ne 18, 1770. At a proprietor's meeting,
lawfully warned and held at my dwelling-house in Lyme in the province
above said, voted to lay out to the use and benefit of Dartmouth
College fifteen hundred acres of land, ... provided said Trustees
shall fix or build said college in the township of Lyme, south of Clay
Brook.

"A true copy of file

Test Jonathan Sumner, Proprietor's Clerk.

Lyme, June 18, 1770."

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"January 22, 1770. Proprietors' meeting at Hampton.

"Whereas a charter for a College to be erected in the western part of
this province, by the name of Dartmouth College, has been granted
under the great seal of said province, with a special view of
Christianizing the several Indian tribes in America, therefore in
consideration of the many advantages that would accrue to the
proprietors of Orford if said College could be settled in said town,
and that the same pious design might be carried into immediate
execution,

"Voted, in case said College should be settled in said township, to
give and grant for the Use and Benefit of said College, for ever, one
thousand acres of land in said town. Also, whereas the Rev. Eleazar
Wheelock is appointed president of said College, and doubtless will
settle himself and family in the town where the College shall be,
where it will be very necessary he should have some land to settle
upon, therefore, for encouraging and promoting the same,

"Voted to give and grant unto the said Eleazar Wheelock, his heirs and
assigns for ever, one thousand acres of land in said town. They also

"Voted (conditionally) to give to the said Eleazar Wheelock the sum of
one hundred pounds lawful money."

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Piermont offered one thousand acres of land to secure the College.
Other towns, not mentioned hereafter, among them Canaan, Boscawen, and
Cornish, are said to have presented some attractions to Dr. Wheelock.

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"Honorable and Reverend: In the capacity of agent for the towns of
Newbury and Haverhill, I promise and engage (if Dartmouth College is
placed in said Haverhill in New Hampshire) that out of the
subscriptions of said Haverhill and Newbury and the town of Bath, that
three thousand acres of land shall be laid out in a convenient form at
the corner of Haverhill, adjoining the southwest corner of said town
of Landaff, and one thousand acres more, laid out in a gor