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��three miles north of the mouth of the Merrimack river, and thence running westerly and northerly, keeping at three miles' distance from the river to the junction of the Winnipiseogee and three miles further north, thence due west to his majesty's other do- minions ; but if it did not, then the dividing line should begin at a point three miles north of tlie Black Rocks and thence due west to his majesty's other dominions. These lines are all shown on the plan.

But both parties appealed from this decision, and the matter was carried before the king in council. This au- gust body seems lo have been run by New Hampshire's paid agent, one George Tomlinson, and the line was established at three miles north of the river to Pawtucket falls, and thence due west, etc. This gave New Hamp- shire some 700 square miles of Mas- sachusetts more than that Province had ever claimed, consequently her willingness to pay all the expenses of running the lines that make the area of that state to-day 1,400 square miles larger than Massachusetts.

These records and maps are not only interesting historical documents,

��but they show past all controversy that the boundary line matter was settled by the king's decree, that the execu- tion was served, the land set off, the lines run and marked on the ground, the plans returned, accepted, and re- corded, and the whole business exe- cuted as perfectly and thoroughly as it was possible to fix any division line anywhere at that time. It was all done with the cordial assent and con- currence of New Hampshire. Massa- chusetts protested against it, but without avail. The line thus estab- lished has been the line of jurisdic- tion ever since. Massaclmsetts set the bounds stones at the angles in 1<S27 : they are all thereto-day, and mark the angles in the line. I\Ir. Spofford has run on the ground, and there is not the slightest doubt of its correctness substantially, and why any person should now suppose for a sin- gle moment that a boundary line thus established by both parties can be changed at the option of one, and without the consent and against the wishes of the inhabitants livino- near it, is a mystery we shall not attempt to solve. — Exchange.

��NEW HAMPSHIRE MEN TN MICHIGAN.— No. 7. By Mary M. Culver, Yasser, Mich.

��Rev. John D. Peirce. Rev. John D. Peirce was born in Chesterfield, N. H., Feb. 18, 1797. His father, Gad Peirce, died while he was a child, and he went to reside with a paternal uncle. During his boyhood he was permitted to attend school two months each year. After his twentieth birthdav his uncle al-

��lowed him to work as a farm hand near home ; and with one hundred dol- lars saved from his wages, and a like sum left him by his grandfather, he determined to get an education. Rev. Enoch Pond was his instructor in the preparatory studies required for ad- mission to Brown University, which he entered in 1818 and ofraduated

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