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Catalog Number |
MS036 B01 F10.08 |
Title |
Distribution of common lands in the town of Portsmouth to its inhabitants,1699 |
Scope & Content |
Portsmouth: March 27th, 1699 Whereas sundry of the inhabitances have made an application for the distribution of all the common lands within the town for that each person having due proportion thereof maybe the better enabled to bear the public charges arising in the same annum (year) voted that all said common lands be divided amongst the inhabitances in equal proportions according to their respective rates and that seven persons be chosen for making said distribution. The persons chosen for that endeavor, afore said, is as follows: vix: Capt. [Tobias] Langdon, William Cotton, John Sherburne, John Dennett, Leonard Weeks, Mr. Mark Hunking, John Pickering Sr. A true copy taken out of the 3rd book of records public Samuel Keyes: town 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 |
March 27, 1699 |
Extent of Description |
Item description for MS036, North Church, completed in Past Perfect in 2006. |
People |
Cotton, William, c1653-1737 Dennett, John, 1646-1709 Hunking, Mark, b. c1642 Keyes, Samuel, c1643-c1718 Langdon, Tobias, 1660-c1724 Pickering, John, 1640-1721 Sherburne, John, 1647-1698 Weeks, Leonard, 1633-c1706 |
Subjects |
17th century |
Relation |
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