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 Jesse Prescutt, and Ebenezer Loverin, of Kensington.

Anthony Emery, John Marston, Simon Marston, Joshua Towie, Daniel Marston, John Leavitt, Jonathan Leavitt and Nathaniel Bachelder, of Hampton.

Samuel French, Richard Smith, Benjamin Eaton, Joseph French, Hezekiah Carr and Benjamin French, of South-Hampton and Hampton-Falls.

David Page, David Lowel, Naason Cass and Joseph Rawlins, of Exeter.

Jonathan Sanborn, of Kingston; and Robert Calfe, of Chester.

The boundaries of the grant were thus described—"Beginning at a great rock on the westerly side of Pemigewasset river, which rock is the north-easterly bound of a tract of land granted to Ebenezer Stevens, Jedidiah Philbrick and others, by said proprietors; then running W. 17° S. 10 miles; then beginning again at said rock, running up said river so far as to contain four miles upon a strait line; thence W. 17° S. 10 miles; thence on a strait line to the end of the first ten mile line."

The conditions imposed upon the grantees were as follow:—"That fifteen families be settled upon said tract of land, each having a house of sixteen feet square at least, or equal thereto, and four acres of land cleared and fitted for tillage or mowing upon their respective shares, within four years next after the granting hereof; and fifteen families more, so settled, within six years from the granting hereof; and thirty families more within ten years from the granting hereof. That within eight years from the granting hereof a meeting-house be built for the worship of God, and fitted for that purpose for the use of the inhabitants there; and that they maintain and support the