PERIOD FROM 1905 TO 1909. 1025 



gotten had and obteyned in att or within any of the said Lands 

 Limitts Territories or Precincts or in or within any part or parcell 

 thereof for or in respect of all and all manner of duties demands and 

 services whatsoever to be done made or paid to the said late King 

 James the first his Heires and Successors (as in and by the said Let- 

 ters Patents amongst sundry other Clauses Powers Priviledges and 

 Grants therein conteyned more at large appeareth And Whereas the 

 said Councill established at Plymouth in the County of Devon for 

 the Planting Euleing Ordering and Governing of New England in 

 America Did by their Deed Indented vnder their Cpmon Seale bear- 

 ing Date the Nineteenth Day of March in the Third Yeare of the 

 Reigne of our Royall Grandfather King Charles the First of ever 

 Blessed Memory Give Grant Bargaine Sell Enffeoffe Alien and Con- 

 firme to Sir Henry Roswell Sir John Young Knights Thomas South- 

 cott John Humphreys John Endicot and Simond Whetcomb their 

 Heires and Assines and their Associats for ever All that part of 

 New England in America aforesd which lyes and extends betweene 

 a great River there comonly called Monomack als Merrimack and a 

 certaine other River there called Charles River being in a Bottom 

 of a certaine Bay there comonly called Massachusetts als Mattachu- 

 setts als Massatusetts Bay And alsoe all and singular those Lands and 

 Hereditaments whatsoever lying within the space of Three English 

 Miles on the South part of the said Charles River or of any and every 

 part thereof And alsoe all and singuler the Lands and Hereditaments 

 whatsoever lying and being within the space of three English Miles 

 to the Southward of the Southermost part of the said Bay called the 

 Massachusetts als Mattachusetts als Massatusetts Bay And alsoe all 

 those Lands and Hereditaments whatsoever which lye and be within 

 the space of three English Miles to the Northward of the said River 

 called Monomack also Merrimack or to the Northward of any and 

 every part thereof And all Lands and Hereditaments whatsoever 

 lying within the Limitts aforesaid North and South in Latitude and 

 in Breadth and in length and longitude of and within all the Breadth 

 aforesaid throughout the Main Lands there from the Atlantick and 

 Western Sea and Ocean on the East parte to the South Sea on the 

 West part and all Lands and Grounds Place and Places Soile Woods 

 and Wood Grounds Havens Porte Rivers Waters Fishings and Here- 

 ditaments whatsoever lying within the said Bounds and Limitts and 

 every parte and parcel 1 thereof and alsoe all Islands lying in America 

 aforesaid in the said Seas or either of them on the Western or Eastern 

 Coasts or Parts of the said Tracts of Land by the said Indenture 

 menconed to be Given and Granted Bargained Sold Enffeoffed 

 Aliened and Confirmed or any of them And alsoe all Mines and 

 Mineralls aswell Royall Mines of Gold and Silver as other Mines and 

 Mineralls whatsoever in the said Lands and Premisses or any parte 

 thereof and all Jurisdiccons Rights Royalties Liberties Freedoms 

 Imunities Priviledges Franchises Preheminences and Comodities 

 whatsoever which they the said Councill established at Plymouth in 

 the County of Devon for the planting Ruleing Ordering and Gov- 

 erning of New England in America then had or might vse exercise 

 or enjoy in or within the said Lands and Premisses by the same 

 Indenture menconed to be given granted bargained sold enffeoffed 

 and confirmed in or within any part or parcell thereof To Have and 

 to hold the said parte of New England in America which lyes and 

 extends and is abutted as aforesaid and every parte and parcell 



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