Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1891-09-11
HISTORICAL.
GALLUP'S CANADA,
GUILFORD UP TO THE YEAR 1872,
Its Formation from Gallup's Canada and
Fall Fight Township.

It's Formation from Gallup's Canada and
Fall Fight Township.
While all the region about here was part
of the province of Massachusetts, Bay and
nearly all dense wilderness, May II, 1916,
the battle at Turner's Falls was fought,
which crippled the Squakheags, called by
Col. Pynchon in his letter printed in The
Phoenix a few weeks since the River In
dians: and in 1890 Sir William Phipps
carried on an expedition from that province
against Canada. The province was not
able to give pensions to her soldiers, but
rewarded them with grants of lands. TO
the soldiers of the fight at Turner'S Falls
and their descendants a township was
granted which was called Fall Fight Town
ship. the northeast corner of which came
up on the west line of what was then
Mortified to about where the schoolhouse
in district No. 7, west of Vernon centre, is,
and the northwest corner of which was
west of Green river below the saw-mill in
the southwest part of Guilford owned now
by Gilbert Lynde, and the part south of
where Massachusetts line now is became
Falltown, and then Bernardston The
south line of the Equivalent lands be-
gan at the mouth of Broad brook and
ran west 22i7 north, half way between
northwest and west, six miles and half,
and ended about half a mile south of
the schoolhouse in district No. 9 in Brat
tlebOro, and about two-thirds of mile
east of the east line of Marlboro. In Sir
William Phipps's army was Capt. Samuel
Gallup's company In May, 1875, the
Great and General Court of the province
granted the quantity of six miles square of
land to Capt. Gallup, his soldiers and their
descendants. Here is the oath to Nathaniel
Kellogg the surveyor, and Aaron DEMO
and James Corse, the chainmen, who laid
it out, with the return of the surveyor, and
the action of the house of representatives,
the council, and Governor Belcher there
upon.
Hampshier IS
Deerfed October % and 26
Nathaniel calogg as sirvaiOr for the laying
out of tract of Land granted by ye gener=
aaron denio and James cors as chainmen
for ye abovesd Land all pursanaly peard
before me the subscriber one of his Males
tise justices and made oath vt in doing ye
sd described work they would do it faith
fully and trewly according to ye best of yr
skill and judgment Thos Wells.
By vertue of a Grant of a Great & Gen
eral Court att their Session In May 1875
TO Capt Samll Gallop and others. the
subscriber have surveyd q Laid out ye
within Delineated Lands being We Contents
of six miles Square and It's Bounded as
Follows Wit. East IL West on unappro-
priated Lands, Northerly Partly on Equiv
client Land & partly on unappropriated
Land: Beginning at Stake & Stones In
Mortified West Bounds on We West side of
Connecticut River In yc County of Hamp-
North East Corner of Fall Fight Township.
From which we Run North o. West 1890
perch To a White Pine Tree Markd.
Thence West 22o 30 North 1860 Perch to
Stake & Stones Which is in We South
Bounds of ye Equivalent Lands about
which heap of Stones there is Several
Trees Markd. Thence West 775 perch To
Tow Hemlock Trees markd, a Heap of
Stones Lying BetwiXt We two Trees, which
are about II perch Fast of a Large Brook
Running Southerly. Thence South 1875
perch. Thence East 2310 perch To where
we began. There is in Each of these
Lines the allowance of one Chain in Thirty
for Sagg of Chain.
Surveyed Octr 1876 by ye Needle of ye in
strument Pourtracted by Scale of 200
perch to an Inch
pr me Nathaniel Kellogg surveyor
mthe House of Representatives December
list 1876 Read and ordered that the plat be
accepted and the Lands herein delineated
and described be and hereby are confirmed
to the Officers and Soldiers of the Company
late under the Command of Capt Samuel
Gallop decd in the Canadian Expedition
ammo 1890 their heirs and assigns and to
the Heirs Legal Representatives and De-
scendants of such of them as are since de-
ceased and to their heirs and assigns re-
spectively forever they complying with the
Conditions of the Grant provided the plat
exceeds not the quantity of six miles Square
with the allowance for swagg of Chain
within mentioned and does not interfere
with any former Grant
Sent up for Concurrence
QUINCY Spkr.
In Council Decembr l, 1876
Simeon Frost Dept Secry
Feb. , Consented to, j. Belcher
The white pine tree marked at the end of
the first line was at or near where the north
east corner of Guiford is; the stake and
stones at the end of the next course were
northwest of Henry Akley's near the Hines
burg road; the large brook running south
erly was the branch of Green river running
from Marlboro through IIinesburg, and this
heap of stones was in the southeast corner of
what is now Marlboro about so rods west of
the east and the same distance north of the
south line. This tract from its belonging
to Capt. Gallup and his men of the Canada
expedition took the name of Gallup
Canada; and in a petition of Lieut.. John
Sargent for the land between it and his,
which was below Broad brook, in 1888 it
was called Col. Church and Company S
town. The location of the north line of
Massachusetts, Bay where it now is, in 1741
cut off the north end of Fall Fight Town
ship and brought the whole of Gallup
Canada into the province of New Hamp-
shire, but the private ownership of the
land was not changed. The royal governor
of New Hampshire granted the territory by
towns to individuals, including owners and
H. Al. Il. ii