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... Assembly , elected representatives of the people , and including in their number many whose lands were subject to the claim , refused to agree to any measures tending to invalidate their titles . They recognized Allen's title to the ...
... Assembly , elected representatives of the people , and including in their number many whose lands were subject to the claim , refused to agree to any measures tending to invalidate their titles . They recognized Allen's title to the ...
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... Assembly a convention of representatives , specially elected , was held May 3 , 1705 , to devise methods for a settlement of the dis- pute . The convention recognized Allen's title to all lands outside of the towns of Portsmouth ...
... Assembly a convention of representatives , specially elected , was held May 3 , 1705 , to devise methods for a settlement of the dis- pute . The convention recognized Allen's title to all lands outside of the towns of Portsmouth ...
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... Assembly , and the Proprietors were accused of depriving the people of the Province of the advantage of a most excellent bargain . They replied that the opportunity had been before the Assembly for two years without result ; that they ...
... Assembly , and the Proprietors were accused of depriving the people of the Province of the advantage of a most excellent bargain . They replied that the opportunity had been before the Assembly for two years without result ; that they ...
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... Assembly , who for nine years , or since the execution of the tripartite agreement of 1739 , had failed to take advantage of the opportunity offered them by Mason and the Proprietors , but instead had ignored and angered Mason , and ...
... Assembly , who for nine years , or since the execution of the tripartite agreement of 1739 , had failed to take advantage of the opportunity offered them by Mason and the Proprietors , but instead had ignored and angered Mason , and ...
Page 17
... plan was instituted in the Assembly to protect the northern frontiers from possible incur- sions of the Indians by laying out a line of towns from Dunstable to Northfield , but disagreements over minor details prevented 17.
... plan was instituted in the Assembly to protect the northern frontiers from possible incur- sions of the Indians by laying out a line of towns from Dunstable to Northfield , but disagreements over minor details prevented 17.
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acres agent Allen contest Allen ghost AMERICAN ANTIQUARIAN SOCIETY Andrew Wiggin Barnstead Benning Wentworth charters conditions of settlement Council of Plymouth Crown Daniel Peirce Dover England established Exeter George Jaffrey Goffstown Gorges and Capt granted and settled granted to Mason Hamp Hampshire and Massachusetts Hampshire to Capt Hampton inhabitants John Mason Nov John Moffatt John Rindge John Tufton Mason John Wentworth Joshua Jotham Odiorne King Kingston Laconia Lempster Lieutenant-Governor Mark Hunking Wentworth married a sister Mason grant Mason Title Mason's deed Masonian grant Masonian Proprietors Masonian title Massachusetts Bay Massachusetts BY OTIS Mats Merrimack River Nathaniel Meserve Naumkeag Nearly fifty OTIS GRANT HAMMOND petition Piscataqua point sixty miles Portsmouth possession quitclaimed recognized Allen's title regrant Robert Mason Robert Tufton Royal Samuel Allen settlers shire sister of Mark syndicate Theodore Atkinson Thomas Allen Thomas Packer Thomas Wallingford Thomas Wannerton Thomlinson tract of land tripartite agreement westerly bound
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Page 3 - Name of the Council Established at Plymouth in the County of Devon, for the Planting, Ruling, Ordering and Governing of New England in America...
Page 11 - William Dudley, Samuel Welles, Thomas Berry, Benjamin Lynde, Jr., Benjamin Prescott, John Read, Thomas Gushing, and Thomas Hutchinson, agents for...
Page 9 - ... settled and established in New Hampshire claimed the land by purchase or inheritance from those who had occupied nearly fifty years without challenge of their title, and although the courts, being of Royal appointment, upheld the Masonian title, the settlers generally refused to pay rents to Mason. ing two sons, John and Robert. Not caring to take up residence in New Hampshire and assume the burden of their father's unprofitable attempts to evict angry settlers and recover the estate by the tedious...
Page 15 - Jotham Odiorne, Jr. was a cousin of the wife of Mark Hunking Wentworth. George Jaffrey was son of a sister of Mark Hunking and John Wentworth. Richard Wibird's sister married a brother of the two Wentworths. Thomas Packer married a sister of the two Wentworths. His second wife was the mother of John Rindge and a daughter of Jotham Odiorne, Sr.
Page 14 - Jr., all of Portsmouth, Thomas Wallingford of Somersworth, and Thomas Packer of Greenland.
Page 4 - Capt. John Mason, John Cotton, Henry Gardner, George Griffith, Edwin Guy, Thomas Wannerton, Thomas "Eyre, and Eleazer Eyre, on the other part.
Page 3 - ... Journal of the Committee of Observation of the Middle District of Frederick County, Maryland, and of Extracts from the Carroll Papers appear in the March number of the Maryland Historical Magazine. There is also an unsigned article on the history of the Second Regiment, Maryland Volunteer Infantry. The Mason Title and Its Relations to New Hampshire and Massachusetts, by Otis Grant Hammond; The Hornbook and Its Use in America, by George A. Plimpton ; Historical Notes Relating to the Second Settlement...
Page 14 - Massachusetts. 13 14 tripartite agreement, and the parties of the second part wishing to simplify the case by eliminating Mason, the entail was properly docked in the New Hampshire courts in 1746, a syndicate was formed, and on July 30 of that year Mason deeded his province for £1,500 to Theodore Atkinson, Richard Wibird, John Moffatt, Mark Hunking Wentworth, Samuel Moore, Jotham...
Page 8 - Ma** great grace & favour from ye oppression of their neighbours," he offered to the King for the support of Lieutenant-Governor Cranfield in New Hampshire one fifth of all the rents, revenues, and other profits arising "as well in that prt of...
Page 12 - ... that the Lords would certainly look upon it in no other light than as an Artifice, trumpt up to puzzle & perplex the great Cause; And therefore, as it was uncertain how long it would be before we should be able to bring things to an Issue, we judg'd it unnecessary to keep him here at a certain...