*Province of New Hampre S

PS

[RINDGE INCORPORATED, 1768.]

GEORGE the third by the Grace of *1-299 God of Great Britain France and Ireland

King Defender of the Faith &c

To all to whom these Presents shall come GREETING WHEREAS Our Loyal Subjects Inhabitants of a Tract of Land within our Province of New HampRindge shire aforesaid known by the Name of Monadnock No 1 lying between Mondnock N° 4 and New Ipswitch on the Province Line and contains by Estimation Thirty five Square Miles HAVE humbly petitioned and requested us that they may be erected and Incorporated into a Township and infranchized with the same Powers and Priveledges which other Towns within our said Province by Law have and enjoy and it appearing unto us to be conducive to the general Good of our said Province as well as of the said Inhabitants in particular by maintaining good order and encouraging the Culture of the Land that the same should be done KNOW YE therefore that We of our especial Grace certain Knowledge and for the Encouragement and promoting the good Purposes and Ends aforesaid by and with the advice of our trusty and wellbeloved JOHN WENTWORTH Esquire Our Governor and Commander in Cheif and of our Council for said Province of New Hampshire have erected and ordained and by these Presents for us our Heirs and Successors do will and ordain that the Inhabitants of the Tract of Land aforesaid and others who shall inhabit and improve thereon hereafter the same being butted and bounded as follows (Viz1) Beginning at the South West Corner of New Ipswitch then running on the Province Line west ten degrees North Seven Miles to the South East Corner of N° 4 then turning off and running North by the Needle by N° 4 aforesaid five miles then turning off again and running East ten Degrees South seven miles to New Ipswitch then turning off again & *1-300 running South by the needle by New Ipswitch aforesaid five miles to the Bounds began at be and hereby are declared and ordained to be a Town corporate and are hereby erected & incorporated into a Body Politic and Corporate to have Continuance during our Pleasure by the Name of RINDGE with all the Powers and Authoritys Preveledges Immunitys and Franchizes which any other Towns in said Province by Law hold and enjoy to the said Inhabitants or who shall hereafter inhabit there and their Successors for said Term always reserving to us our Heirs and Successors

all white Pine Trees that are or shall be found growing and being on the said Tract of Land fit for the use of our ROYAL NAVY reserving also to us our Heirs and Successors the Power and Right of dividing the said Town when it shall appear necessary and convenient for the Inhabitants thereof PROVIDED Nevertheless and 'tis hereby declared that this Charter and Grant is not intended and shall not in any Manner be construed to affect the private Property of the Soil within the Limits aforesaid and as the several Towns within Our said Province are by the Laws thereof enabled and authorized to assemble and by the Majority of the Voters present to chuse all such Officers and transact such Affairs as in the said Laws are declared WE DO by these Presents nominate & appoint Enoch Hale Esq' to call the first meeting of said Inhabitants to be held within the said Town at any time within Eighty days from the Date hereof giving legal notice of the time and Design of holding such meeting after which the annual Meeting in said Town shall be held for the Choice of said Officers and the Purposes aforesaid on the Third Thursday in the Month of March annually

IN TESTIMONY whereof We have caused the Seal of our said. Province to be hereunto affixed Witness our aforesaid Governor and Commander in Cheif this eleventh day of February in the Eighth Year of our Reign and in the year of our Lord Christ 1768

By his Excellencys Command with Advice of Council

T Atkinson jun Secry

Province of New Hamp Portsmo FebTM 12, 1768

J Wentworth

Recorded according to the Original Charter under the Province

Seal

Geo King Depy Secry

ROCHESTER.

[This town, as incorporated May 10, 1722, included the present towns of Farmington and Milton. The westerly part was set off and incorporated as Farmington Dec. 1, 1798. Milton was set off and incorporated June 11, 1802. A part of the town was annexed to Barrington July 10, 1846. A city charter was granted March 31, 1891.

See Massachusetts charters preceding; IX, Bouton Town Papers, 721; XIII, Hammond Town Papers, 332; Index to Laws, 479: Historical Notices, by Joseph Haven, 2, Farmer and Moore's Historical Collections, 169; sketch, by Franklin McDuffee, Hurd's History of Strafford County, 1882, p. 719; History, by Franklin McDuffee, in two volumes, 1892, pp. 688; Bill of Mortality, 1776-1824, by Joseph Haven, 1, Collections of N. H. Historical Society, 283; Lawrence's N. H. Churches, 1856, p. 338; Biographical Notices of Physicians, 1, N. E. Hist. Gen. Register, 276.]

[Rochester Taxes.]

[Farmer's Mss. Town Papers, Vol. 6, p. 115.]

ANNO REGNI Regis Georgii Secundi Nono

WHEREAS the Inhabitants of the Town of Rochester in the Province of New Hampshire have Address'd this Court, Setting forth, that Considering there present Poverty, & the Difficulties which they have, and are Still like to undergo in Settling & Subduing a Wilderness, they were not, nor could for Some time be able to maintain a Gospel Minister among them. Wherefore they pray that the Non Resident Propriet's of the Said Town may be Obliged to Assist them therein-And that proper Persons may be Appointed by this Court to call the Inhabitants of the Said Town together this Year to make Choice of Town Officers as in other Towns in this Province—

Be it thereFORE ENACTED by His Excellency the Governor, Council, & Representatives in General Court Convened & by the Authority of the Same, that from & after the Publication of this Act that Every Proprietor of a whole Right or full Share of Lands in the Said Town of Rochester, according to their Charter, being a non Resident therein shall be, & is hereby ordered to pay, to the Inhabitants of the Said Town, or Such Person, or Persons, as they shall from time to time make Choice of and Appoint to Receive the Same, the Sum of fifteen Shillings per annum for & during the full

term of Seven Years, towards the support of a Gospel Minister in the Said Town; And every Such Proprietor of a Greater or lesser Propriety or Interest in lands in 'the Said Township shall pay for the use aforesaid, and in manner as aforesaid, after the Rate & proportion of fifteen Shillings per Annum for one whole Right or Share of Lands as aforesaid, during Said term

PROVIDED the Inhabitants of the Said Town Shall, during the Said Term, procure and keep an Orthodox Minister of the Gospel to preach the Same to them in the Said Town

AND BE IT FARTHER ENACTED by the Authority aforesaid that the Revd Joseph Adams, John Jenniss & William Chamberlane be and hereby are Appointed and Impowered to call the Inhabitants of the Said Town of Rochester together as Soon as may Conveniently be done to Chuse Town officers for the Said Town for the Present Year, and all officers Chosen to Serve the Said Town at that meeting, of the Said Inhabitants, & by virtue hereof shall have, & hereby are Invested with all the powers & Authorities to all Intents & purposes that any other Town officers have by Law in any Town within this Province any Law usage or Custom to the Contrary hereof notwithstanding—

ROLLINSFORD.

[Set off from Somersworth and incorporated July 3, 1849. Named in honor of the Rollins family. A small part of the town was annexed to Dover July 16, 1879. See papers under title Somersworth; Index to Laws, 482; Lawrence's N. H. Churches, 1856, p. 344; sketch, by A. W. Pike, Hurd's History of Strafford County, 1882, p. 660.]

ROXBURY.

[This town was constituted from parts of Nelson, Keene, and Marlborough, and incorporated Dec. 9, 1812. The line between Roxbury and Nelson was established June 15, 1820. By an act passed July 1, 1868, the entire town was to be annexed to Keene, but the provisions of the act were not adopted by a majority of voters in each town, and Roxbury still remains separate.

See papers under titles Nelson, Keene, and Marlborough; XIII, Hammond Town Papers, 351; Index to Laws, 483; sketch, Hurd's History of Cheshire County, 1886, p. 329; sketch, Child's Gazetteer of Cheshire County, 1885, p. 377; Lawrence's N. H. Churches, 1856, p. 289.]

RUMNEY.

[Granted Oct. 4, 1761, to Samuel Olmstead and others. Regranted March 18, 1767, to Daniel Brainard and others.

See Masonian Papers in following volumes; IX, Bouton Town Papers, 730; XIII, Hammond Town Papers, 354; Index to Laws, 483; sketch, Child's Gazetteer of Grafton County, 1886, p. 601; Lawrence's N. H. Churches, 1856, p. 581; Biography of Josiah Quincy, by J. E. Sargent, 1, Proceedings of Grafton and Coös Bar Association, 43; Baptist Churches in N. H., by E. E. Cummings, 1836, p. 9; grant to Samuel Holland with Plymouth papers; Proceedings of Celebration, July 4, 1876.]

Rumney

PS

[RUMNEY CHARTER, 1761.]

*Province of New-Hampshire.

GEORGE THE THIRD,

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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 Our 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 Seventy equal Shares, all that Tract or Parcel of Land situate, lying and being within our said Province of New-Hampshire, containing by Admeasurement, Twenty Tree Thousand & Six Hundred Acres, which Tract is to contain Something more than 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