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February the 10th, 1735/6.
NATHANIEL ABBOTT, \ Committee. EBENEZER VIRGIN,
A true copy of the original return, recorded and examined by
BENJA. ROLFE, Proprietors' Clerk.
Voted, That any man that has any lot or lots of land in Rattle Snake Plain, or Water Nummons' field, or Sugar Ball, or the Middle Interval, or the Ferry Plain, that joins upon the mountains or hills, shall have leave to extend his lot or lots to the brow of the hill, or edge of the pine plain where the land now lies common or undivided ; but in case there is any hollow or gully of land against their lots that runs back into any of the pine plains, then said lots are to extend as far back as the lots adjoining to said lots shall extend.
Dissented - Edward Abbott, Nathaniel Abbott and Ebenezer Virgin.
l'oted, That the committee that was chosen to measure the six acre lots, shall
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there being no Person ordered or Impowred to Call the first meeting of the Inhabitants to Do the acts in said order Directed to, whereby
take care and provide, at the proprietors' charge, a good surveyor to measure and plan said lots.
By desire of Ebenezer Eastman, John Chandler, George Abbott, Jeremiah Stickney, Edward Abbott, Nathaniel Abbott, Ephraim Farnum, James Abbott, Aaron Stevens and Joseph Eastman, a meeting, duly notified, was assembled.
1736.
At a legal meeting of the proprietors of the common and undivided lands in the township of Rumford, regularly assembled at the meeting-house in said Rum- ford, on Monday, the fourteenth day of March, Anno Domini 1736, Capt. Ebenezer Eastman was chosen moderator of this present meeting.
Agreed and Voted, That a committee of three persons on oath - two whereof to be a quorum - be chosen to lay out a division of the common and undivided land in the township of Rumford, the said division of land to be as large as the committee shall think the good land will allow of, and to be laid out to each grantee or proprietor of said Rumford, in one or more pieces, as the committee shall think best, so that the said committee in their judgment shall make the lot or lots of land that shall be laid out to each grantee or proprietor of Rumford equal in quantity and quality, and the said committee to make return of their doings to said proprietors as soon as conveniently may be, for said proprietors' acceptanee.
Agreed and Voted, That Benjamin Rolfe, Esq., Lieut. John Chandler and Capt. Ebenezer Eastman, be a committee chosen and empowered to lay out a division of the common and undivided land in the township of Rumford, the said division of land to be as large as the committee shall think the good land will allow of, and to be laid out to each grantee or proprietor of said Rumford, in one or more picees, as the committee shall think best, so that the said com- mittee, in their judgment, shall make the lot or lots of land that shall be laid out to each grantee or proprietor of Rumford, equal in quantity and quality, and the said committee to make return of their doings to said proprietors as soon as conveniently may be, for their acceptance.
Agreed and Voted, That Benjamin Rolfe, Esq., Lient. John Chandler and Capt. Ebenezer Eastman, shall have ten shillings a day each for laying out the aforesaid division of land, provided said committee shall attend said business at all convenient seasons.
Voted, That Mr. Joseph Hall, Deacon John Merrill and Mr. Ebenezer Virgin, be a committee chosen and empowered to sell such picees of the common and un- divided land belonging to the proprietors of Rumford, as they shall think proper, to defray the charges of laying ont and recording of land for said proprietors ; the sale of said land not to be valid till allowed of by said proprietors.
Voted, That Benja. Rolfe, Esq., Ens. Jeremiah Stickney and Mr. James Osgood, be a committee to exchange some of the eonunon and undivided land belonging to the proprietors of Rumford with Lieut. John Chandler, for his house or home lots, the said exchange not to be valid till allowed of by said proprietors.
Voted, That Benjamin Rolfe, Esq., Lieut. John Chandler and Capt. Ebenezer
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they are under many hardships and Difficultys -Wherefore your Petitioners humbly Pray your Excellency and Honours will appoint and Impower some meet Person to Call the first meeting of the said Inhabitants for the Ends and Purposes aforesaid.
And, as in Duty Bound, Shall Ever Pray, &c.
HENRY ROLFE.
In Council, December 20th, 1732-
Read and ordered that M! Benjamin Rolfe, one of the Principal
Eastman, be empowered to hire a surveyor and chainmen at the proprietors' cost, to lay out the aforesaid division of land.
1787.
At a legal meeting of the proprietors of the common and undivided land in the township of Rumford, regularly assembled at the meeting-house in said Rumford, on Monday, the 19th day of September, 1737,
Voted, That Mr. Joseph Hall, Deacon John Merrill and Mr. Ebenezer Virgin, be authorized and empowered to give a deed or deeds of such pieces of land as they have sold or bargained to sell, unto Deacon Ephraim Farnum, Mr. Bara- chias Farnum, Timothy Bradley and Lieut. John Chandler, agreeable to a vote of said proprietors at a legal meeting of said proprietors, on the 14th day of March, Annoque Domini 1736, and to pay such sum or sums of money as they have or shall sell such pieces of land for, unto Mr. Edward Abbott, treas- urer for said proprietors.
Voted, That this meeting be adjourned unto Monday, the 17th day of October next, at two of the elock in the afternoon.
Attest :
BENJA. ROLFE, Proprietors' Clerk.
[This adjourned meeting does not appear to have been held.]
To BENJAMIN ROLFE, Esq., Clerk for the Proprietors of Rumford :
We, the subscribers, proprietors of the common and undivided land in the township of Rumford, desire and order you to warn a meeting of said proprie- tors, at the meeting-house in said Rumford, on Thursday, the second day of February next, at eight of the clock in the forenoon, then and there to accept of the return of the committee that was chosen at a legal meeting of said proprie- tors, [on Monday, the 14th day of March, Annoque Domini 1736,] to lay out a division of the common and undivided land belonging to said proprietors, and to order the same to be recorded, and to order the plans of said division of land to be put in the proprietors' book, and to choose a man or men to assist the pro- prietors' clerk in recording said division of land, and putting said plans into the proprietors' book, and to see that the clerk makes a true entry thereof, and also to accept of the sale of such pieces of land as the committee that was cho- sen at said meeting hath sold, and to order said committee to give deeds of such pieces of land as they have sold, or to order that such pieces of land as said committee hath sold shall be entered in the proprietors' book ; also to receive
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THE PLANTATION OF PENACOOK.
Inhabitants of the Plantation of Pennycook, be and hereby is fully Impowred to assemble and Convene the Inhabitants of said Planta- tion to Choose Officers, and to Do other matters, in Pursuance of an
the report of the committee that was chosen at said meeting, to exchange some of the land belonging to said proprietors with Lient. John Chandler, for his house or home lots, and to order said committee what to do further thercon.
Dated at Rumford aforesaid, the 18th day of January, 1737.
EBENEZER EASTMAN,
JEREMIAH STICKNEY,
TIMOTHY WALKER,
EPHRAIM FARNUM,
JAMES ABBOTT,
JOSEPH EASTMAN,
NATHANIEL ABBOTT,
DAVID KIMBALL,
EDWARD ABBOTT,
JAMES OSGOOD,
BARACIIIAS FARNUM,
JOHN MERRILL,
BENJAMIN ROLFE,
DANIEL CHASE.
JOSEPH HALL,
A true copy. Examined by BENJAMIN ROLFE, Proprietors' Clerk.
Notification being issned agreeably to this desire - At a meeting of the pro- prietors of the common and undivided land in the township of Rumford, regu- larly assembled at the meeting-house in said Rumford, on Thursday, the 2d day of February, 1737 -
Mr. Barachias Farnum was chosen moderator of this present meeting.
Agreed and Voted, That the return of the committee that was chosen at a legal meeting of said proprietors of the common and undivided land in the township of Rumford, on the 14th day of March, Annoque Domini 1736, to lay out a di- vision of land for said proprietors, be accepted, which is as follows, viz .:
Whereas, at a legal meeting of the proprietors of the common and undivided land in the township of Rumford, regularly assembled at the meeting-house in said Rumford, on Monday, the 14th day of March, Annoque Domini 1736-
We, the subscribers, were chosen a committee, and empowered to lay out a division of the common and undivided land in the township of Rumford, as by a vote of said proprietors may fully and at large appear, have accordingly at- tended to the service, between the said 14th day of March and the last day of December, Annoque Domini 1737, and laid out as followeth, viz. :
[First lot to 107.]
This division of land was made between the 14th day of March, Annoque Domini one thousand seven hundred and thirty-six, and the last day of De- cember, Annoque Domini one thousand seven hundred and thirty-seven, ac- cording to our best judgment, and agreeable to the vote of the proprietors.
By us : BENJAMIN ROLFE, ! Committee. JOHN CHANDLER, S
The aforegoing report of the division of land being read and duly considered at a meeting of the proprietors, regularly assembled at the meeting-house in Rumford, on Thursday, the 2d day of February, Annoque Domini one thousand seven hundred and thirty-seven, it was
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order of this Court at their Session begun and held at Boston, the first Day of December, 1732, which officers, when Chosen, are to Stand until the anniversary Meeting in March next.
Sent down for Concurrence,
J. WILLARD, Sed'ry.
In the House of Representatives, Decembr 20th, 1732.
Read and Concur'd,
J. QUINCY, Sper.
Dec 21, 1732. Consented to,
J. BELCHER.
Copy Examined per
J. WILLARD, Sec'ry.
Agreed and Voted, That the same be accepted and recorded by the proprietors' clerk.
Concordat cum originali.
Attest : BENJA. ROLFE, Clerk for the Proprietors of Rumford.
Voted, That the plans of the several lots of the afore-going division of land shall be entered in the proprietors' book by the clerk. [This was the 80 acres division. See original records.]
ADDENDA TO CHAPTER III.
No. 1.
EXPLANATION
OF THE FIRST SURVEY AND DIVISION OF HOUSE AND HOME LOTS ON THE WEST SIDE OF MERRIMACK RIVER.
This survey was made in May, 1726.
I. The house lots contained one aere and a half, more or less, and were laid off in the following ranges :
1. The first range, on the east side of Main street from Pond Hill, ( Rev. Tim- othy Walker's - where Joseph B. Walker, Esq., now lives,) to the hill on the north side of the present Gas Works -numbering 37 lots. Nos. 6 and 35 in this range are vaeant.
2. The second range, on the west side of Main street, from Pond Hill, and of the same extent, and parallel with the first range - numbering 34 lots. No. 30 in this range is vacant.
3. The third range was west of the Biblical Institute, extending from the road running west, (by Richard Bradley's, Esq.,) to Washington street - numbering 11 lots. In this range No. 39 is vacant, and was subsequently laid out for a burying-place. The road between the second and third range was ten rods wide .*
* The original width still appears at the north end of State street ; but from the late James Buswell's, south, it is but three rods, as subsequently laid out. The space between the old Hopkinton road and Washington street not being improved as a road, was laid out to Joshua Bailey as a part of his twenty acre lot.
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THE PLANTATION OF PENACOOK.
4. The "Island Range " lay along the high land on the west side of Horse-shoe Pond, and extended up to what is called Wood's Brook - numbering 9 lots.
NOTE. Besides the above, lots were laid out west of the north end of the third range, to Timothy Johnson, William Whitcher, Richard Coolidge and the School -which lots were bounded on the north by the road that formerly lead to Boscawen, and seem to have been in place of the vacant lots before mentioned. These lots are not numbered on the record.
II. The " Six Acre, or Home Lots," were laid out in the following order :
1. The "Eleven Lots," or Lowest Interval, comprised both house and home lots - "a highway four rods broad, saved and reserved through the aforesaid eleven lots."
2. " Wattanummon's Field " - still known by that name - contained ten lots. " A highway, two rods broad, saved and reserved on the southeasterly side of the first lot in this division, and also a highway, two rods broad, through the last mentioned ten lots."
3. " The Great Plain " comprised the whole interval on the west side of the river -lying east of Main street -from Wattanummon's Field to Frog Ponds, and numbered 72 lots, including the lot numbered 103.
N. B. The several highways through these lots are marked with sufficient distinctness on the accompanying l'lan, by double lines. In addition, however, to the principal highways so marked, (1.) " A highway, two rods in breadth, is saved and reserved through the 20th, 21st and 22d lots." (2.) " A highway, three rods wide, through the easterly end of lots 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 103, as nigh to Merrimack river as may be with convenience ;" and "a highway of two rods wide through the easterly end of the 36th, 37th and 38th lots." (3.) " A highway, two rods broad, saved and reserved through the 59th lot, where it is now used to go over Wattannmmon's Bridge, so called."
4. Horse-shoc Island comprised ten lots.
THE NAMES OF PROPRIETORS
ALPHABETICALLY ARRANGED, WITH THE HOUSE AND HOME LOTS LAID OUT IN MAY, 1726, AND SEVERALLY DRAWN IN 1727.
BY REFERENCE TO TIIE ACCOMPANYING PLAN, THE EXACT LOCATION OF EACH SETTLER MAY BE ASCERTAINED.]
Names, alphabetically ar- runged.
Number, Quantity and Range of House Lots.
Six-Acre, or Home Lots, and Range.
NO. QUAN.
RANGE.
NO. QUAN.
RANGE.
Abbot, Nathaniel .
12
11/
Second Range.
53 8.74
Great Plain.
Austen, John
7
113
First Range. .
5 5.128
Great Plain.
Ayres, Samuel
5
115
Island Range.
9 5.
Island.
Ayres, John .
2
113
Island Range.
6 9.16
Island.
Abbot, Jacob .
12
113
First Range. .
47 6.126|
Great Plain.
Ayers, Obadiah .
5
9.69
L'w'st Range .*
Barker, Zebediah, alias Ed- ward Abbot,
16
11/
Second Range.
57
6.20
Great Plain.
Blanchard, Thomas
21
113
Second Range.
42 5.150
Great Plain.
Barker, William
36
113
Third Range.
59 63/
Great Plain.
Barker, Nathaniel, alias Solo-
mon Martin .
.
19
115
Second Range.
47 7.
Great Plain.
* The Lowest Range was " The Eleven Lots," and (9 acres 69 poles) included Ilouse and Home Lots.
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PROPRIETARY RECORDS.
THE NAMES OF PROPRIETORS-CONTINUED.
Names, alphabetically ar- ranged.
Number, Quantity and Range of Ilouse Lots.
Sir-Acre, or Home Lots, and Range.
NO. QUAN.
RANGE.
NO. QUAN.
RANGE.
Bayley, Joshna
33
112
First Range.
24 6.104
Great Plain.
Boardman, Moses, alias Jo- siah Jones, .
32
11%
First Range.
23 6.96
Great Plain.
Blodgett, Nathan
15
110,
Second Range.
56
6.
Great Plain.
Bayley, John, alias Samnel White,
14
115
First Range.
8 5.130
Great Plain.
Clement, Nathaniel
6
9.54
Low'st R'nge .*
68
6.66
Great Plain.
Carlton, Benjamin
18
11. First Range.
12 5.110
Great Plain.
Carlton, Christopher
5
11
First Range.
7
5.128
Great Plain.
Carlton, Nehemiah
13.
11
First Range.
46 6.94
Great Plain.
Coolidge, Richard, alias Sam- uel Jones,
11 .
3 10.
Wat'num.'s.
Coggin, John
10
11.
Second Range.
71 71. 1
Great Plain. Island.
Coffin, Enoch
36
1
First Range.
26 7.104
Great Plain.
Coleman, Thomas
8
115 First Range.
4 5.128
Great Plain.
Cogswell, Nathaniel
38
115
Third Range.
2 8.50
Wat'num.'s.
Day, Moses
25
First Range.
19|4.100;
Great Plain.
Davis, Joseph
44
115
Third Range.
8 6.93
Wat'num.'s.
Davis, Samuel
46
11 Third Range.
10 61.
Wat'num.'s.
Davis, Ephraim
10
11.
First Range.
2 5.32
Great Plain.
Eastman, Ebenezer
9
1
Second Range.
70,634
Great Plain.
Eames, Jacob .
23
11
Second Range.
40 515
Great Plain.
Emerson, Stephen
9
115
First Range.
3 5.128
Great Plain.
Foster, John
20
11 First Range.
14 5.105
Great Plain.
Farnmm, Ephraim
15
11
First Range.
9 5.130
Great Plain.
Foster, Abraham .
3
Second Range.
64 4.50
Great Plain.
Fisk, Nathan, alias Zachariah Chandler,
4
115
Second Range.
65
4.152
Great Plain.
Grainger, John .
1
115
Second Range.
62 7.60
Great Plain.
Grainger, Samuel
22
115 Second Range.
41
4.96
Great Plain.
Gage, Benjamin
8
9.33
Eleven Lots.
8
Gutterson, William
27
116 | First Range.
21 5.93
Great Plain.
Heath, Nehemiah
3
115
Island Range.
7 2.114 Island.
Hale, Joseph
29
113
First Range.
45 6.
Great Plain.
Hazzen, Moses
31
11. First Range.
37
6.27
Great Plain.
Hazzen, Richard
9
83
Eleven Lots. 9
Hubbard, Jonathan, alias Dan- iel Davis, .
30
115
First Range.
36 113 4
Great Plain.
Hall, Joseph
2 9.107 Eleven Lots.
2
Jaques, John
17
11
First Range. Second Range.
62 6.20
Great Plain.
Kimball, Robert
43
132
Third Range.
7 6.66
Wat'num.'s.
Kimball, Samuel Kimball, David
24
11
First Range.
18 6.50
Great Plain.
Lovejoy, Nathaniel
22
11
First Range.
16 5.95
Great Plain. Island.
Learned, Thomas
40
11
Third Range.
4 7.50 Wat'num.'s.
Mattis, John
20
11.
Second Range.
43 10.100 Great Plain.
Merrill. John
27
1 1
Second Range.
34 8.100 Great Plain.
.
2
1;5.138
Island.
Jones, Nathaniel
6
11
4
18
113
Second Range.
103 6.50
Great Plain.
Lovejoy, Ebenezer
1
115
Island Range.
8 4.64
Ilildreth, Ephraim
10
4
83 Eleven Lots.
10
Dodge, David
4
2
113 First Range.
48 5.73
Great Plain.
Clark, Edward
115
Island Range.
4 111
Chandler. John .
7 11%
First Range.
·
Johnson, Timothy
11|5.130 Great Plain.
* The Lowest Range was " The Eleven Lots," and included House and Ilome Lots.
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THE PLANTATION OF PENACOOK.
THE NAMES OF PROPRIETORS-CONTINUED.
Names, alphabetically ar- ranged.
Number, Quantity and Range of House Lots.
Six-Acre, or Home Lots, and Range.
YO.|QUAN. ]
RANGE.
NO.| QUAN.
RANGE.
Mitchell, Andrew
19
112
First Range.
13 5.110
Great Plain.
Minister, .
1
113
First Range.
51 6.90
Great Plain.
Nichols, Benjamin
11
115
First Range.
1 3.70
Great Plain.
Parker, Benjamin
37
115
Third Range.
1 6.62
Wat'num.'s.
Peaslee, Robert
26
11%
First Range.
20.6.20
Great Plain.
Parker, Joseph
24
115
Second Range.
39,61/
Great Plain.
Parker, Nathan
8
115!
Second Range.
69 7.128, Great Plain.
Page, Nathaniel
34
112 Second Range.
28.7.50
Great Plain.
Phillips, Samuel
25
115
Second Range.
38 7.40
Great Plain.
Parker, James
28
115
First Range.
22 6.48
Great Plain.
Pulsipher, Jonathan
4
915
Eleven Lots.
4
Peaslee, Nathaniel
1
93. 4
Eleven Lots.
1
Pecker, John
23
115
First Range.
17,5.90
Great Plain.
l'age, Joseph
29
113
Second Range
32 6.120
Great Plain.
Peabody, John
37
11.First Range.
27 6.120
Great Plain.
Parsonage,
41
115
Third Range.
50 6.90 Great Plain.
Reynolds, Samnel
16
131
First Range.
105.130
Great Plain.
Rolfe, Henry
45
112
Third Range.
9.7. Wat'num.'s.
Sanders, John
13
-
Second Range.
54 6.20
Great Plain.
Stevens, Ebenezer
17
11. Second Range.
58 7.140
Great Plain.
Sanders, John, Jr.,
21
115 First Range.
15 5.100
Great Plain.
Sanders, Nathaniel
32
115 Second Range.
30 8.
Great Plain.
Stevens, Benjamin
1
1 2 Island Range. 2
5,516
Island.
Simonds, James .
10 113 First Range.
5 8. Wat'num.'s.
Simonds, Nathan
31
11.
Second Range.
31 6.140 Great Plain.
Shipley, Jonathan
5
113 Second Range.
66 634 Great Plain.
Snow, Zorababel
35 115
Third Range.
61 6.28
Great Plain.
School,
]1
60,53;
Great Plain.
Toppan, Samuel
2
115 2
Second Range.
63 5.36
Great Plain.
Toppan, Bezaleel
11
116
Second Range.
52 6.104
Great Plain.
Urann. Richard
42 11% Third Range.
6 8.
Wat'num.'s.
Virgin, Ebenezer
6
115
Island Range.
10 5.128
Island.
Wright, John
33.
Second Range.
29 7.
Great Plain.
White, William
7
917
Eleven Lots.
7
White, Nicholas
3
9.35
Eleven Lots.
3
Walker, Isaac
28
115
Second Range.
33 634
Great Plain. Great Plain. Island.
Wood, David .
9
115
Island Range.
2 5.70
6.5.128, Great Plain.
Wicomb, Thomas
14.
113
Second Range.
55 6.
Great Plain.
Winn, Edward .
34
115
First Range.
25,6.107 Great Plain.
Mill Grant on Turkey River,
140 acres on Turkey River.
Noves Cutting Grant, .
Mill Grant to Nathan Simonds,
8
1
Island Range.
3 81.
Island.
Page, Thomas
3
115 First Range.
49 5.16
Great Plain.
Osgood, John
83
Eleven Lots .*
11
Osgood, Stephen .
-
113
Second Range.
35 81 2
Whittier, William
2
·
[ Main street. 40 acres, east side of river, and 10, 2d Range, 100 aeres on the east side.
* " The Eleven Lots " included House and Home Lots.
·
Wise, Ammi Ruham
26
Ferry
POND
7 8 9 10
59
60
62
63
HORSE SHOE
FAN
7
69
6
6
5
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3
3
2
5
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1
607.
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W. W
T.J
36
2
50
3
37
2
38
3
4
18
19
21
41
8
9
8
43
10
10
15
12
46
13
13
3'7
14
15
16
35
16 H
17
.39
RIVER
Middle Plain
21
99
2.5
43
23
26
27
44
20
103
97
29
28
30
31
2911
33
FROG
31
PONOS
36
33
.37
34
II
Ferry
11
9 .0
8 2
S
7 :
6
3
2
1
Lowest Intervale
o W'attan
ield
66
02: 68
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THE
71
56
55
53
52
70
51
Hales
17
16
13
11
12
10
16
20
23
24
26
28
30
29
33
.32
3.5
AREN'TA PILHA 31
48
7
49
SCHOOL
Point
4.5
22
25
36
11
34
14
19
19
20
20
41
21
99
42
IMACK
MERRIN
It Garrison & Block houses erected in
1716.
34
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Scale 125 rods In the inch
A PLAN of the Lots in PENACOOK us laid out by the original proprietors /111926 .~ Prepared & drawn by S.C. Badger
J. W. Chandler & Bro Lith Boston
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PROPRIETARY RECORDS.
EXPLANATION
OF THE "SECOND DIVISION OF INTERVAL," MOSTLY ON THE EAST SIDE OF THE MERRIMACK RIVER, SURVEYED BY RICHARD HAZZEN, JR., IN MAY, 1727, AND LAID OUT BY JOIN CHANDLER, RICHARD HAZZEN, JR., AND WILLIAM WHITE, COMMITTEE.
The plan of this survey is not preserved, but the localities mentioned are un- derstood by tradition - the several names given in the record being still applied to them.
1. The " Mill Brook " Interval designates the lands which lie in the vicinity of the brook that runs from Turtle Pond through the East Village, and empties into the Merrimack easterly of Federal Bridge. This was divided into two ranges, which included the whole interval west and north of the bridge.
2. "Sugar Ball Division " lies in the valley south of the Sugar Ball Hill, in the vicinity of Samuel Clifford's present residence.
3. " The Middle Plain " includes the interval immediately north and south of the Free Bridge Road, extending up to Sugar Ball Plain and down to the enrve in the river, near the house of the late William Davis.
4. The " Lowest Interval " includes the lands from the ancient town line, this side of Turkey Falls, upwards, till it meets the Middle Plain.
5. " Rattle-snake Plains " lie on the west side of the river, from what is called Farnum's Eddy, northward, to the high banks north-east of the West Village, or as far as the interval extends in that direction.
6. "Frog Ponds " include the section of interval still well known by that name-though the course of the river has greatly changed the original bounds of some of the lots.
The following table shows where the several lots, as laid out originally, were located, and, also, the quantity of land to each. It will be observed that in several cases two parcels were allotted to the same person, in different localities. The record of this " Second Division " is in Vol. I. of Proprietors' Records, pp. 29-43.
I. MILL BROOK INTERVAL-FIRST RANGE.
NO.
1. Edward Abbot, ACRES. NO.
13. John Chandler,
2. John Foster,. 21/
14. Bezaleel Toppan,
3. Nehemiah Heath, 211 15. John Coggin,
4. Ebenezer Lovejoy,. 21: 16. Ebenezer Eastman,
5. Samuel Ayer, . 21.
17. Samnel Davis, . 41
6. Stephen Osgood, 213 18. Nathan Parker, . 41
7. David Wood, . 4
19. Edward Clark, 6
8. Jolın Grainger, . 5 20. Benjamin Stevens, 6
9. William Barker, 416
21. Nehemiah Heath, . 312
10. Timothy Johnson,
4 22. John Foster, 3
11. Ebenezer Virgin, 415
23. Jonathan Shipley, 4 1.
12. Nathaniel Abbot,
24. Nathaniel Jones, 412
MILL BROOK INTERVAL-SECOND RANGE.
NO.
ACRES.
NO.
ACRES.
1. Abraham Foster, 5
7. School, . 5
2. John Sanders,
5
8. Zerobbabel Snow, 5
3. Thomas Wicomb, 5 9. Edward Abbot,
4. Nathan Blodgett, . 5 10. Ebenezer Lovejoy,
5. Minister, . 6 11. Samuel Ayer, . 21
6. Parsonage, 6 12. Stephen Osgood, 21.
ACRES.
126
TIIE PLANTATION OF PENACOOK.
2. SUGAR BALL PLAIN.
NO.
ACRES. NO.
ACRES.
212 5
2. Ephraim Farnum,
21/ 10. Samuel Reynolds, .
3. Nathaniel Lovejoy, 21 11. John Aver, 6
4. John Jaques, .
213 12. Samuel White, 5
5. Benjamin Carlton, 21. 13. David Kimball, 5
6. Andrew Mitchell, 21 14. Moses Day, .
7. Stephen Emerson, 21 15. John Pecker, 215
8. Thomas Colman, 21 16. John Sanders,
3. MIDDLE PLAIN.
NO.
ACRES. NO.
ACRES.
1. Thomas Coleman, . 4 15. Jacob Eames, . 5
2. Ephraim Davis,
3
16. Samuel Grainger,
5
3. Benjamin Niccolls, . 17. John Mattis, 5 3
4. Stephen Emerson, 21 18. John Osgood,
3
5. Ephraim Farnum,
21 19. Ephraim Hildreth, 3
6. Nathaniel Lovejoy, 21
20. Richard Hazzen, Jr., 3
21. Benjamin Gage, 3
22. William White, . 3
23. Nathaniel Clement, 3
10. John Sanders, Jr., 21
24. Obadiah Ayer, (?)
11. John Pecker,
25. Jonathan Pulsepher,
3
26. Nicholas White, . 3
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