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Ufher had fome fcruples about the valid- ity of it, as he had formerly had of Par- tridge's, and wrote on the fubject to the affembly, who affured him that on infpec- tion they had found Vaughan's commif- fion " ftrong and authentic ;" and that his own was " null and void." Upon his difmiffion from office he retired to his e- legant feat at Medford, where he fpent the reft of his days, and died on the fifth of September 1726, in the feventy-eighth year of his age.
Burges wrote a letter to the affembly in July, in which he informed them of his appointment, and of his intention to fail for America in the following month. But Sir William Afhurft, with Jeremy Dummer, the Maffachufetts agent, and Jonathan Belcher, then in London, ap- prehending that he would not be an ac- ceptable perfon to the people of New- England, prevailed with him, for the con- fideration of one thoufand pounds fterl- ing, which Dummer and Belcher gener- oufly advanced, to refign his commiffion ; and Colonel Samuel Shute was appoint- ed in his ftead to the command of both provinces. He arrived in New-Hamp- fhire, and his commiffion was publifhed B b the
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Council and Af- fembly's Rec.
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the feventeenth of October 1716. Dud- ley being thus fuperfeded, retired to his family-feat at Roxbury, where he died in 1720, in the feventy-third year of his age.
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No. I. Copy of a deed from four Indian fagamores to John Whele- wright and others. 1629.
W HEREAS We the fagamores of Penacook, Pen- tucket, Squomfquot and Nuchawanack are in- clined to have the Englifh inhabit amongft us as they are amongft our countrymen in the Maffachufetts Bay ; by which means we hope in time to be ftrengthened againft our enemy the Tareteens who yearly doth us damage. Likewife being perfuaded that it will be for the good of us and our pofterity, &c. To that end have at a general meeting at Squomfquot on Pifcattaqua river, We the a- forefaid fagamores with a univerfal confent of our fub- jects, do covenant and agree with the Englifh as follow- eth :
NOW know all men by thefe prefents that we Paffa- conawaye fagamore of Penecook, Runnaawitt fagamore of Pentuckit, Wahangnonawittt fagamore of Squom- fquot, and Rowls fagminore of Nuchawanack, for a com- petent valuation in goods already received in coats, fhirts and kettles, and alfo for the confiderations aforefaid do according to the limits and bounds hereafter granted, give, grant, bargain, fell, releafe, ratify and confirm unto John Wheelwright of the Maffachufetts Bay late of England, a minifter of the gofpel, Auguftine Story, Thomas Wite William Wentworth* and Thomas Levet, all of the Maffachufetts Bay in New-England, to them, their heirs
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* William Wentworth was one of the firft fettlers at Exeter, and after the breaking up of their combination for government he removed to Do. ver and became a ruling elder in the church there. In 168g he was re- markably inftrumental of faving Heard's garrifon, as is related in the pro- per place. After this he officiated for feveral years as a preacher at Exe- ter and other places, and died in a very advanced age at Dover in 1697, leaving a numerous pofterity. From him the feveral GOVERNORs of that name are defcended. He was a very ufeful and good man.
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and affigns for ever, all that part of the main land bound- ed by the river of Pifcattaqua and the river of Meremak, that is to fay, to begin at Nuchawanack falls in Pifcatta- qua river aforefaid, and fo down faid river to the fea, and fo alongft the fea fhore to Merramack river, and fo up a- long faid river to the falls at Pantuckit aforefaid, and from faid Pantucket falls upon a north-weft line twenty Eng- lifh miles into the woods and from thence to run upon a ftreight line north-eaft and fouth-weft till meet with the main rivers that runs down to Pantuckett falls and Nuch- awanack falls, and the faid rivers to be the bounds of the faid lands from the thwart line or head line to the afore- faid falls and the main chanell of each river from Pen- tuckitt and Nuchwanack falls to the maine fea to be the fide bounds and the main fea between Pifcattaqua river and Meramack river to be the lower bounds, and the thwart or head line that runs from river to river to be the upper bounds; together with all iflands within faid bounds, as alfo the Ifles of Shoals fo called by the Eng- lifh together with all profits, advantages and appurtenan- ces whatfoever to the faid tract of land belonging or in a- ny wife appertaining, referving to our felves liberty of making ufe of our old planting land, as alfo free liberty of hunting, fifhing and fowling ; and it is likewife with thefe provifoes following, viz. Firft, the faid John Wheelwright fhall within ten years after the date hereof fet down with a company of Englith and begin a planta- tion at Squomfquott falls in Pifcataque river aforefaid. Secondly, That what other inhabitants fhall come and live on faid tract of land amongft them from time to time and at all times fhall have and enjoy the fame benefits as the faid Wheelwright aforefaid. Thirdly, That if at a- ny time there be a number of people amongft them that have a mind to begin a new plantation, that they be en- couraged fo to do, and that no plantation exceed in lands above ten Englifh, miles fquare or fuch a proportion as amounts to ten miles fquare. Fourthly, That the afore- faid granted lands are to be divided into townfhips as peo- ple increafe and appear to inhabit them, and that no lands fhall be granted to any particular perfons but what fhall be for a townfhip, and what lands within a townfhip is granted to any particular perions to be by vote of the major part of the inhabitants legally and orderly fettled in
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faid townfhip. Fifthly, For managing and regulating and to avoid contentions amongft them, they are to be under the government of the colony of the Maffachufetts their neighbours and to obferve their laws and orders until they have a fettled government amongft themfelves. Sixthly, We the aforefaid fagamores and our fubjects are to have free liberty within the aforefaid granted tract of land of fifhing, fowling, hunting and planting, &c. Sev- enthly and laftly, Every townfhip within the aforefaid li- mits or tract of land that hereafter fhall be fettled hall pay to Paffaconaway our chief fagamore that now is and to his fucceffors forever, if lawfully demanded, one coat of trucking cloth a year, and every year, for an acknow- ledgement, and alfo thall pay to Mr. John Wheelwright aforefaid his heirs and fucceffors forever, if lawfully de- manded, two bufhels of Indian corn a year for and in confideration of faid Wheelwrights great pains and care, as alfo for the charges he hath been at to obtain this our grant for himfelf and thofe aforementioned and the in- habitants that fhall hereafter fettle in townfhips on the a- forefaid granted premiffes. And we the aforefaid faga- mores, Paffaconaway fagamore of Penecook, Runaawitt fagamore of Pentuckitt, Wahangnonawitt fagamore of Squomfquot, and Rowles fagamore of Nuchawanack do by thefe prefents ratify and confirm all the afore granted and bargained premiffes and tract of land aforefaid, ex- cepting and referving as afore excepted and referved and the provifoes aforefaid fulfill'd, with all the meadow and marth ground therein, together with all the mines, minerals of what kind or nature foever, with all the woods, timber and timber trees, ponds, rivers, lakes, runs of water or water courfes thereunto belonging, with all the freedom of fithing, fowling and hunting as ourfelves, with all other benefits, profits, priviledges and appurte- nances whatfoever thereunto of all and every part of the faid tract of land belonging or in any ways appertaining unto him the faid John Wheelwright, Auguftine Storer, Thomas Wight, William Wentworth and Thomas Le- vet, and their heirs forever as aforefaid, TO HAVE AND TO HOLD the fame as their own proper right and intereft without the leaft difturbance, moleftation, or trouble of us, our heirs, execrs and adminrs to and with the faid John Wheelwright, Auguftine Storer, Thomas Wight
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Wight, William Wentworth and Thomas Levet their heirs, execrs. adminrs. and affigns, and other the English that fhall inhabit there and their heirs and affigns forever fhall warrant, maintain and defend. IN WITNESS whereof we have hereunto fet our hands and feals the feventeenth day of May 1629, and in the fifth year of King Charles his reign over England, &c.
PASSACONAWAY & mark, (Seal. )
RUNAAWITT, + mark, (Seal.)
WAHANGNONAWITT, + mark, (Seal.)
ROWLS, X mark, (Seal. )
Signed, Sealed, and Delivered ) in prefence of us
Memorandum. On the WADERGASCOM, t mark. 17th day of May, one MISTONABITE, a mark. JOHN OLDHAM. thoufand fix hundred twenty and nine, in fifth SAM. SHARPE. year of the reign of our fovereign Lord Charles, king of England, Scotland, France and Ireland, defender of the faith, &c. Wa- hangnonaway fagamore of Squamfquott in Pifcattaqua river, did in behalf of himfelf and the other fagamores a- fore mentioned then prefent, deliver quiet and peaceable poffeffion of all the lands mentioned in the within writ- ten deed unto the within named John Wheelwright for the ends within mentioned, in prefenceof us Walter Neal governor, George Vaughan factor, and Ambrofe Gib- bons trader, for the company of Laconia, Richard Vines, governor, and Richard Bonighton affiftant, of the planta- tion at Saco ; Thomas Wiggin agent, and Edward Hil- ton fteward, of the plantation of Hilton's Point, and was figned, fealed, and delivered in our prefence. In witnefs whereof we have hereunto fet our hands the day and year above written.
Richd. Vines, Wa. Neale,
Ricb. Bonighton, George Vaughan,
Tho. Wiggin, Ambrofe Gibbons, Edward Hilton,
Recorded according to the original found on the ancient files for the county of York, this 28th day of Jan. 1713. per JOS. HAMMOND, Reg. A true copy from York county records of deeds, &c. lib. 3. fol. 16. &c. Att. DAN. MOULTON, Reg. CorreGed by a copy on file in the fuperior court of New- Hampfhire,
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Hampfhire, in the cafe of Allen vs Waldron ; which co- py is attefted by the above named Jos. Hammond,
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An originalletter from Thomas Eyre one of the adventurers or company of Laconia to Mr. Gibbons their factor. Mr. Gibbons, London the laft of May, 1631. YOURS of the 8th April 1630, from Plimouth I re- ceived and thereby tooke notice of your entertain - ing Roger Knight ; and here I prefent his wife 20/. pr. quarter at your defire and 3/. per quarter to yours. I hope by this they are both with you according to your defire. I with all your wives with you, and that fo many of you as defire wives had fuch as they defire ; for the adventur- crs defire not to be troubled with quarterly payments.
Your next to me is dated the 21ft of July laft at Pafca- taquacke, I take notice of your complaints for want of the trade goods, and fomuch as lieth in me it fhall be other- wife, efpecially if you fend us returnes, doubt you not but that you fhall be fupplied from time to time unto your owne contents.
Your 3d Ire to me is dated the 14th of Auguft, by which I perceive divers of the commodities and provifions which you carried with you in the barke Warwicke, were not to your liking for which I am forry. You know the trouble we had. I could not looke to Mr. Olden's and all befides. I hope by the Pide-Cowe you find it otherwife. I pray write me how you like the hatchetts fent you by that fhip and how all goeth.
I like it well that your governor will have a ftocke of bords at all times readie. I hope you will find fome- thing to relade both the Pide-Cowe and the Warwicke. I will now put on the fending of you the moddell of a faw mill that you may have one going.
Your wife and children, Roger Knight's wife and one wife more we have alredy fent you, and more you fhall have as you write for them.
Another Ire I have from you of the 14th Auguft, in which you write for another Mafon. We have had e- nough to doe, to goe fo farre forwards as we have, as Capt. Keyes can tell you, now we begine to take hearte agayne, but the fight of returnes will be that which will indeede put life into us.
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Among my New England records I find your Ire un- to Capt. Mafon of the 14th Auguft laft, wherein you give a good account of your times fpent from the firft of June untill then, as alfo of the manner of your trade which was to Capt. Mafon's liking. We hope you will find out fome good mines, which will be welcome newes unto us.
By Mr. Glover we recd. Ires from Capt. Neale, writ- ten as we think about the end of March laft, write me I pray, what winter you had, and how you had your healthes and why Capt. Neale went not in Septem. laft to difcover the lakes, as he wrote he would, and why you did not write by that conveyance.
By the barke Warwicke we fend you a factor to take charge of the trade goods ; alfo a foldier for difcovrie &c.
Thus I comend you, and your wife, who by this I hope is with you to the protection of the almightie. Your loving friend,
Kept untill the 7th.of June. THO. EYRE.
No. III.
An original letter from the company to Gibbins. Mr. Ambrofe Gibbons, London 5th Decemb 1632. TTOUR fundrie letters we have received. Wee doe take notice of your care and paines in our planta- tion and doe with that others had bine that way the fame that you are and will wee hope foe continew. The ad- venturers here have bine foe difcouraged by reafon of John Gibbes ill dealing in his fifhing voiage, as alfoe by the fmall returnes fent hither by Capt. Neal Mr. Herbert or any of their factors as that they have noe defire to proceed any farther, until Capt. Neale come hither to confer with them, that by conferrence with him they may fettle things in a better order. Wee have written unto Capt. Neale to difmife the houfhold, onlie fuch as will or canne live of themfelves may ftay upon our plantation in fuch convenient places as Capt. Neale Mr. Godfrie and you fhall thinke fitt ; and after conference had with Capt. Neale they fhall have a reafonabre quantity of land graunted unto them by deed.
Wee praie you to take care of our houfe at Newich- wannick and to looke well to our vines, alfo you may take fome of our fwine and goates, which wee pray you to prefeive. Wee have committed the chiefe care of our houfe
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houfe at Pafcattaway to Mr. Godfrie and written unto Mr. Warnerton to take care of our houfe at Strawberry- bancke. Our defire is that Mr. Godfrie, Mr. Warner- ton and you fhall joyne loveinglie together in all things for our good, and to advife us what our beft courfe will be to doe another yeare.
You defire to fettle yourfelf upon Sanders point. The adventurers are willing to pleafure you not only in this, in regard of the good report they have heard of you from tyme to tyme, but alfoe after they have conferred with Captain Neale they determyne fome further good to- wards you for your further incouridgment.
Wee defire to have our fifhermen incrcafed, whereof wee have written unto Mr. Godfrie. Wee thank you for affifting John Raymond, wee pray you ftill to be helpful to him that fo he may difpatch and come to us with fuch retourne as he hath, and if he hath any of his trade goods remayning unfold wee have willed him to leave them with you, and we doe hereby pray you to re- ceive them into your cuftody and to put them off with what conveniency you canne, and to fend us the re- tournes by the firft fhipp that comes. Thus we com- mend you and your wife to the protection of the Al- mightye.
Your loving friends, John Mafon, Tho. Wannerton, Henry Gardiner, The. Erye, for my
Geo. Griffith, children.
No. IV. Copy of a letter from Gibbins to the company.
A FTER my umble duty remembred unto your wor- fhips, I pray for your good health and profperity. Thefe are certifying your worfhip for the goods I have received from you. I have delivered unto Mr. John Raymon 76lb and 4 ounfes of bever, 10 otters, 6 muf- quafhes and on martain more, that Captain Neale had 3581b and ii ounzes of bever and otter, 17 martins, on black fox fkin, on other fox fkin, 3 racoon fkins, 14 muf- quafhes two of them with ftones. Mr. Raymon's prefent departing and the intermixing of all the trade goods in my care until Mr. Vaughan com I cannot give you any fatisfaction for the account of trade. I did advife Mr. Raymon to returne with all fpeed unto you. Your let- Cc ters
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ters I received the 7th of June. At larg I will write if God will by the next. Thus taking my leave I comit your worfhip to Almighty God.
Your worfhip's at command, From Newichwanicke AMBROSE GIBBINS. this 24th of June 1633.
No. V. Copy of another from Gibbins to the company.
Newichwanicke, July 13, 1633. R IGHT honourable, right worfhippful and the reft, my humble fervis rembred. Your letter dated the 5th of December and Mr. Ares letter the third of April I received the feventh of June. The detaining of the former letter hath put you to a great charge in the plan- tation. For my care and paines I have not thought it much although I have had very little encouragement from you and here. I do not doubt of your good will un- to mee. For your fifhing, you complain of Mr. Gibbes : A Londoner is not for fifhing, neither is there any amity betwixt the Weft cuntrimen and them. Brifto or Barn- ftable is very convenient for your fifhing fhipes. It is not enough to fit out fhipes to fifh but they muft be fure (God wil) to be at their fifhing place the beginning of February and not to come to the land when other men have half their viage.
Mr. Wanerton hath the charge of the houfe at Pafcat- awa and hath with him William Cooper, Rafe Gee, Rog- er Knight, and his wife, William Dermit and on boy. For your houfe at Newichwanicke, I feeing the neceffity wil doe the beft I can there and elfewhere for you until I hear from againe. Advife I have fent but not know- ing your intentes I cannot wel enlarge but I refer you to Mr. Herbert and Mr. Vaughan. For my fettlement at Sanders-Point and the further good you intend me I hum- bly thank you I fhall do the beft I can to be grateful. I have taken into my handes all the trade goods that re- mains of John Raymon's and Mr. Vaughan's and will with what convenience I may put them of. You complain of your returnes ; you take the coorfe to have little ; a planta- tion muft be furnished with cattle and good bir'd hands and necefaries for them and not thinke the great lookes of men and many words wil be a meanes to raife a plantation. Thofe that have been here this three year fom of them have neither
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neither meat money nor clothes, a great difparagement. I fhall not need to fpeak of this, you fhall hear of it by others. For myfelf, my wife and child and four men we have but half a barrel of corn ; beefe and porke I have not had but on peefe this three months, nor bear this four months ; for I have for two and twenty months had but two barrels of beare and two barrels and four boofhel of malt, our number commonly hath bin ten. I nor the fervantes have neither money nor clothes, I have bin as fparing as I could, but it will not doe. Thefe four men with me is Charles Knell, Thomas Clarke, Steven Kid- der, and Thomas Crockitt, three of them is to have for their wages until the firft of March four pounds per peefe and the other for the yeare fix pounds which in your be- half I have promifed to fatisfy in money or bever at ten fhillings per pound. If there were neceffarys for them for clothing there would not bee much for them to re- ceave. You may perhaps think that fewer men would ferve me but I have fometimes on C [one hundred] or more Indians and far from neybors : Thefe that I have I can fet to pale in ground for corne and garden. I have digged a wel within the palizado, where is good water, I have that to clofe with timber. More men I could have and moreemploy, but I reft thus until Iheare from you. The vines that were planted will com to little, they profper not in the ground they were fet, them that groo natural are veri good of divers forts. I have fent you a note of the beav- er taken by me at Newichwanicke, and how it hath gon from me. George Vaughan hath a note of all the trade goodes in my cuftody of the old ftore John Ramon's and George Vaughan's accomtes, but the beaver beinge dif- pofed of before I could make the devident I canot fee but it muft be all on packt and be devided by you. The gover- nor departed from the plantation the fifteenth of July in the morning. So for this time I end, committing you to the protection of the Almighty and ever reft your loving fervant, AMBROSE GIBBINS.
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Copy of a letter from Neal and Wiggen, relating to a division of the lands at Pafcataqua, 1633.
Much honoured, I N obedience to your commands have furvaied the riv- er from the mouth of the harbor to Squamfcutt falls, liquife
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liquife from the harbor's mouth by the fea fide to the Maffachufetts bounds, and find that the bounds of your pattents will not aford more than for two towns in the river of Pafeataway and the remainder will make another good towne having much falt marth in it. And becaufe you would have foure townes named as you defired wee have treated with a gentleman who has purchafed a trackt of land of the Indyans at Squamfcutt falls, and your land running up to the faid falls on one fide of the river from the falls about a mile downward, faid gentlemen having a mind to faid land on your fide to a certain crike and one mile bacward from the river which we agreed on and the crike is called Weelewright's, the gentleman's name being Weelewright and he was to name faid plantation (when fettled) Exeter. And the other two towns in the river, the one North-ham and Portfmouth the other. Bounded as followeth, viz. Portfmouth runes from the harbor's mouth by the fea fide to the entrance of a little river between two hed lands which we have given the names of the Little Bore's-hed, and the Grete Bore's- hed, and from the mouth of that little river to go on a ftrait line to the aforefaid creeke which we have named Weelewrights creeke and from thens down the river to the harbor's mouth where it began. And North-ham is the bounds of all the land of Hilton's Point fide. And the other land from the little river between the two Boores-Heds to run by the fea till it meets with the line between the Maffachufetts and you, and fo to run from the fea by faid Maffathufetts line into the woods eight miles and from thence atwart the woods to meete with Portfmouth line neere Wheleright's creeke and that tracte of land to be called Hampton. So that their is foure towns named as you defired but Exeter is not within the bounds of your pattents. But the grete dificulty is the agreement about the dividing line between the patent of the twenty thoufand acres belonging to the company of Laconyah and the pattent of Bluddy poynt the river running fo intrycate, and Bluddy poynt pattent bounds from thence to Squamfcutt falls to run three miles into the woods from the water fide. But for your better un- derftanding thereof wee have fent you a draft of it accord- ing to our beft fkill of what we know of it at prefent, and have drawn a dividing line between the two pattents, fo that Portfmouth is part of both pattents and Hampton we
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apprehend will be holly in the twenty thoufand acres pat- tent, and North-ham is the bounds of Hilton's point pat- tent. If what wee have don be to your likinge wee thall think our time well fpent and what further commands you will pleafe to lay on us we fhall readily obeye to the utmoft of our power. Wee humbly take leve and fub- fcribe ourfelves, Your devoted and mott humble fer- vants,
WALTER NELE, THOMAS WIGGIN.
North-ham on Pafcataway river, in ? New-England, 13 Auguft, 1633.
Superfcribed to John Mafon, Efq. governor of Portf- mouth to be communicated to the pattentees of La- coniah and Hilton's point humbly prefent in Lon- don.
WVe under written being of the government of the pro- vince of Maine doe affirm that the above letter written and fent by Walter Nele and Thomas Wiggen and direct- ed to John Mafon Efq. governor of Portfmouth to be communicated to the patentees of Laconiah and Hilton's point, is a trew copia compared with the originall. And further wee doe affirme that there was four grete gunes brought to Pafcataqua which ware given by a merchant of London for the defence of the river, and at the fame time the Earle of Warwicke, Sr Ferdenando Gorges, Capt. John Mafon and the reft of the pattentees fent an order to Cap. Walter Nele and Captn. Thomas Wiggin ther agents and governor at Pafcataway to make choife of the moft convenient place in the faid river to make a fortefecatyon for the defence thereof, and to mount thofe foure gunes giveen to the place, which accordingly was done by Capt. Walter Nele and Capt. Thomas Wiggen and the pattentees fervants, and a draft was fent of the place that they had made choice of to the faid earle and company, and the draft did containe all the necke of land in the north efte fide of the grete ifland that makes the grete harbor, and they gave it the name of Fort-poynt, and allotted it fo far backe into the ifland about a bow-fhoat to a grete high rocke whereon was intended in time to fet the principall forte.
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