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WASHINGTON
SAPIENTIA UNIVERSALIS EX LIBRIS UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE
ITY OF NEW
VERSITY
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01893
HAM
SCIENCE
INDUSTRY
ARTS
THE
1923
DISCOVERY INVENTION INSPIRATION
UNIVERSITY LIBRARY
CLASS
N974.2a
NUMBER
W319
ACCESSION
45633
To be returned in eight weeks, or one cent a day
paid ; and 3 days before Annual Meeting, or ten cents
No book to be delivered while dues are unpaid.
paid.
Annual Meeting, third Tuesday in March.
Presente by Edward H. Sholding
Sept. 11, 1886.
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Joseph thealy
HISTORY
OF
WASHINGTON, NEW HAMPSHIRE,
FROM
THE FIRST SETTLEMENT TO THE PRESENT TIME.
1768 -- 1886.
COMPILED BY A COMMITTEE CHOSEN BY THE TOWN.
PRINTED BY THE CLAREMONT MANUFACTURING CO., CLAREMONT, N. H. 1886.
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PREFACE.
T the annual meetings in March, 1884, the town of Washington voted to compile its history. A committee consisting of George N. Gage, Frank P. Newman, Hiram I. Hoyt, Shubael W. Hurd and Freeman B. Lincoln was chosen to perform the work. Negotiations were entered into with Rev. Justin E. Bur- bank of Concord, which resulted in the purchase of his large and valuable collection of manuscript relating to the history of the town. For more than two years, the committee have labored, as opportunity would allow, to arrange and complete the work intrusted to them. The result of their labors is given to the public with con- sciousness of many imperfections. With greater care and more experience on the part of the committee, many er- rors and imperfections would not have appeared. On the other hand, no amount of accuracy on the part of the compilers could insure accuracy of statement in cases, in regard to which, conflicting statements were made by apparently reliable parties. Statements have been com- pared, and those accepted which appeared most reliable.
It has been the aim to deal fairly with all parties, and any deviation has been unintentional. It must be re- membered that some persons and families, from necessity require more notice than others.
The committee early secured the services of Mrs. Hat- tie C. Lewis, whose labors have added greatly to the valuc and interest of the history.
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A valuable and interesting sketch of the eighth New Hampshire regiment was kindly furnished by Col. Dana WV. King, of Nashua, and much valuable material relating to the fourteenth regiment, was contributed by Freeman S. Stowell, formerly a citizen of the town.
Thanks are due many other persons, who, though re- . siding in other towns, and at a distance, have kindly aided and encouraged the compilers, and particularly to Rev. Nathan R. Wright, of Lynn, Mass .; Langdon Healy, of Brooklyn, N. Y .; Edward W. Davis, of New York City ; Hazen Ayer, of Putney, Vt .; Nathan Fisk, of St. Croix Falls, Wis .; Corodon Spaulding, of Canton, Mass .; David L. Davis, of Readville, Mass .; Luman T. Jefts, of Hud- son, Mass .; Gustine L. Hurd, of Providence, R. I .; Jef- ferson Barney, of Hancock .; Mrs. Sophronia S. Wilcox, of Northborough, Mass .; Ezra P. Howard, of Nashua; Wm. L .. Proctor, of Ogdensburg, N. Y .; DeW. C. Newman, of Hillsborough, and others. Almost without exception the people of Washington have aided and encouraged the committee in every possible way. To Luther A. Mellen, Nathaniel A. Lull, John Wood, John O. Metcalf, Geo. W. Carr, Charles H. Lowell and Jesse F. Bailey, the committee are especially indebted for aid. Finally to the members of their own households, who have contributed in many ways to lighten their labors and add interest to them, the committee acknowledge their indebtedness.
Most of the portraits and views contained in this volume are contributions, and were provided at large expense. The following is a list of contributors.
Corodon Spaulding, of Canton, Mass., portrait of Amy Spaulding ; Gilman Bailey, of Kansas City, Mo., portrait of Dea. Samuel P. Bailey ; children and grandchildren, portrait of Mary Brockway ; Mrs. Julia A. Duncan, En- glewood, N. J., portrait of Solomon E. Jones ; Willard and David G. Crane, of Burlington, Vt., portrait of Ziba Crane ; Mrs. Mary S. Wild, Brooklyn, N. Y., portrait of
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Rev. John F. Griswold ; Langdon Healy, Brooklyn, N. Y., portrait of Joseph Healy ; Mrs. Helen Healy, Clare- mont, portraits of S. W. Healy and Josiah Richards ; Mrs. John P. Healy, Boston, portrait of John P. Healy ; David L. Davis, Readville, Mass., portrait of Edmund Davis; Edward W. Davis, New York City, portrait of William Davis; children and grandchildren, portrait of Charles French ; Mrs. David Heald, Waverly, Mass., portrait of David Heald, Jr .; George J. Fisher, Boston, portrait of Jabez Fisher ; Gustine L. Hurd, Providence, R. I., and Luman T. Jefts, Hudson, Mass., a view of the Congregational Church, Old School House, and Town House ; Nathaniel A. Lull & Sons, a view of their store and residence; J. Henry Newman, a view of his resi- dence. The portrait of Sarah Shedd and the views of the villages, public library building, and soldiers' monu- ment, were provided by the town. Other portraits were contributed by the persons represented. It may be of in- terest to know that the portrait of Amy Spaulding was copied from a daguerreotype taken by Thomas N. Good- ale, of Hillsborough, the day after her centennial birth- day. The portrait of Mary Brockway was from a photo- graph by Charles F. McClary, of Hillsborough, taken at the age of more than one hundred and one years. The portrait of Samuel P. Bailey was from a photograph by George W. Lincoln of Hillsborough, taken the day before his one hundredth birth day. The view of the Congrega- tional Church, Old School House, and Town House, is from a photograph by Gustine L. Hurd, of Providence, R. I. The other views are from photographs by George W. Lincoln of Hillsborough.
WASHINGTON, N. H., 1886.
ILLUSTRATIONS.
PORTRAITS.
JOSEPH HEALY. FRONTISPIECE.
SAMUEL P. BAILEY.
CHARLES FRENCH, 16
MARY BROCKWAY, 27
AMY SPAULDING,. 56
N. R. WRIGHT, 112
J. F. GRISWOLD. 121
CARROLL D. WRIGHT, 206
SARAH SIIEDD,. 250
L. T. JEFTS, .
257
MARTIN CHASE, 336
ZIBA CRANE, 353
WILLIAM DAVIS,
369
EDMUND DAVIS, .
376
JABEZ FISHER,. 417
DAVID HEALD, 469
J. P. HEALY. 472
S. W. HEALY 475
LANGDON HEALY. 471
E. P. HOWARD, 480
GUSTINE L. HURD, 486
SOLOMON E. JONES,. 197
S. H. MATHER,. 528
JOSIAH RICHARDS .. 583
CORODON SPAULDING,. 619
BUILDINGS.
STORE AND RESIDENCE OF N. A. LULL AND SONS, 88
CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH,. 101
OLD SCHOOL HOUSE, 104
TOWN HOUSE,. 104
SOLDIERS' MONUMENT, 177
SHEDD FREE LIBRARY,. 248
RESIDENCE OF J. H. NEWMAN, 553
LANDSCAPES.
EAST WASHINGTON VILLAGE,.
2.4
WASHINGTON CENTRE, FROM FAXON HIILL,.
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PAGE.
CONTENTS.
CHAPTER I.
PAGE.
EVENTS LEADING TO THE SETTLEMENT OF WASHINGTON.
First Settlements in New Hampshire. Government of the Settlements. Union with Massachusetts. then a Royal Province. Mason's Claim. Once more united with Massa- chusetts. Indian war. AAllen's Claim. Claims to New Hampshire lands. Boundaries between Massachusetts and New Hampshire. First Grant made, in which Washington was included. Mason's title sold to twelve residents of Portsmouth. Survey of the Monadnock range of towns. 1-7
CHAPTER IF. CHARTERS AND FIRST SETTLEMENT.
Charter given to the Sixty Proprietors. Proprietor's Meet- ings. Efforts of Proprietors to settle the township. Com- mittee chosen to visit New Concord. Grantees' last meet- ing. Charter forfeited. Reuben Kidder's Grant. Arrival of First Settlers. Condition of Roads and Country. Characteristics of First Settlers. 7-18
CHAPTER HI.
PETITION FOR INCORPORATION. NAME OF WASHINGTON. Petition for Incorporation. Name of Washington. Brief sketches of some of the First Settlers and Early Residents. 1 ~- 26
CHAPTER IV.
SETTLEMENT OF EAST WASHINGTON.
Village of East Washington. First Settlers. Some Early Residents. 26-30
CHAPTER V.
FIRST MEETING HOUSE.
Building Meeting House. Committees Chosen. Timber. when cut. Price of materials for building. Workmen's Wages. Outside house finished. Expense of Meetings of the Committee. House raising. Completion and appear- ance of the house. Liquor drinking habit. 30-35
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CHAPTER VI.
TRANSCRIPT OF ROADS.
35-41
CHAPTER VII.
PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY AND BOUNDARY LINES.
Physical Geography. General Scenery. View from Love- well's Mountain. Situation of center village. Longitude and Latitude. Height of mountain and other portions of town. Prospect from these elevations. Original size and form of the town. Boundary Lines. Water shed between the Connecticut and Merrimack rivers. Ashuelot river. Other streams. Ponds in Washington. Forests, surface, soil. productions, climate. Boundary dispute between Washington and Marlow. 41-51
CHAPTER VIII. LOVEWELL'S MOUNTAIN AND THE ORIGIN OF ITS NAME.
Lovewell's Mountain. Indian Tribes in New Hampshire. Indian Relies in Washington. The Theory of Hon. John Il. Goodale in regard to the name of Lovewell's Mountain. 51-56
CHAPTER IX. FLORA AND FAUNA. 56-60
CHAPTER X.
POPULATION AND MAPS OF NEW HAMPSHIRE.
Population of Washington at the time of each census. Maps of New Hampshire. Buildings burned. Fire of 1830. Baptist church burned. 60-65
CILAPTER XI. PRIMITIVE HABITS AND MANNER OF LIVING.
65-74
CHAPTER XII.
INDUSTRIES.
Saw and gristmill. Other manufacturies from their origin to the present time. 74-86
CHAPTER XIII.
INDUSTRIES CONTINUED.
Stores, hotels, mechanics, etc. 86-99
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CHAPTER XIV.
Early ministers, how chosen, characteristics of First min- isters in Washington. Mr. Leslie. Cold winter. Dark day. Mr. Leslie's congregation prior to 1800. Mr. Les- lie's death. 99-104
CHAPTER XV.
CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH HISTORY.
104-109
CHAPTER XVI.
EAST WASHINGTON CALVINISTIC BAPTIST CHURCHI.
109-116
CHAPTER XVII.
OTHER CHURCHIES.
Universalist Society. Methodist church on Turnpike. Sev- enth Day Adventist church. Methodist church at East Washington. Free will Baptist church at East Wash- ington. 116-123
CHAPTER XVIII. PROFESSIONAL HISTORY.
Attorneys at law who have practiced in Washington. 123-127
CHAPTER XIX. PROFESSIONAL HISTORY CONTINUED.
Physicians who have resided at Washington Center. 127-135
CHAPTER XX. PROFESSIONAL HISTORY CONTINUED.
Physicians who have resided at East Washington. 135-141
CHLAPTER XXI.
POLITICAL.
141-153
CHAPTER XXH.
REVOLUTIONARY PERIOD.
153-162
CHAPTER XXIII.
WAR OF 1812 AND MEXICAN WAR. 162-170
CONTENTS.
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CHAPTER XXIV. WAR RECORDS FROM 1862 TO 1865. Records of the War of the Rebellion. 170-177
CHAPTER XXV.
WASHINGTON'S FIRST VOLUNTEER.
Second New Hampshire Volunteers. Seventh New Hamp- shire Volunteers. 177-184
CHAPTER XXVI.
EIGHTH NEW HAMPSHIRE VOLUNTEERS.
184-193
CHAPTER XXVII.
TENTH NEW HAMPSHIRE VOLUNTEERS.
193-206
CHAPTER XXVIII.
FOURTEENTII NEW HAMPSHIRE VOLUNTEERS.
CHAPTER XXIX. 206-214
Sixteenth New Hampshire Volunteers. Capt. Judson Wil- kins. 214-219
CHAPTER XXX.
Sharpshooters. Amos B. Jones. Samuel D. Monroe. List of Washington men who served in the War of the Rebel- lion. 219-234 1
CHAPTER XXXI. SCHOOLS.
Record of early votes passed relating to schools. Division into districts. Boundaries of districts. Building of school houses. 231-250
CHAPTER XXXII.
Tubbs Union Academy, reunion of. Prof. Dyer H. Sanborn. Shedd Free Library, dedication of. Miss Sarah Shedd. Mr. Luman T. Jefts. 250-264
CHAPTER XXXIII.
Secret Societies. Soldiers' Monument. Cemeteries. 264-270
CHAPTER XXXIV. GENEALOGIES.
270-691
CHAPTER XXXV.
RECORDS OF FAMILIES NOT MENTIONED IN THE PRECEDING CHAPTER. 691-696
HISTORY OF WASHINGTON.
CHAPTER I.
EVENTS LEADING TO TIIE SETTLEMENT OF WASHINGTON.
First settlements in New Hampshire. Government of the settle- ments. Union with Massachusetts then a Royal Province. Mason's claim. Once more united with Massachusetts. Indian war. Allen's claim. Claims to New Hampshire lands. Boundaries between Mas- sachusetts and New Hampshire. First grant made in which Wash- ington was included. Mason's title sold to twelve residents of Portsmouth. Survey of the Monadnock range of towns.
N the year 1623, Sir Fernando Gorges and Capt. John Mason sent out two small companies to make settlements on land of which they had re- ceived a grant from the council of Plymouth. One party settled at a place called by them Little Harbor, which is within the present limits of Portsmouth. The other sailed up the Piscataqua river, and settled at Northam, called by the Indians Cocheco, and now Dover.
In 1633 the first settlement was made at Hampton, the Indian name being Winnicumet.
In 1638 a settlement was begun on the Swamscot river by a small company of emigrants, who had been banished from Massachusetts, being accused of heresy. The leader of these exiles, John Wheelwright, purchased of the In- dians a tract of land lying between the Piscataqua and Merrimac rivers, they considering themselves well paid in "coats, shirts, and kettles."
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The Plymouth company soon after this purchase, made a grant of the same territory to Capt. Mason, who named it New Hampshire, in honor of the county of Hampshire in England, where he formerly lived.
Wheelwright considered his claim to be more just than any that could be given by a Massachusetts company, he having purchased the land of the original owners ; and he proceeded to make a settlement at a place now called Exeter.
This unexplored region had been called a "goodly realm" by some of the Massachusetts colonists, who had sailed up the coast by the Isles of Shoals and the
"Marshes of Hampton spread Level and green that summer day. The North is the land of hope they cried ; And in sixteen hundred and twenty-three, For Dover meadows and Portsmouth river, Bold and earnest they crossed the sea, And the realm was theirs and ours forever."
Until the year 1641 these four settlements had no com- bined form of government, but the hostile action of the Indians led them to wish to unite in one body, for mutual protection, and they decided at last to become a part of the Province of Massachusetts, to which proposition that state very willingly assented, and as our state historian says, "the political marriage of these republics was con- summated without opposition, for there was no one to for- bid the bans." The population of the four New Hamp- shire settlements at the time of the union with Massa- chusetts was about one thousand, that of all the New England colonies, twenty thousand.
In the year 1679 New Hampshire became a royal prov- ince after being under the jurisdiction of Massachusetts for nearly thirty-eight years. Indian hostilities had ceased and prosperity attended the settlers in this new state. The colonies were still kept in a ferment by the
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Masons, who laid claim to a large portion of the New Hampshire townships ; and they were anxious to establish their claim so as to have power to give leases of the land to the settlers. The government was administered by officials appointed by the crown until the year 1688, when a new king having ascended the throne, the people of the New England provinces, denounced the Governor, Sir Edmund Andros, and sent him to England as a prisoner. For two years New Hampshire was left without a govern- ment-waiting orders from the mother country-but none came ; and in 1690 they asked to be once more admitted under the jurisdiction of Massachusetts, which request was granted, and delegates were sent to the general court of that colony for two years. In the mean time Capt. Mason died, leaving his title to his two sons, John and Robert Mason. They sold their claim to Samuel Allen of London who was commissioned Governor. This change was contrary to the wishes of the people of New Hamp- shire, who desired to be annexed to the colony of Massa- chusetts.
In 1689 another Indian war broke out instigated in part by the French, who had settlements in Canada ; and from this time until 1697 the colonies suffered severely from at- tacks of the Indians led on by the French, who were quite as unmerciful in their mode of warfare. In 1696 peace was restored between England and France, and the hos- tilities of the Indians ceased.
During the year 1698 Allen came over and assumed the control of the colony, and he made an attempt to gain possession of the territory that he had purchased of the Masons. The courts of the colony, however, decided against him. He then appealed to the king, but the sud- den death of Allen prevented a final decision. From 1702 until 1741 New Hampshire and Massachusetts were again united under one government. In 1741 Benning Went- worth was appointed Governor of the separate Province of
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New Hampshire, and in 1767 John Wentworth his nephew succeeded him and continued to hold that position until the war of the Revolution.
Sanborn in his History of our state pertinently remarks, "if New Hampshire had been a Paradise its possession could not have been more eagerly sought by its numerous suitors. The Indians claimed it; the assigns of Mason claimed it ; Massachusetts claimed it ; and the actual set- tlers claimed it,-Massachusetts claimed the largest and best part of it. Her claim was founded on her charter given by William and Mary, which substantially covered the same territory which was granted by the first charter of James I. After the failure of a joint committee from both provinces, who met at Newbury in 1731 to settle the long and complicated dispute, New Hampshire petitioned the king to decide the controversy." George II decided in favor of New Hampshire, that state receiving more than she originally claimed as her right. For some years previous to this decision Massachusetts had granted as many townships as possible in order to gain color of title to the disputed territory. In 1735 the "line of towns" as they are designated was granted on the plea of forming a defense against the Indians. This line began at Boscawen and extended west to Charlestown. No. 1, included the territory of Warner; No. 2, that of Bradford ; No. 3, that of the north part of Washington, with a part of Lempster ; No. 4, the remaining land until Charlestown was reached, then called No. 4 of another line of towns ; No. 5, included Hopkinton ; No. 6, Henniker ; No. 7, Hillsborough ; No. 8, the southern part of Washington and a part of Stoddard. This was the first grant ever made as far as the records show of the territory now included in the town of Wash- ington. This charter was dated Jan. 15, 1736.
Although this decision of the king virtually settled the boundary question between the two states, in reality New Hampshire has never had a legal southern boundary. The
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decree of the king that the line should be run and estab- lished by the two provinces, or if one refused to act in the matter, by the other alone, was carried out by Richard Hazen, a New Hampshire surveyor, under the direction of Gov. Belcher, in the winter of 1741, Massachusetts re- fusing to take part in the proceedings. In his survey Hazen made an allowance of 10° for the westerly variation of the needle. It was afterwards ascertained that he had committed a serious blunder in making so large an allow- ance. Instead of 10° it should have been 6° 40' only, and he had therefore hit the Connecticut river by a line 3º 20' too far north, and the line should have been placed further south on that river by nine hundred and forty-two rods, nearly three miles.
This territory embraced, from the "boundary pine" in Pelham to the Connecticut river, ninety square miles, or over fifty-nine thousand acres of land. The Massachusetts towns which it is claimed lie wholly or partly in New Hamp- shire, are Tyngsboro, Dunstable, Pepperrell, Townsend, Ashby, Ashburnham, Winchendon, Royalton, Warwick and Northfield. In 1885 a joint commission to establish a boundary line to which both states might agree to as a correct one, was chosen, and it is expected that the con- troversy respecting the boundary of New Hampshire which has continued for more than one hundred and fifty years will at last be concluded.
Soon after this decision of the king respecting the bound- ary line, the Mason claim was revived. John Tufton, a native of Boston, and great-grandson of John Mason, and his heir on assuming the name of Mason, pressed his claim and succeeded in getting a decision in his favor. In 1746 John Tufton Mason sold his title to twelve men of Ports- mouth, New Hampshire, called the Masonian Proprietors, for one thousand five hundred pounds sterling, and they assumed the control of the territory.
They pursued a just and generous policy with the actual
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settlers who had received their titles from Massachusetts and proceeded to look after their unsettled possessions. The first survey was made in the year 1749, of towns bordering on Massachusetts, thence north on the western boundary of what was owned by the Masonian Proprietors. These towns were designated as South Monadnock, (now Rindge), Middle Monadnock, (Jaffrey), North Monadnock, (Dublin), Monadnock No. 4, (Fitzwilliam), Monadnock No. 5, (Marlboro), Monadnock No. 6, (Nelson), Monadnock No. 7, (Stoddard), and Monadnock No. 8, (Washington).
The new proprietors were anxious to issue patents to those who would become actual settlers, and the survey of this uninhabited region, and the laying out of the new line of towns, had called the attention of the public to this portion of the state, and in 1751 the following grant was made to individuals who intended to see that actual settle- ments were made on the premises.
The original grant of which this is a copy is still in the possession of the town.
CHAPTER II.
CHARTERS AND FIRST SETTLEMENT.
Charter given to the sixty proprietors. Proprietors' meetings. Ef- forts of proprietors to settle the township. Committee chosen to visit New Concord. Grantees' last meeting. Charter forfeited. Reuben Kidder's grant. Arrival of first settlers. Condition of roads and country. Characteristics of first settlers.
Province of New Hampshire
URSUANT to the Power and authority Granted and Vested in me the Subscriber, by the Prop'rs of Land Purchased of John Tufton Mason, Esqr., in the Province of New Hampshire, by their vote Passed at their Meeting held at Portsmouth in said Province, Sixth day of December, A. D. 1751, I do by these Pres- ents on ye Terms and Conditions, with the Reservations herein after expressed, Give and Grant all the right Prop- erty and Possessions of ye Proprietors aforesaid unto Capt. Peter Prescott, Stephen Hosmer, Jun., John Wood, John Fox, Daniel Hoar, Timothy Hoar, Jacob Fox, Joseph Lee, Zepheniah Wood, Abijah Mason, Nathan Stratton, Seth Lee, Timothy Hodgman, Stephen Hosmer Tertius, Abel Miles, Joseph Stratton, Joseph Wheeler, Joseph Wheeler Jun., Archelus Adams, Jonathan Fisk, John Miles, Consider Soaper, Charles Prescott, Abel Prescott, James Lauman, Jonas Haywood, Abel Fox, David Fletcher,
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Nath'l Piper, Nath'l Hosmer, Jun., Wm. Hosmer, Peter Prescott, Jun., James Minot, Jun., all of Concord ; John Fox, John Fox, Jun., Eleaser Lawrence, Jun., Eleaser Lawrence Tertius, all of Littleton ; Jonathan Hosmer, Nathaniel Wheeler, Jonathan Conant, William Cutting, Joseph Wheeler, all of Acton ; William Rice of Sudbury, Aaron Willard of Lancaster, John Buss of Lunenberg, William Boutwell of Leominster, Nathaniel Sawyer of Lancaster, John Bulkeley and Peter Bulkeley of Boston, Robert Fletcher, Jun., of Nottingham, all in the Province of Massachusetts Bay ; Joseph Brown, Wm. Spaulding, Peter Powers, Stephen Powers, Samuel Cumings, Zach- eriah Stearns, John Stearns, Zacheriah Stearns, Jun., Jona- than Combs, Jacob Fletcher, Jeremiah Colburn, all in the Province of New Hampshire, in equal Shares of, in' and to that Tract of Land or Township called Monadnock Num- ber Eight, (or New Concord), Lying in the Province of New Hampshire aforesaid, and within the Claim of Mason's Patent, Bounded as Followeth : Beginning at a Stake and Heap of Stones, the North Westerly Corner of Monadnock Number Seven (so called) Granted to Reuben Kidder and others, which Stake and Stones is in the Patent Line Lately Run by Joseph Blanchard, Jun., Esq .- from thence runs by Said Number Seven, South, Eighty Degrees, East Six Miles and a half to a Stake and 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 and a half to ye Patent Line aforesaid. From Thence Southerly by Said Patent Line to the first Bounds Mentioned. To Them their Heirs and assigns To Have and to Hold on ye Terms and Con- ditions with the Reservations hereinafter Expressed viz : That the Tract of Land aforesaid be Divided into one Hundred and Twenty three Equall Shares, Two Lotts to a Share, at the Least, at ye Expense of ye Grantees and Drawn for in some Open and Equitable Manner at or before
Samuel I. Bailey.
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the Last Day of January, A. D., 1754, a Plan and Record thereof to be made, and by their Proprietors, Clerk on Oath Certified with the Schedule, and Delivered into the said Grantors Clerk's Office within thirty days next after Such Draft. That three of ye aforesaid Shares be and hereby are granted one to ye first Settled Minister, one for ye ministry, and one for ye Schools, these forever free of all Charge : That Twenty more of ye Shares be reserved to and for ye Grantors Their Heirs and assigns forever, free from all Incumbrances of Settlement, Tax, Charge or Expense whatever, until Improved by ye owners or Some Holding under them Respectively.
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