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passable for carriages of all kinds, a road of eight rods wide thro' the said tract hereby granted, and this to be completed within three years from the date of this grant; on failure of which, the premises and every part thereof shall be forfeited and revert to us our heirs and successors to be by us or them re-enter'd upon and regranted to any of our loving subjects.
"(Second) That the said Grantees shall settle or cause to be settled twelve families by the first day of July, 1774, who shall be actually cultivating some part of the land, and resident thereon ; and to con- tinne making further and additional improvement, cultivation and settlement of the premises, so that there shall be actually settled and resident thereon sixty families by the first day of July, 1778, on pen- alty of the forfeiture of such delinquent's share, and of such shares reverting to us, our heirs and succes- sors, to be by us or them enter'd upon and regranted to such of our subjects as shall effectually settle and cultivate the same.
"(Third) That all white and other pine trees within the said township fit for masting our Royal Navy, be carefully preserv'd for that use; and none to be cut or felled without our special license for so doing first had and obtained upon the penalty of the forfeiture of the right of such Grantee, his heirs and assigns, to us, our heirs and successors, as well as being subject to the penalty prescribed by any present as well as future act or aets of Parliament.
" (Fourth) That before any division of the land be made to and among the Grantees, a tract of land as near the centre of the said township as the land will admit of, shall be reserved and marked out for town- lots, one of which shall be alloted to each Grantee of the contents of one acre.
"(Fifth) Yielding and paying therefor to us our heirs and successors on or before the first day of Jan- uary, 1774, the rent of one ear of Indian-corn only if lawfully demanded.
" (Sixth) That every proprietor, settler, or inhabi- tant shall yield and pay unto us, our heirs and suc- cessors yearly and every year forever, from and after the expiration of one year from the above said first day of January, namely on the first day of January which will be in the year of our Lord Christ one thousand seven hundred and seventy-five, one shilling Proclamation money for every hundred acres he so owns, settles or possesses, and so in proportion for a greater or lesser tract of the said land; which money
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shall be paid by the respective persons above said, their heirs or assigns in our Council Chamber in Portsmouth or to such Officer or Officers as shall be appointed to receive the same ; and this to be in lieu of all other reuts and services whatsoever.
"The road of eight rods wide to remain reserved, but to be cleared and bridged as above expressed, only two rods wide.
" In testimony whereof we have caused the seal of our said Province to be hereunto affixed. Witness JOHN WENTWORTH, ESQUIRE our Governor, and Comman- der-in-Chief of our said Province of New Hampshire, the third day of January, in the ninth year of our reign and in the year of our Lord Christ one thousand seven hundred and sixty-nine.
" By his Excellency's command with advice of Council.
"GEORGE KING, D: Sec'y.
"Names of the Grantees of the Township of Protectworth. ·
" John Fisher Esq" Daniel Warner Esq'
Daniel Fowle Esq™ Robert Lewis Fowle
John Dennett William Partridge Jun" George King Esq" Hall Jackson Esq" Thomas Martin Daniel Sherburne William Knight
Samuel Ham William Yeaton
George Libbey
Benjaman Yeaton
Jotham Blanchard John Beck
Peter Curtis
Giles Seaward Jun™
John White John Barter
George Marshall
Stephen Cogan
George Marshall Jun"
Samuel Grindell
Alexander Welch
Daniel Gridell
John Ayers
Samuel Tripe
Ephraim Ham
Robert Hart
Foster Trefethen
John Pierce
Roger Hayes
William King John Marsh
William Jones
George Craigie
Joseph Bass
John Jackson
Gibbins Mase
Giles Seaward
John Goatham
George Wentworth
Samuel Sherburne
"J. (L. S. WENTWORTH.
" Recorded according to original Charter under the Province Seal this Seventh Day of August, 1775.
" Attest THEODORE ATKINSON, Sec'y."
It appears from records and history that before the formation of counties, in 1771, all the courts were holden, and all public business was transacted, at Portsmouth, being then the largest town in the State ; therefore the following meetings were hold- en, and business in regard to the settlement of Springfield, then known as Protectworth, was transacted at said Portsmouth.
" Province of ) Application having been made to New Hamps. ) me, the subscriber, one of his Ma- jestys justices of the Peace for said Province, by more than one Sixteenth Part of the Proprietors of Protect- worth in said Province, to call a meeting of Said Pro- prietors to Act upon the following matters and Things, vizt .: 1st To choose a Moderator, Clerk and Treasurer ; 2dly To see what encouragement the Proprietors will give to twelve settlers who shall incline to settle in said Township; 3ªly To agree upon what roads shall be immediately laid out and clear'd to promote the settlement; 4thly To appoint some suitable person to allot out so much of said Township as the Proprietors shall think Convenient ; 5thly To Confirm any Grants that may have been made by the present Proprietors of said Township; 6thly To make any further Grants of Land as the Proprietors may find necessary ; 7thly To assess each Proprietors Right in Such a sum as may be found Sufficient to answer the Payment of any charges that have arisen, or may hereafter arise, in Consequence of any Services that may be voted ; 8thly To choose a Collector for said Tax ; 9thly To re- ceive, examine and allow of any accounts that may be laid before the Proprietors at Said meeting; 10thly To agree upon a method of calling all future meetings, and of adjourning the same. In Consequence of said Request I do hereby notify the Said Proprietors to meet at the House of Capt. Jacob Tilton, in said Portsmouth, on Friday, the 8th of June next at 6 o'clock P.M., then and there to act upon the premises. "H WENTWORTH Jus. Pac.
"Portsmouth May 23, 1770."
" Province of ) Pursuant to a notification from New Hamps. ) Henry Wentworth Esq., one of his Majestys Justice of the Peace for said Province, warning a meeting of the Proprietors of Protectworth on the eighth day of June, 1770, the Said Proprietors have met accordingly and
" Voted, That Jonathan Warner Esq. be moderator of this meeting.
M. H. Wentworth Esq" Daniel Pierce Esq' Jona Warner Esq" Leveret Hubbard Esq" James Stoodley Esq" Ebenezer Russell Esq" Isaac Rindge Esq'
John Hurd Esq"
Temple Knight
Joshua Wentworth
John Parker Esq™
Samuel Warner
Richard Woods
John Churchill
William Walker
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" Voted, That John Wendell Esq. be Clerk of this Proprietry.
" Voted, That Jonathan Warner be the Treasurer of this Proprietry.
" Voted, That John Fisher Esq. be impowered to treat with Darius Abbot, or others, to make a settle- ment in said Township with twelve Settlers.
" Voted, That whereas the present proprietors have by Deed Conveyed to John Hurd Esq., twelve Thou- sand acres of land in the Township of Protectworth as by sª Deed will appear, The same is hereby rati- fied, confirmed and declared to be the act of this Pro- prietry.
" Voted, That two Sixtieth Parts of the ungranted Land in this township be granted, and is hereby granted, to John Wendell Esq. and his assigns, He or they performing all the settling duties required by Charter.
" Voted, That the Clerk, upon application to him made by more than one Sixteenth Part of the Propri- etors, shall call any future meeting, giving fourteen days' notice of the same in the New Hampshire Ga- zette, or otherways, so that the Proprietors may hear of the same, and that in the absence of the Moderator he shall adjourn said meetings to such Convenient Time as may suit the Proprietors.
" Voted, That this meeting be adjourned to the Second Friday in July next, at this house.
" JONATHAN WARNER Mod."
"Friday, July 13, 1770 .- Met as pr adjournment, and the Moderator not being present this meeting is further adjourned to wednesday the Eighteenth instant at 3 o'clock P.M., at this house.
" Attested Pr J. WENDELL, Prop'r Clerk."
" 1770, July 18th, met as pr adjournment.
" Voted, That John Wendell Esq.'s account, amounting to One hundred and forty-three pounds, three shillings and Ten pence be allowed and paid by the Treasurer, being for sundry expenses for this Pro- prietry.
" Voted, That the first twelve settlers shall have One hundred acres each to be laid out to them from the whole of the south Line of the Town toward the Cen- tre, provided they settle thereon with their Families in two years from this Date.
" Voted, That John Wendell Esq. be empowered to procure a proper Surveyor to allot out Eighteen Lots of One hundred acres each, and to Establish and
ascertain the dividing Line between the Township of Protectworth and Saville (now Sunapee .- ED.), and to lay out all such necessary Roads as he may find wanting.
" Voted, That this meeting be dissolved, and it is hereby according dissolved.
" JONATHAN WENTWORTH, Mod."
" The Proprietors of Protectworth to John Wendell. DR. 1768
£. s. d.
Nov 8 To Cash p'd O:Corey for his Survey
Bill. 25
00
1769
Jany 10 To do pd V Royse for Plans &c .. 1 40
Decr 14 To do pd O Scott for Howard Survey 10 10 0 To my own time in Drawing Peti- tions Deed Ser's procuring the Charter. . 4 16 0
To do p'd Ferryman Drawing ye Charter. 0 12 0
1770
Mch 21 To drawing deed to Hurd 68., and Tin Case 2s. 6d. 0 86
June 8 To Cash pd Fawler advertising Meeting. 0 12 0
66 To Cash pd Tilton for Expences .... 0 14 To the Charges & Fees for ye Char- ter 100 0 0
L. My 143 3 10 " Errors Excepted
" this 8th June 1770
" MR JOHN WENDELL "
"Dec. 17, 1772 .- At a Proprietors meeting duly called at the house of Capt. Tiltons in Portsmouth.
"Voted, That Jonathan Warner, Esq., be the Mod- erator.
" Voted, That Daniel Ladds Survey of the Eighteen hundred acre lots be received, allowed and paid.
" Voted, That only Such settlers as Mr. Wendell has agreed with shall have any of the hundred acre Lots Any votes notwithstanding as the Time limited to the first Twelve is expired & does now cease.
" Voted, That a tax of fifty Shillings lawful Money be assessed, and it is hereby assessed on each Pro- prietors original share for defraying the Charges & Demands on this Proprietry.
"Voted, That John Wendell, Esq., be the Collector of Said Tax and account with the Proprietors Treas- urer for the Same when it is by him received.
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" Voted, Adjourned to Friday the 8th of January, 1773. Adjourned to June 22, 1773.
"JOHN WENDELL, Props Clerk."
" June 22, 1773 .- Met as pr Adjournment.
"Whereas it is not so agreeable to those who incline to be Settlers in the Town, to take up any of the hundred acre lots laid out by Daniel Ladd as by his Survey returned, but had rather have Seventy-five acres in lieu thereof, to be laid out on an East and West Course through the Town on a road proposed to be laid out, Therefore,
"Voted, That Mr. Wendell by Virtue of a former vote, as well as by this vote, be impowered to lay out a Road Eight rods wide through the Town on the South line of that Tract of Land which the Pro- prietors Sold to John Hurd, Esq., and which was purchased of Him by his Excellency Governor Went- worth, and as he has agreed to give away his propor- tionable Part for Settlement, Therefore,
"Voted, That Mr. Wendell be further impowered to imploy proper Persons, to allot out as many Seventy- five acre Lots on Each Side of said line and Road, as the Distance through the Town will admit of, ex- cepting that he leaves two Lots together near the Centre of the Town, to be appropriated as the Pro- prietors may hereafter think proper ; and also that he imploys the Same person to lay out the Eighteen hundred acre Lots which the Governor proposes to give to Capt. Minot for twelve Settlers and to return a Survey at our next meeting.
" Voted, That Mr. Wendell be impowered, and he is hereby impowered to give away twenty of the Said Seventy-five acre Lots to and amongst such Settlers and their Heirs as he Shall agree with, on certain conditions of Settlement to be by them performed.
"Voted, That this meeting be adjourned to Oct. 7, 1773."
" Oct. 7, 1773 .- Met as pr Adjournment.
"Voted, That the Return of Survey made by Mr. Zepheniah Clark and his associates of the marking out the great East and West road, and the allotment of the Seventy-five acre Lots, on each Side the Said Road, as also of his laying out the Governor's Eighteen hundred acre Lots, be accepted and their Bills for the Same, amounting to Eight Pounds four Shillings, be paid, and that the Same, together with Daniel Ladd's former Survey, be both recorded by the Clerk.
"Voted, That the Said Road be cut and cleared out
one Rod wide through the Town, and that Mr. Wen- dell be impowered to get the Same done as soon as may be for the accommodation of the Settlers.
" Voted, That the account of money paid by John Wendell, Esqr., for this Proprietry be allowed, amounting to Fifty-six Pounds Eight shillings L. Money, and that he be paid the Same with Interest upon this and his former account until the Treasurer shall be in Cash for the Proprietry.
"Voted, That the Clerk record Said account.
" Voted, That the Collector shall not make sale of any Delinquent Proprietors Rights till further orders. " Voted, That this meeting be adjourned to Nov. 13, 1773. Then to Feby 11, 1774. Then to Aug. 3, 1774." "August 34, 1774, Met as per Adjournment.
" Voted, That Daniel Clark and others account for cutting & clearing the East & West Road one rod wide, Six & half miles long, amounting to £15 28., be allowed and paid by Mr. Wendell.
" Voted, That as John Wendell, Esq., is largely in advance for this Proprietry, & that it does not suit him to let it remain so, he is hereby impowered to hire One hundred Pounds L. My on account of this Proprietry, who will account with him for the same. "Voted, That this meeting be adjourned to Friday the 24th day of November next.
" JONATHAN WARNER, Mod."
"Mr. Daniel Clarks acct for Protectworth Roads : "To cutting out & clearing 63 miles of
Road thro Protectworth @ 48s. per mile £15 12s."
Ladd's survey and Zepheniah Clark's survey are both on record in full in the proprietors' rec- ord-book, which is in our town clerk's office.
The following is a copy of John Wendell's second bill.
"Dr The Propr of Protectworth To John Wendell. 1772.
Sept. To Cash pd D. Lad his Bill of Survey 18-100 Lots. £6 118 3d
To my own time on said Business 3 12 0 1773.
July 3. To my Horse & expence to Kingston wth Settlers. ...
2 11 6
To Advance as a Bounty to send 7 Settlers 25 10 0
July 10. To Cash paid Clarke & Clifford for 2 Horses for Settlers. 600
July. To Cash gave for Rum 15ª 013
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To Cash paid Clark, Lang, Kenis- ton, Muchmore and Sisco for their allotting the Govenors 18-100 acre 84 0
To my own Time, Horse & ex- pence abt Said Business .. 3 12 0
To cash paid Nere Boyse for a Plan. 0 60
L. Money ... €56 88 Od
" Errors excepted.
"pr JOHN WENDELL.
" November, 24, 1774 .- Met as per adjournment.
" Whereas his Excellency Gov. Wentworth now owns that tract of Land which Messrs. Fisher, Warner & Wendell Conveyed to John Hurd, Esq., containing twelve Thousand acres, which is nearly equal to twenty-seven Shares or Rights in the Town. There- fore it is hereby voted That Twenty-seven of the Seventy-five acre lots on the north side of the great Road be drawn to twenty-seven original Pro- prietors, of whom Said Wendell, Warner & Fish- er bought the same & when so drawn, that they be entered in the Proprietors Book, and that in future those Rights shall be considered as belonging to the Governor, & subject to the Same Taxes & Terms of Settlement as the other Rights."
" April 20, 1777 .- Met as per adjournment.
" Voted, That by reason of the Troubles of the Country and Many of the intended Settlers being called away into the army, the Time for Said Settlers is further prolonged for twelve months, from this Day."
"Jan. 26, 1778 .- Whereas Governor Wentworth for the benefit of the Settlement did agree with Capt. Minot, of Concord, to give him Eighteen Hundred Acre Lots to procure Settlers ou the Same, which were accordingly laid out for him at the expense of this Proprietry as being a part of his proportion of settle- ment, and whereas the Governor also gave away a number of his Seventy-five acre lots to Settlers, but before a proper conveyance was got of him, he unex- pectedly left the Government, and as the Said Minot did not fulfill his engagement by which the settle- ment has been greatly retarded and fallen heavy upon a few. Therefore
" Voted, That a Representation be made to the General Assembly for Redress on this Matter, as well to the Settlers as those Proprietors who have done
more Duty than others, and that the Same be pre- sented by the Moderator when he thinks proper.
" Voted, that, if any person will undertake to build a Grist-Mill and Saw-Mill in twelve Months from this date, This Proprietry hereby engages to give them Thirty Pounds in Money, and the Mill Lot of Seven- ty-five Acres, provided they build the Same to the Satisfaction of Mr. Wendell, who is appointed for that purpose of Agreeing."
" Aug. 29, 1778 .- Voted, that the Collector proceed to notify the Delinquents to pay Their taxes already assessed, and in Default thereof, to make Sale of their Lands according to Law, and to pay the State Treasurer the State Tax for the last and present year."
"Portsmouth, Dec. 20, 1778 .- Voted, that the fol- lowing Petition be presented by Jonathan Warner, Esq., Moderator of this meeting, to the Hon. Gener- al Assembly, and that the same be Signed by him in Behalf of this Proprietry, and a copy Attested by the Clerk be given thereof.
" To the Honble Council and House of Representa- tives for the State of New Hampshire in General Assembly convened, at Exeter.
" The Memorial and Petition of the Proprietors of Protectworth, in the County of Grafton, in the State aforesaid, unto your Honors Humbly Shews, --
" That John Wentworth, Esq., late Governor of New Hamphire, purchased Twelve Thousand Acres of Land in said Township, equal to Twenty-seven shares which were accordingly allotted out at the ex- pense of this Proprietry, and afterwards drawn to said Shares. That for Settlement of said Land, the Gov- ernor agreed to give away Eighteen Lotts of one hundred Acres each to setlers, and imployed Capt. J. Minot, of Concord, for that Purpose, and also gave away to sundry Persons several of his Seventy-five Acre Lots to be setled, but before he had executed his Deeds for the same, he quitted the Government, and Capt. Minot also failing in his Contract, the whole Burthen of the Settlement has fallen on ye Petitioners who have given away more than Twenty setling Lots, besides paying for public Roads, & allotting the Town, and the State Taxes for the years 1777 and 1778, whilst all the Proprietry, and State Taxes on the said Governor's Rights are wholly un- paid, and altho your Petioners have directed their Collector to proceed in the Sale thereof agreeable to Law, and notifications in the public Prints for that
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purpose, yet as by the Sequestration & Confiscation Acts, the said Governor's Estate becomes forfeited, Your Petitioners out of Respect to Government, have desired said Collector to desist in the Sale of the de- linquent Rights until they have the advisment of the Honble Court, and they humbly pray your Honours to appoint a Committee to examine into the State of this Dependency., & to report thereon so as this Hon ble Court may grant such Relief thereon as may be found Reasonable. And that those Persons who have had Lots promised them by the Governor may be confirmed thereon, and that the said Eighteen Lots of one hundred Acres each designed for the set- tlement of the Town, may be disposed of by the Proprietors in the most Beneficial manner for the Settlement of the Town, and that the Seventy-five Acres ou which the Taxes have been laid, may be sold for payment thereof agreeable to Law, or other ways paid by an Order on the Treasury, and your Petitioners as in Duty bound shall ever pray.
"JONATHAN WARNER, Moderator.
" Portsmº June 17th, 1780 .- A true Coppy from the Records of the Proprietors of Protectworth.
" Attested per JOHN WENDELL, prs Clerk."
"Friday, January 1, 1779 .- Met as per adjournment.
" Whereas, John Wendell, Esq., hath agreed with Rob- ert Wadleigh Smith, David Bean, and Joseph Bean to give them that Seventy-five acre Lot of land in Protectworth, which was intended for a Mill Privilege near the Centre of the Town, and their Choice out of any of the hundred acre Lots laid out by Daniel Ladd and Eighteen Pounds Lawful Money in Cash, in Consideration whereof they are to build a Saw Mill and Complete the Same by the last day of Sept. next in a workmanlike manner, at their proper Cost and expence and for their own use. Therefore it being fully considered on-
" Voted, That the said agreement be confirmed and considered as the act of this Proprietry."
"Portsmouth, June 14th, 1782 .- Met as per Ad- journment. After considering the Subject of Taxes and the result of a conference with the Administrator or Trustee of Gov. Wentworth's Estate, and passing notes in relation thereto
"Voted, That Judith Clifford, wife of Israel Clifford, jun., Shall have fifty acres of Land out of some of the hundred acre Lots laid out, and that Prop'r to whom said hundred acres shall belong, Shall be made
good fifty acres some where else,-Said Land being voted in Consideration of her being the first female settler in the Town of Protectworth."
At a meeting of the proprietors of Protect- worth, duly warned to meet at the house of John Wendell, Esq., at Portsmouth Plains, on the 14th day of April, 1789, at three o'clock in the after- noon, the following votes were passed :
" Voted, Jona. Warner, Esq', be the Moderator.
" Whereas, the Inhabitants and settlers in said Town of Protectworth have not been provided by the Charter of said Town with a Ministerial Lot, which is a discouragement to said settlers and unprecedented in Charters, the said proprietors being willing to assist them with their Proportion towards that Pur- pose have, and do hereby consent and agree to vote and it is now
"Voted, That the said Town shall have the choice out of any of the One Hundred acre (hundred acre) Lots to take Seventy-five acres to be for and as a Ministerial Seat forever, and for that use only, provi- ded said choice shall be made as near the centre of said south side as may be found proper for a settle- ment, and reserving a Road, and any Proprietors land which may be chosen for said purpose shall be made equally good by this Proprietry in any other lands after that he shall have executed a deed to said Town for said use.
" Whereas, the inhabitants and settlers in said Town are destitute of a proper Place for a training Field, Burying ground and other Public uses and praying this Proprietry to grant them Five acres for ye said those purposes, and said Proprietors being disposed to comply with their request, Therefore
" Voted, That if the said inhabitants can find Five acres within any of the Lots belonging to the Pro- prietors of said south side which shall be by the selectmen of said Town thought suitable for said use the Town shall have said five acres for said publick uses forever. Provided the same be laid out in a square form and shall be kept enfenced by said town so as not to Injure the Proprietor of said Lot out of which the same may be taken by laying the same common, and the Proprietor or owner of said Lot shall be satisfied for the same out of the proprietor's other Lands after he shall have executed a Deed of the same to said town for said uses."
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THE TOWN RECORDS OF PROTECTWORTH. " Mar. ye 4, 1789.
" State of New Hamp- These to notify & warn Fall the legal voters of shire Cheshire, SS. j the township of Proteet- worth to meet at the house of Mr. Ebenezer Loverin in town, on the last Monday in this Instant March, at 2 o'clock P. M., there to act, as follows, viz. :
" first, to choose a moderator to govern sª meeting. "2d, to choose Town Clerk.
"3d, to choose Selectmen, Constable and all other town officers as the law Direets,
"4th, to see how much money the town will raise to Repair highways for the year Insuing.
" Given under our hands this the 15th Day of March, 1781.
" This by order of Court. "MR. GILES. "Selectmen, of Protectworth." " Mr. Giles, Moderator.
" The town of Protectworth being met together at time & place aforesaid Passed the following votes, viz. :
"1st, by vote Chose Nathaniel Clark, town Clerk.
" 2d, by vote Chose Izrael Clifford, jur, }
John Chouch, Nicholas Hardy, J
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