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each settler having a sufficiency of timber felled, hauled, and adapted for build- ing his house within six months after the direction of the committee of the Gen- eral Court for building the same, such defective settler or settlers shall forfeit and pay the sum of ten pounds cach, to be used and employed as aforesaid.
And in case of any settler or settlers failing to comply with the orders and directions enjoined him or them respectively, by the General Court, for bringing forward and effectually completing the settlement within two years and a half from the said first day of June next, such settler or settlers shall absolutely for- feit the lot or lots by him or them drawn, with all the improvements that shall be made thereon to the other settlers ; and in such case it shall be in the power of the other settlers, with the consent of the committee of the General Court, to appoint and admit such person or persons to bring forward the settlements or allotments of the deficient persons as aforesaid, as may be judged will effectu- ally bring forward the settlements according to the Court's order.
Agreed and Resolved, That no alienation of any lot shall be made without the consent of the community ; and if any of the intended settler or settlers shall alienate his or their lots or settlements, to any person or persons, without the consent of the community first had and obtained, such sale shall be declared void of itself, and the settler that shall so pretend to alienate his lot shall forfeit the same to the community.
Agreed and Voted, That Messrs. Timothy Johnson, Moses Day and Joshua Bayley be a committee, in the name of the settlers, to wait on the Honorable Committee of the General Court for giving out notifications proper for the set- tlers to assemble and convene for the future, as shall hereafter be thought neces- sary.
Agreed and Voted, That Mr. Obadiah Ayer be desired and empowered, in the
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Wednesday, May ye 18th This morning Early some of ye Com- mittee went over to ye West side of the River with M! Hazzen and Company, and some of them with M! Batcheldor and Compa, to lay out the Home Lotts according to the order of ye General Court. On ye West side the Committee and Surveyor met with Great Difficulty to find a tract large enough to lay out the Number of Lotts and their contents agreeable to the Court's Act, but at length agreed they should be lay'd out on the Great Interval, over against Sugar Plain and the Land next adjoining thereto, having first made a Beginning on the Upland next adjoining to the Interval : but found it imprac- ticable if not impossible to lay out the Land there into Six Acre Lotts so as to be fenced and broken up within Three Years: the con-
name of the settlers, to examine the General Conrt's Records, and see if there be any former grant made of any of the lands now granted and ordered to be settled at Penny Cook, and report to the settlers at their next meeting.
Benjamin Stevens, John Peabody,
Bezaliel Toppan,
Henry Rolfe,
John Sanders,
William Gutterson,
Enoch Coffin,
Benja. Carlton, Nicholas White,
Edward Clark,
Samnel Kimball,
Thomas Wicomb,
Stephen Osgood,
Andrew Mitchell,
Thomas Page,
Zerubbabel Snow,
Joshua Bayley,
John Grainger,
Timothy Johnson,
Nathan Blodgett,
Nath'l Abbott,
William Barker,
Thomas Blanchard, James Simonds,
Moses Hazzen,
David Kimball,
Robert Kimball,
Nathan Lovejoy,
Joseph Davis,
Ephraim Farnum, His
Nathan Parker,
David Dodge,
Saml. X Reynolds,
Joseph Hall,
Ammi Rhuhamah Wise,
mark. Richard Hazzen, jun.,
Jonathan Shipley,
John Chandler,
Nath'l Sanders,
Richard Urann,
Moses Day,
Joseph Hale, Sam'l Grainger, His
Joseph Page,
Jolın Pecker,
Edward X Winn, mark. Benjamin Parker,
Nath'l Clement,
John Saunders, junr.,
John Merrill,
John Wright,
Nathan Simonds,
Nath'I Barker,
John Austen,
Jolın Coggin,
Robert Peaslee,
Stephen Emerson,
Obadiah Ayer,
Benja. Gage, His
Jolm Jaques,
Nehemiah Carlton,
Abraham X Fosters, mark.
William White,
Ephraim Hildreth,
Jonathan Hubbard,
Nath'l Page,
Jacob Eames,
Joseph Parker, His
Nath'l Peaslee,
Nehemiah Heath,
John X Mattis, mark.
Samuel Ayer.
A true copy of the original. Attest : JOHN WAINWRIGHT, C. Clerk. Then the committee adjourned till to-morow morning, ten o'clock.
Thomas Colman,
Ebenezer Eastman,
Ebenezer Stevens,
Isaac Walker,
Ebenezer Lovejoy,
John Osgood,
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tents being too large wholly to be lay'd out there. Towards Evening M! Houghton and Company returned to ye Camp from the Line on the West side of the River, and at Evening the other two Surveyors and Compa returned. M. Bacheldor informed they had taken ye Copy of Goy! Endicott's Grant, and been upon the Land they supposed to be the Land laid out formerly and Surveyed to satisfie the sd Grant ; that it agreed Exactly with the plan, and consisted principally of In- terval Land, and that the Grant extended down the River within Eighty pole of the place where the Irish people had lately built a
Tuesday, February ye Sth, 1725. At a meeting of the committee - present, the same as before.
Mr. Wainwright, clerk to the committee, was sworn to the faithful execution of his office.
Coram : ELISHA COOKE, J. Pacis.
A true copy of the original : Examined by JOHN WAINWRIGHT, C. Clerk ..
Agreed and Voted, That the committee meet at the house of Col. Tyng, at Dunstable, on Tuesday, the fifth day of April next, in order to proceed to Penny Cook, to lay out the land into lots, according to the Court's order.
Agreed and Voted, That Col. Tyng be desired to prepare fifteen days' provis- ions for twenty men.
Ordered, That the clerk put up notifications that the committee expect and direct each of the intended settlers to pay into the hands of the committee they have appointed for application for calling of meetings, the sum of forty shillings, for defraying the charge of the committee, the money to be ready at Col. Tyng's, at Dunstable, on or before the fifth day of April next.
Attest : JOIIN WAINWRIGHT, C. Clerk.
March ye 26th, 1726. Upon advice from Mr. Chairman, that the General Court would sit on the thirteenth of April next, and the committee being mem- bers of the Court, notifications were given out that the committee could not meet at the time proposed to go to Penny Cook.
At a meeting of the committee for bringing forward the settlement at Penny Cook, held at the house of Francis Holmes, in Boston, April 14, 1726 :
PRESENT,
The Honorable William Tailer, Esqr., Spencer Phipps, Esqr., William Dud- ley, Esqr., John Wainwright, Esqr., Capt. John Shipley, Mr. John Sanders, Eleazar Tyng, Esq., and Mr. Joseph Wilder.
Agreed and Voted, That the committee proceed to Haverhill on the second Tuesday of May next, in order to go to Penny Cook to lay out the lots and settlements, agreeable to the General Court's order.
Agreed and Voted, That Mr. Wilder provide one surveyor and Mr. Wain- wright provide the other.
Agreed and Voted, That the settlers' committee, viz., Messrs. Timothy John- son, Moses Day and Joshua Bayley, be desired to notify the settlers to get ready
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fort : so that there remained but a small quantity of Interval, which would accommodate not half a score Home Lotts : so they had not laid any Lotts out that side the River. This day, fine pleasant Weather. It may be observed that divers Rattle Snakes were killed dayley by the several Companys in Surveying, but Thanks be to God no Body received any Harm from them.
Thursday, May ye 19th This Morning the Comtee agreed to send M! Iloughton and M! Hazzen, with ye Chainmen, (some of the Com- mittee concluding to be with them,) to finish the laying out the Lotts
fifteen days' provision for the committee and their attendants, which will be about twenty persons, with the committee.
Agreed and Voted, That the settlers' committee be desired to notify the settlers that the committee expect and direct each of them to pay forty shillings to their Committee, to be ready at Haverhill on the second Tuesday of May next, which is to defray the charge of the committee, surveyors and chainmen, &c.
Attest : JOIN WAINWRIGHT, C. Clerk.
At a meeting of the committee for bringing forward the settlement at Penny Cook, held at Haverhill the tenth day of May, Anno Domini 1726 -
PRESENT,
The Honorable William Tailer, Esqr., John Wainwright, Esqr., Capt. John Shipley, Mr. John Sanders, Elcazar Tyng, Esq., and Mr. Joseph Wilder.
The committee, with the surveyors and chainmen, and a number of the admitted settlers attending them, proceeded to Penny Cook, and laid out one hundred and three home lots or divisions on the west side of the river, in equal proportion, according to quantity and quality, as near as the land would admit thereof, agreeable to the order and last direction of the Great and General Court, and then they returned to Haverhill, to receive the payment of two hun- dred pounds, to defray the charges of the survey of the town and laying out the home lots, as above said, and the said committee defrayed the said charges accordingly.
The settlers of the township at Penny Cook are hereby notified and warned to assemble and convene at the house of Mr. Francis Crumpton, at Ipswich, on Tuesday, the sixth day of September, at eleven of the clock before noon, to draw their respective lots according to the General Court's order, and raise the sum of one hundred pounds, to defray the charge of laying out a way to the township, and other necessary charges, which may be thought reasonable to be allowed.
By order of the committee :
JOHN WAINWRIGHT, C. Clerk.
Boston, Angust ye 27th, 1726.
At a meeting of the committee for bringing forward the settlement at Penny Cook, held at the house of Mr. Francis Crumpton, at Ipswich, the seventh day of September, Anno Domini 1726 :
PRESENT,
The Honorable William Tailer, Esqr., Spencer Phipps, Esqr., John Wain-
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on the West side the River, agreeable to the Court's order. About Six of the Clock Colo Tailer, M! Wainwright and Col. Tyng, with M! Coffin and 13 others, took their Leave of ye remaining part of the Committee and set out on their Journey back to Haverhill. Cloudy Weather and some small Showers. We baited on the Intervale to the Eastward of Suncook River, a few minutes, and then steered our Course for Amoskeeg Falls, where we arrived about Eleven a'Clock, and found abundance of Irish men catching fish. By the account we could get of them, we supposed they killed in the season Seven or
wright, Esqr., Capt. John Shipley, Mr. John Sanders and Eleazar Tyng, Esqr.
The settlers came into the following orders and rules for the bringing forward and effecting the settlement which the committee received from them, viz. :
At a meeting of the proprietors of the town of Penny Cook, assembled at Ipswich, September ye 7th, 1726 -
Agreed and Voted, That Capt. Benjamin Stevens, Esqr., be and is appointed treasurer, to receive of the Honorable General Court's committee the money which they have received from said admitted settlers, and not expended in defraying their own charges, the said money to be disposed of in marking out and clearing a way to Penny Cook.
Agreed and Voted, That there shall be three men chosen a committee to go out and clear a sufficient cart way to Penny Cook, the nighest and best way they can from Haverhill. For said committee were chosen, Ensn. John Chandler, of Andover ; John Ayer, of Haverhill, and Mr. William Barker, of Andover.
Agreed and Voted, That the said committee be paid out of the money which may be in the treasurer's hands, so far as that will go, [for their said serviec,] the remainder, if any be wanting, to be defrayed by the community.
Agreed and Voted, That Mr. Obadiah Ayer be paid out of the treasury forty shillings, money for his service in searching the province records, in order to find out any former grant of Penny Cook.
Agreed and Voted, That Mr. Obadiah Ayer make application to the Honorable General Court at their next session in behalf of the admitted settlers of Penny Cook, in order to have the five hundred pounds abated, and the five hundred acres, [being an equivalent for Mr. Sewall's farin, ] added to said township.
The settlers completed their payment of twenty shillings each, making in the whole the sum of one hundred pounds to Mr. Chairman, inclusive of what orders were given to their treasurer for the delinquents to pay him.
1726.
At a meeting of the committee for bringing forward the settlement at the township lately granted at Penny Cook, held at the Council Chamber in Bos- ton, the third day of January, Anno Domini 1726 :
PRESENT.
The Honorable William Tailer, Esqr., William Dudley, Esqr., John Wain- wright, Esqr., Capt. John Shipley, Eleazar Tyng, Esqr., and Mr. Joseph Wilder.
Agreed and Voted, That the charge of the settlers hitherto necessarily arising
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Eight hundred Barrells of Shad. After some short tarry we set out for Nutfield, and in our way there we over took abundance of the Irish with loaded horses returning from Amoskeeg, and met a many of them going to the Falls for their Loads. About two a'Clock, af- ternoon, we arrived at Johny Barr's, at Nutfield, where we refreshed our Selves and our Horses, and made a considerable tarry there, and then sot out for Haverhill. We stoped a little while at Providence Brook, and abont Sun down we arrived at M! Eastman's in Safety, by Divine protection. M! Bacheldor, the Surveyor, came back with us.
for laying out a cart-way from Haverhill to the aforesaid township, &c., and be laid before the committee appointed by the settlers, viz. : Lt. Timothy Johnson and others, for their perusal and examination, and that they report their opinion to Benjamin Stevens, Esqr., of Andover, treasurer to the settlers, what charges ought to be allowed and paid, who is hereby ordered and directed to pay the same accordingly out of the settlers' money in his hands.
Agreed and J'oted, That the Honorable William Tailer, Esqr., William Dud- ley, Esqr., and John Wainwright, Esq., be desired to meet at the dwelling-house of Benjamin Stevens, Esqr., in Andover, on Tuesday, the seventh day of Feb- ruary next, in order to receive of each settler a bond, with sufficient surety, for the sum of five pounds, that so they may draw their respective lots, and proceed on the premises granted, and effectually bring forward the said settlement, according to the grant of the General Court.
Attest : JOHN WAINWRIGHT, C. Clerk :.
At a meeting of the committee for bringing forward the settlement of the township at Penny Cook, held at Andover, the 7th and 8th of February, 1726 :
PRESENT,
The Honorable William Tailer, Esqr., William Dudley, Esqr., John Wain- wright, Esqr., Capt. John Shipley, Mr. John Saunders.
The committee proceeded to take a bond of five pounds from each of the admitted settlers, under hand and seal respectively, for the payment of five hundred pounds for the use of this province, when the General Court shall order the committee to demand the same of them, on penalty of forfeiting their title and interest, &c., in and to the lands respectively, as by the said bonds lodged in the hands of Mr. Chairman, and the clerk may fully appear, reference being there- unto had.
The committee then allowed the settlers to draw their lots, which was accord- ingly done, as appears by the following list of their names and the lots entered to them :
Enoch Coffin, N. 36, 26. John Peabody, N. 37, 27. Richard Urann, 42, 6, 3d range. Andrew Mitchell, N. 19, 13. Mr. Samnel Phillips, N. 25, 38. 2d range. Samuel Ayer, N. 5, 9, island range. John Grainger, N. 1, 62, 2d range. Ilenry Rolfe, N. 45, 9, 3d range.
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The Andover men parted from us after we refreshed our selves at Johny Barr's, at Nutfield.
Friday, May ye 20th This Morning cloudy, Lowry Weather, and very Sultry hot ; Wind Southerly. We sent for M! Browne, the Minister of ye Town, to dine with us. M! Bacheldor, the Surveyor, was Employed in making a fair plann of the Interval on ye East side of the River, which he surveyed.
Saturday, May ye 21st Fair Weather.
The order of the Council of New-Hampshire, referred to in the foregoing journal, with other proceedings respecting Pena- cook, will be read with interest in the following documents, viz. :
Extracts from the Message of Lieut. Gov. WENTWORTHI to the General Assembly, held at Portsmouth, April 11, 1726.
" The Massachusetts are daily encroaching on us. A late instance we have in voting a Township should be erected and settled at Pen- nycook, which will certainly be in the very bowels of this Province, and which will take in the most valuable part of our Lands.
" I would therefore recommend this matter to your mature consid- eration ; and am pursuaded that you will consult such measures that
John Sanders, junr., N. 21, 15. Thomas Page, N. 3, 49. William Barker, N. 36, 59, 3d range. Isaac Walker, N. 28, 33, 2d range. Joseph Davis, N. 44, 8, 3d range. John Coggin, N. 10, 71, 3d range.
Benjamin Parker, N. 37, 1, 3d range.
Edward Clarke, N. 7, 4, island range.
Stephen Osgood, 8, 3, island range. Benjamin Gage, N. 8, 0, lowest range. Moses Day, N. 25, 19, David Kimball, 24, 18.
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Benjamin Stevens, Esqr., N. 1, 5, island range.
John Chandler, N. 7, 68, 2d range. Ebenezer Virgin, N. 6, 10, island range.
John Peeker, 23, 17. Moses Hazzen, N. 31, 37.
William Gutterson, N. 27, 21.
Joseph Hale, N. 29, 45.
Ephraim Davis, N. 10, 2. John Wright, N. 33, 29. Jacob Eames, N. 33, 40, 2d range.
Jacob Abbott, N. 12, 47. Christopher Carlton, N. 5, 7. Nathaniel Page, N. 34, 28, 2d range.
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may be not only serviceable, but for the honour of His Majesty's Province, which I assure you I shall cheerfully embrace.
"I have lately represented this affair to the Lords Commissioners for Trade and Plantations, and have transmitted the best and exactest draught of this Province, Merrimack River and situation of Penni- cook to their Lordships, praying their favour in obtaining a settlement of the lines, giving instances where in it highly concerns the interest of the Crown."
The General Assembly, in reply to this part of the Governor's message, say :
" As to the settling the lines between the Governments, we shall take it under our serious consideration."
PRO : OF - At a Council held at Portsmouth, May 10th, 1726. PRESENT,
N. HAMP. S
His Honour JNO : WENTWORTH, Esq., Lt. Gov!
MARK HUNKING,
GEO : JAFFREY, Esos
SHAD! WALTON,
RICHP WIBIRD, JOTH : ODIORNE.
It being reported to the board that in Pursuance of a late vote of the Gen' Assembly of the Province of Massa sundry persons are go- ing or gone to lay out and take possession of and settle upon some of
Samuel Kimball, N. 18, 103, 2d range. Nathan Simonds, N. 31, 31, 2d range. David Dodge, N. 4, 48.
Robert Peaslec, N. 26, 20.
Richard Coolidge, right drawn by Sam'l Jones, N. 39, 3, 3d range. Thomas Wicomb, N. 14, 55, 2d range. Robert Kimball, N. 43, 7, 3d range. John Saunders, N. 13, 54, 2d range. Nathaniel Clement, N. 6, lowest range. Ebenezer Lovejoy, N. 4, 8, island range. John Osgood, N. 11, lowest range.
Zerobbabel Snow, N. 35, 61, 3d range.
Ebenezer Eastman, N. 9, 70, 2d range.
Jonathan Shipley, N. 5, 66, 2d range. John Austin, N. 7, 5. Edward Winn, N. 34, 25. Ebenezer Stevens, N. 17, 58, 2d range. Joseph Page, N. 29, 32, 2d range. Samuel Davis, N. 46, 10, 3d range. Ephraim Hildreth, N. 10, lowest range. James Parker, N. 28, 22. Nathan Lovejoy, N. 22, 16. Samuel Reynolds, N. 16, 10. John Foster, N. 20, 14.
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his Majesty's lands within the limits of this Province, at or near a Place called Penneeook, without the consent of this Governmt for so doing; which is not only unneighborly, but unjustifiable, and has a tendency to the destroying the mast trees fit for His Majesty's ser- vice that may be growing thereon; which the Lient Gov! and Council in faithfulness to His Majesty, and in discharge of the trust reposed in them, cannot pass by without bearing testimony against: It is therefore
Ordered, That a Committee in behalf of this Governt, viz. : Messrs. Nath! Weare, Theod Atkinson and Richard Waldron, jun., immedi- ately repair to sd Penneeook, and forewarn any persons whom they may find there or thereat from laying out, taking possession of, or settling at or near the place called Penneeook, or presuming to ap- propriate any other of His Majesty's lands within this Province, till they shall have the countenance and grant of this Governt for so
James Simonds, N. 41, 5, 3d range.
Joseph Parker, N. 24, 39, 2d range. Nathan Fisk's right drawn by Zech. Chandler, N. 4, 65, 2d range.
Zebediah Barker's right drawn by Edw'd Abbott, N. 16, 57, 2d range.
John Bayley's right drawn by Samuel White, N. 14, 8.
William Whittier, N. 6, 6.
Joshua Bayley, N. 33, 24.
Amini Rhuhamah Wise, N. 26, 35, 2d range.
William White, N. 7, lowest range.
Nathaniel Peaslee, N. 1, lowest range.
Thomas Colman, N. 8, 4.
John Jaques, N. 17, 11.
Obadiah Ayer, N. 5, lowest range.
Abraham Foster, N. 3, 64, 2d range.
John Mattis, N. 20, 43, 2d range.
John Merrill, N. 27, 34, 2d range.
Thos. Pearley, for Nath'l Cogswell, N. 38, 2, 3d range.
David Wood, No. 9, 2, island range.
Nathaniel Abbott, N. 12, 53, 2d range.
John Ayer, N. 2, 6, island range.
Nathan Blodgett, N. 15, 56, 2d range.
Benja. Carlton, N. 18, 12.
Jona. Hubbard, for Daniel Davis, N. 30, 36.
Ephraim Farnum, N. 15, 9.
Stephen Emerson, N. 9, 3.
Timothy Johnson, N. 10, 1, island range.
Nath'l Barker's right drawn by Solomon Martin, N. 19, 44, 2d r.
Nehemiah Heath, N. 3, 7, island range.
Nathaniel Sanders, N. 32, 30, 2d range.
Nathaniel Jones, N. 6, 67, 2d range.
Samuel Grainger, N. 22, 41, 2d range.
Thomas Blanchard, N. 21, 42, 2d range.
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doing; and to direct them in an amicable way forthwith to withdraw themselves from the sd land, and their Pretensions to it by virtue of the aforesaid vote of the Gen' Assembly of the Massachusetts.
R. WALDRON, Clerk Couns.
In obedience to an order of His Hon., the Lieut Gov!, and the Honble the Council, made the 10th Instant, appointing us a Com- mittee, with directions to repair immediately to Pennecook and forewarn any persons whom we might find there from laying out or settling upon that place or any other of His Majesty's lands within this Governt, as by the sd order will more at large and fully appear. We have been at sd Pennecook, where we found his Hon., Colo Will. Tailer, Esq., Jnº Wainwright, Esq., and Colo Elear Tyng, Esq., with sundry others, (mostly unknown to us,) to the number of near forty men, who were felling the trees and laying out the lands there : Whereupon we presented them with the order of Court aforesaid, and assured them that their proceedings were highly displeasing to the Government which sent us thither, and that their presisting
Nicholas White, N. 3, lowest range.
Jonathan Pulsepher, N. 4, lowest range.
Richard Hazzen, junr., N. 9, lowest range.
Samuel Toppan, N. 2, 63, 2d range.
Moses Bordman, right drawn by Josiah Jones, N. 32, 23.
Bezaliel Toppan, N. 11, 52, 2d range.
Thomas Learned, N. 40, 4, 3d range. Joseph Hall, N. 2, lowest range.
Nehemialı Carlton, N. 13, 46.
Benja. Niceols, N. 11, 1.
Minister's lot, N. 1, 51
Ministerial lot, N. 2, 50. School lot, N. 11, 60. N. Parker, N. 8, 69, 2d range.
Lots in number, 103.
The settlers came into the following orders, votes and rules, for the more speedy bringing forward and securely effeeting the settlement, which were pre- sented to the committee for their consideration, and allowed and approved of by them.
At a general meeting of the intended settlers of a tract of land called Penny Cook, held at Andover the eighth day of February, Anno Domini 1726,
Agreed and Voted, That a block house of twenty-five feet in breadth and forty feet in length, be built at Penny Cook for the security of the settlers.
Agreed and Voted, That John Chandler, Moses Hazzen, Nehemiah Carlton, Nathan Simonds and Ebenezer Stevens, be a committee, and they are hereby empowered to build, either by themselves, or to agree with workmen to build, a block house of twenty-five feet in breadth, and forty feet in length, as in their judgment shall be most for the security of the settlers.
Agreed and Voted, That Benjamin Stevens, Esq., be treasurer for the settlers.
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therein would be at their peril; for that they might depend upon it when the controversial boundary between the two Provinces should be determined, the poor misled people who might be induced to settle there under the colour of a Mass. Grant would be dispossessed of the said lands, or suffer some other inconveniences equally grievous, and that the message on which we were sent, and the fair forewarning they had by us, would take away all occasions of complaint when they should be compelled to leave the sd lands and lose the benefit of their improvement.
To which the gentlemen above named were pleased to reply, that as we were sent by the Governt of N. Hampshire, so were they by the Governt of Mass., and that when they returned home they shall lay before their Gen. Assembly the order of Coun. which we had delivered them, who without doubt would pass thereon, as they, the said Gen! Assembly, should think proper.
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