SURVEY OF THE TOWNSHIP. 



On Wednesday, the eleventh day of May, 1726, some four 

 months after the date of the grant before mentioned, a majority 

 of the committee appointed by the general court to take charge 

 of the survey and settlement of this plantation, accompanied 

 their chaplain, surveyors, chainmen, and some of the admitted 

 settlers, numbering in all thirty-two persons, started from Hav- 

 erhill, Mass., on their journey to Pennycook for the purpose of 

 locating and making a partial survey of it. 



They arrived at their destination on the afternoon of the fol- 

 lowing Friday. 1 Their journal clearly defines their route and 

 says that they took their first noonday meal in Nutfield, " at 

 the house of John Barr, an Irish tavern keeper as we were 

 informed," of whom we " had nothing but small beer. Expen- 

 ses for our trouble at y e house, 5 s -" The exact amount of 

 " trouble" this sober company of Massachusetts Puritans had 

 been able to extract from five shillings worth of small beer, I 

 leave for your computation. About five o'clock in the after- 

 noon they reached "Amoskeag Falls " and encamped for the 

 night. Early the next morning they resumed their journey and 

 passed " Onnahookline (Hooksett) Falls" about eight o'clock. 



About nine they forded Suncook river, and four hours later 

 the Soucook ; about five in the afternoon they reached their 

 destination and encamped on Sugar Ball Interval. 



On the day after their arrival they were called upon by a 

 committee of the New Hampshire government and warned to 

 desist from their work, for the alleged reason that the territory 

 upon which they had entered was within the limits and jurisdic- 

 tion of that province. To them they made a civil reply, refer- 

 ring them to the government of Massachusetts under whose 

 orders they were acting. Thereupon their visitors withdrew. 2 



The surveyors and chainmen were divided into three parties. 

 The first, starting from the mouth of Contoocook river, ran out 

 and marked the boundary lines of the township. The second 

 and third surveyed and put up the bounds of one hundred and 



1 Journal of Committee of General Court in Bouton's " History of Concord," 

 p. 66. 



2 Journal of the Committee of General Court, Bouton's " History of Con- 

 cord," pp. 68 and 69. 



