The history of Haverhill, Massachusetts : from its first settlement, in 1640, to the year 1860 . andwest. This construction, as may readily be seen by reference to a map ofNew England, would give to Massachusetts the larger part of what isnow New Hampshire and Vermont, and a large slice of Maine. Among the miscellaneous papers in the State Archives, is an old map,or plan, without date, but evidently drawn for the purpose of showingthis claim of Massachusetts. The following is an engraving of this plan, As late as 1759, (almost t^^-enty years after the line between Massachusetts and Ne-w Hampsh
The history of Haverhill, Massachusetts : from its first settlement, in 1640, to the year 1860 . andwest. This construction, as may readily be seen by reference to a map ofNew England, would give to Massachusetts the larger part of what isnow New Hampshire and Vermont, and a large slice of Maine. Among the miscellaneous papers in the State Archives, is an old map,or plan, without date, but evidently drawn for the purpose of showingthis claim of Massachusetts. The following is an engraving of this plan, As late as 1759, (almost t^^-enty years after the line between Massachusetts and Ne-w Hampshire hadheen settled) the Haverhill Proprietors chose a committee to join with New Salem Committee to settlethe title of that township with ye proprietors of John Tufton Masons Right, & to go to Portsmouth andsettle ye affair. t Which they marked, and -which has ever since been known, as EndicoWi Rock. HISTORY OF HAVERHILL 287 upon a reduced scale. The portion of land marked Country Land, in-cludes all that part of the present town of Methuen, which was notoriginally a part of P E MYrfCOOK With this impression as to their colonial bounds, Massachusetts grantedthe townships along the northern border of the Merrimac, and among therest, Haverhill. But the Xew Hampshire grantees placed a different construction uponthe language of the charter, and claimed that the northern line could notin any place extend more than three miles to the north of the middle of thechannel of the river. The territory, therefore, lying between theseextremes, became disputed territory. Subsequently, (1677) at a hear-ing before the King and Council, the agents for Massachusetts, by advice,so far modified their claim as to disclaim all right of jurisdiction beyond 288 HISTORY OP HAVERHILL. the three miles north of the river according to its course f and it wasdetermined that they had a right as far as the river extended. Massa-chusetts, however, continued to retain jurisdiction over those parts of
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