16    NEW-HAMPSHIRE GAZETTEER.

lying and being within the same, shall and are hereby declared to
lie within and be accounted part of the county of Hampshire, and
that the several townships following, the Narragansett towns, called
number three and five, the Canada towns, granted to Capt. King
and company, the townships granted to Capt. Rayment and com-
pany the township granted to the late Capt. William Tyng and
company, that granted to John Simpson and others; that granted
to the inhabitants of Ipswich, the township granted to Capt. Gor-
ham and company, Canada soldiers, the township granted to the
late Capt. John Lovell and soldiers at Suncook, the township
granted to Mr. John Coffin and others, and number one, two, five, •
six and seven in the line of towns, shall be and are hereby de-
clared part of and belonging to the county of Middlesex together
with the lands and farms, lying within and adjoining any other
of the said townships, and that the Canada township granted to
Capt. Withington and company, and the township granted to Capt.
Tilton and company, that were in the Canada Expedition, 1690,
with the lands between these townships and others, belonging to
Worcester county, shall be and are hereby declared to belong to
the county of Worcester, and be accounted as part thereof for the
future.

In Council Read and Concurred.

Consented to,

J. BELCHER.

Soon the arrangement was interrupted. As countenance had
been given, at the Court of St. James, to the claim of Mason, a
more_x explicit questioning of the territory belonging to Massachu-
setts, on Merrimac River, the agent for New-Hampshire, Johu
Ringe, while in England, stated the following: That Massachu-
setts, in the reign of Queen Anne, taxed the people of his colony,
who resi led five miles north of the Merrimac, and, in 1719, claimed
all land for three miles on the same side of this river, from the
mouth thereof to its head, which they called Winnipiseogee Lake;
and, in 1731, declined to relinquish jurisdiction over the townships
that they had granted, which made their bounds eleven miles and
three quarters north of said river. The plea made on these
grounds, by Commissioners before the King in Council, with his
own dislike for the political policy of the.Bay Legislature, led him
to decide, April 9, 1740, far more favorably to New-Hampshire
than they had even expected. This, decision was, that the northern