Province of New Hamp' Octob❜ 20 1761 Recorded from the Back of the Original Charter of Stonington under the Province Seal Theodore Atkinson SecTy [NORTHUMBERLAND CHARTER, 1771.] *4-55 *Province of New GEORGE the THIRD by the grace Hampshire } of God of Great Britain France and (NORTHUMBERLAND.) Ireland KING Defender of the Faith &c. 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 Esquire our Governor and Commander in Chief in and over 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 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 for Ever, whose Names are enter'd on this Grant to be divided to and amongst them into SEVENTY TWO Equal Shares all that Tract or parcel of Land situate, lying and being within our said Province of New Hampshire called and known by the name of STONINGTON being about Six miles Square & containing by admeasurement Twenty three Thousand & Forty three Acres, out of which an allowance is to be made for Highways and unimproveable Lands by Rocks, Ponds, Mountains & Rivers One thousand and Forty Acres free according to a Plan & 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 annex'd butted and bounded as follows VIDELICET Beginning at an Ash tree standing on the Easterly_side of Connecticut River being the North Westerly Corner Bounds of Lancaster from thence running up said River as that tends to an Elm Tree standing on the Southerly side of the Mouth of a small brook that runs into said River, being Nine miles on a strait line from the said Ash Tree, from thence South Fifty five degrees East Four Miles sixty Eight Chains and Seventy five Links to a Spruce Tree, from thence South Seven degrees West Nine Miles to a Spruce Tree, from thence North Fifty five Degrees West Four miles Sixty Eight chains and Seventy five Links to the Ash Tree began at. TO HAVE AND TO HOLD the said Tract of Land as above express'd together with all the Priviledges & Appurtenances to them the said Grantees & to their respective heirs and Assigns for Ever by the Name of NORTHUMBERLAND, upon the following Conditions-VIDELICET *First That the Grantees at their own Cost shall cut, *4-56 clear bridge and make passable for Carriages of all kinds a Road of Eight Rods wide through the said Tract hereby granted, and this to be completed within Two years from the date of this Grant, in failure of which the Premises and every part thereof shall be forfeited & revert to us our heirs and Successors to be by us or them reenter'd upon and regranted to any of our Loving Subjects. SECOND That the said Grantees shall settle or cause to be settled TWELVE Families by the Twentieth day of March 1772, who shall be actually cultivating some part of the Land and resident thereon, to continue making further and additional Improvement, cultivation and Settlement of the Premises so that there shall be actually Settled and resident thereon SIXTY Families by the First day of March 1776 on penalty of the forfeiture of any and every delinquents Share and of such Share or Shares reverting to us our heirs and Successors to be by us or them enter'd upon and regranted to such of our Subjects as shall effctually settle & cultivate the same. THIRD That all White and other Pine Trees within the said Township fit for masting our Royal Navy be carefully preserved for that use, & that none be cut or fell'd without our special Licence for so doing first had and obtained upon the penalty of the forfeiture of the right of such Grantee his Heirs and Assigns to us our heirs and Successors as well as being subject to the Penalty of any Act or Acts of Parliamt that now are or hereafter shall be Enacted. FOURTH That before any division of the Land be made to and among the Grantees a Tract of Land as near the centre 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. FIFTH Yielding and paying therefor to us our heirs and Successors on or before the First day of January 1772 the rent of one Ear of Indian Corn only if lawfully demanded. SIXTH That every Proprietor, Settler or Inhabitant shall yield and pay unto us our heirs and Successors yearly and every year for Ever from and after the expiration of one year from the afore said First day of January, namely on the first day of January which will be in the year of our Lord Christ 1774, ONE SHILLING Proclamation money for every hundred Acres he so Owns, 4-57 Settles or Possesses and 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: & 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 our aforesaid Governor & Commander in Chief the Twenty fifth day of January in the Eleventh year of our Reign Annoque Domini 1771. BY HIS EXCELLENCYS COMMAND with advice of Council. Theodore Atkinson Secry } J{S} Wentworth. L. S. The names of the Grantees of Northumberland. Daniel Warner Esq Daniel Rindge Rogers Benjamin Currier John Penhallow Thomas Martin William Marshall Caleb Marshall Edmund Morse Caleb Tappen Joseph Shillabar J' Jacob Sheaffe Joseph Moulton S of Newby Port John Redin Joseph Moulton Joseph Shillabar Richard Mills in Massa. Matthew Stanly Parker Jesse Johnson James Flanders Jonathan Shillabar Ebenezer Noyce Nathaniel Treadwell Samuel White Esq Phinehas Sargent 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. One Right for the first setled Minister in said. Town. Province of New Hampshire March 4th 1771 Recorded according to the Original Charter of Northumberland under the Province Seal. Att Theodore Atkinson Secry *Province of New Hampshire, Portsm° 21st January 1771- *4-58 These Certify that this plan of STONINGTON Beginning at an Ash Tree on the Easterly side of Connecticut River being the North westerly corner Bounds of Lancaster, from thence running up said River as that Tends to an Elm Tree standing on the Southerly side of the Mouth of a small Brook that runs into Connecticut River aforesaid being nine miles on a strait line from the said Ash Tree, from thence South Fifty five degrees East Four miles sixty Eight chains and seventy five Links to a Spruce Tree, from thence South seven degrees West nine miles to a spruce Tree, from thence North Fifty five degrees West four miles, sixty eight chains and seventy five Links to the Ash Tree first mention'd, being the Bounds begun at. Contains Twenty three Thousand & Fifty three Acres & sixteen Rods of Land & is a True Copy of an Original Plan or Survey of said Tract or Township as taken & returned to me by Mr Dudley Coleman Dy Surv Attest: Isaac Rindge Surv' Gen1 NORTHWOOD. [Originally known as North-woods. Set off from Nottingham as a parish Feb. 6, 1773. See papers under title Nottingham; XII, Hammond Town Papers, 93; Index to Laws, 408; sketch, by E. C. Cogswell, Hurd's History of Rockingham County, 1882, p. 425; History of Nottingham, Deerfield, and Northwood, by E. C. Cogswell, 1878, pp. 790; Recollections in the History of, 3, Collections of N. H. Historical Society, 67; Historical Summary, by A. E. Cotton, 6, Granite Monthly, 120; Baptist Churches in N. H., by E. E. Cummings, 1836, pp. 7, 9, 20; Lawrence's N. H. Churches, 1856, p. 113; Sketches of, by A-n B-e, 1830.] |