his heirs & assigns for ever upon the following Conditions & reservations Viz First That the Said Grantee shall cut Clear & make Passable for Carriages a road of three rods Wide thro' the Said Tract as shall be at any Time hereafter directed or ordered by the Governour & Council which road is to be compleated in one Year from the Date of Such Order or Direction of the Governor & Council aforesaid on Penalty of the forfeiture of this Grant & of its reverting to us Our Heirs & Successors— Seconly That the Said Grantee Shall Settle or cause to be Settled Six Families in five Years from the Date of this Grant in failure whereof the Premises to revert to us our Heirs & Successors to be by us or them entred upon & regranted to Such of 4-144 Our Subjects *as Shall effectually Settle & Cultivate the Same Thirdly That all white & other Pine Trees fit for Masting Our Royal Navy be carefully preserved for that Use & none to be cut or felld without our Special Licence for so doing first had & obtaind on Penalty of the forfeiture of the right [of said] Grantee in the Said Tract of Land 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 Parliam1- Fourthly Yielding & paying therefor to us our Heirs & Successors on or before the fourth Day of March one thousand Seven Hundred & Eighty Two the Rent of One Ear of Indian Corn only if lawfully Demanded Fifthly- That the Said Grantee his Heirs & Assignes Shall Yield & Pay unto us our Heirs & Successors Yearly & every Year forever from & After the Expiration of Ten Years from the Date of this Grant which will be in the Year of Our Lord Christ one thousand Seven Hundred & Eighty three 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 Proprietors or Settlers in Our Council Chamber in Portsm° 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 of New Hampshire to be hereunto affixed-Wittness JOHN WENTWORTH Esq our afores Governor & Com'ander in Chieff the Fourth Day of March in the Thirteenth Year of Our Reign And in the Year of our Lord Christ One thousand Seven hundred & Seventy three By his Excellency's Com J Wentworth Theodore Atkinson Secry Recorded According to the Original Grant under the Province Seal this 8th Day of March 1773 Attest Theodore Atkinson Secry *Province of New Hamp' Portsmo 27th of Feb This Certifys that this Plan begining at a Beach Tree which is the South East Corner of Romney and is known by the Name of Fletcher's Corner & Runs North 30 Degrees East Four Miles & Twenty five Chains to a Beach Tree, thence South Sixty one degrees East Ninety Chains to a Beach Tree, thence South Thirty degrees West four Miles & Twenty five Chains to A Hemlock Tree & thence North Sixty one degs West to the Bounds first mentioned: Contains Three thousand One Hundred & five acres of Land including A Pond containing about One hundred & forty Acres And is A True Copy of An Original Plan or Survey of Said Tract as taken & Returnd to me by Mr James Grant Deputy Surveyer Agreable to a Warrt for that Purpose and lays between the Townships of Romney & Campton in Sa Province. Copy Attest Attest' Is- Rindge S: G1 RANDOLPH. [Granted Aug. 20, 1772, to John Durand and his son, Edward Parry, Thomas Brown, and Charles Henzell, and named Durand in honor of its principal proprietor. Incorporated by the name of Randolph June 16, 1824. Named in honor of John Randolph. See Index to Laws, 158, 464; sketch, by C. E. Low, Fergusson's History of Coos County, 1888, p, 935; Lawrence's N. H. Churches, 1856, p. 610; Randolph, by L. D. Pychowska, 3, Appalachia, 216; Crescent Mountain, by same, 4, id., 73; The Ice Gulch, by W. H. Peek, 4, id., 78; Willey's History of the White Mountains, 1870, p. 58; In the Heart of the White Mountains, by S. A. Drake, 1882, p. 291.] [DURAND CHARTER, 1772.] *4-99 *Province of New Hampshire. (Durand.) GEORGE the THIRD by the Grace of God of Great Britain France & Ireland KING Defender of the Faith &c. TO ALL PEOPLE 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 a New Plantation within our said Province of New Hampshire in New England by and with the advice of our Trusty and well beloved JOHN WENTWORTH Esquire our GOVERNOR & Commander in Chief in and over our said Province of New Hampshire and of our Council of the same HAVE upon the Conditions herein after made, given and granted and by these Presents for us our Heirs and Successors do give and grant unto our leige and loving Subjects JOHN DUrand and JOHN DURAND Junior, both of London in our Kingdom of Great Britain, Esquires, in Equal Shares and to their respective Heirs and Assigns for Ever, a certain Tract or Parcel of Land, situate, lying and being within our said Province of New Hampshire, being about Six Miles Square, (the said Grantees having Petitioned us for the same, Setting forth their Readiness to make immediate Settlement,) Containing by Admeasurement Twenty three Thousand Six hundred & Eighty Acres, being about fifty Acres each to the Number in the Families of the said Grantees, exclusive of the following Quantities of the said Land herein expressly assigned to the Persons hereafter Named, that is to Say, unto EDWARD PARRY, THOMAS BROWN & CHARLES HENZELL a lot of Five hundred Acres each; out of which said Tract an Allowance is to be made for Highways and unimproveable Lands by Rocks Mountains & Waters One thousand & Forty Acres free, according to a Plan thereof exhibited by our Surveyor General of Lands for our said Province by our said Governor's Order & returned into the Secretary's Office, a Copy whereof is hereunto Annexed, butted & bounded as follows Viz. Beginning at a Red Birch Tree standing in the Westerly Line of a Tract of Land granted in Addition to the Township of Shelburne, from thence running North Eighty Two Degrees West one Mile to a Spruce Tree, thence North Eight Degrees East Two Hundred Rods to a Red birch Tree, thence North Eighty Two degrees West [five] Miles and Twenty Rods to a Hemlock Tree, thence North Eight degrees East Six Miles to a Red birch Tree, thence South Eighty Two degrees East Six Miles and Twenty Rods to a Birch Tree, thence South Eight degrees West Six Miles and Two hundred Rods to the bound began at. To HAVE AND TO HOLD the said Tract of Land as above expressed together with all Priviledges and Appurtenances to them the said Grantees & to their respective Heirs & Assigns for ever by the Name of DURAND upon the following Terms, Conditions & Reservations. Videlicet. *4-100 FIRST. That the said Grantees at their own Cost shall cut, clear, bridge & make passable for Carriages of all kinds a Road of three Rods wide, thro' the said Tract hereby granted; which said Road shall be completed in three Years from the date of this Grant; in failure of which the Premises & every part thereof shall be for feited & revert to us our Heirs & 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 Six Families by the first day of January 1774, who shall be actually cultivating some part of the Land & resident on the same, & to continue making further & Additional Improvement Cultivation & Settlement of the Premises so that there shall be actually Settled thereon Sixty Families by first day of January 1780 on Penalty of the forfeiture of any and every Delinquents Share & of such Share or Shares reverting to us our Heirs & Successors to be by us or them enter'd upon & regranted to such of our Subjects as shall effectually Settle & cultivate the same. THIRD That all white and other Pine Trees being and growing within and upon the said Tract of Land 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 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 Parliam that now are or hereafter shall be Enacted. FOURTH That before any Division of the Land be made to & 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 Four Acres. FIFTH. Yielding and Paying therefor us us our Heirs 4-101 on or before the first day of January 1776, 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 Six Years from the abovesaid first day of January, namely on the first day of January which will be in the year of our Lord Christ 1782, 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 the Land aforesaid; 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 And these to be in lieu of all other Rents & Services whatsoever. IN TESTIMONY whereof We have Province to be hereunto Affixed caused the Seal of our said Witness JOHN WENTWORTH |