OF NEW HAMPSHIRE INCLUDING THE RECORDS OF THE PRESIDENT AND COUNCIL, JANU- TO OCTOBER 14, 1682, UNDER THE SUCCESSIVE OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESEN TATIVES, AUGUST 7, 1699, TO OCTOBER 4, 1701, AND MAY 9, 1711, TO APRIL 30, AND MASSACHUSETTS. WITH HISTORICAL NOTES, A CHRONOLOGICAL LIST OF BOUND ARY LINE PAPERS, CONTEMPORARY MAPS, AND OTHER ILLUSTRATIONS. VOL. XIX. ALBERT STILLMAN BATCHELLOR, EDITOR. MANCHESTER, N. H.: JOHN B. CLARKE, PUBLIC PRINTER. 1891. 11331.2.4 LIBRARY JOINT RESOLUTION relating to the preservation and publication of portions of the early state and provincial records and other state papers of New Hampshire. Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened: That His Excellency the Governor be hereby authorized and empowered, with the advice and consent of the Council, to employ some suitable person and fix his compensation, to be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, to collect, arrange, transcribe, and superintend the publication of such portions of the early state and provincial records and other state papers of New Hampshire as the Governor may deem proper; and that eight hundred copies of each volume of the same be printed by the state printer, and distributed as follows: namely, one copy to each city and town in the State, one copy to such of the public libraries in the State as the Governor may designate, fifty copies to the New Hampshire Historical Society, and the remainder placed in the custody of the state librarian, who is hereby authorized to exchange the same for similar publications by other states. THE STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE. To Albert S. Batchellor, Esquire, Greeting: [L. S.] D. H. Goodell, Know You, That we, reposing especial trust and confidence in your fidelity and ability, have constituted and appointed you Editor and Compiler of Early State and Provincial Records and other State Papers of New Hampshire, hereby giving and granting unto you, the said Albert S. Batchellor, all the power and authority given and granted by the Constitution and Laws of our State to an Editor and Compiler of Early State and Provincial Records. To HAVE AND TO HOLD THE SAID OFFICE, With all the powers, privileges, and immunities to the same belonging, for the term of the date hereof, provided you are of good behavior during said term. years from IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, We have caused our seal to be hereunto affixed. WITNESS, David H. Goodell, Governor of our State, at Concord, this 9th day of October, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and ninety, and of the independence of the United States of America the one hundred and fifteenth. Then the said Albert S. Batchellor took and subscribed the oath of office as Editor and Compiler of Early State and Provincial Records and other State Papers of New Hampshire, as prescribed by law. Before us. HENRY W. BLAIR, To A. S. Batchellor, Editor of State Papers: Justices of the Peace, You are authorized to collect, arrange, transcribe, and superintend the publication of the New Hampshire Town Charters, as recommended in the section numbered one, in the Report of the Committee of the Governor and Council, submitted and adopted in May, 1889, and the Journals of the Assembly, Provincial Congress, Legislature, and Councils of New Hampshire, previous to the year 1800, as recommended in the section numbered two in said report. You are also authorized to include in said work such rolls of the soldiers of New Hampshire in the French and Indian and Revolutionary wars as may be available, and which have not already been published in the volumes edited by Isaac W. Hammond, Esq. You will also cause such explanatory notes and citations, tables of contents and indexes, with such illustrative papers, maps, and plans as you may deem useful, to be prepared and made a part of your work. This I deem proper to be done, and I give these directions in accordance with the provisions of the joint resolution relating to the preservation and publication of portions of the early State and Provincial Records and other State Papers of New Hampshire, approved August 4, 1881. Given under my hand at Concord this 16th day of October, A. D. 1890. Governor. A. S. Batchelor, Editor of State Papers: You are hereby authorized to arrange, transcribe, and superintend the publication of the Township Grants, Masonian Proprietary Papers, Boundary Line Documents and Plans contained in the collection of papers donated to the State by Robert Cutts Peirce of Portsmouth, the Boundary Line Papers additional to those contained in the Peirce donation above mentioned which have been transcribed from the Massachusetts archives for the use of this State, the Notes of Hazzen's Survey on the westerly part of the boundary line, as it was suppos to be between Massachusetts and New Hampshire, the Acts and Laws passed by the General Court or Assembly of his Majesty's Province of New Hampshire in New England, begun and held at Portsmouth on the seventh day of August, 1699, title, 1. leaf, and pp. 3-10, and the Calendar of New Hampshire Papers in the English Archives already procured by the State for the New Hampshire Historical Society. You will also cause such explanatory notes and citations, tables of contents and indexes, with such illustrative papers, maps, and plans as you may deem useful, to be prepared and made a part of your work. This I deem proper to be done, and I give these directions in accordance with the provisions of the Joint Resolution relating to the preservation and publication of portions of the early State and Provincial Papers and other State Papers of New Hampshire, approved August 4, 1881. Given under my hand at Concord, this thirteenth day of October, A. D. 1891. Governor. PREFACE. This volume is devoted to the presentation of such parts of the documentary history of the state as were not accessible at the time of the publication of its predecessors, or for other reasons were not given place in chronological order. The necessity for bringing his work to a conclusion within certain prescribed limits left Dr. Bouton, the editor of the first ten volumes, the choice between two courses, to make extensive omissions of official and contemporary records having important narrative and illustrative uses, thus advancing his abstracts or selections from the body of the record over a much longer period, or to publish full and literal transcripts of all important archives within his authority, with the imminent probability that he would never be permitted to enter upon such interesting epochs as the French and Indian War, the War for Independence, and the evolution of a permanent state government and federal constitution from colonial and revolutionary conditions. By adopting the latter course, he was able to present the outlines of the documentary history of New Hampshire in those periods, in such an accessible form, that, notwithstanding its admitted incompleteness in presenting the records of certain departments of government, it has taken high rank as an authority among historical works of reference. The great and deserved success of Dr. Bouton was an important inducement to the further prosecution of the work which was afterwards resumed by the state and wisely placed in charge of Mr. Isaac Ware Hammond. His labors were embodied in eight volumes. These were XI., XII., and XIII., in which the Town Papers, so called, were published in a convenient arrangement by which the documents relating especially to municipal concerns were classified by town titles and the town chapters given alphabetical sequence; XIV., XV., XVI., and a part of XVII., in which were published the rolls of the New Hampshire soldiers who served in any of the organizations recognized in the Revolutionary service, including those borne upon the rolls deposited in state offices, and on those preserved in Washington; and the remainder of XVII., and XVIII., which were devoted to miscellaneous papers pertaining to our documentary history down to the year 1800. Some of the notable features of Mr. Hammond's service, as editor of these papers, were his thorough and comprehensive method of indexing, his common-sense arrangement of material, and the conscientious industry and completeness with which he searched out and presented all the matter relating to his subject without elimination, suppression, or needless omission. His decease |