Province of New Hamp' Jan 31—1764—

Recorded according to the Plan on the Back of the original Charter under the Prove Seal

T Atkinson Jun' Secy

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[GRANT TO GILMAN AND WALDRON, 1772.]

S Col' Gilman's &

*Province of New Hampshire.

GEORGE the THIRD by the Grace of Mr Waldron's Grant. S God of Great Britain, France & Ireland KING Defender of the Faith &c.

L. S.

To all to whom these Presents shall come, Greeting.

KNOW YE, that we of our special Grace certain knowledge and mere Motion for the due encouragement of settling

a New Plantation within our Province of New Hampshire by and with the advice of our Trusty and well beloved JOHN WENTWORTH Esquire our Governor & Commander in Chief of our said Province, & of our Council of the same, HAVE (upon the Conditions and Reservations herein particularly recited & expressed) given and granted & by these Presents for us our Heirs and Successors do give & grant in Equal Shares unto our leige & loving Subjects PETER GILMAN & THOMAS WESTBROOK WALDRON, Inhabitants of our said Province, Esquires, & to their respective Heirs and Assigns for Ever, a certain Tract or Parcel of Land containing by admeasurement SIX THOUSAND Two Hundred & Sixty Acres of Land, situate, lying and being in our Province of New Hamps' aforesaid, as by a plan or Survey thereof (exhibited by our Surveyor Gen1 of Lands for our said Province by our said Governor's Order & returned into the Secretary's Office of our said Province, a Copy whereof is hereunto annexed) may more fully and at large appear, butted & bounded as follows, Vizt. Beginning at a Beech Tree, being the South Westerly Corner Bound of a Township of Land within our said Province formerly called Lincoln, from thence running on the dividing line of said Lincoln & Landaff North Twenty Degrees East Two Miles, thence South Fifty eight degrees East Five Miles to a Stake, thence South Twenty degrees West Two Miles to a Stake, thence North Fifty Eight degrees West Five Miles to the bound began at. TO HAVE AND TO HOLD the said Tract of Land as above expressed to them the said Peter Gilman & Thomas Westbrook Waldron & to their Heirs & Assigns for Ever upon the following Terms, Conditions and Reservations Viz

FIRST. That the said Grantee shall cut, clear, bridge & make passable for Carriages &c. a Road of Four Rods wide thro' the said Tract as shall be at any Time hereafter directed or order'd by the Gov & Council aforesaid, which Road shall be completed in One Year from the Date of such Order or 4-91 Direction of the Governor & Council aforesaid on Penalty

of the forfeiture of this Grant & of its reverting to us our Heirs & Successors.

SECONDLY. That the said Grantees shall settle or cause to be settled Six Families in Seven Years from the date of this Grant; in failure whereof the Premises to revert to us our Heirs & Successors to be by us or them enter'd upon & regranted to such of our Subjects as shall effectually Settle & cultivate the same.

THIRDLY. That all white and other Pine Trees fit for Masting

our Royal Navy be carefully preserved for that use & none to be cut or fell'd without our special Licence for so doing first had & obtained upon the Penalty of the forfeiture of the Right of such Grantee 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.

FOURTHLY That any part of the said Tract appearing to be well adapted to the growth of Hemp or Flax, the said Grantees shall sow & continue annually to cultivate a due proportion of the said Land, not less than One hundred Acres in every Thousand Acres with that beneficial Article of Produce.

FIFTHLY. Yielding and Paying therefor to us our Heirs and Successors on or before the day of 17 the Rent of

One Ear of Indian Corn only if lawfully demanded.

SIXTHLY. That the said Grantees their Heirs & Assigns shall yield & 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 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 Owner or Settler in our Council Chamber in Portsmouth or to such Officer or Officers as shall be appointed to receive the same: And 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 aforesaid GOVERNOR & Commander in Chief the Fifteenth day of June in the Twelfth Year of our Reign Annoque Domini 1772.

J' Wentworth. *4-92 By his Excellency's Command, with Advice of Council. Theodore Atkinson Secretary.

Recorded according to the Original Grant under the Province Seal this 8th day of August 1772.

Attest Theodore Atkinson Secy

Portsmo-10th June 1772.

Province of New Hampshire. These Certify that this Plan, Beginning at a beech Tree being the South Westerly Corner bound of a Tract or Township of Land formerly called Lincoln, from thence running on the dividing Line of said Lincoln & Landaff N° 20° E. 2 Miles, thence S.

58° E. 5 Miles to a Stake, thence S. 20. W. 2 Miles to a Stake, thence N. 58° W. 5 Miles to the bound began at. Contains 6260 Acres of Land & is known by a Plan or Survey of said Lincoln as taken & returned to me by Mr Dudley Colman Dy Surveyor. Attest. Is. Rindge S. General:

[Granted as Concord August 6, 1763, to Joseph Burt and others. The same territory was granted as Chiswick January 31, 1764, to John Fansher and others. The Chiswick grant was regarded as made by mistake and ineffectual. The grant of territory adjoining (now Littleton and Dalton) by the same name was supposed to be equivalent to the first Chiswick. Regranted as Gunthwaite October 20, 1768, to Leonard Whiting and others. The Gunthwaite title gave way, and the Concord grant finally prevailed. The name was changed to Lisbon June 14, 1824. The line with Franconia was established June 27, 1826. All that part of Landaff northwest of the Ammonoosuc River was annexed to Lisbon June 23, 1859.

See papers under titles Landaff and Lincoln; X, Bouton Province and State Papers, 277, 398, 400, as to participation in movement for union with Vermont towns; XII, Hammond Town Papers, 404; Index to Laws, 291; Littleton Centennial Celebration, 305; Sketch, Child's Gazetteer of Grafton County, 1886, p. 435; sketch, by Samuel Emery, 10, Granite Monthly, 95; Stewart's History of the Free Baptists, 1862, p. 302; Baptist Churches in New Hampshire, by E. E.

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Cummings, 1836, p. 15;

Lawrence's New Hampshire Churches, 1856, p. 581; In the Heart of the White Mountains, by S. A. Drake, 1882, p. 248; Northern New Hampshire, by G. F. Bacon, 1890, p. 25; Life of Dan Young; Biographies of Lorenzo Sabine; Historical Collections in MSS., by Samuel W. Emery.]

*2-504 Concord

PS

[CONCORD CHARTER 1763.]

*Province of New-Hampshire.

GEORGE, THE THIRD,

By the Grace of God, of Great-Britain, France and
Ireland, King, Defender of the Faith, &c.

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 NewHampshire, 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 Seventy equal Shares, all that Tract or Parcel of Land situate, lying and being within our said Province of New-Hampshire, containing by Admeasurement, Twenty three thousand Acres, which Tract is to contain About Six Miles Miles square, and no more; out of which an Allowance is to be made 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 Ŏur said Governor's Order, and returned into the Secretary's Office, and hereunto annexed, butted and bounded as follows, Viz. Begining at the North East Corner of Bath which is the South East Corner of Lyman from thence runing South Sixty one degrees East Eight Miles from thence North thirty degrees East Eight Miles & one half Mile to the South East Corner of Lancaster from thence South Seventy degs West Six Miles from thence North Twenty degs West one Mile & Two Hundred & Thirty rods to the North