It is voted, That the tract of land contained and set forth in the said petition shall be called New Boston, if our brethren at Newbury and elsewhere are of the same mind, and the gentlemen of the province of New Hampshire approve of ye same to whom we submit the matter. We, the dwellers at Boston, being in number a considerable part of the persons entered in a petition late granted by the authority of New Hampshire, April 21,1721, for settling a town norwestward of Exeter, etc., at a meeting among ourselves duly warned, The request for a land charter was submitted without a suggested name to Boston on Apand signed by 101 men. When Nottingham is added (containing today’s towns of Nottingham, Deerfield and Northwood) there is an effective wall set up to help guard against Indian attacks and expand the wealth of New Hampshire. Old Dunstable-1673, the Scotch-Irish settlement (Londonderry)-1719, and The Two Mile Streak-1719 in Barrington were all being populated around this time. The Nottingham land grant is the next in the expansion of New Hampshire, extending a protective ring westward from the coast. I hope that’s not the case here as we see how a town on the edge of the frontier came to be. Massachusetts had pretty standard language for all of them, and reading this stuff can put you to sleep quick. Land grants were coming fast and furious in the 1700s. Nottingham Square is 5 miles north on Rt 156. This marker is located on Rt 27/107 in Raymond, about 3/4mi west of the junction of Rt 156. Monuments in Nottingham Square, five miles north, commemorate these men and the 1747 massacre of Elizabeth Simpson, Robert Beard and Nathaniel Folson by Indians of the Winnipesaukee Tribe. Two miles north on Route 156 (one mile ahead) is Nottingham, home of Revolutionary War Patriots, Generals Thomas Bartlett, Henry Butler, Joseph Cilley, and Henry Dearborn who was later a Congressman, Secretary of War, and Minister to Portugal.
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