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1787 Frye Bayley, Charles Bayley, Moses Chamberlain.
1788 Thomas Johnson, John Scott, Jonathan Goodwin.
Nehemiah Lovewell, James Vance, Silas Chamberlin.
1790 1791
1789 Jabez Bigelow, Parrit Hadley, John Johnson. No record.
1792 Er Chamberlin, James Johnston, Simcon Stevens.
1793 Joshua Bayley, Jacob Kent, Jr., Otho Stevens.
1794 Asa Tenney, Moses Johnson, Jeremiah Ingalls.
1795 Samuel Butterfield, Paul Ford, Jeremiah Ingalls.
1796 Isaac Duffs, Moses Swascy, Jeremiah Ingalls.
1887
W. G. Foss, J. F. Fulton. D. B. Reid.
W. W. Brock, John Reid, L. L. Tucker. John Reid, John S. George, Robert Lackie. Richard Doe, Robert Lackie, John S. George.
1876 1877 F. Sherwin, G. W. Chamberlain, L. W. McAllister.
John Bailey, W. W Brock, John Smith.
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1797
Josiah Rogers, Charles Chamberlain, Asa Tenney.
1798 Isaac Bayley, Samuel Tucker, Er Chamberlain.
1799 John Vance, John Bayley, Benjamin Bowers.
1800 A. Mclaughlin, John Bayley, Jonathan Johnson.
1801 Nehemiah Lovewell, Asa Tenney, Dudley Carleton.
1802 Moses Swasey, A. McLaughlin, Jacob Kent.
1803 Asa Tenney, Benjamin Bowers, Jonathan Johnston.
1804 James Spear, James Johnston, Benjamin Porter.
1805 1806 Samuel Lancaster, Joshua Hale, Ephraim Clark.
1808
Joseph Smith, Joshua Hale, Nicholas White.
1809
Joshua Hale, Jacob Choate, Samuel Putnam.
1810 Gideon Tewksbury, Samuel Putnam, James Spear.
1811 David Johnson, Simeon Stevens, Samuel Powers.
1812 John Bayley, Timothy Shedd, Jonathan Russell.
1813 Charles Johnston, Charles Hale, Samuel Grow.
1814 Samuel Grow, Isaac Bayley, Charles Hale.
1816
1817 Isaac Bayley, Jonas Tucker, Charles Hale.
1818 George A. Burbank, John Buxton, John B. Carleton.
1819 1820
Charles Hale, Jonas Tucker, Abner Bayley.
1821
Jonas Tucker, Joseph Chamberlin, James Bayley 2d.
1822
John L. Woods, David Johnson, John B. Carleton.
1823 David Johnson, Charles S. Johnson, John L. Woods.
1824 1825 1826
John B. Carleton, Jeremiah Nourse, Tappan Stevens.
1827
Charles Hale, James Abbott, Abner Bayley.
1829
Peter Burbank, Charles Johnston, Jonas Clark.
1830
David Johnson, James Abbott, Levi Carter.
1831
David Johnson, Jonas Clark, Jacob Kent, Jr.
1832
Moody Grow, John Renfrew, James Wallace.
1833
David Johnson, James Abbott, Simeon Stevens.
1835
David Johnson, Waterman Wells, David Haseltine.
1836
David Johnson, Elijah Farr, David Haseltine.
1837 Levi Rogers, Moody Chamberlain, James Abbott.
1840
Oscar C. Hale. Josiah W. Rogers, Horatio N. Brock.
1841
Josiah W. Rogers, Jeremiah Nourse, Oscar C. Hale.
1842
Charles Hale, Jonas W. Clark, Moody Chamberlin.
1843
Clark Kent, Simeon Stevens, Jr., Samuel Grow.
1844
Clark Kent, Hiram Tracy, Moody Grow.
1845
Samuel Grow, Clark Kent, William R. Shedd.
1846
George Leslie, Joseph Berry, Joseph Smith.
1847 Charles Hale, Robert Renfrew, William Burroughs.
1848 Henry K. White, Robert Renfrew, William Burroughs.
1849 Leander Smith, Horatio Brock, Page P. Grove.
1850
David Johnson, William McDuffie, Richard Patterson, Johnson Chamberlain, Horace R. Hale.
1851
David Johnson. H. F. Slack, Enoch Wiggin.
1852 Robert Renfrew, Ezekiel Sawyer, Enoch Wiggin.
1853
Robert Renfrew, Ezekiel Sawyer, Enoch Wiggin.
1854
Horatio Brock, Robert Renfrew, Richard Patterson.
1855
1856
Robert Renfrew, Horatio Brock, Ezekiel Sawyer. Johnson Chamberlain, John Renfrew, Jr., Joseph Atkinson:
1857
G. W. Sampson, L. L. Tucker, Johnson Chamberlain.
1858 Johnson Chamberlain, James S. Johnston, John G. White.
1859 Charles E. Benton, John Bailey, Jr., John Renfrew, Jr.
1860 William R. Shedd, Horatio Brock, John Renfrew, Jr:
Simeon Stevens, Daniel Putnam, Gideon Tewksbury.
1828
Peter Burbank, Charles Johnston, Jonas Clark.
1834
David johnson, David Haseltine, Samuel Gibson, Jr.
David Johnson, Charles Hale, Moody Chamberlain.
1838 1839 Samuel Gibson, Jonas W. Clark, Moses Rogers.
Jeremiah Nourse, David Johnson, John B. Carleton.
Isaac Bayley, John Atwood, James Abbott.
1815 Charles Hale, Charles Johnston, M. F. Morrison. Joshua Hale, Abner Bayley, Gideon Tewksbury.
1807
Ephraim Clark, John Bayley, Moses Johnson.
Isaac Bayley, Peter Preston, James Johnson.
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1861
W. W. Brock, R. R. Fulton, John Bailey, Jr.
1862 W. W. Brock, J. Bailey, Jr., R. R. Fulton.
1863 E. Wiggin, R. R. Fulton, A. M. Peach.
1864 R. R. Fulton, A, M. Peach, D. Y. Ford.
1865 W. R. Shedd, D. Y. Ford, L. L. Tucker.
1866 D. Y. Ford, W. R. Shedd, John S. Daily.
1867 R. R. Fulton, H. G. Randall, A. H. Burton.
1868 R. R. Fulton, H. G. Randall, A. H. Burton.
1869
W. R. Shedd, D. Y. Ford, John Smith.
1873
George Swasey. John Smith, H. D. Haseltine.
1874
W. R. Shedd, J. J. Smith, J. Bailey, Jr. Andrew Renfrew. J. J. Smith. A. M. Peach.
1876
J. J. Smith, J. Reid, L. W. McAllister. J. J. Smith, A. M. Peach, Wright Chamberlin.
1878
W. R. Shedd. J. J. Smith, J. Reid.
1879
W. G. Foss, Henry Whitcher, J. J. Smith.
1880
W. G. Foss, Henry Whitcher, Horace W. Bailey.
1881
John Bailey, Henry Whitcher, J. J. Smith.
1882 W. R. Shedd, H. G. Rollins, H. Whitcher.
1883
H. Whitcher, H. G. Rollins, J. F. Fulton.
1884
Horace W. Bailey, J. F. Fulton, L. W. McAllister.
1885
Horace W. Bailey. J. F. Fulton, L. W. McAllister.
1886
F. Sherwin, J. Reid, L. W. McAllister.
1887
H. D. Hazeltine, A. M. Peach, L. W. McAllister.
1888
H. D. Hazeltine, L. W. McAllister, Moses Brock.
1889 H. D. Hazeltine, L. W. McAllister, Dudley Carleton.
1890
John Smith, F. Sherwin, David Lumsden.
1892
Robert Nelson, H. G. Rollins, D. Lumsden.
1893
C. H. McAllister, J. F. George, M. L. Brock.
1894
F. Sherwin, J. F. George, O. C. Renfrew.
1895
C. C. Scales, M. L. Brock, J. F. George.
1896
F. W. George, J. R. Wced, H. G. Bailey.
1897
F. W. George, J. R. Weed, L, W. McAllister.
1898
D. S. Fulton, J. R. Weed, L. W. McAllister.
1899 J. R. Weed, D. S. Fulton, M. J. Randall.
1900
D. S. Fulton, M. J. Randall, M. H. Randall.
The First Constables, beginning with 1764, were:
1764
John Hazeltine
1807
Benjamin Brock
1765
Richard Chamberlin
1808
Abner Bayley
1766
Thomas Chamberlain
1809
Noyes Bayley
1767
Abner Fowler
1810
Simon Douglass
1768
Moses Thurston
1811
Merrill Bayley
1769
Robert Johnston
1812
Abner Bayley
1770
Abiel Chamberlin
1813
Frye Bayley
1771
Ebenczer White
1814
Abner Bayley
1772
No record.
1815
Nathan Avery
1773
No record.
1816
Abner Bayley
1776
Abiel Chamberlin
1817
Thomas R. Brock
1777
Thomas Johnson
1818
Nathan Avery
1778
Abiel Chamberlin
1819, '20
Tappan Stevens
1779
John Baylcy
1821
Henry Doe
1780
No record
1822
Samuel Grow
1781
Jacob Bayley, Jr.
1823
Tappan Stevens
1782
Thomas Brock No record.
1826
James A. Bayley
1784
Abiel Chamberlin
1827
Caleb Stevens
1785
Dr. Smith
1828, '29
Jacob Kent
1786
Silvanus Heath
1830, '31
Jacob B. Stevens
1787
Joshua Bayley
1832, '33
Caleb Stevens
1870
W. R. Shedd, D. Y. Ford, John Smith.
1872
John Reid, M. C. Bailey. H. A. Albee.
1875
1877
D. P. Kimball, A. H. Burton, C. E. Brock.
1871
1824, '25
Caleb Stevens
1783
1891 L. W. McAllister, D. Lumsden, Abner Bailey.
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1788
Charles Bayley
1834
Nathaniel Bayley
1789
Frye Bayley
1835
Robert Fulton
1790
Jonathan Goodwin
1836, '37
James Matthews
1791
John Johnson
1838
D. R. Burnham
1792,'93 Paul Ford
1839
E. B. Stevens
1794
Jacob Kent, Jr.
1840, '41
Peter Wheelock, Jr.
1795
James Johnston
1842, '43
John E. Chamberlain
1796
James Spear
1844-46
E. B. Stevens
1797
Asa Tenney
1847
Seth Ford
1798
Jeremiah Ingalls
1848, '49
E. B. Stevens
1799
Frye Bayley
1850
Henry F. Slack
1800
Moses Johnson
1851-61
Andrew Renfrew
1801
No record.
1862. '63
N. B. Stevens
1802
Joseph Smith
1864-72
John Bailey
1803,'04
Simeon Stevens
1873, '74
H. G. Randall
1805
William Bailey
1875, '76
George W. Chamberlain
1806
Abner Bayley
1877-88
John Bailey
1889-1900
John R. Weed
For the first years the selectmen seem to have had the care of the funds, but in 1779 the first treasurer was chosen. Not much is preserved regarding the receipts and disbursements of this official, and it is not alone of late years that the accounts of the town have fallen into confusion for want of a systematic manner of keeping them. In 1840, the financial affairs of the town had fallen into such a state that David Johnson was appointed a committee to investigate the matter, and at the March meeting of 1841, made the following very characteristic report.
"The committee appointed at the meeting of the town on the 2d day of March last, to investigate the financial situation of the town, has attended to the duties of his appointment, and after a tedious and laborious examination of Books, Town Orders, and Accounts. all involved in the most delightful confusion-having succeeded in reducing the chaotic inass of materials to a very remote approach to order and exactness-begs leave to lay the result of his labours before the town in the following ** * report.
There was an utter lack of system in the business affairs of the town, which brought on this state of things. The publication of the town reports in printed form has compelled a reformation in the method of keeping accounts.
The Treasurers have been:
1779-87
Dudley Carleton
1837
Tappan Stevens
1787-92
Thomas Johnson
1838-41
James M. Chadwick
1772
Nehemiah Lovewell
1841
David Johnson
1793
Frye Bayley
1842-44
Tappan Stevens
1794
Daniel Farrand
1844-46
Joseph Atkinson
1795-98
William Wallace
1846
David Johnson
1798-1800
Asa Tenney
1847
Joseph Atkinson David Johnson
1809-14
David Johnson
1849
Joseph Atkinson J. M. Chadwick John Stevens
1822
Josiah Little
1860-64 1864
E. C. Stocker H. H. Deming
1827-31
E. B. Stevens
1865-78
Henry W. Bailey
1831-34
Freeman Keyes
1878-89 George Leslie
1834-36
James Spear, Jr.
1889-98
J. B. Hale
1836
William Atkinson
1898-01 A. W. Silsby
1800-09
James Spear
1848
1814-21
Josiah Little
1850-55
1821
Jonas Tucker
1855-59
1823-27
David Johnson
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As far as can be ascertained, there was no person chosen as Superintendent of Schools till 1847, when Rev. G. W. Campbell was clected to that office. His successors have been :
1849 Rev. J. D. Butler 1867-70 Rev. Z. S. Haynes
1850-51 Rev. Elisha Brown
1871 Dr. I. T. Bronson
1852 Edwin A. Rogers
1872-74 Rev. R. D. Miller
1853-57 Rev. C. W. Cushing 1875 E. W. Smith
1858 Rev. S. M. Plympton
1876
D. S. Corliss
1859 Rev. H. N. Burton
1877
Wright Chamberlain
1860
Rev. F. E. King
1878
Rev. A. B. Lyon
1861 Rev. H. N. Burton
1879-81 Rev. E. J. Ranslow
1862-64 Rev. A. G. Button
1882-84 W. H. Buek
1865-66
A. H. Burton
1885-90 Horace W. Bailey
In this latter year a county board of education was established which continued two years.
1891
Rev. J. L. Merrill.
1892
W. H. Buek.
In 1893, the town system came into operation, a school board of three being constituted, one of whom is chosen each year. The board then chosen were:
Horaee W. Bailey for one year.
J. J. Smith, two years.
L. W. MeAllister three years.
1894 H. E. Cobleigh
1895
Rev, J. S. Tupper, who resigned in October and A. J. Whitcher was appointed to fill the vaeaney.
1896 M. H. Randall.
1897
A. J. Whiteher.
1898
G. B. Barnett.
These last three constitute the present board.
The selectmen seem to have had the charge of the poor till 1821. In that year Daniel Putnam was made Overseer. Those who have held that office have been :
1821 Daniel Putnam
1845, '46 Daniel Putnam
1822 Isaae Bayley
1847, '48 Charles J. Smith
1823 Isaae Bayley 1849 Oliver B. Rogers
1824
James Broek 1850-57 Abner Chamberlin
1825
Asa Tenney
1858 Caleb Stevens
1826 John L. Woods
1859
Samuel Martin
1827-32 Tappan Stevens
1860 R. C. Sawyer
1833, '34
Caleb Stevens, Jr.
1861-66
O. B. Rogers
1835 Tappan Stevens
1867
The Selectmen
1836 Moody Chamberlain
1868
Riehard Doe
1837
Abner Bayley
1869-76
Dan Y. Ford
1838 Charles Hale
1877
Harrison Bailey
1839, '40 Moody Chamberlain
1880-90
John S. George
1841 John B. Carleton
1891-95
John Reid
1842, '43 John E. Chamberlain
1896-99
John F. George
1844 Clark Kent
1900
John R. Weed
At the first annual meeting in 1764, it was voted that Maxi Haseltine and Thomas Johnson should be surveyors of highways. They voted also to make the road by a "rate" and to raise two
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thousand pounds "old tenor" to make the road, and that a man should be allowed four pounds a day for his work, and for a yoke of oxen, three pounds. In the depreciated currency of the time, a pound was probably worth about twenty-five cents.
In 1776, a man was "to receive six shillings, and oxen four shillings" for a day's work. In 1779, it was voted that in lieu of a day's work, a man should pay a bushel of wheat. In 1798, the town was divided into nine highway districts, each in charge of a "surveyor" or "path-master." The number of such districts was increased from time to time, and this imperfect and inconvenient care of the highways was continued till within a few years. People usually worked out their taxes, under the direction of men who had no technical knowledge of the science of road making. In winter the roads were broken out, all the people turning out with their oxen and sleds. This system, or want of one, continued till road machines and snow-rollers came into use, when the law placed the general oversight of the highways into the hands of the selectmen.
In 1892, the law was again changed and placed the roads and their care in the hands of one individual, styled the Road Commissioner, who has the charge of all outside the limits of Wells River village. These have been :
1.893-95 Robert Lackie
1896 Henry G. Rollins
1897 Robert Lackie 1898-00 Warren W. Bailey
The accounts of the town began to be kept in dollars and cents, instead of pounds, shillings, and pence, or Spanish dollars, in 1798. In 1799, the town voted fifteen dollars, "for the purpose of making and erecting guide posts in the necessary places in sd town."
CHAPTER XLVI.
REVOLUTIONARY AND MISCELLANEOUS PAPERS .- THE NEW HAMPSHIRE CHARTER .- THE NEW YORK CHARTER .- DIARY OF GEN. JACOB BAYLEY IN THE OLD FRENCH WAR .- JOURNALS OF COL. JACOB KENT .- COL. FRYE BAYLEY'S DIARY IN 1776 .- COL. THOMAS JOHNSON'S JOURNAL WHILE IN CANADA .- THOMAS MELLEN'S NARRATIVE .- LETTERS .- REVOLUTIONARY MUSTER ROLLS .- NEWBURY LANDS IN 1808 .- MISCELLANEOUS.
THE NEW HAMPSHIRE CHARTER.
Province of New Hampshire.
GEORGE THE THIRD.
Newbury
By the Grace of GOD. of Great Britain, France and Ireland, KING, Defender of the Faith, &c.
P-S
To all Persons to whom these Presents shall come, Greeting.
KNOW ye. that We of Our special Grace, certain Knowledge, and meer Motion for the due Encouragement of settling a New Plantation within our said Province, by and with the Advice of our Trusty and Well-beloved BENNING WENTWORTH, Esq; Our Governor and Commander in Chief of Our said Province of NEW-HAMPSHIRE in New-England, and of our COUNCIL of the said Province; HAVE upon the Conditions and Reservations herein after made, given and granted, and by these Presents, for us, our Heirs and Successors, do give and grant in equal Shares, unto Our loving Subjects, Inhabitants of Our said Province of New Hampshire, and Our other Governments, and to their Heirs and Assigns for ever whose Names are entred on this Grant, to be divided to and amongst them into Eighty one equal Shares, all that Tract or Parcel of Land situate, lying and being within our said Province of New-Hampshire, containing by Admeasurement Acres, which Tract is to contain Something more than Six Miles square; out of which an Allowance is to be make for High Ways and unimprovable Lands by Rocks, Ponds, Mountains and Rivers, One Thousand and Forty Acres free, according to a Plan and Survey thereof, made by Our said Governor's Order, and returned into the Secretary's Office, and hereunto annexed, butted and bounded as follows, Viz. Beginning at a Tree marked standing on the Bank of the Westerly Side of Connecticut River opposite to the Mouth of amonusock River so called, and from thence Southerly or South Westerly down Connecticut River, as that runs til it comes to A Tree there standing marked with the Figures and is about Seven Miles on A Strait Line below the Mouth of Amonusock aforesd from thence runing North fifty nine degrees West Six Miles, & one Quarter of A Mile to A Stake & Stones, from thence North Twenty degs East Six Miles, & one half Mile to a Stake & Stones, from thence to the Marked Tree on the Side of the river, the Bound first above mentioned-And that the same be, and hereby is Incorporated into a Township
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by the Name of Newbury And the Inhabitants that do or shall hereafter inhabit the said Township, are hereby declared to be Enfranchized with and Intitled to all and every the Priviledges and Immunities that other Towns within Our Province by Law Exercise and Enjoy; And further, that the said Town as soon as there shall be Fifty Families resident and settled thereon, shall have the Liberty of holding Two Fairs, one of which shall be held on the And the other on the annually, which Fairs are not to continue following the said
longer than the respective
and that as soon as the said Town shall consist of Fifty Families, a Market may be opened and kept one or more Days in each Week, as may be thought most advantagious to the Inhabitants. Also, that the first Meeting for the Choice of Town Officers, agreable to the Laws of our said Province, shall be held on the Second Monday in June next which said Meeting shall be Notified by Jacob Bayley Esq who is hereby also appointed the Moderator of the said first Meeting which he is to Notify and Govern agreable to the Laws and Customs of Our said Province; and that the annual Meeting for ever hereafter for the Choice of such Officers for the said Town, shall be on the Second Tuesday of March annually, To HAVE and to HOLD the said Tract of Land as above expressed, together with all Privileges and Appurtenances, to them and to their respective Heirs and Assigns forever, upon the following Conditions, viz.
I. That every Grantee, his Heirs or Assigns shall plant and cultivate five Acres of Land within the Term of five Years for every fifty Acres contained in his or their Share or Proportion of Land in said Township, and continue to improve and settle the same by additional Cultivations, on Penalty of the Forfeiture of his Grant or Share in the said Township, and of its reverting to Us, our Heirs and Successors, to be by Us or Them Re-granted to such of Our Subjects as shall effectually settle and cultivate the same.
II. That all white and other Pine Trees within the said Township, fit for Masting Our Royal Navy, be carefully preserved for that Use, and none to be cut or felled without Our special Licence for so doing first had and obtained, upon the Penalty of the Forfeiture of the Right of such Grantee, his Heirs, and Assigns, to Us, our Heirs and Successors, as well as being subject to the Penalty of any Act or Acts of Parliament that now are, or hereafter shall be Enacted.
III. That before any Division of the Land be made to and among the Grantees, a Tract of Land as near the Centre of the said Township as the Land will admit of, shall be reserved and marked out for Town Lots, one of which shall be allotted to each Grantee of the Contents of one Acre.
IV. Yielding and paying therefor to Us our Heirs and Successors, for the Space of ten Years, to be computed from the Date hereof, the Rent of one Ear of Indian Corn only, on the twenty-fifth Day, of December annually, if lawfully demanded, the first Payment to be made on the twenty-fifth Day of December, 1763.
V. Every Proprietor, Settler or Inhabitant, shall yield and pay unto Us, our Heirs and Successors yearly, and every Year forever, from and after the Expiration of ten Years from the abovesaid twenty-fifty day of December, namely, on the twenty-fifth Day of December, which will be in the Year of Our Lord, 1773 One shilling Proclamation Money for every Hundred Acres he so owns, settles or possesses, and so in Proportion for a greater or lesser Tract of the said Land; which Money shall be paid by the respective Persons abovesaid, their Heirs or Assigns, in our Council Chamber in Portsmouth, or to such Officer or Officers as shall be appointed to receive the same; and this to be in Lieu of all other Rents and Services whatsoever.
In Testimony whereof we have caused the Seal of our said Province to be hereunto affixed. Witness, BENNING WENTWORTH, Esq; Our Governor and Comman- der in Chief of Our said Province, the 18th Day of May, In the Year of Our Lord CHRIST, One Thousand Seven Hundred and Sixty Three And in the Third Year of Our Reign.
B Wentworth
By His EXCELLENCY'S Command,
With Advice of COUNCIL,
Theodore Atkinson, Junr Secry
Province of New Hampr May 18,-1763
Recorded According to the Original Charter under the Province Seal
ct T Atkinson Junr Secry
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The Names of the Grantees of Newbury Viz
Jacob Bayley Esq
John Hazzan
Ephraim Bayley
Ephm Noyse
Jeremiah Allen
Enoch Thurstin
David Flanders
John Beard
Samuel Stevens
Joshua Copp
John Ingalls
Abner Sawyer
Joshua Bayley
William White
John Hasseltine
John Goodwin
Simeon Goodwin
Noah White
Joshua Haward
Edmond Morse
Jesse Johnson
Moses Little
Stephen Little
Peter Page
Simeon Stevens
Jacob Kent
Abner Bayley
Abner Newton
Jaasiel Herriman
John Hugh
Hayns Johnson
Samuel Hobart
Joseph White
Ebenezer Eaton
Zacheus Pcasley
John White junr
Thomas Danforth
Caleb Johnson
James King
Timothy Beadle
William Holden
Moses Hazzan
Ebenezr Mudget
Asa Foster
Joseph Chamberlain
Dan11 Appleton
Richd Chamberlain
Abiel Chamberlain
Thomas Chamberlain
Jonathan Broadstreet
Samll Johnson
Willm Haywood
Samll Stevens Esq
Jacob Eaton
Benja Emerson
Peter Morse
Nathll Morton
Archelaus Miles
Joshua Hains
Edward Bayley
Fry Bayley
Coll Willm Symes
Martin Severance
Honble John Temple
Benja Winn Samuel Cummins
Theodore Atkinson
John Cummins Elnathan Blood
Mark Hunkg Wentworth
Esqrs
Willm Temple
Elias Alexander Coll Clemt March Capt Markquand of Newbury And Coll John Goffe-
His Excellency Benning Wentworth Esq a Tract of Land to Contain five Hundred Acres as Marked B: W : in the Plan which is to be accoun ed two of the within Sares-one whole Share for the Incorporated Society for the Propogation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts-one Share for A Glebe for the Church of England as by Law Established One Share for the first settled Minister of the Gospel and one Share for the Benefit of A School in Said Town
Province of New Hampr May 18th 1763
Recorded from the Back of the original Charter of Newbury under the Prov Seal. ct T Atkinson Junr Secry
THE NEW YORK CHARTER.
Copy of Letters Patent To Jacob Bayley and Twenty-four other for 24,500 Acres of Land in the County of Gloucester, and erecting the same, together with 500 acres reserved to the Crown, into a Township by the Name of Newbury.
George the Third by the Grace of God of Great Britain, France and Ireland, King Defender of the Faith and so forth. To all to whom these Presents shall come, Greeting. Whereas our Province of New York in America hath ever since the Grant thereof to James Duke of York been abutted and boundcd to the East in Part by the West Bank or Side of Connecticut River. And Whereas of late Years great Part of our said Province lying to the Westward of the same River hath nevertheless bcen pretended to be granted by divers Instruments under the Great Seal of the Province of New Hampshire as tho' the same Lands had then belonged to and were within the Bounds and Limits of the said Province of New Hampshire and within the Powers and Jurisdiction of the Government thereof. And Whereas among others the Tract of Land by these Presents herein after granted Part of our said Province of New York as aforesaid hath been so pretended to be granted and to be erected into a Township of the said Province of New Hampshire by the Name of Newbury. And Whercas our loving Subject Benjamin Whiting in Bchalf of himself and others his Associates by their humble Petition presented unto our trusty and well beloved Cadwallader Colden Esquire, our Lieutenant Governor and then our Commander in Chief of our said Province of New York, and read in our Council for our said Province of New York on the Twenty-second Day of May, which was in the Year of our Lord, One Thousand, Seven Hundred and Sixty-five, did set forth, among other Things, in Substance, that there was a certain Tract of Land. Beginning at a marked Tree
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standing on the Bank of the westerly Side of Connecticut River opposite to the Mouth of Amonusock River, and from thence extending Southerly or Southwesterly down Connecticut River as it runs til it comes to a Tree standing there marked with certain Figures and which is about seven Miles on a streight Line below the Mouth of Amnonusock River aforesaid, from thence running North fifty nine Degrees west six Miles and one Quarter of a Mile to a Stake and Stones; from thence North twenty Degrees East six Miles and one half Mile to a Stake and Stones and from thence to the marked Tree on the Side of the River the Place of Beginning. That the Petition- ers conceiving the said Tract of Land to have been within the Province of New Hampshire had seated themselves and made actual Improvement thereupon under the pretended Grant of that Government, but finding by our Royal Order in Council of the Twentieth Day of July One Thousand seven Hundred and Sixty four that the said Tract of Land was within the Jurisdiction of our Province of New York, and the Petitioners who were the only Settlers thereon being willing to secure their Possessions and Improvements by our Grant under the Seal of our said Province of New York and to hold the same under our said Government of New York, the Petitioners did therefore humbly pray that our said Lieutenant Governor would be favorably pleased by our Letters Patent to grant unto them in equal Proportions the Tract of Land aforesaid containing about Twenty six Thousand acres on the like Terms on which Lands are usually granted within our said Province of New York. Which Petition having been then referred to a Committee of our Council for our said Province of New York, our same Council did afterwards on the same Day, in Pursuance of the Report of the said Committee, humbly advise and consent that our said Lieutenant Governor and then our Commander in Chief as aforesaid should by our Letters Patent grant unto the said Benjamin Whiting and the other Petitioners in equal Proportions the Tract of Land aforesaid under the Quit Rent, Provisoes, Limitations and Restrictions prescribed by our Royal Instructions. And Whereas our loving Subject Jacob Bayley by his Petition in behalf of himself and the Proprietors and Inhabitants of the said Tract of Land presented unto our trusty and well beloved William Tryon Esquire, our Captain General and Governor in Chief in and over our said Province of New York and the Territories depending thereon in America, Chancellor and Vice Admiral of the same, and read in our Council for our said Province of New York on the fifth Day of February now last past, did set forth, That he had been appointed by the Proprietors and Inhabitants of the said Tract of Land an agent for the Purpose of Obtaining our Letters Patent aforesaid to be granted under our said Province of New York for the same Tract and therefore he the said Petitioner did humbly pray that our Letters Patent might issue in the Names of the several Persons mentioned in the Schedule to his said Petition annexed, and that the same might be erected into a Township by the Name of Newbury. On due Consideration of which last recited Petition, our same Council did humbly advise, that instead of the Persons mentioned and intended as Grantees in and by the Report and Proceedings aforesaid, our said Letters Patent should issue in the Names of the several Persons mentioned in the Schedule aforesaid. And that the several Shares of the said Tract of Land which by the pretended Grant or Charter from the Government of New Hampshire were intended for public Uses be granted in Trust as follows, that is to say. One such Share for the Use of the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in foreign Parts, a like Share as a Glebe for the Use of the Minister of the Gospel in Communion of the Church of England as by Law established for the Time being residing on the Premises, a like Share for the first settled Minister of the Gospel in the said Township, and one Hundred acres for the Use of a Schoolmaster residing on the Premises. That the Share of the said Tract of land formerly allotted to Benning Wentworth Esquire should remain vested in us, . and that the whole of the said Tract of Land should be erected into a Township by the Name of Newbury, with the usual Privileges. In Pursuance whereof, and in Obedience to our said Royal Instructions, our Commissioners appointed for the setting out all Lands to be granted within our said Province have set out for the several Persons mentioned in the Schedule aforesaid, to wit, for Jacob Bayley, John Taplin, Stephen Little, Samuel Stephens, Joseph Blanchard, Nathan Stone, Waldron Blaau, James Cobham, Joseph Beck, Samuel Bayard, John Wetherhead, William Williams, James Creassy, John Bowles, John Grumly, Marinus Willet, Richard Wenman, John Kelly, John Shatford Jones, James Downes, Samuel Boyer, John Keen, John Lewis, Crean Brush and John Taylor. All that certain Tract or Parcel of Land situate, lying and being on the West Side of Connecticut River in the County of Gloucester within our Province of New York. Beginning at the Northeast Corner of
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