Warner was first granted by the government of Massachusetts Bay to sundry petitioners in Amesbury and Salisbury, in that then province, as early as 1735. The conditions of the grant were specified in the report of a committee to the legislature of that state as follows, viz: At a great and general court or assembly for his Majesty's province of the Massachusetts Bay in New England, began and held at Boston, upon Wednesday the twenty eighth day of May, 1734, and continued by several adjournments to Wednesday the nineteenth day of November, and further continued by adjournments to Wednesday the thirty first day of December following, then met Thursday, January 15, 1735. Edmund Quincy, Esquire, from the committee of both houses on petitions for townships, &c. gave in the following report, viz:-The committee appointed the fourteenth current to take into consideration the several petitions for townships before the court, and report what may be proper for the court to do thereon, having met and maturely considered the same, are humbly of opinion that there be a careful view and survey of the lands between Merrimack and Connecticut rivers, from the north-west corner of Rumford [Concord] on Merrimack, to the great falls on Connecticut, of twelve miles at the least in breadth or north and south; by a committee of eleven able and suitable persons to be appointed by this court, who shall after a due knowledge of the nature and circumstances thereof, lay the same into as many townships of the contents of six miles square as the land in width as aforesaid will allow of: no townships to be more than six miles east and west and also lay out the land on the east side of Connecticut river from said falls to the township laid out to Josiah Willard and others, into as many townships of the contents of six miles square as the same will allow of; and also the land on the west side of the river of Connecticut from said falls to the equivalent land into one or two townships of the contents of six miles square, if the same will allow thereof. Five of which committee to be a quorum for surveying and laying out the township on each, from Rumford to Connecticut river as aforesaid; and three of the committee aforenamed shall be a quorum for surveying and laying out the townships on each side of Connecticut river as aforesaid; and that the said committee make report of their doings to this court at their session in May next, or as soon as conveniently they can, that the persons whose names are contained in the several petitions hereafter mentioned, viz. in the petition of Hopkinton, in the petition of Salisbury and Amesbury, in the petition of Cambridge, in the petition of Bradford and Wenham, in the petition of Haverhill, in the petition of Milton and Brookline, in the petition of Samuel Chamberlain and Jonathan Jewett, and in the petition of Nathaniel Harris, &c. in the petition of Morgan Cobb, &c. Jonathan Wells, &c. Lyscomb and Johnson, &c. in the petition of Isaac Little, &c. in the petition of Jonathan Powers, &c. John Whitman, Esq. &c. Samuel Haywood, &c. Josiah Fasset and others, John Flynt and others, Jonathan How and others of Bridgewater, that have not heretofore been admitted grantees or settlers within the space of seven years last past of or in any former or other grant of a township or particular grant on condition of settling; and that shall appear and give security to the value of forty pounds to perform the conditions that shall be enjoined by this court; may by the major part of the committee be admitted grantees into one of the said townships; the committee to give public notice of the time and place of their meeting to admit the grantees; Warner was first granted by the government of Massachusetts Bay to sundry petitioners in Amesbury and Salisbury, in that then province, as early as 1735. The conditions of the grant were specified in the report of a committee to the legislature of that state as follows, viz: At a great and general court or assembly for his Majesty's province of the Massachusetts Bay in New England, began and held at Boston, upon Wednesday the twenty eighth day of May, 1734, and continued by several adjournments to Wednesday the nineteenth day of November, and further continued by adjournments to Wednesday the thirty first day of December following, then met Thursday, January 15, 1735. Edmund Quincy, Esquire, from the committee of both houses on petitions for townships, &c. gave in the following report, viz:-The committee appointed the fourteenth current to take into consideration the several petitions for townships before the court, and report what may be proper for the court to do thereon, having met and maturely considered the same, are humbly of opinion that there be a careful view and survey of the lands between Merrimack and Connecticut rivers, from the north-west corner of Rumford [Concord] on Merrimack, to the great falls on Connecticut, 1 of twelve miles at the least in breadth or north and south; by a committee of eleven able and suitable persons to be appointed by this court, who shall after a due knowledge of the nature and circumstances thereof, lay the same into as many townships of the contents of six miles square as the land in width as aforesaid will allow of no townships to be more than six miles east and west: and also lay out the land on the east side of Connecticut river from said falls to the town ship laid out to Josiah Willard and others, into as many townships of the contents of six miles square as the same will allow of; and also the land on the west side of the river of Connecticut from said falls to the equivalent land into one or two townships of the contents of six miles square, if the same will allow thereof. Five of which committee to be a quorum for surveying and laying out the township on each, from Rumford to Connecticut river as aforesaid; and three of the committee aforenamed shall be a quorum for surveying and laying out the townships on each side of Connecticut river as aforesaid; and that the said committee make report of their doings to this court at their session in May next, or as soon as conveniently they can, that the persons whose names are contained in the several petitions hereafter mentioned, viz. in the petition of Hopkinton, in the petition of Salisbury and Amesbury, in the petition of Cambridge, in the petition of Bradford and Wenham, in the petition of Haverhill, in the petition of Milton and Brookline, in the petition of Samuel Chamberlain and Jonathan Jewett, and in the petition of Nathaniel Harris, &c. in the petition of Morgan Cobb, &c. Jonathan Wells, )&e. Lyscomb and Johnson, &c. in the petition of isaze Little, &c. in the petition of Jonathan Powers, &c. Joba Whitmen. sq. &c. Samuel Haywood, &c. Jos.ah Fasset and others, John Flynt and olers, Jonson How and others of Bridgewaer dat have not heretofore been admited grantes or sales wklin the space of seven years last past of or in any former or other grant of a township or particular grant on condition of settling; and that shall appear and give ecurity to the value of forty pounds to perform the conditions that shall be enjoined by this court: may by the major part of the committee be admitled grantees to one of the said townships: the Committee to ge patie notice of the time and place of their meeting to admn the grantees: Warner was first granted by the government of Massachusetts Bay to sundry petitioners in Amesbury and Salisbury, in that then province, as early as 1735. The conditions of the grant were specified in the report of a committee to the legislature of that state as follows, viz: At a great and general court or assembly for his Majesty's province of the Massachusetts Bay in New England, began and held at Boston, upon Wednesday the twenty eighth day of May, 1734, and continued by several adjournments to Wednesday the nineteenth day of November, and further continued by adjournments to Wednesday the thirty first day of December following, then met Thursday, January 15, 1735. Edmund Quincy, Esquire, from the committee of both houses on petitions for townships, &c. gave in the following report, viz:-The committee appointed the fourteenth current to take into consideration the several petitions for townships before the court, and report what may be proper for the court to do thereon, having met and maturely considered the same, are humbly of opinion that there be a careful view and survey of the lands between Merrimack and Connecticut rivers, from the north-west corner of Rumford [Concord] on Merrimack, to the great falls on Connecticut, of twelve miles at the least in breadth or north and south; by a committee of eleven able and suitable persons to be appointed by this court, who shall after a due knowledge of the nature and circumstances thereof, lay the same into as many townships of the contents of six miles square as the land in width as aforesaid will allow of ; no townships to be more than six miles east and west and also lay out the land on the east side of Connecticut river from said falls to the township laid out to Josiah Willard and others, into as many townships of the contents of six miles |