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Voted, That Notifications for calling future Proprietors meetings be put up two att Salem two att Marblehead and one att Woburn.
Voted, Benja Lynde Jun' Esqr take ye Seven Lotts that remains yett to be drawn and keep them till ye adjournment of this meeting, Unless they or any of them pay his or their money to Mr. Lynde then he or they may Draw. This meeting was adjourned to ye Last Wednesday of this Instant Feby att Mrs. Margaret Pratts att one of the Clock in ye afternoon.
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Att a meeting of ye Comt Feby ye 6th 1736, Ordered yt ye Clerk Draw upon the Treas" for ye Payment of ye Sums of money Voted ₱ ye Proprs to be paid to ye Surveyor and Comt &c. att their Last Meeting.
Att ye adjournment.
Voted, That there be one Hundred acres of Land laid out on or adjoyn- ing to both sides of stream that is convenient for Seting up a Saw Mill and that ye Comt Hereafter to be chosen Lay out ye Same, and itt be Reserved for ye Use of ye Propriety.
It being put to Vote whether you will now come to any further Divi- sion or Divisions, it past in ye affirmative.
Voted, That there be Laid out to Each Proprtr two more Divisions Conta one Hundred & Thirty acres Each, which Lotts are to be so qualifyed & coupled by a Comt Hereafter to be chosen, as yt Justice may be so Done to Each proptr as far as by them may be Done.
Voted, Mr. John Gardner One Hundred & Fifty Pounds for Laying out one Hundred & twenty Six Lotts Each Containing 130 acres, and also one Lott Conta 100 acres for a Mill Lott, and to run ye Lines all round Sd Lotts, and to mark & numbr Each Lott, and also to make out ye Extream Lines of ye Township where they are not yett Done, and also to Lay out Highways between ye Lotts according to ye Comt Direc- tion, and to return a Propper Plan of ye Same with ye number on Each Lott, and to be pd ye sd one Hundred & fifty Pounds in Thirty days after ye return of Sd Plann.
Voted, To chuse three men a Comt to Lay out Sd Lotts Vizt
Mr. Thomas Fletcher - Mr. John Gardner Comt & Daniel Epes Jun™
Voted, To give Mr. Gardner & Mr. Fletcher 15/ ₱ Day they to find themselves and Daniel Epes Jun 20/ ₱ Day he to find himself.
Voted, That there be four pounds raised on Each Right to Defray ye Charges for Surveying qualifying & coupleing ye Second Diviso Lotts Voted as above.
Voted, That Mr. Gardner with ye Comt Sett out to Lay out & quallify sd Lotts abº ye Beginning of April next, and Compleat the work by the first Day of June Next.
Thus we have given a sample of the records of the proprie- tors' meetings. Then follows an account of the first division rights, or home lots, as drawn by the several proprietors at their meeting Feb. 3, 1737.
Capt. Samuel King, one lot, No. 5 Daniel Epes, Jun. No. 51
One ditto 56
" 53
Maj. Blaney
3 Peter Martin 17
One ditto 6 William Stone 41
Mr. Joseph Sweat
49
John Felton
43
Ditto for John Dowd
2 Timothy Cummings 26
Roger Derby
29 Joseph Richardson for Benj.
Daniel Epes Junr.
10
Codner 42
Ditto
22 Daniel Foster 20
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Thomas Fletcher for J. Hilliard 38 Samuel Osgood
12
Thomas Fletcher for Peters 18 John Proctor 48
Ephraim Ingalls for D. Hilliard 59 Philip English Jun. 61
Ephraim Ingalls for Elson 40 Benja Lynde Jr. Esq. 39
Benja Tapley I3 Capt. Joseph Bowditch 4
Benja Tapley
50
Fletcher for Wm. Dixey 35
Cornelius Tarbell
25 Samuel Wells Esq. 57
Col. Daniel Epes
7 Thomas Trott for Williams 54
Col. Daniel Epes
44 Samuel Swasy for Jona Lambert
II
John Gyles
46 Joseph Clough
45
Jonathan Peal
60
Joseph Lambert 27
John Gardner
31
Joseph English for Beadle 2I
Isaac Williams
52 Joseph Hallett
8
Robert Swan 55
Edward Flardy for Jona Very 24Ę
Capt. John Stephens for J. Knapp 9
Capt. Bowers for John Archer
I
Capt. John Fowle Jun .. 15
Edward Trask 16
Simeon Orn for Furginson West 24
Capt. William King 19
Simeon Orn for William Norman 23
Capt. Barthº Jackson 36
Stephen Daniel Jr. 47
Capt. John Fowle Jun. for Robbinson 62
School Lot
32
Isaac Knapp for John Bartoll 14
Lot
33
Hugh Kelly for Swasy 28
George Deland for E. Hilliard 30
Lot
34
John Bartlett for Robert Bartlett 37
Benja Goodhue for Searle 58
WINN MOUNTAIN.
CHAPTER II.
SALEM-CANADA SAWMILLS ROADS & MEETING-HOUSE.
At the next legal meeting of the proprietors two points on which to act, were "to consider of some proper method for erecting a saw-mill in said Township, also to chuse a commit- tee-man in the room of Capt. Samuel King who has disposed of his Right in said Township."*
They voted at this meeting, June 21, 1737, "That the mill lot be 130 acres, equal in quantity with the other 2nd. division lots." On Dec. 26, 1738, they voted, "That Mr. John Cram have Twenty Pounds in Bills of Credit, & the lot No. 39 in the Second Division of lots, Allotted by the committee for the mill lot to him & his heirs forever, upon condition that he build a good & sufficient saw-mill on said lot, & cut boards for the Proprie- tors at the halves, or equivalent for such of them as shall bring logs. To be finished on or before the last day of August next, & keeps in sufficient repair for sawing during the term of fifteen years, to commence from the said last of August."
A good saw-mill was a necessity for the new town, and we learn that Mr. John Cram later gave bonds for its erection on his lot No. 41, as the best place for the same, the proprietors consenting thereto. When second division lots were drawn, June 21, 1737, Deacon Nathaniel Putnam drew instead of Capt. King, upon the home lot No. 5. He seems to have purchased Capt. King's right in the township, and he became thereafter a leading actor in the affairs of the town.
At the proprietors' meeting in May (28) 1739, it was voted that a committee "be impowered to take Bond of Mr. John Cram for his performing the conditions of building a saw-mill on the terms voted at a meeting of the Proprietors in Dec. last." There seems to have been some delay in erecting this mill, a thing not surprising or blameworthy in primitive conditions. However, at the Proprietors' meeting, on May 9, 1740, a peti- tion was presented from their new proprietor, Mr. Nathaniel Putnam, humbly showing, "that he hath lately builded a good saw-mill in said town, at his own cost & charge, and as he apprehends will be of great service to the said Proprietors now before any other saw-mill be erected & fitted for sawing. He
*Props Rs., copied by Mr. J. H. Goodrich.
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therefore most humbly prays that the said proprietors would give him some consideration, as they in their wisdom shall see ineet, and as in duty bound shall ever pray.
Viz' : Nathaniel Putnam."
He was at once voted a consideration of Ten Pounds which was paid Sept. 15, 1741.3 "This first saw-mill in Salem Canada was in all probability just above Barnes's Falls in Wil- ton."t But the saw-mill of Mr. John Cram was also built in due time, not on the lot 39, first selected, but on lot 41 as seemed preferable. Lot 39 is west of South Lyndeborough, on Rocky river, and lot 41, on Saw-mill brook, nearly east of South Lyndeborough, just below where the saw-mill of Mr. E. H. Putnam now stands. The last named gentleman is a lineal descendant of both the original mill owners.
ROADS.
After making provision for a good saw-mill, the proprietors' attention was turned to securing good roads. "At the second meeting of the proprietors, Nov. 21st, 1737," says Rev. Frank G. Clark, "they voted to clear a road to the centre of their township from Amherst, & to let out the building of the road "by the great," that is, by the job. They also voted that, "upon Mr. Cornelius Tarbell & Mr. Joseph Richardson's clearing a good and sufficient cartway from the place where Mr. Timothy Cummings left off clearing a way from Mr. Waltron's in Narragansett No. 3 to or near Wainwood's brook, & to clear said way to or near the centre of said Canada township & building a good bridge over said Wainwood's brook, & laying the bodies of trees and making good passable causeways over miry places and over gullies & small brooks, so that a laden cart may pass conveniently, that the said Tarbell & Richardson be paid fifty-eight pounds."}
The road was cleared and the money duly paid to those who did the work.
At the proprietors' meeting, March 7, 1738, it was learned that some of the proprietors of the Ashuelots and other towns on the upper parts of the Connecticut River proposed "to cut & bring the road from said townships across the woods, & so into this Canada township, which if effected may be of great advantage to this propriety ; Wherefore Voted, that to encourage the bringing of said road from the Ashuelots into
* See Prop. Records İ Clark, p. 22. # Clark, pp. 20, 21.
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this township, this Propriety engage and will make a good and sufficient way from the place where the said road is brought into this town to the end of the road cleared by Messrs. Tarbell & Richardson, to or near the centre of said township." They also appointed Capt. John Fowle, Mr. Joseph Richardson and Mr. Cornelius Tarbell a committee to treat with a committee of the other towns in regard to this road. The road was built ; for in the record of the proprietors' meeting Dec. 10, 1741, it was voted to pay Capt. John Fowle 4£ for his part of the work on the Ashuelot road. At this last named meeting it was also voted, " That there be a good cart-road cleared from Deacon Putnam's saw-mill to the meeting-house, & that three pounds be allowed for the same, to be drawn out of the Treasury."
Again at a meeting held Jan. 4, 1743, it was voted "That the road from Peterboro through this Township be well cleared & mended, so as to render it commodious for persons to travel through the same & that Mr. John Cram is hereby inpowered to do the same."
THE MEETING-HOUSE.
Now, even before the settlers had succeeded in getting good roads, they began to agitate, and set about building their meet- ing-house. That they did so was no special evidence of piety on their part. The very conditions upon which their town was granted required this. Not only was their land obtained by agreeing to fulfil this and other conditions, but possession of it could not be maintained without a performance of their agree- ment. The State of Massachusetts, the grantor of their town- ship, held them to a strict compliance with her demands. They, therefore, set out early to perform their task. Nor need it be inferred that no house of worship would have been built had it not been required, for some of the leading men in the town were men of standing as Christians. Necessity and expediency alike combined to incite them to act. The first point to decide was the place on which to build. Accordingly, at the proprietors' meeting, March 7, 1738, the same day on which they took action in regard to the Ashuelot road, they appointed a commit- tee consisting of Mr. Cornelius Tarbell, Capt. John Fowle and Mr. Joseph Richardson to select a good spot for the meeting- house, and "clear a road from the road already made by Messrs. Tarbell and Richardson, to the said meetinghouse place."
The committee thus appointed reported May 28, 1739, that in
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their opinion, " the most convenient place is partly on lot No. 41, and partly on lot No. 44, upon the line running east and west, and have cleared a road to said place." The proprietors voted, May 28, 1739, to accept the report of the committee, and to build a meeting-house 45 ft. long, 35 ft. wide, and 20 ft. stud. Benjamin Lynde, Jr., Esq., agreed to give 20 acres of lot No. 44, and Mr. John Cram agreed to give 10 acres of lot No. 41 for the meeting-house grounds.
Mr. Stephen Putnam, Mr. Joseph Richardson, and Mr. Stephen Richardson were chosen a committee "to treat with a person or persons to build and finish the meeting-house as cheap as they can," and report proceedings at next meeting for the proprietors' acceptance. At the next meeting July 2nd, 1739, the committee reported that they had not been able to find "a person or persons that will undertake to finish the same by the Great. "The same committee was appointed " to build and sett up a good frame for a meetinghouse, workmanlike," on the place allotted for the same, on or before the 16th day of May next, and "underpin the said frame with good, handsome stones,"- "as cheap as may be." There was failure to do this in the given time; and again on October 21, 1740, it was voted, "that the raising of the meeting-house be deferred till next spring, and that Lieut. Joseph Richardson take care and secure the timber from the fire," &c.
Thus, the securing of the meeting-house seems to have been attended with much difficulty and delay. Nor is it surprising that it should have been so, for even in our own day, with every facility at our command, it is no trifling matter to secure the fulfilment of a contract for either labor or materials within speci- fied time. But in those early days the workmen were scarce, and the materials were often inaccessible. Things moved more at the pace of the oxen and cart than at that of the railway and steam engine. The building of the meeting-house, therefore, seems to have dragged along discouragingly.
It will be remembered that it was in 1740 that King George decided the controversy about the boundary line between this State and Massachusetts, and that the settlers of this town were from the Bay State, and were not a little worried at finding themselves without consultation or consent made a part of New Hampshire. The decision had the effect of unsettling people's minds, and creating great uneasiness. They were uncertain even as to the tenure of their lands and the validity of their
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titles to them, and in case of defect or annulment of title, whether they should receive any compensation for their clear- ings, buildings and improvements. The air was full of uneasi- ness and discontent. These phantoms of the times, no doubt, served greatly to retard their efforts in the good work. But courage and hope soon gave stability and firmness to their ac- tion, and in May, 1741, they voted that " the meeting-house be underpinned, raised, and covered forthwith." The dimensions were, meantime, considerably altered. The length was to be 30 feet instead of 45, while the original width and height were to be retained.
On the 9th of September following, the vote of May was sup- plemented by another vote, empowering Cornelius Tarbell, Lieut. Stephen Putnam, and Lieut. Joseph Richardson to get the meeting-house raised on the 24th day of September, instant, and " that they take sufficient care that it be done."
The following accounts are interesting in this connection : -
1127485
SALEM, Aug., 1740.
Accounts of work done about the meeting-house at Salem, Canada : -
Mr. Cram, 6 days at 12s. per day,
3
12 O
Leman, 4 days, 40s. ; Mr. Buffee, 2 dys. 20s.
3
O 0
Joseph Richardson, 15 dys. at 17s. 6d.
I3
2
6
George Goold, 15 dys. at 12S.
9
0
O
John Deal, 8 dys. at 12S. 4
I6 0
Stephen Putnam, 15 dys. at 17s. 6d.
I3
2
6
46 I3 0
Stephen Putnam.
SALEM, June 11, 1741.
s. d.
Mr. Cram, I day, 12s .; Jacob Putnam, 212 dys. at 12S.
2
2 0
John Deal, 10 dys. at 12s.
6
O
0
Joseph Richardson, 15 dys. at 17s. 6d. I3
2 6
Richardson's son, 13 dys. at Ios. 6
IO 0
George Goold, 15 dys. at 17s. 6d.
I3
2
6
49
I7 O
Stephen Putnam.
" Allowed, and ordered that the Treasurer pay the same accordingly."
Daniel Epes, Jun., Proprs.' Clk.
We give here the accounts of Lieut. Tarbell and others for the raising of the meeting-house :
s.
d. .
·
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SALEM, Oct. 7, 1741.
To 21 Gall Rum of B. Lynde Jr. Esqr. @ 12s. ₱
12
12
0
2 qts fish of Mr. Bickford @ 40s.
4
0
0
20 1b sugr & I gall rye of Capt. Jos. Bowditch
3
14
8
" 20 spikes & rings of Jos. Clough 30/
I
IO O
" cart hire 20/ 2 horses' hire 25/
3
IO
O
" 25 1h cheese 30/ 101b cheese 10/ of John Felton
2
O
O
" 2 bus" meal & Bread 5/
I
13
O
" 7 days myself @ 15/
5
5
O
" 8 days my son @ 10/
4
O
O
" Keeping horses 10/ I Cask 10/ of Eph. Ingalls
" 201b Butter of Jona Hill 60/ 12 bus. meal Jo" Cram 12/
3 12 0
42 16
8
Cornelius Tarbell.
The account was examined and allowed Jan. 7, 1742.
Stephen Putnam and others also presented their account for their work about the meeting-house, and clearing roads Sept. 16, 1741 : -
s.
d.
John Deal 3 days' work at 12/
Ephraim Putnam 2 days work with a pair of oxen, & I day him-
2
8
0
· Lieut. Jos. Richardson 12 days @ 15
8
O
O
Jacob Putnam I day 12/
O
I2 0
Mr. George Goold II days
6
12 0
Myself, II days @ 15/
7
5 0
Mr. Cummins for pewter and help 25/ son clearing roads 8/ I
13
O
-
28 6
O
Stephen Putnam.
The above account was examined and allowed Jan. 7, 1742.
The account of Joseph Richardson and others for making a bridge over Wainwood's Brook, bears date of Dec. 19, 1741 :
£ s. d.
To myself 10 days at 15/
7
IO
O
Mr. John Cram 3 days at 10/ Buffee 2 days at 8/ O
16 0
William Peabody and his oxen 13/
0
I3 0
-
IO 9
Jos. Richardson. 0
The above was examined and allowed Jan. 7, 1742.
s. d.
I O O
I 16 0 self 48/
I IO O
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CONTRACT FOR FINISHING THE MEETING-HOUSE.
Mr. John Ganson appearing to undertake the finishing the meeting-house at Salem-Canada, Voted, "that there be given him One Hundred Pounds for the same; vizt, Boarding the sides and ends of the house, and feather-edging the boards, boarding and shingling the roof, putting on the weather boards and finishing the covings ; making and hanging all the outside doors ; finding and laying the sleepers; and laying a double floor in the meeting-house, and finding and placing pillars under the galleries ; and the said Ganson is also to find all materials of boards, shingles, nails, hinges and all other things for the finishing the work as aforesaid; and the standing com- mittee are desired to enter into articles for performing the con- tract with said Ganson." At the proprietors' meeting Aug. 23, 1743. there were added to the specifications above given, that there should be six seats made on each side, and a " con- veniency for the minister to stand in to preach, and to glaze the said house with glass 7 inches one way, and 9 inches the other way ; and to make five windows."
The committee appointed doubtless entered into agreement with the contractor. But we learn from a source outside of the proprietors' records, of a petition, a copy of which follows :
PETITION.
" To his Excellency Benning Wentworth Esq. Governor and Commander in Chief of His Majesty's Province of New Hamp".
The petition of the Inhabitants of Salem-Canada in said Province, Humbly Shews.
That your petitioners live in a place Greatly exposed to the Indians and have not men Sufficient for to Defend us, That tho' there be but few of us yet we have laid out our estates to begin in this place So that we shall be extremely hurt if we must now move off for we have there by the Blessing of God on our labors a fine crop of corn on the ground and tho' we have a Garrison in the Town Built by Order of Maj" Lovell yet we have no body impowered so much as to set a watch among us nor men to keep it; we would therefore pray your Excel- lency that we may have some assistance from the Government in sending us some souldiers to Guard and Defend us as in your wisdom you shall think proper. Tho' we are but newly added to this Government yet we pray your Excellency not to dis-
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regard us but so to assist us that we may keep our estates and do service for the government hereafter & your Petitioners as in duty Bound shall ever pray .*
Salem-Canada
June 26, 1744.
John Cram Jr.
John Dale
Joseph Cram
Jonathan Cram
Samuel Leman
Ephraim Putnam
John Cram
Benjamin Cram
David Stevenson
Abraham Leman
John Stevenson
After perusing this petition in its chronological order, it will occasion us less surprise to read in the proprietors' records of July 25, 1744, " Voted, That nothing more be done to the meet- house at present than to shingle it and board it so as to secure it from the weather, and that it be done forthwith by the com- mittee chosen for that purpose." Evidently things were not pursuing the even tenor of their way. The uncertainties which prevailed in reference to a number of things are doubt- less reflected in this vote, to do nothing more to the meeting- house than shingle and board it "so as to secure it from the weather." The petitioners state that they had been " newly added to this Government." In the contention about the boundary line New Hampshire won much more than she had claimed. Enough territory to make 28 good townships, over and above her claim, had been given her by the decision of King George, and this town, claimed by Massachusetts and granted to the settlers, was placed beyond her control, and sub- ject to the government of New Hampshire. This change of boundary and jurisdiction made them fearful that their titles would be invalidated.
But that was not all. The Masonian ownership of the soil was under agitation. If their farms were in New Hampshire, then the claim of Mason's heirs, which the highest legal author- ity had affirmed to be valid, covered their holdings, and they must secure a settlement with Mason before they can be sure of their possessions. John Tufton Mason was attempting to sell his right and title to the Government of New Hampshire. Negotiations were protracted and at last embittered. Doubt as to the outcome of those proceedings caused hesitancy, and
* N. Bouton, Town Papers, Vol. IX, p. 535.
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the effect of any sale which might be made, kept them in sus- pense and uncertainty.
Then added to all else, a war cloud arose between the mother country and Spain, and the fear that France would assist Spain and send the savage red men into their unprotected settlements haunted them. They had heard of the warwhoop, the toma- hawk, the scalping knife, the torch, and captivity in Canada, but had supposed that all these were things of the past, not likely to return. But now the horrid phantoms seem on the point of appearing once more. Menacing specters began to haunt the forests, and hovered uncomfortably near their homes and hearths. The surprise is, that they did not forsake their primitive cabins and return to the more cheerful towns of the old Bay State, to Woburn, and Salem, and Danvers, and Marblehead. Had there not been brave, hopeful, determined hearts among both men and women, they would hardly have endured the toils, privations, loneliness and fears of their un- promising situation, so remote from social advantages, so de- fenceless and exposed to prowling savages. But they came to stay. Their courage was equal to their trials, and even triumphed over all their hindrances.
Thus, by all these causes they were no doubt influenced to postpone somewhat the completion of their house. During this same year, 1744, Amherst people were at work on their meet- ing-house, and voted "to lath and plaster " it "in case there is not an Indian war next fall." * In the petition of Rev. Daniel Wilkins, pastor in Amherst, in 1744, he says, "That as war is already declared against France, and a rupture with the Indians hourly expected, your memorialists, unless they have speedy help, will soon be obliged to forsake their town, how disservice- able soever it may be to the crown, dishonorable to the govern- ment, hurtful to the province and ruinous to ourselves." "This petition was presented at Portsmouth, June 22, 1744, and, in answer to it, scouts were provided for Amherst and Salem-Canada (now Lyndeborough) on the west."
* Amherst Centennial of Meeting-house, p. 10.
CHAPTER III.
SALE OF MASON'S ESTATE.
The years 1745-6 seem to have been comparatively unevent- ful for the settlers, save that 1746 decided the negotiations of Mason for the disposal of his estates. The Provincial legisla- ture, in their rivalry with the Governor and his council, had dallied too long and lost their opportunity to deal directly with Mason. While they wasted time in their bickerings one with another he sold his property to a syndicate of twelve men in Portsmouth, who were afterwards known as the Masonian pro- prietors, the purchasers and proprietors of Mason's claims. Henceforth, Salem-Canada proprietors and settlers have to treat with the new owners of the soil .*
"THE MASONIAN PROPRIETORS."
"At first the purchase was divided into fifteen shares. The owners were Theodore Atkinson, three-fifteenths; Mark Hunk- ing Wentworth, two-fifteenths; Richard Wibird, John Went- worth, John Moffat, Samuel Moore, Jotham Odiorne, George Jaffrey, Joshua Peirce, Nathaniel Meserve, all of Portsmouth, Thomas Wallingford, of Somersworth, and Thomas Packer, of Greenland, to the last ten one-fifteenth each. Previous to the date of the charter of this town (Rindge), the number of shares was increased to eighteen, and nine more persons were admitted to a common partnership. The new members of the associa- tion were: John Rindge, Joseph Blanchard, Daniel Pierce, John Tufton Mason, John Thomlinson, Matthew Livermore, William Parker, Samuel Solley, and Clement March."t
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