[Provincial and state papers]

STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE.

TOWNSHIP GRANTS

LANDS IN NEW HAMPSHIRE

INCLUDED IN THE

MASONIAN PATENT

ISSUED SUBSEQUENT TO 1746 BY THE MASONIAN PROPRIETARY.

Arranged and Presented in Alphabetical Order and

Comprising All from A to M Inclusive, with

Plans, Bibliographical Citations,

and Complete Indexes.

VOLUME XXVII.

Town Charters, Volume IV.
Masonian Papers, Volume I.

ALBERT STILLMAN BATCHELLOR,

Editor ok State Papers.

CONCORD:

EDWARD N. PEARSON, PUBLIC PRINTER.
1896.

JOINT RESOLUTION relating to the preservation and publication of portions
of the early state and provincial records, and other state papers of New Hamp-
shire.
Resolved by the Senate an d House of Representatives in General Court convened;

That His Excellency the Governor be hereby authorized and empowered, with
the advice and consent of the Council, to employ some suitable person — and fix his
compensation, to be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appro-
priated— to collect, arrange, transcribe, and superintend the publication of such
portions of the early state and provincial records and other 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 fol-
lows : namely, one copy to each city and town in the state, one copy to such of the
public libraries in the state as the Governor may designate, fifty copies to the New
Hampshire Historical Society, and the remainder placed in the custody of the state
librarian, who is hereby authorized to exchange the same for similar publications
by other states.

Approved August 4, 1881.

PREFACE.

In an analysis of the history of New Hampshire nothing is found more impor-
tant than the Masonian element. John Mason, the first proprietor, may well be
regarded as the founder of the state. To him and his successors the undertakings
that resulted in state autonomy are fairly attributable. Without the Masonian
titular interest in the patents which covered the territory and without the
Masonian insistance upon rights of property and government in New Hampshire,
pursued amidst a most determined opposition and against serious discouragements,
there would have been no separate political province where the foundations of this
state were planted in the American wilderness. It is only in the clearer atmos-
phere of modern historical investigation and tolerance of historical truths that John
Mason takes his proper place among the state-makers of the colonial period. His
enterprise was certainly among the first efforts for colonization on the Pascataqua.*
His associates and representatives effected the settlement of 1623. Through his
devoted interest and from his personal resources these small beginnings became
a permanent colonial establishment. The death of Mason in 1635 was the most
serious calamity which could befall the enterprise which he inaugurated and which
bears his name. There is now no longer room for doubt that in his purpose was
ample promise of progress and success for the colony. He had encountered
varying personal fortunes, but through all the years beginning with the inception of
this particular project of English colonization he never faltered in the undertaking
at Pascataqua, but held to it as among his most cherished designs. Indeed, until
the near approach of his death, his opportunity for the greatest usefulness to the
colony had not arrived. " Mason had hitherto," says Charles Wesley Tuttle, ''de-
rived no profit from his efforts at colonization. In a letter to Ambrose Gibbons.
his old and faithful agent, written in 1634, he says that he had never received a
penny for all his outlay on his plantation in the Pascataqua." Mr. T tittle's nar-
rative further states that "In 1634 Mason was appointed captain of the South Sea
Castle, an ancient fortress commanding the entrance to the harbor at Portsmouth,
England. This was a very important office. Most of such castles were commanded
by noblemen of military skill, and who were well affected to the Sovereign. Mason's

* There is evidence of an early settlement at Dover. This subject has place elsewhere in the State
Papers series, and nothing is asserted here in disparagement of the claims made for the Hilton settle-
ment at Dover Point as a fact in the planting of New Hampshire. See Prince Society publication,
" Capt. John Mason," 18S7, p. 2S, note 18. Non nobis tantas componcre cites.

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old associate, Sir Ferdinando Gorges, had commanded the castle at Plymouth,
but had now retired from it. About this time Mason was appointed by the Ad-
miralty to visit annually the Forts and Castles in England, and make a report to
the government.1'1

'' In June, 1632, Mason was elected a member of the Great Council for New
England, composed, as we have seen, of ' persons of honor and even of blood ; '
and in the November following, became Vice-President of the Council, the Earl of
Warwick being then President. The Council often had meetings at Capt. Mason's
house in Fenchurch street in London. This elevation shows the high estimation
put on Mason by some of the foremost persons in England/'

«« Early in 1635 tne Council for New England became satisfied of its inability to
control affairs in New England. It had long had enemies at home as well as here.
There was an unwillingness to recognize the powers granted by the Sovereign in
the nature of government, and it had no strength to enforce its decrees. The
Colony of Massachusetts Bay had become large and powerful, and disregarded al)
authority, kingly as well as other, as far as they thought it prudent. Complaints
against the Council were constantly made to the Privy Council, and they were
cited to answer. They determined thereupon to surrender their great Charter to
the king, and to divide the whole territory of New England among themselves.
Pursuant to this resolve, Mason received a new grant from the Council, dated
April 22, 1635, of the lands hitherto granted to him by the Council. This grant
embraced all the land between the Naumkeag and Pascataqua rivers, extending
threescore miles inland, with the south half of the Isles of Shoals, to be called New
Hampshire ; also a further grant of ten thousand acres on the west side of the
Kennebec river, to be called Masonia. Henry Josselyn and Ambrose Gibbons,
both then on the Pascataqua, were authorized to give Mason possession of this new
grant."

" On the surrender of the New England Patent in 1635, it was the design of the
king to set over that territory a general Governor, and Sir Ferdinando Gorges
received the appointment. To complete the vice-regal government, Capt. John
Mason was appointed, October 1, Vice-Admiral of New England.11

" Mason made every preparation to come to New Hampshire, looking forward to
a visit to his plantation, as well as to the charge he had undertaken. In November
he was taken ill, and died early in December, 1635, an event that proved disastrous
to his interests in New England, which fell, by the terms of his will, to his widow
and to his grandson, then not one year old."

John Mason, son of John and Isabella Mason, was born in King^ Lynn or Lynn
Regis in the western part of the maritime county of Norfolk. He was baptized
Dec. 11, 1586. How he passed his years till 1610 his biographers do not relate.
He then appears as commander of the king's fleet sent to control the turbulent
people of the Hebrides. This squadron consisted of two ships of war and two

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pinnaces. Mason fitted out this expedition at his own expense and was occupied
in the undertaking fourteen months. It was agreed that he was to be reimbursed,
but it does not appear that this was ever done directly from the royal treasury. As
early as 1615 he was governor of the plantation of Newfoundland, begun in 1610.
Possibly the appointment to this office was in a measure the result of the large
debt due him on account of the Hebrides expedition. He remained at this post
about six years, and was very efficient in his administration. He made the first
English map of the island and wrote a "Brief Discourse of the New-found-land.11
He also held a royal commission as the king^ lieutenant to deal with the pirates
then infesting the Newfoundland region. In 1621 he returned to England. It
was about this date that he became intimately connected with Sir Ferdinando
Gorges. From that time on they were largely and intimately associated in col-
onial enterprises. March 9, i62i-122, Mason procured from the Council for New
England his grant of Mariana. At home Mason was much occupied in the public
service, particularly in naval operations in the wars in which England was engaged,
and in which he held high and responsible offices. Contemporaneously with such
occupations he was directing his affairs in the new world with devoted interest.
At length, when relieved of the imperative demands of public duties under govern-
ment at home, he was about to give the colony on the Pascataqua the impetus of
his personal presence and direction, but he died before his purpose could be ac-
complished.

Tuttle says, "Captain Mason had but one child, a daughter, Anne, who married
Joseph Tufton, a connection of the noble family of Tufton of Sussex. Three
sons and two daughters were born of this marriage, and were the only representa-
tives of Capt. Mason. All except the eldest, who died young, are mentioned in
Capt. Mason's will. The history of these grandchildren forms a subject of great
interest, three of them being the devisees of Masons vast estates in New England.
The eldest was only seven years old at the time of Mason's death.11

"John Tufton, the eldest son, died before he became of age, and his interest
passed to his brother, Robert Tufton, who came to New Hampshire in 1680 and
was a member of the Provincial Council. He was also of the Council of Dudley
and Andros during the union of the New England States. Robert Tufton took the
surname of Mason, as required by the will, in order to take the property of his
grandfather. He died suddenly at Kingston, N. Y., Sept. 6, 1688, leaving
descendants. To the efforts of Robert Mason New Hampshire is indebted for her
independent existence for two hundred years."

The death of Mason was regarded at the time, according to the point of view of
interested parties. To his friends and associates it was a far-reaching calamity,
but to the Puritan element it appeared in a very different light. To them, doubt-
less, a formidable obstacle in the way of their designs on the Pascataqua planta-
tions was removed.

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The lineal descendants of John Mason, given with reference to the passage of
the title to the Proprietary in 1746, were as follows :

1. Capt. John Mason, died December, 1635.

2. Anne Mason, daughter, married Joseph Tufton.

3. Robert Tufton, alias Mason, son of Anne, born 1635. Took surname of
Mason by terms of his grandfather's will.

4. Robert Tufton Mason, 2d son. He and his elder brother, John, undertook
to pass their interest in New Hampshire to Samuel Allen in 1691.

5. John Tufton Mason, son, died in Havana, 171 8.

6. Col. John Tufton Mason, son, born in Boston, Mass., April 29, 1 7 1 3 ; sold
title to lands in New Hampshire to the Masonian Proprietors in 1746, claiming
that the transaction with Allen in 1691 conveyed only a life interest.

The various charters to Mason, alone or with associates, are as follows :

March 9, 162 1-2, Grant of Mariana.

Aug. 10. 1622, Grant of Province of Maine.

Nov. 7, 1629, Grant of New Hampshire.

Nov. 17, 1629, Grant of Laconia.

Nov. 3, 1 63 1, Grant of Pescataway.

April 22, 1635, Grant of New Hampshire and Masonia.

Aug. 19, 1635, Confirmation of Grant of New Hampshire and Masonia.

In addition to these charters the Province of New Hampshire, by the same
boundaries as described in the grant of April 22, 1635, was leased to John Wollaston
April 18, 1635, f°r a term of three thousand years, and on the 1 ith of June following
Wollaston, transferred his lease to Mason. This instrument states that the lease to
Wollaston April 18, was " by & with the consent of the Said Cap1 John Mason in
trust only for the benefit & behoofe of him the Said Cap' John Mason his Executors
& Assigns."

Much controversy has arisen in regard to these instruments and the titles claimed
under them.* In character these contentions were often acrimonious and their
consequences far reaching. Other claims to the same soil were interposed, some
taking date even in the brief period between 1621 and the death of Mason, and
other claims to priority of settlement on the Pascataqua were asserted on impor-
tant historical authority. As to these questions nothing further than the citation
of facts and records, without argument, should be expected in this relation.

The years following the death of John Mason and the period in which Robert
Tufton Mason was passing his childhood and youth were times of misfortune and
retrogression for the family interests in New Hampshire. In 1641 the New Hamp-
shire towns were gathered into the Massachusetts Bay government, and the course
of political affairs gave little promise of a successful revival of Masonian claims or
the erection of a separate province for the New Hampshire colony. Robert Tufton
•Capt. John Mason, by Tuttle and Dean, Prince Society, 1887, p. 355.

PREFACE. Vll

Mason, however, eventually proved himself to be a man of ability, capable of large
influence on the public men and measures of his time. His efforts resulted in a
vigorous reassertion of the Masonian rights in New Hampshire and the establish-
ment of the separate provincial government of 1679, in which he stands as a con-
spicuous central figure. From this date the Masonian affairs were prominent in the
annals of the province. The conveyance by the heirs of Robert Tufton Mason to
Samuel Allen in 1691 is an episode which interposed a new complication. The later
reassertion of the Masonian claim in antagonism to the Allen title is also an important
consideration. In this period a minute examination of the progress of Masonian
affairs in the province involves the exposition of the principal history of New Hamp-
shire from 1679 to 1739. Reference must be made in this connection to the work
of Helknap and the documentary history in the previous volumes of this series,
particularly Vol. 19.

The tracing out of the course of the Masonian title to its historical conclusion in
New Hampshire has exacted profound investigation for more than two centuries.
It is a subject that is inseparably interwoven into the entire narrative of the devel-
opment of the province and the establishment of a state. See Belknap's History of
New Hampshire, chapters 6 to 1 1 ; Collections of N. H. Historical Society, Vol. 8,
pp. 318 to 325, 380 to 394; N. H. Documents collected by John S. Jenness ;
N. H. State Papers, Vol. 19; Province Papers, Vols. 1 and 2 ; History of Rindge,
by Ezra S. Stearns, chapter 2 ; Memoir of Capt. John Mason, by Charles Wesley
Tuttle and John Ward Dean, pub. by Prince Society, 1887.

The documents which are the principal resource of the historians of this subject
have long been in unsystematic and scattered forms and conditions of preservation
and publication. A part of those of a more general character have been before the
public for a long period. The existence of others in unlooked for custody or places
of record has been made known in recent years. The great body of the Masonian
papers in the original form were in the legal custody of the representatives of the
associates in the corporation which finally came into possession of the claim by
purchase from Col. John Tufton Mason in 1746. These associates successfully
assumed and exercised the powers of disposal under that title. The Proprietary
consisted of the following named persons : — Theodore Atkinson, who held three
shares. Mark Hunking Wentworth, two shares, and Richard Wibird, John Went-
worth, George Jaffrey, Nathaniel Meserve, Thomas Packer, Thomas Wallingford,
Jotham Odiorne, Joshua Peirce, Samuel Moore, and John Moffatt, one share
each. The deed was dated Jan. 30, 1746. In 1749 the proprietors took a second
conveyance comprehending all the Masonian grants from Naumkeag to the Pascat-
aqua.

The state publication of Masonian papers now in progress contemplates an
arrangement in three printed volumes of the series. The first and second (Vols.
27 and 28 of the series), will contain the town charters or grants issued by the

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Proprietary subsequent to the deed of 1746, and all papers found relating thereto.
This publication will be in all respects similar to that of the town charters directly
from province authority (Vols. 24, 25, and 26), and will be accompanied by
similar notes, maps, and indexes. The papers which constitute, explain, and
relate to the Masonian title in general will be given in a separate volume. The
purpose of the editor is to bring this class of documents together in systematic
order, and to place them in one collection where they may be found in a form and
arrangement which will facilitate the study of the Masonian element in our early
history, making the entire body of authentic documentary material readily accessi-
ble to the public. Almost the entire body of papers, including plans, to be pub-
lished in this and the two succeeding volumes came into the possession of the state
from Robert Cutts Peirce, of Portsmouth, in 1891. No donation of equal value
and importance to its archives, or more deserving of the appreciation and gratitude
of the government and the people, has ever been received by this state.

Such special comments on this collection as may be deemed pertinent in a prefa-
tory note will be reserved for the contemplated Vol. 29, and a treatment of certain
facts relating to the administration of the affairs of the Proprietary in the disposal of
lands and the erection of townships will constitute a preface to Vol. 28. His Excel-
lency Charles A. Busiel and the honorable Council have constantly given this work
practical encouragement, and have rendered to the editor valued cooperation. The
Secretary of State, the officers of the State Library, and other custodians of
books and documents relating to the subject-matter of these volumes, have supplied
every aid by advice and accommodation which could contribute to the successful
progress of the work.

THE EDITOR.

TABLE OF CONTENTS.

Albany

Alexandria

Allenstown

Alton .

Amherst

Andover

Antrim

Barnstead

Bedford

Boscawen

Bow .

Bradford

Brookfield

Canterbury

Centre Harbor

Concord

Conway

Danbury

Dublin

Dummer

Dunbarton

Durham

Eaton

Effingham

Epsom

Fitzwilliam

Gilmanton

Gilsum

Goffstown

Greenfield

3

4

43

54

62

77
92

IOI

io3
109

118

124

140

142
149

lS1
*57

1 70
171
180
187

-'5

220

235
259
2 59
287
294

^95

320

TABLE OF CONTENTS.

Hampton

Henniker

Hill .

Hillsborough

Hooksett

Hopkinton

Hudson

Jaffrey

Landaff

Lyndeborough

Manchester

Marlborough

Marlow

Mason

Meredith

Middleton

Milford

Moultonborough

320
322
333
35°
356
357
377
379
397
400

436
445
465
468
476
493
5*7
520

GRANTS

NEW HAMPSHIRE TERRITORY

PROPRIETORS OF THE MASONIAN PATENT

WITH OTHER DOCUMENTS RELATING THERETO.

GRANTS

OF

NEW HAMPSHIRE TERRITORY

PROPRIETORS OF THE MASONIAN PATENT.

ALBANY.

[Granted as Burton, Nov. 6, 1766, to Clement March and others. The line
between Burton and Tamworth was established Dec. 30, 1796. Burton was taken
from Grafton County and annexed to Carroll Nov. 27, 1800. The name of the
town was changed to Albany July 2, 1833, probably for Albany, N. Y.

See New Hampshire charters in preceding volumes; XI, Hammond Town
Papers, 7 : Index to Laws, 15, 76; sketch, Fergusson's History of Carroll County.
1889, p. 782; Land of the Lingering Snow, by Frank Bolles, 1891, Chocorua
chapter; At the North of Bear Camp Water, by Frank Bolles, 1893 ; Willey's His-
tory of the White Mountains, 1870, p. 269; Was Chocorua the Original Piquacket
Hill ?, by C. E. Fay, 4, Appalachia, 322 ; The Mountains between Saco and Swift
Rivers, by J. R. Edmands, 3, id., 57; The Moat Path, by J. Worcester, 1, id.,
267; Mt. Passaconoway, by C. E. Fay, 6, id., 302 ; The Waterville Valley, by A.
L. Goodrich, 6, id., 318; Lawrence's N. H. Churches, 1856, p. 600; The White
Mountains, A Guide to Their Interpretation, by J. H. Ward, 1890, p. 131 ; In the
Heart of the White Mountains, by S. A. Drake, 1882, p. 18.]

[Petition of Samuel Haven, 1773.]
[Masonian Papers Vol. 5, p. 1.]

To the Honorable the Proprietors of Mason's Patent So call'd.

Gentlemen.

For as much as it has pleased His Excellency Governor Went-
worih with the Advice of the Honljle his Majest3r's Council to grant
unto your Petitioner a certain Tract of Land Bounded on the East by
Conway — West Line and on the South by the Patent — Curve Line
So call'd — And whereas Your Petitioner has viewed part of Said

4 CHARTER RECORDS.

Tract & found but a small proportion of Arable Land — Whereas,
moreover, he observed just within Said Curve, and adjoyning to Said
Tract Some Beach Land capable of being improved for Tillage

Your Petitioner therefore humbly prays You would grant him two
or three Hundred Acres Adjoyning to his Location on Such Terms &
with Such Restrictions as Your Honors in Your great Wisdom &
Generosity shall See meet.

And He will ever pray &c

Samuel Haven

April 20 1773 The Tract of land petitioned for in the above — being
previously engaged, voted that ye Petition cannot be granted

att. Geo. Jaffrey Proprs CI

[Samuel Haven again petitions for the same land, in the same form
as above, June 30, 1773.]

ALEXANDRIA.

[Granted by the Masonian Proprietors, June i. 1753, to Joseph Butterfield, Jr.,
and others. The charter was renewed March 13, 1767. Regranted July 7, 1773,
to Jonas Minot and others. Incorporated Nov. 23, 1782. A large addition was
granted July 7, 1773, which was incorporated as New London June 25, 1779. A
portion of Alexandria was severed and combined with a part of Hill to make up the
town of Bridgewater, Feb. 11, 1788. Danbury was set off and incorporated June
18, 1795- A tract was severed from Orange and annexed to Alexandria Dec. 7,
1820. A portion of Alexandria was annexed to Hill Dec. 20, 1820.

See IX, Bouton Town Papers, 825; XI, Hammond Town Papers, 9; Index to
Laws, 16; sketch, Child's Gazetteer of Grafton County, 1886, p. 113; Biography
of Luther C. Ladd, the First Union Soldier Who Fell in Baltimore in 1861 ; His-
tory of the First N. H. Regiment, 1890, by S. G. Abbott, p. 193; Mt. Cardigan,
bv H. Murdoch, 2, Appalachia, 239; Stewart's History of the Free Baptists, 1862,
p. 375 ; Baptist Churches in N. H., by E. E. Cummings, 1836, p. 22 ; Lawrence's
N. H. Churches, 1856, p. 509.]

[Charter of Alexandria, 1753.]

[Masonian Papers, Vol. 5, p. 3.]

Province of } Pursuant to the Power And Authority Granted
New Hampr \ And vested in me the Subscriber by the Prop18 of Lands

Purchased of John Tufton Mason Esq in the Province of New Hampr

by their vote passed at their meeting held at Portsmouth in Said

Province the Sixth Day of December 1751 —

I Do by these Presents on the terms and Limitations with the

Reservations hereafter expressed Give And Grant, all the Right Title

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property v.V possession of the Prop™ aforesd unto Joseph Butterfield Jr
James Cowa Thomas Cowan Thomas M cLauglin John Hutchinson
Phinihas Underwood Timothy Taylor Joseph Barnes Ezekiel Greele
John Starnes Zacheriah Starnes William M'Clure William Parker
John Harvell Thomas Juel Zacheus Spaulding Joseph Wright Benoni
.hh'l Reuben Butterfield Mark Gould Robert Fletcher Jonathan Per-
ham Jacob Fletcher Elijah Fletcher Nehemiah Lovewell Henry Snow
Jonathan Griffin Daniel Merriel Samuel Merriel Junr John Wallis
Matthew Wright Joseph Cochran James Gray Hugh Ramsy James
Miller Andrew Clindinin Robert Clindinin Samuel Aleson Jr David
Crage John Wallis Junr Samuel Steel Robert Livingston William
Wallis David Clindinin David Burnside Nathaniel Hombs Matthew
Thornton Robert Fletcher Jun' Jonathan Butterfield of In and unto
that Tract of Land or Township Lying In the Province of New
II amp1 Aforesaid Containing Twenty three Thousand & forty acres
Exclusive of ponds Bounded As folio weth Beginingat a Beach Tree
Fifty Eight miles from the Province Line northerly in the western
line of Mason Patent as lately run From thence South Sixty five
Degrees East five miles and an half to a Beach tree Marked thence
North fifty three Degrees East Seven miles & an half to a Hemlock
tree marked thence North Sixty Degrees West to New Found pond so
Called thence Crossing the pond and to Continue the Sam Course
untill It Comes to Masons Patant Line five miles and an half to a
maple Tree Marked thence westward on the said Patant Line Eight
miles and a Quarter to the first Bounds — Which Tract or Township
is Cald Alexandria — To them Their Heirs And Assigns To Have And
to Hold On the following terms And Conditions with the Reserva-
tions herein After Expressed viz' That the tract of Land or Town-
ship afores'1 be Divided into One Hundred And Twenty Equall
Shares, two lotts at the least in Each Share to be finished And Drawn
for in Some Equitable And Publick manner At or before the last day
of November Which will be in the Year of Our Lord 1755

That three of the Afores'1 Shares be and hereby are Granted free
from Charge One for the first Settled minister One for the ministry
And ( >ne for the School there forever One lot in each of the Said three
Shares to be first Lay'd Out in Some Convenient place near the mid-
dle of the town and lotts Coupled to them so as not to be drawn for —

That twenty more of the S'1 Shares be reserved for the Grantors
their Heirs & Assigns for ever And Accquited from all Duty And
Charge untill Improved by the Owners or Some Holding under them
Respectively —

That the Owners of the Other Shares make Settlement at their
Own Expence in the following Manner viz1 each Grantee at the

O CHARTER RECORDS.

expiration of five Years from the last clay of November next after the
date hereof have three Acres parcel of his Right Respectively Clered
Inclosed And fitted for Mowing And tillage three Acres more in like man-
ner Clered Inclosed And fitted as afores'1 then Next Annually for three
Years And at the end of the S'1 three Years which will be on the last
day of November 1761 — have a Dwelling house built and finished fitt
and Comfortable for a family to Dwell in, And a family or Some
Person on Each Share to Inhabit and Continue Residency there for
three years then next Coming That a Convenient Meeting house be
Built in S(1 township as near the Centre as Convenience will Admitt
within Eight years from this date And ten Acres of Land Reserved
there for publick use —

That the Lands in Said Township Belonging to Grantors and
Grantees be Subjected to have all Necessary Hyways Lay'd thr6
them as there Shall be Occasion for the future without Any pay or
allowance for Damages Thereby —

That the afores'1 Grantees their Heirs or Assigns by a Major vote
in publick meeting Called for that purpose Grant And Assess in
Equall Proportion Such Sum or Sums of money As they Shall think
necessary for Carrying forward And Compleating the Settlement
afores11 and every of the Grantees exclusive of the three publick lotts
Who Shall neglect for the Space of thirty days after Such assessment
Shall be Granted And made (to pay the Same) so much of Such
Delinquents Rights Shall and may be Sold as will pay their Respec-
tive taxes and all Charges Ariseing On the Sale by a Comtee to be
Appointed by the Grantees for that Purpose —

And in Case Any of the Grantees Shall Neglect or Refuse to
Perform any of the Articles Matters and things aforescl by him
Respectively to be done he Shall forfeit his Share And Right in Sd
Township And Every part thereof to those of the Grantees Who
Shall have Complyed with the Conditions on their part herein
Expressed & it Shall and may be Lawfull for them or Any person
by there Authority to enter into And upon the Share Right or part
of Such Delinquent Owner & any & every Part in the Name And
Behalf of the Whole of the Grantees Who Shall Comply as afores'1
To Amove Oust And Expell for the Use of them their Heirs And
Assigns Provided they Settle or Cause to be Setled each Such
Delinquent Right Within the term of One Year at the Furthest from
the Period that is by this Instrument Stipulated to be done as the
Condition of this Grant And fully Discharge & Comply with the
Whole Duty Such Delinquent Ought to have done, within One
Year from time to time After the Respective Periods thereof And in
Case the Grantees fullfilling their parts as afores'1 Shall neglect

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full filling as aforesd, the duty of any Delinq1 Owner nor he himself
Perform it As afores'1 then Such Share or Shares Shall be forfeit
Revert And belong to the Grantors their heirs And Assigns And be
Wholly at their Disposall—

Further that the Grantees Within thirty days after the said Town-
ship is lotted out And Drawn for Shall Return apian and Schedule of
Such Allottniciit And Draft Certified by the Clerk of Said Township
On Oath into the Grantors Clerks office —

Allways Provided there be no Indian war within Any of the terms
Unfitted as afores'1 for doing the dutv Conditioned in this grant to be
Done And in Case that Should happen the Same time to be Allowed
for the Respective matters afores'1 After Such Impediment Shall Be
Removed —

Further that all White pine trees fitt for masting his Majestys
Uoyall Navy Growing On S'1 tract of Land be And hereby are
Granted to his Majesty his heirs and Successors for ever To all Which
Premises I Joseph Blanchard Agent for And in Behalf of ye Grant-
ors have hereunto Sett my hand And Seal this first day of June in
the 26 year of his Majestys Reign A Dom: 1753 — , — —

Joseph Blanchard ) L. S.

A True Copy Examined ^ Robert Fletcher Propts Clerk

June ye 19th 1753—

CHARTER RECORDS.

[Plan of Alexandria, 1753.]

This Plan Describes the Tract of Land Call'1 Alexandria Granted
to Joseph Butterfield Junr and Others Laying in the Province of
New Hamps1' — Part of Masons Patent Containing 23040 acres Exclu-
sive of Ponds the Course Lengths of Line as Described on the plan
herewith Laid in a Scale of One Mile to an Inch — Dated June 1753

°$ Rob1 Fletcher Jun1' Surve}ror

The aforegoing plan & Return is a True Copy as on file Com-
pared *$

June ye 19th 1753— Rob1 Fletcher Junr Prop18 Cler1"

ALEXANDRIA. 9

[Vote of Acceptance by Proprietors of Alexandria, 1753.]
[Masonian Papers, Vol. 5, p. 6.]

Whereas .lost'] >h Blanc-hard Esq. as agent for & in the Name &
behalf of the Proprietors of the Lands in y' Province of New Hamp-
shire Purchased by them of John Tufton IVLason Esq. Who Sold them
under ye Title Made by a Common Recovery Did on the 1th day of
June 1753. Grant y8 Quantity of a Six mill Square Exclusive of
Ponds Pounded as followetli Begining at the Southwest Corner of
the Premisess fiffty Eight miles Northwardly from the Province Line
in the Western Line of Masons Pattent at a Beach Tree from thence
South Sixty five Degrees East Fiv miles & one half to a Beach Tree
thence North fiffty three Degrees east Seven Miles and. an half to a
hemlock tree thence North Sixty Degrees West to Newfound. Pond
so Call'1 thence Crossing the Pond and. to Continue the Same Course
untill it Comes to Masons Pattent Line five Miles and an half to a
Maple Tree thence Westward on the Said Pattent Line Eight miles
and a Quarter to the first Bounds Mentioned

Voted — That we do hereby accept Said Title & for our Selves
Our Heirs & Assigns do Acknowledge that we Hold Said Lands
Under S'1 Title Conditions & Limitations with y° Reservations
Therein Mentioned. — as by sd Grant Referance thereto being had
may appear Unto Joseph Butterfield Junr James Cowin Thomas
Cowin Thomas M'Gloughlin John Hutchinson Phinehas Underwood
Timothy Taylor Joseph Barrons Ezekiel Greale John Starnes
Zacheius Starns William M'Clure William Parker John Harvil
Thomas Juel Zacheius Spaulding Joseph Wright Benoni Juel
Reuben Butterfield Mark Gould Robert Fletcher Jonathan Perham
Jacob Fletcher Elijah Fletcher Nehemiah Lovewell Henry Snow
Jonathan Griffin Daniel Merrill Samuel Merrill Jun1" John Wallis
Marthow Wright Joseph Cofrin James Gragg Hugh Ramsey James
Millir Andrew Clindinin Robert Olindinin Samuel Allison David
Craig John Wallis Jun Samuel Steal Robert Livingstone William
Wallis David Clindinin David Burnside Nathanel Holms Marthow
Thornton Robert Fletcher Jun Jonathan Butterfield —

Extract From ye Votes of y" Proprit18 of the Township Call'1 Alex-
andria at their Meeting the 12th of June 1753

Copy Examined ^ Robert Fletcher Junr Prop™ Clerk

Copy Examined f Robert Fletcher Junr Prop8 Clerk

IO CHARTER RECORDS.

[Petition of Proprietors of Alexandria for Extension of Time, 1767.]
[Masonian Papers, Vol. 5, p. 7.]

To The Proprietors of the Land Contained in the Patent of John
Tnfton Mason Esq. in the Province of New Hampshire —

John Tolford cV- Mathew Thornton Esq. Agents for & in Behalf of
the Grantees of the New Township Called Alexandria, Granted by
Joseph Blanchard Esq. Agent for the said Proprietors, Lying in the
Province of New Hampshire Shews. That Whereas, by the Charter,
the said Alexandria is Bounded Begining at a Beach Tree fifty Eight
miles from the Province line, Northerly, in the Weserly line of
Mason's Patent, as lately Run, from thence South Sixty five Degrees
east, five miles & an half to a Beach Tree Marked thence north
fifty three Degrees east Seven Miles & an half to a Hamlock tree
marked, thence north Sixty Degrees west to new found pond so
Called, thence Crosing the pond & to Continue the Same Corse Un-
till it Comes to Mason's Patent line, five Miles & an half, to a maple
Tree Marked, thence westerly on the said Paten line Eight Miles & a
quarter to the first Bounds. — & Whereas by an Actual Survey of the
abovesaid Township, it Appears that their are Sundry Mistakes in the
Corses & Distances Mentioned in said Charter, which has prevented
the Grantees from making' Settlement Agreeable to the Conditions of
said Grant. Therefore in the Capacity aforesaid, in Behalf of the
Grantees aforesaid We Humbly pray That Two years from this Date
may be added to the time mentioned in said Charter, that the said
Grantees may perform the Duties of every kind as Stipulated in the
Charter thereof Also that the Bound, Corses, & Distances, of said
Alexandria, may be Confirmed to the said Grantees Agreeable to the
True Intent of said Grant, which we Beleive to be as follows (viz)
Begining at a maple Tree in Mason's Paten line about forty Rods
from New found pond thence Riming Over part of said pond South
twelve Degrees East five Miles More or less, or to a Hamlock Tree
marked, thence South fifty three Degrees west Seven Miles & an half
more or less, to a Beach Tree marked, thence north twelve Degrees
west, four Miles & an half to a Beach Tree marked in the westerly
line of the Abovesaid Patent, thence Easterly, on said line to the
Bounds first mentioned, & we Hereby Disclame, all the Land not
Included in the Bounds last mentioned, all which is Humbly Sub-
mite d

"$ John Tolford ) Agents for the Proprie-
Mathew Thornton \ tors of Alexandria

Portsmouth, March 13th A D 1767.—

ALEXANDRIA. II

[Extension of Time Granted to Alexandria Proprietors, 1707.]
[Masonian Papers, Vol. 5, p. 9.]

Province of \ Portsmouth March 13th 1767. At a Meeting of

New IIampshr \ the Proprietors of the lands purchased of John
Tufton Mason Esq1' in New Hampshire held hy adjournment —

Upon reading and Considering the Petition of John Tolford and
Mathew Thornton Esq1'8 Agents for the Grantees of a Tract of land,
within our patent called Alexandria. The Proprietors being willing
to encourage all industrious Settlers, and to rectify any mistakes
which operate to their prejudice and also to grant them Such further
Privileges and advantages as will best promote the Settlement ac-
cording to the original design. Therefore Voted that all that Tract
of land contained in the bounds last mentioned and prayed for in Said
Petition — viz* beginning at a Maple tree in Mason's Patent line about
forty rods from new found pond, thence running over part of said
pond, South twelve degrees east five miles, more or less to a hemlock
tree marked, thence South fifty three Deg West Seven miles and a
half more or less, to a beach tree marked thence North twelve Deg:
West four miles and an half to a beach tree marked in the Westerly
line of the Said Patent, thence easterly on the said line to the place
where it begins, be called by the name of Alexandria and all the
Right Title Claim and Demand of the Said Proprietors be and hereby
is granted to the Grantees named in the former grant, made by
Joseph Blanchard Esqr in behalf of Said Proprietors. To Hold to
them in the Same manner with the Same Reservations, Terms and
Limittations, as is therein expressed, with this further Benefit and ad-
vantage viz* that the said Grantees have two years from this time to
perform the Settlement and all the Several Matters and things by
them to be done according to Said former Grant. Provided the Said
Grantees shall have no right, Claim or Demand to any part of the
Land contained in the Bounds Expressed in the above mentioned
former grant, but only So much thereof as is contained in the above
mentioned Bounds, and that they Relinquish and disclaim their Right
and Demand to the said Premises within the said first mentioned
bounds accordingly —

Copy of Record Examine!

^ Geo : Jaffrey Proprs CI.

12 CHARTER RECORDS.

[ / rote of Acceptance by Proprietors of Alexandria, 1767.]
[Masonian Papers, Vol. 5, p. 10.]

Whereas, the Proprietors of the Lands in the Province Of New
Hampshire, Purchased by them, from John Tufton Mason Esq. Who
sold them Under the Title of a Common Recovery, Did on the thir-
teenth day of March 1767, Regrant, the Quantity of Six Miles Squar
part of said Land by the name of Alexandria, Begining at a maple
Tree in Mason's patent line About forty Rods from Newfound pond
thence Riming Over part of said pond, South Twelve Degrees East,
five Miles, more or less, to a Hemlock Tree Marked, thence, South
fifty three Degrees, west Seven Miles & an Half, more, or less, to a
Beach Tree Marked thence North twelve Degrees, west, four Miles,
& an Half to a Beach Tree Marked, in the Westerly line of Mason's
Patent, thence Easterly on said line to the first Bounds mentioned to
Joseph Butterfield Junr James Cowen, Thomas Cowen Thomas
M'laughlan, John Hutchison, Phineas Underwood, Timothy Taylor,
Joseph Barron, Ezekiel Grele, John Stearns, Zacheriah Stearns, Jim1
William M' Clure William Parker, John Harvil, Thomas Juel, Rueben
Butterfield, Mark Gould, Zacheriah Spaulding, Joseph Wright,
Benoni Juel, Robert Fletcher, Jonathan Parliam, Jacob Fletcher,
Elijah Fletcher, Nehemiah Lovewell, Henry Snow, Jonathan Griffin,
Daniel Merril Junr John Wallace, Mathew Wright, Joseph Cochran,
James Gregg, Hugh Ramsey, James Miller, Andrew Clindinin, Rob-
ert Clindinin, Samuel Alison, David Craige, John Wallace Junr
Samuel Steel, Robert Livingston, William Wallace, David Clindinin,
David Burnside, Nathniel Holms, Mathew Thornton, Robert
Fletcher Jun1" & Jonathan Butterfield. — Under Certain Condition,
Limitations, & Reservations, Mentioned, in s'1 Grant, as by Reference
thereto will fully Appear. —

Voted — That we Do Herby Except Said Title, & for Our Selves,
our Heirs, & Assigns, Do Acknowledge that we Hold said Lands,
under Said Title, Conditions, & Limitations, with the Reservations
mentioned.

At a meeting of the Proprietors, of Alexandria, Held at the House
of Timothy Engil, Inn Holder in Chester in said Province the Third
Tuesday of April, A D 1767.—

The foregoing Vote Passed, Unanimously. —

Robert MacMurphy Proppriaters Clark

ALEXANDRIA.

13

[Schedule of Proprietors of Alexandria, 1767.]
[Masonian Papers, Vol. 5, p. 12.]
A Schedule of Alexandria Each Draft Stands thus —

first D"

Second

third Dn

Dn

68

00

15

ii6

in ye 3d Dn

45

38

28

£76

in ye first Devision

51

23

J9

26

3

36

21

6

47

k,%

in ye first

72

*I2

in first

16

32

33

£78

in first

66

d23

in ye first

60

3°

58

£24

in ye first

22

28

11

9

38

8

52

ii6

in ye 3<l Dn

65

81

in first

17

43

6

7

70

£23

in ye first

54

18

74

39

12

24

3°

14

63

49

9

i3

in yc 3d Dn

10

i2S

in ye first

61

40

14

44

5

5°

3i

34

49

42

7

20

4

i2

in 3d Dn

43

il2

in ye first

5°

42

in V 3d Dn

Mathew Thornton

David Burnside

John .Moffat

Ezekiel Grealv

N°

Jonathan Buterfield —
Samuel Merril Junr —
Zacheriah Spalding —
Thomas Pecker —

.Mark Gould

Benoni Juell —

Robert Livingstone

Henry Snow

Phineas Underwood —
John Wentworth —
Joseph Cochran —
Thomas Walingsford —

John Stearns

Robert Fletcher —
Mess Harvey & others-
Jonathan Griffin

John Hutchinson —

Andrew Clendinen

Robert Fletcher Junr
George Jaffrey —
Joseph Boarns —
Robert Clendinen
Thomas Cowan —
Joseph Buterfield Jur

Blank

Nathaniel Holms —

Elijah Fletcher

John Wallace Junr
William McCluer-

James Gregg

Thomas Juell

Joseph Wright-

Thomelson & Mason —

Soley & March

David Craiee

75
9
73
14
48

7
32
65
79
28

64
68
46
70
8

19
3°
62

63

47
1

67
36
44
22
26
35
55
80
40

43
2

21

53
3

60

7i
59

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CHARTER RECORDS.

first D"

Second

third Dn

Thomas McLaughlen —

Hugh Ramsey

Zecheriah Stearns —
Reuben Buterfield —
William Parker Esr

John Hervill

Daniel Merril

Jonathan Perham —

David Clendinen

Joshua Peirce

John Wallace

James Miller

Samuell Steel

Timothy Tayler—
Jacob Fletcher —
William Wallace-
Richard Wibird—

John Rindge

Samuel Alison —

William Parker

Nehemiah Lovewell-

Peirce & Mores

Joseph Blanchard —

Mathew Wright

Joatham Odiorn-

Theodore Atkinson

Mathew Livermore —

James Cowan

Mark Hunking Wentworth
Blank

69
10
52
20

34
1 1

5i
57
13

T5

17
72

4i
56
29

5

4

53

16

37
39
3'
66
18

45
61

33
38

54

27

18

59
1

25
8

46
29

39
23
69

27
42
32
57
36
13
56
35
34
53
37
41
73
26

44
67
48
64
40

24

£24

19

4i

46

5i
22

4

1

37
21

25
£16

47
52
45
13
29
h3
10

33
3i

&77
12

5
17
35
48

15

27

in ye firs

in ye first

in ye 3d Dn

in ye first
in ve first

&c

Londonderry May 20th 1767
The fore Going is a true Schedule

pr Robert MacMurphy Proppriaters Clark

ALEXANDRIA.

[Plan of Alexandria, 1767.]

J5

l6 CHARTER RECORDS.

Note the first Devision Begins at the North East Corner or hem-
lock tree and Contains nine Ranges being 81 Lotts —

The Second Devision Contains nine Ranges being 74 Lotts
The third Devision Lies at the South West End of Stl town and
Contains 52 Lotts twelve of which are goreing Lotts adjoining the
Pattent Line

[Petition of Nathaniel Wliitaker and Ralph Wheelock, 1769.]
[Masonian Papers, Vol. 5, p. 13.]

To The Honble Theodore Atkinson and others the purchasers of
Masons Propriety in the Province of Nw Hampshire.

The memorial of Nath1 Whitaker and Ralph Wheelock
humbly sheweth.

That Your Memorialists have been long & labouriously engaged
in different departments in promoting the important Institution Doctr
Wheelocks Indian Accademy in which they with truth can say, they
have not sought their own personal or family Emolument or Advant-
age, & by which in part that Institution has not only become reputa-
ble but is like to be of great Advantage to this Province as a Semi-
nary of Learning in it, & that Your Memorilests are persauded that
their former services will be no bar in the way of obtaining some
favrs for themselves & friends, nor their asking personal favrs be con-
stured as preceding from too selfish Spirit —

That Your Memorilests have heard that there are several Townships
of Land which have been granted many Years ago, & still remain
unsettled, & therefore being forfited by the Negligence of the
Grantees, must return into the hands of the Proprietors.

That Your Memorilest have a Number of friends & Acquaintance
who having large families & being desirous to provide for them in
the farming way would in all likelyhood, make a speedy settlement
of Lands which are inviting & of good Quality.

That there is danger least a delay of a grant should disappoint the
plan of a speedy settlement, as the principle undertakers of said set-
tlement are in Such circumstances that they must speedily fix where
to settle, & if they should be otherwise provided for, Your Memori-
lests would be in danger of delaying the Settlement proposed —

Therefore Your Memorialests humbly pray that You would be
pleased to Grant to Your Memorilests & their Associates, the town-
ship of Land lying within the Curve line or Masons Grant called
Alexandria or that called Dantzick if they shall appear on

ALEXANDRIA. 1 7

enquiery to be vacated, or any other good Township of Land within

Your purchase, on the most easy & beneficial terms, which in Your

Wisdom & goodness Yon shall see meet.

And Your Memorilests as in duty bound shall ever pray —
Dated Portsmouth Nath1 Whitaker

Septr 16, 1769— Ralph Wheelock

[Petition of Jonas Minot, 1771.]
[Masonian Papers, Vol. 5, p. 14.]

To the Honble Theodore Atkinson Esqr and others Purchasers of
John Tufton Mason Esqr's Patent

The humble Petition of Jonas Minot for himself and in Behalf of
others shews —

That on the 24th Instant he prefered a Petition praying the Grant
of a Tract of Land call'd Hereford but being disappointed, of that, is
desirous of some other Tract within your Claim and particularly of
that commonly called Parry's Town or Elexandria or Hidleburg or
Heidelbourgh upon such Conditions & Resevations as shall be here-
after agreed on —

Portsm0 June 28th 1771 Jonas Minot

[Petition of Benjamin Whiting, 1771.]
[Masonian Papers, Vol. 5, p. 15.]

To the Honble Theodore Atkinson Esqr and others Purchasers of
John Tufton Mason Esqr's Patent —

The humble Petition of Benjamin Whiting for himself and in
Behalf of others shews —

That they are desirous of cultivating & Settling some of your
unimproved Lands within your Claim and particularly that Tract of
Land heretofore called Alexandria joining to New Chester and the
Curve Line upon Smith's River, upon such Conditions Limitations &
Reservations as shall be agreed on —

Portsm0 June 28th 1771- Benja Whiting

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[Petition of John Tolford and Daniel Ilindge, 1771.]
[Masonian Papers, Vol. 5, p. 16.]

Province of — \ To the Proprietors of the Patent called
New Hampshire \ Mason's Patent in said Province —

The Humble Petition of John Talford and Daniel Rindge In
behalf of themselves & others Proprietors of the Township of Alex-
andria in Said Province Shews —

That the said Proprietors of the said Township have Done a Con-
siderable part of the duty Incumbent on them according to their
( 'barter tho" perhaps not so Soon as the Conditions of their Charter
required yet as fast as considering the Impediments they met with
was feasible and in Settling new Townships there are always acci-
dents & events unforeseen that retard the progress of that work — but
in this case the Proprietors will be able soon to Accomplish the whole
having been at all or the Principle part of the Cost & Charge neces-
sary and the lots woud have been Cleard up fit for Tillage had not
the Season been uncommonly wet —

That your Petitioners have been Informd that Some others have
been Soliciting to obtain a New grant of Said Lands with the fruits
of the Labour of your Petitioners without regarding the Injustice
which would in that Case be done — But your Petitioners hope in
your wisdom & Prudence as well as justice to prevent the Damage
that woud Accrew to all parties Concernd to have instead of
Improving the lands a dispute and wrangle about the Title — For
your Petitioners in justice to themselves cannot think of giving up
their Labour to the new grantees (if any Such should appear) with-
out Compulsion and what claim coud be made by Such grant while
your Petitioners were in Open Possession is Submitted to your wise
Consideration — That as the whole duty of your Petitioners is so
nearly accomplishd they humbly hope you will Suffer them to pro-
ceed without disturbance which will be most advantagious to all par-
ties & they Shall Pray &c

John Tolford
Daniel Rindsfe

[Improvements in Alexandria, 1771.]
[Extract from Masonian Papers, Vol. 6, p. 4!*.]

[torn] the 22 Day of July 1771 the Famelies in the Place Called
Alexandria & the Improvements Made their & ye Lots workt on
Nathan Corlis Housen 1 — Famely 1 — years 1 — Months 1 — Acres

20 CHARTER RECORDS.

Improved 17 Cheifly madclow — Acres Cut 2 — year — month 1 — No 14
— Division 1 — under whom or whom Drawn by, william Baley —

[torn] Corley Housen 1 — Famely 1 — years 1 — Months 1 — Acres
Improved 12 Partly meddow — Acres Cut 2 — year — month 1 — No 23
— Division 1 — under whom or whom Drawn by, william Baley —

Joseph Basford Housen 1 — himself Liveing Cheefly in the Place 1
year 3 acres —

Non resident —

Robert McMurphy 1 Camp — Acres Improved 1£ — Acres Cut 5 —

John Tolford Laid Some Logues togather in June Last which he
Calls a House — Acres Cut 3 Cheefly Done this Summer —

James Molton Cut about 5 acres of Trees Last Summer Built a
Camp or House —

Cristopher Bartlet Has Cut Down a few Trees within about a
month —

Robert Foresaith Cut Down Trees about two Howers work a few
Days Since —

William Powel Has Cut Down a few Trees Has a few Beens Corn
& Taytors Planted Last fall & this Spring he Began to Cut —

Edmond Buswell & John Buswell Cut a few Trees Last fall —

Hastin & Rowel have Done the Same —

Jeremiah Lad Cut down about 4 acres of Trees & Planted a Little
Corn —

Anthony Taylor Cut Trees Last fall & this Spring Near 4 acres
Planted a few Taytors —

Wm Morrow Cut a few Trees & in this Present July Laid Some
Logues togather which he Calls a House —

Daniel McMurphey Cut a few Trees Last fall —

Joshua Tolford Cut Some Trees & Laid Some Logues togather
Last weak & this —

the whole of the Land Now Improveable Exclusive of what Jonathan
Corlis Moses Corlis & Joseph Basford Have Done Dos Not api3ear to
us to be more than about four acres by the Best information we had

July the 27th 1771 the above Return and the accounts of the Housen
Persons Liveing in and the Improvements maid in Each and Every of
the Places Called Alexandria Newchester Newbriton Perrys Town &
Herreford are according to the Best accounts I Had from the Inhabi-
tants of those Plases to gather with my own observations on Many of
the Sd Improvements Excepting one Famely I was tould Lived in the
Place Called Hereford and are according to my Best Judgment which
is humbly Submitted

ffl Jonas Minott

ALEXANDRIA. 21

Derryfield July the 27 1771 this may Certify that we weare Pres-
ent with Jonas Minott the whole of the above mentioned Days and
weare assisting in the Takeing the afore mentioned accounts of the
above mentioned Places & that we Saw him Take the above Journall
and that it is True according to our Best Judgment

Cutting favour
Samuel Atkinson

Provence of Newhampshir j Derryfield July 27th 1771
County of Hillsborough Ss j Personal appeared the above named
Jonas Minott & Cutting Favour & Samuel Atkinson & maid Solemn
oath to the above Return by them Respectively Signed and that it
Just and True according to The above Return

Sworn Befor John Goffe Justice of Peace

Agreable to a Vote of the Propriety, Impowering us to Employ a
Person to take an Account of Settlers &c in the Towns of New Ches-
ter, Alexandria, Hidlebourgh, Parrys Town, New Brittan, & to make
a legal Entry on the same in behalf of the Propriety, We do present
the Above Acco't & Reentry to the Propriety as our Return —
Portsmouth 15th August 1771

J Fisher )

Wm Whipple > Committee

Peter Pearse )

22

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the Above Rights & Lotts to be Reserved to the Proprietors as
they now Stand the Proprietors Reserving to them selves, two Lotts
more to Each Proprietor, to be equally drawn for, which will make
30 Lotts 40 Familys to be Settled in 3 Years, 15 within one Year,
with proper Houses & 3 Acres of Land Cleared to each Settler. 2'1
Year 10 Familys more on the same terms as the first Settlers, 3'1
Year 15 Familys more, on same terms, the whole Constantly to reside
there and Continue to make Improvements for Seven Years from the
date — a Convenient House for Public Worship to be Built in 4
Years, and constant Preaching 1 Right for the first Minister, 1 Right
for the Ministry, 1 Right for the School, a Grist Mill & a Saw Mill
to be built in 18 Months a Publick Road to be Cleared through the
Town towards Connecticut River, in 1 Year — the Proprietors Rights
& Lotts to be free from duty til Improved — a bond to be give of
£500 Lawf Mony for the Performance of the Conditions Portsm0
Aug1 16th 1771—

Octr 4th mem0 to have an Answer from Mr Minot & Mr Talford the
14th Novr

Portsm0 Novr 1th 1771 Voted-that when the Proprietors are ready
to make a grant to Jonas Minot &c of a tract of land called alexan-
dria, that it be made on ye terms written on ye other Side —

Geo: Jaffrey Proprs CI

[ William Bailey's Claim to Lots in Alexandria, 1771.]
[Masonian Papers, Vol. 5, p. 19.]

Portsmouth October 3rd 1771
My Lords I Should have Laid my Claim yesterday to five Rights in
Alexandria But I hapned to be out of the Entry when major Tolferld
was Called into the Room by Lordship, and when He Came out there
Seamd to be Some Heat — -

But Now I Would Give your Lordships a true accont of the pre-
tentions I have to five Rights in Said alexandria On the Thirteenth
Day of february 1761 I purchased the Said five Rights of one Robert
Fletcher Junr of Donstable for which five Rights He Receved 313
Dollers & h Every penny in money then paid Down. Then I with
The Rest of the propritors in the year 63: & 64 Laid out the Said
town ship into Lotts for which Servis I paid Eight pound ten shil-
lings Lawfull mony for my five Rights Then Immediatly to Encour-
age the Settlement of Said Twon I Gave a Number of wiightings
under my Hand Sufficiently Drawn all of one tenour and Date and

24 CHARTER RECORDS.

sent them to all tlie uper Towns for the Encouragement of Settlers
the Contents were That I would Give as a bounty to any three per-
sons that would undertake the Setlement of Said five Rights three
Lotts of Land in Said Town and further I would Give three Barrils
of pork 3 Do of Beaf & 3 of Bread and one Barrill of Rum But None
apeord to Settle on those terms then I agred to Give the pick of any
one Lott for the Setlement of one Right and Engagd one Mr Dan1
Young to Settle one Right for which I Gave him a Deed of Lott
Nomber 4. in the 3r,i Division he went the Same year on to said Lot
and was there Near three weeks in the town falling trees when he
was able all alome and Very Sick part of the time, yet as young was
Not properrly assisted with other Setlers He Growd Discouraged and
Give his Right to Jeremiah Lad. provided I Would take Lads Secur-
ity for the Setlement of Said Right and by His Desire I Did Trans-
fer the Security from young to Lad. and the Said Lad took the
Risque to himself whether young Had fully Complyd with the Chr-
ter or Not (the transfering of the Security has been within theis
year) in april 1769 I agred with one Jonathan Corless and
Engaged him to settle one Right for which I Engaged him Lot N° 14
in the first Division June following I Engaged mooses Corless and
Engagd him i Lott 23 in Said Division they Both imediatly moved
on with their familys and there Continue, and then Last Spring one
mr John Bartlet Came to me and Said he Had Sons that Wanted to
settle in Said town I Gave him the Number of all my twelve Lotts
and promised to Give them Either Two of Said Lotts if he would
Settle the two Remaining Rights in May I Saw the Said Bartlet He
Says his Sons was Gone into Said town to Live I then told him if
his Sons would Settle on my Rights I Would Give him fifty acres
more to Encourage him being then old. and Since I Here that the
Said Bartlets are on my Lots but I Cannot Say but true it is that one
of them is in the town —

I Cannot tell what I Could have Done more to Encourage any Set-
lement than I have without I had gone my self — but my occupation
Did Not allow of that — But I Here by mr minot that your Lordships
Have Voted that town to him with some Reservations) This is a true
Relation and I Submitt to any Reasonable or Rational person to
Judge of the Justice of my Claim to the five Rights in Said Alexan-
dria— I am your Lordships Humble Ser1

William Bayley

To the purchasers of John Tuften mason Esqrs Right to the prov-
ince of Newhampsher

ALEXANDRIA. 25

[Jonas Minot to the Proprietors, about Alexandria, 1771.]

[Masonian Papers, Vol. 5, p. 20.]

Honrecl Sirs I Proceeded to Alexandria to Put on Setlers found
that All Major Tolfords Pretences to Settle with us weare a peice of
Deceit he wos Endeavouring to Possess him Self of the Town
Eneourageing himself and oathers that when that is Done they will
be Safe and Shore to Hold the Town I made Proclamation that all
People that would then Ingage to Settle in that Place under the Pro-
prietors the origenall Grantors Should be Received as their Setlers
and Have one hundred acres to Each Setler their Performing Duty
&c where uppon Jonathan Corless Moses Corless Joseph Basford
William Corless James Taylor Jonathan Taylor Asa Hasting all
Entered into written obligation to Settle under us & Timothy Stev-
ens & Nathaniel Bartlet Signed for our Setlers but I found my Self
Nessietated to wright a Line praying you to Give them a Title for
Tolfords & Macmurphy Sons weare Present to use Every meens
they Could to Prevent any Person Setling under the Grantors
telling the People they Should undoubtedly Hold the Town that
they Should Sew those that Setled under us that their Charter
wos Not out that the Proprietors Could Not Take the Town from
them that they had the advise of Good attorneys or attorney they
made a mere Laugh of the Proprietors Pretences to Sew them Said
they would Endemnify All Persons who would Go on under them
Proceeded then to Cutting Roads in Alexandria & I have Not Time
at Present Pirticularly to Acquaint your Honours with the one half
of their ways to Discourage your Setlers I have a Number of People
whow will Go on but Expect that I Save them Harmeless & if you
think Best to Impower me to Give a Deed to Setlers & Indemnify
them I Can Carry on Settlements with Grator Sucsess & if you Dont
Give Stevens & Bartlett a Deed tis Provable you will Sattisfie them
that they Shall have one — tis Said that my Takeing Possession of the
Town as I did by Virtue of your Power of Attorney Did Not Rein-
state you in the Lawfull Possession their of that you must Reject the
Setlers or Reject the Grantees out — that the Power wos Not Legally
Executed it wos Signed by your Committee and witnessed by James
Stoodley & James Stoodley Juner Gentlemen if you Should Critecise
on these things or Take the opinnion of an attorney I Should be Glad
to hear the Result & if you Should forward the writs up So that they
are Served Soon it may be for the Best I am under the Disagreeable
Nesesity to Certify that Robert foesaith of Newchester In September
Last Trespasset on Lot No 2 in the first Division witnesses Benjamin
Shaw of Cordegan William Heath of Rumley — also Robert Mcmur-

26 CHARTER RECORDS.

phey on Lot No 13 in the first Division witnesses John McMurphey &
Robert McMurphey Juner all of London Dery. I am hapily Prevented
Sending you an account of two more Trespasses Done which are Like
to be Setled I Pray to Hear from you by the Next Post as I have Peo-
ple who want to go on but want to Know Something further & if you
would have me Come to Portsmouth I Shall Instantly Come at your
motion the People I Put on have the Promise to be Served and are
Something ferefull of the Consiqueucies these from Gentlemen your
most Obedient Humble Servant

Concord November the 28 1771 Jonas Minot

N B Cor11 Thornton Has advised for Going on under Tolford tells
that then they will be Safe Has thretned In Case of Nonconformity
I Just Now heard that they are Sending Som famelys in to Alexan-
dria to winter their — yours &c

any thing Sent by the Post to me may be Left with Mr Samuel
Minot Gould Smith in Boston

To the Honnourable George Jaffrey Esqr at Portsmouth to Be
Communicated to the Committee appointed to Imploy any Person to
Put on Setlers in alexandria In New hampshire

[Conditions of Settlement of Alexandria, 1772.]

[Masonian Papers, Vol. 5, p. 21.]

Whereas the Proprietors of Lands purchased of John Tufton
Mason Esqr called Mason's Patent situate in the Province of New-
Hampshire, by their Grant bearing date March ye 13th A D 1767 —
convey'd to Joseph Butterfield junr and others therein mentd a cer-
tain Tract of Land within the Bounds of s'1 Patent, called Alexandria
— upon certain conditions in said Grant specified to be performed on
the part of s'1 Grantees — which Conditions not being performed the
Grantors re-entered on the same Lands as by virtue of said Conditions
they lawfully might and thereby became legally seized and possessed
of s'1 Lands, as tho' the same had never been granted. And Whereas
the said Grantors at the instance of us the subscribers have agreed to
Re-grant to Jonas Minott of Concord in the County of Middlesex and
Province of the Massachusetts Bay Gentleman — one moiety of the
Land aforesaid, and the other moiety thereof to the former Grantees
of sd Alexandria, both of s'1 moieties upon the Terms, Conditions,
limitations and reservations to be Mentioned in said new Grant — viz1.
The proprietors to reserve to themselves Twenty Rights in s1' Alex-

ALEXANDRIA. 1*J

andria, reserv'1 to s'1 Grantors, numbered, and severed by, and in Con-
sequence of said former Grant, and also Thirty unsettled Lots
already Dotted and numbered to be drawn for by said Grantors at
Portsmouth in s'1 Province within fourteen days after the Return of
the plan herein after-mentioned. The said Grantees to settle Forty
Families within three years from the date of the new Grant — Fifteen
in one year with proper Houses and Three Acres of Land cleared to
each Settler — Ten Families the second year on the same terms. Fif-
teen Families the Third Year, the Terms as before ment'1. The whole
constantly to Reside on s(l Lands and continue to make improvements
on the same for seven Years from the date of s'1 Grant last men-
tioned

Said Grantees are also to build, within Four Years from s'1 date a
convenient House for Public Worship — and to maintain a Minister
who shall constantly on Sabbath days preach in the same. — One
Right in s'1 Alexandria to be given to the first Minister — and one
Right to the stated ministry, also one Right to the School. — A Grist
Mill & Saw Mill to be built within Eighteen Months from the date
of sd new Grant. A public Road to be cleared thro' said Alexandria
towards Connecticut River in one Year And the said Grantors Rights
& Lots to be free from duty 'till improved. And Whereas the said
Grantors have further agreed to grant to the said Jonas Minott one
moiety of another Tract of Land hereafter described, and to the said
Grantees the other moiety thereof upon the Terms, conditions, limi-
tations & reservations in this agreement after mentioned — sl1 Land to
be bounded as follows viz1 Beginning at the westerly corner of said
Alexandria, upon the curve line, and following the said line until it
comes to the Northerly Corner of Fisher's Field. Then from the
Southerly Corner of said Alexandria running in a strait as nearly
parrallel as possible to the said Curve line, until it strikes the North-
erly sideline of Parry's Town, Then following s'1 line of Parry's Town
'till it comes to the northerly line of Fisher's Field, then follow8 the
said line of Fisher's Field, 'till you strike the Curve line at the second
mentioned Bound. Except that in Case the lines of any former
granted lands, sh'1 interfere with the lower or second line before
mentioned then to go round s'1 other lines 'till it gets into the former
Course.

S'1 Terms, Conditions, Limitations, & Reservations are as follow,
viz' One third part of the last described Lands to be reserved to
the Grantor's use which Land shall be held by them free of all Taxes
and Charges whatsoever that may arise concerning the Roads, Build-
ings, Ministry, Settlements and other public affairs whatsoever, until
their said reserved Lands shall be improved, and then only the par-

28 CHARTER RECORDS.

ticular lot So improved to be liable. And all the white Pine Trees
fit for his Majesty's use growing on s(1 Premises, be also reserved for
that use.

And said Grantees to have Forty families on every Twenty thou-
sand acres in s'1 last mentioned Land & in the same proportion for a
greater or less quantity of Land And all the Setlers to be got on
and reside on said Lands, within three years from the Return of the
Plan of sd last Tract of Land Which being supposed of an Oblong
Form shall be divided in the Center, into two Parishes, and that in
each Parish shall be laid out in the centre thereof, or as near as may
be, a Lot in a square form contg at least ten acres, for a Burying
yard, Training Field Meeting House, and other public uses forever
And nearly adjoining to sd Lot another of One hundred and fifty acres
for the use of a Public School forever. Also another Lot of One hun-
dred and fifty acres for the use of the first settled Minister forever. —
Another adjoin'g thereto of One hundred and fifty acres for the use of
the ministry forever. — And that a House for Public Worship of Thirty
six feet square at least shall be built on the s'1 Ten acre Lot within
Three years after the date of said Grant. — That a Saw Mill and Grist
Mill shall be built in Three years after the date of said Grant in last
ment'1 Land. That the said Alexandria & last mentd Land shall be
surveyed by a Person appointed by the Grautors, the Charge thereof
to be borne by the said Grantees, and a plan, upon oath returned to
the Grantors of the same, by the first day of June next. — Sd last
mentc' Land to be divided b}r the said Surveyor, at the Grantees
Expence, into equal Lots — every twenty thousand Acres to Contain
One hundred and twenty Lots to be return'd with the Plan afore-
said. And if at the Expiration of three years from the date of the
Grant any of said Lots required by the Graut to be settled, shall be
found unsettled and without a resident Family thereon, such Lots
shall be forfeited to and for the use of the said Grantors. — The duty
of settlement is understood to be — That upon each settling Lot is to
be built a dwelling House, equal to Sixteen feet square, and six
Acres improved in mowing, tillage and under Fence. — And that
within fourteen days after the Return of the Plan of Survey of the
Lots in s'1 last mentioned Land shall be drawn at Portsmouth accord-
ing to Custom in the presence and under the direction of the Grant-
ors.— And in consideration of the premises, we promise & engage to
give a Bond to the s'1 Grantors in the penal Sum of Five hundrd
Pounds L My conditioned for the performance of Terms aforesaid. —
And it is further agreed, that in Case said last Tract of Land upon
the Return of the Plan and Survey thereof should appear not so
good in quality as the neighbouring Towns in general, then sd Grant-

ALEXANDRIA.

29

ors shall not exact s'1 forty families to be settled in manner afores'1
but shall abate that Number in proportion to sa last Land appearing
to be deficient in quality afores'1 —

In Witness whereof we have hereunto set our hands the 25th day
Sepf A D 1772 —

Test J Pickering Jr D Peirce ^

D Rogers i «

r~i tj i ii y Committee
John Penhallow [

W1" Whipple J

\_Gra71t of Alexandria to Jonas Minot and Others, 1773.]
[Masonian Proprietors' Records, July 7, 1773.]

Province of New Hampr Portsmouth July 7th 1773 Wednesday
five of the Clock afternoon at the dwelling house of James Stoodly
Esqr Innholder — The Proprietors meet according to adjournment —

Whereas the Said Proprietors by their Grant bearing date March
13th 1767 conveyed to Joseph Butterfeild jun1' and others therein
mention'd a certain tract of Land situate within the bounds of the
Patten t Line, in the Province of New Hampshire called Alexandria,
upon certain conditions in said Grant specified, to be performed on
the part of said Grantees, which Conditions not being peformed,
the Grantors reenter'd into the same Lands, as by virtue of said con-
ditions They Lawfully might and thereby became Legally seized
and possessed of the said Lands, as tho' the same had never been
granted. And Whereas the said Proprietors by the desire of
Jonas Minot of Concord in the County of Middlesex, Gentleman,
Jonathan Bagley Esq. and William Bailey Gentleman both of Alms-
bnry in the County of Essex, and all in the province of the Massa-
chusetts Bay, Matthew Thornton Esq & Robert M' Murphy Gent'11
both of Londonderry John Talford Esq. William Talford Gent"1 both
of Chester, Daniel Rinclge of Portsmouth Esq all in the County of
Rockingham & Province of New Hampshire, and Joshua Talford
of New Chester in the County of Grafton and Province last men-
tion'd husbandman, Have agreed to grant said tract of Land situate
in the County of Grafton and Province of New Hampshire, to the
said Minot, Bagley, Bailey, Thornton, M'Murphy, John Talford,
William Talford, Rindge & Joshua, the one moiety of said Lands
to the said Minot, and the other moiety thereof to the said Bagley
Bailey, Thornton, McMurphy, John Talford, William Talford,
Rindge and Joshua Talford, which said Last Moiety is to be granted
to the said Bagley Bailey, Thornton, M'Murphy John Talford,

.30 CHARTER RECORDS.

William Talford, Rindge & Joshua Talford, in proportion to the
Rights and Shares they owned under said forfeited Grant, and the
whole of the Land herein after granted to be upon the conditions,
Limitations & reservations herein after mention'd, Therefore
Voted That there be and hereby is granted, to the said Minot his
Heirs and assigns forever, the one moiety of the after mention'd
Lands according to quantity and Quality, and the other moiety
thereof to the said Bagley, Bailey, Thornton, M* Murphy, John Tal-
ford, William Talford, Rindge & Joshua Talford, and to their res-
pective Heirs & Assigns, in Proportion to the rights and Shares
owned by them under said Grant, Viz1 to the said Matthew Thornton
Twelve forty ninths of the said Moiety Last mention'd, to the said
Jonathan Bagley five forty ninths, to the said William Bailey five
forty ninths, to the said John Talford Seven forty ninths, and one
third, to the said William Talford Eight forty ninths & one third, to
the said Robert M'Murphy eight forty ninths and one third, to the
said Daniel Rindge two forty ninths, and to the said Joshua Talford
one forty ninth part of said Last moiety, the tract of Land hereby
granted is bounded as follows viz1 — begining at a Maple tree in
Masons Pattent Line about forty rods from Newfound Pond, thence
runing over part of said Pond South twelve degrees East five miles
and an half more or Less to the place where a Hemlock tree for-
merly stood, and marked for the easterly corner bound of Alexan-
dria, from thence South fifty three degrees West about eight and
half miles more or Less to a Beach tree marked, from thence North
twelve degrees West, four and half Miles more or Less to the Pattent
Line aforemention'd, from thence easterly on said Line to the Place
first mention'd Excepting and reserving out of said tract of Land the
Rights & Lotts herein after mention'd, which are hereby expressly
reserved for the use of said Grantors their heirs and Assigns forever,
Viz1 — Lot Number Nine in the first, forty five in the second & thirty
eight in the third Division, in said Alexandria, Lot number thirty
two in the first twenty one in the second, and Six in the third divi-
sion. Lot number forty six in the first, sixty in the second, thirty in
the third division, Lot number eight in the first, twenty two in the
second, Twenty eight in the third division, Lot number sixty two in
the first, fifty two in the second, & one half N° Sixteen in the third
Division, Lot thirty six in the first, fifty four in the second eighteen
in the third Division, Lot Number fifty five in the first, nine in the
second half of N° three in the third Division, Lot Number Sixty in
the first, four in the second, half of Lot Number two in the third divi-
sion, Lot number seventy one in the first, and half of Number Twelve
in the first, forty three in the second division, Lot number thirty four

ALEXANDRIA. 31

in the first eight in the second, fifty one in the third division, Lot
Number fifteen in the first, Sixty nine in the second, twenty one in
the third division, Lot number four in the first, fifty six in the sec-
ond, twenty nine in the third division, Lot number fifty Eight in the
first, thirty five in second, half of three in the thiid division, Lot
number thirty one, & half of twenty five in the first, forty one in the
second division, Lot Number forty five in the first forty four in the
second five in the third division, Lot number sixty one in the first,
sixty seven in the second, seventeen in the third division, Lot num-
ber thirty three in the first, forty eight in the second, thirty five in
the third division, Lot Number fifty four in the first, forty in the
second, fifteen in the third Division, Lot number twenty seven in the
first, twenty four in the second, twenty seven in the third division,
Lot number sixty six in the first, seventy three in the second,
Seventy seveu in the first division, according as the same Lotts were
numbered and entered in a Schedule by said proprietors under the
said Grant of Alexandria, as will fully appear by reference had to
said Schedule, and also the Lotts following are reserved to said Pro-
prietors under this Grant, viz1 Lott Number fourteen in the second
division, number thirty four in third division, number twenty three
in second Division, Number seventy in first division, Number Sixty
four in first division, Number eight in third division, number fifteen
in second division, Lot number twelve in third division, number ten
in first division, number thirty three in third division, number Sixty
one in second division, number forty one in first division, number
twenty eight in first division, Number one in third division, number
twenty seven in second division, number sixty nine in first division,
number twenty nine in first division, number seventy six in first
division, number forty in first division, number Eleaven in the first
division, number Seven in third division, number forty nine in third
division, number forty eight in first division, number Eighty one in
first division, number thirty one in third division, number twenty
two in third division, number seventy nine in first division, number
six in second division, number forty seven in third division, and
number seventy eight in first division —

To Have & Hold the said Premises, except what is herein re-
served to them the said Jonas Minott, Jonathan Bagley, William
Bailey, Matthew Thornton, John Talford, William Talford, Robert
M'Murpliy, Daniel Rindge & Joshua Talford, their Heirs & Assigns
forever in manner and proportion as aforesaid upon the Terms, con-
ditions, Limitations & Reservations following viz1 — That twenty
rights in said Tract of Land are hereby expressly reserved to said
Grantors, numbered & severed in consequence of said former Grant,

32 CHARTER RECORDS.

and Also thirty unsettled Lotts, already Lotted & Numbered as
aforesaid — That said Grantees shall settle upon said Granted Lands
forty Families within three years from the date of this Grant,
fifteen in one year, With proper houses built thereon, and three
acres of Land cleared to each settler, Ten Families the second year
on the same terms, fifteen families the third year on the Terms
before mention'd, The whole shall constantly reside on said Land,
and continue to make improvements on the same for seven years
from the date of this Grant, That said Grantees shall within
four years from the date hereof build a Convenient house for
the Publick Worship of God, and Maintain a Minister who shall
constantly on Sabath days preach in the same, That three of
the aforesaid Rights besides those already Reserved, shall be and
hereby are granted free from charge, One for the first settled
Minister, One for the Ministry, and One for a school there forever —
That a Gristmill & Saw Mill shall be built by said Grantees within
eighteen months from the date hereof ; a Publick road be cleared
through said Land towards Connecticutt River in one year, and that
the said Grantors Rights and Lotts aforemention'd be free from
Duty untill improved Provided that said Grantees or any of them,
shall Neglect to perform the conditions on his and their part to be
performed according to the true Spirit and meaning of the terms
upon which this Grant is made, then and in such Case it shall and
may be Lawfull for the Grantors their heirs and Assigns, by them-
selves or attorney duly appointed to Reenter into each & every such
delinquent Grantees Right or Rights, Lott or Lotts & become
reseised & repossessed thereof, as tho' this Grant had never been
made — And further all White Pine trees on Said Tract of Land fit
for Masting His Majesty's Royal Navy be and hereby are granted to
his Majesty his heirs & Successors forever —

Voted Also That there be and hereby is granted unto the before-
named Jonas Minott, Jonathan Bagley, William Baile}7, John Tal-
ford, William Talford, Matthew Thornton, Robert McMurphy,
Daniel Rindge and Joshua Talford, on the Terms, conditions,
Limitations & reservations herein after exprest, a Certain tract
of Land situate in the County of Hillsborough & Province of
New Hampshire, bounded as follows viz1 begining at the South-
westerly Corner of Alexandria aforesaid on the Patent Line,
and Runing on said Pattent Line to Fishersfield Corner, in
Great Sunnipe Pond, from thence East, on the Northerly side
Line of Fishersfield, four hundred seventy two Rods to Parrys
Town Corner, then North eighty five degrees East about four miles
to a beach tree marked, on Parrystown Line, from thence North

ALEXANDRIA. 33

thirty nine degrees East, about Sixteen hundred & seventy two rods
to a beach tree marked in Alexandria Corner, from thence North
twelve degrees West to the Pattent Line aforemention'd on the west-
erly side of said Alexandria, To Have & to Hold to the said
Minot his heirs ^v. assigns forever the one moiety of said Land, and
to the said Jonathan Bagley, William Bailey, John Talford, William
Talford, Matthew Thornton, Robert Mc Murphy, Daniel Rindge, &
Joshua Talford, and to their respective heirs and Assigns forever,
the other Moiety thereof, according to their respective Rights and
shares in said Alexandria, upon the following Terms, Conditions,
Limitations cV Reservations, That is to Say, That one third Part of
said Land, is herebv reserved to the said Grantors, their heirs and
assigns forever— Viz1 Lott Number 74, N° 40, N° 128, N° 38, N° 49,
N° 122, N° 24, N° 94, N° 119, N° 121, N° 70, N° 95, N° 58, N° 10, N°
50, N° 36, N° 55, N° 67, N° 136, N° 126, N° 3, N° 84, N° 125, N°
17, N° 42, N° 29, N° 61, N° 90, N° 18, N° 37, N° 83, N° 102, N° 120,
N° 43, N° 92, N° 118, N° 4, N° 106, N° 19, N° 14, N° 71, N° 7, N° 15,
N° 39 & N° 46, and two Lotts in the Plan return'd of said Tract, a
third of which said two Lotts is reserved to said Grantors, and belongs
to their said third part, of said Land, besides the particular Lotts
beforemention'd, which said reserved third part shall be held by said
Grantors, free from all Taxes, and charges whatever, that may arise
concerning the Roads, buildings, Ministry, settlements and other
Publick affairs, whatever, untill the Grantors Lands shall be improved,
& then only the particular Lott so improved, shall be Liable, and all
the white Pine trees fit for his Majesty's Use, for Masting his Royal
Navy, growing on said Premises are hereby reserved for that Use. —
That said Grantees shall have thirty Families on every twenty thou-
sand Acres on said Tract hereby granted, and so in the same proportion
for a greater or Less quantity of Land, and all the Settlers to be got
on and reside on said Land within three years from the date of this
Grant, which tract of Land being supposed of an Oblong form, shall
be divided in the Centre into two Parishes, and that in each Parish
shall be Laid out in the center thereof, or as near as may be, a Lot
in a square form, containing at Least ten Acres, for a Burying Yard,
Training Field, Meeting house and other Publick Uses forever, And
nearly adjoyning to said Lot, another of one hundred & fifty Acres,
for the use of a Publick School, also another Lott of One hundred &
fifty Acres, for the use of the first settled Minister forever, another
Lott adjoyning thereto of one hundred & fifty acres for the use of the
Ministry forever, That said Grantees build an house for Publick
Worship, of thirty Six feet square at Least On said ten Acre Lot
within three years from the date hereof and Also within that time

34 CHARTER RECORDS.

shall build a Saw Mill and Grist Mill, and if any Grantee or Grantees,
in three years from this date, shall not settle the Number of Families
required to be settled, by this Grant in proportion to his Right or
Share in said Land, such delinquent Grantee or Grantees shall for-
feit to said Grantors their heirs and assigns so much of such delin-
quents Right or shares in said Land, as shall amount to one thirtieth
part of the whole of said Grant, for the use of said Grantors, as if
this Grant had never been made, and it shall be Lawfull for them
their Heirs & Assigns, or their attorney duly appointed to reenter
into an}- such Rights or Lands and become reseised & repossessed of
the same, The Duty of Settlement is hereby meant, that upon each
settling Lott there shall be built a dwelling house equal to sixteen
feet square, and six Acres improved in Mowing, Tillage and under
fence, — That within Ninety days from this date, the Lotts of said
Grantees, shall be drawn or divided, and a Schedule of the Numbers
returned to the said Grantors within that time, with a List of the
settling Lotts, & the Lotts thereto belonging, and that said Grantees
within said ninety days, shall Vote an Acceptance of both said
Grants, and make a record of such Acceptance, — The Land in said
Tract given to the abovenamed William Bailey is to be understood
as granted to him, upon this condition, that in case he consent to take
his part given in said Alexandria, as in the Grant thereof of even date
with this, and to draw for the share given herein to him, in Proportion
to his Right or Share before mention'd, Then he shall be in titled to
what is herein given to him, otherwise the same is hereby granted, to
the other Grantees and to their heirs and Assigns in the same Propor-
tion as the other Lands herein given them, — That each Grantee Shall
give to the Grantors Bonds in the penal sum of five hundred pounds
Lawfull Money in the whole, for the performance of the said terms
and conditions of Settlement according to this Grant, which Bonds
shall be given within three months in proportion to each Grantee's
Right in said Lands, and if any Grantee or Grantees, shall refuse or
neglect to sign such Bonds within that time, his or their Rights or
Shares, shall be forfeited for the use of the Grantees who shall sign
such bond, To Hold to them their Heirs & assigns in Proportion to
each Grantees Right in said Grant —

[Proprietors Reservations in Alexandria, 1773.]

[Masonian Proprietors' Records, July 14, 1773, and Masonian Papers,

Vol 5, p. 22.]

Province of New Hampslv" — Portsmouth July 14th 1773 Wednes-
day three of the Clock afternoon at the dwelling house of James

ALEXANDRIA. 35

Stoodly Esq1 Imiholder the Proprietors meet according to adjourn-
ment

Whereas the Proprietors, at their Meeting held on the 7th day of
July 1773 passed a Grant to Jonas Minot Jonathan Bagley William
Bavley Matthew Thornton and others, of a tract of land called Alex-
andria described and bounded in Said Grant, and in which Grant
Twenty Rights or Shares in Said Tract of land are reserved and
described by the numbers of the Lots for the use of the Grantors, and
were drawn by Lot in Common with the Lotts of the Grantees of a
former Grant, and Severed to each Proprietor as by a Schedule of
the Drafts of the Lots — but said former Grant being forfeited to the
Grantors and they having resumed and reentered the Land in their
former Estate — and as the appropriation to each Proprietors right,
to the said twenty shares reserved, is not particularly expressed in
their Grant and Reservation — which passed the Seventh day of July
1773 — Therefore Voted that the Said twenty Rights or Shares be
and hereby are Severed and appropriated to the Rights of the Pro-
prietors the Grantors, agreable to the draft of the Rights and Lotts,
as entered in the Schedule before mentioned, and shall be as follow's
— viz1 —

To John Moffatt Esqr— N° 9 in first division N° 45 in 2'1 divis" N° 38
in 3'1 division

To Thomas Packer Esqr— N° 32 in D° N° 21 in d° N° 6 in d°
To John Wentworth Esqr— N° 46 in d° N° 60 in d° N° 30 in d°
To Thomas Wallingford Esqr— N° 8 in d° N° 22 in d° N° 28 in d°
To Messrs Meserve Blan chard &ca N° 62 in d° N° 52 in d° half of
N° 16 in d°

To George Jaffrey Esqr— N° 36 in d° N° 54 in d° N° 18 in d°
To the Proprietors in common N° 55 in d° N° 9 in d° half N° 3 in
d°

To Thoralinson and Mason N° 60 in d° N° 4 in d° half N° 2 in d°
To Solly & March— half N° 12 in d° ( N° 43 in d°—

N°71ind° \
To William Parker Esqr N° 34 in d° N° 8 in d° N° 51 in d°
To Joshua Peirce Esqr N° 15 in d° N° 69 in d° N° 21-in d°
To Richard Wibird Esqr N° 4 in d° N° 56 in d° N° 29 in d°
To John Rindge— N° 58 in d° N° 35 in d° half N° 3 in d°
To Peirce & Moore half N° 25 in d° ) N° 41-in d°—

N° 31 in d° j
To Jotham Odiorne Esqr N° 45 in d° N° 44 in d° N° 5 in d°
To Theodore Atkinson Esqr N° 61, in d° N° 67 in d° N° 17 in d°
To Mathew Livermore Esqr N° 33 in d° N° 48 in dn N° 35 in d°
To Mark Hunk8 Wentworth Esqr N° 54 in d° N° 40 in d° N° 15
in d°

2)6 CHARTER RECORDS.

To the Proprietors in Common N° 27 in d° N° 24 in d° N° 27 in d&
To Joseph Blanchard Esqr N° 66 )

N° 77 J in d° N° 73 in d°—

And The above Said two Rights reserved to the Proprietors ye
Grantors in Common be disposed of as the Said Proprietors shall
hereafter order and determine and whereas there are also other
thirty Lots in Said Tract of land called Alexandria granted July ye
7th 1773, which be reserved to the Proprietors the Grantors the
Numbers of which are mentioned in the Grant —

Voted that the Same be drawn for instantly, two Lots to each
Proprietor, and that the two Lots drawn to the proprietor's Share, to
whom drawn, shall be So Severed to them their heirs and assigns in
Severalty ; and are drawn and entered as follow's viz'

1st To John Moffatt Esqr N° 31 -in 3'1 division -N° 1-in 3d division
2d T° Mark Hunk8 Wentworth Esqr N° 64 -in 1st d°-N° 15 in 2d d°

3 To Theodore Atkinson Esqr N° 81 -in 1st d°-N° 33 -in 3d d°

4 To Jotham Odiorne Esqr N° 11-in 1st d°-N° 22 -in 3fl d°

5 To Solley and March-N° 69 -in 1st d°-N° 61 -in 2d d°

6 To Meserve Blanchard &c N° 28 -in 1st d°-N° 40 -in 1st d°

7 To George Jaffrey Esqr N° 10 -in 1st d°-N° 41 -in 1st d°

8 To Joshua Peirce Esqr N° 78 -in 1st d°-N° 79 -in 1st d°

9 To Peirce & Moore N° 49 -in 3<l d°-N° 34 -in 3d d°

10 To Thomas Packer Esqr N° 47 -in 3d d°-N° 70 -in 1st d°

11 To John Rindge- N° 27 -in 2d d°-N° 76 -in 1st d°

12 To Richard Wibird Esqr N° 29 -in 1st d°-N° 8 -in 3d d°

13 To Thomas Walingford Esqr N° 48 -in 1st division N° 7 -in 3d
division

14 To John Wentworth Esqr N° 14 -in 2d d°-N° 12 -in 3d d°

15 To Thomlinson & Mason N° 23 -in 2d d° N° 6 -in 2d d°

There being also another Tract of Land granted to the aforesaid
Minot Bagley Bailey Thornton and others, on the aforesaid Seventh
day of July in which Grant there being reserved to each of the Pro-
prietors the Grantors three Lots to each Proprietors Right or Share
in Said Tract of land, which Tract is adjoining to Alexandria afore-
said, and described and bounded in Said Grant, and the numbers of
the Said reserved Lots are also mentioned in Said Grant — Therefore
Voted That three of the Said reserved Lots be instantly drawn for,
to each of the Said Proprietors Shares or Right in Said Tract of
land, and being So drawn, and entered to each of the Proprietors
respectively, that each of the three Lots shall be a Severance of the
Same as drawn to the Right of Said Proprietors, their respective

ALEXANDRIA. 37

Heirs and Assigns — The draft of the three Lots to each Proprietor's
Share or Right is as follow's — viz1 —

18« To George Jaffrey Esqr N° 106- N° 49-N° 55

2a To John Wentworth Esqr N° 39 -Nu 70 -N° 125 —

3d To Mark Hunk« Wentworth Esqr N° 38-N° 36-N° 01 —

4th To Richard Wibird Esqr N° 121 -N° 84 -N° 120

5th To Solley and March- N° 74 -N° 58 -N° 17

6 To Thomlinson & Mason N° 42-N° 118 -N° 128 —

7 To Jotham Odiorne Esqr N° 71 -N° 94 -N° 126

8 To Peirce and Moore N° 50 -N° 29 -N° 4 —

9 To Thomas Packer Esqr N° 24- N° 136-N0 37 —

10 To Joshua Peirce Esqr N° 43 - N° 40 -N° 95

11 To Meserve Blanchard &ra N° 83 -N° 7-N° 119 —

12 To John Riudge— N° 3-N° 102 -N° 15 —

13 To John Moffatt Esqr N° 92 -N° 40 -N° 10

14 To Theodore Atkinson Esqr N° 67 - N° 18 - N° 14

15 To Thomas Walingford Esqr N° 90 -N° 19 -N° 122

[Grantees' Lots in Alexandria and Alexandria Addition, 1773i\

[Masonian Papers, Vol. 5, p. 24.]

At a Legal Meeting of the Proprietors, of the Township of Alex-
andria, & Alexandria Addition Held at the Dwelling House of
Col. Stephen Holland Esq. in Londonderry, in the County of Rock-
ingham. & Province of New Hampshire, Sepr 6th A D 1773. — The
Proprietors Drew the Lots, Annexed to their Names in the follow-
ing schedule (viz). —

38

CHARTER RECORDS.

Jonas Minot Gent, in Alexandria

N°

Said Minots Lots in Alexandria Addition 2,, 32,,
124,, 130,, 76,, 47,, 93,, 100,, 112,, 115,, 36,,
25,, 23,, 44,, 101,, 107,, 138,, 63,, in,, 134,,
64,, 137,, 77,, 59,, 60,, 65,, 66,, 31,, 28,,

Matthew Thornton Esq in Alexandria

D° in Alexandria Addition 96,, 91,, 34,, 21 ,, 54

,,87,, 133,, 26,, 113,, 116,, 129^.

Majr John Tolford^ Lots in Alexandria

D° in Alexandria Addition 27,, 79,, 16,, 88,, 78,

105,,

Deacon William Tolford's Lots in Alexandria

D° in Alexandria Addition 2:
117,, 20,, 6,,

,, 132,, 33,, 103,

Robert Macmurphy's Lots, in Alexandria

D° in Alexandria Addition 69,, 7^,, 56,, 1,, 30,

97,, 108,, one third of the Half of 129 —

N°

lDn

N°

Dn

No

1

I

16

2

42

17

17

't

40

23^

3°

2

52

21

3i

2

26

22

32

2

16k

39

33

2

4

25i

34

2

39

63

57

2

48

24^

59

2

50

51

20

2

2i

75

58

2

43

26

65

2

9

47

38

2

44

3°

29

2

4i

65

13

2

43

!9

2

59

53
74
66
12
50

25
26

5
49
63

7
10

2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2

6

18

2

32

16

42

2

36

18

68

2

46

24^

28

2

72

72

2

12^

38

36

2

J9

37

64

2

37

68

1 1

2

73

1

2

'9

46

2

56

52

80

10

3

3

2

13

5

47

2

14

7

45

13

Dn
3

ALEXANDRIA.

No

53

The Honl,le Daniel Rindge Esq's Lots, in Alex-
andria

D° in Alexandria addition 13 & 89

Joshua Tolford Esq's Lot in Alexandria.

D° in Alexandria addition. 1 1 —

To be Divided between the Grantors, & Grantees. —

in Alexandria Addition 45 & 85.

Col. Jonathan Bagley's Lots, i:i Alexandria

D° in Alexandria Addition 131,, 99,, 109,, 135,,
I2d —

Cap' William Bailey's Lots in Alexandria
the two Rights Reserved, which if he takes he, is
to have no part in Alexandria addition & in Case
sd Bailey takes only his Proportion as other Gran-
tees in Alexandria, he is to have in Alexandria
Addition 57,, 98,, 86,, 35,, & 12^. — Otherwise
the last mentioned numbers, to be Divided amoung
the other Grantees. — >

Publick Lots in Alexandria Addition, 57,, 68,, 75,, 81,, 82,, 98 —

John & William Tolford, & Robert Macmurphy, one Half, no,, 129 in Alexandria

Addition

JO

20
57
14
67

23h

D"

1

No

D"

N°

D«

25

3

24

3

37

2

39

2

5i

2

23

3

7°

2

[Matthew Thornton to Proprietors, about Alexandria, 1773.]
[Masonian Papers, Vol. 5, p. 25.]

Londonderry, Octr 2«l A D 1773.

Hon'1 Sir/

The Bearer, Mr Macmurphy, Can inform }rou that I have Drawn
my Lots in Alexandria & Alexandria addition. My Circumstauces
Makes it impossible for me to be at Portsmouth, to Signe &c
a Bond for my part of the five Hundred Pound. I would have
Signed, & Sealed one & Sent it, but I doe not know the form that
you Chuse to have them Drawn, I intend to be at Portsmouth the
week After next, or very Soon, & Sign a Bond for my part to all
your Satisfactions, pray Sir dont let my not being Able to Come
Sooner, Make me losse my Interest. Excuse my giving you this
trouble. I am Sir your very Hble ser1

Matthew Thornton

The Hon'1'' Daniel Rogers Esq Portsmouth

4°

CHARTER RECORDS.

[Petition of Jonas Minot, 1780.]
[Masonian Papers, Vol. 5, p. 26.]

February 15 1780 To the Honrble Proprietors of the Lands Pur-
chased of John Tufton Mason Esqr Lying in Newhampshire the
Petition of Jonas Minot in behalf of Mr Merril, Mr Ardeway & Mr
Day-humbly Shewing — that those Persons are Desireous of Setling
on the Proprietors Land adjoyning Newlondon in the County of
hillsborough-& pray that the Proprietors would Grant to Each of
them Severally fifty Acres of Land wheare they have made Improve-
ments— uppon Such Terms of Settlements as they May See Cause —
and Sell to Each of those Persons fifty acres of Land adjoyning
those Settlements uppon Terms agreed uppon — and as In Duty
Bound in behalf of those Persons Shall Ever Pray

Jonas Minot

an answer Inclosed and Directed to Mr Samuel Minot Goldsmith
in Boston is Earnestly Desired —

[Endorsed] to write Minot that ye 3 men may have 100 Acres
each to pay one Silver dollar an acre for each 100 Acres to keep con-
stant setlem1 and have a good dwelling house &ca

wrote dated March 28th 1780

[ Grantee

s' Lots in

Alexand)

ia.~\

[Masonian Papers, Vol.

5, p.

27.]

^st

2a

3'1 division

Matbew Thornton Esq1' N°

6.

68.

— and no more

David Burn side

75.

15.

£16

John Moffatt Esqr

X

9.

45.

38

Ezekiel Grealy .

73.

28.

£76 in ye first

Jonathan Butterfield

14.

51.

23.

Samuel Merrel Junr

48.

19.

26

Zachariah Spalding

7.

3.

36

Thomas Packer Esq1

. X

32.

21.

6

Mark Gould

b5.

47.

£78 in ye first

Benoni Juel

79.

72.

£12 in ye first

Robert Livingstone

28.

16

32

Henerey Snow .

64.

33.

£78 in ye first

Phineas Underwood

68.

66.

£23 in ye first

John Wentworth Esqr

X

46.

60.

30—

Joseph Cockran

70.

58.

£24 in ye first

Thomas Wallingford '.

Esq

X

8.

22.

28

ALEXANDRIA.

4

John Sterns . . . 19.

11.

9

Robert Fletcher

30.

38.

8

Meserve & Others

X 62.

52.

£16

Jonathan Griffin

63.

65.

81

in the first

John Hutchinson

47.

17.

43.

Andrew Clandining

1.

6.

7.

Robert Fletcher Junr

67.

70.

£23

in ye first

George Jaffery Esqr

X 36.

54.

18.

Joseph Barons .

44.

74.

39

Robert Clandining

22.

12.

24.

Thomas Cowan .

26.

30.

14

Joseph Buterfield Jun

r

35.

63.

49

Blank Prop"

X 55.

9.

£3

Nathaniel Holmes

80.

10.

£25

in ye first

Elijah Fletcher .

40.

61.

40.

John Wallace Junr

43.

14.

44

William McClure

2.

5.

50

James Gregg

2l!

31.

34

Thomas Juel

53.

49.

42.

Joseph Wright .

3.

7.

20.

Tomlinson & Mason

X 60.

4.

£2.

Sole}T & March .

X 71.

43.

£12

in ye first

David Craig

59.

50

£2.

Thomas MacGlauglan

L

69.

18.

£24

in ye first

Hugh Ramsey .

10.

59.

19.-

Zacariah Sterns .

52.

1.

41

Ruben lUitterfield

20.

25.

46

William Parker Esq

X 34.

8.

51

John llarvill

11.

40.

22

Jonathan Peram

57.

39.

1

Daniel Marel

51.

29.

4

David Clandining

13.

23.

37.

Joshua Peirce Esq1

X 15.

69.

21.

John Wallace

17.

27.

25.

James Miller

72.

42.

£76

in ye first

Samuel Steel

41.

32.

47.

Timothy Taylor

5^.

57.

52.

Jacob Fletcher .

29.

36.

45.

William Wallace

5.

13.

13.

Richard W'iberd Esqr

X 4.

56.

29

John Rindge

X 58.

35.

£3.

Samuel Alison .

16.

34.

10.

William Parker .

37.

53.

33.

41

42

CHARTER RECORDS.

Nehemiah Lovel
Peirce & More .
Joseph Blan chard Esq1
Mathew Wright
Jotham Ocliorne
Theodore Atkinson Esq1'
Mathew Livermore Esqr
James Cowan
Mark Hg Wentworth Esqr
Blank Proprs
Mill Lotts .
School Lots
Ministerial Lots
Parsonage .

The above is a true Copy of the Schedule & Drafts of the Lotts of
Alexandria attested by

Robert MacMurphy Propriater's Clark

39.

37.

31.

X 31.

41.

J25 in ye first

X QQ.

73.

77. in ye first

18.

26.

12.

X 45.

44.

5

X 61.

07.

17.

X 33.

48.

35.

38.

64.

48.

X 54.

40.

15.

X 27.

24.

27.

74.

2.

—

49.

62.

42.

71.

11.

50.

55.

20

[A Fragment Relating to Alexandria.]

[Masonian Papers, Vol. 5, p. 28.]

be appropriated to the Use & Benefit of the Proprietors — reserving
to certain Persons inhabiting and improving in the said Town as fol-
lows

We a Committee for rendring a State of the Affairs of the Pro-
prietors as will appear by Vote the 28th June 1771.

Do make the following Report of the State of the Township
called Alexandria

That it appears to us the sd Township being forfeited for non Com-
pliance &ca &ca

That there are three Houses with Families resident in the said
Town &ca

That there are 5 Persons who have some land improved &ca

[on the reverse is]
Perry's Town 7 Families & Houses 8 Persons begun
New Brittain 14 Families & Houses 8 Persons begun

ALLENSTOWN. 43

[Report on Lots in Alexandria, 1822.]

[Extract from Masonian Papers, Vol. 6, p. 52.]

List of Lands in Alexandria

Lot Number 49 in 3'1 Division M idling lot with two Setlers on it
John Lock, & John Woodbury, Lock has Cleared about Ten Acres is
i n low Circumstances. Woodbury has Cleared about twenty Acres,
has a Decent Dwelling house & born

N° 79 in the first Division Midliug lot hardwood

Groth 110 Acres 3:50 Per acre

N° 78 in first D11 Poor 2

N° 6 in 2 divn very Poor 1

N° 60 in first Div" Occupied by Eliphalet Blake, about twelve
Acres Cleared not more than Midling, he Says he Purchaised of
Peirce & haven 2

ALLENSTOWN.

[Granted, May u, 1722, to the children of Gov. Samuel Allen, and named in
honor of Gov. Allen. Incorporated July 2, 1831. A portion of Allenstown was
included in Pembroke, incorporated Nov. 1, 1759. A Part °f Bow east °f tne
Merrimack River was annexed to Allenstown in June, 181 5.

See XI, Hammond Town Papers, 39; Index to Laws, 17; sketch, Hurd's His-
tory of Merrimack County, 1885, p. 163 ; Stewart's History of the Free Baptists,,
1862, p. 302.]

[ Votes Relating to Allenstotvn, 1750.]

[Masonian Proprietors' Records, April 25, 1750, and Papers, Vol.

5, p. 29.]

Province of New J Portsmouth April 25th 1750 — wen'sday five of ye
Hampshire j Clock afternoon at the house of Ann Slay ton
The Proprietors meet according to adjournment —

Whereas Thomas Packer Esqur on ye Eleaventh of April Instant
was appointed in behalf of this Propriety to grant part of a tract of
land belonging to this Propriety at a place known by the name of
Aliens Town & ye Gore of land lying between that tract & How So
called to Such persons as he shall see cause, under such Conditions
&' as he shall think best for ye Interest of the Proprietors provided
he gives no more to the grantees than one thousand Acres of Said
Land, — Voted That James Cochran of Londonderry be one of the
Grantees & that Mr Packer be desired to insert his name in the
grant he Shall make by virtue of ye Vote aforesaid.

44 CHARTER RECORDS.

[Mason ian Proprietors' Records, Sept. 13, 1750.]

Province of New ) Portsmouth September 13th 1750 Thursday Six
Hampshire ) of the Clock afternoon at the house of Ann
Slayton — The Proprietors meet according to adjournment —

Voted That Joshua Peirce & Thomas Packer Esqurs be a Committee
to employ a Surveyor &ca to lay out and make a Division of the tract
of land called Aliens Town into fifteen equal Shares and only two
Lots to a Share to be coupled in equal value as near as may be, and
planning suitable high ways, and return a Compleat Plann thereof and
then the Said shares to be drawn for by Said Proprietors —

[Agreement for Fencing Allenstoivn, 1750.]

[Masonian Papers, Vol. 5, p. 30.]

Articles of Agreement made the Sixteenth Day of May one thou-
sand seven hundred & fifty Between Thomas packer of Portsmouth
in province of New hampshire Esqr as Agent for & in the behalf of
the propritors of the land in said province purchasd of Cap1 John
Tuf ton mason Esqr of the one part and Daniel Marston of North
hampton Andrew McClary Samuel Blake Dearbon Blake of Epsum
William brown Clough Benjamin potter of nottingham Nathan
Clough of Kensington Daved Conner & Cap* moses foster of Bow
Samuel Conner thomas Lucas James Lucas Kingsly hall James
Joseph Conner Gil man Dudley & William fulliugton all of Exeter &
John Cochran of Londonderry all said places being in the Province
of new hampshire of the Other part as follows Viz the said thomas
packer By Virtue of & pursuant to a Vote of the Said propritors
him thereunto authorizing & Impowering Hath Given & Granted &
by these presents Doth Give Grant Bargain & Convey Unto the
Said Parties for & in Consideration of the Several Matters & things
by them to Be Done as is herein after Set forth & on the terms &
Conditions herein after set forth all the Right title Intrest Estate &
property of the said propriters of in & Unto One Thousand acres of
Land in said province out of a Tract of Land lying at & Compre-
hending a Tract of Land heretofore Called Allen Town which
Larger Tract of which the said thousand acres is parcle is Bounded
as follows viz — Beginning at the south East Corner of Epsum whare
It joins to Nottingham thence Runing on Epsum line the same point
till it Intersets the line of Bow thence Runing on Bow line till it
intersects a line Continued from the Northerly side of Chester on

ALLENSTOWN. 45

the same Course that side line runs thence Riming by the side of
Chester till it Comes to the head line of Nottingham & thence Upon
that line to the place Whare it begins & the said thousand acres are
bounded as follows viz — Begining on Bow line aforesaid so far to
the North East as to be Clear of the Improvements of those persons
who have Entra Upon the tract of land aforesaid thence Run on
their line which thay have Improved tonamlv South South East so
far as that two lines the one perallel to the line of Bow and the
other perallel to that next to Epsuin runing to the line of Bow Shall
make Up the said Quantity of one thousand acres to have & to hold
to the Said parties the Grantees & their Respective heirs & assigns
Equally Divided into Equal shares on the Terms & Conditions fol-
lowing that is to say that the said Grantees their Heirs or assigns
Shall within two months from the Date hereof Enclose the said
Larger Tract with a Good fence Sufficient to perserve the harbage
thereof or make so much fence as that with other peoples fences the
whole of the Said tract may Be Enclosed and that a Bridge be built
by them their heirs or assigns over Great Suncook River at the
Island their within one year from the date hereof that thay keep Up
the said fence seven year from the first making & perfecting the
same — that thay the said Grantees their heirs & assigns shall not fall
or Destroy the timber Growing on the said larger tract and shall Do
what thay Can to prevent the same from being Dun by others by
forbidding the same & by Giving notis of the same to the propritors
that Each of the said Grantees their heirs or assigns have a hous
Upon sum part of his lot or share aforesaid built & a family setled
their within two years from the Date hereof

And in Case an}r of the said Grantees shall fail of Doing his pro-
portion of the labour service & pay his part of the Cost & Charge
which the said Grantees shall Be at he shall forfit his Share of said
Grant to those of them who shall Do & perform the same according
to the Intent & meaning hereof but in Case the said matters & things
hirebefore mentioned Shall not Be done by the said Grantees their
heirs or assigns according to the true Intent & meaning hereof
within the times & periods before limited & fixed herein as aforesaid
then the said Grantees shall hereby forfit their Right Share & Intr-
est herein to the said propritors & this Grant shall become Utterly
Null & Void as tho it had never been made In witness whareof the
parties to these presents have hereunto Inter changeably set their
hands & seals the Day & year first above written Signed Scaled &
Delivered in presence of us

moses foster Thomas ""Luckas kingsly hall jams

Daniel mars ton James Luckas Sam" Connor

46 CHARTER RECORDS.

W" brown Clough William fullerton Oilman Dudely

Samuel Blake David Connor James Cockron

Darbon blak Nathan Clough Joseph Conner

Benjamin Potter Andrew mcClery

[A duplicate of the foregoing document on p. 29 of the manuscript
volume, bears the following certificates :]

Province of |
New Hampsh' j Exeter Novr 21* 1750

Then Daniel Marston, Andrew M'Clery, William Brown Clough,
Sam1 Connor Thomas M'Lucas James Luckas, Joseph Connor,
William Fullerton and James Cochran Aforenamed, Personally.
Appeared and Acknowledged the foregoing Instrument to be their
free act and Deed

Before me Sam11 Gilman Justs Pacis

Province of New hampshear Dcembr 10th 1750
Then mr Gilman Dudley and Benja Potter within named parsnally
appeared and acknowledged thair hands and Seals and the with in
written Instroment to be thair valentary actt & Deed before me —

Joshua Wingate Justice Peace
Signed Sealed and delivered by Moses Foster Joseph Sinclair
Thomas Hines Samuel Conner Junior in presence of us —

Walter Bryent
Thomas mcLucas
Province of j
New Hampshire ) Bow December 3d 1752

Then Joseph Sinclair Thomas Hines & Samuel Conner Junr
within named personall appeared and Acknoleged the within
Instruement to be their Voluntary Act & Deed before me

moses foster Jus peace

[Proprietors' Reservations in AUenstown, 1752.]

[Masonian Proprietors' Records, May 18, 1752, and Papers, Vol. 5,

p. 29.]

Province of ) Portsmouth May ye 18th 1752. monday four of
New Hampshire j the Clock afternoon at the house of Ann Slayton
the Proprietors meet according to adjournment

Whereas Messrs Joshua Peirce & Thomas Packer Esqurs have at
.this Meeting Returned a plan of Aliens Town so Called which is

[Plan of Allenstown, 1752.]

A true Plan of that Date of Aliens Town so Called, laying upon the S E Side of Suncook River lay3 into fifteen
Equal Shares, two lots to a Share coupled in equal Value, excepting the Strips in the turns of Suncook River which
remaind Undivided, by Walter Bryent Surveyor & Thos Parker & Josh" Peirce Comittee Agreeeble to Vote

Attest Josh0 Peirce 1752

Tho Packer May

Prov: of New Hampr Portsm0 May 18th 1752
At a Meeting of the Prop™ — Voted that this Plan & the Return thereon be accepted

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divided into fifteen Equal Shares Two lotts in a Share, in Conse-
quence of a Vote of this Propriety of the 13th of September 1750
which plan has been approved of & Accepted agreable to the Return
thereon made & Signed and for as much as it will be for the Benefit
of the Proprietors to have the same Severed that Each Particular
Proprietor may hold & Enjoy his Share in Severalty —

Voted That the Several Shares be drawn for at this Meeting and
that the particular Share Drawn to each Respective Proprietor's
Right shall be to the Respective Proprietors to whom Entered as
Drawn to hold the same in Severalty to them their Heirs & Assigns
Respectively forever —

The Draft of the Proprietors Rights or Shares in Aliens Town so
called, as divided in the Plan Returned and Accepted, is as follow's,
Namely, Two Lotts to a Share

1st To Theodore Atkinson Esqur— N° 5 N° 7 in first Range & N° 4
in fourth Range

2 To Jn° Thomlinson & Cap1 Tuft. Mason 3— n° 3 in first Range &
n° 10 in Second Range

3 to Nath11 Meserve Blanchard &c 10— n° 11 in first Range & n° 7
in third Range

4 To Jn° Wentworth Esqu1" — 15 — n" 12 in Second Range & n° 17
in fourth Range

5 To Jotham Odiorne's Esqur Right — 13 — n° 14 in fourth Range
& n° 16 in fourth Range

6 To John Rindge — 1 — n° 1 in first Range next Epsom & n° 3
in third Range

7 To Joshua Peirce Esqur — 8 — n° 4 in Second Range & n° 5 in
third Range

8 To George Jaffrey Esqu1" — 2 — n° 2 in Second Range & n° 1 in
third Range

9th To John Moffatt Esqur N° 7— n° 8 in Second Range & n° 8
in fourth Range

10 To Mark Hunkg Wentworth Esqr 9 — n° 6 in Second Range &
n° 10 in fourth Range

11 To Tho8 Wallingford Esqu1 — 6 — n° 9 in first Range & n° 2
in fourth Range

12 To Richard Wibird Esqu1— 11— n° 9 in third Range & n° 18 in
fourth Range

13 To Thomas Packer Esqur — 14 — n° 11 in third Range & n° 13 in
third Range

14 To Dan" Peirce Esqr & Mary Moore 4 — n° 5 in first Range &
n° 6 in fourth Range

15 To Sam11 Solly & Clement March Esq1"8 12— n° 15 in third Range
& n° 12 in fourth Range

48 CHARTER RECORDS.

[Votes of Proprietors, 1753.]
[Masonian Papers, Vol. 5, p. 31, and Proprietors' Records.]

at a meeting Octr 23'1 1752 Josha Peirce and Thos Packer Esqurs as
comtee were empowered & desired to make agreemts with Such Per-
son or Persons who are Settled on S<1 Gore or said Tract called
Allen's Town & to divide ye Remaind1 into fifteen equal Lots or
shares except ye mill Privileges at ye Island on Suncook River w<h is
not to be divided but to be disposed of by ye comtee in ye best man-
ner they Can for ye advantage of ye Propriety —

Whereas Clem1 March Esqlir has enclosed a Quantity of Land in
fence Situate in a place called Buck street near suncook River and
butted on ye Lot N° 1 in s'1 Buckstreet and lays Southerly of Said lot
and Contains about one hundred & twenty Acres more or less —

Voted That all ye Right & Title of Said Proprs to ye said Tract of
land be and hereby is granted to ye Said Clem1 march his heirs &
Assigns for ever as part of his Right for Quantity & Quality in ye
lands yet to be divided amongst Prop1'8 to be Estimated by Thos
Packer & Josh* Peirce Esq™18

Vote pass'1 Aug : 27-1753-

[ Walter BryenVs Petition for Land in Allenstown, 1757.]
[Masonian Papers, Vol. 5, p. 30.]

To the Honorable Theodore Atkinson Esqr & others Purchasers of
Cap' John mason's Right to Lands in Newhampshire

Gentilmen I have Served you in Company with Joshua Peirce
Esqr Late of Portsmouth Deceased at Sunkook in measuring Lands
&C there to the amont of twent}r four pounds old tenor & to Dit° in
Company with Col0 Meserve twenty pounds Like tenor which Sums
hath ben Due a Considerable time & the Reason I have not Lodg'd
my acompt before is that I have had Great In-Curagement from
those Gentilmen to have a tract of Land Lying on the westerly End
of range number two in allien's town (So Called) which tract of
Land is Bounded on the South Easterly Side by the Last Lott in
Said Range and on the Southwesterly Side on the Road Left be-
tween the Said Second & ye third Range and on the northwest by
the northwest Side of Sunkook River & on the northeast Side by the
Road Left between Said Second & ye first Range of Lotts in Said
town which If granted will be full Satisfaction for the above Sums

ALLENSTOWN. 49

& I will Spend a week in your Service in those parts and Soon Setle
a family thereon and I Shall Esteam it as a great gift & favour &
am with Due Respect your very Humble Servent

Walter Bryent
Newmarket October ye 6th 1757 —

[ Vote of Proprietors, 1757.]

[Masonian Papers, Vol. 5, p. 31, and Proprietors' Records, Nov. 22,

1757.]

Province of [ At a meeting of the Proprietors of the land spur-
New Hampsh1' \ chased of John Tufton mason Esq1' lying in the
Province of New Hampsh1" held by adjournment at Portsmouth on ye
22d day of November 1757

Whereas at a meeting of said Proprietors held on the 30th day of
March 1756 — It appeared that Joshua Peirce and Thomas Packer
Esq" were appointed a Com'ittee to make agreements with such Per-
son or Persons who were settled on the Gore adjacent to alien's
Town so called and part of said aliens town adjo}rning to said Gore,
which were intended to be divided into fifteen equal Shares or Rights
to the fifteen Proprietors or their assigns &c &c and as the said
Joshua Peirce Esq1' is deceased, and said Thomas Packer Esqr
declined said Service by himself Solely — It was then voted that
Thomas Wallingford, Joseph Blanchard, Thomas Packer, Nathaniel
Meserve. and Mark Hunking Wentworth Esqrs or any three of them
be a Committee for and in behalf of said Proprietors, to make a Set-
tlement with any person or Persons, who shall be settled upon any
part of said Land or adjacent thereto within said Proprietors Claim,
and to act upon any motion that may be made by the Proprs of Bow,
in the Most advantageous manner for this Propriety or to divide the
said Tract of land, or the remainder thereof after they have settled
for any particular Tracts with Particular persons, or to make sale of
the same, as they the s'1 Com'ittee or any three of them shall deter-
mine, and what the said Committee or any three of them shall do
upon the Premises shall be final & Conclusive relating to said Prem-
ises and to make report of their doings therein within three months
from the date of the above said meeting — and whereas the said Com-
mittee or any three of them have not made report of their Doing
any matter upon the Premises — Therefore Voted That Nathaniel
Meserve and George Jaffrey Esqrs and Mr John Rindge be a Comit-
tee for and in behalf of said Proprietors and they or any two Of them
4

50 CHARTER RECORDS.

are hereby Irapowered and desired to do & Perform every or any
matter and thing aforementioned to be done by either or both of the
aforesaid Committees — and also to make a Settlement of the Line
between the Township of Bow, with the proprietors of said Bow,
and the adjacent lands of this propriety or of such as hold by or under
them — and this last mentioned Committee take and use such assist-
ance and means for said service as they shall think necessary & Con-
venient for said service — and what the said Committee or any two of
them shall do upon or about the Premises shall be final & Conclusive
relating to said Premises and to make report of their Doings therein
within five months from this Date —

Copy Examin'd f Geo : Jaffrey Proprs CI

[Petition of George Walton, 1759.]

[Masonian Papers, Vol. 5, p. 31.]

To the Honourable Theodr atkinson and The other Gentelmen
purchersor8 of the mason propriety The Petetion of George Walton
of portsmouth Being Incureged By Sundry Gentelmen of that
Intrust To ask for a Tract of Land Due Therfore pray you will be
So kind as To Bestoe me the four mill Squer that was Granted To
the famely by his Honour Goverr Wentworth with the Councel In
1722 and Confermed in 1729 But if that Cannot be Begg y" will be
plesed To give me that quantity In Nukes and Gores or other forme
among or Between the former Grants But Should Be very Glad To
have that Grant Confermed by the Gentelmen with whome it Now
Lyes in the power: of To Do Ie am a grat Su£ferer By not haveing
that Land for I made a purchis of that and gaive Two hundred
pound for it in 1730 when money So good But Gentlemen I may
not Carve for my Self in that affair and if it Should not plese you To
accomodate me In Either of them Requstes Shall Be thankfull To
you if youl Bestoe me a Township on the head Next To the Cochecho
New Township Next the River at ye Lower End of ye pond of Six
mills Squir or at a Better plase when I Shall know whare To Chouse
if Libertie Be indulged me your favour in this Requst Will Gentle-
men gratly oblige yr humble Sarvent — and Shall as in Duty Bound
Ever Pray — Yours

George Walton

ALLENSTOWN. 5 1

[ William Knox in Behalf of John Cofran of Allenstoivn, 1762.]
f Mason ian Papers, Vol. 5, p. 32.]

Allenstown aprill ye 12 1762

honoured Sir after my harty servis to you altho not acquainted sir
as I am Informed you are one of the Committe that hath the Dis-
posel of Sume of the Lands Lying In allenstown Sir I Beg the faver
of you that you will give John Coffrin a deed such as you give to
other men and you and he must agree about the price Because of a
perticuler agreement that is between he and me and you will verey
much oblige your humbel servant

witnes present william knox

Thomas Lucas

William Knox

[Petition of Walter Bryent, 1774.]

[Masonian Papers, Vol. 5, p. 32.]

Province of New Hampshire ) march ye 24th 1774 To the Pur-
Rockingham ss. — ( chasers of the Right of Cap1 John

Mason Late of London marchant Deceased The Petition of Walter
Bryent of Newmarket in ye County afore Said Esqr Humbly Shews
that whereas there is Sixty two acres of Land that was not Sever'd
but Lays in Comou & undivided in that tract of Land Comonly
Called Allien's town in Said County which Said Sixty two acres
Lays Adjacent to my Land in Said town & whereas I own about one
tenth part of Said town & also of Said Sixty two acres and that all
or the major part of the Lines & numbers that where formerly
made are Lost by Reason of age & fires &C and want much to be
perambulated for many Reason (I mention one viz the People Cutt
timber where they Chose & If Complained off they Say they thot it
to be on their own Land but the Bounds & Lines are So Lost that
they Can not tel where To Cutt) & your Petitioner having formerly
Laid out Said Lots perhaps may Do it better than a Stranger prays
he may be Imployed in Said affair & he will Run & perambulate all
those Lines formerly Run in Sd town and Renew & fix all the Bounds
well for Said Sixty two acres of Land though its Generally mean
pichpine Land & a Road thro it Said tract is Bounded as follows
northeasterly on Land Granted to Col" Meserve Deceased South
Easterly on Lot number 12 in the Second Range in Said town north-
westerly on Suncook River or Buck Street Lots (So Called) & Runs
South westerly Carring all the Breadth of the Land between said

52

CHARTER RECORDS.

number 12 & Said Backstreet Lots until Said Sixty two acres be
Compleatly measured out the Southwesterly Side Line to be west
north west If in your Great Wisdom you Should think proper to
Grant Said Petition your Petitioner as In Duty Bound shall ever

Pray

Walter Bryent

\Plan of Allen&town, 1781.]

ALLENSTOWN.

53

A Plan of AllenstowD the first & Second Ranges are one mile or
320 R Long N E & by N and 180 Rod Broad W N W the third &
fourth Ranges are 350 Rods Long & 155 Rods Broad this plan is Laid
Down by a Scale of 120 Rods to one Inch — A: D. 1781 —

f W Bryent

Col0 Gilmans 100 acres is 180 Rods w n w the whole Breadth of
the Lot Peirce & Moore number five in the first Range & Runs NE&
by north Carying ye whole Breadth of S'1 Lot until Said 100 acres is
( lompleated.

[Plan of Lots in Allenstown.~\

Jacob Gay begins at ye Con try Road at ye South East Corner of
Sam" Gaut possession & Runs west 91 Rods y" South 18 Rods yn
west about 40 Rods to Chester Line ym E. S. E about one hundred
Rods to Land in possession of W" knox then by his possession East
about 40 R to the Road afore s'1 y" by Said Road 51 Rods to where
it began — 29 acres — 44£ n. Ten

\V Bryent

Andrew Bunten's Land begins at Cochrins Bridge & Runs S 43'1
w 24 Rods by ye Road yn on by ye S'1 Road S 10d w 57 Rods to Land
in possession of Mr Robert Bunten yn west 123 Rods to Bow Line
yn by S'1 Bow Line N E 82 R to Suncook River yn by Suncook River
to ye Bridge where we began

W Bryent

54 CHARTER RECORDS.

[ Valuation of Lot in Allenstown, 1811.]
[Masonian Papers, Vol. 5, p. 32.]

Lot N° ten in the 4th Range in Allenstown is marked Very bad on
the plan, & by the Request of Messrs Tylor & Whitney I have
this day been chiefly over the said lot & am perfietly Satisfied that
the Origanal Surveyors marked it right, for I observed for thirty or
forty Acres together I would not pay the Taxes assessed on It for it
but in Other places some good land, so that 1 think it is about rightly
valued & Taxed although I thought sometimes we must lessen its
valuation for Taxing

Septr 10tu 1811— Hall Burgin

this Lot Sold Sep1 12th 1811 D 320—

ALTON.

[Formerly known as IVew Durham Gore. Incorporated as Alton June 16,
1796, and named from an English town. In the petition for incorporation, the
inhabitants asked to have the town named Roxbury. Barndoor Island was
annexed in 1799. Portions of the town were severed and annexed to Barnstead
in 1840, and to Wolfeborough in 1849.

See XI, Hammond Town Papers, 44; Index to Laws, 17; sketch, Hurd's
History Belknap County, 1885, p. 705 ; Stewart's History of the Free Baptists,
1862. p. 252; Lawrence's N. H. Churches, 1856, p. 477.]

[Petition of Clement March and Others.]
[Masonian Papers, Vol. 5, p. 33.]

Prove of New ) To The HonbIe Theodore Atkinson Esqr & others
Hampshire \ Purchasers & Proprietors of Mason's Right (so
called) —

The Petition of Clement March Esqr John Bracket Gent" & M1
Walter Weeks all of Greenland Humbly Shews

That your Petitioners are appointed Agents for & on behalf of
many of ye Freeholders & other Inhabitants of S'1 Greenland, who
have had as they tho't Sutable encouragement to hope for a Grant of
Some of ye Wast Lands in this Province from those in whom ye
Right might be to grant sd Lands & for want of clue Information for
Some Time past been wavering & doubtful in their opinion in
whome ye Right might be of granting that particular Tract of Land

ALTON.

55

on which they have Set their minds — But (upon more mature Delib-
eration & better Information) being convinced that y' Right &
Property thereof is in you as an Estate in Fee Simple A: therefore
that you only can have a lawful Right to convey y" Same We pray
that there maybe granted unto us & our Constituents a Township
bounding upon Oilman Town & Part of Winipissiockee Pond) upon
Such Terms & Conditions as you grant to other of our Neighbours &
Fellow Subjects or in Such other Place & upon Such other Terms as
shall to you Seem most for ye publick 3*0111* & our common Interest

Clem1 March

his

Joseph 3 Mel une

mark

James Brackett

his

Henary X Melune

mark

John Avery
Joseph Haines
John Huggins
Dauill Meloon

his

Elisha X Briant

mark

Leonard weeks
Abner Haines

his

Abiethe -\- Sanburn

mark

trances Berry
Walter Philbrook

his

William / Sanburn

mark

Benjamin Philbroock
Jonathan Chesely Ju
George March
Nathinel March
John weeks jun*
Walter P>ryent
Clem' Jackson
Henry Wallis

John Brackett Joseph Melune jnr

Robrt Tufton Philbrook Nathan Brackett

William Weeks

William Norton

Ebenezer Gate
Robart bryen
Willam Simson
Walter Weeks

Nath11 Huggens

Nath11 Grow
James Johnson

John hill

Nathan Marston
William Johnson

Nathan Johnson

Daniel Lunt
ner Samuel Wliidden
Th" March
Joseph Jackson
Joshua hains
James Cate
Paul march
W" Jenniss

Joseph Weeks

Enoch Clark

Mark Juel
Henry Clarke
Nathanael Huggins Juner
Samuel Weeks Jun

Sam:ll Weeks

Samu<1 haines Jun1'
Thomas Johnson Jun

Walter Neall

Joshua Mackres
Lueis haines

John meloon

Jonathan Dockum
Joshua Weeks
Th° March jn1
John Newmun
John Whidden jn'
Robert Davis
Stephen march

56 CHARTER RECORDS.

[Petition of Israel Grilman, 1748.]

[Masonian Papers, Vol. 5, p. 34.]

December ye 10th 1748
to ye Gentelmeen Prorprivateres of mr massons Right this is the
Desier of the inhabitance of the Pairsh of Newmarket that you
Gentelmen would have a Regard for us as we are of the an chant
Sattalares in the province of Newhampshier that we may have an
Equal Shair with those of our age thare has bin man ay Clouds hang-
ing over which we think are Disspald and as we think the titel of
the land is in you Gantelmeen we meake no cloute but you will Give
us So much land as that Each of our parish may have abonte three
hundracl acrs a man If you Gentelmeen have not Gave the land that
lays betwen Cochecho township and the pond we should be Glad to
have that Gentelmen these are from your trend and Humbell Sarvant
in behalf of a number of the parish of Newmarket

Israel Gilman

[Notice from Proprietors to Clement March, 1754.]

[Masonian Papers, Vol. 5, p. 35.]

Sr Whereas the Proprietors of the land purchased of John Tuftou
Mason Esqur in New Hampshire at their meeting held at Portsm0
Decr 21st 1748 Voted that Clement March Esqur & ye Persons to be
his associates & others have a Township equal to six miles Square
bounded on ye north East Side of a place called Gilman Town north-
erly upon Winisipisiokie pond upon such Conditions Restrictions &
Limitations & Reservations as shall hereafter be agreed upon — by
order of the Proprietors that at their next meeting which will be on
Thursday ye 21st Instant they will accept from you or offer to you &
Said Assosiates &c Such terms Conditions &'' as they will grant Said
Township to you & assosiates and if you do not attend at Said next
Meeting of said Proprs the Said Tract of Land or intended Town-
ship will be otherwise disposed of wherefore this notice is given you
dated at the Meeting of Said Proprietors held at Portsm" at ye house
of mrs Ann Slayton Feby 6th 1754 f order of ye Prop18

Geo : Jaffrey Proprs CI

To Clem' March Esq"r of Greenland

ALTON.

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[Masonian Papers, Vol. 5, p. 36. J

Mesheck WearelOO Acres N° 2 joining to Marston southerly
Sam11 Hale Esq1' 300 Acres N° 4 bounding on ye pond & ye Prop™ lot
Theodore Marston 150 Acres N° 1 Southern part of lot
Proprietors N° 3 bounding Southerly on Wear's
Voted The Proprietors on June 11th 1761 granted unto Meshech
Weare Esqr his heirs and Assigns 400 Acres in the reserved 17th
Share in the Gore near Winipisiokee Pond, and also granted unto
Theodore marston Son of Daniel marston Deceased, his heirs and
assigns 150 Acres in Said reserved 17"' Share — and on the 26th day
of November 1761 did grant unto Major Samuil Hale of Portsmouth
300 Acres of land in Said 17'" part or share reserved — The Said

58 CHARTER RECORDS.

Grantees having requested the Proprietors to have a Severance made
of their Said grants and it being now proposed by the Said grantees
or their Agents to proceed in the following manner to make the
Severance of their respective grants viz1 that as the Said reserved
Seventeenth part or Share in Said Gore being in two lots N° 8 in the
Second Range of lots and N° 14 in the third Range of lots which two
lots are divided by merry meeting Bay, that it may be determined by
lot whether the Said grants should be located on the Said Lot N° 8
or N° 14 and also in what part of Said lot So determined, the Said
grants Should be located; which Method of proceeding to locate and
Sever the Said grants was approved of by the Proprietors, and the
Lots were drawn for accordingly and the said lot N° 14 was drawn
for the Said grants to be therein located Theodore Marstons Grant of
150 Acres was drawn to be located on the South Side of Said lot N°
14, and Meshech Weare Esqrs Grant of 400 Acres was drawn to join
upon S<1 marstons 150 Acres and Major Samuel Hales 300 Acres was
drawn to be located bounding on Winipisiokee pond merrymeeting
Bay and the part drawn for the use of s'1 Proprietors in Said lot N°
14—

Therefore Voted that the Said Grantees have their Said Grants
located and Severed in the parts of Said Lot N° 14 as above described
and to be so laid out to each of them respectively their heirs and
assigns for ever and the Grants are hereby Located and Severed in
Said manner, and that the part drawn for the Proprietors use in said
lot N° 14 to be disposed of as they shall hereafter order

The lot N° 14 — is ye drawn lot where Meshech Weare Sam11 Hale
Esqrs and Theodore Marston are to have their Grants in the 17th
reserved share of ye Proprietors in the Gore near Winnipisiokee
Pond — and

ALTON.

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CHARTER RECORDS.

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The above is a Sketch of the 17th reserved Share in the Gore
adjoining to Winnipissioke Pond as it is to be laid out & Surveyed
according to the draft made of ye lotts and recorded 24th day of
December 1781 it being the Lotts N° 8 in the 2'1 Range & N° 14 in
the :>»'1 Range containing by estimation 1100 acres each lot all the
Lots to contain 58 Aries except N° 1. N° 2. & N°3 which have their
Quantity Mark1 on each of 3 Lotts — Examined fJ G J

6l CHARTER RECORDS.

AMHERST.

[Granted by Massachusetts as Narragansett No. 3, Dec. 18, 1728. Afterwards
called Salem Narragansett and Souhegan West. The grant was confirmed by the
Masonian Proprietors Dec. 1, 1759- Incorporated as Amherst Jan. 18,1760, and
named in honor of Lord Jeffry Amherst. The incorporation was renewed Jan. 7,
1762. A large part of Monson was annexed in 1770. A portion of the town was
.combined with parts of Hollis and Mile Slip to make up the town of Milford Jan.
11, 1794. Mont Vernon was set off and incorporated Dec. 15, 1803. A part of
Milford was annexed Dec. 20, 1842.

See Massachusetts and New Hampshire charters in preceding volumes ; IX, Bouton
Town Papers, 6; XI, Hammond Town Papers, 57 ; Index to Laws, 18 ; Historical
Discourse, 100th Anniversary of Dedication of Congregational Meeting House, by
J. E. Davis, 1874; Proceedings of Revolutionary Committees of Safety for Hills-
borough County, by E. D. Boylston, 1884; History, by Daniel F. Secomb, 1883,
pp. 978; sketch, by same, Hurd's History of Hillsborough County, 1885, p. 219;
Baptist Churches in N. H., by E. E. Cummings, 1836, p. 21 ; Recollections of A
Busy Life, by Horace Greeley, 1873; Life of Horace Greeley, by James Parton,
1885; Lawrence's N. H. Churches, 1856, p. 150; Rambles about Amherst, by
W, B. Rotch, 1890, pp. 67; Bills of Mortality, 1805-14, by John Farmer, 14,
Mass. Historical Society Collections, 73; id., 1805-19, 1, Farmer and Moore's
Historical Collection, 80; id., 1815-26, 22, Mass. Historical Society Collections,
298; sketch, by John Farmer, 12, id., 247; revised as Historical Sketch of
Amherst, 1820, pp. 35; 2d ed., continued 1837, pp. 52; id., 5, Collections of
N. H. Historical Society, 79; petition of inhabitants, id., 253; History of Purga-
tory, by C. J. Smith, 1889, pp. 8.]

[Petition of Valentine Nutter and Others, 1748.]

[Masonian Papers, Vol. 5, p. 37.]

Prove of \ To the Honble Theodore Atkinson Esqr & others
New Hampr \ Purchasers & Propriators of Masons Rights.

The Petition of the Subscribers Humbly Shews That your Humble
Petitioners who are underneath Subscribed are Desireous to have
granted to them a Tract of Land for a Township on Merrimack
River or as Near the River as you think Proper and on Such Terms
& Limitations as others who have asked the Same favour and as
Speedely as Shall be Consistant with your Conveiniency and your
Petitioners as in Duty bound Shall Ever Pray —

Souhegan West not granted & Contoocook — also & N° 5 adjoyning
to it or whear you think proper if those Places are not agreable to
vou but them if Possible or the Latter if not the former

AMHERST.

63

Vail en tine Nutter
Jo8 Sherburn
Tob8 Langdon
Jonathn Stoodly

Paul March
John Ross
Nath11 Sargent Esqr
Alexr Caldwell
Thos Wibird
Joseph Bunster
Thomas Walden
Anthony Wibird
John Harvey
Robert Green
Jn° Briard
Nath11 Sargent Junr
Solomon Loud
William Bennett
Sa Wentworth
Zechr Foss
Joseph Sims Sen
Edward Pen dexter
Beuja Akerman juner
Moses Dennett
Daniel Rogers
Elisha Jackson
James Titcomb
Arthur Browne
Nath11 Warner
Thomas Peirce
Sam" Barnes

Samuel Penhallow
Nath11 Menduni
James Stoodly Jur
W"1 Pearson
Stephen March
John Flagg
H Wentworth
Jacob Treadwell
Joseph A 11 cock
John Shackford
John Mills
Jn° Knight
Sam11 Hart Junr
Humphrey Furnell
John Dennet
John Hart
Jeremiah Libbey
Beuja Akarman
Mark H unking
John Flagg Jun1'
Michael Scruton
Josiah Moses
Joseph Mead
Elliot Vanghan
WIn Whittemore
John Allcock
Noah Emery
Marmaduke Browne
W"' Pearson
Cutt Shannon
Thomas Ayers Junr

John Griffeth
Eben Wentworth
Benja miller
Sam1 Laugdon Clk
Sam" Hale
William Seawad
Charles Gorwood
John Newmarch
Charles Treadwell
Step11 Greenleaf
Sam11 Brewster
Joseph Buss Junr
W-m Langdon
Nath1 Fellows
Joseph Langdon Jun1
William Nuttor
Jeremh Libbey Junr
John Wentworth
Clem* Jackson
Gershom Flagg
James Christee
George Moses
Sarah Priest
John Ayers
Dan1 Jackson
Benja Pitman
George Avers Juner
Jonathan Warner
John Penhallow
Tobias Lear

[Letter from Proprietors to Joseph Blanchard, 1748.]
[Masonian Papers, Vol. 5, p. 38.]

Portsm" Decr 3'1 1748
Sr We have both your Letters before us as to that of ye 30"' of
the last mouth for which we are obliged we greatly approve of your
Scheme & ye Progress you have made and hereby give you full
Power of agreeing with any person of note that can be Serviceable
in Secureing ye Peace & Quiet of the Settlers either in new Ipswich
or other Town as to Souhegan West if they should be troublesome

64 CHARTER RECORDS.

they can expect no favour from this Society and we shall soon prose-
cute Some of the foremost in the Opposition which if you think
proper please to inform them of and let us know the men as to our
bearing the Charge of a Lawsuit hi contesting mason's Right we set
out upon that footing at first & in Case any Suit is Commenced we
expect to pay that Cost, we are now finishing the Grant of the Town
above souhegan & think that a vote of the Proprietors at a Regular
meeting better than any other Conveyance you will See ours to
Cap1 Goffe & Associates with the particular Reservations & Articles
— this is the Method prescribed by ye Gentlemen of ye law and is the
most Customary & familiar way for such Proprieties to Act in — I am
in behalfe & at ye Request of ye Society yk purchased mason's Right
yr very Hum1'1 Serv'

Theodore Atkinson

P. S. with Respect to ye affairs of Cohas between Goffe & Dunkin
& ye Proprietors it is referred entirely to your adjustment & Settle-
ment as you think is just the Society desire to See you as soon as
possibly you can leave your private affairs and bring all ye Plans you
can procure that will give any insight to their Concerns — Goffe has
offer'd one third but we think one halfe for ye Proprietors yrs ut
Supra

T Atkinson

To Joseph Blanchard Esqur at Dunstable

Copy Examin'd ^ Geo : Jaffrey jur Proprs CI

[Petition of Ebenezer JEWnivood, 1748.]
[Masonian Papers, Vol. 5, p. 39.]

Province of ) To the Hon1,Ie Theodore Atkinson Esqur and the
New Hampshire | other Purchasers of John Tufton Mason Esqur
his Right in lands in Said Province humbly Shew's

That your Petitioner made a Purchase of a whole Right or share
in a Township called Souhegan West about 14 or 15 years ago, and
have for about 10 or 11 years past constantly dwelt in Said Town
and improved Said Right with about 60 Acres besides And as I am
lately informed that the proper Right & Title of Said Lands is in you,
and being desirous of holding my Improvements under your Right &
Title

I therefore pray your favour of Considering my Request of grant-
ing to me the Improvements I have made in Said Township, which I
hope you will make to me upon the Same Conditions & Limitations

AMHERST. 65

as you grant to others — and I shall ever pray &ca — Portsmouth Jan-
uary ye 17*" 1748

Ebenezer Ellin wood

[Endorsed] at a meeting held ye 18"' Inst Resolv'd t<> Accomodate
V within Petitioner in ye most convenient manner

[Petition from Inhabitants of Amherst, 1748-U.]
[Masonian Papers, Vol. 5, p. 40.]

To the Lord Proprietors of the Grant of Mr John Tuftan Mason
Esqr this humbly sheweth that we the subscribers Inhabitants of Soug-
hegon West So called (being confident of your Hon8 Respect, and
Compassion to a poor people that have been greatly Reduc'd by the
late distressing war) earnestly pray that your Hons would Confirm
our lands to us, that we have dearly purchased, and defended at the
hazard of our lives, we need not inform your Hon* that there are
Many of the Non Resident Prop'* of said Township, have been very
Slack in paying their dues voted to defray the Charges of said Plan-
tation, by which we have, many of us been great Sufferers, and that
we by living here have advanced their Lands to be undoubtedly more
than three times the value that it would have been had not we have
settled here; and that we have fronted the Enemy in the late War,
and not only defended our own land, but theirs ; without receiving
any Respect from them either by Amonition or any other way —

and we need not destress our Selves, but that your Hons will take
your praemium out of the Non Residents part, and so wTe rest your
humble Petitioners

Dated at Soughegan West N° 3 Jany ye 27th 1748.

Dan11 Wilkins John Shepard samuel walton

Thomas Clark James Cochren Andrew Bradford

Solomon hutchinson William Bradford William Haward

John Davis Joshua Abbott Benja Wilkins

Daniel Wilkins Jur Benj* Clark Andrew Bixbe

Joseph Wilkins Andrew Seeton jr Jacob Stanley

Joseph Ellinwood David Hartshorn IJobert Stwart

Samuell Stwart Joseph Bo u tell Benjamin Cheenee

Samuel Lamsen William peabody Sam11 Caldwell

66 CHARTER RECORDS.

[Petition of Humphrey ITobbs, 1749.]

[Mason ian Papers, Vol. 5, p. 41.]

Middleton N" 9'" 1749
Gentlemen /

1 was One of the First Settlers in Souheegun West, a town
West of raerrimack Built & did the duty on Two Lotts and Subdued
them Sufficient for two familys to have Support there, & with my Fam-
ily Continued there till by providence I was Called into the Indian
War, then I moved my Family, 'till Lately your title or Claim I was
Ignorant of And Expected the prop18 would take prudent Care &
Accomodate which I understand they Have not (from Co11 Blanch-
ard, I have yet According to my purchassing under the Massachusetts
Grant 2 Lotts 50 Acres each ye lotts I Setled, were .132 Acres each
on which there is Inhabitants now now Gentlemen with You I must
Rest this matter & desire you to Quiet me in ye Possession of these
lands or take to your Selves, Such Reasonable part as you determin,
And that it may be Done quick, I have desired Coll0 Blan chard to
Give me notice & I Shall Comply with your Determination

Humphrey Hobbs
Proprs of Masons Grant.

[Votes of Proprietors of Amherst, 1759.]
[Masonian Papers, Vol. 5. p. 41.]

At a Meeting of the Proprs of Souhesran west N° 8 Held ou The
Last Thursday of Ap1 A D 1759 Voted—

John Mitchel & William Peabody a Committee to make Applica-
tion to the Prop18 of John Tufton Mason Esq In order to have
them Convey all their Right Title Interest Claim or property (to
Souhegan to ye grantees prop" or Inhabitance thereof & gave the
Said Committee ye following Instruction viz to See if ye Propri8 of
Mason afores'1 Will For Seventeen of the Most Delinquent Rights of
one Hundred And Twenty Quit all their Interest As Above Said
and on their Compliance to Settle —

True Copy ^ Jn° Shepard Junr Clerk

[Masonian Papers, Vol. 5, p. 42.]

And After the Instruction Dated ye Last Thursday of Ap1 A D
1759 Gave the following only viz to offer & Ingage them Forty

AMHERST. 67

Shillings Sterling •$ Right in Case the first offer is refusd to have
them Convey their Interest As In the Instruction before recited —
True Copy f Jn° Shepard Jur Clerk

[Masonian Papers, Vol.5, p. 42.]

At A Meeting of v' proprra of Souhegan west N" 3 held on the Last
thursday of Ap1 A I) 1759 John Mitchell & William Peabody Was
Chosen to Settle with ye Propr" of John Tufton Mason Esq In Behalf
nf Souhegan Prop18 or Inhabitance —

John Shepard Junr Clerk

[Letter front Joseph Blanchard to Proprietors, 1759.]

[Masonian Papers, Vol. 5, p. 43.]

Merrymac Novr 27, 1759
Gentle" / Lieu1 Peabody waits on you and Consederably Prepar'1 to
make a Settle1 with Respect to your Claim in Sowhegan West — Som of
those Propr8 my Late Father Settled with who have a Writing from
him which they will Bring or Send Down to you Verry Soon and if aivv
thing Remains for em yet to do they will Imediately Comply and
Fullfill to a Tittle therefore I woud ask that their not paying as the
Other Proprs have, may not Imbarres a Settle* with those Who have
paid — if my Fathers Grant to them Proves Insufficient, they Still
Lye Fair for your Action — But what is Wright they will do they
Fear a Law Suit I am Gentle"

Yr Most Humb1 Ser'

J Blanchard
The Gentle" Prop8 of masons Claim at Ports" —

[Quitclaim to Certain Lots in Amherst, Dec. 1, 1759.]
[Masonian Proprietors' Records, Vol. 2, p. 124.]

Whereas Sundry persons claiming lands within the Limits of a
tract of land called and known by the name of Souhegan West Num-
ber three situate in the Province of New Hampshire by virtue of a
Grant of said Tract of land for a Township made by the Government
of the province of the Massachusetts Bay, sensible of the weakness
and Insufficiency of that title have by William Peabody & John
Mitchell junr their Committee applied to the said Proprietors of the

68 CHARTER RECORDS.

right of said Mason for a grant to them respectively of all the right,
title and demand of said Proprietors according to the division which
they had made pursuant to their said Claim, and the said Proprietors
being desirous of having said lands settled and willing to Quiet those
who have made any progress therein have on the consideration,
Terms, Limitations and Conditions herein after Expressed & not-
otherwise only in such Instances as are otherwise Expressed —

Voted That there be and hereby is Given, granted & Conveyed
unto the several persons whose names are herein after mentioned all
the right, title, Interest, Claim, property & demand of said proprie-
tors of in and unto the Shares, rights & Lotts of land set to each name
and claimed by each person respectively according to the division
aforesaid that is to say To the Reverend Daniel Wilkins minister of
said place two whole rights or Shares so called and one half share
with all the Lotts that are or shall be severed to him by name or to
the right of the first minister of the Gospel settled there, John Lee
and Samuel Lee both of manchester in the Count}7 of Essex and
Province of the Massachusetts Bay Esqr8 one whole share, the first
lott of which in the first division is N° 97 with all the after divisions,
Stephen Hall of Medford Esqr one whole share the lot in the first
division being N° 8, To the heirs of John Turner late of Salem Esqr
Deceased three full Shares the first division lotts being N° 34, 42, 62,
with all the after divisions excepting the lot in the Second division
N° 123, Ephraim Ingalls of Salem aforesaid Tayler two whole shares,
Philemon Warner of Glocester Esqr one whole share, Thomas Tar-
box of Wenham Gent: one Second division lot N° 18 and one third
division lot N° 119 John Felton of Dan vers Yeom : one whole share
Jerem Dodge of said Wenham Yeom : one whole share, Peter Wood-
bury of Beverly Yeom : two second division lotts N° 62 & 63 & third
division lot N° 38 Bartholomew Dodge of said Wenham Yeom : three
first division lotts N° 54„ 55„ 100, & three third division Lotts N° 17,
46, 73 Epps Sargent of said Salem Esqr, two full rights Ebenezer
Bacheller of said Wenham Yeom : one second division Lot N° 110 and
two third division Lotts N° 79. 80 Josiah Herrick for the Heirs of
Cap1 John Baker late of said Wenham Yeom : deceased one whole
share, Daniel Maccay of Salem Gent, for the heirs of Major Joshua
Hicks four full Shares, Robert Hooper Esqr for the Heirs of Joseph
Sivett late of Marblehead Esq1" deceased one full Share, Samuel Brad-
ford of Middleton Yeom : one first division lot N° 1 one third
division Lott N° 103, Cap1 Andrew Fuller of Middleton two second
division Lotts N° 94, & 100 & two third division lotts N° 70,
& 83, Henry Campbell of Londonderry Yeom : two full Shares,
Timothy Smith of said Souhegan West Yeom : one full Share,

AMHERST. 69

John Davis of said place one second division lot excepting ten
acres N° 5 Joseph Clerk jun", of the same place one first division
Lott N° 110 Joseph Hutchinson junr one first division Lot lying
in the South West Corner of said tract of land joining to the
river Joseph Hutchinson of Middleton Yeom : one first division lot N°
3 & two second division Lotts N° 37, & 38, William Howard of Merri-
mack Yeom: three first division Lotts N° 39, 40, 41 & one second
division Lot N° 82 and one third division N° 35, Robert Stuart and
Samuel Stuart two first division lotts N° 83, 94, two second division
lotts N° 10 and 77, with six acres of meadow & nine acres of meadow
and fifteen acres of upland joining thereto all now in their possession
which meadow & land lies within the boundaries of the Lotts N°
and N° in the first division with the undivided land belonging

to two rights or shares, Samuel Peters of Andover one first division
lott N° 108 with all the after drafts Lotts & divisions belonging to
one Share or full right, Josiah Abbott of Souhegan one second division
lot N° 53 & one third division Lott N° 76 Deacon Joseph Bowtell of
said place two third division Lotts N° 19 & 20 & part of the two third
division Lotts viz1 N° 21 & 22 the said part being Sixty six acres in
the whole Thomas Wakefield of said place one first division Lott N°
84 John Smith of the same place one first division Lott N° 101
Joseph Steel of said place two Second division Lotts N° 16 & 17
Col° Ebenezer Nichols Esqr, of Reading three full Shares Excepting
the first division Lott N° 44 Jacob Richardson one first division lot
N° 44 aforesaid James Rawlins of Souhegan aforesaid one third
division Lott N" 16, and one third part of the Lot N° 17 in the same
division, David Hartshorn of said place one first division Lott N° 107
and one third Division N° 9 Joshua Abbot of said place one first
division lot N° 111 with the letter W also thirty seven acres of Land
adjoining to said lott William Bradford of Souhegan one first division
Lott N° 85 & one third division' lot N° 59, Ebenezer Ellenivood of
Souhegan aforesaid one home lott he bought from Lamson & Wal-
ton & one second division lott N° 11 and one third division Lott,
Benjamin Clarke of said place one first division Lott N° 102 William
Cod of said place one Second division Lott N° 101 Andrew Seatoivn
one first division Lott N° 74 John Seatown one third division Lott N°
7 both said persons being of said Souhegan. George Willey of said
place one Second division lott N° 113 also thirty acres part of a third
division Lott N° 18, Oliver Carlton of said place one second division
Lott N° 56 Francis Eli<>t of said place one second division Lot N°
26 Jacob Dresser of said Place forty acres of a third division Lot on
which forty acres he now lives, Hugh Boss of Souhegan one first
division Lott N° 73 James Seatown of said place one first division

70 CHARTER RECORDS.

Lott N° 53, Simeon Fletcher of the same place one Second division
Lott N° 9 James Cockran of said place one first division N° 27, one
second division Lott N° 121, John McClinche of Merrimack one first
division Lot N° 26, Thomas Clark of Souhegan one first division
Lott N° 24 & one third division Lott not Drawn, Benj* Taylor of
said place one Second division Lott N° 43, Nathan Fuller of said
place one Second division Lott N° 45 & fifteen acres part of Lott N°
28 inthe said Division EbenezerHolt of Souhegan Seventy two acres
of land where he now dwells, Benjamin Lovejoy of the said place
two second division Lotts N° 97, & 98 and half first division Lott N°
110 with W. John Stuart of said place one full Share, David Steel of
Londonderry one first division Lott N° 51, Robert Moore of said place
for the Heirs of Peter Cockran late of said Souhegan deceased one
third division Lott N° 86 William Wallis of said place one Second
division Lott No 23 and thirty acres part of the Lott N° 24 in said
Division, Hezekiah Lovejoy of said place one first division Lott N° 95
Jacob Courtis of said place part of a first division Lott where he
now lives, being fifty two acres William Hogg one first division lott
N° 46, Samuel Seatoivn of said Souhegan one first division
Lott N° 75 & one, third division Lott N° 6, Ebenezer Averill
of said place one second division Lott N° 32, Joseph Heading of
Marblehead joiner one full share Nathan Barker of Andover two
second division Lotts N° 89 and 59 John Warson of Souhegan
one first division Lott N° 108 Mary Williams Thirty acres part of
a third division Lott N° 27 Ensign Robert Reed of Souhegan Sixty
acres being the Lott on which he now lives also thirty five acres
known by the name of Carters place, Josiah Sawyer of Monson One
Second division Lott N° 61 Benjamin Wilkins one full share Benja-
min Watson one third division Lott N° 113 both the last named
persons being of Souhegan aforesaid Andrew Bigsbey of the same
place one third division Lott not drawn Lucey Wilkins of said Place,
widow one second division Lott N° 25 excepting ten acres, Samuel
Lamson of said place one third division Lot 101, Isaac Holt of said
place one first division lott N° 106 and thirty six acres of land where
he now lives William Melandy of said place one second division Lot
N° 6 John Washer of said place fifty one acres of the Lott N° 28 in
the second division and fifteen acres which he purchased, Solomon
Hutchinson of said place three first division Lotts one being the Lott
on which he lives the others being N° 15 & also two second

division Lotts N° 4 & 112 also one third division Lott N° 131 with
ten acres more and two full Shares in the Common also one third
division Lot N° 26, John Cole of Souhegan one second division Lott
N° 54 James Russell of Haverhill three full Shares, Nathaniel Walker of
Haverhill one first division lott N° one third division lot N°

AMHERST. 71

Abner Fellows J- Jerem : Fellows^ both one full share, Jerem: Fairing-
ton of Chelmsford one full Share and one second division lot N° 111
and one third division lott N° 100, William -/ours of Monson one sec-
ond division lott N" 25 & fifty acres which was part of William
Hobbs's farm, Benjamin Davis thirty acres of a first division lott N°
6, Widow Am)- Hobbs of said Souhegan Sixty acres of the said Farm
called Hobbs's farm being the share of two of her Children and the
part of set off as her dower, Henry Sawyer of Methuen one first
division Lott N° 32 & one third division Lott N° 119 Caleb
Sawyer of Dracutt one second division Lott N° 47 — Jonathan Mar-
wood of Chelmsford one third Division Lott N° 63, Cap1 Eben-
ezer Parker of the same place one full Share John McClelland of
Souhegan one first division Lott N° being the Lott on which

he dwells, Eben1 Ellenwood junT one first division Lott N° 106
Thomas Town thirty acres part of a third division Lott N° 17
both of Souhegan, Joseph Lovejoy of said place thirty acres of
land part of a first division Lott N° 110 with W. Andrew Bradford
two Second division lotts N° 21, & 22 Samuel Brown of Chester forty
two acres and one Quarter of a first division Lott N° 87 and thirty
three acres of a second division Lott N° 60 Caleb Upton of Souhegan
twelve acres on which he now dwells, James Caldwall of London-
derry Seventeen Acres and three Quarters of a first division Lott N°
87 also one half of a third division Lott N° 132 also twenty acres of
a second division Lott N° 60, Joseph Ellentvood of said Souhegan
one Second division Lott N° 8 William Peabody of said Place three
full Shares Excepting one first division Lott N° 70 which is sold and
thirty acres he purchased of William Small joining to the land on
which he lives, the said three full Shares were claimed by Stephen
Peabody late father of the said William the first division lotts belong-
ing to said Shares are N° 13 N° 70 & N° 19 and it appears the said
Shares were given by the said Stephen to the said William by deed
of Gift and to the widow Lydia Wilkins fifteen acres of land now in
her possession, and to the Widow Mary Addams of Dunstable one
whole right or Share on which she lately dwelt, during her natural
life and then to Her three daughters to be equally divided between
them or their heirs or assigns — to John Grimes of said Souhegan
thirteen acres in lot N° 60 in Second division, Widow Elizabeth lid!
of said Danvers one first division lot N° 57 and one third division
Lot N° 60 and after draft belonging to said lotts, Ebenezer Abbot of
said Andover one second division lot N° 48, Ephraim Al>l><>t of said
Souhegan one whole right now in his possession and one first division
Lott N° 108 Moses Truewell of said Souhegan one first division lot
\ '18 Janus Cur/is of Boxford one second division lot N° 40 — and

72 CHARTER RECORDS.

one half part of a third division Lot N° 114, Thomas Bigsbey one first
division Lot N° 89 and one half part of a third division Lot N° 132
Samuel Lampson of said Souhegan one Second division Lot N°
Samuel Porter. Mary Putnam and Abigail Porter one whole Share
that was Eleazer Porters of Danvers their father deceased, William
Peabody aforesaid one acre land he purchased of said Amy Hobbs,
NatJiu (rreenwood of Boston one Second Division Lott N° 119 : and
one third Division Lot N° 44: and ye undivided land belonging to a
whole Right. John Cunningham of Boston one whole Share or Right
Reuben Walton of Souhegan West one half of a third division —
Thomas Avrel of Souhegan West one first Division William Peterson of
Litchfield one first Division — Edward Melody one Second Division —
The Heir of Zacheus Perkins of Rowley — two whole Shares — Jere-
miah Dodge aforesaid one whole share which he Purchased of

Conant of Beverly

To have aud to hold the said full Shares and rights with all the
several Lotts and divisions drawn or to be drawn to them respec-
tively belonging or any ways appertaining, and all the particular lotts
& parcells of land aforesaid to the several persons before mentioned
respectively and to their respective heirs & assigns forever on the
following consideration, terms, conditions & Limitations — That is to
Say that the owner of a full Share pay to the said Committee or
either of them for the use of said proprietors the Grantors in these
presents the sum of fifty one Shillings Sterling money and three
Shillings like money for the use of said Committee for their time
Expences & trouble in procuring this Grant & Collecting and paying
said money, for every such share aud in that proportion for what
land each grantee in these presents holds as aforesaid more or less
than a full share or whole right, said money to be paid within six
months from the date hereof —

Secondly that each Grantee pay his respective proportion of all
outstanding debts and Taxes not yet paid which have arisen in car-
rying on the Settlement the nonpayment of which tends greatly to
retard the Settlement & cultivation of said Lands,

Thirdly That they also duly pay all neccessary future taxes and
dues which shall arise for promoting the End aforesaid in proportion
to their several rights and Interests in said Land.

Fourthly That such persons abovenamed who shall comply with
these Terms shall hold his respective share part and Interest granted
as aforesaid which the default omission or neglect of others in this
regard shall not affect, but the Interest, right, title & demand hereby
intended to be Granted, shall be and remain in the said Grantors as
tho' this Grant had never been made, upon default & failure as afore-
said—

AMHERST. 73

Provided Nevertheless that nothing be demanded & paid for the
following shares viz* the shares and parts aforesaid (1 ranted as afore-
said to the said Daniel Wilkins one Share or right for the use of the
ministry commonly called the Ministerial Share or right, one right
for the use of the School, the land granted to the widow Amy Hobbs.
that granted to Lucy Wilkins, that Granted to Mary Williams, and
that granted to Lydia Wilkins, but these shares and Lotts of land
granted as aforesaid, and all the right of said proprietors are hereby
freely given to the respective Grantees and uses aforesaid and also
that right purchased by Henry Oambell of Henry Flint Esq1 —

[Elijah Porter to Proprietors, 1760.]

[Masonian Papers, Vol. 5, p. 44.]

Middle ton, June 7th 1760
Gentlemen

this Day I saw ou1' mr John Mitchell Jul" he Show'd me ye
Terms you had proposed to ye proprietors of Sowhegan west, for
their having their Lands Secur'd, which I heard of but about a
month before, I am Concern'd for the Right of Mr Eleazer [Porter]
of Danvers Decf\ which he had of Capt John Wildes, I as Admir of
ye estate of ye s'1 Porter, have paid all the publick Taxes that has
Come to my knowledge, but I being from home when I Saw s'1
Mitchel & I had not ye Receipts of s(l Taxes with me, and s'1 Mitchell
Told me he Could not procure a grant without I agree'd to Settle it
in ye Space of Six months, from ye Date of ye grant I am willing to
pay y1' Sum of mony that your Honours propos'd to be paid for ye
Securing of ye Rights — But I beg Leave to assign Sum Reasons why
I Cannot so wrell comply with ye terms of Settleing s'1 Right, viz ye s'1
Porter Died in Octor A D 1756, and within about three week after
his Death, his two oldest Son and his wife Died, and he Left only
one Son and two Daughters, then all miners, and I was Guardian for
them, ye Daughters are Sence of age, and ye father provided in his
will for ye Son to be brought up to a liberal Eaditation and last July
he Enter'dat Cambridge Colledge, he will be 21 years of age in about
three years and eight month, and ye afores'1 Breaches in ye family
made great Defecultvs — and Considering all Circumstances, 1 am
under Sum Difficulty to proceed as guardian to ye son in ye Settle-
men with y1' Daughters &c Therefore if your Honours will be pleas'd
to Take ye premises into your Consideration and Annex ye names of
ye three Surviving heirs viz Sam1 Porter Mary Putnam & Abigail Por-
ter Then I hereby promise to pay the sdJohn Mitchell Fifty four Shil-
lings Starling with Intrest from y Date of v' grant —

74 CHARTER RECORDS.

I am with great Respect your Honours Most Obedient & Most
Hum1 Ser1

To the Hon11 Proprietors of Masons Patten

Elijah Porter

[Samuel Gray to Proprietors, 1760.]
[Masonian Papers, Vol. 5, p. 45.]

Sr About two years Since I Purchas'd A Tract of Land in
Amherst Consisting of about two Hundred Acres have a good
Warrantee Deed Legally Executed; the Gentleman I purchas'd of
verbally promis'd to clear the Land of Masons claims, but now when
it comes to The Case utterly refuses — I have bought and Sold a
great deal of Land in the Government Especially in Bow: Claims,
and those that purchas'd of me are freequently Calling upon me to
Make up their losses in Settling, if I must pay that and this all I am
worth upon Earth will not do it — I think it very hard indeed that
they insist upon it for I never resisted the Claimes of Bow : but
urged a Settlement with them long ago and would have Settled with
them myself if I could have done it exclucively — and now sr I stand
ready every Moment to pay your demands upon the Land I have
purchas'd here if I can save my Land by it but If I must pay all that
is demanded here and in Penny Cook and Suncook, I had as good
deliver up my possessions first as last for as the Proverb is no one
can have any More of a Cat then her skin — but upon the whole I am
willing to do anything that I can do Consistant with my safety I
have now let Your Honour know in a few words how my case is, if
you will tel me know which I must do in this Case I will very chear-
fully do it if my abilities will admit — for I dread a Law Suit And So
with the lowest Submission I beg leave to Subscribe myself your very
humble serv*

Amherst June ye 15 1760. Samuel Gray

[John Mitchell Jr. to Proprietors, 1765.]
[Masonian Papers, Vol. 5, p. 46.]

Sr This may inform you that I intended to have Com to ports-
mouth Before this time In order to have had maters Ajusted about
the money that I Left with Esqr Peirce But wanted to have Colected
more money But have Ben Disapointed about it Therefore I Take
this Oppertunaty By Co11 Sam1 Barr to Send by him a List of mens

AMHERST. 75

Names Who have paid S' money and There is four of them that must
be Entred Into the grant maid by the Proprietors of masons patent bo
the Clamors of Land in Souhegon west alias Amherst and you to
Certify to me that those four is Entred there names are as fol-
low eth viz

Ruben Walton of Sa place one half of a third Division.

Thorn8 avrel of Sd place one first Division

Will1" Peterson of Litchfeald one first Division

Jeremiah Doge of wenham one whole Right

As also you to Sign a Recep1 which I have Sent with Co11 Barr he
Paying you according to the Rate of Two Shillings Sterling for Each
full Share or Right in S'1 Town for your Troble in Entring those
names that Did not Comply at the first which is the Sum you told
me you must have which amounts to Three shillings and Seven pence
half peney Sterling for the above Sd four

and when that is Don Co11 Barr is to Deliver Esq1' Peirce his
Recep1 and in your So Doing you will oblige Your Humble Ser1

John Mitchel Ju1

P : S : Londonderry June the 18th 1765
The Sum of money Left with Esqr Peirce is 756-10-0 old Tenor
which makes 28: 7-4f Sterling and Co11 Barr will pay The Remainder
to make up the Sum in the Recept which is 5/of Sterling and I hope
in a short time to have more money Colected °$ J : M :

[List of Purchasers in Amherst, 1765.]

[Masonian Papers, Vol. 5, p. 47.]

A List of the Names of Shuch of the Claimers of Land in Souhe-
gon West Alias Amherst Who have paid the Sums agreed upon for
their Respective Lots and Shares of Land there to the proprietors of
masons patent So Calld Viz

Jacob Richeson one first Division 0-17-10-3

Ebenzr Ellinwood one whole Right 2 - 11 - 0-0

Ruben Walton for half a third Division 0 - 6 - 8-2

Thoms avrel one first Division 0-17- 10-3

John felton one whole Right June 1765 entred
Ebenzr avrel one Second Division June 1765
HenerySayer one first and one third Division
Jonathan Harwood one third Division
Nathan Barker Two Second Divisions June 1765
Edward melody one Second Division

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John Walsher one Second Division 0 - 19 - 8-1
Isaac Holt one first Division and thirty Six acres 1765

1 _ 7-11-2

William peterson one first Division 0-17-10-3
Samuel Brown for fourty acres and oue forth of an
acre of a first Division and thirty three acres of a

Second Division 1 - 1 - 9-0

Jeremiah Doge one Whole Right June 1765 2 - 11 - 0-0

James Russel three Whole Rights June 1765 7 - 13 - 0-0

£ 27 - 19 - 3-1

Andrew Bigsbe one third Division June 1765 13 - 5-0

28. 12. 8. 1

[Joseph Blanc hard to Proprietors, 1785.]
[Mason ian Papers, Vol. 1, p. 47.]

In the Town of Amherst there is Several Lots unoccupy'd and No
Regular Claimers to them — those Lots may be appropriated to the
use of the Masonian Proprs also Some persons, in that Town have
Some years Since, agreed with the Proprs to pay a Certain Sum pr
Lot and in Sum instances pay has been made but in many Instances
the mony has been Rais'd but never paid in in other Cases notes have
been taken and Now lye Dead — an Enquiry may be Attend With
Some Success — tho' not Large But it is a Pitty when money has
been Collected & notes Given for the Use of the Proprs that nothing
further should be done and the Delinquent Lots made use of these
hints are Given by the Prop18 Hum1 SeiV

To whom it mav Concern Joseph Blanchard

Pots° June 15: 1785—

W"' Peabody and John Mitchell were the Principal Actors in
Respect of Receiving money & notes —

[Joshua Atherton to Proprietors, 1796.]

[Masonian Papers, Vol. 5, p. 48.]

Amherst Jan* 18th 1796
Sir,
Pursuant to y1'8 of 13th instant, inclose to you the papers men-
tioned in the Schedule that accompanies them, Preston has not

AN DOVER. 77

executed the Business on his part, iV as he has had Time enough,
thought it best to return the papers — I have not put his mortgage on
Record, as I supposed your old Title was as good as the mortgage.

Jones has perpetrated a great Fraud upon James Jones to whom
he sold 500 Dolrs worth of the land & got his pay — James neglected
to put his Deed on Record, and Jones had the Address to get his
Creditors to attach the land, by which poor James is totally ruined,
Jones (Sam) not being worth a farthing that can be come at — perhaps
it will be in your power by retaining your old Title, to help James to
Justice — could you do it, every one must applaud it as an Act of
Justice — but you are the proper Judge how far you can lend him
aid herein. The Attachment by the Creditors of Jones, was since
your Mortgage was on Record I suppose.

Inclose also the Register's Certificate, which with the Deeds &
Notes above referred to are all the papers in ray possession relative
to the Business with Jones.

It is almost seven years since the Notes of Swett you mention
were put into my Hands — The Business was quite out of my mind,
and to add to my perplexity, the Actions stand Entered Woodbury
Langdon & others vs Swett, a Name seemingly a Stranger to the
Business — However I finally found the Notes in the Clerk's office
and send Copies. —

Your Mortgage Deeds from Jones, the Register thinks you took
from him sometime ago. says he will look further into the Matter.
Silsby is waiting, and if I have not executed all your Expectations,
will add hereafter think I have. —

With Esteem, I am your most Hum1 Serv1

Joshua Atherton

John Peirce Esqr

ANDOVER.

[Granted by the Masonian Proprietors, November 20, 1 7 5 1 , to Edmund Brown
and others, and named New Breton in honor of the captors of Cape Breton, some
of whom were among the grantees. Also called BrowiCs-town and Emery^s-town.
The charter was renewed November 6, 1 77 1 ; incorporated as Andover, June 25,
1779.

See XI, Hammond Town Papers, 116; Index to Laws, 21; sketch by N. J.
Bachelder, Hurd's History of Merrimack County, 1885, p. 328; Topographical
and Historical Account, by Jacob B. Moore, 1, Farmer and Moore's Historical
Collections, 9; Stewart's History of the Free Baptists, 1862, pp. 252, 302;
Lawrence's N. H. Churches, 1856, p. 347]

y8 CHARTER RECORDS.

[Proprietors to Edmund Brown, 1748.]
[Masonian Papers, Vol. 5. p. 49.]

To Mr Edmund Brown

you are hereby licenced to take a Plan of Six Miles Square at or
near a Place called Pemigewasset in order for a Setlement of a
Township for your Self & Associates upon Such Terms as shall be
agreed upon by ye Proprietors of s'1 Tract of Land for you & associ-
ates & Mark ye Boundaries of s'1 Six Miles Sqare & make return of
a Plan thereof in order for a Grant Dated at Ports m° ye 2<l Day of
Novr 1748 — By order of ye Proprietors—

Geo Jaffrey jun1 C

[Petition of Daniel Wormall and Others, 1748.]
[Masonian Papers, Vol. 5, p. 50.]

Province of \ To the Proprietors of the Right of John

New Hampshire \ Tufton Mason Esq1' to that part of the Province
of New Hampshire Granted to his Ancestor —

The Humble Petition of Daniel Wormall and others whose names
are hereunto Subscribed — Shews —

That Your Petitioners being Informed that you were Disposed to
grant the Lands You have purchased, to Such Persons as would
make and Carry on a Settlement Effectually on Reasonable Terms,
They being resolved so to do in Case they Could Obtain a Suitable
Tract of Land, have been Encouraged to ask for the Same. And in
Case they Can Obtain Your Favour In that regard In Such a place as
may be Encouraging to your Petitioners they will Im'ediately pro-
ceed to begin the Settlement and Shall as in Duty bound both with
respect to Your Selves and Your Title Ever Pray &ca November 16Hl
1748

Daniel Wormall Jeremiah Veasey George Creighton

thomas Webster Henry Marshall Daniel Gael

John Carty Joseph Swasey Edward Ladd

John Wells Nathan Tayler John Baird

Thomas Giford Goen hemphill William Grant

Jonathan Greeley Charles Ruudlet Daniel Grant

William Moor John Creighton Simon Gillman

Nath" Ladd jnr Noah Emery Samuel Connor

Moses Connor Solomon Read John Kimball

Daniel Ward Samuel Ederley John Ederley

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79

John Borgam
Elias Ladd
John Forist
Willain gilman
Beingman oilman
Nell McGaffey
,1 Mines Norris
Joseph Gills
William fnllerton
Joseph Rolans
Gillman Dudley
Satchel Clark '
John Gorge
Daniel Barber
Richard Emery
Nich Perry in an
Eliphalet Connor

Portsm0 Jan-V 11th

M1 Jer Veasy in

further as a Petition

Kinsley Hall James

Ebenezer Easeman
T h o m as C reighton

David Connor
Jeremiah gilman
Thomas Lukes
James Gormon
Thomas Veasey
Thomas Piper
Jonathan Ambros
Jeremiah Gillman Juner
Thomas Veasey Jur
Thomas Fuller
William Hilton
Peter Thing
Noah Emery
Sam11 Connor Jur

Ilawley .Marshall

john Gibson
James Gibson
James Stoodly Jur
Caleb Eastman
James Lukes
Rerched Yourk Jn'
Sinkler Been
John Light
True : Dudley
William Simson
Moses Smith
Robert Barber
Joseph Ceil ley
John Emery
Jeremiah Connor Junr

1748

ye within Petition desires to be considered no
er

[Petition of Ladd and Young, 1748.]
[Masonian Papers, Vol. 5, p. 51.]

To the Hon1 Theodore Atkinson Esqr & others Purchasers & Pro-
prietors of Mason's Right so called

We ye Subscribers some of ye Officers & Soldiers in ye late Expe-
dition against Cape Briton understanding that you are about to grant
Lands to ye Subjects of this Province upon certain Terms unknown
to us & having had encouragement that we might obtain a Town-
ship upon Application We therefore pray in ye Name & on ye behalf
of ye Said Officers & Soldiers as well as on our own that there may
be a Township or a tract of Land granted to ye Sd officers & Soldiers
upon Such Terms & in Such Manner as you grant to others of our
Fellow Subjects or upon Such Terms as to you may Seem best for
your & our Interest

John Lad
Jonathan young

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CHARTER RECORDS.

[List of Petitioners with Capt. Ladd, 1748.]
[Masonian Papers, Vol. 5, p. 52]

a list of there names

Cap1 John Lad
Elias Rano
Moses Atkions
John Young junr
LeP Joseph Sleeper
Joseph Greely
Samuel Goodwin
Jonathan Kimbel
John Lad junr
John Hubbourd
olander Bayley
Joseph Bean
androw Whecher
Joseph Collens
Benjamin Tucker
Enoch Chaiel
thomas newman
Samuel f ranch junr
Benjamin Sanbourn

Trueworthy Lad
Epham Collins

Samuel Scribner
Ser Ralph Blaisdel
Abraham wadson
Left Jonathan farrin
Jonathan wadson
Jonathan Young
John Calfe
Henery Sleeper
William Whacher
Ambrous Hines
Henery Bayley
thomas Bettel
Samuel Juel
Jerimah Curriery
Jonathan Greeley
Ralph Blaisdill Corpor
Josier Huck

Ser Jonathan Chout
Paul Prassay
Lef1 Samuel Sanbourn
William Page
Samuel Lock
John Ellit
Philip Challlis
Hezekiah Sleeper
Aaron Young
Benjamin Chout
thomas Estonian
Ser moses Davis
Nathanel Ash
Samuel tomson
Ser Jonathan Greeley
John Curriery
Ebenezer webster
Thomas Lock
Caleb Clough
Charles Hontoun

[Brown and Emery to Proprietors about Andover, 1749.]

[Masonian Papers, Vol. 5, p. 53.]

Gentlemen

Agreable to your Order we have Runout a Township Adjoining
to Majr Stevenss, four miles wide upon the River & Nine miles Deep
as appears by the Plan we have Lodgd But in as much as there is a
Large Pond in ye Middle of S'1 Township Consisting of three miles
Long & a mile wide, besides Several Small ponds & a Large Raggid
mountain all which Take up a Very Considerable part of Sd Town-
ship—

We Computeing the Loss Can't: Think we Shall be Equal to your
Vote Except you please to Give us half a mile farther upon Pemiga-
wassitt River & Then Run a west Line 'till we Come to Black Water
River & Let that be our Hed Line till it will Cross ye lied Line in
ye Plan & from thence Run to the Corner of Major Stevenss Town-
ship We would also Desire y1' Sole Priviledg of black Water river So

[Plan of Andover, 1748. J

A Town Joyning upon the northend side of Contoocook & upon the western side of the Croch of the river which has ben latly run round for the Cape bnton
en of hampton : the said town was formaly laid out by the masechusetts, & whereas them Grants are in no force we the said Cape briton men desire to have it
mfirmed to Us, & the town is nine mile long & foure mile wide, Joyning upon Contoocook, this town may be propaly Called new Briton if his Excalancy alows of

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far as it is our Heel Line : And we think If you Grant us our requset
It will not make us more landed than you have made Major Stevens
township: But would Submitt to your better Judgment which you
will he able to form when you Carefully Examine his & our plans &
Request

Portsmouth Dee' 28 174!' Anthy Emery

Edmd Brown

The Tract for Anthony Emery Edmund Brown & others beging
on ye westerly side of Pimiehewasset River begining at a Great
Roek which is y' North Easterly Bounds of ye tract of land granted
unto Ebenezer Stevens Esq1' Jedediah Philbrick and others then run-
ning west seventeen Degrees South ten mile then begining at the
s1 Rock and riming up the River four miles, then running west
seventeen degrees south ten miles then running on a strait line to the
end of the first Ten Mile line —

[Petition of Veasey and Connor, 1750.]

[Masonian Papers, Vol. 5, p. 54.]

Gentlemen Proprietors to the Right of John Tufton Mason Esqr
The Humble Petition of Jeremiah Veasey & Sam11 Conner
Sheweth/ That whereas there was a Petition Signed By Daniell
wormall & others with your Petitioners names in it for a township
And was proceeded on Laid out & return made and the Burthen
of one hundred & Eighty one Pounds ten shillings Charges Lais on
your Petitioners & Geo: Creighton Nathan Taylor John Wells
Thomas Lucas David Coner Thos Veasey Jeremiah Coner junr &
Kingsley James — and aft that Expence Your Honours Granted the
same Tract to Edmund Brown & others — Wherefore your Petitioner
Prays Som Consideration in Sum other Vacant Land —
And your Petitioners in Duty Bound Shall Ever pray

Jeremiah Veasey ) in Behalf
Sam" Connor \ of the rest

[Charter of Andover, 1751.]

[Masonian Proprietors' Records, Nov. 20, 1751.]

Province of ) Portsmouth November ye 20th 1751 — Wenesday
New Hampshire ) Six of the Clock afternoon at the house of Ann
Slayton The Proprietors meet according to Adjournment

6

o2 CHARTER RECORDS.

Voted That there be & hereby is Granted unto Edmund Brown
William Swain Archelaus Lakeman John Hoyt John Brown Daniel
Cram Nathan Row Amos Dwinell Daniel Sanborne John Sanborne
Joseph Gove Benjamin Leavitt Nathan Longfellow David Norton
Walter Williams Benjamin Swett Junr Benjamin Shaw Benjamin
Tilton Joseph Prescott Thomas Sillea Israel Blake John Ellis Daniel
Weare Nathaniel Healey Benjamin Sanborne Robert Miller Tobias
Lakeman all of Hampton Falls in said Province Edward Brown &
Jonathan Beck of Salisbury in the Province of the Massachusetts
Bay Samuel Bathrick of Portsmouth in said Province of New Hamp-
shire Ezekiel Worthen Joseph Weare Samuel Blake Jun1 John
Chapman Samuel Blake Nathan Dow Samuel French William Brown
Clough, Jesse Prescott Ebenezer Loverin all of Kensington in the
Province of New Hampshire aforesaid Anthony Emery John Marston
Simon Marston Joshua Towle Daniel Marston John Leavitt Jona-
than Leavitt Nathaniel Bachelder all of Hampton in the Province of
New Hampshire Aforesaid Samuel French Richard Smith Benjamin
Eaton Joseph French Hezekiah Karr Benjamin French all of South
Hampton & Hampton Falls in the Province of New Hampshire
aforesaid — David Page David Lowel, Nason Cass, Joseph Rawlins
all of Exeter in said Province of New Hampshire Jonathan San-
borne of Kingston in the Province Afores'1 Robert Calf of Chester
in the Province of New Hampshire aforesaid — On the Terms Condi-
tiors and Limitations herein after Expressed, all that Tract of Land
within the Province of New Hampshire Containing the quantity of
about forty Square Miles Bounded as follow's Viz1 Beginning at a
Great Rock on the Westerly side of Pemigewassett River which
Rock is the Northeasterly Bounds of a Tract of Land Granted to
Ebenezer Stevens Jedediah Philbrick & others b}r said Proprietors ;
Then Running West Seventeen Degrees South ten Miles Then
Beginning again at said rock & Running up the River so far as to
Contain four Miles upon a Strait Line thence West Seventeen
Degrees South Ten Miles Thence on a Strait line to the end of the
first ten Mile line —

To have & to Hold to them their Heirs & Assigns forever in Equal
Shares on the following Terms Conditions & Limitations that is to say
the Tract of Land within the said Boundaries (Saving what is here-
in aftermentioned to be otherwise Improved) be divided into Eighty
one Shares or Rights & each Share to be laid out into three Distinct
Lots The Two first to Contain each an hundred acres and the other
all the Rest of the Land Belonging to each Respective Share That
the whole be laid out as Equitably as Possible That the three Lots
belonging to one Share be Numbred with the Same Number so as

ANDOVER. 83

to make but one Draught for the three Lots belonging to Each Share
That the said Land be so laid Out within Nine Months from the
Granting Thereof A: then the Lots Drawn for in the Casual Manner
of Drawning for Lots of Land in such Cases And that this be done at
Portsmouth aforesaid under the Care and Direction of the Grantors
& a true plan thereof Returned at the same time to the Grantors —
That one of the said Shares be for the first Minister of the Gospel
who Shall be Settled on the said Land & Continue there Dureing his
life or untill he Shall be Regularly Dismiss'cl — To hold to him his
heirs & Assigns — And one other of the said Shares to be for &
towards the Support of the Gospel Ministry there forever — And the
first hundred Acre Lots belonging to these two Shares shall be laid
out as near the place where the Meeting house Shall be built as may
Conveniently be done — and not be drawn for as the other Lots That
there be ten Acres of Land Left & Reserved forever in some Con-
venient place within said Boundaries for Building a Meeting house —
& School house upon and for a Training Field a Burying place & any
other Publick use the Inhabitants there may have Occasion for that
one other of said Shares be for the use & Support of a School there
forever —

That Eighteen of the said Shares be & hereby are Reserved to the
use of the said Proprietors the Grantors in these Presents their heirs
And Assigns That the owners of the other Sixty Shares make a Reg-
ular Settlement there at their Own Charge & Expence in the follow-
ing manner Viz1 That fifteen Families be Settled upon said Tract of
Land each having an house of Sixteen foot Square at Least or Equal
thereto & four acres of Land Cleared & fitted for Tillage or mowing
upon their Respective Shares within four years next after the Grant-
ing hereof & fifteen Families more so Settled within Six years from
ile' Granting & thirty Families more within ten years from the
Granting hereof That within Eight Years from the Granting hereof a
meeting house be Built for the Publick Worship of God & fitted for
that Purpose for the use of the Inhabitants there and that they main-
tain & Support the Constant Preaching of the Gospel there after the
Expiration of ten years from the Granting hereof and that the said
Grantees Determine within one year from the Date of the Grant
which of the said Sixty Settlers shall be the first & Second fifteen &
make Report to the said Grantors within one Year from the Date
hereof — That there be Twenty acres of Land left in some Suitable
place within said Boundaries for a Priviledge & Accomodation of a
Saw mill with Suitable Roads leading thereto which shall he to him
or them his & their heirs & assigns (the Roads Excepted) who shall
build Such A mill within three years from the Granting hereof with

84 CHARTER RECORDS.

the Priviledge of the most Convenient Stream & place for Doing the
same & in Consideration thereof for the Benefit of the said Inhab-
itants the owner or Owners of such mill shall Saw the Logs & Timber
of the other of the said Inhabitants or such as are preparing to Build
there to the halves for the term of Seven years next after the said
Mill shall first Work if desired so to do & if no Particular Person or
Persons of the owners of said Shares or such other person or persons
as the Majority of them shall Permit to do the same will undertake
to Build such mill on the terms aforesaid; Then the said owners shall
do the same at their Common Charge & put the said mill under such
a Regulation as that they & other Inhabitants there or such as shall
be preparing to Settle may have their Logs & Timber Sawed at the
halves as Occasion may require for Building on the Land hereby
Granted That each owner of the said Sixty shares pay to such Person

or Persons as the Majority of them shall Elect for that Purpose all

such Sum and sums of money or bills of Publick Credit as the said owners
or the major part of them shall Determine to be necessary from time
to time & as occasion shall Require to Defray the Charges of laying
out the said land as aforesaid & other Matters & things necessary to
be done for making a Settlement as aforesaid & performing the other
matters & things herein Directed to be done

That the lots be laid out iu Ranges where the land will admit of it
best & land Left between the Ranges for highways of four Rods wide
& also between the lots as many roads as may be thought Conven-
ient, of four Rods Wide & that a plan of the whole when so laid out
be made at the Charge of the said Owners & Returned to the Grant-
ors when said Lots are drawn for as aforesaid, That the Eighteen
Shares Reserved as aforesaid be Exonerated acquitted & fully Ex-
empted from paying an}7 Charge towards making said Settlement and
not held to the Conditions of the Sixty Shares aforesaid nor be liable
to any Tax or Assessment untill Improved by the Grantors their heirs
or assigns — That all white pine Trees fit for Masting the Royal Navy
be & hereby are Reserved & Granted to his Majesty his heirs & Suc-
cessors forever for that Purpose

That in Case any one or more of the first fifteen Setlers their
Heirs Executors administrators or Assigns shall neglect & omitt doing
& performing what is to be done & performed by the said first fifteen
Setlers Respectively within the time herein limitted then such Delin-
quent owner or owners share in the said tract of Land shall be for-
feited unto the other forty five owners & others as shall have done
their part & that they shall have the term of one year more for doing
& Performing the Same

And that in Case any one or more of the Second fifteen Setlers

ANDOVER. 85

their Heirs Executors Administrators or assigns Shall Neglect Ov.
omit to do & perform what is to be done & performed by the said
Second fifteen Setters Respectively within the time herein limited
then Such Delinquent owner or owners share in the said Tract of
Land shall be forfeited unto the other thirty owners & others as shall
have done their part & that they shall have the Term of one year
more for the Doing & performing the same & that in I - Sixty
families shall not be Settled within the time herein Limited by the
said Sixty owners their Heirs or assigns — then the whole of the said
Sixty Shares shall revert unto the Grantors their Heirs 1 Assigns
and that the said Grantors their Heirs or assigns shall & may enter
into the Same & take Possession thereof as tho this Grant had never
been made

Provided always in Case of an Indian war within any of the Terms
of Years above Limited for the Doing any of the said Matters &
things aforesaid by the said Owners to be done the same number of
Years as Such war shall last shall be allowed after that Impediment
shall be removed and in Case any Action or Suit shall be bro't
against the Grantees or any of them for the said Tract of Land or
any part thereof

In the Right of the King under the Massachusetts Province the
Claim of Sam1 Allen Esq1 Deeeas'd or the Million Acre Grant so
Called the said Grantees are hereby Obliged to Vouch the said
Grantors or such of the said Grantees as shall be so Sued shall so do.
cV. the said Grantors hereby Promise & Ingage they their heirs Exec-
tors administrators or assigns shall & will at their own Cost &
Expence Defend one Action or Suit upon one of the said Titles or
Rights & pursue the same to final Judgement through the whole
Course of the law (if there shall be Occation) and in Case the tinal
Judgement in such trial shall be against the said Grantors the Gran-
tees shall Recover nothing over in Satisfaction of and from the said
Grantors their Heirs Executors or Administrators or any of them —
Provided also that the said Grantees do Sign an Instrument within
nine months from the Granting hereof therein Acknowledging that
they do hold the same under the Grantors and thereby Obliging
themselves to do & perform what they are Enjoined to do & perform
and Return said Instrument to the Grantors within the time afore-
said—

86 CHARTER RECORDS.

[Grant of Forfeited Shares to Town Proprietors, 1752.]
[Masonian Proprietors' Records, Feb. 20, 1752.]

Province of ) Portsmouth February 20th 1752. Thursday

New Hampshire \ Six of the Clock afternoon at the house of Ann
Slayton — The Proprietors meet according to Adjournment —

Whereas the said Proprietors on the 20th day of Nov1 1751
Granted to Edmund Brown William Swain Archelaus Lakeman &
others a Certain Tract of Land in said Province Containing the
Quantity of about forty Square miles Bounded as follows Viz'
Beginning at a Great Rock on the Westerly side of Pemigiwassett
River which Rock is the North Easterly Bounds of a Tract of Land
Granted to Ebenr Stevens Jedidiah Pbilbrick & others by said Pro-
prietors then Running West Seventeen Degrees South ten Miles then
Beginning again at said Rock and Running up the River so far as to
Contain four Miles upon a Strait line thence West Seventeen
Degrees South ten Miles thence on a Strait line to the end of the
first Ten mile Line on Certain Terms Conditions & Limitations Par-
ticularly Set forth & Expressed in the Vote Whereby the said Grant
was made among which is the Article following that in case Sixt}r
Families Shall not be Settled within the time Limitted (in said Vote
for the Settling of that Number) by the owners of Sixty Shares of
the said Tract of Land (who are to make said Settlement) or their
Heirs or Assigns the Grantors their Heirs or Assigns shall & may
Enter into the same and take Possession thereof as tho' the said
Grant had never been made

And Whereas it has been Represented to the said Proprietors in
behalf of the Grantees that from other Articles in said Vote it was
Necessary a Short time farther than that Limitted in said Vote for
the Settling of the said Sixty Families should be granted and
Allowed for the perfecting of said Settlement as the case may hap-
pen in Carrying on the same. Which motion having been Considered
& the said Proprietors being desireous of giving all Reasonable
Encouragement to the said Settlers and of having the said Settle-
ment Effected according to the Design of the Grant —

Voted Therefore that the share of each of the said Grantees who
were to make the said Settlement according to said Vote & who
shall not have performed & done his part & Duty therein at the time
limitted in the said Vote for the Co'pleating & perfecting the Settle-
ment of Sixty Families on said Land according to the true Intent
and meaning thereof be & hereby is granted to such of said Grantees
as shall have Done & performed their Respective part and Duty
therein Provided Nevertheless & on this Condition only that those

[Plan of Andover, 1753.]

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Province of > Portsmouth July 4* i753 The within is a true Plan of y Tract of land as granted to Edmund Brown william Swain Archelaus Lak :eman & | ogers by ^ P™^^

New Hampshire \ the Lands purchased of John Tufton Mason Esqu' in said Province pursuant to y« grant of Said Proprietors made & voted y -o inov 75
of Said Grantees to the said Grantors & by their Order ^>

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ANDOVER.

87

Grantees who shall have so Settled shall & do well & Truly perform
fche part Duty and business of such neglecting and Delinquent per-
son within the Term of Six months from fche Expiration of the term
Limitted in said Vote for fche Compleating the Settlement of Sixty
Families as aforesaid which Term of Six months is hereby granted to
them for that Purpose but in Default hereof this Vote shall be Void
<S; the grant of said Land be & Remain on the Conditions & Limi-
tations of the formor Vote & as tho' this Vote had never been passed
anything herein Contained to the Contrary thereof Notwithstanding

[Draft of Lots in Andover, 1753.]
[Masonian Proprietors' Records, Vol. 6, p. 239.]

Province of ) Portsmouth July 4th 1753, Wednesday Six of
New Hampshire ) the Clock afternoon — At a Meeting of the Pro-
prietors of the Lands purchased of John Tufton Mason Esq1' in New
Hampshire — the Draft of the Lots of the Tract of Land granted unto
Edmund Brown William Swain, Archelaus Lakeman & others Nov1"
•20"' 1751, under the Direction of the Proprietors, as follows —

first Minister LotN°19

Ministry

N°62

School Lot

17

John Brown

71

Benjamin Shaw

44

Edward Brown

16

Benjamin Sandburn

56

Richard Wibird Esq1"

23

Tobias Lakeman

75

Israel Blake

4

John Moffat Esqr

70

William Swain

14

Nath1 Healey

55

John Chapman

43

Thomas Sillea

22

David Norton

32

Benja Leavet

29

John Thomlinson EsqT

54

John Iloit

77

William Brown Clough

41

Mark H« Went worth Esq. 64

Ebenr Loverin

7

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30

Simon Marston

38

Anthony Emery

69

Tho8 Wallingford Esqr

67

Daniel Cram

13

Joseph Weare

37

Robert Miller

25

Nathan Dow

79

Nathan Longfellow

73

Robert Calf

66

Jonathan Beck

1

Joshua Towle

50

Joseph. Gove

15

David Lowell

74

Law Lot N° 2

40

Walter Williams

8

CHARTER RECORDS.

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36

Joshua Peirce Esqr

the Right of Jonathan f

Odiorne Esqr deceas'1 \

Ezekiel Worthen

Jn° Thomlinson &

Jn° Tufton Mason Esqrs

Archelaus Lakeinan

Amos Dwinal

Joseph French

Benja Tilton

Samuel Blake jun1

Samuel French

Jesse Prescutt

Nath1 Meserve Joseph )

Blanchard Esqrs &c \

Samuel Bathrick

John Wentworth Esqr

Dan1 Peirce & Mary Moore 53

Sam1 Solly & CP March Esq. 52

Daniel Sanburn 68

Edmund Brown 20

Benjamin Eaton 9

David Page 80

Jonathan Sanburn 59

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Samuel French 24

John Ellis 45

John Sanburn 49

Jonathan Leavit 34

Benja Swett jun' 28

Joseph Prescutt 76

John Rindge 47

Nathan Row 27

Richard Smith 58

Thomas Packer Esq 46

Joseph Rawlins 33

George Jaffrey Esqr 63

John Marston 61

Samuel Blake 11
Theodore Atkinson Esqr 81

Daniel Weare 6

Benja French 26

Hezekiah Karr 42

Daniel Marston 5

Nath1 Bachelder 39

Nason Cass 60

John Leavet 78

A true Draft of the Lots to the names to whom drawn of above-
said Tract of Land under the Care & Direction of said Proprietors —

attest Geo: Jaffrey Proprs Clerk

A true Copy of the Record of the Draft of the Lotts in the Town-
ship granted to Brown &ca

Attest Geo -Jaffrey Proprs CI

\_Comi)laints from Andover, 1767.]
[Masonian Papers, Vol. 5, p. 55.]

a letter of Complaint from the Settlers of the township of New-
britton to the genteel Men grantors of Said township Whareas your
honers Ware plesed to grant this township to a Sertain number of
men and they having givn Som Small incourigment for Settling We
a few of us have under taken to Settle in Said town we would inform

ANDOVER. 89

you genteelmen that we undergo a great deel of Difeklty on the
a Count oi the proprietrs being backword in premoting the Settlement
of this town the\r are not Carefull to perform what they promsed us
neithe can we learn as they give any incouregment at all for any more
to Com into the town they Clear us no rodes buld us no bridges
indeed they have bult us a Saw mill but that not being Completed
as it ought to be that we git our bords with a grat deel of Difikelty
but this is not all we Suffer more abundently for want of a grist
mill we have been forsed to go twenty mils to mill this year with
a teem and men upon [torn] three Days and nights by these and
such like ditikeltys and many more which would be needless for us
to menten is the grate means why people do not settle in the town
if the proprietrs would give any proper Iucourigment there is men
Stands radey to Settle in the town but by the bakwardness of the
proprietrs they are Discoriged and it hath almost Discoriged us for
in removing into Suchey Distent wildrness we are Deprived of the
priviledge of the gospel which is one grate Discourigment and things
at present lookes very Dull with us and without theire be Some fur-
ther Care taken we Sea nothing else but we are likley to spend the
rest of our Days in a wildrness without the gospel as those hethen
natives of the land hath Done before us and therefore genteelmen
we your most humble Sarvents would be gratly obliged to you if you
would be So Chereteble to us as to Star up and move forward our
proprietrs in the further Settlement of this town for we Cannot Sea
as they have any regard to their fellow Creters but only for their
own privet intrest atrying to Save their land with as little Cost as
posseble and we at the Same time are the grate Suffers by this means
and genteelmen this is our Complaint hoping that your Honours will
do Sumthing for our releff

Dated at Newbitton November the 5/ 1767
william morey Samuel Blake Edward Sade

Israel Graves elias rano Sim Connor

Samuel rano Samuel Scribnor Joseph fellows

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[Improvements in Andover, 1771.]
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[Charter Renewed, 1771.]
[Masonian Proprietors' Records, Nov. 6, 1771.]

Province of j Portsmouth November 6th 1771. Wednesday

New Hampshire j at the dwelling house of James Stoodly Esqu1'
Innholder the Proprietors meet according to adjournment

Whereas the Proprietors on the 20th day of November 1751, did
Vote and grant unto Sixty persons, Edmund. Brown William Swain
and others, named in Said grant, to have and to hold to them their
Heirs and assigns for ever a certain Tract of Land, in Said. Grant
bounded and described, & upon certain conditions Terms and limita-
tions therein expressed, with certain reservations — and whereas the
Said Grantees their Heirs or Assigns, had not complyed with the
Terms and Conditions of Said Grant as therein limmitted the Said
Proprietors the Grantors have by their Agent entered into the Same
Tract of Land, granted as aforesaid, and taken possession thereof
agreable to the Reservation in said Grant — Since which, The Said
Grantees by a Committee have made Application, earnestly desiring
a grant of further time to fulfill the Terms and Conditions of their
former grant of Said Tract of Land — upon Consideration of their
request, and willing to favour the Said Grantees, by granting the
further time they propos'd, and declared their Intention of perform-
ing the Settlements &° upon Condition, of the Said Grantees their
Heirs or assigns fulfilling and performing the Terms and Articles
expressed in Said Grant, made and voted on the said 20th day of
November 1751 — within two years, from this Sixth day of November
1771 : the Said Tract of land except the reservations made in the
beforementioned grant — be and hereby is Voted and granted to the
Said Grantees their Heirs and Assigns, if the Said Grantees their
Heirs and assigns shall not perform the Terms, and Articles expressed
in the Said former Grant, within the Said two years herein limitted,
then the Proprietors the grantors, may and shall by themselves, or
any person or persons in their behalf, reenter and take possession of
Said tract of land for their Use — as though this, or any former grant
of the Premises had never been made —

CHARTER RECORDS.

ANTRIM.

[This town was part of a tract of land called Cumberland, afterwards Society
Laud. Incorporated March 22, 1777, and named from a town in Ireland.

See XI, Hammond Town Papers, 105 ; Index to Laws, 22; sketch, by W. R.
Cochrane, Hurd's History of Hillsborough County, 1882, p. 252; Half-Century
Sermon, 1838, by John M. Whiton, pp. 24; Breif Notices of the Town, by John
M. Whiton, 4, Collections of N. H. Historical Society, 216; History, 1744 —
1844, by John M. Whiton, 1852, pp. 96; History, by W. R. Cochrane, 1880, pp.
792; Baptist Churches in N. H., by E. E. Cummings, 1836, p. 19; Lawrence's
N. H. Churches, 1856, p. 149.]

{Petition of Eb : Storer, 1753.]
[Masonian Papers, Vol. 5, p. 56.]

To The Hon1'1* The° Atkinson & Richd Wibird Esqrs & Others the
Purchasers & Proprietors of Masons Rights

Gentlemen I have a Farm of Three hundred acres of Land Lying
in your Province which was formerly Granted bry our Generall Court
to one Jonathan Butterfield which I afterward purchased of Gershom
Keyes which land is bounded as follows Adjoyning to the Township
N° 7 in the line of Towns Begining at a Hemlock Tree Markt with
Letter A standing in the south line of s'1 Township N° 7 thre Miles
from the Southeast Corner & from thence South by a line of Markt
trees 320 Rods to a stake & stones to Letter B from thence North
one hundred & Sixty Rods by a line of Markt Trees to a Hemlock
Tree to Letter C from thence North 320 Rods by a line of Markt
trees to a Stake & stones in af ores'1 Line to Letter D. from thence with

the line where it began so that upon ye whole Gentlemen My Peti-
tion is to yr Hons that you would pleas'1 to Confirm the s'1 Three
hundred Acres of Land to me or otherwise to give me an Equivolent
some where Else & yr Petetioner shall as in Duty bound ever pray

Port8 Aprill 13th 1753 Eb : Storer

[Petition of David Baldwin, 1753.]
[Masonian Papers, Vol. 5, p. 57.]

Province of ) To the Proprietors of the Right to the Lands in
New Hampshr \ Said Province Commonly Called and known by
the Name of John Tufton Mason's

The Petition of David Baldwin Late of Sudbury now of Water-
town in the County of Middlesex in the Province of the Massachu-
setts Bay Gent. Shews

ANTRIM. 93

That on the 4"' Day of January 1741 he Purchased of one Gershom
Keys by his Deed of that Date a Tract of Land in the Province of
New Hampshire Bounded as follows viz — Adjoining to the Township
N° 7 in tin.' Line of Towns So Called begining at an Hemlock Tree
Marked with the Letter A. Standing in the South Line of Said Town-
ship N° 7 three Miles from the South East Corner & from thence
riming South Eleven Degrees & thirty Minutes West by a Line of
Marked Trees three Hundred & twenty rods to a Stake & Stones to
the Letter B, thence Last live Degrees & thirt}' Mins North One hun-
dred & Sixty Rods by a Line of Mark'd Trees to an Hemlock Tree
to the Letter C. thence North Eleven Deg. & thirty Min8 East three
Hundred & twenty Rods by a Line of Markd Trees to a Stake &
Heap of Stones in the aforesaid Town Line to the Letter D. from
thence with Said Line to where it began with Six Acres more on the
West Side of the Southerly Branch of Contoocoke River lying in the
Said Township N" 7 bounded South on the afores'1 Farm East on the
Said Branch North on a farm belonging to W1" Moore & Weston a
Lot N° 46. in Said Township N° 7 & also Ninety four Acres to be
taken off from the South End of the House Lots 45, 47, & N° 46 &c
— as may more fully appear by Said Deed — That yor Petitioner as
been at very Considerable Expence in order to make a Settlem* there
& has done a great deal of Labour on & Cleard a Great Quantity
of the Land fit for Improvem1 So that Including the purchase Sum
he has been at upwards of a Thousand pound Expence on the Same

Wherefore he prays your Consideration of the Premises & that
you woud be pleasd to Grant & Confirm to him Your Title to the
Said purchased Lauds which Your Petitioner Shall Ever Gratefully
Acknowledge & Comply with any just & Equitable Terms of holding
under you

Portsmouth May 24th 1753 David Baldwin

94

CHARTER RECORDS.

[Plan of Three Lots in Antrim, 1780.]

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ANTRIM.

[Plan of Lot No. <5, 1784.]

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95

96

CHARTER RECORDS.

[Plan of Interval Farm, 1784.]

V.~7..*

A Plan of the Interval farm, to which is annexed the Interval Lot
Belonging to the Heirs of Peirce & Moore lying mostly in Antrim
the whole Contains five Hundred & Eighty four Acres Exclusive of
twenty one acres East of the river Contoocuck which 21 Acres is
very Bad Said farm & lot is N° 5 each in the Original Plan That
part of the lot N° 4 east of the prick'1 line is 18 Acres taken off
Aikins lot, which makes N° 4 one hundred Acres

ANTRIM.

97

N B the lot No 5 is Mostly improved on which M'farlane is Set-
tled he has also Some improved on N° 3 one James Dinsmor is Set-
tled on N° 4 and has about 20 acres improved and Some little on N°
1 : one John Smith has improvements on N°l & N° 4 about 15 Acres
One Alexander M'Dole is Settled on N° 2 Improvements about
fifteen Acres

N : B Aikins lot Originaly Comprehended the Interval lot west
of the river

[Plan of Two Lots.']

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[Deed for Lot in Antrim, 1797.]

[Masonian Papers, Vol. 5, p. 58.]

Know all Men by these presents that We Edward Baston Long of the
City of Bath & Kingdom of Great Britain Esquire and Mary Long
wife of the said Edward in her Right by our Attorney John Peirce of
Portsmouth in the County of Rockingham and State of New Hamp-
shire Merchant Duely constituted & empowered by us, For and in
consideration of the sum of Two hundred dollars to our said Attorney
in hand paid or secured to be paid by Francis Brown of Antrim in
the County of Hilsborough Husbandman the Receipt whereof we do
hereby acknowledge, have remised, released, sold & Conveyed, and by
these presents, do remise, release, sell, & Convey, to him the Said
Francis Brown, his heirs & Assigns, all the right, Title, Interest,
claim, and Demand, which we or either of us have, in & to One hun
dred Acres of Land, in said Antrim, being part of George Jaffrevs
original Right in that tract, that was first Called & known by the
name of the Society Laud, and is said to be Lot Number four, or how-

7

98 CHARTER RECORDS.

ever otherwise the same is or may be Numbred it is bounded as fol
loweth begining at the southeastly Corner of said Jaffreys large Lot
there, then riming Northerly one hundred Rods, then Westerly one
hundred & Sixty Rods, then southy one hundred Rods, then Easterly
One hundred and Sixty Rods, to the bounds begun at. — To have & to
hold said Released premises, with the appurtenances thereof, to him
the said Francis Brown his heirs & assigns, to his & their proper use,
benefit & behoof forever, hereby Engaging to Warrant & defend the
said granted premises, against all claims, or Demands, of an}T person
or persons claiming by from or under us, or said George Jaffrey
Esquire, who by deed conveyed said Land to Thomas Nichols, and
said Nichols to the Grandfather of said Mary, who is sole heir to all
his real Estate —

In Witness whereof we the said Edward Baston Long & Mary
Long by our Attorney John Peirce aforesaid have hereunto set our
hands & seals this 19th Day of December 1797 — , - — — > ,

Signed Sealed & Delivered Edward Baston Long by ] Seal I

in presence of — his Attorney John Peirce ' — — '

Richard Tucker Mary Long by her )

R: Cutts Shannon Attorney John Peirce ] Seal \

State of New Hampshire j Portsmouth Decr 20 im

Rockingham ss — )

Then Edward Baston Long & Mary Long by their attorney John
Peirce appearing acknowledged this Instrument to be their free act
&Deed'

before R : Cutts Shannon

Jus : peace

[Endorsed] Edwa B. Long & wife to Thos Brown

This Deed taken up & a new one given owing to an error in writing
Thomas for Frances

[Plan of Lot in Antrim, 1803.]

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[Disposal of Certain Lots in Antrim, 1804.]

[Masonian Papers, Vol. 5, p. 59.]

I will give Mr Andrew Robbe the refusal of Lot N° twenty two
until the middle of June next at three hundred Dollars — February 25,
1804

John Peiree

Lot N° 22 in Antrim is conveyed by me to James Wilson Esq &
Andrew ^ Deed Dated July 12 1803 delivered to Mr Thayer the

Post

I have given Mr Robbe the refusal of Lot N° 22 untill the middle
of June Next at 300 D.

Feb* 25, 1804—

Engaged to sell Samuel White Lot of Land in Antrim N° 25 ad-
joining on Robbes Lot N° 28 —

IOO CHARTER RECORDS.

[Deed of a Lot in Antrim. 1S13.]
[Masonian Papers. Vol. 5. p.

KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS. THAT I. Johh
Pejkce. of Portsmouth, in the County of Rockingham, and State
of New-Hampshire. Merchant : For and in consideration of the sum
of Three hundred and Sixty three Dollars — to me in hand, paid
before the delivery hereof, by Daniel Page of Antrim in the County
of Kilsborough and State aforesaid Yeoman the receipt whereof I do
hereby acknowledge, have remissed. released, and forever quit claimed,
and conveyed: and by these presents do remise, release, and forever
quit claim and convey to him the said Daniel Page his heirs and
sb ^ns. all my right, title, claim, or demand whatsoever in and to a
Lot of Land in Antrim aforesaid Containing One hundred twenty
One Acres M e or less and is Lot Number Twenty three in the Mid-
dle Range : Lots laid out on the Great Right Number Five and was
part of the Right of Daniel Peirce and Mary Moore as may be found
bv the Records of the Masonian Proprietors and which was bequeathed
me bv my Brother Joseph Peirce Esquire deceased — To have and
to hold said quit claimed and conveyed premises, with the appurten-
ances thereof, to him the said Daniel Page his heirs and assigns I
herebv engaging to warrant and defend the said quit claimed premises,
aorainst all claims or demands of any person or persons claiming only
bv. from, or under me or the said Daniel Peirce «k Mary Moore. —

* In witness whereof. I have hereunto set my Hand and Seal, this
first Dav of June in the Y'ear one thousand eight hundred & thirteen
. % '• ;. ■ ID ■' ■

in f John Peirce ] Seal [

John MClintock

W B Parker

kingham ss Portsmouth June Is 1813 —

The above named John Peirce personally appearing acknowledged
this instrument to be his free act and deed.

Before me. John MClintock Justice Pea

[■John Duncan* * Reeomnu . 1815.]

-onian Papers. Vol. 5. p. 61.]

Mr Perce Sir the berrer Timothy S Hills wishes to purchase a Lot
of Land of you being Lot N :1\ of an ordinary quality fit for nothing
but pastering if hirn and you Can agree you need not be afrade but
vou can get your pay

Antrim Jut. 1815 John Duncan

BARNSTEAD. IOI

[Memorandum of Lot in Antrim. l^lo\]

[Masonian Papers. Vol. 5. p. 61.]

agreed to kee N _ I Antrim till middle of May for Samuel P
" March 1 -

M. W. Pen

[Bounds ' L : :' Antrim*]
[Masonian Papers. Vol. 5. p. 62.]

Begining at the Northwest corner at a Stake vS: stone, the:.
two and oc one half degrees East, on the line : William If D. 3
land, one hundred i: thirty six B la I -:ake and s: -nee

East two & one half degrees : North forty rive i: and one half B
on the line of John Smiths land to a stake and stc oes ; then S uth
two & one half degrees E st fifty rods: : Staki is Si nes : thence
N rth Eighty seven i: one half East fifty two A: one half Rods on
William Smiths land to a Stake & Stones : thence. North two vk one
half degrees. West one hundred & eighl - 5,1 Stat and

Stones: thence Westwardly ni:. _..: rods on the line of John

Duncans land to the bounds first mentioned.

I have agreed to sell to Deacon J a" Nesmith all my part of the
within Land that N 3 & N 1 laid out by Betton may take out & I
am to get a ded from T v.v. A Martin & Joseph I rhich Lot N

2 & N 4 may take out as pricked out by John Clark on his plan — ..:
10 f) Acre to be paid in two Years with Inf —

BARNSTEAD.

"Granted by Lieut. Gov. John Wentworth to Rev. Jos
ton. and others. May 20 :-:~

See . - g; XI, Hammond Town I

Index to Laws. 45; skc

Reunion. 1. Granite Monthly. 303 ed. by H. N. Co'.'r li

History, by T. P. J« - J - ^-.ewart's Efistax

1862, ] 152, 375 Lawrence"s X. H. Chur; -

102 CHARTER RECORDS.

[ Orders to Run Line between Barnstead and Alton.~\
[Masonian Papers, Vol. 5, p. 63.]

To Walter Bryant junr Esqr

You are to proceed to survey and perambulate the Boundary Line
between Barnstead and the Land called the Gore with all possible
Exactness and Expedition for which purpose you are to repair to
the marked Tree on the Northerly Corner of Barrington and taking
if possible the old marked Line proceed upon it until Eight Miles be
accomplished taking the utmost Care to observe the course of the
said Line upon the Compass, and properly spotting the Trees as you
go along. But if you cannot certainly find the said anciently marked
Line then you are to proceed from the northerly Corner Bound of
Barrington at the mark'd Tree aforesaid and measure Eight Miles
upon a straight Line North West two Degrees and a half more north-
erly from the said Corner Tree, and after the said Eight Miles be
accomplished that is to say if upon the ancient mark'd Line aforesaid
but not otherwise to proceed on the said old Line two Miles further
unto a Mark'd Tree a corner Bound of Oilman Town and the Gore.
But If you shall find on arriving at the Period of the said Eight
Miles on the Line running N° West 242 Degrees more northerly as
aforesaid from the Corner Tree of Barrington that Gilmantown has
encroached by settlements on the Gore You [are] then to proceed to
the upper Corner of the Town of Barnstead next to the Town of
Chichester and run from thence on the Head of the said Town of
Barnstead North 42 Degrees East Six Miles, then North West Two
Miles marking well the Corner Trees at the begginning and End of
every Line.

As Soon after as possible that you have compleated the Survey as
herein directed you are to make a just and particular Return thereof
on Oath and to certify the Names of the Chain men and that they
were duely sworn to a faithful Performance.

Daniel Rogers ) Committee of
Peter Pearse \ Masons Propriety

Benja Adams ) Committee
John Nutter \ for Barnstead

[Plan of Second Division in BamzteaJ.]

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BEDFORD. IO3

BEDFORD.

[Granted by Massachusetts as Narragansett No. 5, Feb. 12, 1733-4- After-
wards called Souhegan East. The grant was confirmed by the Masonian Proprie-
tors Nov. 9, 1748. Incorporated as Bedford May 19, 1750, and named in honor
of the Duke of Bedford. A portion of the town was annexed to Manchester July
I, 1853.

See Massachusetts and New Hampshire charters in preceding volumes ; IX,
Bouton Town Papers, 50; XI, Hammond Town Papers, 176; Index to Laws,
51; Topographical and Historical Sketch, 1, Collections of N. H. Historical
Society, 288; discourse, by Thomas Savage, 1 841, pp. 16; centennial address,
by Isaac O. Barnes, 1850, pp. 45 ; History, pub. by Alfred Mudge, 1851, pp. 364:
historical discourse, by Ira C. Tyson, 1876, pp. 31; sketch, Hurd's History of
Hillsborough County, 1885, p. 265 ; History of the Catholic Church in the United
States, by John G. Shea, 1890, Vol. 3, p. 108; Baptist Churches in N. H., by
E. E. Cummings, 1836, p. 22; Lawrence's N. H. Churches, 1856, p. 156;
Memorial Addresses on Life and Character of Zachariah Chandler, 1880; Life of
Zachariah Chandler, 1880; sketch, 12, Farmer's Monthly Visitor, 47.]

{Petition of Inhabitants of Bedford.']

[Masonian Papers, Vol. 5, p. 64.]

To the Hon1'16 the Propriotors of Masons Grant or Patent
We the Subscribers being Inhabatants of Sowhegan East being Sen-
seble that by vertue of that Grant of the massachusets we have no title
to the Lands that we possess but that we Concive the title to our Lands
is in your Honnors we therefor Humbly pray your Hon" of your
Grate Goodness to Give us the Subscribers to Geather with the Rest
of our Inhabitants a quit Clame of the Land Lying In the bounds of
that tract of Land (Known by the name of Sowhegan East In the
provence of new hampshier) to us and our heirs forever and your
Humble Servants the Subscribers to Geather with the Rest of the
presant Inhabitants Shall Ever pray

and we the Subscribers Do constute and apoint our beloved Neigh-
burs and frinds John Goffe Sam11 Patten and mathew Patten and
James Walker and Moses Barron to Represent us before your Honrs
and pray your Honrs to Except them as our Constitutants in that
case

James Walker Moses Barron John Goffe

Hugh Ridell Samuel Patten Mattw patten

John Orr John Quige Robert Gillmor

Martha M' Quaid Widdow or Relict of James M' Quaid and her Children

104 CHARTER RECORDS.

Ritckard mckallster John Bell jan Riddell
James Moor John Moorhead Benjamin Smith

John McDuggall Alexr Walker John Riddell Sinner

fargous Kennedy william moor William Patterson Juuer

John Thomas James Linne James Little

Benjamin & John Kidder on the possion of Benjamin Kidder dec'1
Robert Gillmor JuniourEleazer Lyon Jonathan Lyon

[Petition of Bedford for a Quit Claim, 1748.]
[Masonian Papers, Vol. 5, p. 65.]

We the Subscribers being Appointed a Committee by the Grantees
of a Tract of Land commonly call'd Xaragunsett town N. 5, or Sou-
hegan East, being inform'd that s'1 tract of Land falls within Masons
Claim, do petition that the Purchasers of Masons Right, woud release
& quit claim s'1 tract of Land, to the Massachusetts Grantees their
Heirs & Assigns, as the same is already divided & laid out

Portsmouth Novr 5th 1748 E Miller

Edward White

To the Committee of the Purchasers of Masons Right

BEDFORD.

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\_Report on Certain Lots in Bedford, 1750.]
"Masonian Papers, Vol. 5, p. 66.]

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Deacon Jonathan Williams Farm of 120 Acres

These are the Origanal Prop™ Xames

All which is humbly Submited to your honours Judgement
Bedford Oct' 19th 1750 by Mathw Patten

To the Honourable Joseph Blanchard Esqr

[Proprietors' Rest "vatiotu in Bedford, 1750.]

[Masonian Proprietors' Records. Dee. 7. 1750. and Masonian Pa

Vol. 5. p. 67.]

Province of New / Portsmouth December y~ 7* 1750 frydav five of

Hampshire \ the Clock afternoon at the house of Ann Slayton
the Proprietors meet according to adjournment

Voted That the proposed reserved Seventeen Shares in Souhegan

106 CHARTER RECORDS.

East So Called, otherwise Called Narraganset Number five, be Drawn
for at this Meeting and that the Particular Home Lots as heretofore
Surveyed and Laid out by the Claimers under the Mass" Government,
that Shall be Drawn by any Particular Person or persons Shall be to
the Respective Persons by whom Drawn and to whom Entered to
have and to hold the same in Severalty to them their Heirs & Assigns
Respectively forever and that the other divisions in said Tract of
Land as heretofore Surveyed and laid out as aforesaid belonging unto
the said Home lots Respectively, Shall be to the said Persons Respec-
tively, who draw the said Home lots, to have & to hold the same in
Severalty to them their Heirs & Assigus forever in the same manner
and upon the same Conditions as they hold in Severalty the Sundry
Tracts & Parcells of Land Voted to be held in Severalty by a Vote
Passed by said Proprietors at a Meeting by them held on the 25th day
of July 1750 —

Parsuant to the above Vote the following Draft of the abovesaid
Seventeen Shares reserved in Souhegan East so called otherwise
called Naragansett Number five — was Voted to be Recorded in the
following Manner as they were drawn at this Meeting — Namely —

Home Lotts

1st drawn to Theodore Atkinson Esqur N° 39- on Merrimack

2d Messrs Meserve Blanchard

Green & march 61 — on Merrimack

3d John Moffatt Esqur £9 — on Merrimack

4th John Rindge 74 — on Merrimack

5th John Wentworth junr Esqur 83 — on Merrimack

6th George Jaffrey 20 — on Babusook

7th Mark Hunkg Went worth Esqur 41 — on Merrimack

8th Thomas Packer Esqur 95 — on Merrimack

9th Jotham Odiorne Esqur 69 — on Merrimack

10th William Parker Esqur 1 — on Merrimack

11th Mary Moor & Dan" Peirce Esqur 79 — on Merrimack

12th Mathew Livermore Esqur 1 — on Piscataquog

13th Joshua Peirce Esqur 65 — on Merrimack

14th Samuel Solly & Clem' MarcbEsqu™ 75 — on Merrimack

15th Thomas Walliugford Esqur 17 — on Babusook

16th Richard Wibird Esqur 31 — on Merrimack

17th Jn° Thomlinson & Jn°

Tufton Mason Esqurs 35 on Merrimack

BEDFORD. IO7

[Proprietors Reservations in Bedford. 1750.]

[Masonian Papers, Vol. 5. p. 68.]

The origonai Proprietors names in the Xarragansett Township N
five Now Bedford whose Rights were drawn by the Proprietors of M
.Masons Right as they are Recorded in the Proprietors Book

N 39 home lott Joseph Prince Drawn by Col" Atkinson

N 61 Thomas Jafferies Drawn by Meserve Blanchard Green and

March
N° 89 Jonathan Williams drawn by Mr Moffat
N 74 Benjamin Turner drawn by John Rindge
N° 83 John Mears drawn by John Wentworth junr
N 20 on Babusuck Ephraim Colburn drawn by George jaffrey
N° 41 Silence Allen drawn by Mark Hunking Wentworth
N° 95 Benjamin Bates drawn by Thomas Packer
N 69 Jonathan Prout drawn by jotham Odiorne
X° 1 Jacob Griggs drawn by William Parker
N 7'.' Caleb Steadman drawn by Mary Moor and Daniel Peirce
M 1 on Piscataquog Governor Belchard drawn by Math"" Livermore
>i° 65 Samuel Gurnet drawn by Joshua Peirce
N° 75 Samuel Fisk drawn by Solly and March
N° 17 on Babusuck John Cuttler drawn by Thomas Wallingford
N° 31 John Wilson drawn by Richard Wibird
N 35 Alford Buttler drawn by Thomlinson and Mason

Copy of the origenal Proprietors names as they stand Recorded to
the several home lotts above Numbered

$ Math" Patteu Prop" Clerk

[■John Goffe to Proprietors. 1752.]
[Masonian Papers, Vol. 5. p. 69.]

Derryfield March 16th 1752
Sir

I under Stand that Li" Moses Barron Has Bought the wrights that
Cap: Wibird and my Lord Mason Drew in Bedford of the orignal
Proproiotors not withstanding he pretended to by Cap1 Wibirds him-
self once but It being to be bough Eseliar or Cheeper of the other he
has bought of him and threetens to try it out upon which I Got a
Surveyer to Run the Lines of them and Set the 2 first Letters of there
names upon Each corner of there Lots and I have pulled Doun the

IOS CHARTER RECORDS.

fence upon Cap1 wibirds Lot and he took 2 men and Required to put
it up again or he would prosecute Me But I Refused to do it now I
would be Glad if you would Let Cap1 wibird know how it Stands and
weather I shall be Justifyed in pulling it down or weather it is best
to put up again And Send me a line by the barer Esqr Boyes and
Barron is also Boxing trees upon My Lords Lot and weather I Shall
Give him any Interuption in that and how which is all in Hast from
your Humble

Sarvant at Command John Goffe

I would not Give a groat for all your lots in bedford if this fellow
Goes on at So high a hand

My Service to all Frings as before John Goffe

[Petition of Margaret White.]
[Masonian Papers, Vol. 5, p. 70.]

To Theodore Atkinson and Joseph Blanchard Esqrs and others —

Margarett White of Boston in the County of Suffolk Spinster only
Child of John White late of the same Boston Cordwainer deceased —

Most humble sheweth

That your petrs said Father in the Year 1735 purchased of Samuel
Kneeland a Lott of land Called Number Eighty three part of the
Township called and known by the name of Souheagan East Number
five Granted by the Great and General Court of the Province of the
Massachusetts Bay to the Narragansett Souldiers with all the divis-
ions and after divisions thereunto belonging which land your petr is
Informed is taken up by Your Honours And as your petr is fully Sat-
isfied of your Honours Justice and Equity —

She therefore humbly prays your honours out of your Usual Good-
ness to Grant her a Tract of land on the West Side of the Township
Called New Boston under such Restrictions as your honours shall see
Meet as our Equivalent for the Tract of land first Mentioned —

And your petr as in duty bound will ever pray &c

margrat white

[ Vote of Proprietors in Regard to Bedford.']
[Masonian Papers, Vol. 5, p. 71.]

Voted that the Rights of the Original Proprietors of Souhegan
East otherwise called Narraganset N° 5 on Merrimack River be &
hereby are Confirmed to them according as ye Lots have been already

BOSCAWEN. IO9

Surveyed & Laid out (Excepting & Reserving only Seventeen Shares
or Rights as according to Said Laying out the Particular Rights or
Shares so Excepted & Reserved to be Determind & ascertaind
hereafter) But that the Particular Rights & Shares of Major Edward
White & the Reverend Dr Eben1' Miller be not among the Excepted
& Reserved Rights as afores'1 But that their Said Rights & Shares
among said Proprietors Surveyd as afores'1 be hereby granted &
Confirmed to them their Heirs & Assigns

Voted that the above Said Major White & his Son John have their
Names put in among the Settlers of a Town which shall hereafter be
Granted & Laid out that shall Include that Land in Gorum Town So
calld lying a Cross the Crotch of Piscataquog River which the Said
Major White purchased of Col° Wm Dudley Deceased & that they
have & hold to them their Heirs & Assigns that Same Land so pur-
chased as their parts or shares in Said Township to be so Laid out
the same being four hundred Acres to hold on the same terms of
other Settlers

BOSCAWEN.

[Granted by Massachusetts as Contoocook, Dec. 8, 1732, to John Coffin and
others, of Newbury, Mass. The grant was confirmed by the Masonian Proprietors
Jan. 10, 1758. Incorporated as Boscawen April 22, 1760, and named in honor of
Admiral Edward Boscawen of the British navy. The charter was renewed Oct. 7,
1763. Webster was set off and incorporated July 4, i860. This division was
attempted in 1791, when the inhabitants of the west part of the town asked to be
set off and incorporated by the name of Bristol.

See Massachusetts and New Hampshire charters in preceding volumes ; IX,
Bouton Town Papers, 57; XI, Hammond Town Papers, 193; Index to Laws,
62; sketch, Hurd's History of Merrimack County, 1885, p. 169; Descriptive and
Historical Account, by John Farmer, 20, Mass. Historical Society Collections,
71 ; Indian Troubles, 2, Farmer and Moore's Historical Collections, 75; Chrono-
logical Register, by Ebenezer Price, 1823, pp. 116; Centennial Celebration, 1876,
pp. 27 ; History or Boscawen and Webster, by Charles Carleton Coffin, 1878, pp.
656; One Hundred and Fiftieth Anniversary of Settlement, 1883, pub. 1884, pp.
zi I ; Memorial Addresses on Life and Character of William Pitt Fessenden, 1870 ;
Memoirs of John Adams Dix, by Morgan Dix, 1883 ; Lawrence's N. H. Churches,
1856, pp. 348, 355.]

[Petition of Joseph Coffin, 1748.]

[Masonian Papers, Vol. 5, p. 72.]

Province of ( To the Honb1 Theodore Atkinson Esqur and
New Hampshire \ others Purchasers & Proprietors of Lands in New
Hampshire being ye Late Right of Jn° Tufton Mason Esqur

IIO CHARTER RECORDS.

I the Subscriber in behalfe of my Selfe & others, having purchased
& improved Land in a place called Contocook in Said Province — per-
ceiving Said Land is within your Right are desireous of takeing &
holding our Improvements under you upon Such Conditions and
Considerations as shall be reasonbly proposed, and may be for your
& our Advantage, for which this is offered, till a Petition may be
preferred by and in behalfe of ye whole or greater part of ye Inhabi-
tants & claim ers of Said Contocook So that in ye mean time no part
of ye land in said Contocook may be disposed of by you, and by Six
weeks from this date I hope to bring ye Petition abovesaid

Portsm0 Decr 21th 1748 Joseph Coffin

[ Vote of the Proprietors of Boseaiveiu 1748-9.]
[Masonian Papers, Vol. 5, p. 72.]

At a Legall meeting of the Proprietors of Contoocook held Feb-
ruary ye 1 : 1748—

Ebenezer Choate Esqr was Chosen modr for sd meeting Cap1 Moses
Gerrish Joseph Coffin & Cap1 Joseph Gerrish were Chosen authorized
& impowered as a Comee To Treat with the Gen1]men : Proprietors of
Esq1" masons Patent in the Province of Newhampshire to Transact
any affair with the Said Proprietors which may in the Judgement of
Said Committee be best for the Plantation aforestl: A true Coppy
taken from the Proprs Book Febr ye 4th 1748

Attest Joseph Coffin

Prop1 Clerk

[Joseph Coffin to Proprietors, 1748-9.]
[Masonian Papers, Vol. 5, p. 73.]

with Submision to Your Honor I Shall here inform that agreable to
the advice I had when at Portsmouth, which is not Long Since, I
have Desired my Bretheren who heretofore have Called our Selves
the Proprietors of a Plantation Called Contoocook, (but these affairs
now appear in another view : ) to meet together and accordingly we
have & Chose A Comee to waite upon Your Honor & your Company
who are Proprietors of Esqr raasons title: and would Humbly pray
Your Honr to Lett us know when we shall Come over So that we
Shall be the Least trouble to Your business Either Publick or pri-
vate Sr in behalf of myself and other, I Subscribe your Honr most
oblidged Hum1" Serv1

Newbury February ye 6-1748 Joseph Coffin

BOSCAWEN.

Ill

[Joseph Coffin to Proprietors, 1748-9.]
[Masonian Papers, Vol. 5, p. 73.]

Sr perhaps you have had thoughts that I your unworthy Servant,
am not a man of truth but by the time I told you, I or Some other Per-
son Should appear at Portsmouth upon the affair then in hand: I had
been at the trouble agreeable to your advice to gett my Bretheren
together & we have Chosen a Committee to proced : and Should have
been Before you Genumen the Proprietors of Esqr masons title Before
this time, but hearing Co11 Atkison & Some others were from home
Last week we have Defered the affair untill now : and are Ready to
waite upon you when you Shall think most Convenient, here is one
of our Bretheren from Contoocook Coming over with me if your
business will allow of it next week Sr be pleased to over Look my
faillings —

Sr Your Most Hum11 Serv1

Newbury Febr ye 6th 1748 Joseph Coffin

[Original G-rantees of Boscaiven.~]
[Masonian Papers, Vol. 5, p. 74.]

a List of the originall Grantees of the
cook

Abrahams Adams Jnr
Robert Greenough
.John akers
John Chandler Esqr
John Adams
•lames mitchell
Richard Jackman
Joseph morss 3d
Joseph Gerrish Esqr
Robert Adams
John French Jur
Joseph Willet
Stephen Dole
Jonathan Plumer
John Smith
Willabee Favour
Amose Stickny
Richard Pettingell Jur
John Plumer Jur

Stephen Jaques
Joseph morss Jur
Daniel Richards
Joseph Toppan
John Alden
Stephen moody
Richard Greenough
Henry Sewall
Samuel Bayley
Richard Kelley
Joseph Jackman
Jacob Noyes
moses Smith
Thomas Peirce
Isaac Hall
Jacob Pillsbury
George Jackman
moses Gerrish
Eliezer Peirce

Plantation Called Conto-

Joseph Coffin
Benjamin Lunt
Daniel Dole
William Ilsley
Joseph Knight Jur
Benjamin Pettingell
Cornelius Wood
John Webster
Benjamin Smith
Samuel Gerrish
Nicholas Cheny
John Poor
Cutting hint
Archelaus Woodman
Edward Emery
Stephen Emery
Jonathan Samson
Joseph Dole
Daniel Peirce

112

CHARTER RECORDS.

Theodore Coker
James Allen
John Coffin
John moody-
Daniel Knight
Daniel Hale
Joshua Pillsbery
James merrill
Joshua Hale
Jonathan Ilsley
Tristram little
Samuel Little

Joseph Gerrish Jur
William Ripp
John Waite
moses Knight
Moses Coker
Henry Kingsbery
Thomas Woodbridge
James Noyes
William Atkins
Richard Hale
John Noyes 3d
the first Minister

Schoul Right & a mill Right

the nine Farms

Richard Coffin
Abraham Titcomb
William moody
Daniel Coffin
Edmund Greenleaf 3'1
Nathan Wheeler
Joseph Noyes 3d
Thomas Webster
George Little
Samuel Sweet Jur
John weed
ministry —

John Choate Esqr
Jeremiah Gatchell
Edward Shove

Ebenezer Burriell
John Wain wright Esqr
Samuel Bradford

Richard Kent Esq1
Richard Hubbard
Benjamin Bird

Sr my two £ Rights which Youl find were Blanks when I was with
you : are the \ of willobee favers & \ John akers be pleasd to Enter
them in Your Record Sr your most Hum11 Serv1

Joseph Coffin

the fore going list is a true Coppy taken from the originall aprill

ve 24th 1754 Examd pr

Joseph Coffin Propr Clerk

[Petition of Samuel Fowler, 1754.]
[Masonian Papers, Vol. 5, p. 75.]

To Friend Theodr Atkinson Esqr & others Purchasers & Proprs of
Masons Right in ye Prove of New Hampshier in New England The
Petition of Samuel Fowler of Newbury in ye County of Essex in ye
Province of ye Massachusets Baj^ in New England Shipwright Shews
that Your Petitioner Purchased one Right or share & an half in that
Plantation called Contoocook as may appear by Deeds in ye Record-
ers office Supposing when he made ye said Purchases that ye Right
under ye massts (& under which he has held & improved) was good
but being lately convinced of his Mistake & that ye s'1 Right was &
still is in you ye sd Purchasers desires a Composition with you on
Such Terms as shall be tho't reasonable & Just & that you would
Confirm his said one Right or Share & a half with his Improvements
unto him as afores'1 & Your Compliance will much oblige yr Sincere
Freind —

Portsmouth May ye 7th 1754 Samuel fowler

BOSCAWEN. 113

[ Petition of Sarah, Widow of Phineas Stevens, 1756. J

[ MasoDiao Papers, Vol. 5, p. 75.]

the Coppys of the land the Revr'1 Mr Phineas Stevens own'1 in the
Plantation Commonly Called Contocook three home lotts lying on

queen Street Containing five acres each & one whole Share or Right
trough the whole Plantation Laid to the first Settled minister half an
Eighty acre lott originally laid out to John Noyes the o'1 & half an
Hundred acre lott originally laid to the Said .John Noyes: & allso the
undivided laud Belonging to one Share (viz) the undivided of the
Said Noyes —

a true Coppy taken from the Prop™ Book — May V ^0"' 1756

Joseph Coffin Proprs Cler

To tin- Hon1'1'- Theod. Atkinson Esq1 & y" Other Gent1" Proprietors
of Masons Right —

Gent" I should be Greatly Oblidged you would please to grant &
confirm the within mentioned Lands to ye Heirs & Lawfull Repre-
sentatives of my late Husband Phineas Stevens dec'1 within men-
tion'd as it is of great Consequence to Yr most hum1 SeiV

sarah stevens

[Petition of Inhabitants of Boseawen, July 20, 1756.]
[Masonian Papers, Vol. 5, p. 76.]

To The Hon1 Theodr Atkinson Esq1" and others Purchasers & Propri-
etors of Masons Patent in X Ilampr

The Humble Petition of the Inhabitants of the Plantation called
Contoocook in the Province of New-Hampshire, sheweth.

That whereas we your humble Petitioners understand thatour Town-
ship, or Plantation aforesaid, falls within your Claim, by your Pur-
chase of Mr Tuftan Mason — & we are informed also that sundry of
the non-resident Proprietors (or first Grantees of the foresaid Plan-
tation) have been with your Honours, desiring to be confirmed in the
Propriety of the said Plantation. And also to be freed from paying
any thing toward the Support of the Gospel Ministry in said Planta-
tion— We, your humble Petitioners therefore humbly & earnestly
desire your Favour in this Particular, Of the non resident Proprie-
tors assisting us about maintaining the Gospel Ministry among us
till such time as we shall be able to support it our selves.

Your Honours know very well, That the Gospel, with the Ordi-
nances & Privileges thereof (of which the Ministry is a Main, & nec-
essary Branch, & one special part of the Gifts of our Ascended
8

114 CHARTER RECORDS.

Redeemer, is the greatest Glory & Privilege of the English Nation, &
of this Land — That it is that which separates, & differences our
Nation from other Nations — is that for which other Nations envy our
Nation — And is that for which (rod has remarkably appeared for our
Nation & Land, & delivered us from our Enemies who sought to
deprive us of this invaluable Treasure. That the Gospel is what
brings us the glad Tidings of Salvation — & tells us upon what Terms
Salvation is to be had — And that therefore it is necessary that every
one should enjoy the Gospel in order to knowing the way to eternal
Salvation —

Also, your Honrs are not unacquainted, how we, your humble Peti-
tioners have been weakned, kept back from increasing, & been even
impoverished greatly by the Wars & Troubles of that kind which
have been since we begun to settle the foresaid Plantation ; it being
a Frontier Place, & peculiarly exposed to the Incursions of the
Indians — So that we are unable to support the Gospel Ministry
among our selves as yet, without the Assistance of the Non resident
Proprietors.

We do not desire to keep your Honours out of your just Right:
but are willing to concur with our Brethren the non resident Propri-
etors in taking a Confirmation of the said Plantation from your Hon-
ours upon just & reasonable Terms — And we your humble Petitioners
hope, ct humbly pray that your Honours will be as favourable to us,
in respect of Terms as you can, in Consideration that we have lived
upon the Land, & been exposed to many Difficulties by Reason of the
War; & beginning upon, & subduing & manuring a New, & before
uncultivated Land —

And We your humble Petitioners humbly pray that your Honours
would take our Case into your wise Consideration, & favour us as
much as you can in these two Particulars especially, In obliging the
Non resident Proprietors to assist us in supporting the Gospel Minis-
try among us till we are able to do it our selves — And in confirming
the Land to us the Inhabitants, upon as favourable Terms as you can
without which we cannot see but we must live without the Gospel
Ministry. & our selves & our Children live, & be brought up in Igno-
rance, more like Heathen than like Christians —

And if your Honours shall grant this our humble Petition, we your
humble Petitioners for your Honours, as in duty bound shall ever
pray.

Stephen Gerrish Jacob flanders Joseph Easman

Richard flood Nathaniel Danford John Webster

Moses Bnrbank Ezekiel flanders william danford

Andrw Bowhun Nathaniel Danford Juner William Coser

[Plan of Boscaiven.~\

A PLAN OF CONTOOCOOK
In which are Contain'd The Eighty & Hundred Acre Lotts. The Five Acre House Lotts are not Delineated By Reason the Scale
By which This Plan was Protracted was too Small being 120 Poles in an Inch. —
The Intervale being but 5 Acres Lotts are not Delineated for ye Same reson —

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DOSCAWEN. 115

Jesse Sanders John Johnson Timothy Easman

Moses Call Joel manuel George Jackman Juner

Edward fiss Jarrel Phillep Call John fowler

[Quitclaim to certain Lots in Boscawen, 1758.]
[ Masonian Proprietors' Records, Jan. 10, 1758.]

Whereas the sundry Persons hereafter named being all of Newbury
in the County of Essex in the Province of the Massachusetts Bay
have represented that they have Purchased and Deriv'd sundry
[lights Tracts or Parcells of Land lying at a place called Contoocook
in the province of New Hampshire their Title to which was derived
from a Grant made by the Governmentof the Province of the Massa-
chusetts Bay, That Pursuant thereto they had been at Great Expeuce
in Improving part of the Lands so Purchased supposing their Titles
to be good but were now Convinced they could derive no Legal
Right by the Grant afores'1 thereupon praying the said Proprietors to
Grant to them Respectively the Right of said Proprietors to their
several Parcells of land Derived to them as aforesaid

Which motion having been Considered & in Consideration of the
Premises

Voted That all the right Title Claim property and Demand of said
Proprietors of in and unto the several Parcells of Land at Contoo-
cook aforesaid hereafter herein Referr'd to, be and hereby is Granted
to the Persons Respectively hereafter named viz' to John Moody that
Tract of Land Laid out there to his own Original Right and that
laid out to the Original Right of Joseph Dole Except one Eighty
acre Lott with all the undivided Lands belonging To said Rights,
To Benjamin Lunt the one half of the 19th Lott in the second Division
so Called, the 4th Lott in the third Division in the second Range and
the second Lot in the third division, in the second Range, and the
second Lott in the upper farms, with the undivided Land belonging
to his Right — To Joseph Willet his own original Right, To Nath1
Atkinson all that Right which he Purchased of Benjamin Greenleaff
by his Deed Dated the 12th day of March 1751, To Joseph Atkinson
all that Right which he Purchased of the said Greenleaff by deed
bearing the same Date, To Jonil Plummer the original Right of Joseph
Jackman, To Cutting Lunt his own original Right To John Coffin
his own Original Right, and the Right of Cornelius Wood, To
Richard Coffin his own original Right To Isaac Titcomb the Original
Right of Abraham Titcomb and the Original Right of Archelaus
Woodman, and half the Original Right of Richard Greenough, To

n6 CHARTER RECORDS.

Daniel Richards his own original Right, To Daniel Noyes the third
the Right of James Noyes. the Right Granted to the first settled
Minister hereby is Granted To the Heirs of the late revrt Mr Phinehas
Stevens — To Joshua Noyes the Right of Nathan Wheeler, To Abra-
ham Adams junr his own Original Right, To have and to hold to the
several and Respective persons aforesaid the Right and Demand of
said Proprietors to the said Several and Respective Tracts & Parcells
of land aforesaid and Referr'd, to their several and Respective Heirs
and Assigns forever — also to William Moody his own Original Right
and to Cutting Moody all that Right he Purchased of Benjamin
Greenleaff by Deed dated the 15th of May 1750 — in the same manner
as aforesaid To John Thirlow the original Right of John Adams as
aforesaid

[Quit Claim to Certain Lots in Boscaiven, 1758.]
[Masonian Proprietors' Records, March 6, 1758.]

Whereas the Sundry persons hereafter named being all of Newbury
in the County of Essex in the Province of the Massachusetts Bay
only Richard Long of Salisbury in said County have Petitioned said
proprietors Representing that they have purchased and Deriv'd to
themselves or are Concerned in Sundry Rights Tracts and parcells of
Land lying at Contoocoke in the province of New Hampshire their
title to which was derived from a Grant made by the Government of
the Massachusetts Bay aforesaid, That pursuant to the said Grant
they had been at Considerable Expence in Improving and Cultivating
their respective Rights Supposing their Titles to be good but were
now Convinced they could derive no Legal Title to said Lands by the
Grant aforesaid & thereupon moved that in Consideration of the
Labour and expence the said persons have been at & for promoting
the said Settlement the said proprietors would Grant them the Right
of said Proprietors to the respective Tracts and parcells of Land by
them Claimed which motion having been Considered and it appear-
ing to be likely to advance the said Settlement and in Consideration
of the expence and Charge aforesaid therefore —

Voted That all the Right, Title, Interest, property & Demand of
said proprietors (not heretofore granted to any others) of in and unto
the Several Tracts and parcells of Land hereinaftermentioned or
refer'd to, be and hereby is Granted to the persons respectively here-
after named viz1 To Joseph Morse his Heirs and assigns that Right
originally Granted and appropriated to him, to Daniel Coffin that
right which was originally granted to him, to hold to him his Heirs
and assigns, to John Smith That Right which was originally granted

BOSCAWEN. 117

to bis Father to hold to him his heirs and assigns, to Parker Jaquish
his heirs and assigns the half that Right which was originally Granted
to Stephen Jaquish, to Daniel Richards a minor the Interval Lott
originally draw 'd by .Jonathan Plummer being N° 40 to hold as afore-
said and also to the said minor the Lott in the Lower Interval so
Called N° 61 drawn by Stephen Moody and the house Lott N° 75
drawn by said Moody to hold to the said minor his heirs and assigns,
to Isaac Titcomb the 7th Lott in the upper Interval aforesaid N° 7
drawn by Joshua Pilsbery to hold to him his heirs and assigns,
to Benjamin Greenleaff his heirs and assigns all that he now
owns of the right originally John Chandler's being one hun-
dred acres, to Edmund Morse his heirs and assigns all that original
Right which was Daniel Hales, and to the Legal Representatives of
M^ses Coker all that original Right which was Granted to the said
Moses to hold to them their heirs and assigns the said Richard Long
being administrator of said Cokers estate and to Benjamin Gale of
Haverhill in said County all that right which was originally Benja-
min Smith's to hold to him his heirs and assigns, and to Thomas
Webster of said Haverhill all that original Right which was Granted
to him, and to Samuel Longfellow one original Right which was
Joseph Xoyes the third —

[Petition of Jedediah Jewett, 1767.]
[Masonian Papers, Vol. 5, p. 77.]

To the honorable Theodore Atkinson and others Proprietors of
Masons Patent,

The humble Petition of Jedidiah Jewett of Rowley in the Province
of the Massachusetts Bay &e, Clericus sheweth,

That the s(l Jedidiah An0 Dom. 1738 purchased in the Plantation
then called contoocook, and now Boscawen, one whole right or share
of land (excepting the house Lott N. 55, and the Interval! Lott N.
43.) which is the original Right of Eleazer Pierce, And has paid all
duties laid upon the purchased premisses from time to time, And
the house Lott mentiond had an house on it and was under improve-
ment at the time of the afores'1 purchase and many years afterwards,
and even to this day for aught s'1 Petitioner knows. And s'1 Peti-
tioner has one house and intervall Lott in s'1 Plantation cleared and
improved for many years under him, belonging to the original right
of John Poor. And That inasmuch as your s'1 Petitioner, since his
Purchase, understands that you have a right to the afores'1 purchased
premises, he prays that you would make a Grant of them to him on

Il8 CHARTER RECORDS.

such a consideration as you in your wisdom and goodness shall think
fit, and that the terms may be as favorable to him as may be, he
having in the year 1738, given for s'1 share 34. pounds of the then
Massachusetts Money and paid the taxes since laid thereon

I am Gentlemen your much obliged and very humble Servant

Jedidiah Jewett

Portsmouth June 17. 1767

Novr 30th 1770 Jed : Jewett pd 8 dollars for ye grant of land of his
Petition

[John Corser to Proprietors, 1779.]

[Masonian Papers, Vol. 5, p. 78.]

Boscawen Decr 10th 1779
Sir/ The Bearer waits on You with my kind Respects, hereby
Requesting your favour to send me word by the same hand how I am
to Proceed and in What manner the Proprietors are Agreed about a
Tract of land, my son William Corsser, is now settled on, in the
Gore, I am Very free & Willing to make any Suitable paym1 in Cash
or produce, if they be pleas'd to send me word, Your kind favour in
Assisting, me as I am not Able to Wait on You Will be Gratefully
Acknowled by Your Most Humble Serv1

John Corser Sen1

BOW.

[Granted by Lieut. -Gov. John Wentworth, May io, 1727, to Jonathan Wiggin
and others, and was so named on account of a bend in the river within the town
limits. A portion of Bow was combined with Suncook and Buckstreet to make
the parish of Pembroke, Nov. 1, 1759. Two tracts of land were severed from
Bow, and annexed, one to Concord, and the other to Pembroke, Dec. 13. 1804.
A portion was severed and annexed to Allenstown June 22, 181 5.

See New Hampshire charters in preceding volume ; IX, Bouton Town Papers,
62; XI, Hammond Town Papers, 209; Index to Laws, 64; sketch, by Harri-
son Colby, Hurd's History of Merrimack County, 1885, p. 263 ; Baptist Churches
in N. H., by E. E. Cummings, 1836, pp. 12, 16; Lawrence's N. H. Churches,
1856, p. 357.]

[Return of Survey of Bow, 1728-9.]

[Masonian Papers, Vol. 5, p. 79.]

This is the Return of the laying out of the Town of Bow —
Forasmuch as that we the Subscribers was Chosen at a legal Town
meeting for the town of Bow, held at Stratham January the 28th

[Plan of First Division in Bow, 1733.]

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BOW. 119

1728/9 and forasmuch as that the Charter for Bow, saith it shall Join
on Chichester, and Canterbury and lay nine miles square or Carry
that breadth of nine miles Southwest from each of the aforesaid
Towns, until the full Compliment of eighty one square miles be made
up, and we was also directed to leave four miles at the head of Not-
ingham for a Town Granted to new Castle and Greenland therefore
we make our return as followeth that is to say on the fourteenth day
of February in the year one Thousand Seven hundred and twenty
eight, nine, we began at Chichester four mile tree which is the mid-
dle of said Town on the southwest side four miles above the head of
nottingham, & from said Tree we run four miles northwest by Chi-
chester to the head of said Town to a white oak tree that had Sev-
eral Letters set on it which tree is the Southwest corner of Chiches-
ter, and from thence we measured one mile northeast where we
marked a Pitch Pine Tree on four sides and sett on the Letters
A W : \V M : E F and marked several trees thereby which tree is the
northeast Corner of Bow, standing northwest a few rods from a
small spruce swamp and a little river and from said tree we meas-
ured five miles northwest Where we marked a black oak Tree on four
sides and several trees thereby and Sett on the letters AW: W M :
E F which tree is the north west corner of Bow standing near the
Northwest end of a Plesant hill and from said tree we measured
nine miles southwest where we marked a Hemlock tree on four sides
and several trees thereby and set on the letters AW: W M : E F :
which tree is the southwest Corner of Bow, and it stands by a Bigg
Rock and Southwest about Sixty rods from Bever damn and meadow
and seven miles & three Quarters from the Great River of Penny-
cook as we measured, and from thence we measured five miles South-
east where we marked a Chesnut Tree on four sides & Sot on the
letters A. W : W M: EF which tree is a Corner tree where we sot
off one mile to keep the Distance of nine miles from Chichester
and it stands on the norwest side of a long Rise Prity high good
Corn land and from said Tree we measured one mile Southwest
where we marked a twin black burch, on four sides and several
Trees thereby & set on the letters A W: W M. E F which
tree is the south West Corner of Bow, on that part where we set
off one mile to keep the Distance of nine Miles from Chichester
as is aforesaid and it stands on high land and from said Tree we
measured four miles southeast where we marked a White oak Tree
on four sides and set on the letters AW: W M : E F : which
tree is the South East Corner of Bow, and it stands on a white
oak Plain and from said Tree we measured one mile and Quarter
northeast to the great river of Pennycook and so the same Course Of

120 CHARTER RECORDS.

Northeast seven miles and three Quarters to Chichester, four mile tree
first mentioned, this Given under our hand at Strathem February the
Twentv fifth one thousand seven hundred & twentv eight nine —
1728/9—

Andrew Wiggin — )
William Moore — > Comtee
Edward Fifield— )

The aforesaid is a true Copy from the records of Bow the 30tb day
of may 175o —

attest Moses Leavit Prop18 Cler
Copy Examined ^ Geo : Jaffrey CI

[Deposition of Andrew Wiggin, 1756.]

[Masonian Papers, Vol. 5, p. 79.]

Coll° And1' Wiggin Dep° Jany 16, 1756—

The Deposition of Col1 Andrew Wiggin aged about eighty five
years testifies & says that he together with Cap1 Edward fifield &
Cap' Wm Moore Dec1' were Chosen by the proprietors of the Town of
Bow in the year of our Lord 1728 to lay out said Town of Bow,
accordingly in stl year we proceeded on said Business and begun at
Chichester four mile tree so Called leaving four miles between the
head of Nottingham and said tree for a Township granted to new
Castle and Greenland which township the Deponant understands is
Called by the name of Epsom, and from said four Mile Tree we run
four miles Bounding on the South west side of said Chichester till we
Came to the head thereof and then measured one mile north east &
made a Bound, & from thence we run five miles northwest, bounding
on the South West side of Canterbury and made bounds and from
thence we run nine miles Southwest and made bounds, and from
thence we run five miles South East and to keep our Distance of nine
miles from Chichester we measured one mile Southwest and made
bounds, and from thence we run four miles Southeast and so made
our return to the four mile tree first mentioned The Deponant fur-
ther says that whereas he together with the said Fifield & Moor in
their return of the laying out of said Bow, Say that they began at
Chichester four mile tree which is the middle of said Town on the
South west side, four miles above the head of notingham &oa That
since he by I u formation is become better acquainted with the situa-
tion of the s'1 Towns of Chichester & Epsome, and the other Towns in
that neighbourhood, That, That which they in the above recited

now. 121

return Call the four mile Tree on the South west side of Chichester
is the lour mile tree on the southerly or Southeasterly Corner of said
Chielnster at the head of said Epsome —

[Settlement of Bow Line, 1758.]

[Masonian Papers, Vol. 5, p. 79.]

Whereas the Proprietors of Bow in the Province of New Hamp-
shire at a Legal Meeting held at Stretham in Said Province on the
■2*', Day of May Anno Domini 1755 made Choice of Ac fully Author-
ized Theophilus Smith Esqr Daniel Marston & Samuel Lane or any
two of them to Settle the Boundary Pine between the Said Town-
ship of Bow & the Lands belonging to the Proprietors of the Lands
Purchased of John Tufton Mason Esq1 lying in the Province of New
Hampshire And the Said Proprietors at a Legal Meeting held at
Portsmouth in Said Province the 22'1 Day of Novr 1757 made Choice
of & fully Authorized Nath1 Meserve George Jaffrey Esqrs &• John
Rindge and any two of them to Settle Said Boundary Line for Said
Propriety and Such as hold under them The Said Theophilus Smith
& Samuel Lane (the Said Daniel Marston being Deceasd) and the
Said Xathanael Meserve & George Jaffrey for and in behalf Said
Respective Proprietors and those who hold under them Have Several
times met Produced & duly Considerd the Claims & Demands of
Each Paiiv And have finally Mutually Concluded & Agreed That
the Dividing Line Between the Said Township of Bow on the South-
easterly Side thereof and the Lauds of said Proprietors of Masons
Right & those who hold as aforesaid Shall be as Follows viz Begin-
ning on the Line of the Township of Epsom at the North Easterly
Corner of the Lot laid out in the Right of Said Proprietors at a
Place called Buck Street Numberd twelve from thence Shall Run at
the head of the Lots laid out as aforesaid at Said Buck Street on a
South West & by South Course until it Intersects the head Line of
the Lol Numberd five and from thence on a South West Course
until it ( <»iues to the Southerly Corner of said Township of Bow — In
Witness whereof the Persons Authorized as aforesaid have hereunto
Interchangeably Set their hands the twenty first Day of January
1758—

Witnesses Theophilus Smith

William Parker Samuel Lane

David Sewall Nath Meserve

Geo: Jaffrey

122 CHARTER RECORDS.

[Francis Carr to Proprietors, 1759.]

[Masonian Papers, Vol. 5, p. 79.]

Bow March ye 31st 1759
S1 I would be Down to you before now to pay you Some Money
but the man that I was to have A part of the money off is Id listed
and I Cant Recover the Money of him But I Expect to See You
very Soon, therefore I beg your patience A Little for Intend to pay
you Intrest whilot paid Being all at Present from

Sr your Humb1 SeiV

Francis Carr

\Bow Committee to Perambulate Town Lines, 1759.]
[Masonian Papers, Vol. 5, p. 79.]

Province of ) Att a Legall Meeting of the Proprietors of the

New Hamp1" \ Township of Bow Held at Stratham on Tuesday
the Sixth Day of February 1759.

Voted That Walter Bryent Esqr Samuel Lane & Capt Israel Gil-
man be a Committee (they or either two of them) to Perambulate the
Lines of Bow, with the Proprietors of the Land Adjoyning on the
Northwest and Southwest Sides of Bow ; Untill it comes to the South
Corner of Said Bow, to the Line Setled with the Purchasers of
Masons Claims (so call'd) And that Said Committee Notifie the Pro-
prietors of the Land Adjoyning on Said Bow as aforesaid, to Joyn
with them therein if they See Cause, the Same to be Compleated
and make Report thereof to the Proprietors of Said Bow, as Soon as
may be

a true Copy from Said Prop™ Records

Attest Sam1 Lane Prop1" Clk

[Boundaries of Bow, 1759.]

[Masonian Papers, Vol. 5, p. 80.]

Whereas the Proprietors of Bow in the Province of New Hampshire
at a Legal Meeting held at Stratham in Said Province on the Sixth
Day of February Anno Domini 1759, made Choice of and fully
Authorized Walter Bryent Esq1" Samuel Lane & Cap' Israel Gilman
(they or Either two of them) to Perambulate the Lines of Bow with
the Proprietors of the Land adjoyning on the Northwest and
Southwest Sides of Said Bow &c And the Proprietors of the

BOW. 123

Lands Purchased of John Tufton Mason Esqr Lying in the
Province of New Hampshire at a Legal Meeting held at Ports-
mouth in Said Province the 22nd Day of November 1757 Made
Choice of and fully Authorized Nath1 Meserve George Jaffrey EsqIS
and John Riudge and any two of them to Settle the Said Boundary
Lines tor Said Proprietors and Such as hold under them. The Said
Walter Bryent & Samuel Lane and the Said George Jaffrey and
John Rindge for and in behalf of the Said Respective Proprietors
and those who hold Under them have Several times Met Produced
and Duly Considered the Claims and Demands of Each Party and
have finally Mutually Concluded and Agreed that the Said Nor-
westerl}' Side Line of Said Bow Shall begin on the Southwesterly
Side Line of Canterbury at a Small Black oak Tree Spotted on four
Sides and Markd with the Letters A W. W M. E F. and Several
other Trees are Spotted thereby which Tree Stands on the Norwest-
erly Side of a Pleasent Hill and is Mentioned in the Return of the
Laying out of Said Bow Dated Febr 25th 1728/9. and also in the
Return of the Perambulation of the Lines of Said Bow, which was
Perambulated in the Month of December 1748. Said Tree Stands in
Canterbury Line about four or five Rods Southeasterly from Hackets
Brook so Called which Black oak Tree Shall be the Notherly Corner
of Bow aforesaid as was Mention'd at a Meeting of Said Masons Pro-
prietors on the first Instant and Directed by them to be So Setled
b}r their Committee — and from Said Black oak Tree the Said Nor-
westerly Side Line of Bow Shall run the Course Mentioned in the
Charter of Said Bow. —

In Witness whereof the Persons authorized as aforesaid have
hereunto Interchangebly Set their hands the fourteenth Day of Feb-
ruary 1759.

Witnesses ( Walter Bryent

James Stoodly Jur ) ,, ,.,, J Sam1 Lane

Hubartus Neal \ ^om lttees ^ Geo: Jaffrey

^ Jn° Rindge

[Bounds of Bow.~\
[Masonian Papers, Vol. 5, p. 81.]

Bow Bounds —
Begining on the South East Side of the Town of Chester & Riming
nine miles by Chester & Canterbury & Carrying that breadth of nine
miles from Each of the afores'1 Towns South West until the full Com-
pliment of Eighty one Square Miles Are fully made up.

124 CHARTER RECORDS.

BRADFORD.

[This town was probably Number 2 in the line of towns from Merrimack to Con-
necticut River, granted by Massachusetts Jan. 16, 1735-6. Afterwards granted
by the Masonian Proprietors. It was named New Bradford by settlers from Brad-
ford, Mass. Incorporated as Bradford Sept. 27, 1787, and included New Brad-
ford, Washington Gore, and a part of Washington. A tract of land was severed
from Newbury and annexed to Bradford Dec. 6, 1796, and another, June 22,
1859.

See Massachusetts charters preceding; XI, Hammond Town Papers, 219; Index
to Laws, 65 ; sketch, by John M. Hawks, Hurd's History of Merrimack County,
1885, p. 185: Centennial Celebration, 1887, pp. no; Stewart's History of the
Free Baptists, 1862, p. 252; Baptist Churches in N. H., by E. E. Cummings,
1836, p. 18; Lawrence's X. H. Churches, 1856. p. 357.]

[Plan of Bradford, .1768.]

This is a Plan of a Tract of Land Laying one the Westerly Side
of Newalemsbury and Northerly of Haueker and N° 7: Containing
: 21780: acres Laid Down by a Scale of : 160: Poles to one Inch:
Timothy Clement and Cornelus Beau Cheen men : Jeremiah Page
Sur

Dated December ye 6 : 1768—

BRADFORD.

I 2-

[Petition of Thornton and Holland. 1769.]
[Masonian Papers, Vol. 5, p. 82.]

To the Purchasers of John Tufton Mason, Esq's, Patent Lying-
in the Province of New Hampshire

Mathew Thornton & Stephen Holland Humbly Shew.

That we have been at Considerable Expence & trouble to ascertain
the situation, Quantity. Quallity. & Bounds of the tract of Land

126 CHARTER RECORDS.

Described in the Plan herewith Exhibited. And find that it Lyes
within your Patent. —

2ly That you never Granted said tract. —
3ly That a Considerable part of said tract is not Habitable —
4lv — That a quantity sufficient for a Small Parish is Good. —
Finally, we are Ready, & willing, to Make as Many, & as speedy
settlements, as you think proper. —

Therefore pray your Honours, to take the Premisses, Under Consid-
eration, & Grant said tract, to us, & Associates, Under such Restric-
tions, Limitations, & Reservations, as you Judge Most for the Ad-
vantage of Grantors, & Grantees.

And your Petitioners, as in Dutv, Bound will ever pray, &c
Londonderry, Jany 30th A D 1769. Mathew Thornton

Stephn Holland
Feby 1st 1769 Rece'1 on file and read Geo: Jaffrey Proprs CI

Mem0 This Tract of Land petitioned for above not to be granted
to other Petitioners without informing these Petitioners who are to
be preferred —

[Petition of William Presbury, 1771.]
[Masonian Papers, Vol. 5, p. 83.]

To the Honourable, the Proprietors of mr Mason's Patent (so
called)

The Petition of William Presbury of Henniker, in the Province of
New-Hampshire, humbly sheweth

That whereas your humble Petitioner, upon some Encouragements
offered to him, some time ago, (which Encouragement failed him
afterward) begun a Settlement on Land in a Township commonly
called among us, Bradford Town, a Township of the Line of Towns
granted & laid out by the General Court of the Massachusetts-Bay
in the year 1736. And Bradford Men proposed to have settled it,
but were discouraged, when they had viewed the Land —

Your humble Petitioner having done considerable work on said
Land — as, built a House ; cleared several Acres of Land & planted
some Corn, is now reduced to the Necessity of losing all his Labour
and Cost already laid out upon said Land; or of being treated as a
Trespasser, unless your Honours will make him some Help, by grant-
ing him the Land where he has done work, & laid out Cost, upon
some favourable Conditions. — And your Petitioner having heard,
that Your Honours will give away Land in said Township to encour-
age Persons to settle the said Township, emboldens him to apply to

BRADFORD. 1 27

your Honours for the Favour — And your Petitioner being the first
that has done any work towards a Settlement in the said Township,
hopes to have as good. Encouragement about it as any; and to have
Laud granted to him where he has begun to labour, and adjoining
thereto — Namely, One hundred Acres on the southerly Branch of
Almsbury River (so called ) so as to extend fifty rods on each side of
said Branch, against where his House stands — And from the Mouth
of said Branch, up the said Branch till the hundred Acres are com-
pleated.

If your Honours will be pleased to grant to your Petitioner, as
aforesaid, Your Petitioner intends to have his Family on the said
Land this Summer — And your humble Petitioner for your Honr8as in
Duty bound shall ever pray.

William Presbury

Dated at Henuiker, June 10th 1771.

[John Stinson Asks for a Grant, 1771.]
[Masonian Papers, Vol. 5, p. 84.]

John Stinson of Dunbarton and Associates pray to know of the
Proprs of Masou's Claim whether they will Sell him & Asssociates a
Certain Tract of Land heretofore granted by the Province of the
Massachusetts-Bay to Sundry Persons, by the Name of Bradford-
ton — Likewise the purchase Sum and the Conditions of holding
the Same —

June 26th 1771 f Attorney J Pickering

To the Prop" of Mason's Claim

[Petition of Sanborn, Cressey, and Bayley, Received Sept. 27, 1773.]
[Masonian Papers, Vol. 5, p. 85.]

To the Proprietors of Masons Pattent we understand that your
Hons have laid out a Certain Number of Lotts of Land to Dispose
of for Settlement in a place called Newbradford, And we ye Sub-
scribers your Humble petitioners do humbly Request each of us a
Lott of Land in s1 Newbradford as we have been on the Land And
have choice of, each of us, a lott And have clone some Labour on s'1
Land we your Petitioners have taken much pains to procure a title
to s'1 Land we have sent by M' William Presbury Sundry tim's And
the return which he made to us was that the Proprietors had no!
agreed on what terms to Dispose of sd Land, But we have Lately

128 CHARTER RECORDS.

been en formed that the proprietors have agreed to give away a Num-
ber of s'1 Lotts for Settlement, And we your Petitioners take this
oportunity to make Application for a title to sa Land, And the Lotts
which we have made choice of is N° 20 N° 21 N° 22

We your Petitioners begg your Honrs ) Moses Sanborn

would see fitt to grant this our Hum- V Daniel Cresey

ble Request — ) Moses Bayley

\John Putney's Bond for Settlement in Bradford, 1773.]
[Masonian Papers, Vol. 5, p. 86.]

Know all Men by these Presents That I John Putney of Hop-
kin ton in the County of Hillsborough & Province of New Hampshire
Gentleman am held & firmly bound unto George Jaffrey of Portsmouth
in the County of Rockingham & Province aforesaid Esqr as Clerk of
the Proprietors of the Lands purchased of John Tufton Mason Esq1"
situate in the Province of New Hampshire in the Just Sum of three
hundred pounds lawful money of said Province to be paid unto the
said George Jaffrey as Clerk aforesaid to his Successor or Successors
in said Office for the Use of said Proprietors to the which payment
well & truly to be made I bind myself my heirs Executors & Admin-
istrators firmly by these Presents Sealed with my Seal Dated the
fifth Day of November in the fourteenth Year of his Majestys Reign
Annoque Domini 1773 —

The Condition of the above Obligation is such that whereas the
said Proprietors have agreed to grant unto the said John Putney &
others a certain tract of Laud in Bradford town in the County of
Hillsborough aforesaid upon certain terms & Conditions of Settle-
ment And whereas the said John Putney hath agreed with said
Proprietors for himself & other Grantees in said Bradford town
that Jonathan Putney Daniel Stickney Daniel Young Samuel Put-
ney Joseph Stanley William Clements Benjamin Stanley William
Stanley Ebenezer Colby or either of them shall upon the following
Lots in said Bradfordtown viz1 Lot N° 29. N° 22. N° 17. N° 24. N° 6.
N° 19. N° 31. N° 20. & N° 11. clear or cause to be cleard three acres of
Land fit for Tillage or Mowing build an house on each of said Lots
&• put a family therein which shall constantly reside there — within
one Year from the Date hereof — That said Grantees shall clear or
cause to be clear'd four Acres more of Laud on each of said Lots
within two Years — And four Acres more within three Years from
the Date hereof fit for Tillage or Mowing — And that the Person who
shall settle on Lot N° 11. shall build a Gristmill & Saw Mill thereon

BRADFORD.

I29

or shall cause the said Mills to be there built within eighteen Months
from the Date hereof Now if the said John Putney his heirs Execu-
tors or Administrators or any other Person for him or them shall
well and truly perform or Cause to be performed the Several articles
aforesaid on his part in Time & manner aforesaid to be performed &
done Then the above Obligation shall be null & void otherwise shall
remain in full force & Virtue —

Signed Sealed & delivered John Putney [Seal]

In presence of —

Lucy Dudley Wainwright

Timothy Ham

[Plan of Bradford.]

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I3O CHARTER RECORDS.

[Condition of Settlements in Bradford, 1778.J

[Masonian Papers, Vol. 5, p. 87.]

Bradfordtown march the 23=1778

sir I am in formd that you are desiareous to know how the set-
telers goes on and mils by mr Isaac davice of Hopkinton I would in
form you that Daniel stickney has Cut down three or 4 akers on the
22 Lot and that is all he has done of his duty and offers to sell it
samuel Putn}r maj^ have done half of his dutty as near as I can
judg on the 2-4 lot and sold it and gon of Cap1 Putny Cut down
3 or 1 akers and sold it lot 29 and at present their is nobody on thes
3 lots and as for the mill lot Ebenezer Colbe resids their and has
done the duty of that lot acsept the mills he has logd up the body of
the saw mill and put on a rof and done something towards the dam
now going on fouer years ago and says he dont intend to do no more
to it the rest of the settelers are on some have got their duty don
and some have not yet we the settelers suffers Very much for want
of the mills pray sirs help us as sone as you Can and if you disspose
of any more of this land for setteling I will find the settelers if you
plese and if you want to know any thing. more pertickler lett me
know by a line or two and I am to serve your honors

William Presbury

sirs I would in form you that mr John Brown has moved with his
famely on the 8 lot with the advice of some folks not intending to
hold by force he intended to have ben one of the first settelers had
not Cap' Putny put him out in his dissine I menchend him to your
honors but you did not see fit and now he is in hops that by their
delay you will be Pleased to make him a setteler or sell him the land
he has got a snug house and Cut down 5 or 6 akers of trees

Isaac Davis of Hopkinton Desires that he may have a Lot of Land
in Bradford, Also Moses Sanburne Wants Lot N° 21, Francis
Whitcher Desires Lot N° 27—

[Agreements for Lots in Bradford, 1778.]

[Masonian Papers, Vol. 5, p. 87.]

State of New ) Portsmouth June 18th 1778 This Day agreed with

Hampsr ) Francis Whittier of Hopking Town in the State

afforsaid to Settle a Lot of Land in the Township of Bradford, N°

27 on Condition of his Clearing upon said Lot of Land Three Acres

fit for Mowing or Tillage and Build him a House suitable for a

BRADFORD. 131

Family to live in and moving thereunto, and Reside there with his
Family within Twelve Months from the Date hereof then to have a
Grant from the Proprietors, he engaging to Compleat the Setling
Duties, as agreed by the Other Sellers now Residing in said Brad-
ford—

a Coppy — Dani1 Rogers —

Will"' Wipple—
John Penhallow —

State of New ( Portsmouth June 18th 1778 Rec'1 of Mr William
Hanips1 \ Stanley of Hopkingtown in the State afforesaid
Thirty Pounds Lawfull Money in full for One hundred Acres of Land
in the Township of Brad ford N° 21 for which Lot We the Subscribers
engage to procure for the Said William Stanly a Grant of said Lot
of Land Aforesaid, when the Proprietors of Masons Patten have a
-Meeting and then the said William Stanly to give his Obligation to
Fnllhll the Setling duties upon Said Lot — as was agreed with by the
Other Setlers in the said Town of Bradford — the above Money Rec'1
for the Use of the Proprietors and paid George Jeffery Esqr as Clerk
to said Proprietors —

a Coppy i Daniel Rogers —

Committee < William Whipple —
( John Penhallow —

State of New ) Portsmouth June 18th 1778 This day agreed with
Hampsr ) Isaack Davis of Hopkingtown to Setle a Lot of Land
in Bradford in the State Aforesaid N° 28 on Condition of his Clear-
ing upon said Lot of Land Three Acres fitt for Mowing or Tillage
and Build him a House Suitable for a Family to Live in and Moving
thereunto and reside there with his Family within Twelve Months
from the date hereof — then to have a Grant from the Proprietors he
engaging to Compleat the Setling Duty's as Agreed by the other
Setlers now Residing in said Bradford —

A Coppy ( Dani1 Rogers —

Committee 1 Willi"1 Whipple —
( John Penhallow —

[Abraham KimhalVs Proposal, 1778.]

[Masonian Papers, Vol. 5, p. 88.]

M Abraham Kimball of Newtown in the State of Xew Hampr Offers
to Finish and Compleat the Saw and Grist Mill al Bradford Town,
and to Take his pay in Land, and If any Land t > be Disposed off

132

CHARTER RECORDS.

Wou'cl be Glad to have the Offer it — and If the Proprietors Incline
to Agree with said Kimball about the Mills he desires he may have
Letter sent him upon the Affair Portsm0 Octobr 1. 1778 —

[Request of William Sta?iley, 1780.]
[Masonian Papers, Vol. 5, p. 88.]
Hopkinton January 1780

To the Commitee of the pattentees of John Tuften masons Right
these Shueth that whereas I Bought the Lot N° 21 In Bradford town
of the said Committee and have Sold the Lot To Ebenezer Colby of
Said Bradford town and as you Engaged To Grant Said Lot To me I
Desire you would Grant Said Lot To the Said Ebenezer Colby and
you will oblige your Frind —

W Enoch Bailey Wm Stanly

Isaac Bailey

[Proprietors' Reservations in Bradford, 1781.]

[Masouian Proprietors' Records, Dec. 24, 1781, and Masonian Papers,

Vol. 5, p. 89.]

The Draft of the Lots of 15 Purchasers Rights viz1
To John Went worth Esq1— N° 68 - 1-86-75-80

To Richard Wibird Esqr— 32 - 65 - 67 - 83 - 93

To John Moffatt Esq1- 69 - 47 - 63 - 26 - 90

To George Jaffrey Esq1— 46 - 7-48-59-81

To Mark H« Went worth Esqr— 100 - 25 - 49 - 55 - 98

To Jotham Odiorne Esqr— 30 - 9-2 - 39 - 92

To Thomas Packer Esqr— 71-14-53-58-73

To Solly and March— 74-40-61-56-79

To Meserve and Compa— 72 - 61 - 87 - 78 - 91

To Joshua Peirce Esq1— 27 - 4-12-42-77

To Peirce and Moore— 37 - 5 - 50 - 82 - 89

To Theodore Atkinson Esq1— 38 - 51 - 88 - 54 - 96

To Thomas Waliingford Esq1— 28 - 52 - 66 - 57 - 97

To John Rindge— 60 - 13 - 70 - 76 - 95

To Thomlinson and Mason— 41 - 3-64-43-84

It is here noted, that there are Sundry Lots in the Plan of Brad-
ford Town or New Bradford, which are not drawn to the Rights of
the above Said Purchasers, in this Division and Draft of Lots ; but are
joined with Lots in other Divisions and Drafts of Lots, to render the
general Division more equal — and are drawn in the following man-
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To Peirce and Moore N° 44 ] Cammell's Gore to make 15

equal Shares —

To George Jaffrey Esqr — N° 85 containing 53 acres ] are drawnin
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borough, contg 51 Acres, to make up in part the Deficiency of
their Rights in Society land as f Vote of October 19th 1780—

[Request for Grants in Bradford by Nathaniel Presbury, 1793.]
[Masonian Papers, Vol. 5, p. 90.]

Bradford Aprill ye 2 1793
to the honorable Propriters of bradford sirs

as I am a setteler in said town & on the Lot N° 15 which William
Presbury gave his bond for Dowing the settelers Duty & the Duty
being Done Long ago I Pray your Honors to send me a grant by the
baer here of Wm Presbury these from your frind and humbel servent

Nathaniel Presbury

Bradford Aprill ye 2 1793
to the Honorable Propriters of Bradford sirs

Where as I have booght the werstly side of that Lot N° 22 that
Daniel stickney undertook to settel I should be glad if your honors
would be Plesd to send me a grant by the baer hear of this from
your homble servent

Nathaniel Presbury

134

CHARTER RECORDS.

[Request for Grant in Bradford by Joseph Presbury, 1793.]

[Masonian Papers, Vol. 5, p. 90.]

Bradford Septembor ye 27 1793
to the Henorebel Propriters of Bradford sirs

as I am a setteler in said town and on the Lot N° 17 which Daniel
yong onder took to settel I should be glad if your honours Would
be Plesed to send me a grant by the Baer Here of

Joseph Presbury

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A plan of Lot N° 3 in the first Range in that part of the town of Bradford that
was Disanaxed from the town of Washington together with that part of sd lot that
Still remains in sd town of Washington Said plan is plotted by A Scale of 40 Rods
inch, Surveyed for Joseph Pierce Esqr at the request of Lieu' William Shattuck of
Bradford by Stephen Hoyt Junr Surveyor

N. B. Surveyors charge for 34 Days work at $2.00 pr Day is $7.00 to be paid
by sd Shattuck — Bradford December io,h 1808 —

BRADFORD.

135

This plan is Laid down by A Scale of 40 Rods to an Inch, Ploted
by Stephen Hoyt Jnr at the request of Cap' Samuel Guison, for
John Pierce Esqr of Portsmouth —

N. B. Surveyors fees for 2 Days work Surveying lot N° 70 & Lot
N° 36 at $-2.00 pr Day is— $4.00

For Drawing this map, 50 Cents — .50

$4.50
Bradford Janr> 29th 1808— Stephen Hoyt Jur Surveyor-

Charged the Above to Cap Samuel Gunison

[John Putney's Lots in Bradford.]
[Masonian Papers, Vol. 5, p. 90.]

Settling Lotts in Bradford

N° 17, 29, 19, 31, 6, 20, 22. 11, 24.

M1 John Putney is to let the Proprietors know by ye 2'1 wendsday in
Octo1' if the weather permitts, whether he will settle the above lotts
if they don't hear from him by the third wendsday they are at Lib-
erty to grant sd lotts to any other Person

Names of Persons who gave Power of Attorney to Cap1 Putney to

agree for lands in Bradford & ye Lots to each person

N° 22 Daniel Stickney Wm Clements N° 19

Joseph Stanly Daniel Young N° 17

N° 31 Benf Stanly Samuel Putney jr N° 24

N° 20 Wm Stanly abner Colby N*° 6

N° 11 Ebenr Colby Jona Putney N° 29

& his father Jn° Putney

Nath1 Presbury Lot N° 15 is Setled—

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[Lot 36 in Bradford, 1816.]

Plan of lot N° 36 in Bradford Surveyed Jany 318t 1816 at the
request of Cap' Samuel Gunison of Fishersfield for M. H. Pierce of
Portsmouth by George Presbury & Samuel Gunison as chainmen and

Stephen Hoyt Junr Survr

Surveyors fees for 2 Days work is $4.00

Red, Payment by Sam1 Gunison Esq1"

14 Ap. 1816 This day wrote Cap Gunnison to offer this lot to
Abner Carr for $400 — 100 anny & Int fm date first note to be
signed by some good man Jonathan Mussey (?) wants it

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[Memoranda about Lots in Bradford, 1816.]
[Masonian Papers, Vol. 5, p. 91.]

Lot N° 37. Peirce & Moore in Bradford sold by Joseph Peiree to
Reubin Ray or Jona Collins now owned by Edward Creesey

Oct 28, 1812 this day sold E Cresey half Thomlinson & Masons
Lot N° 41 in Bradford for Dr* 206.27

Cresey applies for Lot N° 44 Peirce & Moore, owned by Mr Mar-
tin for a Man on it Who bot the Labour of others & has done a con-
siderable work on it — William Goodwin informs that on this N° 44
30 or 40 Acres are clear'd by one Rich'1 Marshall who lives on N°
43— that the use of the Land is worth 30 D° f year

John Barnes is the man that bot a Lot on which is a Barn

X 28 T. Wallingford sold Stratten to be paid for by Abraham
Smith N° 55 M II W— for J Fisher sold to

24 Ocl 1816 Sold to John & Sam1 Jackman N° 19 Goshen part of
the Strip of land formerly between Washington & Fishersfield and
on this 2(i Xov 1816 s'1 Samuel comes and says he bought a lot he
did not intend to he wished to buy N° 15 in the same strip & I have
agreed to exchange with him I have given a minute account accord-
ingly— N° 19 appears to be a good Lot all growth Standing Beech &
that

28 Dec. 1816 exchanged Lots with John & Sam1 Jackman giving
them up their mortgage of N° 19 & they giving me a quit claim
thereof — & I gave them a deed of N° 15 for 1500

[Memoranda about Lots in Bradford, 1822.]
[Masonian Papers, Vol. 5, p. 91.]

M1 pirce sur sence I Came home two yonger men Came to me to
git the Lot East of fifele or Eaton Land a very Rugh Lot in Deed
Lok on the plan yon ma cee the Number and will give two hundred
Dolars pay fifty Donn on your giving a Deed pleas to send By mr
stains Back whether they may have the Lot or Noe in hast your
humb servent

Bradford Edward W Cresey

Feby 6. 1822 Perkins Coolidge applies for Lot N° 76, Bradford
supposed to be the lot mentioned within — Price £300 1

Feby 6, 1822 Sam1 Ellenwood of Hillsboro says Crescey lias sold
Clyde N° 52 — J P he says he paid Crescey $75 a year ago last March
— that is March 1820.— -that Clyde was to give $250. —

Thinks the Same M' Adams talked of —

138 CHARTER RECORDS.

[Report of Lemuel Stratton on Certain Lots in Bradford, 1830.]
[Masonian Papers, Vol. 5, p. 92.]

Bradford March 12th 1830

Mr Peirce Sir I received a Line from you a few Days Sience you
wishd Som Surveying Done I attended to it according to the best of
my knowledg it was Some Difficult to know what was the origonal
Survey in the South part of Bradford as the Lots on the plan of the
town appear to be of Equal wedth yet they Differ from Eighty to
one hundred & twenty the Corners at the North Ends of the three
Lots were all Destroyed I have Surveyed Land in the South part of
Bradford Frequently for thirty years past the Ninety four which
Contains one hundred acres I Saw the North Corner then Standing
plain & good in the year one thousand Eight hundred & fourteen &
it Left the North End of 93 Verry Norrow I went to the Corner of
82 & run parolel with the East Line of the town & it brought the
Corner Very Near wher it was in 1814. I Run the other 94 off in
the Same manner a Considerable part of the Land is rough & moun-
tainous I had to Measur a Crost other Lots to ascertain them that
were wanted I Spent three Days on the Land myself with Chane
men it is well known that Land is Cheaper now than it was Some
years ago & it will be Difficult for me to Say what it is worth but I
will give you Som Description of the Land — Number ninety five
Contains 130 Acres a high Rocky mountain on Each End of the Lot
principally hard wood where there is any timber 250 rods from a
road I Do not know of any person Now that would give two hun-
dred Dollars for the Lot all the Land is Very Rocky & Lies up high
not fit for a Settlement the 94 which Contains 55 acres the north
Corner is poor & Ledgy South west part is Low hemlock & Spruce
timber the middle of the Lot is hard wood pritty good Land I Should
think it might bring three Dollars per Acre it is more than one Mile
to any road — the other 94 which Contains one hundred Acres Lies
about one Mile from a Small Vilage in the Corner of Washington
where there is a Saw mill & grist mill & a Small New Baptist Meet-
ting hous but it is one Mile from any road there is a bog of about
one hundred acrs between this Lot & the Vilage

the South west Corner is on the East Side of the grate bog the East
Line is on a Ledgy mountain about half of the Distance there is a
Very handsome piece of hard wood Land in the middle of the Lot I
Should think this Lot would be worth three Dollars per Acre there
appears to have been three or four Ash trees carried of the winter
past there has been 5 or 6 acres of trees fell on the South End Some
years ago & not Cleared of Number 84 Lies partly on the bog the

BRADFORD.

139

North End has been burnt over Some years ago South End is hem-
lock & Spruce timber a few Acers has been Cleared on the East Side
poor Lot not fit for a Settlement I Did not Discover any Late trespass
on this Lot the pine timber appeared to have been Cut of twenty
years ago I Should think the Lot to bee worth 2.50 per Acre

Hill for Surveying
Number 95 3.50
Number 94 3 50
Number 94 2 00

$9 00
Sir I am your &c
Lemuel Stratton

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Jan 17, 1831 Sam1 Upton of Stoddard offers
from Hillsboro 50 Acres T & M. —

1.50 for N° 94 1 R

[Lot 94 in Bradford, 1835.]

Mr Peirc Sir I reciv'd yours of 23r April 1835 and have endeavor'd
to attend to your request, according to the best information I Could
obtain I Survey'd Lot N° 94 2nd Range from Hillsborough line and
find from our Survey, that it measures ninety Six acres and 133 rods
which I think must be very near the quantity of Land in contains
by examing the quality Situation &C, we think it worth about three
hundred and fifty dollars perhaps if they get a new road through
that way it ma}' be worth a Little more

I an Sir Resp1 yours

Moses D Wadley | Surveyor

140

CHARTER RECORDS.

May 1st 1835

P. S. I have omitted Sending this Communication untill now by
the request of Mr Peasley.

S fi'W: /<**.

BROOKFIELD.

[Setoff from Middleton and incorporated Dec. 30, 1794. These towns area
part of the territory included in the proposed grant of the township of Coulerain,
1726.

See IX, Bouton Town Papers, 127; XII, Hammond Town Papers, 594; Index
to Laws, 70; sketch, by Dudley C. Coleman, Fergusson's History of Carroll County,
1889, p. 450; Stewart's History of the Free Baptists, 1862, p. 252; Lawrence's
N. H. Churches, 1856, p. 600; papers under title Coulerain.]

BROOKFIELD.

[Plan of B rook fi eld. ~\
A Plan of Brookfield —

141

The lots are One hundred and seventy six rods north and south,
and one hundred fifty six Rods North East and south west — The
roads running North and South are four rods wide, and those run-
ning north East, and south west are two rods wide —

Izj.2 CHARTER RECORDS.

CANTERBURY.

[Granted May 20, 1727, to Richard Waldron and others, and then included the
territory of Loudon and Northfield. Full town privileges were granted March 19,
1741. Named from an English town. An addition was made on the southwest
side, June 13, 1765. Loudon was set off and incorporated January 23, 1773.
Northfield was set off and incorporated June 19, 1780. A small tract was severed
from Canterbury and annexed to Concord, June 2, 1784, and another to Loudon,
Jan. 7, 1852.

See Massachusetts and New Hampshire charters in preceding volumes ;
IX, Bouton Town Papers, 86; XI, Hammond Town Papers, 261; Index to
Laws, 81 ; Sketches of History, by William Patrick, 4, Collections of N. H. His-
torical Society, 174; Petition of Inhabitants, 4, id., 253 ; Instances of Longevity,
1793-1823,3,/^/., 151 ; Historical Sermon, 1833 , by William Patrick, 1834, pp.39;
Account of the Shakers, 1, Farmer and Moore's Historical Collections, 50 ; sketch,
by J. N. McClintock, 4, Granite Monthly, 387; Birth, Marriages, and Deaths,
id., 391,431, 507, and 5, id., 163, 195 ; Letter to 4th Church in Hampton, 1756,
N. E. Hist. Gen. Register, vol. 27, p. 64; sketch, Hurd's History of Merrimack
County, 1885, p. 221; Shakerism Exposed, by Mary M. Dyer, pp. 32; 2d ed.,
1855 ; Concise History of the United Society of Believers Called Shakers, by C. E.
Robinson, 1893, pp. 134; A Compendious Narrative Elucidating the Character,
Dispositions, and Conduct of Mary Dyer, etc., 18 19, pp. 88 ; Stewart's History of
the Free Baptists, 1862, p. 162 ; Baptist Churches in N. H., by E. E. Cummings,
1836, pp.7, 9; Lawrence's N. H. Churches, 1856, p. 360.]

[Petition of Joseph Mann, 1753.]

[Masonian Papers, Vol. 5, p. 93.]

To the Proprietors of ye lands purchased of John Tufton Mason
Esqur in New Hampshire Shew's — That your Petetioner hath Settled
upon a parcel of land containing forty Acres for three years past,
which forty Acres is Scituated in a Gore of Land between Canter-
bury & Bow, and which forty Acres I purchased of Coll° Peter Gil-
man as a Lot in Canterbury Number fifty three, and gave him one
hundred fifty pounds old Tennor for Said forty Acres, and have been
improving upon Said forty Acres ever Since and have built a House
thereon where my Family now dwells and being lately informed that
Said forty Acres is without ye Bounds of Canterbury and properly
ye Right of Said Proprietors — I humbly pray that ye Honble Proprs
would not Sell or convey Said forty Acres to any other person, so
that my Labour & Improvement be given to any another, as I am
willing & Desirous to pay and allow you any reasonable and valueable
Consideration for the Same, when you shall please to convey or con-
firm ye same forty Acres to me, and shall be alway ready to attend

CANTERBURY. I43

you for to receive your proposal of a Consideration for me to make
for ya same, and pray you will Spedily consider my Petition, your
grant of which will ever oblige your humble Petitioner —

Portsm" May 28th 1753 — Joseph mi

man

[ Canterbury Committee to Treat with Masoriion Proprietors, 1758.]
[Masonian Papers. Vol. 5, p. 94.]

A Reagulor Meeting held at Canterbury on Munday ye: IT"' of
July 1758—

Voted Ensi" John Moor Morderator for S'1 Meeting —

Voted Thomas Clough a Committe Chosen to Agree With and
Make up, and Satisfie the Lord proprietors of Masons Right, in the
Name, and behalf, of the present inhabitence of Canterbury, from
Sixteen years Old and upwards, for the goare of land laying between
Canterbury and Rumford, and to Receive a quit Clame, first to each
posesor according to what he is in possession of, and also to pay
According to his posession Excepting them that poses home Lots in
s'1 gore, that wase Supposed to be in Canterbury and the Remainder
to be acquited to the present inhabitence — they paying according
theiruuto — Cap* Stephen Gerrish and kents Grants Excepted —

A true Coppy attest Archelaus Moor

Town Clerk —

[Letter of Thomas Clough to Proprietors, 1758.]
[Masonian Papers, Vol. 5, p. 95.]

Canterbury 18th of July 1758.
Sir

Yesterday there was a Meeting held in this Town to See
(Amongst other Things) whether or no the Inhabitants of Sd Town
had a Mind to purchase the Gore of Land Lf Mason's of the Lords
proprietors thereof Scituate between S'1 Canterbury & Rumford als.
IVimvrook — And whereas at S'1 Meeting it was agreed to purchase
— And I was chosen to Transact S'1 Affair for S'1 Canterbury And
Should have forthwith waited on S'1 Lords proprietors But the
Posture of our Affairs is Such at present that I cannot possibly
come down (Our Hay Indian Corn & other things being almost
Spoil'd for want of taking care of being Surprized almost every
Day on ace1 of y'; Indians and hardly dare Stir from one Garrison
to another without a Large company together — But to proceed

i44

CHARTER RECORDS.

Being Inform'd Sir that Yon are one of ye S'1 Lord Proprietors &
their Clerk Have Humbly made bold to write & Send this by mr
James Head Humbly to request that you will communicate this our
Intention to treat with them for purchasing S'1 Gore & that you will
please to Send me an answer per Bearer by Letter by Some Safe
Hand as Soon as possible If you have an Inclination to sell & when
& where Yor Meeting will be & I will wait on You —

N B — The Lands whereon Some of our Improvements we Suppose
are in sd Gore tho' Laid out to us as part of s'1 Canterbury we have
voted a plan of said Lands to be taken forthwith & to See what is
wild Land what is in possession & what hath been Improv'd in Sd
Gore (Except what was formerly purchased by Capt. Gerrish &
Coll. Kent of Newburry) which plan & all other things (as far as
in me lyeth) relateing to S'1 Gore I will bring with me when I come
down In the mean while I am with my Humble Service to S'1 Lords
proprietors in behalf of Our Sd Town Expecting Yor Speedy Answer
after Communication of this Letter to them Sir your & their
Most Obednt Humb Servnt

Thomas Clough

To George Jaffreys Esqr At Portsmouth

S1

[ Abraham Batchelder to Proprietors, 1759.]
[Masonian Papers, Vol. 5, p. 96.]

Canterbury Jan> ye 22d 1759

These lines comes with a View to putt you in mind of a
promise and likewise a Request, for whereas about Seven Years ago
you desired me, to Run out & Plan that Gore of Land laying between
Canterbury & Merrimack River for 3^011 ; & you declared that you
would see me Satisfied for the same, the Work has been done and a
Plan of the same Delivered into your hands, but yet I have not
Received any Satisfaction for the Same as yet, which when first done,
was twenty pounds, which twenty Pounds then, was as good as fifty
is Now, However Sr my Request Now is, that you make known my
Desires to the Lord Proprietors at their first Meeting to Grant me a
Lott of Land in said Gore, beside Rents Farm so Called, According
to the Plan which I now Send you, in Lieue of said Money, and
should you think that I ought to give any More for said Land, be
pleased to let me know of it, tho' withal ; I hope you will Consider
me to be a poor Man, & I hope you wTill be as favourable as Possible,

CANTERBURY.

r45

thus Leaveing the Affair with you, which I hope you will Speedily
Accomplish, J remain your very

Hum1 Ser1

Abraham Batcheldor

[Petition of Samuel Hale, 1759.]
[Masonian Papers, Vol. 5, p. 97.]

To the Honorable Theodore Atkinson Esqr and others Proprietors
of Mason's Right in New Hampr —

The Petition of Samuel Hale Sheweth that your Petitioner having
had an Offer made by Several of the Proprietors at a Meeting held
last Year of a Grant of Land being made to him in your Claim And
finding a Tract of Land lying between Rum ford Canterbury &
Kents Farm & Gerrishes containing between 200 & 300 Acres (exclu-
sive of some improvements in the North west Corner) not claimed by
any private Persons Prays a Grant of Said Land may be made to
him according to the following Bounds viz Easterly by Rumford
about 300 Rods Southerly by Kents & Gerrishes Farms about 320
Rods Notherly By Canterbury about 460 Rods.

Portsm0 Feb : 8th 1759 Samuel Hale

in

I46 CHARTER RECORDS.

[Canterbury Committee to Treat ivith Masonian Proprietors, 1764.]
[Masonian Papers, Vol. 5, p. 97.]

At a meeting of the propriators of the Township of Canterbury
held by an ajournment on the forth wendesday of may Instant
Voted that Walter Brian t Esqr Thomas Clough & It Joseph Sias be
a Committee to purches for the propriators of the Township of Can-
terbury of the purchesers of masons Clame the whole of there Right
or as much as they Can agree for in the Goar of Lands between Can-
terbury and Rumford Line and petition the General Court to have
the Same Innex'1 to the Town of Canterbury

Canterbury may 24th 1764

A True Coppy Attest Tho8 Clough propritors Clerk

[Memorandum of Canterbury Purchase, 1764.]

[Masonian Papers, Vol. 5, p. 98.]

memorandum that on ye Last Wednesday of this Instant november
anno Domini 1764 we the Subscribers Walter Bryent of newmarket
Joseph Sias of Durham & thos Clough of Canterbury all in newhamp-
shire a Committee appointed to purchase of ye Purchasers of Cap*
John masons Claims in newhampr of one partie & Jeremiah Clough
Esqr & Ezekial morrell Both of Canterbury aforeSaid & their asso-
ciates of the other part witnesseth that the said Comttee Convey to
Said Jeremiah & Ezekiel & their associates all the Intervail & upland
in the gore (So Called) that Lays between Canterbmy afore Said &
meremac River and on the northwesterly Side of the forty acre Lotts
Laid out by the Proprietors of Canterbury and on the north of Cap1
Gerish his Land viz all the Right & title to Said Premises which
they Shall Purchase of Said purchesers of masons Claimes viz all
that Right & title to Said Premises upon Said Jeremiah & Ezekiel
Paying Said Comttee all that Sum of money which sd Comttee is to
Give Said Purchesers for the whole of the Gore between Rumford
Line Canterbury Line & meremacc River with the Cost & Charges
arrising in the Purchasing & Com pleating ye Same

A true Coppy ■$) Walter Bryent

Walter Bryent Joseph Sias —

thos Clough
Ezekiel morrell
Jeremiah Clough

t? -M .S ""7 »»=~g

CANTERBURY.

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[Bowl for Purchase of Canterbury Grore, 1764.]

[ Masonian Papers, Vol. 5, p. 98.]

Canterbury Dec1" y' 25th 1764 whereas a Committee of the Proprie-
tors of the town of Canterbury have agreed with the Purchasers of
mason's Right to give twenty Six hundred pounds old tenor for their
Interest in a gore of Land between Canterbury & Rumford Line (So
Called) now know ye that we the Subscribers upon Said Committee
bringing us a Quit Claim Deed of mason's Right agreeable to an
agreement we have heretofore made then we Promise to pay the Said
Committee bhe above Sum of twenty Six hundred Pounds old tenor
and all the Charges that hath or may arise in the Purching Said gore
which purchases & Charges is to be paid in proportion to what Land

we Possess In the Entervale in Said gore

Ezekiel morrall
W"1 moors
oat moor
Rich'1 Ellis
James Shephard
John more
Josiah miles
William forrest Jun1
Joseph Simons

A true Coppy

Jeremiah Clough
Sam11 moor
John forrist
Ephraim Hacket
John Dolarf Junr
John Glines
abner Clough
Rich11 Ellis
Josiah kentfeild

Walter Bryent

thos Clough
James Gipson
Sam11 Ames
Henery Elkins
David morrell
Daniel Ames
Arculas moor
Sam11 Shephard
Asa foster

148

CHARTER RECORDS.

[ Canterbury Plan, No Date.']

CENTRE HARBOR.

[49

CENTRE HARBOR.

[Set off from New Hampton and incorporated Dec. 7, 1797. So called because
it contained the middle one of three harbors, Moultonborough Harbor or Bay being
on the east, and Meredith Harbor or Bay on the west. A part of Meredith was
annexed to Centre Harbor July 3, 1873.

See XI, Hammond Town Papers, 276; Index to Laws, 86; sketch, Hurd's
History of Belknap County, 1885, p. 725; article on name, by Isaac W. Ham-
mond, 4, Granite Monthly, 189; Stewart's History of the Free Baptists, 1862,
p. 375; Lawrence's N. H. Churches, 1856, p. 486; In the Heart of the White
Mountains, by S. A. Drake, 1882, p. 8.]

[Plan of Lot in Centre Harbor, 1806.]

IS©

CHARTER RECORDS.

[Plan of Two Lots in Centre Harbor, 1807.]

By the request of Joseph Sturtevant I the Subscriber have meas-
ured aud pland the above pieces of Laud being in Centre Harbour
and on Squara Neck (so called) Protracted 20 Rods to an inch — and
ajoining as above by Common piches

Attest H. Kelsea Surveyor —

CONCORD. 151

Decer 20th 180(1
22—114
4. 143

26 257
In conjunction with Doc N A Haven this day conveyed the above
land to .) Sturtevant for 130 Ds in one Year
Jan> 2 1807

CONCORD.

[This territory, known as Penacook, was granted by Massachusetts May 18,
1659, to Richard YValdron and others. Regranted by Massachusetts Jan. 17,
1725-6, to Ebenezer Eastman and others. Incorporated by Massachusetts as
Rumford, Feb. 27, 1733-4. Incorporated by New Hampshire as Concord, June
7, 1765. The grant of Bow by New Hampshire, May 20, 1727, conflicted with
this grant, and the dispute was decided by the king in favor of Rumford, Dec. 27,
1762. A gore of land was severed from Canterbury and Loudon and annexed to
Concord, Jan. 2, 1784. Portions of How were annexed Dec. 13, 1804, and July
10, 1856. The State House was built in 1816 and remodeled in 1865. It was
first occupied by the legislature in June, 1819. A city charter was granted July
6, 1849, but was not adopted until March 10, 1853.

See Massachusetts and New Hampshire charters preceding; IX, Bouton Town
Papers, 128; XI, Hammond Town Papers, 340; Index to Laws, 116; Historical
Sketch, by J. B. Moore, 1, Collections of N. H. Historical Society, 153; Meteoro-
logical Tables, 1828-36, by J. Farmer, 5, id., 261 ; Note on Penacook Indians, by
same, 1, id., 219; Penacook Papers, 3, id., 212; History, by Nathaniel Bouton,
1856, pp.786; sketch, Hurd's History of Merrimack County, 1885, p. 57; The
State House, by I. W. Hammond, id., p. 406; Annals, by J- B. Moore, 1824, pp.
112; Diaries of Rev. Timothy Walker, ed. by J. B. Walker, 1889, pp. 80; His-
tory of Four Meeting Houses, by J. B. Walker, 1881, pp. 80; Historical Sketch
of St. Paul's School, by H. A. Brown, 1885. pp. 27; Concord and Its Points of
Interest, by G. F. Bacon, 1890, pp. 32; Dedication of Blossom Hill Cemetery,
address by W. L. Foster, i860, pp. 40; Dedication of Fowler Library Building,
1888, pp. 84; Bill of Mortality, 1798-1821, by Thomas Chadbourne, 1, Farmer
and Moore's Historical Collections, 81 ; Biography of Isaac Hill, 1835; Pastors,
Deacons, and Members of the First Congregational Church, by J. Farmer, 1830,
pp. 21; Stewart's History of the Free Baptists, 1862, p. 363; Baptist Churches
in N. H., by E. E. Cummings. 1836, pp. 6, 17; Lawrence's N. H. Churches,
1856, pp. 365, 372, 374, 375 ; Historical Manual of South Congregational
Church, 1869; Year Books of same, 1889, 1891 ; discourse, semi-centennial of
Salisbury Baptist Association, by E. E. Cummings, 1S78, pp. 24; Manuals of
First Congregational Church, 1871, 1888; historical sermons by Nathaniel Bou-
ton as follows : in Commemoration of the Organizing of the First Church in 1730,
1830, pp. 102 : at Twenty Fifth Anniversary of His Settlement over First Congre-
gational Church, 1850, pp. 54; at Fiftieth Anniversary of Concord Female Chari-

I52 CHARTER RECORDS.

table Society, 1862, pp. 40; Forty Years Ministry, 1865, pp. 40; Third Semi-
centennial of Concord, 1875; pp. 48. Historical address, by H. M. Cook, 1876,
pp. 15 ; historical addresses at 150th anniversary of First Congregational Church,
1880, pp. 71 ; same, 4, Granite Monthly, 193; sermon, 40th anniversary of South
Congregational Church, by S. L. Blake, 1877; First Baptist Church, by H. M.
Cook, 5, Granite Monthly, 27 ; Semi-Centennial of Organization of Second Con-
gregational (Unitarian) Church and Society, 1879, pp. 60; History of the First
Congregational Church, by F. D. Ayer, 2, Granite Monthly, 261 ; History of First
Congregational Sunday School, by J. C. Thorne, 4, id., 313 ; History of Music in
First Congregational Church, by W. G. Carter, 4, id., 320; address in Congrega-
tional Church, Fisherville, by John Kimball, 1876, pp. 16; St. Paul's Church,
1818-44, Dawson's Historical Magazine, 2d series, vol. 7, p. 364; St, Paul's
School, 10, Granite Monthly, 233; St. Paul's School, by H. Harrison, Perry's
History of the American Episcopal Church, 1885, vol. 2, p. 547; sketch, by J.
N. McClintock, 8, Granite Monthly, 263 ; Early History of Concord Press, by A.
McFarland, 2, id., 164; Old Red Mill, by W. Harriman, 5, id., 120; The Rolfe-
Rumford House, by F. M. Colby, 5, id., 346; The Walker House, by same, 3,
id., 345 ; Banks and Bankers, 9, id., 339; May Flowers, chapter from history of,
7, id., 76; Penacook in 1741, 26, N. E. Hist. Gen. Register, 438; Historical
Sketch of N. H. Asylum for Insane, 1886, pp. 39; Biographical Notices of Physi-
cians, 2, N. H. Repository, 80, 135 ; Biography of Kancamagus, 13, Farmer's
Monthly Visitor, 129; Biography of Passaconway, 12, id., t>3\ Biography of
Wonnalancet, 12, id., 257 ; The Last of the Penacooks, 13, id., 257 ; for further
Indian history see Potter's History of Manchester; History of N. H. Convention
for Investigation, Discussion, and Decision of the Federal Constitution, by J. B.
Walker. 1888, pp. 128; Acts of the Anti-Slavery Apostles, by Parker Pillsburv,
1883, p. 156; An Exploit in King Philip's War, Hannah Duston, by C. R.
Corning, 2, Proceedings of N. H. Historical Society, 122; The Bradley Massa-
cre, by H. G. Sargent, id., 152; Journal of March to Protect the Inhabitants
against the Indians, 1746, 4, Collections of N. H. Historical Society, 201 ;
Petition of Inhabitants for Restoration of the Garrison, 1748, id., 253.]

[Petition of Adams, Smith, and Bryant. ~]
[Masonian Papers, Vol. 5, p. 99.]

Prove of New ) To the Honble the Purchasers & proprietors to
Hampr \ masons Right
the Petition of Samuel Adams Benjamin Smith & Walter Bryent
of newmarket & Durham humbly Shews that }^our petitioners are
appointed agents for & on behalf of a number of ye freeholders &
other Inhabatance of S<1 town & parish who are Desirous of having a
Certain Small tract or Gore of Land Bound as follows Begining at
the north Corner of the town of Bow and to Run up Bounding on
the town of Canturbury on the north East to marimack River & on
merimack River on ye west Down Said River to Bow Line then Run-

CONCORD. 153

ing north East ward Bounding on said Bow Line to the north Corner
of Said town were it Began to be granted to us & our Constituants
on Such Conditions & Limitations as shall be Best your & our

Interest

Sam11 Adams
Benja Smith
Walter Bryent

[Andrew McMillan to Proprietors in Behalf of Concord, 1770.]
[Masonian Papers, Vol. 5, p. 100.]

To the Moderator and Proprietors of land under the title of Jn°
Tuftin Mason Esqr

Humbly sheweth that I the Subscriber am appointed by the pro-
prietors and Inhabitants of Rumford now Concord. To wait on
your honours in Order to know on what terms the proprietors and
Inbitts of Sd Rumford or Concord can or may be quieted in the pos-
sesion of a Gore of land which lays within the Claim of S'1 Rumford
or Concord as may appear by the plan annexed —

Gentlemen your answer to the above as Soon as possible will
greatly oblidge yr huble Ser1

Andw mcMillan

Portsm0 23'1 August 1770

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CHARTER RECORDS.

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CONCORD. 155

[ Vote of Inhabitants of Concord, 1770.]
[Masonian Papers, Vol. 5, p. 101.]

Province <>t' ) At a meeting of the Proprietors & Freeholders
New Hampshire i of t lie Township of Ruraford, now Concord, on
Monday the -•">"' Day of November A D 1770 to Receive the Report
of their Committee lately chosen to attempt an agreement with the
Proprietors of Bow &c —

Voted 1. That Andrew Memillan Esq1 he Moderator

2. That Tim0 Walker Jun' be Clerk to enter the Proceed-
ings of this Meeting (the stated Clerk not being able to attend)

The Committee having reported that the major Part of the Claimers
of the Hundred Acre Lots that lie within our Town have signed that
they will quit their Rightto the same for Ten Pounds Lawful money
per Lot. and are also encouraged that if we pay the sd several Sums
to the s' Claiiners. that the Proprietors of Bow will quit to the Pro-
prietors of Rum ford the remainder of their Township which lies
within Rumford Grant, Except some Forty Acre Lots to the East of
Sowcook River, also 162 acres of Land to be reserved to the Proprie-
tors of Bow —

The Committee having also reported, that the Claimers under
John Tufton Mason Esq' had agreed to quit the Remainder of the
Township of Rumford for Sixty Pounds Lawful Money —

3. That We will pay the s'1 Ten Pounds p1 Lot to each claimer
as aforesaid, provided the remaining Claimers of s'1 Lots will comply
with the same Terms, and allow a reasonable Time to collect sd
Money in. —

4. That we will pay the Proprietors claiming under s'1 Mason
the s'1 Sixty Pounds Lawful Money for what they claim of the Town-
ship of Rumford —

5. That our Committee be desired to present a Copy of the
above Votes to the Proprietors of Bow, also to the Claimers under
Mason and request an answer to the same as soon as possible

A true Copy of the Proceedings of the above Meeting.

Attest" Tim0 Walker Jr Proprietors Clerk

[Agreement of Masonian Committee in Regard to Concord Purchase,

1770.]

[Masonian Papers. Vol. 5, p. 102.]

Province of New / We the Subscribers being Appointed a Com

Hampshire \ mitte of the Proprietors of Masons Paten to hear

the Proposals of the Committe of Rumford now Concord as their is

156 CHARTER RECORDS.

a Quantity of Land in the said Town of Rumford that Falls within the
said Paten Line and the Proprietors and Freeholders of said Rum-
ford at a Meeting, held in said Rumford now Concord Nov1" 26. 1770
Voted to give the Proprietors of Masons Paten Sixty Pounds Lawful
money for what the said Proprietors Claim of the Township of Rum-
lord, and We the Committe of the Proprietors of Masons Paten do
now Agree with the Committe of Rumford to take the said Sum
of Sixty Pounds Lawful money, they to give Good Security for said
Sum to be paid within Twelve months from the Date hereof, and
upon giving the said Security the Committe Aforesaid Engages to
give to said Proprietors of Rumford a Quit Claim Deed of the said
Tract of Land Aforesaid

Portsmouth December 13th 1770

Daniel Rogers ) Committe of the
John Penhallow > Proprietors of
Peter Pearse j Masons Paten —

[Quitclaim of a Gore of Land to Concord, 1771.]
[Masonian Proprietors' Records, Oct. 3, 1771.]

Province of \ Portsmouth October 3d 1771 Thursday three of
New Hampshr \ the Clock afternoon at the Dwelling house of
James Stoodly Esqu1' Innholder the Proprietors meet according to
adjournment —

Whereas the Proprietors and Freeholders of a place called Rum-
ford now Concord, have made Application to the Proprietors of the
Lands purchased of John Tufton Mason Esqr in New Hampshire,
for a Purchase of a quit claim of their right to a Gore or tract of
Land which was included in said Rumford, upon which application
the Consideration whereof was referred to a Committee to treat with
Andrew MacMillan Esqr and others a Committee of the Proprietors
& Inhabitants of Rumford or Concord about a Conveyance, and the
Terms thereof in behalf of this Propriete, for a Gore, or tract of
Land referred to in said McMillan's Petition, & to report thereon as
Soon as may be, the said Committee have made a report thereon viz1
that they had agreed with the Committee of said Rumford to take
the sum of Sixty Pounds lawfull money, the Proprietors of Rumford
giving good Security for the said Sum, to be paid within twelve
Months from the 13th day of December 1770, and upon such Security
being given, engage to be given to the said Proprietors of Rumford
a quit claim of the tract of Land aforesaid, from the said Purchasers

CONWAY. I57

& Proprietors of Masons Grant. In Consequence of the report of
said Committee and upon Consideration of said Security given for
said Sum of sixty Pounds lawful! or Proclamation Money, be it —

Therefore Voted and hereby Granted unto the Proprietors & Free-
holders of a place called Rumford now Concord, all tin; right, Title,
Interest. & Claim of the Proprietors of the Lands purchased of .John
Tufton Mason Esq1 in new Hampshire of, in & to the said tract or
Gore of Land, bounded as follow's namely, begin'ing where the
north west side Line of Bow intersect's the easterly side Line of
Hopkiugton, thence north east on the north west side Line of How.
till it intersect's the southerly side Line of Canterbury, thence on
the southerly side Lines of Canterbury & Boscawen till it come's to
the north east, corner of Hopkiugton, thence on the easterly side
Line of Hopkiugton to the bounds first mentioned.

CONWAY.

[Originally known as Pigwacket or Pequawket. Granted as Conway Oct. 1 -
1765. to Daniel Foster and others. Grants to Lieuts. Hugh Sterling, Samuel
Stark, and Archibald Stark were annexed June 14, 1800. The farms of Jonathan
Hardy and Edward Shirley were severed from Conway and annexed to Chatham,
June 26, 1823.

.See New Hampshire charters in preceding volume ; IX, Bouton Town Papers,
141 ; XI, Hammond Town Papers, 409 ; Index to Laws, 125 ; sketch, Fergusson's
History of Carroll County, 1889, p. 815; History of the White Mountains, by
Lucy Crawford, 1845, chap. X; History of North Conway, by B. D. Eastman.
1880, in files of The Idler \ Willey's History of the White Mountains, 1870,
chap. XIII; The White Hills, by T. Starr King, 1859, p. 149; The Intervale, by
Winfield S. Nevins, 1887, pp. 60; The March of Capt. Samuel Willard, by C. E.
Fay, 2, Appalachia, 336; Stevens's Memorials of Methodism, 2d series, 1852, p.
334: Stewart's History of the Free Baptists, 1862, p. 375; Baptist Churches in
N. H., by E. E. Cummings, 1836, p. 12; Lawrence's N. H. Churches, 1856,
p. 582 ; grants to Hugh Sterling, Archibald Stark, and Samuel Stark, with Madi-
son papers; The White Mountains, A Guide to Their Interpretation, by Julius
H. Ward, 1890, p. 26; In the Heart of the White Mountains, by S. A. Drake,
1882, p. 39.]

[Henry Young Brown to Proprietors, 1768.]
[Masonian 'Papers, Vol. 5, p. 108.]

Pigwackit Sep* 1st 1768
Hon'1 Sr Cap1 Fletcher hath Extended your Claim to Saco River in
one place and Includes a Considerable part of a Township I pur-
chased of the province of ye massachusitts Gov""'1 where I was Set-

i58

CHARTER RECORDS.

tied before their was any Suspishon of a dispute about it therefore
desire I may have the first Refusal of your Interest in my Town as
Laid out under the Title of ye Massil if it pleases God to Spair my
Life and Restore my helth I shall be at portsmouth ye 19th Ins1 your
Interest in my behalf will Lay me under obligations to acknowledg
ye favour for disputes are disagreeable to me

I am Sr Your Honours Most obedi1 Humble Servant

Henry young Brown

PS I must Inform you that the Lands was Granted to people
under new harnpshire Since I was Settled on them and many other
families which I Settled

[Plan of Masonian Land in Qomi'ay.~\

To begin at the S E Corner of Conway as run out by waiter Bry-
ent Junr 1765 on the province line Thence N 8 dgs E by the nedle 2
miles to the northernmost Extent of masons Claim Thence westerly
by Masons head line 6 miles to the west Side line of Conway as for-
merly run out thence S 8 dgs W about 2 miles to the S W Cornor of
S'1 Conway thence by S<1 Conway line 6 miles to the first bound Con-
taining all the lands in Conway Claim'1 by the propriators of masons
right

pr Henry Y Brown

CONWAY. 159

[Daniel Foster's Request, 1769.]
[Masonian Papers, Vol. 5, p. 104.]

To Walter Biyent Jr Esqr

A^ von are agent for Conway should be Glad you would Petition
the Prop1*8 of Mason Patent to Confirm to the Proprietors of Conway
what Lands within Conway Lines have fallen within said Patent by A
Line Lately Run for the Northerly & Westerly Line of said Patent

Feb* 251769.—

Daniel Foster

[Henry Youth/ Brown to Proprietors, 1769.]

[Masonian Papers, Vol. 5, p. 105.]

Portsmouth Sep1 1st 1769
Gentlemen as there is part of the Lands I purchesed of the prov-
ince of the massachusitts bay which falls within your Claim I Should
be glad of the favour to have Some part of the Land of you upon
Some Conditions which may be thought reasonable which will oblige
your most obediant Humble Servant

Henry Young Brown
To the Gentlemen Interested in Masons proprioty

[Appointment and Petition of Conway Committee, 1773.]
[Masonian Papers, Vol. 5, p. 106.]

At a Legal Meeting of the Proprietors of Conway held on ye 30th
Day of March 1773 — Henry-Y Brown David Page Richard Eastman
Tho8 Merrill Esqr and Ebenr Burbank. Be a Committe to Settle with
the Proprs of Masons right for their claim in Said Town with full
Power to Substitute any one of s'1 Committe to Transact the affair
under Such restrictions as they Shall think proper for them

April 1st 1773

A true Copy attest Tho8 Merrill Propr Ck

To the proprietors of the right of John=Tufton Mason Esq1' We the
Subscribers a Committe of the Proprietors of Conway in the Province
New Hampshire April 1st 177:') Humbly Sheweth .

That Conway was Granted in the year 1765 by the Geovenor and
Council that they Have been at great Expence in making roads and
Settling Said Town as it is remote from the other Settlements in the

l6o CHARTER RECORDS.

Province that they have been Obliged to Dispute the Province line
which was no Small Expence to them that it was not known when the
Town was Granted that it Interfeared with your rights as it now ap-
pears that part of Conway lays within your Claim — and as what they
have done is an Advantage to your land below us. We therefore
pray you would. Take our affair under your Consideration and make
a Grant to the Proprietors of Conway of your Right which is within
Said Township

and as in Duty Bound Shall ever pray

Henry Young Brown
Richard Eastman
Thomas Merrill
David Page
Ebenezer Burbank

[Henry Young Brown to Proprietors in Behalf of Conway, 1773.]

[Masonian Papers, Vol. 5, p. 107.]

Conway April 3d 1773
Gentlemen of the proprietors ) I am Substituted by the Committee
of Masons Right ( for Conway to Transact the affair for

them with your proprioty Your Claim is near Two miles on Conway
Six miles Wide according to a Plan herewith Exhibited Containing
7346 acres. To my Sorrow there is but little good land there is the
Contents of one mile Squair Pond and double that Quantity Spruce
Swamp of but little value and a larg proportion of other wast land
Broken Pich Pine &c though necessary to accomidate the Settlement
of the Town — the propriotors once Chose a Committee to Settle with
you who were not wiling to acknowledg your right they have now
Chose another as you will See by the Inclosd Vote, who have petition
you for a Grant which is also Inclosd and as I am Substituted agree-
able to the order of the propriotors to Transact the affair Should be
glad you would Take our Petition into Consideration as Soon as you
Can Conveniently for we want to lay out a division of land in the
Town and a delay to have the matter Settled will have a Tendency
to delay the Settlement of the Town on which the advancement of
the Settlement of this part of the Country much depends (as it will
be a resource for the Towns near it) and of Cource your Interest and
that of the Publick8 from these and other weighty reasons I am In-
duced to believe you will answer the prayer of our Petition without
delay and make us a grant of the land according to the plan Inclos'1 if
the Propriotors Should think proper to reserve a Small acknowledg-

CONWAY. l6l

ment I would humbly Propos it minght not Exceed five Hundred
acres and that to lay on the south line of the Town as it will Joyne
your other lands and Least discommode the Settlements

Gentlemen I am in the name and behalf of sfl Conway your most
obedient Humble Servant

Henry Young Brown

^Terms of Masonian Proprietors for Quit-Claim of Conway, 1773.]

[Masonian Papers, Vol. 5, p. 108.]

1773 June 9th Cap1 Henry Young Brown appearing in behalf of the
Prop™ the Grantees of ye Township Conway at ye the meeting of ye
Prop*8 of Mason's Grant when and where it was conceeded by the
Proprs on Sundry peculier Considerations that they would accept of
fifteen hundred Acres in the Township of Conway for a Quit Claim
of the land in yl Township within Mason's Grant to be laid out with-
in and bounding on the South line of Conway into fifteen one hun-
dred Acre lotts to be measured marked out & numbered from one to
fifteen within Six months from this date at the Expence of ye gran-
tees of Conway and a plan thereof to be returned to this Propriety
and that the owners of the Said fifteen hundred Acres Shall not be
Subjected to any Expence of the Township of Conway for publick
buildings clearing of Roads or any other Charge of ye Township of
Conway &c till the Lot of any or each of this Propriete shall be im-
proved or Sold by them

[Memoranda Relating to Different Toivns, 1773.]
[Masonian Papers, Vol. 5, p. 108.]

October 4th 1773 — mem0 of Sundries who desire to settle on ye
Lots on new Road to Conway viz*

John Foy Junr Step" Foy

Step" Drew Reuben Tuttle

Jonathan Swain Jacob Sccagel Junr

October 6th 1773

determined that ye tract of land ungranted, described on ye other
Side be Surveyed this Fall, and that Minot's and Atkinson's accots of
law Suit v* Alexandria, before the grant of ye ungranted Lots in Al-
exandria—

McAllisters Petition in N° 2 — under ye present apprehension of ye
Circumstances relative to that right it does not appear y' Proprietors
11

l62 CHARTER RECORDS.

can grant it — but ye Circumstance of ye forfeited rights in that town
to be enquired into —

to enquire of Cap1 Allen respecting ye Cost of the Bridge built by
Sccagel over ossipe river and ye Comtee to Settle ye affair with Sccagel
and to make what allowce to Scagel may appear reasonable & just —

The Comtee to confirm ye agreement with ye 10 Settlers on 10 Lots
in Bradford-Town if they agree to accept them as agreed — and that
y* whole tract of land of Bradford-Town be laid out and allotted as
ye Comtee shall think best

That ye Clerk is desired to write to Coll0 Badger & Comtee of Gil-
man Town to have ve dispute between Said town & ye Gore adjusted

(octr 9th 1773 wrote to Coll0 Badger)

That ye ten Settlers on ye road from Wolfborough to Leavets
Town be determined as Soon as may be and that ye Comtee be desired
to put on Setlers between Osipe and Conway to ye number of 10 or
12—

That ye Comtee employ a Surveyor to run out Limerick according
to ye grant &ca —

That the Comittee be desired to have all the land ungranted
between Wolfborough Tuftonboro Moultonborough Sandwich ye
Curve line Conway ye Provence Line & Leavits Town to East Town
& Middleton Surveyed & lotted & Plan thereof Returned —

That the Strip of Land between Peterbourough & L Ljmdborough
be annexed to the Proprietors reservation in Peterborough So as to
accomodate each Proprs share

October 27th 1773 determined by ye Comtee that Coll° Rust be em-
ployed to have ye road to Conway cleared of Windfalls that mr Jaff-
rey is desired to write to Doctr Thompson & Hubs Neel to come down
to engage in Survey8 &c

Nov1" 4th 1773 That mr Jaffrey be desired to write to Coll0 Rust to
have y(' Windfalls well cleared in the road to Ossipee Bridge as Soon
as may be on ye Proprs Acco1 and inform ye Proprs what lots on the
road are improved and what ye Improvements are

wrote Novr 5th

A Peice of Land adjoyning Alexandria and New Chester Running
from thence toward Concord in the County of Rockingham & adjoyn-
ing the ye Township of New Britton Solsbery & on toward sd Con-
cord and the oather Side the adition to alexandria Paries Town
Almsberry &c Suposed to be in Some Places a mile in weadth oather
Places More & in Some Places Less Supposed to be about fifteen
Miles in Length Taking the Chief or all Kiarsarge Mountain

CONWAY.

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[Henry Weed to Proprietors, 1777.]

[Masonian Papers, Vol. 5, p. 109.]

Gentlemen

I Came down to see you Pursuant to our Agreement, of the Cora-
way, Settlement, but you Attended not and I Cannot Stay until you
Can Meet. Therefore I Leave this Information Namely — that the
forementioned Land will Serve for a Settlement — and People Seem
Forward for Settlements — But Yet their Seems Sumthing threat-
ning, from Eaton and Burton, on which Land the Coroway Settle-
ment must be and I shall Expect you to Defend and Secure our Set-
tlement Peaceably unto us from the Proprietors of Said Eaton and
Burton During the Time of our Settlements Should be Glad If you
Wou'd Send me a Letta by Cap' Dudley, and Appoint the Time when
you will Attend the Business, and I will Come down If you think
Proper —

Portsm0 June 27th 1777—

To Hon' Daniel Rogers Esq1' \ Comittee of the ,

John Pierce — /tit • o • *. „ ■

T , -p, , n ( Masonian Proprietors

John Pennailow ) r

I am Gentlemen Your Hum1 Servant —

Henry Weed

[Thomas Chadbourne to Proprietors, 1779.]

[Masonian Papers, Vol. 5, p. 110.]

Conway Feby 4th 1779
Sir As you gave me Sum Directions concerning yr Land on the
Road from osipa to Conway I think it not amiss to give You this
hint that it is intended by a number of people to take possession of
great part of that Land near Conway next spring if you Should have
any Directions to me on that business I shall be Down in march next
when I will Receive them —

from yors to Serve —

Thomas Chadbourn
To Mr John Peirce
Portsmo —

[Thomas Chadbourne to Proprietors, 1779.]
[Masonian Papers, Vol. 5, p. 110.]

Conway Octor 28th 1779
Sir an answer to yours the Selectmen of Conway have not De-
manded any Tax of the masons Proprietors Since I Saw you — after I

CONWAY. 165

Come home and in april wee made our Taxes I then Proposed to the
Selectmen being- one my Selfe to make a plan & Retinue as proposed
Their answer was that it was quite uncertain where you the pro-
prietors had any Right in Conway however I proceeded and made a
Tax as usual and Directed the Collector not to Call on you untell
further orders — the Reason for this is that all the Land from Conway
eight miles South is Claimed by other proprietors who have Taken
Possession and are makeing greate Improvement and Transfereing-
the property to others by warranty Deeds for valuable Consideration
and all this without any notice from the proprietors of mason how-
ever 1 think I shall prevale and Send you a plan as I promised them
in answer to yours — and for your Information I the other Day went
through y' Land from Conway to osipee I found there was not one
Single Right on the Road from Conway line to the Eight mile tre
worth haveing but what was taken up and very Considerable Im-
provement made on maney of them a number of families on and more
Comeing and all the Land toward the province Line is also taken by
those who have grants Lying there — as your Committe Gave me
Sum Directions about Settleing Sum of those lots my Settlers are in
Great fear of their title and Sum have actualy taken other Deed
under the Bryants and others they being on the Spot tel them fine
Storyes — I was thinking for the benefite of my Settlers that as the
Road from Wolfsborough to Cohos is to be made good by act of
General Court the Land Sold for the Same if not Paid by the propri-
etors you will be at Great Cost on osipa bridge and if the Comittee
appointed by General Court were to Sel a few of those Rights
Clamed by those persons it might bring matters Right that way — I
am Sir your obliged Humble Servant —

Thomas Chadbourn —
To the Hon1 George Jeffrey Esqr

[John Heath to Proprietors, 1779.]
[Masonian Papers, Vol. 5, p. 111.]

Conway November ye 27th 1779

To the Committee of the Masonian Proprietors.

Gentlemen, I have not carried out the Price of the Days Work for
the Reason that money is depreciated since my Agreement with you,
I leave it to your Consideration to make such Allowance as you shall
think Just & reasonable. I propose to wait on you about the 8th or
10th of December next. I am, Gentlemen, your very obedient hum-
ble Sr* John Heath

l66 CHARTER RECORDS.

[Thomas Chadboume to Proprietors, 1780.]
[Masonian Papers, Vol. 5, p. 112.]

Conway March 18th 1780
Sir agreeable to my promise I have ben to our Proprietors
Records in order to Give you from thence the Proceeding of the
Proprietors Relative to the 1500 acres of Land in Conway which was
laid out and assignd for masons Proprietors — but Cannot find any-
thing that will answer your Purpose where it is the Proprietors
Clerks fault or the Committee appointed to Settle with you I Cannot
tell — all I Can find is the vote of the proprietors Impowering Certain
persons as a Committee and their Petition at large to masons Propr8
for Settlement and allso 1500 acres of Land Laying in a Range on
the South line of Conway Nod from 1 to 15 Recorded Which he the
Proprietors Clerk Saith is your Land altho he agrees with me that
no mortal can find out any thing by any Records what was Don about
the afair — it appears that Cap1 Brown was premoted in the Com-
mittee and has Power to finish the afair which I Pray you will look
to him for and I make no Doubt but he Can Set all things Right —
the 1500 acres as above is what you are taxed for and is accounted
by us the Seletmen of Conway as the Property of masons Proprie-
tors—

I am Sir your most Humble Servant

Thomas Chadbourn —
To George Jeffrey Esqr

[Hugh Sterling to Proprietors, 1781.]
[Masonian Papers, Vol. 5, p. 113.]

Conway July ye 28th 1781
Sr Altho w I am un Equented With you Nesesety oblidges me to
truble you with these foue Lins &C I had a Location Granted me by
the King of Grate Bieton Sume years agoo and haveing it Lade out
by Mr Brine tt I moved to this place With a Vew to Settel but Shortly
after The Gentlemen propriorters of Meson patent Sente Mr flatcher
to Roun the Line over agein and So tock my Location from me
Whare upon I Sente a poticion to you Gentelmen propriortors and
Scute ;i Leater to my Kensman with my potiction to Cap"' John
Cochran then Cap"1 of fort William Marey Deseiring him to profare
my potacition to your Hounrs Which accordingly he Did and he

CONWAY. 167

Wrote me for an answor That you freely equetd me and that 30U
had Entered it upon your Records that I Was a Quoted I tlier upon
Wos Esey hut Since you have Sente a Survear and has Laid out my
Land into Houndred A.cres Lots and is Granting it to Whome So
Ever Asks it of }tou I pray Sr of you and Liekwise of all the Gentel-
nit'ii proprierters that you Wold Conseder me as I am the one and the
only one that has Ever Moved a feniely So fear Into the Welderness to
Setrl upon y1 patons that you Woldbeplesed to Grante me my Lande
and as I have Deeded five Houndred acersto General John Starks and
two Houndred to Mr James M'harde of Heaverhill if thy Should Come
Back upon tlier Deeds it wold undo me Sr if you Will be plesed to
In Quire at the Bearer Colonel David page Esqr he Will Inform you
of the Whol pertickulors I Should have Been upon the premeses
befor this time but I meeting With Grate Loses by Death In my
tamely I had one Son Drownded the Spring this War Brock out and
a Heather Son Listed and Wente to Canada and ther Died So I was
Destetute of healp and I being En old man Made it Verey Deficteult
for me to goo to the Wilderness to Leve Independente of my Salf
but I am propering to goo With two Son In Laws as Soun as posible
if you Will Grante me my Lande your Complince with my Request
will oblidge Sr your Most obedent and Verey houmble Sarvente

Hugh Sterling

N B pray Sr Leat me have a Line by the Barer Colonel page I am
as above

William WThepel Esqr

[Projectors' Reservations in Conivay, 1782.]

[Masonian Proprietors' Records, July 24, 1782, and Masonian Papers,

Vol. 5, p." 114.]

State of New \ Portsmouth July 24th 1782 Wednesday three of
Hampshire j the Clock afternoon at the House of M1 John Penhal-
low partly improved as a Store — the Proprietors meet according to
adjournment

Whereas Cap' Joshua Heath of Conway presented to the Proprie-
tors a Plan of the Town of Conway taken by Nathaniel Merrill Sur-
veyor with a Reservation of fifteen hundred Acres of land to Said
Proprietors, laid down in Said Plan, on the South Side of Said Town
containing one hundred Acres in each lot Marked and numbered
from one to fifteen, the numbers beginning at the westerly Side of
Said Reservation — The Proprietors being desirous of making a Sev-
erance of Said Reservation — Therefore Voted that a Severance be

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CHARTER RECORDS,

now ma S - agreeable 1 ^aid Plan — bv a draft of

the Lo:~ _-- I the nuni: era - therein Marked a[nd] laid

n — and that the Lots Irawn to each of the fifteen original

3 Bights S s, Shall be a Several. [Said Reserva-
tion to each of said Proprie: Mrs Right or Share therein, as drawn.
and entered- to each of them: To have and to hold the Same in Sev-
eral: i them and each of the:: Beirs and Assigns as -

drawn and entered

Draft of the Lota the Enervation of fifteen hundred Acres
of land in Conwav — viz: —

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Thomas Walingfoi I Esq
J hn Rindge
S Uy and March
Peirce and Moore
■ ' shna Peii :- Esq1
Thomlinson i: Mason
Thee I re Atkinson E~
John Moffatt Esqr
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mas Packer Esq' .

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[Ti rmu fP • Grunt to H - ,1782

[Masonian Paper>. V ".. 5, p. 114.]

mem I »-■ r 3. 1782. at a Co'1 - land

purchas'd of ■' . Tufl Mason Esqr in New Harnp7 A
being made by Cap' Young Brown in behalf of Hugh Sterling
senting tba: - S( rling had a grant of Land by the Govern:.
N Hampr located near Conway i: the Province line
Since finding Said Location to lav within M - rrant pray "s Said

Proprie : will make said Sterling a Grant of y* whole or wha
Said Location they shall think meet — upon consideration of his
making; Settlements on each of three hundred Ac 3 s 1 be granted

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him and iniediately Settle two families on their grant 6: two
families in a year and that he will relinquish to Said Proprietors any
and the whole Location to them, and make Settlement u\
grant a- - 1. and maintain and - ther Right

shall be Sot up or infringe upon the Right vN: Titi S I prie-

— ~~ Akeine in! -ideration the ah Said .A

and Several Applications heretofore made S Si _ The

Said Proprietors have concluded to make a gran: I S I Sterlir.. I
thirteen hundred Acres on the westerly Side of Said location of i
Acres, as may be taken by the lots of the laud Surveyed and laid out
marked and numbered on the Plan returned to Said Proprietors by
Jame Bersy 1781

Henry Dow having this day made Application to the Prop" to be
quieted on the land he has improved on the land in Hersy's Plan and
noted in it near y* Ptoy: line being N '2 which H ._ Si .ling
claims contrary to y* proposal he made & determined by y* Pi
Dec7 1782

1784 -T-.ii 2

April 21* 1784 Moses Ingals appeared and produced a Deed from
above named Henry Dow for yr abovementioned X _ Says said

Dow has removed from Said lot on w - is a log house and at> _
of land cleared vv ab" 8 Acres more fell —

[i7- Y -. 17S3.]

- nian Papers. Vol. 5. p. 115.]

BrownrieldJu.
S Stei g8 location is 800 Rods N & S and
Herseys Survay the lots as Split on the wrest S e Sooth S

170 CHARTER RECORDS.

by Sterlings lines his proposel is for your propriotors to make him a
grant of the whole & he to Deed to you one third part on the East
Side from End to end and not have any Reference to the lots I have
Viewed the matter and Cannot See any 111 Conveniency it will be to
you if it is done by lots it will Interfere with Sterlings deeds to Gen-
erarol Starkes & Co11 W111 Starks & with their deed to others as the
lots he gave deeds of are on the west side & your lott on that Side are
Split by his line as to ordway my apply cation to you was on Archable
Starks location tho now he pushes very hard on Sterling & I think
without any reasonable pretence for he has Entered on a lot that
Sterling sold to John Sterk & Starks to Jos Walker & they had worked
on it before Ordway did I think it most Just for him to be confined to
his first application But this is only for your Information for I have
no other Interest in the matter only to State facts for that purpose I
should be glad of your determination in the matter If you would
send to the Secretarys offis you may have His Charter as it was sent
to be Recorded

I am sr your very Humble SeiV

H : Y : Brown
George Jeffry Esqr to be Communicated

DANBURY.

[Set off from Alexandria and incorporated June 18, 1795. The town was
transferred from Grafton County to Merrimack July 10, 1874. Land belonging
to George W. Dudley and Archibald Ford was severed from Wilmot and annexed
to Danbury Dec. 19, 1848. A portion of Hill was annexed June 26, 1858, and a
part of Wilmot July 26, 1878.

See XI, Hammond Town Papers, 477; Index to Laws, 131; sketch, Hurd's
History of Merrimack County, 1885, p. 289; Baptist Churches in N. H., by E. E.
Cummings, 1836, p. 17; Lawrence's N. H. Churches, 1856, p. 527.]

[Report on Lots in Danbury, 1822.]

[Extract from Masonian Papers, Vol. 6, p. 52.]

Lands in Danbury

Lot N° 27, in the 2 Division is poor laying a mountain remote 1

No 41. in the 2 Division laying at the foot of a mountain being a
midling lot being rether remote being mixter of groath of timber 2

No 21. in the 3 Division is a midling lot ocipid by Ebenezer
Stuart he has cleard nearly fifteen acres of sd lot is reather remote as
said Stuart says he agreed with Mr Pirce for the same 3

DUBLIN. 171

No 27. in the 3. Division is reather poor on a mountain on a road
and but a little value 15

No 69 in the '2 Division miding lot the timber is a mixte and som
pine there is som pine cut on s(i lot for shingle and som lays there
now that they cut said lot lays on the Grafton Turnpike 3

N° 27. in 3d Divis Danbury— present price (19 March 1822) $3 f
acre enquired for by old M' Flanders for Levi Fraser
" offered $ letter to John Gale for $250

DUBLIN.

[Granted by the Masonian Proprietors as Monadnock No. 3, or North Monad-
nock, Nov. 3, 1749, to Matthew Thornton and others. Incorporated as Dublin
March 29, 1771, and named from Dublin, Ireland. A part of the town was
annexed to Marlborough June 13, 181 8.

See New Hampshire charters in preceding volume ; IX, Bouton Town Papers,
188; XI, Hammond Town Papers. 555; Index to Laws, 157; sketch, Hur<Ts
History of Cheshire County, 1886, p. 180; sketch, Child's Gazetteer of Cheshire
County, 1885, p. 142; discourse, 25th anniversary of ordination, by Levi W.
Leonard, 1846, pp. 28; History, by same, 1855, pp. 433; Map of Monadnock
Mountain, 6, Appalachia, opp. 262 ; Lawrence's N. H. Churches, 1856, p. 255.]

[Masonian Charter of Dublin, 1749.]

[Masonian Papers, Vol. 5, p. 116, and Proprietors' Records, Vol. 6,

p. 101.]

Province of } PURSUANT to the Power and Authority Granted
New Hamp8 \ and Vested In me by the Prop" of Lands Pur-
ehassed of John Tuffton Mason Esqr In the Province of New Hamp-
shire by thier Vote passed at thier Meeting held at Ports0 In Said
Province the 16th day June A D 1749—

I do by these presents on the Terms & Limitations hereafter Ex-
pressed Give & Grant all the Right Possesson and Property of the
Prop'^ A loivs'1 unto Matthew Thornton Sampson Stoddard William
Spaulding Joseph French Zacheriah Stearnes Peter Powers Robert
Fletcher Jun1 Eleazr Blanchard Foster Wentwortb Josiah Swan Isaac
Rindge John Rindge Ezekiel Carpenter Benf Bellows John Combs
Stephen Powers Henry Wallis Samuel Kenney Ebenenezer Gillson
Jeremiah Norcross Isaiah Lewis Ezra Carpenter Enos Lawrance Wil-
liam Cumings Mark llunkin Joseph Jackson Thomas Wibird Jereh-
miah Lawrence John Usher Nathan1 Page Daved Page Sam1 Farley
Daniel Emerson Joseph Blanchard Junr Thorn8 Parker Junr Anthoney

172 CHARTER RECORDS

Wibircl Francis Worster Jonathan Cumings David Willson Clement
March Esqr of In or to that Tract of Land or Township Call North
Menadnock or Nomber three Bounded as followeth Begining at
Beach tree Being the North East Corner of middle Menadnock
Township and Runs North Eighty Degs West Seven miles to a hem-
lock tree Marked from thence Riming North by the Needle five
miles to tree Marked from Thence Riming South Eighty Degrees
East Seven miles to a Hemlock Tree Marked from thence Runing
South by the Needle five miles to the first Bounds Mentioned

To Have and to Hold to them thier Heirs and Assignes Except-
ing as afores'1 & on the Following Terms & Conditions (that is to
Say) that the whole Tract of Land be Devided Into Seventy one
Equal Shares and that Each Share Contain three Lotts Equitable
Coupled togather and Drawn for at Dunstable at or Before the first
day of July Next In some Equitable Manner

That three of the Aforesd Shares be Granted & appropriated free
of all Charge one for the first Setled minister in Said Town one for
the Suport of the Ministry and one for the School there for ever &
one Lott for Each Said three Shares to be First Lay'd out In the
Most Conveniant place Near the Middle of Said Town and Lotte
Coupled to them so as not to be Drawn for —

That Eighteen of the Said Shares be Reserved for the Grantors of
the Premises their Heirs and Assignes for ever & Aquited from all
Duty and Charge Untill Improved by the owners or Some Holding
Under them Respectively that the Other Owners of the s'1 Rights
make Settlem1 at thier own Expence In the following maner viz1
all the Lotts to be Lay'd out at the Grantees Expence that all the
Lotts In Said Towship be Subjected to have all Necessary roads
Layd out threw them free from Charge as hereafter there Shall be
Ocation That within four Yeares from the Date hereof Forty of the sd
Rights or Shares belonging to the Aforementioned Grantees viz*
Wm Spaulding Joseph French Zackeriah Stearnes Rob1 Fletcher Junr
Josiah Swan John Rindge John Combs Stephen Powers Henry
Walles Sam1 Kenney Ebenezr Gillson Jere11 Norcross Ezekiel Car-
penter Ezra Carpenter Enos Lawrance Will Cumings Mark Hunkin
Joseph Jackson Thos Wibird Jereh Lawrence John Usher Nath1 Page
David Page Sam1 Farley Dan1 Emerson Anthony Wibird Frances
Worster Jona Cumings David Willson Isaiah Lewis Sampson Stod-
dard Benjamin Bellows Thomas Parker Junr one Settlement Each
Peter Powers four Shares Matthew Thornton three Shares Be En-
tered upon and three acres of Land at the Least Clered & In Closed
& Fited for mowing or Tillage and that with Six months then Next
Cuming there be on Each of the Sd forty Setleing Shares a House

DUBLIN. 173

built the Room Sixteen feet Square at the Least lifted and finished
for Comfortable Dwelling therein and Some Person Residant therein

and Continue Inhabitancy and Residance there for three Yeares then
Next Cuming with the additional Improv1 of two acres Each Year
for each Setler

That Each of the Grantees at the Executing of this lustrum1 pay
twenty pounds old Ten1 to Defrey the Necessary Charges Risen and
Arising in sd Township to be Deposited In the hand of Such Person
as the Grantees Shall Chuse Being a freeholder and Residant In the
Province of New llampr —

That a good Conveniant Meeting house be Built In Said Town-
ship as Near the Centr of the Town as may be with Conveniance
within Six Yeares from this Date and ten acres of Land Reserv'1
there for Public Use

That the Af ores'1 Grantees or their Assignes by a Majr Vote In
Public Meetings Assess Such Further Sums of money as they Shall
think Necessary for Compleating and Carrying forward the Settlem*
afores'1 and airy of the Grantees Exclusive of the three Publick Lotts
who Shall Neglect for the Space of three months Next after Such
Assessment Shall be Granted and Made to pay the Same so much of
Such Delinqts Right Respectively Shall or may be Sold as will pay
the Tax and All Charges ariseing thereon by a Comee of the Grantees
Appointed for that purpose —

That all 'White Pine trees fit for masting his Majestys Royal Navy
Growing on said Tract of Land be and hereby are Granted to his
Majesty his Heirs and Successors for ever and In Case any of the
Grantees Shall Neglect or Refuse to perform any of the articles afore
mentioned he Shall forfit his Share and Right In S(i Township and
Eyery Partt and Parcell thereof to those of the Sd Grantees that
Shall have Comply'd with the Conditions on their part herein Ex-
pressed and It Shall & may be Lawful for any Person by their
Authority to Enter Into and Upon the Right of Such Delinqu1 owner
and every part thereof In the Name of the whole of the Setlers that
shall have fullfill'1 as Afores'1 and him to amove Oust & Expell for
their Use their Heirs and Assignes Provided they Settle or Cause
to be Settled Each Such Delinqls Right within the Term of one Year
at the furthest from the Period that is by this Indenture Stipulated
to be Done as the Condition of this Grant & fully Discharge & Com-
ply with the whole Duty Such Delinq1 ought to have Don within
one Year from time to time after the Respective Periods thereof &
In Case the Said Grantees fullfilling on their part as afores'1 Shall
Neglect fullfilling as afores'1 the Duty of any Delinq1 owner nor he
him Self perform as afores'1 that then Such Share or Shares Shall be

174 CHARTER RECORDS.

forfited Revert and Belong to the Grantors their Heirs and As-
signes to be Wholly at their Desposeal allways Provided there be
no Indian War within any of the terms and Limitations Aforesfl for
Doing the Duty Conditioned in the Grant and In Case that Should
Happen the Same time to be Allowed for the Respective Matters
Afores'1 after Such Impedim* Shall be Removed

Lastly the S(1 Grantors do Hereby promis to the Said Grantees
their Heirs & Assignes to Defend through the Law to King' and

o o o

Councill If Need be one Action that Shall or may be Brought
against them or [torn] of them by any person or Persons What-
soever Claiming the Sfl Lands or any Part thereof by any Other
title than that of the Said Grantors or that by which the}^ hold or
Derive theres from Provided the Sd Grantors are Avouch1 in to
Defend the Same and that In Case on Finial Tryal the Same Shall be
Recovered Against the Grantors for the Said Lands Improvements
or Expence In Bringing forward the Settlem1 the Grantees Shall
recover Nothing over against the Said Grantors, and further that the
Said Grantors Will pay the Necessary Expence of time and Money
that any Other Person or Persons Shall be put to by any Other
Suit or Suites that Shall be Brought against them or any Number
of them the Said Grantees for Tryal of the Title Before one Suit
Shall be fully Determined In the Law In Witness Whereof I the
Sd Joseph Blanchard of Dunstable have hereunto Set my hand and
Seal this third Day of November A D. 1740

Joseph Blanchard L S > —

A True Coppy of the Grant of the North Menadnok Township
Attst f Joseph Blanchard Junr Proprs Clerk

DUBLIN.

175

[Proprietors' Names and Lots in Dublin, 1750.]
[Masonian Papers, Vol. 5, p. 117.]

A List of the Prop" of North

3

Menadnack Township

0

a

0

a

0

C
OS

Q

2

P4

y.

&

2

p/

Matthew Thornton Esqr

1

10

I

9

I

16

I

Sampson Stoddard Esqr

2

8

I

12

5

'9

5

William Spaulding

3

7

I

7

3

12

10

Cap' Joseph French

4

2

I

13

6

15

10

Joseph Blanchard Esqr

5

20

2

7

8

21

0

Thomas Packer Esqr

6

19

2

9

7

11

10

Joseah Brown

7

18

2

10

6

*9

1

JB

Matthew Thornton Esq1"

8

10

2

22

1

13

4

Zacherh Starnes

9

2

2

1 1

6

10

10

Peter Powers

10

12

3

2

5

15

8

Rob' Fletcher Junr

11

18

3

21

3

10

7

Dan1 Peirce & mrB mary moor

12

1 1

3

22

2

22

3

Jotham Odiorn Esq'

13

10

3

22

6

1

10

Clement March Esq1"

14

4

3

16

10

3

10

Eleazr Blanchard

15

2

3

12

6

*y

10

Foster Wentworth

16

1

3

12

7

9

10

Josiah Swan

17

16

4

8

9

8

10

Isaac Rindge

18

9

4

22

10

21

10

Joshua Peirce Esqr

19

8

4

4

9

5

9

Mark H :s Wentworth Esq

20

4

4

3

8

6

10

George Jaffrey

21

2

4

14

5

14

6

Theodore Atkinson Esqr

22

1

4

20

3

'9

3

Sami Solley and Cll March Esq™

23

20

5

21

5

9

6

John Rindge

24

7

5

21

1

21

1

Ezekiel Carpenter

25

5

5

13

1

12

1

E: C.

Benja Bellows

26

4

5

3

6

5

10

Peter Powers

27

1

5

12

4

7

9

Peter Powers

28

8

6

16

2

17

2

Stephen Powers

29

20

9

l9

8

20

7

John Combs

3°

7

6

20

6

21

6

Henry Wallis

3i

1

6

8

5

l9

6

Sam1 Kenney

32

18

7

5

2

6

2

Benja Bellows

33

7

7

6

9

4

10

Ebenezer Gillson

34

22

8

21

9

1 1

4

Jeremh Norcross

35

14

8

14

7

13

2

Isaiah Lewis

36

13

8

13

7

17

4

I: L

Matthew Livermore

37

11

8

1 1

9

2

7

Ezra Carpenter

38

10

8

1

9

I

7

Enos Lawrence

39

22

9

21

8

13

5

John Wentworth Esqr

40

6

6

19

7

'5

5

Peter Powers

41

*9

9

14

4

19

10

176

CHARTER RECORDS.

A List of the Prop" of North
Menadnack Township

3

<D

4J

<u

W>

W)

bJO

rt

c

C

c

u

0

rt

0

rt

O

rt

Q

2

tf

Z

P4

fc

«

William Cumings

Mark Hunkin

Thomas Wallingsford Esqr

Richard Wibird Esqr

Minister Lotts

School Lotts

Joseph Jackson

Thomas Wibird

Ministry Lotts

Jeremiah Lawrance

John Usher

Nathan1 Page

Nathan1 Merserve Esqr

John Moffat

David Page

William Parker Esqr

Matthew Thornton Esqr

Sam1 Farley

Daniel Emerson

Joseph Blanchard Junr

Tho» Parker Junr

Peter Powers

Anthoney Wibird

Francis Worster

John T : : Mason &

Jn° Thomlinson Esqr

Peter Powers

Jonathan Cumings

Eleazr Blanchard

John Rindge

David Willson

42

14

9

43

10

9

44

9

9

45

2

9

46

10

5

47

10

4

48

17

7

49

7

4

5°

6

4

5i

6

7

52

12

8

53

5

4

54

17

3

55

1 1

2

56

5

3

57

8

2

58

9

2

59

6

8

60

16

7

61

5

6

62

6

3

63

16

8

64

3

5

65

18

9

66

1 1

7

67

16

9

68

6

5

69

3

2

70

1

1

7i

2

6

13

4
8

3
1 1

22
20
21
22
5

13
17
16

15

1

7
1 1

5

3

4

16

17

4

16

17
18

15

3
4
9

3

14

3

1

5

1

3

1

2

10

3

7

5

4

8

4

8

8

4

9

3

4

18

5

5

J3

9

7

22

7

10

14

10

8

18

8

3

20

10

3

6

1

8

2

8

2

18

4

1

21

7

8

J5

9

3

18

6

7

12

9

6

17

6

9

17

10

6

20

8

5

15

4

5

12

2

10

15

7

6

19

4

4

8

7

2

3

9

5

7

10

a Sitting
Right

The Above is a Coppy of the Prop" of the North Menadnock Township with the
N° of the Lotts &c by them drawn ye first tuesday of June 1750

Atest '39 Joseph Blanchard Jr Pro Clerk

lU'l'.LIN.

[Plan of Dublin, 1750.]

177

B.^lJi InMyJy in Xoi..? 7m.Z

<m£ i"At .^T ^JV^T W'/V

This is a plan of the North Manadnadnock N° 3 Township ye
ranges are 160 rods wide and the Lotts are one Hundred rods Wide,
and finished Laying out the Lotts In may — 1750

Joseph Blanchard Survr
a Coppy Taken from the files of the Proprs of the Above
Township *$

Jose Blanchard Jr Prop8 Clerk

[Theodore Atkinson's Agreement.']
[Masonian Papers, Vol. 5, p. 118.]

Dublin, or North Manadnock number three 19 in the third Range,
Set to the Hon1 Col. Theodore Atkinson's Right & to a Right of
Peter Power's, one of the two Should be twelve in the third Range
& his Honour has Consented that 12 in 3 Range Shall Be Set to
power's Right

Sr To Rectify the Mistake mentioned on the Other Side I hereby
relinquish all Pretentions of Property to the N° (12) in the 3d
Range & that Mr Peter Powers Name be entered there & that N°
(19) in the 3d Should be & remain to Me this I think will Set all
right when thus added in the Plan —

Yours Theodore Atkinson
12

178 CHARTER RECORDS.

[ Vote of Acceptance by Grantees of Dublin, 1752.]
[Masonian Papers, Vol. 5, p. 119.]

Whereas Joseph Blanchard Esqr for and the Name and Behalf of
the Proprs of the Lands in the Province of New Hamp1' Purchased by
them of John Tuffton Mason Esqr Who sold to them under the
Title made to them by a Com'on Reccovery did on the 3d day of
Nover 1749 Grant the Contents of twenty two Thousand Two Hun-
dred Acres part of Sd Lands, Bounded as Folio we th Begining at the
North East Corner of Middle Manadnock Township or N° 2 & Runs
North 80 Degs West Seven miles to a Hemlock tree Marked thence
runing North by the Needle five miles to a Tree Marked thence
runing South Eigy Degs East Seven miles to a hemlock tree Marked
thence runing South by the Needle five miles to the first Bounds
Mentioned, Under Certain Conditions Limitations & Reservations
in Stl Grant Mentioned as by S'1 Grant Referance thereto had will
Fully Appear, unto Mathw Thornton Samp" Stoddard Wni Spaulding
Jos French Zachr Starnes Peter Powers Rob' Fletcher Junr Eleazr
Blanchard Foster Wentworth Josh Swan Isaac Rindge Jn° Rindge
Ezek1 Carpenter Benja Bellows Jn° Combs Steph" Powers Henry
Walles Sam1 Kenny Ebenez1' Gillson Jereh Norcross Isaiah Lewis
Ezra Carpenter Enos Lawrence Wln Cumings Mark Hunkin
Jos : Jackson Thos Wibird Jereh Lawrence Jn° Usher Nath1
Page David Page Anthoney Wibird Sam1 Farley Daniel Emer-
son Jos : Blanchard Jun1' Thos Parker Jr Francis Worster Jona
Cumings David Willson & Clem1 March — Therefore Unanimously
Voted that we do hereby Accept Sa Title and for our Selves Our
Heirs & Assignes acknowledge that we Do hold Said Lands Under
said Title Conditions & Limitations with the Reservations therein
mentioned

Extract from the Votes of the Proprs Grantees of the Township
Called North Manadnock or N° 3 passed at their meeting the fourth
Day of Aug1— 1752

Coppy Exam'1 ^ Joseph Blanchard Jr Props Ck

[Thomas Morse's Bill and Letter, 1782.]
[Masonian Papers, Vol. 5, p. 120.]

Dublin August 25 : 1782

worthy Sir / if you remember a number of Years ago you wrote
me a Letter and in the Letter you Desir'd me To bring you an Exact
account of those Deliquents that had not Done their Duty in Masons

DUBLIN.

179

Pattern and in Dublin in Pecular — for which Service you Promis'd me
Ample reward — and I have not as yet receivd any thing for my Ser-
vice— but I Should take it very kind in you Sir if You would try
to git it for me — from your most obedient & humble servant

Thomas Morse

To George Jeffrey Esqr at Portsmouth

P: S: the accompt is £4: s10

1774 The Proprietors of Masons Patent

To Thomas Morse Dr

To my time & Expences & a Journey to
Portsmouth from Dublin by their order
to return the number of Lots & the duty
done on each right omitted charging- in

Season

Errors excepted Thomas Morse

£ 4.. 10

[Settlers and Improvements in Dublin.']
[Masonian Papers, Vol. 5, p. 121.]

Names of ye grantees of Monad-
nock N° 3 that ware obliged to
Settle agreabel to Charter

Names of those Settled acars
for ye s'1 Rites Cleared

Wni Spalding

Sam11 Twitchel

14

Joseph French

Isaac Bond

10

Zachariah Stearnes

Ivery Perry

12

Robert Fletcher jr

Edward west Perry

20

Josiah Swan

Levi Partridge

15

John Ringe

John Morrison

9

John Combs

Asa Norcros

15

Stephen Powers

Wm Beal

10

Henry Wallis

Joseph Adams

12

Sam11 Kenney

Benja Learned

9

Ebenezer Gillson

Daniel Greenwood

10

Jereh Norcros

Daniel Morse

12

Ezekiel Carpenter

Siles Stone

15

Ezra Carpenter

Ezra Twitchel

1

Enos Lawrance

Eli Morse

18

W"' Commings

Benja Mason

18

Mark Hnnkin

David Morse

9

Joseph Jackson

Joseph Twitchel jr

12

Thomas Wibord

Sam" Earns jr

10

i8o

CHARTER RECORDS.

Jeremiah Lawrence

John Usher

Nath11 Page

David Page

Sam11 Farley

Daniel Emerson

Anthony Wibird

Francis worster

Jona Cummings

David willson

Isaiah Lewis

Samson Stoddard

Benja Bellos

Thomas Parker jr one each

Petter Powers 4 Settler
muzzy John Muzzy Martha
wight Sam11 Earns
W,n Greenwood —
moses Adams —
Robart muzzy —
John Muzzy —

Benonf Death
Ruben morse
John wight

Simeon Johnson
Henry Strongman
Ebenr Twitchel
Thomas Morse
Micah Morse
Joshua Lealand
Thadias mason
Betholimi Goyer

9
16
11

9
18
12
20
13
10
10

9

Caleb Greenwood 14

3 wm greenwood Moses Adams Robert
Thornton 3 Settlers Moses Mason Joel

20 moses Mason-

40 Joel wight —

10 Sam11 Earns—
12

14
12

9

DUMMER.

TGranted March 8, i773. to Mark Hanking Wentworth and [others. Incor-
porated Dec. I o, 1848. A part of Stark was annexed July 1 , 1868.
P See New Hampshire charters in preceding volumes; Index to Laws ;

sketch, by John B Lovejoy, Fergusson's History of Coos County, 1888, p. 854,
Lawrence's N. H. Churches, 1856, p. 610.]

[Minutes of Transactions in Bummer, 1832-3.]
[Masonian Papers, Vol. 5, p. 122.]
Land belonging to Family in Dummer Jany 1832.
M H. Wentworth— ^ \6J> { 9Rfi

Bot of Jn* Wentworth IgJ * i 2*^

Daniel Peirce-

Jn° Peirce Thomas & Ann Martin
conveyed this to Joseph Peirce 23d Jan-
uary 1779

247]

136

► &

1

• >

215

17 j

sold

[Plan of Bummer, 1781.]

DUMMER. 151

Davi,! ('all 70)

262 J & £ 215
183 ) sold

Asa Porter —
Bot of Asa Porter

Joshua Bayley

Bot of Asa Porter
And" S. Crocker—

And"' Smith sold

Bot of And" Smith

S. Folsom-

Exchanged with N A & J Haven
Joseph Peirce

Rich'1 Sherman-

203]
231
92 J

- & h 145

282]
158
57]

> & h 286
\ sold

232 ]

77
137]

> & 4 226

12j

4(3

• & Each \

i of 227

53

80]
82
37 '

> & \ 226

Thos & Ann Martin & Jos Peirce 280 \ & £ 145

conveyed to John Peirce 25 Jany 1779 178)

Mr Fishers Rightes in Dummer

Stephen Sumner 3, 25, 93, 199, & \ N° 120

Francis Little 3, 140, 172, 240 & ;f 261

John Fisher sold Ge° Cook & not p<l for 47. 114. 118. & £-261

John Wall 74, 211, 263 &|N° 120

John Payn 58, 108, 85 & i"ll9

Oc. 26, 1827 Sold Mr Fishers Lot N° 199 Dummer to Asa Kimball
for -200— he paid his l8t Note Viz—

March 26, 1829— 50.—
balance Jany 5, 1831— 65.33

Rec'1 & credited Mr Fisher $115.33

the other note given up to him ; he claiming to give it up by Right ;
though he had no right : so that Mr Fisher now owns the lot, a bond
for deed only having been given which Bond he surrendered

l82 CHARTER RECORDS.

One Lot N° 215 sold And"' G. Lary | for 8175, & is paid for $ note
& Dearborn Lary \ Book Sold Jany 23, 1832
" " N° 12 sold Joseph Leighton June 12 1832 for $250 & the

proprietors of Dummer are to
pay us $50 ^ minute on bot-
tom of Leightons Notes
" N° 286 sold Robert Ingalls & } April 21, 1833 for $175
Marshall Grover \ Bond for Deed

[Minutes of Transactions in Dummer.']

[Masonian Papers, Vol. 5, p. 123.]

Thomas & Ann Martin to John Peirce

1 Right Dummer of Which Rich'1 Shearman 25 Jany 1779

Joseph Peirce to John Peirce

1 Right Daniel Peirce Esq 1 Feb. 1779

but this last said to be Reconveyed on back of deed

In case of defect of tittle to any part or portion of the Premises
hereby intended to be conveyed, the Grantors shall not be holden for
any farther sum or any damage beyond the sum now paid for such
part or portion to be paid after the Grantee or their assigns shall be
disposed of —

[Bond ofM. W. Peirce, 1835.]
[Masonian Papers, Vol. 5, p. 124.]

Portsm0 23d July 1835

Received of Messrs William Bailey of Bangor in Penobscott County
Maine and George Pierce of Harrison in the County of Cumberland
and Said State of Maine their promissory note payable to me or J.
W Peirce for the Sum of Eighteen Hundred Ninety Four Dollars
and Twenty Five Cents payable in Thirty days and interest, Now if
said Bailey & Pierce shall pay said note when due and give at that
time three other other notes each for the Sum of Eighteen Hundred
Ninety Four Dollars & Twenty Five Cents (Said four notes making
together the Sum of Seven Thousand Five Hundred & Seventy
Seven Dollars) the said last three described notes payable in One
Two and Three years — one each year — with interest annually
Secured by Mortgage on the following described Rights and Lots in
Dummer in the County of Coos & State of New Hampshire or by
other Security to my Satisfaction then I agree to procure for them

DUMMKR. 183

their heirs & assigns good & Sufficient deeds of the said Rights and
Lots in Said Dumnier — to the faithful performance of which agree-
ment I do hereby bind myself my heirs & Executors & administra-
tors to said Bailey & Pierce their heirs and assigns in the Sum of
Three Thousand Dollars sealed with my Seal at the date before
written

The Rights & Lots before mentioned are as follows — No8 135.
157. 180 in right of M. II Wentworth 247. 136. 17 in right of
Daniel Peirce 70. 262. 183 in Right of Daniel Call. 203. 281 92 &
i 145 right of Asa Porter 282. 158. 57 Right of Joshua Bayley
232. 77. 137 and £ of 226 right of Andw S. Crocker 46 \ of 227 right
of And" Smith 53 right of S. Folsom 80. 82. 37 & \ 226 Right of
Joseph Peirce. 176 280. 178 & ± 145 Right of Rich11 Shearman 25 93.
199 & h 120 Right of Stephen Sumner 140 172. 240. & £ 261 right
of Francis Little 47. 114. 118. & £ 261 Right of John Fisher 74. 211.
263. & £ 120 right of John Wall 58. 108. 85. & £ 119 Right of John
Payn each lot containing One Hundred Acres more or less except
Lots 282 & 280 each of which contain One Hundred & Twelve &
a half Acres more or less & each of said Rights having Thirty
Acres and Four Ninths of an Acre more or less of Common &
undivided land excepting that of S. Folsom the common & undi-
vided land appertenant to which is not included in this bond

witness M W. Peirce < Seal >

Alexr Haven / 1

{Insertion in Deed to Bailey and Pierce, 1835.]
[Masonian Papers, Vol. 5, p. 125.]

The Deeds we are to Receive from M W Peirce for certain Lots
of Land in Dummer according to His Bond to us, are to contain the
following clause viz " It being understood that in Case of any failure
of title to any part or parcel of the premises hereby intended to be
conveyed the grantor shall not be holden or liable to pay any farther
Sum or damages beyond the sum now paid for such part or portion
with interest and costs of suit to be paid to the Grantees their heirs
or assigns so soon as they shall be legally dispossessed thereof " the
said deeds to be warrantees against all person claiming under the
grantors or the Origenal proprietars or an}' title under any Vendue
Sale

July 23. 1835 W" Bailey

George Pierce

184

CHARTER RECORDS.

[Dummer Lands Sold to Pierce and Bailey, ,]

[Masonian Papers, Vol. 5, p. 126.]

Schedule of Land in Dummer in the County of Coos & State of New Hamp-
shire bargained to George Pierce & Joshua Bayley

Orig. Proprietors

N° Lot N° Acres

Amot.

M H. Wentworth

Daniel Peirce

Daniel Call

Asa Porter

Joshua Bayley

Andw S. Crocker

sold— &

sold h

sold h

sold £

r35

100

157

100

180

100

286

Common

3°l

247

100

136

100

17

100

215

Common

3<>£

70

100

262

100

183

100

215

Common

30-9-

203

100

231

100

92

100

145

50

Common

3°l

282

112^

158

IOO

57

IOO

286

Common

3°^

232

100

77

IOO

137

IOO

226

50

Common

3°!

33°¥

3301

330-9-

380^

343

DUMMER.

I85

Orig. Proprietors.

N° Lot

N° Acres

Amot.

Andw. Smith

sold
h

12
46
227
Common

53

80
82

180*

100

100

5°

30^-

S. Folsom

100

Joseph Peirce

100
100

h

37
226
Common

176
280
178

145
Common

100
50
3°i

380*

393
38o|

Richd Shearman

100

II2<|

IOO
50

3°£

Stephen Sumner

i

25

93
199
120
Common

140

100

100

100
50X
3°3

Francis Little

100

172

100

i

240

261

Common

47
114

100
50X
3°i

38o|

John Fisher

100
100

h

118

261

Common

74

21 1

263

120

Common

100
5°X
309

3S0J
38oi

John Wall

100

100

100
50X
3©i

i86

CHARTER RECORDS.

Orig. Proprietors

N° Lot

N° Acres

Amot.

John Payn

h

58
108

85
119
Common

100

100

100

5°

3°i

38of

John Fisher

Acres
19025

I.50

M W Peirce & others 3149^ ©150

Acres

Total 505 1 £

150

Total Acres 505 1£

Cash

Cash —

1 year -

2 years

3 years

$2853.33

7I3-34

1 Year 713-33

2 Years 7^3-33

3 years 713-33

$2853.33

4723.67

1180.94
—1 180.91

- 1180.91

- 1180.91

$4723.67

7577-

2853-33

Jn° Fisher

M W Peirce & others- 4723.67

pretended com1

$7577.00
5

37885

DUNBARTON.

187

DUNBARTON.

[Granted by Massachusetts, June 19, 17.35, to Capt. John Gorham's men and
called Gor ham-town. Granted by the Masonian Proprietors, Dec. 18, 1748, to
Archibald Stark and others, and called Stark1 s-t own. Regranted March 2, 1752.
Incorporated as Dunbarton Aug. 10, 1765, and named from a town in Scotland.
A portion of Dunbarton was included in the limits of Hooksett, incorporated July
2. 1S22. The line between Dunbarton and Goffstown was established Jan. 7,
1853, and the line between Dunbarton and Weare, July 2, 1853.

See Massachusetts and New Hampshire charters in preceding volumes ; IX,
Bouton Town Papers, 189; XI, Hammond Town Papers, 558; Index to Laws,
157; Early History, addresses by Amos Hadley, 1845, pp. 27; History,
by Caleb Stark, i860, pp. 272; Centennial Celebration, 1865, pub. 1866, pp. 124;
Dunbarton, Past and Present, by J. B. Connor, 4, Granite Monthly, 38; sketch,
by W. H. Stinson, Hurd's History of Merrimack County, 1885, p. 291 ; sketch-
12, Farmer's Monthly Visitor, 101 ; Baptist Churches in N. H., by E. E. Cum,
mings, 1836, p. 20; Memoir of John Stark, by Caleb Stark, i860; Lawrence's
N. H. Churches, 1856, p. 376; Historical Sketch of Congregational Church, by
J. M. Putnam, 1845, PP- l6: The Stark Place, by F. M. Colby, 5, Granite
Monthly, 80.]

[Petition for Grant of Dunbarton.]

[Masonian Papers, Vol. 5, p. 128.]

Province of \ To the Proprietors of the Right of Land within
New Hampshire \ ye Province of New Hampshire Purchased by
them of John Tufton Mason Esqu" —

The Petitioners Shew that they being Satisfyed of your Right to
the lands aforesaid & willing to hold part thereof under you Pray
that you would grant to them the Tract of Land consisting of Six
miles Square for a Township joining upon a Tract of Land lately
voted to Cap1 John Goffe & others and your Petitioners will pray
&ca —

Archibald Stark William Stark

Archibald Stark jun1 Thomas Hall
the above of A mas Ceeg

Dav : Mac Gregore
John Stark

Samuell Renkin
James Cochran
John Cochran
Alexander Gait
Hugh Ramsey
John Caree
Willam : Moore
Samuell Caldwell
Archball Coningham
John Horrner

William Stinson
John Stinson
William Gault
Samuel Stinson
Matthew thornton
James Ramesy
Hugh DunShee
Joseph Scoby
James Ramsey
Hugh Jemeson

James MacGregore
David Stinson
John MacDuffee
Daniel Leslie
Daved Crarge
Joseph Cochran
Sam11 P'ulton
William Rauken
Mathew Ramesy
Daniel Maccurdy

i88

CHARTER RECORDS.

James Rodgers Samuel Tood

Chester-
Esquire Samuel Emerson John Hall

John Cochran

Matthew Morton
Jeremiah Page

John Hogg

William Can
George Clark

James Varnum

Haverhill District
John Morton
Caleb Page Juner
Kingstown
Samuel Hogg

Lichfeild
Adam Dicky
Jn° Quige

James Adems

William Ellet
George Massey

Thomas folenesbe Juner
Samuel Richards

Joseph Bl an chard
Jn° McCallaster

\Power to Survey and Lay Out Dunbarton, 1748.]
[Masonian Papers, Vol. 5, p. 129.]

To Archibald Stark Samuel Rankin Hugh Ramsey & Thomas Hall
Gentlemen You are hereby Authorized and Impowerd to take a
Survey & make a plan of So much Land within the Province of New
Hampshire & without the bounds of any Town in said Province &
next to Chester as is Equal to Six Miles Square Exclusive of Ponds
& Lay it out in Such a manner as to make the North line of that
place calld Souhegan East the South Boundary of the Said Six Miles
Square at least So far as the Said Souhegan goes Joining to the River
Merrimack & so Running back in the most Convenient form Respect-
ing the said Six Miles & what we may have Occasion to Lay out
hereafter & Mark the boundaries of the Land you Shall so Lay out
& make any Improvement within the said Tract & Return a plan of
the said Land you Shall so Lay out to us as Soon as may be for
which you shall have a Reasonable & proportionable part Granted to
you by us Agreeable to Such proposals of Settlem1 as we have now
Discoursed with you but if upon view & Conferrence with Cap1 John
Goffe you find it most Couven1 to Lay the said Tract farther North-
ward So as not to Join to the Said Souhegan you have Liberty So to
Do & you are to make Choice of a proper Surveyor for the purpose
according to your Discretion & to be at the Charge of the Said Sur-
vey & plan We Recommend Sam1 Emerson Esqr as a suitable Person
to Employ as a surveyor Portsm0 Octobr 8th 1748

This is a Copy of the power given to us by the Committee

Archibald Stark
Samuel Ren kin
Hugh Ramsey
Thomas Hall

DUNBARTON. I 89

\_Masonian Proprietors to Proprietors of Duubarton, 1748.]
[Masonian Papers, Vol. 5, p. 180.]

Portsmouth October 12th 1748
Gentlemen

In our Power and directions to you of the 8th Ins1 we ordered that
you should conferr with Cap' John Goffe before you proceeded to lay
out or Survey the lands you proposed, the reason of w'1' is, that
there might be no difference by interfering one with another, now
we are in formed that is not done so as to answer the end designed ;
he was the first we engaged to Serve with his associates; you must
not therefore interrupt or molest them ; but as you are the Second in
order we agree you should take next & if you and he can agree to
take a plan together of so much as will make two townships we
should think it would be the best way & return to us as we directed,
& you may make a distinction in the plan where you think ye Divi-
sion might be — however we would not have you understand us as
designing to take away any of your particular Settlements & Im-
provements in either of such Townships; we would contrive to ac-
comodate you therein — upon the whole we would have no Sup-
planting or undermining one another but would have all that hold
under us unite to carry on the common Cause, the good of the whole
and not differ with one another — if you can't so agree to join in the
plan for the whole, you must take the Second place & begin where
his end's — we must insist that you also join with him in taking a
general plan of the lands & rivers beginning at Souhegan East so
called at the northwest Corner & running upon the east Side of new
Boston & Hales Town so call'd thence East to the line of Bow & fol-
lowing that line to Merrimack and thence by merrimack to Souhegan
north East Corner — your Compliance with the premisses will engage
us to be more effectually your Friends &c

Theodore Atkinson R Wibird

Mark Hg Wentworth J. Odiorne

John Moffatt Sam11 Moore

Josh8 Peirce Geo : Jaffrey Junr

Committee
Post. S as Cap1 Todd has made some proposals (by another) we
would have you invite him to join with you in the premisses —

Messrs Archibald Stark Sam11 Rankin Hugh Ramsey & Thomas
Hall

Copy Examin'd ^ Geo: Jaffrey junr

The Original was forwarded as Inscribed ^ Capr Jn° Goofe Ocf
13 : 1748 ^ Geo : Jaffrey junr

IOX) CHARTER RECORDS.

[John McMurphy in Behalf of Rogers and Putney, 1748.]

[Masonian Papers, Vol. 5, p. 132.]

Portsmouth October 2t>Ul 1748
To the Gentlemen Purchasers of Masons Right in Lands in the
Province of New Hampshire —

John Macmurphy Esqur in behalfe of James Rogers now Residf in
Bow, & Joseph Pudney now Resid1 in Pennicook do Petition your
favour Namely That whereas the said James Rogers and Six Sons,
Daniel Samuel James Robert Richard John and the said Joseph &
Six Sons, John Joseph William Henry Asa Obediah had purchased a
parcel of land on ye westerly Side of ye Town of Bow lying within
ye Bounds of Gorham Town, So called, of that part called Lovels
farm, ql ye Quantity of abf two thousand one hunded and Ninenty
Acres, and that we have improved jointly abl ninety eight Acres of
meaddow, & abe one hundred Acres of Upland & had two dwelling-
houses & two Barns & two Orchards — and that the Houses were
built abe nine Years past — and that in April last ye Indians burn't
and destroyed ye Said Houses And Barns & cut down ye Orchards
and kill'd a Heifer and a Steer belonging to Said James Rogers —
wherefore we pray that when you dispose of tract of land which con-
tains the aforesaid purchase (of which we referr to our Deeds of
Conveyance from Zacheus Lovel) we may be included as fourteen of
the persons you dispose of to, and that we may have ye Said two
thousand one hundred & ninety Acres, together, equally to be
divided between ye Said fourteen Petitioners upon ye Terms and
Conditions as ye adjacent lands is to be dispossd of by you, and the
said Petitioners desire no more in ye Township Or Townships when
laid out, as proprietors, than ye said two thousand one hundred &
ninety Acres, your Consideration and favour hereof, will very much
Oblige your Petitioners —

his

Joseph X Pudnev John Macmurphy

mark in Behalf of the Petitioners

[Petition of Andretv Todd and others, 1748.]
[Masonian Papers, Vol. 5, p. 132.]

Ports"1 Novbr ye 3d 1748.
To the Gentlemen Purchasers & Proprietors of Cap' John Tuff ton
Mason Right to the Lands in the Province of New Hampshire. &c
We the Subscriber by a Licence from his Excelency to Improve &

DUNBARTON. 191

Fence a Peace of Land upon the westerly Side of Merrimack River
Below Bowline: Have by virtue of said Licence fence'd and Im-
prov'd about Sixty acres of land by Planting & Sowing for the Space
of Six years last past, in which time we have En joy 'd our Improve-
ments without Molestation or Disturbanc from any person in this
Goverment. —

Wherefore we wo'd Humbly pray that your Honrs wo'd please to
Grant us the aforesd Improvements with a Proper peace of Land ad-
joyning thereto for fencing Stuff &c. by our Selves, or otherwise as
you in your Great Wisdom Shall Seem meet, your Compliance to
this our Request wo'd Exceedingly oblige Gentlemen your Honrs
most obedient and most Humble Servts to Command.

his

Alexander A mack Corleus Andrew Todd

mark

Barber Leslie John Espie

Robart Dickey James Leslie

Daniel Dicky James Moore

the Land is within Gorham

N B. Nathan Simon's Say's that the within Sixty Acres is almost
clear'd except ye Hills and that the Within Petitioners clear'd abl 25
Acres of ye within 60 and Sow'd & planted ye same, and that ye Said
Simons clear'd about 5 Acres of ye sd 25 before ye Petitioners afore-
said

Decr 1st 1748

At a Meeting agreed that Nathan Simons have his Improvement
Secured to him

Todds 50 Acres to be 75 he to have Aspies Right

260 for all ye Eight then to run back Westerly from ye River to
make it up begining Martins brook & So runing

[Petition of Ed-ward White, 1748.]
[Masonian Papers, Vol. 5, p. 131.]

I the subscriber having purchased a tract of Land of Wm Dudley
Esqr deceas'd. lying in Gorhams town, so called, on which I have
Settled a tenant, & been at great Expence in Improving the same
with a design to live on it myself, w'h s'1 tract falls within Masons
Claim, do petition that ye Purchasers of Masons Right would Quit-
claim srt tract of Land to me, my Heirs & Assigns

Portsmouth Novr 5th 1748 Edward White

I92 CHARTER RECORDS.

[Petition of Thomas Colburn, Nov. 16, 1748.]
[Masonian Papers, Vol. 5, p. 133.]

To the Gentlemen Proprietors & Purchasers of Cap' John Tufton
Mason Esqur his Right in Lands in ye Province of New Hamp-
shire—

I the Subscriber humbly Shew, that I was an original grantee of a
Tract of Land called Lovels Farm and is included in a Township
called Gorham's Town, and as said farm consist's of twenty four
hundred Acres, & granted to Six proprietors one of whose Rights
I purchased for ninety five pounds before ye Dividing line was
run between ye Massa & New Hampshire — and as I am inform'd
Messrs Rogers & Pudney have petitioned of you for themselves and
their twelve Sons for ye greatest part of said farm representing it as
their improvemts from one of them I have a primissory note for his
improvement of my part of a Meadow in said farm bearing date June
21st 1739 which I have improved for 14 or 15 years — wherefore I
humbly pray you will when you grant or dispose of said Tract of
land called Gorham's Town you would Suffer me to have two Rights
or Shares & that my Improvement and purchase may be therein
included as laid out in said Farm upon Such Terms and Conditions
as you shall think meet and you will oblige

Your most Hum : Serv*

Thomas Colburn

[Petition of Benjamin Gioidd and Jonathan Parkhurst, 1748.]
[Masonian Papers, Vol. 5, p. 134.]

Province of ) Portsmouth Novr 28th 1748—
New Hampslr" ) To the Honble Theodore Atkinson Esqur and the
other Purchasers & Proprietors of Cap1 Jn° Tufton Mason's Right in
Lands in New Hampshire

As your Honours have the Right of that part of ye Land in New
Hampshire called Lovels Farm joining to or Lying within Gorham's
Town so called, and as I the Subscriber in 1734 purchased ab' 300
Acres in Said Lovels Farm and fenced & improved ye meadow in
Said purchase and am inform'd one Pudney & one Rogers have
requested a grant thereof from your Honours I desire & request
that when you grant or dispose of that Said Farm you would con-
tinue my purchase to me upon Such Terms & Conditions as you
grant to others hoping you will consider my Expence of purchasing
& improvement therein — And as Jonathan Parkhurst was coming

DUNBARTON. I 93

with me to Apply to your Honours in his own behalfe as a Petitioner
for ab1 300 Acres of land in Said Lovel's Farm which he purchased
And improved in y' Same manner as I have I Do at his Desire &
Request petition for him in the Same manner and upon y" Same
terms as I do tor my Selfe praying your Consideration & favour
therein, for ye Said Parkhurst, who is prevented Attending l>y Sick-
ness, and for my Selfe, w''1 will ever oblige us, for whom I Subscribe
Your Petitioner & Hum : serv'

Benjamin Goold

[Charter of Dunbar ton, 1748.]

[Masonian Proprietors' Records, Dec. 17, 1748.]

Province of New ) Portsmouth December 17tu A D 1748 at the
Hampshire \ Dwelling House of Sarah Prust Widow on Satur-
day ten of ye Clock before noon

The Proprietors meet According to Adjournment
Voted. That there be and hereby is Granted unto Archibald Stark
William Stark John Stark Archibald Stark junr Thomas Hall all of
a place called Amaskege in the Province of New Hampshire, The
Rev'1 David Mac Gregore Samuel Rankin William Rankin Hugh
Ramsey John Ramsey Matthew Ramsey Matthew Thornton David
Craig Joseph Cochran John Stenson Hugh Dunshe Samuel Fulton
Samuel Caldwell Joseph Scoby Samuel Stenson Daniel Lesly Will-
iam Stenson James M'Gregore James Cockran David Stenson John
Cochran (commonly called Doctor) William Gault John M'Dufri
Alexander Gault Archibald Cunningham John Horner Hugh Jami-
son John Carr Daniel M'Curdy Alexander Todd James Rogers Samuel
Todd James Adams Adam Dicky George Clarke John McCalestel"
John Quigg all of Londonderry in said Province Samuel Emerson
Esqr John Hall William Elliot John Cochran James Varnum all of
Chester in said Province Matthew Morton George Masse}' John
Morton all of Portsmouth in said Province Thomas Follinsby Jun'
Jeremiah Page Caleb Page Jun1' Samuel Richards all of Haverhill
District in said Province John Hogg Samuel Hogg both of Kingston
in s'1 Province Joseph Blanchard William Carr both of Litchfield in
said Province Nathan Simons of Haverhill & his Eldest Son, Thomas
Coburn of Nottingham West Joseph Pudney of Pennicoke So Called
James Rogers of Bow in said Province their Heirs & Assigns in Equal
Shares and Benjamin Gold & John Parkhurst both of Chelmsford
both one Such Share Equally & the Eldest Sons of the said Joseph
12

194 CHARTER RECORDS.

Pudney & James Rogers both one Such Share Equally to them their
Heirs & Assigns, Excepting as hereafter Excepted on the terms Con-
ditions and Limitations herein after Expressed, all that Tract or par-
cel of Land within the Province of New Hampshire Containing about
five Miles Square more or Less Bounded as follows, viz Beginning
at the Main River on the Northerly Side of a Tract of Land lately
Granted by said Proprietors to Thomas Parker & others and riming
Westward as far as that Tract of Land runs Joining on the Same,
then running North two Degrees West five Miles & one hundred &
Eighty rods, then North Seventy Nine Degrees East till it Comes to
a place Called Rumford then runing South Seventeen Degrees East
three hundred & forty Rods then East till it Comes to the Township
of Bow, then by that till it Comes to said River and then by that till
it Comes to the place where begins. —

To have and To hold to them their Heirs and Assigns as aforesaid
Excepting as aforesaid on the following terms Conditions & Limita-
tions, That is to Say, That the whole Tract of Land within said
Bounds (Saving the Particular Tracts herein after mentioned) be
Divided into Eighty five Shares or Rights & Each Share or Right be
Laid out into two Distinct Lots & munber'd with the same Number
on Each of said Lots, That the Numbers begin with One & End with
Eighty five. That one of the said Shares be for the Use of the first
Minister of Gospel who shall be Settled on the said Tract of Land
hereby Granted, & Shall remain there during his Life or until he shall
be Regularly Dismist to hold to him his Heirs & Assigns. And one
other of said Shares be for & towards the Support of the Gospel
Ministry there for Ever. That one of the Lots belonging to Each
Share shall Contain One hundred Acres and the other all belonging
to Each Respective Share. That the hundred Acre Lot belonging to
the Share for the first Minister of the Gospel, and the hundred Acre
Lot belonging to the Share for the Support of the Ministry as afore-
said be Laid out as near the place where the Meeting house shall be
set as may Conveniently be done, but that all the other Lots be
drawn for according to the Common Method of Drawing for Lots of
Land in Such Cases only not till the whole Shall be Laid out So that
there Shall be but one Draft for both the Lots belonging to one
Share. That one of said Shares be for & towards the Support of a
School there for Ever. And Seventeen of said Shares be Reserved
for the Use of the Proprietors the Grantors of the said Premises their
Heirs & Assigns for Ever. That the said Seventeen Shares so
reserved be Exonerated Acquitted & fully Exempted from paying
any Charge towards making a Settlement there & not held to the
Conditions of the other Shares respecting the Settlement nor Liable

DUNBARTON.

95

to any Tax Assessment or Charge until Improved by the Owners or
same Person holding under them Respectively. That the Owners of
the other Sixty five Shares (with the Assistance of the other Tracts
herein after mentioned ) Shall make a Settlement on the said Granted
premises at their own Expence in the follow5 manner viz: That all
the Lots be laid out as afores'1 by the Last Day of May next ready to
be Drawn for which Shall be done at Portsmouth as Said Proprietors
Shall Direct. That the Said Lots be Laid out in Ranges where the
Land will Admit of it & Land left between the Ranges for high Ways
of four rods wide and for Cross ways between the Lots of two Rods
wide — That within One Year from the said last day of May Each
Owner of the Said Sixty five Shares have a House of Sixteen foot
Square (at least) with a Chimney and a Cellar upon One of the Lots
belonging to his Share & Some Person living in said house & three
Acres of Land P^nclosed Cleared & fitted for mowing or Tillage and
three Acres more so Enclosed Cleared & fitted for mowing or Tillage
Yearly for the Term of three Years Successively next after the Year
aforesaid. That the said Settlers at their own Expence Build a Meet-
ing House there before the Last Day of May which will be in the
Year of Our Lord One thousand Seven hundred & fifty two, fit for
the Public Worship of God for the Use of those who Shall then or
afterwards Live there and Constantly from & after that time maintain
the Public Worship of God there. That Six Acres of Land be Left
& Laid out in some Suitable place within Said Tract of Land for
Setting a Meeting House upon, A School House, to make a Burying
Yard, a training Field, & for any other Public Use the Inhabitants
shall have Occasion for. — That each Owner of the Said Sixty five
Shares shall at or before the Drawing for their Lots as aforesaid
Advance & pay the Sum of thirty pounds Old Tenor (including what
they have already paid towards Carrying on the Said Settlement) to
be Deposited in the hands of Such Persons as the Said Owners or the
Major part of them shall Chuse, to Defray the Charge of Surveying
& Laying out of the Lots afores'1 Building a Meeting house as afore-
said & Maintaining the Public Worship of God there, the first Six
Months from the End of three Years after Drawing for said Lots as
afores'1 Clearing Land for high Ways, Building of Necessary Bridges,
& making & Returning of a Compleat plan of all the Lots to the said
Proprietors the Grantors of the said Premises. That all white pine
Trees fit for His Majesty's Use for Masting the Royal Navy growing
on said Tract of Land be & hereby are Reserv'd And are hereby
granted to His Majesty his Heirs & Successors for Ever for that pur-
pose. That the Owners of the said Sixty five Shares shall have the
Use of all Meadows within any of the said twenty Shares for the

I96 CHARTER RECORDS.

Term of five Years Commencing at the time of Drawing for the Lots
as af ores'1. That no Obstruction be made upon any River within said
Tract of Land to the Passage of the fish and in Case any Person shall
So do it shall be Lawful for any one to Remove the same at Pleasure.
Reserving to the Grantors two hundred and five Acres of Said
Land begining at a place Called Marty ns Brook & so runing Up the
River two hundred & Sixty Rods & then runing back Westerly to
make up the Quantity afores'1 taking in the Severall Improvements of
Andrew Todd John Espy James Lesly David Dickey James Moore
Alexander MacCullen Barber Lesley & Robert Dickey which parcel
of Land So reserved is hereby Granted in the following manner;
That is to Say to the said Andrew Todd Seventy five Acres thereof
and to the said James Leslie David Dickey James Moore Alexander
McCullen Barber Lesle}r & Robert Dickey Each twenty five Acres
thereof to be taken for each Man So as to take in his Particular Im-
provement and to run Westerly for the remaining part to make up
the Quantity aforesaid to each Man Reserving also twenty Acres
more which is hereby Granted to the above named Nathan Simons to
be laid out where his Improvements are upon said Granted Premises
taking in the Same where his House is which Several Tracts or Lots
of Land are Granted & Confirmed to the Grantees afores'1 & their
Respective Heirs & Assigns, they Severally paying & Each of them
Depositing as aforesaid the Sum of five pounds Old tenor for every
fifty Acres of Land So Granted or in that Proportion & doing & per-
forming their proportionable part of all other & after Duty hereby
Laid upon the Settlers as Afores'1 And In Case any of the Owners of
the Said Sixty five Shares or the Particular Lots aforesaid Shall
Refuse Neglect or Omit to perform & fully Discharge any of the Con-
ditions Articles matters & things abovementioned by him Respectively
to be done according to the true Intent & meaning of these Presents,
He Shall forfeit his Right & Share in the said Tract of Land hereby
Granted & Every part & parcel thereof to the said Grantors, and it
Shall and may be Lawful for them or any of them or any Person or
Persons in their name & Stead & by their Authority to Enter into &
upon the part Share & Right of Such Delinquent Owner or any part
thereof in the name of the whole & him utterly thence to Amove
oust Expel & Remove for the Use of said Grantors their Heirs & As-
signs. Provided there be no Indian War within any of the Terms &
Limitations of time above mentioned for performing the Said Articles
& things afores'1 to be done & performed by the said Settlers, and in
Case that should happen the same times to be allowed for the Respec-
tive matters aforesaid after Such Impediment Shall be removed — And
it is also to be understood that the Surveyor or Surveyors & those

DUNBARTON. 197

who shall be Appointed to Lay oul the Lots belonging to the Shares
afores' Shall also Lay out all the Particular Tracts & Parcels above-
mention'd. —

Lastly the said Proprietors the Grantors afores'1 do hereby Ingage
& promise to the Said Grantees to defend them their Heirs & Assigns
against all & Every Action & Law Suit that Shall be prosecuted
moved & Stirred against them & any of them by any Person or Per-
sous whomsoever Claiming the said Land or any part thereof by any
other Title than the Title of the said Grantors or that from whence
theirs is Derived with this Condition & Limitation that in Case the
said Grantees their Heirs or Assigns Shall be Ejected & Ousted by
any Such right or Title that then they have or Recover nothing of &
from the said Grantors & Proprietors or their Executors or Admin-
istrators for the Land hereby Granted nor for any Labour orExpence
whatsoever which they have been or shall be at in Consequence and
Pursuance of this Grant or any of the Premises aforesaid — And
farther reserving to the said Grantors their Heirs & Assigns all that
Tract or Parcel of Land lying within the bounds of the said Tract
hereby Granted as afores'1 which is Commonly Called Suncook.

[Petition of Zacheus Lovewell, 1748.]
[ Masonian Papers, Vol. 5, p. 134.]

Dunstable December 18th 1748—
Gentlemen

I was Owner of a Share in that tract at montetony Called Love-
well's Grant, made to me with five Others & was Included in Gore-
haius town on Which Rodgers & pudney Setled One Share thereof I
Sold and Am Lyable to make Good, & if in Your Grant to Stark
and Others in Which it falls, there be Room I shall be Exceeding
Glad to be a Setler it possibly may prevent my Suffering Consider-
able Damage & not Lessen your Interest, I should bin Earlier in my
Case but had forgot the title I gave of it till last Week Which was
to Lbenezer Parkust not one of ye Petitioners under Stark if it be
not too Late, your favours in this Shall ever be greatfully resented
by Gen1" you most Humble Ser'

Zacheus Lovewell

To the Gentn Prop" of Masons Grant

I98 CHARTER RECORDS.

[Joseph Blancliard to Proprietors, 1748.]

[Masonian Papers, Vol. 5, p. 135.]

Dunstable December ye 19th 1748
Gent"/ The Bearer, (Herewith Awaits you) the eldest Son & Heir
of the venerable Coll0 Prescott of Groton Deceased ; Who died
Clairaer of nine Rights in Gorehamstown, Late Granted to Cap1
Goffe & Company & Stark & Company (& the Other Gentleman in
Company, Cap' Bancroft Owned One) I've Reason to think they
were not Apprized of your Intentions & Power to Grant the Same
or had made Application, & assurance of their being as Proffitable
Subjects to the Go vermeil t and As fully Yeild to Your demands as
any who had no pretentions there before, & Provided Room can yet
be made they Are very Solicitous for your favour herein & so pressing
for me to Write I Could not get Excused, —

Their Interest in this part of Massachusetts is Considerable, & if
they Can be Oblidged I'm of Oppinion it may not be Amiss — Cap*
Baldwin of Sudbury Who Setled a farm Joyning to Hillsborough
Was on his Journey to Portsmouth to Submitt him Self to Your
Authority & Direction, was Taken Sick & Could not proceed he
came to my House and begg'd that I would Informe, & that he
Should proceed as Soon as able to See you, that if ye Land Joyning
the South Side Hillsborough Should be granted in Setlement the
Charge he has bin at there in Building Clereing &c, ma}* not be Lost
but is Ready to Conform to Such Conditions as You think Reason-
able for him or if it be delay'd of being a town (w'h for the present I
hope it will) he will be Ready to Conform to your Inclinations in ye
matter —

The Messengers are Waiting I Expect in a few days to give you a
further Acc° of my Own Affairs and Rest your most Humble Ser' at
Com'and —

To the Hono1' Society of masons Grant
^ Cap1 James Prescott

J Blancliard

[Petition of Seth Blodgett, 1748/9.]
[Masonian Papers, Vol. 5, p. 136.]

Boston Jm-y 2'1 1748
To the Honarable Gent"1 the Propriators of Masons Right & : c —
Gentl1" when I heard of your Right from under Mr Mason I was
under Some Consarne for having a tract of Land of aboot 300 Acors

DUNBARTON. 1 99

in a township Cauld By the Name of Goroms towne and had Bult a
hous and Cleard Land and Brokne it up and fensed it and Cleard

Meddow and Entervale in order for Other Improvements and had a
famaly Livd Some years in the lions ami S'1 famaly Being oblegd to
Leave it By reason of the war It Put Me upon Search of the strength
of My Titel from under the Massachusetts which I found in my hum-
ble opnioii Not worth aney thing and that I .Must Ly holey at the
Marsey of you Gentel'" whier upon My humble Potion Gente1'" is tha
I ma\ have My Land and Improven*9 in the Place whier it was for-
mely Laid out and if Not I would Humbly Pray you to Consider Me
in some other Place that I may Not Be a grate Looser thier By —

M' Gofe tels me that He had holy for: Got me when he had His
Charter from you or Else He would A Spoke of me then and Now
Scrape! with him But you would have Done as well for me as you
Did for the others in the Like Surcomstances —

He tels Me that thier is -1 Rights Not yeat Dispos'1 of I humbly
Pray you to Consider Me thier in I am Reddy to Come plye with
amy Mesure that You Shall in your wisdoms think fitt in Reason I
Shall Proforme —

I was at Pusceataqua in October and Maid my Aplication to you
( JenUd"' about my affour S(1 Land and was Genorously treated at your
Meeting for which I am Grately obleg'1 to you and you Engeously Told
Me that as you had Not Agreed on aney Certen Methords to Proceed
yon Could Not Do aney thing for Me at that time and that as to ye truth
of the afotirs1 Genlm If you Have a Mind to Be Satiesfied to ovid
Imposision which as I am A Stranger to yon I Should Be Glad you
would Enquer of Corn11 Blanchard who Is Perfectly well acquainted
with the Case and the Surcomstances thurof And Honorable Gen-
tel'" I Rest it wholey in you Brestes and Humbly Pray your Excep-
tame of my Above Etequeste and I Shall Remain as in Duty Bound
your Hum1'' and obedent Sert

Seth Blogget

[Proprietors to Archibald Shirk, 1749.]
[Masonian Papers, Vol. 5, p. 137.]

To mess" Archibald Stark & Associates

Gent In y" Grant made to you and Company of the tract of land
as bounded in the Grant it was Supposed that the Improvements of
Cap' Tod and others fell within x" same and were reserved as such —
but it seems that upon a more exact survey it appears they lay with-
in the boundarys of y1 Tract granted to Thomas Parker ami associates
Therefore the Proprietors of masons Right wou'd recommend it to

200 CHARTER RECORDS.

you to agree the matter with Capt Goffe and Company and make
them Satisfaction out of your Grant for what by Tod and others will
be taken out of Goffe and Companys Grant amounting to Two hun-
dred and fifty acrs — which is equall and Just — in the opinion of ye
Proprietors of masons Grant — in behalfe of ye Proprietors —

Portsm0 April 13th 1749— Geo : Jaffrey jur P CI

Copy Sent f Cap1 Jn° Goffe. April 14"'

[Petition of Grantees of Dunbarton, 1749.]
[Masonian Papers, Vol. 5, p. 138.]

To the Honorable Proprietors of Mr Masons Lands in New Hamp-
shire &c

Gentlemen With Regard to the Grant of Land made to Archibald
Stark and others : Which Grant falls Very short of mesure : being-
bounded in by Bow on the north East : Goffs town on the south and
Hales town on the west : Cannot be Inlarged by Land adjoyning to
it in any Reguler forme : and the Grantees think it a Great hardship
to make setlement : and Performe the Duty as by Grant is Required
unless they Can have two Hundred Acres to a Right or share : Would
Informe you that when new boston and Hales town were Granted by
the Massiclmsetts bay they adjoyned togather : and their was a mile
and a Half of Land :. not Granted in any Shape Laying between the
north End of Hales' town and the Line of towns (Viz) N° 5 : N° 6 :
&c : Which Gentlemen in your Granting of Hales town to mr Weare
of Hampton falls and others : you have bounded them upon the Line
of towns afforesaid : which Leaves a Goer of Land on the South
between Hales town and new boston Adjoyning too or Very near the
south west Corner of Starks town : We Pray that you will annex
and Confirme Said Gore of Land to the Grant of Stark's town or at
Least so much of it as will make us two Hundred acres to one Right
or share with what is before Granted which will Very much oblidge
yours to serve In behalf of the Grantees of a Certain tract of Land
Granted to Archibald Stark and others —

Sam11 Emerson

[Plan of Dunbarton, 1749.]

A Plan of the Division of That Tract of Land Granted by the Proprietors of the Land Purchased of John Tufton Mason Esq to Archibald Stark-
William Starke & others as Said Division hath been made by the Grantees to be returnd to the Grantors in order to the Drawing the Lotts Agreable t(
the Vote by which it was Granted —

This Plan Contains a true Account of all the Land Contained in the Grant made to Archibald stork and others as Sirvayed And Laid Down by a Scalf
of one Hundred and Sixty Rods to an Inch

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Joseph Pudney

James Rogers .

Pudney & Rogers Sons

first Ministers Lot

Ministry Lot

John Morton

Geo : Massey

David Stenson

William Gault

James Addams

William Ellit .

John Cochran .

David McGregore

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Paul March & Joseph Green

John Horner

James Mcgregore

Joseph Blanchard

Dan" Lesly

James Rogers

Archibald Stark

Sam11 Calwell

Sam" Hogg

Sam" Emerson Esqr

Hugh Ramsey .

James Cochran

Josha Peirce Esqr

Caleb Page junr

Richard Wibird Esqur

Samuell Fulton

John Thomlinson Esq"

Jn° Tufton Mason Esq"

William Carr

John Ramsey .

Alex' Gault

Hugh Pur.shi .

Mathew morton

Archibald Cunningham

Joseph Cochran

John Wentworth junr Esq"r

William Stenson

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John Quigg
Hugh Jameson
Thomas Follensby junr
James Varnum
Archibald Stark junr
George Clarke .
Thomas Hall .
Addam Dicky .
John Hall
George Jaffrey .
Samuell Stenson
Joseph Scobey
Samuel Richards
William Rankin
Jeremiah Paige
Mathew Thornton
Samuel Todd .
John Stark
Mark Hunks Wintworth Esq
John McDuffie .
Thomas Packer Esqur
Sam11 Rankin .
David Craig
Dan11 McCurdy
John McCalester
Sam11 Solley Esqr ) .
Clem1 March E6(J $ .
John Kan-
John Cochran Docf .
Thos Wallingford Esqur
William Stark .
Mark Hunks wentworth P2sq"
John Moffatt Esqu' .
Law Lot N° i .
Alexr Todd
John Hogg
Law Lott N° 2 .
Jotham Odiorne Esqur
Theodore Atkinson Esqur

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Lot for first minister
School Lot

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DUNBARTON. 203

ProvrofNewj Portsmouth December 218t 1749 Voted thai this
Hampshire \ Draft of V Pots of Land in the Tract of land
Granted by the Proprietors of ye lands purchased of John Tufton
Mason Esq1" to Archibald Stark, William Stark & others so far as
they have been drawn be and hereby is Ratifyed & confirmed as a
full & final Division and Partition thereof and the Plan of Said
Division as made & numbered by ye Grantees & Returned by them
to the Grantors be Received allowed & Confirmed for the Purpose
aforesaid —

Geo : Jaffrey Prop18 CI

\Name% to Be Entered in New Charter of Dunbarton, 1751.]

[Masonian Papers, Vol. 5, p. 139.]

Londonderry Octr ye 21 1751—
To The Proprs of Lands Purchassed of John Tufton Mason Esqr the
Originall Right of Cap1 John Mason Esqr of London Lying in the
Province of New Hamp1 Whereas We the Subscribers were part of
the Grantees of A tract of Land Adjoyning to and On the West Side
of Merrimack River Called Starks town And have Conveyed Our
Respective Rights & Interest therein to Sundry Persons as follows,
viz* John Quig, to Archabald Stark James Adams to Thoms Mills,
John MacAllester to Archibald Stark ; Will"1 Karr to John Stark,
Archibald Stark to John Cambell, John Hogg to Will111 Hogg. Mat-
thew Mortton to John MacCurdy, John Stark to Will111 Stenson,
Hugh Ramsey, to Will"1 Heslop ; Sam11 Renken to Robert Macmur-
phy ? Sam" Stinson to David Stinson ; John Stinson to Will"1 Stark,
Alex1" Gailt to James Evens ; Archbald Cuningham to James Mac-
Gregore John Horner to Will"1 Stark ; Thoms Hall to Will"1 Renken,
S;u null Caldwell, to Co11 Blanchord ; John Ramsey to Will"1 Pudney
& obediah Foster one Hundred acres, & the remaining part of the
Right to Hugh Ramsey

and Whereas thro the Neglect of Performance of Duty Injoyned
the Whole of ye Grantees, Wee Are Informed the Charter thereof is
made void and a New Charter proposed to be Given —

Now therefore we Desire that the Respective persons to Whome
Wee have Convey'd as afores'1 may in the Next Charter be entered
As ( >riginall Grantees, in the place we held under the former Char-
ter Respectively, as having Pee'1 for the Whole of Our Interest of
them Satisfaction in full, as Wittness our hands and Seals the Date
above

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CHARTER RECORDS.

John Quig
William karr
Mathew Morton

Samuell Renkin

Alexander Gault
Thomas Hall

James Adams
Archibald stark
John Stark

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mark

Archibald Cunningham
Samuell Caldwell

John Mealies tor
John Hoctp-
Hugh Ramsey

Samuel Stinson

James Horner
John Ramsey

[Charter of Dunbarton, 1752.]
[Masonian Proprietors' Records, March 2, 1752.]

Province of | Portsmouth March 2'1 1752 Monday three of the
New Hampshire \ Clock afternoon at the House of Ann Slayton the
Proprietors meet according to adjournment —

Whereas the said Proprietors on the Seventeenth day of December
Anno Domini one Thousand Seven hundred & forty Eight Granted
to Archibald Stark John Stark Archibald Stark junr Thomas Hall
and others on the Terms Conditions & Limitations Expressed in said
Grant a Certain Tract of Land in said Province about five Miles
Square or nearly Equal thereto Bounded as follows Viz1 Beginning
at the main River on the Northerly side of a Tract of Land Lately
Granted by said Proprietors to Thomas Parker & others & Running
Westward as far as that Tract of Land Runs Joining on the same
then Runing North two Degrees West five Miles & one hundred
& Eighty rods then North Seventy Nine Degrees East till it Comes
to a place Called Rumford then Running South Seventeen Degrees
East three Hundred and forty Rods then East till it Comes to the
Township of Bow then by that till it Comes to said River & then by
that till it Comes to the place where it Begins to have & to hold to
them their Heirs and Assigns as therein Expressed which Terms and
Conditions may at Large appear by Reference to said Grant Entered
at Large in the Records of said Proprietors among which it is Ex-
pressed that in Case any of the owners of the Sixty five Shares (who
were to make the Settlement) shall Refuse neglect or Omit to per-
form and fully Discharge any of the Conditions Articles Matters and
things abovementioned (that is before Expressed in said Grant) by
him Respectively to be done according to the true Intent & meaning
thereof (Refering to said Grant) He shall Forfeit his Right and
Share in the said Tract of Land & every part & parcel thereof to the
said Grantors and they or any Person or Persons for them Might in
that Case Law fully Enter thereon & such Delinquent wholly to Oust

DUNHARTON. 205

amove & Expel for the Use of said Grantors their Heirs \ assigns
which also may more fully appear By said Grant & the Conditions
thereof And Whereas the said Grantees have not Complied with the
Terms and Conditions on which the said Grant was made whereby
the whole Tract of Land so Granted is Forfeited to the Grantors &
the Right thereunto again Vested in them according to the true
Intent and meaning of said Grant and the Grantees Have Acknowl-
edged the same & Surrendered the said Grant to the Grantors &
have Requested of them a new Grant to the persons & on the Terms
herein after set forth which the Grantors being Willing to Comply
with Have Re-entered upon the said Premises for the Breach of said
Conditions and are become again Seized thereof as in their former
Estate — Therefore

Voted that there be & hereby is Granted unto Archibald Stark
William Stark John Stark Archibald Stark Junr all of a place Called
Amaskege in the Province of New Hampshire the Rev'1 David Mac-
gregore Robert Macraurphy William Rankin William S tin son John
Cochran James Evens Hugh Dunshe John McCurdy Joseph Cochran
Hugh Jammeson David Stinson Joseph Scoby Matthew Thornton
Daniel McCurdy John Carr John Cochran Doctor Alexander Todd
William Hogg David Stinson James M'Gregore Daniel Lesley
George Clarke William Rankin William Stinson James Rogers James
Cochran John McDuffey James Macgregore Samuel Todd David
Craige all of Londonderry in said Province Thomas Mills Samuel
Hocor Caleb Pae:e Junr Samuel Richards Thomas Follansbee Junr
all of llainstead in said Province and Jeremiah Page of said Place
William Elliot John Hall Adam Dickey all of Derrifield in said
Province Joseph Blanchard Esqr Joseph Blanchard Junr both of
Dunstable in said Province Joseph Pudney James Rogers their
Eldest sons for one Right all Living on the Tract of Land hereby
Granted William Pudney & Obadiah Foster of the same place for
one hundred Acres and the Remaining part of the Share or Right
to Hugh Ramsey of said Londonderry John Morton Late of Ports-
mouth in said Province & George Massey of said Portsmouth Wil-
liam Stark William Stark abovenamed having three Rights it being
the same man & Archibald Stark abovenamed Samuel Emmerson
Esq1 & James Vernum both of Chester in said Province John Cam-
med of Haverhill William Hyslop of Boston both in the Province
of the Massachusetts Bay William Gait of Canterbury in said Prov-
ince Samuel Fulton Late of said Londonderry — Equally Excepting
as aforesaid to them their Heirs and Assigns Excepting as hereafter
Excepted — On the Terms Conditions and Limitations herein after
Expressed all the Right Title Estate Interest & Property of the said

206 CHARTER RECORDS.

Proprietors of in and unto all that Tract or Parcel of Land about
five miles Square more or less Situate in the Province of New
Hampshire and Bounded as follows that is to say Beginning at the
Main River on the Northerly side of a Tract of Land lately Granted
by said Proprietors to Thomas Parker & others & running Westward
as far as that Tract of Land Runs joining on the same then Run-
ning North two Degrees West five Miles & one Hundred & Eighty
Rods then North Seventy nine Degrees East till it comes to Bow line
then Southerly by the Township of Bow & Continuing by that till
it Comes to said River then by that Till it Comes to the place where
it Begins — To have and to hold to them their Heirs and Assigns as
aforesaid and Excepting as aforesaid on the following Terms &
Conditions Namely that the Division already made & the Lots as
they have been Numbered & Drawn shall be and hereby is Ratified
& Confirmed as a full & Effectual Severance & Division of the Said
Tract of Land to hold the Respective Lots to the person or Persons
to whose Name or Names the Respective Numbers of said Lots are
affixed & to his & their Heirs and Assigns Excepting as is herein
after otherwise mentioned That the said Grantees make a Settle-
ment on the said Tract of Land in the following manner viz' That
Thirty Families be Settled on the said Tract of Land, each having
an house of Sixteen feet Square or equal thereto on some Lot be-
longing to the Respective owners of thirty Shares among the said
Grantees & that each of the said thirty have three Acres of Land
fitted for Tillage or mowing on one of the Lots belonging to Each
Respective Share of the thirty by the last day of may next and shall
Clear three Acres of Land more Yearly on one Lot of each of the
Thirty Shares aforesaid for the Term of Two Years from the said
Last day of may next That Ten Families more shall be Settled on
the Lots belonging to ten other Shares of the said Grantees having
an house of the Dimensions aforesaid and three acres of Land
Cleared on a Lot belonging to each of the said Shares by the Expi-
ration of three years to be Computed from the last day of may next
which Ten Families are each to Proceed in Clearing three acres yearly
for the two years then next Succeeding in Manner aforesaid and
that Ten Families more be Settled on the Lots Belonging to ten
other Shares of the said Grantees each having an House on a Lot
belonging to the Respective Shares of the same Dimensions as
aforesaid & three acres of land Cleared as aforesaid within five years
from may next & to proceed in Clearing three acres more yearly the
two next Succeeding years as aforesaid — That David Stinson David
iM;tcgregore James Macgregore Daniel Lesley Samuel Fulton Ar-
chiald Stark Archibald Stark for one more George Clarke William

DUNBARTON. 207

Rankin & William Stinson make or Cause to be made the Settle-
menl ft The firs! Ten Families abovementioned That Joseph Blan-
chard -lames Rogers John Cambell Samuel Emmerson .lames
Cochran Matthew Ramsey James Varnum John M'Dui'fey Robert
Macmurphy & Archibald Stark make or Cause to be made the Set-
tlement of the second ten Families abovementioned and that Wil-
liam Gait William Stark Joseph Blanchard Esqr William Hyslop
•lames Macgregore William Stark Adam Dickey Jeremiah Page
Samuel Todd & David Craige in Consideration of their Having paid
a Certain sum of money to the first Settlers to Carry on the Settle-
ment be and hereby are Exempted from making any Settlement on
their Shares That in order to Carry on the. said Settlement to Effect
each of the aforesaid Grantees pay all such sum & Sums of money
as shall be Voted to be raised by the major part of the said Gran-
tees at any Regular Meeting of them according to such Rules as
have been or shall be agreed upon by them for Calling the same to
such person or Persons and at Such time as they shall Determine
as aforesaid and in Default of such Payment that the part share &
Right of the Grantee who shall refuse & Neglect to pay as afores'1
in & to said Land shall be & hereby is Subjected to & Charged with
the payment thereof & the person or Persons appointed to Receive
such sum or Sums of money as aforesaid shall & hereby have full
power & authority to sell so much thereof as near as can be Con-
veniently done as will Raise money Sufficient for such payment with
all Incident Charges as Occasion shall Require from time to time
giving the Delinquent Person three Weeks Notice of such Design
before the Sale is Actually made — That a meeting house of Sufficient
Dimentions be built on said Land within five years from next may
& made fit for Preaching in and that the Grantees maintain the
preaching of the Gospel there Constantly after Six years from said
may that any & every of the said Grantees who shall neglect to per-
form & fulfil every Article Matter & thing herein Enjoined for him
to do he shall Forfeit his whole Right Share & Interest in & to the
said Tract of Land to those of said Grantees who Shall have done
A: performed the same for themselves and they shall have the Term
of one year after such Forfeiture Accrews (Which shall be Reckoned
and Adjudged to be Imediately on the Expiration of the time
herein allowed for the Doing any of the said matters & things) to
Settle or Cause such forfeited Rights or shares to be Settled That
Twenty five of the said Rights and Shares be and hereby are Re-
served to the said Grantors their Heirs and Assigns & one of the sd
Shares be for the first Minister his Heirs and Assigns who shall Settle
there and Continue till he is Regularly Dismistoras long as he Shall

208 CHARTER RECORDS.

Live that another of the said Shares shall be for the use of the Min-
istry there forever and another for the use & main tain an ce of a
School there forever That these three Shares with twenty two of
those above Reserved shal be and hereby are Exempted and fully
Exonerated from any & every Duty Charge Matter and thing Relat-
ing to the making the said Settlement & from all Taxes & Charges
until 1 improved by the owner of Each Respective Right That all
Highways that shall be laid out on said Land shall be b}T a Commit-
tee to be appointed for that Purpose by the said Grantors and Grant-
ees only the Person on whose land Such ways shall run not to be
paid for the same and if the said Settlement shall not be made as
aforesaid According to the true Intent & meaning hereof & by the
last Period of time Limitted as aforesaid for the doing thereof the
whole grant to be Null & Void & the said Land to Revert Return
or Remain the Right Estate & Property of the Grantors as tho' this
Vote had never been passed — Reserving also all white pine trees
Standing & Growing on said Premises which are hereby granted to
his Majesty his Heirs & Successors That the lots in the aforesaid
Division Set off & Numbred to John Quigg shall be and hereby
are Appropriated to Archibald Stark those to James Adams are ap-
propriated to Thomas Mills John M'Allaster's to Archibald Stark
William Carr's to John Stark Archibald Stark's to John Campbell
John Hogg's to William Hogg Matthew Morton's to John McCord}'
John Stark's to William Stinson Hugh Ramsey's to William Hyslop
Samuel Rankin's to Robert McMurphy Samuel Stinson's to David
Stinson John Stinson's to William Stark Alexander Gait's to James
Evins Archibald Cunningham's to James Macgregore John Horner's
to William Stark Thomas Hall's to William Rankin Samuel Cald-
well's to Joseph Blanchard Esq1 John Ramsey's to William Pudney
and Obadiah Foster for one Hundred acres & the rest or Remain-
ing Lots to Hugh Ramsey to hold to them & their Respective Heirs
& assigns — That four of the said Reserved Shares being the lots
Numbred twelve in the first Range two in the Second Range twelve
in the fourth Range ten on the South side in the Seventh Range
one & two in the thirteenth Range are hereby Granted to the said
Grantees their Heirs & assigns upon the Conditions aforesaid —
That the Remaining Land within the Bounds aforesaid which is
not Comprehend'd within the said Division shall be hereafter Di-
vided between the said Grantors & Grantees in the proportion afore-
said that is the Grantors having Seventeen Shares thereof & the
Grantees being at the Charge of the Division & making the Settle-
ment and Complying with the terms & Conditions herein before
Limitted & Expressed and the Lots in said Division Number two

DUNBARTON. 209

North & Number three in the Seventh Range being one of the said
Reserved Shares be & hereby is granted to Noah Emery of Kittery
Gentleman his Heirs & assigns Exempted & Exonerated from the
duty of settling & paying any Charge tax and Expence untill im-
proved by him or them — and in Case there shall be an Indian war
within any lit' the times Limited for the doing the Several matters
iV things aforesaid Respectively the said Term to be allowed for any
of the said Matters after that Impediment shall be Removed Lastly
the Grantors do hereby Ingage & Promise to the said Grantees to De-
feud them their Heirs and Assigns all & every Action & Law Suit
that shall be prosecuted moved & Stirred against them & any of
them by any Person or Persons whomsoever Claiming the said Land
or any part thereof by any other Title than the Title of the said
Grantors or that From whence theirs is Derived with this Condition
and Limitation that in Case the said Grantees their Heirs or Assigns
be Ejected & Ousted by any such Right or Title that then they shall
Recover Nothing of and from the said Grantors their Heirs Ex-
ecutors or Administrators for the Land hereby Granted nor for any
Labour or Expence whatsoever which they shall have been or shall
be at in Consequence of this Grant — And the lots in the said Di-
vision Called Law Lot Number one be for Matthew Livermore his
Heirs and Assigns and those Called Law Lot Number two be to
William Parker his Heirs and Assigns —

[ Trespass on Dunbarton Lands, 1752.]
[Masonlan Papers, Vol. 5, p. 140.]

Chester march ye 24th 1752
Sir — By What Information we had by mr James McGreegor We
understood that you were at a Loss to Know the perticuler place
in Starks town where the trespass was Don by Richard Ayer and
others and accordingly we have Been yester Day upon the place and
taken a Sirvay of the place where the trespass is Done and find that
it falls within the folowing bounds (Viz) to begin at a pich pine tree
by the Main River Near the foot of Ilohooxey falls and Run west :
120 Rods to a white oak tree: and thence North two Degrees west
about two Hundred and twelve Rods to Bow Line then by Bow Line
to the River and so by the River to the first bounds will Comprehend
and take in Said trespass the Lower part of this Land was Run out
for a Lott but haveing Lotts enough without it: it was not Returned
nor Drawn for but Layes as Common and no more at present onley
13

2IO CHARTER RECORDS.

Gentlemen we Shall Crave Leave to Subscribe our selves your Very-
Humble Servents to Command Sam11 Emerson

Alexr Macmurphy

To Daniel Peirce Esqr

To Be Communicated to the Purchesers of John Tufteen Masons
Esqrs Right in the wast Lands in the Province of Newhampshire

P S by the Nearest Veiw : and Information that we Cot Get their
is Cutt between two and three Hundred Loggs

[Alexander McMurphy to Proprietors about Trespass, 1752.]

[Masonian Papers, Vol. 5, p. 141.]

Londonderry March ye 27tb 1752
Sy I thought proper to Inform you that Mr Ayer base been up
and taken away the Loges which he Cutt in Stark's town (so Called)
& Likewise those he Cutt on the East Side of the Maine River which
I Informed you of Before, & by the information I had this Day he
base gott the most part of them to Ames Scheeg where he is now,
therefor look upon it nesesery that you would prooSeed in Some
jDroper way So as to have him Before he gett out of the provence,
those he Cutt upon the East Side of the River ware about Twenty in
Number, & Avere white Oacks, he Cutt them within about on Hun-
dred Roods of Ilohooxey falls, and Joseph Brown wc he Retires to in
his letter for Evedence which I Sent Down to you, told me he helpt
to hall them & his Brother helpt to Cutt them : the words Ayers &
others, in the Letter which Squr Emerson & I wrot Referes to those
Mr ayer gave for Evdence these are what offers at present only
Crave leave to Say that I am Sr your verey Hum1'1 Ser' to Command

Alex1 Macmurphy
To Daniell Peirce Esq1 —

[Report of Committee on Line between Dunbarton and Bow, 1758.]

[Masonian Papers, Vol. 5, p. 112.]

We the Subscribers theophilus Smith and Samuel Lane as a Com-
mittee of the proprietors of bow in the province of newhampshire of
the one part and John Hogg and James M°Gregore as a Commitee
from the proprietors of Starks town (in Said province) So Called of
the other part Each of the S'1 Committee being Chosen and orthised
to Settle the Lines, and bounds between Said towns haveing this day

DUNBARTON. 211

mett togather for that End and after Some Conversation Relating to
that affair not agreeing to make a final Settlement of the Same Each
party agreed that the following plan or Method in order for Settle-
ment shall be drawn np and Layed before Each of Said Proprieties
for their approbation and Confirmation if thay Shall See fittatanv
Legal proprietors meeting by them held which is as follows to wi( that
a Survayer and two Chainmen of indifferent men be Imploy'1 who
Shall begin at the northerly old Corner of bow next to Canterbury
from thence to run Southwest nine miles then Southeast five miles
then Southwest one mile then South East to the loer or South East-
erly Side Line of Said bow as it was Settled with masons proprietors
So Call'd In January Last and that Said Chain Men Shall be Sworn to
Make just and impartial measure allowing for Sway of Chain and
Rough mountains and woods Land according to the Customary Meas-
ure of towns— and that the Cost of the Same be paid Equally by Said
propreties —

In wittness hereof the Said parties Interchangably Set their hands
this twenty sixth day of December 1758

Theoder Smith
Sam1 Lane
John hogg
James McGregore
a true Coppe taken oute of the original agreement between the pro-
prietors of bow and the proprietors of Starks town So Called this:
11th day of September 1760 as attest:

Caleb Page \ ProPrietQ°f Clark

& \ tor Starks town

[Petition of William Stark, 1765.]
[Masonian Papers, Vol. 5, p. 143.]

Province of ) To the Gentlemen, Proprietors of the Lands
New Hampshire \ Commonly called La Masons Right, in said Prov-
ince—

The humble Petition of William Stark of Starks Town in the
Province aforesaid Esq1

Sheweth That at a Legal Meeting of the Proprietors of Starks
Town aforesaid held there on the Second Tuesday of June 1761, they
Voted and Consented That Your Petitioner should have the Ninth
Lot in the 3d Range in said Town which bad been reserved for the
School Lot in Exchange for the 1-"' lot in the 4,:' Range, in Case
Your Petr sho'1 purchase the same 12th Lot, and then that Lot to be

212 CHARTER RECORDS.

the School Lot for said Town As by an Attested Copy of said Vote
hereunto annexed may appear

That Your Pet1' has accordingly purchased the said 12th Lot, &
appropriated the same as above, And prays you the said Gentlemen
Proprietors That you will be pleased to Confirm & allow the said
Town Vote in Favour of Your Petitioner Who will Ever Pray &c

Portsm0 25th Octr 1765. Wm Stark

Province of | At a Meeting of the Proprietors This Petition was
New Hampshr \ read and it appearing to be for the advantage of the
Public Lot as well as Said Stark the Proprietors Approved thereof
and therefore Voted that the Same be & hereby is Allowed Ratihed
and Confirmed

[Permission to William Stark to Exchange Lots, 1765.]
[Masonian Papers, Vol. 5, p. 144.]

at a Lagual Meeting held at the hous of Cap1 William Starks b}- the
propriators of Starks town on the Second tuesday in June 1761 : then
Voated and freely Consented by the proprietors of Starks town that
Cap' william Starks Should have the ninth Lott in the third Range
which was Reserved for the Use of a School in Starks town in Ex-
change for the twelfth Lott in the fourth Range in Case S'1 Starks
purches the s'1 twelfth in the fourth Range to Lay for the Use of the
School in Starks town a true Coppe taken oute of the proprietors
Records in Starks town October the 19: 1765

attested by — Caleb Page Proprietors Clark

for Starks town

Captain Starks have purchesed Said twelfth Lott in the fourth
Rang according to the above Voat to Lay for the Use of Sa School

C Page

[Petition of Caleb Page, 1771.]

[Masonian Papers, Vol. 5, p. 145.]

Caleb Page at Portsm0 Septr 24th 1771 represent's in behalf of the
Grantees of Stark's Town that there is a Quantity of Land of Eleven
hundred Acres within the bounds of S'1 Township adjoining to mer-
imack River — on which four Families are Settled, and one of which
was Settled when ye Township was laid out, and three others Since —
these Settlements are chiefly on interval land — and that there are

DUNBARTON.

213

Sundry Lots of Common land in Said Township as described on the
Plan of Stark's town and further — that the Grantees propose to Sell
their rights in Said Commons to the Grantors or to purchase the
Grantors Rights in the Commons — which Said Page desire's the
Grantors will take the matter proposed under Consideration and
inform the Grantees of their Determination

[Plan of Common Land, 1771.]

[Caleb Page to Proprietors, 1773.]

[Masonian Papers, Vol. 5, p. 146.]

Sir after Due Respects to your honour for all your favours to me
and the town I would inform your honour that I Received a latter
from your honour that Informed me that you had prefered that peti-
tion to the Lord proprietors which I Left with you Som years past
and thai thay had Chosen Men to Sattle that Effair aboute the Com-
mon Land in Dunbartun the reason why I did not Come down for to
Sattle that Effair when I Come to See that the Common Land what
there was was in Small parsels Laying Joying to bow Line I have bin
Ever Since trying to Get that Line Setled and have not Got it done
but I Expect now it will be done in a Short time and I will Come
down and bring an Exact plan of all the Common Land in the town
and purchis it or Devide it so that people might not trespas by Cut-
ting of timber further 1 would Inform that Som of our people in
DunbartoD thinks that the town have power to Chang our School
Lot away for two half Lotts which is as poor Land as any in the town
the Lot was Changed once before and the Lott as it Laves now is
one of the best Lotts in the town and I. ayes handy Som in the town

214 CHARTER RECORDS.

have proceeded and warnd a town meetin got aboute ten or twelve
Inhabtents of the town Voat to Change the School Lott for two half
Lotts which is not one qurter So Good in my Judgment as the
School is as it now Layes thare was not but aboute thirteen people at
the meetting when thay Voted it away and not more then one or two
proprietors amongest them I hapend to hear of it and went and En-
tered my Decent to that Voate and would beg and pray that your
honour and all the Lord proprietors would put a final Stop to that
Lootts being Changed away upon any Conditions what soever for it is
a good Lott and Layes handy for the Inhabi tents no more but I
Remain your Most humble and Deutifull Servent

November ye 4: 1773 Caleb Page

[ Vote of the Proprietors of Dunbarton, 1773.]
[Masonian Papers, Vol. 5, p. 147.]

At a Lagual Meeting of the Prioretors of Dunbarton holden at the
house of Cap1 william Stark on ajurnment from the 12 of inarch 1771
to the Last tusday of June next then Votted that Caleb Page Should
Go to portsmouth and make a Settlement with the Lord proprietors
aboute their Shar of the Common Land Laying in Dunbartun as he
think proper uppon the proprietors Charge

Dunbarton December ye 27:1773; a true Coppy of Record; attest

Caleb Page proprietors Clark

[Proprietors' Agreement with Caleb Page, 1773.]
[Masonian Papers, Vol. 5, p. 147.]

Whereas the Proprietors of Dunbarton have appointed Cap1 Caleb
Page as appears by their Vote to treat with the Proprietors of Masons
Patent in order for a Division of the Undivided Land in Said Town
we a Committe of Said Proprietors have agreed with him to send up
a Surveyor Next Spring to Survey & return a Plan of said Land in
order for an immediate Division of the same — in the mean time we
have desired Cap1 Page to take care on the Proprietors behalf that
no Tres'pass be committed of ye said Land

Portsm0 29th Decr 1773 D Rogers )

John Penhallow > Committee
Wm Whipple )

A Copy of the Above Sent by Cap1 Page to the Proprietors of
Dunbarton

DURHAM. 215

DURHAM.

[Petitioned to be set off from Dover as a parish by the name of Oyster River,
May 27, 1669. Incorporated as Durham May 15, 1732. Lee was set off and in-
corporated Jan. 16, 1766. The south line of the town was established June 19,
18 1 8. A portion of Durham was annexed to Newmarket, July 2, 1870.

See Massachusetts charters preceding; IX, Bouton Town Papers, 234; XI,
Hammond Town Papers, 566; Index to Laws, 159; Life of John Sullivan, by
Thomas C. Amory, 1868; Memoir of Ebenezer Thompson, by Mary P. Thomp-
son, 1886; Sketches of Civil and Ecclesiastical History, by Federal Burt, 5, Col-
lections of N. H. Historical Society, 129; sketch, Hurd's History of Strafford
County, 1882, p. 616; Valedictory Discourse, by Curtis Coe, 1806, pp. 32;
Lawrence's N. H. Churches, 1856, p. 326; establishment of the N. H. College of
Agriculture in this town, Reports of Trustees, 1893. pp. 5, 107; The Benjamin
Thompson Trust Fund, Report of State Treasurer, 1892, pp. 175 to 220; Docu-
mentary History, by W. F. Goodwin, Dawson's Historical Magazine, 2d series,
vol. 8, p. 292; Marriages, 1713-68, by S. C. Adams, N. E. Hist. Gen. Regis-
ter, vol. 23, p, 178, to vol. 33, p. 345; Sullivan House and Its Associations,
by F. M. Colby. 5, Granite Monthly. 80.]

[Sale of Ephraim dough's Lands, 1786.]
[Masonian Papers, Vol. 5, p. 147.]
Rockingham Ss )> The State of Newhampshire

) o i ( To any or either of the Sheriffs of the several and
) ' a I respective Counties in said State or their Deputies
^ -— -^-s * Greeting —

Whereas John Peiree of Portsmouth in our County of Rockingham
Merchant Administrator of the Estate of Thomas Forsey late of
Albany in the (Onnty of Albany & State of New York Merchant
deceased [ntestate who was Surviving Partner in trade & Commerce
of Benjamin Forsey late of said Albany Merchant deceased by the
consideration of our Justices of our Inferior Court of common pleas
holden at Exeter within and for our County of Rockingham afore-
said on the lasttuesday of July Anno Domini 1783, recovered judg-
ment against Abner Clough of Nottingham in said County of Rock-
ingham Yeoman & Ephraim Clough of Durham in the County of
Strafford and State aforesaid Yeoman For the sum of One hundred
Sixty nine pounds Eight shillings damage & three pounds Sixteen
shillings Cost of Suit as tons appears of Record — Whereof execution
remains to be done — we command you therefore that of the goods

2l6 CHARTER RECORDS.

chatties or lands of the said Abner & Ephraim within your precinct
you cause to be paid and satisfied unto the said John Admr afore-
said to the value thereof in Money the aforesaid sums being One
hundred Seventy three pounds four shillgs in the whole with eight
shillings & eight pence more for this and former writ and thereof also
to satisfj- yourself for you own fees. And for want of goods chatties or
lands of the said Abner & Ephraim to be by them shewn unto you or
found within your precinct to satisfy the sums aforesaid We com-
mand you to take the bodies of the said Abner and Ephraim and
them commit unto the gaol in either of the respective Counties afore-
said, and detain in your custody within the said Gaol until! they pay
the full sums abovementioned with your Fees and that they be dis-
charged by the said John (in said Capacity) the Creditor or other-
wise by order of law. Hereof fail not, and make return of this Writ
with your doings therein, into our said inferior Court of common
pleas to be holden at Exeter within the County of Rockingham
aforesaid, upon the second tuesday of August next — Witness
Nathaniel Folsom Esqr at Exeter the third day of June Anno Domini
1786—

N.. Emery Junr Clerk — pro. Tem
A Copy examined by N Emery Jr Clerk — pro. Tem

State of New Hampr ]

Strafford ss. J Durham June 15th 1786. Then Samuel

Nutter, Robert Lapish, and Joseph Chesley Jr made solemn oath that
they would faithfully & impartially appraise such estate belonging to
Ephraim Clough as shall be shewn them to satisfy the within execu-
tion with incidental Charges —

John Smith 3d Juss Peace —

Strafford ss y Durham June 5th 1786 — We the subscribers being
chosen and sworn as above do Appraise a certain tract of land
lying in Durham in said County as sheAvn to us by Mr John Peirce
for the property of Ephraim Clough Containing forty six acres &
forty one Square rods at the value of four pounds ten shillings per
Acre for satisfying the within execution with incidental Charges said
land is the whole of said Cloughs homestead that lies on the South
side of the road leading to Packer's falls (so called) bounded North-
erly & Westerly by said Highway — Southerly by Lamprey River and
Easterly by land of Benjamin Doe and Joseph Smith except nineteen
Acres & thirty five square rods at the easterly end of the premises to
be set of in a line Parallel with the East line thereof adjoining said
Does & Smiths land — Also excepting two Acres & thirty three
rods of land where s(l Clough's dwelling house stands beginning at

DURHAM.

217

;in apple tree by the said road at the Bars near the house and run-
ning- from thence South three degrees east twenty two rods to an
apple tree thence south sixty six degrees east fourteen rods to a
black Cherry tree thence north three degrees west to the road and from
thence westerly by the road to the tree began at — Annexed to the
Last described peice is the land on which the Corn house stands.

Samel Nutter
Joseph Chesley Jun1
Robert Lapish

Durham June 5th 1786 — Pursuant to the within

6 ., precept I have levied & delivered forty

15 „ „ six Acres & forty one square rods of

6 „ „ land shewn to me by Mr John Peirce as

6 „ 0 „ the property of the within named Ephraim

3 „ 0 „ Clough agreeable to the above appraisal to

18 „ 0 „ satisfy the within execution with incide-

6 „ 0 „ tal Charges — which Satisfies the within

15 „ 0 „ excution in full —

6 „ 0 „ John Griffin D^ Sheriff

Strafford ss
Service X
Poundage
Attee
Return
Justice
Appraisers

Recording

Expences

Surveyor

£5
Strafford Ss

1 „ 0 „ Recd June 5th 1786. John Smith 3d RDR
Recorded Lib 7 Fob 246 Examd by

John Smith 3d Recorder —
y August Term 1786 Recfl & recorded by

N Emery Jr Clerk pro Tern
A Copy examined by N Emery Jr Clerk pro tern

Copy examined by Nath1 Adams Clerk

Rockinoham ss

[Lease of Farm in Durham to John Clough, 1789.]

[Masonian Papers, Vol. 5. p. 148.]

I the Subscriber John Clough have this Da}' agreed to hire of the
subscriber John Peirce that part of the Farm I now live on which he
took by Execution from Ephraim Clough one Year to end on the first
day of April L790, and I the said Young [Clough] will pay in Coun-
try produce such Rent for said Term as Mr Ebenezer Tompson Junr
and Mr Edmund IVndergrass may judge Reasonable which pay shall
be delivered in Portsmouth at Cash price in time and manner as s'1
Thompson <.V Pendergrass may direct — and the parties further agree
that if they the s'1 Thompson & Pendergrass cannot agree on the
A alue thereof — the}- may then choose a third person who shall de-

2l8 CHARTER RECORDS.

scide thereon & the report of any two shall be conclusive Durham

April 17th 1789—

John Clough
John Peirce

[Auction Sale of Lands in Durham, 1793.]

[Masonian Papers, Vol. 5, p. 149.]

Public Vendue

To be Sold at Public Vendue On Thursday the twenty first day
of Feby Next at three oclock after noon at the Dwelling house
of Cap. Benja Trip inholder in s'1 Durham by Virtue of a Licence
from the Hon1 Judge of Probate for the County of Strafford all the
Real Estate of Henry Dearing late of the Island of Jamaica Deceased,
being one Seventh part of the Second & third Division Lots Laid out
to the Original Right of Thomas Packer Esq deceased in Rochester
in the County aforesaid — The conditions of the sale will be made
known at the time & place aforesaid Portsmouth Jany 19th 1793

John Peirce Admr
Public Vendue

To be sold at Public Vendue on Thursday the twenty first day of
Feby Next at three oclock after noon at the dwelling house of Cap
Benja Tripp in holder in Durham by Virtue of a Licence from the
Honb1 Judge of Probate for the County of Rockingham about Forty
four Acres of Land more or Less being all that Land taken by Execu-
tion from Ephraim Clough in said Durham & now in the occupation
of Mr John Clough. The Conditions of sale to be made known at
the time & place afores'1 January 19th 1793 John Peirce Admr

[Conditions of Sale, 1793.]

[Masonian Papers, Vol. 5, p. 150.]

Conditions of Sale of Forty Six Acres & forty one Square Rods of
Land in Durham taken by Execution out of the Homestead Farm of
Ephraim Clough on the 5th day of June 1786

First that the Highest bidded shall be the purchaser
Second when sold the purchaser shall pay down Ten "$ Cent of
the purchase sum and within three Months shall pay fifteen ^ Cent
more — and within one Year pay the bal('e with interest on the whole —

DURHAM. 2l9

A Deed shall be given by J Peirce the Administrator at the end of
three Months on Satisfactory Security being given

Durham Feb> 21st 1793— John Peirce

The Estate above is sold to pay the Debts of Thomas Forsey De-
ceased by Virtue of a Licence from the Judge of Probate for the
County of Rockingham

John Peirce Admr

Forty Six Acres & forty one Rods of Land in Durham as above
Discribed

Sold Eben1 Thompson Junior Esq at Eleven Dollars & half *$
Acre is 69/ ^ Acre

Conditions of Sale of one Seventh part of one Lot of Two hundred
& Forty Acres & One Lot of one Hundred Forty Acres both being
part of the Original Right of Thomas Packer Late of Portsmouth
Esquire Deceased in the Town of Rochester & County of Strafford

Durham Febr 21st 1793

First that the Highest bidder shall be the purchaser

Second That the whole purchase sum shall be paid down in
Money —

John Peirce

The above Land is the Estate of Henry Dearing Deceased whose
Estate is sold by Virtue of a Licence of the Judge of Probate for the
County of Strafford —

|th part of 240 Acre Lot sold to Samuel ( -£19 n

Nutter — at 7 ^ Acre is 34 acres & 45 Rods — j

|th part of 140 Acre Lot— at 5/ sold (

Samuel Nutter — is 20 acres — 5/ — \ 5. 0

17. 0

Esqr Mathews — 9£

M" Thompson — 10

Mr Nutter— 11

Mr Thompson— 11^ Doll8 f Acre

[Af/reement between Clough and Peirce, 1793.]

[Masonian Papers, Vol. 5, p. 151.]

The Subscriber John Peirce has this day agreed to sell to the Sub-
scriber John Clough Forty five Acres of Land more or Less it being
that Land which said John Peirce took by Execution from Ephraim

220 CHARTER RECORDS.

Clough & on which said John now lives for which I the said John
Clough promise said Peirce to pay him Eleven & one half Dollars for
each acre of said Land ^ Return of the Execution within two Years
from this date with interest until paid from the date hereof and I the
said J Clough promise to give my note of hand agreeably to the
above within fourteen days from the date, when said John Peirce
promises said Clough to give him a good & Sufficient deed for the
same

Nothing in this agreement is to interfere with the settlement be-
tween the Parties of Rent to this time Durham May 9, 1793

And the Said Parties are bound each to the other in the sum of
Two hundred Dollors which they promise to pay in case of non com-
plyance with this agreement and in case either partie fail in comply-
ance the above obligation shall be good in Law as a Note of hand for
Value Received for the above sum of 200 Dollars —

John Clough
John Peirce
This agreement has been complied with by both parties and is
void —

John Peirce —
John Clough —

EATON.

[Granted Nov. 7, 1766, to Clement March and others. The line between
Eaton and Tamworth was settled Feb. 8, 1797. Five grants of land to retired
officers who served in the French War were annexed Dec. 24, 1795. Madison
was set off and incorporated Dec, 17, 1852.

See New Hampshire charters in preceding volume; XI, Hammond Town
Papers, 600 ; Index to Laws, 161 ; sketch, Fergusson's History of Carroll County,
1889, p. 788: Stewart's History of the Free Baptists, 1862, p. 375; Baptist
Churches in N. H., by E. E. Cummings, 1836, p. 14 ; Lawrence's N. H. Churches,
1856, p. 600; grants to Archibald Stark and Nathaniel Martin with Conway and
Madison papers.]

[ Walter Bryant, Jr., in Behalf of Proprietors of Eaton, 1768.]

[Masonian Papers, Vol. 5, p. 152.]

To the Honorable the Purchasers of Mason's Patent in Newhampr
Genk after the Northwesterly Boundary of ye Patent was Run from
the Dividing Line Between the Province of New Hamp1 & the Mas-

EATON. 221

sacuetts on the Easterly side of New I lamp' By Walter Bryant Esqr
as far Westwardly as Ossiepe Mountains and had my Self Continued
the Same Line to Pemisawssets River where it meet with the Line
Run from the Westerly side Line of New Hamp1 I procured the
(i rants of two townships of Land of his Excellency Benning Went-
worth Esqr Late Governour of New Hamp'" for a Number of Proprie-
tors as f1 the Schedule Which Townships were Incorporated By the
Names of Eaton and Burton Bounding the township of Eaton South-
erly on the aforesaid North Westerly Line of said Patent as then Run
& Westwardly on the township of Tamworth and Northwardly on
the Aforesaid township of Burton and Eastwardly Partly on Lands
Granted to Ranging Officers and Partly on the Dividing Line Be-
tween New Hampr & the Massachuetts. Bounding the township of
Burton Southerly on the aforesaid township of Eaton and Easterly
on the township of Conway and Northerly & Westerly By a line
Running West from the Middle of the Westerly side line of Conway
so far that a Line Rung North from the Northwest Corner of Tam-
worth shall Intersect the aforesaid Line Run West from Conway.
For which township I have Advanced Several Considerable Sums of
Money in Behalf of said Proprietors for the Survey in order to fix
the said Charters Seperate from Other Claims and in Procureing the
Charters of said townships and in Partly Surveying the said town-
ships Agreeable to the Charters and in Cutting the Road through
said township from Moulton Borrough to Saco River in Conway and
in Conveaning said Proprietors at Sundry times to manage and Act
on said Affair and in Agreeing with a Number of Setlers from the
Massatts to Settle said Lands who are now Ready to Enter thereon —
and at the Same time had no Expectation of any Considerable Error
in the said Northwesterly Line of said Patent But are Now Informed
that By a Late Survey Made By the Joint Request of his Excellency
John Wentworth Esqr the Present Governour of New Hamp1" and
Your Honours to Determine the aforesaid North-westerly Line of said
Patent have found that the aforesaid township of Eaton & Part of
the said township of Burton as Granted and Laid Out, to be Included
within the Limitts of the aforesaid Patent Wherefore the said Char-
ters Made By his Excellency Benning Wentworth Esqr Late Govr of
the Lands afores'1 Doth not Convey the Right of the Premises to the
Grantees of said Charters the Right of the Crown Being In-Vested in
Your Hon01'" By your Patent Before our said Charters I do therefore
In Behalf of those Persons whose Names are Affixed in the Schedule
hereunto Annexed Pray Your Honors to take the Premises under your
Consideration and Make two Several Grants of the aforesaid town-
ships Of Eaton & the aforesaid Included part of the township of

222 CHARTER RECORDS.

Burton to the Persons whose Names are Affixed to the Schedule
Annex'd as aforesaid —

In Such a Manner and By Such Limits as Shall be for the Advan-
tage of your Hon01-8 Other Lands in your said Patent, as well as Your
Petitioner's Constituents — And Your Petitioner Shall every pray &c

Portsm0 Octr 21 1768— Walter Bryent Junr

Schedule of the Proprietors of Eaton

Clement March Esq1" Jonathan Moulton Esq1 Walter Bryent Esqr
Cap1 Jeremiah Folsom Jeremiah Gilman John Gilman

Cap' Israel Gilman JunThomas Tash Esqr John Tash
Benja Chapman Sam11 Chapman Jonathan Robinson

John Watson Jeremiah Folsom Junr John Folsom Junr

Jermy Bryent John Bryent Ede Hall Bergin

Edward Smith John Johnson Bartholomew Smart

Josiah Johnson David Davis Nathaniel Steavens

Jonathan Steavens James Burley Nathan Folsom

Edward Hilton Junr Nicholas Duda Thomas York

Sam11 Gilman David Gilman Joseph Senter

John M'Duffee Joseph Young John Smith

John Folsom John Pickering AttornySamuel Livermore Esqr

Joshua Bracket John Hartford Nicholas Hartford

Daniel Mason Josiah York David Hicks

John Mead George Dutch Winthrop Smart

Arthur Bennett Thomas Bennett Nathaniel Ewer

Joshua Frost Walter Bryent Junr Esqr John Burley

Joseph Smith Esq1 Joseph Smart Caleb Bennett

William Parker Esqr Giles Seward Jonathan Warner

Benf Smith Esqr Paul March Esq1 Theodore Atkinson Esqr

Daniel Warner Esqr Governour School & Minister

A True Copy of the Proprietors Names or Grantees of Eaton att'

Walter Bryent Jun1' Proprs Cler

[Petition of the Bnjents for Grant of Land, 1771.]

[Masonian Papers, Vol. 5, p. 153.]

Province of } To the Purchasers from John Tufton Mason Esqr of
New Hampr \ their Patent In the Province aforesaid.

Gen1 After the Northerly and Westwardly Boundary Line of Your
Patent was Run The Subscribers & Others, ware at the Expence of
Procureing a Charter of a Township of Land of Something More then

EATON. 223

Six Miles Square and Bounded Westwardly on the township of Tam-
worth and Northerly on the township Burton and Eastwardly on
Lands Granted to a Number of Ranging Officers and on the Dividing
Line Between the Province of Newhampshire and the Massachuetts &
Southerly on the Aforementioned Patent Line, which township was
Granted by Benning Wentworth Esq1" Late Governour of Newhamp-
shire & by him Incorporated By the Name of Eaton and After the
Surveying of said township Part of said township was Claimed by and
Run Out to the Province of the Massachuetts Bay by Sundry Com-
mitees of said province, which Oceationed Very Great Expence
to the Subscribers &hindred the Settlement of said Lands by Reason of
Sundry Law Suits Commenceing On the Determination of which the
Property of those Lands Depended, at the finishing of which Law
Suits, a New Survey of the Boundaries of said Patent was ordered on
the Northerly Part of said Patent by which Survey the whole of the
Aforesaid township of Eaton as Granted and Bounded fell within the
Limits of said Patent whereby the Subscribers are Disapointed and
those Settlers they have Procured of Settleing a New Plantation As by
Charter Prescribed In the Right of the Crown the Subscribers there-
fore Desire You would take the Premises into your Consideration And
Make them a Grant of a Tract of land Equal to Six Miles Square in
Your Unapropriated Lands In Your said Patent

July 31—1771— Walter Bryent

Walter Bryent Junr
Jeremy Bryent

[Proposals to Joshua Nickerson, 1772.]
[Masonian Papers, Vol. 5, p. 154.]

Memorandum of Proposals made by the Committee of Mason Pro-
priety, to Mr Joshua Nickerson, in behalf of himself & Thirty Fam-
ilvs. Viz1 to have a Grant of 12,000 Acres of Land on the Curve Line
to the Eastward of Tamworth the whole to be laid out in 100 Acre
lotta and to be drawn for, one half to the Grantors free of duty & tax,
the other half to the Grantees on conditions of Settlement, proper
Roads to be left, 200 Acres for the first Minister, 200 Acres for the
Ministry for ever, 200 Acres for the benefit of a School, time of Set-
tlement Building Mills &'' to be fix'd when the Grant is made — the 600
Acres last Mentiond to be exclusive of the 12,000 —

Portsmouth Novr 2'1 1772

Rec'1 a Copy of the above sign'd by Peter Pearse

Joshua Nickerson

224 CHARTER RECORDS.

[Samuel Lauchhn to Proprietors, 1773.]
[Mason ian Papers, Vol. 5, p. 155.]

Roxbury Aug1 7th 1773

To ye Hon1,le George Jaffrey Esq1'

Honored Sir Agreeable to your ad vis to me when you was at Bos-
ton which was to See if I Could git twenty men to go & Settle y'
Plase & you Said you thought if I could git so many that ye Propri-
etors would Let me have that town you spook of and now Sir I have
Spook with only two man & they were So well Pleased with it that
they went out & Precured all ye Rast & they could have got three or
fore more But they would have none but Such as ye compeny Liked
should go and truly thos that have Put down thire name are very
Spriy able Bodyed men & can carey Sumthing of a good intrest with
them which is very nescery to go into a new Plase & they think they
can git a grate number more in a Lettle time & it is very Likly to me
they can for there is but two of these that have Singed that I thought
of when I Spook with you & as they are So high in thire spirits to go
it may be supposed that they will Stare up outliers as soon as we shall
have time to Let them know of it for you must consider thire was but
5 days to git these in I hant had oppertunety to See Sum that has told
me before I went to Portsmouth that if it shold be So that I should git
ye Land they would go with me & there is fifteen of them that I can
git to go with me as Soon as I can git ye grant if it Should be
good Land they dont care if it be 70 or 80 miles from Portsmouth &
if you had ye wrighings that I have you would see that mason Right
gos ferther Back then that & that thire is a grate Parsel of Land Lays
dormon now in them Parts as I am informed by one ho has ben witli
me ho Say he has got a grant from you of a Townshipe of Land &
that but a Lettle while ago that Lays 70 mile from Portsmouth & Says
you are giveing out grants of that Land and he tels me that ye Land
is very good & if the township ant good Land I would not Except of it
as a git for these men would not go on what is cald very Poor Land &
if it be Such as they would not think worth Settleing I would not go
where good husbands would not follow me but I know you have a good
choise — & if thse men Should be Set down on a good track of Land By
ye Blessing of God it would not be Long before they would Bring up
a good Report of them Parts & very Likly would be a means of in-
dusing may more of thire aquntance to go & purches Land of you &
I think it might halpe ye growth of them Parts very much there is a
good may of my aquantence gon to ye Eastward & more that think of
going which I think if they had gut a quanted with your Land would
be as Likly to go there & more so than to ye Eastward and now Sir

EATON. 225

Please to Lay tins before ye gentlemen Proprietors that they may see
ye whole of ye affair & I mak now dought but if yon do vew evey thing
Relating to ye matter from ye fust to these Present considertion of
Bringen on so many Settlers which they must know will Sarve to
Rase ye value of Land in them parts & in time it may be you will
See that this your kindnss to me in this will torn to your own benefit:
as will as mine & than bouth you & I shall have grate Reason to
Bless god that has don this for us —

P : S Sir I Bag your Patience that I may Speak a few words more
an ye affaire that there may be nothing wanting on my Parte to Pree-
swade you to grant this my Requst whis So just & Reasanable for if
you only consider how much troble I have ben at & also have many
men I am Lik to git to go into them partes for my parte I cant Say
how many there will be when they Come to See ye Land for I never
See Pople So Stired up to go to any one Plase before in my Life my
neighbours Says they think I might git a hundred good Likly men on
the considerration of giveing one hundred acers to Each man for Set-
tleing & you See I have got thirty that have engaged to go if I git ye
grant of a township & from this if I could have a good grant of a
townshipe I am willing to engage to Put on as many Settlers as we
talked of & I Suppose I can very Easely dubble the number & that
very quick for Severel of these men in tend to Look out for Sum Plase
this fall & for ther Sakes if you Should See case to grant me a town-
ship any time I Should be glad it may be as Soon as Conveniently
you can & I have Promis to Let them know as Soon as I can & that
it is Likly you will give me answer this month which I Pray you
would & Send it me if you Please by mr Davis the Bearer of this
Letter for I can git it from him ye Easest —

Sir I hope you will Excuse me for wrighing with my own hand
Seeing I could no better Spell wright nore in dite I could indeed have
got Sum gentleman in Boston who has wrote for me Before to wright
for me now but I thought I would not Let any of these gentlemen
know how ye affair stands now as I very well know what there advise
would be, I cant but hope you will give me answer in Pease & may
you in joy Pease & comfort all your Days I am Sir your Honours
Mosht Humble Sarv'

Sam" Lauchlen

14

226 CHARTER RECORDS.

[Samuel Lauchlen to Proprietors* 1773.]
[Masonian Papers, Vol. 5, p. 156.]

Roxbury Augst 19th/ 1773

To ye Honoble George Jaffrey Esq1

Hono'1 Sir I Should have Sent you ye with in writen instrument in
my Last but I had gut but 16 Signeers then & as I heard of more that
wanted to sign I have wated for them & now they have come & Signed
which mak up thirty men in all Sum more were a mind to Sign but
ye Comppney told me they should not Lik to have them go & So I
woidd not tak them in these men Say if I have ye townshipe granted
me they verely belive that they could have there number made up to
one hundred men that would go forthwith & Settle ye Town if I
wanted So many & these men Please themselves With ye thoughts
of joining together & all to Set down in one Plase where they
would be all of one mind & of one harte for they all are well
aquaned one with a nother Except two of my frinds that Live 20
mile of are to go with them they are all at Preseant Blessed be god
for it harty Rugged man I Belive there is 8 or 9 of them carpenders,
that intend to go & Sum Shouemakers and now sir you See if my
Request be granted to me you my Depend upon haveing ye town very
Soon Settled much better then any town you have Settled Prehaps
yeat (as I am informed thise day from a man that Lives down in
them Parts who Say that there is Levetts town & a nomber more
to his knoldg that bant fullfilled ther ingagement (& he Say he
thinks they ought to be taken from them for it & given to those
that would Settle them Better which might be a benefit to ye Pub-
leck thuse he) now sir I must Bag you to Let me know what answer
I may give these man who are wateing hopeing to have an oppertu-
nety to Settleing togeather but if I dont git ye townshipe granted to
me now about 10 of them intend to go a nother way thise fall but I
hope you will oblige them & me to & I tak it as a kindness Showed
to me who am sir with due Respect your Honours most obdant most
Humble Sarvant Sam11 Lauchlen

a Tanner bv trade

[Names of LauchleiCs Settlers, 1773.]
[Masonian Papers, Vol. 5. p. 157.]

Roxbury Aug* 5th 1773
We whose Names are underwritten do hereby promise that if the
Proprietors of Lands in New Hampshire do grant to Samuel Lauchlen

EATON. 227

a Township of Land in the said Province of New Hampshire we will,
as Boon as conveniently may he, go along with him to settle therein,
and to cultivate and improve the same

As Witness our Hands

Job Weld Jedidiah mnnro Solomon munro

Joshua Lewis John Bradshaw David Baker

"William Draper David Lyon Paul Draper

Jesse Partridge Sam1 Fuller Gershom Jackson

James Goggin Samuel Doggat Jur Phinehas Child

Richard Richardson Josiah Fisher Daniel Child

Israel Fairbanks Junr James Griggs Junr David Baker

James Stevens Aaron Kingsberry Jonathan Bird

Henry Smith Jn° Pond Joshua Kingsberry Juner
Simeon Merrifield

Twenty Eight have Signed here and my wife has two Brothers that
hant Seen this Papper that Said Sume time a go if I got Land in them
Partes they would go with me which makes ye thirty men that I
S ek of in my Letter who am sir your Honrs most Humble Saveant

Sam11 Lauchlen

[Samuel Lauchlen to Proprietors, 1773.]
[Masonian Papers. Vol. 5. p. 158.]

Roxbury Septr 12th 1773

To ye honWe George Jaffrey Esqr

Honored Sir I hope by thise time you have had oppertunetv to Lav
my affaire before ye gentlemen Proprietors and if they have not as vet
met upon it I Desier they would this mounth for as I obsaved in mv
Last that Severeal of those man that are Signers To ye writting I
Sent you are determend to Look out for a Plase to Settle in thise fall
So they have aplyed to me a gain to know if I am Like to git a grant
of a Township or not I told them they might depend on it I would
give them answer this mounth without detaining them any Longer I
verely thought you would have wrote to me on ye affair before now for
if you dont intend I shall have ye Land I Desier you would Let me
know it cc ye Reason whie you dont for I think I am able to git more
men then was fust Spook of to go to Settle ye Land So that I cant
See how you can Desire to do any orther then to grant it to me but
how Ever I Suppose you are willing to Let me have ye townshipe
Seeing it is Likly I may be able to Settle it with Such men as will
Likly to husbund it well But you think it is time Enough yet and So
I may conclud that is ye Reason I have not herd from you yet: But

228 CHARTER RECORDS.

as I have Promised to give those men answer this mounth & ye time
is a must out (I Should be very Lorth these men Should go a nother
way if 1 Should have ye Landj So I must Desier you to give me
answer Soon a Enough for me to give them their answer — & I
Deseir that ye answr To my Requist may be ye voise of all ye Pro-
pritours then I Shall know how to Proseed on ye affair with out my
Trobleing you with any more of my Letters — Now Sir you know that
you advised me to See if I Could git ye twenty men that I Said I
thought I could git and altho it was Sum what Singlar to ask man to
go Settle a township that I as yet had not got yet according to your
Desier I ded & gut 30 men & .according to my Promis I Sent Down
ther names to your honor & from this I may justly Expect you will
grant my Requst & send me answer if you Please by ye Berrer and
you will grately oblige your honours most Humble Sarent

Sam11 Lauchlen

[Samuel Lauchlen to Proprietors, 1773.]
[Masonian Papers, Vol. 5, p. 159.]

Roxbury, Octr 1/ 1773

To ye Hono,,Ie George Jaffery Esqr

Hono'1 Sir on ye 22 Septr I Rec'1 your faver of ye 16 — ye Contence
of Which is that I and my associates may have a track of Land of
12000 Acres of Land upon ye condition that I Settle it with 30 man
& you have one half of ye Same : now this is not ac cording to my
Requst nore yett to what you Said to that if I Could git twenty men
to Settle it I might have a townshipe of Six mile Square which is nere
duble of what you now Speek of & it was with a vew of having a
townshipe that I under tuck to Engage 20 men & in Stead of 20 I
have Engage thirty (& I suppose I could have got thirty more if these
men should have Liked ye Land) this Plainly Shews you do not only
not alow me any thing for my lion'1 Mothers Rite But that you do not
do half So well by me as you have don by orthers that have had
grants before for I have heard ye Proprietours Say that Sum of ye
towns they ded not Resave but only one Single Right in a town & as
Co1 ackins in his Letter to Doct' Warrin of Boston Says that you
have Resaved only a Single Rite in a town for nineteen twenths of
what you have Settled and now Gentlemen if you will not give me a
grant of a townshipe Six mils Squar free & Clear or at Least on as
good tarms to me as what Colo: ackins Says you have don to orthers
I Shall Look upon it that it will be as well for me to tak ye Sum I
have Ben offred allreday or to tak ye offer I have Several gentlemen

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to Let them undertak ye wliole affair who offer to tak it no Parches
no Pay how Lang be before I can git any thing if I should put ye
affair Into there hands is unsartin <S: therefore I mak you this one
offer which will Be for your Benifit Becase I shall then be Satisfied
& you will by that means Draw a urate Number of men on your Land
as will as git this Town well Settled as you will See if these men do
go — & now I Desier you to Consider of these things & give me an
answer with in thirty days for I have Set no Longer time before I
must meet with these Gentlemen at Boston on ye affair & now I hope
you will be Directed to what will be most for your Benefit & mine and
So I Leve you Serously to Consider of ye whole affair and fully to
Determain ye whole of ye matter so that I may know what to Depend
on (vour giveing me a Speedy & Direct answer to thes Well oblig
your honours most obdent humble Sarv"

Sam11 Lauchlen
P : S this is now ye 8'1 & Last time and if you will not hear me now
I shall conclud you never will and therefore I Shall tak to Sum orther
quarter to git my grevence Reedrest I should have dun it Last may
only Squir Peirce Desierd me to wate til ye Proprirs meat on ye affair
I ded & they have as yet don nothing only caused me to delay til now
&: now I can wat no Longer '59 r S Lauchlen

[Andrew Cazneau to Proprietors, 1773.]
[Masonian Papers, Vol. 5, p. 160.]

Dr Sr Mr Lauchlen has laid before me a Number of papers rela-
tive to his right & Title to a large Tract of Land in Your Province
which is thought to have regularly descended from Grandfather
Samuel Allen Esqr to his (Lauchlens) Mother, who rather than be put
to the disagreable necessity of a Law Suit is willing to quit claim all
her right on Condition of haveing a Township allowed on which will
instantly settle thirty Familys you'll excuse the freedom of my writ-
ing to you on the subject as Lauchlen is a Client of mine

I am y humble Serv1

Boston Oct0 4"' 1773 Andrew Cazneau

To George Jeffries Esqr

[Reply to the Aboce.~\

Portsm0 Octr 23'1 1773

Mr Andrew Cazneau —

I have your letter of ye 4th Ins1 accompanying one from mr Lauch-
len and should have wrote in answer Sooner, but delayed it to ye opp°

23O CHARTER RECORDS.

of sending an answer to rar Lauchlen which is of this date I perceive
you write in character of mr Louchlens attorney respecting his claim
of land in this Prov : as grandson and heir of Sam11 Allen Esqr & to
induce the grant of a Township in consideration of a Quit claim to a
Title in alien's right — Geo: Walton Esqr late of Newington who
married a doughter of Sam11 Allen Esqr, many times within the Space
of twenty years past applied to ye Purchasers of Masons right for a
grant in Consideration of Allen's Title — but the Purchasers of Mason
were so well informed that Allen's heirs could hold no title under Allen
that they always rejected any the least proposal of a grant on that Con-
sideration not having the least doubt that mrs Walton was ye doughter
of Sam11 Allen Esqr or have they any doubt of mr Sam11 Lauchlen
being a grandson & heir to Allen — but from the Authority of mr
Gridly and Prat and other good Lawyers are fully convinced
that no Title under alien can be held after the decease of the person
who conveyed to alien, the Premises being an Estate in tail —
however if alien had a good title, he had conveyed his Interest to
others — the Title of Allen has been examined by his heirs & assigns
both in old & New England, by persons of Consequence who have
drop't ye pursuit from conviction — and I am well assured other
heirs of Allen would long before this time have Supported or pursued
that Title could it have been to any beneficial purpose — mr Lauch-
len has applied to the Proprietors as an heir to alien, but they
would not make any grant to him upon a Consideration of a Quit
Claim of his mothers right upon that title, but a vacancy of a grant
of a tract of land, engaged to others happening at the time of his
Solicitation, he proposed to engage a number of Settlers with him-
self for a grant the Proprs consented to admitt them on the Same
Terms and Conditions which the other persons, who neglected to
appear, were to have the grant — and if mr Lauchlen don't think it
worth their while to Settle that tract on the terms proposed no great
Injury is done — your writing on the Subject as Lauchlens attorney
needs no apology and hope the fredom in which I write to you in
answer will not be disobliging from Sr

Yr Hum SeiV—

[Samuel Lauchlen to Proprietors, 1773.]

[Masonian Papers, Vol. 5, p. 161.]

Roxbury Octf 30th 1773
To ye honWe George Jaffrey Esqr

Honored Sir I Sent you a Letter in answer to yours of Sepf
Last & if I knew you had Rec'1 it I should have Expected your

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answer by this time for I Let you know that if I had ye Land I
wanted answer in 30 days as those that had Signed to Settle ye Land
about 10 of them was Lik to go to Sum Plase to Settle by that time
if not before & new ther is two of them gon but the orthers waire
with me Last Night & Say they Dont go til 10 Novr next now I
Desier you to Let me know if you have had ye Letter or not & if
you have had it I Desier you would give me answer to it by
ye next Post if Poseble you can for if I do have ye Land to Settle I
should be very Louth to miss of haveing these man altho 1 might
have as many more as good as they for I am very well a quanted
with them if I am to have ye Land & you can Let me know it by
next Week they would go ye week after & See ye Land that Land
you Spook of in your Last you Say Joyn on ye Carve Line East of
tarn worth I tak that to be on ye East Side of your Province But dont
know if it dos or not which you will Let me know if you write
again —

By these Lines you may See that these men have grate Desier to
Settle a townshipe if one is to be had & if not that they may know
it that they May know what to do & as you have moved me To git
them to in gage to Settle a town & they have for So Longe time
Expecting to have an oppertunety to go & Settle one I think you
cant do no Less then to answer my Last Letter & that before they
are to go for then I can Let them know what to Depen upon for I
am not willing to Desmiss them befor I hear from you if that may be
in a few days —

I am Sir your honours Most Humble Sar1

Sam11 Lauchlen

[Samuel Lauchlen to Proprietors, 1773.]

[Masonian Papers, Vol. 5, p. 162.]

Roxbury Nov1 30th 1773
Hono'1 Sir

I Rec'1 your faver of ye 26 octr Last and I Should have ans-
wered it before this date but those men That Signed to be Settlers
Come to me and Deseir me to tak ye Land So that they may have
oppov to Settle together in one plase upon which I Revews your Let-
ter and as I obsave you dont in your Letter alow me to have ye Lest
Right to any of ye Land Clamed by mason So 1 conclued you cant
Desier me to quit what Right I think I have Even if I should tak this
track of Land to Settle and upon these considerration I am Radey to
In gage to Settle ye Land in case ye Land be good & ye Same Laid

232 CHARTER RECORDS.

out into 100 acre Lots as you obsaved in your former Letter Now
these are ye conditions I Expect to have ye Land upon if I have it
viz in ye fust Plase I Expect you to be at ye charge of Laying out ye
Land into 100 acre Lot and then to give me a good grant of ye Land
with a Resave of one half to ye granters — upon my obliging my Self
to put on twenty men as Settlers on ye premises to Preform ye stipu-
lated duty of Cultivation that may be a greed to by Each Party : now
I must obsarve you Speek of ye grante being mad to me & to my
associates — but if I under tak to git ye Land Settled I Shall Expect
to have ye grant mad to me with out these men having any Right to
ye Land but what I shall give them for Settleing ye Same So I
Expect to have ye Land that is Left after Paying ye Settlers Settle-
ing which in ded wont be very much now if you ant willing to mak
ye grant to me a Lone upon my obliging my Self to preform ye dutys
a greed to I shall have nothing to do with it — but if you do Conclude
to Let me have it then I Desier you to Let me know it as Soon as you
can for Sence these men have aplyed to me a gin I am Determened to
mak a trad with you or Doctr Warrin & Sum orther at Boston who
offer to Lay out ye Land and give two thirds of a township for ye
Settleing of twon But that is father of then they Lik to go if they
can have any ner which is 130 miles : N — W — I hope you will give
me an answer in a few days Even if you do Let me have it or if you
do not : for ten of these men are gon allredy & it may be ye orthers
may hear of sum orther Land & that may Sute them so they will Leve
me to — if we had not Spent So much time as we have alredy we
might have had not only these twenty men but thos ten gon on that
Land if they had Lik ye Land by this time thir is Six or 8 that
Desieres to go & See ye plase yeat if you git me an answer before ye
Snow comes for then they would know how to Lay out thir Bisness
a ganst next Spring & so I hope you will Send me word where ye
Plase Lays & Let me know ye name of Saveral of ye town that
join or that Lay near to ye same for I Suppose we may go from thise
Plase much nearer then to go by Portsm0 I hope you will oblige me
by giveing a Speedy answer for I should be glad to have answer
Ready for them by the time they are to come to See me a gain : in
So Doing you will oblige me who am Sir your honours most obdant
hum hie Savant Sam11 Lauchlen

\_Copy of Reply to Above.]
M1 Sam" Lauchlen

1 have received yours of ye 30th Novr last — and have laid it
before the Prop™, who have read it — and they do not incline to make

EATON. 233

alteration in y° Proposals they made to you and associates, respecting
;i grant of a tract of land — and if you and they do not See fit to accept
it on those terms, you and they may decline, and others may have
it-
iii behalf of V Prop™ I am yr hum Ser*
Portsm0 Dec' 24,h 1773—

G J—

[Conditions of Grant to Lauchlen, 1774.]

[Masonian Papers, Vol. 5, p. 163.]

Mem0 the Proprietors Purchasors of Masons Pattent have Agreed
to I limit to M1 Thomas Lockling & Mr Sam" Lockling each five Hun-
dred Acres of Land to be laid out in that Gore of Land lying between
Leavits Town & Conway Provided that they will each of them make a
Settlement on each lot in One Year from date hereof Provided they
enter into Bonds for the Terms of Settlement in One Month from the
date Novr 2'1 1774—

[Petition of Obediali Dudy, 1775.]
[Masonian Papers, Vol. 5, p. 163.]

As the Purchasers and Claimers of the land within Mason's Grant
have a Meadow in a tract lately called Eaton, near Ossipee Pond, not
granted or Severd by them, which Meadow contain's about ten Acres,
and on which a few loads of hay may be cut — I desire and Request ye
favour of Said Owners to grant me the liberty to improve the Same
Meadow, till granted or Severed by them to Some other person, and
upon their Grant or Severance will relinquish the Same meadow — or
to their order — and pray that I may improve it this present year, and
if they shall grant me liberty to improve the Same after this year, will
give them a reasonable Rent for ye Same — Portsm0 July 8th 1775

Obadiah Dudy

witness Lucy Dudley Wainwright

[Proposals to Henry Weed, 1777.]

[Masonian Papers, Vol. 5, p. 164.]

Mem" of proposals for a Settlem1 a tract of Land of 6 miles square
or equal thereto lying on the curve line North & east of Tamworth

234 CHARTER RECORDS.

between Mr Henry Weed of Sand witch & the Come of Mason Propri-
etors that said Weed is to take a veiw of said Land at his own Expence
& report to this Com6 at or before the last of June next & if he likes
the Land Sa Com'' proposes to dispose of to him & his Associates
25 — 100 Acre lots to 25 Settlers who are actually to settle & reside
on each of said lots that S'1 Com' at the cost of the proprietors will
clear one good Road thro s'1 Town & build a Saw & Grist mill for the
conveniency of the Inhabitants & lay said Tract into lots of such
demention as shall be hereafter agreed on — and that Mr Weed & his
associates shall have the offer in preference to others of building
Mills clearing Roads &c Portsm0 May 1st 1777 — & that the Propris
propose to make Mr Weed some further consideration for his private
emolument

[Contract with Joseph Thompson, 1781.]
[Masonian Papers, Vol. 5, p. 164.]

Portsmouth October 12th 1781 In Behalf of the Proprietors of
Masons Patent We the Subscribers hereby agree with Joseph Tomp-
son of the Town of Conway That if he build a good Saw Mill and
Grist Mill on the Land of the said Proprietors near the Road leading
from Conway to Wolfborough and about five miles South of said Town
on the most convenient stream there which is to be performed &
compleated within fifteen months from the date in consideration of
which we engage that he shall have a deed from said Proprietors of
one hundred Acres of Land to be laid out so as to include said Mills,
or whenever said Mills may be compleated to their satisfaction within
said Term — Wm Whipple

John Penhallow
John Peirce

I, Joseph Tompson within mentioned hereby engage that the mills
within mentioned shall be compleated on the terms and conditions
therein mentioned — Portsmouth October 12th 1781

Joseph Thomson

[Samuel Lauchlen to Mr. Penhalloiv, 1784.]

[Masonian Papers, Vol. 5, p. 165.]

Portsmouth July 28—1784
Mr Penhallow

Sir I have weated on Several of the Gentlemen Proprieters and
one Send me to a nother and a nother to a nother &° — this ant what I

EFFINGHAM. 235

Expected from our formour Discorse now If you are Determend not
to ae comidate the metter in questan I Should tak it as a Faver you
would Say So at once, but if you are Desired to do anything that is
generous, Please to give me your answer Imedatly for I Dont meane
to run from one to a nother on the afair no more for I am Determend
To Take the wast Land that Lays with in my Clame as I have offen
menced to you — if I cant Settle the afair now with you I might
have put it out of my hand before now only you Seamd to show a
Disposison to do for me with out my being at that troble from your
humble Serv1

Sam1 Lauchlen

[A Fragment of Memoranda.]
[Masonian Papers, Vol. 5, p. 165.]

John Knowlsof Tamworth in the County of Strafford yeoman — has
Trespassed on a lot near the 7 mile tree by Cutting 500 trees and live-
ing on the lot

the Above is Called in the Town of Eaton
John K n owls on @ ye 7 mill tree

James Head not on Alkany Hanford not on

Ebenezer Hall on John Roe on

Jonathan morey Doctr Jackson on

Eben Garland Thos Garland

EFFINGHAM.

[Granted by the Masonian Proprietors, June 28, 1749, to Nathaniel Gookin and
others, and called Leavittstown. An addition was granted Dec. 20, 1749. The
charter was renewed Sept. 29, 1766. Incorporated as Effingham Aug. 18, 1778.
A gore of land was severed from Wakefield and annexed in 1820. North Effing-
ham [Freedom] was set off and incorporated June 16, 1831.

See XI, Hammond Town Papers, 604; Index to Laws, 163; sketch by F. W.
Barker, Fergussoffs History of Carroll County, 1889, p. 531 ; Stewart's History of
the Free Baptists, 1862, p. 375 ; Baptist Churches in N. H., by E. E. Cummings,
1836, p. 14; Lawrence's N. H. Churches, 1856, p. 583.]

236

CHARTER RECORDS.

[Names of Grantees of Effingham.']

[Masonian Papers, Vol. 5, p. 166.]

For ye Center Square 10 Acres instead of Six 50 Acres for ye House
Lots instead of 100 & ye Terms of ye Warranty ye Same Verbatim as
in Jo" Sanborns grant

Nathaniel Gookin
John Wedgwood
Samuel Smith
Daniel Marston
Zachy Towle
Joseph Knowles
Samuel Batchelder
Joshua Brown Junr
Nathaniel Batchelder
Eben1 Rand
John Batchelder Junr
James Batchelder
Benja" Potter
Jonathan Towle junr
Abraham Drake
Nata Batchelder Senr
Joshua Wingate
Winthrop Marston
Charles Crimble
Josiah Dearborn
Abner Fogg Junr
Isaac Marston

Thomas Marston
Joshua Brown
John Lovit
Jonathan Marston
Henery Batchelder
Jonathan Knowles
John Tayler
Rubin Sanborn
Jonathan Thomas
Ben jam" Johnson
Joseph Page
Benja"1 Marston
Jonath" Wedgwood
Elisha Marston junr
Jonathan Page
John Mighell
John Wingate
Josiah Marston
Tufts Thomas
Joshua Wingate Weeks
John Marston
Moses Leavit

Jonathan Marston Junr Ware Drake
John Weeks Junr Seth Fogg

Rubin Dearborn Jun1
Thomas Nudd
Abraham Drake Junr

Shem Page
Robey Fogg
John Leavitt Junr

Samuel Marston
Thomas Robey
John Weeks
Rubin Dearborn
Zachy Batchelder
David Marston
Abner Fogg
Joseph Moulton
Jeremiah Dearborn Jun1
John Johnson
John Johnson Junr
Benja" Marston Junr
John Godfrey
Sam nil Fogg
David Page
Daniel Dow
John Philbrick
Jerimiah Page
Benj" Lovit
Abraham Towle
Simon Marston
Nat11 Moulton
Elisha Page
Samuel Marston Junr
Ephraim Marston
Thomas Leavitt

\_Petition of Nathaniel Gookin and Others, 1748.]

[Masonian Papers, Vol. 5, p. 167.]

Novr 10th 1748.
Gent" We ye Subscribers Inhabitants & Freeholders of Hampton
understanding that you are about to grant Some of those Lands which
you purchased of Cap4 Mason & having had Incouragment that we

EFFINGHAM.

might obtain a Township upon proper Application We therefore pray
that we may not be forgot but that this may Serve as a memento til
we can apply in a manner that may be more agreeable to you

Nathaniel Gooken
Josiah Hobbs
( apt Benjamin I lobbs
Reubin Dearborn
John wedgwood
Benjamin Marston
William Lane
Simon Dearborn
John Philbick
Thomas Marston
Timothy Dolton
David Page
Henry Batchelder
Joseph knowls
Joseph molton
Jonathan Page
Benjamin Potter
Josiah marston
John God free
Zachariah Towle

morris hobbes Jeremiah Page

Joseph Hobbs Ebenezer Samborn

Benjamin Marston Juner Jonathan Page Juner

Samewell Shaw
Reuben Samborn
Samewell Fogg
William Moulton
Jeremiah Dearborn
Elisha Thomas
Daniel Samborn
John Leavit
Caleb Marston
Jonathan Wedgwood
Edward Shaw
John Jonson
Jonathan marston
Thomas Robe
daniel marston
Abraham drake
Jonathan knowes

Carter Batchelder
Joshua Brown Juner
Joseph Page
John Tayler
Job Chapman
Simon marston Juner
Joshua Brown
Samewell Batchelder
Winthrop Marston
James Godfree
Zaceriah Batchelder
Benjamin Johnson
Abner fogg
Jonathan Hobbs
benjmen Hobbs
David Marston
John Hobbs

.To the Hon1 Theodore Atkinson Esqr & others Proprietors of
Mason's Right So called —

[Charter of Effingham, 1749.]
[Masonian Proprietors' Records, June 28, 1749.]

Province of ) Portsmouth June 28th 1749 Wens'day three of ye
New Hampshire \ Clock afternoon at the Dwelling house of Sarah
Prust Widow the Proprietors meet according to Adjournment

Voted That there be and hereby is granted unto Nathaniel Gookin
Thomas Marston Samuel Marston Joshua Brown Thomas Robey
Samuel Smith John Leavit John Weaks Daniel Marston Jonathan
Marston Reuben Dearborn Zachariah Towle Henry Bachelder Zach-
ariah Bachelder Joseph Knowls Jonathan Knowls David Marston
Samuel Bachelder John Taylor Abner Fogg Joshua Brown Junr Reu-
ben Sanborn Joseph Moulton Nathaniel Bachelder Jonathan Thomas
Jeremiah Dearborn junr Ebenezer Rand, Benjamin Johnson John

23S CHARTER RECORDS.

Johnson John Batchelder Junr Joseph Page John Johnson junr James
Batchelder Benjamin Marston Benj11 Marston Junr Benjamin Potter
Jonathan Wedgwood John Godfrey Jonathan Towle Jun1 Elisha
Marston junr Samuel Fogg Abraham Drake Jonathan Page David
Page Nathaniel Bachelder Junr John Mighill Daniel Dow Joshua
Wingate John Wingate John Philbrick Winthrop Marston Josiah
Marston Jeremiah Page Charles Crimble Tufts Thomas Benjamin
Leavit Josiah Dearborn Joshua Wingate Weeks Abraham Towle
Abner Fogg Junr John Marston Simon Marston Isaac Marston Moses
Leavit Nath1 Moulton Jonathan Marston junr Wear Drake Elisha
Page John Weeks junr Seth Fogg Samuel Marston junr Reuben Dear-
born junr Shem Page Ephraim Marston Thomas Nudd Robey Fogg
Thomas Leavit Abraham Drake jun1' John Leavit junr John Wedg-
wood—

Excepting as hereafter herein is Excepted on the Terms Conditions
and Limitations herein After Expressed All that Tract of Land
Within the Province of New Hampshire Containing the Quantity of
Six Miles Square Bounded as Follows Viz1 Beginning at the Prov-
ince Line Joining on ye head or upper Line of a Tract of Land Lately
Granted by the Said Proprietors to John Ham and Others and runs
thence on that Line of Said Tract One Mile thence on a Square or
Right Angle into the Country on that Side and on the Province Line
on the Other Side So far as that the Line Running from these lines
a Cross to Each Other Parallel to the Line of one Mile in Length
Aforesaid Shall Comprehend the Quantity of Six Miles Square. To
have and to Hold to them their Heirs and Assigns in Equal Shares
(Excepting as Aforesaid) on the Following Terms Conditions and
Limitations That is to Say that the Whole Tract of Land Within the
Said Boundaries (Saving what is herein After Mentioned to be Other-
wise Improved) be Divided into one Hundred Shares or Rights and
Each Share Laid out into two Distinct Lots one Of Which to Con-
tain Fifty acres and the Other All the Land belonging to Each
Respective Share. That the Whole be So Laid out and the two Lots
belonging to Each Share Numbred with the Same Number beginning
with one and Ending with one Hundred That the Said Land be So
Laid out within one Year from the Granting thereof and then the
Lots Drawn for in the Lsual manner of Drawing for Lots of Land in
the Town of Portsmouth under the Care & Direction of the Proprie-
tors Aforesaid & So to be Done as to Make but one Draft to Each
Share

That one Of the Said Shares be for the first Minister of the Gospel
who Shall be Settled on the Said Land and Continue During his Life
or until he Shall be regularly Dismist to hold to him his heirs &

EFFINGHAM. 239

Assigns and one Other Of said Shares to be for and Toward the Sup-
port of the Gospel Ministry there forever, And the Fifty acre Lots
belonging to these Shares to be Laid out as near the Place where the
Meeting house Shall be built as may Conveniently be Done and not
drawn for as the Other Lots. That there be ten acres of Land left
in Some Convenient Place within Said Boundaries for building a
Meeting house and School house Upon making a Training field a
Burying Place and for Such other Public uses as the Inhabitants
there Shall See Cause to Improve it —

That Seventeen of Said Shares be and hereby are Reserved to the
use of the Said Grantors their Heirs and Assigns and one of the Said
Shares be for the use and Support of a School there Forever — That
the owners of the Other Eighty Shares make a Regular Settlement
there at their own Charge in the Following Manner viz1 that Each
owner of the Said Eighty Shares build an House of Eighteen foot
Long & fourteen foot Wide or Equal thereto upon Some part of his
Land and Clear three Acres thereof fit for Tillage or Mowing within
Eight years from this time

And that the Said owners build a Meeting house there (upon the
Land to be Left for that Purpose as Aforesaid) fit for the Public
Worship of God for the use Of the Said Inhabitants within ten years
from this time and Maintain the Preaching of the Gospel there Con-
stantly next After Twelve years from this time —

That there be twenty acres of Land left in Some Suitable Place
within Said boundaries for a Privilege and Accommodation of a saw-
mill which Shall be to him his heirs and Assigns who will build Such
mill within three years from this time, with the Privilege of the most
Convenient Stream and Place for doing the Same and in Considera-
tion thereof the owner or owners of Such Mill Shall Saw the Logs of
the Said owners of the Said Shares and Other Inhabitants there to the
Halves for the Term of ten Years next After the said Mill Shall First
work — And if no Particular Person or Persons of the owners of the
Said Shares or Such as the Majority of them Shall Permit to do the
Same will Undertake to do the Same then the Said owners at their
Common Expence Shall put the Said Mill under Such a Regulation as
that they and Others Inhabiting there May be Seasonably and Rea-
sonably Served by having their Lumber Sawed as Occasion Shall
require for building on the Said Granted Premises as Aforesaid

That Each owner of the Said Eighty Shares Pay to Such Person or
Persons as the Majority of them Shall Chuse for that Purpose all Such
Sums of money or bills of Public Credit as the Said owners or the
Major Part of them Shall Determine to be Necessary from time to
time & as Occasion Shall require to defrey the Charges of Laying out

24O CHARTER RECORDS.

Said Land and Other Matters and things necessary to Make a Settle-
ment as aforesaid and performing the Other particulars herein
Enjoined and Directed to be Done — That in Laying out the Said Lots
Care be taken to Sort them in Such a Manner as to Make the Shares
as Equal as Possible —

That the Lots be Laid out in Ranges where the Land will Admit
of it and Land left between the Lots for Highways of two rods wide
& between ye Ranges of four Rods wide And that a Plan of the Whole
Laying out be made at the Charge of the Said owners And Return'd
to the Grantors As soon as may be Done With Conveniency not
Exceeding one Year

That the Seventeen Shares reserved be Exonerated Acquitted and
Discharged and fully Exempted from Paying any Charge towards
making the Said Settlement and not held to the Conditions of the
other Eighty Shares nor Liable to any Tax or Assessment untill
Improved by the Respective owners —

That all white Pine trees fit for his Majestys use for Masting the
Royal Navy be and hereby are Reserved and are hereby Granted to
his Majesty his heirs and Successors for that Purpose.

And in Case Any of the owners of the said Eighty Shares Shall
Refuse Neglect or omit to Perform and fully Discharge any of the
Conditions Articles Matters and things herein Enjoined Directed &
ordered to be Done by the Grantors as Aforesaid he Shall forfeit his
Share and Right in the Said Tract of Land and Every Part thereof
to the said Grantors & their Heirs and Assigns and it Shall and may
be Lawful for them or any of them or any Person or Persons by their
order or the Major part of them so ordering in their Name & Stead to
Enter into and upon the Part of Such Delinquent Owner and him
thence Utterly to Amove oust Expel and Eject for the use of the Said
Grantors their Heirs and Assigns Provided Nevertheless and it is the
true Intent and meaning of the said Grantors in these Presents that
Such forfeited Shares Shall not be Discharged (nor Shall any of
them by Such forfeiture) from the Charge burthen and Duty of Set-
tling as Aforesaid and performing all articles Matters and things herein
Above Specified, for Each owner of the said Shares to do and the Said
Grantors in Case they Shall hold Such forfeited Shares Shall and will
do and Perform the Same and in Case of Granting them Again will
Enjoin and Oblige the Grantees So to Do —

Provided there be no Indian War within any of the Terms and
Limitations of time Above Mentioned for Performing the said arti-
cles Matters and things aforesaid to be Done and Performed by any
of the said owners of the said Eighty Shares and in Case that Should
Happen the Same times to be allowed for the respective matters
Aforesaid After Such Impediment Shall be Removed

EFFINGHAM. 24I

And in Case any action or Suit Shall be brought against the Said
Grantees for the said tract of Land or any Tart thereof the Said
Grantees arc hereby obliged to Vouch the Grantors or Such of tin-
Said Grantees as Shall be so sued Shall so do and the Said Grantors
hereby Promise and Engage they their Heirs Exec" Admrs or Assigns
Shall and will at their own Cost & Expence Defend the Said Suit
and Pursue the Same to final Judgment through the whole Course of
the Law (if there Shall he Occasion) and in Case the final Judgment
in Such Trial Shall he Against the Said Grantors the Grantees Shall
Recover Nothing over in Satisfaction from the said Crantors their
Exec" or Admrs or any of them

[Addition to Effingham, 1741'. J

[Masonian Proprietors' Records, Dee. 20, 1749, and Masonian Papers,

Vol. 5, p. 168.]

Province of New } Portsmouth December ye 20th 1749 Wen'sday
Hampshire \ live of ye Clock afternoon at the Dwelling house
of Ann Slayton Widow — The Proprietors meet according to Adjourn-
ment—

Whereas the said Proprietors at their meeting held at Said Ports-
mouth on the twenty Eighth day of June last granted unto Nathaniel
Gookin, Thomas Marston, Samuel Marston & others a certain Tract
of land of six miles Square hounded as follow's (viz1) Beginning at
the Province line joining on the head or upper line of a tract of Land
lately granted by Said Proprietors to John Ham & others and run's
thence on that line of Said Tract one mile thence on a Square or
right Angle into the Country on that Side and on the Province Line
mi the other Side so far as that the Line Running from these Lines
across to Each other Parallel! to the Line of one Mile in length afore-
said Shall Comprehend the Quantity of Six Miles Square — and where-
as it is Represented that taking Six miles Square in the manner afore-
said neai' two miles of the upper part quite across the Said Tract will
run upon mountanous Rocky Lands not capable of Improvement —
Therefore

Voted that there be and hereby is granted to the Grantees men-
tioned in the above recited Grant & on the Same Terms, Limitations
& Conditions, an Addition To the said Grant of one Mile and one
third part of a Mile on that Tract of Land granted to John Ham &
others aforesaid and running on a Right Angle into the Country as

i:>

242 CHARTER RECORDS.

Ear as the Westerly Side line of the Said Grant first made to the Said
(look in & others and then to meet the End of the Cross Line at the
head or upper part thereof with the Appurtenances thereof which
Addition with the Grant first made to the Said Grantees is to them
& their Respective Heirs & Assigns making one intire Tract to hold
on the Same Terms Reservations & Conditions Limitations &
Exceptions as aforesaid in the first grant —

[Report of Committee to Lay Out Effingham, 1761.]

[Masonian Papers, Vol. 5, p. 169.]

We the Subscribers Being Chosen by the proprietors of Leavits
town to Survay and Lay out S'1 township into Lots accordingly we
Set out October the 12th 1761 Survayed S'1 township and Laid out
one De vision of Lots about fifty Six Acres Each and Returned home
the 30th Day of S'1 month Survayed and Laid out as followeth : Viz :
Begining at the Province Line at a Corner tree at the Head of a
township (J ranted by the Purchesors of Masons Patent to John Ham
and Others near the Province Pond So Called then Runing from sd
Corner on Hams Head Line about two miles and one third of a mile :
then Runing North 42 Degrees west Seven miles : then North 48
Degrees East to the Province Line : then on sd Line to the first
bounds : the sd Lots Begin three fifths of a mile from Hams Head
Line measured on the aforesd Seven mile Line then Runing Parelall
to Sd Hams Line three miles : then Runing North 42 Degrees west
three miles : then South 48 Degres west to sd Seven mile
Line : then on sd Line three miles to the first Bounds which
three miles Square Ave Laid out into one Hundred and two Lots half
of a mile in Length and fifty Six Rods in wedth Leaving High ways
of three Rods wide to the North East of the Center Range Line and
of the Second Range Lines from the Center Each way and also a
High way of two Rods wide on the South East Side of the Center
tree Cross the Range. Sd Center is Laid out on the Corners of the
Lots Number ^jj-j-^j the afore sd Lots are Numbred as followeth :
viz : the Center Range Line Begining Midway of the afore sd Parel-
all Line and Runing North 42d west is Numbred ^j|? So on in
Course and ends with l~ : the Second Numbred Line Begins one
mile Southwestward of the Center line on the Same Parelall Line
Numbred jjf-j-H So on in Course Northwestward and ends

35 I 36
52

with '^ : the third Numbred Line Begins one mile North Eastward

EFFINGHAM. 243

of the Center Line on the Same Parelall Line Numbred ^ J ™ So on
in Course Northwestward and ends with « the other Range Lines

TO O

are not Numbred : all which will more fully appear by the Plan this
we Do make our Return this 17"' Day of November Anno Domini
17G1 In witness whereof we Do here unto Set our hands

!g
5
i

Benjln Hobbs 3'1
Joshua Wingate 3d
Simon marston
Benjmian Page
Weare Drake
Samuel Wedgwood
Thomas Moulton
Joseph Page
William MMufee
moses Leavitt

[Report of Laying Out of Effingham, 1762.]
[Masonian Papers, Vol. 5, p. 170.]

I the Subscriber Being Chosen or agreed with by the Proprietors
of Leavits town to Lot out the Second Devision in Sd township
which was the whole of ye Land that was undevided in sd township :
& to Lay out a mill Priveledge accordingly I have Laid out all the
undevided Land in sd township into one hundred Lots & have Left
Land for a mill Priviledge & Retorned Home the 17th Day of april
1762 Sd Second Division of Lots are Laid out & Bounded as fol-
Loweth Viz: the first Rang Begining on the Seven mile Line two
miles & two fifths of a mile Northwestward from ye Home Lots
Leaving a Highway in this as also in all the other Ranges of three
Rods wide to the Northwest of the Rang Line this first Rang Line
Runs North 48 Degrees East Numbering two Ranges of Lots on Sd
Line begining on the Northwest Side of Sd Line with 1 : 3 & So on
& on the Southeast Side 2: 4 & So on thus \ \ \ \ \ ' 78 \ \Q the upper Side
Ending with 54 the Lower Side with 50 Leaving highways of two
Rods wide to the North Eastward of the Numberd trees Cross the
Range on ye Side of Every fifth Lot the Lots in generall are
one mile Long & one hundred & twelve Rods wide the Second Line
Begins 49o Rods Southwest 8 degrees from the North East End of

244 CHARTER RECORDS.

the first Rang Line then Runs South 48 degrees west to the afore sd
Seven mile Line Begining to Number with 55 & Ending with 75 the
Lots from 68 to 75 are but 96 Rods wide the third Line Begins two
fifths of a mile North west from the North Corner of the first Devi-
sion cV Runs North 48 Degrees East to ye Province Line Begining to
Number with 76 & Ending with 86 the fourth Line Begins 495 Rods
South 8 Degrees west from the third Line & Runs South 48 Degrees
west to the Home Lots Begining to Number with 87 & Ending with
93 then Numbering 94 : 95 & So on to 100 on the Lines of the first
Devision which Lots are of Differant Length & wedth which may Be
found By the Plan Referance thereunto Being had the mill Privi-
ledge is in the 95th & 96 Lots in the first Devision which Runs So far
into the Second Devision as to Contain 66 acres Each including the
mill Priveledg all which will more fully appear by the Plan this I Do
make my Return this 11th Day of april 1762 in witness whereof I Do
hereunto Set my hand

Daniel Samborn Survr

[Draft of Lots in Effingham, 1762.]

[Masonian Proprietors' Records, May 12, 1762, Vol. 6, p. 229, Vol.
7, p. 63, and Masonian Papers, Vol. 5, p. 171.]

Province of ) Portsmouth May 12th 1762 Wednesday five of the
New Hampshr \ Clock afternoon at the House of James Stoodly Inn-
holder the Proprietors meet according to Adjournment

Voted that the Plan of ye Tract of Land granted to Nathaniel
Gookin & others and returns of ye laying out of the first and Second
Division of Lotts as on file, be accepted, and that ye drawing of the
Lotts be now made at this meeting which were drawn accordingly as
on file —

EFFINGHAM.

245

drawn PersonsNames

first

2d

drawn

First

2d

I )i vision

Division

Division

Division

i'1 Benj« Marston

2d

John Rindge

jun' N°

20

56

N°

3

73

3. Abraham Drake

9'

12

4-

Joshua Brown
jnnr .

22

50

5. Roby Fogg .

81

Si

6.

Thomlinson &
Mason

84

84

7. John Philbrick

8

68

8.

Jeremiah Dear-
born jr

94

9

9. Joseph Page .

5o

3i

10.

Henry Bachel-
der .

70

24

1 1 . Joshua Peirce

12.

Theodore At-

Esq™ right

10

66

kinson Esqr

59

99

13. Nath1 bachelder

14.

John Moffat

Junr .

92

1 1

Esqr .

21

55

15. Thomas Wall-

16

George Jaffrey

80

80

ingtord Esqr

16

60

17 Law Lot X° 2

83

83

18.

Tufts Thomas

14

62

19 Thomas Leavet

86

86

20

Dan1 Peirce &
Mary Moor

32

45

21 Thomas Marston

42

39

22

Benja Potter

64

90

23 Jonathan Page

7

69

24

Winthrop
Marston .

6

7o

25 Law Lot N° 1

97

6

26

Nath1 Bachel-
der .

49

32

27 Jona Marston jr

3i

47

28.

Solly & March

43

38

29 John Weeks

73

2 1

3°-

Abner Fogg .

96

7

31 Jonathan

32-

David Page

54

27

Wedgewood

5-

29

33 Thomas Packer

34-

Reuben Dear-

Esqr

39

42

born jun1' .

82

82

35 Samuel Smith

66

92

36.

Josiah Marston

61

87

37 Reuben Dear-

38.

Shem Page .

41

40

born

18

58

39 Ebenezer Ran

27

53

40.

Jotham Odiorne
Esq18 right

47

34

41 Daniel Marston

58

98

42

Samuel Fogg

33

2

43 Jonathan Thom-

44

Joseph Moulton

63

89

as

48

33

45 John Taylor .

37

44

46

David Marston

51

30

47 Nath1 Moulton

55

26

48.

Seth Fogg .

98

5

49 Nathi Cooking

46-

35

50.

Abner Fogg jun1'

67

93

51 Benja Marston

7i

23

52

Joshua Brown

76

77

S3 Thomas Roby

9

67

54

Sam1 Marston
junr .

44

37

55 Abraham Towle

85

85

56.

John Godfrey

38

43

57 John Leavit Junr

62

88

58.

Josiah Dearborn

5»

95

246

CHARTER RECORDS.

drawn PersonsNames

first
Division

2d
Division

drawn

First
Division

2d

Division

59 Charles Crimble

95

8

60

Jona Marston

,

75

61 Joseph Knowles

88

*5

62

James Bachel-
der .

93

10

63 Reuben Sanborn

89

14

64

Moses Leavit

23

48

65 John Wingate

34

96

66.

Joshua Wingate

100

3

67 Zachariah Towle

45

36

68

Thomas Nudd

90

13

69 John Johnson

70.

Samuel Bachel-

junr .

69

25

der .

24

54

71 Elisha Marston

72

Jona Knowles

5

7i

junr .

1 1

65

73 John Johnson

65

91

74

John Weeks
junr .

72

22

75 Meserve &

76.

Daniel Dow .

77

17

Cornp8

73

28

77 Abraham Drake

78.

Zachariah Bach-

junr .

79

79

elder

2

74

79 John Bachelder

80.

Mark He Went-

junr .

68

78

Wentwort h
Esqr .

99

4

81 John Leavet .

78

1

82

Isaac Marston

4

72

83 Jonathan Towle

84

Benja Leavet

17

59

junr .

40

4i

85 Richard Wibird

86.

Weare Drake

74

20

Esqr .

12

64

87 John Wentworth

88

Joshua Wingate

Esqr .

13

63

Weeks

36

46

89 Benj" Johnson

60

100

90.

John Wedge-
wood

57

97

91 Jeremiah Page

35

94

92

John Marston

19

57

93 Elisha Page .

29

5i

94

John Mighill

28

52

95 Samuel Marston

3°

49

96.

Simon Marston

15

61

97 Ephraim Mars-

Ministry Lot

26

18

ton .

75

19

Ministers Lot

25

16

School Lot

87

76

Drawn at the Meeting abovesaid

attest Geo : Jaffrey Prop1'8 Cler
a true Copy the Record of the Draft of the lotts of township grant-
ed to Nath11 Gooking &c

attest Geo : Jaffrey Proprs CI

EFFINGHAM. 247

( Petition of John Leavitt, 1766.]
[Masonian Papers, Vol. 5, p. 172.]

Province of / To the Honor1'' Centlmen Purehers of the Right
New Hampshire \ <>!' John tuften mason Esq1 as thaire was a Town-
ship Granted to John Leavitt Daniel marston and others and this is
to Infoim you that the Propiete lias Given Good inCorgment to five
men that will Setele on Said town Ship and as thaire a Number of
Rights that is not Carred on and for want of Said Rights ben Carred
on the Said men that was to Seteled mi Said town Ship Can not go
on upon thaire work, and the town Slip Ly Still and this is to Desiere
you to Graint Liberty to Propiete to Set Saied Rights up at a Pub-
leck Vendue and aney other thing that you Shall think Proper

North Hampton Apriel 15th 1 T < > « >

John Leavitt in Bhelfe of the Commite

[Regrant of Effingham, 1766.]

[Masonian Proprietors' Records, Sept. 29, 1766.]

Province of / Portsmouth Septr 29th 176(3 Monday five of the
New Ilampsh' \ Clock afternoon at the Dwelling house of James
Stoodly Esqu1 Innholder the Proprietors meet according to adjourn-
ment

Whereas the said Proprietors on the -Nh day of June 1749, made
a Grant of all their Right Title Interest, Property & Demand in &
to a certain Tract of Land in said Pro\ inee within the Claim of said
Proprietors, Containing the Quantity of Six Miles Square, bounded
as follow's viz' Beginning at the Province Line, joining on the head
or upper Line of a Tract of Land lately granted by the said Proprie-
tors to John Ham & others, and run's thence on that Line of said
Tract one Mile, then on a Square or Right Angle into the Country
on that Side, and on the Province Line on the other Side so far as
that the Line run'ing from these Lines across to each other Parallel
to the line of one Mile in length aforesaid, shall comprehend the
Quantity of Six miles Square to Nathanael Gookin, Thomas Marston,
Samuel Marston, and others mentioned in said Grant on certain Con-
ditions and Limitations therein Declared, and in Special that a Set-
tlement of the said Land should be made, within a limited time
therein also set forth, as by Reference to the said (irant may at large
appear, Which Conditions & Limitations, the said Grantees have not
been able to Comply with, and have therefore Surrender'd the same

248 CHARTER RECORDS.

Grant to the Grantors and have requested of them a new Grant of
said Land to be made to the principal part of the said Grantees with
some others taken into the Number in the room & Stead of some of
the Original Grantees who have resigned or are Deceased or absent
whereupon the said Grantors having re-enter'd into said Premises for
the Breach of said Terms & Conditions and resumed the Possession
thereof and being desireous of Settling the said Lands and Willing to
(J rant the Request aforesaid — Therefore Voted that there be & hereby
is Granted all the Right Title, Interest Claim Property & Demand
of the said Proprietors of in & unto the same Tract of Land unto
Nathanael Gookin, John Leavit, Abner Fogg, John Weeks William
Weeks jun1' Zachariah Bachelder, David Marston, Isaac Marston,
Jonathan Wedgewood, James Wedgwood, Abraham Drake, Abra-
ham Drake junr Daniel Sanborn, Benja Leavitt, Jeremiah Page,
Daniel Marston, Simon Marston, Samuel Marston, David Wedg-
wood, Benjamin Johnson, Jeremiah Dearborn, John Johnson, Jona-
athan Knowles, John Wingate junior, Benjamin Perkins, Joshua
Wingate the third Moses Leavitt, Thomas Marston, Thomas Robie,
Samuel Smith, John Shepard, Abner Fogg jnnr Seth Fogg, Samuel
Robie Fogg, Weare Drake, Jonathan Drake Jonathan Marston
Thomas Marston John Leavitt Junr Thomas Leavitt, David Knowles
David Knowles jun1 Joshua Brown Joshua Brown Junr John
Taylor John Johnson, Levi Dearborn, Levi Dearborn Junr Ebenezer
Loverin, Henry Bachelder, Thomas Nuclei, John Marston, Joseph
Moulton, Jonathan Norris Josiah Marston, Samuel Sherburne, Ben-
jamin Palmer, Samuel Wedgwood Jeremiah Avery, James Marston,
David Marston jun1' John Dearborn Nathaniel Drake John Dearborn
jun1 Simon Dearborn, Nath1 Hobbs, Jonathan Page Jun1" Simon Nudd,
Jon11 Marston, Simon Leavitt, all of North Hampton in said Province
Thomas Parsons, Ebenezer Smith, Thomas Parsons jun1' Eben1' Smith
all of Exeter in said Province, Walter Bryent of Newmarket Jede-
diali Prescut of Brintwood in said Province, Joseph Towle jun1 Abra-
ham Towle, Joseph Towle, all of Hampton and Ezekiel Russell of
Portsmouth, all in the Province aforesaid, Excepting as is herein
after Excepted, on the Terms, Conditions, and Limitations, herein
after Expressed To have and To hold, to them, their Heirs & Assigns,
in equal Shares Excepting as aforesaid, on the following Terms, Con-
ditions, & Limitations namely, That the whole Tract of Land within
said Boundaries (Saving what is herein after mentioned to be other-
wise Improved) be Divided into One Hundred Shares or Rights and
each Share laid out into two distinct Lots, one of which to contain
fifty Acres, and the other all the Land belonging to each respec-
tive Share, tin- two Lots belonging to each Share to have the

EFFINGHAM. 249

Bame Number but as the Lota were Laid out, in the manner aforesaid
under the former Grant & drawn to the Persons herein named who
were Grantees in that are to hold the Lots drawn, and allotted to
them in the former Division and the new Grantees in this who were
not aamed in the former Grant are to come to lot & draw the same
here in Portsmouth under the Care & Direction of the Grantors,
within three Months from this time — That as all the Terms & Con-
ditions of the former Grant are recorded, & the Grantees being the
Bame Persons a few excepted, the Grantees are to make the Settle-
ment of said Tract of Land in the same manner, and all Exceptions
and Reservations are hereby declared, to be the same as in the said

former Grant that are not otherwise herein expressed That those

i^ the Grantees in these Presents expressed who shall fail of settling
their Respective Shares & Rights in the manner directed in the
former Grant. But within the time herein limitted, shall forfeit
their Rights & .Shares to the other Grantees before herein named,
who shall fullhll and perform the Terms & Conditions of this Grant
to them, their Heirs & Assigns, And that the said Grantees shall
have three Years time from the Date hereof & no longer to perform &
fulfill all the Articles Matters & things by them to be done accord-
ing to the true Intent and meaning of the Conditions, Declarations
and Directions aforesaid, above refer' d to

[Xf/r Chrantees in Effingham, 1766.]

[Masonian Proprietors' Records, Dec. 10, 1766, and Masonian Papers,

Vol. 5, p. 173.]

Province of | Portsmouth December 10th 1766 Wednesday five
New Hampshire \ of the Clock afternoon the Proprietors meet ac-
cording to adjournment

WHEREAS the Proprietors at their Meeting held at Portsmouth
Sept1 2U"1 1766, did grant to Nath1 Gookin, Thomas Marston & Sam-
uel Marston & others, a Tract of Land in said Province, within the
Claim of said Proprietors, containing Six Miles Square & bounded
by the bom ids expressed in said Grant, which said Tract was granted
to said Prisons & others the 28U| day of June 1749, but being for-
feited & Surrendered to said Grantors, Sixteen of those Persons who
were inserted, in said last-mentioned Grant are not inserted in the
Grant first-mentioned, but Sixteen other Persons placed in their
Stead, & their Lots to be drawn for in Portsmouth under the Care
& Direction of said Grantors. Therefore

250

CHARTER RECORDS.

Voted that the said Sixteen Lots or Shares be now drawn for as
Thomas Parsons of Exeter appears in Behalf of said Grantees to
attend to the drawing of said Lots and said Sixteen Lots or Shares
were drawn to & for the said Sixteen Persons as in a Schedule on
file

[Masonian Proprietors' Records, Vol. 6, p. 280.]

Province of ) At a meeting of the Proprietors of the Lands
New Hampsr \ purchased of John Tufton Mason Esq1 in New Hamp-
shire, held at Portsmouth, on the tenth day of December 1766, by
adjournment

A Draft of Sixteen Lots or Shares of Sixteen new Proprietors or
Grantees in the Tract of Land granted to Nath1 Gookin Thomas
Marston, Samuel Marston &c Pursuant to the Tenor of the Grant.
pass'd Septem1" 29th 1766 Draft as follows viz1

Thomas Marston

Nath1 Hobbs

Jeremiah Avery

Thomas Parsons jun1

David Marston junr

Walter Bryent

John Dearborn

Simon Dearborn

Jonathan Marston

Ebenezer Smith

Nathaniel Drake

Samuel Wedgewood

Simon Leavet

John Dearborn Jun1'

Simon Nudd

Ezekiel Russell

attest Geo: Jaffrey Prop1'8 Cler
in Behalf of Grantees Thomas Parsons —

a true Copy of the Record of ye Draft of the Lotts —

attest Geo : Jaffrey Prop18 CI

0 of first Division. N° of 2d Division.

48 .

49

14 .

8

41 .

65.

24

26

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36

50 .

27

68 .

31

54 .

10

89 .

14

93 .

62

29 .

. 32

55 .

27

45 .

40

95 .

54

49 .

78

30 .

33

EFFINGHAM.

251

[Improvements in Effingham, 1770.]
[Masonian Papers, Vol. 5, p. 174.]

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No Meeting House for Publick Worship —

The above is an Acco't of the settlements & Improvements in
Leavitts Town — surv'1 & examind

Leavitts Town Jan? 1770 W Jotham Rindge & W'" Blake

252 CHARTER RECORDS.

[Settlements in Effingham, 1770.]

[Masonian Papers, Vol. 5, p. 175.]

An Account of Settlements in Leavitts Town
First Division Lott N° 95 one House one Saw Mill one Acre cleared
96. one House 2 Acres fekl

97 one House, one Grist Mill 12 Acres Cleared
74 One House 3 Acres Clear'1 & 3. feld

5. One House 4 Acres Clear'1 & 2. feld

76. ten Acres feld

94 three Acres feld
37 Three Acres feld

93 One House 8 Acres Clear'1 & seven feld

92 One House 2 Acres Clear" & 3 feld

91 One House 12 Acres Clear'1

78 & 79 one House 8 Acres Clear'1 & 9 feld

40 One House 4 Acres Clear'1 & 2 feld

41 foure Acres Cleard & 2 feld

Second Division
N° 96 One House 18 Acres Clear'1 & 10 feld

95 One House 50 Acres Clear" & 12 feld

94 Three Acres feld

93 One House 6 Acres Clear'1 30 feld

92 One House 12 Acres Clear'1 & 20 feld
90 four Acres Clear'1

89 Three Acres feld

98 One House 6 Acres feld
97 One Acre Clear" & 2 feld
67 One House 4 Acres Clear'1

( John Leavit
Portsm0 June 13th 1770 Returned by < Abraham Drake

/ Com1""

[Excuses of Grantees of Effingham, 1770.]
[Masonian Papers, Vol. 5, p. 176.]

To the Honorable the Purchasers of the Right of John Tuften
Mason Esqr The Grantees of Leavitts (so Call'1) in the Province of
New Hampshire Do give the following Reasons why the Charter of
the said Township in not in every respect complied with Viz.

1. The Extroardinary Expence the Grantees have been at in clear-
ing Roads tli rough East Town and a certain gore of Land between
East Town and Leavitt8 Town —

EFFINGHAM.

253

2. The Land in Leavitts Town being very broken and cold and the
great Distance from any Settlement where any Necessary Supplies
could be had Obliged the Grantees to be at very greal Expence in
geting <v. Supporting Settlers there

We the Grantees therefore pray the Lenity of the Honorable
Grantors towards the Grantees, as they arc doing all within their
Power to Promote the Settlement of said Town as fast as Possible —
Portsm" June 13th 1770 Returned to the above Proprietors

by Abraham Drake ) p ,,.,.
John Leavitt \

[Committee on TSjftngham Affairs, 1770.]

[Proprietors' Records, June 13, 1770, and Masonian Papers,

Vol. 5, p. 177.]

Province of New } Portsmouth June 13th 1770, Wednesday five of
Hampsh* \ the Clock afternoon — The Proprietors meet
according to adjournment —

Voted That the Consideration of the Grantees of Leavets Town So
called, not complying with the Terms of their Grant, be referred to
Daniel Rogers Esqur & mr John Penhallow as a Conrittee and to
Report what they think will be the best Interest of the Proprietors
to determine upon the affair, and as Soon as they can conveniently —

[//'■//"/■/ of Committee on Effingham, 1770.]
[Masonian Papers, Vol. 5, p. 177.]

Province of / Portsm0 Sepr 12th 1770 We the Subscribers being-
New Hamp1" \ Appointed a Committee to Examine the State of the
Settlements of Levits Town, and the Petition of the Grantees, upon
Examination Find that they are Greatly Deficiant in their Comply-
ance with the Terms of their Grant but upon Considering the Diffi-
culty and Expence that they have been Already at. Propose that One
Year Longer be Allow' d them to Comply With the Terms of their
Grant at the Expiration of which Term all the Deficient Grantees
Shares Shall Revert to the Grantors —

upon Examining the Returns of Manadnock N° 5 Dated A])1 24th
1770 we find a Deficiency of 20 setlers out of the 47 which by Char-
ter they were to have had in said Town by Decr 1763

254 CHARTER RECORDS.

[Thomas Parsons to Proprietors, 1772.]

[Masonian Papers, Vol. 5, p. 178.]

Hon'1 S1' I Beg you to Excuse my Troubling- you with the Follow-
ing lines (viz) Some Time in ye year 1766 I was admitted to Offer
Some reasons to ye Hon1'1 Proprietors of Maisons Claim why the Set-
tlement of Leavitts Town went on with Little or no Sucksess & had
Incoragement if I carried forward my Improvements I Should not
Suffer By the Neglect of others, Since which the Grantees have been
prevailed with to give a Bounty to Twenty Families for moveing into
S'1 Township Others with my Self Undertook to perform it the Time
for Doing this lias been Elapsed Two years or more and there is Now
wanting to make up the Number agreed for Five or Six famillies be-
sides part of those who are called Famillies their being So Poor that
if they ware not Supported By Others Sole & Body could not keep
togather For the Settlement of Such Banditties & Likewise where
there is no Settlements fulfilled the Same Bounty has been Given as
for those who have Spared no Cost nor Pains to Answer the Designed
End I have Expended at Least five Hundred Pounds Lm & the Im-
provements made by myself & those I have Settled there being five
in Number Exceeds what has been Done by all the Other Proprietors
nofrwith Standing I cannot prevail with ye Grantees to Sue those who
are faulty and I must now move with my Familly into the Town &
there reside with those who make themselves wors than Brutes which
I think a Great Hardship —

another Hindrance of the Settlement is the non-resident Proprietors
Say that they have Paid a Proportion of ye Expence of what has been
Done and there rights are as much Settled as those under Improve-
ment or at least if their right is Taken from them they will come in
for a Share of those that are Settled it being Done with there money
To prevent any more negligence I Pray yr Honr would move it to the
Grantors to order the resident Proprietors to Take the advantage of
that Clause in the Grant Either to ther own benifit or to the Benifit
of the Grantors, which is that those of the Grantees who Do Not ful-
fill in the Time limitted Shall forfitt their rights to those that Do ful-
fill &c : if Something of this kind is motioned and Carried into Exe-
cution it Seems to me it will answer a Valuable End and the Grantees
repremanded for not Prosecuteing those who are Delinquent in Set-
tleing what ever I can Serve the Hon,,lt' Grantor in Respecting the
matter Shall Exurt my Self to the utmost to Do I am Sr your Most
Obedient Humble Serv'

Exeter May 27th 1772 Thomas Parsons

EFFINGHAM. 255

[Report on Survey of Effingham, 1772.]

[Masonian Papers, Vol. 5, p. 17'.*.]

Pursuant to my Directions I have Run the lines of Leavits Town
and found the Line on the Head of East 'Town Run right & Spotted.

The South West line as run and Markt was Eighty rods Short of
their Measure according to my Computation & Measure

I then proceeded to take the Course and distance of the Picwacket
Road as directed which I accomplished and markt for Hundred Acre
Lots as will appear by a plan herewith Exhibited

The Road as it Runs through Leavits Town is Three Miles three
Quarters and Forty three Rods, Line River Bridge is in the Same the
width of which is four Rods and Ten feet. The land on Leavits
Tow 11 Southerly line is from East Town up Two miles and a half
very (iood the Remaider to the uper End mostly pine land.

From Wolfbourough to Leavits town on the Road Considerable good
Land until you come within \ a mile of Leavits Town line then pine
to the line. From Conway Line to the Lot N° 14 & 15 Inclusively
all the Growth Pitch pine, from the Lot N° 16 to the Lot N° 47 In-
clusively good Land Chiefly a Beach Ridge and from thence to
Le a\ its Town Line all Pitch pine. I am Gent" with great Esteem yr
Hum1 S'

Ebenezer Thompson

To Mess1'* Dan1 Peirce George Jaffry and Daniel Rogers Esq1 Mr
.John Penhallow & Peter Peirce a Committee of Masons Propriety —

Durham Xovem1' lt3th 1772

\ B the Bound Trees on the Road are double Markt & Number'1

[Petition of Inhabitants of Effingham, 1773.]

[Masonian Papers, Vol. 5, p. 180.]

To the Honable Proprietors Claiming Lands in the Province of New
Hampshire Under John Tufton Mason Esq1' Humbly sheweth the In-
habit ants of the Township of Leavitts Town That in Expectation of
a Speedy .V Generall Settlement of Said Township they ware Induced
to Expose themselves and Substance to the Fatigue and Expence of
becomeing Inhabitants And being remote from Neighbouring settle-
ments The Burthen of Repairing roads the want of a School and
Priviledges of Publick worship upon the Lords Day become Very
Burthensome, The roads between East Town settlements and Leavitts
Town has cost Leavitts Town Proprietors upwards of one Hundred

256 CHARTER RECORDS.

pounds L. M ; all that has been Done by East Town Proprietors is
Cutting out a roade in a Different place, leaveing the Slows without
so much as one Cosway over them, and the Bridges over Pine River
have been Built so Long, that it's Dangerous for man & Beast to Pass
over them, Some have in the Year Past narrowly Escaped Loosing
their lives The Number of Families Now resideing in this Place is
Seventeen which contain Sixty foure Children the want of Publick
worship on the Lords Day and a School of Learning as we Humbly
conceive Exposes them to that Degree of Ignorance that in a few
years more, their age will not Admitt of a Remedy The Prospect we
at Present have of any Considerable number of Fainilyes being aded
to us, Shews a Dull aspect, for Few if any Attemps are makeing by
the orantees for that End an Increse of which we consceive to be our
only remedy Your Memorialests Therefor humbly Pray your Honrs
would Pint out a remedy whereby this Town may become more Gen-
erally Settled and also whereby the road from East Town Settlements
and through the gore may be made Passable without Indangering our
lives & Substance or allow us that have Fulfilled a Settlement to Take
the Advantage of that Clause in the Grant which as we Llumbly Con-
sceive Intitles us to those of the Grantees rights that have not Com-
plyed With the Terms of Settlement ; but without your Approba-
tion shall not attempt or Presume To Do it what way soever 3^our
Honrs are Plesed to bring forward the Settlement will be Greatfully
Acknowledge by your Petitioners as it will Conduce as we Humbly
Conceive to the good and Interest of Communit}*" as well as Individ-
uals and your Petitioners as in Duty Bound Shall Ever Pray —

Leavitts Town March ye 8th 1773—
Benjamin Brown James Champernon Josiah Gorge

Samel Dalton David Hicks Robert Brown

Thomas Parsons John Leavitt James Marston

Jeremiah Avery Andrew Hitton Weare Drake

Carr Leavitt Levi Couse

[Location of John Peirees LandJ\
[Masonian Papers, Vol. 5, p. 181.]

John Peirce has Located his five Hundred Acres of Land Granted
by the Proprietors on the Head of Leavitstown & contains Lots N°
105 N° 106 N° 108 N° 109 N° 110 contains 100 Acres each and are a
part of that Division of 100 Acre Lots bounding on the Province
Line —

EFFINGHAM.

257

[Valuation of Lots in Effingham."]

[Masonian Papers, Vol. 5, p. 181.]
Valuation of Sundry Lots of Land in Effingham

$ Cts

Lot N° 84-2"'1 Division estimated at 1.50 per Acre
Lot N° 84 1st D° D° at 2.50 per D°

Lot N° 4-2 Range, (average price) 1.00 per D°
Lot N° 99-1- D° estimated at 2.00 pr d°

[Plan of No. 4, 2d Range.']

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A Plan representing Lot num'1 4 — Second Division & Second Range
in the Town of Effingham in right of Mark H. Wentworth Contain-
ing 252J Acres the lines run and marked and Corners renewed and
the Contents of the Lot ascertained by Actual Admeasurement

B.. Cook Survr
16

258

CHARTER RECORDS.

Wakefield 26 May 1820

N° 1—75—150

N° 2 125—250

Protracted by A Scale of 50 Rods to an Inch

\_Pla7i of No, 99, 1st Mange.']

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A Correct Plan representing Lot numbered 99 in the first Range,
and l8t Division of Lots in the Town of Effingham in the right of
Mark H Wentworth Containing 64£ Acres — the Lines mark'd & Cor-
ners renew'd, and the Contents Ascertained by actual Admeasure-
ment

June 8th 1820 B.. Cook Survr

EPSOM. 259

light land — has been cut over by tresspassers — now bushes — good
plough Land worth 12/

Protracted bv A Scale of 20 Rods to an Inch

EPSOM.

[Granted May 18, 1727, to Theodore Atkinson and others. The first meeting
was held in 1743.

See IX, Bouton Town Papers, 246; XI, Hammond Town Papers, 628; Index
to Laws, 168; sketch, by J. H. Dolbeer, Hurd's History of Merrimack County,
1885, p. 443; Historical Sketch, by Jonathan Curtis, 2, Farmer and Moore's His-
torical Collections, 321 ; Stewart's History of the Free Baptists, 1862, p. 375;
Lawrence's N. H. Churches, 1856, p. 382.]

[Vote of Proprietors for Town of Epsom.]
[Masonian Papers.]

One Tract of Land to be laid out at the head of Nottingham &
northward of the land formerly Granted to the Children of Col0 Sam-
uel Allen Deceased and the same to be six miles in breadth and four
miles in depth or in such other form as the land migrant11 in y* place
will admitt so as it Contains ye Same quantity of Land & the same to
be a Town Corporate by the name of Epsom to the ^sons aforesaid
forever —

Examin'1 "§ Geo: Jaffrey

FITZWILLIAM.

[Granted by the Masonian Proprietors as Monadnock No. 4, Jan. 15, 1752, to
Roland Cotton and others. Regranted May 2, 1765, to Col. Sampson Stoddard
and others, and sometimes called Stoddard"1 s-iown. Incorporated as Fitzwilliam
May 19, 1773, and named in honor of the Earl of Fitzwilliam. A portion of this
town was included in the limits of Troy, incorporated June 23, 181 5. The line
between Fitzwilliam and Rindge was established June 17, 1847.

See Massachusetts and New Hampshire charters in preceding volumes ;
XI, Hammond Town Papers, 670 ; Index to Laws, 190; History, by John
F. Norton, 1888, pp. 829; sketch, Hurd's History of Cheshire County, 1886, p.
200; sketch, Child's Gazetteer of Cheshire County, 1885, p. 151; Lawrence's
N. H. Churches, 1856, p. 260; Deaths, 1802-22, 1, Collections of N. H. His-
torical Society, 235; Catalogue of the Instructors, Lecturers, and Members of the
Cheshire County Teachers' Institute, April 17-29, 1865, pub. 1865, pp. 50; Con-
fession of Faith and Covenant, Also a Brief History of the Congregational Church,
with Catalogue of Members, 1854, pp. 27; Census Report of the Town, 1877,
pp. 36.]

260 CHARTER RECORDS.

[Charter of Fitzwilliam, 1752.]

[Masonian Papers, Vol. 6, p. 1.]

Province of \ Pursuant to the Power & Authority Granted &

New Hampr \ Vested in me the Subscriber By the Proprs of Lands

Purchased of John Tufton Mason Esqr in the Province of New

Hampr by their Vote Pass'd at their Meeting held at Portsm0 in

Said Province —

I do by these Presents on the Terms & Limitations hereafter Ex-
press'd Give & Grant all the Right Possession & Property of the
Prop1'8 afores'1 unto Roland Cotton Josiah Cotton Matthew Thornton
Samp" Stoddard Thomas Read William Lawrance John Stevens
Joseph Blanchard jr Isaac Woods Samuel Shattuck Thomas Parker
jr Cap1 Peter Powers Cap1 John Chamberlain Majr Zacchs Lovewejl
Benja Bellows Jos: Emerson Jeremiah Shattuck William Spaulding
Jonathan Blanchard William Cumings of Dunstable Jonathan Lovewell
Sam1 Cumings Robert Usher Cap* Jonathan Cumings Jona Cumings
jr Joseph Read Samuel Stevens John Woods Daniel Stickney John
Honey Ebenr Peirce Henery Wright Samuel Fowl Paul March Will'"
E. Treadwell Jeremiah Libbey jr George Libbey Edmund Grouard
Charles Treadwell Nathaniel Treadwell & Jacob Treadwell jr
of in & unto that Tract of Land or Township Called Monadk
N° four Bounded as followeth Begining at the West Line of Masons
Patent So Called Where that Crosses the Dividing Line Between
the Province of the Massa Bay & the Province of New Hampr &
runs from thence South Eighty Degrs East by Said Line Six miles
to the S° West Corner of the S° Monadk Township from thence North
by the Needle by Said Township five miles to the North West Cor-
ner of S° Monadk aforesaid from thence North Eighty Degrees West
by Middle Monadk Township One Mile & a Quarter to the S° West
Corner thereof thence North by the Needle two Miles & forty rods &
from thence North Eighty Degrees till it Comes to the Patent West
Line as Lately Marked & from thence Southerly by that Line to the
first Bounds Mentioned To their heirs & assigns To have & To hold
on the following Terms & Conditions (that is to say) that there be
five hundred acres of Land in Some Convenient place Lay'd out in a
Square form in Said Township & Divided Into fifty Lots Also that to
Each of the Said fifty Lots there be five Acres of Meadow Lay'd out
or Good Land & Coupled to the Said fifty Lots in an Equitable Man-
ner So as to Make them of Equal Value as Near as May be, That
there be Lay'd out & Reserv'd for the Grantors two hundred Acres
in Such part of the town of Equal Goodness with the aforesaid Lots
& that the Remainder of the Lands in Said Township be Divided

FITZWILLIAM. 26l

Into one hundred & Twenty three Equal Shares & Drawn for in
Some Equitable manner all to be Compleated at or Before the Last
Day of June Next that three of the A fores'1 Shares be Granted & Ap-
propriated free of all Charge one for the first Settled minister one for

the ministry & one for the school then' forever one Lot for Each Said
Shares to lie first Lay'd out in Conven* place Near the middle of the
Town & Lotts Coupled to them So as Not to be Drawn for — That
twenty more of the Shares be Reserved for the Grantors their heirs &
assigns forever & Acquitted from all Duty & Charge untill Improved
by the Owners or Some holding under them Respectively That the Re-
maining- hundred Shares be Appropriated to the Grantees aforesaid in
the folio wing manner Viz Roland Cotton fourShares Josiah Cotton four
Shares to Matthew Thornton Six Shares to Col° Sampson Stoddard
twenty Shares Isaac Woods one Share Samuel Shattuck two shares
Thomas Parker .Inn' Six Shares Peter Powers Two Shares Cap1 Thos
Reed four Shares ( !ap' John Chamberlain two Shares Majr Zacch8 Love-
well two Shares John Stevens Esq1' two Shares William Lawrance Esqr
two Shares Benjamin Bellows two Shares Joseph Emerson One Share
Jeremiah Shattuck one Share William Spaulding one Share William
( innings of Dunstable two Shares Jona Lovewell three Shares Joseph
Blanchard .Inn1 two Shares Sam1 Cumings two Shares Robert Usher
two Shares Cap1 Jona Cumings one Share Jona Cumings jr one share
Joseph Read two Shares Samuel Stevens two Shares John Woods one
Share Dan1 Stickney two Shares John Honey one Share Ebenezr
Peirce one Share Henry Wright jr one Charles Treadwell one share
Jeremiah Libbey jr one Share Edmund Grouard Two Shares Jacob
Treadwell Jun1 one Share William Earl Treadwell one Share Samuel
Fowl two Shares Paul March one Share George Libbey one share
Nath1 Treadwell one Share Jonathan Blanchard four Shares — That all
the Lotts in Said Town be Subject to have all Necessary Roads Lay'd
out thro' them for the future as there Shall be Occasion Free from all
Charge of Purchasing the Land: That at or Before the Past day of
November A. D. 1755. there be three Acres of Each of the fifty fifteen
Acre Lots as aforesaid Cleard & Inclosed by a Particular or General
Fence & fitted for .Mowing or Tillage on Each of the fifteen Acre
Lotts aforesaid & further one Acre more in Like Manner Afterwards
Annually till Six Veins more are ( lompleated on Each Lot that With-
in Seven Y^ears from this Date there he fifty houses built in Said town
of one room Sixteen feet Square at the Least With a Convenient
Chimne\ \ Cellar fitted & finished for Comfortable Dwelling therein
& a faniih or Some Person Inhabiting Pi Each house & Continue
Residency or Inhabitancy & Annually During the Said four Years to
Clear Inclose & tit for Mowiner or Tillaere in Pike Manner as Before

262 CHARTER RECORDS.

Expressed & Each Lot as fast as they are Clear'd & Inclosed as afore-
said to be Improved untill the Whole term aforesaid is Compleated
So that the Whole of the Land to be Cleard as aforesaid be Subdued
& Bro't too that the Several Settlements & Improvements be Done
by the Grantees hereafter Named In the Several Proportions Set to
Each Grantees Name Viz Roland Cotton two Settlements Josiah
Cotton two Matthew Thornton three Col0 Sampson Stoddard ten
Isaac Woods One Thos Parker jr three Peter Powers one Thomas
Read Esq1" two Cap1 John Chamberlain one Maj1 Zacch8 Lovewell one
John Stevens Esqr one Benjamin Bellows one Samuel Shattuck one
Jeremiah Shattuck one Jonathan Blanchard one William Cumings
one Jos : Blanchard junr one Samuel Cumings one Robert Usher one
Jona Cumings jr one Joseph Read one Samuel Stevens one Daniel
Stickney one John Honey one Ebenr Peirce one Henry Wright jr one
Sam1 Fowl one W™ Earl Treadwell one Joseph Emerson one William
Lawrance for one Jonil Lovewell one Jeremiah Libbey junr one That
Each of the S'1 Grantees at the Executing of this Instrument Pay
twenty pounds Cash old Tenr to Defray the Necessary Charges Risen
& Arising in Said Township to be Deposited In the hands of .Such
Person as the Grantees shall Chuse being a freeholder & Resident In
the Province of New Hainp1", That a Good Convenient Meeting house
be Built in Said Township as Near the Center of Said Town as May
With Conveniency within ten Years from this date & ten Acres of
Land Reserved there for Public Use — That the aforesaid Grantees or
their Assigns by a Majr Vote In a Public Meeting Called for that
Purpose Grant & Assess Such further Sum or Sums of money as they
Shall think Necessary for Carrying forward ev. Compleating the Set-
tlement aforesaid & any of the Grantees Exclusive of the three Pub-
lie Lots aforesaid Who Shall Neglect for the Space of three Months
Next after Such Assesment Shall be Granted made & Posted up In
the place Where Notice Shall be Given for Calling Meetings to Pay
ye same so much of Such Delinquents Right Respectively Shall or
May be Sold as Will pa}T the Tax & all Charges arising thereon by a
Committee of the Grantees appoint'1 for that Purpose, That all White
pine Trees fit for Masting his Majestys Royal Navey Growing on Said
Tract of Land be & hereby are Granted to his Majesty his heirs & Suc-
cessors forever & In Case any of the Grantees shall Neglect or Refuse
to Perform any of the Articles aforementioned by them Respectively
to be Done he Shall forfeit his Share & Right In Said Township &
Every Part & Parcel thereof to those of the Grantees that Shall have
Comply M With the Conditions on their Parts herein Express'd & it
shall & May be Lawful for them or any Person by their Authority to
Enter Into & upon the Right of Such Delinquent Owner & Any &

FITZWILLIAM. 263

Every part thereof In the Name of the Whole of the Settlers that
Shall have Complyed as aforesaid or the Major Part of them & him
& them to Amove Oust & Expell for the Use of those that have
Comply'd their heirs & Assigns — Provided they Settle or Cause to
be Settled Each Such Delinquents Right Within the Term of one
Year at furthest from the Period that is by this Grant Stipulated to
be Done as the Condition of this Grant & fully Discharge & Comply
With the Whole Duty such Delinquent Ought to have Done Within
one Year from the time after the Respective Periods thereof & In
Case the Said Grantees fulfilling their Parts as afores'1 Shall Neglect
the duty of any Delinquent Owner nor he himself Perform it as
afores'1 that then such share or Shares Shall be forfeited Revert &
Belong to the Grantors their heirs & assigns & to be Wholly at their
Disposal, All ways Provided there be no Indian Warr in any of the
terms Limited as aforesaid for Doing the Duty Conditioned In this
Grant to be Done & In Case that Should happen the Same time to
be allowed for the Respective matters aforesaid After Such Impedi-
ment Shall be Remov'd, To all Which Promises I Joseph Blanchard
Agent for & In Behalf of the Grantors have hereunto Set my hand &
Seal this 15th Day of Jany in ye 25th Year of his Majesty's Reign
A. D. 1752

Joseph Blanchard & < Seal >

a Copy Exam'1 pr Jona Lovewell Clerk

[Petition of Stoddard and Blanchard, 1765.]

[Masonian Papers, Vol. 6, p. 2.]

Province of ) To the Proprietors of the Land Claimed under John

New Hampshr ) Tufton Mason Esqr Commonly called Masons Grant
or Patent May P 1765 —

The Petition of Col0 Sampson Stoddard & Jon11 Blanchard — Humbly
Shews —

That the Tract of Land called Monadnock number four Granted in
your right in the Year 1752 to Sundry Persons named in the Grant
the Major part of whose claims were finally vested in your Petitioners
But as the Grantees were not able to fulfil the Conditions of the
Grant they must and Do hereby acknowledge it is justly forfeited
according to the Terms and Conditions in said Grant mentioned And

264 CHARTER RECORDS.

therefore we do (to avoid further Trouble) Surrender the Said Tract
of Land & Pray that after You have caused a Re-Entry & Resumption
thereof to be made, You would be pleased to Grant your Right title
& Demand in & to the Same to the Several Grantees agreeable to a
Schedule herewith Presented being Principally the Same who were
named as Grantees aforesaid on Such Terms and Conditions as you
shall now Judge Reasonable

Sampson Stoddard
Jona Blanchard —

[Regrant of Fitzwilliam, 17G5.]
[Masonian Proprietors' Records, May 1, 1765.]

Province of ) Portsmouth May 1st 1765. Wednesday five of the
New Hampshire \ Clock Afternoon at the dwelling house of Cap1
James Stoodly Innholder — The Proprietors meet according to Ad-
journment—

Whereas the said Proprietors on the 6Ul day of December 1751
Authoriz'd and Impower'd Joseph Blanchard late of Dunstable in said
Province Esqr to Grant their right, Title, & Interest, in & to the
Lands within their Claim to such Persons, as would Ingage to Settle
& Improve the same under such Limitations, and Conditions, as were
just & reasonable — Pursuant to which Power he on the 15th day of
January-Anno Domini 1752 Granted to Roland Cotton, Josiah Cot-
ton Matthew Thornton, Sampson Stoddard, Thomas Read William
Lawrence, John Stevens, and thirty four others, all the right Title,
Interest, Claim, Property, and Demand of said Proprietors, of, in &
unto that Tract of Land called Monadnock Number four bounded as
follows, "Beginning at the West line of Masons Patent so called,
" where that Crosses the dividing line between the Province of the
"Massachusetts Bay & the Province of New Hampshire, and runs
" from thence South Eighty Degrees East by said line Six miles to
" the South West Corner of the South Monadnock Township, from
ki thence North by the Needle by said Township five miles to the
"North West Corner of South Monadnock aforesaid, from thence
" North Eighty Degrees West by middle Monadnock Township, one
" Mile & a Quarter to the South West corner thereof, thence North
" by the Needle two Miles & forty rods, and from thence North Eighty
"Degrees, till comes to the Patent West Line, as lately marked,
"and from thence Southerly by that Line, to the first Bounds raen-
"tioned." To have and to hold to them their Heirs and Assigns, on
the Terms and Conditions, in said Grant expressed, with a right of

FITZ WILLI AM- 265

re Entry reserved on the failure or Default of performing, and fully
complying with the same, as may more fully appear by reference to
said Grant. And whereas the said Grantees have Incurr'd the for-
feiture of said Grant by not fullfilling the said Conditions within the
Term limited, and tho' by Sufferance and forbearance, a longer time
has been allowed, which yet has not availed — Whereupon the
Grantors have Re-Enter'd, & resumed the Possession of said Tract of
Land, & the said Grantees acknowledging their Neglect and Default
herein, and the said right of resumption have peaceably Surrendered
the same, and have Petition'd the said Proprietors to make a new
Grant thereof to the Petitioners (principally the former Grantees) all
which having been duly Consider'd, and also that many of them had
done something in order to Improvement, and that it wou'd be more
Equitable they should have the Advantage thereof than Strangers —
Therefore

Voted That all the right, Title, Interest. Property, Claim and
Demand of the said Proprietors be & hereby is Granted to Col0
Sampson Stoddard Esqr Edmund Grouard, Jacob Treadwell Junr
Jonathan Lovewell and Nineteen others, whose names are mentioned
in the Schedule or List hereunto Annex'd, making twenty three in the
whole, in & to the said Tract of Land, above Described on the Terms,
Conditions, and Limitations hereafter Expressed — To have and to
hold to them & their Several and respective Heirs & Assigns in
Severalty, as the same has been Divided into Seperate lots, and as the
said Lots are Number'd, and Set to the Respective names in said
Schedule on the following Terms, Conditions, & Limitations —

First That twenty of the Shares as the same are Severed allotted,
and Divided, Numberd & fixed to the Several names in the said
Schedule be & hereby is reserved to the use of the Grantors, their
Heirs & Assigns free & Exempted of & from all charges of Settle-
ment, and all other Charges until Improved by them their Heirs &
Assigns and also that two hundred Acres laid out for the Grantors at
the North Easterly part of said Tract of Land, as appears by said
Schedule, and a Plan thereof be in like manner reserved to them, their
Heirs and Assigns —

Secondly That three of the aforesaid Shares be and hereby, are
Appropriated, one for the first Settled Minister, one for the use of the
Ministry, and one for the use of a School on said Tract of Land when
Settled —

THIRDLY that the remaining Shares be & hereby are granted and
appropriated to the Several Persons and Sever'd to them respectively,
as is mentiond & number'd in said Schedule, and each Lot of Land
in said Tract shall be Subject to have necessary highways laid out

266 CHARTER RECORDS.

thro' them, as there shall be Occasion hereafter, free from the Charge
of Purchasing the Land ; that is the owners of said Lots shall not be
paid for that part thereof which shall be so necessarily laid out in
high Ways, untill an Incorporation, & then to come under the rules
of Law in that Regard —

Fourthly That the Grantees aforesaid (Subject to the duty of
Settlement) Build Fifty houses on said Tract of Land, such Shares to
have one house, on one of the Lots belonging to it respectively, as the
Grantees shall Determine by Regular votes, according to their Inter-
ests, within three Years from the Date hereof each house to be built
so as to have one Room Sixteen feet Square or Equal thereto, and
also to have Twelve Acres of Land, Cleared, & fitted for Tillage Pas-
turing & Mowing within the Term of three Years, and to add an
Acre more Annually, till the Inhabitants there shall be Incorporated,
on Each share, the said houses to be well fitted and made Comfortable
habitations and the said Land to be cleared in a good Husbandman-
like manner, and every Particular Grantee aforesaid shall pay his due
Proportion of all Taxes & Charges necessary to the making said Set-
tlement in the articles aforesaid & in what follows on Pain of for-
feiting his right in said Land, or so much thereof, as shall answer his
Proportion of such Taxes & Charges, to be Dispos'd of by a Comtee
Chosen by a Major part of the Grantees (appointed for that Pur-
pose)—

Fifthly the said Grantees shall build a Convenient Meeting house
for Publick Worship within Five years from the Date hereof, and
shall maintain constant preaching there from after the term of Six
Years from the Date hereof —

Sixthly all white Pine Trees growing on any part of said Land,
tho' Severed into Lots are hereby reserved, that are fit for his
Majesty's use for that Purpose, to him, his Heirs & Successors —

Seventhly If the Grantees shall fail & make Default of compleat-
ing the Settlement according to the Terms, & Limitations aforesaid,
it shall be Lawful to & for the said Proprietors and their Successors
to re enter into & upon the said Tract of Land to Resume the same
and to become Re-Seized thereof, as in their former Estate, and as if
this Grant had not been made —

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[Account of James Meed, 1768.]

[Masonian Papers, Vol. 6, p. 4.]

Monadnock N° 4 August the 11 — 1768
aanacount of the raonis paid by James Reed for Lands Bought in
said Township the Consideration of Each Deed Paid to Thomas Read
of Wasford in the year 1763 X 13-10-0 L M—

To Jonathan Blanchard Esqr in the year 1764 X45.16. 8

To Sampson Stoddard Esqr in the year 1765 <£71. 6. 8

To Benjamin Ballows Esqr in 1765 £13. 6. 8

To mr Daniel mellen in 1766 £53.12. 8

To Henry Gould in 1767 £18. 6. 8

To mr Daniel mellen in 1768 £22. 8. 0

Total £238. 7. 4

The Number of Days I James Reed have spent at work on Roads
in monadnock N° 4 and in what years —

in the year 1764 worked on the Roads 80 Days and one half Day

1765 worked on the Roads 115 Days

1766 worked on the Roads 107 Days

1767 worked on the Roads 8 Days
in 1768 to the 11 of August

worked 13 Days

Total Days 323-

Atast James Reed

[James Meed's Meturn, 1768.]

[Masonian Papers, Vol. 6, p. 5.]

A Return Made by James Reed of all the Lotts of Land bought by
him in monadnock N° 4 of whom Bought with the Number of Each
Lott in what Rang and the Numbers that have Houses on and the
Numbers that have work Don on them and not houses —

I -itzwilliam.

271

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of whom Bought

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of Lots with

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Thomas Reed Esqr

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Burnt out

August the 11 1768 I Bag Leve to Say that on Lott No 16 in the
8 Rang I have Bult A house 38 feet Long and 30 feet wide and A
Barn 41 feet Long with an ADition of 18 feet for A Stabel at one
Eand of it and my improvements sumthing Considrabel on the
Lotts — No 15-16-17 in 8 Rang —

Signed James Reed —

272 CHARTER RECORDS.

\_Re grant of Certain Lots, 1768.]
[Masonian Proprietors' Records, Aug. 18, 1768.]

Province of \ Portsmouth August 18th 1768 Thursday ten of
New Hampshire \ the Clock before Noon The Proprietors meet at the
Dwelling House of James Stoodly Esqur Innholder according to ad-
journment—

Whereas the Said Proprietors at their Meeting held at Portsmouth
on Wednesday the first Day of May 1765 made a Grant of their
Right to that Tract of Laud Called & Known by the Name of Menad-
nock Number four bounded as is Expressed in Said Grant on their
Records which they had Resum'd as forfeited by former Grantees to
Col0 Sampson Stoddard Edmund Grouard Jacob Treadwell Junr Jon-
athan Lovewell & Others, Whose Names were Expressed in a Sched-
ule thereto Annexed Making twenty three in the whole to hold to
them & their Respective heirs in Severalty, as the Same had Before
that Time been Divided — on the Terms & Conditions therein Ex-
pressed & Declard

And Whereas Sundry of the Grantees Last mentioned have Neg-
lected to Take any Care or Do any thing Towards a Settlement &
Neglect to pay the Necessary Charges & Taxes for Settling Said
Township or Pursuing any Measures to that End Which Defeats the
Design of the Proprietors in Granting the Same & Justly Incur's a
forfeiture of the Rights & Shares of such Grantees to the Said
Propriers

Therefore the Said Proprietors having Examined the Circumstances
of the Settlement and it appearing that many Persons are Carrying
on the Same & have Lived on the Land with their Famitys the Re-
moval of Whom wou'd be a hardship, Do hereby Resume the Rights
& shares of the Sundry Persons whose Names are hereunto Annexed
as forfeited, for the Reasons aforesaid and Do by these Presents Grant
& Convey all the Right Title Interest property & Demand of Said
Proprietors in & to Such forfeited shares & Lots To the Several Per-
sons Whose Names are Also Expressed & Declared as New Grantees
they Performing & Complying With the Terms & Conditions in the
Grant made the first day of May aforesaid & have hereby Granted
& allowed to them for that Purpose the Term of Twelve Months
from the Date hereof & upon their Complying with the Said Terms
the Property & Interest of Said Proprietors to Said Lots is hereby
Declared to be Given to the Respective Grantees their heirs & As-
signs ; but upon Failure of any of the Grantees in the Performance
of any one of the Conditions above Referr'd to & within the Time
abovesaid the Premises to Revert & Remain to the Grantors to be by
them Disposed of as they Shall think fitting —

KITZ WILLI AM.

273

A List of the forfeited Shares in Monadnock Number
Referr'd to Viz —
John Honey 1 Sliare
Edmund Grouard 2 Shares
heirs of George Libbey 1 share
John Stevens - Shares
Jacob Treadwell j1 1 Share
Nathaniel Treadwell 1 share

four above

Abel Lawrance three Shares
Jonathan Lovewell three shares
heirs of Jeremiah Libbey one share
Jonathan Willson two shares
Charles Treadwell one share
Benjamin Edwards two shares —

Portsmouth August 17th 1768—
A List of the Grantees in Menadnock Number four to Whom the
forfeited Shares aforesaid are Granted together with a List of the
Lots Viz,—

R.

N°

R

Mr Daniel Millen

Lots N° 4.

12.

11.

8

8.

2.

9-

2

2.

8.

0

7

15!

12.

16.

4

William Pierce

Lots N° 21.

8.

11.

2

14.

4.

19.

4

2.

4.

20.

4

i.

4.

6.

1

Abraham D u rant Junr

N° 1.

9.

18.

9

1.

10.

2.

10

Moses Parker

N°18.

12.

11.

6

7.

4.

23.

4

20.

11.

4.

4

Jeremiah Butterfield

1.

12.

"l.

12

4.

11.

10!

9

Joseph Symes

5.

4.

21.

4

George Libbey

10.

11.

10.

10

Charles Treadwell

16.

11.

13.

7

Nathaniel Treadwell

17.

12.

10.

6

Jacob Treadwell Junr

3.

12.

13.

8

17

274

CHARTER RECORDS.

[Return of Improvements in Fitzwilliam^ 1768.]

[Masonian Papers, Vol. 6, p. 6.]

A Return made to the Masonian Proprietors on what Lotts of Land
in Monadnock No 4 in the Province of New Hampshier work is Don
with A Distinction betwen those Lotts that have Houses or Camps
on them and Those that have not —

the Number

of Lotts
worked on

In what
Rang

the Lotts with House or
Camp on them

the Number of those

Lotts worked on

and Neither house

Nor Camp

Number i
Do 2
Do 3
Do 7
Do q

Do io
Do ii
Do 12
Do 13

Do
Do

Do 11

Do 12

Do 13

Do 14

Do 17

Do 13

Number 13
Do 15
Do 16
Do 17
Do 19
Do 6
Do 7

Do 14
Do 15
Do 16
Do 17
Do 18
Do 21

in

in the 1 Rang
Do
Do
Do
Do
Do
Do
Do
Do

: Rang
Do
Do
Do
Do
Do
Do

3 Rang

4 Rang

5 Rang
Do
Do
Do
Do

6 Rang
Do
Do
Do
Do
Do
Do
Do

in

in
in

in

A House and
Do
Do
Do
Do
A Sawmill

family

A family on
Do
A House no family

nothing Don

A Sawmill

A House and family

A Camp and Improvements

A House and family

A Camp and worked on

A family

A family

Do

Do

A family Burnt out

Do

work Don no House
Do
Do
Do

work Don no House
Do

worked on no House
worked on no House

worked on

worked on

FITZWILLIAM.

275

the number

of Lotts

worked on

In what the Lotts with House or

Rang Camp on them

the number of those

Lotts worked on

and Neither house

Nor Camp

Lott number 2:
Do 23
Do 4

Do 12
Do 14
Do 15
Do 16
Do 23
Do 5
Do 14
Do 15
Do 16
Do 17
Do 18
Do 20
Do 23
Do 13
Do 21
Do 23
Do 2-?

in the 6 Rang

Do
in 7 Rang

Do

Do

Do

Do

Do
in the 8 Rang

Do

Do

Do

Do

Do

Do

Do
in the 9 Rang

Do

Do
in the 10 Rang

A family

A family

Do

A House no family

A family

A family

A family

A family

A Cornmill

A family

Do

Do
A family

worked on no family
Do
Do
Do

worked on no famih

worked on
Do

in the 11 and 12 Ranges there is Nothing Don —

monadnock No 4 August the 26 1768

A True Return made by

Benjamin Bigelow
James Reed
Aaron garfield

Committee

[Petition of James Reed, 1768.]
[Masonian Papers, Vol. 6, p. 7.]

To the Proprietors of the Land Clamed under

John Tufton mason Esqr Commonly Called masons

Province of
New Hampshire
Grant or Patent —

The Pettition of James Reed of monadnock No 4 in said Province
Humbly Shews that your Pettitinor Served in the Proventchal Rige-
ments of the masachusetts from the year 1755 to the year 1762 bothe

276 CHARTER RECORDS.

years included had the Honor to Command A Company Each year —

in the year 1763 and Since your Pettitinor hath bought in Said
monadnock No 4 34 Lotts of unimproved Land for which I have Paid
■£238-7-4 Lawfull money and have made Sumthing of Improve-
ments on 19 of the Said 34 Lotts Eleven of which have Houses on
them of the fowloing Dementions one of 38 feet by 30 Do-24-by 18
Do-27-by 27 Do 24-by 18 Do 28-by 26 Do 22-bf 18 Do 22-by 18
Do 26-by 24 Do 28-by 26 Do 25-by 18 Do 22-18 Each House a
family in Except one one House besids the Above Number 24 by 18
was Consumed by fire Last April —

and your Pettitinor hath worked on the Roads in said Township 324
Days with men and 25£ Days with oxen —

as your Honors have Re Entered and Resumed the Possession of
said Tract of Land 2 Tims Since your Pettitinor Entred and on the 17
of August Last was Pleesed to Resume the Rights and shares of sun-
dry Persons as forfeited and Did Grant and Convey the Interest
there of To New Grantees — and as your Pettitinor Holds no Land in
said Township but by Purchas Would Humbly Pettition to your
Honors if Cause Should Apeair for a Re Entrey on aney of the Rights
in any of the Townships Granted by your Honors that your Honors
would bee Plesed to Grant to your Pettitinor A number of Rights he
flatving him Self that it will bee in his Power to make A Good Pro-
grass as your Pettitinor in Duty bound shall Ever Pray —

Monadnock No 4 James Reed

December the 1-1768

[Petition of James Reed, 1769.]
[Masonian Papers, Vol. 6, p. 8.]

Province of \ To the Lord Proprietors of Mason's Patent in said
New Hampshire \ Province —

The Humbly Petition of James Reed of Monadnoc N° 4 in said
Province Gent: in behalf of himself and other Settlers there, Shewes,
That your Petitioner in ye Year A D 1763 purchas'd of the then
Grantees of said Monadnoc thirty five Lots there, and hath lived there
constantly with a Large Family ever Since, hath made improvements
on Nineteen of said Lots, upon Eleven of which, he hath Erected and
built good Tenantable Houses — Your Petitr hath worked three hun-
dred and forty Days with Men and Oxen to clear and make Roads in
said Monadnoc — That the Conditions of the last Grant of Said Monad-
noc, Require A majority of the Grantees to vote any Delinquent's
Right forfeit, which is almost impracticable under the present Circum

FITZWILLIAM. 277

stances, because the major Part of the Grantees or Voters are 11011
Resident and they mostly delinquents, and do not incline to Vote
their Rights forfeited, by Means whereof many Rights in
said Monadnoc have no Duty done on them; And the Set-
tlement thereof much Retarded ; and the Principal Part of the
Charges yet arisen fall upon the Settlers — Wherefore your Petit1 in
behalf of himself and fellow Settlers pray that the Rights upon which
oothing is yet done may be granted to them upon such Conditions as
your Honors shall think most promotive of the Interest of the Set-
tlers and your own. And your Pet1 as in Duty bound shall ever pray

August 1 *"' 1769 James Reed

J Pickering Attorney for Petit1-

[Petition of Stoddard and Blanchard, 1769.]

[Masonian Papers, Vol. 6, p. 9.]

To the Gentlemen Proprietors Purchasors of the Right of John
Tufton Mason Esq'" in the Province of New Hamp1'

The memorial of Sampson Stoddard & Jonathan Blanchard shew

That your Memorialists have had & still own a Very Considerable
Interest in the New Township of Monad* N° 4 in this Province &
Done much Towards it's Settlement. & the Well Being of it's Inhabi-
tants & more than was Enjoyn'1 on the Shares they held,

That your Memorialists have to their Surprise seen a Memorial
Presented to the Clerk of Your Society in the Name of One James
Reed therein Declaring many things that are not True in fact, —

That your Memorialists Will at any Time (if Requested) with pleas-
ure Lay Before Your Society a full & True State of the Several Mat-
ters & things Relating to Said Township, But for the Present have
Annexed Copys of Several Receipts for Monies paid to the Said James
Reed & Others for their Labour on the high Ways there & Appre-
hend near in full for their service.

That the Grantees have Nearly Complyd with ye Conditions in ye
Grant mention'1 (but some few are Wholly Deficient to this Day &
they have Done Some Violent acts as Cutting Down frames &c where
ye Duty was Doing on those forfeited shares to prevent the same from
Being Compleated

Your Memorialists therefore pray that Sh'1 the Said James Reed
make application for a hearing on the prems you would Cause us to
be Notified at our own proper Cost & Charge that We may have

278 CHARTER RECORDS.

Oppertunity to state the facts Before any Conclusions are Drawn from

the prems afores(1 & Your Memorialists Will Ever pray

Portsrn0 ye 24th day ) Sampson Stoddard

of Augf-1769 — \ Jona Blanchard

Chelmsford April 8th 1767-
Rec'1 of Sampson Stoddard Twenty three pounds thirteen shillings
& three pence-Sterling mony of Great Britain for Labour Done on
the Roads in a New Township Called & Known bye Name of Mondk
N° 4 in New Hampr for Which Said Work have Renderd in two
Accots to the Comtee

<£23. 13. 3 Sters James Reed

a True Copy

Chelmsford July 3'1 1762-

Rec' of Sampson Stoddard Ten pounds Eight shillings sterling
money of Great Britain Equal to one hundred & four pounds old Tenr
for my own Labour & to pay men for Clearing Roads in the New
Township of Mon6* N° 4 Which is in full of all Other Demands to
this Dav —

£10 '8/ Stei-s Benf Bigelow

a True Copy

Rec'1 of Col0 Sampson Stoddard the Sum of Seven pounds Lawful
M° Which sum Was Granted & allowrt to me by ye Proprs of Mon'1k
N° 4 for service Done, & I Do hereby Order the Proprs of Sl Town
to pav the same to the S(1 Stoddard —

Octr 12. 1768- John Moffatt

Test Jona Blanchard —

a True Copy —

Compared ye three Recets above with }re originals as shew'1 ^ Coll°
Stoddard —

Aug: 24th 1769— G-J-proprs CI

[List of Improvements in Fitzicilliam, 1769.]
[Masonian Papers, Vol. 6, p. 10.]

A List of the Names of those that have fulley Completed their
Duty of Setelment in monadnock Xo 4 in the Province of New-
Hampshire a Greabal to Chartar and on what Lott it is Don

.James Reed on Lott N° 16 in the 8 Rang hath a House 38 by 30
full Duty Don on said Lott —

Benjamin Biglow Lott N° 14 in 7 Range a House 24 by 18 full
Duty Don

FITZWILLIAM. 279

Samuall Turner Lott N° 20 in 8 Range a Good Camp and famely
full Duty Don

Silas Farnsworth Lott N" 14 in 6 Range a House 24 by 18 full
Duty Don

John Mellen Lott N" 15 in 6 Range a House 26 by 24 full Duty
Don

James Reed Juner Lott N° 16 in 6 Range a House 28 by 20 full
Duty Don

Nathaniel Chapman Lott N" 17 in 6 Range Except a House full
Duty Don house Burnt

Jacob Reed Lott N° 18 in 6 Range a House 26 by 24 full duty Don

Calab winch Lott N° 22 in 6 Range a House 24 bv 18 full Duty
Don

Thomas Wetherby Lott N° 7 in 1 Range a House 24 by 22 full
Duty Don

Aaron Garfield Lott N° 9 in 1 Range a House 32 by 18 full
Duty Don

Reuben Pratt Lott N° 10 in 1 Range a House 27 by 27 full Duty
Don

John Gouldsbary Lott N° 11 in 1 Range a House 18 by 18 full
Duty Don

Alpheais Brigham Lott N° 12 in 1 Range a House 24 by 18 full
Duty Don

Fullom Lott N° 14 in 2 Range a House 22 by 18 full Duty
Don

Edward Kindal Lott N° 15 in 5 Range a House 28 by 26 full Duty
Don

Joseph Twist Lott N° 6 in 6 Range a Bad House but other ways
full Duty Don

Isaac Applen Lott N° 21 in 9 Range a House 24 by 18 full Duty
Don

Nathan Platts Lott N° 17 in 5 Range a House 22 by 18 full
Duty Don

Thomas Garey Lott N° 14 in 8 Range a House 24 by 18 full
Duty Don

John Fassett Lott N° 13 in 9 Range a House 22 by 18 full Duty
Don

Daniel Mellen Lott N° 16 in 7 Range a House full Duty Don

Henry Willard Lott N° 12 in 2 Range a House full Duty Don

October the 6. 1769 James Reed

28o CHARTER RECORDS.

[List of Improvements in Fitzwilliam, 1709.]
[Masonian Papers, Vol. 6, p. 11.]

A List of the Intabatance now in monadnock N° 4 in the Province of

New-Hampshire and those that have Ingaged to Settel Enadeately

Aaron Morse on 2 Lott 1 Rang with his famely

Samuell Pike on the 4 Lott Do his famely

Moses Wars working on 5 Lott Do

Capt Silas Wetherby on the (3 Lott Do a house and famely Soon

Thomas Wetherby on the 7 Lott Do a house

Aaron Garfield on the 9 Lott Do a house and famely

Ruben Pratt on the 10 Lott Do a house and famely

John Gouldsbarey on the 11 Lott Do a house and famely

Alpheis Brigham on 12 Lott Do a house and famely

Robort Jarvis on the 9 Lott in 2 Rang with a famely

Abner Ston working on the 11 Lott Do

Henry Willard on the 12 Lott Do a house and his famely soon

Francis Fullom on the 13 Lott Do A house and famely

Robert Wars on the 14 Lott Do and one Harskell

Jabez meed on the 3 Lott in 5 Rang a house and famely soon

A Sawmill and a house on the 13 Lott Do a famely soon

Edward Kindal on the 15 Lott Do a house and famely

Jonathan Metcalf on the 16 Lott Do a Camp and famely soon

Nathan Platts on the 17 Lott Do a house and famely

Amas Knights on the 19 Lott Do a man at work

Joseph Twist on the 6 Lott in 6 Rang his famely

Silas Farnsworth on the 14 Lott Do a house and famely

John Mellen on the 15 Lott Do a house and famely

James Reed Juner on the 16 Lott Do a house and famely

Nathanel Chapman on the 17 Lott Do the house Burnt

Jacob Reed on the 18 Lott Do a house and him at work

Jason Ston on the 21 Lott Do a house and famely

Galab winch on the 22 Lott Do a house and famely

Jonathan Patridge on the 23 Lott Do a Camp and famely

Benjamin Davison on the 4 Lott in 7 Rang a house and he work

James Reed hath a house on the 12 Lott Do and work Don

Benjmain Biglow on the 14 Lott Do and famaly

Daniel mellen Juner on the 16 Lott Do a famely

major John Farrar on the 23 Lott Do a house and famely soon

one Boyonton on the 4 Lott in 8 Rang and famely soon

Jeddiah Boyonton on the 5 Lott Do making a settelment

Ile/.ekiah Rice on the 19 Lott in 4 Rang — working on

Thomas Garey on the 14 Lott in 8 Rang a famely

FITZWILLIAM. 281

,1 anics Reed on the 16 Lott Do a famely

John Anger on the 18 Lott Do a house and his famely in Town

Samuell Turner on the 2i> Lott Do his famely 5 year

Corn Mill on the 23 Lott Do

John Fassett on the 13 Lott in 9 Rang a house and famely

Joseph ADoms working on 18 Lott Do A House and Hie Soed

amos Brown working on 19 Lott Do

James Reed a House on the 20 Lott Do

Isaac Applin on the 21 Lot Do a house and famely

Thomas Tolman A house on the 22 Lott Do and famely in Town

Thomas Tolmans famely on the 23 Lott Do

James Tiffeny on parte of the 23 Lott Do

Thomas Willmarth — the 10 Lott in 10 Rang soed Rie

Ben j man Tiffeny a house on the 23 Lott Do

Aaron Cold man working on the 13 in 8 Rang

Henry Poor on the 1 and 2 Lotts in 12 Rang

Ebenezer Lock — the 8 Lott 2 Rang

Davison — the 2 Lott 7 Rang

Thomas Reed — the 1-1 in Do

this aacount Was Taken the 8 Day of December 1769 by me

James Reed of said Township
these Lotts worked on 1 Lott 1 Rang

and 17 Lott 2 Rang

and 17 3 Rang

and 14 in Do

and 16 in 4 Rang a man on

and 15 in 7 Rang Bult

17 in 7 Rang Duty Don Except A house which is on another Lott
15 in 8 Rang work Don Except A house which is Bult on the 16 Lott
17 in Do work Don

[Petition of John Butter fields 1769.]
[Masonian Papers, Vol. 6, p. 12.]

To the Proprietors of Lands purchased of John Tufton Mason Esqr
fee-
Humbly sheweth, John Butterfield of Westford in the County of
Middlesex & Province of the Massachusetts Bay — That whereas
the said John was one of the original Purchasers of the Township of
Monadnock N° 4, in said Province, and expended sundry Sums of
Money, and was at great Pains and Trouble in procuring and Laying
out s'1 Township And whereas the late Joseph Blanchard Esqr, by

282 CHARTER RECORDS.

Virtue of the Power & Authority, to him given, by the Proprietors
afores'1 made and executed a good and valid Grant or Pattent of said
Township to your Petitioner and others, bearing Date the fifteenth
Day of January A D 1752, by Force whereof your Petitioner became
one of the Proprietors of said Township, and by Reason of the Prem-
isses your Petitioner, on the first Day of July next following the Date
of s'1 ({rant, drew Four Lotts, being Two Rights, in said Township,
to wit, Lotts N° 17" & 18" in the Sixth Range, and Lotts N° 13n &
14" in the Second Range : But by some Mismanagement, the Grant
afores'1, by said Blanchard, was destroyed, and a new Grant made
out, in which your Petitioner was omitted, and Jonathan Blanchard
& William Cumings put in in his Room : By Means whereof, your
Petitioner hath lost his Title to sd Lotts, which otherwise would have
been good, the last grant aforesd having been made out, before the
Time limited in the first Grant afores'1, for doing the Duty on s'1
Rights — and your Petitioner saith, that he, within the same Time,
endeavoured to do the Duty afores'1, on s'1 Rights, but was repulsed by
the Persons who came in under the second Grant afores'1 : By all
which your Petitioner, being very poor & needy, hath suffered greatly,
and is much injured every way. —

Wherefore your Petitioner, relying on your Humanity and Justice,
prays your Compassion, and that you would give him other Lands in
said Township (sundry Lotts therein being forfited by Reason of the
Duty's not being done on them) or that you would give him Lands
elsewhere as a Recompence for the Injury & Injustice done him as
afores'1, or otherwise recompence him as your Humanity & Justice
shall direct: — And your Petitioner as in Duty bound shall ever pray
&c —

John Butterfield

Portsmouth December the 9th 1769. —

This Certifies that the Afore mentioned John Butterfield was in the
Grant of Said modonock N° 4 when first made and the 4 Lots drawed
to him as within mentioned and the first charter was taken up & a
New one made in which he was omitted.

Dec' ye 9th 1769 Jona Lovewell

[James Meed's Military Record, 1769.]

[Masonian Papers, Vol. 6, p. 13.]

A return mad by James Reed of Monadnock N° 4 of his Servises
Don in the Provenshel Troops of the Masachusetts Bay the Dats of
his Commisions in what Rank and by whom Signed in what Rige-

FITZWII.LIAM.

283

ment — To Gather with ana Coumpt of the Land Bought Since the
wars in Monadnock N" 4 in the Province of New-Hampshare the
Number of Lotts the money pad for the Land the Number of Settlers
Brought onto Said Land and the Taxis Paid to the 12 of December
1769—

in year

Capten

by whom Signed

in what Rigement

1755
1756

1758

1759
1761
1762

Capten Spencer Phips Leu1 Governour
Do Governour Sherly
Do Governour Pownall
Do Do
Do Governour Barnard
Do Do

Josiah Brown Esqr Collnal
Timothey Ruggels Esqr Coll

Do

Do
Jonathan Hoar Esqr Collnal

Do

the Number of Lotts is 38 one Hundrad aacors Each and 70 aacors
over the money Paid for Land is <£ 326-7-4 Lawfull money the Num-
ber of Settlers I have Brought on is 23 the Taxis I have paid is X39—
8-8 lm—

Monadnock N° 4 James Reed

December the 12-1769

[James Reed to Proprietors, 1770.]
[Masonian Papers, Vol. 6, p. 14.]

Honrad Sir A Greabal to A Requast from your Honor 1 have

made out Sir as an exact aacount as is in my Power of the Prasant
Standing of the Setelment of monadnock No 4 in the Province of
New Hampshier — and have Got the faver of Esq1' Kidder to Convay it
to your Honor — Sir as mr mellen Lives at such a Grate Distance —
from this Place and not With in the Goverment I have made bold to
Do witli out his assistance in the afair — I have put in a Small Paper
with this Return — which I hope will bee no Afront — Bagen at the
Same Time to Subscribe my Self — Sir your Honors Ever Humbel
Servant att Com and

James Reed

Monadnock N° 4 Januarey the 26. 1770.

To the Honrabel George Jaffrey Esqr Portsmouth

284 CHARTER RECORDS.

[State of Settlements in Fitzwilliam, 1770.]

[Masonian Papers, Vol. 6, p. 15.

1. this List Contains an exact account of the Lotts of Land in

Monadnock No 4 in the Province of New-Hampshire that Duty is
Don acording to the Tener of the Grant and by whom Don

Aaron Garfield is on Lott N° 9 in the 1 Rang Duty Don in full

Thomas Wetherby 7 Lott Do Do

Reuben Pratt 10 Lott Do Do

John Gouldsbury 11 Lott Do Do

Alpheas Brigham 12 Lott Do Do

Henry Willard is on the 12 Lott 2 Do Do

Francis Fullom 13 Lott Do Do

EdwardKindall ison the 15 Lott 5 Do Do

Nathan Platts 17 Lott Do Do

Joseph Twist is on the 6 Lott 6 Do Do

Silas Farnsworth 14 Lott Do Do

John Mellen 15 Lott Do Do

James Reed Juner 16 Lott Do Do

Nathaniel Chapman 17 Lott Do house Burnt Down

Jacob Reed 18 Lott Do Duty Don in full

Caleb winch 22 Lott Do Do

Benjamin Biglow is on 14 Lott 7 Do Do

Daniel mellen Junr 16 Lott Do Do

Thomas Garey is on the 14 Lott 8 Do Do

James Reed 16 Lott Do Do

John Fassett is on the 13 Lott 9 Do Do

Isaac Applen 21 Lott Do Do

Thomas Tolman 23 Lott Do Do

The above is an exact aacount of those that have Don Duty on
Lotts in monadnock No 4 which is acording to the tener of the
Grant to the Bast of my Judgment as thay Stand this 26 Day of Jan-
uarey 1770

^ James Reed

2 A List of those Lotts that have famelys on them in monadnock
No 4 and the Duty is not fully Don acording to the Tener of Grant
Aaron Morse is on the 2 Lott in 1 Rang with his famely Duty not
Compleat
Sip a Negrow famely 6 Lott — Do Duty not Compleat —

Robort Jarvis is on 9 Lott 2 Do Do

Amas Knight is on 19 Lott 5 Do Do

Jason Ston is on the 21 Lott 6 Do Do

FITZWILLIAM.

285

Jonathan Patridge

23 Lott Do

Do

Benjamin Davison

4 Lott 7 Do

Do

John Anger

18 Lott Do

Do

Samuall Turner

20 Lott 8 Do

Do

Henry Poor is on the

1 Lott 12 Do

Do

the Above is Just

the

Siti

iat:

ion of the Above

Lotts or Shares as

thav Stand this 20) Day of Januarey 1770

IP James Reed

3 List Contans ana Count of Lotts in monadnoek N° 4 that have
Sum work Don on them Sum more and Sum Lass as is Described —
the 1 Lott in 1 Rang A Littel work Don by mr Joslen

4 Lott — Do A House Littel work by Samuall Pike

5 Lott — Do Sum work Don by moses Wars

13 Lott — Do Consideroble of work Don by Henry Willard

6 Lott in 2 Do A Sawmill Bult by the Grantees —

11 Lott — Do A Littel work Don by Abner Ston

14 Lott — Do — A fram of A House and Sum work Don by Robort
Wars and Jeremiah Harskel —

17 Lott 2 Rang Sum work Don bv James Reed

14 Lott 3 Do Do — - Do

16 Lott Do Do Do

13 Lott 5 Do A Sawmill Bult by the Grantees and A House and
Sum work Don on the Same Lott by Daniel Mellen —

16 Lott in 5 Rang Considerabel of work Don by Jonathan meetcalf

7 Lott in 6 Do A Littel work Don by Timothey Barton he Gon of

3 Lott in 5 Rang A Littel Coind of A House and sum work Don by
Jabez meed

19 Lott in 4 Rang A Littel work Don by one Rice

12 Lott in 7 Do A poor House and A Littel work Don by James Reed

15 Lott Do Large Improvements no House — Do —

17 Lott Do Sum work Don by Daniel mellen Jur

23 Lott Do A fram for a House and sum work Don by major Farrar

4 Lott & Rang Sum work Don by one Boyonton

5 Lott Do — Sum work Don by Jeddiah Boyonton

13 Lott Do work Don and Gran Soad by aaron Coldman

15 Lott Do 9 or 10 aacors Cleard and to Grass by James Reed

17 Lott Do Sum Improvements Don by James Reed
21 Lott Do Littel Choping Don by major Farrar

23 Lott Do A Com mill bult by the Grantees

18 Lott in 9 Do Sum work Don by Joseph Adorns

19 Lott Do a Littel work Don Cap' James Richardson

20 Lott Do a small poor House and A Littel work Don by James
Reed

286 CHARTER RECORDS.

22 Lott Do a House and Improvements by Thomas Tolman

10 Lott 10 Rang Littel work Don and Rie Soad by Thomas Will-
marth

23 Lott Do A House bult by Benj Tiffany no famely

16 Lott in 1 Rang sum work Don by Phinehas Wheelock

the Above is as thay Stand this 26 Day of Januarey 1770

pr James Reed —

4 List Contans the orignal Rights that was obliged by Charter to Do
Duty and have not Don any thing on Either of the Lotts belongen to
these Shares —

Lotts no

Rang

no

Rang

Lotts no

R

no

R

4

— 12 —

11

— 8

20 —

5 —

23 —

5

2

— 8 —

o

— 7

16 —

12 —

17 —

4

2

— 4 —

20

— 4

3 —

10 —

8 —

10

1

— 10 —

2

— 10

21 —

11 —

7 —

6

18

— 12 —

11

— 6

19 —

12 —

7 —

8

7

— 4 —

23

— 4

12 —

11 —

13 —

10

20

— 11 —

4

— 4

12 —

10 —

5 —

9

4

— 11 —

10

— 9

12 —

o

o —

8 —

5

5

— 4 —

21

— 4

14 —

1 —

1 —

4

16

— 11 —

13

— 7

12 —

12 —

13 —

4

17

— 12 —

10

— 6

15 —

10 —

11 —

4

1

6

13

— 4

20 —

10 —

1 —

3

2

o

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8 —

4 —

7

5

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11

— 9

the Above is An exact account of those Rights which have not been
improved according to the Tener of the Grant and have no impove-
ment made on either Lott of the Right or Share as thay Stand this 26
Day of Januarey 1770

19 r James Reed —

[James Meed to Proprietors, 1770.]

[Masonian Papers, Vol. 6, p. 16.]

Honrad Sir

In obadantes to your ordor to me in December Last I ameadeatly
made out a Return of the improvements on Each Lott in this Township
and Dilivrad it to Esqr Townsend and Desired him to Diliver it to
your Honor which he promised to Do Last Febuery Court and Sir I
have not heard any thing of it Since) which if your Honr hath Re-
cived it and it would Answer the Intenchen of the Proprietors I

<;i I. M ANTON.

287

should Tak it a Grate Honor to heair of it (by mr Sprage) and Sir if
it is not Recived or is not the thing intended I stand Rady at all Tims
to inform the Proprietors in the Real Sureamstancis to the Bast of my
Judment att the Same Time I Would bag Leve to Subscribe my Self
your Honors Ever Humbel Servant att Comand

Monadnock No 4 James Reed

may the 23 — 1770

To the Honrable George Jaffrey Esq1"

GILMANTON.

[Granted May 20, 1 727, to Nicholas Oilman and others. The grant was confirmed
by the Masonian Proprietors, June 30, 1752. Governors Island was annexed Dec.
30, 1799. Gilford was set off and incorporated June 16, 181 2. A tract of land
was severed and annexed to Gilford July 5, 1851. Belmont was set off and in-
corporated as Upper Gilmanton, June 28, 1859.

See New Hampshire charters in preceding volume ; IX, Bouton Town Papers, 302,
456; XII, Hammond Town Papers, 1 ; Index to Laws, 207; papers under title
Kingswood ; History, by Daniel Lancaster, 1845, pp. 304 ; sketch by S. S. N. Gree-
ley, Hurd's History of Belknap County, 1885, p. 785 ; Glimpses of the History of
Old Gilmanton, by J. E. Fullerton, 3, Granite Monthly, 304; Sketch of History,
Geology, etc., by William Prescott, 1, Farmer and Moore's Historical Collections,
72 ; Stewart's History of the Free Baptists, 1862, pp. 162, 302 ; Baptist Churches in
N. H., by E. E. Cummings, 1836, p. 8 ; The Badger Homestead, by F. M. Colby,
6, Granite Monthly, 76; Bills of Mortality, 1825-50, by Daniel Lancaster, 6, Col-
lections of N. H. Historical Society, 244 ; Biographical Notices of Physicians in, by
Daniel Lancaster, 1, N. H. Repository, 65; Lawrence's N. H. Churches, 1856,
pp. 490. 494, 496.]

[Proprietors of Gilmanton, 1727-8.]
[Masonian Papers, Vol. 6, p. 17.]
A schedule of the names of the proprietors of the Town of Gil-

manton—

Theodore Atkinson
Robert Auchmuty
Michael Bowden
Nath" Bartlet
Joseph Baker
Jeremiah Bean
Jeremiah Connor
Philip Connor

Cornelius Drisco
Richard Dolloff
James Davis
Cap' John Downing
William Doran
Ephraim Dennitt
Ephraim Dennitt Jur
Joseph Dudley

Daniel Gilman
Nicholas Gilman Jur
Andrew Gilman
Zebulon Giddings
Thomas Gilman
Nicholas Gilman 3'1
Samuel Gilman
Nathaniel Gilman

288

CHARTER RECORDS.

John Chipman
Richard Clark
Edward Colcord
Jonath" Clark Ju1
Ward Clark
Jonath" Colcord
John Clai'k
Jonath" Connor
Cornelius Connor
Jeremiah Calfe
Benj" Clark
Eliphelet Coffin
Thomas Dean
Nicholas Dudley
Trueworthy Dudley
James Dudley
Alexander Gorden
Jonathan Gil man
Benjamin Gambling
Paul Garrish
Cap1 John Gil man
Theophilus Hardey
Robert Hale
Paul Hall
Henry Hale
Joseph Hall
Josiah Hall
Richard Hilton
Samuel Hilton
Benjamin Hilton
Edward Hilton
William Hilton
Jonathan Hilton Jur
Edward Hall
Clement Hughes
Co11 Mark H unking
James Jaffrey
James Jaffrey Jur
Cyprian Jaffrey
( reorge Jaffrey Esqr
George Jaffrey Jur
Richard Jenness
Caleb Kimball

Sam11 Elkins
John Fulsom
Jonath" Fulsom
Abraham Fulsom
P>enj" Fulsom
Jabez Fitch
William Fellows
Andrew Frost
John Frost Esqr
Ephraim Fulsom
Edward Fulsom
Edward Fy field
Nicholas Gilman Esqr
John Gilman Esq1
Peter Gilman
Nicholas Gorden
James Leavitt
Ephraim Leavitt
Timothy Leavitt
James Leavitt Jur
Benjamin Leavitt
Stephen Lyford
John Lordd
Dudley Leavitt
John Low
Moses Leavitt
Nathaniel Ladd
John Leavitt
John Mudgett
Archiball M'phedriss
William Moore
Walter Neal
Samuel Norriss
James Norriss
Moses Norriss
John odlin
John odlin Ju1
Jotham odiorne Jur
William odiorne
Jotham odiorne Esq1
Jethro Pearson
John Perkins Jur
Thomas Peirce

Josiah Gilman
Leiu1 John Gilman
Edward Gilman
Samuel Gilman 3'1
John Gilman Jur
Trueworthy Gilman
Edward Gilman Jur
Jeremiah Gilman
Nath" Gilman Jur
Andrew Glidden
Richard Glidden Jur
Caleb Gilman
Robert Gilman
Nehemiah Gilman
Joseph Glidden
Thomas Gorden
Matthew Plant
Ephraim Philbrick
Nicholas Ferryman
John Ferryman
Henry Rust
John Robinson
John Roberts
Jonath" Robinson Jur
Benj" Rawlings
Joseph Robinson
Eleazer Russell
John Redman
James Sinkler
Richard Smith
Robert Smart
Joseph Smart
John Scribner Jur
Joseph Scribner
Theophilus Smith
Theophilus Smith Jur
Joseph Sinkler
Stephen Sewall
Samuel Sinkler
oliver Smith
Abraham Samborn
Richard Sinkler
Henry Shearburne

GILMANTON.

'89

John Kimball
John Samborn
Jacob Smith
Samuel Smith
Bartholomew Thing
Benj" Thing
Joseph Thing
Coffen Thing
Daniel Thing
Cap1 Sam" Tibbitts
Nath" Thing
Jonathan Thing

John Plaistead
Samuel Thing
Jonathan Wadleigh
Thomas Webster
Nathaniel Webster
Humphry Willson
Ebenezer Weare
Thomas Webster Jur
Thomas Willson
Benning Wentworth
Hunking Wentworth
John Wentworth Ju1
William Wentworth

Ebenezr Stevens
Peter Weare
Andrew Wiggin
Richard Wibird Ju1

Richard Wibird Esqr
Benj" Walton
Shad iack Walton Esq1'
Tho8 Westbrook Esqr
Richard Waldron Jur
Jonathan Young
Minister Right
Parsonage Right
School Right

Edward Thing

Samuel Shute Esqr 540 Acres —

John Wentworth Esqr 540 Acres —

Eighteen Rights to Masonian Proprietors six Hundred Acres voted
to Benj" & Jont11 Brown Aaron Clough Timothy Barnard and orlando
Sargeant for to acquit James Jaffry Right Cornelius Connors Right
and Samuel Hiltons Right which Rights were Declared forfeited and
sold may ye 16th 1750

Fifteen of the proprietors before mentioned were not in the first
schedule but were admitted as proprietors as follows —

At a Legal Town meeting held at Exeter March the 14th 1727/8

Voted at the same meeting that the several Persons whose names
are Under written have an Equal share of Land with the other pro-
prietors of Gilmantown —

Thomas Dean
Robert Hale
Jacob Smith
Samuel Smith
Nathaniel Thing
Coppy of Record

Joseph Baker
John Leavitt
Jonathan Thing
John Kimball
John Low

Thomas Gorden
Nicholas Perryman
John Perryman
Jonathan Clark Ju1-
Edward Thing

Attest Joseph Badger propr8 Clerk —

[Petition for Quit-Claim, 1749.]
[Masonian Papers, Vol. 6, p. 17.]

Rye Jim the 16, 1749
The humbel Reqast of the Subscribers to the Honrabel proprieters
of masons Rite of Land in this provnce Shueth that thay have Ben at
Charg in purching oregnel Rits in gilmantoun do pay the Honrabl
18

29O CHARTER RECORDS.

Sositoy to a qet us as you have nottingham toun and Sum other touns

in this provnce

and we Remn your mst humbel most obedent Sarvnts

Richerd Jennes
danel molten
John garLand

[ Vote of Proprietors of G-ilmanton, 1752.]
[Masonian Papers, Vol. 6, p. 17.]

At a Meeting of the Proprietors of Gilmantown holden at the house
of Cap' John Light in Exeter March 12. 1752

Col1 Peter Gil man Moderator —

Voted to Choose a Com'itte to treat & finally agree with any
person or persons that Lay Claim to Gilmantown or any part thereof
Voted Cap1 John Odlin Josiah Oilman & Sam1 Gilman Junr be a
Com'itte for that End they or the Major part to Act —

true Coppy Attest Josiah Gilman Proprs Clerk

[Petition of Robert Jenkins, 1752.]
[Masonian Papers, Vol. 6, p. 18.]

To The Hon16 Theodr Atkinson Richa Wiberd Esqrs & Others Pur-
chasers & Propriators of Masons Right in ye Province of New Hampr

The Petitsion of Rob1 Jenkins of Boston Mei-t Sheweth that Yr
Petition' purchased One full Right & Share of Land in ye Township of
Gilmantown in Sd Prove As may Appear by ye Deed in ye hands of
Mr Dan1 Perce Which Right Originally belon8 to ye Hon1 Jotham
Odiorn late of Port"1 in S'1 Provice Esqr Deceas'1 & Yr Petitioner Not
knowing that S'1 township or any part of It fell within Yr Claime till
lately Therefor prays that when You Shall grant away Sd Township
You would be pleas to Resarve S'1 Right to him & his Heirs &c —
which will Oblidge

Gent" Yr most Hum1 Ser*

Port"1 March 27 1752 Rob1 Jenkins

[Quit- CI aim to Gilmanton, 1752.]

[Masonian Proprietors" Records, June 30, 1752.]

Province of \ Portsmouth June 30th 1752. Tuesday four of
New Hampshire \ the Clock afternoon at the house of Ann Slayton
the Proprietors meet according to Adjournment —

[PZan of Gilmanton, 1753.]

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Voted That there he and hereby is granted to the Proprietors of
(lilinan Town so ('ailed in said Province & their Assigns all The
Right Title Claim Interest Estate Property and Demand of the Pro-
prietors herein first Named and who are the Grantors in these Presents
011 the Terms iV: Conditions herein after Expressed of in and unto all
the Land Contained within the Bounds of the Charter According to
The tine Intent thereof made by the Lien1 Governour & Council for
said Province to the said Proprietors of Gilman Town with a View of
Granting the same Land in the Year 1727 and the amendment or
Explanation thereof made in the year 1720, only Reserving to the
Grantors in these Presents Eighteen Shares, each equal for Quantity
tV. Quality with the other Single Shares of the said Proprietors of Gil-
man Town which Reserved Shares are to lye in a body altogether to
be laid out on the Northerly part of said Township between their
second Division & the North line of said Township from the pond
Called Winnepiseokee pond & so Riming back till the whole quantity
aforesaid shall be made up That the said Proprietors of Gilman Town
at their own Expence lay out the same Reserved Land and make a
Division thereof as the said Grantors shall hereafter Direct and Order
and make an exact plan of the whole Township and the Quantity of
Land therein Contained and also of the said Division and Return the
same to the said Grantors within Ten Months from this time That
Convenient highways be left in said Division & thro' The Township
to the said Land so Reserved — That the said Proprietors of Gilman
Town make the Settlement of said Town according to & in such man-
ner as the said Charter directs within Three years from this time in
case there is no Indian War within that time & if there is then the
like time to be allowed afterwards — That the said Reserved Shares
be & hereby are Exempted & Exonerated of & from any part of the
Charge of making the said Settlement & from all Charges whatsoever
that have already arisen or may hereafter arise concerning the said
Township & the Settlement thereof by any ways or means whatsoever
untill Improved by the owner of each Respective share or such as hold
under 'em That the said Gilman Town Proprietors do as soon as may
be conveniently call a meeting of the said Proprietors and Vote a
Confirmation of this Vote and the Several Articles & matters herein
Contained on their part & behalf to be done and their Assent and
Consent to the same and Transmit an Attested Copy thereof to the
Grantors herein mentioned

292

CHARTER RECORDS.

[Surveyor's Report on Grilmanton Lots, 1763.]
[Masonian Papers. Vol. 6, p. 19.]

To the Purchasers of the Right of John Tufton Mason Esq1' in the
Province of New Hampshire

Gentlemen

In Consequence of a Vote Passed by your Proprietary at a Legal
meeting, & Pursuant To an order from George Jaffrey Esqr your clerk,
And an Additional Instruction Sign'd by the Honble Theodr Atkinson,
Richard Wibird & Mark H'g Wentworth Esqr\ the Hon,,,e Thomas
Wallingford, George Jaffrey, Daniel Peirce Thomas Packer Esqrs &
mr Samuel Moffatt, Dated the 30th of September 1763— & by Order of a
Com'ittee of the Proprietors of the township of Gilman Town in said
Province; We the Subscribers have Allotted & set of the Shares
Reserved by you, in the said Township of Gilman town, Agreeable to the
aforesaid Orders & a Plan Hereto Anexed, in manner Following Viz1
We Have Laid out Eighteen Shares into Fifteen Equal Parts (haveing
had Due Regard to the Quality as well as Quantity) Each Share con-
taining two Lotts — said Lotts are Laid out in two Ranges, & Bounded
as Follows Viz1 Beginingata Beach tree which is marked for a Bound
tree about two miles North West from the East corner of said town-
ship, which tree is marked with Sundrie Letters and Figures Viz1 E. G.
June 16th 1731, & N. S. 1749.— And from the said tree we Run North
West two Hundred Sixty Seven Rods, & marked a tree with R 1st for
the corner of the first Range, then we Run North 71 Rods & Num-
bred one, then we continued our course North Parrelell with the Towns
Line to Winipisaro Pond, & Numbred from one to 14 in said Range.
Excepting the first & the 14th Lotts are Laid out one Hundred & Sixty
Nine Rods wide, And from where they are numbred they Run East one
hundred & Eighty Seven Rods to the East Line of the township afore-
said— The 14th Lot Bounds upon the said Pond, — the Cross ways in
said Range are Between the Lotts Numbred 2 & 3, 4 & 5, 6 & 7, 8 &
9, 10 & 11, 12 & 13, & Each of said Cross ways are three Rods wide,
& Lay on the North side of Each of said Numbers, & Run East to the
Line of said town. — the Second Range at Winipisaro Pond aforesaid
is two Hundred & twenty one Rods West from the first Range & Runs
Parellell with the Line of the township to Number Sixteen at or Near
the first Divission of said Gilmantown, & from said Number sixteen the
Lot Runs South East to a tree marked R, 2'd N° 16, Every Lott in
said second Range from where they are Numbred Runs East till they
come within three Rods of the first Range which three Rods we have
Left for a high way — the Cross ways in the second Range are Left
three Rods wide Between N° 2 & 3—4 & 5—6 & 7—8 & 9—10 & 11—

[Plan of G-ilmanton, 1772.]

The 40 Acre Lots numbered with Red Ink are the first division of 40 Acres — Those 100 Acres that are number'd with Red, were laid out for the first Settlers to

choose out of

To the Purchasers of the Right of John Tufton Mason Esqr Gentlemen

Agreeable to your Vote ; This Plan is presented to you, by the Proprietors of Gilmantown.

Gilmantown Janu^ 2i»' 1772

Joseph Badger > CommiUee
Ebenezer Smith V

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12 & 13 — 14 & 15 & Lay on the south side of Every of said numbers
& we have Laid out a Range way of three Rods wide on the west side
of the second Range from the Pond to Number Sixteen — We Have
Also Laid out the aforesaid Fifteen Shares into thirty Lotts & have
Coupled them (Agreeable to our orders) as follows Vizf the first Lot
in the first Range & the twelfth Lot in the Second Range — the Second
Lot in the first Range & the third Lot in the Second Range — the third
Lot in the first Range And the first Lot in the second Range — the
fourth Lot in the first Range & the second Lot in the Second Range —
the fifth Lot in the first Range and the Sixth Lot in the Second
Range — the Fourteenth Lot in the first Range & the fifth Lot in the
second Range — -the Sixth Lot in the first Range & the Ninth Lot in
the Second Range — the Seventh Lot in the first Range and the Elev-
enth Lot in the second Range. — the Eighth Lot in the first Range &
the thirteenth Lot in the second Range — the Ninth Lot in first Range
& the tenth Lot in the Second Range— the tenth Lot in the first Range
& the fourth Lot in the second Range — the Eleventh Lot in the first
Range & the seventh Lot in the second Range— the twelfth Lot in the
first Range & the Eighth Lot in the second Range — the thirteenth Lot
in the first Range & the fifteenth Lot in the second Range — the four-
teenth & the Sixteenth Lotts in the second Range —
Exeter the 12'" of Decemr17G3.—

Daniel Beede ) a

T , r^-, } Surveyors.

John Gilman \ J

[Joseph Badger to Proprietors, 1773.]
[Masonian Papers, Vol. 6, p. 19.]

Gilmantown octor 19th 1773
Sr I Rec'1 Yours of ye 9th Inst : Respecting the Mistake Between Gil-
mantown & the Gore and in answer say that 1 will endeavour to beat
Portsmouth some time in Decern1 next and if your propriety would be
pleased to appoint a Committee with power and Instructions that
would be satisfactory to them I should think the affair might be the
easier Comprimisd as it is some times attended with Dificulty to Get
Your proprietors to meet Ebenezer Smith Esq1 with my self are a Com-
mittee in behalf of Gilmantown and I have shewn m1 Fisher the Vote
and he thinks the vote is not sufficient to Impower us to Convey any
of the proprietors Intrest I Intend to show it to mr Sargeant before I
Come Down and if he thinks it not sufficient we must Call a propri-
etors meeting I am sr Your Hon18 most Humle ser1

Joseph Badger
To the Hon1'1'' George Jaffrey Esq1'

294

CHARTER RECORDS.

[Conditions of Quit-Claim to Grilmanton Proprietors.]
[Masonian Papers, Vol. 6, p. 20.]

Mem0 of An Agreement made between the Proprietors Claiming
under John Tufton Mason & the Agents of the Proprietors of Gil-
man Town as follows viz first the Said Masonian Proprietors are to have
an Equal Share Each with Each of the Proprietors of Said Gilman
Town which is to be laid out in a body altogether on the Northerly part
of Said Township between their Second Division & the North Line of
Said Township.

2d that the Proprietors of Gilman Town at their own Expence Lay
out the Same & Divide it as they Shall be Directed by the Masonian
Proprietrs and also make an Exact plan of the Whole Township &
Quantity of Land in the whole & also of the Division aforesrt within
months & that Convenient high Ways be Left in Said Division &
So thro' the township to the Division that they have a Quit Claim of
the Masonian Proprietors Right Wherein they are to be held to Make
the Settlem1 of Said Town Ship agreeable to Charter within Years

from this time in case of Peace & the Masonian Proprietors at no
part of that Charge until they make Improvem1 of their Particular
Shares

July 15th P M

GILSUM.

[Granted as Boyle, Dec. 28, 1752, to Joseph Osgood and others. No settle-
ments were made under this grant. Regranted July 13, 1763, to Samuel Gilbert,
Thomas Sumner and others, and named Gilsum by combining the first syllables
of the two names. The west part of the town was combined with a portion of
Westmoreland to make up the town of Surry, March 9, 1769. The southeast
part was combined with parts of Keene, Stoddard, and Nelson, to make up the
town of Sullivan, Sept. 27, 1787. The line between Gilsum and Stoddard was
settled June 21 , 1797, by which Gilsum lost a tract of land. A small lot was
taken from Sullivan and annexed to Gilsum July 7, 1874.

See New Hampshire charters in preceding volume ; IX, Bouton Town Papers,
303 ; X, Bouton Province and State Papers, 398, 400, as to participation in
movement for union with Vermont towns; XII, Hammond Town Papers. 18;
Index to Laws, 208; History, by Silvanus Hayward, 1881, pp. 468; sketch, by
same, 4, Granite Monthly, 439; sketch, Hurd's History of Cheshire County,
1886, p. 207; sketch, Child's Gazetteer of Cheshire County, 1885, p. 164; Law-
rence's N. H. Churches, 1856, p. 263; Address, Centennial Celebration of Con-
gregational Church, 1872, by Silvanus Hayward, pp. 63.]

GOFFSTOWN.

295

[Plan of GhilsvmJ]

it Begins at ye S° Easter' Comer of Walpole & Runs S° 78'1 E 2,n &
104 Rods to ye North East* Corner of Westmoreland thence S° 620
to ve North Line of Keen & from y""" N. 84'1 E 6m & 224 Rods to a
stake & stones thence N. 4m £ thence West 83 Miles & 50 Rod S°
2"' 28S Charter Dated 13 of July 1763 for 5 Years.

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GOFFSTOWN.

[Granted by Massachusetts as Narragansett No. 4, Feb. 9, 1733-4. Granted
by the Masonian Proprietors, Dec. 3, 1748, to Rev. Thomas Parker, of Uracut,
Mass., and others. It was also called Shove" s-town. Incorporated as Goffstown
June 16, 1761, and named for Col. John GofFe. The charter was renewed April
5, 1763. A portion of the town was combined with parts of Dunbarton and
Chester to make up the town of Hooksett, July 2, 1822. Some islands in Merri-
mack River were annexed June 28, 1825. A part of New Boston was annexed
June 18, 1836. The line between Dunbarton and Goffstown was established Jan.
7, 1853. A portion of Goffstown was annexed to Manchester July 1, 1853.

296 CHARTER RECORDS.

See Massachusetts and New Hampshire charters in preceding volumes; IX,
Bouton Town Papers, 306; XII, Hammond Town Papers, 25; Index to Laws,
209; sketch, by Alonzo F. Carr, Hind's History of Hillsborough County,
1886, p, 303; Baptist Churches in N. H., by E. E. Cummings, 1836, p. 17;
Brief History of the Congregational Church, by S. L. Gerould, 1881 ; Annual
Records of the Church, pamphlets; Lawrence's N. H. Churches, 1856, p. 170;
sketch. 12. Farmer's Monthly Visitor, 48, 81.]

[Petition of Fohom and Follansbee, 1748.]

[Masonian Papers, Vol. 6, p. 20.]

Dismissed Portsmouth October 28Ul 1748

To the Gentlemen Purchasers & Proprietors of Mason's Right in
Lands in ye Province of New Hampshire —

We the Subscribers being two of ye Petitioners of ye Grant of a
Township with Cap1 John Goffe and which by your Direction he has
procured a regular Survey & within which Tract is a brook called
black Brook convenient for Mills and as ye Principal Petitioners afore-
said think it necessary to have a Saw Mill built as Soon as may be
for the Benefit of Settleing ye Said Township, & have encouraged us
to Sett up a Saw Mill for that Purpose on Said Brook we tho't it
best, before we engaged in raiserng a Dam or Mill on Said black
Brook, first to apply to the Proprietors for Liberty and to take a
grant of the Privilege upon money Purchase or upon any \&y that the
Proprietors Shall think fit to agree for the bounds of ye Privilege we
Request are first beginning at a white oak Spotted on four sides
Standing within four Rods of said brook then running notherly abk
forty live Poles to a Pitch Pine Spotted on four Sides, then westerly
to a Pitch pine Spotted on four Sides about forty five Poles, then
Southerly crossing the said brook to a pitch pine Spotted on four
Sides abl forty five Poles and then runing easterly ab* forty five
Poles and crossing said Brook to ye Bounds first mentioned — your
complying with our Petition will very much oblige your petitioners

Josiah Folsom
Joshua follansbe

[Petition of James Moore, 1748.]

[Mason ian Papers, Vol. 6, p. 21.]

To the Gentlemen Purchasers & Proprietors of the lands Sold by
Capt John Tuff ton Mason within the Province of New Hampshire
&c Humbley Shew

GOFFSTOWN. 297

That upon the Sixth day of June 17o7 I Purchased from William
Lund a Tract of land upon the westerly Side of Merrimack near
ammasceeg ffals Containing two Hundred and twenty acres, the Same
year Broak up about Seven acres and So from year to year
tmprov'd upon S'1 land to the amount of twenty acres, andfenc'd in
with a Good fence about ffourty acres & Built a House & Barn &
Planted an orchyard So that upon the whole my parchase labour and
Improvements has been attended with Great Expence and labour &c
Bui So it is that one ffalensbee as 1 Judge, and Some others unknown
to me have made a fence in the middle of my land last week & have
Strijit Some of the Boards off my house to Inclose their fence Wo'd
Earnestly Desire that as your Honer has these affairs under your
wise Consideration that you wo'd take the Premises and Circumstan-
ces of my affair under Consideration in the most and Justest man-
ner So as I may not be molested by any person by virtue of any
Grant made by your Honrs and your Petitioner as in duty Bound
Shall Ever pray

Ports"1 Nov1' ye 4th 1748 James Moore

[ Conditions of G-rant of G-offstoirn.~\
[Masonian Papers, Vol. 6, p. 21.]

for Goffe's Town 5 mile & 7 mile Square 70 Shares 20 of wch
Prop™ & Town

1" year clear 4 Acres and build a house and in 9 month to have a
farm: Settled within ye 2'1 year to have a Meeting house built

by y' last day of may next to have ye Town laid out in Lots and
the Lots ready to be drawn to be laid out in three Divisions the first
& Second Divisions to be of one hundred Acres each and the third of
y" Remainder of ye Townships Reserving Convenient high Ways
where y' Lots can be conveniently laid out in Ranges to be of four
Roils wide oc the Cross Ways to be of two Rods wide And by ye
last of May 1750 each Settler to have a house built of 16 foot
Square with a Chimney A: Cellar and Some person or persons
Inhabiting therein and have four Acres of land inclosed & fitted for
ye Plow or Scythe and by ye last day of May 1751 to have 4 Acres
more enclosed & titted as aforesaid — and A meeting house built fit
for publick Worship for Said Town cv to maintain publick worship
Constantly from ye end of three years after y" drawing ye Lots, &
afterwards — and in \~~yl to have 4 acres more inclosed & fitted as
aforesaid — Reserving of Six Acres of laud in Some convenient place
in ye Town for building Meeting house School burying place Training
held &c And that each of y' Settlers Shall at or before y' drawing

298 CHARTER RECORDS.

their Lotts advance the Sum of thirty pounds old Tenr Currency
including what they have already paid towards ye said Township to
be deposited in the hands of Such persons as shall be appointed to
receive ye same by ye Major part of said Settlers to pay ye Charge of
surveying and dividing ye Said land into lots build8 a meeting house
maintaining publick worship ye first six months clearing Roads build-
ing necessaiy Bridges, and making and returning a Compleat &
true Plan to the Grantors of ye Said Survey & Divisions &ca
Reserving all white Pine trees for his Majesty's use that are fit for
masting his royal Navy

That twenty Rights or Shares of ye Seventy be reserved to ye use
of ye Grantors as they shall direct that one of the Said twenty rights
be for ye first Minister that Shall be first regularly Settled in ye
Town if he remain's there in ye Ministry during life, or be regularly
dismis't and that another of ye said Rights be reserved for a parson-
age Lot for ever & that ye two first Divisions of Said Rights be laid
out adjoining as near the Meeting house as conveniently may be &
ye other two lots to be laid out as ye Settlers shall agree & one other
of ye Said 20 Rights to be for ye use of a School in the Town for ever
to be drawn for as ye other Rights—

the Remaining Seventeen to be free & Exampted from paying
any Charge till improved by ye owners — and all ye Rights to be
drawn for except for ye ministry

and if any of ye said fifty Grantees or their Assigns shall not per-
form any one of the Said Articles Shall forfeit his Right to ye
Grantors — That the Settlers have the use of ye Meadows which shall
fall within any of the Lots of any of the Said 20 Rights as the Major
part of s'1 Settlers Shall agree for the term of five years — That no
Incumbrance shall be Built upon or a Cross Piscataquog River below
ye Crotch which may prevent ye Course of the fish and any Person
may destroy & Remove Such Incumbrance if Built

\_Grrcmtees of G-offstoicn, 1748.]

[Masonian Papers, Vol. 6, p. 22.]

The following is a list of the Sellers Admitted to take Lotts in
the township Com'itted to the Care of John Goffe Adjoyning to
Souheegan East on Merrimack River Novr 28th 1748 —

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Attest'

GOFFSTOWN.

299

Thom8 Parke[r] of Dracul
John Butterfield

Cap' John Goffe for
Joshua Kollensbe
Ens" Benjn Richards
Caleb Emery
Abrm Merril Moses Wells
Alexr Walker
John Dow
James Kennedy
Robert Gil more

Share

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Sampson Stoddard

Joseph Blancbard, Juner 1

Cap' Thomas Follensbe for 1

Leu' Caleb page 1

Leu4 Peter Most 1

John Goffe Jur 1

Benj" Stevens 1

Robert Davidson 1

John Jewel 1

Joseph Kennedy 1

Will"' Macdoel Andrew Aiken Rob1 Walker 1

Nathaniel Martain 1

Will'" Orr
Peter Herriman Sam11 Barrnet 1

Eph'" Martain for 1

James Adams 1
Eben' Martain Joshua Martain 1

James Maekinght 1

John Kidder 1

Will'" Read 1

Sam" Patten 1

Caleb Dolton 1

James Walker 1

John Combs 1

Ens" William Cummings 1
Edward White Esq

Tvmothv Corlis 1

Job Kidder 1

Aarron and Elezr Wells 1

Robert Read John Smith 1

Thos George ZechT Cutten 1

Sam11 Griges 1

Matthew Patten 1

John More 1

James Karr 1
John White his Son

Thos Farmer 1

[Joseph Blanchard to Proprietor*, 1748.]

[Masonian Papers, Vol. 6, p. 23.]

Gentlemen

at the Importunity of Cap1 Goffe Relating his Expected Grant at
Cohas the East Side Merrimack river. Who Complains that One
Dunkin Unfairly, tryes to Defeat his good Intention of Setting up a
mill under pretence that he had possession there I have this nere
thirty Years bin knowing to those Lands, and know that that Stream
has never properly bin in possession of any but Cap1 Goffe, there
was. a nomber in a frenzy both of Derry & of the Massachusetts Peo-
ple Without any Order each of them Seperately Lotted all the Lands
on the River and Rediculously dugg holes in the turffe and planted
Some Corn on Most of the Lotts and in Severall places tell Some
trees in Course. Where a fence might be Built but all a Sham

300 CHARTER RECORDS.

from first to Last, Some persons did one or two Years plant a Small
bit of the Land South of Cohass, and When Cap* Goffe Entered there
no house had bin Built nor Since no person Improving, in that time
it was Lay'd out to One Robert Rand, by the Massachusetts I at his
Request often treated with all then In possession or making pretence,
I never heard for ten Years or more the Least Intimation of Claim of
this Dnnkin Goffe in fact has kept Setlement there, and maintained
Somthing of a Bridge And ben very Serviceable to a great many
people in keeping boats and Canoes to help people both Over that
And the Great River Merrimack without ever being one Quarter
paid to all these thing I am knowing, And many Other facts in his
t'aver might be Intimated & provided no Regard be had to Rand,
Cap1 Goffe for that trate by the Small River and the Conveniencys
of Both Sides to the Great River, for about half a mile is the Only
man that can Honestly pretend Any Couler to a grant from this
Society — Those Are the true fact, the Relating them Excuse me In,
And Accept the very Hum6 Service of your most Obedt

Londondonderry 29th of Novr 1748 J Blanchard

To The Hon1 Prop1'8 of Masons Grant

P S Gent" We are in Expectation yl Cap1 Goffe will this Journey
finish his township I have Quieted with his help Severall prop" who
perhaps Would have Wrangled As much as Any, but now be Stanch
frinds to the Affair I Hope Honest Cap' Colburn Will be Remem-
bered in Starks town And be Equally Helpfull as Cap1 Goffe has bin
and if any Hindrance Happens to Starks tis pitty but Goffes town
now Getts through that people may See tis more than a fiction Yr*

ut Supra J B

[Charter of Goffstotvn, 1748.]
[ Mason ian Proprietors' Records, Dec 3, 1748.]

Portsm" Saturday 3d December 1748 at ye House of Sarah Prust
widow twelve of ye Clock at Noon Proprietors meet according to
Adjournment

Voted That there be and hereby is granted unto Thomas Parker of
Dracut Coll0 Sampson Stoddard Esqur & John Butterfield of Chelms-
ford Joseph Blanchard junr of Dunstable Robert Davidson of Dun-
stable John Comes James Car both of Said Dunstable John Goffe
John Goffe junr James Walker Mathew Patten John Moore
Timothy Corlis Thomas Farmer Zacha Cutting Samuel Patten
Alexander Walker James Cannada Joseph Cannada Robert Gil-

GOFFSTOWN. ^OI

more Roberl Walker all of Souhegan Easl So called Thomas Fal-
Iinsby Joshua Follinsby Caleb Page Benjamin Richards Peter Morse
Caleb Emery John Dow Peter Herriman all of Haverhill District
Abraham Merrill Benjamin Stevens John Jewell Ephraim Martin
Nathaniel Martin Ebenezer Martin Aaron Wells Caleb Daulton all
of a plaee called Amaskeeg James Adams the Son of William Adams
William Orr Job Kidder John Kidder all of Londonderry William
Reed Robert Reed James McKnight William Conmiins all of Litch-
field Samuel Griggs Edward White Esqur John White all of Brookline
Their Heirs & Assigns in Equal shares Excepting as hereafter
Excepted on the Terms Conditions & Limitations herein after
Expressed, All that tractor Parcel of Land within the Province of
NCw Hampshire, Extending Seven miles in length and five miles in
Breadth Bounded as follows, viz', beginning at the north east Corner
of Souhegan East so called, at the main river & thence runs west
by said Souhegan line Seven miles thence north two degrees west
five miles thence east to the main river then by Said River as that
run's to the place where the Said bounds begin — To have & to hold
to them their Heirs and Assigns in equal Shares Excepting as
aforesaid, on the following Terms Conditions & Limitations That is
to Say That the whole traot of Land within Said bounds (saving
the particular Tracts herein after mentioned) be divided into Sixty
eight Shares or Rights and each Share or Right be laid out into
three Distinct Lots and number'd with the Same Number on each
of Said Lots. That the Numbers begin with one and end with
Sixty Eight. That one of the said Shares be for ye Use of the first
minister of the Gospel who shall be Settled on the said Tract of
Land hereby granted and shall remain there during his life or untill
he shall be Regularly Dismist to hold to him his Heirs & Assigns
And one other of Said Shares be for & towards the Support of ye
Gospel Ministry there forever That two of ye three Lots that Shall
belong to each Share Shall contain one hundred Acres each and
the third all the Remainder of the land belonging to each Share
Respectively that the two one hundred Acre Lots belonging to the
share for the first Minister of the Gospel and the other for the Sup-
port of the ministry as aforesaid be laid out as near ye place where
the meeting house Shall be Set as may conveniently be done but
that all the other Lots he drawn for according to common Method
of drawing for Lots of Land ; only not untill all the Lots Shall be
laid out so as that there Shall be but one Draft for three Lots, that
is all belonging to one share. That one of the Said shares be for A;
towards the Support of a School there for ever and * nineteen of the

*White & Son being two.

302

CHARTER RECORDS.

Said Shares be reserved for ye use of the Proprietors the Grantors of
the said Premises & their assigns forever. That Seventeen of these
reserved Shares be Exonerated acquitted and fully Exempted from
paying any Charge towards making a Settlement, and not held to
the Conditions of the other Shares respecting the Settlement nor
liable to any Tax Assesment or Charge untill improved by the owners
or Some holding under them respectively. That the owners of the
other forty eight Shares shall carry on perform & make a Settlement
at their own Expence in the following manner viz* all the Lots to be
Laid out ;b aforesaid by the last day of May next ready to be drawn for.
That the Lots be laid out in Ranges where the Land will admitt of it
Land left between the Ranges for high ways of four Rods wide and &
for Cross ways between the Lots two Rods wide — That within one
year from the Said last day of May, each Owner of the said forty
Eight Shares, have a house of Sixteen foot Square with a Chimney &
Cellar, upon one of the Lots belonging to his share and Some person
living in said house, and four Acres of land enclosed cleared and fitted
for mowing or Tillage & within one year after that namely by the
last day of may 1751, to have four Acres more enclosed cleared &
fitted for mowing or Tillage, and at the End of three years from the
last day of may next to have four Acres more enclosed cleared and
fitted as aforesaid — That the Settlers at their own Expence build a
Meeting house there before the last day of may in the year 1751 fit
for the publick Worship of God, for the LTse of those who shall then
or afterwards inhabit there and after the end of the three years afore-
said from that time constantly to maintain the publick Worship of
God there. — That Six Acres of land be left & laid out in Some Suit-
able place for building a meeting house upon, a School house, to
make a burying yard, a training field, and for any other publick Use
the Inhabitants shall have Occasion of xApplying the Same to. That
each owner of the said forty eight shares shall at or before the draw-
ing for their Lots, as aforesaid, advance and pay the Sum of thirty
pounds old Tenor (including what they have already paid towards
carrying on the Said Settlement) to be deposited in the hands of Such
Persons as the Said owners Shall chuse to receive the same, to defrey
the Charge of Surveying and laying out the Said land into lots,
building a meeting house as aforesaid, maintaining the publick wor-
ship of God there the first Six months, from the end of three years
after drawing for said Lots as aforesaid, clearing land for highways,
building of necessary Lridges. and making & Returning a Compleat
Plan of the said Survey and laying out of the Lots, to the said Grant-
ors— That all white Pine trees fit for his Majesty's use for masting
the Royal Navy growing on Said Tract of land be & hereby are

GOFFSTOWN. 303

reserved, and arc hereby granted to his majesty his heirs and Suc-
cessors for ever for that Purpose — That the owners of ye said forty
eight shares shall have the Use of all meadows within any of the Lots
belonging to twenty of the Reserved shares or any of them for the
term of live years Commencing at the time of drawing said Lot-
aforesaid — That No Obstruction or Incumbrance be made or built
across or upon Piscataquog River below the Crotch so called, whereby
the Passage of the Fish may be any ways hindred or impeded, and in
Case any Such Incumbrance be made any person may destroy or
remove the Same or any Such Obstruction —

Reserving to the Grantors that tract of land lying across the Crotch
of the Said River Piscataquog which Major Edward White purchased
of William Dudley Esqu1 Deceased which Tract of land is hereby
also granted unto him the Said Edward White & his Son John White
agreable to his Petition for the Same they being considered as two of
the Settlers of the said Tract of land herebv granted & obliged to
perform their part & proportion of the Duty & Charge of Settlers,
but to have the Said land purchased As aforesaid (without drawing
for the Same as aforesaid) in full for their Share of land within the
bounds of the Premises hereby granted, and also Reserving to the
Said Grantors the Stream & falls at a place called Harry brook within
Said Tract of land, which is hereby granted to Thomas Follinsby
abovenamed his Heirs and Assigns, with fifteen Acres of land to be
laid out in the most Convenient manner for the Accomodation of a
Saw Mill there, upon this Condition viz. he his Heirs Exec" Admin"
or Assigns building a good Saw Mill there, fit to go by the last day of
August next, and Sawing Lumber for the Inhabitants of Said Tract
of land to the halves for the Term of Six years from that time when
& bo often as they shall have Occasion —

Reserving to the Said Grantors which they hereby grant to Hugh
Ramsey Thomas Hall James Moore & Samuel Gregg, fifty Acres of
land to each of them including their Improvements there and So run-
ning westerly from each Respective improvement so far as with that,
to make up the said Quantity of fifty Acres for each of them in fee,
they Severally paying & each of them depositing as aforesaid five
pounds old Tenor for the purpose aforesaid, and doing and perform-
ing their part and proportion of all other & after Duty hereby laid
upon Said Settlers — And in Case any of the Owners of the said forty
eight shares shall refuse neglect or Omit to perform and fully Dis-
charge any of the Conditions Articles Matters ex" Things abovemen-
tioned by him Respectively to be done he shall forfeit his Share and
Right in the Said Tract of land, And every part and parcel thereof to
the Said Grantors, and it shall and may be lawfull for them or any of

304 CHARTER RECORDS.

tbem Or any Person or Persons in their name & stead and by their
Authority to enter into and upon the part Share and Right of Such
Delinquent Owner or any part thereof in their name of the whole
and him utterly thence to amove oust and Expel for the Use of Said
Grantors their Heirs and Assigns. Provided there be no Indian War
within any of the Terms and Limitations of time above mentioned for
performing the Said Articles and things aforesaid to be done and per-
formed by the Said Settlers, and in Case that Should happen the
Same times to be allowed for the Respective Matters aforesaid after
Such impediment shall be removed and it is also to be understood
that the Surveyor or surveyors and those who shall be appointed to
lay out the Lots aforesaid shall also lay out all the particular Tracts
and parcels above mentioned — Lastly the Said Grantors & Proprietors
aforesaid do hereby ingage and promise to the Said Grantees to
defend them their Heirs and Assigns against all and every Action &
lawsuit that shall be prosecuted moved and Stirred against them and
any of them by any person or persons whatsoever claiming the said
land or any part thereof by any other title than the title of the Said
Grantors or that by which they hold or derive theirs from, with this
Condition & Limitation that in Case the said Grantees their Heirs or
Assigns shall be Ejected & ousted by any Such Right or Title that
then they have or Recover nothing of and from the Said Grantors &
Proprietors or their Heirs Executors or Administrators for the Labour
of the Said Grantees their Heirs and Assigns on the Premises or any
part thereof or any Expence they Shall have been at in Consequence
of this Grant nor for the land Granted to them or any of them — And
it is to be understood that the Said Lots shall be drawn for in the
Town of Portsmouth in said Province —

[Proprietors to John Gaffe, 1748.]
[Masonian Papers, Vol. 6, p. 24.]

Portsmouth Janrv 11th 1748 —
Sr Old Mr Isaac Bradley is now with the Proprietors of Masons
Right, Informs them he has Long Improved a Peice of Land Included
in our Grant made to you & associats of a Township we are Sorry
you omitted mentioning his name with the Rest of the Improvers
there, that we might have made him a Suitable grant we however
recommend it to you & your Associates that in Laying out your Land
into Divissions you Leave a Suitable Tract where his Improvements

GOFFSTOWN. 305

are to grant to him in which you have our earnest Desire By order
of the Proprietors aforesd your Humble Serv1

Geo: Jaffrey Pro})- CI

To Cap4 'In" Goffe at Souhegan East

Portsm0 Jan> 11th 1748

Cap1 Jn° Goffe

S' You may remember iu our Grant to you & associates Cap1 Peckers
Improvements were mentioned in Pellicular tho you know our Deter-
mination was not to turne any Person makeing improvement off of
their Possessions that they had Improved we finde this Tenant on his
Improvement in the Schedule of your grant here we apprehend the
mistake might arise but this ought not in our opinion to Injure Cap1
Pecker we wish Some Expedient may be found by you & associates
to help us in Accomodateing this Affair by order of ye proprietors
from Yours

Geo : Jaffrey Proprs CI

[ Vote of the Town of Medford, Mass., 1748/9.]
[Masonian Papers, Vol. G, p. 25.]

At a Town Meeting Legally Conven'd in Medford Jan : 23 : 1748/9 —

Cap1 Sam11 Brooks was chosen Moderator for s'1 Meeting

Put to Vote whether the Town will chuse and Impower some Per-
son or Persons to Transact what they may think propper in behalf of
said Town relating to their Farm at Piscatiquouge so called with those
Gentlemen of Portsmouth, who have purchased Masons Right or
Patent, pass'd in the affirmative

Put to Vote whether the Town will chuse two persons for said
Business, pass'd in the affirmative

Lieu1 Stephen Hall Jun1 \ were chosen for

Cap' Samuel Brooks \ s'1 Business

A True Copy as of Record

Attestr "Bv Thomas Seccomb Town Cler

[Petition of John Pecker, 1748/9.]

[Masonian Papers, Vol. 6, p. 27.]

To the Gentlemen Proprietors of Mr Masons Right
Gentlemen

Some years agoe I purchased a tract of Land Near Amuskiege falls
of Upwards of One hundred Acres Not knowing but the Seller had

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306 CHARTER RECORDS.

good Right to make a Conveyance to me — And I have Since laid Out
a Considerable Sum of Money And much labour to make improve-
ments thereon — Which now Appears to be part of the Right which
you purchased of M1 Mason And have Since Granted to Cap1 Goffe &
others It was because that I was not knowing of the Circumstances
that I Did not Apply to you Sooner But as I am now informed of
your Disposition that every one who has made improvements should
injoy the same if it may be ; And Coll0 Blanchard who is a Gentle-
man well knowing of the Circumstances and Situation of those places
has proposed a Method by which that which I now ask may yet be
done without prejudice to any one of which he has inform'd Some of
you Gentlemen I therefore Earnestly pray the favour that I may
Injoy those lands Upon such terms as you Grant to others And that
you would do Something for me herein As Soon as Conveniently you
Can — Your favours in these Regards will Greatly Oblige Your Most
Humble Serv1

Portsm0 Feb-V 15 : 1748 John Pecker

[Notice of Meeting of Proprietors of G-offstoicn, 1749.]

[Masonian Papers, Vol. 6, p. 28.]

Advertisement

Notice is hereby Given to the proprietors of a new Town Ship Lying
to West of merrimack River and Joyning on the North Side of Sow-
hegan East So Called Granted by the proprietors of Masons Right
To the Rev'1 Thos Parker and Others that they Meet att the house of
Mrs Sarah Prust in portsmouth on Wednesday the 28th of June Next
at ten of the Clock fore Noon then and there to Act on the following
particulars

l8t To Chuse A moderator

2d To See if the proprietors will Alow Certain persons Who have
Made Improvements on Said Township Before the Grant was Given
(Now in the propriety) their lots without Drawing for them

3dly To See if the proprietors will Vote Cap1 Thos Follensbe the
lot that the Mill lot is in on Herry Brook Without Drawing

4th To pay the Money prescribed in the Grant & to Draw their
Lots

5th To Do any Other thing Or things that may Be thought Nessec-
ary for the Speedy Settlement of Said Township or fullfilling the
Conditions of Said Giant or for the More full Accomplishing any
Affairs of the propriety Dated at Sowhegan East May the 26th 1749

f Order of the Commitee Matt" Patten Prors Clerk

GOFFSTOWN. 307

[Theodore Atkinson to George Jaffrey, 1749.]

[Masonian Papers, Vol. 6, p. 28.]

Portsm0 June 8"1 1749—
S' M' John M'Neal the bearer hereof Tells me he has Lived near
Amoskeeg falls for 14 years Past That he hath Six Sons Liveing with
him the youngest 17 years old That he has Enclosed about one hun-
dred Acres of Land there great Parte Cleared That he has Stood the
fire of the whole war Either at home or at Louisbourg where he had
alsoe one Son & Two others Ingaged in the Canada Expedition he
has been all a Long Vexed by the Harry town men to his great Loss
that he at first Joynd Some Kingstown men in the takeing Possession
but they Soon Left him alone to Save you the Trouble I have made
this Mem' which he Desires may be filed & Laid before the Proprie-
tors for their Consideration to whom he Submits & Prays A Grant
with Such aditions and Conditions as they may think him worthey of
Your Humble Serv'

Theod1 Atkinson
To Mr Georcje Jaffrev at Portsm"

[Petition of Isaac Bradley, 1749.]
[Masonian Papers, Vol. 6, p. 29.]

To The Honourable Gentlemen Purchassers of the originall Right
of John Mason Esqr Deceas1

Gentlemen your humble Petitioner sheweth that where as he has
been a great sufferer in the war's ; against the french and Indians in
time past ; viz : that at the age sixteen I was taken at Haverhill, and
Carryed to Pigwoeket, from whence I Escaped and brought off with
me : one William Whittiker of about Eleven years of age, to saw Cow
forte, — next I was Pilot with Cap* Chessley and took and killed fifteen
Indians; at.winnipissiocki then I was four months under Cor1 Hilton
and Cap' Chessley ; — after these and other fateauges which I shall
not trouble you to tell off ; our family being exposed in ye then fron-
tiers of Haverhill suffered exceedingly being three times burnt out,
loosing all. except our lands, for not less than thirteen of our family,
have lost their lives by the Indians and french Enemy upon account
of which services and sufferings the Province of the Massachusets
were pleased to grant me a Certain tract of Land near Ammaskage on
Merrimack-River the laying out of which was all on my Cost, and
the Conditions on which it was Granted me I have fullfilled ; and
have made much Greater Improvements on it; but to my great

308 CHARTER RECORDS.

Greife, and Detterment, I am trespassed upon by one Thomas Hall,
Who pretends that your Honour's have Granted him not only part of
my unimproved lands but also severall acres that I have Improved if
your Honours will Consider my distressed Condition and Releive me
your humble Petitioner shall as in Duty bound ever Pray —
Dated Haverhill Isaac Bradley

June the 26th 1749

[Note on back of petition.]

all that is to be understood by ye Warranty in Marston Leavit &c
Grant is that in Case a Dispute Should arise & a Law Suit should be
commenced that then ye Grantees shall be obliged to vouch the Grant-
ors to defend ye Title at their (i-e) ye Grantees Expence & that ye
Grantors warrant to defend but one Law Suit to final Judgment
against s'1 Tract of Land & in Cais of recovery ags1 S'1 Grantors that
then ye Grantees recover nothing of ye Grantors

for Ml Parker to Insert in ve Grant

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GOFFSTOWN. 3 1 3

[Petition for Highway, 1750.]
[Masonian Papers, Vol. 6, p. 30.]

To the propriotors of Cap' Masons Right In the provence of New
Hampshir

The Humble petision of Sundry parsons Settling the new Towns
to the west of merriniack River Granted by your Honrs Shueth that
your pettrs are hindred and Intirupted in the way to the ferry at
ameskeeg by Reson of fences maid upon the Land Lying between
Londonderry Line ami said ferry wich Land is not Granted by your
Hoiirs to any body as we know of and therefore your pettisioners
Humbly pray your lion'" to order Some meet parsons to Lay out a
way in the most Sutible place to Git to the S'1 ferry and your petls as
in Duty bound Shall Evere pray

Nameskeeg fall may ye 7tu 1750
John Goffe George Clark Ebenezer martan

Jonethan Martain Thomas Hall Thomas Smith

Caleb Page Jun' John Hogg Caleb Page

William Ranken William Hogg

[Notice for Meeting of Proprietors of Goffstown, 1750.]
[Masonian Papers, Vol. 6, p. 31.]
Advertisement

Agreeable to a Supplycation of a Number of the prop1'* of Goffes
town So Called to me the Subscriber for a Notification for a meeting
of the proprs of Goffes town afore Said Notice is hereby Given to
the prop™ of Said Goffes town that they meet on the Lot Number
Seven in the Sixth Rang of Lots on the North Side piscataquog
River in S ' Goffes Town in the province of New Hampshire on tues-
day the twenty Eighth Day of this Instant August at ten of the Clock
fore Noon then and there to Act on the following Articles Viz —

n To Chuse a moderator

2'Uy To Chuse a Commitee to Lay Out a place for a Bridge over
piscataquog River and to lay out a highway from Bedford to Starks
town and from Merrimack River to New Boston and to Clear the
Same So as to make it feasable passing it Appearing that Roads Can-
not without much Deficualty be Made where the land is Alowed
for them

31|V To See what Eucouragemente the proprs Will Give to Any

314 :arter records.

persoo that will Build a Saw mill Deri Jensbe haveing

S : perform- I ( B . Saw mill aCcording to the paragrapht in

the Cha:" f S Goffes town

- ill Officers in the propriety that Shall be Judged
Ni - Ifull for the prosecuting any Affair of the proprs

T I> any thing or things the prop1* Shall think Neeessary
Da;c; ..: Bedford August T* IT'

Math' Patten Pro- Clerk

[P r* to Cap' I - F Uanshe-:. 175

[Masonian Pa] era, VoL 6, _

Por:- August the 9* 175

Cap1 Thof Folle

rder of the Proprietors of the Lands Purchased of John Tuff-
ton Mason Esqr in the Province of New Hampshire. I am Directed
to inform you. that they have been for some time Concerned at the
_ eut you Give to the Settlement of the Tract of Land
John Goffe and others, by not Building a Mill and
S ing Timber for the Grantee? & Agreeable to the Condition of
the Grant of the Mill Priviledge and at this time I G :ffe inform "s
the Proprietors, that you Neglect to build a Mill for the Purpose
"aforesaid, which prove's very Detrimental to the Settlement of said
Tract of Land — which Omission the Proprietors look upon as a Mat-

laiportauce aud that your Neg whether Wifif nil or not

not to be overlook*! much longer, and if you do not comply with the
Condition of the Grant I 1 : :jat Priviledge. Immediately the

.11 have the Benefit of that Priviledge. by putting it into
i'ower of some Person disposed to Serve them —

rder of the Proprietors

o : Jaffrey Prop1* Cler

GOFFSTOWN.

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it is to be understood that the Southeast Corner of that part of
this plan that Joyns to Merrymack River is by the Byway at the
place where Christians Brook (so Called) Crosses the Same,

This is a plan of the Land Ascertained to the Heirs of Mr Alexan-
der M'Murpliv Dece'1 at Namaskeag falls and Contains fifty three
Acres with a Com'oD Allowance for Swag of Chain Surveyed ^ me
June 25th 1751

Math" Patten

316 CHARTER RECORDS.

This may Certifie that I was present at the Measureing and
Bounding the Above peice of Land According to ye Directions to me
Given ^ the Prop" of Masons Right, the most Com'odious with
the least Prejudice According to my Judgment and left allowance
for a Hyway Six Rods wide thro the Same Where Marked in ye plan

Joseph Blanchard

[Deposition of Robert Adams and Matthew Patten, 1752.]

[Masonian Papers, Vol. 6, p. 33.]

Province of ) Robert Addams of Londonderry yeoman of Lawfull
New Hampr ) age and Matthew Patten of Bedford yeoman of Lawfull
age both of Said province Testyfieth and Sayeth that on the Seventh
day of March 1752 we See Mr James Macgregore of Londonderry
afore Said yeoman Enter upon a lott of the Right of William Orr's
(Granted by the proprietors of Lands Purchased of John Tuff ton
Mason Esqr to him in that Tract of land granted to Mr Thomas
Parker and Others) and then and there the Said James Macgregore
did Cutt and fell Six Small trees and Broke the Swoard of the Ground
and that he Did Declare that he did make that Seizion in the Name
and behalf of the proprietors of lands purchased of John Tuffton
Masson Esqr afore Said and on aCcount of all the Other Lotts belong-
ing to Said Orrs Right

Londonderry March 10th 1752 Robert Adams

Mathw Patten

Province of ) Londonderry March ye 10Ul 1752.
New Hampshire ( Then the above named Robert Adams, and Mathew
Patten Personally appeared and Made Solemn oath to the truth of
the above Deposition, by them Subscribed

John Macmurphy \ Quorum
Robert Boyes j unus

[Petition of Thomas Rail, 1759.]
[Masonian Papers, Vol. 6, p. 34.]

To the Gentlemen Proprietors of the Right heretofore of Tufton
Mason Esq1" / in Lands in New Hampshire

The Humble Petition of Thomas Hall of Goffs Town in the Prov-
ince aforesaid Tavernkeeper Sheweth

GOFFSTOWN. 317

That your Petitioner has been in Possession of the Islands in
Ambuskeeg Falls for the Space of Eleven Years, last past;

That he being desirous of having a Clear and in disputed Title
thereto

Humbly prays a Grant thereof from You upon such Terms as to
You may seem meet and reasonable

And Yor Petr shall ever pray &c

Thomas Hall

[Notice of Meeting of Proprietors of Goffsto/m.~\
[Masonian Papers, Vol. G, p. 34.]

Notice is hereby Given to the proprietors of that Tract of land
lying to the North of Sowhegan East So Called & on the west Side of
Merrimack River Granted by the purchasers of Mr Masons Right to
the Rev'1 Tho8 Parker and Others : That the}^ Meet at the Dwelling
house of Mrs Sarah Prust in Portsmouth On thursday the 13tu Day of
July Next at ten of Clock forenoon then and there to act on the fol-
lowing Articles Viz —

1st To Chuse a moderator —

2'1 To see if the proprietors will Vote Certain persons that have
made Improvement or Settled on Sd Tract of Land their Rights
without Drawing as they are Qualified including the lot they have
improved on —

3'1 To See if the proprietors will vote Cap1 Thos Follensbe his Right
without Drawing One lot Beinrj that which includes the Mill lot

4th To pay the Money prescribed in the Grant and Draw their
Lots

5 To Do any Other things they Shall think Needfull for the full-
ing any articles in the Grant

f Order of the Com1

Mattw Patten Proprs Clere

[Proprietors to John Groffe.~\
[Masonian Papers, Vol. 6, p. 35.]

To Cap1 John Goffe of Souhegan East in the Province of New
Hampshire Esqur

Whereas we have been inform 'd that Sundry Persons have lately
entred with force and Arms into and upon the tract of land which
we have granted to Thomas Parker & others within the Claim which

318 CHARTER RECORDS.

we have under Cap' Mason and have Committed great waste of
the Timber there & manufactured and Converted a Considerable
Quantity thereof into Clapboards & shingles and have removed the
Same off from the Said tract of land on other lands within our Claim
nigh the river above amaskege falls which we apprehend has been
done in Defiance of our Said Claim

You are therefore hereby impowered & Authorized by us to take
the Said Clapboards & shingles where you may find them upon any
of our lands & dispose thereof to the best advantage for our Use and
render us an Account thereof the first convenient Oppertunity dated
at Portsmouth ye 16th of January 1748 —

you are hereby authorized to agree and Compound with the Person
or Persons who have done the Matters above mentioned on Such
Terms as you shall think proper for our use & in our behalf and
render an Account of your doings as above
John Moffat Theodr Atkinson Sam11 Solly

Richd Wibird J Odiorne Mark Hg Wentworth

Nath11 Meserve Thos Packer Geo : Jaffrey jur

D Peirce Josha Peirce

A Copy Examin'd *$ Geo : Jaffrey jr

GOSHEN.

[Made up from parts of Newport, Sunapee, Newbury, Lempster, and Unity,
and incorporated Dec. 27, 1791, The boundary lines were established June 22,
1797, and partly changed June 17, 1806. A part of Unity was annexed July 6,

1837.

See XII, Hammond Town Papers, 46; Index to Laws, 211; sketch, Hurd's
History of Sullivan County, 1886, p. 168; Baptist Churches in N. H., by E. E.
Cummings, 1836, p. 13; Lawrence's N. H. Churches, 1856, p. 447.]

[William Shattuck to M. W. Peirce, 1816.]

[Masonian Papers, Vol. 6, p. 36.]

Mr Peirce

Sir I was in formed by Mr Samuel Jackman that you wished to
know respecting his & his Br John Jackmans moral Carrecter. I
have ben acquainted with them from boys. & I believe them to be
moral industreous men. Mr Jackman also informed me that he had
made a mistake in purchesing a lot of land of you the mistake was
this, he had taken a deed of No 19 instead of No 15. No 15 I know

[Plan of Gtorlwm.~\

dred A 'S deIlneated' and lald down by a scale of °ne Hundred Rods to an inch & contains 20896 Acres and three Rods includeing Water & Each lot contains one Hun-

land forRS °h ^ ¥ the addition of 3 Acres to a lot for Roads Except the lots on the Create River & them are not all of a bigness for some of them Required mor

number nf°A {r °i S d° 3S y°U W'U SCe by the Plan' the m0St °f the Iots are laid out l6° Rods lonS and I03 Rods wide- the two following lots contains the following
or Acres Viz lot Number 165 Contains r2o. Acres & rso Rods lot Number 166, 82 Acres & 52 Rods & You will observe on the Plan that the Road are thus described
thus ? tl,„ "d" lvfrs and Br°oks tus HM _^ — ,-^-v^. a Pond thus • & the quality of the land thus, rel, 2d, 3d the Best lots are marked thus I the Midline good lots
s 2 the Poores lots thus 3 Quality

GOFFSTOWN. 319

it Ives in Washington about 130 rod from the North E corner of s'1
Washington & is a part of what we call the Gore goining to lot No —
14 which I bought of your Uncle Joseph peirce Esqr S'1 No 15 is very
much torn to pieces with the wind —

1 think it provable I Shall make you a payment next winter this
from yours &. ( '.

Mark W Peirce William Shattuck

Dated at Bradford the 30th of Oct. 1810

[John Jackman to M. W. Peirce, 1810.]

[Masonian Papers, Vol. 6, p. 37.]

Bradford Nov 1 1810
Hear Sir I have searched the lines of the Lots in the strip of land
mentioned in the Deed Peirces to Jackmans and find that Lot 19 lies
in Goshen where it will be no benefit to me (or of no great benefit) it
is not the lot which I thought of purchasing the Lot which I wanted
and which I thought that I had bought is numbered 15 I do not doubt
but this was the lot you meant to convey to us I would agree that the
number 19 be altered to number 15 in the Deed Peirces to Jackmans
and in the Deed Jackmans to Peirces, Yours with respect

John Jackman
Mr Mark W Peirce

[M. W. Peirce 's Agreement, 1816.]

[Masonian Papers, Vol. 6, p. 37.]

Portsmouth 2'1 November 1816
I sold to John & Samuel Jackman on the 24th October last a lot of
Land Number Nineteen in Goshen part of the strip of Land between
Fishersfield & Washington & Now the Said Samuel Comes and says
he did not intend to buy Number Nineteen but Wished to purchase
Number fifteen in the same strip & I have consented to exchange said
Lots when they shall execute to me a good & sufficient deed of the
one sold them but this is to be done by the 1st day of January next

M. W. Peirce

320 CHARTER RECORDS.

GREENFIELD.

[Made up of Lyndeborough Gore, and parts of Society Land, Peterborough, and
Lyndeborough. Sometimes called Lyndeborough Addition. Incorporated June 15,
1 791. The line with Lyndeborough was corrected Dec. 26, 1 791 . The bound-
aries were changed and established Dec. 29, 1791 . A portion of the town was
annexed to Francestown Dec. 1 1, 1792, and another July 4, 1872.

See XII, Hammond Town Papers, 61 ; Index to Laws, 220; Lawrence's N. H.
Churches, 1856, p. 176; sketch, Hurd's History of Hillsborough County, 1885,
P- 33*-]

[Nathan Crams Lot in Greenfield. ~\
[Masonian Papers, Vol. 6, p. 38.]

a certain Tract of Land being part of Lot N° 10. in Lyndsborough,
now Greenfield, contain8 30 Acres more or less bounded as follows,
Viz beginning at the N. E. Corner of said Lot, thence running West
by Lot N° 13, half the breadth of said Lot, thence Southery to Land
conveyed by us to Asa Wilkins thence Easty on a Line parallel to the
North Line of said Lot by said Land to the Easty Line of said Lot,
thence North* by said Line to the bounds first begun at. the Premises
contain8 TV'1S of the Easterly half of said Lot

Nathan Cram — Yeoman Conveyed to him Thomlinsons undivided
half £15. to be paid in 3 Years a mortgage

Beginning at the N. W. Corner at a Stake and Stones from thence
East by Col1 Boldins Land 160 Hods to a Stake and Stones thence
South by Land of M1 Jonathan Chambling j1' 43 Rods to a Stake &
Stones By the Road thence West 80 Rods By Said Road to a Stake &
Stones thence South By Land of Said Lot 57 Rods to a Stake and
Stones thence West By Land of S,A Lot 80 Rods to a Stake & Stones
thence North By the West Line of S'1 Lot 100 Rods to the bounds
first mentioned Containing 71£ Acores be the Same more or Less

HAMPTON.

[Granted by Massachusetts as Winnacunnet March 3, 1635. The name was
changed to Hampton Sept. 4, 1639. Hampton Falls was set off as a parish and in-
corporated Nov. 23, 1726. North Hill Parish was set off and incorporated as
North Hampton Nov. 30, 1742.

See Massachusetts charters preceding; IX, Bouton Town Papers, 331; XII,
Hammond Town Papers, 99; Index to Laws, 226; Farmer's Belknap's History of
N. H., chaps. 1 and 2, et seq. ; Historical Address, by Joseph Dow, 1838, pub.
1839, PP- 44' historical manuscripts, by E. W. Toppan, in possession of Chris-
topher G. Toppan of Hampton ; History, by Joseph Dow, 1894, 2 vols.; papers

HAMPTON. 321

relating to the town in appendix to preceding volume; sketch, Hind's History of
Rockingham County, 1882. p. 317; authorities cited under titles Dover, Exeter,
Gosport, New Castle, and Portsmouth; Lawrence's N. H. Churches, 1856, p. 63;
Account of the Earthquake, 1727, by N. Gookin, 4, N. E. Hist. Gen. Register,
92 : Inscriptions, by D. W. Holmes, 11, id., 77 \ Petition of S. Cotton, Minister,
1685, -. Collections of N. H. Historical Society, 204; Congregationalists, by
Joseph Fullonton. 1. Granite Monthly, 119; The Beautiful Place of Pines, sketch,
by Lucy E. Dow, 1888, pp. 31 ; Dedication of Webster Memorial Chapel, 1894,
pp. 20: Rev. Stephen Bachiler, by Charles E. Batchelder, reprinted from N. E.
Hist. Gen. Register, Jan., 1892, pp. 23; Meshech Weare, by Ezra S. Stearns,
1894, pp. 22; sermon. Dedication of New Meeting House of Congregational
Society. 1797. by Jesse Appleton, 1797, pp. 32.]

[ Petition of Hantvpton Men, 1748.]
[Masonian Papers, Vol. 6, p. 39.]

Province of } To the Gentle men that Claim some Part of the
New Hampsher \ ungranted land in said Province by vertue of their
Purchis of mr Tufftin Mason / where as the late Assembley of
said Province Did Pass some Votes in order to agree with and bye
said Claim of said Purchisors for the Inhabitants which we should
been glad If it had been Effected / we the subscribers Inhabitants of
the Town <>f Hampton Desier we may have some of those lands Con-
fermed to us on Reasonable forms

Hampton November y" 15th 1748
William Stanford Prudence Hilton Nathaniel Mason

Jonathan Moulton Joshua winffet Junr John win^et

Samuel Palmer ye third Stephen Page Junr Henry Moulton
John Batchelder Nathanell Batchelder Junr John Moulton ye third
Samuel Garland Samuel Dow thomas Batchelder

Edward Moulton John Lamprey thomas Hains

Mariss Lamprey Jeremiah towle Reuben Samburn

Robert .Moulton Stephen Page Senr John Knowls

Jarmiah Marston Simon Marston Jarmiah Marston Jur.

Elisha Marston John .Moulton Junr Tho8 Moulton

Simon Dow sener Ephraim Marston Junr John Marston Junr

Ephraim Moulton Gamaliel Knowls Joseph Dow

Robert Moulton the third John Sleeper William Vitton

Joseph Pellet Caleb towle Clement Jackson

Chiristefer Toppen Levi Dearborn Benjam11 Dearborn

Jona Moulton Jun1 Josiah Moulton Junr Jona Leavitt

Nathan Moulton Josiah Moulton 3'1 Joir' Moulton 3d

Philip Hooker Joir Garland Daniel Marston

322 CHARTER RECORDS.

Jacob Moulton John Knovvls John Tuck

Benja Randill John Moves Ebenr Meloon

[ Vote of the Town of Hampton, 1748.]

[Masonian Papers, Vol. 6, p. 40.]

Province of New Hampsher December ye 20th 1748
At a meeting of sundry of the town of Hampton who lately Re-
quested for some of the lands laying within the Claim of and of the
Gentlemen that Purchessed of mr Tufftin Mason

(1) that we Cannot take up with the Propseals made to us by Mr
Samburn from said Gentle men to be mixed with the Inhabitants of
other towns Voted

(2) yet we are willing to have some of said lands upon Reasonable
terms If we can be to Gether and not mixt with the Inhabitants of
other towns and have it as near to us as may be Voted

3!y that Capt Ephraim Marston Deac Joseph Philbrick and En
Jonathan Leavit or Either of them are here by Choose to go to said
Gentle men and shew them our mind and Request in said affair Voted

attst Samuel Palmer

HENNIKER.

[This town was Number 6 in the line of towns from Merrimack to Connecticut
River, granted by Massachusetts Jan. 16, 1735-6. As some of the grantees came
from Marlborough, Mass., it was sometimes called New Marlborough or Marlbor-
ough-town. Granted by the Masonian Proprietors, July 16, 1752, to Andrew Todd
and others, and sometimes called Todd^s-town. Incorporated as Henniker Nov. 10,
1768, and named in honor of John Henniker, M. P.

See Massachusetts and New Hampshire charters in preceding volumes ; XII,
Hammond Town Papers, 189; Index to Laws, 235; History, by L. W. Cogs-
well, 1880, pp. 807; sketch, Hurd's History of Merrimack County, 1885, p. 340;
Baptist Churches in N. H., by E. E. Cummings, 1836, p. 22 ; Lawrence's
N. H. Churches, 1856, p. 387; address, 115th anniversary of Congregational
Church, by J. M. R. Eaton, 1884; Historical Address, 66th Anniversary of
Formation of Bible Class, May 1, 1814, by L. W. Cogswell, pp. 16.]

[Petition of Webster and Smith, 1748.]
[Masonian Papers, Vol. 6, p. 20.]

Portsmouth October 29th 1748
To the Gentlemen Purchasers & Proprietors of Masons Right in y"
Lands in ye Prove of New : Hampshire

MKNNIK.ER.

323

We the Subscribers in behalfe of our Selves and others a Sufficient
number of persons to Settle a Township of Six Miles Square among
Such a Number of Settlers and upon Such Terms as you shall think
meet, and shall be most agreable to you ; We propose that tract of
land, laid out by ye Mass' Government for Six Miles Square and
called Marlborough Town joining easterly upon Hopkinton so called
& westerly N° 7 so called, northerly by Almsbury Town so called,
Southerly by ungranted Lands — or if not in the Six miles Square
described ; where else it will best Suit ye Proprieters & your favours
will very much Oblige us and others your Petitioners

John Webster
Nat11 Smith

[Smith and Webster's Plan of Henniker.~\

»••-

324 CHARTER RECORDS.

This Plan describetb a Tract, or Parcel of Land lying partly on ye
North side, & partly on ye south side of ye River called Contoocook
River, being ye sixth in Number of ye Townships which were, some
years ago granted by ye General Court of ye Province of ye Massachu-
setts Bay, & laid out by order of ye said Court, commonly called, The
Line of Towns. The said Tract or Parcel of Land bounded, &
extending as follows ; viz —

Beginning at ye Southeaster^ Corner at a Hemlock-Tree, with Stones
about it, ye said tree spotted on four sides, & marked with ye Let-
ter PI, & ye Figure 5 on ye easterly side; & with the Figure <J on ye
westerly side. Then running west five Degrees south, six Miles, to
a Beach tree with Stones about it, spotted on four sides, & marked
with ye Letters J W on ye easterly side, & J W & E W on ye westerly
side. Then running North, fourteen degrees west, six miles by N° 7,
to a Beach Tree with Stones about it, spotted on four sides, & marked
with ye Letters J W & ye figure 9 on ye south side; & with IX on ye
north side ; & several of ye Trees near it are marked with ye Letters
of Mens Names. Then running East, five degrees north, six miles, to
a white Oak tree with Stones about it, spotted on four sides, marked
with ye figure G on ye westerly side, & with ye numeral Letter V on
ve easterly side. Then running south, fourteen degrees east, (by N°
5) six miles, across Contoocook River, to ye first Mentioned Bound.

James Scales Surveyor.
Nat11 smith ) Chain

Philip Eastman ) men

\_Names of Applicants for Henniker. 1748.]
[Masonian Papers, Vol. 6, p. 41.]

Rumford November ye 2nd 1748 —
We the Subscribers promise to Settle a Township that Shall be
granted Between a place Called N- B 5 / and N B 7

David Evens Abraham Kimbal Ruben Burbank

Peter Boueres George Hall Leborn Peters

Isaac Walker Jr Joseph Walker Joseph Farnam

Dan1 Chase Ebr Hall Ab»' Colbe

John Evans Jerem11 Stickney Isaac Chandler

Ezra Carter Aron Stevens Edward Abbott J1

James Scales Esq1' Joseph Simons Thos Manuel

Amos Eastman Daniel Annis William Moor

John Webster Nath11 Smith John Pudney Jun1

HENNIKER. 325

Jacob Hoyt Wm Peters Ruben Abbott

Sam" Rodgers John Burbank Henry Pudney

Isaac Chandler Jun' Nath" Lovejoy Sam11 Pudney

Benja Fyfield David Foster Jeremb Bradley

Jeremh Dresser Ephm Farnum Stephen Farrington

Nath1 West Caleb Burbank James Osgood

John Hoyt Benja Eastman Timothy Burbank

[Timothy Walker's Request, 1748.]

[Masonian Papers, Vol. 6, p. 42.]

Rumford Novr 9 1748
Sr I understand that a Number of Persons hereabouts have Em-
ployed Mess™ Webster & Smith to Petition ye Proprietors of Masons
Patent for a Tract of Land Known amongst us by ye name of Marl-
borough Town, I have such a Right there as ye Massachusetts Govern-
ment Could Grant & should have made considerable Improvements
there before ye war, but that ye House lott first laid out to me was not
suitable for a settlement and it was but ye fall before ye war broke out
that I had opportunity to get it Changed, now if ye Gentlemen should
doe any thing in ye affair if you would Interpose your Kind offices on
my behalf so that I might loose neither my Lott which I procured to
be laid out at my own additional cost nor my Right, I should Think
my self much oblidged to you & ye other Gentlemen concerned with
you for any favour shown me relating to ye premises & Stand ready
to comply with any orders or conditions Imposed on me relating to
settlement & charges &c — I suppose some body from our Town will
speedily be att Portsmouth in order to solliscit for a settlement of
affairs with us I subscribe with all due Deference your very Humble
serv' — Timothy Walker

Honou,,le Theodore Atkinson Esqr

[Petition of Andrew Todd and Others.]

[Masonian Papers, Vol. 6, p. 43.]

Prov1' of New / To the Hon1 the Purchasers & Proprietors of

Hampshire \ Mason's Right so called —

We the Subscribers Freeholders & Inhabitants of Said Province

having an Inclination to Setle & improve some Part of S1 Right

Humbly desire that we may have a Township granted us at or near

326

CHARTER RECORDS.

Hale's Town so called upon ye Same Tei'ms & Conditions that you
grant to our Neighbours or in Such other Place & upon Such other
Terms as shall be most for ye Common Benefit & Advantage of you &
us —

2 John macmurphy
5 James Willson senr
8 George Robertson

11 Henry Park i son

14 Thos Gregg

17 John Reside

1 Andr Todd

4 Robert Cochran

7 James Willson 3th
10 Robert Parkison
13 William Nickells
16 Alexr mcCollom
19 Sam11 Stewart

22 James Willson Junr 23 Robert Wiear
25 John Pinkerton Junr 26 Joseph Stewart
28 Sam11 Todd 29 Nat11 Hoalms

31 Joseph Hamell 32 Joseph Bell

34 John Richey 35 Thos Boyes

37 John Davidson 38 John Duncan

40 Will1" Duncan mill1" 41 Henry Erwin
43 Thos Cochran 44 James Cochran

46 Will"' Marten 47 John Scobey

49 James Rodgers 50 Elli Boyd

52 James Humphra 53 William Gallt
55 Sam" Alleson Jun

58 Joseph Willson
61 Mathew Taylor
64 William Hoalms

3 Samuell Boys
6 Thomas Willson
9 James Robertson
12 James Petterson
15 Thos McClerey
18 George Adison
20 James Thompson Jun1' 21 John Hillands

24 John Pinkerton senr
27 James Todd
30 Neall Hamell
33 John Stewart
36 Thos Davidson
39 George Duncan
42 Willm forrest
45 Anthony Dyer
48 David Scobey
51 John Humphra
54 James Reid
57 John Archibald
60 James Willson
63 Robert Riddall
66 Sam11 Moore
69 James Ewins

56 Jacob Sargent

59 James Smith

62 William Ayers

65 Joseph Boyes
67 James Wallace sen1' 68 Robert fairservice
70 William Rodgers Senr 71 Hugh moungonry Junr 72 James Rodgers
73 James Allexander Black smith 74 Robert Lieution [taylor —

[Charter of Ifenniker, 1752.]
[Masonian Proprietors' Records, July 16, 1752.]

Province of j Portsmouth July 16th 1752. Thursday five of
New Hampshire j the Clock Afternoon At the house of Ann Slay-
ton the Proprietors meet according to Adjournment —

Voted That There be and hereby is Granted unto John Macmurphy
Esqr Andrew Todd Gent. Samuel Barr Gent. The Rev'1 William
Davidson Clerk Robert Cochran Gent Robert Livingston Blacksmith
Robert Wallace Yeoman Nathaniel Aikin Yeoman John Mack Black-
smith John Macmurphy junr John Pinkerton Mathew Pinkerton

HENNIKER. 327

Daniel Leslie James Wilson the Third James Ewens Yeomen John
Reside Weaver John Scobey Joseph Bell John Caldwell Yeomen
William Ayres Tanner John Loggan Clothier John Loggan junr
Weaver James Smith John Duncan Yeomen Isaac Brewster Weaver
John M'Cnllnm Alexand1 M'Cullnm Alexander Macmurphy James
Wallace John Clarke George Duncan David Archibald William Mack
inn1 John Stuart Thomas Boyes James Humphry Robert Fairservice
Samuel Allison jim1 James Wilson of the South James Peterson
Yeomen Robert Wear Leather Breeches maker Alexander MCnllum
jnm James Wilson jun1 Robert Wilson Alexander Wilson William
Rodgers Robert Rodgers Joseph Wilson Thomas Gregg Robert
McCurdy Yeomen Hugh Wilson Gent Alexander Craige James Todd
Samuel Todd William" Ayres junr Yeomen all of Londonderry in said
Province George Robertson of Chester in said Province Yeoman Wil-
liam Holms of "Bedford in said Province Yeoman & William Peters
of a place called Hopkinton in said Province Yeoman — In Equal
shares on the Terms Conditions and Limitations herein after Ex-
pressed All the Right Title Claim Inheritance Estate and Demand of
the said Proprietors to that Tract of land within the Province afore-
said Containing Six Miles Square by Estimation or equal thereto
Bounded as follows Viz' Beginning at the North West Corner (near-
est) of New Hopkinton so Called thence on a Strait line to the North
East Corner of Hilsborough so Called being by Estimation Six Miles
then by said Hilsborough line to the South East Corner thereof being
Supposed to be six Miles then on a Strait line to the South West
Corner of said New Hopkinton then by that to the Corner where it
begins all the said lines being Supposed to be six miles each — To
have and to Hold the said Granted Premises to them their Heirs and
Assigns in Equal Shares on the following Terms Conditions &
Limitations That is to say that the whole Tract of Land above des-
cribed he divided into Eighty Rights or equal Shares and Each Share
into Three Lots which are to be so Sorted & Joined as to make the
shares as equal as possible both for Quality and Quantity — That land
be left between ye lots for Convenient High ways — That the whole
be Surveyed & so Divided & laid out into Lots the lots Ranged and
Numherd & an exact plan Thereof made & Returned to the Grantors
within six Months from the Date hereof and upon the Return of said
plan the lots to be drawn for in the Customary manner in such
Cases at Portsmouth aforesaid under the Direction of the Grantors
with this Exception that one lot belonging to one of the said Reserved
Shares shall contain a Stream i\ Suitable place for Setting a Mill to be
laid out and not drawn for to lie hereafter disposed of as the Grantors
please — That Nineteen of the said Shares be and hereby are Reserved

328 CHARTER RECORDS.

to the Grantors their Heirs & Assigns — That one of the said Shares
be for the first Minister of the Gospel who shall be Regularly Settled
on the said Tract of Land and Continue there during his life or untill
he shall be Regularly Dismis't to hold to him his Heirs & Assigns —
That one other of said Shares be for the use of the Ministry there
forever and one other of said Shares for the use & Maintainance of a
School after the said Tract of Land shall be Settled to be kept There
forever. That one of the lots of the Share for the use of the Ministry
be laid out in the most convenient place for Building a Meeting
House without drawing for it and the Meeting House to be Built
thereon & Round about the Meeting House or near to it (as will be
best having Regard to the place and Quality of the Land) There shall
be left ten acres of the said Lot as a Common Field for Training a
Burying place and any other Publick use the Inhabitants there shall
see Cause to apply it to — That Eighteen of said Shares be exempted
& wholly Exonerated of and from all Charge Cost & expence in
Making the Settlement and whatever Charges may arise for the Sup-
port of the Gospel or otherways by any ways & means whatsoever
untill the same or some part of each Respective Share Shall be Im-
proved by the owner thereof, That the owners of the other fifty nine
Shares make a Settlement upon the said Tract of land in Manner fol-
lowing viz1 That there be one Acre of land Cleared fit for Tillage or
mowing- on one of the lots belono-inp- to each of said Shares within
one Year from the time of Drawing the said lots that there be one
acre more on each of said Lots so Clear'd & fitted within one year
after that, and an house Built on the same Fit for a Family to Dwell
in not less than Sixteen foot Square or equal to that Dimension That
in one year after that one acre more on each of the said Lots be so
Cleared and fitted and in one year after that there be a Family living
in each of the said Houses that is a Family on a lot belonging to each
of said Shares — That a Meeting House be built there fit for the Public
Worship within one year after that. That there be Constant Preach-
ing maintained there within six years from this time That each owner
of the said fifty nine Shares do duly pay all such sum & Sums of
money ;is shall be at any time Voted & Agreed by the Major part of
the said owners to be raised on each share to such person or persons
as they shall order to Carry on the said Settlement and shall do &
perform his Respective part & duty towards making the same in
manner aforesaid and in default of so doing his Right and Share who
shall be delinquent therein shall be and hereby is Declared to be for-
feited, to the other owners of said shares who shall have duly paid
done and performed their Respective parts and Duty concerning the
same in manner aforesaid and the said Owners in order to Carry on

HENNIKER. 329

& perfect the said Settlement may from time to time as Occasion sliall
require make Choice of a Clerk a Receiver of the monies to be raised
as aforesaid and any other persons to an}- office duty & trust neces-
sary for the purpose aforesaid and when any of the said Shares shall
be so forfeited for Neglect A: Omission as aforesaid the said owners to
whom the same Sliall be forfeited may proceed to Enter upon & Dis-
pose of such forfeited Share as they or the Major part of them shall
agree That all White pine Trees fit for his Majesty's use and Service
for Masts are hereby Reserved & Granted to his Majesty his heirs &
Successors forever — And in Case the ownners of the said fifty nine
Shares shall fail of making- the said Settlement of the said Number of
Families within the term Granted for that purpose & having the
Houses Built & Land Cleared by that time as above mentioned then
the said Tract of Laud with whatever shall be done thereon short of
the Compleating the said Settlement shall be forfeited to the Grantors
their Heirs & Assigns and it shall and may be lawfull for them or
any person or persons in their Name by their order into & upon the
whole or any Part thereof in the name of the whole to Re-Enter &
take full Seizin thereof as tho' this Grant had never been made —
That in Case the said Granted premises shall be Recovered from the
Grantees or any part thereof by any ways or Means whatsoever the
Grantees shall Recover nothing over against the Grantors for any
Improvements or Labour by them or any of them done or that shall
be done thereon but the Grantors hereby promise & Ingage upon
being properly Notified to take upon themselves the Defence of any
Action that shall be bro't for the Recovery of the said Premises &
any part thereof (by any other Title than that under which they hold
or from which theirs is derived) against the Grantees or any of
them —

That in Case an Indian War shall happen before the Expiration of
any of the said Terms Limited for doing any of the said matters and
Things aforesaid the like term of time shall be allowed after that Im-
pediment Shall be Removed —

Lastly the Grantees shall as Soon as may be done with Conveniency
hold a Regular Meeting & pass a Vote in Writing that they Agree
Assent & Consent to accept of this Grant to hold the Premises on the
Terms herein Expressed cc to Ratify & Confirm this Agreement &
Ingagement on their parts & behalfs Accordingly & Transmit an
attested Copy thereof to the Grantors —

330 CHARTER RECORDS.

\_Vote of Grantees of Renniker, 1752.]
[Masonian Papers, Vol. 6, p. 44.]

At a legal Meeting of the Grantees of N° 6 to hear how farr the
Commitee had proceeded in Laying out of the town that was Chosen
for that End, and they Inform that they have Run the Lines of the
town Round and Laid out the town into halfe Mile Ranges —

And they Desire that Application may be Made to the Lord Pro-
priators for Some Longer time to Lay out Said town By Reason of
the Diiiculty of the Season and place to be -Laid out, And it is voted
that John MacMurphy Esqr and Cap1 Andrew Todd Shall Make
Application to the Lords for Longer time which if they Deny they
the Said Todd & MacMurphy is to Make Speedy Report to the Com-
mitee that they May proceed which is Lookt on will be much to the
Damage of the Affair in Regard of Quallifing the Lots —

A treAV Copv pr Rob1 Cochran Clerk

Londonderry Oct1' 30th 1752 to the Comunity

[Draft of Lots in Renniker, 1753.]

[Proprietors' Records, Vol. 6, p. 241, and Masonian Papers, Vol 6,

p. 45.]

Province of | The Draft of the Lots in the Tract of Land granted
New Hampsr j by the Proprietors of the Lands purchased of John
Tufton Mason Esqr in New Hampshire to John McMurphy Esqr
Andrew Todd Gent" Samuel Barr Gent: & others, the 16th day of
July 1752, which Lots were drawn under the Direction of the said
Proprietors, the Grantors, in Portsmouth on Wednesday the 11th day
of July 1753 — viz*

Names drawn
Ministry
Saw-Mill Lot
Robert MlCurdy
William Ayers Junr
James Todd
James Patterson
Thomas Wallingford Esq1"
John Wentworth Esq1
George Duncan
Thomas Gregg

N° Range

N° Range

N° Range

& Lot

& Lot

& Lot

7 — 10.

1—4.

1 — 13

4—8.

3 — 5.

12—7

9 — 13.

1—3.

2—4

8—8.

4—4.

4—5

10 — 3.

4 — 16.

5 — 16

6 — 15.

5 — 15.

13 — 11

5 — 10.

11 — 18.

2 — 11

5 — 1.

8 — 14.

1—9

7 — 15.

9 — 19.

2 — 19

6 — 11.

12 — 18.

1 — 16

[Plan of Henniker, 1753.]

To the Honourable the Grantors

Six in the line of towns, Granted by the Proprietors of lands purchassedof John Tuffton Mason Esq' To a society belonging to London-
derry in Said Province, — The Highways in the Ranges is run East and west, — and on the west side of the lines run North and South and
is all four rods wide except the Sixth and Seventh rang which is Six Rods wide — Which township was Surveyed in the years [torn] Com-
'ittee for divideing said township into lotts

A true plan Errors Excepted Math" Patten

Daniel Leslie

[torn] rods to an inch June 12th 1753

Surveyors

HKNNIKER.

L3i

J dim Stuart

10 —

7.

7 —

3.

8 —

16

first Ministers Lot

7 —

12.

3 —

10.

2

1

Samuel Allison jun1'

9 —

7.

12 —

2.

11 —

12

John Scoby

11 —

15.

6 —

7'.

4 —

18

James Willson

4 —

3.

9 —

16.

1 —

7

James Humphrey

6 —

4.

11 —

16.

13 —

10

Robert Weare

7 —

19.

13 —

1.

6 —

8

Robert Rogers

9 —

5.

8 —

18.

8 —

17

John M'Cullum

4 —

12.

9 —

18.

12 —

19

James Willson jun1'

5 —

8.

10 —

19.

11 —

19

Law Lot N° 2

10 —

14.

6 —

17.

4 —

10

John Reside

5 —

6.

13 —

5.

11 —

5

School Lot

7 —

8.

3 —

4.

0

7

Alex' M'Cullum jun1'

5 —

4.

11 —

15.

11 —

5

Nath' Aiken

7 —

7.

4 —

1.

13 —

12

William Rogers

6 —

12.

11 —

11.

1 —

15

John Rindge

10 —

11.

rr

( —

1.

2

12

Daniel Leslie

9 —

15.

1 —

14.

1 —

1

James Smith

8 —

1.

9 —

17.

2

10

Robert Willson

6 —

13.

11 —

2.

1 —

12

Jotham Odiorne Esq1 dee'1 his right

6 —

14.

12 —

9.

12 —

8

Alexander Willson

8 —

5.

7 —

17.

6 —

16

John Loggan

6 —

6.

12 —

13.

3 —

7

John Moft'att Esqr

7 —

6.

3 —

11.

1 —

18

Alexander M' Murphy

11 —

17.

6 —

9.

4 —

19

William Davidson

7 —

14.

13 —

2,

3 —

13

William Ayers

7 —

13.

4 —

9.

13 —

13

John Calwell

8 —

4.

10 —

17.

5 —

19

Thomas Boyes

9 —

3.

13 —

7.

10 —

4

Law Lot N° 1

7 —

5.

12 —

11.

1 —

19

Jn° Thomlinson & )
Jn° Tut'ton Mason Esqrs \

6 —

3.

11 —

14.

1 —

8

Alexander M'Cullum

9 —

2.

4 —

12.

13 —

9

Sam1 Solly & Clem1 March Esq"

10 —

18*.

8 —

3.

8 —

2

John M' Murphy Esqr

9 —

8.

7 —

18.

11 —

4

Joshua Peirce Esqr

6 —

5.

10 —

9.

2

15

Robert Fairservice

7 —

11.

2

5.

13 —

14

Joseph Willson

2

3.

12 —

1.

8 —

10

Alexander ( 'raige

5 —

2.

9 —

12.

2

13

Samuel Barr

5 —

l5!

13 —

4.

1 —

17

George Jaffrey Esqr

11 —

10.

3 —

16.

4 —

15

William Peters

10 —

10.

2

2.

5 —

17

Thomas Packer Esqr

8 —

12.

4 —

11.

3 —

19

332

CHARTER RECORDS.

James Wallace

George Robertson

John Pinkerton

Richard Wibird Esq1

Matthew Pinkerton

John M'Murphy Junr

Theodore Atkinson Esq1

Hugh Willson

John Mack

Nath1 Meserve Esqr & C°

Robert Cochran

James Ewens

John Loggan Junr

Dan1 Peirce Esq1" & Mary |

Moore dec(ls Rights \

Samuel Todd

William Holmes

Robert Wallace

John Duncan

Robert Livingston

William Mack

Andrew Todd

Isaac Brewster

James Willson South

Mark Hg Wentworth Esq1

John Clark

Joseph Bell

David Archibald

attest Geo : Jaffrey Proprs Cle1

a true [copy] of the Record of the Drafts of Lotts in the Town-
ship granted to John McMurphy Esqr &ca

attest Geo : Jaffrey Prop" CI

10 —

16.

5 —

5.

2

16

10 —

8.

11 —

8.

3 —

12

11 —

13.

12 —

16.

1 —

6

10 —

5.

3 —

17.

4 —

17

10 —

13.

7 —

2.

3 —

8

11 —

1.

4 —

it

3 —

14

8 —

19.

9 —

6.

2

9

3 —

3.

9 —

9.

9 —

10

5 —

13.

12 —

2.

12 —

3

6 —

10.

13 —

3!

1 —

2

5 —

3.

9 —

11.

2

18

8 —

7.

6 —

18.

12 —

4

8 —

9.

2

6.

1 —

5

9 —

14.

6 —

2.

3 —

9

10 —

2.

7 —

16.

3 —

18

8 —

13*.

4 —

2.

1 —

10

7 —

4.

10 —

12.'

11 —

12

9 —

4.

3 —

6.

1 —

11

7 —

9.

12 —

17.

6 —

1

10 —

15.

9 —

1.

2

8

9 —

7.

4 —

7.

10 _

6

11 —

9.

5 —

11.

2

14

12 —

14.

6 —

19.

4 —

6

8 —

15.

3 —

1.

Q

O

2

8 —

6.

13 —

6.

5 —

16

12 —

10.

13 —

8.

11 —

7

11 —

3.

5 —

14.

0
0 —

15

10 —

1.

5 —

9.

2

17

[Request of Baracies Farnum, 1753.]

[Masonian Papers, Vol. 6, p. 46.]

Honerad Gentelmen after Deue Respects the Comes to Returne
you hartey thanks for Resirving me a right Amongst the Granties of
no six ami I would Pray a further Request that you would Except of
my bulding of the Sawmill and tending of the Same In the Room of

"ill- 333

the Rest of the setelment Injoined In the Cherter I shunt troubly
yon aney further but Remains your hombel Servent

Baracies farnam

[Mobert Wallace to Proprietors.]
[Masonian Papers, Vol. 6, p. 47.]

Sir J agreeable to the orders of the Lordproprietors to me some years
ago to Dispose of the Millright in the Town of Hanacker for the use
of the Inhabitants of said. Town agreeable to said orders I have Dis-
posed of said right in order to help towards Building a meeting
house and mills in said Town which was agreeable to the minds of
tin- Proprietors of said Town Pleas sir, to make a Record in your
Book That I have Disposed of said right agreeable to said orders and
you will much oblidge your humble ser*

Robert Wallace

Londonderry 12 august 1782

George (ieffery Esqr

HILL.

[Granted by the Masonian Proprietors, Sept. 14, 1753, to Chester men. Incor-
porated as New Chester Nov. 20, 1778. Bridgewater was set off and incorporated
Feb. 12, 1788. Portions of Hill and Bridgewater were combined and incorporated
as Bristol June 24, 1819. A portion of Alexandria was annexed Dec. 21, 1820.
A tract was severed from New Chester and annexed to Wilmot Dec. 21, 1832.
The name of the town was changed to Hill Jan. 14. 1837, in honor of Gov. Isaac
Hill. A portion was severed and annexed to Danbury June 26, 1858. The town
was annexed to Merrimack County from Grafton, July 1, 1868.

See XII, Hammond Town Papers, 195; Index to Law's, 239, 395; sketch, by
F. R. Woodward. Ilurd's History of Merrimack County, 1885, p. 547 ; Stewart's
History of the Free Baptists, 1862, p. 375 ; Lawrence's N. H. Churches, 1856,
P- 549-1

[Charter of Hill, 1753.]

[From Copy in Possession of R. W. Musgrove, Bristol.]

Province of ) Pursuant to the Powers and authority Granted
New Hampshire ) and Vested in me the Subscriber by the Proprie-
tors of lands Purchased of John Tuffton Mason Esqr in the Province
of New Hampshire by their vote passed at their meeting held at
Portsmouth in Said Province the 27th Day of August A D 1753—

334 CHARTER RECORDS.

I do by these presents on the terms and Limitations with the Res-
ervations hereafter expressed give and grant all the Right Title
Property possession Claim & Demand of the Proprietors aforesaid in
the following proportions unto John Tolford four Shares John Mc
Murphy Esq1 James M'Ferson Matthew Thornton Esq1 Ten Shares
Robert Fletcher James Moor John Aikin John Mann John Tolford
junr James Quenton Hugh Tolford Mark Karr William Graham Jacob
Sergent James Wadwell John Durham, Samuel Gault, Robert White,.
Josiah Willard three Shares, John Mills, James White Timothy
Ingalls, Henry Herring, Samuel Moores, John Underbill, William
Tolford Samuel Emerson Thomas Craige, John Gordon Robert Craige
Orlando Colby Joseph Clark Archabald Dunlap three Shares Henry
Hall, Thomas Wills, John Hazeltine Ebenezer Dearborn James Shirla
Thomas Shirla James Shirla Jun1 John Kelsey Richard Pearl Alexan-
der M'clure Joshua Tolford Stephen Ferrington one Share to each
person not particularly mentioned above their proportion also to
Jeremiah Colburn three Rights Samuel Searle three Rights Timothy
Favour one Right Robert McMurphy on Right. Nathanael Ingalls
one Right which Tract or Township shall be called New Chester of
in and to all that Tract of Land Lying in the Province afforesaid
bounded North Westerly by the line lately Ran & Marked for the
western Bounds of Masons Patent Easterly by Pemigewassett River
Southerly by a Tract of Land Called Emerys Town and Southwest-
erly by a Tract of Land Called Alexandria Bounded Beginning at the
Northerly corner of Alexandria aforesaid in the patent line aforesaid
and running from thence by Said Alexandria South easterly five miles
and a quarter more or less to the most Easterly corner of Said Alex-
andria to a Hemlock Tree Marked, From thence the line Turns by
Said Alexandria South Fifty three Degrees West eight Miles and a
Quarter more or less to a Beach Tree marked from thence South
Easterly by the line of Heiddleburg So called one mile to an Elm
Tree to the Corner of said Heiddelburg and from thence South till it
intersects the western line of Emerys Town about half a Mile from
thence North Seventy three Degrees East by said Emerys line to
Pemigewasset River and from thence Northerly Bounding by Pemi-
gewassett River including all the islands against Said Tract till it
Comes to where the patent Line aforesaid Crosses said River & From
thence Running South westerly by the patent Line aforesaid to the
Bound first mentioned which Tract Contains by estimation exclusive
of Ponds Thirty Thousand acres.

To them their Heirs and Assigns To have and to hold on the fol-
lowing Terms and Conditions with the Reservations here in after
Expressed (viz).

hill. 335

That the Tract of Land or Township aforesaid be Divided into
Ninety three Equal Shares Two Lots at the Least to Each Share and
to be Finished and Drawn for in Some public and Equitable manner
at or before the last Day of November 17o4 That Three of the afore-
said Shares be granted Free of Charge one for the first Settled Min-
ister one for the Ministrey and one for the schools there for ever one
Lot in each of the Said Shares to be first Laid out and Lots coupelled
to them so as not to be Drawn for and Two Lots Containing one hun-
dred acres Each for the incouragement of Building Mills to be Dis-
posed of by the Grantees for that use That Twenty more of the Said
Shares be reserved to and for the Grantors their Heirs and Assigns
Forever and acquitted from all Duty and Charge untill improved by
the owners or Some holding under Respectively.

That the owners of Forty of the other shares (viz) John Tolford
three Shares -lames M'Farson one Matthew Thornton Esq one James
Moore one John Mann one Hugh Tolford one Mark Karr one William
Graham one .Jacob Sargent one John Durham one Samuel Gault one
Robert White one Josiah Willard one John Mills one James White
one Nathaniel Ingalls one Henry Herring one Samuel Moores one
Samuel Emerson one Thomas Wells one Thomas Crai^e one John
Gordon one Robert Craige one Orlando Colby one Joseph Clark one
Archabald Dunlap three Henry Hall one John Hazelton one, Eben-
ezer Dearborn one James Shirla one James Shirla Junr one John Kel-
sey one Richard Pearl one Alexander McClure one Stephen Farring-
ton one John Aikin one — Make Sittlement in the following manner
(viz) each at the expiration of three years and Eight months from
the Date hereof on each of the aforesaid forty shares have three acres
parcel of his Right Respectively Cleared Inclosed and fitted for mow-
ing and Tillage and a house built of a Room Sixteen feet Square at
the least fitted for Comfortable Dwelling in and some person inhab-
iting in each house Respectively and Continue Resident and inhab-
itant there for seven years next coming by themselves or Some other
person and annually for each of the Said Seven years Clear Inclose
and lit as aforesaid one acre more

That Twenty more of the Grantees (viz) John Tolford one John
M .Murphy Esq one Matthew Thornton Esq five Robert Fletcher one
John Tolford Jr one James Quenton one James Waddell one Josiah
Willard Two Timothy Ingalls one John Underbill one William Tol-
ford one Thomas Wells one James Shirla one Joshua Tolford one
Robert M' Murphy one — Make Settlement in Manner as aforesaid in
every Respect Saving only that they be allowed one year longer time
for Doing and performing the Several and Respective parts of Duty
of Sittlement and no longer

336 CHARTER RECORDS.

That a Convenient Meeting house for the Publick worship of God
be built on S'1 Tract where the Grantees shall think most Convenient
within Ten years from this Date and Ten Acres of Land Reserved
there for Publick use

That the Lands in Said Township or Tract belonging to grantors
and grantees be subject to have all necessary highways Laid through
them without any allowance or pay for damage That there be a
further reservation to and for the grantors out of Said Tract of Five
hundred acres to be Laid out at the Charge of the Grantees before
the general Division of Said Tract under the Direction of me the sub-
scriber or such other person as the Grantors as aforesaid Shall appoint
so as not to Lye in the place where the Meeting House Shall nor
prejudice the Town plat near the Same free from Duty and all
Charges That the aforesaid Grantees their Heirs or Assigns by a
Major vote in Publick Meeting Call'1 for thet purpose grant and
assess in Equel proportion such sum or sums of Money as they shall
think necessary from time to time for Carrying forward and Com-
pleating the sittlenient aforesaid and every of the grantees exclusive
of the three Publick Lots who shall neglect for the Space of Sixty
Days next after such Assessment shall be granted and made to pay
the Same So Much of Such Delinquent Right or Rights Respectively
shall and may be sold as will pay such Tax & Taxes and all Charges
arising thereon by a Committee to be appointed by the grantee for
that purpose — and in case any of the Grantees Shall neglect or refuse
to perform any of the articles aforesaid by him respectively to be
Done he Shall Forfeit his share and Right in said Township and every
part thereof to those of the grantees or their assigns who Shall have
Complied with the conditions on their part herein expressed and it
shall and may be lawful for them or any person by their authority to
enter into and upon the rights Shares or part of Such Delinquent
owner in the name and behalf of the whole of the grantees or their
assigns shall have complied as aforesaid on their respective parts to a
move oust & expell for the use of them their heirs & assigns provided
they settle or cause to be Setled each Such Delinquents Right within
the Term of one year at the Furthest from the period that is by this
Instrument stipulated to be done as the Condition of this Grant and
fully Discharge & Comply with the whole Duty Such Delinquent
ought to have done within one year from Time to time after the
Respective period thereof.

And in case the grantees or their assigns fulfill their part as afore-
said Shall neglect fulfilling as aforesaid the Duty of any Delinquent
owner that then such share or shares Right or Rights So Delinquent
shall Revert and Belong to the Grantors their heirs and assigns Free
from Duty & Charges & be wholly at their Disposal

hill.

337

Further that the Grantees or their assigns within Thirty Days after
the Said Tract shall be Lotted out & Drawn for shall Return a Plan
of the Lots Numbered and Schedule of Such alotment & Draught Cer-
tified by their Clerk on oath into the Grantors Clerks office

Further that all white pine Trees fit for Masting his Majestys
Navy growing on Said Tract be & hereby are Granted to his Majesty
his heirs and Successors forever, always provided there Shall be no
Indian war within any of the times limited as aforesaid for Doing the
Duty Conditioned in this Grant and in case that should happen the
Same time to be allowed after Such impediment shall be removed for
doing the respective Duty aforesaid — To all which Premises I Joseph
Blanchard agent for and in behalf of the grantors have hereunto set
my hand and Seal this fourteenth Day of September in the Twenty
Seventh year of his Majesties Reign A D 1753

Signed Sealed & j Joseph Blanchard (L. S.)

Deli'1 in pres- >

ence of )

James Minot Junr

Sarah Blanchard

A true Copy Recorded June 2'1 1806
Attest, Errors Excepted

Carr Huse Proprietors Clerk

21

338

CHARTER RECORDS.

{Draft of Lots.]

[From Copy in Possession of R. W. Musgrove, Bristol.]

A schedule of the names of the Proprietors of New Chester with the number of
each proprietors lots as they were drawn

Proprietors1 Names

Division

2*

Division

3d
Division

4th
sion

Matthew Thornton Esqr N°

22

7i

'/-

5'

Archabald Dunlap ....

55

34

6

93

John Tolford Esqr

38

22

66

24

Matthew Thornton Esqr

40

7

42

8

Joseph Clark

35

8

10

1 1

. a William Talford

9

20

5

3

John Tolford Esqr

57

57

7

69

John McMurphy Esqr .

74

6l

52

37

John Gordon

24

32

2

18

Matthew Thornton Esqr

10

'3

88

6

John Tolford Esqr

48

53

45

39

rt MeMurphy

94

55

70

65

Matthew Thornton Esqr

59

92

39

70

Ensn Henry Hall .

20

67

16

3'

Thomas Shirley

1

37

23

'4

John Tolford y

45

40

80

9'

John Durham

9'

84

'j-

57

Lieu' Robert Fletcher

3i

4i

27

'9

Hugh Tolford

7

18

3

12

Ensn James 9uintfjn

78

59

53

42

Col1 Josiah Willard

46

30

84

90

Matthew Thornton Esqr

6

1

87

4

Stephen Ferrington

23

74

76

28

.

76

56

73

22

Jeremiah Colburn .

49

25

20

82

Johr, 1 .->(['

3

16

28

29

James Shirley Junr

89

79

32

64

Matthew Livermore i

93

38

75

Matthew Thornton Esqr

87

55

66

Mark H? Wintworth

52

27

46

John Mills .

56

39

5°

80

Samuel Moores Esq'

8

J9

67

'3

Timothy Jngall

75

64

54

89

Jam' ...

62

90

40

Cap1 John Underhill

4i

83

34

Cap' Thomas Wells

90

83

33

60

Joshua Tolford

66

52

68

74

Nathanael Ingalls .

'5

; 2

25

55

HILL.

339

Proprietors' Names.

,.t

2(1

3d

4th

Division

Division

Division

Division

Samuel Searls .....

47

23

43

92

Cap1 James Shirley

88

77

3'

56

John Kelsey

85

88

1 1

81

Jotham Odiorn Esqr

83

33

69

49

Co1 Theodore Atkinson .

3°

46

63

21

Lieu1 Thomas Craige

27

2

21

25

Co1 Joseph Blanchard

42

3

85

35

Lieu' Ebenezer Dearborn

81

80

60

59

James M'Farson .

32

'4

29

48

Jeremiah Colburn

28

42

6l

27

Samuel Gault

82

81

35

47

Samuel Searls

5

44

82

5

John Man

92

85

44

15

Peirce & Moore

34

38

93

40

Robert White

53

29

49

88

Cap' John Moffat t

80

86

59

61

Jeremiah Colburn

69

62

13

76

Matthew Thornton Esqr

63

60

51

79

Thomas Wallingsford Esq1

68

63

56

78

Matthew Thornton Esq'

58

82

4i

87

George Jaffrey Esqr

16

6

89

54

John Aikin .

18

50

17

32

"\V"' Parker Esqr .

54

34

49

68

Joshua Peirce Esq1

43

28

81

36

John Ringe .

64

73

58

63

Jacob Sargent

77

66

48

62

Matthew Thornton Esq1"

23

9

62

26

67

89

14

77

Coll1 Messhove & others

36

5

64

10

James Wadwell

93

36&68

58

Thomlinson ec Mason

44

24

75

44

Orlando Colby

51

26

74

86

Henry Herring

73

'5

8

67

Samuel Searls

37

21

65

7

Col1 Josiah Willard

'9

5i

36

43

W"' Graham .

14

1 1

24

17

Alexander McCluer

70

58

72

5°

Solly & March

21

70

26

3°

John Wentworth Esq* .

65

54

57

72

Timothy Favour .

4

43

1 1

0

Matthew Thornton Esq'

39

4

'9

9

John Haseltine

1 2

47

78

1

Col1 Thomas Pack

ir

~>

17

4

16

34°

CHARTER RECORDS.

Proprietors' Names

Division

Division

Division

4th
Division

Archabald Dunlap
Richard Wibird Esqr
Col1 Josiah Willard
Richard Pearl
James Moores
Archabald Dunlap
Mark Karr .
Samuel Emerson Esqr

33

3i

15

13

10

91

87

76

3°

84

91

34

79

65

9

17

49

86

11

48

18

50

53

73

46

20
41
38

52
53
33
83

Portsmouth September 8 1806
Copy Examined / Jeremiah Libbey Prop Cleik

In the Masonian proprietors Five hundred acre lots Drawn Dec
24th 1781 as follows

Tomlinson & Mason No 1

Meserve & Co J

Theodore Atkinson 3

Thomas Packer " *

John Moffatt " 5

New Chester Oct 3d 1806
Copy Examined

Carr Huse Prop" Clerk

[Reserved Lots.']

[Masonian Proprietors' Records, Vol. 4, p. 73.]

Division of Lots in New-Chester and three Lots in Kyah Sarge to
make fifteen Lots ; one to each Right

The Draft of the Lots to the 15 Purchasers Rights, viz1

To Richard Wibird Esq1 Lot N° 55 3<l division in New Chester

To John Moffatt Esq'-5 in the 500 Acre Lot in New Chester

To George Jaffrey Esqr-78 2* div : in New Chester

To Mark IIs Wentworth Esq'— 8 in Kyah Sarge

To Jotham Odiorne Esqr— 66 4th div : in New-Chester

To Thomas Packer Esq'-4 the in 500 Acre Lot in New Chester

To Thomlinson & Mason-1 in the 500 Acre Lot in New Chester

To Solly and March— 72 1st div : in New Chester

To Joshua Peirce Esqr— 29 1st div. in New Chester

[Plan of Hill ami Bristol.']

This is A True Plan of New Chester Laid Down By the Scale of Eaquel Parts 160 Rods to an Inch —

By John & Joshua Tolford Surveyors

Note. The first Devision is Bounded By Pemiggewassit River and is Described by Black Lines

The Second Devision Contains Six Ranges & four Lotts in the Sevf nth Range Which are N° 90 N° 91 — 92 & 93 —

The third Devision is Described by the letter : C :

The fourth Devision Begins at the Coner of the home Lott N° 94 on New Brittan Line & is Contained in three Ranges

The first Devision Contains 90 Acres — The Second third and fourth Devisions Contains 105 acres Each

Bristol — incorporated June 24 1819 — Begins at N E corner of Lot N° 38, I Div. — thence to N E corner of N° 66.
3 Div_thence to N E corner of N° 78. 2 Div_then to S E corner of N° 69. 2 Div— then to N E corner of same lot thence
Wr on the range line to Newfound lake — for the N'r side between Bristol & Bridgewater_& contains all that part of New Ches-
ter N'r of Smiths river bounded by the middle of said river to the division line between lots 72 & 73 & then on sd line to Pemi-
gewasset river for the Boundary line between Bristol & New Chester

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To Peirce and Moore — 9, 2d div. in New Chester

To John Wentworth Esq' 10 in Kyah Sarge

To Theodore Atkinson Esq1 :>> in the 500 Acre Lot in New Chester

To Thomas Walingford Esq' — 12 in Kyah Sarge

To John Rindge — 62 3d div. in New Chester

To Meserve and Compa — 2 in the 500 Acre Lot in New Chester

[Petition of Joshua Tolford, 1766.]
[Masonian Papers, Vol. 6, p. 48.]

To the Proprietors of ye Lands purchased of John Tufton Mason
Esqur, in the Province of New Hampshire —

The Petition of Joshua Tolford of Chester one of the Grantees of
the Tract of Land granted by ye Said Proprietors called New Chester
— Sheweth

That in the first Division of Said New Chester there is a Lot num-
bered Seventy one — allotted to any of ye Grantees who would engage
to build a Saw Mill and Grist Mill in Said New Chester — but no
Person will undertake to build Said Mills for ye Consideration of
Said Lot Numbered Seventy one — and for Want of the Conveniency
of a Saw-mill the Settlement of said new Chester is much retarded
and even prevented — your Petitioner being very desirous of forward-
ing y" Settlement of New Chester, would immediately engage in
building Said Mills there if you would grant to him Lot numbered
Seventy two, which is reserved to you ye Said Proprietors or if you
would not grant to your Petitioner Said Lot numbered Seventy two
in the first Division that you would make an Exchange with him, Said
Lot numbered Seventy two for his lot drawn to him numbered Sixty
Six. in Said first division the reason for his Request of ye Grant of ye
Lot Seventy two — or to make ye Exchange of it for }*e Said Lot Sixty
Six. is this, that one Lot is not Sufficient to make a good Settlement
by it Self, but with ye addition of another Lot joining to it will be a
11 1 encouragement to Settle and improve — Wherefore your Petitioner
pray's, for himself and ye other Grantees of Said New Chester, that
you would make him y" Grant of Said Lot Numbered Seventy two,
or Exchange it with him for his Said Lot Numbered Sixty Six in the
first Division of Said New ( '1 tester — and you will oblige your Petitioner
and the Said Grantees— Chester March the 12th 1766—

Joshua Tolford

Whereas Joshua Tolford Esq1' hath petitioned the Proprietors to
grant to him. or Exchange with him the Lot Numbered Seventy two
in y" first Division of Lots in ye Tract of Land granted to John Tol-

342 CHARTER RECORDS.

ford Esqur & others, for his Lot in Said granted Tract of land Num-
bered Sixty Six in Said first division of Lots, in order to ye making a
Settlement with ye Mill Lot assigned to Such person as would under-
take to erect Mills for ye Use & Benefit of ye Grantees & Settlers of
Said Tract Therefore Voted That upon Condition that the Said
Joshua make a good & Sufficient deed of Conveyance of Said Lot
numbered Sixty Six in ye first division of Lots of Said Tract of Land,
to ye Said Proprietors, and shall erect good Mills on ye mill Privilege
reserved in Said Tract of Land — that the Said Proprs hereby grant all
their Right Title & Property of in & to the Said Lot Numbered
seventy two in the Said first Division of Lots in Said Tract of Land
to the Said Joshua Tolford his heirs & assigns

[Exchange of Lots hi Hill, 1766.]
[Masonian Papers, Vol. 6, p. 48.]

Know all Men By these Presents That I, Joshua Tolford of Chester
in the Province of New Hampshire Esq1' for and in Consideration of
a Lot of Land Numberd Seventy two in the first Divisions of Lot in
a Place calld New Chester granted by the Proprietors Claiming under
John Tufton Mason Esqr and In Consideration of five Shillings to me
in hand paid by Theodore Atkinson of Portsmouth in Said Province
Esqr for & in behalf of Said Proprietors the Receipt whereof is hereby
acknowledged Have given granted bargain'd & Sold and by these
Presents Do give grant bargain Sell Convey and Confirm unto him
the Said Theodore Atkinson his Heirs & Assigns for the use herein
after Declared all my right Title Interest Claim Challenge and De-
mand of in and unto all that Lot of Land in said Division Numberd
Sixty Six which fell to me in the Draft made of the Lots there To
have and to hold the Said granted Premises the said Right title &
Demand to the Said Lot of Land Numberd Sixty Six with all the
Privileges & Appurtenances thereof to him the said Theodore Atkin-
son his Heirs & Assigns to & for the use of Said Proprietors and
their Successors forever In Witness whereof I have hereunto Set my
hand & Seal the 3rd Day of April Anno Dom. 1766 —

Joshua Tolford

Signed Sealed & Delivered

In presence of us —
Hugh Tolford
John Tolford Jim"

hill. 343

Province of New Hampshire Chester Aprile 28th 1766 then the
above Named Joshua Tolford Acknowledged this Instrument to be
his free act and Deed —

Before Sum11 Emerson Jus1 Peace

[Improvements in Hill, 1771.]

[Masonian Papers, Vol. 6, p. 49.]

by Virtue of a Power Granted to me by the Proprietors of Lands
Commonly Called Masons Patent Lying in the Province of New
hampshire and Agreable to my Instructions I Did in the Name of the
Said Proprietors and for them on the twentyeth Day of July A D
1771 Enter and Take Possession of the forfetted Lands Lying in a
Place Called New ehester & on the 22 Day I Eentered the Place
Called Alexandria & on the 23 Day the Place Called New Britton
and on the 24th the Place Called Perryes Town and on the 25th the
Place Called Herreford & did Openly Declare my Entering and Take-
ing Possion of the forfeted Lands in Each and Every of those Places
to be by Virtue of a Power Given to me by the Said Proprietors &
also Openly Declared that I then in the Name and for the Use of the
Said Proprietors Held in Possession All and Every of the forfeted
Lands Lots Tracts & Destinctly & Seperated to their Use & Did
Openly & Strictly fordid any Person Entering any of those forfeted
Lots or Tracts of Land or Doing any Trespass theiron Declareing that
I then Reinstated the s'1 Proprietors in the full Possion of all the for-
fetted Lands in Each Place aforementioned Perticularly

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[Report of Committee in Regard to Sill, 1771.]
[Masonian Papers, Vol. 6, p. 50.]

In Pursuance of a Vote passed the 30th of July last We have
examined into the State and confered with Mess*8 Tolford and
McMurphy Proprietors of the Town of New Chester concerning the
Forfeiture of the said Town and now return the following Report of
our doings therein.

It appears to us the Township of New Chester is forfeited for Non
compliance with the Conditions of the Grant and is reseized by the
Attorney of the Proprietors and We are of Opinion that the same be
; impropriated to the Use and Benefit of the Proprietors, reserving to
certain Persons inhabiting and improving in the Said Town as
follows.

That, it appearing to us upon the said Conference there are 22
Houses with Families resident upon parts of certain Rights in the
said Town we are of Opinion that altho they may have not complied
entirely with the Terms of the Charter yet that each whole Right on
part of which the said Houses are built and Improvements made
should be reserved for and confirmed to the proprietors of such
Rights.

That, it appearing to us upon the said Conference there are 11

Persons who have begun making Improvements upon certain Lots

but have no Houses and are not resident in the said Town, we are of

Opinion that the said Eleven Persons should remain possessed of the

Lots on which such Beginnings have been made respectively provided

that such Persons continue to make progressive Improvements and

have a dwelling House built and a Family resident thereon within

the space of twelve months.

Portsmth 15th August 1771 J Fisher ) n

rd Committee

D K oarers \

[Summons to Samuel Atkinson and Cutting Favor, 1772.]
[Masonian Papers, Vol. 6, p. 51.]

PROVINCE OF
NEW-HAMPSHIRE

Rockinffham ss

TO Samuel Atkinson of Boscawen & Cutting
Favor of a place called New Chester both in
s'1 County
YOU are hereby Required in his Majesty's Name to make your
Appearance before the Justices of his Majesty's Inferiour Court of
Common Pleas to be held at Portsmouth in the Province of New-
Hampshire, on the first Tuesday in February Ins1 to give Evidence of

HILL.

347

what you know relating to an Action of Trespass There to be heard
and tried betwixt Proprietors of Mason's Claims Plata and John
Atwood Def

Hereof fail not, as you will answer your Default, and the Pains
and Penalties in the Law in that behalf made and provided. Dated
at Portsmouth, Febry the third Day, in the Twelfth Year of his
Majesty's Reign, Annoque Domini, 1772

Is. Rindge CI
travil 130 miles attendanee five Day

Sam1 Atkinson
travil 160 miles ye 14 of febuary 1772 attendance till friDay

Cutting1 favour

[Petition of Cutting Favor.~\

[Masonian Papers, Vol. 6, p. 51.]

To The Honrable Theodore Atkinson Esq1 and the Honable the
Proprietors of the Lands Purchased of John Tufton Mason Esqr
Called Masons Pattent — The Petetion of Cutting Favour who Sheweth
that He wos the Second famely that Moved in to the New plantation
within your Pattent Called Newchaster that he Has Made Large
Improvements in Said Place & that Part of his Improvements adjoyn
Pemechawosset River on Lot 77 & 78 in the first Division that in
Said River their is a Small Island Containing about 18 Acres which
Lyes 170 Rods in Length against his Improvements & that if he wos
the owner of Said Island he Could Inclose his Improvements with
Much Less Cost your Petitioner there fore Prays that your Honours
would be pleased to Sell the Same Island to him for So much Money
as may be Agreed on and your Petitioner as in Duty Bound Shall
ways Pray

Cutting favour

spc>2L

348 CHARTER RECORDS.

\Lot Sold for Taxes and Redeemed, 1779.]
[Masonian Papers, Vol. 6, p. 52.]

Know all Men By these Presents that I Jonathan Ingals of New
Chester in the County of Grafton in the State of Newhampshire Col-
lector of Taxes of and for the Town of New Chester in Said State
and County for the year 1778 By Vertue of Sundry Acts or Laws of
Said State Relative to Levying and Collecting Taxes of Nonresident
Proprietors of Lands in Several Towns and Parrishes in Said State,
For and in Consideration of the Sum of five Pound three Shillings
and two Pence L My) to Me in hand paid Before the Delivery
hereof By Simeon Cross of New Chester Joyner the Receipt where
of I do Acknowledge have Given Granted and Sold and By these
Presents Do Give Grant Sell and Convey unto him the said Simeon
Cross his Heirs and Assigns for Ever a Certain Parcel or Tract of
Land Situate and Being in New Chester thirty two acrees of the Lot
N° 29 in the first Division Laid out and Drawn to a Blank Right he
the said Simeon Cross Being the highest Bidder for the Same at a
Publick Vendue Duly Notifyed and held this Day at the Dwelling
House of Capt11 Cuttin Feavors By Jonathan Ingals Appointed for
the Sale of Such Lands in Said New Chester affore Said as Belonging
to Such Nonresident Proprietors or owners as are Delinquent in Pay-
ing the Said Taxes Assessed thereon. To have and to Hold the Said
Granted Premises with the Appurtenances thereof to him the Said
Simeon Cross his Heirs and Assigns in fee Simple Forever and I the
Said Jonathan Ingals, Collector as Affore Said Do in My Said
Capacity Do Covenant and agree to and with the Said Simeon Cross
his Heirs and Assigns to warrent and Defend the Said Premises to
him the Said Simeon Cross his Heirs and Assigns against the Lawful
Claims and Demands of any Person or Persons whomsoever in wit-
ness where of I Do here by Set My Hand and Seal the Eighth Day
of April Anno Domini 1779 Jonathan Ingals

Signed, Sealed, and Delivered

in Presence
(air 1 1 use
Joshua Tolford

June ye 12 1779 Reed the Contents of the with In being two
Pound four & two pence in full for the Tax and Charges of the
within Lot

pr me Jonathan Ingals
[Endorsed]
Deed of Land in New Chester redeemed by Sam1 Atkinson after
bring sol.l ;il Vendue & Receipts —

hill. 349

[Report on Lot* in Hill, 1S22.]
Extract from Masonian Papers, Vol. 6, p. .V2.]

Land in New ( 'hosier

one fourth part of lot Numbered 46 third division deeded to A. G.
Stevens by William Flanders Oetober 27Ul 1801 — also another fourth
pan of Said lot deeded to Said A. G. Stevens by W" Challes Nov. 2nd
L803 -the other half deeded to Jona Dickerson by Joshua Rowell
April 14. 1800. and Supposed to have been deeded to Joshua Rowell
about the last of 1779 — or first of 1800, by John Peirce of Ports-
mouth—

Lot No. 81 — third division — New Chester occupied by Samuel
Avory. Middling lot mixture of growth fifteen or twenty acres
begun & part under improvement Cut two or three tons of hay — no
road. Val. 300 dol.

Lot Numbered 52 1st division New Chester Bridgwater which Con-
veyed to Daniel Smith Esq. of New Hampton by John Fisher Esq by
his attorney John Peirce August 16th 1805 —

Lot No 27 — 2nd division lies in Bridgwater sold to Jabell Shep-
herd Thompson Nov. 26. 1811 by John Peirce and acknowledged
same day — Quitclaim Occupied by David Thompson — Some improve-
ments a Broken lot and lies two miles from the Mayhew turnpike
road over a had hill. Decent buildings worth about 450 dollars —

90 4th division New Chester over one half flowed by a mill pond ;
timber dead, being a Boggy piece of land with Considerable of white
pine timber but mostly dead and Cut. South end middling good; no
road value 175 dollars —

asked Flanders $250 for this N° 90. 4 N. Chester sold B. P. Fifield
6 Dee 1822 for -200

26 4"1 division Claimed by Benjamin Shaw of New Chester by the
virtue of vendue deeds — lies North side of a mountain North end
middling good South end barren waste, no road —

hands in New Chester

Lot No. 27 4"' division lies North Side mountain North end about
midling good, South end barren mountain, no Road, growth of this
lot and 26 is a mixture of hard wood, and black tops —

Lot No 2s 4"' division Same as 26 & 27 as to Situation growth &
mad — 50 acres of it claimed by Cap* John Searl of New Chester
under an old vendue title —

Lot No. 36 4th division lies on the North side of the mountain,
Broken, no road, a mixture of growth

350 CHARTER RECORDS.

HILLSBOROUGH.

[This town was Number 7 in the line of towns from Merrimack to Connecticut
River, granted by Massachusetts, Jan. 16, 1735-6. Granted by the Masonian
Proprietors, Jan. 26, 1748-9, to John Hill and others, and named in honor of
Col. John Hill. Incorporated Nov. 14, 1772.

See Massachusetts charters preceding ; IX, Bouton Town Papers, 379 ; XII,
Hammond Town Papers, 203 ; Index to Laws, 241 ; Annals, from first settlement
to 1841, by Charles James Smith, 1841, pp. 72; sketch, by Frank H. Pierce, I,
Granite Monthly, 369; sketch, by Harry Brickett, Hurd's History of Hillsbor-
ough County, 1886, p. 391 ; Baptist Churches in N. H., by E. E. Cummings,
1836, p. 17; Lawrence's N. H. Churches, 1856, pp. 180, 182, 184; Life of
Franklin Pierce, by Nathaniel Hawthorne, 1852; Biographical Notices of Physi-
cians, by B. H. Phillips, 1, N. H. Repository, 215 ; The Birthplace of a President,
by F. M. Colby, 4, Granite Monthly, 69.]

[Petition of David Baldwin, 1748.]
[Masonian Papers, Vol. 6, p. 53.]

Pelham Decemr 9, 1748

To the Honourable Lord Proprietors In the Goverment of New
hamsher I Would In Form Your Honours That upon the Third Day
of this Instant I Set out From Sudbury to Cum to Portsmouth to
Treet With Your Honours Concerning a Certain Tract of Land that
Was Granted to Jonathan Butterfeild of Chelmsford of Three Hun-
dred acres Joyning to the South Side of Hilsbro and Likewise one
Hundred acres of Land Joyning to the Three hundred acres that Is
Within ye Bounds of hilsbro. Which Fore Hundred acres the Pur-
chasing and Setteling a Famely on It, has Cost me moore then a
Thousand Pounds old Tenor. I Pray that your Honours Would Con-
sider my Case and order it so that Henry Baldwin Esqr might settel
the affare With Your Honours Concerning the above Sd Land By
Reason of my Being Not able to Travel

In So Doing You Will Very much Oblidge Your Humble Servt

David Baldwin

Jany 26 : 1748 Considered in a Meeting that ye Petition within
mention'd be not foro-otten

[Petition of Col John Hill, 1748-9.]
[Masonian Papers, Vol. 6, p. 54.]

Portsmouth Jan1 2(3: 1748—
To the Prop18 Purchasers of the Grant made To Cap1 Jn° Mason
Merch1 in London by the Council of Plimouth, Lying in the Province
of New Hampr in New England Gent11/

HILLSBOROUGH. 351

I purchased of Sundry Prop™ who had Their Grant from the Mas-
sachusetts Goverment a Township in the line of towns (Called N° 7
or Hillsborough & Latley I've bin Informed that that Township falls
within the Limits of the S'1 masons Grant. Against Whome I've no
Inclination to Dispute

Therefore Gentlemen if it be the Case that the S'1 Lands are Situ-
ated within your property I would gladly Acquaint you that, free
from desingn of Injuring any Body but with a view to Serve my
Country and my Self Have in Bringing forward a Setlement of a
Town in the most usefull man'er, for the Publick Service ; Have
been at near ~20()00£ Charge; if within it is at the Extream parts of
your Grant the Attempt of Setting of that Remote Wilderness, Open-
ing Roads Discovering the Cuntry And Being a Barricord Previous
to the entry on ye Lands Within, Has bin of Supr Service (be it
within your Claim) to Any Recompence you Have in your Generos-
ity, Accepted from Sundry of your Near grants & Shall in that Way
further prosecute any Duty of Setlement you think advisable for pub-
lick Service on that Land and Esteem it a favour for your Quitclaim
to those Lands that I may pursue my Setlement free from debate, &
with Incouragement to Industry Shall Readily Submitt my Self to
your Compassion And order therein, I am Gentlemen

Your Most Obedient Humble servent

John Hill

\_Quit-Clatm to Hillsborough, 1748/9.]

[Masonian Proprietors' Records, Jan. 26, 1748/9, and Masonian Pa-
pers, Vol. 6, p. 55.]

Upon Reading & Considering the Request & Petition of Coll0 John
Hill of Boston Esqr to have a Quit Claim from the Said Proprietors
of their Right to that Tract of land Commonly called Hillsborough to
him the Said John Hill for the Reasons Set forth in his Petition on
file

Voted That that the Said Proprietors first Reserving to themselves
their heirs & assigns the Quantity of Seventeen hundred Acres of the
said Tract of land to be laid out as the Said John Hill shall think
most Convenient for promoting the Settlement there but not to be
Subject to any Charge or Tax untill improved by Said Proprietors or
those who hold under them or any of them have and hereby do grant
(on the Terms & Conditions hereafter mentioned) all their Right
Title Estate Interest & Property of in and unto the Said Tract of
land and Quit their Claim unto the Said Tract of land called & known

352 CHARTER RECORDS.

by ye name of Hillsborough to him ye Said John Hill his Heirs and
Assigns forever he Returning to the Proprietors a Plan of the Said
Township shewing the Lots and how the Said Seventeen Hundred
Acres are laid out — also Reserving all Pine Trees for his Majesty's
Use fit for masting the Royal Navy

[John Hill to Proprietors, 1759.]
[Masonian Papers, Vol. 6, p. 56.]

Boston Jany 29—1759

Gentlemen

I Reca Yours of the 28th— of Decemr Last but Not until the 18th
Instant & had not an opertunity to Communicat it to the Proprietor
until the 22d Instant — In Answer to which I am directed to Say that
as to What the Setlers Represented at their Vissets and by there peti-
tions Wee hop wee shall be heard before Judgmen be Given aganst us
— as to there Not being able to Obtain deeds of and Assuranc of
there Lands it is a most falls Scandelus and bace Representation for
wee have been allways Ready to Give them all the Right title and
Interest wee have in the Land, and before any of them went on the
Land wee Gave Deeds to 24. of them, whih is Now Exstent — but thay
have so Choped and Changed among them selves as has bro:t them
Into Confution, Notwithstand wee have given Deed to all of them
that would Except Shuch title from us as wee have Receiv'd & as to
Returning a plan with the Reservations wee have been Ready for sum
time and Expect'1 Mr Gridly would been with you sumtime agoe with
whom wee have Left the setlement of the Whol affare — but he tells
us that Indissption and hurry of Bisuness has hindered him to this
time but he will Imbrase the first opertunity that the season and his
health will permit to wait on you & Setle the Wholl affare, hop to the
Satisfaction of all Concerned — by order and in Behalf of the Proprie-
tors I am

Gentlemen Your Most Humble ser1

John Hill Pro8 cl

[John Hill to Proprietors, 1705.]
[Masonian Papers, Vol. 6, p. 57.]

Boston May 22. 1705
Sr I here Inclose a plan of Peterborough and a plan of Hillbor-
ough the Reservations of the Grant of the Proprietors of the Lands
purchased of John Tufton Mason Esq1 are marked and discribed on

[Plan of Hillsborough, 1765.]

//., II, »v d,fv* 30 m.nTatt 2<,irJlc4»

.A/m-M *•<*£* fr%+ 3 0 min* JTosf i.e-nC'Kcd*

This is a Plat of Hillsborough Town and the Lots N° 27-2S-29-30 Contain Each 200. Acres & the Lots N° 41-42-43 Contain
Each 300 Acres Each Lot Marked Mason & thay Contain in the Whol 1700 Acres thay are lade out in the Most Conveniant plase
for promoteing the Setlement in Said Town of Hillsborough Conformable to there Quit Clame to John Hill

this plat is presented to the propritors of Lands purchased of John Tufton Mason Esq by there Humble Ser'
Boston May 22 1765 John Hill

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Each plan — which pleas to present to Said proprietors with my Com-
plements and dutiful] Regards to them — and Yonl Very Much oblige
Your Most Humble Ser1

John Hill

P S please to Acquaint me with the Receipt of the Same

To George Jaffrey Esqr

[John Gojfe to Theodore Atkinson, 17b'6.]

[Masonian Papers, Vol. 6, p. 58.]

Hon11, Sir I have according to the Request of your proptrs & at
their Desier taken a Surveyer and two Chain men & went to Hilsbor-
ah on wednessday the 6th of this Instant and set out Early on thirs-
day morning to Search for places where the Traspassers had ben at
work found that one John Ragley had fenced a Cross Cap' Wibirds
Intervail Lot west side of the River but I bleve he is Sick of his bar-
gain he lives on that tract of Land called Kyes farm & I bleve he will
make use of that fence only to find or Confin his Cattel so as to know
were to find them for he has no Cattel of his own but as his Landlord
lets him have them, but I must make a Remark here, for his house is
within 60 Rod of Hillsburah line on Kyes farm and he has been their
but about a year & I think I never Saw finer winter wheet to the best
of my Remembranc He had forty Stook the Ears as large as Ever I
Saw he had Good Indin Corn about an Acre and an half stally Corn
pumpkins Squashes Cowcumbers in abundence oynions a varst many
so that it is Ceartain it is an Exelent Land to produce what nature
wants to make it comfortable and I Saw no differance in the Land
Except his was (by what Grew of Trees upon it wors then any Either
Cap1 wibird heirs & Yours for both these Intervail lots are Excellent
& Indeed that whol body of Land & Intervail is Excellent for we
went up to the falls to See what Improvements the traspassers had
maid near the River & a grate way we found it, but we could find no
Corners nor Nos till we got to the monument by the fall East of ye
River (viz) a White Oke Tree and heap of Stons & then Took that
Line & found the Corner mark1 & n° then Run the point as "$ plan
but Could find no Corner from thence we Came back to were we began
at the monnewment Ran the northerly line but found the plan as fals
as could be, and we could have no help from the River as laid in the
plan for were as for Instanc X" 1 as the whit oke tree & stons which
stands East sid of the River and is a corner of that lot N° 1 frome
thence by the plan it Should leave the River Right across 40 or 50
22

354

CHARTER RECORDS.

Rods and in deed it never Gits across the Rver till it Gits to the beach
tree markt in the plan & that is Close to the River And an other In-
stance where N° 2 comes to the River it Should be \ mile when upon
Just measure it is no more than 60 Rods & so N° 3 & N° 4 upon the
South Side and the Govers North Line from the Cornor to the River
is 104 Rods when according to the plan it is but very littel longer
then the south line of Sd lot N° 4, & so N° 3 the west End of that
Lot by measure upon the plan is 140 Rods when upon a Exact meas-
ure by the Chain it is no more then 100 R and Every line but one
that we tryed did not Com Near the plan so that it is very false and the
old marks are Groon up that in allitel time more, they will not be
Seen at all if not New marked but I did mark with my own hand the
lines we Ran well, upon the old Spoted Trees where the marks were
not Quit Grown out for some were hardly decernable & I understand
our serveying & marking the lines of the Lots has put the traspassers
into Great Concearn & I bleave that if Doct Perry or his Son was
prosecuted b}7 the Govenr for he has fenced all his Lot in on the west
Side of the River & George otterson by Meservy & Col1 Blanchards
heirs for Clearing upon their Lot on west side of the River & william
Smith by George Jeffery Esqr for his Traspass upon N° 6 & building
a Camp on Sd Lot the matter would soon be over for the Rest would not
Stir, However when we went to the place their was not a man their on
the spot alth0 we found Tools in their Camps such as hows &c : and as
mr Daniel Peirce Desiered me I went after one John Quigley which
he told me was an honest fellow & he could tell me every thing about
the traspassers but when he Came upon the Spot he Either did not
Cair to tell or at least Did not tell who were Traspassers upon pellic-
ular lots after we shewed him the lines and I find by the people their
about that Mr Qugley has had a grate hand in Incoriging them folks
for he went & Shewed them the best Interval and they Gave him a
considerable sum of mony for so doing & he makes his brags that
he gits mony from the Lords for telling them fair Storys and that he
has had the offer or has a Justices post and is commonly call'1 Esqr
quigley among the people in that Neighbourhood and I perceive as
he dont love work very well he would be willing to Git mony that
way and because one Archabald Tagert has Informed me from time
to time of the Traspassers and I have Engaged him to take an other
man as Evedences to Know the names of the Individals that worke
upon the perticular Lots as he went with me & knows the owner names
of all the Lots Taspassed upon and to make Repot to me which mr
Quigley is very much afronted at and Says as I'm Informed that he
nor I have no busness to do any thing about it, and has Sued him S'1
Tagert as a Traspasser to this Cort which is as Grate an Ingury as

IIILLSliOROUGII. 355

Could be Don to a Stedy man in the propriotors cause for as to the
meadow he mowed he Came to me Last may and told of the traspae-
ers & Gave me their names In writing and Desiered me to Git a leace
of the meadow 1 told him if he would be faithfull & find out the Tras-
passers ^V whose lots they were upon I would git Liberty for him to
Cut 4 or 5 load their and as soon as the owner of the lot Could be
found out on whose the meadow was I did not Scruple but they would
Give him a leace for a yeare or two Especaly as mr Bradford & he
had cleared the Road so far as 4 or 5 miles in their land to the mead-
ow which Road was a Grate benefit to the Lords and a Good Road it
is I can Ride a Gallop Thro' wibirds Col Atkinsons Ringes & mr
Packer to the 11 Lot which is a Grat benifit as the woods is very
Thick to go & vew them lots now Sir as Qugley has Got a leace of that
meadow as he Soposes th° I bleave it is n° 11 & Design to Hurt
Tagert and perswad you that he is a Traspasser and make him oidous
in your Eyes, which I declair he ought to be vailed for his faithfullness
neither would he have mowed that meado without I tho' he might be
Safe and upon the other hand Quigley ought Not to be Contenance for
Two thing (viz) for that the Traspassers Every time they go to work
their th^y Call & see him then Surly he could have taken Evedence
and followed them to where they wrote and Could have told Us
when upon the Spot who Traspassed upon this or that Lot but did not

And Secondly that he Tho1 to & did offer the meadow at an
unreasonable price pr load which I perswaided my selfe You Gentel-
men never designd by Granting him a leace Now Sir I must beg that
Archabald may not be Hurt but that that matter may be Settled with-
out Going to Cort as it will Hurt a new Settler to be forced to pay
charges and you lose a Stench frind to the Cause Sir I melted my
Selfe & worred so to marke the Lines new and lay out In the Rain that
I Shall not be able to do down this Cort if ever any more my Harty
Regards to you & your famely, & to all your propriotors & am while
able vour Honnours Humble & Devoted Servant

DeVryfeild Augst 30th 1766 John Goffe

The Honor1'1" Theodore Atkinson Esqr

[Reserved Lots, 1779.]

[Masonian Proprietors' Records, Feb. 22, 1779.]

State of New ) Portsmouth February 22'1 1779 Monday ten of the
Hampshire \ Clock before noon at the House of mr John Penhallow
improved by him as a Store, the Proprietors meet according to
adjournment —

356

CHARTER RECORDS.

Whereas John Hill Esqr hath returned to Said Proprietors a Plan
of Hillsborough with the reserved Seventeen hundred acres to said
Proprietors, laid out into four two hundred Acre Lotts, numbered on
Said Plan N° 27, N° 28-N° 29-N° 30, and three three hundred Acre
Lotts numbered 41, 42, 43, which Said Lotts are presumed to contain
the number of Acres in each Lott as expressed in Said Plan — therefore
Voted that each of the Said two hundred Acre Lotts be divided into
two equal parts and numbered on the Said Plan from 1 to 8, and that
the Said three three hundred Acre Lotts be divided into three equal
parts on the Plan and be numbered from 9 to 17, and that a draft of
all of the Said lotts be now drawn to the Rights of each of the fifteen
Proprietors Shares and the law Lotts N° 1 & N° 2 and being drawn to
said Rights and entered on Record shall be a Severance of the Same
to Said Proprietors &c

The Draft of the Said Lotts were drawn as follow's Viz1

1st To John Rindge .

2a Theodore Atkinson Esq1'

3d Thomlinson & Mason

4th Mark Hg Wentworth Esq1'

5th Law lott N° 2

6th Solly & March

7th Geo: Jaffrey .

8 Thos Packer Esq1 .

9 Peirce & Moore

10 Blanchard Meserve & C°

11 Jotham Odiorne Esq1

12 Rich'1 Wibird Esqr

13 Josha Peirce Esqr .

14 Thos Walingford Esqr .

15 Law lott N° 1

IB Jn° Wentworth Esq1'
17 John Moffatt Esqr .

N° 1, in
N° 7, in
N° 2, in
N° 11, in
N° 8, in
N° 17, in
N° 15, in
N° 14, in
N° 12, in
N° 5, in
N° 6, in
N° 10, in
N° 4, in
N° 16, in
N° 13, in
N° 3, in
N° 9, in

N°27
N°30
N°27
N°41
N°30
N°43
N°43
N°42
N°42
N°29
N°29
N°41
N°28
N°43
N°42
N°28
N°41

HOOKSETT.

[This locality was formerly known as Isle ait Hooksett and Isle an Hooksett
Falls. The town was made up from parts of Goffstown, Dunbarton, and Chester,
and incorporated July 2, 1822. A small portion of Hooksett was annexed to
Allenstown Jan. 5, 1853.

See papers under titles of above named towns; XII, Hammond Town Papers,
252; Index to Laws, 246; Lawrence's N. H. Churches, 1856, p. 391 ; sketch by
Samuel Head, 2d, Hurd's History of Merrimack County, 1885, p. 361.]

HOPKINTON. 357

[Richard A//t>\ about Logs at Hookse.tt, 1752.]

[Masonian Papers, Vol. 6, p. GO.]

( hester Jeneuary 25-17")-
Sir whereas there was sum Loggs cut upon the westerly side of the
great revver above lie hokset falls to the sotherly of bow line and I
was under Sum obligation to you not to remove or hall said loggs
without Letting you know of It I once writ to you to acquaint you
when I wold draw sum of said Loggs but I under stand that faild so
that you had no notice of it I now tell you that I have Halld sum of
said loggs and the remainder of said loggs I do not know when they
will be Haled or whether they will Ever be Hailed or not and If you
want proof of what Have been halld as that Seems to fullfill what you
requested by my obligation you may prove it by mr John Cofrin and
mr Joseph broun of Suncook

Richard Aver
to mr Alexdr Macmurfy

HOPKINTON.

[This town was Number 5 in the line of towns from Merrimack to Connecticut
River, granted by Massachusetts, Jan. 16, 1735-6. Some of the grantees being
from Hopkinton, Mass., the town was called New Hopkinton. Granted by the
Masonian Proprietors, Nov. 30, 1750, to Henry Mellen and others. Incorporated
as Hopkinton Jan. 11, 1765, and named from Hopkinton, Mass. A portion of
Bow was annexed Dec. 13, 1763, to settle a dispute between the two towns, and
Hopkinton was granted town privileges. The town was annexed to Merrimack
County from Hillsborough on the incorporation of the former in 1823.

See Massachusetts charters preceding; IX, Bouton Town Papers, 404; XII,
Hammond Town Papers, 255 ; Index to Laws, 247, 402 ; sketch, Hurd\s History
of Merrimack County, 1885, p. 391 ; Life and Times in Hopkinton, by C. C. Lord,
1890, pp. 583; Stewart's History of the Free Baptists, 1862, p. 368; Baptist
Churches in N. H., by E. E. Cummings, 1836, pp. 8, 12; Lawrence's N. H.
Churches, 1856, p. 391 ; Memorial of Carlton Chase, 1870; An Ancient Necropolis,
by C. C. Lord, 7, Granite Monthly, 25 ; Churches in, by same, 2, id., 22 ; Edu-
cation in, by same, 1, id., 337; Industries in, by same, 2, id., 121 ; Items and
Incidents in, by same, 2, id., 304, 358; Manners and Customs in, by same, 2,
id.. 186, 217, 251, 278 ; Millitary Affairs in, by same, 2, id., 154; Politics in, by
same, 2, id., 43 ; Travelling Accommodations in, by same, 2, id., 71 : Extracts from
Records, 2, Farmer and Moore's Historical Collections, 171.]

358 CHARTER RECORDS.

[Petition for Lands in Hopkinton, 1748. j

[Masonian Papers, Vol. 6, p. 61.]

Province of ]
New Hampshire j Portsmouth Novr 9th 1748.

To the Purchasers & Proprietors of Cap' Jn° Tufton Mason's Right
in Lands in Said Province —

Whereas ye Persons Named on ye Other Side have Improved Lands
in a Township Called Hopkinton or N° 5 Lying upon ye West part of
Rumford, in Whose behalf I request ye favour of ye Proprietors when
that tract of Land is granted by You that You would Suffer ye within
Named to be Grantees in Manner & upon Such Terms as You Shall
see Meet

Samuel Rolf Timothy Nolton Ephraim Nolton

David Woodell Joseph mellen Peter How

John Annis Caleb Burbank John merrill

Philip Eastman Samson Colbe Jeremiah Eastman

Joseph Eastman Nathaniel Eastman Isaac Chandler

Nathaniel Chandler Deceased Joseph ordway

Joseph Eastman 3'1 Jonathan Straw Richard Potter

Matthew Stanly Joseph Easman Jabes Potter

Jacob Potter Aaron Kimbill John Burbank

Samuel Easman Nathan Lovejoy John Rus Discd

James Osgood Anmestar Benjaman Woodell
Petor How Juner Paul Nolton Deceased
Nathanael West

[Petition of Henry Mellen, 1748.]
[Masonian Papers, Vol. 6, p. 64.]

Province of \ Portsmouth Decr 28th 1748
New Hampshr \ To the Honb1 Theodore Atkinson Esqur and others
Purchasers of ye Lands within ye Province of New Hampshr bo't
of John Tufton Mason Esqur —

I the Subscriber Henry Mellins of Hopkinton in ye Province of ye
Mass8 Bay Shew's That the Major part of ye Claimers of a Tract of
Land called New Hopkington or N° 5 in ye line of Towns granted by
ye Mass'1 which lyes in ye Prove of New Hampshire — have Requested
of me to come to Portsmouth to enquire into the Right & Title of ye
Purchasers of Mason's Right aforesaid & to apply my Selfe in their
behalf to ye best means of procuring or preserving their Interests in

HOPKINTON. 359

y" Said Tract called N° 5 — Pursuant to Said Request 1 do for myselfe
as a claimer in Said N 5 and in behalf of V Claimers aforesaid, as
Apprehending your Right & Title in Mason's Rjghl aforesaid to be
good do humbly Request of you Proprietors, that you would Secure
to us our claims in Said N° 5 upon Such Terms and Conditions as you
shall think proper and shall be tho't best for your Selves and your
Petitioners in whose behalfe I am Gent1"

Your most Hum: SeiV

Henry mellen

[Petition of Timothy Clements, 1749.]
[Masonian Papers, Vol. 6, p. 62.]

To the Honble The Purchasers & Proprietors of the Lands in the
Province of New Hampshire purchased of John Tufton Mason
Esqur —

The Memorial of Timothy Clements of Haverhill District in said
Province in his own Behalfe and others Settlers and Improvers of
y* Tract of Land commonly known by New Hopkinton or N° 5
— Humbly Shew's

That whereas Henry Mellen of Hopkinton in ye Prov : of ye Massa
Bay Appeared before the Honble Proprietors and Obtain'd a Vote in
favour of ye Settlers and Improvers of S'1 New Hopkington but hath
neglected to lay before ye Proprietors a List of those who have Set-
tled and Improved there and being Apprehensive that you will not
wait a much longer time for mr Mellin's further Application before you
will dispose of said Tract of Land and have Reason to think from
his Selling all his Interest there particularly eight Score Acres for
nine hundred Pounds old Tenor — that he will not offer anything fur-
ther to you in their Behalf —

I therefore Request that you would be so favourable that you would
not dispose of Said Tract of land called New Hopkington before I
have an Opp° of laying before your Honble Propriety the Names of
the Persons who have made any Settlement and Improvement upon
Said New Hopkinton with an Attested State thereof and when so
done pray you would make a grant to Such Persons So much of said
New Hopkinton, and upon such Terms as shall be best for Settling
said Land, And you'l ever oblige y' Said Petitioners in whose behalfe
I am

your Humble Serv1

Province of ] Timothy Clements

New Hampshire \ Portsm0 Novr 30th 1749

360

CHARTER RECORDS.

[List of Inhabitants of Hopkinton, 1749.]

[Masonian Papers, Vol. 6, p. 60.]

The List of the In Habatants And the Improvers of No 5 in The
Line of Towns as it was under the formour Grants of the Maresse-
chusetts bay adjoyning To Rumford or penny Cook So Called
— Namely —

Timothy Clements
Jerimiah Eastman
moses merill
aron Cimball Juner
Joseph Chandlr
Edward ardeway
Jacob Potter
Thomas Easteman
Thomas merill
John Burbank
David woodwell
Joseph Eastman
Samson Colbey
Joseph Stand ley
Nathaniel Chandler

James Clements
Ebenezer Eastman
Insg" Joseph Eastman
Joseph ardeway
Leu1 Isaac Chandler
Dan el annes
Samuel Putteney
Stephen Hoyt
John merill
Caleb Burbank
David woodwell Juner
Joseph Eastman Juner
Stephen Colbey
Abraham Colbey
Deceased

Willliam Clements
William Peters
aron Cimball
Joseph ardeway Jan1
Isaac Chandler Junr
Jabes Potter
John puttney
James Grout
Enoch Eastman
Jonathan Burbank
Samull Eastman
alis ye 3d

Marthey Standley
Timothy Burbank
John Eastman

[List and Petition of Grantees of Hopkinton. ,]
[Masonian Papers, Vol. 6, p. 63.]

Gen' Proprietors of the Lands purchased of John Tufton Mason
Esqr These are the names of the Seventy that you made a grant to
of a place called N° 5 or New Hopkinton

Joseph Eastman juner
Enoch Easman
Samson Colbe
Samuel Easman
Stephen Hoyt
John Putney
Samuel Putnam Admin
Thomas Walker
Joseph Haven
James Whitney

Ezra Carter
Thomas Easman
Lot Colbe
Joseph Easman 3d
Thomas Merrill
Ebenezer Eastman
istrator upon the R
John Nutt
James Lock
Joseph Haven jun

Jacob Potter
Abraham Colbe
Aaron Stevens
Joseph Easman
Matthew Stanly
Jeremiah Eastman
ight of philip pratt Dec'1
Mark Whitney
Joseph Haven
Isaac Whitney

IIOrKINTON. 361

Eben1 Goddard Edward Goddard Esq Benjamin Goddard

Joseph Haven 3 Benjamin Goddard Juner Solomon Park

[saac Gibbs Jedidiah Haven Nathaniel Gibbs

Eben61 Kimbell Elezer hayward David Woodwell

Peter How juner nathanel abbet Peter How

Thomas Bixby Thomas mellen John Burbank

John Mellen Daniel mellen John Jones Esqr two Eights

Jose]>h Mellen Simson Jones Henry Mellen two lotts

John Jones Jonur Timothy Townsend

Jabez Potter

Province of j To the Proprietors of the Right of John Tufton

New Hamp1 \ Mason Esqr to the Lands in Said Province Com'only
called Mason's —

Gentlemen 1 am Authorized by the Persons within Named to Apply
to You for a Grant of Your Right to that Tract of Land Commonly
calld N° 5 or New Hopkinton on Such Terms and Limitations as you
shall be Pleased to Grant — and I do hereby in behalf of my Self &
my said Constituents Pray that you would accordingly Grant the
Same on as Easy Terms as You Possibly can or Shall See good —

I would also Move for Liberty to add the Names of Eleven more
Such Persons as I or Some other in my & their behalf shall Return
to you hereafter of Such as were Original Proprietors

Henry mellen

[Petition for Charter of Hopkinton, 1750.]
[Masonian Papers, Vol. 6, p. 65.]

To the honorable Gentlemen Proprietors of ye royal Patent Orig-
inally made to Mason Esq.

We the Subscribers formerly Proprietors of ye Township N° 5 in ye
line of Towns Humbly Petition your honours for a new grant of ye
Same & y1 ye Charter may be given to Henry Mellen our Agent in
this Affair, & yl he may have power to Admit, as our Associates, as
many of y" Original Proprietors as will Subject ymselves, & pay ye
Charges, & upon ye refusal of any to Admit others in their room Said
Mellen Signing y' Counterpart on our behalf.

And we your Petitioners further pray for ye liberty of three Years
to lay out & Settle S'1 Township after ye present Difficulty with ye
Indians is over & we can proced with Safty

Yours to Serve

Hopkinton Nov' 8,h 1750 on ye back Side

362

CHARTER RECORDS.

Benjamin Godard
Joseph Eastman
Daniel mellen
David Wood well
Thomas Bixby
Peter How Juner
Moses Haven
Joseph Haven the
Henry mellen
James Whitney

Ebenezar Godard
Joseph mellen
John Mellen
Jedediah haven
Tim0 Townsend
John Nutt
Ebenezer kimball
third John Haven
Mark Whitney
John Jons Jun1

Thomas mellen
Ezra Carter
Solomon Park
Thomas Walker
Peter How
Joseph Haven
Joseph Haven junr
Samuel Haven
thomas Merrill
Gidden Whitney
James Lock

[Charter of Hopkinton, 1750.]
[Masonian Proprietors' Records Nov. 30, 1750.]

Province of ) Portsmouth November ye 30th 1750 Fryday Six of
New Hampshire ) the Clock afternoon at the House of Ann Slayton
the Proprietors meet according to Adjournment —

Voted that there be and hereby is granted in Equal Shares in fee
Simple unto Henry Mellens yeoman Thomas Walker Cooper and
Thomas Mellens Cordwainer all of Hopkinton in the County of Mid-
dlesex in the Province of the Massachusets Bay and unto Such others
as they shall admit their associates so as to make up the Number
Seventy in the whole (Preferrence being first given and offer made
unto the original Claimers in virtue of the Grant made by the Mas-
sachusets Government or such as hold under Such Claimers to be
admitted associates if they will) upon the Reservations Conditions
Limitations and Provisoes here after mentioned, all the Right Title
Interest Claim Property Challenge or demand whatsoever of the Said
Proprietors the Grantors of in and unto all that Tract of land in
New Hampshire Situate on the westerly Side of Merrimack River,
Called and known by the name of Number Five in the Line of Towns
so called as well as by the Name of New Hopkinton according to the
Bounds thereof heretofore run and made in pursuance of the said
Governments Grant Reserving unto the Said Proprietors the Grantors
the one fifth part thereof, the Same to lie and be Set off from the
Other four fifths on the westerly part of Said Tract of land and to
extend across the Same from the Northerly to the southerly Boundary
line thereof. The said reserved one fifth part to be exempted & ex-
onerated from all Taxes and Charges untill the Same shall be im-
proved by the Said Grantors or Such as shall hold the Same under
them

HOPKINTON. 363

Thai there be one whole share reserved within the other four
fifths in some Convenient place for the first Setled minister there in
fee Simple; provided he shall continue minister there during his life
or untill regularly dismisd —

That there be one whole share reserved within the said four fifths
for the use of the ministry there for ever —

That there be one whole share reserved within said four fifths for
the use of a school there for ever —

That there be reserved at the Place where the old Saw Mill stood,
within said Tract of land, Thirty acres of land (with so much of the
Stream there as is necessary) for a saw mill Privilege to be laid out
as commodious as may be ; and that the Grantees and their associates
build a Saw Mill at said Place within two vears from this time at their
own Cost and Charge

That within Three years there be thirty familys there, each of them
having a house there at least sixteen foot Square with a Cellar under
it, and five acres of land Cleared and fitted for mowing or Tillage

That Within Seven years there be Sixty familys there each of them
having a house and Cellar as aforementioned and five acres of land
Cleared & fitted as aforesaid —

That within Three years a meeting house be built there and Con-
stant preaching therein at the Cost and Charge of the Grantees and
their associates —

That within Seven years a minister be setled there at the Cost and
Charge of the Grantees and their associates —

That all white Pine Trees that are or shall be growing on said
Tract of land fit for his majestys use shall be and hereby are reserved
& granted to his majesty his Heirs and successors —

That a Plan of the said Tract of land, having the Reserved fifth
part thereof afores'1 delineated described and marked out, thereon be
sent by the Grantees to the Grantors, within the space of Forty days
from this time and also an Instrumemt in writing signed by the sd
Grantees, therein obliging themselves and their associates to fullfill
and comply with the Conditions herein mentioned relating to the set-
tlement of the said Tract of land Said Instrument to be prepared by
the Grantors, and that this Grant shall be of no force or effect to the
Grantees untill such Instrument shall be sent signed as aforesaid —

That in Case any of the Grantees or their associates their Heirs or
assigns respectively shall neglect to do and perform what, is herein
required by them to be done and performed, it shall be lawful] to and
for the Grantors their Heirs and assigns to enter into and upon such
Delinquents share or Right and to dispose of the same as they shall
see meet and proper as tho this grant had not been made

364 CHARTER RECORDS.

That in Case of an Indian war before the Limitation of time is
expired, for the doing and performing the Respective matters and
things herein mentioned to be done and performed, then the like
number of years to be allowed for the doing & performing thereof
after the End of such Indian War

And whereas the said Proprietors have already released all their
Right in the Township of Bow (as they claim under the Said John
Tufton Mason) unto the Proprietors of Bow and it being Suggested
That Bow may take off some part of the Tract of land calld Number
Five alias New Hopkinton afores'1 That the said Grantors will make
up to the said Grantees and their associates out of some other of the
Grantors ungranted lands what shall be taken by Bow from the said
Tract of land call'd Number Five alias New Hopkinton upon a Just
and true admeasurement and running the Lines of the said Bow accord-
ing to the Grant thereof

And in Case any action or suit shall be brought against the said
Grantees, their associates or their assigns or any that shall or may
hold under them or any of them for sd Tract of land or any part
thereof they shall be and hereby are oblig'd to vouch in the sd Grant-
ors their Heirs or assigns to defend the same and the said Grantors
hereby promise and engage that they their Heirs or assigns shall and
will at their own Cost and Charge defend one action or suit upon one
Title and pursue the same to final Judgment thr6 the whole Course
of the law (if there shall be occasion) and in Case the final Judgment
in such Trial shall be against the s(1 Grantors, the Grantees or owners
shall recover nothing over in Satisfaction of and from the Grantors
their Heirs Executors administrators or assigns —

[Acceptance of Grant of Hopkinton, 1750.]
[Masonian Papers, Vol. 6, p. 67.]

Province of )
New Hampshire )

Whereas on the thirtyeth day of November 1750 There was a Grant
made by the Proprietors of the lands purchased of John Tufton Mason
Esqr lying and being in said Province of all their Right in and to a
tract of land on the westerly side of Merrimack River, Calld and
known by the name of Number five in the line of Towns so called as
well as by the name of New Hopkinton with Such Conditions Limi-
tations Reservations and Provisoes as are therein mentiond, (Refer-
rence being had unto Said Grant May fully appear) unto Henry Mel-
lens yeoman Thomas Walker Cooper and Thomas Mellens Cord-

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wainer all of Hopkinton in the County of Middlesex in the Province
of the Massachusetts Bay and such others as they shall admit their
associates so as to make up the number Seventy in the whole. Now
it is hereby Covenanted and agreed upon by and between the s'1
Henry Mellens Thomas Walker and Thomas Mellens for themselves
and such as they shall admit as their associates & their Respective
Heirs and assigns and the said Proprietors the Grantors their Heirs
and assigns That they the s'1 Grantees do hold and claim the s'1
granted Premises in the Right of the said Grantors and by Virtue of
the Grant afores'1 And that they the srt Grantees and such as they
shall admit their associates their Heirs and Assigns respectively shall
and will Comply with do perform fullflll and accomplish every mat-
ter, & thing (as Mentiond in s'1 Grant) by them Respectively to be
complyd with done performed fullfilld and accomplished in order to
the Setling the said Tract of land and bringing forward a Setled
Town there agreeable to the Conditions in said Grant mentioned and
that in Case of failure thereof the Right or share of such delinquent
& tailing Person or Persons respectively in said Tract of land by vir-
tue of the Said Grant shall revert unto the Proprietors the Grantors
their Heirs and Assigns and that in such Case it shall and may be
Iawfull to and for the said Grantors their Heirs and assigns to enter
into and upon the Right or share of Such Delinquent and failing Per-
son or Persons and take possession thereof & Dispose of the same as
they shall see Cause, and it is further agreed upon and to be under-
stood— that the failure of one or More Persons shall not Injure or
Prejudice those Persons who shall fullfill and do their part of the
Conditions afores'1 — In Testimony whereof the s(i Henry Mellens
Thomas Walker and Thomas Mellens have hereunto set their hands
and Seals the tweentieth day of December Anno Domini 1750

Mem0 The words of all their Ri<jlit in and to a Tract land Inter-
lind before Signing &c

Signed Seald and Deliverd Henry mellen [Seal]

in presence of us Thomas Walker [Seal]

John Death Thomas mellen [Seal]

John Death Junr

Middlesex ss Sherbourn December ye 24th 1750 the Above Named
Henry Milieu and Thomas Walker and Thomas Milieu all Person-
ally Appeared and Acknowledged this Instrument to be their free
act and Deed Before me

John Death Justice of Peace

366 CHARTER RECORDS.

[Form of Agreement and Notice of Meeting to Admit Settlers to Hop-
kinton, 1750.]

[Masonian Papers, Vol. 6, p. 68.]

Whereas the Proprietors of the Land purchased of John Tufton
Mason Esqr in the Province of New Hampshire, have granted in
Equal Shares unto Henry Mellen Thomas Walker and Thomas Mel-
len, All of Hopkinton in the Massachusetts Province, And to Such
others as they Shall Admit their Associates (under the Conditions &
Reservations expressed in the Said Grant) All their Right Title Inter-
est whatsoever, in and to All that Tract of Land in New Hampshire
aforesrt Called or known by the name of Number five in the Line of
Towns, So called, as well as by the name of New Hopkinton, As in and
by the Grant of the s'1 Proprietors, or the Record thereof, may more
fully Appear, Pursuant therefore, to the power and Authority therein
or thereby Granted to us, We the Said Henry Mellen, Thomas
Walker & Thomas Mellen, having Appointed A Meeting at the
House of Mr Osgood, Innholder in Rumford I New Hampshire on
the 13th 14th & 15th days of May Anno Domini 1751, in Order to the
Admission of Setlers, as our Associates As also to Agree on the
Method for the calling & Notifying of Propriety Meetings for the
future. And having given publick Notice thereof to all the Original
Claimers, in Virtue of the Grant made by the Massachusetts Govern-
ment, and Such as hold under them, of the time & Occasion of Sd
Meeting. And the sd Meeting being now Opened at the time and
place afores*1 The persons herein after named, Were (pursuant to the
power & Authority to us given as afores'1) admited Associates, Ac-
cording to the Tenor of the Grant to us made as afores'1 And the
Several Lots were Assigned and Set forth, to each of them respec-
tively, which together with the Rights of after Draughts or Divisions
of Land are to be holden by them & Each of them respectively, &
are Accordingly Entered in the Book of Records for s'1 Township.
Viz1

To A. B. the Lot, Number One in the Range of Lots &c

To B. C. the Lot Number Two in the &c

Provided always that in case any one or more of the Associates
abovenamed Shall bv refusing or Neo-lectinor to Settle his or their Lot
or Lots within the Space of Three Years next after the date of the
Original Grant of these proprietors afores'1 being expressly required
by the sd Henry Mellen Thomas Walker & Thomas Mellen or the
Survivour or Survivours of them that then the Grant & Admission

HOPKINTON. 367

Allowed to Such Delinquent or Delinquents Shall be Utterly Void,
as if the Same had never been H M

T W
T M

We who hereunto Subscribe being Admitted by the Gentlemen Im-
powred by the Proprietors of the Land purchased of John Tufton
Mason Esq' in the Province of New Hampshire Associates together
with them in A Tract of Land in New Hampshire aforesfl called Or
known by the name of Number five in the Line of Towns as well as
by the name of New-Hopkintown, Do hereby each one for himself
Severally, Covenant promise Grant & Agree to and with the Said
Gentlemen, namely Henry Mellen Thomas Walker & Thomas Mel-
len. or the Survivour or Survivours of them, well and truly, for Our
respective parts thereof to do perform And fulfil All and whatsoever
is Needful or Requisite to Enable them fully to comply with All and
Singular the Conditions of the Grant made to them & their Associ-
ates, by the Original Proprietors of s(1 Lands, And We further Cove-
nant promise Grant & Agree, for our Several parts thereof, well &
truly to pay each one his respective part & proportion of all Such
Sum & Sums of Money as Shall be voted and Agreed upon by the
Major part of ye Associates, at any Meeting or Meetings, duly warned
or Notified, to pay & Satisfie the Charge of public Worship & other
necessary Charges Arising for & towards the Setling & bringing for-
ward of a New Township on the Lands afores'1 during the Interim &
until a Township be Legally Incorporated. And To the true and
faithful Observance And Performance of all & Singular the s'1 Cove-
nants each of the s'1 partys for his Several & Particular part thereof,
doth bind & ()l>lige himself, his heirs Executrs Administrs Unto the
Said Henry Mellen Thomas Walker And Thomas Mellen heirs
Execut™ Admin™ or Assigns in the Penal Sum of Pounds in

Curr* Money or good & Lawful Bills of Credit on the Said province of
New Hampshire firmly by these presents, to be paid by each of the
Subscribers that Shall make default in the premises, & to be Im-
ployed to & for the benefit and behoof of the Associated setlers on
the Lands afores'1

Provided nevertheless and tis to be understood anitbing above
writen notwithstanding that in Case Thirty Lots be Settleled Within
three years agreeable to the original Grant and Such of the Propria-
tors as have y" Privilidge of Seven years for Setteling do well and
truly pay to ye s'1 Henry mellen Thomas Walker Thomas mellen or
any of them to and for ye use of Such as Settle and Dwell on thare
Respective lots within the first three years part and part alike ye Sum

368 CHARTER RECORDS.

of ten pounds in bills of Creddit of the old tenor or Lawfull money of
Equivilent value at ye End of the S'1 three years that then ye forfit-
ure of Lots above mentioned Shall not Extend to any of ye Sixty Pro-
pretors nor Shall any Such forfiture Extend to any of those ten other
Propriotors who formorly Covenanted to pay thirty pounds Each bills
of Credit of ye old tenor insted of the Duty of Setling in Case thay
Duly pay the S'1 Sum or Sums or ye value thareof in Lawfull money
and in Case of a war all ye Proprietors shall injoy ye Privilidge Ex-
prssed in the origenal Grant

Advertisement March 26, 1751

Pursuant to the Trust and Power deposited in Us the Subscribers, by
the Proprietors of Land by them purchased of John Tufton Mason
Esqr Situate in the Province of New Hampshire, And in Order to the
bringing forward a Township on a Tract of Land there, called or
known by the name of Number five, as well as by the name of New
Hopkinton, These are to give Notice to all Such Persons, who have or
claim any Right in Said Tract of Land, in Virtue of a Grant of the
Massachusetts Government, or hold Under any of them, That We
have Appointed a Meeting at the House of Mr Osgood Innholder in
Rumford in New Hampshire on the 13, 14 & 15 days of May next, to
Receive Such Claims, And to Admit Setlers therein (Giving Prefer-
ence to Such Claimers) According to the purport & On the Condi-
tions, expressed in the Grant of the Said Proprietors to us & Our
Associates bearing date Nov1' 30 1750 And allso (When s'1 Setlers are
admitted) Then to Agree upon a Method to Call Meetings for the
futer.

Henry mellen H M
T. W
T. M.

[Protest against Henri/ Mellen' s Terms, 1752.]
[Masonian Papers, Vol. 6, p. 70.]

To the Honllle the Propriators of the Lands Purchased of John Tufton
Mason Esqr in the Province of New Hampshire

The Petition of a Number of the Original Claimers To a Township
Calld n° five In virtue of a Grant maide by the Masschusetts Gover-
ment or Such as hold under them Humbly Sheweth —

That where as your Hon™ at the request of mr Henry Mellen of
Hopkinton was Pleased to make a Grant of a Tract of Land adjoyn-
ing On Rumford Known by the Name of Number five To the sa Henry
Mellen Thomas Walker & Thomas Mellen and Such as they Should

IIOPKINTON. 369

admit as their Assosciates on Certain Conditions with restrictions and
Reservations there to Subjoyned as by the said Grant may fully
appear where by your Petitioners beleaive your Honrs Intended the
Speedy Setlement of a Town in that Place to the Advantage of The
Goverment as well as your own & the Setlers advantage and benifit
now your Petitioners would Humbly Signifie To your Hon™ that the
Said Henry Mellen and Others have not observed Your Instructions
Contained in Said Grant with respect to Their admitting Setlers but
Insist on terms which we Apprehend are very unreasonable and un-
safe for us to Comply wth as by their Terms may appear whereby
your Petitioners wth most of the Claimers are Prevented being ad-
mited as Setlers To their great Dam mage & Hindrance in Setleing,
and the Setling of the Place greately Retarded,

Wherefore your Petitioners Pray your Honrs to Take the matter
into your wise Consideration & order Somthing for our releaf in this
Case according to your Honrs great Wisdom and Goodness and Send
your Pleasure by the Bearrer M1 Haven and your Petitioners as in
duty bound Shall Ever Pray

Hopkinton May ye 1th 1/52

Rights 3 John Jones 3 Joseph Haven

Simpson Jones
Timothy Townsend
Isaac Gibbs
Mork Whitney

[Proprietors to Henry Mellen, 1752.]

[Masonian Papers, Vol. 6, p. 71.]

Portsm0 Mar 7tl! 1752
Mr Henry mellins

Sir You may remember that some time since there was a grant
made to you and two others by the purchasers of the lands of John
Tufton Mason Esq1 as Trustees with Certain Reservations Restric-
tions and Limitations in s'1 Grant Mentioned of their Right Title and
Interest in a certain Tract of Land therein mentiond — and whereas
it is near a year and a half since the Grant was made but we can't
understand that any setlers are admitted — it is desired by the s'1 Pro-
prietors that you will without delay proceed to admit Setlers agree-
able to y' Terms of the Grant Giving the Preferrence to the claimers
under the Massachusets or such as hold under them and in case they
23

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John Jones

3

2

Peter How

1

1

Thomas Bixby

1

1

Ebenezer Kimbell

1

1

Xaf Gibbs

1

370 CHARTER RECORDS.

Refuse to be admitted agreeable thereto the proprietors would be
glad to know from you the reasons they assign for their Refusall
The Delaying the setlement (you must be sensible) is of great dis-
service to all concernd — In behalf and by order of the Proprietors
aforesaid this is subscribed by Sr yr most Hum SeiV

Geo: Jaffrey

To mr Henry Mellins at Hopkinton

Copy of Letter sent to mr Hen [ry Mellen]

[Protest of Settlers of Hopkinton, 1754.]
[Masonian Papers, Vol. 6, p. 73.]

To the Honble the Proprietors of the Lands purchasd by John
Tuftan Mason Esq1' lying in the Province of New Hampshire:

The Petition of the Settlers of ye Township N° 5 in Said Province
humbly Sheweth

That Whereas You, Gentlemen, in your Grant made to Henry
Mellen & others, in behalf of Said Settlers, did Reserve one fifth part
of sd Township to your selves lying either on ye North or West part
thereof at ye Election of ye s'1 Henry Mellen & his associates And
whereas the Said Henry Mellen not having it in his Power to Consult
the Rest of ye settlers before he was obliged to make Return to you,
Sett off for ye purpose afores'1 one fifth part of the Township on ye
Westerly Side thereof, which, without any Advantage accruing there-
from to your Honrs proves to be a great Disadvantage to the S'1 Set-
lers And Much Obstructs them in their present Infant State by Rea-
son especially that Said \ Set off as aforesaid, Includes much of those
fresh Meadows upon which your Petitioners greatly Depend for ye
present Support of their Stock, And without which the Settlement of
your Petitioners will be Rendered very Difficult by Reason of ye very
great Growths of wood & timber in Sd Township Wherefore Your
Petitioners humbly pray you to Release to them the Said fifth part laid
out on ye west, & to take it on the North Side of said Township, And
your Petitioners as in Duty bound Shall ever pray

Framingham May 28, 1754 :

( In the Name
Joseph Haven < and at the Desire

( of ye Setlers aforesaid

HOPKINTON. 371

[Henry Mel I en to Proprietors, 1759.]

[Masonian Papers, Vol. 6, p. 72.]

Hopkinton Feby 10, 1759.
Gentlemen

By a Letter from the present Inhabitants of the Township N° 5
otherwise called Newhopkinton, I am informed that several principal
Men of the Proprietors of Bow Township have been with them sev-
eral times lately, claiming a very considerable part of s'1 Township N°
5 on which are several Settlers who have laid out their Substance &
made considerable improvement thereon forbiding them to work on
s'1 land, and Threatning them that if nothing is done within the Space
of three months to accommodate, & Settle the matter, that they will
put them to trouble in the Law — I have therefore at their desire, and
at the desire of such other of the proprietors as I have been able to
Speak with, given you this Notice of s'1 difficulty with their Earnest
desire that you would use your utmost endeavour to Settle, & Accom-
modate the Affair: Now can We doubt your kind Offices herein,
when you recollect the great difficulties s'1 Settlers, & proprietors have
incounter'd, and Struggled with in obtaining, & Settling sd Township
By falling into your Propriety, & Province they have lost One fifth
of their first Grant, and during the Course of a long, & dangerous
War, they have hazzarded both their lives, and Substance ; New Set-
tlers in these low, & unhappy circumstances can't be Suppos'd able to
contest Titles in Law. You may remember Gentlemen that when you
made Us the Grant this matter was disputed, & mention was made of
a difference between the Grant of Bow Township, and the Entry of sd
Grant, and I was told that according to an equal Adjustment and
Admeasurement of s'1 Bow Township they Never could infringe upon
us, and that I need give my self no Trouble about it. We therefore
desire, and doubt not, but that you will see to it That the Boundaries
of s'1 Bow Township be run and fix'd by such Judicious, & impartial
Persons and in such an Equitable manner that We may meet with no
further Trouble about it. But whereas it is provided in y1 Grant to
us, that in Case Bow Township should take off any of the lands
assign'd to us by your grant that an Equivalent shoud be given us out
of your ungranted lands. We therefore desire, that if notwithstand-
ing all indeavours to the Contrary Bow Township should take any of
our lands on the Southeast part. That you would grant us an Equiva-
lent out of your Ungranted lands on Our Southwest corner Adjoining,
as by its Contiguity it will Accommodate us much better there than
any where else And tho' this will be far from Compensating the
Unhappy Sufferers, Yet it will be the best you can do by unimprov'd,

372 CHARTER RECORDS.

& Uncultivated lands, & no doubt humanity as well as Justice will
prompt to that for persons so distress'd — But We can't but Strongly
hope that by your interest, & Endeavours the matter may Be Settled
without the loss of land, and Pray that you would as soon as may be
favour us with your Answer, & direct it to be left at the house of
John Jeffries Esqr in Boston — By the direction, and the Desire of the
Proprietors —

I am Gentlemen your most humble SeiV

Henry Mellen
To Mr Geo : Jaff rey Clerk of the Propriety who purchas'd the
Lands of John Tufton Mason Esqr To be Communicated to s'1 Propri-
etv

[Proprietors to Col. Jones, 1761.]

[Masonian Papers, Vol. 6, p. 74.]

Portsm0 Feby 6th 1761
Sr Since I See you at Boston I have had Opportunity of Confer-
ring with the Proprietors, Respecting the Controversy between New
Hopkinton & Bow Proprs and in Regard to Epsom's Line being ex-
tended | of mile beyond its proper Limits so as to carry the Line of
Bow so much farther than was intended I was fully informed that the
Line that Bow now claims & holds has been Settled & fix'd between
Mason's Proprietors & Bow Proprietors that our Proprietors can't
insist upon their altering that Line on any Terms, as it was established
by Committees from each Propriety, And I cant find any Method that
would conduce to the case and advantage of New Hopkinton Proprs
than some Persons duly qualified to appear in their Behalf speedily to
come here & have the Matter accommodated which I doubt not but
will be adjusted much more to their advantage, than Suffering the
Law Suits to proceed to Trial, which Suits have been continued, till
ye first week in march, but whether will be further Continued I cant
answer but fear not, So think it will be more for your advantage, for
some person from you, to be here before that time, to accomodate the
Affair I am in behalf of the Proprs

yr most humble Serv'

Geo : Jaff rey
To Coll° Jones at Hopkinton

MOPKINTON. 373

[Addition to Hbpkinton, 1761.]

[Masonian Proprietors' Records, June 11, 1761, and Masonian Papers,

Vol. 6, p. 75.]

Province of ) Portsmouth June 11th 1761 — Thursday five of the
New Hampsh1 \ Clock afternoon at the Dwelling House of James
Stoodly Innholder the Proprietors meet according to adjournment —
and adjourned to the dwelling house of Hannah Horney Innholder, —
At the Dwelling house of Hannah Horney Innholder, The Proprietors
meet according to adjournment —

The Proprietors on the 30th day of November 1750 having granted
the Tract of land called New Hopkington or Number five, by the
bounds thereof heretofore run and made, unto Henry Mellens yeoman
Thomas Walker Cooper Thomas Mellens Cordwainer, and to Such
others as they should admitt as associates, so as to make the Number
Seventy in the whole &c — and reserved unto the Said Proprietors the
Grantors, one fifth part of Said Tract of land, the Same to lay and be
Sett off from the other four fifths on the Westerly part of Said Tract
of land & to extend from the Northerly to the Southerly Side thereof,
as marked in a Plan returned by Said Grantees — and it is also pro-
vided in Said Grant that So much of Said Tract of land granted as
New hopkington or Number five, as the Town of Bow take's off
within the Bounds or Limitts of Said Bow — that the Said Grantors,
will make up to the Said Grantees and their Associates out of Some
other of the Grantors, ungranted Lands — But as Henry Mellens and
Thomas Mellens aforesaid and Timothy Clement of New Hopkington,
as Agents or a Committee of the Grantees of Said New Hopkington
have represented to Said Proprietors at their meeting now holding,
that the Proprietors of Bow do claim some part of Land granted as
New Hopkington, on which Grantees of New Hopkington were about
making improvements, but were molested by the Proprietors of Bow
— and it appearing that some part of the Said tract of land hereto-
fore bounded as New Hopkington lay's within the Bounds of the
Township of Bow, and at the Special Instance and Request of said
Henry Mellens Thomas Mellens and Timothy Clements of Said New
Hopkington as a Committee Or Agents for the Grantees of Said New
Hopkington — and for favouring the Grantees or Such of them as may
more im'ediately be Affected by the line of Bow taking off any Lotts
or Improvements of ye Grantees of New Hopkington It is Therefore
Voted That So much of the Tract of Land granted by the Said Pro-
prietors as New Hopkington, as lay's within the Township of Bow,
that the Same number of Acres Shall be taken off from the Said one
fifth part of Said New Hopkington reserved to the Said Grantors on

374

CHARTER RECORDS.

the Westerly Side of Said New Hopkington from the easterly Side of
ye Said reserved one fifth part, by running a Line parrallel to the
Westerly Side line of Said New Hopkington from the Northerly to
ye Southerly Side thereof including ye Same number of Acres as shall
be taken out of Said New Hopkington, by ye boundary line of Bow
coming within ye reputed line of Said New Hopkington — which num-
ber of Acres taken out of the Said reserved one fifth part of New
Hopkington-by running ye Parrallel line aforesaid-shall be in full
Satisfaction to the Grantees of New hopkington and their associates
or to such of them whose Lotts may be affected by the Said Bow and
is hereby granted to them their Heirs and Assigns for ever

[List of Grrantees of Hopkinton, 1762.]

[Masonian Papers, Vol. 6, p. 76.]

To The Honerable Lord Proprietors of John Tufton Meason's
Esqrs Grant so called in Newhampsheir we Henry Mellen Thomas
Walker and Thomas Mellen Agreable to the Charter Given us of a
Township in the line of Towns Number 5, Or New Hopkinton so
Called Scituate on the westerly side of Merrimeck River in the Pro-
vince Afore said have Admited The Persons here after Named as our
Associates and have Given the Preferance and offer to the Origenal
Clamers —

Rights.

2 Abner Kimbal Heirs

John Jones Esqr .
Joseph Haven Esq1
Revr Sam1 Haven .
John Haven
Thos Byxby
Peter How
Joseph Haven
Timothy Townsend
Elder Joseph Haven
Simpson Jones Esqr
Isaac Pratt
Jedidiah Haven .
Mark Whitney .
Nethaniel Gibbs .
Isaac Gibbs
John Jones Jur
Benjamin Godard .
Eleazar Howard .

1 Timothy Clem mans

1 John Rust Heirs

1 William Peters .

1 Ebenezar Eastman

1 Jacob Straw

1 Samuel Putney .

1 Joseph Putney .

1 Jonathan Straw

1 Thomas Merril .

1 Joseph Eastman

1 Jacob Potter

1 Mathew Stanley

1 Abraham Colbe

1 Sampson Colbe .

1 Isaac Chanler Jun1

1 John Burbank .

1 Caleb Burbank .

John and James Nutt .

Daniel Mellen

James Lock

David Woodwell .

Netlianiel (haulers Heir8

James Chad wick Heirs

Samuel Osgood

Daniel and John Amies

Aaron Kimbal

John Chadwick

Thos Eastman

HOPKINTON.

1

Samuel Eastman

1

Peter How Junr

1

Enoch Estman .

1

Stephen Hoit

1

Isaac Whitney .

1

Enoch and Ezra Hoit

1

Deacon Henry Mellen

2

Thoa Walker .

1

Thomas Mellen .

2

Isaac Chanler .

1

Joseph Eastman Jim1

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Novr 1762

In Testimoney of what is within written we have hereunto Sub-
scribed our Names

Henry Mellen
Thomas Walker
Tho8 Mellen

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Gerrishs Rights

Jos : Gerrish
James Allen
Jos: Gerrish Ju' .
John Chandler
Sam11 Sweet Jur .

Sam11 Bailey ... 1

Stephen Emery . . 1

Henry Kingsberry . . 1

Nicholas Cheney . . 1

Sam1 Gerrish Junr Yeoman

[Petition of Stephen Batson, 1768.]
[Masonian Papers, Vol. 6, p. 77.]

Province of f To the Honble Proprieteres of Masons Patent in
New Hampsheir \ said Province —

The Humble Petichion of Stephen Batson of New Castle in the
Province aforesaid sheweth —

That your Petitioner was entitled to a Grantors Sheare or Right
of land in the town of New Hopkinton in said Province it being a
Gift to your Pertitioners Wife by her late Farther Nath11 Meserve
Esqr Deceas'1 or by his last Will and Testament will fully appear —

That your petiioner is informed that since the death of the said
Nath11 you have sold or Outherwise dispoed of the said Township of
New Hopkinton by which means your petictioner is excluded & en-
tierly deprived of his land in said township therefore he humbly
prayes that you would be pleased to take his Case under Considera-
shion and make him such Compensation in or Otherwise as shall be

376 CHARTER RECORDS.

adaquate to the damage he has sustained and your petitioner as in
duty bound will ever pray

New Castle August 24th 1768 f Stephen Batson—

[Petition of Enoch Bartlett, 1784.]
[Masonian Papers, Vol. 6, p. 78.]

To Messrs George Jaffrey Esqr And others Grantees To John Tuf-
ten Mason Esqr —

Whereas You Many Years Ago Made a Grant and Assignment to
James McHard Esqr and Timothy Clements of a tract of lands that
by Mistake were Included in the township of Wear for which you
proposed to give other lands Equivalent And did afterward Assign to
the Said McHard More than 1000 Acres of land in Hopkinton —

I having Many Years Ago Made a purchase of Said Clements
Right requested the Said grantees to Choose a Comtee with whom I
might treat respecting the Surrender of Said Lands And of An
Equivalent — and of the payment of Said Clements Bond — on which
Mr Jaffrey And Mr Moffett were Appointed and that Soon after that
Appointment Mr Moffet removd to the West Indies — and As I ex-
pected his return And by reason of Defficult times I have Never
Apply'1 for a Comtee or a hearing on the affair

I therefore Now request that you will Again in your Next Meeting
Choose a Comte with whom I May treat respecting lands and S'1 Bond
In Case I Shall not attend You in Your Meeting

Septr 20th 1784 Enoch Bartlet

[ Walter Bryenfs Report.']

[Masonian Papers, Vol. 6, p. 79.]

there is in newhopkinton as planed according to the number of
miles there Laid Down 2460 acres of Land more then the Contents
of Six miles Square and there is an angle of two Degrees Difference
between the Course of Rumford Claims & Sfl newhopkinton which
makes more then 450 acres ungranted Laying between Said towns

Walter Bryent

[Minutes of Conditions of Grant of Hopkinton.']
[Masonian Papers, Vol. 6, p. 79]

Province of New Hampshier
Number of Grantees and Associates 70

hudson. 377

Reservation of one fifth

free from Charge

ministers Share

ministy Share

School Share

Reservation of a Saw mil Privilidge

Thirty Families in three years

Sixty Families in Seven years

a Meeting Hons to be Built in three years

a minister Settled in Seven years

Pine Trees Reserved for his majesty

A Plan of the Land to be Sent —

Delinquent Share to be forfited

In Case of an Indian War further Time to be allowed —

If Bow Takes of any then

To vouch in the Grantors in Case

margin all Contents of the Lord Propriators Grant of New Hop-
kinton —

the mill to be Built in Two years tho not So fully Sett forth in the
m argent

HUDSON.

[This was a part of the Old Dunstable grant, and was afterwards included in
the limits of Nottingham. Incorporated as ATottinghavi West July 5, 1746.
The name was changed to Hudson July 1, 1830. The southwest part of London-
derry was annexed March 6, 1778. The line with Londonderry was established
June 28, 1857, and the line with Windham July 2, 1862.

See Massachusetts and New Hampshire charters in preceding volumes ; IX,
Bouton Town Papers, 193, 416; XII, Hammond Town Papers, 273; Index to
Laws, 251. 410; sketch, Hurd\s History of Hillsborough County, 1885, p. 457;
papers under title Dunstable; Lawrence's N. H. Churches, 1856, p. 187; Hudson
Soldiers in the War of the Revolution, by Kimball Webster, 1888, pp. 7.]

378 CHARTER RECORDS.

[Plan of Land betiueen Londonderry and the Province Line, 1773.]

XamtsoulA Zast ITlicd* Londonderry tint.

The Content of this Plan is two hundred and twenty acres and
131 Rods made by the scale of 30 rods to an inch By

Windham May 17th 1773 James Betton

N : B The above is a plan of a piece of Land Lying Between the
line of Londonderry and the Province line Belonging to the Masonian
Propoity taken at the Request of Will111 Smith

[Vote of Proprietors about Land in Hudson, 1774.]
[Masonian Papers, Vol. 6, p. 80.]

April 6th 1774 At a Proprietors meeting, upon the Application of
Jn° Bodwell & Wm Eliot for a tract of vacant land in Notingham
West abl 500 Acres — it is resolved that the Said tract of land shall not
be disposed of by the Proprietors till the last of may next and if
they appear then to have ye preemption if they will give as much
another person

May 31st 1774 Jn° Bodwell appeared to make Some offer for ye
above and it was mentiond to take a dollar ^ Acre — and he wos to
return an answer in a month from this date and in ye mean time the
premises wer not to be disposed of —

[Plan of Farm in Hudson, 1775.]

/V.. M Xa.fi,!,,? 3 rr,./<

m'Pclardl land

777.' Sm.fAs fcni

A Plan of a farm in Nottingham-west Joyning to Marrimack River Containing
five Hundred Acres and one Quarter in the whole tho there is a Certain Meadow
in Said farm Claimed by one Cross that Contains about seven acres Said Meadow
and the Roads in this farm may Contain about twenty acres

This Plan was Made by the scale of 6o rods to a Degree by James Betton
March a* 1775 Cap1 Sam1 Alison ) „. .

and Sami Dickey \ Chain-men

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[Memoranda about Lam/ in Hudson, 1774.]
[Masonian Papers, Vol. 6, p. 80.]

M- m Mr John Rodwell of (Methuen) in the Province of Massa-
chusetts Bay, Desires the offer of three Tracts of Land in the Town-
ship of (Nottingham West) he also Desires they would Consider of
the lowest Price they would take for the abovementioned three Tracts
of Land. & reserve the same till he comes down again, which will be,
by their second Meeting. —

Septemr 22d 1774—

Write Mr John Bowdwell and Direct the Letter at Mathewing
in the Massachusetts

Memorandum to Consult Mr Pickring Wether their Can be any
Alteration in the Grant of Pelham and Write to Mr Josiah Gage Junr
of Pelham the Opinion of Mr Pickring —

William Elliot and Will" Gibson Desire the Offer of Two more
Lots of Land in Nottingham West, being Two Lots out of the Above
Mentiond Three Lots Requested by John Bodwell

[Memorandum of William Gibsons Application, 1774.]
[Masonian Papers, Vol. 6, p. 81.]

M Wm Gibson of Dunstable desires Mason's Proprietors to take
under Consideration the situation of 200 acres of Land situated in
Nottingham West within their Claim, he will give 2 Dollars pr acre
with these Conditions that if he cannot hold said Land, then to re-
fund the Money again

N B he apply'd Decemr 23'1 1774.

JAFFREY.

[Granted by the Masonian 'Proprietors, Nov. 30, 1749, to Jonathan Hubbard
and others, and variously known as Monadnock Aro. 2, Middle Monadnock, and
Middletown. The grant was renewed March 13, 1767. Incorporated as Jaffrey
Aug. 17, 1773, and named in honor of George Jaffrey.

See New Hampshire charters in preceding volume ; IX, Bouton Town Papers,
429; XII, Hammond Town Papers, 291 ; Index to Laws, 262; History, by D. B.
Cutter, 1 88 1, pp. 648; sketch, Hurd's History of Cheshire County, 1886, p. 220;
sketch, Child's Gazetteer of Cheshire County, 1885, p. 204; Historical Address,
by Joel Parker, 1873, centennial celebration; Universalism in America, by Richard
Eddy, 1886, Vol. 1, p. 171 ; Lawrence's N. H. Churches, 1856, pp. 272, 274.]

380 CHARTER RECORDS.

[Grant of Jaffrey, 1749.]

[Masonian Papers, Vol. 6, p. 82, and Proprietors' Records, Vol. 6,

p. 92.]

Province of ) Pursuant to the Power and Authority Granted
New Hampsr ) and Vested in me by the Proprietors of Lands Pur-
chased of John Tufton Mason Esqr In the Province of New Hamp-
shire by their Vote Passed at their Meeting held at Portsmouth in
Said Province, the 16th day of June 1749 I Do by these Presents on
the Terms and limitations Hereafter Express'd give and Grant all the
Right Possession and Property of the Proprietors aforesaid unto
Jonathan Hubbard Oliver Farwell Thos March Elias Eliot, James
Stewart, John Kendell Joseph Blanchard Junr Barnabas Davis Will1"
Rindge Peter Powers Eleazr Blanchard — Paul March, Thos Parker
Junr Benj" Bellows, Sampson Stoddard, Daniel Emerson, Josiah
Brown Stephen March, Benja Winn, John Scott, Sam1 Garish, John
Hart, John Chamberlin, Joseph Winn Junr Joseph Blodget Junr
Sam1 Cumings, Matthew Thornton, John Butterfield, Will11' Garish
Xath1 Pierce Jonath11 Cumings, John Usher, Joseph French, Peleg
Lawrence, Isaac Williams, David Adams, David Willson, Randall
McDaniel, Robert Fletcher Junr Joseph Emerson — To the Said
Joseph Blanchard Junr Three Shares, to the Said James Stewart Two
Shares, to Peter Powers Four Shares to Benj" Bellows two Shares to
Jonath" Hubbard Three Shares, to Josiah Brown two Shares, The
others aforenamed one Share Each, of in or to that Tract of Land or
Township Called the Middle Menadnock or N 2 — Bounded as follow-
eth beginning at the South West Corner of Petersborough Slip, So
Called, from thence, Running North Eighty degs West Seven Miles
to a Hemlock Tree Marked, from thence Running North by the Nee-
dle five Miles to a Hemlock Tree Mark'd, from thence Running
South Eighty degs East Seven Miles to a Beach Tree Mark'd, in the
West Line of Peterborough, from thence South by the Needle to the
first Bounds Mention'd — To Have and to Hold to them their
Heirs and Assigns, Excepting as aforesaid, and on the following
terms and Conditions (that is to Say) that the whole tract of land be
divided into Seventy One Equall Shares, and that Each Share Con-
tain three Lotts Equitably Coupled together, and drawn for at
Dunstable — at or before the first day of July Next in Some Equit-
able Manner — That three of the aforesaid Shares be granted and
Appropriated free of all Charge, one for the first Settled Minister in
Said Township one for the Support of the Ministry, and one for the
School there forever — one lott for Each Said three Shares to be first
laid out in the Most Convenient place Near the Middle of Said Town,

JAFFREY. 381

and lotta Coupled to them, So as not to be drawn for that Eighteen
of the Said Shares, be Reserve! for the Grantors of the Premises, their
Heirs and Assigns forever, and Aquited from all duty and Charge
Untill improved by the Owner or Some Holding [under] them Re-
spectively, thai the other Owners of the Said Rights Make Settle-
ments at their Own Expence in the following Manner Viz All the
Lotts to be laid out at the Grantees Expence, that all the lotts in Said
Township be subjected to have all Necessary Roads lay'd out threw
them free from Charge as Hereafter there Shall be Occasion — That
within Four Years from the date hereof Forty of the Rights or
Shaies. belonging to the aforementioned Grantees Viz Oliver Farwell
Thomas March, Elias Eliot, John Kendall Barnabas Davis, Paul
March, Sampson Stoddard Stephen March John Scott Sam1 Garish
John Hart John Chamberlain Joseph Winn Junr Joseph Blodgett
Jun1 Samuel Cumings Matthew Thornton Will1" Garish Nath1 Peirce
Isaac Williams. David Willson — Rand1 McDaniel Robert Fletcher
Jun1 Jonathan Cumings John Usher Joseph French Peleg Lawrence
Joseph Emerson — One Settlement Each Josiah Brown two Shares,
Benj" Bellows two Shares, James Stewart two Shares. Jonathan
Hubbard three Shares Peter Powers two Shares, Daniel Emerson &
Thomas Parker one Settlement Each — Be Enter'd upon and three
Acres of Land at the Least Cleared inclosed and fited for Mowing or
Tillage, and that within the term of Six Months, then Next Coming
there be on Each of the Said forty Shares a house Built, the Room
Sixteen feet Square at the least, fitted and furnished for Comfortable
dwelling therein and Some Persons Resident therein, and Continue
Inhabitancy and Residence there for three Years then Next Coming
with the Additionall Improvement as aforesaid of two Acres Each
Year for Each Setler — That Each of the Said Grantees at the Execut-
ing this Instrument pay twenty Pounds Old Tenr to defray the
Necessary Charges, Risen and arising in Said Township to be depos-
ited in the hands of Such Persons as the Grantees Shall Chuse being
a free holder and Resident in the Province of New Hampshire afore-
said. That a <;ood Convenient Meeting House be Built in Said Town-
ship as near the Center of the Town as may be with Convenience
— Within Six Years from this date and Ten Acres of Land Reserve'd
for Publick Uses —

That the aforesaid Grantees or their Assigns by a Majr Vote In
Publick Meetings, Grant and Assess Such further Sums of Money as
they Shall think Necessary for Compleating and Carrying forward,
the Settlement aforesaid — And any of the Grantees Exclusive of the
three Publick lotts, who shall Neglect for the Space of three Month
Next Coining after Such Assesment, Shall be granted And Made to

382 CHARTER RECORDS.

Pay the Same, So much of Such Delinquents Right Respectively
Shall or may be Sold, as will pay the Tax and all Charges arising
thereon — by a Committee of the Grantees appointed for that Pur-
nose — That all White Pine trees fit for Masting his Majestys Royall
Navey Growing on Said Tract of Land, be and hereby are granted to
his Majesty his Heirs and Successors for Ever — And in Case any of
the Grantees Shall Neglect, or Refuse to perform any of the Articles
aforementioned he Shall forfeit his Share and Right in Said Town-
ship And every part and Parcell thereof To those of the Said
Grantees that Shall have Complyed with the Conditions on their part
herein Express'd, And it Shall and may be lawfull for them or any
person by their Authority to Enter into and upon the Right of Such
Delinquent Owner and any and every part thereof in the Name of
the Whole of the Settlers that Shall fulfill as aforesaid, and him to
amove Oust and expell for their Use their Heirs and Assigns, Pro-
vided they Settle or Cause to be Settled Each Such Delinquents
Right within the term of one Year at the farthest, from the Period
that is by this Instrument Stipulated to be done as the Condition of
this Grant, and fully discharge and Comply with the whole duty such
delinquent ought to have done, within one Year from time to time,
after the Respective Periods thereof and in Case the Said Grantees
fulfilling on their part as aforesaid, Shall Neglect fulfilling as aforesaid
the duty of any Delinquent Owner, nor he himself perform the Same
that then Such Share or Shares, Shall be forfeited Revert and belong
to the Grantees, their Heirs and Assigns to be Wholly at their dis-
posal!, always Provided there be no Indian War — within any of the
terms and Limitations aforesaid, for doing the Duty Conditioned in
this grant and in Case that Should happen the Same time to be
allowed for the Respective Matters aforesaid, after Such Impediment
Should be Removed — Lastly the Said Grantors do hereby Promise to
the Said Grantees their Heirs and Assigns, to defend through the Law
to the King and Councill if Need be, due Action, that Shall or may
be brought against them or any Number of them, by any Person or
Persons Whatsoever Claiming the Said lands or any part thereof, by
any other Title than that of the Said Grantors or that b}^ which they
Hold and derive their's from, provided the Said Grantors are avouch'd
in to defend, the Same and in Case on Final! Tryall the Same Shall
be recoverd against the Grantors for the Said Lands Improvements
or Expence in Bringing forward the Settlement, the Said Grantees
Shall Recover Nothing over, against the Said Grantors, and further
that the Said Grantors, will pay the Necessary Expence of time and
Money, that any other Person or Persons, Shall be put to by any
other Suit or Suits, that Shall or may be brought against them or any

JAFFREY. 383

Number of them the Said Grantees — For Tryall of the Title, before
one Suit Shall be fully determined in the law, to which Premises
Joseph Blanchard Agent for and in behalf of the Said Grantors Have
hereunto Set my hand and Seal this 30th day of November in the 23'1
Year of his Majestys Reighn Anno Domini 1749 —

Joseph Blanchard [Seal]

A True Copy of the Grant of the Middle Menadnock Township
or N 2 — Attest f Joseph Blanchard Junr Prop Clk

a true Copy Examined attest Geo : Jaffrey Prop™ CI —

[Plan of Jaffrey, 1750.]

This is a plan of the Middle Menadnock N 2 Township The
Ranges are 160 Rods Wide, and the Lotts, One hundred Rods Wide,
and finished laying out the lotts, in May, 1750

Rob1 Fletcher Junr Survr
A Copy taken from the files of the Proprietors of the Above
Township

f Joseph Blanchard Prop8 Clk
a true Copy Examined attest. Geo : Jaffrey Proprs CI

3§4

CHARTER RECORDS.

[Proprietors of Jaffrey, 1750.]

[Masonian Papers, Vol. 6, p. 83, and Proprietors1 Records, Vol. 6, p.
A List of the Proprietors of the Monadnock Township —

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William Parker Esqr .

Jonathan Hubbard Junr

Oliver Farwell

Thomas March .

Ministry Lotts

Elias Eliot

James Stewart

Ministers Lotts .

John Kendell

Joseph Blanchard Jun1'

Barnabas Davis .

William Rindge

Peter Powers

Eleazer Blanchard

Joseph Blanchard Jun1

Thomas Packer Esqr .

John Moffatt Esq1'

Paul March

Peter Powers

John Wentworth Esq1

Thomas Parker, Junr .

Matthew Livermore Esqr

Benjamin Bellows

Richard Wibird Esqr .

John T : Mason & Jn° Thomlinson

Sampson Stoddard Esq1"

Daniel Emerson

Josiah Browne

Stephen March .

Benjamin Winn .

John Scott

Daniel Peirce & M™ Mary Moore

Samuel Garish .

Theodore Atkinson Esqr

John Hart ....

John Chamberlin

Joseph Winn Jun1"

Sam1 Solly & Clem1 March Esq"

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Joseph Blodgett Junr .

41

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Samuel Cumings

42

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4

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School Lotts

43

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Matthew Thornton Esqr

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Mark He Wentworth Esqr

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John Butterfield .

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Josiah Brown

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William Garish .

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Nathaniel Peirce

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Jotham Odiorne Esqr .

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Peter Powers

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Benjamin Bellows

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Joshua Peirce

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Jonathan Cumings

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John Usher

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Jonathan Hubbard Junr

56

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Joseph French .

57

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8

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Peter Powers

58

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3

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18

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Peleg Lawrence .

59

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Isaac Williams .

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David Addams

61

8

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James Stewart .

62

5

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8

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Nathaniel Meserve Esqr

63

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David Willson .

64

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6

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John Rindge

65

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Randall McDaniel

66

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Jonathan Hubbard Junr

67

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Joseph Blanchard

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Robert Fletcher Junr .

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Joseph Emerson

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Thomas Wallingford Esqr

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A True Coppy of the List of the Proprietors of Menadnock Township Number
two with the Number of Lotts belonging to Each Proprietor as drawn ^ them the
first Tuesday of June 1750 — Attest Joseph Blanchard Junr Prop9 CI*

a true Copy Examined attest Geo : Jaffrey Prop™ CI —

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386 CHARTER RECORDS.

\_Vote of Acceptance by Grantees of Jajfrey, 1752.]
[Masonian Papers, Vol. 6, p. 84.]

Whereas Joseph Blanchard Esq1 for and in the Name and behalf of
the Proprietors of the Lands in the Province of New Hampshire Pur-
chased by them of John Tufton Mason Esqr, Who Sold to them
Under the Title Made to them by a Common Recovery did on the
30th day of November 1749, Grant the Contents of Twenty two Thou-
sand Two Hundred Acres, part of Said Lands, Bounded as followeth —
Beginning, at the South West Corner of Petersborough Slip, So
Called, From thence running North Eighty degrees West Seven
Miles to a Hemlock Tree marked, from thence Running North by the
Needle five Miles to a Hemlock Tree Marked, from thence running
South Eighty degrees East Seven Miles to a Beech Tree Marked, in
the West Line of Petersborough, from thence South by the Needle to
the first Bounds Mentioned, Under Certain Conditions Limitations,
and Reservations, in Said Grant Mentioned as by Said Grant Refer-
ence thereto will fully Appear, Unto Jonath" Hubbard Oliver Far-
well, Thomas March, Elias Elliot, James Stewart, John Kendell
Joseph Blanchard Junr, Barnabas Davis, William Rindge, Peter
Powers, Eleazer Blanchard, Paul March, Thomas Parker Junr Benjn
Bellows, Sampson Stoddard, Daniel Emerson, Josiah Brown, Stephen
March, Benjn Winn, John Scott, Sam1 Garish, John Hart, John
Chamberlain, Joseph Winn Junr, Joseph Blodget Junr Samuel Cum-
ings, Matthew Thornton, John Butterfield, William Garish, Nathan1
Peirce, Jonathan Cumings, John Usher, Joseph French, Peleg Law-
rence, Isaac Williams, David Adams, David Willson, Randall Mc-
Daniel, Robert Fletcher Junr, Joseph Emerson — Therefore Unani-
mously Voted that we do hereby Accept Said Title and for ourselves
Our Heirs and Assigns Acknowledge that we do Hold Said Lands
Under Said Title, Conditions and Limitations, with the Reservations
Therein Mentioned —

Extract from the votes of the Proprietors, Grantees of the Town-
ship, Called Menadnock N° Two, or Middle Menadnock Passed at
their Meeting the fourth day of August 1752 —

Copy Examined ^ Joseph Blanchard Props Clk

a true Copy Examined Attest Geo : Jaffrey Proprs CI —

JAFFREY. 387

[Petition of Matthew Thornton^ 1767.]

[Masonian Papers, Vol. 6, p. 85.]

To the Purchasers of the Lands Contained in the Patent of John
Tufton Mason Esq. in the province of New Hampshire Mathew
Thornton Esq. Agent for & in Behalf of the Grantees of the New
Township Called Middle Manadnock, in said Province, Granted by
Joseph Blanchard Esq. Agent for the said Purchassers Shews, that the
Grantees of the aforesaid Town Ship, by Reason, of the Absence of
their Clark Who Keept all their Records, have had no Legal Meet-
ings, Could not Raise Taxes Necessary to forward, & Compleat the
Settlement, agreeable to the Gra[n]t. Therefore in the Capacity
aforesaid in Behalf of the Grantees aforesaid, I Humbly pray, That
Two years may be added to the time Mentioned in the Charter of
said Township, that the Grantees may be able to Compleat the Set-
tlement of said Township, also that the said Grantees may be Directed
& Impowered to Hold Legal Meeting for the purposes aforesaid, all
which is Humbly Submited, °§

Portsmouth Mathew Thornton Agent for the

March, 13th, A D 1767.— Grantees of Middle Manadnock

[Charter Renewed, 1767.]
[Masonian Proprietors' Records, March 13, 1767.]

Province of ) Portsmouth March 13th 1767 Fryday ten of the
New Hampshr \ Clock beforenoon at the Dwelling house of James
Stoodly Esqur Innholder — the Proprietors meet according to adjourn-
ment—

Matthew Thornton Esqr for & in Behalf of the Grantees of the
Township called the Middle Monadnock by his Petition of this date,
having represented that the said Grantees were prevented having
legal Meetings to vote & raise necessary Taxes for forwarding & corn-
pleating the Settlement of said Township by the Absence of their
Propriety-Clerk, & praying two Years from this Date may be added
for compleating the Settlement of said Township — Upon Considei'a-
tion of said Petition, the Proprietors being willing to Encourage the
said Grantees in their Endeavours to make the Settlement they
undertake — Therefore —

Voted that the Prayer of the Petition above-mentioned be & hereby
is Granted, & that the said Grantees of the Township called middle
Manadnock, have two Years time from this Day to finish & compleat
the Settlement of said Township agreeable to the Terms & Conditions

388 CHARTER RECORDS.

of their Grant of said Township made by Joseph Blanchard Esqr in
Behalf of said Proprietors —

[Petition of John Grout, 1769.]
[Masonian Papers, Vol. 6, p. 86.]

To the Proprietors of the Right of John Tufton Mason Esqr of that
tract of Land Lying in the province of New Hampshire known by the
Name of the Mason Grant Humbly sheweth that John Grout your
petitioner eleven years past moved into the Township called Monad-
nock N° two in sd Grant & for conveniency of Settlement purchased
a House then already built with some improvements Made by Moses
Stickney on Lott N° twelve in the ninth Range Drawn in the Right
of the first settled minister have Continued thereon have made Larger
improvements thereon to a Comfortable inheritance —

your petitioner therefore Humbly moves that he may be quieted on
sd Lott giving another in exchange therefor equal in Situation & good-
ness so that the Minister Right be not Lessened nor Hurt or other-
ways to be Releived and quieted on the premisses as the Honble pro-
prietors shall think fit and as in Duty bound shall ever pray

February 14 1769 John Grout

[Petition of Grilmore Brothers, 1769.]
[Masonian Papers, Vol. 6, p. 87.]

Middel me Monadnick N 2 March ye 10 : 1769

Gentlman Grant Tors Brother and I Bought ye Right that was
Paul March January Sixtey Eaight And Upon Seaid Right Wee have
Goot Twentey Ackers of Land Cleaned on Seaid Right and his Goot
ye Timber for Hoss and Wee Entend to Rais it This Mounth and
Gentlman wee Beg ye faver of you as you ar men of Honnor that you
Would Not Hurt Us in Ouer Entrest for wee have don Ever Thinge
In ouer power to Bring forward ye Setlement of This Place —

John Gillmore
Roger Gilmore

[Petition of John Grout, 1769.]

[Masonian Papers, Vol. 6, p. 88.]

To the proprietors of the Right of John Tufton Mason Esqr Hum-
bly Sheweth —

JAFFREY. 389

That .John Grout your Hon™ petitioner has Lived Constantly in a
place called the middle Monadnock N° two for more than the Space of
eleven years with a Large Family about three years whereof was
alone having no other family in S'1 place my Rodes to cut out &
improve at my own Cost attended with Hardships too many to be
here set forth I have improved & Supported my family by improving
on a Lot drawn in the Right of the first Settled minister near the
outside of sd township have been using means to exchange the same
for another Lot of my own as good and Convenient as that have had
no Success therein am in great danger of Loosing all my Labor done
thereon to the utter Ruining of my Self & family except the same be
Secured to me speedily by the Compassionate care & interposition
of the proprietors aforesd

I would further beg leave to Lav before the Hon1,le proprietors the
State of the Settlement of S'1 Township in a Scheedule annexed where-
in it appears that many Rights are altogether Delinquent & Others
Delinquent in part as appears by the annexed and as your Honers
petitioner through many Hardships has upon his own Cost bin the
first & principle Settler there & done that Service there which Delin-
quents ought to have done & as he has a Large family sufficient to
Settle every delinquent Right your petitioner would humbly move
that the same be granted to him for that purpose

and as in Duty bound shall ever pray

March 15th 1769 John Grout

[Condition of Settlements in Jaffrey, 1769.]

[Masonian Papers, Vol. 6, p. 89.]

Settlers on free Lotts in Monadnock N° 2

lth on the first draught family mcneal 1

5th on the fifth draught family hale — 1

8th on the eighth draught family Grout 1

20th on the twentieth two families Smiley & Hop" — 2

22 on the twenty Second family wright — 1

29tt on the 29th three Settlers two families above measure 2

71. on 71 draught a family nicholds — 1

Families 9

Settlers that abide Constantly &c on Settling Rights

6th on 6th draught a family Gilmore — 1

7th on 7th two families organ & wallas — 2

390 CHARTER RECORDS.

11 tli draught family Taggott — 1

13th draught family Davis — 1

15th draught family Hunt — 1

18th Settler constantly no house much work done Gilmore — 1

26th draught family mcalister — 1

28th a family turner wm — 1

29th a family turner Sol — 1

42 draught family Little — 1

44th a family walker — 1

47th a Constant Settler no house Grout — 1

48th a family Borland — 1

51st a family swan — 1

59th a Settler — Hogg — 1

60th a Settler — wid Henderson — 1

66th a Settler Jos Turner — 1

69th a Settler Davidson — 1

56th a Settler Harper — 1

20
23 draught a Settler improvement &c F Wright — 1

21
70th Draught purchased by my self & expected ^

to exchange one Lot for the minister Lot upon ! .,

which I now Dwell & have done thereon more [
than Severall Duties J

22
31 draught family &c Caldwell — 1

The above sd Settles 22 Rights from 40 23

Remains 18
ten more are priviledged 10

some beginings on Settling rights &c

on Second Draught Some work Rie Sowd Mitchel — 1

3(l Draught Some work Rie Raised house frame &c Homes — 1

19th Some work done about ten Load of Hay cut yearly &c

gilmore — 1

21 draught improvements sufficient wright & gilmore 1

30th improvements Little — 1

JAFFREY. 39I

41 draught meadow fenced on 17-5 Saw mill built on
22 in 5 by Davidson meadow fenced by turner Jos

4!* a few days cutting trees Glover — 1

62 Some cutting down on Lot No 5 in G Range Hunter — 1

67th Some work on all the Lotts Turners & Homes — 1

4 draught Some cutting down mitchel — 1

No meeting House built 10

The aforesd is a true account of the Settling Rights in Middle
Monadnock N° two Cearfully examined &c & Humbly Submitted by
us Subscribers & Inhabitance John Grout

Roger Gil more

[Reuben Kidder's Judgment, 1769.]
[Masonian Papers, Vol. 6, p. 90.]

Monodnock n° 2 July 21 1769
To the Honerabel George Jaffer Esqr

on Reciving a Later from your self Desiring me to go and Satel the
Afair between Mr John Grout the Propritors of monodnock N° 2 I
have ben this Day vewed the Lots My Judment is that mr Grout Give
a Deed to the Propritors of the Lot N° 4 in the 4 Rang and 30 acors
of the Est Side of the Lot N° 3 in the 4 Range in Exchang for the
Lot N° 12 in 9 Rang

Reuben Kidder

In Complyance With ye above Judgment We ye Subscribers a Com-
mittee for ye Propriators of y(' above mentioned township Have Recd
a Deed of mr Grout of y*! above mentioned Land and Pray for Di-
rections from your Hon1 how that mr Grout Shall have his title &c —

John Gillmore
Alex' M'Neall
John Harper

[Inhabitants of Jaffrey to Proprietors, 1769.]
[Masonian Papers, Vol. 6, p. 91.]

to Colo. Atkison Esqr

Sir We thought it Our duty to inform Your Honnours that Ruben
Kidder Esqr Came According to Your Honours Apointment at Your
Proprietors Metting to Vuew and Valine the Lot that John Grout
Lives Upon (Viz) the Ministers Lot and Likewise the Land that the
said Grout was willing to Give for the Said Lot and the Land that

392

CHARTER RECORDS.

the Said Kidder Excepted of Lyeth Upon the Side of the Monadnock
Mounton Which is Not fit for a Settelment and We the Subscribers is
Not Willing to Accept of it and Prays Your honour Not to Let it Go
that Way the Above Said John Grout has had A Leash of the Said
Ministers Land these twelve Years past And s11 Least is good Untill
there is a Settled Minister in this Place the Said Grout Sayeth that
he hath five Lots in this town Ship But he Would Give no Other But
that Mountan Land And will have it for that Land Which We Look
Upon Nixt to Nothing and Prays Your Honour Would Either Let it
Stand for A Minister or Other wise Give Land as Good

Sir No More But Would take Leve to Subscribe our Selves Your
Honours Humble Servents

Middle Monadnock N° 2 November ye

Silas Russell
thomas Turner
Solomon torner
robert win
Matthew Wallace
William Smiley
Thomas Caldwell
James Caldwell Jur

william mitchell
John Borland
Amos orgon
Joseph turner
John Swan
Alexr mcneall
John Little
Francis Wright

A D 1769
William Turner
thomas daveson
Robart horns
Mathew Wright
George Wallace
James Caldwell Ser
William Cristey

[Petition of John Grout, 1770.]

[Masonian Papers, Vol. 6, p. 92.]

To the Honble the proprietors of the Right of John Tufton Mason
Esq Humbly sheweth that your petitioner John Grout for above twelve
years Last past has improved & Supported himself & Large Family in
Middleton or Monadnock N° two on Lott N° 12 in the 9 Range Drawn
in the Right of the first settled minister & was the first Settler in Sd
Township for about three years of said Time under many Hardships
& Difficulties too many to be here enumerated an exchange has been
many times proposed for my Releaf & not perfected also your peti-
tioner has been exercised with Long & Costly sickness & not now
able to come to Porthm0 in march Last the Consideration of the pro-
posed Exchange was Reffered to Ruben Kidder Esq who as I am
informed has Reported thereon & my Complyance therewith Com-
pleated as may appear in your Clerks office your petitioner therefore
Humbly prays his case may come under Consideration as soon as may
be least being put off till the times be changed there be no Remiedy
& as in Duty bound shall ever pray &c

March 5 1770 John Grout

JAFFREY. 393

[Account of Settlement* in Jaffrey, 1770.]

[Masonian Papers, Vol. 6, p. 93.]

an Accompt of the Settlements in monadnock N° 2 in yL' Province of
New Hampshire
1 Dra' William Parker Esqr Settled by Alexander m'neil
- Dra' Jonathan Hubbard Jim' Settled by William mitchel

3 Dra' olliver Farewell Settled by Robart Holms

4 Dra' Thomas March —

5 Dra* minestry Right —

6 Dra' Elias Eliot Settled by John Gilmore

7 Dra1 James Stuart two Lotts Settled by organ and Warllace

8 Dra1 minester Right —

9 Dra1 John Kindle—

10 Dra1 Joseph B Ian chard Jun1 priviledg Right — one Lott Improved

by Robart Holms

11 Dra1 Barnabas Davis Settled by munroe and fitch

12 Dra1 William Rindge—

13 Dra' Peter Powers Settled by Daniel Davis

14 Dra' Eliezer Blanchard priviledg Right — one Lott Improved by

James Nickels

15 Dra' Joseph Blanchard Jun' Settled by Ephraim Hunt and mills on

ye Same

16 Dra' Thomas Packer Esqr —

17 Dra' John Moffatt Esqr — one Lott Improved by Robart Wier ,

18 Dra' Paul March Settled by Roger Gilmore

19 Dra' Peter Powers priviledge Right one Lott Improved by Roger

Gilmore

20 Dra' John Wentworth Esqr Settled by William Smiley

21 Dra' Thomas Parker junr Largely Improved by Wright and Gil-

more

22 Dra' matthew Livermore Esqr Settled by matthew Wright

23 Dra' Benjamin Bellows Esq1" Settled by Francis Wright

24 Dra' Richard Wibard Esqr one Lott Improved by Joseph Cald-

well

25 Dra' John Tufton mason Esqr Settled by William Hodge

26 Dra' Samson Stodard Settled by And" mcAllester

27 Dra' Daniel Emerson Settled by James Nickels

28 Dra' Josiah Brown Settled by William Turner

29 Dra' Stephen march three Lotts Settled Cristy Russell and Turner

<( one being ment for Cummins Right 54th Dra'

30 Dra' Benjamin Winn priviledge Right a barn & Improved

394

CHARTER RECORDS.

31 Dra' John Scott Settled by James Caldwell Jun1

32 Dra' Peirce and Moor

33 Dra' Samuel Garrish Settled by Jonathan Hopkinson

34 Dra1 Theoder Atkinson Esqr—

35 Dra1 John Hart Esqr

36 Dra1 John Chamberlin —

37 Dra1 Joseph Winn Junr

38 Dra* Solley and march Esqr-one Lott Improved by George Warl-

lace

39 Dra' George Jaffrey Esqr—

40 Dra1 Joseph Blanchard Junr priviledge Right

41 Dra1 Joseph Blodget Jun1' Settled by Thomas Caldwell a Saw mill

42 Dra1 Samuel Cummins Settled by John Little

43 Dra1 School Right

44 Dra1 matthew Thornton Esqr Settled by Thomas Walker

45 Dra' m Hunkin Wentworth Esqr

46 Dra' John Butterfield priviledge Right —

47 Dra1 Josiah Brown —

48 Dra' William Garrish Settled by John Borland

49 Dra1 Nathaniel peirce Esqr Settled by Thomas Emery

50 Dra1 Jonathan odiorne Esqr

51 Dra1 peter powers Settled by John Swan

52 Dra' Benjamin Bellows Esqr —

53 Dra' Joshua peirce Esqr

54 Dra1 Jonathan Cummins Settled as above mentioned by Solomon

Turner

55 Dra* John Usher Settleing Duty Don by Enoch Hale but no

house

56 Dra1 Jonathan Hubbard Junr Settled by John Harper

57 Dra1 Joseph French Esqr

58 Dra1 peter powers Settled by Jonathan parker privi6 Right

59 Dra1 peleg Larrance Settled by Joseph Hodge

60 Dra1 Isaac Williams Settled by James Caldwell

61 Dra1 David Adams Settled by Hugh Dunlap

62 Dra' James Stuart Settleing Duty Doing by David Hunter

63 Dra1 Nathaniel meserve Esqr

64 Dra1 David Wilson—

65 Dra1 John Rindge Esqr —

66 Dra' Randel m'Daniel Settled by Joseph Turner

67 Dra1 Jonathan Hubbard Junr Settleing Duty Don by Thomas

Turner

68 Dra1 Joseph Blanchard Esqr Well Improved by Thomas Davidson

69 Dra' Robart fletcher Junr Settled by John Davidson

JAFFREY. 395

70 Dra1 Joseph Emerson Settled by John Grout

71 Dra1 Thomas Wallensford Esq1" —

The Rights that appeareth to be Delinquent Are as folloeth viz)

The 4 Dra1 Thomas March

The 9 Dra1 John Kindle

The 12 Dra1 William Rindge

The 35 Dra1 John Hart Esqr

3b' Dra' John Chamberlin

and 37 Dra1 Joseph Winn Junr

The 47 Dra1 Josiah Brown

The 52 Draf Benja" Bellows Esq1

The 57 Dra1 Joseph French Esqr

and 64 Dra1 David Wilson

A True Accompt Err8 Excepted per me

Enoch Hale

[Andrew McAllister to Joseph Minot, 1772.]
[Masonian Papers, Vol. 6, p. 94.]

Sr After My Kind Regards to you these may Inform you that I
have got a Certifyceat and Drawn a Petition as well as I Could and
Would be vary much oblidged to you if you Would Gary it to ye Lord
Proprtors and Lay it Befor them and Represent my Case to them
telling them I am A poore Man and Came onto ye Land honastly
Expecting to have it for Performing Settlement and it may Be that
there mercy Will be Plased to Give me the other Lott Belonging to
ye Sd Right I Would A Com Down my Selfe and a seen you but I am
Not Able for I have not A Dun A days Work this Summer for I have
hurt my Selfe Working on this Land and I never Expect to be Well
all my days —

Sr Send me A Line after you have Been at Portsmouth and if I am
Able I Will Com and Se you I am very much oblidged to you and I
Will Setisfy you for your Truble

this from your Humble Sar1

Andrew McAllaster

N B there is Eight or ten Rights of Land in this town forfitted and
if you had any thoughts of Buying them from ye Lord Propritors I
Will Do the utmost of my Power of Informing you Where thy are

To M* Jonas Minot

396 CHARTER RECORDS.

[Petition of Andrew McAllister, 1772.]
[Masonian Papers, Vol. 6, p. 95.]

To the Hon'ble Theoadore Atkinson Esqr & the other Propri-
ators of Masons Patant Lying in the Province of Newhamp-
shire the Petition of Andrew mcAllaster Who humbly Sheweth that
William Morrow of Londonderry Bargened With your Petitionr for
to Settle A Right of Land in Monadock N° 2 Which Right of Land
Was drawn by Mr Daniel Emorison and promised to Give your Peti-
tionar the Lott N° 19 in the 4 Range for doing all ye Duty and per-
forming Settlement Which Was in ye year 1770 and your Petitionar
Buelt a house and Cleared Eight or ten Acres of Land and Performed
Settlement According to My Bargan on Said Lott and is now thretned
by William Morrow that he will Disposess me of sd Land & as I Under-
stand the Right of Land Was forfitted and Belonged to your Honrs
Before I Entred in Said Lott your Petitioner therefore Humbly Prays
that your honours in your Wisdom and Goodness Would Grant the
Said Lott to your Petitioner on terms of Settlement that he may not
be Disapointed of his Expecttion nor Turned off his Labour and your
Petitioner as in Duty Shall All way Pray

Andrew McAllaster

Monadock N° 2 September ye 7th day 1772—

[Certificate in Favor of McAllister, 1772.]
[Masonian Papers, Vol. 6, p. 96.]
Monadock N° 2 Sep* ye 3 day 1772 —

These may Certify your Honours that Andrew Mf Allaster hes Set-
tled the Right of Land that Was Drawn by Mr Daniel Emorison in
Monadock N° 2 & there is No other Settler on any of ye other Lotts
As Witness our hands

Matthew Wallace John Stanley

Roger Gilmore John Gilmore

George Wallace Jonathan Stanley

Siles Russel

LANDAFF. 397

LANDAFF.

[Granted Jan. 31, 1764, to James Avery and others. Regranted to Dartmouth
College Jan. 19, 1770. Incorporated Nov. 11, 1774. Settlements were made to
some extent under the Dartmouth College grant. After the Revolution, the first
grantees claimed that the forfeiture was illegal, and by the decision of the courts,
the college lost its title. A portion of Lincoln was annexed July 2, 1845. All
that part of Landaff northwest of Ammonoosuc River was annexed to Lisbon June
23, 1859. Easton was set off and incorporated July 20, 1876.

See New Hampshire charters in preceding volume ; IX, Bouton Town Papers,
464: X, Bouton Province and State Papers, 277, 398, 400, as to participation in
movement for union with Vermont towns ; XII, Hammond Town Papers, 361 ;
Index to Laws, 277; sketch, Child's Gazetteer of Grafton County, 1886, p. 396;
Baptist Churches in N. H., by E. E. Cummings, 1836, p. 12; Stevens's Memori-
als of Methodism, 1852, p. 145 ; Lawrence's N. H. Churches, 1856, p. 581 ; His-
tory of the Administration of the Law in Grafton County, by A. S. Batchellor,
Child's Gazetteer of Grafton County, 1886, p. 41 ; History of Dartmouth College
and Hanover, by Frederick Chase, 1891, vol. 1, p. 603; History of Dartmouth
College, by B. P. Smith, 1878.]

39^

CHARTER RECORDS.

[Plan of Lot in Landaff, 1819.]

(Copy)

A plan of 388 Acres of land as originall laid out for the Governors Lot

in the South West corner of Landaff with the adjoining hundred acre

Lots round the same which is shewn on the plan by dotted lines also

the names of the inhabitants living on the lots is inserted in the tract

LANDAFF. 399

lie lives on — the parts of the Govrs lot under improvement are coloured

with red paint — said plan is laid down by a scale of 20 Chains to an

inch as surveyed and protracted by me

o- j t i -\rcT\ cc \ County Surveyor for
Signed John M Dunee { ^ J r\ z ^t
° ( Orange County, Vermont

Jan* 28, 1819

[Valuation of Governors Reservation in Landaff, 1819.]
[Masonian Papers, Vol. 6, p. 98.]

State of Newhampshire { We the subscribers Selectmen of Lan-

Grafton ss \ daff in Said County

Having ben requested to explore the reservation of Bening Went-
worth in said Town have ben on do apprise it as follows

lot N° 1 82.00 per acre South of Savoury Gordon

D° N° 2 1.75 South of Phineas Gordon

D° N° 3 2.25 South of James Simonds

D° N° 4 3.00 West of Samuel Sampson

fees E Eaton 1 Mos. Webster 1

The above named lots of land all laying on the north side of the
river

Ebenr Eaton
Moses Webster

January 30th 1819 Mr Ebenezer Eaton & Col Moses Webster sign-
ers of the above certificate are Men with whom I am acquainted —
they are considered to be men of respectability & Judgment

M. P. Payson
Sam1 Hutchins

[Offer of Jonathan Simonds, 1819.]
[Masonian Papers, Vol. 6, p. 99.]

Landaff Oct 18th 1819

for the lot of sixty acres of land lying South of my farm lying on
the north side of the river I will give three dollars and thirty fore
cents per acre and make pay in fore years from the time I may come
in possession of the same with interest I will pay in grass seede grain
or neat stock

Jonathan Simonds

400 CHARTER RECORDS.

[Offer of Phineas Gordon, 1819.]
[Masonian Papers, Vol. 6, p. 99.]

Landaff Oct 18th 1819

for the land lying south of my farm from my east line to the river
which is a part of the governors farm so called I will give two dollars
per acre and will make pay in fore years or will leave it to Sp Web-
ster to chose theree men to prise said land and take it at their prisal

Phinehas Gordon

LYNDEBOROUGH.

[Granted by Massachusetts June 19, 1735, to Capt. Samuel King and others,
and called Salem-Canada. Granted by the Masonian Proprietors Dec. 5, 1753,
to Benjamin Lynde and others, and named Lyndeborough in honor of Benjamin
Lynde. Incorporated April 23, 1764. A portion of the town, with other terri-
tory, was incorporated as Greenfield June 15, 1 791 . Another portion was an-
nexed to Temple, June 11, 1796. The northeasterly part was annexed to Mont
Vernon Jan. 5, 1853. A tract from the southerly side was annexed to Milford
June 27, 1873.

See Massachusetts and New Hampshire charters in preceding volumes; IX,
Bouton Town Papers, 535; XII, Hammond Town Papers, 509; Index to Laws,
301 ; sketch, by David C. Grant, Hurd's History of Hillsborough County, 1885,
p. 498; Historical Address, 150th Anniversary, 1889, by Frank G. Clarke, 1891,
pp. 68; Proceedings of 150th Anniversary, mss., in possession of W. H. Grant,
St. Paul, Minn.; Baptist Churches in N. H., by E. E. Cummings, 1836, p. 19;
Lawrence's N. H. Churches, 1856, p. 192; The First Settlers, by J. Clark, 21,
N. E. Hist. Gen. Register, 277: Materials for a History, 8, id., 94; manuscripts
in possession of W. H. Grant, St. Paul, Minn.]

[John ShepanTs Power of Attorney, 1748.]

[Masonian Papers, Vol. 6, p. 101.]

To John Shepherd of Souhegan West in the Province of New
Hampshire Gent. — You are hereby desired & authorized for us & in
our behalf & to our use & others as Proprietors of all that Tract of
Land Lately purchased by us & others of John Tufton Mason Esqr by
Deed Dated the thirtieth Day of July 174G To Enter upon a Certain
Tract of Land Situate in Said Province Containing about five hundred
Acres bounded Southerly by Souhegan River Easterly by a place
called Souhegan West & Westerly & Northerly by unimproved Land
and make the most & best Improvement of Said Tract of Land that
you can and forbid & prevent any others from Entring & Improving

LYNDKBOROUGII. 4OI

there unless by your leave & to the Same use which you your Self are
hereby Authorized to do for which this Shall be your Warrant Dated
at Portsm0 the 16th Day of Septr 1748

John Shepard

the within Warrant or power of attorney is a Copy of One given to
me by Theodore Atkinson Mark 1 1 unking Wentworth R. Wibird
Thos Packer John Moffatt Nath1 Meserve J. Odiorne & Thos Wallings-
ford Esq™

John Shepard
Witnesses
W"' Parker
Matthew Livermore

[Petition of Samuel Dustin, 1748.]

[Masonian Papers, Vol. 6, p. 101.]

Portsmouth October 26th 1748—
To the Gentlemen Purchasers & Proprietors of Mason's Right in
the Province of New Hampshire

I the Subscriber in behalf of myselfe and others chiefly Inhabitants
of Haverhill District & Methuen District pray the favour of the Pro-
prietors aforesaid to grant or dispose of, to us or such a number of us
as to you Shall Seem meet and upon Such Terms as shall be most
agreable to you, of a Parcel of land beginning at ye east corner of
Souhegan west then running Six miles upon Salem Cannada (So
Called), northward, then running westerly Six Miles then Southerly
Six miles then Easterly Six miles — So as to make Six Miles Square
or otherwise as near said tract of land as you shall think fit — and we
shall esteem your favour an Obligation to your Petitioners in whose
behalfe I am Gent™

Your Hum : Serv1

Samuel Dustin

[Charter of Lyndeborougli, 1753.]
[Farmer's Mss. Town Papers, Vol. 4, p. 275.]

Province of ) Pursuant to the Power and Authority granted And
New Hampr \ vested in me the Subscriber by the Proprs of Lands
Purchased of John Tufton Mason Esq1" in the Province of New Hamp-
shire At their meeting Regularly Called for that Purpose. —

4-02

CHARTER RECORDS.

I do by these Presents On the terms And Conditions with the
reservations herein After Expressed Give And Grant All the Right
title property And Possession of the Proprs afores'1 According to the
following Proportions of Interest viz1 to Benjamin Lynd's Esq four
Shares Benjamin Pitkman Esqr three Shares Robert Hooper Esq One
Share, to the Heirs and Assigns of Joseph Sweat Esq Six Shares to
Joseph Blaney Esq two Shares — Samuel Wells Esq two Shares Daniel
Epps Junr Esqr two Shares Major Joshua Hicks two Shares Benjamin
Goodhew three Shares Thomas Fletcher Two Shai'es Joseph Richard-
son two Shares George Goold two Shares Ephraim Ingalls Two
Shares And to the following Persons viz1 Joseph Bowdage Esq Josiah
Bowers Stephen Puttnam the Heirs of James Lendall Esq late De-
ceased Jonathan Bowers Major John Fowle John Bickford William
Holt Moses Graves, Oliver Fletcher Esq Timothy Cumings to Mrs
Hannah Cobbit Joseph Clough David Stinson Daniel Nickolls Robert
Swan And Jonathan Peal to Which Seventeen One Share Each, of in
And to a tract of Land in the Province of New Hampr afores'1 Con-
taining by Estimation twenty eight Thousand Acres Part thereof
Heretofore Called Salem Canada the Whole tract Bounded As follows,
Begining at the Northeast Corner of a tract of Land Called Duxbury
School Farm And in the line of that tract or township Called Souhe-
gan West from thence riming West by the Needle One mile two
Hundred And Eighty Rods to the East line of a tract of Land Called
Nomber two from thence North by the Needle four Hundred And
ninety Eight Rods to the Northeast Corner of Sd N° two from thence
west by the Needle by Sd N° 2 five miles to a White Ash marked the
Corner of Peterborough Slip And of N° 2 : And from thence west
by the Needle two Hundred And Forty Rods by Sd Petersborough
Slip to a Beach tree Marked from thence North by the Needle Six
miles & Three Quarters to a tree Marked for the Corner of Sd tract
from Thence East by the Needle three miles and One quarter to a
tree marked in the Western line of New Boston from thence South
by that line One mile And An half to the most Southwesterly Corner
of New Boston afores'1 from thence East by S'1 New Boston line three
miles One hundred And twenty rods to a Black Oak marked Still by
Said New Boston line & runs South two miles And An half To a
Stump and Stones from thence East One mile And Eighty rods to
the northwest Corner of that tract Called Southegun west afores'1 from
thence South by the line of Said Souhegun west four miles One Hun-
dred And twenty three rods to the Bounds first mentioned, & to all
the Bounds afores'1 lett Either of the lines afores'1 be more or less —
Which tract of Land or Township Shall from this time be Called
Lyndes Borough, the Premises afores*1 under the terms & Conditions

LYNDEBOROUGH. 403

with the Reservations hereafter express, (that is to Say) that the
Grantees afores'1 According their Respective Shares (excepting as
hereafter excepted, have twenty One Thousand & thirty Acres Part
of the afores'1 twenty eight Thousand Acres As the Whole of the
grantees part of the Premises in the following Manner viz1 that Each
of the Grantees named in the Seheedule hereunto Annexed Own And
Enjoy the Severall And Respective lotts to their names Respectively
Affixed, As part of their Shares, That the following Severall Lotts,
(And to be part of the Grantees proportion afores'1) be granted As
afores'1 free from Duty Settlement or taxes in Bringing forward or
Compleating the duty as the Conditions of this grant to the Severall
Persons hereafternamed As follows To David Badger the lott N° 117,
to Francis Densmore the lott N° 106, to Bartholomew Jackson lott
N° 100, To John Skead the lott N° 50, To Paul Raymond the lott N°
99, Which lotts Contain by estimation one Hundred And thirty
Acres each And is part of the Second Division formerly laid out in Sd
tract, To James Twadle in the Right formly Edward Fladre the
Home lot Called 24 East with An Addition Round About it of Sixty
four Acres to Compleat the quantity of One Hundred And thirty
Acres to Deacon Nathaniel Puttnam Peter Martin & George Deal-
ands Heirs to Each One lott. to be lay'd Out in the undivided Lands
which three lotts Are to Contain One Hundred And thirty Acres
each And to Benjamin Lynde As Assignee to John Dale Senr the
home lott N° 21 And One Hundred and Twenty Acres to be Lay'd
out in the Undivided Lands Which S'1 persons in their Capacitys as
above Shall be Intitled to no further part of ye Premises —

That Out of the Grantees Proportion there be three Shares more
granted One for the first Settled Minister And One for Ministry And
One for the Schole there forever Which Said Shares Shall be And
Contain in the Severall And Respective lotts entered in the Seheedule
hereunto Annexed As their Whole & Respective Shares & Shall be
free of Duty of Settlement And all taxes in performing the Condions
of this Grant —

To have and to hold to them their Heirs & Assigns forever under
the following Conditions, with y1' Reservations hereafter mentioned
Viz'—

That there be reserved out of said Tract, One Farm of Five Hun-
dred Acres, at the South-Westerly Corner of said Tract and also One
Hundred and Fifty Acres, Adjoining on that Corner of ye Township
that Bounds on New Boston West Line, & One Hundred and Fifty
Acres as discribed in ye Plan of said Tract

And that there be further reserved to and for y'' use of ye Grantors,
their Heirs and Assigns, Free of all Charge & Incumberance of Settle-

4°4

CHARTER RECORDS.

ment or Taxes, untill improved by the Owners, or by them sold,
Six Thousand and Sixty Six Acres, and laid out into Nineteen
Equal shares at the Charge of ye Grantees, in ye following manner
Viz1 That there be in ye next best Accomodations of ye undivided
Lands, Three Thousand Six Hundred & Sixty Acres, laid out for the
Grantors aforesaid, for Quantity and Quality, with ye Lands already
laid out, in Nineteen Equal shares, as aforesaid and that there shall
be next laid out, in ye said undivided Lands so much to each Grantee,
who has not his full Proportion in ye Lands already laid out, and set
in ye Schedule, as shall make their respective shares equal with the
rest —

And that the remaining part of the Land reserved for the Grantors
aforesaid, being Two Thousand Four Hundred Acres, be Divided for
Quantity and Quality, with the rest of ye com'on Lands into Nineteen
equal shares — And the remainder of ye Com'ons or undivided Lands,
to be to and for the use of ye Grantees as they shall Order the Divi-
sions thereof — And that where any Lands was by the Proprietors,
claiming under the Massachusets Grant formerly left within any Lott,
for Highways, the Owners of such Lott, shall have said Land thus
reserved, allowing so much, as shall be of Equal Value, out of his
Part in his next Division of ye Com'ons

That the respective Grantees, Owners of ye Fifty shares afores11 and
who are not excused from Duty and Charge, bring forward and make
settlement, in the following manner Viz1 That they lay out ye s'1
Tract or Township and compleat the Division thereof as afore directed,
at or before ye 20th Day of November next ensuing, and return a Plan
thereof, certified under the Hand of their Clerk on Oath, within Two
Months after such Work, shall be compleated to ye Clerk of said
Grantors

That ye respective Owners, for each respective share, make One
settlement, in the following manner Viz1 To clear inclose & fit for
Mowing or Plowing Two Acres on some one Lott, and have a com-
fortable dwelling House, Built and fitted for comfortable Dwelling in,
and a Family or some Person resident there at or before, the first Day
of December, One Thousand Seven Hundred and Fifty Six, and to
continue Inhabitant or Resident there, for Four Years, then next
comeing and also for the same Four Years Annually, on each of ye
said Lotts, to have Two Acres cleared, Inclosed and fitted as afore-
said

That there be a Meeting House, for Publick Worship in said Town-
ship, within Five Years from this Date, at Such Place as shall be
agreed on by the Proprietors, both Grantors and Grantees, to be
determined according to Interest, and Ten Acres reserved there for

LYNDEBOROUGH. 405

Publick use notwithstanding such Lott should be laid out to any Par-
ticular Person or Persons

That the Lands in said Township belonging to Grantors and Gran-
tees, be subjected to have all Necessary Highways, laid through them
as there shall be occasion, for the Future without any Pay or Allow-
ance for Damages, that the aforesaid Grantees, their Heirs or Assigns
not heretofore excused from Charge, by a Major Vote in Publick
Meeting called for that Purpose, Grant and Assess in Equal Propor-
tion, Such Sum or Sums of Money as they shall think necessary for
carrying forward and compleating the Settlement aforesaid or for the
Support of the Ministry as the Proprietors shall agree to, and every
of the Grantees exclusive of the Three Publick Lotts, or his Assignee
who shall Neglect for the Space of Sixty Days after such Assessment
shall be granted, to pay the same, so much of such Delinquents
Rights, shall and may be sold as will Pay their respective Taxes and
all Charges ariseing thereon by a Com'ittee to be appointed by the
Grantees or their Assignees, for that Purpose — And in case any of
the Grantees, or their Assignees shall neglect or refuse to perform
any of the Articles, Matters, or Things aforesaid by him respectively
to be done, He shall Forfeit his Right in said Township, and every
Part thereof, to those of the Grantees or their I mediate Assignees
who shall have complyed, with the Conditions on their Part, herein
expressed, and it shall, and may be Lawfull for them or any Person,
by their Authority, to enter into & upon, the Right or Part, of such
Delinquent Owner and any and every part in the Name and behalf
of the whole of the Grantees or their Imediate Assignees, who shall
comply as aforesaid, to amove oust and expell for the use of them
their Heirs and Assigns, provided they settle or cause to be settled
each such delinquents Right, within the Term of one Year at the
farthest from the Periods, that is by this Instrument Stipulated to be
done as the Condition of this Grant and fully comply with the whole
Duty, such delinquent ought to have done, within One Year from
Time to Time after the respective Periods thereof and in case the
Grantees or their Assignees, fullfilling their Parts as aforesaid shall
neglect, fullfilling as aforesaid the Duty of any delinquent Owner as
aforesaid then such right or Part shall be Forfeit revert and belong
to the Grantors their Heirs and Assigns and be wholly at their
disposal

Allways Provided there shall be no Indian Warr, within any of ye
Terms aforesaid for doing the Duty conditioned in this Grant, and in
case that should happen, the same Time to be allowed, for the respec-
tive matters afores'1 after such Impediment shall be removed

That all White Pine Trees fit for Masting His Majesties Royall

406 CHARTER RECORDS.

Navy growing on said Tract of Land, be and hereby are Granted to
his Majesty, His Heirs and Successors forever

Lastly the said Grantors, do promise and Engage to ye said Gran-
tees, their Heirs and Assigns, to defend through the Law, to King &
Council, (if need be one Action that shall and may be brought against
them or any Number of them, by any Person or Persons whatsoever,
claiming the said Land or any part thereof, by any other Title than
that, of the s'1 Grantors, or that by which, they hold and derive theirs
from, provided the said Grantors are avouched in to defend the same
and that in Case on Final Tryall, the same shall be recovered, against
the Grantors, that such Person or Persons, shall recover nothing over
against the Grantors for the said Lands, Improvements or Expence, in
bringing forward the Settlement

To all which Premises, I Joseph Blanchard Agent for and in
behalf of the Proprietors, the Grantors, have hereunto set my Hand
and Seal this Fifth Day of December A D. 1753—

Signed Sealed & Joseph Blanchard [seal]

D D in presence of
Geo : Delond
Jn° Bowles

The aforegoing Pages contain a True Copy of the Charter signed
& Executed by Joseph Blanchard Esqr as Agent for & in behalf of
the Proprietrs of Lands purchased of Jn° Tufton Mason Esqr in the
Province of New Hampshire delivered unto us the Subscribers in
behalf of the Grantees mentioned in this Charter And whereas we
were by the afores'1 Grantees Authorized & Impowered to setle Agree
& Compound, concerning the premises in the aforewritten Charter,
with the sd Joseph Blanchard Esqr in his capacity abovemention'd,
on such terms & Conditions & with such reservations as by both
parties should be agreed & Concluded, Now therefore we the sd
Com'itee in the name & behalf of the Grantees mentioned in the
aforewritten Charter, hereby Accept sd Title & for stl Grantees do
Acknowledge that we hold sd Lands, under the sd Grantors Title &
on the conditions & Limitations with the reservations express'd in
said Charter Wittness our hands this 5th Decembr 1753
Witnesses Benja Lynde )

Love Pickman Benja Pickman > Comte

John Nutting Jr Joshua Hicks )

LYNDEBOROUGII.

407

[Draft of Lots, 1753.]

[Farmer's Mss. Town Papers, Vol. 4, p. 281.]

Schedule to be anexed to Charter made to Benjamin Lynde Esqr and others of
Salem Canada now called Lyndeborough

Persons names.

Benjamin Lynde Esqr

Benja Pickman, Esqr ....

Robert Hooper Esq1" & Mr Swetts

Heirs

Joseph Blaney Esqr ....
Majr Joshua Hicks ....
Benjamin Goodhew ....

Thomas Fletcher

Samuel Wells Esq : . . . .

George Gould

Ephraim Ingalls

Daniel Epes Jr Esq .....
Cap' Joseph Richardson .

Josiah Bowers

Joseph Bowditch Esq

The Heirs of James Lindall Esqr

Stephen Putnam

Jonathan Bowers

John Bickford

Moses Graves

Majr John Fowle

Oliver Fletcher Esq1" ....

Hanah Cabot

Joseph Clough

David Stimson

Daniel Nichols

Robert Swan

Jonathan Peele

Timothy CuirTings ....

William Holt

School Lott

Ministry Lott

First Ministers Lott ....

N°of Home

Division

Lotts

27. 50, 23
9> 22, 44,

2, 8,37.
4i. 43- 49

3, 6,

28, 47,
20, 58, 61

18,35.
54, 57,
24, 46,
40, 59,
5i, 53,
19, 3i,
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7,

14,
16,

38,
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39

42
45,
48
52

55
60
26

25
32,
33
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N° of Second Division Lotts

44,
53,
34,
94,
3°,
52,
48,
56,
7i,
69,

Si.

40,

63,

81

86,

77,
113
47,
38,
109

45,

72

120

62,

58,

55, 83, 84, 98, 101, 65.

66, 80, 83, in,

36, 37, 92, 93, 48,49. IC)8, 87,

29, 103

41, 54,

97, 102, 1 14

60, 64, 115, 124, 125,

57,82,

75, 81

70, 74

1 12, 1 19, 123,

73, 104, 107,

89, 116, 118

95,
78,
, 122,

79,
42,
, 1 10
105,

, 121

96,
59.

35. 61,
3', 32
46, 76.
67, 126.
90, 91
126. 127.

The aforegoing^List is the Schedule refferred to in the Annexed Charter.
DeC 5: 1753. Benj" Lynde

Benja Pickman S ComtM
Joshua Hicks.

408

CHARTER RECORDS.

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[Francis Borland to George Jaffrey, 1755.]

[Masonian Papers, Vol. 6, p. 102.]

Boston 31st Janrv 1755
Sir Having the Opportunity of my good Friend Mr Ross I here
inclose You Copy of the Plan of 400 Acres Land lay'd out by Mr
Fletcher in lieu of the 400 1 formerly Purchased of Sun qch I must
Beg the favor of Yor Laying before ye Gentm Proprietors for their
Acceptance, by the Vots of the Propriety Coll Blanchard was to have
laid it out but as his Business would not Admit thereof, the Col0
Fmploy'd Mr Fletcher qdl I presume will be Agreeable to the Gentle-
men Proprietors, to whom please make my Best Compliments I am
with most Sincere Regards Dear Sir

Your most Obed1 Serv'

Fran8 Borland
My compliments to yor worthy Family
To George Jaffrey Esq1'

LYNDEBOROUGH.

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The Lotts on the West Line of the Town as Described in this plan
and Numbered from (1.) to (19.) Contain 200 acres each — And the
Lotts Described at the Northwardly Part & on New Boston Lines
Numbred from (1.) to (14.) Contain 130. acres each, and the other
Two Lots Not Numbred have the Quantity of acres they Contain
affixed on them Respectively

Well Bounded and Truly Described By
Octobr ye 8th 1759—

Robt Fletcher

[A copy of this plan is endorsed, "Wrong in Aim0 every part is
almost a Mile Wider than it realy is."]

LYNDEHOROUGH. 4II

[Reserved Lots in Lyndeborough, 1760.]
[Masonian Proprietors' Records, July 7, 1760.]

Whereas the Grantees of Lyndborough have return'd the Survey
and Plan of a division of Part of the said Township made and signed
by Robert Fletcher dated the 8th of October 1759 and desired the
said Plan and Survey might be accepted and recorded which being
approved

Voted the same be accepted & entered upon the records of this
Propriety and that the said lotts therein assigned for the Grantors be
drawn for at this meeting which was accordingly done and the said
lotts so drawn for are hereby voted to be the right and Property of
the Person Respectively to whom drawn & entered, his heirs and
assingns in Severalty forever

The said Lotts were drawn in the following manner Viz1
1st drawn N° 12 to Joshua Peirce Esq" right

2 10 to Thomlinson & Mason

3 6 to Mark Hunking Went worth Esqr

4 17 to Jotham Odiorne Esqrs Right

5th 16 to Samuel Solly & Clement March Esq18

6 15 to Thomas Packer Esqr

7 4 to Mr Samuel Livermore

8 9 to George Jaffrey

9 2 to John Moffatt Esqr

10 18 to John Wentworth Esqrs right

11 7 to Theodore Atkinson Esqrs

12 19 to Richard Wibird Esqr

13 5 to Meserve Blanchard &c

14 3 to Mary Moore & Daniel Peirce Esqr

15 14 to Mr John Rindge

16 8 to William Parker Esqr

17 11 to Thomas Wallingford Esqr

18 1 to Joseph Blanchard Esqrs Right

19 13 to Benjamin Pratt Esqr

412 CHARTER RECORDS.

[SheparoVs Plan of Eight Proprietor s Lots, 1766.]

't/>y Jn° 5he/lp°.'d Elf Mc/i tmt&in* at' KO Jlctei-

Corrton Lands

[Petition of John Quigley, 1768.]

[Masonian Papers, Vol. 6, p. 103.]

Province of \ To ye Proprs of Mason's Patent
New Hampshire \ Humbly Shews John Quigley of New Boston
in the prove afores'1 desires to inform your honours that he has been
at vast expence and trouble in Regard to your honrs Interest in
Mason's Patent aforesd & Whereas there is a thousand Acre in the
Crotchet Mountain of Common and undivided Land and Also a Small
Strip of common and undivided Land between Leinsborrough and
Peterborrough and hopes your honrs Will take it into Consideration
and grant him as many Acres as you'll think Will Satisfy the An-
nex'd ace1 for So doing yr pettir thinks himself in duty Bound &C

John Quigely

[Deposition of Robert Fletcher, 1770.]
[Masonian Papers, Vol. 6, p. 103.]

I Rob1 Fletcher aged ab° 42 yrs Testify & say, That I was the Sur-
vey1" who wth Sam11 Butterfield & others, laid out to ye Several Pro-
priety who hold under Jn° Tufton Mason Esqr The Tract of Land,
calld The Society Land, or Reserv1' Lands, their perticulr Lotts Anno
1753. That the Lott N° 8, W" fell to Col0 Wallingsfd on the East

LYNDEBOROUGH. 413

End began at a Black Oake w'h is the N° east Corner of N° 8 — the
Line runs South one mile on the head of New Boston Addition Line
to an Hemlock Tree, which is the N° east Cornr of Lyndebr0 Addition,
which was made by Order of Col0 Blanchard A D : 1753, from thence
it runs West Three Mile & 80 Rod, on Lyndeb0 to a Black oak:
Thence Turning at a right Angle & runs south one mile & 120 rod
to a white Pine being the Extent of N° 8, southward & is in a direct
Line East wth Peterbor0 North Line —

I was also the Survey1 that by Order of Col0 Blanchard made the
Addition to Lyndebor0 & planned the same, agreable to wch the
Charter was drawn — and at the N° west Corner of the Town, ye Ad-
dition N° was made from the Southwest Cornr of new Boston Addition,
& was to run N° on that Head Line one mile & an half to a Hemloke
Tree in the s'1 head Line of New Boston Addition — & I Know it was
intended yr Lyndebor0 Should Extend so far north ; until it came to
ye aforesd Hemlock; which is one mile South of the bla Oak at the
N° East Corner of N° 8, and one mile & half North of ye S° West
Corner of new Boston Addition — That sometime in the spring of the
Year 1766, I Informed AT W1" Dickey, one of the Purchasers of the
Lott N° 8, of the bounds as abovemention'd ; who told me, that he sd
Dickey & others were about Purchasing the s'1 Lot N° 8, & that he
came to me to Enquire ab° the Bounds

Rob' Fletcher

Essex ss } Salem 9 febry 1770—

Then the abovenam'1 Rob1 Fletcher made Oath to the Truth of the
above Deposition by him subscribed — and the same is taken to ly, in
Perpetuam Rei Memoriam

Jurat Coram Andw Oliver ) Justicies Pacs

W'" Browne \ Quorum Unus.

414

CHARTER RECORDS.

[Carleton's Plan of Land Between Peterborough and Lgndeborough,

1771.]

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Honoured Sir

I am informed that my accompt was laid before the Proprieters of
the Strip of land between Lyndeborough and Peterborough and that
it was Objected against because I Sent no plan I was not desired to
Send any plan but only to Send what the Strip Contained but Since
they desire a plan I have Sent one on this paper which if you exam in
the plans of Peterborough Lyndeborough Temple and Collo Wal-
lingfords lott and Mr Borlands farm you will find very exact but I
find Collo Wallingfords lott extends farther South on Lyndeborough
West line then I knew of befoi-e So that the Strip does not contain So
much as I returned before I expected Collo Wallingfords South line

LYNDKBOROUGH. 415

extend no farther South than Lyndeborough North line but I have
Seen a Ooppy of his Deed to the Deny men and have had opertunity
to converse with M1 Rob* Fletcher and find that it extends 440 rods
South of Lyndeborough North West Corner as you may See by this
plan the South end of it what I Saw of it is very broken and mountain-
ous the north end flat pitch pine plain the middle is what may be
called very good land I Suppose it to be half if not more good land
and the rest very poor I hope this plan and description will give
the Proprieters Satisfaction So that they will find it in their way
to pay my accompt — I am Sir

Your Most Humble Servant
Lyndeborough April ye 8th 1771 Osgood Carleton

[Petition of Robert Fletcher, 1772.]
[Masonian Papers, Vol. 6, p. 104.]

To the Honourable the Proprietors of the Lands purchased of John
Tuffton Mason Esqr in the Province of New Hampshire The Humble
Petition of Robert Fletcher of Dunstable in said Province Shews,
That there is a Tract of Land which Remains ungranted between the
west line of Lyndesborough, the east Line of Peterborough the North
Line of Temple, and the South line of the Society land so Called, Con-
taining about Two thousand acres, Chiefly mountains, & Lands in-
capable of improvement and Rejected by the proprietors of the
Towns before mentioned on that Account, that your Petitioner has
found a small Tract within the bounds aforesaid which he apprehends
might do for a Settlement, provided he Could have the other part,
which in some future time might answer for Grazing &c. Where-
fore he humbly prays your honours wonld make him a grant of the
whole of said Tract, on such Conditions & under such Limitations as
you in your wisdom shall think proper and he as in Duty bound will
Ever pray

Portsm0 Octobr 3rd 1772. Rob1 Fletcher

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CHARTER RECORDS.

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[Benjamin Lynde to Proprietors, 1773.]
[Masonian Papers, Vol. 6, p. 105.]

Salem May 28th 1773

Hon1,le Sir With this you will have a New Survey & laying out
of Eight Grand Proprietors Lotts by Mr Osgood Carleton April 1773
at the N° west of Lyndeborough ; these with 8 before laid out on
Amherst Line & near the Home Lotts by Jn° Sheppard Esq1"; make
16 only, the Number directed, without any for the 3 Lawyers — These
being at the N W Corner & beyond the mountains, are 150 to 160
acres, as the other are near the Inhabitants —

The Lotts laid out by Mr Sheppard are lost by the Enchoachment
of the 17 Deny men who bought of Col0 Wallingsford, who claim half
a mile further South than the bounds in his Deed gives them ; & take
half a mile which our Charter gives us in plain words —

You have also the reform of the Survey of the 19 Grand Lotts laid
out by mr Fletcher 1759 which was Erroneous in not making allow-
ance for the variation of the Compass from the 1st running 1736 —
whereby the Northern Lotts were above 100 Rod short thro the
wedth — This now is rectified, and the bounds at the Corner of each Lot
ascertain'd on the Plan, without which it was imposible for any
grand Proprietor to have found his certain Lot — This has been
attended with a great deal of Charge to us, but absolutely Necessary,
& best to be setled right, before Improvements came to be made

I Wish, Sir, that the Proprietors, with vou, would Draw for the 16
20

418 CHARTER RECORDS.

Lotts, that they may Know how to sell (if they Incline to it) & Accom-
odate such as come to setle —

I am Sir with great respect

Your most Obed1 Humb Servant
Honble Geo : Jaffry Esqr Benja Lynde

[Benjamin Lynde to Proprietors, 1773.]

[Masonian Papers, Vol. 6, p. 106. J

Salem 28 July 1773—

Honble Sir/ Your Favours of the 23d, I received last night ; I find
it goes intirely on a Mistake — as thd the Masonian Proprietors had
not the Quantity of Land reserved for them in their Charter — That
was 6066 Acres — Anno 1759 there was laid out for them, Nine-
teen liV Lotts each of 200 Acres, Makes 3800 Acres, these they
Drew for in July 1760 — in 1766 there was laid out by Jn° Sheppard
Junr Eight Lotts on Amherst Line each containing 130 Acres, is
1040 Acres more — These being nearer Amherst & Supposed better,
were not so large as those at a Distance — In 1768 Mr Sheppard laid
out the 8 Lotts in the Addition made to Lyndeborough, wch being at
a greater distance, were Larger, viz 150 to 160 Acres The 17 Derry
men, by vertue of their Purchase from Wallingsford whose Deed
gives them only one mile on New Boston, made an Encroachment of
half a mile further (th6 they were told by R° Fletcher Esqr to
whom they Applyed, before they bought, how far Wallingford came
South & that he had only one mile on the Head of new Boston — this
broke up the Allotment of Esqr Sheppards, put us to a much greater
Charge for Examining & to Measure Wallingford great Lott, with
fixing it by his Deed & other Evidence This cost us £15 or £16 L
M — & now Carleton laying out in 1773 ab° all this has been the
Charge of the Grantees — and tho they have some Hundred of Acres
taken from them ; Yet the Grand Proprietors have the whole of
their reservation & 10 or 12 acres more —

These Eight Lotts are Generally the best Land, tho further dis-
tant—

What I Proposed was the drawing for the 8 Lotts laid out 1766
of 130 Acrs Each, with the 8 Lotts laid out by Carlton 1773 of 150
or 160 Ac : each —

If I omitted the Plan of the 8 Lotts laid out 1766, when I sent the
other 8 Lotts of Carleton it was a mistake & is sent now

I also transmit you Mr Fletchers Deposition, taken in perpetuam
&c to shew the Gr'1 Proprietors the Unreasonableness, of the Derry
mens Encroachments —

I.YNOEBOROUGH.

419

Should tln> land between Peterbor0 & Lyndebor0 be offered for sale,
tho its cheifly mountainous & Hilly, I should be glad to have the
refusal of it & would make as good pay as any — I am with my
best Regards to the Proprietors

Sir Your & their most Obed1 Hum1'1 Serv1

Benja Lynde
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42O CHARTER RECORDS.

[Benjamin Lynde to Proprietors, 1773.]

[Masonian Papers, Vol. 6, p. 107.]

Salem Septr 2, 1773

Honble Sir I am favoured with yours of the 18th of Augst, in An-
swer to which let me Assure you — (That as I take it) There will
none of those Lots laid out by Carleton, be Infringed on by the Derry
mens Incroachments ; — I have Two shares in the 16 Lots now to be
drawn, my own Interest therefore would have ledd me to take care
that those Lots, should be clear from Incroachments —

I am sorry to find That Frances Town Laps on Lyndebor0 I sup-
pose the Charter of Incorporation, is the same with the Proprietors
Charter from Col0 Blanchard 1753. which makes Lyndeborough to
run from the S W Corner of new Boston Addition one Mile & an
half on the head line of s'1 Addition this leaves for Wallingford N°
8 — one Mile to the red oak which is the N E Corner of his Lott as
its Odiornes S E Corner bound — Yet these Irish, th6 Col0 Walling-
ford Deed to them, is only one Mile from srl Red Oak South, they
have stretcht it to one mile & half large Measure

Mr Peirce's Illness may prevent his Attending when you draw your
Lotts. I should therefore be Obliged to you, if you would Please to
draw for my Two Rights bought of Col0 Blanchard viz1 1 that was
Meservy, Green & his, & 1 he had as Agent of the Grd Proprietors.

With regard to the Strip between Lyndebor0 & Peterbor0 I Know
verry litle about it — I am told towards the South a great part of it is
Rocky & Mountainous — other parts may be tolerable ; but it's only
because it is Adjoyning to Lyndebor0 that I would buy it, if it was
Sold a penny worth — I should be glad to hear what the Quantity is,
& what it will Fetch in Cash —

I am, Sir, with respects to the Compa

Your & their most hum1'1 Servant

Benja Lynde

Septr 5 : 1773
Sr/ Since finishing the other side, Mr Davd Chandler has been
with me, & tells me, Esqr Sheppard has Measured the Strip of the
Proprietors Land by Duxbury School Farm & its measure is Six hun-
dred & od Acres, makes but 42 or 43 Acres to ^ — Yet Mr Peirce
about 10 years agoe writes me, That Col0 Blanchard, (as he Under-
stood by his son) was to have 8 miles of that Strip on the South part,
the remaindr Supposed to be 1 mile & half was devided & Lotted out
& made 53 Acre to ^ — at which rate I bought & paid for Col0 Marchs
part — his Letter Mr Chandler has for your perusal

I am sr Your most Obed1 Serv1 B Lynde

LYNDEBOROUGH. 421

[Benjamin Lynde to Proprietors, 1774.]
[Masonian Papers, Vol. 6, p. 108.]

Dan vers 25th April 1774

Hon1'1'' Sir Your Favours of 24 Decern1" past, I received: and was
in hopes 'ere this to have heard, you had drawn for the Lotts laid out
to the grand Proprietors — I Should have been glad also, to have had
Cap1 Fletchers Original Testimony, returned Recorded, with what I
am Indebted for it, as 1 suppose you have a Register Chosen —

I am told you have lately Advertised Two ps of Land Adjoining on
Lyndeboro ; & that one is the Supposed Gore between that Town &
the Deny men — I should have been verry Glad to have known its
description & Contents ; one of your Newes Papers might sufficiently
do that If you could send me one, unless they are not so perticular
as your book —

We have Spent Several hundred Pounds, on Ascertaining the Addi-
tion made to Salem Canada, by Col0 Blanchard & Fletcher:

I have my Self taken more pains about it, than I would again for
.£20 : lawful Mony—

In my Letter of 10th Novr I mentioned to you an Affair of Mr Qigliy
viz his Demand for paying Wittnesses on a Trespass, on Mr Hancock
& my Society Lott N° 2 — Which as I Knew nothing of, I Supposed
was a Genr1 Charge — but Promised to write you, &• have your advise
thereon : which should be much Obliged to you for

I am Sir Your most Obed1 Humbl Servant

Benja Lynde

PS: If you would be so good, as to write me how much, a Grand
Proprietors Right in Gilman Town was, — & the Number, & in what
part of the Town, Mr Solly & March Share fell, it would much
Oblige

Your most humDle Serv1

B Lynde

[J'imes Underwood to John Penhallou\ 1774.]

[Masonian Papers, Vol. 6, p. 109.]

Litchfield June 9th 1774
M* Penhallow Sir/

After Expressions of my Compliments to you these are to Inform
yon that I have had oppertunity to Dispose of a lot of Land ajoin-
ing to the strip of Land I once Wanted to pinches from Masons
Propriety therefore do Decline from having any more to do with said

422 CHARTER RECORDS.

strip only to pray a Division of the Strip Immediately as I am De-
termined to make the Best of it I can, if I shon'd have a good Devide
I may perhaps Git the money it cost if not I may Loose by Purchas-
ing be so kind Sir as to Communicate these Lines to the Rest of your
Committee & if Agreeable Let me have a line when you will Attend
on a Division you will remember that I have two 15th parts viz' Col0
Atkinson & Col0 Meserves I am sir (in hast) with due regard your
most Obed* & very Hum1 Ser1

James Underwood
Mr John Penhollow

\_Agreement to Purchase Land, 1774.]

[Masonian Papers, Vol. 6, p. 110.]

Portsm0 June 15th 1774 Joshua Holt & Jn° Abbot 4th both of An-
dover in ye Prov: of Massa Agree to purchase of the Proprs the Strip
of land between Peterborough & Lyndsborough and to pay four shil-
lings ^ Acre for the Same part of ye Sum on having ye Grant ye Re-
maindr in September next to pay Interest till paid — and they will be
in this Town by a month from this date to receive ye Grant &c

Joshua Holt
John Abbot 4th

[Proprietors to John Shepard, 1774.]
[Masonian Papers, Vol. 6, p. 110.]

Jn° Sheppard Esqr

The Proprietors of the lands purchased of Jn° Tufton Mason Esqr
are about making a Conveyance of a Strip of land to Messrs Holt Abbot
&ca — and to be conveyed by ye Acre — we had a plan thereof made by
Osgood Carlton for ascertaining ye Quantity of Said Tract ye certainty
of which Those person's are in Some doubt and are desirous of having
ye Same Surveyed again, and we are consenting, having reason to
think that Tract of land contain's more Acres than Mentioned in
Osgoods plan — as the Proprs have great Confidence in your Integrity
& Skill have requested your favour to undertake ye Survey and return
a plan of the Same to us That is that you will as Soon as you can
conveniently, make a Survey of the Said Strip to begin at the North-
west Corner of Borlands farm so called, and run by the northerly line
thereof to the west line of Lyndsborough and on the Said line to the
South line of the Society land so called then by that line till it meet's

LYNDEBOROUGH. 423

the Northeasterly Corner of Peterborough then by that line to the
bounds began at — the Course of the westerly Side line of Lyndsbor-
ough & easterly Side line of Peterborough are north by y'' Needle
granted in the year 1753 — or thereabouts — It is desired you will be
as exact as you can in ye admeasurement — and contents of the land
— for your assistance we enclose you Carlton's Plan of the strip and
ye Plan of Rorlands farm by which you will See the form and con-
tents, which you'l see if it contain's no more than 400 Acres — The
persons who apply to you for making the Survey will pay you for the
Same & Plan — which Send to us under your Cover — in behalf of
Prop™

Portsm0 July 16 1774 G J. P Cle

Portsm0 July 15th 1774 Then Agreed with Mason's Proprietors,
that as we requested a survey of ye Strip of land between Lyndsbor-
ough & Peterborough, which is to be taken by Jn° Sheppard Esqr —
that we will pay ye Cost and Charge of ye Survey & Plan —

Joshua Holt
John Abbott 4th

[Shepard*8 Plan of Land bettveen Peterborough and Lyndeborouglu

1774.]

Amherst Octr 3'1 1774

Sir

I have rec : d Yours of the 16th of July last wherein you mentioned
the Strip of Land lying between Lyndeborough & Peterborough and
desired me to Measure it at the Expence of the persons that were
about to Purchase the same ; accordingly I measured said Tract, em-
ploy'd two men of a fair Character to carry the Chain, men that had
no connection with the present Purchasers, who rendered an Account
to me of the Distance as Represented by this Plan
I am Sir with due Respect Your Humb1 Ser1

John Shepard junr

To the Honle Geo : Jaffrey Esq

77t,M ly the nttJU Hu. /7!,/r, and /t/ty /<"" Rcdl Ay fttr,J,„<„.fA

J TUr, o/a Tact of land iy.nf A*f~«n «€ Smi.jC PtU.ber.uyh .nd
Zyndchcrcvyk Gntammf /JJ/ Aim. Scalt A*// a TTl.U te a« 7/icA -

noth&y the IleedUjo*, m,U> 9r f,py four ,cd-> iy Lyndcicr,*fk. •m.A. JVr.rf.

UrambulatU StftrmAir A I/?/- ■*/ ^" Ske/ttrd /mm'

424 CHARTER RECORDS.

[James Underwood to John Peiree, 1774.]
[Masonian Papers, Vol. 6, p. 111.]

Litchfield Octor 19th 1774

Sir

I take this oppertunty to Inform you, that those persons who have
Bought, the half mile Strip, of Land between Peterborough & Lynd-
borough, have been Runing the line, Between Lyndh & sd Strip, and
have gon on the former line of Lyndh, I Expect in order to Git a
grant agreeable thereto, the Lots Laid out to your proprietors, was
laid out Differing 4 Degrees from the s(i former line which in Run-
ing, 13 hundred rods, Taks off from some lots more then 80 acres, it
hurts your lot, more then what, you will Git for a full Shair, in sd

Strip, and Col0 Packers Lot more, then yours, and others also

Altho I own two fifteenths of said Strip, I sho'd be ungreatful, to
let you or the proprietors, be Imposed on, without Giveing you, Infor-
mation, though, in this I might be a great Gainer, I Exspect, you will
be wise Enough, not to sell any that was formerly lotted out, be so
kind as to let Mr Jeffrey know of this letter — I am sir with Due
Regard your most Obe' & very Hume Se' James Underwood

N B if you see Esqr Holland Esqr Shepard or Mr Hale they will
Inform you more fully then my hurt will permit me to write at this
time —

[Sale of Land to Holt and Abbott, 1774.]
[Masonian Proprietors' Records, Nov. 2, 1774.]

Province of \ Portsmouth November 2d 1774, Wednesday

New Hampshire — > three of the Clock Afternoon, at the Dwelling

Rockingham Ss ) House of James Stoodly Esqr Inholder, the
Proprietors met according to Adjournment.

Voted that for and in Consideration of the sum of two hundred
thirty one Pounds, five shillings lawfull Money of said Province to us
in hand, before the making this Grant, paid by Joshua Holt Gentle-
man, John Abbot the fourth, Yeoman, & William Blunt Cooper, all
of Andover in the County of Essex and Province of the Massachu-
setts Bay, and Abiel Abbot of Wilton in the County of Hillsborough
& Province of New Hampshire Gentleman, there be and hereby is
given and granted unto the said Joshua Holt, John Abbot, William
Blunt and Abiel Abbot, their Heirs and Assigns forever, all our Right
and Property of, in and to a certain tract of Land containing thirteen
hundred & thirty four acres, more or less situate in the County of

LYNDEBOROUGH. 425

Hillsborough, and Province of New Hampshire, within the Claim of
Mason's Patent, (except the right of the HonWe Theodore Atkinson
Esq* and the Right of Nathaniel Meserve Esq1 and others, which two
Rights are already sold the which said thirteen hundred and thirty
four acres, of Land including said two Rights already sold is bounded
as follows viz* begining at the northwest Corner of Borland's Farm,
(so called) and runs by the Northerly line thereof to the west Line
of Lyndsborough, and on the said Line of Lyndsborough to the south
Line of the Society Land so called, then by that Line till it meets
the North easterly Corner of Peterborough, then by that Line to the
Bounds, began at the tract of Land hereby granted, (except as before
excepted) is a strip of Land lying between Lyndsborough and Peter-
borough, as by the Plan taken by John Shepard Junr Esqr returned
in the Clerk's Office of the Grantors will at large appear, To Have
& To Hold, the said granted Premises, with all the Priviledges and
Appurtenances thereof, (except as before excepted) to them the said
Joshua Holt, John Abbot the fourth, William Blunt, and Abiel
Abbot, their Heirs and Assigns to their only proper use and Benefit
forever. And that said Proprietors their Heirs and Successors shall and
will Warrant and defend the same granted Premises, to them the said
Joshua Holt, John Abbot the fourth, William Blunt, and Abiel
Abbot their Heirs and Assigns forever, against any Person, who may
or shall claim the same Premises, from, by or under the said Propri-
etors, their Heirs or Successors, And that in case the said Joshua
Holt, John Abbot the fourth, William Blunt, and Abiel Abbot their
Heirs, Executors, Administrators, or Assigns, shall at any Time here-
after be evicted and ousted, of the same Premises, or any Part
thereof, by legal Process, the said Proprietors for themselves their
Heirs and Successors, covenant and engage, to repay the said Joshua
Holt, John Abbot the fourth, William Blunt and Abiel Abbot their
Heirs, Executors, or Administrators, the Consideration Sum herein
before exprest, or in Proportion to such part of the Premises, as they
or any of them may be ousted of in Manner aforesaid, with lawfull
Interest for the same untill paid, which said Sum and Interest shall
be in full Satisfaction of all Damage the said Joshua Holt, John
Abbot, William Blunt, and Abiel Abbot their Heirs, Executors, or
Administrators may sustain by the loss of said Land or any Part
thereof as aforesaid

426 CHARTER RECORDS.

[ Vote in Regard to Land Sold Holt and Abbott, 1775.]

[Masonian Proprietors' Records, Feb. 22, 1775.]

Whereas the Proprietors on the Second day of November 1774
granted and Sold unto Joshua Holt John Abbot & others, a tract of
land Situate in the County of Hillsborough, and Province of New
Hampshire, within the Claim of Mason's Patent, containing Thirteen
hundred and thirty four Acres, more or less, excepting the Right of
the Honble Theodore Atkinson Esqr and the right which was owned
by Nath11 Meserve Joseph Blanchard and Joseph Green deceased,
and Paul March, which two rights were not included in Said Grant
& Sale to Joshua Holt John Abbot & others, but were Sold or dis-
posed of by the Said owners, before the grant & Sale to Said Holt
Abbot & others on the second day of November 1774 at a Meeting
of the Proprietors ; and as the said Rights or two fifteenths of Said
Tract of land were not included in the Said Grant and Sale thereof —
Therefore Voted that the Sum of two hundred thirty one pounds,
five shillings lawfull Money paid by Said Holt Abbott & others, be
divided to and Amongst the other thirteen Proprietors, to be paid to
them, or for their Accounts of Expences of the Propriety —

[Benjamin Lynde to Proprietors, 1775.]
[Masonian Papers, Vol. 6, p. 112.]

Ipswitch Hamlet 7 DecemI,r 1775

Honble Sir It is now Several Months, since I have been favored
with anything from you, perhaps the Difficulty of the Times, has
Occasioned it,

The Damage of having our Com'ons, ly open, to all Tresspassers;
as well as good Setlers, Stopped from coming into the Town, Obliges
me to Ask the Trouble, of your Urging the Proprietors to Pass on &
Accept Mr Carltons Plan 'of 1773— & Then Draw for the several
Lotts That we may Know our own ; & Devide the smal Remains of
Com'ons — Had M' Rob Fletcher laid the grand Lots, out right 1759,
with the boundary mark at the Corner of each Lot — all this Charge
<.V delay would have been prevented — Mr Sheppard was sensible of
this 9 or 10 years agoe — And you will readily find Fletchers Errors
by looking into his Plan of the Grand Proprietors Lots, returned to
you 1759: in that he makes J Wentworth Mr Wybird & Peirces N° 3
Two hundred Acre Lotts, to be 275 Poles long from his Farm to the
West Line, Whereas Esq' Sheppard in 17G8, finds on Exact Measure,

I.YNDEBOROUGH. 427

but 158 Poles from Fletchers Farm, (he had of Col° Blanchard) to
our West Line

This with the 3 other Argument hinted at in mine of Decemr 1773
& febry 1774, must fully Satifie every unprejudiced Person, that our
West Line, is as far as We Carry it

I must beg the favor of an answer & with great Respect am — Sr
Your most Obed1 SeiV

Hon G : Jaffrey Esqr Benf Lynde

[Benjamin Lynde to Proprietors, 1775.]
[Masonian Papers, Vol. G, p. 113.]

Ipswitch Hamlet 27th Decr 1775

Honble Sir Your Favors of the 11 Instant I received : As I have
had considerable Leisure, I have carefully look't over my Papers,
relative to Lyndebor0, &c & am pretty well sure, no Letters of yours,
came to my hand of a later Date than 16 febry 75 nor do I find I had
wrote you after s'1 February —

Times have been such, as that no private Buisness could be fol-
lowed. But now it becomes necessary: or our Wood & timber will
be all Stolen from us

In the Letter I wrote first about the Lands between Lyndebor0 &
Peterbor0 — I then Acquainted your Propriety, that it would be bet-
ter for us, to pay the Loss, than be at the Charge, of new laying out
& .Marking the Lotts — I have more than I of our Com'ons, & 1 now
say the same — This is the mind of all of us : As we have laid out the
Lotts. we were to gett done; The smal remains of our Com'ons
we must devide, & not let it lay longer — If we have Intrench'd on
the Gr'1 Proprietors Interest (W'1' I am sure is not so) We will Sub-
mit it, to Three Persons to Judge, how much we have Encroach'd ;
and pay lor as much, as we have over — S1 altho I might write you,
that Mv Holt, had told me, they had bought from Mr Borland* Farm,
1300 Acres as far as to N End of Lyndebor0 yet I suppose that was
a Mistake, as Peterb0 goes nor so far north as Lyndebor" by more
than 200 rods — on the Wst Line — If so, they leave a peice of poor
pine Land of your 1000 Acres reserved in Wallingsford Lot N° 8 —

I beg you would Ask I)1 Rogers, or some that Transacted the
Affair; and please to write me how far North the Strip runs"/ how
Wide it is at the North End? and as near as they can, the Quantity
of the Tract Sold ?

I send you a Coppy of one Attested by you; of Cap1 R° Fletcher
return of" ye 200 Acrs Lotts laid out 1759— by w,h youl find the 3

428 CHARTER RECORDS.

Lotts lying west from his Lott, measured 275 rods; whereas we de-
sire only 260 rods from his Lott to our West Line
I am with great respect

Sr Your most Obed4 Servant

Benja Lynde

[Second Division of Reserved Lots, 1779.]

[Masonian Proprietors' Records, Jan. 5, 1779.]

State of J Portsmouth January 5th 1779 Tuesday three of
New Hampshire \ the Clock afternoon, at the House of mr John
Penhallow improved by him as a Store The Proprietors meet accord-
ing to adjournment —

Whereas the Grantees of Lyndsborough b}r their Clerk Benjamin
Lynde Esq1 have returned to the Proprietors the Grantors two Sur-
veys and Plans containing eight Lotts in each Plan, intended as an-
other division of the Grantors Reservation in the Township of Lynds-
borough, and desired that the Grantors would make a Draft and
Severance of the Same — The Proprietors consent and agree to draw
the Lotts in each Plan at this present Meeting viz1 eight of Said
Lotts numbered one to eight containing about one hundred thirty
Acres of land, as Surveyed and delineated on the Plan returned by
John Sheppard junr Esqr in the year 1766, Said Lotts bounding on
Amherst line, on New Boston and common Land in Lyndsborough.
The other eight Lotts numbered one to eight containing one hun-
dred & fifty or more Acres, each lott, bounding on the West line of
Lyndsborough, on the late Col. Walingford's great Lot numbered
eight in the Society land so called, common land in Lyndsborough,
on Second division Lot N° 118, on Robert Fletchers 150 Acres, and
on Peirce and Moor's Lot N° 3 of first division of Reservation, or as
the Same Lotts were surveyed and delineated on a Plan returned by
Osgood Carlton Surveyor April 24th 1773. — Notwithstanding the
unequal Quantity of the Lotts in the Plans returned as aforesaid,
and there may be also a difference in Quality of the Soil of the land
represented in the Said Plans ; However to make a further Severance
of the land reserved in Lyndsborough, it is agreed & resolved to take
the Chance of a Draft of the Lotts as they are represented in Said
Plans — Therefore Voted that the Lotts be now drawn for to each
Proprietors Right or Share, as they are represented in Said Plans —
and that either of the Lotts so drawn to any of the Proprietors Right
or share, shall be entered to their respective names, and Such lot so
entered Shall be a Severance of the Same, to have and to hold to

LYNDEBOROUGH.

429

each Right or Share of Said Proprietors their Heirs and Assigns, in
Severalty, and the Sixteenth Lott not drawn to any Proprietors
Right, he reserved for the Proprietors use in Common, and shall he
disposed of to defrey the Expences of the Propriety, as they shall

order

The Draft of the Second Division of the Proprietors Reservation
in Lyndsborough, pursuant to the foregoing Vote, and agreeable to
the Lotts represented in the Plans above mentioned — viz'

The Lotts in Jn° Sheppards Plan ql 30 Acres
1st To Mark H Went worth Esqr Lot
2'1 To Thomlinson & Mason
8th To Joth,n Odiorne Esqrs Right
9th To Theodore Atkinson Esq1' .

10 To Solly & March .

11 To Tho8 VValingford Esq" Right

15 To Tho8 Packer Esqrs Right .

16 To Proprietors in Common

The Lotts in Osgood Carl tons Plan q* 150 Acre

3d To Blanchard Meserve & C° Lot
4"' To John Rindge .
5th To George Jaffrey
6th To Peirce & Moore
7"' To Joshua Peirce Esqrs Right
12th To John Moffatt Esq1 .

13 To Jn° Wentworth Esq" Right

14 To Richard Wibird Esqrs Right

N°

N°2
8
4
6
1
5
3
7

[Benjamin Lynde to Proprietors, 1779.]

[Masonian Papers, Vol. 6, p. 114.]

Salem 30 Jan'y 1779
Hon1,le Sir I have the Pleasure of yours of the 5th Ins1 Acquaint-
ing me, that, The Gr'1 Proprietors have drawn their 2d devission Rights
in Lyndbor0 — but you have wholly Mistaken the Two rights I claim —
The one, of which was Col° Blanchard for setling the Interest &
Agreing with the Agents, of the Massachusts the other was what I
bought of his, from the Right of Meservy Green & Blanchards, &
Blanchard, on A Devision had the share in Lyndbor0 so that there
should have been 16, Shares with that Given to Col0 Blanchard for

43Q

CHARTER RECORDS.

setling — I had no part of Soly & March's share ; that as Col0 March
told me, was his Cousin Woodbridges, as the 200 Acres N° 16 —

I can say nothing of your 200 Acre formerly, or your Draft now ;

I Wonder none of the Proprietors should Remember that Col*
Blanchard Assigns were to have a right as agent —

My Letter of 1' Sept1' 1773 mention your Drawing for my Two
Rights I bought of Col° Blanchard, viz one as Agent for the Pro-
prietors & the other for Meservy Green & Blanchard

I blieve the 16th Lott or N° 5 in Sheppard Plan, is where the Land
is poor, & none Would Chuse it — I should not like it for one of
Blanchards — Unless its by a new Lott —

I should be Glad to Know, Wether Your State in the Tax Act for
Selling non Resident Lands, gave a Liberty of Redeeming Lands,
with paying Double Interest & Costs — a Privilidge granted in the
Massach1 State — Should it be otherwise I dont see, but that for a
trifling Tax, a Man may be Divested of his Land, by the Vendors
Cutting & Carrying off the Timber & Wood, worth more than ye
Land it self

I am with Respects Hon Sir

Your most obedient

Benja Lynde

[Benjamin Lynde to Proprietors, 1779.]

[Masonian Papers, Vol. 6, p. 115.]

Salem 30 April 1779
Honble Sir Yours of the 26 of Febry after laying at the Tavern at
last Came to Hand — It fills me with great Surprize — That after a
fair Purchase of Col0 Blanchard heirs on 6th Apr1 1759 Recorded with
you — I should meet with such Loss —

I was present at your Meeting on ye 7th July 1760 — & then Drew
for Col0 Blanchard N° 1 & 5 Two Lotts & then Mentioned that We
had Given him one hundred pounds, Cash & 500 Acres of Land out
of the Setlers part, for good terms — and when I Wrote Mr Peirce
deceas'1 he Writes, Col0 Blanchard agreed to have a Right thro out
in Every Town, he as Agent for the Masonian Propriety Setled with
the Massachuset Men — nor was there at the meeting any the least
Objection to his 2 Rights— The Honb Col0 Atkinson, The Hon1 Mr
\V( ■ntworth, Mr Peirce & Your Self, as I perfectly Remember were at
s'1 Meeting —

The Proposal of Omitting the Law Lotts, was from my Self to Mr

LYNDEHOROUGH. 43 1

I) Peirce, supposing that 3 Gentl™ had each of them 200 Acr8 in the

1st Devission, they might be Contented with it, as they never did any
thing tor that Town — & he writes me, you, were all of that Opinion —

I cant hut think it verry Hard, thai when I Ask't your drawing
my 2 Lotts & perticulerly Mention who I had them of in my Letter
Sep' L773 "That you would Draw my Two Rights bought of Col0
" Blanchard, viz one as he was Agent for the Proprietors — & the
"other for his, Meservy & Green's right —

So also when there was some Dificulty ab° the Location, I then
Wrote you as Clerk, that a[s] I had 2 Rights in the 10 Lotts, it was
my high Concrn — & then also Mention for whom

Also in my Letter to the Hon Mr Peirce in the fall of 1709 I Write,
who in)* Rights were from — one fr° Col0 Blanchard as agent, & one
more from him, Meservy &c — sometime after Decr 1701, he had
Mention'd my proposal to the Proptrs & they all agreed to it —

Mr Peirce in Answer to a Letter I wrote of the 20 Oct0 1701,
Writes me, that at a Meeting, the Proprietors were full with me in
Sentiment, That the Two hundred acres Already Allotted to the
Three Gent1" of the Law, was Sufficient

In the same Letter he writes, that the Power to Dispose of Lands
in Lyndbor0 was Discretionary in Col° Blanchard — and goes on in
that Strain — Then Says, We Imagine That the Lands He disposed of,
•'was as much out of the Proprietors Reaelu as if they had Conveyed it,
" themselves — /

This was the Apprehension then — & now to be Disputed: can be
neither Just or fair, with a Legl or Honest Purchaser, who ought not
tn be Thrust out of his Right in such a Manner It is verry hard that
when by my proposal, Each one, is So Advanc'd in their Interest, I
only must be the Sufferer —

Surely my Letter of ye 14th Octol/ 1778 where I Wrote "My Inter-
est of js th in the Gr'1 Proprietors Lotts, I do not like to ly so : — might
have remembred you, Sir, of it — But if Finally, I can have nothing
for it, I must seek my Remedy where I may have it, th6 with great
Loss — I am Sir

Your most Hum1'1 Servant

Benja Lynde

[Grant of Lot to Joseph Blanchard, 1779.]

[Masonian Proprietors' Records, June 23, 1779.]

State of ( Portsmouth June 23'1 1779 Wednesday three of

New Hampshire \ the Clock afternoon, at the House improved by

43:

CHARTER RECORDS.

mr John Penhallow as a Store, the Proprietors meet according to ad-
journment

The Proprietors, at their Meeting held on the fifth day of January
1779, took into Consideration the Sixteen Lotts in Lyndsborough,
surve}red and Planned by John Sheppard junr Esqr and Osgood Carl-
ton, which Plans were returned by the Grantees of Lyndsborough to
the Proprietors, the Grantors, as their Second Division of their Reserva-
tion in Said Township of Lyndsborough — and Voted that ye Said Lots
Should be then drawn for to the Rights of the fifteen original Pro-
prietor's Shares — and not then knowing that any appropriation had
been made of the Sixteenth Lot, it was also voted that it should be
appropriated for the Proprietors use in Common to be disposed of to
defrey the Expences of the Proriety — Since ye passing of Said Vote,
Benjamin Lynde Esqr hath claimed one of the Said Sixteen Lots, as
part of a whole Proprietors Share in Said Lyndsborough, which he
purchased of Joseph Blanchard Esqr deceased, which Share was equal
in Quantity to any of the other Shares in Said Lyndsborough and the
Lots to be drawn for with the Proprietors shares & Lotts in said
Township — and which share Said Blanchard had reserved for his own
use when he made the Grant or Conveyance of Said Township in be-
half of the Proprietors aforesaid — & Whereas all the Said Sixteen
Lotts were fairly drawn for at Said Meeting, to the Rights of the
fifteen original Proprietors, and entered as drawn to them, as a Sever-
ance of the Same to their Respective Rights — and Lot N° 5 in Shep-
pards Plan was drawn for the Proprietors use in Common as afore-
said— Therefore Voted that the Said Lot N° 5 in Sheppards Plan be
and hereby is granted appropriated and Severed, to the Said Blan-
chard's heir's and assigns as the Second division of his whole Right
or share be reserved to himself as aforesaid, to have and to hold the
Same, in the Same manner as conveyed by Said Blanchard — notwith-
standing the Vote & Draft of Said Lot N° 5 on the fifth day of Jan-
uary as aforesaid for the Proprietors use in Common —

\_S. Walter to Proprietors, 1797.]
[Masonian Papers, Vol. 6, p. 116.]

Boston 16 Novr 1797
Dear Sir Col0 Hutchinson has long been pursuing his Right to a
Tract of Land which was laid out by Col° Blanchard as Agent for
the masonian Proprietors at the Distance of one mile & half or two
Miles from the Corner of New Boston Addition — this Grant if I
rightly understand the Matter was prior to the Grant or Charter of

LYNDEBOROUGH. 433

Lyndeboro — and was intended to have been brought into the N E
Corner of Lyndeboro when thai Charter was granted, bul l»y a
strange Mistake of Fletcher in running the Boundary Line of Lynde-
boro <m that Side of the Town there is only one short mile from the
Corner of New Boston Addition — and Consequently this Grant of
Blanchards docs not come within the Township of Lyndeboro but is
actually at a Distance from it— Fletcher afterward Acknowledged his
Error & went with Carlton who is now alive in this Town & is ready
to testify on oath that Fletcher went with him & shewed him where
the true hounds ought to be — but Beatie & others purchasing under
Wallingford had got possession of the Land & woud not deliver it
up without a Law suit — the Proprietors of Lyndeboro were unwill-
ing to engage in a Lawsuit for the Recovery of their Right — and thus
lost several hundred Acres of Land on that Side which they are
justly intitled to at this day — but Col0 Hutchinson thinks he can
not lose his Interest and that the masonian Proprietors under whom
( !ol° Blanchard acted ought to see him righted or give him an equiv-
alent— this is the purport of his present Journey & has desired me to
give him a Line of Introduction to you with a general Statement of
the Business,

with great Esteem & respect I remain

Dr Sir Your hum1 Serv1

S Walter (?)

[Petition of Israel Hutchinson, 1798.]
[Masonian Papers, Vol. 6, p. 117.]

To the Masonian Proprietor or proprietor of the Right of John
Suston Mason Esqr in the State of Newhampshire

Gentlemen In December 1753 Joseph Blanchard Esqr as your
agent by his deed conveyed to Benjamin Lynde and others Since
called the Lyndeborough proprietors, a tract of land containing
twenty eight thousand acres, called Lyndeborough particularly
hounded as expressed in the Said Deed reserving however apart of
the Said tract within the Said bounds and among other lots therein
reserved, he reserved a lot of one hundred ec fifty acres in the North-
east corner of Said Lyndeborough which corner is described in the
Same deed to be one mile & a half North from the South west
corner of New Boston called Hustans corner, also to be at a marked
tree — on the eighteenth day of may 1754 the Said Joseph Blanchard
as your agent & by Virtue of the power & authority vested in him

434 CHARTER RECORDS.

by your propriety, by his deed conveyed to Joseph Richardson, his
heirs & assigns, all the right title Interest and posession of
your Said propriety in one hundred & fifty acres of land lying
within the tracts of land called Lyndeburgh on the Notherly part
thereof following the description of Said reserved lot bounded as
follows, viz begining at the former bouuds of Lyndebor0 where it
Joins to New Boston West line about one Mile & a half from New
Boston Southerly corner and runs from thence West one hundred &
Sixty Rods by Lyndeborough North line thence South one hundred
& fifty Rods, thence East one hundred & sixty Rods to New Boston
line thence notherly by New Boston Line one hundred & fifty
Rods to the first mentioned bounds, to have & to hold the Same
forever free and Clear —

afterwards I purchased the Same one hundred & fifty Acres by the
Same bounds & Sold the Same by the Same bounds to Joshua Balch
and took his note of hand for the consideration money. In 1771
Osgood Carlton Surveyor assisted by Robert Fletcher Esqr another
Surveyor at the request of Judge Lynde one of the Lyndebor0 Com-
mittee proceeded to locate the Same peice of land according to his
direction and to the Said Several deeds and first to fix the S'1 North-
east corner of Said Lyndebor0, they measured from Said Hustons
corner a point 1 understand well Settled Northerly one mile & a
half on the West line of New Boston agreeable to the deed Said
Blanchard first above mentioned, and there fixed the Said Northeast
corner of Lyndiborough, in the Said West line of New Boston at a
point one mile and a half from the Said Hustans corner being the
most Southwesterly corner of New Boston mentioned in the Said
Deed and their laid out the Said 150 Acres in the Said Northeast
corner according to the grant aforesaid and by the bouuds afore-
said—

Having commenced an action on Said note in order to recover
the Contents of it against Mary Balch the Executrix of the Said
Joshua Balch, in a trial therein which was had in the Superior Court
of Newhampshire in October 1795 She recovered against me a bill
of costs of Eighty nine dollars on the ground that Said 150 acres or
at least a great part of it cannot be held under Said Blanchards deed
it not being within the Said North line of Lyndeborough, and there-
fore that the consideration of the Said Note was not good whereby
I have lost the Said note ; Said Eighty nine dollars Costs & upwards
of Sixty dollars Costs more as will appear thus in locating the Said
lot the Northeast Corner thereof is made to coencide with the Said
Northeast Corner of lyndeborough and that according to Said
Blanchards deed and plan fixed at a point one mile & a half North of

LYNDEBOROUGII. 435

Hustons corner in New Boston West line, and by the decission of
the Court in the two Actions brought in 1787. by the Said execution
one against Rich'1 Batten & the other against Andrew Cressey it ap-
pears the Said lot cannot be laid out or extend further South, and by
finally fixing the Said northeast Corner of Lyndebor0 at a point only
about one mile and a quarter from Said Hustons cprner instead of a
mile & a half, about Eight fifteenths of Said lot the Notherly parts
of it fall within the Society lands So called and So without the
limits of S'1 Lyndebor0 & without title under Said deed of Blanch-
ards It is clear from Said deed that your propriety meant to grant
and the Said Richardson intended to buy 150 acres of land in the
Northeast corner of Lyndebor0 which your propriety reserved in the
grant or confirmation of that township and not a disputed right —
In Conveying the lands north of Lyndebor0 in 1767 the parties
follow up their line to the north West corner of New Boston and
then measure South one Mile on the west line of that Town to a
hemlock tree, then West 3 miles and a quarter by Lyndebor0 hence
they & your propriety made it two miles & a half from Said north
West corner of New Boston to Said Hustons corner as appears by
their deed and Said Blanchards deed first above mentioned but it is
now Stated that this line is found to be only about two miles & a
quarter long and that no particular tree was ever run to or marked as
making the corner as mentioned in Said deeds, and hence this Vexa-
tious dispute & difficult}7 arises, and perhaps the boundary lines of
Lyndebor0 traced as described in Blanchards deed could never be
made to meet and would if followed embrace more than the 28,000
acres, if from the consideration of these errors you and the Lynd-
bor° proprietors have been induced to allow the Said northeast cor-
ner of Lvndboi" Expresly fixed in your Said grant in 1753 to be at
a point one mile & a half north of Said hustons corner to be moved
about 80 Rods South towards S'1 corner and this by concession and
Admeasurments made since your grant, under which Said lot is held,
I persuade myself you will not hessitate to defend or compensate for
Such parts of that Eighty Rods as were located previous to Such
Concessions under your grants —

Wherefore I have to request you to indemnify me in the premisses
by allowing other lands or monies that Shall be a reasonable com-
pensation—

Dan vers Feb : 5th 1798 Israel Hutchinson

436 CHARTER RECORDS.

[Nathan Dane to Proprietors, 1798.]

[Masonian Papers, Vol. 6, p. 118.]

Beverly March 10, 1798
Sir Col0 Israel Hutchinson yesterday received Your letter of the
13th ult° owing probably to the circumstance that there is no post
office in Danvers, and which induces him to wish you to direct your
letters on the subject in question to me — he would have attended
your meeting of the 5th instant had he received information of it in
season and he will hold himself under many obligations to you to
inform me by the post when your next meeting will be and what
measures, if any, the proprietors have adopted relative to his petition
— what information they want from him — and whether they wish
him to attend them in person, and when it may most convenient for
them &c with esteem and regard

Your humble servant
Geo. Jeffry Esqr Nathan Dane

MANCHESTER.

[Granted by Massachusetts April 17, 1735, to Capt. William Tyng's "snow-
shoe men," and hence called Tyng's-town. Also known as Harrytown or Old
Harrytown. Incorporated as Derryfield Sept. 3, 1 75 1 . The first town meeting
was held in John Hall's house, Sept. 23, 1 75 1 . A gore of land was annexed to the
north side Dec. 4, 1795. The name of the town was changed to Manchester
June 13, 1810. A city charter was granted July 10, 1846. "Amoskeag " was
severed from Goffstown and " Piscataquog " or " Squog" from Bedford and an-
nexed July 1, 1853.

See Massachusetts and New Hampshire charters in preceding volumes ; IX,
Bouton Town Papers, 151; XII, Hammond Town Papers, 540; Index to Laws,
305; History, by Chandler E. Potter, 1856, pp. 764; History, by John B.
Clarke, 1875, pp. 463 ; sketch, 4, Granite Monthly, 418 ; sketch, Hurd's History
of Hillsborough County, 1885, p. 40; brief historical sketch, compiled by
Manchester Board of Trade, 1890, pp. 83; Dedication of Masonic Temple,
1870, pub. 1871, pp. 32; Dedication of Masonic Hall, address, by H. E. Burn-
ham, 1890, pp. 40; Bibliography, by S. C. Gould, 1885; Dedication of Sol-
diers'' Monument, 1879; Memoir of John Stark, by Caleb Stark, 1870; Life
and Public Services of Frederick Smyth, by B. P. Poore and F. B. Eaton,
1885; Dedication of Franklin St. Congregational Church, 1847; Lawrence's
N. H. Churches, 1856, pp. 198, 202, 205 ; Centennial Sermon, by J. M.
Durell,i884 ; Account of, History of the Merrimack Valley, by A. Poore, 1857, p.
209; History and Present Condition of the Manufactures, 1, Granite Monthly, 21 ;
"Namaooskeag" Falls and the Amoskeag Manufacturing Co., 12, Farmer's Monthly
Visitor, 289 ; Quarter Centennial Pastorate of First Congregational Church, by C.
W. Wallace, 1865 ; Letter of Resignation and Commemorative Discourse, by C.
W. Wallace, 1873 ! Report of First Unitarian Society, 1893.]

MANCHESTER. 437

[John Duncan's Petition, 1/48.]

[Masonian Papers, Vol. 6, p. 119.]

Portsm0 Nov1 16th 1748
To the Gentlemen Proprietors & Purchasers of John Tufton Mason
Esqur his Right in Lands in ye Province of New Hampsher

1 the Subscriber having for eighteen years past having improved
and fenced abl thirty Acres of land lying betwixt great Cohas &
little Cohas and plowed abf ten Acres of the Same This is to hum-
bly pray that you would grant to me the Said tract of land when you
make a grant of it with ye Adjacent lands which I desire to take upon
Such Terms & Conditions as shall Seem to you meet and you will very
much oblige

Gent"1 your most Hum serv1

John Duncan

[Petition of Thomas George and Others, 1748-9.]
[Masonian Papers, Vol. 6, p. 120.]

Province of ) Portsmouth February ye 2'1 1748
New Hampshr \ To the Honblt! Theodore Atkinson Esqur and Oth-
ers Purchasers of John Tufton Mason Esqur his Right in Lands in
Said Province Humbly Shews

That we the Subscribers having purchased Sundry Tracts of Land
from one hundred & fifty Acres to Sixty Acres, in a place known by
the name of Ting's Town, Scituate between ye easterly side of Merri-
mack River and ye west line of Londonderry and that we have
Dwelt and improved upon our Purchases, from thirteen to nine years
past

and allowing Mason's Right prior and better to Said Lands than
that of the Person's of whom we purchased, And as you have pur-
chased Mason's Right in Said Lands We make our Petition to you
that you would Confirm to us our Respective purchases & Improve-
ments aforesaid (for which we refer to our Deeds) on Such Terms
Conditions & Limitations as you shall think best for yourselves and
your Humble Petitioners

Thomas gorge Moses Wells Abraham merrill

Benjamin Stevens Samuel Parham John Jewel

William Quenby Eliezer wells Caleb Dalton

438 CHARTER RECORDS.

January ye thirtieth 1748 9

Wee the pensioners then personaly met together and have Joyntly
and Severaly impowered thomas George to enter our humble petision
to the Gentlemen lords of the Sile to secure to us our livings

Thomas gorge Joseph George Abraham merrill

his

Benjamin Stevens Samuel parham Ebenezer X Stevens

mark

John Jewel william Quenby Eliezer wells

Moses Wells

[Petition of Elizabeth Hand, 1749.]
[Masonian Papers, Vol. 6, p. 121.]

Province of \ Portsmouth 12th April 1749.
New Hampshire ) The memorial & Petition of Elizth Rand of Har-
ry's Town Widow of Robert Rand Deceas'd Humbly Sheweth

To the Honourable Theodr Atkinson Esqr & and the other Gent"
Purchasers & Proprietors of Capt John Tnfton Mason his Right in
Lands in the Province of New Hampshire —

That the General Court of the Prove of the Massachusetts Bay
held at Boston April ye 10th 1734, upon Consideration of Eminent
Service done by Thomas Goffe Esqr Great Uncle to the Said Robert
Rand, in Advancing the Setlement of their Late Colony, Did Grant
unto the Said Robert One thousand Acres of Land in Said Harry's
Town, which one Thousd Acres is Commonly known by the name of
Rands Farm, & Scituate on the Eastward side of Merimack. About
fourteen years past one Ephrm Bushell built a Frame of a Dwelling
House upon the premises, but upon Information of the title of Sd
Rand to the Land, he quitted, Said Rand paying him for his frame,
which afterwards he finished & Dwelt therein with his Family about
Eighteen months, — And one Mr Duncan of London Derry about the
Same time, enclosed about Three Acres & Cleared & broke up about
half an Acre near S'1 House which Improvement he Surrender'd to
Said Robert, And John Goffe Esqr Improved between 4 & 5 Acres of
Said Farm On the westerly Side of Cohas Brook just by Merimack
River & built a Log House thereon, who held possession of the Same,
So that the Said Robert by the Assistance of his Brother Doctr W,n
Rand Sued S'1 Goffe for S'1 Land who promised to Go off the premises
if Said Robert would Drop his Action against him therefor, who
Removed himself and Family but placed his Father thereon & one
Robert Walker & James Walker had Enclosed near One hundred
Acres of Said Farm, and Improved about Eight Acres by planting

MANCHESTER. 439

which parcell of Land is Lying Contiguous to the Improvement of
John Goffe aforesaid westerly & by the River Merimack Southerly —
About 12 years since the Said Robert Rand Demanding of the Said
Robert & James Walker this Land, the Said James Walker being
under age. Said Robert Walker his Brother Engaged for him Viz'
That they would quit their Said Possession & Improvement upon Con-
dition S1 Robert Rand would pay them for their Improvement in
Said farm which the Said Rob' Rand Agreed to, And Accordingly it
was Referr'd to Men mutually Chosen by the Said parties to Judge
what the Said Robert Rand Shou'd pay to the S'1 Robert & James
Walker For their Said Improvement, & that according to the Report
of the Said Referrees, the Said Rob1 Rand paid the Said Rob' &
James Walker money for their Sfl Improvem1 & the S'1 Rob1 Walker
quitted his Said Improvement to the Said Robert Rand, thereupon
applied to Coll1 Blanchard for Advice for Further proceeding (who is
well acquainted with the Affairs Relating to Said Farm), and After-
wards James Walker agreed to quit upon Consideration of Reaping
Two Thirds of the Crop then on the ground — And that one Smith
Fenced & Improved about 4 Acres of Said Farm Joining upon Said
Walkers Improvements, and by the River Merimack who Gave the
Said Robert Rand Six Bushels Corn for his Improved & quitted. —

And that Your Petitioner has a Daughter a Widdow with Four
Small Children who lives on a part of Said Farm Containing about
Forty Acres joining upon the Land Improved by the Rob' & Js Walker
— Tho the Said Robert promised her his Sd Daughter 100 Acres of Sd
Farm, and also promised your Petitioner on his Death bed One hun-
dred Acres more of Said farm — And that your petitioner (upon the
Removal of the S(l Rl & Js Walker) Settled with the Said Rob1 Rand
her husband, upon the Said one hundd Acres and Dwelt there for
about five or Six years when he Died & was buried — And when the
Southern boundary Line between the Provinces of the Massachusetts
bay & New Hampshire, the whole of Said Grant from the Gener1
Court of the Massachusetts Bay, fell within, by which Acident your
Memorialist A prebends the Greatest part of Said 1000 Acres falls
allso within Londonderry Charter Bounds, and the Said John Goffe
Esqr who only improved about 1 or 5 Acres, has Since Enclosed and
Improved a Large Farm out of your petitioners Grant And Since the
Commencement of the warr, your petitioner Improved part of the
Said 100 Acres for Two years & Continued in the peaceable posses-
sion thereof till about a fortnight past your petitioner Removed to
Said place to Dwell there and after being there Eight Days John
Goffe Esqr aforesaid hath Enclosed the whole 100 Acres your peti-
tioner is possessed of and am fearfull with an Evil Intention of Cir-

440 CHARTER RECORDS

cumventing & Defrauding your petitioner of that part of the 1000
Acre Grant, more Especially as he did in a formall manner before
8 or 9 witnesses warn your petitioner to move out of Said premisses
Claiming the Same as his property for that he had a Conveyance
thereof from you the proprietors of masons Right &cr — Wherefore
your petitioner humbly prays that as the said Robert Rand Deceas'd
my Late Husband was at the time of the Grant of the General Court
of the Massachusetts Bay of the thousand acres of Land : in Good Cir-
cumstances having full & Constant Employment at his trade of Sail
making which Employment he quitted to settle and Improve this
Land So Granted to him as aforesaid but by Reason of the molesta-
tion of Persons who were Trespassers on Said Tract, The Running of
the Dividing Line between Sd Provinces, so as that the Grant aforesd
Conveyed no Real Title to the Premises, And the Grant to London-
Derry Proprietors Comprehending the Greatest part of Said 1000
Acres, And the Attempts of Sundry persons to Get into Possession of
and to Obtain Grants from your honours the proprietors of what parts
of the 1000 Acres of Good Land aforesaid is not within any Township
or that Some Persons have without Leave or Licence made Some Im-
provements in, And more Especially John Goffe Esq1' his Attempts or
Aims of Supplanting yr petitioner of that small piece of Ground that
was Enclosed as aforesaid by which means the Substance of the Sd
Robert was Diminished before his Death & under went much Fatigue
& Difficulty by Reason of his Endeavouring to settle & Improve the
Premises before his Decease, & Since your Petitioner is Exceedingly
Reduced by means aforesaid, having no Means or place of Living but
on the premises which affords at Best a very small subsistance, being
thus Reduced to Such Needy Circumstances I humbly pray you would
take into Consideration my Deplorable state & of that of my Widow
Daughter and her Fatherless Children and Grant us what Releif and
favour in the premises you Shall think meet — And Your Petitioner
Shall Ever pray &cr —

The Mark of Eliza"1 E Rand—

[Endorsed] April ye 12th 1749 Resolved to grand to Eliza Rand
widow 60 Acres & To Eliza Secomb widow 40 Acres in ye land called
Ran's Farm —

[Plan of Ranis Farm, Nov. 5, 1748.]

A Plan of that part of that tract of land called Rans Farm lying
between Londonderry west line so called & merrimack now in Pos-
session of Jn° Goffe & James Walker —

MANCHESTER. 44 1

London Jr.., £,n.

Province of j Portsmouth November ye 5th 1748 —
New Hampshire \ To the Gentlemen Purchasers & Proprietors
of Cap' John Tufton Mason Esqur his Right in Lands within Said
Province —

I the Subscriber in behalfe of James Walker and myselfe represent
that ye tract of land included within ye above Plan was claimed by
Doctor William Kan by virtue of a grant from ye Province of ye
Mass' Bay about which a Suit at law was had in ye Prove of ye
Mass11 Bay between ye said Kan and ye Subscriber for ye Property of
Said Tract — against whom ye Subscriber Recover'd a Judgement upon
y*' Premises against Said Kann in or about ye year 1735 — and as Said
Tract is within your Right we pray your favour that as ye Said Walk-
er and myselfe are in ye Possession & improvement of ye said Tract,
namely of about two thirds thereof — that you would grant our Posses-
sion & improvement to us and the other third thereof reserve to your
own Use & disposall your Compliance herein will very much oblige
said walker in whose behalfe I am and also your most Hum: Serv1

John Goffe

[Proprietors to John G-offe, 1749.]
[Masonian Papers, Vol. 6, p. 122.]

Jn° Goffe Esqlir

Sr The Proprs of yp Lands purchased of John Tufton Mason
Esqur desirous of preserving all ye Timber on a Tract of Land lying
between Londonderry & merrimack River Litchfield & Chester Line ;
make it their Request of you that you would prevent any person what-
soever from Cuting felling Wasting or making any Strip upon Said
Tract and if any person should so do (notwithstanding our Claim to
said timber &(t) you are desired to make proper observation thereof
and Endeavour to get such Evidence as may prove a Trespass in order
to have a prosecution made against any Trespasser wherein you will
oblige the said Proprietors by whose desire & Direction this is from

Yr Humble Servt

Portsm0 Decr 22'1 1749— Geo: Jaffrey

442 CHARTER RECORDS.

[Plan of A Strip of Land between Merrimack, Londonderry, Litch-
field, and Chester.']

In this plan I have Measured one Side of Every improvement and
as near as I Could Guess by that I have Discribed the land now in
actual improvement and have write Down Each mans name as he now
has it (Quimby's house not Standing in his improvement more im-
provements than what is here is on the land and Some Done within
this five year that is not as yet Mentioned) Laid down by a Seal of

160 Rods to an Inch

Mathw Patten

I have Mentioned no Improvements on Rands farm altho there is a
Considerable Done Intirely from one end of the farm to the other —
The northerly Streack of berry line of from the River Interfers with
Chester westerly line

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[Reserved Lots in Manchester, 1751.]

[Masonian Proprietors' Records, Dec. 6, 1751.]

Voted that all that Tract of Land lying between the lines of Litch-
field Londonderry Chester and Merrimack River belonging to Said
Proprietors be laid out Into Eighteen equal Shares & Lots beginning
on the Southerly part thereof and numbering the Lots one two and So
on till the whole is laid out which Lots shall be drawn for in the
usual manner & each person to whom any Lot so falls shall have hold
enjoy the Same in Severalty to him his heirs and assigns, saving and
Excepting all such Tracts of Land within said Bounds as have been

[Plan of Strip of Land between Londonderry, Litchfield, and Chester.']

This plan describes the Slip of Land between Londonderry and Chester lines & Merrymack River — from William Taggerts field, (from Whence to
the South end of the Slip has been long all under Occupency) and from the Sd Field Northward, Eleven Lotts of One Hundred Acres each are Lay'd Out
Bounded & Nombered the three Slips left And Noted to J. Blanchard, are parcell of his Lotts Purchassed & Owned under the Massachusetts grant
Mess™ Parkers & Halls grant left, & Others as Noted in the plan Setled and Agreed for; the Remainder Carefully measured & the Whole to Bow line
Apportioned into Eighteen Shares of Equall Quantity, (at first Divided into ye like quantity of Shares below y« Improvements of Robe' Boyce Esq,
finding that not to be the Intention of ye prop'? have Since Measured the Remainder & Lay'd it in Equall parts, with ye Addition but ye Dividing lines
of their lotts not yet Run. Which is Submitted for further Directions "$ Joseph Blanchard Junr Survr

*?E

MANCHESTER.

443

already granted by said Proprietors or by their Order to any person,
Saving and Excepting also that ten hundred Acre Lots be first laid
out at the Southerly End to Sundry persons agreable to a Vote pass'd
the thirteenth day of September 1750 granting to Such of the Proprie-
tors one hundred Acres of Land as should go & See Said Land before
the fifth of November then next, and the Remainder to be Equaly
divided as aforesaid Saving also one hundred Acres of land at the
Southerly End aforesaid to be laid with the other hundred Acre Lots
aforesaid which last mentioned hundred Acre Lot is hereby granted
to Paul March his Heirs and Assigns —

The eighteen Lots mentioned in the above Vote were drawn at the
meeting as follows vizf —

1 — to John Rindge

to John Moffatt Esqur

to John Wentworth Esqur

to Mark Hungkg Wentworth Esqur

to John Thomlinson Esqur

to Thomas Packer Esqu1

to Mathew Livermore Esqur

to Jotham Odiorne Esqur his Right

to George Jaffrey

to Sam11 Solly & Clem1 March Esqur

to Thomas Walingford Esqur

to William Parker Esqur

to Theodore Atkinson Esqur

to Richard Wibird Esqur

to Mrs Mary Moore & Dan11 Peirce Esqur

to John Thomlinson & Jn° Tufton Mason

Esqurs

to Joshua Peirce Esqur

to Nath11 Meserve Esqur his Original

Right

1st drawn IS

umber 1

2'1 . . 10.

3

7.

4

3.

5

5.

6

13.

7

16.

8

8.

9

. 6

10

17.

11

18.

12

11.

13

9.

14

2.

15

4!

16

14.

17

15

18

12

[Ten Lots Reserved in Manchester, 1753.]

[Masonian Proprietors' Records, Aug. 29, 1753.]

The Draft of the Ten hundred Acre Lots mentioned in the Vote
pass'd ye 6th day of December 1751 drawn for in the usual manner —
viz1 —

444

CHARTER RECORDS.

1st drawn Lot N° 1

2 . 8.

3

9.

4

10.

5

5.

6

3.

7

7.

8

6.

9

2

10

4.

to John Tufton Mason Esqu1

to Josha Peirce Esqur

to Joseph Blanchard Esqur

to Dan11 Peirce Esqur

to Theodore Atkinson Esqu1

to George Jaffrey

to Thomas Packer Esqu1

to Mr John Rindge

to Clement March Esqur

to M1 William Rindge

[Petition of William Duncan, 1760.]
[Masonian Papers, Vol. 6, p. 123.]

To The Honourable the Proprietors of Lands Purchased from John
Tufton Mason Esq.

The Petition of William Duncan of Londonderry In the Province
of New=Hampshire, Humbly Shews.

That in or About Anno: Domini: 1730. On the Southerly Side &
Adjoining to Great Cohaas-Brook where it Emties into Merrymac
River Your Petitioner Fenced & Clear'd A field of thirty Acres, &
Improv'd the Same for Corn & Rye, Untill your Honours, gave it to
the Widow Rand, At the Request of John Goffee Esq.

And Whereas the Inhabitants of Sundry Whole Towns, & In other
Towns Many Individuals, are quieted in their Possessions, by your
Disinterested Goodness, which for the Reason Above Cannot be Dun
to me. Yet by Your Clemency to others I am Encouraged, Humbly
to pray Your Honours to Consider My Loss & Grant me the Islands
in Merrymac River near to, & below Amaskeeg Falls, or Such other
Donation, as in your great Wisdom, & Usual bounty, you Judge
Equitable & your Petitioner, as in Duty bound will ever pray —

Willeam Duncan

Londonderry Feby 20th Anno: Domini: 1760.

[Letter from Willard Hall, 1764.]

[Masonian Papers, Vol. 6, p. 124.]

Wesford Novr 9th 1764 '
Sr / I have directed this to you on Supposition ye you are Clerk of
ye Proprietors of Mason's Grant, if I am mistaken, please to direct ye

MARLBOROUGH. 445

Bearer, w"' this, to ye proper ^son ; Who I woifd inform yl, I had
formerly a Claim to a Lot of Land near Amuskeag-Falls, granted by
y' Massachusetts, w'1', when ye Aboves'1 Proprietors were inform'd of,
(upon y1' kind motion of my good Friend, Cap1 Wibird) They were
generously pleas'd to give to me ; but in what Manner, I never knew:
Now my Desire is yl you wou'd send me a Copy from ye Records of ye
Proprietors, of their Doings in that affair, wcl1 ye Bearer hereof will
satisfy you for. Y1 Humbe serv'

Willard Hall
To ye Clerk of ye Proprietors of Mason's Grant.

[James Underwood to Samuel Hohart, 1764.]
[Masonian Papers, Vol. 6, p. 124.]

Mr Hobert Sr these are to Desire you the first Time you go to ports-
mouth to Go to mr Jaffrey who is Clerk for the Proprietors of the
pattentee & Disire a Coppy of the Records of Said Proprirs of there
Grant to ye Revd mr Willard Hall of Land in Derryfield & pay him
for it & Leave it at Dea" Kendalls and a minit of the Cost & your
Trouble & I will pay you Sr Dont fail the first oppertunity as the
thing is much wanted — & you will oblige your Very Humle Ser*

Novr 30th 1764 James Underwood—

Mr SameI Hobart

MARLBOROUGH.

[Granted by the Masonian Proprietors as Monadnock No. 5, May 20, 1752, to
James Morrison and others. Many of the settlers came from Marlborough, Mass.,
and the town was sometimes called New Marlborough. On Holland's map of
N. H., the town is designated as Oxford. Incorporated as Marlborough Dec. 13,
1776, and named from Marlborough, Mass. A small portion of Swanzey was
annexed Jan. 8, 1794. A part of the town, with other territory was incorporated
as Roxbury, Dec. 9, 18 12. Another portion was included in the limits of Troy,
incorporated June 23, 1815. A part of Dublin was annexed June 13, 1818. A
tract of land was taken from Swanzey and annexed Dec. 15, 1842. The line with
Troy was established June 28, 1847. A small part of Troy was annexed June 24,
1870.

See XII, Hammond Town Papers, 566; Index to Laws, 334; sketch, by S. H.
McCollester, Hurd*s History of Cheshire County, 1886, p. 231 ; sketch, Child's
Gazetteer of Cheshire County, 1885, p. 302; Biographical Notices of Physicians,
by W. C. Whitcomb, 1, N. H. Repository, 217; Lawrence's N. H. Churches,
1856, p. 280; History, by C. A. Bemis, 1881, pp. 726; Address, at Centennial
Celebration, 1876, by S. H. McCollester.]

446

CHARTER RECORDS.

[Plan of Marlborough, 1752.]

r V^./r. jro..ri ^r.^'t- »°s"

*. , ,»-,-* ffl»fe«U T~tnt, ftito*** V''J'A'M

' £o.rd Outf— " '

Jfiril O** ■ .

[Charter of Marlborough, 1752.]

[Masonian Papers, Vol. 6, p. 126, and Proprietors' Records. Vol. 6>

p. 110.]

Province of ) Pursuant to the Power & Authority Granted &
New Hampshire ) Vested In me the Subscriber by the Proprs of
Lands Purchased of John Tufton Mason Esq. in ye Province of New
Hampshire By their Vote Passed at their Meeting held at Portsmouth
In srt Province the 6 Day of December — 1751. —

I Do by these Presents on ye terms & Limitations hereafter Ex-
pressed Give And Grant all the Right Possession & Property of the
Proprs Aforesd unto James Morrison Junr Archibald Dunlap Robert
Clark James Lyons Robert Allen Andrew Armer Halbart Morrison
David Morrison Samuel Morrison John Morrison Thomas Morrison
William Gillmore John Gillmore Sam11 Alison Samuel Alison Junr
James Willson Junr John Willson Robert Willson Thomas Willson
Samuel Willson Samuel Steel James Moore John Wason John Coch-
ran Isaac Cochran Thomas Cochran Samuel Cochran Hugh Montgom-
ery Henry Neal John Moore Robert Moore Samuel Mitchell Thomas
m'Cleary Three Shares Each & to James Willson Sen1" one Share Of in
& to that tract of Land or Township Called Manadnock Nomber five
Situate in the Province of New Hampshire Containing by Estima-
tion twenty Thousand Acres Bounded as Followeth Begining at the
Northwest Corner Of the township Called North manadnock N°
three & Runs from thence north Eighty Degrees west three Mills &

MARLBOROUGH. 447

an half to a beach tree in the west line of Masons Patent & from
thence Southerly in that line Seven Mills three quarters And
fourty Roads to the Northwest Corner of the township Called
Manadnock N° four from thence South Eighty Degrees East about
four Mills by the North Line of Sd N° 4 till it' Come to the west line
of Manadnock N° 2 & N° 3 to the First bounds Mentioned.

To Have and to Hold to them their heirs & Assigns on the follow-
ing terms Conditions & Limitations (that is to Say that within nine
months from this Date there be one Hundred & twenty three fifty
Acre Lotts Lay'd out as Near the Middle the township in the beast
of the upland as Conveniency Will admit & Drawn for & that the
Remander of the township be Divided In to one Hundred & twenty
three Shares, not Exceeding two Lotts to a Share In Such Quantity
as the Grantees agree upon Each Lott & Drawn for Within two years
from this Date

That three of the afores'1 Shares be Granted & Appropriated free
of all Charge one for the first Sittled Minister, one for the Minis-
tray one for The School there forever, one Lott for Each s'1 Share to
be Lay'd out Near the Middle of the town & Lotts Coupled to them
So as to make Them Equal with the Rest. —

That twenty more of S'1 Shares be Reservid for the Grantors their
Heirs & Assigns forever & acquitted from all Duty & Charge until!
Improved by the owner & Owners or Some holding under them Re-
spectively.

That the Owners of the Other Rights make Settlement at their
own Expence in the following manner Viz1 all the Lotts to be Lavd
out At the Grantees Expence

That all the Lotts in Sd town be Subject to have all Necessary
Roads Layd out through them as there Shall be Occation free from
Charge for the Land

That at or before the Last day of December, 1754 there be three
Acres Cleared Inclosed & fitted for Mowing or tillage on thirty of the
aforementioned Grantees Shares viz1 on one Share of each of the
aforenamed Grantees Excepting Hugh Montgomory James Moore &
Samuel Steel & from Thence annually one acre more in Like Manner
for live years And that Each of Grantees have a house built on Some
one Lott in s'1 Township of a Room Sixteen feet Squair at the Least be-
sides the Chimney- way with a Chimney & Cellar fitt for Comfortable
Dwelling therein in Six years from the Date hereof & Some Person
Inhabiting & Resident in Each house & Continue Inhabitancy there
for four Years then Next Coming

And that within the term of twelve years from this Date there be
Seventeen Lotts more viz1 one of the Rights of James Morrison Robert

448 CHARTER RECORDS.

Clark James Lyons Robert Allen Andrew Armer Halbart Morrison
David Morrison Samuel Morrison John Morrison Thomas Morrison
William Gillmore John Gillmore Samuel Alison James Willson John
Willson Robert Willson James Willson Junr have in Like manner
Five Acres of Land Cleared Inclosed & fitted as afores'1 over & above
What they are to do as afores'1 & each a house in manner afores'1 And
Some Person Inhabiting therein & Continueing Inhabitancy for Three
years afterwards there

That a Convenient Meeting house be built in s'1 township within
Ten years after this Date (& finished) as near the Centre of the
township As Conveniency will admit of to be Determined by a major
Vote of Grantors & Grantees & ten acres of Land Reserved there for
Publick use

That the afores'1 Grantees or their assigns Grant & assess any
Sume Or Sums of Money as they Shall think Necessary for Carrying
Forward & Compleating the Settlement Aforesd

And any of the Grantees Exclusive of the Publick Lotts Afores'1
Who Shall Neglect for the Space of three months Next after Such
Assessment, Shall be Granted & made to pay the Same, So Much of
Such Delinquents Rights Respectively Shall and may be Sold as will
pay Tax & all Charges arising thereon by a Committee of the Gran-
tees Appointed for that Purpose

That all white pine trees fitt for Masting his Majestys Royal Navey
Be & hereby are Granted to his Majesty his heirs & Successors for
ever

And in Case any of the Grantees Shall Neglect & Refuse to Per-
form Airy of the Articles Afore Mentioned by him Respectively to be
done He Shall forefeit his Share & Right in Sd township & every
Part & Percell thereof to those of the Grantees who are not Delin-
quent in the Conditions on their Part Respectively to be done & it
Shall & May be Lawfull for them or any Person by their Authority
to Enter into & upon Such Delinquents Right & him or them Utterly
to amove Oust & Expell For the use of them their heirs & assigns
Provided they Settle or Cause To be Settled Such Delinquents Right
within the term of one year At the furthest from the Period by this
Grant Stepulated as the Conditions thereof & fully Comply with the
Conditions Such Delinquent Ought to have done within one year
from the time after the Respective periods thereof, & in Case the sd
Grantees fullfilling their Parts as afores'1 Shall neglect fullfilling as
afores'1 of any Delinquent Owner nor he him Self Perform it that
then Such Share or Shares Be forefiet Revert & belong to the Gran-
tors their heirs & assign And to be wholly at their Disposall always
Provided that there be No Indian war in any of the terms Limitted

MARLBOROUGH. 449

as afores'1 for doing the Duty Conditioned in this Grant to be done &
in Case that Should happen The Same time to be allowed after Such
Impediment Shall be Removed

Lastly the Grantors do hereby Promis to the sd Grantees their
heirs And Assigns to Defend tho the Law to King & Council if need
be one Action that Shall & may be brought against them or any Nom-
ber Of them by any Person or Persons whatsoever Claiming the sd
Land or any Part thereof by any Other title then that of the sd Gran-
tors or that by which they hold & Derive theirs from

Provided the Said Grantors are Avouched in to Defend the Same
& in Case on finall tryall the Same Shall be Recoverd over Against
the Grantors the s'1 Grantees Shall Recover Nothing Over against the
Grantors for the s'1 Lands Improvement or Expence in bringing for-
ward the Settlement

To all whch Premises I Joseph Blanchard Agent for And in behalf
of the Grantors have hereunto Sett My hand & Seal this twentyeth
Day of May in the 25th year of his Majestys Reign Annoq Dom :
1752

Att1 A true Copy Examined pr

Joseph Blanchard ] Seal >

Mathew Thornton Proprs Clerk

[ Vote of Acceptance by Marlborough Proprietors, 1752.]

[Masonian Papers, Vol. 6, p. 125, and Proprietors' Records, Vol. 6>

p. 115.]

Att A Meeting of the Proprs of the Township Called Manadnock
X° 5. Held at the House of Joseph Blanchard Of Dunstable in the
Province of New Hampshire Esq. — May the Twentyeth A D
1752

The Following Vote Passed Unanimously.

Whereas the Proprs of ye Lands in the Province of New Hampshire
Purchased by them of John Tufton Mason Esq. who hold them under
the title Mad by A Common Recovery Did on the twentyeth day of
.May Afores'1 Grant the Quanty of Twenty Thousend acres By Esti-
mation, part of S'1 Land Bounded as followeth Begining at the North-
west Corner of the Township Called North Manadnock N° 3 &
Runs from thence North Eighty Degrees west three Miles & an half

28

450 CHARTER RECORDS.

to A beach tree in The west line of Masons Patent & from thence
Southerly in that line Seven Milles three quarters & fourty Rods to
the northwest Coner of the Township Called Manadnock N° 4 from
thence South Eighty degrees East About four Miles by the North
Line of Sd N° 4 : Till it Comes to the west line of Manadnock N° 2 &
From thence North by the Needle by Manadnock N° 2 : & N° 3 to
the first bounds Mentioned — Unto James Morison Junr Archibald
Dunlap, Robert Clark James Lyons Robert Allin Andw Armer Hal-
bert Morison David Morison Sam11 Morison John Morison Thomas
Morison William Gillmor John Gilmor Sam11 Alison Sam11 Alison
Junr James Wilson Jur John Wilson Robert Wilson Thomas Wilson
Sam11 Wilson Sam11 Steel James Moore John Wason John Cochran
Isaac Cochran Thomas Cochran Sam11 Cochran Hugh Montgomory
Henry Neal John Moore Robert Moore Sam11 Mitchel Thomas
McCleary & James Wilson Sen1' Under Certain Conditions Limita-
tions & Reservations In S1' Grant Mentioned as by Reference Thereto

Will fully Appear.

Voted That We Do Hereby Accept Said Title And For Our Selves
Our Heirs & Assigns Do Acknowledge that we hold Said Lands
Under Said Title Conditions & Limitations with the Reservations

therein Mentioned.

Mathew Thornton Proprs Clerk.

[Petition of Certain Inhabitants of Marlborough, 1768.]
[Masonian Papers, Vol. 6, p. 127.]

Province of New Hampshire

To the Proprietors of Lands Purchased of John Tufton Mason
Esqr in the province aforesaid (Commonly Called the Lords Propri-
etors of Said Lands) &c.

Humbly Shueth To your honours.

We the Subscribers Inhabitants of Monadnock Number five (So
Called) in Said province, Lying in Said Masons Patant, That, on the
twentieth day of May A. D. 1752. your honours Was pleased to
Grant Said Monadnock Number five to a Number of People and
Gave a Charter of the Same to Said people with Sundry Conditions
and Restrictions as mentioned in said Charter: Since Which We
have Purchased of Sundry of the Grantees, and Setled in Said Town
Ship, and have fulfiled Said Charter as to our part as fully as hath
been in our Power to do, By Reason that there is a Number of Said
Grantees that Neglect to Settle there Rights or to do any Considera-

[Plan of Marlborough, 1762.]

MARLBOROUGH. 45 I

ble part of the duty Required of them by Said Charter, altho We
Conceave the Time for the Settlement on Said Rights is Long Since
Expired and Said Delinquents at our meeting for Bringing forward
the Settlement of Said Township, &c. by means of their own Voates
and the Interest they make, Carry the Votes as they please to the
Great Damage of the Inhabitants of said Township and to the dis-
churagement of others Settleing therein &c. —

the delineqnant Rights are as followeth (viz) Henry Neal William
Gilmore Helbert Morrison Samuel Allason Junr Robert Allen, Sam-
uel Mitchel, John moore Thomas Morrison,

We, having thus opened our Deplorable Case, to your honours as
obedient Children, to their Parents, Desire your honours Would
Take our Case into your Wise Consideration and if your Honours
think proper, Grant Said Delinquants Rights to the Present Inhab-
itants of Said Township on Such Conditions as your honours Shall
think proper ; or otherwise Releave us as your honours in your Great
Wisdom Shall think Proper. And We as In duty Bound Shall Ever
pray.

Monadnock Number five 25th day of July 1768.

Daniel Goodenow William Barker Joseph Collins

Abel Woodart Joshua tucker Isaac M'allester

Abijah tucker Moses tucker Caleb tucker

Stephen Church Charles Biglo Richard Tozer

[Memorial of Jonathan Blanchard, 1768.]
[Masonian Papers, Vol. 6, p. 128.]

To the Gentlemen Proprs Purchasors of the Right of John Tufton
Mason Esq1" in the Province of New Hampr —

The Memorial of Jonathan Blanchard of Dunstable in Said Province
shews —

That your Memorialist & Others are Largely Interested in the New
Township Called Monad* N° 5. Granted In your Right some Years
since, —

that they (& their Family's) have at a Large Expence been & Still
are Carrying on & Compleating the Settlem1 of Said Township as En-
joynd by Grant thereof. —

That your Memorialist understands a Petition has been preferrd to
Your Society (as Well as Many Causeless Insinuations mention'1)
Setting forth that a Number of the Original Grantees or their Assigns
are Delitory & wholly Neglect the Improvem1 & settlement of their
Rights & shares —

452 CHARTER RECORDS.

That your Memoralist Declares (so far as he Can find out) that the
Representation aforesd is false & that there is not one Single Right
in Sd Township but that has more or Less Cleard & Improved on, &
that if the whole Duty is not already Done as they are Perfect8 the
same he Prays for your further Indulgence & is Perswaded that any
New Grant Cannot hastin the settlement — That if the Petitioners
aforesd Shod again Beg for the Supposed forfeiture Your Memorialist
prays that he May have Notice & Liberty to state the facts Touching
the Settlem1 Before any New Grant Takes place Which tho' Perhaps
Cannot Take Effect Yet it May be Prejudicial to the Present Claimers
& no Real service and Your Memorialist as In Duty shall Ever pray —

Portsm0 Decer 22d 1768— Jona Blanchard

\~Draft of Lots in Marlborough, 1762.]

[Masonian Papers, Vol. 6, p. 129.]

A List of the Proprietors of Monadnock N° five with the Draft of
their Lots, (Drawn Novr 8. 1762)—

Thomas Wilson N° u. 3d R: N° 51. N° 10 — 3d N° 7 — 3d N° 1 — ift

Henry Neal N° 12 — 3d N° 52. No 53. N° 1 — 3d N° 2 — 8th

James Lyons N° 17. N° 92. N° 9 — 4th N° 10— 4th N° 3 — 5th

Thomas Cochran N° 22. N° 9 — 7th No 8 — 7 N° 60. N° 59. —

Wm Gilmore N° 93 N° 30. N° 3 — 4. N° 4 — 4. N° 27. —

Robert Willson N° 94 No 6 — 1 N° 5 — 3d N° 6 — 3d N° 105 —

John Wason N° 49. N° 10 — 7. N° 14. N° 15. No 1 — 5^

Halbert Morrison N° 35. N° 2 — 4. N° 1 — 4. N° 62. N° 101.

Samuel Morrison N° 12 — 2d No 43. N° 13 — 2d N° 103. N° 96

Andrew Armer N° 32. No 2 — 6. N° 3 — 6 No 47. N° 5 — 4th

Isaac Cochran N° 39. No 7 — 4 No 38. N° 82. N° 2 — 2

Samuel Allison '? N° 4— 6 N° 44. No 102. N° 4 — 1. N° 2 — 5th

Archibald Dunlap No 37. N° 12 — 5. N° 6 — 2d N° 58. N°i3 — 4th

John Gilmore N° 18. N° 5 — 7th No 10 — 1. No 11 — 1. No 5 — 8

Samuel Steel N° 23. No 8 — 4. No 24. No 83. N« 1 — 2d

Robert Allen No 7—1. N° 97. No 98 N° 13 — 7. No 4 — 8th

James Moor No 7 — 2d N° 73. N° 40. N° 81. N° 106

No 2 — 3

Thomas MacClary No 7— 7^ N041. N° 54. N° 100 Non_ 7th

James Willson Junr N° 7 — 5 N° 8 — 5 N° 7—6. N° 8—6.

John Morrison N° 84. N° 9— 1. No 9 — 2d No 69 N° 13 — 5th

John Willson N° 64 N° 5 — 6 No 48 N° 3 — 1. No 12 —

Samuel Mitchel No 65. N° 6 — 6. No 2. N° 3. N° 12 — 7-

Samuel Cochran N° 50. N° 1 1 — 4. N° 3 — 2d N° 4— 2d N° 57 —

James Morrison N° 26. N° 10 — 6. N° 55. No 56. & North

half N° 1 1 -6

Hush Montgomery N° 10. N° 9 — 6 N° 91. N° 90. N° 1 — 8

John Moor No 9. N° 6— 7 N« 70 N° 78 N° 13— 3d

—6— 8»h

£3 5- fe a

5^

MARLBOROUGH. 453

Robert Moor

N° 5 2d

Jsjo 72°-

No 67.

N° 12 — 1.

N» 13— 1.

— ■ i

N" 36

Samuel Willson

N° 5 — 1

N° 71.

No 68

N° 13 — 6

No 46—

Thomas Morrison

N° 1 1 — 2

N» 95.

10 — 2.

4—7-

104.

David Morrison

N" 42.

No 1—7.

No 8-3.

No 1.

N° 80—

Robert Clark

No 8— 2d

No 75.

No 85.

No 6—5.

No 3—8—

John Cochran

N° 88

X" 12 — 4

N° 33.

No 5-5.

No 25 —

Samuel Allison

N° 89.

N° 1—6

•V 34-

N" 61.

N° 9— 3d-

James Willson Senr

N° 10 — 5.

& S° half of N° 1 1—6.

first Minister

N° 7.

N° 13.

for the ministry

N° 5. & North half of N<

'6—

for the School

N° 20. & S° half of N° 6

—

A True Copy of the Schedule of the Lots of Monadk N° 5 as Drawn
& Recorded Examd f E. Dexter Ppts Clerk

^ The Prop,sof Monadnock N° 5. in New Hampr at a Meeting Legally
Call'1 & held on y8 8th of Novr 1762 (By a Committee) put all the
Numbers of the Lots in Said Township into a hat & Drew out the
following Lots in An Open & fare Manner for the Grantors Being
their Proportion of Land in Said Township Reserved by Grant

Viz— N° 2. in the Sixth Range

3 in — D°

12. in ye 5th Range

4. in ye 4th Range

6. in ye 4th Range
11. in ye 4th Range

6 in ye 3d Range

3 in ye 2d Range

4 in ye 2d Range
8 in ye l8t Range
2. in ye 1st Range

11 one hundred Acre Lots —
& N° 8— N° 11 N° 16 N° 19 G J N° 28 N° 29 N° 31 N° 45 N° 66
N° 63 N° 74 N° 76 N° 77 G J N° 79 N° 87 N° 86 N° 99 N° 21
N° 4

19 one hundred acre Lots —
Attest Ebenezr Dexter Pts Clerk

[Endorsed] Reced March 9th 1769 f ye hand of Jon!l Blanchard

[Conditions of Settlements in Marlborough, 1770.]

[Mason ian Papers, Vol. 6, p. 130.]

Esqr Jaffery Sir these with my due Regards to you and to let you
know that I reseved youre Letter dated ye 12 of Desr last Whare in

454

CHARTER RECORDS.

you desire a tru & just acount of the settlement of monadnock No 5
and how far We had Complied with the Condishons of our Chartor
which I Shall do my indeavour to give you as troo an account as I Can
tho it is hard for me to Render to you So Exact an acount as you
desire but I will do it in the best manner that I Can which are as
folers to wit first the names of the Proprioaters that the Chartor was
granted to are as folers viz

heare is the names of
those parsons that draw
under ye former Pro-
pria8

the Names that are hear
under riten are those
that are in ye town as
setlers

Thomas Willson

David Church

Thomas Rigs & famely

Hen? Neel

Jonathun Blancher Esqr

James Linds

Willam Eagor

Joshua Tucker & famely

Thomas Cockran

Addinaiah How

James Tirfiny & famely

Willam Gilmor

Richard Tozer

Richard Tozer & famely

Robart Willson

Eleaz How

Willam Adams Singal man

John Wason

Charls Biglo

Joseph Peck & famely

Helbort morison

Noah Church

Samuell morrison

Jacob Felton

John Felton & famely

Andro Armor

Isaac mc Allester

Isaac mcAllester & famely

Isaac Cockran

Abrahm How Jur

Abel Woodart & famely

Sam11 Allison jur

Silas Whealor

David Warrin & famely

Archibell Dunlap

Benja mcAllester

Benidick Webber & famely

John Gilmore

Cap' Joseph Biglo

Benja Tucker & famely

Sam11 Steel

J : Blanchd D : free

Duety free rite

Robart Allen

Jonathun Blanchard Esq'

by Jonathan Goodenow

James moore

J : Blanchd Duety free

Duety free rite

Thomas mcClary

Jona Green

Jona Shaw & famely

James Willson jur

Daniel Herrington

Jona Herrington & famly

John morison

Jona Bond

Silas Hooker no Famelly

John Willson

John Woods

James Croasman & famely

Sam11 Witchel

John Taylor

Thaddes Hastins Singl man

Sam11 Cockran

Stephen How

James Bruer & famely

James morrison

Wm Badkock

Benja Tucker jur & famely

Hugh mo'gomory

J : Blanch : Due : free

Duety free Rite

John moore

Cap' Jesse Rice

Richard Robards & famely

Robart moore

Silas Gates

Stephen Church Sing1 man

Samuell Willson

muning Sawing

Sam11 Bishup & famely

Thomas morrison

Ebenezer Dexter

David morrison

Daniel Goodnow

Daniel goodnow & famy

Robart Clarck

Josiah Stow

Joseph Collins & famely

John Cockran

Ebenezer Joslin

Willam Barker & famely

Sam11 Alison

Ebenezer Dexter

Silas Fife Singel man

MARLBOROUGH. 455

Esqr Jaffery Sir I have given you on the other Side of the leaf as
neare account as I Can Consarning our Setlment and of the Number of
famelyes that are in the town as Setlers and have left those Rights
blanck that are not Settled and as you desired to know what we had
don Consarning a meeting House arc; as folers viz we have granted
money for that purposand have agread with a man to Set us up a house
fifty feat long & forty wide and obliged him by bond to have it redy
to raise by the begining of Sepetembor Next and We are giting boards
Shingles & Clabboards to Cover it as Soon as it is up and the Com-
mity that was Chosen by the Proprioators to pick out A Spot to Set
the meeting house on have agread on a Spot if you gentilmen Lord
Proprioaters Consent their to for according to our Chartor you are to
have a voise with us in that afair and Sir if you woold take so much
Notes of our letter as to Send an anser to it Consaring our Meeting
House Spot I Shall take it as a grate favour and Sir you will Sea that
Thomas morrisons Right is not Setled it belonged to Docktr Dexter our
formor Clarck who is deseas'and his Wido Cantdispoas of the land til
She has leav from the coart and as soon as shea Can git liberty to Sel
Shea has agread with a man for one of the Lots belonging to that right
who is to go on with a famely and if Shea may have that liberty and
hir land Not taken from hir ; for by Chartor it is forfited into the
hands of the Grantors and Now according to Chartor at their dispoasel
but I hope thay will Consider hir Case and give hir one year more to
do hir duty in & Helbort morrisons right their is one or two ackers of
land Cleard Last foal and Soad with grane & I hear that the man that
has begun their in tends Next Sumer to bild and Com their to Live
with a famely which I Suppoase will be don if Nothing Extroadny
hapens No more at present but I Remain youre moast humbel sarvent
at Command ,

Benja Tucker

[ Votes of Proprietors of Marlborough, 1770.]
[Masonian Papers, Vol. 6, p. 131.]

Jan ye 3 : 1770

ye Propriator of mond N° 5 being legally warnd met at ye house of
Bej Tucker and voted on ye following articles lly Chose Benja Tucker
moderator 2ly Chose Benja Tucker dark for Sd Prop 3ly voted to Dis-
miss all former officers voted Benja Tucker firs assessor voted Jos
Collins Second voted Daniel goodenough ye 3 asesor voted Charles
Biglow Collector voted Beirj8 Tucker treasurer 4ly voted to Dismiss
all former committees voted Benja Tucker Daniel goodenough John

456 CHARTER RECORDS.

Blood Josep Collins Moses Goddard to be a committee to lay out and
Repair convenient and nessary Roads voted Benja Tucker Joseph Col-
lins David warrin be a committee to look out a buring place voted
Isaac Mcallester Daniel Goodenough Charles Biglow Be a committe
to Preambilate ye lines of Sd township voted John Weeks Charles
Biglow Jonathan Bond Be a committee to Recken with the former
treasurer voted David Warrin Isaac MeAllester Silas Gates Be a com-
mittee for drawing money out of ye treasury voted Joseph Collins
David warrin John Felton Be a com to Receive ye Bonds for ye school
money and Receive ye intrest money ye 5 article Past over 6ly voted to
Build a meeting house forty five feet long and Eight and thirty wide
voted to Except of a Subscription of moses Tucker Joshua Tucker
Abijah Tucker moses goddard Richard tozer John Felton Jedediah
Tayntor Benja Tucker Jur Jedediah maynod Stephen Church Josep
collins Provided ye Subscribers will give Bonds to compleat their Sub-
scription to the committee to y* Shall Be chosen to Build ye meeting
house voted Benja Tucker Daniel Goodenough Josep Collins Jonah
Herrington Moses Goddard James Brewer Isaac Mcallester Be a
committee for building ye meeting house and voted to Raise ten Dol-
lers on Each Prop Right for to Build a meeting house voted yl ye
committee ye are appointed to Build ye meeting house are impowerd
to notify ye lord Propriators and Request their voice where it shal Be
set 7ly Past over 8ly voted John weeks Charles Biglow Daniel Her-
rington Be a committee to assist ye dark in Receiveing ye Books
and Papers and Recording Such things as have Been Neglected by
ye former dark : voted on ye fifth article to Except accompts and
voted not to Raise any money for ye high ways under ye 8 voted to
confeirm all former votes and meetings Excepting one meeting held
at ye house of Cypron how in marlborough in ye Province of ye
massachusets Bay in ye year one thousand Seven hundred and Sixty
Eight voted Past over ye 9 article 10ly voted yl Every man shall vote
in their meetings according to their intrest in sd township

Voted yl ye owners of one Sixteenth Part of ye lands in sad town-
ship Requesting ye dark to call a meeting he shall Be obliged to Do
it By Posting a notificaton in Sd township and in marlboroug at
some Publick Place near ye Senter of Sd town

all ye officers and committees Sworn to their Respective offices Ex-
cepting John week Jonah herrington John Blood and James Brewer

MARLBOROUGH. 457

[Petition of Committee for Locating Meeting House, 1770.]
[Masonian Papers, Vol. 6, p. 133.]

Mr George Jaffrey

We the Subscribers being Chosen A committee By the
Grantees of Monadnock No 5 to Build a meeting House for Publick
Worship and likewise to acquaint the Grantors of Said township of
the Proceedings in that affair and Request their voice in it Agreable
to the Charter of The Grantors — We have therefore According to
our Judgment Chosen the Best Spot to Set A meeting house on
Neighest the Center of S'd Town Both in Respect of the Grantors
And the Grantees and Request the Grantors to Come and Give their
Consent to it if they think Proper or Signify their Minds to us any
way as they Shall think Proper —

We Being informed mr Jaffrey was Clark for the grantors of Said
Township we have Presumed to Send the Above Request to him and
hope his favour in laying the Request Before the Grantors and his
Doing the Same and acquainting us of their minds will greatly oblige
the grantees and us yr Humble Servts

Monadnock N° 5 Janry ye 11 : 1770
Benja Tucker Daniel Goodenough Joseph Collins

Isaac M'allester Moses Goddard James Brewer

Jonah Harrington

[ Votes of Projjrietors of Marlborough, 1770.]
[Masonian Papers, Vol. 6, p. 133.]

Att a meeting of the Proprietors of Monadnock No five Legally
Warned and held att the house of mr Jonah Herrington on Wednes-
day the Eighteenth of April 1770 —

llv Chose Cap1 Jesse Rice moderator —

on y'" (2) artical in S'd warrant Past to Reconsider what was Done
Conserning a meeting house in the last meeting

votd to Dismiss ye Committee to Build ye meeting house

voted to chuse a committee of five men to Build ye New meeting
house

and votd that Benja Tucker Daniel Goodnow Joseph Collins moses
goddard and Isaac McAllester be the committee to Build y' meeting
house but they one and all refused having any consern with it —

under ye 3 article votd to Reconsider ye former vote conserning a
meeting house and voted to have one 30 feet square without the help

45^ CHARTER RECORDS.

of Subscription under ye 4 artical voted to chuse a committee to lay-
out a road over the South Branch and Build a bridg over ye Same
and voted that James Brewer william Barker and Silas fife be a com-
mittee to lay out ye Road and build ye Bridg over ye Branch —

under ye 5 Artical voted to Dismiss ye Committee chosen to take
Care of ye Bonds Concerning ye School money and made choice of Cap*
Jesse Rice Daniel Herrington and william Barker trustees for to take
care of that money under ye 6 : article voted to Dissmiss ye former com-
mittee that was appointed to lay out and clear Roads and voted to
chuse five men for a new committee voted David whelor Samuel Bish-
shop Jonah Herrington Be a committee for ye Purposes aforesd voted
to Pass over ye 7 article under ye 8 : article voted to Raise two Dol-
lers on Each Prot Right to be laid out in ye Roads under ye 9 : arti-
cal voted to chuse a committee of 3 men for Sail of lands chose
Charles Biglow Jonathan Shaw and James Tiffaney ye 10 voted to
Recive accomps under ye 11 : voted to Chuse a committee to make
use of the intrest money in Schooling the children and choase william
Barker Isaac M°allester and Richard Roberds for that Purpose ye 12 :
voted to Chuse a committee of five men to Raise ye meeting house and
voted that moses Cinney Samuel Bishshop Jonathan Shaw Joseph
Peck and Silas fife to be a committee for that Purpose

Jesse Rice moderator

[Aecount of Settlements in Marlborough, 1770.]

[Masonian Papers, Vol. 6, p. 134.]

an acompt of ye Settlements In monadnock N° five Carled New
marlborough In ye province of New Hampshire
Dra* 1 Thomas Willson — ■ Settled by Thomas Riggs

2 Henry Neal —

3 James Lyan — Settled by Joshua Tucker

4 Thomas Cochran — Settled by Jams Tiffany

5 William Gilmore — Settled by Richard Tozer

6 Robert Wilson — Settled by William Adams

7 John Warson — Settled by Joseph peck

8 Halbart morroson — Jonathan Nicholds made

Sum Improvement

9 Samuel morrison — Settled by John Fulton

10 Andrew Armer — Settled by Isaac mcAllester

11 Isaac Cochran — Settled by Abel Woodart

12 Samuel Allison — Settled by David Warrin

MARLBOROUGH.

459

13 Archabel Dunlap —

14 John Gilmore —

15 Samuel Steel —

16 Robort Allen—

17 James moor —

18 Thomas m' Clary —

19 James Wilson —

20 John morison —

21 John Wilson—

22 Samuel mitchel —

23 Samuel Cochran —

24 James morrison —

26

27

28
29
30
31
32

Settled by Bennideck Webber

Settled by Benjamin Tucker

Called Duty free

Settled by Jonathan Goodenow

Called Duty free

Settled by Jonathan Shaw

Settled by Joliali Harrington

Silas Hooker made Sum

Improvements
Settled by James Grossman
Thaddeas Hastings made

Sum Improvement
Settled by James Brewer
Settled by Benjamin Tucker Jun1

25 Hugh mongommory — Called Duty free

John moor-
Robert moor-

Samuel Wilson —
Thomas morrison-
David morrison —
Robert Clark —
John Cochran —
Samuel Allison —

Settled by Richard Robards

Settled by Stephen Church Singel-

man one acree Improved Sum

acrees Girdled
Settled by Samuel Bishop

Settled by Daniel Goodenow
Settled by Joseph Collins
Settled by William Barker
Settled by Silas Fife
James Wilson Senr have one Single Share Containing one hundred
and Fifty acres no Duty to be Don Sooner than The Larst Dutys on
the Dubbel Shares Which Contains Fore hundred and Fifty acres to
Each Share —

In monadnock N° five

[Benjamin Tucker to George Jaffrey, 1770.]

[Masonian Papers, Vol. 6, p. 135.]

Portsmouth April ye 27th 1770—
Esqr Jaffrey sir these with my due regards to you hopeing thay
may meet you in good halth and sir I woold in forme you that I
made a jorney to Ports11 on porpus to Sea youre self with Som
others of the jentel men Granttors of our town ship monadnock No 5
but my fortin happins to be heare when Esqr Jaffrey is not at horn
which I am Exeding Sorrey for for I much wanted to Sea the Esq1"

460 CHARTER RECORDS.

and to advise with him Consarning the afarirs of our town for I
reseved a leter from the Esqr Last wintor whare in he desired me to
return him an anser Consarning the setlement of our township which
anser I had roat Sum time a go but haveing No oppertuenety to
Send it I mad this jorney to bring it with a leter from a commity
Chosen to buld our meeting house desireing the jentlemen Grantors
of our town to give their advise whare our meeting house shall stand
which thay have a Rite by Chartor to do and Sir you will sea in my
anser to youre leter that we had agread to buld a meeting house and
how Large and when to be ready to Raise but I must now let you
know that : that part of my anser is unSartin for their is a Noumber
that has aroas up and Called a nother meeting the 18 of this month
and Reconsidred what was don at our meeting ye 3 of janurey last
after they ware Recorded on boock & say thay will not have this
meeting house so large but will have one 30 feet square and thay
dismest the Commity that was appoint to buld the meting house that
I give you anacount of in my anser to youre self and have not got
aney Commity to buld the 30 fut meeting house and we are now in
a bad situation Consarning our meting house for the woorkman that
we agread with to buld the House 40 feat wide & 50 long has Cut
the Cheaf of the great timbor and hued the Long Sticks and thay are
drawed to gether whare we expect the house will stand and ye Com-
mity has Entred into bonds to sea ye worckman paid by the first of
September Next & have taken bond of him wheare in he is abliged
to have the house ready to Rais by that time & the Commity ware
obliged to draw all the timbor to the Spot & to find all the Slit worck
at ye Spot but sence they are dismist by the Last meeting from that
offis thay think and Say thay have no firther Consarn with it which
if that meeting Stands good it must be So and when ye woorckman
has hued all the timbor he must stop his hand for he will find No
man to draw it to geather for him and their is no body aney power
to a greay with him to Stop & not to purseade aney firther in this
affair as things now Stand & I woold Let the Esqr know that it was
by reason of 3 or 4 parsons giveing power to Cap' Jesse Rise & mr
Daniel Herrington both of morlbrough to act for them was the
meanes of bringing us into this bad sittuation and thay are thoase
parsons that are the most behind as to Settelling viz the Rite of
Hennery Neel & Robart Allen & thomas morrison with ye thi*ee
Duety free Rites which belong to old maddam Blanchor & others of
that famley Which you will Sea in my anser to youre leter how I
have returned them and in whoes hands thay are now in the Rite of
Tomes morrison which is now in the hands of the wido Dexter you
will Sea in my anser to you that I roat in hir favour but in as much

MARLBOROUGH. 461

as She has impower'1 those men to act in hir behalef to the damige
of our town I have No more to say in hir behalef and Sir if you
woold be So kind as to git the gentil men grantors to geather as soon
as may be and Lay ouer Case before them and Sea if thay will take
So much Notes of us as to give us their advise in all affairs Consarn-
ing our town and wheather that meeting be good whare in thay dis-
annuled what was don before & put on Recoard allso to Sea what
methoad thay will Come into in ordor to joyn with us on a Spot to
Set our meeting house if we Ever agree to buld one for we want to
Clear up ye spot to Set it No more at present So I remain youre hum-
bel Sarvent att Command —

Benja Tucker

P S Sir I have left Som papors in ye hand of Coll0 Atkison for
youre self & Sir mr mors of Dublin gives his Sarvis to youer Self &
desired me to in form you that he reseved youre Leter Last fryday
whare in you desired him to return to you a tru account of their
Setlement which he woold do as soon as posabel he Could & Sir in
my anser to youre Letter I did not Set forth to you the Noumber of
acors that itch man had got Cleard but their is not above 2 or 3 but
what has got more land Cleard then the Chartor Required —

[Benjamin Tucker to George Jaffrey, 1770.]

[Masonian Papers, Vol. 6, p. 136.]

Monadnock No five may ye 29th 1770
Esqr Jeffry Sir I Roat to you in a Letter when I was at Poartsmouth
that we met with som DiflBcalty about our Meeting house and that
the Commity that was appointed to bild it was dismist and their was
Non to Carry on the worck but we have had a meeting Sence and
have mad Choise of the old Comity a gin and the house is Like to go
on as it was first Purposed to be and if the gentel men grantors woold
take So much Notes of our Letter as to appoint Som man or men as
thay shall think proper to Com and Sea the Spot that we have Chosen
to Set the Meeting house on and give their Consent if thay think
proper for we want to Cleare it up as soon as may be for we Cant
Draw the timber to to the Spot til the Land is Cleard up and Sir what
I Roat to you Consarning the Rights that ware Not Setled according
to Chartor Stil remain So as far as I know Exepting the Rite of Halb1
morison their is a man daly at worck and has got his Famley to
Swonsy naer by his worck and desines to bring them in to town as
soon as he can git a house up to put them in and Sir you Roat to me

462 CHARTER RECORDS.

in youre Leter that I Should be paid for my troubel but as for that I
Leave with you to do as you think proper I was Exeding Sorry that
Esqr Jeffry was not at horn for I wanted much to Sea him but was
disappointed No more at present So I remain youre humbel sarvant at
Command

Benja Tucker

[Benjamin Tucker to George Jaffrey, 1772.]

[Masonian Papers, Vol. 6, p. 137. j

monadnock No five Febru ye 1th 1772—
Esqr Jefr Sir you Roat to me two years ago desireing to know how
far we had Setled our town according to Chartor and I Sent you an
anser back how it was with us at that time as to Setlers their was 2
or 3 wanting then & their is 2 rites now that their is no Setler on
and according to our Chartor their Should be on 17 rites a seckent
Setler with a house and 5 Acors of Land Cleared and their is the
biger halef of them has Complied with them tairms viz Som of them
are on and others have begun and are like to Com in this year but
their is 7 or 8 that are in No Prepration as I kno of and if Esqr
Jefeys woold do So much in the Name of the Grantors as to rite a leter
to be red at som of our meetings it mite be of Sarvis to Stir up those
men that are behind of their duety and sir mr Bread Batcheldor in
formed me lately that the Lord Propts Could not Com to a devishan
betwen them Selves for want of a Plan and schedule which I thoat
thay had Long ago for we have paid for the draft and transpoart of
them onse or twise in time past but if thay have faild and are now
wanting I will do my Indeavonr that our Clarck Shall Send them and
sir if you should Com to a devishan Quick I Should be glad to have
the Refuesal of one Lot viz No 31 it Lyes verey handy to my house
and worth more for me than aney other man it is not fit to mak a
farm on by reason of its being very Stoney but will make good pas-
ter Land and sir their is a peace of medo in one of youre Lots that
has bin moad by mr Isaac m° Allister Ever Sence the Town has bin
Setled but he has Soald his intrest in the Town and it is unsarting
wheather he will by in the Town a gin or not and if he Should move
out of town or in aney other part of the Town So that the medo will
not be handy to him I Shall take it as a favour to have the Liberty to
mo it before aney other man and Sir I woold in form you that we have
got our meeting House up & Shingled but Not Clabboarded and if the
gentil men granthirs woold be So kind as to give us liberty to cut som
timber on your Land to make Clabboards on I should be much obliged

MARLBOROUGH. 463

to them and take it as a favour Sir please to Send the with in Cloased
to Boston to mr Wintroop I Shall be much obliged to you and remain
your humbel sarvant at Command

Benja Tucker

[Reserved Lots, 1779.]
[Masonian Proprietors' Records, Feb. 2, 1779.]

State of j Portsmouth February 2d 1779 Tuesday Three of

New Hampshire \ the Clock afternoon at the House of mr John Pen-
hallow improved by him as a Store the Proprietors meet according
to adjournment —

Whereas the Grantees of Manadnock N° 5 have Returnd a Schedule
of the Draft of the Lots in said N° 5 and also the Draft of the Lotts
drawn for the Grantor's Reservation in said N° 5, which Lotts have
not been drawn for and Severed to said Proprietors, and the Draft or
Severance of the same being Requested by many of the Inhabitants
of said N° 5 the Proprietors Resolve and Therefore — Voted the Draft of
said Reserved Lotts be now made for the Proprietors, and the Lotts as
drawn to Each Proprietor's Right, Shall be Entered as Drawn, and
Shall be a Severance of the Same to Each Proprietor their heirs and
Assigns —

The two Lotts to each Proprietors Reservation as returned bv the
Grantees — are drawn as follows' viz* —
drawn 1st To Theodore Atkinson Esqr N° 3— 2d Range N° 6— 4th Range

2 Solly & March N° 3— 6th Range N° 2— 1st Range

3 Thomlinson & Mason N° 21— N° 8—

4 Jotham Odiorne Esqr N° 79— N° 76—

5 Richard Wibird Esqr N° 4— 2'1 Range N° 29—

6 Thomas Packer Esqr N° 86— N° 45—

7 Meserve Blanchard & C° N° 99— N° 66—

8 Thomas Walingford Esqr N° 4— N° 11—

9 Joshua Peirce Esqr N° 12— 5th Range N° 63—

10 Mark Hunk8 Wentworth Esqr N° 4— 4th Range N° 8—1 Range

11 John Rindge N° 6—3" Range N° 16—

12 George Jaffrey Esqr N° 77— N° 19—

13 John Wentworth Esqr N° 11 4Ul Range N° 28—

14 John Moffatt Esqr N° 2— 6th Range N° 74—

15 Peirce & Moore N° 87— N° 31—

Eight Lotts in the Ranges, in this Draft of the Lots — being mis-
represented, and were before drawn for, to the Grantees — the Error
is rectifyed, by a Vote and another Draft of Eight Lots Septr 29,
1779— Pages 42 & 43—

464 CHARTER RECORDS.

[Previous Draft Rectified, 1779.]
[Masonian Proprietors* Records, Sept. 29, 1779.]
State of I Portsmouth September 29th 1779 Wednesday

New Hampshire ( three of the Clock afternoon at the House improved
by mr John Penhallow as a Store the Proprietors meet according to
adjournment

Whereas the Grantees of a Tract of Land called Manadnock N° 5 —
had returned to Proprietors the Grantors a Schedule of the Draft of
Lotts of the Grantees of Said Tract of Land, with a Draft of thirty
Lotts for the Grantors Reservation, attested by Ebenezer Dexter Proprs
Clerk of Said Manadnock N° 5 — and as the Inhabitants of Said Manad-
nock N° 5 — (now called New Marlborough) have earnestly requested
the Proprietors the Grantors, to make a Severance of the Said thirty
reserved Lotts, to each Proprietors Right or share — The Proprietors
aforesaid on the Second day of February 1779 — resolved and voted
that a Draft and Severance of the aforesaid thirty Lotts for their Re-
servation in Said Tract of land be then made — the Said thirty Lotts
were then drawn to each Proprietors Right and entered accordingly
for each Proprietors Right or Share in Severance

But it appearing Since the drawing and Severance of Said thirty
Lots by the Proprietors on the 2'1 day of February last, that the Said
Dexter had made a mistake in returning eight Lotts of the thirty, for
the Proprietors, the Grantors reservation, which were drawn to the
Right of the Grantees — and have been long Since improved — It is now
resolved and Voted that those Proprietors who had either of said eight
Lotts drawn to his share do now relinquish his right to the Same, and
now draw for another Lot which doth not appear to be appropriated
either to Grantor or Grantee of Said Tract of Land — and as drawn to
Said Proprietor, shall be a Severance of the same to his Right or Share
in Said Manadnock N° 5, and in full Satisfaction for the Mistaken Lot
drawn to his Right on the 2'1 day of February aforesaid —

In Pursuance of the above Vote the following Lotts were drawn to
the Rights or shares of the Proprietors to whose Rights the eight mis-
taken Lotts were drawn on Said Second day of February — vizc

To Theodore Atkinson Esqrs — Right Lot N° 4 in 5th Range instead
of Lot N° 3 in 2d Range

To Solly & March's Right Lot N° 12— in 6th Range instead of N°
3 — in 6th Range

To Richard Wibird Esqrs Right Lot N° 4 in 3d Range instead of Lot
N° 4 in 2d Range-
To Joshua Peirce Esqrs Right Lot N° 2 in 7th Range instead of Lot
N° 12 in 5th Range

MARLOW. 465

To Mark Hg Wentworth Esqrs Right — Lot N° 3 in 3d Range instead

of Lot N° 4 in 4th Range-
To Mr John Rindge's Right Lot N° 3 in 7th Range instead of Lot

N° 6 in 3(1 Range-
To John Wentworth Esqrs Right Lot N° 9 in 5th Range instead of

Lot N° 11 in 4Ul Range-
To John Moffatt Esq" Right— Lot N° 11 in 5th Range instead of

Lot N° 2 in 6th Range

MARLOW.

[Granted as Addison Jan. 1, 1753, to Elias Alexander and others. Regranted
as Marlow Oct. 7, 1761, to William Noyes and others. The charter was renewed
Jan. 24, 1772. All that part of the town east of the " Curve Line" was annexed
to Stoddard June 21, 1797.

See New Hampshire charters in preceding volume ; IX, Bouton Town Papers,
546; X, Bouton Province and State Papers, 397, 400, as to participation in move-
ment for union with Vermont towns ; XII, Hammond Town Papers, 572; Index to
Laws, 334; sketch, Hurd's History of Cheshire County, 1886, p. 314: sketch,
Child's Gazetteer of Cheshire County, 1885, p. 311 ; Something about Marlow, by
G. B. Griffith, 4, Granite Monthly, 61 ; Baptist Churches in N. H.,by E. E. Cum-
mings, 1836, p. 8; Lawrence's N. H. Churches, 1856, p. 283.]

[Petition of William Matson, 1769.]
[Masonian Papers, Vol. 6, p. 138.]

Province of ) To the HonbIe Proprietors of Masons Patent in
New Hampshir \ Said Province —

The Hum1,1'' Petition of William Matson of Marlow in Said Province
Yeoman in behalf of himself and Other Proprietors of said Marlow
Sheweth, that In the Year A D. 1761 a Grant was made by the Late
Governor of Said Province to your Petitioner and his Constituents of
Said Marlow Bounded as follows Viz1 Beginning at the South Easterly
Corner of a Township formerly granted by the name of New Town
Thence running North by the Needle Six miles one Hundred ninety
two Rods to a Stake and Stones Thence East by the Needle Six miles
and Three Quarters of a mile to a Stake and Stones, Thence South
twenty Degrees West Six miles two Hunded Eighty Eight Rods to a
Stake and Stones, Thence West by the Needle four miles one Hundred
twenty Eight Rods to the Bounds first mention'd. In Consequence of
which Said grant the Proprietors of Said Marlow have Settled a large
29

466 CHARTER RECORDS.

number of families there, expended a great part of their Substance in
Clearing Subduing Cultivating and Settling said Marlow, in expecta-
tion of their being within Bounds under the Crown —

But to the great Surprize of the Proprietors of said Marlow, The
Patent Line according to a Late running includes one mile one Hun-
dred twenty two Rods in Breadth and more than Six miles in Length
of Said Marlow, upon which last mention'd part of Said Marlow taken
of by the now Patent Line were Settled four families before the late
running of Said Line and many other Persons there were and are Clear-
ing and Settling other Rights included within Said Line tho' within
Bounds of said Marlow as Originally granted and Laid out in the year
afors'1 And as the depriving the Proprietors of said Marlow of the
Land within Said Patent Line, would render the Residue of said Town-
ship very inconsiderable and almost useless to them as it would entirely
defeat the design and purpose of a Town, it would not only deprive
them of the property in and Benefit of their Settlements and Labour
in that particular part of said Marlow But Effectually Discourage and
Obstruct the Settlement of the whole for the above Reasons and num-
berless others that might be Offer'd —

Your Petitioner in behalf of himself and Proprs of Said Marlow
prays that your Honours wo'd Consider their Case as peculiar and quiet
'em under you in the Possession of all the Said Land which the Said
patent Line includes, granted as aforsaid to Said Marlow, upon such
Conditions, Restrictions, and Limitations as your Honours think
reasonable and your Petitioner shall ever pray —

Sep' 16* 1769 William Matson j Pmp- of Marlow

[Samuel Grustin to Proprietors, 1772.]

[Masonian Papers, Vol. 6, p. 140.]

Marlow June 25th 1772
To the Honorabe Committey of the Preprietors of Masons Patent
wishing you all Grace &c

Sur8 I was at Portsmouth with you Last Jenewary as an agent of
the Proprietors of marlow with rar Matson on the aCount of that
Land that the Pattnt Line Had taken of from the s'1 Town of Marlow
and I thought that I had full Encurigement from your selves and
from all the Proprietors of s'1 Patent that I saw I was surely Expect-
ing that the Propriety of marlow would have the Land So taken of
by the Pattent Loyn Secured to them on Such Tearms as would be

MARLOW. 467

Honoriabel and still will Hope for the Same & I have Late Reeved a

Letter from Cap1 Georg King that it was to be obtained by a Reserve

of one fifteenth Part and then to Give a deed of the Rest but this

week I Have seen Capt Kneel and His orders of Riming the Loyns

and by them I sospeet that the matter Is by the Honoriabel Com-

mitte other ways Determined but yet Hoping that our Pettishon for

said Land will Come Into Rememberance with you so that Said Land

may be Grantd and Confirmed to us on Such Tearms as may be Hon-

orabel to your Lordships and Gracilis to us your most obedant and

Dependent Potishenors from your Humbel servent

o ,1 ^ ,. \ agent for the

Sam11 Gustm { P, c Af ,

I proprietors ot Marlow

Ps Mr Matson is Now absent

To Mr Peter Pearce

Sur if there is any Posebelity that we may Have the Land Granted
to us as Proprietors I Pray you to send me a Line and if it should be
other ways Detarmened I would be Glad to be Informed Howitis Sur
ablige me with a few Lines and I shall be Humbely abliged to you
self there for thes from your Most obedent —

Sam11 Gustin

[Statement of William Matson.~\
[Masonian Papers, Vol. 6, p. 141.]

Improvements made by the Propietrs of marlow and the Settlers
under them in that part of sd marlow now Claimd by the Propietrs
of manadnoc N° 7 alias Limrick — according to a late running of the
Patentine Line

The Propietrs of marlow had Seteled before the runing Said Line
four families and five Pasons besids who had made very Considreable
Improvements in that Part of Said marlow now claimed by said Lim-
brick that ye Proietrs of Said Limbrick Sence thay Claimed the
Lands mentiond in the Petition Exhibited by the agent for Said
marlow taken from Said marlow by Said late Running have not made
the least Improvements or Settlements upon any Part thare of {and
that the Propietrs of Said Limbrick have thare full measure Without
taking the Lands originally granted to the Propietrs of Said marlow

Asarted by me — William matson

with respect to what is Said above relative to N° 7 having their
full Measure he Says he had by Information from one of the Grantees
of the s'1 N° (7) & that he had never measured it

468 CHARTER RECORDS.

After examining into Circumstances of the affair relative to the
dispute between Marlow & N° (7) tis determined at this Meeting 21
June 1770 to acquaint the Grantees of Marlow that those Persons
that are now Setled under Marlow Title if the Land where this dis-
pute is belongs to Masons Propriety — no Settler need be distressd
about an agreem1 with this Propriety they will doubtless be Quieted
upon very reasonable Terms — and upon ye Proposal of said Matson
(in case the Township of Monadnock N° 7 is declared forfeited by ye
present Grantees) of engaging to have Settled 30 Fams to come from
Connecticut within 3 years and giving bond for ye performance — Said
Matson &c is to be preferr'd to other settlers to have notice sent him
^ Post to ye Town of Lyme in Connecticut

MASON.

[Granted by the Masonian Proprietors as Number 1, Nov. 1, 1749, to William
Lawrence and others. Incorporated as Mason, Aug. 26, 1768, and named in
honor of Capt. John Mason. The inhabitants voted, June 22, 1768, to call the
town '« Sharon,11 but the Governor named it Mason. Greenville was set off and
incorporated, June 28, 1872. The line with Greenville was established, July 2,

l873-

See New Hampshire charters in preceding volume ; papers under title Groton

(old grant) in Massachusetts charters preceding; XII, Hammond Town Papers,

577; Index to Laws, 336; History, by John B. Hill, 1858, pp. 323; sketch,

Hurd's History of Hillsborough County, 1885, p. 513; Two Lectures on History

of Mason, by Ebenezer Hill, 1846, pp. 16; Memoir of Rev. Ebenezer Hill, with

his discourse on history of the town, by John B. Hill, 1858, pp. 114; Baptist

Churches in N. H., by E. E. Cummings, 1836, pp. 11, 20; Lawrence's N. H.

Churches, 1856, pp. 206, 209; Centennial Celebration, 1868, pub. 1870, pp. 115 ;

Celebrations, 23, N. E. Hist. Gen. Register, 354.]

[Charter of Mason, 1749.]

[Masonian Papers, Vol. 6, p. 143, and Proprietors' Records, Vol. 6,

p. 67.]

Province of ) Pursuant to the Power and Authority Granted &
New Hampsr ) vested in me by the Proprs of Lands Purchased of

John Tufton Mason Esq in the Province of New Hampr by their vote

passed at their meeting held at Portsmouth in s(1 Province the 16th

day of June 1749. —

I do by these Presents give and grant all the Right Title Interest

property & possession of the Proprs aforesd Unto William Lawrence

MASON. 469

Esq Peter Powers Eleazer Blanchard John Goffe Esq David Adams
Paul March Phillip Olerick Eleazer Farwell John Stevens Nathaniel
Meserve Jnnr Peter Powers Jnnr Joseph Blodget John Butterfield
Jonathan Powers Junr Zachens Lovewell Jonathan Hubburd John
Varnam Jonah Brown John Jennison Joseph Blanchard Junr Elnathan
Blood Mr Thomas Parker Jonathan Hubburd Junr Clement March
Robert Fletcher Jnnr Israel Hubburd Amasa Parker Jacob Goold
Benjamin Parker David Stearns Thomas Tarble Samuel Tarble
Shadreck Whitney & Edward Jewell of in And to all that part of a
Township or tract of Land in the Province of New Hampr afores'1 con-
taining About twent}r Seven Square miles Bounded as followeth
Beginingat a Stake and Stones the South east Corner of the Premises
and runs North Eighty degrees west five miles and Twenty rods by
the Province line to New Ipswich Corner from thence north by the
Needle five miles to a White pine Marked from thence East by the
needle five miles to a hemlock tree Marked from thence South by the
Needle to the first Bounds Mentioned Which said Township is lay'd
out drawn for and Assertained to Each Grantee Respectively with two
Lotts for encouragement of Building of mills And three Shares for pub-
lick uses One for the first Settled minister one for the ministry And
One for the School there forever Which S'1 Shares and lotts to be the
Same as already drawn & entered in the Schedule and plan hereunto
Annexed unto them Respectively And to their heirs And Assigns To
Have & To Hold on the following terms Conditions & Limitations And
on them only That is to Say That a Meeting house be built as near the
Centre of S'1 Town as by the Grantees shall be Judged most Con-
venient And that Where Such place Shall be agreed on Six Acres
Shall be Reserved for publick Uses. — That the Remaining Lands
not entered in the Schedule And plan afores'1 to the Grantees Speci-
fied, and within the Bounds of the township afores'1 be And hereby
are Reserved to and for the Use of ye Grantors their heirs and
Assigns forever free and Clere from all Charge tax or Incombrance of
Setlement untill their or any of their parts Respectively are Improved
by them or Some holding Under them —

That the Aforenamed Grantees exclusive of the three publick lotts
Shall Carry on Perform And Make Setlement at their Own Expence
in the Following manner, viz1 that there be all necessary Hyways
lay'd out in S'1 Town where they will be most Convenient without
any pay or Allowance to Grantors or Grantees Through Whose
Lands the Same Shall go.

That the Grantees Build a house for the Publick worship of God
there at or before the last day of May 1753 for the Use of those who
Shall then or Afterwards Inhabit there.

470 CHARTER RECORDS.

That there be On Some One lott of each of forty Shares Belonging
to the Grantees three Acres Clered Inclosed & Fitted for mowing or
tillage (so Far as is Profitable at or Before the Last Day of Nov1"
1751 and each of Said Lotts to be Clered as afores'1 to be Settled with
Haveing a house of Sixteen feet Square at the Least and Seven feet
Stud or more with a Chymney and Celler finished and fitted for
Dwelling therein at or Before the Last Day of may 1752 and Some
person or Family Inhabiting & Residant in s'1 House and they or
Some Others In Each of their Steads Continue Residancy there
Untill the Last Day of mav 1755

That the owners of Each of the Sd Forty setling Shares have on
Each of their Rights Respectively three acres more in Like manner
fitted at or Before the Last Day of Nov1' 1752 and the Like Quantity
Annualy for two Yeares then Next Coming

That the remaining Shares viz1 the Shares of Jona Hubbard Benja
Parker Nathan1 Meserve Junr Jonh Brown John Genison Eleazr
Blanchard be Excuesed from the Duty of Building Improving or Setling
Untill the Last day of Novr 1755 and then to have the Whole Duty
perform'1 as Others at that Time

That Each of the Said Grantees at the Executing this lustrum'
pay thirty pounds Cash Old Ten1' to defrey the Necessary Charges
Risen and Ariseing in bringing forward the Setlement to be Deposited
in the hands of Such Person as they Shall appoint Being a freeholder
and Residant in this Province that the Afores'1 Grantees or their
Assignes Assess Such further Sums of money Equally In Proportion
to their Right on the Share of Each Grantee exclusive of the three
Publick lotts as may be tho1 Necessary for Carrying on and Com-
pleating any of the Publick matters in Makeing the setlem1 afores'1 or
for heering Preaching and on failure of paym' for the Space of three
months after Such Tax or Assessm1 is agreed upon and posted up at
Such place or places as the Proprs the Grantees Shall appoint to give
Notice for Calling PropIS meetings that so much of Such Delinq1*
Lands & Right Respectively Shall and may be Disposed of as will
pay Such Tax or Taxes and All Charges arising thereon by a Comtee
Choose by the Said Grantees for that Purpose, and In Case any of
the Sd Grantees Shall neglect or Refuse to perform any of the Articles
Afore mentioned he Shall Forfit his Share and Right in Said Town-
ship to those of the Grantees who Shall not then be Delinqu1 in the
performance of the Conditions Enjoyned and It Shall and may be
Lawfull for them by their agent or agents appointed by the Majr part
of those not Delinq1 (for that purpose) to Enter into and upon the
Right of Such Delinq1 owner and him to amove Oust and Expell for
their Use their Heirs and Assignes Provided they Setle Such Delinqu

MASON. 471

Right within the Term of one Year after the Period, that is by this
Instrument Stipulated to be Done as the Condetion of the Grant and
fully comply with the Whole Duty Such Delinq1 ought to have Done
within the Term of one Year from Time to time after the Respec-
tive periods thereof, and In Case they omit Complying as Afores'1
within that Term that all Such Delinq18 Rights Shall Revert and.
belong to the Grantors their Heirs and Assignes free from the Incum-
berance of Setlem* and Charge always Provded there be no Indian
War within any of the Terms afores'1 for Doing the Duty Conditioned
In this Giant and In Case that Should Happen the Same time to be
Allowed for the Respective matters afores'1 After Such Impedim1
Shall be removed

That all White pine trees fit for masting his Majestys Royal Navy
Growing on Sl land be and Hereby are Granted to his Majesty his
Heirs and Successors forever

Lastly the Said Grantors do hereby promis to the sd Grantees their
Heirs & Assignes to Defend through the Law to King and Councill
If Need be One Action that Shall and may be Brought against them
or any nomber of them Claiming the S'1 Lands or any part thereof
by any other Title than that of the Grantors or that by Which they
Hold & Derive theres from provided the Said Grantors are Avouched
In to Defend the Same And In Case the Same Shall be Recovered
against the Grantors the Grantees Shall Recover nothing over against
the s'1 Grantors for the Said Lands Improvements or Expence In
Bring* forward the Setlem1 and Further that they the Said Grantors
will pay the Necessary Expence of time and money that any Other
Person or Persons Shall be Put to by any other Suit or Suites that
Shall be Brought against them or any of them the Said Grantees for
tryal of the Title before One Action Shall be fully Determined In the
Law In Witness Whereof I the Said Joseph Blanchard of Duns-
table have hereunto Set my hand and Seal this first Day of November
A D. 1749

Joseph Blanchard [L S]

A True Coppy of the Grant of Nomr one Township

Attest "§ — Joseph Blanchard Junr Prop8 Clk

472

CHARTER RECORDS.

[Draft of Lots in Mason, 1749.]
[Masonian Papers, Vol. 6, p. 142.]

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Elear Blanchard
John Goffe Esq
David Adams
Paul march
Phillip Olerick
Eleazer Farwell
John Stevens
Nath11 Meserve Jun
Peter Powers Junr
Joseph Blodget .
John Butterfield .
Jonathan Powers J1
Zach8 Lovevvell .
John Stevens
William Lawrence
Jonathan Hubbard
Will™ Lawrence .
John Varnum
John Stevens
Josiah Brown
John Jennison
John Stevens
John Stevens
Mill Lotts .
Minister lotts
Joseph Blanchard Junr
Peter Powers
Peter Powers
Elnathan Blood .
Mr Tho" Parker .
Jon" Hubbard Jum
Clement March .
Robert Fletcher Junr
Israel Hubbard .
Jona Hubburd Junr
Amasa Parker
Jonathan Hubburd Jur

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52
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Willm Lawrence .
Benjamin Parker
Jona Hubburd
David Stearns
Thomas Tarble .
W,n Lawrence
Sam1 Tarble
Shadrack Whitney
Edward Jewell

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57
58

59
60
61
64
65
68
66

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for the Grantors, the Respective lotts each Entered Against the name

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George Jaffrey Esq
Thomas Wallingsford Esq
M Hunking Wentworth Esq
Mathew Livermore Esq
\Villm Parker Esq
John Wentworth Junr .
Richard Wibird Esq .
Jotham Odiorne .
Nath" Meserve And Others
Sam' Moor & Daniel Peirce
Tho8 Packer
John Tuffton Mason
M Hunks Wentworth .
Sam1 Solley & Clem1 March
John Moffatt
Joseph Blanchard
Theodore Atkinson
Joshua Peirce

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23
24

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32
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The afore Written Schedule was Drawn at Dunstable the 16th of October 1749—
Copy Examd "§ Joseph Blanchard Junr Prop™ Clerk

474

CHARTER RECORDS.

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[Taken from Mss. Records of Proprietors of Tyngstown, Now in
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The 7lorth Line of the Town of TTlason Last /6?6 rods
The above. jSlrift of Zand ss Divided into Siitecn Zots Xa.cK Con.ta.in.ino
7Z cx.ce.rs and fiO rods- this Tlan is Layed JJown by a. true 3<sa.ii
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This Goar of Land appears to be So much of it Laid out alraidy that I ajurned Dividing the
whole of it but it Seems to appear that there is about 400 Acers on the East End of the Same
that is Common Land I theirfore Strike it on the Plan into Sixteen Lots Each Containing 24
Acers and 120 rods but the Division Lines are not run

Lem1 Petts Survaier

Townshend December 25th 1780

mason. 475

[Petition for Land in Mason, 1782.]

[Masonian Papers, Vol. 6, p. 144.]

To the Proprietors of the Lands Purchased of John Tufton Mason
Esqr. Lying in Newhampshire — Gentlemen — their Being two Tracts
of Common Land in the Town of Mason one Called the North Strip
the other the South Strip — and we the Supscribers being owners of
Part of Said two Strips of Land by Purchace from Severel of the
Mason Proprietors — which two Strips being Allotted into 72 acre Loots
& 26 acre Lots Sixteen Lots of Seventy two Acres & Sixteen Sheirs
of twenty Six Acres Each we Pray your Honours to make a Grant
of the Said two Strips as Follows Viz to Jonas Minot of Concord in
the County of Middlesex & Common welth of ye Massachusetts one
Lot of Seventy two Acres & one of twenty Six acres for his Cost &
Expence of Every Kind in Allotting out Sd Lands & all the Trouble
Care & Expence he has or may be at Reletive to S'1 two Strips before
they are Divided — the other fifteen Lots of 72 acres & the fifteen of
26 acres he having Given his Obligation to us to Acquit to Each of
us on Demand So much of Said thirty Lots as we by Purchase as
aforesaid have a Right unto, & if Need be we hereby Give him all
the Right we have to Vote in ye Mason Proprietors Meetings on Sd
Lands for the Purposes aforesaid January 26th 1782

Charles Barrett
Reuben Kidder
Nathanael Hosmer

[Petition of Enoch Hale, 1779.]

[Masonian Papers, Vol. 6, p. 145.]

State of \ To the Honble the Propriators of the Right of

New Hampshire \ John Tufton Mason Esqr —

The Petition of Enoch Hale of Rindge in Said State Humbty
Sheweth that at the Time your Petitioner Collected the Number of
Inhabitants Settled in several of the Monadnock Towns and the Num-
ber of Rights in Each Town then delinq' at the Request of the Honble
George Jaffrey Esqr and making Return there of — your Petitioner
had Incoragement of the favour of a Small Gore of land in Some
Part of the Patten your Petition1, therefore wood Humbly move that
the Same might Be Don in the Town of mason as the Gore of land
Between wilton and mason was Incorperated into mason and lyeth on
the North Side of Said mason Laying about half a mile in wedth at
the East line and Runs to a Point at the west line as your Petitioner

47^ CHARTER RECORDS.

has Been informed but however otherwise it may lay your Petitioner8
Request is for the Vacant land in said Town that has Not been Grand
for which favour your Petitioner will allways be under obligation
thankfully to acknowledge —

Portsmouth March ye 15th 1799 Enoch Hale

[Petition of Robert Harrington, 1782.]
[Masonian Papers, Vol. 6, p. 146.]

Concord July 8th 1782.

to the Proprietors of the Lands Purchased of John Tuften Mason
Esqr Gentlemen I pray that the Common Land in Mason be Granted
one Lot for the Cost &c As Spessified in the Request of Reuben Kid-
dar Esqr & others & the Remainder to Jonas Minot & my Self
Equally uppon my Paying for one half of what is Purchased Since we
ware at Portsmouth 1780 for which I have Gave my obligation & also
to acquit to Reubin Kiddar &c their Parts

Rob1 Harrington.

MEREDITH.

[Granted by the Masonian Proprietors Dec. 31, 1748, to Samuel Palmer and
others, and called Palmer'' s-town afterwards New Salem, some of the settlers
coming from Salem. This territory was previously mentioned as Second Township.
Incorporated as Meredith Dec. 30, 1768. Two islands in Winnipiseogee Lake
were annexed Dec. 30, 1799. Laconiawas set off and incorporated July 14, 1855.
A part of Meredith was annexed to Centre Harbor, July 3, 1873.

See New Hampshire charters in preceding volume; XII, Hammond Town
Papers, 581 ; Index to Laws, 340; sketch, Hurd's History of Belknap County,
1885, p. 833; Glimpses of the History of Old Meredith, by J. E. Fullerton, 3,
Granite Monthly, 437 ; Stewart's History of the Free Baptists, 1862, pp. 252, 302 ;
Baptist Churches in N. H., by E. E. Cummings, 1836, pp. 7, 9, 22; Lawrence's
N. H. Churches, 1856, p. 501 ; Central New Hampshire, by G. F. Bacon, 1890,
P- 37-]

[John Sanborn to Proprietors, 1748.]

[Masonian Papers, Vol. 6, p. 147.]

Gentelmen Proprioters of mr Masons Right whereas you Proposed
to me at your Last Setting to take in twentey men out of hampton
into Each of the two towns theat we have Laid out and Planned

MEREDITH. 477

when I Come to Look over Sl1 Plans I finde that in the 2'1 township
there is one 4th Part water and although the first is Sumthing more
then Six miles Square yet the 2d wants so much that wee Shall have
but 269 acers for a man as the towns are Laid out and bounded and
Sixtey men to Each town whereas if wee had Laid out Six miles
Square wee Should have had 288 acers to Each man now Gentlemen
Pleas Either to Let us Continue with no more then 60 : men to Each
town which will suite us much the best or Remember to Let us Go
So much further up as to Contain two towns six miles square Each

from your frind and Servant

John Sandburn
Hapt: Decrye20th 1748

[Bounds of Meredith.~\

[Masonian Papers, Vol. 6, p. 148.]

the Boundareys of the Second town

Beginning at a hemlock tree by the Grate Bay of winepisackey
River which is the South Easterly Bounds of the first town and
marked with B and spoted on fowr sides with the first Leters of the
Commiteys names and the Date of the year 1748 then Runing north-
westerly about six miles to a beach tree marked on fowr sides which
is the Northwesterly Bounds of the first then Runing North : 55 :
degres East about Seven miles to a white oack tree by the side of
winepisokey Pond marked on fowr sides: then Runing South East-
erly by the side of sd Pond to the River then on sd River to the Grate
Bay then by Sd Bay to the Bounds first mentioned

[Names of Petitioners for Meredith.']

[Masonian Papers, Vol. 6, p. 149.]

A List of the names of the petisoners for the Second town that
Lays at winepessockey

Hampton Exeter

Samuel palmer Esqr Jonth Longfellow

Jonathan Shaw Jon Light

Ben Shaw Jo8 Wadleigh

John Shaw junr Jonth Wadleigh Eping 1

478

CHARTER RECORDS.

Stratham
Sam" goodhu junr
John purraot
Benja Juevvtt
Joseph Juett
John Smith
Joseph Rawlins
Elisha Smith
Daniel Clark
til ton La ranee
J os Clark
Jonath Sibly
Rich'1 Scammon
Jas Scammon
Benj Witcher
Wm Chase
Moses Chase
Benj Norris
Lazs Roe
Jos Fifield
Moses Rawlings
John Taylor
Jacob Low
David Rawlings
Chase Robinson
Josiah Goodhue 25

Dan1 Smith
Dan1 Gale

Josiah Robinson iunr
Joseph Robinson
Jos Pearson
Eliphalet Rolings
Jos Rolings junr
Nath Bartlet junr
Ephm Robinson
A bra"1 Clark Brentwood 1
Jos Rawlings
Dan1 Thirstin
Josiah Sanborn
Jo" Morgan
Jos Goodhue
Oliver Smith jun1
Jacob Longfellow
John Leavit junr
Oliver Smith
Jos Norris Eppin 2
Sam1 Norris
Benj Norris
Sam1 Norris junr
Thos Ford Noting"'
Josiah Sandburn
Rob1 Cutter Eppin
30
Canterbury
Jas Gibson

[Charter of Meredith, 1748.]

[Masonian Proprietors' Records, Dec. 31, 1748.]

Voted That there be & hereby is granted unto Samuel Palmer Esqr
Jonathan Shaw Benjamin Shaw John Shaw Junr all of Hampton in
said Province Samuel Goodhew junr John Purmot John Smith Ben-
jamin Jewit Joseph Jewit Joseph Rawlins Elisha Smith Daniel Clark
Tilton Lawrence Joseph Clark Jonathan Sibly Richard Scammon
James Scammon Benjamin Witcher William Chase Moses Chase
Benjamin Norris Lazarus Rowe Joseph Fifield Moses Rawlins John
Taylor Jacob Low David Rawlins Chase Robinson Josiah Goodhew
all of Stretham in said Province Jonathan Longfellow John Light

MEREDITH. 479

Joseph Wadleigh Jonathan Wadleigh Daniel Smith Daniel Gale
Josiah Robinson junr Joseph Robinson Joseph Pearson Eliphalet
Rawlins Joseph Rawlins jun1' Nathaniel Bartlet jun1 Ephraim Robin-
son Abraham Clark Joseph Rawlins Daniel Thurstin Josiah Sanborn
John Morgan Joseph Goodhew Oliver Smith jnn1" Jacob Longfellow
John Leavit Jnnr Oliver Smith Joseph Norris Samuel Norris Benja-
min Norris Samuel Norris junr Josiah Samborn Robert Cutler all of
Exeter in said Province and Thomas Ford of Nottingham in said
Province and James Gibson of Canterbury in said Province together
with twenty other Persons hereafter to be named by said Proprietors
in Equal Shares Excepting as hereafter herein Excepted on the
Terms Conditions and Limitations herein after Expressed all that
tract of Land within the Province of New Hampshire Containing the
Extent & Quantity of Six Miles Square Bounded as follows, viz1,
Beginning at an Hemlock tree by the great Bay of Winnepiseoky
River which is the South Easterly Corner bounds of that Tract of
Land Granted to John Samborn and others b}7 said Proprietors &
which lyes Adjoiniug to the Land hereby granted & runs from said
tree North Westerly Six Miles Joining on the said Land Granted to
said Samborn or near Six Miles to a Beech Tree marked which is the
North Westerly Corner bounds of the said Tract of Land then run-
ning fifty five Degrees East about Seven Miles to a White Oak Tree
by the Side of Winnepiseoky Pond Marked on four Sides then run-
ning South Easterly by the side of said Pond to the River aforesaid
then on said River to the great Bay aforesaid then on said Bay to the
Hemlock tree first mentioned. To have & to hold to them their
Heirs & Assigns in Equal Shares Excepting as aforesaid on the fol-
lowing terms Conditions and Limitations That is to Say that the
whole Tract of Land within the said Boundaries (Saving what is
herein after mention'd to be otherwise improved) be Divided into
one hundred shares or Rights and Each Share be laid out into two
Distinct Lots one of which to Contain one hundred Acres & the
other all the Land Belonging to Each respective Share. That the
whole be so laid out & the two Lots belonging to Each share Num-
ber'd with the same number Beginning with one & Ending with one
hundred. That the said Land be so laid out within one Year from
the Granting thereof & then the Lots Drawn for in the usual manner
of drawing for Lots of Land in Such Cases & that this be Done at
Portsmouth in said Province under the Care & Direction of the Pro-
prietors aforesaid & so done as to make but one Draft to Each Share
That one of the said Shares be for the first Minister of the Gospel
who shall be Settled on the said Land and Continue there during his
Life or untill he shall be Regularly Dismist to hold to him his heirs

480 CHARTER RECORDS.

& Assigns, and one other of said Shares be for & towards the Sup-
port of the Gospel Ministry there forever, and the hundred acre
Lots belonging to these two Shares be laid out as near the place
where the Meeting house shall be built as may Conveniently be Done
& not Drawn for as the other Lots. That there be Six acres of Land
left in some Convenient Place within said Boundaries for building a
Meeting house & school house upon making a Training field a Bury-
ing Place & for any other public use the Inhabitants there shall see
Cause to make of it That Seventeen of the said Shares be Reserved
to the use of the said Proprietors the Grantors & their Heirs &
assigns & one of the said Shares be for the use & Support of a School
there forever That the owners of the other Eighty Shares make a
Regular Settlement there at their own Charge in the following man-
ner viz that each owner of the said Eighty Shares Build an house
of Eighteen foot Long & fourteen foot wide or Equal thereto upon
some part of his Land there & clear three Acres thereof fit for till-
age or mowing within Eight Years from this time & that the said
owners build a Meeting house there (upon the Land to be left for
that purpose as aforesaid) fit for the public worship of God for the
use of the Inhabitants within ten Years from this time and maintain
the preaching of the Gospel there Constantly next after twelve Years
from this time That there be twenty acres of Land left in Some Suit-
able place for a Privilege and Accommodation of a Saw Mill which
Shall be to him his Heirs and Assigns who will build Such a Mill
within the time herein after limited with the Privilege of the most,
convenient Stream and place for doing the Same and in Considera-
tion thereof for the Benefit of the Inhabitants and Owners aforesaid
the Owner or Owners of Such Mill shall Saw the Logs of the Said
Owners of the Said Shares and other Inhabitants there to the halves
for the term of ten years next after the Said Mill Shall first work
That whoever shall appear and undertake to build Said Mill Shall
perform the Same fit for constant working within three years from
this time. And if no particular person or persons of the owners of
the Said shares or such as the majority of them Shall permitt to do
the Same will undertake to build Such Mill as aforesaid then the
Said Owners shall do the same at their general Expence and put the
said Mill under Such a Regulation as that they and others inhabiting
there may be Seasonably and reasonably Served by having boards
and other Timber Sawed which may be necessary for building upon
Said granted premises That each Owner of the Said Eighty Shares
pay to Such person or persons as the major part of them shall chuse
for that purpose all such sums of Money or Bills of publick Credit as
the Said Owners or the Major part of them shall determine to be

MEREDITH. 481

necessary from time to time and as occasion Shall require To defrey
the Charges of laying out Said land and other Matters & Things
necessary to make a Settlement as aforesaid and performing the other
Particulars herein enjoined and directed to be clone That in laying-
out the Said Lots care be taken to sort them in Such a manner as to
make the Shares as equal as possible. That the Lots be laid out in
Ranges whore the land will admit of it and land left between the
Ranges for high Ways four Rods wide and between the Lots for
Ways of two Rods wide, and that a Plan of the whole laying out be
made at the Charge of the Said Owners and Returned to the Grant-
ors as soon as may be done with Convenieney. that the Seventeen
Reserved shares be Exonerated Acquitted and fully Exempted from
paying any Charge towards making the Said Settlement, and not
field to the Conditions of the other eighty Shares nor liable to any
Tax; or Assessment untill improved fvy the Respective Owners.

That all white Pine trees fit for his Majesty's Use for masting the
royal Navy be and hereby are reserved, and are hereby granted to
his Majesty his Heirs and Successors for that Purpose. And in Case
any of the Owners of the Said Eighty shares shall refuse neglect or
Omitt to perform and fully Discharge any of the Conditions Arti-
cles Matters And things herein enjoined directed and ordered to be
done by the Said Grantors as aforesaid he shall forfeit his share and
Right in the said Tract of land and every part thereof to the said
Grantors and their heirs and Assigns and it shall and may be lawfull
for them or any of them or any Person or Persons by their Order or
the Major part of them So ordering, in their name and Stead to enter
into and upon the part of Such Delinquent Owner and him utterly
thence to amove Oust Expel & Eject for the use of Said Grantors
their heirs and Assigns. Provided Nevertheless and it is the true
Intent and meaning of the Said Grantors in these presents That
such forfeited shares (nor any of them) shall not be discharged by
Such Forfeiture from the Charge burthen & Duty of Settling as afore-
said and performing all the Articles Matters and things herein above
Specifyed for each owner of the Shares aforesaid to do and the Said
Grantors in Case they Shall hold Such forfeited Shares shall and will
do and perform the same and in Case of granting them again will
enjoin and oblige the Grantors so to do — And the Said Grantors do
hereby engage & promise to the Said Grantees to defend them their
Heirs and Assigns in the Possession of the said granted Premises
against the lawfull Claims of any Person or Persons claiming by any
other Title than the Grantors or that from whence their's is derived
with this Condition & Limitation that in Case of Eviction & Recov-
ery against the said Grantees by any Such Title that they Recover
30

482 CHARTER RECORDS.

Nothing over in Satisfaction of and from ye Said Grantors their Heirs
Executors or Administrators or any of them Provided there be no
Indian War within any of the Terms & Limitations of time above
mentioned for performing the said Articles Matters and things
aforesaid to be done and performed by any of the Said Owners of
the said Eighty shares, and in Case that should happen the Same
times to be allowed for the Respective Matters aforesaid after Such
Impediment shall be Removed

[Petition of Proprietor's of Meredith, 1749.]
[Masonian Papers, Vol. 6, p. 150.]

At a Leagl meeting of the propriaters of that tract of Land
granted to Sam11 palmer Esqr and others —

llv voted Mr John Sandburn be agent for us

Gentll men the granteors we pray you would not insist up on our
haveing one hundred Lots in sd town it will be very Debtterimentt to
Sd town and Sixty of us have Cared on sd town neither to and are
Desined to Lay it out into Lots as Soun as possabl we can and we
pray your answer by mr Sandburn whether we must have Sixty or
Eighty

Dated October 12th 1749

Joseph Rawlins propriaters Clark

[Plan of Meredith, 1753.]

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A Plan of a Township Called Palmer's Town lying to ye Westward of Wenepesioca Pond in ye
Province of New Hampsr and was granted to Sam1' Palmer E:s:q: & other Petitioners, by the Pur-

chers of ye Right of John Tuftan Mason E:s:q: Survey'dA:D: 1750 & 1753.

by Jon* Longfellow Survey

N: B the Township is laid out into three Divis1" the first Divis" Contains one hundd Acres to each
Right & are those Lots Numbr'd with Red from ya out let of Wigam Pond Downward to y6 Wares,
the 2nd Divis" Contains Eighty Acres to each Right & are those Lots Numbr'd with Black the 3rd
Divis" Contains one hundd & twenty Acres to each Right & are those Numbr"1 with Red on ye N° E :
of Wigwam Pond. &c. &c

N : B : the Ranges in y« Second Divis° Run Parrallel to ye Six Mile Line & are 160 Rods in Bredth
which is ye Length of y" Lots the Lots are Parrallel to y° Head Line of ye first Divis" viz N° 50 E'1 &
are 80 Rods in Bredth, Some few excepted which appear by ye Plan

This Plan of the Tract of Land granted to Sam" P<1
agreable to y8 Vote pass'd May 3d 1754 for rectificatior
by the Proprietors at their Meeting held may 3d 1 754 -

ner Esqu' and others Decr 3i§l
of yc head Line — was accepted a

attest, Geo: Jaffrey Prop™ CI

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MEREDITH.

483

[Draft of Lots in Meredith, 1754.]

[Masonian Papers, Vol. 6, p. 151, and Proprietors' Records, Vol. 7, p. 56.]

Province of > At a meeting of the Proprietors of the Lands purchased of
New Hampshire $ John Tufton Mason Esqr in Newhampshire, held at Portsmouth
the 3d day of May 1754 by adjournment.— At the said meeting the draft of the
Lots or shares of the tract of Land granted to Samuel Palmer Esq Jon* Shaw
Benja Shaw & others were drawn for under the care & direction of said Proprietors,
in the following manner

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Drawn to John Leavitt Junr

N°6

4th

37

2 nd

N° 37

,d

2

Sami Solly & CI'

by the

0

March Esq

1

wares

No 1

2d

No 1

3'1

3

" To the use of said

Proprietors

2

4th

No 33

2d

N° 33

3d

4

" To the Heirs of Jo-

tham Odiorne Esq

a point

decd .

1

Lot

70

2d

N°7o

3d

5

" Theodore Atkinson

Esq .

1

3d

2 i

2d

N° 21

V1

6

" Benjamin Shaw

9

7 th

No 67

2d

N°67

0

1d

7

" Nath1 Bartlett Junr

14

a point
Lot

No 73

2d

No 73

3d

8

" Joshua Pierce Esq .

1 1

a point
Lot

N°8o

2<J

No 80

3d

9

" Benja Whitcher

2

1 Range

N°6

2

No 6

^d

10

" Samuel Norris

5

2*

N° 19

2d

N° 19

3d
3

1 1

" Richard Scammon

7

a point

N°77

2d

N°77

Lot

12

" John Shaw Junr

2

3d Range

N° 22

2d

N° 22

3d
3

13

" Joseph Fyfield

9

4th

N°4o

2

N°4o

14

" Benja Norris, Stret-

ham .

8

4th

N° 39

2

No 39

3d

lS

" Benja Norris, Exeter

8

5

N°5o

2d

N° 50

3d

16

To the use of said Propri-

etors

10

5,h

N°52

2

N° 52

3d
3d
3d

3d

3d
3d
3d
3d

17

Josiah Sanborn Junr

4

rth

N046

2d

N°46

18

Jacob Low

7

6th

N°59

2d

N°59

19

Mess3 Thomlinson & Mason

4

6th

N°56

2d

N°56
N°6s

20

Daniel Gale

3

6th

N°65

2d

21

Joseph Clark .

1

6th

N°S3

2d

N°53

22

Richard Wibird Esq

1 1

yth

N°69

2

N°69

23

Daniel Thirston

12

a point

N°8i

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N°8i

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34
35
36
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40
41
42
43
44
45
46

47
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51

52
53
54

55
56
57

58

59
60

Rob' Cutler
Thomas Ford .

William Chace .
Ephraim Robinson
Joseph Pearson
Joseph Robinson
Klisha Smith
John Smith
With1 Meserve & C°
Joseph Rawlins
Josiah Sanborn
Joseph Jewitt .
Josiah Robinson Jun
Jacob Langfellow

Joseph Norris .

Thomas Packer Esq

John .Morgan

Moses Chace

Joseph Goodhue

Daniel Smith .

James Gibson .

John Moffatt Esq

John Frumort .

Dan1 Peirce & Mary Moore

David Rawlings

Joseph Rawlings of Hampton
Chace Robinson
Samuel Palmer Esq

James Scammon

Josiah Goodhue

Mark H* Wentworth Esq .

Jonathan Longfellow

p

Thomas Wallingford Esq
John Light

Elip' Rawlings .
Tilton Lawrince
Oliver Smith

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2d
2d

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Lot
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6th
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Wares

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No 64

N° 75

47
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36
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N° 79

N° 74

No 31

No 66

57

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62
63

64
65

66

67
68
69

70

7i
72
73
74

75
76

77
78
79

John Rindge
Jona Wadleigh .
Samuel Goodhue Junr

Lazarus Row

John Wentworth Esq

Moses Rawlings

Abraham Clark

John Taylor

Joseph Rawlins Junr

Samuel Norris .

Jona Shaw

Daniel Clark

Benja Jewitt

Joseph Wadleigh

George Jaffrey .

Oliver Smith Jr

Jonathan Sibley

For the use of sd Proprietors

For the use of sd Proprietors

First settled Ministers Lot

Lot for Ministry

School Lot

9

1

8
1 1

3

4

3

9

9
10

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3
5
5
5
6

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4

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5
6
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7
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78

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29

32

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D°

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7

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D°

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61

D°

61

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A true copy of Record of the Draft of Lots in Palmers Town, Now Meredith
November ist 1823.

Attest Jeremiah Libbey

Proprietors Clerk

[Interpretation of Meredith Charter, 1754.]
[Masoniaa Proprietors' Records, May 3, 1754.]

Province of \ Portsmouth May 3d 1754, Fryday eight of the
New Hampshire \ Clock beforenoon at the Dwelling house of Ann
Slayton Innholder the Proprietors meet according to Adjournment —

Whereas the Proprietors at their Meeting held in December 31st
1748 — Granted to Samuel Palmer Esqur Jonathan Shaw and others
a tract of Land within Said Province containing the Extent of Six
Miles Square bounded viz1 beginning at an Hemlock Tree by the

4S6 CHARTER RECORDS.

great Bay of Winipisiokee River which is the South easterly Corner
bounds of that Tract of laud granted to John Samboru and others by
Said Proprietors and which lyes adjoining to the land hereby granted
and runs from Said Tree northwesterly Six miles joining on the Said
land granted to John Samborn or near Six miles to a Beach tree
marked which is the northwesterly Corner bounds of the Said Tract
of land then running fifty rive degrees east about Seven Miles to a
white oak tree by the Side of Winipisiokee Pond marked on four
Sides then running South Easterly by the Side of Said Pond to the
River aforesaid then on said River to the great Bay aforesaid then
on Said Bay to the Hemlock tree first mentioned and whereas the
Second Side line mentioned in Said Grant, that is to Say, from the
Beech Tree mentioned — running fifty five degrees east about Seven
Miles to a white oak tree by the Side of Winipissiokee pond, the
w;>rd north not there mentioned, as was intended admitts of Some
Doubt about that Line —

Voted That the Grant aforesaid made to Samuel Palmer Esqur and
others did mean and intend, and bv the words fifty five degrees East
was meant and intended fifty five degrees east from the north point
of the Compass as is commonly understood, and that the line from
the Beach Tree towards Winipisiokee Pond is and shall be A line
fifty five degrees east from the north point and that the word north
being left out was a Clerical mistake Contrary to the Intent of the
Grantors & is hereby rectified

And whereas the aforesaid line of fifty five degrees East from the
north line running from the Beach Tree first mentioned Seven miles
does not come to Winipissiokee pond but at about twelve Mile- &
three quarters distance from Said Beach Tree aforesaid upon a more
exact Survey of the Same as by a plan thereof made the Said line
run's to the westward of the Pond at two hundred and twenty
Rods distant as by the Plan and Division thereof made and returned
by Jonathan Longfellow.

A oted That the Plan and Division of the Same be and hereby is
accepted and the lands therein delineated divided & Set off is hereby
confirmed and Established as the lands meant and intended in the
Said Grant and the Several Lotts and Divisions therein mentioned
are hereby confirmed to the grantees in Said Grant mentioned and
in the Same manner & on the Conditions and Reservations in Said
grant mentioned and all unappropriated Lotts to be to the use of
the Grantors — and the Said Lotts in Said Tract of Land drawn to
the said Grantees, by a Draft thereof this day made be to them their
heirs and assigns on ye Conditions in the Grant thereof mentioned
& Provided always that the Grantees in said Grant named and

MEREDITH. 487

intended shall Vote an Acceptance of this Confirmation as if the
Same was all mentioned in their first Grant — also —

Voted That the Lotts in Said Tract of land drawn to the Proprie-
tors the Grantors as by the Draft this day made be to them their
Heirs & assigns for ever in Severalty —

[Grant of Forfeited Shares to Town Proprietors, 1765.]
[Masonian Proprietors' Records, Dec. 31, 1765.]

Whereas the said Proprietors on the 31st day of December 1748
Granted to Samuel Palmer Esqr & others a Certain tract of Land in
said Province by Estimation Six miles Square or Equal thereto in
order for the Settling the same in a Regular form to make a Town-
ship on such Limitations and Restrictions as are Expressed in the
said Grant and among other things it is Declared and Limitted that
if any of the Graiitees should not Comply with, fullfill and perform
the Several Articles Matters & things b}* each Grantee to be done
according to said Limitations and Conditions the Right Interest &
Share of such Grantee, shou'd be forfeited, return, and remain to the
Grantors, the Proprietors aforesaid — And whereas since that time
many of said Grantees have failed and Neglected some to Settle &
Clear their Lots & Shares, others to pay their Proportion of the
Taxes and discharge other Duties Enioin'd them bv their said Grant,
whereby their Respective Shares & Rights within said Tract are for-
feited to and become the Property of said Proprietors according to
the tenor of said Grant and liable to be regranted and it having been
Represented to said Proprietors that if said forfeited Shares were
Granted to the other Grantees who have done their duty according
to said Grant and the said Conditions it would promote the Settle-
ment and said Proprietors Desiring to help forward said Settlement
and Encourage those of said Grantees, who have done, and are still
doing all they can to advance the Settlement — Therefore —

Voted, that all the Rights title Interest Property and Demand of the
said Proprietors of in & unto the said forfeited Shares each and every
of them or that shall be so forfeited be and hereby is Granted to the
other of said Grantees who have or shall have Performed all the
Conditions of said Grant within the time limitted therein or such
further time as said Proprietors shall allow for their forbearance to
re Enter and the said Grantees are hereby Authorized in the names
of the said Proprietors to enter into such forfeited Shares and the
same to Improve dispose of sell or otherways apply to their own use

488 CHARTER RECORDS.

as they shall see Cause, Provided, the said Grantees, perform the Con-
ditions and Directions in their said Grant —

This Vote was pass'd at the Motion and Request of Cap1 Joseph
Hoit Mr Ebenezer Smith & Ephraim Robinson who appeard as a
Committee of said Grantees

[Plan of Meredith, 1770.]

A PLAM OF

MEREDITH

N : B : The first Divisisions of Lots contain too Acres each and are Numbered with Red Ink, and lay to the
Southward of the Green Line from the head of the Great Bay to the head of Winnipisioca Pond

The Second Division contains 120 Acres to each Right and are numbered with Green —

The Third Division lays on the North Easterly part of the Town, is Numbered with Red, and contains 95
Acres to each Right

Memorandum The Lots below the Green Range Way from N" I to 14 are called Point Lots

MEREDITH.

489

[Improvements in Meredith, 1770.]
[Masonian Papers, Vol. 6, p. 152.]

Names of People who are

■r.

V

73

U

C/3

SI

t/3

c

Heads of Family

0 O

C3

0 J±>

u

ZJ

rS

<u

< fc

c/} K

pq

Sam11 Kimble

4

Pt

0

13

Frame

Jonan Smith

6

d«

12

10

d°

Tho6 Damford .

.

7

d«

IO

6

d«

20 feet

Daniel Morrison

8

d°

6

2

do

Abraham Folsom

14

d°

14

6

do

Logg

David Watson .

1

6

7

4

d°

Job Judkins

2

6

6

14

d°

George Bean

.

2

6

16

8

d°

Reuben Mastin Jur

4

5

9

6

d°

William Meed .

3

5

25

15

d°

Jacob Eatton

2

10

10

Logg

Ebenezr Smith .

10

pt

40

8

Frame

24 & 30

d° d°

1 1

4

8

3

Nich1 Carr Folsom

1 1

4

3

do

Joseph Roberts .

10

4

6

10

do

Jerem Smith

8

4

15

6

do

3° & 24

Reuben Mastin .

7

4

4

4

do

Logg

Abraham Swain

8

7

12

2

do

d°

James Ouimby .

9

3

8

3

Logg

d°

Sam11 Torry

3

1

8

4

do

Robert Bryant .

4

3

10

4

Frame

Logg

John Bovnton

4

4

7

4

Logg

William Ray

3

3

7

5

d°

Ebenr Pitman

5

6

0

10

Names of People That

Began

Wra Crockett

2

—

12

David Lawrence

3. 6 R

7

3

Joseph Conner .

4. Is' R

4

Nath11 Robertson

4-3dR

12

John Pike .

5. 5th

3

3

John Stephens .

4. 2d

4

Saw Mill on Mill Grant Main River

Grist Mill on Mill Grant Wequash Bro<

)k

No Meeting house for

Public!

< Worship

The above is an Acco"t of the settlements & Improvements in the Land Granted
to Sam11 Palmer & Others —

Surv'l & examd by Jotham Rindge & Wm Blake

Wolioorough Jan' 1770

490 CHARTER RECORDS.

[Improvements in Meredith, 1770.]

[Masonian Papers, Vol. 6, p. 153.]

A Return of the Settlements and Improvements in the town of meredith in the
Province of New Hampshire and with account of the Names of the orignel
grantees or proprietors Shears that Said Settlements are made upon and all Done
in the first Devision of Land

Number of
the famerly

Acres of
Land Cleard

Land fell
Acrs

Ebenezer Smith orignely Jacob Longfel-
low fraim house and Barn —
Dito on the orignel of Samuel Norris

Juner — ......

William mead orignely Benjamin Jewett

fraim House & Barn —
Jeremiah Smith orignely Benjamin Nor-

riss at Stratham fraim house & Barn .
Reuben marston orignely James Gibson

fraim house — .....
Reuben Marston Juner orignely Josiah

Samborn fraim house —
George Bean orignely Elisha Smith fraim

house & pole Barn —
David watson orignely Joseph Clerk fraim

house — ......

Job Judkins orignely Elisha Smith fraim

house — ......

Abraham folsom orignely Nathaniel Bart-
let Juner fraim house & fraim Barn
John Kimbel orignely Joseph norries fraim

house — ......

Jonathan Smith orignely James Scam-

mon a fraim houes —
thomas Danford orignely Richard Scam-

mon a Logg house fraim Barn .
Daniel morrison orignely moses Rawlings

a Log house — .....
Nicholas Carr folsom orignely Samuel

Norries Juner fraim house —
Joseph Roberds orignely Oliver Smith

Jur a fraim house — ....
James Quinby orignely abraham Clerk a

Logg house — .....
Jacob Eaton orignely Eliphelet Rawlings

a Log house & Barn —

7
o
1 1
6
7
3
8

3

4

6

6

12

5
4

8
1 1

46

7

3°

25

7

J5

20
10

8
14

4
12
12

5

3
12

12
5

15
15

6
8
5
5

12
6
9

13
8

3
7

MEREDITH.

49I

Number of

Acres of

Land fell

the famerly

Land Cleard

Acrs

Samuel torrey orignely Jonathan Shaw a

Log house & Barn —

7

8

6

Robert Bryent orignely Joseph Robinson

a fraim houes pole Barn —

4

10

3

William Ray orignely Lazarus Row a pole

house & Barn — ....

4

8

8

Kbenezer Pitman orignely Daniel Clerk

pole house & Barn —

5

8

3

ae orignely moses Chase fraim

house — ......

6

8

Abraham Swain orignely John Morgin

fraim house & Log Barn

3

*3

8

David Lawrence Esq1" orignely Daniel

Gale pole house — ....

8

2

William Crocket orignely Samuel Palmer

Esqr Log house — ....

4

8

9

John pike orignely William Chase —

3

2

Nathaniel Robinson orignely Joseph Rob-

inson fraim house — ....

5

5

7

Joseph Connor orignely Jonathan Long-

fellow— ......

0

6

John Holland orignely Oliver Smith — .

0

4

John witcher orignely Benja Witcher Log

house — ......

1

1

5

John Neal orignaly Jonathan Wadleigh .

1

3

Jonathan Danford orignaly Richard Scam-

mon ......

1

0

4

Jeremiah Smith orignaly Benjamin Nor-

ris of Exeter — ....

0

3

this Return is made at the Request of the Honourebel grantors of the above said
township by Ebenezer Smith of said town Nove 15th 1770 —

John mead orignaly Benja Shaw Six acres of trees fell

John Dockhum orignaly Joseph Rawlings of hampton two acres fell and a house
part Built

[Petition of William Smith, Jr., 1773.]

[Masonian Papers, Vol. 6, p. 154.]

To the HonMe Dan1 Peirce Esqr & others a Committee of the Pur-
chasers of the Right of John Tufton Mason Esq1

492 CHARTER RECORDS.

The Request of William Smith Junr of New Salem in County of
Rockingham, Shews Whereas the aforesaid Purchasers have a Tract of
Land containing about fifty Acres lying adjoining the Province Line
between that & Londonderry Line, not yet disposed of, and as the
said Smith has a Desire to make a Settlement on said Tract, would
be glad the said Purchasers, would get the same surveyed in Order
to know the exact Quantity that he might purchase the same, if he
and the aforesaid Purchasers could agree on the Terms

William Smith Junr

[Bond for Deed to Daniel Smith, 1798.]

[Masonian Papers, Vol. 6, p. 156.]

I promise to give Mr Daniel Smith a good Deed for the Second
division Lot in Meredith Drawn & Recorded to the original Right
of Blanchard Meserve & C° being Lot N° 16 — on Demand after the
same has been advertized & sold for the Taxes due for the present
year provided he buys the same at Vendue for and on my Account
— June 20th 1798 on condition of his paying me his Note of hand
of that date for one hundred pounds or gives me Collatteral Security
therefor

John Peirce

[Meredith Memoranda.^
[Masonian Papers, Vol. 6, p. 156.]

Memorandum Cap1 Tasker desires the Proprietors would Deter-
mine the Lots in Meredith as he has Always paid for Lot N° 2

Give Co1 Gerrish Directions about the Lines

Banfilds how to Run his Lots give Directions — see Coursor Let-
ters

Adjourn for a fortnight

Directions to Col1 Smith consearning the undivided Lands in Mer-
ideth to Run the same out and Draw for them

David Boynton's 50 Acres in 2d Division of the Common Land on
the Road in New Salem adjoining the Line of the Gore at the Head
of New Salem or Meredith has fell 20 Acres & built a small log
house

Enquire of Mr Jaffrey ab* This

MIDDLETON. 493

MIDDLETON.

[Granted as Middletovm by the Masonian Proprietors, April 27, 1749, to Eben-
ezer Varney and others. The charter was renewed March 21, 1770. Incorpor-
ated as Middleton March 4, 1778. The inhabitants of the north part attempted to
get incorporation as a separate township in 1785, but were unsuccessful. They
succeeded later, and were incorporated as Brookfield December 30, 1794.

See IX, Bouton Town Papers, 127, 456; XII, Hammond Town Papers, 594;
Index to Laws, 345 ; papers under titles Coulerain and Kingswood ; sketch, Hurd's
History of Strafford County, 1882, p. 644; Stewart's History of the Free Baptists,
1S62, p. 162 ; Lawrence's N. H. Churches, 1856, p. 335 ; Notes on, 8, Mass. His-
torical Society Collections, 120.]

[Charter of Middleton, 1749. J

[Masonian Proprietor's Records, April 27, 1749.]

Voted That there be and Hereby is granted unto Ebenezer Var-
ney William Wentworth Benjamin Wentworth Job Hussey John
Roberts Job Clements the Third Thomas Varney Nath1 Varney John
Heard Samuel Clements William Horn Joseph Varney juur Peter Cook
Nath1 Willand Andrew Horn Benjamin Evans Nath1 Hanson John
Varney Samuel Varney Timothy Hanson jur Ebenezer Horn Silvanus
Hussey Richard Goodwin Jonathan Merry James Clements Ebenezer
Garland Joseph Wentworth Ephraim Wentworth Samuel Young
Thomas Bickford William Ham Nathaniel Young Edward Ellis
William Whitehouse Joseph Conner Jonathan Gage Joseph Hanson
Ephraim Hanson John Ham junr James Guppy Junr John Tasket
Zaehariah Pitman John Pearl Junr Richard Hussey Field Plummer
Isaac Hanson Junr John Cook junr Stephen Roberts Benjamin Rob-
erts Benjamin Heard Andrew Marshall Benjamin Weymouth James
Philpot Nath1 Astin Daniel Hanson John Hall Joshua Stagpole Love
Roberts junr Thomas Wentworth Richard Philpot George Hanson
John Kielle John Drew Isaac Watson Samuel Heard Job Clements
junr Moses Carr Benjamin Stanton Eleazer Wear John Gage Mark
Wallingford Benjamin Mason Eleazer Young Mark Giles Tristram
Coffin Noah Cross Thomas Roberts Junr all of Dover and Somers-
worth. in Said Province & Timothy Roberts & John Bickford both of
Rochester in Said Province & Noah I^mery of Kittery in Equal
Shares Excepting as is herein after Excepted on the Terms Condi-
tions & Limitations herein After Expressed all That tract of Land
within the Province of New Hampr Containing the Quantity of Six
Miles Square Bounded as follows Viz1 Beginning at the Southwest-

494

CHARTER RECORDS.

erly Corner of a Tract of Land Granted to John Ham Gershoro
Downs and Others upon and at Rochester Head Line and from that
Extent to Run Westerly by Said Line of Rochester five Miles and
Continuing the Breadth of five Miles to Extend from the head Line
of Rochester so far Northwardley as to Make Equal to Six miles
Square Adjoyning to the Said Tract of Land granted to the said
John Ham Gershom Downs & Others And The Head Line of the
Same to be a Line Parallel with the Head Line of Rochester and the
Side Lines to be Strait To have & to hold to them their Heirs and
Assigns in Equal Shares Excepting as Aforesaid on the Following
Terms Conditions & Limitations that is to Say that The whole Tract
of Land within the Said Boundaries (Saving what is herein after
mentioned to be Otherwise Improved) be Divided into one Hundred
Shares or Rights & Each Share to be Laid out into twTo Distinct
Lots one of which to Contain one hundred Acres and the other all
the Rest of the Land belonging to Each Respective Share. That
the whole be So Laid out and the two Lots to Each Share be Num-
bered with the Same Number beginning with one and Ending with
one hundred. That the Said Land be so Laid out within one Year
from the Granting thereof and then the Lots Drawn for in the usual
manner of Drawing for Lots of Land in Such Cases and that This be
Done at Portsmouth aforesaid Under the Care & Direction of the
Grantors and So done as to Make but one Draft to Each Share.
That one of Said Shares be for the first Minister of the Gospel who
Shall be Settled on the said Land & Continue there During his life
or until he Shall be Regularly Dismist to hold to him his Heirs &
Assigns —

and one Other of the Said Shares be for & towards the Support
of the Gospel Ministry there forever And the hundred Acre Lots
belonging to these two Shares Shall be Laid out as near the Place
where the Meeting House Shall be Built as may Conveniently be
Done & not to be drawn as the Other Lots That there be Six Acres
of Land left in Some Convenient Place within Said Boundaries for
Building a Meeting house & School House Upon, Improving as a
Training feild a Burying place & any other Public use The Inhab-
itants there may have Occasion of, That one other of said Shares be
for the use and Support of a School there forever That Seventeen of
the Said Shares be and Hereby are Reserved to the use of the said
Proprietors the Grantors in these Presents their Heirs and Assigns
That the owners of the other Eighty Shares make a Regular Settle-
ra' There at there own Charge & Expence in the Following manner
Viz1 That Thirty Families be Settled upon Said Tract of Land Each
having an House of Sixteen foot Square at Least or Equal Thereto &

MIPDLETON.

495

Three Acres of Land Cleared and fitted for Tillage or Mowing upon
their Respective Lots within four years next After a Proclamation of
Peace between the English French and Indians and Ten Families
more so Settled within five years from the Said Peace That within
Six years next after the Said Peace a Meeting house for the Public
Worship of God be built there fitted for that purpose for the use of
the Inhabitants there and that they Maintain and Support the Con-
stant Preaching of the Gospel There After the Expiration of Seven
Years from the Said Peace —

That there be twenty Acres of Land left in Some Suitable Place
within Said Boundaries for a Priviledge and accommodation of a
Saw Mill which Shall be to him or them his or Their Heirs and
Assigns who will build Such a Mill within five years from the Peace
Aforesaid with the Privilege of the Most Convenient Stream and
Place for doing the Same And in Consideration thereof for the
benefit of the Said Inhabitants the owner or owners of Such Mill
Shall Saw the Logs and Timber of the other of the Said Inhabitants
there to the Halves for the term of ten years next After the Said
mill Shall first work if Desired so to Do And if no Particular Person
or Persons of the owners of Said Shares or Such Other Person or
Persons as the Majority of them Shall permit to do the Same will
Undertake to build Such Mill on the terms Aforesaid then the Said
owners Shall do the Same at their Common Charge put the Said
Mill under Such a Regulation as that they and Others Inhabiting
There may have their Logs & Timber Sawed as Occasion may
Require for building on the Land hereby granted

That Each owner of the Said Eighty Shares Pay to Such person
or persons as the Majority of them Shall Elect for that purpose all
Such Sum and Sums of Money bills of Public Credit as the Said
owners or the Major Part of them shall Determine to be Necessary
from time to time & as Occasion Shall Require to Defray the
Charges of Laying out the Said Land as Aforesaid and other Mat-
ters and Things Necessary to be done for the Making a Settlement
as Aforesaid and performing the other Matters and Things herein
Directed to be Done. That in Laying out the Said Lots Care be
taken to Sort them in Such a Manner as to make the Shares as Equal
as possible That the Lots be Laid out in Ranges where the Land
will Admit of it and Land left between the Ranges for Highways of
four Rods wide and between the Lots of two Rods wide and that a
Plan of the whole when So Laid out be made at the Charge of the
Said owners and Returned to the Said Grantors as Soon as May be
Done with Conveniency

That the Remaining Seventeen Shares Reserved as Aforesaid be

496 CHARTER RECORDS.

Exonerated acquitted & fully Exempted from paying any Charge
towards making the Said Settlement and not held to the Conditions
of the Eighty Shares aforesaid nor be Liable to any Tax or Assess-
ment until Improved by the Respective Owners thereof

That all white Pine trees fit for Masting the Royal! Navy be and
hereby are Reserved and Granted to his Majesty his Heirs and Suc-
cessors forever for that Purpose

That in Case the said Grantees Shall fail Neglect and Omit to
Settle forty Families upon the Said Granted premises in Manner
Aforesaid & within The term aforesaid Each family having the
Quantity of three acres of Land Cleared & fitted as Aforesaid and to
do and Perform the Several Articles Matters and Things above
Mentioned to be performed and Done by the said owners of the
Said Eighty Shares It Shall and may be Lawfull for the said Grant-
ors or any of them or any Person or Persons in their name & Stead
to their use and by their Authority or the Major Part of them to
Enter into and Upon the said Granted Premises or any part thereof
for the whole and thence to Amove oust and Utterly to Expel the
Said Grantees and the said granted Premises Shall be forfeited to the
use of the Grantors and they shall thereby be Reseized and Vested in
their former Estate Right Title and Interest to and in the Said
Granted Premises as Though this grant had never been Made and
the Same Shall from Thenceforward be null Void and of none Effect
to all Intents and Purposes any thing herein Contained to the Con-
trary Thereof Notwithstanding And all and Every of the Said Gran-
tees who Shall not do and Perform his Respective part and Duty in
Making and Carrying on the Said Settlem1 (in Case of the Settle-
ment of forty families as Aforesaid) Such Delinquent owner Shall
forfeit his Share and Right in the Said premises to Those who Shall
have so Performed & done their part and duty as Aforesaid in Mak-
ing the Said Settlement who Shall herebv have full Power and
Authority into the said forfeited Right and Share to Enter and
Thereof to become Seized to their own use in Maimer Aforesaid

Provided Nevertheless That the Said grantees do and Shall when
they Shall be Thereunto Respectively requested Enter into a Con-
tract and Personally Oblige themselves and Their Respective Heirs
& Assigns to do and Perform the Several Articles matters and
Things by them herein before Mentioned to be Performed & done by
Signing and Executing Such Instrument or Instruments in Writing
as by Counsel Learned iu the law Shall be Advised and Devised for
that Purpose And in that Case and not Otherwise the said Grantors
do Hereby promise and Iugage to the said Grantees that they the
Said Grantors their Heirs and Assigns Shall and will at their own

MIDDLETON.

497

Expence and Charge Try the Title of the Said Granted premises by
2>ursuing and prosecuting an Action for the whole or any part thereof
thro' the whole Course of Law to a final Judgment before the King
in Council (if need be to Carry the Same So far) with Such Person
or Persons as Shall be thereto Disposed who Shall Dispute the Title
of the said Grantees hereby Conveyed — But in Case the Title of
the Grantees Derived from the said Grantors by these presents to
the Said Premises Shall be Condemned & the Title of the Person or
Persons so Disputing with the Grantors to the Premises Shall by
Such final Judgment be Prefer'd then the Grantees in these Pres-
ents Shall Recover Nothing of the said Grantors for the Said Prem-
ises nor for any Labour Expence and Charge they the said Grantees
their Heirs or Assigns Shall have been at in Consequence of this
grant

And it is to be Understood that the Numbers of Years Mention 'd
herein for the Said Grantees to do and perform the Several Articles
Matters and Things aforesaid is to be So many years free from the
Impediment and Interruption of an Indian War —
31

498

CHARTER RECORDS.

\Draft of Lots in Middleton, 1750.]

[Masonian Proprietors1 Records, Vol. 6, p. 225.]

Province of ) Portsmouth, April 11th 1750, Wednesday at the House of
New Hampsr ) Ann Slayton Inn holder — The Draft of the Township granted to
Ebenr Varney, William Wentworth, & others, under Direction of the Proprietors

drawn N"

of Lots

drawn N°

of Lots

1 George Jaffrey

79

2 Job Clements the 3d .

86

3 Isaac Watson

93

4 Mark Hs Wentworth Esq

81

5 Mark Hs Wentworth Esq1"

48

6 Nathaniel Young

47

7 Law Lot No 2

3i

8 Noah Cross

95

9 Dan1 Peirce & Mary Moor

96

10 James Clements

° 2

1 1 Ephraim Wentworth .

18

12 Field Plumer

75

13 Ebenezer Horn .

21

14 Benja Roberts

38

15 Jn° Tufton Mason & )
John Thomlinson Esqr* $

33

16 Richard Goodwin

83

17 Benjamin Mason

94

18 John Herd

93

19 John Wentworth jr Esq.

34

20 William Wentworth

66

21 Timothy Roberts

35

22 James Guppy junr

12

23 Benj* Weymouth

19

24 Jonathan Gage .

37

25 Daniel Hanson .

5°

26 Samuel Herd

30

27 Love Roberts Junr

62

28 Thomas Varney

89

29 John Ham junr .

97

30 Tho* Wallingford Esq1'

43

31 Eleazer Young

27

32 Edward Ellis

88

33 Benjamin Herd .

3

34 School Lot

98

35 Joseph Hanson .

72

36 John Kielle

20

37 Nath11 Austin

10

38 Tristram Coffin .

15

39 John Drew

68

40 Sam1 Solly & CI* March Esq

• 16

41 John Tasket

59

42 Richard Philpot .

14

43 William Horn

24

44 William Ham

58

45 Theodore Atkinson Esqr

40

46 John Varney

4

47 Isaac Hanson junr

44

48 Ebenezer Varney

100

49 Benj" Stanton

4i

50 Richard Wibird Esqr .

69

51 Jon» Murray

45

52 Samuel Young

25

53 James Philpot

42

54 Job Clements junr

82

55 Moses Carr

17

56 Wm Whitehouse

7i

57 John Cook Junr .

53

58 Nath1 Varney

77

59 Noah Emery

6

60 Mark Giles

23

61 Samuel Varney .

49

62 Benj" Evans

78

63 Andrew Marshal

39

64 Ebenr Garland .

2

65 Thomas Packer Esq' .

92

66 Richd Hussey

32

67 Thomas Bickford

73

68 Joshua Peirce Esq

1

69 Eleazer Wear

36

70 John Moffatt Esqr

51

71 Peter Cook

91

72 Joseph Conner .

63

73 Law Lot N° 1

61

74 Joshua Stagpole

60

75 John Pearl junr .

13

76 Sylvanus Hussey

84

77 Nath1 Willand

52

78 George Hanson

76

[Plan of Middleton.~\

Each of the ioo Lotts in this first Division Contain ioo acres Excepting the four Lotts Joyning the Center which four Lotts being good Land &
well Situated have taken from Each of them about one acre & one quarter of an acre to make the Six acre square as in the plan the Lenth of the
Lotts north 48 Degrees East is one hundred and fifty Six Rods & the Breadth north one hundred thirty & five Rods as also the Roads that Run
north & South are four Rods Broad & the Roads that Run north 48 Degrees East & South 48 Degrees west are two Roads Broad there is four of
Said two Rod Roads one on Rochester Head Line then two Lotts Dep from Said Road & then a Second & from the Said Second Road three Lotts
Dep & then a third Road Called the Crose Center Road & from Said Center Road three Lotts Dep & then a forth Road

The Second or northermust Division y8 Coase is the Same as the first Division & the Lotts are the Same Lenth north 48* E & they are one
hundred Seventy and Six Rods north & Contain one hundred & thirty acres in each Lott

N B five lotts in the first hundred acrs not fit for settlement in sorting the lotts were put To the last Laying out And five lotts Taken out of the
last laying out and numberd to the first as the minets are made up on the plan

A Plan of the Division of that Tract of Lind granted by the Proprietors of the Land Purchassed of John Tufton Mason Esq to Ebenezr Varney
William Wentworth & others as Said Division hath been made by the Grantees to be returnd to the Grantors in order to the Drawing the Lotts
Agreable to the Vote by which it was Granted

MIDDLETON.

499

79 Thomas Roberts junr .

57

80 Stephen Roberts

46

8 1 Thomas Went worth

29

82 Job Hussey

5

83 Nathaniel Hanson

28

84 Ephraim Hanson

• 56

85 John Hall .

7

86 Joseph Wentworth

■ 85

87 Mark Wallingford

54

88 Andrew Horn

• 64

89 John Roberts

67

90 Timothy Hanson jr

• 65

91 Jotham Odiorne Esqr .

74

92 Joseph Varney junr

8

93 Benjamin Wentworth .

99

94 John Bickford

55

95 John Gage Esqr . . • .

26

96 Samuel Clements

80

97 Nath1 Meserve, Joseph \

Blanchard, Joseph Green >

70

98 Zachariah Pitman

• 87

& Paul March— )

first Ministers Lot

9

Ministerial Lot .

1 1

Voted That this Draft of the Lots of Land in the Tract above
mentioned be & hereby is ratified & confirmed & that each Lot be
held to the Respective Person to whose Name it is affixed & to his
Heirs & Assigns in Severalty on the Terms first Granted, & the Di-
vision as made by the Grantees & numbered in the Plan thereof by
them returned be & hereby is also confirmed as aforesaid —

Geo : Jaffrey Prop" CI.

a trne Copy of the Record of the Draft of the Lotts in Township
granted to Varney &ca

attest Geo : Jaffrey Proprs CI

[Theodore Atkinson to John Gage, 1768.]
[Masonian Papers, Vol. 6, p. 157.]

DrSr

Portsm0 May 26—1768

In Pursuence of the Unanimos Desire of Masons Proprietrs
Signified at thier Meeting held last Week I imediatly wrote you thier
Determination (Viz) That they would without further Delay re-
enter & regrant the Townships comonly called Midletown & North
or Eastern Townships — the Proprietors The Grantors mentioned You
as the most Suitable Person to Acquaint with thier Determination
because you was the Principle agent in obtaining the Grant — I then
mentioned the length of Time Since the Grant was made that
neither Inhabitants or Cultivation agreable to the Stipulated Condi-
tions or any of the Conditions were Performed & of Course no roads
Cut & Cleared tho those Tracts to the Township above them so that
great Inconvenience as well as Damage is dayly increesing by Your

5oo

CHARTER RECORDS.

thus delaying which Still continues tho so Often mentioned to you
this Induced the above resolution & which you may Depend will be
carryed into Execution the meeting of the Grantors Stands
Adjourned to Wednesday June the 8th when tis Proposed to transact
what is above mentioned I mention this that in case any Perticular
Grantee that hath compleated & fullfilld His Conditions he may not
be too Hardly dealt with —

You will therefore I hope take the Proper Notice of what I wrote
last week as well as the above I am Sr in behalf of the Said Grantors

Your most Obedient Humble Serv*

Theodore Atkinson

[Theodore Atkinson to John Gage. 1769.]

[Masonian Papers, Vol. 6, p. 158.]

Portsm0 Jan'y 14th 1709
Coll Gage

I am Directed by the Proprietors of Masons Right Once more
to advertize the Grantees of A Township above Rochester com'only
calld the Midletown — that notwithstanding thier Promisses the
Settlement is Still neglected in almost every article in the Conditions
of the Grant but in a more Perticular Manner the road they Promised
Should be cut thro the s'1 Midle Town in the Most Direct way to
Wolfburough which is Extreamly wanted — Wolfburrough long Since
(the Midle Town granted) have cut A road thro that Town — So
hath Tuftonbur0 & Moultobur0 &ca all which roads are rendred
almost Usless for want of A Good road thro Midletown — I should
think the Proprief8 of Midletown would need no prompting to this
Peice of Service if they would consider the great Advantage that
would Attend it in a perticular Man'er to their Propriety — His Excel-
lency the Govern1 & the Other Proprietors of Wolfburr0 complain
greatly of this neglect of a Road, in a Perticular Manner — I am there-
fore at the request of Masons Propriety (at a full Meeting) to
Acquaint you that unless that road is Imediatly Cutt & Cleared that
Boards &ca may be (without Difficulty) Transported from Midletown
to Wolfbur0 they are determined to Enter upon & regrant every
dilinquents Share in Midletown without distinction or reserve — this
I think is the unalterable Determination of the Grantors & that I
hope you will advertize the Grantees of & what I have in Comand
from the Grantors in whose behalf I am Sr Your

Friend & Humble Serv1
Theodore Atkinson

MIDDLKTON.

SOI

[Improvements in Middleton, 1769.]
[ Masonian Papers, Vol. 6, p. 159.]

Mens Names who are Heads
of famlys Settled

N° of Lotts

Settled on

Acres of ; Acres of
Land Cleard Trees fell

Mouses

David Varney

N 62

1
1

2

1

Nath1 Varney

63

3i

4

1

John Drew

.

87

1

10

1

Silas Varney

Noah Cross orig1

k

2

1

Aron Drew

97

1

4

1

Hezek Varney

Isaac Watson orig1

3

2

1

[n" Kenniston

.

7

3

3

1

Wm Huzzell

•

7

4

5

1

W"> Clark .

5

2k

4

I

Job Allard .

42

2

5

1

James Brvants

49

4

30

1

Nath1 Wentwortl

orig1 Thos Wentworth

ik

6

1

Isaac Drew

6

2

4

1

28}

81

13

Mens Name that have began

N° of Lotts or
Orig Owners

What
Cleard

What
Trees fell

Sort of Houses

EDhrim Ellis

Andrew Horn

1

Charles Hilton .

100

2

Joseph Cook

ik

Moses Whitehouse

70

5

a small frame

Joshua Guppy .

12

part Logg House

John York

10

3

part of Logg House

Timothy Hanson

0

Elias Critchett .

(n" Roberts

3

a small frame

William Elkins .

3

3

a small frame

French .

28

2

Giddeon Johnson

Col" Gage

4

Part of Logg House

Jn° Tash .

23, 24, 25, 26

1

20

Wm Horn

Org1

6

mr Thomas

37. 38

4

Ebenzr Perkins .

41

4

Pole House

Benj York

5°

1

4

Nath1 Wentworth

52

3

5

House frame

Jacob Pike

30

1

3

House

Nath1 Stephens .

Richd I luzzey

4

Part House

Isaac Drew

4

4

Joseph Durgon could not fin

(1 the number

4

Logg House
Saw Mill on W™
Wentworths Lott

6

86*

Middleton Decemr 28, 1769

The above is an Acco' of the settlements & improvements in Middleton first
division (nothing done on 2<] )

examind )■■> Jotham Rindge & Isaac Drew

502 CHARTER RECORDS.

[Jotham Rindge to George Jaffrey, 1769.]

[Masonian Papers, Vol. 6, p. 160.]

Middleton Decr 28 1769
sir I have herewith sent you an Acco't of Settlements & Im-
provements done in Middleton as the Governor desire'd wou'd let
him know the State of this Town as soon as it was done shou'd
much obld if wou'd show it him

Yr H ser*
To George Jaffery Esq. Jotham Rindge

[Petition of Proprietors of Middleton, 1769.]

[Masonian Papers, Vol. 6, p. 161.]

Province of )

New Hampshire \ To the Proprs of Masons Claim so called

The Humble Petition of the Proprietors of Middletown, So call'd
in said Province, Sheweth, That the Proprs of said Middletown have
been at very uncommon and extraordinary Charges in clearing and
Making a Road thro' said Middletown to Wolfsborough in said

Province That they have no possible way of Raising the Money

to pay said Charges but by disposing of some of their Shares in
said Middletown — But the Rumor that the Grant of said Township
is forfeited, prevent Persons purchasing in said Town Wherefore
your Petitrs pray that the time limited in their Grant of said Town
for Settlement may be protracted and they in Duty bound Shall &c
Decr 28th 1769.

Moses Carr ^
Charles Baker ( Agents for
John Tash f Middletown

John Gage Jur J

[ Cost of Middleton Road.']

[Masonian Papers, Vol. 6, p. 162.]

An Acco1 of the Cost of the Cutting, Clearing & Bridging a Road
thro' the Township of Middle Town from Rochester Bounds to
Wolfborough

MIDDLETON.

503

To Benj'a Hart for the Amo' of his Acco1 paid the ) on ,. />

Labourers as ^ Vouchers — \

To John Drew paid Ditto as "$ liis Acco' of particu- 1 w>(,q . ., , 1()
lars & Vouchers —

To Sundry Tools supplyd by orders of His Excel-
lency Govern1" Wentworth

4„13„-

300.

[Account of Work on Middleton Moad, 1769.]

[Masonian Papers, Vol. 6, p. 163.]

Township of Middleton to Benja Hart & Co Dr for Labour done

on the Road

1769

Aug1 31 „ To Benja Hart, for 46 days Work &

diet @ 6 — «£

To Rich'1 Jenkins 39£ days D° 3—6

To James Woodes, 37 days D° 3 — 6

To Jacob Scagel, 21* days D° 3—6

To John Underwood, 34 days
Ditto 3—6

To William Gunnison 30 days D° 3—6

To Aaron Frost, 29 days D° 3 — 6

To Graffam Nutter-22£ days D° 3—6

To Will"' Willson - 28£ days D° 3—6

To John Reading _ 8 days D° 3—6

To Will1" White — 18 days D° 3—6

To Noah Peirse — 5 days D° 3—6

To John Kennison, 23 days D° 3—6

To William Buzzell, 16 days D° 3—6

To Joseph Hutchins, 11£ days D° 3—6

To Will'" Clarke, — 20* days D° 3—6

To Thomas Plummer - 6 days ^
himself @ 3—6- .. 1 .. 1 .. 0 (
his Cattle — 6 f

days @ 3— .. — .. 18 .. 0)

To Sam1 Plummer 8£ days himself @ )
3—6- .. 1 .. 9 9 \

his cattle-10 days @3 .. 1 .. 10 — )
To Nath1 Wentworth - 12 days-@3— 6

.. 13 .

. 16

. 0

.. 6 .

. 18

0
. 0

.. 6 .

. 9

. 6

.. 3 .

. 15

. 3

.. 5 .

. 19

. 0

5 .

. f)

—

.. 5 .

. 1

. 6

.. 3 .

. 18

. 9

.. 4 .

. 19

. 6

.. 1 .

. 8

—

.. 3 .

. 3

—

.. — .

. 16

. 6

.. 4 .

. —

. 6

2

. 16

—

0

. —

. 3

.>
0 .

. 11

.. 9

.. 1 .. 19 —
.. 2 .. 19 .. 9

504 CHARTER RECORDS.

To Isaac Drew - 17 days — 3-

To Rum for ye Compy at sundry

times
To Moses Wentworth for use of

Grindstone

To Paid George Place for
lookg out Road .. —

To Expence & Trouble
in settling Accos .. 1

Portsm0 Sepc 1st 1769
Errors Excepted

Mem0 of Tools Rec'1 from Wentworth House Viz1
8 Hoes @ 6— 2 Axes @ 6—
2 Devonshire shovells @ 12 —
1 Crow Barr — @ 6 —
l11 Powder 3—2 Blankets Nutter & Ja8
Woodhouse

6

2

. 19 .. 6

. — •

. 16 ..—
. 3 .. 6

£ .

. 84 .

. 18 .. 6

0

0

.. 1 .

. 8 .. 0

£ .

, 86 .

. 6 .. 6

Benj

la Hart

1V

£

0
0 ,

. 1 .

.. 0 .. 0

. 4 .. 0

. 6 ..—

. 3 ..—

1 Q

1 •>

[Votes of Proprietors of Midrfleton, 1769.]
[Masonian Papers, Vol. 6, p. 164.]

Provence of ( At a Proprietors meeting Liagley warned and
Newhampshier \ Held This 25th Day of December 1769 at the
House of mr Ephraim Hanson in Dover by the Proprietors of Middle
Town So Called and the proprietors then Convaned Voted at said
meeting as followeth

lly made Choise of mr Charls Baker moderator of said meeting

2ly the proprietors Voted to pay the Charge that the Govenor
was at in Clearing the Road threw said Middle Town if the Grant-
ors of said Town will Lengthen out the Charter or give said propri-
etors a Longer Time for Settlement —

3ly Voted that mr Charls Baker John Gage Ju1' mr John Tash
and Doctker moses Carr be agents to wate on the Honorable Grant-
ors to Se if they will give the proprietors a Longer Tine for Settle-
ment of Said Township

4lv Voted that the formor Commite m1 Charls Baker John Gage

MIDDLETON. 505

Ju1 and in' John Tash be and are hereby Inipowered to Sell all the
Delinquant Proprietors Rights in said Town aCordeng to Law —

5ly the proprietors the Voted that This meeting be adjorned To
this Day fortnite at the House of mr Ephraim Hanson in Dover and
the modrator adjorned Said meeting aCordengly —

provence of \
Newhampshir \ Dover January ye 8th 1770 meet aCordeng to
adjornment and the proprietors Then Conveined Voted as folovv-
eth

lly Voted that Collo John Gage Collo John Wentworth and James
Stoodly Esqr be agents to Joyne the former agents to wate on the
Honorable grantors to see if they will give the proprietors a Longer
Time for Settlement of said Township And Then the moderator
adjorned said meeting to Next monday at Two o Clock in the after
Noon of said Day at the House of mr Ephraim Hanson in Dover —

A True Coppy — attest

John Gage Ju1' prors Clark

506 CHARTER RECORDS.

[John Drew's Account, 1769.]

[Masonian Papers, Vol. 6, p. 165.]

His Excellency John Wentworth Esqr in an Acco1 with John
Drew
Dr
1769 To Sundry Persons Labour on Middletown
Road Computing to be 1038 days, for one
hand, at 3 — 6'1 pr day as pr an Ace1 Thereof
Given in — .£181 .. 13 ..—

To 69 days myself Taking Care and Carrying

on the work @ 6— f day— 20 .. 14 —

To 1 Gall" Rum Gave the People pr yr Excel-
lency's Ordr — ..6 —

To lld powder, Us'd in blowing Rocks — ..4 —

To paid a Blacksmith for new steeling a pickax ..4 —

To a New Hoe 0 .. 6 .. 0

To 1 Grindstone wore out & Spoild

in the Service 1 .. 0 .. 0 1 .. 6 —

To my Extra Time at Portsm0 in Ordr to Draw
Ordr8 and Settle the Accots with the Labour-
ers 1 .. 4 .. 0

To paid Mr Shannon for drawing out all the
Accos Writing Ordrsand Attendance on the
business 1 .. 0 .. 0

To paid Cap1 Jacob Tilton for his bill of Ex-

pences 2 .. 12 .. 10

Lawful W £209 .. 3 .. 10

Cr
1769 By Sundry Supplys Rec'1 of Cap1 Martyn pr

'bill — 5 .. 15 .. 6

By £ Quintal fish Reca of Mr Hurd — .. 14 .. 0

£6 .. 9

By Sundry OrdIS Drawn on mr Hurd in favr
of the Labourers on Middletown Road —
Portsmouth Novr 16th 1769

Errors Excepted ^ John Drew

Prove of ) Portsm0 Novembr 16 1769. Then inr John Drew-
New Hampr ) appeared and made Solemn Oath to the Truth of the
above Ace" that it was Just & True

Before H Wentworth Just6 Peace

MIDDLETON.

507

[John Drew's Account, 1769.]
[Masonian Papers, Vol. 6, p. 166.]

An Acco1 of Labour done on Middletown Road by Sundry people Employ'd by
John Drew. Viz« —

Mens Names

N° of days
Each man

at what
pr day

Sums Total

of Each
mans Wage

Jacob Skedgwell

84

@3— 6

1.. 9.-9

John Berry

3°

@3— 6

5.. 5..0

William Gunnison .

3

3-6

..10. .6

Graften Nutter

58

3-6

10.. 3..0

Richard Jenkins

53

3-6

9.. 5. .6

John Underwood

55

3-6

9.. 1 2.. 6

James Woodhouse

i8£

3—6

3.. 4.-9

Aaron Frost .

9

3-6

I..II.. 6

John Redding

53

3-6

9.. 5. .6

William Wilson

27

3-6

4. .14. .6

Silas Varney .

1 1

3-6

1. .18. .6

Isaac Drew

sh

3-6

..19. .3

Moses Wentworth

5

3-6

.. 17..6

John Kennison

3 .

3-6

..10. .6

Nath11 Wentworth

3

3-6

..10. .6

John York

1

3-6

.. 3. .6

Gideon Johnson

1

3-6

•• 3-6

Benjamin Mooney

3

3-6

..10. .6

William Clark

4

3—6

..14..0

Samuel Hall .

63

3-6

11.. 0..6

Zachr Bunker .

35

3-6

6.. 2. .6

Joseph Jacobs

35

3-6

6.. 2. .6

John Brown .

35

3-6

6.. 2. .6

Hate Evil Leighton

43

3-6

7.. 10. .6

Samuel Horn .

I 2d

3-6

2.. 3-9

Ebenezer Perkins

3°

3-6

5.. 5..

Solomon Perkins

27h

3-6

4..16..3

Samuel Nute .

ioi

3~1

3- 8..3

Samuel Merry

19

3-6

3.. 6. .6

Aaron Wingate

27

3-6

4. .14. .6

David Rand .

nd

3-6

2.. 0..3

Richard Downs

1 Ah

3-6

2. .10. .9

Thomas Cushing

ii.J.

3-6

2.. 0..3

Jonathan Cushing

i8i

3-6

3.. 4.-9

Henry Wentworth

[6j

3-6

2.. 17. .9

Lemuel Ricker

'7

3-6

2. .19. .6

Anthony Hanson

17

3-6

2.. 19. .6

5o8

CHARTER RECORDS.

Mens Names

N° of days

at what

Sums Total
of Each

Each man

pr day

mans Wage

Isaac Roberts .....

28

3-6

4..18..0

Ebenezer Wentworth

23i

3—6

4.. 2.-3

Samuel Henderson

16 '

3—6

2.. 16

Samuel Astin

1 1

3-6

1. .18. .6

Joseph Thompson

6

3-6

Joseph Dam .

6

3-6

Moses Jenness

6

3-6

Aaron Jenness

6

3—6

1 .. 1

Samuel Furber

6

3—6

1 .. 1 ..

Theodore Furber

6

3-6

j j

Benjamin Furber

6

3-6

1 .. 1 .. —

Elijah Varney

6

3-6

Edward Varney

6

3-6

1.. 1.. —

John Heard .

6

3-6

1.. 1.. —

Tristrum Heard

6

3-6

1 .. 1 .. —

John Walker .

6

3-6

1 .. 1 ..

Nath1 Perkins

6

3-6

1 .. 1 .. —

John Nute

6

3-6

1 .. 1 .. —

Solomon Clark

n-i

3-6

2.. 0..3

Joshua Wentworth

ioi

3-6

1 ..16. .9

Thomas George

18

3-6

3- 3 —

William Wingate

9

3-6

1..U..6

Samuel Wingate

,

1 1

3-6

1. .18. .6

Peter Burroughs

1 1

3-6

1. .18. .6

1038 days

^i8i..i3..o

Prove of 1 Portsm0 Novembr 16th 1769
New Hampr ) Then mr John Drew appeared and made Solemn Oath
to the Truth of this ace1 above & on the other Side that it was Just
and True to the Best of his Knowledge —

Before H Wentworth Just8 Peace

[Votes of Proprietors of Micldleton, 1770.]

[Masonian Papers, Vol. 6, p. 168.]

Province of / At A Proprietors meeting Leaguly Warned and
Newhampshire \ held by the proprietors of a Tract or New Town
ship of Land in said province Commonly Known By the Name of

MIDDLETON. 509

middle Town at the House of mr Ephraim Hanson Inholder in Dover
on monday the 5th Day of This Instant febuary 1770 and the pro-
prietors then Convened Voted at Said meeting- as followeth Viz : —

llT the proprietors made Choise of Docthr Moses Can* for their
moderator

2'y the proprietors Voted persuant to a Resolve of the Grantors
»»f the Right of John Tuftin Mason Esq1* — Derected to the agents
of Said propriete and the proprietors Voted & Resolved that John
Gage J iin' Cleark of said propriete be & hereby is Directed forth
with to Transe mit to the Grantors aforesaid a List of the proprietors
Names & how much Each proprietor has paid Towards Settling said
Town & an aCount of what money has been Rased & Voted for that
purposs, and further Voted that the said Grantes are willing the
Said Grantors should Resume the Rights of fifteen of the proprieters
which have done Least Towards the Settlement of said Town
provided they pay their proportion of all past & future Charges and
Lengthen out the Charter of Said Town Two years from This Date —
and the proprietors further Voted that John Gage Jur mr Charls
Baker & James Stoodly Esq1" be agents to wate on the Grantors with
a Coppey of this Vote at there Nex meeting at porsmouth and Then
the modrator of said meeting adjorned said meeting To monday ye
12Ul Day of this Instant Febuary at the house of mr Ephraim Han-
son In holder in Dover at Two o Clock in the after Noon of Said
Day—

A True Coppey Exammened pr me

John Gage Jur pros Clark

[Letter of Gov.Wentivorth, 1770.]

[Masonian Papers, Vol. 6, p. 169.]

Portsm0 6th Febry 1770
Gentlemen

The justice & necessity of having a good Road thro' Mid-
dleton, and the total neglect of the Grantees thereof, for many years
to make it ; being by almost every member of your Society well
known & often Complain'd of — And having myself suffer'd above
Five hundred dollars, & more than once had my life endanger'd for
want of s'1 roads; I was (upon encouragment from many of your
Members that the Lands shou'd directly pay for it) induc'd to under-
take & order that the s'1 Road shou'd be effectually made — Many of
the Labourers employ'd thereon are yet unpaid, and extremely dis-
tressed thereby — The Lands are improv'd in Value at lest Six times

5IO CHARTER RECORDS.

— The Country above is enabled to settle; And ev'ry possible advan-
tage results, beyond expectation both to that Town and also to all
your adjacent property — Nevertheless these people of Middleton
neglect to repay the Sum ; thus necessarily & beneficially expended —
You Gen* are too well inform'd of the circumstances for me to add
more — Only That I may request you will consider the releif due to
the poor labourer in this case ; & give order that so much may be
be sold as will discharge this acco't — or that the Proprietors thereof
repay it if they please — Or any other method that can complete it,
which you prefer — I have no other interest in it, than of a settler
who has already suffer'd too much for want of the Road, to be able
to pay for this myself, merely to indulge & enrich a set of Men,
whose neglect has been injurious to all that part of the Province,
and leaves them scarce worthy of any favor from you ; whose Grant
they have already so manifestly abused and forfeited — I am very
respectfully

Gen* Your most hble ser'

J' Wentworth
To The Proprietors of Mason's Patent in New-Hampshire.

MIDDLETON,

;n

[Improvements in Middleton, 1770.]

[Masonian Papers, Vol. 6, p. 170.]

A list of the Names of the proprietors of middle Town So Called
and the Number of Each proprietors Right or Shear in said Town
and what Each proprietor has paid and Done Towards the Settle-
ment of said Town and what money has been Voted to be Rased and
on Each proprietors Right in Said Township —

ag

4h (J

What
Each
proprie-
tor has
paid

What Each proprietor

has Done Towards

settlemet

« 5

*o *3 ,c
£ 4J bfl

in

4J ,C

jC 4J </> rt

C

£

s d

£

s d

Job Clemments

86

2>

- 8-0

10-

-0-0

Isaac Watson

93

a House Bult & family

IO:

o: 0

Nathanel Young .

47

5

17:0

5 Acers fell

10

o: 0

Noah Cross .

95

house & family

10

0:0

James Clemments

22

IO

0:0

Ephraim Wentworth

18

4

1 :0

10

0:0

Bidfield plumer

75

3-

- 9-0

10

O: 0

Ebenezar Horn

21

4-

-1 0-0

10

0:0

Benjm Robarts . .

38

10

0:0

a house on it

10

0: 0

Richard Gooding .

83

10

0: 0

Benjm Mason

94

1

1 :0

10

0: 0

John Heard .

90

3-

- 9"°

10

0: 0

William Wentworth

66

10

O: 0

Timothy Robarts .

35

5

17:0

10

O: 0

James Guppey Jur

12

a house & famely

10

0: 0

Benjm Waymouth .

19

5

2-0

10

o: 0

John Gage Esqr .

26

5

O: 0

A House bult

10

0: 0

Jonathan Gage

37

5

0-0

3 acers fell

10

o: 0

Danel Hanson

5°

5

2-0

a house bult

10

O: 0

Samuel Heard

3°

5

0-0

a house bult

10

0: 0

Love Robarts Jur .

62

1

1 :0

a house & family

10

O: 0

Thomas Varney

89

10

0:0

John Ham Jur

97

a house & family

10

0:0

Elezar Young

27

5

3:0

10

0: 0

Edward Ellis

88

4

4:0

10

0:0

Benjm Heard

3

3-

- 9-0

a house fram & 3 acers
fell

10

O: 0

Joseph Hanson

72

5

3-o

10

0: 0

John Kielle .

20

10

0: 0

Xathanel Austin

10

2

. 2: 0

a house bult

10

0: 0

512

CHARTER RECORDS.

<*H

<2 'O s

o

What

SS c 0

Each

What Each proprietor

5 r*

proprie-

has Done Towards

O n ^ 5

& *"£3

tor has

Settlemet

;> OJ

paid

os c <« y

> .a ci W

£ s d

£ S d

Tristrum Coffin

15

10: o: 0

John Drew .

68

a house & family

IO: o: 0

John Tasker

59

o: 15:0

io: 0: 0

Richard philpot

14

3: 12:0

3 acers fell

IO: o: 0

William Horn

24

3: 7:0

4 Acers fell

10: 0: 0

William Ham

58

5: 3:0

IO: O: 0

John Varney

4

I: 16: 0

3 acers fell

10: 0: O

Isaac Hanson Jur

44

Ebenezar Varney

100

10: 0: O

Benjm Stanton

41

2: 1 : 0

5 acers fell

10: o: 0

Jonathan Merrow

45

4 acer fell & house &
famly

IO: O: 0

Samul Young

-5

5: 3:°

10 acers fell

10: o: 0

James philpot

42

3: 6:0

house & family

10: 0: 0

Zachariah Pitman

84

5: 3:o

10:0:0

Jobe Clemments Juner

82

9: 17:0

10.0:0

Samul Clemments

80

2: 16: 0

10:0:0

Moses Carr .

17

4. 6. 0

10: 0: 0

William Whitehouse

71

15:15:0

a house

10: 0: 0

John Bickford

55

2 : 0 ; 0

10: 0:0

John Cook Jur

53

6: 15:0

5 acers fell

10: 0:0

Nathanel Varney

77

10: 0:0

Noah Emery

6

a house & family

io:0:o

Mark Gills .

23

5: 3:0

10 acers fell

10:0: 0

Samul Varney

49

5: 8:0

a house & family

10: 0: 0

Benjm Evens

78

4: IO :0

1 0 : 0 : 0

Andrew Marshall

39

10:0:0

Ebenezar Garland

2

10: 0: 0

Richard Hussey

32

4. 10. 0

a house

io: 0:0

Thomas Bickford

73

5: 8:0

2 acers fell

10: o: 0

Elezar wiare

36

2: 17:0

10: 0: 0

Petter Cook .

91

6: 8:0

3 acers fell

10: 0: 0

Joseph Connor

63

I : I O : O

a house & family

10: 0: 0

Joshua Stakpole

60

3: 9:0

IO: 0: 0

John Peire Ju1'

13

IO: o: 0

Silvanus Hussey

84

9: 17:0

10: 0: 0

Nathanel Willand

52

4 acers & frame

1 0 : 0 : 0

George Hanson

76

4: 7:0

io: 0: 0

Thomas Robarts Jur

57

10:0:0

Stephen Robarts

46

3:12:0

10: 0;0

MIDDLETON.

513

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Thomas Wintworth
Job Hussey .
Nathanel Hanson .
Ephraem Hanson .
John Hall .
Joseph wintworth
Mark Walingsford
Andrew Home
John Robarts
Timothy Hanson Jur
Joseph Varney Jur
Benjm Wintworth .

£ s d

29

5

1 : 2: 0

28
56

3. 9.0
5: 3:0

7

85

9.0

54
64
67

65
8

4: 1 : 0
9: 1 1:0

6: 4:0
5: 3:0

99

a house famly

a house & famly

3 acers fell

5 acers fell

2 houses & famelys

a house & famly
2 acers fell

£

s

10

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10.

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This is a Trew List of the Numbers of Each proprietors Right of
Middle Town So Called and what Each proprietor has paid in Labour
and what Each proprietor has Done Towards Settling his Right in
said Town aCording to th.e aCounts brought in to us by the pro-
prietors

pr us — Charles Baker

John Gage Jur

Assessors of
Middle Town
propriete

Dover febuary ye 13th 1770—
A Trew Coppey Attest

John Gage Jur pro8 Clark

[Shares Taken by Masonian Proprietors, 1770.]

[Masonian Papers, Vol. 6, p. 171.]

Portsra0 Feby 14th 1770
It is concluded and determined by the Proprietors that they will
accept fifteen of ye Sixteen Rights or Shares on which nothing has
been paid or any Settlement made on Said Rights as ye same has
been exhibitted ye Clerk except ye Right of Ebenr Garland who is
represented an Object of Charity the Said fifteen Shares to be drawn

32

514 CHARTER RECORDS.

for to ye Rights of Said fifteen Proprietors and that two Years from
this date is to be allowed to the Original Grantees to fulfill all the
Terms of Settlement and Conditions of their first Grant, and if not
then compleated to revert to ye Grantors

James Clemments N° 22 Richd Goodwin 83

Wm Wentworth 66 Tho8 Varney 89

John Kielle 20 Tristrium Coffin 15

Isaac Hanson jr 44 Ebenr Varney 100

Nath11 Varney 77 Andrew Marshall 39

Ebenr Garland 2 agreed not to be drawn for he

being an object of Charity
John Pearl jr 13 Thomas Roberts jr 57

Joseph Wentworth 85 John Roberts 67

Benja Wentworth 99

[Regrant of Middhton, 1770.]
[Masonian Proprietors' Records, March 21, 1770.]

Province of ) Portsmouth March 21st 1770 Wednesday five of
New Hampshr ) the Clock afternoon The Proprietors meet accord-
ing to adjournment

Whereas the said Proprietors on the 27th Day of April 1749
Granted to Ebenezar Varney William Wentworth and others a
Tract of Land Equivalent to Six Miles Square in said Province
Commonly called Middle Town in Order for making a Settlement &
Township on such Terms & Conditions As are Express'd & Declared
at Large in the Vote for making said Grant — And whereas the
said Grantees have not Complied with the Terms and Conditions of
said Grant whereby the Grant is become void which the Agents of
the said Grantees have acknowledged and Surrendering the said
Land have requested a New Grant to be made of the same to such
of the Former Grantees as had done any thing Considerable towards
Settling their Respective rights & Shares under the former Grant
and on such further Limitations as the said Proprietors should
Judge Proper — all which having been duly Considered and the
Proprietors being willing to show all reasonable favour and Indul-
gence to such Persons as take care as far as they are able to Improve
the Land Granted them — Therefore Voted, that there be & hereby
is granted to the grantees named in the former grant (except the
fifteen of them whose names, are herein after expressed) all the
Right Title Claim Intrest and Demand of the said Proprietors in
and to the said Tract of Land called Middle Town heretofore

MIDDLETON. 515

granted as Above Recited on the Terms conditions & Limitations
herein after expressed & Declared, Viz1 that there be and hereby is
reserved to the said Proprietors and excepted out of this grant the
several rights and Shares that were granted & Sever'd in and by the
former Grant to James Clement Richard Goodwin William Went-
worth Thomas Varney John Kielle Tristram Coffin Isaac Hanson
Junr Ebenezar Varney Nathaniel Varney Andrew Marshall John
Pearl Jun1' Thomas Roberts Jun1" Joseph Wentworth John Roberts
and Benjamin Wentworth besides the reservations in the former
grant. That Every Grantee shall do & perform the same matters &
things he was Obliged to do by the said former grant in Order to
Com pi eat the Settlement but that he shall have the term of Two
Years from the Date hereof to Perform the same and in case of fail-
ure wholly to Compleat his Respective part & share as containd in
said former grant, the said Grant in this vote made is to be forfeited
& shall accordingly be forfeited to the said Grantors and they to
Enter if they see cause into the forfeited part & Share & be thereof
Seized as in their former Estate before any grant thereof was made.
Provided Nevertheless it is granted & Conceded by these Presents
That the said fifteen reserved rights aforesaid shall be Subjected to
and the Owner or Owners thereof shall do & Perform the same duty
for and towards the Settlement aforesaid as any right part or Share
respectively within the said Township, and that the same fifteen
shares and rights reserved be and hereby are severed to the said
Proprietors the Grantors, and be now Drawn for, to their Several &
Respective Rights, and as Drawn to each Proprietors right and
enterd to his or their right shall be held to him or them and to

their heirs & Assigns for ever. and whereas there has been

lately a Road of four Rods wide survey'd and cleared and made
Passable through the said Township commonly called the Govern-
ours Road which may not correspond with Roads or highways
reserved or Directed in the former Grant of said Township between
the Lotts or Ranges yet notwithstanding the said Road is hereby
reserved and granted as a publick road and highway for the Use of
all Travellors, and no compensation to be made by the Owner or
Owners of any Lott or Lotts through which the said Road Passeth.
The Draft of the Proprietors reserved Lotts in the Tract of Land
granted to Ebenezar Varney & Others called Middle Town which
are reserved and Severed by Preceding Vote of March 21st 1770 —
Viz'—
1st Drawn to Mark Hunk8 Wentworth Esqr . . . N° 20

2'1 . . John Moffatt Esqr 22

3'1 . . Joshua Peirce Esqr Right .... 13

Si6

CHARTER RECORDS.

4th

5th
6th

>7th

8th
9th
10th
11th
12th
13th
14th
15th

Mr John Rindge

Mary Moore & Daniel Peirce Esqr
Blanchard & Meserve & C°
Thomas Wallingford Esqr
Jotham Odiorne Esqr Right
George Jaffrey Esqr
Theodore Atkinson Esqr .
Thomas Packer Esq1
Richard Wibird Esqr Right
John Went worth Esqr Right
Samuel Solly & Clem1 March
Mason & Thomlinson

44

83
85
77
89
100
67
39
66
99
15
57

[Memorandum of Conditions of Settleme7it.~\
[Masonian Papers, Vol. 6, p. 172. J

Memorandom of the Conditions that part of the in Habitants of
Dover & summorsworth Petitioners are Willing To obliage them
selves To Comply With Humbty sueath Viz —

lly To build 30 houses and seatle 30 Inhabitants in six years after
it is a Declard Peace with the Franch and Endens and holds Peace so
long a Time & Ct —

2 In 2 years after To Buld Ten houses and seatle Ten Inhabitants
and Buld a meating Hous on Each six mill Town ship and To Cleare
Three acors of land fit To Plant Corne on Each of the above loots —

3 To have but Two Devitions in a shiare

Terms for ye Towns above & Joining upon Rochester of 6 mile
square each to contain 100 shares 20 of w'ch for ye grantors
Voted Conditions to be Complied with
1st 30 Earn8 in 3 years after a peace &ca
2d 10 Fams more in 4 Years after peace &ca
3'1 in 5 years after peace meetg house built

4 That ye Grantees enter into Contract with ye Grantors to Com-
ply witli Terms of Grant

5 if the Terms of settlement of s'1 40 Fams be not complyed with
ye whole of said Township to be forfeited and revert to Grantors but
if Complyed with then Such of ye other 40 Grantees who do not
comply with yes Terms of ye grant their shares to be forfeited to Such
of ye Grantees who shall comply with ye Terms of ye Grant

MILFORD. 517

MILFORD.

[Constituted from parts of Hollis, Amherst, and the Mile Slip, and included
Charlestown and Duxbury School Farms. Incorporated Jan. 1 1, 1794. Unsuc-
cessful attempts at incorporation were made in 1779 and 1780. A portion of
Amherst was annexed Dec. 20, 1842, and a portion of Lyndeborough, June 27,

1873-

See Massachusetts and New Hampshire charters preceding ; IX, Bouton Town

Papers, 397 ; XII, Hammond Town Papers, 603 ; Index to Laws, 345 ; sketch,
Hurd's History of Hillsborough County, 1885, p. 55 ; History, byG. A. Ramsdell,
in press; Bill of Mortality, 1806-21, 2, Farmer and Moore's Historical Collec-
tions, 32 ; sketch, by J. B. Connor, 5, Granite Monthly, 175 ; Milford Springs, 8,
id., 207; Baptist Churches in N. H., by E. E. Cummings, 1836, p. 15; Law-
rence's N. H. Churches, 1856, p. 213; sermons, by Humphrey Moore, 1836, pp.
24; Report of Proceedings at Centennial Celebration, 1894, The Farmers Cabi-
net, June 28, 1894; One of Many: A Sketch of Milford, by G. H. Moses, 16,
Granite Monthly, 389.]

[Georye Jaffrey to Joseph Blanchard, 1749.]
[Masonian Papers, Vol. 6, p. 173.]

Portsm0 July 6th 1749—

Sir

Yesterday Mr Shepperd Appeared at our Meeting and requested
a Confirmation of the Proprietors of that Part of Duxbury School
farm they Engag'd to him for his Settlem1 thereon in Opposition to
Fuller—

The proprietors were unanimous in his having our Moiety or half
Part of the Whole for quality and Quantity but he Seemed Desirous
of having one half as he would Choose to take it — Which they appre-
hend might be inconsistent with their Primary Intention towards him
but more Especially with their Agreement and Vote Respecting
Fuller (Which if I Remember right you was present at the Trans-
acting) which was that for a money Consideration (which Fuller has
paid) he was to have one half Equally to be Divided Quality and
Quantity of the said Duxbury School farm As the Different Senti-
ments and Views of the two persons interested might Produce a
Troublesome Difference The Proprietors think it would be Most
Effectually prevented by your Undertaking to make the Division
between the parties, to be Done at the Parties Expence Wlh Shep-
pard Consents to, wherefore Assoon as your Conveniency will Allow
the Proprietors desire you would make the Division before Describd

518 CHARTER RECORDS.

and Send a plan of it to have the Affair finished by them and if
Sheppard's Improvements can Consistently ly reserved to him, at his
request it may be Done

in behalf and Direction of the Proprietors I am your Most Hble
Serv4 —

Geo Jaffrey

To Joseph Blanchard Esqr at Dunstable

[Deed to John Stevens, 1751.]
[Masonian Papers, Vol. 6, p. 174.]

Know all Men by these Presents, that whereas the Proprietors pur-
chasers of Lands of John Tufton Mason Esqr in the Province of New
Hampshire at their Meeting held the 16th day of June 1749 by their
vote Authorized me the Subscriber Joseph Blanchard of Dunstable
in the Province of New Hampshire Esqr to grant all their Right &
Interest in Certain lands west of Dunstable as in & by said Vote will
more fully appear now therefore by virtue of the Authority afores^ I
the said Joseph Blanchard in behalf of the aforesaid Proprietors for
Good Consideration rec'd of John Stevens of Townshend in the County
of Midx in the Province of the Massachusetts Bay Esqr have & by
these Presents Do Convey Quit Claim & forever Release unto the
said John Stevens his Heirs & assigns all the Right Title Estate
property & Interest of the said Proprietors of in & unto a Tract of
Land in the Province of New Hampr aforesaid Contain8 657 acres be
the same so much more or less Chiefly lying in that Tract called the
Mile Slip, near the Southerly end thereof bounded as follows at the
N. westerly Corner of land formerly Wm Lawrences from thence N.
59 D W 60 Rods— S 31 D W— 160 rods, N 57 D W 74 Rods, S 33
W. 120 N 58 W 194— S 47. W 212— S 43 E 78— from thence by the
Province line S 80 E 180— N 62 E 113 S 58 E 104— N 2 E 74— S 47
E 86— N 88 E 60 : N 100 N 59 W 76 N 31 E 160 to the first bound
mentioned To have & to hold to the s'1 John Stevens his heirs &
assigns forever so that the Proprietors afores'1 shall have no future
claim in the Premises Witness my hand & Seal this 8th day of No-
vember 1751.

Joseph Blanchard [Seal]

Signed Sealed & delivered in
presence of

William Lawrence
Joseph Blanchard Jur

MILFORD. 519

a Copy

no acknowledgement, but three persons appeared & made Oath,
that they, by being acquainted with, & Comparg the Hand Writing
of Joseph Blanchard Esqr believ'd it to be the hand writing of Joseph
Blanchard Esqr late of Dunstable Deceased &c &c

Rec'd & Recorded July 11th 1772 in the County of Hillsb0

[Agreement with David Chandler, 1773.]

[Masonian Papers, Vol. 6, p. 175.J

Portsm0 June 25th 1773 Then Agreed with David Chandler of
Andover in ye Prov : of the Mass8 Bay Husbandman That the Proprs
of ye land purchased of Jn° Tufton Mason Esqr in New Hampshire
will grant to him a tract of Land in the Mile Slip so called lying at ye
head of Dnnst* ungranted in the northerly part of ye Said mile Slip,
as it lays in body, ye whole tract at one Dollar "<$ Acre be ye Same
more or less, to be Surveyed by an able Surveyor — and that ye Same
be done as Soon as may be, and ye Said Chandler to be at ye Expence
of ye said survey and ye said Chandler to pay one half of ye Sum ye
said land shall amount and the other half thereof at ye Expiration of
Six months with Interest for ye same till paid giving Security for ye
same —

David Chandler
Geo : Jaffrey in behalf &
^ order of ye Proprs

520

CHARTER RECORDS.

[Plan of Mile Slip, 1773.]

po.iozc :£-pl M.

MOULTONBOROUGH.

[Granted by the Masonian Proprietors, Nov. 17, 1763, to Col. Jonathan Moul-
ton and others, and named in honor of Col. Moulton. Moultonborough Gore was
annexed Jan. 24, 1765. Incorporated Nov. 27, 1777. Long Island was annexed
Dec. 30, 1799.

See XII, Hammond Town Papers, 616; Index to Laws, 360; sketch, by W.
H. H. Mason, Fergusson's History of Carroll County, 1889, p. 392; Lawrence's
N. H. Churches, 1856, p. 584; Biographical Notices of Physicians, by T. Shan-
non, 1, N. H. Repository, 72.]

MOULTONBOROUGH.

521

[Petition for Grant, 1748.]

[Masonian Papers, Vol. 6, p. 176.]

Province of | ' To the Gentlemen that Claim some part of the
New Hampsr \ ungranted Lands in said Prove by virtue of their
purchase of John Tufton Mason —

"Whereas the late Assembly of said Province did pass Some Votes
in order to agree with & buy said Claim of said purchasers for the
Inhabitants — We the Subscribers Inhabitants of the Town of Hamp-
ton Desire we may have some of those Lands confirmed unto us on
reasonable Terms — Hampton November 15tb 1748 —
Jon' Moulton Esqr Joseph Dow

William Vittum

Joseph Palate

Caleb Towle

Christopher Toppan

Jona Leavitt

Nathan Moulton Junr Benja Tuck

John Tuck Joshua James

Thomas Rand

Jeremiah Marston
Ephraim Marston
Benjil Page
John Moulton 4th
Samuel Garland
Samuel Dow
Benja Bachelder
John Lampery
Jeremiah Towle
Philip Towle
Philip Hooker
Stephen Page
Simon Marston

Joseph Philbrick
Thomas Nudd
Edw'1 Shaw Junr
Joseph Johnson
Benja Mason
Sam1 Brown Junr

Reuben Page
Thomas Brown
John Moulton Junr
John Moulton 3d
Amos Coffin

Ephraim Marston Junr Samuel Drake

Simon Dow Junr
Jona Marston Junr
Josiah Dearborn
Ebenezer Lane
Elisha Towle

John Moulton

Joshua Towle
Joseph Palmer
Jeremiah Dow
Ezekiel Moulton Jr
Amos Knowles
Jacob Brown
Shubel Dearborn
Jona Shaw Junr

Anthony Emery Esqr Joseph Sanborn

Joshua Lane Junr Nath1 Towle

Nath1 Drake Benja Randell

John Taylor Sam1 Brown 3'1

[Charter of Moultonborough, 1763.]
[Masonian Proprietors' Records, Nov. 17, 1763.]

Province of \ Portsmouth November 17th 1763 Thursday five of
New Hampsh1" \ the Clock afternoon at the House of James Stoodly
Innholder — the Proprietors meet according to Adjournment

Voted. That there be and hereby is Granted on the Terms Limita-
tions and Conditions hereafter in this Vote Declared for the due
Encouragement & promoting of the Settlement of the Country, To

522 CHARTER RECORDS.

Jonathan Moulton Esq' Ephraim Marston, Jeremiah Marston Ben-
jamin Page, Benjamin Bachellor, John Lamprey, Jeremiah Towle,
Philip Towle, Stephen Page, Simon Dow junr Christopher Toppan
Esq1, Jonathan Leavitt, Nathan Moulton junr John Tuck Thomas
Rand, Thomas Brown, John Moulton John Moulton the third, Amos
Coffin, Anthon}r Emery Esqr, Joshua Lane junr James Philbrick,
Edward Shaw junr Joseph Johnson, Joshua James Joshua Towle,
Joseph Palmer, Jonathan Shaw junr William Simpson, Joseph Sand-
born, Nathaniel Towle, Josiah Dearborn, Ebenezer Lane, Samuel
Brown, Jonathan Elkins, William Lane, John Taylor, Samuel Towle,
Bradbury Richardson, Nathaniel Ambrose, Josiah Moulton 3rd Jon-
athan Moulton 3rd Benjamin Sandborn, Benning Moulton, all of Hamp-
ton in said Province, George Place of Rochester in said Province,
William Vittum junr Samuel Robinson both of said Hampton, Philip
Hooker of Portsmouth in said Province, Elisha Towle, Worthington
Moulton, John Garland, Joseph Garland, William Vittum, Richard
Nason Esqr Benjamin Mason, Shubal Dearborn, Thomas White, John
Neal, Richard Cutts Shannon, Ebenezer Blake, Simon Nudd, Jona-
than Garland, all of said Hampton — And to their Heirs & Assigns in
Equal Shares all the Right, title, Interest, Estate, property, and
Demand of the said Proprietors (Excepting and Reserving as is here-
inafter Expressed) of, in & unto all that Tract of Land in said Prov-
ince of the Contents of Six Miles Square, or Equal thereto, Bounded
as follows viz1 Beginning at the North Easterly Corner of a Tract of
Land, granted by the said Proprietors to Samuel Palmer Esqr &
others on the Northerly Shore of Winnepisseoky Pond, thence Run-
ning North Westerly by said Tract of land of said Palmer's & others
to the Curve or head line of Masons Patent so called, thence North
Easterly as the said Curve line run's, so far as that a Strait line,
drawn from that Period to the North West or upper Corner of a
tract of Land Granted by said Proprietors to Col0 John Tufton Mason
Esqr will Contain within that & the other lines a tract of Land equal
to Six Miles Square, and from the said North Corner of said Masons
Tract, to run by the said Tract of Land to said Pond, then by the
shores of the Pond, Including a Neck & Point of Land, running into
the Pond until it Comes to the Place where the said Bounds begins,
To have and to hold the said Granted Premises to the said Persons
above Named as Grantees, their Heirs & Assigns, in Equal Shares
Excepting, and Reserving as is hereafter Declared on the following
Terms, Limitations & Conditions viz. That the whole Tract of Land,
within the said Boundaries, excepting what shall be necessary for
high ways, & other Public and Common uses, be divided, and Laid
out into Eighty two shares, & each Share into two Seperate Lots,

MOULTONBOROUGH. 523

within Seven Months from the Date hereof & that twenty of said
Shares be & hereby is Reserved for the use of the Grantors the said
Proprietors, their Heirs & Assigns —

That the said Grantees at their Own Expence & Charge, Settle on
said Tract of Land, twenty Families with Suitable Houses for their
Dwelling within one Year from the Date hereof & that the Persons
so Settled be proceeding in Clearing and Cultivating said Land or
that part thereof on which they shall be Settled, and fifteen Families
more within two Years from said Date, and fifteen Families more
within three Years from said Date, with houses as aforesaid, and
making Improvement in Clearing & Cultivating said Land, & Ten
families more all as aforesaid, within four Years from that time —
That a Meeting house for the Public Worship, be built on some Suit-
able Spot within said Tract of Land within three Years from said
Date, and preaching of the Gospel duly Supported and Maintain'd
■Constantly within Six Years from said time That land be duly left
between the Ranges of the Lots of Land so to be laid out of the Breadth
of four rods for high ways, and between the Lots of Land for ways of
the Breadth of two Rods, and at the End of the high Ways at the
Pond Suitable Lots or Parcells of Land shall be left for Landing
places, at least half an Acre at the End of each high way and as
many such high ways Shall be laid out, to the Pond as said Tract of
Land will admit, That the reserved Shares be Exempted & freed of
any charge and Duty of Settlement untill Actually Improved in whole
or in part — That this Tract of Land be accepted in Lieu and in stead
of that tract of land voted by said Proprietors to be Granted to
Ephraim Marston alias Major Jonathan Moulton, and Associates, and
is Meant & Intended by the Grantors so to be and the Grantees in
this Grant shall have and hold the same on that Condition, and such
proposed Grant is hereby Declared by the mutual agreement of all
Parties to be Satisfied by this Grant which is made instead thereof —
That as there may be a Conveniency to the Owners of each Share to
have a part and Proportion in the Neck & point of Land aforesaid
with other Good land Adjacent there shall be just Proportion thereof
appropriated & laid out to every Share of said Tract of Land so as to
make the Shares Equal having Regard to Quantity and Quality of the
Land —

That all White Pine trees, growing on said Tract of Land fit for
his Majesty's use be & hereby is Reserved for that Intent & purpose —
That the said Tract of Land shall be laid out as aforesaid in two lots
to each Share and a Plan thereof made & returned within Nine
Months each lot to be well mark'd on the land, and the Lots that
belong to each Share be mark'd with the same Number, the same to

524 CHARTER RECORDS.

be made as just & Equal as may be, and that the same be drawn for
here in Portsmouth by the Grantors or under their Discretion — That
the right of such Grantees in said Tract of Land as shall Neglect to
pay their Proportion of all Charges, Taxes, and Expences as the
same shall be Necessary and Demanded the Right of such Negligent
& Delinquent Person shall be & hereby is Declared to be forfeited to
the other of said Grantees. That three of the said reserved Shares
be for Publick uses, viz. One for the first Minister of the Gospell
that shall be Settled on said Tract of Land, & Continue there u 11 till
regularly Dismist, another for the use of the Ministry, the other for
the use & toward the Support of a Publick School there forever —
Provided further that in Case of failure of performing the Conditions
aforesaid on the part of the Grantees, the said Grantors shall and
may hereby enter into the said Premises in part in the name of the
whole, or into the whole, & the said Grantees wholly to Remove,
oust & Expel —

[Plan of Moultonborough, 1764.]

524

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MOULTONBOROUGH.

525

[Draft of Lots in Mbultonborough, 17*54.]

[Masonian Proprietors' Records, Vol. 6, p. 243.]

Province of ) Portsmouth June 7th 1764, At a Convention of
New Hampshire \ the Proprietors of the Lands, purchased of John
Tnfton Mason Esqr in the Province of New Hampshire — Consented
& agreed that the Number of Lots to the number of Grantors &
Grantees be now drawn for, in the first Division of Lots laid out in
the Tract of Land, granted to Jona Moulton Esqr Ephraim Marston,
Jeremiah Marston & others —

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for the first Minister .
for the School Lot
George Jaffrey .
Thomlinson & Mason
John Moffatt Esqr
William Parker Esq .
Thomas Packer Esqr
Jotham Odiorne Esqr
Richard Wibird Esqr
John Rindge

Grantees .
Philip Towle
Jona Moulton Esqr
Richd Cutts Shannon
John Tuck
James Philbrick
Benja Mason
Penning Moulton
Joshua James .
Amos Coffin
Anthony Emery
Joshua Towle .
William Vittum junr
Joseph Sanborn
Thomas Brown
Josiah Moulton 3d
John Taylor
Christo' Toppan Esq
John Moulton .
Samuel Towle .
Nathaniel Towle
Jonathan Leavitt

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6
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for the Parsonage Lot
Tho8 Wallingford Esq
John Wentworth Esqr
Joshua Peirce Esqr
Samuel Livermore Esq
Solly & March
Meserve Blanchard )
& others— £

Moore & Peirce
Mark H§ Wentworth Esqr
Theodore Atkinson Esqr
Nath1 Ambrose
John Neal
Elisha Towle
Samuel Brown
Simon Nudd .
Benja Sanborn
Philip Hooker
John Garland
Joseph Palmer
Ton" Moulton 3d
Ephraim Marston
Shubael Dearborn
Stephen Page
William Vittum
William Simpson
Thomas White
Josiah Dearborn
John Lamprey
Jeremiah Marston
Sam11 Robinson
Jona Elkins .

1 1
9
9

8

3
1

2
1 1

2
4

14
9
4

14
2

l3
1

9

9
J3

6
10

6
13
13

8
1 1
12

7
11

526

CHARTER RECORDS.

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c
rt

0

a

Richard Nason Esqr .

s

n

Ebenezer Lane

3

6

Thomas Rand .

S

12

Nathan Moulton junr

6

7

Simon Dow

4

12

Worthington Moulton

1

13

Joseph Garland

6

10

William Lane

5

7

Ebenezer Blake

6

8

Benja Page

3

7

Edward Shaw Junr

4

3

Bradbury Richardson

3

12

Joshua Lane Junr

3

3

Jeremiah Towle

4

7

George Place .

4

1

Jona Garland

2

5

Benja Bachelder

3

13

John Moulton 3d .

4

1

Jona Shaw junr .

i

3

Joseph Johnson

3

1

The above Draft was made by Order and in the Presence of the
Proprietors —

attest Geo : Jaffrey Proprs Cler

a true Copy of the Record of the Draft of the Lotts in the first
division of a tract of land granted to Jona Moulton &c

attest : Geo : Jaffrey Prop1-8 CI

Draft of Lots in Moultonborough — of the Second and third Divisions —

2d Division

third Division

N°

Range

No

range

William Parker Esqr

2

A

2

1

George Jaffrey Esqr .

4

3

1 1

3

Mark Hunking Wentworth Esq'

4

2

15

1

Theodore Atkinson Esq1 .

1

C

3

1

Richard Wibird Esqr

3

4

6

2

Moore & Peirce

1

10

16

1

Solly & March

4

C

1 1

1

Samuel Livermore Esqr

1

A

6

1

John Moffatt Esqr .

3

B

25

2

Meserve & Compy .

3

3

7

1

Thomas Wallingford Esqr

B

9

13

1

John Wentworth Esqr

5

1

3

5

Mason & Thomlinson

6

6

26

2

MOULTONBOROUGH .

527

2d Division

third Division

N°

Range

No

tange

Thomas Packer Esqr

A

10

9

4

Joshua Peirce Esqr .

C

10

22

2

Jotham Odiorne Esqr

2

1

14

2

John Rindge Esqr .

Range
a poi

8 No 1
nt

9

1

Jonathan Moulton Esqr

1

9

5

4

Ephraim Marston

2

6

17

2

Jeremiah Marston

5

5

6

3

Benja Page

2

C

13

3

Benjamin Bachelder

4

6

1

5

John Lamprey

9

12

1

3

Jeremiah Towle

2

8

27

1

Philip Towle .

2

4

24

1

Stephen Page .

1

B

10

3

Simon Dow Junr

6

1

5

1

Christopher Toppan Esqr

1

10

2

4

Jonathan Leavit

5

D

14

3

Nathan Moulton Junr

3

A

3

4

John Tuck

1

2

1

2

Thomas Rand

1

7

8

2

Thomas Brown

B

10

4

4

John Moulton .

4

7

29

1

John Moulton 3d

2

7

5

5

Amos Coffin

C

9

12

1

Anthony Emery Esqr

2

5

12

3

Joshua Lane Junr

1

1

15

3

James Philbrick

8

1 1

9

3

Edward Shaw Junr .

4

4

7

4

Joseph Johnson

4

5

12

2

Joshua James .

1

D

5

3

Joshua Towle .

5

7

15

2

Joseph Palmer

3

2

21

2

Jonathan Shaw Junr

4

I

29

2

William Simpson

1

12

5

2

Joseph Sandburn

2

2

2

5

Nathaniel Towle

3

6

19

2

Josiah Dearborn

1

4

28

1

Ebenezer Lane

2

12

21

1

Samuel Brown

2

B

28

2

Jonathan Elkins

1

6

8

1

William Lane .

5

4

18

1

John Taylor

7

1

4

2

Samuel Towle .

2

10

4

1

528

CHARTER RECORDS.

2d Division

third Division

N°

Range

N°

range

Bradbury Richardson

5

2 a Point

9

2

Nath1 Ambrose

3

7

27

2

Josiah Moulton 3d .

1

4 on Point

25

1

Jonathan Moulton 3d

8

1

10

1

Benjamin Sandborn .

D

13

24

2

Benning Moulton

9

1 1

22

1

George Place .

E

14

23

1

William Vittum Junr

1

8

23

2

Samuel Robinson

2

9

14

1

Philip Hooker .

r

12

6

4

Elisha Towle .

2

10

7

3

Worthington Moulton

2

1 1

7

2

John Garland .

4

D Ennis

8

4

Joseph Garland

2

D

19

1

William Vittum

1

3

4

5

Richard Nason Esqr

E

13

26

1

Benjamin Mason

1

5

20

2

Shubael Dearborn .

8

12

1 1

2

Thomas White

6

7

2

3

John Neal

4

10

13

2

Richard Cutts Shannon

5

6

16

2

Ebenezer Blake

D

H

17

1

Simon Nudd .

1

1 1

20

1

Jonathan Garland

1

13

3

3

School

2

3

10

2

Ministers

3

C

18

2

Parsonage

3

5

8

3

Province of ) Portsmouth February 28th 1766
New Hampsr j The Draft of the Lots in the Second & third Di-
visions of the Tract of Land granted to Jonathan Moulton Esqr &
others by the Proprietors of the Lands purchased of John Tufton
Mason Esqr in the Province of New Hampshire drawn by Direction
of said Proprietors.

attest Geo : Jaffrey Proprs Cler

a true Copy of the Record of the Lotts in the Second & Third
Divisions of the Tract of Land granted to Jona Moulton &°

attest : Geo : Jaffrey Proprs CI

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MOULTONBOROUGH. 529

[Petition of Proprietors of Moultonborough, 1770.]

[Masonian Papers, Vol. 6, p. 177.]

Province of ) To the Proprietors of Mason's Patent so call'd in
New Hamp1 \ said Province, in their proprietry Meeting conven'd
February the 21st Day Anno : Dom : 1770—

Humbly shews the Proprietors, of Moultonborough, in said
Province ; that the Proprietors, of Sandwich in the same Province,
have included, within their Lines ; a large Quantity of Land, granted
by your Propretry, to s(l Moultonborough To recover which, your
Petitioners commenced, several Actions against the Settlers under
said Sand wick, which Actions, for a Long Time, have been & still
are pending in the Law ; and whereas your Proprietry recommended,
to your Petitioners, & the Proprietors of said Sandwich, to accomo-
date said Dispute by settling their Lines by Agreement ; giving
Encouragement to them that you wou'd confirm their Agreement &
compensate the Proprietors of said Moultonborough, with, other
Lands in Lieu of those they should release to said Sandwich, Where-
upon, the Proprietors of s'1 Moultonborh by their Agreement, in
writing, dated the 13th of January A D 1769, Releas'd to the Pro-
prietors of said Sandwich, all the Lands within the Lines in said
Agreement mentiond, provided, your Proprietry woud consent to the
same, whereupon, at your Meeting held the 19th Day of the same
January, it was Voted that an Additional Grant be made to said
Moultonborough according to the form of the Vote then read, but
said Vote was then suspended, being Recorded 'till the Proprietors of
said Sandwich shou'd petition, your Proprietry for a Grant of all
your Right of Land, within the Bounds of said Sandwich which, they
soon after did: But notwithstanding your Petitioners are inform'd,
said Vote is not yet recorded, or said Grant confirmed to them,
Wherefore, your Petitioners humbly pray, that, said Vote may be
recorded, and The Land therein contain'd confirm'd, to them, or that
they may be compensated in other Lands, as shall be thought most
adviseable — And your Petitioners shall ever pray. —

Jona Moulton N

John Moulton

Jonathan Leavitt

Committee for
the Propr

Thos Rand ( of Moulton-

Jeremiah To
Amos Coffin

Jeremiah Towle borough

33

53°

CHARTER RECORDS.

[Draft of Letter to Moultonborough Proprietors, 1770.]

[Masonian Papers, Vol. 6, p. 178.]

Gentr

The Proprietors of Masons Right in New Hampshire this day at
their meeting desired me in their behalf to advise you that this meet-
ing would be adjourned to Wednesday ye Eleventh day of July next
ten of ye Clock before noon when they expect you or others will
appear for ye Grantees of Moultonborough so called and render a full
account of all ye Settlements and improvements made within said
grant and by whom and at what time made — and if you do not
appear for that purpose and Shew Sufficient reason why ye Terms of
ye grant are not fulfild they propose without any delay to vote ye
grant forfeit &c — in behalf of s'1 Prop18 — I am yl Humble

June 21th 1770

To Jonathan Moulton John Moulton Jona Leavit Thomas Rand
Jer' Towle araos Coffin &c Grantees of Moultonborough so called

[Plan oi Moultonborough, 177".]

Moultonborough Neck q"* ab1
Moultonborough q<»

Ossapee Mountain within Moultonborough q"-

Red Hill a

Squam Pond within Moultonborough a

Long Pond & Red Hill Pond a

Moultonborough good Land

(including the Neck Rocky Rough
Land)

Acres R. P.

5000 _ —
24033

29033

2550

Moultonborough Core or Addition

contains 23,000 Acres, chiefly Mountai
ous, broken Land & 7 or S Ponds

-)•

6483
29033

5=°33

*M'A™n.a,„„,/mt/i.,.u/i_

MOULTONBOROUGH.

531

[Proprietors and Settlers of Moultonborough, 1770.]

[Masonian Papers, Vol. 6, p. 179.]

A List of the Proprietors of a Tract of Land calld Moultonborough,
together with an Account of the Settlements made for their respective
Rights either by them or those who own them with the Names of the
settlers affix'd against each settled Proprs Right, Viz1 —

Original Prop™ Names

Persons Names who

claim the Rights

by Purchase

Settlers Names

Jona Moulton Esq
Ephraim Marston
Jeremh Marston
Benja Page .
Benja Batchelder
Jn° Lampory
Jeremh Towle
Philip Towle
Stephen Page
Simon Dow Jr
Christ1 Toppan Esqr
Jona Leavitt
Nathan Moulton Jr
John Tuck .
Thomas Rand
Thomas Brown
Jn° Moulton Jr
Jn° Moulton 3rd
Anthy Emery Esq
Joshua Lane Jr
Amos CofFen
James Philbrick
Edwd Shaw Jr
Joseph Johnson
Joshua James
Joshua Towle
Joseph Palmer
Jona Shaw Junr

Jona Moulton Esqr
do
d°

d°
d°

Jona Moulton Esqr
Moses Little

Jona Moulton Er
d°

Jona Moulton Esqr
d°

Jona Moulton Esqr
d°

Jona Moulton Esqr
d°

Jona Moulton Esqr
Walter Bryent Esqr

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William Vittum )

Sanbon Chandler

Ezeki Moulton

John Ennis

Jn° Saunderson

Sam1 Richardson

has made large Improvements

2 settlers put on by Sandwh Propr8

Israel Glines

Stephen Webster

2 settlers put on by Sandwch Propsr

Richard Alley

Jos Richardson

David Philbrick

David Thompson

John Adams

1 settler by Sandwch Prop™

Samuel Low
preparing for Settlem'
Benja Kimball
Alex1" Megoon
Peter Garland
Isaac Cumings
Stephen Sanborn
Enoch Blake
Amos Sanborn

532

CHARTER RECORDS.

Original Prop" Names

Persons Names who

claim the Rights

by Purchase

Settlers Names

Will™ Simpson
Joseph Sanborn
Nat. Towle ,
Josiah Dearborn
Ebenezer Lane
Samuel Brown
Jona Elkins .
Wm Lane .
Jn° Taylor .
Sam1 Towle
Brady Richardson
Nath1 Ambrose
Jos. Moulton 3rd
Jona Moulton 3rd
Benja Sanborn
Benns Moulton
Geo. Place .
Willm Vittum J
Sam1 Robinson
Philip Hooker
Elisha Towle
Worths Moulton
John Garland
Joseph Garland
Will Vittum
Richd Nason Esq
Benja Mason
Shubel Derborn
Thomas White
John Neal .
Rd Cutt Shannon
Ebenezer Blake
Simon Nudd
Jona Garland

Jona Moulton Esqr

Jona Moulton Esq1"
do
do
do

Jona Moulton Esqr
Moses Little

Jona Moulton Esqr

Jona Moulton Esqr

do

do
Geo Meservv

Jona Moulton Esq

do
Dam Farnham Esq1"
Jona Moulton Esqr

d°
Jona Moulton Esqr

d°

Ropkins

Benja Hilyard

1 settler by Sandwch Propr

Dan1 Gilman

Willm Atkins

Ezek1 Clemens

Stephen Mason

Nat Burdeen

James Mason

settled himself
settled himself
Ebr Chamberlain
John Boynton

Elisha Cumings

Jonathan Choat
Will™ Boynton
David Bean

Stephen Bennet

1 settler by Sandwich Propr

Elisha Cumings Jr

3 settlers by Sandwh Prop™

settled himself
Moody Bean

[Unsettled Shares in Moultonborough, 1770.]

[Masonian Papers, Vol. 6, p. 180.]

A List of Rights of Land in Moultonborough not settled except
those Sandwich Proprietors have put settlers upon Viz*
John Moulton Esqr preparing for Settlement —

MOULTONBOROUGH.

533

WorthingtoD Moulton claim'd by Geo. Meservy —

Benjamin Mason claim'd by Dan1 Farnham Esqr

Simon Nudd, claim'd by Ropkins —

Stephen Page

Joseph Palmer

Thos Rand One settler put on by Sandwich Proprietors,

Jonathan Shaw —

Joseph Sanborn One settler put on by Sandwich Proprs —

Jeremiah Towle —

Philip Towle —

Christor Toppan Esq- claim'd by Moses Little —

Jn° Garland —

John Taylor claim'd by Moses Little

Ephraim Marston claim'd by Jona Moulton Esq1" Two settlers put
on by Sandwich Proprietors —

Richard Nason Esqr claim'd by Jona Moulton Esqr Two settlers put
on by Sandwich Proprs —

Samuel Towle —

Joshua Towle claim'd by Walter Bryent Esqr

ye whole 18, —

[Settlers in Moidtonborongh, 1770.]

[Masoniau Papers, Vol. 6, p. 181.]

A List of Settlers on a Tract of Land call'd Moultonborough July
7". 1770.

Jona Moulton large
W" Vittum
John Ennis
Israel Glines
Richard Alley
John Adams
Benja Kimbal
Stephen Sanborn
Benja Hilyard
Ezek1 Clemens
Joseph Senter
John Boynton
Ebenezer Blake
Moody Bean

Improvements. —
Sanborn Chandler
John Sanderson
David Bean
Joseph Richardson
Stephen Bennet
Elexander Megoon
Amos Sanborn
Daniel Gilman
Stephen Mason
Ebenez1 Chamberlin
Bradbury Richardson
Enoch Blake
W" Vittum Junr

Ezekiel Moulton
Samuel Richardson
Stephen Webster
David Thompson
Samuel Low
Jonathan Choat
John Garland
William Atkins
James Mason
Elisha Cumings
Nath1 Ambrose
Peter Garland
Nath1 Burdeen

Will™ Boynton in the Place improving, not yet in Family Estate,
but will be very soon. —

534 CHARTER RECORDS.

Isaac Cumings in the Place improving, not yet in Family Estate but
will be very soon

Elisha Cumings Junr in the Place improving not yet in Family
Estate but will be very Soon

David Philbrick improving & will move thereon in a few Days.

44. The whole

N B. several other settlers put on said Moultonborough by Sand-
wich Proprietors — & severl Person began their Improvements in
Moulton Borough & will soon move thereon.

[Deposition of Jeremiah Toivle, 1771.]

[Masonian Papers, Vol. 6, p. 182.]

I Jeremiah Towle of Hampton in the Province of New Hampshire,
testify that on or about the thirteenth Day of January 1769, I at-
tended a Meeting of the Proprietors of Lands holding under John
Tufton Mason Esqr at the House of James Stoodley Esqr Inholder in
Portsmouth in said Province, a Committee representing the Town-
ship of Moultonborough and a Committee representing the Township
of Sandwiche, were present, respecting some Disputes about the
Dividing Line of said Townships, Coll1 Atkinson one of said Proprie-
tors and Moderator of said Meeting, desired said Committees to go by
themselves, and see if they could agree on said Dividing Line, & told
them said Meeting should be adjourned to receive their Report, The
said Committees a few Days after at the Meeting again of said Pro-
prietors reported to them that they had agreed for said Sandwich to
hold as far as the Line they claimed to on Condition of Mason's Pro-
prietors consenting to the same & giving Moultonborough other Lands
in Lieu of what they gave up to Sandwich, which the said Proprietors
consented to, and got one Mr Royse to calculate from a Plan they gave
him how much said Sandwich as they claimed would take from said
Moultonborough according to the Upper Curve Line run by Robert
Fletcher last, said Royce after he had calculated told them that said
Sandwich as they claimed would take from Moultonborough about
thirty three thousand Acres, they then imployed said Royce to calcu-
late by some Plans they gave him to see how far a Line must extend,
from the East Line of Sandwiche Claim on said Curve Line as that a
straight Line drawn to the Northwest Corner of the Township of
Tuftonborough and from thence to the Southeast Corner of the Town-
ship of Sandwich would contain about thirty three thousand Acres,
which the said Royse did and upon his Calculation thereof & render-
ing a Plan of the same the said Proprietors on the eighteenth Day of

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The Addition to the township of Moul ton borough Hounded South 55" West from Winnipissiocke pond on New Salem and Sandboui ntown to Pemijawsetts river then on said
River to New Holderness thence on the line of sd Holderness to the township of Moultonborough.

The said Addition to the Township of Moultonborrough Divided into five Ranges Each Range 250 Rods Wide, are numbered as in this Plan all the Square Lots are 160 Rods
Wide. Number 8 in the first Range & those Triangular lots on New Holderness & Pemigewassett River are Laid out according to this Plan, which is Drawn one Mile to an Inch
Novf 6"i 1765 Each of the said Lotts Contain 250 acres

Laid out the township of Moultonborougti and bounded said township as follows, viz, Beginning at the Northeasterly Corner of a Tract of Land granted by the proprietors of
Masons Patentts to Samuel Palmer Esq' & others on the Northerly Shore of Winnepissiocke pond thence running Northwesterly by said tract ©f Land of said Palmer & others to the
Curve Or head line of Masons Patent (so called) thence Northeasterly as the said Curve Line runs so far as that a Line Drawn from the Northwest corner of Tuftinborough North
Sixty five Degrees West Shall Strike the aforesaid Curve Line —

The first and Second Division of Lotts in said township are Laid out agreable to this Plan 100 acres to Each Respective Lott a half Mile in Length and 100 Rods wide Except
those Lotts bounded By or altered by Water —

the township of Sandwich granted by his Excellency the Governour interfears with the Land blonging to the proprietor of John Tuftin Mason Esq's Right in the following
Manner (viz) they Begin the South side Line 1 Mile South from the Northeast Corner of New Holderness & Run on an East point 5 Miles Distance winch Crosses the Curve
Line then on the Same Course 3 Miles into mason Patent (so called) as $ the Plan the Curve lines's Running to the Northward of East and Sandwich Line East is the Occation
of there interfearing

MOULTONBOROUGH. 535

the aforesaid January while I was present unanimously voted a Grant
of Land to the said Moulton his Heirs and Assigns to run seven Miles
& three Quarters of a Mile from the East Line of said Sandwich
Claim on the said Curve Line and from the End of said seven Miles
& three Quarters of a Mile to run as before described & William Par-
ker Esqr then present enter'd said Vote in Writing by said Proprie-
tors Desire

Jeremiah Towle

Prove of New } Portsm0 January lltu 1771

Hampshire \ Then Jeremiah Towle above named appeared and
after due Caution made solemn Oath to the Truth of the foregoing
Deposition by him signed, Taken at the Request of Jonathan Moul-

ton Esqr. — In Perpetuam Rei Memoriam

Before Peter Gilman ) Justices of the

> Peace Quorum
Meshech Weare ) Unus

Received & Recorded 16th Jan>' 1771— D. Peirce Redr

Prove of New ( A true Copy from Book 101 — Page 73 Examin'd
Hampshire \ 29th April 1771

D Peirce Redr

[Plan of Addition to Moultonborough, 1771.]

The Land contain'd within the Red Lines is what was voted to
Coll1 Moulton by Mason's Proprietors the 19th Jan> 1769 in Con-
sideration for what Sandwich takes from Moultonborough being
33031£ Acres as calculated at the Desire of said Proprietors

Vere Royse

536

CHARTER RECORDS.

I the Subscriber hereby certify that the above Plan is just & true
agreeable to a Plan given me to calculate and draw from and that it
was drawn by me Jany 19th 1769, at the Request of the Honble Theo-
dore Atkinson Esqr & others Proprietors of Mason's Patent so called,
The Land included within the red Lines contains thirty three thous-
and thirty one and a half Acres as calculated by me, at said Propri-
etors desire & is the same sd Proprietors when I was present with
them voted to Jonathan Moulton Esqr his Heirs &c at their Meeting
held at the House of James Stoodley Esqr Innholder in Portsmouth
on the Day above mentioned in Liew of that Land the Township of
Sandwich claimed from the Township of Moultonborough, which
said Tract of Land I laid down on the above Plan agreeable to their
particular Directions to me, which were as follows, Viz' to begin at
the Upper Curve Line run by Robert Fletcher last, where it inter-
sected the Easterly Line of Sandwich Claim, and to run Easterly on
said Line eight Miles then to turn & run down to the North Corner
Bound of the Township of Tuftonborough then to run on a direct
Course toward the Southeast Corner Bound of Sandwich until it
meets with the Easterly Line of Sandwich Claim and from thence to

MOULTONBOROUGH. 537

the Place first began at, so as to contain about thirty three thousand
and thirty one and half Acres —

Vere Royse —

Prove of New J Portsm0 Jan>" 11'" 1771 Then Vere Royse within

Hampshire i named appeared and after due Caution made solemn

Oath to the Truth of the within Deposition, by him signed, Taken

at the Request of Jonathan Moulton Esq', In Perpetuani Rei Memo-

riam

Before Peter Oilman ( Justices of the

Meshech Weare ) Peace Quorum Unus

Received and Recorded l(3th January 1771

D. Peirce Recdr

Province of } A true Copy from Book 101 Page 79 Examin'd
New Hampshire \ 30th April 1771—

D Peirce Redr

[Deposition of Thomas Hand, 1771.]

[Masonian Papers, Vol. 6, p. 183.]

I Thomas Rand of Hampton in the Prove of New Hampshire
testify that on or about the 13th Day of January 1709, I attended a
Meeting of the Proprietors of Lands holding under John Tufton
Mason Esqr which was held at the House of James Stoodly Esq1' in
Portsmouth, at which Meeting were present two Committees, one
representing the Proprietors of the Township of Sandwich, the other
representing the Township of Moultonborough, which appeared at
said Meeting on Account of a Dispute between the Proprietors of
said Townships with Respect to their Dividing Line, It was there
moved by s'1 Mason's Proprietors for the said Committees to endeav-
our to agree among themselves on some Method that would accom-
modate the Dispute, & the HonWe Theodore Atkinson Esqr the Mod-
erator of said Meeting proposed for said Committees to retire by
themselves for that Purpose, and told them they would adjourn their
Meeting to a further Time in Order to receive their Report, accord-
ingly said Masons Proprietors adjourned their Meeting, I the Depo-
nent further say that I was present at their Meeting by said Adjourn-
ment which was a few Days after their aforesaid Meeting, and the
aforesaid Committees appeared, and reported to said Mason's Pro-
prietors that they had agreed for Sandwich to hold to the Line they
claimed to, provided said Mason's Proprietors would consent to it,
and would grant to the Proprietors of said Moultonborough other

538 CHARTER RECORDS.

Lands equivolent in Lieu of that said Sandwich would take from
said Moultonborough which said Mason's Proprietors consented to &
proposed to let Coll1 Moulton have Land equivolent out of Land
they claimed which joined to the Easterly Side of said Sandwich, and
said Mason's Proprietors employed Mr Vere Royse to calculate how
much Land said Sandwich as they claimed would take from said
Moultonborough according to the Plan of the Upper Curve Line that
Mr Robert Fletcher had last run and returned, & a Plan that was
drawn and returned by Walter Bryent Esq1' of the aforesaid Town-
ships and other townships and Lands thereto adjoining and the said
Royse took said Plans and received Instructions from said Mason's
Proprietors & accordingly calculated it, & reported to said Proprie-
tors that by calculating agreeable to their Directions said Sandwich
Claim would take from said Moultonborough the Quantity of about
thirty three thousand Acres, they then desired Mr Rovse to draw a
Plan, which he did and it was accepted by said Mason's Proprie-
tors—

Thos Rand—

Prove of New ) Portsmouth January llUl 1771 —
Hampshire ( Then Thomas Rand within named appeared and
after due Caution made solemn Oath to the Truth of the within
Deposition by him signed — Taken at the Request of Jonathan Moul-
ton Esqr

In Perpetuam Rei Memoriam —

Before Peter Gilman ) Justices of ye Peace
Meshech Weare ) Quorum Unus

Received & Recorded 16th Jany 1771 —

D. Peirce Recdr

Province of New Hampshire, A true Copy from Book N° 101 Page
75—

Examin'd 29th April 1771.— D Peirce Redr

[Depositiovi of Jeremiah Bryent, 1771.]

[Masonian Papers, Vol. 6, p. 184.]

I Jeremiah Bryent of Newmarket testify that on or about the first
Day of Novr A. D. 1770 was imployed by Jonathan Moulton Esqr to
run out a Tract of Land claimed by Purchasers of Mason's Patent so
called which Tract of Land I understood was voted to said Moulton
by said Mason's Proprietors, and saw the Copy thereof attested by
George Jaffrey Esqr, Said Proprietors Clerk, which Vote I was to be

MOULTONBOROUGH. 539

governed by in running out said Tract of Land, accordingly I with
sundry Hands procured by s1 Moulton to carry the Chain and spot
&c, Proceeded to run out said Tract of Land, and were governed by
a Plan drawn by Vere Royce, which Plan represents the abovesaid
Tract of Land that was voted to said Moulton —

We began at the East Line of Sandish Claim at the lower Curve
Line where said Linos intersect, thence run Westerly six Miles,
thence North about eighteen Degrees East, which Course I intended
should hit the upper Curve Line so called eight Miles from Sandish
Line, as was in said Vote to said Moulton mentioned argreeable to
said Rovces Plan, returned back on said Line and run Southwesterly
for the Corner of Tuftonborongh but did not find said Corner by the
Plan of said Royce, And my Knowledge of the Land &c were not far
from Corner of Tuftonborongh s'1 Lines were well spotted —

Jeremiah Bryent —

Prove of New Hamp1" Portsmouth January 11th 1771
Then Jeremiah Bryent above named appeared and after due
Caution made solemn Oath to the Truth of the above Deposition by
him signed. Taken at the Request of Jonathan Moulton Esqr —
In Perpetuam Rei Memoriam

Before Peter Oilman I Justices of the Peace
Meshech Weare \ Quorum Unus

Received and Recorded 10"' Jany 1771 — D. Peirce Recdr

Prove of New Hampr A true Copy from Book 101 Page 72 —
Examin'd this 29th April 1771— * D Peirce Redr

[Deposition of Vere Royse, 1771.]

[Masonian Papers, Vol. 6, p. 185.]

I Vere Royse of Portsmouth testify that on or about the eighteenth
Day of January one thousand seven hundred & sixty nine I attended
a Meeting of the Proprietors holding under John Tufton Mason Esqr
at the House of James Stoodley Esq1 in Portsmouth aforesaid at the
Desire of HonWe Theodore Atkinson Esq1 Moderator ^v. others of said
Proprietors I examined that Curve Line and said Proprietors Claim,
that one Robert Fletcher had last run, & some Townships adjoining
or nearly lying thereto (being within their said Claim) from a Plan
that one Walter Bryent Esq1 had drawn. & then to calculate what
number of Acres there were below said Curve, which the Township
of Sandwich would take of from the Township of Moultonborough

54°

CHARTER RECORDS.

according to what said Sandwich then claimed & found the Contents
to be thirty three thousand & thirty one and an half Acres, having gov-
erned my Calculations to Lines pointed out to me by Coll0 Atkinson
and approved of by said Proprietors then present then by the Desire
of the said Proprietors I calculated the extent on said Upper Curve,
from the East Side of Sandwich Claim, being about seven Miles and
three Quarters of a Mile upon said Curve and then a Direct Line
runs from thence to the North westerly Corner Bounds of Tufton-
borough (which Corner said Bryent's Plan represents) and from
thence on a direct Course toward the Southeast Corner of Sandwich
until it meets with the Easterly Line of Sandwich Claim, & from
thence by the Easterly Line of Sandwich Claim until it meets said
upper Curve shall enclose thirty three thousand & thirty one and an
half Acres, which by sa Proprietors was voted to said Moulton and
afterwards on the nineteenth being present at their Meeting the said
Proprietors voted to the said Moulton & his Heirs &c, eight miles
upon said Upper Curve instead of the said seven & three Quarter
Miles & agreeable thereto I drew a Plan

Vere Royse —

Province of New Hampshire Portsm0 Jany 11th 1771
Then Vere Royse above named appeared & after due Caution
made Solemn Oath to the Truth of the above Deposition by him
signed, Taken at the Request of Jonathan Moulton Esqr In Perpet-
nam Rei Memoriam

Before Peter Gilman ) Justices of ye Peace
Meshech Weare ) Quorun Unus

Received & Recorded 16th Jan? 1771— D. Peirce Recdr

Prove of New Hampr A true Copy from Book 101 Page 78, Examin'd
29th April 1771— D Peirce Redr

[Deposition of Walter Bryent, 1771.]

[Masonian Papers, Vol. 6, p. 186.]

The Deposition of Walter Bryent of full Age testifies & says that
on or about the nineteenth of January A. D. 1769, The Deponent
was at a Meeting of the Proprietors of the Lands purchased of John
Tufton Mason Esqr in New Hampshire, and heard said Proprietors &
Coll1 Jonathan Moulton Esqr converse about granting him Land in
Lieu of what Lands the Town of Sandwich took off from Moulton-
borough and Mr Vere Royse being present with Plans calculated the
Quantity that Sandwich took off as aforesd and declared it to be about

MOULTONBOROUGH. 54I

thirty three thousand Acres, which Quantity they ingaged to said Coll'
Moulton, & voted it should lay joining on the East Side of Sandwich
and to extend Easterly eight Miles on the Upper Curve Line, then
on a straight to the North Corner of Tuftonborough (so called) which
Tuftonborough was laid out before the abovesaid Meeting, adjoining
on the Northwest Side of Wolfborough, and from the afores'1 North
Corner of Tuftonborough to said Sandwich then by said Sandwich,
to stl Curve Line, which Bounds are agreeable to a Plan which said
Royse laid before said Proprietors at said Meeting —

Walter Bryent

Prove of New Harapr Portsm0 Jany 11th 1771, Then Walter Bryent
above named appear* d & after due Caution made solemn Oath to the
Truth of the above Deposition by him signed, Taken at the Request
of Jonathan Moulton Esq1"

In Perpetuam Rei Memoriam —

Before Peter Gilman ) Justices of the Peace
Meshech Weare ) Quorum Unus

Received & Recorded 16th January 1771 — D Peirce Recdr

Prove of New ) A true Copy from Book 101 Page 77 Examin'd
Hampshire i 29th April 1771—

D Peirce Recdr

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CHARTER RECORDS.

N B We have Seen and View'd eveiy Settlemen througout Moul-
tonborough & it's Additions excepting Elisha Cnramings John Boyn-
ton David Senter Ebenezer Chamberlin & Andrew Cummings's a.
disci iption of which places we rectl from Lieutenant Senter — The
main Country Road in General we find to be good and a Tollerable
good Road to Every Setler's House

John Flagg
Henry Rust

Rockingham ss October 3rd 1771 then the above named John Flagg
& Henry Rust Personally Appearing made Solemn Oath that the
above List is just & true according to the best of their Judgment

before me William Parker Just Pacis

[Nathan Lee to Proprietors, 1777.]
[Masonian Papers, Vol. 6, p. 188.]

To Daniel Rogers Esqr and the Rest of the Proprietors

this is to Let your honer know that my Brother Neamah Lee hath
Resined up the Lot No 4 which I ingaged By your word for him to
John Rogers talor

Moultonburrough Nathan Lee

October y« 13: 1777

[Petition of Inhabitants , 1778.]
[Masonian Papers, Vol. 6, p. 189.]

To the Honble Proprietors of Land holden under John Tufton
Mason Esqr. —

The Petition of the Subscribers Inhabitants of Moultonborough,
Sandwich & other places adjoining Humbly shews that your Peti-
tioners, being destitute of any Means of Transportation from this
Quarter except over Winnepisseoke Pond, which at many Seasons of
the Year is very difficult & dangerous — That a proper Waggon Road
is much wanted from Moultonborough, round the Southerly Side
Osspe Mountain in Tuftonborough & through part of your Land to
meet Conway Road, such a Road your Petitioners humbly con-
ceive, woud be of great Utility to the Publick, & woud effectually
accommodate the Settlers on your Honrs Land, as well as those that
may at any Time settle on said Tuftonborough Wherefore your
Petitioners humbly pray that you woud lay out & make a proper
Waggon Road, to begin at Tuftonbor0 Line, nigh where the New

MOULTONBOROUGH.

545

Mills have lately been built & continue the said Road in the most
suitable Land untill it comes to Conway Road — & your Petitioners
as in Dutv bound shall ever prav
February 3r(1 1778

Bradbury Richardson
Ephraim Hacket
Charles Hacet
Aaron Beede
Daniel Lee
Jas riser
geord Page
Josiah Poland
Elias Smith
Isarel glines
Mical Rise
James Jackson
John Goldmith
Obadiah Brown
Jonathan Moulton
sander magoon
John Sanderson
Ebenezer Lee
John Page
Joseph Chndler
Moses Senter
Benja Kimball
Benja Adkines

Nathaniel Ambros
Stephen Webster
Will"' Esman
John Hubbard
Adam Brown
Nathan wales
richard Clammons
David Been
Jonas Carter
John rise

Joseph Richardson
Amos Whipple
William Atkins
Stephen Adams
Peter Garland
Jonathan Magoon
Daniel Brown
Phineas Graves
Victorious Smith
John Dudley
Ebenezer Mella
Elias lad
John Priskit

Nath1 Shannon
Obdiah dudy
thomas Dan ford
Bill Leech
John walles
benjaman Manser
Nathan Hoit
Benj" Been
Jona Penniman
Joseph garland
William Leavitt
William Whipple
Bjaman Brown
Nehemiah Lee
Ephraim Chamberlain
Ruben Roe
Enoch Sanderson
Ebenr Blake
Jacob Brown
James Brown
Cornelius Cook
Benja Scribbner
David hinton

[Petition of Inhabitants, 1781.]

[Masonian Papers, Vol. 6, p. 190.]

To the Honble William Whipple and Woodbury Langdon Esq" —
The Petition of the Subscribers Inhabitants of Moultonborough &
Places adjacent Humbly shew that a good Waggon Road is much
wanted from said Moultonborough, through Tuftonborough to the
Line of Ossipe Gore, to meet a Road leading from Conway Road so
called where Josiah Polin now lives, to said Line of Tuftonborou^li
upon which Road a considerable Bridge will be necessary to be made
over Melvins River, which Road so bridged & made your Petitioners
humbly conceive woud be of publick Utility. & render the travelling
& transport from the Towns above much more convenient than any
34

546

CHARTER RECORDS.

other Road now open — Wherefore your Petitioners pray your Hon"
Consideration of the Matter, & that you woud open & make such a
Road through such part of said Tuftonborough as will best answer
the Purposes aforesaid and your Petitioners shall ever pray —
February 6th 1781—

Moses weed
John Rogers
William Whipple
George Freese
John Jewell
Day Ballard
John Toppan
Thomas mudget
John fouler
Daniel ames
Timothy Medar
Sam. Peirsou
Enoch Sanderson
Elias Smith
Ephraim Drake
Samuel Lear
James Samborn
Phineas Graves
John Wadligh
John Goldsmith
Samuel Sias
Nathanal Brown
Richard Glover
John Young

John Adams
Thomas Rogers
Amos Whipple
Mark Jewell
John Brown
William Eastman Jr
Willmon Bittum
Obadiah Dudy
Olover fouler
John sandrson
Robert Sandbourne
John Hutchins
Joseph Richardson
Abraham Chandler
Ebenr Blake
Edward Hay ford
David Beain
Joseph Garland
Richard Bachum
John Goldsmith jur
Eliphalat Sias
Samuel Tibbets
Josiah Poland
Benjamin Sceggel
Isaac Davis

Rufus Adams
John adams Juner
Bile Leach
Richard Clement
Bradbury Jewell
James Clark
Winthrop Smith
Elisha mudget
Aaain Hacket
Jashay Nickson
Jacob Weed
John Wallace
John Glines
William Atkins
Nathan Hoit
Enoch Blake
Edward Modey
Benja Bean
Obadiah Brown
Moors Brown
Benjamin Goldsmith
Jacob Brown
Isaac Goldsmith
Zachur goldsmith

MOULTONBOROUGH.

547

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[Committee of Moultonborough Proprietors, 1806.]

[Masonian Papers, Vol. 6, p. 191.]

State of New Hampshire ) At a meeting of the Proprietors of
Strafford ss j Moultonbor0 held at Moultonbor0 24th

March 1806.—

Whereas a meeting of the Proprietors of Moultonbor0 is warned &
holden at Moultonborough this 24th of March ; & an article in the
Warrant is, to confer with a Committe, which is, or may be chosen
by this Propriety, respecting a division of the Common Land in said

548 CHARTER RECORDS.

town. — Therefore voted, that Nath1 Shannon Esqr, Col0 Bradbury
Richardson & Col0 Bradbury Cilley be agents in behalf of this pro-
priety, with full power to confer & agree with the Grantors of said
Mo ul tonbor0, respecting a severance of the land, reference being had,
both to quantity & quality. & to have that part which may then be
mutually agreed, to be assigu'd to the fifteen original Grantors, &
make report of the same, that it may be divided among the proprie-
tors— thereby granting to said Agents full power to Release & Quit-
claim by Deed or otherwise all the right of the Proprietors to their
shares of said undivided Lands as shall be agreed on —

Thomas Shannon Props Clerk
A true Copp}- of record Attes Thos Shannon Pt Clerk

[Deed from Aforesaid Committee, 1807.]

[Masonian Papers, Vol. 6, p. 192.]

Know all Men by these Presents, that we Nathaniel Shannon and
Bradbury Richardson, both of Moultonborough in the county of
Strafford, and State of New Hampshire. Esquires, and Bradbury
Cilley of Nottingham in the county of Rockingham, and State afore-
said, Esquire, Agents, appointed by the Proprietors of Moultonbor-
ough, aforesaid, at their legal meeting held at Moultonborough on
the 24th March 1806, authorizing us to confer and agree with the
Grantors of said Moultonborough respecting the severance of the
common land in said town, for, and in consideration of one hundred
cents to us in hand, before the delivery hereof, well and truly paid
by John Peirce and Nathaniel Appleton Haven, both of Portsmouth
in the county of Rockingham aforesaid. Merchants, agents appointed
by the Proprietors of Mason's Patent, at their legal meeting held on
the 19th day of March 1806, for the purpose of agreeing with the
Proprietors of Moultonborough, respecting a severance of the com-
mon land in said town, so far as respects the shares appertaining to
the original rights of the Fifteen Grantors, the receipt whereof we do
hereby acknowledge, and for the further consideration of their having
released to us, by their instrument of even date with these Presents,
all the Right which the said Fifteen Grantors or their Heirs or As-
signs have in and to all the residue of the common land in said town.
for the use of the other Proprietors thereof except a tract of land
containing, two thousand, two hundred and fifty acres, particularly
described and bounded in said deed of release ; have given, granted,
bargained, released, & forever quitclaimed, and by these Presents in

MOULTONBOROUGH. 549

our said capacity, do hereby give, grant, bargain, release, and forever
quit claim to them, the said John Pierce and Nathaniel Appleton
Haven, for the use and benefit of those legally claiming the original
rights of the Fifteen Grantors, namely, the rights of Theodore Atkin-
son. Thomas Packer, Thomas YVallingford, John Moffatt, Richard
Wibird, Mark Hunking Went worth." John Wentworth, Jotham
Odiorne, Joshua Peirce, Solly and March. Thomlinson and Mason,
Meserve and Co., Peirce and Moore, George Jaffrey and John
Rindge, to them, their Heirs and Assigns forever, as Tenants in com-
mon and not as joint Tenants, a certain tract or parcel of land lying
in Moultonborough aforesaid containing twenty two hundred and
fifty acres, to be allotted and divided into fifteen equal shares, one of
which shares to be for each of the rights aforesaid, bounded as fol-
lows, beginning at the easterly corner of Moultonborough, which is
the Northerly corner of Tuftonborough, and running Southwesterly
on said Tuftonborough, one mile and one hundred and sixty rods,
and carrying that breadth North-westerly on the Easterly line of said
Moultonborough, (which Easterly line is a direct line from the
North corner of Tuftonborough to an Oak Tree, the corner of Sand-
wich, and is the dividing line between Moultonborough and Ossipee)
so far, that a line run parallel to the said Tuftonborough line, from
said Easterly line of Moultonborough shall include two thousand,
two hundred and fifty acres of land ; To have and to hold the afore-
said released premises with all the privileges and appurtenances
thereof, to them the said John Peirce and Nathaniel Appleton
Haven to be holden, set off and divided for the use and benefit of
the legal Representatives of the aforesaid fifteen original Grantors,
their Heirs and Assigns forever : We hereby in our said capacity
covenanting and engaging to warrant the same against the lawful
claim or demand of the Proprietors of Moultonborough — In witness
whereof we have hereunto set our hands and seals this sixth day of
February in the year of our Lord one thousand, eight hundred and
seven.

Signed Sealed and Nathan' Shannon [seal]

Delivered in presence of Bradbury Richardson [seal]

Thomas Leavitt Bradby Cillev [seal]

Wm B Parker.

Rockingham ss Portsmouth Feby 7th 1807

Then the within named Nathaniel Shannon Bradbury Richardson,
& Bradbury Cilley Esquires personally appearing acknowledged this
instrument to be their free act & Deed —

before Thomas Leavitt Just Peace

550 CHARTER RECORDS.

[Report of Masonian Committee, 1807.]
[Masonian Papers, Vol. 6, p. 193.]

The Committee appointed by vote of the Proprietors dated March
19th 1806 authorizing them to settle and agree with the Grantees of
Moultonborough respecting a divission of the Common Land in that
Town — now report —

That having attended to the duties of their appointment, by fre-
quent conferances with a Committee appointed by the Proprietors of
Moultonborough fully authorized for the express purpose, of agreeing
with your Committee, in the proposed division, aud having caused
such survey to be made, and such Plans to be procured, and other
documents furnished, as would enable them to act as they deemed
most beneficial, to the Propriety, have at length effected the object
of their Commission, by receiving from the Committee, appointed by
the Proprietors of Moultonborough a deed of Two Thousand, two
hundred and fifty acres of Land, to be laid out in that Quarter of
the Town, adjoining Tuftonborough and Ossipee, in such form as is
particularly stated in the Deed, to which we refer — they further
report, that in consideration of deed of release from the Committee of
the Propriety of Moultonborough, your Committe have b}r deed,
released and forever quitclaimed to the Proprietors of Moultonbor-
ough all the right and title which the Masonian Proprietors have
to the remainder of the Common Land in said Town and your Com-
mittee further report, that considering the probable differance of
Quality in the Two thousand, two hundred and fifty Acres, now
released to the Propriety, they are of Opinion, and would recommend
that the same be allotted into thirty Lots of seventy five Acres each,
and a plan of the Survey thereof be returned to the Propriety and
severance made of them by drawing and assigning Two Lotts to the
right of each of the fifteen original Proprietors — March 5th 1807.

John Pierce
Nath. A. Haven

[Plan of Part of Moultonborough, 1807.]

A Plan of 2250 Acres of Land in the Town of Moultonborough
and is the Southeasterl}" Corner of said Town Adjoining Ossipee and
Tuftonborough Survey'd according to the Deed which the proprietors
of Moultonborough gave to the Masonian proprietors

Survey'd June 8th 1807 by

Benjamin Cook Survyr

MOULTONBOROUGH.

551

Each Lot contains Seventy five Acres — The width of each Lot on
the range Line is 96 Rods. —

The check Lines are 138.5 Rods by each Lot

Protracted by A Scale of one hundred Rods to an Inch

CORRECTIONS.

On page 63, for Joseph Bunster, read Joseph Britster.

On page 88, for Jonathan Odiorne, read Jotham Odiome.

On page 89, for Edward Sade, read Edward Lade.

On page 395, for Joseph Minot, read Jonas Minot.

On pages 469 and 470, for Jonah Brown read Josiah Brown.

On page 545, for Bill Leech, read Bille Leach.

INDEX.

INDEX OF NAMES OF PLACES.

Addison (Marlow) 465

Albany 3

(Burton) 3, 164, 221-223

Albany, N. Y 3, 215

Alexandria 4, 5, 8-13, 15-17, 19-40 42

43, 133, 161, 162, 170, 333. 334, 343
Alexandria Addition (New London).. 37-

89, 133
Allenstown. .43, 44, 46-49, 51-54, 118, 356

Almsbury, Mass 29

Almsbury River 127

Alstead (Newton) 131, 465

Alton 54, 57, 59, 60, 102

(New Durham Gore) . . 54

Amherst. . ..62, 65-67, 74-76, 417, 418, 428

517

(Narragansett No. 3) 62, 66, 67

(Salem-Narragansett) 62

(Souhegan West) 62-68, 72, 73, 75

400-402

Ammonoosuck River 397

Amoskeag 187, 193, 205, 210, 301, 307

313, 436
Amoskeag Falls. . ..297, 305, 307, 315, 317

318, 444, 445

Andover 77, 80, 81, 87, 88, 90

(Brownstown) 77

(Emervstown) 77, 334

(New Breton) 20, 21, 42, 77, 88, 90

162, 343

Andover, Mass 69-71, 422, 424, 519

Antrim 92, 94, 96, 97, 99-101

Baboosic Brook 105-107

Bangor, Me 182

Barndoor Island 54

Barnstead 54, 101, 102

Barrington 102

Batli, Eng 97

Bedford.. ..103-105, 107, 108, 313, 316. 327

436

(Narragansett No. 5)... 103, 104, 106-

108

(Souhegan East) 103-106, 108, 188

189, 298, 301, 305, 306, 317
Belmont 287

(Upper Gilmanton) 287

Beverly, Mass 68, 72

Black Brook 296

Blackwater River 80

Boscawen.. 109-111, 113, 115-117, 157, 346
(Contoocook)....62, 109-113, 115-117

Boston, Mass 26, 40, 72, 108, 205, 224

225, 228, 229, 232, 290. 351, 372, 438

463

Bow. . ..4:3-45, 50, 53, 74, 118, 119, 121-123

142, 151-153, 155, 157, 189-191, 193

194, 200, 204, 206, 210, 211, 357, 364

371-373

Boxford, Mass. . . 71

Boyle (Gilsum) 294

Bradford 124, 126-139, 162

(New Bradford) 124, 127, 132

(Number 2) 124

Bradford, Mass 124, 126

Brentwood (Brintwood) 248

Bridgewater 4, 333, 349

Brintwood (Brentwood) 248

Bristol 109, 333

Brookfield 140, 141, 493

Brookline, Mass 301

Brownstown (Andover) 77

Buckstreet (pt. Pembroke) 48, 51, 52

118, 121
Burton (Albany) 3, 164, 221-223

Cambridge, Mass 73

Campbell's Gore (Windsor) 133

Canterbury 119, 120, 123, 142-148, 151

152, 157, 205, 211, 478, 479

Cape Breton 77, 79

Cardigan (Orange) 25

Centre Harbor 149, 150, 476

Charlestown School Farm 517

Chatham 157

Chelmsford, Mass 71, 193, 300, 350

Chester 12, 29, 44, 45, 53, 71, 82, 123

188, 193, 205, 295, 327, 333, 341, 342
344, 350, 441, 442

Chichester 102, 119-121

Christian's Brook 315

Cochecho Township (New Durham). . .50

56

Cohas 64, 105, 299, 300

Cohas Brook 438, 444

Concord... 118, 142, 151, 153, 155-157, 162
(Penacook)..74, 143, 151, 190, 193, 360

(Rumford) 143, 145-147, 151, 153

155-157, 194, 204, 358, 360, 366, 368

376

556

INDEX.

Concord, Mass 26, 20, 475

Connecticut River. . . .23, 32, 124, 322, 350

357
Contoocook (Boscawen). ..62, 109-113. 115

-117

Contoocook River 93, 96, 324

Conway 3, 157-162, 164-169, 221, 233

234, 255, 544, 545

(Pigwacket) 157, 255, 307

Coulerain 140

Crotchet Mountain 412

Cumberland (Society Land) 92

Danbury 4, 170, 171, 333

Dantzic (Newbury) 16

Dan vers, Mass 68, 71-73, 436

Dartmouth College 397

Derryfield (Manchester) 205, 436, 445

Dover 215, 493, 504, 505, 509, 516

Dracut, Mass 71, 295, 299, 300, 309

Dublin 171, 175, 177-179, 445, 461

(Monadnock No. 3). .171, 172, 177, 179

446 447 449 550

(North Monadnock)....'. 17 1, 172^ 171

-177, 446, 449

Dublin, Ire 171

Dummer 180-184

Dunbarton 127, 187-189, 193, 200, 201

203, 204, 209, 210, 213, 214, 295, 356
(Gorhamtown). .109, 187, 190-192, 198

199
(Starkstown). . .187, 200, 203, 209-213

300, 313

Dunstable. . . .23, 64, 71, 174, 205, 260, 261

264, 300, 379, 380, 415, 449, 451, 471

473, 518, 519

Dunstable (old grant) 377

Durham 146, 152, 215-219

(Oyster River) 215

Duxbury School Farm 402, 420, 517

Easton

Easttown (Wakefield). . ,

Eaton 164,

Effingham 235-237,

251-
(Leavittstown)

Emerystown (Andover)

Epping

Epsom 44, 45, 47,

Exeter.. 44, 82. 215, 216,

397

162, 252, 255, 256
220-223, 233, 235
241-244, 247, 249,
-253, 255, 257, 258
162, 226, 233, 235
243, 251-256

77,334

477

120, 121, 259, 372
248, 250, 289, 290
477, 479, 483, 491

First Township (Sanbornton) 477

Fishersfield (Newbury). • 27, 32, 136, 137

319
Fitzwilliam. . . .259, 260, 263, 264, 267, 274

278, 280, 284

(Monadnock No. 4) . .259, 260, 264, 267
270, 272-278, 2S0-285, 447, 450

(Stoddardstown) 259

Fort William and Mary 166

Francestown 320, 420

Freedom ... 235

(North Effingham) 235

Gilford 287

Gilmanton. . .55, 56, 102, 162, 287, 289-294

421
Gilsum 294, 295

(Boyle) 294

Gloucester, Mass 68

Goffstown. . 187, 200, 295, 297, 298, 300, 306
309, 313, 314, 316, 317, 356, 436

(Narragansett No. 4) 295

(Shovestown) 295

Gorhamtown (Dunbarton). .109, 187, 190
-192, 198, 199

Goshen 137, 318, 319

Governor's Island 287

Grafton 171

Great Cohas 437, 444

Greenfield 320, 400

(Lyndeborough Addition). . .320, 413

Greenland 54, 56, 119, 120

Greenville 468

Groton, Mass 198

Hackett's Brook 123-

Halestown (Weare) 189, 200, 326

Hampstead 205-

Hampton. . .82, 236, 248, 320-322, 476-478
484, 491, 521, 522, 534, 537

(Winnacunnet) 320

Hampton Falls 82, 200, 320

Harrison, Me 182

Harry Brook 303, 306

Harrytown (Manchester). . . .307, 436, 438
Haverhill, Mass. 70, 117, 167, 193, 205, 307
Haverhill District. .188, 193, 301, 359, 401
Heidleburg (New London) ... .17, 21, 334

Henniker 124, 126, 322-324, 330, 333

(Marlborough Town) . . . .322, 323, 325

(New Marlborough) 322

(Number 6) 200, 322, 330

(Toddstown) 322

Hereford (Newbury) 17, 20, 343

Hill 4, 170, 333, 342, 343, 346, 349

(New Chester). ..17, 20, 21, 25, 29, 162
333, 334, 338, 340-343, 346-349

Hillsborough 133, 137, 139, 198, 327

350-353, 356
(Number 7). ..92, 93, 124, 323, 324, 350

351

Hollis 62, 517

Hooksett 187, 295, 356, 357

(Isle au Hooksett or Isle au
Hooksett Falls) 209, 210, 356, 357

INDEX.

557

Hopkinton 12S, 130, 131, 157, 323, 327

357, 35S, 360-362, 364, 366, 370, 373

374, 376

(New Hopkinton). ..327, 357-362, 864

366-3<i8, 371-377

(Number 5) 62, 200, 324, 357-362

364, 366-368, 370, 371, 373, 374
Hopkinton, Mass. ..357-359, 362, 365, 366

368, 370, 372

Hudson 377-370

(Nottingham West) 193, 377-379

Isle au Hooksett or Isle au Hooksett
Falls (Hooksett) . . . .209, 210, 356, 357

Jaffrey 379, 3S0, 3S3, 384, 386, 389, 391

393, 474

(Middle Monadnock).. .172, 178,260

264, 379, 380, 383, 386, 387, 389, 391

(Middletown) 379, 392

(Monadnock No. 2) 178, 379, 380

3S3, 3S5, 3S6, 3S8, 3S9, 391-393, 396

447, 450

Jamaica, W. 1 218

Kearsarge Gore 340, 341

Kearsarge Mountain 162

Keene 294, 295

Kensington 44, 82

Kingston 82, 193

(Kingstown) 1S8, 307

Kittery, Me 209, 268, 493

Laconia 476

Lamprey River 216

Landaff 397-399

Leavittstown (Effingham). ..162, 226, 233
235, 243, 251-256

Lempster 318

Limerick (Stoddard) 162, 467

Lincoln 397

Lisbon 397

Litchfield. . .72, 75, 188, 193, 300, 441, 442

Little Cohas 437

London, Eng 51, 203

Londonderry 26, 29, 37, 43, 44, 68, 70

71, 193, 205, 299. 301, 313, 316, 327

377, 378, 396, 415, 417, 418, 420, 421

437-442, 444, 492

Long Island 520, 547

Loudon 142, 151

Louisburg, Can 307

Lyme, Conn 468

Lyndeborough 162, 320, 400-402, 407

410-415, 417-425, 427-429, 432-435,517

(Salem-Canada) 400-402, 407, 421

Lyndeborough Addition (Greenfield)

320, 413

Lyndeborough Gore 320

Madison 220

Manchester 103, 295, 436, 442, 443

(Derryfield) 205, 436, 445

(Harrytown) 307, 436, 438

(Old Harrytown) 43»;

(Tyngstown) 436, 437, 474

Manchester, Mass (}8

Marblehead, Mass 68, 70

Marlborough 171, 445, 441'., 449, 450

452, 453, 457, 458

(Monadnock No. 5) 253, 445. 44f.

449-455, 457-45'.'. 463, 4»'>4

(New Marlborough) 445. 458, 464

(Oxford) 445

Marlborough, Mass 322, 445, 456, 460

Marlborough Town (Henniker) 322

323, 325

Marlow 465-468

(Addison) 465

Mason 468, 472, 474. 475

(Number 1) 468, 471-473

Martin's Brook 191, 196

Medford, Mass 68, 305, 310

Melvin's River 545

Meredith 149, 476-478, 482, 483, 485

489, 490, 492

(New Salem) 476, 492

(Palmerstown) 47»i, 485

(Second Township) 476, 477

Meredith Bay 149

Merrimack 69, 70

Merrimack River.. 43, 62, 66, 106, 108, 124
144, 146, 152, 188, 189, 191, 203, 295
297-300, 306, 307, 313, 315, 317, 322
350, 357, 362, 364, 374, 437-442, 444

Merrymeeting Bay 5s

Methuen, Mass 71, 379

Methuen District 401

Middle Monadnock (Jaffrey) 172, 178

260, 264, 379, 3S0, 3S3, 386, 387, 389

391

Middleton 140, 162, 493, 498, 501-504

508-511, 514

(Middletown) 493, 499, 500, 502

504, 506, 507, 509, 511, 513-515

Middleton, Mass 65, 60

Middletown (Jaffrey) 379, 392

Mile Slip 62, 5 1 7-52< 1

Milford 62, 400, 517

Monadnock Mountain 392

Monadnock No. 2 (Jaffrev) 17v. 379

380, 3S3, 385, 3S6, 3S8, 389, 391-393
396, 447. 450

Monadnock No. 3 (Dublin) 171. 172

177. 170, 446, 447, 449, 450

Monadnock No. 4 (Fitzwilliam) 259

260, 263, 2(14, 267, 27". 272-278, 280-
285,447, 45(1

Monadnock No. 5 (Marlborough) 253

445, 44C. 449-455, 457-459, 463, 464

558

INDEX.

Monadnock No. 7 (Stoddard). . . .467, 468

Monson 62, 70, 71

Montetony 197

Mont Vernon 62, 400

Moultonborough. ...162, 221, 500, 520, 521

525, 526, 529-538, 540, 542, 544, 545

547-550

Moultonborough Bay 149

Moultonborough Gore 520

Narragansett No. 3 (Amberst) 62, 66

67

Narragansett No. 4 (Goffstown) 295

Narragansett No. 5 (Bedford). . ..103, 104

106-10S

Nelson 294

New Almsbury (Warner) 124, 162

New Boston 108, 189, 200, 295, 313

402, 403, 410, 412, 413, 418, 420, 428

432-435

New Bradford (Bradford) .... 124, 127, 132

New Breton (Andover) 20, 21, 42, 77

88, 90, 162, 343

Newbury 124, 318

(Dantzic) 16

(Fisbersfield) 27, 32, 136, 137. 319

(Hereford) 17, 20, 343

Newbury, Mass 109, 112, 115, 116, 144

Newcastle 119, 120, 375

New Cbester (Hill) 17, 20, 21, 25, 29

162, 333, 334, 338, 340-343, 346-349
New Durham (Cocbecho Township). ..50

56

New Durbam Gore (Alton) 54

Newfound Pond 5, 9-12, 30

New Hampton 149, 349

New Hopkinton (Hopkinton). . .327, 357-
362, 364, 366-368, 371-377

Newington 101, 230

New Ipswich 63, 469

New London 4, 40

(Alexandria Addition) 37-39, 133

(Heidlebourg) 17, 21, 334

Newmarket 51, 56, 146, 152, 215, 248

538

New Marlborough (Henniker) 322

New Marlborough (Marlborough) ...445

45S, 464

Newport 318

New Salem (Meredith) 476, 492

Newton (Alstead) 131, 465

North Effingham (Freedom) 235

Northfield 142

North Hampton 44, 248, 320

(North Hill Parish) 320

North Monadnock (Dublin) 171, 172

174-177 446 449

Nottingham 44, 45, 119, 120,' 215,' 259

290, 370, 479, 548

Nottingham West (Hudson). . . .193, 377-

379

Number 1 (Mason) 468, 471-473

Number 2 (Wilton) 402

Number 2 (Bradford) 124

Number 5 (Hopkinton) 62, 200, 324

357-362, 364, 366-368, 370, 371, 373

374

Number 6 (Henniker) 200, 322, 330

Number 7 (Hillsborough) 92, 93, 124

323, 324, 350, 351

Old Harry town (Manchester) 436

Orange 4

(Cardigan) 25

Ossipee 162, 164, 165, 549, 550

(Ossipee Gore) 545

Ossipee Lake 233

Ossipee Mountain 221, 544

Ossipee River 162

Oxford (Marlborough) 445

Oyster River (Durham) 215

Packer's Falls 216

Palmerstown (Meredith) 476, 485

Pelham 379

Pembroke 43, US

(Buckstreet) 48, 51, 52, 118, 121

(Suncook) 48, 74, 118, 197, 357

Pemige wasset 78

Pemigewasset River. . .80-82, 86, 221, 334

347
Penacook (Concord). .74, 143, 151, 190, 193

360

Penacook River 119

Perrystown (Sutton) .. 17, 20, 21, 27, 32, 42

162, 343

Peterborough. .162,320, 352, 380, 386, 412

-415, 419, 420, 422-425, 427

Peterborough Slip (Sharon) 380, 386

402

Pigwacket (Conway) 157, 255, 307

Pine River 255, 256

Piscataqua (Portsmouth) 199

Piscataquog 305, 436

Piscataquog River. .105-107, 109, 298, 303

309-313
Portsmouth. . . .4, 26, 28, 29, 39, 44, 48-50
56, 57, 74, 78, 82, 83, 97, 100, 110, 111
121,123, 128, 135, 136, 144, 158, 164
171, 179, 193, 195, 198, 205, 214, 215
217, 219, 224, 232, 238, 248-250, 272
283, 290, 304-307, 317, 325, 327, 330
333, 342, 346, 347, 349, 350, 358, 380
395, 445, 446, 459, 461, 466, 468, 476
479, 483, 494, 506, 509, 522, 524, 534
536, 537, 539, 548

(Piscataqua) 199

Province Pond 242

INDEX.

559

Rindge 259, 476

(South Monadnock) 260, 264

Rochester. .219,493,494, 500, 502, 516, 522

Rowley, Mass 72, 117

Roxbury 54, 445

Rumford (Concord). .. .143, 145-147,151

153, 155-157, 194, 204, 358, 360, 366

368, 376

Rumney 25

Saco, Me 307

Saco River 157, 221

Salem 476

Salem, Mass 68

Salem Canada (Lyndeborough) . 400-402

407, 421

Salem Narragansett (Amherst) 62

Salisbury 162

Salisbury, Mass S2, 116

Sanbornton (First Township) 477

Sandwich. .162, 234, 529, 531-541, 544, 549
Second Township (Meredith). . . .476, 477
Sharon 46$

(Peterborough Slip) 380, 386, 402

Shovestown (Goffstown) 295

Smith's River 17

Society Land. ...92, 320, 415, 422, 425, 435

(Cumberland) 92

Somersworth 493, 516

Soucook River 155

Souhegan 69-72

Souhegan East (Bedford). . . . 103-106, 10S
18S, 189, 298, 301, 305, 306, 317

Souhegan River 64, 400

Souhegan West (Amherst). .62-68, 72, 73

75, 400-402

South Hampton 82

South Monadnock (Rindge) 260, 264

Scmam Neck 150

Stark 180

Starkstown (Dunbarton) .... 187, 200, 203

209-213, 300, 313

Stoddard 139, 294, 465

(Limerick) 162, 467

(Monadnock No. 7) 467, 468

Stoddardstown (Fitzwilliam) 259

Stratham 118, 120-122, 47S, 483, 490

Sudbury, Mass 92, 198, 350

Sullivan 294

Sunapee 318

Sunapee Lake 32

Suncook (Pembroke).. ..48, 74, 118, 197

357

Suncook River 45, 48, 51, 53

Surry 294

Sutton (Perrystown) 17, 20, 21, 27, 32

42. 162, 343
Swanzey 445, 461

Tamworth 3, 220, 221, 223, 233, 235

Temple 400, 414, 415

Toddstown (Henniker) 322

Townsend, Mass 518

Troy 259, 445

Tuftonborough .... 162, 500, 534, 536, 539

-541, 544-546, 549, 550

Tyngstown (Manchester) 436, 437, 474

Unity 318

Upper Gilmanton (Belmont) 287

Wakefield 235, 258

(Easttown) 162, 252, 255, 256

Walpole 295

Warner (New Almsbury) 124, 162

Washington 124, 137, 138, 319

Washington Gore 124

Watertown, Mass 92

Weare 187, 376

(Halestown) 189, 200, 326

Webster 109

Wenham, Mass 68, 75

Wequash Brook 489

Westford, Mass 270, 281

Westmoreland 294, 295

Wilmot 170, 333

Wilton 424, 475

(Number 2) 402

Windham 377

Windsor (Campbell's Gore) 133

Winnacunnet (Hampton) 320

Winnipiseogee Lake. ..55-58, 61, 133, 291
292, 307, 476, 477, 479, 486, 522. 544

Winnipiseogee River 477. 479, 486

Wolfeborough. .54, 162, 165, 234, 255, 500

502, 541

INDEX OF NAMES OF PERSONS.

Abbott, Abiel 42-1, 425

Ebenezer 7!

Edward, Jr 324

Ephraim 71

John, 4th 422-420

Joshua 65, 69

Josiah 69

Nathaniel 361

Reuben 325

Ackerman, Benjamin 63

Benjamin, Jr 63

Ackers, John Ill, l ] 2

Adams, Abraham, Jr Ill, 116

Benjamin 102

David 3S0, 385, 38(5, 394, 409, 472

James. . 18S, 193, 201, 203, 204, 20S, 299

301, 310

John Ill, 116, 531, 533, 542, 546

John, Jr 546

Joseph 101, 179, 281, 285

Mary 71

Moses 180

Nathaniel 217

Robert Ill, 310

Rufus 540

Samuel 152, 153

Stephen 545

William 301, 451, 458, 542

Addison, George 32(5

Aiken, 90, 97

Andrew 299

John 334, 335,339

Nathaniel 326, 331

Alcock, John 03

Joseph 63

Alden, John Ill

Alexander, Elias 405

James 326

Allard, Job 501

Allen, Captain 102

James 112, .175

Robert.440, 448, 450-452, 454, 459, 400

Samuel 43, 85, 229, 230, 259

Silence 107

Alley, Richard 531, 533

Allison, Samuel 9, 12, 14, 41, 446, 448

450, 45:;. 454, 458, 459

Samuel, Jr. ..5. 320. 327. 331, 410, 150

-452, 454

Ambrose, Jonathan 79

Nathaniel. .522,525. 528, 532, 533, 542

545

Ames, I J.iniel 147. 546

Samuel 147

Amherst, Lord JeH'rv 62

Angier, John 281, 285

Annis, see Ennis.

1 )aniel 324, 360, 375

John 358, 375

Applin, Isaac 279, 281, 284

Archibald, David 332

John 320

A rmor, Andrew. 4 10, 448, 450, 452, 454, 458

Ash, Nathaniel 80

Atherton, Joshua 76, 77

Atkins, Benjamin 545

Moses . .' 80

William... 112, 532, 533, 543, 545, 546

Atkinson , 161

Joseph 115

Nathaniel 115

Samuel 21, 346-348

Theodore. .14, 10, 17, 22, 35-37, 42, 47
48, 50, 54, 02, 04, 79, 88, 92, 106-109
111-113, 117, 132, 133, 145, 168, 175
177, 189, 192, 202, 222, 228, 237. 245
259, 268. 2S7, 290, 292, 307, 311, 318
325, 332, 339-342, 347, 353. 355, 350
358, 384, 391, 394, 390, 401, 411, 422
42.".. 426, 429. 430, 437, 438, 443. 444
461, 463, 464, 473, 4*3. 498-500, 516
525, 520, 534, 530, 537, 539, 540, 549

Atwood, John 347

Auchmutv, Robert 287

Austin, Nathaniel 493, 498, 511

Samuel 508

Averill, Ebenezer 70, 75

Thomas 72, 75

Avery, James 397

Jeremiah 24s. 250, 251, 256

Job n 55

Samuel 319

Aver, Richard 2oo. 210, 357

A vers, George, Jr 63

John 63

Thomas, Jr 0:1

William 320, 327,331

William, Jr 327, 330

Babcock, William 154

IJaehuin, Richard 546

Badger, Colonel 162

David 403

Joseph 289, 293

562

INDEX.

Bagley, Jonathan 29-33, 35, 36, 39

Bailey or Bayley, Enoch 132

Henry . .' 80

Isaac 132

Joshua 181, 183, 184

Moses 127, 128

Orlando 80

Samuel Ill, 375

William. 20, 22-24, 29-36, 39, 182, 183

Baird, John 78

Baker. Charles 502, 504, 509, 513

David 227

John 68

Joseph 2-7. 289

Balch, Joshua 434

Mary 434

Baldwin. Captain 198

Colonel 320

David 92,1)3, 350

Henry 350

Ballard. Day 546

Bancroft. Captain 19S

Banrield. 492

Joseph 543

Barher. Daniel 79

Robert 79

Barker, Nathan 70, 15

William 451, 454, 458, 459

Barnard, Timothy 289

Barnes, John 137

Joseph 5,9, 12, 13, 41

Samuel 63

Barnet, Samuel 299

Barr, Samuel 74, 75, 326, 330, 331

Barret, Charles 475

Barron. Moses 103, 107. 108

Bartlett, Christopher 20, 22

Enoch 376

John 24

Nathaniel 25, 2-7

Nathaniel, Jr 478, 479. 4-:!. 490

Barton. Timothy 285

Basford, Joseph' 20, 22, 25, 345

Batchelder. Abraham 144, 145

Benjamin 521, 522, 526, 527, 531

Breed 462

Tarter 237

Ebenezer 68

Henrv 236, 237. 245, 248

James 236, 238, 246

John 321

John. Jr 236, 2

Nathaniel S2, SS, 90, 236, 237. 245

Nathaniel, Jr 238, 245, 321

Samuel 236, 237. 246

Thomas 321

Zachariah 237, 246, 248

Zachary 236

Bates, Benjamin 107

Bathrick, Samuel 82. 88

Batson. Stephen 375. 376

Batten. Richard 435

Beal. William 179

Bean. Benjamin 545, 546

Cornelius 124

David 532, 533, 542. :>45. 546

George 4-'.'. 490

Jeremiah -v7

John 543

Joseph 80

Moody 532, 533, 543

Sincla'ir 79

Beattie, 433

Beck, Jonathan 82. s7

Bedell, Thomas 80

Bedford, Duke of 103

Beede, Aaron 545

Daniel 293

Belcher. Jonathan 105, 107

Bell, Elizabeth 71

John 104

Joseph 326. 327. 332

Bellows, Benjamin 171. 172, 175. 178

ISO, 260-262, 267,269-271, 380,381
384-386, 393-395

Bennett. Arthur 222

Caleb 222

Stephen 532. 533. 543

Thomas 222

William 63

Benson, Joseph 105

Berlin, Edward Hall 222

Hall 54

Bernard. Francis 283

Berry, Francis 55

John 507

Betton, James 101, 37S

Bickford. John . . . .402, 407, 493, 499, 512

Thomas 493, 498, 512

Biselow. Benjamin 275, 278, 280, 284

( harles 451, 454-456, 458

Joseph 454

Bird, Benjamin 112

Jonathan 227

Bishop. Samuel 454, 458. 459

Bixby, Andrew 65, 70, 76

Thomas 72, 361, 362, 369, 374

Blaisdell, Ralph 80

Blake, Dearborn 44, 46

Ebenezer 522. 526, 528, 532, 533

542, 545, 546

Eliphalet 43

Enoch 53 1 , 533. 542, 546

Israel 82, 87

Samuel 44, 46, 82, 8S-90

Samuel, Jr 82,88

Thomas 90

William 251, 4S9

INDEX.

563

Blancbard, Benjamin 545

Eleazer.....l71, 175, 176, 178, 380, 384
386, 393, 469, 470, 472

Jonathan 260-264, 268-271, 277

278, 282, 451-454

Joseph 7, 9-11, II, 21', 35-37, 42

47, 49, 68, 64, 66, 67, 76, 88, 105 L08
168, 174, 17."), 177, 178, L88, 193, 198
199, 201, 203, 205, 207, 208, 268, 264
268, 281, 282, 299, 300, 306, 316,337
339, 354, 356, 383, 385-388, 394, 406
in-, 411, 413, 420, 421. 426, 427, 429-
435, 439, 444, 449, 463, 471, 473, 492
499, 516-519, 525

Joseph, Jr 171, 174, 170-17S, 205

260-262, 299, 300, 311, 3S0, 383-3S0
393, 394,409, 471-473, 518

Madam 400

Sarah 337

Blaney, Joseph 4<>2. 407

Blod«fett, Joseph 469, 472

Joseph Jr 380, 381, 3S5, 386, 3.4

Seth 198, 199

Blood, Elnathan 469, i72

John '. 4">0

Blunt, William 424, 425

Bodwell, John 378, 379

Bohun, Andrew 114

Bond, Isaac 179

Jonathan 454, 450

Borland, 390

Francis 408, 409, 414, 422, 423, 425

427

John 392, 394

Boscawen, Edward 109

Boutelle, Joseph 65, 69

Bowden, Michael 2S7

Bowditch, Joseph 402, 407

Bowers, Jonathan 402, 407

Josiah 402, 107

Bowles, John 406

Bovd, Eli 320

Boyes, 108

Joseph 326

Peter 324

Robert 316

Samuel 326

Thomas 320, 327, 331

Boynton, 280, 285

David 192

Jedediah 280,285

John 489, 532, 533, 543, 544

William 532, 533

Brackett, James 55

John 54, 55

Joshua 222

Nathan 55

Bradford, 355

Andrew 65, 71

Bradford, cont.

Samuel 68, 1 12

William 65, 69

Bradley, Isaac 304, 307, 308

Jeremiah 325

Bradshaw, John 227

Brewer, -lames 454. 456-459

Brewster, Isaac 827, 382

Joseph 63, ."..".2

Samuel 83

Briard, John 63

Brigham, Alpheus 279, 280, 284

Brooks, 267

Samuel 305

Brown, Adam 545

Amos 281

Arthur 83

Benjamin 250, 289, 545

Daniel 545

Edmund 77, 78, S0-S2, 86-S8, 91

Edward 82, 87

Francis 97, 98

Eenry Xoung. . . 157-101, 100, 169, 170

Jacob 521, 545, 546

James 545

John 82, 87, 130, 507, 540

Jonathan 289

Joseph 210, 357

Joshua 236, 237, 245, 248

Joshua, Jr 230, 237, 245, 248

Josiah 175, 283, 380, 381, 384-3*0

393-395, 469, 470, 472, 552

Marmaduke 63

Moores 546

Nathaniel 540

Obediah 545, 546

Robert 256

Samuel 71 , 70, 522, 527, 532

Samuel, Jr 521

Samuel, 3d 52 1

Thomas 521, 522, 525, 527, 531

William 90,413

Bryant or Bryent, Elisha. 55

James 501

Jeremiah 538, 539

Jeremy 222, 223

John • 222

Rohert 55, 489, 491

Walter 46, 48, 49, 51-53, 55, 122

123, 146, 147, 152. 153. 158, 221-223
248, 25n,37i;. 531, 533, 538-541

Walter. Jr 102, 159, 220, 222. 223

Bunker, Zachariah 507

Bunton, Andrew 53

Robert 5:;

Burbank, Caleb 325, 358, 360, 374

Ehenezer 159, 160

John 325. 358, 360, 361, .174

Jonathan 360

;64

INDEX.

Burbank, cont.

Moses 114

Reuben 324

Timothy 325, 360

Burdeen, Nathaniel 532, 533

Burgum, John 79

Burleigh, James 222

John 222

Burnet, William 166

Burnside, David 5, 9, 12, 13, 40

Burrill, Ebenezer 112

Burroughs, Peter 508

Hushed, Ephraim 438

Buss, Joseph, Jr 63

Buswell, Edmund 20, 22

John 20, 22

Butler, Alfred 105, 107

Butterfield, Jeremiah 273

John 281, 2S2, 299, 300, 309, 3S0

3S5, 386, 394, 469, 472

Jonathan 5, 9, 12, 13, 40, 92, 350

Joseph, Jr. 4, 5, 8, 9, 12. 13, 26, 29, 41

Reuben 5, 9, 12, 14, 41

Samuel 412

Buzzell, William 50 1, 503

Cabot, see Cobbet.

Hannah 407

Caldwell, 390

Alexander 63

James 71, 392, 394

James, Jr 392, 394

John 327,331

J i >seph 393

Samuel. 65, 1S7, 193, 201, 203, 204, 208
Thomas 392, 894

Calf e, Jeremiah 288

John 80

Robert 82, 87

Call, Daniel 183, 184

David 181

Moses 115

Philip 115

Campbell, Henry 68, 73

John 203, 205, 207, 208

Carey, John 1ST

Carlton, Oliver 69

Osgood. . . .414, 415, 417, 418, 420, 422
426, 428, 429, 432-434

Carpenter, Ezekiel. . 171, 172, 175, 178, 179
Ezra 171, 172, 175, 178, 179

Carr, Abner 136

Francis 122

Hezekiah 82, 88

James 299, 300, 310

John 193, 202, 205

Mark 334, 335, .".40

Moses 493, 498, 502, 504, 509, 512

William. . . 188, 193, 201, 203, 204, 208

Cartel-, 70

Ezra 824, 360, 362

Jonas 545

Carty, John 78

Cass, Nason 82, 88

Nathan 345

Cate, Ebenezer 55

J ames 55

Cazneau, Andrew 229

Chadbourne, Thomas 164-166

Chad wick, James 375

John 375

Chaiel, Enoch 80

Challis, Philip 80

William 349

Chamberlain, Ebenezer. .. .532, 533, 543

544

Ephraim 545

John. .260-262, 380, 3S1, 384, 386, 394

395
Jonathan, Jr 320

Champernowne, James 256

Chandler, Abraham 546

David 420, 519

Isaac 324, 358, 360, 375

Isaac, Jr . . .325, 360, 374

John Ill, 117, 375

Joseph 860, 545

Nathaniel 358, 360, 375

Sanborn 531, 533, 542

Chapman, Benjamin 222

Job ' 237

John 82, 87, 90

Nathaniel 279, 280, 284

Samuel 222

Chase, Daniel 324

Moses 478, 484, 491

William 478, 4S4, 491

Cheney, Benjamin 65

Nicholas' Ill, 375

Chesley, Captain 307

Jonathan, Jr 55

Joseph, Jr 216, 217

Child, Daniel 227

Phineas 227

Chipman, John 288

Choate, Benjamin 80

Ebenezer 1 10

John 112

Jonathan : 80, 532, 533

Christy, James 63

William 392, 393

Church, David 454

Noah 454

Stephen 451, 454, 456, 459

Cilley, Bradbury 548, 549

Jonathan 90

Joseph 79

Thomas 82, 87, 90

IMH \.

565

Clark, Abraham 478, IT'.', 185, 190

Benjamin 65, 69, 288

Daniel 478, 485, 49]

Enoch 55

George ..188, 193, 202, 205, 206, 313

1 1 1 1 1 1 y .">.">

.lames ."4(i

John 101, 288, 327, 332

Jonathan, Jr 288, 289

Joseph.... 334, 335,338, 178, 183, 190

Joseph, Jr 69

Richard 288

Robert 446, 448, 450, 453, 45 I. 159

Satchel 79

Solomon 508

Thomas 65, 70

Ward 288

William 501, 503, 507

Clemens, Ezekiel 532, 533

Clement, Richard 546

Timothv L24, 373

Clements, James. . .360, 493, 498, 511, 514

515

.lob 511

Job, Jr 493, 498, 512

Job, 3d 49:;, 498

Richard 543, 545

Samuel 493, 499, 512

Timothy 359, 360, 373, 374, 376

William' 128, 135, 3<;o

Clendinin, Andrew 5, 9, 12, 13, 41

David 5,9, 12, 14, 41

Robert 5, 9, 12, 13, 41

Clough, Aaron 289

Aimer 147, 215, 216

Caleb 80

Ephraim 215-218, 220

Jeremiah 14(i, 147

John 217 220

Joseph 402,407

Nathan 44, 40

Thomas I 13, 144, 1 16, 1 IT

William Brown 44, 46, 82, 87

Clyde, 137

Cobbet, see Cabot.

Hannah 402

Coburn, Thomas 193

Cochran, 53

Isaac 44C, 450, 452, 154, 458

James.... 4:), 46, 65, To. 187, 193, 201

205, 207, 326

John... 44. 166, 1ST. L88, 193, 201, 202

205, ! !''>. 150, 153, 154, 159

Joseph... 5. 9, 12, 13, 40, L87, L93, 201

21 15

Peter TO

Robert 326, 330, 332

Samuel 446, 150, 152, 154, t59

Thomas. , , 326, 146, 450, 152, 154, 158

Cod, William 69

Collin, Amos. . .521, 522, 525, 527, 529-531

Daniel 112, L16

Eliphalet 288

John 109, 112, 115

Joseph 109-113

Richard L12, L15

Tristram 493, 498, 512, 514, 515

( 'of 1 an, John 51, 357

Coker, Moses 11-', 1 IT

Theodore 112

Colburn, Captain 300

Ephraim H»7

Jeremiah :334, 3:38, 339

Thomas 192

Colhy, Aimer 135

Abraham 324, 360,374

Ebenezer 128, 130, 132, 135

Lot 360

Orlando 334. 335,33!)

Sampson 358, 360, 374

Stephen 360

Colcord, Edward 288

Jonathan 288

Cole, John 70

Coleman. Aaron 281, 285

Collins. Ephraim 80

Jonathan 137

Joseph 80, 451, 454-457, 459

Combs. John 171, L72, L75, ITS, IT'.'

299, 300, 311

Conant, "-

Connor, Cornelius 288, 289

David 44, 46, 79, 81

Eliphalet f9

Jeremiah 287

Jeremiah, Jr TO, 81

Jonathan 288

Joseph.. 41, 46, 489, 491, 493, 498, 512

Moses ..78

Philip : 281

Samuel 44-46,78, si

Samuel, Jr 46, 79

Simeon 89, 90

Cook, Benjamin 257, 258,551

Cornelius 545

George 181

Join., Jr 493,498,512

Joseph •'I)l

Peter 493,498,512

Coolidge, Perkins 1;->

Corliss, Jonathan 20,22, 24, 25

Morris --

Moses 20, 24, 25

Nathan In

Timothv 299.300, 311

William 25

Cotton, Josiab ..260-262, 264

Roland 259-262, 264

566

INDEX.

Courser, 492

John 118

William 114, 118

Couse, Levi 256

Cowan, James 5, 9, 12, 14, 42

Thomas 5, 9, 12, 13, 41

Craige, Alexander 327, 331

David. . . .5, 9, 12, 13, 41, 187, 193, 202

205, 207

Robert 334, 335, 338

Thomas 334, 335, 339

Cram, Daniel 82, 87

Nathan 320

Crane, Daniel 90

Crawford, Jonathan 344

Robert 344

Thomas 344

Creightou, George 78, 81

John.... : 78

Thomas 79

Cressy, Andrew 435

Daniel 127, 128

Edward 137

Edward W 137

Crimble, Charles 236, 238, 246

Critchett, Elias 501

Crocker, Andrew Savage 181, 183, 184

Crockett, William 489, 491

Cross, Noah 493, 498, 501 , 51 1

Simeon .348

Crossman, James 454, 459

Cummings, 393

Andrew 543, 544

Elisha 532, 533, 543, 544

Elisha, Jr 532, 534

Isaac 531, 534, 543

Jonathan 172, 176, 178, 180, 260

261, 3S0, 381, 385, 386, 394

Jonathan, Jr 260-262

Samuel. . . .260-262, 3S0, 381, 385, 386

394

Timothy 402, 407

William 171,172, 176, 178, 179

260-262, 282, 299, 300, 310

Cunningham, Archibald... 187, 193,201

203, 204, 208

John 72

Currier, Jeremiah 80

John SO

Curtis, Jacob 70

James 71

Cushing, Jonathan 507

Thomas 507

Cutler, John 105, 107

Robert 479, 484

Cutter, Robert 478

Cutting, Zachary 299, 300, 311

Daggett, Samuel, Jr 227

Dale, John 40,3-

Dal ton, Caleb 299, 301, 312, 437

Samuel 25&

Timothy 237

Dam, Joseph 508

Dane, Nathan 436

Danforth, Jonathan 491

Nathaniel 90, 114

Nathaniel, Jr 114

Thomas 489, 490, 545

William 114

Davidson, 281, 390, 391

Benjamin 280, 285

John 326, 394

Robert 299, 300, 309

Thomas 326, 392, 394

William 326, 331

Davis, 225, 390

Barnabas 380, 381, 3S4, 386, 393

Benjamin 71

Daniel 393

David 222

Isaac 130, 131, 546

James 287

John 65, 69

Moses 80

Robert 55

Day, 40

Dean, Thomas 288, 289

Dearborn, Benjamin 321

Ebenezer 334, 335, 339

James 251

Jeremiah 237, 248

Jeremiah, Jr 236, 237, 245

John 248, 250

John. Jr 248, 250

Josiah 236, 238, 245, 521, 522

525, 527, 532

Levi 248, 251, 321

Levi, Jr 248

Reuben 236, 237, 245

Reuben, Jr 236, 238, 245

Shubael 521, 522, 525, 528, 532

Simon 237, 248, 250

Death, Benajah 180

John 365

John, Jr 365

Deland, George 403, 406

Deering, Henry 218, 219

Dennett, Ephraim 287

Ephraim, Jr 287

John 63

Moses 63

Dexter, Ebenezer 453-455, 464

Widow 460

Dickey, Adam 188, 193, 202, 205, 207

Daniel 191

David 196

Robert 191, 196

[NDEX.

567

Dickey, ront.

William 413

Dickinson, Jonathan 849

Dinsmoor, Francis 408

James 97

Dockum, John 491

Jonathan 55

Dodge, Bartholomew 68

Jeremiah 68, 72, 75, 76

Doe, Benjamin 2 Hi

Dole, Daniel 111

Joseph Ill, 115

Stephen ill

DolloiY, John, Jr 147

Richard 2S7

Doran, William 287

Dow, Daniel 236, 238, 246

Henry 169

Jeremiah 521

John 299, 301, 310

Joseph 321, 521

Nathan 82, ST

Samuel 321, 521

Simon 321, 526

Simon, Jr 521, 522, 527, 531

Downing, John 287

Downs, Gershom 494

Richard 507

Drake, Abraham 23(5-238, 245, 248

252 253

Abraham, Jr 236, 238, 246,' 248

Ephraim 546

Jonathan 248

Nathaniel 248, 250, 521

Samuel 521

Weare 236, 238, 243, 246, 248, 256

Draper, Paul 227

William 227

Dresser, Jacob 69

Jeremiah 325

Drew, Aaron 501

Isaac 501, 504, 507

John . .493, 49S, 501, 503, 506-508, 512
Stephen 161

I disco, Cornelius 287

Dudley, Captain 164

George VV 170

Gilman 44, 46, 79

James 288

John 545

Joseph 287

Nicholas 288

True worthy 70, 288

William 109, L91, 308

Dudy, Nicholas 222

Obediah 233, 545, 546

Duncan, 04, 200, 3<K), 13*

George 326, 827, 330

John 100, 101, 320, 327, 332, 437

Duncan, rout.

William 826, 111

Dunlap, Archibald .334,835,838,840, 146
150, 452, 454, 159

Hugh 894

Dunshea, Hugh 187, 198, 201,205

Durant, Abraham, Jr 273

Durgin, Joseph 501

Durham, John 334, 335, 338

Dustin, Samuel 401

Dutch, George 222

Dwinell, Amos 82, 88

Dyer, Anthony 326

Eager, William i:> 1

Eam< s. Samuel 180

Samuel, Jr 170

Eastman, Amos 324

Ben jamin 325

Caleb 70

Ebenezer 79, L51, 360, 374

Enoch 360, 375

Jeremiah 358, 360

John 360

Joseph 114, 358, 360. 362, 374

Joseph, Jr 3(50, 375

Joseph, 3d 358, 360

Nathaniel 358

Philip 324, 358

Richard 159, 160

Samuel 358, 360, 375

Thomas SO, 360, 375

Timothy 115

William 545

William. Jr 546

Eaton, 137

Benjamin 82, 88

Ebenezer 399

Jacob 489, 490

Edgerly, John 78

Samuel 78

Edwards, Hen jamin 208, 2(59, 273

Elkins, Henry 147

Jonathan 522, 525, 527. 5:;2

Samuel 288

William 501

Ellin wood, Ebenezer 64, 65, 69, 75

Ebenezer, Jr 71

Joseph (55, 71

Samuel L37

Elliot, Elias 380, 881, 384, 386, 898

Francis 69

John 80

William... .188, L93, 201, 205, 878,879

Ellis. Edward 498, 198, 511

Ephraim 501

John 82, 88, 90

Richard 1 17

Ely, Nathaniel 90

568

INDEX.

Emerson, Daniel. . . . 171, 172, 176, 17S, 180
380, 381, 384, 386, 393, 39(5

David 345

Joseph 260-262, 3S0, 381, 385, 386

395

Samuel. . . .188, 193, 200, 201, 205, 207

210, 334, 335, 340, 343, 344

Emery, Anthony. . .80-82, 87, 90, 521, 522

525, 527, 531

Caleb 299, 301, 311

Edward Ill

John 79

N., Jr 216, 217

Noah. . . .63, 78, 79, 209, 268, 493, 498

512

Richard 79

Stephen Ill, 375

Thomas 394

William 90

Emmons, Benjamin 344

Engel, Timothy 12

Ennis, see Annis.

D 528

John 531, 533, 543

Epes, Daniel, Jr 402, 407

Erwin, Henry 326

Espy, John 191, 196

Evans, Benjamin 493, 498, 512

David 324

James 203, 205, 208

John 324

Ewer, Nathaniel 222

Ewins, James 326, 327, 332

Fairbanks, Israel, Jr 227

Fairservice, Robert 326, 327, 331

Farley, Samuel 171, 172, 176, 178, ISO

Farmer, Thomas 299, 300, 310

Farnsworth, Silas 279, 280, 284

Farnum or Farnham, Baracies. ..332, 333

Daniel 532, 533

Ephraim 325

Joseph 324

Farrar, John 280

Major 285

Parrington, Jeremiah 71

Stephen 325, 334, 335, 338

Farwell, Eleazer 409, 472

Oliver 3S0, 381, 384, 386, 393

Fassett, John 279, 281, 284

Favor, Cutting 21, 344, 346-348

Timothy 334, 339

Wllloughby Ill, 112

Fellows, Aimer 71

Jeremiah 71

Joseph 89,90

Nathaniel 63

William 288

Felton, Jacob 454

Felton, cont.

John 68, 75, 454, 456

Fernald, Humphrey 63

Ferrin, Jonathan 80

Fife, Silas 454, 458, 459

Fifleld, 137

B. P 349

Benjamin 325

Edward 120, 288

Joseph 478, 483

Fisher, 293

John. . .21, 137, 181, 183, 185, 186, 346

349

Josiah 227

Fisk, Samuel 107

Fitch, Jabez 28S

Fitzgerald, Edward 115

Fitzwilliam, Earl of 259

Fladre, Edward 403

Flagg, Gershom 63

John 63, 542, 544

John, Jr 63

Flanders, 171, 349

Ezekiel 114

Jacob 114

Jesse 115

William 349

Fletcher, Captain 157

Elijah 5, 9, 12, 13, 41

Jacob 5,9, 12, 14, 41

Oliver 402,407

Robert 5, 7, 9, 12, 13, 41, 166, 334

335, 338, 410-413, 415, 417, 418, 421

426-428, 433, 434, 534, 536, 538, 539

Robert, Jr. ..5, 8, 9, 12, 13, 23, 41, 171

172, 175, 17S, 179, 380, 381, 383, 385

386, 394, 408, 469, 472

Samuel 101

Simeon 70

Thomas 402, 407

Flint, Henry 73

Flood, Richard 114

Flser, James 545

Fogg, Abner 236, 237, 245, 248, 251

Abner, Jr 236, 238, 245, 248

Roby 236, 238, 245

Samuel 236-238, 245

Samuel Roby 248

Seth 236, 238, 248, 251

Follansbee, 297

Joshua 296, 299, 300, 310

Thomas.. ..299, 301, 303, 306, 312, 314

317

Thomas, Jr 188, 193, 202, 205

Folsom, Abraham 388, 489, 490

Ben jamin 288

Edward 288

Ephraim 288

Jeremiah 222

[NDEX.

569

Folsom, cont.

Jeremiah, Jr 222

John 222, 288

John, Jr 222

Jonathan 288

Josiah 296

Nathan 222

Nathaniel 216

Nicholas Can- 489, 190

S 181, 183, 185

Ford, Archibald 170

Thomas 47s, 179, 1st

Forrest, John 79, I 17

William 326

William, Jr 147

Forsaith, Matthew 344

Robert 20, 25, 344

Forsev, Ben jamin 215

Thomas 215, 219

Foss, Zacliariah 63

Foster, Asa 147

Daniel 157, 159

David 325 i

Moses 44-4G

Obediah 203, 205, 208

Fowle, John 402, 407

Samuel 2(10-202

Fowler, John 11"', 546

Oliver 546

Samuel 112

Foy, John, Jr 161

Stephen 161

Frazer, Levi 171

Freese, 543

George 546

French, 501

Benjamin S2, 88

John, Jr Ill

Joseph 82, 88, 171, 172, 175, 17S

L79, 380, 381, 385, 386, 394, 395

Samuel 82, 88

Samuel, Jr 80

Frost, Aaron 51 13, 51 >7

Andrew 288

John 288

Joshua 222

Fullam, 229

Francis 280, 284

Fuller, 517

Andrew 68

Chase 345

Nathan 70

Samuel 227

Thomas 79

Fullerton, William 44, 16, 79

Fulton, John 458

Samuel 187, L93, 201, 205, 206

Furber, Benjamin 508

Samuel 508

Furber, cont.
Theodore.

'.08

Gage, John 493, 499-501, 505, 51 1

John, Jr 502, 504, 505, 509, 513

Jonathan 493, 198, 511

Josiah, Jr :;7'.»

Gale, Ben jamin 117

Daniel 78, 478, 47!), 483, 491

John 171

Gambling, Benjamin 288

Garfield, Aaron 275, 279,280,284

Garland, Kbenezer. . . .235, 493, 498, 512-

514
Jobn..290, 522, 525, 528, 532, 533,542

Jonathan 321, 522, 526, 528, 532

Joseph . . . .522, 526, 528, 532, 545, 5 Iti

Peter 531 , 533, 543, 5 15

Samuel 321, 52]

Thomas 235

Gary, Thomas 279, 280, 284

Gatchell, Jeremiah 112

Gates, Silas 454, t:..;

Gault, Alexander 1S7, 193, 201, 203

204, 208

Samuel 53,334, 335, 339

William. . . 1ST, 193, 201, 205, 207, 326

Gay, .1 acob 53

Jonathan 105

George, John 79, 251

Joseph 138

Josiah 250

Thomas 299, 437, 438, 508

Gerrish, Colonel 492

Joseph 110, 111, 375

Joseph, Jr 112, 3,5

.Moses 110, 111

Paul 288

Samuel.... Ill, 3S0, 381, 384, 386, 394

Samuel, Jr 375

Stephen 114, 143-146

William 380, 381,385, 3-d, 394

Gibbs, Isaac 361, 369, 374

Nathaniel 361, 369, 371

Gibson, James.. 79, 147,478, 179. 184, 190

Jdhn 79

William 379

Giddings, Zebulon 2-7

Gifford, Thomas 7s

Gilbert. Samuel 294

(Hies, Joseph .'.»

Mark 493, 498, .".12

Gilman, Andrew _'-,

Benjamin 79

Caleb 288

< lolonel

Daniel 2S7, 5:;2. :.:;::. 543

David 222

Edward 288

57o

INDEX.

Gilman, cont.

Edward, Jr 288

Israel 56, 122

Israel, Jr 222

Jeremiah 79, 222, 28S

Jeremiah, Jr 79

John 222, 288, 293

John, Jr 288

Jonathan 288

Josiah 288, 290

Nathaniel 287

Nathaniel, Jr 2S8

Nehemiah 288

Nicholas 287, 288

Nicholas, Jr 287

Nicholas, 3d 287

Peter 142, 2S8, 290, 535, 537-541

Kobert 288

Samuel 46, 222,287

Samuel, Jr 290

Samuel, 3d 28S

Simon 78

Thomas 287

Trueworthy 288

William 79

Gilmore, 389, 390

John 288, 391, 393, 396, 446, 44S

450, 452, 454, 459

Robert 103, 299, 300, 312

Robert, Jr 104

Roger 388, 391, 393, 396

William . . . .446, 448, 450-452, 454, 458

Gilson, Ebenezer. . .171, 172, 175, 178, 179

Glidden, Andrew 2S8

Joseph 288

Richard, Jr 288

Glines, Israel 531, 533, 542, 545

John 147, 546

Glover, 391

Richard 546

Goddard, Benjamin 361, 362, 374

Benjamin, Jr 361

Ebenezer 361, 362

Edward 361

Moses 456, 457

Godfrey, James 237

John 236-238, 245

Goffe, John 21, 64, 103, 107, 108, 187-

189, 198-200, 295, 296, 298-300, 304-

306, 311, 313, 314, 317, 353, 355, 438-

441, 444, 469,472

John, Jr 299, 300, 310

Thomas 438

Goggin, James 227

Goldsmith, Benjamin 546

Isaac 546

John 545, 546

John, Jr 546

Zachur 546

Goodenow, Daniel 451, 454-457, 459

Jonathan 454, 459

Goodhue, Benjamin 402, 407

Joseph 478, 479, 484

Josiah 478, 484

Samuel, Jr 478, 485

Gooding, Richard 511

Goodwin, Richard 493, 498, 513, 515

Samuel 80

William 137

Gookin, Nathaniel 235-237, 241, 242

244-250

Gordon, Alexander 288

John 334, 335, 338

Nicholas 28S

Phineas 399,400

Savory 399

Thomas 288,289

Gorham, John 187

Gorman, James 79

Gorwood, Charles 63

Gould, Benjamin 192, 193

George 402, 407

Henry 270, 271

Jacob 469, 473

Mark 5, 9, 12, 13, 49

Gouldsbury, John 279, 280, 284

Gove, Joseph 82, 87

Goyer, Bartholomew 180

Graham, William 334, 335, 339

Grant, Daniel 78

William 78

Graves, Israel 89

Moses 402, 407

Phineas 545,546

Gray, James 5

Samuel 74

Greelev, Ezekiel 5, 9, 12, 13, 40

Jonathan 78, 80

Joseph 80

Green, Jonathan 454

Joseph 106, 107, 201. 420, 426

429-431, 499

Robert 63

Greenleaf, Benjamin 115-117

Edmund, 3d 112

Stephen 63

Greenough, Richard Ill, 115

Robert Ill

Greenwood, Caleb 180

Daniel 179

Nathaniel 72

William 180

Gregg, James 9, 12, 13, 41

Samuel 303

Thomas 320, 327, 330

Gridley, 230, 352

Griffin, John 217

Jonathan 5, 9, 12, 13, 41

[NDEX.

571

Griffith, John 63

Griggs, Jacob 105, 107

.lames, Jr 227

Samuel 299, 301, 3 1 2

< rrimes, John 71

Grouard, Edmund 260, 261, 265, 267

272, 27::

Grout, 389, 390

.lames 360

John 388, 3S9, 391, 392, 395

Grover, Marshall 1S2

Grow, Nathaniel 55

Gunnison, Samuel 135, 136

William 503, 507

Guppy, James, Jr 493, 49s. r, 1 1

Joshua 501

Gurnet, Samuel 107

Gustin, Samuel 466, 467

Hackett, 123

Aaron 546

Charles 545

Ephraim 147, 545

Haines, Abner 55

Joseph 55

Joshua 55

Lewis 55

Samuel, Jr 55

Thomas 321

Hale, 389, 424

Daniel 112, 117

Enoch 394, 395, 475, 476

Henry 288

Joshua 112

Richard 112

Robert 288, 289

Samuel 57, 58, 63, 145

Hall, Ebenezer 235, 324

Edward 288

George 324

Henry 334, 335, 338

ISRJiC .. Ill

John.'.'.'.'. .'.188, 193, 202, 205, 436, 493

499, 513

Joseph 288

Josiah 2*88

Paul 288

Samuel 507

Stephen 68

Stephen, Jr 305

Thomas. . . .187-189, 193, 202-204, 208

303, 308,313, 316, 317

Willard 444, 445

Ham, John 238, 241, 242, 247, 494

John, Jr 493, 498, 511

Timothy 129

William 493, 408, 512

Hamell, Joseph 326

Neal 326

Hancock, 421

Hanford, Elkanah 235

Hanson, Anthony 507

Daniel ' 493, 498, 511

Ephraim. . .493, 499, 504, 505, 509, 513

George 193, 498, 512

Isaac, Jr 493, 498, 512, 514, 515

Joseph 493, 498, 511

Nathaniel 493, .'.".», 513

Timothy 501

Timothy, Jr 493, 499, 513

Hardy, Jonathan 157

Theophilus 288

Harper, 390

John 391, 394

Harriman, Peter 299, 301, 311

Harrington, Daniel 454, 450, 458, 460

Jonah 454. 45(5-459

Robert 170

Hart, Ben jamin 503

John . . .63, 380, 381, 384, 386, 394, 395

Samuel, Jr 63

Hartford, John 222

Nicholas 222.

Hartshorn, David 65, 69

Harvell, John 5, 9, 12, 14, 41

Harvey, 13

John 63

Harwood, Jonathan 71, 75

Haskell, Jeremiah 2S5

Hastings, Asa 20, 22, 25

Thaddeus 454, 459

Hatch, Isaac 105

Haven, 43

Alexander 183

J 181

Jedediah 361, 362, 374

John 302,374

Joseph 360, 362, 369, 370, 374

Joseph, Jr 360,362

Joseph, 3d 361,362

Moses 362

Nathaniel Appleton 151, 181

548-550

Samuel 3,4,362,374

Hayford, Edward 546

Hay ward, Eleazer 361

William ....65-

Hazeltine or Hazelton, John . . . .334, 335

339

Head, James 144, 235

Healey, Nathaniel 82, 87

Heard, see Hurd.

Benjamin 493, 498, 511

John 493, 498, 508, 511

Samuel 493,498,511

Tristram 508

Heath, Jacob 344

John 105

572

INDEX.

Heath, cont.

Joshua 167

Josiah 344

Peter 344

William 25

Hemphill, Goen 78

Henderson, Samuel 508

Widow 390

Eenniker, John 322

Herrick, Josiah 68

Herring, Henry 334, 335, 339

Hersey, James 169

1 1 i.ks', David 222, 256

Joshua 68, 402, 406, 407

Hilands, John 326

Hill, Isaac 333

John 55, 350-353, 356

Hilliard, Benjamin 532, 533, 543

Hills, Timothy S 100

Hilton, Andrew 251, 256

Benjamin 251, 288

Charles 501

Colonel 307

Edward 288

Edward, Jr 222

Jonathan, Jr '. 288

Prudence 321

Richard 28S

Samuel 288, 289

William 79, 288

Hines, Ambrose SO

Thomas 46

Hinton, David 545

Hoar, Jonathan 2S3

Hobart, Samuel 445

Hobbs, Amy 71-73

Benjamin 237, 243

Benjamin, 3d 243

Humphrey 06

John 237

Jonathan 237

Joseph 237

Josiah 237

.Mi hi is 237

Nathaniel 248, 250

William 71

Hodjre, Joseph 394

William 393

Hogjr, 390

John... 188, 193, 202-204, 208, 210, 211

313

Samuel 188, 193, 201, 205

William 70. 203, 205, 208, 313

Hoit, see Iloyt.

Holland, 424

John 401

Stephen 37, 125, 126

Holmes, 390 391

Nathaniel 5, 9, 12, 13. 4l' 326

Holmes, cont.

Robert 392, 393

William 326, 327, 332

Holt, 427

Ebenezer 70

Isaac 70, 76

Joshua 422-426

William 402, 407

Honey, John 260-262, 267, 273

Hooker, Philip 321, 521, 522, 525, 528

532

Silas 454, 459

Hooper, Robert 68, 402, 407

Hopkinson, Jonathan 394

Horn, Andrew 493, 499, 501, 513

Ebenezer 493, 498, 511

Samuel 507

William 493, 498, 501, 512

Horner, John. .187, 193, 201, 203, 204, 208

Horney, Hannah 373

Hosmer, Nathaniel 475

Houck, Josiah 80

Houston, 433-435

Howard, Eleazer 374

William 69

Howe, Abraham, Jr 454

Adonijah 454

Cyprian 456

Eleazer 454

Peter 358, 361, 362, 369, 374

Peter, Jr 358, 361, 362, 375

Stephen 454

Hoyt or Hoit, Enoch 375

Ezra 375

Jacob 325

John 82, 87, 325

Joseph 488

Nathan 545, 546

Stephen 360, 375

Stephen, Jr 135, 136

Hubbard, Israel 469, 472

John 80, 545

Jonathan . .379-381, 386, 469, 470, 472

473
Jonathan, Jr. . .384, 3S5, 393, 394, 469

472
Richard 112

Huggins, John 55

Nathaniel 55

Nathaniel, Jr 55

Hughes, Clement 288

Humphrey, James 326, 327, 331

John.' 326

Hnnking, Mark 63, 171, 172, 176, 178

179, 2S8

Hunt. 390

Ephraim 393

Hunter, 391

[ND1 \.

573

II outer, cont.

David 394

Huntoon, Chnilcs 80

Eurd, set' Heard.

506

II use, Carr 337, 340, 344, 348

Hussey, Job 493, 499, 513

Richard 493, 498, 501, 512

Silvanus 493, 498, 512

Hutchins, John 546

Joseph 503

Samuel 399

Hutchinson, Israel 432. 4:',;;, 435, 436

John 5, 9, 12, 13, 41

Joseph 69

Joseph, Jr 69

Solomon 65, 70

Hyslop, William 203, 205, 207, 208

Ilslev, Jonathan 112

William Ill

Ingalls, Ebenezer 344

Ephraim 68, 402, 407

Jonathan 345, 348

Moses 169

Nathaniel 334, 335, 338

Robert 182

Timothy 334, 335, 338

Jackman, George Ill

George, Jr 115

John 137, 318, 319

Joseph Ill, 115

Richard Ill

Samuel 137, 318, 319

Jackson, Bartholomew 403

Clement 55, 63, :'>2 1

Daniel 63

Doctor 235

Elisha 63

Gershom 227

James 545

Joseph 55, 171, 170, 178, 179

Jacobs, Joseph 507

Jacques, Stephen Ill

Jaffrev, Cyprian 288

George 4, 11, 13. 22, 23

26, 35-37, 41, 49, 50, 56, 88
97, 98, 106, 107, 120, 121. 12:'.. 126
128, 131-133, 144, 162, 165, 166, 168
170, 175, 179, 202, 203, 224, 226-230
245, 246, 250, 255, 259, 267, 269, 283
287, 288, 292, 293, 305, 307, 311, 312
::i4, 331-3:;:;, 339, 340, 353, 354, 356
370, 372, 376, 379, 383, 385, 386, 391
394, 408, 411. 418, 423, 424, 427. 429
436, 441, 443-445, 453, 455. 457, 459
461-46:;, 47:;, 475, 485, 492. 498, 499
502. 516-519, 525, 520, 528, 538. 549

Jaffrey, cont.

George, Jr.. .64, 78, L89, 200, 288, 318

•biines 288, 289

.lames, Jr 288

James, Joshua 521. 522, 525, 527. 531

Kingsley Hall 44, 45. 79, 81

Jameson, Bugh 187, 193, 202, 205

Jaquish, barker 117

Stephen 117

Jarvis, Robert 280, 284

Jeffries, John 372

Thomas 105, 107

Jenkins, Richard 503, 507

Robert 290

Jenness, Aaron 508

Moses 508

Richard 288, 290

William 55

Jennison, John 460, 470, 472

Jewell, Benoni 5,9. 12, 13,40

Bradbury 546

Edward. 469, 473

John 299, 301, 310, 437. 438, 546

Mark 55, 546

Samuel 80

Thomas 5, 9, 12, 13, 41

Jewett, Benjamin 478, 485, 490

Jedediah 117, 118

Joseph 478, 484

Johnson, Benjamin 236. 237, 246, 248

Charles 345

Gideon 501, 507

James 55

John 115, 222, 236-238, 246, 248

John, Jr 236, 238, 246

Joseph 521, 522, 520. 527, 531

Josiah 222

Nathan 55

Simeon 180

Thomas, Jr 55

William 55

Jones, Colonel 372

James 77

John 361, 369, 374

John, Jr 361, 362, 374

Samuel 77

Simpson 361, 369, 374

William 71

Joslin, 285

Ebenezer 454

Judkins, Job 489, 490

Kelly, Richard ill

Kelscv, II [50

John 334, 335, 389

Kendall, Deacon 445

Edward 279. 280, 284

John 380, 381, 384, 386, 393, 395

Kennedy, Fergus 104

574

INDEX.

Kennedy, cont.

James 299,300,310

Joseph -299, 300, 310

Kenney, Samuel 171, 172, 175, 178, 179

Kennis'ton, John 501, 503, 507

Kent. C( >lonel 144, 145

Richard 112

Kentrield, Josiah 147

Keves, 353

'Gershom 92, 93

Kidder, 283

Benjamin 104

Job 299, 301, 310

John 104, 299,301, 312

Reuben 391. 392, 47". 476

Kielle, John 49:3, 498, 511. 514. 515

Kimball. Aaron 358, 360, 375

Aaron, Jr... 360

Abner 374

Abraham 131, 132. 324

Asa 1S1

Benjamin 531, 533, 543, 545

Caleb 288

Ehenezer 361, 362, 369

John 78, 2S9, 490

Jonathan 80

Samuel 489

King, George 467

Samuel 400

Kingsbury, Aaron 227

Henry 112, 375

Joshua, Jr 227

Kinney. Moses 45S

Kneeland, Samuel 108

Knicht. Amos 2S0. 284

Daniel 112

John 63

Joseph, Jr Ill

Moses 112

Knowles. Amos 521

David 24S

David, Jr 248

Gamaliel 321

John 235, 321, 322

Jonathan 236, 237, 246, 248

Joseph 236, 237, 246

Knowlton, Ephraim 358

Paul 35S

Timothy 358

Knox. William 51, 53

Ladd, Edward 78, S9, 90, 552

Elias 79, 545

Jeremiah 20, 22, 24

John 79, 80

John, Jr 80

Nathaniel 288

Nathaniel, Jr 78

Trueworthy 80

Lakeman, Archelaus 82, 86-88

Tobias 82, 87

Lamprev, John 321, 521, 522, 525, 527

531
Marius 321

Lamson or Lampson, Samuel.. .65, 69. 70

'72

Lane, Ebenezer. . . .521, 522, 526, 527, 532

Joshua, Jr 521, 522, 526, 527, 531

Samuel 121-123, 210, 211

William 237, 522, 526, 527, 532

Langdon, Joseph, Jr 63

Samuel 63

Tobias 63

William 63

Woodbury 77, 545

Lapish. Robert 216, 217

Lauchlen, Samuel 224-235

Thomas 233

Lawrence, Abel 267, 269, 273

David 489, 491

Enos 171, 172, 175, 178, 179

Jeremiah 171, 172, 176, 178, 180

Peleg 380, 381, 385, 3S6, 394

Tilton 478,484

William . . ..260-262, 264, 468, 472, 473

518

Leach, Billy 545, 546, 552

Lear. Samuel 54*3

Tobias 63

Learned, Benjamin 179

Leary, Andrew G 182

Dearborn 182

Leavitt, 308

Benjamin. . . .82, 87, 236. 238, 246, 248

288

Carr 256

Dudley 288

Ephraim 288

James 288

James, Jr 288

John 82, 88, 236, 237, 246-248, 252

253, 256, 288, 2S9

John, Jr 236, 238, 245, 248, 478

479, 483

Jonathan. . . .82, 88, 321, 322, 521, 522

525 527 529—531

Moses. 120, 236, 238, 24"3,'246,'248, 28S

Simon 248, 250

Thomas 236, 238, 245, 248, 549

Timothy 288

William 545

Lee, Daniel 545

Ebenezer 545

John 68

Nathan 544

Nehemiah 544, 545

Samuel 68

Leighton, Hatevil 507

[NDEX.

5/3

Leighton, cont.

Joseph 182

Leland, Joshua 180

Leslie, Barber 191, L96

Daniel. 1ST, 193,201, 205, 206, 327, 331
James 191, 196

Lewis, Isaiah 171, 172. 17-">. 178, 180

Joshua 227

Libbey, George 260, 281, i"'>7, 273

Jeremiah 63, 269, 273, 340, 485

Jeremiah, Jr 63, 260-262

Light, John 79, 290, 477, 478, 4S4

Lindall, James 402, 407

Linn, James 104

Little, 390

Francis 1S1, 183, 1S5

George 112

James 104

John 392, 394

Moses 531-533

Samuel 112

Tristram 112

Livermore, Matthew 14, 22, 35, 42, 106

107, 175, 209, 26S, 311, 338, 384, 393

401, 44:1. 473

Samuel 222, 411, 525, 526

Livingstone, Madam in.*.

Robert 5, 9, 12, 13, 40, 326, 332

Lock, Ebenezer 281

James 360, 362, 375

John 43

Samuel 80

Thomas 80. 344

Logan, John 327, 331

John, Jr 327. 332

Long, Edward Baston 97. 98

Mary 97, 98

Richard 116, 117

Longfellow, Jacob 478, 479. 4S4, 490

Jonathan 477, 484, 486, 491

Nathan 82, S7

Samuel 117

Lord, John 288

Loud, Solomon 03

Loughlin, see Lauchlen

Lovejoy, Benjamin 70

Hezekiah 70

Joseph 71

Nathan 358

Nathaniel 325

Lovering, Ebenezer 82, 87, 248

Loveweil, Jonathan. . . .260, 262, 263, 265
207, 20X, -72. 273, 2>2

Nehemiah 5, 9. 12. 14. 42

Zaccheus...l90, 192, 193, 197, 260-262

469, 472

Lowe, Jacob 478, 183

John 288, 289

Samuel 581, 583

Lowell, David 82, B7

Lucas, .lames 44-46, 7'.»

Thomas 44, 51, 7'.». 81

Lucian, Robert 326

Lund, William 297

Lunt, Benjamin Ill, 115

Cutting... 111. 115

Daniel 55

Lyford, Stephen 288

Lynde, Benjamin .400, 402, Hi:;, loo, 407
417-421, 426-434

Lyon, David 227

Eleazer 104

Jonathan 104

Lyons, James.. 446, 44s 450, 452, 454. 45s

Mack, John 326, 332

William 332

William, Jr 327

Mackres, Joshua 55

Magoon, Alexander 531, 5:;:;. :,\:\

Jonathan 545

Sanders 545

Mann, John 334. 335. 339

Joseph 142. 14:1

Manuel, Joel 115

Thomas ;J24

March, Clement.. 3, 13, 22,35-37,41,47
48, 54-56, 88, 106, 107, 132. 168, 172
175, 178, 202. 220, 222, 245, 207, 311
331. 339, 340, 350, 384, 394, 411, 420
421, 429, 430, 443, 444, 463, 404, 4C,;i
472. 473, 483, 498, 510, 525. 520. 549

George 55

Nathaniel 55

Paul... 55, 63, 100. 107, 201. 222. 260

261, 267, 380, 3S1, 384, 386, 388, 393

426, 443, 469, 472, 499

Stephen. 55. 03, 3SO, 381, 384, 380, 393

Thomas.. 55, 380, 381, 3S4, 386, 393

395

Thomas, Jr .V.

Marshall, Andrew. .493, 498, 512, 514, 515

Hawley 79

Henry 7>

Richard 137

Marston, 308

Benjamin 236-238, 245

Benjamin, Jr 236-238, 245

Caleb 2:;7

Daniel.. 44-46, 57, 82, 88, 121, 236, 287
245, 2)7. 248, :;21

David 236, 237, 24:.. 248, 251

David, Jr 248, 250

Elisha 321

Elisha, Jr 236,238, 246

Ephraim . ..236, 23-. 246, 322, 521-523

-25. 527, 531. :>:):)

Ephraim. Jr 321. 521

576

INDEX.

Marston. cont.

[saac 236, 23S, 240, 248

James 248, 250

Jeremiah. .321, 521, 522, 525, 527, 531

Jeremiah, Jr 32]

John 82, 88, 90, 23G, 238, 246, 248

John, Jr 321

Jonathan 236, 237, 246. 24S, 250

Jonathan, Jr 236, 238, 245, 521

Josiah 230-238, 245, 248, 251

Nathan 55

Paul Smith 90

Reuben 489, 490

Reuben, Jr 4S9, 490

Samuel 236, 237. 241. 246-250

Samuel, Jr 236, 238, 245

Simon. .82, 87, 236, 238, 243, 246, 248

321, 521

Simon, Jr 237

Theodore ... 57, 58

Thomas.... 236. 237. 241, 245, 247-250

Winthrop 236-238, 245

Martin, 137, 191, 196

Ann 101, 180-182

Captain 506

Ebenezer 299, 301, 310, 313

Ephraim 299, 301, 311

Jonathan 313

Joshua 299

Nathaniel 299, 301, 310

Peter 403

Thomas 101 , 180-182

William 326

Mason, Benjamin. .179, 493, 498, 511, 521
522, 525, 528, 532, 533

Daniel 222

James 532, 533, 543

John.. 48, 51, 146, 203, 236, 307, 318

350, 468
John Tufton..4, 9-13, 17, 22, 24, 26
35-37, 40, 41, 44, 47, 49, 56, 64-67
78, 87, 88, 92, 106, 107, 109, 113, 121
123, 125, 128, 132, 133, 137, 142, 153
155-157, 159, 168, 169, 171, 170, 178
187, 190, 192, 201, 203, 210, 222, 245
247, 250, 252, 255, 260, 263, 268, 275
277, 281, 292, 294, 290, 306. 309, 311
314, 316, 321, 322, 330, 331, 333, 339
-342, 347, 352, 356, 35S-361, 364, 366
-370, 372, 374, 376, 3S0, 384, 386-388
392, 393, 400, 401, 406, 411, 412, 415
122. 429, 433, 437, 43S, 441, 443, 444
446, 449-451, 463, 468. 473, 475, 470
483, 491, 498, 509, 510, 518, 519, 521
522, 525, 526, 528, 534, 537, 539, 540
544, 549

Moses 180

Nathaniel 32]

Stephen 532, 533, 543

Mason, cont.

Thaddeus ISO

Massev, George 188, 193, 201, 205

Matthews, 219

Matson, William 465-468

Maynard, Jedediah 456

McAdams, 137

McAllister, 161, 390

Andrew 393, 395, 396

Benjamin 454

Isaac 151, 454, 456-458, 462

John 188, 193, 202-204, 20S

Richard , 104

McClary, Andrew 44, 46

Thomas. . .326, 446, 450, 452, 454, 459

McClellan, John 71

McClinche, John 70

McClintock, John 100

McClure, Alexander. ...334, 335, 339, 345

William 5, 9, 12, 13, 41

McCullen, Alexander 191, 196

McCullum, Alexander 326, 327, 331

Alexander, Jr 327, 331

John 327, 331

McCurdv, Daniel 187, 193, 202, 205

John 203, 205, 208

Robert 327, 330

McDaniel, Randall. 380, 381, 385, 380. 394

McDougall, John 104

McDowell, Alexander 97

William 101, 299, 310

McDuffee, John.. 187, 193, 202, 205, 207

222, 399

William 243

McFarland, 97

McGaffey, Neal 79

McGregore, David.. 187, 193, 201, 205, 206
James. 187, 193, 201, 203, 205-211, 316

McHard, James 167, 376

McKay, Daniel 68

McKnight, James 299, 301, 312

McLaughlin, Thomas 5, 9, 12, 14, 41

McLucas, Thomas 45, 46

McMillan, Andrew 153, 155, 156

McMurphy, 25, 39

Alexander 210, 315, 327, 331, 357

Daniel 20, 22

John.. 26, 190, 316, 326, 330-332, 334

335, 338

John, Jr 326, 332

Robert. 12, 14, 20, 22, 25, 29-33, 38, 39

42, 203, 205, 207, 208, 334, 335, 338

345, 346

Robert, Jr 26

McNeal, 389

Alexander 391-393

John 307

McPheadris, Archibald 28S

McPherson, James 334, 335, 339, 345.

INDEX.

;;7

McQuaid, James 108

Martha 103

Mead, Jabez 280, 285

John 222, 191

Joseph 68

William 489, 190

Mears, John 101

Medar, Timothy 546

Melendy, William 70

Mellen or Millen, 2«3

Daniel... 268-271, 273, 279, 285, 361

362, 375

Daniel, Jr 280, 284, 2S5

Henry. ... .357-359, 361, 362, 364-375

John. 279, 280, 2S4, 361, 362

Joseph 358, 361, 362

Thomas. . .361, 362, 364-368, 373-375

Melody, Edward 72. 75

Meloon, Daniel 55

Ebenezer 322

Henry 55

John 55

Joseph 55

Joseph, Jr 55

Melvin, 545

Mendum, Nathaniel 63

Merrill. 40

Abraham 299, 301, 310, 437, 438

Daniel 5, 9, 14, 41

Daniel, Jr 12

James 1 12

.John :■;•>, 300

Moses 360

Nathaniel 107

Samuel, Jr 5, 9, 13, 40

Thomas 159, 100, 360,

Merrow, Jonathan 512

Merry, Samuel 507

Merryfield, Simeon 227

Meserve, George 532, 533

Nathaniel. . 22. 35-37, 41. 47-49

51, 88, 100, 107, 121, 123, 132, 168

170, 201, 240, 267, 309, 318, 332, 339

-341, 354, 356, 375, 385, 394, 401, HI

420, 4.I2. 425, 426, 429-431, 443, 463

473, 484, 492, 199, 516, 525, 526, 549

Nathaniel, Jr 469, 17". 472

Metcalf, Jonathan 280, 285

Mighill, John 236, 238, 246

Miles, Josiah 147

Milieu, see Mellen.

Miller, Benjamin 63

El.enezer 104,

James 5, 9, 12, 1 1, 41

Robert

Mills. John 63, 334, 335, 338, 344

Thomas 203, 205, 208

Minot, James, Jr :;:;7

36

Minot.

Jonas. . .4, 17. 2". 21. 23-26, 29-83, 35
86, 38, l". 161, 395, 175, 176, 552

Samuel 26, 40

Mitchell, 890, 891

James ill

John 65, 07, 7::. 76, 345

John. Jr 67, 73-75

Samuel 440. 450-452, 454, 459

William 392, 393

Moffatt, John.. 13, 22, 35-37, 10, 17. 87, 106
107. 132, 133, 168, L76, L89, 202, 245
2';". 278, 309, 318, 331, 339, 340, 356
376, 384, 393, 401, 411, 129, 143, 463
165, 473, 484, 198, 515, 525, 526, 549

Samuel 292

Monroe, Jedediah - ,

Solomon - :

Montgomery, Hugh ....440, 447. 450, 452

454, 459

Hugh, Jr 326

Moody, Cutting 116

Edward 546

John 112, 115

Stephen Ill, 117

William 112, 116

Mooney, Benjamin 507

Moore," Archelaus 143. 147

James.. 104, 1U1, 196,296,297,303,334
335, 340, 446, 117, 450, 452, 454, 459

John 143. 147

299, 300, 310, 440. 450-452, 454. 459

Mary 14. 22, 35-37

12, 47. 53, 88j 96, 100, 100, 107
132, 133, 137. 168, 175. 215. 269, 332
339, 341, 356, 3-4, 394, 411, 428, 429
443. 463, 484, 498, 516, 52(

Nathaniel 147

Robert 7o. 446, 450, 453,. 454, 459

Samuel.... 147, 189, 201, 309, 826, 47:1

William 7-, 93, 104, 120, 1 17. 1-7

288, 324

Moores, John 322

Samuel 334, 335. 338

Moorhead, John 104

Morey, Jonathan 235

William 89, 90

Morgan, John 178, 179, 184, 491

Morrill, David 147

Ezekiel l W, 147

John 90

Morrison, Daniel 139, 490

David 146, lis, 150, 453,, 45-). 459

Halbert. . . W6, W8, 150-452, 454, 455

158. Ml

James 4 15, 1 17. 152, 154. 159

James, Jr 1 !»'•• 450

John 179. 446, lis. j.-,o. 452,

459

173

INDEX.

Morrison, cont.

Samuel. . . .446, 448, 450, 452, 454, 458
Thomas. . . .446, 448, 450, 451, 453-455

459, 460

Morrow, William 20, 22, 396

Morse, 461

Aaron 2S0, 284

Daniel 179

David 179

Edmund 117

Eli 179

Joseph 116

Joseph, Jr Ill

Joseph, 3d Ill

Micah 180

Peter 301, 310

Reuben 1 SO

Thomas 178-180

Morton, John 18S, 193, 201, 205

Matthew . . 18S, 193, 201, 203, 204, 20S

Moses, George 63

Josiah 63

Most, Peter 299

Moulton, Benning 522, 525, 52S, 532

Daniel 290

Edward 321

Ephraim 321

Ezekiel 531, 533, 543

Ezekiel, Jr 521

Henry 321

Jacob 322

James 20, 22

John. .521, 522, 525, 527, 529, 530, 532

John, Jr. ... : 321, 521, 531

John, 3d. ..321, 521, 522, 526, 527, 531

John, 4th 521

Jonathan. ..222, 321, 520-523, 525-533
535-543, 545

Jonathan, Jr 321

Jonathan, 3d. . .321, 522, 525, 528, 532

Joseph 236, 237, 245, 248

Josiah, Jr 321

Josiah, 3d 321, 522, 525, 52S, 532

Nathan 321

Nathan, Jr 521, 522, 526, 527, 531

Nathaniel 236, 238, 245

Robert 321

Robert, 3d 321

Thomas 243, 321

William .237

Worthington. . .522, 526, 528, 532, 533

Mudgett, Elisha 546

John 2SS

Thomas 540

Murray, Jonathan 498

Mussey, Jonathan 136

Muzzy, John ISO

Robert 180

Nason, Richard. . . .522, 526, 52S, 532, 533

Neal, Captain 467

Henry 446, 450-452, 454, 45S, 460

Hubartus 123, 162

John 491, 522. 525, 528, 532

Walter 55, 288

Nesmith, Jonathan 101

Newman, John 55

Thomas 80

Newmarch, John 63

Nichols, 3S9

Daniel 402, 407

Ebenezer 69

James 393

Jonathan 45S

Thomas 98

William 326

Nickerson, Joshua 223, 546

Norcross, Asa 179

Jeremiah 171, 172, 175, 17S, 179

Norris, Benjamin. . .478, 479, 4S3, 490, 491

James 79, 288

Jonathan 248

Joseph 47S, 479, 484, 490

Moses. . . 288

Samuel 288, 478, 479, 483, 485

Samuel, Jr 478, 479, 490

Norton, David S2, 87

William 55

Noyes, Daniel 116

Jacob Ill

James 112, 116

John, 3d 112, 113

Joseph, 3d 112, 117

Joshua 116

William 465

Nudcl. Simon 248, 250, 522, 525, 528

532, 533
Thomas 236, 238, 246, 24S, 521

Nute, John 508

Samuel 507

Nutt, James 375

John 360, 362, 375

Nutter, Graffam 503, 504, 507

John 102

Samuel 216, 217, 219

Valentine 62, 63

William 63

Nutting, John, Jr 406

Odiorne, Jonathan 394

Jotham. ..14, 22, 35-37, 42, 47, SS, 106

107, 132, 168, 175, 189, 202, 245, 26S

28S, 290, 309, 318, 331, 339, 340, 356

3S5, 401, 411, 420, 429, 443, 463, 473

4S3, 499, 516, 525, 526, 549, 552

Jotham, Jr 288

AVilliam 288

Odlin, John 2S8, 290

INDEX.

579

Odlin,

John, Jr 283

Olerick, Philip 469, 472

Oliver, Andrew H3

Ordway, 40, L70

Edward 360

Joseph 3i

Joseph, Jr 360

Organ, Amos ISO, 92, 393

Orr, John I"::

William 299, 301, 312, 316

, iSgood, 366, 368

James 325, 358

Joseph 294

Samuel 375

Otterson, George 354

Packer.

Thomas 13, 22, 35-37,

46-49, 88, 106, 107, 132, L68,
202, 218, 219, 245, 268, 292, 309,
. 339,340, 355, 356, 384, 393,
411,424, 429, 443, 444, 463, IT:'.,
198, 516, 525, 527,
Benjamin 243, 521, 522, 526, 527,

leh 211-214,299, 301, 311,

Caleb, Jr 188, 193, 201, 205,

David.. ..S2, S8, 100, L59, 160, 167,
172, ITU, IT-, L80, 236-238,

Elisha 236, 238,

■ }ei »rge

Jeremiah 124, 188, 193, 21 2,

207, 236-238, - .

John

Jonathan 236-238,

Jonathan, Jr --'.T.

Joseph 236-238, 2!:;.

Nathaniel 171, 1T2, 176, IT-,

Reuben

Shem 236, _

Stephen 321, 521, 522, 525,

531,

Stephen, Jr

William

Paine. John 181, L83,

Palate, Joseph

Palmer, Ben jamin

J iseph.251,521, 522, 525, 526, 531,

Samuel 322, 176-478, 182-487,

191,

Samuel, 3d

Park, Solomon

Parker. Amasa 169,

Benjamin 469, 4 70,

Ehenezer

Jonathan

Moses

Thomas.... 194, 199, 204, 2i 6, 2'.'.-..
300. 117,469,

216

. 44
IT-".
318
401
484
549
531

313

1T1
245
2 16
545
2' 15
248
.">4.">
245
248
245
180
52 !

526
533
321
.80
186

.-.21

248

189
522

j
362
172

it:;

.Tl

:;:>4
273
299

472

1 'ail..

Thomas. Jr . ...171, L72, 176, L78, 180

260-262, 380, 381, 384, 38
William. ...5, 'J, 12, I I, •_'•-'. 35, II. 1m-;
L07, 12!. 1T''>, 209, 222, 26$
339, 384, 393, 101, ill, 143, IT::, 525
526, 535, .Ml

William P. 100,549

Parkhurst, Ebenezer 197

John 193

Jonathan 192, 193

Parkinson, Henry 320

Robert 326

Parsons, Thomas 248, 250, 254, !'•">''.

Thomas, Jr 248, 250

Partridge, Jesse 227

Jonathan 280, 285

Levi 179

Patten, Matthew 103, 105, 107, 299

300, 306, 311, 314-317, 442

Samuel L03, 299, 300, 310

Patterson, .lames 326, 32 ,:

William, Jr KM

Payson, M. P

Peabody, Stephen 71

William 65-67, 71. .2. T'">

Pearl. John, Jr 493, l'.'-. 51 I, 515

Richard 334, 335, 340

Pearse, Peter. ..21, 102, 156, 22.;, 255, in,

Pearson, Jethro 288

Joseph 478, 179, 484

Samuel 546

William 63

Lee, W0

Peck, Joseph 454, 158

Pecker, John 305, 306

Peel, Jonathan 402, 407

Peirce, 13, 75, 138, 139, 170, 229

42<», 42il. 430, 431

Daniel , .14, 22. 2;'. 35-37, 42, 47, 53, B8

100, i'";. L07, 111, 132, 133, 137

L75, 180, 1-2-1-1. 201, 210, 245

255, 269, 290, 292, 309, 318, 332, 339

341, 354, 356, 384, 394, 411,428, 131

443, HI, 463,473, 484, 191, 198, 516

525, 526, 535, 537-541, 549

Ebenezer 260-262

Eleazer Ill, U7

J. W

John. 77. 97-100, 135, Ml. 180-182,215
-220, ■-':'■ !. 256, -\ 548-550

John. Jr 512

Joseph 100, 101, 137, 180-183,

Joshua.14, 22, 35-37, 41, 44. i

Tl. 88, I'""'. 1"T. 132, 168, 175, Is'-'

201, 245, 267, 309, 318, 331, 339, 340

35, 94, ■' L, 129, 143, 144, 463

164, 15, 525, 527, 549

M. 11 186

58o

INDEX.

Peirce, oont.

.Mark AY. . . 101, 1S2, 1S3, ISC, 318, 319

Nathaniel 268, 381, 385, 386, 304

Noah 503

Thomas 63, 111, 288

relict, Joseph 321

Pendergrass, Edmund 217

Pendexter, Edward 63

Penhallow, John.. 29, 63. 131, 156, 164

167, 214, 234, 253. 255, 355, 421, 422

428, 432, 463, 464

Samuel 63

Penniman, Jonathan 545

Perham, Jonathan 5, 9, 12, 14, 41

Samuel 437, 438

Perkins, Benjamin 24S

Ebenezer 501, 507

John, Jr 2S8

Nathaniel 508

Solomon 507

Zaccheus 72

Perrv. Doctor 354

Edward AA'est 179

Ivory 179

Perrvman, John 288, 289

Nicholas 79, 2S8, 289

Peters, Laban 324

Samuel 69

William 325, 327, 331, 300. 374

Peterson, AArilliam 72, 75, 76

Pettingill, Benjamin Ill

Richard, Jr Ill

Philbrick. Abner 90

David 531, 534

Ephraim 2S8

James 522, 525. 526, 531

Jedediah 81, 82, 86

John 236-238, 245

Joseph 322, 521

Philbrook, Benjamin 55

Robert Tufton 55

Walter 55

Philpot, James 493, 498, 512

Richard 493, 49S, 512

Phipps, Spencer 2S3

Pickering, John 127, 222, 277, 379

John, Jr 29

Pickman, Benjamin 402, 406, 407

Love .406

Pierce, George 182-184

Nathaniel 3S0

AA'illiam 273

Pike. Jacob 501

John 489, 491

Samuel 280, 285

Pillsbury, Jacob Ill

Joshua 112. 117

Pinkerton, John 326, 332

John, Jr 326

Pinkerton, cont.

Matthew 326, 332

Piper, Thomas 79

Pitman, Benjamin 63

Ebenezer 489,-491

Zachariah 493, 499, 512

Pitts, James 105

Place, George 504, 522. 526, 528. 532

Plaisted, John 289

Plant, Matthew 2S8

Platts, Nathan 279, 280, 284

Plimley, Thomas 105

Plummer or Plumer, Bidfield 511

Field 493, 498

John, Jr Ill

Jonathan Ill, 115, 117

Samuel 503

Thomas 503

Poland, Josiah 545, 546

Pond, John 227

Poor, Henry 281, 285

John Ill, 117

Porter, Abigail 72. 73

Asa 181, 183, 184

Eleazer 72, 73

Elijah 73, 74

Samuel 72, 73

Potter, Benjamin 44, 46, 236-238, 245

Jabez 358, 360

Jacob 35S, 360, 374

Richard 35S

Powell, William 20, 22

Powers, Jonathan, Jr 469, 471

Peter ..171, 172. 175-178, 180, 260-262
380, 381, 384-386, 393, 394, 469, 472

Peter, Jr 469, 471

Stephen 171, 172. 175, 178, 179

Pownal, Governor 2S3

Pratt. 230

Benjamin 411

Isaac 374

Philip 360

Reuben 279, 2S0, 284

Presbury, George 136

Joseph 134

Nathaniel 133, 135

William 126, 127, 130, 133

Prescott, Colonel 198

James 198

Jedediah 248

Jesse 82, 8S

John 545

Joseph 82,88

Nathaniel 90

Pressy, Paul 80

Preston. 76

Priest, Sarah 63

Prince, Joseph 107

Prout, Jonathan 107

INDEX.

581

Trust, Sarah 190, 207, Ooo, Ooo, :)]-

Purmort, John 478, 484

Putnam, Mary 72, 73

Nathaniel 403

Samuel 360

Stephen 402, 407

Putnev. Asa 190

Henry 190, 325

John* 128-130, 135, 190, 360

John, Jr 324

Jonathan 128, 1 35

Joseph.. 190, 192-104. 107, 201, 205

074

Joseph, Jr 190

Obediah 190

Samuel 12S, 130, 325, 360, 074

Samuel, Jr 135

William 190, 203, 205, 20S

Quenton, James 334, 335, 338, 3 1 1

Quigg, John... 100, 187, 190, 202-204. 208

Quigley, 421

"John 354, 355, 412

Quimby or Quinby, 442

James . ... 4S9, 490

Jeremiah 344

William 407, 43S

Ragley, John 353

Raino, Elias SO, 89, 90

Samuel 39, 90

Ramsey, Hugh. 5, 9, 12, 14, 41, 187-189
190, 201, 203-205, 208, 303

James 187

John 193, 201, 203, 204, 208

Matthew 187, 193, 202, 207

Rand, David 507

Ebenezer 236, 237, 245

Elizabeth 40-, 440

Robert 300, 438-440

Thomas.. 521, 522, 526, 527. 529-531

533, 537, 538

William 438, 441

Randall, Benjamin 322, 521

Rankin, Samuel. ..187-189, 193, 202-204

208
William.. 1S7, 193, 202, 203,205,207

208, 313

Ray, Reuben 137

' William 489,491

Raymond, Paul 403

Read, Joseph 200-262

Robert 299

Solomon 78

Thomas . ..260-262, 264, 270, 271, 281
William 299

Reading, John 503, 507

Joseph 70

Redman, John 288

Reed, Jacob 279, 280, 284

James 267-271,275-287

James, Jr 279, 280, 284

Robert 7o. 301

William 801, 310

Reid, James

Reside, John 326, 327, 331

Rice, 285

Hezekiah 280

Jesse 454. 457, 45-. 460

John 545

Michael 545

Richards, Benjamin 299, 301,

Daniel HI, 116, 117

Samuel 188, 193, 202,

Richardson, 543

Bradbury. .522, 526, 528, 531, 533, 542
545, 548, 549

Jacob 69, 75

James 285

Joseph.402, 407, 434, 43E

545, ■ l1'

Richard 227

Samuel 531,

Richey, John 326

Kicker, Lemuel 507

Riddle, Hugh 103

John..: 1(»4

John, Sr 104

Robert

Riggs, Thomas 4"

Rindge, Daniel 19, 29-1

Isaac 171, 175. 17-. 347

John. 14, 22, 35-37, 41, 47. 49, 88, 106
107, 121, 123, L32, 168, 171, 172. 175
176, 17-. 17v, 245, 267, 33

LI, 429, 443, 444
463, 465, 485, 516, 525, 527, 540

Jotham 251, 489, 501, " -

William...::-". 384, 386, 393, 395, 444

Ripp, William 112

Robbe, Andrew '■"•'

Roberts, Benjamin 4'.':'.. 498, 511

Isaac 508

John 288, 193, 499, 501, 513-515

Joseph 4-'.'. 490

Love, Jr '.493, 498, 511

Richard 454, 458, 459

Stephen 493, 499, 512

Thomas. Jr. . . .493, 40'.', 512, 514, 515

Timothy 498, 4'.'-. 511

Robertson. Georg< 326, 327, 332

James 326

Josiah

Nathaniel 489

Robinson, chase 47-. 4-4

Ephraim 47-. 179, 184, 188

John 288

Jonathan

;S2

INDEX.

Robinson, cont.

Jonathan, Jr 2SS

Joseph 288, 478, 479, 4S4, 491

Josiah, Jr 478, 479, 484

Nathaniel 491

Samuel 522, 525, 528, 531

Roby, Thomas 236, 237, 245, 24S

Rogers, Daniel 29, 39, 63, 102, 131

156, 164, 190, 214, 253, 255, 346, 544

Doctor 427

James 188, 190, 192-194, 197, 201

205, 207, 326

James, Jr 190

John 190, 544, 546

Richard 190

Robert 190, 327, 331

Samuel 190, 325

Thomas 546

William 326, 327, 331

Rolfe, Samuel 358

Rollins, Benjamin 28S

David 478,484

Eliphalet 478, 479, 484, 490

James 69

Joseph. . ..79, 82, 88, 90, 47S, 479, 482

484, 491

Joseph, Jr 478, 479, 485

M< »ses 478, 4S5, 490

Ropkins, 532, 533

Ross, 408

Hugh 69

John 63

Rowe, John 90, 235, 542

Lazarus 478, 4S5, 491

Nathan 82, 88, 90

Reuben 545

Rowell, 20, 22

Joshua 349

Royse, Yere 534, 535, 537-541

Ruggles, Timothy 283

Rundlett, Charles 78

Runnells, Robert 345

Russ, John 358

Russell, 393

Eleazer 288

Ezekiel 248, 250

James 70, 76

Silas 392, 396

Rust, Colonel 162

Henry 288, 542. 544

John 374

Sampson. Jonathan Ill

Samuel 399

Sanborn, 322

Abiatha 55

Abraham 288

Amos 531, 533, 542

Benjamin.SO, 82, 87, 522, 525, 528, i 2

Sanborn, cont.

Daniel 82, 88, 237, 244, 248

Daniel, Jr 243

Ebenezer 237

James 546

John 82, 88, 236, 289, 476, 477

479, 482, 486

Jonathan 82, 88, 90

Joseph 521, 522, 525, 527, 532, 533

Josiah 478, 479, 4S4, 490

Josiah, Jr 4S3

Moses 127, 128, 130

Reuben 236, 237, 246, 321

Robert 546

Samuel 80

Stephen 531, 533, 542

William 55

Sanderson, Enoch 545, 546

John 531, 533, 543, 545, 546

Sargent, 293

Epps 68

Jacob 326, 334, 335, 339

Nathaniel 63

Nathaniel, Jr 63

Orlando 2S9

Winthrop 344

Sawyer, Caleb 71

Henry 71, 75

Josiah 70

Scagel, Benjamin 546

"Jacob 503, 507

Jacob, Jr 161, 162

Scales, James 324

Scammon, James 478, 484, 490

Richard 478, 483, 490, 491

Scobv, David 326

John 326, 327, 331

Joseph 187, 193, 202, 205

Scott, John 3S0, 381, 384, 386, 394

Scribner, Benjamin 545

John, Jr 288

Joseph 288

Samuel 80, 89, 90

Thomas 90

Scruton, Michael 63

Searle, John 349

Samuel 334, 339

Seaton, Andrew 69

Andrew, Jr 65

James 69

John 69

Samuel 70

Seaward, William 63

Secomb, Elizabeth 440

Thomas 305

Senter. David 543, 544

Joseph 222, 533

Lieutenant 543, 544

Moses 545

INDEX.

583

Severance, Joseph 90

Sewall, David 121

Henry Ill

Stephen 288

Seward, see Seaward.

Giles 222

Samuel 1<»5

Shackford, John

Shannon, 506

Cutt 03

Nathaniel 545, 54S, 540

Richard Cutts...98, 522, 525, 528, 532

Thomas 54S

Shattuck, Jeremiah 260-262

Samuel 260-262

William • 318, 310

Shaw, Benjamin 25, 82, 87, 349, ITT

478, is:1,. 491

Edward 237

Edward, Jr. . . .521, 522, 526, 527, 531

John, Jr 4TT, 4Ts, 4-3

Jonathan 454, 458, 450, 4TT. 178

483, 485, 491, 533
Jonathan, Jr... 521, 522, 520. 527, 531

Samuel 237

Shepard, 517, 518

James 147

John.. . .65, 248,400, 401, 412. 417,-420
422-424, 426, 429, 430

John, Jr 66, 67, 423, 425, 428, 432

Samuel 147

Sherburne, Henry 288

Joseph 63

Samuel 248

Sherman, Richard 181-183, 185

Shirley, Edward 157

James 334, 335,339

James, Jr 334,335,338

Thomas 334, 338

William 283

Shove, Edward 112

Shute, Samuel 289

Sias, Eliphalet 546

Joseph 146

Samuel 546

Sibley, Jonathan 478, 185

Silsby. T<

Simonds, James

Jonathan 399

Joseph 147,824

Nathan 191, 193, 196

simps,»n, William.. ..55, 79, 522, 525, 527

'■■',-

Sims. Joseph ';;;

Sinclair, James 288

Joseph !'•'■ 288

Richard 288

Samuel 288

Skead. John 403

Slayton, Ann... 13, 44, 16,56, Bl, B6, 105
204, 241, 290, 826, 862, 485, 198

Sleeper, Gideon :;i *

Henry 80

Hezekiah 80

John 321

Joseph 80

Peter 344

Thomas 90

Small, William 71

Smart, Bartholomew 222

Joseph 222,288

Robert 288

Winthrop 222

Smiley, 389

William 392,393

Smith, IT, 430

Abraham 137

Andrew 181, 183, 185

Beniamin. ..104, 111, 117, 152, 153,222

Colonel 492

Daniel 340, 47S, 470, 4^4. 402

Ebenezer 248, 250, 293, 488-491

Edward 222

Elias 545,546

Elisha 478,484,400

Henry 2uT

Jacob 289

James 326, 327, 331

Jeremiah 489-491

John. . . .69, 97, 101, 111, 116, 222, 299

IT-, 4S4

John, 3d 216, 217

Jonathan 489, 490

Joseph 216, 222

Moses 79, 111

Nathaniel 322-325

Oliver 288,47-. IT'.'. 484, 490, 491

Oliver. Jr 478,479, 485

Richard 82,88,90,288

Samuel 236. 237, 245, 248, 2S9

Theodore 211

TheophiluB 121, 210, 288

Theophilus, Jr 288

Thomas 313

Timothy :6S

Victorious 545

William l'»l, 354, 378

William. Jr 491,492

Winthrop 546

Snow, Eenry 5,9, 12, 13, 10

Solly, Samuel 13,22,35-57,41,47, 88

' 106, 107, 182, 168, 175, 202, 245, 267

311 - ,839,340,356,384,394

111 421, 429, 180, 443, 463, 464, 473

1-.;. 198, 516, 525, 526, 549

Spaulding, Thomas

William... 171, 172, it:., it-. 17

261

5§4

INDEX.

Spaulding, cont.

Zaccheus 5,9

Zacheriah 12, 13, 40

Sprague, 287

Stackpole, Joshua 493, 498, 512

Stanford, William 321

Stanley, Benjamin 128, 135

Jacob 65

John 390

Jonathan 396

Joseph 128, 135, 360

Matthew 358, 360, 374

William 12S, 131, 132, 135

Stanton, Benjamin 493, 498, 512

Stark, Archibald... 157, 170, 187-189,193

197-201, 203-20S

Archibald, Jr. .187, 193, 202, 204, 205

John.. 167, 170, 187, 193, 202-205, 208

Samuel 157

William. . .170, 1S7, 193, 202, 203, 205
207, 20S, 211, 212, 214

Stearns, 137

David 469, 473

John 5,9, 12, 13, 41

Zaccheus 9

Zachariah 5, 14, 41, 171, 172, 175

178, 179

Zachariah, Jr 12

Stedman, Caleb 105, 107

Steele, David 70

Joseph 69

Samuel . .5, 9, 12, 14, 41, 446, 447, 450

452, 454, 459

Sterling, Hush.... 157, 166, 167, 169, 170

Stevens, A. G 349

Aaron 324, 360

Benjamin 299, 301, 311, 437, 438

Ebenezer 80-82, 86, 289, 438

James 227

John 260-262, 2(34, 267, 26S, 273

469, 472, 489, 51S

Jonathan 222

Nathaniel 222, 501

Phiueas 113, 116

Samuel 260-262

Sarah 113

Timothy 25

Stevenson, John 204

Stewart or Stuart, Ebenezer 170

James 380, 381, 384-386, 393, 394

John 70, 326, 327, 331

Joseph 326

Robert 65, 69

Samuel 65, 69, 326

Stickney, Ambrose Ill

Daniel 128, 130, 133, 135, 260-262

Jeremiah 324

Moses 388

Stimson, David 407

Stiuson, David 187, 193, 201, 203, 205

206, 208, 402

John 127, 1S7, 193, 201, 203, 208

Samuel 1S7, 193, 202-204, 208

William. . .187, 193, 201, 203, 205, 207

208

Stoddard, Sampson 171, 172, 175, 178

180, 259-265, 267-272, 277, 278, 299
300, 309, 311, 3S0, 381, 384, 386, 393

Sampson, Jr 268

Stone, Abner 280, 285

Jason 280, 2S4

Silas 179

Stoodley, James. . .25, 29, 35, 91, 156, 244

247, 264, 272, 373, 387, 424, 505, 509

521, 534, 536, 537, 539

James, Jr 25, 63, 79, 123

Jonathan 63

Storer, Eb 92

Stowe, Josiah 454

Stratton, 137

Lemuel 13S, 139

Straw, Jacob 374

Jonathan 358, 374

Strongman, Henry 180

Sturtevant, Joseph 150, 151

Sumner, Stephen 181, 183, 185

Thomas 294

Swain, Abraham 4S9, 491

Jonathan 161

William 82, 86, 87, 91

Swan, 390

John 392,394

Josiah 171, 172, 175, 178, 179

Robert 402, 407

Swasey, Joseph 7S

Sweet, Samuel, Jr 112, 375

Swett, 77

Benjamin, Jr 82, 88

Joseph 68, 402, 407

Symes, Joseph 273

Taggart, 390

Archibald 354, 355

Taintor, Jedediah 456

Tarbell, Samuel 469, 473

Thomas 469, 473

Tarbox, Thomas 68

Tash, John 222, 501, 502, 504, 505

Thomas 222

Tasker. Captain 492

John 512

Tasket, John 493, 498

Taylor, Anthony 20, 22

Benjamin 70

J ames 25

John 236, 237, 245, 248, 251, 454

478, 485, 521, 522, 525, 527, 532, 533
Jonathan 25

[NDEX.

53:

Tavlor, cont.

Matthew 326

Nathan 78, 8]

Timothy 5, 9, 12, l l. tl

Thayer, 99

Thing, Bartholomew 289

Benjamin 289

Collin 289

Daniel 289

Edward 289

Jonathan 289

Joseph 289

Nathaniel 289

Peter 79

Samuel 289

Thomas, 501

Elisha 237

John 104

Jonathan 23(3, 237, 245

Tnfts 236, 23S, 245

Thomlinson, John . . .13, 22, 35-37, 41, 47

87, 88, 106, 107, 132, 133, 137, 168

176, 201, 245, 2(38, 309, 320, 331, 339

340, 35(3, 3S4, 411, 429. 443, 403, 483

498, 516, 525, 526, 549

Thompson, David 349, 531, 533, 542

Doctor 1G2

Ebenezer 255

Ebenezer, Jr 217, 219

Jabell Shepherd 349

James, Jr 326

Joseph 234, 508

Samuel 80

Thornton, Matthew. . . .5, 9-13, 26, 29-33
35, 36, 38-40, 125, 126, 171, 172, 175
176, 17S, 180, 187, 193, 202, 205, 260-
262, 264, 267-269, 334, 335, 338, 339
344, 345, 3S0, 381, 385-387, 394, 449

450

Thurlow, John 116

Thurston, Daniel 478, 479, 483

Tibbetts, Samuel 289, 546

Tiffany, Benjamin 281, 286

James 2S1, 454, 458

Tilestone, Thomas 105

Tilton, Benjamin 82, 88

Jacob 506

Titcomb, Abraham 112, 115

Isaac 1 15, 1 17

James 63, 251

Todd, Alexander 193, 202, 205

Andrew,. ..190, 191, 196, 322, 325, 326

330, 332

Captain 189, 199, 200

James 326, 327, 330

Samuel.... 188, 193, 202, 205, 207, 826

327, 332

Tolford, Hugh... .334, 335, 838, 345

Tolford, cont.

John 10, 11, 19. 20, 22, 23, 25, 26

29-33,88,39, 834, 835, 338, 341, 344-

346

John, Jr 834, 335, 838, 342

Joshua.. ..20,29-:::;. 89, 334, 835, 338

341-311. 848

William.. ..29-33, 38, 39, 334, 335, 338

Tolman, Thomas 281, 284, 286

Toppan, Christopher. ..Ill, 821, 521, 522
525, 527, 531, 533

John 546

Torrev, Samuel 489, 491

Towle, Abraham 236, 238, 245, 248

Caleb 321, -".-'1

Elisha 521, 522. 525, 528, 532

Jeremiah 321, 521. 522, 526, 527

529-531, 533-585

Jonathan, Jr 236, 238, 246

Joseph 24S

Joseph, Jr 24S

Joshua. .82, 87, 521, 522, 525, 527. 531

533

Levi 251

Nathaniel 521. 522, 525, 527, 532

Philip 521, 522. 525, 527, 531, 533

Samuel 522, 525, 527, 532, 533

Zachariah 237, 246

Zachary 236

Towne, Thomas 71

Townsend, 286

Timothy 361, 362, 369, 374

Tozier, Richard 451,454, <■">'. 158

Treadwell, Charles .63, 260, 261, 267, 27:'.

Jacob 63

Jacob, Jr.. .200, 261, 265, 267, 272. 273

Nathaniel 260, 261, 267, 273

William Earl 260-262, 268

Tripp, Benjamin 218

Truewell, Moses 71

Tuck, Benjamin 521

John..' 322, 521. 522, 525. 527, 531

Tucker, Abijah 451, 456

Benjamin.. ..SO, 454-457. 459. 461-463

Benjamin, Jr 454, 456, 459

Caleb 451

Joshua 451, 454, 456, 458

.Moses 451, 456

Richard

Turner, 891, 893

Benjamin 105, 107

John 68

Joseph 390-892, 39 1

Samuel 279, 281, 285

Solomon 390, 392, 894

Thomas 392. 394

William 390, 892

Tuttle, Reuben 161

Twadle, .lames 103

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INDEX.

Twist, Joseph 279, 280, 284

Twitchell, Ebenezer 180

Ezra 179

Joseph, Jr 179

Samuel 179

Tyler, 54

Tyng, William 430

Underbill, John 334, 335, 338, 344

Underwood, James 421, 422, 424, 445

John 503,507

Phineas 5, 9, 12, 13,40

Upton, Caleb 71

Samuel 139

Usher, John.. .171, 172, 176, 178, ISO, 3S0
381, 3S5, 386, 394

Robert 260-262

Varney, David 501

Ebenezer... 493, 498, 499, 512, 514, 515

Edward 508

Elijah 508

Hezekiah 501

John 493, 498, 512

Joseph, Jr 493, 499, 513

Nathaniel.. 493, 498, 501, 512, 514, 515

Samuel 493, 498, 512

Silas 501, 507

Thomas 493, 49S, 511, 514, 515

Varnum, James. . . .188, 193, 202, 205, 207
John 469,472

Vaughan, Elliot 63

ATeasev, Jeremiah 78, 79, SI

Thomas 79, 81

Thomas, Jr 79

Vittum, William. . .321, 521, 522, 525, 52S

53L-533, 542, 546

William, Jr. . . .522, 525, 52S, 532, 533

Wadleigh, John 546

Jonathan 2S9, 477, 479, 485, 491

Joseph 477, 479, 485

Moses D 139

Wainwri<;'ht, John 112

Lucv Dudley 129, 233

Waite, John 112

Wakeheld, Thomas 69

Walden, Thomas 63

Waldron, Richard 142, 151

Richard, Jr 2S9

Wales, Nathan 545

Walker, 390

Alexander 104, 299, 300, 311

Isaac, Jr 324

James 103, 299, 300, 312, 43S-441

John .",08

Joseph 170, 324

Nathaniel 70

Robert 299, 301, 138, 139

W'lllcGr coat

Thomas.360, 362, 364-368, 373-375,394

Timothy 325

Timothy, Jr 155

Wall, John 181, 1S3, 1S5

Wallace, 3S9, 393

George 392, 394, 396

Henry 55, 171, 172, 175, 178, 179

James 326, 327, 332

John 5, 9, 12, 14, 41, 545, 546

John, Jr 5, 9, 12, 13, 41

Matthew 392, 396

Robert 326, 332, 333

William 5, 9, 12, 14, 41, 70

Wallingford, Mark 493, 499, 513

Thomas. . .13, 22, 35-37, 40, 47, 49, 87
106, 107, 132, 137, 16S, 176, 202, 245
267, 292, 311, 330, 339, 341, 356, 385
395, 401, 411, 412, 414, 417, 418, 420
427-429, 433, 443, 463, 473, 484, 498
516, 525, 526, 549

Walsher, John 76

Walter, S 432, 433

Walton, Benjamin 2S9

George 50, 230

Mrs 230

Reuben 72, 75

Samuel 65, 69

Shadrach 289

Ward, Daniel 78

Ward well, James 334, 335, 339

Warner, Daniel 222

Jonathan 63, 222

Nathaniel 63

Philemon 6S

Warren, David 454, 456, 458

Doctor 228, 232

Wars, Moses 280, 2S5

Robert 280, 285

Washer, John 70

Wason, John 70, 446, 452, 454, 458

Watson, Abraham 80

Benjamin 70

David 489, 490

Isaac 493, 49S, 501, 511

John 222

Jonathan ... 80

Weare, Daniel 82, 88

Ebenezer 289

Eleazer 493, 498, 512

Joseph 82, S7, 90

Meshech 57, 5S, 200, 535, 537-541

Peter 289

Robert 326, 327, 331, 393

Webb, Samuel 251

Webber, Benedict 454, 459

Webster, 400

Ebenezer 80

John Ill, 114, 322-325

INDEX.

587

Webster, cont.

Moses 399

Nathaniel 289

Stephen 531, 503, 542, 5 15

Thomas 78, 112, 117, 289

Thomas, Jr 289

Wedgwood, David 248

James 248

John 236-288, 246

Jonathan 236-288, 2 15, 2 18

Samuel 243, 248, 250

Weed, Henry 104, 233, 234

Jacob 546

John 112

Moses 546

Weeks, John 236, 237, 245, 248, 456

John, Jr 55, 236, 238, 246

Joseph 55

Joshua 55

Joshua Wingate 236, 238, 246

Leonard 55

Samuel 55

Samuel, Jr 55

Walter 54, 55

William 55

William, Jr 248

Weld, Job 227

Wells, Aaron 299, 301, 312

Eleazer 209, 437, 438

Henry 344

John 78, 81

Moses 299, 437, 438

Samuel 407

Thomas 334, 335, 33S

Wentworth, 130

Benjamin 493, 499, 513-515

Benuing 221, 223, 289, 399

Eben 63

Ebenezer 508

Ephraim 493, 49S, 511

Foster 171, 175, L78

H 506, 508

Henry 507

Hunking 63, 289

John. . ..3, 13, 22, 35-37, 40, 47, 50, 63
88, 101, 118, 132, L68, 175, 180, 221
246, 267, 2S9, 330, 339, 341, 356, 384
393, 411, 426, 429, 443, 463, 465, 485
503, 505, 506, 509, 510, 516, 525, 526

549
John, Jr. 106, 107, 201,289, 31 1, 473, 498

Joseph 493, 499, 510-515

Joshua 51 IS

Mark Hunking. ..14, 22, 35-37, 42, 47
49. 87, 106, 107, 132, 168, 175. 180
183, 184, 189, 202, 246, 257, 258, 261
292, 309, 311, 318, 332, 338, 340, 356
385, 094, 4ni, 411, 429, 443, 463, 465
473, 484, 198, 515, 525, 526, 549

Wentworth, cont.

Moses 504, 507

Nathaniel 501, 508, 507

Samuel 63

Thomas 498, 4'.''.', 501, 518

William... .289, 198, 198, 511, 51 1, 515

West, Nathaniel 826, 358

Westbrook, Thomas 289

Wetherbee, Silas 280

Thomas 279, 280, 284

Weymouth, Benjamin 493, 498, 511

Wheeler, David 458

Nathan 112, 116

Silas 454

Wheelock, Eleazer L6

Phineas 286

Ralph 16, 17

Whidden, John, Jr 55

Samuel 55

Whipple, Amos 545. 546

William 21, 29, 131,167,214,234

545, 546

Whitcher, Andrew 80

Benjamin 47S, 483, 491

Francis 130

John 491

William 80

White, 310

Edward.... 104, 109, 191, 299, 301, 303

James 334, 335, 338. 344

John 108, 109, 299, 301, 303, 542

Margaret 108

Robert 334,335,339

Samuel 99

Thomas 522, 525, 528, 532

William 503

Whitehouse, Moses 501

William 493, 498, 512

Whiting, Benjamin 17

Whitney, 54

Gidden rye-
Isaac 860, 375

James 360, 362

Mark 360, 362. 369, 37 1

Shadrach 469, 473

Whittaker, Nathaniel L6, 17

William

Whittemore, William 63

Whittier, Francis ISO

Wibird, Anthony.... 68, 172. 176, 178

Richard... 14, 22, 35-37, 41, 47. -7. 92

106-108, 132, L68, 17''., 189, 201, 246

._,,;,,_ 289, 290, 2:12, 83 1, 318, 832, 340

384,893,401,411,426

129, 443, 445, 463, 164, 173, 483, 198

516, -2:., 526, 549

Richard, Jr 289

Thomas 63, 171, 172, 176, 17-. 179

Wiggin, Andrew 120, 289

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INDEX.

Wiggin, cont.

Jonathan US

Wight, Joel 180

John ISO

Wildes, John 73

Wilkins, Asa .320

Benjamin 65, 70

Daniel G5, G8, 73

Daniel, Jr 65

Joseph 65

Lucy 70, 73

Lydia 71, 73

Willand, Nathaniel 403, 498, 512

Willard, Henry 279, 280, 2S4, 285

Josiah 334, 335, 338-340

Willet, Joseph Ill, 115

Willey, George , 69

Williams, Isaac. . . .380, 381, 3S5, 386, 394

Jonathan 105, 107

Mary 70, 73

Walter 82,87

Wilmarth, Thomas 281, 286

Wilson, Alexander 327, 331

Andrew 99

David 172, 176, 178, ISO, 3S0, 381

385, 3S6, 394, 395

Hugh 327, 332

Humphrey 289

James 99, 326, 327, 331, 332, 446

448. 450, 453, 459

James, Jr 326, 327, 331, 446, 448

450, 452, 454

James. 3d 326, 327

John.. 107, 446, 44S, 450, 452, 454, 459

Jonathan 26S, 269, 273

Joseph 326, 327, 331

Robert . . . .327, 331, 446, 448, 450, 452

454, 458

Samuel 446, 450, 453, 454, 459

Thomas 2S9, 326, 446, 450, 452

454, 45S

William 503. 507

Winch. Caleb 279, 280, 284

Wingate, Aaron 507

John 236, 23S, 246, 321

John, Jr 248

Joshua 46, 236, 23S, 246

Wingate, cont.

Joshua, Jr 321

Joshua, 3d 243, 248

Samuel 508

William 508

Winn, Benjamin 380, 3S4, 3S6, 393

Joseph, Jr. 380, 3S1, 3S4, 386, 394,395

Robert 392

Winthrop, 463

Wood, Cornelius Ill, 115

Woodbridge, Thomas 112

Woodbury, John 43

Peter 68

Woodhouse, James 504, 507

Woodman, Archelaus Ill, 115

Woods, Isaac 260-262

James 503

John 260, 261, 268, 454

Woodward, Abel 451, 454, 458

Woodwell, Benjamin 35S

David 35S, 360-362, 375

David, Jr 360

Worcester, Francis 172, 176, 17S, 180

Wormall, Daniel 78, 81

Worthen, Ezekiel 82, 88

Moses 344

Wright, 389, 390, 393

Francis 390, 392, 393

Henrv 260

Henrv, Jr 261, 262

Joseph 5, 9, 12, 13, 41

Matthew 5, 9, 12, 14, 42, 392, 393

York, Benjamin 501

John 501, 507

Josiah 222

Richard, Jr 79

Thomas 222

Young, Aaron 80

Daniel 22, 23, 128, 134, 135

Eleazer 493, 498, 511

John 546

John, Jr 80

Jonathan 79, 80, 289

Joseph 222

Nathaniel 493, 498, 511

Samuel 493, 498, 512