wt nature soever from by & through any of ye lands rivers harbours creeks or Sea Ports upon ye Sea Coasts or fronteer parts of New England afores belonging to ye President & Councell aforesd wth out any lett trouble interrupcon molestacon or hinderance of them ye sd President & Councill their successors or assignes or of any other person or persons claiming under them or by their means or procuremt And for ye better accomodacon of them ye sd Sr Ferdinando Gorges & Capt John Mason ther heires assignes & associates in their intended trafiques & plantacons above in ye sd lakes of ye Irrequois whither their goods & marchandizes from ye sea ports are to be after landing transported it shalbe lawfull for ym to make choise of & take and possess for the use of ym ye sd Sr Ferdinando Gorges & Capt John Mason their heires assignes & associates and their Deputyes ffactors tennants & planters of their Colonyes in any of ye ports harbours or Creeks in New England lying most comodious for their passage up into ye sd Lakes One thousand acres of land upon ye side or sides of such harbors ports rivers or Creekes where ye same is not yet disposed of to any other persons by ye sd President & Councill & ye sd lands by y shalbe holden possessed & enjoyed as freely & with as ample privileges Jurisdicons & comodetyes in all respects as any other ye lands above in these pnts demised & granted unto them & further knowe yee yt ye sd President & Councill have made constituted deputed authorized & appointed & in their place & stead doe put Edw: Godfrey or in his absence to any other person yt shalbe there Governo or other Officer to ye President & Councell to be their true & lawfull Attorney & in their name and stead to enter ye sd porcon of land & other premises wth their appurtences or unto some part thereof in name of ye whole and deliver possession &c, Signed, sealed &c the day and year above written.

THE SQUAMSCOTT OR HILTON'S POINT

PATENT.

[From a copy in the files of the Superior Court, in Exeter [No. II.] N. H.-ED.]

To all Xsian People to whome these pesents shall come, Greeting, Whereas our late Soveraigne Lord King James for the Advancem1 of a Colony and plantacon in the Country called or known by the name of New England in America, hath by his highnesse Letters Pattents under the Great Seale of England bearing date at Westm1 the third day of November in the Eighteenth yeare of his highnesses Reigne of England Ffrance and Ireland, and of Scotland the ffour and ffiftyeth, absolutely Given Granted and Confirmed unto the Right Honble Lodowick Lord Duke of Lenox George Lord Marquess of Buckingham James Marquess Hambleton Thomas Earle of Arundell Robert Earle of Warwick Sr ffardinando Gorges Knight & diverse others whose names are expressed in the said Lres pattents and to their successors for ever under the limitacons reservacons & declaracons as in the said Letters pattents is Expressed all that part and porcon of the said Country of New England in America scituate lying and being in Breadth from fforty degrees of northerly Latitude from the Equinoctiall Line to fforty eight degrees of the said northerly Latitude inclusively and in Length of and in all the Breadth aforesaid throughout the maine Land from sea to sea together alsoe with all the ffirm Lands, Soyles, Grounds, Creeks Inletts, havins, Ports, Rivers, Seas, Iclands Waters ffishings mines and mineralls, as well Royall mynes of Gold and Silver as other mynes & mineralls-pretious Stones, Quarries and all and singular the Comodities, Jurisdiccons, Royalties Priviledges ffranchises and p' heminences whatsoever both within the said Tracts of Lands upon the Maine, as alsoe within the said Islands and Seas adjoyning as in and by the said Letters pattents amongst sundry other priviledges and matters therein contained, more fully and at large it doth and may appear

Now know yee That the said President and Councell by Virtue & authority of his Majties said Letters Pattents, and for and in consideracon that Edward Hilton & his Associates hath already at his and their owne proper costs and

charges transported sundry servants to plant in New England aforesaid at a place there called by the natives Wecanacohunt otherwise Hilton's point lying some two leagues from the mouth of the River Paskataquack in New England aforesaid where they have already Built some houses, and planted corne, And for that he doth further intend by Gods Divine Assistance, to transport thither more people and cattle, to the good increase and advancem & for the better settling and strengthing of their plantacon as also that they may be the better encouraged to proceed in soe pious a work which may Especially tend to the propagacon of Religion and to the Great increase of Trade to his Majes Realmes and Dominions, and the advancement of publique plantacon, Have Given Granted Enfeoffed and Confirmed, and by this their p'sent writing doe fully clearly and absolutely Give Grant enfeoffe and Confirme unto the said Edward Hilton his heires and Assignes for ever, all that part of the River Pascataquack called or known by the name of Wecanacohunt or Hilton's Point with the South side of the said River, up to the ffall of the River, and three miles into the Maine Land by all the breadth aforesaid, Together with all the Shoares Creeks Bays Harbors and Coasts, alongst the Sea within the limitts & Bounds aforesaid with the woods and Islands next adjoyneing to the said Lands, not being already Granted by the said Councell unto any other person or persons together alsoe with all the Lands Rivers Mines Mineralls of what kinde or nature soever, woods Quarries, Marshes, Waters, Lakes ffishings, Huntings, Hawkings, ffowlings, Comodities Emolumts and hereditaments whatsoever withall and singular their and every of their Appts in or within the limitts or bounds aforesaid, or to the said Lands lying within the same limitts or Bounds belonging or in any wise appertaining, To have and to hold, all and singular the said Lands and p'mises, with all and singular the woods Quarries Marshes, waters, Rivers, Lakes, ffishings, ffowlings, Hawkings, Huntings, Mynes, mineralls of what kynde or nature soever, priviledges, Rights Jurisdicons Libbertyes Royalties and all other proffits Comodities Emoluments and hereditaments whatsoever, before in and by these p'sents Given and Granted, or herein meant intenconed or intended to be hereby Given or Granted, with their and every of their appts and every part and parcell thereof (Except before Excepted) unto the

said Edward Hilton his heires, Associates and Assignes forever to the onely proper use and behoofe of the said Edward Hilton his heires, Associates & Assignes for ever, yielding and paying unto our Soveraigne Lord the King one ffifth part of Gold and Silver Oares, and another ffifth part to the Councell aforesaid and their successors to be holden of the said Councell and their successors by the rent hereafter in these p'sents Reserved, yielding and paying therefor yearly for ever unto the said Councell their successors or Assignes for every hundred Acress of the said Land in use the sume of twelve pence of Lawfull money of England into the hands of the Rent gatherer for the time being of the said Councell yr successors or Assignes for all services whatsoever, And the said Councell for the affairs of New England in America aforesaid, Doe by these p'sents nominate Depute, Authorize appoint and in their place and stead put William Blackston of New England in America aforesaid Clerk William Jeffries and Thomas Lewis of the same place Gent and either or any of them Joyntly or severally to be their true and Lawfull Attorny or Attorneys and in their name and stead to enter into the said part or porcon of Land, and other the p'mises with the appts by these p'sents Given and Granted or into some part thereof in the name of the whole, and peaceable & quiett possession and seisin thereof for them to take and the same soe had and taken in their name and stead to deliver possession & seisn thereof unto the said Edward Hilton his heires Associates and Assignes, according to the tenor forme and effect of these p'sents Ratifieing Confirmeing and allowing all and whatsoever the said Attorny or Attornyes, or either of them shall doe in or about the p'mises by virtue hereof. In Witnesse whereof the said Councell for the affaires of New England in America aforesaid, have hereunto caused their com❜on Seale to be putt the twelfth day of March Anno Dmi 1629, And in the fifth yeare of the Reigne of our Soveraigne Lord Charles by the Grace of God of England Scotland ffrance and Ireland, defender of the ffaith &c Ro: WARWICKE.

Mem: That upon the 7th day of July Anno Dmi 1631 Annoq: R's Caroli pri: Septimo: by virtue of a warr' of Attorny within menconed from the Councell of the affaires in New England under their Comon Seale unto Thomas

Lewis he the said Thomas Lewis had taken quiett possession of the within menconed p'mises and Livery and Seisen thereof hath Given to the within named Edward Hilton in the p'sence of us.

Grant from the Council of Plymouth to Edward Hilton of Lands in New Hampshire in New England dated the 12th March 1629.

for Hilton's Point And the south side of said River & to the falls*

Allen vs. Waldron

Feb 1704-5.

NEW HAMPSHIRE PAPERS. VOL. 47.

[No. III.]

The Dover Combination.†

(1640. October 20.)

WHEREAS sundry Mischeifes and inconveniences have be faln us, and more and greater may in regard of want of Civill Government, his Gratious Matie having hitherto Setled no Order for us to our Knowledge.

Wee whose names are underwritten being Inhabitants upon the River Pascataquack have voluntarily agreed to combine our Selves into a Body Politique that wee may the more comfortably enjoy the benefit of his Maties Lawes And do hereby actually engage our Selves to Submit to his Royal Maties Lawes together with all such Orders as shalbee

* Readers are referred, for further information on this matter, to Vol. I, Prov. Papers N. H., pp. 28, 29, and 223, 224.—Ed.

† See Vol. I, Prov. Pap. N. H., p. 126.—ED.