. [Provincial and state papers]. England, Recorded from the back of the Original Charter of Bath underthe Province Seal the 29th March 1769. Attr Geo : King D Secy Province of New Hampshire. These may Certify that this Plan of Bath Beginning at theMouth of Ammonoosuck River at a Pine Tree marked with thefigures 9 & 10 & with the letters B W. thence up Connecticut Riveras that tends to a Pine Tree marked with the Figures 10 & 11,which is also the South west corner Bounds of Lyman, then turn-ing off & running South Fifty five Degrees East Six Miles to aBeech Tree marked B L, C, L D, ° Surveyors
. [Provincial and state papers]. England, Recorded from the back of the Original Charter of Bath underthe Province Seal the 29th March 1769. Attr Geo : King D Secy Province of New Hampshire. These may Certify that this Plan of Bath Beginning at theMouth of Ammonoosuck River at a Pine Tree marked with thefigures 9 & 10 & with the letters B W. thence up Connecticut Riveras that tends to a Pine Tree marked with the Figures 10 & 11,which is also the South west corner Bounds of Lyman, then turn-ing off & running South Fifty five Degrees East Six Miles to aBeech Tree marked B L, C, L D, ° Surveyors Mark, fromthence South Two Degrees East Six Miles and 14 Ch3 to a SpruceTree marked B B o then turning oftagain & running North 55Deg West 6 Miles & one quarter of a Mile to the Bounds firstmentioned Contains Twenty thousand & Ninety Acres and is atrue Copy of an Original plan or Survey of said Tract as taken& returned to me by Elijah King Dy Survey1 Attest. Is. Rindge S. G1 456 CHARTER BEDFORD. 457 BEDFORD, [Granted by Massachusetts as Narragansett No. 5, Feb 12, 1733-4. Afterwardscalled Souhegan East. The grant was confirmed by the Masonian Proprietors,Nov. 9, 1748. Incorporated as Bedford, May 19, 1750, and named in honor ofthe Duke of Bedford. A portion of the town was annexed to Manchester, July 1,1853. See Massachusetts charters preceding, and Masonian Papers in following volumes :IX, Bouton Town Papers, 50; XI, Hammond Town Papers, 176; Index to Laws,51; Topographical and Historical Sketch, 1, Collections of N. H. HistoricalSociety, 288; discourse, by Thomas Savage, 1841, pp. 16; centennial address, byIsaac O. Barnes, 1850, pp. 45; History, pub. by Alfred Mudge, 1851, pp. 364;historical discourse, by Ira C. Tyson, 1876, pp. 31 ; sketch, HurcTs History ofHillsborough County, 1885, p. 265; History of the Catholic Church in the UnitedStates, by John G. Shea, 1890, Vol. 3, p. 108; Baptist Churches in N. H., byE. E. Cummings, 1836, p. 22 ; Lawrences N. H. Churches,
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