Benjamin (jay lard Amos Bostwick

Zadok Noble Joseph Ferriss Juner

Samll Ferris Daniel Bostwick J'

John M'Ewen Zeehariah Ferriss

Oliver Warner thomas Noble

Abel Camp Cap* Joseph Canfield

Martain Worner Isaac Bostwick

Reuben Booth Isaac Cafield

*\_Power of Attorney.'] *p. 179.

Noble Hine John Brownson

Ebenezer Hotclikiss Isaac Hitchcock

Israel Baldwin John Carington

David Ferriss Benjamin Eastman

Dobson Wheeler Joseph Ferriss jur

John M^Ewen Abel Camp

Capt Joseph Canfield Martain Worner
Isaac Bostwick

*lNo.m Petition.'] *p. 181.

[This petition bears the words " Between conecticut River and
Hudsons river and Lake Champlain " inserted at (i) and the words
"according to the tener of their patents with a Loweuc of So Long
a time to Settel the Land in as till his majesties quitreut becomes
due " at (3).— Ed.]

Reed Ferriss John Akin

Benja P'erriss Jun"^ Elisha Akin

Thomas Akin John Tripp

600

APPENDIX.

James Tripp
Gidcleon Gifford
Amos Northrup
Simon Dakin
William Haviland
Daniel Chase
John Hoag
Benja ferriss
Ebenezer Peaslee
Prince Howland
Zebnlon Ferriss
Jon a"' Akin
Elijah Doty
Henry Chase
Nathan Soule
Jonathan mosher
Stephen Field
Elias Palmer

Nathan Soule
Joshua Dakin
Jacob Haviland
William Davis
George Soule
John Hoag
David Akin
John Cannon
Nathaniel Stevenson
Nathaniel Howland
Josiah Akin
Henry davis
John Soule
Daniel Wing
David Palmer
Samuel Coe
John Hoag
Paul Hoag

[No Power of Attorney for this petition is found. Ed.]

^p. 197.

John Cornell
Joseph Corn n ell

^p. 213.

John Cornell
Benjamin Cornell

*[iVb. 13. Petitioji.']

Benjamin Cornell

*[_Po^ver of Attorney.']

Joseph Cornnell

^p. 217.

[iVb. 14. Petition.']

Names of y*^
James Ferriss
Sam" Stringham
Thomas Haviland
Daniel Bowne
Mathew Franklin
Theophilus Hunt
Peter Huggeford
Abram guion
Henry Coutant
James Fowler
Richard Burling

Proprietors &c

John Ferriss
Benj" Haviland
Jacob Suydam
John Cornell
David Hunt Ju"^
John vermilye
Samuel Tredwell
Jonathan Fowler
Aaron Quinby
Edward Burling Jun'^
Jesse Hallock

APPENDIX.

601

' [ Poiver of Attornei/.l

233.

John vermilye
J^fUies Fowler
John Ferris
Benj" Havilaiul
Jacob Siiydani
John Cornell
David Hunt Ju"^
Sanuiel Tredwell
Jonathan Fowler

Aaron Quinby
James Ferris
Sam" Stringham
Thomas Haviland
Daniel Bonne
Matthew Franklin
Peter Huggeford
Abram Guion
Jesse Hallock

[iVb. 13. Petition.']

Richard Woodhull
Jonathan Lyman
David Austin
Jonathan Mix
Sam" Austin

Thomas Willmot
Naphtali Daggett
Isaac Doolittle
Daniel Lyman
Sam" Bishop Jun""

*[^Power of Attorney.]

Richard Woodhull
Jonathan Lyman
David Austin
Jonathan Mix
Sam" Austin

Thomas Willmot
Naphtali Daggett
Isaac Doolittle
Daniel Lyman
Sam" Bishop Jun"^

*p. 237.

^p. 253.

*\_No. 16. Petition.']

Eliakim Hall for ten rights
Caleb Merriman one Right
Jared Lee one Right
Isaac Hall nine Rights
John Austin his Right
Daniel Clark one Right
Benjamin Rice one Right
Samuel Jearom one Right
John Ives one Right
John Austin 3'' one Rio-ht

257.

Pur-

John Hulls one Right

chest of Asel Beach
Benjamin Lewis one Right
Reuben Royse one Right
John Austin one Right pur-

chsed of Abraham Perker
Isaac Halsey one Right
Abel austin one Right
Caleb Culver two rig^hts

602

APPENDIX.

> 273.

[^Power of Attorney.']

Caleb Merriman
Caleb Culver
John Austin
John Ives
Samuel Jearom
Isaac Hall
Benjamin Rice

John Hulls
Daniel Clark
Benjamin Lewis
Abel austin
John Austin 3''
Reuben Ro3'se
P^liakim Hall

*p. 277. *\_No. 17. Petition.']

[This petition bears the words "Both original Grantees and Pur-
chassers" inserted at (2), and the words "allowing us till the time
your majestys Quit Rent of Money Becomes Due on Each Township
Granted to settle & Improve the Same: or" at (^). Ed.]

Samuel Hungerford
Nathaniel Seelye
James Moger
Alexander Steward Jun'
Daniel Marsh
Samuel Maish
Leddol Buck
John Gorham
Samuel Dean
John MacCordy
James Stewart
Daniel Prindle
William Beck
Grean hungerford
Elnathan Hall
Stephen Hull
Andrew Sturgis
Stephen Barns
William Giddings
John wing
Samuel Waldo
John Hoag Ju"^
William Barnes
thomas Dunk
Josiah Hungerford
Dan Towner
Eleazer Hubbell
Ephraim Hubbell

James Potter
Elijah Sill
Aaron Prindle
Elihu Marsh
John Marsh
Kent Wright
Leddol Buck Ju'"
Thomas Dowglas
Thomas Northroup
Samuel olrasted
Daniel Cone
Alexander Stewart
John '"'Coal
daniel Prindle Jun""
Seth Hall
Haynes Hanford
George Burr
Will'" Barnes Jun''
Joseph Giddings
John : Morhous
Benjamen Elliot
Andrew Morhous
Edmund Hawse
Benjamin Eliot
That ford Homes
Wi" Gaylard Hubbel
Dennis Hubbell
Thomas (xold

APPENDIX.

603

[^Power of Attorney.']

313.

Alexander Steward 2'
Leddol Buck
Nathaniel Seelye
Aaron Prindle
Leddol Buck Ju*^
William Giddings
John Morlious
thonias Dunk
Wi" Gaylard Hubbell
Dennis Hubbell
Daniel Prindel

Elihu Marsh
John Gorhani
Elijah Sill
Samuel Dean
Thomas Dowglas
John wing
Andrew Morhous
That ford Homs
Eleazer Hubbell
Alexander Stewart
Andrew Sturgis

'[No. 18. Petition.']

Paul Yeats
Noah Wad hams
Josep wheten
Alorgin Noble
Israel Noble
Jedidiah Hubbell
Azariah Pratt
Jethro Hatch
Zacheriah Nobles
Elias Kinne
Daniel Kinne
Benjamun mallory
silvenas Osburn
John Whittlesay
Nathan hicock
James Calhown
Sam" Averill
Abel Weller

297.

Benjamin Seelye
John Calhoun
Benjaman Bennit
Stephen Noble
Joel Bordwell
Abijah Hubbell
Eliezer thompson
Silvanus Hatch
John Bostwick
Jacob Kinne
Josiah Caswell
Samuel mallory
Eliphelet Whittelesey
Nathaniel Hickock
Joseph Calhown
David Cahoun
Tille Weller

[No Power of Attorney for this petition is found. Ed.]

Ebenezer Cole
Freegift Cole
Mills sly
Jacob Marsh

INo. 19. Petition.]

Sam" Waters
Parker Cole
Peleg spencer
Makhir Mertin

^p. 1.

604

APPENDIX.

Ichabod west Ju""
Rufus Bakon
Isaah Cerj)ender
Jestins Olin
George Pengree
David Blakelee
John Trumble
Moses Robinson
Nathan Clark
Jonatlian Eastman
Jedediah raerrill
Joseph Wickwire
Jonathan Scott Jun""
Lebbeus Armstrong
Joseph willoughby
Elisha Field
simeon Harmon
sara" Pratt
Samuel Safford
Henry Walbridge Ju
Thomas Smith
Gideon Spencer
Samuel atvvood
Nathaniel Holmes Junr
Nath'^ Spencer
Daniel mills
Jonathan Carpenter
Benjamin Corey
Joseph Barber
Joseph Barber
Sam" Robinson Ju''
Daniel Scott
Tho'* Henderson
Elkanah Ashley
Zech** Harwood
Benajah Story
Petre Harwood
Robert Cochren ju
Jonathan Scott
John Fasset
Samuel Cuttler
Benj'' Warner
John Warner
Weight Hopkins

Ichabod West
Matthias Cob
Ichabod Cross
John Burnum
Abither Woldo
Zarabalel Materson
Edward Fitsimmons
Ebenezer Wood
Jacob Hide
Henry Walbridge
John Fasset Jun''
Joseph Rudd
Josiah fuller
Timothy Pratt
Elijah Story
Jonathan Fasset
Joseph Richardson
Benj" Whipple
Silas Pratt
James Breakenridge
Josei)h Robinson
John Smith
Nathaniel Holmes
Sam" Hunt
Sam" Tubs
Israel hurd
Nathan Clark jun""
John Corey
Joseph Smith
Nath" Dickinson M D.
Silas Robinson
Zephaniah Holmes
Elnathan Hubbel
Cornelius Cady
Lenard Robinson
John Smith Ju
Robert Cochren Sen
Banajah Rude
Ebenezer Robinson
Stephen Fay
Sam" Scott
Daniel Warner
Seth Warner
Stephen Hopkins

APPENDIX.

605

the following is a List of the
the Spot —

Seth Hudson
Asa Alger
Isaac Vanarnum
Timothy Grover
Fetter Payne
James Archer
Caleb Kaynolds
Fetter Kobards
theophels Whaley
John Dafoo
Abraliam Bass
Loreance Cry
Woolrod Kriger
Andrew Burns
Mathew ford
David Carey
Mathew Randal
Benj*" Briges
Daniel Perce
Jonathan Card
Joseph Williams
George Gardner Ju'
James Fuller
Andrew Alger
Boaz Brookens
Jonathan Wright
David Mallery
Witherly Wittam
Ely Nobels
Daniel Luce
Edward Hicks
ISilas Pratt
Benj™ Anderson
George mitchel
Dan Howlet
Joseph Miller
Ephriam Burlinggame
Ebenez' Wright
Samuel Waters Jun""
Sam Brown Jun'
Amos Leach
moses Corbin

Inhabants of Pownall who are all on

Direck Smith

Michel Duning

David Ferigo

Enos Grover

Luke Vanernum

John Vanernum

Abraham Jacob Laynghtson

Isaac Whaley

Charls wright

Elijah woolcutt

Noah Pratt

John George Kriger

Crispen Bull

Francies Burns

Peeter fursbury

Paul Gardner

Elisha Card

Benj™ Raynolds

George Backer

Ephraim Mallery

George Gardner

Benoni Fermenter

William Haj^ward

Benj™ Gardner

Philip Brookings

Joseph Gallop

Elezer Marsh

Jerimeah Gardner

Josiah Nobels

James Curtis

George Hicks

Samuel Anderson

Benj" Grover

James Ferigo

John Blakley

James Draper

Moses omsted

Levi West

Joshua Raynolds

Elish Noble

obadiah Noble

Isaac Lawrance

606

APPENDIX.

17.

■[Powei' of Attorney.']

Sam" Waters
Jacob Marsh
Rufuss Bakon
David Blakelee
George pengree
Sam* wortors
Dan Howlit
Jediah Dewey
Sephen Fay
Abiather Waldo
Sam* Adams
Machir Mertin
Mills sly

Sam^* waters Junr
Ebeiiezer Wood
Nathan Clark
Jonathan Eastman
Joseph Wick wire
Libbeus Armstrong
Joseph Rudd
Josiah Fuller
Silas Pratt
Elijah Story
simeon Harmon
sara" Pratt
Samuel Safford
Thomas Smith
Joseph Robinson
Samuel atwood
Nathanael Holmes Ju""
Sam'' Hunt
Isreal hurd
Sam' Tubs
John Corey
Jonathan Cerpenter
Joseph Barber
Daniel Scott
Silas Robinson
Tho"* Henderson
Elknah Ashley
Zech'' Harwood

Freegift Cole
Ichabod West Ju"^
Isaah Cerpenter
Ichabod Cross
John Bunum
Isaac Lawrance
Jestins olin
Ichabod west
Peleg spencer
Isaac serls
John Burnum J''
Matthias Cobb
Sam''' waters
Moses Robinson
Jacob Hide
Henry Walbridge
John Fasset Jun''
Jedediah merrill
Timothy Pratt
Jonathan Scott
Joseph willoughby
Jonathan Fossett
Elisha Field
Joseph Richardson
Benj"- Whipple
Henry Walbridge
James Breakenridge
Gideon Spencer
John Smith
Nathaniel Holmes
Natli' Spencer
Daniel mills
Benjamin Corey
Nathan Clark jun"^
Joseph Smith
Nath" Dickinson m D
Sam" Robinson Ju""
Zephaniah Holmes
Elnatlian Hubbel
Lenard Robinson
John Smith jun

APPENDIX.

607

Benajah Story
Benajh Rude
Robert Coebren Ju
Ebenezer Robinson
Jobn Fasset
Benj" Warner
Jobn Warner
Weigbt Hopkins
Direck Sniitb
Micbal Duning
Setb Hudson
Timotb Grover
Petter Payne
James Arcber
Caleb Raynorlds
Peeter Robards
tbeopbels whaly
Jobn Dat'oo
Abrabam Bass
Lorance Cr}^
Woolrod Kriger
Andrew Burns
Matbew ford
David Carey
iNIatbew Raynorlds
Benj"' Brigs
Daniel Perce
Jonatban Card
Josepb Williams
George Gardner Jun'^
James fuller
Andrew Alger
Boaz Brookens
Jonatban Wrigbt
Da vied Mallery
Witberly Wittani
Ely Nobels
Daniel Luce
George Hicks
Silas Pratt
Benj'" Anderson
George IMitcbell
Jobn Will son

Petre Harwood
Robert Coebren Ser
Jonatban Scott
Stepben Fay
Samuel Cuttler
Daniel Warner
Setb Warner
Stepben Hopkins
Asa Alger
Isaac Vanernum
David Perigo
Enos Grover
Luke Vanernum
Jobn Vanernum
Abrabam J Lanson
Isaac Wbaley
Cbarls wrigbt
Elijali Woolcutt
Noah Pratt
Jobn George Kriger
Crispen Bull
frances Burn
Peter fursbury
Paul Gardner
Elisha Card
Benj'" Renorlds
George Baker
Epbriam Mallery
George Gardner
Benoni Permentor
William Hayward
Benj'" Gardner
Pbilip Brookens
Joseph Galloop
Elezer Marsh
Jarmiah Gardner
Josiah Nobels
James Curtis
Edward Hicks
Samuel Anderson
Benj'" Grover
James Perigo

608

APPENDIX.

333.

Jehiel Hawley
Sam' Adams
Josiah Hawley
Ebenezer wallis
David Williams
Zackeas Mallaiy
John Serls Jii""
Gideon Woring
Gideon Brownson
Isaac Hill
Frances Berney
Simon Burtton
Amos Chip man
Joseph Erls
Jeremiah French
Sam' Sopper
James Vaughn
Will'" Nowland
Will'" Ernes
Ebene?/ Wallis J""'
David Williams
John prey
John Newbre
John Willson

[*iVb. W. Petition.']

John Searls
ogdin malery
Remember Baker
Jephthah Hawley
Agare Hauley
Gideon Serls
Elisha Pendle
Tymothy Brownson
John White
Rosel Hill
Gideon Hawley
Ebenezer Leonard
Stephen Mead
Will'" serls
Eliakim Weller
James Mead
James Frome
Ezra Mead
ISaac Wallis
Nathaniel Wallis
John Whesson
Benj"^ Simonds
Thomas Denteu
James Lewis

[No Power of Attorney for this petition is found. Ed.]

298.

*\_Power of Attorney^ Number Unknown.]

[The names affixed to this power of attorney do not correspond
with those on any of the petitions in the book. This is numbered
17 but that is certainly a mistake for the names are entirely differ-
ent, while those found on the power of attorney, page 813 of the
original volume, prove conclusively that that is the document which
should accompany petition No. 17. It seems probable that this is a
part of one of the missing numbers, 3 or 7. Ed.]

Edward Burling
Direk Lefferts
W" Mercier
W'" Hawxhurst

John Burling
Edward Agar
Joseph Hallett
Daniel Latham

APPENDIX. 609

Benj' Ilildrcth Sam' Faruiar

W"' Field Francis Field

Sam' Willets Jacob Watson

David Harclay Lancaster Burling

John Laurence Caleb Lawrance

B'^ Blaoge Gilbert Pell

Joseph Latham John Bogert Jun'

Willett Taylor Henry Franklin

Benjamin Underhill Amos Underhill

Jacobus Bogert Nicholas Bogert

John Grenell Amos Dodge

Jos. Pearsall Tho. Pearsall
Tho: Franklin Jnn'

NOTES
HISTORICAL AND DESCRIPTIYE.

COMPILED BY

HlRAM A. HUSE.

612 APPENDIX.

ACTON. — About 5,045 acres of land in Windham County granted
by Vermont, Feb. 23, 1782, to Moses Johnson & Company, thirty-
three in number. This tract was granted under the name of Jolin-
soii'h Gore and it was so known until itw^as incorporated Nov. 6, 1800,
as the township of Acton, which, however, was not by its incorpora-
tion given representation in the General Assembly except that its
freemen were given the right to assemble with those of Townshend
in freemen's meeting in Townshend. In 1824, notwithstanding this
attempted restriction, a representative was chosen from Acton, and
again in 1825, and these representatives were admitted. In 1825 the
act of incorporation was amended by repealing the section by the
terms of which the freemen of Acton were to assemble with those of
Townshend in freemen's meeting. In Oct , 1840, an act annexing
Acton to Townshend was passed. This act, after acceptance by
each town, went into effect Feb. 1, 1841.

[Ms.] Vermont Charters, 1-29(3; Laws of Vermont, 1800, p. 29;
I8i0, p. 59; Thompson's History of Vermont, (Gazetteer), p. 1;
ditto, edition of 1824, p. 45 ; Heraejiway's Vermont Historical
Gazetteer, 5-532. Governor and Council, 4-285.

See Warrenton^ (New York grant), post.

ADDISON. — Town in Addison County, granted by New Hamp-
shire Oct. 14, 1761. 1'he first English fort on Vermont territory
was built in this town at Chimney Point in 1690 by a party from Al-
bany under Capt. Jacobus D'Narm. This fort was not permanently
occupied. But the French made a settlement at Chimney Point in
1730 which continued until near the time of the New Hampshire
grant of Addison. An agreement between the proprietors of Addi-
son and those of Panton was ratified by act of Oct. 24, 1785, giving
the proprietors of Panton the ownership of 8,000 acres in the north
part of Addison, it proving that Addison, granted three years before
Panton, lapped over lands first settled by Panton proprietors. Part
annexed to Weybridge Oct. 22, 1804. Part annexed to Waltham
Oct. 25, 1804. Legislation as to lines between Addison and Wey-
bridge, 1856, 1859, and 1862.

New Hampshire charter, ante^ pp. 3-7; act of Oct. 24, 1785 is
found in [Ms.] Record of Acts and Laws of the State of Vermont in
America, 1-509, and in [Ms.] Vermont State Papers, Vol. 1; and is
referred to in [Revised] Laws 1797, p. 145 of Appendix; Laws, 1804,
pp. 7, 23: 18o6, p. 78; 1859, p. 148; 1862, p. 51; Thompson's

APPENDIX. 613

Gazetteer, ]>. 1; Hemenvvay's Verinont Historical Gazetteer, 1-1;
Child's Gazetteer of Addison County, p. 63; Coolidge and Mansfield's
History and Description of IS'ew England, p. 731 ; Conant's Vermont,
p]). 67, 7-; Surveyor General's [Ms.] Papers, 2-16, 10-13, (bounds
of); Governor and Council.

Gov. Dunniore of New York, March 13, 1771, granted a small tract
in Addison to Adolphus Benzel, and May 30, 1771, granted 10,000
acres lying in Addison, to Sir John St. C-lair. Vermont Hist. Soc.
Col. 1-155; Vol. 1, Documentary Hist, of N. Y., map preceding
Index.

AIKIN'S GORE.- About 930 acres in Windham County granted
by Vermont Feb. 25, 1782, to Edward Aikins [later spelled Aiken,]
Nathaniel Brown, Peter Sylvester, Peter Sylvester 2d, William
Aikin and Nathaniel B. Brown, and by the terms of the charter
annexed to Londonderry which had been granted in 1781. It forms
the southwest part of Londonderry, and most, if not all, of this gore
was included in the 2(),000 acre grant made by New York, Aug. 9,
1770, called Virgin Hall.

[Ms.] Vermont Charters, 1-259 ; Ilemenway's Vermont Historical
Gazetteer, Vol. 5, Part 3, under Londonderry ; Governor and Coun-
cil.

See Virgin Hall, (New York grant), post.

ALBANY. — Town in Orleans County. A grant was made June
27, 1781, by resolution of the General Assembl}^ to Colonel Henry
Emanuel Lutterloh and Major Thomas Cogswell and their associates
to the number of sixty five oflicers and soldiers then in the continental
arm3% of a tract of land six miles square to be located and return
made of the location to Ira Allen, Surveyor General, " to obtain a
charter of incorporation." The town was chartered as Lutterloh,
(sometimes written Lutterlock), June 26, 1782. Col. Antipas Oilman
being one of the grantees. Col. Henry Emanuel Lutterloh was a
New York officer appointed Dejuity Quarter-Master-General by
General Washington, June 30, 1777. Major Thomas Cogswell was
a Massachusetts officer, then of Haverhill, Mass., and afterwards of
Gilmanton, N. H. Name of Lutterloh changed to Albany in 1815.
Part of Lowell authorized to be annexed to Albany in 1870.

[Ms.] Vermont Charters, 1-47 ; Laws of 1815, p. 11 ; 1870, p. 570;
Thompson's Gazetteer, p. 2 ; ditto, edition, of 1824, p. 46 ; Child's

614 APPENDIX,

Gazetteer of Lamoille and Orleans Counties, p. 189 ; Coolidge and
Mansfield's History of New England, p. 733 ; Hemenway's Vermont
Historical Gazetteer, 3-46 ; Surveyor General's (Ms.) Papers 1-76,
77, 82, 89 ; 2-132, (plan of) ; 10-31, 82, (bounds of) ; Governor and
Council, 8 vols.

ALBURGH. — Town in Grand Isle County granted by Vermont
to Ira Allen and his sixty-four associates Feb. 23, 1781. The name
is said to be an abbreviation of Allenburgh or Allensburgh. A set-
tlement was made within its bounds by the French in 1731 at Wind
Mill Point. This settlement was made under a French grant to
Francis Foucault, afterwards confirmed and renewed by the King
of France. After the conquest of Canada this grant was confirmed
by the King of Great Britain and the title passed from Foucault to
Gen. Haldimand, from Haldimand to Henry Caldwell, and from
Henry Caldwell to John Caldwell, all British subjects. The tract
went, before it was known as Al burgh, successively under the names
of Point Algonquin, Point Du Detour, Point Detouror, Turnabout,
Missisco Leg, Missisco Tongue, and Caldwell's Upper Manor.
Heman Allen acquired the Caldwell title and about 1820 endeavored
to establish it in a United States Court but failed. Part of Al-
burgh was annexed to Highgate, Nov. 1, 1792.

[Ms.] Vermont Charters 1-70 to 73 ; 2-23 to 25 ; Laws of Vermont,
1792, p. 26 ; Governor and Council, 3-222 ; 4, see index under
Alburgh ; also other of the 8 vols, of id. as indexed ; and especially
map facing p. 430 of Vol. 8. Thompson's Gazetteer, p. 3 ; ditto., edition
of 1824, p. 47 ; Hemenway's Vermont Historical Gazetteer 2-487 ;
Child's Gazetteer of Franklin and Grand Isle Counties, p. 214; Cool-
idge and Mansfield's History of New England, p. 733 ; Surveyor
General's Papers, [Ms.] 1-63, 221 ; 2-139, (plan of).

ALBURGH GORE. — Referred to in Governor and Council, 4-
352, 354, 358, and 428. Probably that part of Alburgh east of Mis-
sisquoi Bay which was annexed to Highgate Nov. 1, 1792. See Laws
of 1806, p. 11.

ANDERSON'S GORE.— About 1730 acres of laud in Windham
County granted to James Anderson and nine others by resolution of
the General Assembly, Feb. 27, 1782, which was read in Council
Oct. 17, 1782 ; see Governor and Council, 3-8. The charter was

APPENDIX. 615

not issued until Oct. 22, 1801 ; see [Ms.] Vermont Charters, 1-
358. By the terms of the charter the tract was made a part of the
town of Wiudham.

See Kent^ (New York grant), poHt.

ANDOVER. — Town in Windsor County granted by New Hamp-
shire, Oct. 13, 1761. The Vermont charter of Benton's Gore, a
tract of about 5,000 acres, constituted it a part of Andover after
Oct. 25, 1781. Andover was divided Oct. 26, 1799, and the western
part thereof with Benton's Gore was incorporated as the town of
Weston. By the act of 1799 the two towns of Andover and Wes-
ton were restricted to one representative for both, but each town
elected a representative in 1823, and from that time on each has had
one, though no repeal of the restriction has been found.

New Hampshire charter, ante, pp. 7-11 ; [Ms.] Vermont Charters,
3-1; Laws of 1799, p. 14. Thompson's Gazetteer, p. 3; ditto, edition
of 1824, p. 48; Child's Gazetteer of Windsor County, p. 72. Cool-
idge and Mansfield's History of New England, p. 734.

See Virgin ffall, (New York grant), post.

ARLINGTON. — Town in Bennington County granted by New
Hampshire July 28, 1761. Lieut. Gov. Colden of New York granted
about 26,000 acres under the name of Princetown, May 21, 1765, to
Isaac Vrooman and twenty-five others, covering part of Arlington,
Sunderland, Manchester, and Dorset; this being the first New York
patent, (except perhaps some of the 154 military patents issued by
New York in 1765), for land in what is now Vermont. Oct. 30,
1765, Lieut. Gov. Colden granted (by the second New York patent
other than military) to James Napier a tract of 10,000 acres described
as ''lying partly within the townships of Shaftsbury, Glastenbury,
Sunderland and Arlington, formerly granted under the Province of
New Hampshire." March 19, 1771, Gov. Dunmore of New York
granted John Munroe 4,000 acres lying chiefly in Arlington. Ethan
Allen, Remember Baker, and Thomas Chittenden were sometime
residents of Arlington, Chittenden being its first representative
and Allen its second.

New Hampshire charter, pp. 11-15 ante. H. Hall's Early History
of Vermont, pp. 80, 81, 133, 134, 276, and citations made by Hall of
Documentary History of New York. Thompson's Gazetteer, p. 4;

616 APPENDIX.

ditto, edition of 1824, p. 48; Child's Gazetteer of Bennington County,
p. 68; Hemen way's Vermont Historical Gazetteer, 1-121 to 138.

ATHENS. — Town in Windham County granted b}^ Vermont May
3, 1780. Oct. 30, 1794, part of Athens with a part of Putney was
incorporated as the town of Brookline. Nov. 13, 1813, that part of
Brookline formerly part of Putney was "annexed" to Athens for
the purpose of choosing a representative and voting for state officers.
Part of Avery's Gore was annexed to Athens in 1815. Part of
Athens was annexed to Grafton, Oct. 30, 1816. Lines between
Athens and Westminster established 1839. Parts of Rockingham
and Grafton were authorized to be annexed to Athens in 1846. The
New York grant of Warrenton covered part of what is now Athens.
May 16, 1767, Gov. Moore of New York granted John Adair a tract
of 5,000 acres which lies partly, at least, in Athens.

[Ms.] Vermont Charters, 1-5 to 7; 2-10; Laws of 1794, pp. 124-6;
1813, p. 124; 1815, p. 167; 1816, p. 40; 1839, p. 85; 1846,
p. 10; Thompson's Gazetteer, p. 5; ditto, edition of 1824, p.
50; Coobdge and Mansfield's History of New England, p. 736;
Child's Gazetteer of Windham County, p. 80; Hemen way's Vermont
Historical Gazetteer, pp. 357 to 376.

See Warrenton, (New York grant), post.

AVERILL. — Township in Essex County granted by New Hamp-
shire June 29, 1762. The appraised acreage of this and other towns
is but an approximation to the real acreage as is illustrated in the
case of Averill in which the appraised acreage of 1894 was 21,200
acres, of 1882 was 22,716 acres, and of 1880 was 20,468 acres. Other
towns show less discrepancy in their returns which is ])erhaps ac-
counted for by Averill being one of the three towns yet unorganized
in Vermont — Ferdinand and Lewis being the other two.

New Hampshire charter, pp. 16-19, ante ; Thompson's Gazetteer,
p. 6; ditto.^ edition of 1824, p. 51; Coolidge and Mansfield's His-
tory of New England, p. 737; Child's Gazetteer of Caledonia and
Essex Counties, p. 389; Hemen way's Vermont Historical Gazetteer,
1-943; Surveyor General's [Ms.] Papers, 1-2, 90; 3, (survey of
lines) ; 10-89^ (bounds of).

APPENDIX. 617

AVERY'S GORE. — Siiiimel Avery was of Westminster as early
as 1780 and as late as 1799, and there were issued by Vermont to
l)im, or in his behalf, charters of eight tracts of land. Six at least of
these tracts both in neighborhood speech and legislative phrase were
each called Aver^-'s Gore.

Some of the enactments distinguished the gore to which they ap-
jilied by adding the name of the county in which it was situated : others
did not. The six tracts referred to were all chartered direct to Avery,
and one of them, that in Orleans County and now a part of Troy,
was often called Aver^^'s Grant as well as Avery's Gore. Direct ref-
erence by name to the smallest of the eight tracts, a gore of only 554
acres which was also granted direct to Aver}^ and was between Frank-
lin (then Huntsbnrgh) and Sheldon (then Hungerford), has not been
found in any enactment or legislative record. The tract chartered on
Avery's account to Thomas Pearsall. being the 8,926 acres that from
1803 to 1856 constituted the unorganized township of Bradleyvale
and thatnov^^ forms part of Concord and Victory, probably never went
by the name of Avery's Gore. The story of these grants is illustra-
tive of the time.

In an article on New York Land Grants in Vermont it is stated
(Vermont Hist. Soc. Collections, 1 — 157), that to Samuel
Avery (and others) there was granted Aug. 16, 1774, 28.000 acres
in Lincoln and Ripton ; to Humphrey Avery Sept. 6, 1774, 24,000
acres in Lincoln, Ripton and Granville : and Oct. 28, 1775, to Samuel
Avery, 4,000 acres under the name of Whippleborough, in Starksbor-
ough and vicinity. In each of these cases there is no doubt that the
grant was to the party named and his associates. As early as 1780 and
1782 some arrangement seems to have been made between the grantees
so that Samuel Avery (who was i)erhaps a son of Hum[)hrey Avery
of New London, Connecticut) had come to own the New York title
to the first two tracts, and Ahiry Whip})le (who was perhaps the
widow of Daniel Whipple, of Brattleborough) that title to the third, or
Whij)pleborough. (See Avery's caveats against the granting of the
first two tracts, Oct. 4, 1780, Vt. [Ms.] State Papers, 21-181, 183, and
Feb. 18, llii2, ditto, 22-23; also Mary Whipple's caveat against grant-
ing Whip})lehorough Feb. 18, 1782, ditto, 22-22). Avery also laid claim
to 1,0 0 acres in Middlesex (the New York Grant, now Randolph),
as is shown by his caveat of Oct. 4, 1782, Vt. [Ms.] State Papers, 1-
182; and to some interest in Thomlinson (now Grafton), as is shown
by his caveat of Feb. 18, 1782, Vt. [Ms.] State Papers, 22-22. He
evidently depended mainly on his claim to the first two tracts, cover-
ing together 52,000 acres, and from his persistent efforts to obtain
them or an equivalent came the numerous Avery's Gores. His original

618 APPENDIX.

62,000 acres granted by New York were part of the Lydius tract, or
what was known as the Otter Creek Lydius tract, to distinguish it
from his Wood Creek tract.

Col. John Henry Lydius, born in Albany, 1694, son of a Dutch
minister, became a trader with the Indians, a resident of Montreal until
he was banished therefrom in 1730, afterwards a resident on his Wood
Creek tract in New York near Fort Edward, and from 1767 a resident
in England where he died near London in 179L He obtained a paper
purporting to be a deed from certain Mohawk Indians of a tract ex-
tending sixty miles south of the mouth of Otter Creek and to the
east twenty four miles. This covered nearly all of what is now Ad-
dison County and a good part of Rutland County. His "deed" was
dated Feb. 1, 1732, and is about the only evidence that the Mohawks
themselves ever counted the land as theirs. L3'dius obtained Aug.
31, 1744, from Gov. Shirley of Massachusetts a paper purporting to
be a confirmation of his Indian deed and an absolute conveyance to
him of the lands it described in fee, " in obedience to His Majesty's
special command of the 5*^^ of Oct. last." Hilaud Hall thinks there
never was any such command; (Early History of Vermont, p. 496).
Lydius also received his title of Colonel from Gov. Shirley. The
claimants to parts of this tract have been so numerous that in giving
some account of them it is a relief as well as somewhat of a surprise
to know that Arthur Orton and Dr. Kenealy never pretended that any
of it belonged to the Tichborne estate. About an eighth of it was
granted to Mons. Hocquart (to whom curiously was due the banish-
ment of Lydius from Montreal) by a French grant in 1743 or 1745,
and Hocquart's tract was sold by him in 1763 to one Michel Chartier
de Lotbiniere who was making claim of Great Britain in 1776 for his
"Lordship of Hocquart," which ''Lordship of Hocquart" was described
as lying on tlie east side of Lake Champlain extending four leagues
in front and five leagues in depth. It was opposite Crown Point and
was pretty nearly what is now the southwesterly part of Addison
Count}". See Documents Relating To the Colonial Hist, of N. Y., 7-
642, and 8-577. 670.

Following the Mohawk-Lydius-Massachusetts claim and the French
claim, were the New Hampshire grants made in great number on this
tract. Lydius had made a plan of this tract dividing it into thirty
five townships. New York followed, granting a number of
townships within its limits and a still greater number of military
patents here and there. Durham (now Clarendon) and Socialborough
were within its limits. Durham was settled by grantees under the
Lydius title v/ho obtained a subsequent charter from New York ; and
it was in Durham that the "Bennington mobb " in 1773 erected a

APPENDIX. i'iV}

"judgment seat" upon which Ethan Allen, Seth Warner, Remember
liaker, and Robert Cochran, who had been appointed by "the pro[)ri-
ftors of the New Hauipshire grants * * to inspect and set things
in order,'' took their places as judges and held such a court as never
was before or has been since on land or sea. (Hall's Earlv Hist, of
Vt. pp. 169 to 177, and Doc. Hist, of N. Y,, Vol. 4.) The object of
the expedition was to make the settlers recognize the New Hampshire
title, not to drive them off the lands thev had made settlement on, or
to make them pay exorbitant prices in recognition of the New Hamj)-
shire title. See Allen's letters to the people of Clarendon, Hall's
Early History of Vermont, pp. 175-177.

These Durhamites were holding their lands by the same title Avery
had to the 52,000 acres claimed by him with the addition that they
were actual settlers.

One of Avery's petitions to Vermont, never before in print, is this :

To his Excellency Thomas Chittenden Esq^" Captain General
and Governor in Chief of the State of Vermont, and the
Territories depending thereon in America, and the Honorable
the General Assembly of said State, now Convened and
Sitting at Windsor within and for said State —

The Petition of Samuel Avery a friend to this and the united States
of America —

Humbly Sheweth

That your Petitioners and the Rest concerned with him. Did many
years since Purchase a tract of Land (now within this State) of Col.
John Henry Lydius of Albany, He pretending to have a Title to the
same, For which we paid a large sum of money, Bounded and De-
scribed as follows. Beginning at the distance of nineteen miles and
fifty Chains from the mouth of Otter Creek where it emptieth itself
into Lake Champlain, On a Course south forty three degrees east, and
from the said place of Beginning, East eight degrees South Six miles
and seventy Chains, Then south sixteen degrees west six miles and
sixty five Chains, Then west twenty seven degrees north six miles,
and from thence to the place of Beginning, Containing twenty four
thousand acres of land and the usual allowance for highways, which
tract of land we then supposed we had obtained a good title to. But
unfortunately for us, we found, that the Goverment of New York
who then Claimed the Jurisdiction of that part of the Country, paid
no Regard to Col. Lydius's Title or pretentions to that Tract of Land.
But was granting the same to any Persons that would apply to them
and pay them their enormous fees, On which your Petitioner supposed

620 APPENDIX.

himself Reduced to the necessity of Obtaining a grant or Confirma-
tion of the land from the Government of New York.

Accordingly we made application to the State of New York and
after a Solicitation of about Six years, and paying to the Officers of
(tov' about Sev^en or Eight hundred pounds, besides the Expenses of
Surveying application &c., to the amount of near fifteen hundred
pounds, we Obtained a grant or Confirmation from that State for the
same lands. We then supposed we had a good title beyond all dispute.
This Grant we Obtained from the Gov' of New York nearly on the
principles of equity, liaving been at so great expense in the purchase
from Lydius Surveying &:c : — But Still unfortunate. Our misfortunes
do not end here, those Publick Confusions come on, An intire Revo-
lution Takes place, This State of Vermont set up Jurisdiction and
form a Constitution for themselves, by which means our Title is
again brought in question and all set afloate

Your Petitioner would beg leave further to observe to your Excel-
lency and this Honorable Assembly, That the lauds before described
have never been granted by the Government of New Hampshire, or
this State of Vermont, nor has any Person any Just Challenge or
Pretention, Except your Petitioner —

And that your Petitioner is willing to subject himself to any Reg-
ulations or Conditions with Respect to Settlement &c. : To which
other lands granted by this State are Subjected —

That your Petitioner has ever been a fast friend to this and the
united States of America, which he is well able to prove by those on
both sides of the question and early, and ever, both publickly and
privately, espoused the Cause of those New Hampshire Grants against
the Arbitrary and unjust proceedings of the Gov' of New York.

That your Petitioner has been near Twenty years in the pursuit of
those Lands, Constantly attending thereto —

That your Petitioner was forty days in the Wilderness without
Shelter in tlie Survey of those lands and gone throng every dificulty
Expense and fatigue, till he has nearl}^ expended his whole Interest
in the pursuit — He now Humbly Conceives he has the highest degree
of Justus in his favour. And that the Granting or Confirming those
lands to your Petitioner Cannot be esteemed or made use of as a
president, for 1 presume there is not anothere Claim or pretention to
land in this state Cloathed with the same Circumstances.

Your Petitioner therefore Humbly Prays, that 3-our Excellency and
this Honorable Assemblv will at this time be favorably Pleased to
grantor Confirm to j'our Petitioner the tract of Land before described,
without fees.

APPENDIX. 621

And tlmt the same may be created into a Township by the name of
and Vested with the usual Priviledges Granted to other
Townships within This State —

And Your Petitioner as in Duty bound
Shall ever Pray —

Samuel Averv
Windsor Feb>- 16"' 1781.

Avery, who in 1781 said he had '"been near twenty years in the
pursuit of those lands, constantly attending thereto," continued eight
years more in that pursuit before the Vermont legislature in 1780
took the action that resulted in the creation of Avery's Gores. In
October of the last named year he presented the following [)etition to
the legislature (see [Ms.] Vt. State Papers, 22—193) :

" To tlie Honorable the General Assembly'' now Convened at West-
minster—

The Petition of Samuel Avery and Associates Humbly Sheweth

That at the Session of this Honorable Assembly in the month of
October 1780 your Petitioners presented a Petition [to this assembly]
praying for a grant or Confirmation [of a grant of land] therein des-
cribed, which Petition was laid over for a further hearing at an after
Session of the Assembly —

That in the February following your Petitioners again prefered
their Petitions, which were taken up and a Committee appointed,
who reported tliat those ])etitions should have a hearing on the 5"' day
of the next Session of this Assembly

That at the Session of this Assembly in February 1782 a Committee
of both Houses of this Assembly was appointed who took the matter
of our Petition into Consideration and Keported for us to have a
grant of the Land described in the Petition which Report was rejected
by the Assembly and an Additional Committee appointed, which
Committee again agreed to Report in our favor, but was prevented
by an Order for an Additional Committee from the Council which
Committee after again hearing the matter Reported that they Con-
sider it a matter of uncertainty whether the Land prayed for had not
been already granted either by the State of New Hampshire or by
this State — 'J'herefore the}^ advise that the Petition should ly till an
Actual Survey is made by the Surveyor (ieneral and that no grants
should be made to any other Person of any part of the Lands des-
cribed in our Petition, and those Petitions have ever since lain before
this Honorable Assembly — which suspense has been Greatly to the
Prejudice of your Petitioners.

622 APPENDIX.

Your Petitioners would Therefore Humbly Pray That the Honor-
able Assembly would take [the matter] of their Petitions into Con-
sideration [and would grant] the Lands described to them if not
already g[ranted and if] granted already to other Persons, Grant
your Petitioners Rightious Compensation in other Lands, or in some
way, Grant Relief to your Petitioners.

And your Petitioners as in Duty bound Shall ever Pray —

Samuel Avery

Westminster Ocf 10"'
1789

The original petition above copied is in one place torn and the
words printed within brackets are supposed to be those missing.

The committee appointed to consider the foregoing petition reported
that in their opinion the facts set up in the original petition were
true, that the lands described had been granted to others and recom-
mended that there should be granted to Avery and his associates an
equal quantity of unlocated lands.

L) Council Oct. 24, 1789, (Governor & Council, 3—198), it
appears that: "An Act Granting fifty two Thousand acres of Land
to Samuel Avery Esq"^ having passed the General Assembly, was
read and concurred, reserving as an Amendment, that the Grants
of two Townships, one to Governor Marsh and one to Mr.
Randall & Company be first Located and all other Grants yet un-
located, provided said Locations shall be made and returnes thereof
to the Governor and Council by the 15 day June Next — said Avery
to have a Gore of Land east of Starksborough which he has liberty
to pitch immedeately."

Pursuant to the above action the following grants were made of
tracts which with one or two exceptions each went under the name
of Avery's Gore with some distinguishing addition to designate the
particular tract referred to.

1. Avery's Gore in Chittendeti County. This consisted, according to
the statement in the charter, of 5,910 acres west of Fayston, but is
stated in a table of Avery's patents made by Joseph Fay and found
in [Ms.] Vt. State Papers, 38 — 47, to have contained but 4,000
acres. This table is without date but was probably made by Fay in
1794, in which year he ceased to be Secretary to the Governor and
Council and removed to New York. This table of the Avery grants
includes all of them except one of 554 acres made June 28, 1796,
noted hereafter; the filing upon it is: "List of Locations executed to
Saml Avery," and it is as follows:

APPENDIX.

623

'•One Gore of Land adjoining Fayston

one gore lying West of Lewis Orang County

One Do do Avest of Kingston

One do — between Westminster, Athens & Tonilinson

One gore north of Enosl>urgh

One do west of Duncansboro

One do o'ranted Thomas Pearsall

52000
49508

Acres
4000

10685
8744
1380
9723

11040
3926

49508

2492 remains to be satisfied
True copy from the Several Patents issued to Mr Avery attest

Joseph Fay Late Secy to

the Gov & Council

State of Vermont — "

This gore west of Fayston was one of three gores of which
Averv obtained a charter in one instrument dated January 27, 1791:
[Ms.] Vt. Charters, 1—302.

Part of it was annexed to New Pluntington (now Huntington)
October 22, 1794, pp. 55-57.

This gore lies between Buel's Gore and Fayston and is commonly
mentioned in connection with the former under the name of ''Avery's
and Buel's Gore "; though the two gores, because now so much re-
duced in area, or for some other reason, are together called some-
times "Buel's Gore," and sometimes "Avery's Gore." Elias Buel,
November 16, 1788, (see [Ms.] Vt. State Papers, 22—184, and
2)ost under Buel's Gore and Coventry), after he had located his
'■ flying grant" of 1784, petitioned to have the land in question given
to liim and united with his own newly acquired gore under the name
of Montzoar, but his request was not complied with and the land be-
came Avery's. Buel's memory is kept green much better by the
present arrangement than it would have been by the one he wanted.

2. Averj/s Gore in Addison Conntji. This gore contained 8,744
acres and was the second one named in the charter of three gores to
Avery, dated Jan. 27, 1791, and recorded in [Ms.] Vt. Charters,
1 — 302. It was bounded north by Lincoln, east by Kingston,
(now Granville), south by Hancock and west by Ripton. Part was
annexed to Kingston, (Granville since 1834), in 1833, (see Laws of
1833, p. 26); and the remainder was annexed to Lincoln in 1847,
(See Laws of 1847, p. 8).

624 APPENDIX.

3. Averi/'s Gore in E^^ex Counttj. This gore of 10.685 acres, still
existincr as chartered, was the third named in the charter of Jan. 27.
1791, recorded in [Ms.] Vt. Charters, p. 302. When chartered it
was within the bounds of Orange County as that county was then
constituted. This gore lies west of Lewis.

4. PearsaU's G-ore. This was a gore chartered to Thomas Pearsall
by a separate charter dated January 27. 1791. and recorded in [Ms.]
Vt. Charters. 1 — 299 and. (a duplicate record), p. 362: [Ms.] Vt.
State PaDers, p. 27. and p. 47. It was incorporated as Bradley vale in
1803. (Laws. p. 25); and Bradleyvale. which never was represented
in the General Assembly, was annexed to Concord and Victory iu
1856, (Laws. p. 91).

5. Avery'i Gore in Franklin County. This gore was chartered to
Samuel Avery by charter dated Oct. 29. 1791. and recorded in
[Ms.] Vt. Charters. 1 — 385. It contained 9.723 acres and was in
Chittenden County when chartered. The annexation of part to
Montgomery was authorized iu 1858. (Laws. p. 50); and provis-
ion was made for establishing the line between it and Belvidere. in
1866, (Laws. p. 75). According to the Grand List of 1894 it now
contains 7.305 acres.

6. Avery's Gore, in Windham County. This was a tract of 1.3S0
acres of land described in a resolution of the General Assembly passed
Nov. 3. 1791. as •• lying between Thoralinson [name in 1792 changed
to Grafton] and Athens." This resolution directed the Governor to
issue a charter to Samuel Avery pursuant to a grant made to him in
Oct. 1789. No charter of this tract is found recorded but it was for
a quarter of a century referred to in legislation as Avery's Gore,
and it is not only included iu Fay's list ([Ms.] Vt. State Papers,
38-47.) but Avery in a petition dated Sept. 19. 1799. ([Ms.] Vt.
State Papers. 20—297). states that -on the 29^ day of October 1791
he obtained a grant under the great seal of the State of thirteen hun-
dred and eighty acres of Land lying south of the town of Grafton and
in width north and south 115 rodLs and iu length east and west the
whole length of the south line of Grafton." Avery, who in a petition
dated Oct. 17. 1791, ([Ms.] Vt. State Papers, l'8— 289), described
himself as one w'uo "from his many misfortunes with which Divine
Providence has been pleased to Visit him is left in low Circumstances
with a large family to support." seems to have undergone the last
suffering with which Vermont records credit him. in respect of this
1,380 acre grant. In his petition of 1799. referred to, he tells how
■• one Amos Hale of a place called Johnson's Gore." entered and took
possession of his 1,380 acre tract, how he sued Hale and how he was
cast in the suit, and asks that the legislature provide that he be given

APPENDIX. 625

a nevr trial. This petition was served ou Hale but was dismissed by
the General Assembly Oct. 19, 1799, and to add insult to injury
Samuel Crafts, Clerk, certifies that in General Assembly Nov. 4, 1799,
the bill of costs was legally taxed at 86.25, (81.75 being for 35 miles
travel and 84.50 for 9 days' attendance). This taxation of the peti-
tionee's costs came in a good year for Mr. Averv though, because lie
was awarded April 23, 1799, the sum of 82,655 of the 830,000 paid by
Vermont to New York, upon distribution of that 830,000 among
claimants by the New York commissioners. In H. Hall's Early His-
tory of Vermont, p. 507, it appears that Avery's 82,655 was awarded
on this state of facts: '-One of Avery's claims was founded on a
patent issued to him and twenty-three associates for 24,000 acres,
bearing date Aug. 16, 1774. On the 17"" and 18'" of the same month
these twenty-three associates conveyed their shares to him. Another
claim was for 28,000 acres, patented to Humphrey Avery and twenty-
seven others, in Sept., 1774, all of whom ou the 29'*" of that month
conveyed their titles to him, thus vesting in him the whole 52,000
acres, and showing very clearly that the grants were made for his sole
benefit. These two tracts adjoined each other and were in the easterly
part of the present county of Addison. These with a claim for 200
acres in Durham and 1,000 in another town [probably the New York
Middlesex, now Randolph], of which Samuel Avery was a grantee,
[or purchaser from a grantee, see [Ms.] Vermont State Papers, 21 —
181], made up the 53,200 acres for which he was allowed the sum of
82,655.03. These grants were made by Lt. Gov. Colden. Avery
continued his applications for them for some months into the revolu-
tionary period and on the 28'^ of October, 1775, obtained a patent for
40,000 acres [the Whippleborough grant] from Gov. Tryon, after he
had fled for safety ou Ijoard a British man-of-war lying in New York
harbor. The land was situated in the vicinity of his former grants,
but his claim for it was disallowed by the commissioners, for the
reason that it was made after the date which had been prescribed in
the New York constitution, as the time when the colonial grants
should cease to be valid."

It might be interesting to compare Avery's proofs before the New
York commissioners w^ith his statements in his petitions to the
General Assembly of Vermont.

Part of Avery's Gore in Windham County was annexed to Athens
in 1815, (Laws, p. 167); and the remainder was annexed to Grafton
in 1816, (Laws, p. 40).

7. Avery i Grants a tract of 11,040 acres now constituting the
north part of the town of Troy. Its charter to Avery did not issue

626 APPENDIX.

until Dec. 28, 1792, but was dated Oct. 27, 1792, because of an attach-
ment on this tract made by Ira Allen who had sued the State of Ver-
mont in the United States Court. See Avery's Grant, post; and also
[Ms.] letter of Avery to Joseph Fay Dec. 19, 1792, [Ms.] Vermont
State Papers, 24—61.

8. A tract of 554 acres for which Samuel Avery received a charter
dated June 28, 1796, and recorded in [Ms.] Vermont Charters, 1 —
328. This tract was a narrow strip of land between Huntsburgh, (now
Franklin) and Sheldon. It is not referred to in legislation but prob-
ably took its place within town lines by reason of an act establishing
the line between Huntsburgh and Sheldon, passed Nov. 5, 1810,
(Laws, p. 160).

This last charter of 554 acres left, according to Mr. Fay's list, yet
to be granted to him to make up his 52,000 acres, 1,938 acres more,
but Mr. Fay called Avery's Gore adjoining Fayston but 4,000 acres
while its charter described it as 5,910 acres. Upon this last basis
Avery had received within 28 acres of the required 52,000 acres, and
no doubt the state "called it even" when the 554 acre charter issued.

AVERY'S GRANT.— A tract of land now constituting the north
part of the town of Troy in Orleans County, containing 11,040 acres
of land, granted to Samuel Avery of Westminster by a charter signed
by Gov. Chittenden Oct. 27, 1792, which issued from the Secretary of
State's office Dec. 28, 1792, and was in further and part execution of
a grant to Avery of 52,000 acres voted by the General Assembly and
concurred in by the Governor and Council, Oct. 20, 1789. Avery's
Grant and Kelly's Grant (the latter containing 12,000 acres) were
incorporated into the township of Missisquoi, (Missiskouie as then
spelled), Oct. 28, 1801, and the name of the town was changed to
Troy Oct. 26, 1803.

[Ms.] Vermont Charters, 1 — 387 ; Governor and Council, 3 — 198 ;
Laws of 1801, p. 78 ; 1803, p. 6 ; Surveyor General's [Ms.] Papers,
10 — 111, bounds of. See Avery's Gores, ante.

BAKERSFIELD. — Town in Franklin County. Vermont grant of
10,000 acres to Luke Knoulton, Jan. 25, 1791, ([Ms.] Vermont
Charters, 1 — 284), in accordance with a joint resolution passed Feb.
28, 1787, ([Ms.] Vermont State Papers 30 — 114). In a committee's
report, Oct. 28, 1789, found in [Ms.] Vermont State Papers, 30—114, it
is referred to as a "Gore of land marked Knowltou in the Plan or Map
of this State." While named Bakersfield in the charter it was called

APPENDIX. 627

until 1792, Bakersfield, alias Knoulton's Gore. Part of P'airfield and
Smithfield annexed to, Oct. 2.5, 1792, (Laws, p. 5), and the tract so
formed "-incorporated into one entire town," to be called Bakersfield,
by the same act. Knight's Gore was annexed Oct. 31, 1798, (Laws,
p. 40), and part of Bakersfield was annexed to Enosburgh by the
same act. Part of Coit's Gore was annexed Oct. 26, 1799, (Laws, p.
16). Part of Bakersfield with remainder of Coit's Gore and part
of Belvidere incorporated as Waterville, (Laws of 1824, p. 14).
Line with P'airfield established, (Laws of 1817, p. 33); line with
Enosburgh, (Laws of 1845, p. 5); and line with Belvidere, (Laws of
1866, p. 275).

Surveyor General's Papers, 1 — 93; 5 — survey of lines; 10 —
109, bounds of; Henien way's Vermont Historical Gazetteer, 2 — 103;
Child's Franklin and Grand Isle Co. Gazetteer, 1883, p. 63. Thomp-
son's Gazetteer and others under title " Bakersfield."

BALTIMORE. — Town in Windsor County. Incorporated out of
part of Cavendish, (Laws of 1793, p. 6), but by this act it was not
allowed a representative in the legislature and was not represented
until 1824. Journal of the General Assembly, 1823, pp. 51-53. Line
with Cavendish was established, (Laws of 1841, p. 58).

Child's Windham Co. Gazetteer, 1884, p. 80; Hay ward's Vermont
Gazetteer, 1849, p. 22; Thompson's History of Vermont, 1842, Part III,
p. 7; Deming's Vermont Ofiicers, 1851, p. 124; Coolidge and Mans-
field's History of New England, 1860, p. 738.

BAMF. — New York grant of 30,000 acres to Thomas Clark & Co.
by Lt. Gov. Colden, Dec. 24, 1774. It covered lands in Burke and
vicinit}', (Vermont Historical Society Collections, 1-157). Marked
"Thos. Clark & Co." on map preceding Index to Vol. 1, Documentary
History of New York. Bamf. must have included Billymead now
Sutton, ([Ms.] Vermont State Papers, 18 — 80.)

BARNARD. — Town in Windsor County. New Hampshire grant
as Bernard, of 26,000 acres to William Story, Francis Bernard and
sixty associates, July 17, 1761; ante pp. 20-24.

Surveyor General's Papers, IV — survey of lines; Child's Windsor
Co. Gazetteer, 1884, p. 82; Hayward's Vermont Gazetteer, 1849, p.
22; Thompson's History of Vermont, 1842, Part HI, p. 7; Deming's

628 APPENDIX.

Vermont Officers, 1851, p. 124; Coolidge and Mansfield's History
of New England, 1860, p. 739.

See also Thompson's Gazetteer of 1824, where it is stated that: "In
1774, the first permanent settlement was made by Asa and Lot Whit-
comb, Thomas W. White and others, emigrants from Massachusetts
and Connecticut. At the time of the Battle of Bunker's hill, (prop-
erly Breed's hill,) which took place on the 17"' of July, 1775, the
firing was distinctly heard in this town by Thomas Freeman and
others, a distance of more than 100 miles. On the 9"' of August
1780, this town was visited by a party of 21 Indians, who made pris-
oners of Thomas M. Wright, Prince Haskell and John Newton, and
carried them to Canada. Newton and Wright made their escape the
spring following, and Haskell was exchanged the succeeding fall.
They suffered many hardships while prisoners and on their return, but
they all arrived safely at Barnard, and are now all living upon the
farms from which they were taken. They were all prisoners in Can-
ada at the time Royalton was burnt and were not then taken as has
been stated in the narrative of that event." The author of the fore-
going paragraphs from the earlier edition of Thompson, signs his arti-
cle by the initials A. W. He gets Bunker Hill moved forward a
month and his "more than 100 miles" is very nearly 130 miles as the
sound would have to go but the writer knows that the tradition of
Bunker Hill battle having been heard on Barnard hills has been com-
mon in the towns in the vicinity of White River valley, and as distinct
as that the people of Montpelier gathered on the hill in Berlin oppo-
site the capitol, and listened to the guns of the battle of Lake Cham-
plain in September, 1814.

BARNET. — Town in Caledonia County. New Hampshire grant
as Barnett of 23,040 acres to Simons Stevens and sixty-six associates,
Sept. 16, 1763, pp. 24-28.

Surveyor General's Papers, 1—69, 84, 107, 146; 11—123; V—
survey of lines; X — 147, bounds of; Hemenway's Vermont Historical
Gazetteer, I — 271; Child's Essex and Caledonia Co. Gazetteer,
1887, p. 133; Hay ward's Vermont Gazetteer, 1849, p. 23; Thompson's
History of Vermont, 1842, Part III, p. 8 ; Deming's Vermont Officers,
1851, p. 124; Coolidge and Mansfield's History of New England,
1860, p. 739.

BARRE, CITY OF— City in Washington County. Incorporated
out of part of the town of Barre, (Laws of 1894, 144 to 176). The
territory included within the city limits is about 1917 acres, and the
present town of Barre has about 17,736 acres. See Barre, Town of.

APPENDIX. 629

BAllKE, TOWN OF.— Town in Wasliington County. Vermont
grant of 1^3,040 acres to Col. William Williams and sixty-four associ-
ates by the name of Wildersburgh, Aug. 12, 1781, ([Ms.] Vermont
Charters I — 107 to 110). Because "the name of the township has ever
sounded uncouthly to the inhabitants and settlers and is also disa-
greeable on account of its length," ([Ms.] Vermont State Papers,
29-61), the legislature changed the name of the town to Barre, Oct.
19, 1793, (Laws, p. 5.) Boundaries of Barre established, (Laws
of 1799, p. 17; 1801, p. 88; 1802, p. 48.)

Surveyor General's Papers, 1—18, 88, 97,113, 119, 120, 140; II
— 30, 41, 52, 69, 88; X — 17, bounds of. Part of the town was incor-
porated as the City of Barre, (Laws of 1894, 144 to 176.)

Hemenway's Vermont Historical Gazetteer, 4-23; Child's Washing-
ton Co. Gazetteer, 1889, p. 129 ; Hayward's Vermont Gazetteer, 1849,
p. 24; Thompson's History of Vermont, 1842, Part III, p. 9; Deming's
Vermont Officers, 1851, p. 125; Coolidge and Mansfield's History of
New England, 1860, p. 740 ; Nickerson & Cox's Historical Souvenir
of Barre, 1894.

See Newhrook, (New York grant), post.

BARTON. — Town in Orleans County. Vermont grant to Col.
William Barton and Company, sixty-five in number, of a township of
land by the name of Providence by act of Oct. 23, 1781 — Providence,
II. I., being the residence of Col. Barton. A charter was not issued
until Oct. 20, 1789, and then to Col. Barton and twenty-eight associ-
ates of a township by the name of Barton, (Governor and Council, 2
— 122; [Ms.] Vermont Charters I — 40 to 43) ; part of Sheffield was
annexed, (Laws of 1858, p. 51).

Surveyor General's Papers, I — 15, 16, 38, 91, 138 (copy of char-
ter) ; X — 83, bounds of ; Hemenway's Vermont Historical Gazetteer,
3-71 ; Child's Lamoille and Orleans Co. Gazetteer, 1884, p. 200; Hay-
ward's Vermont Gazetteer, 1849, p. 25; Thompson's History of Ver-
mont, 1842, Part HI, p. 12; Deming's Vermont Officers," 1851, p.
125; Coolidge and Mansfield's History of New England, 1860, p. 742.

BELL ISLAND. — In Lake Meraphremagog ; annexed to Derby
and Auditor of Accounts authorized to sell, (Laws of 1865, p. 244.)

630 APPENDIX.

BELVIDERE. — Town in Lamoille County. Vermont grant of
30,000 acres to John Kelly of the City of New York, Nov. 4, 1791,
([Ms.] Vermont Charters 1-300). Part of, with Colt's Gore and part
of Bakersfield, incorporated as Waterville, (Laws of 1824, p. 17.)
Part annexed to Eden, (Laws of 1828, p. 15) ; this act was repealed,
(Laws of 1831, p. 12), and the line with Eden established according
to the original charter limits. Provision for establishing line with
Bakersfield, (Laws of 1866, p. 275.)

Surveyor General's Papers I — 17; Hemenway's Vermont Historical
Gazetteer, 2 — 592 ; Child's Lamoille and Orleans Co. Gazetteer, 1884,
p. 61 ; Hayward's Vermont Gazetteer, 1849, p. 25 ; Thompson's His-
tory of Vermont, 1842, Part III, p. 13 ; Deming's Vermont Officers,
1851, p. 125 ; Coolidge and Mansfield's History of New England,
1860, p. 742.

BENNINGTON. — Town in Bennington County. New Hampshire
grant of 23,040 acres to William Williams and sixty-two associates,
Jan. 3, 1749, ante pp. 29 — 34. Vermont post office established
March 9, 1787, (Laws, p. 116) ; this act was repealed Nov. 10, 1797,
(R. 1797, Repeals). Line with Pownal established, (Laws of 1800,
p. 85.)

Surveyor General's Papers, I — 130; Hemenway's Vermont His-
torical Gazetteer, 1 — 138 ; Child's Bennington Co. Gazetteer, p. 80 ;
Hayward's Vermont Gazetteer, 1849, p." 26 ; Thompson's History of
Vermont, 1842, Part III, p. 13; Deming's Vermont Officers, 1851,
p. 125 ; Coolidge and Mansfield's History of New England, 1860,
p. 742 ; Jennings's Memorials of a Century, 1869.

The town of Bennington was the first of the New Hampshire
grants to the west of the Green Mountains to be settled under the
New Hampshire charters. The literature pertaining to it and its bat-
tle is too voluminous to be cited in detail. Lossing, Hiland Hall,
B. F. Hall, and other historians have much concerning it, while James
Davie Butler's address and G. F. Houghton's address in 1848, Presi-
dent S. C. Bartlett's oration at the 1877 centennial, and Hon. E. J.
Phelps's oration at the dedication of the monument in 1891, should be
specially named. The fourth volume of the Documentary History of
New York has much interesting reading as to the doings of the " Ben-
nington mobb,"' and after the revolution began Ethan Allen and others
of the " mobb " were in evidence at the capture of Ticonderoga, and
Seth Warner and others at the Battle of Bennington from which Allen
was absent being still a captive in the hands of the British.

Bennington by its name perpetuates the memory of New Hamp-

APPENDIX. 631

shire's governor, Benning Wentwortli, and by its battle (fought on
New York soil because Stark did not wait for, but went forward to
meet, the Hessians) gave bluff and plain and brave John Stark and
liis embattled New Hampshire farmers a fame, than which from all
war there is none more lasting and real or with more dramatic set-
ting. Vermont men, Massachusetts men, and New York men were
there to help in the danger and share in the victory, but Stark com-
manded and his main army consisted of his officers :ind 1,332 enlisted
men who had hurried across the Connecticut valley and the Green
Mountains to aid those inhabitants of the New Hampshire Grants
whom Burgoyne described as the most rebellious and warlike race on
the continent hanging like a gathering cloud on his left.

Bennington was the first New Hampshire grant. Its first settlement
is generally stated to have been in June, 1761 ; but the following
extract from the Vermont Gazette of July 12, 1825, published in Ben-
nington by Darius Clark, gives a somewhat earlier date :

" Olden Times. — The following article of intelligence we copy from
an old periodical work published at Boston in 1791 :

' Vermont.'

'Col. Samuel Robinson informs us that the 25th day of March,
1791, completed 30 years since the first stroke was struck by him
towards clearing the first piece of land ever cultivated in Bennington ;
on the same day the Col. informs, he brought the first woman into
Bennington that ever became a resident in it. The Col. has lived to
see this town contain more than 4,000 inhabitants ; and the year
before last, by actual return, they made 26,000 yds. of cloth from
flax of their own raising.' "

At the semi-centennial celebration of the Battle of Bennington held
the 16th of August, 1827, according to the Vermont Gazette of Aug.
21, 1827, the first toast was " The Day; " and the second was: " Gen-
eral Stark. — His life was a practical comment upon his farewell senti-
ment to Green Mountain boys. — ' Live free or die, death is not the
worst of evils.' " Another toast on the same occasion was : " The
famous toivn of Bennington. — May the virtue of its inhabitants in
1827 be equal to the bravery of their fathers and brethren in 1777.''

The second newspaper, (the Vermont Gazette.^ printed in Vermont
was begun in Bennington by Anthony Haswell in June, 1783 ; and in
its files and those of its successors, most of which are to be found in
the Vermont State Library, are to be found many items of value rela-
tive to the history of this most famous Vermont town.

BENSON. — Town in Rutland County. Vermont grant to James
Meacham, James Blair, and associates. May 5, 1780, ([Ms.] Vermont

632 APPENDIX.

Charters I — 9 to It). A New York grant of 5,000 acres by Lt. Gov.
Golden to W"' Farqualiar Sept. 8, 1770, covered lands now in Benson.
Vermont Historical Society Collections, I — 155 ; Hemen way's Ver-
mont Historical Gazetteer, 3 — 405 ; Child's Rutland Co. Gazetteer,
1882, p. 75 ; Hayward's Vermont Gazetteer, 1849, p. 27 ; Thomp-
son's History of Vermont, 1842, Part III, p. 21; Deming's Vermont
Officers, 1851, p. 126; Coolidge and Mansfield's History of New Eng-
land, 1860, p. 747.

BENTON'S GORE.— About 5,000 acres of land in Windsor
County granted by Vermont Oct. 25, 1781, to Samuel Benton and
twenty-three associates. By the charter it was constituted a part of
the town of Andover. It became a part of Weston when that town
was incorporated Oct. 26, 1799.

[Ms.] Vermont Charters, 3 — 1 ; Laws of 1799, p. 14 ; Thompson's
History of Vermont, 1842, Part III, p. 22 ; Deming's Vermont Offi-
cers, 1851, p. 126.

See Virgin Hall, (New York grant), post.

BERKSHIRE. — Town in Franklin County. Vermont grant to
William Goodrich and sixty associates, June 22, 1781 ([Ms.] Ver-
mont Charters I — 22 to 24.) Line with Richford established and sale
of a gore of land (Enosburgh Gore) between Berkshire and Enos-
burgh, Montgomery, and Richford, directed, (Laws of 1802, pp. 158-
160.) So much of the law of 1802, as directed sale of a gore of land
between Berkshire and Richford, was repealed, (Laws of 1803, p. 60).
Line with Enosburgh altered and part of Enosburgh annexed, and
part of Berkshire annexed to Enosburgh, (Laws of 1838, p. 14.)

Surveyor General's Papers I — 5, 92, 127, 162; V — survey of lines;
X — 103, bounds of ; Hemenway's Vermont Historical Gazetteer, 2-
109; Child's Franklin and Grand Isle Co. Gazetteer, 1883, p. 72;
Hayward's Vermont Gazetteer, 1849, p. 27 ; Thompson's History
of Vermont, 1842, Part III, p. 22 ; Deming's Vermont Officers, 1851,
p. 126; Coolidge and Mansfield's History of New England, 1860,
p. 748.

BERLIN. — Town in Washington County. New Hampshire grant
of 23,040 acres to Rev. Dr. Chauncy Graham and sixt3^-three asso-
ciates, June 8, 1763, a7ite pp. 35-38.

Surveyor General's Papers, 1—14, 106, 113, 117 ; II, 26, 52, 87, 149,

APPENDIX. 633

cliarler of ; IV — survey of lines; X — 2,5, 17, bounds of; Hemen-
■vvay's Vermont Historical (ia/.ettecr, 4-5H ; Child's Wasliinoton Co.
Gazetteer, 1880, p. 185; llayward's Vermont Gazetteer, 1840, p. 28;
Thompson's History of Vermont, 1842, Part III, p. 22 ; Deming's
Vermont Officers, 1851, App. p. 12H; Coolidge and Mansfield's His-
tory of New England, 1860, p. 740.

BESSBOROUGH.— New York grant of 36,000 acres by Lt. Gov.
Colden, iVIarch 20, 1770. It embraced what is now St. Johnsbury
and vicinity. Vermont Historical Society Collections I — 154.

BETHEL.— Town in Windsor County. Vermont grant of 23,060
acres to John Payne, John House, and forty-five associates ; the
grant was voted October 27, 1779, and the charter issued Dec. 23,
1779, ([Ms.] Vermont Charter I — 1 to 3). Line with Rochester
established, (Laws of 1821, p. 213) .

Surveyor General's Papers, I— 100, 174, 232 ; II — 32, 142, charter
of ; I V ; V — survey of lines ; X — 53, bounds of ; Child's Windsor
Co. Gazetteer, 1884, p. 88 ; Thompson's History of Vermont, 1842,
Part III, p. 24 ; Hay ward's Vermont Gazetteer, 1849, p. 28 ; Dem-
ing's Vermont Officers, 1851, p. 127; Coolidge and Mansfield's His-
tory of New England, 1860, p. 749 ; Thompson's Gazetteer, 1824,
p. 64.

Bethel was the first town granted and chartered by Vermont. Its
settlement besran in 1780.

BILLYMEAD. — Now Sutton, Caledonia County. Vermont grant
of 23,040 acres to Jonathan Arnold and twelve associates, Feb. 26,
1782, ([Ms.] Vermont Charters 1—281 to 283). Billymead was
claimed by the proprietors of Bamf. (New York grant) ; ([Ms.] Ver-
mont State Papers, 18-80.) Name changed to Sutton, (Laws of
1812, p. 16).

Thompson's History of Vermont, 1842, Part III, p. 25 ; Deming's
Vermont Officei-s, 1851, p. 127.

See Sutton.

BLACK ISLAND. — In Lake Memphremagog ; annexed to Derby
and Auditor of Accounts authorized to sell, (Laws of 1865, p. 244.)

634 APPENDIX.

BLAKE'S GORE. — Vermont grant of a tract of land between
Sharon and Strafford to Timothy Blake and fourteen associates,
June 18, 1785, ([Ms.] Vermont Charters, III— 7 to 9.)

BLOOMFIELD. — Town in Essex County. New Hampshire grant
as Minehead, of 23,040 acres to Bev. Noah Waddams and sixty-three
associates, June 29, 1762 ; ante pp. 39-42. Name changed to Bloom-
field (Laws of 1830, p. 26).

Hemenway's Vermont Historical Gazetteer, 1-950 ; Child's Essex
and Caledonia Co. Gazetteer, 1887, p. 389 ; Thompson's History of
Vermont, 1842, Part HI, p. 25; Hayward's Vermont Gazetteer, 1849,
p. 29; Deming's Vermont Officers, 1851, p. 127; Coolidge and Mans-
field's History of New England, 1860, p. 750.

BOLTON. — Town in Chittenden County. Ncav Hampshire grant
of 23,040 acres to George Bunnell and sixty-five associates, June 7,
1763 ; ante pp. 43-47. Part annexed to Richmond, (Laws of 1804,
p. 26). Part of Huntington annexed, (Laws of 1794, pp. 55-57 ; 1808,
p. 135). Part annexed to Waterbury, (Laws of 1851, p. 64).

Surveyor General's Papers, I — 11, 191 ; 11 — 22 ; VII — survey of
lines ; X — 53, bounds of ; Hemenway's Vermont Historical Gazetteer,
I_480; Child's Chittenden County Gazetteer, 1883, p. 86; Rann's
History of Chittenden County, 1886, p. 384 ; Thompson's History of
Vermont, 1842, Part III, ]). 25 ; Hay ward's Vermont Gazetteer, 1849,
p. 29 ; Deming's Vermont Officers, 1851, p. 127 ; Coolidge and Mans-
field's History of New England, 1860, p. 751.

BRADFORD. — Town in Orange County. New York grant as
Mooretown of 25,000 acres to William Smith by Lt. Gov. Colden,
May 3, 1770, (Vermont Historical Society Collections, I — 154 ; H.
Hall's Early History of Vermont, pp. 92-94). Name changed to
Bradford, Oct. 23, 1788, (Laws, p. 9.)

Surveyor General's Papers, 1—117, 145, 153, 154 ; II— 3, 4, 20, 22,
29, 58, 78, 80, 162; IX — survey of lines; Hemenway's Vermont His-
torical (iazetteer, 2-807 ; Child's Orange Co. Gazetteer, 1888, p. 161 ;
Thompson's History of Vermont, 1842, Part HI, p. 25; Hay ward's
Vermont Gazetteer, 1849, p. 29; Deming's Vermont Officers, 1851,
p. 127 ; Coolidge and Mansfield's History of New England, 1860, p.
751 ; McKeen's History of Bradford, 1875 ; Address of Col. J. H.
Benton, Jr., July 4, 1895, at dedication of library.

APPENDIX. 635

BRADLEY VALE.— Incorporated out of Pearsall's Gore "with
all the rights, privileges and imnumities enjoyed by other towns in
this state ; except so far as may relate to the riglit of representation,"
Oct. 29, 1803, (Laws, p. 25.) The town was never represented in
the legislature, and was annexed to Concord and Victor}^ (Laws of
1856, p. 91.)

Thompson's History of Vermont, 1842, Part III, p. 26 ; Hayward's^
V^ermont Gazetteer, 1849, p. 30 ; Deniing's Vermont Officers, 1851,
p. 128.

BRAINTREE. — Town in Orange County. Vermont grant of
23.040 acres to Jacob Spear, Levi Davis, and sixty-three associates,
Aug. 1, 1781, ([Ms.] Vermont Charters 1—114 to 118.) Part
annexed to Rochester, (Laws of 1824, p. 15.)

Surveyor General's Papers I — 10, 84, 95 ; II — 68 ; IV — survey of
lines; X — 61, bounds of; Hemenway's Vermont Historical Gazet-
teer, 2-844, (an interesting historical sketch by Miss INIiriam INI.
Nichols); Child's Orange Co. Gazetteer, 1888, p. 198; Thompson's
History of Vermont, 1842, Part III, p. 27 ; Hayward's Vermont
Gazetteer, 1849, p. 30; Deming's Vermont Officers, 1851, p. 128;
Coolidge and ^Mansfield's History of New England, 1860, p. 752 ;
Braintree Centennial, 1781-1881; History, by H. Royce Bass, 1883.

BRANDON. — Town in Rutland County. New Hampshire grant
as Neshobe, of 23,000 acres to Josiah Powers and sixty-five associ-
ates, Oct. 20, 1761, ante pp. 47-51. Name changed to Brandon,
Oct. 20, 1784. Part annexed to Philadelphia for school purposes,
(Laws of 1812, p. 158). This law repealed if towns so vote (Laws
of 1854, p. 60). Part provisionally annexed to Goshen (Laws of
1854, p. 59). Annexation of part to Chittenden authorized (Law&
of 1855, p. 75). Annexation of part of Pittsford to Brandon and
part of Brandon to Pittsford authorized, (Laws of 1854, p. 57).

Hemenway's Vermont Historical Gazetteer, 3 — 428 ; Child's Rut-
land Co. Gazetteer, 1882, p. 84 ; Thompson's History of A'ermont,
1842, Part III, p. 27; Hayward's Vermont Gazetteer, 1849, p. 31;
Deming's Vermont Officers, 1851, p. 31 ; Coolidge and Mansfield's
History of New England, 1860, p. 753.

See Malesfiorouf/h, (New York grant), post.

BRATTLEBORO.— Town in Windham County. New Hamp-
shire grant of 19,360 acres to William Brattle and fifty associates^

636 APPENDIX.

Dec. 26, 1753 ; charter renewed .June 11, 1760, and July 6, 1761 ;
ante pp. 51-8. New Hampshire charter of I3ec. 26, 1758, was con-
firmed by New York grant of 19,500 acres, July 22, 1766, (Vermont
Historical Society Collections 1-154). Vermont postoffice estab-
lished, March 9, 1787, (Laws, p. 116) ; repealed, Nov. 10, 1797 (R.
1797, Repeals).

Surveyor General's Papers I — 224 ; Hemenway's Vermont Histori-
cal Gazetteer, 5-17; Child's Windham Co. Gazetteer, 1884, p. 82;
Thompson's History of Vermont, 1842, Part IH, p. 28 ; Hayward's
Vermont Gazetteer, 1849, p. 32; Deming's Vermont Officers, 1851,
p. 128 ; Coolidge and Mansfield's History of New England, 1860, p.
755; Early History, by Henry Burnham; B. H. Hall's History of
Eastern Vermont, passim.

Thompson (in his 1824 edition) says : — " The first civilized estab-
lishment in Vermont was made in the south-east part of this town
in 1724, and was called ' Fort Dummer ' ; " also " Col. John Ser-
geant was the first known white person born in the State of Ver-
mont." Fort Dummer was at least the first white settlement in
Vermont east of the Green Mountains, unless it be that in Vernon
which was in part included in Northfield, Mass., some of the settlers
in the seventeenth century had their farms north of the present Ver-
mont line. Conant in his History of Vermont gives Vernon as first
settled.

BRIDGEWATER.— Town in Windsor County. New Hampshire
grant of 28,000 acres to Seth and Rufus Field and fifty-nine associates,
July 10, 1761, ante pp. 58-62.

Surveyor General's Papers 1—234 ; 11—39 ; Child's Windsor Co.
Gazetteer, 1884, p. 95 ; Thompson's History of Vermont, 1842, Part
III, p. 30 ; Hayward's Vermont Gazetteer, 1849, p. 33 ; Deming's
Vermont Officers, 1851, p. 129; Coolidge and Mansfield's History of
New England, 1860, p. 757.

BRIDPORT. — Town in Addison County. New Hampshire grant
of 25,500 acres to Ebenezer Wiswall and sixty-three associates, Oct.
9, 1761, ante pp. 62-66.

Surveyor General's Papers X-12, 13, bounds of; Hemenway's
Vermont Historical Gazetteer, 1-16 ; Child's Addison Co. Gazetteer,
1882, p. 73; Thompson's History of Vermont, 1842, Part HI, p. 31;
Hayward's Vermont Gazetteer, 1848, p. 33 ; Deming's Vermont Offi-
cers, 1851, p. 129 ; Coolidge and Mansfield's History of New England,
1860, p. 758.

APPENDIX. 637

]U\I(tHT()X. — Town in Essex County. Vermont grant to Col.
Joseph Nightingale and sixty-four associates, as Random, Aug. 13,
1781, ([Ms.] Vermont Charters, 1-82 to 85.) Name changed to
Brighton Nov. 3, 1832, (Laws, p. 24). Part of Wenlock annexed and
part of Brighton annexed to Ferdinand, (Laws of 1853, p. 57).

Surveyor (Jeneral's Papers 1-92, 126; 11-18; Ill-survey of lines;
X-81, l)ounds of ; Hemenway's Vermont Historical Gazetteer, 1-952 ;
Child's Essex and Caledonia Co. Gazetteer, 1887, p. 397 ; Thompson's
Historv of Vermont, 1842, Part III, p. 33 ; Hayward's Vermont
Gazetteer, 1849, p. 35 ; Deming's Vermont Officers, 1851, p. 129 ;
Coolidge and Manstield's History of New England, 1860, p. 761.

BRISTOL. — Town in Addison County. New Hampshire grant as
Pocock, of 23,600 acres, to Samuel Averill and sixty-three associates,
June 26, 1762, ante pp. 66-70. Name changed to Bristol, Oct. 21,
1789, (Laws, p. 2). Part annexed to Lincoln, (Laws of 1824, p. 17.)

Survej'or General's Papers, 1-9 ; 11-107 ; X-22, 23, bounds of ;
Hemenway's Vermont Historical Gazetteer, 1-19 ; Child's Addison Co.
Gazetteer, 1882, p. 81 ; Thompson's History of Vermont, 1842, Part HI,
p. 34 ; Hayward's Vermont Gazetteer, 1849, p. 35 ; Deming's Vermont
Officers, 1851, p. 130 ; Coolidge and Mansfield's History of New
England, 1860, p. 762.

BROOKFIELD.— Town in Orange County. Vermont grant of
23,040 acres to Phinehas Lj-man and sixty-four associates, Aug. 5,
1781, ([Ms.] Vermont Charters, 1-156 to 158, 350) ; Aug. 15, 1781,
(I'c?., 2-7.) Annexation of part to Chelsea authorized, (Laws of
1829, p. 21.)

Surveyor (irenerars Papers, 1-84; 11-86; IV-survey of lines; X-
57, bounds of ; Hemenway's Vermont Historical Gazetteer, 2-854 ;
Child's Orange Co. Gazetteer, 1888, p. 212; Thompson's History of
Vermont, 1842, Part III, p. 34 ; Hayward's Vermont Gazetteer, 1849,
p. 36; Deming's Vermont Officers, 1851, p. 130; Coolidge and Mans-
field's History of New England, 1860, p. 763 ; Centennial of Brookfield
Library, 1891.

BROOKLINE. — Town in Windham County. Incorporated out
of Putney and Athens Nov. 30, 1794, (Laws, jjp. 124-6), but

638 APPENDIX.

was not allowed a representative in the General Assembly until 1823,
when the General Assembly determined that the constitutional pro-
vision giving each town representation was more potent than any
attempted legislative restriction of the right; Vermont Assembly
Journal, 1823, p. 52. Part of Putney annexed, (Laws of 1804,
•p. 20). Part of Newfane annexed (Laws of 1820, p. 41).

Surveyor General's Papers, 11-16 ; Hemenway's Vermont His-
torical Gazetteer, 5-377 ; Child's Windham Co. Gazetteer, 1884, p.
159; Thompson's History of Vermont, 1842, Part III, p. 35 ; Hay-
ward's Vermont Gazetteer, 1849, p. 36 ; Deming's Vermont Officers,
1851, p. 130 ; Coolidge and Mansfield's History of New England,
1860, p. 763.

BROWNINGTON.— Town in Orleans County. Vermont grant
of two tracts of 16,750 and 3,095 acres to Timothy and Daniel Brown
and sixty-four associates, Oct. 2, 1790, ([Ms.] Vermont Charters, I
— 353 to 355.) The smaller of the two tracts, (called Brownington
Gore), annexed to Caldersburg, (now Morgan), (Laws of 1801, p.
82).

Surveyor General's Papers 1-8, 154 ; X — 83, 100, bounds of ;
Hemenway's Vermont Historical Gazetteer, 3-90 ; Child's Lamoille
and Orleans Co. Gazetteer, 1884, p. 213 ; Thompson's History of
Vermont, 1842, Part III, p. 36; Hayward's Vermont Gazetteer, 1847,
p. 37; Deming's Vermont Officers, 1851, p. 131 ; Coolidge and Mans-
field's History of New England, 1860, p. 764.

BROWNINGTON GORE.— Tract of 3,095 acres granted as a part
of Brownington and annexed to Caldersburgh (now Morgan) in 1801,
(Laws, p. 82); and also Brownington, mite.

BRUMLEY or BROMLEY.— Now Peru, (which see). New
Hampshire grant as Brumley of 23,040 acres to William Sumner and
.sixty-five associates, Oct. 13, 1761, ante pp. 339-43. Name changed
to Peru, Feb. 3, 1804, (Laws, p. 34).

Surveyor General's Papers, 1-173; Thompson's History of Vermont,
1842, Part III, p. 34; Deming's Vermont Officers, 1851, p. 130.

BRUNSWICK. — Town in Essex County. New Hampshire grant
•of 25,000 acres to Stephen Noble and sixty-three associates, Oct. 13,
1761, imte pp. 71-74.

APPENDIX. 639

^^>..^v.- I...V. V. ...V.V.V...... . ^. ....^v.^.v,vx, a.wK^,,p. 418; Thompson's History

of Vermont, 1S42, Part III, p. 8(3; Haywartl's Vermont Gazetteer,
1849, p. o7 ; Demino's ^'ermont Officers, 1851, p. 181; Coolidge
and Manstield's History of New England, 1860, p. 764.

BUEL'S (U)RE.— A tract of land in Chittenden County. Ver-
mont grant of 4,273 acres as a part of Coventry to Major Elias Buel
and tifty-nine associates, Nov. 4, 1780, ([Ms.] Vermont Charters I-
43 to 46.) Part annexed to New Huntington, (now Huntington),
(Laws of 1794, pp. 55-57).

Survevor (ieneral's Papers, X-30 ; Child's Chittenden Co. Gazetteer,
1883, p."'93; Thompson's History of Vermont, 1842, Part IH, p. 36;
Deming's Vermont Officers, 1851, p. 132.

Coventry was granted in 1780 to be situate about on the line of
Rutland and Addison counties but it was found its site was already
taken, and in 1784 Capt. Elias Buel obtained that "flying grant" by
which, in 1788, he obtained a charter of what is now Coventry, in
Orleans County, and of Buel's Gore in Chittenden County. The
Coventr}' charter was not issued or the land under it surveyed till
1788, but its charter was dated back to Nov. 4, 1780. This charter
so dated refers, in stating the bounds, to trees marked in September,
1788, and some of the sketches of Coventry change the dates of the
marking of the trees back to September, 1780, to fit the date of the
charter. The trees were marked in September, 1788, and are rightly
referred to in the charter as so marked and the discrepancy occurs
by dating the charter back to the year tlie grant was originally made
to Buel.

Buel's petition of Nov. 16, 1788, found in [Ms.] Vermont State
Papers, relates his difficulties with his "flying grant." It is as fol-
lows :

"To the Hon' General Assembly of the Stat of Vermont To be
Convened at Westminister on the 2'"' Thursday of Ocf next

The Petition of Elias Buell of Coventry, in the State of Connecti-
cut Unto Your Hon" Humbly Sheweth That in 1780 your Pf

with his associates to the number of sixty Prefered their Pt" for a
township of Lands, in this state & by advice of gent" Referd to in
this State, Located the same Between the townships of Hubardston,
Benson, Sudlniry Orwell and Whiting Then supposed to be Vacant
Lands for a full Township, and that in Ocf 1780 Your Pf Obtained
a grant of s"' Lands at £10 p'' Right, and Immediately thereon Paid

640 APPENDIX.

the granting fees then Required in solid Coin. — That some years
after it was found by ascertaining the Surveys of s'^ adjoining Towns
that the Same Covered the Whole of s'^ Lands, Whereupon your
PetMn Oct' 1784 Prefered his Ft" to the Hon^ Assembly Stating s''
facts & Praying for an Eqnivolent in any of the Unlocated Lands in
this State, and Obtained a flying Grant for an Equivalent, and that
Due Regard Should be had to the quantity, quality. Situation &
Time of the former Grant (as by files & Records may appear) That
your Hon""* Pf notwithstanding his Indefatigable and Expensive Per-
suits for more than Eight years hath never been able to Locate and
Obtain a Charter of s*^ Lands, LTntill Ocf 1788 and that the Lands
now Obtained are in three Diferent Parts, and Mostly in the North-
erly Extreams of this State, and are but Equal in quantity, (not in
quality & situation) With Lands first Granted, that your Pt"^ as a
Part of s'^ grant Hath a gore of about 4000 acres Laying East of
Starksburrough about Eight miles & | in Length, & about One Mile
in width on the North (adjoining on New Huntington and Termi-
nating in a Point at the South & is mostly Broken and mountainous,
that it is Inviron'd by an Inacsesable Ridge of Mountains on the
Starksbury East Line and by Its situation no ways Convenient to be
annexed to New Huntington, that on the East adjoining s'' Gore
their is about four Thousand acres of Vacant Lands Laying on the
hight & Range of the Green Mountains & adjoin on Fayston Chiefly
mountainous, but Interspersed with valeys Capable of Improvement,
Which if annexed to the Lands granted to your Pf miglit make a

small Cororate District Whereupon your Petitioner Prays your

Hon" to Grant him s'^ vacant Lands Described as Some Compensa-
tion for his Losses & Disapointments on his Paying the Charter fees
or on such moderate Granting fees as y"" Hon^ shall think Just and
the Same Incorporate with the gore allready granted y'' Pef by the
name of Montzoar and your Hon" Pef^ further Prays (that your
Hon" Considering the Long & accumulated Disapointments Losses
Troubles and Expense sustained by y'^ Pef associates) that your
Hon" Would grant your Pef and associates Such Parts & Peaces,
of Vacant & unlocated Lands in this State as may still be found
ungranted (not less than 10000 acres nor Exceeding 40000 acres, on
such Granting fees & vinder such Regulations and Restrictions as
your Hon" in your wisdom shall think fit and y"" Pef in Duty Bound
shall Ever

Pray
Dated at Rutland Elias Buell

Nov' 16'^ 1788"

APPENDIX. 641

BURKE. — Town in Caledonia County. Vermont grant as Burk
of 23,040 acres to Justus Rose, ('apt. Uriah Seymour, and sixty-three
associates, Feb. 20, 1782, ([Ms.] Vermont Charters, 1-50). Part
known as Burke Tongue annexed to Hopkinsville and tlie whole
incorporated into a town by the name of Kirby, (Laws of 1807, p. 71.)

Surveyor General's Papers 1-4, 6; 11-40, 163, charter of; IV-sur-
vey of lines; X-69, 109, bounds of; Hemenway's Vermont Historical
Gazetteer, 1-302; Child's Essex and Caledonia Co. Gazetteer, 1887,
p. 151 ; Thompson's History of Vermont, 1842, Part III, p. 36; Hay-
ward's Vermont Gazetteer, 1849, p. 37; Deming's Vermont Officers,
1851, p. 132; Coolidge and Mansfield's History of New England,
1860, p. 765.

See Bamj\ (New York grant), ante.

BURKE TONGUE.— See Burke. Thompson's History of Ver-
mont, 1 842, Part HI, p. 37.

BURLINGTON.— City in Chittenden County. New Hampshire
grant of 23,040 acres to Samuel Willis, John Willis, 3d, and sixty-
four associates, June 7, 1763, ante pp. 75-79. Part incorporated into
town of Williston Oct. 27, 1794, (Laws p. 55). Part annexed
to Williston and line between the two established, (Laws of 1797, p.
66). Division of Burlington into city of Burlington and town of
South Burlington authorized, (Laws of 1852, pp. 85-96).

Surveyor General's Papers 1-85, 109, 114, 177 to 185, 196; 11-16,
25, 100, 101, 103, 104, 109, 110, 131, 141; IV, VI, Vll-survey of
lines ; Hemenway's Vermont Historical Gazetteer, 1-487 ; Child's
Chittenden Co. Gazetteer, 1883, p. 94; Rami's History of Chittenden
Co., 1886, p. 392 ; Thompson's History of Vermont, 1842, Part III, p.
37; Hay ward's Vermont Gazetteer, 1849, p. 37; Deming's Vermont
Officers, 1851, p. 132; Coolidge and Mansfield's History of New
England, 1860, p. 765; Auld's Picturesque Burlington, 1893.
See Deerfield, (New York grant), post.

CABOT. — Town in Washington County. Vermont grant of 23,-
040 acres to Jesse Levingsworth and sixt3'-five associates, Aug. 17,
1781, ([Ms.] Vermont Charters, 1-240 to 243). Town annexed to
Washington County, (Laws of 1855, pp. 68-70). Part annexed to
Danville, (Laws of 1834, p. 28).

642 APPENDIX.

Surveyor General's Papers, 1-88, 102; 11-126; Ill-survey of lines;
X-63, 79, bounds of; Hemenway's Vermont Historical Gazetteer,
4-74 ; ChilcFs Washington Co. Gazetteer, 1889, p. 201; Thompson's
History of Vermont, 1842, Part HI, p. 40; Hayward's Vermont
Gazetteer, 1849, p. 39; Deming's Vermont Officers, 1851, p. 133;
Coolidge and Mansfield's History of New England, 1860, p. 769.
See Sidney, (New York grant), post.

CALAIS. — Town in Washington County. A^ermont grant of 23,-
040 acres to Col. Jacob Davis, Stephen Fay and fifty-eight associates,
Aug. 15, 1781, ([Ms.J Vermont Charters, 1-152 to 155).

Surveyor General's Papers, 1-27, 28; 11-44, 85; X-2, 3, 77, bounds
of; Hemenway's Vermont Historical Gazetteer, 4-128; Child's Wash-
ington Co. Gazetteer, 1889, p. 222; Thompson's History of Vermont,
1842, Part III, p. 41; Hayward's Vermont Gazetteer, 1849, p. 39;
Deming's Vermont Officers, 1851, p. 133; Coolidge and Mansfield's
History of New England, 1860, p. 770.

See Penryn, (New York grant), 'post.

CALDERSBURGH.— Vermont grant of 23,040 acres to Col. Jede-
diah Elderkin and sixty-three associates Nov. 6, 1780, ([Ms.] Ver-
mont Charters, I — 268 to 270). Brownington's and Whitelaw's Gores
annexed, east part annexed to Wenlock, and name changed to Mor-
gan Oct. 19, 1801, (Laws p. 82).

CALDWELL'S UPPER MANOR.— Same as Alburgh. Nov. 1,
1744, the King of France granted Alburgh to Francis Foucault;
after the conquest of Canada the grant was confirmed liy the King
of Great Britain ; the title subsequently passed from Foucault to Gen.
Haldimand and thence to Henry and John Caldwell, all British
subjects.

Governor and Council, IV — 455.

CAMBRIDGE. — Town in Lamoille County. Vermont grant to Col.
Samuel Robinson, Hon. John Fassett, Junior, Esq., Jonathan Fassett,
Esq., and seventy-three associates Aug. 30, 1781, ([Ms.] Vermont
Charters, I— 210 "to 213). Part of Sterling annexed, (Laws of 1828,
p. 15). Annexation of parts of Fairfax and Fletcher authorized,
(Laws of 1841, p. 58).

APPENDIX. 643

Survej'or General's Papei-s, I — 128 : X — 2, 5, »>, 7, bounds of; Hem-
en-vvay's Vermont Historical Gazetteer, 2 — 59o ; Child's Lamoille and
Orleans Co. Gazetteer, 1884, p. »>♦) ; Thompson's History of Vermont,
1842, Part III, p. 43 ; Hayward's Vermont Gazetteer, 1849, p. 41 ;
Demino-'s Vermont Officers, 1851, p. 133 ; Coolidge and Mansfield's
History of New England, 1860, p. 772.

CAMDEN.— New York grant by Lt. Gov. Golden Nov. 13, 1769,
to Robert R. Livingston, Chief .Justice of New York, of 35,000 acres,
covering land in -Jamaica, Wardsl)orough, and Dover.

Vermont Historical Society Collections, I — 154.

CANAAN. — Town in Essex County. Vermont grant of 15,360
acres to John Wheeler and forty-three associates Feb. 25, 1782,
([Ms.] Vermont Charters, III — 2 to 4). Norfolk annexed Oct. 23,
1801, (I^aws, p. 95). Part annexed to Lemington, (Laws of 1837,
p. 101). Annexation of part of I^emington authorized, (I^aws of
1870, p. 569).

Surveyor General's Papers, 1—30 ; 11—49, 120, 121 ; Child's Essex
and Caledonia Co. Gazetteer, 1887, p. 415 ; Thompson's History of
Vermont, 1842, p. 44 ; Hayward's Vermont Gazetteer, 1849, p. 42 ;
Deming's Vermont Officers, 1851, p. 134 ; Coolidge and Mansfield's
History of New England, 1860, p. 773.

See Thirming, (J:\e\v York grant), post.

CARTHAGE.— See Jay.

CASTI^ETON. — Town in Rutland County. New Hampshire
grant of 23,040 acres to Samuel Brown and sixty-three associates,
Sept. 22, 1761, ante pp. 79-82. Setthig off part of school district No.
9 to No. 11 of Hubbardton legalized, (Laws of 1829, p. 294).

Surveyor General's Papers, VII — survey of lines ; Hemenway's
Vermont Historical Gazetteer, 3-501 ; Child's Rutland Co. Gazetteer,
1882, p. 97; Thompson's History of Vermont, 1842, Part III, p. 45;
Hayward's Vermont Gazetteer, 1849, p. 42 ; Deming's Vermont Offi-
cers, 1851, p. 134 ; Coolidge and Mansfield's Historv of New Eng-
land, 1860, p. 773.

644 APPENDIX.

CAVENDISH. — Town in Windsor County. Xew Hampshire
grant of 25,000 acres to Amos Kimball and sixty-five associates. Oct.
12, 1761, ante pp. 83-87. New York grant by Gov. Tryon of 22,000
acres, Jan. 6, 1772, was a confirmation of New Hampshire charter;
Vermont Historical Society Collections, I — 157. Oct. 19, 1793, (Laws,
p. 6), Cavendish was divided into two towns, Baltimore being incor-
porated but represented jointly with Cavendish, (Vermont Assembly
Journal, 1823, p. 51). Line with Baltimore established, (Laws of
1841, p. 58).

Surveyor General's Papers, II — 67 ; Child's Windsor Co. Gazetteer^
1884, p. 101 ; Thompson's History of Vermont, 1842, Part III, p. 47 ;
Hay ward's Vermont Gazetteer, 1849, p. 43; Deming's Vermont Offi-
cers, 1851, p. 134 ; Coolidge and Mansfield's History of New Eng-
land, 1860, p. 775.

CHARLESTON. — Town in Orleans County. Vermont grant of
23,040 acres as Navy to Abraham Whipple and sixty-three associates,
Nov. 10, 1780, ([Ms.] Vermont Charters, I— 206 to 209). Name
changed to Charleston, Nov. 16, 1825, (Laws, p. 33).

Surveyor General's Papers, (see Navy), I — 92, 171 ; II — 46, 161,
164 ; III — survey of lines ; Hemenway's Vermont Historical Gazet^
teer, 3-105 ; Child's Lamoille and Orleans Co. Gazetteer, 1884,
p. 220 ; Thompson's History of Vermont, 1842, Part III, p. 50 ; Hay-
ward's Vermont Gazetteer, 1849, p. 44; Deming's Vermont Officers,
1851, p. 134 ; Coolidge and Mansfield's History of New England,
1860, p. 777.

CHARLOTTE.— Tow^n in Chittenden County. New Hampshire
grant of 23,060 acres as Charlotta to Benjamin Ferris and sixty-five
associates, June 24, 1762, ante pp. 87-90.

Surveyor General's Papers, 1—31, 190, 214, 236 ; VI— survey of
lines ; X — 4, 11, bounds of ; Hemenway's Vermont Historical Gazet-
teer, 1-733 ; Child's Chittenden Co. Gazetteer, 1883, p. 162 ; Rann's
History of Chittenden Co., 1886, p. 534; Thompson's History of
Vermont, 1842, Part III, p. 51 ; Hayward's Vermont Gazetteer, 1849,
p. 45 ; Deming's Vermont Officers, 1851, p. 135 ; Coolidge and
Mansfield's History of New England, 1860, p. 778.

CHARLOTTE.— New York grant of 25,000 acres to Nathaniel
Marston & Co. by Lt. Gov. Colden, March 31, 1770, in Chelsea and
vicinity: Vermont Historical Society Collections I — 154. This is

Al'PENDIX.

646

not to be confounded witli the present town of Charlotte, whicli see,
ante.

CIIATHA^NL— New York grant of 12,750 acres to Lt. John Crnik-
shank and others by Gov. Dunmore, March 14, 1771, embracing lands
principally in Dorset; H. Hall's Early History of Vermont, pp.
131, U± ■

CHELSEA. — Town in Orange County. Vermont grant as Turn-
ei"sborough of 23,040 acres to Bela Turner and seventy associates,
Aug. 4,^1781, ([INIs.] Vermont Charters, 1-193 to 196). Name
changed to Chelsea Oct. 23, 1788, (l^aws, p. 5). Annexation of part
of Brooktield authorized, (Laws of 1829, p. 21).

Surve3-or General's Papers, 1-32, 84; IV-survey of lines; X-49,
bounds of: Hemenway's Vermont Historical Gazetteer, 2-870;
Child's Orange Co. Gazetteer, 1888, p. 220; Thompson's History of
A'ermont, 1842, Part III, p. 52; Hay ward's Vermont Gazetteer,
1849, p. 46; Deming's Vermont Officers, 1851, p. 135; Coolidge
and Mansfield's History of New England, 1860, 779.

See Charlotte, (New York grant), ante, and G-agehoronf/h, (New-
York grant), post.

CHESTER.— Town in Windsor Count}'. New Hampshire grant
as Flamstead of 23,040 acres to John Balbridge and fifty-seven asso-
ciates Feb. 22, 1754. Regranted as New Flamstead to Daniel Haywood
and sixty-six associates Nov. 3, 1761, ante pp. 91-8. The New York
grant as Chester of 31,700 acres July 14, 1766, was a confirmation of
New Hampshire charter of Feb. 22, 1754; Vermont Historical Society
Collections, I-l 54.

Child's Windsor Co. Gazetteer, 1884, p. 113; Thompson's History of
Vermont, 1842, Part HI, p. 52; Hayward's Vermont Gazetteer, 1849,
p. 46; Deming's Vermont Officers, 1851, p. 135; Coolidge and Mans-
field's History of New England, 1860, p. 779.

CHITTENDEN.— Town in Rutland County. Vermont grant to
Gershom Beach and sixty-five associates March 16, 1780, ([Ms.] Ver-
mont Charters, 1-184 to 186 ; II-l). Part annexed to Philadelphia
for school purposes, (Laws of 1812, p. 158). Philadelphia annexed
Nov. 2, 1812. (Laws, pp. 48-50). Annexation of part to Sherburne
authorized, (Laws of 1829, p. 20). Annexation of part of Brandon

646 APPENDIX.

authorized, (Laws of 1855, p. 75). Laws of 1854, p. 60, repeals
Laws of 1812, p. 158, annexing part of Brandon to Philadelphia for
school purposes provided towns of Brandon and Chittenden so vote.

Surveyor (lenerars Papers, I — 96; Hemenway's Vermont Histori-
cal Gazetteer, 3-547; Child's Rutland Co. Gazetteer, 1882, p. 109;
Thompson's History of Vermont, 1842, Part III, p. 54; Haywood's
Vermont Gazetteer, 1849, p. 48 ; Deming's Vermont Officers, 1851, p.
136; Coolidge and Manstield's History of New England, 1860, p. 781.

CLARENDON. — Town in Rutland County. New Hampshire
grant of 23,600 acres to Caleb Willard and sixty-three associates
Sept. 5, 1761, ante pp. 99-102. Part annexed to Ira, (Laws of 1854,
p. 57).

Hemenway's Vermont Historical Gazetteer, 3-552; Child's Rutland
Co. Gazetteer, 1882, p. 114; Thompson's History of Vermont, 1842,
Part III, p. 55; Hayward's Vermont Gazetteer, 1849, p. 48; Deming's
Vermont Officers, 1851, p. 136; Coolidge and Mansfield's History of
New England, 1860, p. 782.

See Durham, (New York grant), 2)ost.

COIT'S GORE.— Vermont grant of 10,000 acres to James White-
law, James Savage, and William Coit, Oct. 26, 1788, ([Ms.] Ver-
mont Charters, 1-313 ; Governor and Council, III-177, 180). Part
annexed to Bakersfield, (Laws of 1799, p. 16). Remainder incorpo-
rated into town of Waterville, (Laws of 1824, p. 14).

Surveyor General's Papers, 1-26; Deming's Vermont Officers,
1851, p. 136; Thompson's History of Vermont, 1842, Part III, p. 56.

COLCHESTER.— Town in Chittenden County. New Hampshire
grant of 23,040 acres to Edward Burling and sixty-five associates,
June 7, 1763, ante pp. 103-106. Part united with part of Burlington
for school purposes, November 1, 1808, (Laws, p. 23). Part annexed
to Milton, (Laws of 1868, p. 309). Loomis Island annexed, (Laws
of 1872, p. 622).

Surveyor General's Papers, 1-22, 85, 109, 114, 160, 188, 189, 195,
210; 11-112 to 116; VI, Vll-survey of lines; X-75, bounds of; Hem-
enway's Vermont Historical Gazetteer, 1-754; Child's Chittenden
Co. Gazetteer, 1883, p. 179; Rann's History of Chittenden Co., 1886,
p. 553; Thompson's History of Vermont, 1842, Part III, p. 56; Hay-
ward's Vermont Gazetteer, 1849, p. 49 ; Deming's Vermont Officers,

APPENDIX. 647

1851, p. 180: Coolidge and Mansfield's History of New England,
1800, p. 783.

CONCORD. — Town in Essex County. Vermont grant to Reuben
Jones and sixty-four associates, Sept. 15, 1781, ([Ms.] Vermont Char-
ters, 1-203 to 200). Annexed to Caledonia Co., (Laws of 1820, p.
21). Part of Bradleyvale annexed, (Laws of 1850, p. 91).

Surveyor General's Papers, 1-25, 155; 11-70; IV-survey of lines;
X-75, bounds of; Ilemenway's Vermont Historical Gazetteer, 1-966;
Child's Essex and Caledonia Co. Gazetteer, 1887, p. 421 ; Thompson's
History of Vermont, 1842, Part IH, p. 57; Hayward's Vermont Gaz-
etteer, 1849, p. 50; Deming's Vermont Officers, 1851, p. 137; Cool-
idge and Mansfield's History of New England, 1800, p. 784.
See Kershorough^ (New York grant), post.

CORINTH. — Town in Orange County. New Hampshire grant of
24,000 acres to Jonathan White Escp, and sixty-five associates, Feb.
4, 1764, ante pp. 107-110. New York grant by Governor Tryon of
23,100 acres 5larch 2, 1772, was a confirmation of New Hampshire
charter; Vermont Historical Society Collections, 1-156. Boundary
lines of, Nov. 4, 1799, (Laws, p. 17). Line with Vershire established
Nov. 6, 1801, (Laws, p. 88); Nov. 7, 1806, (Laws, p. 120). Part of
Vershire annexed Oct. 23, 1811, (Laws, p. 30).

Surveyor General's Papers. 1-28, 84, 140, 163; 11-77; IV and V-
survey of lines: X-42, bounds of; Hemenway's Vermont Historical

Coolidge and Mansfield s History of New England, 1860, p. 784.

CORNWALL. — Town in Addison County. New Hampshire grant
of 25,000 acres to Elias Reed and sixty-four associates Nov. 3, 1761,
ante pp. 111-114. Part annexed to Middlebur3% (Laws of 1796, p.
56).

Surveyor General's Papers, 11-16 ; X-20, bounds of ; Hemenway's
Vermont Historical Gazetteer, 1-23; Child's Addison Co. Gazetteer,
1882, p. 90; Thompson's History of Vermont, 1842, Part HI, p. 59;
Hay ward's Vermont Gazetteer, 1849, p. 51 ; Deming's Vermont Offi-
cers, 1851, p. 137 ; Coolidge and Mansfield's History of New England,
1860, p. 785.

See Morrnfield., (New York grant), post. See under Leicester, post.,
for New York g^rant.

648 APPENDIX.

COVENTRY.— Town in Orleans County. Nov. 4. 1780, Major
Elias Buell of Coventiy, Conn., obtained from ^"e^mont for himself
and associates a grant of " a Certain tract of Land in this State Ipng
between the to^\'ns of Shorum, Orwel, Hubbarton, Sudbury and
Whiting," (Governor and Council, II — 55), and paid the granting
fees therefor. "When it was afterwards found that the surrounding
towns covered nearh- the whole of the lands granted, the legislature
in Oct., 1784, upon a petition tiled, allowed Buell to select from the
unlocated lands in the state an equivalent for the deficiency, (Gov-
ernor and Council, III — 59). Oct. 24, 1788, a sufficient amount of
land having been decreed b}' the Land Commissioners, in accordance
with the "flpng grant" of 1784, to make up the deficiency, the Sec-
retary of the Council was directed to issue a charter, (Governor and
Council, III — 176, 180). The charter dated Nov. 4, 1780, issued to
Maj. Elias Buel and fiftj^-nine associates, included three tracts of
land ; the present town of Coventry, 16,767 acres, 2,000 acres known
as Coventry Gore, which was annexed to Newport in 1816. and Buel's
Gore in Chittenden County which then contained 4,273 acres, ([Ms.]
Vermont Chartei'S I — 43 to 46). Coventry Gore annexed to Ne^^'port,
(Laws of 1816, p. 129). Name of town changed to Orleans, (Laws
of 1841, p. 61). Name changed back to Coventry, (Laws of 1843,
p. 28).

Surveyor GeneraFs Papers, 1—24, 76. 89; 11—47, 129, 132, 160;
X — 32, 101, bounds of ; Hemenway's Vermont Historical Gazetteer,
3—136; ChihVs Lamoille and Orleans Co. Gazetteer, 1884, p. 227 ;
Thompson's History of Vermont, 1842, Part III, p. 60 ; Haj-ward's
Vermont Gazetteer, 1849, p. 52 ; Deming's Vermont Officers, 1851,
p. 138; Coolidge and Mansfield's History of New England, 1860,
p. 786.

See [Ms.] Vermont State Papers, 22 — 69, 184, for petitions of Buell;
and also see Buel's Gore, ante.

See *SY. G-eorge, (New York grant), j^ost.

COVENTRY.— A "Will o' the Wisp" sometime thought to have
been seen where Cornwall and Weyl^ridge are. See Governor and
Council, 8 — 36(), and map facing p. 430 ; also Jeffery's Atlas, Map
No. 15. This Coventry is plainl}- neither the Coventry petitioned
for and granted to Major Buel and associates in 1780, nor the present
Coventry which was chartered (by charter dated back to Nov. 4,
1780,) to iNIajor Buel and associates in 1788. It is discovered
nowhere except on certain maps, and no doubt there appeal's by the
blunder of the draughtsman or engraver mistaking the name of Corn-

APPENDIX. 649

wall, which was granted in ITiil ; or l)y thinking (from Coventry,
N. H., holding the same relative position to Connecticut River that
Cornwall does to Lake (^hamplain) that he was at work on the New
Hampshire Coventr}', when really at work on Cornwall. It looks
more like a misreading of the name Cornwall on the part of the map
maker, for the same map in Jefferv's contains Betton for Bolton and
Woodbury for Newbury. Such carelessness would easily make
Coventry out of Cornwall.

COVENTRY GORE.— Thompson's History of Vermont, 1842,
Part HI, p. 00; Hay ward's Vermont Gazetteer, 1849, p. 144.

See Coventry, ante.

CRAFTSBURY. — Town in Orleans County. Vermont grant as
]\Iinden of 23,040 acres to Timothy Newell, Ebenezer Craft, and
sixt3'-one associates Aug. 23, 1781, ([Ms.] Vermont Charters, I —
197 to 199). Since "from a similarity of sound between the names
of Minden and Lyndon peoi^le often mistake one for the other," the
name was changed to Craftsbury, (Laws of 1790, p. 6).

Surveyor General's Papers, I — 23, 231 ; 11^ — 19 ; X — 8, bounds of ;
Hemenway's A'ermont Historical Gazetteer, 3 — 164 ; Child's Lamoille
and Orleans Co. Gazetteer, 1884, p. 239; Thompson's History of Ver-
mont, 1842, Part HI, p. (30 ; Hayw^ard's Vermont Gazetteer, 1849,
p. 52; Deming's Vermont Officers, 1851, p. 138; Coolidge and Mans-
field's History of New^ England, 1860, p. 787.

CUMBERLAND. — " Cumberland Township " was the south-w^est
corner of Cumberland County, and covered the present towns of
Whitingham and Readsboro. New York grants w-ere made in this
territory, one of 10,000 acres to Nathan Whiting and associates
]March 12, 1770; \"ermont Historical Society Collections, I — 154.
A record of a charter of the town of Cumberland has not yet
appeared.

Hemenway's ^'ermont Historical Gazetteer, Vol. 5, Part II — 189,
pp. 684, 685, (Whitingham). See also map preceding Index to Vol.
1, Documentary History of New York. See also lieadsboro, post.

DANBY. — Town in Rutland" County. New Hampshire grant of
23,040 acres to Jonathan Willard and sixty-one associates, Aug. 27,

650 APPENDIX.

1761, ante pp. 115-118. New York grant of 1,000 acres to John
Tudor by Gov. Tr3-on, Feb. 20, 1772, covered lands in Danby; Ver-
mont Historical Society Collections, I — 156. Annexation of part to
Mt. Tabor authorized, (Laws of 1848, pp. 9-11).

Hemenway's Vermont Historical Gazetteer, 3-576; Child's Rut-
land Co. Gazetteer, 1882, p. 122; Thompson's History of Vermont,
1842, Part IH, p. 62; Hayward's Vermont Gazetteer, 1849, p. 53;
Deming's Vermont Officers, 1851, p. 139; Coolidge and Mansfield's
History of New England, 1860, p. 789.

DANVILLE. — Town in Caledonia County. Vermont grant of
28,000 acres to Jacob Bailey, Jesse Leavenworth, and associates, Oct.
31, 1786, ([Ms.] Vermont Charters 1—319 to 324). A committee
was appointed to report facts respecting a new charter in 1801, (Laws,
p. 85). New charter in accordance with act of Nov. 6, 1802, (Laws,
pp. 92-105), issued Nov. 12, 1802, to seventy-five grantees, ([Ms.]
Vermont Charters, I — 364 to 367). Walden Gore annexed Oct. 29,
1792, (Laws, p. 15). Part of Deweysburgh annexed, (Laws of 1810,
pp. 108-110). Part of Cabot annexed, (Laws of 1834, p. 28).

Surveyor General's Papers, I — 126, 147, 155; H — 11; IV — survey
of lines ; Hemenway's Vermont Historical Gazetteer, 1-312 ; Child's
Essex and Caledonia Co. Gazetteer, 1887, p. 172 ; Thompson's His-
tory of Vermont, 1842, Part III, p. 62; Hayward's Vermont Gazet-
teer, 1849, p. 53 ; Deming's Vermont Officers, 1851, p. 140 ; Coolidge
and Mansfield's History of New England, 1860, p. 789.
See IfiUshoroii(/h, (New York grant), jyost.

DELLINS GRANT.— A New York grant made to Rev. God-
frey Dellins, of Albany, N. Y., Sept. 3, 1696, and three years later set
aside and annulled, as having been obtained and issued by fraud.
New York used this grant as showing that her claim of an eastern
boundary on the Connecticut River was an ancient one, insisting that
the patent covered a tract of land on the west side of Vermont
twelve miles in width, commencing at Charlotte and extending south
for about fifty miles. Hiland Hall in his Early History of Vermont
insists that no part of the Dellins grant covered any Vermont land.

See H. Hall's Early History of Vermont, pp. 488-495, with map,
p. 491 ; see also map facing p. 368, Vol. I, Documentary History of
New York (quarto).

APPENDIX. 651

DEERFIELD.— New York grant of 35,000 acres to Samuel Wells
& Co. by Gov. Diiniiiore, June 20. 1771, now Burlington and vicinity,
chartered by New Hanipsliire, 1701 ; Vermont Historical Society Col-
lections, I — 155. Probably covered the greater part of Williston.

DERBY. — Town in Orleans County. Vermont grant of 23,040
acres to Timothy Andrews and fifty-nine associates, Oct. 29, 1779,
([Ms.] Vermont Charters, I — 74 to 70). Black and Bell Islands
annexed and Auditor of Accounts authorized to sell the islands,
(Laws of 1865, p. 244). Line with Newport established, (Laws of
1868, p. 310). Annexation of Salem authorized, (Laws of 1880, pp.
236 to 238).

Surveyor General's Papers, I — 34; X — 95, bounds of; Hemen-
way's Vermont Historical Gazetteer, 3-178; Child's Lamoille and
Orleans Co. Gazetteer, 1884, p. 250 ; Thompson's History of Ver-
mont, 1842, Part III, p. 63; Hayward's Vermont Gazetteer, 1849,
p. 54 ; Deming's Vermont Officers, 1851, p. 141 ; Coolidge and Mans-
field's History of New England, 1860, p. 790.

DEWEYSBURGH.— Vermont grant of a tract "containing 15
sixty fifty parts of a six mile square township " to Capt. Elijah
DeAvey and fourteen associates Feb. 28, 1782, ([Ms.] Vermont
Charters, I — 36 to 39). Annexed to Danville and Peacham Nov. 2,
1810, (Laws, pp. 108-110).

Surveyor General's Papers, I — 35 ; IV — survey of lines ; X — 67,
bounds of.

DORSET. — Town in Bennington County. New Hampshire grant
of 23,040 acres to Gideon Lyman, Esq., and sixty-three associates
Aug. 20, 1761, ante pp. 119-122. Annexation of part of ]VIt. Tabor
authorized, (Laws of 1825, p. 25; 1832, p. 25).

Hemenway's Vermont Historical Gazetteer, 1 — 183; Child's Ben-
nington Co. Gazetteer, 1881, p. 122 ; Thompson's History of Ver-
mont, 1842, Part HI, p. 64; Hayward's Vermont Gazetteer, 1849, p.
55 ; Deming's Vermont Officers, 1851, p. 141 ; Coolidge and Mans-
field's History of New England, 1860, p. 791.

See Chatliam^ (New York grant), ante ; Prineetown, (New York
grant), post ; Arlington, ante, New York grant to J. Napier.

652 APPENDIX.

DOVER. — Town in Windham County. New Hampshire grants
of 2,000 acres each to Lieut. Peter Brown, Lieut. Stephen Holknd,
and Lieut. James Tute July 6, 1764, were of lands now embraced in
the town of Dover, ante pp. 123-129. Incorporated out of south
district of Wardshoro, (Laws of 1810, p. 79). Annexation of a part
of Somerset authorized, (Laws of 1851, p. 05). Line Avith Wilming-
ton and Marlboro established, (Laws of 1851, p. '<¥^ ; 1852, p. (^'6').
Annexation of a part of Wilmington authorized, (Laws of 1868, p.
310). Part of Wilmington provisionally annexed, (Laws of 1869, p.
289).

Hemenway's Vermont Historical Gazetteer, Vol. 5, Part II, p. 337 ;
Child's Windliam Co. Gazetteer, 1884, p. 162 ; Thompson's History
of Vermont, 1842, Part III, p. 65 ; Harvard's Vermont Gazetteer,
1849, p. 55; Deming's A^ermont Officers, 1851, p. 141; Coolidge and
Mansfield's History of New England, 1860, p. 792.

See Camden^ (New York grant), ante.

DRAPER. — New Hampshire grant, ante pp. 562-565.

See Wilmington.

DUMMERSTON.— Town in Windham County. New Hampshire
grant as FuUam of 19,360 acres to Simeon Stoddard and fifty asso-
ciates Dec. 26, 1753. Charter renewed June 12, 1760, July 6, 1761,
Jul}' 7, 1762, and June 7, 1764, ante pp. 130-138. Dummerston was
part of a tract of land granted bj- Massachusetts to Connecticut in
exchange for lands granted by the former in the territory of the
latter through mistake, and Dummerston was sold at auction by
Connecticut in 1716 to Hon. William Dummer and Simeon Stoddard,
Esq. Annexation of part to Putney authorized, (Laws of 1844,
p. 4). The latter act repealed and part annexed to Putney, (Laws
of 1846, p. 11). Annexation of part to Putney authorized, (Laws of
1870, p. 568). Part annexed to Putney, (Laws of 1892, p. 427).

Surveyor General's Papers, I — 228 ; II — 35 ; Hemenway's Ver-
mont Historical Gazetteer, Vol. 5, Part II, p. 1 ; (Child's Windham Co.
Gazetteer, 1884, p. 169; Thompson's History of Vermont, 1842,
Part III, p. y^h ; Hayward's Vermont Gazetteer, 1849, p. 56 ; Dem-
ing's Vermont Officers, 1851, p. 142 ; Coolidge and Mansfield's History
of New England, 1860, p. 792.

DUNBAR.— New Hampshire grant, ante pp. 477-480.

See Sudbury.

APPENDIX. 653

DUNCANSBOROUGH.— Vermont grant, now Newport, which
see.

DUNMORE.— New York grant of 39,000 acres by Lt. Gov. Col-
den to John Woods & Co. Aug. 8, 1770, in and near wliat is now
Waterford, (Vermont Historical Society Collections, I — 155).

DFRIIAM.— New York grant of 38,000 acres by Gov. Tryon to
Benjamin Spencer & Co. Jan. 7, 1772 ; covered lands granted by
New Hampshire in Clarendon and Wallingford ; Vermont Historical
Society Collections, 1—156. Map facing'p. 430 of Vol. VIH, Gov.
ernor and Council, lias Durham in Shrewsbury.
See Avery^s G-ores^ ante.

DUX BURY. — Town in Washington County. New Hampshire
grant of 23,040 acres to Rev. Isaac Brown and sixty-four associates
June 7, 1763, rt^^tqjp. 138-142. Part of Moretown annexed for school
purposes, (Laws of 1802, p. 89). Repealed, (Laws of 1822, p. 95).

Surveyor Generars Papers, 1—36, 164, 165, 218; X— 2, 5, 18,
bounds of: Child's Washington County Gazetteer, 1889, p. 242;
Thompson's History of Vermont, 1842, Part III, p. QQ ; Hayward's
Vermont Gazetteer, 1849, p. 56 ; Deming's Vermont Officers, 1851, p.
142; Coolidge and Mansfield's History of New England, 1860, p. 795.
See Windham^ (New York grant), j^ost.

EASTHAM. — Where Chelsea now is. Supposed to be a New
Hampshire grant, (Governor and Council, VIII — 366, and map facing-
page 430). The New York grant of Charlotte covered the same ter-
ritory. Eastham is found on a map in Jeffery's Atlas, p. 15, printed
in 1776.

EAST HAVEN.— Town in Essex County. Vermont grant of
23,040 acres to Timothy Andrews and sixty-three associates Oct. 22,
1790, ([:Ms.] Vermont Charters, 1—303 to 305).

Surveyor General's Papers, I — 91 ; X — 71, bounds of ; Hemen-
way's Vermont Historical Gazetteer, I — 985 ; Child's Essex and Cale-
donia Co. Gazetteer, 1887, p. 439 ; Thompson's History of Vermont,
1842, Part HI, p. ^^); Hayward's Vermont Gazetteer, 1849, p. 56;
Deming's Vermont Officers, 1851, p. 143 ; Coolidge and Mansfield's
History of New England, 1860, p. 796.

654 APPENDIX.

EAST MONTPELIER.— Town in Washington County. Incor-
porated by dividing Montpelier into two towns, (Laws of 1848, pp.
5-7 ; 1849, pp. 146-148).

Hemenway's Vermont Historical Gazetteer, 4 — 575 ; Child's Wash-
ington Co. Gazetteer, 1889, p. 255 ; Hay ward's Vermont Gazetteer,
1849, p. 56 ; Deming's Vermont Officers, 1851, p. 148 ; Coolidge and
Mansfield's History of New England, 1860, p. 796; D. P. Thomp-
son's History of Montpelier, 1860 ; Vermont Watchman^ Souvenir Edi-
tion Devoted to Montpelier, 1893.

See 3Iontpelier.

EDEN. — Town in Lamoille County. Vermont grant of 28,040
acres to Col. Seth Warner and seventy-one associates Aug. 28, 1781,
([Ms.] Vermont Charters, 1—222 "to 225). Part of Belvidere
annexed, (Laws of 1828, p. 15). Repealed, (Laws of 1881, p. 12),
and line with Belvidere established according to original charter
limits.

Surveyor General's Papers, I — 40,198; X — 88, bounds of; Hem-
enway's Vermont Historical Gazetteer, 2 — 621 ; Child's Lamoille
and Orleans Co. Gazetteer, 1884, p. 77 ; Thompson's History of
Vermont, 1842, Part III, p. 'o'^ ; Hayward's Vermont Gazetteer,
1849, p. 57 ; Deming's Vermont Officers, 1851, p. 148 ; Coolidge
and Mansfield's History of New England, 1860, p. 796.

ELMORE.— Town in Lamoille County. Vermont grant of 28,040
acres to Col. Samuel Elmore and sixty-four associates Aug. 21, 1781,
([Ms.] Vermont Charters, 1-126 to 129). Line with Worcester
established, (Laws of 1887, p. 10).

Surveyor General's Papers, 1-41, 88; X-1, 7, 38, bounds of; Hem-
enway's Vermont Historical Gazetteer, 2-626 ; Child's Lamoille and
Orleans Co. Gazetteer, 1884, p. 83 ; Thompson's History of Vermont,
1842, Part III, p. 67; Hayward's Vermont Gazetteer, 1849, p. 57;
Deming's Vermont Officers, 1851, p. 143 ; Coolidge and Mansfield's
History of New England, 1860, p. 797.

ELY. — Authorization of change of name from Vershire, (Laws of
1878, p. 219). Name changed l)ack to Vershire, (Laws of 1882, p.
265).

See Versliire.

APPENDIX. 655

ENOSBURGH.— Town in Franklin County. Vermont grant of
23,040 acres to Roger Enos and fifty-nine associates May 15, 1780,
([.Ms.] Vermont Charters I-Ki to 18: 11-10). Part of Bakei-sfield
annexed Oct. 31, 1798, (Laws, p. 40). Provision made for establish-
ing line Avith other toAvns and sale of gore of land between Enos-
burgh, and jMontgomery, Berkshire, and Richford directed, (Laws of
1802, pp. 158-160). Laws of 1803, p. 00, repeals so much of Laws of
1802, pp. 158-100, as directs sale of a gore of land between Berkshire
and Richford. Part of Berkshire annexed and part of Enosburgh
annexed to Berkshire, (Laws of 1838, p. 14). Line with Bakersfield
established, (Laws of 1845, p. 5).

Surveyor General's Papers, 1-37 to 39, 127, 102; 11-90; V-sur-
vey of lines; X-105, 108, 114, 116, bounds of; Hemenway's Vermont
Historical Gazetteer, 2-132; Child's Franklin and Grand Isle Co.
Gazetteer, 1883, p. 78 ; Thompson's Histor}- of Vermont, 1842, Part
III, p. 67; Hayward's Vermont Gazetteer, 1849, p. 58; Deming's
Vermont Officers, 1851, p. 143; Coolidge and Mansfield's History of
Xew England, 1860, p. 797.

EXOSBURGH GORE.— Vermont grant of 3,916 acres to Stephen
House and Amos Fassett, of Enosburgh, Xov. 9, 1803, in accordance
with an act passed Xov. 10, 1802, (Laws, pp. 158-160; [Ms.] Vermont
Charters, 1-372). See also Laws of 1803, p. 60; 1805, p. 44; 1807,
p. 64 ; [Ms.] Vermont State Papers, 31-200. Made a part of Enos-
burgh % section II of act passed Nov. 10, 1802, (Laws pp. 158-160).

ESSEX.— Town in Chittenden County. Xew Hampshire grant of
23,040 acres to Edward Burling and sixty-five associates June 7, 1763,
<(nte pp. 142-145.

Surveyor General's Papers, 1-42, 236, 239; 11-105, 111 ; VI, VII,
Vlll-survey of lines ; X-15, bounds of ; Hemenway's Vermont His-
torical Gazetteer, 1-178 ; Child's Chittenden Co. Gazetteer, 1883, p.
193; Rann's History of Chittenden Co., 1886, p. 568; Thompson's
History of Vermont, 1842, Part HI, p. 6S ; Hayward's Vermont Gaz-
etteer, 1849, p. 59 ; Deming's Vermont Officei-s, 1851, p. 144 ; Cool-
idge and Mansfield's History of Xew England, 1860, p. 798.

EUGEXE. — Xew York grant of 15,350 acres by Governor Dun-
more, June 14, 1771 ; covered lands in Rupert and Pawlet chartered
by Xew Hampshire.

Hall's Early History of Vermont, p. 131.

656 APPENDIX.

FAIRFAX. — Town in Franklin County. New Hampshire grant
of 23,040 acres to Edward Burling and sixty-three associates Aug.
18, 1763, ante pp. 146-150. Annexation of part to Cambridge
authorized, (Laws of 1841, p. 58).

Surveyor General's Papers, I — 46 ; II — 27 ; X — 8, 9, bounds of ;
Hemenway's Vermont Historical Gazetteer, 2 — 467 ; Child's Frank-
lin and Grand Isle Co. Gazetteer, 1883, p. 88 ; Thompson's History
of Vermont, 1842, Part III, p. 69 ; Hayward's Vermont Gazetteer,
1849, p. 59 ; Deming's Vermont Officers, 1851, p. 144 ; Coolidge and
Mansfield's History of New England, 1860, p. 799.

FAIRFIELD. — Town in Franklin County. New Hampshire grant
of 23,040 acres to Samuel Hungerford and sixty-three associates
Aug. 18, 1763, ante pp. 150-158. Part of Smithfield annexed Oct.
25, 1792, (Laws, p. 5), and part of Fairfield annexed to Bakersfield
by same act. Line with St. Albans and Swanton established, (Laws
of 1816, p. 95). Line with Bakersfield established, (Laws of 1817,
p. 33). Line with Swanton established and part of Swanton annexed
and part of Fairfield annexed to Swanton, (Laws of 1829, p. 19).
Annexation of part to Sheldon authorized, (Laws of 1851, p. 67).

Surveyor General's Papers, I — 44 ; X — 2, 9, 10, bounds of.

New York grants by Lt. (tov. Colden of 5,000 acres to Henry Gor-
don, Sept. 1, 1774, and of 5,000 acres to Henry Gordon for Peter
Gordon, Dec. 1, 1774, covered lands in Fairfield; Vermont Histori-
cal Society Collections, I — 157. Marked ^'C. H.Gordon" (and the
"John Gordon"?) on map preceding Index to Vol.. I, Documentary
History of New York.

Hemenway's Vermont Historical Gazetteer, 2 — 467 ; Child's Frank-
lin and Grand Isle Co. Gazetteer, 1883, p. 99 ; Thompson's History
of Vermont, 1842, Part III, p. 69 ; Hayward's Vermont Gazetteer,
1849, p. 59; Deming's Vermont Officers, 1851, p. 144; Coolidge and
Mansfield's History of New England, 1860, p. 799.
See Meath, (New York grant), post.

FAIRHAVEN. — Town in Rutland County. Vermont grant to
Ebenezer Allen and seventy-six associates Oct. 27, 1779, ([Ms.] Ver-
mont Charters, 1—175 to 177). Oct. 20, 1792 (Laws, p. 3), tlivided
into the towns of Fairhaven and Westhaven, but both represented in
the legislature jointly until 1823, when West Haven was allowed a
separate representative, (Vermont Assembly Journal, 1823, p. 51).
Part of Fairhaven west of Poultney River annexed to New York, pro-

APPENDIX. 667

vided New York assents and the Congress of tlie United States
approves, (Laws of 187(i, p. 08).

Surveyor General's Papers, I — 174; Ilemenway's Vermont His-
torical Gazetteer, 3 — 672 ; Child's Rutland Co. Gazetteer, 1882, p.
130; Thompson's History of Vermont, 1842, Part IH, p. 70; Hay-
ward's Vermont Gazetteer, 1849, p. 60 ; Deming's Vermont Officers,
I80I, p. 144; Coolidge and Alansfiekrs History of New England,
1860, p. 800.

FAHiLEE. — Town in Orange County. New Hampshire grant of
24,000 acres to Josiah Cliauncy and sixty-three associates Sept. 9,
1761, ante pp. 159-163. Feb. 25, 1797, (Laws, pp. 49-51), divided
into two towns, Fairlee and West Fairlee, but both together were
allowed only one representative in the General Assembly. West
Fairlee was first represented separately in 1823, (Vermont Assembly
Journal, 1823, p. 51).

Surveyor General's Papers, 1—87, 98, 107; 11—23, 95; V and
IX — survey of lines; X — 41, bounds of; Hemenway's Vermont
Historical Gazetteer, 2 — 888 ; Child's Orange Co. Gazetteer,
1888, p. 264 ; Thompson's History of Vermont, 1842, Part IH, p. 70 ;
Hay ward's Vermont Gazetteer, 1849, p. 60; Deming's Vermont Offi-
cers, 1851, p. 145 ; Coolidge and Mansfield's History of New Eng-
land, 1860, p. 801.

FANE. — New Hampshire grant, ante pp. 307-311.

See Neivfane.

FAYSTON. — Town in Washington County. Vermont grant of
23,040 acres to Ebenezer Walbridge and sixty-four associates Feb.
27, 1782, ([Ms.] Vermont Charters, 1—77 to 79).

Surveyor General's Papers, I — 43, 89, 104; H — 37; X — 29, bounds
of; Hemenway's Vermont Historical Gazetteer, 4-177; Child's
Washington Co. Gazetteer, 1889, p. 278 ; Thompson's History of
Vermont, 1842, Part HI, p. 71 ; Hayward's Vermont Gazetteer, 1849,
p. 61 ; Deming's Vermont Officers, 1851, p. 145; Coolidge and Mans-
field's History of New England, 1860, p. 802.

FERDINAND. — Unorganized town in Essex County. New
Hampshire grant of 25,000 acres to Thomas Hungerford and sixty-
three associates Oct. 12, 1761, ante pp. 163-171. Part of Wenlock
and part of Brighton annexed, (Laws 1853, p. 57).

658 APPENDIX.

Surveyor General's Papers, I — 45, 103, 125; II — 134, charter of;
III — survey of lines; X — 96, 115, bounds of: Child's Essex and
Caledonia Co. Gazetteer, 1887, p. 443 ; Thompson's History of Ver-
mont, 1842, Part III, p. 71 ; Hayward's Vermont Gazetteer, 1849, p.
61 ; Deming's Vermont Officers, 1851, p. 145 ; Coolidge and Mans-
field's History of New England, 1860, p. 802.

FERRISBURG.— Town in Addison County. New Hampshire
grant as Farrisbourg or Ferrissburg of 24,600 acres to Daniel Merritt
and sixty-three associates June 24, 1762, ayite pp. 171-175. Part
incorporated into the City of Vergennes Oct. 23, 1788, (Laws, pp. 11-
19). Annexation of part to Panton authorized, (Laws 1847, pp.
10-12).

Surveyor General's Papers, X — 10, 11, bounds of ; Hemenway's
Vermont Historical Gazetteer, 1-31 ; Child's Addison Co. Gazetteer,
1882, p. 101 ; Thompson's History of Vermont, 1842, Part HI, p.
71 ; Hayward's Vermont Gazetteer, 1849, p. 61 ; Deming's Vermont
Officers, 1851, p. 145 ; Coolidge and Mansfield's History of New
England, 1860, p. 803.

See MecHenhurg^ (New York grant), post.

FINCASTLE.— New York grant of 18,000 acres by Gov. Dun-
more June 11, 1771 ; was in Stockbridge. Chartered by New Hamp-
shire in 1761, (Vermont Historical Society Collections, I — 155).

FLAMSTEAD.— New Hampshire grant, cmte pp. 91-94.

See Chester, ante.

FLETCHER.— Town in Franklin County. Vermont grant of
23,040 acres to Moses Robinson, Jonas Fay, John Fassett, Jr., Major
Joseph Tyler, and sixty-one associates Aug. 20, 1781, ([Ms.] Ver-
mont Charters, I — 248 to 251). Annexation of part to Cambridge
authorized, (Laws of 1841, p. 58).

Surveyor General's Papers, I — 47 ; X — 9, 10, bounds of ; Hemen-
way's Vermont Historical Gazetteer, 2 — 468 ; Child's Franklin and
Grand Isle Co. Gazetteer, 1883, p. 110 : Thompson's Historj' of Ver-
mont, 1842, Part HI, p. 72; Hayward's Vermont Gazetteer, 1849,
p. 62 ; Deming's Vermont Officers, 1851, p. 146 ; Coolidge and Mans-
field's History of New England, 1860, p. 804.

See Kellyhrooh., (New York grant), j^ost.

AITENDIX. 659

FRANKLIN. — Town in Franklin County. Vermont grant as
Huntsburo;]i of 23,040 acres to Jonatlian Hunt and five associates
March VS, 1780, ([Ms.] Vennont Charters, 1—80). Line with Shel-
don and Hio-hgate established, (Laws of 1810, p. 160). Name
changed to Franklin, (Laws of 1817, p. 28).

Surveyor Generars Papers, 1—60, 91, 136; 11—15; X— 113,
bounds of; Child's Franklin and Grand Isle Co. Gazetteer, 1883,
p. llo; Thompson's History of Vermont, 1842, Part HI, p. 72;
Hayward's Vermont Gazetteer, 1849, p. 63 ; Deming's Vermont
Officei-s, 1851, p. 146; Coolidge and Mansfield's History of New
England, 1860, p. 804.

FRENCH GRANTS.— According to a map of French and English
grants facing p. 368 of Vol. I, (quarto), Documentary History of
New York, six Seigniories were granted by the French east of Lake
Champlain, and within the present State of Vermont.

1. The Seigniory of Hocquart; see Jiocqimrt, post.

2. Concession of July 7, 1734, to M. Contrecoeur, Junior, of land
" beginning at the mouth of the Riviere aux Loutres [Otter River]
one leasfue and a half above and one leasfue and a half below mak-
ing two leagues front by three leagues in depth." Vol. I, (quarto),
Documentar}' Histor}- of New York, p. 361. This Seigniory was
situated just north of the Seigniory of Hocquart, and is marked "A "
on map of Lake Champlain (1748), facing p. 358 of Vol. I, Docu-
mentary Histor}' of New York.

3. Seigniory conceded to M. De la Perriere July 6, 1734, " begin-
ning at the Mouth of the River Ouynouski one league above and
one below making two leagues front by three leagues in depth,"
Vol. I, Documentary History of New York, p. 361, and marked " B "
on map facing p. 358.

4. Seigniory south of No. 3. A record of the grant not found, and
the grantee does not appear on the map last mentioned.

5. Seigniory '• La Manaudiere," just north of No. 3, conceded April
30, 1737, to M. Raiml)ault " containing four Leagues front by five
leagues deep, the said four Leagues commencing in descending the
Lake, from the Bounds of the Seigniory granted to Sieur La
Perriere "....'' in which is included the River called A la
Mouelle." Vol. I, Documentary History of New York, p. 364 ; marked
36" on map facing p. 358. Sept. 27, 1766, this Seigniory was sold
to Benjamin Price, Daniel Robertson, and John Livingston, pp. 363,
364.

6. Seigniory just north of No. 5 " two leagues front by three
leagues deep on the East side of Lake Champlain " conceded to M.

660 APPENDIX.

Douville Oct. 8, 1736 ; Vol. I, Documentary History of New York,
p. 361 ; marked " 37 " on map facing p. 358.

The Seigniory granted to M. De Beaiivais July 20, 1734 "two
leagues in front by three leagues in depth on Lake Champlain
together with the peninsula which is found to be in front of said
land " and marked " C " on map facing p. 358, is evidently in Ver-
mont territory. Isle la Motte was included within the limits of a
Seigniory west of the lake, conceded to M. Pean, April 10, 1733, p.
361 ; see map facing p. 358.

Part, at least, of Alburgh is in the Seigniory granted M. Lafontaine,
April 5, 1733, "being five quarters of a league in front on the River
Chambly by the depth tliat may be found to the bay of Missiskouy,"
marked " K " on map facing p. 358. All the above grants except the
Seigniories of Hocquart and La Manaudiere (1 and 5) were reunited
to His Majesty's Domain, May 10, 1741, the Proprietors not having
fulfilled the conditions set forth in their deeds ; Vol. I, Documentary
History of New York, pp. 360, 361.

Grand Isle, marked " L 30 " on map facing p. 358, and which
embraced both Heroes as the Seigniory of M. Contrecoeur was prob-
ably forfeited at the same time as the other Seigniories above men-
tioned.

The Seigniory of M. Faulcaut, marked " I," probably included part
of Alburgh ; see Caldwell's Upper Manor, mite.

The Seigniory Bedou on the River Thazy, granted Nov. 1, 1752,
included "the Island called a la Mothe, (Isle La Motte) ; Vol. I,
Documentary History of New York, p. 362.

FULLAM or FULLUM. — New Hampshire grant, ante pp. 130-
138. See Dummerston, ante.

GAGEBOROUGH.— New York grant of 24,000 acres by Lt. Gov.
Colden, May 10, 1770; included what is now Vershire and vicinity;
Vermont Historical Society Collections, I — 154.

Thompson's History of Vermont, 1842, Part III, p. 73 ; Deming's
Vermont Officers, 1851, p. 146.

GATESBOROUGH.— Township No. 43 on the plan of the state
made by the Surveyor General granted to Josiah Gates and Amos
Jones and company to the number of 120, about the first of Novem-
ber, 1780 ; Governor and Council, Vol. II, pp. 54, 501. A charter
of Gatesbo rough was never issued, but the township was chartered
as Salem, Aug. 18, 1781. See Salem, j^ost.

APPENDIX. 661

GEORGIA. — Town in Franklin County. New Hampshire grant
of 23,040 acres to Richard Emery and sixty-three associates Aug. 17,
1763, a7ite pp. 175-179.

Surveyor Generars Papei-s, I — 85, 109, 212, 223, survey of lines;
X — 8, 9, bounds ; Hemenway's Vermont Historical Gazetteer, 2-468 ;
Child's Franklin and Grand Isle Co. (iazetteer, 1883, p. 122; Thomp-
son's History of Vermont, 1842, Part HI, p. 73 ; Hayward's Vermont
Gazetteer, 1849, p. 63 ; Deming's Vermont Officers, 1851, p. 146 ;
Coolidge and Mansfield's History of New England, 1860, p. 805.

GILEAD. — Same as present town of Brighton. Was granted by
the legislature as Gilead, (Governor and Council, 2-52), and char-
tered as Random, which see.

GLASTENBURY.— Town in Bennington County. New Hamp-
shire grant as Glossenburry of 23,040 acres to Captain Samuel Rob-
inson and sixty-one associates, Aug. 20, 1761, ante pp. 180-183. See
Arlington, ante for the New York grant to Napier.

Hemenway's Vermont Historical Gazetteer, I — 196 ; Child's Ben-
nington Co. Gazetteer, 1881, p. 131; Thompson's History of Vermont,
1842, Part III, p. 74; Hayward's Vermont Gazetteer, 1849, p. 64;
Deming's Vermont Officers, 1851, p. 146; Coolidge and Mansfield's
History of New England, 1860, p. 805.

GLOVER.— Town in Orleans County. Vermont grant of 23,040
acres to Gen. John Glover and sixty-two associates, Nov. 20, 1783,
([Ms.] Vermont Charters, I — 317 to 319). Record of charter amend-
ed b}' inserting the name of a grantee, omitted by the Secretary of
State in recording the charter, (Laws of 1845, p. 35).

Surveyor General's Papers, I — o5, 58, 91, 136 ; II — 24 ; X — 82,
bounds of ; Hemenway's Vermont Historical Gazetteer, 3-195 ; Child's
Lamoille and Orleans Co. Gazetteer, 1884, p. 264 ; Thompson's His-
tory of Vermont, 1842, Part III, p. 74 ; Hayward's Vermont Gazetteer,
1849, p. 64; Deming's Vermont Officers, 1851, p. 147 ; Coolidge and
Mansfield's History of New England, 1860, p. 806.

GOSHEN. — Town in Addison County. The State of Vermont,
Feb. 23, 1782, granted Goshen to Capt. John Powel, William Doug-
lass, and sixty-three associates, (Governor and Council, H — 145 ; III
— 180). A charter was not issued until Feb. 2, 1792, and that was

662 APPENDIX.

in the nature of a flying grant, no specific territoiy being granted,
([Ms.] Vermont Charters, I — 842 to 345). The Land Commissioners
in their report to the Governor and Council, March 15, 1788, (Gov-
ernor and Council, III — 179, 180), decree : " To Capt. John Powell
[John Powell, William Douglass] &c & Company Eleven Thousand
Six hundred acres of Land as marked Goshen in two places to make
up the deficiency of their Grant Granted Feb. 23, 1782." These
tracts are evidently the two gores chartered as a part of Goshen Oct.
26, 1789. "An Act Granting a tax of one penny p'' acre on the
Lands in Goshen, having passed the General Assembly was read
and Concurred with this Amendment, that said Tax shall not be
Collectable until the Charter of said Township shall be Issued,"
(Governor and Council, III — 198). A charter in accordance with
act passed Nov. 1, 1798, (see Laws pp. 97-103) issued on the date
late mentioned granted 13,000 acres in Addison Co., one gore between
Walden and Wheelock of 7,339 acres and another gore between
Plainfield and Harris Gore containing 2,820 acres, ([Ms.] Vermont
Charters, 1—355 to 357). An act passed Nov. 5, 1798, (Laws, p. 56),
declared that all the land should be considered as in Addison County.
Part of Philadelphia annexed and the town of Goshen incorporated,
(Laws of 1814, p. 111). First represented in the General Assembly
the following year. Part of Ripton annexed, (Laws of 1820, p. 41).
Part of Rochester annexed, (Laws of 1847, p. 7). Two gores in Cal-
edonia Co., severed from Goshen, (Laws of 1854, p. 59). "Clemens-
land" in Brandon provisionally annexed, (Laws of 1854, p, 59).

Surveyor General's Papers, I — 33, 56, 101 ; II — 151 ; I — 96, Goshen
Gore ; Hemenway's Vermont Historical Gazetteer, 1-35 ; Thomp-
son's History of Vermont, 1842, Part III, p. 75; Child's Addison Co.
Gazetteer, 1882, p. 109; Hay ward's Vermont Gazetteer, 1849, j). 65;
Deming's Vermont Officers, 1851, p. 147 ; Coolidge and Mansfield's
History of New England, 1860, p. 807.

GOSHEN GORE, No. 1.-7,339 acres between Wheelock and
Walden chartered as a part of Goshen, Nov. 1, 1798, (Laws
pp. 97-103 ; [Ms.] Vermont Charters, 1—355 to 357). To be con-
sidered as in Addison County, (Laws of 1798, p. 56). Severed from
Goshen, (Laws of 1854, p. 59). Incorporated as the town of Stan-
nard, (Laws of 1867, p. 66).

Thompson's History of Vermont, 1842, Part III, p. 75 ; Deming's
Vermont Officers, 1851, p. 147 ; Coolidge and Mansfield's History of
New England, 1860, p. 807 ; Hay ward's Vermont Gazetteer, 1849,
p. 144.

See Goshen and Stamiard.

APPE^'DIX. 663

GOSHEN GORE, No. 2.-2,820 acres between Plainfield and
Harris Gore. Chartered as a part of Goshen, Nov. 1, 1798, ([Ms.]
Vermont Charters, I — 355 to 357 ; Laws of 1798, p. 56). To be con-
sidered as in Addison County, (Laws of 1798, p. 56). Severed from
Goshen, (Laws of 1854, p. 59). Annexation to Plainfield authorized
and annexed to Washington Probate District, (LaAvs of 1855, p. 74).
Annexation to Plainfield authorized, (Laws of 1874, p. 380).

Surveyor (TeneraFs Papers, X — 81, bounds of; Thompson's His-
tory of Vermont, 1842, Part HI, p. 75; Deming's Vermont Officers,
1851, p. 147 ; Coolidge and Mansfield's History of New England,
1860, p. 807 ; Hayward's Vermont Gazetteer, 1849, p. 144.

GRAFTON. — Town in Windham County. New Hampshire grant
as Thomlinson of 23,040 acres to Jonathan Whitney and fifty-eight
associates, April 8, 1754. Charter renewed July 9, 1761. Regranted
Sept. 1, 1763, to Jonathan Whitney and fifty-seven associates, ante
pp. 184-192. New Hampshire charter of 1754, was confirmed by
New York grant, April 2, 1767 ; A^ermont Historical Society Collec-
tions, I — 154. Name changed to Grafton, Oct. 13, 1792, (Laws, p. 20).
Part of Avery's Gore and part of Athens annexed, (Laws of 1816,
p. 40). Annexation of part to Athens authorized, (Laws of 1846,
p.l).

Hemenway s Vermont Historical Gazetteer, Vol. 5, Part II, p. 552 ;
Cliild"s Windham Co. Gazetteer, 1884, p. 183; Thompson's History
of Vermont, 1842, Part III, p. 75 ; Hayward's Vermont Gazetteer,
1849, p. 65 ; Deming's Vermont Officers, 1851, p. 147 ; Coolidge and
Mansfield's History of New England, 1860, p. 808.

GRANBY. — Town in Essex County. New Hampshire grant of
23,040 acres to Elihu Hall and sixty-three associates, Oct. 10, 1761,
ante pp. 192-196.

Surveyor General's Papers, I — 57 ; II — 14, 66 ; III, IV — survey of
lines ; X — 71, bounds of ; Hemenway's Vermont Historical Gazetteer,
I — 987; Child's Essex and Caledonia Co. Gazetteer, 1887, p. 444;
Thompson's History of Vermont, 1842, Part III, p. 76; Hayward's
Vermont Gazetteer, 1849, p. Cu^ ; Deming's Vermont Officers, 1851,
p. 148; Coolidge and Mansfield's History of New England, 1860,
p. 808.

GRAND ISLE. — Town in Grand Isle County. Name changed
from Middle Hero, (Laws of 1810, p. 169).

664 APPENDIX.

Surveyor General's Papers, 1 — 217 ; Hemenway's Vermont His-
torical Gazetteer, 2 — 517 ; Child's Franklin and Grand Isle Co.
Gazetteer, 1883, p. 220 ; Thompson's History of Vermont, 1842,
Part in, p. 76 ; Hayward's Vermont Gazetteer, 1849, p. 66 ; Dem-
ing's Vermont Officers, 1851, p. 148 ; Coolidge and Mansfield's His-
tory of New England, 1860, p. 809.

See Two Heroes^ ISouth Hero^ and Middle Hero.

GRANVILLE. — Town in Addison County. Vermont grant as
Kingston of 23,040 acres to Reuben King, Sheldon Graham, Jona-
than King, Daniel King, and sixty associates, Aug. 2, 1781, ([Ms.]
Vermont Charters, 1—159 to 162). New York grant of 28,000 acres
by Lt. Gov. Colden to Humphrey Avery «& Co., (see Avery's Gores,
ante'), Sept. 6, 1774, covered lands now in Lincoln, Ripton, and
Granville; Vermont Historical Society Collections, 1 — 157. Part of
Avery's Gore annexed, (Laws of 1833, p. 26). Name changed to
Granville, (Laws of 1834, p. 28).

Surveyor General's Papers, I — 75, 84, 86, 112, 117, 195 ; IV— sur-
vey of lines; X — 62, bounds of; Hemenway's Vermont Historical
Gazetteer, 1—39; Child's Addison Co. Gazetteer, 1882, p. 112;
Thompson's History of Vermont, 1842, Part III, p. 77 ; Haj^ward's
Vermont Gazetteer, 1849, p. 66 ; Deming's Vermont Officers, 1851,
p. 148; Coolidge and Mansfield's History of New England, 1860,
p. 810.

GREEN AND MOULTON'S GRANT.— Mentioned in Vol. VI,
Governor and Council, pp. 390, 401, 402. Probably the same as
Whitingham Gore, which was chartered Oct. 20, 1796, to Amos
Green, Samuel Moulton, Solomon Moulton, and thirteen associates,
([Ms.] Vermont Charters, 1—337 to 339). In [Ms.] Vermont State
Papers, 22 — 51, there is a petition dated Oct. 2, 1 783, which describes
a certain tract of land as bounded "South on the South Line of
Whitingham, West on Lieut. Gambell's New York Patent (since
granted by this State to Amos Green and others)." Another peti-
tion in the same volume, p. 53, dated Oct. 7, 1783, describing the
same tract of land, bounds it " South on Masachusetts Bay West on
land granted By the General Assembly to molton and green and
company." As the granting fees on a " Gore of Land Granted unto
Amos Green, Samuel Moulton and Company" were fixed by the
Governor and Council, Feb. 25, 1782, (Governor and Council, II —
146), it seems highly probable that the Green and Moulton's Grant
appearing in the Governor and Council in 1821, and Whitingham

APPENDIX. 665

Gore chartered in 1796 to Green, Moulton, and others are one and
the same tract of hind.

GREENSBORO.— Town in Orleans County. Vermont grant of
23,040 acres to Harris Cole and sixty-six associates, Aug. 20, 1781,
([Ms.] Vermont Charters, 1—129 to 133).

Surveyor General's Papers, 1—58, 88; 11—33, 82; III and IV—
survey of lines; X — 1, 2, bounds of; Hemenway's Vermont Histori-
cal Gazetteer, 3 — 209; Child's Lamoille and Orleans Co. Gazetteer,
1884, p. 274; Thompson's History of Vermont, 1842, Part III, p. 78;
Hayward's Vermont Gazetteer, 1849, p. 67 ; Deming's Vermont Offi-
cers, 1851, p. 149; Coolidge and Mansfield's History of New Eng-
land, 1860, p. 810.

GROTON. — Town in Caledonia County. Vermont grant as
Grotton of 28,000 acres to Lieut. Thomas Butterfield and seventy-
eight associates, Oct. 20, 1789, ([j\Is.] Vermont Charters, I — 325 to
327). Part of Harris Gore annexed, (Laws of 1890, p. 276).

Surveyor General's Papers, 1—92, 112, 120, 123, 130, 166, 167,
188; II — 53, 56, 60; X — 84, bounds of; Hemenway's Vermont His-
torical Gazetteer, 1 — 321; 4 — 1145; Child's Essex and Caledonia
Co. Gazetteer, 1887, p. 189; Thompson's History of Vermont, 1842,
Part III, p. 78; Hay ward's Vermont Gazetteer, 1849, p. 67; Dem-
ing's Vermont Officers, 1851, p. 149; Coolidge and Mansfield's His-
tory of New England, 1860, p. 811.

GUILDHALL. — Town in Essex County. New Hampshire grant
of 23,040 acres to Elihu Hall and sixty-three associates, Oct. 10, 1761,
ante pp. 196-200.

Surveyor General's Papers, 1—59, 90, 107, 166; 11—14; HI, IV,
IX — survey of lines ; X — 84, bounds of ; Hemenway's Vermont His-
torical Gazetteer, 1 — 996 ; Child's Essex and Caledonia Co. Gazet-
teer, 1887, p. 449; Thompson's History of Vermont, 1842, Part III,
p. 79 ; Hayward's Vermont Gazetteer, 1849, p. 68; Deming's Ver-
mont Officers, 1851, p. 149; Coolidge and Mansfield's History of
New England, 1860, p. 811.

GUILFORD. — Town in Windham County. New Hampshire grant
of 23,040 acres to Elijah Williams and fifty-eight associates, April 2,
1754. Charter renewed Jvily 6, 1761, and March 20, 1764; ante pp.

666 APPEISDIX.

200-206. New York grant of 10.000 acres to Col. Thomas Howard
& Co. by Gov. Tryon Nov. 23, 1771, covered lands now in Vernon
and Guilford; Vermont Historical Society Collections, I — 156.

Hemenway's Vermont Historical Gazetteer, Vol. 5, Part HI, p. 8;
Child's Windham County Gazetteer, 1884, p. 194 ; Thompson's History
of Vermont, 1842, Part III, p. 79 ; Hayward's Vermont Gazetteer,
1849, p. 68; Deming's Vermont Officers, 1851, p. 149; Coolidge and
Mansfield's History of New England, 1860, p. 812.

HALESBOROUGH.— New York grant of 23,000 acres to Wm.
Sheriff & Co., by Gov. Dunmore June 12, 1771; covered Neshobe,
(now Brandon) chartered by New Hampshire ; Vermont Historical
Society Collections, I — 155. Marked " Hillsborough " on map pre-
ceding index to Vol. I, Documentary History of New York,

HALIFAX. — Town in Windham County. New Hampshire grant
of 23,040 acres to Oliver Partridge and sixty-two associates, May 11»
1750, ante pp. 207-211.

Hemenway's Vermont Historical Gazetteer, Vol. 5, Part II, p. 408;
Child's Windham Co. Gazetteer, 1884, p. 216 ; Thompson's History
of Vermont, 1842, Part III, p. 85 ; Hayward's Vermont Gazetteer,
1849, p. 69 ; Deming's Vermont Officers, 1851, p. 150 ; Coolidge and
Mansfield's History of New England, 1860, p. 815.

HAMILTON'S GRANT.— Vermont grant of 3,000 acres to Silas
Hamilton and seven associates, March 15, 1780 ; by charter made a
part of the township of Whitingham, ([Ms.] Vermont Charters, I —
21; 11—20).

[Ms.] Vermont State Papers, 31 — 234; Governor and Council, II —
32, 80.

HANCOCK. — Town in Addison County. Vermont grant of
23,040 acres to Samuel Willcox, Daniel Kinne, Josiah Wright, and
one hundred and twenty-seven associates, July 31, 1781, ([Ms.] Ver-
mont Charters, I — 94 to 98). Annexed to Addison County Jan. 18,
1791, (Laws, p. 3). Line with Rochester established Nov. 6, 1792,
(Laws, p. 42). Part annexed to Rochester, (Laws of 1834, p. 27).
Annexation of part to Rochester authorized, (Laws of 1847, p. 9).
Last act repealed, (Laws of 1848, p. 9).

Surveyor General's Papers, I — 61, 84, 86, 95, 112: IV — survey of
lines; X — 64, bounds of; Hemenway's Vermont Historical Gazet-

APPENDIX. 667

teer, 1—43 ; ChilcFs Addison Co. Gazetteer, 1882, p. 117 ; Thomp-
son's History of Vermont, 1842, Part III, p. 86; Hayward's Vermont
Gazetteer, 1849, p. 69; Deming's Vermont Officers, 1851, p. 150;
Coolidge and Mansfield's History of New England, 1860, p. 816.

HARDWICK. — Town in Caledonia County. Vermont grant of
23,040 acres to Danforth Keyes, Jonas Fay, Eliakim Spooner, and
sixty-four associates, Aug. 19, 1781, ([Ms.] Vermont Charters, I —
252 to 255.)

Surveyor General's Papers, I — 62, 88; X — 78, bounds of; Hemen-
way's Vermont Historical Gazetteer, 1 — 323 ; Child's Essex and
Caledonia Co. Gazetteer, 1887, p. 201 ; Thompson's History of Ver-
mont, 1842, Part III, p. 86 ; Hayward's Vermont Gazetteer, 1849, p.
70; Deming's Vermont Officers, 1851, p. 150; Coolidge and Mans-
field's History of New England, 1860, p. 816.

HARRIS GORE.— Vermont grant of 6,026 acres to Edward
Harris and sixteen associates, Oct. 30, 1801, ([Ms.] Vermont Char-
ters, I — 359). Annexation to Plainfield authorized, and annexed
to Washington County Probate District, (Laws of 1855, p. 74). An-
nexed to Groton and ^larshfield, (Laws of 1890, p. 276).

Surveyor General's Papers, I — 63, 91, 207 ; Thompson's History of
Vermont, 1842, Part III, p. 67: Hayward's Vermont Gazetteer, 1849,
p. 144; Deming's Vermont Officers, 1851, p. 151.

HARTFORD. — Town in Windsor County. New Hampshire grant
of 27,000 acres to Prince Tracy and sixt}^ associates, July 4, 1761,
ante pp. 212-215. Part of Hartford and part of Pomfret united for
school purposes, (Laws of 1804, p. 54). Part annexed to Woodstock
and part of Woodstock annexed to Hartford, (Laws of 1852, p. 66).

Child's Windsor Co. Gazetteer, 1884, p. 123 ; Thompson's History
of Vermont, 1842, Part III, p. 87 ; Hayward's Vermont Gazetteer, 1849
p. 70 ; Deming's Vermont Officers, 1851, p. 151 ; Coolidge and Mans-
field's History of New England, 1860, p. 817.

HARTLAND. — Town in Windsor County. New Hampshire grant
as Hertford of 26,000 acres to Samuel Hunt and sixty-four associates,
July 10, 1761, ante pp. 216-219. Confirmation charter issued by New
York to Oliver Willard and others July 23, 1766 : Vermont Historical
Society Collections, I — 154. Name changed to Hartland June 15,

668 APPENDIX.

1782, (R., 1797.) Part annexed to Woodstock, (Laws of 1852, pp.
66-68).

Surveyor General's Papers, I — 229; II — 10; Child's Windsor
Co. Gazetteer, 1884, p. 137 ; Thompson's History of Vermont,
1842, Part III, p. 88; Hayward's Vermont Gazetteer, 1849, p. 71;
Deming's Vermont Officers, 1851, p. 151 ; Coolidge and Mansfield's
History of New England, 1860, p. 817.

HARWICH.— New Hampshire grant, ante pp. 299-303.
See Mount Tahor, post.

HERTFORD.— New Hampshire grant, ante pp. 216-219.
See ITartland, ante.

HIGHGATE. — Town in Franklin County. New Hampshire grant
of 23,040 acres to Samuel and Elisha Hunt and sixty-two associates
Aug. 17, 1763, aiite pp. 220-224. New York grant of 2,000 acres to
S. Metcalf & Co. July 1, 1771, covered part of what is now Highgate;
Vermont Historical Society Collections, I — 156. Part of Alburgh
annexed, (Laws of Nov., 1792, p. 26). Marvin's Gore annexed, (Laws
of 1806, p. 11). Provision for establishing line with Sheldon, Swanton
and Huntsburgh, (Laws of 1810, p. 160). Part annexed to Swanton
(Laws of 1836, p. 38).

Surveyor General's Papers, 1—85, 109, 116, 213, 220, 239 ; 11—16
X — 11, 77, bounds of; Hemenway's Vermont Historical Gazetteer, 2-
469 ; Child's Franklin and Grand Isle Co. Gazetteer, 1883, p. 131
Thompson's History of Vermont, 1842, Part III, p. 89; Hayward's
Vermont Gazetteer, 1849, p. 72; Deming's Vermont Officers, 1851
p. 151 ; Coolidge and Mansfield's History of New England, 1860
p. 819.

See Prattsburg., (New York grant), post.

HILLSBOROUGH.— New York grant of 36,000 acres to Elias
Bland & Co. by Lt. Gov. Colden Aug. 10, 1770, now Danville and
vicinity ; Vermont Historical Society Collections, I — 155.

Surveyor General's Papers, II — 63.

HILLSBOROUGH. — The f)lace where this Hillsborough appears
is as a New York grant on the Chorographical Map facing p. 430 of
Vol. VIII, Governor and Council. It covers the present town of

APPENDIX. 669

Swanton and part of the territory marked " Pratsburg," on the map
preceding index to VoL I, Documentary History of New York.
The New York grant of Ilillsborough, including the present town
of Danville and vicinity, appears as '' Hilsborough " on Chorographi-
cal Map first mentioned. The map preceding index to Vol. I, Doc-
umentary History of New York, lias a '' Hillsboro " where Brandon
now is, — })rol)al)ly confounded with Halesborough, a New York grant
eoverins: Brandon.

HINESBURG.— Town in Chittenden County. New Hampshire
grant of 23,040 acres to David and Zachariah Ferriss and sixty-two
associates, June 24, 1762, ante pp. 224-228.

Surveyor General's Papers, I — 188, 190 ; VI — survey of lines ;
X — 2, 4, 24, bounds of ; Hemenway's Vermont Historical Gazetteer,
1—792 ; Child's Chittenden County Gazetteer, 1883, p. 202 ; Thomp-
son's History of Vermont, 1842, Part HI, p. 89 ; Hayward's Vermont
Gazetteer, 1849, p. 72; Deming's Vermont Officers, 1851, p. 152;
Coolidge and Mansfield's History of New England, 1860, p. 820;
Rann's History of Chittenden County, 1886, p. 592.

HINSDALE. — " This township had first been granted by the govern-
ment of the Jlassachusetts-Bay^ and upon the settlement of the bound-
ary line between the Masmehusetts and New Hampshire, in 1739, fell
within the latter, and by them [was] granted, and fully ratified to
the inhabitants and proprietors, who in addition to their title, had
also the Indian right. This township, by the determination of the
boundary line between New York and New Hampsldre, fell within
the jurisdiction of the former, and was by them granted to Col.
Howard after it had been settled about seventy years." Appendix
written by Ethan Allen and printed Sept. 23, 1774, (Governor and
Council, i— 508).

See Vernon, post.

HITCHCOCK'S GORE.— Vermont grant of about 1,000 acres,
bounded by Athens, Putney, Dummerston, Newfane, and Towns-
hend, to David Hitchcock and seven associates, June 19, 1783 ; by
its charter it was made a part of Putney, ([Ms.] Vermont Charters,
HI— 6).

HOCQUART, SEIGNIORY OF.— The Seigniory of Hocquart
was granted by the King of France to M. Hocquart, Intendant of

670 APPENDIX.

New France, in two Patents of concession, one dated April 20, 1743,
and the other, April 1, 1745, both together comprising a tract of land
four leagues in front and five in depth and estimated to have con-
tained 115,000 acres. It, " situate in the said Colony on Lake Cham-
plain opposite Fort St. Frederic," extended north and embraced the
present towns of Panton, Addison, and Bridport, and the towns east
of them, (Documentary History of New York, (quarto), 1 — 351, 352,
375). This Seigniory was sold to M. Michael Chartier, Seigneur of
Lotbiniere, the deed of sale bearing date April 7, 1763, for the sum
of nine thousand livres, (p. 352). See map facing p. 368, Vol. I,
Documentar}^ History of New York.

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