but if it Shall happen that A War with the Indians do brake out before the Expiration of the aforesaid Three years that then the said Term of three years Shall be Allowed to the Proprietors after the Expiration of the War for the Performance of the aforesaid Conditions Rendring & Paying therefor to us our heirs & Successors or Such officer or officers as Shall be Appointed to Receive the Same the Annual Quit Rent or Acknowledgment of one Pinte of Indian Corn in the Said Town on the first fryday in March Yearly for ever (if Demanded) Reserving also unto us our heirs & Successors all mast Trees (Growing on Said Land) According to Acts of Parliament in that Case made & Provided And for the better order Rule & Government of the Said Town we do by these Presents for our Selves our heirs & Successors Grant unto the Said men & Inhabitants or those that Shall Inhabit Said Town that yearly & every year upon the third thursday in March for ever Shall meet to Elect & Choose by the major Part of the Proprietors then Present Constables Selectmen & other Town Officers According to the Laws & Usages of our Said Province with all the Power Previledges & Authoritys as Other Towns & Town Officers within our aforesaid Province here & Enjoy and for the Notifying & Calling of the first Town Meeting we do hereby appoint Paul Gerrish Paul Wentworth & John Smith to be Selectmen for the Said Town of Canterbury & they to Continue. in Said office as Selectmen until the third Thursday in the month of March which Shall be in the year of our Lord 1728 & until other Selectmen Shall be Chosen & Appointed in *1-209 their Stead in Such manner as in these Presents is Expressed In Testimony whereof we have Caused the Seal of Our Said Province to be hereunto affixed Witness John Wentworth Esq Our Leiutenant Goveronur & Com'ander in Chieff in & over our Said Province of New Hamp' The Twentieth Day of May in the fourteenth Year of Our Reign Annoq Domini 1727 By order of his Hon the Lieu' Govern' with Advice of the Council Richard Waldron Cler-Con John Wentworth A Schedule of the Proprietors of the Town of Canterbury Richard Waldron Esq Sam" Emerson Nathan Hill Jona Chesley Valentine Hill James Basford John Smith Sam" Hill Icabod Chesley Sam" Doe John Smith jun' Gersham Wentworth Joseph Davis Robert Kent Peter Mason Joseph Jenkins Hugh Conner Hubbard Stevens Robert Thompson John Runnells Robert Huggins Jona Woodman John Pitman John Sias Thomas Willee Joseph Eastis Sam" Addams John Smith 3d John Woodman Jona Thompson. Jona Woodman jun' Benja Jones Sam" Tilly *John Gray John Allen Job Bennets John Jenkins *1-210 Joseph Bickford John Carter James Davis 3d Joseph Tibbetts William Brown Sam" Davis Jona Bowers Edward Evans Joseph Evans Benja Mason Samuel Carle Joseph Hussey Thos Tibbets John Pearle Francis Mathews jun Israel Hodgdon Nath" Randal Israel Hodgdon jun Sam" Randal Henry Tibbets Son of Nath" Joseph Perkens John Giles. Eli Demerrit John Demerrit Edward Tibbets Thos Drew William Demerrit John Knight John Footman jun' Admitted Associates His Excellency & Hon' Sam" Shute Esq & John Wentworth Esq Each of them 500 Acres & a home lott Coll Mark Hunking Coll Walton George Jaffrey Rich Wibird Archibald McPheadris Esq Canterbury Charter Certifyed Rich Waldron Cler: Con Entered & recorded According to An Attested Copy which having been Exhibited by Josiah Miles & Thomas Clough A Committee Appointed by the Town of Canterbury to Petition the Gov' & Council to have the foregoing Copy Entred upon Record in the Serys office which Petition & Copy was Laid before the board & it appearing to be a True Copy the original being as the Council Supposed burnt in the Serys office-twas ordred to be recorded here in obedience to which order twas recorded this 17th Day of Febry 1756 Theodore Atkinson Secry [WEBSTER'S FERRY, 1767.] *1-298 *Province of New Hampshire Websters P-S. GEORGE the third by the Grace, of GOD of Great Brittain, France & Ireland KING, defender of the faith &c: TO ALL to whom these Presents shall come GREETING KNOW YE that We of Our Especial Grace Certain Knowledge & mere Motion( & by with the advice of Our Trusty & Well beloved JOHN WENTWORTH Esq' Our Captain General Governor & Com'ander in Cheif of Our Province of New Hampshire in North America HAVE Given & Granted & for us Our Heirs & Successors Do Give & Grant unto our Loyal & most faithful Subject JOHN WEBSTER of Canterbury in Our said Province of New Hampshire Esq' the Sole Right of Keeping a FERRY & of Keeping, Using & Employing a Ferry boat & Boats for the transporting of Men, Horses, Goods, Cattle, Carriages &c: from the Shore of Canterbury where the said Webster lives across Merrimack River to the Shore of Concord & from the shore of said Concord to the Shore of said Canterbury & from the Shore of Canterbury to the Shore of Boscawen & from the Shore of Boscawen to the Shore of Canterbury & from the Shore of Boscawen to the Shore of Concord & from the Shore of Concord to the Shore of Boscawen. TO HOLD the said Ferry & Priviledge of a Ferry, with all Ferryage, Advantages, Emoluments Perquisites & Profits thereunto belonging unto him the said JN° WEBSTER Esq' his Heirs, Executors, Administrators & Assignes from the day of the date hereof for Ever to his & their only proper use & behoof for Ever, Upon the following Conditions Viz' that he & they do & shall at all times keep such Boats & give such attendance, & behave as the now (or any hereafter) Laws do or may Require, And as a further Encouragement to the said JOHN WEBSTER in & about the Premises WE WILL that none of Our Loving Subjects Do presume to molest or Interrupt the said JNo WEBSTER in his said FERRY or set up any other Ferry upon or across the said River Merrimack within the space of Three Miles above or below the FERRY of the said JN° WEBSTER IN TESTIMONY Whereof We have caused the Public Seal of Our said Provce to be hereunto affixed Witness Our aforesaid Gov JOHN WENTWORTH Esq' this 19th day of Septem' in the 7th Year of Our Reign Anno: Domini 1767 By his Excellencys Com'and T: Atkinson jun' Sec Province of New Hampshire 19th Sept 1767 J: Wentworth Recorded according to the Original under y Provee seal Attest: T: Atkinson Jun Sec CARROLL. [Granted as Bretton-Woods, Feb. 8, 1772, to Sir Thomas Wentworth and others. Incorporated as Carroll June 22, 1832. Portions of Nash & Sawyer's Location were annexed, June 22, 1848, and July 2, 1878, and the remainder, together with Crawford's Grant, Sept. 8, 1887. A tract of land on the south of the town was annexed June 27, 1857. See Index to Laws, 83; sketch, Fergusson's History of Coos County, 1888, p. 427; Lawrence's N. H. Churches, 1856, p. 610; A Walk over Mts. Deception, Dartmouth, and Mitten, by G. A. Sargent, 3, Appalachia, 278; History of the White Mountains, by Lucy Crawford, 1845; 2d. ed. by H. W. Ripley, 1883; 3d. ed. by same; The White Hills, by T. Starr King, 1859, pp. 404; 2d. ed. by Isaac N. Andrews, particularly pp. 137, 373, and 380; Incidents in White Mountain History, by B. G. Willey, 1855, pp. 322; Historical Relics of the White Mountains, by John H. Spaulding, 1855, pp. 96; Along the John Stark River, from Agiocochook to the Connecticut, by Levi W. Dodge, 5, Granite Monthly, 357; The White Mountains, A Guide to their Interpretation, by Julius H. Ward, 1890, p. 38; In the Heart of the White Mountains, by S. A. Drake, 1882, pp. 87 and 300; History of Explorations among the White Mountains, by Warren Upham, 1874, in Hitchcock's Geology of N. H., chap. 4, p. 59.] [BRETTON-WOODS CHARTER, 1772.] *Province of New Hampshire (Bretton-Woods) GEORGE the THIRD by the Grace of *4-69 KNOW YE, that we of our special Grace, certain knowledge & mere Motion, for the due encouragement of settling a new plantation within our said Province of New Hampshire by and with the advice of our Trusty & well beloved JOHN WENTWORTH ES |