Province of New Hampshire November 7th 1764

Recorded from the Back of the Original Charter under the Province Seal

T Atkinson Jun Secry

[GRANT TO THOMAS MARTIN, 1772.]

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GEORGE the THIRD by the Grace Hampshire S 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 & mere Motion for the due encouragement of settling and cultivating our Lands within our Province aforesaid by and with the advice of our Trusty & well beloved JOHN WENTWORTH Esquire

our Governor & Commander in Chief of our said Province of New Hampshire, & of our COUNCIL of the same, HAVE (upon the Conditions and Reservations herein particularly recited and expressed) given and granted and by these presents for us our Heirs and Successors do give and grant unto our leige and loving Subject THOMAS MARTIN of Portsmouth in our County of Rockingham and Province aforesaid Merchant and to his Heirs and Assigns for ever a certain Tract or parcel of Land containing by admeasurement Five Hundred Acres situate lying and being within the Township of Piermont in our said Province as by a plan or Survey thereof (exhibited by our Survey' 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 annexed) may more fully and at large appear, Butted & Bounded as follows Viz Beginning at a Birch Tree standing on the bank of Connecticut River, from thence running South Fifty three Degrees East Four Hundred and Sixty Rods to a Beech Tree, from thence running North Thirty Seven degrees East one Hundred & Eighty Rods to a Maple Tree, from thence running North Fifty three Degrees West Four Hundred and Ninety five Rods to a white Maple Tree standing on the Bank of Connecticut River aforesaid, from thence down said River as that tends to the Bounds first mentioned. To HAVE AND TO HOLD the said Tract of Land as above expressed to him the said Thomas Martin & to his Heirs and assigns for Ever upon the following Terms Conditions & Reservations Viz'.

FIRST That the said Grantee shall cut clear and make passable for Carriages &c. a Road of Three Rods wide thro' the said Tract as shall be at any Time hereafter directed or order'd by the Governor & Council aforesaid, which Road shall be completed in One Year from the date of such order or Direction of the Governor & Council aforesaid, on penalty of the Forfeiture of this Grant and of its reverting to us our Heirs & Successors.

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

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*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 on penalty of the Forfeiture of the Right

of the Grantee in the premises his Heirs & Assigns to us our Heirs and Successors as well as being subject to the penalties prescribed by any present as well as future Act or Acts of Parliament.

FOURTHLY Yielding and Paying therefore to us our Heirs and Successors on or before the Twenty fifth day of December 1774, the rent of one Ear of Indian Corn only if lawfully demanded.

FIFTHLY. That the said Grantee his Heirs and Assigns to us our Heirs and Successors, shall yield and pay, yearly and every Year for Ever from and after the expiration of Four Years from the date of this Grant ONE SHILLING Proclamation Money for every Hundred Acres he so owns Settles or possesses and 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 & 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 Twenty second day of April in the Twelfth year of our Reign Annoque Domini 1772.

J' Wentworth.

Recorded according to the Original Grant under the Province Seal this 27th day of April 1772.

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Province of New Hampshire, Portsmouth 6th april 1772.

These Certify that this Plan Beginning at a Birch Tree standing on the Bank of Connecticut River, from thence running South Fifty three Degrees East 460 Rods to a Beech Tree, from thence running N. 39° E. 180 Rods to a Maple Tree, from thence running N. 53° W. 495 Rods to a White Maple Tree standing on the Bank of Connecticut River aforesaid, from thence down said River as that tends to the Bound first mentioned, lying within *the Township of Piermont, Contains Five hundred Acres of Land, & is a True Copy of an Original Plan or Survey of said Tract as taken and returned to me by Mr Jotham Cummings D Surveyor.

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PITTSBURG.

[This was formerly known as the Indian Stream territory.

Incorporated as Pittsburg, December 10, 1840. The north and west lines were established July 1, 1841. The boundary lines were established December 30, 1848. This is the most northerly town in the state, and includes the tracts known as Carlisle, Hubbard, and Webster.

See Index to Laws, 255, 435; Historical Sketch of the Northern Boundary, 2, Collections of New Hampshire Historical Society, 267; sketch, by David Blanchard, Fergusson's History of Coos County, 1888, p. 696; Report of Judiciary Committee on Indian Stream Affairs, House Journal, June, 1835, p. 177; Report of Commissioners to Indian Stream, November, 1836, pp. 72; Military History of New Hampshire, by C. E. Potter, Adjutant General's Report, 1868, p. 269; From the Sources of the Connecticut to the Rangeley Lakes, by R. B. Lawrence, 4, Appalachia, 105; Camel's Hump and the Rangeley Lake Mountains, id., 294; Lawrence's New Hampshire Churches, 1856, p. 610. The Northern Boundary and the Indian Stream Settlement, Annual Address before the New Hampshire Historical Society, by Edgar Aldrich, September, 1894.]

PITTSFIELD.

[Set off from Chichester and incorporated March 27, 1782.

Šee papers under title Chichester; IX, Bouton Town Papers, 123; XIII, Hammond Town Papers, 197; Index to Laws, 435; sketch, Hurd's History of Merrimack County, 1885, p. 587; Stewart's History of the Free Baptists, 1862, p. 162; Baptist Churches in New Hampshire, by E. E. Cummings, 1836, p. 17; Lawrence's New Hampshire Churches, 1856, p. 404; Pittsfield in the Great Rebellion, by H. L. Robinson, 1893.]

PLAINFIELD.

[Granted August 14, 1761, to Benjamin Hutchins and others, and named from Plainfield, Conn. Portions of this town and Grantham were constituted the parish of Meriden, June 23, 1780. The Grantham portion of this parish was annexed to Plainfield, July 12, 1856.

See X, Bouton Province and State Papers, 398, 400, as to participation in movement for union with Vermont towns; XIII, Hammond Town Papers, 199: Index to Laws, 436; Baptist Churches in New Hampshire, by E. E. Cummings, 1836, p. 11; Lawrence's New Hampshire Churches, 1856, pp. 461, 470; History and Catalogue of Members of Congregational Church, Meriden, 1780-1858; sketch, Hurd's History of Sullivan County, 1886, p. 310; Rambles about Plainfield, by F. A. Briggs, in files of Claremont Eagle; General Catalogue of Kimball Union Academy, 1880.]