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GRANT OF THE TOWNSHIP.
Joseph Winn Jun' Joseph Blodgett Jun' Samuel Cumings, Mathew Thornton Willm Garish Nath' Pierce Isaac Williams David Willson, Rand' MeDaniel, Robert Fletcher Jun' Jona- than Cumings John Usher Joseph French Peleg Lawrence, Joseph Emerson-One Settlement Each Josiah Brown two Shares, Benjn Bellows two Shares, James Stewart two Shares, Jonathan Hubbard three Shares, Peter Powers two Shares, Daniel Emerson & Thomas Parker one Settlement Each- Be Enter'd upon and three Acres of Land at the Least Cleared inclosed and fited for Mowing or Tillage, and that within the term of Six Months then Next Coming there be on each of the Said forty Shares a House Built, the Room Sixteen feet Square at the least, fitted and furnished for Comfortable dwelling therein and Some Person Resident therein and Continue In- habitancy and Residence there for three Years then Next Com- ing with the Aditionall Improvement as aforesaid of two Acres Each Year for Each Setler. That Each of the Said Grantees at the Executing this Instrument pay twenty Pounds Old Ten" to defray the Necessary Charges Risen and arising in Said Township to be deposited in the hands of Such Persons as the Grantees shall Chuse being a free holder and Resident in the Province of New Hampshire aforesaid. That a good Conven- ient Meeting House be Built in said Township as near the Center of the Town as may be with Convenience-Within Six Years from this date and Ten Acres of Land Reserved for Publick Uses. That the aforesaid Grantees or their Assigns by a maj" Vote In Publick Meeting Grant and Assess Such further Sums of Money as they Shall think Necessary for Com- pleating and Carrying forward, the Settlement aforesaid. And any of the Grantees Exclusive of the three Publick Lotts, who shall neglect for the Space of three Months Next Coming 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 arising thereon-by a Committee of the Grantees appointed for that purpose. That all White Pine trees fit for Masting his Majes- tys Royall Navey Growing, on Said Tract of Land be and hereby are granted to his Majesty his Heirs and Sucessors forever. And in Case any of the Grantees Shall Neglect or Refuse to perform any of the Articles aforementioned he shall forfeit his Share and Right in Said Township and every part and Parcell thereof to those of the Said Grantees that shall have Complyed with the Conditions on their Part herein Ex- pressed, and it shall and may be lawfull for them or any Per- son by their Authority to Enter into and upon the Right of such Delinquent Owner and any and every part thereof in the name of the Whole of the Settlers that Shall fulfill as aforesaid,
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and him to amove Oust and expell for their Use 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 the Said Grantees fulfilling on their part as aforesaid, Shall Neglect fulfilling as aforesaid the duty of any Delinquent Owner, nor he himself perform the same, that then such share or shares shall be forfeited Revert and belong to the Grantors their Heirs and Assigns to be wholly at their disposal, always provided there be no Indian War-within any of the terms and limitations aforesaid, for doing the Duty Conditioned in this grant and in Case that should happen the same to be allowed for the Respective Mat- ters aforesaid, after Such Impediment should be Removed.
Lastly the said Grantors do hereby promise to the said Grantees their Heirs and Assigns to defend through the Law to King and Council if Need be, one Action, that shall or may be brought against them or any number of them, by any person or persons Whatsoever Claiming the said Lands or any part thereof by any other Title than that of the said Grantors or that by which they hold and derive their's from provided the said Grantors are avouche'd in to defend the same and in Case on Finall Tryall the same shall be Recovered against the Gran- tors for the said Lands Improvements or Expense in Bringing forward the Settlement, the said Grantees shall Recover noth- ing over against the said Grantors and further that the said Grantors will pay the Necessary Expense of time and Money, that any other person or persons shall be put to by any other suit or suits that shall or may be brought against them or any Number of them the said Grantees. For Tryall of the Title, before one suit shall be fully determined in the law, to which Premises Joseph Blanchard Agent for and in behalf of the said Grantors Have hereunto set my hand and seal this 30th day of November in the 23ª Year of his Majestys Reighn Anno Domini 1749
Joseph Blanchard (seal).
A True Copy of the Grant of the Middle
Monadnock Township or No 2
attest Joseph Blanchard Jun. Prop. Clk.
A true Copy examined
attest Geo. Jaffrey Prop Cl
I hereby certify that the above is a true copy of a Grant on the files of the Masonian Proprietors.
J. W. Peirce, Prop. Clk.
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THE RANGES NUMBERED.
THE RANGES NUMBERED. North five miles.
(10) ( 9) ( 8)(7)(6)(5)(4)(3)(2)(I)
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South five miles.
East seven miles.
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HISTORY OF JAFFREY.
This is a plan of the Middle Monadnock No. 2 Township. The Ranges are 160 Rods Wide, and the Lotts, One hundred Rods Wide and finished laying out the lotts in May 1750. Robt Fletcher Jun' Survr.
A Coppy taken from the files of the Proprietors of the above Township.
Joseph Blanchard, Propr Clk.
A true Copy Examined Attest Geo. Jaffrey Proprs Cl. A true Copy Examined Attest
J. W. Peirce, Props Clk.
LIST OF THE PROPRIETORS OF MONADNOCK.
A List of the Proprietors of the Monadnock Township.
Draught.
Range.
Range.
No.
Range.
*William Parker Esqr.
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Jonathan Hubbard Jun.
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Oliver Farwell
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Thomas March.
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James Stewart.
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Ministers Lotts.
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John Kendell .
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Joseph Blanchard Jun™
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Barnabas Davis.
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William Rindge
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Paul March
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Thomas Parker Jun ..
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*Matthew Livermoore Esq.
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Benjamin Bellows.
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* Richard Wibird Esq.
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*John T. Mason & *Jnº. Thomlinson Esq.
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Sampson Stoddard Esq
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Daniel Emerson
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Josiah Browne.
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Stephen March.
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Benjamin Winn.
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John Scott.
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*Daniel Peirce & Mrs Mary Moore.
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Peter Powers
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Eleazor Blanchard.
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Elias Eliot.
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LIST OF PROPRIETORS.
Samuel Garish.
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*Theodore Atkinson Esq ...
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John Hart. .
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John Chamberlin
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Joseph Winn Jun".
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*George Jaffrey .
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Joseph Blanchard Jun™
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Samuel Cumings
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Mathew Thornton Esq.
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William Garish.
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Nathaniel Peirce
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Peter Powers ..
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*Joshua Peirce.
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Jonathan Cumings
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John Usher.
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Peleg Lawrence
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Isaac Williams
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David Addams
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David Willson.
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Randall McDaniel.
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Jonathan Hubbard Jun™
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*Joseph Blanchard.
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Robert Fletcher Jun™
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Joseph Emerson.
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* Masonian Proprietors.
A true Coppy of the List of the Proprietors of Monadnock Township Number two with the Number of Lotts belonging to each Proprietor as drawn by them the first Tuesday of June, 1750.
Attest Joseph Blanchard Jun' Props Clk. A true Copy Examined Attest Geo. Jaffrey Props Cl A true Copy Examined Attest
J. W. Peirce, Props Clk.
In the copy of the list of the Proprietors and the lots
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*Jotham Odiorne Esq.
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drawn by them are a number of errors, notwithstanding the declaration of the Proprietors' clerk that the copy is a true one.
By that record, lot number ten, range seven, was drawn by Joseph Blanchard, Jr., and Jona. Hubbard, Jr. ; lot num- ber fifteen, range five, was drawn by John Scott and Joseph Blodgett, Jr. ; lot number seventeen, range seven, by Dan- iel Peirce, Mrs. Mary Moore, and Samuel Garrish ; lot num- ber nineteen, range ten, by Mathew Livermore and Jona. Cumings ; leaving lots number nineteen, range one, lot number seventeen, range nine, lot number fifteen, range two, and lot number twenty, range one, undrawn.
It seems quite probable that lot number nineteen, range one, was drawn by Jona. Cumings ; lot number fifteen, range two, by John Scott ; lot number seventeen, range nine, by Samuel Garrish ; and lot number twenty, by Jos. Blanchard, Jr., or Jona. Hubbard, Jr.
PROPRIETORS MEETING.
At a meeting of the Proprietors of Township situated in the Provence of Newhampshire Gowing west of Peterborough and adjoing thereto, Called middle monadnock No 2 Granted by the purchasers of John Tufton Mason Esq. of the right Granted to Capt. John Mason Late of London Deceased held at the house of Joseph French in Dunstable on Tuesday the sixteenth day of January 1749-50.
Joseph Blanchard was Moderator
Joseph Blanchard Jun", Prop' Clerk was sworn to the Faithful Discharge of that trust
Voted that each Right be Layd out into three Lotts, that the whole of the Township be Proportioned so that each Right contain three Lotts, that the Rights be equal in quantity one with another
Voted that Capt. Jona. Cummings and Capt. John Chamberlin be a Committee to lay out this town into Lotts and complete the same fit for Drawing, that they have 3os Pr Day old tenor for their service and in case of inability of either of these Confee for Wm Spaulding and Thos. Patch Do the work as aforsaid.
Voted that this Township be let out by the Grant to be Layd
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out. Capt Peter Powers undertook the same, and was Ex- cepted by the Society upon Conditions of His paying Comee Surveyor Choirman &c. and all other Necessary Charges in Laying out sª Township and Preparing the same for Draw- ing the Lotts. To be completely Done by the last Day of May next.
Voted that he have £550 old tenor for doing sd. work.
Voted that Joseph Blanchard Esq. take the security of Capt.
Peter Powers for the Performance of this work as aforesaid. Voted that £20 old tenor be raised on each Right to Defray the charges of laying out and Deviding the sd Township.
Voted that Joseph Blanchard Esq. have £6 old tenor on each settling share for procuring the Grant.
Voted that Joseph Blanchard Esq. be Treasurer for this So- ciety.
Voted that this meeting be adjourned to the first Tuesday in June next to meet again at this place at ten O clock in the forenoon.
The aforesaid Proprietors met according to the adjournment, Joseph Blanchard was moderator.
Voted, that the meeting be adjourned to the second Tuesday in June, to meet again at this place at ten O clock in the fore- noon.
The aforesaid Proprietors met according to the adjournment Joseph Blanchard Esq. was moderator the lots were drawn.
Voted, that the Rights that were drawn by Joseph Blanchard for William Rindge and Eleazer Blanchard be excused from making Settlement on the other Shares until one year after the Township is Incorporated, and then to comply with the whole Duty that is enjoined on each settling share in the Grant.
Voted, that six Rights more be freed from settlement as afore- said but all the aforesaid Shares are lyable to pay their pro- portionable Part of all necessary charges of said Township that the Privilege of the last six shares be sold to the High- est bidder and accordingly was sold in Publick at this meet- ing four of these Shares were sold to Peter Powers at £24 each=£96-0-0.
one to Josiah Brown for £24-0-0
and one for
£22=£46-0-0
Voted that the money raised on the aforsd six Rights be De- posited in the hands of the Treasurer Chooesen for this so- ciety and that he pay the same to the first five men that go on with their Family's in one year this date and continue there the Space of one year and fulfill the first article of ye
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grant and if five men goes on sd land as aforesaid, for each to have the } part of said money as aforesaid, and the rest to be disposed as the Proprietors shall see cause to order.
Voted that Jacob Lawrence and William Spaulding be a Comee to lay out a road from No 2, (Wilton) throu Peterborough Slip to this Township, then the meeting was adjourned to thursday the eighth Day of Nov. next to meet again at this Palace at twelve O clock in the forenoon.
The aford Proprietors met according to adjournment and chose Maj. Jona Hubbard moderator and then
Voted that Wm Spaulding and Jacob Lawrence Pursue their former Directions in respect of Roads.
Voted that the method for calling Props meetings for the Futer be as follows that the Requst of the owners of ten settling Shares made to the Prop's clerk he is hereby authorized and Impowered to Post said meeting Signifying the time, places on Occasion of Sd meeting and that the meeting be Posted at Dunstable, Lunenberg and Hollis and that said meeting be posted fifteen days before said meetings are to be held.
Voted that the meeting be held at Dunstable till ordered other- wise.
Voted that Joseph Blanchard Esq. Benj Bellows and Capt Pe- ter Powers be a comee to manage the Prudentials of this society any two of them agreeing.
Voted that the Comee give orders on the Treasury to the Peo- ple who have been Imployed in surveying this township.
Voted that Capt. Jona Cummings Capt. Joseph French and Mr. Thomas Parker be a committee to examine the Treasury accounts then the meeting was Dismist.
a true Enty &c.
J. Blanchard Junr. Prop. Clerk.
CHAPTER III.
FISRT SETTLERS-REPORT OF GILMORE AND GROUT.
S ETTLERS on free Lotts in Monadnock No. 2.
Ist on the first draught family MeNeal I
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Sth on the Eighth draught family Grout
20th on the twentieth two families Smiley & Hopn 2
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22 on the twenty second family Wright 29th on the 29th three settlers two families above measure 71 on 71 draught a family Nichols
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Settlers that abide constantly &c. on Settling Rights.
6th on 6th draught a family Gilmore
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7th on 7th two families Organ & Wallas
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13th draught family Davis
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15th draught family Hunt
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18th Settler constantly no house much work done Gilmore
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26th draught family Mcalister
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28th a family Turner Wm
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29th a family Turner Sol
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42 draught family Little
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44th a family Walker
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47th a Constant Settler no house Grout
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48th a family Borland
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5Ist a family Swan
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59th a settler Hogg
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60th a settler Wid. Henderson
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66th a settler Jo® Turner
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69th a settler Davidson
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56th a settler Harper
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23ª draught a settler improvements &c F. Wright
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31 draught family &c Caldwell
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The above sd settlers 22 Rights from 40
Remains IS ten more are priviledged 10 -
Some beginings on settling rights &c.
on second Draught some work Rie sowd Mitchell I
3ª Draught some work Rie Raised house frame &c Homes I
Igth some work done, about ten Loads of Hay cut yearly Gilmore I
21 draught improvements sufficient Wright & Gilmore 30th Improvements Little
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41 draught meadow fenced on 17-5 saw mill built on 22 int by Davidson meadow fenced by Turner Jos I
49 a few days cutting trees Glover I
62 some cutting down on Lot no 5 in 6 Range Hunter I
67th some work on all the Lotts Turner & Homes 1 I
4 draught some cutting down Mitchel I
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No meeting House built IO
The above is a true account of the Settling Rights in Middle Monadnock No two carefully examined &c & Humbly sub- mitted by us Subscribors & Inhabitance
John Grout Roger Gilmore
Middel Monadnick No 2. March ye 10. 1769
Gentlman Grant Tors Brother and I Bought ye Right that was Paul March January Sixtey Eaight and upon seaid Right Wee have goot Twenty Ackers of Land Clearied on seaid Right and his goot ye Timber for Hoss and wee Entend to Rais it this Mounth and Gentlmen wee Beg ye faver of you as you are Men of Honnor that you would not Hurt us in Over
7oth draught purchased by myself & expected to ex- change one Lot for the Minister Lot upon which I now Dwell & have done thereon more than severall Duties 7
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REPORT OF ENOCH HALE.
Entrest for we have don Ever Thing in our power to Bring forward ye setlement of This Place
John Gilmore Roger Gilmore
(The Letter immediately above was pinned onto the paper from which the rest of this paper was copied-R. C. P.)
A. true Copy
J. W. Peirce, Props Clk
REPORT OF ENOCH HALE.
An accompt of the Settlements in Monadnock No 2 in ye Prov- ince of New Hampshire
I Drat William Parker Esq-settled by Alexander McNeil
2 Drat Jonathan Hubbard Jun"-settled by William Mitchel
3 Drat Olliver Farewell-settled by Robert Holmes
4 Drat Thomas March
5 Drat Ministry Right
6 Drat Elias Eliot-settled by John Gilmore
7 Drat James Stuart-Two Lotts-settled by Organ & Wal- lace
8 Drat Ministry Right
9 Drat John Kendle
IO Drat Joseph Blanchard Jun'-priviledge Right-one Lott Improved by Robert Holmes
II Drat Barnabas Davis-settled by Munroe & Fitch
12 Drat William Rindge
13 Drat Peter Powers-settled by Daniel Davis
14 Drat Eliezor Blanchard-priviledge Right-one Lott-Im- proved by James Nickels
15 Drat Joseph Blanchard Jun"-settled by Ephraim Hunt and mills on ye same
16 Drat Thomas Packer Esq
17 Drat John Moffatt Esq-one Lott Improved by Robert Wier
18 Drat Paul March-settled by Roger Gilmore
19 Drat Peter Powers-Priviledge Right-one Lott Improved by Roger Gilmore
20 Drat John Wentworth Esq-settled by William Smiley
21 Drat Thomas Parker Jun"-Largely Improved by Wright & Gilmore
22 Drat Mathew Livermore Esq-settled by Mathew Wright
23 Drat Benjamin Bellows Esq-settled by Leranus Wright
24 Drat Richard Wibard Esq-one Lott Improved by Joseph Caldwell
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25 Drat John Tufton Mason Esq-settled by William Hodge 26 Drat Sampson Stodard Esq-settled by Andw McAllester
27 Drat Daniel Emerson-settled by James Nickels
28 Drat Josiah Brown-settled by William Turner
29 Drat Stephen March-Three Lotts-settled by Cristy, Rus- sel & Turner one being ment for Cummings Right 54 Drat
30 Drat Benjamin Winn-Priviledge Right-a barn and Im- proved
31 Drat John Scott-settled by James Caldwell Jun"
32 Drat Peirce & Moore
33 Drat Samuel Garrish-settled by Jonathan Hopkinson
34 Drat Theodore Atkinson Esq
35 Drat John Hart Esq
36 Drat John Chamberlin
37 Drat Joseph Winn Jun
38 Drat Solly & March Esq-one Lott Improved by George Warllace
39 Drat George Jaffrey Esq
40 Drat Joseph Blanchard Jun"-Priviledge Right
41 Drat Joseph Blodget Jun'-settled by Thomas Caldwell-a saw mill
42 Drat Samuel Cummins-settled by John Little
43 Drat School Right
44 Drat Mathew Thornton Esq-settled by Thomas Walker
45 Drat M. Hunkin Wentworth Esq
46 Drat John Butterfield-Priviledge Right
47 Drat Josiah Brown
48 Drat William Garrish-settled by John Borland
49 Drat Nathaniel Peirce Esq-settled by Thomas Emery
50 Drat Jonathan Odiorne Esq
5I Drat Peter Powers-settled by John Swan
52 Drat Benjamin Bellows Esq
53 Drat Joshua Peirce Esq
54 Drat Jonathan Cummins-settled as above mentioned by Soloman Turner
55 Drat John Usher-settling Duty Don by Enoch Hale but no house
56 Drat Jonathan Hubbard Jun"-settled by John Harper
57 Drat Joseph French Esq
58 Drat Peter Powers-settled by Jonathan Parker Privi1 Right
59 Drat Peleg Lawrence-settled by Joseph Hodge
60 Drat Isaac Williams-settled by James Caldwell
61 Drat David Adams-settled by Hugh Dunlap
62 Drat James Stuart-settling Duty Doing by David Hunter
63 Drat Nathaniel Meserve Esq
64 Drat David Wilson
65 Drat John Rindge Esq
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66 Drat Randel MeDaniel-settled by Joseph Turner
67 Drat Jonathan Hubbard Jun"-settling Duty Don by Thom- as Turner
6S Drat Joseph Blanchard Esq-Well Improved by Thomas Davidson
69 Drat Robert Fletcher Jun'-Settled by John Davidson
70 Drat Joseph Emerson-settled by John Groat
71 Dra Thomas Wallensford Esq
The Rights that appeareth to be Delinquent are as followeth viz
The 4 Drat-Thomas March
The 9 Drat-John Kendle
The 12 Drat-William Rindge
The 35 Drat-John Hart Esq 36 Drat-John Chamberlin
and 37 Drat-Joseph Winn Jun"
The 47 Drat -- Josiah Brown
The 52 Drat-Benja" Bellows Esq
The 57 Drat-Joseph French Esq
and 64 Drat-David Wilson-
A True Accompt Errs Excepted per me Enoch Hale
a true copy
J. W. Peirce Prop& Clk
EARLY SETTLERS.
After the survey of the township and the division of it among the proprietors, to encourage settlement a bounty of £142 was offered to the first five men who, with their families, should settle within one year from this date (June, 1750) and remain one year, and in the same proportion to one or more families complying with the above condition. Whether any settlement was made does not appear from any known record. A traditionary report makes it appear that a family by the name of Russell (Joel Russell) did attempt a settlement in the south part of the town, and while there had a son born, who was the first white child born in the township. Whether he settled soon enough and remained long enough to receive the bounty does not
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HISTORY OF JAFFREY.
appear. In 1752 we have a reliable account of a settle- ment by Moses Stickney. Richard Peabody, and seven others, and that while there Simon Stickney. son of Moses. was born December 9. 1753, making him the first white child born in Jaffrey. aside from the Russell tradition. This settlement of Stickney and others proved a failure, through fear of Indians. and they all left except a man known as Captain Platts, probably the pioneer of Rindge.
The first permanent settlement was made about 1758, by John Grout and John Davidson. Grout settled on lot 20, range IO, and Davidson on lot 21. range 3. Grout was a prominent man. He made, with Gilmore. an early report of the settlement of the town to the proprietors. He died in 1771. There is a tradition that he was buried where the meeting-house was afterwards built. John Davidson re- mained a permanent settler, and died in ISII. It is also reported as true that his eldest daughter, Betsey, was the first white child born in Jaffrey.
List of the pioneers of Jaffrey, per report of Gilmore, Grout, and Hale :
John Borland.
Ecoch Hale.
- Organ.
Joseph Caldwell.
- Haie.
Jona. Parker.
James Caldwell.
*John Harper. Wid. Henderson.
. Russel.
James Caldwell. Tr .. Thomas Caldwell.
*Joseph Hogg.
*William Smiley. John Swan.
Christy.
Daniel Davis.
*Joseph Dunlap.
*John Davidson.
David Hunter.
Thomas Davidson.
Ephraim Hunt.
- Taggo:, George Wallace, Thomas Walker,
*Roger Gilmore.
Alex McNie !.
Robert Wier.
*Tohz Gilmore.
William Mitchel.
* Mathew Wright
*John Grout,
- Manros,
Leranus Wright.
- Glover.
James Nichols.
*Joseph Turner.
+William Hogg. Robert Holmes. Jona. Hopkinson.
*William Turner.
Thomas Turner. Solomon Turner.
Thomas Emery. Fitch.
John Little.
Andrew McAllister.
* Permanez: semies
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EARLY SETTLERS.
The settlement of many of the first inhabitants was of short duration. They seemed to be a log cabin population, fond of living in a forest. Most of them were Scotch-Irish from Londonderry. Of those who became permanent set- tlers, of that race. were John and Roger Gilmore. William Smiley, Joseph Turner. Joseph Hodge, William Turner. and William Hodge. After the incorporation of the town. a large emigration from Massachusetts purchased their lands with all of the improvements, and became the perma- nent settlers of the town.
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