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north thirty-nine degrees east, a distance of ninety-three and one-half miles, to the end of the eastern boundary. Having failed to substantiate their claim, the Masonian proprietors then came forward and purchased of the State all the terri- tory included between the straight and the curved lines, for the sum of forty thousand dollars in public securities and eight hundred dollars in specie. The further contest between Allen and the Masonians does not appear to have entered into the history of this town.
Of the, several Monadnock townships, Rindge was the third in the order of grant. The charter is dated February 14, 1749. As stated in the preceding chapter, the date would now be written 1750, for such it really was. Until 1752, the civil year did not begin until the twenty-fifth of March, while the historic year was reckoned from the first of January. Other towns in this vicinity were chartered in the following order :-
Dublin,
November 3, 1749.
Jaffrey,
30, 1749.
New Ipswich, April 17, 1750.
Marlborough, April 29, 1751.
Fitzwilliam,
January 15, 1751-2.
Joseph Blanchard, of Dunstable, a man of enterprise and of considerable distinction, had become one of the Masonian proprietors, and was appointed by his associates an agent to grant the townships in this vicinity and to forward settle- ments ; consequently the charters were drawn and signed by him in behalf of the whole proprietary.
'. An association of individuals from Lunenburg, Dunsta- ble, Townsend, and a few from other towns, held a meeting on the thirteenth day of February, 1749-50, at which they styled themselves the "proprietors of a township, on the
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province line, in Mason's grant, lying southeast of the Grand Monadnock." The persons who attended this meeting became the grantees of Monadnock Number One. The proceedings of this meeting were as follows : -
After being assembled, made choice of Joseph Blanchard, Esq., for their moderator. Made choice of William Downe for clerk to ye Proprietors. Made choice of Joseph Blanchard, Esq., for their Treasurer.
A proposal was then made and put to vote whether each proprietor should pay to Joseph Blanchard, Esq., Six Pounds, Old Tenor, for the charge, &c., he had already been at, and was voted.
It was then proposed and put to vote, Whether fifty four Pounds Ten Shillings be paid out of the Treasury for ye other charges past for Surveying, &c. Passed in the affirmative.
Proposed that for the speedy settlement of said Township, Each Proprietor takes effectual care that within Two years from Novr. 1749, there be three acres of Land cleared upon some one or other of the Lots which may be drawn by him, and in one year afterward Three acres more of said Land cleared and an House built thereon, with a Family residing on sd land, and that in four years from October last past there be a meeting House built in said Town at ye charge of ye proprietors.
Aboves'd article being put to vote, passed in the affirmative.
Being proposed whether a Committee be chosen to Couple the Lotts in said Township and put to vote, passed in the affirm- ative.
Voted likewise that two Persons be chosen to assist ye Sur- veyor in coupling sd Lotts, and to take care that ye are done effectually, Major Hubbard being nominated to be one of sd Com- mittee, Voted.
Lieut. Bellows being nominated to be ye other of sd Comttee, Voted.
A further proposal was yn made, in case Lieut. Bellows be the
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Undertaker to Survey, that yn Lieut. Josiah Fitch supply his place or be in his room as one of the Comtter afores'd, and in case of failure of either of them that Capt. Hubbard be assistant, and also that Capt. Powers be another assistant in case of failure of above, and that no more than two of said Persons at one time attend s'd business. Said articles being put to vote passed in ye affirmative.
Voted also that the Persons attending sd business as Com- mttee men be allowed them for their trouble thirty Shillings Old Tenour pr. Day, they finding their own provision, &c. The persons above accepted sd service for the above pay.
It was then proposed and put to vote whether the Propriety will let the business of Surveying and coupling the lotts to any one particular person by the Great, s'd Person paying the Com- mttee abovesaid their whole amount of charges for assisting as above proposed, which passed in the affirmative.
Lieut Bellows offering to undertake the business of Sur- veying, &c.
Voted that he have paid him out of the Treasury the sum of Three Hundred and Seventy pounds Old Tenour for Sur- veying sd Township and Coupling the Lotts and delivering in a plan of the same to the Propriety.
A proposal being made whether Lieut. Fitch, if he assists as one of the Comttee be paid for his extraordinary travel from his own House to Lunenburg by the Propriety, put to vote. Nega- tived. It being proposed and put to vote whether fifteen Pounds Old Tenour be advanced immediately upon each right and Voted.
Also voted that ye aboves'd work of Surveying, &c., be com- pleated by the first Tuesday of June next.
· Then proposed and voted that the meeting be adjourned to the first Wednesday in June next, and yn ye Proprietors meet at the House of Capt. French in Dunstable at 10 o'clock forenoon.
And then the sd meeting was adjourned accordingly.
These proceedings apparently met the approval of the
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agent of the Masonians, for the next day the charter was drawn and the grant confirmed upon the persons who par- ticipated in this meeting.
A COPY OF THE CHARTER.
PROVINCE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE.
Pursuant to the power and authority granted and vested in me by the Proprs. of Lands purchased of John Tufton Mason, Esq., in the Province of New Hampshire, by vote passed at their meeting held at Portsmouth in said Province, the 16th day of June 1749.
I DO, BY THESE PRESENTS, on the Terms, Conditions and Limitations hereafter expressed, Give and Grant all the Right, Possession and Property of the Proprietors afores'd unto Solomon Stewart, John Combs, Jonathan Hubbard Jun, Thomas Syms, Stanton Prentice, Peter Powers Junr, William Spaulding, Joseph Blanchard Jun, Collo John Hill, Samuel Cummings, Thomas Prentiss, Joseph French, Jona. Powers, Samuel Greele, Jona. Hubbard, William Downe, Peter Stevens, Sampson French, James Stewart, Robert Fletcher Junr., Eleazer Blanchard, David Cheever, Samuel Reed, Jona. Whitney, John Hubbard, Jacob Gould, Nehe- miah Gould, Robert Melvin, Jerahmael Powers, Joseph Jackson, James Coleman, Peter Powers, Daniel Taylor, Samuel Greele Junr., Zacheus Lovewell, Stephen Powers, John Lovewell Junr., Joseph Winn, Nathaniel Page, Timothy Taylor, one Right each.
Benjamin Bellows Six Rights, Samuel Johnson Junr Two Rights, one Right for encouragement for building of Mills, and Two Rights more to be disposed of by the Grantees for Publick uses of in or to that Tract of Land or Township lying in the Prov- ince afores'd, containing by estimation thirty five square miles that is Begining on the line between the Province afores'd and the Prov- ince of the Massachusetts Bay Six miles Westerly from the South west Corner of the Township called No I North of Townshend and Runs North Eighty Degrees west in said Line seven miles, thence north by the needle Five miles, from thence South Eighty
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Degrees East seven miles, thence South by the Needle to the first Bounds mentioned.
To HAVE AND TO HOLD to them their heirs and assigns in Equal Shares on the following Terms and Conditions with the Reser- vations hereafter expressed (That is to say), That the Tract afores'd be divided into Seventy three Equal Shares, and that each Share or Right be divided into three Lotts, and drawn for at or before the last day of November next ensuing in some equitable manner. That three of the afores'd Rights be and hereby are granted. One for the first settled minister, One for the ministry, and one for the School, these forever. One Lott for each such Right to be first lay'd out (and not Drawn for) near ye middle of the Town.
That eighteen of said Shares be reserved for the use of the Grantors their Heirs and assigns forever, exempted and free from all Charges whatsoever in making or bringing forward the settle- ment untill improved by them or some holding under them respectively. That the Grantees shall make settlement in the following manner, viz. : That the afores'd Tract be laid out as afores'd, at the Grantees expence ; That all necessary Highways be lay'd out through the Lotts of either Grantors or Grantees as there shall be needed hereafter free from charge for the Land such width as [the Proprietors *] shall judge necessary.
That Forty of ye [said Shares shall be brought forward or settled in the following *] manner viz; Each of the said Forty shares to have Three acres of Land on some one Lott cleared, inclosed, and fitted for mowing or Tillage in said Tract at or before the Last day of December, 1752, and in like manner Three acres more annually for two years more then next coming. That on each of the said Forty Lotts so cleared as afores'd there be a Convenient House of one Room Sixteen feet square at the least, fitted for Comfortable dwelling therein, and the Grantees or some Person Resident on each of the Lotts to be settled as afores'd at or before the last day of Decr. 1753, and continue resident there
* Record Book defaced.
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for Two years then next coming, and Build a Convenient Meeting House therein five years from this Date.
That the following nine Shares be exempted from making settlement only to Pay their Proportion to all Public Taxes as other Grantees, viz : Benjamin Bellows for four Rights ; Samuel Reed one; Jonathan Whitney one; Jonathan Hubbard Junr. one ; Samuel Johnson one; Timothy Taylor one. That each of the said Grantees at the Executing this Instrument pay fifteen Pounds Old Tenour to defray the necessary charges risen or arising in Bringing forward the Settlement afores'd, to be depos- ited in the Hands of such person as they shall appoint being a Freeholder and Resident in this Province. That the afores'd Grantees or their Assigns assess such further sum or sums of money equally in Proportion to their Rights the share of each Grantee (exclusive of the three publick Lotts) as may be thought necessary for carrying on the settlement afores'd or any Publick matter. And on failure of Payment for the space of three months after such assessment is agreed upon and posted up at such place or places as the Grantees afores'd shall appoint for notifying Proprs. meetings that so much of such Delinquent Rights Respectively be disposed of as will pay the said Tax and all charges arising thereon. And in case any of the said Grantees shall neglect to perform any of the articles aforementioned he shall forfeit his share or Right in said Township unto those of the said Grantees who shall not then be Delinquent in the Performance of their part, and it shall be lawfull for them by their Agent or Agents to enter into and upon the Right of such Delinquent owner, and him to amove, oust, and Expell for their use, their Heirs and Assigns, Provided they settle such Delinquents Right within one year after the Periods Conditioned in this Grant, and fully comply with the whole duty such Delinquent ought to have done within the space of one year from Time to Time after the Respective Periods thereof. And in case they omit complying as afores'd in that Term, that all such Delinquent Rights shall revert and belong to the Grantors their Heirs and assigns forever free from the
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Incumbrance of settlement or charge, always Provided there be no Indian Warr within the Terms afores'd and in case that should happen, The same be allowed for the Respective matters afores'd after such Impediments shall be removed.
That all white Pine Trees fit for the masting his Majesty's Royall navy be and hereby are granted unto his Majesty, his heirs, and Successors forever. Lastly, the said Grantors do hereby promise to the said Grantees, their Heirs, and assigns, to Defend through the Law to King and Councill if need be one action that shall and may be brought against them or any Number of them by any Person or Persons whatsoever claiming the said land or any part thereof by any other Title than that of the said Grantors or that by which they hold or derive theirs from.
Provided the said Grantors are avouched in to defend the same and that in case of final Tryall the same shall be Recovered against the said Grantors the Grantees shall Recover nothing over against the Grantors for the said Lands Improvements or Expence in bringing forward the settlement In witness whereof I the subscriber Joseph Blanchard of Dunstable have hereto in behalf of the Proprietors afores'd Sett to my hand and seal this fourteenth day of February 1749.
JOSEPH BLANCHARD. [Seal.]
Of the grantees, forty-three in number, fifteen were resi- dents, at this time, of Lunenburg, which then included Fitchburg. They were: Solomon Stewart, whose brother William was one of the first settlers of Peterboro; Major Jonathan Hubbard, a Deacon and Town Treasurer, who died April 7, 1761, and was buried in Townsend, soon after his removal from Lunenburg; his son, Jonathan Hubbard, Jr., removed (1757) to Charlestown, N. H; Col. John Hill, whose children settled in Peterboro; Thomas Pren- tice, a Justice of the Peace, and prominent in public affairs ; Capt. Jacob Gould, who was master-carpenter at the build- ing of the first meeting-house in this town, and whose son,
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Jacob, Jr., settled in Rindge ; Nehemiah Gould, Jonathan Whitney, Samuel Cummings, Samuel Greele, James Cole- man, William Downe, who was proprietors' clerk until 1758, a Justice of the Peace, and a Judge of the Court of Common Pleas ; Nathaniel Page, who settled soon after in Rindge ; Samuel Johnson, a man of wealth and enterprise, whose descendants for many years lived on Johnson Hill in this town; and Samuel Reed, who had a "potash " west of the residence of Addison Todd, and at the time of his death, July 7, 1771, owned one thousand acres of land in Rindge ; but he never resided here. The residents of no other town were as numerous. John Hubbard, a son of Major Jonathan Hubbard, was of Townsend. His son, Rev. John Hubbard, was preceptor of the Academy at New Ipswich, Judge of Probate for Cheshire County, and subsequently professor at Dartmouth College. Of the same town was , John Stevens, who was Treasurer for the proprietors for several years. Captain Peter Powers was of Hollis; also his son, Rev. Peter Powers, who received the first call from the church at New Ipswich. He was afterwards settled at Haverhill, N. H. Zaccheus and John Lovewell, a brother and son of the famous Indian fighter, were of Dunstable, as well as Robert Fletcher, Jr., a surveyor. Gen. Joseph Blanchard, a son of Col. Blanchard, was of Merrimac, N. H. He was for several years clerk to the proprietors of Dublin. He subsequently removed to Dunstable. Stanton Prentice was a physician of Lancaster, -a brother of Thomas Pren- tice, Esq., of Lunenburg. Jarahmael Powers and William Spaulding were of Groton, and Major Joseph Jackson was of Boston. He was one of the very few whose residence is made known by the records. The few remaining names were probably from the vicinity of Dunstable.
These persons who received the charter, and became
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proprietors of the township, in only a few instances pro- posed to settle upon their newly acquired possessions, but awaited an opportunity to advantageously dispose of the land which fell to their lot. Many owned shares in several townships in this vicinity. Their traffic was prompted solely by the hope of gain.
The lots were promptly laid out by Lieut. Benjamin Bellows. By this survey the town was divided into ten ranges by east and west lines. Each range was divided into twenty-two lots by north and south lines. It was the intention of the surveyor to have the lots one hundred and sixty rods from north to south, and one hundred rods from east to west. This could have been done with an allow- ance for error of about one and three-fourths acres to each lot. The plan was generally carried out; yet a few lots exceed one hundred acres, and others are as much too small. The drawing occurred during the summer of 1750. From the charter it will be perceived that eighteen rights, or shares, which was about one-fourth of the township, were reserved by the Masonian proprietors for their own benefit. For the convenience of the reader their names, in the following schedule of lots drawn, are indicated by an asterisk. The others were grantees, and their names are contained in the charter.
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Order of drawing
Lot.
Range.
Lot.
Range.
Lot.
Range.
1
Solomon Stewart.
12
6
16
1
15
2
2
* Nathaniel Meserve.
12
5
21
1
22
1
3
John Stevens.
12
4
21
2
22
2
4
Benjamin Bellows,
12
7
1
6
2
6
6
Samuel Johnson, Jr.,
6
13
5
21
4
22
7
* George Jaffrey,
13
4
21
5
22
5
8
Jonathan Hubbard, Jr ..
13
7
17
1
18
1
9
Benjamin Bellows,
13
3
21
9
22
9
10
Thomas Syms.
13
8
20
7
21
7
11
Stanton Prentice,
14
3
18
3
19
3
12
* Richard Wibird.
14
5
19
5
20
5
13
John Hill.
14
6
21
6
22
6
14
Samuel Cummings,
14
7
19
6
20
6
15
Thomas Prentice,
14
8
15
8
17
8
16
Peter Powers, Jr.,
14
9
21
8
22
8
17
* Daniel Pierce and * Mary Moor,
14
10
17
7
17
6
18
* John Tomlinson and
15
4
18
2
19
2
19
William Spaulding,
15
5
17
5
19
1
20
Joseph Blanchard, Jr.,
15
6
20
3
20
4
21
Joseph French, .
16
7
18
4
19
4
22
Benjamin Bellows.
16
6
18
6
18
5
23
* . John Rindge,
16
4
20
8
19
8
24
Jonathan Powers.
11
4
1
4
2
4
25
Minister,
11
5
2
1
3
1
26
Samuel Greele.
11
6
2
2
4
2
27
Jonathan Hubbard.
11
7
1
7
1
8
28
*. John Wentworth.
11
9
12
9
12
10
29
* Joshua Peirce,
10
6
11
10
5
3
30
Benjamin Bellows.
10
9
7
3
6
3
31
* William Parker,
9
9
8
3
8
4
32
William Downe,
9
7
2
10
3
10
33
* Matthew Livermore,
9
10
10
5
7
10
34
Peter Stevens,
9
3
10
3
4
10
35
Sampson French,
9
1
10
1
9
5
36
Public Lots,
13
10
9
6
12
1
37
Public Lots.
14
4
20
1
20
2
John Combs,
13
6
21
3
22
3
* John Tufton Mason,
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Order of drawing.
Lot.
Range.
Lot.
Range.
Lot.
Range.
38 James Stewart, .
1
8
2
6
6
39
Robert Fletcher, Jr.,
8
8
9
8
6
8
40 Eleazer Blanchard,
7
4
7
5
1
5
41 David Cheever, .
7
8
7
9
8
9
42
* John Moffat,
6
4
7
2
1
5
43
Samuel Reed.
6
7
7
7
8
7
44
Jonathan Whitney,
6
9
5
9
8
5
45
* Theodore Atkinson,
5
2
5
5
6
5
46
John Hubbard,
17
9
13
9
3
9
47
Jacob Gould,
18
9
18
8
18
7
48
« March and * Solley.
6
2
2
9
10 7
1
50
Nehemiah Gould,
4
1
3
4
17
2
51
Robert Melvin,
3
4
10
8
22
7
52
Jarahmael Powers,
8
10
3
5
5
10
53
Joseph Jackson,
10
10
6
10
10
7
54
Samuel Johnson, Jr.,
10
4
9
4
9
2
55
James Coleman,
15
10
15
7
15
1
56
Peter Powers,
15
9
16
10
16
5
57
Benjamin Bellows,
16
9
16
8
12
3
58
Daniel Taylor,
17
10
17
4
17
3
59
Ministry, .
18
10
11
3
11
2
60
Samuel Greele, Jr.,
4
4
5
4
3
2
61
Zaccheus Lovewell,
3
6
4
6
5
6
62
Stephen Powers,
1
1
12
2
11
2
63
John Lovewell, Jr.,
1
2
13
1
13
2
64
* Thomas Wallingford,
1
3
2
3
14
2
65
* Joseph Blanchard,
1
9
1
10
8
6
66
* Jotham Odiorne, .
3
7
4
7
5
7
67
* John H. Wentworth,
3
8
4
8
5
8
68
.Joseph Winn,
20
10
20
9
7
6
69
Nathaniel Page,
21
10
22
10
11
8
70
Timothy Taylor,
19
10
19
16
2
71
School, .
16
3
2
5
11
1
72
Benjamin Bellows,
15
3
4
9
14
1
73
Mill Lots. .
12
8
2
8
2
7
2
49
* Thomas Packer,
6
1
5
1
1
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The owners of sixty-seven shares drew three lots each ; four rights, or twelve lots, were reserved for the ministry, schools, and mills ; and two rights, or six lots, designated as public lots, were owned in common by the grantees. The whole number of lots was two hundred and twenty, which would leave one lot undrawn. This was lot nineteen in the seventh range. The public lots were sold at vendue, September, 1754, the three former to Jonathan Hubbard, Esq., for ninety-five pounds, and the remaining three to Jonathan Whitney for one hundred and five pounds, old
tenor. From the schedule it would appear that Nehemiah Gould and Robert Melvin both drew the third lot in the fourth range, and to the ministry and Stephen Powers is assigned the eleventh lot in the second range ; the third lot in the third range, and fourth lot in the third range, are not found in the list. The error probably is a clerical one. The last two lots should be placed in the room of the dupli- cate numbers.
It was the policy of the Masonians to forward settle- ments, and thereby enhance the value of the lands which they had reserved unto themselves. The liberal provision made for the benefit of the ministry and the school is evi- dence that they well knew how their object could be most effectually accomplished. It was many years before these lands were diverted-by sale -from the uses for which they had been reserved, and then their loss was more than supplied by an increasing annual appropriation for the sup- port of the ministry and schools. After the date of the charter the first meeting of the grantees, of which any record is to be found, was held October 29, 1750. It was voted to accept the plan of the township presented by Lieut. Benjamin Bellows. A committee was chosen "to see where it will be most proper to make a road into the centre of
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the town," and provision was made for calling future meet- ings by posting notices in Dunstable, Hollis, Townsend, and Lunenburg. From the conditions of the charter, the owners of forty of the shares were required to clear a certain number of acres, and build a house on some one of the three lots in each of the forty shares within a prescribed time. Forty-nine rights had been drawn by the grantees. To nine of them these provisions of the charter did not apply. At this meeting these nine releases were sold at vendue, and the owners of as many shares purchased an exemption from clearing land and building a house upon lots drawn and owned by them. The amount received from this source was two hundred and sixty-five pounds, old tenor.
The progress of the settlement of the township is not clearly shown by the records. The facts must be gleaned from other sources. It is apparent, however, that at the close of the year 1752 the improvements conditioned in the charter had not been made, and only a few houses had been built. Anticipating this state of affairs, the grantees, at a meeting held at Dunstable, August 4, 1752, requested Joseph Blanchard, Esq., to solicit from the Masonian proprietors an extension of the time in which the conditions of the charter were to be fulfilled. And again, February 23, 1754, a sim- ilar request is made, in these words :-
Voted that Joseph Blanchard Esqr. be and hereby is desired, in behalf of the Propriety, to request of the grantors a suspension of the duty conditioned first to be done by charter in consideration of the Law Sutes subsisting in said town, the Tryal whereof is unexpectedly prolonged, and to Solicit in our favor any other reasonable request.
This meeting was adjourned to April 22, 1754, and the record proceeds : -
Then Joseph Blanchard, Esqr. made report of his proceedings
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agreeable to the Proprietors directions, for lengthening the time of duty, as follows : That on his application they did grant that the time of the first Entry be suspended unto the first day of June next, and for clearing and inclosing the first three acres and the several other Duties, conditioned to be done by charter, be like- wise further suspended the same proportion of Time forward as they were stated in the charter.
The liberality evinced by the Masonians in granting their request. and in securing to them the possession of the township so far as they had the ability to do, relieved the grantees from one embarrassment, and left them at liberty to direct their attention to another source of perplexity. The continued record of this meeting is of interest : -
Also voted that the charge of any law sute that shall be com- menced by any of the Grantees ag'nst the claimers of the Lands called Rowley Canada Township shall be borne by the Propriety in proportion to Interest whether the action be Trespass or Eject- ment.
Also voted that Capt. Peter Powers, Robert Fletcher, Junr. and Jacob Gould be a Comttee and desired to go to said No. One & examine what Lotts are trespassed upon and by whom and procure proof thereof and that they make Return of such their Enquiry forthwith unto Joseph Blanchard Esqr. in order for Pros- ecution and yt. they take such assistance with them as they shall need and in case Jacob Gould cannot attend the service that Jonathan Whitney. supply his place and if said Whitney cannot go that then Solomon Stewart attend that service.
Also voted that Joseph Blanchard Esqr. be paid all his rea- sonable charge he shall be at if any in attending the Prosecution of any action and anything he shall do therein.
An earnest purpose pervades these proceedings. No imaginary or supposed grievance would have given occa- sion for so much uncompromising legislation, for the refer-
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