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Catalog Number |
MS036 B01 F10.07 |
Title |
Obligation of Tobias Langdon & Samuel Weeks to pay the town of Portsmouth 40 shillings a year for use of water in saw mill on the Winnicut River, 1697. |
Scope & Content |
November 29th, 1697 At a meeting of the selectmen the day above, said Capt. Tobias Langdon and Samuel Weeks having built a sawmill on the Winnicut River within the town of Portsmouth and they, the said Langdon and Weeks, desiring to have the privilege of water to said mill for sawing. It is this day agreed with them by the selectmen of said town, on behalf of the town, that they shall have the full privilege of the said water for sawing not hindering any former grant or bargain made by the town to any other person. They or either of them paying yearly and every year forever the full sum of forty shillings per annum (year) to the settlement or their order from year to year for the use of the town forever and for the then pertinent hereof the said Langdon and Weeks on behalf of themselves, heirs and executors and John Dennett, John Pickering Sr., William Cotton for themselves on behalf of the town due in as selectmen engaged that they, the said Langdon and Weeks shall have and hold & enjoy the privilege of the water as above said as willness over hands, the day and year above said. Tobias Langdon Samuel Weeks _ John Pickering | John Dennett |-- selectmen William Cotton _| A true copy taken out of the town records for Portsmouth This 3rd day of May 1706 Samuel Keyes - Clerk |
Admin/Biographical History |
North Parish organized ca. 1640s; North Meeting House built 1711-1714; remodeled in 1837; torn down in 1854 and new North Church erected on Market Square in 1855. |
Creator |
North Church (Portsmouth, N.H.) |
Collection |
North Church |
Object Name |
Documents |
Date |
1697 |
Extent of Description |
Item description for MS036, North Church, completed in Past Perfect in 2006. |
People |
Keyes, Samuel, c1643-c1718 Pickering, John, 1640-1721 Dennett, John, 1646-1709 Cotton, William, c1653-1737 Weeks, Samuel, 1670-1746 Langdon, Tobias, 1660-c1724 |
Subjects |
17th century |