iSffl (gift of Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2016 with funding from Boston Library Consortium Member Libraries https://archive.org/details/townshipgrantsof00prop_1 STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE. TOWNSHIP GRANTS OF 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 N to W Inclusive, with Plans, Bibliographical Citations, and Complete Indexes. VOLUME XXVIII. Town Charters, Volume V. Masonian Papers, Volume II. ALBERT STILLMAN BATCHELLOR, Editor of State Papers. CONCORD: EDWARD N. PEARSON, PUBLIC PRINTER. 1896. BOSTON COLLEGE LIBRARY CHESTNUT HILL. MAPS. 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 and 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. This volume completes the presentation of the text of the original township charters emanating from New Hampshire province authority, from grants by Massa- chusetts, and from the Masonian proprietary. The New Hampshire grants of townships west of the Connecticut River occupy, with the notes relating to them, a separate volume. The charter series consists of five volumes, viz., 24, 25, 26, 27, and 28. This arrangement brings this class of documents into consecutive volumes and into the most serviceable classification that is practicable. It neces- sitates the postponement of the presentation and treatment of the Masonian papers of a more general nature to a subsequent volume. The slight change of the logi- cal order, wherein these papers might have preceded the subsidiary Masonian charters, will doubtless be considered of little moment when considered with refer- ence to the desirability of bringing the Masonian township grants into immediate sequence with the province grants of a similar character. The methods of administration which prevailed in the business of the Masonian proprietary in the period in which they were actively engaged in disposing of the lands which had been conceded to be subject to the Masonian title after more than a hundred years of controversy, are deserving of special consideration. It was suggested in our preface to Vol. 27 that this would receive attention in this connection. The observations which follow, therefore, should be read in reference to the editor’s preliminary note to the preceding volume. The lands included within the Masonian Patent were conveyed to the twelve original associates by deed of Robert Tufton Mason, January 30, 1746. The con- sideration paid was fifteen hundred pounds, and the purchase was held in fifteen shares. Theodore Atkinson held three, Mark Hunking Wentworth two, and the ten others one share each. At the first meeting of the members of this proprietary the original purchasers were the only persons in interest, but, previous to the disposal of any of the lands within their purchase, a further distribution or allotment was made, so that no associate owned more than one share, and four of these fifteenth parts were sub- divided. Mark Hunking Wentworth sold one of his two shares to John Rindge June 2, 1750; Theodore Atkinson, two of his three to John Tufton Mason, IV PREFACE. August i, 1746; and Mason, one of his two in equal interest to Samuel Solly and Clement March, May 26, 1748; he also sold one half of his remaining share to John Thomlinson, June 9, 1749. On various dates Nathaniel Meserve sold fractional interests in his share. Col. Samuel Moore having died, his share was held by his widow, Mary Moore, and her brother, Daniel Peirce. Although in several instances, the original purchaser died before the dissolution of the associa- tion, the shares appear in the records accredited to the several owners as follows : 1. Theodore Atkinson. 2. Mark Hunking Wentworth. 3. Richard Wibird. 4. John Wentworth. 5. George Jafifrey. 6. Nathaniel Meserve and others [Joseph Blanchard, Joseph Green, and Paul March] . 7. Thomas Packer. 8. Thomas Wallingford. 9. Jotham Odiorne. 10. Joshua Peirce. 11. Daniel Peirce and Mary Moore. 12. John Mofifatt. 13. John Rindge. 14. John Tufton Mason and John Thomlinson. 15. Samuel Solly and Clement March. The deed of Mason to the associates conveyed the towns, as well as the ungranted lands, within the patent. The conveyance, says Belknap, “raised a great ferment among the people.' 1 As an act of justice, as well as a measure of prudence, and to quiet the people, the associates immediately quitclaimed all the lands and improvements within the organized towns of the province. Having satisfied and placated the residents within the towns, they encountered a serious problem in another direction, and frequent contentions arose in their dealings with the grantees of several towns granted by Massachusetts, and which, on account of their isolation and weakness, were not included in the general deed of quitclaim. Many of the persons claiming under the Massachusetts charters were admitted among the grantees in the Masonian grant of the same town, or were given equiva- lent privileges in some other township. A few of the settlers who had made improvements under the Massachusetts title resisted all overtures. Several law- suits ensued, but these always ended in verdicts for the purchasers from Mason. Several settlers in Rindge, New Ipswich, and other towns of this class certainly suffered serious losses and possibly injustice. As a rule, however, the Masonians were ever ready to hear complaints and to grant redress ; and they generally suc- ceeded in allaying the contentions that were incident to the existing conditions. PREFACE. V Nothing in the nature of quit-rents, which were characteristic of the province charters, were reserved in these Masonian grants. A prudential stipulation was incorporated to the effect that none of the lands reserved to the fifteen proprietors 1 shares should be taxed until improved by the owners or some person holding title under them. In the administration of the business of the association, their methods and plans were simple, and probably more in harmony with the usages of that time than of the present. If the proprietors had existed a century later they would have formed a corporation. Following the custom of the day they were an association, gov- erned only by the dictates of a common interest. For many years the association did not have a common treasury. In the grant of a township a certain quantity of land was reserved to each shareholder, and the division was made as nearly as practicable in equal shares. In the distribution which accompanied the partition of a township or grant, each grantee and each of the fifteen shares was ac- corded an original title to one of these sections, all of which were supposed to be equal, generally about three hundred acres. The association paid the common charges in equal shares, and each associate sold the land thus acquired on his own account. The measure of profit or loss of a shareholder in any particular case depended upon the result of the sales made by individual members of the asso- ciation. Upon the division of a township, one of the equal shares or lots was reserved for schools, one for the ministry and one for the first settled minister. Anticipating expenses of a legal nature in maintaining and defending suits at law, the association reserved two additional shares in a majority of the towns and styled them “ law lots.” These were granted to Matthew Livermore and Wil- liam Parker, the attorneys of the association by vote of July 25, 1750. Whenever the names of these two appear in the lists of grantees, it is on account of their legal services. They were not, as sometimes inferred, members of the association. The tract of land known for many years as Society Land, the towns of Alton and Allenstown, several small tracts or gores, and the islands in Winnipesaukee Lake were not granted as townships according to the general rule, but were divided into fifteen equal parts and one part drawn to each share. The subsequent sale of the individual interests thus acquired and the creation of titles in severalty opened the way to settlements. In a few instances before the division of a tract of land with a view to the customary distribution among the proprietors, a lot might be set aside to compensate a surveyor or some other person who had charges against them; and, in general, so far as it was possible, the Masonian proprietors paid the expenses of the association with land. In a very few cases, in the disposal of small gores that did not admit of easy division and partition, a sale was made. The money received was not suffered to lie in a treasury but was immediately divided. Whenever there was a necessity for VI PREFACE. money to be used for the association it was raised by an assessment on the several shares. The political status of the townships granted under Masonian authority was not necessarily like that which marked the province grants. The grantees under the latter were sometimes vested with political privileges by the terms of the charter, similar to those contemplated by the ordinary act of incorporation. This was not the invariable rule and possibly not the general custom in the granting of townships by the provincial government (see preface to Vol. 24). The Masonian proprietary could not invest the grantees of their towns with political or municipal privileges or powers. For this investure recourse was had to the assembly in the ordinary course of events. Not infrequently, however, the inhabitants assumed the func- tions of municipal government and procedure, and regarded themselves as invested with the ordinary municipal prerogatives without invoking the aid of legislation. Long exercise of corporate powers by a town without objection has been recognized by our courts as evidence on which an act of incorporation would be presumed. (Bow vs. Allenstown, 34, N. H. Reports, 351.) In added reference to the tracts afterwards known as Alton and Allenstown, and that formerly designated as Society Land, it may be stated that the demarkation of town boundaries and the adoption of town names were occurrences subsequent to the conversion of the lands to ownership in severalty and actual settlement, and the result of after-consideration by the inhabitants. In these particular incidents, a variation from the custom of the proprietary is observable. It will be found that it was their usual method to designate town boundaries at the outset, and settlement was a subsequent affair. The substantial character and commanding influence of the persons associated in the Masonian purchase is sustained by the annals of the state. The ties of kinship that held them in close relations are worthy of mention. Mark Hunking Wentworth and John Wentworth were brothers. They were sons of Lieut. Governor John Wentworth, and brothers of Governor Benning Wentworth. Mark Hunking Wentworth was the father of Governor John Went- worth, and was a member of the governor’s council from 1759 to 1775. Theodore Atkinson married a sister of Mark Hunking and John Wentworth. Jotham Odiorne was an uncle, and Jotham Jr., was a cousin of the wife of Mark Hunking Wentworth. Ann Odiorne, a sister of Jotham, senior, was the mother of John Rindge, and after the death of Mr. Rindge, her husband, became the wife of Nathaniel Meserve. George Jaffrey was a son of a sister of Mark Hunking and John Wentworth ; and Samuel Solly married Jaffrey’s sister. Richard Wibird’s sister married a brother of the two Wentworths. Thomas Packer married a sister of the two Wentworths. His second wife was the mother of John Rindge and a sister of Jotham Odiorne, senior. PREFACE. Vll John Rindge was the brother of the wife of Mark Hunking Wentworth. Joshua and Daniel Peirce were brothers. Daniel married Ann Rindge, sister to John Rindge. Samuel Moore was the colonel of the New Hampshire regiment at Louisburg. He married a sister of Joshua and Daniel Peirce. Clement March was a relative of the Peirce family. John Moffatt and Thomas Wallingford, so far as known, were not connected by blood or marriage to each other or to the other proprietors. The interest in the propriety acquired later by John Tufton Mason and John Thomlinson was the natural sequence of their early connection with the patent. The Masonian proprietors, closely allied among themselves, were also firmly identified with, and were an important factor of the provincial government of New Hampshire. Mark Hunking Wentworth, Theodore Atkinson, Richard Wibird, Samuel Solly, George Jaffrey, Daniel Peirce, and Jotham Odiorne were members of the council. The editor acknowledges himself specially indebted to Hon. Ezra S. Stearns, Secretary of State, for the statement of facts which he has incorporated in this chapter. No living student of the Masonian element in New Hampshire history has a more accurate or extensive knowledge of the subject and its literature than Mr. Stearns. His good offices in aid of the work have contributed materially to its value. It is a privilege to renew the expressions of an obligation of which we have not been unmindful in the past. The continued interest of His Excellency, Charles A. Busiel, and the Honorable Council, and their efficient cooperation will enable the editor at an early date to complete the publication of the series of Masonian papers, and to place a most im- portant part of the archives of our state before the public in a form for general use and special examination. Mr. Otis G. Hammond continues as our office assistant, and is deserving of com- mendation for the painstaking industry and special fitness which he brings to the performance of his duties. THE EDITOR. TABLE OF CONTENTS. Nelson New Boston Newbury New Durham Newington . New Hampton New Ipswich New London Newport Ossipee Pelham Pembroke Peterborough Plymouth Portsmouth . Rindge Rochester Rumney Salem Salisbury Sanbornton . Sandwich Shelburne Society Land Somersworth Stoddard Stratham Sunapee Sutton 3 5 2 76 95 109 1 10 1 12 127 136 x 37 r 73 178 185 194 1 95 198 208 210 2 1 1 2I 5 228 244 247 256 263 263 2 99 3° 2 3°3 X TABLE OF CONTENTS. Temple 335 Thornton ........... 342 Tuftonborough . . . . . . . . . . 345 Wakefield ........... 353 Warner ........... 365 Washington ........... 394 Weare ........... 421 Wilmot ........... 442 Wilton ........... 445 Windsor ........... 455 Wolfeborough .......... 468 Unlocated Lands ......... 485 Index ............ 497 GRANTS OF NEW HAMPSHIRE TERRITORY BY THE PROPRIETORS OF THE MASONIAN PATENT WITH OTHER DOCUMENTS RELATING THERETO. GRANTS OF NEAY HAMPSHIRE TERRITORY BY THE PROPRIETORS OF THE MASONIAN PATENT. NELSON. [Granted by the Masonian Proprietors as Monadnock No. 6, May io, 1752, to John Hutchinson and others. The grant was renewed Sept. 30, 1767, and again Feb. 23, 1774. Incorporated as Packerstield Feb. 22, 1774, and named in honor of Thomas Packer. The present name was adopted June 14, 1814, to take effect Oct. 1, 1814. In 1777 an unsuccessful attempt was made to change the name to Sullivan. The north-west part of the town, combined with other territory, was incorporated as Sullivan Sept. 27, 1787. The southwest corner was combined with other territory to form the town of Roxbury Dec. 9, 1812. The line between Nelson and Roxbury was changed June 15, 1820, by which Nelson lost a small tract. A small piece of land was severed from Stoddard and annexed to Nelson June 25, 1835. See New Hampshire charters in preceding volumes ; XII, Hammond Town Papers, 635 ; Index to Laws, 394,416; sketch, Hurd’s History of Cheshire County, 1886, p. 318 ; sketch, Child’s Gazetteer of Cheshire County, 1885, p. 340 ; Baptist Churches in N. H., by E. E. Cummings, 1836, p. 17; Lawrence’s N. H. Churches, 1856, p. 283 ; Biographical Notices of Physicians, by O. P. Newell, 1, N. PI. Repository, 277.] [ Charter of Nelson, 1752.] [Masonian Papers, Yol. 7, p. 1, and Proprietors’ Records, Yol. 6, p. 117.] Province of \ Pursuant, to the Power And Authority Granted New Hamp r j And vested in me the Subscriber by the Prop™ of Lands Purchassed of John Tuffton Mason Esq in the Province of 4 CHARTER RECORDS. New Hamp r by their vote passed at their meeting held at Portsmouth in Said Province The Sixth day of December A D 1751. I Do by these presents on the terms & Limitations with the Reservations hereafter expressed Give and Grant all the Right title property & possession of the prop rs afores d unto John Hutchinson two Shares Alexander Park two Shares Robert Park two Shares James Miller two Shares Alexander Park Jun r two Shares Joseph Park two Shares John Chamberlain Four Shares Zacheus Lovewell four Shares Samuel Searles two Shares John Kendall four Shares Joseph Danforth two Shares Sampson French four Shares Benjamin French two Shares Eleazer Farwell four Shares John Tollford two Shares William Tollford two Shares James Quenton Two Shares James Ferson two Shares Samuel Ferson two Shares Alexander Calso two Shares William Calso two Shares Robert M c Curdev Two Shares Thomas Christy two Shares Robert Gill more two Shares Thomas m c Claughlan two Shares Robert Fletcher Jun r four Shares Jacob Fletcher four Shares James Minot two Shares Thomas Blanchard four Shares John Marchall four Shares Josiah Willard Four Shares Benjamin Farwell two Shares Ephraim adams four Shares John Searles four Shares Jonathan French four Shares Ben- jamin Bellows four Shares of in & to that tract of Land or township Called Manadnock Nomber Six Lying in the Province of New Hampshire Bounded as folio weth Begining at. the Sow-west Corner of the Premises at a beach tree In the Westeren line of Mason Patent Lately marked fifteen mills to The Northward of the Province line being the North- westerly Corner Of Manadnock Nomber five from thence Runing South Eighty Degrees East Eight mills to a piller of Rocks ; bound- ing Southerly on the townships Called manadnock Nomber five & Nomber three, & from the piller of Stons Afores d Runs North ten Degrees East five mills to a beach tree from thence North Eighty Deg rs west one mill to the South East Corner of manadock Nomber Seven And to Continue the Same Corce by manad k N° 7 : Seven mills to y e Patent line afores d thence Southerly by that line to the first bounds mentioned To them their Heirs And Assigns To Have And To Hold On the following terms And Conditions with the Reservations herein After Expressed viz 1 that the tract of Land Or township afores d be Divided into One Hundred And twenty Equal Shares two lotts at the least in Each Share to be finished and Drawn for in Some Equitable & publick manner at or before the last day of November which will be in the Year of Our Lord 1754 That three of the Afores d Shares be Granted free from Charge one for the first Settled minister one for the Ministry and One for NELSON. 5 the School there for ever, One lot in each of the S d three Shares to be first Lay’d out in Some Convenient place, near the middle of the town and lotts Coupled to them so As not to be Drawn for That twenty more of S d Shares be Reserved for the Grantors their Heirs And Assigns forever and Acquitted from all Duty And Charge untill Improved b}^ the Owners or Some holding them Respec- tively — That the Owners of the Other Shares make Settlement at their Own expence in the following manner viz 1 each Grantee At the Expiration of three years from the Last day of November next after the date hereof on each Double Share have three Acres parcel of his Right Respectively Cleared Inclosed And fitted for mowing or tillage three Acres more in like manner Clered Inclosed And fitted as afores cl 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 1758 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 to Continue Residency there for three years then next Com- ing^ — That a Convenient meeting house be built in S d Township As near the Centre as Convenience will Admitt within ten Years from this date and ten Acres of Land Reserved there for Publick use That the Lands in S d Township Belonging to Grantors And Grantees be Subjected to have all Necessary Roads Lay'd through them As there Shall be Occasion for the future without any pay or Allowance for Damages thereby That the afores d Grantees their Heirs or Assigns by A Major vole in publick meeting Called for that purpose Grant and Assess in Equall proportion Such Sum or Sums of money as they Shall think necessary from time to time for Carrying forward and Compleating the Settlement afores d And every of the Grantees Exclusive of the three publick lotts who Shall neglect for the Space of thirty days next after Such Assessment Shall be granted And made (to pay the Same) so much of Such Delinquents Rights Respectively Shall and may be Sold as will pay the tax and all Charges Ariseing on the Sale by a Com itte to be Appointed by the Grantees for that purpose And in Case any of the Grantees Shall neglect or Refuse to Per- form any of the Articles afores d by him Respectively to be done he Shall forfeit his Share & Right in S d township And every part thereof to those of the Grantees 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 Share or part of Such Delinquent Owner in the 6 CHARTER RECORDS. name and behalf of the Whole of the Grantees Who Shall Comply as afores d ) to Amove Oust and expell for the use of them their heirs And Assigns Provided they Settle or Cause to be Settled 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 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 y e Grantees fullfilling their parts as afores d Shall neglect full- filling as afores d the duty of any Delinquent Owner nor he himself perform it as afores d that then Such Share or Shares Shall be for- feit 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 S d township is Lotted Out And Drawn for Shall Return a plan and Schedule of Such Allottment And Draught Certified by the Clerk of S d Township on Oath into the Grantors Clerks office Always Provided there Shall be no Indian War within any of the terms Limitted As afores d for doing the duty Conditioned in this Grant to be done — And in Case that Shou’d Happen the Same time to be Allowed for the Respective matters afores d After Such Impediment Shall be Removed Further that all White pine trees fitt for masting his Majestys Royal Navey Growing on s d tract of Land be and hereby are Granted to his Majesty his heirs And Successors forever — To all Which Premises I Joseph Blanchard Agent for and in behalf of the Grantors have hereunto Sett mv hand And Seal this tenth day of may 1752 and — in y e 26 th year of his Majestys Reign — Joseph Blanchard j L S A true Copy Examined p r Mathew Thornton Prop rs Clerk [Acceptance of Charter , 1753.] [Masonian Papers, Yol. 7, p. 2.] Whereas Joseph Blanchard Esq as Agent for And in the name And behaff of the Prop rs of the Lands in the Province of New Hamp r Purchased by them of John Tufton Mason Esq Who Sold to them • December 7 th 1768, Then the above-nam’d Breed Batchelder, made solemn Oath that this is a true Plan of the Lots of Divisions in the Hampshire. \ Township Monadnock N° 6, the out Side Lines with the Dividing Lines, across & thro’ the Township, & the Grantors Lots, all taken from actual Surveys & Runnings well mark’d on the Spot, the Rest from Calculations & all are numbered as set forth in the Plan. Sworn before me William Parker Just Pacis The Ponds ware Drawn on S d Plan the 6 o f Novr 1773 by me Breed Batcheller NELSON. 9 which they tho’t would not Require more than two or three Years — all which being Consider’d, the said proprietors being Willing to En- courage the Settlement & to Favour the said Grantees. Therefore Voted that the Term of two Years be and hereby is Granted to the said Grantees, and those who hold under them to fullfill and per- form the said Articles, Matters & things which the said Grantees originally were obliged to do & perform — \fDeed from Rebecca Blanchard to Samuel Cook , 1770.] [Masonian Papers, Vol. 7, p. 4.] Know all Men by these Presents, That I Rebecca Blanchard of Dunstable In the province of New Hamp r Wid° Executrix to y e Tes- tament of Joseph Blanchard Esq r Deceas d by virtue of a Clause in y e s d Will Impowering me to Sell any part of the Estate of the s d Joseph For and in Consideration of the Sum of Ten pounds Lawful Money of said Province to me in Hand, paid before the Delivery hereof, by Sam 11 Cook of a place Called Monadnock N° 6 in said province Hus- bandman the Receipt whereof I do hereby acknowledge, have given, granted, bargained, sold and released ; and by these Presents do give, grant, bargain, sell, alien, release, convey and confirm to him the said Sam 11 Cook his Heirs and Assigns all that Lot of Land Lying & being in s d Township of N° 6 part of the Right of John Kendall Lying Near the Easterly End thereof Begining at the south East Corner of y e Primises at a Spruce tree from thence Running West Ten Degrees North on Hundred & Sixty Rod to a Beach Tree Marked from thence North Ten Degres East one Hundred Rods to a Hackmetack tree from thence to the first Bounds Containing by Estimation One Hun- dred Acres — To Have and to Hold, the said granted Premises, with the Appur- tenances thereof, to him the said Sam 11 Cook his Heirs and Assigns, to his & their proper Use, Benefit and Behoof forever: Hereby engag- ing to Warrant and Defend the said granted Premises, against all Claims or Demands of any Person or Persons claiming by, from or under me or the s d John Kendall the Grantee Under the Charter of the said Town — In Witness whereof I have hereunto set my Hand and Seal this 12 th Day of October in the 10th Year of His Majesty’s Reign. Anno- que Domini, 1770. Signed, Sealed and Rebecca Blanchard Seal Delivered in the Presence of us, Tim 0 Dustin Hannah Blanchard IO CHARTER RECORDS. Province of ) October 19 th Day 1770 New Hamp r \ Then The above-named Rebecca Blanchard Per- sonally appearing acknowledged the above-written Instrument to be her Voluntry Act and Deed, before me, Ezekiel Chase Justice Peace. [Endorsed] Blanchard to Cook Rec d 15 th June 1771 Recor d in Lib A, Fol 6, a True Copy ^ Jon a Willard Cler [On the back of this deed are the following names :] Abner Stanford Spencer Smith Elias Squire John Day Benj : Nurse Eliu Higby W m Bachelor North East Quarter Josh a Lawrence James Grove John Eastebrook Benj Day John Frink South West Benj : Lines Breed Bachelor Stephen West I. & J Stanhope Breed Bachelor Cornelius Cornell Zephaniah Bachelor [Settlements in Nelson , 1770.] [Masonian Papers, Vol. 6, p. 134.] In Monadnock N° Six The first Settler Breed Batchelder Settled Doct r Breed built one house on two Lotts Lotts 4 th R 9 th : R 10 th Settled Stanliop L 3 : R 8 and Improves L 3 : R 7 Settled Nuton L 3: R 12 — Settled Parkest L 4: R 1 and Improves L 5 : R 1 : [Remonstrance and Petition of Inhabitants, 1773.] [Masonian Papers, Vol. 7, p. 5.] To the Proprietors of the Lands Purchased of John Tufton Mason Esq r Gentlemen The Inhabitants of the Township of Monadnock N° 6 : Beg Leave to Remonstrate to this Propriety that the Duties & Settlements En- joined on the Grantees of this Township is not Done as you Will See NELSON. II by Applying to the office Where the Invoices of the Towns in y e Province are Depositted and We are Greatly Obstructed In our Set- tlements for Want of a Sufficient number to Make Roads as our Lands are Very Uneaven & Rough & it Requires much Labour to Clear off the Trees when we find by Experience it Produces Such Grain & Vegetables as Will be Sufficient to Support us & Our fami- lies & we are Unwilling to Leave Our Lands We therefore pray that for your own Interest you Woud Send a Committee to View the Primeses & Cause the Delinquent Rights to be Granted to Persons that Will Promote ourSettlenfi And Your Petitioners In Duty Bound Shall Ever Pray — Monadnock N° 6. August 23 1773 — James Bancroft David Marshall John farwell John newhall Joseph Mason Aaron Beel Philip Bilhash Eleazer Twitchel Josiah Stanford William Follet [ Breed Batchellor to George Jaffrey , 1773.] [Masonian Papers, Vol. 7, p. 6.] Monadnock N° 6 oct r 4 th 1773 Honoured S r the Last time I had the Hapiness to be in your Company you ware pleased to tell me as I was mentioning to your Honour that the Blanchards ware forming a Comeplaint against me and trying to git a Number of the Settlers of monadnock N° 6 to Sign against me to the Grantors — that if any Such Complaint Should Come I Should be Served with a Copy of the Comeplaint and Names Signed against me and have an oppertunity to Defend my Self in the affair. Sir if it has, or Should Come pray Dont for Git me in this affair you may Send any time by m r Porter the post In Comeplying with the above you Greatly oblige your Honours most Hum b Serv* Breed Batcheller To Honourable Geo. Jeffery Esq [ Improvements in Nelson , 1773.] [Masonian Papers, Vol. 7, p. 7.] A List of the Northeast Quarter of monadnock Number Six as was Taken by us the Subscribers, with the Names of Each Settler Living 12 CHARTER RECORDS. on s ' 1 Northeast Quarter now — and the Number of the Lots & Ranges they Live on and the Number of Ratable poles also the Number of persons in Each Family and Number of acres Improving by Each Set- tler and also the Number of acres Improving by them that Dont Live Stidy in s d Town with Each owners Name anexed to the Lots Mens Names N° of the Lots N° of the Ranges N° of Rat- able poles Persons in Each Family N° of acres Improving D r Nathaniel Breed 4 & 5 9 & io 3 7 54 Nath 11 Breed J r . 3 9 o 1 1 * John Breed 4 9 o 1 15 william Follet 2 7 i 6 20 Jonathan Nickols i 3 i 3 *5 Abijah Brown 2 9 i 2 35 Thomas upham . I 8 i 1 20 John wellman 5 7 i 1 10 abraham Griffeth 5 6 i 1 18 John Stroud 4 6 i 3 19 Joseph Stanhope 3 8 3 5 40 John Estabrook . 3 IO i 1 12 Isaac & John Stanhope o O 0 0 0 14 poles 3 2 278^ acres The above is an Exact account of those Now Living on the North- east Quarter of monadnock Number Six and the Following is an Exact account of those that are Improving on the above mentioned N. E. Quarter but Dont Live there Stidy a * * NELSON. 13 Mens Names N° of the Lots N° of the Ranges N° of acres Improving John Day ....... 2 6 16 acres Benj a Day ....... 1 7 7 Breed Batcheller .... 1 6 20 Ditto small Grist mill ..... 1 5 2 5 Ditto ........ 1 4 23 Ditto ........ 2 3 2 Benj a Nurse J r ..... 2 12 8 D r John Frink ...... 3 1 2 12 Cornelius Cornell ...... 2 8 2 Elihu Higbe ....... 2 10 12 10 — Carried over the Last mentioned to the other Side ...... Abner Stanford ...... 2 3 127 acres 2 Joshua Lawrance ...... 1 9 ih Breed Batchellers ...... 4 12 3 with Ditto ....... 5 12 a Sawmill 7 Ditto Center Farm ..... 5 1 1 15 Ithamar Smith ...... 4 7 5 Joseph Blancard h Lot ..... 4 8 2 James Grover h Lot ..... 4 8 5 Stephen Treat ...... 3 7 7 Elias Squire ....... 3 6 8 Brought from the other Side .... 127 182^ acres added these that Live in Town ....... 278^ Sume Total of acres Clearing . . . . . . .461 acres 30 Duties 12 acres Each is ....... 360 1 01 acres more then 30 Duties May it Pleas your Excellency these two pages Represent the True State of the Northeast quarter of monadnock N° 6 with those that Live on S d Quarter & those that Dont Live there Stidy that are Im- proving — Taken by us the Subscribers according to the Rest of our Skill and Judgment which we are Ready to make oath to if Required oct r 4 th 1773 Abijah Browne Thomas upham Breed Batcheller ^easurra! % maj, h CHARTER RECORDS *4 [Plan of Nelson .] NELSON. I S [. Improvements in Nelson , 1773.] [Masonian Papers, Yol. 7, p. 8.] An account of all the Rights in the Southeast Quarter Except the Seven Rights Belong to the Heirs of the Late Coll Blanchard De- ceased — Being 8 Rights) that are Improving on John Chamberlin Right 2 Duties . Salvanus morse .... 16 acres Jabez Grover .... .6 . ariei peck ..... .1 • Seth Higbe .... . 1 . oseph Chilson .... .6 Beriah wetmore .... 20 Samuel Everit .... 10 James millers Right 1 Duty . . Breed Batchellers Estabrooks place 17 amos Skiner .... ..... 13 Alexander Parks J r Right 1 Duty no Body on it . • alexander Parks Right 1 Duty John Adams .... . 25 Josiah Parks Right 1 Duty Aaron Beel .... • 40 John Speney .... . .2 Philip Billash .... • l 5 Robert Parks Right 1 Duty . Daniel wood .... a Grist mill & Bolting mill . Spencer Pratt .... ..... 18 John Ferwell .... • 10 John Scarlet Newhall . ..... 4 Benj a Frenches Right . 1 Duty James Bancroft .... • • • • • 40 244 acres Note those that have Dotts against there Names Dont Live in Town : stidy and the others are Living in the above mentioned Rights Pleas to Look on the other Side Brought from the other Side ...... 244 acres the Eight Rights was to Clear 12 acres on Each Right is . 96 which 8 Rights have 12 Settlers on them 148 acres over i6 CHARTER RECORDS. The above and what is on the other Side is a Trew account Taken according to the Best of our Skill & Judgement oct r 4 th 1773 — Abijah Browne Thomas upham Breed Batcheller [Petition of Inhabitants to Governor , 1773.] [Masonian Papers, Vol. 7, p. 9.] To his Excellency John wentworth Esq r Captain General Govonor & Commander in Cheif in and over his majestys Province of New Hampshire & Vice admeral of the Same &C — The Subscribers Inhabetants of a Place Known by the Name of Monadnock Number Six Beg Leave Humbly to Shew to your Excel- lency, that whareas, a Petition or Remonstrance, has been Prefferd to your Excellecy by Sundry of the Settlers of Said Number Six Set- ting forth there Desire, not to have Said Number Six Incorperated, and also a Complaint against Breed Batcheller for not fulfilling his obligations with Regard of Settling Said Number Six and making Roads &. C. which has Occasioned Several Families to Leave the Town, and that by the Original Grant the Grantees where obliged to Settle Said Township within a Certain Limeted time with Sixty Families and that there was not but Twenty Families in said Town- ship, Eleven of which are on Land Called Blanchards Quarter, and also an oppertunity to Chuse another Clerk & Treasurer, with an Insinuation that no Votes Can be obtained with out Said Batchellers Consent your Petitioners Beg Leave to make the Following answers to the Premises, and with Regard to an Incorporation of said Township your Petitioners Beg Leave to Shew to your Excellency that there was a proprietors meeting Last march (Leagally held as your Petitioners apprehend) when a majorrety of Votes was obtained to have Said Number Six Incorperated, though Said Batcheller Did not Vote but Publicly Say in open meeting before Said Vote Passed, that if Said Township Should be Incorperated the Burden would Lie on the Inhabetants and Desired that they would Consider well on the mat- ter But your Petitioners are not anxcious wheather it is Incorperated or not but would be Glad to Leave it to your Excellencys wise Deter- mination — your Petitioners would Shew to your Excellency there is Dwelling in Said Township Twenty one Families Besides thirty or forty other NELSON. 17 Persons that have began and made Considerable Improvements, and your Petitioners are of opinion that there would have been Settled in Said Township, many more Families or Persons had it not been for the Scarsety of Provisions, for Several years Past, which Scarsety occasioned the Removel of Several Families or Settlers and not the Bad Roads as mentioned in the Remonstrance — and your Petitionrs Trust that your Excellency will Excuse them if they Shew to your Excellency that Said Township was to be Settled within a Certain Limeted time with Fifty Families or Persons, and not Sixty Families as mentioned in Said Remonstrance, and as to the Eleven Families on Blanchards Quarter your Petitioners trust your Excellency will Pardon them if they Shew to your Excellency that they are Settled in that Part of the Town where Blanchards Lands Lies, and are on other Lands, three Families only Excepted which are the only Settlers that are on the the Seven Rights Belonging to the Heirs of the Late Coll. Blanchard and also an Insinuation that no Votes Could be obtained with out Said Batchellers Consent, we trust your Excel- lency will pardon us if we Shew to your Excellency that we have Generally attended the Proprietors meetings and Dont Remember that m r Batcheller Ever Exersised any othorrety Lawful or unLawful, or that he Ever Voted Except in three or four Instances, some of which we Beg Leave to Shew to your Excellency when the first meet- ing was Called by a Justice who Moderated Said meeting Some of the Proprietors where Desirious of having said meeting adjorned, but Said Batcheller Voted to have it Go on to Save the Cost of the Justices Coming again — the Second was that M r Batcheller Voted that the Proprietors Should have Leave to work out there Taxes in Stid of paying the money — the Third was Said Batcheller Voted one hapeney per acre Laid on Each Right for Reparing the Roads, and as to an opportunity to Chuse another Treasurer & Clerk, your Peti- tioners suggest that your Petitioners are Fully Convinced that your Excellency will not Interfeer in that affair, but Leave them to Chuse there Treasurer and Clerk as Derected by Law — the Present Treasurer and Clerk we have no objections to tho he him Self is not fond of the office and your Petitioners would Beg Leave to Inform your Excellency that y e Roades are well made for the time Said town has been Settled and that M r Batcheller Never was Surveyor in the East half of the Town where Said Remonstrance was taken — and your Petitioners Beg Leave to Suggest to your Excellency that they are of opinion that Said Batcheller has Done all he Could to Bring Forward the Settlement of Said Township and what he thought Best, for the Interest of the Proprietors and Settlers, and your petitioners i8 CHARTER RECORDS. Imagain that there lias been as good Progreess made in Settling said Township as any other New Town in the County Notwithstanding Said Batcheller has Laboured under Great Disadvangages on account of his 111 State of helth which Obliged him to Leave the Town one Sumer your Petitioners are Very Sorry that any Disputes Should Happen with Regard to Settling said Township, and are Sorry to make mention of what they Immagain to be the occasion of said Remonstrance, but Justice at this time seems to Require it we there- fore hope your Excellency will not take it a miss if they Inform your Excellency that the Before mentioned Remonstrance was Procured by the Influence and at the Request of Some of Coll. Blanchards Heirs, Because Said Batcheller as Collector had Disposed of Some of there Land at Vandue for payment of there Taxes, after Being Due Several years — your Petitioners therefore Humbly pray that the Settlement and peace of Said Number Six may not be Disturbed by Privet animossetys, and that your Excellenc}^ would take the Premises into Consideration, and Do that which your Excellency in your Great wisdom Shall See fit all which is most Humbly Submited by your Excellencys most Humb. Serv ts oct 1 14 th 1773— John Stroud Jonathan Nickols Abijah Browne Natii 11 Breed Beriah Wetmore Thomas upham John Le Bourveau Nathanael Breed jun Joseph Stanhope Abraham Griffeth James Phillips [. Retraction by Signers of Remonstrance , 1773. j [Masonian Papers, Vol. 7, p. 10.] To his Excellency John Wentworth Esq Cap 1 Generali & Govern- our in Chief in & over the Province of New Hampshire & Vice Admiral of the same — the Subscribers Humbly Shew & give your Excellency to Be informed that some time Since We Sign’d a Petition as Inhabitants of Monadnock Number Six setting forth that the Duty which was Enjoyned in said Grant was not Compleated & Particularly that M r Batchellor had not fulfilled his Obligations with regard to Setling said Township Makeing Roads, &c We not being so well acquainted with Circumstances of said Number Six as we are now, & Confiding too much in what M r James Blanchard Said & at whose Request said Remonstrance was made, find the Affairs are not as Represented in NELSON. *9 said Petition & therefore Humbly pray that your Excellency will take no further Notice thereof but Ask your Excellenc}^ forgiveness for Troubling your Excellency with said Petition as in Duty Bound shall ever pray Monadnock N° 6 oct r 18 th 1778 Phillip Balyah John Adams Joseph mason Aaron Beel John Scarlet newhall William Foliet John Farwell Eleazer Twitchel James Bancroft Josiah Stanford [. Petition of Nathaniel Breed , 1778.] [Masonian Papers, Yol. 7, p. 11.] To his Excellency John Wentworth Esq 1 ' Cap 1 General and Gov- ernour in Chieff in and Over his Majesties Province of New Hamp- shire and Vice admiral of the Same &c — May it Please Your Excellency I the Subscriber beg Your Excel- lencys Favour and Clemency while I Relate a Few facts Relating to the affairs of Monadnock N° 6 Whereas a Petition has bin Presented to Your Excellency against the Proprietors of Said N° 6 & in Partic- ular Seems to be Mainly Pointed against Ens 11 Breed Batcheller to Do Justice to the Proprietors and M r Batchellor 1 would Inform Your Excellency that I was with M r Batcheller In Laying Out the town- ship when I Moved into town Was the Seacond family that was in it which is Just Five Years this Month and Believe Know as Much as any or More of the affairs of S d town I think the town is as forward as any & as Good Roads or Better for the time it has bin Setling the Scarcity of Provisions I believe is the Reason that hath hindred Some from Comeing in and Caused Others to Move Out of the town & Not bad Roads as has bin Represented Likewise great Numbers have had Lands Given them and Others have bought in Order to Settle and above Sixty Lots to My Certain Knowledge have Considerable Cleared & Some Others a Little & Many are Preparing now to Move into the town Soon as Possible M r Batcheller has Sold land to None but Such as Promised him to settle it tho to My Knowledge Many have fel back and he hath Done all that he thought Was best to forward the Settlement of the township & Never sued any that Lived in the town but helped them what he Could to live I Believe No One has Just Reason to Complain of him as Treasurer or Clerk and he Never was & is Not now a Surveyor for the East half of the town where Chief of the Setters and all the Complainers live if the town was In- 20 CHARTER RECORDS. corporated I believe it would Very Much forward the Settlement of the town and the Gospel in it as it will Put us in a way to Do it as to M r Janies Blanchard (the first time I Ever Saw him we Traveling alone) he told Me that he Would Do M r Batcheller what Ingury he Could if he would Not Give up the Vendue Land, which I think he m r Bacheller Justly Sold (and he has told Me he would Return on their setling all & Paying Lawful Charge and he has Returned the Land to several) & I believe is the only Reason that he James Blanch- and & M 1 ' James Bancroft got those People who I believe were Mostly Innocent to sign against the Incorporation and M r Batchellor which has a Tendency to Destroy and Hurt the Settlement of Said township and Break Up the Harmony that hath Conspicuously subsisted amongst the setlers but a few that Signed against M r Batcheller have bin long in the town or Known what has bin Done to for- ward the settlement of it as I was the Proprietors Modera- tor at the Meeting last March when Vote Was Obtained to have the town Incorporated & Can Certifie Your Excellency that those People that Signed the Petition against the Incorporation and Proprietors were those that Voted for it M r Batchellor & Others ad- vised them at the Meeting to think well Over what they Did & told then the Consequence it shews their Unconstancy I beg Leave Humbly to beseach Your Excellencys favour to the Proprietors and Inhabitants as We begin to live and take Courage Much More Might be Said but fear to Incur Your Displeasure and tire Your Patience beg Leave to Subscribe Your Excellencys Most Obedient Most Obliged & Humble serv 1 and well wisher Monadnock N° Six Nath 11 Breed Oct r 20 th 1773 [. Letter in Behalf of Breed Batchellor , 1773.] [Masonian Papers, Vol. 7, p. 12.] Monadnock N° 6 Oct: 22 d 1773 May it Please Your Excellency We the Subscribers Make Bold to write a few Lines to Your Ex- cellency we Trust Your Excellency will Pardon us for So Doing when You Consider that we do it in behalf of the Township of Monadnock N° 6 and Ens 11 Breed Batcheller as their Hath bin Complaints against them both we have bin in the town five Years or More & have bin acquainted with the affairs of the town & in particular with M r Batch- eller and We think it strange to hear their is Such a Report Gone to Your Excellency for We are of Opinion that None of y e Inhabitance NELSON. 21 of S d N° 6 have Just Reason to Complain of M r Bacheller for being Slack about Setling the Town or for Oppressing the People or for his Not Making Roads or for his Not being faithful in any Post to which he hath bin Chosen for we think that he hath Done his Utmost for the forwarding the Settlement of the town & he hath bin a Very Obliging friend to those that were in Disstress and to Us in Particu- lar but Some have Signed against M r Batcheller tho We trust Most of them ware Prevailed with bv the Insinuation of M r James Blanch- •y ard as Some of them have acknowledged & we are of Opinion that this Town is as forward in Settelment as any for the time it hath bin Setling thus begging Your Excelleneys Favour for the town & beg Leave to Subscribe Your Excelleneys Very Humbl Serv ts Abijali Brown Thomas Upham '[Statistics of Families Moved Away , ITT 3.] [Masonian Papers, Vol. 7, p. 13.] A List of the People that have Lived on the Northeast Quarter of monadnock N° 6 — that have moved out of Said Township and the Number of the Lots and Ranges they Lived on — Term of time they ware Resident in S d Township N° of Ratable polls — N° of Persons in Each Family and N° of acres Improving by Each Settler 22 CHARTER RECORDS. mens Names years Resi- dent in N° 6 N° of the Lots on N° of the Range N° of Rat- able poles N° of persons in Each Family N° of acres Im Proving Jonathan Parkhurst 3 1 i & i in 4 & 5 3 1 1 48 John Proute . 3*1 2 6 i 4 16 Samuel willson 3 2 7 i i 20 Johnson Proute 2 I 7 i i 7 Robert Graham 2 I 6 i i 7 william Graham * I 6 I i 2 Ephariam Segers . I I 6 I i 1 1 Seth & John Higbe I 5 1 2 2 4 10 Elihu Higbe I 2 10 I i 4 Stephen Treat h 3 7 I i 7 Elias Squire h 3 6 I i 8 Thadeus Estabrook I 3 io I i 12 Richard Newton . 32 3 12 I 6 12 wentrop Hoit h 2 10 I i 4 Nehemiah Eliot h 4 8 2 2 6 Ithamar Smith I 4 7 2 2 6 Nathan Barns 2 2 IO i I 4 abner Stanford 2 3 3 i I 2 michel woodcock . 2 5 7 i I 3 michel woodcock Jr i 5 7 i 7 49 i8 9 The above is an Exact account Taken according to the Best of our Skil & Judgment oct 1 22 th 1773 — To his Excellency John wentwortli Esq 1 ' A List of the People that have Lived in the Southwest Quarter of N° 6 that are Not in Town on the Right of James Quenton — william Batch ell or 3J years 1 pole 1 In family 8 acres cleard Ditto on the Right of Samuel Ferson — 16 Jabez Billings Deceased william Herrington Benj a Lynds Joseph Symmonds John Davis li years 1 — 3 — 6 2 D° 1 — 3 — 4 li —1 — 1—2 li — 1 — 1 — T n _ i — i _ 6 NELSON. 2 3 S. E. Quarter James Millers Right Ithamar Smith J r li year 1 — 1 — 12 * y John Chamberlins Right Salvanns Morse 2 years 1 — 1 — 16 8 poles 12 in family 77 acres [ Improvements in Nelson , 1773.] [Masonian Papers, Yol. 7, p. 14.] A Trew State of the 5 Rights in the Southwest Quarter of monad- nock N° 6 with an account of those Living on Said Quarter & those that are Improving and not Stidy here on the Right of James Quenton Breed Batcheller years with 4, or 5, Labouring men 100 acres John Le Bourveau 3^ . . . . . . . 13 — . william Batcheller 3§ ...... 8 on the Right of Samuel Person Breed Batcheller 0 ....... 40 . Joseph Symmonds i . . . . . . . 7 william Batcheller 0 ....... 16 . Benj a Lynds \ ...... 4 . Henry Bemis \ ...... 4 James Phillips 1 ...... 8 . John Davis i ....... 3 william Tolfords Right . Zephaniah Batcheller ...... 2 205 acres Did the Duties of the Right of John Tolford & James Ferson on the other three Rights The above is Taken according to the Best of our Skill & Judgement oct r 22 th 1773 N B. those that have a Dott against there Names Dont Live in Town Stidy Abijah Browne Thomas upharn Breed Batcheller 5 Rights whare to Clear 12 acres Each which is 5 times 12 or 60 acres — S abstracted from 205 acres , 60 Leaves over & above — 145 ar 2 4 CHARTER RECORDS. [Letter in Behalf of Breed Batcliellor , 1773.] [Masonian Papers, Yol. 7, p. 15.] Charlstown October 22 th 1773 — may it Pleas your Excellency we the Subscribers Formerly Being Inhabetants of monadnock N° 6 for sundry years Beg Leave Humbly to Shew to your Excellency that whereas there is a Remonstrance to your Excellency against the Proprietors of monadnock N° 6, but In perticular it Seems to pint out Ens 11 Breed Batcheller and our Leaving the Town for want of Roads and his opressing the People and us we hope your Excellency will Excuse us if we Inform your Excellency that was not the Case — and as to the s d Batchellers not making Roads — we would Shew to your Excellency, that he Never was Surveyor for high ways in the East half of the Town where the people Lived that Signed the Petition against him — but we Beleve that s d Batcheller has Done all in his Power to have the Roads made which are well made for the time said Township has been Settled and as to his opressing the peo- ple or us we would inform your Excellency that Never was the Case — but that he the said Batcheller used his utmost Indevor to help the People to our Certian Knowledge and has Repetedly Releved us when in Destress and Deffulty, and has been as Kind to us seemingly as a Brother — Likewise we would Inform your Excellency that the Town Settles Very Fast, for a New place, and that the people and Said Batcheller Goes on Heart and hand, Except a few that we Judge are Led astray by m r James Blanchard as he has Tryed his best to Git us to Signe against said Batcheller — and has Ketched those people to sign against Said Batcheller in favor of the Blanchards as they Seem to Thretin his Rewing but not only his but we fear this will stop peo- ple Coming into the town to Settle as the Famely of the Blanchards seem to be so wormly Ingaged against him — we hope your Excellency will Excuse us for writing the above as we are Bound in Duty to your Excellency to Tell the Truth in favor of m r Batcheller, tho, we Dont Speak one half what we Could Say in his Favor — & Beg Leave to Submit the above to y r Excellencys wise Consideration & Beg Leave to Subscribe our Selfs y r Excellencys most Humb Serv ts John proute Michol woodcock To his Excellency John Wentworth Esq r Portsmouth New Hamp- shire NELSON. 25 [ Depositions of Amos Skinner and John Wellman , Jr., 1773.] [Masonian Papers, V ol. 7, p. 16.] To his Exelency John Wentworth Esq r This may let your Exelency know that 1 the Subscribor Amos Skinner have ben Sumthing knowing to a Peticion signed by Sundry of the settelers of Monadnock N. 6. to your Exelency against M r Breed Batcheller and I heard James Blanchard Say that he had now got that fixt that would tare him mening Said Batcheller all to raggs and that he would forfit all he had in the world if he did not do it for he was then a going to the Lord Propriators with Sum of the Inhab- tents and had sent a Complaint before as I understood on that afair and that he beleived he should parsafy the Lord Propriators and Set the Governor to Sue the Bond that was against said Batcheller — what is above written is true to my knowledge and Remembrance Amos Skinner Mansfield October the 28 th 1773 Bristol ss Mansfield October the 28 th 1773 Then Amos Skinner made oath to the truth of what is above written which is by him Subscribed Sworn Before me — Eph m Leonard Justice of Peace To His Exelency John Wintworth Esq r Governor & c This may let your Exelency know that I am Sumthing knowing to a Peticion Signed by Sundry of the Settelors of Monadnock N. 6. to your Exelency against M r Breed Batcheller and I heard James Blanchard Say that he had got that fixt against him that would tare him all to - pecis but if Said Batcheller would give up the vandue Land that he had sold that he would Send to porch- mouth and git that Peticion back again that was sent against Said Batcheller as I understood by his tolk — what is above written is true to my knowledge and Rememberance John wellman junor Mansfield October the 28 th 1773 Bristol ss Mansfield October the 28 th 1773 Then John Wellman Junor made oath to the truth of what is above written which by him Subscribed — Sworn Before me E P h'» I ^eonard Justice of Peace 2 6 CHARTER RECORDS. [ Testimony of Abijah Brown , 1773.] [Masonian Papers, Vol. 7, p. 17.] Abijali Brown of Monadnoek N-6 at tlie Request of M r James Blanchard in Behalf of the porpriators of Masons Right was asked the Following Questions Q did you Ever work on M r Breed Batchellors farme for which you was discharged of any of your Taxes and how much 2 ly whether you Ever heard any threatning or Complaining to the Governor or the proprietors from the Setlors against m r Breed Batcli- ellor for not doing the Dutis on that part Called the North East Quarter A he worked on m r Breed Batchellors farme to the am 1 of one pound four Shillings L : M : of his Taxes, which was the proportion the propriators owed him (as he Said) as to peopel Complaing against M r Batcliellor Not doing his Deuty on the North East Quar he Could not Tell much abought that Cheshire ss Monadnoek N° 6 Nov r 12 th 1773 After Due Caution & Carefull Examination the foregoing Interroga- tories was Impartially taken upon the Spot, at the Request of m r James Blanchard Before Sam Blodget Jus: peace [ Testimony of Beriah Whitmore , 1773.] [Masonian Papers, Vol. 7, p. 19.] Beriah Whitmore of Monadnoek N° 6 — at the Request of m r James Blanchard in behalf of the proprietors of Masons Right was asked the Following Questions Q did you ever here M r Breed Batchellor Say any thing to any Person for signing a Complaint to the Governour or heard him tell them that he would Summon them to portsmouth and that they signed a Complaint Contrary to Law and they would Suffer for it un- less they would Recant and sign a paper to the Governour that they was misled A that he heard M r Breed Batchellor say he beleaved the Govern- our would Send for them and If he did not he would petition him to send for them But If they would Recant he would not be Instromen- tal of hurting them NELSON. 27 Cheshire ss Monadnock N° 6 Nov r 12 th 1773 After Due Caution & Carefull Examination the foregoing Interrog- atories was Impartially taken upon the Spot, and at the Request of M r James Blanchard Before Sam Blodget Jus : peace [ Willard's Report of Condition of Settlements, 1773.] [Masonian Papers, Vol. 7, p. 18.] Original Grantees Names Jn° Kendals Right Jos h Danforths Right Tho s M c Laughlins Right Alexander Parkes Right Josiah Parkes Right Rob 1 Parks Right By whome owned y e Number of acres Cleared & worked on Houses Built & Familys on David Marshall.. H.. B. F.. O. 1 acre Cleared 8 acres cut over James Blanchard owner 8 acres cleared 30 acres of understuff cut, Camp Built.. N. F. O— Jos h Eyars there at work C.. B. 7 acres Cut Down 3 acres understuff Cut N.. F.. O. Jos h Eayrs H.. B.. 8 acres Cleared N.. F.. O. a Man at Work Eleazer Twitchel H.. B.. 25 acres Cleared F.. O— Jos h Stanford H.. B.. 7 acres Cleared F.. O.. John Adams 20 acres Cleared H.. B.. res- ident. Aaron Beels 20 acres Cleared H.. B.. F.. O Jos h Mason H. B. 12 acres Cleared F.. O Jn° Fairwell H. B. 4 acres Cleared F.. O Jn° Newlialls H B. 3 acres Cleared F.. O.. Jn° Spring H.. Building 2 acres Cleared F.. O Phillip Billhash H.. B.. 8 acres Cleared F.. O one Camp Built 15 acres Choped over & one Grist Mill Built The above five Settlers are Purchasers under Rob 1 Boyce Esq r Jn° Hutchinsons Right Josiah Stanford H.. B. 7 acres Cleard F.. O.. 28 CHARTER RECORDS. Benj a Frenchs Right Jn° Chamberlains Right James Millers Right James Bancroft H.. B.. 20 acres Cleared F.. O Sam 11 Averet H.. B.. 7 acres Cleared F.. O.. on y e Same Right 3 acres Cleared 13 acres Choped over N.. H.. B.. N.. F.. O Beriah Whitmore H.. B.. 12 acres Cleared 6 acres Cut over F.. O Amos Skinner C.. B.. 7 acres Cleared 2 acres choped over N.. F.. O The above Rights are all in v e Southeast Quarter of Monadnock N° 6 N: B: H.. B.. for house Built.. F.. O for family on C.. B. for Camp Built N. H. B. for no house built N. F. O. for no Family on Original Grantees Names James Minotts Right Eleazer Fairwells Right One Lot is Thought To be in y e Right of James Minot but not Certain — Tho s Blanchards Right — By whome owned y e N° of acres Cleard & worked on Houses Built & Familys on Jon a Nickols Lot N° 1 in y e 3 d range 7 acres Cleared 7 acres Cut over, H.. B.. F. O H.. B.. 12 Cleared 22 acres Cut over N.. F.. O a Family has Resided there 3 years owned by Breed Batchellor Benj Day Lots N° 2 in the 6 & N° 1 in y e 7 th range H.. B.. on lot N° 2 in y e 6 th range 5 acres Cleared & 20 acres Cut over on y e Lot N° 1 in y e 7 th range 2 acres Cleared 8 acres Cut over W m Follet lives in y e house on y e Lot N° 2 in y e 6 th range Breed Batchellor owns Lot N° 1 in y e Sixth range N.. H.. B. 2 acres Cleared 20 acres cut over W m Follet H.. Building on lot N° 2 in y e 7 th range 12 acres Cleard 8 acres Cut over. Tho s Upham H.. B.. resident 6 acres Cleared 12 acres Cutover Lot N° 2 In the 8 th range Abijah Brown Lot N° 2 in y e 9 th range H & Barn.. B.. F.. O.. 25 acres Cleard 10 acres Cut over.. Elihu Higby Lot N° 2 in y e 10 th range 8 acres worked over 4 acres Cleared. John Frink 2 acres Cleared 7 acres worked over NELSON. 2 9 Jn° Searles’s Right — Eph m Adams’s Right W m Calso’s Right Sam 1 Searles Sam 1 Fersons Right James Quentons Right James Fersons Right Jos h Stanhope Lot N° 3 in y e 8 th range H.. B.. F.. O 20 acres Cleared 16 acres Worked over.. Elias Squire Lot N° 3 in y e 6 th range 2 acres Cleared 4 acres Cut Down N.. H.. B.. N.. F. O.. Stephen Treat on the same Lot 3 acres Cut Down N. . H.. B.. N.. F. O Jn° Eastabrooks Lot N° 3 in y e 10 th range 5 acres Cleard 8 acres Cut Down N.. H.. B. N.. F.. O. Nath 1 Breed Owns Lots N° 3 4 & 5 in the 9 th range and N° 4 in v e 10 range one of s d Lots is in the right of Sam 1 Searles Viz. Lot N° 5 in y e 9 th range H. B. F.. O 45 acres Cleared 15 acres Cut over, Benj a Nurse Lot N° 3, in y e 12 th range 2 acres Cleared H.. B.. 10 acres worked over N.. F.. O — Wellmans H.. B T acres Cleared 2 acres Cut over N.. F.. O Jn° Stroud H.. B.. F.. O. . T acres Cleared 8 acres Clioped over Abraham Griffith H.. B.. Resident 12 acres Cleard 6 acres Cut over, Ethimar Smith C. B. 3 acres Cut over 1 acre Cleared N. F. o Belongs to Breed Batchellor H & Mill. B.. 2 acres Cleared 5 acres Cut over Meet- ing house Built 5 acres partly Cleared C B. 1 acre Cleared 15 acres under Stuff cut Down Breed Batchellor Breed Batchellors H. & Barn. B. F. On, 100 acres Cleared 60 acres sawed into Pasturing 7 acres Worked over Henry Beemus H.. B.. 3 acres Cleard 2 acre worked over N.. F.. O. James Phillips H.. B.. 8 acres Cleard 1 acre worked over Resident.. Jn° Libarvau H.. B. F.. O 12 acres Cleared 5 acrs worked over John Davis 14 acre Cleard 24 worked over Resident Joseph Simons 8 acres Cleared — N B. the Persons on the Last three Rights (viz) Sam 11 Farson. James Quenton & James Farson are in the South West Quarter 30 CHARTER RECORDS. What is Contained on the Sheet is an account of the Settlers Resi- dents Houses & Camps Built Lands Cleared & worked over Except- ing Some small Peices not worth Mentioning Being in the Town of Monadnock N° 6. Taken at y e request of Geo. Jeffry Esq r Clerk To Masons Propriety which I have made according to the best of my Judgment and y e Information of those on y e Lands. Some I have omitted going over where there was nobody at work I Tooke the Judgement of those who were acquainted with what was done with respect to that those that I Could Depend on giveing them to under- stand that I Came at the request of the Lords Proprietors and I Ex- pected that they would not Impose upon me or their Honors by give- ing me a wrong account.. Impartially Taken the 11 th & 12 th Days of November 1773 attest Josiah Willard Cheshire ss Keen Nov r 13 th 1773 Josiah Willard Personally appeared and After Due Caution and Carefull Examination Made Solemn Oath that the foregoing Repre- sentation of the Setlers & Settlements in Monadnock N° 6 by him Subscribed; was Impartial ; and according to the Best of his Judg- ment Before Sam Blodget Jus: peace [ Testimony of Josiah Willard , 1773.] [Masonian Papers, Yol. 7, p. 20.] Josiah Willard of Keen at the Request of M r James Blanchard in behalf of the Proprietors of Masons Right was asked the Following Questions Q did you lieare any of the Settlers of N° 6 make any Com- plaints against M r Breed Batchellor when you was Viewing thire Settlements and what there Complaints were A som said they looked on it that they were hardly Delt with for want of Roads as they could not go any where with a Cart and M r Bachellor or the Survayors would not let them work out thire Taxes on the Roads ; and Som said they Could not git to there houses with a horse Q did you here any of the Setlers say they had Requested M r Batchellor to work out thire Taxes on the Road A they said they had Requested it but was Refused the Liberty Q did you hear James Blanchard ask them the Reason why they NELSON. 31 Signed a Recantation to the Governour that theire Complaints they Sent were Wrong A yes and they Repleyd M r Batchellor Told them they had signed a paper Contrary to Law and he would Summon them to Portsmouth and Saying it would undo them but If they would Sign a Recantation he would not hurt them and they ware poor and Just begining and was not Acquainted with it and that was the Reason why they signed the Recantation Cheshire ss Keen Nov r 14 th 1773 Josiah Willard Personally appeared and after Due Caution & Care- full Examination Made Solem Oath that the foregoing Interroga- tories was Just and True Before Sam Blodget Jus : peace \fPetition of Breed Batchellor , 1773.] [Masonian Papers, Yol. 7, p. 21.] May it Please your Excellency. The many and great favours I have already Recievd from your Excellency, and vour Excellencys Known desire to have All men Rewarded according to their demerits, And your Excellencys wonted disposition to Investigate the Truth in All matters & more Especially in those that Concerns your Excellency, Emboldens me at this Time to trouble your Excellency with this letter Respecting Number Six. for it Appears to me the Blanchards are Endeavouring by Every Sinister method they Can Invent to destroy my Property and Repu- tation, for it now Appears that M r Jaffrey at the Request of Mes rs Blanchard s , (which I Knew nothing of when I was at Portsmouth last,) had wrote to Major Willard of Keene, the Blanchards near Kinsman and an Inverate Enemy of mine to make a survey of What had been Actually done in N° 6. I wou’d not be understood by your Excellency, to impeats M r Jaffrey of any unfair dealing for I dont suppose that M r Jaffrey Knew any thing of the Affinity before men- tion’d or Major Willards unfriendlyness to me. In Consequence of which letter Major Willard with M r James Blanchard and M r Justice Blodgett to take Depositions Repair'd to Number Six while I was with your Excellency at Portsmouth & made such a survey & Report as they thot proper a Copy of Which I have Inclosed to your Excellency & Beg leave to suggest to your ExcelP that this Account was taken Exparte & by Maj Willard Riding thro the Town only as 32 CHARTER RECORDS. I am inform’d. They have also taken sundry depositions to prove my unfair dealings with the People that Signd the Recantation with Regard to the Remonstrance that was some time since preferd to your ExcelP and also some Depositions to prove that y e Taxes granted by the Proprietors were workd out on my farm, with Respect to my unfair dealing with the People I Can procure sundry deposi- tions to prove the Contrary from Men of Reputable Characters and I immagine from the People themselves who signd the Recantation tho’ I have not seen any of them Since my Return. And I Can likewise procure Depositions from Reputable Men to prove that James Blanchard offerd them large sums of money to pay me what they Respectively owed me so as to Induce them not to sign a Petition in my favour. — and also, I Can procure sundry depositions to prove that when Maj Willard & M r Blanchard were upon the afores' 1 Survey Sundry Persons Came to Number Six to purchase Lands of me and in my Absence they Discouraged them telling them that I had no Right to the Lands & that they wou’d all Revert to the Propri- etors which Induced them to leave the Town & purchase Els- where — And -with Regard to the Proprietors money being Expended on my Farm, I beg leave to make this Answer the Witnesses that have deposed in this Particular are Abijah Brown and Nathaniel Breed who have not deposed all they Know but only part, because M r Blanchard Refused to have any thing wrote Except what wou’d make for him. the Witnesses aforesaid Refused to depose for a long time unless all they had to say with Regard to the Affair Coud be wrote, but the Justice told them that unless they would depose as they Requested he woud make Report of their Conduct to your Excellency & Rather than be Complained of to your Excellency as Obstinate & bad Inhabitants as they Supposed they should be Rep- resented they were Induced to depose only what they did which will Appear by their Depositions the said Brown & Breed stand ready to make Oath to the Truth of what is above written and also that the Occasion of their working on my land was because they were unable to pay their taxes in money and that out of Pity to them I sufferd them to pay their Taxes in Labour, for if y e Taxes had been paid in money, it was to have Come to me to have paid me for my Service in laying out the Town — I now pray your Excellency to Entertain of me the Same favoura- ble Opinion that your ExcelP Seem'd to manifest when I was at Portsmouth last til I Can have Opportunity to Appear before your Excellency to Exculpate myself of those charges that will probably be laid before Your Excellency, and in the Mean time I will Endeavour to procure two or more disinterested Persons Men of Rep- NELSON. 33 utation within the County & Well Known to Your Excell y to Repair to Number Six take a survey thereof Enquire Concerning the Prem- isses in Every Particular & Report to your Excell 7 as they shall think Right or do anything Else that your Excellency shall direct. S r I am with the greatest Respect Your Excellency most Devoted Hum 1 ® Servant. Breed Batcheller N° 6. Nov r 18. 1778. To his Excell y Governor Wentworth [. Deposition of Abij all Brown , 1773.] [Masonian Papers, Vol. 7, p. 28.] To the Proprietors of Mason patent — These are to Certify That on the twelveth day of november Last Samuel Bloget and m r James Blanchard Came to the town of Monaednock N° Six and Said they were Sent by the Governeur and the Lords Proprietors to Give my oath with others relating to what I Knew Conserning Monadnock N° 6, and Ensine Breed Batcheler. But as Esq 1 ' Bloget was a S train ger to me and m r Blanchard no friend to the town Ship I was not free to Make oath as they produced no authorithy from the Lords Proprie- tors, but I freely told them what I Knew — But m r Bloget Said he would make Return to the Governeur that I Despised authority and Said that I was Likly to bee Imprisoned or pay a Large fine or Both, I told him I was Ready at his Excellency request to go to Portmouth and Make oath to what I Knew Relating the affair — But when I inquired of m r Bloget of his orders that he owned that he Came on m r Blanchard Desire, But m r Blanchard Said that the Lords proprie- tors Sent him, on with m r Blanchard Set Down and wrote two question the Purport as follows first whether I Ever worked out my Tax or Ever Knew of any others that Did work out their Tax on m r Batcheller Land, and weather I Ever heard any person Say that they whare uneasy with m r Batcheller for not filling up the town, or Mention any thing of Petioning to the Lords Proprietors before m 1 James Blanchard got the people to Sign a petition of Complent against the propritors of Said N° 6, and Ensine Batcheller on wich the Said Bloget adminestread to me an ootli to the above Questions to the first 3 34 CHARTER RECORDS. I ansured four Dolars was Due to me from m r Batcheller for work, which was of Set towards the Taxes that was Due to him for Laying out the town Ship as to the Second Question I ansured according to the Best of my Remembrance I had heard of Sums mentioning of Complaining but by them that Did not intend it as I immagin and I have no Reason to think that any was unesay about it till mowed by m r Blanchard — M r Bloget Said the ansewers where Reatlier yea then nay and So Set them Down yes under the Questions and I Desired Esq r Bloget to Set the ansewers Down under the Questions as I Gave them he Said he had Minuted them and Should Draw them when he had time The Same day maj r willard of Keen Came into the town Ship of Monadnock N° 6, and he Said that he was requesed by the Lords Proprietors to take accounts of the Setlements and the people that were in the town witch Surweay he took Cheafly as he pased by in the Road through the town, and he Refused to go ower the forms of Seaveral of the Inhabitants when Desired to my Certain Nolege, and as to those that where at Distance from the Road he Inquired of me and others and Set them Down as he thought fit Sum of them much under what I Judge them to be — also Several persons and houses and Sundry pieces of Land wich there is no mention made to George Juffrey Esq r in his Return and Several of the persons have been in the town for Seaveral years that is not to be found in maj r willard Return further more I w T as with m r Batcheller when Sundry of those that had Signed the petition against the proprietors of Monadnock N° 6, and m r Batcheller when they Signed a Recentation of what they had before Signed to his Excellency and I never heard m r Batcheller threten them in the Least but Said that he did not want them to Sign unless they where Convinced that they had Don wrong in Signg Said petition Abijah Browne Cheshire ss monadnock (No 6) Decemb 1 ' y e 2 th 1773 Abijah Brown Personaly appeared and after Due Caution made Solemn oath that the within & above by him Signed was the whole truth So far as had Cum to his Remembrance before Tho s Frink Just Peace [A duplicate of this on page 22 of the manuscript volume is addressed to the Governor. Ed.] NELSON. 35 [, Statement of Joseph Stanhope and Beriah Wetmore , 1773.] [Masonian Papers, Yol. 7, p. 29.] May it Please tlie Proprietors of Masons Grant this is to Let Yon Know that when Sundry Persons Signd the Recantation to the Com- plaint that they had Signed to the Governor against the Proprietors of Monadnock N° 6 & M r Breed Batchellor we Did Not hear M r Batchellor threaten them in the Least but on the Contrary he told them that he Would Not have them Sign Back Except they were Convinced that what they had Signed to in the Petition was falce he would have them stand to it & Not sign the Recantation by any Means Joseph Stanhope Beriah Wetmore Cheshire ss Monadnock (No 6) Decemb 1 ' y e 2 th 1773 Joseph Stanhope & Beriah Whetmore Personaly appeared & after Due Caution made Sollemn oath that the above by them Signed was the truth & the whole Truth before me Tho s Frink Just Peace [A duplicate of this on page 23 of the manuscript volume is addressed to the Governor. Ed.] [> Statement of Aaron Beal and William Follet , 1773.] [Masonian Papers, Yol. 7, p. 24.] To the Proprietors of Masons Grant this is to Let You Know that whereas it is Reported that M r Breed Batchellor Scared Us to Sign the Recantation to the Governor in Regard to the Complaint we Signed against Monadnock N° 6 and M r Breed Batcheller that the Said Batchellor Said he would Not have us Sign the Recantation to the Governor if we ware Not Convinced that the Petition we had signed was Rong Aaron Beel William Follet Cheshire ss monadnock (No 6) Decemb r y e 2 th 1773 Aaron Beel & William Follet Personaly appear d & after Due Caution made Solemn oath that the above by them Signed was the whole truth So far as had Cum to tlieire Remembrance Before Tho 8 Frink Just Peace 36 CHARTER RECORDS. [A duplicate of this on page 23 of the manuscript volume is addressed to the Governor. Ed.] [Deposition of Nathaniel Breed , 1773.] [Masonian Papers, Yol. 7, p. 25.] To the Proprietors of Masons Grant So Called &c Gentelmen — on or about the Twelvth Day of Novemb r 1773 Samuel Blodget Esq r & m r James Blanchard Came to my house and said they waire Sent by y e governor & Proprietors of masons grant to take my oath with others Relative to what I Knew Conserning the affairs of monadnock (No 6) & the proceedings of Ensine Breed Batchelors in S d town of (No 6) Justice Blodget being a Stranger to me & m r Blanchard no frind to y e township I was not free to make oath as they Prodused no authority from his Exelency or the Proprietors afore mentioned, but I freely told them what I Knew, but m 1 Blodget Said he would make a Return to the governor that I Dispised authorrity and Say s that I was Likely to be Impprisoned or Pay a Large fine or both I told him I was Ready on his Exelency s Request to appear at Poartsmoutli and make oath to all I Knew Conserning the affairs of (No 6) & when I Interrogated m r Blodget about his orders & what they waire that he had from the Governor he owned he Came onley on m r Blanchards Desier : m r Blanchard Immediate Said that the Governor Sent him ; on which Blanchard Set Down & wrote two questions the Purport as followeth Viz 1 st Did 3^011 Ever work oute your taxes or Know any body Elce working oute theire taxes on m r Batchelors Land 2 ly Did you Ever heare any Person Say they waire unezey with m r Batchelors for not filling up the township with Setlors or theire making any Complaint to y e Proprietors of masons Pattent against S d Batchelor before m r James Blanchard had got the Peapol to Sign a Complaint against the Proceedings of m r Batchelor & the Inhabitants of S d township on which Justice Blodget administered to me an oath to answer to y e above questions to the first I answered I never worked out my highway tax on m r Batchelors Land but oneley what was Due to m r Batchelor for Laying oute the township as to y e Second question I answerd I Could not be Certain but had Some thoughts that About a year ago I heard a woman Complain for want of Neighbours and Asked if a Complaint was Sent against m r Batchelor it would not Conduse thereto: Justice Blodget Say s y e answers are yeather yea than nay & So Set it Down yea under y e questions: I Desiered Jus- tice Blodget to Set Down my answers as I gave then but he Refused NELSON. 37 ■& neglected to Do it — on the above S d Day major willard came to my house & Said he was Sent by y e Proprietors of masons grant to take accompt of the Settelments in (No 6) & asked how much I had Cleared or Chopt over Desiered him to go & View my farmn he Re- fused & said he would not go over for my whole farmn he Insisted on my telling I then told he Set Down Ten acres Less than I told him or Supposed I had Likewise he asked me whether I had any Knowledge of Sundry other farms in the town for he Said he Could not go to all the Places off from the Roads & Insisted on my telling him how much their was on Six or Eight Lott I told him I Did not Know about Sev- eral of y e Places he further Insisted on my Saying when I told him Possibli So much he Set it Down withoute any further accompt or Viewing & I think he Set Down Several Places in the town much under what they had Cleared and according to the Coppy of Maj r Willard Snrvay Return d to S d Proprietors of masons grant which I have Seen he Left oute Several Places that have ben work on & Likewise Sundry Settlers that are on & have ben on Several years & Likewise one I told him of that he Did not Return & Sundry Dwell- ing housen — Nath 11 Breed Cheshire ss Monadnock (No 6) Decemb r y e 2 th 1773 Natha el Breed Personaly appeared & after Due Caution made Sol- emn oath that the above by him Signed was the whole truth So far as had Cum to his Rembrance Tho s Frink Just Peace [A duplicate of this on page 32 of the manuscript volume is addressed to the Governor. Ed.] [, Statement of Beriah Wetmore , 1773.] [Masonian Papers, Vol. 7, p. 27.] To the Proprietors of Masons Grant — this is to Let You Know that I heard M r Batclieller Say to the Signers of the Petition or Complaint against M r Batclieller that the Governor would send for them it was Likely & if Not he would Peti- tion to his Excellency to do it and No Doubt he would Do it but ac- ording to the best of My Remembrance he Said it after they had Signed it Except M r adams — 38 CHARTER RECORDS. Likewise about the 12 th of Nov r Last Esq r Blodgit & M r James Blanchard Came to No Six and Demanded Me to answer On Oath to what Questions m r James Blanchard had writ Down & Esq 1 Blodgit said it Was to favour Us that the Governor Did Not send for Us to Portsmouth the Question M r Blanchard Rote was whether I heard M r Batchellor threatten the People that signed the Complaint against M r Batchellor if they would Not Recant the Complaint against him to which I answered I Did Not hear him threaten them on which Esq r Blodgit Said the Oath was Rather Yea then Nay & Set it Down Yea Under the Question Beriah Wetmore Cheshire ss monadnock (No 6) Decemb r y e 2 th 1773 Beriah Whetmore Personaly appeared and after Due Caution made Solemn oath that the above by him Signed was the whole truth so far as had Cum to his Rembrance before Tho s Frink Just Peace [A duplicate of this on page 26 of the manuscript volume is addressed to the Governor. Ed.] [, Statement of John Stroud to Masonian Proprietors , 1773.] [Masonian Papers, Vol. 7, p. 27.] To the Proprietors of Masons grant &c Gentelmen this is to Inform you that m r James Blanchard was in the Town- ship of (N° 6) Asked me to Sign a Petion to S d Proprietors which was Send to the Proprietor of masons Grant against the Town of (no 6) & Ensine Breed Batchelor and offerd me money to y e amount of upwards of Twenty Pounds Lawfull money if would not Sign in favour of S d Batchelor & also he told me that Batchelor Land would all be taken away from him & given to them that Signed the Petition in his favour against Batchelor John Stroud Cheshire ss monadnock (No 6) Decemb r y e 2 th 1773 John Stroude Personaly appeared and after Due Caution made Solemn oath that the above by him Signed was the whole Truth So far as had Cum to his Remembrance before Tho s Frink Just Peace NELSON. 39 [, Statement of John Stroud to Governor, 1773.] [Masonian Papers, Yol. 7, p. 29.] To His Excellency John Wentworth Esq r May it Please y r Excelency — This is to inform your Excellencey M r James Blanchard was in the Township of N° 6 & Asked me to Sign a petition to y e Excellencey which was Sent to y r Excellencey against the town of (N° 6) & Ensine Breed Batchelor but I Declined Signing for him & that the S d Blanchard Said he would not have me Sign a Petition to y r Excel- lencey in favour of Batchelor & offer d to Let me have money to the amount of upwards of Twenty pounds Lawfull money if I would not Sign S d Batchelors Petition to y r Excellencey in his favour & allso he told me that Batchelor s Land would all be taken away & given to them that Signed the Petition to your Excellency against S d Batch- elor in his favour John Stroud Cheshire ss monadnock (N° 6) Decemb r y e 2 th 1773 John Stroud Personaly appeal’d and after Due Caution made Solemn oath the above by him Signed was the whole truth So far as had Cum to his Rembrance before Tlio s Frink Just Peace [James Blanchard to George Jaffrey , 1773.] [Masonian Papers, Yol. 7, p. 30.] Dunstable 6 th Dec r 1773 Worthy Sir I have Been to Monad k N° 6 and have Completed the Business Requested ^ the Proprietors and Shall bring the Papers to Ports- mouth when the General Court Sits, the Gentlemen Who Went With me will be at Portsmouth then, & Will be Better Able to Give the Prop rs a Better Account than Can be given Any other Way M r Batchellor is Creating Materials to Exculpate himself by Deceiving and Imposing on the Governor & the Proprietors ; that Shou'd you give Credit to his Depositions which are mad & Extorted you will Afterwards find you have been Deceived; there is Twenty Six Rights Now Delinquent ; and the plan M r Batchellor Returned & the Lines Described to be run ; are not Done, (as I am Informed from 4 ° CHARTER RECORDS. the Settlers) Only on M r Batchellers own Land and the Lines Round the Township) ; (Tis True) he has not Run the Lines of my Rights as Described on the plan Notwithstanding he has Appropriated a Considerable Sum for the Survey — I have Inclosed a Copy of One Deposition As a Specimen of his Conduct the other Depositions Were Sealed up and Directed to your Honour by the Justice before I had an Opportunity to Take a Copy — if it Shou’d be Convenient I Shall be Glad if you woud Com’unicate the Inclosed to the Proprietors I am Sir Most Dutifuly and most Respectfully Y r Oblidged Hum- ble Serv — James Blanchard To the Hon l,le George Jaffrey Esq [. Deposition of James Bancroft .] [Masonian Papers, Vol. T, p. 31.] I James Bancroft of Monadnock N° Six Do Testify and Say that I have been Well Knowing to its being the General Complaint from the Settlers in s d N° 6 against M r Breed Batchelor for Carying the major vote & voting the m° for his own Services & the Road not made & they said they wou’d be Glad to Complain to the Gov r for Relief if they Could (for this two Years past) & I Requested of M r Batcheller (who Protended to be the Surveyor) to work out my Taxes on the Roads and m r Batcheller said (I Sware none of Blanchards men Shall have the liberty but they shall pay the M° & I will Make the Roads my Self) & I paid my Taxes ^ James Blanchard) and Sometime in Octo r Last M r Batcheller Came to me and said I had Signed a Paper Contrary to Law and the Proprietors had a Good Right to Send for any one y t had signed & Take them Singularly &• make them pay the Cost & it wou’d Cost them a Great Deal ; & if the People woud Recant & Sign he woud Give them a Barrel of rum & I was well Knowing to its being Generally said that the Settlers Were Threatened by m r Batchellor and that was the Reason they Signed the Recantation & I have been Will Know- ing to all the Work Done on the Road & I am very Certain that it has not Cost <£12.. 0.. L 11 M° at a Reasonable Rate for Laying out and Clearing all the Roads in the South East Quarter and I heard (W m Eollet Say) M r Batchellor Requested him to Make Oath that the Day he Signed the Recantation he m r Batchellor Did not Threatten him but that M r Batchellor had before said that Unless he NELSON. 4 1 Did Sign he woud Sue him & Tare him in Pieces & he was Oblidged to Sign it and all the Persons that I Know (or Ever heard) that Live in the North East Quarter Called Batcheller Quarter are Nath 11 Breed Abijah Brown Joseph Stanhope John Stroud W m Follet Jos: Nichols Abram Griffin & Tho s Upham and Several others I have been Knowing to & have heard have began Got Dis- couraged and are Gone off Farth r Saith Not James Bancroft A True Copy Sworn before Rob 1 Fletcher J. Peace [A duplicate of this on page 33 of the manuscript volume has the following additions :] Province of New Hamp r ) Dunstable Decem r 7 th 1773 County of Hillsbor 0 j Then the Subscriber To the foregoing Deposition James Bancroft Personally Appearing Made Solomn Oath to the Truth of the above & within Deposition before me Rob 1 Fletcher J s P s N B the Persons Above Mentioned who Live or M r Batchellors Quarter ar Six families & two Single men who Work there at Times M r Batchellor Himself Lives at the South West Corner of the Town Adjoining to Keene [ Breed Batchellor to Theodore Atkinson , 1773.] [Masonian Papers, Yol. 7, p. 34.] may it pleas your Honour & the Gentlemen of masons Grant, the Last time I had the Pleasure of Being in your Company was not Long Sense, which was when I was making my Defence against m r Blanch- ard In Regard of the Complaint against the Proprietors of monad- nock N° 6, and my Self — for not fullfilling the Conditions of Settle- ment as was Repersented by m r Blanchard. — and Knowing that your Desire is to have all men Rewarded according to there Demerit and your Honours wonted Disposition to Investigate the truth in all mat- ters and more Especally in those that Conserns your Honour and the Gentlemen of masons Proprietors — Emboldens me at this time to Trouble your Honour and the Proprietors afore said with this Letter Respecting monadnock N° 6, for it appears to me the Blanchards are Endeavering by Every sinister methord they Can Invent to Destroy 4 2 CHARTER RECORDS. my Property and Reputation for it apears now that m 1 Jaffrey at the Request of 'mes rs Blanchards which I knew nothing of to be Certain when I was at Portsmouth had wrote to maj r willard of Keene the Blanchards Near Kinsman and an Inverate Enemy of mine to make a survey of what had been actually Done in N° 6. I would not be understood by your Honour and the Gentlemen of masons Patent to Impeach m r Jaffrey of any unfair Dealings for I Dont Suppose that m r Jaffrey Knew any thing of the affinity before mentioned or maj r willards unfriendlyness to me — In Consequence of which Letter maj r willard with m r James Blanch- ard and m r Justice Blodget to Take Depositions Repared to N° 6 while I was at Portsmouth and made such a Survey and Report as they Thought Proper, which Depositions taken by m r Justice Blodget and maj r willards Return of the Settlements of Said N° 6, I Sopose you have Received before now. which S rs I think was Very ungenerous in taking it in my absence in the form they Proceeded — I have here In- closed Sundry Depositions to Shew the Proseedings of m r Justice Blodget maj r willard & m r Blanchard on the affair above mentioned. I therefore Humbly pray that your Honour and the Gentlemen afores d would take the Depositions on the affair into your wise Considera- tion — and When you have Vewed them with maj r willards Return I Doubt not but your Honour & Gentlemen will think with me that there Proseedings are Errigular — and that the Survey of No. 6, is not taken as it ought to have been taken, and the Depositions Shews m r Blanchards Spite and malice on the affair — and Likewise m r Justice Blodgets New Fashoned way of Takeing Depositions I therefore now pray your Honour & the Gentlemen afore said, that the affairs of s d Number Six may be put of till the Spring of the year, as it is to Late for a Committee Properly to take a Survey of N° 6, this wenter and then I will Endeavor to Procure two or more Desinterested Persons men of Reputation Viz, maj r Benj a Bellows of walpole and Leiu 1 Benj a Hoit Representtitive for Keene, or any other that you Shall Judge Proper to Repare to N° 6, take a Survey thereof Inquireing Consern- ing the Premises in Every Particular, and Report to your Honour and the Gentlemen aforesaid as they Shall think Right, or Do any thing Else that your Honour Shall Direct. m 1 Blanchard has Reported that he will Return the Right of Samp- son French Delinquent and Git a Grant to him Self of S d Right — I would Beg the Favor of your Honour and the Gentleme afore Said that there may not be any Grant made of it to him — for the Greater part of S d Right is my Property by Deed — I therefore Humbly pray that your Honour would be So Kind as to Lay this Letter with the Depositions before the Gentlemen Proprie- tors, at your Next meeting — NELSON. 43 which Kindness I Shall Esteem as a Great Favor S r I am with the Greatest your Honours most Devoted Humb. Serv 1 Breed Batcheller monadnock N° 6, Dec r 11 th 1773 — To the Honourable Theodore Atkinson Esq 1 ' [, Statement of Thomas Upham to Governor , 1773.] [Masonian Papers, Vol. 7, p. 35.] may it Pleas your Excellency. this is to Certifie to your Excellency that I was Present with Ensign Breed Batcheller, when Sundry of those Persons Signed the Recanta- tion to your Excellency. In Regard of the Complaint against the Proprietors of monadnock N° 6, & Said Batcheller, & the said Batch- eller Shewed them wherein they had Signed to Fallhoods against the Settlements of s d N° 6, & him Self — and Said that he would not have them Sign the Recantation to your Excellency, that unless they ware Convinced, that the Complaint to your Excellency against S d N° 6 & s d Batcheller was Rong and Fallse Thomas upham Cheshire ss Keene y e 13 th of Decemb r 1773 Thomas Upham Personaly appeared and after Due Caution made Solemn oath that the above by him Signed was the whole truth so far as had Cum to his Remembrance before Tho s Frink Just Pacis [, Statement of Thomas Upham to Masonian Proprietors , 1773.] [Masonian Papers, Vol. 7, p. 35.] To the Proprietors of masons Grant. — Gentlemen This is to Certifie that whereas it is Reported by m r James Blanchard as I heard that Ensign Breed Batcheller Scart those Persons that Signed the Recantation to his Excellency In Regard of the Complaint against the Proprietors of Monadnock N° 6, & said Batcheller and the s d Batcheller Shewed them wherein they had Signed to Fallshoods against the s d N° 6 & him Self & said that he would not have them Sign the Recantation to his Excellency, that unless they ware Convinced that the Complaint against s d N° 6, & s d Batcheller was Ronge & False Thomas upham 44 CHARTER RECORDS. Cheshire ss Keene y e 13 th of Decemb r 1773 — Thomas Upham Personaly appeard and after Due Caution made Solemn oath that the above by him Signed was the whole truth So far as had Cum to his Remembrance before Tho s Frink Just Peace [ Condition of Settlements , 1774.] [Masonian Papers, Vol. 7, p. 36.] A Survey of the South East Quarter of Monadnock No. 6 Names of the origi- nal Grantees Settlers Names Acres Cleai d Acres work d over Jon n Kendals . David Marshall 2 8 Pole House & Family Right .... James Blanchard 9 3° Camp Jos. Danfords Right . o 8 Camp Tho 8 McLawlin® . Phin 9 Stanford 5 Family Right .... 8 5 Board House Eleaz r Tvvichel 20 7 Pole House & Family Jos. Stanford 7 'j Pole House & Family Alexand r Park 9 Right John Adams 15 io Board House & Residant. Josiah Park s Right . Aaron Beels 12 15 Pole House & Family Philip Bilhash 9 6 Pole House & Family Rob 1 Park 8 Right Jo 8 Mason 12 10 Board House & Family Gristmill Jn° Fanvell 6 3 Board House & Family Jn° Newell 4 2 Pole House & Family Jn° Spiny 2 0 Board House & Family O 13 Camp — John Hutchinsons Jos h Stanford 7 1 Pole House & Family. Right .... o 6 Benj n French 8 Right . James Bancroft 20 14 Board House & Family John Chamberlanes . 3 15 Right .... Sam 1 Averett 6 1 Pole House & Family Beriah Whitmore 12 6 Pole House & Family James Miller . 7 2 Camp NELSON. 45 A Survey of the South west Quarter of Monadnock N° 6. Names of the Origi- nal Grantees Settlers Names Acres Clear d Acres work d over James Quentons . Henry Bemus 3 2 Pole House Right .... John Davis 2 2 Joseph Simons 6 o Sam 1 ! Farsons Jon n Libervau 13 5 Pole House & Family Right .... James Philips 7 i Pole House & Family Breed Bachellor 55 30 Board House & Family The North west Quorter of Monadnock No. 6 is not yet laid out — neither is there any Settlement. The Survey of the different Parts of Monadnock No. 6, was made on the 11 th 12 th 13 th 14 th 15 th & 17 th Days of Jonuery 1774 by Me Ephraim Heald A Survey of the North East Quorter of Monadnock N° 6. Mens Names Lots Ranges Acres clear d Acres work d over Jn° Nichols 1 3 7 7 Pole House & Family W m Follet 2 7 12 7 Pole House & Family Lot 1 6 0 20 Lots ( 1 ^ 1 4 l c ( 12 20 Double Pole House Lot 2 J J 6 5 12 Board House Lot 1 7 2 4 Tho 8 Upham 1 8 6 1 2 Pole House & Residant Abijah Brown .... 2 9 20 10 Board House & Family Lot 2 10 4 10 Jos h Stanhope .... 3 8 18 J 5 Pole House & Family Nathan 1 Breed .... 4 10 3 ° 10 } Double Pole House & Family Nath 1 Breed Minor aged 20 4 9 10 4 £ & a Resident Jonas Breed Minor aged 16 5 9 3 0 Residant Lot 3 9 0 2 Welmons Lot .... 5 8 7 2 Pole House & Residant Abraham Griffin .... 4 5 1 1 5 Pole House John Stroud 4 7 7 7 Pole House & Family Lot 4 6 1 3 Pole House Lot 5 12 8 3 Pole House Sawmill & Meeting House Lot 5 1 1 1 10 Camp. 4 6 CHARTER RECORDS. Pursuant to the Request of the Proprietors of the Lands purchased of John Tufton Mason Esq in the Province of New Hampshere to Preambulate and View the Tract of Land or Township known by the name of Manadnock Number Six & to survey and View what Land was clear'd & Cultivated & Settlements made and what buildings were on said Tract and the Number of Settlers on said Tract, I have Perambulated and Viewed said Tract and do report that all the Land Cleared and Cultivated and Settlements made and the buildings on said Tract, are describd on this sheet of paper and on what part of the said Tract of Land and on whose Rights or Lotts they are made and what Settlers are thereon according to best observation I could make and do make return thereof accordingly Portsmouth Jan y 21 st 1774— Ephraim Heald Province of New Hampshire \ Portsm 0 Jan y 21 st 1774 Then per- Rockingliam — ss — \ sonally appeared before me the above named Ephraim Heald and made Solem oath to the truth of the above written Return by him made and Subscribed — James Stoodly Jus pac [. Petition of Breed Batchellor , 1774.] [Masonian Papers, Vol. 7, p. 37.] To the Gentlemen Proprietors of masons Grant or the Grantors of the Township of monadnock N° 6. — The Petition of Breed Batcheller for & in Behalf of the Proprietors of Said N° 6 — 1 Humbly Pray the Gentlemen Grantors afore Said that the Gran- tees of Said monadnock N° 6 may have one year to Compleat the Settling Duties in with my Giving a Bond to Preform the Settling Duties in one year 2 ndly if the above Request is not Consented to he the S d Batcheller Humbly Pray that there maybe a New Committee appointed to Take a New Survey of S d N° 6 Next Spring if Done at the S d Batchellers Expence as there is Sundry Settlements Left out and not Returnd Gentlemen all of which is most Humbly Submited to your wise De- termination — not Doubting but that you will Consider my Case & grant me my Request — I am Gentlemen with the Greatest Respects your most Humble Serv f Portsmouth Feb r 16 th 1774 Breed Batcheller NELSON. 47 [Time for Settlement Extended , 1774.] [Masonian Papers, Vo], 7, p. 38.] Whereas M r Breed Bachellor Agent for the Proprietors of town of Monadnock N° six hath given his note bearing even date with these Presents for the sum of One hundred Pounds Lawful Mony Payable to George Jaffery Esq r for the use of the Masonian Proprietors in Consideration that said Masonian Proprietors allow two Years from this date to Compleat the Settlement of said town agreeable to the Charter granted by said Masonian Proprietors, We the Subscribers ingage in behalf of said Proprietors that said Charter shall be Lngthen’d out two Years from this date otherwise the Contents of s d note shall not be demanded Portsm 0 y e 18 th Feb y 1774 D. Rogers ^ a Copy — John Penhallow > Committee W m Whipple ) [Charter Renewed , 1774.] [Masonian Proprietors’ Records, Feb. 23, 1774.] Province of } Portsmouth February 23 d 1774 Wednesday three New Hampsh r j of the Clock afternoon The Proprietors meet ac- cording to adjournment — Whereas Breed Bacheller as Agent for the Grantees of a tract of land called Manadnock Number Six, hath given a note of hand promis- ing to pay to George Jaffrey Esq r for the use of the Masonian Proprie- tors, the Sum of one hundred pounds lawfull money, in one year from the 18 th day of February 1774 with lawfull Interest till paid — which Sum was intended as a Consideration for Damage the Grantors of Said Tract of land Sustained, by the Grantees aforesaid, not comply- ing with and performing the Terms and Conditions of the Grant of Said Tract of land — upon the Prayer and Request of the Said Bach- eller, as agent for Said Grantees — and other Considerations, it is re- solved — and therefore Voted that the Grantees of the Tract of land Monadnock Number Six aforesaid, and Such as hold under them — are allowed, and hereby is granted to them the Space of two years from the 18 th day of February aforesaid, to do and perform all mat- ters and tilings conditioned to be done in the Said Grant of Manad- nock Number Six — and at the Expiration of y e two years hereby grant- ed for the compleating and performing all the Terms conditioned to be 48 CHARTER RECORDS. performed in Said Manadnock Number Six, in Said Grant mentioned — if any Neglect or Omission of the performance or complying with any Article or Term of said Grant — then the forfeiture and reversion mentioned in Said Grant, to be in full force and Effect, as tlio this Vote had not passed — [. Reserved Lots in Nelson , 1774.] [Masonian Proprietors’ Records, Feb. 23, 1774.] Whereas the twenty Shares reserved by y e Grantors, in their Grant of the Tract of land called Manadnock number Six, for their use, and for publick uses — are not Severed to each Proprietors share, but three Shares are marked for the publick use of Said Town, and delineated on the Plan of said Monadnock Number Six in Ranges & Lotts — Voted that the two Lotts laid out for each Proprietor or Grantor’s Right or share be now drawn for at this meeting, and that the two Lotts drawn to each Proprietors Right, be entered and recorded as drawn, and that the same Lotts as entered to each Proprietors Right or share, shall be the sev- erance and determination of the Respective right or share of each Proprietor, of the Reservation in said Manadnock Number Six and that three Shares for publick uses for the Town be not drawn for, but entered in this Record, as they were Severed and noted in the Plan of the Said twenty reserved shares — The Draft of the Proprietors Lotts of their Reservation in the Tract of Land called Manadnock Number Six, and entry of the Lotts reserved for publick Uses in Said Town Lots Range Lots Range drawn 1 st To the Right of John Rindge 9d Law Lot N° 1 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 N° 1 4 m in Blanchard Meserve & c 2 — George Jaffrey Esq 1 ' 5 — Jotliam Odiorne Esq r 1 — John Moffatt Esq r 3 — Thomas Walingford Esq 1 ’ 2 — Law Lot N° 2 4 — Richard Wibird Esq r 4 — Solley and March 3 — Thomlinson & Mason 1 — Joshua Peirce Esq r 2 — Peirce and Moore 3 — 4 4 4 4 5 10 6 9 7 8 10 8 4 N° 3 N° 4 N° 2 in in N° N° N° N° N° N° N° N° N° N° 11 6 5 5 6 9 8 11 9 10 11 11 4 NELSON. 49 14 . . . Theodore Atkinson Esq 1 ’ 1 — 9 N° 2 — 9 15 . . . Mark H g Wentworth Esq r 5 — 6 N°5 - 7 16 . Thomas Packer Esq 1 1 — 7 N° 2 — 7 IT . John Wentworth Esq r 8 — 6 N° 3 — 7 first Ministers Lotts 5 — 10 N° 5 — 11 Ministerial Lotts 1 — 8 N° 5 — 8 School Lotts 3 — 5 N° 4 — 10 [Plan of Reserved Lotts . ] E /C° S y mile 99 s 9 s 9 A' ”, 3 K a «> < 99 A' j.m. r * u J "> r * "i 33 3 99 99 93 99 Lx r> 99 „ V v V y 7 IW- V V Vs* rs^ y i 3 9 k 1 >- 9 99 5/ 9 5 i 9 : a J 3 J J nw 3 Jm ^ l k. 99 9 9 9 J? 9 9 i z z z z z z z ^ E 99 93 3 99 c £ 99 99 ! / ! / rj / 5- / / / V Tbm^J ih 6 7 T <7 ID II 5 ° CHARTER RECORDS. The above is a plan of the Lord Prop rs Land Lying in monadnock No Six which are Cuppled as follows Yiz fc Lots N° Range Lots N° Range first Settled minister 5 IO 5 1 1 For the use of the ministry i 8 5 8 School Lots 3 5 4 IO The Grantors Lots i 4 3 1 1 i 5 i 6 2 4 2 5 3 4 4 4 G J- 5 4 5 5 5 6 5 7 4 5 4 6 2 6 4 8 Said Lots are Cuppled according to the I 7 2 7 Best of my Skill & Judgement 4 9 2 1 1 Breed Batcheller 4 7 3 9 3 6 3 7 i 9 2 9 i 10 I 1 1 3 8 2 IO 2 8 4 1 1 3 IO 5 9 [. Improvements in Northeast Quarter .] [Masonian Papers, Vol. 7, p. 39.] North East Quarter Jon a Nichols — Breed Batcheller Benj a Day — Breed Batcheller W in Follet — Tho s Upham Abijah Brown Eli h u Higby Jn° Frink — Acres Chop’d Clear’d Over 7 — 7 — House — Family 12 — 22 — House a family has Lived 3 Years 5 — 20 — House — Talks of Coming 12 — 6 — 28 — 4 — 9 8 — 12 — 10 — 8 — 7 — House Building Family House — Resident House — Family NELSON. 51 Jos: Stanhope Elias Squire — Stephen Treat — 20 — 2 — 16 — 4 — 3 — House — F amily — John Easterbrook 5 — 8 — Talks of Coming Nath 11 Breed 45 — 15 House — Family — Benj a Nurse — 2 — 10 — House — Wei man 7 — 2 — House — Talks of Coming Jn° Stroud — 7 — 8 — House — F amily — Abraham Griffin 12 — 6 — House — Resedint Ithmer Smith. 1 — 3 Camp — Breed Batch elle 2 — 5 — House mill — D° — 1 — 15. Camp Built — [. Improvements in Southeast Qua?'ter.~\ [Masonian Papers, Yol. T, p. 40.] South East Acres Quarter Clear’d David Marshall — 1. James Blanchard — 8 — Joseph Eayrs — — Joseph Eayrs (Alies) ) Jn° Lund — | — 8 — Eleazer Twitchel — 25 — Joseph Stanford — 7 — John Adams — 20 — Aaron Beels — 20 — Jo s Mason — 12 — Jn° Far well — 4 — Jn° Newhall — 3 — Jn° Spiny — 2 — Philip Billhash. 8 — Jos h Stanford — 7 — Ja 8 Bancroft — 20 — Sam 11 Averet — rj O Beriah Whitmore 0 12 — Amos Skinner — rr 7 Chop’d Over 8. House — Family 30 — Camp 10 — Camp — at Work House — at Work House — Family — Flouse — Family — House — Resident House — Family — House — F amily House — Family House — F amilv House Building — Family House — Family — 15 Camp — One Grist Mill House — Family House — Family H o use — Fam ily — 13 — 6 House — Family 2 Camp — 52 CHARTER RECORDS. NEW BOSTON. [Granted by Massachusetts Jan. 14, 1735-6, to John Simpson and others. The grant was confirmed by the Masonian Proprietors Feb. 2, 1748-9. Sometimes called Lane's-town and Boston Piscaiaquog Township. Regranted Dec. 24, 1751, to Job Lewis and others. Incorporated as New Boston Feb. 18, 1763, and named from Boston, Mass. A small tract of land was severed and annexed to Goffstown June 18, 1836. See Massachusetts and New Hampshire charters in preceding volumes ; IX, Bouton Town Papers, 553; XII, Hammond Town Papers, 642; Index to Laws, 395; History, by Elliott C. Cogswell, 1864, pp. 470; sketch, by Neil McLane, Hurd’s History of Hillsborough County, 1885, p. 585 ; Lawrence’s N. H. Churches, 1856, p. 229; Articles of Faith and Covenant of First Presbyterian Church, with history of church and catalogue of members, 1869, pp. 32; Baptist Churches in N. H., by E. E. Cummings, 1836, pp. 14, 19.] [ Petition of Thomas Thomas , 1748. J [Masonian Papers, Yol. 7, p. 42.] Portsm 0 Nov r 1 st 1748 To y e Gent 111 Purchasers & Proprietors of John Tufton Mason Esqu r his Right in Lands in New Hampshire — I y e Subscriber pray your favour that when you are pleased to grant that tract of land scituated between New Boston so called & a Town- ship called N° 7 — You would Suffer me to have two Shares to Settle upon y e Terms that said tract shall be granted upon, and shall be ready to lay Under Obligation to perform y e Terms of your grant, having before y e the Indian War built a house and made Considerable Improvements there your Consideration of my Petition and your fa- vour therein will very much Oblige Your most' Hum : serv 6 Tomas thomas [ Original Proprietors' Names , 1748.] [Masonian Papers, Vol. 7, p. 43.] f List of the Names of the Proprietors of the Township 1735 < Granted by y e Generali Court of y e Province of the Massach ts ( Lying on y e branches of Piscataquaog River viz 6 NEW BOSTON. 53 Andrew Lane 3 Shares Byfield Lyde Esq r John Hill Esq r John Spooner John Bead Esq r Samuel Tyley John Boydell John Homans Jon a Williams 2 shares Joshua Henshaw Esq 1 ' Benj a Clark Jacob Hurd James Townsend W m Salter 2 Shares Zachariah Johonnott Daniel Loring William Speakman Thomas Greene 2 Shares Gilbert Warner John Larrabee John Green Rufus Greene Tho s Foster John Arbuthnott Jn° & Jon a Simpson Humphrey Keys James Goold Joseph Greene Isaac Walker Robert Jenkins 2 Shares Benj a Bagnald Richard Checkley John Maverick Tlio s Hancock John Carnes James Halsey John Steel Esq r Charles Coffin Daniel Pecker 2 Shares Jon a Clark Henry Howell Job Lewis Esq r Tho s Bulfinch John Indicott John Erving Esq r James Day W m Dudley Esq 1 ' Edward Durant W m Bant Robert Auchmooty Esq r Joseph Wright 2 Shares John Tyler Att a Meeting of y e Above Proprietors John Hill Esq r be Desired when he Comes to Portsmouth to Lay before y e Claimers of Masons Right y e Above list of s d Proprietors v e Charges they have been at in Laying out s d Township building a Meeting house Saw mill & Sixt} r Dwelling houses also Bridges over y e Two Great Rivers of Nashaway & Piscataquaog & Clearing Roads & making Caws ways to y e Amount of Four thousand Five hundred pounds old Tennor in y t Day and as we are now Inform'd said Township Comes within y e Aforesaid Claim Desire their Favour that we may Go on with the Settlement under s d Claim Which we shall Do with all Speed & Cliearfulness Notwith- standing y e Many Dissapointments & Losses we have Sustain’d by Reasons of the Warr in which most if nott all y e Houses are burnt Down by order of y e Proprietors W m Salter Proprietors Clerk Boston Jan y 20 th 1748 54 CHARTER RECORDS. Prov' of New j p ortsm „ Jan y 26 1748 Hampsh r \ Col 0 John Hill of Boston Esqu r presenting y e within Request of v e Petitioners within mentiond It is Considered by y e Proprietors that they will grant the within mentioned Tract of land to be laid out into eighty equal Shares Sixty whereof to be for y e Petitioners and three of said shares to be Reserved for public Uses and the other Seventeen shares to be for y e Use of y e Grantors agreeable to such Conditions Limitations & Restrictions as lands by Said Proprietors have been granted upon to Thomas Parker & others and y e Clerk to write to y e Said Petitioners to inform them hereof — Gentlemen at a Meeting of the Proprietors of the Lands purchased of John Tufton Mason Esqu r lying in the Province of New Hampshire on y e 25 th of last Jan y Coll 0 John Hill Esqu r of Boston preferred a list of the names of the Proprietors of the Township granted by the general Court of the Province of the massachusetts lying on the Branches of Piscataquaog River (which Township he informed us is called New Boston, with a Declaration of a Considerable Expence they have been at in Consequence of s d grant for the Settlement of Said Tract, and which they are inform’d lay’s within our claim, & that you desire to proceed in the Settlement of Said Township under our Claim in mason’s Right The Proprietors taking into Consideration your Re- quest & the motion of Coll 0 Hill in that Behalfe Resolv’d — That they will grant the Said Tract of land to be laid out into Eighty equall shares [. Proposals of Masonian Proprietors , 1748.] [Masonian Papers, Vol. 7, p. 44.] Gentlemen At a Meeting of the Proprietors of the Lands purchased of John Tufton Mason Esqu r lying in the Province of New Hampshire on the 25 th of January last; Coll 0 John Hill Esqu r of Boston preferred a List of the Names of the Proprietors of the Township, granted by the general Court of the Province of the Massachusetts, lying on the Branches of Piscataquaog River ; (which Township he inform’d us is Called New Boston) with a Declaration of a considerable Expence they have been at in Consequence of said Grant, for the Settlement of Said Tract; which you are inform’d lay’s within our Claim under mason and that you desire to proceed in the Settlement of said Town- ship under our Claim aforesaid NEW BOSTON. 55 The Proprietors taking into Consideration your Request and the Motion of Coll 0 Hill in that behalfe Resolv’d that they will grant Said tract of land to be laid out into eighty equal Shares or Divisions ; Sixty of which to be granted to the Petitioners their heirs and Assigns for ever — and twenty Shares to be reserved for the Proprie- tors the Grantors for their Disposal, and for the Use of the Town — the said Grant to be made agreable to Such Conditions Restrictions and Limittations, as lands by said Proprietors have been granted upon, to Thomas Parker & others. — (viz*) That the whole Township be laid out & divided into eighty equal Shares, each Share into three Lots and numbred with the Same number on each of said Lots, which Lots to be drawn for at the same time The Numbers to begin with one and end with Eighty — That one of the said twenty Shares reserved to be for the Use of the first Gospel minister, who Shall be Settled on the Said Tract for ever & c — That one other of Said Twenty Reserved Shares be for the Support of the Ministry there for ever — And one other of said twenty Shares reserved to be for the Support of a School there for ever — The other Seventeen Shares of Said twenty reserved to be for the Use of the Proprietors the Grantors their heirs and Assigns for ever — and to be at no Expence of Settlement till improved by the Owners or Some Person holding under them Respectively That the Owners of the Said Sixty Shares shall carry on and make the Settlement at their own Expence — All the Lots to be laid out by the last day of May next, ready to be drawn for, the Lots to be laid out in Ranges where the land will admitt of it, and land be left for high ways of four Rods wide between the Ranges & for cross ways between the lots of two Rods wide — That the first Lots for the first Minister & for the Ministry be laid out near where the Meeting house is to be built & not drawn for as the other Lots — That within one year from the Said last day of may each owner of the Said Sixty Shares have a house of Sixteen feet 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, and within one year after that to have four Acres more enclosed cleared & fitted for mowing or Tillage & at the end of three years from the last day of May next to have four Acres more enclosed & fitted for mowing or Tillage — 5 6 CHARTER RECORDS. That the Settlers at their own Expence build a Meeting house by the last day of may in the year 1751. fit for publick Worship — That Six Acres of land be left & laid out in a Suitable place to build a meeting house upon, a Burying Yard, a school & other publick Uses — That each owner of the Said Sixty Shares shall at or before the drawing for their Lots Advance and pay the Sum of thirty pounds old Tenor (including what they have already advanced towards carrying on 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 land into lots building a meeting house maintaining the publick Worship the first Six months, from the End of three years after drawing for Said Lots, clearing high ways making necessary Bridges, & making and Return- ing a Compleat Plan of the said Survey & laying out of the lots to the Grantors — That all white Pine trees fit for his Majesty’s Use for Masting the Royal Navy be Reserved for that purpose for ever — That the Owners of the Said Sixty Shares shall have the Use of all meadows within any of the lots of the twenty Reserved Shares for the term of five Years commencing at the time of drawing said Lots — That no Obstruction or Incumbrance be made or built whereby the Passage of the Fish may be any ways hindered or Impeded A grant of a Privilege for a Saw Mill for the Benefit of y e Settlers is also made upon Condition of the Mill being fit to go by the last day of August next, and Sawing Lumber for the Inhabitants of y e Town to the halves for the Term of Six Years from that time when & so often as they shall have Occasion And in Case any of the owners of the said sixty shares shall refuse neglect or Omit to perform & fully discharge any y e Conditions Arti- cles Matters & Things by him Respectively to be done he shall forfeit his Right or share in said Town — And in Case of an Indian War within any of the Terms & Limita- tions of time above mentioned for performing the Said Articles and things aforesaid to be done & performed by Said Settlers — then the Same times to be allowed for the Respective Matters aforesaid after Such Impediment Shall be removed — and it is to be understood that y e said Lots shall be drawn at Portsm 0 in y e Province of New Hamp- shire and Sundry Reservations for Grants of particular Improvem ts The above are the general Terms & Limitations of the grant of lands made by the Proprietors for a Township to Thomas Parker and NEW BOSTON. 57 others which by their Direction is communicated to you by Gent m your Humble Serv* Portsm 0 Feb y 2 d 1748 Geo : Jaffrey Prop rs Clerk To the Proprietors of a Township called New Boston \Masonian Proprietors’ Propositions Rejected , 1748.] [Mason ian Papers, Vol. 7, p. 41.] Boston March 20 th 1748 S r I Rec d Yours of Feb y 2 th last with proposalls from y e Proprie- tors of Lands purchasd of John Tufton Mason Esq r desired by them to be laid before y e Proprietors of y e Township Commonly Called New Boston of which I had sent you by John Hill Esq r their Names, s d Township being Granted to them by y e Generali Court of y e Prov- ince of the Massachusetts bay, & now in Answer thereto I Inform you y l by order of their Committee I warned y e Proprietors thereof to As- semble & Accordingly on the ninth day of march Instant they did Assemble when & where I Layd before them s d Proposalls which be- ing Read Sundry times to them and after the Same being fully De- bated, A Vote being putt Whether they will Accept y e Same Agreea- ble to said Claimers Proposalls It Passed in the Negative The Above is what I am Directed by y e Proprietors to Inform you of I am S r Your most Humble Servant To M r George Jaffrey Jun r W m Salter Proprietors Clerk [. Petition of Thomas Smith , 1749.] [Masonian Papers, Vol. 7, p. 45.] To the Hon ble The Proprietors & Purchasers of Lands of John Tufton Mason Esqu r in New Hampshire The Memorial of Thomas Smith of Chester in y e Province of New Hampshire Humbly shews Whereas I have purchased a Right in New Boston so called of Jacob Hurd Gold-Smith of Boston in y e Prov: of y e Mass 11 Bay and have Settled or improved Land in Said New Boston for Seven years past and have a built a house there and am about to Remove myself 58 CHARTER RECORDS. & Family into Said Land, and have four Sons — young men fit for improving Lands — I therefore humbly Petition that your Honb le Propriety would grant me and my four Sons aforesaid five Rights or shares in said New Boston and your Petitioner shall every Pray &c &c Portsm 0 Oct r 26 th 1749 Thomas Smith [ Charter of New Boston , 1751.] [Masonian Papers, Yol. 7, p. 46.] Province of ) Pursuant to the Power and Authority Granted and New Hamp r ( Vested in me by the Prop rs of Lands Purchased of John Tuffton Mason Esq r in the Province of New Hampshire by Their Vote passed at their Meeting Held at Portsmouth in said Prov- ince the Tenth Day of June 1751: I do by these Presents on the Terms and Conditions hereafter Ex- pressed give & Grant all the Right, Title, Property, and Possession of the Prop rs aforesaid, unto Job Lewis, Henry Howell, John Steel, Thomas Bullfinch, Robert Jenkins, John Spooner, Benjamin Bagnall, Samuel Tyley’s Heirs, James Townsend’s Heirs, Isaac Walker, Joseph Wright, Elear Boyd, Daniel Pecker, William Dudley’s Heirs, Robert Boyes, Thomas Smith, Thomas Cockran Patrick Doughlass, John Homans, James Day, James Caldwell, Gilbert Warner, Richard Checkley’s Heirs, James Wilson, Jonathan Clark, William Speak- man’s Heirs, Benjamin’s Clark’s Heirs, John Ervin, William White, John Hill Esq r , John Taylor, John M c Callester Edward Durant’s Heirs, William Bant, John Maverick, Rufus Green, James Halsey, Daniel Boring’s Heirs, Joseph Green, James Hunter, Thomas Wilson, of in & to that Tract of Land or Township called New Boston in the Province of New Hampshire Aforesaid of the Contents of Six Miles broad, and Seven Miles long, Bounded thus. Beginning at a Beach Tree, the Southeast Corner, and from thence North by the Needle Two Degrees Westward Six Miles, or untill it comes unto the North- east Corner, formerly made under the Massachussetts Grant, for the Northeast Corner of said Tract, And from thence West by the Needle Two Degrees to y e Southward, And from the first Bounds mentioned the Southeast Corner aforesaid, West by the Needle Two Degrees Southward Six Miles or untill it meet with Salem Canada line (so called) and Turning and Runing North — by the Needle Two Degrees Westward, Two Miles or untill it come to the most Northeasterly Corner of Salem Canada Township as formerly laid out, then turning NEW BOSTON. 59 and r uning West as aforesaid Two Degrees Southerly so far, And extending the North Line of the Premisses likewise Westward untill a Line Paralel with the East Line will include the Contents of Seven Miles long and Six Miles broad as aforesaid. To Have and To Hold, To them, their Heirs & Assigns forever, excepting as aforesaid on the following Terms, Conditions, and Limi- tations (that is to say) that as the greatest Part of the Tract afore- said has heretofore been divided into Sixty three Shares, now there- fore that there be reserved for the Use of the Grantors their Heirs & Assigns forever, out of the Lands aforesaid already divided Nine Shares or Sixty third Parts as followetli Viz 1 The Home Lotts Num- ber four, Number Twenty five, Numbers Thirty three, nine, Twenty Eight, Five, Twenty Nine, Eighteen, and Ten with the several Lotts annexed to the same, as in the Schedule hereafter, also so much of the common Lands, or undivided, to be laid out in that Part of said Tract near the great Meadows, as shall be equal to one half Part of a Share reserved as aforesaid. Which half Share is appropriated to Joseph Blanchard jun r with the same proportion of the Common Land each in that Part formerly within the Bounds called New Bos- ton, exclusive and excepting Five Hundred Acres hereby Granted and Appropriated to the Grantees to be by them disposed of for Encouragement for building and Supporting Mills in said Township, also Reserving unto the Grantors their Heirs & Assigns, after the Five hundred Acres afore- said is laid out and compleated in the Common, One Fourth Part for Quantity and Quality of the Lands by this Grant added within the Bounds aforesaid, over and above what was contained within the Bounds of that called New Boston as formerly laid out, the said Grantors Parts to be divided Lotted and Coupled together and drawn for with the Grantees, according to the Number of Shares as before reserved, so as for the Grantors to have one full Quarter part as aforesaid, said Work to be finished within Twelve Months from this Date, at the Charge of the Grantees only. Also that the Grantors Right in Three of the Shares laid out as aforesaid, be and hereby is granted and Appropriated free of all Charge, One for the first settled Minister, One for the Ministry and One for the School there forever, as they are set down in the Schedule hereafter. That the aforesaid Reservations for the Grantors, and as well for Joseph Blanchard jun r be free from all Dutys, Taxes, Charges, or Ex pence whatsoever, untill improved by the Owner or Owners, or some holding under them — That all the Lotts in said Township be subject to have all necessary Roads or Highways laid thro them, as there shall be necessary occa- sion for, free from Charge of purchasing the same. — CHARTER RECORDS. 6o That the Grantees on their parts make Forty five Settlements in said Township in the following Manner Viz k each to have a House built of One Room at the least of Sixteen feet Square fitted and fin- ished for comfortable dwelling in, And Three Acres cleared, Inclosed, and fitted for mowing or tillage on each of the said forty five Shares at or before the first Day of August 1754. And within One Year afterwards a family or some Person inhabiting there on each Settle- ment, and to continue Residency there for three Years then next, and within that term to fitt four Acres more, each, for mowing, or tillage as ■aforesaid. — That the Grantees build a Meeting House there in four Years from this date. That the Grantees at their own Expence, make the Settlement aforesaid — And within Six Months from this Date assertain the particular Grantees, who they shall determine to make Settlement and inhabit there as aforesaid and certifie the same under their Clerks hand into the Grantors Clerks office. — And in Case any of the Grantees be Delinquent, who shall be en- joined the Settlement as aforesaid, or any part of Duty enjoined by this Grant on such Share hereafter assertained, the whole Share or Right of such Delinquent shall and hereby is Granted to such of the Grantees, who shall comply on their parts, provided they fullfill such Delinquents Duty in two Years after each period next coming, that such duty should have been done, and on their Neglect then all such Delinquents rights or Shares to revert to the Grantors their Heirs and Assigns free and clear from all future Charges thereon — That the Grantees hold under the Conditions herein the several Lotts of Upland and Meadow already laid out in said Township, as sett forth in the Schedule annexed, and the future Divisions to be as- sertained by and according to the Massachusetts Grant to them or their Vendors. That one Home lott (so called) viz fc Number Sixty be set and relin- quish’d unto John & Jonathan Simpson’s Assignee, Joseph Wright, always provided and on this Condition only that he build, clear, In- close & settle a Family on said Lott, according to the periods, and several Articles of Duty enjoined and Specified for one of the forty five rights aforesaid, and this Settlement to be over and above the said forty five, and in case of failure or Neglect of any Part of y e said Duty, the said Lott N° Sixty to revert to the Grantees and Grantors in common to be Apportioned with the other common Lands. Also provided that y e said Wright or his Assigns, pay the propor- tionable part of Charge for that Lott, in carrying forward the Settle- ment. — NEW BOSTON. 6 r That the Grantees or their Assigns, at any publick meeting called for that Purpose by a Majority of Votes of the Interest present,, Grant, and Assess such further Sum or Sums of Money, as they shall think necessary, for compleating, and carrying forward the SettlenP aforesaid from Time to Time, and all other necessary Charges, untill the same shall be incorporated. — And every of the Grantees who shall refuse, and neglect making payment of their respective Sums and Taxes, for the Space of three Months next after such Tax or assessment shall be granted and made That then so much of Such Delinquents Right respectively, shall and may be sold as will pay the Tax or Taxes, and all charges arising thereon by a Committee to be appointed by the Grantees for that purpose. That all White pine Trees fitt for masting his Majesty's Royall Navy, growing on said Tract of Land, be and hereby are granted to- his Majesty his Heirs and Successors forever. — And as a further Condition of this Grant, that the Grantees herein mentioned within three Months from the Date hereof, Signifie their consent and Acceptance as well as their fullfillment and conformity to- the whole of the Conditions herein specified by counter signing these Premises with their Hands and Seals, and on failure thereof to receive no Benefitt by the aforewritten Grant. Always provided there be no Indian Warr, 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 Duties, mat- ters, and things as aforesaid, after such impediment shall be re- moved. — To all which Premisses Joseph Blanchard Agent for and in behalf of the said Grantors, on the One Part, and the Grantees on the other Part have hereunto Interchangeably sett our Hands and Seals, this Twenty fourth Day of December 1751. — John Hill [seal] Jonathan Clarke [seal] William Blair Townsend [seal] James Halsey [seal] John Erving [seal] Joseph Green [seal] Isaac Walker [seal] John Homans [seal] Hannah Speakman [seal] John Maverick [seal] Will 111 Bant [seal] Rob 1 Jenkins [seal] Sam 1 Checkley [seal] Job Lewis [seal] John Steel [seal] Gilb fc Warner [seal] Isaac Loring Samuel Swift for [seal] S. Tyleys heirs [seal] James Day [seal] Tho 8 Bulfinch [seal] patrick douglass [seal] 62 CHARTER RECORDS. his Rufus Greene [seal] william X white mark [seal] John Phillips Execu 1 John macallester [seal] to Benj a Clark’s last will [seal] James wilson [seal] John Spooner [seal] thomas Willson [seal] Benj a Tyler in be- Eliezer Boyd [seal] half of my father Tho s Cochran [seal] John Tyler [seal] James Caldwell [seal] Dan 1 Pecker [seal] Robert Boyes [seal] Henry Howell [seal] James Hunter [seal] Joseph Wright [seal] Benj a Bagnall [seal] Joseph Richards in behalf of Con 1 Dudleys Eyers [seal] Robert Boyes for Edward Durents hairs [seal] Grantees Names Home Lotts 2 d Division UOISIAIQ p Z Meadow Lotts Job Lewis ........ 35 43 I I Henry Howell ....... 6 22 124 John Steel Esq r ....... 26 39 107 Thomas Bullfinch ...... 1 98 I 17 Robert Jenkins ....... 45 IOI John Spooner ....... 3 35 Benjamin Bagnall ...... 13 59 38 Samuel Tyley’s heirs ...... 40 17 113 James Townsend’s heirs ..... 47 76 82 47 Isaac Walker ....... 105 1 19 Joseph Wright ....... 61 40 2 1 60 Eleazar Boyd ....... 11 6 48 Daniel Pecker ....... 0 J 74 9 1 William Dudley’s heirs ..... 44 57 93 44 Joseph Wright ....... 62 55 13 62 Robert Boyes ....... 54 46 106 54 Thomas Cochrean ...... 16 14 10 16 Thomas Cochrean ...... 2 58 65 John Homan ....... 26 30 2 7 Jonathan Clark ....... 5 25 Thomas Cochrean ...... 20 77 63 James Day ........ 1 7 67 1 10 17 Robert Jenkins ....... 7 49 Gilbert Warner ....... 80 89 Benj n Clarks heirs ...... 53 109 9 53 Will™ Speakmans heirs ..... 15 18 2 7 J 5 Robert Boyes ....... 7 54 103 NEW BOSTON. Grantees Names Home Lotts G .2 'c /3 *> s d 2 d Division Meadow Lotts Richard Checkley’s heirs ..... 34 34 26 34 John Ervin Esq r ...... 48 68 109 48 John Hill Esq r ....... 8 2 John M c Callester ...... 19 23 Edward Durant’s heirs ..... 92 56 John Tyler ........ 88 81 James Halsey ....... 4 i 121 William Bant ....... 59 52 102 59 John Maverick ....... 3 o 1 1 12 Rufus Green ....... 24 32 62 Daniel Boring’s heirs ...... 52 73 90 Daniel Pecker ....... 23 4 24 James Huntur ....... 99 1 1 6 Joseph Green ....... 8 l 5 104 Publick Right for y e Grantees .... 19 33 96 First Ministers Lott ...... 63 70 161 Ministry ........ 64 36 123 School Right ....... 65 53 79 Patrick Doughlass ...... 22 94 64 William White ....... 3 i 1 1 5 James Caldwell ....... 5 i 86 James Caldwell ....... 20 72 James Caldwell ....... 27 37 James Wilson ....... 12 75 84 James Wilson ....... 16 1 14 James Wilson ....... I2 5 85 Thomas Wilson ....... 13 66 1 1 1 Thomas Smith ....... 21 Joseph Wright ....... 60 Robert Boyes Esq r . 58 58 38 46 46 50 3i 3i 57 57 32 32 27 37 5i 42 42 56 56 45 45 39 55 55 6 4 CHARTER RECORDS. Grantees Names Home Lots. r+ t .2 > 5 73 r- 0 "> 3 "d N Meadow Lots. 4 i 4 i 43 43 49 Lotts Reserved to the Grantors — 4 78 83 25 2 9 108 33 42 7 1 28 87 122 5 95 1 18 9 120 126 29 69 60 18 44 12 10 28 5 ° To Joseph Blanchard jun r h. Right to be lay’d out with 2 Lotts in the great Meadow 61 33 The aforewritten Schedule is a true Draught of the Lotts as they now stand granted by this Charter, the Home lotts were laid out for Fifty Acres of the best Land and qualified for poor land with a larger Quantity, the Second Division contain two Lotts for each Share of One hundred and fifty three Acres each — As returned ^ Robert Boyes Esq 1 ' authorized by the Grantees for that Purpose. — The Date within I the said Joseph Blanchard in behalf of the Grantors, further engage to the Grantees, their Heirs and Assigns. If need be to defend thro the Law to King and Council, One Action that shall or may be brought against them or any Number of them, by any Person or Persons claiming the said Land or any Part thereof, by any other Title, than that of the said Grantors, or that by which they hold and derive theirs from, provided the Grantors are avouched in to defend the same. And in Case the same shall be recovered over against the Grantors the said Grantees shall recover nothing over against the Grantors for the said Land, Improvements, or Expences in bring 8 forward the Settlement &c — As Witness my Hand & Seal Joseph Blanchard & a Seal The above is a True Copy Examin’d ^ William Blair Townsend Prop ls Clerk — NEW BOSTON. 6 5 [ Reserved Lots , 1754.] [Masonian Proprietors’ Records, March 27, 1754.] The Draft of the Proprietors Shares & Rights in the Tract of Land called New Boston — viz 1 according to Plan as drawn viz fc 1 st drawn N° 18, to Joshua Peirce Esqu r & Daniel Peirce Esqu r & Mary Moore 2 5 to Joseph Blanchard Esqu r & Coll 0 Meserve & Comp a 3 29. to Theodore Atkinson Esqu r & John Wentworth Esqu r 4 28. to Mess rs Thomlinson & Mason & Mess 18 Solley & March 5 33. to Thomas Wallingford Esqu r & Thomas Packer Esqu r 6 4 to Mark flunking Wentworth Esqu r & Jotham Odi- orne Esqu rs Right 7 10 to Richard Wibird Esqu r & George Jaffrey — 8 25 to John Moffatt Esqu r & M r John Rindge 9 9 to Mathew Livermore Esqu r & William Parker Esqu r [ James CaldivelVs Improvements , 1759.] [Masonian Papers, Yol. 7, p. 47.] These may Certifie all whom it may concern That on the Twenty second Day of March A D 1759 I the subscriber (at the Desire of M r James Caldwell of Londonderry in the Province of New Hamp- shire) Took a view of the Improvements done on a Certain Tract of land Laid out to Joseph Blanchard Esq r Lying in that Tract of land Commonly called New Boston New Addition and I find one Famely liveing on the same (viz) John Carson with his wife and four Chil- dren in a house made of Round Loggs about Twenty feet squar with a Chimney made of stones and about Eight or nine Acres of Land under improvement for plowing with a young orchard of about fifty Apple trees with the frame of a house of about 26 or 28 feet in length and 20 D° in breadth with 4000 feet of boards as said Carson said lying at said frame and a Cellar under the same and 14 Neat Cattle and a horse and the said Carson said he cut the hay on said land that keeps them with and said Carson told me that there was at first a famely settled on the same along with him but was Moved away and that there was a famely to come and live on said farm along with him as soon as the snow was so much gone as that they could 66 CHARTER RECORDS. get up Said Farm is said to be sold by said Joseph Blanchard Esq r to his Hon 11 Father and by him to said James Caldwell and by him to said John Carson Matli w Patten At a Meeting of y e Proprietors held 28 th Sept 1 1759 The Proprietors desire Geo : Jaffrey Prop 19 Clerk to write to y e Grantees of New Bos- ton and acquaint them that S d Prop rs are Content that .the Improvem ts made by Ja s Cal well within New Boston be in full for his Settling one of y e forty five shares conditioned in their Grant of New Boston &c a [CaldivelV s Settlements Accepted , 1759.] [Masonian Papers, Yol. 7, p. 48.] Gent 111 M r James Cal well having manifested to the Proprietors of y e Lands purchased of John Tufton Mason Esq r that he has made two Settle- ments within the Tract of Land granted to you by y e name of New Boston — & altlio’ either of the Said Settlements he has made is not upon one of the forty five Settlements Conditioned in y e Grant made to you by Coll 0 Blanchard Deceas’d in our behalf, but as the two Settlements made on Said Cal wells Lands within Said New Boston is more than equivalent to Settlement of one of the forty five Settle- ments Conditioned as aforesaid — The Proprietors have ordered & directed me to Signify to y e Grantees of New Boston that they are willing & desirous to Accept of m r James Calwell's Settlements within Said New Boston as the fulfilling y e Condition of Settlement of one of the forty five Settlements to be made within Said New Bos- ton, and also desire that Said Calwell may not be called upon for the Settling his Lot in one of the forty five Settling Lotts So as to incurr the forfeiture or Penalty for not Complying as aforesaid — by order and direction of the Proprietors I am y r Humb le Serv 4 Portsm 0 Sept r 29 th 1759 Geo: Jaffrey Prop rs Cl To the Grantees of New Boston within Mason's Patent in new Hampsh r NEW BOSTON. 67 [. Answer to Masonian Proprietors , 1759.] [Masonian Papers, Yol. 7, p. 49.] Boston Nov r 24 th 1759 — Gen 11 We Receiv’d yours of the 29 th Septem r but Yesterday, About James Oalwells forfited Rights in New Boston, by which find he has Impos’d on you, as he has on us, by false Misrepresentations from time to time & only trifled with us all to Avoid the forfiture of his Lands, which in Justice Should been two, for want of Duty done on both which Misrepresentations we have and Can Confront him in being well know’n to all the Inhabitance, there, who thought us too favourable in the Affair & was his own fault and owing to his Negli- gence as haveing allways Notice years before by which might pre- vented it. We have proceeded in every Step Agreeable to Law and our Char- ter — and Blam'd by the Inhabitance for Shew g too much Lenity. After 2 or 3 years time, for Returning the Duty done on Each Lott, we Advertised and Chose a Committee — Viz 1 John Hill & Rob 1 Boyce Esq rs Rob fc Jenkins & Tho 9 Cochran who proceeded over Each Lot throughout the Town, A Twell Month After: given Notice for their view, (In order for the Accomplishment of Duty omitt d on the view, found Calwell had 3 Rights in the 45 to perform Duty of Settlement, one of which found Agreeable, the other two nothing preform'd Ex- cept one or Two Acres of Trees Cut Down and there Lay without Houses Built or any other Improvement at all, Accordingly on the Return we forfited only one in full Meeting, who Insisted on both but through Lenity we gave Six Months Longer to Compleat them and Stade near 12 Months after, Still found nothing done, then we Ad- vertis’d at sundry times the forfited Lots & Numbers to be Sold, which a Considerable time After Sold at Vandue to the highest bid- der with some others to the Satisfaction of the Inhabitance for the Benifet of the whole Consern’d He pretended by Selling John Cassen a Right in the New Addision some Years ago which he now Lives on, by which one of his Lotts was to Answer, the Duty done and Said he Sold it and Agreed it Ac- cordingly, on which we pointed it and Agreed to Refer it to Cassen an be Govern’d by the Bargin made with him and Likewise Leave it to M r Atkenson and the Proprietors, on Cassens Appearance he De- clar'd there was nothing in it, but bought it of him at a high Price without any taulk thought or Agreement of Covering any Lott but what then bou 1 which he now Lives on, by which may perceive his Trifeling on all Sides So Gen 11 as we have no Sinister Views, but to Act for the good of the whole, As your Interest is Equaly Consern’d 68 CHARTER RECORDS. — hope you wont Interfear, If you Should It might Lead Us into many Illconvenances so as to Discourage in our Duty — As to what is Done is to the Satisfaction of the present Settlers, whom in Generali we meet a few weeks ago in Chelmsford and all Agreeable & mostly Condem’nd Calwells proceedings as Acting only with a View of Stockjobing y e Land and thought both Lotts Should have been for- fited as all Three belongs to the 45 to be Returnd — We Shall forward the Settlement as fast as Possible & Agreed to Build a Meeting House and Cut Conveanant Roads through all Parts of The Town which will Make it very Valueable Soon & may De- pend Shall not be wanting in our Duty to forward it, though with much time & Trouble on Us from the begining, the Lott Cant be Recall’d as farely Sold with Others and Recorded, and warranted by the Proprietors to be made good, M r Boyce Cochran & many others Can Inform more Perticulers, which we now Omit & Air Gen 11 Your Hb le Ser ts for y e Committee James Halsey Jonathan Clarke Rob 4 Jenkins To George Jeffery Esq r In behalf of y e Gen ns Proprietors of Mas- sons Clame In New Hampshire [ John Hill to Proprietors , 1768.] [Masonian Papers, Vol. 7, p. 50.] Boston August 22-1768 S r I Greatfuly Acknowledg Your favour of the tenth Instant it Gave me Great satisfaction to find my Grant of Hillbrough to be five year before the Vote Impowering Col 0 Blanchard to Make the Grant to Baldwin of the farm I mentioned — S r please to present my Com- plents to the Gentlemen proprietors of Masons Clame — I think it my Duty to Inform them — that some time ago as I was Journeing to New Boston I man unknown to me stopt me on the Road and told me he had a mind to Go & Setle on some of the Lands between New Bos- ton & Hillbrough he ask;d my advice if he did wither they Could amove him or put him to trouble — I advised him by No means to do it, If he did he would sertanly bring himself into Difecultys — since which about a week ago one of the setlers of Hillbrough was at my House in Boston and Told me one Garret Rowen of New-Boston had Cutt the Medows that Lie;s be- tween New-Boston & Hillbrough that my setleres had Cutt Several times before and was a great servis to them in there first going on — NEW BOSTON. 69 when thay Inquired of him the said Rowen upon what Account he Cut them — he told them he had got a grant of five hundred Acres of s d Land from the proprietors by my means & my Recommending him to the Gentlemen — which thay must be sensable is Absolutly fallse — for I Never say the said Rowen in my life to my Ivnowledg Except he be the man I mentioned above that mett me on the Road — as the above affare of Row r en Semes to be fall;s and without foundation — and as the said Meddows will be servisable to the setlers of Hill- brough in there first settlement until there Lands are more bro;t to Einglish grass — I Humble begg the favour of the Gentlemen Proprie- tors if thay have not allready made a grant of s d Medows — that thay would make me a grant of Said medows — for the Use of the setlers of Hillbrough and for the more forwarding the Setlement — until thay otherways dispose of them or Improve them for there own Use and as in duty bound shall Ever pray John Hill S r please to present this to the Gentlemen proprietors — and you;l Greatlv Oblige Your Very Humble Servent John Hill please to Make the Grant to me for the Use above \_Robert Jenkins to Proprietors , IT 72.] [Masonian Papers, Yol. 7, p. 51.] Boston June 8 1772 Sir Y rs Rec d of 25 Untemat: & Obserive y e Contents : You Say y e Proprietors of Masons Patten are Dissatisfied in y e laying out y e land in N Boston Town & Adisstion I Should be glad you d point Out wherein thay have done wrong If thare is A Mistake I am Sattisfied thaye are Ignorant of It & done nothing but what thay Are willing & Read} 7- to Rectify: but as Col 11 Blanchard Settled y e whole Affair & Set of ye Mason Share in y e addistion & y e plan Was Signed : Ex- cepted by Y r Self as Clark to Masson Proprietors The Boston Pro- prietors All ways Lmderstood what Col n Blancherd had done which he had full Power to do from Mason Proprietors was fully to y e Satis- faction to Mason Proprie tores & thay allways thought Masson Propri- etors was Intirely Sattisfied as thay had Excepted the Plan & had made No Objections to It for So long a Space time but as time doth Not Rectifie wrongs thay are & will be Ready to doe whats Right & just between y L S d Proprietors Notwithstanding y e hard treatment M r Price Oxnerd & Self Meet with in y e Affair of New Concord &c : 7o CHARTER RECORDS. After Exspending So much mony time & laughbour & brought it neigh a Close of Settelment of Neigh 30 familys ready to go On: And At last Chounch d Out of It by Dissuite & lyes If nothing worse but we have Not Yet given it Up or Over En tending as We have Encouragement to Searcth to the Bottom of y e Clame As y e town might now been Settled As well as New Boston If justice had been done As it Should from Sir Y r Injured frind Rob 1 Jenkins Direct Y r Litters post free As ntring in Stock to Answare y e Charge Direct in my Absance to m r Lewis Deblois in Boston [. Plan of Common Land , 1772.] This Plan Discribes the Common land in New Boston that lies South of the Great Medow So Called, and leiut. John Smiths land lay’d in a scale of thirty Perch to an Inch, lay'd out under the Care of M r Thomas Cockran M r James Caldwell and Capt. Robert Moor Com- mittee for the Proprietors of Said New Boston August the 27 th A D 1772 This Certifies that this is a true Plan as above Per William Clark Survayer of land NEW BOSTON. 71 [Plan of New Boston and Addition .] [. Proprietors' Reservations in Addition , 1772.] [Masonian Papers, Vol. 7, p. 52.] Amherst New Hampshire September 9 th 1772 We the Subscribers, comt ee for the management of the prudential affairs of New Boston, mett this day, and as the grantors, Viz 1 the proprietors of Masons clame, have not as yet had there reservation of a quarter part of the new addition land of New Boston set of to them ; We have, and do sett of to the said Grantors the following Lots, Viz 1 Lot N° two, Lot N° five, Lot N° fourteen, Lot N° seventeen, each containing one hundred Acres, as laid out, and may be seen on the Plan of said Town. Allso N° one, N° two, N° three, and N° four, being the farm that lieth in the south west corner of the said new addition ; being one hundred Acres each, which contains the whole of said farm. Allso N° five, N° six, N° seven, N° eight, each of said Lots containing one hundred and seven Acres, and three fourths of an Acre, which lieth in, and is contained in the farm, and is one quarter of said 72 CHARTER RECORDS. farms lying in the south east corner of the said additional Land, as laid out in the Plan of said town. Allso N° nine, N° ten, N° eleven, contain- ing one hundred Acres each ; and N° twelve containing fifty Acres, as by the Plan herewith inclosed. This whole plan, as it is laid out by M r Clarke, the surveyor, contains twelve Acres more, than three hundred and fifty Acres. And as you will draw Lots for them, each proprie- tor has his chance for the Lots, be the same more or less. Perhaps the Grantors may conjecter there may be some design, that the Lot N° six which was one of the Lots, that was agreed for, the reservation was not in this return, the reason is, it was unknown to John Hill Esq r when he agreed that, to be one of the Lots. He did not then know that it was set of to the Minister of the town, the Rev' 1 M r Moor, for his part of the addition land. And the hundred Acres, now contained in the Plan, in the room of N° six, is much better than that, as M r Clarke the surveyor will acquaint you. Gentlemen. We the Com tee have undertakin to do this, without calling the proprietors togeather, for these reasons, first, it would have been attended with considerable trouble and expence ; and if they had met, & we could not have got a vote, as is possible, by rea- son of diferant Minds you must have had your remedy in the Law ; which would have been expensive to both. And as the Com tee have now laid them out and you take possession ; Nobody can ever disturb you. Besides wee think that sufficient power lyeth with the commit- tee to do what we have done. John Hill I Thomas Cochran > Committee James Caldwell ) To the Grantors of Masons Clame [Draft of Reserved Lots in Addition , 1772.] [Masonian Proprietors* Records, Nov. 4, 1772, and Masonian Papers, Vol. 7, p. 55.] Province of \ Portsmouth November 4 th 1772. Wednesday New Hampshire ) three of the Clock afternoon at the dwelling house of James Stoodly Esq r Innholder the Proprietors meet according to adjournment — Whereas John Hill Esq r Thomas Cochran and James Caldwell the Committee of the Grantees of New Boston hath made a Return of NEW BOSTON. 73 Plans of the Proprietors the Grantor’s Reservation in the New Bos- ton addition, which Return of the Said Committee is accepted, and therefore — Voted that the Lots returned for the fifteen Proprietors shares be now drawn for at this Meeting and that the fifteen lots drawn to the Rights of the fifteen Proprietors be Severed by Said draft & be to them their Heirs and assigns in Severalty, as they shall be drawn and entered to them — and also that the Lot N° twelve as returned in one of Said Plans, reputed to contain about forty four Acres, be the Same more or less, is reserved out of the draft of Said Lots, and that the Same shall be Sold by order & direction of Said Proprietors, and the Sum it shall be Sold for, be distributed to y e owners of the fifteen Proprietors Rights — The Draft of the Lots in New Boston addition and entered to the Rights of the fifteen Proprietors — viz fc — 1 st drawn to the Right of Richard Wibird Esq r — . . N° 3 — 2 d — to the Right of Joshua Peirce Esq r — . . . 5 — in s° East Corner 3 d — to Daniel Peirce Esq r & Mary Moor — . . . 6 — 4 th — to m r John Rindge — ...... 7 — 5 th — to Mark Hunk g Wentworth Esq r — . . . 14 — 6 th — to Mess rs Solly and March — . • . . 17 — 7 th — to George Jaffrey Esq r — . . . . . 1 — 8 th — to Theodore Atkinson Esq r — . . . . 2 — 9 th — to John Moffat Esq r — ..... 5 — 10 th — to the Right of Thomas Packer Esq 1 — . . 4 — 11 th — to the Right of Tho s Walingford Esq r — . . 2 — in S° west Corner 12 th — to mess rs Meserve Blanchard and Comp A — . . 10 — 13 th — to the Right of Jotham Odiorne Esq r — . . . 9 — 14 th — to mess rs Thomlinson and Mason — . . . 11 — 15 — to the Right of John Wentworth Esq r — . . 8 — 74 CHARTER RECORDS. [Plan of Reserved Lots in Addition .] 7 t 7 (, z V J 2 1 u Thest Flans .Desc ri Acs the. Gci antors Fc sci- rations "in 'that Fart of Few Boston hnown iy the Fame of the addition and z,s -Laud Town, in a Scate. of one t/u.n, died Fods to an inch. Fer yVid m Flarh. Siervayei [Petition of Samuel Atkinson , 1778.] [Masonian Papers, Yol. 7, p. 53.] To the Honrable Committee for the Proprietors of the Lands Pur- chased of John Tuften mason Esqr. in the State of Newhampshire, Gentlemen, the Petetion of Samuel Atkenson, who humbly Sheweth that your Petitioner Some years Past Did Sundry Servises for S d Proprietors in Carying on the Proprietors Lawsuit in Sundry Corts, with the Strongest Encouragement of haveing a Satisfaction in Land, which your Petetioner has Never yet had — your Petetioner Now Prays for a Small Range of Land adjoyning to Alexandria Adition, which wos threw a mistake Run out and market by the Proprietors of S d Adition, which Range of Land your Petetioner would Settle uppon Terms Advantagious to S d Proprietors, and your Petetioner as in Duty Bound Shall Ever Pray June 25 th 1778 Sam 1 Atkinson NEW BOSTON. 75 [, Services and Petition of Samuel Atkinson , 1779.] [Masonian Papers, Yol. 7, p. 53.] Servises Done by Samuel Atkinson for the Proprietors of Mason Pattent So Called, in the year 1772 — to Attending Court as an Evedence at Severall Terms and Travel- ing to and from Court — to a Journey from Exeter to Newchester to Summons Evedence to fifteen Days Takeing Possession of all ye Lots in Alexandria Horse hire & Expences 1779 February 25 th To the Proprietors of the Lands Purchased of John Tufton Mason Esqr. in Newhampshire, Gentlemen — the Petetion of Samuel Atkinson, who Humbly Sheweth that your Petetioner Did the above Services which weare Attended with uncoman Fatigue Cost & Trouble. — but Performed with a full Expectation of being well Rewarded for Said Servises by y e Proprietors, by their Grant of Some Land which wos Promised by Some proprietors which has Not yet been Done, your Petetioner humbly Prays that your Honours would Take this Case into their Consideration and Grant your Petetioner Such Consideration in Land in the Range Adjoyning Alexandria Adition, as your Honours think Proper and your Perti- tionor as in Dutey Bound Shall Ever Pray Sam 11 Atkinson [ Jonas Minot’s Recommendation , 1779.] [Masonian Papers, Yol. 7, p. 54.] Portsmouth Feb ry 25 th 1779 Sir, I hope you will See that Cap 1 Atkinson is Sattisfied for his Ser- vises Done for y e Mason Proprietors, which to my Knowledge wos Cost- ley hard & Yery Fatigueing — whom if you Reward well, will I am Per- swaded for y e future be willing to Do you any Servises, which you may Need — these from Sir your most humble SeP Jonas Minot To M r John Penhollow 76 CHARTER RECORDS. [. Petition of Thomas Smith.] [Masonian Papers, Yol. 7, p. 54.] Province of } To the Proprietors of the Land Purchased of New HampslF \ John Tufton Mason Esq r in Said Province Humbly Shews Thomas Smith of New Boston So Called in Said Province That about four or five Years ago the Said Proprietors Granted to him five Rights in Said New Boston to him & his four Sons Since which Robert Boyes Esq Claims one of them that your Petitioner has lived there 12 Years Come August next & has made Considerable Improvements there but has never had a Copy of the Grant made to him as afores d whereby to Quiet him in his possession wherefore he Prays that the Premises may be Inquired into & that he may have what was So Granted to him he also Prays that you would Grant to him that Gore of Land lying between Hales Town & Said New Boston on which he has also made Some Improvements for him & his four Sons w ch they are willing to Purchase at the Value & Im- mediately Settle for all w ch Your Petitioner shall pray &c — Thomas Smith Resolved in y e negative NEWBURY. [Granted by the Masonian Proprietors to James Minot, Jr., and others as Dantzic, June 4, 1753. Regranted Feb. 5, 1772, to John Fisher. Incorpor- ated as Fishersfield Nov. 27, 1778, and named in honor of John Fisher. The present name was adopted June 28, 1837, to take effect July 4, 1837. The Masonian grant of Hereford Aug. 7, 1754, was included within these limits. Newbury was taken from Cheshire County and annexed to Hillsborough at the time of incorporation, and became a part of Merrimack County on its formation. A portion of the town was included in the limits of Goshen, incorporated Dec. 27, 1791. Two tracts of land were severed and annexed to Bradford, one Dec. 6, 1796, and the other June 23, 1859. See XII, Hammond Town Papers, 662 ; Index to Laws, 188, 403; sketch by N. C. Lear, Hurd’s History of Merrimack County, 1885, p. 415 ; Stewart’s History of the Free Baptists, 1862, p. 252 ; Lawrence’s N. H. Churches, 1856, p. 400.] [ Charter of Dantzic, 1753.] [Masonian Papers, Vol. 7, p. 56.] Province of } Pursuant to the Power & Authority Granted & New Hamp r j vested in me the Subscriber by the Prop rs of Lands purchased of John Tuff ton Mason Esq r in the Province of New Hamp r NEWBURY. 77 by their vote passed at their meeting held at Portsm 0 in s d Province the Sixth day of December 1751 I do by these Presents on the Terms and Limetations with the Reservations here after expressed give & grant all the Right Title Property & Possession of the Prop rs afores d unto James Minott Jun r Jabez Hatch John Martain Willfret Fisher Tho s Downe Tho s Down Jun r Ebenezer Stevenes Benj a Stevenes Hugh Sunderlin John Mel- lidy James Bulkley John Deney Tho s Hake John Haskins Rob 1 Ers- kins John Wardell Sam 1 adams Joseph adams Joseph Elson Benj a White John Hill Jun r Will™ Hill Henry Maxwell Hill, John Fowle Jun r James Fowle Jun r Josiah Fowle Lenoard Fowle Jere h Gridley Esq r John Fowle Esq r Jn° Hill Esq r Isaac Colburn Will™ Cox Jona- than Butterfield Charles Cox Oliver Colburn W™ Eayres Benj a Far- well Will™ Harris Jonathan Farwell Benj a Thomson Samuel Searles Eleaz r Farwell Sam 1 Hueston Philip Olerike Joseph Peirce Will™ Parker Jun r Caleb page Edward Russell Tho s Parker Jun r & Abeel Richardson of In & to that Tract of Land or Township lying in the Province of New Hamp r afores d Containing Twenty three thousand and Forty acres Bounded a followeth Begining at the Southwest Cor- ner of the Premises in the Western Line of Masons Patant as Lately run fifty one miles & a Quarter northerly in the Course of the Patant line from y e northern boundarys of y e Massachusetts, from thence runing south 65 Degrees East Six miles and an half to a tree marked from thence North 42 Degrees East three miles and three Quarters to a tree marked from thence N. 46 Degrees East two miles and three Quarters to a tree marked from thence North 65 Degrees West Six miles & an half to the s d Patant Line from thence by the Said Patant line to the first Bounds mentioned which Tract of Land is called Dantzwick — To them their Heirs & Assigns To Have & to Hold on the follow- ing Terms & Conditions with the Reservations hereinafter expressed viz 1 that the Tract or Township afores d be devided into one Hundred & twenty three Equal Shares two Lotts at the Least to Each Share to be finished & drawn for in Sone equitable Manner at or Before the Last day of November 1755 That three of the afores' 1 Shares be & hereby are granted free from Charge one for the first Setled Minister one for the ministry & one for the School there forever That twenty more of the s d Shares be Reserved for the Grantors their Heirs & Assigns forever & Aquited from all Duty and Charge untill Improved by the owners or Some Holding under them Re- spectively — That the owners of the other Shares make Setlem ts at their own 7 8 CHARTER RECORDS. Expence in y e following Manner viz 1 Each Grantee at the Expiration of five Yeares from the Last Day of November next after the Date Hereof have three acres Parcell of his Right respectively clered in- closed & fitted for mowing or Tillage, three Acres more clered In- closed & fitted as afores d then Next annually for three Yeares & at the End of three Yeares which will be on the Last Day of Novem r 1761 have each a dwelling house built & finished fit & Comfortable for a famaly to Dwell in & a family or Some Person to inhabit & con- tinue Inhabitancy there for three Yeares then Next coming — That a conveniant Meeting house be built in Said Township with- in Eight Yeares from this Date and ten Acres of Land Reserved there for Public Use, That the Lands in Said Township belonging to Grantors & Grantees be Subjected to have all Necessary Highways lav’d thro y m as there Shall be Ocation for the future That the Afores d Grantees their Heirs or Assignes by a Maj r Vote in public meeting called for that Purpose grant & assess in Eaqual Proportion such sum or sums of money as they shall think necessary for Carrying forward & Compleating the setlenfi Afors d & every of the Grantees (Exclusive of the three Public Lotts) or his Assigne Who Shall Neglect for the space of sixty Days after Such Assessment Shall be granted to pay the Same so much of Such Delinq ts Right Shall & may be Sold as will pay the Respective Taxes and all Charges ariseing thereon, by a Com ee 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 Mat- ters or things Afores d by him Respectively to be don he Shall forfit his Right in said Township & every part thereof to those of the grantees or their Imeadiate assignes who Shall have Complyed with the Conditions on their part Herein Expressed as it Shall and may be Lawfull for them or any Person by their Authority to enter Into and upon the Right of Such Delinq 1 owners and any and every part in the Name and Behalf of the whole of the Grantees or their Imeadiate As- signes Who Shall Comply as afores d to amove oust and Expell for the Use of them their Heirs and Assignes provided they Settle or Cause to be Settled Each Such Delinq ts Right within the Term of one Year at the furthest from the Periods this is by this Instrument Stipulated to be Don as the Condition of this Grant and fully Comply with the Whole Duty Such Delinq 1 ought to have Don within one Year from time to time After the Respective periods thereof and In Case the Grantees or their assignees fullfilling on their parts as afore d Shall Neglect fullfilling as afores d the Duty of any Delinq t owner as afores d then Such Right or part Shall be forfit Revert & Belong to the grantors their Heirs and Assignes and be Wholley at their Disposeal NEWBURY. 79 all ways provided there be no Indian War within any of the Terms afores d for Doing the Duty Conditioned in the Grant and in Case that Should Happen the Same Time to be allowed for the Respective mat- ters afores d after Such Impidiment Shall be Removed Lastly that all White pine trees fit for Masting his Majestys Royal Navy growing on s d Tract of Land be and Hereby are granted to his Majesty his Heirs and Successors forever to all Which Premises I Joseph Blanchard agent for and In Behalf of the prop rs the Grantors have here unto set my hand and seal this fourth Day of June in the Twenty Sxth Year of His Majestys Reign Annoq Domini 1758 — Joseph Blanchard [l. s.] A True Coppy Examined ^ Robert Fletcher Proprietors Clerk [Acceptance of Charter , 1753.] [Masonian Papers, Yol. 7, p. 57.] Att a meeting of the Prop rs (the Grantees) of the tract of Land or Township Called Dantzwick in the Province of New Hampshire held at Dunstable the twelfth day of July — 1753 — The following vote passed Unanimously — Whereas the Prop rs of Lands in the Province of New Hampshire purchased by them of John Tufton Mason Esq who Sold them under the title made by a Comon recovery did on the fourth day of June 1753 Grant the Quantity of twenty three thousand & forty acres (by Estimation part of S d Lands Bounded as followeth Begining at the Southwesterly Corner of the Premises on the Western line of Masons Patent as Lately run forty Six miles and a Quarter northwardly in the Course of the Patent line from the Northern Boundary of the massachusetts from thence runing South Sixty five degrees east Six miles And an half to a tree marked from thence north forty two deg ees East three miles And three Quarters to a tree marked from thence north forty Six deg s east two miles and a Quarter to a tree marked from thence north Sixty five dg s west Six miles And An half to the S' 1 Patent line from thence by the S d Patent line to the first Bounds mentioned Which tract of Land or Township is Called Dantzwick. Unto James Minot Jun r Jabez Hatch John Martin Welfrett Fisher Thomas Down Jun r Eben r Stevens Benj a Stevens Hugh Sunderlin John Melledy James Bulkley John Denney Thomas Hake John Haskins Robert Erskins John Ward well Samuel Adams Joseph Adams Joseph Elson Benjamin White John Hill Jun r William Hill Henry 8o CHARTER RECORDS. Maxwell Hill John Fowle Jun r James Fowle Jun r Josiah Fowle Leon- ard Towle Jerrymiah Gridley Esq John Fowle John Hill Esq s Isaac Colburn William Cox Jonathan Butterfield Charles Cox Oliver Col- burn William Eayres Benj a Farwell William Harris Jonathan Farwell Benjamin Tompson Sam 1 Searles Eleazer Farwell Samuel Huston Phillip Olerick Joseph Peirce William Parker Jun 1 ' Caleb Page Edward Russell Thomas Parker Jun r & Abiel Richardson under Cer- tain Conditions Limitations & Reservations in S d Grant mentioned As by Reference thereto will fully Appear Therefore voted — That wee do hereby Accept S d Title And for our Selves our Heirs And assigns do acknowledge that we hold said lands under Said Title Conditions & Limitations with the Reservations Therein Mentioned — Extract from y e votes Exam d ^ J Blanchard Mod r Copy from the Files Examined ^ Robert Fletcher Proprietors Clerk — [Plan of Dantzic, 1753.] [ Charter of Hereford, Aug. 7, 1754.] [Masonian Papers, Vol. 7, p. 58.] Province of ) Pursuant to the Power And Authority Granted NewHamp 1 j And vested in me by the Prop rs of Lands purchased of John Tufton Mason Esq in the Province of New Hampshire by their vote pass’d at their meeting held at Ports 0 the Sixth day of December 1751 — NEWBURY. 81 I do by these presents on the terms Conditions & Limitations with the Reservations herein After Express’d Give And Grant all the Right title property & possession of the prop rs afores d in the following proportions of Interest viz* 1 unto Robert Jenkings of Boston Merchant One full Sixth & One full twelfth part Unto Jeremiah Gridley Esq One full Sixth part & unto M r Henry Price One full Sixth part, both of Boston afores d & unto M r Robert Fletcher Jun r of Dunstable One Sixth part & unto Capt Peter Prescott of Concord One full Sixth & One full twenty fifth part & to Benjamin Hatch & James Hatch both of Boston One fiftheth part each Of in And to that tract of Land Lying in the Province of New Hamp r afores d Containing by Esti- mation twenty four Thousand Acres be it more or less Bounded as followeth — Begining at the Southwesterly Corner of a tract of Land Called Dantzick the western line of Masons Patent As lateU run forty Six miles And a quarter in the Course of the S d Patent line, Northerly from the northern Boundary of the Massachusetts And Runs from thence in the Southerly line of Dantzick afores' 1 South Sixty five degrees East untill it Intersects a line of that tract of Land Called Perrys town And from thence by s d Perrys town s Westerly bounds till it Comes to the Southwesterly Corner thereof, And from thence South five And An half Degrees East two miles And An half to a Beech tree marked from thence South Eighty four and an Half degrees west About one mile And three quarters to the Northeasterly Corner of that tract of Land Called New Concord (or Manad k N° 8), and from thence westerly by the Northern line of the S d New Con- cord to the North westerly Corner thereof in the Afores d Patent line And from thence runing northerly in the Afores d Patent line to the first Bounds mentioned which S d tract of Land is & hence for- ward Shall be Called Hereford, To Have and To Hold to the afore named Grantees their Heirs and Assigns According their Severall And Respective Interests as afore Specified, On the following terms and Conditions with the Reservations herein After express’d viz* 1 — That There be One Hundred And twenty three lotts Lay’d out in s d tract of As Equall vallue as may be Situation And Goodness of Land Considered none to be less than Thirty Acres nor none more than fifty in the most Convenient place within the S d tract for making Settlement of a town, And drawn for in Some Open Equitable man- ner Att or before the last day of August 1756 — That the Remainder of S d tract (Exclusive of the Barron Moun- tains which is Supposed to be About Five Thousand Acres) be Divided in the most Equitable Manner they Can into One Hundred And Twenty three Shares of Equal vallue As near as may be and 6 82 CHARTER RECORDS. Drawn for in manner As afores' 1 within One Year at Furthest next After ten men Shall be Settled & Inhabit On S (l tract — That the Remaining part of s d tract in like manner be Divided & Drawn for when the s d Grantors & Grantees by majority of votes According to Interest Shall Determin That three of the Afores d Shares be And hereby Are Granted free from Charge One for the first Setled minister One for the Ministry And One for the School there forever That twenty More of the S d Shares Accounting An Hundred and Twenty Third part to a Share 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 them Respectively — That the Afores d Jeremiah Gridley Henry Price & Robert Fletcher make five Settlements each, every of which Settlement on One Sep- erate lott of the first to be lay’d Out as afores d Respectively & in like manner That Cap 1 Peter Prescott make four Settlements Benj a Hatch & James Hatch Two Settlements each & Robert Jenkings Seven Settlements in the following manner. — viz 1 that at or before the expiration of five years from the date hereof they Respectively on Each lott where each Such Settlement is to be made have three Acres Clered Inclosed And fitted for mowing or tillage three Acres more then next Annually Clered Inclosed & fitted for mowing or tillage as afores d for three years then next — And That at the end of three Years and four months from the first Period of Improvements which will be on the Seventh day of December 1762 they have On Each Such Settlement a Dwelling house fitted and finished for Com- fortable Dwelling in And a family or Some person Inhabit & Con- tinue Inhabitancy there for three Years then next Coming — Also that Jeremiah Gridley Henry Price Robert Fletcher & Peter Prescott make two Settlements more Each in Manner afores d to be Compleated And finished at or before the first day of Decem- ber 1766 — And That the S d Robert Jenkins at the Same period & in like Manner have three more Settlements Compleated & finished which Settlements Severally to be made on One lot Respectively That a Convenient Meeting house be built in the most Conven- ient place, for the first Settlers, On S d tract within Eight Years from this date & finished & ten Acres of Land Reserved there for publick Use — That the afores d Grantees their Heirs or assigns by a major vote Grant And Assess Such further Sum or Sums of money as they Shall Think necessary for Carrying forward And Compleating the Settlement Afores' 1 & every of the Grantees (exclusive of the NEWBURY. 83 three publick lotts) or his Assignee who Shall neglect for the Space of Sixty days after Such Tax Shall be granted to pay his Respec- tive Proportion Therein so much of Such Delinquents Right or Share Shall & may be Sold as will pay the Respective taxes And all Charges Ariseing Thereon by a Com’itte to be Appointed by the Grantees or their Assignees for that purpose And in Case the Grantees or Any of their Assignees Shall neglect or Refuse to Perform Any of the Articles matters & Things afores d by him Respectively to be done he Shall forfeit his Right & part in S d Township to those of the Grantees or those of their Imediate Assignees who Shall not be Delinquent on their parts, And it Shall And may be Lawfull for them or Any person or Persons by Their Authority to Enter into And upon the Right of Such Delinquent Owner And Any & every part thereof & him or them to Amove Oust & expell for their use their heirs & Assigns Provided they Settle or Cause to be Settled & Comply with the whole duty Such Delinquent Owner Ought to have done within the term of One Year at the Furthest from the Severall Periods that is by this Instrument Stipulated to be done as the Condition of this grant And in case the Grantees or their Assignees fullfilling O 11 Their parts as afores' 1 Shall neglect fullfilling the Duty of any Delinquent Owner as afores d that then all Such Right and Interest part and parts That Such Delinquent grantee and his Assigns hold or might hold in consequence of this grant Shall be forfeit Revert and belong to the Grantors their Heirs and Assigns and be wholly at Their dis- posall Always Provided there be no Indian war within Any of The Terms afores' 1 for doing the duty conditioned in this grant & in Case that Should Happen the Same time to be Allowed for the Respec- tive Matters afores d after Such Impediment Shall be Removed — Lastly That all White pine trees fit for masting his Majestys Royall Navy Growing On Said tract of Land be and hereby are Granted to his Majesty his Heirs And Successors forever To all Which Premises I Joseph Blanchard for and in behalf of the Prop™ the Grantors have hereunto Sett my hand & Seal this Seventh day of August in the twenty eighth Year of his Majestys Reign A D. 1754 Memorandum before Signing and Executing this Instrument Any thing beforewritten to the Contrary Notwithstanding — it is to be understood — That, That tract of Land aforementioned Called Dantzick is Supposed to lap and Interfere with that tract Called Perrys town And the true Intent And design of the Grantors is, that the Prop™ of Dantzick Should hold & Enjoy the Same quantity as is 8 4 CHARTER RECORDS. by their grant Sett forth & if prejudiced or Eluded by Any Prior Grant, to be Recompensed with Equall Quantity of Land On their Southerly line Bounding Easterly On Perrys Town Westerly on y e Patent line And Southerly by a parell line with the Southerly line of Dantzick Including Such quantity by that line And there being Only Perrys town that Interferes, therefore Within the Bounds Specified in this grant is Reserved to the Order & Direction of the Grantors in the form afores d so much Land as the S d Dantzick Interferes or Lap’s on S <1 Perrys town Accordingly Signed Sealed & Deliv d Joseph Blanchard J L. S. j In presence of — ~ Tempel Kendall David Aadames A True Copy Examined by Peter Prescott Prop rs Clerk [Acceptance of Charter , 1754.] [Masonian Papers, Vol. 7, p. 59.] Whereas Joseph Blanchard Esq 1 ' as agent for & in Behalf of y e Prop rs of the Lands Laying in the Province of New Hampshire, Purchased by them of John Tufton Mason Esq r Who Sold them under the Title Made by a Common Recovery Did on y e Seventh Day of August 1754 Grant the Quantity of Twenty four Thousand Acres Bounded as Followeth Begining at y e Southwest Corner of a Tract of Land Called Danzick on y e Western Line of Masons Pattent as Lately Run Forty Six Miles and a Quarter in y e Course of v e Said Pattent Line Northerly from the Northern Bounderys of y e Massa- chusets and runs from thence on the Southerly Line of Danzick afores d South Sixty five Degrees East untill it Intersects a Line of that Tract of Land Called Perrys Town and from thence by Said Perrys Town Westerly Bounds Till it comes to y e Southwesterly Corner thereof and from thence South five and an half Degrees East two Miles and an half to a Beach Tree, from thence South Eighty four and an half degrees West about one Mile and three Quarters to the Northeast Corner of that Tract of Land Called New Concord or Monadnock N° Eight and from thence Westerly by e Northern Line of y e aforesaid New Concord to y e Northwestwardly Corner thereof in y e aforesaid Pattent Line and from thence runing Northerly by y e Said Pattent Line to y e first Bounds Mentioned NEWBURY. 85 under Certain Conditions, Limetations & Reservations in S d Grant mention’d as by S d Grant Reference thereto will fully appear unto Rob 1 Jenkins Jeremiah Gridley Esq r Henery Price, Robert Fletcher Ju r Peter Prescott, Benjamin Hatch & James Hatch. — Therefore unanimously Voted that we do hereby accept Said Title and for our Selves our Heirs And assigns Do Acknowledge that we do hold Said Lands under Said Title Conditions and Limetations with the Reservations therein Mentioned Extract from the Votes of the Prop rs of y e Township Called Hereford at their Meeting August y e 8 th 1754 Copy Examined p r Peter Prescott Prop rs Cle r This certifies that Cap t Peter Prescott after his choice to y e office of Prop rs Clerk in y e Propriety of y e Township of Hereford was Sworn to y e faithfull Discharge of that Trust — Before Joseph Blanchard J s p s Copy Examin d P r Peter Prescott p rs Cle r [ Petition of Grantees of Hereford, 1768.] [Masonian Papers, Vol. 7, p. 60.] To the Hon ble the Proprietors of Mason’s Patent The Memorial of Henry Price Esq r On behalf of himself & Associates Humbly Shews That some time in the Year 1755 Your Memorialists obt d a Grant under said Patent of a Township in Menadnoc N° 9. known by the name of Hereford under certain Limitations & reservations which by reason of the War in the first part of the time, & the Inaccessi- bility of Roads in the Latter Your Memorialists have not hitherto been able to comply with, and conclude the said Grant forfeited. That inasmuch as (notwithstanding the premises) Your Memorial- ist & associates have been at great Expence in laying out & Survey- ing to the Amount of £50. lawful, And as Your Memorialists are now extreamly desirous to settle the same Township according to Charter & have it fully in their Power (with Your Honours leave) now so to do They pray a Confirmation of the same Grant, And shall Ever pray &c Portsmouth Henry Price 24 lh March 1768. Rob 1 Jenkins for Selfs & Associates 86 CHARTER RECORDS. ^Petition for Grant .] [Masonian Papers, Vol. 7, p. 61.] Province of ) To the Honourable the Purchasers of the Claim New Hampshire j of John Tufton Mason Esq r in New Hampshire. — We the Subscribers Inhabitants of the Town of Merry mac in said Province having a great mind to promote the Settlement, Cultiva- tion, and Improvement, of the Land that Lyes unimproved in said Province belonging to your Honours, We do Humbly request your Honours to grant us a Certain Tract of Land lying North from Hills- borrough about Fifteen or Twenty Miles near a Pond called Sanapy Pond which Tract of Land lyes Invironed in with Mountains on every side, and is near Fifteen Miles from any Settlements and has hitherto been Esteemed of Little Value, which we presume is the reason it has not yet been petitioned for or granted. But we think that if your Honors would be so kind as to grant us a Tract of Land there Containing Six Miles Square it will be a Means of Promoting and Improveing the uncultivated Lands in Said Province and we hope of no Disadvantage to your Honours — Your Pe- titioners in Duty bound will ever Pray. — Merrimack Octo r 21 st 1768. John Neal Benj a Hassell Henry Parkinson Elezer Usher Joseph McClenche Tho s Clark Wiliam melven Jesse Willson Andrew Shannon thomas Gillis John A lid Timothy Taylor thomas mCluer Robert Usher Harris Ellery Fudger John Thompson Will 111 Gibson Benj a Goold Solomon Hutchinson W m Usher James Cochran John Patten Timothy Clark John Stearns James Clark Jonathan willson William Howard Eben r Hill David Ttruel George Lancey Hugh gillis Ebenezer Parker Samuel Spaulding William Neal Willi 111 Patten Abner Hutchinson William Patten juner John m c Clenche David Hubbard James Underwood John Combs Abel Hassall Jacob willson Alexander Orr Amos Truel John taggard Thomas Cowan daniel Stearns William Thompson James Taylor NEWBURY. 87 [. Another Petition for Grant , 1769.] [Masonian Papers, Yol. 7, p. 61.] Province of / To the Honourable the Purchasers of the New Hampshire j Claim of John Tufton Mason Esq 1 ' in said Prov- ince We the Subscribers Humbly request your Honours would be so good as to Grant us a Tract of Land bounded Southerly by Hills- borrough & Campden Westerly by the Curve line, Northerly by Sanapy Pond (so Called) and Easterly by Perrys Town (so Called) & New Bradford (so Called) being a Gore of Land left there, which piece of Land we Humbly Request your Honours would be so good as to Grant to us as it will be a means of forwarding the Settlement of your Land in this Province and we hope Beneficial to us — Your Petitioners in Duty Bound will ever Pray — Merry mack March 6 th 1769 John Neal James Alld Henry Parkinson John Combs Jonathan Willson William Patten Juner Abner Hutchinson Daniel Stearns Ephraim Hildrith John Stearns W m Gibson John M c Clenche James Cochran William Thompson Francis Dimon John Goffe Thomas Mitchell Willom Patten John alld James Underwood Jacob Willson John Patten David trwl Thomas Clark willam mcluer J r John taggart William Usher Ebenezer Parker Joseph M c Clenche Timothy Clarke William Howard Eliplfi Neal Amos Truel James Nichols W m M c Cluer William Alld Harris Ellery Fudger Elezer Usher Jesse Willson George Lancey Solomon Hutchinson William Neal Thomas Cowan Ebenezer Hills James Taylor Thomas M c Cluer Robert Usher John Quigely Samuel Spaulding James Clark william mitchel Jon a Moulton [Plan and Petition for Grant , 1769.] Wyseman Clagett Esq r Sir Please to inform the Purchasers of the Claim of John Tufton Mason Esq r that there was a Petition Lodg’d in the Office of George Jaffery Esq r for a Tract of Land Lying North of Hillsborrough (about 88 CHARTER RECORDS. Three Months past) which Petition was Sign’d by the Inhabitants of Merrymac, and they were afterwards informed that a Township lying thereabouts was Promised to Matthew Thornton and Stephen Holland Esq rs The said Petitioners were afterwards to the Cost of sending up three Persons and Viewing the Township which the said Thornton & Holland had Run Round & Spotted, & found that there was near Land enough left between that Tract & the Curve Line to make a Township, which the said Petitioners would be very glad to Obtain, and we the Subscribers in Behalf of said Petitioners would be much Obliged to you if you’l be so good as to Present our Peti- tion to their Honours and pray them to Grant said Tract to us We are with due Regard Your Very Humble Serv ts Portsm 0 March 11 th 1769 John Neal John Quigely To meet on Wednesday • . • /Sfi \J Perrys Town. f t ^ -T— ; ' f ■ •' * £ £ // Tlev* Bi adfoi'cL Jlmsburu i/^ / 1 Yzi TiilliJforrouoA. Thumb ct Slk 7-/ofXirxton ♦ [ Vote of Masonian Proprietors, 1770.] [Masonian Papers, Vol. 7, p. 62.] At a Meeting of y e Proprietors of y e Lands purchased of Jn° Tufton Mason Esq ur in New HampslJ Convened at y e Request of Maj r Ezek 1 Price at Portsm 0 on Fryday y e 8 th day of June 1770 — In Conference on y e Subject of a grant of y e forfeited Tract of land formerly granted by y e name of Hereford — It was concluded that maj r Price at his own Expense get a true Plan made by actual Survey by a Skillfull Surveyor of s d Hereford by y e bounds as expressed in y e former grant, and describing in y e Plan the large Rivers Ponds, and NEWBURY. 89 large mountains not fit for any proportionable Lot or share in S' 1 Tracts and to have y e lines on any other Town granted described and to have y e whole laid out into five hundred Acre Lots as equaly laid out as may be with a Suitable Reservation for y e first minister — and for y e ministry, and for a School for a meeting House Training Field bury- ing Ground &c and to have a particular description of y e whole ex- press'd in y e Plan — and y e Same to be perform’d & Returned to Said Proprietors by y e 20 th day of September next attest Geo: Jaffrey Cl e [. Henry Price to G-eorge Jaffrey , 1770.] [Masonian Papers, Yol. 7, p. 63.] Boston Sep br 10 : 1770 Sir/ As the Orders 1 Rec d of your Honour Was to Return a Survoy of Hereford by the 20tli of this Instant I aplyed to M r Robert Fletcher in time but liea Was Soe Ingadged in Beiesness that liea Could Not Attend tell the Begining of October I Considered Noe Survoyer Can Doe that Perticulor Work Soe Well as hea I have a Mind to be very Correct in the Watter as Well as the Lime of perrys town Soe I hope by the time hea is redy the Leaves Will fall and the town Will be Better Laid Out and the Rode Better Made for Pasing Nothing Shall be Wanting on My Part to Give the Lords proprioters the best Dis- covery I Can of the Lands tliare abouts in the Mean Wlieile Gentel- men 1 Remeain your Obediant Hum ble SaP Henry Price N: B: My Compliment to your Lady Wee Seem to have a Deall of News its Said Our Cassell is in the Kings hand and Our Charter is Not Much Better then G 011 all the Men of Warr from Hallafax are Coming to Boston With the troops [Henry Price to George Jaffrey , 1770.] [Masonian Papers, Yol. 7, p. 64.] Boston Nov br 19 : 1770 Sir/ I have Wrote to you by M r John Wendell of Ports Mouth C 011 - serning the Setteling of Hereford Which I Should be glad to be Laid before the proprieter the Only Way is to Intrest M r Wendell on this 9 ° CHARTER RECORDS. Side the pattern Line Which May bring him to a trew way of think- ing it Was Col 0 Lutchwich opinnion When I went up With him M r Wendell Will Inform the Lords proprieters More of Our Converta- tion More plain then I Can Right Soe I Rest the Whole With you and Sir Remeain your Most Obediant Hum 1 ’ 1 SaP allways to Comand — Henry Price [. Henry Price to Proprietors , 1770.] [Masonian Papers, Vol. 7, p. 65.] Gent 11 — Boston Nov m 19 1770 I wrote y r Hon rs some time Agoe That I would proceed to Herri- ford to lay Out &c When M r Flecher could Attend who promiss me y e Second week in Octo 1 ' — I left word At his house for him to Send me word to Col n Lutwich 8 what time he could Attend bute when I got thare could Not hear Any Acc te of him : Nor Since : Only that he could Not Attend at all : I find y e Committee had Agread with a Man to Clear y e Roads through Herriford : As I belive thare Duty So to doe M r John Wendell of Port 111 will take Care to pay the Men for Clear- ing y e roads & See y e Town lay d Out & A proper plane Exhibeted to y e Proprietors Accordeng to y e Instructions Given Me & he will give in bond for that performance : If A Charter Can be given him & Me : — As he is better Acquained with y e people on that part of y e Country then I Can possable be : So y e town may Soon be Settled by him & Me So Reffar y e Whole to y r Hon rs Judgment: & think with my Own to be the best for all partys Conseirn d So Conclude with y r Com ds & remain Gent™ Y r Most Obed 1 hum 1 SeP Henry Price To y e Hon r y e Proprietors of Masson Clame In New Hamp r [. Petition of Jonas Minot , 1771.] [Masonian Papers, Vol. 7, p. 66.] To the Hon ble Theodore Atkinson Esq v and others Proprietors of Mason's Patent so called — NEWBURY. 9 1 The humble Petition of Jonas Minot of Concord in the County of Middle x & Prov e of the Massachusets Bay for himself & in Behalf of others — Praying the Grant of a Township of Land within said Patent com- monly called Hereford upon the Curve Line, which Town he would take upon Conditions as advantageous to the Grantors as any hereto- fore granted, and will engage to fulfil said Conditions on his Part — Portsm 0 June 24 th 17T1 Jonas Minott [. Petition of John Fisher , 1771.] [Masonian Papers, Vol. 7, p. 67.] To the Hon ble Theodore Atkinson Esq r and the other Gentlemen Purchasers of Masons Patent the Petition of John Fisher sheweth That being some time since informed that the Township of Herre- ford within the said Patent was forfeited by the former Grantees for default of performing the Conditions of the Grant but that a Promise had been made to the said Grantees Price & Jenkins of a Regrant of the said Town — That your Petitioner on the strength of that Promise have been and still is in Treaty with the said Grantees for their Claim for that Town — Your Petitioner therefore prays that your Honors will grant to him and his Associates the said Township, and he is ready to enter into any securities for the immediate settlement of the said Town and for the fulfilling of such Terms as Your Honors shall think fit and your Petitioner shall ever pray & c Portsm 0 24 th June 1771. J Fisher [ Charter of Fishers field, 1772.] [Masonian Proprietors’ Records, Feb. 5, 1772.] Voted that there be and hereby is granted (on the Terms Condi- tions and Limitations herein after declared) unto John Fisher of Salem in the County of Essex and Province of the Massachusetts Bay Esq r all the Right, Title, Interest, Claim Property and Demand of Said Proprietors in and unto a certain Tract of Land in said Province, now known by the name of Fishersfield, twenty two thousand Acres more or less bounded as follow’s viz fc Begining at a Beach Tree marked 9 2 CHARTER RECORDS. Standing in the Curve line of Mason’s Patent so called, thence run- ning South eighty degrees east Seven miles and one hundred and forty four Rods to a Beach tree marked, thence north thirty degrees east one mile and a half to Parry’s town South line so called, from thence South eighty five degrees West Sixty Rods to a white Oak tree the South West corner of Parry’s Town thence north Sixteen degrees West on Said Parrystown line Six miles and two hundred and forty Six rods to a beach tree the north west Corner of Parrys town, then West one mile and one hundred rods to Sunnapee Pond and to meet the Curve line in the Pond, thence Southerly on Said line to the west Side of Said pond, thence Six miles and one half to the first men- tioned bounds on Said Curve line-To Have and to Hold the Said Granted and Bargained Premises with all the Privileges and Appur- tenances to him the Said John Fisher his Heirs and assigns to his and their proper use benefit and behoof on the following Terms and Con- ditions and on no other viz 1 That one Third of the Said Tract of Land be reserved and appropriated to the use of the Said Proprietors the Grantors in these Presents exempted freed and discharged of and from any and all Charge of Settlement viz 1 towards laying out making re- pairing and rendering passable any publick roads or high Ways in Said Township or any publick Buildings that shall be necessary and made or erected and built in Said Township untill the Same shall be improved by the Owners of the parts so reserved or sold by them, or in proportion to the Quantity which shall be sold or improved, which Privilege of Exemption shall extend to all kind of Charges and Expences that shall arise in and about the Settling said Tract of land from the beginning to the perfect Completion thereof — That the said Reservation be laid out in three equal Divisions one on each of the longest Sides of Said Tract of Land and each Division to be severed into five equal Shares or Lotts by visible metes and Bounds, and these Lotts are to be numbered one two and so on to fifteen inclusively which are to be mark’d number’d and delineated on a Plan by the grantee returned to the Grantors within twelve months from the date of this Vote the Appropriation of each Lott to y e respective Owner be drawn for as usual — That there be High ways laid out and cleared to each of said Lotts from the main publick Road or high Way in Said Township for the Conveniency of the Owner of each of Said Lotts — That twenty five Families be Settled on Said Tract of land each to have a dwelling house and resident on the Same each Family to have at least three acres of land cleared fenced and fitted for mow- ing or Tillage within three years from the fifteenth day of May next ensuing The date hereof — That two hundred Acres be laid out and granted to the first Minister of the Gospel who shall Settle and con- NEWBURY. 93 tinue there during his life, unless the Inhabitants and he shall other- ways agree, and two hundred Acres more for the use of the Ministry or as a Glebe or Parsonage forever, and a Convenient Spot be assigned and left for building an House for the publick Worship of God and that a Suitable one be built in three years from the date of this Grant — That there be a Lot of Land of two hundred Acres laid out and appropriated to and for the use of a publick school for ever, and a Lot of ten Acres of Land be laid out and left for the use of a Train Field and other publick Uses — That the main or principal road or high Ways through the Town- ship be laid out four rods wide and the Cross roads or high Ways two rods where Such Ways shall be necessary and convenient for the Inhabitants — and lastly that in case of failure or default of Comply- ing with and Performance of the Articles Matters and things above- mentioned to be done bv the Grantee in these Presents the said Tract of Land shall be forfeited and revert to the Grantors, and it shall be lawfull for them or any of them in behalf of the rest or any one whom they shall order to reenter into the Premises without Suit and to be again Seized in their aforesaid Right as if these Presents had not been granted and made and it shall be lawfull for the Grantors their Agents or Attorney or attorneys to enter into and upon said Premises before the Expiration of Said Term to examine and See whether the Terms aforesaid are like to be fulfilled Seasonably — The Grantors also reserve all white pine trees fit for His Majesty’s use growing on the Premises according to the Statutes in that Case provided Lastly the Grantors do hereby promise and engage to the Grantee aforesaid, to defend him his Heirs and assigns, against all and every Action and law Suit, that shall be prosecuted, moved, and Stirred against him or them, by any Person or persons whomsoever, claiming the said land or any part thereof, by any other title than the title of the Grantors aforesaid, or that from whence their’s is derived, with this Condition and Limitation, that in Case the Said Grantee his Heirs or assigns be ejected and ousted by any Such Right or Title, that then they shall recover nothing of and from the Grantors afore- said their Heirs Executors or Administrators, for the land or any part thereof, hereby granted nor for any labour or Expence whatsoever which they have been or shall be at in consequence of this Grant — 94 CHARTER RECORDS. [. Reserved Lots, 1774.] [Masonian Proprietors’ Records, Vol. 4, p. 12.] Province of ) Portsmouth April 20 th 1774 Wednesday five of the New Hampsli r j Clock Afternoon The Proprietors meet according to adjournment Voted That the Proprietors the Grantors Lots reserved in Fishers- field be now drawn for to each of the Grantor’s Rights, and being entered, as drawn to each Respective Proprietors Right Shall be a Severance thereof, to them their heirs and Assigns : as represented in the Plan returned by John Fisher Esq r , drawn by Zeph: Clark Sur- vey^ The Lots were drawn for as follow’s — viz 1 1 st Mary Moore & Dan 11 Peirce . . . . N° 2 2 d Thomas Wallingford Esq r . . . . N° 8 3 d John Rindge ........ 6 4 th Richard Wibird Esq 1 ' ...... 9 5 John Moffatt Esq r ....... 5 6 th Joshua Peirce Esq r . . . . . .10 7 th Solly & March . . . . . . .12 8 th Mark Hunk g Wentworth Esq 1 . . . . .13 9 Jotham Odiorne Esq 1 ' ...... 15 10 tn Blanchard Meserve & C° . . . . .3 11 th Theodore Atkinson Esq r . . . . . .14 12 th Thomas Packer Esq r ...... 1 13 th John Wentworth Esq r . . . . . .11 14 George Jaffrey Esq r ...... 4 15 th Mason & Thomlinson ...... 7 [ John Peirce s Bond , 1801.] [Masonian Papers, Vol. 7, p. 68.] I hereby Agree to sell and Convey to Benjamin Cook of Haverhill Massachusetts and William Ayres Jun r of Bradford in the County of Hillsborough all that lot of Land Number Eleven on the original south line of Fishersfield Containing two hundred Acres more or less as surveyed & laid out by Col 0 Henry Gerrish, whether it lay in Bradford or Fishersfield or partly in both the said Cook to have one hundred & fifty Acres and said Ayres Fifty Acres, the whole Lot for the Consideration of Twelve hundred Dollars, one third to be paid at or before the last day of November Next and one third thereof in two [ Plan of Newbury.] \Plan of Newbury , 1809 .] 1 \ Cl •miAtnaiK’.™ j J -rr^ok L,x>) v :>y V ' - ): ■« 5- f ;; f •• ; * rj t(£ C’ ( ■». • NEW DURHAM. 95 Years and the Other third in three Years, with Interest on the whole annually until paid for all which sum the said Cook & Ayres have this day given me their several Notes of this date Now I promise on their making me the first payment aforesaid I will at or before that day give them a good & Lawful Deed for the premises taking a mortgage Deed from them for the same Land as security for the balance, or any other security to my compleat satisfaction — And I hereby bind my self my heirs Exec rs & Administrators in the penal sum of Two thousand Dollars to keep and perform this agreement — Portsmouth March T, 1801 Witness John Peirce J Tilton Slade [Endorsed] Deed Given Mary Ayer May 27, 1802 [ John Peirce to Mary Ayres , 1802.] [Masonian Papers, Vol. 7, p. 69.] Portsmouth March 6, 1802 Madam Your son M r Benj a Cook agreed to purchase from me a Tract of Land in Bradford or Fishersfield agreeably to my Bond dated May 7, 1801 in which M r William Ayres Jun r Join’d in the agreement to purclias if either M 1 Cook or M r Ayres complies to make the payments the Deed shall be given either to them or you as he intimates will be agreeable to you — And I have no intention to injure them for not making their payments according to their agreement, and the first payment shall be postponed to the first day of June next — when I will give the deed on recovering satisfactory security for the balance — Your Hum 1 Ser John Peirce M rs Mary Ayres — Haverhill NEW DURHAM. [Granted by the Masonian Proprietors May 5, 1749, to Jonathan Chesley and others, and sometimes called Cocheclio Township. Incorporated Dec. 7, 1762. The town was settled partly by people from Durham whence it derived its name. The Free Baptist denomination had its origin here. New Durham Gore was incorpo- rated as Alton June 16, 1796. See New Hampshire charters in preceding volumes ; IX, Bouton Town Papers, 9 6 CHARTER RECORDS. 127, 456, 569; XII, Hammond Town Papers, 701 ; Index to Laws, 395; papers under titles Kingswood and Coulerain ; sketch, Hurd’s History of Strafford County, 1882, p. 658; Stewart’s History of the Free Baptists, 1862, p. 53; Lawrence’s N. H. Churches, 1856, p. 338; Free Baptists in N. H., by Joseph Fullonton, 1, Granite Monthly, 277; Souvenir of the Centennial Yearly Meeting of N. H. Free Baptists Association, 1892, pp. 154; Life of Benjamin Randall.] [. Petition of Jonathan Chesley and Ebenezer Smith , 1748.] [Masonian Papers, Vol. 7, p. 71.] Prov e of New ) To The Hon 1 The Purchasers & Proprietors of Hampshire j Mason’s Right (so called) — The Petition of Jonathan Chesley & Eben r Smith of Durham Gent n Humbly Shews — That your Petitioners are appointed Agents for& on behalf of a Number of y e Freeholders & other Inhabitants of S d Dur- ham who are desirous of having a certain Tract of Land granted them within S d Mason’s S d Right & being convinced (upon y e best Informa- tion we can get) that y e Property is yours & consequently that you can give us a Title to what we desire Therefore We Humbly pray that we our Constituents may have y e Grant of a Township bound- ing upon Rochester Head Line & Barnstead upon Such Terms as Shall be most likely to promote your & our Interest Jonathan Chesley Ebenezer Smith [Names of Chesley' s Associates , 1749.] [Masonian Papers, Vol. 7, p. 72.] Province of \ To the Honb le Theodore Atkinson Esq ur and New Hampshire j other Gentlemen Purchasers and Proprietors of John Tufton mason Esqu r his Right in Lands in said Province a List of the Subscribers to the Petition for a Tract of land above Roches- ter, to the abovesaid Proprietors, preferred by the hands of Capt Jonathan Chesley & m r Ebenezer Smith viz 4 — Durham April 11 th 1749 Ebenezer Smith Thomas Young of Newmarket John Cromet Benjamin Mathes Thomas Tash Samuel Wille Jonathan Chesley James Drisco Joseph Duda Juner Joseph Wheeler Benjamin Jackson William Bruce NEW DURHAM. 97 Both one sheir Both 1 Shear Sam 11 Stevins ( James Thompson ) Jeremiah Drisco petor moo Job Runels Junr Walter Bryent Jonathan Durgin Abednego Lethers Jeremiah Burnum Juner Joseph Hall of newmarket Joseph Smith of newmarket Both 1 Shire Borth 1 Share Philip Cromet and John andras Benjamin Smith Simon Rendel Robert Burnum Robert Kent John Bickford Joseph Burnum Sam 11 Adams John Edgerly Abraham Bennick Juner Thomas Langly Ebenezer Jones Eliphelet Daniels John footman & Thomas Stevenson Juner Volintine Mathes Ichabod Chesley thorn as Chesley Jonathan Chesley Juner Abraham Stevenson ) Borth franc is Drew ( 1 share John Jon son nathaniel frost Joseph Smith Juner Abraham mathis Elezer Bickford Benjamin Bennick ) John mason j William weeks of Greenland Lemuel Chesley Borth 1 Shire Borth 1 shire Joseph Sias Samuel Chesle of Durham Thomas Wille Juner Miles Randel Samuel Sias Solomon Sias Treworthy Durgin John Burnum Joseph Chesley Daniel Rogers Samuel Smith Juner John Bennick John Elliot Benj Jenkens David Davis whentrop Burnum ) ^ Ichabod Denbo | Borth 1 John wille Juner James Smith Jeremiah Burnam Joseph Thomas Stephen Jones Juner william Jackson Juner Philip Chesely John Durgin & Borth francis Durgin 1 shire Benmore Duda nicholas Duda Joseph Jones thomas Chesley Juner Joseph Drew | Borth 1 John Drew j John Adams minister thomas york william Durgin theodore wille & Shir ;e Borth 1 shire Borth 1 shire shire Borth 1 shire Borth 1 shire Borth 1 shire John Bickford Juner Valintine hill Richard Denbo & j Caleb wakham j Joseph weeks of Greenland Joseph Bickford Borth 1 shire [The names are then repeated and numbered from 1 to 80 . — Ed.] 9 8 CHARTER RECORDS. [ Charter of New Durham , 1749.] [Masonian Proprietors’ Records, May 5, 1849.] Province of \ Portsmouth May y e 5 th 1749 Fryday three of New Hampshire \ y e Clock afternoon at the Dwelling house of Sarah Prust widow The Proprietors meet according to adjournment Voted that there be & hereby is Granted unto Jonathan Chesle Ebenezer Smith James Drisco Joseph Duda Jun r John Cromet Joseph Wheler Benjamin Mathes Benjamin Jackson Thomas Tasli W m Bruce Samuel Wille Sam 1 Stevens & James Thompson both one Share Joseph Sias Samuel Chesle Jeremiah Drisco & Peter Moo both one Share Thomas Wille Jun r Miles Randel Job Runels Jun r Sam 1 Sias & Solomon Sias both one Share Walter Bryant Jonathan Durgin T reworthy Durgin Abednego Lethers John Burnum Jere- miah Burnum ju r Joseph Chesle Daniel Rogers Sam 1 Smith Jun r John Andras & Philip Cromet both one Share John Bennick & John Elliot both one Share Benjamin Smith Benjamin Jenkins Simon Rendel David Davis Robert Burnum Winthrop Burnum & Ichabod Denbo both one Share Robert Kent John Bickford John Wille Ju r Jo s Burnum James Smith Samuel Adams Jeremiah Burnum John Edgerly Joseph Thomas Abraham Bennick Jun r Stephen Jones Ju r Thomas Langly William Jackson jun r Ebenezer Jones Philip Chessly Eliphalet Daniels John Durgin & Francis Durgin both one Share John Footman & Thomas Stevenson Ju r both one Share Benmore Duda & Nicholas Duda both one Share Volentine Mathes Ichabod Chesle Joseph Jones Thomas Chesley Thomas Chesly Jun r Jonathan Chesley Jun 1 ' Joseph Drew and John Drew both one Share Francis Drew and Abraham Stevenson both one Share John Adams Minister John Jonson & Nath 1 Frost both one Share Thomas York & William Durgin both one Share Joseph Smith jun r Theodore Wille & John Bickford jun r both one Share Abraham Mathis Elezer Bickford Valentine Hill Benjamin Bennick & John Mason both one Share Richard Denbo & Caleb Wakham both one Share Lemuel Chesly Joseph Bickford All of Durham Thomas Young & Joseph Smith of Newmarket William Weeks Joseph Weeks Both of Greenland & Nicholas Perryman Esq r of Exeter all in Said Province of New Hampshire in Equal Shares Excepting as Aforesaid and as Hereafter is herein Excepted on the Terms Conditions & Limitations herein After Expressed all that tract of Land within the Province Aforesaid Containing the Quantity of Six Miles Square Bounded as follows Viz 4 Beginning at the Southwesterly Corner of a Tract of Land granted unto Ebenezer NEW DURHAM. 99 Varney William Wentworth and Others upon & at Rochester head Line and from thence to run Westerly By said Head line of Rochester five Miles and to Continue the Breadth of five Miles extending from the head Line of Rochester so far Northwardly as to Make a Tract of Land Equal to Six Miles Square Adjoining to the said Tract of Land granted to the said Ebenezer Varney William Wentworth and Others and the Head Line of the said Tract of Land hereby granted to be a Parallel Line with the Head Line of Rochester and the Side Lines to be Parallel with Each Other to Have and to Hold to them their Heirs & Assigns forever 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 and Each Share be Laid out into two Distinct Lots one of which to Contain one Hundred Acres and the Other all the Land Belong- ing to Each Share Respectively. That the whole be so Laid out and the two Lots belonging to Each Share be Number’d 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 Grant- ing 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 Portsm 0 Aforesaid Under the Care & Direction of the Grantors Aforesaid and 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 Said Land and Continue 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 and towards the Sup- port of the Gospel Ministry there forever and the hundred acre Lots belonging to these two Shares Respectively Shall be Laid out as near the Place where the Meeting house Shall be built as May Conveniently be done without being Drawn for as the other Lots That there be Six Acres of Land left in Some Convenient Place within the said Boundaries for building a Meeting House & School house upon & to be used as a Training Field a Burying Place or Other Public use the Inhabitants there may have Occasion to Improve it for That one Other of Said Shares be for y e use & Maintainance of a School there forever That Seventeen of the Said Shares be and hereby are Reserved to the use of the said Grantors and their Heirs & Assigns forever: That the owners of the other Eighty Shares make a regular Settle- ment there at their own Charge in the following Manner viz that IOO CHARTER RECORDS. Each owner of the said Eighty Shares Build an House of Sixteen foot Square or Equal thereto upon Some part of his Land there That there be thirty families Settled upon Said Tract of Land within four years next after a Peace is Proclamed between the English French and Indians and Each Family to have Such an House as Afores* 1 and three Acres of Land cleared & fitted for Mow- ing or Tillage and that Ten Families more be Settled there Each having an House as Aforesaid within five years next After the Proclamation of Said Peace with three Acres of Land more fitted as Aforesaid And within Six years next After the Said Peace to have a Meeting House Built there for the Public Worship of God fitted for that Purpose for the use of the Inhabitants there And to Maintain the Constant preaching of the Gospel there from and After the End of Seven years from the Proclaming Peace as Afores d That there be twenty acres of Land Left in Some Suitable Place for a Privilege and Accommodation of a Saw mill which Shall be for him His Heirs & Assigns who will build Such Mill within the term of Five years next After Peace as Aforesaid with the Priv^ypjl of the most Convenient Stream and place for doing the Same and in Consideration thereof for the Benefit of Said Inhabitants the owner or owners of Such mill Shall Saw the Logs of the Said Inhabitants 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 Per- son or Persons as the Majority of them Shall admit Permit & Suffer to do the Same Undertake to Build Such Mill on the Terms Aforesaid then the said owners Shall do the Same at their Common Expence & Charge & put the Said Mill under Such A Regulation as that they and Others Inhabiting there may Have their Logs and 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 y e Majority of them Shall Elect 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 Nec- essary from time to time and as Occasion Shall Require to Defray the Charges of Laying out 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^hem 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 four Rods NEW DURHAM. IOI wide and Between the Lots for ways 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 Exonerated Acquitted and 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 Untill Improved by the Respective owners thereof — That All white pine trees fit for His Majestys use for masting y e Royal navy be and Hereby are Reserved And are Hereby Granted to His Majesty his heirs & Successors for that Purpose — That in Case the said Grantees Shall fail Neglect and Omit to Settle forty Families upon the Said Granted premises within the Term of Five Years next After a peace Shall be Concluded and Proclamed as Aforesaid Each Family Having the Quantity of three Acres of Land Cleared and fitted as Aforesaid and to do and Perform the Several Articles Matters & things Above Mentioned to be Performed and Done by the owners of the said Eighty Shares it Shall and May be Lawfull for the Said Grantors or any of them or any person or persons in their Name and Behalf & By their Authority or the Major Part of them to Enter into & 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 thence forward be null and Void to All Intents and pur- poses Any Thing Herein Contained to the Contrary thereof Notwith- standing and all and Every of the Said Grantees who Shall not do and perform his Respective part and Duty in Making and Carrying on the Said Settlenfi (in Case of the Settlement of fort}^ families as Afore- said) Such Delinquent owner Shall forfeit his Share and Right in the Said Premises to those Who Shall Have so performed and done their Duty as Aforesaid in Making the Said Settlement who Shall have full power and Authority into the Said forfeited Right and Share to Enter and Thereof to become Seized to their own use in Manner Aforesaid — Provided Nevertheless that the said Grantees do and Shall when they Shall be thereunto Respectively Requested Enter into a Contract and Personally Oblige themselves and their Respective Heirs & Assigns to do and perform the Several Articles Matters & Things by these Persons be- fore Mentioned to be Performed and Done by Signing and Executing 102 CHARTER RECORDS. Such Instrument or Instruments in Writing as by Council Learn’d in the Law Shall be Advised and Devised for that purpose And in that Case & Not Otherwise the said Grantors do Hereby promise & Ingage to the Said Grantees that they the Said Grantors their Heirs Exec rs Adm rs or Assigns Shall and will at their own Cost & Expence try the Title of the Said Granted Premises by Pursuing and Prosecuting an Action for the whole or any part thereof thro’ the whole Course of the 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 and desirous thereof 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 and the Title of the Person or Persons So Disputing with the Grant- ors to the Premises Shall by Such Final Judgment be Prefer’d then the Grantees in these Presents Shall Recover Nothing of the Said Grantors for the Said Premises nor for Any Labour Expence Charge & Disbursement 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 Number of Years Mentioned herein for the Said Grantees to do and Perform the Several articles Matters and things afores d is to be So many Years free from the Im- pediment and Interruption of an Indian War \T)raft of Lots, 1750.] [Masonian Papers, Yol. 7, p. 73, and Proprietors’ Records, Yol. 6, p. 227, and Yol. 7, p. 61.] Province of New Hampshire Portsmouth May y e 2 d 1750 — At a Proprietors meeting held at the House of Ann Slayton — The Draft of y e shares or Lots of y e Township granted to Jon a Chesly Eben r Smith & others — 1 Ministers Lot 2 Ministry Lot 3 Thomas Packer Esqu r 4 Rich d Denbo & Caleb Wakeham 5 Ebenezer Smith 6 John Edgerly 7 Eleazer Bickford N° 9 8 Richard Wibird Esqu r 10 9 Jeremiah Burn am 72 10 Benj a Mathews 11 School Lot 59 12 Benj a Bennick & } 63 John Mason ) 62 13 Joseph Chesly 27 14 Jn° Tufton Mason & Jn° Thomlinson Esqu rs 68 13 48 33 69 37 98 •i '■ ■'< Mhrr \ .... ay; ->rfJ ni nlj < NEW DURHAM. 103 15 Winthrop Burn an & Icliabod Denbo 16 Elipbalet Daniel 17 John Bennick & ) John Eliot J 18 Jonathan Chesly 19 John Johnson & | Nathaniel Frost \ 20 Joseph Dude jun r 21 John Footman & Thomas Stevenson jun r 22 Jotham Odiorne Esqu r 28 Benjamin Jenkins 24 Jeremiah Drisco & ) Peter Mow j 25 Joseph Burnam 26 Lemuel Chesly 27 Joseph Wheeler 28 Joseph Bickford 29 Daniel Peirce & ) Mary Moor j 30 Volentine Mathews 31 Robert Kent 32 Joseph Smith Jun r 33 Tho 8 Wallingford Esqu r 34 Daniel Rogers 35 Nath 11 Meserve Esau 1 ) & others \ 36 David Davis 37 Josepli Jones 38 James Smith 39 John Andros & \ Philip Cromett \ 40 George Jaffrey 41 Theodore Willey & ) John Bickford jun r j 42 Joseph Smith 43 Philip Chesly 44 Jonathan Chesly jun r 45 Benjamin Smith 46 John Bickford 47 Joshua Peirce Esqu r 48 John Durgan & ) Francis Durgan jj N° 97 58 11 73 23 43 67 76 42 28 50 15 22 36 21 84 35 34 60 24 16 94 8 89 7 38 6 55 53 95 66 64 83 17 ,rs 49 Joseph Sias 50 Jonathan Durgan 51 Simon Randel 52 Volentine Hill 53 Miles Randel 54 Joseph Drew & ) Joh n D rew J 55 Abraham Mathews 56 John Moffatt Esqu r 57 Francis Drew & Abraham Stephenson 58 Thomas Chesly jun r 59 Jeremiah Burnam jun 60 Samuel Wille 61 Benjamin Jackson 62 Sam 11 Solly and Clement March Esqu 63 Thomas Langly 64 Job Runnells jun r 65 Joseph Thomas 66 Theodore Atkinson Esqu r 67 John Wentworth jun r Esqu 68 William Weeks 69 Samuel Chesly 70 Mark Hunk g Wentworth Esqu r 71 Abednego Leathers 72 Samuel Stevens & ( James Thompson j 73 John Burnam 74 Mark Hunk g Wentworth Esqu r 75 True worthy Durgan 76 Thomas Wille jun r 77 Thomas Tasli 78 Benmore Dude & Nicholas Dude 79 William Jackson jun r 80 Samuel Smith jun r 81 Thomas Chesly 82 John Cromett 83 John Wille jun r 84 Law Lot N° 1 85 Robert Burnam N° 80 100 57 4 85 82 39 14 65 79 93 71 52 86 88 81 32 46 78 12 1 31 3 75 77 87 91 70 99 40 47 30 96 51 44 26 5 CHARTER RECORDS. IO4 86 Joseph Weeks 50 98 Law Lot N° 2 61 87 Abraham Bennick jun r 20 94 Walter Brient 74 88 Stephen Jones jun r 90 95 Nicholas Perryman Esqu r 2 89 John Addams Minister 41 96 Sam 11 Addams 18 90 Samuel Sias and } 92 97 Ichabod Chesly 25 Sollomon Sias 98 Thomas Young 45 91 William Bruce 29 99 Ebenezer Jones 49 92 Thomas York & | William Durgan j 19 100 James Drisco 54 Voted that this Draft of Lots of Land in the Tract above mentioned be and hereby is Ratifyed & confirmed and that each Lot be held to the Respective Prerson to whose name it is affixed & to his heirs & assigns in severalty on the Terms first Granted — Geo : Jaffrey Prop r Cl : [ Condition of Settlements, 1770.] [Masonian Papers, Vol. 7, p. 74.] An Inventory of the Familys Houses improved Ground & Fell Trees in the Township of New Durham Viz 1 Lot Fam 8 Houses improved Ground fell Trees Eben r Dow . . Lot No 2 1 1 4 acres 4 acres Edw & W m Peavey N °4 2 2 18 0 acres John Benrick . N° 5 1 1 6 7 Rob Boody 3 1 1 20 10 Nick* Glidden . 34 1 1 5 3 Benj a Bickford . 36 1 1 3 6 John Glidden . 37 I 1 7 5 Zeb n Glidden 44 1 1 6 1 Nath an Kenneston 43 1 1 10 4 45 0 0 1 2 Jon a Buzzell 47 1 1 4 3 Zach Boody 49 1 1 0 7 5 ° 0 0 2 14 Jer m Dow .... 52 1 1 0 20 Jos Libbey. 53 1 1 6 2 55 0 0 1 3 Eben r Bickford . 27 1 1 12 2 54 0 0 0 2 56 0 0 0 8 James Berry 30 1 1 1 1 2 NEW DURHAM. IQ 5 Lot Fam 8 Houses improved Ground fell Trees David Allard 63 1 1 3 0 Benj a Mathes 62 1 1 3 0 Josi Doe & Jn° Collome 99 2 2 14 0 John Doo .... 97 1 1 3 0 65 0 0 0 0 But 2 Mills Marriam Berry . 64 1 1 4 0 66 0 1 5 0 Benj a Mooney 8 1 1 3 0 9 i 0 1 4 1 92 0 0 0 2 James Palmer * 89 I 1 18 6 Jer m Taylor 87 1 1 5 6 88 0 0 0 3 Henry Allard 16 1 1 9 0 James Stillson . 73 1 1 16 0 Tim 0 Murry 7 1 1 1 6 0 Sidy Allard 69 1 1 12 0 Benj a Berry 1 1 1 1 14 0 Jn° Rogers 24 1 1 9 0 94 0 0 4 4 The 0 Atkenson . Second Division 46 0 0 0 3 Tim 0 Davis N° 19 2 2 13 4 Jon a Allard N°i8 0 0 2 0 A Mill Paul March 17 1 1 30 6 was Burnt Down Paul March 15 1 1 9 0 Paul March 80 0 0 0 8 Paul March 86 0 0 0 8 Tim 0 Murry 7 1 0 0 0 3 N° 9 Thar is the Meeting House Inclosed shingled & under floor Laid under pined & window frames in and no more finished towards it. Timothy Murray Shadrach Allard Province of ) New durliam 4 January 1770 then the above New Hampshire \ named timothy murrv and Shadarch allard Person- . aly appeared Before me and maid Solemn oath that the above Inven- tory is Just and true according to the Best of tlier Judgment Errors Exepted John Plummer Just Peace 1 06 CHARTER RECORDS. [Another Report of Settlements, April , 1770.] [Masonian Papers, Yol. 7, p. 75.] An Inventory of the Improvements made In N: Durham Mens Names that Is Setled N° of Lots Houses Acres of Land Improv’d Acres of Land Clear’d Acres of fell Trees Joseph Small No 40 00 00 00 14 No 39 00 3 i 00 00 No 42 00 00 3 4 No 93 00 ih 00 oo N° 94 00 00 2 h 2. No 92 00 00 3 00 Joseph Durgan No 91 1 Ah 00 5 James Palmer No 89 1 l 9 10 8 No 77 00 00 00 3 h Jere h Taylor .... No 87 1 7 4 4 No 67 00 00 3 00 John Younge No 66 1 1 1 00 00- No 65 2 Mills 00 1 h 00 Eben r Bickford J r . N° 35 00 2 00 3 No 54 00 00 00 4 Zeb n Glidden No 44 1 6 2 3 N° 46 00 1 1 h 1 No 50 00 2 3 15 No 51 00 00 00 4 James Berry .... N° 30 1 13 3 00 Eben r Dow .... N° 2 1 5 00 1 1 Edward Pevey No 4 1 15 00 10 Rob 1 Boodey No 3 1 20 00 12 John Bennick No 5 1 7 3 10 Josiah Doe .... N° 99 1 5 3 2 Benj a Bickford No 36 1 5 1 5 Nicholas Gleddon . No 34 1 3 00 3 Ichabod Buzzy No 47 1 7 2 9 Zachariah Boody . No 49 1 00 1 h 10 Jeremiah Dow No 52 1 00 2 38 Nathan Kenistone . widow Sarah Gledon wife of No 43 1 12 3 5 benj a .... No 34 00 3 00 3 Joseph Libbey No 53 1 6 00 6 Eben r Bickford N° 27 1 16 00 6 No 56 00 00 1 9 Benj a Berry .... No 1 1 1 !5 00 00 NEW DURHAM. 107 Mens Names that Is Setled N° of Lots Houses Acres of Land Improv’d Acres of Land Clear’d Acres of fell Trees John Rogers .... No 24 1 30 00 00 N° 22 Burnt 00 8 00 No 13 Burnt 00 4 00 William Peavey No 4 1 5 00 4 Jonathan Allard N° 19 1 13 00 00 Paul March .... N° 17 2 3 ° 10 8 N° 80 00 00 8 0 Tim 0 Davis .... N° 19 1 25 00 00 No 18 00 00 2 00 N° 23 1 Burnt 4 00 00 N° 7 1 Burnt 8 00 00 N° 9 00 6 00 00 N° 17 00 5 00 00 N° 26 00 5 00 00 John Glidden No 37 i 7 00 4 N° 10 a Meeting House 00 Tho 8 Younge N° 45 1 1 00 2 Shadrach Allard . N° 69 1 12 4 00 James Stillson No 73 1 20 00 00 Henry Allard No 16 1 18 00 00 Tim 0 Murray N° 71 1 12 00 00 Benj a Mooney No 8 1 14 00 00 No 15 00 2 00 oo David Langley No 88 1 00 1 3 James Chesley N° 96 1 00 00 5 David Allard .... N° 63 1 4 00 4 widow Merriam berry N° 64 1 3 00 4 John Collema N° 99 1 20 00 5 John Doe .... N° 97 1 6 0 00 Benj a Mathas N° 62 1 9 6 00 No 100 1 00 1 0 N° 70 00 00 1 3 N° 17 a Saw mill &c was Burnt Number of Families ........ 42 Number of Houses ......... 41 Number of Ditto Burnt . 1 Meeting House 1 Saw Mill & 1 Grist Mill io8 CHARTER RECORDS. 1 Saw Mill Burnt ......... 1 Number of Acres Improv’d ....... 448£ Number of Ditto Clear'd ........ 98 Number of Ditto fell Trees ....... 251£ The foregoing is a True Inventory Taken by us The Subscribers According to The Best of Our Judgement Tho s Tash ) n ... Volintine Mathes { Commlttee [Account of Several Lots . ] [Masonian Papers, Yol. 7, p. 76.] N° 7 A House 18 feet by 16 Was built on S d Lot and was Burnt, And Three or four acres of Land Improv’d for mowing on S d Lot N° 23 A House has been built And Burnt and more than three Acres on Said Lot has been Improv’d for mowing & Planting — N° 93 One Acre Clear’d N° 94 Three Acres fell Trees & Mostly Clear’d Up N° 77 Three or four Acres fell Trees N° 42 Ab fc Seven Acres fell Trees & Mostly Clear’d N° 22 A House built & Burnt with ab l four acres Improv’d N° 13 A House built & Burnt about four acres Improv’d N° 51 four Acres fell Trees N° 54 Three Acres D° D° N° 56 five Acres — D° N° 40 Eight Acres — D° N° 80 four Acres — Ditto — and a House — N° 44 Three Acres Clear’d & Two acres : Fell [ Thomas Tasli s Bill , 1824.] [Masonian Papers, Vol. 7, p. 77.] Mark Peirce Esq. of Portsmouth to Thomas Tash — D r 1824 ) June 7 j To 3 days running out his lots of land Numbered \ Dol. Cts. 21 in the first, & 21 in the sec d Div n of New Durham J 4, 50 To J a day planning the same — 50 15 — 00 Tho s Tash Surveyor. Errors Excepted p r NEWINGTON. IO9 Note. The reason why it took 3 days to run this land was ; we had to run and measure other lots, before we could find the right corners, besides we had some interruption by foul weather. Note. 2nd. The Chainmen’s bill will be 6 dollars, that is 8 dol- lars each, and the bill of the axe man or spotter will, I suppose, be 3 dollars also, that being the customary price in such cases. Note 3rd. Samuel Wille Esq. was with us the greater part of the time ; he also found me, and part of the rest of the company, while engaged in the business. To Mark Peirce Esq. Portsmouth NEWINGTON. [Formerly a part of Dover known as Bloody Point. The date of incorporation is doubtful but is given by some authorities as July, 1764. A small portion of the town was annexed to Portsmouth June 29, 1821. See papers under title Dover; IX, Bouton Town Papers, 153; XII, Hammond Town Papers, 710; Index to Laws, 404; sketch, Hurd’s History of Rockingham County, 1882, p. 392; Lawrence’s N. H. Churches, 1856, p. 100; Church Rec- ords, 1716-1731, by C. W. Tuttle, N. E. Hist. Gen. Register, vol. 22, p. 23, to vol. 25, p. 284; Report of an Indian Massacre at Fox Point, by Chas. Wesley Tuttle, Historical Papers, edited by Albert H. Hoyt, 1889.] [ Petition of Newington Men , 1748.] [Masonian Papers, Vol. 7, p. 79.] Prov e of ) To the Honb le Theodore Atkinson Esq r & others New Hamp ( Purchasers and Propriators of Masons Rights So Called The Petition of the Subscribers Humbly Shews that your Petition- ers 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 and Limita- tions as others who have Asked the Same Favour and as Speedely as shall be Consistant with your Conveincey and your Petitioners as in Duty bound Shall Ever Pray John Knight Ju r Christopher Huntriss Thomas Pickrin melons Pickrin John Trecke Joshua Trecke Jonathen Trecke Josaph Trecke Richard Damm James Colbroth Moses furbur Elezer Colman no CHARTER RECORDS. Josaph Colman John Hoyt thomas Bickford Ichbord Bickford Ichabod Rolings John Coleman Joseph Smith Jur Jonathan dam anthony : nutter Joseph Rollings Ju r John Hunttres Lemuel bibkford Ju r John Hodgsdon W m Shackford John Leighter rowell Nicholas Knight Ebenzear Bickford William Colbroth Eleazar Colman Junr Neliemiah furbur alexender Hodgsdon Samuel Trecke Jonathen Downings Noor Rollings Jonathen Hunttres Habebel Nutter Ju r sam 11 Rollings Sam 11 Shackford Hutson Pene Joseph Colbroth Joseph Bickford Edward Rolings Samuel rawllings Ju r Sam : Nuther John dam Georg Knight Josaph Rollengs William Huntris Chrestepher Hunttres Ju r Nathanel burnam Jonathen Chasele [Endorsed] Newington ^ Jn° Knight jun r Rece d Dec r 1 th 1748 NEW HAMPTON. [Granted as Moultonboroiigh Addition Jan. 24, 1765, to Jonathan Moulton and others, proprietors of Moultonborough. Incorporated as New Hampton Nov. 27, 1 777, and named from the town of Hampton. Centre Harbor was set off and incorporated Dec. 7, 179 7. See papers under title Moultonborough; XII, Hammond Town Papers, 706; Index to Laws, 401 ; sketch, Hurd’s History of Belknap County, 1885, p. 870; Reminiscences of, by F. H. Kelley, 1889, pp. 147; Stewart’s History of the Free Baptists, 1862, p. 252; Baptist Churches in N. H., by E. E. Cummings, 1836, p. 18; Lawrence’s N. H. Churches, 1856, p. 503; Historical Sketch of the Academical and Theological Institution, by W. E. Wording, 14, American Quar- terly Register, 351 ; Historical Sketch, 1876; The Town of New Hampton and Her Two Celebrated Revolutionary Officers, by G. W. Nesmith, 3, Granite Monthly, 221.] \_G-rant as Moultonborough Addition , 1765.] [Masonian Proprietors’ Records, Jan. 24, 1765.] Province of ) Portsmouth January 24 th 1765. Thursday five New Hampshire j of the clock afternoon, at the dwelling house of Cap 4 James Stoodly Innholder The Proprietors meet according to adjournment Whereas the said Proprietors on the 17 th day of November 1763 Granted a tract of Land of Six miles Square, or Equal thereto unto NEW HAMPTON. Ill Jonathan Moulton Esq r Ephraim Marston Jeremiah Marston, and others part of the Land of said Proprietors, which having been Since View’d & Examind is found to much Inferior in Quality to what it was Supposed to be, which is Discouraging to the Grantees — Therefore Voted That there be & hereby is Granted to the same Grantees mentioned in the Grant above refer’d to, and on the same Terms & Conditions & Limitations, an Addition, all the Right title Interest Claim Property, & Demand of the said Proprietors, of in & unto all that tract & parcel of Land joining to the said former Grant, contained within the following bounds Beginning, at the North East Corner of New Salem so called, thirty rods from Winnipissiokey Pond thence running South fifty five Deg: West bounding on said New Salem & Sandburn Town so Called to Pemigewasset River, thence running Northerly up said Pemigewasset River bounding by the middle of said River, to the South westerly Corner of the Town- ship of Holderness so Called, thence running East, bounding on the Southerly line of said Holderness, Six miles to the Southeasterly Corner of Holderness aforesaid, thence running North bounding on the Easterly line of Holderness to the Curve line so Called, which is the head line of the said Proprietors Land thence by said Curve line to the tract of Land first Granted to these Grantees, thence running on the Westerly line of said tract to the place where it begins To have and to hold the said tract of Land, hereby granted to the said Grantees in Equal Shares & to their Heirs & Assigns forever, on the same Terms, limitations & Conditions in all respects as the former Tract of Land was to them granted & on which they hold the same said Tract of Land being joined to the former for one Township — and whereas by the former grant of the 17 th day of November 1763, the Tract then Granted was to be Divided into Eighty two Shares, & Each Share into two Lots, which by this Addition may not be so Convenient — Therefore ’tis now agreed & Voted the whole of the said former & this Grant shall be Divided into Eighty two Shares & each Share, into Three Seperate Lots & whereas it may forward the Settlement to have a Plan return’d & the Lots drawn for of the first Division as soon as may be, & that the whole tract be laid out & a Plan returned, and the lots ready to be drawn for with the Remainder within one Year from this Date at farthest, which is at the Request of the Grantees & is agreed to & Voted to be done & performed 1 1 2 CHARTER RECORDS. NEW IPSWICH. [Granted by Massachusetts Jan. 15, 1735-6, to John Wain wright, John Choate,, and others, inhabitants of Ipswich, Mass. Granted by the Masonian Proprietors. April 1 7, 1750, to Reuben Kidder and others. Incorporated as Ipswich Sept. 9, 1762. Incorporated as New Ipswich March 6, 1766. See Massachusetts and New Hampshire charters in preceding volumes ; IX V Bouton Town Papers, 604; XII, Hammond Town Papers, 730; Index to Laws v 402; Sketches of History, by Charles Walker, 5, Collections of N. H. Historical Society, 155 ; History, by F. Kidder and A. A. Gould, 1852, pp. 488; Historical Discourse, centennial celebration of First Congregational Church, i860, by Sam- uel Lee, 1861, pp. 88; sketch, Hurd’s History of Hillsborough County, 1885,. p. 610; Baptist Churches in N. H., by E. E. Cummings, 1836, p. 16; Law- rence's N. H. Churches, 1856, pp. 231, 236.] [Votes of Proprietors of New Ipswich , 1748.] [Masonian Papers, Vol. 7, p. 80.] At a Legal Meeting of the Prop rs of New-Ipswich at the Dwelling- House of Joseph Newhall in Ipswich on Tuesday the 14 th of February A D 1748- Col 0 Thomas Berry Moderator — Voted That Col 0 Daniel Appleton Col 0 John Choate & Col 0 Thomas Berry be a Committee fully Authoriz’d & Impower’d in the Name & Behalf of the Proprietors to Treat with the late Grantees of Mason's Grant so call’d, or with Col 0 Joseph Blanchard or both as they shall see meet respecting their Supposed Title to s d New Ipswich and to make a full & final Agreement and Settlement of any Differences or Disputes that are between y e s d Grantees of s d Mason & y e s d New Ipswich Prop rs relating to y e Title & Settlement thereof; and what they, or either two of them do on the premisses to be Binding to the Proprietors. And if they Apprehend it not best to Agree, than to Report to the Prop rs (as soon as may be) what may be best further to be done A Copy Exam d ^ Tho Norton Pro Cler At a Legal Meeting of the Prop rs of New Ipswich by Adjournment at y e Dwelling House of Joseph Newhall in Ipswich February the 28 th Anno Domini 1748 Andrew Burley Esq r Moderator Voted That either two of the Com tee appointed by the Prop rs at their meeting the Fourteenth of February instant to Treat with Col Blanchard about Masons Title &c as set forth therein be fully Authoriz'd & Impower’d to go & to Act in that affair as amply & fully to all Intents & purposes as if they all three went & were pres- ent A Copy Exam d ^ Tho Norton Pro Cler NEW IPSWICH. 113 [. Joseph Blanchard to Masonian Proprietors, 1748.] [Masonian Papers, Vol. 7, p. 81.] Gentlemen Coll 0 Choat & Collo 1 Applton a Com tee O 11 Behalf of New Ipswich has bin With me Treating Ab fc your title to that township And are disposed to Accom’odate Matters if they Can the lines of the town may be Continued, near the Same, & you will See by their plan 120 Lotts are Lay’d out & Drawn they Request to hold them lotts as Lay’d out and their Town Lines to Stand, of, Which the northeast Corner ; I must take off, I Expect it will Intersect and Cut of ab 1 8 Lotts, it Should Shut Home to the province line & in Lieu of *What I take off on y 9 East made up as ^ a plan I’ 1 Send you the Seasona- ble & Effectuall forwarding the Settlem 1 they Are Willing to. But they are not Willing to Comply with the quantity to be Reserved therefore I have for that Article in Special Referred them to your determination, And to have them Easyly dealt with & their being Accom’odated, in the best way will be very pleasing to y r Hum 1 SeP Dunstable March 3 f1 — 1748 J Blanchard [Blanchard' s Plan .] t/lbO ?u-n£ -purnpj uvjl/ ipj-g yvit-pjg- 'Vf>- to. • \* orii 41 os ii \ Tit* r fo'b r t,' «$/ f y/ •fr VO £ If JO ly DorchciUr Cauda. The. Tio’i'ice tint j \ * .-V: * .•<$» . K •$* ; '« S ^ 0 ""liiT,' ?» I \% c iy Attt 8 CHARTER RECORDS. II 4 [ Charter of New Ipswich , 1750.] [Masonian Papers, Vol. 7, pp. 82, 83.] Province of ( Pursuant to the Power & Authority Granted, New Hampshire ( & Vested in me by the Proprietors of Lands pur- chased of John Tufton Mason Esq r in the Province of New Hamp- shire aforesaid by their Vote the 16 th of June 1749, passed at their Meeting held at Portsmouth in said Province. — I Do by these Presents give & grant unto Reuben Kidder, Archible White, Jonas Woolson, Abijah Foster, John Brown, Benj a Hoar jun 1 ' Timothy Heald, Joseph Kidder, Joseph Bullard, Ebenezer Bullard, Joseph Stevens, Henry Putney, John Chandler all of a place called New Ipswich, Hannah Dinsmore, Peter Powers, Daniel Emerson, David Nevens, all of Holies, Zaccheus Lovewell, Joseph French both of Dunstable, & all in the Province of New Hampshire, Jon a Hub- bard, John Stevens Esq r of Townshend, Isaac Appleton, Thomas Adams, Robert Choat, William Brown, Nathaniel Smith, Col° John Choat, Francis Choat, Thomas Dennis all of Ipswich, Andrew Spaulding of Westford, Isaac Patch of Groton, William Peters of Medfield, John Marsh of Mendon, & Benj a Hoar of Littletown. To them, their Heirs & Assigns, on the Terms, Conditions, Reservations & Limitations, & in the Respective Proportions, hereafter expressed, all the Right, Title, Interest & Property of the Grantors aforesaid, of, in & to that Tract of Land, or Township lying in the Province of New Hampshire aforesaid Extending Six Miles in length, & five Miles in Breadth bounded as followeth, beginning at the line between the Province of New Hampshire aforesaid & the Province of the Massachusetts Bay at the Southwest Corner of the Township call’d N° 1, from thence North Eighty Degrees West Six miles to the South West Corner of the Township called South Manadnock or Manadnock Number one, from thence North by the Needle five Miles to the North East Corner of said South Manadnock, from thence South Eighty Deg s East by the Line of Peterborough Slip, Six Miles to the North West Corner of N° one, & from thence South five Miles to the Bounds first Mentioned, To have and to hold to them, their Heirs & Assigns Excepting as aforesaid, & on the following Terms & Conditions with the Reservations aforesaid, the Lots already laid out, & the several Proportions of Common Land, yet to be divided to each one as fol- loweth, To Reuben Kidder, in the North Division, the Lots N° 55, and N° 46, & in the Ranges of Lots N° 1, & N° 3 in the fourteenth Range, N° 1 in the thirteenth, & N° 3 in the third Range, & three full Shares in the after Divisions To Archible White, N° 19, in the North NEW IPSWICH. 115 Division, & one half Share to be joyned with Joseph Bullard, in the after Divisions, To Jonas Woolson N° 2 in the fourth Range, & N° 2 in the fifteenth Range, & one Share in the after Division, To Abijali Foster N° 33 in the North Division, & N° 3 in the first Range & one Share in the after Divisions. To John Brown N° 31 in the North Division one Eighty Acre Lot to be laid out in the Common, & one Share in the after Divisions — To Benj a Hoar jun r N° 40, in the North Division, N° one in the second Range. N° 2 in the fifth, & one in the sixth Range, & two Shares in the after Divisions To Timothy Heald, N° 65, & 66, new lay’d out, & one Share in the after Divisions, Joseph Kidder N° 48, in the North Division, N° 1, in the ninth Range, & one Share in the after Divisions. Joseph Bullard N° 2 in the first Range, one half Share in the after Divisions with Archible White. To Eb- enezer Bullard N° 2 & N° 3 in the second Range & one Share in the after Divisions, To Joseph Stevens N°35 in the North Division N°3 in the Seventh Range, & one Share in the after Division. To Henry Putney 49 in the North Division, & N° T in the new lay’d out, & one Share in the after Divisions, To John Chandler, N° one in the third Range, N° one in the fourth Range, & one share in the after Division. To Hannah Dinsmore N° 54 in the North Division, N° 4 in the 9 th Range & N° 2 in the Seventh Range, & one Share in the after Di- visions, To M r Daniel Emerson one Eighty acre Lot, to be lay’d out in the Common Land, & one share in the after Division to Compleat the right of N° 2 in the Seventh Range of Hannah Dinsmore’s, To David Nevens N° 187, new laid out, N° 4 in the Eleventh Range, & one Share in the after Divisions, To Peter Powers, N° 1 & N° 12 in the lots new laid out, & one Share in the after Divisions, To Zaccheus Lovewell, N° 3 in the twelfth Range, & N° 3 in the Eleventh Range, & one Share in the after Divisions. To Joseph French, N° 4 in the third, & 3 in the tenth Range, and one share in the after Divisions, To Jon a Hubbard N° 47 in the North Division, & N° 2 in the ninth Range, & one Share in the after Division, To John Stevens Esq r , N° 34, in the North Division, N° 52, in the North Division & one in the fifteenth Range, N° 5, new laid out, N° 2 in the 12 th Range N° 4, in the 10 th Range, & three Shares in the after Divisions To Isaac Apple- ton, N° 63 & N° 42, & N° 41, N° 64 & N° 9 all in the North Division & N° one in the Eleventh, N° 2 in the 16 th & N° 69 & 72 New lay’d out, & 2 in the Eighth, & two in the third, & 2 in the Sixth Ranges, & Six Shares in the after Divisions, To Thomas Adams the Lots N° 25 & 21, & 22, & 17, & 18, & 50, & 51, in the North Division & Lots N° 4 in the fourteenth & 1 in the Sixteenth, & 2 in the tenth Ranges, & five Shares in the after Divisions, To Cap 1 Robert Choat N° 4 in the first Range, N° 1 in the tenth Range, & one Share in the after Di- ii 6 CHARTER RECORDS. visions, To William Brown N° 30, in the North Division, & 4 in the Sixth Range, and one Share in the after Divisions, To Nathaniel Smith N° 45 in the North Division & N° 3 in the 13 th Range, 4 in the 12 th Range, one Eighty Acre Lot to be laid out in the Common Land, & two shares in the after Divisions, To Thomas Dennis N° 57 in the North Division & one Eighty Acre lot to be laid out in the Common land & one Share in the after Divisions, To Andrew Spaulding N° one in the twelfth Range, & half a Share in the after Divisions to joyn with John Marsh, To Isaac Patch N° 4 in the fifth Range, & half a Share in the after Divisions, To William Peters of Medfield, one Eighty Acre Lot to be laid out in the Common Land, To John Marsh, N° 37, in the North Division, & half a Share in the after Division to joyn with Andrew Spaulding, To Major Zaccheus Lovewell N° 2 in the Eleventh Range, and one Eighty Acre Lot to be laid out in the Common, & one Share in the after Division, To Francis Choat N° 3 in the Sixth Range, one Eighty Acre Lot to be lay’d out in the Com- mon Land, and one Share in the after Division To Col 0 John Choat, N° 27, in the North Division, & one Share in the after Division, To the first Settled Minister in said Township the Lots N° 2 in the 13 th Range, & N° 32, in the North Division & one Share in the after Div- ision to the Use of the Ministry there, the Lot N° 20, in the North Division, & one Eighty Acre lot to be lay’d out in the Common Land, & one Share in the after Division, To the L T se of the School there forever, two Eighty Acre lots to be lay'd out in the Commons, & one Share in the after Division, To Benjamin Hoar Jun 1 N° 16 new lay'd out, & N° 26 & N° 36, & N° 53, all in the North Division, & two shares, in the after Divisions. — That is to say that Eighteen full & equal Shares in said Town in the following Manner viz fc Thirty Six Lots of Eighty Acres each already laid out & Eighteen Shares in the after Divisions to be drawn for in some Equitable Manner, that is to say two Lots of Seventy Acres each for each Share to be reserved for the Use of the Grantors, their Heirs & Assigns forever, & the like Number of Lots & Quantity of Land for each Share of each Grantees holding in the after Division, & the Remainder besides what is before Granted to be to the Use of the Grantees. — that the Divission of the said two Seventy acres Lots for each Share be laid out, & Equitably Coupled together & drawn for in some open Equitable Manner at or before the last day of August 1751, & that the aforesaid Eighteen Shares reserved as aforesaid for the Grantors be Exonerated, acquitted & fully Exempt from paying any Charge towards making a Settlement, & not held to the Conditions of the other Shares respecting a Settle- ment nor liable to any Tax or Assessment or Charge, until improved by the owners or some holding under them Respectively, that the NEW IPSWICH. 117 Grantees at their own Expence make Settlement, be at the Charge of dividing the whole of the Lands, Clearing & making feacible Roads & that all the Lots in said Town be Subject to have all necessary Roads lay’d thro’ them as their shall be Occasion free from Charge, that the Grantees according to the Number of their Shares or Lots herein after named make Settlement in the following Manner viz* that within two Years from this Date on each Settling Lot or Share there be three Acres of Land Cleared & fitted for Mowing or Ploughing & have a Comfortable Dwelling House, the Room to be at least Six- teen feet Square, & a Family or some Person dwelling in each House, & that within five Years from this Date there be nine Acres more cleared inclosed, & fitted for Mowing or Tillage on some Lot to each Settling Right as aforesaid, that the Grantees to make Set- tlement, & the Number of each be as folio weth viz 1 Reuben Kidder to make Settlement on three shares or Rights, Archible White, Jonas Woolson, Abijali Foster, John Brown, on one Share each, Benjamin Hoar Jun r on two Shares, Timothy Heald on one Share, Joseph Kidder on one Share Joseph Bullard one, Ebenezer Bullard one, Joseph Stevens one, Henry Putney one, John Chandler one, Hannah Dinsmore two, Peter Powers one, David Nevens one, Jonathan Hubbard one, John Stevens one, Isaac Appleton Six, Thomas Adams five, Robert Choat one, William Brown one, Nathaniel Smith two, Francis Choat one Thomas Dennis one, Andrew Spaulding one, Isaac Patch one, William Peters one, John Marsh one, & Benjamin Hoar two in manner as aforesaid. That each of the Grantees at the Executing of this Instrument, pay fourteen Pounds Cash old tenor, to pay the Charges risen and Ariseing in said Township, to be Deposited in the hands of some Person chosen by them for that Pur- pose — That a Convenient Meeting House be built in said Township, within Seven Years from this Date as near the Center of said Town, and at such place as the Major part of the Interest of Grantors and Grantees shall Determine by a Major Vote in publick Proprietors Meetings called for that Purpose, Giving forty days Notice of such Meeting, & ten Acres of Land reserved there for publick Use That the aforesaid Grantees or their Assigns assess such further Sum or Sums of Money in equal Proportion to each Grantees Interest, Exclusive of the publick Lots as shall be Necessary for Compleating any of the publick Articles aforesaid, & for such further Payment of any Sum or Sums that shall by the said Grantees or their Assigns be raised for hireing Preaching, or settling & Support of the Minister there and on Failure of Payment for the Space of three Months after such publick Tax is agreed upon & Posted up, at such Place or n8 CHARTER RECORDS. Places as the Proprietors, the Grantees aforesaid, or their Assigns shall appoint for calling Proprietors Meetings, that so much of such Delinquents Right be disposed of as will pay such Tax or assessment & all Charges arising thereon. That all White Pine Trees fit for his Majesties Use for Masting his Royal Navy Growing on said Land be and hereby are Granted to his Majesty his Heirs & Successors for ever, and in Case any of the s d Grantees or their Assigns, shall neglect or refuse to perform any of the Articles, Matters & Things aforementioned by him Respec- tively to be done he shall forfeit his Share & whole Right in said Township, & every part thereof to those of the said Grantees or their immediate Assigns that shall have Complyed with the Con- ditions on their parts herein Exprest. and it shall and may be law- full for them or any Person or Persons in their Stead, & by their Authority, to enter into & upon the Right or part of such Delin- quent Owner, & any and every part thereof, in the name of the whole of the Settlers that shall fullfill as aforesaid, & him utterly to amove, Oust & Expel for their Use, their Heirs & Assigns Pro- vided they Settle or cause to be Settled each such Delinq ts Right or Share, within the Space of One Year at the furthest from the Period of such Condition, Articles, Matters & things that is by this Instrument Stipulated to be done as the Condition of this Grant, & fully discharge & Comply with all the whole Duty & Expence such Delinquents ought to have done, & every part of Duty en- joyn’d, such Right to be finished at the Several Periods thereof, & in Case the said Grantees or their Assigns that shall fullfill their parts as aforesaid, & shall omit & neglect for the Space of one Year as aforesaid, improveing, Building, & Settling and fullfilling every part as herein is Conditioned to be done that all such Share & Right as are thus delinquent in said Township, & every part & Parcel of such Delinquents shall be forfeited, revert & belong to the Grantors of the Premises their Heirs & Assigns with full Authority to enter into and upon all such Delinquents Rights & the Possessor thereof utterly amove, oust & expel for the Use of the said Grantors, Provided there be no Indian Wars within any of the Terms & Lim- tation of time aforesaid for doing the Duty Condition’d in this Grant, and in Case that should happen the same time to be allowed for the Respective Matters aforesaid after such Impediment shall be removed. Lastly the said Grantors do hereby promise and engage to the said Grantees their Heirs & Assigns, to defend thro’ the Law to King & Council, if need be One Action that shall & 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 NEW IPSWICH. n 9 any other Title than that of the said Grantors, or that by which they hold & derive their’s from Provided the said Grantors are avouched in, to defend the same, and that in Case on final Tryal the same shall be recovered against the Grantors, that such Person or Persons shall recover nothing over against the Grantors for the Lands, Improvements or Expence in bringing forward the Settle- ments, and further that the said Grantors will pay the Necessary Expence of time & Money that any other Person or Persons shall be put to by any other Suit or Suits that shall be brought against them or any of them the said Grantees for tryal of the Title before one Suit shall be fully Determined in the Law — To all which Premises Joseph Blanchard Esq r Agent, for & in Behalf of the Grantors hath hereunto set his Hand & Seal this seventeenth day of April 1750 Joseph Blanchard — j L S this being a true Copy of the Original Charter Examin’d Decem- ber 25 th 1753, attest Benj a Adams Prop rs Clerk Copy from the Files Examin’d ^ Geo: Jaffrey Prop rs Cl [. Benjamin Adams's Copy of Plan.'] 120 CHARTER RECORDS. [ John Stevens’s Certificate, 1752.] [Masohian Papers, Vol. 7, p. 84.] Midd x ss Wheareas m r Benjamin Adams on the 24 Day of June: 1752 was Chosen Clerk of The Proprietors of the Township of New Ipswich so Called lying in the Province of New Hampshire This may Certefie that the above Said Adams Personally Appeare- ing was Sworn To the faithfull Discharge of that Trust Before me John Stevens Jus 1 of Peace Townshend July A : D 1752 [. Reserved Lots, 1751.] [Masonian Papers, Vol. 7, p. 86.] North Division South Division Ranges New laid out Numbers of the Lotts in the after Division Colonol Atkinson 43 84 107 6i M r Thomas Packer . 4 ■3 82 83 4 7 M r Mark hunking Wentworth 38 67 94 39 John Moffatt .... 14 2 14 80 81 George Jaffrey .... 29 24 172 173 John Rindge .... 3 9 1 1 176 177 John Wentworth 1 8 56 87 109 Joshua Peirce .... 3 8 2 89 90 Nathaniel Meserve . 1 5 10 102 93 2 for 2 : in the 13 Range Richard VVibird 28 Laid for the 162 i6 5 minister Jotham Odiorne 23 3 5 68 95 Jn°Tomlinson& Jn°Tufton Mason 59 60 163 164 Dan 11 Peirce & Mary Moor ■3 3 15 I67 169 Matthew Livermoor . 62 1 7 126 128 William Parker 58 44 160 l6l Tho 8 Wallingford 4 8 85 86 3 4 Col 0 Joseph Blanchard 4 4 ■55 157 4 2 Solley & March 4 15 64 181 182 NEW IPSWICH. I 2 I Taken from the Records of the Propr 3 of Lands Called New Ips- wich the 25 th of Dece r 1753 — The men above mentioned are the Eighteen Grantors of the Town Ship of New Ipswich and they have Drawn their lotts as they are above Entered the First Two lotts was Drawn at Donstable July y e 10 th 1750 : the other two lotts was drawn at New Ipswich the 28 th day of May 1751— This being a True Copy at 1 Benj' 1 Adams Prop rs Clerk [. Acceptance of Charter, 1753.] [Masonian Papers, Vol. 7, p. 85.] Whereas the Proprietors of the Lands, in the Province of New- hampshire purchased by them, of John Tuftin Mason Esqr, who Sold them Under the Title made by A Common Recovery, did on the 17 11 ’ day of April 1750 Grant the Quantity of thirty Square Miles part of S a Lands, bounded &c Under Certain Considerations, Limitations, Reservations, in S d Grant, Mentioned as by the Charter of S' 1 Town Refference thereto being had as will fully Appear, Unto the Grantees, of S d Township; Voted that we. do hereby except S d Title, and for Ourselves, our Heirs and Essigns, do Acknowledge that we hold S d Lands, Under S d Title, Conditions, & Limitations, with y e Reserva- tions in S d Charter Mentioned : Taken from the Records of the Prop rs of Lands Call' 1 New-Ipswich the 25 of Dec r 1753 This being Voted at their Proprietors Meeting held at the house of M r Benj' 1 Hoar 3 on December y“ 19, 1753. This being a Trew Copy of the Vote : attest Benj a Adams Prop' 3 cler 122 CHARTER RECORDS. [ Draft of Lots.~] [Masonian Papers, Yol. T, pp. 87, 88.] North Division South Division Ranges New layd out Numbers of the Lotts in the after Divisions Reuben Kidder 46 76 77 55 Reuben Kidder 1 13 131 132 1 14 Reuben Kidder 3 14 96 for 2 lotts 3 3 Archable White & l 9 Joseph Bullard .... 2 1 175 179 Cap 4 Jonas Woolson . 2 4 198 121 2 l S Abijah Foster .... 33 3 1 152 159 John Brown .... 3 i 65 60 for 2 lotts Benjamin Hoar Ju r . 40 1 2 149 150 Benj a Hoar Ju r . 2 5 74 66 1 6 Timothy Heald 63 186 141 66 Joseph Kidder .... 48 1 9 148 151 Ebenezer Bullard 2 2 129 130 3 2 Joseph Stevens 35 3 7 44 for 2 lotts Henry Puttney .... 49 7 124 122 John Chandler .... 1 3 108 IO5 1 4 Hannah Dinsmoor 4 9 To do two du- 125 137 ties 54 2 7 Rever d M r Daniel Emerson 7 1 133 I92 David Nevens . 4 1 1 187 78 79 Cap* Peter Powers 1 71 for 2 lotts 12 Major Zacheus Lovewell 3 1 1 145 140 3 12 Cap* Joseph French . 4 3 146 147 3 10 Major Jonathan Hubbard . 47 2 9 92 88 Esq r John Stevens 34 2 12 Joyning to Strip 188 142 town line — NEW IPSWICH 123 North Division South Division Ranges New layd out Numbers of the Lotts in the after Divisions John Stevens .... 4 10 5 98 99 John Stevens .... 52 1 ^5 28 for 2 lotts M r Isaac Appleton 63 11 7 1 16 42 Isaac Appleton .... 4 i 2 16 138 139 Isaac Appleton . 64 1 1 1 1 70 171 Isaac Appleton .... 2 8 72 for 2 lotts 2 3 Isaac Appleton .... 2 6 64 183 184 Isaac Appleton .... 9 72 norwest corner 123 1 19 of the old lotts M r Tho 8 Adams 25 166 00 b* Tho 8 Adams .... 2 I 22 4 14 24 for 2 lottS Tho s Adams .... 17 1 16 156 158 Tho 8 Adams .... 18 2 10 178 l8o Tho 8 Adams .... 5 ° 70 tor 2 lottS 5 i Cap* Rob* Choat 4 1 73 for 2 lottS r 10 William Brown 30 4 6 120 144 Nathaniel Smith 45 3 13 154 fo r 2 lotts Tho 8 Dennis .... 57 67 56 for 2 lotts Natha 11 Smith .... 3 16 9 i 103 4 12 Andrew Spaulding 1 12 and John Marsh 37 1 53 fo r 2 lotts Isaac Patch halfe a Right . 4 5 part of the old 80 acre lott N° 1 5 for his after Right Major Zacheus Lovewell 2 r 1 186 ii 5 143 the first Minister Right 32 2 13 75 106 the ministerall Right 20 4 16 Two lotts in the west end of the Strip Joyning to strip Town line the Schoole Right r 3 174 180 1 1 1 134 Benj a Hoar .... 26 16 135 136 Benj a Hoar .... 3 6 69 104 Francies ..... 53 3 6 66 97 for 2 lotts Co 11 John Choat 27 113 1 14 William Peters .... 70 124 CHARTER RECORDS. Taken from the Records of the Prop rs of Lands Called new Ips- wich the 25 th of Dec r 1758 — This being a True Copy of the Schedule of the Grantees lotts, attest Benj a Adams Prop r9 Clerk [Plan of Lots.] [Isaac Howe to Gieorge Jaffrey , 1768.] [Masonian Papers, Yol. 7, p. 89.] Sir be pleas'd to Give me Leave to mind your Honour of a few things, first, your Honour may Remember you Desierd me to Sum- mons Evedences to prove Sum Trespases, which I did, and I went Seven miles to the Town of Renge for two, to prove the Trespas on m rs Wiberts Land, and Ever Sence til I paid them, they keept asking me for the pay, I told them the Lords would pay them when the bil of Cost was made up, So keept them Easey til the Cost was Recov- erd, then they Said they went Seven miles to the Stumps to Sware »>*• Y u * "j* 1 **^ ^ *? # V ®*"i/ i/ ( d {/ i4.“- u Y*^ \ V*'* • ■■■>•••: • ' .. - -j .... .. -. . , >• * k • 7 * v p .- ■ - . • • - . • ;. ' :• • ■■ ■ •• . > ■ ir . ' ->'■ ■■ ,W . .»•> *pt n\ ** i «.* v • , r . i ... - * NEW IPSWICH. 125 : and they would Sue if I would not pay them the fee, So Rather than they Should Sue I paid them, my Self, So be pleasd to think of the Servis I have Done, and my paying them to prevent Suing (your Honour told me, if you Remember, that if I would persue the Rioters in the Law, I Should have Sum Consideration made me, I did it So that they quit pretention to the Land and Left the Province) but I Leave all to your jenerosity not Douting but that your Honour will think I Deserve Sumthing for these things; I Should be glad if your Honour would Send by the barer Esq Hobard, your mind on the affair or whether there is anything for me, if nothing, I Shall think no more of it, nor ask no more, any way. So I Remain your most Hum- ble and most obedient Servent New Ipswich Dec ye 31 st 1768 Isaac How To the Honourable George Jeffry Esq S P S be pleasd to perdon me wha^ver may appear harsh, insiped, uperfluus or a mis in this Letter Isaac How [ Writ in Jaffrey vs. Pratt , 1790.] [Masonian Papers, Vol. 7, p. 90.] Hillsborough, )>THE STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE. j I o I To the sheriff of our county of Hillsborough his under sher- \ \ iff or deputy , ^ — ■ Greeting. We command you to summon John Pratt of New Ipswich in said County Gentleman (if he may be found within your precinct) to appear before our justices of our inferiour court of common pleas, next to be holden at Amherst, within and for our said county of Hills- borough, on the second Tuesday of June next then and there in our said court to answer unto George Jaffrey of Portsmouth in our County of Rockingham Esq r in an action of ejectment wherein the Pla t demands against the said Pratt seizen and possession of a certain tract of land situate in said New Ipswich being the lot numbered one hundred & seventy in the second division and containing by estima- tion sixty five acres more or less & bounded north on lot number one hundred and sixty nine west on lot number one hundred & eighteen south on lot number one hundred & seventy one & east on lot num- ber sixty seven as originally laid out in s' 1 Town whereupon the Pla' saith that within twenty years last past he was seized of the premises 126 CHARTER RECORDS. in his demesne as of fee and ought now to be in the actual possession thereof Yet the said Pratt hath since entered upon the s d premises ejected the Pla 4 therefrom and stil unjustly withholds the possession thereof from him To the damage of the said George as he saith the sum of one hun- dred pounds, which shall then and there be made to appear, with other due damages. And have you there this writ, with your doings therein. Witness Timothy Farrar esquire, at Amherst the thirteenth day of May anno domini, 1790 Rob 1 Fletcher Clerk. True copy Att Rob 4 Fletcher Cl Hillsboro ss 17. May 1790 Pursuant to this precept I have sum- moned the within named Pratt to appear at the Court within men- tioned as the law directs by giving him an attested copy of this writ Travel service & copy 6/8 Isaac Appleton D Sheriff True copy Att Rob 1 Fletcher Cl [ Judgment , Jaffrey vs. Pratt , 1791.] [Masonian Papers, Yol. 7, p. 90.] May 1791 Hillsbo ss agreeable to this Rule of Court, We the Refrees having met and duly notified the Parties (who appeared) and having fully heard their respective proofs and Allegations beg leave to Report, that y e plaintiff recover against the Defen 11 Pratt, Seizen & Possession of the following tract of Land, described in the Plan ts declaration, that is to Say, the lot numbered one hundred & Seventy as mentioned in the before recited Declaration — begining at y e Northeasterly Corner of said Lot, at a heap of Stones about eighty rods Southerly of a cer- tain Beach tree fairly marked & reputed as the North east Corner of the Lot Numbered 169 & from said heap of Stones — which is adjudged the original Corner of said Lot Numbered 170 Westerly about 196 rods by Lot Numbered 169 about 146 rod to the westerly line of the gore so called, also that the Plan 4 recover Cost of Court to be taxed in Legal form and Cost of Reference being — for Smith’s Defe 4s 2.18.0 which was Deducted from Plan ts Demand 5.3.8 — NEW LONDON. 127 \_Note about Bounds .] [Masonian Papers, Vol. 7, p. 90.] William Clary Nath 11 Carlton Isaac Appleton j 1 ' are knowing to the marks of y e bounds between Lot 169 — 170 — in New Ipswich Roger Gilmore of Jaffrey Survey 1 & Chainman Cap fc Eph m Hartwell of New Ipswich a Survey 1 ' & Referree [ Charles Barrett's Bond , 1792.] [Masonian Papers, Vol. 7, p. 90.] Received of John Peirce Eliz a Wentworths Deed to John Cutter for two Lots of Land in New Ipswich for the Consideration of one hun- dred & Forty four pounds, for the Security of which payment said Cutter is to give a Note & mortgage on said Land, I have also received of said John Edw d B. Longs and Wifes Deed to Ephraim Adams for half of two Lots of Land in said Town for the Consideration of thirty nine pounds 12/ for which I am to take said Adams Note to pay in two Years with interest from the date of the Deed, said Cutters Note is also to be on interest, which I will get done or return said Deeds in Six Months — Jan y 4 th 1792 Charles Barrett for Thomlinsons Land in New Ipswich & Peterborough NEW LONDON. [Granted by the Masonian Proprietors to William Symes and others as Heidle- bifrg June 5, 1753. Regranted as Alexandria Addition July 7, 1773, to Jonas Minot and others. Incorporated as New London June 25, 1779, an d named from London, Eng. A part of Kearsarge Gore was annexed June 19, 1793. Portions of Sunapee were annexed Dec. 11, 1804, and June 19, 1817. The northerly part was combined with a part of Kearsarge Gore and incorporated as Wilmot, June 18, 1807. See XIII, Plammond Town Papers, 1 ; Index to Laws, 403 ; sketch, by J. E. Sargent, Hurd’s History of Merrimack County, 1885, p. 421 ; Centennial, 2, Granite Monthly, 31 1, 341, 369; Baptist Churches in N. H., by E. E. Cummings, 1836, p. 1 1 ; Lawrence’s N. H. Churches, 1856, p. 400; Notes, by J. Farmer, 18, Collections of Mass. Historical Society, 173 ; Great Whirlwind, 1821, Collections of N. H. Historical Society, 241 ; New London Scythe Co., 5, Granite Monthly, 33 ; The Dividing Line, A Sketch of New London, 19, id . , 93.] 128 CHARTER RECORDS. [ Charter of Heidleburg , 1753.] [Masonian Papers, Yol. 7, p. 91.] Province of \ Pursuant to tlie Power & Authority granted & New Hamp 1 ' ( vested me the Subscriber by the Proprietors of Lands purchased of John Tufton Mason Esq 1 in the Province of New Hamp r 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 Conditions with the Reserva- tions herein after expressed give & grant all the Right Title Property & Possession of the Proprietors aforesaid unto William Symes Esq r Eleazer Farwell Samuel Sarles Samuel Huson Philip Olerick Abial Richardson, John Hutchinson Thomas M c Claughlin Isaac Colburn William Cox Jonathan Butterfield Charles Cox Benjamin Farwell Oliver Colburn, William Eyers Benjamin French William Harris Jonathan Farwell Benjamin Thompson Phinehas Underwood Ezekiel Greale Robert Fletcher Joseph Butterfield Jun. Joseph Wright Zacheus Spaulding Mark Gould Benoni Juel Thomas Juel Reuben Butterfield Jonathan Griffin Daniel Merril, Samuel Merril Jun. Nehemiah Love- well Henry Snow Peter Prescott Stephen Hosmore Jun 1 John Fox Jacob Fletcher Elijah Fletcher Samuel Burbank Henry Chase Samuel Grele Jun r Benjamin Winn Samuel Grele Sen r William Taylor Thomas Parker Robert Fletcher Jun r Joseph Blanchard Jun r Stephen Addams John French Jun r — of In and to that Tract of Land or Township lying in the Province of New Hamp 1 afores d Contain- ing Twenty Three Thousand and Forty Acres Bounded as Fol- loweth Begining at a Beach Tree in the western Line of Mason's Patent fifty eight Miles Northwardly from the Province Line at the Southwestward Corner of a Tract of Land or Township Granted to Joseph Butterfield Jun 1 and His Associats (CaF Alexandria) From thence Run’ing South Sixty five Degrees East Six miles and One half to an Elm Tree mark d with a lieep of Stones about it from thence South Forty Eight Degrees West Six Miles to a Tree mark d from thence North Sixty five Degrees west Six miles and one half To a Beach Tree Mark d Standing in the afore Said Line of Masons Pattent from thence on the Pattent Line afore said to the Bounds first Mentiond said Tract or Township is Call d Hiddleburg — to them their Heirs & Assigns To have & to hold on the following Terms and Conditions with the Reser- vations herein after expressed viz 1 that the Tract or Township aforesaid be Divided into One Hundred and Twenty three Equal Shares Two Lots at the Least to each Share to be finished & Drawn for in Some equitable and Publick manner at or before the last Day of November 1755— NEW LONDON. I29 that three of the aforesaid Shares be and hereby are granted free from Charge one for the first settled minister one for the ministry and one for the School There forever that Twenty more of the said Shares be reserved for the Grantors their Heirs and Assigns forever and acquitted from all Duty & Charge untill Improved by the Owners or Some holding under them Respectively — That the Owners of the other Shares make Settlements at their own Expence in the following Manner Viz fc Each Grantee at the Expiration of five years from the Last Day of November next after the Date hereof have three Acres Parcel of his Right Respec- tively Cleared inclosed & fitted for mowing or Tillage, three Acres more Cleared inclosed and fitted as aforesaid then next Annually for three Years & at the End of the three Years which will be on the last Day of November 1761 have Each a dwelling house built & finished fit and Comfortable for a Family to Dwell in & a Family or some Person to inhabit & Continue Inhabitancy there for three Years then next Coming. That a Convenient Meeting House be built in Said Township within Eight years from this Date & Ten Acres of Land Reserved there for Publick use. That the Lands in Said Township Belonging to Grantors Sc Grantees be subjected to have all Necessary High-ways laid thro’ them as there Shall be Occasion for the Future That the afore said Grantees their Heirs or Assigns by a Major Vote in Publick Meeting Called for that Purpose Grant and Assess in Equal Proportion Such Sum or Sums of Money as they Shall think necessary for Carrying forward & Compleating the Settlement aforesaid and every of the Grantees exclusive of the three public Lots or his Assignes who Shall neglect for the Space of Sixty Days after Such Assessment Shall be Granted to Pay the Same so much of Such Delinquents Right Shall and may be Sold as will Pay the Respective Taxes & all charges arising thereon by a Committee 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 Preform any of the articles matters or things aforesaid by Him respectively to be Done he Shall forfit his Right in Said Township and Every Part thereof to those of the Grantees or their immediate Assigns who Shall Have Comply'd with the Conditions on their Part herein Express’d And it Shall and may be Lawful for them or any Person by their Authority to Enter Into and upon the Right or Part of Such Delinquents Owners Sc any and every Part in the name and behalf of the whole of the Grantees or their immediate Assigns who Shall Comply as aforesaid to amove Oust 9 130 CHARTER RECORDS. And expel 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 furthest from the Perieods 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 Perieods thereof And in Case the Gratees or their Assignees fullfilling their Parts as afore said Shall neglect fullfilling as afore Said the Duty of any Delinquent owner As afore said then such Right or Part Shall be forfi t Revert and belong to the Grantors their Heirs & Assigns and be wholly at their Disposal — Always pro- vided there be no Indian War within any of the Terms Afore said for Doing the Duty Conditioned in this Grant and in Case that should Happen the Same Time to be Allow’d for the Respective matters aforesaid after Such Impediment Shall be Removed. Lastly that all White Pine Trees fit for Masting his Majestys Royal Navy growing on said Tract of Land be & hereby are Granted to his Majestys his heirs & Successors forever. To All which Premises I Joseph Blanchard agent for and in behalf of the Proprietors the Grantors Have hereto Set my Hand and Seal this fifth Day of June in the Twenty Sixth Year of his Majestys Reign Anno. Dominiq 1753 Copy Examined ^ Joseph Blanchard Robert Fletcher Proprietors Clerk [Acceptance of Charter , 1753.] [Masonian Papers, Yol. 7, p. 92.] At a Meeting of the Prop rs (the Grantees) of the Tract of Land or Township Cal d Hiddlebuvg in the Province of New Hampshire held at Dunstable the twelfth Day of June 1753 the Following Vote Passed unanimously Whereas the Prop rs of Land in the Province of New Hampshire purchased by them of John Tufton Mason Esq who sold them under the Title made by a Comon Recovery did on the fifth Day of June — afore s d Grant the Quantity of Twenty Three Thousand and forty acres (by Estimation Part of S d Lands Bounded as Folio weth Begin- ing at a Beach Tree in the western Line of Masons Pattent fiffty Eight miles northwardly from the Province Line at the Southwest- NEW LONDON. 131 wardly Corner of a Tract of Land or Township Granted to Joseph Butterfield Jun r and His Associates Cal (1 Alexandria From thence Runing South Sixty five Degrees East Six miles and one half to an Elm Tree mark d with a heep of Stones about it from thence Runing South forty Eight Degrees west Six miles to a Tree mark d from thence North Sixty five Degrees west Six miles and one half to a Beach Tree mark d Standing in the afore s d Line of Masons Pattent from thence on the Pattent Line afore s d to the Bounds first men- tioned Which Tract of Land or Township is Cal d Hiddleburg — unto William Symes Esq Eleazer Farwell Samuel Sarles Samuel Huson Philip Olerick Abial Richardson John Hutchinson Thomas M c Claughlin Isaac Colburn William Cox Jonathan Butterfield Charles Cox Benjamin Farwell Oliver Colburn William Eyers Benjamin French William Harris Jonathan Farwell Benjamin Thompson Phinehas Underwood Ezekiel Greale Robert Fletcher Joseph Butterfield Ju r Joseph Wright Zaclieius Spaulding Mark Gould Benoni Juel Thomas Juel Reuben Butterfield Jonathan Griffin Daniel Merril Samuel Merril Ju r Nehemiah Lovewell Henry Snow Peter Prescott Stephen Hosmore Jun r John Fox Jacob Fletcher Elijah Fletcher Samuel Burbank Henry Chase Samuel Grele Jun r Benjamin Winn Samuel Grele Sene r William Taylor Thomas Parker Robert Fletcher Jun r Joseph Blanchard Jun r Stephen Addams John French Jun r — Under Certain Conditions Limitations and Reservations in s d Grant mention d as by Referance thereto will fully Appear therefore voted — That wee do hereby acept s d Title & for our Selves our Heirs & assigns do accknowledge that we hold s d Lands under said Title Con- ditions & Limetations with the Reservations therein Mentioned Extract From y e votes Examined J Blanchard Moderator Coppey from the files Examined fP RobeP Fletcher Propietors Clerk I 3 2 CHARTER RECORPS. [Plan of Heidlelurg , 1753.] [ Grant As Alexandria Addition , 1773.] [Masonian Proprietors’ Records, July 7, 1773.] Voted Also That there be and hereby is granted unto the before- named Jonas Minott, Jonathan Bagley, William Bailey, John Talford, 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 situated in the County of Hillsborough & Province of New Hampshire, bounded as follow’s viz 4 begining at the Southwesterly Corner of Alexandria aforesaid on the Pattent 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 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 westerly side of said Alexandria, To Have & to Hold to the said Minot his heirs & assigns forever the one moiety of said Land, and to the said Jonathan Bagley, William Bailey, John Talford, William Talford, Matthew Thornton, Robert McMurphy, 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 & Reservations, That is to Say, That one third part of said Land, is NEW LONDON. 133 hereby reserved to the said Grantors, their heirs and assigns forever, Viz 1 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, building, Ministry, settlements and other Publick affairs, whatever, until 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 thousand 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 Public 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 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 delin- quent Grantee or Grantees, shall forfeit to said Grantors their heirs and assigns so much of such delinquents 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 any 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 J 34 CHARTER RECORDS. 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 Bailev is to be under- stood 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 Bight or Share beforemention’d, Then he shall be intitled 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 Proportion 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 per- formance of the said terms and conditions of Settlement according to this Grant, which Bonds shall be given within three months, in pro- portion 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, — [Plan and Description of Alexandria Addition , 1773.] June y e 1:1773 by the Desire of Mathew Thornton Esq 1 ’ and M r Robart M'murphy boath of Londonderry I have Ben and Tock a Sur- vay of all the Land Laying betwen Alaxandrea and fishersfeald and Part of Parytown on the Easterly Side of the Patten Line as is Shewn by the Plan here in Closed and acording to the Best observation I Cold make of the Qulety of Said Land in General it appears to be more Ruff and Poor Land than anney I Saw in the Nabering Town it being Very mountanes and Rockey the Lower Land Generly Cold and Sproosey boggs I Did not See a Grat Deal of Alaxandrea but Perry town is acording to the best of my Judment much beter Land in Gen- eral than the Adition To Alaxandrea which I Lotted out Gentleman m r Minort Desired my Judgment and to take Porticuler Notes as to the Goodnes of the Land and To Send it in writing with the Plan, Genl 11 your most Humble SaP Jeremiah Page NEW LONDON. 135 June y e 1:1773 This Plan Slieweth y e Number of Lotts in the addi- tion of Alaxandrea Joyning on the Souutli westerly Sid of Said Alax- andr and the Easton side of the Patten Line to Grate Sunipe Pond then by Said Pond to fisherfield then Easterly on fisherfeald to Parry- ton North Line then Down Parry town Line Easterly to a Beach Tree marked thence North 39 Degrees East to a beach tree which is the Corner of Said alaxandra: it is Divided into 137 Lotts Each Lott Containing 150 acrs Numbered as is Set Down in the Plan Lay' 1 Down by a Scale of one Mild to one Inch and as Convenant as the Land wold alow I Laid Tew Senter Squars of Ten acrs Each for Publick Uses as marked in the Plan the Ponds are as Near as Posable Laid in their Shape and Bignes and the Streems Drawd as thay Run throw Said Land Said Streems Run Easterly from the Patten Line mesured by me Jeremiah Page Svayar of Land John Tolford and Robart Mcmrphey Jun r Cheen man 136 CHARTER RECORDS. June y e 23: 1773 Then Jeremiah Page apperead and made Solomn oath that this Plan of the addition of Alaxandrea by him Drafted is Just and Trew acording to the Best of his Skill and Judgment — Before me — Benj a Day Just Peac the Lotts N° 55: and N° 43: and N° 86 — Laying is two Peacs Each by Reason of Ponds Taken away Land out of them the Drawed Lins are Run and spoted the Pricked Lins are Not Run Nor Spoted but the Bounds are made at Each End of the Lotts and Numbered on the Bounds and I have a Record of what Sort of wood Each Bound is made upon or Stak [Jonas Minot to George Jajfrey , 1780.] [Masonian Papers, Vol. 7, p. 94.] Sir M r Day, one of the Persons for whom I applied for Land Near Newlondon Prays ye Proprietors to Adjourn their Meeting to the twenty Ninth Day of this Instant when he Expects to Bring ye money for his Land, the oather persons will Send at ye Same Time or as Soon as possable, which is all at present from your Most humble Ser fc Concord June 9th 1780 Jonas Minot To the Honr ble George Jeffery NEWPORT. 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K 72 VS I 36, o , 1774 .] ^o-D OSSIPEE. I 37 \Plan of Peirce Lancia] Surveyed by Cutting Noyes. Land is in Newport This is a plan of 500 Acre Lot in Newport Laid out to Benning Wentworth & now owned by J P — N° agred to sell to Jason R. Hall & Luther Hawes — Deeds del d M r S. Gunnison Dec 25 1805 It is probable there is a mistake in the holders of this Land — it is believed that Jacob Kelly & Israel Kelley bought Lot N° 2 & 4 & that they sold Lot N° 2 to Jos Pearson & Rich d K Sawyer and the Kelley still hold Lot N° 2 Abraham Patterson of Henniker wishes to purchase N° 1 — an answer in 80 Days at 600 — April 14, 1808 Dan Putney to have Lot N° 5 at 450 Notes taken deed to be given March next by bond Sep 24 1807 OSSIPEE. [Formerly known as Ossipee Gore and New Garden. Incorporated as Ossipee Feb. 22, 1785. That part of Ossipee Gore which was not included in Ossipee was annexed to Effingham Dec. 23, 1820. Named from a tribe of Indians who once lived in that vicinity. A part of the town was annexed to Tamworth Jan. 13, 1837. A portion of the same territory was reannexed to Ossipee June 23, 1859. See XIII, Hammond Town Papers, 138; Index to Laws, 415, 416; sketch, Fer- gusson’s History of Carroll County, 1889, p. 579; Stewart's History of the Free Baptists, 1862, pp. 252, 302; Lawrence’s N. H. Churches, 1856, p. 585; Indian Mound in, 2, Farmer and Moore’s Historical Collections, 45.] 138 CHARTER RECORDS. [Petition of Joseph Wait , 1770.] [Masonian Papers, Vol. 7, p. 95.] To The Honorable The Gentleman, Claimants of the Right of John Tufton Mason Esquire &c In New hampshire — The Petition of Joseph Wait in behalf of himself and a number of others, who are very desirous of being Interested in the said Province — Most humbly Praying for a Grant of the unappropriated land in said Propriety, of the content of about 3000 Acres — where it may be found suitable for Settlement, near Ossapee Pond on the Road lately marked out by M r Nash — Hereby engaging to enter on the Premises immediately, & actually to improve & cultivate the same, agreable to the Terms, upon which Your Hon s usually grant the said Lands. And y r Petitioner will ever Pray &c — Portsm 0 12 th Sep 1 1770 — Joseph Wait in behalf of himself & others [Notes about Settlements .] [Masonian Papers, Vol. 7, p. 96.] The Terms and Conditions for the Setlers on the hundred Acre Lots to be granted on the Road from Wolf borough to Leavets Town viz 1 That the Setler before entry on the Lot agreed by y e Com tee to be granted, to give a Bond with a Penalty of £30 — lawfull money to clear three acres of land fitt for mowing or Tillage and have a house built on the Lot of Sixteen feet Square or equal thereto finished Suita- bly for a family for to reside in comfortably and conveniently the whole of the year, which to be performed within twelve months from the date of y e Bond and to clear three Acres more of the Lot annually for Seven years Successively from the first year fit for mowing or tillage and that a Family constantly reside on the Lot for y e whole term above mentioned — and The Com tee are to give the Persons who give the Bonds for Set- tlements of y e Lots a Certificate that at the expiration of y e Term of the first twelve months if the Terms of v e bond are then fulfilled a grant shall be made of the Lot on the usual Terms Setling Lotts on the Road between Wolfborough & Leavits town — N° 2 — Benj : Scedgel 18 Highlanders 3 John Scedgel 19 7 — Mill Privaledge Brassbree 22 10 — Sam : Lear 23 Abel Leathers 11 Jos: Levy 26 14 Highlanders 27 15 Highlanders i\il h ’■ [ f)v/» vj t t* uH nr iwo 1 ■ i! mn Jo v *«‘>i t*o< i«c * rv •0>l TOol MO ». -I *{ I>i > )o r I «IH J 1D> u •>£ / 1MJ -><1 J / » *1 v-*r ltiKiff.1 Tart of East lowr ; i tv a < . — - -r - _ : ..d V i , itol r f> , : fO 7 ■ )3 rj ] OSSIPEE. 139 26 th Ap 1 1774 only ten Lots between Wolf borough & Leavits town to be given to setlers five of which to be above N° 18 Nath 1 Weeks Greenland desires to have a Lot in the new Road he is a Going up to Look upon Said Lots and will give an Answer by the Latter End may Next April 29, 1774 — Cornelius Denbow of Lea & Richard Glover of ditto Desires to have a settlement in that p l of the Land Lately Lav’d out by James Hersey Octob r 11, 1774 Setlers on the Road between Conway & Ossepee River from N° 34 & 35 to 68 & 69 which includes 32 which the settlers have libertv to «/ chuse their 10 Lots out of [Division of Ossipee , 1775.] [Masonian Proprietors’ Records, March 3, 1775, and Masonian Papers, Vol. 7, p. 97.] Province of ) Portsmouth March 3 d 1775 Fry day three of the New Hampsh r \ Clock afternoon at the Dwelling house of James Stoodly Esq r Innholder — The Proprietors meet according to adjourn- ment — Whereas the Proprietors hold in Common and undivided a certain tract of Land, Scituate in the county of Strafford adjoining East- Town (now Wakefield) Leavetts Town, Ossipee pond, Tuftonborough and Wolfborough; in which tract of land, hath been lately laid out into forty five Lotts each lott containing five hundred Acres, by James Hersey, as by his Plan thereof dated September 1 st 1774 and returned into the Clerks office of the Proprietors, which plan was taken in order to prepare the way for a Division and Severance thereof among the Proprietors; but the Proprietors judgeing it expedient and necessary to have Speedy Settlements on the Lotts — do reserve one hundred Acres in each of Said five hundred Acre Lotts, in common, to be hereafter appropriated for the encouragement and Use of Settlers thereon — Therefore Voted That each Proprietor to whose Right and share any one of Said five hundred Acre Lotts shall be drawn, shall hold in Severalty only four hundred Acres thereof, that the remain- ing one hundred acres belonging to each of Said Lotts shall continue in common & undivided, to be disposed of for the Encouragement of Settlers, or any other Purpose the Proprietors may think proper — and that Daniel Rogers Esq r m r John Penhallow and m r John Peirce, and m r William Whipple be the Committee to put a Settler on each of 140 CHARTER RECORDS. 5 th Said one hundred Acre lotts So reserved, on Such Terms, as they may think best for the Interest of Said Proprietors ; and that the Said Com- mittee be and hereby are impowered to give Quit Claim Deeds for any of the Said reserved one hundred Acres to Settlers — and also Voted, the Said forty five, five hundred Acre Lotts, be now drawn for to the Right of each of the fifteen Proprietors, or to those who hold under any of them and when so drawn, to be held in Severalty, to whose Right they are respectively drawn, except the Said one hundred Acres in each lott, before reserved — The Lots were drawn and entered in the following manner — drawn 1 st To Theodore Atkinson Esq r 2 d Jotham Odiorne Esq r Right 3 John Moffatt Esq r 4 John Rindge Tho s Walingford Esq r Right Blanchard Messerve & Comp a Tho s Packer Esq rs Right Dan 1 Peirce & Moor’s Right George Jaffrey Esq r Richard Wibird Esq r Right Mark Hunk 8 Wentworth Esq r Josli a Peirce Esq rs Right Solly & March Jn° Wentworth Esq 1 ' Right 15 th Thomlinson & Mason whereas in the laying out and Division of the foregoing forty five hundred Acre Lotts, there is no proper reservation for Roads and high Ways through Said Lotts Therefore Voted that all necessary high Ways and roads may be laid out through any of Said Lotts that may best accomodate the Inhabitants of Said Lotts, and the publick — 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 No 34— N° 9 — N° 45 N° 4— N° 32— N° 29 N° 5 — N° 31 — N° 43 N° 21— N° 19— N° 7 N° 12— N° 36— N° 14 N° 42— N° 35— N° 44 N° 30— N° 37— N° 1 N° 3 — N° 39 — N° 13 N° 8— N°38— N° 6 N° 17— N° 28— N° 33 N° 24 — N° 2 — N° 20 N° 16— N° 40— N° 11 N° 23— N° 25— N° 10 No 41— N° 27— N° 15 N° 22— N° 26— N° 18 [Grant of Certain Improvements, 1775.] [Masonian Papers, Vol. 7, p. 98.] We The Subscribers a Committee of Masons Propriety ingage in our said Capacity to give to Duncan ; James & Alexander Mack- naughton and John Young a proper Quit Claim Deed of one hundred Acres of Land to each one of them between v e Lots N° 10 & 20 & between the lots N° 11 & 19 laying on the Road from Wolfeborough to Conway in Such a Manner as to Save to each Man the improvements •already made there by them OSSIPEE. I 4 r Portsm 0 April 28 th 1775 — a Copy of Agreem 4 given to the Scotch Setlers D 1 Rogers John Penhallow Duncan M. ...... James M ...... Alexand r — ...... Jn° Young — ...... Comm N°— 17 18 15 16 Peter Stewerd — 14 [Notes about Settlements .] [Masonian Papers, Yol. 7, p. 99.] Terms for Setle [torn] Each Setler to have one [torn] The first year [torn] Build a conveniet dwelling [torn] feet square or equal thereto The Second Year to clear three acres more & have the first three Acres under improvement A Family to reside constantly on the premises five Years after y e first Year to be allowed a fortnight after application to return the number of the lot chosen — The Committee to give an obligation that they shall have a proper Conveyance as soon as the first Years duty is fulfilled they giving Bond for their full Compliance with the terms Lent Henry Rust Esq r Samuel Mallows Obligation for Lot N° 45 in Osseepee which he is to Return — N° 1 and N° 24 is Engaged to Henry Rust Esq r If he Inclines to Settle them — N° 1 Henry Rust Esq r 2 N. Frost 8 Rob 1 Hardy 4 Jos : Bickford 5 Sol : Muncy 6 7 8 Con : Denmore 9. Rich : Glover 10 mill S' 1 reserved 24 Henry Rust Esq r 25 26 27 28 J. D 29 J. D 30 31. J D 32 Jon" Penniman 33 mill Privledge 142 CHARTER RECORDS. 11 mill S d Reserved 34. J. D. 12 E Burn am 35 a Penniman 13 Sol : Crochet 36 14 mill S d Reserved 37 15 mill S d Reserved 38 16 Jos. Pitman 39 17 Tho 8 Triggs 40 18 Arch : Camell 41 S. Mallows 19 J. D. 42 J. D 20 43 J. D. 21. J. D. 44 22 J. D 23 John Wadley 45 S. Mallows Mem d the Lot N° 27 Opposite this to be Reserved Six Weeks from this 26 th Day of November agreem ts for Jonathan Penniman State of New Hamp r Articles of Agreement made this 11 th Day of Jan y 1778 Between Dan 1 Rogers & Will 111 Whipple Esq rs and John Penh allow Merch 1 a Committee of the Proprietors of Mason Patent and John Dudley of Ossipee in the County of Strafford and State afores d Husbandman We agree to give to Cap 1 John Dudley a Quit Claim deed of the Lot N° 10 on Conway Road upon the Conditions Following, that he Build an House on said Lots of Thirty feet Square or Equal thereto and a good Barn Twenty by Thirty feet and Set out Two hundred Apple Trees on said Lot and a Famely to Move on Said Lot by the First Day of October Next Ensuing and to Reside on the Same for Five Years next Ensuing and Also that he Quite Claim to us that hun- dred Acre Lot that he Chose out of Lot N° 19 and Clear up and fit for Sowing as many Acres of Land on said Lot as is Cleared on Lot N° 10 Aforesaid and to Raise a Substantial House Frame on said Lot Thirty feet by Sixteen Also a Good Barn Frame Thirty Two feet by Twenty and Bring a sufficient Quantity of Bords to the Spot for covering Inclosing and Bring also for Building a Partition a Cross said House, the Bords to be sufficient to Cover both Buildings Above Mentioned — Col° Rust to be the Sole Judge of the Quantity of Land Cleared on Lot N° 10, and Also of that to be Cleared on Lot N° 19 Also of the Quality of the Land on Each Lot and the Buildings thereon the Land to be Cleared on Lot N° 19 by the 15 th day of October Next Ensu- ing at Furthest and the Houses and Barn Frames be Raisd on Said Lot by the 15 th August Next Ensuing. Also the Bords to be hailed upon the Spot by the afores d 15 th Day of August Next Ensuing OSSIPEE. I 43 Lot 32 Begining at the westerly Corner of said lot on Tnftenborough line thence runing on said line to the Easterly corner of Tnftenborough thence runing by the Easterly line of Tuf ten borough to the South- erly Corner of Lot N° 35 then runing North Easterly on the line of said Lot 35 so far as will make 160 Rods on an North Easterly course from the first mention’d Bounds thence runing South East so far as a South west line to the North Easterly line of Lot 33 will Include 100 acres and no more N° 35 Begining at the Southerly corner of said Lot and running 160 Rods on Tuftenborougli line thence runing from said line 100 Rods on a parrelel line with the North westerly side line of Lot 32 thence runing South Easterly 160 Rods to the last mentioned line then on said line to the Bounds first mentioned to contain 100 Acres and no more [. Report on Capt. Dudley's Road , 1777.] [Masonian Papers, Yol. 7, p. 100.] Wolf borough Aug 1 25 th 1777 Gentlemen Agreeable to Your Desire I have again Servey’d Cap fc Dudleys Road & find it much better than it was so that it may be call’d a pass- able Waggon Road except Bridging over the Two largest Rivers Tho not compleated according to his Agreement with You for the AgreenT is that it shall be a Good & Compleat Waggon Road I have allso Seen S d Road Measured begining at the Conway Road near Bear Pond from which to Beach River is Three & a half Miles & Thirty Rods from thence to Lovel River Two & a half miles & 24 Rods from thence half a Mile which carried us near a small pond on the Easterly side of the Road whereabouts Cap 1 Dudley thinks the Notherly side Line of the Township of Ossipe Crosses S (l Road tho we could not find it — from thence to Josli a Nickinsons Field Three Miles & 20 Rods Your Obed 1 Hum 11 sarv tt; Henry Rust Miles Rods 3i 30 2* 24 4 6i 54 3 20 04 74 The Hon 11 Dan 11 Rogers & others Com u 144 CHARTER RECORDS. Lots pitch’d by Cap 1 John Dudley — N° 29 the south corner to run 160 Rods on lot N° 28 and 100 rods back on lot n° 18 — 28 the east corner to run 160 Rods on lot N° 29 — & 100 Rods on the North west side line of lot N° 18 21 — the West corner — 160 Rods on lot N° 22 — and 100 rods lot 26 22 the North corner 160 on 21 — & 100 rods on 26 & 25 — 84 the West corner runing 160 rods on Tuftonborough line & 100 rods on that strip land between Wolfborough & Tuftonborough — 42 the south corner to run 160 rods on lot N° 43 — 100 on lot 37 — 43 the West corner 160 rods on lot N° 42 100 rods on lot N° 30 — 19 the West corner to run 160 on lot N° 21 and 100 rods on lot N° 27 31 the east corner to run 160 rods on lot 28 100 on lot 30 — Also a hundred acre lot N° 9 on the Easterly side of the Conway road — Nathan Lee is to have lot N° 8 on the West side of the Conway road provided he makes his Settlement within one year Cap 4 John Dudley is to have proper securities for the several tracts of Land herein ment d according to our former agreem 4 with him pro- vided he demands it in three month from the date Aug 4 29, 1777 — John Dudley [John Dudley Recommends Somebody, 1777.] [Masonian Papers, Vol. 7, p. 102.] To Daniel Rogers Esq Sir I Make free to Recomend to your Honer a Nabeor of mine for a setlor in the New garden and I Do the More freely Recomend him as I take him to be a Claver honest man and one that will be sarvesa- ble to the Place on account of his trade as wall as a Good townsman and as he Hath a fancy for a settelment on the Lot No 4 I Desier that you wold Do him the favor to Lat him have it one Reson of my Riteing to your honer is becaus one of his Nabors is about to under mind him aftor he hath Ben at Consadrable troble abut it your honers- Compliance will Very Much ablidge your Very humble sarvet M : burrough October John Dudley y e 13:: 1777 OSSIPEE. H5 [ Jonathan P enniman’ s Request , 1778.] [Masonian Papers, Vol. 7, p. 103.] Moultonborough Jan y y e 7 d 1778 Sir I Should Be glad of one more favour of your honnor Sir I & my Son was Down at portshmouth & the Committe met & we took the Engagement of two Setlers Lots Laying in the township of New Garden & your honner and the rest of the gentleman Committe gave me incorridgement that your honners would hang up two Lots for two young men which are out at Labour & their times is not out till the first of Next march & please your honner Sir I Should Be glad if your honner would Do me the Cines to hang these two Lots up untill the first of Next march the Numbers of these are no : twenty seven & no thirty six & in So Doing you will obliclge your humble Serv : Jon a penniman Mem 0 Jacob Scadgel has Sold to Benjamin Scadgel Jun r 100 Acres of Land Lots N° 11 on Conway Road for 9 Dollars June 1777, and Went upon Said Lot and fell 10 Acres of s d Land and put up a Frame blouse, but not Inclous d ; and then went aprivateering, and in his Absence the Spring 1778 his futher Clear d 3 or 4 Acres and planted the same, Sence which the Above Named Jacob Scadgel has Sold it to One Nich s Leathers and is now Sowing of Rye upon the Improved part of Said Land where Corn was Started [ John Dudley's Request, 1778.] [Masonian Papers, Vol. 7, p. 104.] To the Honrable Committe of tofton Masons propriate Gentlemen — you May Remember that one m r Peniman had the promis of a Lot of Land in the New garden being Lot No 27 for a Sartain yong man Who has fall thrue and Mr. peneman hath Given the Chance up to me and I under Stand that Adorn Brown of this Town had a promis of a Lot from your honers for Sattleing and I Should Be glad if he might have the afore Lot as I have Given it up to him if it is agrea- ble to Your Honers from your homble Sarvent John Dudley Moultonborough September 1778 10 146 CHARTER RECORDS. [. Proprietors' Lots , 1780.] [Masonian Papers, Vol. 7, p. 104.] [Endorsed] The Numbers of the Proprietors Lots of Land in Ossipe 1780 — Numbers of Lotts Quality Numbers of Lotts Middleing lotts I N° 3 good Lott. 1 No 2 Middleing lott 2 No 4 good Lott. 2 N° 9 Midd. lot. 3 No 5 good lott. 3 No 25 Middleing lott. 4 No 8 good lott. 4 No 26 Do to lott 5 N° 1 2 good lott. 5 No 27 Do to lott. 6 No 16 good lott. 6 No 28 Do lott. 7 N° 17 good lott. 7 N° 32 Do lott. 8 N° 21 good lott. 8 N° 31 Do lott. 9 N° 22 good lott. 9 N° 35 Do lott. 10 N° 23 good lott. 10 No 36 Do lott 1 1 No 24 good lott. 1 1 N° 37 Do lott 12 No 34 good lott. 12 No 38 Do lott J 3 N° 30 good lott. J 3 N° 39 Do lott 14 N° 41 good lot 14 N° 40 Do lott N° 42 good lott. T 5 No 19 Do lott \Deed , McNaughton to Dudley , 1780.] [Masonian Papers, Vol. 7, p. 105.] To all People to whom these Presents shall come Know ye that I Duncan M c Naughton of Tamworth in the County of Strafford & State of New Hampshire Yeoman do by these Presents for the Con- sideration of Five Pounds received hereby, remise, Release & forever Quit Claim unto Capt. John Dudley his Heirs & Assigns forever all the Right, Title, Claim & Demand that I have or ought to have unto Two Hundred Acres of Land in New Ossipee so called — by Virtue of a Bond of the same from a Committee of the Purchasers of Masons Patent to make settlements upon One of which Hundred Acres my Brother James M c Nauglitan who is now Deceasd, began a Settlement upon, the other Hundred Acres my Brother Alexander M c Naughton OSSIPEE. 147 began a Settlement upon who has now left this Country — The Bond of which Land I agree to give up to the said Dudley to his own Use Witness my Hand & Seal May 20, 1780 — Duncan mcNaghtan Witness David Folsom M 1 Duckon mc c onton Pise to Give up the bond to mr John Kinnis- ton that Set foreth in the With in as it is his Rite and Due and it Will oblige me September y e 7 th 1781 John Dudley [ Certain Lots Wanted , 1780.] [Masonian Papers, Vol. 7, p. 105.] 1780 July 5 th M r John Dearburne of North Hampton desires that he might have the Lot N° 2. which J Frost has forfeighted by not Set- tling also Lot N° 5. to Solomon Munsey, but Nothing done and Also the Lot N° 6 — the Above Lots for Setling Portsm 0 July 6 th Henry Rust Esq r Desires that he may have Lot N° 1 on Conway Road, and be Inform’d as soon as may be 148 CHARTER RECORDS [ James Hersey's Plan , 1781.] 'r Hj •I •3 M ■ ^ w VJ £ N~J V P PQ This Plan is laid out into one hundred Acre lots one half Mile in length & one hundred Rods in wedth — allowed four Rod Road at the end of the lots & allow’d two Rod between the lots — all the Double lines Denotes a Road — the Range Runs Parrellel with the Province OSSIPEE. T 49 line North 8 degrees East & South 8 Degrees West the Side line of the lots Runs off at Right angles from the Range lines — the lots are Number’d at the Westerly end — N B N° 19 & 19 are coppled for one hundred acre lot likewise N° 82 & 82 are coppled- this Survey is Made 1781 By James Hersey [Statement about Mills , 1781.] [Masonian Papers, Yol. 7, p. 106.] This May Sartify Whome it May Consarne that Cap fc John Dudley Buielt a Sowy mill and a Griss mill on Boat N° 83 in Osepey Goore In the monetli of September 1777 the Sow) 7 mill Cut Bords in Octo- ber fouling a fraim House I Built the Same foil two fiers Plases is in it and three Rumes Seeled Rownd with Good Bords a famaly Rumovd on the Primises the Same foil and Reamaind in the town Eaver Sence the Griss mill I Have Leased ouet to one m r Brown for the Spse of teen years and Give him the Priveleg of all he Can Rais on fifty accors of the Land by Reason the Land is meain and not fit for a faram the Land that is Clered Round the mils is Eight or teen accors Exept Sum Large Loags m r Brown the Miller Gives us Good Sattis- faticon as a good Miller We Whose Names are under written attest to the Same — March y e 15 th 1781 Phe s Graves Rich a Beacham Jacob Brown John Goldsmith John Sceggel Joseph Garland Josiali Poland Joseph Pitman Benjamin Sceggel Thomas Prows Isaac goldsmith David Been Samuel Sias John Wadligli Benjamin Sceggel John Young [ Certificate in Favor of John Dudley . ] [Masonian Papers, Yol. 7, p. 126.] This May Certify whome it May Consarne that Cap 1 John Dudley of Ossipee goare has Erected a Comfortable Dwelling lions of Two goods Rums well Seeld of workmanlike on the lot N° 41 in said goare — & has fitted 20 Acres fit for the plow — Ten Acres of which Was plowed & put under improvement Last season with Indian Corn wlieet & oates & Removd a famely on the premisses Last fall — the house is built of Good Hew’d timber — And it appears Yerry Likely a fine Set- CHARTER RECORDS I 5° tlement will bee Carried on there — we whose Names are Under wr ten Attest to the same Winthrop Smith John Sanderson Obadiah Dudy \_Hersey's Plan , 1782.] — 33’/?SC O VI OSSIPEE. I 5 I A Plan of a Strip of Land in Ossipee Gore that Layes North of What they call’d Tamworth & between Said Tamworth & the cure line So on the West to Sandwich — & So on the East to the North Division in ossipee Gore — the said Strip or tract of land, is laid out into hundred Acre lots one half Mile long & one hundred Rod wide — & is Numbered at the North end of Said lots as will appear on the Plan-the Range lines Run East & West, the cross lines run at Right angles from the Range lines — allowing four rod wide for Highways on the South Side of the Range lines — all the cross Roads are two Rod wide one rod out of each lot, all Double lines denote for roads Run out & Bounded in the Year 1782 P r James Hersey — [. Petition of Isaac doldsmith and Others , 1781.] [Masonian Papers, Yol. 7, p. 107.] To The Honourable Commity of the Land Ownd by John Tuften Masson Esq r Gentleman — as we the Subscribers have settled On your Land in the Town of Ossipee gore or New Garden so calld — Sirs our Land was Laid Out 100 Rods on the Roade & to Extend one hundred & Sixty rods back from Conway Roade — and by Reason of the Roade Not being Streight Our Land will fall Short of the obligation — but Cap 1 John Dudley of Said goore has Given his oblegation to Leet us have Boards at his Mill to help us a Long with our Buildings to Our Satesfaction Sirs its For the Land that is wanting — o We Being Verry Por & anable to Travel the Roade to Your Hon- ours-we have concluded to Deliver Our Bounds to S tl Dudley Praying that y r Honours will take the Bounds & Give said Dudley Deeds in Our Names — Your Honours Regarding our Verry Hum 1 Potitions will Much Oblige your Very Hum 1 Petioner March 29 th 1781 — Isaac Goldsmith Joseph Pitman Samuel Sias Corneal: Denmore John Sceggel bin j men scaggall \JJeed to Winthrop Smith, 1781.] [Masonian Papers, Vol. 7, p. 108.] Know all Men by these Presents, that We William Whipple Esquire John Penhallow and John Peirce Merchant all of Ports- * 5 2 CHARTER RECORDS. mouth in the County of Rockingham and State of New Hampshire the major part of a Committee appointed & Impowerd by the Pro- prietors of Masons Patent to sell, convey and give for Settlement any Lands in the Township of Ossipee in the County of Strafford and State aforesaid For and in Consideration of the Sum of one Shilling Lawful Money of said State to us in Hand, paid before the Delivery hereof, for the use of said Proprietors and for certain Settling duties to the same use already performed by Winthrop Smith of said Town- ship of Ossipee Husbandman the Receipt whereof we do hereby acknowledge, have given, granted, bargain’d, sold and released; and by these Presents do give, grant, bargain, sell, alien, release, convey and confirm to him the said Winthorp Smith his Heirs and Assigns all the Right and Claim of the said Proprietors of in and to One hundred Acres of Land being part of Lot Number forty one containing five hundred Acres, bounded as followeth begining at the northerly cor- ner of Lot Number forty two on ossipee pond and riming on the line between said Lot number forty two & N° forty one so far that turn- ing at right angles and runing to Lovels River will contain one hun- dred acres and no more between said Pond, said River, and the said line between lots number forty two and forty one — To have and to hold, the said granted Premises, with the Appur- tenances thereof, to him the said Winthorp Smith his Heirs and Assigns to his & their proper Use, Benefit and Behoof forever : we in our said Capacity Hereby engaging to warrant and defend the said granted Premises, against all Claims or Demands of any Persons claiming by, from or under the said Proprietors — In Witness whereof we have here unto set our Hands and Seals this 23 d Day of April Ann. Domini 1781 — Signed Sealed and W m Whipple . [seal] Delivered in the Presence John Penhallow [seal] of us, the words contain- John Peirce [seal] ing said Capacity benig first interlined H Wentworth Tho Martin State of New Hampshire \ Portsmouth the 23 day of April Rockingham ss j 1781 Then the above named W m Whipple J Penhallow J Peirce per- sonally appearing acknowledged the above written Instrument to be their voluntary Act and Deed, before me, H Wentworth Justice Peace OSSIPEE. I 53 [John Dudley's Report , 1781.] [Masonian Papers, Yol. 7, p. 109.] Labour Don on Land in osepey gore By Teackler men as setlers on the Lord Prirters Land and Examand By John Dudley the Quantyof Land under Improvement on Each Lot Li I find on Lot n° 2 Don by m r Benjmun Scaggel 16 accors under improvement and 4 accors fell I find on Lot n° 8 under improvement Don by mr John Scaggel 10 accors and 8 accors fell — I find on Lot n° 12 under enprovemen Don by m r Samuel Sias 18 accoors and 8 accors fell — I find on Lot n° 6 under inprovement Don by m r Jacca goldsmeath 16 accors and 4 acars fell — the 600 accors Lots — I find on Lot n° 16 under inprovement 14 accors and 4 accors fell Don By m Joseph petman I find on Lot no 8 under inprovement Don by m 1 Corniels Denmor 16 accors and 4 fell upon Strict Exseminnation of the Land menshend above is now under inprovement by the men menshed above which I am Rady to a test to the Best of my Ivnowledg April the 19 1781 John Dudley [ List of Deeds to Settlers , 1781.] [Masonian Papers, Yol. 7, p. 109.] Deeds given this 23 d April 1781 to Winthorp Smith 100 Acres part of Lot N° 41 to John Dudley 100 Acres part of Lot N° 33 on which are the mills — John Schedgel & Martha his wife Lot N° 3 on the east side rode Samuel Sias Lot 12 on the West y side d° Benj a Schedgel Lot N° 2 — ditto Isaac Goldsmith Lot N° 6 on ditto Cornelius Denmore 100 Acres part of Lot N° 8 — Joseph Pitman 100 Acres part of Lot N° 16 — across s' 1 Lot & bound on the one hundred acre lots — John Dudley for Lot N° 5 on the Easterly side of the Conway road — J 5 4 CHARTER RECORDS. I hereby ingage to have the above ment d deeds on record in office with Thomas W k Waldron Esq and produce in three months from the date his certificate thereof Portsmouth April 23 d 1781 — John Dudley [On the reverse are the following descriptions :] begining at the northerly corner of lot no 42 on ossipe pond & run- ing on the line between 42 & 41 so far that turning at right angles & runing to Lovels River will include one 100 acre & no more between s d pond & said River & the s d line between lots no 42 & 41 — Win- throp Smith so far that a line run parrallel with the easterly line on the hundred lots to the notheasterly line of said Lot n° 16 to be of equal widths at both ends & to contain one hundred acres & no more One hund Acres being part of Lot 33 — bound as followeth begin on the river 20 Rods N East y from his Saw & Grist mills from thence run parrall with the N Easterly begin on the S E y line of s d & the to run across said line parrellel to the N E y line thereof to the N W y line just 20 Rods N E y of his Saw and Grist Mill & to run so far South W y on Said South easterly & North W y lines as that a line run parrall to the first ment d line across said lot will enclude 100 Acre & no more — \John Dudley to Proprietors , 1781.] [Masonian Papers, V ol. 7, p. 110.] To the Honrable Coinmity of Masons Pattan I Have had a hint that one M 1 Brown is a Coming Down to Git Lib- erty of your Honours to build a Sowy mill and a Griss mill on Loat N° 7 on Conway Road on a Smoll Brock but I think it will hurt your Intrest much and be of but Littel Profit to the Setlers but if he will agree to build them on Pine River at the Lore End of the town I think it will be much for your Intrest for tliair is a Good Place for mills Gentell men m r Brown think he is not yused well in Reespet of Loat n° 5 for he Sease he Had the Promis of it Last year of your Honours and thinks hard of me allso I Pray your Honours to Leat m r Brown know how the Case Was that y® Loat went for to make up the Settlers Loat that fell Short m r Parse minsters fogg of kinnitown Sun he is Seen your Loat n° 16 and Conoluds to bie it if he Can git Sum Good Parterner and no fear I told him the Prise is 20 Shilings p r accor Si r I think you will a Gee you will Git hold of a Good man if you trade gentlemen I Should be glad to build the Brige if wee Can •* / ::m 'Urt Ci hi* - - v * T 1 if. k t;u [Plan of u 1782 .] OSSIPEE. I 55 a gree by Reason I am in Sum Difiklty aboute Sum Land that I wanted of your Hounors and it ouing to m r Langdon a geement with me Gentlemen m r Harsey is Com to Lay ouet all your Lands a Cording to his order and is now Gon to Beagin at Conway I Reamein 3 r our Neady frind and Hum 11 Sarv 1 osepee Gore June y e 18 th 1781 John Dudley [ John Dudley to John Penhallow , 1782.] [Masonian Papers, Yol. 7, p. 111.] Sir Ossipee Gore May 1 st 1782 Doubless you remember the frequent Applications I have made to the Proprietors for the Hundred Acre Lot numberd One adjoining Tuftonborough which Lot I had engaged (If obtaind) to the Bearer M r Joseph Garland, who is a steady Young Man, & is likely to make a good Settler — I was the more earnest to obtain that Lot for him because he had fancied that Lot & no other on Account of an old Neighbour, & I was unwilling that he should leave the Place — The Lot is no more than midling for Quality — the Bearer has assisted M r Hersey in his Surveys 5 or 6 Weeks this Spring exclusive of his Labour last Fall — & I suppose will ever stand ready for your Service — any Favour the Proprietors may shew him in the Sale of that Lot, I dare venture to engage a Suitable Conduct on his part — You likewise Sir no Doubt remember that I have often mentiond the Case of Cap 1 Brown to the Prop rs but I woud once more beg Leave to mention that Matter — He at first ventured to lay out a large Interest in the Town without any Encouragent of the Proprietors, & what has been unfortunate for him he has not got upon the first Rate Land — however his Enterprising Genius has overcome the many Obsticles in his Way — his Proficiency in Clearing Land has been great for the Time & his Buildings are large & commodious, & carried on through almost every Inconveniency — & he has ever through great Expence kept best Entertainment for Travellors — he still Labours under great Discouragements ; the Low Circumstances of the Settlers round him often call for his Assistance which he readily affords he has Two Mills upon his own Bottom now in Building — & in short the Business he carries on there give Life & Spring to the Settlements of the Place & will still greatly tend to promote the Interest of the Propriety — & give me Leave Sir to add that his whole Conduct is CHARTER RECORDS. x 56 worthy the Notice of the Proprie 7 & any Favours they may shew him I humbly conceive woud be for the Interest of the Town — I am Sir Your most Ob 4 lible S l John Dudley To John Penhallow Esq r to be communicated to the Comm tee of Masons Prop rs — Mem° the said Joseph Garland has Agreed to give Cap 1 Duly Eighty Dollars for the said Lot & he promised to git it for him [Assistance to Fill Town Quota , 1782.] [Masonian Papers, Vol. 7, p. 112.] Memorandum as the Town of Osspee is Called upon for Two men as Soldiers to Fill up the States Battlians, for the Present year 1782 and the Town has Furnished one Man for the Purpose Aforesaid find it Impossible in their Present Situation to Furnish the Other man Therfore desires that the Masonian Proprietors woud Assist them in gitting the Other Man, and it Appears to be Necessary that the man Should be procured Immediately, therefore William Whipple Esq r and John Penhallow Engages for the Proprietors that they will give to the Selectmen of the said Town of Osspee for the Use of the Town the hundred Acre Lot N° 1 in Ossepee Road; provided they Furnish the other Soldier Immediately to go on to Jovn the Army — Portsm 0 July 12 th 1782. [ Certain Lots Wanted , 1788.] [Masonian Papers, Yol. 7, p. 112.] M r Rewbin Nichason Desires the Favour of the Propretors that they Woud Consider him for the Lot of Land sold Richard Jackman on which the said Nichason has Got a Framed, House Also a barn 30. by 40.. and the Said Jackman Takes into his Inclosir all the Build- ings of the said Nichson, and Nichason has paid Taxes in Ossipee, as ^ rec 1 , but Since Jackman has had a Deed the Said Nichson has paid no Tax — Sanderson Carter has Got upon a Lot of Land and his Name upon the Plan, Also Winthrop Smart upon Another Lot has Cleared and got under Improvement Near Thirty Acre of Land both the Last Persons desire that the Proprietors Would give them Lots for Setting upon which they have Improved — Portsm 0 Sep f 3 d 1783 — OSSIPEE. 157 [ Petition of Inhabitants, 1783.] [Masonian Papers, Yol. 7, p. 113.] Gentlemen We your humble petitioners Who have Setld the hundred acre Lots on Conway Rods We Labor under grat dis advantags by Reason of the Lots not Being Run out disputes a Rise Concarning the Corse of the Side Lines for We Cant enprove ouer Lands after We have Cleard them We therfor beg your honors to determin What point of Compass the Side Lines of Said Lots Should Run and We the Subscribers hereby engage to Conform to your determination Sirs your Comply- sance Will a Blige your Setters in osipey gratly osipey gore September the 9 1783 Jacob Brown bingeman Sagel Benjamin Sceggel jun John Seggel Josiali Poland Samuell Lear Jabes Garling [ Complaint of Inhabitants, 1783.] [Masonian Papers, Yol. 7, p. 114.] To the onerable Committy the propriters of Mason Patten of Ossipee Gore to them Gentelman : we the setlers of the foresaid Ossipee unhumble Petions to inform the gentelman that we are dis- commoted that we cannot in Joy our lands becaus there is a set of Peopel settels for Eaton wicli ther Lots run Contray to our Lots we should be glad and Desire the favour of the gentelman whether now we may bring an acsion agaienst them whether now thay will support it so now more for present we remain your humble Servents — Barok Ellis Manoali Ellis Stanton Carter John Cooley Manoah Ellis Juner [Endorsed] This Petition preferred Sept r 18 th 1783. CHARTER RECORDS. 158 [Deed, Winthrop Smart to Proprietors , 1784.] [Masonian Papers. Vol. 7, p. 115.] Know All Men By These Presents, That I Winthorp Smart of Ossipee Gore in the County of Strafford Husbandman and in the State of New Hampshire For and in Consideration of the Sum of five Shillings Lawful Money of said State to me in Hand, paid before the Delivery hereof by William Whipple John Penhallow & John Peirce all of Portsmouth in the County of Rockingham a Committe of the proprietors of Masons Patent — The Receipt whereof I do hereby acknowledge, have remised, released, and forever quit claimed, and by these Presents, do remise, release, and forever quit claim to them the said Whipple Penhallow & Peirce — Heirs and Assigns, all my Right, Title, claim or Demand whatsoever in and to any Land in Lots number Sixty one, Sixty two, Sixty three, or Seventy one or to any other Lot or Lands in said Ossipee Gore as surveyed by James Hersey excepting such part of Lot N° Seventy three as 1 hertofore purchased of person or persons holding by Deed duely exibited from said Committee — To Have And To Hold, said quit claimed Premises, with the Appur- tenances thereof, to them the said Penhallow Whipple & Peirce their Heirs and Assigns I hereby engaging to warrant and defend the said quit claimed Premises, against all Claims or Demands of any Person or Persons claiming by, from, or under me In witness whereof I have hereunto set my Hand and Seal, this 19 th Day of April Annoque Domini, 1784 — Signed, Sealed, and Winthrop Smart [seal] Delivered in Presence of us, Prudence Penhallow Sam 1 Penhallow State of New Hampshire ) Rockingham ss j Portsmouth April the 19 th 1784 The above-named Winthrop Smart Personally appearing acknowl- edged this Instrument to be his free Act and Deed. Before me, Sam 1 Penhallow Justice Peace [ Complaints and Requests , 1784.] [Masonian Papers, Vol. 7, p. 116.] M r John Goldsmith Complains that the Lot of Land he has Got upon in Ossepe is Very Mean and the Line Runs so that it Takes of OSSIPEE. T 59 one half of the Lot, therefore desires the Favour of the Proprietors that they would Consider him, and Give him some more Land for Settlement as he has Got a Large Family Consisting of Eleven in Number Portsm 0 Octob r 20 th 1784 — Also Cap 1 Brown Desires that the proprietors would Impower him to Put Setlers upon the Five hundred Acre Lots that are not Already Disposed off — Portsm 0 Octo r 20 th 1784 — [Aron Ore Privilege Wanted , 1785.] [Masonian Papers, Vol. 7, p. 116.] Portsmouth Jan y 19 th 1785 M r Abraham Morrill and Jacob Blazdell of Brentwood Desires the Priveledge of the Iron Oar that is in Ossipee Pond for Such a Num- ber of Years as the proprietors shall think propper as the Said Mor- rill and Blazdell upon Propper Incouragem 4 by Granting them the Priveledge of the Oar will go and Set up Iron Works forBarr Iron in that part of the Country for Twenty or Thirty Years — \John Peirce to Captain Brown , 1785.] [Masonian Papers, Vol. 7, p. 117.] Portsmouth March 10 th 1785 Cap 1 Brown The bearer M r Samuel Hide has some claim to a Settling lot in ossipee part of Number five which Munsev first undertook to fulfil and says that he has a family on it and in other Respects has complied with the usual terms Required & that no person has any claim to it except one Garlands who has felld about one Acre & half trees on it which he is ready to pay him for, If these things are all true and you will certify it in a Letter under your hand, lt"s my opin- ion the Committee will give him a Deed without further trouble — Your Hum 1 Serv John Peirce We are of opinion and agree that M r Hide or any Person holding under him may have the one hundred Acres within mentioned laying i6o CHARTER RECORDS. in the following manner beging at the southerly corner of N° 12 and bounding on s d Lot one hundred Rods and laying one hundred and Sixty Rods bounding on Lot N° Six instead of the form & manner in which said Lot was to lay by an Agreement with Solomon Munsey as specified in said Munseys bond, Provided General Whipple who owns the residue of Lot Number five should not object to this alteration But if it should not be agreeable to him in that Case M r Hide must take it as originally designed by Munsey — Not intending by this writ- ing to authorise Samuel Hide to hold this Lot on other or stronger terms than he has already a right to by General Whipples Letter to John Dudley John Penh allow John Peirce It is also to be understood that the land to be laid out must cover the improvements already maid one said Sittling Lot by Munsey or any other person under him — and that the Bond given by the Committee to Munsey must first be returned before a Deed can be given John Peirce Portsm 0 Aug 4 18 th 1785 This Day give a Deed to Sam 1 Tasket of New Durham for One hundred Acres of Land out of Lot N° 5 Cont g Five hundred Acres in Ossipee, bounded as Follows begining at the Northerly Corner of Lot N° 6 and Running on Said Lot South East- erly one hundred and Sixty Rods then Turning at Right Angles and Running North Easterly one hundred Rods then Turning at Right Angles and Running Northwesterly one hundred and Sixty Rods to Lot N°12 then Turning and Bounding on Said Lot one hundred Rods to the Bounds first Mentioned to Contain one hundred Acres and no More — the Above Deed dd Cap 4 Jacob Brown Aug 4 18 th 1785 [Col. Henry Rust's Lots , June 17, 1786.] [Masonian Papers, Yol. 7, p. 118.] Memorandum of Lots in the Town of Ossipee Cont g 500 Acres each which Col° Rust was impowered to Settle by instructions from the Committee Dated July 1 st 1778 — which has been cont d to this time June — 17 th 1786 & now extended for one Year 500 Acre Lot N° 44 — N° 40 N° 39 N° 26 Deed given Isaac Williams N° 25 N° 24 Deed given Ric d Beacham N° 7 N° 6 N° 1 N° 20 N° 37 Deed given Andrew Folsom N° 38 N° 36 N° 30 OSSIPEE. 161 \_JElijah Davis's Lot.'] [Masonian Papers, Vol. 7, p. 118.] Discription of Elijah Davis s Lot in Ossibe begin ing at the N west- erly Corner of Lot N° 6 & Riming S W ly on the Divid g line between S d N° 6. & N° 11. 160 Rods — thence Turn g at Right Angles and Run g S. E ly 100 Rods thence Turn g at Right Angles & Runing 160 Rods to the Dividing line between Said N° 6 — & Lot N° 5 then on S d Line to the bounds first Mentiond to Contain One hundred Acres & no more [Endorsed] Discription of Elijah Davis’s Lott part of N° 6 Deed Del' 1 Col 0 Rust this 2 d Nov 1789 [. Division of Ungranted Land , 1796.] [Masonian Proprietors’ Records, June 6, 1796, and Masonian Papers, Yol. 7, p. 121.] State of New ) Portsmouth June 6 tb 1796 monday three of the Hampshire ( Clock afternoon The Proprietors meet according to ad j o u r n men t — Your Committee having examined the Plans of the Several Surveys of y e ungranted lands in mason’s Patent, within the Winter Curve line as run by Fletcher do report a tract of Seven Thousand acres allotted into hundred Acre Lots which lye’s as we Suppose chiefly within the Township of Ossipee, but will more fully appear by the plan returned by James Hersey in 1781 — also another tract about ten thousand Acres lying at the head of Ossipee, bounded easterly Effing- ham, Northerly by said Curve, westerly the aforesaid Seven thousand Acres, and Southerly by the Pond, which is also allotted into one hundred Acre Lots — also one thousand four hundred fifty nine Acres unappropriated in Kiarsarge Gore, and an indifinite Quantity on Crotched Mountains in Frances Town, Supposed four or five hundred Acres — also a Small Gore between Lyndborough and Corner of Petersborougli, say one hundred and fifty Acres — these Several Quan- tities comprehend the whole, which your Committee has been able to Ascertain as free from incumbrance or intervening Grants — June 6 th 1796— John Peirce ll Nath 1 A. Haven Jn° Sam. Sherburne 162 CHARTER RECORDS. Voted that all the land included in the above Report Surveyed and laid out into one hundred Acre lots by James Hersey in Ossipee, con- taining about Seven thousand Acres and that adjoining Effingham, containing about two thousand Acres be divided into fourteen equal parts or Shares, by assorting and joining all the Said one hundred Acre lots into fourteen shares as nearly equal as the nature of the Case will admitt of, to be drawn for when the Proprietors by a future Vote may order — Voted that John Peirce and Nathaniel A. Haven be a Com'ittee To assort and join the one hundred Acre lots into fourteen equal Shares, as mentioned in the foregoing report, in order for drawing the Same to y e Rights of the Proprietors, at the next meeting of the Pro- prietors — M r John Penhallow Protests against the next preceeding Vote The meeting was adjourned to monday next, the 13 th Instant nine of the Clock before noon, to be held at this place A true Record attest: Geo : Jaffrey Prop rs Cl State of New ( Portsmouth June 13 th 1796 monday nine of the Hampshire j Clock beforenoon, the Proprietors meet according to adjournment — Whereas it is found that the above lotts cannot be assorted into fourteen equal Shares without uniting with one Share, the Gore men- tioned above, in a preceeding vote, as lying between Petersborough, and Lyndeborough — Therefore V oted that the aforesaid Gore be included in one of the Shares and that the Committee unite the Same with the other lots — Voted that the Proprietors do now proceed to divide and Sever all the one hundred Acre lots as laid out by James Hersy by his Survey and plan in the year 1781 as Sorted and classed by their Committee John Peirce and Nathaniel A. Haven and John Sam 1 Sherburne, called the first divission bounded, as followeth, viz 1 The hundred Acre lots laid out by James Hersey in the year 1781 — are bounded South easterly by the 500 Acre lots in Ossipee and Ossipee pond, South westerly by Tuftonborougli, north westerly, on part of Tam worth, and north Easterly, on a tract of land laid out into hundred Acre lots, and to be drawn for this day — Said Survey contain’s one hun- dred and Seventeen lots, besides Gores, numbered from 1 to 117 as will more fully appear, reference being had to Said Plan, and when drawn and recorded shall be A compleat Severance and division of the Same and Shall be abided by and taken as a full Share, and whether the lots be better or worse as a final division of the tract aforesaid- and whereas the shares could not be made equal without the addition OSSIPEE. I63 of two lots ; therefore the Gore between Lyndsborough ancl Peters borough as classed by said Committee be included in the above Divi sion, and now drawn for, and one lot of 100 acres Number 28 in the 8 th Range in the 2 d division of Hersey’s Survey to be drawn for this day — The Draft of the Shares and Lots in the first Division of Shares- viz 4 N° of Shares To whom drawn N° of Lots drawn to each Right N° 1 Joshua Peirce 8, 92, 21, 52, 31, 112. 2 John Moffatt 80, 91, 27, 67 in two lots 32, 109. 3 Thomas Wallingford . 14, 28, 70, 68, 101, Gore between Lyndsborough & Peterborough 4 George Jaffrey 1 5, 37, 71, 69, hi in 6 th & 28 in 8 th Range in the other Division to be drawn this day — 5 Thomas Packer . 19, 79, 40, 66, 81, no — 6 Richard Wibird . 22, 78, 44, 65, 82, 107— 7 John Rindge 23, 74, 45, 64, 87, 108— 8 D Peirce & Moore 24, 60, 53, 63, 88, 1 15— 9 Thomlinson & Mason . 2 5> 5 7 » 55’ 5 1 > $9’ 114— 10 Jotham Odiorne . 34, 56, 58, 46, 93, 106— 1 1 Theodore Atkinson 38, 54, 59, 33, 97, 1 13 — 12 Blanchard Meserve & Co 4G 43’ 75’ 13’ 9 8 ’ I0 5~ 13 M : Hs Wentworth 76, 10, 99, 26, 42, and two Gores or parts of lotts 74 acres & 24 Acres, bounding on Ossipee 500 Acre lotts 14 Solley & March . 90, 20, 77, 9, 100, 94— Voted that the Proprietors do now proceed to draw. Sever, and divide all that tract of land surveyed by James Hersey as by his plan returned, as the Lotts are joined and classed by the Committee appointed for that purpose — bounded as followeth viz 4 bounded north- erly by a line run by Robert Fletcher, Southeasterly by Effingham, Southerly by Ossipee pond and bays, westerly by the first division of hundred Acre lots this day drawn ; this Second division lying on both Sides of the Conway Road so called, as will more fully appear by the plan of the Survey made by said Hersey, reference thereto being had -and when drawn for and recorded Shall be a compleat Severance of all Said tract of Land and shall be taken, as drawn, to each Proprie- tors Right, better or worse, as a full Share, in this Second division, as joined and classed by Said Committee The Draft of the Second Division 164 CHARTER RECORDS. No of Shares Proprietors to whom drawn Numbers of Lots drawn to each Right — N° 1 Solley & March N° 200 & N° 19 in 2 d Range N° 2 in 7 th N° 36 in 9 th N° 74 in n ,h N° 99 in 12 th & N° 1 12 in 13 th Range — N° 42 in 9 th Range — 2 Theodore Atkinson . N° 59 in 3 d Range N° 3 in 7 th N° 37 in 9th N° 43 in 9 th N° 73 in 11 th N° 100 in 12 th N° hi in 13th Range — 3 Thomlinson & Mason N° 60 in 3 d N° 4 in 7 th N° 38 in 9 th N° 44 in 9 th N° 72 in 1 I th N° 101 in 12 th N° [37 & part of N° 136 in 14 th Range — 4 Dan 1 Peirce & Mary Moore N° 197 in 4 th Range N° 5 in 7 th N° 39 in 9 th N° 45 in 9 th N° 71 in 11 th N° 102 in 12^ and N° 138 in 14 th Range — 5 Thomas Packer N° 198 in 4 th N° 6 in 7 th N° 40 in 9 th N° 63 in 10 th N° 75 in 15 th N° 1 16 & N° 1 17 in 13th ]\Jo ijg i n j^th — 6 Mark. H. Wentworth N° 61 in 4 th Range N° 7 in 7 th N° 41 in 9 th N° 64 in 10 th N° 70 in 1 I th N° 1 15 in 13th N° 141 in 14 th — 7 Blanchard Meserve & C° . N° 102 in 5 th Range N° 8 in 7 th N° 30 in 8 th N° 65 in 10 th N° 107 in 12 th N° 114 in 13th No 142 in 14 th — 8 John Moffatt N° 103 in 5 th Range N° 9 in 7 th N° 31 in 8 th N° 66 in 10 th N° 106 in 12 th N° 169 and part of Lot N° 170 in 17 th Range N° 146 & N® 147 in 1 5 th 9 Joshua Peirce . N° 104 in 5 th N° 10 and part of N° 1 1 in 7th No 32 in 8 th N° 67 in 10 th N° 105 in 12 th N° 145 in 15 th part of N° 101 in 5 th and part N° 1 14 in 6 th Range — 10 John Rindge N° 107 in 6 th Range N° 25 and part N° 24 in 8t h N° 33 in 8 th N° 79 & 80 in 1 I th N° 144 in 15 th N° 140 in 14 th Range & N° 104 in the 12 th Range — 1 1 George Jaffrey . N° hi in 6 th N° 26 in 8 th drawn in first draft of lots N° 34 in 8 th N° 78 in 11 th N° 103 in 12 th N° 143 in 15 th part of N° 58 in 3 d & part N° 62 in 4 th Range 12 Jotham Odiorne . . i N° 1 12 in 6th No 27 in 8 th N° 35 in 8 th N° 77 in 1 i‘h N° 108 in 13 th N° 1 13 in 13 th & two Gores on Effingham line being 59 acres in 3 d Range & 58 acres in 4 th 13 Richard Wibird N° 1 13 in 6 th Range 69 and a small gore on the pond in 10 th N° 76 in 1 I th N° 109 in 13 th N° 167 & part of N° 166 in 16 th part N° 46 in 9 th & part N° 62 in 10 th Range OSSIPEE. 1 65 No of Shares Proprietors to whom drawn Numbers of Lots drawn to each Right — N° 14 Thomas Wallingford N° 1 in 7 th Range N° 29 in 8 th N° 68 in 10 th N° 98 and part of N° 97 in 12 th N° 1 10 in 13 th N° 168 & small Gore adjoining the I st Division in 16 th 2 small Gores on the Pond one in the 12 th and the other in the 14 th Range Daniel Rindge and John Penhallow Esqn rs desire their Protests may be entered against the Votes passed at this meeting, and the drawing of the Lotts of land in Severance of the land, in consequence of the Votes referred to — [ Petition of Brown and Fogg , 1800.] [Masonian Papers, Vol. T, p. 119.] Gentlemen Proprietors of the Town of Ossipee — We the Subscribers in behalf of the Town of Ossipee Humbly shew, that the Town have never been favour’d with any Lands for the use of Building a Meeting-House Settleing a Minister or for the encouragement of Schools in the Town of Ossipee — Therefore we humbly petition the Proprietors of said Town to grant us some of your undivided Lands in said Town for the sole pur- pose of building a Meetinghouse — Namely one Tract called the Gore also four of five one hundred Acre Lots on Conway Road of all which we suppose you know nearly the true value — And as we have labourd under great disadvantages in not having a House for publick Worship and holding Town meetings We at this period wish to build a Decent House in said Town for publick Services and pray you Gentlemen to assist us in our proceedings and think it will advantageous to the Proprietors and Inhabitants — for which we your humble Petitioners ever pray Ossipee 25 th March 1800 Jacob Brown Joseph Fogg CHARTER RECORDS. 1 66 [. Answer to Foregoing Petition , 1801.] [Masonian Papers, Vol. T, p. 120.] State of New | At a Meeting of tlie Proprietors of the Lands pur- Hampshire ) chased of John Tufton Mason Esqu r in New-Hamp- shire ; held at Portsmouth, on the Second day of February 1801 — Upon Considering the Petition of Jacob Brown & Joseph Fogg, praying for a grant of Certain unappropriated Lands in Ossipee for the purpose of aiding the Inhabitants of Said Town towards building a Meeting house Voted That John Penhallow Esqu r John Peirce Esqu r And N. A. Haven be a Committee in behalf of this Propriety to Convey all the Right and Title of this Propriety of in & to four Lots of One hundred Acres Each, lying On Conway Road, and a Certain Gore of unappropriated Land in Said Ossipee to the Petioners and others for the use of the Inhabitants, the Avails of which to be Appropriated Solely to the purpose of building a Meeting- house, and that Said Committee take suficient Security that the Avails thereof Shall be So Applied And that a Return of their Doings be Made to this Propriety — a true Copy of Record — Attest Geo: Jaffrey Prop rs Cl — Pursuant to the Authority vested in us by the within vote, we the Subscribers on the 20 th Feb y 1801 conveyed by Deed to Jacob Brown, & Joseph Fogg, four Lots of Land of one hundred Acres each lying in Ossipee on Conway Road, & also a Gore of Land in said Town, & that we have taken a Bond from Jacob Brown that the Proceeds shall be applied as directed in the Vote of the Proprietors — which Bond we now hand in to the Clerk of the Propriety — Ports 0 Jan y 1 1806 — John Peirce Nath 1 A. Haven OSSIPEE. 167 [ Plan of Northwest Corner , 1806.] y uv 0 } 7> 3r ? un V ,u ° f° 3 t v,! f ^ [. Information from Surveyor Cook , 1820.] [Masonian Papers, Vol. 7, p. 122.] Portsm 0 16 June 1820 Information from M r Cook surveyor Gore 33i Sold by Jacob Brown as part of 500 Acre Lot to Ichabod Hodgdon of Ossipee — about 9 ys Since CHARTER RECORDS. 1 68 Gore 1131 lias been Many Years in possession of Silas White (now in Dover jail) Who says he has been in possession more than Twenty years, which is doubted — he has a Log House and his family lives there — He has two Sons living in One house Near this Land, but not on it [Lots Taxed and Sold , 1810-20.] [Masonian Papers, Vol. 7, p. 123.] The following Lots of Land were Taxed in the Town of Ossipee for the Year 1810 in the upper Division for the first time ( 124 ) Nos < 147 > rigli of John Ringe . (155 ) Also in right of M H Wentworth ( 126 ) Nos < 144 > (154) The above Lots of Land were sold by Eliphalet Sias Collector of the Town of Ossipee for 1810 to the following Persons and were not redeem’d Lot N° 155 — 71 Acres to Eliphalet Sias Do — Do 147 — 94 Do to Sandborn Blake OSSIPEE. 169 Do — Do 144 — 100 Do — Do 126 — 100 Do — Do 154 — 44 Do — Do 124 — 85 Do to Chase Wiggin Do to Jonathan Dodge Do to Joseph Nay Do to Samuel Sias Lot N° 124 Tax’d for 1819, sold Feb? 8 th 1820—98 Acres to Went- worth Lord N° 155 Tax’d for 1819, not sold N° 126 Claim’d by Samuel Quarles — [Lots Taxed and Sold , 1813-19.] [Masonian Papers, Vol. 7, p. 125.] Lands in Ossipee N° 124 in the upper Division in Said Town Claim’d by Wentworth Lord Sold in 1816 to John Ayrs, not redeem'd Sold in 1817 to John C Young not redeem’d N° 147 was not Tax’d in nonresident List in 1819 — Claim'd by M r Nay or William Goldsmith — N° 155 was not Tax’d in 1819 in the nonresident List — Suppos’d to have been sold for Taxes — and Tax in the resident List — N° 126 has been Sold sundry times for Taxes Present Claimant Col Samuel Quarles N° 154 was not Tax’d in 1819 — Claimant unknown — N° 144 — Taxed in 1819 — advertised — but not Sold Lot N° 147 Tax’d in 1813, sold for non payment of Taxes for the same year to John Brown Sold in 1814, to Joseph Fogg, and not redeem'd [John Kenniston’ s Letter.'] [Masonian Papers, Vol. 7, p. 124.] S fir penhollow Sir I wold inform your Sir as you are one of the commitee of osepe gore togatlier with Mr Landon did agree with me and my son samuel kenison to give us two Hundred akers of Land out of the Lot number 15 and the Lot number 27 privided we cleared ten akers of Land on Eicli Lot buld a house and have a famaly on 170 CHARTER RECORDS. Eich Lot to wich I have cleared and planted 3 akers Last spring on the Lot number 15 and I allso have cleard ten or 12 akers that is well feted and reddy to soo to riy this foil and I shall buld a hous and move a famuly on the Lot this foil and shall clear doubel the land before the agreament is out and my son has fell and bornt some of his trees but not all — and I am informed that your honnors are about take it from us before our agrement is out and if you due I shall think very hard of your honnors as I have done all the labour and more then the agrement was this from your humbel Servent and well wisher John kenison [ Conditions for Kenniston Lots.'] [Masonian Papers, Vol. 7, p. 126.] 2 Lotts in Ossipee N° 27 & 15 they are to have one hundred Acres out off each for settling agreing now which corner to take — they are to fell 10 Acres on each Lot this Season and to clear the same next Season & build a House and afterwards clear &c in pro- portion as others Southeast Corner of Lot N° 27 the Son Sam 11 Kenniston — and the Southwest Corner of Lot N°15 y e Father John Kenniston are pitched upon [ Miscellaneous Notes.] [Masonian Papers, Yol. 7, p. 127.] Charles Danilson of Barringtown Gore out this 4 tn Day of April 1775, to make Return of a Lot in Fourteen Days from Date. Winthrop Frost, & John Hicks, Desires that they may have the Two Lots Viz 4 N° 12 for Frost and N° 4 for Hicks. If thev are not pitched upon by Burnum, Crochit Clerk & Munsey, who are to Return the 15 th of this Instant April. — April 6 th 1775 If Danilson Above mentiond Does not pitch upon Lot N° 17 then m r Tho s Triggsto have. If he does then M r Triggs to have Southerly Corner N° 18 — Bond givn the Lot N° 16 Engaged to Cornelius Denmore Lots N° 1 — 30 — 37 — Disposed of by his Excellency — iitcrcsy PJ 9 S ;/» (uijrnuj) zioo/tf-Q zon3£ <• OlUOl lUVlt MHUL >r?rr top 00/ J°7 tL*trnorz, r iv wt, 2.ioau£^2o.i2 ■toMjutj j ^ycy'l 5*r3»V£ff tpiKii ?"Jf»as > p-j ttobf uflUl szfy’if ■zy.nyjr U7n£so£ P n VWP n, V i & '■Jf Ucc^Tjtffm •r>vw>*ute 3./an{7 -u-)otr>AA VSf . cq f°l ■*“>£) y>x;nr.fr\ jr iu+x VvO')*J trurjy> s A v- m *i~°yg UAAOjg fjorvr V 00! -Z \oii &U ' yl,*m)ui M n l uV£ yi-ivu/^wt u \°£ WT’Mp JU.lOlpff lMZf boOj ui(»£- bMjuyoj- -: fZi-r\ -cvO-.c 7/>/;Y»V : ' ‘/ii/'W >">tr - r : -py?? -a *”WS. ': (wr J *f '&/ 'Jr USACU£ qV7V£ fTJOf ii-iiv 00/t vyof OJ ^ }A.I>1?W p.iTlp’UVlg 'UOSUl'fiy ' YZ T^VM-rt^X- oxt.iOipQ urvyjof 9/J/Vrrinf- ; 7 .?**'! / r^rM JAOO f!» , ' p, j! V-T«y r?T\ iPZtf\, 3 .f7v ,,1 ;f rtf f x *14 OUt -ft* {7>^J >Hiu5^y Y^JOrJQUl^. r*'W u )\ no£n ,u A- ■‘>rr’T vV*~r^ scsr U«] >tf4f %Tf=^ 172 CHARTER RECORDS. Solley & March Thomlinson & Mason Joshua Peirce Peirce & Moore Theodore Atkinson One hundred Acres of Lot N° Mark H Wentworth Esq r Thomas Packer Esq 1 23 •)-> 25 10 22 •a 26 •>f 18 16 40 ff 11 3 39 V) 14 34 ff 9 ff 45 9 Richard Glover — ^ Bond given — 24 „ 2 BO „ 37 V 20 1 John Wentworth Disposed of by his Excellency 41 „ 27 „ 15 Copy of the division of the 500 Acre Lots in the Township, laid out by James Hersey 1774, between Leavetts Town and Ossipee Pond Exclusive of the Lots laid out on the Conway Road by Eben- ezer Thompson Esq r 1772 — M r Jonathan Hoit of Poplin desires the Offer of a Stript of Land 1 Mill wide 2 Miles Long Between New Salisbury and New Almsbury & upon Boscawen, & Runs up to Kiasorge Mountain Contains 1280 Acres [Plan of a Lot 1831.] A v • 4 M , • X> v: >v $ & A 1 /. r, TR&tfct&irec £str /'.3 af’i /3i Kids V. •8 •! € - ' Ja r-c.? t > > ~ • K ■ •# i t f r i o: t - • Vn •-* vr-i i .v. v <• ; . :?> PELHAM. 173 Mark Peirce Esqr I have agreeable to your Defections employd Joseph Drake as Sur- vayer and Surveyed Lot N° 106 as by the plan and found the Con- tents of the whole Lot to be 145 acres 65 Rods & found the old Line between yours & M r Mills Land on said Lot the Contents on your part 73 acrs 136 Rod. also Mills part to be 71 acrs 89 rods Shewn the Road near the Corner on Watsons Lot and also about 10 acrs of Mowing on the lower Lot also went round the Chellis Lot and made the Lines and Corners Certain the reason that we have not attended to the Survey befor this be- cause of Bad weather Peter Downs by Joseph Drake Survayers bill $2.50 Effingham April 15 th 1831 PELHAM. [Constituted from parts of Old Dunstable and Dracut, Mass., and incorporated July 5, 1746. Named in honor of Thomas Pelham Holies, Duke of Newcastle. The charter was confirmed by the Masonian Proprietors April 27, 1774. The town was divided into two parishes Jan. 4, 1787, but the act was repealed in 1792. The town was taken from Rockingham County and annexed to Hillsbor- ough Dec. 10, 1824. A gore of land between Pelham and Windham was annexed to Pelham June 29, 1830. See Massachusetts and New Hampshire charters in preceding volumes ; papers under title Dunstable, IX, Bouton Town Papers, 652 ; XIII, Hammond Town Papers, 142; Index to Laws, 424; sketch, by A. Berry, Hurd’s History of Hills- borough County, 1885, p. 631 ; Instances of Longevity, 1799-1824, by Dr. Church, 2, Collections of N. H. Historical Society, 36; Life of William M. Rich- ardson, 1839; Lawrence's N. H. Churches, 1856, p. 237.] [. Petition of Pelham Men , 1774.] [Masonian Papers, Vol. 7, p. 128.] Pelham March y e 7 th 1774 — To The Honourable Proprietors of the Patentee Land, which is known by the Name of Masons Grant &c Greeting — The Petition of us the Subscribers, being the Inhabitants of the Town of Pelham, Humbly Sheweth, that Whereas there are Cer- *74 CHARTER RECORDS. tain Parcels of Land within the Limits of this Town Laying in Dis- pute, Unsettled, and no Proper owner to be found, and some Partic- ular men, Pretend to own S d Land; but have no Warrantable Claim, Security, or Title thereof as we apprehend although by their Pre- tended Title, they have Ventured to fence some of it & Taken almost all the Timber off without any molestation, Excepting those Pretended owners to Each other — Therefore we Prav if it be Consistent with your minds, that you would Grant us a title of S d Parcels of Land or any Part there- of for a Towns use and Benefit, So that we may Dispose of the Same as we think Proper, Untill a Better owner appears for the Same — &c — and So in Duty Bound we Shall Ever Pray — Daniel Barker Jacob Butler Jun r Joshua Atwood Ebenezer Palmer John Mussey Barnabas Gibson John Wyman Nathan Butler Daniel Gage Uriah Abbot Nehemiali Butler John Marsh Jun r Asa Richardson Joel WRight Simon Beard Richard Hall Jesse Wilson Silas Coburn John Willson David gage Richard Barker Daniel Coburn Daniel gage Junr Cyrus Hardy Nath 11 Currier Moses Eatton Selectmen of Pelham Josiah Gage Jun r Caleb Sawyer James Gibson David Butler Daniel Tinney Eri Richardson Joshua Hamblet Jacob Butler James Richardson James Gage Nathan Whiting Josiah Gage Jonathan Gage Jonathan Girffin Josiah Johnson Josiah gutterson Joseph Richardson Eliphalet Knight james Heath Joseph Bay ley Ebenezer Webster Thom as Hardy Jun Pars Gage Timothy Clark Amos Gage Robert Nevens Ju Aaron wyman Caleb Butler Thomas Johnson Amos Gage Ju r Joseph Wright John Marsh Samuel Butler Philip Hardy Benjamin Gage William Wyman Nathanael gage Ezra Ross marsh Daniel Hutchinson Jonathan Kimball Jacob Kemp Asa Hardy Timothy Clark Jun r William webber Ebenezer Richardson William V arnum Abijah Richerson Isaac Barker Ebenezer Barker Asse Gage PELHAM. T 75 [ Quitclaim to Pelham , 1774.] [Masonian Proprietors’ Records, April 27, 1774.] Province of ) Portsmouth April 27 th 1774 Wednesday five of New HampslP ( the Clock afternoon The Proprietors meet according to adjournment — Whereas the Inhabitants of the Town of Pelham, in the County of Rockingham in y e Province of New Hampshire, have applyed to said Proprietors, by Amos Gage, Moses Eaton and Jacob Butler, a Com- mittee appointed by Said Town of Pelham, for a Conveyance of the Right of Said Proprietors, to the Said Town of Pelham and Said Pro- prietors being desirous and willing to quiet and confirm to the Pro- prietors of Pelham, in their Several Rights and Properties in Said Town of Pelham — Therefore — Voted that there be and hereby is released and quit-claimed all the Right Title and Interest of the Said Proprietors and Purchasers of the Right of John Tufton Mason Esq r aforesaid, of, in, and to the tract of Land, contained within the following bounds, viz 4 beginning at the boundary Pitch pine tree made by m r Mitchell, and running on the north boundarv line of the Massachusetts, untill it come’s within two miles and eighty Rods of Merrimack river, then north twenty degrees east to Londonderry, then by Londonderry east South east five miles, and one hundred and forty rods ; then South to Methuen line, and to meet the curve line, called Mitchell's line ; and then by the Said Curve line, to the Pitch pine tree where it began. Which tract of land is called Pelham, before mentioned — which is released and quit-Claimed to the Proprietors of Said Pelham, according to their Several Rights and Properties, within Said boundaries. To have and to hold to them and their Heirs and Assigns for ever, in the Same Manner, as though, the Said tract of land, had not been within the lands purchased of John Tufton Mason Esq r aforesaid. — [Votes of the Toivn, 1774.] [Masonian Papers, Vol. 7, p. 129.] at a Town Meeting March 29 d 1774 — James Gibson moderate! - Voated as folio weth Viz firstly Voated Deacon Amos Gage Barnabas Gibson & moses Eat- ton : for a Committee to Take the aCoumpt of the unsettled Lands In Said Town — 2 ly Voated Deacon Amos Gage and Moses Eatton a Committee to 17 6 CHARTER RECORDS. Go to the Honorable Lord Proprietors to gat a Grant of the above Said Lands — Test — Josiali Gage Jun r Town Clerk att a Town meeting April the 21 d 1774 — Yoated as followeth (Viz) l ly Choose m r Moses Eatton moderator to Govern Said meeting — 2 ly Choose Dacon Amos Gage moses Eatton Jacob Butler a Com- mittee to a gree with the Honorable the Lord Proprietors of masons Grant for a Conveyance of all the Land within Township of Pelham — and Likewise to Empowr them the Said Committee to agree with the Honorable Proprietors before mentioned and to Take a Deed of Said Land in the Towns Behalf and to Give Security in the Towns name for the Same Josiah Gage Jun r Town Clerk [. Report of Town Committee , 1774.] [Masonian Papers, Vol. 7, p. 130.] In Obedience to y e Vote of the Town of Pelham apointing us y e Subscribers a committee to take an account of the unimproven Land Lying in y e Town of Pelham, the Number of Acres in Each lote as near as we can acording to Origenal records, & the mens names to whome the are reputed to belong, Residing in y e Massechusitts Gov- ernment & find them standing in y e following order (viz) 1 st A Lote Belonging to Ce p Benjamin Brown Containing 124 Acres — 2 ly 2 Lots Belonging to y e widow Sarah Martain heirs Containing 200 Acres — 3 ly 4 Lotes Belonging to Philip Demerick Containing 225 Acres — 4 thly A Lote Belonging to Ebenz r Engails Containning 24 Acres — 5 th ly a Lote Belonging to William Coburn Containning 45 Acres — 6 Iy A Lote Belonging M r Minat Containning 24 Acres — 7 th ly A Part of a Lote on y e westerdly side of y e Town not know- ing y e owner s d Part we sepose Containing 30 Acres — 8 th ly the one half of a Lot Belonging to Co 1 John Tying y e other half sold to Pelham Inhabitants in Common & undevided, and still remains so the one half first mentioned Contains 400 Acres also the ministra Lot Containing 300 Acres Laid out by Dracutt Pelham March Amos Gage the 31 Anno Barnabas Gibson Committee Domini 1774 Moses Eatton PELHAM. 177 [. Description of Lots.'] [Masonian Papers. Yol. 7, pp. 131, 132.] B Thomas Wyman Midesex March the 25 — 1721 A lott of land laid out to Thomas Wyman of Dracket in the Reserv'd Land in the Said Dracket in the County of Midelsex in Newengland Contaning 100 and 50 Acers being more or less the Seventh loot in Order Southward of gouldins pond Bounded Northerdly with A line of Marked trees letterd with W numberd with Seven Chops and heaps of Rooks in the line the Northeast Corner is a Rook with Stones on it Bounded Easterdly one the est side of Draket Bounded Suderdly by a line of marked trees letterd with W and S B westerd by the land Will 111 Coughburn by Marked trees And heaps of Stones N B Also Another loot of Land laid out to Said Wyman in the above said Reserv’d land the third Northward of Collicuts and gouldins farm Containing 100 and 80 Acers being more or less Bounded Suderly with a line of Marked trees Letterd with W Numberd with three Choops westerdly on Dunstable Line Northerd by a line of Marked trees with W and S B Bounded Esterdly by a Track of Land laid out to make the Gun- pus loots Equel to the Other Loots N B Allso with another loot la, yd out to the Above Said Wyman the Seventh part of a tracked of Land laid out one the west of Gouldins Brook to make the Gumpus Loots Equel with Other loots the Second loot in Order being it More or Less Numberd with two Choops bounded Esterdly one the Meddow of Con 11 Brown and Gouldings Bounded Sutherdly by A Line of Marked trees Letterd W Crossing the said Track of Land Westerdly, North- erdly by a line of Marked trees Letterd W N B Also Another Loot lying Northerdly of Bever brook Containing 30 Acars be it more or Less Bounded Sutherdly on the Said Wymans Medows that lyeth on Beaver Brook westerdly by A line of Marked trees Letterd P W N B Also the 12 th Lott upon Gouldins is laid out to Said Thomas Wyman Twelve Acers be it more or less as it is Bounding Sutherdly upon the Elevnth Lott westerdly upon Gouldings Medows Northerdly by a line of Marked trees Esterdly by a line of Marked trees the North West Corner A pine tree Layd out And Recorded by us with Sum healp in the Layin out by Nattanel Foox Wittness Joseph Vurnum ) r Joseph Vurnum Ezeckel Chivers > 0 °* r ? e i^ eS 1 ° James Fales ( Sa,d Worke Ezeckel Chivers M r Hugh Tallent of Pelham desires a Purchase of a number of Lotts in Pelham original Dracut & old Dunstable 12 178 CHARTER RECORDS. [The copy of this on p. 132 of the manuscript volume has the fol- lowing note added :] Moses Eaton & Josiah Gage June 22 d appearing requested that the Proprietors would make an Alteration of their Quit Claim to the Prop 1 ' 3 of Pelham — and make a Quit Claim to the Inhabitants of Pelham PEMBROKE. [Granted by Massachusetts Aug. 6, 1728, to Capt. John Lovewell’s men, and known as Suncook and LovewelVs-town. Incorporated as the parish of Pembroke Nov. 1, 1759, an d nam ed probably in honor of the Earl of Pembroke. The town was divided into two parishes Dec. 17, 1763. The boundary line was extended to the bank of Suncook River Dec. 24, 1798, to settle a dispute between Pembroke and Allenstown. All that part of Bow on the east side of Merrimack River was annexed to Pembroke and Concord Dec. 13, 1804. See Massachusetts charters in preceding volumes ; IX, Bouton Town Papers, 657; XIII, Hammond Town Papers, 153; Index to Laws, 424; sketch, byj. N. McClintock, Hurd’s History of Merrimack County, 1885, p. 560; History, by N. F. Carter, 1895, 2 vols. ; Brief History of First Congregational Church, by Isaac Willey, 1876, pp. 48 ; discourse, 40th anniversary of ministry, by Rev. Abra- ham Burnham, 1848, pp. 20; Pembroke Academy, 11, Granite Monthly, 397; Proceedings of 60th Anniversary of Pembroke Academy, in catalogue of 1879.] [Petitions for Land in Several Towns , 1748.] [Masonian Papers, Yol. 7, p. 133.] Portsmouth November v e 2 d 1748 — To the Gentlemen Purchasers & Proprietors of Cap 4 John Tufton Mason’s Right to Land in the Province of New Hampshire Whereas I the Subscriber with others the proprietors and Purchas- ers of a tract of land granted by y e Massachusetts Government b}^ y e name of Suncook lying within y e Province of New Hampshire & not granted by y e Governour & Council of New Hampshire & Apprehend- ing the said Tract of Land is within your Purchase of Cap 4 J 11 0 Tufton Mason — This is therefore to Petition your favour that whereas many of y e claimers of Suncook have made considerable Improvements in said Suncook, I pray you would not grant or dispose of y e Same till three weeks from y e date hereof in order for a further Application to you from S d prop rs & purchasers upon the Premisses at which time shall not fail thereof Aaron Whittemore PEMBROKE. 179 Portsmouth November y e 2 d 1748 To the Gentlemen Purchasers & Proprietors of Cap 4 John Tufton Mason’s Right to Lands in the Province of New Hampshire — I the Subscriber having heretofore purchased seven Rights or Shares of y e Proprietors of a Township called Gorham’s Town granted by y e Massachusetts Government which is now in the Province of New Hampshire and as I presume the Right of y e land in Said Town- ship is in you and as I have made considerable Improvements thereon and as you are about making a grant of Said tract of land I pray your favour that you will Consider and Suffer me to be a grantee for Seven shares in Said Gorham’s Town upon Such Terms as you shall grant to others, in said Tract ; & for compliance with y e Terms I will give Such Bonds or Obligations as you will desire, to perform y e same, or if you do not think fit to grant to me upon the said Conditions or otherwise as shall Seem to you meet — your favour herein will oblige y r Hum Serv 4 — Nathan Simonds Portsm 0 November 2 d 1748 — To the Gentlemen Purchasers & Proprietors of Cap 4 John Tufton Mason’s Right to Lands in the Province of New Hampshire — I the Subscriber having a Deed of a Right in y e Town of Souliegan East, except y e Home Lot, bearing date October 10 th 1748 — from Sam 11 Renkin, which if you please to Confirm you will oblige y r Hum : Servt John mac Curdey N B this Right Said Renkin has a Deed from W m Patterson bear- ing y e same date with his to M°curdy neither of y e Deeds upon Record — Portsm 0 Nov r 2 d 1748 — To the Gent m Proprietors & Purchasers of Cap 4 John Tufton Mason’s Right to Lands in the Province of New Hampshire — Whereas we the Subscribers in our Own behalfe and James Moore David Dickey & Alex r M'collom having Encouragement from y e Gov- ernour to make improvement upon waste Lands within said Province whereupon we went upon the tract of land called Gorham’s Town about six years ago and have fenced & improved between forty & fifty Acres of land, and as it lies within y e Plan that Cap 4 Goffe has taken by your order or in Archibald Stark’s Plan made by the Same order, we desire your Consideration and favour when you determine upon v e disposal of y e land we have so improved you would let i8o CHARTER RECORDS. Portsmouth Nov r 3 d 1748 — To the Gentlemen Proprietors & Purchasers of Cap 1 John Tufton Mason of Lands in the Province of New Hampshire — I y e Subscriber desire y e favour of you to grant me fifty Acres of land Scituate on Merrimack River about a mile & half above y e Dwel- ling house of Archibald Stark and will oblige Gent m Your most Hum : serv 4 William Eayrs N B : in y e abovesaid 50 Acres there is not more than 6 or 7 Acres manureable Land & y e remainder of y e s d 50 Acres broken land — Portsmouth Nov r 3 d 1748 — To the Gent m Proprietors & Purchasers of Cap 1 John Tufton Mason his Right in Lands in New Hampshire — I the Subscriber having improved about five Acres of land upon a home Lot in New Boston so called which was intended to fullfil v e Terms of Settlement of a Right in said Township laid out to Cap 1 John Ervin of Boston on which five Acres is a house in which I dwelt for four years till y e War with y e Indians — This is to pray your favour that when you dispose of y e Said land you would Consider and preserve to me y e Said land & y e Improvement I have made upon y e Terms you dispose of to others & you will oblige y r humble Petitioner his Hugh B Blair mark Ports th Nov r y e 3 d 1748. To the Gentlemen Purchasers & Proprietors of Cap 1 John Tufton's Masons right to land in the Province of New Hampshire — Whereas James macCaley late of Hilsbourough was the first Person that Setled in Said town and Remain'd there till the war with the french & Indians Brok out and then was oblig'd to leave his place and Come away with his wife & familey & have Ever Since been in un- settled State &c and Some time aggo he had leave of his Excelency upon the afores d Considerations to take up a peace of land upon the northerly Side of Sowhagen East upon Common land not then in any town and accordingly Gott m r Paton of Said place to lay out one Hundred acres but by reason of warr was prevented from makeing a Settlement &c Wherefore the Said James prays that he may have the Said peace of land, or be admitted to have a right in the township where S d land lyes upon the terms you Dispose of to others and in So doing you will oblige Gentlemen your most Humble & obedient Servants John macmurphy in Behalf of the afores d James macCaley PEMBROKE. 181 \_Plan of Pembroke and Boic , 1748.] A Plan of SunCook & Bow Rece d Feb y 1 st 1748 SunCook Plan is taken down from a Plan that is a Coppy from the origanal and in that thare is an alouance of one Chain in thirty for suag of Chaine and uneven Land and alouance of seven Hundred Acors for Ponds and Rivers Laid Down By me Joseph Baker Survayor [. Petition of Samuel Gault , 1748.] [Masonian Papers, Yol. 7, p. 134.] / Province of New Hampsh r — To the Proprietors of the Right of Land in Said Province purchased of Cap 1 Mason Humbly Shews Samuel Gault in behalf of himself & Andrew Otter- son & James Otterson & W m Knox That it is now about thirteen 182 CHARTER RECORDS. Years Since they Settled upon a Tract of Land under the right of Suncoke lying on the Eastward Side of Merrimack River in the whole not Exceeding three hundred & twenty Acres & have made Consider- able Improvements there — That Lately the Proprietors of Chester have Sued Your Petitioners & have Extended their bounds much as your Petit ors Conceive to Comprehend the said Settlements within the Township of Chester But as they have run the Lines even giving Large Measure the Seven Miles from the head of Exeter Bounds mentiond in the Charter of Chester falls Short of the old Markd Line which runs Westword to the river afores d fifty Eight rods, whereby they leave a Strip of Land of that width all the way to the river. That the Said Suit is now Depending & if they the Pla tts prevail they will take away your Petitioners Improvements afores d & all y e build- ings and so gain the whole Substance of your Petitioners which they think hard of because the Proprietors of Chester knew of their Set- tling there never Claim’d the Land but on y e Contrary Some of them have often Said they did not think they were within Said Township — Wherefore the Said Samuel for himself & Companions afores' 1 Prays that you would be pleased to Grant to them So much out of the Said Strip of Land as is Equal to that they have in possession that they may have wherewith to purchase their peace with Said Proprie- tors or to Remove to in case they are ejected & may not be Ruind March 15 th 1748 Samuel Gaut [. Petition of Joseph Milliken , 1752.] [Masonian Papers, Yol. 7, p. 135.] To the Honb le Proprietors of y e lands Purchased of John Tufton Mason Esqu r in y e Prov of New Hampshire — Humbly shew’s — That I the Subscriber an Inhabitant of Bradford purchased about Sixty Acres of land held under a Grant of y e Mass a by y e name of Suncook (so called) upon which Lot one w m martin (y e last winter built a house upon) and Said Lot lay’s in y e Gore of land Adjacent to Allen's Town so called, and as I have purchased y e said Lot and some Small improvement has been made thereon by my order, of Sowing and Planting, I pray in your laying out said lot you would Consider me, in preference to any other purchaser or grantee espec- ialy as I have been at Expence of Taxes to y e Propriety of suncook and you will ever oblige Gentlemen your Most Hum serv 4 Joseph Mulicken Portsm 0 June 15 th 1752 PEMBROKE. I§3 [Bond of Mary James , 1758.] [Masonian Papers, Yol. 7, p. 136.] Know all Men By these Presents That I Mary James of Exeter in the Province of New Hampshire Widow am liolden and stand firmly Bound & Obliged unto Thomas Packer of Portsmouth in the Prov- ince aforesaid Esq r in the full & just Sum of five hundred Pounds Lawful Money to be paid to the Said Thomas Packer his Executors Admin rs & assigns to the which payment well & truly to be made I bind my Self my Heirs Execut rs and Admin rs firmly by these Presents Sealed with my Seal Dated the 17 th Day of April Anno Domini 1758 — The Condition of the above Obligation is Such Whereas by Certain Articles of Agreement Dated the 16 th Day of May 1750 made between the abovenamed Thomas Packer of the One Part & Daniel Marston Andrew McCleary Samuel Blake and others Relating to the Granting & Settling a Certain Large Tract of Land Containing One thousand Acres Situate & Bounded as in Said Articles which Tract of Land is Divided into Lots & Conveyed by Deeds to the Several Parties therein Named among whom is Kinsly Hall James the Son of the above Bounden Mary James who being a Minor & not able to Perform the Conditions of Said Grant and as it was Agreed by the Said Mary & she Ingaged to Perform Said Con- ditions for One Lot there instead of her Said Son & to give the said Thomas Packer Seasonable Security for her So doing In Consid- eration that the Said Thomas woud & Shoud Convey the Said Lot to her So as that She might have the Property & Right thereof So far as he is Authorized to do the Same, which he by Deed Dated the 14 th Day of Jan ry 1755 has Done viz Lot N° Seven If therefore the Said Mary her Heirs Executors Admin rs or Assigns shall well and truly Perform all the matters & things mentiond in Said Articles to be done by the Grantees as the Condition of Said Grant So far as belongs to and is the duty part & proportion of the Owner of One of Said Lots according to the true Intent & meaning of Said Articles which by Reference to Said Articles (one Part of which is in the hands of the Said Thomas) may more Particularly Appear Then the above Obligation is to be Void & of None Effect or Else is to Remain in full force & Virtue The words Hall James were Interlin’d in the Condition before Signing & Sealing Signed Sealed & De- livered In presence of us James Kielle Noah Emery Mary James [seal] 184 CHARTER RECORDS. Province of \ Portsm 0 June 18 th 1758. Then Mary James above New Hampsh r j named Acknowledged tlie above Instrument to be her act & Deed Before me D Peirce Jus Pac [< Joseph Connor s Statement , 1761.] [Masonian Papers, Vol. 7, p. 137.] Exetor Febuary y e 16 1761 To The Gentlemen Now oners of Masons Right Please to Look into your Grant That you made of the Gore of Land Now Called Buck Street And you will See what we ware to Doe for The Land I think you will See my Draft for my Lot Gentlmen I attended the afair untill the hole Was Perfected after a while Epsom Line was Run And Cut of the bigest Part of my Lot I aplied to Esquire Pierce who Said my Lot Should be made up in a nother Place but not Soon Dun I was Dis Cn raged and Sold my Chance to Cap t Israel Gilman and Desire you to Let him have What Would be mv just Due if I had not Sold it to him in Cumpling here with you will a Blige Your humble Servant Joseph Conner [Israel Grilman s Letter of Transmittal 1761.] [Masonian Papers, Vol. 7, p. 137.] Newmarket febu y e 17 1761 Gentelmeen I here in close to you by my sun Joseph Connars Pettion to you makeing no doute but you will grant it your troubbul would have bin saved if m r parce had livad a littal Longger he took! mee that Indan Gimey must have Joseph Conars lot my answar was his u ndar minding mee was soo mene that I Could not bare it all thoug their was but peart of a lot I had Rether keep it his answar was I will Give you a hundrad acrs in anither place I told him what land was laft was only pitch pine land than he said I Should have ye tim- bar on Connors lot besides y e hundrad acrs Gontel men this is the last Convursation I Ever had with Esq r pearce I lave it with you to due as you would be dun by — and asigene my Self your Humbul sarv 1 Israel Gilman PETERBOROUGH. 185 PS it has bin Snggasted have from under the hands of full Peat but have mislaid it sene y e same that Connor did not due his peart I Saveral of the Grantes that he Did his I think sum of you Gentel meen have * I G PETERBOROUGH. [Formerly known as Souhegan. Granted by Massachusetts Jan. 16, 1737-8, to Samuel Hayward and others. Incorporated as Peterborough Jan. 17, 1760, and named probably in honor of the Earl of Peterborough. The charter was renewed Jan. 8, 1762. A small portion of the southeast corner was annexed to Temple Jan. 29, 1789. A part of this town was included in the limits of Greenfield incor- porated June 15, 1791. An act was passed July 5, 1867, by which Sharon was to be annexed to Peterborough whenever a majority of voters in both towns should adopt the provisions of the act, but this has not yet been done. See Massachusetts and New Hampshire charters in preceding volumes ; IX, Bouton Town Papers, 665; XIII, Hammond Town Papers, 174; Index to Laws, 427; Ecclesiastical History, 1, Farmer and Moore’s Historical Collections, 55; Topographical and Historical Account, by Elijah Dunbar, id., p. 129; Centennial Address, by John H. Morrison, 1839, pp. 99; Centennial, New Hampshire Book, 1841, p. 122; History, by Albert Smith, 1876, pp. 375; sketch, Hurd’s History of Hillsborough County, 1885, p. 650; Proceedings at Sesqui-Centennial Celebra- tion, 1889, pub. 1890, pp. 13 1 ; numerous historical articles and documents in the files of the Peterborough Transcript ; Baptist Churches in N. H., by E. E. Cum- mings, 1836, p. 17; Lawrence’s N. H. Churches, 1856, p. 240; Life of Jeremiah Smith, by John H. Morrison, 1845; Town Library of Peterborough, by J. F. Brennan, 1893, pp. 28; Petition for Defence, 1750, 6, N. E. Hist. Gen. Register, 367 ; Recollections of, by J. Wilson, Jr., New Hampshire Book, 1844, p. 109.] [ Petition of Hill and Howie , 1748.] [Masonian Papers, Yol. 7, p. 188.] Portsmouth Jan y 2b: 1748 To the Prop 18 Purchassers of the Grant made To Cap tn John Mason Merch 1 in London, by the Council of Plimoth Lying in the Province of New Hamshire in New England Gentle 11 the Town of Peterbourugh which Now wee suppose falls within said Clame was Granted by the Massechusets’s Goverment to A number of setters: Jer y Gridly Esq r John Vassel Esq r Maj r John Fowles & John Hill purchas d of s d Grantees for & p d a Valewable Consideration for said Township and have since bin at Great Charg CHARTER RECORDS. 1 86 & Exspenc in bringing forward said setlement by Laying oute tlie Horn lots Bidding A Meeting House & Bridges, Contracting for a saw mill & Griss Mill & Bidding nigh 40 Dwelling Houses & Bring- ing forward the setlements ; that at the time of Braking oute of the warr there was there 30 fametys setled in s d Township able to rase provitions to support Each Famely which wee are ready to return there again ; wee pray that wee may setle under your Clame and Meet with suth Incurgement as you in Youre Great wisdom shall see meet wee in Behalf of oure Bretheren are Gent lm Your Most Obedient Humble servents John Hill John Fowle [ Quit Claim to Peterborough, 1748. j [Masonian Proprietors’ Records, Jan. 26, 1748.] Upon Reading and Considering the Petition of John Hill & John Fowle Esqu rs to have a grant of the Said Proprietors of their Right in that Tract of land called and known by the name of Peterborough made to them and Jeremiah Gridley Esqu r and the Heirs of John Vassell Esqu r deceased for the Reasons Set forth in y e Said Petition on file— Voted That for the Said Reasons first reserving to the Said Pro- prietors their Heirs & Assigns the Quantity of thirty four hundred Acres of the Said Tract of land to be laid out as the Said Petitioners and others interested as aforesaid shall think most convenient for pro- moting the Said Settlement (but not to be Subject to any Charge or Tax untill improved by the Said Proprietors or those who hold under them or any of them) they have and hereby do grant (on the Terms and Conditions hereafter mentioned) all their Right Title Estate In- terest & property of in and unto the Said Tract of land and Quit their Claim unto the said John Hill John Fowle Jeremiah Gridlev & the Heirs of the Said John Vassell their Heirs & Assigns in equal shares that is to Say the share of the said Heirs of the said John Vassell being equal to the one of the other shares of the said Grantees, they the said Grantees making a Plan of the whole Township & of the Lots therein, and how the said Reserved lands are laid out and Returning the Same to the said Proprietors Provided that in Case Either of the Said Grantees of the Said Shares Shall neglect to perform and pay a proportionable part of all the Duty & Charge of making the Settlement there, such Delin- quent Grantee Shall forfeit his Right & share in Said Lands to the PETERBOROUGH 187 owners or owner of the other shares who shall perform & P a y y e same — Provided also that the said Grantees Settle forty Families on said Tract of land within four years from this time & each Family have fifteen Acres of land cleared & fitted for mowing or Tillage have a Meeting house biult there & preaching in the Same Constantly Sup- ported thence forward but in Case of an Indian War within the said Term the same Time to be allowed after that Impediment shall be removed — Provided also that all Trees fit for his Majesty’s use for masting the Royal Navy be kept preserved & Spared from waste & Destruction which are hereby Reserved for & Granted to the Use of his majesty his Heirs & Successors for the Use aforesaid — [. Plan of Peterborough.'] i88 CHARTER RECORDS. [■ Jeremiah G-ridley s Letter , 1758.] [Masonian Papers, Yol. 7, p. 139.] Boston Feb: 14, 1753 S r I have rec d your favour & am extreamly Oblidged to You And the Gent of the prop ty Your design is Generous, and will Engage me to the Utmost of mv Abilities to Serve vou — The expression of the Prop ty in their votes Allow me to Say is Something Wanting in Matter of form ; if ’tis designed as the Vote upon Which You Are to execute a Deed I Should Rather it had bin a grant for Advice to them had, and to be had, and for five Shillings Rec d of me, of so much of their Lands on the north or East of Peter- borough so Called as You Should think fitt to me And my heirs and that you were Authorized to Execute A Deed Accordingly — not that I Imagine, the Gent 11 Intended Otherwise, but Formality In titles is always best — This Shall not hinder me in the mean time from Proceeding on the State of your Case my mind has been upon it Constantly, in the Course of my Reading & out of it Since I have Conversed with the Gent 11 upon it — Judge Lynde lately Spoke to me for a Charter for Salem Town to be executed by You; I Beleive I was not Useless in past Conversation with him upon the Goodness of Your title — I am Y rs &c Jere. Gridley My Compl ts to the Gen fc To Joseph Blanchard Dunstable Feb r 24 th 1753 — S r The Above letter I rec d Yesterday & not knowing how Soon I might have Opertunity, to Send, Wou’d be Ready — You See the Contents, M r Gridleys proposal of the Amendment of the vote for his Grant, As You Purpose to Divide as fast as You Can the Whole of the Royal Society lands Which Undoubtedly is best to be done, this Spring, the necessity of M r Gridleys being first Lay’d off, Therefore if the Propriety see good to make any Alteration the Sooner the Better. I give you the Earlyest Notice I can for that Reason M r Fletcher has Compleated the Five Hundred Acre Farmes on Contoocook River And a Plan Ready to Return for Your Drawing I dout not but Judiciously & faithfully his men he hired would be glad of their pay, doubtless, And he to know if you Intend him to finish the Division And As you may be Glad of many Enquirys being Answered by him, before You proceed Further, I propose his Coming PETERBOROUGH. 189 Down with the plan of What is done & In case I can know of your meeting which Shall be Glad it may be as Soon as You Can Send word (that he may know) he has Faithfully Divided as to Quallifi- cation Marking & Runing the lines You may expect — he has like- wise Lay’d out the Grant made to me Joyning to Petersborough line thd I might had better land I Chose not to break on y e next Division, I have nothing to Ad but the tender of my best Service to the Prop ty , My Comple ts to You And Assure You that I am Your very Humble SeP at Com’and J Blanchard Daniel Peirce Esq [ Complaints of Inhabitants, 1758.] [Masonian Papers, Yol. 7, p. 140.] To their Hon rs Lord Proprietors In Portsmouth & Elsewhere The* Petition of the Inhabitents & settlers of Petersborough ; Humbly Sheweth. That being obliged to address y r Hon rs hitherto, Shewing our desire to make Application to you for ratifying some mistakes & fears from our Proprietors with respect to the fatigue, we have had in settling here, least a part of our Labours Should be lost ; & our Title to a small Inheritance or settlem 1 frustrated. Further the obligation they required of us upon reception of the Deeds they have given ; occasions our suspicion of their Treatment to us so much the more as may be seen under their hands. And as to our Encouragment at the beginning we were to have Sixty Settlers Twenty four of which was to have, one hundred & fifty acres, fifty of a Home Lott & one hundred out, & the rest one hun- dred, lying together and a min rs Lot, a school Lott, & a Personage, & they also to pay to the first Settled Min r Two hundred Pounds annum, for four years. Now with the Premisses, be further Inform’d, that notwithstand- ing, we Several times address'd our Grantees for Deeds, we never could obtain them, & when we did, that is, some that took them, were not Satisfy'd with them because of their lameness & insuffi- ciency, as we suppos’d. Further being Inform’d by a Copy of their Grant, that they had not perform’d their Conditions themselves, we scrupled them so much the more ; Especially when so much is Conveyed away, as fourteen hundred Acres Quantity & Quality to be drawn in Equal draughts to one mon, A no mention where it lyes, that we know not, but it 190 CHARTER RECORDS. may be Some of ours; that we have toil’d very much for. Not to be Tedious to yo r Hon rs we leave these & all our other Grievances not mention’d to be by our Committee Elected for that Purpose to yo r Hon rs serious Consideration and yo r Petitioners as bound in duty shall ever Prav. Dated at Peterborough Novemb r the 14th 1758 & subscrib’d by Capt n Hugh Wilson ^ Lieut Thomas Morison Thomas Cuningham )> Comittee Gustavus swan Ensign Jonathan Morison J Jo n Harvey Will 111 Smith William mitche william Scott Hugh Gregg James Robbe Jeams stinson William Robbe Juner John Swan Juner James mitcliell James Rogers John Taggart Thomas Davison Will m Smith Isaac mitchel William mCav Joseph Caldwell Samuel Stinson Joshua Todd Halbord morison John morison John Leech Joseph Hogg Jean m c Cay John Grean Margaret stuart John sooat John morison William nee Thomas Turner Will™ Walles Abigail swan samull mills will m Richy moor Stinson John Fargusson Neal Ham ill James Templeton William speer John Smith [. Masonian Proprietors to G-rantees , 1758.] Portsm 0 Dec r 28 1758 Gentlemen I am Directed by the Proprietors of mason’s right to Acquaint you that they have had Sundry Visits & Petitions from the Settlers in Petersbourrow Setting forth that they think themselves hardly Dealt by in not having from you Such Assurences of their Land as they Expected when they Entred thereon & that they cannot obtain Deeds at this Day tlio they have done the Duty required if this is realy the Case ’tis to be feard it will greatly retard the Settlement — We would also now Inform you that the Tenure of your Grant is not only a Number of Familys Should be Settled & remain there — & Preaching the Gospell &c a but that we Should have a Plan of the Town & Survey of the Lotts reserved by us Lodged in our Clerks office nothing of which is as }^et come to our View We therefore most Earnestly Desire that you would come to Some Terms that PETERBOROUGH. 191 may^be Equitable & Satisfy the Settlers & Let us have a Plan with the reservations for s d Proprietors that We may make Improvements & y e Settlement of y e Township go on without the Difficulty which now Seems to be in the way & we do Expect that the reservations made for said Prop 18 be made for us in haveing respect to Quantity & Quallity of y e land & not be laid out on Mountains &c a & we must insist upon your doing these things without any further delay which will Prevent our takeing the Steps in the Premises by order and in behalf of Said Prop rs I am Gen 4 y r most Hum. serv 4 G J Prop rs Cl To Coll 0 Jn° Hill Maj r Fowle & c Grantees of Petersborough [ Letter about Delinquents , 1759.] [Masonian Papers, Vol. 7, p. 142.] Soughegen Oct r y e 30 th 1759 May 4 please your Hon rs we take this opertunity to Inform you that the Proprietors and Inhabitants of Souhegen very Chearfully in the General pay their Arears and settle the Patent yet there are several Gentlemen are vastly in the arears that we very much suspect (by Certain hints) determin to wait upon y r Hon rs for a Grant of their Land and so defraud the Proprietors of their delinquant money — We shall therefore look upon ourselves heighly favoured if your Hon rs would if any such motion should be Made by any person before Leu 4 Peabody and M r Mitchel Wait upon your Hon rs be so good before you give them a Grant of their Land as to demand a Certificate of the standing Com 4ee of Souhegon and indeed we doubt not but your Hon rs upon receiving these lines will enquire into the Cause if occasion serves — And so with the greatest Submission we subscribe our selves your very humble Servants Moses Barron \ ^ t Solomon Hutchinson j 0111 192 CHARTER RECORDS. [Plan of Peterborough, 1765.] Tlorth . UA *°J, yh7iO/OQ fo v C2 This is a plat of Peterborough Town— and the Lots Marked Mason & Numbered from one to 34 Inclusive are lade out by the Grantees of Said Town of Peterborough Agreeable to the Grantors the proprietors* tai? “twZ foC h ‘ 8ed / f / 0hn Tuf , t0n Mason Es 1 r th e «aid lo P ts Con- ta n thirty foure hundred acres— they are lade out where the said saM TowS wT* for P™°tein g the settlement of will Appear— * ' S SaK 10 P n etors Quit Clame to the Grantees Tow^thif C rolo'Ri and ] th ®. w“ bei ' ed l0ts Shews So much of Said and Thro d £ t! “« w ° U l t 011 the West side of Said Town dam mage to the Setler°s ™ E»p^o? toThe m hard Sho;d take ° f s ° John 1 tS, rn prese " ted , to the Proprietors of Land purchased of ough— by You™e SOn ESq ty ° lder ° f the Grantees of Said Peterbor- Boston May 22-1765 Humble ser* John Hill pro r Clark PETERBOROUGH . 193 [. Reserved Lots , 1774.] [Masonian Proprietors’ Records, Aug. 10, 1774.] Province of ) Portsmouth August 10 th 1774. Wednesday four New HampslP ) of the Clock afternoon, at the dwelling house of James Stoodly Esq r Innholder the Proprietors meet according to ad- journment — Whereas the Proprietors granted a Quit Claim to Sundry persons, of a tract of land or Township called Peterborough, and reserved thirty four hundred Acres of land in Said Township, to Said Proprie- tors the Grantors, to be laid out, as should be convenient to the Grantees & c who were to return to Said Proprietors, a Plan of Said Township, with the reserved Lots for Said Proprietors, who have re- turned a Plan of the Said Town, with the aforesaid Thirty four hun- dred Acre lots delineated and numbered therein — Thefore Voted that the Said thirty four hundred Acre Lots be coupled and drawn for at this meeting — and that the Same as drawn and entered to each Proprietor, Shall be a Severance of his right to the Same to him his Heirs and assigns — The Lots were drawn for and entered to each Proprietor as follow’s viz 4 Lotts ^st To Law Lot N° 1 . . N° 27 & 28 2 d To Jotham Odiorn’s Right . N° 7 & 8 3 d To Mark Hunk g Wentworth . . 21 & 22 4 th To Joslr 1 Peirce Esq r Right . 11 & 12 5 To George Jaffrey Esq r . . 25 & 26 6 To Jn° Wentworth Esq rs Right . 13 & 11 rr ( To Thomlinson & Mason 9 & 10 8 To Law Lot N° 2 . 3 & 4 9 To Tho s Walingford Esq r . 33 & 34 10 To John Rindge .... . 31 & 32 11 To Jn° Moffatt Esq r . 23 & 24 12 To Solly & March .... . 17 & 18 13 To Peirce & Moore . 29 & 30 14 To Blanchard Meserve & C° . 5 & 6 15 To Theodore Atkinson Esq r . . 19 & 20 16 To Tho 8 Packer Esq rs Right . 1 & 2 17 To Rich' 1 Wibird Esq r . . 15 & 16 i 9 4 CHARTER RECORDS. PLYMOUTH. [Granted July 15, 1763, to Joseph Blanchard and others, and sometimes called New Plymouth. Portions of Plymouth and Cockermouth were combined and in- corporated as Hebron June 15, 1792. A tract of land formerly severed by a bound- ary line committee was restored to Plymouth, June 21, 1793. The “Everett Farmland “ Withey Lot,” owned by Nathaniel Peabody, were annexed at the same time. A portion of Hebron was annexed June 26, 1845, an d a portion of Campton, June 27, i860. See New Hampshire charters in preceding volumes; IX, Bouton Town Papers, 685 ; XIII, Hammond Town Papers, 222 ; Index to Laws, 437 ; sketch, Child’s Gazetteer of Grafton County, 1886, p. 3 77; Organization of Church, 28, N. E. Hist. Gen. Register, 88; discourse, centennial of Congregational Church, by H. A. Hazen, 1865, pp. 38; Lawrence’s N. H. Churches, 1856, p. 571 ; History of the Coos Country, by Grant Powers, 1841, p. 168; Note, 13, Mass. Historical Society Collections, 109; Biography of John Fenton, by C. R. Corning, 1, Pro- ceedings of Grafton and Coos Bar Association, p. 9 (153) ; Life and Writings of N. P. Rogers, 1847 ; In the Heart of the White Mountains, by S. A. Drake, 1882, p. 209; Central New Hampshire, by G. F. Bacon, 1890, p. 54; History of Hollis, by S. T. Worcester, p. 126.] [Petition of Robert Boyes , 1752.] [Masonian Papers, Vol. 7, p. 143.] Province of ,) To the Gentilmen purchers of Cap 1 John Tuff- new Hampshire ) ton measons Patten The Humble petition of Robert Boyes in behalf of himself and assoceits most Hombly sheweth That your petitionr being In coraged by several of your sossceity that ther might be a township granted by you to a nomber of good protestins which would go in to the woods and make a settelment and further being Incoraged by your sossceity at ther mitting the twelft th of this Instant and desired to leve in writting what I had to aske of said sossceity so that you might Consider of the affair may it therfor please you Ho nrs to grant me in the Capacity as afore- said the following tract of Land (I being the first that have asked for it) viz that tract of Land Laying to the westtrly sid of the river pimissewaset and Joying on said river taking in the mouth of Bakers river so Called, and so Extending north and south and westrly till is make up the Contents of six mills squar — under such Conditions and Limetations as you in your Great wisdoms shal think meet, and there shal be returned into your office the name of said assacity, when you desier it, and your petitioner as in dutty bound shal Ever pra}^ deatted this thirteen day of feberuary 1752 Robert Boyes PORTSMOUTH. T 95 [. Petition of Moses Little , 1770.] [Masonian Papers, Vol. 7, p. 144.] Province of New \ To the Honorable the Gentlemen, Propri- Hampshire j etors of the Right of John Tufton Mason Esq r , in the Province aforesaid. — The Petition of Moses Little of Newbury Port in behalf of the Pro- prietors and Inhabitants of the Townships of Campton & Plimouth in the Province aforesaid — Shews — That they the said Inhab ts are setled on the said Tract of Land under Patents issued by the Governor and Council of the said Prov- ince, and in pursuance of the Terms stipulated in the said Grants have long since Enter’d, & with great Expense of Time, Labour and Charge have Improved & Cultivated the said Lands, built Mills, cut Roads &c — but have been informed that by the late running of the Line between the King’s Land & Mason’s Propriety so called, the line of Division interferes with and has taken off some part of the said Grants so as to include the same within the limits of the said Pro- priety — if so — the Inliab ts afores d Pray the favour of the Proprietors of Mason’s Right that they would be pleased to confirm their Title under the Province, as has been generously done to other Grantees in like circumstances — and You’l greatly Oblige Your Petitioner’s Con- stituents who will ever retain a grateful sense of the same. Moses Little In behalf of the said Towns Portsm 0 March 20 th 1770 PORTSMOUTH. [This territory was granted for a township by the Council of Plymouth in 1631, and was called Piscataqua and Strawberry Bank. Submitted to the Massachusetts government in 1641. Incorporated by Massachusetts as Portsmouth, May 28, 1653. Newcastle was set off and incorporated May 30, 1693. Greenland was set off par- tially in 1704, and completely in 1721 . A part of Newington was annexed June 29, 1821. A city charter was granted July 6, 1849. See Massachusetts charters preceding; IX, Bouton Town Papers, 688; XIII, Hammond Town Papers, 236; Index to Laws, 440; Farmer’s Belknap's Plistory of New Hampshire, chapters 1 and 2, et seq. ; Annals of Portsmouth, by Nathaniel Adams, 1825 ; republished with annotations by George E. Hodg- don, in files of Portsmouth Journal , 1887-9; Rambles about Portsmouth, by Charles W. Brewster, first series 1859, second edition, 1873; second series, by same author, 1869; Portsmouth Records, 1645-56, A Transcript of the First Thirty-Five Pages of the Earliest Town Book, with Notes, by Frank W. Hackett, privately printed, 1886; Centennial History of the U. S. Navy Yard at Portsmouth, 196 CHARTER RECORDS. by Walter E. H. Fentress, 1876, pp. 84; History of the U. S. Navy Yard, Ports- mouth, by George Henry Preble, 1892, pp. 219; Life of John Mason, by C. W. Tuttle and J. W. Dean, 1887 5 sketch, by James De Normandie, Hurd’s History of Rockingham County, 1882, p. 41 ; The Isles of Shoals, An Historical Sketch, by John Scribner Jenness, 1873, second edition, 1875 I New Castle, Historic and Picturesque, by John Albee, 1885 ; Memoir of Jeremiah Mason, by R. M. Mason, 1873; Memoir of W. H. Y. Hackett, by F. W. Hackett, 1879; Memoir of N. A. Haven, by George Ticknor, 1827; An Old Town by the Sea, by T. B. Aldrich, 1893; Baptist Churches in N. H., by E. E. Cummings, 1836, p. 19; Lawrence’s N. H. Churches, 1856, p. 11 7; 1, Granite Monthly, 1 1 9 ; Methodism in Ports- mouth, by T. L. Tullock, 6, Granite Monthly, 209, 229, 314, 347; History of the Catholic Church in the United States, by John G. Shea, 1890, vol. 3, p. 108; Batchelder’s History of the Eastern Diocese, P. E. Church, 1876, p. 133; Uni- versalism in N. H., by Lemuel Willis, 1, Granite Monthly, 312; Centennial Cele- bration of Universalism in Portsmouth, 1873, PP- 108; Universalism in America, by Richard Eddy, 1886, p. 394; sermon, at dedication of new church for south parish, by Nathan Parker, 1826; dedication sermon in North Meeting-House, 1855, by L. Whiting, 1856, pp. 24; discourse, 200th anniversary of North Church, by G. M. Adams, 1871 ; Account of the Several Religious Societies, etc., by T. Alden, Jr., 1808; same, 10, Mass. Historical Society Collections, 37; St. John’s Church, by H. E. Hovey, Perry's History of American P. E. Church, vol. 1, p. 577; Historical Sketch of Portsmouth Baptist Sunday School Convention, by B. R. Jewell, 1880, pp. 16; Wealth, Industry, and Resources of Portsmouth, lecture, by A. P. Peabody, 1844; discourse, dedication of Univer- salist Meeting House, by Thomas Jones, 1808, pp. 19; Queen’s Chapel, now St. John's Church, 25, N. E. Hist. Gen. Register, 245 ; Discourse, Occasioned by the Late Desolating Fire, by Joseph Buckminister, 1803; Valedictory Discourse, by T. Alden, Jr., 1805, pp. 16; Discourse Delivered in St. John's Church, on Occa- sion of the Opening of the New Church, by James Morse, 1808, pp. 24; Dis- course Delivered in the Chapel of Alms-House, at opening, 1834, by Charles Bur- roughs, 1835, pp. 108; Farewell Sermon, by J. W. Putnam, 1835, pp. 40; Historical Sketch of the North Church, discourse, by Edwin Holt, 1838, pp. 30; Sermon at Closing of Sunday School Room in Court Street, by A. P. Peabody, 1 85 7, pp. 24; Century Sermon, in South Church, by T. Alden, Jr., 1801, pp. 47 [5] ; Sermons Connected with Reopening of Church of South Parish, by A. P. Peabody, 1859, pp. 112 ; address, 70th anniversary of South Parish Sunday School, by A. P. Peabody, 1888, pp. 27 ; Portsmouth Jubilee, Reception of Sons of Ports- mouth Resident Abroad, July 4, 1853, pub. 1853 ; address, centennial of St. John's Lodge, by C. W. Moore, 1836, pp. 80; address, 150th anniversary of St. John's Lodge, 1886, pp. 22; The New Hampshire Gazette, by F. W. Miller, 26, N. E. Hist. Gen. Register, 132; same, pamphlet, 1872, pp. 18; Agreement of Inhabi- tants upon Piscataqua River for Government, 1642, 1, Collections of N. H. His- torical Society, 322; Witchcraft, 1656, 1, id ., 255; Attempt to Establish a Play House, 1762, 5, id., 247; 200th Anniversary of Settlement of N. H., 1823, 6, id., 245 ; Bills of Mortality, 1801-3, 9, Mass. Historical Society Collections, 236; Communication on Supposed Massacre by Indians at Fox Point, by C. W. Tuttle, 17, Proceedings of Mass. Historical Society, 105; Copy of a Printed Letter Sent by the Committee of Correspondence of the Town to All Ye Towns, 1774, 22, id., 481 ; Journey to Portsmouth, 1754, by H. Flynt, 16, id., 5 ; Early Papers, 1669- ’76, by F. W. Hackett, 38, N. E. Hist. Gen. Register, 58; Early Settlers, by J. PORTSMOUTH. 197 Wentworth, 9, id., 179; Inscriptions in Portsmouth Burying-Ground, by J. R. Rollins, 10, id., 51 ; Record of Births, Marriages, and Deaths, 1706-42, by J. W. Pierce, id., vol. 23, p. 269, to vol. 27, p. 8 ; Record of Deaths, 1740-71, by J. C. Odiorne, 15, id., 172; Vessels of War Built at Portsmouth, 1690-1868, by G. H. Preble, 22, id., 393 ; First Settlement of N. H., 2, Farmer and Moore’s Histori- cal Collections, 51, 123; Point of Graves Cemetery, 3, Maine Hist, and Gen. Record, 44; The Langdon Mansion, by F. M. Colby, 3, Granite Monthly, 76; Presidential Appointments at, by T. L. Tullock, 6, id., 107 ; The Sir John Went- worth Mansion, by F. M. Colby, 3, id., 215 ; The Warner Home, by same, 7, id., 168 ; The Jaffrey Mansion, by same, 7, id., 153.] \Petition of Portsmouth Men , 1748.] [Masonian Papers, Yol. 7, p. 145.] Province of | To tlie Hon ble Theodore Atkinson Esq 1 ' & other New Hampshire ( Purchasers and Proprietors of Masons Right within Said Province The Petition of the Subscribers Inhabitants of Portsmouth and other places Desire a Grant of a Tract of Land in Said Province for a Township at Winnepissioky pond to be laid out in Such manner as to you shall Seem meet on Such Terms & under Such limitations as you Shall think will be best for promoting a Settlement there and your Petitioners shall pray & Portsm 0 Nov r 18 th 1748 John Wentworth George Mitchell Arthur Browne Marmaduke Browne Geo : Grainger S a Wentworth his Joseph Hanson Jeremiah Wheelwright Richard x Hussy mark James Basford John Nelson Job Hussy Samuel Toby H : Wentworth Nath 11 Jones John phillips William Langdon Cap 1 Tho 3 Adams Joseph hodsden Peter mathes Wiliam Simson W m Shack ford Richard Elliot Nathaniel Randall Joshua Winslo Ju r Dan 1 Little John Mills L fc Samuell Gerrish Clem 1 Jackson Richard Mattoon Juner Andrew Todd Daniel Crockford John hix Stephen Hardison Will" 1 Wentworth Nathaniel Beck Henry Winslow James Gooch David Horney W m Kennedy Hugh Hall Wentworth Peter Stillings David Gilmor John Mellin Noah Emery Samuel Wentworth Boston Jerem 11 Yeasev his Benj 11 x Ivenniston mark Samuel Tripe Joshua Cate John Grant N. Peirce 198 CHARTER RECORDS. RINDGE. [Granted by Massachusetts Feb. 3, 1736-7, to inhabitants of Rowley, Mass., who were in the Canada expedition, Hence called Rowley- Canada. Granted by the Masonian Proprietors Feb. 14, 1749-50, to Solomon Stewart and others, and known as Monadnock No. 1 or South Monadnock . Incorporated as Rindge Feb. 11, 1768, and named in honor of David Rindge. The line between Rindge and Fitzwilliam was established June 17, 1847. See Massachusetts and New Hampshire charters in preceding volumes ; IX, Bou- ton Town Papers, 7 20; XIII, Hammond Town Papers, 320; Index to Laws, 476; History, by Ezra S. Stearns, 1875, PP- 788 ; sketch, Hurd's History of Cheshire County, 1886, p. 532; sketch, Child's Gazetteer of Cheshire County, 1885, p. 361 ; discourse, 40th anniversary of pastorate, by A. W. Burnham, 1862; Lawrence's N. H. Churches, 1856, p. 285; The Offering of Lunen- burg, Mass., to Cheshire County, by Ezra S. Stearns, 2, Proceedings of N. H. Historical Society, 92 ; John Fitch, a historical address by Ezra S. Stearns, on the occasion of the dedication of the Fitch Memorial Tablet July 4, 1894.] [ Charter of Rindge , 1749.] [Masonian Papers, Vol. 7, p. 146, and Proprietors* Records, Yol. 6. p. 83 .] Province of ) Pursuant to the Power and Authority Granted New Hampshire ) and vested in me by the Proprietors of Lands, purchased of John Tufton Mason Esq r in the Province of New Hamp r by their Vote passed at their Meeting held at Portsmouth in s d Province the 16 th Day of June 1749 I Do by these Presents on the Terms Conditions and Limitations hereafter Expressed Give and grant all the right Possession and Property of the Prop rs afores d unto Solomon Steward John Stevens John Combs Jonathan Hubbard jun r Thomas Svmms Stanton Prentice, Coll 0 John Hill Samuel Cummings Thomas Prentice Peter Powers jun r William Spaulding Joseph Blanchard jun r Joseph French Jonathan Powers Samuel Greele Jonathan Hubbard William Downe Peter Stevens Sampson French James Stewart Robert Fletcher jun r Eleazer Blanchard David Cheever, Samuel Reed Jonathan Whit- ney John Hubbard Jacob Gould Nehemiah Gould Robert Melvin Jerahmeel Powers Joseph Jackson Janies Colman Peter Power Daniel Taylor Sam u Greele jun r Zaccheus Lovewell Steven Pow- ers John Lovewell jun r Joseph Winn Nathaniel Page Timothy Taylor one Right each : Benjamin Bellows Six Rights Samuel John- son jun r two Rights — One Right for Encouragement for build- ing of Mills and two share more to be disposed of by the Grantees RINDGE. I 99 for Publick Uses of in and to that Tract of Land or Township Lying in the Province afores d Containing by Estimation thirty five Square Miles Bounded thus Beginning on the Line between y e Province afores d and the Province of the Massachusetts Bay Six Miles Westerly from the Southwest Corner of the Township called N° 1: North of Townshend and runs North Eighty degrees West in s d Line Seven miles, thence North by the Needle Five miles from thence South Eighty degrees East Seven Miles, Thence South by the Needle to the first Bounds mentioned. To Have and To Hold to them their Heirs and Assigns in equall Shares on the following terms and conditions with the reservations hereafter expressed (That is to say) That the tract afores d be divided into Seventy three Equall Shares And that each Share or Right be divided into Three Lotts and drawn for on or before the last Day of November next Ensuing in some equitable Manner That Three of the afores d Rights be and hereby are granted One for the first Settled Minister One for the Ministry & One for the School there forever ; One Lott fbr each such Right to be first lay'd Out (and not Drawn for) near the Middle of the Town That Eighteen of the said Shares be reserved for the Use of the Grantors their Heirs & Assigns for ever Exempted and free from all Charges whatsoever in making or bringing forward y e Settlement Untill improved by them or some holding under them respectively, That the Grantees shall make Settlement in the following Manner Viz 1 That the aforesaid Tract be lav’d Out as afores d at the Grantees Expence. That all necessary Highways be lay’d Out through the lotts of either Grantors or Grantees as there shall be occasion hereafter free from Charge for the land, such wedtli as the major part shall judge necessary That Forty of the Shares belonging to the Grantees afores d be settled in the following Manner, Viz 1 Each of the s d forty shares to have three Acres of Land on some One Lott cleared, inclosed & fitted for Mowing or tillage in s d tract at or before the last Day of December 1752 And in like manner Three Acres more Annually for two Years more then next coming — That on each of the said forty Lotts so cleared as afores d there be a Convenient House of One Room Sixteen feet Square at the least fitted for Com- fortable dwelling therein, and the Grantees or some person Resident on each of the Lotts to be settled as afores' 1 at or before the last Day of December 1753 And Continue resident there for Two Years then next coming & Build a Convenient Meeting House there in Five Years from this Date. That the following Nine shares be exempted from making settle- ment only to pay their proportion to all publick Taxes as Other the 200 CHARTER RECORDS. Grantees Viz 1 Benjamin Bellows for four Rights Samuel Reed one, Jonathan Whitney One, Jonathan Hubbard jun r One, Sam 11 Johnson One Timothy Taylor One. That Each of the said Grantees at the Executing this Instrument pay fifteen pounds Old Tenour to defrey the necessary Charges risen or arising in bringing forward the settle- ment aforesaid to be deposited in the hands of such Person as they shall appoint being a Freeholder and Resident in this Province. That the aforesaid Grantees or their Assigns Assess such further Sum or Sums of Money Equally in proportion to their Right on the Share of Each Grantee (exclusive of the Three Publick Lotts) as may be thought Necessary for carrying on the Settlement aforesaid or any Publick matter And on failure of payment for the space of Three Months after Such Assessment is agreed upon and posted up at such place or places as the Grantees aforesaid shall appoint for Notifying Prop rs Meetings That so much of such Delinquents Right respectively be disposed of as will pay the s d Tax & all Charges arising thereon And in case any of the said Grantees shall Neglect to perform any of the Articles aforementioned he shall forfeit his Share or Right in s d Township unto those of the s d Grantees who shall not then be Delinquent in the Performance on their Part And it shall be Lawfull for them by their Agent or Agents to enter into and upon the Right of such Delinquent Owner and him to Amove Oust & Expell for their Use their Heirs and Assigns Provided they settle such Delin- quents Right within the Term of One Year After the Periods Conditioned in this Grant And fully comply with the whole Duty such Delinquent ought to have done within the Space of One Year from Time to time after the respective Periods thereof And in case they omitt complying as aforesaid in that Term that all such delinquents Rights shall revert and belong to the Grantors their Heirs & Assigns for Ever, free from the Incumbrance of Settle- ment or Charge Always provided there be no Indian Warr within Any of the Terms afores d and in case that should happen The same Time be Allowed for the respective Matters afores d after such Imped- iments shall be Removed. That all White Pine Trees fitt for masting his Majesty s Royall Navy be and hereby are Granted unto his Majesty, his Heirs and Successors for Ever. Lastly The S d Grantors do hereby Promise do the s d Grantees their Heirs & Assigns to Defend through the Law to King and Councill 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 y e s d Grantors or that by which they hold and derive theirs from — Provided the s d Grantors are avouched RINDGE. 201 in to Defend the same And that in case of finall Triall the same shall be recovered Against the said Grantors, the Grantees shall recover nothing Over against the Grantors for the s d Land Improve- ments or Expence in Bringing Forward the Settlement In Witness whereof I the Subscriber Joseph Blanchard of Dunstable have here- unto In Behalf of the Prop rs afores d Sett to my hand and Seal this fourteenth day of February 1749 Joseph Blanchard and Seal A True Copy Examined Attest : William Downe Prop rs Clerk — Att a Meeting of the Prop rs of the South Monadnock N° 1, held at Dunstable on y e 4 th day of August 1752, held by Adjournment. — Whereas the Prop 13 of the lands in the Province of New -Hamp- shire Purchased by them of John Tufton Mason Esq r Who sold them Under the Title made by a Com’on Recovery, Did on the 14 th Day of February 1749 grant the Quantity of Thirty Five Square miles part of s d Land Bounded as Folio weth, Beginning on the Line between the Province of New Hampsh r and the Province of the Massachusetts Bay Six Miles Westerly from the Southwest Corner of the Township Called N° 1 North of Townshend And runs North Eighty degrees West in said Line Seven miles thence North by the Needle five Miles from thence South Eighty Degrees East Seven Miles, thence South to the first Bounds mentioned, under certain Condi- tions Limitations and reservations in s d Grant mentioned as by reference thereto will fully appear — Unto Solomon Stewart John Stevens John Combs Jonathan Hubbard jun r Thomas Symms Stanton Prentice Coll 0 John Hill Sam 1 Cummings Tho 8 Prentice Peter Powers Jun r William Spaulding Joseph Blanchard jun r Joseph French Jon a Powers, Sam 1 Greele, Jon a Hubbard William Downe Peter Stevens Sampson French James Stewart Robert Fletcher Jun r Eleazer Blanchard David Cheever Samuel Read Jonathan Whitney John Hubbard Jacob Gould Nehemiah Gould Robert Melvin Jerah- meel Powers Joseph Jackson James Coleman Peter Powers Dan 11 Taylor Samuel Greele jun r Zaccheus Love well Stephen Powers John Lovewell Jun r Joseph Winn Nath 1 Page Timothy Taylor One Right each Benjamin Bellows Six Rights Sam 1 Johnson jun r Two Rights Voted That we do hereby accept said Title and for Our Selves our heirs and Assigns do Acknowledge that We hold said Lands under said Title Conditions and Limitations with the Reservations therein mentioned — Extract from the Votes of s d Meeting Copy Examined — < $ r William Downe Prop” Clerk 202 CHARTER RECORDS. [Draft of Lots.~\ [Masonian Papers, Vol. 7, p. 146, and Proprietors’ Records, Yol. 6, p. 90.] o £ Range O Range c £ Range Solomon Stewart .... 12 6 16 1 15 2 Nathaniel Meserve 12 5 21 1 22 1 John Stevens .... I 2 4 21 2 22 2 Benjamin Bellows .... 12 7 1 6 2 6 John Combs ..... 13 6 21 3 22 3 Samuel Johnson jun r 13 5 2 1 4 22 4 George Jaffrey .... 13 4 21 5 22 5 Jonathan Hubbard jun r . 13 7 17 1 18 1 Benjamin Bellows .... 13 3 21 9 22 9 Thomas Syms .... 13 8 20 7 21 7 Stanton Prentice .... 14 3 18 3 *9 3 Richard Wibird .... 14 5 *9 5 20 5 Coll 0 John Hill .... 14 6 2 1 6 22 6 Samuel Cummings 14 7 19 6 20 6 Thomas Prentice .... 14 8 15 8 17 8 Peter Powers jun r .... 14 9 2 1 8 22 8 Dan 11 Peirce & Mary Moor 14 10 17 7 17 6 John Tomlinson and ) t r A t8 2 T n 2 John Tufton Mason Esq r £ 1 $ 4 1 9 William Spaulding 15 5 17 5 19 1 Joseph Blanchard jun r . 15 6 20 3 20 4 Joseph French .... 16 7 18 4 19 4 Benjamin Bellows .... 16 6 18 6 18 5 John Rindge .... 16 4 20 8 i 9 . 8 Jonathan Powers .... 1 1 4 1 4 2 4 Minister ..... 1 1 5 2 1 3 1 Samuel Greele .... r 1 6 2 2 4 2 Jonathan Hubbard 11 7 I 7 1 8 John Wentworth .... 1 1 9 12 9 12 10 Joshua Peirce .... 10 6 I I 10 5 3 Benjamin Bellows .... 10 9 7 3 6 3 William Parker .... 9 9 8 3 8 4 William Downe .... 9 7 2 10 3 10 Mathew Livermore 9 10 10 5 7 10 Peter Stevens .... 9 3 10 3 4 10 Sampson French .... 9 1 10 1 9 5 James Stewart .... 8 1 8 0 6 6 Robert Fletcher jun r 8 8 9 8 6 8 Eleazer Blanchard 7 4 7 5 1 5 David Cheever .... 7 8 7 9 8 9 John Moffatt .... 6 4 7 2 4 5 RINDGE. 203 O £ Range O 5 Range O £ Range Samuel Reed .... 6 7 7 8 8 7 Jonathan Whitney 6 9 5 9 8 5 Theodore Atkinson 5 2 5 5 6 5 John Hubbard .... 1 7 9 13 9 3 9 Jacob Gould ..... 18 9 18 8 18 7 March & Solley .... 6 2 2 9 10 2 Thomas Packer .... 6 1 5 1 7 1 Nehemiah Gould .... 4 1 3 4 17 2 Robert Melvin .... 3 4 10 8 22 7 Jerahmeel Powers .... 8 10 3 5 5 10 Joseph Jackson .... 10 10 6 10 10 7 Samuel Johnson Jun r 10 4 9 4 9 2 James Colman .... x 5 10 15 7 x 5 1 Peter Powers .... 15 9 16 10 16 5 Benj a Bellows .... 16 9 16 8 12 3 Daniel Taylor .... 1 7 10 17 4 1 7 3 Ministry ..... 18 10 1 1 3 1 1 2 Samuel Greele jun r 4 4 5 4 3 2 Zaccheus Love well 3 6 4 6 5 6 Stephen Powers .... 1 1 12 2 1 1 2 John Lovewell jun r 1 2 13 1 13 2 Thomas Wallingsford 1 3 2 3 14 2 Joseph Blanchard .... 1 9 1 10 8 6 Jotham Odiorne .... 3 7 4 7 5 7 Mark Hunking Wentworth 3 8 4 8 5 8 Joseph Wynn .... 20 10 20 9 7 6 Nathaniel Page .... 2 1 10 22 10 1 1 8 Timothy Taylor .... 19 10 l 9 9 16 2 School Lott ..... 16 3 2 5 1 1 1 Benjamin Bellows .... 15 3 4 9 14 1 Mill Right ..... 12 8 2 8 2 7 Common Rights for > 1 3 10 9 6 12 1 the Prop™ $ 14 4 20 1 20 2 A List of the Names of the Prop rs of the Township Called South Manadnock N° One and of the lotts by them Respectively drawn (as Sett against each persons name) in S (l Township William Downe Prop 1 ' 8 Clerk 204 CHARTER RECORDS. \Plan of Rindge, 1749.] Copy of Plan of South Monadnock or N° 1 Beginning at a Maple Tree at the Line between y e Provinces and Runs North by the Needle five Mile to a Stake then due West Seven Miles to a Beach then Runs South by the Needle five Miles to a Spruce Tree in s d Province Line then due East Seven Miles to y e first mentioned Corner, & Sett out as p r this plan Appears Surveyed Febr? 1749 as Attested p r Benj a Bellows Surveyor This Copy drawn from s d Plan by Will m Downe Prop rs Clerk RINDGE. 205 [. Petition of Hale and Bridges , 1759.] [Masonian Papers, Vol. 7, p. 147.] To the Gentlemen Proprietors of Lands purchased of John Tufton Mason Esq r in the Province of New Hampshire — The Memorial of John Hale & Moody Bridges Agents for the Pro- prietors of a Township Called Rowly Cannada Humbly Sheweth That A. D. 1738 The great & General Court of his Majesty’s Prov- ince of the Massachusetts Bay in New England made a Grant of a Tract of Land of the Contents of Six Miles Square to Cap fc John Tyler Joseph Pike & others Officers & Soldiers in the Expedition to Cannada A D 1690 Lying Scituate to the Southward of Grand monad- nock Mountain as a Gratuity for their Service in s d Expedition That before the time Limmitted by s d Court for the Settlement of s d Township was Expired s d proprietors began to bring forwards Set- tlements Pursuant to Court Act but were Retarded by the Commence- ment of a War with the French & Indians & as Soon as the War was Over they Entred upon the premises Again & were at Great Labour & Expence in Clearing Roads Building of Mills & Dwelling Houses & in bringing forward Settlements to the Amount of Forty pounds Sterling to those who brought forward Settlements & to the Delin- quents the Taxes Amounted to upwards of Ten pounds Sterling That A. D. 1749 The Hon ble Joseph Blanchard Esq r Signified to our proprietors That s d Township was Claimed by the afores d proprie- tors of the Lands purchased of the s d John Tufton Mason Esq r & Desired a Conference with our prop rs in the affair which was Comply’d with by way of Com ttee who Reported that if the prop rs of Rowly Can- nada would measure from the Sea Sixty Miles west & Should find that Rowly Cannada Lay to the west of the Sixty Miles End he the s d Joseph Blanchard Esq r had no pretentions to s d Township which line being measured as Afores d Did not go into s d Township So as to take off any Considerable part thereof but would only take off a Gore at one Coner of the Township which was So Trifeling that the prop rs were willing to Relinquish & Disclaim it provided they Could Enjoy the rest of the Township peaceably & Acquainted Col° Blanchard Ac- cordingly & So Rested Easie not Expecting any further trouble or Difficulty. But So it was s d Township was Granted by Col 0 Blan- chard to People who were not of the prop 1-8 of s d Rowly Cannada Neither had we an offer of takeing the Township Under the afores' 1 Prop^ 0 f Masons Patent after s d Com ttee had Treated with Col° Blan- chard & Reported as afores' 1 — That Soon After Col° Blanchard made the Afores' 1 Grant An 20 6 CHARTER RECORDS. Action was Commenced by one of the prop rs of s d New Grant Against one of our Settlers in s d Rowly Cannada in which Action Judgment went Against us & Execution Terminated in the Imprisonment of s d proprietor which put a Stop to the Settlement of Rowly Cannada and it hath not been in our power to Recover any Consideration of the New 7 Grantees For our Labour in bringing forward Settlements as afores d . But they begin to Enter into the Houses we have built & Im- prove the Lands we have Clear’d Notwithstanding they Neglected Settleing till years after the Time Limmitted for Settleing was Ex- pired which Circumstance of their Neglect we would beg Leave to take Encouragement from — Therefore Gentlemen we Now lay our Selves at your Clemency & Justice Praying that you would take our Case & Circumstances into your wise Consideration & Let us have a Grant or Charter of Monad- nock Number one (Seeing it Now Reverts to you) Agreeable to the Grant thereof made by Col 0 Blanchard Afores d That So we may En- joy the Benefit of our Labour as Also what Seems Dearer to us the Gratuity intended as a Rew T ard for the Services our Ancestors Did in Defence of our Country A. D. 1690 And may it please the Gentle- ment Proprietors of s d Patent your Memorialists as in Duty Bound Shall Ever Pray — Dated Boxford Oct r 24 tb 1759 John Hale } Com ttee for Moody Bridges j s d Proprietors [. Petition of John Hale , 1766.] [Masonian Papers, Vol. 7, p. 148.] To the Honourable Theodore Atkinson Esq r And Others Grantees to John Tuften Mason Esq r The Memorial of John Hale of Boxford in the Prov ce of the Massa- chusetts Bay Humbly Slieweth Whereas Your Memoralist about 24 Years ago Purchas’d of Nath 1 Fellows of Portsmouth a Proprietors Share in the Township called Rowley Canada Granted 1738 by the Prov ce of the Massachusetts Bay To Joseph Pike and others — And Entred upon it Built a House and Cleared about 30 or 40 Acres of the Land and Paid the Taxes on it And possess’d it for Some Years Not Doubting but he had a Legal Title to Said Lands and that on your Extending M r Masons Claim to those Lands he gave them up whereby He Suffered Great Loss Hav- ing Expended more then An Hundred Pounds Lawful Money on RINDGE. 207 them: And others Under, Your Grant Rec d the Benefit of his Cost & Labours He Therefore Prays Gent : that you 1 take the matter under Consideration (his Loss and Interest on it Amounting to More then Two Hundred Pounds Lawfull money) And According to your wonted Goodness make him a Grant of Some Tract of your Lands forfeited for not Settling according to Grant in a place called the mid- dle menadnick N° 2 or Else where or Grant him a Propriety in Some Lands who by Your Clemency may in Some measure have And obtain for his Great Loss — and as in Duty Bound Ever Pray Boxford Dec 1- 8 th 1766 John Hale [. Petition of Richai'd Peabody , 1767.] [Masonian Papers, Vol. 7, p. 149.] To the Honourable Theodore Atkinson Esq r and others Grantees to John Tuften Mason Esq r The Memorial of Richard Peabody of Boxford in the Province of the Massachusetts Bay Humbly Sheweth Whereas Your Memorialist was formerly a Grantee in a tract of Land Granted by the Province of the Massachusetts Bay Called Row- ley Canada And had 2 Contiguous 80 Acre Lotts in it by allotment and purchase of which he has had the Quiet possession for more then 20 Years And has made large improvements on it by clearing More then 60 Acres of the Land and by Building a Good House And Barn on it Which Land on Settlement of the Province Line fell within the Province of New Hampshire and Masons Grant: and at the Laying out the Menadnocks N° 1 and N° 2 fell within the Grants of those Towns Your Memorialist further Shews that he has purchased part of his Said Lotts of a Proprietor of Said N° 1 and the remainder of them is Contained in a Lott of Land of 100 Acres Allotted for the Ministry in Said N° 2 — And that Considering the great costs he had been at on Said 100 Acres he has often apply'd to the Proprietors of said N° 2 to take other lands for the Ministry in lieu of Said 100 Acres And let him enjoy his Improvements on it, who gave him Encouragem* they would do it but have Since Utterly refused — Gent: You may remem- ber your letter to them Some time Since which was faithfully Deliv- ered — They called a Meeting to take the Exchange of Lands under Consideration Agreeable to your Proposal but would Not at the Meet- ing make the Exchanges — Your Memorialist therefore Prays that You 1 take the matter Under Consideration And According to Your wonted 208 CHARTER RECORDS. clemency, and the Encouragem* he had when last with you Provide that he may be Secured in his Possession of said Lands by Exchange or otherwise or grant him relief Some other way And he as in duty bound will Ever Pray Boxford Feb: 2' 1 1767 Richard Peabody ROCHESTER. [This town, as incorporated May io, 1722, included the present towns of Farm- ington and Milton. The westerly part was set off and incorporated as Farmington Dec. 1, 1798. Milton was set off and incorporated June 11, 1802. A part of the town was annexed to Barrington, July 10, 1846. A city charter was granted March 31, 1891. See Massachusetts and New Hampshire charters in preceding volumes ; IX, Bouton Town Papers, 721 ; XIII, Hammond Town Papers, 332; Index to Laws, 479; Historical Notices, by Joseph Haven, 2, Farmer and Moore’s Historical Col- lections, 169; sketch, by Franklin McDuffee, Hurd’s History of Strafford County, 1882, p. 719; History, by Franklin McDuffee, in two volumes, 1892, pp. 688; Bill of Mortality, 1776-1824, by Joseph Haven, 1, Collections of N. H. Histori- cal Society, 283; Lawrence’s N. H. Churches, 1856, p. 338; Biographical Noti- ces of Physicians, 1, N. E. Hist. Gen. Register, 276.] [Part of Rochester Charter.'] [Masonian Papers, Vol. 7, p. 151.] Do give and grant unto sundry our beloved Subjects whose names are enrolled in a schedule hereunto anexed in the Proportion and after The maner therein mention'd all that Tract of Land lying and being between the river of salmons falls and the North Esterly side line of Barrington being bounded at the south East End by Dover head line and to Run norwesterly into the Country and South west- erly upon Barrington headline according to the discretion of a Com- mitte which shall be appointed by the Proprietors to lay out the same not Exceding the quantity of ten milles square to gether with all the waters Rivers The abov a true Coppy of part of Rochester Chartar — atest — John Gage Propri trs Clark Dover Apral y e 17th 1749 [Deed of Part of Packer Lot , 1793.] [Masonian Papers, Vol. 7, p. 152.] Know all Men by these Presents, That We Sylvester Dering & Henry Packer Dering both of Shelter Island in the County of Suf- ROCHESTER. 209 folk and State of New York Esquires by our Attorney John Peirce of Portsmouth in the County of Rockingham and State of ’New Hampshire merchant — For and in consideration of the sum of one Hundred & three pounds Twelve Shillings Lawful Money to us in hand before the delivery hereof, well and truly paid by Moses Hodgdon of Dover in the County of Strafford & State of New Hamp- shire Yeoman the receipt whereof I do hereby acknowledge, have given, granted, bargained, sold ; and by these presents do give, grant, bargain, sell, aliene, enfeoff, convey and confirm unto the said Moses Hodgdon his heirs and assigns forever Two full and undivided Seventh parts of the Second Division Lot in Rochester Originally Laid out to the Right of Doctor Thomas Packer late of Portsmouth Esquire Deceased, and are the parts or Shares of our Father Thomas Dearing late of said Shelter Island Deceased he being the oldest Son of Elizabeth Dearing who was the Daughter of said Packer said Lot of Land Laid Out for Two Hundred & Forty Acres be the same more or less To Have and to Hold the said granted premises, with all the privileges and appurtenances to the same, belonging to him the said Moses Hodgdon his heirs and assigns, to his & their only proper use and benefit forever; And We the said Sylvester Dering & Henry Packer Dering our heirs, executors and administrators do hereby covenant, grant and agree to and with the said Moses Hodgdon his heirs and assigns, that until the delivery hereof we are the lawful owner of the said premises, & are seized and possessed thereof in our our own right in fee-simple, and have full power and lawful authority to grant and convey the same in manner aforesaid : That the said premises are free and clear of all and every incumbrance whatsoever : And that we & our heirs, executors and administrators, shall, and will warrant the same to him the said Moses Hodgdon heirs and assigns, against the lawful claims & demands of any person or per- sons whomsoever. In Witness whereof we by our said Attorney have hereunto set our hands and seals this Seventh day of March In the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and ninety three Signed, sealed and Sylvester Dering by his delivered in presence of us, Attorney John Peirce [seal] the words by our said Henry Packer Dering b}^ Attorney of Land his Attorney John Peirce [seal], being first Interlined Elip 1 Ladd George Gains 14 210 CHARTER RECORDS. State of New Hampshire ) Portsmouth the 8 th day of March one Rockingham ss \ thousand seven hundred and ninety three Then the above Henry P. Dering & Sylvester Deering by their Attorney John Peirce personally appearing, acknowledged the above written instrument to be their free act and deed before me, George Gains Justice Peace. [Endorsed] It is belived the within deed was taken up & one from direct from the Dering obtained There was a nother share conveyed to Hodgdon as executor to a Brother Deces d whose name was Henery RUMNEY. [Granted Oct. 4, 1761, to Samuel Olmstead and others. Regranted March 18, 1767, to Daniel Brainard and others. See New Hampshire charters in preceding volumes; IX, Bouton Town Papers, 730; XIII, Hammond Town Papers, 354; Index to Laws, 483; sketch, Child’s Gazetteer of Grafton County, 1886, p. 601; Lawrence’s N. H. Churches, 1856, p. 581 ; Biography of Josiah Quincy, by J. E. Sargent, 1, Proceedings of Grafton and Cods Bar Association, 43 ; Baptist Churches in N. H., by E. E. Cummings, 1836, p. 9; grant to Samuel Holland with Plymouth papers; Proceedings of Cele- bration, July 4, 1876.] [j Rumney Petitioners .] [Masonian Papers, Yol. 7, p. 158.] S r If any Grants Should be made before I Return (which will be in about a Fortnight) pray ward the apply ers from Rumney tis a Mountainous Town But well Scituated and a Little Peace of Good Land Adjoyning to Spencer & Cockermouth — here the Doctor pitches and May have it if is Not Gone Before I Return Y r Remem- brance will Greatly gratifie y rs to the Last J Blanchard John Gillmore Hugh Ramsey John Cristy John Miller William M c Clure John Combs Robert Usher Jonathan Gillmore John Moore John Morrow Joseph Parks John M c Clenche Samuel Spaulding Zacheriah Sterns James Gillmore Thomas Christy Gain Armour John Usher William Patten William Wright Daniel Sterns SALEM. 21 1 Hugh Gillis Samuel Morison William Wallace James Cochran Jun r Joseph Blanchard Esq Benj a French James Cowen Jonathan Cumings William Lancy John Stearns Robert Gillmore Samuel Steel Thomas Morison Romney John Smith John Tuft Joseph Cochran Samuel Alison Isaac Far well Ebenezer Farwell Peter Russell Jonathan Cumings William Read Jesse Cristy Samuel Willson And' v Clindinin Benj a Butterfield Robert Park David Criage James Cochran William Willson Isaac Farwell Jun r Thomas Cowen William Alld r Benj a Davis John Parker And w Pack James Miltmore Robert Clindinin Mathew Thornton SALEM. [This town was constituted from parts of Haverhill District, Methuen, and Dracut, Mass., and was incorporated May 11, 1750. A new line between Salem and Windham was established Jan. 9, 1752-3. The charter was confirmed by the Masonian Proprietors, March 8, 1759. See New Hampshire charters in preceding volumes ; IX, Bouton Town Papers, 744; XIII, Hammond Town Papers, 371 ; Index to Laws, 486; sketch, by A. H. Merrill, Hurd’s History of Rockingham County, 1882, p. 469; Lawrence’s N. H. Churches, 1856, p. 130; Two Sermons, 1816, by John Smith, 1817, pp. 30; Account of, Poore’s Merrimack Valley, 1857-8, p. 239; Proceedings of 150th Anniversary of Congregational Church, 1890.] [ Petition of Samuel Hale , 1748-9.] [Masonian Papers, Yol. 7, p. 154.] To the Honourable Theodore Atkinson Esq r and the Other Pro- prietors of Masons Right The Petition of Samuel Hale for Himself and Others Humbly Sheweth That whereas a Grant of three hundred Acres of Land was made by the Government of the Massachusets Bay to the Heirs of our Grandfather John Hale of Beverley deceased for reward of Service in the Canada Expedition Anno 1690 which Grant was laid out in Methuen District (so called) Bounded East 011 Haverhill old Line North on Woodbury's Farm West on Land Owners unknown South on (Land since known by) Greanleafs Farm and was then Claimed 212 CHARTER RECORDS. by that Province but by the late Settlement of the Line it falls within this Prov: & within your Claim We therefore Pray that You would Confirm or Quit unto us said tract of Land and as in Duty bound shall ever Pray Your Petitioners Portsmouth New Hampshire ) Sam 11 Hale March the 1 st 1748/9 \ for Himself & Others [ Petition and Plan , 1759.] Salem in \ To the Honarable Propreatiers that Clame Under Newhamsher > Masons Patten tees Jan r 22 : 1759 ) Whereas We the under siners have This Day Be- ing informed that there is sume of the inhabetants of the Town of Sa- lem afore Said who have Pertitiond or about to Pertition to the S d Pro- prters for the Land in S d Township Taking to their Sosierty home they Plese and Whome they Plese they Refuse — The Humbel Pertition of the We Subscribers to the Said Propripei- ters that if there is aney Right that belongs to the Propriters that the Town of Salem in Genrel might be a Quainted With it and that Your Portitions Prays that it might Plese Your Honers to Give the Town of Salem afore S d the Liberty of Purcheusing By a maigeroty and in So Doing it mighe Prevent a grate Disturbence in S d Town your Partitions further Prays that you Would Signify in Wrighting Your minds to us before you Doe aney thing as to Sale that the Town of Salem afore S d have their Voice in the Purches : as Your Portition- ers as in Duty Bound Shall Ever Pray Daniel Peaslee Jontlian Wheeler Ebenezer Ayer Timothy Johnson Jonathan Wheeler iuner Daniel Mussey Nathaiel Woodman John Baley Stephen wheeler Caleb Duston John Cross James Chase Israel Young Sen r Evan Jones Abial Asten Joshua bay lay Benj a Rawlings James Hasting James Gregg John Lowel juner Israel young ju r Edw d Carlton Isaac Clough senr Jonathan Collis Thomas Duston Obadiah Duston John Lowel Nathaniel merrill william wheeler william Curtis Edw d Clark John Corrier William Townsend SALEM. 213 O [ Quitclaim to Salem , 1759.] [Masonian Proprietors’ Records, March 8, 1759.] Whereas thee Persons whose names are hereafter Express'd have applied to this Propriety for their right and Title to the lands they severally claim in the Township of Salem in the Province of New Hampshire excepting what is within the bounds of Londonderry & in 214 CHARTER RECORDS. Consideration of their Improvements & for encourageing the Set- tlers — Voted that there be and hereby is Granted to the said persons their heirs and assigns all the right, Title, Interest claim property and demand of said Proprietors according to the several and respective rights and claims of said Persons as they have or shall derive the same from the Proprietors of Haverhill or other grants made by the Government of the Province of the Massachusetts Bay and also to all such particular lotts of lands Situated as aforesaid which any of them hold in Common and undivided, but as to the hundred acres of land within said Township of Salem which was appropriated the one half for the first minister and the other half for the use of the ministry it is not intended to be comprehended in the foregoing vote, but all the right, title, Claim property and demand of this propriety or of the Proprietors first abovenamed, be and hereby is granted to the rev- erend M r Abner Bayly his heirs and assigns, the one half of said hundred acres to be taken where he has made his Improvements and the other half be and hereby is granted to remain for the use of the ministry in said Town of Salem forever — Reverend M r Abner Bayley, John Bayley William Johnson, Stephen Wheeler, Timothy Johnson, James Hastings Edward Clark, James French, Thomas Dusten, Obadiali Dusten, Abiel Astin, James Ford, Ebenezer Page John Lowel Jun r Daniel Greenough, David Corlis William Townsend, Benjamin Rawlins Daniel Massey Timothy Beadle, Nathaniel Woodman, Israel Young Ju r Jacob Beadle, Benony Rowell, Samuel Ordwav, Wid: Mary Clough, James Gragg, Samuel Clements Caleb Marble, Isaac Clough, the heirs of John Johnson, Even Jones Jun r , Israel Young, Samuel Parker, Caleb Dusten David Heath, Micah Amev, Wid: Hannah Webster Jonathan Corlis Jun r , John Lowel, David Burbank, Abraham Ann is, Ruth Clements, John Currier, Daniel Peaslee Esq r , John Beadle, John Rowell, Joshua Bay- ley, Jonathan Tenney, Joseph Harris, Edward Carlton, Joshua Web- ster, Asa Pattee, Timothy Beadle Jun r , Jonathan Cories the 3 d , Jona- than Cories, John Allen, Sarah Sanders John Pattee, Joseph Wright, James Swan, Richard Dow Nathaniel Dow, Obadiah Eastman, Wil- liam Sanders Benjamin Wheeler Jun 1 ’, Andrew Balch, Jemima Kim- ball, William Wheeler, Timothy Swan, Ebenezer Ayer Seth Pattee, Richard Pattee, Peter Merrill, William Kelley, John Merrill, David Merrill, Jonathan Bayley Peter Uran, Benjamin Hilton Samuel Hil- ton, Oliver Sanders Alexander Gorden, Jonathan Wheeler Jun r , Ben- jamin Wheeler, Raphe Hall, Meshech Weare Esq r , Nathaniel Peaslee Esq r , John Greenleaf Esq 1 ', Philip Haseltine, Joseph Corlis, Jonathan Sheppard, Richard Messer, John Simons, Thomas Eaton, Stephen SALISBURY. 2I 5 Webster, Moses Eaton, John Jaquish Josiah Brown Jeremiah Bayley, Ebenezer Webster, William Webster Martha Mitchell, Andrew Mitchell, William Mitchell, John Mitchell Ebenezer Mitchell, Hum- phry Bayley, John Hastings, Dinah Kimball, John Tippit James Jones, Richard Currier Nathaniel Lovejoy, John How John Smith Ithamar Emerson, Caleb Hall, Timothy Emerson Thomas Cross Rich- ard Kelley Benjamin Clements, John Ladd, Doct r Anthony Emery, Joseph Badger, Nathaniel Kimball Richard Whittier, Thomas Whit- tier, William George Enoch Bartlett, Nathaniel Messer, John Watts, Richard Swan, Robert Swan, James Ayer, John Moores, John Haz- zen Moses Hazzen, Abigail Hazzen, Isaac Kimball, Thomas Whittier Jun r , Samuel White, Esq r , John White, Asa Swan, Abiel Messer, Even Jones, Joseph Stevens, Ebenezer Ayer Jun r , Joseph Whitaker, Thomas Eaton Jun r , James Pecker, Stephen Dow, Peter Ayer, Wil- liam Moss Nathan Ames, Abraham Day, Nathaniel Merrill. SALISBURY. [Granted by Massachusetts Feb. 3, 1736-7, and called Baker' s-town. Granted by the Masonian Proprietors Oct. 25, 1749, to Ebenezer Stevens and others, and called Stevens-town. Also called at times, Gerrish-town and New Sal- isbury. Incorporated as Salisbury March 1, 1768. A tract of land from the east part of the town was combined with portions of Andover, Northfield, and Sanborn- ton, and incorporated as Franklin Dec. 24, 1828. A part of Franklin was an- nexed to Salisbury July 7, 1869. See Massachusetts and New Hampshire charters in preceding volumes ; IX, Bou- ton Town Papers, 753 ; XIII, Hammond Town Papers, 381 ; Index to Laws, 486, 522 ; Topographical and Historical Sketch, by M. Eastman, 3, Farmer and Moore's Historical Collections, 296; History, collated by John J. Dearborn, edited by James O. Adams and Henry P. Rolfe, 1890, pp. 888; sketch by J. J. Dear- born, Hurd's History of Merrimack County, 1885, p. 602 ; Life of Daniel Webster, by George Ticknor Curtis, 1889; Reminiscences of Daniel Webster, by Peter Harvey ; Letters Explanatory of Difficulties Existing in the Baptist Church, 1827 ; Stewart's History of the Free Baptists, 1862, p. 252; Baptist Churches in N. H., by E. E. Cummings, 1836, pp. 7, 12, 15; Lawrence’s N. H. Churches, 1856, p. 409.] [. Petition of Stephen Chase , 1748.] [Masonian Papers, Vol. 5, p. 133.] Portsmouth Nov r 16 tb 1748 To the Gentlemen Proprietors & Purchasers of Cap 1 John Tufton Mason Esqu r his Right in Lands in y e Prov 8 of New Hampshire — 21 6 CHARTER RECORDS. I the Subscriber humbly Shew that in or about y e year 1743 being a Proprietor in the Grant of a Township called Baker’s Town did in my own Right & in y e Right of y e other Proprietors build a Saw Mill and Cleared and Sowed an Acre of Ground and also built a meeting house for y 0 Said Proprietors but now understanding the Right of Said Land is in you I earnestly Request that I may be a Grantee in Said Tract of land called Baker’s Town, and that I may also have y e Benefit of the Mill I built upon Such Conditions & Terms as the Said Tract of Land Shall be granted & disposed of by you and you will oblige your very Hum : Serv 1 Stephen Chese [Names of Petitioners .] [Masonian Papers, Vol. 7, p. 155.] A List of the Petitioners for a New Township Ebenezer Stevens Benjamin Clough Nathan Swett Elisha Winslow Benjamin Tucker John Hun toon William Sanborn Benjamin Wadleigh John Lad Joseph Bean Jun r Sam 11 Eastman Ter : Sam 11 Fifield Benjamin Choat Jun r Ebenezer Eastman Elisha Swett Sam 11 Sanborn Benjamin Sleeper Joshua Webster Jun r Daniel Moodey Sam 11 Colcord Kingstown Jedidiah Philbrick Sam 11 Bean Joseph Fifield Jacob morril William Calf John H untoon Ju r John Lad Jun r Abraham Green Ebenezer Sleeper Nathanael Huntoon Sam 11 Eastman Jun r Joseph Seecomb Jonathan Choat Tristram Sanborn Ter Samuel Stevens William Buswel Ter: Jeremy Webster Jonathan Sanborn Jun Ephraim Collins Nathanael French Jun John Judkins Benjamin Stevens John Fifield Jun r Moses Quinbe Joshua Woodman Tristram Sanborn Jun 1 Ebenezer Long Nathanael Lad Ebenezer Stevens Jun r Benjamin Sanborn Jeremiah Philbrick Joseph Clifford Stephen Gillman Peter Sanborn Joseph Grele Daniel Gillman Sam 11 Webster Sam 11 winslowe Jun r Humphry Hook John Currier SALISBURY. 217 [. Petition of Stevens and Philbrick, 1748.] [Masonian Papers, Vol. 7, p. 156.] Portsmouth Nov r y e 12 th 1748 To the Gen tm Purchasers & Proprietors of Cap t John Tufton Mason Esqu r his Right of Land in y e Province of New Hampshire — We y e Subscribers in behalf of ourselves & others Inhabitants of Kinston do request the favour of your Grant to Such a Number of us as you shall think best, a Tract of Land joining northerly upon Con- tocook on y e west of Merrimack upon Such Terms & Conditions as you shall think best and if not in that place where otherwise you shall lind most Convenient & you will very much oblige us & others in whose behalfe we are Gent your most Hum : serv ts Eben r Stevens Jed h Pliilbrick [ Charter of Salisbury, 1749.] [Masonian Proprietors’ Records, Oct. 25, 1749.] Voted That there be and hereby is granted unto Ebenezer Stevens Esq, Jedidiah Philbrick, Ebenezer Page, Thomas Newman, Samuel Bean, Samuel Colcord, Benjamin Stevens, Jonathan Greelv jun r , Nathan Swett Joseph Eastman jun r John Fifield jun r , Elisha Wins- low, Henry Morrell, Moses Quinby, William Calf, Joshua Woodman, John Hontoon, John Hontoon jun r , Tristram Samborn jun r John Ladd jun r , Eben r Long, Benj a Wadleigh, Abr’am Green Nath 1 Ladd, Benj a Ladd, Ebenezer Stevens jun r , Joseph Bean jun r , Nath 1 Hontoon, Tristram Quinby, Samuel Eastman jun r , Jeremiah Philbrick, Samuel Fifield, the rev d Joseph Secomb, Joseph Clifford, James Toppan, Ebenezer Eastman, Tristram Sanborn tertius, Peter Sanborn, Elisha Swett, Cap 1 Joseph Greely, Samuel Sanborn, William Russell tertius, John Darling jun r , Jeremiah Webster, Samuel Webster, Joshua Web- ster jun r , John Currier, Jonathan Sanborn jun r , Samuel Winslow i r Ephraim Collins, Humphry Hook, Jacob Quinby, Jon a Greely, Samuel Stevens all of Kingston in s d province, Peter Ayres of Haver- hill, Jabez True & David Grely both of Salisbury, Benj a Sanborne of Kingston afores d and Phillip Call living on part of the Land herein after mentioned, & Peter Dearborn of Chester In Equal Shares on the Terms, Conditions & 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 viz 1 — Be- ginning at a White Oak Tree Standing on the Brink of Merrimack 21 8 CHARTER RECORDS. River Six Rods Southerly from a deep Gutter running into the River said Tree being marked on four Sides thence running West seventeen Degrees South nine Miles — then beginning again at the River at the said white Oak & running upon the River northerly about a Mile above the Crotch upon Pemigiwasset River to a large Rock in y e Bank of y e River at y e Head of Pemigiwasset great Falls thence run- ning West fifteen Degrees South nine Miles — thence on a strait Line from the Westerly End of this Line to y e westerly End of the Line first mentioned on the other Side — To have and to hold to them, their Heirs & assigns, in equal Shares 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 Eighty Shares or Rights & each Share into four Distinct Lots one of which is to contain Sixtv Acres, and the other Three the rest of the Land belonging to each respec- tive Share of which the Interval to be one Lot, That the Lots which belong to one Share be numbred with the same Number beginning with One & ending with Eighty — That the said Land be so laid out within one Year after the proclaiming of a peace with the Indians & then the Lots drawn in the usual manner of Drawing for Lots of Land in such Cases — And that this be done under the Care & Direc- tion of the Grantors, & that there be but one Draft for the Lots which belong to one share That One of the said Shares be for the first Minister of the Gospel who shall be settled on said Land & Con- tinue there during his Life or untill he shall be regularly dismissd, to hold to him his Heirs & Assigns. And one other of the said shares be for and toward the Support of the Gospel Ministry there for ever. And the Sixty Acre Lots belonging to these two Shares shall be laid out as near the place where the Meeting House shall be built as conveniently may be and drawn for as the other Lots. That there be ten acres of Land left in some Convenient place (as the Major part of the said Grantees shall Determine) within the said Boundaries for Building a Meeting house & School house upon & to improve for a Training field a Burying place & other public Use to which the Inhabitants there shall see Cause to apply it. That one other of said Shares be for the Use & Support of a School there for ever. That seventeen of said Shares be & hereby are reserved to the Use of the said proprietors the Grantors in these Presents their Heirs & Assigns. That the Owners of the other Sixty Shares make a regu- lar Settlement there at their own Expence in the following Manner, viz 4 that within two Years after the said peace the said Owners or Grantees shall clear & make a good Cart Way from the place called Contoocoke to the place left for public Uses as afores d within the SALISBURY. 219 said Boundaries — That within the three Years after the said peace the said Owners shall have a Saw-Mill built fit for sawing & making Boards & other Timber for the Use of the Settlers there & that the same be put under such a Regulation as shall best serve the Interest of the Settlement & that each Settler may be served in that Resoect on reasonable Terms — That within four Years from the said Term Each Owner of the said Shares shall fell the Trees upon three Acres of the Land belonging to his Share and within one Year more shall clear and fit the same for mowing or Tillage — That within Six Years each of the said Owners shall build a House of sixteen foot Square or equal thereto on his respective Share & have two Acres of Land more fitted for Tillage or Mowing & the said House fitted to live in — That within seven Years after the said peace the said Owners build a Meet- ing House within the said Boundaries to be placed as aforesaid and finished fit for publick Worship within Eight Years from said Term & some person living in each Owners House there, & that within nine Years from said Term the said Owners & Settlers there maintain the preaching of the Gospel in said House. That each Owner of the said Sixty Shares pay to such person or persons as shall be appointed by the major part of the said Owners to receive the same, his propor- tion of all Sums of Money from time to time as the said major part of the said Owners shall Determine to be necessary to be paid for the carrying on the said Settlement & accomplishing the matters & Things afores d & what shall be herein after mentioned for the making perfecting & finishing the said Settlement — 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 in Ranges where the Land will admit of it and Land left between the Ranges for high Ways of four Rods wide & between the Lots of two Rods wide where the Land will admit of it — That a plan of the whole when so laid out be made at the Charge of the said Owners & returned to the said Grantors as soon as may be Conveniently done at the Charge of the said owners — That the seventeen reserved Shares be Exonerated, acquitted & fully exempted from paying any Charge towards making the said Settlement & not held to the Conditions limited to the other Shares, nor liable to pay any Charge Tax or Assessment untill Im- proved by the respective Owners thereof or any under them — That all white pine Trees fit for masting the Royal Navy be & hereby are re- served & Granted to his Majesty his Heirs & Successors for ever for that purpose — That in Case the Grantees & Owners of the said Sixty Share shall neglect fail & omit to make & perfect the said Settlement in Manner aforesaid according to the True Intent & Meaning of the several Articles, Matters & Things herein before mentioned by them 220 CHARTER RECORDS. to be done, the said Grantees & Owners shall forfeit their Right share & Interest in the said Granted premises to the Grantors their Heirs and Assigns (saving to such of the said owners as shall have done & performed his part & proportion of the said articles matters & Things his Respective Right & Share of the said premises) and the said Grantors their Heirs & Assigns may & it shall be lawful for them or any person or persons for them & in their Name & Stead to enter into & upon the Rights & Shares so forfeited, & the same again to seize, take possession of, & apply to their own use — Provided that if a War with the Indians should again happen before the Expiration of the several Limitations of Time for the doing & performing the said Matters & Things respectively then the same Term of Years to be allowed after that Impediment shall be removed — And in Case any Action or Suit shall be brot against the said Grantees or Owners for the said Tract of Land or any part thereof the said Grantees or Owners or such of them as shall be so sued shall be & hereby are obliged to Vouch the said Grantors their Heirs or Assigns & they the said Grantors hereby promise and Ingage that they their Heirs or Assigns shall & will at their own Cost & Charge Defend One Action or Suit upon one Title & pursue the same to final Judgment through the whole Course of the Law (if there shall be Occasion) and in Case the final Judgment in such Trial Shall be against the said Grantors, the Grantees or Owners shall recover noth- ing over in Satisfaction of & from the said Grantors their Executors or Administrators or any of them. And farther it is the true Intent & Meaning of the Grantors & the Grantees in these presents, That in Case any of the said Sixty Shares shall be forfeited to the Grantors by Default of performing the proportion of Duty in making the said Settlement as afores d , the said Grantors shall oblige those to whom they shall dispose of such shares to do & perform their proportion of those Articles Matters & Things herein Enjoined & required of the Original Grantees & in Case the said Grantors shall hold such for- feited Rights to themselves or any of them they shall do & perform all their proportion of Duty & pay their proportion of all Charge as is herein required of the Original Grantees SALISBURY. 221 [Draft of Lots.'] [Masonian Papers, Yol. 7, p. 157, and Proprietors’ Records, Yol. 6, p. 233.] Proprietors Names Numbers of y e Lots & Quantity Ebez. Eastman 17.100 10.80 45.60 15. Inter Tho 8 Packer Esq r 62.100 57.80 62.60 58. Inter Tho 9 Wallingford Esq r 30. 100 39.80 57.60 28. Inter Tho 8 Newman .... 25.100 16.80 52.60 23. Inter Jonathan Greely jun r 15.100 8.80 27.60 13. Inter Sam 1 Sanborn .... 1 1 .100 4.80 41 .60 9. Inter John Wentworth jun r Esq r 2.100 2.80 3.60 1 . Inter Sam 1 Stevens .... 52.100 21 .80 23.60 48. Inter David Greely .... 72. 100 71 .80 72.60 68. Inter Joshua Woodman 8.100 45.80 32.60 6. Inter Joseph Eastman jun r 38. 100 53.80 14.60 36. Inter Samuel Webster 68.100 65 .80 68.60 64. Inter Sam 1 Colcord .... 50. 100 19.80 21.60 46. Int John Huntoonjun 1 . 33.100 29.80 6.60 31. Int John Fifield jun r 21.100 4^.80 48.60 19. Inte Sam 1 Winslow jun r . 77.100 75.80 77.60 73. Int Tristram Ouinby 9. 100 44.80 29.60 7. Int Benj Stevens . 20. 100 13.80 47.60 18. In D Peirce & Mary Moore . 7.100 47-So 3 1 *6o 5. Inter John Ladd jun r 75.100 68.80 75.60 7 1 . Inte Jotham Odiorne Esq r 67. 100 64.80 67.60 63. Inte Rich d Wibird Esq r . 18. 100 1 1 .80 26.60 16. Inte Ephraim Collins 1— 1 >— 1 0 0 79.80 39.60 78. In Tristram Sanborn Ter’s . 74. 100 72.80 74.60 70. Int Law Lott N° i 61.100 62.80 61 .60 57. Int Jonathan Greely 35. 100 31.80 8.60 33. Inter Joseph Bean jun r 71 .100 76.80 71.60 67. Int John Darling jun r 51.100 20.80 22.60 47. Int Mark H. Wentworth Esq r 34.190 30.80 7.60 32. Int Humpy Hook .... 58.100 28.80 38.60 54. Int Joseph Cliford 22. 100 15.80 49.60 20. Int Will m Bussell tert 8 . 23.100 42.80 50.60 21 . Int Peter Dearborn 70.100 77.80 70.60 66. Int Sam 1 Solly & Clem 1 March Esq r8 69.100 73.80 69.60 80. Int Nath 1 Huntoon 13. 100 6.80 43.60 1 1 . Int Tristram Sanborn jun r 53. 100 22.80 24.60 49. Int Josh Peirce Esq r 5.100 55.80 28.60 4. Int Will"* Calf .... 80.100 78.80 80.60 76. In Nathan Swett .... 14.100 7.80 30.60 12. In Henry Morrill .... 36.100 32.80 9.60 34. In Peter Aires .... 56.100 28.80 36.60 52. In 222 CHARTER RECORDS. Proprietors Names Numbers of y e Lots & Quantity Benj n Sanborn 32.100 48.80 5.60 30. In Jacob Ouinby .... 54.100 23.80 25.60 50. Int Jedediah Philbrick . 10.100 43.80 40.60 8. In John Currier .... 43. 100 34.80 12.60 39. Int Jonath Sanborn jun r 29. 100 40.80 56.60 27. Int Benj n Wadleigh 65.100 60.80 65.60 61. Int Jabez Trew .... 6.100 46.80 19.60 79. In Elish Svvett .... 73.100 70.80 73.60 69. In Theod r Atkinson Esq r 49. 100 52.80 34.60 45. In Joshua Webster jun r 79. 100 67.80 79.60 75. In Sam 1 Eastman jun r . 55.100 24.80 35.60 5 1 . In Eben r Long .... 37.100 54.80 10.60 35 - In Ebenz Stevens jun r . 44.100 35.80 15.60 40. In Jeremy Webster 27. 100 18.80 54.60 25. Int Abra m Green .... 12.100 5 .80 42.60 10. Int John Huntoon 66.100 63.80 66.60 62. Int Nath 1 Ladd .... 39. 100 50.80 58.60 37. Int John Moffatt Esq r . 47.100 38.80 20.60 43. Int Joseph Greely .... 48.100 5 1 .80 33 - 6 o 44. Int Elisha Winslow 63.100 58.80 63.60 57. Int Sam 1 Fifield .... 26. 100 17.80 60.53 29. Inter M. H. Wentworth Esq r . 45.100 36.80 16.60 41 . Int Law Lot N° 2 . 57. 100 25 .80 37.60 53. Inter Benj Ladd .... 16.100 9.80 44.60 14. Int Jeremiah Philbrick . 19.100 12.80 46.60 17. Int Sam 1 Bean .... 24.100 80.80 5 1 .60 22. Int Eben r Stevens Esq r . 78.100 66.80 78.60 74. Int Mess r8 Mason & Thomlinson Esq r Mess Meserve Blanchard Green ) 4.100 56.80 2.60 3. Int & P. March \ 28.100 41.80 55.60 26. Inter Eben r Page .... 40.100 69.80 13.60 77. Inter Moses Ouinby 3 1 . 1 00 49.80 4.60 29. Int Joseph Secomb Rev d 60.100 61.80 60.60 56. Int James Toppan 76.100 74.80 76.60 72. Int Peter Sanborn 42.100 80.33 1 1 .60 38. Int Geo Jafrey Esq r 64.100 59.80 64.60 60. Int Phillip Call .... 1 .100 1 .80 1 .60 65. Int first Minister .... 3.100 3.80 18.60 2. Int Ministry ..... 46.100 37.80 17.60 42. Int School ..... 59. 100 27.80 49.60 55. In SALISBURY. 223 Voted that this Draft of y e Lots of Land in that Tract of Land granted by the Proprietors of the Lands purchased of John Tufton Mason Esq r to Maj r Eben r Stevens Jedidiah Philbrick & others so far as they have been drawn be & hereby is ratified & confirmed as a full & final Division & Partition thereof & the Plan of Said Division as made & number’d by the Grantees & return’d by them to the Grantors be receiv’d allow’d & confirm’d for the Purpose aforesaid Geo : Jaffrey Prop rs Cl \_Plan of Salisbury .] 224 CHARTER RECORDS. [Plan of Interval Land .] TAn 13 a Plan of the. Interval T*nd fart of the. Tract Granted Iv the Bo/iriet r *Ha chosen of John Tufton 77la.$on Esf* to Lhtncztr Steven* Jedcdiah Phi Lbntk^ others w hich iitb le joxnd at the fool of the Tar Commatee j Given under our hands at Exeter this 30 th of August 1750 Jon a Longfellow Survayer ) . i «*ui-/iuiwtjj lo riil‘1 A — 3 . A r - - : i i iuioli txuiJ i!i t jJm ,$U bn*J r l Uoi •»! I > » l (h ti>>i /i i I miT [ Plan of gJ 0ito n , 1752 .] i ( 0UJ uv 0/ c uxmQ s^u-nx) /o 3p>->$ , A Plan of a town lying in the Crotch of merimeck River y e said mason Esq’s his Right — Survayed Annodomini 1750 & 52 by Jonathan longfalow Survayoro ion Pland december th 5 th Annodomini 1752 was Granted to a number of Petitioners by the Purehisers of John Tuftin ?e first devision of lots and Daniel Samborn Survayor of y e Second devis- by Daniel Samborn [Pencil note] The I st Division I take to be the 4 Ranges of Small >ts— 100 A each — the 2 d Divis all the remainder J I SANBORNTON. 239 [. Report of Committee on Second Division , 1752.] [Masonian Papers, Vol. 7, p. 168.] We The Subscribers being A Commatee Chosen the twenty Sixth Day of October 1752 In Order to lay out the Second Division of Land of a town in the Crotch of merrneck Granted to John Sanburn & oyr s into 82 Lots and we proceeded and did Accordingly & laid them out as follows (Viz) Beginning at Pigmiswaswit River & laying three Ranges of lots joyning upon the North end of the first Division of lots Running from Peemigwaset River North Seventy Eight Degrees East Cross the Township with high ways four Rod in Breadth betwixt the Ranges & two Rods in breadth Betwixt the Lots The lots in length are three hundred & Sixty Rods and one hundred & thirteen in Breadth Excepting those that joyns to the Bay & River which Con- tents may be found by the plann, and the above mentioned three Ranges Contan fifty Seven Lots and then Laying out two Ranges of lots upon the South end of the first Division Lots Beginning at the great Bay the first lot Bordering & Belonging to the first Division Numb rd 82 the Lots joyning upon the first Division are two hundred & eighty Rod in lengli & one hundred and thirty Rods in Breadth these lots following being of Difrent width appears as follows (Viz 82 nd Lot 180 Rod width 81 st 100 Rods the 80 th 104 Rod 79 th 108 Rod & the 78 & 77 & 76 & 75 & 74-are 110 Rod each and 73 d Lott is 100 Rod & 72 nd 120 & 71 st are 184 in Breadth the high ways throughout the whole town Betwixt the Ranges are 4 Rod in width & Bettween the Lots are two Rods wide as will appear by the plann we find that there is an error in planning of the River which Cutts Short the Lower Range of lots joyning upon winnepisocky River we have Lft A Quantity of west land upon the North west End that is not yet Laid out in S d town as doth Appear by the plan which we Allow to make up Some Lots that falls Short of their measure and the Deficiency of Some Bad lots. Given under our hands at Exeter Nov 1 26 th 1752 Samuel fogg ^ Jeremiah Samborn Samuel Hardie ) Commattee Abraham Samborn Seth Fogg Daniel Samborn Survayor 240 CHARTER RECORDS. [Draft of Lots, 1753.] [Masonian Papers, Yol. 7, pp. 169, 170, and Proprietors’ Records, Yol. 6, p. 218, Yol. 7, p. 53.] Province of jl At a Meeting of the Proprietors of the Lands New Hampshire j purchased of John Tufton Mason Esq r in y e Pro- vince of New Hampshire held at Portsmouth Tuesday y e 13 th day of Feb y 1753 at y e House of Ann Slayton Innholder — the Draft of y e Lots in Tract of land granted to John Samborn & c Names drawn N° of Lot in first N° of Lot in Division Second Division 1- —Theodore Atkinson Esqu r 27 42 2 Edward Taylor . 5 26 3 Jonathan Rawlins 8 69 4 Jonathan Crosby 19 32 5 Law Lot N° 2 53 81 6 William Samborn 49 19 7 Joshua Rawlins of Stretham 65 65 8 John Taylor 60 74 9 Josiah Rawlins 74 48 10 Francis Marston Deceas d 67 63 11 Jonathan Chace Deceased 61 73 12 Meserve Blanchard Green & March 34 4 13 School Lot . 52 20 14 Chace Taylor 25 13 15 John Thomlinson Esqu r 69 61 16 Josiah Samborn . 73 58 17 Benjamin Mason 82 64 18 John Dearborn . 63 71 19 Dan 11 Samborn jun r 28 10 20 J ohn Hopkinson 1 25 21 Law Lot N° 1 . 11 51 22 Samuel Hardy 50 41 23 Jethro Pearson . 30 8 24 Jonathan Shaw . 20 33 25 Jotham Odiorne Esqu r Deceas’d his Right 64 82 26 Jon a Robinson 37 1 27 Aaron Rawlins . 78 46 28 Thomas Chace 14 54 29 Jonathan Fogg . 45 17 30 Thomlinson & Mason . 43 14 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 SANBORNTON. 24I Jonathan Robinson ... 7 Thomas Walingford Esqu r . . 66 Joseph Rawlins . . . . 12 Thomas Rawlins ... 24 John Rindge .... 9 Abraham Samborn ... 23 Thomas Packer Esqu r . . 59 William Thompson ... 32 Paul Ladd . . . . . 17 Marston Samborn ... 62 Geo: Jaffrey Esqu 1 ' ... 57 John Samborn .... 42 Simon Drake .... 41 John Wentworth jun 1 Esqu 1 . 3 Joshua Peirce Esqu 1 ... 36 Mark Hunk 8 Wentworth Esq ur . 18 Joseph Jewett .... 16 John Moffatt Esqu 1 ... 56 Dan 11 Peirce Esq 111 & Mary Moor 46 Sam 11 Fogg . . . . . 70 Josiah Smith Deceas’d to his Right 35 Sam 11 Solly & Clem 1 March Esqu rs 55 Nathan Longfellow ... 39 Jeremiah Samborn ... 58 Jonathan Corley .... 4 Jonathan Longfellow ... 80 Seth Fogg . . . . . 72 Edward Shaw .... 21 John Wadley . . . 10 Jonathan Samborn ... 47 David Stevens . . . . 75 John Thomlinson Esqu 1 . . 79 Jabez Samborn .... 6 William Chace .... 31 Josiah Robinson .... 29 Daniel Samborn .... 54 Richard Wibird Esqur . . 38 Josiah Fogg .... 26 Joseph Hoit .... 51 Josiah Samborn . . . . 13 Caleb Rawlins . . . . 15 Joseph Smith .... 44 68 66 52 37 49 36 75 6 29 72 77 40 39 23 2 31 28 78 16 70 3 79 38 76 43 45 59 34 50 15 47 22 67 7 9 80 55 57 21 53 27 18 16 242 CHARTER RECORDS. 73 Thomas Blake 74 Joseph Hoit jun r 75 Joshua Rawlins of Exeter 76 Daniel Kelly 77 Ebenezer Samborn 78 John Rawlins 79 Joseph Smith Jun r 80 John Fogg . 22 . . 35 33 5 48 . . 30 40 .. 56 68 . . 62 81 . . 44 71 . . 60 2 . . 24 The above Draft of y e foregoing Lots were drawn to y e names as above written under y e Care and Direction of said Proprietors pur- suant to a Plan Return’d by y e Grantees — Voted that y e above Draft be accepted accordingly Attest : Geo : Jaffrey Prop rs Clar : [ Grant of Forfeited Lots to Town Proprietors, 1763.] [Masonian Proprietors’ Records, Nov. 29, 1763.] Province of ) Portsmouth November 29 th 1763 Tuesday five New Hampshire \ of the Clock afternoon at the House of James Stoodly Innholder the Proprietors meet according to Adjournment — Whereas the Grantees of that Tract of Land Granted by said Pro- prietors to John Sandborn & others on the 31 st day of December 1748, have Represented that by the Charter, or vote made to them of said Tract the rights of such of the Grantees as shoud neglect to do their Duty with Regard to carrying on the Settlement agreeable to said Charter or Grant is forfeited to the said Proprietors or Grantors, which is found to be very Inconvenient for by the Death of many of the Grantees their Respective Shares, are Claim’d by many Coheirs who will Seldom agree to pay their Proportion of the Charge & Some- times Minors by that means are Interested who Cannot & Guardians will not pay the same which much retards the Settlement, And Whereas by Reason of the Late War the said Tract of Land is not yet Settled according to the Terms of said Grant but the Grantees are now proceeding with considerable Expedition, and as the Grant- ing of said forfeitures to the other Grantees, would much Expedite the said Settlement, therefore they Earnestly Requested the said Pro- prietors to Grant to them the said Grantees all of such forfeited Rights as are already Incurd, & Likewise all such of them as shall hereafter be forfeited & as the said Proprietors, have in many Instances by the Original Grant given such forfeited Rights to the other Grantees, which is found by experience best to answer the Design of the said SANBORNTON. 243 Proprietors the advancing the Settlements, therefore Voted That all the right of said Proprietors in and to such of said Rights in & to the said Tract of Land Granted to said Sandborn & others which have already incur’d the forfeiture thereof to the said Proprietors accord- ing to the Tenor & Terms of said Grant vote or Charter, be & hereby is Granted to the other of said Grantees who are carrying on & shall Settle said Tract of Land according to the Tenor of said Charter, And all the Right of said Proprietors to such of said Rights as shall be for- feited hereafter by the Terms aforesaid be & hereby is granted to the said Grantees as aforesaid — Provided nevertheless, and it is the true intent & meaning of this Grant, that the Grantees of said forfeited Rights Do fully cause the same to be Settled, according to the true Intent & meaning of said Charter otherwise the same shall be & Remain to the said Proprietors & their Heirs forever. [Plan of Peirce Lot , 1813.] on Aro/t oh w ay ^ i J 4 /oil of w Stlonji+y la J- Pet ret T. sy Scale. / 0 7 0 -rwy Co the inch. Ill rads on land of Caff ^3odman ii ;.d, **ii buJt ' ' ’ i,3i **»*>*•. Jby GiJkt Woodman bmh by hfjttr. J.anJ of Ca.pl J Woodman //(> rod* 244 CHARTER RECORDS. [Plan of Certain LotsC\ SANDWICH. [Granted Oct. 25, 1763, to Samuel Gilman, Jr., and others, and incorporated. Part of the town being mountainous and rocky, Sandwich Addition was granted Sept. 5, 1764. A committee was appointed Feb. 22, 1785, to fix the lines between Sandwich, Tamworth, and Moultonborough. Another committee was appointed Dec. 23, 1808, to establish the lines between Sandwich, Tamworth, Eaton, and Albany. The committee reported in favor of no change and the report was adopted. A small part of Waterville was annexed July 16, 1864. See New Hampshire charters in preceding volumes; XIII, Hammond Town Papers, 410; Index to Laws, 490; sketch, Fergusson’s History of Carroll County, 1889, p. 644: Stewart’s History of the Free Baptists, 1862, p. 162; Lawrence’s N. H. Churches, 1856, pp. 587, 590; Stevens’s Memorials of Methodism, 2d series, 1852, p. 240; Black Mountain, by C. E. Fay, 1, Appalachia, 119.] [Letter of Jonathan Moulton , 1769.] [Masonian Papers, Vol. 7, p. 171.] Gentlemen Maj r Folsom is now present, & tells me that the Meeting of Masons Proprietors stands adjournd to this Evening, & that they expect something will be done with Respect to the Settlement of the Lines between Moultonborough & Sandwich, which has long been dis- puted, But as the holy Providence of God, towards me, has been such as prevents my Attending this Meeting; However as the Agreement, has been concluded & voted, heretofore; only the Proprietors tho’t best to have the Lines run first, And as it is rum according to an SANDWICH. 245 Agreement I made with Maj r Folsom, I suppose, theres no Necessity of my being present, if it shou’d I beg the Meeting may be adjourn’d, again, for a Week or as long as may best suit the proprietors, which Time I will endeavour to attend — As for my Part I am very willing & content, that Sandwich Line shou’d be confirmed agreeable to my Agreement with them, provided that Masons Proprietors make an Allowance to me agreeable to their Promise, & am Gentlemen y r most Obedient & Very Hum 1 Serv 1 Hampton March 29 th 1769 Jon a Moulton P. S. Unless some Restitution being made me I trust youl not make or Confirm any Grant of any Land, granted to Moultonb 11 to any other people To the Hon ble Theodore Atkinson Esq r [Surveyor' s Report , 1769.] [Masonian Papers, Vol. 7, p. 172.] Wheras a Committee of the Proprietors of Moultonborough and a Committee of the Proprietors of Sandwich, did (by an Agreement in Writing dated January 13th 1769 by them interchangeably Signed) appoint us the Subscribers to Run the Line between said Moulton- borough and said Sandwich. These certify, that after being sworn to the faithful discharge of the trust reposed in us, we proceeded in man- ner following Viz : Begining at the possession Fence on the Southerly side of Richard Sinklers House in said Sandwich and nearest the same, and from thence run East on said Possession Fence two Miles and two hundred and twenty eight Rods to a Red Oak Tree at the South East Corner of said Sandwich, marked SSF. and then returned to the place begun at; and then run West Six Miles and eighty six Rods, which brought us to the East end of Holderness, and which makes eight Miles and three hundred & fourteen Rods from the said South East corner of said Sandwich to the East end of Holderness: — March 11th 1769. Jeremiah Lane Surveyor Hubartus Neal thomas Creighton Chanmen 246 CHARTER RECORDS. [ Agreement between Sandwich and Moultonborough , 1769.] [Masonian Papers, Vol. 7, p. 173.] Articles of Agreement made tlie 20 th Day of January One thousand Seven hundred & Sixty Nine by & between Jonathan Moulton of Hampton in the Province of New Hamp re Esq 1 for himself & behalf of the Proprietors of Moultonborough of the One part and Nath 1 Fol- some of Exeter in said Province Esq r for himself & in behalf the Pro- prietors of Sandwich of the other Part as follows Viz Whereas by an Agreement made the thirteenth of January Instant the Southern Line of the township of Sandwich & the Eastern Line of said township and the Northern & Western Boundary of said Moultonborrough are Set- tled only depending on an Actual Survey & Running Now these Pre- sents Witness that it is Mutually Agreed by said parties that any perticular Lots of Land Laid out in the right of the township of Sand- wich shall fall On the side of Moultonborrough or any part thereof so much Of said Lot as shall so fall or the whole if that shall be the Case Shall be Quitted to the proprietors of Sandwich if Such Lot is Not Appropriated or to the Perticular person or Persons if Appropriated as the Case shall require by said Moulton Or the Proprietors of Moul- tonborrough — If the right is vested in them at the Time this matter shall be acer- tained. And on the part of Sandwich they shall quit to Moulton the par- ticular Lot laid out to Enoch Poor & by him contracted with one Blan- chard for settlement if he shall purchase Blanchard’s Right & make a settlement thereof by the first of Sep 1 next & complys with the Terms of Settlement so far as can be done by the first of Sep tr next & with the matter afterwards to be done And further that the Proprietors of Sandwich shall make a proper speedy Application to the Proprietors of Mason’s Patent for a grant of all the Land within their Claim according to a Vote passed by the proprietors of said Patent the 19 th of this Instant. In Witness whereof the Parties have set their hands & seals the Dav & Year above written — •j Witnesses Jon a Moulton Willi’m Parker Nath 1 Folsom Jn° Pickering A Copy Exam' 1 ^ W m Parker SHELBURNE. 247 [. Petition of Nathaniel Folsom , 1769.] [Masonian Papers, Vol. 7, p. 174.] Province of } To the Proprietors of Mason’s Patent (So New Hampshire j called) in said Province — Humbly Shews Nathaniel Folsom of Exeter in said Province Esq r Agent for the Proprietors of Sandwich in said Province, That, a Grant of said Sandwich from his Majesty Some Years past, was made to Your Petitioner and others (as by their Charter appears) That, they have caus’d Said Sandwich to be laid out, allotted and Settled more than twenty families thereon ; who have made large Improvements (presuming that said Grant did not interfere with said Patent) But by a more accurate Survey of the Curve Line of said Patent than was heretofore done, lately made by Robert Flesher Esq r and others a Plan whereof has been return’d ; it appears by com- paring the Same with Your Petit rs former Grant, that a considerable Part of said Sandwich falls within Said Patent and that the King was deceiv’d In his said Grant. Your Petitioner therefore in behalf of the Proprietors of Sandwich aforesaid Humby prays that they may be quieted in their Possessions in Consideration of the Industry and Expence in improving said Land And that a Grant of all that Part of Said Sandwich included within said Patent, (agreable to the Lines that have lateh 7 Settled between Said Sandwich and Moultonborough) may be made by your Propriet rs to Your Petitioner and others, upon Such Terms & Conditions of Settlement as you have usually done, but without any Reservation of Land And Your Petitioner as in Duty bound shall ever pray Ac — January 27th A D 1769 Nath 11 Folsom Feb y l 8t 1769 - Rece' 1 & read y e above, to lay on file G: Jaffrey Prop s C SHELBURNE. [Granted May 3, 1769, to Mark Hunking Wentworth, Daniel Peirce, Daniel Rogers, and John, Daniel, Isaac, and Jotham Rindge. Half of the town was granted by them to Daniel Ingalls May 8, 1769. Shelburne Addition was granted Nov. 21, 1770. Incorporated as Shelburne Dec. 13, 1820. Shelburne Addition was incorporated by the name of Gorham June 18, 1836. See New Hampshire charters in preceding volumes; IX, Bouton Town Pa- pers, 758; XIII, Hammond Town Papers, 424; Index to Laws, 501 ; History, by Mrs. R. P. Peabody, pp. 127; sketch, Fergusson’s History of Cods County, 1888, p. 867; Willey’s History of the White Mountains, 1870, p. 245 ; The White Mountains, A Guide to Their Interpretation, by J. H. Ward, 1890, p. 100; Shel- 248 CHARTER RECORDS. burne Moriah, by E. B. Cook, 3, Appalachia, 259; Baldcap Mountain, by Mrs. L. D. and M. M. Pychowska, 2, id., 121 ; Lawrence’s N. H. Churches, 1856, p. 608.] \_G-rant of Half of Township to Daniel Ingalls , 1769.] [From Original Parchment in Masonian Papers.] Know all Men by these Presents that whereas his Excellency John Wentworth Esq 1 ' Governor and Commander in chief in & over his Majestys Province of New Hampshire by & with the advice of his Majesty’s Council has been pleased to grant to Mark Hunking Went- worth Esq r Daniel Peirce Daniel Rogers Esq r M r John Rindge Mer- chant, Daniel Rindge & Isaac Rindge of Portsmouth in said Province Esq rs and M r Jotham Rindge of Wolf borough Yeoman and all Chil- dren, Heirs & legal Representitives of the Honorable John Rindge late of said Portsmouth Esq 1 ' deceased ; (as some Gratuity for the great Favours & Services of the said John Rindge did the said Pro- vince in his Life time) a Township or Tract of Land lying about eighty Miles from Portsmouth aforesaid on the dividing Line between the Province of New Hampshire & the Province of Main upon certain Considerations & Reservations as by the Charter of said Town dated the third day of May 1769, may more fully appear, Reference there- unto being had & is bounded as followeth viz beginning at a Hemlock Tree marked, standing in the Province Line about three Quarters of a Mile South of Little Amoroscogin River & from said Hemlock runs North eight Degrees East by the Needle on the Province Line six Miles to a Maple Tree mark’d & standing in the Province Line afore- said then turning off at right Angles & running North eighty-two De- grees West six Miles to a Beech Tree marked, then turning off at Right Angles & running South eight Degrees West six Miles to a Red Birch Tree marked, then turning off again at right Angles & runs South eighty-two Degrees East six Miles to the Hemlock Tree in the Pro- vince Line, began at. To Have and to Hold the said Tract of Land as above expressed together with all Privileges & Appurtenances thereof to them & their respective Heirs & Assigns forever by the Name of Shelburne Now know ye that we the said Mark Hunking Wentworth, Daniel Peirce, Daniel Rogers, John Rindge, Daniel Rindge, Isaac Rindge & Jotham Rindge for & in consideration of the several Articles, Matters & Things herein after expressed to be performed & done by Daniel Ingalls of Andover in the County of Essex & in the Province of the SHELBURNE. 2 49 Massachusetts Bay Gentleman Have given & granted & by these Pres- ents do give, grant & convey unto the said Daniel Ingalls his Heirs & Assigns for ever all our Right, Title, Interest, Property, Possession, Claim, Challenge & Demand whatsoever of in & to Thirty-two & half Sixty fourth Parts of the Land in said Shelburne after the Glebe Lot & the Land in the Center reserved by the Charter three Lots of Land of seventy-five Acres each of LTpland & twenty-five Acres of Interval Land to each Lot one of which three Lots is hereby given & granted to the first settled Minister for his Encouragement & help in the Work of the Ministry there in fee Simple forever, provided he continues their in the Work of the Ministry during his Natural Life or until he be regularly dismissed according to the Usage & Custom of the Con- gregational Churches in New England immorality excepted, for in Case he should be dismissed for any immorality then the said Upland & Interval granted to him as aforesaid shall revert to the Grantors & Grantee to be by them disposed of to another Minister to be by them called & settled & to remain their Minister upon the Terms and Con- ditions before mentioned, And one other Lot of seventy five Acres of Upland & twenty five Acres of Interval Land is hereby given & granted for & towards the supporting of the Dissenting Ministry in the first Parish forever And the other of the said three reserved Lots of Land is hereby given & granted for & towards the Support of a Grammar School in the said Town for ever. The two Lots or Rights last mentioned to be & remain to and for the several Uses before men- tioned, never to be alienated dividided or diminished upon any Score or Pretence whatsoever. The said three Lots to be laid out as near the Center as they conveniently can be To Have & To Hold the said three reserved Lots on the Terms & for the Uses aforesaid & the said thirty-two & half sixty fourth Parts of said Town to him the said Daniel Ingalls & his Heirs & Assigns for ever on the following Terms & Conditions & not otherwise, viz. The then remaining Interval Land to be divided into sixty-four Lots equal in Quantity & Quality. The Upland to be divided as follows. — Sixty-four Lots of eighty or one hundred Acres (as shall be thought best upon Survey) to be nearly adjoyning the Interval for the first Division equal in Quantity & Quality. The remaining Part of the good Upland in sixty-four Lots for the second Division & all the remaining Upland to be laid out into sixty-four Lots for the third Division. The Lots in the several Divisions to be numbered & then to be drawn for: And the Expence of loting the Town out & making a Plan thereof to be paid for, one half by the Grantors the other half by the Grantee. The said Daniel Ingalls to draw thirty-two & one half whole Shares through the Town he engaging to settle thirty Families therein, ten within three 250 CHARTER RECORDS. Years, the remaining twenty within six Years from the Date hereof with suitable Houses & Seven Acres of Land cleared by each Family & at the Expiration of the Time limitted for settling every Family that shall then be deficient shall forfeit his or her whole Share, which Right or Share shall revert to the Grantors: The Grantors hereby engaging to settle ten Families, three within three Years, the remain- ing seven within six Years with Houses suitable & Land cleared : And it is further covenanted & agreed by the Grantors & Grantee that the Interval Lots in the first Division be coupled before drawing. That the Lots are not to be drawn for but divided in the following Manner, the two Lots Number one & two to be drawn & then divided alter- nately the Grantors one, then the Grantee one. That the Lots be numbered on the one Side of the River first & then on the other. That the Expence of clearing the Road required by Charter be born one half by the Grantors & the other half by the Grantee. In Testimony whereof the said Mark Hunking Wentworth, Daniel Peirce, Daniel Rogers, John Rindge, Daniel Rindge, Isaac Rindge & Jotliam Rindge have hereunto set our Hands & Seals this eighth Day of May in the ninth Year of his Majesty’s Reign Annoque Domini Seventeen hundred & sixty-nine. And we Elizabeth the Wife of the said Mark Hunking Wentworth, Meliitable the Wife of said Daniel Rogers, Olive the Wife of said Daniel Rindge, Sarah the Wife of said Isaac Rindge & Sarah the Wife of said Jotham Rindge do for the Consideration before mentioned, hereby give, grant & relinquish all our Right of Dower & Power of Thirds of in & to the before granted Premises to him the said Daniel Ingalls his Heirs & Assigns for ever. In Testimony whereof we also have hereunto set our Hands & Seals this eighth Day of May seventeen hundred & sixty-nine. Mark H Wentworth [seal] Jotham Rindge [seal] D Peirce [seal] Sarah Rindge [seal] Daniel Rogers [seal] Eliza Wentworth [seal] Jn° Rindge [seal] Mehetable Rogers [seal] Daniel Rindge [seal] Olive Rindge [seal] Is : Rindge [seal] Sarah Rindge [seal] Signed, Sealed & delivered in presence of: The Words Six Miles to a Maple Tree marked & standing in the Province Line also Daniel Rindge being first interlined Witnesses Present H Wentworth Joseph Peirce SHELBURNE. 25 1 Prov e of ) Portsm 0 May 8 th 1769 Then mark Hanking Went- New Hamp 1 ' j worth Esq r & Elizabeth his wife Daniel Peirce Daniel Rogers Esq rs mehitabel his wife John Rindge Daniel Rindge Esq r & olive his wife M r Isaac Rindge & Sarah his wife appeared and Acknowledged the above instrument by them Subscribed to be their Free Act & Deed & also Jotham Rindge & Sarah his wife — Before H Wentworth Just® Peace Prov e of New Hampsh r Received 8 th May 1769 & Recorded Lib. 98. Fol. 32. Exam’d — D Peirce Reed 1 [Plan of Shelburne .] Y a '°0 Kod% in an IncA 252 CHARTER RECORDS \Plan of Shelburne, 1803 .] SHELBURNE 253 [. Plan of Shelburne . ] . 2 54 CHARTER RECORDS. The upland and Interval lots on this [north] side are coupeled as follows Viz 1 1 Int v with N° 29 Upl 2 d° d° 28 3 d° d° 27 4 d° d° 25 5 d° d° 23 6 d° d° 22 7 d° d° 21 8 d° d° 20 9 d° d° 24 10 d° d° 19 11 d° d° 32 12 d° d° 33 13 d° d° 17 14 d° d° 18 15 d° d° 15 16 d° d° 14 17 d° d° 13 18 d° d° 11 19 d° d° 12 20 d° d° 10 21 d° d° 9 22 d° d° 8 23 d° d° 5 24 d° d° 7 25 d° d° 2 26 u u 3 27 u u 30 28 u u 26 29 u a 06 30 (i u 04 31 on long Island d° ) 1 16 Upl d is appropriated to the Mills. — The upland and Interval lots on this [south] side the River are coupeled as follows Viz 1 - N° d° N° 1 2 3 4 5 Int v lot w th d° d° d° d° d° d° d° d° d° 1 4 6 7 36 Upl d lot- d° d° d° d° SHELBURNE. 255 6 d° d° 8 d° 7 d° d° 3 d° 8 d° d° 9 d° 9 d° d° 15 d° 10 d° d° 10 d° 11 d° d° 11 d° 12 d° d° 12 d° 18 d° d° 13 d° 14 d° d° 18 d° 15 d° d° 14 d° 16 d° d° 16 d° 17 d° d° 17 d° 18 d° d° 19 d° 19 d° d° 20 d° 20 d° d° 31 d° on the other side 21 d° d° 5 d° 22 d° d° 29 d° 28 d° d° j Blank N° not surveyed but } when surveyed will be N° 37 • 24 d° d° 21 d° 25 d° d° 22 d° 26 d° d° 23 d° 27 d° d° 24 d° 28 d° d° 25 d° 29 d° d° 26 d° 30 d° d° 27 d° 31 d° d° 28 d° 32 d° d° 30 d° 33 d° d° 31 d° 34 d° d° 32 d° 35 d° d° 33 d° 36 d° d° 34 d° 37 d° d° 35 0 d° d° is by agreement with the Proprietors to be assign 71 to Interval lots N° 13 & 14 on the opposite side to compensate for the damage done said Interval lots by laying the Mill lot — To the Proprietors of the Town of Shelburne Gentlemen, Here is the return of my work in consequence of my agreement with you on the 24 th of February 1787 Joseph Frye Junior. N. B — Where you see the lines between drawn whole, there is 256 CHARTER RECORDS. allowance of land for a Road four rods wide ; likiwise there is allow- ance of land for a Road up and down the River on each side where it may be found most convenient thro’ the Lots — SOCIETY LAND. ■ [This tract of land originally comprised all the territory now included in the towns of Deering, Antrim, Hancock, Bennington, Francestown, and the north part of Greenfield. The name probably arose from the fact that this territory was not granted in townships, but was reserved and divided equally among the members of the “society” or syndicate of proprietors of the Masonian Patent. The name Cumberland was also sometimes applied to it. Francestown was the first town in the Society Land district to be incorporated. This was done June 8, 1772, and New Boston Addition was included within its lines. Then followed Deering, Jan. 17, 1774; Antrim, March 22, 1777 ; and Hancock, Nov. 5, 1779. These towns covered the entire tract except a small piece in the southern part, and this was combined with Lyndeborough Gore and enough of Peterborough and Lyndeborough to make a small township, and incorporated as Greenfield June 15, 1791. Bennington was composed of parts of Greenfield, Francestown, Deering, and Hancock, and was incorporated Dec. 15, 1842. It lies nearly in the centre of the original Society Land.] [. Petition of Peter Prescott and Others , 1752.] [Masonian Papers, Vol. 7, p. 176.] To the Proprietors of y e Right of John Tufton Mason Esq r in y e Province of New Hampshire — Gentlemen — Wee the Subscribers and associates to v e Nomber of One Hundred being Desireous of Removing into this Province and Making Settle- ment of Some of y e waste, within your Patent, applyed our Selves to The Hon’ble Joseph Blanchard Esq who Encouraged us to Succeed in our Desires If Two Towns could be found Capable of Settlement within the Line of Towns by you Authorized for him to Grant, Where- upon at a Considerable Expence we have Made Search and find y l on that Line further then is already Granted, is not Capable of Settle- ment, unless Some Stragling Farms. But Still Desireous to pursue our first Intentions, Could there be a place had, capable of Making a Good Settlement in time, have made Inquiry, & at Present hear f there is a tract of Land Lying on y e East and adjoyning to Monad- nock N° 6 : and N° 7 : tho Something Broaken yet Probable to Make SOCIETY LAND. 257 a Settlement on for two Small Towns could we obtain a Grant on Reasonable Conditions (and inasmuch as Sundry of us had purchased before the Settlement of y e Province Line) Many Rights in y e New Towns Now fallen in this Province, with Expectation to Make Settle- ment had it not been for that Disappointment which for Charge and Purchase has Cost Sundry of us Much Mony which Reasons give us the freedom to ask at this time and are Ready on your Approving of our Request within Nine Months after y e Grant to Allot out the whole Land Granted Readv to Draw the Lotts and Settle in Each Town Thirty famelys within two years after y e Grant and the Remain- ing Fourty famelys in Such reasonable time afterwards as you Shall Direct. — And in as much as v e Distance & Expence of Travil is Such y l must attend our Personal application, Desire that this our request may be offered by y e Aboves d Joseph Blanchard on our behalf, and that you will favour us with an answer by him And beleive us to be Sincere in our application and Give Leave to Subscribe our Selves Gent n Your very Humble Serv ts Peter Prescott John Fox Stephen Hosmer Ju r Charles Bulkeley [Endorsed] Rece d May 28 th 1752 {Vote for Survey of Society Land , 1752.] [Masonian Papers, Yol. 7, p. 177, and Proprietors’ Records, May 29, 1752.] Voted that Joseph Blanchard Esq r be and hereby is desired author- ed and Impowered by himself or such others as he shall think proper to Employ to take a survey of the lands hereafter described viz 1 bounded westerly on the Manadnock N° six and N° seven Northerlv upon y e south line of y e line of Towns so called Easterly upon wearer Town and New Boston Southerly upon Salem Canada Peterborough and Monadnock N° three and make Enquiry into the nature and situ- ation of the same and in what manner the same may in the best man- ner be divided into fifteen equal shares for quantity and quality and whether it is best for the whole to be divided at once or part thereof first and the rest afterwards and make report thereof to the proprie- tors as soon as may be and that the Cost thereof be paid by the proprietors — 17 258 CHARTER RECORDS. [ Vote for Dividing Society Land , 1752.] [Masonian Papers, Vol. 7, p. 178, and Proprietors’ Records, Nov. 8, 1752.] Province of ) At a Meeting of the Proprietors of tlie Lands pur- New Hamp r ) chased of John Tufton Mason Esq 1 within the Prov- ince of New Hampshire held at Portsmouth in said Province the 8 th day of November 1752 by adjournment. Voted That Coll 0 Joseph Blanchard Esq r be & hereby is desired and impowered to divide & lay out, or cause to be laid out into fif- teen equal Shares, all that Land on Contoocook River between the place called Key’s his farm, on the North & the great Falls so called, against the Crotched Mountain so called, on the South, in the following Manner viz 1 The Interval Land to be equally Divided for Quantity & Quality & so much upland adjoining, or Contiguous to each Share, laid out as to make up the Quantity of five hundred Acres to each Share, that is where the Land is not so good, to add so much in Quantity as shall be equal to five hundred Acres of the best; and that all the rest of the Land comprehended within the following bounds Viz 1 Westerly on the Manadnock N° 6 & N° 7 Northerly on the South line of the line of towns so called, Easterty on Wear’s town, New Boston & Southerly on Salem Canada Peterborough & Manad- nock N° 8 be divided into fifteen equal Shares for Quality, only the Mountains to be left as a Common. — Copy of Record Examin’d ^ Geo: Jaffre}^ Prop rs Cle: [ G-rant of Lot to Joseph Blanchard , 1758.] [Masonian Papers, Vol. 7, p. 179, and Proprietors' Records, Jan. 3, 1753.] Province of } At a Meeting of the Proprietors of Lands pur- New Hampshire j chased of John Tufton Mason Esq r in the Province of New Hampshire, held by adjournment at Portsmouth, on Wednes- day January 3 d 1753 — Whereas Joseph Blanchard Esq r for the service of this propriety has been hindred of much time and been at considerable expence, for which he has not been sufficiently rewarded, And as a full Satisfaction Therefore Voted — That there be, and hereby is granted unto the said Joseph Blan- chard Esq r his heirs and assigns, all the right and title, of this Pro- [Plan of Society Land , 1753 .] This Flan of the Royal Society Lands copied from a survey originally taken by Robert Fletcher Esq* John Parker jun r Portsmouth May 1778 Pursuant to the Request & Desire of Col 1 Blanchard Esq r I have laid out into fifteen Equal shares all that Land on Contoocook River between the place called Keyshis Farm on the North & the great Falls so called against the Crotched Mountain on the South in the following manner (Viz). The Interval Land divided for Quantity & Quality into fifteen equal shares & so much upland adjoyning as to make up the quantity of Five hundred Acres to each share and where the Land is not so good there is added so much in Quantity as is equal to five hundred acres of the best which is marked & delineated herein, & the Interval Lotts on Contoocook River & the upland adjoyning, belonging to the same share is Numbred with the same Number which Numbers are from one to fifteen. And all the Land comprehended within the following bounds (viz) Westerly on Menadnock Number six & Number seven Northerly on the South line of the line of Towns so called Easterly on Weare’s Town and New Boston — Southerly on Salem Canada and Peterborough is Divided into fifteen equal shares for Quality and numbred one to fifteen, The first Number of said shares begining on the west side of Contoocook River joyning to Peterborough North line, And the number of said shares succeed in order to Number seven. Northwardly to the South Line of the Line of Towns, And the other Eight shares being on the East side of the River, Number eight on the East side of Contoocook River adjoyning upon the North Line of Peterborough West of New Boston, And the number of the other shares suceed Northerly to the said South Line of the line of Towns. 1 he Crotched Mountain lying in Number eight & number Nine is left as common, it is no part of said shares — Portsmouth October y e 17 th 1753 by me , Robert Fletcher Surveyer This is a Copy of the Plan of the Society land (So called) as rendered by Rob 1 Fletcher Surveyor October 17 th 1753 — attest Geo: Jaffrey Prop™ Cl: N. B. the mountains Rivers and Brooks are not exactly of y e Size nor laid just as in y* original, by nearly so— *- r ' 1 • • "i. .. . - Parker Jun r ..... 26 8 17 1 1 6 1 1 58 Andrew Spaulding .... 27 8 6 13 7 13 59 John Butterfield ..... 28 8 1 13 2 12 60 Josiah Fisk ...... 1 9 3 2 4 2 61 Coi° Sampson Stoddard 9 13 2 6 1 62 John Varnam ..... 3 9 10 1 1 18 13 63 Col 0 Sampson Stoddard 4 9 15 1 1 12 1 1 64 William Blotchet ..... 15 9 20 1 1 24 1 1 65 Theodore Atkinson Esq r 6 9 5 1 2 6 12 66 Robert Fletcher ..... 7 9 3 12 12 12 67 Samuel Stevens ..... 8 9 13 12 14 1 2 68 Tho 8 Reed Esq r ..... 9 9 7 1 1 8 1 1 69 Col 0 Sampson Stoddard 10 9 3 1 1 4 1 1 70 John Moffatt Esq r .... 1 1 9 2 1 1 16 3 7 i James Dun ...... 12 9 4 1 2 6 14 72 Jotham Oddiorne Esq r .... 13 9 24 12 12 13 73 Col 0 Sampson Stoddard 14 9 2 14 1 12 74 Mill Right 5 9 13 1 1 16 1 1 75 Benjamin Hoar ..... 14 2 9 3 10 3 76 John Tuftin Mason & Tomlinson . 1 7 9 1 1 1 25 1 1 77 Marth 0 Thoronton Esq r 18 9 7 12 2 13 78 Reubin Kidder ..... 19 9 22 12 21 1 2 79 Col 0 Sampson Stoddard 20 9 18 1 22 1 80 Marth 0 Thoronton Esq r 21 9 27 9 28 9 81 John Butterfield ..... 1 6 5 4 2 2 82 John Varnam ..... 2 6 5 1 4 1 83 Martho Thoronton Esq r 3 6 r 9 0 21 0 84 Marth 0 Thorontn Esq r 4 6 26 5 27 5 85 Daniel Pierce & Mayson Esq r 5 6 27 4 15 4 86 Hugh Willson ..... 6 6 16 4 1 2 4 270 CHARTER RECORDS. Number of Proprietors Names of Proprietors Lots Range Lots Range Lots Range 37 Tho s Reed Jun r ..... 7 6 16 2 22 2 88 Col 0 Sampson Stoddard 8 6 16 0 21 1 89 Thomas Spaulding .... 9 6 28 5 28 4 9 ° John Wentworth Esq r .... 10 6 26 6 27 6 91 John Chamberlain .... 1 1 6 28 6 2 1 10 9 2 Joseph Spaulding ..... 12 6 24 10 25 10 93 John Varnam .... !3 6 22 10 26 10 94 Col 0 Sampson Stoddard 15 6 16 12 1 r 13 95 School Right ..... 14 6 26 1 1 27 1 1 96 Tho 8 Spaulding ..... 16 6 9 13 10 !3 9 7 Nath 11 Richardson .... 17 6 3 !3 14 14 98 Robert Fletcher ..... 18 6 !3 13 !4 !3 99 Col 0 Sampson Stoddard 19 6 15 !3 17 13 100 Robert Fletcher ..... 20 6 25 6 12 0 101 Tho 8 Reed Jun r ..... 2 1 6 22 0 25 I 102 Tho s Parker Jun r ..... 22 6 14 1 15 I 103 Tho s Parker Jun r ..... 23 6 6 2 21 2 104 Col 0 Sampson Stoddard 24 6 27 2 28 2 105 Solley and March Esq r .... 1 5 1 10 2 10 106 Cap 1 Peter Powers .... 2 5 10 10 3 *4 107 Tho 8 Parker Jun r ..... 3 5 7 10 I I 3 108 Hugh Willson ..... 4 5 5 !4 8 10 109 John Varnam ..... 5 5 20 12 10 1 2 1 10 Richard Wybird Esq r .... 6 5 3 10 4 10 1 1 1 Georg Gaffrey Esq r .... 7 5 7 *5 12 1 12 Peter Powers ..... 8 5 9 10 23 10 113 Revr d Thomas Parker .... 9 5 5 10 28 10 114 Reuben Kidder ..... 10 5 20 10 23 12 1 15 Reuben Kidder ..... 1 1 5 22 9 14 10 1 16 Revr d Tho 8 Parker .... 12 5 25 9 27 10 1 1 7 Nath 11 Richardson ..... 13 5 23 9 26 9 1 18 Josiah Willard ..... 14 5 !3 0 9 0 1 19 Col 0 Sampson Stoddard 5 !3 10 19 10 1 20 Col 0 Sampson Stoddard 16 5 8 1 3 1 121 Marth 0 Thorontn Esq 1 ' 1 1 1 1 21 !3 1 1 2 122 John Varnam ..... 7 3 W !3 10 0 12 3 Reuben Kidder ..... 1 2 10 20 13 8 14 124 John Wentworth ..... 18 3 19 3 28 3 125 Robert Fletcher Jun .... 21 3 19 2 22 13 126 Robert Fletcher ..... 20 3 20 2 23 13 127 Robert Fletcher ..... 26 3 i r 1 25 3 128 Robert Fletcher ..... 27 3 28 1 28 00 129 Robert Fletcher ..... 15 2 4 14 1 1 0 130 John Varnam & Rob 1 Fletcher 18 0 7 1 27 00 STODDARD. 271 Dunstable January y e 2 tn 1758 The Oregenal Schadule Exemined and Rectified by Robert Fletcher Clerk Dunstabl March 9 th 1753 A Trew Copy Examined ^ . John Varnum Propriators Cler [Plan of Stoddard , 1753.] iDunslahle January y* 2^ IJS3- J T fw Cojijiy oj a. plan. of TFlona-dnock 71 - -.J: Taken jrom y e oridyina.il P'' 7lohc.it Fletcher Cler Dunstable TTlarch y t lo^ljsa. d Trew Copy Txaimined pi — John Yarnum Proprietors Cler — [Acceptance of Charter , 1753.] r Mason ian Papers, Vol. 8, p. 3, and Proprietors Records, N ol. (), p. 133.] Whereas Joseph Blanchard Esq as Agent for and in y Name A behalf of the Proprietors of y e Lands In y e Province of New H amp- shir Purchased by them of ‘John Tufton Mason Esq r W ho Sold to them under the Title made by a Common Recovery: Did on y 1** Day of may A : D : 1752 Grant y e Quantity of Forty Eight Square 272 CHARTER RECORDS. Miles part of Said Lands Being the Contents of about Six miles Two Hundred and Ninety Rods Square. Bounded Southerly on y e Township Called Manadnock N° 6: Westerly on the Line Called the Pattent Line : Else Where on unapropriated Lands of y e S d Grantors. Begining at y e Northwest Corner of s d N° 6 : At the S d Pattent Line and From thence Runing Northerly by S d Line Seven miles to a Stak & stones From thence Runing South Eighty Degrees east seven miles to a Beach tree: From thence South Twenty one Degrees West Two miles to a Stake In a pond Called the Rye pond: From thence Run- ing South 17 Degrees West five miles to a Heap of Stones In y e Line of s d N° 6 : from thence North Eighty Degrees West Seven miles To the Bounds first mentioned. — Under Certain Conditions Limitations & Reservations in S d Grant mentioned as by s d Grant Referance thereto Will fully appear. — unto Col 0 Sampson Stoddard, y e Reverd M r Thomas Parker, Thos. Reed es r , Jos : Read Jn° Varnum Reubin Kidder Mathew Thornton, Thomas Parker Jun r Thomas Read Jun r James Dun, Benj a Hoar, Tho s Spaulding, Peter Powers, Benj a Farley W m Blodget Hugh Willson, Robert Fletcher Daniel Stickny John Butterfield Jos: Ayer Andrew Spaulding, Benj a Fasset, Samuel Stevens, Josiah Willard Jn° Chamberlain, Nathaniel Richardson Ebenezer Peirce Josiah Fisk Jos: Spaulding, Therefore Voted That we Do Hereby accept Said Title and for our Selves our Heirs and assignes Do acknowledge that We Do Hold Said Lands under S d Tittle Conditions and Limitations With the Reserva- tions therein mentioned Dunstable March y e 9 th 1753. A Trew Copy Examined ^ John Varnum Propriators Cler [P etition for Regrant , 1767.] [Masonian Papers, Vol. 8, p. 4.] Province of / To the Proprietors of Land Claimd under John New Hamp r [ Tufton Mason Esq r Commonly Called Masons Grant or Patent, Octob r 8. 1767 — The Petition of Col 0 Sampson Stoddard & Jonathan Blanchard Humbly Shews, — That the Tract of Land Called Monad k N° 7. Granted In Your Right in the Year 1752 to Sundry Persons Named in the Grant the STODDARD. 2 73 Major part of Whose Claims were finally Vested In Your Petitioners, That as the Grantees were not Able to fulfill the Conditions of the Grant they must & Do hereby Acknowledge it is Justly forfeited according to the Terms & Conditions In Said Grant mention’d & therefore We Do (to avoid further Trouble) Surrender the Tract of Land & pray that after You have Caused a Re-Entry & Resumption thereof to be made you woud be pleased to Grant Your Right Title & Demand in the Same to the Several Grantees Agreeable to a Sched- ule herewith Presented being Principally the same who Were named as Grantees aforesaid On such Terms & Conditions as You shall Judge Reasonable Sampson Stoddard Jon a Blanchard 50 houses & settlem ts Were Enjoyned upon y e former Grantees in this Town [Schedule of Proprietors and Lots , 1767.] [Masonian Papers, Vol. 8, p. 5.] A List of the Names of the Prop 18 of Monad k N° 7. O £ Range O 2 Range O £ Range Col 0 Sampson Stoddard 1 7 5 17 10 16 10 the Same ..... 18 5 18 10 15 10 Ebenezer Peirce .... 19 5 24 9 20 5 Col 0 Stoddard .... 1 7 14 1 1 8 0 John Chamberlain 2 7 18 2 24 5 James Dun ..... 3 7 26 1 24 4 Thomas Wallingford 4 7 24 0 25 0 Matthew Thornton 5 7 22 3 23 2 ministry ..... 6 7 13 3 H 3 Col 0 Stoddard .... 7 7 l 9 8 1 1 12 Thomas Packer Esq r 8 7 28 12 16 13 Col 0 Stoddard .... 9 7 23 1 1 23 0 the same ..... 10 7 9 1 20 0 John Varnum Esq r 1 1 7 24 3 26 0 Jon a Blanchard .... 12 7 28 1 1 17 12 Col 0 Stoddard .... 13 7 2 7 1 2 18 12 the Same ..... 14 7 21 5 l 9 12 the Same ..... 15 7 22 5 21 4 Thomas Reed Esqu r 16 7 25 1 2 26 4 Col 0 Stoddard .... 17 7 15 0 24 1 the Same ..... 18 7 26 12 25 4 18 CHARTER RECORDS. 274 A List of the Names of the Prop rS of Monad k N° 7. O Z Range O Z Range O Z Range the Same ..... W 7 25 5 27 0 Ebenezer Farley .... 20 7 24 2 20 1 Joseph Spaulding .... 21 7 23 1 28 1 Col 0 Stoddard .... 22 7 27 1 25 2 for the first minister 23 7 2 3 8 3 Col 0 Stoddard .... 24 7 6 3 19 3 Nath 1 Meserve & Others 25 7 2 4 6 4 Stephen Powers .... 26 7 17 3 1 1 4 Matthew Thornton 27 7 23 5 26 2 Col 0 Stoddard .... 28 7 4 4 10 4 the Same ..... 1 8 8 4 16 1 the same ..... 2 8 9 4 1 7 2 Mark Hs Wentworth Esq r 3 8 10 2 17 0 William Parker Esq r 4 8 14 4 13 4 Col 0 Stoddard .... 5 8 5 2 10 1 the Same ..... 6 8 12 2 1 7 1 Col 0 Stoddard .... 7 8 1 2 12 I Stephen Powers .... 8 8 19 1 23 4 Joshua Peirce Esq™ heirs 9 8 12 3 7 2 Col 0 Stoddard .... 10 8 8 2 9 2 Roland Cotton Esq r 1 1 8 13 1 14 0 Benjamin Farley .... 12 8 18 4 20 4 Hugh Willson .... 13 8 17 4 15 3 Nathaniel Cotton .... 23 8 8 12 9 12 John Varnum Esq r 15 8 23 3 1 1 10 Col 0 Stoddard .... 16 8 4 3 3 3 John Rindge .... 17 8 7 4 24 4 Roland Cotton Esq r 18 8 1 3 5 3 Matthew Thornton Esq. 14 8 1 1 2 1 Col 0 Stoddard .... 20 8 1 4 3 4 Matthew Livermore 21 8 19 1 1 21 1 1 William Blodget .... 22 8 22 1 1 18 1 1 John Varnum Esqu r 24 8 6 10 4 13 Samuel Stevens .... 16 9 9 1 1 5 1 1 Benjamin Hoar .... 25 8 5 3 8 r 3 Col 0 Stoddard .... 26 8 17 r 1 6 1 1 the Same ..... 27 8 6 13 7 13 Benjamin Butterfield 28 8 1 J 3 2 12 Stephen Powers .... 1 9 3 2 4 2 Col 0 Stoddard .... 2 9 r 3 2 6 1 the Same ..... 4 9 15 1 1 12 1 1 John Varnum Esq r 3 9 10 1 1 18 13 William Blodget .... 15 9 20 1 1 24 1 1 Theodore Atkinson Esq r 6 9 5 12 6 12 Rebecca Blanchard 7 9 3 12 12 12 Samuel Stevens .... 8 9 13 12 14 12 STODDARD. 275 A List of the Names of the Prop rs of Monad k N° 7. O 2 Range O 2 Range 0 £ Range Thomas Reed Esq r 9 9 7 1 1 8 1 1 Col 0 Stoddard .... 10 9 3 1 1 4 1 1 Samuel Moffatt .... 1 1 9 2 1 1 16 3 James Dun . , . . . 1 2 9 4 12 6 14 heirs of Joth m Odiorne Esq r . 13 9 24 12 12 13 Sampson Stoddard jun r . 14 9 13 5 1 12 ullow d for Building mills to be > . /f Dispos’d off by the Grantees $ 5 9 13 1 1 1 0 1 1 Benjamin Hoar .... 14 2 9 3 10 3 John Tufton Mason Esq ur 17 9 1 1 1 2 5 1 1 Matthew Thornton Esq r 18 9 7 12 2 13 Sampson Stoddard Jun r 19 9 22 1 2 2 1 12 Col 0 Stoddard .... 20 9 18 1 22 1 Matthew Thornton Esq r 21 9 2 7 9 28 9 Ephraim Spaulding Esq r 1 6 5 4 2 2 John Varnum Esq r 2 6 5 1 4 1 Matthew Thornton Esq r 3 6 J 9 0 21 0 the Same ..... 4 6 26 5 2 7 5 Daniel Peirce Esq r & the ) / heirs of Mary Moor £ 5 0 2 7 4 15 4 Hugh Willson .... 6 6 16 4 12 4 Thomas Reed Jun r 7 6 16 2 22 2 Col 0 Stoddard .... 8 6 16 0 21 1 the Same ..... 9 6 28 5 28 4 heirs of Jn° Wentworth Esq r . 10 6 26 6 2 7 6 John Chamberlain 1 1 6 28 6 21 10 Joseph Spaulding .... 1 2 6 24 10 2 5 10 John Varnum Esq r 13 6 22 10 26 10 Vryling Stoddard .... l S 6 16 12 1 1 13 for the School .... 14 6 26 1 1 2 7 1 1 Vryling Stoddard .... 16 6 9 13 10 13 heirs of Nath 1 Richardson 17 6 3 *3 1 14 Rebecca Blanchard 18 6 13 13 14 13 Col 0 Stoddard .... 19 6 *5 13 1 7 13 Rebecca Blanchard 20 6 25 6 1 2 0 Thomas Reed Jun r 21 6 2 2 0 2 5 1 Col 0 Stoddard .... 22 6 14 1 15 1 Wid° Mary Parker of Litchfield 2 3 6 6 2 2 1 2 Col 0 Stoddard .... 24 6 27 2 28 2 Clement March Esq r &c } T r I T O n t n Hancock & Lynds $ 3 Roland Cotton .... 2 5 10 10 3 14 Wid° Mary Parker of Litchfield 3 5 7 10 1 1 3 Hugh Willson .... 4 5 5 14 8 10 John Varnum Esq ur 5 5 20 1 2 10 1 2 heirs of R. Wibird Esq r 6 5 3 10 4 10 27 6 CHARTER RECORDS. A List of the Names of the Prop rs of Monaci k N° 7. O Z Range 0 z Range O Z Range George Jaffrey Esq r 7 5 7 14 15 12 Roland Cotton .... 8 5 9 10 23 10 Col 0 Stoddard .... 9 5 5 10 28 10 Nath 1 Cotton .... 10 5 20 10 23 12 the same ..... 11 5 22 9 14 10 Col 0 Stoddard .... 12 5 25 9 27 10 heirs of N. Richardson . 2 14 2 3 9 26 9 Josiah Willard Esq r 14 5 13 0 9 0 Col 0 Stoddard .... 1 5 5 13 10 l 9 10 the same ..... 16 5 8 1 n J 1 Matthew Thornton Esq ur 1 1 1 1 2 1 13 1 1 2 John Varnum Esq ur 7 3 l 9 13 10 0 Reuben Kidder Esq ur 12 10 20 13 8 14 Rebecca Blanchard 18 3 19 3 28 3 the same ..... 2 1 3 l 9 2 2 2 13 the same ..... 20 3 20 2 23 13 the same ..... 26 3 1 1 1 25 3 the same ..... 27 3 28 1 28 0 the Same ..... 1 5 2 4 14 1 1 0 Rebecca Blanchard & ) John Varnum Esq ur £ 18 0 7 1 27 00 October 9 th 1T67 this Schedule Exhibited Sampson Stoddard Jon a Blanchard Filed & Accepted ^ y e Grantors attest. Geo: Jaffrey Prop rs Cl \Regrant of Stoddard , 1767.] [Masonian Proprietors’ Records, Nov. 4, 1767.] Province of ) Portsmouth November 4 th 1767 Wednesday five of New Hampsh r \ the Clock afternoon, at the dwelling house of James Stoodlv Esqu r Innholder The Proprietors meet according to adjourn- ment — Whereas the said Proprietors on the 6 th day of December 1751, Authoriz’d & Impowered Joseph Blanchard late of Dunstable in said Province Esq r Deceas'd to Grant their Right, Title & Interest in & to the Lands within their Claim to such Persons as would Engage to STODDARD. 277 settle & Improve the same under such Limitations as were just & Reasonable — Pursuant to which Power on the 10 th day of May 1752 he granted to Sampson Stoddard, Thomas Parker, Thomas Read, & divers others making in the whole One hundred & Eight Shares “ all the Right, Title & Demand of said Proprietors, of in & unto that Tract of Land called Menadnock N° Seven in said Province, Contain- ing Six Miles, two hundred & Ninety Rod Square or thereabouts bounded Southerly on the Township called Menadnock Number Six Westerly on the Line called the Patent Line, Elsewhere on unap- propriated Lands of the Grantors beginning at the North West Cor- ner of Number Six aforesaid, at the aforesaid Patent Line from thence running Northerly by said Patent Line Seven Miles to a stake & Stones, from thence South Eighty Degrees East Seven Miles to a Beech tree marked, from thence South twenty One Degrees West, two Miles to a Stake & Stones, from thence South fifteen Deg: West, five miles to a Stake in a Pond called Rye Pond in the Line of Num- ber Six aforesaid from thence North Eighty Deg: West Seven Miles by said Number Six to the first bounds Mentioned ” — To have & to hold to them, their Heirs & Assigns in Several & Distinct Shares, on the Terms & Conditions in said Grant Express’d with a right of Re Entry reserv’d for the Grantors on the Shares or parts of those who should fail of Performing the Conditions Limitted as aforesaid, all which may at large appear by Reference to said Grant — And whereas the said Grantees have forfeited their Respec- tive Shares by not Settling & Complying with the Terms & Condi- tions Limitted & agreed to by them as aforesaid, & tho’ no Advantage of such Forfeiture has been taken against any of them heretofore, & they have been Indulged with a further time than was Originally Stipulated, of which they ought to have availed themselves, but in that they have also failed, Whereupon the Grantors have Re-entered & resumed the Right and Possession of said Tract of Land & the said Grantees acknowledging their Neglect & Default herein, the Right of Resumption aforesaid, & having Peaceably Surrendered the same, have Petitioned the said Proprietors to make a new Grant thereof to the Petitioners who are mostly the former Grantees, all which having been duly Consider’d, and also that many of the said Shares are in some Degree fitted & Prepared for settlement & that under such Cir- cumstances it would be more Equitable that those who have taken any Steps toward Settling said Shares should have the Advantage of their own Care & Labour rather than Strangers, Therefore Voted That all the Right, Title, Interest, Claim, Property and Demand of the Said Proprietors of in & unto the aforesaid Tract of Land called Menadnock Number Seven, bounded as aforesaid, be & herebv is 7 7 278 CHARTER RECORDS. Granted to Col° Sampson Stoddard Esq r , Ebenezer Peirce, John Chamberlain & others, whose Names are Mentioned in the Schedule or List hereunto annexed, in the Proportion therein Mention’d making twenty Seven in the whole, on the Terms, Conditions, and Limita- tions hereafter mentioned To have and to hold to them, their Heirs & Assigns in Severalty as the same has been Divided into Seperate Lots & as the said Lots are numbered & set to the respective Names in said Schedule, on the following Terms, Conditions and Limitations, First that Seventeen of the shares as the same are Severed, allotted, & Divided, Numbered & fixed to the several Names, be & hereby is reserved to the use of the Grantors their Heirs & Assigns free & Ex- empted of & from all Charges of Settlement & all other Charges untill Improved by them, their Heirs & Assigns — Secondly that three of the aforesaid shares be & hereby are appropriated. One for the first Minister of the Gospel who shall be settled in said Township, one for use of the Ministry, & one for the use of a School there forever — Thirdly, that the remaining Shares be and hereby are Granted & ap- propriated to the Several Person’s & Sever’d to them respectively their Heirs & Assigns as mention’d & Number’d in said Schedule, and each Lot of Land in said Tract shall be Subject to have Necessary High Ways laid thro' them as there shall be Occasion, free from the Charge of paying for the Land, laid out as an High Way untill an In- corporation & then to come under the Regulation of the Law in that Regard — Fourthly that the Grantees aforesaid who are 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 Respec- tively as the Grantees shall Determine by regular Votes, according to their Interests, within two Years from the Date hereof, each house to be built so as to have one Room, Sixteen feet Square or Equal thereto, and also have twelve Acres of Land cleared & fitted for Tillage, Mow- ing & Pasturage within the Term of two Years, and to add one Acre more annually, (till the Inhabitants there shall be Incorporated) on each Share the said Houses to be well fitted & made Comfortable Habita- tions, & the said Land to be Cleared in a good Husbandmanlike Man- ner, and Every Particular Grantee aforesaid shall pay his due propor- tion of all Taxes necessary to the Making said Settlement in the Articles aforesaid & in what follows on Pain of forfeiting his Right in said Land or so much thereof as shall answer his Proportion of such Taxes to be dispos’d of by a Committee to be Chosen by a Major part of the Grantees appointed for that Purpose. — Fifthly, the said Grantees shall build a Meeting house for Public Worship within four Years from the Date hereof & shall maintain constant Preaching in such House after four Years from the Date hereof. STODDARD. 279 Sixthly all White Pine trees, growing on any part of said Land, tho’ sever’d into Lots, are hereby reserv’d, 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 in Manner & form aforesaid it shall be Lawfull to & for the said Proprietors & their Successors to re-enter into & upon the said Premises, to resume their Right & Possession & become again Seized thereof, as in their former Estate, and as if this Grant had not been Made — [Account of Settlements in Stoddard , 1770.] [Masonian Papers, Yol. 6, p. 184.] monadnock N° Seven Called Limbrick first Right \ Dra 11 by j Stodard Esq r : L: n° 12: R: 11 th by Lee Improved. — Going on by Stodard Esq r : L : 9 : R : 6 : Settled by Scott and Improves 9 in the 7 th Range Duty Don by Stodard Esq r : L : 8 : R : 6 : Settled by Gilchrist Singel man Daniel Peirce Esq r L : 5 : R : 6 : by morrison Well Improved & Going on by Varnum Esq r : L: 26: R: 10: Settled by Warlton — Duty Don by Stodard Esq r : L: 25: R9: Settled by Richardson Richard by Stodard Esq 1 ' L. 23 : R 9 by Richardson Nath el Improved Jacob Reed L: 7: R 6: by Reed Improved. — Going on Ebenezer peirce L: 24 : R 9 : by Swan William Improved. Going on Roling Cotton L: 23: R 8: by Swan William Improved by Thornton Esq r L 3 : R 6 : by mitchel James Improved. Going on Thomas parker L 3 : R 5 : by mitchel William Improved. Going on by Spaulding L 25 : R 10 : by Spaulding Improved by Reed L: 16: R: 7 by Reed Improved by Wright L 14: R 7 by Wright Improved by Stodard Esq r L 16: R 9 by Butterfield Cap 1 Improved by Stodard Esq r L 17 : R 10 by Butterfield amos Improved by Stodard Esq r L 17 : R 11 by Putnam Improved by Stodard Esq r L 16 : R 8 Settled by Taggart for Stodard Duty Don 28 o CHARTER RECORDS. by Dun L 4 : R 7 by Dun Improved. Going on by Thornton Esq r L 21 : R 9 Settled by Cannada Singel man Roling Cotton L 2 : R 5 Settled by Bartlett by Cotton L 20 : R 10 by Hildecli Improved by Stodard Esq 1 L 27 : R 10 by Scott William Improved. Going on by Stodard Esq 1 ' L 7 : R 7 by mitcliel Samuel Improved. Going on by Cap 1 Benjamin Hoar one Right the present oner William Wil- son Kild or Captivated in the War the taxes paid by Robart Wilson Who Saith he Will Do y e Duty a True acompt of all the Settlements Err s Excep d per April 24 th 1770 Enoch Hale It appeareth that y e Curve Line When Run between marlo and Limbrick Cut of from marlo four famil s viz Church marther Tubs and Backwitli — [j Enoch Hale to George Jaffrey , 1770.] [Masonian Papers, Vol. 8, p. 6.] Sir at Least What I have Sent to your Hon r in Regard To those People that Wintered in monadnock N° Seven Should miscary I Now Rite in Grate haste having an oppertunaty to Send Direct those that Wintered in N° 7 Called Limrick is Taggart Richardson Warton & Bartlett I Would also Inform that y e Grate Number of Lotts That Was Returned Improved many of them are not under proper Improve- ment by Grase or Grane or fence but onley Sum Small peaces Choped Down With a Camp on y e Same but those that have more Don may be Known by What is Sed in y e Return at y e Eand of Sundry Knames Going on &C Sir if you Nead my further Information I am Ready to Serve I Shall be Down by September Court if nothing provent — I am Sir y r most obed 1 and Humble Servent monadnock N° Two June 15 th 1770 Enoch Hale To v e Honourable George Jaffrey Esq r In Portsmouth [. Settlers and Improvements , 1770.] [Masonian Papers, Vol. 8, p. 7.] An acc e of y e Settlers at Limrick alies Monadnock N° 7 as Taken by STODDARD. 28 l their Committee at s d Limrick this 22 d Day of Sept r A : D : 1770. as follows: (viz). — P Jn° Gillchrist on y e P Lot In the 4 th Range 2 d Nathaniel Bartlet on y e 2 d Lot In y e 4 th Range Zebadiali Keys on y e P Lot In the 5 th Range James Mitchel on y e 4 th Lot in y e 5 Range — Abraham Morrison on y e 5 th Lot in y e 0 th Range Thomas Read on y e 7 th Lot in y e 6 th Range — W m Gillchrist on y e 8 th Lot in y e 6 th Range Allexcander Scott on y e 9 th Lott in y e 6 Range James Scot on y e 9 th Lot in the 5 th Rang — Peter Edes on y e 7 th Lot In 7 th Range — James McDaniils on y e 8 th Lot in y e 8 th Range. John Rob on y e 7 th Lot In y e Eighth Range Silas Wright on y e 15 th Lot in y e 7 th Range Jos : Read on y e 16 th in y e Seventh Range Jn° Taggard; on y e 16 th in y e 8 th Range Jn° Cannada ; on y e 2P in y e In tlie 9 th Range W m Swann, on y e 24 th In y e 9 th — Richard Richardson, on y e 26 th In y e 9 th Reuben Walton, on the 26 th In v e 10 th — W m Mitchel, on the 3 d Lot in y e 5 th Range W m Swann, on y e 23 d on the Eighth Silas Wright, on the 15 th Lot in y e 6 th Range Amaziah Hildreth, on y e 20 lh Lot in the Kb 11 Range. Samuel Stevens, on y e 15 th in y e 9 th Range. Benjamin Dunn, on y e 12 th Lot In the 9 th Range. James Dunn, on y e 3 d Lot on y e 7 th Range. Oliver Parker, on y e 16 th Lot In y e 10 th Range. | ( Oliver Parker, on y e 15 th Lot on y e 10 th Range ^ ^ Amos Butterfield on y e 17 th Lot on y e 10 th Range Jn° Taggard on y e 22 d Lot in y e 9 th Range. Arkelas Putnam on y e 17 th Lot in y e 11 th Range Jonathan Bennit on y e 14 th Lot on y e 11 th Range Tho s Lee on y e 12 th Lot in y e 11 th Range Jos: Dodge, on y e 11 th Lot in the 10 th Range Jos: Dodge Jun r on y e 11 th Lot in y e 11 th Range Jerathmeal Powers, on y e 20 th Lot in y e 13 th Range Stephen & Moses Bennit, on y e Lot in y e Range Runiels M c Cullestor on y e 2 d Lot in y e 9 th Range Edmond Tayler on v e 3 d Lot in y e 9 th Range 282 CHARTER RECORDS. the Last Mentioned nine are on the West- y erly Side of sd Town Neare the Pattent ! Line all Well Settled. — Aseph Mather Titus Church conveyed to Matson Joseph Tubs Freddrick Tubs Jn° Noyce Mather Ephr m "Brock Worth Samuel Comstock Timothy owing Selvenus Beck worth one Walton Setled on the North Easterly Corner of s d Town (Since by him Conveyed to one Tayler) John M c Daniel, on y e Lot in y e Range Sam 1 Stevens Jun r on y e 15 th Lot in y e 9 th Range Simmeon Church on y e 2P Lot in y e 12 th Range Titus Church on y e 2P Lot in y e 13 th Range — j A Copy Tacken from the Committee of Manadnock N° T : acc 1 of the Settlers there Examined ^ John Varnum Propriators Clerk Dracutt april 27 th 1771. [ Dates of Certain Settlements , 1771.] [Masonian Papers, Yol. 8, p. 8.] Mr. gohn taggard came in 1769 with a family Amos Butterfeld came in June 1770 a hous and Some land cled titus Curch came in 1770 I know not how much land clerd 1 these have houses and well ( toward twelve acurs cleared up ( and improved apice in monad- nock N° 7 or Limbrick Reuban walton came in 1769 Richard Richardson came 1769 Alexander Scott came 1769 Abraham morison came 1770 James michchel came 1770 I went myself in 1770 and have 4 acurs improved and near 10 more cut down on y e 17 th lot in y e 11 th rang. Archelaus Putnam Amos Butterfelds lot is y e 17 th in y e 10 th rang John taggards is y e 16 th in y e 9 th , if I mistake not this is a true minet of N° 7 only about 3 or 4 Scingle men Manadnock n° 7 — This mem 0 given by Archelaus Putnam Jan y 29 th 1771 STODDARD. 283 [. Petition of William Matson , 1771.] [Masonian Papers, Yol. 8, p. 9.] Province of New ) To The Honourable Proprietors of Mason’s Hampshire \ Patent (so Called). The Petition William Matson of Lyme in the County of New Lon- don and Colony of Connicticut Humbly Shews. That several Years ago your honours made a Grant of a Certain Tract of Land in said Patent, by the name of M 011 - adnock Number Seven, to Coll 0 Sampson Stoddard and others his Associates, That the time limitted in said Grant has been some time Elapsed, and the Conditions thereof in no way Complied with, and Consequently said Land Reverts to your honours the Grantors as Forfeited. Wherefore your Petitioner Earnestly Prays your honours to make a Grant of the same Land to him and his Associates upon such Con- ditions as to your honors in your Wisdom shall Think most Expedient — And your Petitioner will Ever Pray &c Portsmouth April 19 th 1771. William Matson I will Engage to Settle Thirty Families on said Land within three years. Ten of which shall b,e moved on Immediately after the Grant is made. William Matson [ Report of Committee on Roads and Settlements , 1771.] [Masonian Papers, Yol. 8, p. 10.] Limrick August l l 1771. — Honered S r After Complyments &c. — At the Request of y e Grantees of Manad- nock N°: 7 We Set out for this place y e 25 th of July Last To View y e Situation and Circumstances of y e Settlements & Roads in this Town. & to Examin into y e Necessity & Conveniancy of Laying out any more or Further Roads here for the Benefit of the publick. Notwith- standing y e Extreem Heat We arived on y e 26 th aplyed Closly to Business vewed the New Road that We Laid out Last fall from the Great Road In Limrick Called King Street (which We then Laid) through the South Easter Corner of Limrick and in the Land Called Society Lands around the Great and Dificult mountain Called Role- ston mountain and found the Same to be an Excellent Road When 284 CHARTER RECORDS. Compared With that that Went over the Top of s d Mountain & also found that Mitchel whom We Hired to Cut s d Road had Cleared the Same much Better then We Expected, We accepted Said Road & paid mitchel to Content for his Cleareing S d Road (found that he had acted upon Honer therein) beleve that about Forty or Fifty Dollars more Laid out In Bridging and Causseying S d Road Will make it an Excellent Traviling Road and Will Remove the Great Dificulty of the Grand Role Stone Intirely out of Sight, whose Height Seemed almost to Reach the Clouds & hath been a Great Imbarrisment to y e Settle- ments whose Inhabitants was obliged (as our Roads Lay Before We Serched out & Cut this New Road) To ascend With panting & De- scend with Trembling the Mighty Loft of Roleston Which hath been Constantly asserted Could not be avoided. We have also viewed the Road by us Laid out In September Last from the Center of Manad- nock N° : 7 Towards Keen Which S d Road Leads out Near the South West Corner of N° : 7 : & Extends through the North Westerly part of N° : 6 : & through part of Gilsom & thenc to Keen and is an Ex- ceeding Good Road & Runs through a Tract of Excellant Good Land We have Caused the Same to be Exceeding Well Cut till it Comes to y e South Borders of our s d Town. We applyed to y e Inhabitants of N° : 6 to be So Kind as to open that part of s d Road that Leads through s d N° : 6 : but Without Success ! Have therefore Contracted With M r Jos : Dodge one of our Settler to Cut y e Same through S d N°: 6: at y e Expence of y e Grantees of N° 7. As We have been all ways Generously Leading the Way In opening & Clearing Roads in this Wilderness for the publick Utility We Resolved Not to Scringe in So Noble a Work — : & as the Same Was Left With us to manage & Determin for S d Grantees. We aplyed to y e Inhabitants of Gilson & Keen To open a Road through their Respective Town In y e Best Way and Maner for the Good of the publick til it Cums to y e Great Road that Leads to y e Center of Keen & they Generously promis to meet With us With pleasure In the best Way and maner Im- agineing That it Will be a Great Road & that it Will be Greatly Servic- able to y e publick. We also Laid out a Road from the Northerly part of s d Limrick (viz) from the Road Called Marlow Road to s d Road that Leasd to Keen Which S d Road Extends about Two miles Through a Beauty full Tract of Land in S d Limrick Which s d Last mentioned Road We Called Beautifull Street & have Contracted With m r Dodge to Cleare the same in the Best Way and maner at y e Cost of s d Grantees : Which s d street Will Greatly accomidate Camden and Marlow & all to y e Northward as Well as our own Inhabitants. — We have the Roads (tho at Great Expence) So Well Calculated and Cut that Invy it Selfe must Stop her mouth & one that We have out Stript all STODDARD. 285 that have Gone before us in the new plantations In Cleareing Roads for the Good of the publick : The Inhabitants of Keen and Gillsom Rejoyce in our progress and prospect of prosperity : — Some of our Neighbors Envy us and are Constantly Spreading Evil Repors & Say that y e Grantors are Determined to oust us & have promist the Town to others &c. And by that means have Diseoraged many : But Not- withstanding the adversarys Craft We find We have the following Settlers now In the Town & are at Labour In Bringing forward Set- lments therein : (excepting Some that are Gon out of Town for provisions Which are Returning without Delay) : as Follows (viz) James Mitchel on the 3 d Lot in the 5 th Range With his Wife and family — W m Mitchel on the 2 d Lot in 4 th Range : a vung man Sam 1 Morroson on y e 5 th Lot in y e 6 th Range With a Family Tho s Read on y e 7 th in the Sixth (a yung man) — Jn° Robb on y e 7 th in y e 8 th Soposed to be a Good Settler David Scott on y e 8 th in y e 6 tb a Frame House Called a Nottable Setler Allexander Scott on y e 9 th in y e 7 th With his Wife & Family (a Larg Field of Rie & a good Garden James Scott on y e 9 th in y e 6 th a yung man With a Good field of Rie &c Jn° Taggard on y e 16 th in y e 8 th a old Setler With his Wife & Family Rie Hay & Grass plenty W m Coughrin on the 2D In the 9 th a Family Going on Spedily — W m Swan on y e 24 th in the 9 th his Wif & Family a Great Settler (in a frame House) Richard Richardson on y e 25 th in y e 9 With his Wife and family a Frame House John Spaulding on the 25 th in the 10 th Reuben Walton on the 26 th in y e 10 th With his Wife & Family W m Scot on 27 th in y e 10 th Duty Done but In part y® Timber is Cut for a Frame Abr m Morrison on the 6 th in y e 6 th hath Cleared ab l 6 acre hath Timber Cut for a Fram House Cap 1 Jos : Read on y e 16 th in y e 7 th hath a Large Field of Rie — m r Silas Wright on y e 15 th in y e Seventh Withe His family Joel Wright y e Miller on y e 15 th in y e b th hath a Good Mill Well Settled Sam 1 Stevens on y e 16 th In the 9 th a House built 12 acres Cleared Sam 1 Stevens Jun r on y e 15 th in y e 9 th a Small House Considerable Cleared a family Soon Expected Amos Butterfield on y e 17 th in y e 10 th With his Wife and family — 286 CHARTER RECORDS. Oliver Parker on y e 16 th in v e 10 tb is Building a Large Frame House the s d Oliver hath a man With him is Carrying on a Duty on y e 14 th in y e 10 th hath Cut ab l 40 acre W m Kemp A yung man Carrying on a Duty on y e 15 th in y e 10 th Arkiles Putnam on the 17 th in y e 11 th a Nottable Settler — Aaron Bennit on y e 18 th in y e 11 th a Good Settler — Simmeon Church on the 2P in the 12 th a yung man a Stout Settler Moses Bennit on y e 22 d on y e 12 th a Nottable Settler — Titus Church on the 21 fc in y e 13 th With his Wife and Family Jerathmeel Powers on y e 22 d in y e 13 th his House Built his Wife & Family Expected Soon Jn° Noys Mather With his Wife & Family near Marlow Line a Great Settler the s d Jn° Noyce Mather is Cumpleating a 2 d Settlement by a Hired man one Church on a Lot Whereon y e Duty Was Done by his Brother Jos: Tubs Near Marlow Line With his Wife & a Larg Family a Great Settler Frederick Tubs Neare Marlow Line a House Built Considerable Cleard is about marrying y e S d Jos: Tubs hath Done a Second Duty & Keeps up a Resi- dency by his Family Ephr m Brock way With his Wife & Family a Nottable Settler pro- visions plenty the S d Ephr m hath allmost Cumpleated a Second Settlement Sylvenious Beckwith With a Wife & Family a Good Settler Sam 1 Comestock Near Gilsom a old Settler his Family Expected this Fall Timothy Owing D° — Jonathan Bennit on y e 14 th in y e 11 th a Nottable Settler Benj a Dunn on the 12 th in y e 9 th — Jos: Dodge on y e 11 th in y e 10 th Intends to have his family there verry Soon Daniel Keys on y e P in y e 5 th — Silas Parker on y e 2 d in y e 9 th Intends to have his Family there this fall — Sam 1 Parker on y e 4 In y e 9 th Do — S d Parkers Intends to Carry on a Settlement on y e 3 d in y e 9 th a House being Built thereon and Considerable Cleard Jos: Tayler on y e 28 th in y e P Large Settlements thereon With Wife & family David Powers on y e 20 th in y e 13 th Considerable Work Done y e House a Building STODDARD. 287 Jos : Dodge Jun r on y e 11 th in y e 11 th the Cleareing fully Done y e House a Building George Parkhurst y e 5 th in y e 5 th Considerable Cleareing Done y e House not Built Jn° Varnum by Jos : Dodge hath Cleared more than 12 acres on y e 10 th Lot in y e 11 th the Hous to be Built by S d Dodge for s d Varnum James Dunn hath Cleared about 5 acres on y e 3 d Lot in y e 7 th Range & hath built a small house thereon — Edmen Tayler hath begun on the 2 d in y e 6 th Resolving to make a Settlement Ammaziah Hildreth hath begun on y e 20 th in y e Tenth no House Built there Thus S r the Settlement Stand Here at present y e Settlers are In High Sperits Brisk & Gay & in Earnest in General to Earn their Living by Industry and Expect by y e Next year to Raise Bread Sofitiant for the Inhabitant They are Cuming Dayly to Settle here tho as in other New places them that Cum Without anything are Constantly on the move have Shifted Eight this viset We hope for y e bestt We Expect by the Last of Nov r Next to have more then the Whole of y e Duty Done We Imajine We have Near That Done now if it Could be equally Divided: We Doubt not but within Two years from this Date We Shall have a Hundred Familys Settled in this Town and that it Will make as Good an appearance as any of our Neighbour Towns. S r We Heartily Congratulate you With the Hopefull prospect of y e prosperity of this Town Wherein youre Intrest is So Considerable ; & Are your Devoted Humble Serv ts Jn° Varnum Samuel Stevens To Col 0 Sampson Stoddard [Col. Stoddard's Letter , 1771.] [Masonian Papers, Vol. 8, p. 11.] Chelmsford Octo 2 1771 S r / I intended before this time to have waited on The Gent 1 the Prop rs of masons Right to live Given an acc 1 of the actual Settle- ments of the Grantees in Monad k N° 7 — an unlucky accident has hap- pen’d that deprives me of that pleasure however in the Course of about a month or five weeks I design to make my Appearance before Your Lordships, & give an honest acc 1 (& which will be) of a very Considerable improvement in that Town — 288 CHARTER RECORDS. You'll please to make my Complements to y e Prop rs ; and Let them know that at my own Expence and Agreeable to my promise made to them I have Caused the Eastern Boundaries of that Town to be made certain (saving small matter) which Cannot be Compleated at this season of the Year by reason of the water, which the Surveyor made known to me in August last — You may depend upon my hon r that the same shall be perfected as soon as possible I am with my Complements to Your Lady (S r )Your very Humb 1 Serv 4 — Sampson Stoddard To the Hon bl George Jaffrey Esq r to be Communicated — Oct r 23 1771. at y e Meeting y e prop rs direct that y e Clerk write to Coll 0 Stoddard to advise him that they will not delay reentering y e Township of N° 7 for not compliance w th y e Terms of y e Grant [. Petition of Ephraim Butterfield , 1771.] [Masonian Papers, Vol. 8, p. 12.] To the Hono ble Theodore Atkinson Esq r and the rest of the Noble Grantors of y e Masonian Lands in his Majestys Province of New Hampshire Greeting The Memorial of Ephraim Butterfield of Wilton in the Province afores d humbly Sheweth That your Memorialist in the Year 1768 Undertook to Settle Two Lots of Land in a Township called Monad- nock N° 7. One under Sam 11 Stevens of Chelmsford one of the original Grantees of s d N° 7 And one under Sam 11 Stevens Jun r and proceeded to do the Duty of Settlement on the Premises. But after Two Years when I had made considerable Improvement I requested a Title to the Lands but was refused and the Land taken from Me, together with my Labour under Pretence that I did not proceed fast enough in the Settlement, (which I leave to the better Information of M r Jn° Tagart by whom I Send.). And altho. they dealt So hardly with me, yet the Settlement of s d Township is neglected, greatly to the Discouragement & Damage of the Settlers, who are but about 11 or 12 at most in Number, and are Some of them moving off wholly thro' the Neglect of the Proprietors or Grantees. — And as it is in your Hon rs Power, Your Memorialist humbly beggs to be put in a Way to obtain Some Redress And y r Memor st as in Duty bound Shall ever Prav. — Wilton Octo r 9. 1771. Ephraim Butterfield. STODDARD. 289 [Letter from Col. Stoddard , 1771.] [Masonian Papers, Vol. 8, p. 18.] Chelmsford Octo : 23 — 1771 S r / Y rs of the 16 th instant is now before me wherein you mention one John Taggard’s informing the Prop rs that he is very hardly us’d by the Grantees of menadnock N° 7 — I have no doubt; but that whenever I see you shall have it in my power not only to convince you but all the Lord Prop rs that this man has no reason to Complain — I pray the indulgence of y r Lordships that you will not come to any Determination respecting this Township ’till I wait on you in person ; which will be as quick as the peculiar Circumstances of my family will admit — I am determin’d at all hazards to give myself the pleas- ure (by the 11 th or 12 th of next month) to appear, and bow the knee before y r Lodships at which time I am perswaded shall make it apparent that it will be in my power soon to compleat the Settlement of a veiy respectable Town — I am with my Compliments to the Prop rs (S r ) your most obedient Humb 1 Serv 1 Sampson Stoddard To the Honor 1 George Jaffray Esq r to be communicated [ Certificate in Favor of John Taggart , 1771.] [Masonian Papers, Vol. 8, p. 14.] Octob r 28 1771 I Certify that Sampson Stoddart Esq r never wrote to me or any other way manifested his Desire to have me Stay Some Ex’cns in my Care ag l J 11 0 Taggart of Limerick — I further Certify that Said Tag- gart is Reputed to be an Industrious Settler &ca — E Champney [ John Taggart's Complaint , 1771.] [Masonian Papers, Yol. 8, p. 15.] To the Hono ble Theodore Atkinson Esq r and the rest of the Worthy Grantors of the Masonian Lands in the Province of New Hampshire Greeting 19 290 CHARTER RECORDS. The Complaint of John Taggart of Lymerick in the Province of New Hampshire humbly Sheweth That your Complain 1 Some Time in the Year 1768 enterd into Covenant or Agreement with Sampson Stoddard Esq r of Chelmsford in the Province of the Massachusetts Bay to Settle and do the Duty of one Right in the s d Township of Lymerick ; for which y r Com- plain 1 was to have his choice of Two Lotts of all the Lotts in s d Town- ship. (the Masonian Grantors Lotts excepted.) And y r Complain 4 choose y e Lotts, N° 16 in y e 10 Range & N° 22 in y e 9. Range, and in a few Months after choice, s d Stoddard, Sold y e Lott N° 16 in y e 10 Range for 100. X Silv r old Ten r And y r Complain 4 requested said Stod- dard, to recompence me for the Lot he sold, with Qualif}dng other Lands; But he wholly refused doing anything but my Pitching on Some one Lot not pitch’d on by others. Further y r Complain 4 informs that at the Time of my entering into s d Town I was unable to build me a House and went to reside in a Cottage between the Lotts N° 15 & 16 in the 8 Range claim’d by s d Stoddard and s d Stoddard disinherited s d Bartlett and promised Me I Should have the Improvement of s d Farm or Two Lotts, during my Life Time and Accordingly have Spent my Labour on s d Farm for three Years past, and brought the Same to profit, but can git no Security — And many other Articles of Covenant too tedious to be related, are broken and not performed by s d Stoddard Therefore y r Complain 4 Prays that y r Hon rs would put me in Some Way or Method to procure a Title to s d Two Lots I first pitchd on and also pay for my Labour on the Farm so call’d or a Title to the Same, and y 1 ' Complain 4 as in Duty bound Shall ever pray. — Lymerick Octo r 29 1771. John Taggart. STODDARD. 29I [. Neal' 8 Report on Settlements, 1771. ] [Masonian Papers, Vol. 8, p. 16.] Manadnock N° T or Limbrick the aco nt of the Satlers Houses Barns Stocks Lands under Improvement & Trees Fell on Each Lott Names of the Satlers ^ Time of Resi- st dn 1 House Barnes Stock. N° Rang Lotts N° acres of Land Cleard acres Fell r. James Mitchell 1 — 6 Log House 2 6 3 5 3 nf Isaac Mitchell Ju r . 1 — 6 Poll House 5 3 3 nf Will™ Mitchell . . 1 — 6 Poll Hous 5 2 1 h 2 h nf Daniel Kyess . 6 Poll Hous 6 1 3 3 nf Edmund Taylor 1—3 Poll House 6 2 7 h James Dunn — N R 7 3 1 2 nf John Willson . 6 9 2 2 3 nf David Willson . 6 Poll House n 1 Coverd 9 3 3 Abal Parker — N R 9 4 3 nf James M c danil . 4 Poll Hous 8 7 2 r Ruben Walton 2 Poll Hous 8 6 3 nf John m c daniel . — 2 Poll Hous 8 5 3 2 r Abreham Morison 1 6 Log Hous 2 6 5 9 Sam 11 Parker NR. Hous frame 6 7 1 3 nf David Scott 8 Hous frame 6 8 6 1 h nf James Scott 1 — 6 Log Hous 6 9 4 2 r Alaxander Scott 1 6 Log Hous 1 7 9 6 3 nf David Robea . 8 Poll Hous 7 7 5 ih nf Sam 11 Moresson min r . 1 — 6 Poll Hous 6 6 2 3 Coll" Stodard N R . Poll Hous 7 16 1 and D° Poll Hous no Ruf 5 1 3 r Silus Wright . 6 framd House 5 7 15 8 2 Cap 1 J os : Read N R . House Burnt Latly. 7 16 10 6 Sawmill & Grismill bultan d fineshed 6 15 1 r John Tagrett . 3—4 Log House 3 8 16 9 3 Coll Stodard Improve- ment N R 8 l S 7 4 Ephream Butterfield N R 9 1 5 4 3 Sam 11 Stephens N. R Poll Hous 9 16 4 8 Titus Church N R Log House 14 21 3 5 nf Moses Bennett 1 13 22 7 12 nf Jonathan Bennitt . 1 1 1 14 1 2 & Celler Dug frame nf Oliver Parker . 1 — 6 Rady not Raisd 10 16 12 10 292 CHARTER RECORDS. 1 ‘7 OJ Pi h 4 Names of the Satlers 0 ^ (D £ House C /2 Rang O Z 0 £ "a; £ C /2 ^ C /2 H y. m. oj 0 Si O 2 0 i -4 a O Will 111 Kamp N R 5 nf Joseph Dodge . • • 6 a Camp 14 22 2 3 D° Dodg • . a Camp 10 1 0 3 2 D° Dodg • 1 1 1 2 1 3 r Benj Dunn . • 6 Poll House 9 1 2 2 2 Aaron Bennitt N R 10 18 3 archalus Putman . . 2 Poll House 9 13 5 4 Simeon Church r Amos Butterfield N R 0 Poll House Log House Log Born r 3 10 2 1 1 7 2 5 6 3 Isaac Mitchell N R Camp 12 1 2 5 Sam 11 Stephens Ju r NR 1 2 14 2 Will m Scott for Esqr Varnom N R framd House 10 27 5 2 Esq r Varnom N R Poll House 10 26 2 5 Will™ Swan N R 8 23 3 r Rich d Richardson . . 2 frand House I 9 25 6 3 by D° Richardson • 9 23 3 Amaziah Hildrick N R 10 20 1 3 John Tagret • 9 22 7 John Spaldin . • 1 — 6 Poll Hous 10 25 6 9 Will m Cockrin N R . poll Hous 9 21 2 3 nf Alaxander Scott J u r . 2 Poll Hous 9 1 0 2 h the Rodes in the Town of Limbrick are Wall Cleard Where they have began Sattelments in all parts of Said town — The Sattlers on the Strip of Land Taken off from Marlow into Limbrick Names of the Satlers y. m. Houses. Stock Barns acres Cleard acres fall Joseph Tubes . 3 — Log House 16 Fradrick Tubes . . j — Log House 5 John Noys Mather . 2 — Log House 6 20 Ephream Brockway • 2 — Log House 4 Rq rn 25 4 Salvenas Backet N R Log House 7 Sam 11 Comstock > NT T? andTimethy owen £ 1M J\ 5 2 Will m Madson N R 2 Log Houses 5 10 STODDARD. 293 Nathan Taylor in Camels Gore Satled on a Lott that Was in Lim- brick there is Some incrohments made on the 10 forfited Rights in Dublin they have faneed in Some of them for pastoring Land on the mile Strip betwen masson and Hollis there is S undrey Satlers by Purches of the Blanhards as they say the Strip betwen new Ipswith and Tampel Sold by Blanchards satled the Strip betwen wilton & masson one Satler on said to a purchiser of some of the propriators of masson paten Province of I Gentelman In Pursuants to your Instruc- New Hamp r > tions I have Taken a Trew aeon 1 of all the Reckingham ss ) Satlements in the Town of Limbrick and have Sott down the Number of acres in Each Lott Oleard & the numbers of acres fall aording to the bast of my Judgment, also the names of Each sattler and the Time he has Resided there, and those that are Tranchant, and not Constant Residents I have mark d thus, N. R. betwen their name and the first Colem I have also made a Dis- tinction betwen those of marlow and Limbrick Satlers — as you may Se in the above acou 1 I have also Taken acount of all the Satlements in the Town of Camden of the number of acres Cleard and Trees fall as Satt Down in the fore going acount, I have not Satt Down the Range or N° of Lotts in the Strip that was marlow nor in the Town of Camden as they Ware never Regulerly Layed out in Ranges nor Ware the Lotts Numbered in Said Town but Every Satler had his %j Lott Layed out Were he Laked bast I am Gentl men your Humb 1 Serv* Dec r 7 th 1771 Hubartus Neal — [Notes about Settlers .] [Masonian Papers, Yol. 8, p. 17.] Isaac Mitchel William Michel John Willison all menens from James Scott 10 years to 20 Sam 11 morsson alaxander Scott James M'danel is Removed John Tagret is in Two Places — and it is But one man John Spalding is not a Rasadant also James Mitchel is Removed CHARTER RECORDS. 2 94 [Sampson Stoddard to George Jaffrey , 1772.] [Masonian Papers, Yol. 8, p. 18.] Chelmsford Jan r 29-1772. S r / After so long a time have obtain’d 5 small p s of what our peo- ple call Bloodroot ; I have made Strict enquiry ever since my return from Portsm 0 ; but never could get any ’till Last night which I now send by M r Scales to Y r Lady, and pray her acceptance of it if not too late for her purpose. — I shall esteem it as a particular favour if it wont give you too much trouble to write a line (by m r Scales) & let me know whether the Prop rs have sent a Committee to review the Set- tlements in menadnock n° 7 : Your Complyance (S r ) with this request will much oblige Your most Obedient very Humb 1 Serv* — Sampson Stoddard The Hono rble George Jaffray Esqr [, Sampson Stoddard to George Jaffrey , 1772.] [Masonian Papers, Yol. 8, p. 19.] Chelmsford Feb r 12. 1772 S r / I am Sorry to hear of the Deficiency of the Grantees in N° 7 But I hope the Gent 1 Prop rs will Extend their patience a Little while longer (I thank them for what is past) The Gent 1 of the Comi te told me that they would use their endeavour to have matters so order'd that nothing should be done ’till I could ride in the Spring with safety when by the leave of Providence I intend to make my personal appear- ance I am (S r ) Your Humb 1 Serv 1 Sampson Stoddard The Honon rbl George Jaffray Esqr [James Mitchells Complaint , 1772.] [Masonian Papers, Yol. 8, p. 20.] To the Honor ble Theodore Atkinson Esq r and the rest of the worthy and Honor ble Masonian Proprietors. Gentlemen — The Memorial of Me the Subscriber of Limerick Humbly Sheweth, that Coll 1 Stoddard of Chelmsford Several Years Since gave Two Lots of Land in Monadnock N° 7, or Lymerick to Nathaniel Bartlet, the one Duty free and the other to have the Duty done thereon viz the Lot N° 2 in the 5. Range but never gave s d Bartlet any Title to the Same. STODDARD. 2 95 Ancl your Memorialist bought s' 1 Lot N° 2 in the 5. Range of s' 1 Bart- let at 50 Dollars and had a Promise of a Title from Coll 1 Stoddard and Since that s d Bartlet is gone off, and I have no Title to s' 1 Lot, altho’, the Duty is considerably forward, neither can I obtain any Therefore y r Memorialist Prays your Hon rs to take my Case under v r wise Consideration, (under whose Protection I thro’ my Self) and Set me in Some Way to Procure a Title to s d Lot of Land: and Your Memorialist as in Duty bound Shall ever Pray Monadnock N° 7. April 24. 1772. James mitchell [Reminder from Ephraim Butterfield, 1772.] [Masonian Papers, Vol. 8, p. 21.] To the Hon ble Theodore Atkinson Esq r and the rest of the Noble & Hon ble Masonian Proprietors. — Gentlemen — I did Some time Since Send your Hon rs a Memorial how I was Served about a Lot of Land in Monadnock N° 7. or Limerick, but have not as Yet had any Satisfaction, therefore Pray your Honors to take my Case under your wise Consideration which will oblige y r most Obedient Serv* Wilton April 25. 1772. Ephraim Butterfield {R e-entry on Forfeited Lots , 1772.] [Masonian Papers, Vol. 8, p. 22.] Province of ) Pursuant to the Power I have Received from New Hamp r > the Proprietors of Masons Patent, I have on the Rockingham ss ) fiftenth Day of June 1772 in the Name and in behalf of Said Proprietors, Re-entered into and upon five Lotts & Rights of Land in the Town of Limbrick in the Countey of Cheshire in Said Province. Whereon the Dutey Was not Done acording to the conditions of the Grant of the Same by Said Proprietors, and in the Name behalf, and for the use of Said Proprietors, Did Claim Resume & Receive the Said five Lotts or Rights. Namely Lotts Number thirteen N° 17 N° 18 & N° 19 in the Eight Range of Lotts in said Town, and on N° 20 in the 7 th Range and have taken actual Posses- sion of the Said Lotts & Rights in the Name and for the use of the Said proprietors, Whereon the Dutey is nots Done as aforesaid, and at the Time of the Re-enterev and Re-seisin have Openly and pub- lickly Declard the Same Before .John Tagart Richard Richardson 296 CHARTER RECORDS. Francis Durgin and Samuel Smart; and have also Re-entered into and upon all that Tract of Land in Said Limbrick Layed out by the Grantes of Marlow (Two Hundred & Sixtey Rods on the Easterly Side of the Patent Line, by Camden Line) and for the use of Said Pro- prietors Did Claim Resume & Receive the said tract of Land, and Take actual Possession thereof in the Name and for the use of said Proprietors Whereon the Dutey is not Don as aforesaid, and at the time of Re-entery have openly and Publickly Declared the Same before archabel White Zaccheus Blood Samuel Smart and Francis Durgin — Witneses attast ^ Hubartus Neal Newmarket 18 th of July 1772 [ Petition of Inhabitants, 1773.] [Masonian Papers, Yol. 8, p. 24.] To the Hono ljle Theodore Atkinson Esq r and the rest of the Hon ble Masonian Proprietors, Humbly Sheweth, the Petition of us the Subscribers being Resi- dents or Inhabitants of Monadnock N° 7, who were incouraged to become Settlers on s d Land by Sampson Stoddard Esq r and others the Grantees of said Tract of Land; but notwithstanding we have agreable to our Bargain with s d Grantees gone on and Settled s d Land and according to our Ability have done all in our Power to forward and encourage the Settlement by every Means, considering the almost unsurmountable Difficulties we meet with on Account of bad Roads in Summer & long & tedious Winters with great Scarcity of Provisions, Yet we meet with another Difficulty more terrible then all the rest, (viz) Want of a good Tittle to our Lands which We by no Means can obtain of the afores d Grantees. And unless we are by Some Way or Means redress'd, must move our Selves and Families off s d Lands. We being Sensible that s d Grantees have forfieted and reforfieted s d Lands, into your Hon rs Hands and So have no Right to the Same; Earnestly Pray that your Hon rs would take into Consideration the distressing Circumstances of your humble Petitioners and do for us as your Hon rs in Wisdom think proper. And We as in Duty bound Shall ever pray. — James Mitchell Abram Morrison James Jewell William Scott John Taggard Moses Bennett Richard Richardson Solomon mack [Endorsed] Rec d April 14 th 1773 STODDARD. 2 9 7 [. Jonathan Nesmith's Report on Lots in Stoddard , 1816.] [Masonian Papers, Yol. 8, p. 25.] Antrim Oct r 11 th 1816 To Mark W Peirce Portsmouth Sir I Rec d your letter by Samuel Barker one week later then you expected by reason of my being from home on the nixt day I aplyed to John Clark Esq r of Hancock to assist in the survey and we atended to the busniss on the following Monday and found it a difiequal mater to find the right information we got a sight of the Town Plane and then we had to go to Esq r Matesons which was the Town Clerk and lives on the line of Marlow to sertch The Town records and found him verey oblidging to us and give us all the information he Could and we found that there was sold of lot No 9 in the 8 th range for taxes year 1792 for 1790 tax 79 acrs to Gardner Towns and of No 15 in the 4 th range 89 acrs To William Pitcher year 1800 of these we found deads from the Collectors and that ther was another seal of 7 acrs of No 15 and one 5 acrs of No 27 in the 4 th range of these two we thought that there was a Probability that they were redeemed, as you were Perticquler in your letter to me of the lay of the land its growth and how much will do to Plow, in answer I think I may say ther is but little Plow land — of lote No 9 in the 8 range I think you will hold 15 or 16 acrs of the west end of the lot as the lot holds out 95 acrs of wood land of a havey growetli land rockey worth two dollars P r acre — N° 12 in the 3 d range his about 12 acres Clear' 1 and under Improve- ment by a M r Bernet who Purtchased a M r Morison’s labour about ten or 12 years ago the 12 acrs is of a drayish soil and rockey in the north east Corner of the lot south of it is low madow land under watter a good Part of the year south of the madow is a growetli of spruce and hamlock the westerly Part of the lot is a mixture of timber of a havey growetli and land rockey worth 2 dollars P r acre No 15 in the 4 th range his 39 acrs layed of the East end and the remaning 41 acrs is verey rockey but little live timber standing. I inquired of John Stephens who is in Possession of the East 39 acrs what he would give for the remaning 41 acrs he told me that he Cared but little about it but if he Could get a deed of it without mutch expence he would give 25 dollars N° 27 in the 4 th range lays in the northeasterly Part of Stodard and the inhabitants of that Part of the town his but little connection with the middle of the town by reason of the worst ground for a road that I ever travled but is Collected with the north Part of Windsor and aboutthree mils from the Washington turnepick this lot isof a mid- 298 CHARTER RECORDS. ling qualety lays to the west & north havey timbered not verey rockey westerly Part lowest worth 2 dollars & 50 Cents P r acre we were inform' 1 by the inhabitants of Stodard that lot No IT in the 7 th range is Caled a Peirce lot tlier is 20 acres Sold for taxes of the east end the other 60 acrs is Poor land it apeered 011 the Plane of Stodard that lotes No 19 and 20 is marked to Esq r Peirce in the 5 th range and lot No 5 in the 6 th range to Peirce and Moor this information may be of no use. these are the remark that I have to make on the Stodard Busniss and wher I have don wrong I wish you to write to me, you may think our Charge is high when you see it but be asured I found it more of a fatagueing job then I expected from your friend and Humble Servent — Jonathan Nesmith Esq r Clarks Charge for survey and Plan is 10' 1 50 Cents my Charge and Expence — 18-65 Samuel Barker for 3 days not included his expence I Pay d 29-15 [Plans of Aforesaid Lots , 1816.] ?P° ‘ ^ -a! 60 « £ > ” ' £ t t « s , /0 fere 3 Qoaa wood STRATHAM. 2 99 [Plans of Aforesaid Lots , 1816.] [Extract from Peirce Deed.~\ [Masonian Papers, Vol. 8, p. 26.] Lot N° 28 of one hundred acres and three Gores of land at the end of each range, which Gores togather run quite across the westerly end of said great lot — and bound easterly on said Lot N° 28 — and on lots N° 29 & 80 and westerly on Stoddard line Extract from J Peirce’s Deed to Nath Emerson of Stoddard STRATHAM. [Originally a part of the “ Squamscott Patent,” granted to Edward Hilton March 12, 1629, and was known as Winnicott. Incorporated as Stratham March 14, 1715-16. A part of the town was annexed to Greenland Dec. 18, 1805. The line between Stratham and Newmarket was established Dec. 28, 1805, but this act was repealed June 17, 1807. Another small tract was annexed to Greenland July 2, 1847. The line with Greenland was established June 23, 1859, and amended June 27, i860. See New Hampshire charters in preceding volumes ; IX, Bouton Town Papers, 777; XIII, Hammond Town Papers, 479 ; Index to Laws, 526; Baptist Churches in N. H., by E. E. Cummings, 1836, p. 22; Lawrence’s N. H. Churches, 1856, p. 138; Deaths, 1741, by S. Lane, 30, N. E. Hist. Gen. Register, 426, and 32, id ., 48; sketch, by J. W. Rollins, Hurd's History of Rockingham County, 1882, p. 542.] 300 CHARTER RECORDS. [. Petition of Stratham Men , 1748.] [Masonian Papers, Yol. 8, p. 27.] Province of \ To the Honr bl Gent 11 proprietors of the Land in New hampsh r j Said province That Latly was purch d of Cap 1 Jn° Tufton Mason Esqu r Colo: Atkinson and others &c : — Wee the Subscribers Humbly peticion That wee May have a Town- ship Thereof Containing Six Miles Square In Some Conveanent place Theirein on Such Conditions as others by y r Honrs Granted or shall Grant — Stratham octob r y e 26 th 1748 — Doubting Nothing But y r Honer s will Answer our potision wee Ever pray — Cotton Wiggin Jonathan Chase william Pottel Jonathan Clark Junr Edward Taylor andrew wiggin jun 1 Jonathan Chase gun r Jonathan Rolings Moses Leavitt Esq r Samuell Leavitt gun r Thomas Chase Bradstret wiggin gun r Richard Callay Davied Haniford Solomon Smith John Smith Joseph young Benjamin mason gun 1 ’ Satchal Rundalet Charls Rundlet Jonathan Leavitt the Reverd m r Rust Richard Sinkler John Nocks Benjamin wason Bradstreet Wiggin Joseph mason the 3 theodor Hi[l]ton Jonathan Clarck Capt 11 foster George Yeasey y e 3 d John Moores John Purmot Bengman Jewet Joseph Jewet Jun r Caniday men James Leavitt Robert Thurston Cape Britan men Joseph Smith Charles glidden Joseph Moriall Nathall Right white Edward young George Yeasey gun r Moses Thurston Stephen Leavitt william Calley Simon wiggin Daniel Mason Joseph Palmer Richard young Jerimiah Yeasey Thomas Yeasey gun r Doctor wiggin Bengman Noris John Thurston Thomas Calley Willeaim Toomson Frances mason John Stockbridge davaid Toomson these mans names to Be aded to the Pertision of Capt n Y easey of stratham they are not Petitioners but if Proper Persons may be added Jonathan Jones Richard Scamon Jonathan sibley John Haniford owen Ranals Deacon Dearborn STRATHAM. 301 Davied Robeson Cap tn fifeld willam Potel John Robrson Jun r John Leavitt John Clarck George Yeasey Samuell clarck Samuell Goohue willam meed [. Another Stratham Petition , 1748.] [Masonian Papers, Yol. 8, p. 28.] province of ( To The Honr bl Theoder Atkinson Esq r and others New hampshire \ proprieters of Mason’s Patent for Lands in New hampshire wee The Subscribers humbly poticion your Honers to Con- firme unto us a quantity of the Said Lands as your Honours shall Think proper according To the Tenor of your other Grants or Con- vayences : Doubting Not but Your Honors will answer our poticion wee Subscriber our Selves your Humble Servants — Strath am Novem br y Thomas Wiggin Josiah Parsons Jun r John hill William Burley Juner Andrew french Joshua Hill Thomas wiggn Moses Kennison Samuel wiggins Juner Samuel piper Josiah Allen Eliphelet Wiggin Joshua Rinston abraham Keneston John Dearborn Ebenezer Barker Nath an el Wiggin Thomas Bracket Nathanel Avery John Weeks Jiner Joseph Mason J ude Allen Andrew Wiggin y e Chas Wiggin Na 11 Piper : fathr moses Wiggins joseph Kinoson e 21* 1748— Thomas Wiggin junr Samuel Yeasey Na 11 Piper Richard Witcher John Avery Bradstret french Thomas glanvil Samuel Allen Andrew wiggin Juner Daniel Allen Isaac foos Jan Jonathan Piper Eleazer alien Timthary Merry Isaac foss Benjamin Cotten William Simson Jun r Jonathan Jewet Reuben Hill Na 11 Rriglit white Jonathan Dockum Josiah wiggin John Allen Samuel Avery John Simson Bradstreet Wiggin Daved french William Moore Josiah sisco John wiggin Samuel wiggin Thomas french William Burly William french Junr henery Wiggin Juner Walter Wiggin Benjamin Barker T uf ten wiggin thorn as odel Ezau Barker thomas Yesey Jr thomas foss Joseph Adams Nathaniel Brackit John Hill Ju r John Piper Ephrim Crockit solomon Kineston Stephen Piper John Daves Bemagm Leavett Samuell pevey Walter Wiggin Juner 302 CHARTER RECORDS. SUNAPEE. [Originally known as Corey' s-town. Granted Nov. 7, 1768, to Oliver Corey and others, and named Saville. Incorporated as Wendell April 4, 1781, and named in honor of John Wendell, of Portsmouth, one of the grantees. The south part of the town was combined with portions of Newport, Newbury, Lemp- ster, and Unity, to constitute the town of Goshen, Dec. 27, 1791. Small tracts were severed and annexed to New London Dec. 11, 1804, and June 19, 1817. The name of the town was changed to Sunapee, July 12, 1850. See New Hampshire charters in preceding volumes ; X, Bouton Province and State Papers, 398, 400, as to participation in movement for union with Vermont towns; XIII, Hammond Town Papers, 494; Index to Laws, 491, 529, 574; sketch, by W. C. Sturoc, Hurd’s History of Sullivan County, 1886, p. 366; Stew- art’s History of the Free Baptists, 1862, p. 502; Lawrence’s N. H. Churches, 1856, p. 473.] [. Petition of Vere RoyseJ] [Masonian Papers, Vol. 8, p. 80.] To the Hon ble Proprietors of Mason's Patent The Petition of Vere Royse in behalf of Zephaniah Clarke of Here- ford in the County of Cheshire in the Province of New Hampshire Gentleman humbly shews — That the said Zephaniah was first incouraged to take up a Hun- dred Acres of Land on condition of setling it in the Township of Saville which he accordingly did & took possession thereof agreeable to the Plan herewith delivered afterwards upon the running of the Curve Line his said hundred Acres fell within the Bounds of Here- ford, which gave him great uneasiness till he received a Letter from Maj r Price to pursue his said Settlement and as he was the Proprie- tor of Hereford (which said Clarke also understood) he would quiet him in his possession of said Tract agreeable thereto, he said Clarke removed with his family on said Land and has built him a large House and got his land under good Improvements and purposes to keep a public House for the benefit of Travellers and has expended all his Capital for the bringing forward said Farm which if taken from him will so distress him as to prove his ruin wherefore he prays from the Hon ble Proprietors a Confirmation of his said Hundred Acres to be reserved for him in Case the Prop” of s d Patent should make a Grant of Hereford And as in duty bound he shall ever pray Vere Rovse in behalf of Zepheniah Clarke SUTTON. 303 [Plan of One Lot . ] SUTTON. [Granted by the Masonian Proprietors Nov. 30, 1749, to Obediah Perry and others, and called Perrystown. The charter was renewed Feb. 24, 1752, and again Aug. 18, 1773. Incorporated as Sutton April 13, 1784, and named from Sutton, Mass. See XII, Hammond Town Papers, 516; Index to Laws, 533 ; History, by Mrs. A. H. Worthen, 2 vols., 1890; sketch, by A. H. Worthen, Hurd’s History of Merrimack County, 1885, p. 627 ; Stewart’s History of the Free Baptists, 1862, p. 252; Baptist Churches in N. H., by E. E. Cummings, 1836, p. 10; proceedings at dedication of soldiers’ monument in Three Dedications, pub. Concord, 1891.] [. Petition for Grant , 1748.] [Masonian Papers, Yol. 8, p. 31.] We the Subscribers in Behalf of Our Selves would Humbly Pray the Gentle Men Proprietors of Masons Patten So Called that you would Grant us a Township of Land upon Such termes as has or Shall be granted to others humble petitionos Obadiah Perrey Jonathan Gile Thomas Foot Benj n Eaton James Graves William Stevens and in So Doing you Daniel Poor Ebenezer Gile John D usten Andrew Stone Edmond Page Samuel Ayer will Greately Oblige your Samuel Stevens Ebenezer Mudget Stephen Dow Thomas Mills Jonathan Stevens Peter Ingalls 304 CHARTER RECORDS. James White Joseph Severance John Currier 3 d Joseph Noyce Caleb Page James Merrell Abiel Knight Samuel Worthen Abraham Perrey Stephen Coffin Ephraim Severance William Brown Joshua Knight James Urin John Webster Sam 11 Little junr Jonathan Poor Ebenezer Perrey John Currier Israel webster John Dow junr James Noyce Jeremiah Page Nathaniel Knight Gershom Pike Obadiali Perrey junr John Perrey Portsm 0 October 27 th 1748 If it be agreable to y e Proprietors we should be glad it Might be Scituated joining upon Contocook Easterly and So upon Merrimack River Six miles and otherwise bounded as to make up Six miles Square ; or however otherwise Scituated as you shall think proper & in behalf of our Selves and y e above named we Subscribe S rs your Humble Petitioners Obadiali Parry Daniel Poor Portsm 0 July 14 th 1749 — y e within Mentioned Tract of land not being to be obtained by y e within Petitioners in their behalf I pray we may have y e tract of Land call’d N° 2 in y e Line of Towns Obadiali Parry [ Another List of Petitioners , 1749.] [Masonian Papers, Vol. 8, p. 31.] Obadiali Parry Timothy Clement Thomas Hale jun r Parker Stevens Edmund Page Benjamin Eatton Jonathan Poor an dew Stone Abraham Parry Steven Poor Jacob woodward Steven whitticker John Ayer juner John Pecker Jun r Samuel Ayer Nathaniel Knight Jun r Thomas Hale Daniel Poor Joseph Noyes Benjamin Hale Zebadiah Sargent David Marsh William Eatton John Currier Jeames Urin Ebnezer Parry Thomas Noyes David Graves Thomas whitticker Samuel Little James Graves Joshua Page William Stevens Aaron Sargent Cutting Marsh Benjamin Eatton Jun John Poor Obadiali Parry juner John Parry James Eatton Ja s Pecker Thomas wyman John webster Rev d M r James CushingRev d M r Edw d Barnard Jacob Hancock Samuel Little jun r John Cogswell jun r James Clements tliomas Folensbee SUTTON. 305 Perry Poor & Clements their Schedule exhibited 25 th octo r 1749 and agreed that y e S d Gentleman & their Associates have a Tract of Land (without a warranty) equal to Six miles square lying to y e Northward of N. 1. & N. 2, in y e Line of Towns (so called) to be laid out clear of other Engagements [Plan of Sutton, 1769.] This Plan was finished November y e 24 th 1749 and it Contains 23040 acers which maks 36 Squair miles or Six miles Squair and it Layetli To the west of Ciar Sargy Hill So Called and is Bounded as followeth : Viz : Begining at a Beach Tree on the line of N° 1 156 pols Dew north from the mouth of a Brook Which Runs into Alms- bury River So Called thence Runing North Sixteen Degrees West Seven miles and Eaighty pols To a Larg Hemlock on the Top of a Hill thence West five Degrees South five miles To a Beach marked with stons a Bout the Same Thence South Sixteen Degrees East Seven miles and Eaighty pols To a white Oak marked on the Line of 20 3 °6 CHARTER RECORDS. No: Five thence East 5 Degrees north five miles To the Bounds first mentioned ^ me Timothy Clements Survay r [ Charter of Sutton, 1749.] [Masonian Proprietors’ Records, Nov. 30, 1749.] Province of } Portsmouth November 30 th 1749 Thursday Six New Hampshire j of the Clock afternoon at the Dwelling house of Ann Slayton widow The Proprietors meet according to Adjournment Voted That there be and hereby is granted unto Thomas Whitacre John Ayer Jun r John Pecker a minor James Cushing Clerk Edward Barnard Clerk John Cogswell Ju nr Timothy Eaton Moses Clements Samuel Clements Joshua Page Zebediah Sargent Aaron Sargent David Marsh Cutting Marsh James Urin Deacon James Eaton James Pecker Stephen Whitacre all of Haverhill, John Poor Jonathan Plumer Mark Plumer a minor John Plumer Jun r Stephen Poor a minor all of Newbury, John Barker of Andover Asa Kimball of Bradford Obadiah Perry Timothy Clements James Clements a minor, Daniel Poor Samuel Little John Webster Jun r Jacob Han- cock Nathanael Knight Jun r Samuel Little Jun r Tho s Hale Tho s Fol- lensby Stephen Woodward Humphrey Noyes Daniel Roberts Joseph Noyes Thomas Hale Jun r Benj a Hale William Stephens Parker Stev- ens a minor Edmund Page Benj a Eaton William Eaton Benj a Eaton Jun r Jon a Poor a minor John Currier Andrew Stone Obadiah Perry Jun r Abraham Perry Ebenezer Perry John Perry a minor Thomas Noves Jacob Woodward all of Haverhill District; James Graves Samuel Ayer and David Graves a minor all of Kingston. — In Equal shares on the Terms Conditions & limitations herein after expressed all that Tract of Land within the Province of Newhamp- shire Containing the Extent and quantity of six miles square Bounded as follow’s namely, laying West of Kyahsargy Hill so called & begin- ning at a Beech Tree on the Line of Number One So called one hun- dred and fifty six Poles due north from the mouth of a Brook which run’s into Almsbury River so Called from thence running North six- teen Degrees west seven miles and Eighty Poles to a large Hemlock standing on the Top of a Hill Thence West five Degrees South five Miles to a Beech Tree marked with stones about it — Thence south sixteen Degrees East Seven miles and Eighty Poles to a white Oak marked on the Line of Number Two so called. Thence east five SUTTON. 307 Degrees North five miles to the Place Begun at. To have and to hold to them their Heirs and assigns in equal shares on the following Conditions Terms and limitations That is to say that eighteen shares in the said Tract of Land be and hereby are reserved to the use of the said Proprietors the Grantors in these Presents their Heirs and Assigns the same to lay on the Eastern side of said Tract of land and to be laid out at the same time the other shares shall be laid out and numbred from one to Eighteen and that the Rest and Remainder of the said Tract of land (saving what is herein after mentioned to be otherwise Improv’d) be divided into Sixty three shares or Rights and each share into two distinct Lots one of which is to contain a hun- dred acres and the other Lot all the rest of the Land belonging to each respective share except as before excepted. — That the lots which belong to the said sixty three shares be numbred with the same number beginning with nineteen & ending with Eighty One. That the said land be so laid out within the space of Eight months from the day of granting the same, and then the said sixty three shares to be drawn in the usual manner of Drawing for lots of land in such Cases and that the same be done at Portsmouth under the direction of the Grantors and that there be one Draft for the lots which belong unto one share — That the Eighteen shares reserv’d for the L se of the Grantors be drawn for, by the Grantors only at the same time of drawing the other lots. That one of said sixty three shares be for the first minister of the Gospel who shall be settled there and Continue there during his life or untill he shall be regu- larly dismiss’d to hold to him his Heirs and assigns, and one other of the said sixty three shares be for and towards the support of the Gos- pel ministry there for ever and that the hundred acre lots belonging unto these two shares shall be laid out as near the Place where the meeting house shall be built as Conveniently may be and not drawn for as the other lots. That there be ten acres of land left in some Convenient Place, as the major part of the said Grantees shall deter- mine within the said Boundarys (exclusive of the eighteen reserved shares) for building a meeting house and school house upon and to improve for a training field a burying Place and other publick Use to which the Inhabitants there shall see Cause to apply it. That one other of said sixty three shares be for the use and support of a school there for ever — That the owners of the other sixty shares make a regular settlement there at their own Cost & Charge in the following manner namely that within two Years from the Granting of said land they shall have a saw Mill built fit for sawing & making Boards & other Timber for the use of the settlers there and that the same be put under such a regulation as shall best serve the interest of the 3°S CHARTER RECORDS. Settlement and that each settler may be serv'd on reasonable Terms. That within Three years from the said Term each owner of the said shares shall have three acres of land there clear'd and fitted for Til- lage or mowing. That within four Years from said Term each owner shall have a house of sixteen foot square or equal thereto (with a Cel- lar under it) built on his respective share and fit to live in. That within five Years from said Term there shall be thirty families living on such Tract of land. That within six Years from said Term there shall be a meeting House built and Preaching there and sixty families living on said Tract of land. That within seven Years from said Term the said owners settle a Gospel minister there — That each owner of said sixty shares Pay to such Person or Persons as shall be appointed by the major part of the said owners to receive the same his Proportion of all sums of money from time to time as the major Part of said Owners shall determine to be necessary to be paid for the Carrying on the said settlement and accomplishing the matters and things aforesaid and what shall be herein after mentioned for the making Perfecting and finishing the said settlement. That there be reserv'd in the most Convenient Place in said Tract of Land (exclu- sive of the said reserv'd Eighteen shares) a Place for a saw mill with a Convenient Quantity of land for a Pond Yard Brow &c not exceed- ing Twenty acres That in laying out the 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 in Ranges where the land will admit of it & land left between the Ranges for highways of four Rods wide and between the lots of two Rods wide where the land will admit of it — That a Plan of the whole when laid out be made at the Charge of the Owners of the said sixty shares and return’d to the said Grantors at the time of drawing the lots at the Charge of the said Owners. That the Eighteen reserv'd shares be exonerated acquitted and fully Discharg’d & exempted from paying any Charge towards making the said settlement and not held to the Conditions limited to the other shares nor liable to pay any Charge Tax or assessment until improvd by the respective owners thereof or any under them. That all w 7 hite Pine trees fit for masting the Royal Navy be and hereby are reserv'd and Granted unto his majesty his Heirs and successors for ever for that purpose. That in Case the Grantees and Owners of the said sixty shares shall neglect fail and omit to make and perfect the said settlement in manner as aforesaid according to the true intent and meaning of the several Articles matters and things herein before mentioned bv them to be done such Grantees and owners shall for- feit their Right and Interest in the said Granted Premises to the Grantors their Heirs and assigns, (saving to such of the said Owners SUTTON. 309 as shall have done and perform’d his part and Proportion of the said Articles matters and things his Respective Right and share of the said Premises) and the said Grantors their Heirs and assigns may and it shall be lawfull for them or any Person or Persons for them and in their Name and Stead to enter into and upon the Rights and shares so forfeited and the same again to seize take Possession of and apply to their own use — Provided that if a war with the Indians should again happen before the expiration of the several limitations for the doing & performing the said matters and things respectively then the same Term of Years to be allowed of after that Impediment shall be remov’d. — And further it is to be understood that the grantors do not War- rant the Premises and further it is the true intent and meaning of the Grantors and Grantees in these Presents that in Case any of the Said sixty shares shall be forfeited to the Grantors by default of Per- forming the Proportion of Duty in making the said Settlement as afores rl the said Grantors shall oblige those to whom they shall Dis- pose of such shares to do & Perform their Proportion of these Arti- cles matters and things herein enjoyn’d and required of the Original Grantees and in Case the said Grantors shall hold such forfeited Rights to themselves or any of them they shall do and Perform all their Proportion of Duty and pay their Proportion of all Charge as is herein requir’d of the Original Grantees Provided nevertheless that the said Grantees do & shall when they shall be thereunto respec- tively requested by the Grantors Enter into a Contract and person- ally oblige themselves and their respective Heirs & assigns to do and perform the several Articles matters and things by those Persons the Grantees before mentioned to be performd and done by signing and Executing such Instrument or Instruments in writing as by Council Team’d in the law shall be advised and devised for that Purpose. [Draft of Lots, 1750.] [Masonian Papers, Yol. 8, p. 32, and Proprietors’ Records, Vol. 6, p. 236, and Vol. 7, p. 66.] Province of ) Portsmouth July 11 th 1750 Wensdav at the New IIampsh r ( house of Ann Slayton — At a Proprietors Meeting held by adjournment — The Draft of y e Lots of the Township granted to Obadiah Parry & others 30 th Nov 1 1749 — and of y e Eighteen Lots layed out for y e Proprietors y fi Grantors 3io CHARTER RECORDS. order of drawing 1 st Division 2 d Division N° 1 Stephen woodward . N° 30 N° 46 2 Benj a Hale 21 15 3 John Pecker a minor 39 45 4 David Graves a minor 46 61 5 Tho 8 Follensby 59 5 6 John Webster jun r . 65 22 T School Lot 60 4 8 Eben r Parry 29 59 9 Tho s Hale 54 21 10 James Clements a minor . 70 16 11 Tho s Hale jun r * . 73 3 12 John Currier . 20 17 13 John Poor 74 54 14 John Parry a minor 25 35 15 Parker Stevens a minor . 33 11 16 Asa Kimbal 26 60 17 Mark Plummer a minor . 70 51 18 James Pecker . 63 19 19 John Barker 41 20 20 Sam 11 Clements 44 24 21 David Marsh . 49 60 22 Humphrey Noyes 76 56 23 Jacob Hancock 28 36 24 Abraham Parry 35 10 25 James Graves 38 39 *6 Joseph Noyes . 64 12 27 Obadiah Parry 22 32 28 Edward Barnard Clerk . 55 9 29 Jonathan Poor minor 77 58 30 Aaron Sargent 81 29 31 Thomas Noyes 58 6 32 William Stevens 80 48 33 Zebediah Sargent 27 29 35 John Cogswell jun r . 19 14 36 Moses Clements 42 26 37 Sam 11 Ayer 56 8 38 Jon a Plummer 53 13 39 Andrew Stone 67 23 40 Benj a Eaton jun r 52 53 41 Jacob Woodward 45 28 42 Sam 11 Little 50 52 43 John Ayer jun r 43 27 SUTTON. 311 44 Joshua Page .... 71 2 45 Edmund Page .... 37 44 46 Daniel Poore .... 40 40 47 Timothy Eaton 61 43 48 Timothy Clements . 69 31 49 Stephen whitacre 34 37 50 John Plummer jun r 47 33 51 Benj a Eaton .... 66 57 52 Dan 11 Roberts .... 51 18 58 Deacon James Eaton 62 47 54 Nath 11 Knight jun r . 23 62 55 Tho s Whitacre 24 41 56 James Cushing Clerk 46 34 57 Cutting Marsh 75 55 58 William Eaton 36 38 59 Stephen Poor a minor 68 25 60 Obadiah Parry jun r 72 1 61 James Urin .... 78 50 62 Samuel Little jun r . 57 7 Ministerial Lot 32 63 Ministry ..... 31 5 The Draft of Eighteen shares Reserved to the Use of v e O t/ etors y e Grantors — viz'' — order of draft Propri- N° 1 Law Lot N° 1 N° 1 — on y e plan 2 Mason & Thomlinson 6 3 John Rindge 17 4 Sam 11 Solly & Clem 6 March . 3 5 Tho 3 Wallingford . 18 6 Richard Wibird 9 7 George Jaffrey 15 8 Theodore Atkinson 11 9 Mark Hunk g Wentworth 7 10 Joshua Peirce 2 11 John Moffatt 8 12 John Thomlinson . 5 13 John Wentworth . 16 14 Thomas Packer 13 15 Law Lot N° 2 14 16 Mary Moore & Peirce . 4 312 CHARTER RECORDS. 17 Meserve Blanchard Green & March 18 Jotham Odiorne ..... 10 a true Draft — attest: Geo: Jaffrey Prop 18 Cl [Petition for Forfeited Lots , 1751.] [ Mason i an Papers, Vol. 8, p. 33.] May 15 — 1751 The Desier of the mager Part of the Proprioters of the tract of Land Granted to Cap 1 Obediah Parry and others is that the Granttors would Be pleased to Put us in a way to Git the money that we have Raised and shall have a Casion to Raise for the setteling the tract of Land By Dissposing of their Rights that are Delinquent to som body that will pay the money it is the desier of our sosiety that you would Be pleased to Give the Rights that are forfited to the Granttees that thay might disspose of them and might sell them to Such men as would Com in and set down with us there and pay there part of money with us. we should Be glad if we might have the Liberty of dis sposing of them By a vote of the mager part of us to sell them to such men as the sosioty shall Like Thomas Hale Daniel Poor Committy The Right of asa Kimbel have not yet Ever paid to our treasurer one penny Bradford John Barker of Andover Samuel ayers of Haverhill James Urin of Haverhill Jacob Hancock of Hamsted Stephen wodwoord of Plastow Timothy Eatton of Haverhill these man Neglect to Pay there money we must wlioly Rest the affare while we Have further Conforma- tion from your onners. [. Another Petition for Forfeited Lots , 1751.] [Masonian Papers, Vol. 8, p. 34.] To y e Honurable Propritors of John Tufton Mason Esq r Rights in the Unaproprated Lands In the Province of New Hampsliier — SUTTON. 313 Gentelmen This is to Pray the Favour of your Honours To Put us into Sum method How we shall Settel a Township Granted To Perry and other — Inasmuch as many of our Propriters or Sosietv are Back or allto Gether Negelent and Neglects To Pay any thing Tords the Defraying the Charges allredy Risen And we Know not what to Do — and theirfore we Prays your Honers favour, To Tak the Delinquent to your Selves or Put us into Sum Method Which way we shall Do that may Be most for the Intrest of our Province as well as our own Who are all Well wishers To the Promotion and Intrest of all our fellow creators Plastow September y e 23 d 1751 Joshua Page Daniel Poor James Graves Edw d Barnard Israel Webster Edmund Page Thomas Noyes Samuel Little jun r Joseph Noyce Timothy Clements Samuel Little John Pecker Jun r John Currier Timothy Eaton James Heath Nathaniel Knight John Cogswell Jun r Thomas Hale James Clements Ja s Pecker Jonathan Poor Stephen Whitteker Thomas Whitteker Zebediah Sargant Cutten Marsh [ Grrant of Forfeited Shares to Town Proprietors , 1751.] [Masonian Proprietors’ Records, Nov. 27, 1751, and Masonian Papers, Vol. 8, p. 85.] Province of ) Portsmouth November the 27 th 1751. Wenes- New Hampshire J day six of the Clock afternoon at the house of Ann Slayton the Proprietors meet according to Adjournment Whereas the said Proprietors on the thirtieth day of November 1749. Granted to Thomas Whiteacre John Ayer Jun r John Pecker & others a Certain Tract of Land of the quantity of Six miles Square Bounded as follows Viz fc laying West of Kyahsargy Hill so called & Beginning at a Beech tree on the line of Number one so Called one hundred and fifty Six poles Due North from the mouth of a Brook which runs into Almsbury River so Called from thence running north Sixteen Degrees West Seven miles & Eighty Poles to a large Hem- lock Standing on the top of a Hill thence West five Degrees South five miles to a Beech Tree marked with Stones about it Thence 3i4 CHARTER RECORDS. South Sixteen Degrees East Seven Miles & Eighty Poles to a white Oak marked on the line of Number Two So Called thence East five Degrees North five miles to the place Begun at — on Certain Terms & under such Limitations & Conditions as are Set forth in said Grant as may fully appear by said Grant Reference thereto being had among which Terms & Conditions there is this Reservation That in Case the Grantees & owners of Sixty Shares (therein Referred to) shall neglect fail & omit to make & perfect the said Settlement in manner as aforesaid that is as is Directed to & Set forth among the Limitations & Conditions aforesaid — According to the true Intent & meaning of the Several Articles matters & things therein mentioned by the owners of the Sixty Shares afores d to be done & performed such Grantees & owners shall Forfeit their Right & Interest in the said Granted Premises to the Grantors their Heirs & assigns — which also may more fully appear by Refference to said Grant — Now upon further Consideration of said Grant for promoting & advancing the Settlement according to the Intention of Said Propritors in making the said Grant and for a further Encouragement to those of the said Grantees who have or shall duly Comply with the Conditions & Terms aforesaid therefore Voted that the said Proprietors on the Conditions herein after mentioned Do hereby give Grant Remise Release assign Set over Convey & Confirm to the said Grantees last mentioned all the Interest property Right Inheritance Estate Claim & Demand whatsoever of the said Proprietors to Such forfeitures and forfeited shares both that are already & that shall hereafter be for- feited according to the true Intent & meaning & the force & Effect of the said Grant & Reservation aforesaid & All Right Authority Inter- est Estate Property Claim & Demand whatsoever which the said Proprietors have by Virtue of the Reservation afores d & any other Clause & Paragraph in the said Grant whereby the Right to such forfeitures is Vested in the said Proprietors to have & to hold to the said Grantees & their Associates heirs & assigns forever Provided nevertheless & on this Condition only Viz 1 that the said Grantees Settle or Cause the same to be Settled according to the true Intent & meaning of the said Grant first made & as is therein Set forth But in Default thereof such forfeited Rights & Shares shall revert & remain the property Right & Estate of the said Grantors their Heirs & assigns Exempted & Exonerated of & from the Expence burthen & Duty of Settling & Improving the same only at their Will & pleasure — SUTTON. 315 [ Correction of Former Vote , 1752.] [Masonian Proprietors’ Records, Feb. 24, 1752.] Whereas the said Proprietors at their Meeting held at Portsmouth aforesaid on the twenty seventh Day of November Anno Dom : 1751 past a Vote in Addition to a Vote past by them the thirtieth Day of Novemb r Anno Dom : 1749 Granting to Thomas Whittacre John Ayre Jun r John Pecker & others a Certain Tract of Land Described in the said Vote of the thirtieth of Novemb 1 aforesaid with the Terms and Conditions on which it was Granted which additional Vote was Designed to grant and Convey all such Rights & Shares of the Grantees named in the first V ote afores' 1 in & to the said Tract of Land, which according to the true Intent & meaning of the said Vote, then were or thereafter should be forfeited to the grantors — To those of the said Grantees who had not & should not so forfeit their said Rights & Shares. But yet on this Condition that those Persons who should so take the said Forfeited Shares should Settle the same ac- cording to the Tenor and meaning of the said first Vote within a Limited time which time was wholly Omitted & not Expressed in the Drafting the said Additional Vote by mere over Sight — Therefore Voted that The term of one year shall be & hereby is Granted & allowed to the Grantees of the said forfeited shares their Respective Heirs & assigns (according to the true Intent & meaning of the said second Vote) to perform & finish a Settlemen 1 thereof (according to y e Tenor of the s d first Vote) To be Computed from the time each Respective Forfeiture Accrewed or Shall hereafter accrew — [Names of Settlers, 1771.] [Masonian Papers, Vol. 8, p. 36.] Setlers Liveing in Perries Town Samuel Peesley — Cornelious Been Ephraim Gile Jacob Davis Samuel Been Tlios Cheeney a Saw mill Some more Trees Cut Down [Endorsed] Return of the Settlers in Perrys-Town — July 1771 316 CHARTER RECORDS. [ G-eorge Jaffrey to Town Proprietors , 1771.] [Masonian Papers, Vol. 8, p. 87.] Gentlemen The Proprietors of the Lands purchased of Jn° Tufton Mason Esqu r in New Hampshire, being Sensible that the Tract of Land called Parry’s Town, is chiefly forfeited to the Grantors, by the Grantees not complying with the Terms and Conditions of their Grant — and the Grantors are therefore determined imediately to re-enter, and reasume their former Right & Possession of the forfeited Rights and Shares in Said Tract, and dispose of the Same by a new grant on new Terms — of which this is to advise you, that if any of you are disposed to make application to y e Grantors for a new Grant, you must Speedily apply for y e Same, or the forfeited land will be conveyed to others — by direction from y e Proprietors — this is from Gen 1 y r Hum : serv 1 Portsm 0 July 18 th 1771 — Geo: Jaffrey Prop rs Cl To the Granteers of the Tract of Land called Parry’s Town in New Hampshire — \ [Plan of Sutton, 1771 .] / I ' , i " ■ \ ' V. ' . f- ?** . / "• / ^ ! ■ ■ W fe 1 o. ? ' ' / ; [. Improvements in Sutton , 1771.] [Extract from Masonian Papers, Vol. 6, p. 49.] SUTTON. 3i7 QJ bJ D C be OJ C TS • r-H eg s cc +-> a r* a oj > o a. a <=3 a £ o H CC QJ QJ Ph QJ o qj o eg QJ S o ^■5 OJ a ^ -a C03 be - a o .a a t-H CC a -t-j O QJ 2 Ph ^ « Jo a G £ o u Q o 23 £ Sh O g o }* 1— 1 NO VO O O Tt to co rj- un -d* sq;uoiu to " I t has N y on L 1 or 2 ” 1 1 SJB9A 2 ^ a-J -*-» j d- c/5 CO 2 3 o £ ■o a 00 o >-l c *- £ 3h 23 CO bjo a •r -d ^ 23 m o tg Oh =° to ro hoi H- to rj- 6 -% £g r-^> a to O N O £ Ph tfl — » frt ^r\ n g ^ in 0 J u — O O C c . G O Ga D o « v ^ - a T3 C eg eg G3 — >3 JS tu _g o 11 eg n Pt 0 > Z ^ *— d ^ ^ C O .5 u ^ s ^ N r- CT 1 ■“ _ aj c to c a a c of y o 5 o a; a s. r* o eg pi •— .o^ H ■— >— >W , Committee Peter Pearse ) To the Proprietors of Masons Patent at their Meeting this Day [ Complaint about Road , 1771.] [Masonian Papers, Vol. 8, p. 39.] Merrimack Sept r 23 d 1771 Sir There is a piece of land belonging to Mason’s proprietors, lying between Parrystown & Almsbury, commonly called the Gore, through which the road from Boscawen to Charlestown passes. You being usually the Moderator of s d proprietors meetings, I have taken the liberty of applying to you, to inform that the Com tee appointed to see that road compleated, employed people last Fall to cut Trees out of the way, that Horses & Sleds might pass, & it must be compleated very soon, all the rest of road, except through Hereford (w ch M r Fisher engages shall be done immediately) is fit for Teams to pass. It wou’d be a great hardship, and is what the proprietors, we pre- sume, do not desire, that those people who at a great expence, have made a good Road thirty or forty miles, should be deprived of the benefit of it, thro the want of abo 1 a mile & an half, it being not more than that thro’ the Gore. We have tried several persons & their price is near Eighteen pounds L m y ^ mile this may appear an ex- travagant demand but the difficulties that attend making a Road there, owing to its being very Rocky, uneven & so soft in many place as to require Causeying, & several bridges to build, must necessarily make it expensive. We expect an answer very soon from some of them what will be their Lowest price w ch we do not expect will be much short of the sum mention’d. If the proprietors can do it cheaper, we shal rejoice at it & be glad to be eased of the trouble I am S r with great Respect Y r most hble serv 1 E’ G’ Lutwyche The Hon ble Tlieo Atkinson Esq r 320 CHARTER RECORDS. [Atkinson to Jaffrey about Foregoing Complaint , 1771.] [Masonian Papers, Yol. 8, p. 40.] Portsm 0 Octob r 9 — 1771 7 o Clk A M S r I rec d the Enclosed Letter this moment & being unacquainted with the methods taken by the Proprietors can make no proper answer to Coll Lutwyclie & which I must beg to referr to you & any others of the Propriety this Way must be cutt at our Expence or the Land will be Sold & I Question wether in will Sell for more than will make the road — I wish the weather & your Leizure would permit you to See some others & give Coll Lutwych Powar to Agree with Persons to finish our Parte if he (being one of the Com tee ) agrees we can have no future demand if otherways we may have disagreeable afterclaps I hope you’l write the Coll on the Affair I am with much respect Your obliged Humble SeP Theodore Atkinson [An sic er from Col. Luticyche , 1771.] [Masonian Papers, Yol. 8, p. 41.] Sir Merrimack Oct r 21. 1771 Your favor of the 8 th ^ post I rec d & should have answer'd on his return, but when he call'd on me, it slip'd my mind; w ch neglect I take the earliest opp y of atoning for, by informing you, that I shall do every thing in my power, to get the Road compleated upon reason- able terms. A person w r as with me this morning, who insisted on Twelve pounds ^ Mile but we did not come to any agreement, if I can't get it done cheaper must come to his Terms. It will give w T e great pleasure to render either you or the proprie- tors any service in the power of Sir Your most Obed vHble serv* E G Lutwvche The Hon ble Geo Jaffrey Esq r SUTTON. 321 \_Lutivyche to Jaffrey , 1771.] [Masonian Papers, Vol. 8, p. 42.] Merrimack Dec r 2 d 1771 Sir I thought the Road, thro' the Gore, was near compleated: and your favor of the 22 d w ch came to hand the 80 th , did not a little perplex me, w oh I was relieved from last night, by receiving information that the person I had agreed with to finish it, when he view’d the Road was discourag d from undertaking it, at twelve pounds ^ Mile. The Season is so far advanced, it is now, next to impossible to compleat it ’till next Spring, so that necessity supplies the place of inclination, to comply with your request, in behalf of the proprietors. The Road is, to be sure, very bad to make, & I made enquiry if that was the best place for a Road, & rec d information it was; It seems they could have found a place less Rocky but more Hilly, w ch would not so well accomodate the public. The Com tee you will easily see, have no Authority to Lay out a road, but were to see one made where it was mark’d; Yet we have alter’d it in several places, & should have done the same in the Gore, if we could have seen any advantage that would have resulted from it. We shall nevertheless rejoice if a better can be found. There was something done on that Road, by our ord 1 ', to enable horses to pass last Fall; the expence of w ch I will Lay before you soon. The Com tee flatter themselves that the public spiritness of the pro- prietors, will induce them to take the earliest opportunity in the Spring, to have the Road finish’d, as the new settlements Suffer many inconveniencs for want of it, & they in a great measure lose the ben- efit of the expence of making a Road from Charlestown It will at all times give me pleasure to evince my respect for the proprietors & to convince you how much I am Sir Y r very lible serv* E G Lutwyche [. Petition for More Time , 1772.] [Masonian Papers, Vol. 8, p. 43.] To the Grantees of John Tuften Mason Esq r The Memorial of a Com tee from the Proprietors of Perrys Town So Called humbly Sheweth Whereas it was resolved Some Months Ago by a Com tee of the 21 322 CHARTER RECORDS. Masonian Proprieters that the Proprietors of Said Perrys Town Should Surrender to the Masonian proprietors fifteen rights in Said Town for their Neglect to perform the Conditions of their Grant and for granting a further term for Settlenfi — A Copy of which resolve was laid before the proprietors of Said Town in their Meeting on the 5th day of November last when it was Voted and Resolved Viz “we “ think the terms proposed too hard and that our Com tee apply to “ the Masonian Proprietors or their Com tee for More favourable terms” — we Therefore Pray that you will Again take the matter under con- sideration — and as it is difficult now to determine what rights Should be forfieted we request that you will grant Us a Term not more then one year to Compleat the Settlenff conditioned for a full and final forfieture of all the rights that Shall not be duly Setled in that term or Such other terms And Conditions as You may think reasonable Portsm 0 May : 1772 Enoch Bartlet Josiah Bartlett [. Letter from Town Committee , 1772.] [Masonian Papers, Vol. 8, p. 44.] To the Com tee of Masons Propriety Gent : Your proposals of the 29 th of May was laid before the proprietors of Perrys Town in their Meeting on the 8 th of June instant when it was Voted that we As a Comt ee Should apply to the Masonian Pro- prietors and fully Settle terms as we might think proper, But as it was a thin Meeting and Not quallified for Such vote and many of the Greatest Proprietors do object to the Proceedings or to any applica- tion at present therefore we cannot pretend to fully adjust and Settle the affair — The terms proposed are Such that it does Amount to Ten dollars on Each right those that are Setled included, which Are far harder then we expected or yet hope for For by them not only the rights of many may be forfieted but their Bonds also, and the} 7 who pay the money if but 40 or 50 in Number will be obliged to defray the whole Charge as a Town for highways Preaching &c which would put those who incline to go forward into a perplex’d Situation There can be no application regularly made by a Com tee with power to close the affair till a meeting is called for that purpose As Some of the principal Proprietors are averse to making proposals we do conclude that it would be best for all Such of the delinquent Proprietors as are willing to Join in a Petition To request of the SUTTON. 3 2 3 Masonian Proprietors, that they may on reasonable terms with Proper Conditions be quieted in their rights by a Grant Made to them of their Respective rights by the former grant and of all the Remainder of the 60 rights in S d Town (those which are adjudg'd Setled Excepted) with a reserve that Said Remainder not Setled Shall be for the petitioners associated, they for Some Months giving preference to those who were proprietors of them by the former grant and after that term of months to Such persons as they may admit on reasonable terms We would propose that if every other Proprietor on admission or at the making the grant give Bond for a due Settlem 1 it may also be injoined on those who have Setled there And Not compleated their Settlements — And considering the advantage the Masonian Prop rs may expect by forfieted rights and on the forfieture of Bonds we con- clude that they will be content with four or five dollars for the reinstating each delinquent — And we pray that they will consider And State the terms And Conditions they would Make with Such Petitioners and it will Oblige a Considerable Number of Said Pro- prietors — and y r Humb e Serv ts — June 16 th 1772 — Enoch Bar tie t Timothy Ladd [. Proposals of Masonian Proprietors , 1772.] [Masonian Papers, Vol. 8, p. 45.] Portsmouth July 22 d 1772 Mem 0 of the 2 d Proposals of the Com 1 of Masons Propriety, to the Comt e of the Proprietors of Parrys Town, Viz 1 — The Grantees pay unto the Grantors X120 L M y on Acco’t of the first Grant not being comply'd with — A new Charter to be made to the Grantees, with two Years time to full fill the terms of the Old one (excepting settling a Minister), All the Rights that hath not the duty done at the Expiration of the two Years, to Revert to the Grantors — The Grantees in one Month after the two years is out to give the Grantors on Oath an Account of all the Settlements & Improvements in Said Town, Personall Security for Settlement to be give, as by the first Grant — By desire of the Committee Peter Pearse 3 2 4 CHARTER RECORDS. [. Agreement for Settlement , 1772.] [Masonian Papers, Vol. 8, p. 46.] Province of \ New Hampshire > Portsmouth Aug 1 7 th 1772 Rockingham ss ) Memorandum of an agreement made this day, between the Committee of Mason’s Propriety and a Committee of the Proprietors of Parry’s Town viz 1 that the masonian Propriety shall make & execute a new grant, or charter of said Parry’s Town to such Persons as hold under the former Grantees or Proprietors of said Town giving them the Liberty of two years from the 5 th of Novem- ber next to fulfill the terms injoined by the former grant (setling a minister excepted) and that the rights that hath not the duty of Set- tlement done on them at the expiration of said two years, shall be for- feited to those of the Proprietors of said Town who shall have corn- pleated their Settlements, who shall have full power to enter on all such rights, and to have one year from the 5 th November 1774 to per- form the Settlements, which being performed, shall have an absolute right to dispose of them as they shall think proper, but at the expir- ation of three years from the 5 th Nov r 1772 every Grantees right or share in said Town whereon the duty of settlement is not fully com- plyed with, shall revert to the Grantors their Heirs or Assigns, and in Consideration of said grant, or charter the said Grantees of Parry’s Town, to give good security for the payment of one hundred Pounds lawfull money in three months from the Above date N B it was agreed before Signing that one Year More be Alow d for SettlenT Enoch Bartlet Josiah Bartlett Timothy Ladd Sam 11 White Mem 0 it is a Gree’d by the Proprietors of Masons Patent that a Grant be made out agreable to the within Agreement the Grantees complying on their part, with the agreement Portsm 0 Aug 1 18 th 1772 at the Proprietors Meeting attest. Geo : Jaffrey Prop rs Cl Portsm 0 Aug 1 12 1773 Rec d of Enoch Bartlet of Haverhill Esq 1 ' Fifty Pounds Lawfull money in part of the within mentioned Sum of One hundred Pound and it is Agreed by the Said Bartlett in behalf of the Committee for Parrys Town so Called, with the Committee of Masons Proprietors that Interest shall be paid for the within men- tioned One hundred Pounds from the time it was Payable by the SUTTON. 325 within Agreement to the payment of the same with said Interest, and that notwithstanding the money be not paid Agreable to said Agree- ment. Yet at the next meeting of the Proprietors which stands adjorn d to Wednesday next the Proprietors will Pass the Grant Agreed upon on Payment of the Remainder of the money and Interest afores d or good Security fpr Payment of the Same with y e Interest within Six Months from this Date — By Order and in Behalf of said Proprietors Committee — a Copy Geo Jaffrey [. Petition of Jonathan Carleton , 1772.] [Masonian Papers, Vol. 8, p. 47.] To the Honorabell Gentelmen Purchasers of the Honor 1 John Tuf- ten masons Patten in the Province of New Hamps hr in New England — The Petision of the Subscriber Humbly Sheweth — That whereas I am apointed by the Honora bl Judge of Probates for the Countey of Rockingham, Gardean and trustee of the Estate of Thomas Hale of Adkinson minor, Sone and onely heir of Thomas Hale of Hampstead who Deceas* aboute Seventeen years Since — and Left Thomas Hale of Said Adkinson Granfather to the Said Thomas Hale minor Sur- vifeing his Sone Thomas of Hampstead, Gave by will to his Granson Thomas a Rite in Perrys Town So Caul d and through the Neglect of frinds, or Sume misfortune, the Said write is not Setled according to the Charter of Said Town Ship and thereby forfited, and Your Peti- sinor Since apointed Gardean as afores d which is of Late, hath paid all Charge on s d write, In Clearing the Grate Roade through S d Town, and as your Honor s hath agreed with the propriators of S d Township for a Sertain Sum of money, and Gave them a further Limated time for the Settlement thereof, your petisionor prays your Honors to Consider this promising Youth, and bestow upon him his parte of the Charge on his Rite, for the Sum of money agreed for, for the new Charter and privalage in further Setling Said Town, and Since the S d Thomas hath bin under my Care, I have Bound him oute to a Trade, and he haveing no money Left him by his father, nor any Incum of the Estate Left him by his Granfather, your petisionor prays Your Honors, to take the affair Into Consideration and bestow that Charity that in your wisdom Shall think fit And Your Petisinor In Dutey Bound Shall Ever pray Dated Hampstead Septe" 1 11 1772 — Jonathan Carleton 326 CHARTER RECORDS. [Sutton Charter Renewed , 1773.] [Masonian Proprietors’ Records, Aug. 18, 1773.] Province of \ Portsmouth August 18 th 1773, Wednesday three New Hampshire j of the Clock afternoon at the dwelling house of James Stoodly Esq r Innholder, The Proprietors meet according to Adjournment — Whereas the said Proprietors on the thirtieth day of November A D 1749. Granted to Thomas Whitacre, John Ayer jun r John Pecker and others, a certain tract of land of the quantity of Six miles square, commonly called by the name of Parrys Town, bounded as it is at large set forth in said Grant, on certain Terms and under such limitations and conditions as are contained in the same Grant, as will fully appear by refference thereto — And Whereas the said Proprie- tors afterwards at a legal meeting held at Portsmouth by adjourn- ment on Wednesday the twenty seventh day of November, A D 1751. at the house of Ann Slayton, upon farther consideration of said Grant, and for further encouragement to those of said Grantees who had complyed or should duly comply with the conditions and terms of said Grant, Voted that said Proprietors Grant, remise, release, assign, sett over, convey & confirm to the said Grantees last mentioned, all the right and property of the said Grantors, to such forfeitures and forfeited Shares, as were, or should be forfeited, according to the true intent and meaning of the conditions of said first Grant, to hold to said last mentioned Grantees upon condition that they settle or cause the same to be settled according to the true intent and meaning of said first Grant, but in default thereof the same to remain and revert to the said Grantors, as mention’d in said first Grant, as will among other things fully appear by said Vote. — Whereas the said Proprietors at their legal Meeting held at Ports- mouth aforesaid on Monday the twenty fourth day of February A D 1752 by adjournment at the house of Ann Slayton, by another Vote in addition to said lastmentioned Vote, granted and allowed the Term of one year to the Grantees of the said forfeited Shares, their respective Heirs & Assigns, according to the true intent of said second vote, to perform the settlement thereof (according to the terms of said first Grant) to be computed from the time that each respective forfeiture accrued, or should Accrue, — And Whereas the time for the performance of the conditions contained in said first and additional Grants, is long past, and the conditions thereof unper- formed, whereby the property of said Granted Lands, hath reverted to the said Grantors, and for the breach of said conditions, the said Grantors have reentered into & upon each of said Shares, and thereby have become reseized of the whole of said Granted Land. And SUTTON. 327 Whereas the said Grantees, and their assigns being duly convinced that said Land is justly forfeited according to the conditions of said first Grant, and having solicited said Grantors to indulge the said Grantees and their Assigns, with a longer time to perform the condi- tions of the said first Grant, and to dispence with the settlement of a Minister according to one condition Mention’d in said first Grant, and the said Grantors being desirous to encourage the settlement of said Land, and to give said Grantees, and their Assigns all reasonable indulgence for that Purpose. — Therefore (according to agreement made with said Grantees the 7 th day of August 1772) — Voted That the said Thomas Whitacre, John Ayer jun r John Pecker and others mention’d in said first Grant, and their respective Heirs and Assigns have two years from the fifth day of November next, to perform the conditions limitations & Reservations contained in the said first Grant, (Except the settling a Minister there, which condition only, is hereby released by said Grantors) that all the Rights or Shares in said Granted lands, whereon the duty of settle- ment shall not be performed, within the said term of two Years last- mention’d, in manner as mention’d in said first Grant, shall be forfeited and belong to such of said Grantees, their heirs and Assigns, as shall have compleated their settlements and performed their duty according to said Grant within the said farther term of two years aforesaid, and such Grantees, their respective heirs and assigns shall have full power to enter upon such forfeited Rights or shares, and become seized & possessed thereof to his or their own use forever, upon condition that such Grantee or Grantees as shall have per- formed his or their duty in manner aforesaid, shall perform the duty required by the said first Grant and this additional Grant, upon such forfeited Right or Share within one year after the Expiration of said two Years, but in case the duty required to be done by said Grant (except as before excepted) on each particular right or Share in said granted premises agreeable to the further term of time hereby granted, is not performed, Then each and every such right or Share there shall be forfeited, and revert to the said Grantors their Pleirs and Assigns, as though this Grant had never been made, & it shall be lawfull for the said Grantors, their heirs or assigns or any person under them, to reenter into, and become reseized of each and every such forfeited Right or share in s d granted premises To Have and to Hold said Granted Premises with the Appurtenances thereof, to them the said Grantees their heirs and Assigns, upon the conditions, Reser- vations & Limitations contained in this and the said first Grant, to and for the use and benefit of the said Grantees, their heirs and Assigns forever. — 328 CHARTER RECORDS. [Surveyor' s Report on Three Lots, 1808.] [Masonian Papers, Vol. 8, p. 48.] Suton August -30 th 1808 — Sir at your reqest we the Subscribers have been to Sutton and after Surveying and New Spotting tthe lines round the lots N° 5 & 7 we thought it best to Divide them into Small lots which we have done as you may See by the plan of the Same — agreeable to your request we inform that Ninety Acres has been Sold off: of N° 5 by M r Samuel Peasley Cunstable for Peristown in the year 1777 for taxes and other Due charges to Peter Peasley, and fifty acers of s' 1 land by s d Peter con- veyed to Caleb Kimbal who now lives on s d primises the remainder forty acres was by s d Peter conveyed to James Tavlor & by James %J V V Taylor, to Joseph Town who now ocopyes s d land — We further State that M r Caleb Kimbal has made Some improve- ments on A part of the remainder of N° five We also have Surveyed N° 7 and divided it into three lots as you may See by the plan but as to its Quality we must give it but an indiferant recommendation It appears there is two men by the Name of John and William Palmer's who Say they had incuragement from you for the Sale of s d land and on that incuragement they have ventured to make Some im- provements and are now living on s d premises, who wishes Still to pur- ches if s d land can be had on Reasonable terms As to N° Six we are unable to give you a full Discription thereof but by what we have Seen by going round s d land it appears there is Some good land thereon and A man by the Name of Chase has cut down 2 or 3 acers on s d lot and left it as it is — You will find by the plan at the Easterly Eend of s d lots there is A line Sixty Rods from the line of s d lots marked fully with the pen (which appears by information from the inhabitants and other Record of the town called the Gore) to be the town line of Sutton, if that be true s d lots will hold out largely in measure and may Still be Sur- ve} 7 ed, But we could not See our way Clear to Survey said land with- out further information which mus be attended with Some Expence as s d information cannot be had without Runing the town line from corner to corner, Except the town of Sutton and the Gore so called Shall Establish the Same — As to the land which we Surveyed for you in the town of Washing- ton the Sumer past we are not capasiated to give you A Just Estimate thereof, as we onelv traversed the outlines of s d land, but if vou would wis to have our Estimate the Expence will be but trifling as we could in the cource of two Dayes inspect the whole of s d land SUTTON. 329 If you wold wish to have s d Business Done pleas to inform us by the Barer hereof A plication is made for A part of the above mentioned land in Washington We Subscribe ourselves your cencear friends, &c — Samuel Gunnison Stephen Hoyt Jun r [Plan of Aforesaid Lots . J This plan laid down by A Scale of 40 Rods to an Inch Drawn for John Pierce Esq r of Portsmouth at the request of Capt Samuel Guni- son of Fishersfield, By Stephen Hoyt Jun r of Bradford, Surveyors fees 330 CHARTER RECORDS. for 4 Dayes works at 2,00 p 1 Day is 8 Doller and Drawing the plan and other information one Dollar — The above Land in Sutton \Plan of One Lot .] agreeable to your Request I have Surveyed lot N° 5 in Sutton and after Measureing off 90 Acres to Towne & Kimball I find that Kim- ball Claimes the South Side of the Brook or at least what there is the west Side of the prickt line which is Paster but it is Verry poor land as is also the Remainder of the Lot John Palmer TAMWORTH. [Granted Oct. 14, 1766, to John Webster and others. A committee was appointed Feb. 22, 1785, to settle the line between Tamworth and Sandwich, and another June 11, 1796, to settle the line between Tamworth, and Albany and Eaton, and a third to establish both lines Dec. 23, 1808. A tract of Ossipee ter- ritory was annexed to Tamworth Jan. 13, 1837, and re-annexed to Ossipee June 23, 1859. A part of Albany tvas annexed June 27, 1857. See New Hampshire charters in preceding volumes; XIII, Hammond Town Papers, 538 ; Index to Laws, 535 ; sketch, Fergusson’s History of Carroll County, 1889, p. 731; Stewart’s History of the Free Baptists, 1862, p. 59; Lawrence’s N. H. Churches, 1856, p. 591 ; In the Heart of the White Mountains, by S. A. Drake, 1882, p. 18; Ordination Rock, 22, N. E. Hist. Gen. Register, 72; Bio- graphical Notices of Physicians, by E. C. Cogswell, 2, N. H. Repository, 74; Centennial Souvenir, 1792-1892, W. B. Hidden, pp. 38.] TAM WORTH. 331 [. Petition of Town Proprietors , 1768.] . [Masonian Papers, Yol. 8, p. 49.] To the Purchassers of the Patent, of John Tufton Mason Esq. Lying in the Province of New Hampshire — The Petition of the Proprietors, of the Township of Tamwortli Humbly Sheweth — That the late Governor, Granted to your Petitioners, the Township, of Tamworth, Lying Eastward of Sandwich, in said Province, & ad- joining the Patent line. — And your Petitioners, have been at great Expence, Relative to said Township; first to Obtain, the Grant, thereof. Secondly, in Petition- ing his present, Excellency, to Ycertain the Bounds of the abovesaid Sandwich, the Proprietors of Which, were Endeavering, to take two, or three, Miles, of the Best of said Tamworth, where it Joins their, Easterly line. And Whereas, the Dividing line, between the Kings, & the Abovesaid Patent Land, Begining, at the Sea, & Extending Northward, sixty miles ; has latly been Run, by order of his Excel- lency, John Wentworth Esq. Captain, General, &c in behalf of his Majestie, & by order of your Honours, in Behalf of the Patent ; by Gentlemen of well known, Capacity, & fidelity, which line Inclueds the whole Township, of Tamworth Aforesaid, within the Bounds, of the Abovesaid Patent. — And Whereas, we have Good Reason, to be- lieve, that the said Dividing line, as lately Run, will be Established, to perpetuity. And many of us, being Ready, able, & willing, to make Immediate settlement, on having a Legal title, to the Premises. We therefor, by our Agents, pray yours Honours, to take the Prem- ises, under Consideration, & Grant us, the Abovesaid Township, of Tamworth, with such additions, & on such Conditions, as you Judge most Conducive, to the Benefit of Grantors, & Grantees, & your Petitioners, as in Duty Bound, &c. September, 23 d A D 1768. — Matthew Thornton James Cochran John Dow Josiah Norris Jacob Rundlet John Davidson Steph 11 Holland Benj a Dow Joseph Prescot Josiah Rundlet John Webster 33 2 CHARTER RECORDS. \Plan of Tamworth.~] [ Criticism of Dudley's Road , 1776.] * [Masonian Papers, Yol. 8, p. 50.] Mem 0 Nov r 28 th 1776 Cap* Dudley’s Road the first half Mile or thereabout from Duncan s or Bare Pond to be cut Straight, Wider & Stump lower The remainder of the Road to Lovel River will Answer for Wedth but what Crossway g & Bridging there is not quite Suffi- cient, some few Trees & some partly cut down to be clear’d Out & Stumps cut Lower ; The Remainder of the Road into Tam worth which is cheifly Pine will do except the cuting out the stool Oaks in some •S3 >",. 0*0 •>•£.£ = .* = « E«r cs = ^~ °* ^ 3 r°) O b J* « s s *5 ^ SU *5£^S U *0 .S«K" *?o£ £ . 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S*'i £ f- f- .2 fli [ Plan of Tamtrorth, 1775.] I ► i c < v 1 TAMWORTH. 333 places. — The Road in General is Straight & carried as Nigh Ossepe Mountain as possable to go to Tamworth being but just a Good Pass- able way between S d Mountain & Bare Camp River — Henry Rust [. Memoranda , 1777.] [Masonian Papers, Vol. 8, p. 50.] The Rode to be Repaird from Wakefield to Levits Town — and Cap 1 John Lovit of Levits Town and Cap 1 Benj a Levit of North Hill will Undertake to do It — If Can Agree with the Proprietors — July 16, 1777 M r Joshua Nichason and others are apprehensive that by their Settlements under Col 0 Moulton in Tamworth that they have Got Beyond his Line, upon the Proprietors Claim in the Un- granted Lands therefore desire that If it shou’d Appear so that they have Got upon said Land, woud be Glad to be Quieted by the Pro- prietors upon Such Terms as they Can Agree — [Petition for Repairs on Road , 1779.] [Masonian Papers, Vol. 8, p. 51.] To the Proprietors Purchasers of John Tufton Mason Esq rs Claim in New Hampshire — The Petition of the Subscribers Inhabitants of Sandwich Tamworth & places adjacent, Humbly shew, that a good & proper Waggon Road from Tamworth through your Land to Wolfborough is much wanted: the present Road for that Purpose made by Cap 1 Dudley & others, wanting great Repairs, & is in every Respect unfit for passing with any kind of Carriages & exclusive of the Necessary Repairs of the Road Two considerable Bridges on the same Road are of absolute Necessity to render said Road useful, the one of said Bridges over Lovels River & the other over Beach River ; the want of which has put the Publick in this Quarter to great Inconvenience in carrying on their Business — Wherefore your Petitioners pray that you woud erect said Bridges & make said Road fit for passing with Waggons as soon as may be & your Petitioners shall pray. Novem 1 20 th 1779 334 Ebenezer meloon Jeremy Bryent Ezekiel Mortton John Tap pen Nathaniel Weed Moses weed Stephen mason Jonathan Page Nathan Beede Nathaniel Ethridge Enoch True John Prescut James Chase william Eastman Nathan 1 Shannon CHARTER RECORDS. David Folsom Jacob Brown Winthrop Smith Henry Weed Bagly Weed nehenah Cram Benj a Brown Nath 1 watson Jacob Jewell Elias Ladd Ju r Joshua Prescut Daniel Beede J r John Jewell Enoch Remeck John Sanderson Philip Burdoc Mark Blackev «/ John Hubburd Bradburey Jewell Stephen Scribner Ezekiel French Samuel Tappen Elezer Chambelin Daniel Beede Aaron Beede Thomas Burley Josiah Been Timothy Medar Victorious Smith Duncan mcNaugliton Enoch Sanderson [ Warning against Trespass , 1782.] [Masonian Papers, Vol. 8, p. 52.] State of } Whereas Joii a Moulton of Hampton in said State, New Hamp re \ hath lately advertised in the Boston & New Hamp r Gazzets, sundry Lots of Land in the Townships as he calls them of Eaton, Tamwortli &c & to which he has no just Title. — These are therefore to caution all Persons against purchasing any of said rights, which are within the Line of Masons Grant, the Proprietors of which have now a Surveyor employed in running out the same lands, which when compleated they shall dispose of, And as the said Proprietors by their advertisement, published in the New Hampshire Gazette, Nov r 23, 1770 — warned all Persons against trespassing on or entering into those Lands owned by them, they now repeat the caution, being determined to prosecute every such Person, to the utmost rigor of the Law in behalf and by order of Said Proprietors Portsm 0 29 March 1782 Geo: Jaffrey Prop rs Cl TEMPLE. 335 TEMPLE. [Granted by the Masonian Proprietors June 30, 1750, as Peterborough Slip , also known as Sliptown , which included the town of Sharon. Incorporated as Temple Aug. 26, 1768, and named in honor of John Temple. A dispute about a strip of land between this town and New Ipswich terminated in favor of Temple. “Bor- land’s Farm” was annexed Jan. 12, 1781. A portion of Peterborough was annexed Jan. 29, 1789, and a portion of Lyndeborough June 11, 1796. See Massachusetts and New Hampshire charters in preceding volumes; XIII, Hammond Town Papers, 547; Index to Laws, 540; sketch, Hurd’s History of Hillsborough County, 1885, p. 672; History, by H. A. Blood, i860, pp. 352; Lawrence’s N. H. Churches, 1856, p. 242; Baptist Churches in N. H., by E. E. Cummings, 1836, p. 10; Glass-Making in the Merrimack Basin, by E. Brown, Old Residents’ Historical Association, Contributions, vol. 2, p. 180; The Miller Man- sion, by F. M. Colby, 3, Granite Monthly, 6.] [Plan of Peterborough Slip.'] This is a plan of the Township Called Petersborough Slip As Lotted -out the Ranges Are 160 rods in Wedth and the first fifteen Courses of lotts Are Eighty rods wide the Remainder are One Hundred And twenty the East line is North And South the South line is N° 80. W. the West line Parellell with the East the North line East & West Finished Oct r 1750 ^ Sam 1 Cumings Sury r Copy From y e Files of the Prop r8 of the Above Township Exam' 1 ^ Joseph Blanchard Jun r Prop 1-9 Clerk 336 CHARTER RECORDS. [ Charter of Peterborough Slip , 1750.] [Masonian Papers, Vol. 8, p. 53, and Proprietors’ Records, Vol. 6, p. 147.] Province of ) Pursuant To the Power and Authority Granted New Hampshire j and Vested In me by the Prop rs of Lands Pur- chassed of John Tuffton Mason Esq r in the Province of New Hamp re aforesaid by them passed at their Meeting Held at Portsmoth In said Province the 16 th of June 1749 — I Do by thes Presents on the Termes and Limitations herafter Expressed Give & Grant all the Right possession and Property of the Prop 8 aforesaid Unto Zacheus Lovewell Pelegg Lawrance John Combs James Kelly Sampson French Jonathan Hubbard Benj a French Jonathan Cumings Jun r Samuel Greele Peter Powers William Spauld- ing John Lovewell Jun r John Hubbard John Gage Jonathan Hubbard Jun r Joseph Winn Jun r Benj a Bellows Ezra Carpenter Josiah Brown Timothy Taylor Jotham Rindge Nehemiah Abott John Fowle Robert Boyes Joseph Blanchard Jun r John Hill John Kendall Joseph French Daniel Taylor Matthew Thornton Jonathan Whitney John Stevenes Samuel Cumings Eieazer Blanchard To the Said Peter Powers three Rights to the Said Ezra Carpenter three Rights or Shares to the Said Matthew Thornton two Shares to the Said Timothy Taylor two Shares to the said Nelie 11 Abott two Shares the Aforenamed one Share Each, of In and to that Tract of Land or Township Lying In the Province of New Hamps r Afores d Between the Township Called Petersburrough and New Ipswich Bounded as followeth Begining at the Southwest Corner of Petersburrough Afores d and runs from thence East by the Needle Six miles to a Black Burch tree marked the Southeast Corner of Petersburough from Thence North by the Needle one Hundred rods from thence East one mile and a Quarter to the Corner of N° 2 from thence South five miles to the southwest Corner of y e Township N° 2 and the Northwest of N° 1 and the North East Corner of New Ipswich from thence North Eighty Degrees west Seven miles and a Quarter to the South East Corner of Middle Menad- nock Township from thence North to the first Bounds Mentioned To Have and to Hold to them ther Heirs and Assignes Excepting as Afores d And on the following terms And Conditions (that is to say) that the Whole Tract of Land Afores d be Divided into Sixty three Equal Shares and that Each Share Contain Lotts Equitably Coupled togather and Drawn for at Dunstable at or Before the Last Day of October Next In Som Equitable maner That three of the Afores d Shares be Granted and appropriated free from all Charge one for the first Settled Minister in said Township TEMPLE. 337 for the Suport of the Ministry and one for the School there forever One Lott for Each Said Share to be first Lay’d out in the most Con- veniant Place Near the Middle of Said Town, and Lotts 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 forever and aquited from all Duty And Charge Untill Improved by the Owners or Some Holding Under Each of them Respectively — That the Other owners of the Said Rights make Settlement at their own Expence In the following manner Viz fc all the Lotts to be Lay’d out and Drawn In the following Manner at the Grantees Expence that all the Lotts In Said Township be Subjected to have all Necessary roads Lay’d thro them free from Charge as hereafter there Shall be Ocation That within five Yeares from the Day of the Date hereof forty of the Shares Belonging to the Afore mentioned Grantees viz 1 each Share Exclusive of y e Share Granted to Jotham Rindge and of one of the Shares Granted unto Peter Powers, Be Entered upon and three acres at the Least Clered Inclosed And Fited for mowing or Tillage And that within the term of one Year then Next Coming there be On each of the Said Forty Shares a house Built of a Room Sixteen feet Square at the Least fitted and finished for Comfortable dwelling in and Som person Resident therein and Continue Inhabitancy or Residance there three Years then Next Coming With the Additionall Improvements of two aceres each Year for Each Settler — That Each of the Said Grantees at the Executing this Instrument pay twenty pounds old Ten r to Defray the Necessary Charges Risen and Ariseing in s d Township to be Deposited in the hands of Such Person as the Grantees Shall Chuse being a Freeholder and a Resi- dant in the Province of New Hampsli 1 ' That a good Conveniant Meet- ing house be built In Said Township as Conveniant to the Settlers as may be Within two years Next after the Whole duty is to be Done as afores a and ten acres Reserved for publick use where the Said House Shall be Built That the Aafores d Grantees or their Assignes by a Maj r Vote In Publick Meetings grant and Assess Such Further Sums of money as they Shall think necessary for Compleating and Carrying forward the Settlement afores d and any of the Grantees Exclusive of three Pub- lick 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 Delinquents Right Respectively Shall or may be Sold as will pay the Tax and all Charges ariseing thereon by the Prop™ Com’itee appointed for That purpose — 22 338 CHARTER RECORDS. That all White pine trees fitt for masting his Majestys Royal Navy Growing on Said Tract of Land be and Hereby Are Granted to his Majestyes his Heirs And Successors for ever — And in Case any of the Said Grantees Shall neglect or Refuse to Perform any of the articles Aforementioned he Shall Forfet his Share & Right in Said Township and every part and Parcell thereof to those of the S d Grantees that Shall have Com ply ed with the Conditions on their part therein Expressed and It Shall and may be Lawfull for them or any Person by their Authority to Enter into and upon the Right of Such Delinquint owner And any and every part thereof in the Name of the Whole of the Settlers That Shall Fulfill As afores d and him to amove oust and Expell for their use Their heirs and Assignes Provided they Settle or Cause to be Settled each Such Dilin- quent Right within the Space of one Year at the Furthest from the Said Period that is by this Indenture Stipulated to be Don as the Condition of this Grant and fully Discharge and Comply With the whole Duty Such Delinquent Ought to have done within one Year after the Respective periods thereof and In Case the S d Grantees full- filling on their part as afores d Shall Neglect fullfilling as Afores d the Duty of any Delinquent Owner nor he himself perform it as Afores d that then Such Share or Shares Shall be forfited Revert and Belong to the Grantors their heirs and Assignes and be wholey at their Disposall Allways Provided there be no Indian War Within any of the Termes and Limitations afores d for doing the duty Condition’d In this Grant — And In Case that Should Happen the Sam tim to be Allowed for the Respective Matters afores d after Such Impediment Shall be Removed Lastly the Said Grantors do hereby promis to the Said Grantees their Heirs and Assignes to Defend thro the Law to King and Coun- cill If Need be On Action that Shall or may be Brought against them or Nomber of them by any person or persons What so ever Claiming the S d Lands or any part thereof by any other title than of the Said Grantors or that by which they hold and Derive theres from Provided the said Grantors are Avouched in to Defend the Same and that In Case on Final Tryal the same Shall be Recovered against the Grantors for the Said Lands Improvements or Expence in Bringing forward the Settlement 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 Sute or Sutes that Shall be brought against them or any of them the S d Grantees for Try all of the Title before one Sute Shall be fully Determined in the Law. To all Which Premises Joseph Blanchard Agent for and In Behalf of the Said Grantors on the one part and Grantees on the Other part Have here- TEMPLE. 339 unto Inter Changebley Set their hands and seals this thirtyeth Day of June in the twenty fourth Year of his Majestys Reign. A D. 1750 Joseph Blanchard j L S A True Coppy of The Grant of Petersburrough Slip Attest ^ Joseph Blanchard Jun r Pro 8 Clerk [Draft of Lots , 1750.] [Masonian Papers, Yol. 8, p. 54, and Proprietors’ Records, Vol. 6, p. 153.] Petersburrough Slip Township. Zacheus Lovewell ..... i 1 4 8 8 17 5 Peleg Lawrance ..... 2 2 4 16 6 13 8 John Combs ...... 4 2 2 14 6 1 1 7 James Kelley ...... 5 2 1 9 8 9 5 Sampson French ..... io 7 1 13 5 14 2 Jon a Hubburd ..... 1 1 8 1 1 8 9 7 Benj a French ...... 12 9 1 18 6 12 5 Jon a Cumings Jun r ..... 13 1 2 1 2 3 1 5 Sam 1 Greele Jun r ..... 14 13 1 7 8 1 5 7 Peter Powers ...... 1 7 4 8 12 2 13 3 Peter Powers ...... 1 8 3 7 2 10 8 6 Peter Powers ...... 19 4 7 8 4 *5 2 W m Spaulding ..... 20 5 7 16 1 20 3 Jn° Lovewell Jun r ..... 2 2 3 6 17 4 *9 2 Jn° Hubbard ...... 2 3 4 6 2 1 3 20 2 Jn° Gage ...... 24 5 6 14 4 x 5 4 Jon a Hubbard Jun r ..... 25 2 6 15 6 1 2 8 Jos : Winn Jun r ..... 26 3 5 1 1 3 2 Benj a Bellows ..... 27 5 2 2 9 9 6 Ezra Carpenter ..... 28 6 2 2 1 n 2 1 1 Jose;h Brown ..... 30 8 2 9 4 15 1 Timothy Taylor ..... 32 10 2 1 1 4 10 5 Jotham Rindge ..... 34 5 7 16 4 19 1 Nehe h Abbot ...... 35 6 3 23 5 18 2 John Fowle ...... 37 8 3 5 9 7 5 Rob 4 Boyes Esq . 39 10 3 1 5 5 14 3 Jos Blanchard Jun r ..... 40 4 4 13 7 1 2 7 Jn° Hill Esq 4 1 5 4 13 2 20 6 34° CHARTER RECORDS. Petersburrough Slip Township Jn° Kendall ...... 42 6 4 10 8 1 1 8 Minester Lotts ..... 43 7 4 24 3 16 3 Ministry Lotts ..... 44 4 5 8 5 1 1 6 Ezra Carpenter ..... 45 6 5 21 5 21 6 Jos: French ...... 46 7 6 !7 6 1 1 5 Tim 0 Taylor ...... 47 7 7 22 4 *9 3 Daniel Taylor ..... 48 5 8 23 2 23 1 Matthew Thornton ..... 49 3 9 24 5 18 3 Eleaz r Farwell ..... 5 ° 4 9 1 2 3 3 Matthew Thornton ..... 5 1 3 10 6 6 5 10 Nehe h Abbot ...... 52 2 7 23 4 17 3 Jon a Whitney ..... 53 2 8 22 6 24 6 Matthew Thornton ..... 54 3 8 1 9 10 6 Jn° Stevenes ... . . 55 1 6 16 2 22 1 Sam 1 Cumings ..... 56 10 1 3 4 4 10 Ezra Carpenter ..... 57 1 1 1 23 3 21 4 Eleaz r Blanchard ..... 60 10 4 I 9 6 *9 7 The aforegoing Lotts were Drawn by the Grantees — Those that Follow Were Drawn by the Grantors Respective Lotts Each En- tered against the name — Matthew Livermore Esq r 3 2 5 6 8 18 1 M Huns Wentworth Esq r 6 3 1 12 3 20 4 Jotham Odiorne Esq r .... 7 4 1 10 7 1 10 Nathaniel Meserve & others 8 5 1 !4 7 15 8 Sam 1 Soley & March .... 9 6 1 18 7 24 1 John Wentworth Esq r .... 15 14 1 16 7 14 8 Theodore Atkinson Esq r 16 1 7 13 6 12 6 Jn° Rindge ...... 21 6 7 !7 7 12 4 John Moffatt Esq r ..... 29 7 2 24 4 18 4 Rich d Webord Esq r .... 3 i 9 2 20 5 19 6 Geo Jaffrey Esq r ..... 33 4 3 8 7 20 7 Dan 1 Peirce & M rs More .... 36 7 3 !4 r 5 17 2 Tho 8 Packer Esq T ..... 38 9 3 !7 1 20 1 W m Parker Esq r ..... 58 1 1 2 16 5 15 3 Joseph Blanchard Esq r .... 59 1 1 3 22 5 23 6 Tho 8 Wallingsford Esq r .... 61 1 3 18 5 13 4 John T : Mason & John Thomlinson Esq r 62 5 5 l 9 5 24 2 Joshua Peirce ..... 6 3 2 1 2 22 3 22 2 The afore writen list Was Dran And finished at Dunstable In Oco 1 1750 Coppy Exam d ^ Joseph Blanchard J r Prop s Cl TEMPLE. 34 1 [Acceptance of Charter, 1752.] [Masonian Papers, Vol. 8, p. 55, and Proprietors’ Records, Yol. 6, p. 155.] Whereas Joseph Blanchard Esq as Agent for and in the name and behalf of the Prop rs of the lands in the Province of New Hampshire Pnrchassed by them of John Tufton Mason Esq Who Sold to them under the title made to them by a Com’on Recovery — Did on the Thirtieth day of June, 1750 — Grant the Contents of Twenty Thous- and Acres or About that Quantity part of S d Lands Bounded as Fol- loweth Begining at the Southwest Corner of Petersborough so Called and runs from thence East by the needle Six miles to a Black burcli tree marked the Southeast Corner of Petersborough from thence north by the needle One Hundred rods from thence East One mile and A quarter to the Corner of N° two from thence South five miles to the Southwest Corner of N° 2 And the Northwest Corner of N° 1 and the Northeast Corner of New Ipswich from thence North Eighty degrees West Seven miles and a quarter to the Southwest Corner of Middle manadnock Township from thence North by the Needle to the first Bounds mentioned — Under Certain Condition Limetations & Reser- vations in S fl Grant mentioned As by S (i Grant Reference thereto had will fully Appear — unto Zacheus Lovewell Pelegg Lawrence John Combs Jon a Hubburd Joseph Wynn Jun r Benj a Bellows Ezra Carpenter James Kelley Sampson French Benjamin French Jonathan Cumings Jun r Samuel Greele Peter Powers William Spalding John Lovewell Jun r John Hubbard John Gage Jonathan Hubburd Jun r Josiah Brown Timothy Taylor Jotham Rindge Nehemiah Abbot John Fowle Robert Boyce Joseph Blanchard Jun r John Hill John Kendall Joseph French Daniel Taylor Mathew Thornton Jonathan Whitney John Stevens Samuel Cumings & Eleazer Blanchard There- fore Unanimously voted that we do hereby Accept said Title And for Our Selves Our heirs and Assigns Acknowledge that we do hold Said lands under Said Title Conditions & Limitations with the Reserva- tions therein mentioned — Extract from the votes of the Prop rs the Grantees of the Township Called Petersborough Slip Passed at their meeting the fourth of August 1752 — Copy exam' 1 ^ Joseph Blanchard Jun r Prop s Clk 34 2 CHARTER RECORDS. \_David Chandler s Bond , 1773.] [Masonian Papers, Vol. 8, p. 56.] Whereas the Proprietors of the Lands purchased of John Tufton Mason Esq r within the Province of New Hampshire have this Day granted to me Six hundred & nine Acres of Land in a Place called The Slip in the County of Hillsborough be the same more or less, except what Land may justly belong to Caleb Jones within the Bounds of said Grant — And the said Jones’s Claim being uncertain and the quantity of land to him justly belonging being unascertained, I the Subscriber have paid & secured to be paid to said Proprietors for five hundred & thirty Acres of said Land at one Dollar ^ Acre — I hereby promise said Proprietors to pay them the same price for each acre above the five hundred & thirty Acres paid for, they shall give me good Title to and Possession of within said Bounds within two Years from this Date — And if s d Proprietors shall neglect to assure me a Title within s (1 Two Years, to any Land within s d Grant, above s d five hundred & thirty acres, then this agreement shall be void Sept r 30 th 1773 David Chandler Interlined before signing the words within s d Bounds Witness — Ranna Cossit Lucy Dudley Wainwright THORNTON. [Granted July 6, 1763, to Matthew Thornton and others, and named in honor of Matthew Thornton. Re-granted Oct. 21, 1768, including a large tract of addi- tional territory. Incorporated Nov. 24, 1781. Blanchard’s Gore was annexed June 16, 1807. The town bounds were established June 14, 1808. Waterville Gore was annexed from Waterville June 23, 1842. See New Hampshire charters in preceding volumes; XIII, Hammond Town Pa- pers, 566; Index to Laws, 543 ; sketch, Child’s Gazetteer of Grafton County, 1886, p. 625; Stewart’s History of the Free Baptists, 1862, pp. 252, 375; Lawrence’s N. H. Churches, 1856, p. 573; Hedge-Hog Chasm, by W. H. Pickering, 2, Appalachia, 75 ; grant to John Goffe with Woodstock papers.] THORNTON 343 [Plan of Thornton .] 344 CHARTER RECORDS. [ Plan of Thornton.'] f TUFTONBOROUGH. 345 TUFTONBOROUGH. [Granted by the Masonian Proprietors to John Tufton Mason, Dec. u, 1750, and named in his honor. Woodbury Langdon and John Moffatt subsequently pur- chased a large portion. Incorporated Dec. 17, 1795. Cow Island was annexed Dec. 30, 1799. Four more islands were annexed June 25, 1858. A small tract of land was set off to Wolfeborough, June 26, 1858. Another island was annexed July 3, 1863. See XIII, Hammond Town Papers, 573 ; Index to Laws, 553 ; sketch, by S. W. Abbott, Fergusson’s History of Carroll County, 1889, p. 422; Stevens’s Memo- rials of Methodism, 2d series, 1852, p. 262; Lawrence’s N. H. Churches, 1856, P- 595 -] [ Grant of Tuftonborough , 1750.] [Masonian Proprietors’ Records, Dec. 11, 1750.] Province of ) Portsmouth December y e 11 th 1750 Tuesday five New Hampshire j of 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 Tufton Mason Esqu r his Heirs & Assigns all the Right Title Interest Estate Property & Demand whatsoever of the Said Proprietors of in and unto a certain Tract of Land of six miles square or equal thereunto as follow’s (viz 1 ) beginning Six miles north Easterly or about north Easterly of a tract of land heretofore granted to Samuel Palmer Esqu r & others then Extending Six Miles square or So as to make up that Quantity of land joining on Winnepissiokee Pond leaving a tract of Land of Six miles Square or of that Quantity between the land hereby granted &. that granted to Palmer & others as aforesaid the Said Premises hereby granted being designed for the fourth Town- ship from the Crotch of Pemigawassett River & Winnepissiokee River [. Petition of Clement Jackson , 1764.] [Masonian Papers, Vol. 8, p. 57.] Province of / To The Hon ble Theodore Atkinson Esq r & others New Hamps r j Purchasers & Proprietors of Masons Patent in the afores' 1 Province Clement Jackson of Portsmouth in said Prov ce begs leave to Remind you of an Offer & promise made to him some Years ago, of 34 6 CHARTER RECORDS. making him a Grant of some part of your Undivided land within said Patent, in Consequence of his Excepting & Executing a Power, at the Instance & Request of Coll 0 John Tuff ton Mason, as well as at the Request of you the said Proprietors of s d Patent, and which both told me was Absolutly Necessary to be done & very much to the Advantage of s d Proprietors, And as the time is now far Spent, and I having an Inclination to make some Improvement of Waste Land, if I could obtain it agreeable to my mind; I shall think myself greatly Obliged to you, if you would grant a peice of Land Suit- able for Improvement & Cultivature adjoining that part of Land Granted to a Number of Portsmouth Gentlemen & now called W olfs’borough Portsmouth Decem r 27 th 1764 Clement Jackson [Plan of Tuftonborough , 1764.] [Plan of Tii * i 1771 .] ^ Scale of Dey/tes Ta.il vyr Tods Dtc’3e fk IU2 3,U Slcfktn Tifr.tr 1 JUT k 102 C 3f < 7l,t 3 cAiefty A cal A 77 9 -ZLS- 7lj 123 Kols 717 Jut 107.2 /? John Ti/itrJun ' "Will 7/trtcy Jun' JUT /ov 2 sf y.-'nio 7U Hi Tied* ./ 7U James r/ttsty /? : V ' After j n p J K P dOS 2 H y-' Itn TdbtU ns njXteT* 7z T Samuel f/ersey J -R. P ' /py 2 3t • Sell Junt^ /tOI-SOO 777 71 1 /jy Tteds James p/d sexy & JUT //j j >/ 5 William ‘.'p/enty at* met f«*'A«va 1 t tld SXctj Allard 120 Rods Sam G After June r /t #7 J K P 102 C O 70C 9 no las JUT 10-1 2- T James Uersey Will Mersey : ; :S J « P ^JesefiA r Tyeuny 77 U 712 /23 Hods JUT 101 2 /y J) 700 ^ no las T CAa.se Teh*-/ it 12 J K T 10 J 2 32 f 00 9hno less far Ificsi* p/e* sty e lime Ae/o’t / Seft It U - Jm.nt /t TAc dine between Wol/bo> cuyb and TuftonboouyA Wolf borough June 25 th 1803 ^ Henry Rust j r Sam 1 Hersey to have refusal N° 2 for 700 for 2 Months with Inter- est June 26 1807 Dec 2 d 1812 Nat 1 Willey of Brookfield applies for Lot N° 1 wants refusal until spring WAKEFIELD. [Granted by the Masonian Proprietors April 27, 1749, to John Ham and others, and variously known as Ham's-town, East-town , and Watertown. Incorporated as Wakefield, Aug. 30, 1774. All that part of the town north of Province Pond was annexed to Effingham June 22, 1820. A portion of Milton was annexed to Wakefield June 23, 1858. See New Hampshire charters in preceding volumes ; IX, Bouton Town Papers 127, 456, 788; XIII, Hammond Town Papers, 588; Index to Laws, 564; sketch, by A. H. Thompson, Fergusson’s History of Carroll County, 1889, P- 462- papers under titles Coulerain and Kingswood; Lawrence’s N. H. Churches, 1856, p. 596; Memorial of 100th Anniversary of Organization of First Church, 1886.] 23 354 CHARTER RECORDS. [. Petition of John Daye, 1748.] [Masonian Papers, Vol. 8, p. 63.] Province of / To the Proprietors of the Right of Land within New HampslP \ the S 1 Province Purchased by them of John Tuf- ton Mason Esq r The Petition of John Gage Esq r in behalf of himself & a Number of the Inhabitants of Dover & Sumersworth in Said Province Shews That your Petitioner and his Associates being Satisfied of your Right to the Lands afores li and willing to hold part thereof under you Pray that you would Grant to them two tracts of Land Sufficient to make two Towns lying on the head of Rochester begining on v e Eastward Side next to the County of York & So runing westward to make up the Quantity afores' 1 and your Petitioner in behalf of himself A Asso- ciates shall pray &c Portsm 0 Decemb r 7 th 1748 John Gage o [Votes of Proprietors in Dover , 1749.] [Masonian Papers, Vol. 8, p. 63.] Province of / At a Proprietors Meeting held at the Quakers New Hampshire \ meeting house at Cocheclio in Dover on monday the 24^ Day of april 1749 — Voted 1 st That John Gage Esq r be moderator for S d Meeting 2 ly that Joseph Hanson be Prop” Clerk — 3 That there be a Comm tte of five Mee t Persons be Chosen to go & treat with the Purchasers of Masons Right to get their Quit Claim of a Tract of Land for a Town Ship of Six Miles squaire agreeable to y® Petition 4 That John Gage Esq r Joseph Hanson Stephen Roberts : Isaac Hanson Ju r & Thomas Varney be the men to treat with Said Pur- •/ chasers — 5 That there be five shillings of the new Tenor Currency paid Down bv Each Petitioner to Defray Charges 6 that Cap 1 William Wentworth be a Treasurer to Receive the money and pay it out according to the Direction of the prop” — Then the meeting was Adjourned till Monday the Eighth Day of May next — A true Coppy Exam d ^ Jos Hanson Prop” Cler WAKEFIELD. 355 [Vote of Another Meeting , 1749.] [Masonian Papers, Yol. 8, p. 63.] At a Proprietors Meeting held at Cochecho in Dover on Monday the 24 th day of April Anno Domini 1749 Voted that John Gage Esq 1 ’ Deacon Thomas Nock M r William Welland Cap 4 Job Clements & M r Paul Gerrisli be a Committee to Receive of the Proprietors of John Tufton Mason Esq r Right a Quit Claim to A New Township adjoining to Salmon fall River, at the Head of Rochester and to Act or Transact any affair relating to the Same as fully as if the whole Body of s d Proprietors were personally present Summersworth April 25 th 1749 A true Copy Attest Thomas Miller Prop ts Clerk \_Charter of Wakefield , 1749.] [Masonian Proprietors* Records, April 27, 1749.] Province of / Portsmouth April 27 th 1749 Thursday at Eight New Hampshire ( of y e Clock before noon at the Dwelling house of Sarah Prust Widow The Proprietors meet according to Adjourn- ment A^oted That there be and hereby is granted unto John Ham Gersliam Downs John Horn Richard Downs Daniel Plummer William Hussey William AVilland John Cook Nathaniel Horn Daniel Young Thomas Downs James Canney William Downs Amos Howard Samuel Jones Ebenezer Downs Benjamin Ham Paul Gerrish John Gage Jun r John Evans Samuel Gerrish Richard Hussey Jun r Timothy Hanson William Twombly Joseph Hicks John Gage John Roberts jun r William Ger- rish Samuel Walton Allen Walton Thomas Miller Thomas Miller jun r Ebenezer Roberts Love Roberts Thomas Nock Samuel Heard jun r John Mardin Isaac Horn Joseph Roberts John James Hezekiah Cook John Downs Job Clements John Hussey Samuel Downs John Hanson jun r Samuel Randall Benjamin Mason John Hanson John Miller Ebenezer Wentworth John Brown Thomas Canney Joseph Astin Eliliu Hays Samuel Dam William Gage Samuel Astin Benjamin Astin Joshua Roberts William Styles John Harford Eliphalet Cromwell Ebenezer Stephen Evans Robert Hanson Ichabod Hays Solomon Hanson James 35 6 CHARTER RECORDS. Kielle Samuel Alley Joseph Hussey Moses Gage Stephen Varney John Perkins Solomon Emerson Philip Yeaton all of Dover and Somersworth both in Said Province of New Hampshire and Noah Emery of Kittery in Equal Shares Excepting as hereafter is Herein Excepted on The Terms Conditions & Limitations herein After Ex- pressed all that Tract of Land within The Province aforesaid Con- taining the Quantity of Six Miles Square Bounded as Follows Viz 1 Beginning at The Northeast Corner of the Township of Rochester at Xewechewannick River and from Said River Running Westerly by the Head Line of Rochester five Miles and from That Extent upon a Strait line Parallel with the General Course of the Said River as a Strait line may be Run at the Said River and Continuing the Breadth of five Miles Adjoyning said River and bounds of the Province So far Northwardly as to make Equal to Six VI iles Square in Such form as that the Head or Northerly boundary Shall be a line Parallel with the Head Line of Rochester and The Westerly Side line to be Strait from Rochester line to the Head line of Said Tract of land — To have and to hold to them their Heirs & Assigns in Equal Shares Except- ing as Aforesaid on the Following Terms Conditions & Limitations that is to Say That the whole Tract of Land within the Said Boun- daries (Saving what is herein After Mentioned to be Otherwise Im- proved) 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 and The Other all the Land belonging to Each Share Respectively. That the whole be So laid out & the two Lots belonging; to Each Share be Numbred with the Same Number be- ginning 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 afores d LTider the Care and Direction of the Grantors Aforesaid and 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 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 Said Shares be for and towards the Support of The Gospel Ministry there forever And the Hundred acre Lots belonging to these two Shares Respectively shall be Laid out as near the Place where the Meeting House Shall be Built as mav Conveniently be Done without being Drawn for as the Other Lots. That There be Six Acres of Land left in some Convenient Place within the said Boundaries for Building a Meeting House and School House upon and to be used as a Training Feild a Burying place or WAKEFIELD. 357 other Public use the Inhabitants there may have Occasion to Improve it for — That one other of Said Shares be for the use and Main- tainance of a School there forever That Seventeen of the Said Shares be and hereby are Reserved to the use of the said Grantors and Their Heirs & Assigns forever That the Owners of the Other Eighty Shares make a Regular Settlement there at their own Charge in the Following Manner viz that Each Owner of the said Eighty Shares Build an house of Sixteen foot Square or Equal thereto at Least upon Some Part of his Land There — That there be Thirty Families Settled upon said Tract of Land within four years next after a Peace is Pro- claimed between the English French and Indians and Each Family to have Such an House as Aforesaid and three Acres of Land Cleared and fitted for Mowing or Tillage and that Ten Families More be Settled there each having an house as Aforesaid within five years next after the Proclamation of Said Peace with three Acres of Land more fitted as aforesaid And within Six years next After the Said Peace to have a Meeting House Built there for the Public worship of God fitted for that purpose for the use of the Inhabitants There and to Maintain the Constant Preaching of the Gospel there from and After the End of Seven Years from the Proclaiming Peace as Aforesaid — That there be twenty Acres of Land left in some Suitable Place for a Privilege and Accommodation of a Saw Mill which Shall be for him or them his or Their Heirs & Assigns who will build Such Mill within the term of five years next After a Peace as Aforesaid with the Privilege of the most Convenient Stream and place for Doing the Same and in Consideration thereof for the benefit of Said Inhabitants the owner or owners of Such Mill Shall Saw the Logs of the Said Inhabitants 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 Admit permit and Suffer 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 Expence & Charge & put the Said Mill under Such a Regulation as that They and Others Inhabiting there may have Their Logs and Timber Sawed as Occasion may Require for Bidding on the Land Herby 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 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 Defray the Charges of Laying out Said Land as aforesaid & Other matters A things necessary to be done 358 CHARTER RECORDS. for the making a Settlement as aforesaid, and performing y e other matters & 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 four Rods wide and between the Lots for ways 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 Exonerated Acquitted and fully Exempted from paying any Charge towards Making the Said Settlement & not held to the Conditions of the Eighty Shares Aforesaid nor be Liable to any Tax or Assessment until Improved by the Respective owners hereof. 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. — That in Case the Said Grantees Shall fail Neglect and Omit to Settle forty families upon the Said Granted Premises within the Term of five years next After a Peace Shall be Concluded and proclamed as Aforesaid Each Eamily 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 Owners of the said Eighty Shares It Shall and may be Lawful! for the Said Grantors or any of them or any Person or Per- sons in their name and Behalf & 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 & thence to Amove oust & utterly to Expel the Said Grantees and the Said Granted premises Shall be forfeited to the use of the Grantors & they Shall Thereb} T be Reseized and Vested in their former Estate Right Title and Interest to & in the Said Granted premises as though this Grant had never been made & The Same Shall Thenceforward be null and Void to all Intents and purposes any Thing herein Contained to the Contrary thereof Not- withstanding. And all and Every of the said Grantees who Shall not do and perform his Respective part and duty in making & Carry- ing on the Said SettlenT (in Case of the Settlement 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 Duty as Aforesaid in Making the said Settlement who Shall hereby have full Power and Authority into the Said forfeited Right and Share to Enter and Thereof to become Seized to their own use in Manner Afores fl WAKEFIELD. 359 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 and Assigns to do and Perform the Several Articles matters and Things by them herein before Mentioned to be Performed and Done by Signing and Executing Such Instrument or Instruments in writing as by Counsel Learned in the Law Shall be Advised and Devised for that purpose — And in That Case & not Otherwise the said Grantors Do hereby Promise & Ingage to the Said Grantees that they the Said Grantors their Heirs Exec rs Admin rs or Assigns Shall and will at Their own Cost & Expence try the Title of the said Granted Premises by pursu- ing an Action for the whole or any Part Thereof Through the whole Course of the 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 therto Disposed & Desirous Thereof who shall Dispute the Title of the Said Grantees hereby Conveyed But in Case the Title of the Grantees Derived from The Said Grantors 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 Preferred Then the Grantees in These Presents Shall Recover Nothing of the Said Grantors for the Said premises nor for any Labour Expence Charge & Disbursements 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 Num- bers of years Mentioned herein for the Said Grantees to do and Perform the Several Articles matters & Things aforesaid is to be So many Years free from the Impediment and Interruption of an Indian war [Draft of Lots, 1750.] [Masonian Papers, Yol. 8, p. 64, and Proprietors' Records, Vol. 6, p. 223, and Vol. 7, p. 58.] Province of \ Portsmouth Wens'dav April y e 11 th 1750 — At y e New Hampshire ( House of Ann Slayton The Draft of y e Lots of y e Township granted to John Ham Gershon Downs Under y e Direc- tion of y e Proprietors — 1 Nath 11 Meserve) J Blanchard Joseph Green Paul March 360 CHARTER RECORDS. 2 Joseph Hicks ......... 64 3 John moffat Esq r . . . . . . . . 78 4 { Sam 11 Solly Esq r ) 77 / ClenT March j 5 Joseph Roberts ......... 58 6 John Brown Shipwright ....... 57 7 Sam 11 Alley ......... 15 8 Joseph Austin . . . . . ... . . 81 9 Moses Gage ......... 10 10 Mark Hunk 8 Wentworth . . . . . . . 73 11 Stephen Varney ........ 38 12 Benj a Mason ......... 50 13 Joseph Hussey ......... 4 14 Amos Howard ......... 60 15 Dan 11 Peirce Esq r ) no & Mary Moore ) 16 Dan 11 Young ......... 29 17 Sam 11 Jones ......... 5 18 Will m Hussey . . . . . . . . . 79 19 Tho s Wallingford Esq r ....... 85 20 Benj a Ham ......... 84 21 James Keille ......... 9 22 Nath 11 Horn * ... 43 23 Eben r Wentworth ........ 53 24 John Hanson ......... 32 25 John Marden . . . . . . . . . 74 26 Thomas Downe . . . . . . . . . 72 27 John Miller 83 28 Rich d Hussey Jun r . . . . . . ' . . 26 29 Thomas Miller ......... 1 30 Samuel Dam . . . . . . . . . 70 31 Timothy Hanson ........ 90 32 Theadore Atkinson Esqu r ....... 51 33 Isaac Horn ......... 6 34 George Jaffrey ......... 16 35 Thomas Miller jun r ........ 22 36 Mark Hunk 8 Wentworth Esqu r ...... 21 37 Thomas Canney ........ 69 38 Eliphalet Cromwell ........ 67 39 School Lot .......... 35 40 John Horn ......... 48 41 Philip Yeaton ......... 91 42 Richard Downe ......... 92 WAKEFIELD. 361 43 William Styles . 44 John Gage 45 John Hartford . 46 Benjamin Austin 47 Solomon Emerson 48 John Wentworth jun r 49 Paul Gerrish 50 Stephen Evans . 51 Samuel Herd jun r 52 William Gerrish 53 Joshua Roberts . 54 Job Clements 55 Robert Hanson . 56 Jotham Odiorne Esq r 57 Elihu Hayes 58 John Hanson jun r 59 Thomas Packer Esqu r 60 Gershom Downe 61 John Evans 62 Ebenezer Downe jun 63 John James 64 Thomas Nock 65 Samuel Austin . 66 John Roberts jun r 67 John Downe 68 John Perkins 69 Law Lot N° 2 70 Sam 11 Downe 71 Law Lot N° 1 72 John Tufton Mason & John Thomlinson ( 73 Eben r Hanson 74 Sam 11 Walton 75 John Hussey 76 Samuel Rendal . 77 William Welland 78 Eben r Roberts 79 Allen Walton . 80 Joshua Peirce Esqu r 81 Noah Emery Esqu r 82 Love Roberts 83 Samuel Gerrish . 84 Ilezekiah Cook . Esqu r | Esqu r 23 17 89 80 95 13 27 42 36 87 59 98 71 100 2 61 19 63 11 40 33 94 37 24 52 34 55 93 8 56 39 62 44 68 97 18 7 31 54 _ 25 66 49 362 CHARTER RECORDS. 85 William Gage ......... 76 86 William Downe ........ 86 87 Dan 11 Plummer . . . . . . . . .. 99 88 Richard Wibird Esqu r . . . . . . 65 89 John Gage jun r ......... 41 90 John Cook ......... 14 91 John Ham ......... 82 92 William Twombly ........ 47 98 James Canney . . . . . . . . . 75 94 Ichabod Hayes ......... 3 95 Benjamin Roberts jun r ....... 28 96 Ebenezer Downe ........ 30 97 Solomon Hanson ........ 20 98 Ebenezer Tuttle ........ 96 first ministers Lot ........ 46 Ministerial Lot ......... 45 Voted that this Draft of y e Lotts of land in y e Tract above men- tioned be and hereby is Ratifyed & confirmed and that each Lot be held to y e Respective Person to whose name it is affixed & to his heirs & assigns in Severalty on y e Terms first granted and the Divi- sion as made by y e Grantees and numbered in y e Plan thereof by them Returned be and hereby is also confirmed as aforesaid Geo : Jaffrey Prop rs Cl [. Further Time Allowed to Wakefield Proprietors, 1770.] [Masonian Proprietors' Records, March 21, 1770.] Whereas the Grantees of the Tract of Land granted to John Ham Gershom Downes & Others called East Town by their Agents at This meeting, haveing acknowledged their grant was forfeited for not complying with the Terms and conditions therein made but as they have made considerable Improvements and declare their readiness and Resolution to have all the Terms & Conditions of said Grant full- filled and compleated within Two Years from this Date, And Praying the Proprietors will grant them Two Years from this time to do and Perform the Same, from their earnest Request and Other considera- tions. Therefore — Voted That there be and hereby is granted and Allowed Upon the Following Terms and conditions to the grantees of the Tract of Land or Township granted on the 27 th Day of April 1749 to John Ham Gershom Downes & Others Two Years from this Date to compleat - •/ v J i ■ [Plan dj Walcefidd.'] This Plan made by Walter Bryant Surveyor at the desire of the Pro|>rieto the land contained within the Grant to whom the same was Granted is returned as a true plan of the Division of Attest Thomas Miller Prop'* Cleric lot & Each of the ioo Lots in the first Division contain one hundred Acres u four Roads Broad the lines that divide the Lotts are North 48 d E 156 Rods Lott N° 49 Lays part on each side of Samon-falls River as in the Plan N c Broad — N° 63 is 148 Rods Broad N° 92 Bounds on y e Pond N° 73 Runs " N° 42 is 145 Rods Broad & Bounds on y c pond & the center square Lays far northward as to contain Six acres N° 43 Bounds on y“ pond and the Crose up Round the head of the pond northward & n° 41 in the first Division & 4 1 V acres being pinched to make up y e mill privelege— The Second Division Contau in the first Division and are the same Lentil but are one hundred forty nine Copied from the original December 2 1830 Rouo< ! abovi ter laid out the Roads between y e Ranges are North & South in Lentil & are 1 said Lotts are one hundred & thirty five Rods Broad North & south the ■ys bounding on y e Pond N° 65 Runs Borth lines to y e Pond is But 130 Rods ounding on the pond to 39 — N°4o is 125 Rods Broad & Runs to the y e pond le Crose Center Road adjoyning to it & y e pond & the third Range & runs so kr Road Down by n° 68 to the 7 th Road n° 46 Runs from the center square he second Division & n° ten in the second Division hath but ninety three each Lott one hundred & thirty acres and are the same Coose Each way as Broad North— By Benj” Akerman v. i r+i. ■ • t , .oiii , .. ,ihl/i Rn WAKEFIELD. 363 and Fulfill the Terms and conditions of their grant made April 27 th 1749 That they compleat a Road within said Two Years of four Rods wide through the Township Equal to the Road in Middle Town, called the Governours Road, to Leavits Town, so called, and that no compensation be made to the Owner or Owners of the Lott or Lotts through which the Governours road, so called, Passeth through in the said Township. [ Condition of Settlement , 1770.] [Masonian Papers, Yol. 8, p. 65.] Names of the Heads of the familys Numb r of Lott settl d on Acres Clear’d Acres Trees Fell Houses Jonath n Gillman .... 29 13 7 20 & 30 Clement Steel ..... 36 3 2 ab 1 20 Jerem h Gillman ..... 27 15 8 20 & 30 Noah Kimble ..... 38 6 4 ab l 20 Benj Perkins ..... 25 6 6 do Sam 11 Willey ..... 23 3 5 do Sam 11 Sherburne .... 23 1 4 do Simeon Dearburne .... 42 10 20 do Joshua Edgerly ..... 76 2 8 do William More ..... 74 3 3 do John Gillman ..... 39 8 2 d° Andrew Gillman .... 24 1 i£ d° partly built Tho 8 Perkins ..... 22 2 5 0 O John Wentworth .... 18 1 4 do David Copp ..... 15 1 6 25 & 25 Joseph Abbet ..... 52 6 4 L °gg John Horn ..... 50 4 4 do Daniel Hall ..... 53 0 4 do Benj a Horn ..... 60 3 3 do Jn° Gillman Jun r .... 64 2 3 do Eliphelt Quimby .... 66 1 3 do Joseph Malum ..... 90 3 3 do Joseph Perkins ..... 86 1 3 do 364 CHARTER RECORDS. Names of People who have began N° Lotts began Acres Clear’d Acres Fell 37 10 4 Jacob Welch ...... 80 0 3 Barn 3 Palmer ...... 34 4 6 John Kimble ...... 40 4 6 Andrew Gillman ..... 2 5 2 6 Sam 1 Sherburne ) Benj a Berkins £ 24 4 6 Nich® York ...... 9 1 4 Tre th Dudley ...... 43 2 2 Ichabod Kenney ..... 75 4 James Garvin ...... 67 8 Barna 8 Palmer ...... 44 1 3 John Gage ...... 4 i — 3 Jn° Wingate ...... 90 1 8 Sam 11 Hall ...... 7 1 0 l 5 No meeting House for Publick worship The above is an Acco’t of the settlements & Improvements in East Town — surv d & Examin d East Town Decem br 1770 Jotham Rindge & David Copp \Two Letters about Roads , 1774.] [Masonian Papers, Yol. 8, p. 66.] Portsmouth July 6, 1774 — Thomas Chatburne Esq r S r Desire you would send down the Number of the Lots Pitch’d upon by the Persons you gave Encouragement to Settle, and what Labour done upon Each Lot. If you see Col 0 Rust Desire him to send word Wether he will be Able to Clear out the Rode to Eastown and When — and Please to Tell him, If he Wants any Assistance of men of Cattle, to Build the Bridge Over Little pigwackit that you and M 1 Heath will give what Assistance he may have Occasion for — I am S r Your Hum 1 Servant John Penhallow in behalf of the Committee of Ma- sons Propriety A Copy WARNER. 365 Portsmouth July 6 th 1774 — S r This is to Inform you that the Proprietors of Masons Patent, have laid out a Rode from the head of Easttown to Meet the Conway Rode which will bring the Travelors down through your Town we therefore desire that you will take Carre that the Rode through your Town may be Made Convenient for Teams to pass through which Must make it a Great Advantage to your Town as it Will shorten the Distance from Dover to Conway at Least Ten Miles — We are S r Your Hum 1 Servants — Dan 1 Rogers John Penhallow Committee of Mason Propriety To Simeon Darburne Esq 1 ' To be Communicated to the selectmen of Eastown a Copy WARNER. [This town was Number 1 in the line of towns from Merrimack to Con- necticut River, and was granted Jan. 16, 1735-6, to Thomas Stevens and others, many of whom were from Amesbury, Mass. The town was called A r ew Amesbury or Ahnsbury. Granted by the Masonian Proprietors March 14, 1749-50, to Richard Jenness and others, inhabitants of Rye, and called Jenness-town and Rye-town. Regranted Dec. 24, 1767, to Jonathan Barnard and others. Incorporated as War- ner Sept. 3, 1774, and named in honor of Col. Jonathan Warner, of Portsmouth. Kearsarge Gore was annexed June 13, 1818. See Massachusetts and New Hampshire charters in preceding volumes ; IX, Bouton Town Papers, 789; XIII, Hammond Town Papers, 612; Index to Laws, 586; sketch, by Moses Long, 3; Collections of N. H. Historical Society, 179; History, by Walter Harriman, 1879, P* 5&I ; sketch, by Fred Myron Colby, Hurd’s History of Merrimack County, 1886, p. 653 ; Stewart’s History of the Free Baptists, 1862, p. 162 ; Baptist Churches in N. H., by E. E. Cummings, 1836, p. 22; Lawrence’s N. H. Churches, 1856, p. 414; discourse, centennial celebration of Congregational Church, by H. S. Huntington, 1872; Life of Walter Harriman, by Amos Hadley, 1888; Bills of Mortality, 1817-22, 2, Farmer and Moore’s His- torical Collections, 200; Rambles about a Country Town, by F. M. Colby, in In- dependent and Times , 1892-1895 ; Proceedings at Dedication of Pillsbury Free Library Building, 1891 ; A Sketch of Warner, Historic and Otherwise, by Amanda B. Harris, 19, Granite Monthly, 41 1 .] 366 CHARTER RECORDS. [ Petition of Rye Men, 1748. J [Masonian Papers, Yol. 8, p. 68.] To the Lord proprietors of the Land not yet Granted in the Prov- ince of New Hampsheir the Petition of Sundry of his majestys Good Subjects inhabitants of the Parish of Rve in the Above Said Province humbly Seweth i/ %j that where as there have been Considerable tracts of Land Granteed to most if not all the towns in this Province yet the inhabitants of the Parish of Rye Especialy that Part of it taken from Portsmouth and hampton have never been benefited by them We therefore Humbly Pray that we may have a Grant of Such lands made us in this think fet. Rich d Jennes Esq r Daniel molten Joshua Jennes Joseph marston John Knowles jun thomas watson william Langmaid James Philbreck David Knowles Jonathen Palmer Daniel malten jun Solomon Dowst Rich d Jennes jun Samuel Sevey jun thomas Jennes James Lock jun Jonathain towl Edward blew Samauel Bracket Joseph Knowls Jeremiah fuller John fuller Ozom Dowest Jacob Leby Sam 11 Lebey John Lane Isaac Lebbe jun Province as in your John Garland m r Samll Parsons Rich d Rand Joseph Lock Samuel Knowles Samuel Rand Mark fors John Garland jun Christepher Palmer willam Palmer Ephraim Holmes Noah molten Rich d Jennes 3 d Henery Sevey Nathanaill Jennes Henry Elkins Jonathain towl jun Daniel fogg Hezekiali Jennes James Knowls f ranees Lock ju r Henery Dow Ebenezer Philbreck Samuel Jenness John Lebey Sam 11 Wells Josiah webster Grate wisdom you Shall franceis Lock Job Jennes franceis Jennes John Knowles William Chamberlin Joseph Sevey Jethro Goss Amos Knowles Stephen Palmer Simon Garland Dacen Rand Joshua Rand Samuel Sevey f ranees Jennes j r Reuben molten Epharim Lock John Shagll Samuel walles Edward Rendel Isaac Lebbey Joseph fuller Amos Rand Ebenezer Philbreck ju r Joseph Jenness Jeremiah berrey Benjagaim Lampree Willem Harden WARNER. 367 [Endorsed] Portsm 0 July 29 th 1748 Rece d this Petition ^ Jon a Towle Francis Jennes Rich d Jennes 3 d Portsm 0 Nov r 9 th 1748 y e abovenamed appearing in behalfe of y e within Petitioners desire to have a grant upon Rochester head line [Plans of Warner. ~\ 3 68 CHARTER RECORDS. 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Proposals of Settlers .] [Masonian Papers, Vol. 8, p. 86.] Proposals Humbly Offerd by us here After Named we Do hereby Promise & Oblige Our Selves to Cleare three Acers of Land to Each rite in three Years And to Settle ten Families in five Years And fifteen familes in Seven years And that we will Settle twent families in Nine And to Build a meeting House & to Provide A Minister to Preach the Gorsple to the families that Shall then be Settled on S <1 Township with in the Nine Years Jonathan towle Franceis Jennes Rich d Jennes 3 d Com tee WARNER. 3 6 9 [ Charter of Warner , 1749.] [Masonian Proprietors’ Records, March 14, 1749.] Voted That there be & hereby is Granted unto Richard Jennes Esq r Francis Lock Isaac Libbey John Garland M r Samuel Parsons M r Joseph Jennes Francis Jennes Job Jennes Ephraim Lock Joshua Jennes Noah Moulton Samuel Jennes Jeremiah Fuller Francis Lock jun r Christopher Palmer Jonathan Palmer Jethro Gorse Joseph Seavy Ebenezer Philbrick Richard Rand Stephen Palmer Daniel Moulton Richard Jennes Third Edward Blue Joshua Rand John Garland jun r Simon Garland Solomon Dowst Daniel Fogg Samuel Seavy Henry Seavy John Knowls John Knowls jun r James Knowls Jonathan Towle John Quin Henry Dow James Philbrick Amos Knowls Isaac Libbey jun r Jacob Libbey Samuel Bracket Joseph Knowls Thomas Jennes W m Palmer Joseph Lock Jun r Arthur Libbey Ebenezer Philbrick jun r Josiah Webster Benjamin Lamprey John Jennes Jun r his heirs Jonathan Towle Jun r Hezekiah Jennes Joshua Weeks Richard Jennes Jun r Nath 1 Jennes Nathan Moulton Sam 1 Knowls Rich d Jackman Meshech Bell 3 rd Henry Elkins Rich' 1 Jennes 4 th Thomas Jennes Jun r Levi Towle David Moulton Jonathan Jennes Samuel Libbey Daniel Moulton Jun r Joshua Rand Jun r Francis Blake All of Rye & New Cas- tle Joseph Parsons of Bradford Andrew Maclary John Blake Jun r both of Epsom Stephen Gerrish of Contoocook Hunking Wentworth & Thomas Parker both of Portsmouth In Equal shares on the Terms Conditions & 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 Viz 1 Begining at the South west Corner of a place Called & Known by the Name of Contoocook thence Runing North Fifteen Degrees West six Miles then Runing from Each End of this line West Five Degrees South Six Miles then Crossing & Runing over on a Strait Course from one End of these last Mentioned lines to the Other — So as to make up the said Quantity of six Miles Square & no More To have and to hold to them their Heirs & Assigns in Equal Shares on the following Conditions and Limitations That is to Say That the Whole Tract of Land within the said Boundries (saving what is herein after Mentioned to be otherwise Improved) Be Divided into One hun- dred Rights or Shares & Each Share into two Distinct Lots one of which is to Contain One hundred Acres And the Other all the Rest of the Land belonging to Each Respective Share That the two Lots which belong to One share be Numbered with the same Number begining with one & Ending with one hundred That the Said Land to 24 370 CHARTER RECORDS. be so laid out within One Year from the granting thereof & then the Lots drawn in the usual Manner of Drawing for Lots of Land in such Cases And that this be done under the Care & Direction of the Grantors & that there be but One Draft for the two Lots Belonging 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 & Continue there During his life or untill he shall be Regularly Dismised 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 be Conveniently & not Drawn as the other Lots That there be ten acres of Land left in some Convenient place within said Boundaries for Building a Meeting house & School house upon and to Improve for A Training Field a Burying place & any other Publick use the Inhabit- ants there shall see Cause to Make of the Same That one other of said shares be for the use of & Support of a School there forever That seventeen of said shares be & hereby are Reserved to the use of the said Proprietors the Grantors in these Presents their heirs & Assigns That the Owners of the other Eighty shares make a Regular Settle- ment there at their own Charge & Expence in the following Manner Viz 1 That thirty Families be settled upon said Tract of Land Each having a house Equal to sixteen foot square or More & three acres of Land cleared & fitted for Mowing or Tillage upon their Respective Lots within four Years from the Granting thereof & ten Families More so settled within two Years from the same time That a Meeting house for the Publick Worship of God be built within Six years & the Constant Preaching of the Gospel Maintained there next after twelve years from the granting of the said Land That there be twenty Acres of Land left in some Suitable Place within said Boundaries for a Priviledge & Accommodation of a Saw Mill which shall be to and for him or them his or their heirs & Assigns who will Build such Mill within two years from the time aforesaid with the Priviledge of the Most Convenient Stream & Place for that Purpose & 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 Inhabitants afores d or Settlers there to the halves for the Term of ten years next after the said Mill shall first work if desired so to do & if no Particular Person or Persons of the said Owners of said Shares or Such other as the Major Part of them shall admitt will undertake to Build Such Mill on the said Terms then the said Owners shall do the same at their Common Expence & put the Said mill under such a Regulation as that they & others Inhabiting there May be served with Boards & WARNER. 371 other Saw’d Stuff on Just & Reasonable Terms of Carrying an End the said Settlement — That Each Owners of the said Eighty shares Pay to such Person or Persons as the Major part of them shall Determine And Chuse for that Purpose all such sum & Sums of Money as the said Major Part shall Determine to be Necessary from time to time to Defray the Charges of Laying out the said Lots & other Matters & things herein directed to be done & Necessary to be at their Common Expence for Making Said Settlement — 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 Posible That the Lots be laid in Ranges where the Land will admit of it & Land left between the Ranges for high Ways of four Rods wide & between the lots of two Rods wide That a Plan of the whole when so laid out be Made at the Charge of the said owners & Returned to the Grantors as soon as may be Conveniently done That the Remaining Seventeen Shares Reserved as aforesaid be Exonerated Acquited & fully Exempted from paying any Charge towards Making the said settle- ment & not held to the Conditions of the Eighty Shares afores (l nor liable to any Tax or assessment untill Improved by the Respective Owners thereof — That all white Pine Trees fit for Masting the Ro}^al Navy be & hereby are Reserved & Granted to his Majesty his heirs and Succes- sors forever for that Purpose — That in Case the Grantees shall fail neglect & omit to settle Forty Families upon the said Tract of Land in Manner afores d & within the Term aforesaid & to do & perform the Several Matters & things herein before Mentioned by them to be done the s d Grantees shall forfeit their Right to any & Every part of the said Granted premises and the said Grantors may Lawfully Enter into & upon the same or any part thereof in the Name of the whole or any Person or Persons for them & in their Names stead & behalf & be thereof Seized again as tho' this Grant had not been made Provided Nevertheless that Those Particular Persons of the said Grantees who shall have performed his or their Part according to the true Intent & Meaning of these Presents as above shall have hold & Enjoy to him his heirs & Assigns his or their Particular shares afores d And In Case the said owners of the Eighty shares shall within the Term aforesaid Make finish & Compleat the Settlement of forty Families as afores d & shall do & perform all the Several Articles matters & things by them to be done as afores d Every Particular Person of the said Owners who shall be delinquent & neglect to do & perform his Respective share part & proportion of his Duty buisness matters & things afores' 1 by him to be done according 372 CHARTER RECORDS. to the true Intent & meaning of these Presents such Delinquent owner shall forfeit his share & Right to the said Tract of Land any and Every Part thereof to such of the s d Owners who Shall have done and performed as aforesaid & they may have hold & Enjoy the same to them their heirs & assigns & hereby are Entituled to the Grantors Right thereto & may Enter into & upon the Same & take full Seizin thereof to their own use as fully & amply as the Grantors themselves might Lawfully do as afores' 1 Provided always that in Case of an Indian War within any of the Terms of years above Limited for the doing any of the matters & things aforesaid by the said owners to be done the same Number of years Respectively shall be allowed after that Impediment shall be Removed And in Case any action or suits shall be bro't against the s d Grantees for the s d Tract of land or any Part thereof in the Right of the King under the Massachusets Province the Claim of Sam 1 Allen Esq r Deceased 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 & the said Grantors hereby Promise & Ingage they their heirs Executors 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 Occasion) And in Case the final Judgment in such Trial Shall be against the s d Grantors the Grantees shall Recover Nothing over in satisfaction of & from the said Grantors their heirs Executors or administrators or any of them — [Draft of Lots, 1750.] [Mason ian Papers, Vol. Coll Meservey ) Coll Blanchard 1 Paul March f Jos Green J John Quin Jeremiah Fuller James Knowles Isaac Libby jun r Tho s Jennes jun r Jotham Odiorne Esq r Tho s Parker Will 111 Palmer . 8, p. 69, and Proprietors' Records, Vol. 6, p. 237.] N 1 79 12 80 71 51 43 20 50 WARNER. 373 Mark Hu Wentworth Esq r Henry Elkins . Jacob Libby Colman ju r Ozem Doust Arthur Libby . Joseph Jen nes Joshua Jennes John Jennes jun r Dec’ds Heir Sam 1 Jennes Joseph Lock jun r John Knowles jun r . Rich d Jennes Esq r . James Philbrick Stepli n Gerrisli Joseph Knowles Job Jennes Amos Ivnowls . Rich d Rand - Nathan moulton Meshech Bell 3 d John Garland . Joshua Rand . Stephen Palmer John Blake jun r Fran s Jennes . Levi Towl Sam 1 Sevey Noah Moulton Rich d Wibird Esq r . Edw d Blew Rich d Jennes 4 th Fra s Lock Joseph Seavey Rich d Jennes 3 d Daniel Moulton Tho 8 Jennes Simon Garland Rich' 1 Jackman Benj Lamprey Rev' 1 Jos. Parsons Dan 1 Fogg Tho 8 Parker Esq r 19 48 53 31 60 14 9 8 44 29 85 64 77 36 78 28 38 45 13 81 10 22 2 41 87 56 30 35 34 93 70 96 52 26 82 98 97 58 73 83 67 42 374 CHARTER RECORDS. Jonth 11 Towl Jethro Goss Rev d Sam 1 Parsons . Solomon Dowst Henry Dow Isaac Libby Joshua Rand jun 1 Hez. Jennes Andrew MacClary . Samuel Knowles Colman Sen 1 ' Jonathan Palmer Samuel Libby . Sam 1 Bracket . Richard Jennes jun 1 ’ Josiah Webster Joshua Weeks jun r . Eben r Philbrick Daniel Moulton jun r David Moulton Christo 1- Palmer Jonth 11 Towl jun r Tho s Wallingford Esq r Fra s Blake Theod Atkinson Esq r . Solly & March Hunkg Wentworth Esq r Joshua Peirce Esq r . John Knowls . Mason & Thomlinson Ephr 111 Lock John Moffatt . Henry Seavey . Eben r Philbrick jun r Edw d Rendle . John Wentworth jun r Esq 1- Nath 1 Jennes . Fran s Lock jun r Dan 1 Peirce & Mary Moo John Rindge Jonth Jennes . Law Lot N° 2 . Jo 11 Garland jun 1 86 68 84 76 90 94 6 89 32 99 61 33 63 92 39 17 69 62 74 88 91 15 5 11 100 59 95 47 16 37 54 57 55 4 46 24 72 49 7 3 18 21 25 WARNER 375 Law Lot N 1 . . . . . . . . . . 23 Geo Jaffrey Esq r ......... 27 Province of New Hampshir Portsmouth October 23 d 1750 — The Draft of the Lots of the Township, or Tract of Land granted To Rich d Jennes Esqu r Francis Lock & others march 14 th 1749 — [Plan of Lots.~\ ..•?* s ff r 163 (T .?/ -Iff ion /l .°J ** £ foODSipjUOj 1 ' .vr ■ J *I ,v Vo u f .01 ,bs 1 ’Y’Vt’te • , O.Q u.Al Oh . ' /‘"If Y °°7 (vtj. 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J *2 k Z? tUCCdV'f t C( hA s:ur( 0 -uf r h t As 2 * u 10 OZ •>y iv J !*kl 6 > V; *e** J* 4 6 s j yjio*A ol "> 7 &PZ il * d ul °f Jb yjtpirejL T >3 CA snuy purj,oT) o u r iz ^r-'Vir r • w *7 0 2 / A-rj uojjoue 7 ^a IS Cl UX>£ t °YZ ZL e ruof 7Z >r 7 ’r vs i th * u 'V 3 Ji ih .**2 io /isg r o£ Al 1 ^ j UJ> £ YJ ton* -i up Mo u r rr ^uiisnj iu /o 2 / * w/ JOf^ytKX kb cw°KY ? U ™S ’ " 7 Z J uy, f bijpmouc d u UOiu*?Cf rH^k { I j S' s. > 376 CHARTER RECORDS. [Abstract of Votes of Toivn Proprietors , 1786-67.] [Masonian Papers, Vol. 8, p. 70.] The Township N° 1 granted by the General Court of the Province of the Massachusitts Bay to a Number of People living in Amesbury & Salsbury Novemb r y e 21 st 1736 and a Charter given, and a Commit- tee choose, And the Propriety gave Bonds to S d Committee for the fulfilment of the Charter which cost each Proprietor four Pounds. At a Meeting of the Proprietors of the abovesaid Township Octob r y e 7 th 1736 Meet and choose a Committee to lay Out 63 Lots and at the next meeting Nov r 25, 1736 the Committee made return that they Laid Out 63 forty Acre Lots and were paid each 9 s p r Day At a Meeting Nov r y e 23, 1738 the Proprietors choose a Committee to lay out 63 five Acre Lots which was done and a Return made at y e Adjournment of S d Meeting, and the Lots drawn At a Meeting Jenuary y e 21, 1738 Voted to clear a Way from Con- tucook River to y e Meeting House Lot and at the Same meeting Voted to build a Saw Mill in S d Township & Choose a Committee to build & finish it by the Last Day of August Next At a Meeting March 21 1739 the Committee made a Return that they had built & finished the Mill & cleared the Way which cost the Proprietors Near 400X At a Meeting March y e 18 1740 Voted that Tho s Rowell Esq r and Lieu 1 Joseph Jewell be a Committee to present a Petition to his Ex- cellency the Governor and Council in the Province of New Hampshire for Liberty and direction to bring forward the Settlement of S d Town- ship. At a Meeting Decemb 1 18, 1749 Voted to build five Houses in S d Township and Choose a Committee to build & Compleat said Houses by y e 26 Day of January At a Meeting Jan y 26, 1749 the Committee made a Return that they had built 4 Houses according to the Order of the Court At a Meeting Feb y 12, 1749/50 Voted that the 5 first Families that will Settle in S d Township shall have 5 Houses and 20 £ each Yearly for 5 Years The Charges for Clearing Land & Ways & c is Supposed would amount to Eleven or twelve Hundred Pounds Massachusitts Money The Charges that have arose for laying Out 3 Divisions of Land building the Saw Mill & Dam running the Line round the Town building the Meeting House & Preaching amounts to 28£ „ 18S ,, 6D on Each Right from June 21 1763 to March y e 81 1767 Nehemiah Ordway Propriators Clark WARNER. 377 [ Votes of Town Proprietors, 17 67 .] [Masonian Papers, Yol. 8, p. 71.] The Propriators of a Township of Land Call cl N° 1 in the Line of Townships so Call d Granted by the Province of the Massachusets Bay in the year 1783 And by the Riming the Line Betwen the Provinces s d Township fell within the Bounds of New hampsh r Gov- erment ; And Now Claim d by the Propriators of Masons Patten so Call d Meet this 27 Day of July 1767 And Being Legualy warnd And assembled Chose Tho s Rowel Esq 1 ' Moderator And voted to Chuse a Committee to wait on the s d Propriators And to agree with them And Take sufficient security for the original Propriators of said Township or their assigns if thay Can in a Reasonable maner at the Same Meet- ing Made Choice of Cap 1 Jonathan Barnard Mes s Increes Morrill & Ezekiel Evens To Transact s d affair in Behalf And for the use of the Propriaty Almsbury July y e 27 : 1767 Nehemiah Ordway j iators [ Committee and List of Proprietors, 1767.] [Masonian Papers, Yol. 8, p. 72.] at a Meeting of the Propriators of the township N° 1 in the Line of towns in the Province of New Hampsheire the fourth Day of Novemb r 1767 Yoted Mess Jonathan Barnard Increes Moraill And Ezekiel Evens a Committee To Take a Charter of the Above S d town of the Propriators of Masons Patten ; And Give them Security of the Sum Agreed upon in Behalf of the Propriaty Nehemiah Ordway Propriators dark The Propriators Are As followeth Nathan Currier Umphrey Perce Sam 11 Barnard Jun r And Stephen Colby Elihu Gould Thomas Rowel Esq r Benjamin Tucker Bartholome Iletli Nathaniel Currier Nehemiah Ordway 2 Ruben Dimon ^Barnard Hoyt 1 Joseph Easmund John Nechals Tho 8 Barnard Simion Bartlet Jonathan Pressey w d Esther Colby Rights Joseph Jewel Benjaman Evens Simion Morrill Rev' 1 Pain wingate Daniel Ring Enoch Sargant Stephen Merrill John wells 378 CHARTER RECORDS. Daniel Quimby Barns Jewel Peter Sargant Abraham Merrill Sam 11 Barnard 2 Right Theodor Hoyt Gideon Rowel Ezekiel Morrill D r Stephen Sargant Ben : Sargant Easmund Hoyt Tho s Fowler Francis Davis Tho s Jewel Jeremiah Flanders Cap 1 Jonathan Barnard Ezekiel Evems Ing n Increes Morrill Nathan Goodwin Aron Rowel D r Gorg Abbet s and a half Nehemiah Ordway J Sam 11 & Israel Straw 1 James Ordway Jarvis Ring Joseph Jones Will : Straw half Right David Bagley Ben : Osgood Jonathan Martin ) ^Daniel Morrill and Eliplilet Lowell \ 1 At the Adjournment of the meeting of the Propriators of New- almesbury Voted that Jonathan Presseys Name be Enterd Instead of John Presseys — Nehemiah Ordway Clark [ William Parker to Theodore Atkinson . ] [Masonian Papers, Vol. 8, p. 87.] Sir If I had the necessary Information I coud today & tomorrow Prepare the Grant to be made to Cap 1 Barnard & others — the Main thing is the bounds they left a Plan with me when they were first down but took it awav the last time so that I have no materials by me — the Terms & time they are to have to Perform the Settlement &c the names of the Grantees which are to be first Mentiond in the Grant If these things are not to be had to day I Shall not be Ready by tomorrow night — I woud have waited on you my Self but have met with an Accident which has Lam'd me that it is with difficulty I can go about mv Room — Please to Send me an answer by the bearer and Please to Send for M r Jaffrey & Consult him or perhaps the work may meet with Exceptions & Rubs — I am Your Humble Serv 1 Dec r 22 Wiliam Parker Theod. Atkinson Esq 1 ' [ Theodore Atkinson to George Jaffrey . ] [Masonian Papers, Vol. 8, p. 88.] S r I now Enclose you M r Parkers request in order to be prepared for the Almsbury Men You can furnish him with the Bounds which WARNER. 379 may Correspond with Jannes’s Grant by adding the Words about — dearees & as our Grants Lies on Each Side there can be no mistake L/ only in the 6 Miles which finishes at a Stake (if I remember) in a Meadow — Let that be Six Miles & no more — The Terms of Set- tlem* 3 Years — as to the Grantees Names I know nothing of them — You have their Plan — I should be Glad to have this Affair Concluded & Am S r Your Very Humble Serv* Theodore Atkinson \fRegrant of Warner , 1777.] [Masonian Proprietors' Records, Dec. 24, 1767.] Province of ) Portsmouth December 24 th 1767 Eleaven of the New HampslT j Clock before noon at the dwelling house of Daniel Peirce Esqu r the Proprietors meet according to adjournment — Whereas Cap fc Jonathan Barnard, Increes Morrill & Ezekiel Evans have applied to said Proprietors in Behalf of themselves & others whose Names are herein after mentioned for the right of said Pro- prietors to a Tract of Land hereinafter Described, which they were disposed to settle with all Convenient Dispatch and the said Pro- prietors being desirous of Encouraging the settlement of all the Lands within their Claim and of Accomodating such Persons who were Inclin'd to make such Settlements — And for the greater Advantage of the Settlers, Instead of reserving a part to the Grantors as has been usually done by them in such Cases have agreed to take a Sum of Money as an Acknowledgement of their Right — And thereupon it is — Voted that there be & hereby is granted all the Right, Title, Inter- est, Property & Demand of said Proprietors, in & to that Tract of Land, containing the Quantity of Six Mile Square, within the follow- ing bounds, viz fc beginning at a place called & known by the Name of Contoocook, thence running North fifteen Degrees West Six Miles, then running from each End of this Line West five Degrees South Six miles, then Crossing and running over on a strait Course from one End of these last mentioned Lines, at the End of the said Six Miles to the other so as to make up the Quantity of Six Miles Square & no more, In Consideration of the Sum of one hundred & Eighty Pounds to the said Proprietors in hand paid, or secured to be paid by the Grantees whose Names areas follows, viz 1 the said Jonathan Barnard, Increes Morrill, Ezekiel Evans Nathan Currier, Nehemiah Ordway, two Rights or Shares, Humphry Peirce, Reuben Diamond, Joseph Jewell, Samuel Barnard Jun r & Stephen Colby both one Share, CHARTER RECORDS. 380 Barnard Hoyt. Benjamin Evans. Joseph Eastmond. Simeon Morral, Elihu Goold. John Nichols, the Rev' 1 M r Pain Wingate Thomas Rowell Esq r Thomas Barnard. David Ring. Benjamin Tucker. Simeon Bartlet, Enoch Tucker. Bartholomew Heath. Jonathan Pressy. Stephen Merrill. Nathaniel Currier, the Widow Esther Coleby John Wells. Daniel Quinby. Nehemiah Ordway. Thomas Fowler. Barnes Jewell. Nathan Goodwin. Francis Davis. Peter Sargent. Aaron Rowell, Thomas Jewell, Abraham Merrill. D r George Abbot. Jeremiah Flanders. Samuel Barnard two Rights A an half. Theodore Hoyt. Nehemiah Ordway jun r Gideon Rowell. Samuel Straw. A Israel Straw both one. James Ordway. Ezekiel Morrall. Jarvis Ring. Joseph Jones. D n Stephen Sargent. William Straw half a Right. Benjamin Sargent. David Bagley, Benp Osgood. Eastmond Hoyt. Jon 1 Martin A Eliphalet Lowell, both one, Daniel Morrell, on the Terms. Limitations and Con- ditions. herein after Express'd — To have and to hold to them the said Grantees, in several A Seperate Shares, to them A their several A Respective Heirs A Assigns forever, on the following Terms A Condi- tions viz : that the said Grantees settle fortv Families, each having a «• _ • v O house of Eighteen feet in length. and Sixteen feet in breadth, or Equivalent thereto A three Acres of Land fit for Tillage. Mowing or Pasturing within three Years to each Familv. that thev lav out three Rights or Shares, one for the use of the first Minister of the Gospel, who shall be ordain'd A Settled there, that one right be for the use of the Ministry in the Town, when so Incorporated forever, and one other Right for the use of a School, for A towards the Support thereof forever. Each of said Rights to be laid out into Lots as the Grantees manage the other Rights. A to be free from the Charge of Settlement or any Publick Taxes to that End — That eac-h Grantee faithfully A duly pay his Proportion of all Taxes that shall be agreed by the Majority at any legal Meeting for carrying on the Settlement — That thev build a Meeting house A Maintain Constant Preaching there from A after the Term of three Years from the Date hereof. That all White Pine trees growing on said Tract of Land be A hereby are reserv'd for his Majesty's Use. — That each Grantee who shall neglect to pay his Proportion of the Taxes that shall be agreed on as aforesaid shall forfeit so much of his Share as will raise the Money at which he is assess'd, whether laid out into Lots, or lying in Common, and the other Grantees shall hereby have Power to direct how A in what Manner the same shall be dispos'd of for this Purpose. A he who shall not perform the Duty required of him as his Propor- tion and part of making the said Settlement, shall forfeit his whole Right or Share to those of said Grantees who shall have duly per- formed the same. — WARNER. 381 But in Case the Majority of said Grantees shall neglect to make the settlement, & perform the several matters & things Necessary thereunto, according to the time above limitted, they shall forfeit the whole Tract to the said Grantors, & it shall & ma} r be Lawfull for them to Enter into the same, to repossess, become reseized thereof as in their former Estate — And there is also reserved in said Tract of Land, Land sufficient for Convenient High Ways, through the said Tract of Land, as is usually granted in other Towns by said Proprie- tors. — \_Petition of Ebenezer Hall , Jr., 1769.] [Masonian Papers, Vol. 8, p. 73.] Portcbmoutch June the 5 d 1769 — To the propritiers of A track of land Caled tuftens maisons Pattain Gentelmen Propitiers I would inform you that their is a Track of land joining the township of Newalmsbury N 1 on the North side and Runs westeardly to the township of Pearies town So caled and this track of land is a mile wide on the Eastardly End of it — And if said Propri- tiers have A mind to Sell this track of land I shuld be glad for to pertecli it or if you Dont see good for to sell it but should Be a moin to Give away some for setteling I should be glad of the faiver of Set- teling for you and So I Remains your Ilumbel servant — Ebenezer Hall jun r of Concord in Newhamsher And I Shuld be glad for to know wether you intend to let me have this land or no as soon as you Can and Send me word as soon as you can — [ Petition of Town Proprietors , 1770.] [Masonian Papers, Vol. 8, p. 74.] To the Proprietors of Masons Patten in the Province of Newhamp r &c The Petition of the Proprietors of A Township of Land Lying Within s' 1 Patten 1 Call 1 New Almsbury Humbly Sheweth That the said Proprietors of s' 1 Patten was Pleased to Grant a township of Land Lying Within s' 1 Patten unto us the Supscribers on the Complyance of Certain Condition Stipulated in the Charter of s' 1 382 CHARTER RECORDS. Town and the out Lines of s d Town, and the Bounds thereof are Not as yet Bun or asertaind, Therefore pray that the Hon ble Proprietors of s d Patten would be pleased to Appoynt and Impower An able Servayer to Runn the out Lines of s d Town and Errect Bounds, and that to be Done on the Expence of the Grantees, Which Will much oblige your Humble petitions Who in Duty bound Will Ever pray — Portsmouth Aprill 16 th 1770 Barnard Hoyt ) Com tee of the > Proprietors of Henry Morrill ) New Almsbury [. Petition of Increase Morrill , 1772.] [Masonian Papers, Yol. 8, p. 75.] To the Committe of the Hon ble the proprietors of Masons Pattent So Call d in the Province of New Hamp r — Humbly Sheweth That your Petitioner was one of the proprietors of New Almsbury in s d Province which was Granted by your Hon rs to him and others in the year 1766 — And very Soon after obtaining s d Grant — your petetioner Began to make Improvements In s d Township and Continued Clear- ing & Cultivating the Land Untill he had Got forty acors of the Trees Cut Down, and Thirty Cleard up & had Raised one Hund d Bushuls Grain in a year and Erected Building So that he Could Maintain himself & famaly Comfortable — But So it happend that one Jonathan Palmer Broke in Upon your petitionrs Improvement, so that he was obliged to have Recourse to the Law, and after Going to the Expence of Carreying the Cause through the Law Lost the Land and all his Labour and Expence, in Clearing the Land. & Carreying it through the Law, by Reason of a prier Right he had formerly obtaind by your Hon rs for the Same Land — all Which hes put your petetioner to Great Inconveniances as Well as the Loss of aboute four Hundred Dolles in Cash Therefor your petetioner Prays that you Would Take Case into your Wise Consideration, and Make him A Grant of Some of the proprietors unapropriated Land as you in your Know Justice Shall See Meet and your petetioner as in Duty Bound Will Ever pray Portsmouth June 17 th 1772 Increes Morrill WARNER. 383 [ Plan of Warner , 1772.] This Plan Shews the out Boundrey Lines of the Town of New Almsbury Wherein is Contained Six miles Squar of Land or Twenty three thousand and forty acres as Given in to me by my Chane men under oath and is Bounded as folows ; Beganing at a Stake in a madow in the Line of Boscawen and Run N. 18° West by said Bos- cawen Line Six miles 126 Rods to a Birch the North west Corner of Said town, then South 71 West, three miles 70 Rods to a Beach tree in Pareystown Line Markd H N 1772 then on Said Pareys Town Line South 16° E 845 Rods to Pareys Town Corner to a Beach tree and heap of Stons, then South 85° West 8 miles 70 Rods to a Beach tree marked as aforesaid and a heap of Stons then South 17° East 4 miles 281 Rods to a Beach Tree and heap of Stons marked as afore- said in Haneker Line, then by Said Haneker Line North 83° East 7 miles 100 Rods to the Stake in the madow first began at Survey august 16 th 1772 ^ Ilubartus Neal Dep 1 Surver 384 CHARTER RECORDS. [. Petition of Jonathan Palmer , 1774.] [Masonian Papers, Yol. 8, p. 76.] Province of ) To the Hon ble the Proprietors of Lands Purchased New Hampsh r > of John Tufton Mason Esq r in the Province afore- Rockingham ss ) said The Petition of Jonathan Palmer of New Almsbury in the County of Hillsborough and Province aforesaid — Humbly Sheweth That your Petitioner, several years ago settled on a tract of Land in said New Almsbury, which was granted by your honours, to the inhabitants of the Parish of Rye together with others their Associates, & in & bv the Charter your honours did ingage with said proprietors that you would, defray the Charges of any Lawsuit which might be Commenced against any of s d Proprietors of S d New Almsbury or any Claiming under them, by any Person Claiming the same under a Massuchetts Grant, That Soon after your Petitioner Settled as aforesaid, he was Sued by one Increase Morrill in an Action of Trespass, & defended the Action through three Courts, and finally Recovered Cost against the said Morrill, That your Petitioner is a poor man & Spent a Great deal of money, more than he Could Legallv Recover by wav of Cost Against the said Morrill, and has otherways been put to Great trouble and Loss of time — Therefore your s d Petitioner humbly prays your honours Considering the Circumstances of the Whole matter, that vou O 7 would make him a Grant of as much Vacant Land, some where in your honours Patent as you think a Mete Recompence for the trouble & Expence & Loss of time, which your Petitioner has Suffered by Reason aforesaid, (as your Petitioner has Eight Sons,) and such a Grant as is above Petitioned for, may greatly Advance your honours interest in your s d Patent & tend to Enable your Petitioner and his said sons, (by the blessings of Providence) with industry to Live in a Comfortable manner, and your Petitioner as in duty bound will ever pray &c Portsmouth January 24 th 1774. Jonathan Palmer [. Letter from Samuel Holland , 1774.] [Masonian Papers, Vol. 8, p. 77.] Portsmouth, 1st March 1774 — Gentlemen In the Course of my laying down the several Townships A Grants of Land in that part of this Province which is Held by you under the WARNER. 385 Claim of Tuffton Mason Esq. I find some Tracts yet ungranted, & among them the Mountain of Kayasarges with a Small Quantity of Land fit for Cultivation surrounding it : As I am inclined to Make a Settlement there, I shall be glad to know as soon as convenient, either by Letter, or if desired an Interview, whether the Same be agreeable to You & on what Terms I may obtain a Grant of it. Attending your Answer, I remain Gentlemen, Your most obedient humble Servant. Samuel Holland The Proprietors holding under the Claim of Tuffton Mason, Esq in New Hampshire. [. Andrew Smith’s Request , 1774.] [Masonian Papers, Vol. 8, p. 78.] Mem 0 Andrew Smith of New Holderness desire he may have a Settlement in a Gore of Land between Boscawen & Britain Woods, & takes in part of Carasaige, N B if not Land enough for a Township, whither they will Grant or Sell him Some of it. Portsm 0 June 9 th 1774 — [Two More Requests , 1779.] [Masonian Papers, Yol. 8, p. 78.] M r William Courser has Got upon Some Land Near Kierserge Moun- tain, upon that Lot of Land Called the Gore and Disires that he may be Quieted in it he paying What the Proprietors Shall think Reason- able — Portsm 0 July 17 th 1779 Cap 1 Atkinson Desires that the proprietors would Conclude what they woud Take for the Whole Tract, or so much of it as is Lotted by Plan [Letter from Jonathan Palmer , 1779.] [Masonian Papers, Vol. 8, p. 79.] warner August 23 : 1779 to the Honorable jentlemen of masons Propriaters and in perticular Tto Squiar joarg jeffers Greeting sir it is long sence as you my Remember that i carried in a Pertition to your 25 3 86 CHARTER RECORDS. Honours to grant some land which sevral of your honours gave me in eoragement And for these Reasons 1 st in your Charter to Rye Propriatrs that if any perticular Persn or Persns were sewd by the Mercichuits in ther no body sewd but i and your honours neglected to help me one frtliing i aplied to sevral of your honours in the law sute to borow a pistereen in astant or half a pistereen but could not git it And by your mis conduct Plese y Honours selling the Town which was then called jannes town to amsbery years before the charter was forfited i lost Seven hundre acers of land and went threw lawsute of long contiuance which was a vast Expenc besids eight or ten thousand mils travel i carried in a pertitin by the advic of coin Atki- son i think abot five or six years ago and have a numer of times taken to come to see if my petiton was answd but all in vain and i think it squr jeffers neglect plese yor Honour squir jeffers if you will not See imedatly git that petition anserd i mean to sew you for dam- mage either grant me the land or pay the Damag there is a part of the goar upon head of warner joining Easterly upon Newsalsbery Northely upon the Mountain kiasarge weterly peries town Southily on War- ner grant me that tract of land jentlemen Altho the biger part of that tract is veriy mean i shall Recive it kindly at your hands if not let me know imeadatly Jonathan Palmer — i mean if providance permit to be in Rye next week please to send me word by the bearer &:C [Another Letter from Jonathan Palmer , 1779.] [Masonian Papers, Vol. 8, p. 80.] Warner September 17 th 1779 — in the county of^ To the Honorable jentlemen of masons Pro- Hilsborgh in ! priatrs Greeting Some of your honours my the State of new (Remember That about fife or six years ago i Hampshear J Carried in a Pertition to your Honours it was by the advice of Colnal Atkinson and for these Reasons a little before The canady war begun your honours were Pleased to Grant this town now called warner to the People of Rye and gave them a good charter of twelve years To fulfill in and in case of an indon war the Same Length of tim after the Peace was mad as they had from the orignal Granting and in case any Perticular Person or Persons should be sewd by the masechusets or Alliens Right they would Defend them threw one Law sut upon their own cost there was i was a propriater with them and had three Rights in the Town which contained about Seven WARNER. 387 hundred and fifty Acers the peace was made by col warners depisition in the year 1763 and by the aplication of amsbery People to your honours, ware Plesd to sell this town to Them in the year 1767 not considring the time you gave to Rye and gave them a charter by which Reason i lost sven Hundred acers of land and was sewd by them upon a hundred acer lot that had binn improed three seasons before They bought a house frame bult upon it and was oligd to carry on a law sute upon my own cost notwithstanding your prommis in the charter after the law sute was over i went to Col atkison and sevral of the Propriaters by the advise of the colnel to give me some Land as convenant as might be likewise i did and they All gav me incour- agment that they would to make up the damag in not helping in the law sute i carred in a Pertition to Squier jeffers fiv or six years ago and has alway neglected it althogh i have bin six or sven times down out of the countery to see if your Honours had done any thing for me to the damag of more than two hundred dollars jentlemen i come this once more to see if your will do any thing for me i have Eight Sons that want land ther is a little Part of the Goar upon the south- erly part of kiasarge upon warner and partly upon newsalsbery about two mile and a half above whare i live i would be glad yould gran me some ther an ad you would olig yor humble sarvent jonatlian Palmer Jentle men you Have Sold Seven hundred Acers of My land to Amsbery and caused me a long law Sute threw the law which caused me eight or Ten thousand mils travel be sides six or seven jurnes Down out of the countery seventy or Eighty Miles which is more than fifty thosand Pounds lawf money Damag now jentle men grant me some land or Pay me the Damag for this the last jurney that i in tend to make upon that acount Honored Sirs i Remain your humble servent Jonathan Palmer — 75 mils 6 450 [Letter from Samuel Atkinson , 1780.] [Masonian Papers, Vol. 8, p. 81.] Boscawen June 6 th 1780 To George Geffry Esq r S r I Receivd your orders to Notifie the Select men of Waner to Preamelate the Line between them and the Gore which they Refused 3 88 CHARTER RECORDS. saying they had no Rite till they had a propriators meeting having had a meeting have appointed the 23 d of this Instant to pramalate S (l Line — I haveing ben Sick and being Now sick With the feaver Could not attend your meeting S r be so kind as to Acquaint D r Rogers that M r Roe cannot Make out to pay for a lot of Land according to his perposels This from your most obedient Humble Sarvent Sam 11 Atkinson To George Geffry Esq r Propriators Clark [. Petition of Samuel Atkinson , 1781.] [Masonian Papers, Yol. 8, p. 82.] To the Henorable Masonian Proprietors the Petition of Sam 1 Atkinson humbly Shueth that wareas your Petitiener having Done Sundry Servises in your Lawsute Respecting allexandria and Sence paying Taxes on your Lands in Newcliester and in Geting the kiasarge Gore Servayd and Lotted out theirfore your Petitiener humbly Pray your honors to make him a Grant of the one half of Said Gore for his Servises or Such a part as your honers See fit on the fol- lowing Conditions namely — he to Put on fifteen Settlers with what is on and to make Good Roads through Said Gore and Paying the Tax of the Reserved Part for three Years from this Time and vour Peti- «/ tioner as in Duty Bound Shall Ever Pray — Portsmouth May 30 1781 Sam 1 Atkinson \fPlan of Kearsarge Gcore . ] This Plan is laid Down by a Scale of two Hundred rods to an Inch the Lots Contain 105 acres Each and a reserve made for Highways through Each Lot if wanted the Best Lots are marked with the Letter, G : the middling with the Letter M : the Poorest with the Letter P : — By Henry Gerrish Surveyer — The Westerly Prict Line on the Head of Salisbury is the Line on which they have Laid their Lots The Eastwardly Prict Line is the Line agreeable to their Charter WARNER. 389 39 ° CHARTER RECORDS. The middle Black Line runs from one of their old Bounds to the other All the Lotts that contain more or Less than 105 acres have the Number of acres Set on each Lot The Number of acres Set on the Lots at the Head of Salisbury is What they Contain within the Prict Line [. Reserved Lots in the Gore. 1781.] [Ma sonian Papers. Yol. 8, pp. 88. 89, 90. and Proprietors’ Records, Yol. 4. p. 72.] Ivyahsarge Gore Richard Wibird lots N° 68-26. 46-20. 28 John Moffatt lots N° 50-13. 33-40. 48 George Jaffrey lots N° 5-45. 81-29, 60 Hark H g Wentworth lots X° 2-9-11-27. 57 Jotham Odiorne Lots N° 49-3, 52-21. 37 Thomas Packer lots X° 4-43, 74-41. 56 Thomlinson & Mason lots X° 1-65-72-58, 59 Solly & March lots X° 17-47. 66-63. 75 Joshua Peirce lots N° 51-21-34-54. 67 Peirce & Moore Lots X° 6-85 for 2 lots-61. 25 John Wentworth Lots X° 79-7. 14-36-82 Theodore Atkinson lots X° 16-77-80-71. 64 Thomas Wallingford lots X° 18-15. 44—19, 35 John Rindge lots X° 83-53. 69-55. 70 Meserve A Company Lots X° 73—30, 42.-62. 76 Solly A March southerly part of Lot X° 84 111 Acres \ John Wentworth Northerly corner of Lot X° 84-27 Acres > John Wentworth Lot X° 78-86 Acres ) drawn in the division of Lands in Alexandria. Alexandria Addition and in the Gore next Winnepissioke Ac to make 15 Equal shares — Mark H s Wentworth Lot X° 8 ) John Wentworth Lot X° 10 > Thomas Wallingford Lot N°12 ) drawn in the division of Lands in New Chester in order to make 15 equal Shares WARNER. 3 9 1 [ Road Laid Out , 1792.] [Masonian Papers, Vol. 8, p. 84.] Laid out a Road to Strike said Line a Little West of M r Joseph Quinbys Dwelling House in Salisbury thence on Salisbury Line forty Six Rods to a Great Rock, thence South fifty five degrees, West, Eighty Six Rods to Jeremiah Palmers House, thence About West Two hundred and forty Rods to a Spruce Tree marked, thence South forty Five Degrees, West Eighty Rods to a Tree marked thence West Sixty Six Rods to Sutton East Line through the Gore Called Kiasarge Gore as Set forth in a Petition to said Sessions Signed by Joel Eastman and Others the Wliol Distance from Salisbury West Line to Sutton East Line being About one mile and a half Said Road is Laid four Rods Wide the Above by Order of the Court of General Sessions in the County of Hillsborough Holden at Amherst in March 1792 May 22 d 1792 f Jeremiah Page ^ By < Ebenezer Webster > Committee ( James Flanders ) [. Request of Jonathan Palmer .] [Masonian Papers, Vol. 8, p. 91.] After about one Thousand Eight Hundred mils Travel up and Down to your Honours by the inCouragement of Colnel Atkison and always Bin disapointed of a hearing by Square Jeffers i Humbely once more make my Redress to your Honours there being about one hundred acors of land to be sold in Plan of new Salsbery i this once aply my self to your Honours to see What your honors will Give me towards bying of it it lieth at the uper end of the town adjoying upon the west Foot of litle Kiasrge and neare The town of warner in the county of hillsburogh in the State of New hampshare i Remain your humble sarvent Jonathan Palmer 39 2 CHARTER RECORDS. [. Estimation of Lots, etc.~\ [Masonian Papers, Vol. 8, p. 84.] A Proportional Estimation of the Lots 1 st range N° 1—70 N° 6—70 N° 2—90 sold N° 7 — 90 sold N° 3—15 N° 8—70 sold N° 4—10 N° 9—15 N° 5 — 50 2 d range N° 1—90 N° 6—40 N° 2—100 N° 7—100 N° 3—100 sold N° 8—100 sold N° 4—100 sold N° 9 — 70 sold N° 5 — 70 sold N° 10—20 3 d range N° 1—30 N° 5 — 10 N° 2 — 50 N° 6—10 N° 3 — 5 0 N° 7—20 No 4—10 ?s To 8—70 4 th range N° 1—40 N° 4—70 N° 2—90 N° 3—60 N° 5 — 70 5 th range N° 1—80 N° 3—40 N° 2 — 50 6 th range N° 1—30 Lots Chose by Col 0 Goffes Settlers first Range N° 1 — 2, 6, 7 Second Range N° 1. 2, 4, 7, 8 Third Range none — Fourth Range X° 2 Gordon Settled on Lot N° 8 2 d Range Grimes Improved on lot N° 9, 2 d Range & on part of N° 8 or 7 in 3 d Range WARNER. 393 [. Petition of Inhabitants, 1801.] [Masonian Papers, Vol. 8, p. 85.] State of Newliam pshier To the Honourable Propriators of Land in Keasearge Goar Hum- bely Shew that We your Petitnor and others inhabitance of Keasearge Goar; and in the County of hillsbourough ss Labour under many heard Shipt and Dissvntages in Setting on the Land that We your Petitnors bought From Sum of you Jentlemen — therefore your honour may Remember that the Land is Very heard brocken Stoney Land at the beest there Four; now to have the beest of it taken Way by Salsbury Line taking a brand New establishment: With New bounds on thier West Lines. — Which must take as much as one third Parte off from them Lots that We your Petitnors bought; From your honour; and Did give a Jenress Price For them Lots on that Line ; and there Four as your Petitnors have Purchessed the Land as much as one third «/ Parte of the Way on that Line We think: your honours Will not establish a brand New Line With out our Concent or make Sume Reserve For those Lots of Land that We hold by Deeds From your honours. — Moreover We Wold in Form your honours that thier is three Lots of land more on the Same Line Which is oned by m r Woodbery Langdon and Squies Jeffors — to it Nomber 78 and No 81 and No 82 the New Line Will take near one half of these three Lots a bove mentchned. — and besides those Lots: thier Will be as much as three thousend acors of Common Land taken From you by that New Line : if it is a Established by you. — or the Propriators book of Records must Fail : For We Find on the Propriators books of Records Estab- lishment of Lines by a Commity Chosen by borth Propriators ; to it in the name of Stevns town — and Newbritan in the yers 1762 ther- four We your Petitnors Due not think that your honours Wold Due Such a thing as to Establish a New Line Con try to the old bounds ; and Contry to the Propriarts Records ; and Contry to the Deeds that Sum of you have given ; and Contry to your one intress Moreover We Wold in Form your honours that their is a Lawsute that Was Com- minsth Last rnercli a gainst the Widdow : Wells by one of the inhabi- tance of Salsbury : in regard of the Lot No 77 Wherefour We beig your Delay of Establishing the New Line at Present untill thier Can be a Fare triel — as in Dude bound Will Ever Pray — Dated at kesarge Goar October 1 — 1801 Jason Watkins f Select men Joseph French For Said Benjamin Cass ) goar to the Propirator Clark 394 CHARTER RECORDS. WASHINGTON. [This town was Number 8 in the line of towns from Merrimack to Connecticut River, granted by Massachusetts, Jan. 16, 1735-6. Granted by the Masonian Proprietors, Dec. 11, 1752, to Capt. Peter Prescott and others. Regranted Maich 17, 1768, to Reuben Kidder and others. The charter was renewed Feb. 5, 1772. The town was variously known as Monadnock No. 8, New Concord , and Ca?nden, until it was incorporated as Washington, Dec. 13, 1776, and named in honor of George Washington. A portion was combined with New Bradford and Washing- ton Gore to make up the town of Bradford, Sept. 27, 1787. The line between Washington and Lempster was established Nov. 27, 1812. See Massachusetts and New Hampshire charters in preceding volumes ; XIII, Hammond Town Papers, 626; Index to Laws, 569; The Late Centenarian of, with a Brief History of the Town, by George Bancroft Griffith, 3, Granite Monthly, p. 536; Baptist Churches in N. H., by E. E. Cummings, 1836, p. 13 ; Lawrence's N. H. Churches, 1856, p. 474; History, 1768 — 1886, compiled by a committee chosen by the town, 1886, pp. 696; sketch, by George M. Gage, Hurd's History of Sullivan County, 1886, p. 391.] [ Charter of Washington , 1752.] [Masonian Proprietors’ Records, Yol. 6, p. 135, and Masonian Papers, Yol. 8, p. 92.] Province of ) Pursuant to the Power & Authority Granted and New Hampsli 1- \ Yested in me the Subscriber by the Proprietors of Lands purchased of John Tufton Mason Esq r in the Province of New Hampshire, by their Yote passed at their Meeting, held at Ports- mouth, in said Province, the Sixth day of December — A D — 1751 — I Do by these presents, on the terms & Conditions, with the Reser- vations hereinafter Expressed Give & Grant all the Right Property, & Possession of the Proprietors aforesaid, unto Cap 1 Peter Prescott, Stephen Hosmer, Jun r , John Wood, John Fox, Daniel Hoar, Timothy Hoar, Jacob Fox, Joseph Lee, Zephaniah Wood, Abijali Mason, Nathan Stratton, Seth Lee, Timothy Hodgman, Stephen Hosmer tertius, Abel Miles, Joseph Stratton, Joseph Wheeler, Joseph Wheeler Jun r , Archelaus Adams Jonathan Fisk, John Miles, Consider Soper, Charles Prescott, Abel Prescott, James Landman, Jonas Haywood, Abel Fox. David Fletcher, Nathaniel Piper, Nathaniel Hosmer Jun r William Hosmer, Peter Prescott Jun r James Minott Jun r all of Con- cord, John Fox, John Fox jun r Eleazer Lawrence Eleazer Lawrence tertius, all of Littleton, Jonathan Hosmer Nathaniel Wheeler, Jona- than Conant, William Cutting Joseph Wheeler all of Acton, William WASHINGTON. 395 Rice of Sudbury, Aaron Willard of Lancaster John Buss of Lunenburg, William Boutwell, of Leominster, Nathaniel Sawyer of Lancaster, John Bulkeley, & Peter Bulkeley of Boston, Robert Fletcher Jun r of Nottingham, all in the Province of the Massachusetts Bay, Josiah Brown, William Spaulding, Peter Powers, Stephen Powers, Samuel Cumings, Zacliariah Stearns, John Stearns, Zachariah Stearns jun r Jonathan Combs, Jacob Fletcher, Jeremiah Colburn, all in the Province of New Hampshire, in Equal shares of in & to that Tract of Land, or Township Called Manadnock Number Eight, (or New Con- cord,) Lying in the Province of New Hampshire aforesaid, & within the Claim of Mason’s Patent, Bounded as followetli, Beginning at a Stake, & heap of Stones, the Northwesterly Corner of Manadnock N° 7, (so Called,) Granted to Reuben Kidder & others, which Stake & Stones, is in the said Patent Line, Lately run by Joseph Blanchard Jun r Esq r from thence runs by said Number Seven, South Eighty Degrees East, Six miles, and an half to a Stake & heap of Stones, from thence North Twenty Eight Degrees, East Eight miles on Ungranted Lands to a Beach tree from thence North Eighty Degrees West, Six miles & an half to the Patent line aforesaid from thence Southerly by said Patent line to the first Bounds mentioned, to them their Heirs & Assigns, To have, and to hold, on the Terms & Conditions with the Reservations, hereinafter Expressed, viz 1 that the tract of Land afore- said, be Divided in to One hundred & twenty Three Equal Shares, two Lots to a Share at the Least, at the Expence of the Grantees — & Drawn for in some Open Equitable Manner, at or before the last day of January A D 1754, a plan & Record thereof to be made, & by their prop rs Clerk on Oath, Certified with the Schedule, and Delivered into the said Grantors Clerk’s Office, within thirty Day’s next after such Draft — That three of the aforesaid Shares be & hereby are Granted, one to the first Settled Minister, one for the Ministry, and one for the School there for ever, free of all Charge — that Twenty more of the said Shares, be Reserved, to & for the Grantors their Heirs, and Assigns forever, free from all Incumbrance of Settlement, Tax, Charge, or Expences, whatsoever, untill Improved by the Owners, or some holding under them Respectively — That the Owners of the other shares viz*, all Exclusive of James Minott Jun r Josiah Brown, William Spaulding, Peter Powers, Stephen Powers, Samuel Cumings, Zacher- iah Stearns, Jn° Stearns, Zacheriah Stearns jun r Jonathan Combs, Jacob Fletcher, & Jeremiah Colborn jun r at their own Expence, make Settlement in the following manner Viz 1 that there be three Acres, Cleared, Inclosed, & fitted, for Mowing, or tillage, on some one Lot, of Each of the fifty Settling Shares aforesaid, at or Before the last day of June 1755 and two Acres more on eacli of the same Lots CHARTER RECORDS. 39 6 Annually, for three Years then next Coming and at the Expiration of five Years from this Date, to have on each of the said Fifty Lots a Convenient Dwelling house, and a Family or some person Resident there for four Years then next Coming That all Necessary Hyway’s be laid out in said Township thro' Grantors & Grantees Lands, as there shall be Ocation for the future, without any pay or Allowance for Damage thereby — That a Convenient Meeting house be Built in said Township, and Finished within Ten Years from this Date, & Twenty Acres Reserved for Publick Use at the place that shall be Appointed to sett said House on — That the aforesaid Grantees by a Major Vote in publick Meeting Called for that purpose, Grant & Assess in equal Proportion, such Sum or Sums of money, as they shall think Necessary from time to time for Carrying forward, and Corn- pleating the Settlement aforesaid & Every of the Grantees, Exclusive of the three publick Lots who shall Neglect for the Space of thirty Day’s, next after such Assessment is made & Granted, (to pay the same) so much of such Delinquents Rights Respectively, shall & may be sold, as will pay the tax, & all Charges Arising thereon by a Com’ittee 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 aforesaid, by him Respectively to be done, he shall forfeit his share & Right, in said Township, & every part of thereof to those of the Grantees, who shall Comply with the Conditions on their part herein Expressed & it shall & may be Lawfull for them or any Person by their Authority, to enter into & upon the Right, Share or part of such Delinquent Owner, in the Name & Behalf of the whole of the Grantees, who shall Comply as aforesaid, to Amove, Oust & Expell for the use of them, their Heirs, & Assigns, Provided they Settle, or Cause to be Settled 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 Conditions of this Grant, & 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 aforesaid, shall Neglect fullfilling as aforesaid, the Duty of any Delinquent Owner, that then such Share or Shares, shall be for- feit, Revert & Belong to the Grantors, their Heirs & Assigns, and be Wholly at their Disposall, free from future Charge — Always Provided there shall be no Indian War, within any of the Terms limitted as aforesaid, and in Case that should Happen the same time to be Allowed for Doing the Duty after such Impediment shall be Removed, — Lastly that all White pine trees Growing on said Tract fit for WASHINGTON. 397 Masting his Majesty’s Royal Navy, be & hereby are Granted to his Majesty, his heirs, & Successors for Ever, To all which premises I Joseph Blanchard Agent for & in Be- half of the Proprietors the Grantors, have hereunto set my hand & Seal this Eleventh day of December A D. 1752, & in the twenty Sixth Year of his Majesty's Reign, — Blanchard. j LS j A true Copy Examin’d — Peter Prescott, Prop r Cle r Rec d Sep r 4 th 1753, $ G. J Prop rs Cle r A true Copy of the Return of Record attest : Geo : Jaffrey Prop rs Cl [Plan of Washington , 1753.] This plan Describes the tract of Land Called Manadnock Nomber Eight (or New Concord) Granted unto Cap 1 Peter Prescott & Others, Lying in y e Province of New Hamp r — part of Masons Patent Con- taining 33280 Acres the Bounds Course & Length of Line as Deline- 39 8 CHARTER RECORDS. ated On the plan herewith Layed in a Scale of One mile to an Inch Dated April 175B ^ Stephen Hosmer Ju r Surveyor The Aforegoing plan & Return is a True Copy as on file Com- pared June 19 th 1753 — Peter Prescott Prop rs Cle r Grantees 27030 Acres Grantors 5250 acres [Vote of Acceptance by Grantees , 1753.] [Masonian Proprietors’ Records, Yol. 6, p. 145, and Masonian Papers, Vol. 8, p. 93.] Whereas Joseph Blanchard Esq, as agent, for & in the name & Behalf of the Proprietors of the Lands, in the Province of New Hampshire, purchased by them of John Tufton Mason Esq r who sold to them, under the Title made to them, by a Common Recover}^, did on the Eleventh day of December, A D, 1752, Grant the Contents of Eight miles Long, & Six miles & an half wide part of said Lands Bounded as follows viz fc Beginning at a Stake, & Heap of Stones, the Norwesterly Corner of Monadnock Number Seven, (so Called,) Granted to Reuben Kidder, & others, which Stake & Stones is in the Patent Line, lately run by Joseph Blanchard jun r Esq r from thence runs by said N° Seven South Eighty Degrees, East Six miles & an half to a Stake & Heap of Stones, from thence North Twenty Eight Deg s East Eight miles on Ungranted Lands, to a Beach tree from thence North Eighty Degrees West, Six miles & an Half, to the patent Line aforesaid, from thence Southerly by said patent Line to y e first Bounds mentioned — under Certain Conditions Limitations & Reservations, in said Grant mentioned as by said Grant, Reference thereto will fully appear, unto Cap 1 Peter Prescott Stephen Hosmer, Jun r John Wood, John Fox, Daniel Hoar, Timothy Hoar Jacob Fox, Joseph Lee, Zepheniali Wood, Abijah Mason Nathan Stratton, Seth Lee, Timothy Hodgeman, Stephen Hosmer Tertius, Abel Miles, Joseph Stratton, Joseph Wheeler, Joseph Wheeler Jun r Archalaus Adams, Jonathan Fisk, John Miles Consider Soaper Charles Prescott, Abel Prescott, James Lanman Jonas Haywood, Abel Fox, David Fletcher Nathaniel Piper, Nath 11 Hosmer Jun r William Hosmer, Peter Prescott Jun r James Minott jun r all of Concord, John Fox, John Fox Jun r Eleazer Lawrence jun r Eleazer Lawrence Tertius, all of Little- ton, Jonathan Hosmer, Nathaniel Wheeler, Jonathan Conant, William WASHINGTON. 399 Cutting Joseph Wheeler all of Acton, William Rice of Sudbury Aaron Willard, of Lancaster, John Buss, of Luninburg William Boutwell of Leominster Nathan 1 Sawyer of Lancaster, John Bulkeley, Peter Bulkeley of Boston, Robert Fletcher jun r of Nottingham all in the Province of the Massachusetts Bay, Josiah Brown William Spauld- ing, Peter Powers, Stephen Powers Samuel Cumings, Zachariali Stearns, John Stearns Zachariali Stearns jun r Jonathan Combs, Jacob Fletcher Jeremiah Colborn, all in the Province of New Hampshire, Therefore Unanimously Voted that we do hereby Accept said Title, and for our Selves our Heirs, & Assigns, do Acknowledge that we do hold said Lands, under said Title, Conditions, & Limitations, with the Reservations therein Mentioned. Extract from the Votes of the Prop rs of the Township called Man- adnock N° 8, al s New Concord, at their Meeting January 27 th 1753 — Copy Examin’d ^ Peter Prescott Prop rs Cle r Receiv'd Sep r 4 th 1753, ^ G. J. Pro : Cle r a true Copy of the Vote returned of Record attest : Geo : Jaffrey Prop ls Cl [Draft of Lots .] [Masonian Proprietors’ Records, Vol. 6, p. 140, Papers, Vol. 8, p. 94.] Schedule of Grantees Right in Manadnock N° 8 or New Concord — Page (i) Draught O 2 Range O £ Range O 2 Range 0 £ Range James Minott Junior . i I 2 9 16 4 1 1 14 1 John Buss ..... 2 I 2 8 1 7 4 2 1 1 13 William Cutting .... 3 I 2 7 3 1 1 4 7 7 Nathaniel Sawyer 4 14 8 2 4 27 2 27 1 Jonathan Combs 5 U 8 27 13 j 4 IO 1 John Fox Junior 6 l6 8 26 1 26 13 8 5 John Miles .... 7 G 7 n 13 11 1 27 1 2 Robert Fletcher Junior 8 G 6 22 13 23 13 5 5 Grantors .... 9 l6 7 1 2 1 7 3 25 13 David Fletcher .... IO 14 6 16 1 2 6 3 1 1 2 Ministeriall Lott 1 1 13 6 24 13 7 4 27 3 Jonathan Conant I 2 1 7 . 7 1 2 3 1 2 21 U first Minister’s lott U 13 7 2 1 2 5 25 1 400 CHARTER RECORDS. Page (i) l Draught O £ Range O £ Range O Range O 5 Range Aaron Willard .... 14 17 8 26 12 2 2 9 3 Steven Powers .... 15 14 5 1 1 1 5 4 25 12 Jonathan Fisk .... 16 13 8 3 2 4 4 24 12 Grantors, 17 16 6 1 3 20 13 22 1 1 John Wood .... 18 1 2 6 23 9 1 8 26 2 Grantors .... 19 1 2 5 23 12 23 1 1 2 1 1 Grantors .... 20 l 3 5 25 1 1 2 3 26 3 School Lott .... 21 17 6 19 13 3 13 3 3 Eleazer Lawrence Junior 22 13 9 6 9 4 2 4 3 Jacob Fletcher .... 23 14 9 27 8 27 5 3 12 James Landman .... 24 *5 9 27 1 1 26 9 4 12 Jonas Haywood .... 25 16 9 24 9 22 2 1 10 Timothy Hodgman 26 17 9 15 3 26 1 1 4 1 John Fox ..... 27 18 7 24 1 1 24 2 3 1 1 William Spalding 28 18 8 22 12 26 10 23 1 Grantors .... 29 18 9 20 12 23 3 1 9 Peter Bulkeley .... 3 ° 15 5 14 12 15 12 5 3 Zachariah Stearns Jun r 3 i 16 5 l 9 12 18 12 2 10 Grantors .... 32 1 1 5 21 12 21 1 1 3 10 Grantors .... 33 1 1 6 18 13 17 13 20 3 Abel Miles .... 34 1 1 7 8 1 1 7 1 1 16 13 Grantors .... 35 1 1 8 25 2 25 3 22 10 Abel Prescott .... 3 6 1 1 9 27 4 26 4 4 13 Grantors .... 37 1 1 10 5 1 4 10 6 1 Abel Fox . 38 12 10 27 6 26 6 7 13 Grantors .... 39 13 10 24 10 25 10 8 3 Timothy Hoar .... 40 14 10 24 4 25 4 27 7 Archelaus Adams 4 i i 5 10 T 5 13 14 13 8 10 John Bulkeley .... 42 16 10 26 8 8 7 12 13 Stephen Hosmere Junior 43 17 10 17 1 18 4 9 4 William Hosmere 44 18 10 24 3 23 5 1 5 Seth Lee ..... 45 19 10 8 6 1 1 12 26 7 Jacob Fox . 46 19 9 26 5 5 2 9 13 Joseph Wheeler .... 47 19 8 23 6 25 7 6 4 Peter Prescott Junior . 48 19 7 24 5 25 5 1 7 Steven Hosmere Tertius 49 19 6 23 4 22 3 23 2 Charles Prescott 50 1 1 4 13 12 12 12 5 13 Jeremiah Colborn 5 i 12 4 22 4 25 8 25 9 Grantors, 52 13 4 20 4 21 1 22 1 Joseph Lee .... 53 14 4 24 7 17 12 6 12 Joseph Wheeler, Acton 54 17 5 21 3 21 2 1 6 Grantors, 55 18 5 21 4 2 6 2 7 Jonathan Horsemere . 56 18 6 23 8 24 8 3 6 Habijah Mason .... 57 15 4 1 1 13 2 9 3 9 WASHINGTON. 4OI Page (1) Draught O 2 Range O £ Range O £ Range 0 £ Range Nath 1 Hosmere, Junior 58 10 6 22 5 23 7 27 10 Josiah Brown .... 59 10 7 2 8 5 9 27 9 William Rice .... 60 10 8 3 8 3 7 3 5 William Boutwell 61 10 9 22 7 22 6 4 5 Consider Soaper 62 10 10 20 1 20 2 4 6 Daniel Hoar .... 63 10 1 1 4 8 l 9 1 22 8 John Stearns .... 64 1 1 1 1 9 5 4 7 25 6 Samuel Cumings 65 12 1 1 21 6 21 10 13 13 Nathaniel Piper .... 66 13 1 1 5 7 16 1 15 1 Joseph Stratton .... 67 14 1 1 21 5 19 2 7 2 Zepheniah Wood 68 i 5 1 1 7 1 8 1 9 1 Nathaniel Wheeler 69 16 1 1 8 2 5 6 6 5 Joseph Wheeler Junior 70 1 7 1 1 24 6 *9 3 10 *3 Peter Prescott .... 7 1 18 1 1 18 2 16 3 8 *3 Grantors .... 72 l 9 1 1 1 7 2 16 2 6 13 Peter Powers .... 73 20 1 1 19 4 5 8 7 12 John Fox ..... 74 20 10 18 3 9 2 10 2 Eleaz r Lawrence Jun r . 75 20 9 10 12 9 12 6 2 Zachariah Stearns 7 6 20 8 14 2 15 2 5 10 Nathan Stratton 77 20 7 14 3 13 3 6 1 1 Grantors .... 78 20 6 17 3 10 3 1 1 3 The aforegoing in y e original two pages is a List of Seventy eight Shares four Lots to each Share, added in each Line, part of each Respective Right — Draught O Z Range Seth Lee, Timothy Hodgeman ..... 1 13 1 John Stearns, & Zachariah Stearns j r .... 2 18 1 Grantors . . . . 3 24 1 John Bulkeley & Peter Bulkeley ..... 4 1 1 2 lots not Drawn ...... 5 1 2 2 Eleazer Lawrence Jun r & Eleazer Lawrence Tertius . 6 *3 2 John Miles, & Nathaniel Hosmere Jun r .... 7 8 4 Lot not Drawn ...... 8 10 4 Joseph Stratton, & Joseph Wheeler .... 9 7 5 Josiah Brown & William Spaulding ..... 10 10 5 William Hosmere, & Jonathan Hosmere .... 1 1 l 9 5 26 402 CHARTER RECORDS. Draught 0 £ Sam 1 Solly Esq & Clem 1 March 8 13 5 2 3 26 ■5 3 5 1 John Moffatt Esq r . 9 18 9 23 3 1 9 0 r l Joseph Blanchard Esq r IO 1 1 5 21 1 1 3 10 -3 S Richard Wibird Esq r 1 1 1 1 6 1 7 13 20 3 r > 1 T l Theodore Atkinson Esq r . 12 1 1 8 25 3 22 IO -4 \ Thomlinson & Mason 13 1 1 10 4 10 6 1 T 9 Thomas Packer Esq r 14 13 10 25 10 8 3 1 O r 3 Daniel Peirce Esq r & M : Moor 15 22 1 21 4 16 O Joshua Peirce Esq re Right l6 IO 3 12 1 20 13 2 3 1 Z 17 20 12 21 12 4 9 This schedule to be annex'd to the Grantees Schedule of Xew Con- cord, or Monadnock X° 8 — Province of ) At a Meeting of the Proprietors of the Lands pur- Xew Hamp re \ chased, of John Tufton Mason Esq r in Xew Hamp- shire, held at Portsmouth March 30 th 1756 — The Reservation of said Proprietors shares in that Tract of land, or Township called Manadnock X° 8, or Xew Concord Viz 1 Sixteen Shares, or Rights, were drawn for, & Severed as entered to the per- sons above written & in the Manner described in the above Schedule, Reserving the Seventeenth Lot for the use of said Proprietors, as shall be hereafter disposed of by them, the above shares numbered, WASHINGTON. 4°5 one to sixteen Containing three hundred & fifty Acres, to a Share, the said Seventeenth share to Contain three hundred Acres — attest, Geo: Jaffrey Prop” Cle r a true Copy of Record attest: Geo: Jaffrey Prop rs Cl [. Petition of Reuben Kidder, 1767.] [Masonian Papers, Vol. 8, p. 96.] To Theodore Atkinson Esq r & others, Proprietors of certain Lands in the Province of New Hampshire that formerly belonged to John Tufton Mason Esq r — Humbly prays, Reuben Kidder, for a Grant of a Tract of Land lying in the af ores' 1 Lands, com’only known by the Name of Monad- nock Number Eight — on the usual Conditions, — which will greatly oblige, Gentlemen, Your most Obd fc & most Hum 1 Serv 1 Portsmouth Dec r y e 8 th A D 1767. — Reuben Kidder [. Regrant of Washington , 1768.] [Masonian Proprietors' Records, March 17, 1768.] Province of ) Portsmouth March 17 th 1768 Thursday five of the New Hampshire \ Clock afternoon The Proprietors meet according to A d j o ur n m en t — Voted to give and grant to Reuben Kidder of Ipswich in the Province aforesaid Esqu r all our Right and Property of, in and unto that Tract of land (or Township) known by the name of Monadnock N° 8 (or new Concord) now Camden, lying in the Province aforesaid, and within the Claim of Mason's Patent, It being the Same Tract of land which was formerly granted to Cap 1 Peter Prescott & others, but now forfeited, and is bounded as follow’s, viz 1 , Beginning at a Stake and heap of Stones at the north Westerly Corner of Monadnock N° 7 — (so called) granted to Reuben Kidder aforesaid and others, which Stake and Stones is in the said Patent Line, formerly run by Joseph Blanchard Jun r Esqu r from thence run's by Said N° 7, South Eighty Degrees East Six miles & an half to a Stake and Heap of Stones, from thence North Twenty Eight Degrees East, Eight miles on 406 CHARTER RECORDS. ungranted Lands to a Beech Tree, from thence North Eighty Degrees West Six Miles and an half to the Patent line aforesaid, from thence Southerly by Said Patent Line to the Bounds first mentioned — To %J have, and to hold, to him, his Heirs & Assigns on the Terms & Con- ditions with the Reservations hereafter expressed Viz 1 That the Grantors reserve one third part of said Tract (exclusive of Ponds) equal in Quality with the whole Tract the said third part to be laid out in three equal Divisions in three different Situations, as to be equal in Value of either of the other two thirds granted, & each of the three Divisions to be divided into two Shares or Lots well marked and described & number'd & to be in a Plan of the whole Tract returned within Six Months & drawn for by the Grantors at their Proprietors Meeting to assertain each Proprietors Part & Share therein — That the said Reuben have within one Year from the making of this Grant, ten Family’s Settled & Constantly to reside in said Tract hereby Granted & within two Years to have ten Families more settled & to Continue Residence there, & within three Years to have ten Families more settled in said Tract, & that in each of the three Years, there be ten Convenient dwelling houses built, & three Acres of Land to each Family to be cleared, inclosed & fitted for Mowing or Tillage on each of the Settlements — That all Publiek highways be Laid out & Cleared in said Township thro* the Lands of the Grantors. & that hereby Granted, of three Rods wide for Main Roads, & two Rods for Cross Roads, as may best Accommodate those may inhabit the same, or the Publiek. at the Charge & Expence of the Grantee his Heirs & Assigns, and that all Highways for the future as may be necessary shall be laid out without any Pav or allowance, for Damage to the Owner or Owners of anv of the whole aforesaid — That the said Grantee shall reserve in some Convenient place, ten Acres of Land for building a Meeting house upon, a school House, Burying Ground, & Training-Field — Also two hundred Acres of Land for the first Settled Minister of the Gospel forever, who shall Continue in the Ministry there till Death, or be regularly dismist from that Office, & two hundred Acres for a Glebe for the L se of the Gospel Ministry forever, & two hundred Acres for the Support of a School forever, And if the said Reuben Kidder shall neglect to perform the several Articles aforesaid, by him to be done four Months after the last Day aforesaid by which they ought to be done, then he the said Reuben Kidder shall forfeit the said Tract of Land & Premises to the said Grantors, their Heirs & Assigns — Also all White Pine Trees, growing on said Tract fit for Masting his Majesty’s Royal Navy, be and hereby Granted to his Majesty, his Heirs & Successors forever. — WASHINGTON. 4° 7 [ Condition of Settlements , 1771.] [Masonian Papers, Vol. 8, p. 16.] Manadnock N° 8 or Camden the aeon 1 of the Sattelors Houses Barns and Stock Lands Cleard and Trees Full on Each Lott — Names of the Setters Time of Residents Y™ M. Houses Barns & Stock of Cattel acres Clerd acres of Fall Trees Thomas Adams 3— framd House Barn 8 30 Abal Adams . 3 10 Will m Scott 2 Log Hous i io 2 John Steal i — 6 Log Hous i 18 7 Silus Parker . 3— framd Hous 5 7 David Taylor . 3— framd Hous Barn i I 2 1 David Kyes 2 — 6 Log Hous Barn 3 5 7 Epheam Severants . 3—6 Log House hovil 6 18 6 and r Boynton . —6 Log Hous i 12 4 i i Sheep archabel White 3—6 framd Hous Log Barn 13 3 6 14 Sheep 1 1 Jacob Burbank 2 — 6 framd Hous i 12 4 Epream Severants Jn r —6 3 6 Joseph Farnsworth . — i 2 Robert Pollock 2 Log Hous i 15 15 Epheam Procter —8 Log Hous I 4 David Danford i — 6 Log Hous 2 7 5 John Safford . 2 fram d Hous 2 10 25 Simeon Farnsworth 2 — Log Hous I 10 10 abnor Samson 2 Log Hous 10 10 Roeb 1 Procter —8 2 1 Josiah Procter — 8 Log Hous 3 Robert Man . i fram d Hous I 10 2 Will™ Thomson i ih i£ abreham merrel 2 Poll Hous 12 4 James maxwell i Log Hous Barn I 10 3 Will® Steal . — i 3 Moses Chass . 2 6 Log Hous I 1 2 4 Ruben Kidder Esq r N R . 15 they have Cleard Good Rodes in Camden to all the Lotts that they have Satled on ; or began 408 CHARTER RECORDS. Prov. N. Hampsh r ) Dec r 10 th Then Cap 1 HubartesNeal made solemn Rockingham J Oath the above accounts & Report are just & true according to y e best of his Knowledge & y e best information he good get— Cor D Peirce Jus Pac [Letter from Robei't Fletcher , 1771.] [Masonian Papers, Vol. 8, p. 97.] Sir Your Propriety have Repatedly Requested and urged Reuben Kidder Esqr who Obtained the Grant of the Township of Cambden to Comply with the Conditions of his Grant, One of which is to Divide off all the Grantors Shares at his Own Expence under My care and Inspection, and there are a Considerable number of Famallys waiting for Nothing but the said Division to be made, that they may Know where to work and Compleate the Settlement next sum’er, it is Nec- essesary also on Esq r Kidders Acct in Order to save the Forfiture of his Grant — It will be of More Consequence to Your Propriety for me to attend that service this spring than any Other — and it will take so much time to Compleat the Division with any tolerable Equety. (and Must be done after the snow is Off.) that it will be Impossable for Me to attend the Proposed Survey at Tuftonbor 0 this season — Cap 1 Isaac Rindge Esq r or Cap 1 Royce can Recom’end to You Some Honest & Capable surveyor to do that work — I did not Recolect my Ingage- ment when I saw You last or should have Excused my Self on that acc l and Saved You any further Trouble, and my Self the Mortification of asking Your Pardon for in advertantly Promising what is not in my Power to comply with. Without Injuring Your Intrest as a Proprietor more by neglecting my ingagement to attend the Division of Your Intrests at Cambden, than any other of my services can Possa- bly compensate or Repair. I must therefore Beg You to Excuse my Past inadvertance while I subscribe myself as I Really am Most Respectfully Your Hm le Serv 1 Robert Fletcher Dunstable March v e 2 d 1771 — M r Peter Pearse Merch 1 Portsm 0 [. Letter from Reuben Kidder , 1771.] [Masonian Papers, Yol. 8, p. 98.] Sur I Red your Kind Later Dated October the Seventh and your Houner Rote to me the Grantees was unesev that I had not Returned WASHINGTON. 4°9 a Plan of the Town of Camden Sur the Reson was I Did not was by the new Line being Run taking in a Peace of Land on the west side of the Town and when I was at Portsmouth Last it was not Concluded on wich Line I Should go to I Shall be at Portsmouth in a fue Days and if thir Should be meeting of the Grantes I Should be glad it mite be Seatled wich Line I am to go to this from your Humbel Servent October 29 1771 Reuben Kidder To George Jaffery Esq r [Grant Renewed , 1772.] [Masonian Proprietors’ Records, Feb. 5, 1772.] Province of ) Portsmouth February 5 th 1772 Wednesday three New Hampsh r j of y e clock afternoon the Proprietors meet according to adjournment — The Proprietors on the 17 th day of March 1768 — having made a grant unto Reuben Kidder Esq r of a certain Tract of land on Condi- tion of Settling the Same on certain Terms therein expressed and contained, which Terms & Condition the said Kidder hath failed of performing, to the Detriment of the Said Proprietors ; and whereas the Said Reuben Kidder hath executed a certain Bond or Instrument dated the 29 th day of January 1772 conditioned That there be further reserved to each of the Proprietors Rights one hundred and fifty Acres of land to be laid out Seperately from the reserved Rights in the first grant, by the Surveyor whom they Shall send and Appoint to run out and mark the lines of the Township according to the true Intent and meaning of the Original Grant, and to lay out sever and mark the bounds of each lot of the said hundred and fifty acres Seperately as aforesaid, to be done at the Charge and Expence of the Said Reuben Kidder his Executors or Administrators who are to pay the Same as soon as the work and Service shall be performed &c — Upon Conditions of a further reservation of fifteen one hundred and fifty acre Lots, to the fifteen Proprietors Rights, of equal Quality with the fifteen shares reserved to the s d Proprietors in Said former grant, to be surveved divided and marked, and numbered from one to fifteen : by a surveyor whom Said Proprietors shall appoint to do the Same ; with the running and marking out the boundary lines, of the Tract of land granted to said Reuben Kidder on the 17 th day of March 1768, with y® Reservations to said Proprietors also marked and numbred from one to fifteen and a Plan thereof made and returned to Said Proprietors within Six months from this date, and the Said Reuben 410 CHARTER RECORDS. or his Heirs or Administrators shall pay the whole Expence of the Said Survey & Plan as soon as the same shall be performed by the Surveyor aforesaid — It is therefore Voted That the Said Reuben Kidder have a grant of one year from the Said 29 th day of January to perform the Terms and Conditions of said former Grant — and in failure thereof, and of the Conditions of this grant, the said Reuben Kidder his Heirs and assigns shall forfeit the Said Tract of Land and Premises to the said Proprietors the Grantors their Heirs & Assigns, who may enter upon the Same as though there had not been any grant thereof made to the Said Reuben Kidder his heirs or assigns — [ Plan of Washington , 1772.] WASHINGTON. 4 11 Pursuant to orders to me Directed by the Comittey of the Pro- prietors of a Tract of Land Purchised of John Tuftin Mason Esq r I have Surveyed the Town of Camden or mennadnock N° 8 as folows Began at a White ash tree and heap of Stons in the Patent Line the North West Corner of Limbrick and Run bv Said Limbrick Line 4 / South 80° East Six miles & half to a mapel tree and heap of Stons markd H N 1772 & Sundrey other Latters thence Run North 28° East Eight miles to a Beach tree markd as aforesaid, then turnd off and Run North 80° West miles to the Patent Line and markd a Small White ash and yalow Burch then measured on the Patent Line and Re Spotted it, Eight miles to the first meantioned White ash tree We Began at, measured by Sam Smart and Francis Durgin Sworn Chanemen Surveyed the 24 th of June 1772 attest Hubartus Neal Dep 1 Surv r I have also Lavd out one third Part of the town of Camden for the 4/ Proprietors of masons Properite for their Reservation of Lands in three Equal Divisions and in Differant Situations and have Divided them into two Equal Shares or Lotts Wall marked and numberd as Discribed in the Plan of the Town and have also Layed out fifteen one hundred and fifty acres Lotts Wall markd and Numbred from one to fifteen Apriel 14 1773 to the Gantors this Plan I Return as thair Reser- vation Laid out in Cambden as a Plan of Cambden by me Reuben Kidder [. Bad Roads in Stoddard , 1773.] [Masonian Papers, Vol. 8, p. 99.] To the Honerable Propriators Purchesed under John Tufton Mason Esq r we your Humble Potioners Prayes and Desires that your Honers would take it under your Concideration the greait Deficulty we the inhabitance of Camden, Labour under by Reason of the Roades being So bad in the Township of monadnick N° 7 or Limbrick so Railed that it is Allmost imposable for a teem to Pess there and Dangorous for a Hors Nothing has Ben Done by sa (i N° 7 Propriators on the Roads of any Concequence for about Eighteen months Past and as their is a Number of families a moving to Camden on said Road as well as all our salt and Nails and other Nesaseries of Life from Boston must Come that way we Pray that your Honers would take it under your Consideration and we make no Doubt But your Honers in your greait wisdom will see justis Don which your Humble Potioners shall Ever Pray in Duty Bound — Camden janauary 19 th 1773 4 12 john safford Moses Chase David Taylor Archebel white Jan Abner samson John Steel Daniel Seyrans David Danforth Ephrarn sevrans J r CHARTER RECORDS. Arclie 1 ' white Robert Pollok Jacob Burbank Robert Prockter Joseph Farnsworh Daniel Keyes Abraham Estabrook Robbert man Ephraim Prockter James maxwell Andrew Bovnton Abel MariR Paul Hale Simeon Farnsworth Ephrarn Sevrans Josiah Procter william white [Plan of Reserved Lots , 1773.] WASHINGTON. 4 I 3 Pursuant to orders to me directed by the Committee of the Pro- prietors of a Tract of Land purchased of John Tufton Mason Es- quire, I have Surveyed the Town of Cambden or Monadnock N° 8 — as follows, begining at a white ash Tree and heap of Stones on the patent line the Northwesterly Corner of Limerick, and run by said Limerick line south 80 east 6 miles & half to a Maple & heap of Stones Marked H N 1772 and sundry other letters, thence North 28 Degrees east — 8 miles to a beach tree marked as aforesaid then turned & run North eighty west — 6i Miles to the Patent Line & marked a small white Ash & yellow birch then measuring on the patent line and Respoted it 8 miles to the first mentioned white ash Tree we began at. — June 24, 1772 Hubartus Neal Dep* Survey 1 I have also laid out one third part of the Town of Campdon for the Proprietors of Masons Patent for their Resurvation of Lands in three Equal Divisions & in Different situations and have divided them into two equal shares or Lots well marked & numbred as described in the plan of the Town and have also laid out Fifteen one hundred & - fifty Acre lots, well marked and numbred from one to fifteen — The last five Lots of 150 Acres each is laid out on the east bound- ary line of the Town & Lays between the second & third Divisions of first resurvation Lots and are 180 Rods long North 28 east & 110 Rods wide north 80 West and are marked on each corner Tree of the Lots B R N° XT XII XIII XIIII XV as each Tree is numbered & marked in the plan The four Lots laid out in Cambells Gore is to make good taken out of Cambden by Hilsborough The lot N° 1 in Campbells Gore is to make up what is taken out of N° 1 in the second Devision of Resurvation Lots in the first Range by Hilsborough & N° 2 in the third Devision — and Lot N° 2 in said Gore makes up Lot N° XII in the one hundred & fifty Acre Lots taken out by Hilsborough, And the Lot N° three in said Gore makes good N° XI in said 150 Acre Lots — The Lot N° four in said Gore that is laid out and a Lot of 60 Acres marked on the plan not yet laid out, will make good for all the Land taken out of Lot N° 1 in the 3 d Devision of Resurvation Lots in the first Range & Lot N° XIII in the 150 Acre Lots — The Lot N° 1 in the 3d Devision XIII in the last resurvation & N° 4 and the 60 Acre in the Gore not yet laid out should be fixed to one Proprietors share with one Lot more where you please to fix it to make a whole Share CHARTER RECORDS. 4 T 4 [ Reserved Lots , 1773.] [Masonian Proprietors' Records, July 21, 1773.] Province of / Portsmouth July 21 st 1773 Wednesday three of New Hampsh r \ the Clock afternoon at the Dwelling house of James Stoodly Esq r Innholder the Proprietors meet according to adjourn- ment — Voted that the Lots reserved and laid out in the Tract of land granted to Reuben Kidder Esq r called Camden, being reserved for the Grantors and delineated on the Plan returned b} r said Kidder to the Grantors that the Same be drawn for to the Rights of each of the Proprietors the Grantors, and that the Same be entered as drawn to each Right, and so entered, the Same Shall be held in Severance to whom drawn, their respective heirs and Assigns for ever — and are drawn as follow’s 1 drawn To John Wentworth Esq r N° 2: 2 d Range 3 d division — N° 1 — 1 Range 2 divis 11 N° 6 a 150 Acre Lot 2 — To Blanchard Meserve & c N° 3 — 2 d Ran — 3 div : N° 2 — 1 st 2 d — N° 4 a D° 3 — To Peirce and Moore — N° 4 — 1 st Ran — 1 div : — N° 3 — 1 st — 2 — N° 1— a D° 4 — To Thomas Packer Esq r — N° 3 — 2 d Ran — 2 divi. N° 1 — 1 — 3 — N° 13— D° 5 — To Thomas Walingford Esq r — N° 1 — 2 d Ran — 2 div: N° 3 — 2 — 1 st — N° 3— D° 6 To Theodore Atkinson Esq r N° 4. 2 d Ran — 3 div : N° 5 — 1 — 2 d — N° 8— D° 7 To John Moffatt Esq r — N° 5 — 2 d Ran. 2 d div. N° 4 — 1 — 3 d — N° 7 — D° 8 To Thomlinson & Mason — N° 5 — 1 st Ran. 1 st div N° 2 — 2 d — 1 st — N° i2_D° 9 To Richard Wibird Esq r — N° 4 — 2 d Ran. 2 div: N° 4 — 1 — 2 d — N° 9— D° 10 To John Rindge N° 2 — 2 d Ran. 2 d div N° 3 — 1 — 3 d — N° 14 — D° 11 To Mark Hink g Wentworth Esq r N° 1 — l sr Ran. 1 div: N° 2 — 1 — 8 — N° 5— D° 12 To Jotham N° 2— D° 13 To Joshua N° 11— D° 14 To George 15— D° 15 To Solly & Odiorne Esa r — N° 3 — 1 Ran. 1 div : N° 4 — 2 — 1 st — JL Peirce Esq r — N° 2 — 1 Ran — 1 div : N° 5 — 1 — 3 d — Jaffrey Esq r N° 1 — 2 Ran. 3 div N° 1 — 2 — 1 — N° March — N° 5 — 2 Ran. 3 div. N° 5 2 st — 1 st — N° 10 — D° WASHINGTON. 4 J 5 [John G-off e to Daniel Rogers , 1774.] [Masonian Papers, Vol. 8, p. 99.] Hon ble Sir Derryfeild Apriel 29 1774 I Told the man of the Tract of Land (viz) the 1000 acrs that I Talked of bving for him bat he Esteems it but of very Littel value and will not Give more than one half the price you asked for it nor Does he in Cline to have any thing to Do with it at all, nor I for It is Said here its, Desputable weather it is not Granted to Greedley how- ever I have Don with it Honnored Sirs the Lines of your Sosiety land are so hard to be found that the people that have purchesed cannot find the Exact Spot there land is on and they Complain one incroches upon an others land and som are Liable to loose there labour therfore they pray your Hon rs would order the lins to be Run anew so that Every one may know their own lines & I am sure it is best for you to have Run Speedely for the old lines are So Grown out that they Cant be fol- lowed and it is said that a great part of them lines never were Run Gent n it with Regard to you & your Intrist as well as to Those that Complain for fear they should lose there Labour that Lines Come from him who the Greatest Regard Subscribes Him Selfe your Hon rs most obdent Humbele — Sarvant John Goffe To the Hon ble Danil Rogers [Petition for Bridge , 1775.] [Masonian Papers, Vol. 8, p. 100.] To The Gentlemen Proprietors of Mason’s Grant &C — The Humble Petition of the Inhabitants of Camden the South west part of Hillborrough and Society land (So Call’d) — Humbly Sheweth — That your Honn rs Petitioners Desires ye will be pleas'd for the Incouragement of Setleing and Inhabiting the Wilderness where a part of your honours Interes lies, That wherein as we your Petitionrs do Make an offer of Clearing a Road from Camden through Camels- Gore the South west part of Hillborrough and the Society land (So called) to the North west Corner of Frances Town, where there is a 4i 6 CHARTER RECORDS. good Road from thence to Amherst and Likewise a good Road from N° four to Camden your honour's Petitioner's thinks it Necessary to */ 4 / acquaint your honours of the Dangers and Difficuiltys the are Ex- posed too both Spring and fall on Account of Contacook River for w ch reason, we your honour's petitioners hopes ye will take it to a Charitible Consideration, and for your honours Interest and for the Good of the Public-k in General, advance as Much Money as will be Sufficient for Building a Bridge on Said River, and by So doing your honours Petitioners will as in Duty bound — Ever Pray — Maurice Lynch John M* Cleary Sam 1 moore John M c Calley John Burns William Jones David Lowell J unr Arclieb white Peter Lowell Josiali Procter William white Closes Chase Nathan Procter Abraham Estabrook Jeptha Ashley William Steel John Green John Gorden Rob 1 Burns John Gibson Asa Dresser David Scobey Abel Merrill Timothy Lowell Simon Lowell John Onail James maxwell David Danforth Robert Pollok Joseph Rouncevell A reliable White ju r Joseph Dickey Francis Diomond Samuel Jones Daniel gibson Richard M°allaster Moses Steel Andrew Bixbe Simeon Farnsworth Ebene r Spaulding Sameul Lowell Robert mann david lowell Sene r Jacob Burbank William Procter John safford Paul Hale Abner Samson Thomas Stuart [Endorsed] IT 75 22 Feby To lay for further Consideration [Deed, John Peirce to William Bell, 1791.] [Masonian Papers, Yol. 8, p. 101.] Know all men by these presents that I John Pierce of Portsmouth in the County of Rockingham and State of New Hampshire Merchant For and in Consideration of the sum of one Hundred and Twenty pounds Lawful Money of said State to me in hand paid by William Bell of Dearing heretofore of Goffestown in the County of Hillsbor- ough Husbandman the Receipt whereof I do hereby acknowledge have given granted bargained Sold & Released and by these presents do give grant bargain Sell aliene Release Convey and Confirm to him WASHINGTON. 4*7 the said William Bell his heirs and assigns all the Right title Interest Claim and Demand that I have in and to A Certain Lot of Land in Washington in the County of Cheshire and State aforesaid being Lot N° five in the first Range and third Division Containing three Hun- dred and Sixty Acres more or Less Part of the Original Right of Joshua Pierce Esq r Deceased and lays in the South easterly Corner of the Town, adjoining Campbells Gore To Have and to Hold the said granted Premises with the appurtenances thereof to him the said William Bell his heirs and assigns to his and their proper use Benefit and Behoof Forever I hereby engaging to warrant and Defend the said granted Premises against all Claims and Demands of any Person or Persons Claiming by from or under me and the said Original Pro- prietor and I Mary wife of the said John for the Consideration afore- said do hereby give and grant all my Right and Power of thirds in the Premises In Witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and Seal this 24 th Day of Oct r Anno Domini 1791 Signed sealed and ) John Pierce [Seal] Delivered in Pres- > Mary Pierce [Seal] ence of us — ) Tobias Walker ) George Gains j Rockingham ss Portsmouth the 24 th Day of Oct r 1791 then the above named John & Mary Pierce Personalty appearing acknowledged the above Written Instrument to be his Voluntary act and Deed Before me George Gains Justice Peace Rec' 1 June 13 th 1796 Recorded & Examined ^ Benj a Bellows Recdr A True Copy of Record Examined ^ Benj a Bellows Rdr [ Plan of First Division , Reserved Lots, 1813.] Fishersfield July 15th 1813 M r Peirce Sir, Agreeable to your Request I have been to Washing- ton and have had that Land surveyed which you wished to have me do, and therefore I Return you the Plan with my doings there on tli is from yours to Serve, Mem 0 all the Red Ink done by John Peirce 27 Samuel Gunnison 418 CHARTER RECORDS. Ap. 8, 1820 M r Fishers 5 acres in N° 1, 1, 1 sold Joshua Fletcher for $20 June 4, 1821 Sold one Joshua Peirce lot to S & H Davis Vide Fo. 227 Note Book J Fisher Bill for Survaying Eight Days the land pland below Lying in Washington Sixteen dollars $16 — 00 July 8 th 1813 WASHINGTON. 4 T 9 a Plan of J Peirce Esqs Land Laying in the north part of Wash- ingto[n] Laid down by a Scale of two Hundred rods to an Inch July 8 th 1813 by John Fisher [Minutes. [Masonian Papers, Vol. 8, p. 102.] A Man Down with M r Swett clioses N° 1, & N° 6 in Washington no promise only to let M r Swett know Feb y 15, 1811 — Solomon An- drews is the above — M r John P. Chapman applies to purchase part of M r Rindges Lot in Washington N° 3, 1 st Range 3 d divis — & prefers Lot N° 1 & his brother wants N° 3, or 6 — Aug 20, 1811 came down this day 2 d Jour- ney on purpose promised him the refusal Ebenez Spaulding of Washington wants N° 6 applies by Letter Feb. 16 1815 John Lewis of Washington wants Lot N° 6 & N° T applies this 14 Feb. 1816 [ Letter , Johnston to Peirce , 1817.] [Masonian Papers, Vol. 8, p. 103.] Hillsborough 3 rd Novr 1817 M W Pierce Esquire Sir The barrel- hereof is M r John Lewis, will apply for the Lot of Land which I agreed with you for the last time I was in Portsmouth if he concluded to give the five dollars p r Acre, I have made enquirey and find that M r John P Chapman of Washington is Dead and allso M r Sweet of Windsor ; M r Lewis is a man of good property for a Farmer, and I have no doubt , but what he will fulfill any contract he may make with you at the time he agrees — your Buisness at Bradford I believe I shall compremise, I have not been at Washington but will not fail to attend to it Your very humble ser 1 N. Johnston. 420 CHARTER RECORDS. [ Bond of Peirce and Rogers , 1817.] [Masonian Papers, Vol. 8, p. 102.] Portsmouth November 8 th 1817. Received of M r John Lewis of Hillsborough Two Hundred Dollars on Account of and in part of the purchase money of Lot h< 0 3, in the first Range & Thiid Division in Washington containing Three Hundred & Sixty Acres More or less which we have this day agreed to Sell him for the Sum of Nineteen Hundred Dollars of which the aforesaid Two Hundred are a part, & if said Lewis shall any time in the month of February next pay us a further Sum of Two Hundred Dollars & give us his notes signed by himself & Aaron Barnes for Fifteen Hundred Dollars more payable (with Interest from this date, to be paid annually) Two Hundred Dollars a year until the whole Shall be paid Then we agree to give a good & Sufficient deed of the Lot aforesaid— & To the performance of this agreement We bind ourselves our heirs & assigns — M r Lewis is also to give a mortgage As Security of his & M r Barnes Notes Signed M W Peirce D. R. Rogers N B. I have further agreed with M r Lewis if he will pay the whole Sum in Cash when he takes the deed in February to abate him One Hundred Dollars M W Peirce [ Minutes , , 1817-21.] [Masonian Papers, Vol. 8, p. 104.] Sep. 24, 1817 I agreed for ourselves & heirs of M rs Rogers to Sell the whole of this Great Lot to John Lewis at $5 p Acre 8400 down provided however M r Sweet & John P. Chapman who had 1 st Offer did not wish it on those terms — This offer made to N Johnston of Hillsboro, who is to give the Answer as soon as may be at farthest in Nov next — M r Johnston offered 84 Acre sopposing Lot to Contain 360 Acres We have this day Sold the Remainder of Lot N° 2 — 1 st R & 1 st divis to Samuel & Hezekiah Davis of Washington 161 acres for 8410 — papers sent by Gunnison There is to be p d down 50 F ^ Notes 360 4 th June 1821 410 M W P [Plan of Two Lots, 1840.] M.DWadly S Surr Plan of two Lots of Land in Washington laid out for Acres 360 each in the first division viz Number |v ’e in the i"* Range drawn to the right of Thomlinson & Mason and Number Four in the i*‘ Range awn to the right of Pierce & Moore Sep r 15, 1840 - y; ’ li, H (l - ••*<»! r b.l i Ik 1 r io ' >? ' i 1‘ '<>•» “* ’ b . //a.i/. WE ARE. 421 WE ARE. [This town was granted by Massachusetts, June 19, 1735, to Robert Hale, petitioning for Capt. John Raymond’s men, and was called Beverly-Canada , and Hale's-town. Granted by the Masonian Proprietors, Sept. 20, 1749, to Ichabod Robie and others and called at times Robids-town and Weave's -town. Incorporated as Weare, Sept. 21, 1764, and named in honor of Meshech Weare. The line between Weare and Dunbarton was established July 2, 1853. See Massachusetts and New Hampshire charters in preceding volumes ; IX, Bouton Town Papers, 791 ; XIII, Hammond Town Papers, 637; Index to Laws, 571 ; historical sketch, by William Little, Hurd’s History of Hillsborough County, 1885, P- 678; History, 1735 t0 1888, by town committee, 1888, pp. 1064; Stewart’s History of the Free Baptists, 1862, p. 252 ; Baptist Churches in N. H., by E. E. Cummings, 1836, pp. 10, 21 ; Lawrence’s N. H. Churches, 1856, p. 244; sketch, 12, Farmer’s Monthly Visitor, 150; Along the Piscataquog, A Sketch of Weare, by Ida G. Adams, 19, Granite Monthly, 329.] [Petition for Grant , 1748.] [Masonian Papers, Yol. 8, p. 105.] Jacob Stanyan Cap 1 Sam 11 Prescut Benj Swett Elisha Present Abner Philbrick Jon a Hilyard Abner San barn Jacob Brown Relpli Butler Walter willim Timothy Blake Juner John Gove Juner Tho s Boyd Cap 1 Jethro Tilton Deacon Josi Bachelde Ens 11 Rich d Nason Eben r Prescut Enoch Sanburn Nathan Tilton Sam 11 Shaw Reuben Sanburn John Loverin Leu 4 Edmond Brown Jon a Green Juner Pain Row Jon a Steward Enoch Barker Edward Gove : Leu 4 Joseph Bachelder Benj Hilyard Sam 11 Prescut Juner Jeremiah Pearson Theop h Bachelder M r Meshech Weare Jon a Gove Bradbury Green Jeremiah Bennet Simon Fogg Widow Judith Quinbie John Clifford Hampton Falls Octob r 20 th 1748 The foregoing is a List of Persons belonging to Hampton falls who request of the Gentlemen who purchased M r Masons Claim a tract of Land Sutable for a Township And we the Subscribers as a Com tee on their behalf Request to have the Same Upon Amuskiege falls or As Near thereto as we may find a Convenient Place that is not already Disposed of Sam 11 Present ) r tee Benj a Hilyard j 422 CHARTER RECORDS. [ Another Petition for Grant , 1748.] [Masonian Papers, Yol. 8, p. 106.] To the Gentlemen Proprietors of M r Masons Right We the Subscribers belonging to Hampton falls being Inform’d That you are Granting of Tracts of Land Sutable for Townships And we having (The most of us) Already Requested of you by a Committee which we Sent for that Purpose A Tract of Land Sutable for a Town- ship As near to Amuskiege as we Could: And Understanding that there are two Townships now run out by m r Goffe and others — We now Request that we may have a Tract Sutable for a Township to begin at the upper or Northwesterly Corner of the Nothermost of those Two which are now run out and to Run Downward or Southerly upon their line Six miles And then to go back to make a tract of Six miles Square Hampton Falls Nov r Jacob Stanyan 4 th 1748 Jethro Tilton Sam 11 Prescut Edward Gove Enoch Sanborn Abner Sanborn Jacob Brown Ichabod Robie Tho s Cram Th o s Brown Josiali Bachelder Joseph Bachelder Rich d Nason Nathan Tilton Elisha Prescut Eben r Prescut Sam 11 Prescut Juner The 0 Bachelder Sam 11 Shaw Benj n Hilyard Jon a Hilyard Tho s Boyd John Gove Juner Benj Swett Mashech weare Jeremiah Pearson Jeremiah Bennet Timathy Blake Juner Jon a Green Juner Enoch Barker Abner Philbrick John Loverin Bradbury Green Walter Willims Jacob Brown Edmond Brown Jon a Gove Reuben Sanborn Judith Quinbie widow Pain Row Ralph Butler Jon a Stuert John Swain Enoch Gove Henry Robie John Clifford Simon fogg Portsm 0 Dec r 21 st 1748 at a meeting agreed that Tim 0 Fuller of Middleton y e Eldest Son of Coll° Prescot decas d of Groton & w m Prescot his Brother Benj a Bancroft of Groton & John Gage Esqu r be grantees in Hales Town so call’d — G J— Mem 0 Meshech Wear Esq bro 1 in & filed a Plan taken at his and associates request Surveyd by Joseph Baker Surveyer — we finde the Vote formerly past was Sufficient & therefore have nothing to ad unless We Should think Proper to Accomodate Co 11 Hale & in that WEARE. 4 2 3 Case to Enlarge the Town So that the Grantees Shears Should not be Lessened — Jan ry 11 1748/ at a meeting this Mem 0 read & agreed to — Gr J jr [Letter from Ebenezer Flagg , 1748.] [Masonian Papers, Vol. 8, p. 107.] Chester No br 9 1748 S r Co 11 Blanchard call’d upon me As he returnd from Portsmouth And by his Advice, I take it upon me to write A few lines I Need not tell you that Country Ministers Are generally pretty poor, And their Small Saleries forbid them ever thinking to lay up Anything for their Children that way ; this is So obvious — Therefore I took this Scheme that my Children After me might Not be Beggers or Idle, but to get An honest living with the Sweat of their faces, Obtained five Rights in Hales Town the Duty of which Rights I proposed to per- form According to y e Gen 1 Courts Act. But now I fin'd that the pro- perty belongs to Yoursf & Some other Gentlemen (a good Providence this) for As y e Co 11 tells me you Are disposed to continue Such in their Rights which they purchased Upon honourable Terms: I have Already Expended considerable Money & have a Sawmill fit for Business, A house not quite fit to live in And have cleard About Eight or ten Acres of land And to loose all this must be hurtful to me & my children Therefore I Intreat your favour that I might yet hold those Rights, complying with your Terms of Settlement which I Am Ready to do: And that you would Use Your Interest In my behalf with y e honourable Genl m Your Associates. You’l greatly oblige your humble Servant Ebenezer Flagg P. S. I wrote a few lines to Co 11 Atkinson relating to y e Same Affair — And if you Could find A leasure Space And would write two or three words I Shall take it As A futher favour E F— [ Ebenezer Flagg to Theodore Atkinson , 1748.] [Masonian Papers, Yol. 8, p. 108.] Chester Nob r 9, 1748 Hon d S r Understanding by Co 11 Blanchard Upon his return from Portsmouth that Masons Claim was fallen into Your hands with Some CHARTER RECORDS. 4 2 4 other Gentlemen. And many of the Massachusetts Grants lying within that Claim, Yet You Are not disposed to hurt Any one y* had Expended Money or Labour in bringing forward the Settelment of those grants : Now S r Ety y e Co lls Advice 1 would Enform your Hon r that I have five Rights in my hands belonging to the Township call'd Hales Town upon which I have Expended considerable I have A Sawmill built Raised one Dwelling house and Cleard considerable land, which Expence would hurt my Interest much to loose: There- fore I Stand ready to fulfill Such obligations of Settlement As You in your Wisdom think fit & Suitable for y e Speedy Settlement thereof — Therefore I Crave your goodness that 1 might not be a looser by being a promoter of Setting wilderness land, from Some conversation with y e Co 11 w m I have named Above I have reason to think that he would Undertake to Manage y e Settlement of Halestown if he Should Receive a few lines of Order from y e Company which would be very convenien he being So near & pefectly knowing in y e Affair S r I Am Yo r humble Servant Ebenezer Flagg [. Petition of Rumf or d Men , 1748.] [Masonian Papers, Vol. 8, p. 109.] Rumford December the 1 1748 To the Purchasers & Proprietors of Cap* Jn° Tufton Masson Right in Lands in Said Province — Whereas the Persons Named on the others Side have Improvd Lands in a Township Called Heals Town Lying North of New Boston in whose behalf I Request the fever of the Proprietors when that tract of Land is granted by you that you would Suffer the within Nams to be granted in Manner and upon Such Terms as you Shall Se Meet Jeremiha Clough Thomas Clough Juner Judah Trumbel James Shepeard Phinis Vergin Ephram Fernem Juner Thomas Merrill Richard Hasseltin Abner Chapleman William Walker Jeremiha Clough J John Moor Juner Simon Trumbel Solomon Anis Henery Lovgoy Lot Colby Daniel Chase Jn r moses merrill George Hull Timothy walker y e uner Thomas Clough Jeremiha Eastman Juner Moses Eastman Nathan Steveils Jonathan Merrill Ruben Correr Jonathan Chase Joseph Hull Timothy Walker Jun r 4 Samuell walker WEARE. 4 2 5 James Peters John Dow John Merrill Jun r Banjaman Stanly Jacob Shut John West Ebenezer Colbe moses fostor Humphrey Keyes Zebediar Farnam [. Petition of the Walkers, 1748.] [Masonian Papers, Vol. 8, p. 110.] Prov e of New ) To The Hon 0 the Purchasers & Proprietors of Hampshire \ Mason’s Right in y e Province aforesaid We the Subscribers understanding that you are about to grant Part or all of y e Land which you purchased of Cap 1 John Tufton Mason to y e Subjects of this Prov e & beg Leave to inform you that we were Proprietors in Hales Town (so called) as it was granted by y e Prov ft of y e Massach s Bay & have been at considerable Trouble & Cost in Setling & improving Said Town as clearing Land building a Saw mill &c And therefore Pray that when you grant Said Tract of Land you would take our Case under Consideration & make Sure to us our Possessions & Improvements & give us such other Additions & En- couragements as you shall see meet We would also farther inform you (altho' not impowered by them to solicit your Favour) that y e following Persons have also made improvements in S d Town Viz 4 Joseph Wood Jona th Morgan Rev d M r Eb r Flagg Timothy Walker jun r Menassey Trask Retire Trask Will 111 Leach Rev d M r John Chipman Tho a Porter Geo Hull Joseph Hull Wid w Chapman & two Sons Nath 1 Moulton Benj Reymont Hugh Montgumery Benj" Corning Will m Walker Coll Hale Gershom Keys Humphery Keys your favourable Consideration of y e Premises will very much oblige Y r Hub Servants Timothy Walker Juner William Walker [ George Jaffrey to Joseph Blanchard, 1748.] [Masonian Papers, Vol. 8, p. 111.] Portsm 0 Decem r 22 d 1748 — Joseph Blanchard Esq r Sir — Yours of the 19 th ^ M r Prescott came to me, by him which I communicated to the proprietors last evening, at a Meeting, in con- * 426 CHARTER RECORDS. sequence of your recommendation, the Prop rs would have accomodated M r Prescott, & Bancroft in Stark’s & C° Grant, but that was finish’d Satterday last, and as the Prop rs were about to dispose of Hales Town, they have agreed that M r Prescott & his Bro r W m & Cap c Bancroft, have each of them a Share in said Town, when granted, and if you take M r Prescutt into your District, as others it would be approv’d off You’l see in the Grant to Stark & c° that Eben r Parkhurst is pro- vided for, in consequence of his application to the proprietors shewing he had purchas'd of Zach s Lovell & c which was esteem’d sufficient, to answer what M r Lovell requests, tho Too late to be consider’d in Stark’s Grant, if otherwise the multiplicity of Business prevented a particular attention to what you mention of Cap 4 Baldwin of Sudbury, & as the place, the subject of his applica 11 not being under considera- tion, nothing was transacted, but without any Doubt he will be con- sider’d upon his Address The place you hint at, of being granted into a Township, I apprehend is not at present tho’t of, by any Prop r to be disposed off, & has a particular mark upon y e Plan — The prop rs are desirous of seeing you in whose behalf this is from Your Humb 1 Serv 4 G Jaffrey j r Copy of Letter to Coll 0 Blanchard [. Request of Ebenezer Flagg , 1749.] [Masonian Papers, Yol. 8, p. 112.] Port s Aug 4 10, 1749. To the Honb le Theod r Akinson Esq r and Others Purchasers of Masons Right: According to Conversation y e last Evening I would, Motion That if M r Wear And his Associates Upon due consideration refuse to Relinquish Hales Township That The Blank Names might be left Blank till we have Oportunity to consult Among Ourselves which in As Short Time As may be you Shall hear further : That The Farm of Three Hundred Acres belonging to M r Humphrey Keyes lying Upon New Boston line might not be disposed of till fur- ther Application be made Yo rs Eben r Flagg WEARE. 427 [. Petition of Hugh Montgomery . ] [Masonian Papers, Vol. 8, p. 126.] To the Honourable the Gentlemen Purchasers of Cap fc John Tufton Mason’s Right of the waste lands within the Province of New Hampshire The Humble Suplication of Hugh Muntgomery of Londonderry within the Province of New Hampshire Humbly Shew. That your Suplicant Purchas’d a Propriet}^ Right or share of lands in the township Called Hale’stown about ten years aggo, and paid ffourty Pounds for the Same, and paid an Equall Proportion of the Severall Charges that become due upon S <1 Right by Building a meet- inghouse Building Bridges & Clearing of high ways & c and about five or Six years aggo put one William Walker upon my home lott in S d town and Built one half of a Saw mill and Contin’d there till drove off by the war &c — and in as much as I understand that your Honrs are about Grant' ing the Said Township to Some Gentlemen of Both Provincess (viz) this & the neighbouring Province wo’d Humbly Request & Desire that I mav be admitted as associate with them that so I mav hold my Right in said town & not loose my money Intirely — and your Supli- cant as in duty Bound Shall Ever Pray &c Hugh mountgumroy [ Charter of Weave , 1749.] [Masonian Proprietors’ Records, Sept. 20, 1749.] Voted that there be and hereby is Granted unto Ichabod Robie Esq r Henry Robie Cap 1 Samuel Prescutt Josiali Batcheldor Meshech Wear Esq 1 Joseph Prescutt Jonathan Green Jun r Joseph Batcheldor Benjamin Hilliard Jacob Stanyan Jeremiah Pearson John Clifford Jonathan Swain Jonathan Gove John Gove Jun r John Brown Cap 1 Thomas Cram Enoch Barker Cap 1 Jethro Tilton Henry Thresher Reuben Sanborn Enoch Sanborn Ebenezer Sanborn Abner Sanborn Abner Sanborn jun r Enoch Gove Bradbury Green Walter Williams Thomas Boyd David Tilton Daniel Robie Jacob Brown Judith Quin- by Widow Nathan Brown Richard Nason Abner Philbrick Jonatli” Hillyard Jonathan Steward Samuel Prescutt jun r Pain Rowe Caleb Bennet Samuel Robie Elisha Batcheldor John Loverin Caleb San- born Edward Gove Ebenezer Prescutt Elisha Prescutt Nathan Tilton 428 CHARTER RECORDS. Theophilus Batcheldor Benjamin Swett Jeremiah Bennett Timothy Blake jun r Simon Fogg Thomas Brown John Green Hezekiah Jen- ness Jonathan Fifield Samuel Lane John Robie Timothy Fuller James Prescutt William Prescutt Benjamin Bancroft John Gage Esq r James Tindall Ebenezer Flagg Joseph Messerve Joseph Jackson Peter Shores Richard Evans William Walker Col° Hale Joseph Hull George Hull Reuben Sanborn jun r Nathan Green Benjamin Lynde Esq r the Rev d John Chipman and Timothy Walker In Equal Shares On the Terms Conditions and Limitations herein after Expressed all that Tract of Land within the Province of New Hampshire Contain- ing the Extent and Quantity of Six Miles Square Bounded as follows (Viz 1 ) Begin'ing at the North Westerly Corner of a Tract of Land lately Granted by said Proprietors to Archibald Stark and others thence Running South Eighty five Degrees West Six Miles thence South two Degrees East Six Miles thence North Eightv five Degrees East Six Miles thence North five Degrees West to the Corner first mentioned so as to make up the said Quantity of Six Miles Square and no more — To have and to hold to them their Heirs and Assigns in Equal Shares on the following Terms Conditions and Limitations That is to Say That the whole Tract of Land within the said Boundaries (Sav- ing what is herein after mentioned to be otherwise Improved) Be divided into One hundred Rights or Shares and each Share into two Distinct Lots One of which is to Contain One hundred Acres and the other all the rest of the Land belonging to each Respective Share That the two Lots which belong to one Share be Numbred with the same Number beginning with one and Ending with One hundred. That the said Land be so Laid Out within One wear from the Granting thereof and then the Lots Drawn in the usual manner of Drawing for Lots of Land in such Cases. And that this be done under the care and Direction of the Grantors and that there be but One Draft for the two Lots belonging 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 until he shall be Regu- larlv Dismiss'd to hold to him his Heirs and Assigns. And one other of the said Shares be for and towards the Support of the Gospel Min- istry 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 be Conveniently and not drawn as the other Lots. That there be Six Acres of Land left in some Conven- ient place within said Boundaries for Building a Meeting house and School house upon, and to Improve for a Training field a Burying place and any other Public use the Inhabitants there shall see cause WE ARE. 4 2 9 to make of the same. 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 Settlement there at their own Charge and Expence in the following manner (Viz 1 ) That thirty family’s be Settled upon said Tract of Land Each having an house Equal to Sixteen foot Square or more and three Acres of Land Cleared and fitted for Mowing or Tillage upon their Respective Lots within four years from the Granting hereof and ten Families more So Settled within two years from the same time. That a Meet- ing house for the Publick Worship of God be built within Six years and the Constant preaching of the Gospel Maintained there next after twelve years from the Granting of the said Land — 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 and for him or them his or their Heirs or Assigns who will build such Mill within two years from the time aforesaid with the Privilege of the most Convenient Stream and place for that purpose And in Consideration thereof for the Benifit of the said Inhabitants the Owner or Owners of Such Mill shall saw the Logs and Timber of the other Inhabitants aforesaid or Settlers 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 said Owners of said Shares or Such other As the Major part of them shall Admit will undertake to Build such Mill on the said Terms then the said Owners shall do the same at their Common Expence and put the said Mill under such a Regulation as that they and others Inhabiting there may be Served with Boards and other Sawed Stuff on just and Reasonable Terms for Carrying an End the said Settlement — That each Owner of the said Eighty Shares pay to Such person or persons as the Major part of them shall Determine and Clmse for that purpose all such Sum and Sums of money as the said Major part shall Determine to be necessarv from time to time to Defray the Charges of laying out the said Lots and other matters and things herein Directed to be done & necessary to be at their Common Expence for making said Settlement 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 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. That a plan of the whole when so laid out be made at the Charge of the said 430 CHARTER RECORDS. Owners and Return'd to the Grantors as soon as maybe Conveniently done. That the Remaining Seventeen Shares Reserved as aforesaid be Exonerated Acquitted and fully Exempted from paying any Charge towards making the said Settlement and not held to the Conditions of the Eightv Shares aforesaid or Liable to anv Tax or Assessment 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 Grantees shall fail Neglect and Omit to Settle Forty families upon the said Tract of Land in manner aforesaid and within the term aforesaid and to do and perform The Several matters and things herein before mentioned by them to be done the said Grantees shall forfeit their Right to anv and every Part of the said Granted premises and the said Grantors may Lawfully Enter into and upon the same or any part thereof in the name of the whole or any person or persons for them and in their Name Stead and behalf and be thereof Seized again as tho* this Grant had not been made _ provided Nevertheless that those particular persons of the said Gran- tees who shall have performed his or their part according to the true Intent and meaning of these presents as above shall have hold and Enjoy to him his Heirs and Assigns his or their particular Shares aforesaid. And in Case the said Owners of the Eightv Shares shall within the term aforesaid make Finish A Compleat the Settlement of Forty Families as aforesaid and shall do A perform all the Several Articles matters and things by them to be done as aforesaid Every particular person of the said Owners who shall be Delinquent and neglect to do and perform his Respective Share part and proportion of the Dutv business matters and things aforesaid bv him to be done according to the true Intent and meaning of these presents Such Delinquent Owner shall forfeit his Share and Right to the said Tract of Land any and every p^art thereof to Such of the said Owners who shall have done and perform'd as aforesaid and they may have hold and Enjoy the same to them their heirs and Assigns and Are hereby Entitled to the Grantors Right thereto and may Enter into and upon the same and take full Seizin thereof to their own use as fully and Amply as the Grantors themselves might lawfully do as aforesaid. Provided always that in Case of an Indian War within any of the Terms of Years above Limited for the doing anv of the matters and things aforesaid bv the said Owners to be done the same Number of 1 ears Respectively shall be Allowed after that Impediment shall be Removed — And in Case anv Action or Suit shall be brot against the said WE A RE. 431 Grantees for the said Tract of Land or any part thereof 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 and the said Gran- tors hereby promise and Ingage they their Heirs Executors Adminis- trators or Assigns shall and will at their Own Cost and Expence Defend One Action or Suit unon One Title and Pursue the same to -A- final Judgment through the whole Course of the Law (if there shall be Occasion) And in Case the final Judgment in such Trial shall be against the said Grantors, the Grantees shall Recover nothing over in Satisfaction of and from the said Grantors their Executors or Admin- strators or any of them — \JDraft of Lots in WeareJ] [ Mason ian Proprietors’ Records, Vol. 6, p. 231, and Vol. 7, p. 65.] The Draft of the Lots of Town granted to Ichabod Roby Esq r & others N° of the Lots N° of the Lots Josiah Bachelder • . 15 L l Joseph Bachelder 34 John Brown 41 Enoch Barker 26 Thomas Boyd 14 Jacob Brown 43 Nathan Brown 47 Caleb Bennet 87 Elisha Bachelder 45 Theophilus Bachelder 82 Jeremiah Bennet 24 Timothy Blake Jun r . 70 Thomas Brown 6 Benj a Bancroft 59 John Clifford 33 Cap 1 Thomas Cram . 84 Rev d John Chipman 69 Richard Evans 37 Simon Fogg 97 Jon a Fifield 39 Timothy Fuller 81 Ebenezer Flagg 1 1 Jonathan Green Jun r 50 Jonathan Gove 5 John Gove jun r 42 Enoch Gove 2 Bradbury Green 22 Edward Gove 95 John Green 55 John Gage Esq r 35 Nathan Green 62 Benj° Hilyard 1 2 Jonathan Hilyard 100 Col 0 Hale 20 Joseph Hull 28 George Hull 2 7 Hezekiah Jenness 52 Joseph Jackson 4 John Loverin 93 Samuel Lane 88 James Lyndall Esq r . 56 Benj a Lvnde Esq r 77 Joseph Meserve 83 Richard Nason 58 Cap 1 Sam 1 Prescutt . 75 Joseph Prescutt 89 Jeremiah Pearson 7 Abner Philbrick 36 Samuel Prescutt Jun r 60 Ebenezer Prescutt 73 Elisha Prescutt 9 James Prescutt 17 432 CHARTER RECORDS. N° of the Lots N° of the Lots William Prescutt • 98 Judith Ouinby 99 Ichabod Robie Esq r 49 Henry Robie 3 i Daniel Robie 44 Samuel Robie 74 John Robie l 9 Pain Row 38 Jacob Stanyan 2 5 Jonathan Swain 10 Reuben Sanborn 68 Enoch Sanborn 29 Ebenezer Sanborn 40 Abner Sanborn 18 Abner Sanborn jun r . 94 Jonathan Steward 48 Caleb Sanborn 32 Benj a Swett 30 Peter Shores 67 Reuben Sandborn jun r 72 Henry Thresher 79 David Tilton 86 Cap* Jethro Tilton 63 Meshech Weare Esq r 9 i Nathan Tilton 76 Walter Williams 80 William Walker 78 Timothy Walker 21 Theodore Atkinson Esq r 85 Jn° Thomlinson & John i Law Lot N° i 23 Tufton Mason \ 9 ° Jotham Odiorne Esq r 57 Joshua Peirce Esq r 64 Thomas Packer Esq r 65 Sam 1 Solly & CP March Esq rs 90 Nath 1 Meserve Joseph V Richard Wibird Esq r 92 Blanchard, Joseph > 61 Thomas Wallingford Esq r 5 i Green & Paul March ) Mark H? Wentworth 13 Moore & D 1 Peirce 53 George Jaffrey 7 i Mark Hs Wentworth 46 John Moffatt Esq r 3 Jn° Wentworth jun r Esq r . 66 Province of / Portsm 0 Voted That this Draft of the Lots of Land New Hamp r \ in the Tract of Land Granted to Ichabod Robie Esq r Henry Robie & others, 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 & that the Division as made by the Grantees, & numbered in the Plan thereof by them returned, be confirmed Geo: Jaffrey Prop rs Cle r a true Copy the Record of the Draft of the Lotts in the Town of Weare — attest Geo: Jaffrey Prop rs Cl: \_Ebenezer Flagg to Theodore Atkinson , 1752.] [Masonian Papers, Vol. 8, p. 113.] Chester Feb y 10 1752 S r I hope You remem br that when I was at Portsmouth at a Meet- ing of the Propriators of Mason s Right: I mentioned a Farm which Vote by which it was Granted Sam .i Present ) Committee for Richard Wason > Laying out said Petir Row ) tract of Land 3 cr (T> ^ |a O O' CTQ g r* « H r -n =• S •c g O p 3 rr - r a- S o o P cr -C o- "30 5 - , r o , P Q- 1 Q. 73 ^ ° r ^ cr ! ^ !. £ W 1 > o ** 5 2,8 r cr 73 r p o > cr H n> 3 c ^ 3 ^ Rp |.§ O 3 * i- p p cr OQ III a> cn_ n ^ o' p o 3 p «- f p* 3 sr p « rt w &. r > i 3 -o'ET n> >1 p o 3 - ° - ^ n. r P fH P_ f o pi w o a. p e ^ 33 m 2 77 ?« 7 vt T/-? WcnlworlA ^ o TTlary Vloove &l)asi l JPeu*% "W m Barker Law Lot 71° 2, 5 £ Joiham Odiome £ Jotkam Odwrne 5 S:D _ o 3 - 3 a> 3 r O J,hn mojfalt 7 < _Cl 5 John. Rindye & o- ; JosejJi 77 leierve§, , Wa.ru TTUirt > JWiVyct Geo Jeffrey 3 TAo JhcAerZsfi- •> law Lot 71 V 77 ? Lircrmoic l Tko'Mltrluj ^ Geo; iZt s -"■■fry <4 ifen Joae/iA TRcservt if-DJ C9a(m(L Z yi^og tSTAomhnsonVTTtason 5 V >J iS 3 m ■ South. TO' Dejrt . . . .• - » I ■ t 1*. • •; !■ - . . j - •• 1 r , r; ... - - ( ta.v.j* mv. . , . v . ■ • • • i • . , . * ♦ • j i r fVr"" • .00- , j. *.1 • ■ ; \ • . ■ • • v * -t : * .. •» / WE ARE. 433 lay in Hales Town of Three Hundred Acres Upon which M r Hum- phrey Keyes (A Brother of my Wives’) Lived for four or five Years before the War: and That drove him off: and when I was with You I could Ask nothing but that it might not be given to Any Body Else till I had Seen him: who lives at Charlston : I have been to Boston Several times Since Yet I never could See him he being at Sea till about Three weeks Since: And now in his name And my own I Ask the favour of Yoursf And Society that You would give Your Right to Us Equally the one half being mine : So that as we have Improved it before the war And Since till Now: having Your right We may peaceably possess & Enjoy it hereafter. S r I Must Intreat You would lay it before Your Society (As I well remember) : And I hope You have not forgot that You Encouraged me in it when I was with You in that You advised me to proceed in Improvement : So I relie upon Your goodness & company to Serve You 1 ' humble And Obedient Ser 4 Ebene r Flagg PS S r If there be any Occasion of my being present I will Endeavour to wait upon You At Any of Your Meetings if You will be So kind as to Enform me when Yo rs to Serve E: F: [. Petition of Clements and McHard , 1757. j [Masonian Papers, Vol. 8, p. 114.] To the Hon ble Theodore Atkinson Esq & others Purchasers & Pro- prietors of Masons Right in the Province of New Hampshire Gent 11 We the Subscribers beg Leave to represent to you that there is a Small Gore of Land Lying Westward of & bounding upon Starks Town (so Called) & Between Hales Town & N° 5 & N° 6 which we are Desirous of Setling & Improving if we Can obtain it of you by Grant or Purchase or on such Terms as shall be Thought reasonable & if you’l please to Take our Proposals under Consider- ations at your Next meeting & give us Notice when & where we Shall Treat with you further upon the Matter we Shall Esteem it Favour Done Your Humb le Sev ts Timothy Clements James M I lard [Endorsed] Rec d June 1 st 1757 28 434 CHARTER RECORDS. [ Committee to Caleb Page , 1758.] [Masonian Papers, Yol. 8, p. 115.] Portsm 0 July 29 th 1758 Cap 1 Caleb Page The Proprietors of Masons Right in this Province having ap- pointed us to dispose of a Tract of land which is Situate Southerly on the northerly line of Hale's Town extending y e whole length of said line and making an Angle on y e Southerly line of N° 6 at y e north west Corner of Hales Town, and from Said Angle running eastwardly partly on the southrly line of N° 6 and continues on y e Southerly line of N° 5 or new Hopkington till it come’s to y e north west Corner of Stark’s Town and then Southerly to y e north east Corner of Hales Town — The Con- tents of Said Tract we are to have Surveyed and measured and a reg- ular Plan thereof returned to Said Proprietors and we are informed you undertake Such Buisness and as you reside neary 6 Spot we desire you will Survey and plan y e said Tract having Suitable Chainmen for that purpose and make a Return of y e Plan as soon as you can Conveniently and we will See you Satisfyed for your Service therein and you will oblige y r Hum: Serv ts D Peirce John Moffat Geo : Jaffrey \_Petition of Samuel Fisk , 1759.] [Masonian Papers, Yol. 8, p. 116.] Salem, Oct r 16. 1759. Honoured Sir. After Proper Compliments, to Your Honour This Begs a Favour of You, as a Purchaser of M r Masons Patent ; That you will Please To Lay before The Gentlemen your Copartners, My Case, which Fol- lows, viz 1 I the Subscriber Purchased an Original Right In A Township, Granted By This Province to a Number of Petitioners &c anon Called Hales-Town I Fullfilled the Terms Appointed till Sicknese & Warrs Ceased further Labours. My Lott Fell in that Part Of the Township, which, the Mason Setlers Left out of their Township : and which Col 1 Blanchard Told me was Left for Col 1 Hale. Col 1 Blanchard Under- took to obtain My Lott of You Gentlemen He Dyed, having (as I Suppose) done nothing. I now Therefore by M r Mitchel, Convey my [ Land between Weare and Hopkinton , 1758 .] c oj £ 4-> oj JC OJ -a g G J u L-H Eg O JC CA JJ Sh G ■*-> co oj >-> o O qj * -C § jC OJ £ rt u G G CA I— I JC T3 oj Eg 0} > \n +-> c3 JC G G £ O G r-G - % oj £ G CL) 0) CO 0) > G 4= £ G -t-> 3 JC OJ +-< 3 O JC G )-i G 1) G _G G -i-> G O u Eg G P ° G JC G 4= G & G 13 > G 1) OJ CA 0) G CO CA XJ G 3 O JC S- o G i— O U -4-> CA OJ £ J- o G OJ JC oj -G G O CL’ "i. ~ JC C CA G £ 8-= P~ G Eg oj .SP 5 > JC CO CA OJ JC bjo oo LG tG OJ G O T3 OJ > G JC OJ OJ eg JO JO C ca OJ JC £ ^ CL, h O O J 3 .ti HD bjo £ e g ? > G G OJ T3 OJ o CJ G CA C o U G HD G O CL jC Eg-c oj C r-» HD w a£ G £ O •*-> CA J*C «2 O CO G JC G OJ X £ OJ +-I CL OJ CO c £ o +-» CA jc c o CL 3 Jrf CL O JC CA -c CO CA — > G CA C G OJ c O' fO , G" J HD G jr OJ — G OJ bJO G Oh JC _QJ G u & > ■■ •' a ■ *\ 1 C-! n j=, '• • J ; a — -• ■ • • . - - r -j — - x ‘ • ; — r / . - - -• “ ^ • <* - a i . : V • : .. .... • : .V - - ■t- r* _■ r> < -- WEARE. 435 Request, to You Praying Your allowance of my Right; being willing to Comply with Such Dutys, & Allowances, as your Honours Shall Judge Proper, as are others My Neibours. I waited On Col 1 Hale, but finding him not Inclined to Act, I Tho’t it Proper to Apply to You Gentlemen as above Be Pleased, Sir, to Give your Self the Unmerited Trouble, of Send- ing a Line, To Your Honours Sincere & Obediant Servant Sam 1 Fisk N B. My Age I hope will Sir, Excuse this Scrol. S. F. \_G-corge Jaffrey to Robert Fletcher , 1759.] [Masonian Papers, Vol. 8, p. 117.] Portsmouth October 22 d 1759 — S r M r Packer informs the Proprietors of the lands Purchas’d of John Tufton Mason Esq r that he had conferred with you about laying out and planning a tract land between Hales Town and New Boston for said Proprietors who desire you will proceed on the buisness as soon as may be, and divide the whole Tract between Hales Town, as granted by said proprietors, and New Boston, to be equally divided into Quantity & Quality as near as may be into fifteen equal shares & return a Plan of the same. You must be very carefull that no Gore or space be left Between the two tracts mentioned, and let mountains, rocks and Ponds be particularly described in your plan & if the Qual- ity of the land is such, that an equal division cannot be made in fifteen equal Lotts for Quantity & Quality, then do it, into thirty Lotts to be coupled so as to render an equal division of the whole into fifteen shares — In behalf of the Proprietors I am S r your most hum le Serv 4 Geo : Jaffrey To M r Robert Fletcher 436 CHARTER RECORDS. \Plan of G-ore , 1759.] M. H. W. J. P. . T. A. . R. W. . G J J. R. . T. W. . P. &M. T. P. . T. & M. J. O. . S. & M. J. W. . J. M. . Meserve & Co y of John Tuff ton Mason Esq 1 I Have Laid Out Into Thirty Lotts as Described in this Plan all the Lands Betwen the Royal Society land so Call d & Hales Town Goffes Town & New Boston. Have Coupled them as by the above Numbers so as to Make Fiffteen Equall Shares Quantity and Quallity as Near as May be — herewith Laid in a Scale of 200 Poles to an Inch the Lines Fathfully Marked and Corners Well Made Portsmouth Nov r y e 21 st 1759 — ^ Robert Fletcher Surv r . 1 . 9 . 2. 11 . 3. 26 . 4. 5 . 13. 24 . 16. 25 . 10. 17 . 8. 18 . 7. 6 . 19. 15 . 20. 12 . 21. 14 . 22. 23 . 27. 30 . 28. 29 the Lands Pure WE A RE. 437 [ Cost of Surveying Core.'] [Masonian Papers, Yol. 8, p. 118.] To Divide the Tract of Land Betwen New Boston and Weares Town Being Six Miles Long and One Mile in Width Into 15 Equal Shares Quntity and Quality to Mark the Lines Faithfully & Return a Plan &c will Cost about .80. Dollars or Old Tenor Equl to that Sum [Letter from Enoch Bartlett , 1761.] [Masonian Papers, Yol. 8, p. 119.] Feb r y 16 th 1761— To Dan 1 Pierce Esq r and Others Grantees to Tuften Mason Esq r Gentlemen — you Some Years ago, Granted to James M c Hard Esq r And Tim° Clement a Tract of Land of which the Title has been Sus- pected — I being Attorney to S d Clement and at the Request of S d M°Hard have In Some Measure Examined the affair, And am fully of opinion that you had good right to Sell or grant Such a Quantity of Land Between Robies Town (So Called) and the line of Towns — For in A D: 1748 you Granted the Town to Col Goff and others with it's west line of five Miles and Starks Town (So Called) Adjoining on it’s North line with it’s West line of 5 Miles & 180 Rods — in the whole 10 Miles & 180 Rods — I have Sent up Men and Made An Admeasurem 1 from Souhegan North West Corner — And find that on the Course of s d Towns West line which is North Two Deg: West it is Eleven Miles And 199 Rods to the line of Towns — by which it appears that Starks Town North west Corner A D: 1749 when Robies or Wiers town was Granted, was one Mile & 19 Rods to the Southward of the line of Towns — Robies Town was to begin at Starks Town N : W : Corner and Run South 85 Deg West and thence South- erly which cannot make them Contiguous to the line of Towns but leaves as much land as You Granted us if Not in the like form as ^ Grant — The Alteration And Settlem 1 Made A D: 1752 (of which You May be Inform' 1 by Col: Goff) will Not alter the N: line of Robies Town — and tho you then Consented that Goffs Town Should Extend half a Mile or More further Northward — And that Starks Town on their forfeiture And Surrender Should have their full Meas- ure 5 Miles & 180 Rods to the Northward of Goffs Town as then bounded it Cannot Enlarge or Alter the Grant Made three years before — I Desire that the Quantity of land between Robies Town 43§ CHARTER RECORDS. and line of Towns ma} T be ascertain d and I Stand Ready on the part of my Constituent to pay what shall be due let the land be more or Less — I Employ d Men toe Measure S d line who Certify Under their Hands that they Measured it Impartially as they will Evidence on Oath — I Don't Expect You 1 act Much on the affair from My Relation without further Enquiry — And Doubt Not but you 1 find it to your Advantage — I Desire Gentlemen You 1 take the affair Under Considerat n and doubt not of finding more lands than You Granted Us — and Also desire the favour of you (after being Met together) that You 1 leave Your Resolve thereon with Dan 1 Peirce Esq 1- that from him we May know how to proceed — and if you think it Needful I by myself or together with M r M c Hard will wait on you when Met All fm Y r Most Humb 1 Serv fc Enoch Bartlett N B My Constituent has been at great charges Considering his Abillity and cannot give it up without hurting his family or having Something Equivolent [Proposition from Enoch Bartlett , 1764.] [Masonian Papers, Yol. 8, p. 120.] Portsmouth Nov r 16 th 1764 To the Honourable Theodor Atkinson Esq r And others Grantees of Tufton Mason Esq r Whereas You in September 1758 made Your Grant of Land by Estimation 2500 Acres, To James M c Hard Esq r And Tim 0 Clement adjoyning Starks Town which appears to be Lands laid out by the Proprietors of Robies Town (So Called) — And Said Clement after a Considerable Charge is Sued in an action now depending As a Tres- passer on Said Lands It Appearing that there was a Mistake or Error Somewhere in the affair Suppos'd to Arise from missinformation, and the matter to be Determined in the Action is whether the Proprietors of Robies Town had any right by Grant to those Lands — It is objected that their grant was made in September 1749 and to be begin for laying out at the North west Corner of Starks Town when Starks town was by Grant only without other Confirmation Extended but 10 Miles and 180 rods North 2 Deg West from the N. West Corner of Souhegan East And therefore could Not reach the Line of Towns, which Appears by WE ARE . 439 a late Admeasurem 1 to be 11 miles & 199 rods on Said Course from Souhegan East — from which it is Said there is more then to the Quantity of 2500 acres between Robies Town and the Line of Towns and it is also Said that Starks Town was Extended to the Line of Towns by Said Grantees Accepting their Plan in December 1749 by its being inserted therein that it adjoyn’d the Line of Towns — But as those Lands have been Considered as part of Said Robies Town and the Dispute is Aresen from a Mistake And will be Costly — It having been propos d that Said grantees, grant to S d M c Hard And Clement other Lands in Some Measure Equivalent to 2500 Acres there on their Releasing those lands — I therefore the Subscriber hav- ing full power to Agree And release in behalf of Said Clement Do hereby Certify that I am Ready to Accept An Equivalent in lands Else where with a Discharge of Said Action on Said Clements part (and Doubt Not but S d M c Hard will also on his) And will give Any Proper Release of S d Grant and Lands on the making a Grant of Said Equivalent Lands or Any Resolve or agreement that it Shall be made — [In handwriting of Enoch Bartlett. Ed.] [Letter from Enoch Bartlett , 1764.] [Masonian Papers, Yol. 8, p. 121.] Haverhill Nov r 21 st 1764 To the Honourable Theodore Atkinson Esq r S r I last week gave You Some proposals with respect to Tim 0 Clements affair, and it was Agreed that I with M r MTIard Should be at Portsmouth on Monday Next, but As he is oblig'd to be there this week, I write to you by him And perhaps the affair May be Setled in Some Measure without our attending Next week, if you (the Grantees) Agree with M r M' Hard as I propos d or otherwise I think the Action Against Clement May Stand Continued till we can fully Settle the affair, it will take up Some time to Settle with respect to the Equiva- lent lands however I Shall Abide My Writtne proposals if M r M c Hard will come into the like, or perhaps I may take up Clements Bond for Money without paying it And take a piece of land you may be willing to grant him for his Charges Trouble And Disappointments if it is yet Necessary I Shall Attend Next week as agreed but I Expect to know by M r M'Hard whether it will be Expected or not All f m Y r Most Hu mb 1 Serv 1 Enoch Bartlett ^ fav r of James M' Hard Esq r 440 CHARTER RECORDS. [ Two Letters from Enoch Bartlett , 1767. ] [Masonian Papers, Vol. 8, p. 122.] To the Hon bl Theodore Esq r Atkinson And others Grantees of Jn* Tufton Mason Esq r — Enoch Bartlet of Haverhill Humbly Prays That you 1 Appoint Some persons with whom he may treat respecting his Surrender of Lands claim' 1 by the Proprietors of Robies Town So Called and for discharg- ing the Bond Given on Acco u of those Lands — And respecting the Sale of other Lands to him Such as he may particularly Apply, to them about or for And You 1 oblige Y r Humb 1 Serv 1 Haver 1 Apr 1 17 : 1767 Enoch Bartlet Apr 1 17 : 1767 S r It is more then Six Months Since I was in a Capacity to Sur- render the Lands in Robies Town, but could Never hear when Your Meetings would be — I therefore now desire that a Com tee may be appointed in Order to Settle the affair — I find that Esq r M c Hard has obtain’d a Grant or Deed of the Southerly part of the lands in Hop- kinton but yet hope from Information by Cap 1 Badger to find Lands of which I may make An Agreeable purchase — It being So Difficult for me to know of your Meetings And to Attend them — I desire the favour of your Hon r to present My request in the Next Meeting that I may know with whom to treat in order to Close the affair fm Y r most Humb 1 Serv* Enoch Bartlet To the Hon bl Theodore Atkinson Esq r at Portsm 0 — [. Bartlett’s Request Repeated, 1769.] [Masonian Papers, Vol. 8, p. 128.] April 26 : 1/69 To the Honb 1 Theodore Atkinson Esq r And Others Grantees to Jn° Tufton Mason Esq r when met together Enoch Bartlet of Haverhill Humbly prays that you 1 Appoint Some persons As a Com tee with whom he may treat respecting his Surrender of Lands that are claimed by the Proprietors of Robies Town So WE ARE. t 44 1 Called and for discharging the Bond Given on the Account of those Lands — And respecting the Sale of other lands to him Such As he may apply to them for — And You 1 oblige Y r Humb 1 Serv 1 Enoch Bartlet [Again in 1TT1 .] [Masonian Papers, Yol. 8, p. 124.] To the Grantees of Jn° Tuften Mason Esq r now met together Enoch Bartlet of Haverhill Humbly Prays that you will Appoint Some persons As a Com tee with whom he May treat Respecting his Surrender of Lands in Robies Town So Called and respecting the Sale of other Lands that may be in Some Measure Equivalent to those in Robies Town — And you 1 Oblige Y r Humb 1 Serv 1 Enoch Bartlet N B The Com tee Appointed Some Years ago, by reason of Death or Removal could not Act on the affair Portsm 0 Oct 2 d 1771 — [Endorsed] Sum for Tract of land Sold m c liard &c <£575 New Tenn r [. Report of Committee on Bartlett’s Claim, 1773.] [Masonian Papers, Yol. 8, p. 125.] We the Subscribers, being a Committee of the Proprietors of Masons Patent at the desire of Enoch Bartlett Esq r have met & fully heard him respecting his Claim, as Attorney to Timothy Clements, After Maturely Considering the Matter, are fully of Opinion, that said Bartlett has no just demand on the Propriety, on acco 1 of said Clements, he the s (1 Clements having deceiv’d the Proprietors, in order to obtain a grant of Land, & never paid any Consideration for the same. But we recommend to the consideration of the Proprietors whether they will Grant a Tract of Land to M r Bartlett on such terms as they may agree — Portsmouth 19 th Aug 1 1773 Dan 1 Peirce D 1 Rogers John Penhallow. W m Whipple October 6 th 1773 This Report of the Committee accepted att : Geo: Jaffrey Prop" Cl 44 2 CHARTER RECORDS. WILMOT. [This town was constituted from parts of New London and Kearsarge Gore, and incorporated June 18, 1807. A portion of Hill was annexed Dec. 21, 1832. A tract of land was severed and annexed to Danbury Dec. 19, 1848, and another July 26, 1878. See papers under title New London; Index to Laws, 584; sketch, by \V. VV. Flanders, Hurd's History of Merrimack County, 1885, p. 695 ; Stewart's History of the Free Baptists, 1862, pp. 305, 375 : Baptist Churches in X. H., by E. E. Cum- mings, 1836, p. 19; Lawrence's N. H. Churches, 1856, p. 417.] [^Plan of Wilmoth] WILMOT. 443 Nov. 1, 1817 M r Reuben Raymond applies for N° 48 — 150 Acres Wilmot formerly New London — Offered him it for $500 provided he bring a recom- mendation from Deacon Hunting & Wait 2 ys for 1 st pay fc — lie is im- mediately to see Deacon Hunting whe is to write Me — 9 March 1818 David Everett applies for Lot N° 89 Wilmot formerly New Lon- don — Enquired its value of Dea Hunting — application made by John Phelps John Phelps 15 Sep. 1815 is on Lot N° 54 & offers only $100 for it — he and his predecessor have been on 11 y s — Amos Foster of Warner wants N° 43, 150 acres Wilmot formerly New London [Plan of Part of Grore.~\ 444 CHARTER RECORDS. [Plan of a Lot, 1823.] Warner November 12 1823. To M. W. Pirce Esq Sir — in Obediance to your order I have Sur- veyed lot N° 46 in Wilmot formerly Newlondon and herewith Send you the plan of the Same — M r Buzwil informed that he never had any Deed from Fowler — and that the bargain was for twenty Acres on the East Side of the Road Which I have platted and there Remains Eight acres On the East Side of the Road which is Verry ledge and poor land and the Remainder of Fowlers part on the West Side of the Road 53 — 34 Acres the part that Buzzel Occupies I Should think was worth Seven Dol- lars per acre — Kinsmans Nine and the Remainder on the West Side I Should think was worth Six Dollars fifty Cent per acre Laid out oil Kinsmans -part is a grate Damage to the farm making over one hundred Rods fence Where Stones are Very Scarce — for further information if any be lacking When I Come to Ports- mouth I Will inform you if I Can and Reman your Serv 4 John Palmer Mark W. Pierce Portsmouth 53 6.50 — 344.50 20 a 7. 140.— 82 a 9. 738 1222.50 Moody 750 Dearborn 350 Buswell 250 WILTON. 445 $1350 for the whole Lot besides Cents which are Several hundred Dollars (This is the Fowler & Wood Lot.) WILTON. [Granted as Number 2, by the Masonian Proprietors, Oct. i, 1749, to Thomas Reed and others. Incorporated as Wilton June 25, 1762, to continue until Jan. 1, 1765. Reincorporated Jan. 2, 1765. A portion of Lyndeborough was annexed to Wilton by Joseph Blanchard, agent for the Masonian Proprietors. See New Hampshire charters in preceding volumes ; IX, Bouton Town Papers, 792 ; XIII, Hammond Town Papers, 676 ; Index to Laws, 585 ; Topographical and Historical Description, by Thomas Beede, 1, Farmer and Moore’s Historical Col- lections, 65; Past and Present, 150th anniversary of settlement, 13, Granite Monthly, 252; same, pamphlet, 1889; History, by A. A. Livermore and S. Put- nam, 1888, pp. 575; Memorial of Increase Sumner Lincoln, by J. C. Mitchell, 1890, pp. 25; address, dedication of town house, by I. S. Whitney, 1885; ad- dress, centennial celebration, by Ephraim Peabody, 1839; Baptist Churches in N. H., by E. E. Cummings, 1836, p. 16; Lawrence’s N. H. Churches, 1856, p. 244 ; papers under title Groton, Old Grant, in Massachusetts charters preceding ; sketch, by A. A. Livermore, Hurd’s History of Hillsborough County, 1885, p. 695 ; Fall of the Wilton Meeting House, 1773, by N. Allen, 22, N. E. Hist. Gen. Reg- ister, 234; Materials for History of, by F. Kidder, 8, id ., 394; sketch, by J. B. Connor, Granite Monthly, vol. 5, p. 168, and vol. 6, p. 330.] [Petition for Grant , 1748.] [Masonian Papers, Vol. 8, p. 127.] Portsmouth November 2 bX) r— ct rs Joseph French ...... 57 4 7 5 7 6 10 Eleaz r Blanchard ..... 60 1 1 6 1 9 1 6 Robert Fletcher Jun r ..... 61 18 2 I 9 2 19 1 Zacheus Lovewell ..... 62 20 10 10 5 7 9 Sam 11 Farley ...... 6 3 20 9 1 1 7 1 1 9 William Cumings ..... 64 2 2 4 1 5 1 Jonathan Powers ..... 65 2 3 2 4 2 1 Samuel Cumings ..... 66 6 2 5 2 6 1 Natha 1 Putnam ...... 72 16 3 Mill lotts ....... 67 13 4 14 4 John Dale ....... 68 16 2 21 2 Jacob Puttnam ...... 69 1 5 5 18 5 Steven Herryman ..... 70 17 4 15 4 Archalaus Dale ...... 7 i 16 6 John Sheacl ...... 49 14 6 !5 6 Ephraim Putnam ..... 73 l 5 5 The aforegoing lotts were Drawn by the Grantees, those that Follows Were drawn by the Grantors the Respective lotts of each entered ag 8t y e name Township N° 2 — Draught O 2 Range O 2 Range O 2 7 JZ— JZ— J7 J7 / / /l JL H /t> jl /6 /6 jl> Ji Jt JiS js J3 J6~ /6 - 1 Jt> J6’ Ji> lo JO' /y /V J9 jy jy jv jy jy jy jy J3 J 3 JS J3 J3 J3 J3 J3 J3 J3 / 2 /Z JZ JZ JZ JZ JZ JZ JZ JZ JJ JJ JJ JJ JJ // j/ JJ jj // J 0 JO JO JO JO JO JO JO JO JO 9 q 9 ai 9 q ? __2_ J— _3—' 5T i r r T T r r r r r 7 7 7 7 7 7 JL- JL- 7 7 — L i L i ■L 6 6 L 6 6~ or 3 3 5’ s 3 3 y V y y y V y y y y 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 z 2. 2 2 ? 2 2 2 2 2 J / / J j J / J J J JZclJ five, miles This is a plan of N° 2, South of Salem Canada the Ranges are 160 rods wide And the lotts Eighty rods wide finished Laying out the lotts in may 1749 Samuel Cumings Surveyor A Copy taken From the Files of the Prop 1-8 of the Above Town- ship — IP Joseph Blanchard Jun r Prop™ Clerk N B One lott of John dale one of Anthony Emery & One of Arch- alaws dale All Which Joyned for Convenience of Accomodateing y e Old Setlements was Changed the forme, & is here entered, — in the Second Range & nombered 15, 16, 17, 21, 454 CHARTER RECORDS. [John Groffe s Report , 1764.] [Masonian Papers, Yol. 8, p. 131.] Monday April y e 2th, 1764. Went from Amherst to Wilton and took with me Cap 1 Walker and Lieu 1 Bradford: soon after our entiance into the Town met with Hamlet who utterly denied his fenceing any of the Lord Proprietors Lands Disclaimed and wholly renounced & Disowned all Pretensions to any claim whatsoever of any Land Claimed by said Proprietors — M r Livermore affirmed that he had not by himself or with others improved fenced or meddled with any of the said Gentlemens Lands nor could we Learn that anv were Trespassing in said Town upon the Strictest enquiry Excepting one Perry who it Appears has & is Trespassing on the Lot N° 4 in the ninth Range found some Clearing done on said Lot a Hut Erected m which we found fire and two or three Kittels also on said lot a long String of Possession Fence— at the northwest Corner of said Lot is a tree marked Lot n° 4 Range ninth P . S . it is commonly reported at Wilton & else where that m r •V?i 1S a ^ rea ^ P rom °ter & Encourager of the affair of settleing the said Gentlemens Lands Attests John Goffe [Plan of Wilton . ] [brom Record Book of Proprietors of Tyngstown, in Possession of City of Manchester.] WINDSOR. 455 N° 37 in the East & I N° 37 in y e West Range > Aaron Peabody of y e Mile Slip ) N° 36 in y e West R — 5i Acres of y e West End Sold to S. Will- iams N° 41 in y e eastermost Range in the mile Slip sold to David Ingals consid a <£180 Dec r 1778. Spring 1777. Sold to David Burnam 60 Acres of Land bounded Northerly by Land I sold to Nath 1 Peabody easterly by John Cum- ings & Southerly (in y e westermost Range of the Mile Slip) until that Quantity of Land is compleated Consid a 44£ WINDSOR. [This town was formerly known as Campbell's Gore. Wheeler’s Gore, situated between Campbell's Gore and Washington, was annexed June 21, 1797. Incor- porated as Windsor Dec. 27, 1798. See XIII, Hammond Town Papers, 723; Index to Laws, 78, 586; sketch, by J. G. Dodge, Hurd’s History of Hillsborough County, 1885, p. 727.] [. Petition of James Campbell , 1748.] [Masonian Papers, Yol. 8, p. 132.] Portsmouth October 20 th 1748 To the Gentlemen Proprietors of Mason's Right in Lands in y® Prov s of New Hampshire Gent 111 I the Subscriber in behalf of my selfe and others Inhabitants of Chester & Londonderry do petition your favour to grant to such a Number of us and in Such manner as shall Seem meet to you a tract of Land or Such part thereof as you shall think fit Scituated & lying Chiefly to y e North of y e road leading from New Boston So called to Hillsborough So called ; and in order thereto, do propose to preferr to the Said Proprietors a plan of y e Scituation & extent of the Said tract of Land with a List of the men's Names who will be Your Peti- tioners, by y e Second day of November next, in y e mean time pray the Said tract of land mav not be otherwise disposed of and you will greatly Oblige me & others your friends &c James Campbell 456 CHARTER RECORDS. [Plan of Windsor .] [James Campbell to Theodore Atkinson. 1770.] [Masonian Papers. Yol. 8. p. 133.] Londonderry March 20 the 1770 Hono : s r a number of poor men 6c me have Been Petitioning the Purcharssors of masons Patent this twonty year for the Grant of a Township we obtaind Number Eight after Half was Granted to Cap 7 Priscut we waited long in Hops of Some addihon 6c now would be glad of the Spot Known by the name of Campbells Gore which is all that is left of the Town furst Granted to us bv vour agint we have Employed Mathow Thornton Esq to wait on Honours in our behalf 6c he informs us that your Honour appears willing to Doe us •Justics but thare is so many of another Opinion he fears he will not suceed it has Cost us a grat sume 6c we are very unable to Loose it I am varv Old 6: the monev I hav laid out in Surveying .Journeying Petitioning would doe me a graeat Servies to Dig I am not now able o o o 6c to beeg of anv but vour Honour I am a Shamed 6c mv fellow Suf- ferers many of tham as poor as my Self we Beleeve the Doct r is faith- full but he Can doe nothing without vou Excuse thes brokin hints o % from an old man 6c mv giveing vou this truble nothing but Niecessitv Could have forced me to this freedom I laeve my Case with 6c trust intirly with you 6c give you this Oportunity to lay up treasure whaxe I hope we are both agoing 6c am your Honours Humble serv T James Campbell James Campbell Juner with Severls others is Redey to Setel down on it as Soone as granted WINDSOR. 457 [Nathan Taylor to the Governor , 1773.] [Masonian Papers, Vol. 8, p. 134.] To his Excellency Governour Wentworth and others Gentlemen, Lord Proprietors of a Tract of Land called Camel's Gore Sir Your humble Petitioner informeth you that he has purchased a Lot of land of M r Varnum Esq — Proprietor of a tract of Land called Limbrick, which lot was then supposed to come within s d Township and accordingly oblieged myself to do a Duty, which Duty I have done for Limbrick But since by running the lines, s d lot fall into s d Camels Gore, and I have lived upon the land two years, with my family; and now I humbly desire that the Lord Proprietors of s d Land would inform me whither I shall hold s d lot under them, & what Duty I shall be oblieeged to do for s d Lot; which contains 128 Acres, and I likewise inform you, that there are a Number of per- sons that pretend to hold the Land of s d Gore, under one M r Camel to whom they say, s d land was granted : who threaten to remove me from s d Lot as an intruder ; and I humbly desire that you would inform me whither you will give me any title to s d Lot, if I should come for it. — I have been Verbally informed several times, from your Honours, that I should never be hurt, by taking up s d Lot in the manner I did and therefore I have presumed to tarry upon the Lot. and I likewise desire that you would write by the bearer hereof whither your Honours proposes to settle s d Gore soon for there are several men that would take up Land here if they knew upon what terms they migh have it ; this from your humble petitioner and most obedient servant Camels Gore June v e 9 th 1773 Nathan Taylor «/ * [ Memoranda .] [Masonian Papers, Vol. 8, p. 135.] Mem° Nov r 1778 M r Costello requested to have y e Opp° of purchas- ing Campbells Gore when Sold I)ec r 9 Ja 8 Beton Esq r Signifyed to the Prop rs his desire to pur- chase Campbells Gore but could not make any offer as He was unac- quainted with the Quality of y e land Feb y 25 Ja s Addams applyed to purchase in Cambels Gore 1000 Acres to have y e persons removed y* got upon it 458 CHARTER RECORDS. Enoch Hale Esq r request's when a gore of land between Mason & Wilton when disposed of he may have y e preference in Consider* of Services Y e Gore half a mile wide 1779 March 18 th Moses Kelly of Goff's Town desires to be a pur- chaser of Cambells Gore [ John G-off e to Proprietors, 1779.] [Masonian Papers. Vol. 8. p. 136.] Gen r when I heard Last summer Campbells Gore was settling by a number of Resolute fellows that Could Give masons proprietors no better name then Tories out of Regard to vou I went to some of them 6c sent to others and perswaded them of from farther medling till thev had vour liberty which I Did not dout vou would Give them * V %>' upon Reasonable Teirms if they would apply Reaglarly for it. they Came to me and after some arguments they Said you are aquanted witli them Gen 1 will vou go Down for us to them I answared I cant go my Selfe but If one of you will Go I will Right to them which will Do as well, accordingly I wrote you 6c let you know my oppinion Concerning it. and several of mv Grandsons bv Information from those men told me if thev Could Git Each 100 acre thev would settel their and not Go to the Eastward which maid me take so much pains as I have don. 6c spent so much mony and It is all to no porpose, Except they Can have those four lots that I mentioned to you when I was Down now Gen : may I ask you a Question or two would it not be better to Grant them I dont mean my children but them four lots then to Try to oust them by Law Especily those that have maid Improvements as the times 6c curcumstances are at present for they that have begun on that tract are Encoraged and that as I am In- formed by men of C'aructer that if you have any Right to the patten that Tract is out of the bounds of the patten and they will warrant them if thev go on and settel that no Jury will Turn them off 2 ly weather the cost wont be grater then the want of them four lots among 15 of vou. as at the meeting of the whole 10 thev Resolved to a man they would have nothing to Do with it Except the 1 was granted and had Rather that the first agrement should be annihil- inated then stand at all. for they Can purch Land as Good for 4 Dol- lors an acre near 20 miles nearer market or sea port, they Say yet as thev sent me down thev will stand for the 500 DoP 5 79 100 if thev mav have the 4 lots afores' 1 but I must loose mv bond and survey if WINDSOR. 459 the above is not Complyed with by you sence what I have Don I amed at your Intrist I hope you will not take any advantage of me as for the 1000 Guinys I was surprized when I Got to my Lodgen & Calculated how much corn &c I found that all Campbills Gore would not produce in fifteen year So much Corn besids sopporting the Fame- leys that Raised it I told Esq r Penhollow next morning & Several of your proprietors I would not Give more then 500 £ to pay in Gould Selver or Corn at the Regulating price but they 10 Chose 3 of their n° to wate upon your Hon rs at your ajornment Every one of which Intended to have Comply d with the artekls of settelmen if your Reserve would have aforded Good land which I think when I Sign d the bond I had the promis off The Com u from the 10 are Cap 1 Sam 11 Moor Cap 1 Thomas McLough- lin and M r Benjamen Baker who are men of Good Estats & Good Cridid and Reputation and all 8 of them aquanted with the land and Can Inform you better then I Can and they are Determined to make a final Conclution about that Gore In Great hast I am with Great Regard Your sencear frind & Humble Servant Derryfeild July 13 th 1779 John Goffe Masons proprietors [Plan of Windsor, 1779.] Ca mmells Gore Surveyed Jun J\ J) lyjcf Tke Scale of Proportion 200 rods to an- Inch — 460 CHARTER RECORDS. X B. We were oblidged to alter that part of your orders to us respecting the numbering of the lots, by reason of our not being able to ascertain Antrim line, and other contingencies that happen'd us, and instead of numbering 1, 2, 3, &c throughout the whole, we numbered X° 1 X° 2 of y e first Range X° 1 X° 2 of y e 2 d Range & c Note also there is allowed to each hundred Acre lot 3 Acres nearly for highway land — All those lots not marked to contain a certain Quantity contains 103 acres highway land being reckon'd The Pricked or Shady places represents large tracts of Morass or Cedar Swamp land not fit to be inhabited Xote every that is nearly Square is 160 rods in length, and 103 rods in Breadth the other Lots that has Water or otherwise cut has also the number of rods marked on the plan that was required to make the needed Compliment The above a true Plan of the Said Caramels Gore as Surveyed by me the Subscriber according to the best of my Judgement — ^ me James Xesmith jun r Sworn Surveyor — Jan y 1782 a true Copy Examin'd ^ Geo : Jaffrey Prop rs Cl [ John Gaffe's Bill , 1779.] [Masonian Papers, Yol. 8, p. 137.] June Co 11 John Goffe to Samuil Moor D 1 1779 for Serveying Campbells Goar To the serveyer for 10 Days at 9£ To Sam 11 Moor 10 Days at £6 To Abraham moor 10 D° at D° To Theoploas Griffen 10 D° at D° £90—0—0 60—0—0 60—0—0 60—0—0 270—0—0 acompt ^ me Samuel Moor X° 1 & X° 2 in the 1 st Rang [ Petition of John Gordon , 1779.] [Masonian Papers, Yol. 8, p. 138.] To the Proprietors of the Lands purchased of John Tufton Mason Esq r — In Xew-Hampshire WINDSOR. 461 The Memorial & Petition of John Gorden Resident on Cambell's Gore, So called, Sheweth That on September 2 d 1TT5. I purchased of Nathan Taylor, now resident in Antrim, a certain Lot or tract of Land, in Cambell's Gore, contain 8 one hundred twenty eight Acres having thereon an house ab l 26 f lt in length, and ab l 18 f“ wide, and about 4 Acres cleared, and trees fallen on ab l 3 Acres more, the Consideration I gave, was the Sum of two hundred pounds, lawfull money, which was estimated and paid in one hundred Acres of land, in the Society (so called) in the great Lot N° 7. on which I had resided five years, and on which I had an house ab l the Dimensions of that before mentioned, and had 21 Acres of land cleared and improved — and that I have resided more than four years on the Lot in Cambells Gore, I purchased of Said Taylor, & have made Considerable Improvements on the Lot so pur- chased for which I have his deed of Warrantee — but being informed the Land I purchased of Said Taylor, is the Property of the Proprie- tors of Masons Right — and lays chiefly, except 5 Acres, in Lot N° 3, as laid out in a Plan of Campbell's Gore by James Nesmith Jun r in June 1779. Therefore I request and pray Said Proprietors that they would Sell to me Said Lot N° 3 and Lot N° 2 also in Said Gore, for Such Sum of paper money as they shall think reasonable, or for such Articles in Specie of Country Produce, as they shall think equiva- lent to the Value of Said Lot N° 3 — and also of N° 2. and favour me with advice of their Determination on the Premises, as Soon as may be when concluded — your favour in granting the above Petition will greatly oblige your most Hum : Serv 1 his John | | | Gorden Witness Enoch Eaton mark Portsm 0 August 13, 1779 [James Underwood Offers Bonds for Gordon , 1779.] [Masonian Papers, Vol. 8, p. 139.] Litchfield Sept r 21 st 1779 Sir/ M r John Gordon informs Me he is About Buying Land from the purchesers of Mason Claim and dont know but he may Stand in need of a Bondsman if that should be the Case if I am thought Suffi- ciant Shall readily be bound for his performing any payment he in- 462 CHARTER RECORDS. gages to the aMount of three Hundred pounds I am sir your most Ob 1 & very Hum 1 SeP James Underwood P S M r Gordon Wants the plan of the first Laying or Lotting out Campbells Gore [Proprietors' 31inutes.~\ [Masonian Papers, Yol. 8, p. 144.] W m Whipple, J Penhallow & J Peirce a Committee of The Proprie- tors & purchasers of Masons Pattent, are to convey to Cap 1 Sweet two hundred Acres of Land more or less being Lots N° 4 & 5 in the 2 d Range in Cammels Gore so called, s d Gore bounds on the Towns of Antrim Hilsborougli, Washington & Stoddard, Ninety pounds L m y Consideration 300 Spanish Milld Dollars Necessary highways are to be reserved — a Mortgage on the premises to secure the payment of a note of hand for 200 bush s Corn to be paid at or before 1 st day March 1781 — 200 bush Corn at or before March ‘82 & 100 bush 9 to be paid at or before March *83 — & interest on each payment of corn after the expiration of each period Whereas by a Vote of said Proprietors passed y e 3 d day of April 1780 W m Whipple John Penhallow Esq rs and M r John Peirce were impowered as a Committee to sell the tract of land called Cambells Gore to the best advantage for the Prop rs and some doubt arising whether any two of said Committee are competent for that purpose and it being also necessary to enable the same to committee for and in behalf of y e prop 1 ' 3 to take any real or personal Security for the Sale of s d land for the use of s d Prop ls therefore voted that s d Com- mittee or any two of them be and hereby are fully impowered in behalf of s d Prop rs to sell the same land as afores d and take any real or personal Security for the payment of the purchase Sum they may judge proper [ Reserved Lots.~\ [Masonian Papers, Yol. 8, p. 83, and Proprietors’ Records, Yol. 4, p. 72, and Yol. 7, p. 101.] Cammels Gore 28 Lots and 2 lots in New Bradford to make up 15 Shares of 2 Lots each — WINDSOR. 4 6 3 Richard Wibird — lots N° 5 — 1 st Range 6 — 2 d Range John Moffatt — Lots N° 1 — 5 th Range N° 3 — 1 st Range George Jaffrey — lots N° 45 New Bradford N° 5 — 4 th Range Mark H g Wentworth lots N° 1 — 2 d Range N° 4 — 3 d Range Jotham Odiorne — lots N° 3 — 4 th Range N° 1 — 6 th Range Thomas Packer — lots N° 9 — 1 st Range N° 4 — 4 th Range Thomlinson & Mason lots N° 1 — 3 d Range N° 2 — 3 d Range Solly & March — lots N° 1 — 1 st Range N° 7 — 3 d Range Joshua Peirce — lots N° 7 — 2 d Range N° 5 — 3 d Range Peirce & Moore — lots N° 8 — 3 d Range N° 44 in New Bradford John Wentworth lots N° 2 — 5 th Range N° 3 — in 5 th Range Theodore Atkinson — Lots N° 6 — 1 st Range N° 10 — 2 d Range Thomas W r allingford lots N° 6 — 3 d Range N° 2 — 4 th Range John Rindge — lots N° 3 — 3 d Range N° 1 — 4 th Range Meserve Blanchard & C° N° 4 — 1 st Range N° 2 — 2 d Range [. Mortgage Deed , Jonathan Swett to Proprietors , 1780.] [Masonian Papers, Yol. 8, p. 140.] Know all men by these presents That I Jonathan Swett of Green- land in the County of Rockingham and State of New Hampshire Gen- tleman for and in consideration of the Sum of Ninety pounds lawful money in solid coin to me in hand paid before the delivery hereof by William Whipple John Penhallow Esq rs and John Peirce Merchant all of Portsmouth in the County aforesaid as a Committee for & in behalf of the Proprietors of the lands purchased of John Tufton Mason Esq r &c the receipt whereof I do hereby acknowledge have bargained sold remised and released by these presents do bargain sell convey remise release and forever quitclaim unto the said William Whipple John Penhallow and John Peirce their Heirs and Assigns forever as a Committee afores d for the use of said Proprietors all the right title Interest property claim and demand I have of in & to two hundred acres of land more or less being Lots Numbered Four and Five in the second Range in Cambell’s Gore so called in y e County of Hillsborough and State aforesaid which Gore is bounded by the Towns of Antrim Hillsborough Washington and Stoddard being the same land the said Committee conveyed to me by deed bearing date the Seventeenth day of April A I) 1780 — To have & To hold the said bargained premises with all the appurtenances thereof to them the said William Whipple John Penhallow and John Peirce (as a Committee afores' 1 for the use of said Proprietors) their Heirs and 4 6 4 CHARTER RECORDS. Assigns forever for the use aforesaid. Provided nevertheless and this deed is upon this condition that if the said Jonathan Swett his Heirs Executors or Adm rs shall well and truly pay or cause to be paid unto the said William Whipple John Penhallow and John Peirce or either of them for the use said Proprietors three Notes of hand given by the said Jonathan to the said Committee for the use of said Proprietors, bearing date the 17th day of April AD 1780 the first of said Notes is given for two hundred Bushels of merchantable Indian Corn to be delivered to said Committee or order at or before the first day of March A D 1781 with Interest after that time The second of said Notes is for two hundred Bushels of merchant ble Indian Corn to be delivered to said Committee or order at or before the first day of March A D 1782 with Interest after that time, and the third of said Notes is for one hundred Bushels of merchantable Indian Corn to be delivered to said Committee or order at or before the first day of March A D 1783 with Interest after that time. Then this deed and every clause thereof shall be null and void or else shall be & remain in full [force] and virtue. In Witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and Seal the Eighteenth day of April Anno Domini One thousand seven hundred & Eighty Signed Sealed & De- Jona Swett (seal) livered In presence of us — Sam 1 Penhallow Geo : Atkinson State of New Hampshire ) Portsmouth April the Twenty first Rockingham ss j 1780 Then the above-named Jonathan Swet Personally appearing acknowledged the above-written I nstru- ment to be his Voluntary Act & Deed Before me Sam 1 Penhallow Justice Peace Hillsbor 0 , ss Rec d 30 th Dec r 1780 & Recorded Lib: 8, Fol: 298 & Examined ^ Moses Nichols R D R [Proprietors’ Agreement with Gordon and Swett , 1784.] [Masonian Papers, Vol. 8, p. 141.] Portsmouth Feb y 10 th 1784 — at a Convention of the Proprietors of y e Lands purchased of John Tufton Mason Esq r in New Hampshire John Gorden of Campbels Gore with whom the Said Proprietors agreed on y e 23 d day Sept r 1779 to Convey to him two Lots of land WINDSOR. 4 6 5 in said Gore computed one hundred Acres each viz 1 Lot N° 2 in first Range & Lot N° 3 in Second Range agreable to James Nesmith jun r Ids plan of said Gore — and for which the Said Gorden gave his note under his hand on the Said 23 d day of September, promising to pay unto George JafTrey Esq r for the use of Said Proprietors in one year from Said 23 d day of September two hundred bushells of good merch a Indian Corn and two hundred bushells of good MerclP Rye or as much money as will purchase Said Corn and R}^e in the Town of Ports- mouth where Said Corn & Rve was to be delivered with Interest on */ Said Corn & Rye until paid — Now the Said Gorden appears before the Proprietors and Say’s he is unable to pay the Sum now due in Consideration for the Said two lotts — upon Consideration of Sundry Circumstances represented by Said Gorden and upon his Application jointly with Josiah Swett of Wenham in the County of Essex and Common Wealth of Massachusetts yeoman — That said Proprietors should give to the Said John Gorden a grant of one the Lots in Said Gore N° 2 in 1 st Range in Said Gore and that the Said Josiah Swett have a grant of the other of Said lotts N° 3 in 2 d Range in Said Gore upon Said Swetts paying or Satisfying Said Proprietors the Sum of Ninety five pounds lawfull money in Silver — upon Consideration of the whole matter — The Proprietors determine That if the Said Josiah Swett shall pay to the Said Proprietors within Six months from this date forty Seven pounds ten shillings lawfull money in Silver, and give them Sufficient Security for forty Seven pounds ten shillings in Said money then the Said Prop rs will give a grant to the Said John Gorden of the Lot N° 2, in 1 st Range aforesaid and give a grant to the Said Josiah Swett of the above Said Lot N° 3 in 2 d Range in Campbells Gore aforesaid — the Said Gordens obligation to the Prop rs for 200 bushells of Indian 'Corn & 200 bushells of Rye be cancelled and Given up — attest Geo: Jaffrey Prop rs Cl [ Advice in Swett Case , 1788.] [Masonian Papers, Vol. 8, p. 142.] (Mortgage) David Swett of Campbells Gore — to Rogers, Penhallow, & Peirce a Mortgage of Lots N° 4 & 5. 2 d Range in said Gore Recorded book 16, page 405 — Swett sold the same Land to to Men one by the name of Swett the other unknown by deeds which are also recorded — 30 466 CHARTER RECORDS. M r Bean must now enquire whether Swetts conveyance to these two Men were recorded before or after the above Mortgage — perhaps one Wiggins of Stratham or some other person might join in the sale — M r Bean brought acc° when he returned the mortgage that David had made no conveyance he must now find when his deds above ment d were recorded for he has certainly sold the Land — a Mortgage from Josiah Swett is now sent to be recorded — Sep r 5 th 1788 the Mortgage within mentioned was recorded 1 st Nov r 1786 — Wig- gin & Swett to Richards of 250 acres Being the whole of the Lot N° 5 — & the Southerly half of N° 4 Joining N° 5 in 2 d range in Campbells gore Recorded 26, Dec r 1786 — Swett to Swett of the North Half of Lot N° 4 in 2 d range Recorded 14 mav 1788. — which is the within Request [Mortgage, Swett to Proprietors, 1788.] [Masonian Proprietors, Yol. 8, p. 143.] Know all Men by these Presents, That I Josiah Swett of a place called Campbels Gore in the County of Hilsborough and state of New Hampshire Gentleman For and in consideration of the sum of Seventy Seven pounds Lawful Money to me in hand before the delivery hereof, by George Jaffrey Esquire Clerk of the Proprietors of Masons Patent, said Jaffrey is of Portsmouth in the County of Rockingham and State aforesaid — the Receipt whereof, I do hereby acknowledge, have given, granted, bargained, sold and released; and by these Presents do give, grant bargain, sell, aliene, release, convey and con- firm to him the said George Jaffrey his Heirs and Assigns, to hold for the benefit of the said Proprietors of Masons Patent one hundred x\cres of Land more or less being Lot Number three in the second Range in Said Cambels Gore it being the Lot of Land I now live on together with all the buildings and improvements thereon — To have and to hold the said granted Premises with the Appurte- nances thereof, to him the said George Jaffrev his Heirs and Assigns to hold as aforesaid to his & their proper use. benefit and behoof for- ever: Hereby engaging to warrant and defend the said granted Prem- ises, against all claims or demands of any person or persons claiming bv, from or under any Person or Persons whomsoever — In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal, this fourth day of September Anno Domini, 1788 — Provided Nevertheless and this Deed is upon this express condition WINDSOR. 467 that if I the said Josiah S wett my heirs or Assigns do well and truly pay or cause to be paid unto the said George Jaffrey for the benefit of said Proprietors of Masons Patent one note of hand of this date for the sum of Seventy Seven pounds Lawful Money in one Year from the date with interest thereon until paid, according to the true intent and mean- ing of said Note then this deed shall be null and void or otherwise be and remain in full force strength and virtue as Witness my hand the day and Year before written Signed Sealed & Josiah Swett [seal] Delivered in Presence of — Geo Gains Edward Hart State of New I Hampshire [ Portsmouth Septem r fourth 1788 Rockingham ss ) Then Josiah Swett Personally Appearing Acknowledged the foregoing Instrument by him Signed to be his free act and Deed before Geo Gains Jus Peace Hillsboro’ ss : Receiv d 8 th SeptenT 1788, and Recorded Lib: 20, Fol: 418 & Exam' 1 — ^ Moses Nichols R D R \B and for Deed of Lot, 1802.] [Masonian Papers, Yol. 8, p. 145.] Provided M r Henry Bagley of Windsor in the County of Hillsbor- ough, will execute to each of us a Note of hand for Sixty Dollars, payable in one & two Year, with Interest from Jan y 1, 1802 — on Receipt of said Notes, properly secured to us, by Mortgage or other- wise to our Satisfaction, we promise on Rec 1 of said Notes, thus secured, or on the payment of the same, we will convey to him a Cer- tain Lot of Land in said Windsor, numbered Nine in the first Range, originally drawn to the Right of Thomas Packer — the Obligation to be binding on us for two Months from Date — Portsm 0 March 12, 1802 Nath 1 A. Haven John Peirce Deeds Executed & Mortgage taken June 26 1802 468 CHARTER RECORDS. WOLFEBOROUGH. [Granted by the Masonian Proprietors Oct. 5, 1759, t0 William Earl Treadwell and others. Wolfeborough Addition was annexed Dec. 4, 1800. A portion of Alton was annexed June 27, 1849, an d a farm from Tuftonborough, June 26, 1858. See IX, Bouton Town Papers, 456, 824; XIII, Hammond Town Papers, 730; Index to Laws, 588 ; sketch, by B. F. Parker, Fergusson's History of Carroll County, 1889, p. 279; papers under title Kingswood ; In the Heart of the White Mountains, by S. A. Drake, 1882, p. 8 ; Central New Hampshire, by C. F. Bacon, 1890, p. 103; Note, 1814, by C. Lowell, 13, Mass. Historical Society Collections, 1 17; Stewart’s History of the Free Baptists, 1862, p. 162; Lawrence’s N. H. Churches, 1856, pp. 597, 599.] [Petition for Grant.] [Masonian Papers, Yol. 8, p. 162.] To the Hon ble Theodore Atkinson Esq r and others Proprietors Pur- cliasors of John Tufton Mason Esq r We being desirous of improving & Settling some waste Land in this Province of New Hampshire Pray the Proprietors aforesaid that a Township may be Granted to us & our Associates of Six Miles Square at or near Winnepeseocket Pond ; for that Purpose A R Cutter David Sewall Will a Earl Treadwell [ Bounds of Wolfeborough.'] [Masonian Papers, Vol. 8, p. 146.] a tract of Land Bounded as follows viz to begin at the north Easterly Corner of y e new town granted to Jonathan Chesley Ebene- zer Smith & their associates it being the Bounds between Said town & that Called y e middle town ship & then Runs N 48 Degrees East on the head of Said middle town and Samon falls town ship So far (as that a Line Run N W Six miles & then S W to wenepesocke pond & then to Run Down Bounding on Said pond on Every part thereof until the Bound or Corner first mentioned shall Bear S. E. & then to Run S. E. to Said Bounds first mentioned) as Shall Contain 86 Square miles Walter Bryent WOLFEBOROUGH. 4 6 9 [ Charter of Wolfeborougli , 1759.] [Masonian Proprietors’ Records, Oct. 5, 1759.] Province of | Portsmouth October 5 th 1759. Fryday five of the New Hampshire ) Clock afternoon at the House of James Stoodly Innholder — The Proprietors meet according to Adjournment — Whereas Sundry young Gentlemen of the Town of Portsmouth in said Province have applied to said Proprietors and represented that they were disposed to make a Settlement of a new plantation and to advance all such sums of money from time to time as shoud be neces- sary to a vigorous Prosecution of that design if they cou’d obtain the title of said Proprietors to a Suitable tract of land for this purpose & thereupon have requested such a grant and said Proprietors being willing to encourge a Proposition so likely to be of publick utility — Therefore — Voted That there be and hereby is Granted unto William Earl Treadwell, Henry Apthorp, Ammi Ruhamah Cutter and David Sewall all of Portsmouth aforesaid and such others as they shall admitt as associates with them & their respective heirs and assigns forever all the right, title, estate, property and demand of said Proprietors of in and unto a certain tract of land in the province aforesaid equal in Quantity to thirty six square miles bounded as follows, viz 1 beginning at the northeasterly corner of a tract of land granted by said Proprie- tors to Jonathan Chesla & others known by the name of New Durham then runing north forty eight degrees east on the head or upper line of a tract of land called Middletown and on that called Salmon falls Town or as those head lines run joining thereon & running so far as that a line running from thence Six miles northwest & then South- west to Winnepiseoky pond and then by the side of said Pond join- ing thereon untill the aforesaid corner first mentioned bears Southeast and then runing South East to the said Corner makes up the afore- said Quantity of thirty six square miles Excepting and reserving as is herein after expressed & on the Conditions and Limitations and terms herein after declared. To have and to hold the said Granted Prem- ises with the appurtenances to them the said William Earl Treadwell, Henry Apthorp, Ammi Ruhamah Cutter & David Sewall and their associates their several & respective heirs and assigns forever on the terms reservations & Limmitations& Conditions following viz* — First — That the said tract of land be at the cost of the Grantees & their associates be laid out as soon as may be into four equal parts both for Quantity and Quality and one of the said parts to be determined bv lot be and hereby is excepted and reserved to the said Proprietors and their assigns which Quarter part shall also be laid out at the expence of 470 CHARTER RECORDS. the said Grantees and their associates when requested by said Pro- prietors into twenty shares or Lotts three of which shall be for the following publick uses viz 1 one for the use of a School, one for the use of the first minister of the Gospell who shall settle there and the other for the use of the ministry of the Gospel there forever and the other seventeen lotts to be for the use of the persons to whom they shall fall by lott hereafter to be drawn their heirs and assigns — by which method also the aforesaid Lotts for Publick uses shall be deter- mined & all necessary Publick or General highways shall be laid out in the said reserved Quarter at the Expence of the said Grantees & associates no highway to be less than two rods wide and all the Shares, lotts & divisions in the said Quarter part shall not be liable to any charge in settling & carrying this proposal into Execution untill the same shall be improved by the respective owners — Secondly the said Grantees shall have ten families settled on said three Quarters of said Tract of land within three years after a publick peace shall be concluded between the english French and Indians and within eight years after such a peace to have a forty families settled there and a convenient house built for the publick worship of God and all necessary highways shall be laid out thro" the said Land of the breadth aforesaid, all the said matters and things are to be done at the charge and Expence of the Grantees and their associates, Pro- vided that if after such a peace a war with the Indians shoud again commence before the expiration of the several periods before lim- mitted the like time shall be allowed as before specifyed after that Impediment shall be removed — Moreover all white pine trees fit for his Majesty’s use in the Ser- vice of the Royal Navy are hereby reserved to his Majesty’s use his heirs and Successors for that purpose, that Now are or hereafter shall be growing on said Land — And in case the said Grantees and their associates shall neglect and omit to perform the articles, matters or things before mention’d by them to be done or that shall be added by agreement between said Proprietors and them according to the true Intent and meaning hereof and within the time limmitted for that purpose it shall & May be lawfull to & for said Proprietors & they are hereby authorized either by themselves or any of them their Agent or Agents or attornies in their name to Re Enter and take possession of said Granted Premises & become reseized thereof and be again instated as in their former estate and as if this Grant had never been made — And further it is agreed and this Condition added that the Gran- tors lotts shall not be subjected to any town or parish charges or Taxes neither by act of Assembly or otherways untill they shall by WOLFEBOROUGH. 471 them respectively settled or Sold but the Grantees & their associ- ates shall keep and save them wholly Indemnified from the same and also that neither the Grantors nor their heirs shall be by virtue of this Grant bound or held to warrant the said Granted Premises to the Grantees nor their associates — And that there be also reserved in the most convenient place in the said three quarter parts of said tract hereby granted ten acres of land, to be laid Out by the said Grantees and their associates, in, or near as can be in a square for publick uses for the benefit of the Inhabitants of the whole Tract herein described viz 1 for a training field, burying Ground and any other publick use — [Daniel Peirce's Receipt , 1765.] [Masonian Papers, Yol. 8, p. 147.] I Daniel Pierce of Portsmouth in the Province of New Hamps r Esq r As a Legatee or Owner of the Right or Interest of Joshua Pierce Esq r As one of Masons Proprietors Do hereby Acknowledge & Receive the 300 Acres Allow’d and Granted to m r Hugh Hall Went- worth Adjoyning to wolfborough As may Appear by their vote Dated the 24 th Jan y 1765 As so much of said Joshua Pierc’s Right for which the Other Proprietors have not yet Receivd their Equal Shares And that in future Divisions the other Proprietors are to have Equivo- lent thereto In which no share is to be allowd to said Joshua Pierce Untill the other Propr rs have Equivolent According to their Respective Interests. Witness my hand Jan y 24 th 1765 D Peirce 472 CHARTER RECORDS. [Plan of JVolfeborough, 1767.] S' ^ ^ I: £ s» S S A "S *» 5- .r I s ® >. Y 1 v 5 * ?? s UtsiUr 7 • at. > V N • “ c ^ N N N. ^t- np** £ iOjf '(l ur lL v 5JOe, ,«'.4-eJ £m~Wex 5*rr±i . 2hEa 3 *j: I-ji> -5 2ii/ r i rp- - r>^o - T *= ^ s t - r ^ r *-T 3fjir CsdJtcr J ^ 7 *-* CI» ' ITf-rSn-Ji t // *-t rif? _j 7 4 rf;>c3 a^f- ^ U#»« C /^ (Sc-r^e 10m ; C - *fi> 2?AC?i* 5 ^ 5* srr rt-.** ^ ^ / 0 f^i 2W 7 V 4/ *:— -vva $ ✓? e .'.' Gx» ^ Je-' '^- i; - -? S~-*crzT *» 24 Co y 77Ze*owe. i 2 ^ Zrtz-9C V _2_ Jihri Jh'+d - TGlLjfL ‘j -J -- - W: &e - _3- : znA JL^; > [. Petition of Warner* Stoodly , and Jackson . 1768.] [Masonian Papers. Yol. 8, p. 148/ The Petition of Jonathan Warner, James Stoodv. and Hall Jackson •/ to the Proprietors of Mason's Patent ; seteth forth. That the said Proprietors at their meeting held by adjournment the 25 th day of January 1765 did generously grant unto Mess r5 John Wen worth. Clement Jackson & James Stoodly Esq r5 as a consideration for some services done the Proprietary, fifteen hundred Acres of Land said land to be laid out on the Easterly side of Wolfboroug; That upon a survey of said Land it's found that a large ridge of Rocks extends itself thro' the whole of said Grant along the head line of Wolfborough and that one the easternmost side of said ridge is a very large Ceder swamp both of these renders the greatest part of said Grant entirely unimprovable, and consequently of no Benefit to the Grantees. That WOLFEBOROUGH. 473 your patitioners have been at considerable expence in surveying and laying out said Grant, and have procured a setler for each five hun- dred Acres, with a grant to each Setler of one hundred Acres, as an encouragment for his seteling, so that there now remains to your Patitioners only four hundred Acres each, more than one half of which will be unimprovable, that your patitioners are determined to settle and improve their rights equal too any of the Wolf borough Grantees, provided their grants are mad as large & good as theirs, the least of which in the uper range of Lotts is six hundred Acres. Your Pati- tioners who are now the owners of your former grant beg that an aditional grant be made them either on the eastermost side, or notherly end of the former Grant as the Proprietors shall think most proper — Portsm 0 July 13 tb 1768 — James Stoodlv Hall Jackson [Re served Lots , 1769.] [Masonian Papers, Vol. 8, p. 149, and Proprietors’ Records, Nov. 8, 1769.] Province of ( At a Meeting of the Proprietors of the Lands New Hampshire j purchased of John Tufton Mason Esqu r in New — Hampshire, held at Portsmouth, on the 8 th day of November 1769 — Whereas the Grantees of a Tract of land granted by Said Pro- prietors, to William Earle Treadwell Henry Apthorp Ammi Ruhamah Cutter & David Sewall and their Associates and their Several and respective Heirs and Assigns, (Said tract now called Wolf borough) have returned a Plan of one fourth or Quarter part of said granted tract of Land, reserve for the Said Proprietors, the Grantors, as determined by lot, and said fourth part of said granted tract should have been divided into twenty lots or shares, but in Said plan of one fourth part of said granted tract of land, reserved for said Proprietors the Grantors, returned by Said Grantees, the Division is made into eighteen Shares or lots only, and numbered one to eighteen — notwith- standing, it is Voted that the Said Plan be and hereby is accepted, and the Said eighteen Shares or lotts be now drawn for at this meet- ing, and the lot or Share drawn to each Proprietors Right, and the lot and share drawn for the Ministry and for the first Settled minister, and for the benefit of a School — be entered, as drawn respectively, to Said Proprietors, and first minister Settled — and shall be to them their Heirs and assigns For ever, and for the benefit of the ministry and School for ever, and the Lot or Share so entered as drawn to each. 474 CHARTER RECORDS. respectively, shall be a final Severance of the Same, to whom drawn — The Draft of the above Eighteen Shares viz 1 1 st drawn N° 9 To the use of the Ministry 17 — to the Right of John Wentworth Esq r 15 to the Right of Joshua Peirce Esqu r 4 . . . 12. to 5 . . 6. to 6 . . . 14. to 7 . . 11. to 8 . 2. to 9 . 4. to 10 . 18. to 11 . 7. to 12 . 13. to 18 . 8. to 14 . 5. to 15 . 3. to 16 . 16. to 17 . 1 to 18 . 10 to Mark Hunking Wentworth "Esq r the first Settled Minister Solly & Clement March Esq 3 Blanchard & Comp a rs ,rs Theodore Atkinson Esq r A true Copy of Record attest. Geo : Jaffrey Prop rs Cl WOLFEBOROUGH. 475 [ Plan of Reserved Lots.~\ therein — The three Ranges or eighteen Lotts is that Quarter part of the aforesaid Township remaining the Property of the Proprietors, of Mason’s Patent — 476 CHARTER RECORDS. The Single range with five Lotts is one Thousand Acres of S d Town- ship divided into two hundred Acres each lott for Settlers, Said lotts are 200 rods long, and half a mile wide, number 5, has ten rods added to the wedth thereof to make it as good as the other 4 lotts, on account of part of the Lake on Smiths river falling thereinto — A true Plan ^ Walter Bryent Jun r Surv r — October 27 th 1762— This may certify that this plan of the Grantors Quarter part of the Township of Wolfborough, was returned by Walter Bryant Jun r Sur- veyor to the Grantees as a true plan of Said Quarter part — att r Jn° Parker Prop rs Cl k — This Plan and laying out into lots of the Grantors part of the Town- ship of Wolfborough, was returned by the Grantees, was accepted by the Grantors, and their particular Lots or Shares were Severed to each Proprietors right, agreable to Said plan & as it stands on the file of Records of the Proprietors of which this is a true Copy Attest Geo. Jaffrey Prop rs Cl [Petition for Addition , 1769.] [Masonian Papers, Yol. 8, p. 150.] To the Proprietors of Mason's Patent so called The Petition of the Proprietors of the Tract of Land called Wolf- borough humbly shews — That the Surveyor employed by your Petitioners to survey & lay out said Township took it for granted that a Neck of Land in Win- nipisiokee Pond adjoining to s d Township contained as many Acres of Land as were equivolent to the several ponds of Water within said Township whereas upon an actual Survey of said Neck it is found to contain no more than five hundred & forty Seven Acres and Smiths Pond is Supposed to contain at least three thousand Acres & Middle Pond near one thousand Acres more not to Mention several other smaller Ponds — Therefore your Petitioners humbly pray you would take this Matter into your Consideration & grant them as many Acres of Land adjoining to said Township of Wolfborough as in your Wis- dom you may think they are deprived of thro’ the Inadvertence not to say Chicanery of the Surveyor — and your Petitioners as in Duty bound shall ever pray &c — Portsmouth Nov r 20 th 1769 — Jn° Parker on Behalf of & Clerk to said Proprietors WOLFEBOROUGH. 477 [ Condition of Settlements, 1770.] [Masonian Papers, Vol. 8, p. 151.] Names of the People who ar Heads of Familys o h-l c £ d u tn (V Ut CJ < Acres Fell sort Houses Barns Governor Wentworth 2 & 3 6 o 5° ioo & 40 Sam 11 Wooddess .... 7 i 3 Logg George Wooddes .... 7 4 Jotham Rindge ..... 8 io 40 Frame Logg Aron ffrost ..... 9 i 12 Logg Thomas Triggs ..... 5 i 5 do James Lucass ..... i 20 IO do 30 feet Sam 1 Tibbits ..... 2 8 6 frame Joseph Lary ..... 3 6 7 Logg Tho 8 Taylor ..... 4 5 2 do Tho 8 Piper ..... 5 2 5 do M r8 Fulerton ..... 7 14 8 do Benj a Blake ..... 6 13 3 do Andrew Wiggings .... 8 5 2 do James Hersay ..... 9 4 6 do Jon a Hersay on D Peirce 8 5 do Isriel Clifford ..... 21 4 5 do David Haynes ..... 21 3 5 do William Haynes .... 20 4 4 do Sam 11 Clifford ..... *9 4 3 do Ruben Libby ..... 24 6 io do Sam 11 Tibbets Jun r .... 17 2 5 Frame John Sinclear ..... H 2° Frame Tho* Lucass ..... 14 o 20 do James Lucass Jun r .... 14 o 3° do Benj a Folsom ..... I 2 O 6 Logg Jacob Scajeal ..... I I 8 do George Meserve .... 20 4 16 John Parker ..... 24 8 5° done by sundry People 2 small Houses 16 4 21 W m T orry ..... 17 6 14 Cap 1 King ..... i3 o IO Henry Rust ..... *5 *7 4 No Meeting House for Publick Worship The above is an Acco’t of the settlements & Improvements in Wolf- borough — surv' 1 & examind ^0 Wolfborough Jan y 1770 Jotham Rindge & W m Blake 478 CHARTER RECORDS. [. Report on Highways and Bridges , 1773.] [Masonian Papers, Vol. 8, p. 152.] Ossipee Bridge July 8 th 1773 Gentlemen Agreeable to Request we have Ye wed the Road & Bridges from Wolf borough Line to Ossepee River & Find the Rode is not sufficient in Wedth in many places to pass with a Team & in Sundry places either so Steep or Sideling that it s impossable to pass with a Loaded Team & that some more Crossway to fullfill the Agreement is Neces- sary — Pine River Bridge Wharf’d at Each End a Gallus under the Middle Four String peices that wou’d Squear about Eight Inches in the Middle & Two Ditto under Six Inches a Good sort of Timber for Covering tho not Flated or Trunneld the Bridge built so high as we think not Subject to be carried off with a Freshet — Ossipee River Bridge we find Three pair of Peires good Timber well Framd & Braced Tho no Ballast Flour Two Single Peires well framed & Braced we find the Water Under the Bridge ab 1 five feet Deep & the Covering about Nine feet Clear from y e Water The Cov- ering lays on Three Good String Peices in Wedth near Twelve Inches squear of the best Timber we Coud See Round about y e Bridge a good sort of Timber for Covering & close lade tho not flated or Trun- nel’d the whole Length of y e Bridge is about Two hundred & Twenty four feet — Hand Reiles on Each side — The large Crossway over the Beaver Dam Near Ossipee Bridge built with good Timber & Close lade — We find The Stumps in y e Road close cut the Rode in General not a Rod Wide We are Your Hum 1 serv tts Henry Rust H : Y : Brown Daniel Rogers & John Penhallow Esq r WOLFEBOROUGH. 479 \fPlan of Wolfeborough .] ■ k* £ 'K* i r% to > £ r! £ £ K: S R i [ j Resolve Respecting Peirce Land.] [Masonian Papers, Vol. 8, p. 153.] Whei •eas Daniel Peirce Esq nr Suggest’s that he lias one thousand Acres of land in the tract land granted to John Tufton mason Esq ur which is called Tuftonborough and as the Claimers of Tuftonborough have mark’d out the grant to John Tufton Mason in a different place than was Voted and the thousand Acres assigned to Said Peirce lay s without y e grant made to S' 1 Mason — and as the Proprietors have 480 CHARTER RECORDS. voted that a thousand Acres of land be laid out to each Proprietor's Right except to y e Right of the late Coll 0 Nath 11 Meserve Joseph Green deceas’d & Paul March to whose Right one thousand Acres of land was granted to George Meserve Esq lir & Stephen Batson it is determined that the thousand Acres to be laid out to Daniel Peirce Esq ur in the Right of Josh a Peirce Esq ur Deceas’d be laid out adjoin- ing to his land in Wolf borough This is voted as a memorandum to be observed when the thousand Acres of y e other Proprietors is Severed Attest Geo: Jaffrey Prop rs Cl [Henry Rust's Report on Road , 1774.] [Masonian Papers, Vol. 8, p. 154.] Wolf borough Sep r 6 th 1774 Sir Saterday Night last I Return'd from Conway Road with fif- teen Men after being to Work there Twelve Days we have com- pleated the Road so far as the Six Mile Tree from Conway Line & Gess it will take another fortnight to Compleat the whole to y e Line I propose to sett out again Next Monday cum Sennit in Order to finnish — I find the Road through Lovets Town fill’d up with Wind falls for Twenty or thirty Rods which stops y e Teams from passing M r Heath wou’d have ben Down with his Team after Stores last Week had it not ben for that Obstruction Y r Most Obed 1 Hum 1 serv tfc Henry Rust To the Hono rle Dan 1 Rogers Esq r WOLFEBOROUGH 481 [Plan of a Lot , 1790.] 7 ,u 4*1 7 ,Xf 7 . C^PO.t ?/f tM-U>3J>Sfl Vl-LOll in o K £ § I* *£>« <)ff *PP”U jit r /-C o *?>»•* fp/ t?P n 'U \uM t } '^S °t t3Jni JiSIg'u-i-ny iiyg* ■ft 0 ? 'O rvj >4 l« fL "V “ tpo.l £ 0 / 3 N) 3 vr^ii pt 0 os jx t3L Y SOI/ -I 4 -tv nitty TP^IL V^ST or a: f lo s C> to /? 0 - os a Z X S3, Y tyOJ.tO/ O Na /? 0 os d X "‘Y Al/lViC 1 3t0m pjos spo^ to/ - tpoj Z/C JC?M C3*.l6?ps/, JS3M *4 S y. ™ 2 in <5 §“ 5* r\X'-6 a £ S' 1 w E 'v 4 ^ s** ^ St S: . , 5 ^ I » vK *» f^x >3 £ a a' 3 * s * 1 * v§ r^x> x > a ^-3 £ ^ 'o ^ S' 1 S X Xs [ Plan of Peirce Lot , 1803.] A Plan of a Tract of Land Situate in the Town of Wolfborough belonging to John Peirce Ksq r containing seven bundled & ninety seven Acres three Rood & thirty five Perch exclusive of the Land left for a Road where the double Line is drawn two Rods wide and laid down by a Scale of forty Rods to an Inch Wolfborough June 28 th 1803 ? Henry Rust ] r 31 yhr>7 ay £7 fry e?wu y rpb. c j.c/Jcim 482 CHARTER RECORDS. Ci ^ K) V; U •c; ^s ^ ^ Ut h* s o J c, -<; s, -. ~v 1 & Elijah Hersey shall have the refusal of my Lot — 148 Acres N° 4 until the first day of Feb y 1808 — June 26 1807 reserve a road for James Hersey out of N° 1 M r Will Hersey to have the refusal of Lot N° 1 — 92J Acres until June 20 th 1809— at 7 Doll Will 1 ullerton \ March 4 1813 apply for lot Benj a F ullerton \ under consideration WOLFEBOROUGH. 4 8 3 [Plan of Certain Lots , 1813] James t/erseys Lot 71° Z 71° 3 Jose/Ji Tinkham Lot & ■3 Lli/aA t/ersey: % Lot I r 71°'