Philemon Chandler jun', John French, Recorded from the Back of the Charter for Keene the 11th Day of April 1753 Theodore Atkinson Se Theodore Atkinson Secry Taken from the Plan on the back of the Charter of Keene & record the 11th April 1753 KENSINGTON. [Set off from Hampton Falls and incorporated April 1, 1737. Named from an English town. A mistake in the description of the bounds in the act of incorporation was rectified Aug. 26, 1737. See papers under title Hampton and Hampton Falls; IX, Bouton Town Papers, 455; XII, Hammond Town Papers, 324; Index to Laws, 271; sketch, by G. Osgood, Hurd's History of Rockingham County, 1882, p. 352; Bill of Mortality, by Jabez Dow, 1802, pp. 15; Lawrence's N. H. Churches, 1856, p. 81.] KILKENNY. [Granted June 4, 1774, to Jonathan Warner and others. Portions of the town were annexed to Jefferson Dec. 7, 1842, and to Lancaster Dec. 15, 1842. See Index to Laws, 271; sketch, Fergusson's History of Coos County, 1888, p. 426; Lawrence's N. H. Churches, 1856, p. 610; An Exploration of the Pilot Range, by W. H. Peek, 4, Appalachia, 219; Willey's History of the White Mountains, 1870, p. 58.] [KILKENNY CHARTER, 1774-] *4-210 Province of New Hamp Kilkenny GEORGE the Third by the grace of God of Great Britain France and Ireland King defender of the faith &c To all to whom these Presents shall come greeting KNOW YE that We of our special grace contain certain knowledge and meer motion for the due encouragement of settling a new Plantation within Our said Province by & with the advice of our trusty & wellbeloved JOHN WENTWORTH Esq' our Governor and Commander in chief of our said Province of New Hamp' in New England and of our Council of the said Province have upon the conditions & reservations herein after made given and granted & by these Presents for Us Our Heirs and Successors do give and grant in equal Shares unto our loving Subjects Inhabit4-211 ants of Our said Province of New Hampshire & our other dominions who have petitioned Us for the same setting forth their readiness to make immediate Settlement and to their Heirs & Assigns forever whose names are entered on this Grant to be divided to and amongst them into sixty equal Shares all that Tract or Parcel of Land situate lying & being within Our said Province of New Hampshire containing by admeasurement Twenty six thousand nine hundred and eleven Acres out of which an allowance is to be made for Highways and unimproveable Lands by Rocks Mountains and Waters Two thousand Acres free according to a Plan or Survey thereof exhibited by our Surveyor General of Lands for our said Province by our said Governor's order and returned into the Secretary's Office of our said Province a Copy Whereof is hereunto annexed butted and bounded as follows viz' Begining at a Maple tree the North East Corner of Dartmouth and runs South eight Miles and eighty Rods to a Birch marked C I-N 1773, then runs East two hundred & eighty six Rods to a Birch marked as aforesaid then North two hundred & forty eight rods to a Hemloc Tree the Corner of Durand, then by said Durand Line North eight degrees East six Miles to a Birch Tree the Corner of Maynebourgh then North thirty degrees East by said Maynebourgh & Paulbourgh Lines eight Miles to a Beech Tree marked as aforesaid then South seventy one degrees West Seven Miles two hundred sixty eight Rods to a red Birch Tree in Lancaster Line then South fifty degrees East about Seven hundred & forty Rods to a Beech Tree the South East Corner thereof then on the same Course ten Rods to a Beech Tree the Corner of Capt Joshua Barker's Location marked as aforesaid, then South five degrees West Six hundred & twenty Rods rods to the Maple Tree at the Corner of Dartmouth first mentioned TO HAVE AND TO HOLD the said Tract of Land as above expressed together with all Privileges & Appurtenances to them and to their respective Heirs and Assigns forever by the Name of KILLKENNY upon the following conditions vizt FIRST That the Grantees at their own Cost shall cut clear bridge and make passable for Carriages of all kinds a Road of four rods wide through the said Tract hereby granted as shall be at any time hereafter directed by Our said Governor and Council which Road shall be completed in one Year from the date of such direction in failure of which the Premises & every part thereof shall be forfeited and revert to Us Our Heirs and Successors to be by Us or them reentered upon & regranted to any of our loving Subjects 4-212 SECONDLY That all white pine 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 & obtained upon the Penalty of the forfeiture of the right of the Grantee his Heirs and Assigns to Us Our Heirs and Successors as well as being subject to the Penalties of any Act or Acts of Parliament that are or hereafter shall be enacted THIRDLY That before any division of the Land be made to and among the Grantees a Tract of Land as near the Center of the said Township as the Land will admit of shall be reserved & marked out for Town Lots One of which shall be allotted to each Grantee of the Contents of one Acre FOURTHLY Yielding & paying therefor to Us Our Heirs & Successors on or before the first day of June 1778 the Rent of One Ear of Indian Corn only if lawfully demanded FIFTHLY That every Proprietor Settler or Inhabitant shall yield & pay unto Us Our Heirs and Successors yearly & every Year forever from and after the expiration of Ten Years from the date of this Grant 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 said Land which Money shall be paid by the respective Persons aboves their Heirs or Assigns in Our Council Chamber in Portsmouth or to such Officer or Officers as shall be appointed to receive the same SIXTHLY That any part of the Premises appearing well adapted to the growth of Hemp and Flax or either of them shall be cultivated with those useful Articles of produce in the proportion of Ten Acres in each and every hundred of these granted Premises within Ten years of this date SEVENTHLY That six Families shall be settled & actually resident in the Town within three Years of this date EIGHTHLY That additional settlements be made so as to compleat sixty Families in Seven Years from this date NINTHLY That this Grant shall not interfere with any of Our Grants formerly made & now in force nor interrupt the *4-213 Grantees *in their Improvements making thereon agreable to the Conditions thereof-These 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 JOHN WENTWORTH Esq' Our Governor and Commander in chief aforesaid the fourth day of June in the fourteenth Year of our reign and in the Year of our Lord Christ 1774 By His Excellency's command with advice of Council Theodore Atkinson Sec' The Names of the Grantees of Kilkenny The Honble Jonathan Warner Esq' John Giddinge Esq' William Torrey Esq John Wendell Esq' George King Esq' Paul Langdon Gent" Woodbridge Odlin Capt Isaac Rindge Thomas Chadbourne Henry Sherburne Blacksmith. John Penhallow Daniel Lunt Elias Elwell Warner Thomas Martin Esq' Richard Shearman William Welsh, Chaisemaker Daniel Fowle The Honble Paul Wentworth Esq' William Stanwood, Perukemaker James Playters King John Cochran Esq' John Sherburne, Chaisemaker Jeremiah Libbey James Bigby Richard Trewsdell, Butcher Isaac Smith Husbandman James Monk Esq' Joseph Walton, Cooper Thomas Scammel Esq' John Pingry Williams Recorded according to the original Charter under the Province Seal this fourth day of June A D 1774 12 Attest Geo: King D Sec |