The Granite monthly, a New Hampshire magazine, devoted to literature, history, and state progress . d by jMassachusetts to Ports-mouth and two miles were added tothe six miles before granted, whichtwo miles to be appropriated to theencouragement of the iron-\\orksbuilding at Lamprill River, for cole,wood, etc., and for settling peoplethereon, to be imported for that ser-vice, and settled in such order as acommittee for that purpose shall di-rect and that Mark Hunking, and Richard Waldron, Esqs.,and Col. James Davis, Capt. TimothyGerrish and Capt. Samuel Tibbetts bethe committee for
The Granite monthly, a New Hampshire magazine, devoted to literature, history, and state progress . d by jMassachusetts to Ports-mouth and two miles were added tothe six miles before granted, whichtwo miles to be appropriated to theencouragement of the iron-\\orksbuilding at Lamprill River, for cole,wood, etc., and for settling peoplethereon, to be imported for that ser-vice, and settled in such order as acommittee for that purpose shall di-rect and that Mark Hunking, and Richard Waldron, Esqs.,and Col. James Davis, Capt. TimothyGerrish and Capt. Samuel Tibbetts bethe committee for laying out and 44 Neiomarlcet on the Zjanrfprey building said land, and that SamnelPenhallow, Esq., be added for di-recting the settlement. The next mention we find of thisri^er and settlement is also in con-nection with the line between Doverand Exeter, in the same year. It istherein provided that those holdingthe oldest grants of land shall begood to them that have them, alwaysexcepting highways and such landsufficient to mills or works set up onLamprill River. The next mention found of this. Free Baptist Church place is that a petition was presentedto the legislature, praying for theerection or establishment of a parishin the north part of Exeter. Uponthis petition the following action washad: •In Council, Dec. 14, 1727, it wasordered that the prayer of the peti-tioners be granted, and that the pe-titioners have leave to bring in a billaccordingly, and that the name of thel^arish be Newmarket. In the Houseof Representatives the same day, Read and concurred. In the proceedings of the Provin- cial Legislature, August 18, 1737, itwas voted that Newmarket have lib-erty to bring in a bill, and to havethe privilege of choosing their townofficers as other towns have. ThusNewmarket seems to have been formedinto a parish in 1727, and in 1737,ten years later, given town privi-leges. We fail to find any record that thetown has ever been incorporated andwe unhesitatingly hazard the o
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