History of the town of Richmond, Cheshire County, New Hampshire, from its first settlement, to 1882 . e confederate states. These towns were withinthe territory known at the time as the New HampshireGrants, which term was applied to all the townsgranted by New Hampshire west of the Masonianclaim, which was so called from Capt. John Mason,one of the original proprietors of the Province ofNew Hampshire. The line defining the westernboundary of this claim extended, as finally settled,sixty miles westerly and northerly from the sea, andby survey was established as running from a point onthe state
History of the town of Richmond, Cheshire County, New Hampshire, from its first settlement, to 1882 . e confederate states. These towns were withinthe territory known at the time as the New HampshireGrants, which term was applied to all the townsgranted by New Hampshire west of the Masonianclaim, which was so called from Capt. John Mason,one of the original proprietors of the Province ofNew Hampshire. The line defining the westernboundary of this claim extended, as finally settled,sixty miles westerly and northerly from the sea, andby survey was established as running from a point onthe state line in Rindge, in a north-easterly direction,to a point at the same distance from the sea on theeastern boundary of the state. The territory in-cluded herein was the original New Hampshire, as TOWN OF RICHMOND. 83 contained in Masons grant, and all towns outsidegranted by the governor of the province were calledthe New Hampshire Grants, embracing a largeportion of the territory westward to the Green moun-tains, which was claimed as properly belonging toNew Hampshire by a grant made subsequent to. DELEGATES TO THE CONVENTION AT CORNISH. Masons, extending the jurisdiction of the province tothe Hudson River, This claim of jurisdiction on thepart of New Hampshire was denied by New York,and the matter was referred to the king for linalsettlement, who, in 1764, decreed that the westernboundary of New Hampshire should be the Connec- 84 HISTORY OF THE ticiit river. The towns on the New Hampshiregrants east of the river probably would never havequestioned the jurisdiction of New Hampshire if thematter of forming a new state had not arisen at thistime, which constituted a plausible pretext for trans-ferring their allegiance to another state. This agita-tion began soon after the Declaration of Independencewas declared, or in 1777, which declaration had theeffect, as they argued, not only to absolve the townson these grants from all allegiance to the Crown ofGreat Britain, but also to rel
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