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Water
3.8
Vegetable matter
8.6
Siliceous matter
77.6
Alumina and peroxide of iron
8.0
Salts of lime
0.4
Phosphate of 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 of iron
6.8
Salts of lime .
0.3
Magnesia
0.8
99.5
Alkalies and loss
0.5
100.0
Soil No. 3.
Chemical analysis of 100 grains yielded -
Water
5.6
Vegetable matter
5.4
Siliceous matter
76.2
Peroxide of iron
10.8
Salts of lime
0.6
98.6
Loss
1.4
100.0
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Soil No. 4.
Chemical analysis of 100 grains yielded -
Water 3.2
Vegetable matter 7.0
Siliceous matter 80.4
Peroxide of iron
9.0
Salts of lime 1.4
Magnesia
0.9
101.3
In the above-named Appendix, the constituents of soils from various parts of the state are given.
As an illustration of the productiveness of Dublin farms in what may perhaps be called the palmy days of agriculture in the town, we give the statistics of farm products for the year 1838: -
Number of acres of wheat sown 1191/3
" bushels raised 1,771
acres of rye sown on ploughed land 34
" bushels raised . 340
" acres sown with barley 112
" bushels raised .
2,734
66
" acres sown with oats
101
bushels raised . 2,717
acres planted with Indian corn 12134
66
bushels raised 3,455
acres planted with potatoes 19913
35,817
acres sown with ruta-baga
71/2
66
" bushels raised 3,976
" bushels of mangel-wurzel and sugar beets 204
" pounds of maple sugar 21,300
" bushels raised
It was remarked, however, 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 seven to thirty-six bushels per acre; and it is worthy of notice that the two extremes were in the same neighborhood, and on similar soil.
GOLD MINE
More than forty years ago, gold was discovered on the east- ern side of lot 3, range 3. The discovery created some excite- ment, and a company was formed, in 1875, known as "The
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Diamond Ledge Gold Mine Company," to open and operate the mine. Shafts were sunk to considerable depths, and a complete plant was erected for working the ore. The plant was operated only a portion of that season, when it was aban- doned and later moved away. The general opinion was that little, if any, gold was obtained. No further attempt was ever made to mine gold there.
CHEMICAL AND BACTERIOLOGICAL LABORATORY
The Dublin Chemical and Bacteriological Laboratory was incorporated in 1909 "to aid physicians and boards of health and individuals, by sanitary and medical examinations, to investigate and test water supplies and sewerage disposal systems, foods and beverages of all kinds, and to pursue any other scientific studies or investigations which tend to im- prove the health and sanitary conditions or comfort of the public or of individuals." The extermination of mosquitoes, under the advice of a government expert, has been systemati- cally and effectively begun by the laboratory. It is located on the south side of Monadnock Lake, near the summer cottage of Dr. Stowell, in lot 12, range 5.
CHAPTER IV
SETTLEMENT OF DUBLIN, DUBLIN UNDER THE MASONIAN PROPRIETORS
MR. MASON, in the "Centennial Address," alludes to the grant of the township now called Dublin by the Proprietors of Lands Purchased of John Tufton Mason (usually known as the Masonian Proprietors) to Matthew Thornton and thirty-nine others. The following is a copy of the deed of grant to which Mr. Mason referred. The spelling and punctuation of the orig- inal have been preserved. It must, therefore, be read with the greatest care, to avoid confusion, especially in the names of persons, that words which should be grouped together, as those forming the name of an individual, be not misplaced in the thought of the reader: -
"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 Propritrs aforesd unto Mathew Thornton Sampson Stoddard William Spaulding Joseph French Zechariah Stearnes Peter Powers Robert Fletcher Junier Eleaz' Blanchard Foster Wentworth Josiah Swan Isaac Rindge John Rindge Ezekiel Carpenter Benjam" Bellows John Combs Stephen Powers Henry Wallis Samuel Kenny Eben- ezer Gillson Jeremiah Norcross Isaiah Lewis Ezra Carpenter Enos Lawrence William Cummings Mark Hunkin Joseph Jackson Thomas Wibird Jeremiah Lawrence John Usher Nathan' Page David Page Samuel Farley Daniel Emerson Joseph Blanchard Jun" Thomas Parker Jun' Anthony Wibird Francis Worster Jonathan Cummings David Wilson Clement March Esqr of in or to That Tract of Land or Township Call North Menadnock or Number three, Bounded as followeth Beginning at a Beach Tree being the Northeast Corner of Middle Menadnock Township & runs North Eighty De-
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grees 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 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 sd 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 Set- tlemt at their own Expence in the following manner Vizt 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 Zechariah 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 Na- thaniel Page David Page Sam1 Farley Daniel Emerson Anthony Wibird Francis Worster Jon" Cummings David Willson Isaiah Lewis Sampson Stoddard Benjam" Bellows Thomas Parker Jun" one settlement each, Peter Powers four Shares Matthew 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 and finished for Comfortable Dwelling therein & some Person Resi- dent 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 sd Grantees at the Executing 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
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Resident in the Province of New Hampshire, That a good Conven- ient Meeting House be built in sd Township as near the centr of the Town as may be with conveniance within six years from this Date & Ten Acres of Land Reserved there for Public Use - That the aforesd Grantees or their Assigns by a Majr 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 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 Respectively 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 suc- cessors for Ever, & in case any of the Grantees shall Neglect or Re- fuse 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 sd Grantees that shall have Complyed with the Con- ditions on their Part herein Expressed & it shall & may be Lawful for any Person by their Authority to Enter into & upon the Right of Such Delinquent 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 Delinqts Rights within the Term of one Year at the furthest from the Period that is by this Inden- ture Stipulated to be Done as the Condition of this Grant & fully Dis- charge and 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 fulfilling on their Part as aforesd shall Neglect fulfilling as aforesd 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 aforesd for Doeing the Duty conditioned in this Grant & in case that should happen the same time to be allowed for the Respective Matters aforesd 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 1 Action that shall or may be Brought against them or Number of them by any Person or Persons whatsoever Claiming the sd Lands or any part thereof by any other Title than that of the sd 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
1 So in the original copy.
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said Lands Improvements & Expence in Bringing forward the Set- tlemt the Grantees shall Recover Nothing over against the sd Grant- ors - and further that the said Grantors will pay the Necessary Ex- pence 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 Whereof I the sd Joseph Blanchard of Dunstable have hereunto set my hand and seal this third Day of November AD. 1749.
seal
"A True Copy of the Grant of the North Menadnock Township "Attest JOSEPH BLANCHARD Jun' Props Clerk
"The foregoing grant of ye Tract of Land called the North Manad- nock or number three was returned by Joseph Blanchard Esqr De- ceasd to the Proprietors of the Lands purchased of John Tufton Mason Esqr 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's Cl."
The charter required that the shares should be drawn on or before the first day of July, 1750. On the first day of June in the said year, as attested by Jos. Blanchard, the drawing took place. We insert here a table of the shares, with the lots drawn annexed, 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
10 ¿ No.
1
9
1
16 1
Sampson Stoddard, Esq.
2
8
1
12
5
19
William Spaulding
3
7
1
7
3
12
10
Capt. Joseph French
4
2
1
13
6
15
10
Joseph Blanchard, Esq.
Thomas Packer, Esq.
6
19
2
9
7
11
10
Josiah Brown
Mathew Thornton, Esq.
8
10
2
22
1
13
1 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
Mrs. Mary Moore S
Jotham Odiorne, Esq.
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
No.
Range
No.
5 Or - Range
Mathew Thornton, Esq.
1
5
20
2
7
8
21
2
7
18
2
10
6
19
12
11
3
22
2
22
3
_Range
"JOSEPH BLANCHARD
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HISTORY OF DUBLIN
NAMES
Draught
No.
1
3
7
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
Samuel Solly and
23
20
5
21 21
5 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
John Combs
30
7
6
20
6
21
1
6
8
5
19
6 2
Samuel Kenny
32
18
7
5
2
6
4
10
Ebenezer Gillson
35
14
8
14
7
13
2
Isaiah Lewis
36
13
8 8
13
7
17
4 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.
Minister-lots
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 22 14
9 7 10
Nathaniel Meserve, Esq.
54
17
3
16
3
20
6
1
William Parker, Esq.
57
8
2
7
2
18
4
Mathew Thornton, Esq.
58
9
2
11
1
21
15
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
Anthony Wibird
64
3
5
4
6
20
8
Francis Worster
65
18
9
16
5
15
4
John T. Mason and
Jno. Tomlinson, Esqrs.
66
11
7
17
5
12
2
7
5
John Rindge
24
29
20
9
19
8
20
7 6
Benjamin Bellows
33
7 22
8
21
9
11
4
Jeremiah Norcross
Mathew Livermore
37
11
11
9
2
10 3
7
46
10
5
11
5
4
8
Jeremiah Lawrance
51
6
12
8
13
10
8
18
8 10
John Moffatt
55 56
5
3
1
8
2
8
Samuel Farley
59
6
8
5
8
7 9
Daniel Emerson
60
16
7
3
7
5
7
John Usher
Nathaniel Page
53
5
4
17
2
15
3
David Page
45
2
9
3
7
6
9
9
6
Clement March, Esq.
Range
12 " No.
Range
No. 9
Range
Foster Wentworth
16
Henry Wallis
31
34
52
11
3
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SETTLEMENT OF DUBLIN
NAMES
Peter Powers
67
16
9
18
10
15 No.
Range
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
Draught
No.
Range
No.
Range
"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
p 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 returned to the Proprietors of ye Lands purchased of John Tufton Mason Esqr in New Hampshire, by Joseph Blanchard Esq' Deceased.
"Examined ye 4th day of August 1768 -
p GEO. JAFFREY Prop's Cler."
The foregoing draught of shares, though attested as a true copy, has several errors. Peter Powers and Theodore Atkinson are both credited with 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 twice given to John Rindge. From an old tax list, it is ascertained that Mr. Rindge drew lots 20 and 21 in the first range.
The editor of this revised history has made a personal ex- amination of the Masonian records in the office of the Secretary of State at Concord and finds that this copy is virtually a true copy of the original manuscript. The same errors appear in the record-book of the Masonian Proprietors. The mistake with respect to the lots of Peter Powers and Theodore Atkinson was very soon discovered and rectified. Lot 19 in the third range was properly assigned to Mr. Atkinson, while the lot actually drawn by Mr. Powers was lot 12 in the third range, which was assigned to him in the corrected records. The double assignment of the third lot in the tenth range was apparently an error of a similar nature, but we failed to find the correc- tion. The assignment, twice, of the same lot to Mr. Rindge is the same upon the original minutes. All of these blunders were obviously clerical errors in transcribing notes placed in the hands of the copyist.
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It is recorded in the records of the Masonian Proprietors that the grantees of North Monadnock (Dublin), at a meeting held, August 4, 1752, unanimously accepted the grant. In the record book of the Proprietors, the names of the grantees of North Monadnock are spelled differently, in many cases, from the orthography here given, but as there appears to have been no invariable method of spelling proper names at that time, it would not be worth the while to point out these grotesque differences.
Joseph Blanchard of Dunstable was agent of the original purchasers of Mason's claim (who were known as the Ma- sonian Proprietors). As he was a surveyor, he was employed, it is supposed, in running the lines for Monadnock 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."
It will be proper to insert here a few observations respecting these grantors and how they happened to be empowered to make the grant. Shortly after the first settlement of what is now known as New Hampshire, Capt. John Mason of England, in 1629, received a patent of this territory under the name of New Hampshire. It was an entailed estate and nominally re- mained in the possession of Mason and his direct descendants for several generations. An attempt was made to sell it to Samuel Allen of London, but, although the entail was docked, certain irregularities pertaining to the sale were discovered which invalidated the title, and the estate reverted to the heirs of John Mason, in the direct line, according to the rules of primogeniture.
John Tufton Mason, of the sixth generation from Capt. John Mason, was confirmed in the title to this large tract of land. Its boundaries were long a matter of dispute. The bounds given in the patent were so indefinite that no literal interpre- tation was possible. Massachusetts claimed much of the land that is now included in New Hampshire. We shall not take the space to discuss the long controversy concerning this patent. When the lines were finally established, in the middle of the eighteenth century, the Masonian Patent, as it was called, was of a somewhat triangular shape. The south side was on the newly-established boundary line between Massa- chusetts and New Hampshire, the eastern side was on the line between Maine and New Hampshire, and the other side was a
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line connecting the western point of the southern boundary with the northern point of the eastern boundary. It was often called the "curved line," but it was more properly a broken line, beginning at the western point of the southern line of the patent, consisting of sections of five or six miles each, each section bearing a few degrees more to the east than the one preceding, the last section terminating on the Maine line, at the northern point of the eastern line of the pat- ent. This broken line, which was very accurately surveyed by the same Joseph Blanchard of Dunstable (now Nashua) who surveyed the lots and ranges of Dublin, is known in his- tory as the "Masonian Patent Line," or simply the "Patent Line."
The Mason heirs, claiming positive ownership of this patent, had demanded rents from time to time of the occupants of the soil. They were never successful to any marked degree in ob- taining such rents, because the settlers violently resisted the at- tempts to collect them, even with force, at times. However, their threats were a constant menace. To be rid of the annoyance, efforts were made to induce the provincial legislature to take steps to purchase Mason's interest in the patent. The legis- lators were very dilatory in the matter. John Tufton Mason, in the mean time, who had, with no little difficulty, secured a confirmation of his title to the patent, had also mastered the technicalities in the matter of entail and other legal difficul- ties that barred his way, and had become enabled to sell this vast estate. The legislature, at last, got around to appoint a committee to consider the matter of purchasing Mason's claim, but they were too late. On that very day, Mason had sold his title to a syndicate of twelve men, who have ever since been known as the MASONIAN PROPRIETORS. The purchase was on July 30, 1746, O. S., which corresponds to August 10, 1746, N. S. We have carefully examined both the legislative and the Masonian records, and find the date to be as we have given it. In the margin of Belknap's History of New Hampshire, the date is erroneously given as January 30, and this error has been repeated in the histories of Marlborough and Troy, and in other works.
The original purchasers of Mason's claim were: Theodore Atkinson, Mark Hunking Wentworth, Richard Wibird, John Wentworth, George Jaffrey, Samuel Moore, Nathaniel Me- servé, Thomas Packer, Thomas Wallingford, Jotham Odiorne, Joshua Pierce, and John Moffat. All were of Portsmouth, ex-
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cepting Mr. Wallingford, who lived in Somersworth, and Mr. Packer, who lived in Greenland. The property was divided into fifteen shares. Mr. Atkinson took three-fifteenths, M. H. Wentworth took two-fifteenths, and each of the other pur- chasers one-fifteenth.
Before the date of the granting of the charter to North Mo- nadnock (Dublin), the number of the Masonian Proprietors had been increased to twenty-one, by the addition of nine more to the syndicate. These were: John Rindge, Joseph Blanchard, Daniel Pierce, John Tufton Mason, John Thomlinson, Mat- thew Livermore, William Parker, Samuel Solley, and Clement March. Their names all appear in the "List of the Proprietors of North Monadnock" which we have reproduced. It is prob- able that the half share of Mrs. Mary Moore (draught 12) was the one credited to Samuel Moore. Such being the case, the sum of the shares and half shares assigned to the twenty-one pro- prietors amount to eighteen, which was the number that the charter required to be reserved for the grantors. Each of the forty grantees was to receive one share. Peter Powers was to have three extra shares, and Matthew Thornton was to have two extra shares. Forty-five shares were, therefore, assigned to the forty grantees. One share was devoted to the first settled minister, one to the support of the ministry, and one for the support of school-work, and eighteen shares were to be assigned to the Proprietors. All of these shares are sixty-six in number. The township was to be divided into seventy-one shares. We find by inspecting the list that the remaining five shares were assigned to Josiah Brown, Benjamin Bellows, Eleazar Blanch- ard, and Peter Powers, the last named receiving two of them. The four men last named doubtless acquired by purchase the five surplus shares. Benjamin Bellows and Eleazar Blanchard were two of the grantees, and each had drawn a share, ac- cording to the terms of the charter. Peter Powers was also a grantee and empowered by the charter to draw four shares. With these two additional shares that he purchased, he drew in all six shares. The remaining surplus share was purchased by Josiah Brown, whose name is the only one found upon the list not included among the grantees and the Masonian Proprietors. Of the 220 town lots, seven on Monadnock were not included in any 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 persons interested the specu- lation must have proved worthless.
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Dublin was then an unbroken forest. It is not probable that the Indians ever made it a place of residence any longer than they were occupied in hunting and fishing. A few broken In- dian implements have been found in some parts of the town. They were dropped, no doubt, as was common, during their hunting excursions.
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