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AN OLD DEED. 



In presenting an old parchment deed, duly signed and 

 sealed, to the Massachusetts Historical Society on June 14, 

 1 888, I gave the following description of the paper. As it 

 relates to the neighborhood of Groton, I include it in this 

 series of articles. 



It was given by Abigail Flint, John Flint and Mary, his 

 wife, to Thomas Wheeler, all of Concord, and dated June 19, 

 1674. It conveyed 800 acres of land, which is described as 



lying and being in two parcells in the Wilderness Northerly from 

 the towneship of Grawton at or neare unto a place commonly called 

 by the Indians Aukecunsick : the one parcell being bounded on 

 the South Easterly Side by a River that runs from the Towne of 

 Grawton : and the other parcell lyeing about one hundred Rods 

 distant from the affore mentioned parcell of land on the North 

 Westerly Side thereof: Both which said parcells of Land being 

 bounded out by marked trees : 



It is evident from the description that both these tracts of 

 land lay on the northwesterly side of the Nashua River, and 

 one of them was bounded by that stream. The two parcels 

 come now within the limits of Hollis, New Hampshire, where 

 the name of the original owners is still perpetuated by a 

 Flint's Pond and a Flint's Brook. The Indian word Auke- 

 cunsick seems now to have died out entirely, and I cannot 

 find that it exists in the neighborhood, even in any modified 

 form. 



These two tracts of land had been granted at the session 

 of the General Court beginning May 22, 1661, to the widow 

 of Thomas Flint and her second son John, in consideration of 

 the public services of her husband and his father, who had 

 been during eleven years a Magistrate of the Colony. Mrs. 

 Flint had been left with a numerous family, " many whereof 

 were in minority;" and the burden of their support had fallen 

 on John, for which reason he was to have an equal interest in 

 the grant with his mother. The return of the survey was 



