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and Capt. John Mason and others. The first house was built at
Little Harbor, called Mason Hall. It was incorporated by a char-
ter of 1633.

Dover, Sept. 8, 1642. Cochecho and Winnichahanat, Hilton’s
Point, Northam.—Settled under Edward and William Hilton,
1623, by order of an association in England, denominated the
Company of Laconia. The proprietors of Dover and Portsmouth
assigned their jurisdiction over these places to Massachusetts,
June 14, 1641.

Exeter, May 10, 1643. Swamscot (Falls.)—Settled, 1638, by Rev.
John Wheelwright and others exiled from Massachusetts for pro-
fessing the Antinomian principles of Anne Hutchinson.

Hampton, Sept. 4, 1639. Winnacunet or Winnacowett.—By or-
der of Massachusetts, a house was erected here as a sign of possess-
ion, 1636, by Nicholas Easton, commonly called the ‘Bound house.’
It was settled in 1638.

Oyster River, May 17, 1675.—Part of Dover. It is now Dur-
ham. Its inhabitants petitioned to be a town in 1669.

Great Island, Oct. 15, 1679.—Part of Portsmouth. It is now
Newcastle.

These six towns, except Portsmouth, were incorporated by Mas-
sachusetts.”

At the time New-Hampshire became a separate jurisdiction, it
appears that Oyster River was again considered a part of Dover,
and Great Island again as part of Portsmouth. October 16, 1672,
Massachusetts, in addition, granted Portsmouth a village, about the
bounds of Dover, which is thought to have been Newington. At
the time Charles II acknowledged the claim of Mason to New-
Hampshire, he also acknowledged his claim to the tract extending
from Merrimac River to Naumkeag River, in Salem, and called
Mariana.

Wanalaset, chief sachem on the Merrimac River, sold a large
tract of land, November 5, 1685, which was afterward assigned to
New-Hampshire. The purchasers, of him, were Joseph Dudly, Sam-
uel Shrimpton and Richard Wharton. The territory, thus pur-
chased, extended six miles on each side of the Merrimac River, and
from Souhegan River on one side, to Brentou’s Farm, or Littleton,
on the other, up to the southerly part of Lake Winnipiseogee.
By order of Massachusetts, a reservation of three miles square was
laid out, for certain Indians. Twenty proprietors, who were to