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LINE BETWEEN HAMPTON AND EXETER

Abraham Drake, Peter Johnson, James Philbrick and Joseph Dow were appointed, February 9, 1671, to run the line between this town and Exeter, from Ass brook to the extent of ten miles westerly according to the court's order, and to mark it out with bound marks according to law; and they were instructed to enter upon this work four days from that date, or as soon afterward as the weather would permit.

The ten miles here mentioned, should not be reckoned from the starting point named, but from a bound about one mile and three-fourths from it, in a direction two or three points south of west, which bound is referred to in the following extract from the report of a committee appointed by the General Court to survey and determine the bounds of Exeter. The report was signed by Samuel Dalton and Richard Waldron, and approved by the court at the session which commenced April 29, 1668: "From the foot of Exeter falls by the present Grist Mill, a mile and a half due south to Hampton Bound, & from that south point to run upon a west and by north line Ten miles into the woods adjoining to Hampton Bounds."

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