the purchase of your Right (as you was determin'd to Sell it if we had not purchas'd it) and giving a Quit Claim to all the Lands any person in y Province could pretend any legal Right to (except ye Grantees of Gilman Town & Kingswood) and have Since ye Quit Claim, granted & engaged to grant Several Townships to ye Inhabitants of every Town in ye Province that would apply for Grants, which are for one, two, or three Grants of Tracts of Land, for Townships to the Inhabitants of every Town, which could expect a Grant from the Government-and also to other Inhabitants of Towns less Settled-upon which Consideration, and the Difficultys and inconveniencies occasioned by the Government-The Expence of Time &ca Spent in the Affair of receiving Applications, & upon Seeking after information of y particular Tracts to be granted and preparing and making y Grants &c &c &c There is an Expedient whereby we might Serve ourselves very much without Injury and injustice to any body-That is, [Here the document suddenly ends. The last leaf bears the following notes:] mem° of No Towns granted N: 6: ye first meets of Prop's held May 14th 1748 1748 Dec 3d the first grant of a Township-to Tho Packer &c 2. Starks Town 3d grant to Jn° Sanborn & others-4 grant to Palmer &c 5 Hillsborough-reserved only 1700 Acres 6 Peterborough 7. to Gershom Down &c 8 to Eben' Varney &c 9 Jona Chesle &ce 10 to Nath" Gookin &ce 11 to Icha Roby &ce 12 to Eben" Stevens &c 13 to Abra Perry &ce 14 to Rich Jennes &ce 15 Henry Mellens &c 16 to Edmund Brown &ce 17 Gilman Town 18 Jn° MacMurphy Esqu1 & 19 Contoocook 20 Salem Quit Claim no reservation 21 Wolfborrow 22 Souhegan West Quit claim no reserva 23— Bedford 24 To Marston &ce 25. to Coll° Stodderd &c 26 N° 1 27 No 2 28 Peterborow slip 29 north Manadnock 30 Middle manadnock 31 Manadnock no 5. 32. D° No 6. 33 D° N° 7 34 new Concord no 8 35-Dantzick 36 Dantzick 39 Heidlebourg 40 Alexandria 41 New Chester. 42 Lyndsborough 43 Ipswich [Endorsed] Private Papers belonging to Geo. Jaffrey Masonia [The following names in the above document have the word "Tax" written over them: Tho's Packer, Starks Town, Henry Mellens, Contoocook, Salem, Souhegan West, Bedford, Lyndsborough, Ipswich.-Ed.] Prove of [Thomas Packer's Protest, March 1, 1748–9.] [Masonian Papers, Vol. 1, p. 76.] At a meeting of the Proprietors of the Lands New Hamp purchased of John Tufton Mayson Esq in the Prove of New Hamp at the Dwelling House of Sarah Prust widow in Portsm° in Said Prove on wendsday the Second day of Novemb anno Domini 1748 Pursuant to Notification of the 28th of october last past To the Gentlemen Proprietors of the Lands purchased of the above named John Tufton Mayson Esq I do hereby object and Protest against and discent from any Grant of Lands that you shall make to any person or person that lyes to the Eastward of merrimack river from the south west corner of Canterbury down the river Southward and I do likewise object and Protest against and discent from any grant you shall make to any person or persons of the Lands that lyes to the westward of a Place called New Boston and to the westward of a Place called Hales Town and to the Northward of a Place called Salem Canada and to the Northward of a Place called Peterborough and to the southward of a Place called Number Six and to the southward of Two other Towns called Number Seven and Number Eight number seven being generally called Hilsborough and the Said Lands between those Towns to run Westward So far as maysons Clame runs The reason of this my Protest and Discent is because I am Determined not to part with the Interest I have in those Lands, and I desire that this my Protest and Discent may be Entered on the Proprietors Books Portsm° march 1st 1748/9 Thos Packer [Power of Attorney to Jackson, Livermore, and Parker, June 14, 1749.] [Masonian Papers, Vol. 1, p. 83.] KNOW ALL MEN by these Presents That I John Tufton Mason of Portsmouth in the Province of New Hampshire in New England Esq' Do by these Presents Constitute & appoint Clement Jackson Matthew Livermore & William Parker all of Portsmouth aforesaid Esqrs & any two of them to be my Attorneys for me & in my Name Stead & use to Suffer Sue forth prosecute finish & perfect a Common Recovery or Recoveries one or more of any Lands or Tenements wherein I am or shall be Interested & Concerned as Tenant in Tail General & Special or either of them and for that purpose to make Sign Seal & Execute in my name & Stead any Instrument or Instruments of Conveyance to make a Tenant to the præcipe or otherways necessary & proper to be done in Such Cases and to bring forward a proper Action or plea for that purpose in any Court having Legal Jurisdiction & Cognizance thereof & there in my uame & behalf to appear Enter into the Warranty & Vouch to Warrant any Person as Occasion Shall Require & to Sue forth a Writ of Seizin thereof or to Enter into & take full Seizin & possession of Such Lands and Tenements and Generally to Say do Act Transact Accomplish and perfect one or more Common Recoveries according to the usual method & Course thereof for the Assurance of Lands & Tenements and do act & perform every matter & thing whatsoever necessary & proper to be done for that End And also to make Sign Seal & Execute any Deed or Deeds of Conveyance of any Such Lands (after perfecting the Recovery or Recoveries thereof as aforesd for the Docking & Cutting off any Such Estates Tail & Remainders in Tail) to Such Person or Persons as I Shall hereafter Direct to hold to them & their Respective Heirs & Assigns or to any Such Person or Persons as they my Said Attorneys Shall think proper to hold to Such Person or Persons & their Respective heirs & Assigns in Such Proportion as they my Said Attorneys shall Judge proper I Hereby Ratifying & Confirming whatsoever my Said Attorneys Shall Lawfully do or Cause to be done in & about the premises-In Witness whereof I have hereunto Set my hand & Seal the fourteenth Day of June 1749 and in the twenty third Year of his Majesty's Reign Jn° Tufton Mason [seal] Province of Į June 15th 1749 then the above named John TufNew Hampshton Mason Esq' personally appearing acknowledged this Instrument to be his free Act & Deed Before me Jos: Newmarch Js Peace [Endorsed] Recd 11th April 1753 Prove of New Hampsh Recorded Lib. 40. Fol. 364 D Peirce Rd D Peirce Red Gentlm [Letter from Joseph Blanchard, June 26, 1749.] [Masonian Papers, Vol. 1, p. 85.] Cap Goffe Attends You on ye Great & first Grant I Intreat in the Behalf of my Neighbours ye Greatest Dispatch that they may return to their Buisness Capt Follensbys Lot as Coupled the Props this way are Content with; Mr Blodgetts Affairs I have negotiated to his & I hope to Your Acceptance; & desire your Favour on his behalf that it may be finished According to his Old Bounds which Cap' Goffe Projects Cap Shepard will be with you for his Grant-There my Honor, is pawned on your behalf Doubt not your Justice to him-M Simonds by Whome I Wrote this day is the most Notable Sufferer I Should be Glad if your Invention from ye Com'on or Else Where Could Quiet him, Mr Blodgett has Purchassed Will and Robert Reads Rights to One of Which let his Farm be put-I Shall Soon Wait on you at Ports, and in the mean time make needfull Enquirys I am Gent" with Great Respect To the Props of Mesons Grant y' most Obedt J Blanchard P. S. if any of Capt Blodgets, Children, Other than the Present Actor, (Seth) Should Clamor & be troublesome Which haps you may meet with I know the Circumstances, And will be Answerable for the Justice of his Covering the farm, And no Disadvantage to y propty Yrs ut Supra J B— [Motion for Amendment of Writ.] [Masonian Papers, Vol. 1, p. 86.] Province of BE IT REMEMBERED that on the first Thursday New Hamp next following the first Tuesday of September being the Seventh day of the said Month in the Twentythird year of the Reign of our Lord the King that now is, Comes into Court of Common pleas of our Lord the King for said Province, John Tufton Mason of Portsmouth in said Province Esq' by Clement Jackson, Matthew Livermore & William Parker Esq's his Attorney's & Give the Court to understand and be informed that the said John, Heretofore viz on the first Thursday next following the first Tuesday of June in the Nineteenth Year of the Reign of our said Lord the King, Prosecuted a Common Recovery in the said Court for the Docking, Barring & Cutting off all Estates Tail & Remainders in Tail of and in all that Tract of Land Heretofore Called & Known by the Name of the County of New Hampshire or New Hampshire Lying & being within the Province of New Hampshire & Containing one hundred Thousand Acres more or less Bounded & Discribed as in the Writ of Entry on Dissiezin in the Post by him Sued forth for that Purpose, which Recovery at the said Term of the Sitting of the said Court was finished & Perfected According to the Usual Course of Prosecuting Common Recoveries, for the Assurance of Lands & Tenements, in the said Court and Afterwards Executed by a Writ of Habere Facias Seisinam duly Served & Returned as by the Records of the said Court of the Term aforesaid there Remaining may at Large Appear, That in the Writs of Entry & Habere Facias Seisinam as well as in the Deed to Lead the uses of the said Recovery there was an Error Committed & Mistake made in the Discription & Boundary of the Premises on one part thereof, That is to say in the said Writs & Deed the said Boundary Runs from the mouth of Piscataqua River along the Sea Coast to the Distance of three miles North of Merrimack River & Runs Parrallel with said River at the Distance of three Miles to the head thereof & from thence Westward till Sixty miles are Compleated &c Whereas the said Boundarys should be & have Run in Manner & form Following, that is to Say Begining from or at the Middle part of Naum kege River & from thence to proceed Eastward along the sea Coast to Cape Ann and Round about the Same to Piscataqua Harbour & so forward up within the River Newichewonnock & to the farthest Head thereof and from thence North Westwards till Sixty miles are finished from the first Entrance of Piscataqua Harbour and also from Naumkege Through the River thereof up into the Land West Sixty Miles from which Period to Cross over Land to the Sixty Miles End Accounted from Piscataqua Harbour as aforesaid, and the said Writs & Deed Should also Contain the same Exemptions as therein are made-WHEREFORE the said John by his Said Attorney's Humbly moves that he may have a Rule & Order of this Court for Amending & Correcting the Mistake & Error aforesaid and making the Discription & Boundary's in the said Writ of Entry, Writ of Habere Facias Seisinam & Deed and all the Process of the said Recovery and Records thereof Agreeable to the Boundaries herein. Last Mentioned and Set forth as was Intended & Designed by the |