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of a Town Calld Old Dunstable in our Province of New Hampshire on the Easterly Side of Merrimack River herein after Discribed have Humbly Petitioned And Requested of us that they may be Errected & Incorporated into a Township & Infranchized with the Same Powers Authorities & Previledges which other Towns within our sd Province by Law have & Enjoy And it Appearing to us to be Conducive to the General good of our Sa Province as well as of the S Inhabitants in Perticular by maintaining good order and Incourageing the Culture of the Land that the Same Should be Done

Know ye therefore that We of our Especial Grace certain knowledge & for the Encourageing & Promoteing the Good Purposes & Ends Afores" by & with the Advice of Our Trusty & Well beloved BENNING WENTWORTH Esq our Governour & Com'ander in Chieff and of our Council for Sa Province Have Errected Incorporated & Ordained and by these Presents for us our heirs & Successors Do will & ordain That the Inhabitants of the Tract of Land afores (Bounded as follows Viz) Begining at the River Merrimack on the East Side thereof where the Line that Parts the Provinces of the Massachusetts Bay & New Hampshire Crosses the Sa River & runs from Sa river East Ten degrees South by the Needle two Miles & Eighty rods Then North Twenty Degrees East five Miles & Eighty rods to Londondery South Side Line Then by Said Londonderry Line West North West to the South West Corner of Londonderry Township then North on Londonderry West Side Line one Mile& Eighty rodsThen West by the Needle to Merrimack River then on S4 river

Sourtherly to the Place began at And that Shall Inhabit *1-36 the Same be And by these Presents Are Declared & ordained to be A Town Corporate and are hereby Errected & Incorporated into A body Pollitick and a Corporation to have Continueance for ever by the Name of Nottingham West with all the Powers and Authorities Priviledges & Im'unities and franchizes which other Towns within Sd Province or Any of them by Law have & Injoy To have & to hold the S Powers & Authorities Im'unities and franchizes to them the S Inhabitants & their Succesors for ever Allways reserveing to us our heirs & Successors all white Pine Trees growing & being & that Shall hereafter grow & be on the Sa Tract of Land for the use of our Royal Navy-reserveing alsoe the Power of Divideing the S Town to us our heirs & Successors when it Shall be thot Necessary or Convenient for the

Benefit of the Inhabitants thereof And As the Several Towns within our S4 Province Are by Laws thereof Enabled & Authorized to Assemble And by the Majority of Votes to Chuse All Such Officers as Are mentioned in the S Laws We do by these Presents Nominate & Appoint Zacheus Lovel Gentleman to Call the first meeting of the S Inhabitants to be held within S Town at Any Time within Thirty Days from the Date hereof giveing Legal Notice of the Time & Place and Design of holding Such Meeting In Testimony whereof we have Caused the Seal of Our Sa Province to be hereuno Affixed Wittness Benning Wentworth Esq our Governour & Comander In Chieff of Our Sa Province the fifth Day of July in the year of our Lord Christ One thousand Seven hundred & forty Six And in the Twentieth year of Our Reign B Wentworth

By his Excelencys Com'and with Advice of Council

Theodore Atkinson Sect

Entred & recorded According to the Original this 16th Day of September 1746—

Theodore Atkinson Sec'

JACKSON.

[Incorporated as Adams, December 4, 1800, in honor of John Adams, and consisted of grants to Lieut. Samuel Gilman, Capt. Richard Gridley, Capt. Robert Rogers, Wentworth, Rogers & Treadwell, Fowle's Location, and some state land. A tract of state land was granted the town for school purposes June 14, 1806. A small piece of land was severed from Adams and annexed to Bartlett, June 22, 1819. A portion of Bartlett was annexed to Adams, July 3, 1822, and another small piece, July 3, 1839. The name was changed to Jackson July 4, 1829, in honor of Andrew Jackson. The west, and part of the south lines were established July 7, 1837.

See XII, Hammond Town Papers, 288; Index to Laws, 9, 261; sketch, Fergusson's History of Carroll County, 1889, p. 945; Stewart's History of the Free Baptists, 1862, p. 252; Lawrence's New Hampshire Churches, 1856, p. 600; A Partial Exploration of Mt. Wildcat, by M. M. Pychowska, 3, Appalachia, 271; Willey's History of the White Mountains, 1870. p. 163; The White Mountains, A Guide to their Interpretation, by Julius H. Ward, 1890, p. 107; In the Heart of the White Mountains, by S. A. Drake, 1882, p. 117.]

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L. S.

[GRANT TO DAVID GILMAN, 1771.]

*Province of New

GEORGE the Third by the Hampshire S grace of God of Great Britain ffrance and Ireland King defender of the Faith & so

forth.

TO ALL persons to whom these Presents shall come Lieut David Gilman GREETING.

WHEREAS we have thought fit by our Proclamation at Saint James's the 7th day of October in the third year of our Reign Annoque Dommini 1763 among other Things to Testify our Royal sense and approbation of the conduct & bravery of the officers & Soldiers of our Armies and signified our desire to reward

the same and have therein Commanded & Inpowered our *1-381 *several Governor's of our respective Provinces on the Continent of America to grant without fee or reward to such reduced officers as have served in North America during the late War and to such Private Soldiers as have been or shall be disbanded there and shall personally apply for the same such quantities of Land respectively as in and by our aforesaid Proclamation are particularly mentioned, subject nevertheless to the same Quit Rents and Conditions of Cultivation and Improvement as other our Lands are subject to in the Province in which they are granted AND WHEREAS DAVID GILMAN of Pembrook in our said Province Gentleman, had our Appointment as LIEUTENANT and served during the late War, & is now reduced, and he having personally applied and sollicited for such Grant agreeable to our aforesaid Proclamation KNOW YE that We of our special grace certain knowledge and mere motion do signify our approbation as aforesaid and for encouraging the settlement & cultivation of our Lands within our said Province of New Hampshire in New England Have (by and with the advice of our Trusty and will beloved JOHN WENTWORTH Esq': our Governor and Commander in Chief of our said Province and of our Council of the same agreeable to our aforesaid in part recited Proclamation and upon the Conditions and reservations hereafter mentioned) given and granted and by these Presents for us our heirs and Successors do give and grant unto the said David Gilman & to his heirs and assigns for ever a certain Tract or parcel of Land situate lying and being within our said Province containing by admeasurement TWO THOUSAND [acres] as by a Plan & Survey of said Tract exhibited by our survey General of Lands for our said Province & returned into the

Secretary's office (a Copy whereof is hereunto annexed) may more fully appear Butted & Bounded as follows Vizt Beginning at a Beech Tree standing on the Easterly bank of the North branch of Saco River (commonly called Ellis's River) above the Falls and running South Seventy degrees East Three hundred and Twenty rods to a hemlock Tree spotted and marked D. G. from thence North Thirty degrees East Six hundred and Forty rods to a beech. Tree spotted and marked D. G. from thence North Seventy degrees West Five hundred & Eight rods to a beech Tree spotted and marked D. G. from thence South 30 Degrees West six hundred and forty rods to a beech Tree spotted and marked D. G. from thence South Seventy degrees East a little below the bounds began at.— TO HAVE AND ΤΟ HOLD the said Tract of Land as above expressed to him the said DAVID & to his heirs and Assigns for ever upon the following Terms Conditions & Reservations-VIDELI

CET

FIRST That the said Grantee shall cut clear & make passable for Carriages &c. *a Road of Three Rods wide *1-382 thro' the said Tract as shall be at any Time hereafter directed or ordered by the Governor & Council aforesaid which road is to be completed in one year from the date of such Order or direction of the Governor & Council aforesaid on penalty of the forfeiture of this Grant and of its reverting to us our heirs & Successors.

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SECOND-That the said Grantee shall settle or cause to be settled Four Families in Two Years from the date of this Grant; in failure whereof the Premises to revert to us our heirs and Successors to be by us or them entered upon and regranted to such of our Subjects as shall effectually settle & cultivate the

same.

THIRD-That all White and other Pine Trees fit for masting our Royal Navy be carefully preserved for that use and none to be cut or fell'd without our special Licence for so doing first had & obtained on penalty of the forfeiture of the right of the Grantee in the said Tract of Land his heirs and Assigns to us our heirs & Successors as well as being subject to the penalties prescribed by any present as well as future Act or Acts of Parliament.

FOURTH-Yielding and paying therefor to us our heirs and Successors on or before the Sixth day of June 1773 the rent of one Ear of Indian Corn only if Lawfully demanded.—

FIFTH-That the said Grantee his heirs and Assigns shall yield and pay unto us our heirs and Successors yearly and every year

for ever from & after the expiration of TEN years from the date of this Grant which will be in the year of our Lord Christ 1781 One Shilling Proclamation money for every hundred Acres he so owns settles or possesses & so in proportion for a greater or lesser Tract of the Land aforesaid; which money shall be paid by the respective Proprietor or Settler in our Council chamber in Portsmouth or to such officer or Officers as shall be appointed to receive the same; & these to be in lieu of all other rents and Services.

IN TESTIMONY whereof we have Caused the Seal of our said Province to be hereunto affixed Witness JOHN WENTWORTH Esq: our aforesaid Governor & Commander in chief the 6th day of June in the eleventh year of our Reign Anno: Dom: 1771.

By his Excellency's Command Į

with advice of Council

S

Theodore Atkinson Secretary.

J' Wentworth.

Recorded according to the Original Grant under the Province Seal the 6th June 1771.

Att Theodore Atkinson Secry

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