that Breadth of Nine Miles from Each of the aforesd Towns Southwest untill the ful Complyment of Eighty one Square Miles Are fully made up & that the Same be A Town Corporate by the Name of Bow to the Persons afores and their Associates forever-To HAVE & TO HOLD the sd Land to the Sa Grantees and to Such Associates as they shall admitt for ever-upon the Conditions. following 1) That the Proprietors build or Cause to be built Seventy five Dwelling houses on Sa Land & Settle a family in Each House & Clear Three Acres of Land fitt for Mowing or Plowing within Three years And that Each Proprietor pay his Proportion of the Town Charge When & So often as Occasion Shall Require the Same 2) That A meeting House bee built for the Publick Worship of GOD within the Term of four years— 3 That upon Default of any Perticular Proprietor in Complying with the Conditions of the Charter upon his part Such Dilinquent *1-8 Proprietor Shall forfeit his Shear to the other Proprietors which Shall be Disposed of According to the Maj Vote of the Sa Proprietors at a Legal Town meeting 4) That a Proprietors Shear be reserved for a Parsonage another for the first minister of the Gospell: which Shall be Settled and ordained in Sd Town Another Such Share for the benefit of the School in Sa Town PROVIDED nevertheless that the Peace with the Indians-Continue Duering the Space of Three Years but if it Should So happen that A War with the Indians Shall Com'ence before the Expiration of the Sa Three years then the Term of three years Shall be Allowed the Proprietors after the Expiration of the War for the Performance of the afores Conditions-rendring & Paying therefor to us our heirs & Successors or Such officer or officers as Shall be Appointed to recieve the Same The Annual Quit Rent or Acknowledgment of One Ear of Indian Corn in the Sa Town on the first fryday In December Yearly for Ever (if Demanded) reserveing alsoe unto us our heirs & Successors all mast Trees Growing on ye Sd Land According to Acts of Parliament in that case made & Provided & for the better order rule & Governm1 of the Sd Town We do by these Presents for our Selves our heirs & Successors Grant unto the Sd men & Inhabitants or Those that Shall Inhabit the Sa Town That yearly & Every year upon the first Thursday in April forever Shall meet to Ellect & Choose by the maj' part of the Proprietors then Present Constables Select men and other Town Officers According to the Laws & 1-9 ussages of Our Sa Province & we do Appoint Andrew Wiggin Esq George Veazey & Wm Moor to be Select men of Our Sa Town untill the first Thursday in April which will be in the year of Our Lord 1728 with full power & Authority as other Town Select men have to Call a Town meeting or meetings as there may be Occasion And to Continue untill other Select Men Shall be Chosen in their Steed in Such Manner as is in *These Presents Expressed IN IN TESTIMONY whereof we have Caused the Seal of our Sa Province to be hereunto affixed WITTNESS John Wentworth Esq our Leiut Governour & Com'ander in Cheiff in & over our Sa Province at our Town of Portsmo in our Sa Province to the 20th Day of may in the 13th year of Our Reigne Anno Domini 1727 J Wentworth By the L' Gov' Command with advice of the Council Rich Waldron Cler Co'n A Schedule of the Proprietors of the Town of Bow Thomas Weggins George Veysey William ffrench Richa Colley David Robinson Jude Allen George Veasey Jun' Caleb Rowlings Sam" Piper Mathew Thompson Joseph Jewet Abraham Stockbridge His Excelency & Hon'-Sam" Shute Esq John Wentworth Esq Each of them 500 Acres of Land And a home Lot Coll Mark Hunking Coll Walton Richd Wibird John ffrost Each A Proprietors Peter Wear John Gillman Capt John Gillman Zah Hanahford Joseph Low George Jaffrey Coll Tho Westbrook Archibald Mcpheadris John Plaisted Andrew Wiggin Sam" Tibbets John Sanburn James Davis Capt John Downing Paul Gerrish Peirce Long Richard Waldron Cler Con Richa Jennes James Jeffry Jos Loverin Jos Wiggin Bow Schedule Certifyed James Robinson George Clark Daniel Moody Johna Rowlings Holdrge Cilley Wm Moor Jun' Abigail Powel Kathorin Wiggans Benja Taylor Noah Barker Tho Wiggin Jun' Daniel Davis Mary Smith Mary Jones The Sixteen Nich Wiggins sons above named Are A Part of the Schedule Added order of the L' Gov' & Council R Waldron Cler Con Prove of New Hamp' November 25th 1742 Theodore Atkinson Sce" BRENTWOOD. [Set off from Exeter as the parish of Brintwood, June 26, 1742. Incorporation was asked for May 26, 1744, and Oct. 1, it was voted to advise the Governor to grant it. Poplin [Fremont] was set off and incorporated as a parish, June 22, 1764. See IX, Bouton Town Papers, 76; XI, Hammond Town Papers, 223; Index to Laws, 66; Bell's History of Exeter, passim; sketch, Hurd's History of Rockingham County, 1882, p. 129; Baptist Churches in N. H., by E. E. Cummings, 1836, p. 7; Lawrence's N. H. Churches, 1856, p. 20; Annals of the Congregational Church and Parish, by Benjamin A. Dean, 1889, pp. 43.] Prov [KEENEBOROUGH CHARTER, 1744.] *Province of New Hampshire *1-19 GEORGE the Second by the Grace of God of Great Brittain ffrance & Ireland King Defender of the faith &ca To all to whom these Presents Shall come GreetKeeneborough ing FORASMUCH as it hath been Represented to us by Capt Andrew Gillman & others Inhabitants of the Parish of Brintwood that great disorders have Arisen in Sa Parish respecting their Parish affairs in General and that All Proposals heitherto Attempted have Proved Ineffectual to restore peace & good order amoungst them Wherefore the Sd Capt Andrew Gillman in behalf of him Self & others. humbly Prays that a New Parish may be Errected in Sa Parish of Brintwood And to the End that Peace & good order may be Established KNOW YE Therefore that we of our Especial Grace Certain knowledge & mere motion by & with the Advice of our Trusty & well beloved BENNING WENTWORTH Esq our Captain General Govern' & Com'ander in Chieff of our Province of New Hampshire in New England & of our Council of Sa Province Have Incorporated Ordained Declared And Appointed And by these Presents for us our heirs & Successors do Incorporate ordain Declare & Appoint out of the Parish of Brintwood All that Tract or Parcell of Land Lying & being in the Parish of Brintwood in our Province of New Hampshire afores Containing by Admeasurement Twelve thousand five hundred & Ninty five Acres *1-20 And One Quarter of An Acre According to A Plan & Survey made by order of our S Governour by George Mitchell Esq & Cap' Dudley Odlin hereunto Annexed Abutting & bounding as by the Sa Plan or Survey may Appear And we Do hereby ordain & Appoint that the Sd respective Inhabitants that now Are or that Shall hereafter be In Possession of the Lands within the Plan or Survey afores Shall be one Society Corporation & Body Pollitick to have Continueance for Ever by the name of Keeneborough & that they & there Successors Shall by that Name be Able & Capable in Law to Call Parish Meetings, The first of which is to be Called within Thirty days from the Date hereof by Capt Andrew Gillman & Humphry Willson & Benja Gillman & the Meetings hereafter Shall be on the first monday of April Annually And we do hereby give & Grant unto the S Society or Corporation full Power And Authority to make Choice of Proper Officers to Levy Taxes on the Inhabitants for the Support of the Society Agreable to the Laws of Our Province of New Hampshire made for Regulateing Town & Parish affairs And we Do further give & Grant to the Sa Society full Power to Call & Settle A regular And Orthodox Minister of the Gospell & to Levy Taxes on the Inhabitants Conformable to the Laws afores of our Province Afores" for his Support Reserveing only the recomending the first Minister to the President & Senior fellows of Harvard Colledge in New England or the Reverend Jabez ffitch & the Reverend John Odlin And we Do alsoe reserve to his Most Sacred Majesty his heirs & Successors All White Pine Trees growing Standing or being within the Plan or Survey above mentioned the Preservation whereof for *1-21 his Majestys Royal Navy is the Tennure by which you hold & Enjoy your Incorporation And Lastly we do Declare & ordain That these Our Letters Pattent and Every clause Sentence And Article herein Contained Shall be in all things firm Valid & Effectual in the Law unto the S Society & their Successors According to the Purport & Tennour thereof Provided Always that these our Letters Patent be recorded within one month from the Date hereof in Our Recorders office Appointed for that Purpose in our Sa Province of New Hampshire In Wittness whereof We have Caused these our Letters to be made Patent Wittness our Så Governour & Comander in Chieff of our Sa Province at Portsmouth the 27th Day of October in the Eighteenth Year of Our Reigne Annoq Domini 1744 By his Excelency's Comand with Advice of Council Theod Atkinson Se" B Wentworth |