Grant unto our Loving Subject JOHN HURD of Portsm° in our said Province of New Hampshire Esq' and to his Heirs and Assigns for ever; all those Islands (being 5 in Number) commonly called and known by the name of the DEER ISLANDS, situate and being between the Towns of Lyman and Barnet in Connecticut River; the Contents and Numbers of the said Islands are respectively as follows Vizt N° 1-6.. 2.. 11- No 2- 12.. o.. 32- N° ARP A R P A R 3- 21..0..6 N° 4- 16.. 2.. 2- N° 5- 38.. 2- as by a Plan and Survey thereof made & returned by order of our said Governor into the secretary's office and hereunto annexed may more fully appear-To HAVE and to HOLD the said Deer Islands and every of them together with all Priviledges and Appurtenances unto him the said Jn Hurd his heirs and Assignes for ever: upon the following Conditions Vizt FIRST That the said John his heirs or Assigns shall Plant and Cultivate Ten Acres of the said Land within the Term of Ten Years and continue to improve and settle the same by additional Cultivations on penalty of the forfeiture of his Grant in the said Islands and of their reverting to us our heirs & successors to be by us or them regranted to such of our subjects as shall effectually Settle and Cultivate the same SECONDLY that all white Pine trees throughout the said Islands fit for masting our Royal Navy be carefully preserved for that Use *1-328 and *none to be cut or fell'd, without our special Licence first had and obtained for so doing, upon the Penalty of the forfeiture of this Grant as well as being subject to the Present and future Penalties by Act of Parliament-THIRDLY Yielding and paying therefor unto us our heirs and Successors for the space of Ten Years from this Date One Ear of Indian Corn only on the 25th of December annually if lawfully demanded—(4th) That the said John his heirs or Assigns shall yield & Pay unto us our heirs and successors yearly and every year from and after the expiration of the said Ten Years in our Council Chamber in Portsm° or to such officer as Shall be appointed to receive the same-Two shillings and Sixpence Lawful money for ever: in lieu of all other Rents and services. IN TESTIMONY whereof we have caused the seal of our said Province to be hereto affixed Witness JOHN WENTWORTH Esq' our said Governor the sixteenth day of January in the year of our Lord Christ 1769 and in the ninth year of our Reign J' Wentworth By his Excellency's Command with advice of Council T: Atkinson Jun: Secy Recorded according to the Original Patent under the Province Seal the 28th Jan' 1769. Theodore Atkinson Secy *Province of New Hampshire Portsm° 28th Jan" 1769. *1-330 These Certify that this plan of the Deer Islands in Connecticut River lying between the Towns of Lyman and Barnet is a true Copy of an Original Plan or Survey as taken & returned to me by Elijah King D Surveyor. Attest Is: Rindge S' Gen1 Province of New Hampshire 28th Jan'y 1769. Recorded accords to the Plan, annex'd to the Original Grant under the Province Seal. LYME. [Granted July 8, 1761, to John Thompson and others. Conn. The charter was renewed February 21, 1770. Named from Lyme, See IX, Bouton Town Papers, 533; X, Bouton Province and State Papers, 277, 398, 400, as to participation in movement for union with Vermont towns; XII, Hammond Town Papers 501; Index to Laws, 301; sketch, by P. H. A. Claflin, Child's Gazetteer of Grafton County, 1886, p. 517; History of the Coos Country, by Grant Powers, 1841, p. 135; Baptist Churches in New Hampshire, by E. E. Cummings, 1836, pp. 15, 22; Lawrence's New Hampshire Churches, 1856, p. 559; sermon at close of 37 years' ministry, by E. Tenney, 1868.] Lyme Provce [LYME CHARTER, 1761.] *Province of New Hampshire. GEORGE THE THIRD, *2-37 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 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 Ŏur 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 Sixty Nine 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 one Hundred 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 the Northwest Corner of Hannover at a tree Marked with the Figures five and Six Standing on the Bank of Connecticut river, from Thence runing South Sixty four degrees East Six miles and Three Quarters of a mile from thence North twenty degs East Six miles, Thence North Sixty three degrees West Six miles to a Tree marked with ye Figures Six and Seven Standing on the Bank of Connecticut River Thence down The river to the first Bounds Mentioned-And that the same be, and hereby is Incorporated into a Township by the Name of Lime 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 fairs are not to continue longer than the respective following the said annually, which and that as soon as the said Town shall consist of Fifty *2-38 Families, a Market may be 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 |