Nineteenth day of Sept 1766, in the sixth year of our Reign, did grant a Tract of Land of Six Miles Square, bounded as therein expressed to a Number of our Loyal Subjects, whose Names are enter'd on the same, to hold to them their Heirs and Assigns on the Conditions therein declared to be a Town Corporate by the Name of AcWORTH as by referrence to the said Charter may more fully appear And whereas the said Grantees have preferred a Petition to our Governor of our said Province in Council specifying sundry difficulties which prevented their full compliance with the Terms of the Grant aforesaid; and it having been made to appear to our said Governor & Council (by an actual Inspection made and Returned, of the Settlements in said Acworth) that the said Township is in considerable forwardness towards a complete fulfillment of the Terms aforesaid; the said Grantees therefore Pray'd some further Time to accomplish the same: all which being duly Considered.

KNOW YE, that we being willing to encourage and promote the Cultivation & Settlement of the said Township, Have of our further Grace and favour suspended our claim of the forfeiture which the said Grantees may have Incurred, & by these Presents for us our heirs and Successors (by and with the advice of our Trusty and well-beloved JOHN WENTWORTH Esq' our Governor & Commander in chief of our said Province, & of our Council of the same) do grant *unto the said Grantees, their *1-436 Heirs and Assigns the further Term of Two Years from the date of this Grant for performing and fulfilling the Conditions Matters and things by them to be done as aforesaid; EXCEPT the Quit Rents which are to remain due and payable as expressed and reserved in the Original Grant or Charter of said Acworth.

IN TESTIMONY whereof We have caused the Seal of our said Province to be hereunto affixed Witness our Governor & Commander in Chief aforesaid, the Thirtieth day of May-in the Twelfth year of our Reign Annoque Domini 1772.

By his Excellency's Command

With advice of Council—

Theodore Atkinson Secry

J' Wentworth.

Recorded according to the Original Grant under the Province Seal the 30th day of May 1772.

Attest

[GRANT TO SAMUEL FITCH, 1772.]

4-108 *Province of New Hampshire.

Sam' Fitch
Esq his
Grant.

L. S.

GEORGE the Third by the Grace of God of Great Britian France & Ireland KING Defender of the Faith, &c.

TO ALL to whom these Presents shall Come GREETING.

KNOW YE, that we of our special Grace, certain Knowledge and mere Motion for the due encouragement of settling and cultivating our Lands within our Province of New Hampshire aforesaid by & with the Advice of our Trusty and well beloved JOHN WENTWORTH EsqTM Our Governor & Commander in Chief of our said Province, and of our Council of the same HAVE (upon the Conditions & Reservations herein particularly recited & express'd) given and granted & by these Presents for us our Heirs & Successors do give and grant unto our leige & loving Subject SAM' FITCH Esq' our Advocate General for our Province of Massachusetts Bay, and to his Heirs & Assigns for Ever a certain Tract or Parcel of Land containing by Admeasurement FIVE HUNDRED Acres, Situate, lying and being within the Township of ACWORTH in our said Province of New Hampshire, as by a plan or Survey thereof, (exhibited by our Surveyor General of Lands for our said Province, by our said Governor's Order & returned into the Secretary's Office of our said Province, a Copy whereof is hereunto Annexed) may more fully and at large appear, butted & bounded as follows, Vizt Beginning at a hemlock Tree standing in the Easterly Line of Charlestown, from thence running East Two hundred & Eighty one Rods to a Beech Tree, thence South Two hundred & Ninety four Rods to a Stake & Stones, thence West Two hundd & Sixty Seven Rods to a Spruce Tree standing on the Easterly Line of Charlestown, from thence North Two Degrees west on said Line Two hundred & Ninety five Rods to the Bound first mentioned. TO HAVE AND TO HOLD the said Tract of Land as above expressed to him the said Samuel Fitch & to his Heirs & Assigns for Ever, upon the following Terms, Conditions & Reservations Vizt

FIRST That the said Grantee shall cut clear & make Passable for Carriages, &c. a Road of three Rods wide thro' the said *4-109 Tract, as shall be at any Time hereafter directed or Order'd by the Governor & Council aforesaid, which Road shall be completed in One Year from the date of such Order or

Direction, on Penalty of the forfeiture of this Grant and of its reverting to us our Heirs & Successors.

SECOND That the said Grantee shall settle or cause to be Settled Two Familes in Four Years from the date of this Grant; in failure whereof the Premises to revert to us our Heirs & Successors to be by us or them enter'd upon & regranted to any of our loving Subjects who shall effectually Settle & Cultivate the same.

THIRD That all white and other Pine Trees fit for Masting our Royal Navy be carefully preserved for that use, & none to be cut or fell'd without our special License for so doing first had & obtained, on Penalty of the forfeiture of the Right of the Grantee in the Premises, his Heirs and Assigns to us our Heirs and Successors as well as being Subject to the Penalties prescribed by any present as well as future Act or Acts of Parliament.

FOURTH That any part of the said Tract appearing to be well adapted to the growth of Hemp or Flax, the said Grantee shall sow & continue annually to cultivate a due proportion of the said Land not less than Five Acres, in every hundred Acres with that beneficial Article of Produce.

FIFTH That the said Grantee his Heirs & Assigns shall Yield & Pay unto us our Heirs and Successors Yearly and every Year for Ever from & After the expiration of One Year from the Twenty fifth day of December 1775, ONE SHILLING Proclamation Money for every hundd Acres he so own Settles or Possesses and so in proportion for a greater or lesser Tract of the Land aforesaid; which money shall be paid by the respective Proprietor Owner or Settler in our Council Cham' in Portsmouth or to such Officer or Officers as shall be appointed to receive the same And these to be in lieu of all other Rents and Services whatsoever.

IN TESTIMONY whereof we have Caused the Seal of our said Province to be hereunto Affixed Witness JOHN WENTWORTH Esq our aforesaid Governor & Comm' in Chief the Twentieth day of August in the Twelfth Year of our Reign Annoq: Domini 1772. J' Wentworth.

Province of New Hampshire. Portsmo 10th August 1772. These Certify that this Plan Beginning at a hemlock Tree standing on the Westerly line of Charlestown, from thence running E. 281 Rods to a beech Tree, thence South 294 Rods to a Stake and Stones, thence W. 267 Rods to a Spruce Tree standing on the East Line of Charlestown, from thence North 2° W. on said Line 295 Rods to the bound first mentioned, Contains 500 Acres of Land & is a True Copy of an Original Plan or Survey of said Tract as taken & returned to me M Elijah King D Survey'

Attest Is Rindge Surv' Gen1

ALBANY.

[Granted as Burton, Nov. 6, 1766, to Clement March and others. The line between Burton and Tamworth was established Dec. 30, 1796. Burton was taken from Grafton County and annexed to Carroll, Nov. 27, 1800. The name of the town was changed to Albany, July 2, 1833. probably for Albany, N. Y.

See Masonian Papers in following volumes; XI, Hammond Town Papers, 7; Index to Laws, 15, 76; sketch, Fergusson's History of Carroll County, 1889, p. 782; Land of the Lingering Snow, by Frank Bolles, 1891, Chocorua chapter; At the North of Bear Camp Water, by Frank Bolles, 1893; Willey's History of the White Mountains, 1870, p. 269; Was Chocorua the Original Pigwacket Hill? by C. E. Fay, 4, Appalachia, 322; The Mountains between Saco and Swift Rivers, by J. R. Edmands, 3, id., 57; The Moat Path, by J. Worcester, 1, id., 267; Mt. Passaconaway, by C. E. Fay, 6, id., 302; The Waterville Valley, by A. L. Goodrich, 6, id., 318; Lawrence's N. H. Churches, 1856, p. 600; The White Mountains, A Guide to Their Interpretation, by J. H. Ward, 1890, p. 131; In the Heart of the White Mountains, by S. A. Drake, 1882, p. 18.]

Burton

P. S.

[BURTON CHARTER, 1766.]

*PROVINCE OF NEW-HAMPSHIRE.

*3-158

GEORGE, THE THIRD, by the Grace of God, of Great-Britain, France and Ireland, KING, Defender of the Faith &c.

To all Persons to whom these Presents shall come, Greeting.

KNOW Ye, that We, of Our special Grace, certain Knowledge, and meer Motion, for the due Encouragement of settling a New Plantation within our said Province, by and with the Advice of our Trusty and Well-beloved BENNING WENTWORTH, Esq; Our Governor and Commander in Chief of Our said Province of New-Hampshire, in New-England, and of Our COUNCIL of the said Province; HAVE, Upon the Conditions and Reservations herein after made, given and granted, and by these presents, for Us, Our Heirs, and Successors, do give and grant in equal Shares, unto Our loving Subjects, Inhabitants of Our said Province of New-Hampshire, and Our other Governments, and to their Heirs and Assigns for ever, whose Names are entred on this Grant, to be divided to and amongst them into Sixty Six equal Shares, all that Tract or Parcel of Land situate, lying and being