UNLOCATED GRANTS OF NEW HAMPSHIRE TERRITORY BY THE GOVERNMENT OF MASSACHUSETTS, OR GRANTS WHICH CANNOT BE LOCATED WITHIN THE LIMITS OF ANY PARTICULAR TOWN. UNLOCATED GRANTS. [GRANT TO VALENTINE HILL.] [Mass. Archives, Vol. 112, p. 49.] To y Honred Gov' Deputy Gov' wth ye generall Courte now Assembled The humble petetion of Valentine Hill sheweth, y' whereas yo' petetioner hath bought a parsill of land granted to Major generall gibons (in y time of his Captanshippe) by y generall Courte as by his sayle y'of will appeare, wt land I have made Choyse of as ffoll: By ye upper & lower falls of lampreele River containeinge three hundred acres off land in y pine swampe above ye upper ffall of y sayd River uppon ye south side from ye begininge off y eastermost end of the swampe alonge y River side in breadth one hundred & sixty rodd, & three hundred rodd in length by y sayd River side wt makes three hundred Acres: Now my request is to this Honrd Courte yt accordinge to my Choyse yr sd [torn] will be pleased to favour me soe ffar as by ye power to confirme ye same to me & mine for ever, for wt I shall bee ingaged & shall be ready to my power to serve you resting Yo' humble petetioner to comm. 17.8.49: Val: Hill The Magistrates grant this petition wth reference to the consent of of brethren the Deputies provided it be not wthin any former grant. And that the Deputies will appoint some sufficient & indifferent men for the Laying of it out according to the petitio" Jo: Endecott Gov The deputs Consent heereto: so as the land menc'oned be not Controv❜sall wth Respect to dover: & desier yt Hate Evill Nutter John Damme be Appointed to lay it out acordingly wth Referenc to the Consent of our honoured magis hereto. Edward Rawson cler [GRANT TO WILLIAM HUBBARD.] [Mass. Court Records, Oct. 14, 1656.] In Ans to the peticion of m' william Hubbard of Ipswich sen'. The Court Judgeth it meete to Graunt him a thowsand acres of land in any place or places that he Cann finde lying out of any former Graunts or Touneships beyond Exitur River toward the East or North East to be laid out to him by mr wm Bartholmew m Thomas Bradbury & m' Samuell Hall or any two of them this being in Sattisfaction of fivety pounds disbursed by him in England and also the land Graunted to him by this Court in the yeare 1652, wch he hath Resigned up to the Courts hands Againe / [Mass. Court Records, May 6, 1657.] wee whose names are heere under written being Appointed by the Generall Court held at Boston the 15th of October 1656, to lay out to m' w Hubbard of Ipswich, senior one thousand acres of land in any place or places beyond exiter River East or North East, have Accordingly laid out the said land as ffolloweth viz upon the North side of Quochecha: River about eight or nine miles from the mills as wee Judg the noumber of eight hundred & ninety acres in a Pine swampe, begining at the westermost end of the said swampe at a great Red oake, marked on fower sides & from thence eighty Rods East & by South to a great white pine tree upon the westermost end of a great old Indian feild and from thence along the same line through the said feild three hundred and twenty Rod to a great Pine tree marked on fower Sides and from thence upon a North East line, two hundred and forty Rods to a great Pine tree upon the top of a hill marked on fower sides and from thence west and by North three hundred and twenty Rod to a Red oake marked on fower sides and from thence three hundred and twenty Rod to the first marked Red oake and upon the Eastmost end of the Aforesaid divicion two hundred Rod square upon each Corner bounded wth a great Pine tree marked on fower sides And the Remainder of the thousand acres laid out in two smale parcells of land on both sides the River that on the north side Conteyning about seventy Acres bounded with the River & a great Hemlocke tree markt upon fower sides with a T & a W & |