HAMPSTEAD.

[This was formerly a part of Haverhill and Amesbury, Mass., known as Timberlane. Incorporated as Hampstead Jan. 19, 1749. A portion of Atkinson was annexed June 23, 1859. A small tract was severed and annexed to Danville June 28, 1877.

See IX, Bouton Town Papers, 331; XII, Hammond Town Papers, 82; Index to Laws, 226; sketch, Hurd's History of Rockingham County, 1882, p. 313; Historical Sketch, by John Kelly, 5, Collections of N. H. Historical Society, 179; Baptist Churches in N. H., by E. E. Cummings, 1836, p. 7; Lawrence's N. H. Churches, 1856, p. 61; Address, at centennial celebration, 1849, by Isaac W Smith, 1849.]

*Province of) New Hamp

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[HAMPSTEAD CHARTER, 1749.]

GEORGE the Second by the Grace of
God of Great Brittain France & Ireland *1-52
King Defender of the faith &ca-

To all to whom the Presents Shall come Greeting— Whereas our Loyal Subjects Inhabitants of A Tract of Land within our Province of New HampHampstead shire Afore Said Lying partly within that Part of our Province of New Hampshire called Haverhill District Have Humbly Petitioned & requested to us That they may be Errected & Incorporated into A Township & Infranchized with the Same Powers & Previledges which other Towns within our Sd 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 and Encouraging the Culture of the Land that the Same Should be Don KNOW YE therefore That We of our Especial Grace Certain Knowledg and for the Encouragment & Promoteing the good Purposes & Ends Afore Said By & with the Advice of our Trusty & well beloved Benning Wentworth Esq our Governour & Comander in Chieff and of our Council for Said Province of New Hampshire Have Erected and ordained and by these Presents for us our heirs & Successors Do will & Ordain that the Inhabitants of A Tract of Land aforesaid or that Shall Inhabit & Improve thereon hereafter BUTTED & BOUNDED as follows (Viz) Begining at the South West Corner of Kimballs Land near the Island Pond thence runing by the Easterly Side of

Moses Clement's Land to his South Easterly Bounds & from thence by the Northerly Side of Caleb Heaths & John Dustons Land to the brook that runs from Emersons Mill and from thence by the Northerly Side of Cap' George Little & Thomas Littles Land to the Easterly Corner bounds of the Said Thomas Littles Land which is in Cloughs Meadow & from thence runing to the North Westerly Corner of Thomas Hailes's Land And by the North Side of Said Hailes's Land to the North East Corner thereof and from thence to the South East Corner of Woodbridges Farm So called in Almsbury District And then North Easterly by Sd Woodbridges Land to Peter Morse's Corner Continueing the Same Course to

Shapleighs Line thence Westerly by Shapleighs Line *1-53 *Till it Intersects A North West Line from Holts Rocks

in Angle Pond & from thence North West by Haverhill Line to Joseph Stevens's North East Corner thence North about Thirty rodds to the North East Corner of the Farm of Samuel Graves Deceased Purchassed of Kingstown from thence West Seventeen degrees North One Mile & Twenty Seven rodds to A Stake & Stones Standing on the Divideing line between Kingstown & London Derry from thence South five Degrees & 15m about one hundred & Šix rods to a great White Oak Tree Marked with Stones about it-which Stands on the Divideing line between Kingstown & Derry thence runing South on Said Divideing line One hundred & five rodds to the Said West Corner of Jona Hoggs land & from thence South to the Westerly Side of the Island in the Island Pond thence Includeing the Island to the bounds first mentioned AND BY THESE PRESENTS Are Declared & ordained to be A Town Corporate & Are hereby Erected & Incorporated into A Body Pollitick & a Corporation to have Continueance forever by the name of Hampstead with all the Powers & Authorities Previledges Immunities & Infranchizes to them the Sa Inhabitants and thier Successors for ever Always reserveing to Us our heirs & Successors all White Pine Trees 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 hiers & Successors when it Shall Appear Necessary & Convenient for the Bennifit of the Inhabitants thereof It is to be understood and 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 and by the

Majority of Votes to Choose All Such Officers as Are Mentiond in the Said Laws We do by these Presents Nominate & Appoint Daniel Little Esq to Call the first Meeting of the Said Inhabitants to be held within the Said Town at Any time within twenty four 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 forever on the Last Wednesday in March Annually In TESTIMONY whereof We have Caused the Seal of our Sa Province to be hereunto Affixed Wittness Benning Wentworth Esq Our Governour & Com'ander in Chieff of our Sd Province the 19th Day of Jan" in the year of our Lord Christ One thousand Seven hundred & forty Nine And in the Twenty third Year of our reignB Wentworth

By his Excellencys Com'and with Advice of Council

Theodore Atkinson Se

Entred & recorded According to the Original this 20th Day of Jan" 1749

Theodore Atkinson Se"

Entred & Recorded According to the original on the Back of the Charter for Hampstead Jany 20 1749

Theodore Atkinson Sery

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HAMPTON FALLS.

[Set off from Hampton and incorporated November 23, 1726. Kensington was set off and incorporated April 1, 1737, and Seabrook, June 3, 1768. A portion of South Hampton was annexed December 4, 1742. A small tract was severed and annexed to Seabrook December 7, 1816.

See papers under title Hampton; IX, Bouton Town Papers, 331; XII, Hammond Town Papers, 130; Index to Laws, 227; History of the Baptist Churches of Seabrook and Hampton Falls, discourse, by H. H. Beaman, 1875; Lawrence's N. H. Churches, 1856, pp. 75, 134; sketch, Hurd's History of Rockingham County, 1882, p. 333; The Gov. Weare Estate, by F. M. Colby, 4, Granite Monthly, 409; Tax-Payers in 1709, by B. F. Brown, 28, N. E. Hist. Gen. Register, 373; Hampton Falls and the Rev. Paine Wingate, 27, id., 61.]

HANOVER.

[Granted July 4, 1761, to Edmund Freeman and others. Dartmouth College was chartered December 13, 1769. An additional grant was made January 9, 1775. Three hundred acres in the southwest corner were granted to Dartmouth College, December 19, 1771, and two hundred acres adjoining to Rev. Dr. Eleazer Wheelock. That part of the town in which the college was situated, had at one time, a separate municipal organization and was designated as Dresden.

See IX, Bouton Town Papers, 379; X, Bouton Province and State Papers, 277, 398, 400, as to participation in movement for union with Vermont towns; XII, Hammond Town Papers, 159; Index to Laws, 228; Eleazer Wheelock's Narratives, 1763-1765; sketch, Child's Gazetteer of Grafton County, 1886, p. 295; History of Dartmouth College and the Town of Hanover, by Frederick Chase, ed. by John K. Lord, vol. 1, 1891, pp. 682, vol. 2 in preparation; Bibliography of Dartmouth College, by Frederick Chase, 5, Granite Monthly, 321; Dartmouth Centennial, 1869, pp. 101; History of Dartmouth College, by Baxter P. Smith, 1878, pp. 474; First Half Century of Dartmouth College, by Nathan Crosby, 1876; Dartmouth College and the State of New Connecticut, by John C. Rice, Connecticut Valley Historical Society Collections; same, 8, Magazine of American History, p. 1; Daniel Webster's Works, vol. 5, from p. 460, and vol. 6, from p. 349; The Dartmouth College Causes and the Supreme Court of the United States, by John M. Shirley, 1879, pp. 469; College Journalism at Dartmouth, by G. W. Wright, 3, Granite Monthly, 67; The Dartmouth Cavalry, by J. Scales, 4, id. 463; Dartmouth College, by S. C. Bartlett, 4, id., 149; Dr. Wheelock and Dartmouth College, by S. C. Bartlett, 11, id., 277; Petition Against Location of Dartmouth College at Hanover, 1770, 3, Collections of N. H. Historical Society, 286; Sketches of Alumni of Dartmouth College, N. H. Repository, vol. 1, p. 108, to vol. 2, p. 64; Sketches of Graduates of Dartmouth College, 1771-'80, by John Farmer, Collections of N. H. Historical Society, vol. 2, p. 102, to vol. 4, p. 281; Tour to, 1795, by P. Coffin, 4. Collections of Maine Historical Society, 293; Stewart's History of the Free Baptists, 1862, p. 375; Baptist Churches in N. H., by E. E. Cummings, 1836, p. 11;