| The Governor, Council and General Assembly of the State of Vermont. To all People to whome these presents shall [come]GREETING: KNOW YE, that whereas the Rev'd Jonathan Edwards, theHonorable William Samuel Johnson Esquire & Charles Chauncey Esquireand their Associates our worthy friends have by petition requested aGrant of a Tract of unappropriated Lands within this State for the purpose of settling a New plantation to be erected into a Township, Wehave therefore thought fit for the due encouragement of their laudabledesigns & for other valuable considerations us hereunto moving, AndDo by these presents in Name & by the authority of the State of Vermont,hereby give & grant the Tract of Land hereafter described & bounded untothe said Jonathan Edwards, William Samuel Johnson, Charles Chauncey & theseveral persons hereafter named their Associates Viz't, John Mix, Nathaniel Fitch, John Austin, Hezekiah Sabin, Timothy Jones,Abel Burrett, Daniel Crocker, Pierpont Edwards, Frances Edwards, JohnLathrop, Michael Todd, Abigail Chauncey, Ebenezer Fitch, Josiah Meggs, ElizurGoodrich, William Johnson, Mark Leavensworth, Jonathan Ingersoll,James Hilhouse, Samuel Bishop, Mahitable Bishop, Nathan Dummer, Daniel Bishop,Daniel Bassett, Ephraim Hummerston, Abraham Bishop, Amos Perkins, Amos Perkins Junr,Thoms Wilmott, Daniel Wilmott, Simeon Hathaway Junr, William Chace, the Rev'dSamuel Wales, Elias Shipman, Shadrach Hatheway, Levi Hatheway, Abraham Hatheway,Alphred Hatheway, Erastus Hatheway, Joshua Hatheway, Silas Hatheway, Anna Hatheway,Timothy Edwards, John Strong, John Pierpont, Elias Beers, Isaac Beers Jeremiah Atwater, Stephen Pearl, Israel Bishop, Nathan Hale, Salome Hale, Elizur Wright, Noah Smith, Israel Smith, Daniel Smith, Cloe Smith, Charles B. Smith,Harry Smith, Albert Smith, Eunice Smith & Charles Burrill, which Together with five equal Rights or Shares Reserved for public uses as follows,includes the whole of said Township viz't on Right or equal share to be for theuse of a Seminary or College within this State, one Right or Share, for the use ofcounty grammar Schools throughout this State, One Right for the first settled Ministerof the Gospel within said Township, One Right for the support of the Ministry in said Township, to be disposed of for that purpose as the inhabitants thereof shall direct,and One Right for the support of an English School or Schools, within s'd Township, Which tract of Land hereby Given & granted as afores'd is bounded and described asfollows viz't,Beginning at a Stake & Stones North 36 Degrees East, six Miles & a half from the Northwest corner of Mansfield, Then North 36 Degrees East six Miles, Then East36 Degrees South, Six Miles to Hydes park, Then South 36 Degrees West, Six MilesThen West Thirty six degrees North, Six Miles to the bounds began at-- And that the same be & hereby is incorporated into a Township, by the Name of JOHNSON, and the inhabitants that do or shall hereafter inhabit s'd Townshipare declared to be infranchised & entitled to all the privileges & immunitiesthat the inhabitants of other Towns within this State do by Law exercise & enjoy,To Have & To Hold the said granted premises as above described with all the privileges & appurtenences thereto belonging & appertaining unto them the afores'dGrantees & to their Heirs & assigns forever upon the following conditions & reservationsviz't, That each Proprietor of the Township of Johnson his Heirs or assigns shall plant &cultivate five acres of Land & build an house at least Eighteen feet square uponthe floor, or have one family settled on Each respective Right or share agreeablyto the Law of this State made for that purpose on penalty of the forfeiture of eachrespective Right or share of Land not settled & cultvated as afores'd & the sameto revert to the freemen of this State to be by their representatives regranted tosuch persons as shall appear to settle & cultivate the same. That all pine timbersuitable for a Navy be reserved for the use & benefit of the freemen of this State.IN TESTIMONY whereof, we have caused the Seal of this State to be hereunto affixed incouncil this 2d day January in the Year of our Lord 1792, in the 15th Year ofour Independence-- Joseph Fay Sec'y |