*4-116 Province of New Hampshire. Portsm° 20th May 1772. These Certify that this Plan Beginning at an Hemlock Tree being the S. W Corner of the Township of Rumney, from thence running S. 60° E. 1 Mile, thence N. 30° E. 292 Rods to a Beech Tree, thence N. 60° W. 240 Rods to a Spruce Tree, thence S. 45° W. 300 Rods to the bound first Mentioned, Contains 500 Acres of Land & is a true Copy of an Original Plan or Survey of said Tract as taken & returned to me. M Jotham Cummings Dy Surv Attest. Is. Rindge Surv1 General [This plan is taken from Vol. 5, p. 309.] RYE. [First known as Sandy Beach. It was a part of Portsmouth until the incorporation of New Castle, May 30, 1693, after which it was a part of the latter until separated, and, with portions of Portsmouth and Hampton, incorporated as Rye April 30, 1726. All that part of the town southwest of the river was annexed from New Castle Dec. 22, 1791. Gosport, or Star Island, was annexed July 20, 1876. See papers under titles Portsmouth, New Castle, Hampton, and Isles of Shoals; IX, Bouton Town Papers, 313, 734; XIII, Hammond Town Papers, 360; Index to Laws, 211, 484; sketch Hurd's History of Rockingham County, 1882, p. 455; address, by J. K. Aldrich; discourse, by Huntington Porter, 1801, pp. 38; HalfCentury Sermon, by same, 1835, pp. 24; Lawrence's N. H. Churches, 1856, p. 127; Isles of Shoals in 1653, by C. W. Tuttle, 25, N. E. Hist. Gen. Register, 162; Descriptive and Historical Account of Isles of Shoals, 7, Mass. Historical Society Collections, 242; Among the Isles of Shoals, by Celia Thaxter, 1893; An Island Garden, by same, 1894.] SALEM. [This town was constituted from parts of Haverhill District, Methuen, and Dracut, Mass., and was incorporated May 11, 1750. A new line between Salem and Windham was established Jan. 9, 1752-23. The charter was confirmed by the Masonian Proprietors March 8, 1759. See Masonian Papers in following volumes; IX, Bouton Town Fapers, 744; XIII, Hammond Town Papers, 371; Index to Laws, 486; sketch, by A. H. Merrill, Hurd's History of Rockingham County, 1882, p. 469; Lawrence's N. H. Churches, 1856, p. 130; Two Sermons, 1816, by John Smith, 1817, pp. 30; Account of, Poore's Merrimack Valley, 1857-58, p. 239; Proceedings of 150th Anniversary of Congregational Church, 1890.] [SALEM INCORPORATED, 1750.] *Province of New Hampshire *1-59 Salem Charter GEORGE the Second by the Grace of GoD of Great Brittain France & Ireland King Defender of the faith &ca {{ PS TO ALL to whom these Presents Shall Come Greeting Whereas our Loyall Subjects Inhabitants of A Tract of *1-60 Land Within our Province of New Hamp" aforesaid lying Partly within that Part of Our Province of New Hampshire called Haverhill District Have humbly Petitioned & requested to us, that they may be Erected & Incorporated into a Township & Infranchized with the Same Powers & Previledges which other Towns within our Said Province by Law have & Enjoy, And it Appearing to us to be Conducive to the General good of our Said Province as well as of the Said Inhabitants in Perticular by Maintaining good order & Encouraging the Culture of the Land that the Same Should be Don- Know Ye therefore That We of our Especial Grace Certain knowledg- & for the Encouragement of & Promoteing the Good Purposes & Ends afores by & with the Advice of our Trusty & well beloved Benning Wentworth Esq our Governor & Comander in Chieff & of our Council for Said Province of New Hampshire Have Errected and ordained and by these Presents for us Our Heirs & Successors Do will & ordain that the Inhabitants of the Tract of Land aforesd or that Shall Inhabit & Improve thereon hereafter Butted & bounded as follows (Viz) Begining at A Stake by the Captains Pond in the Province Line which is a bound by the Town of Plastow Thence North 22d West about Three Miles & an half (Excluding the whole of Theodore Atkinson Esq Farm Scituate lying & being on the Said Line) to A black Oak Tree near Joseph Palmers land in Londonderry Bounds then South Ninty Degrees West by Londonderry Bounds one Mile & three Quarters to A White Oak Standing in An Angle of Londonderry Line Thence Two hundred Ninety Six rods by Londonderry line to A Stake Standing in Said Line thence South 39 Degrees West Nine hundred & fifty two rods to A Stake & Stones thence South Twenty Degrees East One hundred & fifty Two rods to A Pitch Pine Marked-Thence South Three Degrees East Seven hundred & twenty rods to A White Oak in the Province Line thence as the Province Line runs to the Stake by the Captains Pond first mentioned And by these Presents Are Declared & ordaind to be A Town Corporate And Are hereby Errected & Incorporated into a body Pollitick & a Corporation to have Continueance for ever by the Name of Salem with all the Powers & Authorities Previledges Immunities & Infranchizes to them the Said Inhabitants & thier Successors for ever Allways reserving to us our hiers & Successors all white Pine trees *1-61 growing & being or that Shall hereafter grow & be on the Said Tract of Land fit for the Use of our Royal Navy reserveing also the Power of Divideing the Said Town to us our Heirs & Successors when it Shall Appear necessary & Convenient for the Benefit of the Inhabitants thereof-it is to be understood and it is Accordingly hereby Declared that the Private Property of the Soil is in no manner of way to be Effected by this Charter-And as the Several Towns within our Said Province of New Hampshire Are by the Laws thereof Enabled & Authorized to Assemble & by the Majority of Votes to Choose all Such Officers as Are mentioned in the Said Laws We do by these Presents Nominate & Appoint Cap' Richard Kelly to Call the first meeting of the Said Inhabitants to be held within the Said Town at Any time within Thirty Days from the Date hereof giveing Legal notice of the Time Place & Design of holding Such meeting after which the Annual Meeting in Said Town Shall be held for the Choice of Town Officers & ca for ever on the Last Wednesday in March Annually In Testimony Whereof We have Caused the Seal of our Said Province to be hereunto affixed Wittness Benning Wentworth Esq our Governour & Com'ander in Chieff of our Said Province the 11th Day of May in the Year of our Lord Christ One thousand Seven hundred & fifty & in the Twenty third year of Our Reign By his Excelencys Comand with Advice of Council Theodore Atkinson Secry B Wentworth Entred & recorded According to the Original under the Province Seal this Eleventh Day of May 1750 Theodore Atkinson Sec" |