pp. 24; Report of Proceedings at Centennial Celebration, 1894, The Farmers' Cabinet, June 28, 1894; "One of Many: A Sketch of Milford," by G. H. Moses, XVI, Granite Monthly, 389.] MILLSFIELD. [Granted March 1, 1774, to George Boyd and others, and named in honor of Thomas Mills. See Index to Laws, 351; sketch, Fergusson's History of Coos County, 1888, p. 955; Lawrence's New Hampshire Churches, 1856, p. 610.] [MILLSFIELD CHARTER, 1774.] *4-196 *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 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 said Province by and with the advice of our trusty and well beloved JOHN 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 New Hampshire and our other Dominions who have petitioned us for the same setting forth their readiness to make immediate Settlement and to their Heirs and Assigns forever whose Names are entered on this Grant to be divided to and amongst them into eighty two 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 two hundred Acres Out of which an allowance is to be made for Highways and unimprovable Lands by Rocks Mountains and Waters One 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 & 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 Red Birch Tree which is the Northwesterly Corner bound of Dummer (so called) from thence runing South eighty two degrees East five Miles by said Dummer to a Spruce Tree which is the Southwesterly Corner Bounds of Errol, thence North eight degrees East Seven Miles and eighty rods by said Errol-to a red Birch Tree being the Northwesterly Corner thereof thence North eighty two degrees West five Miles to a Rock Maple Tree & thence South eight degrees West Seven Miles & eighty Rods to the red Birch Tree 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 MILLSFEILD upon the following conditions vizt FIRST That the Grantees at their own Cost shall cut *4-197 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 directions in failure of which the Premises and every part thereof shall be forfeited and revert to Us our Heirs and Successors to be by us or them reentered upon and regranted to any of our loving Subjects 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 and 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 and paying therefor to Us our Heirs and Successors on or before the first day of March 1780 the Rent of one Ear of Indian Corn only if lawfully demanded FIFTHLY That every Proprietor Settler or Inhabitant shall yield and 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 abovesaid 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 these 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 *4-198 date *SEVENTHLY That ten Families shall be settled and actually resident in the Town within two Years of this EIGHTHLY That additional Settlements be made so as to complete sixty Families in six Years of this date NINTHLY That this Grant shall not interfere with any of our Grants formerly made and now in force nor interrupt the Grantees in their Improvements making thereon agreable to the Conditions thereof. These to be in lieu of All other rents and Services what soever IN TESTIMONY whereof we have caused the Seal of our said Province to be hereunto affixed, Witness JOHN WENTWORTH EsqTM our Governor and Commander in chief aforesaid the first day of March in the fourteenth Year of our reign and in the Year of our Lord Christ 1774 John Burnam Hanson Samuel Cutts One Right for a Glebe for the Church of England by Law established One Right for the benefit of a School in said Town One right for the incorporated Society for the propagation of the Gospel in foreign parts. J{ P. Wentworth Recorded according to the original Charter under the Province Seal this fourteenth day of March 1774 Attest Geo: King D Sec3 Province of New Portsmouth 20th Jan 1774 This certifys that this Plan of Millsfeild begining at a Red Birch Tree which is the Northwesterly Corner Bound '4-200 of Dummer (so called) from thence *runing South eighty two degrees East five Miles by said Dummer to a Spruce Tree which is the Southwesterly Corner Bound of Errol thence North eight degrees East Seven Miles and eighty rods by said Errol to a red Birch Tree being the Northwesterly Corner thereof thence North eighty two degrees West five Miles to a Rock Maple Tree and thence South eight degrees west Seven Miles and eighty Rods to the red Birch Tree first mentioned contains twenty three thousand two hundred Acres and is a true Copy of an |