. [Provincial and state papers]. the peti-tioners the township of Rumford, Me., Feb. 3, 1774.] [Grant to John Endicott.] [Mass. Court Records, May 27, 1668.] Laid out to Jn^ Endecot Esq Gov^no^ five hundred acres of landin the wilderniss at Pennicooke one part or parcell of the sameconteyning thirty six acres more or lesse lieth upon an Island inthe said River of merrimacke which Island lyeth at the veryfarthest end of that place Called Pennicooke alsoe one part orparcell of the same Conteyning fower hundred sixty fower acresmore or lesse lyeth upon the aforesaid River on the east side of itit
. [Provincial and state papers]. the peti-tioners the township of Rumford, Me., Feb. 3, 1774.] [Grant to John Endicott.] [Mass. Court Records, May 27, 1668.] Laid out to Jn^ Endecot Esq Gov^no^ five hundred acres of landin the wilderniss at Pennicooke one part or parcell of the sameconteyning thirty six acres more or lesse lieth upon an Island inthe said River of merrimacke which Island lyeth at the veryfarthest end of that place Called Pennicooke alsoe one part orparcell of the same Conteyning fower hundred sixty fower acresmore or lesse lyeth upon the aforesaid River on the east side of itit begins at the North East End of that Intervaile, at a great pinestanding by merrimack side marked w* J I and from this pine itrunns doune the River by a crooked line five hundred thirty fowerpole, where it is bounded by an elme a great one standing by theside of the bancke markt as before w J I from thence it runns tothe high upland almost upon an East & by north Point two hun- CONCORD. [Mass. Archives, Vol. 45, p. 228.] 63. 64 CHARTER RECORDS. dred siventy six pole unto a stake standing in a swampish peece ofGround a tree standing behind it eastward marked w*^^ J I : andfrom thence it runs to the first pine wch is fower hundred fiftyfower pole also there is two very smale Islands laid to it one liethbetweene this land, & the great Island w°^ Conteins by estima-tion about twelve pole and another Island wch lieth on the northwest of the first Conteyning about sixteene or twenty pole by esti-mation all wch is more fully demonstrated by a plott taken of thesame by Jonathan Danforth Surveyor the Court Approoves of this returne/ [Mass. Archives, Vol. 45, p. 228.] John Endicot Esq his farme at penicooke lying upon MerimackRiv^ on y^ North east of s*^* river containing 464 acres, with y® Handabove it 36, acres y® whoU is 500 acres laid out by Jo : DanforthSurvey** there was present at y® laying it out, Capt: Hull, CaptHinchman and John Joanes of Concord [Grant to William Hawthorn
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