. [Provincial and state papers]. pshire,shewing that a Committee of this Court appointed in the Year 1733,to admit Settlers or Proprietors, on the 6th. of ynne 1734, receivedand admitted the Petitioners as Proprietors to the Number of Sixty,who received their Lots or Drafts and paid the Sum ordered attheir Admittance, that by force there of they have assembled atsundry times since, under sundry Adjournments from their firstmeeting the yth. of yune 1734, and have made and passed severalVotes for carrying on the Settlement of the said Township agre-able to the Intent of the Grant, an account of
. [Provincial and state papers]. pshire,shewing that a Committee of this Court appointed in the Year 1733,to admit Settlers or Proprietors, on the 6th. of ynne 1734, receivedand admitted the Petitioners as Proprietors to the Number of Sixty,who received their Lots or Drafts and paid the Sum ordered attheir Admittance, that by force there of they have assembled atsundry times since, under sundry Adjournments from their firstmeeting the yth. of yune 1734, and have made and passed severalVotes for carrying on the Settlement of the said Township agre-able to the Intent of the Grant, an account of their Proceedingsaccompanying the Petition, praying the Order and Authority of KEENE. 153 the Court for Establishing the said Meetings and Orders, andVotes therein made, for the reasons mentioned. Read andOrdered, That Capt. Hohson, Col. Alden, and Col. Church, be aCommittee to take this Petition under Consideration, and reporttheir Opinion of what may be proper for the Court to do thereon. [Mass. Maps and Plans, Vol. 8, p. 15.]. -r^. »,.<£< S-i%«.Fn ,»« y.,.^ 154 CHARTER RECORDS. LEMPSTER. [This was Number 9 in the line of towns from Merrimack to Connecticut River,granted by Massachusetts, Jan. 16, 1735-6. Granted by New Hampshire asDuppliti, Jan. i, 1753, to Samuel Clark Pain and others. Regranted Oct. 5, 1761,to Benadam Gallop and others, and incorporated as Lempster. Regranted Jan. 5,1767, to Dudley Woodbridge and others. The charter was renewed Jan. 21, portion of this town was included in the incorporation of Goshen, Dec. 27, line between Lempster and Washington was established Nov. 27, 1812. See New Hampshire charters following; IX, Bouton Town Papers, 466; X,Bouton Province and State Papers, 398, 400, as to participation in movement forunion with Vermont towns; XII, Hammond Town Papers, 396; Index to Laws,285 ; historical sketch, by Helen Bingham, Hurds History of Sullivan County,1886, p. 185.] [Mass. House Journal, Dec. 8, 17
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