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 In Senate, Dec. 9, 1828. 
 On motion of Mr. Plumer, 
 Ordered, That, the Clerk procure three hundred copies of the 
 Report of the Commissioners on the line between Maine and New- 
 Hampshire, and of the agreement between the Commissioners of said 
 States relating to the line, to be printed for the use of the Senate. 
 
 W. H. Y. HACKETT, Clerk. 
 Copy Attest— 
 
 B. B. FRENCH, Assist. Clerk. 
 
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To His Excellency the Governor of the State of New- 
 Hampshire. 
 
 The undersigned, Commissioners appointed on the 
 part of the State of New- Hampshire, pursuant to a 
 Resolve of the Legislature, passed June 30, 18-^7, '* in 
 conjunction with commissioners to be appointed on the 
 part of the State of Maine, to ascertain, survey, mark 
 and renew" the dividing line between this State and the 
 State of Maine, in its whole extent, and to erect there- 
 on suitable monuments to designate it as the boundary 
 line of said States ;" 
 
 REPORT— 
 
 That in conjunction with the Hon. William King and 
 the Hon. Rufus M'Intire, commissioners appointed 
 on the part of the State of Maine, we have ascertain- 
 ed, surveyed, marked and renewed the dividing line be- 
 tween this State and Maine, and erected monuments 
 thereon to designate it as the boundary line of said 
 States ; and have executed an agreement, signed by the 
 commissioners of both States, describing the courses, 
 distances and monuments of the same ; which agreement 
 engrossed upon parchment is herewith submitted, to- 
 gether with a plan fully delineating the same. As the 
 same agreement contains a provision, that the line there- 
 in described shall hereafter be --the boundary line be- 
 tween said States, unless the Legislature of either 
 State, shall, by Resolve, disapprove of the same, at the 
 first session after the date of its execution, we respect- 
 fully ask leave to present, as concisely as in our power, 
 a statement of the questions which were involved in our 
 inquiry, and the facts connected with them, that the 
 Legislature may be informed of the reasons which guid- 
 ed us in the result of our labors. 
 
The indefinite character of the grants to Mason and 
 to Gorges, produced, at an early period of their titles, 
 collisions in relation to their respective limits. The 
 grant to Sir Ferdhiando Gorges, of April 3d, 1639, 
 contains a description in relation to this line of " all 
 *' that parte, purpartc and portion of the main land of 
 « New-England aforesaid, beginning at the entrance of 
 " Pascataway Harbour and soe to passe up the same into 
 «' the river Newichaw^oke and through^' the same into the 
 " farthest head thereof, and from thence Northwestward 
 " till one hundred and twenty miles be finished." The 
 right of Gorges was purchased from his heirs, by Massa- 
 chusetts, in 1677, and the controversy for the settlement 
 of this line was afterwards connected with that between 
 the two Provinces on the south. A long and severely 
 contested dispute assumed the form of a legal decision 
 in the report of the Commissioners appointed by the 
 King to settle the controversy between the Provinces of 
 New-Hampshire and Massachusetts, which report, made 
 in 1737, determined respecting this line as follows — 
 
 " And as to the northern boundaries between said 
 «' Provinces, the court resolve and determine, that the 
 " dividing line shall pass up through the mouth of Pis- 
 " cataqua Harbour, and up the middle of the river into 
 ** the river Newichawannock, part of which is now 
 " called Salmonfalls, and through the middle of the 
 "same to the furthest head thereof, and from thence 
 " north two degrees westerly, until one hundred and 
 " twenty miles be finished from the mouth of Piscata- 
 " qua Harbour aforesaid, or until it meets His Majesty's 
 *' other Governments, and that the dividing line shall 
 " part the Isles of Sholes, and run through the middle 
 " of the Harbour between the islands to the sea, on the 
 " southerly side, and that the southwesterly part of the 
 " said Islands shall lye in and be accounted part of the 
 " Province of New-Hampshire, and that the northeast- 
 " erly part thereof shall lye in and be accounted part of 
 " the Province of the Massachusetts Bay, and be held 
 *' and enjoyed by the said Provinces respectively, in the 
 " same manner as they now do and have heretofore held 
 «' and enjoyed xhe same." This pan of the decree of 
 
the Commissioners, as well as the part relating to the 
 southerly line of this Province was highly dissatisfacto- 
 ry to Massachusetts, and an appeal was claimed to the 
 King in council. The decision of the commissioners, 
 after a hearing by the agents of the Provinces before a 
 committee of the council for hearing appeals from the 
 plantations, was affirmed, and their report approved by 
 his Majesty with the advice of his privy council, and an 
 Instruction issued on the fifth of August, 1740, ' to the 
 
 * Governor or commander in chief of his Majesty's said 
 
 * Provinces for the time being, as also his Majesty's re- 
 
 * spective councils and assembly s thereof — to cause the 
 same to be ' executed in the most effectual and expedi- 
 ' lious manner.' The Province of the Massachusetts 
 Bay was dissatisfied with the decision, which establish- 
 ed our southerly line ' due west' from a point marked on 
 the Commissioner's plan north of Fatucket falls, in- 
 stead of the point wher(^ ' the Femigewasset and Win- 
 
 * nepiseke meel,' as then contended for ; as well as with 
 the establishment of the line in question ' north two de- 
 ' grees westerly,' instead of due ' northwest,' as was 
 claimed by that Province. The assembly therefore neg- 
 lected to take any measures for executing the order of 
 the King in relation to the survey and establishment of 
 the lines. The Assembly of New-Hampshire made 
 provision, and Governor Belcher, who was at that time 
 Commander in Chief over both Provinces, being ' re- 
 ' quired and enjoyned under pain of His Majesty's high- 
 ' est displeasure, and of being removed from his Gov- 
 ' ernment,' to take especial care, that His Majesty's 
 commands be executed, appointed Walter Bryent to 
 survey the line in question, and gave him the follow- 
 ing order and instruction. 
 
 ' By Jonathan Belcher, Esquire, Captain General and 
 ' Governor in and over His Majestifs Province of the 
 ' Massachusetts Bay in NewmEngland. 
 
 ' Having lately rec'd His Majesty's Royal instruction 
 ' requiring me to take especial care, that His Majesty's 
 'judgment in council relating to the boundary lines be- 
 ' tween the Province of the Massachusetts Bay and 
 ' this Province be executed in the most effectual man- 
 
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 ' ner, and in order to the accomplishing the end in the 
 ' said instruction proposed, you being well knowing in 
 ' the art ot surveying, and now under oath duly and 
 ' faithfully, and according to the best of your skill and 
 'judgment, to run and mark out such part of the said lines 
 ' as shall be assigned you — I do hereby authorize and ap- 
 ' point you as a surveyor to proceed immediately and pass 
 
 * up through the mouth of the Piscataqua Harbour, and up 
 ' the middle of the river into the river of Newicliwanuch 
 ' (parte of which is now called Salmonfalls) and through 
 ' the middle of the same to the furthest head thereof, 
 ' and from thence north two degrees westerly, until 
 ' one hundred and twenty miles be finished from the 
 ' mouth of Piscataqua Harbour aforesaid, or until it 
 
 * meets with His Majesty's other Governments — and to 
 
 * take especial care in this your survey, that you well and 
 
 * fully spot the trees standing in the said line, and take par- 
 
 * ticular notice of all hills, mountains, rivers, ponds, lakes, 
 ' and what else may be remarkable, that shall lye in or 
 ' near your way, remark the same in the plan of your 
 ' survey, which you are to make return of upon oath — 
 ' all which you are to do with all possible prudent des- 
 ' patch, for which this shall be your warrant. 
 
 ' Given under my hand and seal, at arms at Ports- 
 'mouth, March 12, 1740—1. J. B. 
 
 " To Mr Walter Bryent — 
 
 " Metnorandum — The true North two degrees West 
 " is by the needle North Eight degrees East, which is 
 " your course." 
 
 By the journal of Walter Bryent it appears, that he 
 commenced his survey at the outlet of East pond on the 
 l9th of the same March, and proceeded as directed to 
 survey and mark the line to near the Saco river, a 
 distance of about twenty-seven miles, from which point, 
 owing to the badness of the travelling and other ob- 
 stacles, he returned. The line was afterwards in 1768 
 extended, as is said, to the North East corner of Shel- 
 burne under the direction of Isaac Kindge. Of this, 
 however, we do not find any return. Afterwards in 
 1789 Joseph Cram and Jeremiah Eames, under the di- 
 
rection of a committee of the Legislature, continued the 
 survey from the North East corner of Shelburne to the 
 birch tree at the northern extremity. The Assembly of 
 the Province of the Massachusetts Bay did not unite in 
 the survey first made, nor hath that, or the Legislature 
 of the State, at any time assented to the same as the true 
 boundary line. — On the contrary the same was com- 
 plained of as an ex parte survey, and that it ought not to 
 debar Massachusetts from asserting her rights. It was 
 alledged to be incorrect, both in the poi?it of departure 
 and in the course pursued. Grants were made, from 
 time to time,by that Province, of lands west of the line, 
 as run by Bryent, and long and severely litigated con- 
 troversies were the consequence of the conflicting claims. 
 It was contended that Bryent had mistaken the stream 
 which he pursued for the head waters of Salmon Falls 
 river, and that the true Salmon Falls was a stream more 
 westerly, and its head waters a pond in the present town 
 of Brookfield, near seven miles further upon New- 
 Hampshire, and that a line should thence be run with- 
 out regard to the variation of the needle, which would 
 cross the State from the pretended head waters of Sal- 
 mon Falls in the direction of Ossipee pond ; or that if 
 any variation was allowed it should be but seven and a 
 half degrees instead of ten, as directed by Gov. Belcher. 
 It was contended on the part of Massachusetts, that 
 what they term the middle or main branch should have 
 been taken by Bryent instead of the eastern branch, up- 
 on the allegation, that it was a larger stream, and the 
 testimony of Captains Gowing and Warren was taken 
 to support the allegation. They testified that such was 
 the fact, and that Bryent himself had admitted the same. 
 Against the allowance of the variation of the needle it 
 was contended, that it was no part of the judgment of 
 the King, but was an arbitrary order of Gov. Belcher. 
 The nature and extent of these claims of Massachusetts 
 are exhibited in the plan herewith submitted, marked B, 
 which was made by order of His Majesty's Superior 
 Court of Judicature for the Province of New-Hampshire 
 in September, 1768. By a report of a Committee of 
 both Houses of the Massachusetts Assembly, in Decern- 
 
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 ber, 1766, (od Belk. Hist. N. H. 390) complaints are 
 made of tlie mistakes, and it is stated that in attempts 
 to correct the same, " committees have once and again 
 
 * been appointed by this Court to join New-Hampshire 
 
 * thereto, but without success." 
 
 From the view which we take of the facts in this 
 case, we have not deemed it important to inquire wheth- 
 er Brjent's survey was, or was not ex parte. If the 
 point were material, from the fact, that Governor 
 Belcher, at that time, acted in his capacity of Governor 
 and Commander-in-chief ovpr Massachusetts as well as 
 New-Hampshire, it might, at least with plausibility, be 
 contended, that his orders and his acts in the premises 
 were binding and conclusive upon both Provinces. 
 
 The allegation that the middle is the largest branch 
 of Salmon Falls river, w^e are satisfied is not sup- 
 ported by the fact. From examination and inquiry, we 
 have no doubt that the branch from East pond is the 
 main branch. That Captains G owing and Warren must 
 have misunderstood Bryent is manifest from his answers 
 on oath of the date of June S3, 1767, (a copy of which, 
 marked C, is herewith submitted ;) as also by Bryent's 
 letter of Oct. 9, 1790, (3d Belk. Hist. N. H. 394,) in 
 which he says, that in 1766 he went with a committee 
 of the Massachusetts Legislature to make his deposition 
 upon the spot, if necessary, to the full satisfaction of the 
 committee — ' Accordingly said committee, with Col. 
 ' Wentworth, myself and about five or six assistants, 
 ' w^ent up Salmon Falls river to where the branches met 
 
 * and viewed it well, and from thence we went up the 
 'westerly branch to the head thereof, and from thence 
 ' crossed over to the head of the easternmost branch, and 
 ' found to the committee's satisfaction, that the easterly 
 ' branch was much the largest of the two ; vented much 
 
 * more water, and proceeded from a larger pond than the 
 ' westerly branch.' 
 
 Another reason urged why the line should have pro- 
 ceeded from the head waters of the middle branch, as 
 stated in the report of the Committee of Massachusetts 
 before referred to, is, that ' by the plan sent by the 
 ' Commissioners, taken by Mr Jeffrey and which ac- 
 
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 * companied their report of the settlement of the line in 
 
 * 1737, it appears, that the river there laid down runs 
 
 * north north west, which exactly agrees with the mid- 
 'dle or main branch,' &;c. By the files in the office of 
 the Secretary of State, it appears, that the commis- 
 sioners in 1737 required that a plan of Salmon Falls 
 river should be furnished to them, which should be 
 agreed to by the agents of both Provinces. Such a 
 plan was made by Mr. Cyprian Jeffrey, (no copy of 
 which can now be found here, or in Massachusetts) 
 which was agreed to by the agents of both Provinces, 
 under the direction of the Assembly of each, on the 
 subject of which Mr. Brycnt^ in his deposition taken in 
 perpetuam, August 14, 1767, (a copy of which marked 
 " D" is herewith submitted,) testifies as follows- — ' I run 
 *up Salmon Falls river, until I came to where it divides 
 ' into two branches. 1 viewed them well, and observed 
 
 * their general course where they united, and run up 
 
 * the branch that was broadest there, and nearest the 
 ' course of said dividing line, and is the same branch or 
 ' river laid down in the plan annexed to his late Majes- 
 ' ty's Instructions for running said dividing line ; and in 
 
 * running up said branch I passed up first through one 
 
 * pond, then through another pond, and about one quar- 
 
 * ter of a mile eastward there is a pond that empties it- 
 
 * self into the second pond, and they both appear plain- 
 ' ly to be the same that are laid down in the aforesaid 
 ' plan, and therein called Love well's pond, and supposed 
 
 * to be the head of said river, as it heads there in the 
 
 * plan, and no other branch is there taken notice of — so 
 
 * that had I had the plan with me, I should have run 
 
 * my straight line from the second pond on said branch 
 ' n0rth eight degrees east, according to my particular in- 
 'structions from Governor Belcher ; but being ordered 
 
 * by him to run to the furthermost head, I passed into a 
 
 * large pond, and finding the several branches that came 
 
 * from the north into said pond nearly of a bigness and 
 'small, I called the head of the river coming out of 
 
 * said large pond the head of Salmon Falls river, which 
 
 * place is about one mile and a quarter to the N. W. of 
 
 * the river, as laid down in the aforesaid plan, by which 
 
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 * means I cut off from the Province of New-Hampshire, 
 
 * and left to the old Province of Maine, a piece of land 
 
 * about one mile broad, on the whole length of the line,' 
 
 The ponds here described bj Bryent, and the suppos- 
 ed line drawn from them are laid down upon the plan 
 marked " B.," before referred to. 
 
 The objection that no variation should be allowed 
 could never have received or deserved any very serious 
 consideration. If the order was erroneous, it was, as 
 before observed, the order of one acting as Governor of 
 both Provinces. But whatever of error there might 
 have been in the amount of variation allowed at the 
 commencement of the survey, it now appears, by care- 
 ful observation, that the increase of variation, as we 
 proceed north upon that line, soon corrects and more 
 than balances the trifling difference. The agreement 
 submitted shews, that the westerly variation of the nee- 
 dle, at the time of our survey, at the head of Sahnon 
 Falls river, wa? nine degrees, and that this variation in 
 about seven miles upon the line, increased to nine de- 
 grees and fifteen minutes — in twelve miles to nine de- 
 grees thirty minutes — in eighteen miles to nine degees 
 forty-five minutes — in twenty-seven miles, to ten degrees 
 — in forty-four miles, to ten degrees and twenty-three 
 minutes — and in eighty-three miles to eleven degrees 
 forty-five minutes. The state of the weather prevent- 
 ed any observation at the northern extremity of the 
 line, but no doubt exists that the variation there is much 
 over twelve degrees. 
 
 Whatever claims in relation to this line heretofore 
 appertained to Massachusetts, the Commissioners of 
 Maine had the right to insist upon. In addition to the 
 general questions involved in the controversy, some dif- 
 ficulties of a more local character had arisen, on some 
 parts of the line, from an uncertainty as to the place 
 where it had been run and marked. In the controver- 
 sies that had arisen, different claimants had run and 
 marked different sections of the line and different paral- 
 lel lines, till the line of actual jurisdiction in many parts 
 had become unsettled. 
 
 Soon after notice of our appointment to this duty, we 
 
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 met the Commissioners on the part of Maine, but could 
 come to no agreement upon any general principle for 
 the settlement of the line. Arrangements, however, 
 were made for the appointment of surveyors and assist- 
 ants on each part, and for a survey to ascertain merely 
 the course of. the line, as then occupied io by the States. 
 We appointed Eliphalet Hunt, Esquire, surveyor on the 
 part of New-Hampshire, who has discharged his labori- 
 ous duties with that diligence, faithfulness and accuracy, 
 which were highly satisfactory. Having proceeded 
 with the survey from the outlet of East Pond to the 
 Androscoggin river, in October, 1327, the Commission- 
 ers on the part of Maine declined to proceed any fur- 
 ther, at that time, and the business was suspended until 
 a meeting was had ico^June last. The Commissioners 
 then came to an arrangement upon the principles con- 
 tained in the agreement submitted, and on the 25th of 
 September last proceeded to execute the same by com- 
 pleting the survey, and erecting and establishing monu- 
 ments as therein described, at the joint expense of the 
 two States, which labor was terminated on the 31st day 
 of October. Had the Commissioners been authorized, 
 and had it been practicable to have agreed on the es- 
 tablishment of a neiv line, it will be perceived that a frac- 
 tion would have been taken from New-Hampshire on the 
 section of the line first surveyed, while from an allow- 
 ance of a greater variation at the north, something would 
 have been gained to the State. But in neither case 
 did we believe that the consideration of gain to either 
 party was sufficient to balance the inconvenience which 
 would have resulted from a change of the line of juris- 
 diction. It will also be perceived, that the line, as now 
 established, is not a perfectly strait line. The trifling 
 variations of the course are made to conform to the 
 known and established line of occupation. In a few 
 places there were found in the line of occupation such 
 abrupt and manifest deugrtures from the true line as to 
 require correction. One of these was between the towns 
 of Newfield and Parsonsfield in Maine, and Wakefield in 
 New-Hampshire, where an offset existed at right angles 
 of eighty-nine reds, seventeen links. The line as now 
 
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 marked reinoves the north-west corner of Newfield fifty- 
 three rods, twelve links west,and the south-west corner of 
 Parsonsfield thirtj-slx rods five links east of their form- 
 er monuments. The correction of a like offset on the 
 south side of Ossipee river extends the northwesterly 
 corner of Parsonsfield fifty-two rods, twelve links west- 
 ward. Should the result of our labors prove acceptable 
 to the States concerned, it is believed, that the line, in 
 its whole extent, is so distinctly traced, marked and de- 
 scribed, and the monuments so established, that no diffi- 
 culty need hereafter exist in ascertaining it. 
 
 We have deemed it our duty thus to state as plainly 
 as in our power, the nature and character of the diffi- 
 culties which have existed in relation to this line, and 
 the manner in which we have enifeavored to adjust them, 
 that, upon a view of the whole ground, the Legislature 
 maj^ determine upon the expediency of exercising the 
 power reserved to them in the conditional agreement 
 which has been executed. 
 
 All which is respectfuHv submitted — 
 
 ICHABOD BARTLETT, 
 JOHN W. WEEKS, 
 
 November 19, 1828. 
 
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 We IcHABOD Bartlett and John W. Weeks, Commis- 
 sioners appointed on the part of New-Hampsliirc, and 
 William King and Rufus M'lNTiRE,Commissioncrs appoin- 
 ted on the part of the State of Maine, to ascertain, survey, 
 and mark the line between the States of New-Hamp- 
 shire and Maine, and to erect suitable monuments to de- 
 signate it as the true boundary line of said States, have 
 surveyed said line, marked the same, and erected monu- 
 ments to designate it as the true boundary line of said 
 States, in the manner herein set forth. 
 
 The Report of the Commissioner appointed by his 
 Majesty's Order in Council, of February twenty-second, 
 1735, and confirmed by his order of the fifth of August, 
 1740, having established " that the dividinsj line shall 
 pass up through the mouth of Piscataqua Harbor, and 
 up the middle of the river of Newichwannock, part of 
 which is now called the Salmon Falls, and through the 
 middle of the same to the 'farthest head thereof," &:c. 
 and " that the dividing line shall part the Isles of Sholes 
 and run through the middle of the Harbor between the 
 Islands, to the Sea on the southerly side," &c. We have 
 not deemed it necessary to commence our surveys until 
 we arr'ved north at the head of Salmon Falls river, 
 which was determined by Bryant, at his survey in 1740, 
 to be at the outlet of East pond, between the towns of 
 Wakefield and Shapleigh. From that point we have 
 surveyed^and marked the line as follows, viz : We com- 
 menced at the Bryant rock, known as such by tradition, 
 which is a rock in the middle of Salmon Falls river, at 
 the outlet of East pond, about six feet in length, three 
 feet in breadth, three feet in depth, and two feet under 
 the surface of the water, as the dam was at the time of 
 the survey, to wit, October first, 1827 : said stone bears 
 south, seventy-one degrees west, three rods and eight 
 links from a large rock on the eastern bank, marked 
 " 1827," and bears also from a rock near the mill dam, 
 (marked " H,") north, nineteen degrees and thirty min- 
 utes west, and distant twelve rods and twenty-one links. 
 
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 At this point the variation of the needle was ascertained 
 to be nine degrees west. From the above stone the 
 line is north, seven degrees forty one minutes, east, one 
 hundred and seventj-eight rods to East pond, and cross- 
 ing the pond, three hundred and eleven rods in width, to 
 a stone monument, which we erected upon the bank, 
 about three and a half feet high above the surface of 
 the ground, marked N on the v/est side, and M on the 
 east side, which description applies to all the stone mon- 
 uments herein after mentioned, unless they are other- 
 wise particularly described. Thence the same course, 
 two hundred and twenty-five rods to Fox Ridge, and to a 
 stone monument, which is placed upon the north side of 
 the road that leads fromWakefield to Shapleigh : Thence 
 two hundred rods to Balch's pond, across the pond one 
 hundred and three and half rods,across a peninsula thirty- 
 six rods, across a cove fifty-one rods and seventeen links, 
 across a second peninsula forty-eight rods, across a second 
 cove twenty-seven rods ten links : Thence three hun- 
 dred and seventy rods to the road leading from Newfield 
 to Wakefield and a stone monument erected on the north 
 side of the same near Campernell's house : Thence 
 north, six degrees and ten minutes east, five hundred 
 and ninety rods to the line of Parsonsfield, to a stone mon- 
 umentjwith additional mark " 1B28." At this point the va- 
 riation of the needle was found to be nine degrees fifteen 
 minutes west. Thence the same course, five hundred and 
 eleven rods, crossing the end of Province pond, to a 
 stone monument on the Parsonsfield road, near the 
 house of James Andrews, also with additional mark 
 " 1828" : Thence north eight degrees and thirty- 
 eight minutes east, two hundred and eight rods to 
 the old corner stone of Effingham, about two feet 
 above the ground, and not marked: Thence north 
 eight degrees, fifty-five minutes east, two hundred and 
 seventy-seven rods to a large round stone, about three 
 feet diameter and two feet high, marked N & M by the 
 road upon Towle's hill : Thence north, seven degrees, 
 fifty-five minutes east, six hundred and thirty-one rods 
 to a stone monument, on the road leading from Parsons- 
 field to Effingham. At this point the variation of the 
 
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 ^needle was found lo be nine degrees thirty minutes west : 
 Thence north five degrees two minute? east, seven hun- 
 dred thirty-four rods to a pine stump lipon a small island 
 in Ossipee river at the foot of the falls : Thence north 
 ten degrees east, thirty rods to a stone monument on the 
 north side of the new road from Porter to Eflingham : 
 Thence the same course, five hundred fifty-eight rods to 
 the top of Bald mountain : Thence same course three 
 hundred sixteen rods to the top of Bickford mountain. 
 Thence the same course one hundred and ninety-three 
 rods, to a stone monument on the north side of the road 
 leading from Porter to Eaton. At this point the varia- 
 tion of the needle was found to be nine degrees forty- 
 five minutes west — Thence north eight degrees five 
 minutes east seven hundred forty-four rods to Cragged 
 Mountain — Thence same course, sixty-seven rods to the 
 corner of Eaton : Thence s«me course seven-hundred 
 eighty-seven and an half rods to the corner of Conway : 
 Thence same course six hundred ten and an half rods, to 
 a stone monument on the south side of the road leading 
 from Brownfield to Conway Centre : Thence north, 
 eight degrees east, eight hundred seventy-one rods, to a 
 stone monument on the south side of the road leading 
 from Fryburg village to Conway. At this point the va- 
 riation of the needle was found to be ten degrees west : 
 Thence same course four rods to a stone monument on 
 the north side of the sa4ne road : Thence north eight 
 degrees fifteen minutes east one hundred two rods, to 
 Saco River : Thence same course eighteen rods across 
 said river : Thence same course, six hundred forty-four 
 rods, to a stone monument on the road leading to Fry- 
 burg village, on the north side of the river. This mon- 
 ument is marked as before described, and is about eight 
 feet high above the ground. Thence same course, one 
 hundred forty-two rods, to Ballard's mill-pond : Thence 
 same course, sixty-one rods six links, across said pond : 
 Thence same course, three hundred forty-four rods to a 
 stone monument on the east side of Chatham road : 
 Thence same course, six hundred ninety rods, to Kim- 
 ball's pond : Thence same course, one hundred sixty-six 
 rods, across said pond : Thence same course, sixty rods 
 
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 to a stone monument on the meadow: Thence same 
 course, nine hundred forty rods to the corner of Bradley 
 and Eastman grant : Thence same course, six hundred 
 and ninety rods, to a stone monument on the east side of 
 the Cold Kiver road. This stone is marked as before 
 described, but is not more than two feet above 
 the crround. Thence same course, one thousand five 
 hundred forty rods to the corner of Warner and Gil- 
 man's Location, a pile of stones. At this point the vari- 
 ation of the needle was found to be ten degrees twenty- 
 three minutes west. Thence same course, four hundred 
 and fifty rods, to top of Mount Royce : Thence same 
 course, eight hundred ninety rods, to Wild River : 
 Thence same course, eight rods, across said river : Thence 
 same course, seven hundred sixty-five rods, to a stone 
 monument on the north side of the road leading from 
 Lancaster to Bethel : Thence same course, one hundred 
 rods, to Androscoo:orin river : Thence same course, eip-h- 
 teen rods, across said river : Thence north eight degrees 
 ten minutes east, four thousand one hundred sixty-two 
 rods, across ten streams, to Chickwalnepg river : Thence 
 same course, two thousand five hundred rods, to a stone 
 monument on the north side of the road leading from 
 Errol to Andover. This stone is marked " IN. H." and 
 " M." Thence same course, two hundred ten rods to 
 Cambridge river : Thence same course, eight rods, 
 across said river : Thence same course, five hundred 
 sixty-seven rods to Umbagog Lake : Thence same 
 course, thirty-four rods across a cove of the same : 
 Thence same course, ten rods across a peninsula of the 
 same : Thence same course, two hundred twenty-five 
 rods across a bay of said lake : Thence same course, 
 tAVo hundred six rods across a peninsula of the same ; 
 Thence same course, one thousand one hundred sixty- 
 five rods across the north bay of said lake to a cedar post 
 marked " N M" : Thence north eight degrees east, 
 seven hundred fourteen rods to pond brook : Thence 
 same course, two hundred twenty-five rods to a stone 
 monument on the south side of the Margalloway river ; 
 Thence same course, ten rods across said river : Thence 
 same course, one hundred sixty-two rods to a spruce, 
 
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 corner of the College Grant : Thence same course, two 
 hundred sixty-four rods to Margalloway river a second 
 time. At this point the variation of the needle was 
 found to be eleven degrees forty-five minutes west. 
 Thence same course, ten rods across said river : Thence 
 same course, two hundred and ninety rods to same I'iver 
 a third time : Thence same course, across said river ten 
 rods to a monument made with three stones on the north 
 side of same river, about two feet high, and not mark- 
 ed : Thence same course, four hundred forty-four rods to 
 corner of Township No. 5, in second range in Maine : 
 Thence same course, one thousand eight hundred six 
 rods, to the north corner of the same Township : 
 Thence same course four hundred and sixty rods to 
 branch of Little Diamond river : Thence same course 
 three hundred fifty rods to another branch of the same : 
 Thence same course two tiiousand one hundred twenty 
 rods to a branch of the Margalloway river : Thence 
 same course, three hundred thirty-two rods to another 
 branch of the same : Thence same course, four hundred 
 rods to a steep mountain called Prospect Hill : Thence 
 same course, nine hundred and twenty rods to Mount 
 Carrael, sometimes called Sunday Mountain : Thence 
 same course, four hundred rods to a perpendicular preci- 
 pice : Thence same course five hundred and forty rods 
 to a branch of Margalloway river : Thence same course, 
 two hundred and sixty rods, to a branch of the same : 
 Thence same course three hundred forty-six rods to a 
 second steep precipice : Thence same course one hun- 
 dred eighty-six rods to a branch of the Margalloway 
 river ; Thence same course two-hundred and forty-two 
 rods to another branch of the same river : Thence same 
 course, seventy-eight rods to Beaver Pond : Thence 
 same course, one hundred twenty-six rods to a yellow 
 l>irch tree on the high lands which divide the waters, 
 that run south from those that run into the St, Law- 
 rence, being the northern extremity of the line, and one 
 hundred and twelve miles, two hundred and thirty-three 
 rods from the head of Salmon Fails river. Found said 
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 tree marked on the east side, *' M. E, 1789," and on 
 the west » N. H. N. E," also " M." 54." To these 
 marks we added "N.H." "N.E."andM. E." " 182^." 
 " E. H." " A. M. M," " 1828." And stones are piled 
 round the same, and marked. The whole course of the 
 line from the Androscoggin river was re- marked by spot- 
 ting the old marked trees, and crossing the spots and 
 marking others in the course : and the line as above 
 surveyed and described we agree to be the true bounda- 
 ry line of said States, and the above described marks 
 and monuments we establish to designate the same ; 
 and that the said line hereafter remain the boundary line 
 between the States, unless the Legislature ot either 
 State shall, at the first session after the execution of 
 this agreement, by --^-^W^^^^^ 
 
 JOHN W. WEEKS, 
 
 Commissioners of New- Hampshre, 
 WILLIAM KING, 
 RUFUS M'INTIRE, 
 Commissioners oj Maine. 
 
 November 13, 1828. 
 
 MTARLAND, Printer— Concord— If . H. 
 
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