I James Gregg & Son 2 Wm Willson & John Gregg- Rob Boyce- 1 John Mcmurphy 1 John Richy I Alex' Mcneal I John Mcneal I I I I I Wm Cambel- 1 Capt David Cargill 1 John Asbel Jun'— Sam" Graves James Lindsay Parsona Lott 1 John Cramy— I James Lafaby I James Rogers I John Goff I I Mathew Clark I John Anderson I Rob Boyce I Eliza Willson & 2 Servents I I I I I I I I I I I I John Barnard Jun 1 John McConoughy-I John Woodbarn- 1 John Melurg- I Benning Wentworth I Rich Waldron Jun' 1 Leiu' Gov: Wentworth 1 Rob' Armstrong-1 Robt Auchmuty— I and Above what is allready given in this And to the Two Last Mentioned namely Gregg & Goff A Mill Stream within the Sd Town for their good Service In Promoteing the Settlement of sd Town R Waldron Cler Con Prove N Hamp1 June 21 1722 Admitted Proprietors & Com'oners in the Town of London Derry with the Persons mentioned in this Schedule His Excelency Govern' Shute a house Lot & 500 Acres *1-16 His Hon' Leiut Governour Wentworth A house Lott & Province of New Hamp Richa Waldron Cler Con Entred & Recorded According to the Original this 15th Day of June 1743 Theodore Atkinson Secty [Petition of David Cargil of Londonderry, 1728.] [Mss. "Town Boundaries" p. 75.] To the Honourable John Wentworth Esq' Lieutenant Governour and Comander in chief in and over his Majesties Province of New Hampshire and to the Honourable the Counsel for Said Province The Humble petition of David Cargill in behalf of the Propriators of London Derry in Said Province Humbly Sheweth That the Propriators of the town of London Derry at their last anual meeting Made Choise of a Comitee to run the Line between their town and Kingstown, & Kingstown having Chose a Comitee to join our Comitee to run said lines the Comites accordingly met upon the place where said line Comences and the bounds specified in both our Charters being read, Kingstown line as by their Charter Saying Southerly the Comitee from Kingstown did hold that their point was South and by West and our Charter Saying South we did aledge that there was no Inconsistancie in the Charters and that the point was Realy South according to the Compass which they refusing to run the Comitee parted so the line lyeth not run Your Petitioners therefore humbly Pray that your Honours would be pleased to Determine the mater in Controversie which is set forth above that so the said line may be setled and run and that a comitee may be Chosen by your Honours to run it and to bound our town on the East, runing and setleing said bounds according to the Usual Custom and as your Honours did order the line to be setled Betwen our town and Chester and your Petitioners as in Duty Bound shall ever Pray May 16th 1728 In Coun1 May 16: 1728 David Cargill Ordered that ye Within Petition be heard next thursday ye 23d a clock P: M: and that ye Petitioner Serve the Selectmen of Kingston wth a Copy of Sa Petitioner and this order in y Mean time R Waldron Cler Con Upon hearing the within Petition May 25 1728 It is ordered in Coun1 That a Committe Repair to Kingstown north Corner bounds so call'd and Examine & see ye True Course of y⚫ Dividing line between Sa Town & Chester to ye South bound of Sa Kingston as y Same is bounded marked & Settled & report y exact course of sd line to ye Coun1 board ye last day of ys Mo and That Mess's Sam1 Palmer, James Grey & John Sweat be ye Committe for ye Service & yt ye Charge of Sa Committe be defray'd by Kingston & Derry Joyntly R Waldron Cler Con LOUDON. [Set off from Canterbury and incorporated as a parish Jan. 23, 1773. Named in honor of the Earl of Loudon. A portion of Loudon was annexed to Concord Jan. 2, 1784. A small tract of Canterbury territory was annexed to Loudon Jan. 7, 1853. See papers under title Canterbury; XII, Hammond Town Papers, 485; Index to Laws, 298; sketch by H. J. Osgood, Hurd's History of Merrimack County, 1885, p. 477; Stewart's History of the Free Baptists, 1862, p. 375; Baptist Churches in N. H., by E. E. Cummings, 1836, pp. 7, 9; Lawrence's N. H. Churches, 1856, pp. 393, 399.] LYMAN. [Granted Nov. 10, 1761, to Daniel Lyman and others, eleven of whom bore the name of Lyman, and for whom the town was named. The charter was renewed July 20, 1769. Monroe was set off and incorporated July 13, 1854. See X, Bouton Province and State Papers, 277, 398, 400, as to participation in movement for union with Vermont towns; XII, Hammond Town Papers, 492; Index to Laws, 300; sketch, Child's Gazetteer of Grafton County, 1886, p. 512; Lawrence's N. H. Churches, 1856, p. 581.] [LYMAN CHARTER, 1761.] Lyman P S *Province of New-Hampshire. GEORGE THE THIRD, *2-333 By the Grace of God, of Great-Britain, France and To all Persons to whom these Presents shall come, 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 NEWHAMPSHIRE 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 & Forty Acres, which Tract is to contain Six 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 Our said Governor's Order, and returned into the Secretary's Office, and hereunto annexed, butted and bounded as follows, Viz. Begining at a Tree Marked that Stands on the Bank of the Easterly Side of Connecticut River which is the North Westerly Corner of Bath & is Six Miles on a Straight Line from Am'onusock Rivers Mouth & from thence Runing by Bath to the North Easterly Corner thereof, then Begining again at the first Bounds & Runing up Conneticut River, so far as to make it Six Miles upon a Streight Line, thence Six Miles on such a Point as will be Six Miles from the North Easterly Corner of Bath aforesaid & thence to the said North Easterly Corner of Bath aforesd And that the same be, and hereby is Incorporated into a Township by the Name of Lyman And the Inhabitants that do or shall hereafter inhabit the said Township, are hereby declared to be Enfranchized with and Intitled to all and every the Priviledges and Immunities that other Towns within Our Province by Law Exercise and Enjoy: And further, that the said Town as soon as there shall be Fifty Families resident and settled thereon, shall have the Liberty of holding Two Fairs, one of which shall be held on the And the other on the to continue longer than the respective ing the said annually, which Fairs are not follow and that as soon as the said Town shall consist of Fifty Families, a Market may be *2-334 *opened and kept one or more Days in each Week, as may be thought most advantagious to the Inhabitants. Also, that the first Meeting for the Choice of Town Officers, agreable to the Laws of our said Province, shall be held on the First Monday in December next which said Meeting shall be Notified by Gideon Lyman Esq who is hereby also appointed the Moderator of the said first Meeting, which he is to Notify and Govern agreable to the Laws and Customs of Our said Province; and that the annual Meeting for ever hereafter for the Choice of such Officers for the said Town, shall be on the Second Tuesday of March annually, To HAVE and to HOLD the said Tract of Land as above expressed, together with all Privileges and Appurtenances, to them and their respective Heirs and Assigns forever, upon the following Conditions, viz. I. That every Grantee, his Heirs or Assigns shall plant and cultivate five Acres of Land within the Term of five Years for every fifty Acres contained in his or their Share or Proportion of Land in said Township, and continue to improve and settle the same by additional Cultivations, on Penalty of the Forfeiture of his Grant or Share in the said Township, and of its reverting to Us, our Heirs and Successors, to be by Us or Them Re-granted to |