[Petition of Peter Prescott and Others, 1752.]
[Masonian Papers, Vol. 7, p. 176.]

   To the Proprietors of y^e Right of John Tufton Mason Esq^r in y^e
Province of New Hampshire--
   Gentlemen--
     Wee the Subscribers and associates to y^e Nomber of One Hundred
being Desireous of Removing into this Province and Making Settle-
ment of Some of y^e waste, within your Patent, applyed our Selves to 
The Hon'ble Joseph Blanchard Esq who Encouraged us to Succeed
in our Desires If Two Towns could be found Capable of Settlement 
within the Line of Towns by you Authorized for him to Grant, Where-
upon at a Considerable Expence we have Made Search and find y^t on 
that Line further then is already Granted, is not Capable of Settle-
ment, unless Some Stragling Farms.  But Still Desireous to pursue
our first Intentions, Could there be a place had, capable of Making a
Good Settlement in time, have made Inquiry, & at Present hear y^t
there is a tract of Land Lying on y^e East and adjoyning to Monad-
nock N^o 6 : and N^o 7 : tho Something Broaken yet Probable to Make
a Settlement on for two Small Towns could we obtain a Grant on
Reasonable Conditions (and inasmuch as Sundry of us had purchased
before the Settlement of y^e Province Line) Many Rights in y^e New
Towns Now fallen in this Province, with Expectation to Make Settle-
ment had it not been for that Disappointment which for Charge and
Purchase has Cost Sundry of us Much Mony which Reasons give us
the freedom to ask at this time and are Ready on your Approving of
our Request within Nine Months after y^e Grant to Allot out the
whole Land Granted Ready to Draw the Lotts and Settle in Each
Town Thirty famelys within two years after y^e Grant and the Remain-
ing Fourty famelys in Such reasonable time afterwards as you Shall
Direct.--And in as much as y^e Distance & Expence of Travil is Such
y^t must attend our Personal application, Desire that this our request 
may be offered by y^e Aboves^d Joseph Blanchard on our behalf, and
that you will favour us with an answer by him And beleive us to be
Sincere in our application and Give Leave to Subscribe our Selves
Gen^t
                                             Your very Humble Serv^ts
                                                         Peter Prescott
                                                         John Fox
                                                         Stephen Hosmer Ju^r
                                                         Charles Bulkeley 

[Draft of Lots, 1753.]
[Masonian Proprietors' Records, Oct. 17, 1753, and Masonian Papers, Vol. 7, p. 180.]

     M^r Robert Fletcher having agreable to a Vote of this Propriety of
y^e 8th November 1752, by the Direction of Joseph Blanchard Esqu^r
Surveyed and divided the Tract of Land lying Westerly on the Man-
adnocks N^o 6, & N^o 7, northerly on the South line of the Line of
Towns so called Easterly on Wear's Town & New Boston Southerly
on Salem Cannada Peterborough & Manadnock No 3, and having this
day returned his Plan of Said Survey therein particularly describing
the Several lines of the Several Divisions and the Same having been
laid before the Proprietors at this Meeting---
     Voted--That the Said Plan and the Several Divisions therin by
the Several lines described be and hereby is approved & accepted and
to Ascertain the Said Several Divisions to the Respective Proprietors
in Severalty,--Therefore
     Voted that the Same be drawn for im'ediately in one Draft, by
Lott, and that when So drawn for, that each Proprietor be and her-
by is entituled in Severalty, to the Lots (being of y^e two Divisions)
drawn by, or to him, agreable to the Several Numbers as entered on 
Said Plan,--
     Pursuant to the next preceeding Vote The Draft of Lots of the
Divisions in the Tract of land described in said Vote, are drawn for,
to Said Proprietors as follow's--viz^t
   1^st drawn Lots N^o 13--To M^r John Rindge
   2        .        .     .     5--To Dan^ll Peirce Esqu^r & Mary Moore
   3       .        .     .     11--To John Thomlinson & John Tufton Mason 
                                          Esqu^r
   4        .        .     .    12--To Thomas Packer Esqu^r
   5        .        .     .     4--To John Wentworth Esqu^r
   6        .        .     .    15--To Richard Wibird Esqu^r
   7        .        .     .     9--To the Right of Jotham Odiorne Esqu^r Dece^d
   8        .        .     .    14--To Theodore Atkinson Esqu^r --
   9        .        .     .     1--To Mark Hunking Wentworth Esqu^r
  10        .        .     .     2--To Samuel Solly & Clement March Esqu^r
  11        .        .     .     6--To George Jaffrey Esqu^r
  12        .        .     .     3--To Nath^ll Meserve Joseph Blanchard Esqu^r
                                           m^r Joseph Green & Paul March--
  13        .        .     .     8--To Thomas Wallingford Esqu^r
  14        .        .     .     7--To John Moffatt Esqu^r
  15        .        .     .    10--To Joshua Peirce Esqu^r

[Plan of Society Land, 1753.]

This Plan of the Royal Society Lands copied from a survey originally taken by Robert Fletcher Esq^r          John Parker jun^r

Portsmouth May 1778 

     Pursuant to the Request & Desire of Col^l Blanchard Esq^r I have laid out into fifteen Equal shares all that Land on Contoocook River between the place called Keyshis Farm on the North & the great FAlls so called against the Crotched Mountain on the South in the following manner (Viz).  The Interval Land divided for Quantity & Quality into fifteen equal shares & so much upland adjoyning as to make up the quantity of Five hundred Acres to each share and where the land is not so good there is added so much in Quantity as is equal to five hundred acres of the best which is marked & delineated herein, & the Interval Lotts on Contoocook River & the upland adjoyning, belonging to the same share is numbred with the same Number which Numbers are from one to fifteen, And all the Land comprehended within the following bounds (viz) Westerly on  Menadnock Number six & Number seven Northerly on the South line of the line of towns so called Easterly on Weare's Town and New Boston--Southerly on Salem Canada and Petersborough is Divided into fifteen equal shares for Quality and numbred one to fifteen, The first Number of said shares begining on the west side of Contoocook River joyning to Peterborough North line, And the number of said shares succeed in order to Number seven.  Northwardly to the South Line of the Line of Towns, And the other Eight shares being on the East side of the River, Number eight on the Eat side of Contoocook River adjoyning upon the North Line of Peterborough West of New Boston, And the number of the other shares suceed Northerly to the said South Line of the line of Towns.  The Crotched Mountain lying in Number eight & number Nine is left as common, it is no part of said shares--
     Portsmouth October y^e 17^th 1753 by me                                                  Robert Fletcher Surveyer

     This is a Copy of the Plan of the Society land (So called) as rendered by Robt Fletcher Surveyor October 17th 1753--attest
     N. B. the mountains Rivers and Brooks are not exactly of y^e Size nor laid just as in y^e original, by nearly so-- 
                                                                                                                          Geo :  Jaffrey Prop^rs Cl :

[Petition for Bridge, 1774.]
[Masonian Papers, Vol. 7, p. 182.]

                                                               October y^e 12^th 1774

     To the Honorable The Lord Proprietors of Society Land So 
called A petition Humbly Shewing the Whereas a Number having
begun to make Settelments on the West side of Contookook River
have been at great cost Clearning a Road from Francess Town line
over S^d River thro' No 5 N. W. cosing No 7 & 9 & 10 thro the great
right to the mills on Esq^r Jaffrey^s Lot also from No. 5 West thro' the
great Right No 3 to Limrick Road it being the Straight course betwixt
the County Towns from Amharst to No. 4 Crossing near the Center
of S^d land A bridge is absolutly Needed at that place as it is about
half way betwixt Petersborrough and Hillsborrough and will best Sute
the publick & the major part of the inhabetents and advance your
intrests It belonging wholly to the few Setlers to build sd Bridge we
depend upon your generous assistance to enable us without appression
to Compleat the Same
     This is the earnst request of your Petitioners
 
 

[Endorsed]  Feb^r 22   To lay for farther Consideration