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HISTORY OF SURRY
In 1760, Josiah Kilburn a wealthy manufacturer of Glastonbury, Conn., hearing the township of Boyle was for sale, sent up men to look over the ground. When they got here, they were taken in hand by agents of Col. Ben- jamin Bellows, who first bewildered them by wandering in the woods, and then kept them traveling for a day or two in Surry meadows. Finally being con- vinced they had been taken "over a large tract of country, they returned and reported that it was a very level town, without a stone large enough to throw at a bird."
Encouraged by this report, Mr. Kilburn joined with Samuel Gilbert and others in the purchase of 18,000 acres, May 1, 1761, from Benjamin Bellows of Walpole. Mr. Bellows on March 24, 1761, had purchased of Rebecca Blanch- ard, widow of Joseph Blanchard of Dunstable, Mass., twenty-six original rights in Boyle for £67, 10s sterling money, and on March 28, four days later, he purchased twenty-seven rights of Theodore Atkinson for which he paid £60, 15s. Some portion of this 18,000 acres of land was situated in that part of Boyle which later became Surry, but to what extent has not been ascer- tained. The town of Boyle was rechartered July 13, 1763 and was named Gilsum.
The decade from 1760 to 1770 saw a large number emigrate hither from Massachusetts and Connecticut. Those zealous hardy pioneers found their land not all level, but much was too rocky, hilly and mountainous for tillage, and covered with a dense forest of massive trees.
With a mountain on the east and high hills to the north and west, we can readily see how both in Gilsum and Westmoreland they felt their isolation; they were shut in from without and shut out from within, and scarcely a year passed after Gilsum received her charter that some mention was not made in town meeting about setting off that part of the town west of the mountain. The settlers of Westmoreland Leg were similarly isolated from the activities of their township, and on March 12, 1766 Westmoreland "Voted to set off the people to Gilsum that Belong to the North East corner of this Town from Walpole Corner to Keen Line." This seems to have hastened the movement on the part of Gilsum people, as among the papers sent to the provincial as- sembly with the petition for the new town are the following:
* Province of New Hampshire.
At a Meeting of the Inhabitants of the Town of Gilsum meet at the House of Mr. Jonathan Smiths in sd Town on Tuesday ye 26 of August 1766 being meet and duly formed Mr. Joseph Spensor Being chose Mod- erator to Govern Sd Meetting Sd Inhabitants Voted to seet off the west End of Sd Towne as farr East as the Mountain Range
a True Coppey of the Vote as it was then past
Test pr. me
Gilsum Septm ye 1st 1766. Obadiah Willcox, Town Clack
The following is the petition for the new town:
* To His Excellency John Wentworth Esq. Captain General, Governour
*Taken from History of Gilsum.
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&c in and over his Majestys Province of New Hampshire-The Honble His Majesty's Council and House of Representatives for said Province-
The Petition of the Subscribers, Inhabitants of the Westerly Part of the Township of Gilsum and the Northeasterly Part of the Township of Westmoreland in said Province Humby Sheweth :
That said Westerly part of Gilsum being seperated from the Easterly Part of the Same Township by a long and impassable Mountain almost thro the Township of said Gilsum Dividing the Same so as to leave about one third part of the Lands of the Township of said Gilsum on the Westerly side of said Mountain, and no convenient Communication can be had with the Easterly Part of said Township, so very necessary for the well Regulating and management of Town affairs; and the Westerly part of said Gilsum being too Small in Contents of Land for a Seperate and Distinct Town, Parish or Precinct, And whereas the Northeasterly part of said Westmoreland being that part of said Town Called Westmoreland Leg Lying at a Great Distance from and very difficult Passage to the main Body of ye Town and Inhabitants of said Westmoreland and also paying Large Taxes for the Support of the Min- istry & other Town Charges, without being able to Receive any Benefit or advantage therefrom And being adjoining to and conveniently Situate to be joined and incorporated with said Westerly part of Gilsum there- with to make one Seperate and Distinct Town &c.
Now your Petitioners humbly pray your Excellency and Honour that Said Westerly part of Gilsum and Northeasterly part of Westmoreland : (viz beginning at the Southeast corner of Walpole thence running Southerly on a Straight Line to the North West corner of Keene thence running Easterly on the Line of said Keene to the Southeast corner of Westmoreland Leg so called and continuing the same Line Eighty Rods East of Sd (last mention'd) corner thence running North two Hundred and Sixty Rods, thence East Eighty Rods, thence on a North Line to the North Line of said Township of Gilsum thence West on the Line of Said Gilsum to the Northwest Corner of the Same thence South on the Line between said Gilsum & Walpole to the first mentioned Bounds that part of said Westmoreland & Gilsum included in the aforemen- tioned Lines, may be taken off from ye aforesaid Towns of Westmore- land & Gilsum, and be Erected made and Incorporated into one Sep- erate & Destinct Town, Corporation & Body Politick with all the Pow- ers, Priviledges and immunities that any town hath or by Law ought to have in said Province or otherways as to your Excellency & Honours seam fit and as in Duty bound shall Ever pray-
Dated Gilsum July 4th A. D. 1768.
Obadiah Willcox
Eliphalet Darte
Samuel Hall
John Marvin
Job Gleason Joseph Spencer
Abel Allen
Joshua Fuller
Moses D. Field
Joseph Mack
Beniaman Wheetney Benjamin Whitney William Barns-Barron Charles Rice
Nathaniel Darte
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Thomas Smith
Ichabod Smith
Jonathan Pareish
Jonathan Smith:
Peter Hayward
Jonathan Smith, Jr.
Woolston Brockway
Of these petitioners the following were of Westmoreland Leg, the others were of Gilsum: Samuel Hall, Peter Hayward, Benjamin Whitney, William Barron, Charles Rice, Nathaniel Darte.
Thomas Harvey and some others were at that time living in town, but for some reason did not sign the petition.
This petition was granted, and March 9, 1769 the following charter was issued :
THE CHARTER OF SURRY
* "Anno Regni Regis Georgii Tertii Magnee Britannia Francia & Hibernia nono-
"An act for erecting part of the Township of Gilsum and part of the L. S. Township of Westmoreland in to a New Township by the name of Surry.
Whereas the westerly part of the Township of Gilsome is Separated from the easterly part of said Township by a long impasable mountain almost threw the Township dividing the same so as leaves about one third part of the land thereof on the westerly side of said mountain and no convenient communication can be had-and whereas the North east- erly part of Westmoreland being that part of said Township called Westmoreland leg Lying at a Grate Distance from the mane part of the Settlements and the passage from one part to the other Being Very Difficult and Being Very convenient to be Joyned to and incorporated With Said Westerly part of Gilsum would be Sufficient for one Town Distinct from the Towns: from whence they may be So Severed all which having been Represented by a Petetion of the aforesaid part of Gilsum and the tracts being conceeded to by the Votes of the inhabitants of Boath Said Townships and a Plan being agreed on for the Bounds of the New proposed Township and it also Appearing to be of Publick Servis Tending to advance the Settlements in those parts . . . There- fore- -
Be it inacted by the Govr. Council & Assembly that there be and here- by is a New Township Erected Containing the parts of the Townships aforesaid and Bounded as follows (Viz) : Beginning at the Southeast Corner of Walpole and Running West .ten D'g North on Walpole Line twenty eight Chanes and fifty Links to a piller of Stones on Walpole Line, thence South ten D'grees West two miles and forty seven Chanes to a Piller of Stones on the Line of Keene, thence East five D'r South (North ?) on Said Line of Keene three miles and Eighteen Chanes to a hemlock tree & a heap of Stones, thence North four miles and Sixty four Chanes to a Piller of Stones to the Line between Gilsum and Al-
.
*Taken from the Surry town Records.
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stead, then Runs West five Degrs North on Alstead Line two miles & twenty three Chanes to a piller of Stons on the Line of Walpole, thence South two miles and Seventy Chanes on Said Walpole Line to the place where it Begins-
and the inhabitants of Said Tracts of Land and their Successors are hereby incorporated into a town by the Name of SURRY to have Suc- cession forever and enfranchised with all the Privileges, Rights and communities which other Town in this Province by Law hold and injoy to hold the Said inhabitants and their Successors forever
and Peter Hayward is hereby authorised to Call a meeting of Said in- habitants to chuse all Necessary and Customary town officers, Giving fourteen Days Notis of the time, place and Define of Such Meeting- and Every other Meeting which Shall be Annually held for that Pur- pose Shall be on the Last Tuesday of March.
Province of New Hampshire
in the House of Representatives March ye 2d 1769 The foregoing Bill having been three times Read Voted that it pass to be inacted P. Gilman Speaker In Council March 9th 1769
This Bill was Read a third time and Passed to be inacted
T. Atkinson Jnr Secretary
Assented to by J. Wintworth
A Coppy Examined T Atkinson Jnr Secretary."
The boundary lines of the town of Surry, as granted, were as described in the charter and not according to the petition; thereafter Gilsum included only what lies east of the division between the first and second ranges of hundred- acre lots. Owing to the variation of the magnetic needle or other cause, the boundary lines of Surry have since been slightly altered, at least, in some places. We regret to find such a wide variation in the length of the lines be- tween this and adjoining towns, in the several surveys.
The following item found in the Provincial Records at Concord, N. H., gives the date, place and proprietor of the first tavern in that part of Westmore- land, now Surry:
Westmoreland, January 28, 1765.
We the subscribers do in behalf of the town of Westmoreland in the Province of New Hampshire and on the Request of many others who travel this way do recommend and Appoint Peter Hayward to be Tavern Keeper in sd town.
Samuel Minot
Edward How
Selectmen of Westmoreland.
CHAPTER IV
PROPRIETORS' RECORDS, BOUNDARY LINES, LOTS AND
RANGES, THE NEW HAMPSHIRE GRANTS
The original Proprietors' record book of Gilsum and Surry in the hands of the town clerk of Surry, is in a badly worn and dilapidated condition. A plan of the town of Boyle is shown in this book, similar to the plan of Gilsum as shown on page 21 in the history of Gilsum. The following records have been taken from that book:
August 14, 1761, Benjamin Bellows of Walpole issued a warrant for the first proprietors meeting, thus:
"PROVINCE of NEW - HAMPSHIRE.
To Mr Clement Sumner, one of the Proprietors of the Township of BOYLE in said Province; GREETING
WHEREAS Application hath been made to me the Subscriber, one of his Majesty's Justices of the Peace for the Province aforesaid by the Owners of more than a Sixteenth Part of the common and undivided Lands in the Township of BOYLE, in said Province, for the calling a Meeting of the Proprietors aforesaid; and that the same maybe held at the House of Mr. Peter Haywood (Hayward), of Westmoreland, on the Sixteenth of October next, at Ton of the Clock in the forenoon; and that the following Articles might be inserted in the Warning, as
1st To chuse a Moderator.
2d To chuse a Proprietors Clerk.
3d To chuse a Collector to collect & gather in the Rates & Taxes; and to chuse a Proprietors Treasurer.
4th To see if the Proprietors * * the Lotts as they are laid out. * 5th To see if the Proprietors * *
* ee to raise any Sum or Sums of Money, to be lodged in the hands of the Treasurer, to pay Town Charges, or any other public matter that shall be agreed on.
6th To chuse a Committee * to transact any Affairs that shall be needed.
7th To chuse Assessors, and to act any Matter or Thing to bring forward settlement (?) of said Town.
Do in Consequence of such Application made to me,
Notify and Warn the Proprietors aforesaid, to meet at the House and Place above mentioned; then and there, when met, and duly formed, to act on the several Articles above mentioned, as the Occasion and Busi- ness of the Meeting call for; and see that you the aforesaid Clement Sunner have this my Warrant or Notification in the New Hampshire News Papers, three Weeks successively, before the Day of holding said
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meeting, being the most likely Place to give the Proprietors Notice thereof, and that you make Return of your Doings herein on the Day aforesaid.
Given under my Hand and Seal this 14th Day of August, A. D. One Thousand Seven Hundred sixty one, and in the first year of his Majes- ty's Reign.
Copia Vera, Clement Sumner. BENJAMN BELLOWS, Justice of Peace."
No record of this meeting can be found.
The second meeting of the Proprietors was held in Hebron, Conn.
At a Town meeting of Boyle holden in Hebron on March the 9th 1762; the following Persons were chosen, or voted for the present Year into the public Offices of the said Town of Boyle. Josiah Killburn, Moderator of Proprietor's Meeting.
Clement Sumner (of Kane-Keene) Town Clerk.
John Sterling Josiah Killburn Joseph Spencer, select Men. Josiah Kill- burn Thomas Sumner Abner Mack, Assessors.
Joseph Mack, Collector. Abner Mack, Treasurer. Test Joshua Dart Clk of sd Meeting Copia Vera Pr Clement Sumner Proprietor's Clerk &c.
The third Proprietors meeting was held at Peter Hayward's house.
The Proceedings & Votes of a legal Meeting of the Proprietors of the Town of Boyle, held at the House of Mr Peter Hayward in Westmore- land; September 16th 1762.
lest Voted, Mr Thomas Pitkins Moderator to govern said Meeting .-
2d Voted; Clement Sumner Proprietor's Clerk.
3d Voted; Joseph Mack, Collector.
4th Voted; Abner Mack, Treasurer.
5th Voted; Not to draw as the Lotts are already laid out.
6th Voted; To Size the Land of the Town of Boyle, in Order for a Draught .-
7th Voted; Joseph Mack, Seth Haze and Abner Mack for a Com- mittee to size said Land, and make a Report thereof to the Meeting.
8th . Voted; To Raise the Sum of one Pound three Shillings Lawful Money, on each Right to be paid to the Proprietor's Treasurer, to defray the Charges of the Township of Boyle, that have arisen or shall hereafter arise.
9th Voted; Clement Sumner Joseph Mack and Seth Haize a Com- mittee to transact any affair that shall be needed.
10th Voted; To adjourn the meeting till Wednesday the 23d instant. And the said Meeting is accordingly adjourned and ap- pointed to sit at the House of Mr Ephraim Dormant at the town of Kane (Keene) on the sd Day
sign'd by Order. P. Clement Sumner Pro: Clerk.
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The fourth Proprietors meeting was held in Keene as noted.
At a Meeting of the Proprietors of the Town of Boyle, met, and as- sembled, according to Adjournment: Septemr 23d 1762 at the House of Mr Ephraim Dormant in the Town of Keen; the following Votes were pased.
1st Voted; To draw the Lotts of the Town of Boyle as they are now laid out and sized.
2d Voted; Joseph Spensor, Joseph Mack and Seth Haize to be the select Men of the said Town of Boyle.
And further Voted;
That the above Joseph Spensor, Joseph Mack and Seth Haize should be Assessors of the Township: and, that for the future upon an Application made by Seven or more of the Proprie- tors, to their Clerk for the calling a Proprietor's Meeting, he, the said Clerk, shall set a Notification fourteen Days before the Meeting, setting fourth the articles to be transacted in the sd Meeting; which shall be Deem'd legal Warning, till the Proprietors shall repeal this vote.
The above are a true Entry of the Votes passed at the meeting within described. Test Thos Pitkins moderator.
Sign'd by Order, P Clement Sumner Pro: Clerk.
So far as known no other Proprietors meetings were held under the charter of Boyle. The town was rechartered July 13, 1763, and by taking the first syllable in the surname of two of the leading proprietors, Gilbert and Sumner, we have a new and unique name for the new town, viz., GIL-SUM.
The fifth Proprietors meeting was held at Hebron, Conn., thus:
At a legal meeting of The Proprietors of the Town of Boyle (but now Gilsum) in the Province of New Hampshire. Holden at the House of Capt. Ichabod Phelps in Hebron, in the County of Hartford and Colony of Connecticut, on Tusday the 16 August 1763.
Being met and duly formed.
1. Chose Thos Pitkin, Jr., moderator of Sd meeting.
2. Chose Clement Sumner Proprietors Clerk.
3. Chose Thos Sumner, Clark for Sd meeting to transmit the votes to Sd Clement Sumner.
4. Chose Samuel Gilbert, Esq. Dr. Wm Sumner & Thos Pitkin Jr. Cessors, for Sd Propriety.
5. Chose Samuel Gilbert Treasurer.
6. Chose Thos Sumner, & Joshua Dart Collectors.
7. Voted to raise a Rate of one pound thirteen Shillings & Sixpense lawful money of the Bay on each Right to defray the Charges of Sd Township that have already arisen and Shall arise.
8. Voted that Sd money Shall be paid to the proprietors Treasurer in the Space of Six weeks from the Dates hereof.
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9. Chose Samuel Gilbert Thomas Pitkin Joshua Dart a Committee to ajust the accounts of Sd propriety.
10. Voted to draw the money out of the treasury by themselves or their order to Defray Sd Charges.
11. Voted to adjurn Sd meeting to the House of mr Benjn Buel in- holder in Sd Hebron &c-till the 30 day of August Instent 1763 at one of the Clock in the afternoon.
The sixth Proprietors meeting was held, Aug. 30, 1763:
* At the adjourned meeting held at the inn of mr Benj. Buel at He- bron, Conn., Thomas Pitkin was elected moderator & Clement Sumner Prop. Clerk. The subject of dividing the land was the principal topic. Joseph Mack, Clement Sumner and Ichabod Fisher, were chosen a com- mittee to rectify a mistake in the "Ranging Table," as it appears "Some Rights have drawn more & Some less than their real proportion." Each share was to consist of 250 acres, and Jonathan Smith, Samuel Gilbert, Thomas Sumner, Thomas Pitkin and Benjamin Sumner were a com- mittee "to lay out the Common & undivided land." Thomas Pitkins and Jonathan Smith were chosen "to Settle affairs with major Bellows."
From the records and deeds it becomes very evident that land spec- ulation was extensively carried on. Many prominent names, were of men who had no intention of settling on their lands, but bought only to sell again. Some, like Benjamin Bellows, owned whole townships. The Gilberts and Sumners were not bona fide settlers, but simply land spec- ulators. Capt. Gilbert, one for whom the town was named, probably never came here at all; yet for a year or two, took the management of affairs, almost entirely into his own hands, and that the actual settlers were far from satisfied is plain from their records.
At this meeting it was also,
Voted, that the Proprietors' Clerk Shall have power to Call Proprie- tors meetings upon the applycation of three or more of the Proprietors, by Setting up Notifications, one at Woolston Brockways at Gilsum and the other at Capt. Wymans in Keene 14 days before Sd meeting. Set- ting forth in Sd warrant the time, place & Business of Sd meeting.
The seventh Proprietors meeting was held at the house of Jonathan Smith in Gilsum (now, 1922, where Samuel Ball lives in Surry village) : thus :
Mar. 13, 1764. At a Legal meeting of the Proprietors of the Town of Gilsum, in the Province of New Hampshire, holden at the dwelling house of mr Jonathan Smith in Gilsum afore Sd, the following business was transacted :
1 Art: Chose mr Woolston Brockway moderator to Govern Sd meet- ing.
2 Art: Chose mr Obadiah Willcox Proprietors Clark.
Art: Chose Jonathan Smith, Woolston Brockway & Joseph Mack to
* Taken from Proprietors records, and also from History of Gilsum.
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be a Committee to lay out and Clear necessary Rodes or high- ways in Sd Gilsum.
Voted to dismiss 4 Art; viz. "to make a rate or assessment to defray the Charges of Sd highway, and to purchase a proprietors Book."
Voted to dismiss 5 Art; viz. "to Chuse a Collector or Collectors."
Voted to dismiss 6 Art; viz. "to Chuse a Treasurer."
Voted to dismiss 7 Art; viz. "to See if the Proprietors will alow any thing for the work alraedy done towards Clearing necessary Rodes in Sd Town."
Voted to dismiss the meeting.
Test Clement Sumner Proprietors Clark.
The eighth Proprietors meeting was held at Jonathan Smith's house:
July 16, 1764,
1 Art; Chose Jonathan Smith Moderator.
2 Art; To chuse a Committee to Treet and Setel with Capt. Samuel Gilbert of hebron aboute a Sum of money that was paid to the Rev. Clement Sumner of Keen (Keene) which sd pro- prietors think hath no Just Right to and that sd Committee agree and Setel with Sd Gilbert about a man or men whose name or names ware Sent to be put into the Charter whose name or names is suposed that he the Sd Gilbert Struck out and put others in and that Sd Committee agree and Setel with Sd Gilbert about the overplus Rights that fell in what was Calld Masons patton ("the patent line") which Sd proprietors think they have a Just Right to have and further that Sd Committee Setel with the old Committee whitch Bought the Town of Gilsum about the Six overplush Rights which the Sd proprietors think they have a Right to have and make their Return of the Same.
Thomas Pitkins, Jr. Peter Olcott and Jonathan Smith were chosen said committee. Obadiah Willcox Prs Clk.
The ninth Proprietors meeting was held at Jonathan Smith's house :
Oct. 31, 1764, Josiah Kilburn, Moderator; Joseph Spensor, Obadiah Willcox and Job Gleason Assessors; "chose Josiah Killburn, Joshua ful- ler and Eliphalet Dart a committee to Receive and adjust accompts with those that Do the worke on the Highways in Sd Town." The building of roads in town was taken up for the first time this year; some work, however, must have been done on the roads during 1763, as noted in Art. 7, at the March meeting, of this year.
The tenth Proprietors meeting according to the old book did not take place until Aug. 26, 1766, which seems hardly probable, as the ninth meeting was
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held nearly two years earlier. The records of the Proprietors meetings doubt- less were kept on sheets of paper up to this time-according to the vote taken on Mar. 13, 1764,-hence, it is possible the record of the meeting held during 1765 was lost or destroyed. At this meeting:
1st Chose, Ebenezer Killburn Moderator.
2d Chose, Ebenezer Dewey, Abel Allen, Joseph Spensor a Committee to Lay out and Clear Highways in Sd Town.
3d Chose Ebenezer Dewey, Obadiah Willcox, Meedad Thomson a com- mittee to Treat with the Town of Keen about a Highway Lead- ing from the Town of Gilsum to Keen Meeting house.
The last Art. in the Warrant was to see, "if Sd Proprietors will be att the Charge of Beating a Highway through to Keen Meeting House whare Mr Killburn and Mr Hayward have marked it." No action taken on this Art.
The eleventh Proprietors meeting was held at the house of Josiah Kill- burn's in Sd Gilsum, Nov. 3, 1767, at which time Woolston Brockway was chosen Moderator: Voted to establish the lines on the west side of the Moun- tain where they now are, etc. Obadiah Willcox, Prop. Clerk.
The twelfth Proprietors meeting at Jonathan Smith's house :
Sept. 21, 1768. Chose, John Marvin Moderator; Chose, Obadiah Will- cox, Jonathan Smith and John Marvin a committee to settle with Sam- uel Gilbert; Chose, Obadiah Willcox and Joshua Dart to go and take ad- vise of Lawyer Ollcot (of Charlestown) in the matter and make their return. This was in connection with the disagreement between the pro- prietors and Capt. Gilbert, previous mentioned. They evidentally felt much aggrieved, thinking Capt. Gilbert had taken the lion's share for himself and his son-in-law, Rev. Clement Sumner of Keene,-from Gil- sum History.
Prior to 1769, at which time Surry was incorporated, it appears that all town business was transacted by the proprietors, without separate organiza- tion.
The thirteenth meeting was held at the house of Jonathan Smith:
"Munday the ninth Day of January 1769,"
1st Chose Ebenezer Dewey Moderator. 2nd Chose Obadiah Willcox, Woolston Brockway, Joshua Dart, John Marvin and Nathaniel Dart a committee to Rectify the Proprietors Book. 3d Voted not to Exsept of the Return of the Settlement with Capt. Samuel Gilbert. 4th Voted not to Chuse a Committee to Settel with Capt. Gilbert. 5th Voted to pur- chase paper for a proprietors Book.
Obadiah Willcox Proprietors Clark.
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