Last week I published a blog post about the first plots of land granted to families in Nutfield. It was an extremely popular post, generating over 1000 hits in just a few days. There were lots of comments on Facebook and email about the early Nutfield families and their surnames. A
reader asked about the names on the map I used to illustrate this post. This map was taken from Willey’s Book of
Nutfield. She couldn’t read the tiny handwriting
and she wanted to know the names. Below I
will transcribe the names from this map.
On the left side of the map (South):
James and
John Doak. Nutfield.
Sixty Acres
laid out Sept. 29, 1720
Recorded Oct
1, 1720
Henry Green.
Nutfield
Sixty acres
laid out 1720
Recorded
October 8, 1722
Abel
Merrill. Nutfield
Sixty acres
laid out 1720
Robert
Doak. Nutfield
Alexander
Walker. Nutfield
Sixty acres
laid out 1720
Recorded
Dec.ber. 9, 1725
Alexander
Walker. Nutfield
Sixty acres
laid out 1720
Recorded
Dec.ber 9, 1725
John
Clark. Nutfield
Sixty acres
laid out 1720
Recorded
Dec. 25, 1720
James
Anderson. Nutfield
Sixty acres
laid out 1720
Recorded
March 2, 1721
James
Alexander. Nutfield
Sixty acres
laid out Feb. 1719
Recorded
Nov. 5, 1720
James
Morrison. Nutfileld
Sixty acres
laid out Feb. 1719
Recorded
Nov. 5, 1720
John
Mitchell. Nutfield
Sixty acres
laid out 1720
Recorded May
24, 1721
Archilbald
Clendennen. Nutfield
Sixty acres
laid out March 15, 1719
Recorded
April 4, 1729
John Barnard. Nutfield
Sixty acres
laid out March 15, 1719
Recorded
April 4, 1720
James McKeen
and Sons. Nutfield
One hundred
and twenty six acres
Laid out August
5, 1719
Recorded
July 20, 1720
Jonathan
Tyler. Nutfield
Forty-five
acres
Laid out
Sept 20, 1720
Recorded
Sept. 28, 1720
Down the
middle of the map are a road and a brook running north to south
The road is
labeled “Road laid out by the selectmen June 1, 1723”
The brook is
labeled “West running brook along which the first sixteen families settled”
To the right
of the brook (North) are two parcels.
The western parcel is labeled “John McConoghy. Sixty acres laid out in
Nutfield 1720. Recorded Feb. 15, 1722” and the other is labeled “Common Field”
Next, to the
north are plots laid out west to east:
James Gregg
Two lots of
sixty acres each
Laid out in
Nutfield 1720
Recorded
July 13, 1720
John Gregg
Sixty acres
laid out in
Nutfield March
1720
Recorded
July 13, 1720
James Clark
Sixty acres
laid out in
Nutfield
1720
Recorded
Dec. 25, 1720
James
Nesmith
Sixty acres
laid out in
Nutfield
Feb. 5, 1720
Recoded Oct.
4, 1720
Revd. James
McGregor
Sixty acres
in Nutfield
Laid out in
1720
Recorded
March 24, 1720
Allen
Anderson
Robert Wear
Sixty acres
laid out in
Nutfield
Aug. 1719
Recorded
July 20, 1720
John
Morrison
Sixty acres
laid out in
Nutfield
March 1720
Recorded
July 20, 1720
Samuel
Allison
Sixty acres
laid out in
Nutfield
1720
Recorded
March 22, 1720
Thomas
Steele
John Stewart
Fifty one
acres laid out in
Nutfield
1720
Recorded
Feb. 25, 1722
Across the
map running south to north is a road labeled “Road laid out June 1, 1723”
There is a
road running north of the brook labeled “Road laid out Oct. 23, 1723”
North of the
plots of land are several landmarks labeled “Beaver River and Meadow”, “Gristmill”,
“Sawmill” June 7, 1719” and “Meeting
house January 11, 1720”
At the top
of the map is a compass and a label that reads:
“Prepared
and drawn
By Revd. J.
G. MacMurphy
All rights
reserved”
And a line labeled “one hundred rods” for scale.
You can find
the recordings of these plots of land in the book Early Records of the Town of
Londonderry, Windham and Derry, NH. 1719 – 1745, edited by George Waldo Brown,
Manchester, NH: Manchester Historic
Association, 1914. For example on pages
20 and 21 you can see the following entry for Jonathan Tyler’s plot of land:
Nutfield septem ye 20th 1720
Laid out to Jonathan Tyler by order of the
Comity of Nutfield afore said a Lott of Land Containing fourty five acres which
is to made up sixty acres in the first draught of the Common Lands buted and
bounded as followeth beginning at the nor west Corner at a stake and heep of
stons from then runing a due south line by marked tres and Joyning all the way
upon mr Mc Keens Lott unto Leverets farm from thence running a due east line
thirty Rhod to the bounds first mentioned to gather with an intrest in the
Common or undevided Lands within the said township equal to oather lotts in
said Town
James mc Keen
James Gregg
Samu Graves
Robart Wear
John Moreson
John Goffe
Commite
Recorded this 28 September 1720 Pr John Goffe Town Clerke
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