little Bay Contayning as neere as men of best experience can informe about 4 miles square being all within the Pattent. And whereas from the easterly part of the great Bay, being a part of the river, we should have measured 3 miles into the land we find in that place by credible information the land so narrow to the seaward that we can allow no more according to the intent of the Pattent as we understand it that one mile and a halfe to be run from each poynt of the bottom of the Bay upon an easterly line into ye land. To the matter of service appoynted unto us by the Generall Courte concerning divissions of the Pattent, we finding the present owners to be of three sorts or ranks we have therefore agreed to make three severall divissions. The first division being 8 shares & one quarter belonging to Mr. Nathaniel Gardner, Mr. Tho. Lake and partners, we assign and lay out to them all the land from Bloody Point unto the boyling Rock for breadth or thereabouts & for length extendinge to the lower lyne of the middle devission which is about 40 pole from Sandy Poynt & so the lyne running southeast 3 miles in the land as also the land lying upon the bottom of the great Bay, being or extendinge one mile & halfe from every part of the bottom of the bay upon an east 'ly lyne into the woods in which division of the land & marsh graunted unto Dover by the generall Court shall be & remayne to them forever viz., the land from Kinges Creeke to a certain Cove neere the mouth of the great Bay called Hogstye Cove with all the marsh from that place round about the bay up to Cotterills Delight with 400 acres of upland as it graunted by the Court bounded layd out and possessed by the inhabitants of Dover with 50 acres of upland more about or neere the great Bay with 50 acres to be layd out and disposed of by Capt. Richard Walden to some of the inhabitants of Dover, whom he sees fitt. The second division being 8 shares and one quarter belonging to Capt. Thomas Wiggin and partners, who have purchased and obtained the same, we assigne & lay out 3 miles square beginning at a plump of trees standing on a peece of old planting land about 40 poles below Sandy Poynt, & up the river upon a streight line toward Exeter, the River being the bounds of it on the North side & at each end to run a lyne upon the southeast poynt of the Compass 3 miles into the land there to bound it on that side, Provided that Capt. Tho Wiggin pay unto the other two thirds the sum of £66 13s 4d according to their shares and proportions in boards within 6 months if demanded which he is to pay at either of his saw-mills in Pascataquack river. To the third division being 8 shares & one quarter belonging to the Shrewsbury men, to which we assign & lay out all that land from the uppermost lyne of the middle division to the mouth of the Creeke called Mr. Wheelwrights creeke, the same to run 3 miles towards Hampton upon a southeast lyne all the land between this lyne & Exeter falls to the full extent of the Lyne to ly[e] to Exeter, being graunted to them by deed of gift by Capt. Wiggan sole Agent for the Company. The Court allows and approves of the returne of this Committee as is here exprest. Samuel Winslow, INDENTURE OF DAVID THOMSON AND OTHERS. REPRINTED FROM PROCEEDINGS OF THE MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL SOCIETY. Vol. 14, p. 358. |