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��Concord, New HanipsJiire.

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��escort. On one memorable occasion the community were stricken by the massacre of five of their number on the road leading west from the village. They were not only harassed by their Indian foes, but they were grievously vexed by the decision of the king in council, which severed them from the parent colony, and annexed them to the Province of New Hampshire ; for this decision not only placed them under another government, but invali-

��dated their title to the soil which they had wrested from the wilderness. The new claimants of the land were the officials of the Province ; and for a score of years the most troublesome of lawsuits were carried on : but the peo- ple made common cause of the fight, sent their minister to the mother coun- try to plead for them before the highest courts, and at last were successful, and kept possession of their property. After some delay they received a charter

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