[EATON] THE SETTLING OF COLCHESTER COUNTY 239 
town. From Worcester, as from Londonderry, in a short time other 
settlements were formed, and eventually the Ulster Scotsmen of the 
immigration of 1718 came to be pretty widely scattered throughout 
New England. 
The pioneer settlers at Londonderry, New Hampshire, were : 
Randal Alexander, Samuel Allison, Allen Anderson, James Anderson, 
John Barnett, James Clark, Archibald Clendennin, James Gregg, James 
McKeen, John Mitchell, John Morrison, James Nesmith, Thomas Steel, 
James Sterrett, John Stuart, and Robert Weir (or Wier), most of them 
men in middle life.! In September, 1719, in the name of all the settlers, 
James Gregg and Robert “ Wear” petitioned the General Court for an 
act of incorporation, and in June, 1722, the incorporation was effected, 
the name of the township now being formally changed to Londonderry. 
The growth of the new settlement was so rapid, accessions to the 
colony coming from other New England places, but more especially 
from Ireland directly, that in a few months from the first settlement 
the sixteen families of the town had been joined by enough others to 
make the population seventy families. At the time of incorporation the 
several lots into which the town had early been divided were for the 
most part occupied, and families were planted throughout the town- 
ship’s whole length and breadth. The first person born in the town was 
Jonathan Morrison, son of John and Margaret Morrison, born September 
8, 1719, and the second was James McKeen, Jr. Other early settlers 
besides those given above were: Robert Actmuty or Auchmuty, 
William Adams, Edward Aiken, Allen Anderson, John Anderson, 
Robert Armstrong, John Bell, Robert Clark, Andrew, John, and Peter 
Cochran, David Craig, John Crombie, Samuel Dickey, George Duncan, 
Samuel Fisher, Robert Gilmore, David Gregg, Abraham Holmes, John 

! The editor of “ Early Records of Londonderry, Windham, and Derry, N.H.”’, 
(1908), page 11, says: ‘About seventy-five [men with their families] landed in Boston, 
August 4, 1718, and of these the following broke the wilderness of Nutfield in April, 
1719—Rev. James McGregor, Alexander McGregor, Alexander Nichols, James 
Nichols, James Blair, Alexander Walker, Robert Boyes, Samuel Graves, Joseph 
Simonds, David Cargill, David Cargill, Jr., Archibald Clendenin, James Nesmith, 
James Clark, Elias Keys, John Barnett, James McKeen, James Gregg, James Mor-. 
rison, John Morrison, Allen Anderson, Thomas Steel, and Robert Weare. The 
last seven went to Casco, Me., before coming to Londonderry. To this list of 
twenty should be added John Goffe, Esq., who acted as agent for the immigrants.” 
On page 22 the editor gives a list that more nearly resembles the one we have given 
above. He remarks, however (page 11), that it is impossible to make out the 
list with entire certainty. The list we have quoted from him in the present note 
was made, he says, nine months after the first settlers arrived. On pages 41, 42, 
he gives a list of 114 early proprietors of Londonderry, with the amount of land each 
received. 
