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Monadnock is Beech Mountain or Beech Hill, situated north of the centre of the town. It is 391 feet above the level of the pond. These heights were ascertained by measuring a line on the frozen pond for a base, taking the angle at each end, and making the usual calculations by trigonometry.
From the top of Beech Mountain, - so called from the large number of beech-trees with which it was formerly covered, -a beautiful view may be obtained, both of the Contoocook and Connecticut river-valleys, and especially of the Green Mountains in Vermont, as they rise in the form of successive terraces from the Connecticut River. From the same place, the Kearsarge and Ascutney Mountains may be seen ; also the Saddleback and other mountains beyond the river Merrimack ; and, when the atmosphere is favorable, the summit of one of the White Mountains is visible, look- ing like a thin, white, stationary cloud, a little above the horizon.
The ponds in Dublin, besides Centre Pond, are Long Pond in the north part of the town, and several others of less size, the position of which may be found on the map. The streams of water, that rise east of the elevated land which divides the town into two parts, run into the Contoo- cook River, and thence into the Merrimack above the city of Concord ; and those that rise on the west side run into the Ashuelot, and thence into the Connecticut. The rise and direction of the several streams of water are indicated on the map. By far the largest portion of the water in Centre Pond is supplied by springs, which have their outlets beneath its surface. The bottom of the pond is mostly a pure whitish sand. It varies greatly as to its depth. It has been sounded where the depth was one hundred feet; but the deep places in general are not more than sixty feet. The water is beau- tifully clear. The ice in some seasons is two feet thick, and, when preserved for use in summer, is found to be of the very best quality.
The most valuable fish in Centre Pond are trout. As to flavor and other qualities, they have been pronounced, by persons whose good taste in such matters was unquestion- able, inferior to none which the waters of New Hampshire yield. But unfortunately these excellent fish, which, in former days could be caught at almost any time, have become scarce. No pains has been taken to preserve them. At the season for spawning, which is during the last days
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of September and the first of October, they come towards the shore at a jutting point of land on the west side of the pond. The numbers caught annually are small; and, unless measures are taken for protecting and increasing them, they must at length be exterminated. Whether the methods recently adopted in France for breeding fish could be suc- cessfully pursued here, may be worthy of consideration. Long Pond yields good pickerel, but no trout. Pickerel and trout, it is said, are not found in the same pond. The former, with their capacious mouths and numerous sharp teeth, are able to destroy the latter. Trouts are found in the brooks of Dublin, and they may be taken at any season suitable for fishing. They are so small, however, that a few scores of them are required to make a meal for a family.
The native forest-trees of Dublin are beech, rock or sugar maple, white maple, spruce, hemlock, fir, white pine, red oak, larch or hackmatack, elm, wild cherry, bass-wood, the several kinds of birch, chestnut, butternut, ash, and such other trees and shrubs as are common in this latitude. and at our elevation above the sea. White oak, hickory, and pitch-pine are not found here ; and, except the latter, it is doubtful whether they ever existed within our limits as a native growth. The beautiful mountain-ash is found on some hills, and the evergreen arbor vitæ on the east side of Centre Pond.
The wild fruits are the upright blackberry, raspberry, low and high blueberry, checkerberry, strawberry, and, in some spots, the black huckleberry. The shadberry is com- mon. The white blossoms appear early in the spring. It is seldom that many of the berries remain upon the trees till they are ripe. Their taste is a pleasant, mild acid, and children are fond of them; but, if many are eaten with the stones, they are apt to produce a slight sickness, or nausea. Low blueberries are most abundant on the sides of the Monadnock Mountain. They ripen there later than in other situations. Large quantities are gathered in some
seasons. The high blackberries often yield a plentiful supply, constitute a healthful fruit, and are much used. Strawberries are less abundant than in former days, when the land was first cultivated. Raspberries are often found by the sides of the travelled roads, and their fragrance is grateful.
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The wild animals were the same as in the other settle- ments of this vicinity, - bears, wolves, deer, moose, cata- mounts, foxes, raccoons, woodchucks, hedgehogs, squirrels, rabbits, otters, minks, muskrats, and some others. Wild turkeys, in the early times of the settlement, were frequently taken. Timothy Adams, 2d, who first settled lot 12, range 9, found, on one occasion, a nest containing fourteen eggs, on which a turkey was sitting. He took the eggs, and put them under a hen ; after a few days, each egg produced a young turkey, and the whole brood were raised and sent to Boston for a market.
The objects of natural history in New Hampshire have never been thoroughly investigated and described. Dr. Jackson's Geological Survey of the State is a valuable work, but less complete than the importance of the subject demands. The surveys made by legislative authority in Massachusetts and New York include all the branches of natural history. Parts of the works published by these states are applicable to New Hampshire, and much may be learned from them respecting our own natural history. Dr. Harris's "Treatise on some of the Insects of New England which are injurious to Vegetation," should be consulted by every farmer. In- sects, though small in size, often become formidable by their numbers. Their destructive power is far greater than that of crows - and foxes, for the heads of which the state has sometimes offered a bounty. Within the limits of Dublin, more than two thousand different species of insects have been collected. Many more would be discovered by further investigations.
The climate of Dublin is what might be expected from its elevation above the ocean. The winds are often strong, but the air is pure and bracing. The evenings and mornings of the hot season are generally cool and refreshing. The snow in winter is often deep, and remains longer on the ground in the spring than in the towns which border on Connecticut and Merrimack rivers ; but the thermometer on the hills does not sink so low, on the cold, frosty morn- ings of winter, as in the latter situations. Stage-drivers, that start early from the valleys, are always glad to reach the higher land. It is the strong wind and the drifting snow that make travelling over the hills in the winter un- comfortable and difficult. Due regard has not been paid to the preserving of the forests, with reference to the protec-
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tion of buildings and cultivated fields from the violence of the winds. The crops on the hills are less exposed than those in the valleys to early and late frosts.
From four daily observations, during the year 1852, the mean of the thermometer for each month was as follows : - January, 14.3; February, 19.9; March, 26.2; April, 33.5 ; May, 49.7 ; June, 62.7; July, 68.2; August, 62.1; Sep- tember, 57.7 ; October, 45.8 ; November, 28.3 ; December, 27.9. The minimum, January 20th, was 16 below zero ; and the maximum, July 9th, was 91 above zero. The changes from a higher to a lower temperature are sometimes sudden. The thermometer on one occasion sank from 81 to 43 in less than nine hours. This, however, is an extreme case.
The geological formation of Dublin is primitive. The land is rocky, and the soil hard to cultivate. A few farms in the easterly part of the town have portions of sandy or gravelly land. Although the soil is hard, yet, under good cultivation, it produces fair crops of Indian corn, oats, barley, and potatoes. On many farms, wheat is raised. For this crop, the land must be well prepared and well manured. When treated with leeched ashes, the yield is greater. It is sown here in the spring. Rye may be grown on the sandy lands ; and it is common, on the first clearing of a piece of land, to rake in rye in the autumn, after the ground has been burned over. Much of the pasture-land is covered with what is called white grass. It goes to seed early in the season, and for the rest of the year gives a white appearance to the fields in which it predominates. Whether these pas- tures can be recruited without cultivation and manuring is a problem which has not yet been practically solved. On some of these pastures, a young growth of spruce, and occasionally of pine, is beginning to appear. This is a de- cided improvement on the sterile aspect presented by a ripe growth of white grass. One of the early settlers of the town said that it was represented to him before he came, and as an inducement to purchase a farm, that the land in Dublin was so fertile that "it would never need any manure." Settlers were soon undeceived with regard to such repre- sentations, but the land well repays a generous culture ; and, as labor has become less easily attainable and more costly, the practice has become more common of cultivating a less number of acres. Necessity is compelling the tillers of the
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soil to pay more attention to the science of agriculture, and to adopt such methods for improvement as have been prac- tically tested.
Dr. Jackson, the state geologist, in his final report, 1844, says, " Bogs of peat were observed near the road through Dublin, and the peat may be economically employed in making compost for agricultural use. Drift scratches are common on the rocks, and run north and south."
Specimens of soil from the farm of Thomas Fisk, Esq., were sent to Dr. Jackson ; and the following are his analysis of the same, in his " Appendix to Agricultural Geology and Chemistry," pages 335, 336.
Analysis of Soil, Grass-land, from Thomas Fisk's, Dublin.
No. 1.
Chemical analysis of 100 grains gave -
Water
3.8
Vegetable matter 8.6
Siliceous matter . 77.6
Alumina and peroxide iron 8.0
Salts of lime . 0.4
Phosphate magnesia
0.6
99.0
Loss .
1.0
100.0
SOIL No. 2. - Subsoil, granite.
Chemical analysis of 100 grains yielded -
Water 1.8
Vegetable matter 5.4
Siliceous matter . 84.4
Alumina and peroxide iron 6.8
Salts of lime
0.3
Magnesia
0.8
99.5
Alkalies and loss
0.5
100.0
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SOIL No. 3.
Chemical analysis of 100 grains yielded -
Water
5.6
Vegetable matter 5.4
Siliceous matter
76.2
Peroxide iron
10.8
Salts of lime
0.6
98.6
Loss
1.4
100.0
SOIL No. 4.
Chemical analysis of 100 grains yielded -
Water .
3.2
Vegetable matter 7.0
Siliceous matter
80.4
Peroxide iron
9.0
Salts of lime
1.4
Magnesia ..
0.3
101.3
In the above-named Appendix, the constituents of soils from various parts of the state are given.
We give here the statistics of agricultural produce for the year 1838 : -
Number of acres of wheat sown 193
"
" bushels raised .
1,771
" acres of rye sown on ploughed land 34
" bushels raised . 340
"
" acres sown with barley 112
2,734
"
" bushels raised .
" acres sown with oats 101
2,717
"
" acres planted with Indian corn
1218
" bushels raised .
3,455
"
" acres planted with potatoes 1993
35,817
" acres sown with ruta-baga 7₺
" bushels raised .
3,976
"
" bushels of mangel-wurzel and sugar beets 204
"
„ pounds of maple sugar .
21,300
"
„ bushels raised .
"
" bushels raised .
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It was remarked, with regard to the crops of 1838, that the season was unfavorable for some of them, particularly the root-crops. Wheat was not so good as in the previous year. The wheat-crop ranged from 7 to 36 bushels per acre ; and it is worthy of notice that the two extremes were in the same neighborhood, and on similar soil.
DUBLIN UNDER THE MASONIAN PROPRIETORS.
The following is a copy of the charter to which Mr. Mason refers in his address. The spelling of the original has been preserved : -
" PROVINCE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE.
" Pursuant to the Power and Authority Granted and Vested in me by the Proprietors of Lands Purchased of John Tufton Mason Esq" in the Province of New Hampshire By their Vote passed at their Meeting held at Portsmouth In said Province the 16th day of June AD. 1749, -
" I do by these Presents on the Terms and Limitations hereafter Expressed Give & Grant all the right possession & Property of the Proprit's aforesª unto Mathew Thornton Sampson Stoddard William Spaulding Joseph French Zechariah Stearnes Peter Powers Robert Fletcher Junier Eleaz" Blanchard Foster Went- worth Josiah Swan Isaac Rindge John Rindge Ezekiel Carpenter Benjam™ Bellows John Combs Stephen Powers Henry Wallis Samuel Kenny Ebenezer Gillson Jeremiah Norcross Isaiah Lewis Ezra Carpenter Enos Lawrence William Cummings Mark Hunkin Joseph Jackson Thomas Wibird Jeremiah Lawrence John Usher Nathan1 Page David Page Samuel Farley Daniel Emerson Joseph Blanchard Jun" Thomas Parker Jun" Anthony Wibird Francis Worster Jonathan Cummings David Wilson Clement March Esq" of in or to That Tract of Land or Township Call North Menad- nock or Number three, Bounded as followeth Beginning at a Beach Tree being the Northeast Corner of Middle Menadnock Township & runs North Eighty Degrees West Seven Miles To a Hemlock tree marked from thence Runing North by the Needle five Miles to a Tree marked from thence Runing South Eighty degrees East Seven miles to a Hemlock Tree Marked from thence Runing South by the Needle five Miles to the first Bounds Mentioned
" To Have and to hold to them their Heirs & assigns Excepting as aforesd & on the following Terms and Conditions
" That is to say) that the whole Tract of Land be Devided into
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Seventy one Equal Shares & that Each Share Contain Three Lots Equitable Coupled Together & Drawn for at Dunstable at or before the first Day of July next in some Equitable manner - That Three of the aforesd Shares be Granted & appropriated free of all Charge one for the first settled Minister in sª Town one for the support of the Ministry & one for the School there for ever & one Lott for each said three Shares to be first Layed out in the Most Convenient place near the Middle of said Town & Lotts coupled to them so as not to be Drawn for
" That Eighteen of the said Shares be reserved for the Grantors of the Premises their Heirs & assigns for Ever and acquited from all Duty & Charge untill improved by the Owners or Som holding under them Respectively, that other Owners of the said Rights make Settlemt at their own Expence in the following Manner Viz all the Lotts to be Layed out at the Grantees Expence that all the Lotts in said Township be subjected to have all necessary Roads Laid out through them free from Charge as hereafter there shall be Occasion that within four Years from the Date hereof forty of the said Rights or Shares belonging to aforementioned Grantees Vizt Wm Spaulding Joseph French Zachariah Stearnes Robert Fletcher Jun" Josiah Swan John Rindge John Combs Stephen Powers Henry Wallis Samuel Kenny Ebenezer Gillson Jereh Norcross Ezekiel Carpenter Ezra Carpenter Enos Lawrence William Cummings Mark Hunkin Joseph Jackson Thomas Wibird Jereh Lawrence John Usher Nathaniel Page David Page Sam1 Farley Daniel Emerson Anthony Wibird Francis Worster Jona Cummings David Willson Isaiah Lewis Sampson Stoddard Ben- jam" Bellows Thomas Parker Jun" one settlement each, Peter Powers four Shares Mathew Thornton three Shares - Be entered upon & three Acres of Land at the least Cleared & inclosed & fited for mowing or Tillage & that within six Months then next coming there be on each of the said forty settling shares a House built the Room Sixteen feet Square at the Least fitted & finished for Comfortable Dwelling therein & some Person Resident therein & continue Inhabitancy or Residence these [three ?] years then next Coming with the additional Improvemts of Two Acres Each Year for Each Settler, that Each of the sª Grantees at the Exe- cuting of this Instrumt pay twenty pounds Old Tenor to Defray the Necessary Charges Risen & arising in said Township to be deposited in the hand of such Person as the Grantees shall chuse Being a Freeholder and Resident in the Province of New Hamp- shire, That a good Convenient Meeting House be built in sd Township as near the cent" of the Town as may be with conve- niance within six years from this Date & Ten Acres of Land Reserved there for Public Use-That the aforesd Grantees or their Assigns by a Maj' Vote in public Meetings assess Such further Sums of Money as they shall think Necessary for com- pleating & carrying forward the Settlemt aforesd & any of the
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Grantees Exclusive of the three Public Lotts who shall neglect for the space of three Months next after such assessments shall be Granted, to pay the same, so much of such Delinqts Right Respec- tively shall or may be sold as will pay the Tax and all Charges arising thereon by a Comee of the Grantees appointed for that purpose - That all White Pine Trees fit for Masting his Majestyes Royal Navy Growing on said Tract of Land be and hereby are Granted to His Majesty his Heirs and successors for Ever, & in case any of the Grantees shall Neglect or Refuse to perform any of the articles aforementioned he shall forfit his Share & Right in said Township and Every Part and Parcell thereof to those of the sª Grantees that shall have Complyed with the Conditions on their Part herein Expressed & it shall & may be Lawful for any Person by their Authority to Enter into & upon the Right of Such Delin- quent Owner & Every part thereof in the name of the Whole of the Settlement That shall have fulfilled as aforesd & him to amove out of & Expell, for their Use their Heirs & Assigns provided they settle or cause settled Each Such Delingts Rights within the Term of one Year at the furthest from the Period that is by this Indenture Stipulated to be Done as the Condition of this Grant & fully Discharge & Comply with the whole duty Such Delinqt ought to have Done within one Year from Time to Time after the Respective Periods thereof, and in case the said Grantees fullfilling on their Part as aforesd shall Neglect fullfilling as aforesª the Duty of any Delinqt Owner nor he himself perform as aforesaid - That then such Share or Shares shall be forfited Revert & Belong to the Grantors their Heirs & Assigns to be wholly at their Disposall, allways Provided there be no Indian War within any of the terms and Limitations aforesª for Doeing the Duty conditioned in this Grant & in case that should happen then some time to be allowed for the Respective Matters aforesª after Such Impedimt Shall be Removed
" Lastly the said Grantors Do hereby promise the said Grantees their Heirs & Assigns to Defend through the Law to King and Councill if need be one Action that shall or may be Brought against them or Number of them by any Person or Persons what- soever Claiming the sd Lands or any part thereof by any other Title than that of the s" Grantors or that by which they hold or Derive there's from Provided the sd Grantors are avoucht in to Defend the same & that in Case on final Tryal the same shall be recovered against the Grantors for the said Lands Improvements & Expence in Bringing forward the Settlem the Grantees shall Recover Nothing over against the sd Grantors- and further that the said Grantors will pay the Necessary Expence of Time & Money that any other person or persons shall be put to by any other Suit or Suits that shall be brought against them or any Number of them the said Grantees for Tryal of the Title Before one Suit shall be fully Determined in the Law. In Witness
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Whereof I the sd Joseph Blanchard of Dunstable have hereunto set my hand and seal this third Day of November AD. 1749. "JOSEPH BLANCHARD [seal]
" A True Coppy of the Grant of the North Menadnock Township " Attest JOSEPH BLANCHARD Jun" Propa Clerk
"The foregoing grant of ye Tract of Land called the North Ma- nadnock or number three was returned by Joseph Blanchard Esq" Deceasª to the Proprietors of the Lands purchased of John Tufton Mason Esq" in New-Hampshire as a true copy of the Grant he made to the Grantees within mentioned in behalf of said Proprietors.
" Examined the 4th day of August 1768
by GEO. JAFFREY Prop" Cl."
The charter required that the shares should be drawn on or before the first day of July, 1750. On the first Tuesday of June in the said year, the drawing took place. We insert here a table of the shares, with the lots drawn an- nexed, according to a copy of the same as certified by the clerk of the proprietors.
A LIST OF THE PROPRIETORS OF NORTH MONADNOCK TOWNSHIP.
NAMES.
Draught.
No.
Range.
No.
Range.
No.
Range.
Mathew Thornton, Esq.
1
10
1
9
1
16
1
Sampson Stoddard, Esq.
2
8
1
12
5
19
5
William Spaulding
3
7
1
7
3
12
10
Capt. Joseph French
4
2
1
13
6
15
10
Joseph Blanchard, Esq.
5
20
2
7
8
21
2
Thomas Packer, Esq ..
6
19
2
9
7
11
10
Josiah Brown
7
18
2
10
6
19
1
Mathew Thornton, Esq.
8
10
2
22
1
13
4
Zachariah Stearns
9
2
2
11
6
10
10
Peter Powers
10
19
3
2
5
15
8
Robert Fletcher, Esq.
11
18
3
21
3
10
7
Daniel Pierce and
12
11
3
22
2
22
3
Mrs. Mary Moor
13
10
3
22
6
1
10
Clement March, Esq.
14
4
3
16
10
3
10
Eleazer Blanchard
15
2
3
12
6
2
10
Foster Wentworth
16
1
3
12
7
9
10
Josiah Swan
17
16
4
8
9
8
10
Isaac Rindge
18
9
4
22
10
21
10
Joshua Pierce, Esq.
19
8
4
4
9
5
9
Mark Hunkin Wentworth, Esq.
20
4
4
3
8
6
10
George Jaffrey
21
2
4
14
5
14
6
Theodore Atkinson, Esq.
22
1
4
20
3
19
3
Jotham Odiorne, Esq.
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List of the Proprietors of North Monadnock. (Continued.)
NAMES.
Draught.
No.
Range.
No.
Range.
No.
Range.
Samuel Solly and
23
20
5
21
5
9
6
Clement March, Esq. 3
John Rindge .
.
24
7
5
21
1
21
1
Ezekiel Carpenter
25
5
5
13
1
12
1
Benjamin Bellows
26
4
5
3
6
5
10
Peter Powers
27
1
5
12
4
7
9
Peter Powers
28
8
6
16
2
17
2
Stephen Powers
29
20
9
19
8
20
7
John Combs
30
7
6
20
6
21
6
Henry Wallis
31
1
6
8
5
19
6
Samuel Kenny
32
18
7
5
2
6
2
Benjamin Bellows
33
7
7
6
9
4
10
Ebenezer Gillson
34
22
8
21
9
11
4
Jeremiah Norcross
35
14
8
14
7
13
2
Isaiah Lewis .
36
13
8
13
7
17
4
Mathew Livermore
11
8
11
9
2
7
Ezra Carpenter
38
10
8
1
9
1
7
Enos Lawrance
39
22
9
21
8
13
5
John Wentworth, Esq.
40
6
6
19
7
15
5
Peter Powers
41
19
9
14
4
19
10
William Cummings
42
14
9
13
3
14
3
Mark Hunkin .
43
10
9
4
1
5
1
Thomas Wallingford, Esq.
44
9
9
8
3
1
2
Richard Wibird, Esq.
45
2
9
3
10
3
7
46
10
5
11
5
4
8
School-lots
47
10
4
22
4
8
8
Joseph Jackson
48
17
7
20
4
9
3
Thomas Wibird
49
7
4
21
4
18
5
Ministry-lots
50
6
4
22
5
13
9
Jeremiah Lawrance
51
6
7
5
7
22
7
John Usher
52
12
8
13
10
14
10
Nathaniel Page
53
5
4
17
8
18
8
Nathaniel Meserve, Esq.
54
17
3
16
3
20
10
John Moffatt
55
11
2
15
3
6
1
David Page
56
3
1
8
2
8
William Parker, Esq.
57
8
2
7
2
18
4
Mathew Thornton, Esq.
58
9
2
11
1
21
7
Samuel Farley
59
6
8
5
8
15
9
Daniel Emerson
60
16
7
3
3
18
6
Joseph Blanchard, jun.
61
5
6
4
7
12
9
Thomas Parker, jun.
62
6
3
16
6
17
6
Peter Powers
63
16
8
17
9
17
10
Francis Worster
65
18
9
16 -
5
15
4
John T. Mason and
66
11
7
17
5
12
2
Peter Powers
67
16
9
18
10
15
7
Jonathan Cumings
68
6
5
15
6
19
4
Eleazer Blanchard
69
3
2
3
4
8
7
John Rindge .
70
1
1
4
2
3
9
David Wilson
71
2
6
9
5
7
10
.
Anthony Wibird
64
3
5
4
6
20
8
Jno. Tomlinson, Esqrs.
5
Minister-lots
37
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"The above is a coppy of the Proprietors of North Menadnock Township with the number of the Lotts &c, by them drawn the first day of June 1750
" Attest & JOSEPH BLANCHARD Jr. Pro. Cler.
"The within is a true copy of the names of the owners & draught of the Lotts in the North Menadnock Township, as re- turned to the Proprietors of ye Lands purchased of John Tufton Mason Esq" in New Hampshire, by Joseph Blanchard Esq" Deceased.
"Examined ye 4th day of August 1768 -
y GEO. JAFFREY Prop's Cler.
The foregoing draught of shares, though attested as a true copy, has several errors. Peter Powers and Theodore Atkinson each is put down as having drawn lot 19 in the third range, and Clement March and Richard Wibird as having drawn lot 3 in the tenth range. Lot 21, in the first range, is given twice to John Rindge. From an old tax-list, it is ascertained that he drew lots 20 and 21 in the said range. Of the other errors, there is no record by which we have been able to correct them.
Joseph Blanchard, of Dunstable, was agent of the original purchasers of Mason's claim. As he was a surveyor, he was employed, it is supposed, in running the lines for Monad- nock No. 3, and for dividing the same into ranges and lots. It will be observed that eighteen shares were reserved in the charter for the grantors to be "acquitted of all duty and charge until improved by the owners." The names of the grantors were Theodore Atkinson, Mark Hunkin Went- worth, Richard Wibird, John Wentworth, George Jaffrey, Samuel Moore, Nathaniel Meservé, Thomas Packer, Thomas Wallingford, Jotham Odiorne, Joshua Pierce, and John Moffat. To these twelve persons, Mason sold his claim to lands in New Hampshire for fifteen hundred pounds cur- rency. Theodore Atkinson's share was three-fifteenths; and M. H. Wentworth's, two-fifteenths. It is probable that Atkinson or Wentworth had sold a share to Josiah Brown, whose name is in the draught, but not in the charter. The names also of Samuel Solly, Daniel Pierce, John T. Mason, and Jno. Thomlinson, are in the draught as owners of parts of shares. In what manner the shares and lots were drawn is not known. Owing to the different values of the lots, there were some blanks in the lottery ; and to some of the proprie- tors the speculation must have proved worthless. Dublin
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