Connecticut western news., 1873-05-30
TOWN OF SALISBURY.
The Original Charter.

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 Whereas the said Governor and Company in General Court assembled, at Hartford, on the llth day of May, in the year of our Lord l732. did order that township should be laid out in the north part of the County lands on the west side of the Ousatunnock river, and appointed Messrs. Edmund Lew is, Stephen Noble and Wm. Gaylord comtee to lay out the same, & Whereas, in pursuance of said order the said comtee laid out the same and bounded the same aS follows, viz the northeast corner bounds thereof being heap of stones raised up for monument in ye Massachusetts line on the west side of the said Ousatunnock river, near to the said river, and from thence the line runs west nine and oDe-half degrees north, full seven miles and one-half to stake in the ground and an heap of stones raised up round it for monument. Standing at the northward end of the line of partition between the Province of New York and the Colony of Connecticut, and is the northwest corner bounds of the said Township, and from thence the line runs south, twelve and one-half degrees west with the aforesaid partition line between the said Provine of New York and Colony of Connecticut, eight miles and three-quar- ters to stake set in the ground and many stones laid to it for monument, standing fho -E dohD aio rnIc from said pond, which is the southwest corner bound of said Township, from thence the south line of said Township runs east nlne and one-half degrees south to the Ousatun- mock river, where the said comtee marked black oak tree and laid many stones to it for the southeast corner bounds of said Township in which south line they marked many trees and made many monuments which township in their survey aforesaid is called the Township m, and is bounded north on the line of partition between the Province of the massachusetts Bay and the Colony of Connecticut South on the aforesaid line of marked trees and monu. ments. West on the aforesaid line of par tition between the aforesaid Province of New York and Colony of Connecticut, and east on ye Ousatunnock river, as by the re turn of sd comtee barring date October 7th, A. D. 1732. Entered in ye Records of said Colony, for Lib. 4th, for Patients, Deeds and Surveys of Land, Vol. 472, in ye Sec retary's office. Reference there unto had more fully and at large, may appear, and where as the said Governor and Company, in General Court assembled, at Hartford on the 10th day of may, A. D. 1733, did enact that the said Township among other Town. ships then lately laid out, should be disposed of settled according 10 such time and regu
 lations as the said Assembly should order, and whereas the Governor and Company in General Court Assembled at New Haven, in October, in ye year of our Lord 1737, by their act did order that the said Town ship should be divided into twenty-five rights, exclusive of all former Grants of the General Court that were then surveyed and recorded in the Publick Reccords in this Colony, and lying in said Town, of which twenty-five Rights one should be for the use of the Ministry settled in said town ac- cording to the regulation in said act pro vided one for the first Gospel Minister, settled as aforesaid, and one other for the support of the school in said Town, and ordered that twenty-two of the rights should be sold and that the other three Rights should be for the use aforesaid, and that the committee by the said Act Appoint ed should sell, in the name of the Cover nor and Company aforesaid, execute Deeds of Conveyance of the said several Rights to the purchasers thereof respectively with conditions to each Deed annexed, accord 6 where as the said comtee in pursuance of and according to said act have sold, and by their several Deeds under their Hands and Seals, have granted unto Thomas Fitch, Esq, Daniel Edwards, Robart Walker, Thomas Norton, Elizer Whittlesey, and to the rest of the Original Purchasers of Rights in said Township, twenty-two rights or one-twenty-i fifth parts of said Township, upon conditions aforesaid, which Township is now called and known by the name ot Salisbury, and whereas MT. Jonathun Lee is settled in ye Ministry in said town ac cording to the directions aforesaid, and ye several purchasers aforesaid, their Heirs ol Assigns having performed the conditions ir the said Deeds, expressed and now moving for more full confirmation of ye sait lands sold and granted them as aforesaid
 Now Know Ye that the said Governo and Company, by virtue of the powe granted and derived to them by his lat Majestic, King Charles the Second, o Blessed Memory, in and by his Letters Pat tent under the great seal of England, bear ing date the three and twentieth day o April, in the 14th year Of his Reign, and il pursuance of the several acts and orders o to, have therefore given, granted and con frmed, and by these presents do fully, free ly and absolutely give, grant, rectify an' confirm for themselves and their successor unto the said Thomas Fitch, Esqr., Danie Edwards, Robert Walker, Thomas Norton Elizer WhittleseY, and to the rest of tn original purchasers aforesaid, and to thei heirs and assigns, and such as legally rer resent or hold under them in proportion their respective purchases, and in such pro portion as their assigns and Legal Repre- aentatives do hold under them as aforesaid the said twenty-two Rights or twenty-ift parts, and to the said Jonathun Lee, th said settled Minister, the said one Right ( twenty-fifth part of all ye lands in th Township of Salisbury aforesaid, exclusiv of all former grants surveyed and recorde as aforesaid, and the said two rights ordere for the use of the Ministry and school