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... charter in addition to the grant received by his grandfather . The inhabitants whom he found settled and established in New Hampshire claimed the land by purchase or inheritance from those who had occupied nearly fifty years without ...
... charter in addition to the grant received by his grandfather . The inhabitants whom he found settled and established in New Hampshire claimed the land by purchase or inheritance from those who had occupied nearly fifty years without ...
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... charters , and the older towns which had been permanently established without charters . Towns in which the conditions of settlement had not been fully complied with were considered subject to regrant , but in the charters afterwards ...
... charters , and the older towns which had been permanently established without charters . Towns in which the conditions of settlement had not been fully complied with were considered subject to regrant , but in the charters afterwards ...
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... charter was adopted which contained specific requirements for settlement , by which title to the land should be acquired , and townships were granted on petition of a sufficient number of intending settlers . The old towns could no ...
... charter was adopted which contained specific requirements for settlement , by which title to the land should be acquired , and townships were granted on petition of a sufficient number of intending settlers . The old towns could no ...
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... Charters were not sold , but each mem- ber of the syndicate was given an equal grantee's share in every township granted , with the provision that their lands should not be subject to taxation or assessment until improved by the owners ...
... Charters were not sold , but each mem- ber of the syndicate was given an equal grantee's share in every township granted , with the provision that their lands should not be subject to taxation or assessment until improved by the owners ...
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... charters from the government of New Hampshire , but they were not disposed to recognize the Massachusetts grants in general . A few of them , however , being well estab- lished , they confirmed and quitclaimed , and in others less ...
... charters from the government of New Hampshire , but they were not disposed to recognize the Massachusetts grants in general . A few of them , however , being well estab- lished , they confirmed and quitclaimed , and in others less ...
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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...