[WESTMORELAND CHARTER RENEWED, 1760.] Westmoreland *Province of New Hamp *1-227 George the Second by the Grace of God of Chart' lengthend out great Britain France & Ireland King Defender of the Faith &c PS To All People to whom these Presents Shall come Greeting Whereas We of our Special Grace & Mere Motion for the Due Encouragement of Settling See Page (91) a New Plantation within Our Province of New Hamp by Our Letters Patent or Charter under the Seal of Our Said Province dated the 12th Day of Febry in the Twenty fifth Year of our reign granted a Tract of Land equal to Six Miles Square bounded as therein Expressed to a Number of our Loyal Subjects whose Names are Entered on the same to hold to them their heirs and assigns on the Conditions therein Declared to be a Town Corporate by the Name of Westmoreland as by referrence to the Said Charter may more fully Appear And Whereas the Said Grantees have represented that by the Intervention of our Indian War since the making Said Grant it has been Impracticable to Comply with & fullfill the Conditions aforesaid and Humbly Supplycated us not to take advantage of the Breach of Said Conditions but to Lengthen out & Grant them some reasonable Term for Performance thereof after the Said Impediment Shall cease Now Know Ye that We being Willing to Promote the End Proposed have of our further Grace & favour Suspended Our Claims of the forfeiture which the Said Grantees may have incurrd and by these Presents do Grant unto the Said Grantees their heirs and assigns the Term of one Year for Performing & fullfilling the Conditions matters & things by them to be done which Term is to be renewd Annually until his Majtys Plenary Instructions Shall be receivd relative to the Incident that has Prevented a Complyance with the Charter according to the True intent & meaning thereof In Testimony whereof We have Caused the Seal of Our Said Province to be hereunto affixed Wittness Benning Wentworth Esq our Governour & Commander in Chieff the Eleventh Day of June in the 334 Year of Our Reign Annoq Dom: 1760 By his Excellency Comd with Advice of Council Theodore Atkinson Ser B Wentworth Province of New Hamp Recorded According to the Original Under the Seal of the Province the 12th Day of June 1760 Theodore Atkinson Secty WHITEFIELD. [Granted as Whitefields July 4, 1774, to Josiah Moody and others. Incorporated as Whitefield Dec. 1, 1804. See XIII, Hammond Town Papers, 648; Index to Laws, 580; History, by Levi W. Dodge, in manuscript; sketch by same, Fergusson's History of Coös County, 1888, p. 447; In the Footprints of the Pioneers, by same, Granite Monthly, vol. 6, pp. 333, 337, and vol. 7, p. 17; Along the John Stark River, by same, 5, id., 357; Extract from an Unpublished History, by same, 10, id., 298; Coo-AshAuke, by same, 6, id.; Northern New Hampshire, by G. F. Bacon, 1890, p. 38; Stewart's History of the Free Baptists, 1862, p. 375; Lawrence's N. H. Churches, 1856, p. 610; Controversial Correspondence of the Lancaster Gazette, Jan. 26, Feb. 23, Mar. 23, Apr. 20, and Apr. 27, 1883, by Jas. W. Weeks and Levi W. Dodge; many historical articles, by Levi W. Dodge, in files of White Mountain News.] *4-201 Province of New Hampshire *4-202 WHITEFIELDS GEORGE the third by the grace of God of Great Britain France & 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 and meer Motion for the due encouragement of settling a new Plantation within Our said Province by & with the advice of Our trusty and well beloved JOHN WENTWORTH Esquire Our Governor and Commander in chief of 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 & 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 New Hampshire & Our other Dominions who have petitioned Us for the same setting forth their readiness to make immediate Settlement & to their Heirs and Assigns forever whose Names are entered on this Grant to be divided to & amongst them into Ninety four equal Shares all that Tract or parcel of Land situate lying & being within our said Province of New Hampshire containing by admeasurement Nineteen thousand and Seventy seven Acres more or less out of which an allowance is to be made for Highways and unimproveable Lauds by Rocks Mountains & Waters One thousand & seventy Seven Acres free according to a Plan or 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 annexed butted and bounded as follows viz-Begining at a Beech Tree on the Southeast Corner of Lancaster being in the northerly Line of Apthorp & runing South twenty six degrees East One Mile & One hundred eighty Rods to the Northeasterly Corner of Apthorp, thence on the easterly Line of Apthorp South fifty six degrees West four miles One hundred twenty Rods to the Northwest Corner of Lloyd Hills then on the Northerly Line of Lloyd Hills South fifty eight degrees East five Miles ten rods to the west line of Brettonwoods, thence on the West Line of said Bretton woods North Two Miles One hundred sixty six Rods to the Northwest Corner of said Bretton Woods thence on the North Line of Bretton woods East three Miles and an half to the westerly Line of Dartmouth then on said westerly Line of Dartmouth North five Miles two hund sixty Rods to the easterly Line of Lancaster then on said Easterly Line of Lancaster South sixty nine degrees West five Miles fifty Rods or to the bounds first mentioned To HAVE & TO HOLD the *said tract of Land as above expressed together with all *4-203 privileges & appurtenances to them and to their respective Heirs & Assigns forever by the name of WHITEFEILDS upon the following conditions viz1 FIRST that the Grantees at their own Cost shall cut clear bridge and make passable for Carriages of all kinds a Road of four rods wide through the said Tract hereby granted as shall be at any time hereafter directed by Our said Governor and Council which Road shall be completed in one year from the date of such direction in failure of which the Premises and every part thereof shall be forfeited and revert to Us Our Heirs and Successors to be by Us or them reentered upon & regranted to any of Our Loving Subjects SECONDLY That all white pine and other pine Trees within the said Township 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 & obtained upon the penalty of the forfeiture of the right of the Grantee his Heirs aud Assigns to Us Our Heirs and Successors as well as being subject to the Penalties of any Act or Acts of Parliament that are or hereafter shall be enacted THIRDLY That before any division of the Land be made to & among the Grantees a Tract of Land as near the Center 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 FOURTHLY Yielding and paying therefor to Us Our Heirs & Successors on or before the first day of January 1779 the rent of One Ear of Indian Corn only if lawfully demanded FIFTHLY That every Proprietor Settler or Inhabitants shall yield & pay unto Us Our Heirs and Successors yearly and every Year forever from and after the expiration of ten 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 said Land 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 Öfficers as shall be appointed to receive the same SIXTHLY That any part of the Premises appearing well *4-204 *adapted to the growth of Hemp and Flax or either of them shall be cultivated with those useful Articles of produce in the proportion of Ten Acres in each and every hundred of these granted Premises within ten Years of this date. SEVENTHLY That six Families shall be settled & actually resident in the Town within two Years of this date EIGHTHLY That additional Settlements be made so as to complete Sixty Families in eight Years of this date NINTHLY That this Grant shall not interfere with any of Our Grants formerly made and now in force nor interrupt the Grantees in their improvements making thereon agreable to the conditions. thereof. 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 Governor and Commander in chief aforesaid the fourth day of July in the fourteenth Year of Our reign and in the Year of our Lord Christ 1774 Eliphalet Neal Samuel Cate jun' Jeremiah Clough Esq' Nehemiah Rand James Bradish Benjamin Sweetser These last fifteen Persons all of Charlestown in the Province of the Massachusetts Bay *4-205 Nehemiah Estabrook, of Lexington in said Province Benjamin Rand of Weston in said Province Roger Bartlet & Samuel Bartlet of Boston in sa Province John Cochran Esq' Benning Wentworth Thomas Macdonogh Paul Wentworth Revd Jeremy Belknap John Marshall of Portsmouth Revd Stephen Peabody Ephraim Pickering, One whole Share for a Glebe for the Church of England by Law established, One whole Share for the Society for the propagation of the Gospel in foreign Parts, One whole Share for the benefit of a School in said Town & one whole Share for the first settled Minister |