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The fourteenth Proprietors meeting was held at the house of Joshua Dart "in Surry" on Monday, Jan. 15, 1770:
1st Chose John Marvin Moderator.
2d Voted to "Exsept of the plan of Boyl now Gilsum in maner and
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form as Surveyed and Returned By Caleb Willard, Surveyor of Lands with an alowence of fore (4) acres to Each Hundred acres for Highways."
3d Voted that each proprietor shall hold 250 acres of land.
Chose Obadiah Willcox, Joshua Dart and Ebenezer Killburn to lay out to each share two Hundred and fifty acres.
Chose John Marvin to ascest the Clark in ,Recording.
7th "Chose Thomas Harvey, Jonathan Smith, sr and Joshua Dart a Committee to treet with westmore Land and walpole to measher thir town Lines to See if they hant Got more than their Comple- ment of Land."
Obadiah Willcox Proprietors Clark
Began the Ranging Table after this.
The fifteenth meeting held at Jonathan Smith house, May 6, 1771, "at teen of the Clock in the morning."
1st Chose Joshua Dart Moderator.
2nd Voted not to act-"to Chuse a proprietors Clark if need Be.
3d "Voted to Exsept of the report of the Committee," composed of John Marvin Abel Allen and Ebenezer Dewey chosen to call those persons that have received any money or other Speashe Belonging to the proprietors of Gilsum to an account for the same. It was also,
"Voted to measher the Town of Gilsum Exclusive of what masons patton and westmoreland takes off," and chose Jonathan Smith, Ebenezer Killburn and Stephen Griswold a committee to meas- ure said town and voted to employ Jeremiah Stiles as surveyor, etc. It was also voted,
That half the proprietors meetings shall be held in Gilsum and half in Surry, and that the warning shall be set up at Ebenezer Dewey's and the usual place in Surry.
Chose Thomas Harvey and Ebenezer Killburn, Collectors.
Obadiah Willcox Propr Clerk.
The sixteenth proprietors meeting was held at the house of Josiah Kill- burn in Gilsum, on Nov. 5, 1771-no very important business was transacted.
BOUNDARY LINES
The boundary lines between Surry and adjoining towns have been peram- bulated once in every seven years, for just how long has not been ascertained. The following were taken early in the last century and are typical of those taken in other years.
SURRY AND WESTMORELAND
Agreeable to the laws of New Hampshire the subscribers have per- ambulated the line between Surry and Westmoreland as follows, viz .-
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Beginning at a beech tree in Keene line which is the southwest corner of Surry, thence north nine degrees & thirty minutes east two miles and an half & forty-eight rods to a stake & stones standing in Walpole line, which is the northeast corner of Westmoreland, and have set up a stake & stones every eighty rods which are numbered according to their dis- tance.
N. B. The first stake is forty-eight rods from Surry Corner. Surveyed,
Nov. 1, 1800 Jonas Robbins, Surveyor. Asa Hancock, Selectman of Surry. William Britton, Selectman of Westmoreland.
SURRY AND KEENE
Beginning at a beech tree which is the southeast (west) corner of Surry and standing in the north line of Keene and runs from said cor- ner of Surry East eight degrees 30 minutes North to a hemlock tree which is the south east corner of Surry in the said line of Keene and have marked a number of trees on said line and put the letters "T. L." on a number of said trees, also erected stakes and put stones round them at the end of every quarter of a mile and put the letters "T. L." on the stakes.
Surveyed,
Nov. 1, 1800. Joel Kingsbury, Surveyor. Abel Blake & Ebenezer Robbins, Selectmen of Keene. Asa Hancock & Sarel Hayward, Selectmen of Surry. SURRY AND GILSUM
This day the towns of Gilsum and Surry met at the Northwest corner of Gilsum and the Northeast corner of Surry and perambulated the line between said towns to the Southwest corner of Gilsum and the South- east corner of Surry, and renewed said lines.
Surveyed,
Nov. 20, 1800.
SURRY AND WALPOLE
Course from Walpole Southeast corner, near Mr. J. Cheever Fowlers in Surry, N. 42 minutes, E. 1024 rods to the Northwest corner of Surry, which course leaves the said original corner of Surry 12 rods 3 links to the east. From said corner to the original northeast corner of Walpole, course N. 42 minutes, E. 2120 rods, making in the whole 3144 rods or 9 miles 264 rods, stakes and stones placed every 80 rods on the Surry line.
Surveyed in Esq. John Hubbard, Surveyor.
Nov. & Dec. 1800.
SURRY AND ALSTEAD
Began at the Northwest corner of Surry, which is the Southwest cor- ner of the town of Alstead standing in the East line of Walpole: run- ning East 290 rods to the County road leading to Walpole Bridge one
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mile and 82 rods from said corner to the County Road leading, from Surry to Alstead meeting house, one mile and 116 rods to the Thompson brook (so called) said brook bears south 20 degrees west, 2 miles and 170 rods the whole length of the North line of Surry, to the northwest corner of Gilsum.
Surveyed, Apr. 30, 1805.
A map of the town of Surry 1805 discovered in the office of Secretary of State at Concord, 1922. From this map we give the following facts :
North-Surry and Alstead line ran east 810 rods.
East-Surry and Gilsum line ran south 1° east 1520 rods.
South-Surry and Keene line ran west 8° south 1154 rods.
West -* Surry and Westmoreland line ran north 10° east 840 rods.
North-Surry and Walpole line ran east 10° south 120 rods.
West-Surry and Walpole line ran north 1020 rods, to starting point.
"A Plan of the Town of Surry, N. H. Taken by actual survey 1805 and protracted by the scale of 200 rods to the inch.
Samuel Hills
Selectmen of Surry."
Asahel Harvey
THE NEW HAMPSHIRE GRANTS
It is not our purpose to give a detailed account of the New Hampshire Grants, or the Vermont Controversy, as it was called, but as Surry, with other towns on the east side of the Connecticut river, was for a short time under the authority of Vermont some mention should be made of the affair.
At the time the south boundary line of New Hampshire was established, in 1740, it was supposed that that line extended the same distance west as the north line of Massachusetts, and New Hampshire claimed what is now Ver- mont. In 1749 Gov. Benning Wentworth of New Hampshire granted the first of 138 towns which he granted in Vermont and named it Bennington, after himself. For more than a score of years prior to the Revolutionary war New York also claimed the territory which is now the state of Vermont. This dispute finally led up to the Westminster massacre which took place March 13, 1775, when William French was killed, his being claimed to have been the first blood shed in the war of the Revolution.
During that War the "civil affairs in New Hampshire were in a confused state; the courts were suspended and there was no adminis- tration of justice. The inhabitants of some of the towns on the east side of the Connecticut, at that time considered quite remote from the center of political power in New Hampshire, became dissatisfied and proposed to join the new state (of New Connecticut, alias Vermont), the central power of which would be in the Connecticut valley. It was
*Note: "The distance of the line on Westmereland Map adjoining Surry is marked 848 Rods and on this 840 Rods they ought to be alike; there were two surveys but the latter disagreed with the former eight rods."
** From History of Keene.
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claimed by many that the west line of New Hampshire was that of the original grant to Capt. John Mason in 1629" and long known as the "Masonian line" or the "Patent line."
When the legislature of the new state-which had adopted the name of Vermont, but had not been admitted to the Union-met for the first time at Windsor, Vt., on the 12th of March, 1778, sixteen towns on the east side of the river asked to be admitted to that state, and they were received. Public opinion in Cheshire county was divided and a conven- tion of delegates from several of the towns met at Surry in January, to discuss the situation.
At a town meeting in Surry Nov. 14, 1780, Woolston Brockway and Joshua Darte were chosen delegates to go to a County Convention to be held at Wal- pole on Nov. 15th inst to join with other delegates who represent the New Hampshire Grants. (This corrects Keene History, page 260, which states "Capt. Lemuel Holmes of Surry" was their delegate. Capt. Holmes was still living in Walpole at that time.)
Another town meeting was held Jan. 10, 1781 at which time Woolston Brockway was chosen a delegate to attend a convention at Charlestown, on the 16th of that month. The town also voted at this meeting "that we will be United with the Grants on the West Side of the River," and on Feb. 5th it was voted to accept the report of convention.
The annual March meeting took place on the 27th of the month and this was the last call under the authority of New Hampshire until the annual meeting of March 26, 1782. The regular town officers were elected as usual in 1781; the town then voted to accept the articles of Union between the state of Vermont and the Grants on the east side of the river; also voted to send Woolston Brockway as Representative to the Assembly to be held at Wind- sor, Vt., on April 4, 1781. There were at least four men in town who went on record at this meeting as being opposed to the vote and who stated, we con- sider it, "a breach of peace of the United States, do hereby protest against the vote of the Town." Signed by,
"Jonathan Smith, Ichabod Smith, William Russell and Asa Wilcox."
At the aforesaid meeting it was "voted to postpone said meeting until May 7, 1781" but from the town records the adjourned meeting never took place. The State of Vermont called the next meeting in Surry, thus:
"State of Vermont,
Washington, s. s.
Surry April 26, 1781.
"To the Constables or Select men of Surry: Whereas the General Assembly of the State of Vermont at their Sessions at Windsor April 1781, Resolved that the Constables or Select men of the Several Towns of the County of Washington Shall warne the Inhabitants in there Re- spective (?) Towns to meet at the usual places of holding Town meet- ings in there Respective Towns on wedensday the Second Day of May next in order to Qualify them to vote in Said meeting."
The meeting took place accordingly and John Marvin was chosen modera- tor; Lemuel Holmes, selectman; Abel Allen, constable; Hiram Chapin, Eli-
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phalet Dart and Obadiah Black (Blake), listers. The oath of Fidelity and the Freemans oath was administered to several of said inhabitants.
A convention was held in Cornish in April 1781 and when the returns from the towns on the east side of the river had been examined it was found the following towns had accepted the terms of union with Vermont:
Acworth,
Gilsum,
Lincoln,
Alstead,
Grafton,
Lyman,
Bath
Grantham,
Lyme,
Cardigan,
Cunthwait,
Marlow,
Charlestown,
Hanover,
Newport,
Chesterfield,
Haverhill,
Piermont,
Claremont,
Hinsdale,
Plainfield,
Cornish,
Lancaster,
Richmond,
Croydon,
Landaff,
Saville,
Dorchester,
Lebanon,
Surry,
Dresden,
Lempster,
Westmoreland,
Morristown (now Franconia.)
Walpole,
No returns were received from any towns on the east side of the river, re- fusing to accept the union. Thirty-six Vermont towns favored and seven dis- approved of the union.
The next town meeting took place June 11th when the town voted to pro- cure five men to fill our "cota for the Defence of the Northern frounteers" and each to receive "one pound pr month, Equal to Silver to be paid By the Town."
The next and last call of a town meeting under the authority of the state of Vermont took place July 23, 1781 when it was voted to hire three men to guard the Frontier and to serve until Dec. 15th next. Also voted, "not raise any money this year to repair the meeting house."
Feb. 19, 1778: Voted to recall all instructions given to Absalom Kingsbury (of Alstead) and that he forthwith desist acting with the Assembly in the State of New Hampshire, until further orders.
CHAPTER V
ROADS, HIGHWAYS AND BRIDGES
One of the first, most essential and expensive departments in the history of nearly every township in New Hampshire has been that of roads and bridges, or the highway department. Moreover, it has been a case of build- ing or repairing roads in summer and breaking or rolling roads in winter.
During the entire existence of this town-and even before-the building and repairing of roads and bridges has annually received due consideration. Fortunately in this respect, Surry has a much less mileage of roads than most towns, and comparatively few bridges to maintain-all small, however, except one which spans the Ashuelot river.
The first settlers who came hither found this region a vast wilderness; a dense forest of mammoth trees covered their land; their first habitation was a rude hut or log cabin reached by a "bee line" on foot, next came a blazed trail, or bridle path, then came the road, the highway, the turnpike and fin- ally state highway. Doubtless the first roads were in many cases nearly identical with an earlier bridle path, some of which were "laid out" while others were "surveyed."
The earliest mention of "roads" is found in 1764 in the old Proprietors Records of Gilsum and Surry, now in the hands of the Town Clerk of Surry.
Feb. 27, 1764, Clement Sumner, Proprietors Clerk (of Keene) issued a call for a Meeting to "be holden at the house of mr. Jonathan Smith" who then lived in that part of Gilsum, now Surry village. The 7th Art reads:
"to See if the Proprietors will alow any thing for the work already been done towards Clearing necessary Roades in Sd Town?"
"Voted to dismiss the 7th article," they therefore received no recompense for their services.
From this it would appear that roads were laid out as early as the fall of 1763, and there is reason to think at least some of them were in Surry valley. Another Proprietors meeting was held at the above dwelling house on March 13th following at which time Art. 3:
"Chose Jonathan Smith Woolston Brockway & Joseph Mack to be a committee to lay out and Clear necessary Rodes or highways in Sd Gilsum." Clement Sumner Proprietors Clerk."
The above committee made the following report :
"Gilsum April 16th and 17th 1764.
Then Laid out by the Proprietors Committee a Seartain Highway Begining at the head or Ende of a Highway that Leads from Keen a cross the Northeast Corner of westmoreland To the Defident (Dividing) Line Between the town of Sd Westmoreland and the Town of Sd Gilsum Leading aCross the west End of Sd Gilsum to the Town of Allstead
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Sd Highway is Laid out six Rods wide and whean it Begins as afore- said To Run Boring on the Brinke of the hill three Rods of Sd High- way to be fearly above the Decent of the hill till It falls onto the De- fident Line Between Lots which Line runs North and South Being the Line of the sixth Range from whare it falls into Sd Line Run- ing North * the moyety to be on the one Side and the other moyety * the wedith on the other Side Sd Defident Line till It comes onto the Northwest Corner of the Lott No: 7 thence Turning a Littel west of the North a Crost the Lott No: 8 as the trees are marked and the Breadth of Sd Highway is to go on that Side Sd marked trees on whitch they are marked with six Knotches on Sd trees are also to Shew that Sd Highway is six Rods wide thence Runing Northerly by trees Marked as aforesaid to the North Line of Sd Gilsum to Be and Remain a Publick and open Highway for the futer or untill the Select men of Sd town in thair aniell Successirous or Proprietors Comittee for that purpose Shall for Suffecent Reasons make any alterations.
Woolston Brockway Joseph Mack Jonathan Smith Test pr me Obadiah Willcox, Porprietors Clark."
Proprietors Comittee.
Here we have a lay-out, by marked trees, of the first road up the Ashuelot valley to Alstead town line-nearly five years before the incorporation of Surry. From Keene line it ran across the east end of Westmoreland Leg to the old line of Gilsum, then crossing the west end of the latter town to Al- stead. The portion thru Westmoreland was probably laid-out as early as 1763 by a committee from that town.
The next meeting of the Proprietors was held July 16th-the 5th Art: "To see if Sd proprietors will alow aney thing for what has al Ready Been Done towards Laying out Highways and Clearing Same in Sd Town and make a Return of the Same," it was; "Voted to Dismis the fifth Article."
THE DORT ROAD
On June 1, 1765 the Proprietors laid out a road on the meadow which be- gan "at contry rode between Mr. (Joshua) Fuller's and Mr. (Job) Gleson's." This ran part of the way on the River bank, but probably this road was not built as there was one laid out the next year running in nearly the same place, thus: November 10, 1766; Highway laid out beginning at highway that leads thru the west part of Gilsum, at North side of Joshua Fuller's land, and running East on said Fuller's land to Obadiah Willcox's land; run- ning North on said Willcox's to Eliphalet Dort's land; running North on said Dort's land to Ichabod Smith's land; running North on said Smith's land to River bank; turning North-West on Samuel Hall's land, formerly Joseph Spencer's, to Moses Dickinson Field's; turning West and running by said Field's land to first mentioned highway. This road was to be two rods wide,
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and is the "Dort road," so-called, but there is reason to think it ran farther to the east, and north to near the river bank when built-than at present- see map.
June 9, 1808 laid out a road east of Levi Fuller's Beginning just North of where John Hill lives, then ran East, then North and then West to new Cheshire Turnpike road. Where this road ran North & South it was laid out between the 6th. & 7th. Range and all of said road was on the 7th Range.
At a Proprietors meeting held at the house of Jonathan Smith, Aug. 26, 1766 an article in the Warrant to see:
"If Sd Proprietors will be att the Charge of Beeting a Highway through to Keen Meeting House whare Mr Killburn and Mr Hayward have marked it."
Whether any portion of this road was in the present town of Surry is un- known.
The first mention of roads after the incorporation of Surry came up in town meeting, May 1, 1769 when it was voted to "Raise taxes in the Same method as they Do in Connetecut" and also voted "to work at Highways By the polls the year Ensuing." On June 14, 1770, it was :
Voted that the Selectmen should lay out and exchange or alter High- ways and make report to the Town or by or sell as occasion shall Serve, etc. Similar action was taken at next Annual meeting.
THE PENT ROAD
On Sept. 5, 1770 the selectmen laid out a "Pent road" which ran easterly across the meadow to the foot of the mountain where John Still lived.
This road was 134 rods wide and entered the present highway in a straight line "within two rods north of said Brockway's house" where Geo. A. Hall now lives. In 1782 it was voted to let Woolston Brockway have the liberty to "Pen the Highway easterly to the meddow." May 28, 1785 that part of the pent road leading across Woolston Brockway's land easterly of his house was changed and in "lew thereof laid it out on the South side of John Brock- way's land," 11/2 rods wide. In 1796 Cushman Smith gave land from off his farm, and between him and John Brockway to make still further change in the west end of this pent road.
Owing to this being a "pent road" it received more attention in town meet- ing during the first 30 years of its history than any other one road.
Year after year the distribution of the "herbage" and to see if it shall re- main "pent" came up in town meeting.
This road as finally laid out entered the present highway by crossing the farm of the late William Carpenter's home place (No. 38), and just above the fence south of his buildings. In 1798 there were three or four "gates" on this road.
March 31, 1771, Voted to raise 36 pounds lawful money to repair highways in town, and allow "three Shiling the Day" in the spring and summer and
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"two Shiling and six pence the Day in the fawl months" for work. Also that "two yok of oxen Should be equal to a man" and a cart and plow should "be one Shiling ye Day."
Oct. 1784. The town voted to accept a road laid out from John Reddings to Ford Bates. The location of this road is not positively known.
THE CARPENTER ROAD
In Sept. 1770 it was voted to accept the Highway laid out to Mr. Wades land. The records are obscure regarding this road and Mr. Wade.
As far as known Duren Wade who lived on "Carpenter hill" was the only man of that name in town and as there was a road laid out to Duren's house in Oct. 1771 it is presumed the first one was not. The latter road was two rods wide and ran westerly from the "Great road" through land of Moses D. Field and "south of Thomas Smith's land,"-or the Perkins place. The Kampe family now own that part of the Moses D. Field farm. Later this was known as the "Carpenter road."
It was also voted at the Sept. 1770 meeting to "except" alterations in "the middle highway * * above Dug hill so that it should be two rods fairly above the fall of the bank and continues but four rods wide," etc., till it got twenty rods up against Mr. Brockway's land and then to widen out to its full breadth (six rods).
THE GREAT ROAD
In 1772 the town deemed it expedient that a careful and accurate survey should be made of the road which ran through the entire length of the town. A committee was chosen for that purpose and Jeremiah Stiles, an able sur- veyor of Keene, was employed. Prior to 1806 this was the Main or "Great road," as it was called, and was used by the old stage coach until about 1850.
In order to modernize this survey the following explanation is made :
Peter Hayward lived on the Samuel L. Newton place.
William Hayward lived on the Frank E. Ellis place.
Samuel Macordis (McCurdy)-Late Edmond Woodward place.
William Barron lived on Jasper N. Keller summer place. Benj. Whitney's shop was at foot "Kingsbury hill."
Charles Rice was probably the M. D. Carpenter place. Joshua Darts was the Oscar B. Deane place.
Westmoreland line, the wall north of O. B. Deane's home place. The six rod road started just north of Francis F. Field's dwelling house. Mack's old hovel, near James E. Harvey's dwelling house. Joshua Fuller lived on Hollis W. Harvey place.
Skinner lived possibly on the George Malcolm place.
Ebenezer Daniels probably lived at or near where James V. Stillings lives.
Moses D. Field lived where Allen L. Green now ownes.
Thomas Smith lived on the Perkins place.
Chapin's mill property, is now that of H. N. Scripture.
Joseph Mack's field was near the Holbrook tavern.
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The end of six rod road was just above the bridge where the road turned N. W. and ran up the hill past Hodskins place to Alstead town line. Jonathan Smith lived on the Samuel Ball place.
This survey in full was as follows:
SURVEY OF THE ROAD THRU SURRY IN 1772
"Whereas we the subscribers being appointed a committee to Survey the Highway through the town of Surry, accordingly on the 29th of Septemper A. D. 1772, we began at the town line South of Peter Hay- wards and laid the road 4 rods wide 2 miles and 130 rods, which comes to the Southwest corner of the homestead of Mr. Jonathan Smiths in sd Surry, from thence we laid the road six rods wide three miles and 22 rods to the crotch of the road that leads to Alstead, from thence we took the west road and laid it 4 rods wide to the town line, meaning the line between Surry and Alstead, it being 102 rods, etc. Said road is bounded as follows, viz.
"Beginning at a stake and stones set up for the west side of the high- way in the town line, meaning the line between the town of Surry and the town of Keene, from said stake, ran N. 4° W. 27 rods to a stake standing partly between Peter Hayward's house and barn; then W. 31° N. 11 rods to a stake; then N. 13° E. 12 rods; then N. 24° E. 16 rods; then N. 3° W. 20 rods; then N. 7 E. 14 rods to a stake standing 3 rods north of the bridge that goes over the River and this road is laid out 4 rods wide on the north side of the bridge, and there is about 7 rods south of the bridge encluded, or laid out for a ford way or watering place so that this road is laid eleven rods wide up & down the river, or where it crosses the river; then from the last mentioned stake, ran N. 36° W. 26 rods to a stake and stones then W. 18° N. 42 rods to a stake or stump; then N. 15° W. 10 rods to a stake; then W. 17º N. 22 rods to a great stone by William Haywards; then N. 3º W. 26 rods to a stone by MaCordis (M'Curdy's) ; then N. 11º W. 15 rods to a great rock; then N. 20° E. 20 rods to a heap of stones; then N. 37° E. 12 rods to a corner; then N. 47° E. 12 rods to a corner; then N. 53º E. 12 rods; then N. 21° E. 11 rods; then N. 7º W. 20 rods; then N. 16° W. 20 rods to a heap of stones; then N. 20° W. 30 rods to a stake by Barrons; then N. 34° W. 28 rods to a great rock; then N. 40° W. 31 rods to a stake; then N. 45° W. 22 rods to a corner; then N. 22° W. 12 rods to a stake by Whitney's shop; then N. 8° W. 38 rods; then N. 13º E. 14 rods to a stake near Charles Rice's; then N. 33' W. 30 rods to a corner; then N. 38° W. 22 rods to a corner; then N. 14° W. 8 rods; then N. 7º E. 36 rods to a hemloc; then N. 26° E. 12 rods; then N. 16° 30' W. 22 rods to a hemloc; then N. 2° E. 22 rods to Joshua Darts; then N. 22° E. 8 rods; then N. 43º E. 8 rods to Westmoreland line.
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